“I think we have a real good product and that’s the main thing,” the owner of Sartori Hop Ranch said. So good, his hops are being used in Molson Coors beer. The local farmer has been growing hops for the last 15 years. The hops field covers maybe 12 acres on his 160-acre farm located…

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…