Nickel Brook Brewing Co.
Nickel Brook was founded in Burlington, Ontario in 2005 by brothers John and Peter Romano, and grew up alongside the province's craft beer movement. The regular range runs from a blonde ale and a lager through pale ale and IPA to a low-strength stout, with a rotating small-batch programme beside it. In 2016 the original Drury Lane site was turned into the Funk Lab, a separate facility given over to sour and mixed-fermentation brewing. Production has since moved to Mainway, and a second taproom opened in Etobicoke at the former Big Rock brewery.
Beers by Nickel Brook Brewing Co.
17 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Nickel Brook Brewing Co. brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 17 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:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
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.
Soccer Mom
Their beers place in the Top 52% of the catalogue on average, across 15 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Nickel Brook Brewing Co.
Nickel Brook was founded in Burlington, Ontario in 2005 by brothers John and Peter Romano, and grew up alongside the province's craft beer movement. The regular range runs from a blonde ale and a lager through pale ale and IPA to a low-strength stout, with a rotating small-batch programme beside it. In 2016 the original Drury Lane site was turned into the Funk Lab, a separate facility given over to sour and mixed-fermentation brewing. Production has since moved to Mainway, and a second taproom opened in Etobicoke at the former Big Rock brewery.
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