Great Lakes Brewery
Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada · Est. 1987
Tally's Take
Why this matters
One of Ontario's original craft breweries, still independent, and now brewing more aggressively than breweries a third its age. Longevity did not make it cautious.
The People
Behind the beer
Award-winning family-run independent brewery in Etobicoke.
The Beer Library
Beers
Canuck Pale Ale
Year-RoundAmerican Pale Ale
An old Ontario brewery's reinvention as a hop-forward one. Canuck is the beer that proved a 1987 brewery could out-modern the newcomers.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Octopus Wants To Fight IPA
Year-RoundIPA
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Pompous Ass English Ale
Year-RoundEnglish Pale Ale
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Red Leaf Lager
Year-RoundLager
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sunnyside Session IPA
Year-RoundSession IPA
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →HazeMama
Year-RoundNew England IPA
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Burst!
Year-RoundNew England Pale Ale
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Lake Effect IPA
Year-RoundIPA
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Monty's Aged Ryed Ale
Year-RoundRye Ale
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Robohop
Year-RoundImperial IPA
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Devil's Pale Ale 666
Year-RoundPale Ale
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Winter Ale
Year-RoundSpiced Ale
First-party Great Lakes beer/brand evidence; seasonal/historical status not guessed.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Empowered
Year-RoundPale Ale with Grapefruit Zest
Official GLB product page; annual release.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →THRUST! an IPA
Year-RoundNew England IPA
Official GLB product page; fall release.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Polka Dot Pilsner
Year-RoundPilsner
Official GLB product page; here-and-there release.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Solstice
Year-RoundBourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Official 2025-26 GLB holiday gift-pack listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Meet the Porters (Vanilla)
Year-RoundVanilla Porter
Official GLB holiday gift-pack listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Fighting Weight
Year-RoundSession IPA
Official GLB holiday gift-pack listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Vienna Lager
Year-RoundAmber Lager
Official GLB holiday gift-pack listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Great Lakes Light Lager
Year-RoundLight Lager
Official GLB holiday gift-pack listing.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →LAX Lager
Year-RoundLager
Official GLB 2026 Mimico lacrosse partnership release.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Karmadelic IPA
Year-RoundIPA
Current LCBO listing; Made in Ontario; Superdelic hop.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sultana Solera IPA
Year-RoundNew England IPA
Current LCBO page spells product heading Sultana Solero but description Sultana Solera; recorded as Sultana Solera pending first-party spelling check; 6.3% ABV.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Summer Wheat Ale
Year-RoundWheat Ale
Current LCBO listing; Ontario; lemon zest and ginger.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Great Lakes Brewery Lager
Year-RoundLager
Current LCBO; Made in Ontario; 5.0% ABV.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Straight answers
Common questions about Great Lakes Brewery
- Who owns Great Lakes Brewery?
- Great Lakes Brewery is independently owned — there is no parent company above it on record. It is based in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.
- Is Great Lakes Brewery independent?
- Yes. Great Lakes Brewery is recorded as independent, with no parent company. Independence is recorded as the brewery states it; where a stake is a minority holding or joint venture, this archive leaves it unmapped rather than calling it ownership.
- When was Great Lakes Brewery founded?
- Great Lakes Brewery was founded in 1987 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.
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