Canada, ON: High Road Brewing launches in Toronto, Ontario

Two veterans of Ontario’s brewing industry have announced the launch of a new project that has just released its debut beer, Canadian beer news reported on May 29.

High Road Brewing is a partnership between Curtis Bentley and Rob Doyle, two brewers who had worked at different Ontario breweries - Bentley at King Brewery, and Doyle at Sleeman - before they met in 2007 while enrolled in the Masters Brewing & Distilling program at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Upon completion of the program, Doyle returned to Ontario to work for Magnotta Brewery and later Mill Street Brewery, while Bentley worked with a small brewery in New Zealand before coming back to Canada and also ending up at Mill Street, Toronto. After working there together for several years, the duo decided to form their own brewing company, and High Road was born.

High Road is currently brewing under contract on a 5 barrel system at Niagara College Brewery, where Doyle has held a position as teaching brewer since leaving Mill Street, Toronto, last year. This has allowed the pair to produce enough beer to enter the Ontario market, although opening their own facility is something they hope to do as soon as it’s feasible.

05 June, 2015