Wellington Brewery
Wellington Brewery has been brewing in Guelph, Ontario since 1985, part of the first wave of small independent breweries permitted under changed provincial law. Founder Phil Gosling set out to bring English-style cask-conditioned real ale to a market held by large national brewers. The brewery has remained independently owned since. Several of the original recipes still anchor the core lineup, among them Special Pale Ale, County Brown Ale and Arkell Best Bitter, joined by lagers, an imperial stout and a rotating small-batch series. Around a third of the hops come from Ontario farms and most of the malt is grown in Canada.
Beers by Wellington Brewery
10 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Wellington Brewery brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 10 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.
County Brown Ale
Their beers place in the Top 17% of the catalogue on average, across 10 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Wellington Brewery
Wellington Brewery has been brewing in Guelph, Ontario since 1985, part of the first wave of small independent breweries permitted under changed provincial law. Founder Phil Gosling set out to bring English-style cask-conditioned real ale to a market held by large national brewers. The brewery has remained independently owned since. Several of the original recipes still anchor the core lineup, among them Special Pale Ale, County Brown Ale and Arkell Best Bitter, joined by lagers, an imperial stout and a rotating small-batch series. Around a third of the hops come from Ontario farms and most of the malt is grown in Canada.
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