Pub Chat

This episode we’re joined by Brian Westcott former Alley Kat brewer and now head brewer at Winnipeg’s soon-to-be-open Barn Hammer Brewing. We talked about the burgeoning Winnipeg beer scene, building-a-brewery-problems and heard some of the plans Barn Hammer has in store for Winnipeg’s beer fans!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – Black Kettle Scottish Ale

04:30 – Formerly of Alley Kat

10:10 – Change coming for Winnipeg

12:30 – Building a brewery

20:50 – Freshness problems

28:30 – Plans for Barnhammer

30:10 – Cask beer and filtering

38:10 – Homebrewing

42:00 – Trends in beer

48:15 – When will Barnhammer open

49:20 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by local poet Mona Mousa and rapper Mungala from Winnipeg’s the Lytics. We’re drinking the delightful Headstock IPA from Nickel Brook & a little bourbon.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Nickel Brook Headstock IPA

06:20 – Border crossing adventures

16:10 – Tours, GPS and travel stories

27:30 – Working as a poet

32:00 – Basketball

35:45 – Comedy in Winnipeg

42:15 – Britain, Egypt, the invention of beer

46:45 – Wrapping it up

Today is the 4th anniversary of Pub Chat and we’re pleased to be celebrating with a 2012 bottle of Flying Monkey’s Barenaked Ladies Chocolate Stout. We’re so pleased we’ve made it this far, thanks to everyone that continues to listen. In this episode, we reminisce on the last year and talk about our Pub Chat plans for the next year!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Flying Monkeys BNL Chocolate Stout

07:50 – Personal news and reflections

16:20 – The year in beer

18:15 – The year in topics and guests

33:20 – Looking forward

38:40 – Wrapping it up

This episode we’re excited to bring back one of our favourite guests from 2015, Amanda Kinden of Oh Doughnuts. Last year Amanda was renting kitchen space to supply Winnipeg coffee shops with doughnuts but this year she’s on the verge of opening a standalone doughnut shop to satisfy our doughnut hunger for good. We enjoyed the wonderful Duchesse du Bourgogne.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:15 – Verhaeghe Duchesse De Bourgogne

03:45 – But when is Oh Doughnuts opening

07:30 – Finding a location for Oh Doughnuts

11:20 – Research and Other Doughnuts

19:10 – Trying new things in doughnuts

23:10 – Temperature of the doughnut

25:35 – The Oh Doughnuts lineup

30:05 – Listening to Pub Chat

32:00 – A Marmite Doughnut

35:10 – DoughnutDate

37:05 – Buy all the doughnuts

38:10 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re drinking Postmark’s Brewing’s Winter Red. Brett joins us to talk about our new favourite show, Occupied.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – Postmark Winter Red

07:50 – Occupied

10:50 – No spoilers

21:20 – Spoiler alert

26:30 – Connecting to the characters

31:45 – Final thoughts on Occupied

35:50 – Wrapping it up

This week it’s just the two of us talking vinyl & music. We’re drinking Dangerous Man’s Peanut Butter Porter and their Chocolate Milk Stout, hooray!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – The Crowler and Dangerous Man

03:20 – Mixing the milk stout and peanut butter porter

06:40 – More on Dangerous Man

07:40 – Vinyl and early memories

11:45 – Transitioning from digital to vinyl

14:00 – Why vinyl?

19:00 – Vinyl and new old music

22:10 – Recent finds and inherited records

26:25 – Back to the beer

27:35 – Wrapping it up

This week Colin & I are drinking Oskar Blues renowned imperial stout, Ten FIDY. Many-time Pub Chat guest, reader and thinker Joey Heflich joined us to talk about life, snowpocalypse, biofuel, POTUS and all sorts of other stuff.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Sweet Baby Jesus and Reese Peanut Butter Cups

04:55 – Oskar Blues Ten Fidy

06:40 – Snowpocalypse

10:55 – Is Making a Murderer pointless?

17:15 – American presidential election

21:00 – Recycling and other things affected by oil prices

24:40 – Biofuels and gas prices

27:10- The next POTUS and porn

32:20 – The power and height of the POTUS

37:50 – U.S. History

44:35 – Apologies for Japanese internment

47:20 – Vessel

50:30 – Turning on the Vessel, more politics

1:01:00 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re recapping our season(?) of fantasy football with sports person Anthony P. We drank Four Winds’ delicious IPA Vexillum.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Four Winds Vexillum

05:20 – Pub Chat tackles fantasy sports

09:30 – Adrian learns

12:50 – All about those fantasy sports

17:30 – The standings

23:50 – The League

26:00 – Naming the fantasy team

30:00 – Religion in sports and Protinis

32:45 – Will Adrian return

37:15 – Smack talk

39:35 – Trashing the people in the league

41:15 – Adrian’s commitment to sports

46:30 – Soccer

49:10 – XFL

53:45 – Carolinas

56:00 – Combines and bankruptcy

1:00:00 – Wrapping it up

It’s time for our 4th annual top five albums of the year with Chris Rohling. We’ve all brought a beer to this episode that represents our “go-to” beer of 2015.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Today’s beers

07:45 – Sufjan Stevens

13:00 – Infected Mushrooms

16:00 – The Wombats, Glitterbug

18:00 – Doomtree, All Hands

22:30 – Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment

25:25 – CHAMPS, Vamala

29:00 – Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly

34:30 – Lana Del Rey

37:40 – Jamie xx, The XX

40:50 – Chvrches, Every Open Eye

47:15 – Grimes, Art Angels

51:00 – Back to the Wombats

56:40 – Back to Jamie xx, In Colour

58:10 – Foals, What Went Down

1:04:00 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Florence and the Machine

1:06:45 – Alternate Bond themes

1:08:30 – Hamilton Original Broadway Recording

1:13:45 – Other honorable mentions

1:17:00 – RIP David Bowie

1:26:10 – Singles of the year

1:28:00 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by friend, gainz-lover and beer drinker @Kevs_Kitchen to talk about working out, nutritional science, and not-nutritional drinking. We’re drinking the unexpectedly splendid Molto Bella Espresso IPA from Tree Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Tree Molto Bella Espresso IPA

05:20 – Alcohol and working out

07:15 – Nutritional science

09:50 – Macronutrients, #iifym

11:20 – Recovery drinks, Gatorade

15:45 – Drivers with sports license plates

18:00 – Sports venues and craft beer

19:20 – Justifying the acohol

22:30 – Light beer, frozen food and cooking

29:45 – Actually working out

34:40 – Walking and biking

40:00 – Getting Trimble to the gym

45:50 – Short man complex

48:45 – Wrapping it up