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NIAGARA FALLS, ON – Brewmaster Ian Watson at Niagara’s Best Brewery & Pub has just tapped the latest in his Brewer’s Special series of limited run beers, Niagara’s Best Pumpkin Ale.
As documented on his blog, the first batch of the beer was brewed on September 23rd using Small Sugar pumpkins and a mixture of 5 spices – cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. This is the batch that is on tap now, and it will be followed by a second batch brewed last week using a different strain of pumpkin called Mystic Plus.
Niagara’s Best Pumpkin Ale is available exclusively at the brewpub in Niagara Falls.
Categories: Beer Releases · Brewpub News · Ontario · Seasonal Beers
TORONTO, ON – The Toronto location of the Granite Brewery will be putting this year’s version of their fall/winter seasonal, Gin Lane Ale, back on tap starting on October 19th.
Brewed each year since 2005, Gin Lane Ale is a 9.0% Barley Wine. It will be available on tap in the brewpub, as well as in growlers to go.
Categories: Beer Releases · Brewpub News · Ontario · Seasonal Beers
HALIFAX, NS – It will be a double celebration at the Hart & Thistle in Halifax this coming Saturday, October 10th, as the brewpub marks both the release of a new beer, Double Simcoe SMaSH, and the birthday of brewmaster Greg Nash.
The restaurant will be offering a special two-course dinner for $29.95, including a beer paired with each course, and the Double Simcoe SMaSH will be tapped for the occasion. This new double IPA is brewed to 8.3% abv, and is massively hopped to well over 100 IBU. As Nash describes it, “it’s a big fun beer with a boat-load of hops”.
Categories: Beer Releases · Brewpub News · Nova Scotia · Seasonal Beers
NIAGARA FALLS, ON – Taps Brewing Company today launched their first seasonal beer since their move to a new brewpub location in Niagara Falls this past summer.
Pumpkin 3.14… (“or Pumpkin Pie, get it?”) is described by the brewery as follows:
Full bodied and orange in colour, this offering tempts the nose with aromas of freshly baked pumpkin pie with a slight hint of actual pie crust flavour imparted from the specialty malts used. This new ale won’t last long, so make sure that you hurry down to visit Taps on Queen to have your fill of our new “Pumpkin 3.14…” (Pie)
Categories: Beer Releases · Brewpub News · Ontario · Seasonal Beers
HALIFAX, NS – Greg Nash, brewmaster at the Hart & Thistle brewpub in Halifax, recently announced on his blog that his newest beer, Cocoa Hops India Brown Ale, is now on tap at the pub:
It’s tasting nice with a huge hop presence and a nice malt backbone sporting notes of chocolate that really shine through from the hefty dose of dark chocolate malt. Come on down and try it on for size.
Vital Stats:
Gravity – 15P/1.062
IBU’s – 73
Hop Rate – 3.15 lbs/bbl
ABV – 6.2%
Colour – 22 SRM
Malts – Pale Ale, Melanoidan, Crystal 60, Cara-Pils, Chocolate
Hops – Amarillo & Cascade Leaf, Simcoe Pellets
Categories: Beer Releases · Brewpub News · Nova Scotia
MONCTON, NB – Pump House Brewery marked their 10th anniversary today with a celebration featuring the ceremonial tapping of a special anniversary beer by Ray Auffrey, the man who bought the first beer from the original brewpub location 10 years ago.
Now in two locations – the original brewpub in downtown Moncton, and a larger bottling brewery and restaurant to the north – Pump House is one of Atlantic Canada’s most successful small breweries, with awards including the Brewery of the Year honour at the 2005 Canadian Brewing Awards.
Pump House produces 5 bottled beers, with distribution to most provinces, and offers 8 year-round beers and a number of one-offs and seasonals at the brewpub.
Categories: Brewery News · Brewpub News · New Brunswick
TORONTO, ON – Michael Duggan, the founding brewmaster at Mill Street Brewery and more recently brewer at Cool Brewing, has announced that he will soon be opening Duggan’s Brewery at 75 Victoria Street in downtown Toronto.
This address is well known to Toronto beer drinkers as it once housed Denison’s Brewing as well as an associated trio of restaurants, Growler’s Pub, Louie’s Brasserie and Conchy Joe’s Oyster Bar.
Duggan’s will also include an on-site restaurant as well as a retail outlet, and Duggan tells Great Canadian Pubs & Beer that he is “going to try to have 8 beers on tap all the time, trying being the key word. I’ll have the #9 IPA, a Pale Ale and seasonal products like an Oktoberfest, Pilsner, Weiss and more. I like the idea of rotating seasonals, so I’ll be rotating the line-up four times a year.”
If all goes as planned, brewing will start this week, and the doors will open in mid-September. Bottles of Duggan’s #9 IPA should be available to take-home purchase soon afterward.
Categories: Brewpub News · Ontario
HALIFAX, NS – Greg Nash, brewer at the Hart & Thistle brewpub in Halifax, has made a post to his blog asking for help harvesting hops this coming weekend:
What: Hop Harvest
When: Sat August 22nd 2009, 9:00 a.m. sharp (weather permitting) – leaving HRM ~ 8:00 a.m.
Where: Lazy Acres Hopyard – 2055 Melanson Rd., Wolfville, NS
Why: Simply put: Hurricane Bill. Josh Herbin owner of Lazy Acres Hopyard is having a very tough time rounding up enough hands to pick 40kg’s of fresh Cascade hops in one day for us to do a wet-hop harvest ale and is worried the looming weather forecast for this Sunday from Hurricane Bill could destroy or seriously damage the prime flowers which were scheduled to be picked next week! Since Lazy Acres doesn’t have million$ in harvesting equipment we need help to make this feasible for the brewery and the hop farm both.
According to the post, Nash is hoping to round up between 20 and 30 volunteers to help out, with each volunteer to receive 1 kg of hops (if interested, and willing to pick them after the 40 kg Hart & Thistle harvest is complete), complimentary beer, and special treats at the release party for the wet-hop ale when it’s ready in a couple of weeks.
Anyone in the Halifax area who is able to help out can contact Nash at brewmaster@hartandthistle.com
Categories: Brewpub News · Events · Nova Scotia
HALIFAX, NS – Greg Nash, known for creating award-winning beers for the brewpub side of Pump House Brewery in Moncton for the last couple of years, has left to return to Halifax where he was previously brewmaster at Garrison Brewing.
In the latest (and possibly last) post on his Pump House Brewers Blog, Nash writes the following:
I am moving on to work on a new venture in Halifax, NS. Myself and a partner will be opening a microbrewery (or trying damn hard to) in the coming months there. It’s been a great stay here in Moncton and I’d like to thank everyone for your ongoing and continued patronage.
He also notes that he may continue working with Pump House on an occasional consulting basis.
In addition to working towards opening a new brewery, Nash has taken on a brewing position at the Hart & Thistle, a new brewpub on the Halifax waterfront. His first two beers for them, 37hr Simcoe SMaSH IPA and Black Nitro Ale will be officially launched with a release party at the pub on Wednesday July 29th at 7:00 PM. Nash has also started a new Hart & Thistle Brewers Blog to share details about upcoming beers and other info.
Categories: Beer Releases · Brewery News · Brewpub News · New Brunswick · Nova Scotia
SAINT JOHN, NB – In this week’s issue of New Brunswick’s arts and entertainment paper [here], Craig Pinhey reports that Big Tide Brewing Company is set to open soon in downtown Saint John.
The brewpub is being founded by owner Chris Vair, kitchen manager Tom MacArthur, and brewmaster Wendy Papadopoulos, all former employees of Tapps, a Saint John brewpub that closed a couple of years ago.
Papadopoulos promises that there will be four or five styles of beer available at all times, including a number of seasonals, while MacArthur states that the menu will feature a combination of North American bar staples (wings, nachos, etc.) and “modern versions of ‘old-school’ British pub food”.
Big Tide will open their doors later this month.
Categories: Brewpub News · New Brunswick
