Brewery and taproom in Tofino, BC

Brewed at the end of Highway 4.

Small-batch ales and a cedar taproom with a wood stove for drying out after the surf. Open from noon, every day.

See what's pouring Plan a visit

Trivia every Wednesday at 7. Storm-watching night lands with the first big winter swell: windows open, porter on cask.

Get the storm text

On tap

Pouring this week

The regulars. Seasonals and one-offs change most weeks, so ask at the bar what else is on.

Grey Swell Pale Ale

5.2%. The house pale: West Coast hops, a little pine and a dry finish, for after the surf.

$8pint

Cans to go

Slack Water Pilsner

4.8%. Crisp, pale and cold-conditioned for six weeks in the steel. For the rare blue day.

$8pint

Cans to go

Storm Season Porter

6.4%. Roasted barley, cocoa and a thread of smoke, poured on nitro from November.

$9pint

Growler fills

Salmonberry Sour

4.5%. A tart wheat beer with salmonberries picked on the coast in June.

$9pint

Taproom only

Tasters are $3 each or four for $11. Growler fills from $18, and we fill any clean growler.

The brewhouse

We brew for the weather out the window.

It rains here most of the winter, so we brew for it: a clean pilsner for the odd blue day, and porters and reds with enough body for November.

Every batch is brewed in the steel tanks you can see from the bar and poured fresh. We do not ship, so it is drunk here, or from a growler back at the campsite.

A brewer holding a sample of amber beer up to the window beside steel fermentation tanks

The taproom

Small on purpose

16taps

Including a root beer for kids and drivers

10 hLbatches

Roughly two thousand pints a brew

40seats inside

And twenty more outside, under cover

2017first pour

In an old boat shop at the edge of town

Rain or shine

Salt air, cedar and steel

People talking over pints at a cedar bar while rain streaks the big window

A bartender pulling a dark porter into a pint glass from a steel tap

A surfer carrying a longboard up a sandy path through salal in the rain

Steel fermentation tanks beside an open roll-up door with rain outside

Friends laughing over pints on a covered cedar deck with a dog asleep

A tasting flight of four beers from gold to black on a cedar paddle

Came in dripping after a dawn session at Cox Bay, hung the wetsuit on a hook and nobody blinked. A porter at the window is the whole reason we book the same week every November.

Priya

Surfs Tofino from Nanaimo

Questions

Before you pull in

Q01Can we bring the kids and the dog?

Kids, yes, with an adult until eight. Dogs are welcome on the covered deck, and there is always a water bowl out.

Q02Do you serve food?

A short kitchen menu until nine: chowder, a smash burger, fries with seaweed salt and a vegan bowl.

Q03Can I book a table?

Groups of eight or more can book the long table by phone. Everyone else, walk in and grab a stool.

Q04Where do I park the van?

In the gravel lot beside the taproom. Overnight camping is not allowed there, but we can point you to the campgrounds.

Visit

Find the taproom

Ask about growlers, the long table or the storm-night text list. We reply the same day.

Call

(250) 555-0182

Find us

Tofino, BC

Get directions

Hours

Monday–Sunday: 12pm–10pm

Closed Christmas Day, and for a week each January to clean the tanks.