Back-to-your-roots


BEER E


The Hub


How two brothers are harnessing Manitoba goodness in a bottle


By Jenny Ford and Tania Moffat


verything about Farmery beer harkens back to the land and rural Manitoba life. Te logo in- corporates a tractor tire, the beer tap is a shovel handle and even the ingredients inside the bottle


hope to represent the best Manitoba has to offer. “No one is making that leap of faith and harnessing what


we have growing naturally here and we want to showcase that,” says Chris Warwaruk, co-owner of Farmery Estate Brewing. After planning and dreaming for three years, broth- ers Chris and Lawrence Warwaruk launched a beer they hoped would not only bring them back to their farming roots, but also use the agricultural resources available in the province. Farmery beer launched on the Manitoba craft beer scene in December 2012. Two years later, with success across the province and into Saskatchewan, plans for further expansion and an estate brewery are in the works. Way before the thought of a brewery even entered their minds, Chris and Lawrence along with their two brothers left the failing family farm 15 years ago to try to make ends meet in the city. While the farm was being fore- closed, the brothers developed a “country meets the city- style” restaurant call Luxsole. With the success of this res- taurant the brothers were able to procure their homestead and save it from bankruptcy. Eventually, this expanded to the Luxalune Gastropub. While Luxsole has closed, Luxalune, voted one of the top 20 pubs in Canada, hosts over 150 craft beers from around the world and across


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Photo courtesy of Farmery Estate Brewery.


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