The rumor and random babble thread

[NASH]

From the Registry Of Joint Stocks....

Bridge Brewing.jpg

[mr x]

hmmmm, interesting. On the Facebook page, somebody says congratulations Peter. I followed that name through Java Roasters to get the name I came up with. Which is probably wrong.

[Keggermeister]

http://g.co/maps/t2zsa

Doesn't look like a brewery to me.

[mr x]

lol, I think that's the civic address of his residence on the statement. The whole thing sounds fucked to me, but, you never know....

[derek]

lol, I think that's the civic address of his residence on the statement.

It would be - it has to be someplace where you can receive mail, and would typically exist before a corporate entity has its own location.

It's nice to hear he intends to be Canada's smallest nano-brewery, but you have to be some small to beat Acadie.

[mr x]

Yeah. I'd be more interested in hearing about his ability to brew, or something that indicated an ability to brew, than the rest of the spiel.

[KMcK]

The bridgebeer.ca domain is registered through a third party so I can't get any useful ownership info on it.

[derek]

The bridgebeer.ca domain is registered through a third party so I can't get any useful ownership info on it.

Whatever happened to the requirement that an Internet domain registration had to be publicly available? Now all the registrars offer you "spam protection", which means nobody can actually find out who owns anything.

[chalmers]

The bridgebeer.ca domain is registered through a third party so I can't get any useful ownership info on it.

Whatever happened to the requirement that an Internet domain registration had to be publicly available? Now all the registrars offer you "spam protection", which means nobody can actually find out who owns anything.

Because it's easy enough to do a Whois search, I opt for the anonymous info when I register a domain. I'd rather people not look me up on google maps and check the mileage on my red Hyundai. Plus it's just another opportunity for my email to be spammed. At least I can easily filter out the crap when it comes through a proxy.

[mr x]

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[dean2k]

Their blogs and webpage sure make it sound like they are pushing the "sustainability" aspect. Trying to find a niche in a niche market? Wonder how being the nichiest will translate into $/bottle?

[mr x]

It ain't going to work if you're buying local hops. Guaranteed fail. Any guesses on the bar? Sounds like somebody wants a piece of the 'green' beer.

[jeffsmith]

It ain't going to work if you're buying local hops. Guaranteed fail. Any guesses on the bar? Sounds like somebody wants a piece of the 'green' beer.

From their blog and Twitter account, it sounds like they decided to go with US and European hops. I totally agree though. Until Aaron's (wortly) advice to farmers on PEI takes hold and we start seeing hops being produced in larger quantities and some competition on price, it's just not sustainable for breweries to be sole-sourcing hops from the Maritimes (which is unfortunate).

[mr x]

I don't see any way in which it's feasible until you get mechanical harvesters. It's been tried before in Nova Scotia in the 50's by Olands. Not to say that they knew what they were doing, but price wise, from what I have seen, local hops are OK for one off's, but the price point isn't there to run a brewery. But, I guess we'll see. I'm betting in five years, there's going be lots of mature hop crowns for sale....

[KMcK]

Their blogs and webpage sure make it sound like they are pushing the "sustainability" aspect. Trying to find a niche in a niche market? Wonder how being the nichiest will translate into $/bottle?

Sustainability is a loaded term, which means very different things to different people. They appear to be attempting to balance environmental and resource sustainability with economic (and ultimately business) sustainability. My guess is the latter will usually trump the former and the sustainability aspect will become more of a marketing gimmick than niche marketing.

It ain't going to work if you're buying local hops. Guaranteed fail. Any guesses on the bar? Sounds like somebody wants a piece of the 'green' beer.

They seem to have figured that out already.

[mr x]

greenwashing.......

Figured what out?

[dean2k]

... Sustainability is a loaded term, which means very different things to different people....

Yup. I know all about the trappings of "sustainability". Must ... suppress... urge... to rant.....

[derek]

The bridgebeer.ca domain is registered through a third party so I can't get any useful ownership info on it.

Whatever happened to the requirement that an Internet domain registration had to be publicly available? Now all the registrars offer you "spam protection", which means nobody can actually find out who owns anything.

Because it's easy enough to do a Whois search, I opt for the anonymous info when I register a domain.

Yeah, but that's precisely why you weren't supposed to be anonymous - so that it would be easy to do the Whois search. I long ago stopped worrying about people harvesting my email address, I just use good spam protection. I also use a different email address every time I give it to a company, so that I know whose database the spammers got my address from.

[jeffsmith]

Yeah, but that's precisely why you weren't supposed to be anonymous - so that it would be easy to do the Whois search. I long ago stopped worrying about people harvesting my email address, I just use good spam protection. I also use a different email address every time I give it to a company, so that I know whose database the spammers got my address from.

Gmail's '+' syntax is great for that: youremail+prefix@gmail.com.

[mr x]

No more talk until you can name that bar.

[KMcK]

greenwashing.......

Exactly, despite their claim of the opposite.

Figured what out?

I meant that they already conceded that they can't get local hops.

[KMcK]

No more talk until you can name that bar.

I'm guessing that the coffee roaster place has a liquor licence and that's the bar in question.

Gmail's '+' syntax is great for that: youremail+prefix@gmail.com.

Please explain. (I'm intrigued.)

[jeffsmith]

Worded that example incorrectly, should be "postfix", or more correctly "alias". Regardless, you can add anything after the + and it'll get sent to your address:

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answ ... swer=12096" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It makes it incredibly easy to setup filters using the aliases so you can trash email, tag it, star it, etc. This also works for Google Apps for Domains email.

[jeffsmith]

No more talk until you can name that bar.

Old Triangle, O'Carrol's, Maxwell's? I have no idea really, just ripping off names of "Irish" pubs I know of in HRM.

[KMcK]

Worded that example incorrectly, should be "postfix", or more correctly "alias". Regardless, you can add anything after the + and it'll get sent to your address:

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answ ... swer=12096" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It makes it incredibly easy to setup filters using the aliases so you can trash email, tag it, star it, etc. This also works for Google Apps for Domains email.

Neat idea, but isn't it obvious enough that the spammer can easily delete the alias?