Information on Hanshaus mini keg...

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I found this a few years ago, and I was wondering if anyone had any information about it.
Year?

Cheers.

[jason.loxton]

Looks like they were sold in New Brunswick in the 80s: https://www.facebook.com/VintageMoncton ... comments=7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[jason.loxton]

From Brewed in Canada: The Untold Story of Canada's 350-year-old Brewing Industry. (I got the link from that Facebook post, but reporduce it here in case you didn't see it or follow it.)

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Thanks guys!

[Keith]

That's a pretty sweet collectable with the history that's behind it.

[mr x]

Interesting, that name is still active under the Nova Scotia Joint Stock system....

[dexter]

If you ever go through Moncton on the way to ns or pei across the highway from majesta is what looks like car lot is where the brewery used to be.

[BobbyOK]

Is it still full by any chance? Jeff P. has told a few good stories about that place.

[GAM]

Do tell!

Sandy

[NASH]

Here's what I remember about the place...

They were still running for a couple years when I started getting into brewing, they had faced a lot of roadblocks. First, they were well ahead of their time in a place like the Maritimes making craft beer, it was near impossible for them to get it on tap anywhere with the big brewers stranglehold on the market. They were only permitted to package their beer in green bottles and the liquor commission wouldn't give him much shelf space at all, or keep it out of direct light much less refrigerated. Generally it was a stack of the boxed beer (open faced six packs) in the corner somewhere. The beer was skunked more often than not.

The Moncton area homebrewers "Sparky's Social Club" rented/borrowed the brewery to make a communal batch of beer for themselves. The RCMP caught wind of the deal and swooped in and seized all the product. A year or two later when the homebrewers won the legal battle they were offered the beer back, of course it was garbage by then. I think Pinhey may have been involved, Lesperance, Jim Sellers was one the members (and lawyer) that fought the legal battle. Good times.

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Is it still full by any chance? Jeff P. has told a few good stories about that place.

It is still full, I can't imagine cracking into it, haha.

I tried a Schooner from 1971 five or six years ago, it was awful.

[BobbyOK]

The Moncton area homebrewers "Sparky's Social Club" rented/borrowed the brewery to make a communal batch of beer for themselves. The RCMP caught wind of the deal and swooped in and seized all the product. A year or two later when the homebrewers won the legal battle they were offered the beer back, of course it was garbage by then. I think Pinhey may have been involved, Lesperance, Jim Sellers was one the members (and lawyer) that fought the legal battle. Good times.

That's slightly different than the version I heard. In that version, the cops were about to seize it, but one of the homebrewers was a lawyer who somehow kept them from swiping it. Shortly thereafter, it all went missing. Mind you, your version seems like less of a movie plot, so perhaps more plausible.

[Brewnoser]

I was not involved. Lesperance brewed two beers. Nick and Doppelbock. As RCMP were about to dump it one if their lawyer members arrived with a restraining order from an apparently beer friendly judge. It went into bond. Under seal. The story has it the RCMP arrived on bottling day. For every case that went into the storage room, another went out a back door. The beer got around. A year later they win the right to it but were pretty sure it would be spoiled. No refrigeration. But when they got there the seal had been broken and it was all gone.

[Brewnoser]

Bock and Doppelbock

[Brewnoser]

Subsequent rumour was that some of the participants were members of the local bike gang. They considered suing RCMP for loss under their care but dropped it.

[GuingesRock]

I found this a few years ago, and I was wondering if anyone had any information about it.
Year?

Cheers.

That might be one of the kegs that went "missing".