Insights and Stories on Brewing

Carlsberg to buy Ontario’s Waterloo Brewing

Dec. 17, 2022 at 6:29 am CST

One of the world’s biggest beer companies is moving to expand its brewing capacity on Canadian soil with a $144 million deal for Kitchener-based Waterloo Brewing. Carlsberg Group on Wednesday announced an all-cash deal worth $4 per share for all shares of Waterloo Brewing, which bills itself as the largest […]

Denmark’s Royal Unibrew to buy Toronto’s Amsterdam Brewery

Jul. 15, 2022 at 3:52 pm CDT

By Reuters

Wastewater regulation eased for Nova Scotia on-farm processing

May. 25, 2022 at 7:20 pm CDT

By Liam O’Connor

Canada’s small, high-protein malt barley crop poses challenges

Oct. 21, 2021 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

With beer taps off, malt barley demand down

Jun. 2, 2020 at 4:22 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

China-Australia row to reshuffle trade in bulging barley market

May. 22, 2020 at 10:11 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — A prohibitive Chinese import tariff on Australian barley will benefit other suppliers without changing the bleak global outlook caused by large stocks and depressed beer demand, analysts and traders said. Beijing said on Monday it would apply an 80.5 per cent tariff on Australian barley imports […]

By Reuters

Craft beer boom drives demand for new malt barley varieties

Aug. 12, 2016 at 8:43 am CDT

New malt barley varieties will soon hit the market to meet the growing demands of a burgeoning craft brewing industry. “The brewing and malting industry is changing,” said Pat Juskiw, a barley breeder with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. “In the past, our industry has been composed of big companies — […]

By Jennifer Blair