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Lower Sackville, N.S.’s first brewery finds success after opening amid pandemic
Calgary brewery resurrects more than century-old beverage Cronk His passion quickly evolved into quite the operation, eventually running a commercial nano-brewery out of his basement.A few years ago, his friend Chris Balcom, who always dreamed of opening his own bar, had a proposal.“I approached him a few years ago and I said, we should do something with this, make it bigger, and after some humming and hawing, we decided to make it real big,” said Balcom.So the pair got to work on dreaming up Ol’ Biddy’s Brewhouse, the first brewery in Lower Sackville.Forbes and Balcom had hoped it to be open by Christmas, but multiple issues forced them to delay opening to the spring – during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.“When COVID-19