Bellwoods Brewery

Bellwoods began as a small brewery, and pub in downtown Toronto. We officially opened our doors to the public in April 2012, and have spent the last 4 and a half years working towards the rather ambitious goal not to run out of beer. However, sunny weather, long weekends, liquor store closures, and arbitrary festivities sometimes result in us falling short.

In 2013 we opened our bottle shop full-time, further intensifying both our excitement to release new beers, and our tenuous relationship with supply. We can assure you that, for a long time, we only packed lunches that could be eaten with one hand and no cutlery (wraps are great for this) as the brewing, barreling, cleaning, and packaging never seemed to experience a lull. We’ve been extremely grateful for the ‘problem’ of high demand, but also have known for several years that our production schedule was unsustainable within such a small footprint. We pushed our equipment to the limits, brewed from sun up ‘til sun down, and spent more hours than we ever care to calculate feeding bottles on and off our 6 head filler. We took vertical storage space very seriously, and did our best to stave off mental breakdowns with humour. You can think of us as urban survivalists.