It has been a phenomenal experience. Being able to bring Goose Island beers to Toronto and having the ability to experiment and adapt to drinkers’ tastes is something special. It’s great to be part of,” explains Bernard Priest, head brewer at Goose Island’s Toronto Brewhouse. The Goose Island Brewhouse in Toronto was six months young in…
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La Trappe brewmaster Lodewijk Swinkels has left the Dutch Trappist brewery to join Ontario’s Brunswick Bierworks as its brewmaster and head of operations. He is the seventh generation of brewers and for the past 14 years, has been the brewmaster at De Koningshoeven Brewery (La Trappe). Here, he won numerous international brewing awards and established La…
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Canadian manufacturer Cask has unveiled its new system, Micro-Automated Canning System (mACS), which combines a compact footprint and the ability to fill cans of various sizes. The system can be converted to fill and seam cans of varying heights and diameters — from 5.5 ounces (163 mL) to 19.2 ounces (568 mL) in volume in…
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The new system, called Half Pint, is targeted at mobile canning businesses and breweries that operate under both tight space and budgetary restraints. Half Pint requires little to no installation, which makes the depalletizer a suitable option for canning lines from 15 CPM to 60 CPM, as well as international breweries or breweries with tight…
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The beer is The Exchange Brewery’s non-traditional version of a Flemish Ale that is decidedly tart from a short lactic fermentation and then aged in oak with a mixed cocktail of wild yeast and bacteria to round out its flavour. Our Bruin, which won a Gold Medal at the 2017 Ontario Brewing Awards, is auburn-brown…
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The brewery, established in 2014, said its latest beer is loaded with peach, melon and orange hop flavour. Drop Bear IPA is a 6.5% beer that is brewed with Australian Galaxy and Summer hops and is the brewery’s nod to Australia’s unusually large and viscious marsupial, the Drop Bear. The brewery explained: “Australia’s history as…
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Re-coopering is essentially a process used to remove all the neutral oak on the interior surface of a barrel, re-toasting, re-assembly and leak sealing to complete the process. Re-coopering a barrels costs one fifth the price of a new barrel, which typically costs $1000 – $1300CDN per 225L/228L barrel. It is a practice that has…
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“The brewing industry is an extremely important part of the fabric on Ontario. As the sector grows, new breweries open and with that, jobs are created and there is a knock-on impact on the economy here in Ontario. And that is only a good thing,” explains Scott Simmons, the president of Ontario Craft Brewers. Simmons is…
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The Brewers Association Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo was a different animal in 1998 compared to the annual giant it is now. Held in Atlanta, Georgia in the April of that year, the Brewing Studies National Craft Brewers Conference, as it was known then, was a melting pot of brewing knowledge. Companies like Wachsmann Brewing…
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Nearly 95,000 individuals have been certified through the Cicerone program since it was founded 10 years ago. The program, which went live in January 2008, was founded by former Brewers Association publisher Ray Daniels. The course covers a number of areas, namely: 1) Keeping and Serving Beer, 2) Beer Styles, 3) Beer Flavour and Evaluation,…
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