Company Overview

Established in 1984, brick Brewing Co. Limited or Waterloo, Ontario, was the first Microbrewery of its kind to start up in Eastern Canada in recent decades, and is credited for starting the present day beer renaissance in Canada.

With the use of traditional European brewing procedures, including cold filtration, Brick Brewery produces several distinctive all natural beers, each designed and targeted to appeal to different taste profiles. In addition to these brands the company is a liscenced brewer in Canada for Henninger Kaiser Pils of Frankfurt, Germany, O. V. Splits fpr Molson Brewers and Andechs of the Kloster Andechs Monastery in the Bavarian Alps. Fix, a traditional Greek beer was added in 1996. Early in 1997, Brick added the Conners family of premium quality ales and lagers and the Laker family to its portfolio. At present, these products are sold in key Ontario markets through Brewers Retail Outlets, LCBO Stores and licensed establishments.

Jim Brickman, the founder of Brick Brewing Co., had a dream of creating a small brewery that would produce a unique, quality beer, different from the beers available in the Ontario marketplace. In 1978, determined and enterprising, he began an epic journey of research and discovery that would take him to 68 breweries and 29 countries around the world.

At that time the term 'microbrewery' was unheard of in Ontario, and Jim Brickman's decision to open a small commercial brewery was considered bold and daring. Despite many obstacles presented by doubting bankers and bureaucrats, he ventured forth to build his brewery, brick by brick.

In 1984 with plans finally approved, Mr. Brickman purchased a three story building on Waterloo's King Street, a former furniture factory, that was 145 years old. After an arduous seven months it was converted into a traditional European Brewhouse, and on December 18th, the first bottle of Brick Premium Lager rolled off the bottling line. In that first year 10 employees helped to produce and ship 35, 000 cases of beer.

Today, that Craft brewery in downtown Waterloo produces six internationally acclaimed lagers, an ale and a bock, the addition of new brands brings the total to fifteen lagers and four ales sold in key markets around Ontario, through Brewers Retail Outlets, Liquor Stores and selected licensed establishments.

The 'little brewery that could' has undergone numerous plant expansions since 1984. Brick presently has the ability to produce the equivalent of 1.2 million cases annually with future expansion abilities to exceed 3 million cases at the present facility. But at Brick, bigger isn't necessarily better. Brewing an all-natural quality beer with the utmost of integrity is their commitment to their customers. Beer I stheir business. It's what they know how to do. They do it well and without fanfare.

The pioneering strategy was to brew a distinctive all-natural beer brewed to to strict German Bavarian purity Law. Traditional European brewing methods and procedures are used along with the finest Bavarian hops. The quality and shelf life of all Brick beers is not maintained by pasturization, but rather through a sophisticated cold sterile filtration process. Brick Brewing Company was among the first to introduce this process to North America.

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Legal Name: Brick Brewing Co. Limited

Number of Employees: 90

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Products

• Algonquin Reserve Ale
• Black & Tan Lager
• Honey Brown Lager
• Lager /Beer/
• Royal Amber Lager

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• 312120 Breweries

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