Canada’s first teaching brewery is housed under Niagara College’s Brewmaster and Brewery Operations program. Last week, the federal government gave the college a $1,789,330 grant to lead a project supporting the Canadian craft brewing industry by improving quality assurance and control measures in small and medium-sized breweries. The project’s goal is to create a Craft…

Market Brewing Co. in Newmarket, ON, is introducing new beer cans to help reduce plastic waste. “Coming into 2022, Market Brewing wanted to take the next step in helping to further reduce their plastic use. The largest plastic use that most people don’t realize is sleeved and labelled cans,” said Piers Simpkin, co-owner of the…

Next month, from May 4-8, the East Coast Music Awards will take place in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And for the second year in a row, the East Coast Music Association (ECMA) has teamed up with five craft beer Atlantic Coast breweries to collaborate on a special brew to be released for the occasion. East Coast…

Eight Winnipeg craft brewers are the latest Canadians to join forces and come up with a special brew to help support Ukrainians–using a recipe from Lviv, Ukraine–with all proceeds are going towards supporting the country via the Pravda Humanitarian Fund. “It wasn’t very difficult to get some partners to collaborate on this, because it is…

Niagara College is thrilled to be receiving an investment from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada in the amount of more than $4.4 million to support cannabis and hemp research along with a college-led project benefiting the craft beer industry. The funds will provide research support in cultivation, as well as business…

Calgary’s vibrant microbrewery scene has been growing and there are no signs of it slowing down any time soon. Over the past few years, a surge of microbreweries has popped up in Canada’s fourth-largest destination. Alberta’s malting barley has a global reputation for being top notch along with the province’s water, soil, and climate all…

As the war continues in Ukraine, eight Metro Vancouver breweries decided to help aid them by teaming up to create a special brew. Nigel Pike from Main St. Brewing in Vancouver, Adam Limber from Five Roads Brewing in Langley, Rick Dellow from PoCo Brothers Brewing in Port Coquitlam and Byron Jacome from Deep Cove Brewers…

Late last week, Beer Canada, the sole national inclusive voice representing the interests of Canadian brewers and Canadian beer consumers, welcomed the elimination of all federal alcohol excise duties on non-alcoholic beer announced in the federal Budget. Budget 2022 includes an amendment to Canada’s Excise Act removing alcohol excise taxes on beer containing no more…

Fluent Beverages, a subsidiary company of Labatt Breweries of Canada, is a CBD-infused non-alcohol beverage.  In a statement released last week, “Fluent has decided to stop operations in Canada. We want to thank our employees, partners, and customers for their support over the past three years in helping us build one of the top CBD…

A first-of-its-kind research collaboration in North America will see Trent University and Karbon Brewing Co. partner to research and develop green brewing technologies for a carbon negative future, while also collaborating on curriculum development and offering students hands-on, experiential learning opportunities. “This unique research collaboration between a university and a brewery will see Trent and Karbon Brewing…