Use new high-tech brewing equipment to make top-notch suds (PicoBrew: iStock) Haligonian Mackenzie Grisdale knows all too well how time-consuming and messy home brewing beer can be.

That accounts for nearly 27% of the entire U.S. beer market, which was previously valued at $94 billion. This all leads to a growing need for brewing equipment.

Spike Brewing Equipment designs, builds, sources, and manufactures beer brewing equipment for consumer and commercial markets. In each of the past four years, Spike Brewing has doubled in revenue.

While beer and university life have long gone hand in hand, the love of suds is taking on new meaning at Dalhousie University. The Halifax school is in the process of getting a brewing licence and ...