Local brewing traditions were rekindled in the late 1960's when the historic Formosa Springs Brewery provided beer for Kitchener-Waterloo's first Oktoberfest. Capitalizing on this living beer culture, Jim Brickman opened Ontario's first craft brewery in 1984. While Brick brewed German lagers, Philip Gosling revived the British REAL ALE at Wellington County, also in 1984. In 1988 John Sleeman, with his great-grandfather's recipe book for inspiration sold the first pint of Sleeman Cream Ale in more than 50 years. Europe's two great brewing traditions have been united by this beer renaissance, started here by the six craft brewers of Waterloo-Wellington.
Beer lovers can now enjoy the taste of tradition.
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