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Burnside runs a mean and lean brewing team of Logan Wolfe, Jonathan Harris, and Connor MacLeod. Their combined brewing experience of over 30 years keeps the taps flowing smoothly.
Logan calls the shores of Lake Huron home, moving to Nova Scotia after the pandemic to continue his brewing career. He has since brewed the award winning “Werewolf American Porter” with Burnside Brewing.
John has spent many years brewing in Halifax and Alberta after graduating from brewing school in 2013. His signature beer at Burnside is “Down South Tropical Lager” which has been widely praised for its vacation focused flavours.
Connor is the Brewmaster at Burnside. He graduated from the VLB in Berlin in 2017 and has since kept busy in the Dartmouth craft beer scene. He is the longest tenured brewer with Burnside Brewing.
Dartmouth made. Community approved.
Poured for the moment. No occasion needed.
The lager has always been the honest beer—no frills to hide behind, nowhere for imperfection to live. In the tradition of the great North American lagers, Toller Gold is an exercise in clarity: clean fermentation, a gentle bitterness, and a finish that asks nothing of you except to have another.
What makes it special: Toller was launched in 2019 at a moment when craft beer's prestige brands were heading in the opposite direction—more complex, more expensive, more exclusive. Burnside went the other way. Easy drinking, 5% approachability. Launched first in a 24-pack format that nobody else in Nova Scotia was offering, it arrived on the market like a quiet argument: great beer doesn't have to be a special occasion. The Gold now anchors the Toller family alongside Toller Lite, and together they're the bestselling products the brewery has ever made. Cold, consistent, and deeply easy to enjoy.
Named after the makeshift anchor used by Atlantic fishermen—a stone lashed to a wooden frame, dropped to hold position in uncertain waters—Killick is a beer that knows where it stands.
What makes it special: Born in 2017 through a partnership with the Devour Food Film Fest, Killick was Burnside's first real statement of intent. A Munich Helles-style lager—though you won't find that on the can—it's brewed with Saaz hops from the Czech-German growing regions and a specialty Heidelberg malt that gives it a faint, pleasant acidity, almost a gentle tang. The result is what you might call a European lager's disposition wrapped in a distinctly Nova Scotian can. Carlsberg drinkers recognize something familiar in it. Craft beer fans find something more considered. Killick exists happily in that in-between, which is, as it turns out, exactly where Burnside lives.
Because even a lager-first brewery needs somewhere to let its hair down.
What makes it special: Burnside will be the first to tell you they don't chase trends—but that doesn't mean they ignore what people love. The Happy Place Double IPA is the brewery's concession to the undeniable fact that hop-forward big IPAs have earned their place in the craft canon. Bold, resinous, and unapologetically intense against the backdrop of all that clean lager, Happy Place is Burnside having fun. It doesn't compete with Toller for your Wednesday evening. It's more of a Friday night thing. That it sells as well as it does tells you something about the range of people who've found their way into the Burnside orbit—and decided to stay.
Mountain peaks to shorelines — Burnside travels well.
