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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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UK Supermarket Trial will Leverage Sustainable Packaging Showcasing Smaller Brewers

According to GlobalData, Asda (a retailer in the UK) could hold a winner on its hands with its Craft on Draft partnership, whose survey shows almost 60 percent of consumers see the use of reusable or refillable packaging as important. The leading data and analytics company notes that sustainable shopping is a way in which supermarkets…

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Niagara College Takes Gold, Silver and Top 9 Ranking at U.S. Open Cider Championship

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…

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A New Home Brewing Device

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…

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Local Authors and Windsor Beer

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…

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BC Brewery Releases Experimental Beer

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….

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Ontario and The Beer Store Strike Up Potential Deal

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…

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