Karl Whiffen isn’t sure if he’s following in his great uncle’s tradition with the new beer he started to brew in Lyons Brook on Saturday.

“The best I can tell, he made an English bitter,” the forester-turned-brewer said of his Uncle Leo, the namesake for the two-year-old Pictou County brewery he and his wife own. “This one will be a departure.”

But Uncle Leo may well have made wet-hop beer back in the 1940s in Newfoundland, if someone who grew fresh hops had pitched the idea to him.

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