Araxi wrote: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
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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
