James Hoff w/D/A A/D, Nylon Tarps Saturday, January 14, 10pm Garrison Brewery, 1149 Marginal Road $15 suggested donation The Air You Breathe is Metallic To January 21 Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Brooklyn artist and musician James Hoff is a disruptor. Case in point: His album Blaster features beats infected by the Blaster virus […]
Garrison Brewing Company and Cold Beer Store
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Best Craft Brewery
Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Silver Winner Garrison Brewery Company Bronze Winner Propeller Brewing Company “We wanted to be a place like Tom’s Little Havana, which has this weird reverence, a warmth that was hard to put into words—but you felt it,” says one-third of the Good Robot co-owner/best-bud triad, Josh Counsil. With that, […]
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Taste the rainbow: a summer beer round-up
Rockbottom Brew Pub Kolsch (5.2 percent) Your lawn-mowing sidekick, this crisp, light, laidback brew makes summer chores a breeze. Unfiltered Brewing Daytimer Berliner Weisse (3.4 percent) Day drinking never tasted so right. A lactic-tastic, tropically tart, dry-hopped sour session ale that is both lip-puckering and refreshing. North Brewing Company Summer Saison (5.5 percent) Literally brewed for […]
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99 bottles (and cans) on the wall
If you’re going to take one down, and pass it around, you might as well make it something brewed locally. We rounded up some (yup, there’s way more) of the most-loved locals you can take home and enjoy. Find them at their respective breweries, private liquor stores or the little ol’ NSLC. (left to right) […]
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Garrison’s Backlot Bash with July Talk, Three Sheet and more
Gear up to get beer’d up: this Friday, March 11, tickets go on sale for Garrison Brewing’s second annual Backlot Bash, featuring musical performances from Toronto blues rockers July Talk, Halifax rappers Three Sheet, ECMA winners Alert the Medic and local upstarts The Brood at the all-night, open-air parking lot party festival in support of the Ecology […]
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Best Craft Brewery
Gold Winner Garrison Brewing Company Silver Winner Propeller Brewing Company Bronze Winner North Brewing Company “It’s super cool to get this recognition in the city we brew and love in,” says Garrison’s Brian Titus. “We’re not the new guys, we’re in our 19th year. Business has never been better, we’ve never had more fun at […]
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Tap into fall beer
Post-haunted corn maze Leave Me Blue Kentucky Corn Beer (4.5 percent), Good Robot Brewing Corn is also known as maize. I can’t see any other explanation for a maze made of corn, but let us embrace the season. Lucky for us, Nova Scotia has plenty of terrifying corn mazes to choose from: for the brave, […]
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Brewers and dreamers: inside Garrison Brewing
The lap of luxury that Garrison Brewery Company now calls home, or part of its home, wasn’t always as pristine as it is these days. The massive space at 1096 Marginal Road, with its 40-foot ceilings, was once used to repair trains, and hadn’t been touched (or tidied) in decades. Like, there was a five-foot-deep […]
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Kellye Robertson
Assistant brewmaster Garrison Brewing Company, 1149 Marginal Road “At the end of the day being able to create something that you put in a glass and see someone really enjoy—it’s a pretty gratifying thing,” says Kellye Robertson, who, while still studying brewmaster and brewery management in Niagara, won Garrison’s Ultimate Brew-Off in 2013 and landed […]
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Tis the seasonal brew
The leaves are crunchy, the air is musty and your proclivity for hibernation is now socially acceptable. As the days darken, so does the beer. But it also gets spicier, stronger and full-bodied. A few weeks from now, you won’t need an excuse to stay inside, but this year’s local brew harvest sure helps. Propeller […]
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Best Craft Brewery
Gold Winner Garrison Brewing Company and Cold Beer Store Silver Winner Propeller Brewing Company Bronze Winner North Brewing Company Local leader in creative and seasonal beers, everybody can find a flavour to love at Garrison—last year alone it released over 20 styles. A perennial favourite is the raspberry wheat ale, but don’t discount quirkier varieties […]
