Lost Breweries of Toronto - Softcover

...a delightful look through this city's brewing history, focusing on the breweries that dotted the town during the 19thcentury... It's filled with plenty of old sepia-tone photos, and lots of anecdotes about the brewers, the owners and the beer.

Explore the once-prominent breweries of nineteenth-century Toronto. Brewers including William Helliwell, John Doel, Eugene O’Keefe, Lothar Reinhardt, Enoch Turner, and Joseph Bloore influenced the history of the city and the development of a dominant twentieth-century brewing industry in Ontario. Step inside the lost landmarks that first brought intoxicating brews to the masses in Toronto. Jordan St. John delves into the lost buildings, people and history behind Toronto’s early breweries, with detailed historic images, stories both personal and industrial, and even reconstructed nineteenth-century brewing recipes.