Alberta
What’s on Tap? – Community, Creativity & Craft at Inner City Brewing
Located in the heart of Calgary’s colorful Beltline district, Inner City Brewing recently celebrated two years of bringing great brews and good times to Calgary’s downtown!
Originally founded by 5 friends in 2018 with just 8 beers on tap, it has been a busy two years of innovation and expansion for Inner City. The brewery now features a combination of 20 core and rotating taps available year round, and has brewed over 60 beers in total – an unprecedented number in such a short amount of time. The taproom also includes a full service kitchen with a high-quality comfort food menu (check out the nacho in a bag!).
Inner City Brewing celebrates the life of the city through the creation of brews that are as unique and exciting as the city itself. “We love the vibrancy and the connections,” says Doug Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Inner City Brewing, “it’s all the weird and wonderful interactions that make the inner city.”
Each Inner City can is dedicated to a specific destination around the world, using artistic map renderings to highlight the area of inspiration for each beer and style. “No map or intersection is exactly alike,” says Doug, “and neither are our beers.” The colorful artistry of Inner City products makes them easy to spot on the liquor store shelf lineup, with unique designs such as “Bridgelandia”, a core beer featuring a map of Calgary, and “Brickworks”, an English Dark Mild Ale that features the map of Manchester, UK.
Located in a restored 1940’s building on 11 Ave’s 800 block, Inner City’s clean industrial taproom is built of concrete and steel, with massive bay windows that flood the space with Alberta sunshine all year round.
Visitors can watch the hustle of 11th from the patio or peer into the massive on-site brewery adjacent to the taproom, where Inner City Head Brewer Eli Horne is constantly working on the next best thing. With 20 taps featuring everything from crisp lagers to oatmeal stouts, Inner City shares their love of craft beer with the community by brewing something for everyone. “Beer is much more versatile in flavor and variety than people realize,” says Doug, “especially with our main brewery and pilot brewery systems, the sky’s the limit.”
The Inner City taproom is home to two custom-built infusion towers that produce unique small-batch brews for fun, one-night-only features. As the only build of their kind in Canada, the infusion taps let the Inner City imagination run wild – exploring coffee, cocoa, fruit and tea infusions, and brewing everything from bacon to bubblegum beers as one-off specialties. “It’s awesome,” laughs Doug, “we just like to push our creativity and have fun with it.”
The taproom keeps the fun going by pairing their unique beers with live music events like the Big Winter Classic, brewery tours, trivia nights, brewery yoga, and so much more. As an active member of the Beltline community, Inner City is always keeping up with community events, most recently participating in the YYC BUMP fest in celebration and support of local and Canadian artists. With these weekly events, their rotating taps and their infusers producing one-night-only brews, “No experience in the tap room is quite the same as the last,” says Doug, “we encourage people to come down regularly to see and experience what our team has been up to.”
For more information about Inner City Brewing, visit https://www.innercitybrewing.ca.
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Premier Danielle Smith issued the following statement on the April 2, 2025 U.S. tariff announcement:
“Today was an important win for Canada and Alberta, as it appears the United States has decided to uphold the majority of the free trade agreement (CUSMA) between our two nations. It also appears this will continue to be the case until after the Canadian federal election has concluded and the newly elected Canadian government is able to renegotiate CUSMA with the U.S. administration.
“This is precisely what I have been advocating for from the U.S. administration for months.
“It means that the majority of goods sold into the United States from Canada will have no tariffs applied to them, including zero per cent tariffs on energy, minerals, agricultural products, uranium, seafood, potash and host of other Canadian goods.
“There is still work to be done, of course. Unfortunately, tariffs previously announced by the United States on Canadian automobiles, steel and aluminum have not been removed. The efforts of premiers and the federal government should therefore shift towards removing or significantly reducing these remaining tariffs as we go forward and ensuring affected workers across Canada are generously supported until the situation is resolved.
“I again call on all involved in our national advocacy efforts to focus on diplomacy and persuasion while avoiding unnecessary escalation. Clearly, this strategy has been the most effective to this point.
“As it appears the worst of this tariff dispute is behind us (though there is still work to be done), it is my sincere hope that we, as Canadians, can abandon the disastrous policies that have made Canada vulnerable to and overly dependent on the United States, fast-track national resource corridors, get out of the way of provincial resource development and turn our country into an independent economic juggernaut and energy superpower.”
From the Fraser Institute
By any measure, Alberta is an energy powerhouse—within Canada, but also on a global scale. In 2023, it produced 85 per cent of Canada’s oil and three-fifths of the country’s natural gas. Most of Canada’s oil reserves are in Alberta, along with a majority of natural gas reserves. Alberta is the beating heart of the Canadian energy economy. And energy, in turn, accounts for one-quarter of Canada’s international exports.
Consider some key facts about the province’s energy landscape, as noted in the Alberta Energy Regulator’s (AER) 2023 annual report. Oil and natural gas production continued to rise (on a volume basis) in 2023, on the heels of steady increases over the preceding half decade. However, the dollar value of Alberta’s oil and gas production fell in 2023, as the surging prices recorded in 2022 following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine retreated. Capital spending in the province’s energy sector reached $30 billion in 2023, making it the leading driver of private-sector investment. And completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has opened new offshore export avenues for Canada’s oil industry and should boost Alberta’s energy production and exports going forward.
In a world striving to address climate change, Alberta’s hydrocarbon-heavy energy sector faces challenges. At some point, the world may start to consume less oil and, later, less natural gas (in absolute terms). But such “peak” consumption hasn’t arrived yet, nor does it appear imminent. While the demand for certain refined petroleum products is trending down in some advanced economies, particularly in Europe, we should take a broader global perspective when assessing energy demand and supply trends.
Looking at the worldwide picture, Goldman Sachs’ 2024 global energy forecast predicts that “oil usage will increase through 2034” thanks to strong demand in emerging markets and growing production of petrochemicals that depend on oil as the principal feedstock. Global demand for natural gas (including LNG) will also continue to increase, particularly since natural gas is the least carbon-intensive fossil fuel and more of it is being traded in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Against this backdrop, there are reasons to be optimistic about the prospects for Alberta’s energy sector, particularly if the federal government dials back some of the economically destructive energy and climate policies adopted by the last government. According to the AER’s “base case” forecast, overall energy output will expand over the next 10 years. Oilsands output is projected to grow modestly; natural gas production will also rise, in part due to greater demand for Alberta’s upstream gas from LNG operators in British Columbia.
The AER’s forecast also points to a positive trajectory for capital spending across the province’s energy sector. The agency sees annual investment rising from almost $30 billion to $40 billion by 2033. Most of this takes place in the oil and gas industry, but “emerging” energy resources and projects aimed at climate mitigation are expected to represent a bigger slice of energy-related capital spending going forward.
Like many other oil and gas producing jurisdictions, Alberta must navigate the bumpy journey to a lower-carbon future. But the world is set to remain dependent on fossil fuels for decades to come. This suggests the energy sector will continue to underpin not only the Alberta economy but also Canada’s export portfolio for the foreseeable future.
Jock Finlayson
Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute
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