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Bobby Zacharias (Propeller) Brett Mason (Sleeman) Daniel Girard (Garrison) Greg Nash (Hart & Thistle) Kevin Keefe (Granite) Lorne Romano (Rogue’s Roost) Randy Lawrence (Sea Level Brewing) Graham Kendall (Keith’s) Bobby Zacharias, head brewer at Propeller Brewery Where did you train? I studied in Scotland at the Heriot-Wat University, and I took a course at the […]

The leading trends in Canadian craft beer are seasonal releases and limited-editions, and in Halifax the most established microbreweries, Propeller and Garrison, have done a fantastic job keeping their fans on their toes with a staccato attack of new releases. Garrison recently released its first Spruce Beer, its first oak barrel-aged version of the Ol’ […]

There are beer geeks, and there are beer nerds. And if he’s going to be called one of them, Alex Speers insists on the latter. I meet Alex Speers in person on the first mild day in March. Previously, on the phone, Speers had taken me through a PowerPoint presentation of complicated-looking graphs and used […]

Hairspray Back in my short-lived childhood ballerina career, I once ran out of hairspray before a recital. In a flash of genius, my mother remembered a trick from the old days. She cracked a beer and began touching up my topknot. It worked, but I stunk like a brewery. Slug killer If your garden is […]

Drinking beer doesn’t have to lead to a night of burps and farts. Allison Saunders tells us how to be a dainty, respectable drinker. It seems the tastiest things tend to piss off your stomach and sadly this doesn’t exclude beer, especially in mass quantities. For most, seasoned suds drinkers or otherwise, a night of […]

Beer prices are going up, but there’s a made-at-home solution. Amber Young reports. Reports suggest it won’t be long before beer drinkers should start to worry about increasing barley costs. Due to dismal crops and gas prices, the price of grain is on the rise, which leaves beer drinkers torn between buying their favourites and […]