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Ironwork’s Animals: Part One – The Dog Goes all Broadway on us…
March 17, 2011 / Comments (2)
It’s possible that you have all noticed the presence of our animals in some of the photos on our website. For no better reason than the fact that it’s a grey rainy March day and I need a break from the frustration of making labels, I thought it would be amusing to tell you some…
Looking back and thinking ahead
February 22, 2011 / Comments (1)
Must be February – I find myself battling insomnia by cleaning out my email inbox at ungodly hours of the night. In so doing I came across an amusing interchange that I had back in early June last year, when we were in the throes of first bottling and dead terrified that the labels would…
More Fellow Distillers
January 30, 2011 / Comments (0)
Busy times on the road. We jumped from Catoctin Creek in Virginia on Thursday to Thomas Tew Distillery in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday. It’s great fun to see how the rest of our fellow distillers go about the solving of tasks that we’re so familiar with. Everyone so far is a lot bigger than we…
Dashing around the north-east
January 27, 2011 / Comments (0)
We traveled through the heart of thoroughbred country in the last few days. Kentucky is so delightful with it’s rolling hills and endless white fencing. One of the highlights was visiting the home of Maker’s Mark Bourbon. It’s a large facility – I think our shop and workroom would fit entirely in their visitor centre…
The Bus Man’s Holiday
January 14, 2011 / Comments (0)
Okay – we wanted to take a tiny break from our labours, so we packed up the dog and the van and headed south, leaving our good friend Deb minding the shop. We managed to duck under that crazy storm that dashed up the northeast coast – saw more snow in Georgia than we left…
January Hours at the Distillery
January 08, 2011 / Comments (0)
For the next few weeks our hours will be as follows: Thursday – Friday – Saturday 12 noon til 5 pm Sunday thru Wednesday CLOSED We will start distilling again in February.
New Year news
It’s been such a scandalously long time since we added to the blog. The fall was a blur of activity – September brought a whole new genre of visitor to our shop such as parents dropping kids off to college in Halifax. The cruise season saw ships coming to the Lunenburg Harbour and ferrying passengers…
NEW HOURS FOR FALL!
September 23, 2010 / Comments (1)
Wednesday through Monday 12 pm – 6 pm Closed Tuesdays. So this Tuesday was the first day we closed the shop since we opened in June this year. It felt very strange but mostly it was a relief to have a day off. We decided on Tuesday as a closed day in order to be…
Culinary Tourism
September 22, 2010 / Comments (0)
We had a lovely visit today. Our friends from NS Tourism and Taste of Nova Scotia in conjunction with Taste of Nova Scotia came by with a group from the Culinary World Tourism Convention. We celebrated with a few treats created by Sandra from the LaHave Bakery outlet in Mahone Bay. She devised the sweets…
Old Friends
September 15, 2010 / Comments (0)
Nothing like being able to show off new ventures to old pals. Jonathan Hackett and Carol Lavoie – friends of ours from the old days in Toronto came to Lunenburg to see the sights, enjoy the town and chat about old times as well as sample the ‘product’ of our new venture. Lunenburg was looking…
