Botanical Brewing opens bigger Cape Coral taproom in former Scotty's space

Botanical Brewing has moved into Scotty’s former Cape Coral space off Pondella Road, and the bigger room says as much about the market as it does about the address. After five years in a smaller former Big Storm location on Miramar Street, the company now has a public-facing home built for more people, more inventory and the kind of lingering that makes a taproom work.

The new taproom opened June 12, 2026, inside a familiar beer-and-restaurant corridor that has seen plenty of turnover. The site gives Botanical several seating areas and options, which fits a model aimed less at quick transactions and more at hanging out with a drink in hand. For a business built around kava, plant-based alternatives and other alcohol-free drinks, that matters. Botanical is not just selling a product, it is borrowing the social architecture that craft beer helped popularize.

That shift also explains why the old Miramar Street setup had reached its limit. Botanical had been brewing there for about five years, but the space was simply too small for what the company had become. Earlier coverage put Botanical’s output at about 180,000 cans of beverages a month, a scale that makes a cramped production site and a bigger customer base hard to keep under one roof. The move to Pondella Road is less about a new zip code than a business growing into the kind of room that can handle the next stage.

The former Scotty’s building gives Botanical a recognizable landing spot, but it also comes with a lot of local history. Scotty’s Bierwerks, once described as Cape Coral’s only brewery, opened in 2017 and closed in late November 2025 after a lease dispute. LaBelle Brewing Company said it would keep Scotty’s award-winning beers flowing using the original recipes, a reminder that the brand itself did not vanish even as the taproom did. The same stretch of Cape Coral has already seen Big Storm Brewing Co. come and go as well, after it moved off Miramar Street and later shut its Cape Coral location in September 2023.

Botanical’s move shows how the taproom model keeps stretching beyond beer alone. In Cape Coral, the bigger room is the point. It gives an alternative-beverage maker the same destination appeal breweries have long chased, and it keeps a well-known hospitality site active instead of dark.