Posts Tagged: Nova Scotia
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 - 22 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 »
Halifax's Earliest Boozeries
Posted by on Friday, August 5, 2005 in - 2 comments
Mike has done some excellent research with a map he has found showing the first places of libation in his hometown and my old stomping grounds of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Go read. If he'd scan the map we could put it up here as some interactive history with an edjificational twist. Just thinking of …
Nova Scotia Beer College
Posted by on Friday, February 25, 2005 in - 5 comments
Big news from my old stomping grounds: • “The Labatt Beer Institute, which officially opened in Halifax on Wednesday, will train students on everything from the history of beer to how to pour it properly. "What I would have thought in my day is that there was very little about beer that the …
Nova Scotia: Maxwell's Plum, Halifax
Posted by on Saturday, November 6, 2004 in - 34 comments
As I've mentioned at my bio on the sidebar, I've noticed that Maxwell's Plum, a pub in downtown Halifax, is now offering 160 brands of beer, with 60 brands on tap. I haven't been by yet, but I promise some dedicated reportage in the coming months. I'm thinking of maybe going at them alphabetically …
