The BC Ale Trail is back and running from October 1 to 3, in partnership with Destination British Columbia and the BC Craft Brewers Guild. A BC Ale Trail is a series of self-guided itineraries highlighting local craft brewery destinations and the super, natural landscapes that surround them. Explore more than 210 breweries across 22…

A Prince Edward Island grad student came up with an interesting thesis revolving around craft beer names in Newfoundland and Labrador. Maggie Whitten Henry is working on completing her thesis as part of the Master of Arts in Island Studies program at the University of P.E.I. The names of Newfoundland craft beers and how they…

Winnipeg craft brewery, Stone Angel Brewing will be changing the art on its cans of Redhanded Irish Red Ale, stating that the red hand image it has used since 2017 has become a “symbolic representation of violence that affects Indigenous women.” In a statement on its website to Global News, Stone Angel Brewing president Paul…

And the plummet continues. It’s no secret that beer sales have dropped over the last while and unfortunately, have continued to plunge. Total beer sales have dropped 7.3% from last year, according to Beer Canada. However, for Newfoundland and Labrador is not all bad news. Total beer sales are up in Newfoundland by a whopping…

Believe it or not, in the 1800s in Toronto, there was a man who started the brewing phenomenon. A man named Robert Henderson began serving English bitter to the British redcoats and civilians. Clearly, he had a very loyal customer based since, at the time, he was the only brewmaster in town. Many years later,…

Granville Island Brewing has made its home on Granville Island since 1984, and the brand is as much a part of the island as the island is of the brand. Still located in the same building today as where it was established 38 years ago, Granville Island Brewing continues to deliver on its promise of…

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…