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The Six Brewing Company

The Six Brewing Company building.
The Six Brewing Company building.

Bold, new flavours…

“A ‘craft beer lifestyle’ is one that searches for bold, new, innovative flavours,” Arjun Uppal, the general manager of The Six Brewing Company, began, as we sat at a high-top table in the middle of the main floor bar area of the brewpub.

“As far as the lifestyle in this industry, while I loved working at restaurants and bars, the environment here, based on competition, it’s almost like it doesn’t exist. Where I could be making a better lager than the next guy, and they don’t care; they’re just happy that another craft beer ‘competitor’ is also succeeding, because if we succeed, then they succeed too…

“I think the lifestyle is that we’re all fighting together to make great craft beer – it’s not just one guy – it’s really a big happy family. It’s like there’s no ego involved: ‘We just really like your beer, and we just want to have a beer,’ we’re all saying to each other. It always comes down to a love of beer.”

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Longslice Brewery

The Longslice Brewery sign hangs above the entrance to the brewery side of the operation in the Canary District.
The Longslice Brewery sign hangs above the entrance to the brewery side of the operation in the Canary District.

Bringing the community…

With the Jays game playing on the TVs above the bar, I sat with Jimmy Peat, co-owner of Longslice Brewery, in the Aviary, the brewery’s brewpub. I asked him what he thought a ‘craft beer lifestyle’ might be.

“It’s a sense of community,” he quickly remarked. “You get to know a craft beer community that is really inclusive, but also peeps in your own neighbourhood, which is awesome. It really brings everyone together, I think.

“But it’s equally about a move to supporting local and increasing variety, which stimulates the local economy – and knowing who made the beer: being able to discuss that and learn about what you’re really drinking is super cool…

“It’s dope to have access to cases of beer for house parties too,” he finished with a grin.

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Black Lab Brewing Inc.

The Black Lab Brewing Sign above the entrance to the brewery.
The Black Lab Brewing Sign above the entrance to the brewery.

Able to let loose…

In a packed (with humans and dogs alike) tap room on a Saturday afternoon, I sat at a high top table with Billy Madden, co-owner of Black Lab Brewing Inc. I asked him what he thought a ‘craft beer lifestyle’ might be.

“It’s hard to describe a feeling,” he began. “It’s hard-working, yet easy-going – like a 1940’s mentality or something. It’s charitable and focuses on local, while being artistic and creative. The culture is one that also a strives for high quality, but without being snobby.”

He returned to how he began: “I guess that craft beer feeling is really a sense of inclusion, of wanting to share the experience with others. And with others, I think a craft beer lifestyle is one that is able to let loose and enjoy life.”

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Left Field Brewery

The front sign outside of Left Field Brewery.
The front sign outside of Left Field Brewery.

Beer for all…

Sitting at the Left Field Brewery bar with Mike Tempest, the brewery’s tap room manager, I asked him what he thought a “craft beer lifestyle” might be. “There isn’t,” he responded. “There should be a beer for everyone – it is for everyone.”

Opening in February of 2015, the brewery itself was another step in the advent of Left Field Brewery’s march towards establishing itself as a brewery to watch. Starting out as a contract brewer in 2013, their now rapid expanse continues, adding more fermentation tanks to the brewery as recently as this past January. This addition included tanks specifically added for brews to be made with wild yeasts (and that makes me excited!).

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