When Jordan Britten turned 19, she couldn’t wait to go to the bar. That is until she realized that she looked a lot like every other 19-year-old there. “That American Apparel dress,” she says of her thrift shop awakening. “I stopped shopping at American Apparel and H&M and the places everyone was going. I’ve become […]
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Where I Work: BeerTech’s Ken Greer
Who he is Ken Greer grew up in Belgium, where having a beer at lunchtime was “no big deal.” Once, when he tried to do this at a restaurant here in Halifax, he was told the draught system was being cleaned. “Who cleans beer lines at lunch?” Greer asked. And then a lightbulb went off: […]
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First look: Brightwood Brewery’s sunny gathering place
Brightwood Brewery35 Portland Street, Dartmouth A decade ago, Matt McGrail was that university student who messed around with mediocre beer kits and tried (unsuccessfully) to pawn off the sludge he concocted. But when McGrail started Brightwood Brewery years later with his co-worker Ian Lawson, they couldn’t refill their growlers fast enough. The pair’s homemade brewhouse in […]
