ONTARIO's CRAFT BEER GUIDE
Up there with sour beers and hazy-style IPAs, the session IPA is probably the biggest sea change in craft beer styles over the past three years. They’re a perfect prescription for when the weather gets really and truly hot (as […]
To paraphrase everyone’s favourite prison movie, Ontario’s craft beer scene “went and got itself in a big damn hurry.” And, so with so many breweries opening production facilities, barrel warehouses, satellite locations and spin-off brands, it was good to sit […]
The Growler Ontario Craft Beer Guide is seeking an ambitious and energetic advertising sales representative to join our Ontario team. You would need to have your own transportation to visit breweries, brewpubs, restaurants, B-to-B businesses and retail that suit the […]
Ontario’s climate and soil are made for apple growing. And our rich cider tradition, once lost to Prohibition, is having a renaissance. There are over 40 cideries and mead makers in the province—here’s our guide to tasting the most interesting […]
Paired with Sons of Kent’s 8 Track XPA There is a natural affinity between summer, sausages and craft beer. This recipe, from David Chang’s Momofuku Kōjin in Toronto, adds Asian flavours to the mix. Working under executive chef Paula Navarette, […]
Since beer is a lightly processed agricultural product and Ontario is such a vast province with deep experience in farming (including barley and hops) it’s surprising that beer made with ingredients from Ontario are still the exception. Ones worth recommending […]
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 […]
For the second year in a row, Toronto’s popular beer-and-running club will celebrate Canada’s birthday by running from Toronto to Hamilton. The rally (or solo run, if you’re so inclined) starts at Ontario Place and finishes at Merit Brewing. All […]
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 […]
I recently had one of those family trips that makes parents remember why a family trip is actually a very different thing than a “vacation.” For March break, my wife and I took our five-year-old son to Florida for a […]
