A little over a year after opening its doors and kegs to the public, PEI’s Upstreet Craft Brewing is ready to expand its reach to the other side of the Confederation Bridge. Having upgraded their production capacity during the Spring, it’s only natural for the fledgling brewery to now set its sights on New Brunswick. Continue reading Charlottetown’s Upstreet Craft Brewing Expands Into New Brunswick
Category Archives: Food & Drink
Big Spruce Brewing Airs Beef In Open Letter To NSLC
Cape Breton brewers Big Spruce took to the internet this week to air a ten-item laundry list of issues they have with the Nova Scotia’s liquor corporation. Owner Jeremy White says that the NSLC isn’t giving craft beer makers a fair shake, and that the province’s tight regulations are stifling a rapidly burgeoning industry. Continue reading Big Spruce Brewing Airs Beef In Open Letter To NSLC
First Annual Cider Festival Coming To Nova Scotia
As the country heads into its dreaded winter season, the toils of scraping ice and shovelling snow loom ever closer. Fear not, unwitting Bluenosers, for there on the distant Spring horizon, is a bright beacon of hope to get you through the months of cold. Cider fans can rejoice as May 27th, 2017 will mark Nova Scotia’s first ever Cider Festival. Continue reading First Annual Cider Festival Coming To Nova Scotia
The Peoples Cider Project: Crowdsourcing Nova Scotian Apple Cider
Making cider is easy. Making good cider is a whole other kettle of fish. It’s the closest thing you can get to alchemy without giving yourself mercury poisoning. But the brave people at Muwin Estate’s Bulwark Cider and the Ross Farm Museum will arguably be doing it the best way possible: with your heritage apples. Continue reading The Peoples Cider Project: Crowdsourcing Nova Scotian Apple Cider
Hopscotch Whisky Bar Opens In Uptown Saint John
This week, Saint John’s newest and most hotly anticipated bar, Hopscotch Whisky Bar, quietly opened its doors to some discrete fanfare. After breaking ground on the project in October of last year, delays in the project had the public asking, were they ever going to get to have a wee dram at that new whisky bar? On Tuesday, August 30th, the answer finally came, as the bar had their soft opening for a select few in the know, and those lucky enough to happen upon it. Continue reading Hopscotch Whisky Bar Opens In Uptown Saint John