Canadian brewing companies

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Muskoka Cottage Brewery

Muskoka

Muskoka Brewery (the word cottage has been dropped) is a craft brewing company (Microbrewery) founded in June, 1996 as a very small operation by Gary McMullen and (the late) Kirk Evans. By 2016, it had increased to 130 employees in a facility that is over 70,000 square feet in size.

The company manufactures a line of beers, including Cream Ale, Mad Tom IPA, Dark, Craft Lager, Detour and the new Muskoka Shinnicked Stout. Their products are sold at the brewery at 1964 Muskoka Beach Road, Bracebridge, Ontario, at select pubs and restaurants (in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and Nova Scotia) and at the LCBO outlets and The Beer Store. According to Gary McMullen, "They’re almost entirely unfiltered ... made with natural ingredients, no preservatives and handcrafted to final perfection."

Their product have won many awards, most recently (2016) from The World Beer Championships, the Canadian Brewing Awards, and the US Open Beer Championship. In early 2017, Muskoka Brewery was named one of Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures of 2016 by Waterstone Human Capital. Muskoka Brewery is a member of the Ontario Craft Brewers Association.

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Nelson Brewing Company

The Nelson Brewing Company is a brewery located in Nelson, British Columbia, not to be confused with The Nelson Brewing Company in Chatham, Kent, England. The original Nelson Brewing and Ice Company was founded in 1897 by Robert Reisterer. The brewery fell on hard times in the 1960s, but in 1992 a group of local businessmen reopenned the brewery in its original historical building. While most beer from the Nelson Brewing Company is consumed in the Kootenays, it is available across British Columbia.

The brewery currently brews seven beers: Old Brewery Ale is a classic English pale ale; Nelson After Dark is an English Dark Mild; Blackheart Stout is a marriage of an Irish dry stout and an Oatmeal stout; Liplock Summer Wheat Ale is an unfiltered pale hefeweizen style beer brewed only in summer; Faceplant Winter Ale is only brewed during the winter; Paddywhack IPA is an Indian pale ale; Wild Honey Ale is brewed with organic honey from the Creston Valley.

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O%27Brien Brewing and Malting Company

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Oland Brewery

Oland Brewery is a brewing company in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and a unit of Labatt Brewing Company, itself a unit of InBev.

The Oland family, which formerly owned Oland Brewery, has been active in public life in Nova Scotia. Victor de Bedia Oland was lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia from 1968 to 1973. Another family member, Sidney Oland, served as a senior executive of Labatt Brewing Company. The Oland family also founded Moosehead beer in 1867, which remains independent.

The company sponsored the construction of the schooner Bluenose II.

Brands brewed at Oland's Halifax brewery include:

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Paddock Wood Brewing Company

Paddock Wood Brewing Co

Paddock Wood Brewing Co. is a brewery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Paddock Wood was founded in 1995 as a mail order brewing supply business providing grain, yeast and other brewing supplies to the homebrewing market. In 2000 the business expanded to include brewing kits made in house to which customers would add yeast and complete the fermentation process at home.

In 2004 Paddock Wood Brewing Co entered into negotiations with the provincial regulatory body, the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority, in an attempt to change a standing policy that restricted the licensing of microbreweries to premises where the beer was also consumed. In the same year the province changed the regulation allowing Paddock Wood Brewing Co to transition from a supplies business to a licensed microbrewery.

During 2011 Paddock Wood produced approximately 3,000 hectolitres of beer, equivalent to 500,000 bottles, an increase of 2650 hectolitres over 2007. CEO Steve Cavan has stated that the brewery attempts to adhere as closely to the German purity law for beer production as possible; Paddock Wood does not use rice, corn or added chemicals.

Paddock Wood ships draught beer and bottled products to restaurants and stores throughout Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.

Paddock Wood acquired a space and permits for a tap house in down town Saskatoon, Saskatchewan which has been open since the fall of 2012.

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Parallel 49 Brewing Company

Parallel 49 Brewing Company

Parallel 49 Brewing Company is a Canadian microbrewery based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Founded in 2012, Parallel 49 brews from their headquarters in East Vancouver. In early 2017, the Parallel 49 Tasting Room was temporarily closed for renovations. Construction finished in Spring 2017.

The brewery's year-round offerings include its Craft Lager, Filthy Dirty IPA, Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale, Jerkface 9000 Wheat Ale, Tricycle Grapefruit Radler and the Wobbly Pop Pale Ale.

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Quidi Vidi Brewing Company

Quidi Vidi Brewing Company

Quidi Vidi Brewing Company is a brewery in Quidi Vidi village, a neighbourhood of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Founded by David Rees and David Fong in 1996, Quidi Vidi is the third-largest brewer in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, after Labatt and Molson. Its products are available province-wide in liquor stores, corner stores and on draft, and it is the most popular microbrew in the province.

The names of Quidi Vidi's "Northern Lager" and "Northern Light" beers were changed in 2005 after legal action by Northern Breweries. They were rebranded as "QV" and "QV Light". Quidi Vidi brews four other varieties: Eric's Cream Ale, 1892 Traditional Ale, QV Honey Brown Lager, and QV Honey Brown Light. A seventh variety, Iceberg, was launched in 2007/2008, and is so called because it is brewed from glacial water from the icebergs that are commonly found off the Newfoundland coast.

Quidi Vidi brews all their beers with no adjuncts; that is, no corn or rice, only malt.

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Russell Brewing Company

Russell Brewing Company

Russell Brewing Company is a brewery in Strawberry Hill, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

Opened in 1995, the company was bought out from the original Russell family in 2004 by Brian Harris and his four children. Russell Brewing went public in 2005. In 2007, the brewery merged with Manitoba's Fort Garry Brewing Company. Russell Brewing is now a wholly owned subsidiary of BC-based Russell Breweries Inc.

As of 2006, the brewery employs traditional beer-making techniques, and only uses water, hops, yeast and malted barley, in accordance with the 1516 Bavarian purity law.

In 2013, Russell Brewing opened a brewery and two restaurants in Hefei, China, with plans to build a chain of brew pubs under the Russell brand. The new company is called Russell Breweries China Inc. and 20% of it is owned by Russell Brewing.

Russell Brewing Company has entered and won some notable brewing competitions, such as the World Beer Cup (silver in 2012, bronze in 2010), and the Canadian Brewing Awards (silver and/or bronze 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013).

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Shaftebury Brewing Company

The Shaftebury Brewing Company is a Craft Brewery started in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1986. Shaftebury was sold to Sleeman Sleeman Breweries in 1999. In 2014, the brand was sold to Fireweed Brewing Company Tree Brewing.

Beers produced include; Four Twenty Brilliant Lager, Coastal Cream Ale, Wet Coast Wheat Ale, Easy Honey Pale Ale, Summer Days Premium Pilsner, and Winter Nights Black & Tan.

Shaftebury was started in 1986 by Tim Wittig and Paul Beaton, two young entrepreneurs who cottoned on to the idea of starting a microbrewery in Vancouver for fun and profit. Sales were originally limited to draft in the Vancouver area, where they became popular among fans of British-style ales. Shaftebury taps are instantly recognizable, as they feature a porcelain bald brewing-guy with apron. By late 1995, growth prompted a move from within Vancouver to a new facility in the nearby suburb of Delta. With the purchase of the company by Sleeman Breweries in early 1999, the Delta plant shut down and production moved on up to the Okanagan Spring brewery in Vernon. The Delta brewery equipment was sold to Fireweed Brewing and moved to Kelowna.

In February 2014, Shaftebury brands were purchased by Fireweed Brewing and production was moved to their Kelowna brewery, where the Shaftebury Delta brewhouse is still used since they purchased it from Sleemans in 1999.

The West Coast interpretation of the cream ale can be traced back to one brand: Shaftebury Cream Ale.

Tim Wittig was the co-founder and co-owner of Shaftebury along with Paul Beaton from 1986 until 1999, when the brewery was sold to Sleeman. When Wittig and Beaton started the brewery they enlisted the help of John Mitchell, the brewer who had set up Spinnakers. The Shaftebury team had gone around and tasted a number of beers in order to zero in on the flavour that they would like to have in the Shaftebury brands. They were particularly drawn to one of Mitchell’s beers: and English Mild, which was called Mount Tolmie dark. They therefore decided to model the Shaftebury beer recipe after this English Mild. Wittig explains that the original Shaftebury Cream Ale was dark brown: "At the time when we made it, it had a completely different flavour. It was 4.8 alcohol by volume and it got its dark colour from the chocolate and crystal malt that we imported from England."

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Sleeman Breweries

Sleeman Breweries Ltd.

John H. Sleeman originally began brewing beer in Canada in 1834 and passed on the legacy to his sons and grandsons. The Sleeman family's brewery empire remained in business until 1933 and was restarted in 1988 by John W. Sleeman, the great-great grandson of John H. Sleeman. The new operation subsequently acquired other, smaller breweries and was itself purchased by a multi-national corporation.

Sleeman Breweries was purchased by Sapporo Brewery in 2006 for $400 million. The company owns 2 percent of Ontario's primary beer retailer The Beer Store. John W. Sleeman remained as CEO until 2010 when he relinquished that role and was made chairman of the Canadian company. The company is a significant player in beer in Canada.

The original Sleeman family brewery was forced to close in 1933 when their license was revoked for bootlegging, specifically, for smuggling beer into Detroit, Michigan, and for tax evasion. The company's current products are based on the family's original recipes, and recipes from Unibroue, a company that Sleeman had previously purchased.

The annual Canadian Brewing Awards recognizes the best beers in Canada using blind taste tests. Most of the 2015 winners were craft beers. However, one of the winners was Sleeman Cream Ale, taking a Gold in the Cream Ale category.

John H. Sleeman was born in Cornwall, England in 1805 and came to Ontario in 1834, first settling in St. David's, Ontario (Niagara-on-the-Lake) where he founded the Stamford Spring Brewery in 1836. He and his family moved to Guelph, Ontario in 1847 where they operated a series of breweries including the Hodgert’s Brewery, and the Silver Creek Brewery, which he opened in 1851. His son George Sleeman joined the company in 1859 as general manager and was named a partner in 1865. John H. died in 1893.

By 1890, George Sleeman had achieved great success with Silver Creek Brewery which had sales in Ontario and Quebec. He incorporated it into the Sleeman Brewing and Malting Company Limited with members of his immediate family. Due to excessive investments in his Guelph Street Railway Company, he lost the businesses to the banks in 1905; he then opened the Springbank Brewery. A year later the banks sold the brewery back to Sleeman. The family subsequently operated breweries in Guelph, often with success, until 1933.

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