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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Brooklyn and North team up for Battery Park
Back in June Brooklyn Warehouse and North Brewing Company piqued interests with a little tease—the beloved restaurant and craft brewery were teaming up and taking the show on the road to Dartmouth. Together, they’d open something new, a bar, in the former Nectar Restaurant and Wine Bar (62 Ochterloney Street) space. But the rest was […]
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Nectar is closing, but North Brewing and Brooklyn Warehouse are moving in
After six years of bringing great meals, cocktails and jazz to downtown Dartmouth, Nectar Restaurant & Wine Bar (62 Ochterloney Street) announced this morning that it would serve its last customers on Sunday, June 21. The doors won’t be closed for too long, though—the restaurant has been sold and the unnamed new owners will reveal […]
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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 […]
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Mommy beerest
I used to love beer, like really love beer. Then 14 months ago something devastating happened to my relationship with this most coveted of beverages: I got pregnant. After nine months of abstaining from drinking, I was excited to have a taste of my precious Garrison but something had changed, I had decided to exclusively […]
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Bridge Brewing is now North Brewing
Year one has been a big one the beer artist formerly known as Bridge Brewing Company (2576 Agricola Street), the north end’s newest micro brewery and Halifax Chamber of Commerce’s New Business of the Year. We say formerly because today, after just over a year of selling Belgian brews to the HRM, owner Peter Burbridge […]
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Best New Business
Gold Winner Better Than Her Boutique Silver Winner Toxic Blossom Bronze Winner Bridge Brewing Company Better Than Her Boutique has a bit of a mythology going. Owner Courtney Jones spent a year in the Canadian Arctic and became taken with the female caribou. The only female of the species to grow antlers, the female caribou […]
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Best Craft Brewery
Gold Winner Garrison Brewing Company Silver Winner Propeller Brewing Company Bronze Winner Bridge Brewing Company Garrison has hopped its way over Propeller, taking first place this year. Brewmaster Daniel Girard credits the victory to the synergy of the staff at Garrison. “All members of the staff contribute to our success,” he says, adding that he […]