New England Pale Ale, Seven Years, and our Cocoa Porter as well. In May we collaborated with home- brewers Braithair Brewing to win Best in Show at the 2018 Stillwell Open.” As the holidays hit, they ready themselves with new products to capitalize on the Christmas season. “We just released a gingerbread beer for Christ- mas. We had an internal competition and made four different beers on a pilot system to be judged by staff. We wanted the beer to embody the Christmas spirit and chose Gingerbread beer as a clear winner,” he said. “You can get Gingerbread gift packs in the NSLC and our taproom. Our Stillwell Open-winning beer was also just bottled last week. Wild Bretton is a Belgian Witbier brewed with oranges and cori- ander and co-fermented with wild yeast. Aged in Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wine barrels gives this barrel aged beer unique characteristics.” For the springtime, they’ve got a sure-fire favour- ite coming to Nova Scotian consumers. “Because of our increased capacity, we have expanded to Newfoundland, P.E.I. and have sent some product to New Brunswick. We are also looking at Germany, Alberta and New England States.” “In the Spring of 2019 we will release our Straw- berry Rhubarb Sour in cans. The sweet and sour notes are well balanced, and it comes in at 4% ABV,” he said. “This beer is so different that when we release it, people will love it.” Morrow continues to be overwhelmed by the response shown by Nova Scotians, “Thank you to every person who has taken the time to try one of our products and continues to support local com- panies like ourselves to make Nova Scotia a better place to live.”
“We want to keep more Nova Scotians here working, and to do that, we need to be innovative. It’s not as easy to get spaces on tap or at the NSLC as it used to be. There’s so much competition. So, we’re looking further out geographically too.” They’re also award-winners. The last two years at the Atlantic Canadian Brewing Awards – held in October and November – have seen them take home a number of awards. “Every year along withmany other craft breweries in Atlantic Canada we send our beer to be judged at the Atlantic Canadian Brewing Awards. In 2017, our Stirling Hefeweizen was awarded beer of the year in Atlantic Canada. Our German wheat beer, Stirling Hefeweizen, is a big seller for us,” said Morrow. Then they received more recognition just a few months back from the same judging body.
“This year we were awarded a gold medal for our
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