Breweries & Distilleries
Cannery Brewing
About Cannery Brewing
Craft brewing settled comfortably into the Okanagan, where the same long warm summers that fill the beaches also keep demand for a cold drink high from May onward. Cannery Brewing works out of 198 Ellis Street, a block off the Main Street spine in downtown Penticton and a short walk from the Okanagan Lake end of the city.
The name points to the valley's brewing scene, though what a visitor mainly needs to know is simpler: this is a place to buy beer, whether that means a bottle, a can, or something to drink on the spot. Selection at a shop like this typically shifts through the year, since seasonal releases come and go alongside whatever is kept on permanently, so what is on the shelf in February rarely matches what is there in August.
Worth sorting out before a visit are the things that differ most from one shop like this to the next: whether food is available nearby or is best planned for separately, whether large groups can be accommodated, and how the hours change once the summer crowds thin in September. The website at cannerybrewing.com is the quickest place to check. Downtown parking is straightforward by big city standards, and Ellis Street sits close enough to the beach and the channel that a stop here folds easily into an afternoon already spent outdoors.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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