Langford’s Millstream Beverage Company survives late night blaze unscathed

The popular Langford watering hole, Millstream Beverage Company, had a late night fire on Thursday evening.

Staff closed up shop at 9 p.m. and the fire started shortly after 10 p.m., according to Millstream Beverage Company’s CEO Ian Conn.

“All our staff were gone and the building was empty,” Conn told Victoria Buzz.

Around just before midnight on Thursday, Conn and the rest of the ownership team at Millstream posted to their Facebook, “Thank you to everyone! Millstream was closed and everyone’s safe, just a bit of clean up.” 

“Fortunately it did not damage the building, and we are still working on the cause with the fire department tomorrow.”

“Special thanks to the fire departments for their quick response time!”

Video shows fire crews responding to fire at Langford’s Millstream Beverage Company late Thursday night. Thankfully there was no serious damage or injuries.

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— Victoria Buzz (@victoriabuzzes) October 28, 2022

Langford Fire Department received a call reporting the fire at around 10:20 p.m. Had the firefighters received the call any later in the evening, Conn believes it could have been really bad for their brew pub.

“They’ve ruled out electrical and they’ve ruled out gas as a cause for the fire,” said Conn.

“The working theory is that there was some residual heat from our patio heaters that collected and started the fire, but we just don’t know at this time.”

A corrugated plastic material that makes up part of the patio’s facade at the front of the building is where the fire is believed to have initiated.

The Langford Fire Department is still investigating what might have started the fire. 

Luckily the fire will not affect the brew pub’s day-to-day. On Friday they plan on going about business as usual with ‘Firkin Friday,’  a night where they tap a cask of their Chocolate Caramel Stout.

Millstream Beverage Company shares a building with the popular Loghouse Pub, which was also unaffected by the blaze.