Ferry to Fjord

The West Coast & Gros Morne

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Breweries

Towns

Closed

Tally's take

The character

From the Port aux Basques ferry up through Corner Brook to Gros Morne — the corridor everyone drives when they arrive by boat. Two breweries share one street in Corner Brook, Deer Lake works as the distribution junction where the Trans-Canada meets the Viking Trail, and Cormack is where a brewpub proved rural margins are thin.

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The breweries

6 in this scene

Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Boomstick Brewing Company

Corner Brook's brewpub at the gateway to Gros Morne, where the Long Range Mountains meet a paper-mill town.

IndependentGros Morne Adventure Pale Ale

Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Bootleg Brew Co.

A Prohibition-styled brick front on West Street brewing a spruce IPA — the boreal ingredient every northern brewery eventually reaches for.

IndependentBreaker Room Grisette

Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Rough Waters Brewing Company

At the junction of the Trans-Canada and the Viking Trail, which makes Deer Lake the natural distribution point for the whole west coast. No taproom; the beer travels instead.

IndependentScenic Route Pale Ale

Port au Port East, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Secret Cove Brewing Company

The first or last brewery on the island depending which way you're driving off the Port aux Basques ferry. James Blonde 00709 took gold at the Canadian Brewing Awards — 709 being the area code the…

IndependentJames Blonde 00709

Pasadena, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Western Newfoundland Brewing Company

Small-batch brewing just off the Trans-Canada in Pasadena, sold to go rather than poured on site.

IndependentHoney Bee Good

Cormack, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Crooked Feeder Brewing Co.

A brewpub near the Howley exit doing craft flights, a Gros Morne coffee porter and artisan pizza, until it stopped. Rural Newfoundland leaves very little margin for a brewery to be slightly wrong.

Closed

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.