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Cheers! JEFF O’REILLY
to Some Mighty Fine Beers! A MILESTONE celebration for a
local brewpub - one of the BIG guys gets nostalgic and a “hoptimistic” outlook for an American craft brewing pioneer! I’ll drink to that! Way back in 1996 the Ottawa beer
scene was a lot different than it is today, with a little upstart brewpub on the corner of Bank Street and Pretoria Avenue delightfully named The Clocktower, that had just taken over the loveable and quirky Addington’s. Despite having a tower with a clock on top of the pub that almost never showed the correct time, it had some really solid, approachable, and very drinkable, ales. It was the tail end of the first Ontario Craft Beer renaissance (heck, they didn’t even call it craft brewing back then, they called it “micro-brewing”, and those of us with adventurous taste buds enjoyed some pretty great liquids.) The future looked so bright for these micro and Nano brewers that they almost seemed unstoppable. If we fast forward the clock a little
bit, things had turned sour for many breweries. With so much competition, not only from other craft guys, but a landslide of Imported and Premium Global beers had entered the marketplace with savvy
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marketing, shrewd financial management and centuries deep pockets. So all the other brew pubs like Abe & Roscoe’s, Major’s and Master’s Brewpubs - ended up closing their doors, and with local breweries Heritage, Scotch Irish Brewing, Copperhead and Hart, who went out of business along with many others in Ontario. We’re talking ones that made some really, really, delicious beer, like Upper Canada, Conner’s,
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