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The Coppermine Pub's 24-line copper draught wall, photographed at golden hour
Draught Board · Winter 2025 / Q4 Rotation

Twenty-four taps. One lakeside wall. A new pour every quarter.

The largest craft selection between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie — built line by line by a Cicerone-certified beer director who has been pulling pints behind this same bar since 2010.

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The current quarter, line by line.

Twenty-four taps, hand-picked for the season. We rotate four lines each January, April, July, and October — the rest of the board is built around what is pouring best, freshest, and most local this week.

Ontario Brewery Northern ON / Within 500 km Canadian Craft
  1. 01

    Boreal Trail IPA

    Lake of the Woods Brewing Co. · Kenora, ON

    West Coast IPA · 6.4% ABV · 55 IBU

    Resinous and bright with a clean bitter finish — built for the patio, pairs cleanly with the sourdough flatbread.

    Ontario
  2. 07

    Stonecutter Pilsner

    Stonecutter Brewing · Coppermine, ON

    Czech-style Pilsner · 4.8% ABV · 38 IBU

    Brewed six blocks from the pub. Cracker-malt body, soft herbal hop, dry finish. The everyday pint.

    Northern ON
  3. 12

    Midnight Embers Stout

    Stack Brewing · Sudbury, ON

    Coffee Oatmeal Stout · 5.6% ABV · 32 IBU

    Cold-brew coffee from a Sudbury roaster layered into a soft, oat-smooth stout. Built for shoulder season.

    Northern ON
  4. 19

    Northwood Saison

    Bellwoods Brewery · Toronto, ON

    Farmhouse Saison · 6.1% ABV · 28 IBU

    Peppery, dry, and quietly fruity — the beer director's pick for the wood-fired mushroom pizza.

    Ontario

Showing 4 of 24 lines. View the full current board →

How the Board is Built

Curated, rotated, and quietly local-leaning.

Four times a year, our beer director — a Cicerone-certified drinker who has been on staff since 2010 — sits down with the list and rebuilds four lines at a time. The rest of the board holds its place until a keg kicks or the season turns.

The goal is not to chase trends. It is to keep a board that a regular could drink across in a week without repeats, that a first-timer can read in a glance, and that, in any given month, leans on Ontario producers we know by name.

  • Local first. Wherever a Northern Ontario or provincial brewery can carry the line, they get the tap.
  • Style range, not volume. A pilsner, a pale, an IPA, a stout, a sour, a lager — always a balanced set.
  • Drinkability over hype. We pour what people come back for, not what trend pieces chase.
  • One quiet wild card. Every rotation includes one line that doesn't quite fit — that is the point.
Meet the Beer Director
The Coppermine Pub's beer director selecting a new pour for the rotation at a wooden prep table
A working Tuesday afternoon in the back office — building the Q1 2026 rotation, four lines at a time.
The Board, in Numbers

A measured program, not a marketing line.

24
craft draught lines, the largest selection between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie
3.8 – 9.2% ABV
the current rotation's ABV spread, from session pilsners to small-batch imperials
15
Ontario breweries on the Q4 2025 board, including 4 from Northern Ontario
15yrs
under the same Cicerone-certified beer director, who has built every rotation since 2010

Figures audited quarterly. Keg-count and brewery-origin data verified against the pub's cellar log.

The Archive

Past rotations, kept on the record.

A working log of the boards we have poured. Locals will recognize a season by the names on the list — newcomers get a sense of how a 24-line program breathes through a year on the Coppermine.

  • Q3 · 2025 Summer Rotation · Jul – Sep

    Eight new lines, four new Ontario breweries.

    A pilsner-heavy board built for the patio: three German-style lagers, two fruited sours from Guelph, the return of the Sleeping Giant Dark Ale. The mid-quarter swap brought in Half the Guitars' DIPA and Manitoulin's first-ever lager on tap.

    • 3 Lagers
    • 2 Sours
    • 2 IPAs
    • + 1 dark ale
    4 new Ontario breweries
  • Q2 · 2025 Spring Rotation · Apr – Jun

    The season we leaned into pale ales.

    Six of the 24 lines were variations on the pale — American, English, Belgian, and one boldly under-attenuated "house pale" brewed exclusively for the pub by Stonecutter. Stout and porter positions held for shoulder-season drinkers.

    • 6 Pales
    • 1 House Collab
    • + 4 returning IPAs
    1 brewery exclusive
  • Q1 · 2025 Winter Rotation · Jan – Mar

    A stout-and-lager board for cold Tuesdays.

    The shortest ABV spread we have ever programmed: nothing under 4.8%, four imperials over 8%, and a Black IPA that quietly became the best-selling line of the quarter. Northern Ontario producers took 6 of 24 taps.

    • 5 Stouts / Porters
    • 4 Imperials
    • 6 Northern ON taps
    Best seller: Black IPA
  • Q4 · 2024 Holiday Rotation · Oct – Dec

    Spice, cellar-warm ales, and one mulled cider.

    The annual December board, built around what drinks well coming in from the cold. Three spice-driven winter warmers, two cellared barleywines, and a non-alcoholic mulled cider that the team has quietly refused to take off the board since.

    • 3 Winter warmers
    • 2 Barleywines
    • 1 NA mulled cider
    Full archive since 2010

Archive kept continuously since 2010. See what is on the wall right now →

A good draught board is a conversation. If a regular walks in and can't tell me what they are in the mood for, I have not done my job. Twenty-four lines is enough to wander and small enough to know by name.

D. Mercier Beer Director · Cicerone Certified · On staff since 2010