Welcome to the online home of Boathouse Brewery. Please explore the site to learn about our brewery and the latest batches we've produced. Boathouse Brewery celebrated fifteen years of brewing in November 2011.
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. We have been going for almost fourteen years now, with over three hundred batches produced so far. 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.
"Homebrewing involves boiling liquids, compressed gases, flame, alcohol, large glass containers, and caustic chemicals; what could possibly go wrong?" -Benjy Edwards
Boathouse Brewery is a home brewery located in Olympia, Washington. In October 2010 we moved from Columbus, Ohio, where we brewed for the previous fourteen years. 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 4 May 2012
- Cask Conditioned:
- Fuller's ESB clone
- Boathouse Dark Mild
- Dark Star Hophead clone
- Harvey's Sussex XXXX Old Ale clone
- Boathouse Bitter
- CO2 Dispense:
- Firestone Walker Double Jack IIPA clone
- Citra Pale Ale
- Hopgoblin IPA
- Boathouse IPA
- Simcoe IPA
- Boathouse Milk Stout
- Simma' Down Brown Ale
- Ciders:
- Boathouse Cherry Pomegranate Cider
- Tiddly Pommes Cider
- Coming Soon:
- Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter clone