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Lighthouse Brewing Company
Lighthouse Brewing Company is a brewery in Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada. History Lighthouse was founded in 1998 by Paul Hoyne with an investment of $750,000CAN. At that time the company had a single brewer, and produced draft beer in batches of 2,000 litres. Its first product was Race Rocks amber ale."Victoria’s Lighthouse Brewery celebrates sweet 15" Andrew Duffy , ''Times Colonist'', July 30, 2013 By 2005 the company was operating a canning line. In 2009 the brewery was in the news when its owner at the time, Dave Thomas, was prevented by British Columbia liquor laws from selling the company's beer in a pub he owned. In 2012, the company's beverages won three prizes at the British Columbia Beer Awards. In 2013, Lighthouse extended i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of beer has taken place since at least 2500 BC; in ancient Mesopotamia, brewers derived social sanction and divine protection from the goddess Ninkasi. Brewing was initially a cottage industry, with production taking |
