Royal City Brewing forecasts April opening in Guelph
Guelph, ON – This April, Royal City Brewing Co. intends to open its new nanobrewery on Victoria Rd. South in Guelph, reported this week by the Guelph Mercury.
The duo behind Royal City Brewing, Russell Bateman and Cameron Fryer, both friends and homebrewers, will produce on a 10 hectolitre (1000 litres) brewhouse churning out a base of three or four mainstay beers with up to 40 one-offs throughout the year.
Bateman and Fryer, once a Great Lakes Brewery employee, expressed their admiration of local brewers, Wellington Brewery and F&M Brewery in Guelph. “It’s not like we’re competing with F&M or Wellington. We’re competing more to try to get people to stop drinking (Molson) Canadian and start drinking our beer,” Bateman was quoted in the article.
Royal City plans to launch with up to four initial beer offerings. “The first is a smoked honey beer, with honey supplied by a friend of Bateman’s wife, Janet, who happens to work as a beekeeper. The second will be pale ale, and the third will be some sort of stout, likely a coffee stout,” writes the Guelph Mercury.
Their storefront, slated to open this April, will feature a tasting bar flowing up to nine beers at once with retail growler sales in 1L, 2L and even 4L growlers.
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