A note from Authentic Seacoast

[amartin]

My whole family comes from a mostly abandoned stretch of highway in guysborough, so I was really hoping this would be good. My wife picked me up a bottle of the stout today though, and it's just awful. Not much roast with a sour aftertaste.

[mr x]

Mother was down that way last week. She had planned to hit the Rare Bird for food. But it was closed, and she was told the restaurant part may not reopen.

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[mr x]

Guysborough has a new spirit

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

Already a producer of beer, artesian water, organic coffee and soap, entrepreneur Glynn Williams on Tuesday introduced his newest liquid venture for the Guysborough area.

Sea Fever Rums will be sold in 40 NSLC stores, as well as private wine stores, in three varieties: amber, spiced and coffee maple.

“Rum is an integral part of Nova Scotia’s DNA. Our Sea Fever Rum is unique, a blend of select Caribbean and Canadian rums. We spent years tasting rums from all over, which is a tough job, to develop our own recipes, culminating in the three rums presented here today,” said Williams, who is investing $7 million to $10 million in the construction of a distillery and expansion of his Rare Bird Brewery.

His workforce in Guysborough, which now numbers 21, could soon total as many as 60.

“We’ll have more to announce in the coming months … as new spirits come to market and as we expand our facilities in Guysborough to accommodate forecast growth,” said Williams, who also owns an inn and golf course in the area, as well as a pub, cafe and bakery.

He renovated a heritage building this summer, completed construction of another building this week, and will break ground on yet another in the next few weeks.

“So we are expanding rapidly to meet what we anticipate will be a great story,” Williams said. “And this is a good story, about revitalizing the trading history of a rural community, about creating jobs and contributing to the economic resurgence in our beautiful part of the province. We’re the only distiller, I think in the world, that’s on a golf course on the ocean. All the Scottish passions.”

Until construction of the distillery is completed, Sea Fever rums will be made from spirits imported to Guysborough, then blended there and aged in American oak barrels.

“Craft blending of rum and whisky requires a distillery, it requires aging, and this is a faster way to get our product to market than would otherwise be the case in the distillation business,” said Williams. “We’re committed to craft distilling and our distillery will be up and running very shortly.

The stills have been purchased, there is somewhere between seven and 10 million dollars being spent on our distillery, and the expanded brewery. The brewery will be expanded by 10 to 20 times.”

As Williams was introducing the rums at Casino Nova Scotia, the phone was ringing. The Cabot Links resort placed an order, and an inquiry came from the U.S., asking about export capability.

Sea Fever rums, aged for three years, will sell for $35 and $36. Even after the new distillery is running, Williams will continue to import raw spirits from the Caribbean, but won’t say from which country.

“Our partners down there have been in business for over 200 years, making, I think, the best rum that’s available,” said Williams, who in addition to making beer and roasting coffee beans personally blends his rums. “I don’t make the soap.”

[GasMD30]

This guy seems to be doing it right.

[mr x]

Except for the quality control of the beer.

[mikeorr]

"Craft blended"? What's that?

[mr x]

CBC has a show on Maritime Magazine right now about Atlantic Seacoast. Interesting for sure.

[GAM]

Just heard that. The guy doesn't come off as an a-hole at all.

S

[mr x]

It's great that he formulated all those recipes himself.

[GAM]

I considered that marketing.

S

[mr x]

I considered that stupidity after trying the finished product, well the beer anyway, lololol

[GAM]

I had the stout once. It was ok but not worth the price.

S

[chalmers]

CBC has a show on Maritime Magazine right now about Atlantic Seacoast. Interesting for sure.

http://www.cbc.ca/atlanticvoice/2015/09 ... gh-county/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/mari ... _36803.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Listening to it now.