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.
"Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale." -William Shakespeare
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.
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

