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Lisa Watts
- Apr 21, 2019
- 1 min
Incredible First Beer Release Week!!
Where do we even begin??!! How do we explain the pride we felt seeing so many of you walk in the door of John Henry's pub (Tom's House of Pizza), coming in from Okotoks and other towns, dressed up in your Hub Town swag (and even some GOT swag), enjoying our 1882 Okotoks Golden Ale from handmade (Alberta) chalices and cheering us on as we celebrate this awesome milestone together?! The only way to explain it is to say, we've been on a cloud... With almost 200 pints served ove
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Lisa Watts
- Feb 10, 2019
- 5 min
Calling All Photographers...it's LABEL time!
This is it beer fans...our first BEER LABEL and it is an incredible photo of Okotoks' iconic Olde Towne Clock, seen in movies and adored by the locals and visitors alike! This is just one of MANY labels we will be creating and this one, our inaugural label, will be affixed to our CROWLERS! Don't know what a CROWLER is? The oxford dictionary defines a crowler this way: Crow·ler - A large aluminum can used for craft beer, typically able to hold around two pints. With 32 ounces
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Lisa Watts
- Jan 21, 2019
- 7 min
Breweries are different...that's the point!
How do you decide where to spend an evening out? And why would you even consider a brewery?? Well, our journey into craft beer started at a brewery...when I didn't even like beer! But after you read this blog, you'll understand why we continue to seek out more breweries to visit, even as we build our own! Most of us are so busy with everyday life that IF we are able to go out, we don't take for granted where we go, because sometimes its hard to know when the next opportunity
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Lisa Watts
- Jul 27, 2018
- 8 min
Location Location Location...and Location!
If someone had told us that starting a brewery would mean sacrificing so much of my time and energy, that it would encompass the majority of our waking (and sleeping) thoughts and exhaust our life savings………..we probably would have done it anyway! But what we had never intended was for the process to take soooooooo long. That’s why announcing our Brewery location has been so meaningful…and although we are still at the mercy of the Town of Okotoks to get the by-law amended to
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Lisa Watts
- Jan 2, 2018
- 2 min
Kombucha - Ringing in 2018 on a healthy note!
If you haven't heard of Kombucha by now, you may be living under a rock...don't feel bad, I've been there too (many times in fact) so you aren't alone in that shadowy, protected place. But since we at Hub Town are fermentation geeks in the beer industry, it's only fitting that we know a bit about this very popular fermented "health" drink that originated in the far East over 2000 years ago but only hit the market for mass consumption a handful of years ago...so let me intro
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Lisa Watts
- Sep 10, 2017
- 1 min
It's the most wonderful time to brew beer!
The kids are back in school, the weather is cooling and you're starting to think about all the great beers you could brew over the coming fall and winter months...beers that taste as comforting as a cozy blanket feels in the early, dark hours of the morning when you just don't want to get out of bed!
What you may not realize is that historically, beer was brewed mostly in the fall and winter months so it shouldn't surprise you when you "feel" like it's time to brew. Only it
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