Bar Towel Radio, Ontario's Premier Beer Podcast

In this episode we pay a visit to the long planned and newly opened Kensington Brewing Company in Toronto's Kensington Market. We chat with Mike Gurr, KBC's VP Operations along with Johnny Briggs, KBC's head brewer, about the brewery's history and road to opening, their past and present beers and their relationship to the neighbourhood.

In this episode we visit the new Goose Island Toronto Brewhouse and have a chat with Head Brewer Bernard Priest and Assistant Brewer Marc Mammoliti. We have a great discussion about their backgrounds in the beer industry, all about the brewery and the beers they've developed for Goose Island Toronto, and their relationship to Goose in Chicago.

In this episode we have a beer with Greg Koch, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Stone Brewing of San Diego, California. With special guest host Jason Fisher, the Founder of Indie Alehouse, we chat with Greg about his recent visit to Toronto and the beer scene in Ontario, Stone's foray into Europe, the evolving beer scene of southern California and more.

In this episode we chat with Buffalo's Mike Shatzel, owner of Thin Man Brewery, Cole's, Moor Pat, Colter Bay, Allen Burger Venture (and more) about the beer and brewing scenes in Buffalo and Ontario, Mike's history in the bar and beer industry, how Thin Man got started and about their beers, and some other beery reminiscing and storytelling.

In this episode we chat with Peter Bulut and Mike Lackey of Great Lakes Brewery on the occasion of their 30th anniversary, about their favourite GLB and collaboration beers from the past and present, some memorable stories from the brewery's past, about their new pilot brewing system, and their thoughts about how the Ontario beer scene has evolved and where it's going.

Bar Towel Radio goes continental, as today we have a chat with Marc Rauschmann, Master Brewer at BraufactuM in Frankfurt, Germany. Marc recently visited Toronto to support the launch of a number of BraufactuM beers available on draught in Ontario. In this episode we chat about Marc's beer background, the beer scene in Germany and his beers.

In this episode we have a beer with Casey Laforet, Mark Sasso and Stephen Pitkin of the Juno Award-winning band Elliott Brood at Toronto's Festival of Beer Spring Sessions, chatting about the band's favourite beers and breweries, fond beer memories from the road and what's to come from this great Canadian band.

In this episode we chat with Mychal Renteria from the La Quinta Brewing Co., a craft brewery and taproom located in the Coachella Valley in California.

In this episode we chat with Aaron Spinney, one of the founders and head brewer of Merit Brewing, a new brewery set to open in Hamilton, Ontario.

This special episode was recorded over the final two days of Bar Volo, with live stories from Maz Brereton, Nick Pashley, Ken Woods, Doug Shoemaker, Russ Burdick, Jason Fisher, Ryan Morrow, Robin LeBlanc, Rob Morra, Mike Lackey, Cody Noland, Michael Hancock, Sam Corbeil, Zack Weinberg, Matt Tweedy, Jason Tremblay, Iain Mcoustra, Luc Lafontaine, Julian Morana and Ralph Morana.