Posts Tagged: Brewery Info
A Note From Rogue Nation
Posted by on Saturday, September 23, 2006 in - 6 comments
I got an email from Rogue Nation this morning. What is Rogue Nation you ask? • “The Rogue Nation is comprised of the brewery, two brewpubs, two distilleries, and six public house embassies; along with an international network of distributors, retailers and consumers. Rise Up! Rogue Ales are …
Beer From Canada By Brazilians
Posted by on Friday, September 15, 2006 in - leave a comment
Interesting article in the Globe and Mail today on how Labatt is largely managed not Canadians so much, oddly, as Brazilians. • “...most people say the change in attitude was swift. Interbrew's slow reform was replaced by InBev's urgency. "It's not the way Interbrew came in. It's a very marked …
Anti-Beerist Activism?
Posted by on Wednesday, September 6, 2006 in - 1 comment
This is shocking news from the English district of Cornwall: • “A Cornish brewery is mopping up after a burglar used its forklift truck to pierce seven settling tanks containing about 5,000 pints of beer. Another 5,000 pints in other vats were contaminated with petrol at the Ring O' Bells … read more »
Lake Placid Craft Brewing Sold
Posted by on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 in - 3 comments
Hey, seems I am not the only Canada who loves upstate New York craft brewing. One of my favorites has been bought up: • “Montreal's ICBS Ltd. said Wednesday it is buying New York`s Lake Placid Craft Brewing Co. The 10-year-old Lake Placid Craft Brewing Co. has created a market demand for their …
Ontario: Neustadt Springs Brewery, Neustadt, Bruce County
Posted by on Sunday, August 27, 2006 in - 1 comment
Directions to Neustadt Springs • As I headed up from Stratford towards Owen Sound on a family tour, I knew that Neustadt was roughly on the way but I had to figure out the shift in the north-south concession lot roads from the north-west to south-east ones...and I got a little lost. South of …
Not Beer Blogging...Brewing Blogging
Posted by on Friday, August 25, 2006 in - leave a comment
Steve at Beau's All Natural, Ontario's newest and eastern-most micro, is running a blog and posted yesterday about the ripping tale of the kölsch that was a bock but which won the prize anyway.
Sleeman Breweries Sold
Posted by on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 in - 3 comments
As hoped for on auction day, Canada's smallest macro, Sleeman Breweries of Guelph here in Ontario has found a buyer from Japan: • “Japan's Sapporo Breweries Ltd. plans to keep open all of Sleeman Breweries Ltd.'s operations and will retain John Sleeman as head of the company as part of a …
Sleeman Auctioned Today
Posted by on Monday, July 31, 2006 in - 1 comment
An end of an era today as Canada's bar turned micro turned regional turned mini-national macro goes on the block: • “Four brewers are expected to belly up to the bar today and pitch offers for Sleeman Breweries Ltd. as the auction of the $220-million beer maker enters its final stage. The two …
Belgium: Three From Affligem Brouwerij, Opwijk
Posted by on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 in - 1 comment
Back in 2000 Heineken bought half of the shares of the brewer, De Smedt, which started operations in 1790. This little brewery was renamed as key to the purchase was De Smedts license to the abbey ales of the monks of Affligem, who trace their history and brewing back to an original founding in …
Beau's All Natural Brewing Co., Vankleek Hill, ON, Canada
Posted by on Thursday, June 29, 2006 in - 5 comments
And it appears the beer drinkers of the area were ready, according to yesterday's press release: • “Go ahead and call them sell-outs. They don't mind at all. • The team at Eastern Ontario's newest brewery, Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co., couldn't be happier that all 30 hectolitres (3,000 L, or …
