Nova Scotia Craft Beer Festival March 21, Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road nscraftbeerfest.ca It’s only been five years since the Nova Scotia Craft Beer Festival started life as “Full House,” with just a handful of brewers. That first event, in 2015, was intended to launch the summer beer season and introduce a few new beverages […]
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20 brews for 2020
Note: Unless otherwise indicated, these beers and ciders—which are presented in no particular order—should be available at NSLC and/or private liquor stores around Halifax until supplies run out. When in doubt or desperation, check with the individual brewery/cidery. Eight Bells The Church Brewing Co. The newest beer from Wolfville’s newest brewery is rooted in old […]
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The winds of change
After surviving last year’s late spring frost and record-breaking warm summer, Nova Scotian growers recently faced off with Hurricane Dorian’s 120-kilometre-an-hour winds. “It’s been a double whammy,” says Victor Oulton of the extreme weather events in the past two years. Oulton is the president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture, which recently sent out […]
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FIRST LOOK: Sourwood Cider’s funky little bar
Sourwood Cider 5576 Cornwallis Street Jake Foley is a musician, carpenter and violin-maker who pursues hobbies for the sake of romance and curiosity. The first time he tried his hand at making cider, he enlisted a group of friends to help him pick red-fleshed crab apples that he smashed, pressed and fermented. For several years, […]
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Drink these ASAP
Susannah, Garrison Brewing Co. This IWD imperial pale lager is Garrison’s very first all-female brewed beer is made with wild foraged sumac and sea buckthorn courtesy of East Coast Wild Foods. Fifty cents from each can goes towards an NSCC Women in Trades bursary. 1149 Marginal Road Tea & Honey Nitro, Lake City Cider A […]
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Sourwood Cider’s north end plans
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sourwood Cider (@sourwoodcider) on Oct 2, 2018 at 2:16pm PDT After a successful summer of piquing interest and tastebuds, the founders of Sourwood Cider are levelling up. The sometimes hard-to-track-down, funky-ass unfermented cider will have a place to hang out come early 2019 when it opens […]
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DRINK THIS: Meander River’s Blueberry Cider
It’s been nearly a year since Ashdale’s little gem, Meander River Farm, expanded its brewhouse to make room for more cider and you can raise a glass of its latest one-off release—a tasty 5.5% blueberry cider—to celebrate. “With our expansion last year we were able to do more small lots with fresh ingredients from our […]
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DRINK THIS: Chain Yard’s Drunken Cherry cider
Jay Hildybrant isn’t afraid to play around with ingredients, but the head cidermaker at Chain Yard Urban Cidery never wants to bury the best parts of cider under too much sugar. “For the longest time there’s been a stigmatic idea cider needs to be sweet and needs to taste like apples. To me, it’s time […]
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Sober Island Brewing and ShipBuilders Cider launch collaboration
Sober Island Brewing Co. has teamed up with ShipBuilders Cider to collaborate on a medley of beer and cider, launching this weekend. Sober Island Brewing owner Rebecca Atkinson connected with Sean Sears of ShipBuilders through a Mashup Lab program, and Atkinson says Sears has since become a mentor of sorts. Now, they’re finally launching a […]
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Chain-Yard Urban Cidery wants to be the apple of your eye
The co-owners of a Grape Escapes wine tours are crushing another kind of fruit and “taking advantage of the cider boom:” Mike Lim and Susan Downey Lim announced last summer they’d be teaming up with Brian Kelly to open Chain-Yard Urban Cidery at 2606 Agricola Street (the former FRED. location). And now they’re just about […]
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Apples to apples: 5 local ciders to try
1. Sid’s Cider Wild Blueberry The newest member of the ShipBuilders family re-imagines some of Stutz Cider’s familiar flavours—like this sweet treat Wild Blueberry, Crisp Apple or Chai Spice—in a snazzier, single-serve (and super affordable) bottle. This one’s for those who like to blush. $2.99 2. Bulwark Hopped Cider Because cider isn’t just a counterpoint […]
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New Years’ bubbly drinks checklist
Moet Dom Perignon Whether you’re a rapper or just have a general predilection for ballin’, nothing says extravagance like a $200 bottle of Dom P. You can sip it reflectively or, for the ultimate fuck-you to poor people, spray it around like you’ve just won the Tour de France. Piper-Heidsieck Recession got you down? Piper-Heidsieck […]