Hamilton Brewery

Discover new music with Audio/Visual. This collaborative series celebrates the intersection of art, music and beer, featuring a record label, four bands and one visual artist. Every three months, the bands, the record label and the artist will switch, making room for continued discovery of emerging music of all genres. Audio/Visual Lager is super refreshing, making it the ideal beer for concerts, green rooms, backyards or wherever you tune in. Audio/Visual is brewed with pilsner malt and brown rice and cold aged for 4 weeks for the most refreshingly clean, and crisp finish possible. We use Wai-iti hops for fresh notes of lime and mandarin citrus to round out this easy drinking lager.

Matter of Fact, our easy drinking Dry Hopped Blonde Ale, is designed to refresh. A subtle but present dry-hop of Ella, Centennial and Citra hops puts a citrusy, tropical twist on a clean blonde ale. With a floral, grapefruit nose and bright haze, this beer is perfect for someone who loves a New England Style IPA but is after something a bit more sessionable.

This hugely flavourful, yet extremely sessionable Double Dry-Hopped IPA is made with 16 grams per litre of Amarillo, Citra, Mosaic and Centennial hops. Citrus and Tropical fruit notes dominate, but is also balanced with a smooth body that makes this one super easy drinking IPA.

Our ʻRhyme & Reasonʼ Citra Pale Ale showcases the very best hops have to offer, but at only 5.7% abv. It’s far more sessionable than your typical American IPA. The flavour and aroma of Citra, Centennial, Chinook and Simcoe hops prevail without excessive bitterness for maximum drinkability. Malt sweetness in the background complements the hops for a crisp finish that will make you keep going back for more!

Galaxy, Mosaic, and Citra hops deliver aromas and flavours of tropical fruits, mango and citrus. Light malt body lets the hops shine through, and finishes crisp but not bitter. A delicious, hemispheric hop mashup!

Fall into the rich embrace of this New England style IPA. Simcoe and Mosaic hops balance each other to make this juicy IPA explosively fruit forward in both taste and aroma while curbing any unbearable sweetness to make an extremely drinkable beer. The huge mouth feel ensures all of your tastebuds are enveloped in a blanket of tropical bliss, paradise in a can.

This New England style DIPA is a beast, but not in a "lurking in the shadows, evil" kind of way; in a "flavour explosion, delicious hops," GOOD Monster kind of way! Double dry hopped with 24g/L of Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe and Amarillo; notes of tropical mango and passionfruit, juicy peach, and bright orange, lemon, and grapefruit shine!

The latest version of our rotating-hop DIPA showcases El Dorado, a hop known for notes of mango and pineapple. With Azacca and Chinook hops adding in juicy tropical fruit, citrus and pine resin character, you get the maximum hop experience!⁠

Stranger Than Fiction is a full-bodied porter with plenty of roast flavour with hints of molasses. Ridiculous amounts of chocolate and pale ale malts make this porter a smooth and creamy brew.

Nature of Things is our flagship unfiltered dry cider. This small-batch cider is made from 100% locally sourced apples and naturally gluten-free. Super refreshing, crisp and clean this cider is a go-to for any easy drinking occasion.

Circling the Sun cider is a tart cherry cider blend made with Ontario Montmorency Cherry juice from the Niagara escarpment, and blended with our Nature of Things cider. The flavour of fresh cherries and orchard grown apples is paired perfectly. The result is a juicy and fresh cider which is extremely well balanced, dry and is an ideal beverage for the summer.

The combination of tart and sweet combine beautifully in our new limited edition cider. The nose is of fragrant candied blood orange with a slight apple twist. Tart cranberries shine on the palette, making the cider dry and refreshing.

After the never ending battle between the hop heads and sour lovers we decided to appease the two. Using Vic Secret, Mosaic, and Citra hops this brew is juicy, sour and extremely refreshing. Sour and hops in perfect, thirst quenching, harmony!

The juicy intensity of blackberry and sweet tangy boysenberry pair perfectly with the classic Jam Up hop blend of Vic Secret, Mosaic, and Citra, resulting in a juicy, sour, and extremely refreshing brew.⁠

Tart Montmorency cherries and a blend of light and dark sweet cherries pair perfectly with the juicy Vic Secret, Mosaic, and Citra hops from our classic Jam Up, producing an outstanding sour blend of flavours.

Sweet and exotic passion fruit pairs with juicy peach for a beer that screams summer! Sour & hops in perfect, thirst quenching harmony!

Pouring a beautiful soft cloudy pink and smelling of a tropical vacation, our Guava Gose is like a sour mashed wheat beer dosed with the largest batch of guava we could get away with. The base Gose has a balanced lemony tartness from the presence of malted wheat, Himalayan pink sea salt and coriander with a flowery bright smoothness from guava. The end result is a perfect balance of tart, sweet, and sour, leaving you refreshed and wanting more.

Not only did we throw a mountain of raspberries into this brew, we backed them up with a generous amount of berry forward Mosaic and Barbe Rouge hops! The result is a refreshingly tart, fruit forward sour ale.

The Pomegranate and Grapefruit sour showcases a unique balance between tart and sweet. It’s a fine line to walk, but we left it in the hands of fermentation and it didn’t let us down. This fruity pair is meant to satisfy your thirst and be deliciously refreshing!

Our Smoothie Sour is back. We might not be able to say this beer is exactly healthy, but we put all the good-for-you ingredients into this legitimate breakfast-esque beer. Berries, Banana, Granola and Milk sugar, all heightened with bright acidity.

Stillwater Artisanal, check. Blueberry, Chocolate, Coffee and Vanilla, check. You're damn right we're unleashing this flavour bomb with one of the most creative forces in the beer industry. Blueberry is sweet and tart and heightened to new levels with the bright acidity and roasty chocolate notes emphasized by Detour coffee and Cocoa.

It's back!! We are bringing back the overwhelming fan-favourite IPA #5 for the latest instalment in our IPA Series. This DIPA is made with massive amounts of Simcoe and Citra hops, which are bursting with notes of bright grapefruit citrus, juicy tropical mango and passionfruit, with pleasantly dank, piney undertones, and a touch of lactose for sweetness.

IPA No. 16 is a refreshing blend of juicy and floral. Brewed in honour of International Women’s day, the nose is fragrant while retaining a strong backbone of hoppy aromatics. The complex hop blend was designed by the Pink Boots Society, an organization created to assist, inspire, and encourage women in the beer Industry, and lends a subtle floral sweetness. The beer finishes with an effervescent pop of pithy grapefruit for an elevated IPA with a distinct and striking flavour combination.

A whole lot of Ontario-made goodness went into this collab with Matron Fine Beer! The crew at Matron is well known for making beer inspired by what grows around them. So we brewed Shuns Wheat IPA with 100% Ontario-grown wheat and barley from Barn Owl Malt in Belleville, ON - not far from Matron's brewery in Bloomfield, ON. Made with Mosaic, Amarillo, and Cascade hops, Shuns delivers noticeable floral and stone fruit aromas with a smooth, crisp body.

It's not every day we get to use 50kg of roasted sweet potatoes in a beer. Dream Merchant is a hugely flavourful Imperial Stout based on a classic comfort food: candied yams! We took in-house roasted sweet potato, marshmallow, brown sugar, orange zest and spices and turned it into a smooth, sweet stout. Tons of flavour, with a roasty balance that makes this brew far more sessionable than you'd expect from its 10.8% ABV.

Cautionary Tale is a New England Style IPA that combines classic, new-school and experimental hops! The combo of old-favourite Citra, recent-upstart Sabro, and HBC 472, an American hop so new it that doesn't even have a name yet, delivers a wildly complex flavour profile. Coconut and lychee aromas mingle with hints of oak and a smooth creaminess from the experimental HBC 472.

Our Toronto brewery is all about experimentation. So we handed the keys to the brew kit over to some of our Hamilton brewing team to bring recipes of their own to life! Tweezer is an Altbier from the mind of Zach Vernon, who's been brewing with us for nearly 5 years. Altbier, which translates to "old beer," is one of Germany's oldest beer styles, endemic to the city of Dusseldorf. Crisp and clean with a strong malt aroma, Alts survived the Lager mania that swept Germany in the late 19th century. Tweezer puts a bit of spin on this classic style with a clean, malty body accented with Ariana hops, a new German variety with notes of berries and a hint of woodiness.

Sometimes you just don't want to choose between hoppy and sour. We feel you! That's where Future Worlds comes in. This Sour DIPA is dry hopped with some of our flavourful favourites: Citra, Galaxy and Azacca. Expect notes of mango with a hint of pine from the hops, while the crisp sourness delivers a refreshing finish and a background that'll have you thinking "Sour Patch Kids."

There's nothing wrong with a little dessert! Our latest small-batch sour is called Cherry Pie - take one sip and you'll see exactly why. We used a blend of sweet and sour cherries with a touch of almond and vanilla for a tart, refreshing sour that's balanced by a hint of sweetness. It really is like biting into a slice of cherry pie with a graham cracker crust!

When it comes to hop-forward flavour, this brew definitely brings the thunder. Rolling Thunder New England style DIPA gets its unique character from a generous hopping of Strata, a relatively new hop from Oregon, and Zappa, a domesticated hop originally grown in the mountains of New Mexico. Expect aromas of Seville orange, sweet fruit and light pineapple, with big flavour notes of green melon and grapefruit.

That’s right it’s back! A super-charged version of our Imperial Porter, this dark beer was aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels for over a year. It delivers a smooth combination of rich chocolate flavours from our Imperial Porter, married with vanilla and warming alcohol from the barrels. Coming in at 11.5% ABV, in 500ml bottles – this one will warm you up this winter, or cellar it for next year!

IMPERIAL STOUT AGED IN BOURBON BARRELS W/ COFFEE AND ALMOND MILK When you’re brewing with international beer legends like Mikkeller from Denmark, you’ve got to make something outside of the box! In an homage to their iconic Beer Geek Breakfast series, we brewed a vegan-latte inspired imperial stout. Aged in freshly emptied Kentucky Bourbon Barrels, this brew gets a jolt of caffeine from roasted coffee beans from Detour Coffee, and some smoothness with Almond Milk from Earth’s Own plant based beverage company.

IMPERIAL STOUT AGED IN CANADIAN RYE WHISKEY BARRELS W/ CINNAMON, MARSHMALLOWS, COCOA POWDER, LACTOSE Our pals from Civil Society spend most of their time in the muggy Florida heat. So we wanted to give them a taste of a Canadian winter! We collaborated on a beer inspired by the perfect cold-weather cocktail: Fireball and hot chocolate. This imperial stout is brewed with lots of cinnamon, marshmallows, cacao powder and lactose sugar. After getting aged in Canadian Rye Whiskey barrels for 9 months, this Florida/Canada lovechild is ready to drink!

BALTIC PORTER AGED IN COGNAC BARRELS, W/ PLUMS About 7,000 KM and the Atlantic Ocean separate us from our friends at Brewery from Estonia. But geography doesn’t mean a thing when kindred brewing spirits come together! We put a Baltic Porter base into freshly emptied XO Cognac barrels from France to age for 9 months. After that we added plums to elevate the sweet stone fruit character. This beer exemplifies the beautifully deep, sweet, and rich cognac flavours. Pour a glass and curl up in front of a roaring fire, you fancy f*ck.

Sound the alarm – for the first time ever in our Barrel-Aged program, we’re using RUM! Siren Craft Brew from England wanted to create something that exemplified the sweet rich flavours of dark stone fruit, so after 6 months in 10-year-old South American Rum barrels we added Prunes, Raisins and Dates to a Baltic Porter base. Think sticky toffee pudding, like Nan used to make.