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Square Knot Brewing finds new home in Canandaigua Clarification: This story has been updated and clarified to reflect the purchase of the Three Huskies location. CANANDAIGUA – Square Knot Brewing Co. may soon have a new home.  Owners Nate Crane and Paul Newhook, former Canandaigua volunteer firefighters and friends, are purchasing the current Three Huskies Brewing location on Lakeshore Drive along with the people behind Clarky’s Twisted Sauce.  The deal was finalized Tuesday. Crane...

Eat, Drink and Be Murphy: Looking back -- yes, we have to -- at COVID-19 2020 MPNnow Oh, no, not a look back at 2020. Most everyone is trying to forget it, and here we are bringing it right back up. For many restaurant and bar owners, 2020 is considered a four-letter word, thanks to COVID-19 and resulting business shutdowns and slowdowns, employee layoffs, and flying by the seat of your pants to stay afloat -- while the rules of operation change midstream. Heading into 2021, many remain fearful...

MPNnow CANANDAIGUA -- As the saying goes, if it’s not one thing, it’s another -- and it’s enough to make you want to drink. Back in January 2019, Nate Crane and Paul Newhook, former Canandaigua volunteer firefighters and friends, got the ball rolling on the purchase of the former Peacemaker Brewing site on Pleasant Street for their Square Knot Brewing Co.  So far, so good. Square Knot, by the way, is a symbol in freemasonry, of which both are members. The knot also is symbolic in that Ne...