HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2016-11-30, Page 3Half Hours rated
the third best
brewery in Canada
Shaun Gregory
Huron Expositor
Half Hours on Earth has not
yet held the astral title for the
most paramount craft beer on
the planet, hold your breath
though because the literally
underground jewel of Sea -
forth is not far from reaching
that mind-boggling status.
Located in the basement in
a rather vintage setting where
Seaforth's E.D. Smith once
operated. The building con-
verted from a mayonnaise
producing company into a
successful beer business is
believed to have attracted
more than 1500 people to the
area. It's evident that 151 Main
St. south is creating quite the
buzz for craft beer buffs.
At a regional level the brew-
ery came up short at the
HMA's for the Innovative
Product -a category Huron
East's economic development
officer called the "most com-
petitive." Instead the local
brewery hurled onto a provin-
cial and national realm of a
rather different theme.
In accordance to Untappd,
a popular beer rating review
website, the micro brewery is
comfortably sitting at third out
of about 700 breweries in the
country with 2,516 votes - a
3.9 out of five stars. Next in
line at second place is Unfil-
tered Brewing from Halifax,
Nova Scotia and the leader of
Canada is Brasserie Auval
Brewing from Val d'Espoir,
Quebec with an impressive
4.2 star rating. Being so close
is a feat of its own, since Half
Hours has 56 flavours of beers,
that's nearly as much as both
companies combined if they
each doubled their selection.
As well, out of the roughly
250 craft breweries in the
province they are ranked
number one.
According to a Vimeo video,
the owners of Half Hours, Kyle
Teichert and Kristen Harburn
say about 90-95 per cent of
their customers are from out-
side of Huron County. An
impressive widespread
appeal, seeing as the place is
only open on Saturday.
"In the end, it's about
making beer we personally
enjoy drinking," as stated on
their Facebook page.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 • Huron Expositor 3
Photo courtesy of Half Hours on Earth's Facebook page
A fairly new mobile craft beer rating web app known as Untappd has Half Hours on Earth in Seaforth
at the top of their list.
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