Canada Day, the biggest holiday of the summer season, is a day where fireworks go off and parties go on. We celebrate our nation in the most Canadian of ways – a two-four with some friends and a barbeque. Fredericton residents will have a new way to celebrate this year with the grand opening of Graystone Brewing on July 1st. The brewery will make its new home at 221 King Street and claims the distinction of being the first brewery and tap house experience in downtown Fredericton. Beer aficionados will rejoice in the massive selection of over twenty different New Brunswick craft brews. Continue reading Graystone Brewing Announces Opening Date
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Ministers Island Is Raising The Roof With Craft Beer
Are you familiar with Canada? Good. Now let me tell you a story about how all that came to happen. Canada is a beautiful and majestic land. It’s also very big. You wouldn’t want to Terry Fox your way across it with a satchel of grain on your back, which is exactly how the people of British Columbia explained it to Parliament, more or less, at their proposal of Confederation. And so, a promise was made to construct a railway that spanned the breadth of the land; a railway that would carry supplies and immigrants from east to west, unifying the country, and practically define the rim of America’s hat. Continue reading Ministers Island Is Raising The Roof With Craft Beer
Picaroons Has Bigger Plans For New Brunswick
This week Picaroons is opening the newest of its locations in Saint John. The new brewtique will offer a selection of beer, produced locally, as well as operating as something best described as an artisanal general store. But it’s just one part of the bigger puzzle that Picaroons is putting together. In fact, it’s only one of three locations they’re opening in New Brunswick this year. Continue reading Picaroons Has Bigger Plans For New Brunswick
Grimross: Science With Stephen
Amidst the bustling storefront of Grimross Brewing Co. in Fredericton where patrons are quietly enjoying a pint, their stools scraping and glasses clinking over the murmur of conversation, Stephen Dixon’s eyes dance. He is quietly and very animatedly expounding upon the functions of yeasts, lactic acids, and adjuncts, and the characteristics they create in craft beer. This is not a riveting conversation for the uninitiated, but the passion with which Dixon explains it is engrossing enough to make anyone a microbiology nerd for a few minutes. Continue reading Grimross: Science With Stephen
First City Brewery: Saint John’s Newest Nano-Brewery
Saint John has a long history of beer making and beer drinking. As home to the oldest and largest independent brewery in Canada, the sight of excess beer foam drifting through Reversing Falls and into the harbour has always been a familiar and comforting one to locals; a sure sign of a robust economy. Now with the rising tide of craft beers, Saint John is getting its newest nano-brewery, and Jeff Gibbons and Adam McQueen of First City Brewery get to live out their dreams of having their beer on tap. Continue reading First City Brewery: Saint John’s Newest Nano-Brewery