Our Barn, originally raised in the late 1800s… Has surely seen a thing or two over the years. Today, as home to the Niagara Oast House Brewers, it serves not only as a facility to brew great beer, but also houses a number of spaces each with their own unique feel. These include our tasting room (aka. The Beer Shed), events space (aka. The Hayloft) and Niagara’s coolest outdoor Patio.
Belly on up to the bar and allow our down-to-earth team to roll out some of Niagara’s finest hospitality. Feel free to taste through all of our standard and seasonal beers, with option of a flight. Be sure to round out your visit with some great beer and merchandise to go.
GROUP TASTINGS:
For Groups of 8 – 15 please reserve your tastings before you head on down to the brewery to ensure there is room for you in the tasting room. BOOK HERE NOW!
For Groups of 16+ please send an email over to us at tours@oasthousebrewers.ca
A down home twist on the traditional German Bier Hall experience. Clamber on up to The Hayloft, Oast’s event space guaranteed to offer truly unique experiences in a warm, fun atmosphere. With a heavy dose of Americana, the design balances both rustic and modern, resulting in a vibe unlike anywhere else in Niagara. And like any old hayloft, it boasts a stunning end view of local agriculture in all of its bucolic glory! With capacity for up to 80 guests seated or consider both floors for up to 175, it encompasses big peeks into both the nearby vineyards and brewhouse. Begin with an intimate tour and then indulge with one of Chef’s beer focused creations.
Sustainably constructed from old shipping containers you might find on a farm’s back forty, our new, two-story beer patio has introduced a total new level of chill to Niagara. Enjoy endless panoramic vineyard views, seated bar area complete with large screen TVs, sound system, kitchen and live music on The Federal. Naturally there’s also plenty to imbibe, including great beers, local wines and our legendary cocktail (aka. The Niagara Nag). If you’re peckish, we offer premium BBQ dishes from our new culinary talent Chef Anthony Greco of Brushfire Smoke BBQ.</span
As many are aware, no beverage offers the versatility in food pairing like beer. Evidence exists within the Oast kitchen, where many dishes from talented chefs are created to compliment our brewing style. There are two on-site restaurants, each available at different times of the year. Click HERE for more info on Brushfire Smoke BBQ (open only during patio season), and HERE for more info on Patina Pizza (open the rest of the year), where you can also place an order online!
As one of Canada’s original producers of traditional-style Farmhouse Ales, the idea of Oast House has always been to follow the Niagara winemaking tradition of crafting a truly unique product that derives both its character and distinction from the land.
Whether it is the natural methods/ingredients (such as our native house yeast derived from the land, on-site well water, hop yards, or local wine barrels) that drive our signature farmhouse ales or the ripeness of the fruit that’s harvested from trees across the street, you will surely distinguish this “Niagara” in the glass. Furthermore, we also remain adamant that the most complex, flavourful beers in the world take not only great care and ingredients, but the proper time. We are so committed to this notion, that from day one, we have only ever traditionally bottle-conditioned our Farmhouse Ales and built Canada’s first permanent cellar for secondary fermentation.
To this day, the perpetual quest to channel Niagara’s truest terroir into our beer remains our passion.
Just a group of industry guys, made up of a brewmaster, a winemaker & a couple of sommeliers, who plied their trades around the world and then came home to Niagara. Once back and comparing adventures, it was quickly agreed upon that for all its greatness, the region had one rather ominous void… no interesting, quality beer! So ideas began flying and soon after the course was set for fulfilling a dream of creating a small batch, farmhouse-focused brewery in their rural hometown of Niagara-On-The-Lake. In 2010 a true brewery of this style did not exist in Canada, so it was felt important that the building express this unique vision. Luckily in early 2011 the iconic “big, red barn” became available and was purchased as the future home of the Niagara Oast House Brewers. Long one of the agricultural hubs of town, this building’s rich history includes its origin as a fruit basket manufacturer in the late 1800s, a fruit packing shed, the Niagara Township Fruit Cooperative, the original Farmer’s Co-op Bank (now Meridian Credit Union) and a long time John Deere Tractor & Farm Supply Dealership.
At Oast, we have always set out to brew the beers that we truly love to drink. For us, those were always yeast driven beers with great flavour, depth, balance, ageability and a little hit of good ol’ rustic, cellar funk! Not only were these characteristics clearly present in the traditional Farmhouse Ales of the Franco-Belgian countryside, but their agricultural pedigree contained many parallels to that of our Niagara Peninsula.
Although drinking them is great, it was the process of creating these traditional beers of origin that really inspired us. A fixation that included the 100% commitment to bottle-conditioning, the application of native yeasts from our land, the use of naturally filtered, artesian well water, barrels from our neighbour wineries, the planting and use of local hops, etc.
In essence, our approach is very simple and honest – let the soul of the land and all its components guide our beer. In Niagara we trust!
