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Cottage Country

Muskoka & the Kawarthas

Ontario, Canada

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Tally's take

The character

Breweries built around a season. The cottage economy means a summer that pays for a winter, lakefront towns that triple in population for eight weeks, and beer engineered for a dock. Muskoka Brewery has been at it since 1996 and turned a regional name into a national one without leaving Bracebridge.

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The breweries

5 in this scene

Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada

Muskoka Brewery

Mad Tom and Major Tom, Detour and Tread Lightly — cottage-country beer named for the going rather than the arriving. Muskoka has been Ontario's summer-weekend brewery since 1996, and Detour, a…

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IndependentTread Lightly

Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada

Sawdust City Brewing Company

High rotation and experimental dark beer in Muskoka — cottage country, where most breweries would settle for a summer patio lager.

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IndependentLone Pine

Keene, Ontario, Canada

100 Acre Brewing Company

100 Acre Brewing Company pours in Keene, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

IndependentHundo

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Bobcaygeon Brewing Company

Bobcaygeon Brewing Company pours in Peterborough, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

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IndependentCommon Loon · 4.5%

Baysville, Ontario, Canada

Lake of Bays Brewing Company

Lake of Bays Brewing Company pours in Baysville, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

IndependentFree Wheelin' Wheat Beer · 5.0%

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