St. John's and the Bays

The Avalon Peninsula

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Breweries

Towns

Tally's take

The character

Almost two-thirds of the province's brewing sits on this one peninsula. Quidi Vidi pours in a fishing village inside the city limits; YellowBelly runs five floors of a Water Street heritage building; and out along the bays the taprooms serve communities strung down a highway. This is also where Storm started the whole thing in 1995, and where a Trinity Bay outport called Dildo turned its own name into a brewery and a museum.

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The breweries

9 in this scene

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Bannerman Brewing Co.

A coffee shop until mid-afternoon and a taproom after — a genuinely smart answer to running hospitality in a city with a long winter and a short season.

IndependentThe Ordinary Bitter

Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Dildo Brewing Company & Museum

Yes, that Dildo — a Trinity Bay outport that leaned all the way into its name and ended up with Jimmy Kimmel as honorary mayor. Underneath the joke sits a real heritage museum and a red ale brewed…

IndependentRed Rocks Ale

Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Landwash Brewery

A massive driving force in the modern Newfoundland scene, heavily focused on American-style IPAs and fruited sours.

IndependentCold Lager · 4.4%

Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Ninepenny Brewing

On the Conception Bay Highway, serving the long ribbon of communities running west out of St. John's.

IndependentSweet Spot Milk Stout

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Quidi Vidi Brewery

Housed in a historic fishing village and world-famous for brewing beer using 10,000-year-old harvested iceberg water.

IndependentIceberg Beer · 5.0%

Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Storm Brewing in Newfoundland

The province's pioneer craft brewer, started in Carbonear in 1995 as Freshwater Brewing. No taproom — you find Storm in the old downtown pubs, the Duke and the Ship, which is exactly where it belongs.

IndependentIrish Newfoundland Red

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

YellowBelly Brewery & Public House

Five floors of a Water Street heritage building, named for the Irish faction that once fought over this corner of St. John's. Downtown's brewpub, and the first stop off a cruise ship.

IndependentFighting Irish Red Ale

Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Dildo Brewing Co.

Leveraging its unique seaside location and famous town name to become a massive tourist destination taproom in Atlantic Canada.

IndependentDildo Stout · 4.5%

Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Baccalieu Trail Brewing Company

On the Baccalieu Coastal Drive, named for the island seabird sanctuary at the head of the peninsula.

Independent

Counts here are the length of this list, not an estimate. For why a brewery you know might be missing — closures, shared roofs, contract brands, ownership exclusions — see how we count.