This week we sat down on at the original Edmonton location of Brewsters with Don Mcdonald, a 23 year Brewsters veteran and their Director of Sales.

Don is a true lover of the industry and beer in general, and says “I can go to anything if there’s going to be beer.” He’s been going to Brewsters for over two decades, not just because of their great beer but the great relationships he’s built with the staff and with the guests and clientele in his many positions at the classic Alberta brewpubs.

Brewsters was founded in 1989 is Saskatchewan and in 1991 Michael Lanigan brought the brand to Alberta, when at the time one of the only craft brewery around was Big Rock, and the brewpub concept was still brand new for the province. For decades Brewsters has pushed the envelope of beer taste in the province, and Don credits this to Michael’s style of letting the team try anything once, as long as they weren’t making the same mistakes twice.

We reminisce a bit about the successes and challenges of previous beer festivals, and Don eloquently sums up what makes Alberta’s fast growing craft beer industry so great: “Part of what makes our industry so good and so successful is that people persevere"

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