Relax in the comfortable rustic atmosphere of Big River Brew Pub while our friendly staff welcome you to pull up a bar stool and enjoy a pint of our renowned handcrafted ales or lagers.

Big River features delicious dishes prepared in our open kitchen where we incorporate our craft brewed ales and lagers into our menu items!

Our ales and lagers are brewed naturally, right here
in our full mash craft-brewery.

...sorry, no bland corn or rice here!

The brewing process begins with the various malts being milled to crack open the grains. This “grist” flows from the grist hopper into the mash tun where it is steeped in hot water. Here, the natural enzymes in the barley break down the starch into fermentable sugars. This sweet liquid, “wort”, is then run out to the kettle and the spent grains are strained off and go to a local Richmond farm to feed cattle and sheep. In the kettle the wort is boiled with the selected hops. Hops provide extra flavour, aroma and bitterness to balance out the malts. From the kettle, it is quickly cooled, then off to the fermenter... where the final ingredient, Ale or Lager yeast is added converting all that sugar into alcohol. Once fermented, it’s off to one of our cellars’ conditioning tanks for four to six weeks. Aging allows the beer’s flavour to mature and the yeast to settle out. It’s then hooked up to our taps.

Next stop...your glass!

With no filtering, pasteurizing, preservatives or
shipping our ales & lagers are sure to please!

THE TOWERS

Nut Brown Ale

Deliciously dark, this medium bodied English brown ale has burnt toffee & caramel notes with low bitterness.

Pilsner

This crisp, clean, golden lager is an authentic Czech style pilsner brewed using only imported saaz hops to produce a fresh hop flavour & aroma.

Vienna Lager

This premium lager has a copper colour with a strong maltiness, full body & well balanced, slightly spicy hopping.

Blonde Ale

This straw coloured ale has a medium body with light maltiness. Fairly sweet, it is mildly hopped & has very little bitterness. This is a great start for anyone new to craft-brewed beer.

THE CREAMERS

Pale Ale

This amber coloured English ale has a medium body with a floral hop flavour & aroma with a mild bitterness.

Extra Special Bitter

The elite of English bitters, this deep copper ale has a full malt body matched with lots of fruity hop flavour & medium bitterness. A must-drink for all you hopheads.

Stout

This Irish stout uses lots of roasted barley to produce a black & opaque, very full bodied ale with a roasted coffee flavour & a dry finish