Trap Door Brewing’s third location Prairie View Station is sitting high on our most anticipated upcoming beer projects of 2026.
In a time of craft beer industry retraction the 10-year-old Trap Door Brewing is a current success story. First opened as a small brewery taproom in downtown Vancouver in 2015, Trap Door expanded to Washougal, Washington in 2022 taking over the former Amnesia Brewing and Logsdon Farmhouse Ales location. Head brewer Jake Watt has led Trap Door to its most acclaimed run of beers over the past 5 years with back-to-back Great American Beer Festival gold medals for ‘Fresher Than Fresh’ IPA, and that was before they brought on co-head brewer Tristan Karosas, formerly head brewer of Yakima, Washington’s acclaimed Single Hill Brewing.
Prairie View Station is more than just a new tertiary outlet for Trap Door, the 42,000 square. ft. property acquired by Trap Door owner Bryan Shull and business partner Jim West is a brand new LLC for which to launch a family-friendly food cart pod. The project started with an opportunity too good to pass up: a one-acre parcel of land donated by developer Killian Pacific to Fort Vancouver Regional Library District (FVRL) who in turn sold it to West and Shull. The funds raised as part of the sale go to supporting library services and educational programs as a way to foster long-term community benefit and economic vitality. The construction is being headed up by Matt Loosemore of SUM Architecture, and civil engineers from Engineering Northwest…