Crannóg Ales at Left Fields farm

Crannóg Ales is Canada's only certified organic farmhouse microbrewery!

Left Fields is a ten-acre certified organic farm. It is a diversified farm, with a market garden, livestock, a hopyard, and a small orchard. It is also home to Crannóg Ales.

We grow everything from apples to lettuce to pigs, sheep and chickens. We try to grow heritage and unusual varieties both in our garden and with our livestock, to ensure that valuable and interesting breeds are maintained. Our farm style is intensive, with plenty of wild space for wildlife habitat. The whole farm is certified organic, as is the brewery.

Our water comes from our own well, spring-fed from the farm itself. We grow our own hops, and use all of our spent grains on our own farm, to feed our animals or for compost.

Our Hops

Left Fields also grows hops for Crannóg Ales. Our hopyard was planted in 2000, and began full production in the fall of 2002.
We grow 7+ varieties of hops, in two yards totalling just over 1 acre. The hopyards are fully certified organic, and are the basis for ongoing research into organic hop production on a small scale for our bioregion.

Our hops are processed on-farm, in a dryer of our own design, and all our hops are used only in our brewery.

All hop rhizomes for Left Fields originally came from non-organic stock from the Pacific Northwest. We now propagate our own rhizomes for commercial sales.

We are currently growing Golding, Fuggle, Nuggett, Willamette, Mt. Hood, Challenger and Cascade hops, with a few plants each of other varieties (Magnum, Zeus, Brewers Gold, Northern Brewer). This lineup changes as we learn which hops do best under organic cultivation, and which work best for our brewery. We are also propagating our own Wild Hops, which we found growing by the pond on the farm.

We have become something of a resource for hops growers in Canada. For information on hops production, grower resources, and rhizome sales, please have a look through all our hops pages.