Creemore Springs Brewery

Up at the Copper Kettle event in CREEMORE today. Tasted some beer at the Creemore brewery, it was so nice and cold. Boy it was so good. This little town in the middle of the Niagara escarpment is so cute and a real treasure. Good food from all kinds of places from pubs to French cuisine. This is a must visit small town treasure.

The place smells great, lots of free samples, friendly staff, and the tour is free! How can you go wrong?

Let me first start out by saying we by no means expect anyone to roll out the red carpet everywhere we go. But being pleasant and being respected is a must.
Terrible customer service. We walked in 30mins prior to the tour and all employees didn’t acknowledge our existence with a hello or at least a smile. We wrote our names on the guest registry. Since our tour didn’t start for a while we directed to the bar next door. That was the extent their courtesy. Walking a couple mins prior to the tour we went to taste the beer. My friend innocently asked what the difference was between their 5 selections. The bartender sarcastically snickered «A lot» and never elaborated. Just blankly starred back at her. My brother-​in-​law innocently went to ask the seemingly busy cashier about the tour. But again her refusal to acknowledge him left him waiting until he initiated the interaction. These people could simply not be bothered by the people they served. We refused the tour after our 30min drive from Collingwood. Too bad we actually thought this would be a cool thing to do.
So people going to Blue Mountain, stay in the village. It will save you the small town attitude when you venture elsewhere. This happened multiple times throughout our visit. People in the village are far more friendly and have a sense of customer service.

Tasty times at the Creemore brewery. It’s not a particularly large storefront and I would have expected more selection in their fridge but I like that you can buy stuff in an 8 pack for relatively cheap.
There are taps for taste testing and if we’d had more time I believe we could have taken a tour of the place. From the shop you can see the brewery floor but it would have been nice to get down and see everything for myself.

Creemore is a beautiful town filled with lovely people, solid restaurants and delicious beer. It is definitely worth the drive to go to the brewery, and they do offer free samples… my only complaint is that the tour times do not always coincide with when they are doing the tour. I went with 5 people once and we were told to wait for 20 minutes until the posted time for the tour in case other people wanted to do it also. Then we waited another 25 minutes at which point I gave up and left.
Luckily, a different visit gave me the opportunity to tour the facilities. I have been on a few brewery tours and always find them interesting. This one didn’t disappoint, though it is a very small brewery so it isn’t a long tour. I recommend trying to do a tour but if you have to wait to do one, just buy a case of beer or perhaps some Creemore merchandise and head somewhere to enjoy them.