Posts tagged Nova Scotia
Day 11 – Eleven Pipers Piping Gin
Day 11 – Eleven Pipers Piping Gin

If your true love buys you eleven pipers piping for Christmas, before you reach for the earplugs, take a minute to listen. The harmonies of the pipers united in song is the very essence of great gin. Then, having savoured the pipers’ aural thrills, put the earplugs back in and dream of the palatable indulgences these 11 gins will bestow on you and your true love.

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Day 6 – Six Geese-a-laying Eau-de-Vie
Day 6 – Six Geese-a-laying Eau-de-Vie

Most of Canada’s first microdistilleries actually began by distilling local farm windfall into eau-de-vie and brandy. So, if you’re looking for the Canadian goose that laid the golden egg, look no further, it’s fruit brandy. These six Eau-de-vies and brandies will look just fine nestled under a decorated tree.

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Day 4: Calling Birds & Seaweed Gin
Day 4: Calling Birds & Seaweed Gin

Canada’s immense land area has produced a selection of gins that explore the thousands of flavours that grow coast to coast. For distilleries near the sea, this includes taking flavours from the temperamental oceans and taming those flavours into its gins.

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Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsGin, Seaweed Gin, Seaweed, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Distillerie du St. Laurent, St. Laurent Distillery, Sheringham Distillery, Still Fired Distillery, Botanicals, Canadian Spirits, Canadian Distilleries, Canadian Distillery
Rewarding the Crow with Spruce Tips
Rewarding the Crow with Spruce Tips

When Spring rolls around in Nova Scotia, it’s time to harvest spruce tips. Experts suggest that tips from young trees, around a decade old, have the best flavour and you don’t need a ladder to pick them. With spruce trees growing around their property, it was natural that Jill Linquist and Chris Pruski at Nova Scotia’s Raging Crow Distillery would harvest the tips for the distillery’s Spruce Tip Gin.

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Tasting reviewsBlair PhillipsRaging Crow, Gin, Nova Scotia