Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Silver Winner Nine Locks Brewery Bronze Winner Garrison Brewing Company “You don’t need to be pretentious to serve a quality product,” says Good Robot co-owner Josh Counsil. “We’ve always enforced with our robots to make people feel comfortable. Craft beer is still a relatively new phenomenon for a lot […]
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Drink this: Good Robot’s Reclaiming My Time stout
First-time brewer, Evelyn White, is making a statement with her small batch of beer called Reclaiming My Time. White says she was inspired by congresswoman Maxine Waters and the now infamous viral video of her questioning treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. “For a Black woman to say ‘I’m reclaiming my time,’ I took it as a […]
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Flirt with First Date Last Date
First Date Last Date Thu Sep 7, 8pm; Fri Sep 8, 6pm; Sat Sep 9, 2pm; Sun Sep 10, 2pm Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street $10/$15 The Fringe Festival is an opportunity to showcase the unconventional, so who says you can’t have a play in a bar? “Theatre is a kind of ritual […]
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12 beers to crush this summer
Spindrift Killick, session lager (4.7%, 16 IBU) The BrewCast-proclaimed “Beer of the Summer” is crisp and clean, but packs in tons of flavour. Look for notes of grain, lemon and honey on this as you reach for the next one. 21 Frazee Avenue, Dartmouth, private liquor stores and NSLC 902 BrewCast x 2 Crows In […]
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Let’s go to the movies
The summer’s usual reboots (The Mummy, Spider-Man), second sequels (Despicable Me, Cars) and franchise-continuing (Planet of the Apes, Transformers) remain in full effect, but you can still piece together a worthy alternative moviegoing experience in amongst the tentpoles. As always, Halifax dates can vary. June 15-18 OUTeast Queer Film Fest Now in its sixth year, […]
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Good for what ales you
The morning hangover—remember it? The pounding headache and nauseous sensations after a night of chugging back brew at your local watering hole are not easily forgotten. But what if the opportunity arose to forgo those symptoms, and others, by making the decision to drink beer created specifically for its health and wellness benefits? In ancient […]
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Can’t stop, won’t stop: a map of Nova Scotia’s breweries
HALIFAX 1. 2 Crows Brewing 1932 Brunswick Street 2. The Auction House 1726 Argyle Street 3. Gahan House 1877 Upper Water Street 4. Garrison Brewing Company 1149 Marginal Road 5. Good Robot Brewing Company 2736 Robie Street 6. Granite Brewery 6054 Stairs Street 7. North Brewing Company 2576 Agricola Street 8. Propeller Brewing Company 2015 […]
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Yoga with Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron Thursday, January 19, 7:30pm w/Megan Nash, Dan Misha Goldman, Jim Bryson Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $25 Friday, January 20, 8:30pm w/Daniel Walker Good Robot, 2736 Robie Street $15 Julie Doiron is best known for making broken hearts feel better through song, but she wants to relate to the whole self. “I’m always […]
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Best Brew Pub
Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Company Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Rockbottom Brew Pub “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, not-so-distant […]
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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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Best Comedy Night
Gold Winner Yuk Yuk’s Silver Winner Gus’ Pub Monday Night Comedy Bronze Winner Good Robot Brewing Company’s Just Vorlaufs Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s this guy, an everyday sort of schlub who you wouldn’t think twice about if you saw him out on the street, milling about in his plain, beige […]
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Holding out for a hero
I was already sitting in the sunshine enjoying the salt-laced citrus tartness of Good Robot’s Goseface Killah when my friend Sarah walked onto their gastroturf with her new puppy, Penny. A puff of curly golden fluff, Penny delighted everybody within two feet of her before rolling around and tussling with a nearby basset hound. And […]
