Happy New Year! We look forward to another exciting year in beer. Boathouse Brewery celebrated thirteen years of brewing in November 2009.

From our humble beginnings brewing extract batches on the kitchen stove, we have evolved to now brewing ten gallon batches on a purpose built stand and kegging in stainless steel, along with cask-conditioning ales and serving them on authentic English handpumps. Cask-conditioned ale, also known as real ale, is our favourite way of enjoying beer. Not widely available in the USA, real ale is the main reason we got into homebrewing.

Welcome to the online home of the Boathouse Brewery, a home brewery located in Columbus, Ohio. Boathouse Brewery has been going for thirteen years now, with over two hundred batches produced so far. Well over a decade ago it all started with a $40 homebrew kit and a five gallon pot on the stove. Now we're doing all-grain batches on a half-barrel system with a pump, counterflow wort chiller, four handpumps dispensing real ale, nine stainless steel faucets serving force-carbonated beer, and enough refrigeration equipment to prompt a comment from our friend Brian Tuwalski, after he very kindly helped us move all of the equipment in, that "it looks like an HHGregg down here"!

The Boathouse name comes from my love of rowing and is derived from my years on the Ohio State University Crew while in college. We hope you enjoy our website and the diverse world of beer to which it is dedicated. For questions, comments, or suggestions, please email the brewmaster at benj@boathousebrewery.com. or the head brewer at steve@boathousebrewery.com.

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updated 21 February 2010

Cask Conditioned:

Dark Star Hophead clone

Harvey's Sussex XXXX Old Ale clone

Oakham Jeffrey Hudson Bitter clone

Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter clone

Simcoe Pale Ale

Snowbound Stout

CO2 Dispense:

Boathouse Old Ale

Alpha King clone

Boathouse Winter Ale

Simcoe IPA

Boathouse Milk Stout

Pliny the Elder IIPA clone (9.2%)

Son of Satan Imperial Stout (8.9%)

Black Knight Imperial Stout (9.0%), with coffee, bourbon, and vanilla

Ciders:

Tiddly Pommes Cider

Taplist for Boathouse Brewery – Portland

updated 21 February 2010

Boathouse Brewery has a west coast annex in Portland, Oregon. Brewing is not yet operational at the Portland location, but in the meantime there are great local craft beers on tap.

CO2 Dispense:

None at present