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efficiency, capacity and food safety by helping them modernize milk processing. Stonetown Cheese, an award-winning artisan cheese producer in St. Marys, received $200,000. “We are very thrilled and feel fortunate to be a recipient of the DPMI as it will provide considerable financial assistance with our project,” said Rachel Dundas, office manager at Stonetown Cheese. Stonetown Cheese will use the funds to automate its cheese-washing process, which
The beer at Broken Rail Brewing has received heaps of praise from locals and visitors alike ever since it opened back in 2020. But now, its reputation for quality has been recognized at a provincial level as Ryan and Erin Leaman’s microbrewery received a bronze medal at the recent Ontario Brewing Awards held in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Their Bock Buster brand finished third place in Ontario in the pale malty European lager category, with Brauwerk Hoffman’s Oktoberfest Festbier taking gold and Old Flame Brewing Company’s blonde earning silver. This pale malty European lager category was one of 35 different styles in which beer judging was contested within the annual competition, which is dedicated to recognizing and celebrating excellence in craft beer within the province The Independent spoke with brewer Ryan Leaman about the Bock Buster, which is just one of many different beers available from their brewery at 480 Glass St. “Bock Buster is a German Helles Bock style, which is essentially a strong lager that has a malt-forward character, but well attenuated, meaning it has dry finish increasing its drinkability. The name Bock Buster is inspired by its style name but also a spinoff of the defunct Block Buster.” Leaman says the award-winning beer is available both on tap and in cans at the brewery, but the cans are in limited supply. “Like a majority of the beers around the brewery, I brewed something that I want rather than the typical menu you would see at a brewery
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Broken Rail Brewing co-owners Ryan and Erin Leaman celebrate their third-place finish at the Ontario Brewery Awards on Friday, Jan. 17 in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Stonetown Cheese will be upgrading its cheese-washing process this summer thanks to federal and provincial funding. A Jan. 15 press release from Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae announced two local businesses would receive funding from the Dairy Processors Modernization Initiative (DPMI), funded by the Ontario and federal governments. The DPMI supports dairy processors to help improve
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