{"id":64117,"date":"2025-11-29T03:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64117\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T03:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T03:33:07","slug":"cape-corals-last-brewery-scottys-bierwerks-closes-after-9-years-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64117\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral&#8217;s last brewery, Scotty&#8217;s Bierwerks, closes after 9 years | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty&#8217;s Bierwerks in Cape Coral marked its final night of operation, closing its doors after nine years of serving authentic German beer.<\/p>\n<p>Many families who frequented the brewery felt they were not just losing a local favorite, but saying goodbye to a second home.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Bellman of Scotty&#8217;s Bierwerks said, &#8220;We are sending off Scotty&#8217;s with a bang. We are closing down today. This is our very last day open.&#8221; She added, &#8220;It&#8217;s been unbelievable, unbelievable turnout so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patrons lined up for hours to enjoy a last beer and reminisce about the community built at Scotty&#8217;s. Sarah McKee, a long-time patron, said, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t believe it, I thought they were playing a joke on us.&#8221; She continued, &#8220;The best part is we made a lot of friends. Our daughters just blossomed, came out of their comfort zone\u2026 getting everybody just happy to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evelyn McKee expressed her sentiment, saying, &#8220;I love Scotty&#8217;s. I want them to stay open forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bellman explained the closure, &#8220;Our owner is retiring. Unfortunately, as much as we really wanted to move forward with our buyer, the brand new lease is astronomically high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Franco, who ran a pop-up stand at Scotty&#8217;s, said, &#8220;Scotty has become, like I said, one of the first girls that gave us opportunity, we became friends, we became family with all of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff, another patron, shared personal memories, &#8220;We were looking at photos earlier, our oldest learning to walk here. We&#8217;ve announced the pregnancy to my parents here.&#8221; He added, &#8220;You could go to hang out with other people that was family-friendly, and really just the best beer in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the taps shut off for good, many in attendance reflected on the memories made at Scotty&#8217;s Bierwerks, which will endure long after its doors have closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotty&#8217;s Bierwerks in Cape Coral marked its final night of operation, closing its doors after nine years of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28],"class_list":["post-64117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}