The Craft behind Chandigarh’s best brewery.

It takes bold brewers to brew bold beers. 

Our Story

It takes an adventurous spirit and irrepressible ingenuity to do things the Boathouse® way. From our first batch to the present day, we’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to bring you exceptional beer. But we’re not the ones to rest on our laurels. We’re continuing to experiment and innovate in true pioneering style. As we like to put it: We’ve got a lot more beer to brew.

Our Craft

It begins with barley, carefully crushed by our brewhouse mills then mixed with water. Water that’s heated and added to the freshly milled malted barley before the mixture is mashed to extract the brewing sugars. This mash then drops down into a kieve – or mash tun – that separates the grain from a liquid we call ‘sweet wort’.

It’s now that our exquisitely sourced barley comes into play. The precision of the roasting process is what gives our beers their distinctive rich taste and hues. Raise your glass to the light and you’ll see how it glows. 

232 degrees Celcius. That’s the temperature that transforms our barley into a state of perfection. That’s the temperature that makes Boathouse beers taste like Boathouse beers. Any cooler and the beer won’t be as flavourful, any hotter and the barley catches fire.

And then for another key ingredient: hops. These combine with the roasted barley to give Boathouse beer its perfectly balanced flavor. After the hops are added, the sweet wort is then boiled for 90 minutes before leaving it to cool and settle.

Next comes the Boathouse yeast. The yeast captures the full freshness of every one of the painstakingly sourced ingredients, ensuring our beer is perfectly fermented and charged with the flavor that’s made us. 

And then? Nothing. We stop. Just to let everything slow down and mellow. Maturation allows the beer to develop its perfectly balanced taste and consistency. After all, we’ve never been ones to rush a good thing.

Now for the carbonation- creating the inimitable Boathouse surge and settle, and the creamy head. This is added in the Beer Bright tanks – on display at the ground floor bar. And finally, before our beer can pass out through those taps –– every single batch of Boathouse beer is tested to ensure nothing leaves the brewery unless it tastes precise as our expert brewers intended. Some would say it’s the best job. We’re inclined to agree.