Posts Tagged: Nova Scotia
A Beer Can Nerd In 360 Degree Wrap Around Vision
Posted by on Saturday, January 30, 2010 in - 1 comment
An interesting use of panoramic digital photography... if a neat and tidy basement full of beer cans is your thing. Spot the Old Scotia can, a short lived Nova Scotian favorite. Spot the thrilled patient spouse.
Nova Scotians Suddenly Back Away From The Pub
Posted by on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 in - 4 comments
I hadn't heard this before but a sudden drop in bar attendance was discussed in today's Chronicle Herald: • It could be fear of catching H1N1 or perhaps it’s a sign of the recession, but whatever the reason, pub-goers aren’t drinking beer in the quantities they used to. In general, beer sales by …
Nova Scotia: Imperial Pale Ale Unfiltered, Garrison
Posted by on Thursday, June 25, 2009 in - 1 comment
As a Haligonian ex-pat, I learned a lot about craft beer from Garrison in its early years in the mid-90s when it was one of the most reliable Maritime craft brewers that bottled. There was a more obviously Halifax centric naming of the brands back then. I seem to recall that I had a lot of their …
Session 25: All Hail Our Macro-Lager Overlords!!!
Posted by on Friday, March 6, 2009 in - 5 comments
I didn't say it was going to be fun or interesting. Just get out there and have what the next guy's having. • The Beer Nut, 9 February 2009 • Once when I was in undergrad, I was in a line-up, slightly bleary from the night before, signing up for seminar topics in English lit when the girl in …
Nova Scotia: Brewing Staff At Garrison Quits Or Fired
Posted by on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in - 2 comments
It's been years since I have had a Garrison Brewing beer from Halifax. I liked them fine when I lived out east and in the late 90s and early 2000s they were certainly a leader in Maritime Canadian brewing. And, as Troy (another expat Haligonian) has been telling us all for a while now, Garrison …
Session 9: When Beer And Music Shaped My Life
Posted by on Friday, November 2, 2007 in - leave a comment
A bit like Greg, when I thought about the topic for this month's edition of "The Session", hosted and proposed by Tomme Arthur of Lost Abbey, I was initially disappointed as this one's generality seems to be taking us another notch farther and farther away from the beer and nearer and nearer to a …
Ten-Penny: Another Maritime Canadian Beer Disappears
Posted by on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 in - 26 comments
When I was in undergrad in the early 1980's, just before New Brunswick's Hans Haus sorta failed at lift-off and Nova Scotia's Granite Brewery took off, I mainly drank beer made by two breweries that made beers that were pretty much like beers in the rest of Canada, • except they were made by …
Nova Scotia: London Porter, Propeller Brewing
Posted by on Saturday, March 10, 2007 in - 6 comments
Halifax's Propeller Brewing Company has a new (nope, just newly noticed by me) London Style Porter. A very nice, smooth, tasty dark addition to the local brew scene. The Propeller website states: • “A dark full-flavoured beer but smoother and less bitter than stout. Made with softened water …
Alexander Keith’s Red Amber Ale
Posted by on Sunday, April 30, 2006 in - 22 comments
This beer blog usually caters to the refined palate, but occasionally one finds oneself stranded on a desert island with little to choose from in the beer fridge. For that reason we occasionally "go slumming" and review mass produced brews. Or so says I, because it sounds like a good way to start …
Garrison Brewing Company, Nova Scotia, Canada
Posted by on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 in - 10 comments
I'm a fan of Halifax's Garrison Brewing Company and will often order their product when I'm at a restaurant or at the local beer seller. Garrison arrived on the Halifax brewing scene in 1997 which was really a watershed year for local breweryana, with Propeller Brewing Company and the Maritime … read more »
