Gold Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub Silver Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Bronze Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery If you haven’t rolled into Durty Nelly’s well after the hour you thought you’d be home by, do you really live in Halifax? The free-live-music-every-night-of-the-week bar doubles as an authentic Irish pub. Being Halifax’s best […]
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Best Bartender
Gold Winner Nicki Brown, Good Robot Brewing Co. Silver Winner Sabrina Cooke, Freeman’s Little New York Bronze Winner Cyle Crothers, Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Nicki Brown thinks it’s pretty cool to win Best Bartender as a beer bartender. “It shows that not all bartenders have to make cocktails,” says Brown. What makes her the […]
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Best Beer Selection
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery Bronze Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Stillwell’s Laura MacDonald says curating an award-winning selection of both local and international beers to fill your pints is certainly a labour of love, but it’s also a little bit self-serving.“We want to drink cool stuff and […]
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Best Brew Pub
Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Silver Winner Garrison Brewing Company Bronze Winner New Scotland Brewing Co. Josh Counsil credits Good Robot Brewing Co.’s latest win to a couple of important things that tie into its vision statement: “One thing is that beyond curating beer, we can curate quirky beer experiences and the other is […]
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Best Craft Brewery
Gold Winner Nine Locks Brewing Co. Silver Winner Garrison Brewing Company Bronze Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. “I think a lot of our focus has been good value for money: We’re not charging eight dollars a latte and we’ve always been committed to quality,” says Jim Dikaios of Java Blend’s gold win. The owner of […]
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Best Patio
Gold Winner Stubborn Goat Beer Garden Silver Winner Stillwell Beergarden Bronze Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Hall of fame Your Father’s Moustache Summer 2019 is barely over, but Legendary Hospitality’s Geir Simensen is already counting down to summer 2020. That might have something to do with the banner year the Stubborn Goat Beer Garden had […]
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11 things to do in Halifax when you’re high
Halifax is very conflicted about cannabis. Just days before weed was legalized in Canada last October 17, our city council passed a bylaw banning public smoking of any kind— cigarettes, blunts, vapes, everything—except in a few officially designated smoking areas. So on the one hand, local leaders are trying to kill the buzz. On the […]
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The Maes continue to “fall head over heels, cart over wheels” for folk music
Phoebe Bridgers Tribute w/The Maes Thu Aug 29, 10:30pm Good Robot Brewing Co., 2736 Robie Street With harmonies as vast as the Outback sky, Australia’s The Maes trace a finger along the lines of ’70s folk: The new self-titled record by the now-duo of sisters Maggie and Elsie Rigby is, as Maggie puts it, “a […]
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The best place to be in Halifax, each night of the week
A fun thing you’ll learn in your mandatory Psychology 101 course is that in your early 20s, your brain is super-soft—as impressionable as a Memory Foam mattress. You want to drink up as many experiences as life can give you—the same way a Memory Foam mattress will drink up any beer you spill on your […]
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Constellate’s group dynamics
Constellate: “Form or cause to form into a cluster or group; gather together.” Or, in the case of the local storytelling series of the same name, “to provide a space and opportunity for people who wouldn’t normally have their voices heard,” says Greg Puncher, one of its co-founders. For the past six months, Puncher and […]
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Grills for Good connects chefs for a cause
Grills For Good Tuesday, June 4 Good Robot Brewing, 2736 Robie Street 5:30-9:30pm, $55, eventbrite.ca Everyone knows #BeingHungrySucks, but for Mark Brand and the team behind Vancouver’s A Better Life Foundation it’s more than a hashtag, it’s a call to action: One repeatedly answered through initiatives to help people build upward mobility through increased food […]
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Grills gone wild: Burger Week’s most unconventional meats
Halifax Burger Week March 28-April 3 burgerweek.co Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, on a social media cleanse or avoiding this newspaper, you probably know its officially Burger Week. The annual event (presented by your pals here at The Coast) is back for its seventh year and once again its lineup of burgers (there […]