Autumn is an important time for beer. The hops are picked, the barley’s mown, and the rush of summer production slows down just in time for Oktoberfest. Whether you like a Festbier, a wet-hopped ale, or even something with a hint of pumpkin, the harvest is in and the taps are flowing.
At least two of them are in Ben Johnson’s garage, as he walks you through purchasing a kegerator for home use. New contributor Max Morin talks about the stubbornness of iconoclastic craft producers (and he should know since he works for Godspeed). Brewer vs. Brewer features two of the province’s farm-based breweries. Robin LeBlanc explores charitable collaborations and how breweries are putting their money where their mouths are.
Also, we have a new editor: Jordan St. John. He’s a virgo, he likes long trudges through inclement weather, and when he was six he grew the largest zucchini in Toronto. That might not have anything to do with beer, but it fits the harvest motif.
Get your copy of The Growler today!
The Fall/Winter 2021 issue of The Growler is out now! You can buy single issues or subscribe here, or find Ontario’s only craft beer guide at these local breweries across the province:
7/62 Brew
Amsterdam
Bad Apple
Bancroft Brewing
Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co.
Bellwoods Brewery
Big Rock
Bitte Schon Brauhaus
Black Gold Brewery
Black Lab Brewing
Blood Bros
Brothers Brewing Company
Brew Donkey Tours
Brew Microbrewery
Brimstone Brewing Co.
Broken Stick
Cameron’s Brewing
Caps Off Brewing Co.
Cassel – Microbrasserie Cassel Brewery
Chapter Two Brewing
Charlotteville Brewing Company
Clear Lake Brewing
Clifford Brewing
Common Good Brewing
Compass Brewing
Counterpoint Brewing Co
Cowbell Brewing Co. – Blyth Brewing and Distilling Co
Crooked Mile
Daft
Descendants
Dominion City
Eastbound
Fairweather Brewing Co.
Falcon Brewing Company
Fenelon Falls
Flora Hall
Flux Brewing Company
Furnace Room Brewery
Gateway City
Godspeed Brewery Inc.
Goose Island
Great Lakes
Granite Brewery and Tied House
Halo Brewery
High Park Brewery
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co.
Jack Ass Brewing
LagerShed Brewing (Shawn & Ed’s)
Lake of Bays
Lake of the Woods
Left Field Brewery
Little Beasts
Longslice Brewery
MacLeans
Manantler Craft Brewing Co
Manitoulin Island Brewing
Market Brewing
Merit Brewing
Meuse Brewing Company
Natterjack Brewing Co.
Nickel Brook Brewing Co
Northern Maverick
Old Flame Brewing Co
Orange Snail Brewing
The Paris Beer Co
People’s Pint Brewing Company
Publican House Brewery
Quayles
Railway City
Red Barn Brewing Company
Refined Fool
Rorschach
Rural Roots
Sawdust City Brewing Co.
The Second Wedge Brewing Co.
Shacklands Brewing Co.
Shillow Brewing
Signal
Sons of Kent
Spark Beer
Sleeping Giant
Split Rail Brewing Co.
Stonehooker Brewing Co.
Storm Stayed Brewing Company
Thornbury
Together We’re Bitter
Town Brewery
Upper Thames Brewing
Walkerville
Waterloo
Wellington Brewery
The Wheeled Brew
