Halifax & Dartmouth

On the Halifax seaport since 1997, back when East Coast craft was a handful of people arguing that Atlantic Canada would drink something other than macro lager.

Halifax's longest-running independent, still making ESB. Traditional British ale is the least fashionable thing a brewery can do and the hardest to do badly.

Took over the Portland Street space Brightwood Brewery built, keeping a neighbourhood brewery alive on a street that would otherwise have lost one.

Named for the locks on the Shubenacadie Canal, the 19th-century attempt to cut a waterway clean across Nova Scotia. Dartmouth has always been the working half of the harbour, and Nine Locks reads…

Brewing in Halifax since 1820, which makes it older than Canada by forty-seven years, and Alexander Keith himself was three times mayor of the city. Nova Scotians drink it on his birthday. The…

The other half of a family story. Susannah Oland's brewing enterprise, founded in 1867, eventually split between branches — one line carried on to Saint John and became Moosehead, still family-owned…

Low-intervention brewing and foeder-aged sours in Halifax — a discipline that takes years to show results, which is exactly why most breweries skip it.

Official 2026 site confirms active Dartmouth brewery at 21 Frazee Ave and multiple taprooms; current shop exposes 17 product listings.

Official beer collection currently reports 18 product listings, including package-size variants.