Niagara College’s ‘Cider House’ took home two new medals and a spot on this year’s Top 10 Cideries list at the U.S. Open Cider Championship. 2021 marked the eighth year for the U.S. Open Cider Championship, which drew more than 270 entries representing 25 different cider styles and four kombucha styles from cideries, wineries and…

Pinter is an easy to use home beer and cider brewing system. The main element is a keg-shaped device with a pouring handle in which you brew your own beer or cider from fresh press beer mixes from bottles. Since flavour develops during fermentation and is then impacted by time, storage, temperature, and many other…

Last month, Brewed in Windsor: A Tasty History, was released detailing Windsor-Essex’s relationship with beer stemming all the way back from the prohibition days to the present day industry. The book’s authors, Chris Edwards and Elaine Weeks published the book in honour of their friend, Bill Marentette, who died in January. “Bill was a collector…

Located on the West Coast of British Columbia, Oliver’s Firehall Brewery is breaking into a new market with their non-alcoholic experimental beer called Fire Drill N.A.I.P.A. The brew is an Indian Pale Ale which is “refreshing and hoppy, with strong aromas of citrus fruit” and is brewed in collaboration with Escarpment Laboratories in Guelph, Ontario….

Almost three years ago, the Ontario government brought forth a legislation to terminate an alcohol-retailing agreement which has big breweries threatening to sue for a billion dollars. Since then, there has been very little movement from the government and Labatt and Molson-Coors over the future of the Master Framework Agreement, which gives The Beer Store…

For anyone who has always wanted to pour a fresh pint of beer from the tap right at home, this one’s for you. Irish beer mogul, Guinness, is launching an at-home beer tap for £750 (CAD 1,273). This limited tap will be available for purchase beginning Monday December 6. The “Guinness Microdraught”, had launched earlier this…

A lot of brewers got creative over the pandemic, coming up with multiple ways to create revenue as constant changes had everyone navigating through every move. Rae Norton, from Savanah, Georgia, combined two things she loves — craft beer and gardening. She began to go through her collection of empty brew cans removing the tops,…

Beer Canada, the sole national inclusive voice and advocate for people who make and enjoy the nation’s beers and whose members account for 90 percent of the beer produced in Canada, have created the first Policy Advisory Council which will provide a leadership forum to gather input from brewers from coast-to-coast on important policy issues…

Two of the largest craft breweries in Ontario have announced a joint distribution deal in an effort to cut the losses both companies faced during the pandemic. Toronto’s Steam Whistle Brewing and Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co., based in Vankleek Hill, Ontario announced last week that they’ll be merging their sales teams and distribution networks….