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 will celebrate fourteen years of brewing in November 2010.
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.
"A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure." -Czech Proverb
Boathouse Brewery is a home brewery currently located in Columbus, Ohio. In October 2010 we will be moving to Olympia, Washington, to begin a new brewing adventure in the Pacific Northwest! 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 29 August 2010
- Cask Conditioned:
- Harvey's Sussex XXXX Old Ale clone
- Palmer's Best Bitter clone
- Dark Star Hophead clone
- Simcoe Pale Ale
- Timothy Taylor Landlord clone
- CO2 Dispense:
- Simcoe Pale Ale
- Simcoe IPA
- Boathouse IPA
- Galena 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 29 August 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:
- Brown Ale, Oregon Trail Brewing
- Espresso Stout, Oakshire Brewing
- Vanilla Port, Hopvalley
- 200 Meter IPA, Eugene City Brewery
- Coming soon:
- Ninkasi Pale Ale, Ninkasi Brewing
- Hopasaurus Rex, Steelhead Brewing
- Big Aft Pale Ale, Calapooia Brewery