What does it mean to be Ontario’s Local Brewery? This is a title we strive for every single day. From mashing in to tapping kegs, we are committed to bringing fresh beer to this beautiful province. Our focus? You. Our community, our team, our customers. Our vision? Bringing you quality beer at an affordable price. […]
Published on March 30, 2021 Catch the latest episode of A Quick Beer, where we chat with Cass Enright about the wide range of beers that we produce, our recent foray into spirits and the upcoming Great Lakes Brewpub on Toronto’s waterfront. About A Quick Beer:A Quick Beer is a new video series where we […]
We’re back with another new episode of “Between Two Fermenters”, the new GLB web series in which host Alex Whitlow (the best looking, hardest working, most modest GLB employee) takes on esteemed members of the Ontario craft brewing industry. His latest victim, Rob Arsenault, aka The Drunk Polkaroo. Known for his passionate beer blogging and […]
After receiving 4 accolades* and 3 workplace warnings following the inaugural episode of Between Two Fermenters, Alex Whitlow is back to to take on Scott Simmons, President – Ontario Craft Brewers. Alex, who forgot to do up one shirt button throughout the filming of this episode, drinks a mere four cans of Sunnyside Session IPA, […]
The unofficial start of the beer season is back. We know this because Sunnyside Session IPA is back, bringing with it the patio, beach outings, hotdogs in the backyard, grass cutting… all things that scream #FreshGLB. The 3.9% Session IPA, loaded with wonderful aromas and packed with flavour, is now available across the province in […]
Episode 2 of the wildly successful Between Two Fermenters, a new web series created by GLB, in which ratings captured the attention of TV executives the world over, features the President of the Ontario Craft Brewers Association, Scott Simmons! Here is the teaser. And yes, Alex did drink his beer this way… […]
Alex Whitlow, GLB’s Events & Partnerships Manager, wants to take you on a journey. A journey behind the Ontario craft brewing scenes, interviewing esteemed members of the beer community while seeking answers to questions that others are too afraid to ask. With that out of the way, GLB is pleased to debut our latest project, Between Two […]
RoboHop Imperial IPA is back. Yes, it’s true. Our bracingly bitter and bulbous shaped little buddy is back in the GLB retail fridges and now starting to make appearances at LCBO locations across Ontario. To celebrate the return of RoboHop, a beer so aromatic, so flavourful, so beautiful… we’d like to hear, and see, your […]
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 […]
You’ve probably all heard the story by now… You know, the one on the back of our Saison Dupump bottles. The one about a young assistant brewer who was always getting in the way. Always trying to impress the production team with crazy recipe ideas that sounded ludicrous and ill thought out. Yes, Francois Lepump […]
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 […]
