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54-40 Brewing opens second pub, with full menu, in Washougal

Kascadia Brewery and Public House opened Thursday at Evergreen Market

By Doug Flanagan, Columbian staff writer
Published: February 1, 2025, 6:11am
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54-40 Brewing Company co-owners Bolt and Amy Minister stand behind the bar of their newly opened Kascadia Brewery and Public House on Jan. 22.
54-40 Brewing Company co-owners Bolt and Amy Minister stand behind the bar of their newly opened Kascadia Brewery and Public House on Jan. 22. (Doug Flanagan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery

A new pub in Washougal offers a twist on a local favorite.

On Thursday, 54-40 Brewing Co. opened a second Washougal location, Kascadia Brewery and Public House, in Washougal’s Evergreen Market shopping complex, 3307 Evergreen Way, Suite B.

The new location features a full-service restaurant, family atmosphere, televised sporting events and, of course, an assortment of beers brewed by 54-40 Brewery.

54-40 Brewing co-owner and lead brewer Bolt Minister said the company has been working on opening its second Washougal location for more than a year.

“To see it all come to fruition is really, really neat. Friends, family and industry peers have put so much effort into helping us out,” Minister said.

Information

What: Kascadia Brewery and Public House

Where: 3307 Evergreen Way, Suite B, Washougal

Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays through Sundays

Information: 5440beer.com or  360-844-5932

54-40 Brewing’s original location, which opened in 2015 at 3801 S. Truman St. at the Port of Camas-Washougal industrial park, will continue to offer a full selection of beers and a limited food menu.

“There’s a lot of people that think we’re nuts for starting a second place so close to our first, but (the new Kascadia pub has a) completely different vibe,” Minister said, adding the brewery plans to hold more community events at its original site in the industrial park.

Minister said the idea for opening a second Washougal location started brewing after the 54-40 Beer Lodge opened in Stevenson in 2021. That site closed permanently after a burst water pipe caused extensive water damage to the building in early 2024.

“In Stevenson, we fell in love with making pizza — making dough and making beer, they’re very close processes, and it’s so fun,” Minister said. “Once we figured out how to make pizza, we wanted to do another pizza location somewhere. After Rite Aid went out of business, I started thinking about close-in retail, almost strip mall-type stuff.”

When Minister saw two adjacent spaces that used to house a Pizza Hut and Hollywood Video at Evergreen Market were available, he jumped on the opportunity to open a second taproom.

The majority of the new Kascadia Brewery and Public House space is family friendly, but it does have space reserved for those age 21 and older.

The pub has shuffleboard, a dart board and pinball machine, and features an assortment of sports and beer memorabilia from Minister’s personal collection. TVs play “Schitt’s Creek” on a continuous loop, along with sports.

The menu includes pizzas, burgers, sandwiches and salads and will soon include pasta dishes, as well.

Patrons at the original 54-40 Brewing pub can order pizza to be delivered from the Kascadia pub. Minister said he has not ruled out expanding pizza-delivery service in the future.

“Honestly, to start, it’s going to be a slow roll,” he said. “We want to make sure that our kitchen can keep up because the logistics of running a delivery service are very different.”

Even though 54-40 Brewing’s industrial park location has hosted a variety of community events and fundraisers, Minister said the space got away from its intended purpose.

“That space was never meant to be anything other than (a community space),” he said. “We envisioned town halls. We envisioned book clubs. We envisioned folks from Steigerwald coming in and talking about birds or showing off photography or cool stuff like that.”

With the Kascadia pub assuming the bulk of 54-40’s food service, the industrial park location is now free to host more community events.

Some events that were previously held at the industrial park location — Thursday night music and Wednesday night trivia —will be moved to the Kascadia pub. Others, including the library’s Books and Brews book club meetups, will still be held at the industrial park location.

“We can do things for the Gause Boosters, Hathaway Boosters, Camas-Washougal Community Chest, East County Little League, all of that stuff,” Minister said. “That space can just be wide open for really creative stuff, for corporate events, for whatever. It’s going to be a little bit truer to its original concept.”

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