Nickel Brook Brewing Co’s Burlington Brewery at 864 Drury Lane, Burlington has been rebranded as The Funk Lab.

The move enables the brewery to focus solely on sour and funk beer production in Burlington.

Nickel Brook’s core beers that include ‘Headstock IPA’ and ‘Naughty Neighbour APA’ are produced at the Hamilton, Ontario facility it owns with Collective Arts Brewing.

They explained: “The Funk Lab is dedicated to brewing small-batch funk and sour beers using rare and wild yeast strains, as well as barrel-ageing beers such as fan-favourites Cuvée and Winey Bastard.

“Nickel Brook has already made waves with some of its earliest funk creations, including winning a Gold medal at the Canadian Brewing Awards for their Uber Raspberry Berliner Weisse, a sour German wheat beer aged on Canadian raspberries.

“The delicious Uncommon Element Brett Pale Ale and Brett Saison will be year round staples of the Funk Lab, with other unique recipes, such as a Cucumber-Lime Gose, being released throughout the year.”

Nickel Brook is marking the opening with a Funk Lab launch event at BarHop, 391 King Street, Toronto today (3rd October).