Style: IPA - Brett
ABV: 6.5 IBU: 0
It is made with barley malts, oats and wheat, and features Amarillo, Nelson Sauvin and Citra hops. It was fermented with brewer’s yeast as well as multiple strains of brettanomyces (a.k.a. brett, a wild yeast), and is a blend of batches aged 1-3 months in red wine barrels. It pours a hazy orange-gold with a lively head of foam. Tropical fruit aromas with hints of citrus and brett-influenced funk are at play, along with a touch of wine. Flavours are of ripe fruit, funk and red wine, with playful carbonation, restrained IPA bitterness, and a dry finish.
First seen on Thursday, May 18, 2017
Style: Sour - Flanders Red Ale
ABV: 9 IBU: 0
Gravity Well is Halcyon Barrel House’s take on a Flanders Red ale, a style of sour beer traditionally brewed in Belgium. The tandem of the acidity playing off the subtle caramel malty sweetness keeps each in check.
First seen on Saturday, July 1, 2017
Style: Sour - Other
ABV: 4.8 IBU: 0
Halcyon will lure you to the sour side with this approachable, lightly tart and refreshing sour, Echo Chamber. The recipe highlights a single organic hop variety, Idaho 7.
First seen on Sunday, July 1, 2018
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison
ABV: 5.8 IBU: 24
Barrel-Aged Saison
First seen on Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 7 IBU: 0
Shifting Sands is a sour golden ale that is in essence, the canvas for future editions of the beer. Each version of Shifting Sands will have a different treatment of varieties of fruit, and will re-ferment and age in barrels or foeders. The idea behind this project is to play with various fruit re-fermentation in a semi-constant environment, creating each time a balanced beer that both showcases the fruit used, and respects the base sour gold, Shifting Sands. The inaugural incarnation, Shifting Sands: Peach, had more than 500 kg of fresh peaches added to the oak foeder it was fermented and aged in. It was left to mature three months, with the intention of drying out the initial sweetness added by the fruit.
First seen on Saturday, August 12, 2017
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 6.2 IBU: 0
The newest iteration of Halcyon Barrel House’s Shifting Sands is our sour golden ale refermented with 600 kgs of organic raspberries. The barrels for this blend, ranging from 3-10 months old, were selected for their soft acidity to balance the tartness of the fruit.
First seen on Saturday, May 19, 2018
Style: Sour - Other
ABV: 6.5 IBU: 0
Last fall we selected four barrels from our stock of young, lightly tart gold beer. which had been aged for three months. To each barrel we added a significant quantity of locally grown organic haskap, a small, dark blue berry. The barrels underwent a secondary fermentation and aging period over the winter, then were blended together for packaging and release this spring. Waking Dreams pours a deep cranberry colour, with light berry-pink foam that dissipates quickly. The aroma is of berries and wine, with a touch of fruit skins. The flavour is tart, with lots of juicy, berry wine character. Plenty of tannins round out the body. The beer finishes dry, with a pleasant, lingering taste of fruit skins.
First seen on Sunday, February 4, 2018
Style: Table Beer
ABV: 3.5 IBU: 0
Originating in Belgium, table beers are low ABV, lighter-bodied ales or lagers traditionally consumed with dinner. Halcyon Barrel House brewmaster Bryce McBain sought to create the perfect table beer for occasions spent sitting with friends, sharing advice and talking about life. The result is Life Advice table beer, the third and latest offering from Halcyon Barrel House. Life Advice sits at a 3.5% ABV, and is fermented with saison yeast and a custom mixed culture of Ontario wild yeasts, along with lactic acid bacteria. It features a touch of Strisselspalt and Hersbrucker hops. True to Halcyon fashion, it is barrel aged and bottle conditioned. Life Advice pours a hazy straw gold with light foam lacing. The aroma is mild and fruity, with subtle peach and wine. A soft grain flavour plays in the background to a more dominant fruity yeast character. Just a bit of tartness contributes to its refreshing nature. Effervescent and barrel-kissed, this easy-to-enjoy saison finishes dry, and leaves you wanting more.
First seen on Sunday, August 13, 2017
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison
ABV: 6.2 IBU: 0
Halcyon brewmaster Bryce met Will and Adam of Austin Beerworks years back at a microbiology course, and the idea was sparked of collaborating on a beer together: Parallel Realities is the realization of those plans. The concept of Parallel Realities is brewing two versions of a recipe created collaboratively: one made at Halcyon with ingredients characteristic of Canada, and the other at in Austin with ingredients native to Texas. The two renditions are intended to be parallel in heart and soul, thought and process. The Halcyon edition of Parallel Realities is made with organic raspberry leaf and hand-harvested lingonberries, as well as locally foraged scarlet beebalm and sumac. It was brewed at Halcyon in October 2017. Austin Beerworks will be releasing a made-in-Texas version of Parallel Realities later this year.
First seen on Friday, March 15, 2019
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 7.6 IBU: 0
Organic cherries are up as the feature fruit in this third rendition of Halcyon’s Shifting Sands. The base sour gold is aged in red wine barrels from six to twelve months. A select blend of these barrels was then aged on both tart Montmorency variety and dark sweet cherries for another six months. This one’s all cherry.
First seen on Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 7.3 IBU: 0
Halcyon Barrel House focuses in on a new feature fruit, black currant, in this edition of the Shifting Sands Series. Shifting Sands Currant pours a deep pinkish-red, with soft pink foam that retreats quickly. The aroma is dominated by herbal, fruity and peppery black currant, echoed by a hint of wine.
First seen on Thursday, May 23, 2019
Style: Wild Ale - American
ABV: 8.5 IBU: 0
Brett Friends Forever II is the second Brett pale ale collaboration between Bryce McBain of Halcyon Barrel House and Justin da Silva of Stone City ales. BFF the first was brewed at Stone City in the spring of 2015, showcasing Brett fermentation and two hop varieties, Wai-iti and Galaxy. The 2017 edition is 8.5% ABV and hopped liberally with Wai-iti and Azacca. Mixed fermentation of Saccharomyces and multiple Brett strains in red wine barrels define the character of the beer. Bottle conditioned, of course. BFF II Pours quite hazy, with ample fluffy foam. The aroma is all hops: orchard fruit, citrus, and all things tropical. No subtle undertones here, just hops. Flavour is equally hop-forward, with the orchard fruit leading the way, in a delightfully light body for a rather big beer. A pleasant alcohol warmth lingers, and the finish is dry, with mild bitterness.
First seen on Thursday, August 31, 2017
Style: IPA - Imperial / Double
ABV: 7.4 IBU: 0
If you double HBH’s Brett I.P.A. Infinity Mirror what do you get? You get 7 Years Bad Luck. It is the 10th beer to be released from Halcyon Barrel House. 7 Years Bad Luck is 7.4 % double I.P.A. that is primary-fermented with brettanomyces. Organic Idaho 7 and Mosaic hops are new to the profile, which also includes Amarillo and Nelson-Sauvin. The aroma is freshly hoppy, with tropical fruit dominant, and lighter notes of grassy meadows and wildflowers. It tastes juicy, with ripe fruit, citrus and pine. The finish wicks with warming alcohol and hop bitterness.
First seen on Saturday, June 30, 2018
Style: Stout - Imperial / Double
ABV: 12 IBU: 0
Dark Designs is a limited-edition organic Imperial Wine Stout from Halcyon Barrel House. Two years in wine and whiskey barrels produced this blend, which was bottled in September 2019.
First seen on Friday, October 18, 2019
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 8.2 IBU: 0
Year Two is a retrospective of the most well-aged, and most interesting fruited sours and saisons from Halcyon's second year of brewing. It includes Shifting Sands: Currant and Cherry, two different fruited versions of farmhouse saison Curse of Knowledge (lingonberry and baco noir grape), and a tripel as-yet unreleased from the barrel house. Think of it as our year-in-review highlight reel.
First seen on Thursday, May 23, 2019
Style: IPA - Brut
ABV: 6.7 IBU: 35
We love dry beer at Halcyon, so making a Brut I.P.A. was right up our alley. We allowed for two full months of barrel fermentation with our house mix of brett to create a drying effect without enzymes, then dry-hopped with mosaic for an aromatic matrix of berries, fruit and funk.
First seen on Friday, February 8, 2019
Style: Sour - Flanders Red Ale
ABV: 8.7 IBU: 0
Flanders red-style sour ale with cherry.
First seen on Thursday, June 20, 2019
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison
ABV: 7.8 IBU: 0
Invisible Ink is a Halcyon Barrel House collaboration with Prince Edward County’s Matron Fine Beer. It is a year-old barrel-aged saison with brett, brewed with organic Meyer lemon and clementine for a bright, citrusy profile.
First seen on Saturday, June 22, 2019
Style: Sour - Other
ABV: 7.9 IBU: 0
Year One anniversary blend is a special release to celebrate Halcyon Barrel House’s first year as a brewery. It is the blended and augmented yield of a handful of our most well-aged, and most interesting barrels from this past year. Think of it as our year-in-review highlight reel.
First seen on Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Style: IPA - Brett
ABV: 6.2 IBU: 0
The Tunnel Vision project from Halcyon explores the use of a single type of hop in brewing a brett IPA. In this case the variety of hop in focus is organic El Dorado. Tunnel Vision El Dorado is aged two months in oak barrels, and extensively dry-hopped.
First seen on Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Bière de Garde
ABV: 7.3 IBU: 28
Rheasilvia bière de garde is a blend of two biere de garde recipes brewed a year apart, in Dec. 2017 and Dec. 2018. It is fermented in red wine barrels with saison yeasts and Halcyon’s house mixed culture.
First seen on Friday, September 20, 2019
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Bière de Mars
ABV: 6.4 IBU: 0
Nix Olympica is a barrel-aged Bière de Mars from Halcyon Barrel House. It is brewed with organic smoked malt and saison yeast, and has ample barrel character.
First seen on Sunday, August 12, 2018
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison
ABV: 5.3 IBU: 0
False Memory is a thirst-quenching, satisfying saison that crosses American style hops with the traditional Belgian farmhouse style. It’s intensely dry-hopped, and was aged for 4 months in oak wine barrels. Effervescent and very drinkable.
First seen on Friday, October 2, 2020
Style: Farmhouse Ale - Saison
ABV: 7.8 IBU: 0
Fear is the Mind Killer is a blended saison-inspired recipe using buckwheat and souring bacteria. It was brewed collaboratively with Francis Paquette.
First seen on Saturday, July 7, 2018
Style: Sour - Fruited
ABV: 7.3 IBU: 0
This is the first time brewing a Blueberry rendition of Shifting Sands sour gold with fruit. The sour golden ale base was mixed with organic blueberries and aged for 7 months in red and white wine barrels.
First seen on Saturday, September 5, 2020
Gravity Well
By Sebastien Goodchild
Curse of Knowledge
By Rasmusnalle
Year One
By Alain Quevillon
Gravity Well
By Alain Quevillon
Brett Friends Forever II
By Alain Quevillon
Infinity Mirror
By Alain Quevillon
Gravity Well
By Christoffer Bjerre
Nix Olympica
By Alfred R
Infinity Mirror
By Clovis Julien
Year One
By Mike
Brett Friends Forever II
By James G
False Memory
By Arcanor
Infinity Mirror
By Benoit Yelle
Parallel Realities
By Alan G
Infinity Mirror
By Paul Dhanoa
Reviews
Andy Vargo: Own Your Awkward
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Delicious beers, amazing location, and awesome staff! I was able to visit here on a Tuesday afternoon while in town for the Limitless retreat. Since it was a weekday, it was a quiet afternoon, but I could tell the place gets hopping at the large patio space out front. Next time I'm in the area, I'll plan my trip around time to be here for an event (or two). Enjoyed a flight with a tasty range in beer styles and flavors. Hard to pick a favorite as each had their own unique high points. Although the crme brul stout was a delicious treat. My favorite part was chatting with the team about the area and the history of the brewery. Come in once and you'll be a regular!
Nathan Hann
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Beau's has been my favourite brewery for the last decade. Finally experiencing the brewery in-person was an absolute pleasure. The bar staff were attentive and detailed in their description of the beers, making appropriate recommendations based on my stated preferences. The highlight of the day was tasting the beers which are not widely available (& not sold in any LCBO or Beer Store). I sampled a flight of 4 which included: Night Mrzen, Double Juiced, Curse of Knowledge, and Gravity Well. My ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE was Curse of Knowledge. This is one of the best brews I have ever enjoyed! Beau's was unfortunately sold out of this brew (but I can understand why) so I purchased my go-to beer, Wonder Crush. Looking forward to finding an opportunity to go back to see if I can get my hands on some Curse of Knowledge. I highly recommend spending an afternoon at Beau's Brewery.
Tony Morgan
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Awesome pit stop. Had some food like chips and sandwiches but maybe there is more on the menu. Patio was great. Nice facilities and staff too. Oh and Beaus on tap is 100 percent better than cans in store speaking personally. I can't explain it but their beer in house tastes so fresh.
Marc-Antoine Cyr
Sunday, July 14, 2024
This has been on our bucket list for a while, and boy it did not disappoint. Merci pour le service en franais! Very friendly staff, legendary selection of the finest craft beers known to man, beautiful patio, a must stop if you're in the area.
Samantha Raymond
Sunday, March 3, 2019
We went yesterday and there where large groups from busses there. Staff was very friendly aside from the one who announced she was doing the last tour of the day (in french) so we went knowing that my other half spoke no French but I could translate. Then on the tour she made him the center of attention of the group saying that it was rude to speak when she was trying to explain the brewing process and if wanted to continue the conversation to go to the other side so she wouldn't be interrupted explaining to everyone else. I get that there was a tour bus from Montreal, and there had apparently been another one from Ottawa however we drove from Kingston picked up a friend in Ottawa only to reach the last tour of the day which was in French which he doesn't understand so to accommodate we went on the tour we drove 4 hours to go on and we translated for him. However that wasnt the question it was a demeaning uncalled for public ridicule. The entire reason we went there was for his birthday for his favorite beer, and that's how he was treated. Notice the rating is a 4 out of 5? Because the rest of the staff where super helpful and crazy courteous. Overall we didn't let one bad seed ruin our experience and we had a fantastic time with the other staff.