Penticton Beer Week is coming up and takes place October 14-22. This year, all eight of the city’s local craft breweries are collaborating on a brew where proceeds will go to a worthy community cause. Penticton’s brews have joined together for the last four years to create a special beer each fall for the festival…

“We use a unique process that involves a trip through our brewhouse where we dry-hop these with local Ontario grown hops,” said Brad McInerney, marketing manager of Wellington Brewery, erected in Guelph in 1985. “We use yeast to help with biotransformation, a process by which the metabolism of yeast brings out different flavours from the…

The province of Quebec is being hit quite hard right now and it’s not by just one factor—the crowded market, inflation and labour shortage are the main culprits of the provinces’ current situation. Labour shortage leading to limited hours, inflation increasing transport and raw material costs, and a rise in seltzers and other drinks have…

Malt barley variety hasn’t been welcomed with open arms, but new additions are starting to turn heads and some people are getting excited at the varieties.  The Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC) Manitoba Malt Barley Field Day was held at Elder Farm near Wawanesa, Manitoba. The varieties were showcased in glasses that showed the…

Canadian beer consumption has been dropping for quite a while. Last year alone, numbers dropped by 7.3 percent, according to Beer Canada. In an attempt to help the bleeding, Molson has invested $60 in its Toronto Plant. In addition, they have taken ‘Brewing’ out of their name and turned to seltzers, whiskey and cannabis drinks….

BEES is Labatt’s proprietary B2B ordering platform, a one-stop-shop that allows small to medium-sized retailers to browse through products, place orders, arrange deliveries and manage invoices, all in one place and right in the palm of their hands.  Designed to revolutionize sales capabilities, whilst making retailers’ lives more efficient and their businesses more profitable. Labatt…

Earlier this month, St. Catherines, Ontario, welcomed its newest brewhouse. Decew Falls Brewing Co has been named after one of the most scenic falls in the Niagara area and their six beers also hold local historical significance. Decew Falls is now one of five craft breweries in St. Catharines, including The Merchant Ale House, Dragan…

According to Beer Canada, some of the province’s beer sales dropped by 7.3% compared to last year. In the case of Newfoundland and Labrador, their growth has gone up by a whopping 20.1%. But in other provinces, beer sales for both retail and service have dropped significantly. The largest drop so far this year has…

Alberta has seen tremendous growth with their breweries over the last several years and now, as part of a tourism initiative, breweries along Highway 3 in southern Alberta are launching a collaboration ale to draw more attention to the provinces’ craft brew scene. The initiative called “Highway 3 Ale Trail” is meant to drive both…

After 27 years of Russell Brewing opening its doors to the public, they finally have a taproom! Russell Brewing was part of the original 10 breweries that opened in the 1990’s, paving the way for other businesses to follow. Now onto its fourth owner, the suds have increased in many ways, including releasing 40 beers…