New NS Micro?

[pet lion]

Anybody hear any new updates regarding the supposed "Bridge Brewing Co." ??

They are hoping for a September release per their Twitter:

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[brufrog]

Should I list Schoolhouse as a "brewery planned to be opened" in TAPS or not?

I suggest contacting him! I sent you a PM with an e-mail address. I can give you a phone number as well if you'd like.

Thanks! Cam got back to me and does want to be included, meaning he does plan to be commercial sometime in the relatively near future.

[BarNone]

Hey all,
Cameron and his Dad are top notch. We had the privilege of having the out for a visit at BarNone,
Cameron is as passionate as any of us. As any start up goes, there is much detail and work to make it happen.
We all should give a hats off to them. Cause taking to that next level takes alot of work and passion to the craft.
So from me, Cameron, keep going brother, you guys have a great spot and keep your Dad involved, and my pilot run is wearing your sticker. keep the passion alive.
We all have to remember, it is the bold people with the passion that take great beers to a commercial level that give us all better beers available in east coast Canada.
Cheers to all the new great beers coming out.
Don.

[mr x]

Hey Don, did you forget your old login, or would you prefer BarNone? Probably makes more sense.

http://www.brewnosers.org/forums/member ... file&u=221" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[BarNone]

BarNone is probably best, no problem,
Is that ok?

[mr x]

Sure, I was just thinking we could port the old posts under the new name, and ditch the old one.

[mr x]

We stopped into Avon sky winery Sunday. They recognized the brewnosers shirt (pihney). They also mentioned that the assistant grape squisher would like to have a brewery there . But she would have to import water because their's was too hard with gypsum.
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[akr71]

We stopped into Avon sky winery Sunday. They recognized the brewnosers shirt (pihney). They also mentioned that the assistant grape squisher would like to have a brewery there . But she would have to import water because their's was too hard with gypsum.
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I'll admit that water chemistry makes my brain hurt, but I thought it was bicarbonate that made hard water. Lots of gypsum sounds like great water for hoppy beers.

[mr x]

I told them something along those lines. Brew to your environment.

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[KMcK]

We stopped into Avon sky winery Sunday. They recognized the brewnosers shirt (pihney). They also mentioned that the assistant grape squisher would like to have a brewery there . But she would have to import water because their's was too hard with gypsum.
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I'll admit that water chemistry makes my brain hurt, but I thought it was bicarbonate that made hard water. Lots of gypsum sounds like great water for hoppy beers.

Any mineral content that dissolves into water may qualify water as hard. Carbonates and sulphates (of which N.S. has lots) dissolve easily so they're most commonly associated with hard water.

(If you care enough to keep reading, this terminology is ironic from a geologic perspective because the easily dissolvable rocks are classified as soft rock and the not so easily dissolveable rocks tend to be hard rock, so hard rock leads to soft water and hoppy beers, soft rock leads to hard water and malty beers, and classic rock leads to Budweiser, Coors Light, etc.).

[Graham.C]

classic rock leads to Budweiser, Coors Light, etc.).

Thanks for that Kyle. That made a whole bunch of stuff make sense in my mind.

[KMcK]

No problem. That's what I stay up late at night for.

[mr x]

Should I list Schoolhouse as a "brewery planned to be opened" in TAPS or not?

Cameron has shirts now. He was nice enough to leave me with one for hosting hoptoberfest.

[mr x]

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[mr x]

WROUGHT IRON BREWING COMPANY LIMITED
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BREWING COMPANY LTD

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[jeffsmith]

I believe PEI Brewing is Gahan's new name.

[mr x]

Rumor has it that there is a new one being built in Arisaig, up my way.

Name might be Thomas Steinhart, father of Jeanna Harrison-Steinhart (Trinity, TPB).

Edit, I was told brewery, may or may not be.

[bluenose]

distillery eh? this could be fun

[mr x]

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



Engineer home from Fort McMurray; primed for gin and vodka business

ARISAIG — Thomas Steinhart is home from Fort McMurray, and he’s not going back.

And, as usual, he has a plan.

Steinhart always has a plan.

“You might have five ideas a day,” said Steinhart while sipping a coffee on his Arisaig, Antigonish County, porch last week.

“That’s over a thousand ideas a year. You think through a handful of them and follow through on only a couple. But that will keep you busy.”

Behind Steinhart, a large red steel building was almost complete. On his smartphone were photos of the big polished copper tanks that are on their way from Germany.

By early in the new year, Steinhart Distillery will produce its first vodka. A few months after that, he hopes to produce his first gin.

“Go big,” said Steinhart.

“I toured distilleries in the United States and Canada, and they all told me they wished they had gone a little bit bigger. So I’m going big.”

Steinhart Distillery will be only the fourth in the province producing commercial spirits. The others are Glenora Distillery in Cape Breton, Lunenburg’s Ironworks Distillery and Jost Vineyards in Malagash.

A distillery wasn’t always on the books for the German immigrant trained as a mechanical engineer and millwright. But history has a way of catching up with us, even a man like Steinhart, whose philosophy has always been to refuse to live “a pre-programmed life.”

“Everything changed with the fire,” he said.

After coming to Antigonish to visit friends in 2001, Steinhart was sold on what rural Nova Scotia could offer him.

“I spent half an hour in a parking lot talking to a cab driver and thought, ‘Where else would a cabbie take time to just talk to you?’” said Steinhart.

“Looking at the property here, in Germany it would cost millions.”

So he bought his acreage along the Northumberland Strait and decided to tone down life’s pace. He bought Highland cattle, geese, chickens and ducks, and he began to live by the seasons, only working in his trade about three months a year to subsidize his new life.

“I was content.”

It was good until 2007, when his new life burned down.

With minimal insurance coverage and only his bag of work clothes to his name, things suddenly weren’t looking up.

“The community was amazing,” said Steinhart.

“They brought clothes, a house trailer, everything.”

Now an adopted Maritimer, Steinhart did the Maritime thing. He changed pace and moved to Alberta.

After a short stint working for someone else, he started a consulting firm of mechanical engineers and millwrights. During brief stints home, he milled trees from his property on a sawmill. And with local help, he built three cottages — two for renting and one for himself.

This time, he was coming home with a new plan.

Steinhart’s grandfather used to paint the inside of empty glass milk jugs white, fill them with schnapps and deliver them door-to-door to get around Germany’s quota system for distilleries. For some 400 years, his family distilled in Black Forest Germany.

“It’s value-added production,” said Steinhart.

“If they had just sold their fruit, they wouldn’t have been paid much for it.”

Nova Scotia produces a lot of fruit and consumes its share of spirits, but it relies almost entirely on imported liquor. Steinhart Distillery won’t change that equation, it just sees room for more growth in the province’s nascent distilling industry.

Like anything Steinhart does, it will be done differently.

By blending a variety of gins, he plans to offer bartenders the opportunity to market their own custom house gin, which he’ll be able to deliver in quantities as small as a case.

He’ll also have his own varieties of gin and vodka for sale at farmers markets and restaurants.

So he’s back from Alberta, his distilling equipment is on its way, and he plans to restart his herd of cattle and rebuild his life along the shore.

“You only get one life,” said Steinhart.

“So if you’re going to go for something, go all in. And if it’s not fun, don’t do it.”

[mr x]

I think I should see if he'd like to add a brewery and grill.

[brufrog]

Great news!

[chalmers]

Saw that report, was going to contact him for the blog, but don't want to step on any toes.

[mr x]

Anyone heard anything lately about Meander River? They should be selling soon I would imagine...

[chalmers]

They're on Facebook and Twitter. I haven't chatted with them lately, but I believe the brew building is complete.

[vgoreham]

Holy! See, I've been away from this forum far too long.
Meander River Brewery?!? Meander River Farm is quite close to me! This is the best news I've had in 2014. I'll have to swing by and see how things look.