Four Mile Brewpub
A long-running pub and brewery in a historic roadhouse setting.
An 1858 stagecoach roadhouse that now brews award-winning beer.
The fourth oldest house in Victoria, opened in 1858 by Scottish settler Peter Calvert as a coach stop on the Sooke road, four miles out from town. It has been a staging house, a sailors' brothel, and a cabaret billed as the Coziest Cabaret on the Coast before Graham and Wendy Haymes rescued it in 1979. The brewery came in 2014, and the place wears all of it at once: low beams, real fireplaces, two resident ghosts, and pints that win at the BC Beer Awards. It belongs to the View Royal regulars who treat it as their living room.
The move
Order the Hazy Citra Pale Ale, the gold-medal BC Beer Awards pale the brewery is built on, or a flight from the downstairs tasting room. Pace yourself: there is also a proper high tea on weekends, Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5, that almost nobody outside View Royal knows about. Book ahead, it is reservation only.
Go when
Daily 11am to 11pm. Come on a grey weekday afternoon for a fireside pint and the building to yourself. Skip a sports-heavy night downstairs unless the game is the point.
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