Posts Tagged: New Brunswick
New Brunswick Sends Beer Police To Borders
Posted by on Monday, January 28, 2013 in - 2 comments
It is fun having a giggle at the expense of New Brunswick. It's sort of a cultural requirements for Nova Scotians like me. But this news today seems to be pointed stick to any fun one might find in the beery border war taking place in eastern Canada: • A northern New Brunswick lawyer is …
New Brunswickers Had Too Much Beer In 2011
Posted by on Friday, August 3, 2012 in - leave a comment
I love the press releases of the smaller booze monopolies in smaller jurisdictions. Like this one from New Brunswick dutifully cut and pasted without comment or even apparent thought by the local branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: • ... president and chief executive officer Daniel …
By Wednesday's National Post I Lay Down And Wept
Posted by on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in - 1 comment
I don't think I have ever read a backhanded positive review of a beer so I can only assume the author is serious: • It flattens quickly when warm, so chill in the freezer to a minimum low (i.e. as close to freezing as you dare to go), and then feel free to guzzle. The lower alcohol and 95 …
Session 64: Pale Ale Was What I Drank When...
Posted by on Friday, June 1, 2012 in - 3 comments
I am not that old but, I guess, I am really not all that young either. I am not sure that I every went into a bar to have a beer in the 70s but know I was doing that by the fall of 1981 in Nova Scotia. Before that, there was drinking in friends' basements, drinking out by the reservoir, drinking …
Again, A Monopoly Copes With Competition
Posted by on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in - leave a comment
A few years ago we discussed how the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick was coping with challenges posed by its location next to Quebec and Maine. It is at it again: • NB Liquor quietly launched a new plan last week to attract New Brunswick beer drinkers to buy local by lowering prices …
NB Ceases Sales of Stockholm Syndrome Ale
Posted by on Friday, June 10, 2011 in - 1 comment
Remember that story out of the Canadian province of New Brunswick that it was going to brand it's own beer in part to dissuade locals from going to Maine or Quebec to get good beer at an honest price? Well - surprise, surprise - it's an utter failure: • In 2008, Dana Clendenning, the liquor …
Why Can't The Young Just Drink Beer Like They Oughta?
Posted by on Thursday, August 26, 2010 in - 2 comments
An odd beer story out of Canada's province with the best track record for coming up with odd beer stories. Apparently, the young are just not drinking enough macro-bleck: • Joel Levesque, Moosehead's vice-president, said the demographic that drinks the most beer, New Brunswickers aged 19 to 25 …
Geographical Challenges To Blueberriness Claim
Posted by on Thursday, July 16, 2009 in - 4 comments
It is odd how sometimes the Canadian drinks press fails to recognize the rather large neighbo(u)r to the south. In 2007, we learned through the Globe and Mail that pumpkin ales were "another classic" which deserved the revival that an Ontario brewery brought to the style even though there were 150 …
New Brunswick: Pick Your Gouge - Lager Or Light
Posted by on Saturday, April 18, 2009 in - 5 comments
Following up on earlier stories, the New Brunswick Liquor Corporation - a branch of government - has apparently been successful in its drive to dumb down the local beer market while maintaining its own inflated profit margins through the introduction of what is laughably called a "discount" beer …
Is That A Spark Of Revolution In New Brunswick?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in - 3 comments
Backlash. That is what the world is really fueled by. People get so ticked off with this or that that they lift themselves out of their comfortable chairs, their offices without the view or their garden rows and say no way, enough is enough. Is this maybe what we are witnessing in Canada's eastern …
