founded 1834 founder john h. sleeman headquarters guelph ontario canada products beer production output 1 200 000 hl owner sapporo brewery subsidiaries the beer store 2 % website http www.sleeman.com john h. sleeman originally began brewing beer in 1834 . 1 by 1933 the sleeman brewery had ceased operations when their liquor licence was revoked for bootlegging specifically smuggling beer into detroit michigan . citation needed the brewery was restarted in 1988 by john w. sleeman the great great grandson of john h. sleeman . the company s current products are based on the family s original recipes . contents 1 john h. sleeman 2 history 3 timeline 4 operations 5 marketing 6 see also 7 references 8 external links john h. sleeman edit john h. sleeman was born in cornwall england in 1805 and came to ontario in 1834 . he died in st. david s ontario in 1893 . his family continued to operate the brewery he founded in 1851 until 1933 . history edit between the reestablishment of the brand in 1988 and the sale to sapporo in 2006 sleeman acquired several other canadian microbreweries and became the third largest canadian brewing company after molson coors and labatt s. the acquisitions included okanagan spring brewery in 1996 upper canada brewing in 1998 shaftebury brewing company in 1999 sold to fireweed brewing in 2014 maritime brewing in 2000 and unibroue in 2004 . timeline edit sleeman s dates back to 1834 when john h. sleeman begins his career as a malter and brewer . a timeline of sleeman family owned breweries 1800 s the slyman family unlicensed english brewers change their name to sleeman . 2 1805 john sleeman is born in cornwall england . 1834 john h. sleeman leaves cornwall and arrives in ontario and settles in st. davids niagara on the lake ontario in 1836 . 1836 sleeman establishes the stamford springs brewery in st. catharines ontario . 1845 sleeman sells his brewery to holliday brewery and opens a new company called hodgerts brewery in guelph . 1847 john h. moves to guelph from lockport new york 1850 hodgerts brewery is renamed holiday brewery and later sold . 1851 sleeman establishes his third brewery silver springs brewery in guelph and later relinquishes control to his son george sleeman 1841 1923 in 1867 1891 brewmaster george sleeman completes his custom made elaborate 50 room home sleeman house on his sprawling estate on the outskirts of then new city of guelph . 3 1900 john s grandson george sleeman establishes the sleeman brewing and malting company 1921 silver springs brewery beverage company is renamed canada malt products 1926 holliday brewery obtains the original sleeman brewery and later acquired by canada cream of malt in 1930 1929 george sleeman dies and brew control is handed to george a. sleeman 1867 1960 1927 spring bank brewery is created by henry oscar sleeman son of george a sleeman . 1933 sleeman ceased operations after license revoked for bootlegging . 1938 jockey club brewery limited bought out by ace high brewery limited 1939 ace high brewery limited ceases operations 1955 sleeman brewing and malting company name becomes inactive 1957 sleeman house or the manor as it is now known sold by the sleeman family . 1988 sleeman brewing and malting company re established by john warren sleeman great great grandson of john h. sleeman 1999 sleeman brewing purchases shaftebury brewing company 2004 sleeman breweries ltd. buys quebec based unibroue brewery for 36.5 million . 2006 sapporo breweries reached a deal to purchase sleeman for approximately 400 million . 4 2014 shaftebury brewing is sold to fireweed brewing operations edit a bottle of john sleeman presents india pale ale the brewery currently produces the following beers under the sleeman name cream ale original draught honey brown lager silver creek lager rousse dark light clear 2.0 a low carbohydrate beer john sleeman presents fine porter john sleeman presents india pale ale john sleeman presents beechwood smoked lager lift aside from its own brands the company brews pabst products for the canadian market including old milwaukee stroh s schlitz and pabst blue ribbon . other brands brewed under licence include maclays pale ale for maclays brewery red bull beer and sapporo premium for sapporo brewery their parent company . sleeman also continues to brew upper canada lager and upper canada dark ale two beers that were formerly produced by the upper canada brewing company before sleeman acquired the company . additional beers under the upper canada brand including rebellion lager wheat and maple brown ale have since been discontinued . sleeman owns a 2 % stake in brewers retail inc. the operator of the beer store retail chain . the takeover by sapporo means that no portion of brewers retail is held by any majority canadian owned entity . many sleeman brands are distributed in clear bottles which are less expensive and give them a distinctive look but can result in the liquids becoming more susceptible to light damage . concerned this would affect the beer s taste sleeman compensates for this in a majority of their brews by using hops that are processed to be less light sensitive . marketing edit the brewery entered into a 1.2 million sponsorship deal with the city of guelph in 2007 that gives sleeman exclusive naming rights to the guelph sports and entertainment centre until 2020 . 5 in 2010 the company began an advertising campaign drawing attention to their bootlegging past . 6 see also edit canadian beer references edit sleeman brewing history . www.library.guelph.on.ca . retrieved 2010 04 04 . john sleeman successful canadian entrepreneur . the canadian business journal . january 2009 . retrieved 28 july 2011 . http www.guelphmercury.com news story 2764311 the manor is a monument to guelph s history and much more cbc news money sapporo acquisition of sleeman on tap . cbc.ca . 2006 08 11 . archived from the original on december 2 2008 . retrieved 2010 04 04 . city of guelph approves sleeman sponsorship deal . toronto www.thestar.com . 2007 06 18 . retrieved 2010 04 04 . paul jonathan 2010 05 07 . sleeman brews infamy . strategy . retrieved 28 july 2011 . external links edit official website sleeman brewing history sleeman breweries historic gallery 1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sleeman breweries & oldid 737636780 categories companies established in 1834companies established in 1988companies based in guelphcanadian brewing companiescompanies disestablished in 1933canadian subsidiaries of foreign companiessapporo breweryhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent 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