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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: The story behind Canada's new fully kosher-certified brewery
Description: Walk down the craft beer section of your local liquor store, and you'll be met by a wall of beautiful designs and bright colours. But if you spot a Shillow beer, something might catch your eye: the certified logo of the Kosher Council of Canada. Being kosher-certified is an extra expense, but it was a necessary one for Ben and Jamie Shillow, the modern Orthodox couple behind Shillow Beer.
This month, they opened their first retail store on Cyrville Road in Ottawa, in a new brewery built during the pandemic. It's not open on Shabbat, of course...