A look at the history of a family beer business and how they’ve managed to maintain strength in an increasingly competitive industry. Featuring important insights from the company’s current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains competitive in a difficult global marketplace. While other Canadian beer brands long ago sold out to American and European interests, Moosehead has remained fiercely independent. Last Canadian Beer is the remarkable story of a time-honored business, a complex family, and a beloved beer.

Featuring important insights from the company's current executives and employees, Last Canadian Beer: The Moosehead Story is not only a fascinating company history, but also a candid look at how a small New Brunswick business remains competitive in a difficult global marketplace. While other Canadian beer brands long ago sold out to American and European interests, Moosehead has remained fiercely independent. Last Canadian Beer is the remarkable story of a time-honoured business, a complex family, and a beloved beer.

The Canadian Book of Beer cracks open the stories behind our unofficial national beverage. From brewing company feuds to the history of hops in Canada and around the world to how and where to buy your suds and recycle the empties, our country has more invested in the brewing tradition than you might realize. So, drink up:- Find out which beers are best to quaff for each season- BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan are world famous for their malt-barley production- Each year the Canadian Brewing Awards honours brewers across the country with winners in over 20 categories- Discover how the peoples of Mesopotamia and beyond created (and drank) their ales and lagers- Which foods go best with which types of beer? - In 1934, John Sackville Labatt was Canada's first victim of kidnapping for ransom when he was abducted on his way to a company meeting- Canada's craft-brew segment has grown into a strong competitor against the big boys of brewing, but where is the best place in Canada to experience this craft-brew innovation?- Two of the last towns in Canada to abandon the notion of alcohol prohibition were Hanover and Stanley in Manitoba—in 2006.And so much more...

From Giller-nominated author Bill Gaston, proof not only that hockey players can read, but that some of them can even write. Midnight Hockey tells the story of Gaston’s final season, as he contemplates hanging up his skates, and looks back on the sport that has meant so much to him. Sometimes lewd and hilarious, sometimes (though not as often) reflective, Midnight Hockey is a portrait of Canada’s fastest-growing athletic phenomenon: beer-league and oldtimers’ hockey. Gaston spills the beans about the rules of the game (written and unwritten), weird beer, team names, and road-trip sex, illustrated with stories of Gaston’s life in the game, from the outdoor rinks of Winnipeg, through junior hockey, varsity, the professional leagues of Europe, to the late-night games and road-trip shenanigans of beer-league. For all those thousands of guys who drive to the rink late on a snowy night, who know the euphoria of a beer after the game, who think of how good they used to be, who grow nostalgic over a whiff from an unwashed hockey bag – and for anyone who has had to live with such a person – Midnight Hockey is laugh-out-loud funny, true-to-life, and ultimately thoughtful.

Clone the best 150 beers in North America without leaving your kitchen! Each recipe comes complete with partial-mash, all-extract, and all-grain instructions.

For decades, the name Labatt was synonymous with beer in Canada, but no longer. Brewed in the North traces the birth, growth, and demise of one of the nation's oldest and most successful breweries. Opening a window into Canada's complicated relationship with beer, Matthew Bellamy examines the strategic decisions taken by a long line of Labatt family members and professional managers from the 1840s, when John Kinder Labatt entered the business of brewing in the Upper Canadian town of London, to the globalization of the industry in the 1990s. Spotlighting the challenges involved as Labatt executives adjusted to external shocks – the advent of the railway, Prohibition, war, the Great Depression, new forms of competition, and free trade – Bellamy offers a case study of success and failure in business. Through Labatt's lively history from 1847 to 1995, this book explores the wider spirit of Canadian capitalism, the interplay between the state's moral economy and enterprise, and the difficulties of creating popular beer brands in a country that is regionally, linguistically, and culturally diverse. A comprehensive look at one of the industry's most iconic firms, Brewed in the North sheds light on what it takes to succeed in the business of Canadian brewing.

A passionate narrative of individual power, colourful characters, family rivalries, and foreign ownership of Canadas brewing industry.