New member from Halifax
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:56 pm
Hello, everybody. I'm James, from Cape Breton originally, now in Halifax for 17 years or so. I've always loved craft beer, although I didn't know the term existed when I first acquired the taste for it.
My first explorations into good beer (not necessarily craft beer) were in my early twenties, beginning with forays in the imported section of the Port Hawkesbury NSLC.
The highlights of these trips were beers like Heineken (who could ignore the ads in Rolling Stone magazine in the late 80s?), Newcastle Brown, McEwan's Scotch Ale, and the usual assortment of German beers, Beck's in particular.
Ah, the good old days, when "brewed elsewhere" was all that mattered.
How times have changed, and so much more for the better.
Let's assume twenty or so years go by, but I haven't aged a day.
Yeah, I know.
Allow me my illusions.
I find myself in the newly opened NSLC in Bayers Lake in search of something to drink. I can no longer afford single malt Scotch, which I'd been drinking in the years between, oh, say 25 and 35 or so. I'd consumed little or no beer over those years.
What to do, what to do....
I got closer to craft beer after trying Fuller's Celebration 1845. I loved it, but at the time I'd have been hard pressed to say why. Then I tried Propeller's IPA. It's been all uphill from there.
I still sample imports, whether domestic or foreign, but my beer-heart is firmly rooted in the Maritimes.
May it ever be thus.
My first explorations into good beer (not necessarily craft beer) were in my early twenties, beginning with forays in the imported section of the Port Hawkesbury NSLC.
The highlights of these trips were beers like Heineken (who could ignore the ads in Rolling Stone magazine in the late 80s?), Newcastle Brown, McEwan's Scotch Ale, and the usual assortment of German beers, Beck's in particular.
Ah, the good old days, when "brewed elsewhere" was all that mattered.
How times have changed, and so much more for the better.
Let's assume twenty or so years go by, but I haven't aged a day.
Yeah, I know.
Allow me my illusions.
I find myself in the newly opened NSLC in Bayers Lake in search of something to drink. I can no longer afford single malt Scotch, which I'd been drinking in the years between, oh, say 25 and 35 or so. I'd consumed little or no beer over those years.
What to do, what to do....
I got closer to craft beer after trying Fuller's Celebration 1845. I loved it, but at the time I'd have been hard pressed to say why. Then I tried Propeller's IPA. It's been all uphill from there.
I still sample imports, whether domestic or foreign, but my beer-heart is firmly rooted in the Maritimes.
May it ever be thus.
