Nu ik zo op Europa ben gericht (België, Duitsland, Luxemburg, Frankrijk, Tsjechië, Slowakije etc...) toch even wat intercontinentaal nieuws...Canada is een bierland. Zoals ik al eerder aangaf.
Op www.craftbeersofcanada.com/is Canadees bier te zien. Sowieso zie je op de startpagina zo'n typische oz-proefglaasje:
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Craft Beers of Canada: A meticulously-curated collection, brewed in Ontario.
Craft Beers of Canada specializes in importing premium craft brews, and helping small-batch breweries navigate the United States market (www.craftbeersofcanada.com/home).
It's no simple stereotype that Canadians love their beer. Beer is this country's most popular alcoholic drink, and craft beer in particular is having a renaissance in Canada. Even as our per capita beer consumption drops, sales and consumption of craft beers keeps rising.
Overall beer sales have been flat across Canada since 1995, but craft beer sales have revenue growth at or near double digits, and have since 2009, according to a 2012 report from BMO Nesbitt Burns (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html). Er zijn ook de Canadian Brewing Awards.
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Uit die lijst blijk dat er diverse categorieën zijn, zoals Cream Ale, Belgian Style Strong Specialty Ale, Imperial India Pale Ale, Wheat Beer – Belgian Style White/Wit, Wheat Beer – North American Style, Wheat Beer German Style (Weiss) en Wood and Barrel Aged Sour Beer... (zie ook www.canadianbrewingawards.com/winners/years/2015/) Het valt op dat dit bijzondere (en veel) bierstijlen zijn. Er zijn ook tal van festivals:
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In Canada, is de consumptie groeit ambachtelijke bier in 2015. Hier zijn een aantal statistieken over het verbruik in verschillende steden.
Toen Canada's grootste consumentenorganisatie deed een studie over ambachtelijke bier, vinden we een aantal zeer interessante gegevens. RTS ondervraagde bijna 42.000 onderwerpen te concentreren op de verschillen en overeenkomsten tussen de verschillende steden in Canada (www.happybeertime.com/blog/2015/10/29/en-2015-la-consommation-canadienne-de-bieres-artisanales-explose/).
Meer informatie is te vinden op:
www.canadianbeernews.com/ en www.beerincanada.ca/
Aangezien er zo veel is veranderd zal dit boek, niet meer heel bruikbaar zijn...
Quebec is de stad waar men consumeert de meest ambachtelijke bieren. 41% van de bierdrinkers hebben ambachtelijke bier geconsumeerd in de voorgaande maand. Franstaligen in Montreal ook rekening verbruik tot 39% als Ottawa. Vancouver, waar het brouwen scene zeer wordt beïnvloed door de Amerikaanse uitbreiding van de staten Washington (Seattle) en Oregon (Portland) heeft ook een groeiende consument met 34% van de consumenten ambachtelijke bier onder bierdrinkers. Niet verrassend, toen de Toronto scene "ambachtelijke" blijft klein in vergelijking met de grootte van de stad is nog slechts 26% van de consumenten van ambachtelijke bieren. Cijfers die ondanks alles, waardoor veel fans dromerige Franse artisanale bieren (www.happybeertime.com/blog/2015/10/29/
en-2015-la-consommation-canadienne-de-bieres-artisanales-explose/).
Smokey: Holy Smoke Scotch Ale
Brewery: Church-Key Brewing Company
City: Cambellford, Ontario
The Type: These beers are given their smokey flavour through the use of malted barley dried over an open flame.
The Brew: This peat-smoked Scotch ale is so dark that it's nearly black. (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Wit: Oranje Weiss
Brewery: Amsterdam Brewery
City: Toronto, Ontario
The Type: This Belgian-style beer is light and crisp that narrowly escaped extinction twice in the 20th century.
The Brew: This seasonal brew is an unfiltered white, flavoured with orange peel, coriander, and anise. (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Beer in Canada was introduced by European settlers in the seventeenth century, and a number of commercial brewers thrived until Prohibition in Canada. Though short-lived, very few brewers survived, and it was only in the late twentieth century that new breweries opened up. The Canadian Beer industry now plays an important role in Canadian identity, though globalization of the brewing industry has seen the major players in Canada acquired by or merged with foreign companies, notably its three largest beer producers, Labatt, Molson and Sleeman. The result is that Moosehead has become the largest fully Canadian-owned brewer....In most of Canada the most popular types are macro pale lagers like Molson Canadian and Labatt Blue. In Quebec and the Maritimes, lager-like ales such as Molson Export and Alexander Keith's are also popular.
Craft beer is a small but steadily growing market segment in Canada, with many larger breweries buying smaller operators or introducing new bolder styles to keep up with consumer demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Canada).
Craft breweries used to be referred to as micro-breweries, but some of them aren't so small anymore: Quebec's McAuslan Brewery sells more than $20 million worth of beer a year, for example. Ontario Craft Brewers' top cutoff for a craft brewery is 400,000 hecalitres of beer a year (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Rye: Rye Pale Ale
Brewery: Cameron's Brewing
City: Oakville, Ontario
The Type: Rye beers are made when a portion of the barley malt is replaced with rye, which is generally malted.
The Brew: Part of Cameron's brewmaster series, this bittersweet beer has won several Canadian Brewing Awards, including a bronze in 2013 (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Craft beer accounts for 6% of the Canadian beer market, but that share is much larger in some regions such as British Columbia where 20% of beer sold is craft beer. The first modern Canadian craft brewer was Horseshoe Bay Brewing, founded in Vancouver in 1982. This was followed by Granville Island Brewing of Vancouver (1984), Brick Brewery of Waterloo (1984), Granite Brewery of Halifax (1985), Wellington Brewery of Guelph (1985), Big Rock Brewery of Calgary (1985), and McAuslan Brewing of Montreal (1989). Microbreweries and brewpubs have continued to expand since.
One way the foreign-owned "macrobreweries" have dealt with the threat of this slow but steady growth of domestic brewers is by buying them outright. For example, Creemore Springs of Creemore, Ontario was bought by MolsonCoors in 2005, and Granville Island Brewing became part of the corporation in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Canada).
What are Canada’s best craft beer destinations?
ather than trying to taste-test every brewery in Canada in the name of research (again), I touched base with expert boozehounds across the country for their top tips on where to sup – starting with Joe Wiebe, author of Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries.
1. “Victoria’s been B.C.’s craft-beer capital since Canada’s first brewpub, Spinnakers, opened here in 1984. Five more brewpubs and six breweries have opened in Greater Victoria since – including Driftwood, which always comes up in conversations about Canada’s best breweries.”
2. Then there’s Vancouver. “Right now, there’s no more exciting place to drink craft beer in B.C. – and possibly all of Canada. Since 2012, 13 new breweries and one brewpub have opened within the city limits plus a dozen or so nearby,” says Wiebe, whose book profiles favourites from Brassneck to Powell Street Craft Brewery. But while he also points to pilgrimage-worthy Sunshine Coast producers Townsite Brewing and Persephone Brewing, plus Vancouver Island’s Gladstone Brewing and Forbidden Brewing, Wiebe suggests checking into October’s B.C. Craft Beer Month events – and sampling his fall-season favourite: Driftwood’s Sartori Harvest IPA.
3. “Halifax has nine breweries and brewpubs plus another 10 within a couple of hours’ drive,” says Maritimes beer blogger Chris McDonald (acbeerblog.ca), who recommends trying Granite Brewery and Unfiltered Brewing....Halifax’s Alexander Keith’s Brewery is literally one of the best brewery tours I’ve ever done. @TravelYourself (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/what-are-canadas-best-craft-beer-destinations/article26518245/)
Pale: Imperial I.P.A
Brewery: Garrison Brewing Company
City: Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Type: Copper coloured and fruity, these beers are originally from England.
The Brew: Garrison bills this as "the hoppiest beer in Atlantic Canada." Depending on your taste for hops, that either sounds great or awful. If you're a hophead, this is your brew (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
4. “With a respectable number of breweries – four beer, one cider and one mead – Fredericton’s becoming a great beer destination,” he says, recommending TrailWay Brewing and Grimross Brewing.
5. It’s also worth sampling Prince Edward Island’s grassroots scene. “PEI Brewing Co.’s Sir John A’s Honey Wheat Ale uses local honey while Upstreet Craft Brewing uses local rhubarb and strawberries for its Rhuby Social Witbier,” says McDonald
6. But while their fall favourite libation is New Brunswick-made Imperial Vanilla Porter from Hammond River Brewing, you might be tempted instead to tilt your glass toward Quebec.
7. “Among Montreal’s many great beer neighbourhoods, the connecting boroughs of Mile End and Rosemont [are] my favourite part of town,” says beer blogger Noah Forrest (beerism.ca). “Vices et Versa and Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! serve exceptional Quebec-brewed beer – including the latter’s Péché Mortel imperial stout.” But there’s more than Montreal to Quebec’s froth-tastic beer list. “Among Shawinigan’s many options, don’t miss Le Trou du Diable Broue Pub. Their Dulcis Succubus is a wine-barrel-aged Belgian farmhouse ale that changes the way you think about beer.”
Then there’s the Eastern Townships. “Among the great breweries and brewpubs here are Boquébière and Auberge Sutton Brouërie, while Brasserie Dunham’s Saison Rustique is heaven in a bottle.”
8. Over in Ontario, bar crawling on foot (or all fours) is a key benefit of Toronto tippling, says beer writer Ben Johnson (bensbeerblog.com). “I really like the Junction neighbourhood. Its great small breweries include Junction Craft Brewing, the Indie Alehouse, Rainhard Brewing and soon-to-open Henderson Brewing.”
Ontario also offers wider options. “The Ottawa area’s remarkable craft beer scene is growing exponentially, with Broadhead Brewing, Covered Bridge Brewing, Bicycle Craft Brewery and many more.” (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/what-are-canadas-best-craft-beer-destinations/article26518245/)
Canadian Craft Beer Festivals was established in 2013 and operates four Craft Beer Festivals throughout Ontario (www.canadiancraftbeerfestivals.ca/).
9. And don’t dismiss Hamilton. “It’s becoming a craft-beer hub with Garden Brewers, Hamilton Brewery and the small-but-excellent Clifford Brewing,” he says, adding Toronto-bound visitors shouldn’t miss the city’s late-October Cask Days (caskdays.com).
10 Alberta's The Big Rock [Alberta] brewery tour and a visit to their restaurant is a must. Their wheat beer with a slice of lemon is a great summer throat charmer. Their Traditional is a heftier, full bodied offering. @RichardatWRG etc... (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/what-are-canadas-best-craft-beer-destinations/article26518245/)
Brown Ale: Traditional Ale
Brewery: Big Rock Brewery
City: Calgary, Alberta
The Type: Look for caramel and chocolate flavours, sometimes with a slight citrus accent.
The Brew: This beer was first brewed in 1985 with the goal of creating an English-style beer that was markedly different from the typical Canadian bottle (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html)
Als bierliefhebber kun je hier dus goed toeven...
Op www.craftbeersofcanada.com/is Canadees bier te zien. Sowieso zie je op de startpagina zo'n typische oz-proefglaasje:
Craft Beers of Canada: A meticulously-curated collection, brewed in Ontario.
Craft Beers of Canada specializes in importing premium craft brews, and helping small-batch breweries navigate the United States market (www.craftbeersofcanada.com/home).
It's no simple stereotype that Canadians love their beer. Beer is this country's most popular alcoholic drink, and craft beer in particular is having a renaissance in Canada. Even as our per capita beer consumption drops, sales and consumption of craft beers keeps rising.
Overall beer sales have been flat across Canada since 1995, but craft beer sales have revenue growth at or near double digits, and have since 2009, according to a 2012 report from BMO Nesbitt Burns (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html). Er zijn ook de Canadian Brewing Awards.
American Style India Pale Ale
GOLD
Punch Bowl, Russell Brewing Co. (BC)
Experimental Beer
GOLD
Dead Frog Nutty Uncle Peanut Butter Stout ,
Dead Frog Brewing Co.(BC)
Uit die lijst blijk dat er diverse categorieën zijn, zoals Cream Ale, Belgian Style Strong Specialty Ale, Imperial India Pale Ale, Wheat Beer – Belgian Style White/Wit, Wheat Beer – North American Style, Wheat Beer German Style (Weiss) en Wood and Barrel Aged Sour Beer... (zie ook www.canadianbrewingawards.com/winners/years/2015/) Het valt op dat dit bijzondere (en veel) bierstijlen zijn. Er zijn ook tal van festivals:
In Canada, is de consumptie groeit ambachtelijke bier in 2015. Hier zijn een aantal statistieken over het verbruik in verschillende steden.
Toen Canada's grootste consumentenorganisatie deed een studie over ambachtelijke bier, vinden we een aantal zeer interessante gegevens. RTS ondervraagde bijna 42.000 onderwerpen te concentreren op de verschillen en overeenkomsten tussen de verschillende steden in Canada (www.happybeertime.com/blog/2015/10/29/en-2015-la-consommation-canadienne-de-bieres-artisanales-explose/).
Meer informatie is te vinden op:
www.canadianbeernews.com/ en www.beerincanada.ca/
Aangezien er zo veel is veranderd zal dit boek, niet meer heel bruikbaar zijn...
Quebec is de stad waar men consumeert de meest ambachtelijke bieren. 41% van de bierdrinkers hebben ambachtelijke bier geconsumeerd in de voorgaande maand. Franstaligen in Montreal ook rekening verbruik tot 39% als Ottawa. Vancouver, waar het brouwen scene zeer wordt beïnvloed door de Amerikaanse uitbreiding van de staten Washington (Seattle) en Oregon (Portland) heeft ook een groeiende consument met 34% van de consumenten ambachtelijke bier onder bierdrinkers. Niet verrassend, toen de Toronto scene "ambachtelijke" blijft klein in vergelijking met de grootte van de stad is nog slechts 26% van de consumenten van ambachtelijke bieren. Cijfers die ondanks alles, waardoor veel fans dromerige Franse artisanale bieren (www.happybeertime.com/blog/2015/10/29/
en-2015-la-consommation-canadienne-de-bieres-artisanales-explose/).
Smokey: Holy Smoke Scotch Ale
Brewery: Church-Key Brewing Company
City: Cambellford, Ontario
The Type: These beers are given their smokey flavour through the use of malted barley dried over an open flame.
The Brew: This peat-smoked Scotch ale is so dark that it's nearly black. (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Wit: Oranje Weiss
Brewery: Amsterdam Brewery
City: Toronto, Ontario
The Type: This Belgian-style beer is light and crisp that narrowly escaped extinction twice in the 20th century.
The Brew: This seasonal brew is an unfiltered white, flavoured with orange peel, coriander, and anise. (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Beer in Canada was introduced by European settlers in the seventeenth century, and a number of commercial brewers thrived until Prohibition in Canada. Though short-lived, very few brewers survived, and it was only in the late twentieth century that new breweries opened up. The Canadian Beer industry now plays an important role in Canadian identity, though globalization of the brewing industry has seen the major players in Canada acquired by or merged with foreign companies, notably its three largest beer producers, Labatt, Molson and Sleeman. The result is that Moosehead has become the largest fully Canadian-owned brewer....In most of Canada the most popular types are macro pale lagers like Molson Canadian and Labatt Blue. In Quebec and the Maritimes, lager-like ales such as Molson Export and Alexander Keith's are also popular.
Craft beer is a small but steadily growing market segment in Canada, with many larger breweries buying smaller operators or introducing new bolder styles to keep up with consumer demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Canada).
Craft breweries used to be referred to as micro-breweries, but some of them aren't so small anymore: Quebec's McAuslan Brewery sells more than $20 million worth of beer a year, for example. Ontario Craft Brewers' top cutoff for a craft brewery is 400,000 hecalitres of beer a year (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Rye: Rye Pale Ale
Brewery: Cameron's Brewing
City: Oakville, Ontario
The Type: Rye beers are made when a portion of the barley malt is replaced with rye, which is generally malted.
The Brew: Part of Cameron's brewmaster series, this bittersweet beer has won several Canadian Brewing Awards, including a bronze in 2013 (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
Craft beer accounts for 6% of the Canadian beer market, but that share is much larger in some regions such as British Columbia where 20% of beer sold is craft beer. The first modern Canadian craft brewer was Horseshoe Bay Brewing, founded in Vancouver in 1982. This was followed by Granville Island Brewing of Vancouver (1984), Brick Brewery of Waterloo (1984), Granite Brewery of Halifax (1985), Wellington Brewery of Guelph (1985), Big Rock Brewery of Calgary (1985), and McAuslan Brewing of Montreal (1989). Microbreweries and brewpubs have continued to expand since.
One way the foreign-owned "macrobreweries" have dealt with the threat of this slow but steady growth of domestic brewers is by buying them outright. For example, Creemore Springs of Creemore, Ontario was bought by MolsonCoors in 2005, and Granville Island Brewing became part of the corporation in 2010 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Canada).
What are Canada’s best craft beer destinations?
ather than trying to taste-test every brewery in Canada in the name of research (again), I touched base with expert boozehounds across the country for their top tips on where to sup – starting with Joe Wiebe, author of Craft Beer Revolution: The Insider’s Guide to B.C. Breweries.
1. “Victoria’s been B.C.’s craft-beer capital since Canada’s first brewpub, Spinnakers, opened here in 1984. Five more brewpubs and six breweries have opened in Greater Victoria since – including Driftwood, which always comes up in conversations about Canada’s best breweries.”
2. Then there’s Vancouver. “Right now, there’s no more exciting place to drink craft beer in B.C. – and possibly all of Canada. Since 2012, 13 new breweries and one brewpub have opened within the city limits plus a dozen or so nearby,” says Wiebe, whose book profiles favourites from Brassneck to Powell Street Craft Brewery. But while he also points to pilgrimage-worthy Sunshine Coast producers Townsite Brewing and Persephone Brewing, plus Vancouver Island’s Gladstone Brewing and Forbidden Brewing, Wiebe suggests checking into October’s B.C. Craft Beer Month events – and sampling his fall-season favourite: Driftwood’s Sartori Harvest IPA.
3. “Halifax has nine breweries and brewpubs plus another 10 within a couple of hours’ drive,” says Maritimes beer blogger Chris McDonald (acbeerblog.ca), who recommends trying Granite Brewery and Unfiltered Brewing....Halifax’s Alexander Keith’s Brewery is literally one of the best brewery tours I’ve ever done. @TravelYourself (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/what-are-canadas-best-craft-beer-destinations/article26518245/)
Pale: Imperial I.P.A
Brewery: Garrison Brewing Company
City: Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Type: Copper coloured and fruity, these beers are originally from England.
The Brew: Garrison bills this as "the hoppiest beer in Atlantic Canada." Depending on your taste for hops, that either sounds great or awful. If you're a hophead, this is your brew (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html).
4. “With a respectable number of breweries – four beer, one cider and one mead – Fredericton’s becoming a great beer destination,” he says, recommending TrailWay Brewing and Grimross Brewing.
5. It’s also worth sampling Prince Edward Island’s grassroots scene. “PEI Brewing Co.’s Sir John A’s Honey Wheat Ale uses local honey while Upstreet Craft Brewing uses local rhubarb and strawberries for its Rhuby Social Witbier,” says McDonald
6. But while their fall favourite libation is New Brunswick-made Imperial Vanilla Porter from Hammond River Brewing, you might be tempted instead to tilt your glass toward Quebec.
7. “Among Montreal’s many great beer neighbourhoods, the connecting boroughs of Mile End and Rosemont [are] my favourite part of town,” says beer blogger Noah Forrest (beerism.ca). “Vices et Versa and Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! serve exceptional Quebec-brewed beer – including the latter’s Péché Mortel imperial stout.” But there’s more than Montreal to Quebec’s froth-tastic beer list. “Among Shawinigan’s many options, don’t miss Le Trou du Diable Broue Pub. Their Dulcis Succubus is a wine-barrel-aged Belgian farmhouse ale that changes the way you think about beer.”
Then there’s the Eastern Townships. “Among the great breweries and brewpubs here are Boquébière and Auberge Sutton Brouërie, while Brasserie Dunham’s Saison Rustique is heaven in a bottle.”
8. Over in Ontario, bar crawling on foot (or all fours) is a key benefit of Toronto tippling, says beer writer Ben Johnson (bensbeerblog.com). “I really like the Junction neighbourhood. Its great small breweries include Junction Craft Brewing, the Indie Alehouse, Rainhard Brewing and soon-to-open Henderson Brewing.”
Ontario also offers wider options. “The Ottawa area’s remarkable craft beer scene is growing exponentially, with Broadhead Brewing, Covered Bridge Brewing, Bicycle Craft Brewery and many more.” (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/what-are-canadas-best-craft-beer-destinations/article26518245/)
9. And don’t dismiss Hamilton. “It’s becoming a craft-beer hub with Garden Brewers, Hamilton Brewery and the small-but-excellent Clifford Brewing,” he says, adding Toronto-bound visitors shouldn’t miss the city’s late-October Cask Days (caskdays.com).
10 Alberta's The Big Rock [Alberta] brewery tour and a visit to their restaurant is a must. Their wheat beer with a slice of lemon is a great summer throat charmer. Their Traditional is a heftier, full bodied offering. @RichardatWRG etc... (www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/activities-and-interests/what-are-canadas-best-craft-beer-destinations/article26518245/)
Brown Ale: Traditional Ale
Brewery: Big Rock Brewery
City: Calgary, Alberta
The Type: Look for caramel and chocolate flavours, sometimes with a slight citrus accent.
The Brew: This beer was first brewed in 1985 with the goal of creating an English-style beer that was markedly different from the typical Canadian bottle (www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/craft-beer-canadian-best-must-try_n_3417205.html)
Als bierliefhebber kun je hier dus goed toeven...