History & Press
Links We Care About
Press features, competition results, Black Creek brewery history, and Canadian homebrew community resources that have been part of BeerShack's journey.
Press & Media
Ed & BeerShack in the News
Feature on Ed's work as historic brewmaster at Black Creek Pioneer Village.
Ontario's only working historic brewery takes beermaking back to the land.
Video feature on Ed and the historic brewing process at Black Creek.
The story of Ed's porter and historical Ontario brewing methods.
Tasting notes and deep dive into Ed's historical porter recipe.
Black Creek
Black Creek Historic Brewery
The journal of the Black Creek Historic Brewery — Ontario's only working 1860s brewery.
Ed's hands-on apprenticeship program for learning historical brewing.
Competitions
Competitions & Judging
Canada's largest homebrew competition. BeerShack's Lou won gold in 2019.
Louis De Bourbon, 1st Place English Brown Ale with "Brown Brawler".
The world's largest amateur homebrew competition — BeerShack has won at this level.
Canadian homebrew community hub and competition organizer.
The worldwide standard for beer judging. Ed and Lou are BJCP certified judges.
Community
Brewing Community
Canada's homebrew community and advocacy organization.
Equipment and supplies for Canadian homebrewers.
Explore BeerShack
Read about how BeerShack started, meet the master brewers behind 100+ medals, or see our full awards record.