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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Happy Birthday Mr. Blakeley

Tim Blakeley is celebrating a birthday today and here's hoping he has some terrific beer to help get him through the day.

Blakeley, who is the head brewer for Better Bitters Brewing Company, has been in the industry for over 15 years now, after getting his start in the pub industry at Guelph's Woolwich Arms, and today Blakeley is responsible for the creation of a number of new seasonal products Better Bitters (under the brand Nickel Brook) have been producing over the last couple of years: Maple Porter, Spring Bock, Organic White, Sahti (a Finnish beer brewed with Juniper berries) and Uniek Kriek (oak-aged with sour cherries).

Blakeley has also brought some consistency and creativity to the brewery since arriving almost four years ago, tweaking, and improving the Nickel Brook Ale and Apple Pilsner, and producing the recently released canned, and LCBO available Organic Lager.

Happy birthday Tim!

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