The rumor and random babble thread

[Jayme]

Where you have to go in first to pay for the growler surely people won't go out to pick it up and then try to bring it back in. It's in the customer's best interest to keep it refrigerated until they are leaving anyhow - although i guess some people won't realize that.

[mr x]

Depends on if there are hours for picking up the beer. Just something to keep in mind...

[Jayme]

Hmm didn't consider that. I guess so long as the don't crack down too hard you could just run upstairs, put it in a backpack, and go back down into the bar.

Or maybe someone could get creative and design one of these to hold a glass growler

[mr x]

Blue Heron at the Spitfire Arms has a little too much diacetyl today. Old Peculiar was on handpump, but I really don't like that beer.

[KMcK]

Why don't I counter-pressure fill growlers like some of the other microbreweries?
I'm not setting up a filling and bottle washing station in a little non-packaging brewery where I am constantly crawling around on my hands and knees making connections to and from tanks etc. (read broken glass) not to mention the space constraints. It's a nice little workspace in the current brewery setup with sufficient room to work efficiently under sanitary conditions and I intend to keep it that way. The quality and freshness of the beer is always first and foremost for me, I won't compromise the product with tap-filled growlers that could sit for days before being sold. Like it or lump it, it is the way it is. It may not help with a spur of the moment decision to grab a growler but I'd say it is a hell of a lot better than no growlers available from us at all.

In that case who will be filling the growlers for you and where?

[mr x]

There was an article in the Herald yesterday about someone taking over the Red Lion and changing it around, maybe with a better beer selection.

Did you mean the red fox?
http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1 ... unning-pub" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well, that lasted long.

http://novascotia.kijiji.ca/c-community ... Z391642127" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Dirt Chicken]

Hmm didn't consider that. I guess so long as the don't crack down too hard you could just run upstairs, put it in a backpack, and go back down into the bar.

Or maybe someone could get creative and design one of these to hold a glass growler

I'll take up that challenge, I could sew a cooler jacket with camel-pac draw tube, so you could slip that puppy in your backpack and sip on the go if need be.

[Jayme]

Haha that would be awesome.

[B.A.]

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[Jayme]

Well luckily they haven't banned massive sized soft drinks in Halifax as they did in New York! Now someone just need to make a cup the size of a growler...

[Dirt Chicken]

but to be honest, I dislike beer through a straw...

[Jayme]

Haha me too. The straw part may not be necessary though. The issue was more hiding a growler to drink later.

[KMcK]

Which is worse: good beer through a straw or bad beer from a plastic cup?

[Jayme]

Which is worse: good beer through a straw or bad beer from a plastic cup?

Well that goes without saying!

[Dirt Chicken]

Haha me too. The straw part may not be necessary though. The issue was more hiding a growler to drink later.

maybe some kinda setup that you can fasten a tap to the growler and mount it upside down, so you can fill an extra timmy's cup.. while on the move

[mr x]

[KMcK]

maybe some kinda setup that you can fasten a tap to the growler and mount it upside down, so you can fill an extra timmy's cup.. while on the move

When you ultimately have an accident with it, which would be more embarrassing: admitting to what you've done or letting people think you pissed your pants?

[Brewnoser]

Current NS liquor laws state that no beer (or liquor) off-sales are permitted. Someone was successful in having the act amended a while back to allow folks to bring their own wine with corking fee, or to be permitted to take any leftover wines you purchased by the bottle home with you. The same thing needs to be done again with a clause written in to the act permitting licensed establishments beer off-sales if it is made on premise under a brewers' license.

Those of you who were members back then may recall me trying to get you to write to the people drafting the BYO legislation to ask that beer also be included. In the end I was probably the only one who wrote them.

At the time I also pointed out several typos and stupid errors in the draft legislation that they ignored and subsequently enacted into the regs. For example they were totally ignorant of screw caps for wine. The regs make a restaurant actually cork a screw capped bottle if you want to take the remainder home. This when you could simply screw the top back on.

Public consultation at the Provincial level in NS does not really exist. Those in the government are far too certain they know all there is to know to change anything suggested by "the great unwashed".

It was RANS - The Restaurant Association of NS that advocated for it. They, of course cannot get past the idea of some bible boy coming into FID and plonking a case of Keith's on his table.

[Brewnoser]

Who knows about these guys....

http://www.southshorebrewing.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Seems to be owned by the same people as this:

http://www.arborview.ca/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Might be a nice place if located in this old restored building....

Peter Tatham, David Lobb listed as Officers of the company.

[mr x]

Current NS liquor laws state that no beer (or liquor) off-sales are permitted. Someone was successful in having the act amended a while back to allow folks to bring their own wine with corking fee, or to be permitted to take any leftover wines you purchased by the bottle home with you. The same thing needs to be done again with a clause written in to the act permitting licensed establishments beer off-sales if it is made on premise under a brewers' license.

Those of you who were members back then may recall me trying to get you to write to the people drafting the BYO legislation to ask that beer also be included. In the end I was probably the only one who wrote them.

At the time I also pointed out several typos and stupid errors in the draft legislation that they ignored and subsequently enacted into the regs. For example they were totally ignorant of screw caps for wine. The regs make a restaurant actually cork a screw capped bottle if you want to take the remainder home. This when you could simply screw the top back on.

Public consultation at the Provincial level in NS does not really exist. Those in the government are far too certain they know all there is to know to change anything suggested by "the great unwashed".

It was RANS - The Restaurant Association of NS that advocated for it. They, of course cannot get past the idea of some bible boy coming into FID and plonking a case of Keith's on his table.

That's hilarious, as the last times (and that's in a terminal sense) I was out to the Bicycle Thief and Nectar, InBev slop was the beer du jour.

[Brewnoser]

Yeah, but really, who not let me take a bottle of Chimay to dinner at Brussels if I am willing to pay a corkage fee. Just make it $5 a bottle for beer.

[mr x]

Because this province is run by morons, and beer has a bad rep due to the party pigs running around town wasted on shit. Thanks Labatts.........

[derek]

At the time I also pointed out several typos and stupid errors in the draft legislation that they ignored and subsequently enacted into the regs. For example they were totally ignorant of screw caps for wine. The regs make a restaurant actually cork a screw capped bottle if you want to take the remainder home. This when you could simply screw the top back on.

I can't imagine that's an error, stupid or otherwise. If they put the screwcap back on a bottle, you can unscrew it any time you wish. If they cork it, you'd need to be carrying a corkscrew. As it is now, possessing a bottle of wine with an unsealed screw cap is sufficient to get you convicted of whatever law it is that prevents you having open liquor in a public place.

[brufrog]

Thanks, Jeff for the growler of Blue Heron. I'm making a huge batch of chili with some local beef I got today from Wendy at Big Tide, and this awesome beer is really helping me cook!

[Jayme]

Who knows about these guys....

http://www.southshorebrewing.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Seems to be owned by the same people as this:

http://www.arborview.ca/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Might be a nice place if located in this old restored building....

Peter Tatham, David Lobb listed as Officers of the company.

Seems like an odd location - it's right by the Hospital in 'New Town'. Although Lunenburg is small enough that it may not be a big deal, but that is a 10-20min walk away from the waterfront/downtown. I feel like they would get more attention from tourists closer to the distillery. But I suppose if their focus is on selling to restaurants/NSLC it wouldn't matter so much.