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Location:
Okotoks, AB
403.850.5702
Brewery scheduled to open in 2016!
Website: sixcorners.ca
Twitter: @SixCornersBeer
Products: Trailhead IPA, Stump Splitter Amber Ale and Farmhouse Ale.
Availability: Right now, Six Corners delivers to bars and liquor stores through liquor connect. Once their brewery opens in Okotoks in the summer of 2016, Six Corners will have a tasting room and retail area on location, and they will self-delivery across Alberta.
Six Corners brew master Luke Wooldridge is a student of brewing science. Wooldridge is passionate about all the variables that he can control and measure that will have an affect on the beer he makes. Choosing the quality ingredients that will help him achieve something that he can be proud of is Wooldridge’s goal.
Wooldridge went to school in Scotland to become a brew master. The experience he acquired in Scotland, along with his experience working in Saskatoon at a number of breweries, gave Wooldridge the knowledge and opportunity to start his own project set to open in Okotoks, Alberta in the summer of 2016.
“It was quite the experience to live [in Scotland] for a while and just be totally immersed in brewing science and distilling,” Wooldridge said. “I came away from that with a masters of science in brewing and distilling from Heriot-Watt University, the international centre for brewing and distilling. It was a good foundation starting off my career in brewing.”
Even though Six Corners is not opening their brewery in Okotoks until 2016, Wooldridge is already brewing three new Six Corners’ products out of a brewery in Saskatchewan. Their three beers, a signature Trailhead IPA, Stump Splitter Amber Ale and Farmhouse Ale, are being distributed to bars and liquor stores through liquor connect.
The Trailhead IPA is a “nice, big hoppy IPA,” Wooldridge said. “It’s quite unique because it is a single hop IPA made with hop number 07270, which is it’s brand new in the program, so they don’t even have a proper name for it. They are just evaluating whether brewers and consumers want anything to do with this hop, so I did some trials with it and thought it was delicious and unique, so I went with that with our first IPA.”
The stump splitter is “amber ale with kind of a dark copper colour to it and a dry mouthy finish,” Wooldridge explained. “[It has an] intermediate bitterness level between what an IPA would have and an easier drinking lager. There is definitely some hop presence but it is well balanced with some malt.”
On Six Corners’ Farmhouse Ale, Wooldridge said that “most of the unique flavour characteristics of this beer and derived from the yeast string that we used. It’s French saison yeast that can be spicy characteristics. It’s really a unique yeast and it’s really the dominant flavour provided in this beer, so it’s a nice crisp one for the summer.”