Beer in the news

[Jayme]

Really not a fan of the branding, though.

I grew up just outside Mahone Bay and spent a lot of time going to school/working in Bridgewater. While I don't like the branding that much either, I think it is a decent fit... That said, I'm not a big fan either (I also spend a lot of time visiting Mahone Bay but try to avoid Bridgewater) haha.

[sheppard107]

A Budget Brewery Built From Shipping Containers

How about we all chip in to set up a movable brewery? I've got room at my place to store it *cough cough*

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[Toni]

Well this seems interesting. Keith's hiring a brewmaster for small batch brewing at the old brewery:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1 ... suds-again" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm pretty sure that brewery location is not the original spot, as the article suggests, but is pretty darn close.

Here's some history of the building I was able to find:

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg ... x?id=11003" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[chalmers]

https://twitter.com/tealuke/status/669322816152608773" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

@GoodRobotBrew Any validity to the claim made by acbeerblog.ca that y'all were acquired by AB InBev? Seemed odd.

Oh geez.

Why didn't folks pick up on the part where I wrote they were replaced by *actual robots*?

[Toni]

https://twitter.com/tealuke/status/669322816152608773

@GoodRobotBrew Any validity to the claim made by acbeerblog.ca that y'all were acquired by AB InBev? Seemed odd.

Oh geez.

Why didn't folks pick up on the part where I wrote they were replaced by *actual robots*?

This is one of those instances where people need to stop and think about things before hitting the panic button. Why would ABI bother buying a brewery as new and small as Good Robot, who doesn't even have a bottling/canning line? How would they even know Good Robot exists?

[sheppard107]

Anyone looking for a well aged bottle of Keith's?

Alexander Keith's bottle nearly as old as Canada discovered in Halifax waters

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot ... -1.3337845" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mckay75]

I wonder how its tastes...can't be any worse than present day offerings by Keith's.

[mr x]

Bottle has been seized and destroyed by InBev.

[sleepyjamie]

Dry hopping bud light

http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2013/03/dr ... t.html?m=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



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[Keith]

Dry hopping bud light

http://www.bertusbrewery.com/2013/03/dr ... t.html?m=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



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We should do this at a meeting sometime.

[mikeorr]

Bottle has been seized and destroyed by InBev.

Close - now it sounds like the Province is going to seize it as a "heritage object"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot ... -1.3340154" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mr x]

Unfuckingreal.com hahahahaaaaa

[NASH]

Holy fuck hahahaha!!

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[GAM]

That law has been on the books for a long time.

I think it was Louisburg area where folks were "finding" artifacts and not documenting them that spurred the act.

Finders, keepers is fine but history and study need to be respected as well.

S

[LiverDance]

I hear this eve on talk radio that they don't have any interest to pursue reposition


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[Tim Gregory]

That law has been on the books for a long time.

I think it was Louisburg area where folks were "finding" artifacts and not documenting them that spurred the act.

Finders, keepers is fine but history and study need to be respected as well.

S

I think it comes from nutters messing around oak island.

[sleepyjamie]

That law has been on the books for a long time.

I think it was Louisburg area where folks were "finding" artifacts and not documenting them that spurred the act.

Finders, keepers is fine but history and study need to be respected as well.

S

I can sum up the history. Guy buys 6 pack of Keith's In 1800s. Drinks one bottle and says "this tastes like piss". Throws remaining bottles into the harbour.




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[LeafMan66_67]

I can sum up the history. Guy buys 6 pack of Keith's In 1800s. Drinks one bottle and says "this tastes like piss". Throws remaining bottles into the harbour.

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[mr x]

Lol, buddy should throw that one back too

[Jayme]

http://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/ing ... f-96673061

[mackay85]

good article the last few days in Chronicle Herald on Battery Park opening up in Dartmouth. Their crowd-funding options are still available as well.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1 ... s%E2%80%99" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(if that link doesn't work, just google 'Battery Park' and click on the NEWS tab)

[mr x]

Hop to it: Nova Scotia craft brewers want government to balance booze taxes

http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/20 ... g-tax.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Nova Scotia’s craft breweries want to know why they’re being taxed more than craft distillers and wineries.

“We’re paying more than double what wine and craft distillers are,” said Boxing Rock Brewing Co. owner and Craft Brewers Association of Nova Scotia president Emily Tipton on Thursday.

She’s referring to the remittance tax she and the other brewers pay to the NSLC when they sell products directly to customers, meaning sales at their own shops, private liquor stores, and bars.

Craft breweries pay 50 cents for every litre they sell directly. Craft distillers and wineries pay five per cent of wholesale, translating to about 20 cents per litre.

Tipton said that means if she sells a 20-litre keg to a bar for $100, she pays $10 in tax. If she paid five per cent of wholesale - like distillers and wineries - she said that number would drop to $4.

“That’s money that’s being taxed from us that we would be otherwise investing in our businesses,” she said.

For Tipton, that investment would mean hiring a new employee.

For Brian Titus, owner of Garrison Brewing Co., and vice president of the Craft Brewers Association of Nova Scotia, it could mean expanding his exports.

For a company just starting out, Titus said, “it could be life or death.”
Garrison Brewing Co. brewer Jon Harris checks the levels on a batch of the company's Nut Brown Ale at the production plant on Thursday.

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Garrison Brewing Co. brewer Jon Harris checks the levels on a batch of the company's Nut Brown Ale at the production plant on Thursday.

Titus has been in the craft beer industry since 1997, but he said the newer breweries are the ones who’ve created the explosion in the industry in the past five years, with annual growth of up to 25 per cent.

“This is real stuff, it’s not just artificially propped up by the government,” he said.

But Titus understands “these aren’t flush times.”

“Everybody can put their hand out, but you need to back that up with why it’s a good investment,” he said.

Tipton said the NSLC has verified numbers that show changing the tax to five per cent of wholesale would cost the government $300,000.

“That’s going to be made up very quickly, and then some,” Titus said. “This is a little investment in the future, and the future is very, very bright right now for craft breweries.”

Tipton has been fighting just to get a chance to pitch this to the government since last year, and has been waiting for a meeting with finance minister Randy Delorey since October.

“I’m still waiting for that meeting, and I haven’t heard anything else since,” she said.

A statement from the department says that meeting is coming next year.

“We are aware of the industry’s concerns and intend to meet and discuss the issue with the association in the New Year,” a spokesperson wrote in an email.

“They haven’t done anything for us yet, but I’m trying to be patient,” Tipton said.

[mcgster]

I wonder what a pint of this would sell for in their pub. Apparently they only brewed 4 kegs of it

http://www.dogfish.com/community/blogfi ... o-lawd.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We've created another boundary-pushing off-centered ale. This time, it just so happens to be the hoppiest beer ever documented through scientific analysis. While the average IPA lands somewhere between 40-60 IBUs, this latest release clocks in at 658 IBUs (international bittering units). Hoo Lawd, as we've affectionately named it, comes from the sensation you get after you take your first sip.

“It’s abnormally intense enough that it immediately leads to the abnormal spelling of words.” Dogfish founder and president Sam Calagione says, “as in, Hoo Lawd I can’t seem to stop myself from taking another sip even though this is DEFCON-one-hoppy!”

Brewed with an experimental hop referred to as “Alpha Beast” along with Simcoe, Warrior and Amarillo hops in CO2 extract, Hoo Lawd takes dark IPA into an intergalactic black hole of hoppiness. Sam and Brewmaster Tim Hawn worked with Yakima Chief Hopunion to procure all of the hop varieties and formats for this beer. While other awesome, uber hoppy beers have claimed to achieve higher theoretical IBUs, Hoo Lawd has received scientific confirmation and documentation from two independent labs that this is, in fact, the hoppiest commercial beer ever brewed.

The beer will be available on tap at Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in downtown Rehoboth Beach, DE on December 2 beginning at 5 p.m. for a happy hour featuring the Alstrom Brothers of BeerAdvocate fame. Sam will hand paint and sign 36 (32oz.) growlers of the beer that will be available to go on a first-come, first-served basis. There will also be a screening of Dogfish’s new web-series ‘That’s Odd … Let’s Drink It’ that showcases Hoo Lawd in an epic battle of man vs. lupulin with actors Ken Marino and Joe LoTruglio. The beer will also be available at Extreme Beer Fest, held in Boston this spring of which Dogfish Head has been the title sponsor for many years.

“We hope a

[McGruff]

Taxes on beer are way too high and always have been. That got me started on making my own beer. Governments in Canada just don't get it.

[Albert]

Taxes on beer are way too high and always have been....Governments in Canada just don't get it.

LMFAO!!!
Sad truth: Oh government gets it...all to well. always has, always will!!