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Chilliwack’s Field House Brewing Lends Some Helping Hands

Field House Brewing Co. in downtown Chilliwack, BC, is teaming up with Coquitlam’s Mariner Brewing and several other partners to produce and distribute Helping Hands Pilsner. Beginning this week, the beer will be available for purchase at 78-plus retailers from Vancouver to Chilliwack. Proceeds will go to the Abbotsford Disaster Relief Fund (ADRF), which was…

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Yakima Chief Hops Completes Second CO2 Extract Facility

Yakima Chief Hops, a 100% grower-owned network of family hop farms, has been operating for more than 30 years as a resource for brewers, providing solutions-based products and industry leading research. They are advocates of sustainability and meaningful social causes, working to support the environment and communities around the industry. Their recently completed state-of-the-art cold…

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Upstreet Craft Brewing and Benjamin Bridge Serve Buzzless Beverages for the Holidays and Dry January

New non-alcoholic beverages Libra and Piquette Zero are offering Canadians non-alcoholic options for the holidays and beyond. Upstreet Craft Brewing, a B-Corp certified beverage company based in Charlottetown, PE, and Benjamin Bridge, Canada’s premier sparkling wine house, are joining forces to quench the thirst for non-alcoholic beverages during the holidays, Dry January and into the…

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Increased Demand For Barley in Mexico

The craft beer industry in Mexico has seen significant growth in just the last few years due in large part to the U.S. Grains Council’s (USGC’s) trade servicing efforts and its continuing push to capitalize on Mexican consumer demand to benefit those U.S. barley farmers who supply the industry. Mexico sustained its ranking as the…

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New Brunswick Brewers Frustrated with Prohibited Sales of Craft Beer in Farmers’ Market

Anthony Maddalena, owner of Bagtown Brewing in Sackville, N.B., had learned he couldn’t sell craft beer at farmers’ markets in New Brunswick, after he was already selling empty growlers at the Sackville farmer’s market with a voucher customers could take to his brewery just a few blocks away to fill the growler with beer. “Originally…

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Food Tech Company + Canadian College = Processing Aid for Vegan-friendly Beer

Food-tech company, Chinova Bioworks, has just launched an initiative with the College Communautaire du Nouveau Brunswick’s (CCNB) INNOV centre, to develop an exciting new processing aid for vegan-friendly brews. Chinova is leveraging its clean-label ingredient expertise at CCNB’s Grand Falls campus, which has been developing technologies around brewing and distilling for years. The research project…

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Brewing Beer from Wild Berries Foraged from the Manitoba Tundra

Brothers and brewery owners, Chris and Lawrence Warwaruk of Farmery Estate Brewery, have created a unique beer made from wild Manitoba tundra berries. “We were very active in working with and promoting Churchill last year through our Explore MB pack and through Travel Manitoba, which included custom labels promoting tourism locations throughout the province,” says…

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American Hop Supplier Builds New European Fulfillment Centre in Belgium

In an effort to better serve the global brewing community Yakima Chief Hops (YCH), the largest, 100% grower-owned hop supplier based in Yakima, Washington, has completed construction of a state-of-the-art cold storage warehouse in Belgium. Yakima Chief Hops has been supplying brewers worldwide with quality hops for more than 30 years. Developing some of the…

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Nanaimo Craft Beer Society Honours Health-care Workers with 7 Belles Saison Ale

The Nanaimo Craft Beer Society, in collaboration with Longwood Brewery and Bayview Brewing Company (opening soon), will honour all of the healthcare workers for their dedication and courage to help battle the pandemic over the last 20 months. As a token of their appreciation, 7 Belles Saison, a spicy dry ale, was released last month….

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Stay Dry this January with GRUVI

A beloved non-alcoholic brand, GRUVI, has been helping customers be healthy and stay social, one drink at a time since their inception in Toronto in 2019. They created a line of craft, non-alcoholic beers and wine that feature a tasty, healthy brew. When the company started their journey, their only funding came from friends and…

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