Stack products now available at Beer Store

Good news for fans of Sudbury's Stack Brewing: Two of the local brewery's products are now available at the Lasalle and Lorne locations of The Beer Store.

Stack's Impact Altbier and La Cloche Belgian blonde ale will be sold at The Beer Store in six-packs.

That's thanks to a policy change that allows small brewers like Stack to offer two products at up to seven Beer Store locations without having to pay fees.

Stack Brewing owner Shawn Mailloux dropped off his products at the Lasalle and Lorne Beer Store locations Thursday morning.

He said he eventually hopes to have Stack beer at the Hanmer store, as well as Beer Store locations throughout northeastern Ontario.

“It's neat,” Mailloux said. “We'll see what happens with the Beer Store. Hopefully it's positive experience and we move a lot of product.”

Stack Brewing already sells some of its products through LCBO stores in the northeast.

Mailloux said if selling through the Beer Store works out, it could ultimately mean the creation of more jobs. The brewery, which will celebrate its third birthday in June, already employs 12 people.

Employees at the Beer Store have been very accommodating, said Rob Majury, who works in sales with Stack Brewing.

“It felt really great going to the Lasalle beer store,” he said. “They had just received an email that morning saying the product was going to be listed the next week. They saw the logo on my jacket, and there was high fives all around.

“They said 'We're really excited we have an answer to customers who come in and say where's the local beer?' Now they have something positive to say other than 'Go across the parking lot to the LCBO.'”