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Now Hiring – Taproom Servers
April 16, 2024
April 16, 2024We are looking for servers to join the team at The Monolith’s taproom! Below are the details. If you’re interested in applying please send a cover letter and resume to jobs@blindenthusiasm.ca. The Blind Enthusiasm Group has a number of businesses focused on brewing and the hospitality space: The Market brewery producing ales, lagers, and barrel-aged […]
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The Biera Holiday Market is now open!
November 19, 2020
May 8, 2023The Biera Holiday Market is now open for the holiday season! It’s a pop-up shop by Biera, our neighbourhood restaurant. Located in the Ritchie Market’s Bottle Room, the shop is paradise for the food lover, and has everything you need to create a Biera experience at home. You’ll shop a selection of Biera’s favourite condiments, […]
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The Story of Kook Birds
November 6, 2020
May 8, 2023How do you do a socially distanced collaboration in the times of COVID? Well, Kook Birds was the unexpected answer to this question. The story begins with our neighbours, Strathcona Spirits Distillery. They are roughly 3 blocks from the Monolith and we have built a relationship around barrels with their owner, Adam Smith. A year […]
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The Lagerization Project
October 21, 2020
May 8, 2023Those of you that frequently try Blind Enthusiasm beers may have noticed that we’ve recently been making a lot more lagers. We’re still doing a few of the old favourite ales (ZestyZee, ZüS, and Yen ‘til Two) but by and large we’re mainly putting out lagers. Even some of our barrel-aged beers (Buffalo Meadows) and […]
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3rd Anniversary Party
September 15, 2020
May 8, 2023Sunday, September 20 3–10pm Biera – 9570 76 Ave NW Join us for our 3rd Anniversary Party this Sunday at Biera! To celebrate, we’ll be tapping special casks of Buffalo Meadows, our bourbon barrel-aged dark lager. Chef Christine is creating a special dish to pair with this rich, smooth brew, available only this Sunday. Want […]
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The Story of Fruitful Pursuits: Plum
August 20, 2020
May 8, 2023The fourth release from The Monolith is another first: it is our first fruit beer. Fruitful Pursuits: Plum is the first in a series of fruit beers from The Monolith. We’ll be doing a number of fruit beers under the “Fruitful Pursuits” umbrella that will be accompanied by the fruit or blend of fruits in […]
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Bottle Conditioned Beer Release
June 29, 2020
May 8, 2023After recently launching a series of new cans we’re now doing a 180 and going back to traditional methods and launching a series of bottle conditioned lagers and wheat ales. These beers include many of our regular favorites that were largely only available in tap, including Fabhelles, Union Bhoys, Nordlichter, and ZestyZee. While these were […]
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The Story of Un Petit Peu
June 15, 2020
May 8, 2023Our third Monolith beer launch was actually our second blend, and the process we used required more conditioning time before it was complete. Un Petit Peu is dry hopped, meaning we added hops to the beer after it was blended and conditioned in our blending tanks. This is our first dry-hopped beer from the Monolith, […]
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The Story of El Dorado Reposado
May 28, 2020
May 8, 2023El Dorado Reposado, our second barrel-aged beer release from the Market, is a bright, crisp beer aged in Tequila barrels. Its origin is a bit of a coincidence as we didn’t plan to make a Tequila barrel beer at the start of our barrel-aging program but we had the opportunity to get some fresh barrels […]
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Biera is Temporarily Closed
March 17, 2020
May 8, 2023Due to the spread of COVID-19 in our community, Biera will be temporarily closed. During this extraordinary time there is nothing more important than family and loved ones. We hope that by closing our doors we can minimize the risk that this virus poses to our community. Our doors will be closed as of Tuesday, […]
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The Story of Substantially Complete
March 4, 2020
May 8, 2023Our second release from the Monolith is called Substantially Complete. As with many of our beers this name is a play on words. It combines references to the Monolith largely being complete as a brewery (finally), the physical manifestation of the building, and the second beer representing the realization of our objectives for the mixed fermentation […]
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Bottle Vintage Dates
February 25, 2020
May 8, 2023Now that we’re entering our second calendar year of releasing barrel-aged and barrel-fermented beers it’s a good time to explain our method for the vintage (or year) dates on our bottles. Our bottled beers can be aged for many years so it makes sense to have a clear, sensible, and consistent way we label each […]