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A decade of hop dominance: How IPAs defined the most popular beers in Ontario

Jordan St. John • December 19, 2019

It’s the best selling style of craft beer in North America. The number of variants that exist are incredible. The beer world is going through an unprecedented explosion of ingredients and innovation. Individual hop varieties have created a range of […]

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Craft beer gives back for the holidays

David Ort • November 29, 2019

Craft beer is undeniably a community endeavour. We buy the beer to support our neighbours who are on a quest to make the beer they (and we) like to drink. Building a community also means supporting those who fall on […]

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A seal for Canadian craft beer

David Ort • November 14, 2019

Canadian craft breweries finally have a way to distinguish their product from the mass-produced competition. Why did it take so long? Well, that’s a bit of a long story. For as long as I’ve written about craft beer the question […]

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Barroom Landscape: We find out how bar owners are making it a whole lot easier to find our favourite brews

Jordan St. John • October 31, 2019

It’s hard out there for craft breweries. Market saturation is a real problem. With LCBO shelves at a premium and some breweries having to focus on taproom sales, adding craft beer bars seems like a potential solution. Despite the obvious […]

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How Spearhead made the move to a bricks-and-mortar brewery

Jordan Duff • August 23, 2019

  By Jordan Duff On March 30th of this year, Spearhead Brewing Company celebrated it’s one year anniversary at its Kingston brewery. The celebration included, among other festive activities, a performance by Sam Roberts, friend of the brewery and face […]

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Pride with purpose in Ontario craft beer

David Ort • June 20, 2019

Last summer, when I sat down to talk to Renee Navarro about her work promoting diversity in Ontario’s craft beer industry, I remember being struck by how irrefutable several of her points were. As we’re fully into June, one, in […]

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Brutal Honesty: A brewery owner shares his survival guide after losing $800K to DME

Crystal Luxmore • June 18, 2019

These days Jason Fisher is usually up at 3:30 a.m. He opens his laptop, pulls up an Excel Spreadsheet and punches in some numbers. “OK,” he tells himself, “We can be alive for the next four days, so let’s use […]

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Beer mail: Ontario craft breweries are doing an end-run around our jammed-up beer retail system

Jordan Duff • May 17, 2019

By Jordan Duff In 2019, ordering beer online direct from the brewery and having it delivered to your doorstep seems commonplace. It wasn’t always that way. The future is now, but we’ll have to cast back eight years to understand […]

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Beer. Diversity. and Dominion City launch scholarship

Jordan Duff • May 7, 2019

By Jordan Duff Beer. Diversity. and Dominion City Brewing Co. announced last week that they will be offering a scholarship through Niagara College Teaching Brewery program to foster a more inclusive culture within brewing. It’s an amazing initiative. Ren Navarro, […]

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Clifford Brewing tops a strong Ontario field at the Canadian Brewing Awards

David Ort • May 5, 2019

Hamilton’s Clifford Brewing took home the top trophy at the 2019 version of the Canadian Brewing Awards. Clifford’s perennial favourite porter took home a gold medal in its category. East Hamilton lager and the barrel-aged version of the porter took […]

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