Perth Brewery

Once upon a time …
…a long long time ago (1973) Terry Steeves, a really hard-working hippie buffalo farmer, started making beer in his summer kitchen to share with friends. After a few years the buffalo were retired, timber framing became Terry’s daytime passion. Yet, his after-hours love of crafting beer remained steadfast down through the years. In the early 1990s when the Ontario government began licensing Brew-on-Premise (BoP) beer making, Terry quickly realized it presented the perfect opportunity to share the experience of crafting personalized

Quality fresh small batch beer…
with friends and neighbours. So, in 1993 Terry moved his beer making out of his summer kitchen and Perth Brewing Company (PBC) was born.

A state-of-the-art …
small batch brewing system was purchased from Cask Brewing Systems. As serendipity would have it, Cask Brewing was a company owned by a Calgary family that Terry’s grandfather and father had done business with many years ago.

Things took off from there …
Friends became customers, customers became friends, and friends of friends became customers and friends.

Always looking to innovate and enhance the brewing experience …
customers were introduced to canning their beer in the late 1990s. This came about through the ongoing friendship and business relationship with the owners of Cask, who’d themselves worked hard to evolve the BoP experience by manufacturing single head canning seamers. Thus, PBC became the first BoP to offer customers the option to can their beer and we established ourselves as …

One of Canada’s largest BoPs and original craft breweries!