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It’s the great Pumpkin Ale

Many of us are happy to trade summer’s humidity for a bracing shot of autumn air. With leaves crunching under our favourite boots and hand-knit wool scarves wrapped around our necks, we march down Gottingen Street towards Propeller Brewery, in anticipation of their annual Pumpkin Ale. Brewed using Dill’s famous Atlantic Giant Pumpkins and a […]

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How to live for free all summer

It’s summertime and the spending’s easy. The temptations of big-name concerts, eating out, weekend getaways and cooling off with an ice cold beer—or more likely, beers—on a patio, are even harder to resist when the sunshiny weather has got you giddy. When you haven’t got much to work with, you’ve got to decide what’s worth […]

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Best Microbrewery

The microbrewery revolution is upon us and Propeller is at the forefront in this town, with exports of the wonderful stuff heading across the land from its headquarters in Gottingen Street. They offer the pop, with the cream and orange soda, the root and ginger beer, and of course a growing list of ales and […]

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Growlers filled with wheat

Don Harms, brewmaster for Propeller, pours bottles of Propeller’s new wheat beer, Hefeweizen*, into glasses. He places them on the bar. Daniel Girard, Garrison Brewer, puts his nose right up to the sudsy glass and takes a huff. Banana and cloves, that’s good. Lorne Romano, Rogue’s Roost brewer, takes his glass over to a window […]

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Best Microbrewery

“Things are going fantastically well,” says John Allen, the president of Propeller, noting that the company is experiencing its fourth year of 20 percent growth. Last year Propeller built a warehouse extension to their Gottingen Street brewery, which they filled with tanks and new equipment. “We ship to British Columbia, New Brunswick and special orders […]

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