In connection to the brewery building’s roots as Niagara’s First Telephone Exchange, instead of naming The Exchange numbers their beer. Our numbers provide insights into the beers’ flavour profiles; the lower numbers more approachable and sessionable, the higher numbers more flavourful and intense.
Our signature range of craft brews from past & present
This brew is soured in our brew kettle giving a sharp tartness and puckering mouthfeel. This light bodied brew is great for a hot summer day.
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Styrian Celeia, French Strisselspalt |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Styrian Celeia, French Strisselspalt | 4.0% | 11 | 3 | 1.031 |
This brew is soured in our brew kettle giving it a nice tartness blended with acidity from a secondary fermentation with 250 pounds of fresh Ontario blue plums.
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Styrian Celeia & French Strisselspalt |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Styrian Celeia & French Strisselspalt | 4.3% | 11 | 6 | 1.031 |
This amber ale has a subtle hop backbone that shows off a complex malt character with crystal malts from Chile. They display the common characteristics of carmel, toffee and lightly roasted flavors of crystal malts but with more depth and presence. Malty goodness, medium body.
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Fuggles, Willamette |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Fuggles, Willamette | 5.2% | 26 | 12 | 1.049 |
This robust porter features roasted UK malts, Chilean caramel malts and East Kent Golding hops. Watch for this in casks for a true UK real ale experience.
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East Kent Golding |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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East Kent Golding | 5.3% | 39 | 22 | 1.052 |
Our White IPA is centered around big fruity hops, classic wit spices of orange peel and coriander, all fermented on our Belgian house yeast. Dry hopped and served fresh as an IPA should be.
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Chinook, Cascade, Mosaic, Citra |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Chinook, Cascade, Mosaic, Citra | 6.4% | 68 | 5 | 1.060 |
This hazy, juicy New England-style IPA boasts a solid bitterness with fruity flavours and aromas of citrus, grapefruit and stone fruit.
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Amarillo, Citra, El Dorado, Galaxy, Mosaic |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Amarillo, Citra, El Dorado, Galaxy, Mosaic | 7.0% | 71 | 4 | 1.064 |
Hop-heads rejoice! An ExB hop-bomb with layers of tropical fruit flavours and a palate coating bitterness. Surrender your tongue…
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Amarillo, Centennial and Saaz |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Amarillo, Centennial and Saaz | 8.5% | 90 | 7 | 1.076 |
Beer labelled with a symbol represent our barrel-aged beers. Using both French and Hungarian oak, the barrel-aged beers are packed with flavour and have the potential for aging.
Sours and specialty beers aged in oak barrels
This brew showcases the collaboration of wheat, spices and yeast. Use of malted and raw wheat give this ale great wheat character and slight haze. Orange peel and coriander play nice with our belgian house yeast. Aged in Hungarian oak.
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Tettnang |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Tettnang | 4.5% | 14 | 4 | 1.044 |
This brew showcases the collaboration of wheat, spices and wild yeast. Fermented with a blend of multiple Brettanomyces cutures for a fruity and funky take on the traditional witbier style.
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Tettnang |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Tettnang | 5.5% | 14 | 4 | 1.042 |
Dry with a light fruity nose. This beer may be the cross-over point for some wine drinkers. Fermented with our house belgian ale yeast then aged in french oak barrels with brettanomyces.
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Cascade & Mosaic |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Cascade & Mosaic | 7.6% | 33 | 5 | 1.060 |
This fruited Belgian-style ale was aged in chardonnay barrels followed by a massive addition of sour cherries from the Niagara region. It is more sour than sweet with a great balance of fruit and funk.
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Amarillo, Crystal, Hallertau and Tettnang |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Amarillo, Crystal, Hallertau and Tettnang | 8.0% | 33 | 6 | 1.06 |
This low alcohol saison is the perfect introduction to belgian-style beers. Lightly hopped with Vanguard and Crystal, this beer lets pepper and clove flavors of our house yeast shine with subtle oak flavors. Aged in large oak vessels with Ontario-grown Clear Valley hops.
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Vanguard & Crystal |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Vanguard & Crystal | 4.5% | 60 | 7 | 1.056 |
Our non-traditional version of this Flemish ale is decidedly tart from a short lactic fermentation and then aged in oak with a mixed cocktail of wild yeast and bacteria to round out its flavour.
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Saaz & Vanguard |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Saaz & Vanguard | 6.5% | 23 | >20 | 1.060 |
Brewed with whole peppercorns and rye malt, this saison has a great depth of spicey flavors complimented by earthy hops from France and Slovenia.
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Styrian Celeia, Tettnang and French Strisselspalt |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Styrian Celeia, Tettnang and French Strisselspalt | 7.2% | 3 | 6 | 1.060 |
Brewed with coriander seed and fermented with our house Belgian yeast, aged 3 months in French oak barrels on fresh Niagara-on-the-Lake Raspberries.
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Fuggle, Hallertau and Saaz |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Fuggle, Hallertau and Saaz | 8.0% | 29 | 9 | 1.062 |
Our pumpkin ale is the epitome of autumn. Lightly spiced and brewed with loads of pumpkin. Aged in large oak casks and fermented with our house Belgian yeast.
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Perle and Styrian Celeia |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Perle and Styrian Celeia | 6.10% | 23 | 10 | 1.052 |
A Flanders-esque ale aged in red wine barrels and blended to produce a complex sour masterpiece.
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East Kent Golding and Tettnang |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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East Kent Golding and Tettnang | 7% | 27 | 14 |
This ale is brewed with subtle spices and aged for 1 year on pressed grapes from our friends at Pearl Morissette Estate Winery. Dry and vinous with complex fruit bouquet.
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Hallertau, Fuggle, Saaz |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Hallertau, Fuggle, Saaz | 7.5% | 29 | 9 | 1.062 |
Our gluten-free Saison is brewed with one of our favourite pseudocereals, Buckwheat. Don’t worry – Buckwheat contains no gluten. Its nutty and earthy flavours blend with sweet sorghum, dark Belgian candi sugar and herbal hops for balance of sweetness while maintaining a refreshing finish
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Hallertau and Styrian Celeia |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Hallertau and Styrian Celeia | 5.8% | 19 | 8 | 1.051 |
Our Spontaneous Ale is brewed with traditional turbid mashing techniques followed by an extended boil of noble aged-hops. This barrel-fermented ale was inoculated with wild yeast cultures harvested from fruit skins growing in Niagara and using cultures from our own ‘mini-coolship’ experiments. This ale is blended from selected red wine barrels aged no less than one year. This sour ale is perfect for cellaring, it will evolve with time and can be enjoyed for years.
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Hallertau |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Hallertau | 6.8% | 27 | 3 | 1.048 |
This Blonde ale began with a short lactic fermentation in the kettle before its journey to wine barrels. It was aged on a generous amount of peaches with cinnamon bark, vanilla beans and a touch of Brettonamyces. Nature’s candy in your hand, or beer, or pie.
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East Kent Golding and Australian Summer |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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East Kent Golding and Australian Summer | 5.9% | 21 | 6 | 1.046 |
This stout is brewed with dark Belgian candi sugar, plenty of roasted barley and fermented with our house Belgian yeast then aged in oak barrels.
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Fuggle and Hallertau |
Hops | ABV | IBU | SRM | OG |
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Fuggle and Hallertau | 7.0% | 37 | >30 | 1.062 |
2019 Canadian Brewing Awards
GOLD: Throwback: Belgian Table Beer (Session Ale Category)
2018 US Beer Open Championship
SILVER: Hefeweizen (German Hefeweizen Category)
SILVER: Gluten-Free Saison (Gluten-free Beer Category)
BRONZE: Foreign Exchange Stout (Foreign Stout Category)
2018 Canadian Brewing Awards
GOLD : Spontaneous Ale (Belgian-Style Sour Ale – Lambic/Gueuze Category)
GOLD: Breakfast Stout (Porter/Flavoured Stout Category)
2018 Mondial de la Biere / Greg Noonan MBeer Contest
GOLD: Flanders Red Ale
2018 US Beer Open Championship
GOLD : Foreign Exchange Stout (Foreign Stout Category)
GOLD : Gluten-Free Saison (Gluten-Free Beer Category)
2017 Ontario Brewing Awards
GOLD : Oud Bruin (Farmhouse Dark Category)
SILVER: Flanders Red Ale (Farmhouse Dark Category)
BRONZE : Amber Ale (Amber Ale Category)
2017 New York International Beer Competition
GOLD : Golden Ale (Ale Beer Styles – Belgian And French Origin)
GOLD: Peppercorn Rye Saison (Ale Beer Styles – Belgian And French Origin)
GOLD : Foreign Exchange Stout (Ale Beer Styles – North American Origin)
BRONZE: Amber Ale (Ale Beer Styles – North American Origin)
Canadian Brewery of The Year
2016 Ontario-hopped Craft Beer Competition – First place
Winner of 2015 WVRST Craft Invitational
We would love it if you could join us at the brewery for a beer fresh off the tap but we know that’s not always possible.
So we’ve made it easy for you to get our brews anywhere in Ontario!
We also have a rotating selection of our beer available on tap in bars and restaurants across Ontario, including Bar Volo, Bar Hop, WVRST and Craft Brasserie.