Whew! Our name has become an affirmation that it will all be worth it. We’ve been through a four-year process that included major challenges:

• Finding a location within the Town of Collingwood's outdated bylaw on the definition of "brewery" that restricted available properties – eventually making concessions to be a “restaurant with accessory brewery” that limits the size of the brewery to 25% of the gross floor area.

• Before being allowed a building permit, being put through Site Plan Control, a process by the Planning Department that treats Endswell as a “developer” of the entire property. Despite the fact that we are a small business and a tenant of one building on a multi-building, mixed use property we don’t own.

• Before we received a building permit, we spent 1.5 years in a Planning process that cost almost a 25% of our raised capital, 8 formal Site Plan Submissions, 2 Council presentations, and paying rent without income. This includes the requirement of paying the Town to install a fire hydrant.

BUT! Throughout it all, Endswell has continued to persevere and remain an independent business with a dedicated vision.

AND GUESS WHAT!!? Endswell just received an HONORABLE MENTION as New Brewery of the Year in all of Canada from the Canadian Brewer’s Choice Awards.

Good things do indeed take time…and perseverance.

We make fresh, small-batch rotating selections of hand-crafted ales and lagers that are available to drink in our tap room and to buy to-go.

• Low alcohol beer – most beers will be 5% ABV and under.

• Familiar approach to beer styles, like lagers and English ales with Endswell’s twist.

• Fun and engaging ways of drinking and learning about beer in our tap room – lagers pulled through traditional Czech taps, cask ales, large pitchers and small tasting servings of beers that you can enjoy with friends and family.

• Brewery tours and private tasting events.

YES! Pets are allowed, but must adhere to our HOUSE PARTY RULES FOR PETS:
1. 3 Barks and you’re OUT! (this goes for ALL BEINGS!)
2. Paws on the floor
3. No pets drinking out of our glassware
4. 1-ft Lead/Lease - keep your pets close
5. No fighting. No biting. (this goes for humans as well)

YES! Our kids even are the creators of our non-alcoholic beverage offering "Soda Bros" (house made flavoured soda on tap).

We love kids, but we are NOT a playground. Please supervise your kids or else we will feed them tons and tons of sour keys and send them home hopped up on sugar for you.

• RIDE YOUR BIKE! WALK! We expect our parking lot to fill up quickly. There is NO STREET PARKING on Elm. Please use overflow parking lots off Elm, Balsam and along the Harbourview Trail.

• We are NOT a restaurant. NO RESERVATIONS. NO TABLE SERVICE.

• Order your beverages at the bar, and start a tab.

• Order your ‘za from LATER PIZZA at their service window. You are supporting 2 local, independent businesses so will pay separately for your food and drink.
  

We host and co-host a lot of cool stuff here with other cool local organizations. It’s hard for us to even keep up!

The best way to stay in the know is checking our posts and stories on Instagram regularly. You can find us @endswellbeer.

Alternatively, we send a snapshot of the month ahead on our Event page.