CLOSURE: Brewery closing its doors with a heartfelt goodbye in Toronto
Published December 3, 2025 at 2:25 pm
A Toronto brewery that’s saying its last goodbye and closing its doors has just announced they’ll be shutting down with a long and heartfelt farewell letter.
Beaches Brewing Co. operated as both a brewery and a restopub serving their own beer alongside comfort food. They’ve also functioned as a community hub in their neighbourhood with their big, high-ceilinged space with a large capacity.
“Unfortunately, we have come to the end of the road for Beaches Brewing. A multitude of reasons (but primarily due to a lack of revenue) led me to the decision last winter to put the business up for sale. Yes, it’s been brewing (no pun intended) that long. Year after year of being spread way too thin, scratching and clawing our way through the winter just to make it to the summer. With no real indicator that anything in the economy or neighbourhood would change anytime soon for a business like ours, it just made sense not to try and force it any longer,” reads the letter from Beaches Brewing Co. signed by owner Carl.
“I won’t miss the 7 months of the year where there are no people. Saturday at 6PM and not a soul in sight, it makes you think that everything you’re doing is wrong and that everyone hates your ideas. The endless stress of not being able to make a rent payment, and fear of landlords locking the doors, how a single drop of rain could be the diƯerence between 4 tables or 40 tables on a night and trying to staff for that, being responsible for the livelihood of the staff; the stress really gets to you, especially in the slow season. Let’s also not forget the unceasing attention the restaurant business requires; never being able to go away without a call that something has broken and no one can fix it.”
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The letter goes on to address the craft brewing world, the staff, the regulars, family and friends, and the brewery’s beloved “mug wall.”
“Although I’m disappointed to see all my hard work disappear into the ether; I have learned the importance of time and location in business… And for Beaches Brewing neither have ever been right. So, for all the little lessons like this that I’ve learned along the way I’m thankful. Tonight, I’ll raise a glass for those lessons and to the neighbourhood that was our home.”
Beaches Brewing Co. appears to have closed effective immediately.