Ontario’s first CERTIFIED organic lager was born in 2002 from a sense of purpose and a passion for craft beer. We adhere to rules that guarantee both the raw materials and brewing process are pesticide- and herbicide-free. Brewed with imported malt and hops, this 4.2% German Pilsner offers a light, crisp and refreshing flavour with a clean finish.

Tasting Notes: Delicate floral aroma; light palate with malty flavour balanced by some hoppy bitterness.

Serving Suggestions: Seafood, light pasta, cheese and fruit.

Aromas of citrus and spice with roasted notes. Complex malty texture with a snappy bitterness from the cascade hops.

We produce a traditional styled Irish Stout that is served using beer gas to produce that familiar creamy pour. Our black stout has a roasted malt flavour and a hint of toasted walnuts and chocolate in the finish. Select imported hops are used to dry out the finish of this ale.

Very strong “cookie” or baked goods palate following an estery, hoppy aroma with some earthy English hop notes. Slowly drying out in the finish after a solidly malty mid-palate.

Aromas of earthy English hops and yeasty esters give way to a very solid amber malt palate and then a long, dry, hard water lingering finish.

Cherry and hop aroma leads to a drying cherry palate and lingering acidic cherry and earthy hop finish.

Light floral grapefruit/citrus aroma and subtle toasted malt undertone gives way to a solid pale/caramel malt palate and soft, floral lingering finish balanced between mouthcoating malt and drying hops. Very balanced. Brewed with organic prairie malt and Bravo and Cascade hops, our 100th Meridian Organic Amber Lager is firmly grounded in North American brewing tradition. This flavourful amber beauty is our quintessential American-style craft lager. Certified Organic by OCIA.

Wonderful dried fruit, molasses and chocolate tones on the aroma with a rich dark malt and candy sugar palate and dry lingering finish devoid of bitterness. Wonderful acidity that makes this beer drink lighter than it is.

Light, sweet malt (think Ovaltine) aroma with some yeasty ester and light hop on the aroma and palate and a very well balanced finish and aftertaste. Very drinkable for a big beer.

Smooth, rich vanilla aroma and palate. Slightly fruity nose with plum and smoke notes

Fresh raspberry aroma with rich palate and dry lingering finish makes this a delightful patio beer or anytime before or after a meal.

Very sweet, fruity aroma and first taste. Rich chocolate malt palate overlaid with banana/bubblegum esters from yeast. Slightly acidic, drying finish.

Light hoppy and estery first taste gives way to amber caramel malts for a very well balanced palate. Drying finish leaves a malt/hop aftertaste in very understated balance.

Sunset-coloured (orangey-amber) slightly sweet, malty palate with dry lemon-tea finish. Beer made with addition of Black tea leaves and lemon in aging tank. Very smooth and quenching; unfiltered.

A beautifully balanced dark lager style from Germany—our Dammerung (“Twilight” in German) Dunkel is a very chocolatey, malty beer brewed with just enough German noble hops to keep it from being sweet. A blend of pale, caramel, munich and chocolate malts give it a deep mahogany colour and wonderfully rich dark chocolate tone. Brewed with German lager yeast and patiently aged to perfection! Caramel and chocolate palate and aroma with slightly drying finish and a kiss of traditional Hersbrucker hops give it a floral tone that works perfectly with the rich heart notes.

This is a northern French style of farmhouse ale traditionally made in the winter months and then laid-down in a cellar for drinking throughout the year. Ours is a traditional amber beauty presented unfiltered with the yeast still in it add to the slightly fruity/spicy aroma and creaminess of the palate. Named after the famous Chaudiere Falls beside our Ottawa brewpub, this beer pays homage to a time gone by when honest craftsmanship and simplicity were truly valued.

Originating as a cask-only version of our Tankhouse Ale, Tankenstein is a dry-hopped IPA with full body and matching bitterness. It is a perfectly balanced ale with caramel and biscuit malts complementing the dryness of US grown bittering hops but with a massive over-lay of American Cascade hops being added to the tank during ageing to “dry-hop” the beer and give it a wonderful perfumey character. Grapefruit and piney resinous tones are the main contribution of the Cascades and make this a truly classic American-style IPA. It’s ALIVE!!!!!!

This is a traditional Scotch Ale brewed at our Ottawa brewpub. It is made in the style of a Strong “Scotch Ale” being 8% alcohol and with a very full flavoured malty palate. The Tartan Ale is brewed with five different malts including British pale ale malt, roasted barley and caramel, biscuit and Munich malts to give it a rich maltiness and deep amber colour. We use an English ale strain from Burton that gives the beer a light “apple” fruitiness to lighten up the malt to some degree. The malt is also balanced with a small amount of British hops used without donating much flavour- hops are classically not a big part of Strong Scotch Ales which are famed for their massive caramel malt tones and warming character.

Belgian Tripels are a style of strong golden ales traditionally produced by vocational (Trappist) monks. Our Betelgeuse has pear, peach, apple, citrus, clove and bubble gum notes and starts out sweet but finishes dry. At 9.3% ABV it is devilishly strong and a “star” in our family.

Born at our Ottawa brewpub this is “old school” cream ale. Brewed in the style of several beers made long ago by breweries from the Lebreton flats upon which our brewpub is located. This beer is an easy-drinking, crisp, thirst quenching ale with a deep golden colour and bright white head. It is fermented twice, once with ale yeast to produce a creamy, robust palate and then again through a secondary fermentation with lager yeast to develop a smooth and mellow character – truly unique to this classic North American beer style!

A light English-style ale made with 4 malts and 3 hops to craft a flavourful yet drinkable “session” brew. Designed for very high level of dry-hop flavour and moderate bitterness,

Appearing in the fall this devilishly delicious ale is brewed with real pumpkin and generous amounts of spice. This smooth medium bodied amber ale is made with a blend of 5 malts, 6 spices, unmalted wheat, pure vanilla extract and pumpkin in the mash. its spicy aroma and hints of ginger and clove leave a lingering “pumpkin pie” aftertaste. Tasting Notes: Very distinctly “pumpkin” pie flavoured with a mellow body and drying finish. Spicy first taste gives way quickly to smooth vanilla tones and nice malt undercurrents. Appearance: Medium amber/orange Aroma: Baking spices and fresh yeast Body: Medium

Deep amber in colour and made with lightly smoked malt and Madawaska Valley maple syrup, this is a perfect way to cope with the late winter blahs! We smoke part of the malt ourselves at the brewery and then infuse the beer with Eastern Ontario maple syrup from the Yantha Family in the Madawaska Valley to give it a slightly sweet, hardwood- smoked character that is wonderful. Very lightly hopped, this is a variant of an Irish Red Ale and is carbonated. This beer will break the ice and wrap you in warmth at the end of a long winter.

This classic Italian-style pilsner beer is brewed fresh at our Toronto brewpub with imported ingredients. The blend of the palest malts available and aromatic noble European hop varieties create a crisply balanced lager that is perfect with Italian cuisine or on its own on a patio. Tasting Notes: Light hop nose and pale malt palate with soft texture and light, clean hoppy finish. Appearance: Very pale straw with bright white head Aroma: Noble hops and sweet pale malt undertones Body: Low

Brewmaster Notes

This is one of my favourite versions of Pilsner. I first had it when I was 16 in the north of Italy and was hooked, but Pilsners are made all over the country–some of the Sicilian ones are spectacular. They are characterized by lightness of palate and very clean malt and a snappy hop finish–perfect for hot climate beer drinking!

This old-school Scottish pub ale is a classic northern British style of bitter. The rich caramel and roasted malt sweetness is balanced with American bittering hops and dry hopped with British Goldings hops. Dry hopping is a technique that involves adding hops after fermentation to cooled beer to impart an intensely herbal, fresh hop taste and aroma, typically lost when added earlier in the brewing process. Tasting Notes: Molasses/treacle nose with light herbal/earthy aroma with profoundly malty palate with chocolate/caramel tones and a sweet to slowly drying finish. Hops Variety: US Nugget, UK Fuggles Malt Variety: Pale, Munich, Caramel, Biscuit, Roasted Barley Yeast: American Ale

Classic old-school British style stout made with a small quantity of oats in the mash to give the beer a very silky smooth character and rich palate. A lot of different dark malts (including caramel and chocolate malt) are blended together to give this beer a wonderfully deep complexity of flavour and a slight sweetness compared to traditionally dry Irish-style stouts like our Cobblestone. This is a very sessionable beer with a large number of very subtle and understated flavours. Ours is at the high end of the typical bitterness for this style but is made very drinkable by being Nitrogen-charged.

CHERRY BOMB! Belgian Wit charged with Ontario sour cherries.

This is a version of an American west coast IPA that I had been thinking about for a long time. It is a blond, unfiltered beer made with a lot of the techniques that we learned making the Don Valley Bench a few years back. This is similar to the base of that beer but with much higher alcohol content and a completely different hopping regime. The delicacy and prettiness of the Don Valley Bench which was brewed to emulate some of the flavours of white wine were used as a platform to elevate some of the gooseberry and tropical fruit flavours of hops from the South Island of New Zealand. The result is a wonderfully floral and tropical IPA made in the west coast style but with a balance and drinkability that really makes it stand out. You have never had an 87 IBU beer that drinks as easily as this one! Brewmaster Notes

A classic American-style west-coast IPA made with pale barley and wheat malts and flavoured with varieties of New Zealand hops famed for their floral and tropical fruit flavors. Brewed using English ale yeast and left unfiltered for added fruitiness, this beer has a partially soured mash and is aged in contact with French oak. The most noticable feature of this beer is of course it’s intense hoppiness which give the beer very high bitterness and balance the round fruitiness of the hops and yeast. Named after Captain Cook who was the first European to navigate and map the two islands of New Zealand this beer is another waypoint on your continued discovery of Canadian craft beer!

Brewed with pale barley and wheat malts and flavoured with varieties of American and German hops famed for their floral “white wine”, tropical and stone fruit flavours. Using English ale yeast and left unfiltered for added fruitiness, this beer has a partially soured mash and is aged in contact with French oak. The most noticeable feature of this beer is of course its intense hoppiness, which balance the round fruitiness of the hops and yeast. We make a few different IPA’s at Mill Street, but this is our flagship. Brewed on the west coast of Lake Ontario. Brewmaster Notes This is a version of an American west coast IPA that I had been thinking about for a long time. A blond, unfiltered beer made with a lot of the techniques that elevate some of the gooseberry, peach, apricot and tropical fruit flavours of hops from the US west coast and from Germany. The result is a wonderfully floral and tropical IPA with a balance and drinkability that really makes it stand out. Tasting Notes: Intensely floral hop aroma and moderately sweet, fruity palate and long lingering dryness in the finish. Hop aroma and finish are defined by white grape, gooseberry and tropical fruit flavours. Appearance: Straw coloured with bright white foam head Aroma: Very intensely aromatic with fruity/floral hop notes and fresh yeasty fruit aromas. Body: Medium Palate: Pale malt with bready/light hop

Irish Red Ale

This a Mill Street twist on an old Belgian-style witbier or “white bee” made with raw and malted wheat along with orange peel and candied stem ginger added in the brewing process. The ginger adds a bright heat to the palate and complements the fruity yeasty tones perfectly. This beer is made with a small amount of light caramel malt to give it a bit of a candy tone as well as New Zealand Pacific Gem and German Hersbrucker hop varieties in order to give it a very drinkable balance. This beer is served unfiltered and so it will have a light haziness to it from the yeast in suspension.

Brewmaster’s Notes After seeing people’s reaction to the limited-edition Rodeo Monk Belgian-style IPA, I brewed Welter Weight Session IPA to offer the same big hop aromas and delicate fruitiness with a reduced overall bitterness. This feisty white session IPA delivers hoppy Belgian-style IPA qualities at a much more reasonable 4.8% abv, making Welter Weight a beer that you can sit on a deck and drink all summer long – and that is exactly what I plan to do! Made with malted barley and wheat and fermented with Belgian Witbier yeast this unfiltered ale has a uniquely smooth and creamy lightness. A delicate blend of American and European hops gives it an intense fruity/floral aroma and palate but without the aggressive bitterness you would expect from bigger IPAs. Our Welterweight IPA definitely punches above its weight! Tasting Notes: Bright aromas of citrus, apricot and rose-floral with light malt and pear esters on the palate and a long, lingering fruit/floral tail and turning in a slightly herbal dry finish. Very pretty. Appearance: Deep golden with a bright white head. Aroma: Citrus, apricot and rose-floral. Body: Light

Brewmaster’s Notes Uber-traditional German-style Marzen beer. It is perfect for the changing seasons as it is a lager with the full malt character that helps usher in the cooler fall temperatures. A fall staple, this “festbier” is brewed for fall celebrations, the best known being the Oktoberfest in Munich. Our take on the style has a soft, malty aromatic nose and a rich copper colour capped with a large creamy white head. At 5.5% it will keep you warm on a cool autumn evening. Tasting Notes: Medium bodied and deep golden colour, with aroma of malt and yeast with munich malt palate and light kiss of German noble hops creating very good balance. Appearance: Light golden-amber Aroma: Biscuity-malt and fresh yeast Body: Medium Hops Variety: German Tettnanger Malt Variety: Pilsner, Munich, Biscuit Yeast: German Lager

Brewmaster’s Notes The first brew was a disaster with the entire mash dumped onto the floor and shovelled into bins for cow feed. Rye gels and when it gels in your mash it makes the mash really slimey and water tight and you can’t rinse the sugars out…! There was a lot of bad language used during that first brew, but we learned a lot and the second brew (which took two days instead of the usual 8 hours) went better and then the ones after that were managable. We were so mad at the first brew that we called it Schleimhammer in German which means literally “Slime Hammer” because the mash was SO gummed shut that it was the only word we could think of in German to describe the thing! Roggenbier is an ancient style of beer from Germany that actually became extinct for 500 years it is unfiltered like the Wit beer because the style predates filtration. A lot of bad language was used during the first brew, to earn the name Schleimhammer meaning “Slime Hammer” in German, after the mess it caused. We learned a lot and the second brew went better. Producing a delicious beer with a hint of dryness from the Nugget hops and some rich fruitiness and aroma from the German Hefeweizen yeast. Tasting Notes: Light chocolate/fruit ester aroma with a very light and subtle chocolate malt palate (think chocolate popsicles!) with a lovely fading chocolate/banana finish. Appearance: Cloudy, mid brown with a light head Aroma: Chocolate/banana with some spiciness Body: Full Serving Suggestions: Roasted chicken and pork, fruit flan, ruben sandwiches

Brewmaster’s Notes Ernest Hemmingway once said that “You should always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That’ll teach you to keep your mouth shut!” Bob and I had a few too many pints at his bar one night and got talking about how awesome this would be and so here it is! This is a beer that I made for a very good friend of mine and is the house beer at his bar/my local. Pure. Pub. Pint. An Irish-style Red Ale brewed as a collaboration between world-renowned Canadian opera signer Robert Pomakov and his pal Joel Manning. Bob’s Bearded Red is brewed with a blend of imported and Canadian malt and hops including Chinook hops from Prince Edward County to give it a beautiful balanced palate with a kiss of spice from this classic North American hop. Nitrogen-charged for classic pub draught creaminess, this amber beauty is true Canadian craft set on a global stage. Tasting Notes: Nitrogen charged and malt driven with a softness of caramel malt on the palate and a drying finish from Ontario-grown “piney” Chinook hops. Very understated. Appearance: Light Amber Aroma: Caramel malt and fresh yeast Body: Medium

Brew Master Notes Belgian-style Champagne Beer We brewed this beer in the early winter of 2015 in our Ottawa brewpub as a very high level specialty beer using blonde malts and organic cane sugar. I love champagne and the idea of making a beer with that level of elegance and texture is something that I have been thinking about for a long time. During our first pilot brew a waterproof flashlight got dropped into the mash tun during the transfer of the mash to the lauter tun and the light stayed on and kept tumbling throughout the mash and occasionally breaking the surface to light up the mash tun like a search light only to disappear again. We fished the flashlight out of the tank but, the “enlightened” name for this beer was born! This beer is back-blended with our Belgian-style Frambozen and develops a light raspberry/rose note and a light peachy blush colour. This is celebration beer designed for the holiday season but tastes just as nice when shared with friends on any given Thursday night. Info Mill Street’s celebration-style beer, this is a highly carbonated 11% alc. A very “moussy” beer with a wonderfully creamy body and light peachy-sunset colour, this has a very light and fruity nose with a balanced palate and medium-dry finish. Blended with our famous Frambozen Bier from our Toronto pub brewery, this beer has a light and fresh raspberry flavour that makes it taste like summer in a glass. Tasting Notes: Light raspberry/yeasty aroma with creamy and expanding mouthfeel followed by drying finish with estery yeast notes and more raspberry on the finish. Appearance: Pale amber/sunset Aroma: Light fruit/raspberry

Lightly sweet, fresh raspberry aroma followed by nice raspberry and lightly sweet malt flavours on the palate balanced by light fruity acidity and mild bitterness from hops.

Brewmaster’s Notes This beer is really hoppy but not bitter. It is an ale and a lager. It is juicy, herbal, floral, smooth, crisp and doesn’t taste like anything else. It is a sessionable version of a non-sessionable style. Hopped? Confused? Once you try it, you’ll get it. It is deliciously straight-forward.

This beer is brewed with no hops in the kettle yet has an intense hop-forward aroma that excites the senses Amazingly sessionable thanks to a 4.7% abv, lager aging and refreshing flavours of tropical fruit and citrus Perfectly paired with ball-park days and fireside nights Tasting Notes: A burst of floral, tropical fruit, and citrus hop aromas leads into a smooth palate, with paradoxically low bitterness and dry finish. Appearance: Straw coloured and hazy with bright white head Aroma: Very intensely aromatic with fruity and floral hop notes and fresh fruit aromas Body: Light Serving Suggestions: Creamy cow’s milk cheese or medium hard cow’s milk cheese, white fish and lobster, Thai curries, fish tacos, Mexican Hops Variety: Mosaic, El Dorado, Hallertau Blanc Malt Variety: Pale 2-row, C-20 Yeast: German Lager Yeast, Burton Yeast