15 Freemen and guests, in total 54 attendees, attended. John Sleeman was our host and he introduced four beers his Brewery produces: Sleeman, Unibroue, Okanagan Springs and Sapporo for the evening's tasting. He gave a very interesting history of Sleeman Breweries.
With a lineage that extends over five generations, John takes particular pride in his heritage. In fact, when it comes to beer tradition, his grandfather George A. Sleeman wrote the book on it literally.
John's family's brewing tradition in Canada extends back to 1834 when John H. Sleeman arrived in Ontario from Cornwall, England. By 1851, he started the first Sleeman brewery to be located in Guelph, Ontario, brewing small 100-barrel batches.
The passion that drove John's great-great-grandfather to begin his renowned Canadian brewing tradition is the same passion that runs through John's veins today – and he looks forward to passing on the tradition to many more generations to come
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