Moosehead
Moosehead traces its origins to 1867, when Susannah Oland began brewing commercially in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. After the Halifax explosion the family moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, and in 1928 took over the larger brewery on the site still in use today. The Moosehead name first appeared on a pale ale in 1933 and became the company name in 1947. Now led by the sixth generation of the Oland family, the firm describes itself as the last major brewery in Canadian ownership. Golden lagers dominate the range; a small-batch brewhouse with a taproom was added beside the main plant in 2018.
Beers by Moosehead
13 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Moosehead brew across 4 style families.
Across these 13 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
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About Moosehead
Moosehead traces its origins to 1867, when Susannah Oland began brewing commercially in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. After the Halifax explosion the family moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, and in 1928 took over the larger brewery on the site still in use today. The Moosehead name first appeared on a pale ale in 1933 and became the company name in 1947. Now led by the sixth generation of the Oland family, the firm describes itself as the last major brewery in Canadian ownership. Golden lagers dominate the range; a small-batch brewhouse with a taproom was added beside the main plant in 2018.
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