The Growler Ontario • Volume 5 Issue 2 • Fall/Winter 2022

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BEER GROUND To

is spring and summer saw the addition of both the long-awaited Great Lakes Brewpub and a physical location for True History Brewing, long a contract brand, to Toronto’s brewing scene. We’ve got new breweries from Windsor to Wawa and a few locations that have changed hands, changed names, and stayed in the same location.

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Bloomfield (summer 2022) Located just over a stone’s throw away from PEC darling Matron Brewing Company, All My Friends is an additional worthy stop for those of you planning a trip to the county. e taproom is RV friendly, dog friendly, family friendly, and the sta is, you guessed it, personable. Try the squash burrito alongside Candy, their NEIPA. AMFBeer.com

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• Keynote speakers Adam Brož (Czechvar) & Andrew Oland (Moosehead)

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Brooklin (spring 2022) While Banter and Co. launched with a fairly traditional list of beer options, their selection is getting bolder as they develop their tenure. Although they have a shareable charcuterie option on the menu, you are allowed to bring your own food, allowing you all the rich options of North Durham county. BanterAndCompany.com

• Brewery tours, Blackburn Brewhouse & SOBDL after parties

THE CORNERHOUSE ON MAIN

• Outstanding selection of Ontario Craft Beer

Stouffville (winter 2022) Not shy about their place in the world, the website for the Cornerhouse proclaims it to be the best restaurant in Stou ville. e beers are technically under the Cock-A-Hoop brand, which has been developed by brewer Andrew McReady. Try the Arctic Shrimp Cake with the Kellerbier. You’ll be over the moon about Cock-A-Hoop. eCornerhouse.ca

FOCAL BREWING COMPANY

Hastings (summer 2022) Focal’s focus is founded on delity to the ingredients grown in Ontario, because focal is local and comparatively vocal about it. Cousins Matt and Brandon Bickle would love you to try their

Welcome to Ontario Pale Ale, and have even managed to get in their own Oktoberfest celebrations their rst year in business! FocalBrewingCo.ca

FOGORIG BREWING COMPANY

Campbellford (summer 2022) A farm brewery located in the Trent Hills with a heritage masonry building from 1834, one of Fogorig’s main strengths is the beauty of the rolling landscape surrounding it. at, and the comfortable patio, live music, rotating food o erings and delicious beer … Ok, so they have a lot of strengths. Fogorig.com

GREAT LAKES BREWPUB

Toronto (summer 2022) You know them. You love them. You drink Canuck because it’s excellent and a ordable. You don’t want to slog out to Etobicoke? Well, Great Lakes is now downtown. And they have Detroit style Okonomiyaki pizza to go with their brewpub one o beers. e great taste of Michigan and Osaka, together at last. GreatLakesBrewpub.com

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Sharbot Lake (summer 2022) Driving along the Trans Canada and looking to wet your whistle? Well, Sharbot Lake’s newest brewery is just the place. Kick & Push, named after a now defunct railway has their English Ale, Relax Alice, on tap at the Sharbot Lake Hotel. A ne place to spend the night if you’re overserved. KAPBrewing.ca

POINT BREWING COMPANY

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Point Edward (summer 2022) Point Brewing has something for everyone at their newly opened taproom. Whether you’re looking

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Contents

A GUIDE TO ONTARIO'S COLD IPA

STYLE SNAPSHOT: ESB

YOU OUGHT TO GO TO OTTAWA

BREWER VS BREWER: THE BELGIAN-STYLE BREWERS EDITION

THE FALL AND RISE OF STEAM WHISTLE BREWING

THAT CRISP, COLD GLASS OF GOLD

RECIPE: GRANITE BREWERY'S JERK CHICKEN WINGS

ONTARIO BREWERY LISTINGS

BEER TO THE GROUND

Brewery Details

GROWLER FILLS

BOTTLES / CANS

BEER FOR SALE

ONLINE

TASTING ROOM

ON-SITE KITCHEN OR FOOD TRUCK

TOURS

DOG-FRIENDLY

GLUTEN-FREE BOOZE OPTIONS

NORTHERN

TOKENS!

What, you want a beer magazine? Listen, lady, I mostly sell tokens.

The Growler? Well, alright. Let me see if I remember how to edit one of those. To be honest with you, I’ve been doing it from my booth here on the CNE midway. TOKENS! Sorry, that’s a reflex action. You know, I was also marking papers for the Niagara College Brewmaster Program here? Fine! Jeez!

Robin LeBlanc has some revelations about her predilection for well-made, low-cost lagers. Ben Johnson is going to tell you about an iconic Canadian brand getting its groove back (hint: it’s green). Maxim Morin has some real concerns about an emergent IPA style; He wants to know everything about it and actually interviewed people! David Sun Lee wants to tell you about what you can do in Ottawa, and he’s had the good taste to include Gatineau in case you need that francophone option.

If that’s not enough, we’ve got a recipe for Jerk Wings from the Granite Brewery in Toronto. I’m 600 bucks in lifetime on those.

If I ever get out of this booth, It’ll be like 620.

TOKENS!

—Jordan St. John, editor

Availability

B – brewery taproom

L – licensed establishments, pubs, bars and restaurants

LC – LCBO

TBS – The Beer Store

Suggested Glassware

STANGE

Kolsch

Alt

Gose

PILSNER

Lager

Pilsner

Witbier

NONIC PINT

Pale ale

Stout and porter

Most ales, actually

WEIZEN

Hefeweizen

Weizenbock

American wheat

TULIP

Saison

Double IPA

Strong ales

GOBLET

Dubbel

Belgian strong Tripel

SNIFTER

Barley wine Quad

A GUIDE TO ONTARIO'S

COLD IPA

(or how I learned to stop being a hater and just enjoy the damn beer)

by Max Morin

Ontario’s beer market is in the midst of a monumental change when it comes to craft beer and the companies that make it. Consolidation and contraction have seen regional players sell off or band together in an effort to combat shrinking margins and unpredictable market forces. The pressure to follow trend has brewers jumping on America’s newest beer trend: Cold IPA.

Pioneered by Kevin Davey, Brewmaster at Wayfinder Brewing in Seattle, Cold IPA follows the same objective as its much-maligned predecessor Brut IPA. Namely, it’s meant as a rebuttal to the low bitterness, juice-like hazy IPAs that currently dominate the market north and south of the border. Dry, hop-forward, light in body. Those are some of the tenets of Davey’s creation.

Unlike trendy styles that have come before, Cold IPA has been given the cold shoulder by purists who see it as no more than marketing spin. Unlike your average IPA, Cold IPA uses a lager yeast that ferments warm. Its mash bill is normally made up of significant portions of rice or corn to lighten the body.

“John Palmer has the best grasp on it,” Em Sauter, author, illustrator, and beer educator tells me.

“It's as if a Cream Ale and West Coast IPA had a baby.” It’s both clean, light, but still knocks you in the teeth with American hops. “I never thought IPA could be reinvented but I’m constantly surprised by beer,” she said.

Matron Fine Beers were the first to take a crack at this reinvented sub-style in Ontario with their Leeway Cold IPA, which gave Sebastian MacIntosh, Director of Brewing and Operations at Barrie’s Flying Monkeys, the confidence to make one of their own. “[Leeway] made me feel

a bit re-assured that other people were starting to do it,” admitted Macintosh. “I've never been to Wayfinder. I'd never had Cold IPA before we started brewing it. I just thought it was an interesting turn after years of north east heavy, juicy IPA.” Quantum Hugs Cold IPA started off as a pilot beer at their Barrie brewpub but has since graduated to a full LCBO province-wide release. Macintosh isn’t wrong. Compared to their other IPAs, Quantum Hugs is a major departure, offering up tropical fruit notes like coconut, mango, with subtle orchard fruit thanks to dialed in Azacca, Sabro, and Motueka dry-hopping. The flaked rice in the grist lightens the body while the 6.1% ABV adds just enough structure to the beer to carry the hop load.

In Kingston, Spearhead Brewing’s Hopsicle Cold IPA was so successful at launch they juggled their production schedule around to accommodate another batch. Head Brewer Jacob Schmidt saw this little-known style start to crop up south of the border.

“When I was in Calgary, I got to try three different ones and all of them were very different. Everyone is trying to get their own feel for the style to see what will stick,” he said. Hopsicle Cold IPA takes a lot of cues from Wayfinder’s original. Corn in the mash: check. Lager yeast fermented warm: check. But instead of dry-hopping with Cascade, Chinook, or Centennial, they opted to showcase Strata and a new experimental hop from the Pacific North-West. The result is a melange of

that tried and true pine resin up front but layered beneath a wild berry scented cannabis store character.

Cold IPA is a new sandbox for brewers to play in—that much is clear. But it’s given others license to sell hop-forward lager in an entire new package. Amsterdam Brewery’s recent Cool Thing Cold IPA doesn’t use adjunct grains. “Generally we don't follow trends,” explained Conor McMaster, a brewer at Amsterdam’s brewpub location on Toronto’s waterfront. They were confident with brewing Pilsner, but wanted to dial some local hops from Charles Faram to eleven.

Toronto’s waterfront. They were confident with

“We wanted this one to have qualities that would almost make you think you're drinking a traditional West Coast IPA from 10-15 years ago. Nice bitterness. Nice clean finish. Super big punch of aroma,” McMaster said. And that’s what you get and more. White grape, lychee, and unripened peach bound out of the glass with a finish that’s an open invitation to gulp more. Even though Cool Thing presents the biggest departure process-wise for Cold IPA, it nailed the intent of Davey’s project.

Taken in sum, these various takes on Cold IPA started revealing a pattern: to one degree or another, they were all fairly different in appearance,

It's as if a Cream Ale and a West Coast IPA had a baby.”

—Em Sauter

hop character, texture, and body. They were all different. But they were also distinct from the myriad weekly Hazy IPA releases we’ve grown so (maybe too) accustomed to. I was cynical about Cold IPA when it started to seep into the beer geek lexicon but after tasting these beers, I discovered the odd allure that comes with tasting Ontario’s craft brewers’ attempts to figure it out.

Critics of Cold IPA have taken umbrage with it on multiple fronts. A) the whole lager yeast in an ale misnomer and B) what, if anything, differentiates Cold IPA from India Pale Lager? “The name Cold IPA doesn't make any sense,” admitted Schmidt. “It's fermented warmer than typical so you get some esters. It's not cold. It's not an ale. It's warm lager. But if you put that on a can nobody is going to drink it,” he laughs.

Schmidt is right, of course, but the truth is brewers will break tradition (and sometimes logic) in

order to get a beer made. You’d be surprised how common it is to have an English-Style Porter with a non-English Ale yeast or a German-Style Altbier that likely used Chico yeast, not to mention other styles of IPA that were labeled as such but also used some form of lager yeast.

Davey admitted as much on a recent All About Beer podcast episode: Every Wayfinder IPA is brewed using lager yeast. It’s more than likely your favourite craft brewery has done something similar. Yeast management, or the practice of managing a house yeast to ensure healthy fermentation, is the giant elephant in the room and many will bend the rules in order to keep a brewery’s production churning. But do these tricks of the trade really matter?

“Kevin would want you to follow the guidelines but that's what they are—there's no Cold IPA law. This isn’t Germany. It's world craft brewing,” Sauter explained. “I'm going to make the style I want as long as it's the best quality beer possible,”she said. We agreed that quality and clearly communicating the flavour experience of a given beer to the drinker is what’s paramount. The fact of the matter is, India Pale Lagers do not sell well, which is why they’re harder than ever to come by at your local taproom. Cold IPA does. Rebranding exercise or not, it’s working. And the Ontario examples I’ve tasted marry what Cold IPA communicates. They’re easier-drinking than today’s modern IPA, dry, and hop-forward. Maybe that’s enough.

Regardless of where you stand on Cold IPA, one thing’s for sure: many more are in the offing. My suggestion? Try some, even a few, and judge for yourself. Maybe you’ll stop being a hater, too. j

REQUIRED DRINKING

Try these brewed-in-Ontario Cold IPAs

Amsterdam Brewery // Cool Thing

Flying Monkeys // Quantum Hug

Lake of Bays x Lallemend // Solstice

Matron Fine Beer // Leeway

Nickel Brook x Wellington // Flash Freeze

Refined Fool Brewing // Swedish Prison

Spearhead Brewing // Hopsicle

The name Cold IPA doesn't make any sense It's not cold. It's not an ale. It's warm lager. But if you put that on a can nobody is going to drink it.

—Jacob Schmidt

A guide to the sessionable yet contemplative

ESB

by Jordan St. John

WHAT IS IT?

A top fermented ale just that little bit stronger and darker than a typical pub strength English Bitter, among the stronger offerings from English breweries, but average for American craft beer.

ORIGIN STORY

DRINK WITH

DANGER

LEVEL

Expensive pub session possible

GLASS Nonic pint

STYLE STATS

ABV 4.6-6.2% IBU 30-50

COLOUR Gold to dark amber

BODY Medium full

BUBBLES Somewhat sedate (on cask)

In the 1970s, Fullers wanted to break out and make something Special. Extra Special. Their ESB, the progenitor of the style, was nearly a full percent stronger than their other offerings and was a winter seasonal. Although Fullers’ ESB still exists, it is not considered a modern ESB as American brewers somewhat simplified the complexity of the malt bill in favour of toasted malt verging into dried fruit and toffee.

WHY DOES IT TASTE LIKE MARMALADE?

An entire platter of fried whitebait

The British, in their infinite wisdom, have doubled up the flavours of beer and teatime, using English hops like East Kent Goldings and Slovenian hops like Styrian Goldings to create notes of orange pith, orange pekoe tea, and the gentle greenery of hedgerows that layer above honey, biscuits, toasted bread, treacle, and currants. Think of it as the long dark teatime of the beer world.

SIX MUST-TRY ONTARIO ESB

1 3 5 2 4 6 Dark Streets of London ESB, Clifford Brewing Co.

Extra Special Bitter, Flora Hall Brewing

ESB, C'est What Durham Brewing

Across the Pond ESB, High Park Brewery

Dragonslayer ESB (coming in Nov.), Spearhead Brewing Co.

Monty's ESB, Great Lakes Brewery

A Scotch egg

Lentil and mushroom pie

You ought to go to Ottawa You ought to go to Ottawa

Capital beers in the capital city

by David Sun Lee

Our nation’s capital usually plays second fiddle as a tourist destination to Montreal and Toronto but it’s a great place for anyone, let alone a beer hound, to stop in for a few nights. Ottawa’s craft beer scene has been growing steadily in size and reputation in the last few years even with all the challenges breweries have had to face during the course of the pandemic.

In addition to being the capital, Ottawa is also famous for sharing a border with Quebec with the city of Gatineau just across the river. This gives you the unique opportunity to try two provinces worth of beer as easily as crossing a bridge.

OTTAWA SIDE:

Spark Beer

702 Somerset Street West, Ottawa

One of the newer entries to the craft beer scene, Spark was opened in January 2020 by husbandand-wife John Sproull and Andrea Gormley. Sproull is a fan of mixed-fermentation and sour beer and their tap list reflects that along with the requisite IPAs.

Shillow Beer Co.

1458 Cyrville Road, Gloucester

Only a little over 10 minutes by taxi from Byward Market you’ll find Shillow Beer Co and it’s well worth the trip. Jamie Shillow has been brewing up fantastic traditional styles such as roggenbier and Vienna lager while also creating more modern takes such as their delicious mango sour and a dry-hopped blonde lager.They’re also the only kosher craft brewery in Ontario.They’ve teamed up with the Fairmont hotel on a collaboration beer called La Terrasse rouge.

Flora Hall Brewing

37 Flora Street, Ottawa

More than perhaps other taprooms, Flora Hall’s focus, aside from their beer of course, is on their food. Somehow covering pizza, Thai, Mexican and Indian cuisines, and doing it well, this is the spot you want to go if you want to spend a whole evening somewhere. Their lineup features beers great for food-pairing such as English bitter, IPA and pilsner.

Beyond the Pale Brewing Company

250 City Centre Avenue, Bay 106, Ottawa

In 2012 Beyond the Pale was making noise right out of the gate in the Ontario craft beer scene with their oatmeal stout The Darkness, which you can still get from the brewery today. Brewer and co-owner Shane Clark followed up with their initial success with current standards like Aromatherapy IPA and Pink Fuzz grapefruit wheat beer, available at the LCBO.

Situated in Chinatown, Spark Beer is a great spot for adventurous sour beer. Supplied photo

Tooth and Nail Brewing Company

3 Irving Avenue, Ottawa

ABOVE: Ben and Jaime Shillow are the owners of the only Kosher brewery in Ontario. RIGHT: Beyond the Pale have taken their white picket fence theme very literally as the border for the patio. Supplied photos refrain from Ottawa residents is that they’ve got access to the best shawarma in the country. Along with other spots such as Shawarma King (just down the street) and 3 Brothers, Shawarma Palace was hailed by one brewery as the best spot in town.

Tooth and Nail have developed a reputation for making excellent beer in both classic and more modern styles. Brewer and owner Matt Tweedy have also teamed up with Luc Lafontaine from Toronto-brewery Godspeed in making a series of Belgian abbey ales called Abbaye des Sept Minutes. If what you’re looking for are expertly crafted classic styles, try their popular Vim & Vigor pilsner and Fortitude stout.

Bicycle Craft Brewery

850 Industrial Avenue, #12, Ottawa

Cyclist and brewer Laura Behzadi opened Bicycle Craft in 2014 with husband Fariborz. Located just five minutes from Shillow Beer Co, you’ll find a lineup anchored by a variety of IPAs and pale ales including their first IPA Velocipede which is available through the LCBO.

Shawarma Palace

464 Bank Street, Ottawa

If there’s one food item Ottawa seems to be famous for it has to be shawarma. The consistent

GATINEAU SIDE:

Broue Ha Ha

867 Boulevard Saint-René Ouest, Gatineau, QC

If you’re going to Ottawa you’d be missing out if you didn’t cross the river to visit Broue Ha Ha. Serving the area since 2010, owner Steve Paul has stocked the store with the best beer, cider and wine producers in the area from newer ones such as Messorem Bractorum to stalwarts like Bilboquet and Les Trois Mousquetaires.

Les Brasseurs du Temps

170 Rue Montcalm, Gatineau

If you want to go to a brewery with a broad selection of styles to choose from, this would be an excellent choice. From grisette to sour to IPA to marzen, this place has something for everyone. The gorgeous building and setting also has the distinction of being the site of the area’s first brewery started by the founder of Hull, Philemon Wright.

Brasserie du Bas-Canada

455 Boulevard de la Gappe, Gatineau

This is also a great spot to go to if you’re looking to try a really wide variety of styles. In business since 2017, they opened in roughly the second wave of Ottawa-area craft breweries but were on the leading edge on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river. Known for their IPAs owners Gabriel Bernier-Girard and Marc-André Cordeiro Lima are adept at making beers to suit every palate. j

Flora Hall's eclectic mix of beer styles helps to keep their taproom experience fresh. Supplied photo

Brewer Brewer vs.

the belgian-style brewers edition

by Jordan St. John

While the province of Ontario is up to nearly 400 breweries, many of them make beers in similar styles. The near total dominance of the IPA category and the use of aromatic hop additions has resulted in a situation where a genericness has crept into the scene. It’s only amongst the iconoclasts of the province, those who are based in tradition or determined to be different, that one finds truly unique beer.

In this case, I’m talking about Belgian styles. Historically, these have been more relevant to our Quebecois neighbours, who share an official language with Belgium. In the last five years, however, Ontario’s Belgian-style brewers have begun to win awards nationally and internationally. I sat down with Kalev Nisbet from Shacklands and Mischa Geven from Meuse in order to figure out what makes them tick.

The Growler: Could you please introduce yourself?

Kalev Nisbet: I am invariably referred to as the head brewer, chief beer architect, and brewmaster here. I guess at the end of the day I just do everything involved with production, the making of beer, and everything related to that. It's a fairly all-encompassing role but everything relating to the creation of beer falls under my umbrella.

Mischa Geven: I am one of the owners and the production guy at Meuse Brewing. It is me and Estelle and she does a lot more of the front-facing stuff. I do all of the production side of things; gathering the ingredients to brewing to packaging to cellaring. It's more than just brewing but I am also the brewer.

Growler: What was the Belgian beer that caused you to love the genre?

Nisbet: I think Belgian beer is a big part of my own kind of beer awakening. Particularly visiting Brussels was huge for me in discovering beer and developing my relationship with it. I mean obviously, discovering Cantillon and all those funky lambics and krieks and gueuzes was quite intriguing. But I think my first foray into beer was with the Chimay Premiere (their dubbel) and I've always been very fond of Abbey beer.

Kalev Nisbet

Shacklands' brewer Kalev Nisbet, standing amongst the cellaring equipment. Supplied photo

One of my favorite beers out there which was nothing crazy has to be Vedett. It's a white beer and when it's fresh and good it is truly a lovely beer.

Geven: I think it's maybe Duchess du Bourgogne. That one is the outlier for me. The first real sour beer that I loved. It's one of those gateway sour beers. That's a little bit sweet. So it's more accessible. It's not overly funky. It's an easy one to get into that style. From there you go to some of the more dry examples like the Rodenbach Vintage, which I find a little bit drier. Then going to the classic lambics and those beers.

Growler: How do you decide what to make?

Nisbet: There is obviously something of a Shacklands self-fulfilling prophecy given that our toolkit contains our house Abbey and Saison yeast strains. So everything we make is going to have a little bit of that kind of distinct Belgian yeast profile and because of that pretty much all of our recipes will get at least tailored to that. It is just part of what this place is. As a result everything we do is either a pure Belgian style or even if it's something structurally like a North American style it will be made with a Belgian yeast so it'll still be something of a hybrid.

We have to kind of consider that when developing recipes and just make sure that flavour profiles are going to work together. It's this twofold thing where we like to make Belgian beer and because we have Belgian yeast we make Belgian beer. People keep drinking them which is testament enough.

Geven: It's a little bit of what we like as the owners. What do we like to drink and what do we like to brew? The other thing is looking a little bit at what makes sense from our brewery's perspective. So, Saison is just for us a very nice everyday drinking beer. It's something that anybody can get into. It's not too much of anything so even for our locals that are predominantly macro lager drinkers they will still enjoy Saison and from there.

Our real passion lies with a lot of the barre-aged sour beers. On the one side that's a bit of a niche product and on the other side it it just takes a lot of time and space to produce those beers.They're really a passion project and for those we tend to

mischa geven

create more of a standard base sour like a golden sour and from there we can work with any local fruits that we might have available to us and come up with different fruited versions of that.

Growler: What challenges are there in bringing Belgian style beers to market in Ontario?

Nisbet: I guess it handicaps us a little bit because not everybody is willing to try new things. We obviously don’t have an enormous marketing budget to throw huge campaigns out and try and get the word out. People in more recent years are going out of their way to try new things and explore craft beer in general and as a result a lot of people just kind of end up walking through our door being like “what is this place?”

We do have our Saison Davenport in the LCBO as well. It is enough to keep things flowing to the point that I'm still having trouble keeping up with production. It's probably a good thing that we're not shouting from the hills because it would probably make my life hell. I think it is something that sets us aside from all the other breweries definitely in the Toronto area. Not a lot of breweries are doing what we do.

Geven: There's only maybe a handful of breweries that have a focus on those styles of beers. So not everybody is very familiar with them,

Meuse Brewing's Mischa Geven overseeing the beginnings of a protein break. Supplied photo

especially the farmhouse side. People getting the trappist style beers are getting a little more common.

People that do drink the Belgian style beers, they might have an affinity for the actual Belgian products and I'm a little bit guilty of that too. If I see a good imported double or triple I will pick it up, whereas if I see that maybe from a Canadian producer I might be a little bit more hesitant because the Belgian examples are just that good.

Growler: What is there that makes Belgian beer difficult to make?

Nisbet: Everything we make is bottle conditioned, can conditioned, keg conditioned. It goes through a secondary fermentation and we of course add a bit of extra sugar and yeast and it naturally carbonates our beer in the packaged vessel. Beyond carbonating, going through that secondary fermentation we find it develops the character of our beers further. We have an old enormous safe in the brewery which is our conditioning room so we keep that warmer with a little space heater.

Definitely it adds a week or two on to the amount of time that it takes to get the beer into our retail fridge but it does create a lovely character. It's a really nice quality of carbonation that's created through this process. It is a slightly more traditional take on things and of course is in some ways a little masochistic, but it's just another little Shacklands quirk.

Geven: I think at the moment it's consistency.

At New Limburg we did a lot of beers using imported ingredients. We were making Belgian beers using stuff that we brought in from Belgium. Whereas what we're doing at Meuse is trying to use as much local Ontario or Canadian that we can and we've been growing barley on the farm and getting that malted in a consistent way. That's probably been the most challenging part especially when you then have to translate that from batch to batch to the same beer without too much variation.

Growler: Do you ever think about pitching it all in and making a Hazy IPA?

Nisbet: Nah. Enough breweries are doing that. I don't really feel the province needs a ton more. I mean of course we've made some in the past mostly ironically. We are not an IPA brewery and I don't think we have any need to be.

Geven: We've definitely thought about it. It's one of those things that's always in the back of your mind when you've got a month where sales are slow. You're like “you know what? There's these trends and there are trends for a reason we should just jump on the bandwagon.” But with the two of us usually one of us can convince the other that, no, we should stick to what we're doing. We might look at the trends and see how we can incorporate that in more of a farmhouse- style beer. Like, we've got a farmhouse IPA that's using some of the same techniques as you would in in a hazy boy but it's still using that farmhouse yeast and that just creates a much drier ipa. j

Shacklands Special Belgian Ale is a 5.0% Amber coloured beauty which will take you right back to Brussels. Supplied photo

Meuse's Lambic style beers are amongst the best in Canada. Supplied photo

The Fall and Rise of Steam Whistle Brewing

Doing one thing really, really well again

by Ben Johnson

Somewhere along the way, Steam Whistle Brewery lost its way.

Founded in 2000, Steam Whistle, with its distinct green bottle, has a ubiquitous presence in bars and restaurants across Canada, enjoys a prominent location in a tourist-saturated section of Toronto across the street from the country’s only Major League Baseball stadium, and, importantly, has a memorable slogan: “Do one thing really, really well.”

They have the sort of brand recognition and status that the average craft brewery marketer, tweeting from a damp retail counter somewhere, could only dream about. Hell, even if you didn’t like their beer, you sure knew who they were.

Around 2017, things started to get weird.

First, Greg Taylor, one of the company’s three co-founders, left the business to pursue an op-

portunity in cannabis. Not long after that, Cam Heaps, the CEO and last remaining cofounder, also announced his intention to retire; ushering in an opportunity for slavering, frustrated marketers to finally have their way with a brand that had ostensibly locked in its concept from day one. After 18 years of working under the restraints of having one beer in a green bottle, growing bored touting sustainability messaging, and promoting engagement with local arts, the marketing team seemed to launch a coup of the company and, in what I picture as an orgy of slide decks, agency lunches, and art mock-ups, inexplicably announced the arrival of Von Bugle Brewing—a sort of sub-brand to Steam Whistle. The concept was ostensibly a separate brewery (but within Steam Whistle’s brewing facility and distributed by its sales team), with distinct and weird marketing I imagine was borne of a drug-fueled brainstorming session.

Shortening the message not only sells beer, but also allows the marketing department to do one thing really, really well. Photo courtesy of Steam Whistle Brewing

Marketer one: “The tap handles will be BUGLES!”

Marketer two: “We'll brand a gold BMW! *snorts a line of cocaine off a hunting knife* AND WE'LL PARK IT RIGHT ON THE FUCKING LAWN!”

Von Bugle Brewing launched with a decent but not spectacular Munich-style lager which was inarguably well-made but about as interesting as small talk on the elevator with a co-worker.

It was a curious misstep for Steam Whistle from being a national brand into seeking a new niche market—and doing it with a beer the increasingly adventurous Canadian craft beer consumer was unlikely to give a second thought.

Then the wheels really fell off.

The company that did one thing really, really well quickly made a series of announcements that they were going to be doing a bunch of other things. In 2019 they launched a second beer under the Steam Whistle brand, a pale ale, which aped all the branding of their flagship pilsner, except the can was...blue! This was quickly followed by a session light lager, and then a lemon shandy, and then a seasonal harvest ale. There were talks of a non-alcoholic Steam Whistle offering and even a press release about a cannabis venture. Suddenly the Good Beer Folks were doing six things poorly.

Somewhere in this twisted odyssey of poor decisions, the company that had since its inception prided itself on sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices also introduced superfluous packaging: a piece of foil to cover the tops of all their cans. The “purity seal” was intended to keep the top of a beer can as clean as possible and instantly became the source of so much mockery and derision that I developed carpal tunnel syndrome from roasting them on twitter.

As someone who has followed Steam Whistle’s growth as a company for years, I watched all of this with head-scratching bewilderment and wondered, “What the fuck are they doing to this brand?”

I wasn’t alone: Greg Taylor returned as CEO in 2020.

Taylor dabbled in a couple of cannabis and cannabis-infusion-related ventures after retiring from

Steam Whistle, but when I spoke with him upon his return, it seemed clear to me that watching what was happening to the company he built for 20 years was something of a distraction, like trying to focus on your Zoom meeting while your son texts you that he’s on his way to get a neck tattoo.

One of the first things Taylor did was to put the tortured Von Bugle Brewery out of its misery. there was a whiskey-soaked purge in Etobicoke— scenes of a car crusher filled with gold BMWs, purple cans, and hundreds of bugle tap handles beside a blazing bonfire of Kazbek hops—but all who were allegedly present that day swore a blood oath to never speak the name Von Bugle again.

Taylor also publicly committed to promoting diversity within the company and pledged to elevate more women to leadership positions. In his first week back at the helm, he promoted Erica McOustra to brewmaster. He also shook up the Steam Whistle management team, promoting Tierra Gordon from within the company to the role of distribution manager and bringing Lorna Willner back to the company as the VP of Human Resources with stated goals that included having a safe and harassment-free workplace. She stopped hiring temporary workers in favour of permanent jobs—all moves that to me signified the company was again thinking long term.

Importantly, with a wanton disregard for shipping “impure” beer, he mercifully killed off the foil purity seal, daring once again to send canned beer out into the world, lidless.

Of course he still had the problem of all these bastardized offshoots of Steam Whistle in the marketplace, muddying the cofounders’ original vision.

The company that did one thing really, really well quickly made a series of announcements that they were going to be doing a bunch of other things.

“The only real customer feedback that stuck with me when I returned,” he told me, “was when I was in my local Beer Store and, because we had rolled out the shandy recently, the employee at the Beer Store said to me, ‘You guys gave up on the pilsner, eh?’ To me that was heartbreaking. To think that the perception was we had given up on the brand we had been building essentially since 1998.”

In order to restore the brand but also meet the need to offer a diverse portfolio in an increasingly crowded craft beer market, Taylor made moves to add depth to their lineup without sacrificing what he and his partners built. In 2021 Steam Whistle and Victoria, B.C.-based Phillips Brewing and Malting announced a partnership to distribute each other’s beer. Steam Whistle would represent, promote, and distribute Phillips' beers in Ontario and would enjoy distribution of their beer in Western Canada. This added further depth to Steam Whistle’s “partnership” strategy that saw them taking on Canadian distribution of Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing in 2019.

Then, in February of this year, Steam Whistle completed the acquisition of Beau’s Brewery—the popular Ottawa-area brewery founded in 2006 with a reputation for experimental beers and a similar philosophy related to sustainability. These moves gave Taylor’s sales reps the ever-important diversity of selection they need to have regular conversations with their licensees and let them

compete for more taps. “We know that sales reps have an easier time getting two of our beers on tap when they can offer Steam Whistle and something from Beau’s for example,than say Steam Whistle Pilsner and Steam Whistle Light Lager.”

With distribution deals for a storied American brewery and a west coast Canadian brewery, plus the Beau’s portfolio which can live on as a separate brand, there was no longer a need for an expansion of the original brand. All that was left to do was to return the Steam Whistle brand to its original mission statement.

In July, Taylor did just that. Launched with a straightforward advertising campaign in major Canadian cities, Steam Whistle announced a return to the company’s roots with no frills images of their beer alongside the tagline, “Do one thing really, really well.” This was accompanied by a blog post explaining the decision to discontinue Steam Whistle brand extensions because it was “diluting [their] efforts.”

Now, Taylor tells me, the plan is to re-establish Steam Whistle’s place in the market as a premium beer. It's a gutsy move to prioritize one beer in a marketplace that favours depth of portfolio, and gutsier still to position that beer, which may have lost some of its lustre with consumers, as a premium product, but with Taylor at the helm, a portfolio of partner beers to hock, and a newly-refocused McOustra leading the brewing team, it feels like it can be a winning strategy.

“The craft beer industry is constantly evolving and Steam Whistle’s return to Do One Thing makes our place in it very clear,” McOustra tells me via email. “If we can continue to strive for perfection in making our pilsner, that’s more valuable to us and to our customers than chasing beer trends.”

She tells me the company has doubled down on sourcing the best quality ingredients for their beers to adapt to a challenging North American barley crop and has selected a single lot of Czech Saaz hops “with beautiful aromatics” that “elevates our beer.”

She is also perhaps less pragmatic than Taylor about the move as a shrewd business decision, but her enthusiasm to “do one thing,” is clear when she calls returning the focus to their pilsner as simply, “Doing what we love, with no compromise.”

I’ll drink to that. j

Steam Whistle Pilsner is best consumed cold and out of an appropriate color matched cooler. Photo courtesy of Steam Whistle Brewing

That crisp, cold glass of gold

That crisp, cold glass of gold

by Robin LeBlanc

This past summer was a particularly humid one and paired with work ramping up, I quite often had a drink in my hand. Sometimes it would be an iced coffee or the odd hefeweizen (it’s my favourite summer beer), but lately the drink I’ve been turning to in my quiet moments alone is one that would cause a particular kind of craft beer nerd to raise their presumably bushy eyebrow.

I’ve been drinking mass-produced lager. Now, let’s get this out of the way. Idealistic arguments aside, there really isn’t anything wrong with that. I know at least two or three people featured in this issue who have been known to have a can or six of sparkling domestic or Eurotrash lager. And while it certainly doesn’t apply to everyone, the odd joke about the circular tastes of beer lovers, where we start with lager, run through the gamut of flavours, and finally end right back at lager, does ring true. And interestingly enough, breweries seem to be going through a similar cycle.

Let me explain with a bit of backstory.

During craft beer’s rise, particularly in North America in the 90s and more widespread during its resurgence in the late aughts, we had what was

ostensibly a movement that instigated a countercultural push towards being different from the norm. And the norm was... well, lager. Molson Canadian, Bud, Laker Ice, all the usual suspects we saw in the ads growing up. The marketing around craft beer was all about being bold, hoppy, and above all different from the mass produced lagers. I distinctly remember any discussion on lager being accompanied by scoffs, as if it was the deadbeat cousin that always had some failing scheme going on. Light, crisp, and constant were out and it was all about big, bold, and always new, baby.

Not to say this was a bad thing, necessarily. At the time we needed a difference and there were a lot of people, myself included, who just didn’t know what beer was capable of flavour-wise. Back then it actually was different. But like all growing countercultural trends the bold flavoured ethos of craft beer became the culture itself and as more competition began to open, brewers seemed to slowly realize that the hopheads and sour fiends were a smaller portion of the market than they thought and a majority of folks, including many beer nerds whose palates have been worn out, just wanted something easy to drink that you don’t have to think too much about.

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And so we started seeing more breweries like Side Launch and Wellington make helles. And from there the great rise of pilsners came and we’re honestly for the better.

Because here’s the thing, there is nothing wrong with those styles on their own. In fact, beer styles like pilsner and helles have been around for centuries and for good reason. The amount of skill involved in creating something so simple and straightforward is mind boggling and frankly, can be seen as something of a difficult task for many brewers.

As for the mass-produced lagers…well. I’ll be honest, not all of them are good. But some excellent examples that I can think of off the top of my head are Czechvar, Pilsner Urquell, Sapporo, and Asahi Super Dry.

I can already hear some folks say “Well, yes of course...”

Czechvar and Pilsner Urquell are pretty much the defining beers of what a Czech pilsner is, with a rich history and a longstanding tradition of consistent balance and high quality. So much so that craft brewers have been spending a great deal of

time trying to replicate them with moderate success. One brewery that is doing it right, however, is Toronto’s Godspeed Brewery, where brewmaster Luc “Bim” Lafontaine has worked with the Czech Republic and collaborated directly with both breweries. You want to find the best pilsner in Canada? Just go to Gerrard and Coxwell.

As for Sapporo and Asahi Super Dry, sometimes the moment just calls for a crisp, clean, slightly sweet Japanese rice lager with a distinct dryness to the finish. Both breweries also have a rich history going back to 1876 and 1889 respectively, so you know there’s a market for it. And similar to the Czech pilsners, there’s been a very clear desire from smaller breweries to get the style available to the public. Rorschach Brewing and Great Lakes each made one with the distinct “Super Dry” name on it and they’re delicious. Common Good makes Ronin Rice Lager and just this past summer Something in the Water came out with their Red River Japanese Lager.

So there you have it. Sometimes a person just wants something light, crisp, well-made, and consistent and we’re fortunate to have no shortage of beers like that in Ontario.

But sometimes, sometimes, it doesn’t hurt to go to the source. j

Godspeed's Bůh is a loving homage to Czechvar, with the original batch featuring specialty heirloom Czech malt. Facebook.com/GodspeedBrewery photo

Super Dry Shikuwasa blends the dryness of a Japanese rice lager with mildly tart citrus juice flown in from Japan. Facebook.com/RorschachBrewing photo

I've been drinking mass-produced lager.

granite brewery's

Jerk chicken wings

Paired with Third Moon Brewing's Rise

BY CHEF UTHAYAN

As the leaves start to change colours and Ontario slides into sweater weather, know that this Jerk Chicken Wing recipe will keep your spirits high all season long.

The Granite Brewery has been operating at the corner of Mount Pleasant and Eglinton in midtown Toronto since 1991. Chef Uthayan joined the company 21 years ago as a dishwasher, worked his way up the chain through years of dedication and hard work.

The thyme and numerous spices used in this recipe create a marinade that is dynamic in flavour. After devouring these jerk chicken wings, you’ll

understand why they were recently declared some of the best in the city.

Although the Granite’s Best Bitter Special and Brand New Day NEIPA are ideal choices to accompany the wings on site, pairing this dish with a bright, juicy pale ale will complement the sweetness and spiciness of the dish. Rise, from Third Moon Brewing in Milton, is lush with flavours of citrus, especially of orange juice, pink grapefruit and lemon meringue. Brewed with Citra, mosaic, and cashmere hops, this beer has a soft mouthfeel and is even smoother to drink.

—Sabryna Ekstein

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INgredients

• 1 lime

• 1 large onion, diced

• 6 scallions, diced

• 10 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked

• 5 scotch bonnet peppers, diced

• 2 tablespoons brown sugar

• 1 tablespoon allspice powder

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 4 thick slices of ginger

• 6 cloves garlic

• 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 tablespoon honey

• 2 tablespoons white vinegar

• 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce

• 1/4 cup orange juice

• 3 lbs chicken wings

directions

1. In a food processor, squeeze the lime and add the onions, scallions, thyme, scotch bonnet peppers, brown sugar, allspice powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, garlic, olive oil, honey, vinegar, soy sauce and orange juice and puree until smooth.

2. Place the chicken in a large zip-lock bag with half of the marinade. Keep the rest of the marinade in the refrigerator.

3. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours.

4. Preheat your oven to 425°F and spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Place chicken on the prepared baking tray and remove the remaining marinade from the fridge.

5. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Afterwards, brush half of the remaining marinade onto the chicken wings and bake for an additional 20 minutes. Flip the chicken and brush the rest of the marinade on the chicken and cook for an additional 10 minutes. j

When people think of juicy Pale Ales they think Third Moon. Way to be, Bebo. Supplied photo

ABOVE: If the wings are in the middle of a field, does that mean they're free range, or is it too late? RIGHT: Chef Uthayan. Supplied photo

GREAT LAKES BREWERY

Brewery: 30 Queen Elizabeth Blvd. | GreatLakesBeer.com

Brewpub: 11 Lower Jarvis St. | GreatLakesBrewpub.com

RETAIL STORE SUN-WED 11AM-6PM ^

THURS-SAT 11AM-9PM

EST. 1987

In 2022, Great Lakes has continued to expand their line of beers while rotating in old favourites on a seasonal basis to ensure that there’s something for everyone. In a back to basics approach, Shinny Pants Stout has been renamed Great Lakes Stout and Horseshoe Lager has become Great Lakes Lager. If you’re drinking beer, why not keep it simple?

GREAT LAKES LAGER

LAGER

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Bronze with a snowy white head. Aromas of lightly toasted malts offer notes of honey and hay alongside some underlying citrus.

HAZEMAMA

NEW ENGLAND IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC

This hazy bronze NEIPA offers aromas of ripe pineapple, kiwi, tangerine and sweet cotton candy that join soft, yet warming alcohol notes.

BURST! NEW ENGLAND PALE ALE

NEW ENGLAND PALE ALE

Year-round: B, L, LC

Hazy light golden with a white crown. Notes of peach and mango are predominant, joined by flavours of strawberry, and a touch of lemon.

PUMPKIN ALE PUMPKIN

Seasonal: B, L, LC

Ontario’s OG Pumpkin beer is brewed with a generous amount of locally-grown pumpkin and subtle additions of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice.

Pizza and pints at GLB Brewpub!

Great Lakes’ second location, a high ceilinged brewpub, opened this summer right across from Sugar Beach in Downtown Toronto. This expansion includes a space to showcase Great Lakes’ many fine beers in a convivial atmosphere that is closer to the majority of the city’s beer drinkers than Etobicoke. Their pizzas are delicious and generously portioned.

COMMON GOOD BEER CO.

475 Ellesmere Rd. | CommonGoodBeer.com

BLOOD BROTHERS BREWING

165 Geary Ave. | BloodBrothersBrewing.com

In addition to creating beers on a contract basis, Scarborough’s favourite brewery is also the maker of Solace East Coast IPA and many small batch beers.

Blood Brothers’ location on Geary has seen a lot of change over the course of the last two years and a new production facility is assisting them in producing additional volume.

EASTBOUND BREWING CO.

700 Queen St. E. | EastboundBeer.com

THE GRANITE BREWERY

245 Eglinton Ave. E. | GraniteBrewery.ca

In addition to a fine selection of beers, Eastbound features some of the most delicious brewpub food in the city of Toronto. BACKPACKER

The Granite is a perennial favourite for aficionados of English style beers in midtown Toronto, but recently they have branched out into more experimental styles.

DARKSIDE

BLACK IPA

BLACK IPA

LEFT FIELD BREWERY

36 Wagstaff Dr. | LeftFieldBrewery.ca

RORSCHACH BREWING CO.

1001 Eastern Ave. | RorschachBrewing.com

Left Field’s baseball theme is especially relevant in 2022, where, at the time of writing, the Jays are fairly likely to make the postseason. Ice Cold BEER!

In addition to one of Toronto’s most exciting ranges of experimental styles, Rorschach’s pizzas are can’t miss and worth the trip to the East End.

SHACKLANDS BREWING CO.

101-100 Symes Rd. | Shacklands.com

AMSTERDAM BREWERY

45 Esandar Dr.; 87 Laird Dr.; 245 Queens Quay W., Toronto AmsterdamBeer.com

AVLING BREWERY

Shacklands is funky, and not just in terms of its award winning beers. The welcoming taproom makes it a favorite of locals in Toronto’s west end.

SPECIAL BELGIAN ALE SPECIALE BELGE

1042 Queen St. E., Toronto Avling.ca

BANDIT BREWERY

2125 Dundas St. W., Toronto BanditBrewery.ca

BAR VOLO

17 St. Nicholas St., Toronto

BarVolo.com

BLACK LAB BREWING

818 Eastern Ave., Toronto

BlackLab.beer

BEACHES BREWING CO.

1953 Queen St. E., Toronto

BeachesBrewing.com

BELGIAN MOON BREWERY AT STACKT MARKET

3 Tecumseth St., Toronto

Can.BelgianMoon.ca

BELLWOODS BREWERY

124 Ossington Ave., 20 Hafis Rd., Toronto BellwoodsBrewery.com

BLACK OAK BREWING CO.

75 Horner Ave., Etobicoke

BlackOakBeer.com

BRUNSWICK BIERWORKS

25 Curity Ave., East York

BrunswickBierworks.com

BURDOCK BREWERY

1184 Bloor St. W., Toronto

BurdockTO.com

BIG ROCK BREWERY

42 Liberty St., Toronto BigRockBeer.com

BIRROTECA AT EATALY TORONTO

55 Bloor St West, Toronto

IndieAleHouse.com

COLLECTIVE ARTS BREWING

777 Dundas St. W., Toronto

CollectiveArtsBrewing.com

FOLLY BREWING

928 College St., Toronto

Folly Brewing.com

GODSPEED BREWERY

242 Coxwell Ave., Toronto

GodspeedBrewery.com

GOOSE ISLAND BREWHOUSE

TORONTO

70 The Esplanade, Toronto

GooseIslandToronto.ca

JUNCTION CRAFT BREWERY

150 Symes Rd., Toronto JunctionCraft.com

KENSINGTON BREWING CO.

299 Augusta Ave., Toronto

KensingtonBrewingCompany.com

HALO BREWERY

247 Wallace Ave., Toronto

HaloBrewery.com

LAYLOW BREWERY

1144 College St, Toronto Laylow.beer

HENDERSON BREWING CO.

128A Sterling Rd., Toronto

HendersonBrewing.com

LONGSLICE BREWERY

484 Front St. E., Toronto Longslice.com

HIGH PARK BREWERY

839 Runnymede Rd., Toronto

HighParkBrewery.com

INDIE ALEHOUSE

BREWING CO.

2876 Dundas St. W., Toronto

IndieAleHouse.com

LOST CRAFT BREWING CO.

837 Runnymede Rd., Toronto LostCraft.ca

LOUIS CIFER BREW WORKS

417 Danforth Ave., Toronto LouisCiferBrewWorks.com

MASCOT BREWERY

37 Advance Rd., Etobicoke; 220 King St. W., Toronto MascotBrewery.com

RADICAL ROAD BREWING CO.

1177 Queen St. E., Toronto

RadicalRoadBrew.com

MILL ST. BREW PUB

21 Tank House Ln., Toronto MillStreetBrewery.com

RAINHARD BREWING CO.

100 Symes Rd., Toronto

RainhardBrewing.com

MUDDY YORK BREWING CO.

22 Cranfield Rd., East York MuddyYorkBrewing.com

RED TAPE BREWERY

159 Main St., Toronto RedTapeBrewery.com

NICKEL BROOK BREWING CO.

1589 The Queensway, Etobicoke NickelBrook.com

SAULTER STREET BREWERY

1-31 Saulter St., Toronto SaulterStreetBrewery.com

NORTHERN MAVERICK BREWING CO.

115 Bathurst St., Toronto

NorthernMaverick.ca

PEOPLE’S PINT BREWING CO.

90 Cawthra Ave., Toronto

PeoplesPint.com

SOMETHING IN THE WATER BREWING CO.

151 E. Liberty St., Toronto SomethingBrewing.ca

STEADFAST BREWING CO.

301 Lansdowne Ave., Toronto

SteadfastBrewingCo.com

THE SECOND WEDGE

14 Victoria St. | TheSecondWedge.ca 3 ROCKS IPA

An EF2 tornado destroyed the brewery’s roof in May 2022. The Second Wedge is brewing offsite as they rebuild, but their beer is still available. Grand reopening will be in Spring 2023!

#3-1390 Hopkins St, Whitby

5PaddlesBrewing.ca ALL

439 Ritson Rd. S., Oshawa

BROCK

STREET BREWING

ChronicleBeer.com C’EST WHAT DURHAM

BREWING CO.

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COPPERWORKS BREWPUB

7 Division St., Bowmanville

CopperworksPub.com

THE CORNERHOUSE ON MAIN

6403 Main St., Whitchurch-Stouffville

TheCornerhouse.ca

FALCON BREWING

30 Barr Rd., Ajax

FalconBeer.beer

LITTLE BEASTS BREWING CO.

2075 Forbes St., Whitby

LittleBeastsBrewing.com

NEW RITUAL BREWING CO.

716 Wilson Rd. S., Oshawa

Instagram.com/NewRitualBrewing

OLD FLAME BREWING CO.

135 Perry St., Port Perry;

140 Main St. S., Newmarket

OldFlameBrewingCo.ca

ROUGE RIVER BREWING CO.

8-50 Bullock Dr., Markham

RougeRiverBrewery.com

TILTED GLASS BREWING CO.

160 Baseline Rd. E., Bowmanville TiltedGlass.ca

MAGNOTTA BREWERY

271 Chrislea Rd., Vaughan

MagnottaBrewery.com

TOWN BREWERY

1632 Charles St., Whitby TownBrewery.ca

MARKET BREWING CO.

4-17775 Leslie St., Newmarket

MarketBrewingCo.com

West GTA & Hamilton

BELL CITY BREWING CO.

51 Woodyatt Dr., unit 9 | BellCityBrewing.com

SHAWN & ED BREWING CO.

65 Hatt St. | LagerShed.com

Bell City’s Brantford tap room features beer friendly food like flatbreads, burgers, and a bacon and banana pepper grilled cheese that will definitely go with their Cream Ale.

If the historical curling rink that houses the brewery wasn’t enough, Shawn and Ed have come up with a line of Beer Pies (pizzas) designed to pair with their beers!

BADLANDS BREWING COMPANY

13926 Chinguacousy Rd., Burlington BadlandsBrewing.ca

BREWERS BLACKBIRD KITCHEN & BREWERY

375 Wilson St. E., Ancaster BrewersBlackbird.ca

CALEDON HILLS BREWING COMPANY

17219 Hwy 50, Palgrave CaledonHillsBrewing.ca

CAMERON’S BREWING

1165 Invicta Dr., Oakville CameronsBrewing.com

FAIRWEATHER BREWING CO.

1-5 Ofield Rd., Hamilton FairweatherBrewing.com

FURNACE ROOM BREWERY

1 Elgin St., Georgetown FurnaceRoomBrewery.com

GOODLOT FARMSTEAD BREWING CO.

18825 Shaws Creek Rd., Caledon GoodLot.beer

GRAIN & GRIT BEER CO.

11 Ewen Rd., Hamilton GrainAndGritBeer.com

CLIFFORD BREWING CO.

1-398 Nash Rd. N., Hamilton CliffordBrewing.com

HOP SOCIETY BREWING CO.

32 Division St., Acton HopSocietyBrewing.ca

COLLECTIVE ARTS BREWING

207 Burlington St. E., Hamilton CollectiveArtsBrewing.com

MASH PADDLE BREWING CO.

111 Sherwood Dr., unit 3A, Brantford MashPaddleBrewing.com

MERIT BREWING

107 James St. N., Hamilton

MeritBrewing.ca

MONO CENTRE BREWING CO.

388113 Mono Centre Rd., Mono Instagram.com/MonoCentreBrewingCo

NICKEL BROOK BREWING CO.

3426 Mainway, Burlington (Opening November 2022)

NickelBrook.com

OLD CREDIT BREWING CO.

6 Queen St. W., Mississauga

OldCreditBrewing.com

SONNEN HILL BREWERY

20683 Heart Lake Rd., Caledon

Instagram.com/SonnenHill

STEEL WHEEL BREWERY

105 Powerline Rd., Brantford

SteelWheel.ca

STONEHOOKER BREWING CO.

866 Lakeshore Rd. E., Mississauga

Stonehooker.com

THIRD MOON BREWING

295 Alliance Rd., unit 3, Milton

ThirdMoonBrewing.com

ORANGE SNAIL BREWERS

1-32 Steeles Ave. E., Milton

OrangeSnailBrewers.ca

3 BRASSEURS

2041 Winston Park Dr., Oakville

Les3Brasseurs.ca

ORANJE SON BREWING

118 Sutherland S. W., Caledonia

OranjeSon.com

DECEW FALLS BREWING CO.

207 St. Paul St. W., St. Catharines DecewFallsBrewing.ca

THE MERCHANT ALE HOUSE

98 St. Paul St., St. Catharines MerchantAleHouse.com

DRAGAN BREWING AND WINE

100 Grantham Ave. S., Unit 1, St. Catharines DraganBrewingAndWine.com

THE EXCHANGE BREWERY

7 Queen St., Niagara-on-the-Lake ExchangeBrewery.com

THE GRIST CRAFT KITCHEN & BREWERY

78 Four Mile Creek Rd., Niagara-on-the-Lake TheGrist.ca

NIAGARA BREWING CO.

4915-A Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls NiagaraBrewingCompany.com

NIAGARA COLLEGE TEACHING BREWERY

135 Taylor Rd., Niagara-on-the-Lake NCTeachingBrewery.ca

NIAGARA OAST HOUSE BREWERS

2017 Niagara Stone Rd., Niagara-on-theLake | OastHouseBrewers.com

KAME & KETTLE BEER WORKS

25 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill KameAndKettle.ca

SILVERSMITH BREWING CO.

1523 Niagara Stone Rd., Virgil

SilversmithBrewing.com

LOCK STREET BREWING CO.

104-15 Lock St., Port Dalhousie LockStreet.ca

WELLINGTON BREWERY

950 Woodlawn Rd. W. | WellingtonBrewery.ca

DAILY 11AM-7PM

EST. 1985

Queen of Craft is beer that builds community. Based out of Wellington Brewery, these beer-loving women create unique beer education programs, support local charities, and build community through these initiatives. With 100% of the profits donated to organizations that support the wellness of women, it’s beer education that makes a difference.

UPSIDE IPA

NEW ENGLAND-STYLE IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Exploding with juicy grapefruit, peach, and tropical hop flavours and bursting with fresh citrus hop character, this tasty IPA is on the up and up!

STOUT

Year-round: B, L, LC

An inviting aroma of dark chocolate and coffee with complex roasted malt and toffee flavours alongside a hint of dark fruit.

LAGER

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Crisp, refreshing, and smooth, this classic lager is the perfect go-to beer. Inspired by traditional German light lagers. Helles Yeah!

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Deep copper in colour, this well-balanced English style pale ale has biscuit and caramel flavours upfront and a subtle citrus hop finish.

ten years of queen of craft

In March 2023, Queen of Craft will celebrate 10 years with events raising funds for GuelphWellington Women in Crisis. To mark 10 years of Queen of Craft, Wellington Brewery will be releasing the Queen of Craft IPA to LCBO stores across Ontario in the spring.

Tri-Cities

BAD APPLE BREWING CO.

73463 ON-21 | BadAppleBrewingCo.com

JACKASS BREWING

100 Sheldon Dr., Unit 36 | JackassBrewing.ca

As the name suggests, one of Bad Apple’s main draws is the orchard in which its beer garden is located. Get a beverage and go scrumping!

One of Cambridge’s better brewers of IPA, Jackass Brewing has a welcoming tap room and an exclusive mug club for regular patrons!

TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN-STYLE LAGERS

4EST Lager is a traditional Munich Helles lager, featuring notes of fresh baked bread and finishing dry and crisp.

Inspired by London’s famous tree cover, we are proud to give back 4% of our sales to local reforestation efforts.

COUNTERPOINT BREWING CO.

#4-935 Frederick St., Kitchener CounterpointBrewing.ca

TOGETHER WE’RE BITTER CO-OPERATIVE BREWING

Counterpoint creates a space for all people to come together through shared appreciation of adventurous craft beer, and to support causes both in our local and global communities.

WATERLOO BREWING

400 Bingemans Centre Dr. | WaterlooBrewing.com

Ontario’s first craft brewer, Waterloo has remained relevant through innovation and quality while maintaining a core lineup that has a very loyal following.

WATERLOO DARK DARK

300 Mill Street, Unit 1 | TWBBrewing.com WOBBLY WHEEL AMERICAN IPA

Not only is Kitchener’s Together We’re Bitter one of the co-op structured breweries in the province, they’re a certified living wage employer.

ABE ERB BREWING CO.

143 Northumberland St., Ayr; 151 Charles St. W., Kitchener; 15 King St. S., Waterloo AbeErb.com

BARNCAT ARTISAN ALES

1600 Industrial Rd., Unit B5, Cambridge BarncatAles.com

BAYFIELD BREWING CO.

14 Bayfield Main St. N., Bayfield BayfieldBrewingCo.com

BITTE SCHÖN BRAUHAUS

68 Huron St., New Hamburg BitteSchonBrauhaus.com

DESCENDANTS BEER & BEVERAGE CO.

319 Victoria St. N., Kitchener DescendantsBeer.com

BLACK SWAN BREWING CO.

144 Downie St., Stratford BlackSwanBrewing.ca

ELORA BREWING CO.

107 Geddes St., Elora EloraBrewingCompany.ca

BLOCK THREE BREWING

1430 King St. N., Unit 2, St. Jacobs BlockThreeBrewing.Ca

FARM LEAGUE BREWING

295 Ainslie St. S., Cambridge FarmLeaguebrewing.com

BROKEN RAIL BREWING

480 Glass St., St. Marys BrokenRailBrewing.ca

FIXED GEAR BREWING CO.

20 Alma St. S., Guelph FixedGearBrewing.com

BROTHERS BREWING CO.

15 Wyndham St. N., Guelph BrothersBrewingCompany.ca

FOUNDRY BREWING

74 Grand Ave. S., Cambridge FoundryBrewing.ca

COWBELL BREWING

40035 Blyth Rd., Blyth CowbellBrewing.com

GREY MATTER BEER CO.

726 Queen St., Kincardine

GreyMatterBeer.com

HALF HOURS ON EARTH BREWERY

151 Main St. S., Seaforth HalfHoursOnEarth.com

HERITAGE HOPS BREW CO.

21 Market Pl., Stratford

HeritageHopsBrew.com

NEUSTADT SPRINGS BREWERY

456 Jacob St., Neustadt

NeustadtSprings.com

REVERENCE BARREL WORKS

1144 Industrial Rd. Unit 3, Cambridge

ReverenceBarrelWorks.beer

HOCKLEY VALLEY

25 Centennial Rd., Orangeville HockleyBeer.ca

RIVER ROAD BREWING AND HOPS

35549 Bayfield River Rd., Bayfield RiverRoadBrewing.com

INNOCENTE BREWING CO.

283 Northfield Dr. E., unit 8, Waterloo Innocente.ca

RHYTHM & BREWS

BREWING CO.

1000 Bishop St. N., Unit 10, Cambridge RhythmAndBrews.ca

JOBSITE BREWING CO.

45 Cambria St., Stratford JobsiteBrewing.ca

ROYAL CITY BREWING CO.

199 Victoria Rd. S., Guelph RoyalCityBrew.ca

MACLEAN’S ALES

52 14th Ave., Hanover MacLeansAles.ca

RURAL ROOTS

BREWING COMPANY

21B Industrial Dr., Elmira

RuralRootsBrewery.ca

SHAKESPEARE BREWING CO.

2178 Line 34, Shakespeare ShakespeareBrewingCompany.ca

UPPER THAMES BREWING CO.

225 Bysham Park Dr., unit 9m, Woodstock UpperThamesBrewing.ca

SHORT FINGER BREWING CO.

20 Hurst Ave., Kitchener ShortFingerBrewing.com

SPARROW BREWING & ROASTING CO.

4-54 Guelph Ave., Cambridge SparrowBrewCo.com

SQUARE BREW

430 Parsons Crt., Goderich SquareBrewCo.com

WAVE MAKER CRAFT

BREWERY

639 Laurel St., Cambridge WaveMakerBrewery.com

WILLIBALD FARM

BREWERY & DISTILLERY

1271 Reidsville Rd., Ayr DrinkWillibald.com

WRINKLY BEAR BREWING CO.

27 Main St. N., Grand Valley WrinklyBearBrewing.ca

STOCKYARDS BREWING

137 Glasgow St., Suite 385, Kitchener StockyardsBeverage.co

STONE HOUSE BREWING CO.

76050 Parr Line, Varna

StoneHouseBrewing.ca

Apparently, beer was invented 10,000 to 13,000 years ago, when a woman who was making bread left the bowl out in the rain. Natural yeast was produced, and the world was never quite the same.

CURED CRAFT BREWING CO.

43 Mill St. W. | CuredCraftBrewing.com

LONDON BREWING

521 Burbrook Pl. | LondonBrewing.ca

Cured Craft Brewing Co. is an independent, small batch brewery located in a renovated, heritage building in Leamington, Ontario.

HONEYBADGER

BLACK GOLD BREWERY

395 Fletcher St. | BlackGold.beer

London Brewing’s shift to organic ingredients coincides with the switch to almost entirely local Ontario ingredients! Leading the charge in the farm to table category.

REFINED FOOL BREWING CO.

1326 London Rd.; 137 Davis St. RefinedFool.com

Started by four couples, Petrolia’s Black Gold Brewery has a lineup of beers available that reflects the diverse tastes of its ownership. For real excitement, try their discovery series!

William Shatner once visited the brewery. Not the one you are thinking of, just a local guy of the same name. He actually prefers to be called Bill which is a real missed opportunity.

CATSTRONAUT SESSION HAZY IPA

PETROLIA SARNIA

FLUX BREWING CO.

185 Oakland Rd. | FluxBrews.ca

RAILWAY CITY BREWING CO.

130 Edward St. | RailwayCityBrewing.com

Nestled next to a beautiful pond in Scotland Ontario, Flux is one of the most impressive breweries to emerge onto the scene in the last couple of years.

Railway City has gone through significant rebranding over the course of the last few years, and their offerings have translated the brewery’s identity. You’ll want to revisit them.

ANDERSON CRAFT ALES

1030 Elias St., London AndersonCraftAles.ca

BAYSIDE BREWING CO.

970 Ross Lane, Erieau BaysideBrewing.com

BACKYARD BREWING CO.

3035 Front Rd., Simcoe

BackyardBrewing.ca

BEERDED DOG BREWING CO.

21 King St. E., Harrow BeerdedDog.ca

BANDED GOOSE BREWING

15 Main St. E., Kingsville

BandedGooseBrewing.com

BEERLAB!

420 Talbot St., London Beerlab.com

BELLE RIVER BREWHOUSE

499 Notre Dame St., Belle River BelleRiverBrewhouse.com

CONCESSION ROAD BREWING CO.

17 Talbot St. E., unit 4, Jarvis ConcessionRoadBrew.com

BIG FAMILY BREWING CO.

485 Harbour Rd, Sarnia BigFamilyBrewing.com

CRAFT HEADS BREWING CO.

89 University Ave. W., Windsor CraftHeads.ca

BREW MICROBREWERY

635 University Ave. E., Windsor BrewWindsor.com

CURLEY BREWING CO.

1634 Hyde Park Rd, London CurleyBrewing.com

CAPS OFF BREWING CO.

Unit C-168 Curtis St., St. Thomas CapsOffBrewing.com

DUNDAS & SONS BREWING

400 Adelaide St. N., London DundasAndSons.com

CHAPTER TWO BREWING CO.

2345 Edna St., Windsor ChapterTwoBrewing.com

CHARLOTTEVILLE

BREWING CO.

1207 Charlotteville West Quarter Line Rd., Simcoe | CharlottevilleBrewingCompany.ca

FORKED RIVER BREWING CO.

45 Pacific Crt., Unit 4, London

ForkedRiverBrewing.com

FRANK BREWING CO.

12000 Tecumseh Rd., Tecumseh FrankBeer.ca

GL HERITAGE BREWING COMPANY

8728 Howard Ave., Amherstburg

GLHeritageBrewing.ca

THE GROVE BREW HOUSE

86 Wigle Ave., Unit 1, Kingsville

MyGroveBrewHouse.com

MEUSE BREWING CO.

1853 Windham Rd. 3, Scotland

MeuseBrewing.com

NATTERJACK BREWING CO.

25292 Talbot Line, West Lorne

NatterjackBrewing.ca

HOMETOWN BREW CO.

1730 Front Rd., St. Williams

HometownBrew.com

NEW LIMBURG BREWERY

2353 Nixon Rd., Simcoe

NewLimburg.com

IMPERIAL CITY BREW HOUSE

1330 Exmouth St., Sarnia

ImperialCityBrew.com

POINT BREWING CO.

705 Lite St., Point Edward PointBrewing.ca

KINGSVILLE BREWERY

15 Main St. W., Kingsville

KingsvilleBrewery.ca

POWERHOUSE BREWING CO.

100 Kellogg Ln., London PowerhouseBrewery.beer

LOT 10 BREWING CO.

263 Dalhousie St., Amherstburg

Lot10Brewery.ca

RAMBLIN ROAD BREWERY

FARM

2970 Swimming Pool Rd., La Salette

RamblinRoad.ca

RED BARN BREWING

COMPANY

20466 Lagoon Rd., Blenheim RedBarnBrewing.com

RIVER RUN BREW CO.

146 Christina St. N., Sarnia Facebook.com/RiverRunBrewCo

STORM STAYED BREWING CO.

169 Wharncliffe Rd. S., unit 8, London

StormStayed.com

TOBOGGAN BREWING CO.

585 Richmond St., London

TobogganBrewing.com

RUSTY WRENCH BREWING CO.

9 Front St. W., Strathroy RustyWrench.ca

TWO WATER BREWING CO.

446 Lyndoch St., Corunna TwoWaterBrewing.com

SANDWICH BREWING CO.

3230 Sandwich St., Windsor @SandwichBrewing

WALKERVILLE BREWERY

525 Argyle Rd., Windsor WalkervilleBrewery.com

SONS OF KENT BREWING CO.

27 Adelaide St. S., Chatham

SonsOfKent.com

STONEPICKER BREWING

7143 Forest Rd., Plympton-Wyoming

StonepickerBrewing.com

WISHBONE BREWING CO.

80 Alice St., Unit 2, Waterford WishboneBrews.com

FENELON FALLS KINGSTON

FENELON FALLS

BREWING CO.

4 May St. |

SPEARHEAD BREWING

675 Development Dr. | SpearheadBeer.com

Brewmaster Russell Gibson is responsible for pushing the envelope stylistically to bring great variety and interest to this gem in Fenelon Falls.

ITALIAN PILSNER

ITALIAN PILSNER

BOCK BOCK

Spearhead has become an important part of Kingston’s community, with a taproom served by the Lotzah! Food Truck. Try the PB&J Smash Burger with the Amber of the North.

HAWAIIAN PALE ALE FRUITED PALE ALE

L, LC,

TBS

B, L GINGERSNAP

7/62 CRAFT BREWERY & TAPROOM

162 Russel St., Madoc 762brew.com

PUBLICAN HOUSE BREWERY

300 Charlotte St. | PublicanHouse.com

Simply good beer! Enjoy classic standards and innovative seasonals in their year-round taproom. Pair your beer with snacks and boards from their eclectic menu!

AL’S BEST BITTER BEST BITTER

Year-round: B Seasonal: B

555 BREWING CO.

124 Picton Main St., Picton 555Beer.com

A Peterborough institution, Publican House has a full brewpub menu that features turkey wings, Cuban eggrolls, and shrimp tacos. It’s an adventure for your mouth!

OUR PET PILSNER PILSNER

B, L, LC, TBS

BELMONT LAKE BREWERY

54 Fire Rte. 17, Havelock BelmontLakeBrewery.com

ALL MY FRIENDS BEER CO.

8 Stanley St., Bloomfield AMFBeer.com

BOBCAYGEON BREWING CO.

4-649 The Parkway, Peterborough BobcaygeonBrewing.ca

BARLEY DAYS BREWERY

13730 Loyalist Parkway, Picton

BarleyDaysBrewery.com

CHURCH-KEY BREWING

1678 County Road 38, Campbellford

ChurchKeyBrewing.com

DAFT BREWING

768 Princess St., Kingston DaftBrewing.com

FINE BALANCE BREWING COMPANY

677 Innovation Dr., Unit 4, Kingston FineBalanceBrewing.ca

FOCAL BREWING CO.

98 County Rd. 35, Hastings FocalBrewingCo.ca

FOGORIG BREWING

2445 County Rd. 8, Campbellford Fogorig.com

GAN BREWING COMPANY

9 King St. E., Gananoque GanBeer.com

GARAGE TIME BREWING CO.

658 Danforth Rd., Wellington

GILLINGHAM BREWING CO.

1316 Wilson Rd., Hillier

GillinghamBrewing.ca

HAVEN BREWING CO.

687 Rye St., Unit 6, Peterborough HavenBrewing.ca

KICK AND PUSH BREWING CO.

24613 Hwy. 7, Sharbot Lake KAPBrewing.ca

KINGSTON BREWING COMPANY

34 Clarence St., Kingston KingstonBrewing.ca

GANARASKA BREWING CO.

33 Mill St. S., Port Hope GanaraskaBrewingCompany.ca

LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN BREWERY

11369 Loyalist Pkwy., Glenora LakeOnTheMountainBrewCo.com

8 Cambridge St. N., Lindsay Instagram.com/LindsayBrewingCompany

PRINCE EDDY’S BREWING CO.

13 Macsteven Dr., Picton PrinceEddys.com

STRANGE BREWING CO.

371 Chase Rd., Hillier facebook.com/The-Strange-BrewingCompany

RIVERHEAD BREWING CO.

631 Fortune Cres., Kingston RiverheadBrewing.com

WESTPORT BREWING CO.

41B Main St., Westport WestportBrewingCompany.ca

SIGNAL BREWING COMPANY

86-87 River Rd., Corbyville Signal.beer

WILDCARD BREWING CO.

38 Gotha St., Trenton WildcardBrewCo.com

SKELETON PARK BREWERY

675 Arlington Park Pl., Kingston SkeletonPark.ca

WILLIAM STREET BEER CO.

975 Elgin St. W. #4, Cobourg WilliamStreetBeer.com

SLAKE BREWING

181 Mowbray Rd, Picton SlakeBrewing.com

Beer is 92% water.

STONE CITY ALES

275 Princess St., Kingston StoneCityAles.com

MICROBRASSERIE CASSEL BREWERY

2 Racine St. | CasselBrewery.ca

SHILLOW BEER CO.

1458 Cyrville Rd., Gloucester

Cassel Brewery’s 1844 Bistro Pub & Eatery is the natural showcase for their beers, allowing for some truly interesting pairings. Try the snow crab cakes with Caboose IPA.

Ontario’s only Kosher brewery, Shillow’s new Ottawa location has allowed brewer Jamie to branch out into adventurous and experimental directions.

DOMINION CITY BREWING CO.

5510 Canotek Rd., Unit 15 | DominionCity.ca

Dominion City’s vast selection of seasonal beers and one offs is enough to keep you going back to Ottawa’s east end.

FLORA HALL BREWING

37 Flora St. | FloraHallBrewing.ca

SPARK BEER

702

Flora Hall, in addition to their standard offerings, are big fans of innovation. They’re closing in on their 100th variety of beer brewed!

Located in Ottawa’s Chinatown, Spark specializes in vibrant, exciting modern styles of beer. Their brightly coloured labels are a joy to behold.

1,000 ISLANDS BREWING CO.

65 King Street West, Brockville 1000IslandsBrewery.ca

BEAU’S BREWING CO.

10 Terry Fox Dr., Vankleek Hill Beaus.ca

4 DEGREES BREWING CO.

275 Brockville St., Smiths Falls 4DegreesBrewing.com

BEYOND THE PALE BREWING

250 City Centre Ave., Bay 108, Ottawa BTPShop.ca

ASHTON BREWING COMPANY

113 Old Mill Rd., Beckwith

AshtonBrewingCompany.com

BICYCLE CRAFT BREWERY

850 Industrial Ave., Unit 12, Ottawa

BicycleCraftBrewery.ca

BIG

CALABOGIE BREWING CO.

12612 Lanark Rd., Calabogie; 105 Schneider Rd. Unit 130, Kanata CalabogieBrewingCo.ca

CARTWRIGHT SPRINGS

BREWERY

239 Deer Run Rd., Pakenham CSBeer.ca

ÉTIENNE BRÜLÉ BREWERY

893 Notre-Dame St., Embrun

EtienneBrule.ca

EVERGREEN CRAFT ALES

767 Silver Seven Rd., #21, Kanata

EvergreenCraftAles.com

CLOCKTOWER BREWPUB

575 Bank St., Ottawa Clocktower.ca

CONSPIRACY THEORY

BREWING COMPANY

2172 Robertson Rd., Bells Corners CTBrewing.ca

COVERED BRIDGE BREWING

119 Iber Rd., Unit 6, Stittsville CoveredBridgeBrewing.com

DOG HOUSE BREWING COMPANY

3477A Petawawa Blvd., Petawawa

DogHouseBrewingCompany.ca

GOOD PROSPECTS

BREWING CO.

411 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa

GoodProspects.ca

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

BREWING CO.

25 Thorold Ln., Ingleside

HumbleBeginningsBrewing.ca

KICHESIPPI BEER CO.

2265 Robertson Rd., Ottawa

KBeer.ca

LOWERTOWN BREWERY

73 York St., Ottawa

LowertownBrewery.ca

MILL STREET BREWPUB

555 Wellington St., Ottawa MillStreetBrewery.com

RURBAN BREWING

412 Cumberland St., Cornwall RurbanBrewing.com

NITA BEER CO.

190 Colonnade Rd., Unit 17, Ottawa NitaBeer.com

SMALL PONY BARREL WORKS

101 Schneider Rd., Kanata SmallPonyBarrelWorks.com

ORLÉANS BREWING CO.

4380 Innes Rd., Orléans OrleansBrewing.com

SMOKIE RIDGE BREWERY

10090 Cameron Rd., Mountain SmokiesGrapes.com

OVERFLOW BREWING

2477 Kaladar Ave., Ottawa OverflowBeer.com

SQUARE TIMBER

BREWING CO.

800 Woito Station Rd., Pembroke SquareTimber.com

PERTH BREWERY

121 Dufferin St., Perth PerthBrewery.ca

STALWART BREWING CO.

10 High St., Carleton Place StalwartBrewing.ca

RIDGE ROCK BREWING CO.

421 Donald B. Munro Dr., Ottawa

RidgeRockBrewCo.ca

STRAY DOG BREWING CO.

501 Lacolle Way, Unit 4, Orleans StrayDogBrewing.ca

TOOTH AND NAIL BREWERY

3 Irving Ave. , Ottawa

ToothAndNailBeer.com

WHIPRSNAPR BREWING CO.

14 Bexley Pl., Ottawa

WhiprsnaprBrewingCo.com

TUQUE DE BROUE BREWERY

189 Bay St., Embrun

TuqueDeBroue.ca

3 BRASSEURS

240 Sparks St., Ottawa; 565 Kanata Ave, Kanata Les3Brasseurs.ca

WHITEWATER BREWING CO.

22 Fletcher Rd., Foresters Falls

WhitewaterBeer.ca

WINDMILL BREWERY

5 Newport Dr., Johnstown

WindmillBrewery.ca

TWO HAWKS BREWING CO.

1 Mallard St., Pembroke

TwoHawksBrewingco.ca

WOOD BROTHERS

BREWING CO.

2980 Wylie Rd., North Glengarry

WoodBrothersBrewingCo.com

VIMY BREWING COMPANY

145 Loretta Ave. N., Unit 1, Ottawa

VimyBrewing.ca

WEATHERHEAD BREW CO.

29 Beckwith St. E., Perth

WeatherheadBrewCo.com

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LAKE OF BAYS BREWING CO.

117-2681 Muskoka District Rd., Baysville; 59 Main St. E., Huntsville | LakeOfBaysBrewing.ca

With three locations in the Muskokas, (see their Barrelhouse on page 77), Lake of Bays has grown steadily since their founding in 2010 and now offer a wide variety of styles.

OFF THE GRID HAZY

LOW TIDE LIGHT IPA

Year-round:

THREE SHEETS BREWING

705 Goderich St.; 1246 Goderich St. ThreeSheetsBrewing.ca

THREE SHEETS

Three Sheets has expanded from a single location at the Wismer House in Port Elgin to their own taproom further down Goderich Street with the same great beer!

ROAD CLOSURE RED ALE RED ALE

Year-round: B, L

BEST COAST PALE ALE

Year-round: B, L, LC

CLEAR LAKE BREWING CO.

4651 Southwood Rd. | ClearLakeBrewing.co

With products available at the Muskoka Beer Spa, Clear Lake focus on making straightforward styles that will appeal to anyone in a hot tub.

BARNSTORMER BREWING & DISTILLING CO.

265 King St. N., Alliston; 3-384 Yonge St., Barrie | BarnstormerBrewing.com

MUSKOKA BREWERY

1964 Muskoka Beach Rd. | MuskokaBrewery.com

Each of Barnstormer’s brewery kettles are named after some of the famous women who made a mark on aviation history. Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman, Amy Johnson to name a few!

MOSAIC RYE ALE

Muskoka Brewery’s new world traveling series features collaborations with international partners and is a nice addition to an already packed lineup.

BIG WORLD SMALL BATCH: GREETINGS FROM GERMANY FESTBIER

SPLIT RAIL BREWING CO.

31 Water St. | SplitRailManitoulin.com

CANVAS BREWING COMPANY

12 John St. | CanvasBrewing.com

Split Rail Brewing is Manitoulin’s first craft brewery and is 100% women-owned! They proudly feature local ingredients in many of their small batch beers and craft sodas.

HAWBERRY ALE RUBY

ALE

COUCHICHING CRAFT BREWING CO.

162 Mississaga St. E. CouchichingBrewing.com

Canvas Brewing Co. is Huntsville’s newest craft brewery, born out of a love for the local landscape and a passion for fresh, well-made craft beer.

QUAYLE’S BREWERY

4567 Line 12 N. | QuaylesBrewery.ca

Orillia’s favourite brewery has a monthly Vinyl Night hosted by DJ Wilverine from 89.1 Max FM! Spin some platters and try the Sunshine City Blonde Ale!

SUNSHINE CITY BLONDE ALE AMERICAN BLONDE ALE

Housed in a musical barn, Quayle’s commitment to using their own hopyards to provide flavour for their beers is an admirable part of grain to glass brewing in Ontario.

FIDDLE & FIELD

BANCROFT BREWING CO.

4 Hastings St. N., Bancroft BancroftBrew.ca

BLACK BELLOWS

BREWING CO.

40 Simcoe St., Collingwood BlackBellows.com

KATALYST BREWING CO.

13 Taylor Rd., Unit D, Bracebridge KatalystBrewing.com

LAKE OF BAYS BRACEBRIDGE BARRELHOUSE

295 Wellington St. Unit #15, Bracebridge BracebridgeBarrelHouse.ca

BOSHKUNG BREWING CO.

9201 ON-118; 20 Water St., Minden Hills BoshkungBrewing.com

MANITOULIN BREWING CO.

43 Manitowaning Rd., Little Current ManitoulinBrewing.co

THE COLLINGWOOD BREWERY

10 Sandford Fleming Dr., Collingwood

TheCollingwordBrewery.com

FLYING MONKEYS CRAFT BREWERY

107 Dunlop St. E., Barrie

FlyingMonkeys.ca

HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS

BREWING

1067 Garden Gate Dr., Haliburton

HaliburtonHighlandsBrewing.ca

MUDTOWN STATION

1198 1st Ave. E., Owen Sound MudtownStation.ca

NORSE BREWERY

11 Ritchie Dr., Carling NorseBrewery.com

NORTHWINDS BREWHOUSE

499 First St., Collingwood NorthwindsBrewery.com

OUTLAW BREW CO.

196 High St., Southampton OutlawBrewCo.com

THORNBURY CRAFT CO.

90 King St. E., Thornbury ThornburyCraft.com

REDLINE BREWHOUSE

8 & 9-431 Bayview Dr., Barrie RedlineBrewhouse.com

TOBERMORY BREWING CO.

28 Bay St., Tobermory TobermoryBrewingCo.ca

SAWDUST CITY BREWING CO.

397 Muskoka Rd. N., Gravenhurst SawdustCityBrewing.com

SIDE LAUNCH BREWING CO.

1-200 Mountain Rd., Collingwood SideLaunchBrewing.com

TRESTLE BREWING CO.

9 Great North Rd., Parry Sound TrestleBrewing.com

TURKEY SHOOT BREWING CO.

482 The Queensway S., Keswick TurkeyShootBrewingco.com

SOUTH RIVER BREWING CO.

309 B Hwy. 124, South River SouthRiverBrewing.ca

STILL FIELDS BREWERY

317714 3rd Line, Meaford

StillFieldsBrewery.com

Canada’s first documented brewers were Louis Hébert and his wife, who produced beer for private consumption as early as 1617.

46 NORTH BREWING CO.

Unit 1-1275 Kelly Lake Rd., Sudbury 46North.ca

LAKEHEAD BREWING CO.

206 Park Ave., Thunder Bay LakeheadBeer.ca

BIG WATER BREWING CO.

123 McIntyre St. W. , North Bay Facebook.com/BigWaterBrewing

DAWSON TRAIL CRAFT BREWERY

905 Copper Cres., Thunder Bay DawsonTrailCraftBrewery.com

FULL BEARD BREWING CO.

219 Wilson Ave., Timmins FullBeardBrewing.com

NEW ONTARIO BREWING CO.

1881 Cassells St., North Bay NewOntarioBrewing.com

NORTHERN SUPERIOR BREWING CO.

50 Pim St., Sault Ste. Marie NorthernSuperior.org

ONE TIME BREW CO.

415 Fort William Rd., Thunder Bay OneTimeBrew.co

GATEWAY CITY BREWERY

600-612 Gormanville Rd., Unit 206, North Bay; GatewayCity.ca

LAKE OF THE WOODS BREWING CO.

350 2nd St. S., Kenora LOWBrewCo.com

OUTSPOKEN BREWING

350 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie OutspokenBrewing.com

SLATE ISLAND BREWING CO.

9 Simcoe Plaza, Terrace Bay

Facebook.com/SlateIslandBreweryTB

BEER GROUND

To the is spring and summer saw the addition of both the long-awaited Great Lakes Brewpub and a physical location for True History Brewing, long a contract brand, to Toronto’s brewing scene. We’ve got new breweries from Windsor to Wawa and a few locations that have changed hands, changed names, and stayed in the same location.

ALL MY FRIENDS BEER

Bloomfield (summer 2022) Located just over a stone’s throw away from PEC darling Matron Brewing Company, All My Friends is an additional worthy stop for those of you planning a trip to the county. e taproom is RV friendly, dog friendly, family friendly, and the sta is, you guessed it, personable. Try the squash burrito alongside Candy, their NEIPA. AMFBeer.com

BANTER AND COMPANY BREWING

Brooklin (spring 2022) While Banter and Co. launched with a fairly traditional list of beer options, their selection is getting bolder as they develop their tenure. Although they have a shareable charcuterie option on the menu, you are allowed to bring your own food, allowing you all the rich options of North Durham county. BanterAndCompany.com

THE CORNERHOUSE ON MAIN

Stouffville (winter 2022) Not shy about their place in the world, the website for the Cornerhouse proclaims it to be the best restaurant in Stou ville. e beers are technically under the Cock-A-Hoop brand, which has been developed by brewer Andrew McReady. Try the Arctic Shrimp Cake with the Kellerbier. You’ll be over the moon about Cock-A-Hoop. eCornerhouse.ca

FOCAL BREWING COMPANY

Hastings (summer 2022) Focal’s focus is founded on delity to the ingredients grown in Ontario, because focal is local and comparatively vocal about it. Cousins Matt and Brandon Bickle would love you to try their

Welcome to Ontario Pale Ale, and have even managed to get in their own Oktoberfest celebrations their rst year in business! FocalBrewingCo.ca

FOGORIG BREWING COMPANY

Campbellford (summer 2022) A farm brewery located in the Trent Hills with a heritage masonry building from 1834, one of Fogorig’s main strengths is the beauty of the rolling landscape surrounding it. at, and the comfortable patio, live music, rotating food o erings and delicious beer … Ok, so they have a lot of strengths. Fogorig.com

GREAT LAKES BREWPUB

Toronto (summer 2022) You know them. You love them. You drink Canuck because it’s excellent and a ordable. You don’t want to slog out to Etobicoke? Well, Great Lakes is now downtown. And they have Detroit style Okonomiyaki pizza to go with their brewpub one o beers. e great taste of Michigan and Osaka, together at last. GreatLakesBrewpub.com

KICK & PUSH BREWING

Sharbot Lake (summer 2022) Driving along the Trans Canada and looking to wet your whistle? Well, Sharbot Lake’s newest brewery is just the place. Kick & Push, named after a now defunct railway has their English Ale, Relax Alice, on tap at the Sharbot Lake Hotel. A ne place to spend the night if you’re overserved. KAPBrewing.ca

POINT BREWING COMPANY

Point Edward (summer 2022) Point Brewing has something for everyone at their newly opened taproom. Whether you’re looking

for a straight ahead lager or something in a Creamsicle Ale, you’re going to be able to pair it with roller dogs from Schinkel’s Legacy in Chatham. Or, if you’re feeling fancy, why not try their beer cocktail, Sunset At e Cove! PointBrewing.ca

SMOKIE RIDGE BREWING

Mountain (summer 2022) It takes a lot of beer to make great wine, and it takes some freakin’ chutzpah for a winery to start making beer. Although Smokie Ridge has specialized in the oenophilic world, the decision to branch out into grain based beverages has clearly not been made lightly. With vintages from 2010 to 2016 available online, it’s clear they sell no wine before its time. SmokiesGrapes.com

STEADFAST BREWING COMPANY

Toronto (summer 2022) e fourth brewery to occupy the space at 301 Lansdowne in the last eight years, Steadfast is certainly courageous. Featuring General Assembly pizzas, the early highlight of their beer menu is their Aji Hot Pepper IPA. at said, there’s something for everyone, including Revel cider on tap. SteadfastBrewingCo.com

TILTED GLASS BREWING COMPANY

Bowmanville (summer 2022) e second brewery at this location, Tilted Glass ful lls a role as something of a local clubhouse with weekly trivia, euchre tournaments, and local live music to complement the selection of beers being produced on site. Why not try their Sour Pitch Kids or a Cherry Tingly? Tiltedglass.ca

TRUE HISTORY BREWING

Toronto (summer 2022) Located on St. Clair West’s Corso Italia, True History’s motto is brewing low and slow. ere’s some

observation of tradition. Lager comes in half litres, and IPA doesn’t. e food menu features many nods to the Portugese in uence in the neighbourhood, including Tiborna Bacalhau and Piri Piri Chicken.

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THE GRIST CRAFT KITCHEN AND BREWERY

St. Davids (fall 2021) With a signi cant focus on the kitchen (including a mu uletta sandwich and a tantalizing selection of pizzas), e Grist’s beer selection has something for everyone from a London Fog style White Stout to a Red Cream Ale. You will want to check their hours before you go as they’re closed a couple of days a week for brewing. eGrist.ca j

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