Pub Chat

Thanks to a little NYE indulgence we’re a day late with this episode, but here it is. We’re joined by Brett Enquist to for a little vertical of Half Pints Demeters Harvest from 2011 and 2013. Happy New Year!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Half Pints Demeter’s Harvest

04:20 – Half Pints vertical tastings

06:00 – Topicless

07:00 – Girlfriendless

11:00 – Paid online dating, Disney

14:10 – New Year’s Resolutions

22:40 – Wrapping it up

It’s Christmas time, and to celebrate we’re talking about our weird and wonderful holiday traditions with prior guest Mitch. We drank the lovely Christmas seasonal Delirium Noël from Belgium’s Brouwerij Huyghe.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:10 – Delirium Noël

04:00 – Christmas oranges, chocolate oranges

06:00 – Belgian beers in North America

07:30 – Christmas shopping

14:00 – Boxing Day

16:15 – Pacing the holiday drinking

19:00 – Turkey leftovers

21:25 – Ham

23:20 – Trimble and Mitch cook dinner

28:45 – Christmas traditions

32:40 – Trimble discovers egg nog

38:15 – Wrapping it up

We grabbed a few growlers and took a road trip out to Brandon to visit Grant & Amy and talk about Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Before leaving the city, we stopped at Half Pints open house and picked up their new American barley wine Ol’ Glory.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:35 – Half Pints Ol’ Glory

04:30 – Brooklyn Nine-Nine

07:40 – Andre Braugher and captains

10:25 – A fire and pointing out flaws

24:00 – Holiday episodes and honey

29:50 – Back to the beer and fire

31:50 – Networks, studios and Star Wars

41:30 – Back to Brooklyn 99

43:00 – Love Actually

45:00 – Jessica Jones and Doctor Who

50:15 – Crossing the border, cheese

54:20 – Adrian won’t move back

56:15 – Wrapping it up

We recorded an episode with Kenley & Dave where we drank the beer Kenley brewed on Pub Chat, but we lost the recording. So we invited them back, drank some Red Racer IPA and talked about beer!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Red Racer IPA

04:00 – Sour beers and changing palates

07:15 – Sitting through weird music

09:00 – Back to Central City

12:15 – Crown Royal Harvest Rye

15:15 – Weekend plans

19:00 – Adrian and sports

21:00 – Teenagers, D&D and nerdy things

26:50 – Old references

29:40 – TV sitcoms

34:50 – Homebrewing

50:40 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by fellow beer lover Dan Klajncar to talk about travelling for beer, finding beer while travelling and the beer places we want to visit the most. We drank the delicious tequila barrel aged Imperial Kristallweizen from Dangerous Man in Minneapolis.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:05 – Dangerous Man Imperial Kristallweizen

03:35 – Travelling for beer in Spain

06:30 – Dan’s beer travels

08:10 – Portland beer scene

11:20 – Seattle beer scene

14:20 – Brewery glassware

16:30 – Surly and Bourbon County

22:15 – San Diego and other beer spots

25:30 – Eastern breweries

30:05 – Japan and rice beer

33:40 – Half Pints open house

36:15 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by virtual realty (VR) game developer and fellow beer-appreciator John Luxford from The Campfire Union. We’re drinking the Dominus Vobiscum Blanche from Charlevoix.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Charlevoix Dominus Vobiscum Blanche

03:30 – Virtual reality then and now

05:45 – Getting into virtual reality

07:30 – Improvements in VR

10:15 – VR going consumer

16:45 – VR compatibility and issues

21:00 – What people want from Virtual Reality

30:50 – Back to the beer

31:30 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re talking about Artificial Intelligence, Chappie and Ex Machina. We’re joined by longtime friend of Pub Chat and lifetime brother of Colin, Brett Enquist to drink some Hop Stoopid courtesy of PrairieGEMHops!

Spoiler alert: We spoil both those movies so go watch them first because they’re great.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:40 – Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

03:40 – Chappie and Ex Machina

09:00 – Chappie’s alternate ending

12:00 – Broken left arms and other observations

14:20 – Casting in Chappie

16:25 – Music and Hugh Jackman

19:00 – Confusion in Ex Machina

21:05 – Artificial intelligence, good or bad

26:15 – Nuclear technology

29:40 – Self-driving cars

30:40 – Is Caleb a robot

35:00 – Ex Machina vs Chappie

35:50 – AI predictions

40:30 – Pixar movies

41:20 – Wrapping it up

On this episode we’re joined by prior long-distance Pub Chat guest and international man of mystery Daniel Emmons. Dan visited us from Wyoming and brought with him a trifecta of delicious beers from Blacktooth Brewing to help us talk about this great new show, Mr Robot.

Spoiler alert: Watch Mr. Robot before you listen to this episode. No, *not* watching Mr. Robot is not an option.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Black Tooth Bomber Mountain Amber Ale

04:00 – Mr Robot on USA

05:20 – Adrian’s impressions

09:30 – Colin’s impressions

11:20 – Music, sound and credits

13:20 – Voiceover and other observations

15:10 – Diversions and questions

19:20 – Black Tooth Saddle Bronc Brown Ale

21:35 – Episode names and password guesses

24:50 – Adapting Fight Club and tackling mental illness

29:30 – Black Tooth Hot Streak IPA

32:50 – Cinematography in Mr Robot

37:40 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re covering the highlights of our trip to Surly Brewing’s Darkness Day in Minneapolis with Anthony Carvalho. To celebrate our weekend of drinking great beer, we drank Surly’s also-delicious 9th anniversary beer Nein, courtesy of #NoTwitterChip.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Surly Nein

03:15 – Anthony deep fries

04:10 – Starting the trip with food

08:40 – Seeing Run The Jewels

12:30 – After the show

15:35 – Darkness Day

25:20 – Beer garden and metal music

27:55 – Cole’s place

33:45 – Saturday night

41:45 – Vomiting

44:45 – Sunday

46:30 – Back to Winnipeg

51:50 – Reflecting on the trip

54:15 – Wrapping it up

In this years Halloween special we’re drinking a three year vertical of Unibroue’s La Fin du Monde, and talking about our predictions for the apocalypse & the eventual end of the world. We’ve got 2015, 2014 and 2013 bottles of this Belgian-style tripel courtesy of special guest host and hot-intern Luke Jacob Thiessen.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:40 – Unibroue La Fin Du Monde

05:00 – La Fin Du Monde vertical

16:20 – Apocalypses? Apocalypsis? Apocali?

19:15 – Defining apocalypse

21:00 – Australia and the dangers of koalas

24:00 – Back to the apocalypse

26:00 – Zombie apocalypse

31:10 – First steps in the event of an apocalypse

33:30 – Robot apocalypse and aliens

38:30 – LJT’s apocalypse scenario

43:20 – Back to the beer

45:45 – Nuclear apocalypse, robots, disease

51:15 – Back to the beer

58:45 – Y3K, Y2K

1:02:30 – The Simpsons

1:07:00 – Wrapping it up