This is just a taste of what Ottawa's local craft breweries have to offer. If you would like to learn more, we would recommend sampling their beer on a Brew Donkey tour. Special thanks to our brewing friends at Kichesippi, Broadhead, Beyond The Pale, Cassel Brewery, Square Timber, Ashton Brewing, Brasseurs Du Temps, and Beau's All Natural for participating in our first brewery interview series.  Part One: How would you describe your brewery in just five words? Part Two: How do you feel about Ottawa's craft beer industry? Part Three: What are you working on in terms of new beers or projects? Part Four: What is...

This year has been amazing. The Ottawa Craft Beer community is so vibrant! You spoke, and we listened. In our first year of business, we established relationships with creative and inspiring breweries, including all of their hard-working staff. We got to deliver to a multitude of craft beer lovers and converts.  Every delivery was received with a smile because our customers were getting craft beer right to their door.  Over the course of the past year, we have also learned a lot about the spending habits of craft beer lovers. They love selection and aren't afraid to experiment, which is fantastic because Ottawa has almost...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 05, 2014 Local Brewery Tour Operator Launches Monthly Charity Tours SeriesBrew Donkey flirts with philanthropy, starting a monthly tour series donating proceeds to charitiesOTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 5, 2014 – Ottawa's first licensed multi-brewery craft beer deliveryservice opened for residential orders on November 28th 2013. Even before that though, BrewDonkey had started offering regional brewery tours to showcase the Ottawa brewing scene andhelp promote the upcoming delivery business. Since the tours began they were popular with some of the bi-weekly events selling out over amonth in advance. Starting in April Brew Donkey started offering weekly tours every...

When we initially envisioned our brewery tours service, we assumed that once, maybe twice, a month we would operate a tour that would take advantage of the generosity that each of the Ottawa breweries is always willing to give. This meant that maybe once every two or three months we would bring 25 or 30 people to a brewery for free samples in hopes that tours guests would buy beer from the brewery. Since we began the desire for tours has increased and in April we began launching weekly tours. With this increase we were bringing the breweries 25 to...

When we were building this business last year we received a lot of help and guidance from both Operation Come Home and Beau's All Natural Brewery. They fully supported the idea of helping get great beer into the hands of more customers like you. Our main concern in talking to them was to make sure they knew, not only did we love craft beer as much as them (Ok well...maybe not as much as Steve Beauchesne), but we also had no intention of trying to replace their BYBO service.  Further to that we wanted to do what ever we could...