Burnt Store Brewing

Small-batch beer with a long memory, from the edge of Charlotte Harbor.

A brand in development — no taproom yet, no beer for sale yet. The name, the plan, and the thirst are real.

The Name

A store burned here once

On the wild southwest coast of Florida, on the edge of Charlotte Harbor, a frontier trading post once did business with the Seminole. It rode out an 1848 hurricane, and sometime before 1876 it burned down. The store was gone, but the name stuck: the road that ran past it has been called Burnt Store Road ever since — twenty-some miles of it, from Punta Gorda down through Cape Coral.

You'll hear a tale that settlers and the Seminole put it to the torch. That version was dreamed up by land promoters generations later; the records don't back it. The plainer truth is the better story anyway: a small store on a shallow coast, gone for 150 years, that left behind nothing but a name.

That's the country this brand calls home. Mangrove shoreline, tarpon water, summer thunderheads, and a road named for the thing that didn't survive. Good beer is like that too — fire, patience, and a story worth telling straight.

The Beers

The lineup, on paper

Every brewery starts as a list of names scribbled somewhere. Here's ours.

No See-Um

Florida Light Beer

Named for the smallest menace on the sandbar. Light, crisp, and built for the SW Florida lifestyle. Gone before you feel a thing.

Oyster Brau

Golden Ale

Clean and golden with a mineral snap: the perfect complement to a dozen on the half shell. Brackish company encouraged.

Flipper's Share

Rum Barrel-Aged Stout

Dark stout slow-aged in rum barrels. Distillers lose the angel's share; out here on the harbor, the dolphins take their cut.

Recipes in progress; nothing brewed commercially yet. Names subject to the whims of the brewer and the availability of hops.

Taproom

Coming… eventually

There is no taproom yet — no lease, no brewhouse, no neon “OPEN” sign. But there is a target on the map: Seven Islands, the ±48-acre waterfront district along Old Burnt Store Road in Northwest Cape Coral. In January 2026 the Cape Coral City Council approved plans there for a resort-and-marina village: public marina, waterfront restaurants, a food-truck park, an amphitheater on its own island. That's exactly the kind of neighborhood a brewery named after this road belongs in.

Concept, not construction: our brewpub imagined into the Seven Islands marina. Unofficial mockup; base rendering © Gulf Gateway / Forest Development (7islandsfl.com); not affiliated with or endorsed by the project.

Hours
Mon–Sun · not yet

Follow the district at nwcape.com/seven-islands. Want to hear from us the day “not yet” changes? Drop us a line and we'll keep you posted.

Store

The store at the burnt store

Branded goods for people who like their breweries aspirational.

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Palm Flame Tee

Soft cotton · cream on plum $28

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Cream and burnt-orange trucker hat with embroidered sunset palm-flame patch reading Old Burnt Store Rd.

Old Burnt Store Rd. Trucker Hat

Foam & mesh · sunset patch $26

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Pint glass of amber ale with frosted etched palm-flame mark

Palm-Flame Pint Glass

16 oz · etched mark $12

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Marina Day Koozie

Floats, allegedly $6

Everything sells out remarkably fast when none of it has been printed yet. Want first crack at a real drop? Raise your hand.

Contact

Say hello

📫 hello@burntstorebrewing.com

Beer talk, local lore corrections, and partnership or brand inquiries all welcome. The Burnt Store Brewing name and its domains are an independent brand project — if you're a brewer who wants to bring it to life, we should talk.