A first step into the light for craft breweries. If you keep your eye on the trends and pay attention to alcohol-free breweries like Harmons, low-alcohol lagers seem to be trending. There was a time when low-alcohol beers (with 4% ABV drawing the line) were ridiculed on both sides of craft brewery bars. Well, not…
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Cape Breton’s Big Spruce Brewing has lost its permit to sell beer at the Warehouse Market in Halifax’s North End. “We want the opportunity to correct and keep going here,” said Jeremy White, co-founder of Big Spruce Brewing,” It’s important for us as a brand, it’s pretty important for us as a business and it’s…
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Descendants Brewery in Kitchener, Ontario is calling it quits and will be closing its doors due to COVID-19. Descendants was the dream of Robin Molloy, an Irish transplant who arrived in Kitchener in 1990. Robin moved to Berlin, Germany with his partner Lee in 2012 to study to become a Certified Brewmaster at the VLB….
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“That’s another competitor and that’s a big competitor,” Giuseppe Marchesini explained in this article to CTV News Toronto. “We feel that it’s not fair. They can be more mindful of supporting small businesses. We’re still struggling. Even if the guests are supporting us and we are full, we will need a little bit more attention…
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Matt Phillips announced last week that after 21-years of starting Phillips Brewing, he has sold a grand portion of his company to BC-based Yellow Point Partners. The move will position the brewery to an employee model. Yellow Point Partners have a wide portfolio of businesses they’ve invested in including several industrial companies, Edo Japan, Foley’s…
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Bench Brewing Company received the Sustainability Initiative award at the Canadian Brewers Choice Awards. Organized by Brewers Journal Canada, the event honours top Canadian beer makers in several categories. “At Bench, reducing our environmental footprint is one of our core values and guides the decisions we make as a brewery. This is a huge acknowledgment…
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For the first time in its 150-year history, Siebel Institute of Technology has formulated a beer recipe for release as an “open source recipe” for professional brewers and homebrewers to recreate. The official name of the beer is “J.E. Siebel 1-Fifty Classic American Pilsner”, named for the legendary German immigrant who established this historic brewing…
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A new year, same dreary outlook. The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) dropped its Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) for December 2022, which continue to drop. The entire country set a new low-temperature record in December, but the BPI recorded its lowest index reading. The December BPI shows a reading of 30, and the “at-risk” inventory…
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Grey Fox Brewing opened their doors just before the holiday season began, with British Columbia being the first province to have a dedicated gluten free brewery. Kelowna is home to the brewery where in May 2022, 112 backers pledged $20,430 to the Kickstarter campaign that helped bring this project to life. Founder and brewmaster Chris…
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Federal taxes on beer sales are set to rise by 6.3 percent on April 1. This will be the largest increase in 40 years. “I think it’s going to hurt breweries at a time when they’re already struggling,” commented Brad McInerney, marketing manager at Wellington Brewery. “It’s been a challenging time for a lot of…
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