The Growler Ontario • Volume 4 Issue 1 • Spring/Summer 2021

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06

CRAFT BEER WEDDINGS: HOPPILY EVER AFTER

STYLE SNAPSHOT: GOSE

HOW WE BUILT THIS: LIQUID GOLD

BREWER VS BREWER: THE ISLAND EDITION

I'M DREAMING OF A POST-PANDEMIC BEER VACATION

SELTZER: HOW TWO ONTARIO BREWERIES LAUNCHED READY-TO-DRINK BRANDS THEIR WAY

RECIPE: BUTTER CHICKEN SANDWICH

ONTARIO BREWERY LISTINGS

BEER TO THE GROUND

26 43 40 49 52 64 71 77 86 92

TORONTO

NORTH & EAST GTA

HAMILTON, BRANT & WEST GTA

NIAGARA

CENTRAL WEST

SOUTHWEST

KAWARTHAS, KINGSTON & PEC

EASTERN ONTARIO

COTTAGE COUNTRY

NORTHERN & NORTHWEST ONTARIO

Editor’s Note

Summertime should be easy, breezy and lled with great brews. is issue celebrates the opening of beer season in Canada with a feature on four readers who put craft beer at the centre of their weddings (page 6). Like us, you’re probably craving a holiday now more than ever, so go ahead, book an island vacation with a great brewery on it to boot. Check out our Brewer vs. Brewer interviews with two Ontario island breweries for inspo.

e celebration continues with the success story of Collective Arts brewery. Our columnist, Ben Johnson hones on in the intersection of arts and liquid that has made them one of the few Canadian craft breweries to enjoy global recognition on page 12. And nally seltzers—WTF are they, and why is everyone making them? Also, which ones are worth drinking? Tara gives you the lowdown (and a shopping list) on page 21.

As always, our comprehensive listings of over 300 craft breweries from Jordan St. John brings you regional inspiration for your next road trip or online beer order.

—Tara Luxmore & Crystal Luxmore, aka e Beer Sisters, editors

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

Availability

B – brewery taproom

L – licensed establishments, pubs, bars and restaurants

LC – LCBO

TBS – e 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

Anything funky

ever Hoppilyafter

Tying the knot gives couples a chance to share their passion for one another, and for their beloved hobbies, with their friends and families. For our readers, those hobbies usually include craft beer. So, we bring you four very special weddings at four Ontario craft breweries that raise a pint to love everlasting.

by Crystal Luxmore

Follow @thegrowlerON & #hoppilyeverafter to see more photos from these and other Ontario craft beer weddings. Share your craft beer wedding with the #hoppilyeverafter tag and we’ll be sure to repost it!

Ontario craft breweries have such unique designs that couples can nd a perfect venue for their day, no matter whether they want rural and rustic, steampunk or sleek and urban.

Dream pandemic wedding

In the midst of the pandemic, Arnell Murrain and Youn-Sun Lee were chosen from over 100 couples to win their dream wedding. Steam Whistle teamed up with 23 industry partners to throw a gorgeous celebration for an unemployed hospitality worker, which followed all of the new COVID-19 restrictions. Arnell, a bartender at a banquet hall who is now at Teacher’s College, met Youn-Sun, a Korean language instructor, at a French language event in Toronto. eir love story won the jury over. So on August 15, 2020, their dream wedding began with a stunningly modern socially-distanced ceremony in the Steam Whistle Roundhouse and ended with an intimate dinner for ten guests from their bubble in an outdoor tent on the Locomotive Hall patio, with the CN tower as the backdrop. COVID-19 measures included digital questionnaires to pre-screen guests, temperature checks, bathroom attendants sanitizing between guests, custom masks and a live feed so that Youn-Sun’s South Korean family could share in the day.

Toronto's top wedding experts came together to throw a dream wedding via Stea Whistle's "In Service of Love" contest. Photos courtesy of Luminous Weddings

Beer-infused ceremony

When chefs Jessica and Nicolas Gignac tied the knot at Stack Brewing in Sudbury on June 15, 2019, they had a beer-soaked ceremony from start to nish. Fresh hop cones were woven into the owers and chuppah, and guests showered the couple with barley instead of rice. roughout the day guests lled their custom pint glasses with brews from the couples’ favourite local breweries:

46 North, Stack, Gateway City, and Full Beard. e Gignacs’ love for beer is more than a hobby: they launched the Food Manchu food truck outside of Full Beard Brewing in Timmins before they started working at Stack, where Nicolas is the Executive Chef. So of course, Chef Nic also infused all of the dishes on their wedding meal with di erent local beers.

Guests left messages for the couple in a growler, which Jes and Nic opened on their rst wedding anniversary. Dan Lalonde from Strike a Pose by LT photos

Go Beyond Beer

For journalist Stephanie Hallet and actor Jon Owens, beer played more of a supporting role in their day. e L.A.-based couple ew to Stephanie’s hometown of Toronto to marry so that her grandmother could attend their ceremony on September 1st, 2019. Stephanie fell in love with Muddy York’s industrial Victorian vibe and booked it from the U.S. after owner Susan Michalek gave the couple a video tour. e casual day began with guests mingling at the bar before the ceremony, then taking their pints to the brewery's grassy front yard where a gourmet pizza truck served personal pies. e couple hung a poster of the 1967 Supreme Court ruling Loving Vs. Virginia, a landmark civil rights decision, which overturned laws banning interracial marriage. “ is was the law that makes our marriage legal,” explains Stephanie, “So we really wanted to celebrate that, and to acknowledge the history there as well as the fact that a relationship like ours was outlawed for quite some time.”

e couple wed under Muddy York's "Craft beer rules" sign, choosing to showcase the brewery in their photos. Stephanie sourced her lacy kaftan on Etsy. Kat Rizza Photography

Although Nikki and Stef have travelled to breweries around the world, they think of " e Flame" as home. ey added rustic touches like a vintage VW van, succulent centrepieces and twinkling lanterns to complement the brewery's vintage vibe. Heather Prosser photos

Tying the knot at an old favourite

Old Flame regulars, Stephanie Pfa and Nicole Bird, think of the rustic, friendly brewpub as the movie set for their life together, so it was only natural that they wed at the Port Perry brewpub on September 28, 2019. “ e sta are people we instantly called our friends,” says Nikki. Plus the beer is fantastic, “We love the little extra love and magic they put into it.” On the big day the ceremony was held under twinkling fairy lights between an altar fashioned from whiskey barrels. Flights of beer and pints of cider circulated all night long, then brewery plates and pretzels came out for late night snacking. When the night wound down, each guest was gifted a growler to ll up with their favourite Old Flame beer, taking a sip of the celebration home. j

A guide to the margarita-like

GOSE

by Crystal Luxmore

WHAT IS IT?

A bright sour beer with a lick of salt in the nish and lots of champagne-style bubbles.

ORIGIN STORY

DRINK WITH

SAY IT LIKE "goes-UH"

GLASS Stemmed pilsner

STYLE STATS

ABV 4.2-4.8% IBU 5-12

COLOUR Hazy sunshine

BODY Medium

BUBBLES Very high

It began around the year 1000 in the salt-mining town of Goslar, Germany. Harnessing the town’s salty river water, brewers added lactobacillus (the bacteria that sours yogurt) for acidity, wheat for body, next-to-no hops and coriander seeds to spice it up. Nearly extinct, the style was popularized by American craft breweries in the early 2000s. ese days goses are often fruited or dry-hopped.

WHAT'S THE DIFF BETWEEN A GOSE AND A GUEUZE? A gueuze is a spontaneously-fermented lambicstyle ale from the Brussels region of Belgium. Made with wild yeast, it’s dripping with funky barnyard avours. It’s pronounced “gooze.”

SIX MUST-TRY ONTARIO GOSES

135

Cucumber & Lime Gose, Nickel Brook Brewing

Little Wizards, Lil’ Beasts Brewing

Umi, Godspeed Brewing

246

Gosé Cuervo, People’s Pint Brewing

Raspberry Gose, Stonehooker Brewing

Yacht Rock, Stone City Ales

Nachos & guacamole

Ceviche

Indian curries

liquid Gold liquid Gold

How

by Ben Johnson

In the Venn diagram of breweries, there are typically two circles: one is “has really great beer,” and the other is “has really great branding.”

It is an unfortunate reality that the place where these two circles overlap is exceptionally slim. New breweries tend to either lead with great product, making branding and communication the secondary job of whoever can take it on, or they come out of the gate with a strong brand and communications game, ultimately driving shortlived demand for a mediocre product.

is is what has always made Collective Arts Brewery so compelling. Since the Hamilton-based company launched, it has existed squarely in the space where these two circles overlap, using unique branding to market exceptionally wellmade beer. Notably, as the company has rapidly expanded over the last seven years, it has never left that rari ed space.

Founded in 2013 by Bob Russell and Matt Johnston, Collective Arts’ uid, artist-focused branding was in many ways the impetus for the company.

“Years before either of us quit our day jobs,” Russell says, “we were in a hotel and I wrote down, ‘Build a grassroots craft brewery by creating amazing craft beer and infuse it with the talents

of emerging artists and musicians.’” is grandiose concept would become the duo’s mission statement as they formed the company.

Johnston crossed paths with Russell when he was working as VP of Marketing at Moosehead Breweries, and Moosehead hired Russell’s design rm to create the Hop City Brand, Moosehead’s “crafty” o shoot.

“At one point,” Johnson says, “I realized I was starting to become a very bad employee. I was way too opinionated to be part of a seven-generation family-owned company. So I told Bob I was interested in going out on my own and asked him if he would be interested too.” e pair quickly realized they shared a passion not just for beer but for the arts.

“ en one day I called Bob and I said ‘Are you really serious?’ and he said, ‘Yes.’ And I said, that's great news because I just quit my job today,” Johnson says. “And then I called my wife.”

e idea they came up with, born via that mission statement scrawled in a hotel, was unique in terms of craft beer: an ever-changing brand that

one Canadian craft brewery catapulted to global fame while staying true to its roots

Collective Arts opened its Toronto brewpub (above) this January. Photos courtesy of Collective Arts

would champion creativity and the arts by rotating work from emerging artists as the brewery’s beer labels. “We built our brand kind of upside down,” says Russell, whose previous roles saw him working with North America’s largest breweries. “Companies want something like Labatt Blue on the label but then struggle with how to keep it contemporary.”

Instead, Collective Arts does regular calls for art, has a jury review around 500 submissions, and pays chosen artists to use their work for threemonth stints.

“Every time we do these calls for art and create new labels,” Russell says, “the brand is automatically relevant because it re ects what's on the street at that given time.” Russell says you can see themes and politics morph the Collective Arts brand, “And really the only thing we actually own is that little strip that says Collective Arts Stranger an Fiction Porter.”

Of course, good branding only helps you sell beer once if what’s in the tin doesn’t live up to the

cool label. Next up was guring out where they were actually going to brew their beer and who was going to brew it. Given the exorbitant costs of opening a bricks and mortar brewery, they opted to contract brew and crossed paths with Ryan Morrow, who is now arguably one of the province’s most talented beer makers.

“We actually almost brewed at Amsterdam Brewery in Toronto,” Russell says, “but we stumbled into Nickel Brook and we hadn’t even really tried their beer before.” e pair ended up striking up a conversation with Nickel Brook founder John Romano and learned he was looking to take on contract brewing to ll capacity.

Johnston and Russell were skilled at branding and, at the time, Nickel Brook kind of…wasn’t, and so the two organizations started a mutually bene cial relationship, tapping Morrow to brew their beer and building the beer and science branding that Nickel Brook now carries.

Years before either of us quit our day jobs, we were in a hotel and I wrote down, ‘Build a grassroots craft brewery by creating amazing craft beer and infuse it with the talents of emerging artists and musicians.’

—Bob Russell

Co-founders Bob Russell (left) and Matt Johnston penned their vision for their arts-led brewery in a hotel bar.

Can art from Collective Arts' Ampli ed Voices series, from left to right: Growth & Empowerment by Avril Wu, LGBTQ+ X BLM by Mawhyah Milton, Resistance by Adina Farinango.

“ at was back when craft beer was de nitely booming,” Morrow says. “And you would get people come in and be like, ‘I want to start a brewery blah, blah, blah,’ and we’d politely give them the time of day and be like, okay, cool, whatever.

“But then Matt and Bob came by, it was like, ‘Oh crap. ey actually know what they're talking about, they actually have a vision, and there's a roadmap to success.”

And while the route may have changed from the initial roadmap, Collective Arts has seen huge success. In 2014, Nickel Brook and Collective Arts expanded operations together to the 50,000 square-foot former home of Lakeport Brewing in Hamilton and then, in 2017, Collective Arts took full ownership of the space. In 2019, Morrow, who was tackling head brewing duties at both companies, began working exclusively for Collective Arts. In January they opened a 10-barrel brewhouse, taproom, patio, and retail store in downtown Toronto. And they hope to open their

Brooklyn New York brewpub, gallery and live entertainment venue this September.

Collective is one of the few Canadian craft breweries to have their cans appear in all the right places: in serious bottleshops and taste-making beer bars from Miami, Florida to Sydney, Australia.

e founders credit that expansion to their art-focused brand concept. Craft breweries tell brand stories that are rmly rooted to their place of origin, so often their relevance diminishes the further away you get from the beer’s hometown. Collective Arts has avoided that hyper-local focus by accepting art submissions from diverse locales. Both the Toronto and Brooklyn brewpub announcements were met with immediate local support, in part because Collective Arts frequently features artists from New York and Toronto on its cans.

“We are from wherever the art communities are,” Russell says. “And really that's how we've been able to continually grow our brands.”

e brewery has also expanded their liquid portfolio to start making spirits, cider, and cannabis -infused beverages, the latter of which are already available in the US. “If it's something that we are excited about drinking or learning about or playing with and we can be really proud about making it, then we’ll try it,” Johnston says.

In the post-COVID world, the pair is hoping to take some time to grow into their shoes. “We've diversi ed a lot,” Russell says, “Now it's about getting our feet under us a bit and, and letting the team grow what they've created and stabilize it.”

When asked if they think they’ll continue to balance the ne line between good branding and quality product, they are unphased by the question. “Well yeah,” Johnston says. “Don't do things if you can't do them well.”

But they aren’t without a touch of humility about how far the recipe has taken them so far.

“It’s been pretty cool,” Russell says. “You put something down on a piece of paper and you talk to your buddy about it and you both get excited about it and then it's real.”

Johnston concurs. “You watch it grow and you watch people respond to your brand and it really blows you away,” he says. “Sometimes it's hard to believe that this has actually happened. You pinch yourself every once in a while, and say, ‘Is this real?’” j

Every time we do these calls for art and create new labels, the brand is automatically relevant because it re ects what's on the street at that given time.

—Bob Russell

Rotating label art every three months keeps the brewery's brand current.

Island time

by Robin LeBlanc

As the season begins to warm up, many of us are already daydreaming about being o on an island somewhere far away from the nonsense of the world, taking in the view and sipping on an ice-cold beer.

For our two interview subjects, that dream is very much a reality, as both are co-owners of breweries located on islands here in Ontario.

In 2015 Nishin Meawasige, along with friends Blair Hagman and Joet Dhatt, opened Manitoulin Brewing Co. in Little Current with the thought of making beers that connect with island life, even naming their beers after famous Manitoulin landmarks.

Located in Hillier in Prince Edward County, Gillingham Brewing Co. was opened in 2019 by wife and husband team Christine and Andrew Gillingham. Both come from a corporate background and left their lives in Toronto behind to start a brewery on their family’s vineyard, where Andrew brews traditional beers packaged in the iconic stubby bottles.

Growler: What made you want to start a brewery on an island?

Meawasige: I think the island had a certain kind of mystique attached to it. A lot of people

know about it, and it’s got a claim to fame as the largest freshwater island in the world. Back in 2015 we saw an opportunity to showcase a brand and develop products under the Manitoulin Island name and we thought that people would enjoy that. We also recognize that there’s an emerging trend of folks wanting to move to rural areas and perhaps get away from busier centres and we thought that the island was only going to grow and be more of a hub for creativity, tourism and ultimately for communities to thrive.

Gillingham: Along with the opportunity we had to open up here, we chose Prince Edward County because it’s an up-and-coming craft beer region. ere’s like eight or nine other breweries here all o ering something unique, with more on the way. And because it’s also a wine and vacation spot, it seems like the perfect place to start a brewery.

Growler: Tell me a bit about the local community there.

Meawasige: Well here on Manitoulin Island we have a pretty wide swathe of communities. We’ve got a signi cant Indigenous presence here on the island and it’s very much a kind of interwoven fabric of municipalities and First Nation communities that I think really gives it its unique nature and draw.

Gillingham: It’s a very small local community, but we love that. It’s so fantastic to be able to walk down the road and say hi to people that you know. We’re a very strong tight knit community wanting to support each other, so wherever and whenever we’re able to donate or contribute it’s always to a local cause. ere are also all kinds of entrepreneurs here, which is also what inspired us about the county. Within the last ve years this county has grown substantially and has continued to do so with fantastic restaurants, artists, and of course the wineries and breweries. It’s small, but has big intentions and big opportunities, and a variety of places to explore in addition to the parks and beaches which bring in a lot of tourists.

Growler: Have the locals in uenced you much as a brewery or has it been the tourists?

Meawasige: So from Sault Ste. Marie to Sudbury and down to Parry Sound over here to Manitoulin, we kind of consider that our local market. Anything beyond that we look at as o -island folks. What we found was that the o -island market has been able to allow us to branch out more into kind of funky avours and a little bit more diversity to our product so that we’re still able to be relevant with the times. We know there are beer trends out there, so we’re able to delve into that from time to time. But at the same time our local customers keep us grounded and make sure that we kind of stick to our roots and make good quality, drinkable, sessionable beers that are going to appeal and be enjoyed at any time.

Gillingham: e locals in uence us on the type of beer we produce because at the end of the day, we have a huge tourist community down here but our locals are here 365 days and they’re the ones who really help us sustain our business. And we see that especially with our clientele, 80% or higher of which is local and without them we wouldn’t be able to survive.

Growler: Do you have much of a relationship with other breweries in the area?

Meawasige: Yeah! We’ve done a variety of di erent events and collaborations with other breweries up here and we de nitely want to be able to support each other. ere are fewer breweries per capita in northern Ontario than southern Ontario so it’s a bit more challenging for us to stand out and be relevant in a southern Ontario market when a lot of that market is what helps drive sales growth in the industry.

ere’s an emerging trend of folks wanting to move to rural areas and perhaps get away from busier centres and we thought that the island was only going to grow.

—Nishin Meawasige, Manitoulin Brewing Co.

Manitoulin Brewing Co.'s co-owner Nishin Meawasige. Photo courtesy of Manitoulin Brewing Co.

Manitoulin Island Brewing Co.’s agship blonde ale alongside the iconic Little Current Swing Bridge. Photo courtesy of Manitoulin Brewing Co.

Gillingham: Other breweries down here are great. Everybody wants to support one another. We always try to collaborate and promote each other when we can. If there’s someone on our end of the island looking for something speci c that I know another brewery would o er, we’re always pushing them there. ere’s always that cross promotion because we all bene t.

Growler: What have been some of the challenges of having a brewery that’s fairly remote like that?

Meawasige: ere’s that sense of isolation. We do have a fellow brewery here on the island, Split Rail Brewing out of Gore Bay, and we’ve had collaborations, but beyond that our closest brewery would be Stack Brewing out of Sudbury or in the opposite side Northern out of Sault Ste. Marie, so both of them are nearly two plus hours away from us, so it’s a bit of a jaunt.

Other challenges are obviously Manitoulin being pegged as a seasonal destination, but we really want to break that mold and we think we can. We live here 365 days a year and know that Manitoulin Island has just as much to o er in the fall and winter as it does in the summer. Certainly it’s beautiful, but the real gorgeous moments are in the dead of winter when, for instance, the season just showed up and the lake froze over without any snow on it, so it’s literally polished glass. Families are skating on it and because our water is so crystal clear, it’s just amazing.

Growler: What do you folks have on the horizon?

Meawasige: We have a new product called Ten Mile Point Pilsner in the LCBO. It’ll be our sixth listed product. It’s going to be great. We actually launched it last year in a small batch in the brewery to get a feel for it during the season. It’s named after a very signi cant landmark here on the island with a lot of history behind it and an absolutely beautiful viewscape.

Gillingham: We’re a small brewery and intend to stay small. It allows us to be a little more creative and do more experimental brews. Our whole story is brew traditional but with our own little spin on it. But we started our rst year very conservative not really knowing what to expect and we realized that we were probably a little too conservative, so there’s growth on the horizon. We’re looking to expand and build an exclusive taphouse and really focus on the outdoor space in the very scenic family vineyard. is will give us a lot more space in our main building that we’ve needed as the county is becoming busier.

We’re family operated, small batch, and really want to keep that intimacy and maintain that experience. j

Other breweries down here are great. Everybody wants to support one another.

—Andrew Gillingham, Gillingham Brewing Co.

Co-owners Christine and Andrew Gillingham (top) and Gillingham Brewing Co.’s retro stubby bottles. Photos courtesy of Gillingham Brewing Co.

by Joe Wiebe

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During the depths of the pandemic lockdown last year I often found myself fantasizing about beer-themed vacations I might enjoy once the virus is vanquished. Even though the prospect of travelling was unfathomable then, picturing myself wandering the streets of Berlin, Brooklyn or Buenos Aires in search of my new favourite beer gave me comfort and inspiration to keep moving forward.

Now that it’s 2021 and vaccinations are actually happening, it’s becoming more reasonable to imagine travelling somewhere. We might be limited to Canadian travel in 2021, but even so, there are great options for beer explorations within our borders. And it certainly seems like life will be largely back to normal by 2022. So why not dream a little now?

Along with some bucket list picks of my own, I reached out to some fellow beer scribes to get their suggestions, too.

GERMANY

I'M DREAMING (post-pandemic) 18

ere are nearly 1,500 breweries in Germany so you won’t have trouble nding locally made beer anywhere you travel there. Be prepared to taste a lot of helles, dunkel and weissbier because most breweries typically only make those standard German styles, but deeper exploration will lead you to regional or seasonal specialties like rauchbier, bock, kölsch and altbier.

e top spot on my bucket list is Berlin. Apart from a single day there while backpacking around Europe in 1991, I’ve never been back to the German capital so I would love to spend a week exploring its urban geography and visiting breweries. In addition to its eponymous Berliner weisse style of sour beer, many of Berlin’s young brewers are in uenced by American craft beer, so this is the one place you might actually taste a German IPA.

In his excellent 2018 book, Will Travel For Beer, Toronto-based beer writer Stephen Beaumont recommends a pair of western German cities separated by a half-hour train ride: Köln and Düsseldorf, homes to kölsch and altbier styles respectively. Each city celebrates its own beer with pride and style, including unique glassware and serving traditions.

Another German destination on my wish list is Bamberg, a small city in northern Bavaria that is famous for its rauchbier, made with smoked malts, but also for the sheer number of breweries in the city and surrounding towns. ere are so many that you can walk between breweries along forest trails for days on end. Sounds like heaven to me!

CZECHIA

Tops on Stephen Beaumont’s bucket list and a close second on mine is Prague, a beautiful city with amazing architecture and history to go along with the delicious beer. Světlý ležák is the Czech name for what we call Pilsner, and along with that delicious golden lager, many Czech brewers make a fantastic tmavé pivo (dark lager). No visit to Prague is complete without a stop at U Fleků, a restaurant-brewery that has been brewing continuously since 1499. It is de nitely a touristy spot, but its dark lager is delicious and the kitchen does a ne job of making traditional Czech dishes.

I also recommend visiting the Pilsner Urquell brewery in nearby Plzeň, where the Pilsner style originated in 1842. e tour of its historic facility

includes a visit to the extensive cellars under the city used to lager the beer before the advent of modern refrigeration. ey still brew small batches down there in open-top fermenters, and there is nothing quite like tasting that beer.

BELGIUM

Crystal Luxmore, co-editor of e Growler Ontario, listed three Belgian breweries at the top of her personal bucket list: Cantillon, Orval, and Rodenbach. I was lucky enough to visit Belgium for a week in 2014, and I would love to go back. Each of the breweries she mentioned o ers a very different experience, and that is exactly what makes Belgian beer so exciting. Unlike Germany where most of the breweries make the same handful of beers, no two breweries in Belgium are alike.

e Cantillon Brewery in Brussels is also a museum, where you can take a self-guided tour that showcases the traditional Lambic brewing method it has employed for more than a century, and then taste the results: gueuze, framboise, kriek, and more. Wild-fermented and sour beer lovers will also want to visit Moeder Lambic, a specialty bar with two locations in Brussels.

Rodenbach’s brewery tour features a majestic hall lled with 294 giant oak foeders, some of which are 150 years old. Its Flemish roodbruin (red brown) ales are tart and refreshing with big cherry and plum notes, despite the fact that no fruit is used in the recipes.

Orval is one of six Trappist breweries in Belgium. It does not o er brewery tours, but the old Abbey’s ruins are open to the public, and there is a café where you can taste the “jeune” version on draft alongside the “vieille,” which is bottle-conditioned with Brettanomyces yeast, creating the famous “goût d’Orval.”

Plan your beer-cation with books like this or e World Atlas of Beer (by Stephen Beaumont & Tim Webb).

David Ort photo

Moeder Lambic in Brussels. Joe Wiebe photo

I could list Belgian beer destinations for pages and pages (Bruges, Antwerp, Westvleteren, etc.). Su ce to say, Belgium is an ideal choice for any beer lover to explore.

ITALY

It might be surprising to feature Italy on a beer bucket list, but I’ve been hearing many good things about the craft beer scene there. Italian beer writer Maurizio Maestrelli recommended Rome and Milano: “ e capital has always been considered the capital of craft beer in Italy. A small pub in Trastevere, Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fà (translated: What the hell are you doing here?) was elected best pub in the world a few years ago by Ratebeer, but there are many other good beer places in the city (Open Baladin, Barley Wine, Hop & Pork to drink, and Johnny's O License to buy Italian craft beers). Milano also has very good places like Birri cio Lambrate, the oldest brewpub in town and a very cozy place, Birri cio Italiano, Scott Du , Lambiczoon, and Birri cio La Ribalta. From Milano you can also visit by car some great small breweries such as Birri cio Rurale, Alder Beer, Birri cio Menaresta, and Birri cio Hamer.”

Evan Rail, a Prague-based beer writer, agrees. “If I could go anywhere right now, Italy would be it. Because of my lockdown-induced wanderlust, I’ve started dreaming about where to go when we can travel again, and a beer tour through the Dolomites in the Friuli region is at the top of my list, starting with Birri cio Artigianale Foglie d’Erba. e rst draw is that Foglie d’Erba make excellent, charismatic beers. But the brewery itself is set in the Dolomite mountains, one of the most beautiful parts of Europe. I’ve been through the

area a few times over the years and was always wowed by the scenery.”

UNITED STATES

e U.S. is home to many of the world’s most exciting breweries. My last pre-pandemic trip was to New York City, and I can certainly vouch for Brooklyn’s incredible beer scene. While Crystal Luxmore would love to visit Scratch Brewing, a farmhouse brewery in a forest in Illinois that brews with farmed and foraged ingredients like mushrooms, nettle and hickory.

e U.S. west coast o ers several craft beer hotspots, including San Diego, Portland, and Seattle. Heck, once the Canada-U.S. border opens again, I’ll be happy just to visit Bellingham, which is a three-hour ferry ride from where I live in Victoria, B.C. j

What destinations top your beer bucket list? What places should we add to ours? Share them with us on social media with the hashtag #beerbucketlist

Hey, we’ve got great beer here in Canada

Perhaps your budget isn’t quite ready to take you to Europe. No problem: we have amazing beer right here in Canada. Personally, I’d love to check out Halifax’s craft beer community. Tara Luxmore, co-editor of The Growler Ontario, says Québec’s Gaspé Peninsula is at the top of her list: key stops are Pit Caribou and Brasserie Auval, along with terroir-driven breweries on the far-flung Îles de la Madeleine.

Of course, I recommend checking out the amazing beer scene out here in British Columbia. B.C. has more than 200 breweries now so you will have no trouble finding craft beer pretty much anywhere you go. That said, I’d recommend Vancouver for its diverse and vibrant scene— there are 30 breweries in the city itself plus at least that many in the surrounding area, most of which opened in the past five years. And no beer-focused visit to B.C. would be complete without visiting Victoria, home of Spinnakers, Canada’s first brewpub dating back to 1984, along with a dozen other breweries, including well known companies such as Phillips, Hoyne, and Driftwood. For more inspiration check out the BC Ale Trail website at bcaletrail.ca.

’t Brugs Beertje in Bruges is considered one of the best beer bars in the world . Joe Wiebe photo

SIDE HUSTLE Pandemic

by Tara Luxmore

The Birth of Great Lakes Spirits

When the pandemic hit last spring, Great Lakes Brewery (GLB) decided to collect all of the full kegs they had in the market and replace them with fresh beer once bars and restaurants reopened. But with over 15,000 litres of beer about to go to waste, GLB President Peter Bulut Jr. decided to buy something he’d always wanted, but now needed, a still.

Bulut wanted to honour the dream of his late father, Peter Bulut Sr., who founded GLB and had always dreamed of going into the spirits business. Now it nally made sense, by procuring a still, the brewery could transform all of the spent beer into hand sanitizer. ey could also apply for the licensing to make and sell spirits. ere was just one problem, there was no one on the team to head up the new operation.

For eight years, Matt Bod was the brewer and bar manager at Bar Hop, a hip Toronto beer bar

with three locations. Laid o in the rst week of lockdown, he spent ve long weeks at home feeling restless. So, he knocked on the door of his landlord, Mike Lackey, who is the Head Brewer at GLB and asked if he needed help loading boxes on the canning line. Lackey came back with a di erent role, Distiller.

So Bod got to work, starting with hand sanitizer: “It was an awesome chance to learn a new skill set in the craziest year ever,” he said, “I had ve weeks to learn how to distill with no pressure. Making hand sanitizer is really, really easy because you don’t care what it tastes like, all you have to do is make sure not to blow anything up and you’re good to go.”

Zero explosions and 2,500 bottles of sanitizer later, Bod started digging into gin. Rather than a juniper-forward, London style gin, he opted for a bright, citrusy spirit made with lemon, lime and orange zest, all food waste products, plus fruity and spicy pink peppercorns, sarsaparilla and a handful of other ingredients.

How two Ontario breweries launched ready-to-drink brands their way

Flavour profile

e next step was crafting a ready-to-drink (RTD) cocktail that t with the GLB brand.

“We tasted a bunch of the popular ones on the market, they had that arti cial taste to them, even if it says natural avours, like mango, there’s no way an actual mango ever went near the drink,” says Bod. Troy Burtch, GLB’s Director of Marketing adds, “We don’t skimp on ingredients and processes when it comes to Canuck, so we used that same ethos with our spirits and RTDs.”

Instead of the crystal clear zzy RTDs that drink like a La Croix, GLB’s versions are cloudy, full- avoured and more complex. Made with gin or vodka, they come in citrus or key lime avours with rotating seasonals like strawberry and hover around 130 calories. ey’re also venturing into seltzer with a tropical-inspired tipple coming out this spring.

e response has been positive, regulars are grabbing a couple of RTDs along with their beer and the Vodka Soda with Citrus has been picked up by the LCBO.

So what’s the long-term goal for GLB? “We want to have fun and do it well,” said Burtch, “We have so many events in the summer and having seltzer, hard soda and beer on hand provides so many options for drinkers.”

Mad Science Seltzer at Indie Alehouse

One of the main reasons breweries are venturing into the hard seltzer market is because it’s a fermented beverage and the process is a lot like brewing, so there’s no need for extra licensing or equipment. Developing a new product takes a lot of time, which is something Indie Ale House owner Jason Fischer knew he’d have on his hands last March. Along with a production brewery and the agship Junction brewpub, Indie also runs a small brewery within Toronto’s Eataly marketplace. Sitting in on meetings with the Eataly team, a large operation with stores worldwide, Fischer gleaned the insight that COVID-19 was here for a while, not just the four-to-six-week lockdown that was projected.

So while the Eataly team discussed changes in selling beer and wine to-go and new product ideas, Fischer started talking with the brewers.

HARD SELTZER OR HARD SODA?

It’s easy to confuse these two beverages, but GLB’s Matt Bod explains the di erence:

“A seltzer is made up of fermented sugars without any grain or hops, and it’s made in the same basic process as beer,” explains Bod. “Put the sugar into the kettle, heat it up, chill it, send it to a tank and pitch yeast.”

“Hard sodas start by making the spirit, then blending it with juice and soda water made in-house,” added Bod, “It’s not that di erent from getting a mixed drink at a bar.”

It was an awesome chance to learn a new skill set in the craziest year ever. —Matt Bod

LEFT: GLB President Peter Bulut Jr and Distiller Matt Bod. RIGHT: Great Lakes Spirits Vodka & Soda with Citrus, coming soon to the LCBO. Photos courtesy of Great Lakes Brewery

“We started to think about what would work on the patio,” he says, “we don’t have a distillery so it kind of shaped our options and we came up with a seltzer.”

Inspired by Italian soda avours and with access to premium ingredient suppliers through Eataly, Fischer started to experiment. “Part of last year was me doing the mad scientist thing alone in the basement of Eataly for three months, making little tinctures and avours and teas and using roots and all sorts of weird things,” said Fischer, “at one point there was 100 di erent coloured jars in the fridge.”

Indie’s Junction location got a sidewalk patio last summer thanks to the CafeTO program, and without a ton of fresh kegged beer on hand, they tried out a 6.5% ABV Cherry Vanilla Seltzer and served it over ice. It sold out quickly on draught, but the canned version did not hit the standard Indie was aiming for, so they spent the fall and winter re ning the process and experimenting with avour.

“We could make a seltzer that’s fake, cheap, easy and try to make money, which is something we desperately need with COVID, but that’s not a t for us,” Fischer says, “So we’re going to try and make a higher end, better version and still keep it cheap, so we can reach people who didn’t have us

on their radar, but they try it and decide to spend their money on it rather than on a clear, arti cial product.”

After so much trial and error, Royal Fizz Italian Bitter Orange Seltzer, which is made with amaro herbs and roots, is launching this spring at Indie and Eataly. Dry, spritzy and complex, it balances bitter herbal notes against citrus avours, and it’s delicious. Meanwhile all that tinkering in Eataly’s basement has led to more avours being developed—watch for a red berry and amaretto mix and a dry lemon seltzer this summer. j

YOU MUST DRINK THIS

HARD SODAS:

Great Lakes Spirits // Gin Soda with Key Lime

Muskoka Spirits // Peach & Blackcurrant

Hard Sparkling Water

Collective Arts Brewing // Elderflower and Yuzu Gin Soda

HARD SELTZERS:

Cli ord Brewing Co. // Cli ord's Hard Seltzer Cherry

Rouge River Brewing Company //

Apricot Hard Seltzer

Indie Ale House // Royal Fizz

Italian Bitter Orange Seltzer

Refined Fool Brewing Co. // Brunch Vibes

Godspeed Brewery // Hard Seltzer with Green Tea and Japanese Citrus

Left Field Brewery // .300 Lemon-Lime Seltzer

Part of last year was me doing the mad scientist thing alone in the basement for three months.

—Jason Fischer

Indie Ale House’s Royal Fizz Seltzer cans. Photo courtesy of Indie Ale House

Kingston Coffee House's Butter chicken sandwich

Paired with Matron Fine Beer's Mu

BY MITALI AND VID BANERJEE

With two locations in Kingston, Ontario, this cozy co ee house is known for its home-baked treats, latte art and welcoming vibes. Owners, husband-and-wife team, Mitali and Vid Banerjee founded KCH in 2017. e couple has two other restaurants behind them, including a rooftop restaurant in Indore, India. When it comes to food, they approach it from place of passion. Take one of the café’s most popular dishes—the butter chicken sandwich. Rich, spicy butter chicken, marinated in their house spice mix and cooked in a tangy tomato sauce, is sandwiched between two fresh naans. We’ve made this recipe in batch size so you can make a bunch of the lling and freeze some for later.

A light-bodied dark beer will counter the sweet, rich sauce without overwhelming it. Mu , from Matron’s Fine Beer in Prince Edward County, has

lightly bitter co ee and toasty notes that contrast the tangy, sweet sauce. While its light body, ne bubbles and dry leave your tongue refreshed between bites.

—Sabryna Ekstein

INgredients

Makes approximately 10 sandwiches. Mix keeps in fridge for 3 days, or freeze up to 3 months.

Sandwiches

• 4 chicken breasts

• 2 tbsp salted butter

• 2 tsp crushed dry fenugreek

• 2-3 tsp dry "Butter Chicken Masala" spice (a combination of red chilli, coriander, cloves, nutmeg, garlic, dry ginger, and black pepper powder)—available at any Indian grocery store

• Butter Chicken Sauce (recipe below, or if you’re in a hurry, use a grocery store version)

• Mini naan rounds

• Spring onions

House Spice Mix

• 2 tsp red chili powder

• 3 tsp Tandoori Masala or Garam Masala

• Pinch of salt

• 1 lemon

• 1 tbsp oil

Butter Chicken Sauce

• 2 tbsp butter

• 3 nely chopped onions

• 6 garlic cloves

• ½ inch ginger

• 1 can tomato paste

• Salt and sugar to taste

• 3 tbsp heavy cream

directions

1. Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine red chili powder, Tandoori Masala or Garam Masala, salt, lemon juice and oil to make the House Spice Mix.

2. Marinate chicken breasts in the house spice mix for 30 minutes in a refrigerator, transfer to the oven.

3. In the meantime, prepare the Butter Chicken Sauce (see recipe below)

4. Lightly grease a pan and cook the chicken pieces for 15-18 minutes, until the breasts reach a temperature of 165°F. Cool then coarsely shred with a fork for the sandwich mix.

5. Now the step where you add all the avors! In a saucepan, melt butter, add fenugreek (our secret ingredient!)

Above: the sunlit co ee house is beloved for its scones and vegan baked goods and organic co ees.

Left: Matron Brewing's toasty Mu beer is light, bubbly and goes down easy all summer.

Opposite: Tangy shredded butter chicken sandwiched between two naans is comfort food in a sandwich. Supplied photos

6. Add 2-3 tsp of Butter Chicken Masala spice mix, and the shredded chicken. Cook for two minutes, then add Butter Chicken Sauce.

7. Mix the chicken and sauce well. Cook on medium heat for a few minutes to evaporate most of the water.

8. Allow to cool. Spread mix onto mini naan rounds, add spring onions and top with naan.

Butter Chicken Sauce

1. Melt butter in a medium-sized saucepan. Add chopped onions, garlic cloves and ginger, cook until golden brown, about 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

2. Add tomato paste and mix well. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.

3. Transfer to a blender and blend until smooth. en transfer back to the pan and add salt and sugar to taste. Stir in heavy cream and remove from heat. j

GREAT LAKES BREWERY

30 Queen Elizabeth Blvd. | GreatLakesBeer.com

RETAIL STORE DAILY 11AM-6PM

EST. 1987

Great Lakes celebrated their 34th anniversary on February 12th with the release of Zwei Ziegen Doppelbock, Body Dubbel (can-conditioned Belgian Dubbel), Audrey Hopburn Belgian IPA and 3.4 Triple/ Quadruple IPA. e brewery continues to o er free local home delivery on orders of $50 or more... that’s one case of fresh Canuck Pale Ale.

AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER

NEW ENGLAND IPA

Seasonal: B, L, LC

Tropical fruits abound from the glass while avours of strawberry, kiwi and melon shine against a soft bitter body. Dank and juicy.

CANUCK PALE ALE

AMERICAN PALE ALE

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Welcoming grapefruit, mango and pine lead into a sweet honeyish body before giving way to tropical citrus, canned peaches and pine.

GREAT LAKES PREMIUM LAGER

Year-round:B, L, LC

Bronze with a snowy white head. Honey, hay, lemon drop and lightly toasted malts on the nose with a noticeable fresh cut grass bitterness.

Year-round: B, L, LC

Aromas of ripe pineapple, kiwi, tangerine and cotton candy join soft warming alcohol notes and avours of peach, lemon, and a honeyed tropical fruit medley.

more beer for you!

Great Lakes introduced two new beers to their year-round line-up during the rst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. True story. HazeMama New England IPA and BURST!

... A New England Pale Ale. ey are now getting set to welcome Great Lakes Lager to the group, which also includes Canuck Pale Ale, Octopus Wants to Fight IPA and Pompous Ass English Ale.

COLLECTIVE ARTS

BREWING

777 Dundas St. W. | CollectiveArtsBrewing.com

MON-THURS 11AM-8PM ^ FRI-SAT 10AM-8PM

EST. 2020

Collective Arts recently introduced their Ampli ed Voices art series, dedicated to art dealing with issues of social justice. ese art pieces are featured across all of their year-round core brands.

IPA 16

FLAVOURED IPA

Seasonal: B, L, LC

ABV IBU 6.3%N/A

Brewed in honour of International Women’s day. Refreshingly juicy and oral. Fragrant nose with a strong backbone of hoppy aromatics.

SMOOTHIE SOUR SOUR ALE

Seasonal: B, L, LC

ABV IBU 5.6%N/A

Berries, banana, granola and milk sugar—everything you’d expect to nd in your favourite breakfast smoothie. All heightened with bright tartness.

GOOSE ISLAND BREWHOUSE TORONTO

70 e Esplanade | GooseIslandToronto.ca

RETAIL SHOP: MON-SAT 11AM-8PM ^ SUN 11AM-6PM

EST. 2017

e Goose Island Toronto space features an exposed metal and rugged wood aesthetic, surrounded by our brewhouse and fermenters. Check out the genuine Banksy artwork at the entrance!

BAMBERGER RAUCHBIER

Rotating: B, L

Brewed with over 40% Weyermann beech smoked malt, this beer delivers balanced notes of smoke, brown sugar and caramelized bread crust.

THE FUTURE IS F(LORAL) HOPFENWEISSE

Rotating: B, L

An International Women’s Day beer named after the Loral® hops that contribute to her incredible oral notes. 100% of proceeds donated to Pink Boots Society.

ABV IBU 5.8%N/A

ABV IBU 5.5%N/A

INDIE ALEHOUSE BREWING CO.

2876 Dundas St. W. | IndieAleHouse.com

MON 12-6:30PM ^ WED-THU 12-8PM ^ FRI-SAT 12-9PM ^ SUN 12-8PM

EST. 2012

With locations in the Junction and at Toronto’s estimable Eataly, Indie’s broad range of styles are now widely available.

MARCO

Year-round: B, L, LC

ABV IBU 5.0%N/A

A crisp, clean, & light pilsner dry-hopped with Saaz. Pairs well with everything, in any season!

Year-round: B, L, LC

ABV IBU 6.5%N/A

With assertive juicy citrus and aromatic pine notes, Instigator is clean, bitter and full of avour.

WOODHOUSE BREWING CO.

303 Landsdowne Ave. | WoodhouseBrewing.com

Although they began with a single amber lager, Woodhouse’s lineup is now varied with something for everybody at their Brockton Village brewpub.

MUDDY YORK BREWING CO.

COMMON GOOD BEER CO.

475 Ellesmere Rd. | CommonGoodBeer.com

Muddy York is celebrating six years this spring with a brand new canning line, which means you can look forward to more beers available for delivery and pickup!

22 Cran eld Rd. | MuddyYorkBrewing.com STARING

In addition to producing their own beers, Common Good also supports small brewpubs, rural breweries and new start-ups with professional advice and production to help them grow.

SOCIABLE

BANDIT BREWERY

2125 Dundas St. W. | BanditBrewery.ca

BIG ROCK BREWERY

42 Liberty St., 1589 e Queensway | BigRockBeer.com

Bandit just introduced Longwave, its new series of single barrel-aged beers, with several releases coming down the pipe for spring and summer.

In the heart of Liberty Village, Big Rock specializes in fresh new approachable styles of beer. Available for delivery via Uber Eats in the GTA & for home delivery across Ontario. GRASSHOPPER FILTERED WHEAT ALE

EASTBOUND BREWING CO.

700 Queen St. E. | EastboundBeer.com

THE GRANITE BREWERY

From husband and wife brewmaster and chef duo, Dave and Tara Lee, comes a true creative process in making beer and food together, all with a culinary mind-set.

ELECTRO-

Rotating:

e Granite Brewery is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2021, which is only slightly more impressive than its 1,100th pitch of a single batch of Ringwood yeast.

245 Eglinton Ave. E. | GraniteBrewery.ca SUMMER

TORONTO TORONTO

TORONTO TORONTO

247

One

NORTHERN MAVERICK BREWING CO.

115 Bathurst St. | NorthernMaverick.ca

PEOPLE’S PINT BREWING CO.

90 Cawthra Ave. | PeoplesPint.com

With a focus on the culinary side including house-made charcuterie and a brewmaster’s tasting menu, Northern Maverick has become a Toronto staple.

People’s Pint celebrates its three year anniversary on March 27th and they’ll be releasing a special mixed pack of one-o sta -brewed beers.

RORSCHACH BREWING CO.

1001 Eastern Ave. | RorschachBrewing.com

SHACKLANDS BREWING CO.

Look for a special release on April 23rd as Rorschach celebrates its anniversary with a double IPA—Paradigm Shift.

TRUTH SERUM

DOUBLE DRY-HOPPED

Shacklands’ recent move to cans means more agship brands, which in turn means more year round faves are available!!

AMSTERDAM BREWING CO.

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

BELGIAN MOON BREWERY AT STACKT MARKET

3 Tecumseth St., Toronto Can.BelgianMoon.ca

AVLING BREWERY

1042 Queen St. E., Toronto Avling.ca

BELLWOODS BREWERY

124 Ossington Ave., 20 Ha s Rd., Toronto BellwoodsBrewery.com

BEACHES BREWING CO.

1953 Queen St. E., Toronto BeachesBrewing.com

BIRROTECA AT EATALY TORONTO

55 Bloor St West, Toronto IndieAleHouse.com

SPRING & SUMMER

BLACK LAB BREWING

818 Eastern Ave., Toronto

BlackLab.beer

FOLLY BREWING

928 College St., Toronto

FollyBrewing.com

BLACK OAK BREWING CO.

75 Horner Ave., Etobicoke

BlackOakBeer.com

GODSPEED BREWERY

242 Coxwell Ave., Toronto

GodspeedBrewery.com

BLOOD BROTHERS BREWING

165 Geary Ave., Toronto

BloodBrothersBrewing.com

HENDERSON BREWING CO.

128A Sterling Rd., Toronto

HendersonBrewing.com

BRUNSWICK BIERWORKS

25 Curity Ave., East York

BrunswickBierworks.com

JUNCTION CRAFT BREWING

150 Symes Rd., Toronto

JunctionCraft.com

BURDOCK BREWERY

1184 Bloor St. W., Toronto

BurdockTO.com

KENSINGTON BREWING CO.

299 Augusta Ave., Toronto

KensingtonBrewingCompany.com

DUGGAN’S BREWERY

1346 Queen St. W., Toronto

DuggansBrewery.com

LAYLOW BREWERY

1144 College St, Toronto

Laylow.beer

LONGSLICE BREWERY

484 Front St. E., Toronto

Longslice.com

RED TAPE BREWERY

159 Main St., Toronto RedTapeBrewery.com

LOUIS CIFER BREW WORKS

417 Danforth Ave., Toronto

LouisCiferBrewWorks.com

SAULTER STREET BREWERY

1-31 Saulter St., Toronto SaulterStreetBrewery.com

MASCOT BREWERY

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

STEAM WHISTLE

255 Bremner Blvd. , Toronto SteamWhistle.ca

MILL ST. BREW PUB

21 Tank House Ln., Toronto MillStreetBrewery.com

3 BRASSEURS

Unit 100-120 Adelaide St. W., Toronto Les3Brasseurs.ca

RADICAL ROAD BREWING CO.

1177 Queen St. E., Toronto

RadicalRoadBrew.com

RAINHARD BREWING CO.

100 Symes Rd., Toronto

RainhardBrewing.com

— x —

In 2006, Sapporo brewed the world’s first “Space Beer,” made using barley grown on board the International Space Station.

FALCON BREWING

30 Barr Rd. | FalconBeer.beer

OLD FLAME BREWING CO.

135 Perry St. | OldFlameBrewingCo.ca

Falcon Brewery takes great pride in honouring those who worked at the Ajax munitions plant by dedicating two of their beers to the history of the town.

MUNITION INDIA PALE ALE

Year-round: B, L

TOWN BREWERY

1632 Charles St., Whitby TownBrewery.ca

Look out for Old Flame’s Craft Lager Mix Pack coming to the LCBO this spring! eir second location in Newmarket will o cially open in spring 2021.

BLONDE HELLES

Year-round: B, L

Year-round: B, L, TBS

Year-round: B, L, TBS

5 PADDLES BREWING CO.

#3-1390 Hopkins St, Whitby 5PaddlesBrewing.ca

Town is striving everyday to make an impact and have fun doing it by focusing on Better Beer and Stronger Community.

SQUARE WHEELS IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

OUTSIDE JOKES

PALE ALE

ALL OR NOTHING BREWHOUSE

439 Ritson Rd. S., Oshawa AllOrNothing.beer

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

BROCK STREET BREWING CO.

244 Brock St. S., Whitby BrockStBrewing.com

CHRONICLE BREWING CO.

422 Lake Rd., Unit 3, Bowmanville

ChronicleBeer.com

COPPERWORKS BREWPUB

7 Division St., Bowmanville

CopperworksPub.com

DURHAM BREWING CO.

1885 Clements Rd., Pickering Facebook.com/CountyDurhamBrewing

LITTLE BEASTS BREWING CO.

2075 Forbes St., Whitby

LittleBeastsBrewing.com

MAGNOTTA BREWERY

271 Chrislea Rd., Vaughan

MagnottaBrewery.com

MANANTLER

CRAFT BREWING CO.

182 Wellington St., Unit 18, Bowmanville

Manantler.com

MARKET BREWING CO.

4-17775 Leslie St., Newmarket

MarketBrewingCo.com

NEW RITUAL BREWING

CO.

716 Wilson Rd. S., Oshawa

Instagram.com/NewRitualBrewing

ROUGE RIVER BREWING CO.

8-50 Bullock Dr., Markham

RougeRiverBrewery.com

THE SECOND WEDGE BREWING

CO.

14 Victoria St., Uxbridge eSecondWedge.ca

— x — — x — NORTH & EAST GTA

West GTA & Hamilton

NICKEL BROOK BREWING CO.

864 Drury Ln. | NickelBrook.com

SUN-WED 11AM-6PM ^ THURS-SAT 11AM-8PM

EST. 2005

Breaking barriers between beer & science, Nickel Brook was founded by brothers John and Peter Romano. ey’re o ering contactless, doordrop delivery Ontario-wide.

WICKED AWESOME NEIPA

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

ABV IBU 6.5%64

is hazy New England-Style IPA bursts with tropical fruit aroma. Flavours of tropical fruit and citrus with a refreshing and crisp nish.

LOST IN ORBIT SESSION

IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

ABV IBU 4.5%36

Juicy, hazy, and remarkably crushable, this brew gushes with citrus hop aromas, and juicy tropical avours of guava and tangerine.

COLLECTIVE ARTS

BREWING

207 Burlington St. E. | CollectiveArtsBrewing.com

MON-THU 11AM-9PM ^ FRI-SUN 10AM-9PM

EST. 2013

Collective Arts recently introduced their Ampli ed Voices art series, dedicated to art dealing with issues of social justice. ese art pieces are featured across all of their year-round core brands.

GOOD MONSTER

DOUBLE IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC

ABV IBU 8.0%N/A

Double dry hopped with Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe and Amarillo; notes of tropical mango and passionfruit, juicy peach, and bright citrus shine!

MATTER OF FACT

DRY HOPPED BLONDE ALE

Year-round: B, L, LC

ABV IBU 4.8%N/A

A citrusy, tropical twist on a refreshing blonde ale. Ella and Centennial hops deliver a oral, grapefruit nose and bright haze similar to a NEIPA.

CALEDON DUNDAS

GOODLOT FARMSTEAD BREWING CO.

18825 Shaws Creek Rd. | GoodLot.beer

SHAWN & ED BREWING CO.

65 Hatt St. | LagerShed.com

GoodLot’s rural Farmstead features a brewery run on solar power and their beers use Ontario hops exclusively in order to properly represent their terroir. FARMSTEAD

Our beautiful building was built by former mayor of Dundas, Richard Todd Wilson, in the 1860s and has a long, important history in our town. LAGERSHED

GEORGETOWN MILTON

FURNACE ROOM BREWERY

1 Elgin St. | FurnaceRoomBrewery.com

ORANGE SNAIL BREWERS

1-32 Steeles Ave. E. | OrangeSnailBrewers.ca

is two-year-old craft brewery o ers visitors more than exceptional beer. A well-appointed taproom welcomes you to sit and raise a glass with friends and family.

CHICKEN MAN

Orange Snail experiments with new releases every month and supports the local community by donating 5% of their revenue to local charities.

KELSO DRY HOPPED SOUR KETTLE SOUR

STONEHOOKER BREWING CO.

866 Lakeshore Rd. E. | Stonehooker.com

FLUX BREWING CO.

185

Rd. | FluxBrews.ca

Take it to-go or drop by for a pint served up by Christine; a real live descendant of a Port Credit Stonehooker. MAE

Enjoy Flux’s spacious taproom located in a renovated horse barn and their patio, which overlooks a serene pond with farm vistas.

BADLANDS BREWING COMPANY

13926 Chinguacousy Rd., Burlington BadlandsBrewing.ca

BELL CITY BREWING CO.

51 Woodyatt Dr., unit 9, Brantford BellCityBrewing.com

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

MERIT BREWING

107 James St. N., Hamilton

MeritBrewing.ca

OLD CREDIT BREWING CO.

6 Queen St. W., Mississauga

OldCreditBrewing.com

CLIFFORD BREWING CO.

1-398 Nash Rd. N., Hamilton

Cli ordBrewing.com

SONNEN HILL BREWERY

20683 Heart Lake Rd., Caledon

Instagram.com/SonnenHill

FAIRWEATHER BREWING CO.

1-5 O eld Rd., Hamilton

FairweatherBrewing.com

STEEL WHEEL BREWERY

105 Powerline Rd., Brantford

SteelWheel.ca

GRAIN & GRIT BEER CO.

11 Ewen Rd., Hamilton

GrainAndGritBeer.com

THIRD MOON BREWING

295 Alliance Rd., unit 3, Milton

irdMoonBrewing.com

MASH PADDLE BREWING CO.

111 Sherwood Dr., unit 3A, Brantford

MashPaddleBrewing.com

3 BRASSEURS

2041 Winston Park Dr., Oakville

Les3Brasseurs.ca

THE EXCHANGE BREWERY

7 Queen St. | ExchangeBrewery.com

BRIMSTONE BREWING CO.

209 Ridge Road N. | BrimstoneBrewing.ca

Housed in a repurposed telephone exchange in scenic Niagara-On- e-Lake, e Exchange features a plethora of styles, specializing in barrel-aged Belgians. TWIG

Brimstone’s space in the Sanctuary Centre for the Arts has recently been equipped with a smoker, allowing the kitchen team to ex their culinary creativity.

BENCH BREWING CO.

3991 King St., Beamsville

BenchBrewing.com

COLD BREAK BREWING

193 St Paul St. W., St. Catharines

ColdBreakBrewing.ca

BLACKBURN BREW HOUSE

8001 Blackburn Pkwy, Niagara Falls

BlackburnBrewHouse.com

COUNTERPART BREWING

3659 Stanley Ave., unit 6-8, Niagara Falls

CounterpartBrewing.com

BREAKWALL BREWING CO.

46 Clarence St., Port Colborne

BreakwallBrewery.com

DECEW FALLS

BREWING CO.

207 St. Paul St. W., St. Catharines

KAME & KETTLE BEER WORKS

25 Pelham Town Square, Fonthill

KameAndKettle.ca

LOCK STREET BREWING CO.

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

SILVERSMITH BREWING CO.

1523 Niagara Stone Rd., Niagara-on-the-Lake

SilversmithBrewing.com

THE MERCHANT ALE HOUSE

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

The most expensive bottle of beer in history cost $3,500 and was made by Tenaya Creek Brewery. Ingredients included black truffles, Tahitian vanilla beans and kopi luwak coffee.

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

WELLINGTON BREWERY

950 Woodlawn Rd. W. | WellingtonBrewery.ca

MON-SUN 11AM-6PM

EST. 1985

One of Canada’s original craft brewers, Wellington o ers a yearround lineup with a wide range of beer styles as well as creative small-batch beer releases. Visit their brewery in Guelph, Ontario this summer for a pint on their newly expanded patio and stay for an expertly-paired cheese plate.

UPSIDE IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Exploding with juicy grapefruit, peach and tropical hop avours. Hazy appearance, soft mouthfeel and balanced bitterness.

SPECIAL PALE ALE

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

First brewed over 30 years ago. Deep copper in colour, with biscuit and caramel avours upfront and a subtle citrus hop nish.

HELLES LAGER

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Crisp, refreshing and smooth, this classic lager is the perfect go-to beer with a balanced malt sweetness and crisp noble hop nish. Helles yeah!

RAKED OVER

Seasonal: B, L, LC

is juicy IPA packs a spicy punch! With citrus hop notes upfront, sweet pineapple juice and mango puree are balanced with spicy habanero.

liquid protest

Wellington gives back and supports the community with fundraising beers supporting racial justice, women’s health, Pride festivals and tons of great charities and community groups. Look out for a release of Nothing Civil IPA this summer, a liquid protest in support of racial justice.

THE UPSIDE?

THIS HAZY, JUICY, TROPICAL IPA IS AVAILABLE TO BE DELIVERED FRESH TO YOUR DOORSTEP!

WATERLOO BREWING

400 Bingemans Centre Dr. | WaterlooBrewing.com

BEER STORE DAILY 10AM-8PM

EST. 1984

Founded in 1984, Waterloo Brewing is the rst craft brewery in Ontario. As the thirst for exceptional craft beers has spread, they’ve kept their heads down and stayed true to what they believe are deeply shared Kitchener-Waterloo values of quality, craftsmanship and a spirit of innovation.

WATERLOO DARK DARK LAGER

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Ontario’s favourite dark lager, craft or otherwise. Easy-drinking brew with subtle roasted malt avours and low-bitterness.

WATERLOO CRAFT LAGER INTERNATIONAL LAGER

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

So many fans of this brew! It is a smooth easy-drinking lager, with clean character and oral hop notes.

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

Carefully selected specialty malts, Hallertau hops and slow-aging with northern white oak give it a rich, rewarding avor.

WATERLOO AMBER AMBER LAGER WATERLOO IPA IPA

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

A distinctly Canadian IPA combining citrus and oral hop aromas of American IPAs with the sweetness, body and nish of British-style IPAs.

see you at The taphouse

Waterloo Brewing’s taphouse features a state-of-theart small-batch brewing system, 12 small batch rotational beers on tap, a gorgeous restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating and a beer store with amazing merch and beer, so that you can take a little piece of the brewery home with you.

THE PARIS BEER CO.

31 Mechanic St. | ParisBrewing.com

All of Paris’ beers are brewed with hops from their own local hopyard in Paris where they’ll have a Hop Harvest Party in mid-September.

BAD APPLE BREWING CO.

73463 ON-21 | BadAppleBrewingCo.com

Whether you’re picking up beer to go or luxuriating at a picnic table in the brewery’s orchard, Bad Apple is a premier Huron coast destination.

BLACK

MONDAY

STRONG DUNKLES WEISS

Cheers to convenience! Enjoy fresh Cowbell craft beer, quality gear and beer-inspired, Ontario-made food items. Delivered straight to your door, everywhere in Ontario!

SHINDIG

HURON COUNTY LAGER

Year-round: B Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

JACKASS BREWING

100 Sheldon Dr., Unit 36 | JackassBrewing.ca

ROYAL CITY BREWING CO.

199 Victoria Rd. S. | RoyalCityBrew.ca

For the Brewmaster’s birthday his sta and regulars all pitched in money to sponsor a donkey at a local sanctuary to pay homage to their brewery mascot.

SUNKISS NEW ENGLAND IPA

Royal City releases monthly Community Collabs that raise money and provide a platform for a variety of local charities and initiatives in the region.

EXHIBITION SESSION IPA SESSION IPA

HANOVER

MACLEAN’S ALES

52 14th Ave. | MacLeansAles.ca

COUNTERPOINT BREWING CO.

#4-935 Frederick St. | CounterpointBrewing.ca

Founded by one of Ontario’s pioneering craft brewers, Charles Maclean, Maclean’s is currently branching out into more contemporary styles including the Norwegian Farmhouse genre.

MACLEAN’S FARMHOUSE BLONDE BLONDE ALE

Counterpoint is one of Ontario’s smallest breweries. With 4 rotating taps, they don’t have a agship, instead focusing on variations on a theme.

THIS IS THIS! KVEIK

One-o

20 HZ BOURBON BARRELAGED IMPERIAL GRANOLA STOUT

TOGETHER WE’RE BITTER CO-OPERATIVE BREWERY

300 Mill Street, Unit 1 | Brewing.coop

JOBSITE BREWING CO.

45 Cambria St. | JobsiteBrewing.ca

Together We’re Bitter Co-operative Brewery aims to provide the community of KitchenerWaterloo with fresh, hand-crafted beer in a relaxed, interesting, inclusive space.

INNOCENTE BREWING CO.

283 North eld Dr. E., unit 8 | Innocente.ca

Jobsite comes by their name honestly. e brewery shares the building of a refurbished lumber yard with Junction 56 Distillery.

UPPER THAMES BREWING CO.

225 Bysham Park Dr., unit 9 | Upper amesBrewing.ca

Innocente started in 2012 in Edinburgh, UK and moved to Waterloo in 2014 bringing a air for big bitter IPAs with them.

PILS-SINNER

GERMAN-STYLE

Upper ames is the rst and only Ontario craft brewery in Oxford County. Visit their second location—the Brickhouse Brewpub at 190 Fairway Rd. in Woodstock.

DARK SIDE

CHOCOLATE STOUT Year-round:

BARNCAT ARTISAN ALES

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

BLACK SWAN BREWING CO.

144 Downie St., Stratford BlackSwanBrewing.ca

BAYFIELD BREWING CO.

14 Bay eld Main St. N., Bay eld Bay eldBrewingCo.com

BITTE SCHÖN BRAUHAUS

68 Huron St., New Hamburg BitteSchonBrauhaus.com

BLOCK THREE BREWING

1430 King St. N., Unit 2, St. Jacobs Block reeBrewing.Ca

BROTHERS BREWING CO.

15 Wyndham St. N., Guelph BrothersBrewingCompany.ca

DESCENDANTS BEER & BEVERAGE CO.

319 Victoria St. N., Kitchener DescendantsBeer.com

HERITAGE HOPS BREW CO.

21 Market Pl., Stratford

HeritageHopsBrew.com

ELORA BREWING CO.

107 Geddes St., Elora

EloraBrewingCompany.ca

HOCKLEY VALLEY

25 Centennial Rd., Orangeville HockleyBeer.ca

FIXED GEAR BREWING CO.

20 Alma St. S., Guelph FixedGearBrewing.com

NEUSTADT SPRINGS BREWERY

456 Jacob St., Neustadt

NeustadtSprings.com

FOUNDRY BREWING

74 Grand Ave. S., Cambridge FoundryBrewing.ca

RED CIRCLE BREWING CO.

137 Glasgow St., Unit 385, Kitchener RedCircleBrewing.ca

GREY MATTER BEER CO.

726 Queen St., Kincardine

GreyMatterBeer.com

HALF HOURS ON EARTH BREWERY

151 Main St. S., Seaforth

HalfHoursOnEarth.com

REVERENCE BARREL WORKS

1144 Industrial Rd. Unit 3, Cambridge

ReverenceBarrelWorks.beer

RIVER ROAD BREWING AND HOPS

35549 Bay eld River Rd., Bay eld

RiverRoadBrewing.com

RHYTHM & BREWS BREWING CO.

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

RURAL ROOTS

BREWING COMPANY

21B Industrial Dr., Elmira RuralRootsBrewery.ca

SHAKESPEARE BREWING CO.

2178 Line 34, Shakespeare ShakespeareBrewingCompany.ca

STONE HOUSE BREWING CO.

76050 Parr Line, Varna StoneHouseBrewing.ca

STRATFORD BREWING CO.

Facebook.com/StratfordBrewing

WAVE MAKER CRAFT BREWERY

639 Laurel St., Cambridge WaveMakerBrewery.com

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

WILLIBALD FARM

BREWERY & DISTILLERY

1271 Reidsville Rd., Ayr DrinkWillibald.com

The oldest surviving beer recipe comes in the form of a 3,900-year-old poem honouring Ninkasi, the ancient Sumerian goddess of brewing.

SONS OF KENT BREWING CO.

27 Adelaide St. S. | SonsOfKent.com

ANDERSON CRAFT ALES

1030 Elias St. | AndersonCraftAles.ca

Located in an iconic former movie theatre in downtown Chatham, Sons of Kent will celebrate their fourth birthday this summer.

A 100% family-owned brewery, Anderson’s iconic minimalist branding belies the plethora of compelling and avourful seasonal o erings.

POWERHOUSE BREWING CO.

100 Kellogg Ln. | PowerhouseBrewery.beer

STORM STAYED BREWING CO.

169 Wharncli e Rd. S., unit 8 | StormStayed.com

Located in the old powerhouse that ran the Kellogg’s factory in London, Powerhouse takes inspiration from that fact in coming up with its beer names. It’s electrifying!

LOW VOLTAGE

Storm Stayed strives to create a welcoming, inclusive environment, and a joyful sense of camaraderie to earn the support of their neighbours and fellow craft beer lovers.

REFINED FOOL BREWING CO.

1326 London Rd., 137 Davis St. Re nedFool.com

BACKYARD BREWING CO.

3035 Front Rd. | BackyardBrewing.ca

Re ned Fool just opened a third taproom, which is a full on sports bar and games room with live concerts, weekly events and tournaments all year around.

Backyard Brewing, headed by Niagara College grad Sarah Fritch, shares a location with famed Simcoe ai restaurant e Blue Elephant. IPA and Pad ai together at last!

CHOCOLATE

NEW LIMBURG BREWERY

2353 Nixon Rd. | NewLimburg.com

WINDSOR

WALKERVILLE BREWERY

|

New Limburg is located in Ontario’s garden in beautiful Norfolk County. Paired perfectly with their award winning Belgian style beers, they serve bistro-style fresh “slow food.”

BELGIAN BLOND BELGIAN FARMHOUSE

e original Walkerville Brewery (Walkerville Brewing Co.) opened in 1890 by Hiram Walker whose distillery still operates in the neighbourhood!

HONEST LAGER

BANDED GOOSE BREWING

15 Main St. E., Kingsville BandedGooseBrewing.com

BAYSIDE BREWING CO.

970 Ross Lane, Erieau

BaysideBrewing.com

CAPS OFF BREWING CO.

Unit C-168 Curtis St., St. omas

CapsO Brewing.com

CHAPTER TWO BREWING CO.

2345 Edna St., Windsor

ChapterTwoBrewing.com

BEERLAB!

420 Talbot St., London

Beerlab.com

BIG FAMILY BREWING CO.

485 Harbour Rd, Sarnia BigFamilyBrewing.com

BLACK GOLD BREWERY

395 Fletcher St, Petrolia BlackGold.beer

CHARLOTTEVILLE

BREWING CO.

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

CONCESSION ROAD

BREWING CO.

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

CRAFT HEADS BREWING CO.

89 University Ave. W., Windsor

CraftHeads.ca

BREW MICROBREWERY

635 University Ave. E., Windsor

BrewWindsor.com

CURED CRAFT BREWING CO.

43 Mill St. W., Leamington

CuredCraftBrewing.com

CURLEY BREWING CO.

1634 Hyde Park Rd, London

CurleyBrewing.com

IMPERIAL CITY BREW HOUSE

1330 Exmouth St., Sarnia

ImperialCityBrew.com

DUNDAS & SONS BREWING

400 Adelaide St. N., London

DundasAndSons.com

KINGSVILLE BREWERY

15 Main St. W., Kingsville

KingsvilleBrewery.ca

FORKED RIVER BREWING CO.

45 Paci c Crt., Unit 4, London

ForkedRiverBrewing.com

LONDON BREWING COOPERATIVE

521 Burbrook Pl., London LondonBrewing.ca

FRANK BREWING CO.

12000 Tecumseh Rd., Tecumseh

FrankBeer.ca

GL HERITAGE BREWING COMPANY

8728 Howard Ave., Amherstburg

GLHeritageBrewing.ca

HOMETOWN BREW CO.

1730 Front Rd., St. Williams

HometownBrew.com

LOT 10 BREWING CO.

263 Dalhousie St., Amherstburg

Lot10Brewery.ca

MEUSE BREWING CO.

1853 Windham Rd. 3, Scotland

MeuseBrewing.com

MOTOR CRAFT ALES

888 Erie St. E., Windsor isIsMotor.com

NATTERJACK BREWING CO.

25292 Talbot Line, West Lorne

NatterjackBrewing.ca

SANDWICH BREWING CO.

3230 Sandwich St., Windsor

@SandwichBrewing

RAILWAY CITY BREWING CO.

130 Edward St., St. omas

RailwayCityBrewing.com

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

STONEPICKER BREWING

7143 Forest Rd., Plympton-Wyoming

StonepickerBrewing.com

THE GROVE BREW HOUSE

12 Main St. E., Kingsville

BrewEatSleepRepeat.com

TOBOGGAN BREWING CO.

585 Richmond St., London

TobogganBrewing.com

TOP DOG BREWING COMPANY

2014 Road 3 E., Kingsville

TopDogBrew.ca

RUSTY WRENCH BREWING CO.

9 Front St. W., Strathroy

RustyWrench.ca

SPEARHEAD BREWING

675 Development Dr. | SpearheadBeer.com

SUN-TUE 12PM-7PM ^ WED-SAT 12PM-10PM

EST. 2018

In addition to being a stalwart of the Kingston craft beer scene, Spearhead has partnered with Craft Tapp so you can order their beer anywhere in Canada.

LIGHTER LAGER LAGER

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

ABV IBU 4.0%12

Crafted speci cally for the moments when lighter is better. is un ltered lager is lighter on alcohol and colour, but not on taste.

HAWAIIAN STYLE

PALE ALE

PALE ALE

Year-round: B, L, LC, TBS

ABV IBU 6.0%60

is West Coast pale ale is bold and hoppy, brewed with pineapple for a crisp and citrusy character.

FENELON FALLS BREWING CO.

4 May St. | FenelonFallsBrewing.com

WILDCARD BREWING CO.

38 Gotha St. | WildcardBrewCo.com

In addition to their year round o erings, Fenelon Falls is launching a brand new Brewers Series which will feature variations on the theme of an ingredient or style. FARMHOUSE

Use this exclusive discount code for Growler readers on their online store: GROWLER21. Drink beer on their patio from May through September. NOTORIOUSLY

555 BREWING CO.

124 Picton Main St., Picton 555Beer.com

BOBCAYGEON BREWING CO.

191 St David St., Unit 2, Peterborough BobcaygeonBrewing.ca

BARLEY DAYS BREWERY

13730 Loyalist Parkway, Picton BarleyDaysBrewery.com

CHURCH-KEY BREWING

1678 County Road 38, Campbellford

ChurchKeyBrewing.com

BELMONT LAKE BREWERY

54 Fire Rte. 17, Havelock

BelmontLakeBrewery.com

FINE BALANCE BREWING COMPANY

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

GAN BREWING COMPANY

9 King St. E., Gananoque GanBeer.com

MATRON FINE BEER

65 Barker Lane, Bloom eld MatronFineBeer.ca

GILLINGHAM BREWING CO.

1316 Wilson Rd., Hillier

GillinghamBrewing.ca

KINGSTON BREWING COMPANY

34 Clarence St., Kingston KingstonBrewing.ca

LAKE ON THE MOUNTAIN BREWERY

11369 Loyalist Pkwy., Glenora LakeOn eMountainBrewCo.com

LINDSAY BREWING COMPANY

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

MACKINNON BROTHERS BREWING

1915 County Road 22, Bath MackinnonBrewing.com

MEYERS CREEK BREWING COMPANY

60 Dundas St. E., Belleville MeyersCreekBrewing.ca

MIDTOWN BREWING CO.

266 Wellington Main St., Wellington MidtownBrewingCompany.com

NAPANEE BEER COMPANY

450 Milligan Lane, Napanee NapaneeBeer.ca

NORTHUMBERLAND HILLS BREWERY

1024 Division St., Unit 1, Cobourg NHB.beer

OLD DOG BREWING CO.

30 King St. E., Bobcaygeon

OldDogBrewing.com

PARSONS BREWING CO.

876 County Road 49, Picton ParsonsBrewing.com

SMITHAVENS BREWING COMPANY

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

PRINCE EDDY’S BREWING CO.

13 Macsteven Dr., Picton PrinceEddys.com

STONE CITY ALES

275 Princess St., Kingston StoneCityAles.com

PUBLICAN HOUSE BREWERY

300 Charlotte St., Peterborough PublicanHouse.com

STRANGE BREWING CO.

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

RIVERHEAD BREWING CO.

631 Fortune Cres., Kingston RiverheadBrewing.com

WESTPORT BREWING CO.

41B Main St., Westport WestportBrewingCompany.ca

SKELETON PARK BREWERY

675 Arlington Park Pl., Kingston SkeletonPark.ca

SLAKE BREWING

181 Mowbray Rd, Picton SlakeBrewing.com

The End of History Belgian Ale by Scotland’s Brewdog Brewery came encased in a taxidermied squirrel and cost $830 per bottle. Only 11 bottles were produced.

FLORA HALL BREWING

37 Flora St. | FloraHallBrewing.ca

Flora Hall is located in a century-old fully restored heritage warehouse—a small brewery with a big style footprint—80 unique beers so far, and counting!

ENGLISH ORDINARY BITTER

ENGLISH STYLE ALE

WEST COAST IPA

CASSELMAN HAMMOND

MICROBRASSERIE CASSEL BREWERY

2 Racine St. | CasselBrewery.ca

37

FLORAHALLBREWING.CA

BROKEN STICK BREWING COMPANY

600 Du Golf Rd. | BrokenStickBrewing.com

Cassel’s second location, the 1844 Bistro Pub showcases their range of craft beers and complements the beer-friendly fusion cuisine.

Broken Stick has the distinction of being the rst craft brewery in Canada to be located on a golf course. Grab a six pack after a quick nine.

CABOOSE IPA AMERICAN STYLE IPA

HAZY BEAR NEW ENGLAND PALE ALE

1844 PILSNER PILSNER Year-round: B

MULLY’S RED IRISH RED ALE

FLORA AT BANK

OTTAWA’ S NEIGHBOURHOOD BREWERY & KITCHEN

EVERGREEN CRAFT ALES

767 Silver Seven Rd., #21 | EvergreenCraftAles.com

SMALL PONY BARREL WORKS

101 Schneider Rd. | SmallPonyBarrelWorks.com

Evergreen’s open-concept taproom and large outdoor patio make them the perfect place to enjoy a cerveza on Taco Saturday.

CLOTHING OF THE GODS IPA

Year-round: B, L

DOMINION CITY BREWING CO.

5510 Canotek Rd., Unit 15 | DominionCity.ca

Year-round: B, L, TBS

Canada’s rst all barrel-aged sour beer brewery. Seriously, if you like sour beer, that’s all Small Pony does! Join them for Saturday pop-up markets in the parking lot again this summer!

BOMB THE SUN FRUITED

SPARK BEER

702 Somerset St. W. | Spark.beer

With their prominent slogan “Makers Of Very Good Beer,” Dominion City are not just one of the Ottawa region’s craft beer leaders, but also masters of understatement.

SUNSPLIT IPA

B, L

B, L, TBS

A small, fun brewery in Ottawa’s beautiful Chinatown. Spark’s dog-friendly back patio will be open all summer (COVID-19 permitting)!

OMINOUS WHOOSHING HAZY IPA

Year-round: B

Year-round: B

TOOTH AND NAIL BREWERY

3 Irving Ave. | ToothAndNailBeer.com

BREW REVOLUTION

6081

| BrewRevolution.ca

Tooth and Nail’s neighbourhood brewpub brews a broad range of styles inspired by global brewing traditions to the highest quality standards.

Brew Revolution’s logo, the spinner, is the spacing insert for a 45 record, symbolizing that all their beers have a music-themed reference. WALKIN’

BEAU’S ALL NATURAL BREWING CO.

10 Terry Fox Dr. | Beaus.ca

Beau’s is a certi ed B-Corp: they care about their employees and the environment. Try Lug Tread 2.5%, a crisp extra-light version of the agship.

1,000 ISLANDS BREWING CO.

65 King Street West, Brockville 1000IslandsBrewery.ca

BRAUMEISTER BREWING CO.

19 Moore St., Carleton Place Braumeister.ca

4 DEGREES BREWING CO.

275 Brockville St., Smiths Falls 4DegreesBrewing.com

BRAUWERK HOFFMAN

733 Rue Industriel, Unit 5 Brauwerk-Ho man.ca

ASHTON BREWING COMPANY

113 Old Mill Rd., Beckwith AshtonBrewingCompany.com

BROADHEAD BREWING CO.

1680 Vimont Ct., Unit 106, Orleans BroadheadBeer.com

BEYOND THE PALE BREWING

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

CALABOGIE BREWING CO.

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

BICYCLE CRAFT BREWERY

850 Industrial Ave., Unit 12, Ottawa

BicycleCraftBrewery.ca

CARTWRIGHT SPRINGS BREWERY

239 Deer Run Rd., Pakenham CSBeer.ca

BIG RIG BREWERY

103 Schneider Rd., Kanata; 2750 Iris Street, Ottawa

BigRigBrewery.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

ÉTIENNE BRÜLÉ BREWERY

893 Notre-Dame St., Embrun EtienneBrule.ca

CROOKED MILE BREWING

453 Ottawa St., Unit 3, Almonte CrookedMile.ca

GOOD PROSPECTS BREWING CO.

411 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa GoodProspects.ca

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS BREWING CO.

25 orold Ln., Ingleside

HumbleBeginningsBrewing.ca

KICHESIPPI BEER CO.

2265 Robertson Rd., Ottawa

KBeer.ca

PERTH BREWERY

121 Du erin St., Perth PerthBrewery.ca

RIDGE ROCK BREWING CO.

421 Donald B. Munro Dr., Ottawa

RidgeRockBrewCo.ca

LOWERTOWN BREWERY

73 York St., Ottawa

LowertownBrewery.ca

RURBAN BREWING

412 Cumberland St., Cornwall Website

NITA BEER CO.

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

SQUARE TIMBER

BREWING CO.

800 Woito Station Rd., Pembroke

SquareTimber.com

ORLÉANS BREWING CO.

4380 Innes Rd., Orléans

OrleansBrewing.com

STALWART BREWING CO.

10 High St., Carleton Place

StalwartBrewing.ca

OVERFLOW BREWING

2477 Kaladar Ave., Ottawa

Over owBeer.com

STRAY DOG BREWING CO.

501 Lacolle Way, Unit 4, Orleans

StrayDogBrewing.ca

TUQUE DE BROUE BREWERY

189 Bay St., Embrun TuqueDeBroue.ca

WHIPRSNAPR BREWING CO.

14 Bexley Pl., Ottawa WhiprsnaprBrewingCo.com

3 BRASSEURS

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

TWO HAWKS BREWING CO.

1 Mallard St., Pembroke TwoHawksBrewingco.ca

VIMY BREWING COMPANY

145 Loretta Ave. N., Unit 1, Ottawa VimyBrewing.ca

WHITEWATER BREWING CO.

22 Fletcher Rd., Foresters Falls WhitewaterBeer.ca

WINDMILL BREWERY

5 Newport Dr., Johnstown WindmillBrewery.ca

WOOD BROTHERS BREWING CO.

2980 Wylie Rd., North Glengarry WoodBrothersBrewingCo.com

WALLER STREET BREWING

14 Waller St., Ottawa WallerSt.ca

WEATHERHEAD BREW CO.

29 Beckwith St. E., Perth WeatherheadBrewCo.com

There are more than 300 Ontario breweries/brewpubs in business at the time this issue was printed.

BANCROFT GORE BAY

BANCROFT BREWING CO.

4 Hastings St. N. | BancroftBrew.ca

SPLIT RAIL BREWING CO.

31 Water St. | SplitRailManitoulin.com

Bancroft Brewing Co.’s water source comes from a natural spring-fed lake, deep within the Canadian Shield enriched with an abundance of natural minerals, allowing the creation of great tasting beer!

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

GRAVENHURST LITTLE CURRENT

SAWDUST CITY BREWING CO.

397 Muskoka Rd. N. SawdustCityBrewing.com

MANITOULIN BREWING CO.

43 Manitowaning Rd. | ManitoulinBrewing.co

Sawdust City’s versatile brewmaster Sam Corbeil creates a stunning array of styles that are best enjoyed in the brewery’s rustic Gravenhurst taproom.

EVERYDAY MAGIC HAZY IPA

Exciting things are happening at Manitoulin including the availability of growlers and howlers to go and their new Silo bar and patio. Try the new Ten Mile Point Pilsner!

KILLARNEY CREAM ALE CREAM ALE

COUCHICHING CRAFT BREWING CO.

162 Mississaga St. E. CouchichingBrewing.com

QUAYLE’S BREWERY

4567 Line 12 N. | QuaylesBrewery.ca

e Couchiching Craft Brewing Co. team celebrates their 1st anniversary in April 2021 with the rst releases from its in-house barrel program!

ATHERLEY PALE ALE ENGLISH PALE ALE

Housed in a recreated local landmark amidst a 12-acre hopyard, Quayle’s is a location destination that combines scenic beauty with award winning beer.

BIG CHUTE WEST COAST IPA

THORNBURY TORRANCE

THORNBURY VILLAGE

CIDERY & BREWHOUSE

90 King St E. | ornburyCraft.com

CLEAR LAKE BREWING CO.

4651 Southwood Rd. | ClearLakeBrewing.co

ornbury is currently building a new brewery expansion which is slated to open in summer 2021.

BLUE MOUNTAIN LIGHT LAGER LIGHT LAGER

LADDER RUN

e team at Clear Lake Brewing Co. is the driving force behind Muskoka BeerSpa!

CLEAR LAKE HONEY CREAM ALE CREAM ALE

BARNSTORMER BREWING & DISTILLING CO.

3-384 Yonge St., Barrie BarnstormerBrewing.com

BLACK BELLOWS BREWING CO.

40 Simcoe St., Collingwood BlackBellows.com

HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS BREWING

1067 Garden Gate Dr., Haliburton HaliburtonHighlandsBrewing.ca

KATALYST BREWING CO.

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

BOSHKUNG BREWING CO.

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

CANVAS BREWING COMPANY

12 John St., Huntsville CanvasBrewing.com

THE COLLINGWOOD BREWERY

10 Sandford Fleming Dr., Collingwood eCollingwordBrewery.com

FLYING MONKEYS CRAFT BREWERY

107 Dunlop St. E., Barrie FlyingMonkeys.ca

LAKE OF BAYS BARREL HOUSE

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

MUDTOWN STATION

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

MUSKOKA BREWERY

1964 Muskoka Beach Rd., Bracebridge MuskokaBrewery.com

NORSE BREWERY

11 Ritchie Dr., Carling NorseBrewery.com

GATEWAY

600-612

Gateway City played a lot of pinball during lockdown and hopefully you can enjoy all four of their tables in the spring and summer as well!

DAWSON TRAIL CRAFT BREWERY

905 Copper Cres., under Bay DawsonTrailCraftBrewery.com

FULL BEARD BREWING CO.

219 Wilson Ave., Timmins FullBeardBrewing.com

OUTSPOKEN BREWING

350 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie

OutspokenBrewing.com

SLEEPING GIANT BREWING CO.

712 Macdonell St., under Bay

SleepingGiantBrewing.ca

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., under Bay

OneTimeBrew.co

OPTIMIST BREWERY & KITCHEN

1500 Regent St., Sudbury

OptimistBrewing.ca

SPACECRAFT BREWERY

854 Notre Dame Ave., Sudbury Facebook.com/Spcrft

STACK BREWING

1350 Kelly Lake Rd.; 947 Falconbridge Rd., Subbury

StackBrewing.ca

WHISKEYJACK BEER CO.

485 Ferguson Ave., Haileybury

WhiskeyjackBeer.ca

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BEER GROUND

Even in the depths of a winter during which lockdown has stymied large international brewers, small nimble Ontario craft providers continued to open physical locations and dream of spring. We've got the straight skinny on the province's most exciting prospects from Paris to Petawawa.

BACKYARD BREWING COMPANY

Simcoe (Winter 2021) Norfolk County’s newest brewery operates on a contract basis out of Simcoe’s Blue Elephant Artisan Brewery and ai restaurant. Niagara College grad Sarah Fritch is dedicated to an eclectic and exciting roster of rotating o erings that should provide something for every palate. BackyardBrewing.ca

BLACK GOLD BREWERY

Petrolia (Fall 2020) Although the beer names frequently celebrate Petrolia’s heritage as the rst oil boomtown in North America, Black Gold also takes inspiration from the three couples that helped found it. Try the Derrick IPA, but please keep it under a barrel an hour. BlackGold.beer

BRAUWERK HOFFMAN

Rockland (Winter 2021) e Ontario outpost of a Quebec based brewery focusing on German styles, Brauwerk Ho man looks to specialize in lager styles with Niagara College grad Eric Mainville at the helm. Brauwerk-Ho man.ca

CURLEY BREWING COMPANY

London (Fall 2020) Located in London’s Hyde Park neighbourhood, Curley’s small brewhouse enables them to focus on producing a variety of di erent styles. With a focus on brewing beers that they want to drink, Curley hopes you’ll come along for the ride.

CurleyBrewing.com

DOG HOUSE BREWING COMPANY

Petawawa (Winter 2021) Located directly across the river from the CFB Petawawa, the Dog House Brewing Company is a multigenerational family brewery that aims to pay homage to the local Garrison. ey are looking to expand past two brews when they open in late February. DogHouseBrewingCompany.ca

FINE BALANCE BREWING COMPANY

Kingston (Fall 2020) Kingston’s newest brewery is all about work life balance, having designed their taproom to be as enjoyable to work in as to visit. Although there’s a wide range of early o erings, Oats & Cream IPA seems the early favourite.

FineBalanceBrewing.ca

GOOD PROSPECTS BREWING COMPANY

Ottawa (Fall 2020) One of Ottawa’s newest breweries, Good Prospects taps the rich vein of mining in their branding with o erings such as Gold Strike Grisette and Canary in a Kolsch Mine. Your visit will be sixteen tons of fun.

GoodProspects.ca

MEUSE BREWING

Scotland (Winter 2021) Meuse has been in the LCBO for just over a year, but with the brewery opening in late February you can purchase some of their more esoteric o erings, like the Ontario Brewing Awards Best in Show Cuvée Rouge. MeuseBrewing.com

THE PARIS BEER COMPANY

Paris (Winter 2021) Located in the refurbished Wincey Mills in downtown Paris, the brewery prides themselves on combining agriculture and hospitality with an impressive bistro menu and a wide range of styles that lean slightly towards the old world at time of opening. ParisBrewing.com

RED TAPE BREWERY

Toronto (Fall 2020) Do you have an occasion in your life that calls for beer? Well, Red Tape o ers a bespoke brewing service in addition to o ering a selection of their own beers. Whether it’s a wedding, a christening, or simply Tuesday, Red Tape is standing by to help.

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