N.L. craft brewers tapping into Canadian patriotic sentiment with new beers

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Newfoundland and Labrador trade breweries Landwash Brewery and Yellowbelly Brewery are releasing patriotic beverages successful effect to threats to Canada’s sovereignty from the U.S.

Landwash has released On Guard and Yellowbelly has Elbows Up

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 4:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes ago

A manus holding a tin with a scenery coating connected its label. In reddish font is "On Guard."

In effect to repeated threats to Canada's sovereignty and a commercialized war, Newfoundland and Labrador breweries privation you to drawback a acold 1 successful solidarity.

On Wednesday Landwash Brewery successful Mount Pearl unveiled On Guard, a Canadian airy ale made with lone Canadian ingredients, similar Quebec hops.

General manager and co-owner Christina Coady said the thought began successful January, pursuing U.S. President Donald Trump's repetitive rhetoric of wanting to annex Canada and turn it into the country's 51st state.

"I deliberation close present everyone is feeling frightened and frustrated and besides conscionable annoyed astatine what's going connected crossed the border. And everybody conscionable wants to observe thing bully and brew is nice," Coady told CBC News.

Woman with abbreviated brownish hair. Behind her are pallets of achromatic bags and cans.

On Guard is simply a motion to Canadian farmers and manufacturers, she added.

"We wanted to make a brew that could resonate with each of that. And truthful we made On Guard and it's a bully small brew and you tin portion it and conscionable bask our country," she said.

On the On Guard statement is simply a painting-style representation of a windswept landscape. The packaging was created by Landwash's go-to designer, Perfect Day, said Coady, adding they wanted thing inspired by the iconic radical of Canadian painters known arsenic the Group of Seven.

As of Wednesday, On Guard is disposable astatine Landwash's taproom and volition soon beryllium in liquor stores, Marie's convenience stores, Urban Market 1919 and different locations, she said.

Elbows up!

In downtown St. John's, Yellowbelly Brewery co-owner and publican Craig Flynn is individually rolling each statement connected to idiosyncratic cans for a caller brew called Elbows Up.

"Sovereignty is simply a precise large content successful Canada," said Flynn. "If you privation to travel aft america and effort to bring america into the corner, we're going to travel backmost with our elbows up."

Man successful achromatic garment holding up a tin of beer.

Flynn said his woman was precocious watching Saturday Night Live, successful which Canadian histrion and comedian Mike Myers utilized the look 'elbows up' — which has go a rallying outcry for solidarity crossed Canada successful the look of U.S. aggression. The operation originated from Canadian hockey legend Gordie Howe's signature move.

Four cans with an representation of a antheral successful a reddish jersey punching idiosyncratic successful a bluish jersey.

The label, designed by Jason Miller, features a Canadian hockey subordinate slugging an American player, which Flynn said is simply a notation to Canada coming backmost to triumph the 4 Nations Face-Off last against the U.S. team.

"I deliberation that hockey crippled truly brought the federation together. I deliberation it's a infinitesimal of pridefulness that you'd astir apt person to spell backmost to the '71 bid successful bid to get that aforesaid feeling," said Flynn.

Elbows Up isn't made solely with Canadian ingredients, but they bash usage each Canadian suppliers, helium added.

WATCH | The CBC's Elizabeth Whitten stops by the breweries:

N.L. breweries making brew with each Canadian ingredients successful effect to U.S. tensions

U.S. tariffs and threats to sovereignty are causing immoderate breweries to commencement making all-Canadian beers. The CBC’s Elizabeth Whitten stops by Landwash and Yellowbelly Brewery to perceive astir their newest libations with each Canadian ingredients.

The ale has been disposable connected pat astatine the edifice for weeks and volition delivered to NLC stores by aboriginal adjacent week. He said it's proven to beryllium a fashionable portion already.

"I'm precise arrogant to accidental we're down to our past 2 kegs of it," helium said.

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