Merit Brewing Company has taken great strides since opening in 2017. A destination for excellent food and beer, it has helped rejuvenate Downtown Hamilton and co-founder Tej Sandhu hopes other breweries will follow suit. Words: Tim Sheahan | Photos: Jakub Mulik Ratios….It’s all about the context. Some are good, some are bad. It all depends…
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Beer is booming in Quebec. There’s more breweries than ever before, sales are up and, more importantly, an increasing diverse number of people are buying beer. And the breweries of the province’s largest city, Montreal, are playing a key role in this period of prosperity. Co-producer: Johnny Leung | Photos: Jakub Mulik Move the dial…
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La bière est en plein essor au Québec. Il y a plus de brasseries que jamais, les ventes sont en hausse et, plus important encore, un nombre croissant de personnes achètent de la bière. Et les brasseries de la plus grande ville de la province, Montréal, jouent un rôle clé dans cette période de prospérité….
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What do you get if you bring together two Columbian brothers, a lot of family support, a Canadian head brewer and a collective idea to do something different? Andina Brewing Company, that’s what. The Vancouver brewery has just celebrated its second birthday and is more determined than ever to cement itself as a pillar of…
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Dominion City Beer has collaborated with Beer.Diversity. and Niagara College to launch a new scholarship The scholarship will be awarded annually to one outstanding senior level student in the Niagara College Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management program with a background presently underrepresented in the brewing industry. The scholarship is two-fold. It includes $1,000 towards the recipient’s…
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A new federation of provincial craft beer Associations, the CCBA-AMBC, has been founded to represent craft breweries in every province and territory in Canada Canadian Craft Brewers Association–Association des Microbrasseries Canadiennes represents more than 700 craft breweries from every province and territory in Canada. The federation aims to “promote and protect the interests of small…
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So you want to rebrand your brewery? Great. But there’s a lot to it, and you need to give careful consideration to every step, says Leif Miltenberger, business director at Hired Guns Creative. Rebranding a brewery is no small thing. Rebranding projects typically have significant scopes, timelines, and associated costs. And they can be driven…
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The Ontario Craft Brewers (OCB) has applauded last week’s provincial budget as good news for craft beer lovers and the locally-owned breweries. The OCB welcomed the focus on making craft beer more accessible and affordable through several significant changes, including; Legislation that would let municipalities make rules about where alcohol can be consumed in public…
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The brewing landscape is more competitive than ever and having a direct route to market remains one integral way to provide the consumer with fresh beer while driving revenues straight back into your brewery. It was an approach Jean-François Gravel and Stéphane Ostiguy took when they opened Dieu du Ciel! in 1998 and more than…
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Charlottetown-based DME is under new ownership after being purchased by CIMC Enric Tank & Process B.V. (CETP), a subsidiary of CIMC ENRIC Holdings. Dutch company CIMC Enric Tank & Process has rescued DME from receivership. The DME and Newlands (NSI) brands will now operate as DME Process Systems after CETP, based out of the Netherlands,…
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