Pub Chat

This week we’re joined by everyone from local hip-hop group 3PEAT – Steve, Egg, Dill the Giant and Anthony. We’re chatting about the local hip-hop scene and drinking Vic Park Pale Ale from PEI Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Vic Park Pale Ale

04:00 – 3PEAT – a history

07:00 – The EP

14:20 – Sleeping in bars

22:45 – Touring?

24:50 – Rainbow Trout

36:00 – This is where the laughter starts

We’re reviewing this fall’s new season of shows with local TV-nerd and beer-drinker Chris Schiffmann. We’re drinking Lost Coast’s Sharkinator White IPA.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Lost Coast Sharkinator White IPA

04:10 – High Maintenance (HBO)

09:30 – Son of Zorn (Fox)

16:00 – Atlanta (FX)

24:55 – The Good Place (NBC)

30:20 – Movies as TV shows

33:00 – Stranger Things (Netflix)

43:00 – Quarry

48:00 – American Horror Story

51:00 – Wrap-up

Tom Green was in town, so we drank Tom Green Beer from Beau’s Brewery. Tom Green didn’t join us on the podcast, but local film-maker and home-brewer Clayton Winter did!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – The Tom Green Beer

06:00 – Beau’s

11:20 – “I wonder if I can make beer”

19:40 – Garbage Hill, Winnipeg

27:25 – Home-brew time

35:00 – Red Ale

43:00 – Wrap-up

Tonight we’ve got the Mortal Kombat Saison and Imperial Stout from Sound Brewing. Our guest is Rob Stansel, local sommelier and beer guy and we’re comparing the beer and wine worlds.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

02:00 – Mortal Kombat Saison

03:30 – Madeira

06:30 – Mortal Kombat Imperial Stout by Sound Brewing

20:00 – Beer pairing vs. Wine pairing

26:00 – Surly Brewers Table

32:00 – English Wine

44:00 – “I’m kind of a wine guy”

52:30 – Wrap-up

This week we’re drinking Boulevard’s Chocolate Ale with Raspberry, part of their smokestack series. We’re joined by Chris Miller – local home brewer and beer-guy, who’s about to take his Certified Cicerone exam.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Chocolate Ale with Raspberry by Boulevard Brewing

07:30 – Judging beer

15:20 – Cicerone vs. BJCP

26:00 – Beer update

29:55 – Benefits of cicerone

35:00 – Sommelier vs. Cicerone

40:30 – Off flavours

We’re drinking the Fat Tire & Friends collaboration pack that’s been on the shelves recently, which includes regular Fat Tire plus five variations on the classic beer brewed with five other brewers. Paul & Brad from the Grain to Glass (FB) homebrew shop joined us to talk about homebrewing techniques and the brighter side of running a homebrew shop (hint: it’s drinking beer).

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Fat Tire (and friends)

07:18 – Belgian Pale Ale brewed with Rhinegeist

11:13 – Re-creating commercial beers

15:00 – Citra hops please

16:25 – When you’ve had too much Zombie Dust

25:00 – Fat Sour Apple ale

29:40 – Do you have normal beer?

37:20 – Fat Funk Ale

47:00 – Our excuses for not homebrewing

51:25 – Homebrew time!

62:55 – Brewing bloopers

66:00 – Wrap-up

This week we’re joined once again by Chris Rohling of the Twin Cities to drink some Minnesotan beer – Surly’s Pentagram. This week we’re talking about the Olympics, corruption, doping and more.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Surly Pentagram

11:00 – The Olympics

15:00 – The winners

19:25 – Drugs

28:00 – Table tennis vs. ping pong

53:00 – The Marshall Islands are tiny

56:00 Wrap-up

Tonight we’re joined by friend and podcast-nerd Meghan. We’re drinking Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA from Alameda Brewhouse and talking in-depth about podcasting, Meghan’s future podcasting goals and the comeback talk-radio is making in the form of podcasts.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA Alameda Brewhouse

08:30 – Trappist beer

15:30 – The book of Gob

16:45 – Podcasting (as a job)

23:30 – Podcasts as drama

38:00 – #LifeGoals

43:00 – Beer drinking gainz

47:30 – Wrap-up

Daniel Emmons is back this week to talk about his move to LA, the tasty beer he’s been drinking and the cool shit he’s been doing. We’re drinking Dragons Milk Reserve Raspberry Lemon from New Holland and Dan is starting off with Pollination Honey Blonde by Evan’s Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:50 – Dragon’s Milk

03:00 – Pollination Honey Blonde by Evan’s Brewing

07:20 – In LA, you just work

13:25 – The Hollywood Sign

19:00 – “You went to a movie set?”

25:42 – That improv/stand-up life

34:42 – Winnipeg bus on fire

42:57 – LA breweries

This week we’re drinking Stump Coastal Forest Botanic Ale from Philips Brewing with Alyson Shane & John Luxford.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:50 – Stump Coastal Forest Botanic Ale from Phillips Brewing

05:00 – Spirited Away

22:30 – The window seat

30:20 – “Ogled by a giant”

31:30 – Spirited Away – what did you like the least?

32:45 – A poem

45:00 – Wrap-up