This announcement has been a long time coming, so I’ll just cut to the chase: We’re incredibly excited to announce that Halo Brewery will be opening Spring 2016 at 247 Wallace Ave on the border of the Junction Triangle and Wallace-Emerson neighbourhoods in Toronto.

We went through negotiations on 5 different properties over 11 months, and looked at dozens more. All of those fell through for various reasons, some of which I touched on in Part 3. Frankly, we felt pretty defeated and were starting to wonder if Halo would ever get off the ground.

We first saw this property on Wallace Ave back in early August and very quickly fell in love with the neighbourhood. Although we put in an offer pretty quickly thereafter, we only finalized the lease and got the keys a few weeks ago. As it turns out, commercial leases are very time consuming processes with a lot of due diligence and paperwork (who knew?!). Suffice to say Callum and I celebrated by cracking open the many, many special beers we had been saving for the occasion.

In the end, we are thrilled to find this space in such a great community. Last weekend, we were in the building getting it ready for construction by papering with windows with pages from our brew log (have fun, homebrewers!) and icons that represent some of the beers we’ll have available on tap and in bottles.