Dawson Trail Craft Brewery has seen growth since its operations began at its Copper Crescent location in Thunder Bay since 2016 and has grown to capacity.

“It’s a big move to more than triple the space,” said brewery owner George Renner. 

“We’ve been kind of squished up in our space (on Copper Crescent) for quite a few years, even before COVID. We have been stacking things higher and pushing things closer together.

“We’re expanding our production by quite a bit. Basically, everything around this move is facilitating the expansion of that system,” he said. “It’s allowing us to expand our production into the bigger market and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) where previously we just weren’t big enough to do that.”

New to Dawson Trail Craft Brewery is the addition of an on-site food service that will be handled by Daytona’s Kitchen and Creative Catering.

“We got kind of locked in our old space, because we had four beers that were varied enough, and that people really liked,” Renner said.

“They wanted this at all times and when we didn’t have them, they were disappointed. We had five tanks to brew beers in and one spare tank to brew something different in any other time the other four were occupied. It limited us quite a bit to what we could do.”

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SOURCE: THE THUNDER BAY CHRONICLE JOURNAL