A brand new pub in Washougal provides a twist on a neighborhood favourite.
On Thursday, 54-40 Brewing Co. opened a second Washougal location, Kascadia Brewery and Public Home, in Washougal’s Evergreen Market buying complicated, 3307 Evergreen Means, Suite B.
The brand new location contains a full-service restaurant, household environment, televised sporting occasions and, in fact, an assortment of beers brewed by 54-40 Brewery.
54-40 Brewing co-owner and lead brewer Bolt Minister mentioned the corporate has been engaged on opening its second Washougal location for greater than a 12 months.
“To see it all come to fruition is really, really neat. Friends, family and industry peers have put so much effort into helping us out,” Minister mentioned.
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What: Kascadia Brewery and Public Home
The place: 3307 Evergreen Means, Suite B, Washougal
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays by way of Sundays
Data: 5440beer.com or 360-844-5932
54-40 Brewing’s authentic location, which opened in 2015 at 3801 S. Truman St. on the Port of Camas-Washougal industrial park, will proceed to supply a full choice of beers and a restricted meals menu.
“There’s a lot of people that think we’re nuts for starting a second place so close to our first, but (the new Kascadia pub has a) completely different vibe,” Minister mentioned, including the brewery plans to carry extra group occasions at its authentic web site within the industrial park.
Minister mentioned the concept for opening a second Washougal location began brewing after the 54-40 Beer Lodge opened in Stevenson in 2021. That web site closed completely after a burst water pipe precipitated intensive water injury to the constructing in early 2024.
“In Stevenson, we fell in love with making pizza — making dough and making beer, they’re very close processes, and it’s so fun,” Minister mentioned. “Once we figured out how to make pizza, we wanted to do another pizza location somewhere. After Rite Aid went out of business, I started thinking about close-in retail, almost strip mall-type stuff.”
When Minister noticed two adjoining areas that used to accommodate a Pizza Hut and Hollywood Video at Evergreen Market have been accessible, he jumped on the chance to open a second taproom.
Nearly all of the brand new Kascadia Brewery and Public Home area is household pleasant, nevertheless it does have area reserved for these age 21 and older.
The pub has shuffleboard, a dart board and pinball machine, and options an assortment of sports activities and beer memorabilia from Minister’s private assortment. TVs play “Schitt’s Creek” on a steady loop, together with sports activities.
The menu consists of pizzas, burgers, sandwiches and salads and can quickly embrace pasta dishes, as properly.
Patrons on the authentic 54-40 Brewing pub can order pizza to be delivered from the Kascadia pub. Minister mentioned he has not dominated out increasing pizza-delivery service sooner or later.
“Honestly, to start, it’s going to be a slow roll,” he mentioned. “We want to make sure that our kitchen can keep up because the logistics of running a delivery service are very different.”
Though 54-40 Brewing’s industrial park location has hosted a wide range of group occasions and fundraisers, Minister mentioned the area acquired away from its meant function.
“That space was never meant to be anything other than (a community space),” he mentioned. “We envisioned town halls. We envisioned book clubs. We envisioned folks from Steigerwald coming in and talking about birds or showing off photography or cool stuff like that.”
With the Kascadia pub assuming the majority of 54-40’s meals service, the commercial park location is now free to host extra group occasions.
Some occasions that have been beforehand held on the industrial park location — Thursday night time music and Wednesday night time trivia —will probably be moved to the Kascadia pub. Others, together with the library’s Books and Brews guide membership meetups, will nonetheless be held on the industrial park location.
“We can do things for the Gause Boosters, Hathaway Boosters, Camas-Washougal Community Chest, East County Little League, all of that stuff,” Minister mentioned. “That space can just be wide open for really creative stuff, for corporate events, for whatever. It’s going to be a little bit truer to its original concept.”