Pub Chat

This week we’re drinking Driftwood’s Fat Tug IPA at the Prairie GEM hop farm with local hop producer Sandra Gowan. To record this episode we made our way out of the city to the hop farm, where Sandra has been growing hops for commercial use since 2009.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:40 – Driftwood Fat Tug IPA

03:40 – Getting into growing hops

08:30 – Pellets and processing hops

11:45 – Starting a hop farm

13:00 – Brewer’s Gold and hop history

14:30 – The market for local hops

17:10 – Harvesting the hops

20:50 – Hop height

23:50 – Plans for Prairie GEM Hops

29:40 – Wrapping it up

Colin & I watched Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation on release night and then got together to give our take on it. We drank the unbelievably delicious, splendidly-named, Mooi & Meedogenloos from Netherland’s De Molen. Enjoy!

Spoiler Alert: We may ruin the movie for you. 

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:40 – De Molen Mooi & Meedogenloos

04:15 – Mission Impossible Rogue Nation

06:00 – Delays at the movie theatre

09:35 – More on De Molen

12:15 – More complaints about MI 5

18:10 – Adrian’s theory

24:30 – Predictions

It has been a long time since we talked about hip hop, so we brought Anthony Carvalho & Clement Betiku back to bring us up to date on the latest beef. We drank Sugar Moon Maple from Garrison Brewing and Rough Draft’s Southern Triangle IPA.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:15 – Garrison Sugar Moon Maple

03:15 – Drake and Meek Mill

08:00 – Dr Dre Detox

10:00 – Real Canadian Beef

12:20 – The Drake of beers

13:45 – A guest arrives

19:45 – The Meek Mill track

28:50 – Rough Draft Southern Triangle

32:50 – Adrian’s best of

35:35 – Kendrick and other new albums

42:00 – Death Grips

44:00 – Clement’s picks

46:10 – Young Thug and Donnie Trumpet

49:05 – Wrapping it up

In a Pub Chat first, we’re brewing a beer on today’s episode with our guest Kenley Kristofferson leading the way. Brewing beer wasn’t too difficult, so we managed to drink some Amsterdam Framboise and Howe Sound’s Super Jupiter ISA while we were at it.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Amsterdam Framboise

05:00 – Kenley brews a beer

10:50 – Starting today’s brew

15:30 – Math in homebrewing

18:10 – Time lapse: next step in the brew

27:30 – Adding the bittering hops

31:30 – Howe Sound Super Jupiter ISA

35:45 – Travelling, brewpubs, etc

40:30 – Back to brewing

47:20 – Kenley’s homebrew

51:20 – Scotch and bourbon

54:25 – More brewing

1:05:40 – Time lapse: adding more hops

1:07:45 – Wrapping it up

This episode we’re drinking Boulevard Brewing’s Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale. We’re joined by Joey Heflich to talk about fake meat, edible insects and the future of  protein.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Kansas City Missouri

02:50 – Boulevard Tank 7

08:10 – Liquor prices and bottomless soda

12:20 – Joey’s new problem: meat

15:50 – Portion sizes

18:40 – Ceremonial meat and deadly cheese

22:00 – Joey’s vision for the future

24:50 – Fast food and McDonalds breakfast

27:45 – Lab-grown meat

33:30 – How do you get people to eat it?

39:00 – Edible insects

47:40 – Soylent and the taste of meat

51:50 – Joey and the commune

57:30 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by Kevin Gies, Pub Chat listener and comic aficionado to talk about comic book movies & TV shows. We’re drinking Big Stump Spruce Golden Ale from Dead Frog.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Dead Frog Big Stump Spruce Golden Ale

03:00 – Favourite comic book movies

06:00 – Daredevil

10:45 – The Marvel universe

14:30 – The Walking Dead

18:10 – Marvel’s success and leaked trailers

20:20 – DC movies and more trailer leaks

24:10 – Blade

25:15 – TMNT and cartoon series

28:20 – Batman movies

31:00 – Back to Daredevil, also Star Wars

37:15 – Title credits, Daredevil

40:20 – More DC stuff

42:23 – Time travel and Vince Vaughn

45:20 – Looking forward and wrapping it up

We’re continuing the gluten-free theme this week with Glutenberg’s Imperial Sotolon 2015. This 8% celiac-friendly beer is a boozy, fruity & mapley and unlike anything we’ve ever had. Brett and & the hot intern joined us to chat about Adrian’s trip to Spain, and we finished off with Yukon Brewing’s Holiday Kolsch.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:05 – Glutenberg Imperial Sotolon

05:15 – Popcorn pairing

07:05 – Further analysis

09:45 – Maple Syrup Urine Disease

12:15 – Adrian’s Spanish beer finds

19:50 – Cheap beer and vermouth

21:45 – Food in Spain

24:45 – Spain is hot, sexy and old

26:50 – Liquor laws, drugs and corruption

31:15 – Yukon Holiday Kolsch

36:00 – Wrapping it up

Today we are joined by Tessa Vanderhart to talk cider. We drink Tree Brewing’s Dukes Cider and Weston’s Old Rosie. We touch a bit on gluten free products and we find out Adrian hasn’t seen Seinfeld.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Duke’s Cider

04:15 – Gluten-free beer

05:45 – Living without gluten

10:10 – “Hard cider”

13:00 – Origins of cider

16:30 – Ciders in Manitoba

18:50 – Mead

23:40 – Weston’s Old Rosie and other ciders

35:50 – The Simpsons

39:45 – Adrian doesn’t know Seinfeld

41:30 – Wrapping it up

For our 100th episode we decided to drink all twelve beers from the Parallel 49 Brewing Brews Brothers pack. Twelve beers, twelve collaborations, and we bring the Hot Intern along to keep us in check.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Brews Brothers collaboration pack

03:20 – Tiger in Your Tank

07:45 – Parallel 49 and St Augustine’s

09:45 – House of the Rising Sun

17:40 – Les Portes du Penitencier

21:10 – Reminiscing

24:30 – Stormy Monday

28:25 – The Fart

29:30 – Little Red Rooster

33:00 – Making pizzas

36:15 – The Thrill Is Gone

39:15 – Blues Brothers, Kevin Bacon, Dexter

45:00 – Hound Dog

51:00 – Back Door Man

1:00:45 – Smokestack Lightning

1:07:30 – Boom Boom Boom

1:13:30 – Stone Crazy

1:15:20 – One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

1:26:25 – I love you guys

1:27:50 – Wrapping it up

To discuss downtown life we brought along Larissa Peck to drink Lake of Bays Old North Mocha Porter. We basically hate on the suburbs, and Transcona.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Lake of Bays Old North Mocha Porter

03:10 – The case against the suburbs

08:30 – Favourite transportation methods

09:45 – Demographics

15:00 – Suburbs bad

23:00 – Downtown good

26:45 – Transcona and other suburbs

28:00 – Schools

32:00 – True North Square

34:15 – Portage Place and Investor’s Group Field

39:45 – Downtown at night and taxis

44:55 – Stories from Adrian

48:15 – Wrapping it up