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Field note · 15 November 2026
Taprooms, then a quiet room
Langley's taproom list is short and spread out. The hotel solves the hardest part of a tasting afternoon: getting home.
Tourism Langley's craft list is honest about scale. It names six businesses, not sixty: Manners Cider, Trails End, Brookswood Brewing Co., Locality Brewing, Smugglers Trail Caskworks and Camp Beer Co. They are scattered across Fort Langley, Walnut Grove, Willoughby, Brookswood and the countryside, which is exactly why a hotel room in the middle of it makes sense.
The list, as Tourism Langley tells it
- Smugglers Trail Caskworks
- Walnut Grove. Founded in 2017 by rugby teammates Jamie Overgaard and Stephen Gregorig.
- Trails End
- Fort Langley. Run by the Smugglers team, after four years of brewery and kitchen work.
- Locality Brewing
- Countryside. Describes itself as a field-to-glass brewery.
- Camp Beer Co.
- Willoughby. A community taproom with an oversized outdoor patio.
- Brookswood Brewing Co.
- Brookswood. A small family business started during the pandemic.
- Manners Cider
- Brookswood-Fernridge. The cider stop on the list.
How we would do it
- Leave the car at the hotel. Parking there is free, and it is the last place you want to be driving from later.
- Book a taxi or a ride-share between two stops, not five. The list is spread across the Township and a crawl turns into a drive.
- Eat. Fort Langley has cafés near Trails End; MATCH and ATLAS are back at the hotel.
- Be back for a quiet evening. The point of staying in the building is that the room is upstairs.
A word on drinking and gambling
Alcohol and gambling make each other worse. If you have been tasting all afternoon, the casino floor is the place to skip that evening.
Wine more than beer? The Township's 10 licensed grape wineries are on our Around Langley page, with the same advice about drivers.
Source: Tourism Langley, craft breweries, cideries and distilleries, checked 15 November 2026.