times they are a changing

[Araxi]

Being from Manitoba, the province with one craft brewery, I can appreciate what this means for craft beer lovers there.

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[mr x]

I assume there's a malting plant out there that can do their malt separately? Anyway, I hop it works out for them!!

[Araxi]

Yeah there's a maltster in Winnipeg, used to buy 25 kilo sacks for 25 bucks from them.

[NASH]

Sounds like they're going to brew for the masses since they're not interested in appealing to 2% of the population. A brewery is a brewery though. Dominion Malting in Winterpeg are awesome to work with.


Poor Winnipeg, let's see... when I lived there we had a few craft breweries...

River City Brewing Co
Agassiz Brewing Company
Fort Garry Brewing Co
Two Rivers Brewing Co

[Araxi]

True the ones you mentioned are considered " craft breweries" but they mainly make mega swill clones or just plain crappy beers. The only one to come along recently and make ales is called Half Pints. this guy was head brewer at Bushwakker is Regina, he makes some good beers.

[NASH]

True the ones you mentioned are considered " craft breweries" but they mainly make mega swill clones or just plain crappy beers. The only one to come along recently and make ales is called Half Pints. this guy was head brewer at Bushwakker is Regina, he makes some good beers.

Geez that's funny... I never made mega swill clones or plain crappy beer, in fact, even David Rudge himself used to enjoy my product on a frequent basis

[Araxi]

Where did you work anyway ? I mean I tried em all and unless myself and all of my craft beer loving buddies there missed something I'd like to know who else there makes good beer. I didn't mean to offend you, if you worked for somebody there maybe things changed but as far as I know the only good craft brewery if Half Pints.
Agassiz is brewed in Subury Ont.
Fort Gary is still there...no comment.
River City brewing closed a long time ago
Two Rivers Brewing produces cheap piss http://www.mts.net/~twolff/pages/products.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Half Pints, makes good brew.

So, am I missing something. How long ago did you live there?

[NASH]

Where did you work anyway ? I mean I tried em all and unless myself and all of my craft beer loving buddies there missed something I'd like to know who else there makes good beer. I didn't mean to offend you, if you worked for somebody there maybe things changed but as far as I know the only good craft brewery if Half Pints.
Agassiz is brewed in Subury Ont.
Fort Gary is still there...no comment.
River City brewing closed a long time ago
Two Rivers Brewing produces cheap piss http://www.mts.net/~twolff/pages/products.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Half Pints, makes good brew.

So, am I missing something. How long ago did you live there?

No offense taken I was referring to when I was there, and the other breweries were there.

In the mid-nineties Fort Garry Brewing was a small 15 bbl craft brewery, owned and operated by now deceased Richard Hoeschen, he didn't make anything extreme by any means but the beers were solid hand-crafted offerings with lots of colour and flavour, then they went public and built a giant brewery around 2000.

Agassiz opened in late '98 I think, with Bobby Z as head brewer who is now head brewer at Propeller. They had a solid weizen and a couple others, but that didn't last long and I'm not sure of the exact turn of events but rumour was there was a coo of sorts against president Gary DePape, next thing the brewery was closed but the brand continued on being contracted brewed out of ON.

I think it was LaBatt who had a big brewery there, they shut it down in the nineties and one of the brewmasters, Doug Seville opened Two Rivers with a 15 bbl system and he made only one beer which was Two Rivers lager, that was likely in early '99. 4 or 5 months later he released Two Rivers Lite A year or so later he launched 'Stone Cold 6.0' , 6% abv malt liquor sold in 2 L PET bottles He couldn't make the stuff fast enough. Doug is a great guy.

I was brewmaster at River City Brewing Co, we opened the doors in 1998 and I left for the Pump House 1 year later in 1999. During that yr I saw 4 chefs and 4 general managers come and go as well as dozens of floor staff. Pompous snot-nosed owners that had no respect. During that time the place was always packed and rockin', I made a few mainstays plus specialties, weizen, witbier, doppelbock, pumpkin ale, stout, IPA, honey beer, brown ale, hemp beer etc. I made 16 different beers that year. After I left, it was a good 6 months before they found another brewer, he stayed with them for 3 months or so then left them high and dry as did I. After they could not get another professional brewer in there they decided to just make it themselves and the beer was absolute shite, always infected in one way or another. Some buddies in the Brew Bombers club kept me posted of the antics, according to them it was fucking awful, and of course business just kept declining until they finally closed the doors and the brewing system was sold to Keltic Brewing in Truro NS which is now defunct. There will be a new brewery opening very very soon in Dartmouth with that very brewing system.

Anyways.... yeah... I can assure you the beers there during my tenure were excellent for beergeeks, hopheads and idiots alike

[Araxi]

I remember River City when it was good and the train wreck when it went bad. So that was you that brewed up all that goodness..props to you. I hope for the sake of all my beer lovin buddies back in the Peg that a few brew pubs open up or another craft brewery.