Waterloo & Southwestern Ontario

The largest brewer in Canada, and not Canadian. Labatt has been brewing in London, Ontario since 1847 — older than the country it sells to — and produced the beer that was Canada's best-selling for…

A brewery named after the railways, whose flagship is named after what a railway did to the most famous animal on earth. Jumbo gave English the word for anything enormous, and St. Thomas has spent…

Founded as Brick Brewing in 1984 — the first new brewery in Ontario in decades, and the one that made the others look possible.

Canada's oldest independently owned microbrewery, brewing in Guelph since 1985 and never sold. Four decades of turning down offers.

Lager, hazy IPA and spirits on the same rural Ontario acreage. Farm-based production is the oldest model in brewing and one of the hardest to run now.

Anderson Craft Ales pours in London, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

An enormous destination farm brewery dropped into Huron County farmland, built at a scale that only makes sense if you intend to be the reason people drive out.

Royal City Brewing Co. pours in Guelph, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Sons of Kent Brewing Co. pours in Chatham, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

Brewing again in Hiram Walker's old company town, in a building that was part of the original distillery estate. Windsor's beer history is a Prohibition history, same as the Crowsnest — just pointed…

Thomas Carling, a Yorkshire farmer turned soldier, started brewing in London, Ontario in 1840 — seven years before Labatt set up in the same town, which made one small Ontario city the birthplace of…

Re-established in 1988 from an 1851 family recipe book, then sold to Sapporo in 2006. The heritage is genuine and the owner is in Tokyo.

Guelph craft from 1995 to 2018. Twenty-three years is a long run, and it still ended.

Current official tap list verified; exact street address/owners remain for dedicated pass.

London brewery; first-party catalogue deep pass queued.

Cambridge brewery; first-party deep pass queued.

Co-operative ownership structure is a notable archive/business lead; exact founding/address pass queued.

Current first-party beer store, core beers and address verified.

Co-operative brewery structure flagged for verification and story research.

Current official site: London, Ontario; est. 2017; flagship 4EST Lager; 4% of sales donated to local reforestation.

St. Jacobs is Mennonite market country, which makes a hop-forward craft brewery on King Street North a genuinely odd and welcome thing.

Craft Heads Brewing Co. pours in Windsor, Ontario. The full profile — founding, people, beer library, travel — is still to be written.

A brewpub on Metcalfe Street in one of Ontario's prettiest river towns — the gorge does the marketing.

Sarnia's chemical valley is not where anyone expects a craft scene, which is exactly why Refined Fool matters to the people who live there.

Opened in 2020, which is either terrible timing or a statement of intent depending on who you ask.