Pub Chat

This week we’re joined by Winnipeg graphic designers and beer lovers Mark Remoquillo & Evan Marnoch to talk about design, and in particular brewery and beer-label design. We’re drinking the Howe Sound Mexican Chiapas Cold Pressed Coffee Ale as well as a few other tasty bottles that our guests brought along!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Howe Sound Mexican Chiapas Cold Pressed Coffee Ale

03:20 – Graphic design for beer

14:55 – Anchor Brewing

18:40 – Beer break, Greg’s Beer Reviews

20:45 – Favourites in design

32:20 – Boulevard Imperial Stout, visiting Minneapolis

38:05 – Goose Island and Bourbon County

42:20 – Screen printing beer bottles, Rogue branding

46:05 – New breweries and branding

50:50 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by Jean-François of Domaine Jean Boudry vineyard and local wine-guys Jesse Oberman & Taylor Archibald of Winnipeg-based natural wine rep Elevage Selections. We delved deep into the traditions of wine-making in the Jura region and drank some Parallel 49 Bodhisattva & a selection of Jean-François’s wines.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Parallel 49 Bodhisattva

02:00 – Natural wines

11:00 – What’s bad and what you don’t like

12:30 – To filter or not to filter

19:00 – Price points

19:00 – Long tradition in wine

22:45 – Back to filtering

25:00 – What keeps wine from going bad

30:50 – Adding sugar to wine

32:50 – Yeast and fermentation

40:30 – Trying the wine

42:50 – Really old bottles and corks

47:50 – Screw caps, wax

52:30 – About the vineyard

53:45 – On to the next wine

1:04:50 – On to the vin jaune

1:17:30 – Wrapping it up

This week we drank Steel & Oak Windrose Porter with Matt Wolff from Torque Brewing. We talked about challenges and opportunities about opening up a new brewery and the fun of test batches!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Steel & Oak Windrose Porter

03:45 – To go on a trip – to Saskatchewan

07:00 – Torque Brewing

17:10 – Back to the beer

17:50 – Torque brews and test batches

23:50 – Challenges and opportunities

29:00 – Wrapping it up

It’s the last week of cocktail month and we’re drinking with Dan of Deer + Almond! He made us a delicious coconut-ice cream float using Maui’s Coconut Porter.

Cocktail Month

Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3

In the third episode of Cocktail Month 2016 we’re drinking with Renée Girard of Forth. We drank Bridge Brewing’s Uganda Sipi Coffee Brown Ale and I made a cocktail with the Red Racer Red Ale. Renée also used the Red Racer Red Ale for her rather delicious cocktail.

Cocktail Month

Episode 1 | Episode 2

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Bridge Uganda Sipi Coffee Brown Ale

06:00 – Experimenting with beer cocktails

09:50 – Creative process behind cocktails

12:20 – Cocktails and cooking

15:10 – Overcomplicating a cocktail

16:50 – Ordering the bartender’s recommendations

18:30 – Go-to cocktails

20:20 – Buying liquor stateside

25:45 – Colin and Adrian’s creative processes

28:00 – Making Adrian’s cocktail

33:10 – Straining and filtering

36:20 – Tasting Adrian’s cocktail

40:30 – Glassware

44:00 – Making Renee’s cocktail

53:45 – Tasting Renee’s cocktail

56:15 – Wrapping it up

It’s the second episode of Cocktail Month 2016 and we’re drinking with Peter Hill of Albert Street Cocktails. Peter’s cocktail of the evening is using Maui Brewing’s Coconut Porter. Colin used the Duchesse de Bourgogne to make a beery take on a French 75 which he has dubbed the Flemish 75.

Check out last weeks episode with Elsa from the Roost here.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – Rogue 4-Hop IPA

05:50 – Cocktails, vodka

10:00 – Introducing people to new flavours

17:50 – Creating a cocktail

22:00 – Getting into cocktails

26:50 – NYC

30:45 – Vancouver and beer

32:00 – Menu at Albert Street

36:40 – Tonight’s cocktail

43:45 – Making the cocktail

46:00 – Tacos and Adrian’s immigration

49:30 – Pub culture

52:15 – Tasting tonight’s cocktail

57:55 – Craft distillers

1:02:00 – Naming cocktails

1:04:25 – The Flemish 75

1:10:25 – Go-to drinks at a new bar

1:14:55 – Wrapping it up

It’s April which means it’s Cocktail Month on Pub Chat! Our first guest is Elsa, bartender at The Roost and we’re drinking Cannery Brewing’s Darkling Oatmeal Stout to start things off. Elsa made a delicious cocktail using a Duchesse de Bourgogne syrup. In this years cocktail month, Colin & Adrian will also alternate attempting a beer-based cocktail each episode to go along with our guests (more-delicious) creations.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Cannery Brewing Darkling

05:20 – What to drink on a regular basis

06:50 – Last year’s Cocktail Month

09:05 – Winnipeg’s cocktail scene

11:55 – Alcohol free cocktails

15:45 – Chipotle cocktails

16:45 – Making cocktails at The Roost

23:35 – Creative cocktail ingredients

29:10 – Making today’s cocktail

36:00 – Naming cocktails

37:30 – Mouthgasm

40:15 – Maximizing cocktails

46:00 – Colin’s cocktail

51:15 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined once again by American and internet-person Joey Heflich. We’re giving our take on House of Cards Season 4 and drinking some beers while we’re at it.

Spoiler alert: we do get a little spoilery around the 25-minute mark so keep your ears peeled if you haven’t seen this season yet.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:50 – Tonight’s beer pairings

09:30 – Fast food

17:20 – House of Cards season 4

19:00 – Comparing to previous seasons

22:15 – Bingeing and overall impressions

26:10 – Spoiler alert and Joey’s commments

33:30 – Oil, presidents and writers

40:30 – More questions

52:35 – Season 5

1:00:00 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by apiarist & honey expert Chris Kirouac of Bee Project – a local apiary producing a variety of delicious honey’s. To accompany the honey tasting, we lined up a 2015 and a 2014 Muskoka Winter Beard Double Chocolate Cranberry Stout.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Muskoka Winter Beard

03:30 – Getting into honey

06:30 – Manitoba and honey

08:00 – Bee facts

10:20 – Rural vs urban beekeeping

15:40 – Tasting, different honey varieties

27:25 – Difference between Beeproject and Honey Corp

32:15 – Winnipeg urban beekeeping

40:40 – Mead and brewing with honey

47:45 – Wrapping it up

This week we’ve got local bartender and Archer aficionado Josey back on the show to talk about the world’s most dangerous secret agent. We’re drinking the delightful Red Racer ISA from Central City Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:05 – Central City Red Racer ISA

04:05 – Marathoning Archer

08:30 – Investing in Archer, running jokes

11:45 – Drinking and food in Archer

16:15 – Adam Reed and missing characters

21:20 – Animation in Archer, the Simpsons

23:50 – The marathon, deep references

28:55 – Guest stars

30:00 – Wrapping it up