
Ottawa's Best: Craft Beer Destination
For restaurants, pubs, taprooms, or breweries where craft beer selection, house beer, rotating taps, or brewery culture is a major reason to go.
Ottawa's Best: Craft Beer Destination

Craft Beer Destination
22 spots make the list in Ottawa · ranked by Restaurantica's craft beer destination scoring evaluation
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Braumeister Bierhalle
9.4Braumeister reads first as a brewery-backed beer hall: locally produced craft beer sits beside German and Austrian pub food, with pretzels, Currywurst, schnitzel, and shared seating all supporting a beer-led visit.
Flora Hall Brewing
8.7Beer is not an add-on here: Flora Hall brews on site, keeps core styles and newer releases in play, and builds the food menu around lingering rounds rather than quick pints. The tap list has enough range for hop drinkers, malt drinkers, and non-alcoholic orders.
Broadhead Brewing Company
8.3Broadhead earns this card through the beer program itself: eight Classics, a rotating 174 Taproom Series, and a taproom built around what the brewery makes. The room reads as a beer-first visit, with barbecue and events adding reasons to stay longer.
Brew Revolution
9.2Beer is the reason the room exists: Brew Revolution brings house-made pours, guest taps, cider, wine, mixed drinks, and a taproom built for tasting. The food and event calendar work around that beer-first centre rather than sitting beside it.
Tooth and Nail Brewing Company
9.0Tooth and Nail is a beer-first address with enough range to reward focused drinking: pilsner, stout, saison, pale ale, IPA, Kellerpils, and seasonal pours all have a place. The food menu supports that purpose instead of distracting from it.
Orleans Brewing Co.
8.6Beer is the reason the room makes sense. The lineup has a flagship hazy IPA, a lagered ale, a big IIPA, a sour, and a maple red ale, while the kitchen gives those pours enough food support to keep the visit from feeling like a tasting-only stop.
Bicycle Craft Brewery
8.3Bicycle Craft Brewery is strongest as a beer-first stop, with a tap room built around house pours, flights, can pours, and an online beer shop. The appeal is the range of house-brewed beer in a compact Industrial Avenue setting.
Dominion City Brewing Co.
9.0Dominion City leads with beer: Sunsplit, Town & Country, and a current taproom list deep enough to make the brewery itself the main reason to go.
Excellent
Nita Beer Company
8.4Nita's strongest identity is the brewery taproom itself: house draughts like OPA - Balanced IPA, Ten12 - Blonde Ale, 5 Fingers - Brown Ale, and Perfectum - Stout sit beside a food menu built for drinking in.
Beyond the Pale Brewing Company
8.8Sixteen taps, year-round pours, rotating seasonals, and a retail beer identity make the brewery itself a central reason to visit.
Spark Beer & Pizza
8.9Spark's beer program is not a side list: the room is a brewery first, with hoppy, sour, Belgian-style, foeder-aged and draft pours tied to local malt, hops, yeast and award history.
Covered Bridge Brewing
8.4Covered Bridge is strongest when treated as a beer stop first: the current board has hazy IPA, blonde ales, kolsch-style pours, barrel-aged strength and darker tap-list territory, with cans and flights giving the beer program more than one way to show itself.
The Manx Pub
8.9The tap list is built for drinkers who want range without leaving the pub's food behind. Ontario producers sit alongside established imports, making a pint and a Furlonger Club feel like a complete reason to stop rather than a prelude to somewhere else.
Wellington Gastropub
8.6The beer list is broad, current and Ontario-heavy, giving Wellington the drinks backbone a gastropub needs to feel convincing.
The Brig Pub
9.0The tap list gives the pub side a clear reason to lead the visit. The Brig Pub House Lager sits beside Ontario and regional names from Beau's, Beyond the Pale, Cameron's, Perth, Steam Whistle, Sidelaunch, and Waupoos cider.
The Third
9.2Beer is part of The Third's all-day rhythm, alongside a menu built for burgers, sandwiches and long catch-ups. The drinks program gives an ordinary meal an easy evening extension without changing the room's relaxed neighbourhood character.
Hunter's Public House
8.7Local and regional taps are part of the draw, with Big Rig, Stray Dog, Broadhead, Dominion City, Perth, Ashton, and cider labels giving the bar side real purpose.
Good Options
Chez Lucien
9.2Beer belongs in the core visit, not off to the side. The room is framed as a bar bistro with craft beer, making it a strong fit for a burger, fries, and pint plan instead of a purely food-only stop.
Mill Street Brew Pub
8.7Beer is the main reason to choose this room, not an accessory to the food. Start with an Ottawa-brewed core pour, then use the rotating list and menu pairings to decide where the meal goes next.
Bite Burger House on Tenth Line
9.4The drinks side gives the burger format more range than a quick counter stop. Official identity copy points to craft beers, fine wines, and specialty cocktails, which makes the room work for burger nights, casual drinks, and fuller comfort-food meals.
Aulde Dubliner & Pour House
9.0Beer and whiskey are central to the drink list, with craft cans and familiar pub pours alongside the food menu. Come for range rather than a brewery-style deep dive.
Pour Boy
9.0The tap list gives the pub a beer spine without making the room feel precious. Pour Boy Lager, familiar Ontario producers, and a rotating seasonal line make beer an easy pairing for wings, poutine, and event nights.







