We hit a milestone on February 12, 2017 as we turned 30, making us one of the oldest independent craft breweries in Canada. We did a lot of things to celebrate. Tap takeovers, release over 105 different beers, introduced new brands, new glassware, new ideas and we documented it all! Thirty Years of Great Lakes Beer: The Journey […]
30th Anniversary Documentary Premiere!! February 12, 2017 marked our 30th anniversary in the craft brewing industry. To celebrate this historic milestone we decided to capture our year on camera with the help of the talented David Hodge. As we near the end of 2017 and enter our 31st year in business, we wanted to take […]
Things are about to get dark at the GLB retail store this Friday as we welcome back two returning favourites and introduce you to a new behemoth of a beer. At 12pm, Harry Porter, Harry Porter & the Bourbon Soaked Vanilla Bean and our 30th Anniversary Russian Imperial Stout (with Cold Brewed Coffee, Vanilla and […]
It’s no secret that 2017 marks our 30th anniversary in the craft beer business. We’ve been pretty busy pumping out special one-off releases, hosting and participating in many anniversary themed events and tastings, creating numerous video’s that capture this milestone year, and much much more. We decided to catalog some of our most interesting facts […]
Back in February of this year we invited a number of our close industry friends to the brewery to help brew up some collaboration beers on our 7bbl pilot system. We released those small one-off beers during the month of March. Beers like Alternative Facts (Writers), Brewers PA (Brewery friends), Ice Hole Pale Ale (Bar […]
As part of the 30th anniversary documentary that we are currently working on, we asked many GLB staff members to share their favourite GLB moment(s) with you and why they stand out amongst the many we’ve created since 1987. Here are their answers, and as you can see in the video below, they are pretty […]
On February 17th, the day after our 30th anniversary bash at The Antler Room in downtown Toronto, we welcomed a number of bar and restaurant partners into the brewhouse to help brew a GLB favourite – Ice Hole Pale Ale. It was a long day… but a good day! Bar owners/managers from The Wooly Pub, […]
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GLB Family Brew Off Challenge – Another way to help celebrate our 30th Anniversary – be part of our history! For the first time in 30 years, the GLB Family of hardworking employees broke out into teams to brew a number of pilot batches of creative beers, and those creations will be tapped in the brewery […]
Great Lakes Brewery 30 Years Young – 30th anniversary celebrations kick-off February 16th at The Antler Room – February 12, 2017 marks an incredible milestone in the history of our fiercely independent brewery – the date of incorporation for Great Lakes Brewing (GLB). From humble ‘malt extract’ beginnings 30 years ago, to numerous Canadian Brewery […]
