Join us for a tour of the only brewery in Canada purpose-built for spontaneous fermentation at production scale. Each tour will walk you through the brewhouse, the barrel rooms, and the coolship where the spontaneous fermentation takes place, and ends with a guided tasting.
The Monolith Brewery & Taproom
9919 78 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Great experience, our guide Kaiya was so knowledgeable and lovely. Loved hearing about the story behind the brewery. Ending with a tasting was perfect and gave us opportunity to sit and order food as well. Highly recommend and well worth the price.
Heather on 2024-07-29
I had heard great things about Blind Enthusiasm and the Monolith tour and held incredibly high expectations going in. I left the tour absolutely blown away. It was hands-down the best tour/experience I have had in a long, long time. Greg is the most down to earth person I have ever met and I feel like I owe him more money as the $15 I spent on the tour was not enough for the value we received. I would recommend this to absolutely everyone and cannot wait to come back.
Derek on 2024-04-08
A really great opportunity to learn more about the brewing process and the specific (and quite unique!) approach Blind Enthusiasm brings to beer making. We all learned a lot, had fun, and appreciated the chance to taste some beers that were new to us after the tour.
Christina on 2024-03-13
You'll arrive at the Monolith and meet your guide in the Monolith Taproom. They'll do a bit of a preamble about what you're going to experience, give you some fancy booties to wear in the brewery, and then the tour will begin!
As you enter the production space you'll walk by our bottling machine and stop at the brewhouse. Your guide will tell you about our unique brewing process and the difference between how we undertake our spontaneous and mixed fermentation brews.
Your guide will take you into one of our barrel rooms and talk about where we get our barrels, how we use them, and their importance in our production. No touching! But you more than welcome to go deep trying to decipher the strange symbols we put on the barrels.
On the second floor of the Monolith you'll see where we age our hops and store our grain used for brewing. Your guide will talk about our relationship with local partners that exclusively supply our grain.
Our brewing laboratory is quite different than typically seen in the brewing business and your guide will discuss the scientific method and application of technology used to create our beers.
If you time it right you'll have a chance to see the Coolship filled with hot wort waiting to be converted into beer. This is a very unique piece of equipment (one of a handful in Canada) and your guide will discuss the ins and outs of how we use it.
The Monolith Cellar holds a library of all of the beers that we've made, along with a number of in-production beers. Your guide will explain how we condition and finish our beers before releasing them to the public.
The tour ends in either the Monolith taproom or our newly designed tasting lounge on the third floor of the building. Here you'll enjoy 3 samples of beer in a tasting hosted by your guide. After this you're welcome to linger to try more beers or purchase some beers and merch to go!
Book your tour of The Monolith to experience one of Canada's most unique breweries.
