(Yarmouth, NS) - Heritage Brewing opened its doors at 19 Kirk Street on Saturday, June 10th. The second brewery to open in the town they currently have an electric 1.5 BBL system with 8 fermenters.
They are starting with four beers, a Blonde Ale, Amber Ale, Session IPA and a Stout. They also have plans for Cream Ale, Double IPA, Porter, Brown, Red, and Strawberry Rhubarb Wheat as they progress. They are quite excited about their Strawberry Rhubarb Wheat after making it last year. It was so much work and so messy they swore we would never make it again but after tasting and giving some away the response was so positive they have already started freezing rhubarb and tracking down strawberries.
They are currently selling and filling 950 ml and 1.89 litre growlers on site along with tasters. Heritage looking for local establishments to have their beer on tap and in bottles. They plan to be distributing bottles to restaurants in the coming weeks and have hopes and plans for a taproom expansion.
The brewery will currently be open Thursdays from 4 PM to 8 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM, subject to change.
Mile East Productions will be hosting a Craft Beer Festival and Hop Run on May 27th at Rodd Grand Yarmouth in Yarmouth. The company who has been organizing event in the southwest Nova Scotia region for the past seven years will will have an afternoon and an evening session as well as a 1,2 and 3 mile Hop Run.
The format for the Hop run event, which precedes the fest, is you drink one beer, then start your first mile. Looping back around to the start point you will either finish and drink your victory beer or have your next drink before heading out for your next lap. Do up to three laps and drink up to four beers. The proceeds from the run will be going to a charity.
The fest is a ticket event where each ticket get you a beer sample or food sample (food from Grand Hotel). General admission gets you five tickets while VIP gives you ten sampling tickets as well as access to the VIP area. There is also a designated driver ticket available.
When I spoke to Rick Allwright he said he initially hoped to get 15 brewers to attend and it quickly shot to 12 confirmed and left him with the opposite decision of where he may have to cut off brewers.
Tickets available now with early bird pricing until February 15th at http://www.yarmouthcraftbeer.com/
