FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Are Dogs allowed?
Yes! We are dog friendly and love seeing your furry friends come through the door! Keep them on a leash, and be aware of the fact that other customers (or other customers’ dogs) might not want to touch or interact with your dog- no matter how friendly or well behaved they are!
Can I bring other breweries’ growlers?
You bet! But remember to bring your own lid as well. We won’t cover your beautiful growler with a tacky sticker (or otherwise deface your growler) either. We use a non-sticky seal for the cap and removable tags to identify the beer. We do appreciate it when people bring clean growlers though, and reserve the right to refuse a fill if your growler is lined with unidentified living organisms.
Do you give tours?
We do! Our brewery is small and we’re a 4-person operation, so we don’t always have somebody on staff to give one. Give us a shout on our “Contact Us” page before you come, and we’ll do our best to make sure somebody is there to give you a tour. Also, our tours are free!
Do you sell kegs to bars and restaurants?
Yes!! (Enjoy this “yes”, because you’re about to read the word “no” in a lot of the upcoming questions). We’re a very small brewery, so our current happy place in production gives us enough beer to send to about 10 other bars/restaurants (give or take a bit). Which ones you might ask? Check out our “Find Our Beer” page to see where we have beer on tap!
Do you have Gluten Free Beer?
Unfortunately, we do not. We do however keep Bota boxes behind the bar, and often times have our own hard seltzer on tap.
Can we reserve a room/table?
We do not reserve rooms or tables, but the entire brewery is available for private reservations during certain days of the week and time windows. Feel free to contact us through the website or at columbushousebrewery@gmail.com for more information.
Can I buy a keg for personal use?
We have to give you a hard no on that one :(. It’s nothing personal, and we’re totally flattered that you want to commit to drinking 50 of our beers, but we just don’t have enough kegs to sacrifice for that cause! Special events such as weddings or graduation parties are dealt with on a case by case basis.
Could I stop by when you’re closed?
We prefer that you don’t. We’ll be happy to talk, show you around, or listen to your sales pitches when we aren’t working in the brew room, but we don’t spend our free time at the brewery, therefore your only option is to come in during business hours 🙂
Can we drink other beers here?
No you cannot. As much as we would love for your non-beer-drinking friends to drink their beverage of choice while they hang out with you here, we’d rather not sacrifice our good standing with the people who decide whether or not we should pay them fines for breaking the rules!
Do you have food?
Nope! There are a few reasons for this: 1) no more dogs if we make and serve food, and that would be the worst, 2) running a brewery is hard enough, and adding a kitchen to that might actually work us to death! Feel free to bring in something of your own making, something from the food trucks out back, or call in for delivery, but please don’t expect us to clean up after your meals (unless you want to leave us a huge tip)!
What about food trucks?
We love them! If you know any food truck owners who are looking to swing by on a Tuesday evening (during our run club- it’s quite busy) or maybe a Friday evening or Sunday lunch hour, have them get in touch!
Do you can or bottle your beers?
Nope! We hope to some day though! Unfortunately, canning and bottling are both capital, labor, and time intensive, and even if we had investors or deep pockets, we’d need to at least double or triple our capacity before we even could think about it. Sorry.
Are you hiring?
Not at the moment. It never hurts to send in a resume though!
How big is your brewery?
We have a 3 barrel system.
Do you sell the art hanging on your walls?
We do! (we wanted to cap this series of questions off with a “yes”). We try to rotate the art on the walls every few months with a new local artists’ art. Everybody knows that artists are starving, so we actually get pretty excited when you buy their art! And no, we don’t take a commission.
Didn’t see your question answered here? Or couldn’t find something on our other pages? There are a plethora of ways to contact us. The Contact Us page, our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all work great! You can try calling the brewery, but there’s no guarantee that we’ll answer outside of the hours that our taproom is open.