Great Lakes Brewery Adds Popular IPA to Core Line-Up Octopus Wants to Fight IPA set to join other award-winning brands YEAR-ROUND August 20, 2018, (Etobicoke, ON) – We tried to put our pet Octopus back in his crate, but that just made Octo more irate. In what must be the worst kept secret, Great Lakes […]
We pray, with all eight arms, that you’ve noticed Octopus Wants to Fight IPA on your local LCBO store shelves, on tap at your favourite local establishment and trust that cans are making a home in your home. The 2018 release of our angry friend is off and running and is frankly going, well, swimmingly. Based on the success […]
Our pet Octo is coming back… and we’re throwing a party! (Let us know that you’ll be there) Join Great Lakes Brewery on Thursday March 29th to help celebrate the release of one of our favourite IPAs at the brand new Bar Hop Session (681 Danforth Ave). In addition to Octopus Wants to Fight on tap, there will be […]
We hope to god that you’ve noticed Octopus Wants to Fight IPA on your local LCBO store shelves. We’re doing our best to keep up with the demand and frankly, we’re having tons of fun doing so. One of the questions we get asked most around here is how do we come up with the names […]
Our pet Octo is an angry Octopus. Usually he’s quite surly. But when he gets mad, he becomes annnngrrrrry. It’s been said that his sour attitude is due to a slight disagreement with the Great Lakes brewers. They said they would use 8 ingredients and Octo’s beer would be 8%. Octo likes the number 8. […]
Great Lakes Brewery Officially Announces 2017 Rotating IPA Line-Up – IPA Project started in 2014 will ramp up with 30th anniversary celebrations – January 24, 2017 (Etobicoke, ON): Since 2014, Great Lakes Brewery (GLB) has unofficially run a rotating line-up of India Pale Ales (IPA) through the LCBO retail system on a quarterly basis, focusing […]
Word has it that this news has already been leaked… We’ve read about it on BarTowel.com. Bar staff have been letting people know. And the Great Lakes Brewery (GLB) sales team have been too excited to keep a lid on the news… But now, we can confirm it. Officially. Octopus Wants to Fight IPA will be headed […]
You may have heard the rumours. Our pet Octopus is back, and he Wants to Fight! Today you can get your hands on our Octopus Wants to Fight IPA, with 8 varieties of hops and 8 types of malt – available only at the GLB retail store here in beautiful south Etobicoke. To celebrate the return […]
The first ever batch of Octopus Wants to Fight IPA hit us like a right hook last year. We were smitten with that first sip and vowed to bring it back one day. That day is here. Well, tomorrow actually. Cans of fresh Octopus will hit the GLB retail fridge at 10am tomorrow (Friday) for […]
This is the ninth instalment in our blog series that will allow you to get to know the GLB family – the people behind the beer from production to sales to front office. Let’s have a pint…with Troy Burtch. Provide your full name & position Troy Burtch – Community Manager, Social Media & Sales How long […]
You might have seen the Twitter postings from some of our accounts about the cask tapping of a brand new IPA that we’ve brewed – Octopus Wants to Fight! Well, now we’re releasing it just in time for the long weekend, in both can (in store Thursday) and keg format. The 6.2% unfiltered American style […]
