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Sleeman Breweries

🌍 Canada · Regional · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Sleeman Breweries traces its roots to 1836 when John H. Sleeman founded the Stamford Spring Brewery in Ontario, later expanding to Guelph with the Silver Creek Brewery in 1851. After Prohibition-era convictions ended the original family enterprise in 1933, great-great-grandson John W. Sleeman revived the brand in 1988, reopening a brewery in Guelph, Ontario. In 2006, Japan's Sapporo Breweries acquired Sleeman for CA$400 million, making it one of Canada's top three brewing companies under Japanese ownership.

4Beers
2Styles
4.8%Avg ABV
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
25%
catalogue avg 43%

Beers by Sleeman Breweries

4 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 4 beers in the catalogue.

Emerging signature · based on 4 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
cleanevery beer
4 of 4 beers
crispevery beer
4 of 4 beers
refreshingevery beer
4 of 4 beers
lightevery beer
4 of 4 beers

With 4 beers, only recurring notes are shown — one unusual beer moves this a lot.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Varied4 beers · 2 style families
Lager 3Pale Ale 1

A handful of styles across their range — a shared thread has to hold across each of them.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with 515 other Lager breweries.
Three beers is enough for a first read, not a full house style — one unusual beer moves this a lot.
typical for LagerSleeman Breweries
in no beersin every beer
sweet
in 3 of 4 · typical Lager brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more sweet than typical.
hoppy
in 1 of 4 · typical Lager brewery: 4 in 5
Notably less hoppy than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 54%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
2 / 4
beers above the median
#1166
best ranked beer
Sleeman Original Draught

Their beers place in the Top 54% of the catalogue on average, across 4 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Sleeman Breweries

Sleeman Breweries traces its roots to 1836 when John H. Sleeman founded the Stamford Spring Brewery in Ontario, later expanding to Guelph with the Silver Creek Brewery in 1851. After Prohibition-era convictions ended the original family enterprise in 1933, great-great-grandson John W. Sleeman revived the brand in 1988, reopening a brewery in Guelph, Ontario. In 2006, Japan's Sapporo Breweries acquired Sleeman for CA$400 million, making it one of Canada's top three brewing companies under Japanese ownership.

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