Mount Allison graduate Deborah Colvin ('77) has designed art for a limited edition Canada Day beer brewed by Edinburgh-based brewery Innis & Gunn. Deborah lives just north of Toronto, but she honed her craft at Mount Allison. Now, the artist will have her work on the packing of a limited edition run of "Canada Day 2011" beer.
Since 2009, the craft brewery has made a yearly brew in honour of Canada. This year, for the first time, the bottles will be sold in cartons featuring original Canadian artwork.
Deborah earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977, and says her design was a "deeply personal" re-examination of her background.
Her father William immigrated from Scotland with his parents. She describes her dad as being "firmly Canadian," a hockey coach who taught neighbourhood kids how to skate on a rink in the backyard. Her grandmother missed Scotland fiercely, while her grandfather "had feet in both areas."
The multi-layered design features hockey players, birch bark and hand-drawn maps of Canada against a vivid red background.The "Canada Day 2011" brew has a limited run of only 3,000 cases, for a total of 72,000 individually packaged bottles. The brewery describes the beer as a creamy Auburn vintage with notes of toffee and oak.
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