Brewery Profile

Moylan's Brewing Company

For three decades, a visit to this Novato brewery meant entering a classic brewpub in Rowland Plaza rather than a small production-only taproom. The setup included a spacious dining room, a dedicated bar area, and an outdoor beer garden, so the experience was built around both beer and a full restaurant setting. Visitors could treat it as a sit-down meal, a bar stop, or a casual outdoor gathering when the beer garden was in use. In the city’s beer landscape, it served as a long-running local pub where hand-crafted beer was part of a broader hospitality format, with on-site drinking and packaged beer available for people taking beer away.

Travelers moving through this part of California often seek approachable craft-beer stops that can work into a wider day of driving, dining, or meeting friends, rather than only destination tasting rooms. Moylan’s fit that pattern by offering beer in a pub environment with enough room for different kinds of visits. The known focus was hand-crafted beer, without the available facts specifying particular styles or flagship names. For a visitor, the draw would have been the format: beer brewed under the house name, served in a restaurant setting, and available to take off site in growlers, cans, or kegs. That combination made it more than a quick tasting counter, while still keeping beer central to the visit.

Practical details are now historical, because the brewery ceased all activities after 30 years and permanently closed its doors. It should not be planned as an active stop, and current pours, food service, packaged beer availability, and hours are no longer applicable. When it was operating, the useful visitor notes were straightforward: the site was in Novato’s Rowland Plaza, seating included a dining room and bar, and outdoor space was available in the beer garden. Packaged beer options included growlers, cans, and kegs for off-premise sales. Anyone researching the area’s brewing history should treat Moylan’s as a former brewpub and restaurant, not a current taproom.

Moylan's Brewing Company operated for three decades as a classic pub and restaurant located in Novato's Rowland Plaza. The establishment featured a spacious dining room, a dedicated bar area, and an outdoor beer garden for patrons. Moylan's focused on producing hand-crafted beers, which were available for consumption on-site or packaged for off-premise sales in growlers, cans, and kegs. After 30 years of operation, the brewery ceased all activities and permanently closed its doors.

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15 Rowland Way, Novato, CA 94945, USA, Novato, California, 94945

Phone: (415) 898-4677

Website: http://www.moylans.com/