Check out this post. There is some great secondary literature on the history of alcohol in Canada. Every year, I give a lecture in my Canadian history survey course called “Booze: the History of Drinking in Canada”. The students seem to like that lecture, although I suspect they might prefer an actual brewery tour 😉
As the Village added a tavern and a brewery in recent years, I have also been doing a lot of research about it. However, I still prefer the schoolhouse.