About Deep Dive Brewing Co
Deep Dive Brewing Co is a small, family-run craft brewery on the island of Saba. We brew approachable, well-balanced beer for our climate, our community, and everyone who finds their way to this little island.
We believe good beer should be easy to enjoy, whether it is your first one after a dive, something cold with dinner, or another round with friends.
The Brewery
Our brewing philosophy is simple: make beer people want to drink more than one of.
We focus on balance, consistency, and drinkability rather than extremes. Our beers are made for warm days, long evenings, and shared tables, not novelty for novelty’s sake.
Brewing on a small Caribbean island also leaves very little room for shortcuts. We carefully manage our water, minerals, fermentation, and cold filtration to produce consistent beer with the quality and shelf stability our environment demands.
We are small, and we are growing carefully. We would rather make promises we know we can keep, take care of the businesses that carry our beer, and protect quality as we grow.
Our Story
Deep Dive started with a move to Saba.
Chad and Katy came to the island in 2021 to purchase Sea Saba, a local dive center. It did not take long to fall in love with Saba, but there was one thing they thought the island was missing: good beer brewed right here.
The idea started in conversations with former Sea Saba staff member Svenja, who brewed beer with her father, and with friends and family back in Arizona. Eventually, curiosity turned into a serious question: Could a brewery actually work on Saba?
In 2023, Chad sat down and wrote a business plan. Somewhat surprisingly, the answer was yes.
The idea kept growing. Jill was preparing to retire and move to Saba to be closer to her grandchildren, and she joined the project with her partner Tim, who had apprenticed at a brewery in Peoria, Arizona. The group bought a small homebrew system, set it up on Saba, and started developing recipes on what became our pilot brewhouse.
Then Wim of Juliana’s Hotel and Tropics Café, a longtime Saba business owner, came aboard as an initial investor. With the team in place and the capital raised, we ordered a professional brewing system from Alpha Brewing Operations in Nebraska.
The equipment arrived on Saba in October 2024. We brewed our first batch that December.
In January 2025, Deep Dive beer went on sale for the first time.
Brewing on Saba
Making beer on Saba is a little different.
Nearly everything we use has to cross an ocean to get here. We receive a shared container approximately every two weeks, which means ingredients first have to reach the right place in Florida, make the correct sailing, arrive on Saba, clear the logistics at Fort Bay, and finally make their way to us.
Our brewery itself is just 26 by 26 feet, with 9-foot ceilings, tucked into Fort Bay Harbor. Gas is prohibitively expensive here, so the brewery runs entirely on electricity.
Those constraints influence almost everything we do. We plan carefully, use our space efficiently, and think hard about what we bring to the island and what we do with it afterward.
Saba’s diving culture has always encouraged people to think about the environment around them. That mindset carries naturally into the brewery. Sustainability is not something we added to a marketing plan. On a five-square-mile island, waste, water, energy, and shipping are things you notice every day.
Community & Beyond
Deep Dive was built to be part of Saba, not simply located here.
Our spent grain finds new life around the island as animal feed, compost, dog treats, and whatever else creative Sabans come up with. We also provide filtered water to the Marine Laboratory, reducing the amount of distilled water they need to bring to the island for experiments.
Today, you can find Deep Dive at most bars and restaurants on Saba, as well as local shops carrying our cans. We have also started sending beer to the Dutch side of Sint Maarten, including accounts in Philipsburg.
We are still a small brewery. That is part of what makes this fun. The people pouring, stocking, and drinking our beer are not abstract markets to us. They are restaurants we eat at, shops we visit, businesses we work with, neighbors we know, and visitors discovering Saba for the first time.
Deep Dive Brewing Co exists because we love this island, the people who make it what it is, and the idea that great beer does not have to travel thousands of miles to be worth drinking.
Come see how we make it, or find a cold one around the island.