Gold Winner Chain Yard Cider Silver Winner Lake City Cider Bronze Winner Annapolis Cider Company “We strive to make ciders on the drier side and to be inventive. We’re always looking for different fruits and ingredients to use,” says Michael Lim of Chain Yard’s resume, which includes making somewhere in the vicinity of 60 ciders […]
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Best New Bar
Gold Winner Lake City Cider Silver Winner New Scotland Brewing Co. Bronze Winner Propeller Arcade Lake City Cider’s owner Poet Comeau was pleasantly surprised that her Dartmouth standout was nominated as the city’s Best New Bar, and she’s super stoked that it’s taking home the gold. “We didn’t really intend to be a bar, but […]
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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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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 […]
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Lake City Cider blossoms this summer
Lake City Cider 35 Portland Street Opens in June Poet Comeau had a realization just over a year ago, when the company she worked for dissolved. “I was lucky. The company that took on our company gave me a job,” she explains. Comeau worked in alcohol retail, education and sales—mostly imports—for 12 years. “But I […]