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A sour mood among craft brewers is a good thing for fans of tart and fruity beers.
Railway City in St. Thomas is on board with a summertime strawberry lemonade sour and an event that showcases it, Lake Erie perch and jazz. Seafood, Sours and Swing is July 27.
At Storm Stayed in London, friends are dropping by to celebrate Sour Fest 2024. In addition to its own sour creations, Storm Stayed will have guest taps from six other breweries including All My Friends and Prince Eddies from the Prince Edward County, Counterpoint of Kitchener, Fairweather of Hamilton, Rorschach of Toronto and Wishbone Brewing of Waterford. Sour Fest is July 13.
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Sour beers don’t sell as swiftly as IPAs and lagers, but they pop in popularity in the summer.
BEERLAB MEETS SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Five years ago, Beerlab London made the leap from garage brewing to opening a brewery in the city’s core. Dealing with seemingly endless roadwork and other downtown drama might have discouraged some, but not the Denim Brothers — Nick Baird and Adil Ahmad — who run the lab.
Now, they’re stepping it up, rebranding as Supply and Demand Beer and Pizza.
In a video post, the Denim Brothers assure fans their philosophy of innovation and experimentation won’t change.
NEW AND NOTED
Storm Stayed rolled out a lemon radler, Solar Cycle, packaged in 473 ml cans, a first for the Wharncliffe Road brewery. Solar Cycle is 3.2 per cent alcohol and priced at $3.50 a can.
Railway City’s radler is Cosmic Citrus, brewed with yuzu and grapefruit with 2.5 per cent alcohol.
In Stratford the refresher of choice is McCarthy’s Radler at Black Swan Brewing. It’s blended with strawberry lemonade and is 3.5 per cent alcohol. The name is an homage to the first business, McCarthy’s Bicycle Repair, to operate in what is now the brewery.
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Red Baron, a blonde lager once in wide distribution in Canada, is flying again as part of the relaunch of the formerly fallow Formosa Springs. The Red Baron recipe was written way back by craft pioneer Brick Brewing in one of Formosa Springs many ownership incarnations. Reopened under local ownership in the Bruce County village of Formosa, the brewery store has three brands in cans. Besides Red Baron, there’s Formosa Light and Formosa Draft.
The task of bringing life to a lifeless building is almost complete as the harbourside Port Stanley Brewing readies for its debut. The brewery’s restaurant, Riva, had a soft opening on Canada Day weekend. The owners renovated the Dominion of Canada Building, which once served as a customs house for freight arriving by ship. It was built in the 1920s and is listed as a local heritage property.
Wayne Newton is a freelance journalist based in London.
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