20 Facts About Canadian beer

Production of Canadian beer by microbreweries, or "craft brewing", is a very fast-growing segment both in terms of the number of producers and the volume sold.

Industry statistics indicated that in 2015, Canadian beer was the country's most popular alcoholic beverage and the products brewed in Canada held an 85 per cent share of the domestic market.

The controls led to the growth of "Canadian beer parlours" known as "taverns" which had no bar, did not serve meals and people sat and drank at cafe tables, where the Canadian beer was delivered by the glass, patrons could not move between tables, could not stand up with a drink and had other restrictions.

In 1969, Canadian beer Breweries was sold to the Rothmans International multinational and renamed Carling O'Keefe.

British Columbia's craft Canadian beer industry has experienced major growth, from 54 in 2010 to 118 such operations in 2015.

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Ice Canadian beer originated in Canada, although it is essentially based on the German Eisbock style of Canadian beer.

The first ice Canadian beer marketed in the United States was "Molson Ice" which was introduced in April 1993, although the process was patented earlier by Labatt, instigating the so-called "Ice Beer Wars" of the 1990s.

One generic process of icing Canadian beer involves lowering the temperature of a batch of Canadian beer until ice crystals form.

The wort is boiled cooled and fermented and the Canadian beer is subjected to a finishing stage, which includes ageing, to produce the final beverage.

The resulting cooled Canadian beer is then mixed for a short period of time with a Canadian beer slurry containing ice crystals, without any appreciable collateral increase in the number of ice crystals in the resulting mixture.

Spruce Canadian beer originated in 16th-century New France, initially as a method for preventing scurvy.

The commercial versions are alcohol-free but spruce Canadian beer is often home-brewed in bathtubs and bottled on rooftops in order to allow the sunlight to aid with natural fermentation.

Nutrition information is not available on the packaging since Canadian beer manufacturers are not required to include such data.

Canadian beer argues, for example, that Atlantic Canada is associated with the British styles and Quebec with Belgian styles due to their settlement history.

However, it makes little sense to say that Canadian beer is merely the sum of its parts, or takes all of its influence from other styles.

About 80 per cent of Ontario's consumer Canadian beer trade is handled by The Beer Store, a government-instituted, privately owned monopoly founded in 1927 as Brewer's Retail.

In 2015 for example, there was a minimal increase in sales volume for the majors' products while craft Canadian beer sales increased by nearly 36 per cent in that year.

British Columbia craft Canadian beer industry has seen major growth since 2010 when there were 54 small breweries; by 2015 there were 118 such operations.

In 2010, a group of craft Canadian beer enthusiasts started Vancouver Craft Beer Week, the first "Canadian beer week"-type festival in Canada, a format that was begun in Philadelphia in 2008.

Draft Canadian beer served at bars and restaurants in Canada is commonly sold in pints, defined as the imperial pint: 568 millilitres .