Bellwoods Brewery Alcohol-Free Beers

Bellwoods is a Toronto brewery founded in 2012, known for Jelly King, the dry-hopped sour it launched in 2016. It makes non-alcoholic versions of Jelly King at 0.5%, soured the same way as the full-strength beer, it says, and two are sold in the UK.

Who are Bellwoods?

“Bellwoods Brewery was founded by Mike Clark and Luke Pestl in 2012,” the brewery says; both had been brewers at Amsterdam Brewing, Good Beer Hunting reported. It started as a brewpub at 124 Ossington Avenue in Toronto, with a bottle shop at 126, and in 2016 it opened a production brewery and taproom at 20 Hafis Road, with oak foeders and a canning line.

Bellwoods makes no statement about its ownership or independence on its website. Its US trademarks, including BELLWOODS and JELLY KING, are held by Bellwoods Holdings Inc., whose shareholders we couldn’t find, and we couldn’t check the Canadian company register. We found no sale or stake by a drinks group in the Canadian press, so we list it as independent, with that caveat.

Jelly King

Bellwoods officially launched Jelly King in April 2016, and “the first Jelly King — a fuzzy peach candy flavour — was unleashed on the city”, blogTO reported in May 2026; the dry-hopped sour recipe took around three years to perfect. Good Beer Hunting described it in 2018 as a mixed-fermentation ale dry-hopped with Citra, and one of Bellwoods’ best-sellers. Its label is by Doublenaut, a Toronto design studio.

blogTO counted “Ten years and 91 varieties, including different flavours and non-alcoholic versions”. “We’ve got a lot of brand momentum,” Luke Pestl told it.

How big is Bellwoods?

It has “a passionate team of over 100 individuals”, it says. When Good Beer Hunting wrote about it in 2018, Ossington had a seven-barrel brewhouse, the Hafis Road site covered 15,500 square feet, and Bellwoods was planning about 6,000 hectolitres for 2017. We found no more recent production figure.

Bellwoods’ alcohol-free beers

Non-Alcoholic Jelly King is “the culmination of our efforts to make a non-alc beer in Jelly King’s image”, Bellwoods says. “We sour the base of both the beer and the non-alc in the same way,” it says, giving “predominantly peachy characteristics brought on by mixed fermentation”, and “many of the flavours that make it so nice to drink come from the yeast and the bacteria used in the brewing process”. It doesn’t say how it keeps the alcohol to 0.5%. “We don’t often toot our own horn, but we’re really happy with the results,” it adds.

Canadian Beer News reported its release in a headline dated 6 January 2023; we couldn’t read the article itself. The Growler wrote in January 2024: “The brilliant thing about Jelly King as a non-alc is that the basic model doesn’t rely on alcohol for interest.”

Jelly King Raspberry & Blackberry is a “Non-Alc Jelly King variant” that “was conditioned on loads of raspberries and blackberries”: “Tart, fruity and delicious!”, Bellwoods says. It calls it a limited edition, though it was still on sale in October 2026. Both are 0.5%, in 473ml cans, and Bellwoods lists barley, wheat and oats as allergens. It doesn’t publish calories, and we found no awards for either.

In Canada Bellwoods also sells Stay Classy, which it calls “our non-alcoholic beer”: a hoppy beer whose strength it doesn’t give. It has made other non-alcoholic Jelly Kings too, such as Razzle Dazzle, a limited edition at 0.5% according to Untappd, and a version with Greenhouse Juice. Its 0.0% Jelly King “waters” aren’t beers, so we don’t list them.

How Non-Alcoholic Jelly King compares

Alcohol-free sours in our directory. Calories as published; checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

The Bellwoods beers in our directory

Checked 31 October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.

Where to buy Bellwoods

On 30 October 2026 The Alcohol Free Co had Non-Alcoholic Jelly King at £6.08 a can or £34.74 for six, and the raspberry and blackberry version at £6.41 or £36.65 for six. Dry Drinker had sixes at £35.43 and £37.38, and a mixed six, three of each, at £35.65. Those are affiliate links. Wise Bartender doesn’t list them, and Bellwoods’ own shop sells only in Canada.

Facts checked against Bellwoods’ own website and shop, Good Beer Hunting, blogTO, Canadian Beer News, The Growler, Untappd, US trademark records, The Alcohol Free Co and Dry Drinker, 31 October 2026.