Updated on September 22nd, 2024

Since our last update in April, we’re down eight breweries, with a couple of openings. 

We’re down to 374 breweries. I have already updated with the news that Humble Beginnings is closing in October, but you have a week if you’d like to go and see them. The number of corporate entities is smaller. For example, Amsterdam has 3 locations, Bellwoods has 2, Silversmith has 2, etc, etc. 

The good news is that we’ve had an opening. Bickford Brewing in Toronto on Harbord Street. In terms of contract and physical breweries, we have had six open this year if you count Bickford’s transition from contract to physical. It’s the lowest number since 2010. 

In January we had 42 contract breweries continuing to exist. It might be less than that now, but I haven’t been through the list recently. My feeling is that some of them are probably on their way out, because the LCBO seems less willing to stock vanity brands than they used to. This is, from many perspectives, a good thing.

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