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I picked this glass up the other day at a V.V.
It looked like it had been sitting on an open shelf for some time, and I'd never heard of the place before.
When I got home, there's very little info on a place in St. John's by the same name. No commercial checkins online (just a home brewer on Untappd... using a Brewnosers glass!), and no match for the logo.

So... what's the deal with the glass / this entity in Newfoundland? Did it used to exist a while ago, close, then re-open with a new logo & lack of their own beer?

I believe they only exist as the Fog City restaurant in the Avalon Mall. I believe.

GasMD30 wrote:I believe they only exist as the Fog City restaurant in the Avalon Mall. I believe.

Yeah, that's all I see, too. This glass certainly hints there was something beerier in its past, though, but I've never heard about it.

They had a small brew-pub setup many years ago. The beer was mediocre. All the equipment was bought by Storm Brewing.

Cool. Thanks for the info, Frank. Any idea on how old it would be? Early 90's since Storm started in '95?

Whoa! Fog city brewing was located in the Avalon Mall. Their equipment was eventually purchased by none other than the Gahan House Brewing Co and installed in the basement. The inside of the control panel still says Fog City.

Sweet find!

I must ask around. I am sure some of the equipment went to Storm. But probably not all. In 1997 I moved to St John's. They weren't brewing then, so it was in the early 90's.

50HlBrewer wrote:Whoa! Fog city brewing was located in the Avalon Mall. Their equipment was eventually purchased by none other than the Gahan House Brewing Co and installed in the basement. The inside of the control panel still says Fog City.

Sweet find!

Wow. Fitting that it would end up here. Maybe Trent found it stuck in a piece of equipment and dropped it off?

HI PEIBeerGuy,

I am looking to find either a growler or a glass from fog city brewery. My husband was friends with the guys who founded the company years ago when it was a microbrewery. He had an growler from their original company, same logo as on your glass. Unfortunately it broke recently and it had a lot of sentimental value for him.
Is there any chance you would be willing to sell your fog city glass to me? I'm in Nova Scotia. It would make for an awesome. Christmas surprise for him if you would be willing.

Thanks so much.

Weaverbaker

HI PEIBeerGuy,

I am looking to find either a growler or a glass from fog city brewery. My husband was friends with the guys who founded the company years ago when it was a microbrewery. He had an growler from their original company, same logo as on your glass. Unfortunately it broke recently and it had a lot of sentimental value for him.
Is there any chance you would be willing to sell your fog city glass to me? I'm in Nova Scotia. It would make for an awesome. Christmas surprise for him if you would be willing.

Thanks so much.

Weaverbaker

I went there twice. The first time was in 1999 at the suggestion of Jeff Pinhey. The beer they brewed was adequate for the time and place but unremarkable by today's standards.

A few years later I went again and found they were no longer brewing but still operating as a restaurant with the same name. The young sever seemed puzzled when, after he listed all their Molson or Labatt products on tap, I asked him about their "good beers". He retorted that the ones he listed are good beers. I went somewhere else that night.

KMcK wrote:I went there twice. The first time was in 1999 at the suggestion of Jeff Pinhey. The beer they brewed was adequate for the time and place but unremarkable by today's standards.

A few years later I went again and found they were no longer brewing but still operating as a restaurant with the same name. The young sever seemed puzzled when, after he listed all their Molson or Labatt products on tap, I asked him about their "good beers". He retorted that the ones he listed are good beers. I went somewhere else that night.

"I have India"
"But what do you have that's good?"
"I have India, it's pretty good"

That's exactly how that conversation went, isn't it?