Craft brewer on move to Bells Corners

Kichesippi expanding

One of the city’s oldest craft breweries is on the move.

Kichesippi Beer Co. is leaving its well-known location on Campbell Avenue near Carling Avenue, on the southern edge of Kitchissippi ward, for a much larger space on a former car sales lot on Richmond Road in Bells Corners.

The company said the move to 2265 Robertson Rd., is necessary to allow it to expand and offer customers more space and better access to its products.

The new location will have a tap room, a beer garden, event space and much more parking than its current location offers. It will also be close to an OC Transpo stop.

“Our reason for moving is simple — we want to be able to offer our customers a better experience with our brand,” a company statement says.

“Our current location has served us well and we are proud of the beer that we have produced at Campbell Ave since April 2010. We have created a lot of great memories at this location and are very fortunate for all the customers who went out of their way to support us at our current brewery.”

Kichesippi, founded by Paul Meek in 2010, plans to have the new location up and running by April.

Despite its location in Kitchissippi ward, the brewery uses the spelling “Kichesippi,” an alternative version of the Indigenous Algonquin word for “Great River” — the Algonquin name for the waterway now known as the Ottawa River.