Beer News 
Prince Edward Island Brewing opens doors on new brewery(0)
Prince Edward Island Brewing officially opened the doors of its new brewing facility over the weekend. The Charlottetown-based brewery has been under construction since October 2012. With 25,000 square feet and a 50hL brewhouse, PEI Brewing’s new facility has fermentation and cold storage space, meeting and hospitality rooms, a 700-person capacity event space, a retail… Read More ›
Vancouver Craft Beer Week goes all in with poker theme
The minds behind Vancouver Craft Beer Week are clever. I’ll give ‘em that. As this year’s nine-day-long event nears, the event organizers have been putting a poker theme behind its marketing. The fourth Vancouver Craft Beer Week is celebrating those who go all in. In other words, those brave few who risk financial destruction for… Read More ›
Yellowknife okays Old Town brewpub
Provided the would-be brewpub builders come through on a few conditions, there could finally be a new brewpub in Yellowknife by the fall. City council approved a “conditional restaurant permit” for the proposed waterfront brewpub. The conditions? The NWT Brewing Company has to come up with 12 parking spots on the pub’s site. The landlord,… Read More ›
Powell Street, Great Lakes take top Canadian Brewing Awards honours
Top honours at this year’s Canadian Brewing Awards went to Powell Street Craft Brewery and Great Lakes Brewery — from British Columbia and Ontario, respectively. Toronto’s Great Lakes walked away with the Brewery of the Year Award, while at the same time Vancouver’s Powell Street picked up the Beer of the Year Award for its… Read More ›
Fourth Ontario Craft Beer Week kicks off Father’s Day
It’s finally starting to shape up to be a decent spring, and with that comes a busy season of beer festivals, beer pairings, outdoor beer events and, of course, beer weeks. Two years ago, the number of craft beer weeks across the Great White North was limited to only three such series of events, but… Read More ›
University of Regina brings economics of beer to classroom
The University of Regina is offering an economics course that must be filling up with a variety of business students. The Saskatchewan university has launched a course named The Economics of Beer. According to the university, the new course is causing a fair bit of buzz on campus, but for those interested in taking the… Read More ›
Phillips assembles cross-Canada beer collaboration around Canadian Brewing Awards
Phillips Brewing is taking advantage of the upcoming Canadian Brewing Awards ceremony being held in Victoria. The British Columbia brewery is planning a cross-Canada beer collaboration project with other breweries from B.C., Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Phillips is calling it “the first national beer collaboration,” and it will involve 25 breweries… Read More ›
Russell Brewing prepped to open test brewery in China
Vancouver-based Russell Brewing is heading west to China to set up a test brewery and brewpub. The brewery is scheduled to open this summer in Hefei, China, a city of 5.7 million people in the Anhui Province of Eastern China. Creating an international presence as a Canadian microbrewery isn’t easy, and surely this expansion would… Read More ›
Ontario Brewing Awards winners announced
Last night at The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, there were a lot of smiles and happy people. And it’s not just because they were drinking beer. No, the Ontario Brewing Awards were handed out last night. Here’s the list of winners: North American Light Lager Gold: Cold Stonewall Light Silver: Laker Light Bronze: Stonehammer Light… Read More ›
Yellowknife may get brewpub this summer
If a trio of Yellowknifers has their way, they’ll be opening up a new brewpub in a section of the Northwest Territories capital known as Old Town this summer. Wayne Guy, a Yellowknife-based architect, and Fletcher and Miranda Stevens have an eye on the city’s old dinosaur museum as the location for what would be… Read More ›