The Growler

The Growler is a craft beer and lifestyle guide for people who love good beer, good food, good music, and are willing to pay a little more to live well.

Published bi-annually, this trade-paperback-sized digest appeals to anyone interested in Ontario’s rapidly evolving craft beer scene, and craft culture in general. Inside, readers will find a listing of every brewery and brewpub in the province. They’ll also dig deeply into the magazine for stories by Ontario’s best beer and food writers about craftspeople and innovative breweries, beer knowledge, recipes and travel.

A quick word on what we mean by “every craft brewery”:

• If a brewery sells beer in a bottle shop, to restaurants and bars or through the LCBO or The Beer Store, they are listed. Generally, if you need to be on premises to drink the beer they aren’t.
• We mostly don’t list breweries who don’t have regular hours and only sell their beer at popups.
• Former craft breweries that are now owned by conglomerate breweries are listed but we focus on their more interesting, non-industrial beer for their listings. Production-only facilities for craft brands owned by the macrobrewers that don’t have a storefront are not listed.
• Contract brewing facilities are only listed if they make their own craft beer as well as beer for their clients.