As I reported the other week, the Nova Scotia Auditor General Michael Pickup did an audit on the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation and his report contained a list of questions directed at the NSLC. I took those questions and asked the NSLC's chief spokesperson to answer...
By Andrew Macdonald Brian Titus Latest To Make Play On Premier’s Now Famous Mantra - Garrison Debuts “Stay The Blazes Home Ale” Halifax craft beer maker Garrison Brewing is set to launch a new beer on Thursday that reinforces the importance of social-distancing and...
By Andrew Macdonald In times of stress and turmoil, some folk might turn to alcohol to de-compress or use booze to go numb. Millennial entrepreneur Lara Cusson, prior to closing her one-year-and-half trendy and popular Agricola Street coffee and booze emporium, Cafe...
By Andrew Macdonald How about a fine non-Coronavirus story - for a change and distraction: An Old Fashioned Beer War As NS Craft Brewers Like Garrison Take Aim At Brazilian Owned Giants Like Oland Brewery. You gotta love it: Recent Notebook beer coverage touches off...
Further to the above Beer Wars article, here is a Notebook archived story, filed recently, where Brian Titus discloses that beer giants have tried to buy out his craft brew entity, Garrison Brewery. Click here for that news scoop in our archives. To lean more about...
By Andrew Macdonald The Time I Shared A Beer With Bruce Oland Long before I became a beer addict, and then saw and see salvation, I once shared a beer with Bruce Oland - the now late Halifax beer baron. I wanted to interview Oland about the family’s private burial...
By Andrew Macdonald With 66 craft brewers operating in Nova Scotia, economic headwinds have hit one of these smaller brewers, weeks after giant brewer Oland, owned by a Brazilian global giant, questioned the economic viability of many of the province’s...
By Andrew Macdonald There’s Corona Beer, Then There Is The Corona Virus Only among the population in America, would a consumer make a connection between one of the world’s best selling beers - Mexican brewed Corona & the Coronavirus. Not to suggest at all that the...
By Andrew Macdonald Whisky News For Social Drinkers: Japanese Whisky All The Rage At NSLC’s The Port store Earlier this week I went on News Assignment at the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp’s The Port store, off of Spring Garden Road. Several stories from my chat with The...
By Andrew Macdonald
Yesterday, I found myself at the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp’s The Port store on Halifax’s Clyde Street.
Don’t worry, I did not fall off the wagon, I attended to the store well before opening hours in the morning, because I was on news assignment.
The assignment: Report on the most expensive bottle now on retail at the 103 store NSLC network.
It’s a $12,000 bottle of single malt Scotch.
