LCBO Food & Drink Autumn 2023

Beer Access for All Cowbell Brewing Co. is the first brewery in Canada to be Accessibility Certified Gold by the Rick Hansen Foundation. Everything from accessible parking spaces and automated doors to tactile signage, universal bathrooms and self-guided tours in several languages helps make the craft brewery visitor experience open and available to everyone.

Cowbell Brewing Co. Crème Brûlée Nitro Stout LCBO 33587, 404 mL, $4.25

Clean Suds Bench Brewing Company in Lincoln won the first Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award in the 2022 Canadian Brewers Choice Awards. Its Zero Waste Water Program recycles around 30,000 litres a day, repurposing it for irrigating hops fields and using the by-products as fertilizer. The beer industry uses an average of eight litres of water to produce one litre of beer; Bench boasts a 5:1 ratio. Bench Brewing Ball’s Falls Session IPA LCBO 481515, 473 mL, $3.45 Canada’s first Climate Neutral Certified brewery is literally powered by water. The Ottawa Valley’s Whitewater Brewing Co. offsets its energy needs with low-impact hydro power supplied by Bullfrog Power, and also with biogas from methane-capture at a landfill site. Whitewater Brewing High Tide NEIPA LCBO 19995, 473 mL, $3.65 ORCHARD AND COWBELL BREWING CO. BY STEVEN ELPHICK; BEER PRODUCTS: MAYA VISNYEI

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