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Freddy's Brewpub
About Freddy's Brewpub
The pub that makes its own beer is an old arrangement that came back into fashion, and it changes the room. What is poured is brewed a few steps away, so the range shifts with whatever has finished conditioning rather than with what a distributor happened to deliver. Freddy's Brewpub keeps its address at 948 McCurdy Road, out on the northeast side of Kelowna in Rutland.
Rooms like this tend to work on two clocks. Early in the day and midweek they are quiet enough to hear yourself think; on a weekend evening they fill and the noise doubles. If you are bringing a group, phoning 250 765 8956 to ask about tables and whether anything is booked that night is worth the minute it takes. Other things worth asking: whether food is served, whether the taps carry house beer only or include guests, and whether cans or growlers can be taken away, since the arrangements around that differ from one operation to the next and the answer decides whether you need a second stop on the way home.
Rutland is one of Kelowna's largest residential areas and one of its most straightforward, with a busy town centre strip and housing more affordable than most of the valley. That tends to make for a local crowd rather than a touring one, which plenty of visitors prefer. It sits northeast of downtown, close to the highway and the airport road, so a taxi or a lift home is easy to arrange, and in a city as spread out as this one that is not a small consideration.
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In the Rutland neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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