The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation will benefit from a portion of the sales of a new beer created in collaboration with the Sea Change Brewing Co. and the union for the firefighters and paramedics of St. Albert. 

A dollar will be donated to breast cancer research for each 4-pack of the beer, Pink Sails, which is described as a “tart pink-lemonade ale” and is scheduled to hit store shelves on September 29.

Pink Sails Pink Lemonade Ale brewed by Sea Change Brewing Co.

Pink Sails is actually the second specialty beer that IAFF Local #2130 and Sea Change have produced together to support cancer research, according to Steph Fedoruk, a seventh-year firefighter paramedic in St. Albert. Pink Anchor, a sour beer developed by Sea Change in 2021, sold enough of its 2,500 litres to raise between $3,000 and $4,000, according to Fedoruk.

 “It was a huge hit. It was more money than we have ever raised for breast cancer,” she said, adding that the partnership came together seamlessly due to being close friends with Sea Change’s co-founders, Ian and Loni McIntosh. 

Despite the fact that the collaboration between IAFF Local #2130 and Sea Change is in its second year, Fedoruk said that there is a renewed sense of urgency surrounding the fundraiser this year because the mother of firefighter paramedic Greg O’Neil, co-chair of the union’s breast cancer committee, passed away on September 25 after a brief stay in hospice care with end-stage breast cancer.

“That’s really hard on him and we’ve been working together for multiple years on this, so that drives me as well,” Fedoruk said. 

“That’s a big one — we fight for her.”

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SOURCE: St. Albert Gazette
PHOTO CREDIT: St. Albert firefighters/Facebook