Pub Chat

This week we’re joined by Jaime Dzikowski to talk baking, and of course beer. To celebrate the cookies Jaime made us, we drank Four Winds’ delicious Sovereign Super Saison.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Four Winds Sovereign Super Saison

06:10 – Baking with Jaime

09:40 – Cooking and baking with beer

14:10 – The gateway baked good

17:15 – Adrian’s hipster bread

19:10 – Go-to baking and naked cakes

22:15 – Winging it

25:45 – Pastry baking

28:15 – Enquist family recipes

35:00 – Ice cream, yogurt and popsicles

37:15 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re drinking Victoria Falls Coffee stout! Nolan has joined us to talk all about video games, video game culture and Adrian’s inability to play Super Mario.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:35 – Scandal Victoria Falls Coffee Stout and life stuff

09:50 – Colin plays video games

12:30 – Embarassing music

14:45 – More on old video games

18:00 – Multiplayer gaming

20:00 – Nolan’s gaming

21:20 – Downloadable content and patches

24:15 – Adrian’s gaming and GTA

29:45 – People reacting videos

31:00 – Violence in video games

35:00 – Virtual reality

40:00 – Augmented reality

41:25 – Being constantly connected

45:30 – Cell phone etiquette

47:40 – Wrapping it up

Today we’re chatting with local home brewer, beer judge & hop grower Dot. In addition to delving into the various home brew competitions, we drink Red Collar Brewing’s Dubbel a Belgian-style dubbel.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

02:00 – Red Collar Dubbel

05:10 – Beer judging and changes to BJCP

08:00 – About Red Collar Brewing Company

09:20 – Half Pints Pro-Am and BJCP

23:30 – Homebrewing and entering the HP Pro-Am

32:00 – Growing hops at home

35:40 – Wrapping it up

On Sunday, Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men aired its series finale on AMC and we called up Ryan to help us come to terms with it. We’re drinking one of our favourite sours, Duchesse de Bourgogne aka. The Duchess.

Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the finale yet, don’t listen to this episode. If you haven’t seen Mad Men at all, maybe you need to think about the choices that led you to this point in your life. 

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – Duchesse de Bourgogne

06:30 – Mad Men finale, first thoughts

08:20 – Spoiler alert!

14:35 – Casting

16:45 – Did Don write the ad at the end of the show?

20:15 – Ambiguity and other show finales

25:50 – Earlier predictions and the final season

32:30 – Most-hated characters

40:40 – Future of the actors and characters

47:00 – Other shows on TV

50:00 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by the duo of gentleman from Intelli-Gents podcast. Riley joined us on episode 57 where we talked bourbon, but this time he brought Mike along for some backup. We drank Dead Frog’s Nutty Uncle Peanut Butter Stout and talked scotch, among many other things.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – Dead Frog Nutty Uncle Peanut Butter Stout

03:30 – Health impacts of alcohol

06:25 – Sitting is the new smoking

09:45 – Effects of scotch on your dignity

14:20 – Buying people drinks

20:10 – The Ardmore scotch

22:40 – Scotch vs bourbon

26:05 – More on scotch

29:45 – South Dakota

33:00 – Favourite scotch

39:00 – Consulting the Whiskey Bible

47:45 – Moving to Laphroaig and more on scotch

53:25 – Irish vs scotch whiskey

56:30 – Critiquing writing on the labels

1:09:00 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re drinking Brown Ale from NOLA Brewing, a 4% ABV mild ale from New Orleans. We’re talking about beer styles with @Beer_ideas, a BJCP-certified beer judge and home brewer extraordinaire.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – NOLA Brown Ale

05:30 – The “Golden Stout”

07:50 – BJCP and broad beer styles

11:50 – Chili beers

15:00 – Craft beer and CAMRA in Britain

19:00 – Steve’s introduction to craft beer

21:00 – Colin and Adrian get into craft

26:45 – Beer styles evolving

31:45 – Changing beers as people get bored

35:30 – Keeping it fresh

44:00 – Wrapping it up

It’s the final episode of Cocktail Month and we’ve got @Kevs_Kitchen on to talk about New Orleans, the home of some of the worlds most famous cocktails. Thanks to Colin, we’re drinking Stone Brewing’s Enjoy By 04.20.15 IPA. We recorded this episode before April 20th, so no good beer was wasted in the making of this podcast.

Cocktail Month

* Episode 88 – Part 1 with the Sexy Intern – April 2

* Episode 89 – Part 2 with Mike Fox – April 9

* Episode 90 – Part 3 with Josey of Deer + Almond

* Episode 91 – Part 4 with Graeme Young

* Episode 92 – Part 5 with @Kevs_Kitchen

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Stone Enjoy By 04.20.15

08:00 – Sazeracs and cocktails in New Orleans

12:00 – Daquiris

14:10 – Hong Kong Market and NOLA antics

15:30 – More NOLA cocktails

17:00 – Winnipeg versus NOLA

24:00 – Food highlights and NOLA Smokehouse

34:00 – More NOLA highlights

36:15 – Wrapping it up

Our third guest and cocktail professional of Cocktail Month is Graeme Young, currently of Deer + Almond. We’re drinking Brew By Numbers 04|02 Berliner Weisse while we learn a few new things about the skill and finesse of bartending.

Cocktail Month

* Episode 88 – Part 1 with the Sexy Intern – April 2

* Episode 89 – Part 2 with Mike Fox – April 9

* Episode 90 – Part 3 with Josey of Deer + Almond

* Episode 91 – Part 4 with Graeme Young

* Episode 92 – Part 5 with @Kevs_Kitchen

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – Brew By Numbers 04/02 Berliner Weisse

08:15 – Craft breweries and beer in Britain

12:50 – History and origin of cocktails

20:00 – Portland

21:50 – Graeme on “make me whatever”

25:30 – Getting into bartending

30:10 – What it takes to bartend

32:15 – Drinks of choice and custom creations

38:20 – Cocktail glassware

41:00 – Manhattans

44:45 – On to the cocktail!

48:50 – Adrian drinks bitters

52:00 – The cocktail is finished

53:00 – Wrapping it up

We’re joined by Josey from Deer + Almond this week to drink Old Yale Sasquatch Stout and Josey’s beer cocktail, The Red River Shopping Cart made with everyone’s favourite Little Scrapper. We cover some cocktail-related ground, from barrel-aged cocktails (and beer), cocktail making-recommendations and our favourite Negroni.

Cocktail Month

* Episode 88 – Part 1 with the Sexy Intern – April 2

* Episode 89 – Part 2 with Mike Fox – April 9

* Episode 90 – Part 3 with Josey of Deer + Almond

* Episode 91 – Part 4 with Graeme Young

* Episode 92 – Part 5 with @Kevs_Kitchen

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – Old Yale Sasquatch Stout

05:10 – Barrel-aged cocktails

10:50 – Aging beer

13:55 – Gin and Negronis

16:30 – Getting into bartending

19:50 – Basics of bartending

21:10 – Making cocktail recommendations

23:25 – Inventing a new cocktail

24:50 – Naming a cocktail

27:05 – Cocktail competitions

34:30 – The Red River Shopping Cart

39:20 – Wrapping it up

It’s part two of Cocktail Month and we’re joined by Mike Fox, former bartender at Peasant Cookery. We’re drinking The Bruery Autumn Maple, a delicious and non-standard take on the traditional pumpkin beer.

Mike chose Stir Stick Stout for his cocktail, which he incorporated into the “Chef May I”. It’s a delicious mix of egg, tequila, chilli-pepper cointreau, stout reduction, Mexican bitters and a few other tasties. The Chef May I will debut at Mikes new cocktail bar, Albert Street Cocktail Co opening soon.

Cocktail Month

* Episode 88 – Part 1 with the Sexy Intern – April 2

* Episode 89 – Part 2 with Mike Fox – April 9

* Episode 90 – Part 3 with Josey of Deer + Almond

* Episode 91 – Part 4 with Graeme Young

* Episode 92 – Part 5 with @Kevs_Kitchen

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – The Bruery Autumn Maple

05:40 – Making you own bitters

08:35 – Purpose of bitters, and favourites

12:45 – Cocktail culture in Winnipeg

17:30 – Garnishes

19:10 – Learning the basics

21:35 – Go-to drinks

24:00 – Mike Fox’s cocktail-making style

26:50 – RAW:almond

29:40 – Satisfaction in bartending

31:00 – Making the “Chef May I”

34:00 – Spirits and liqueurs leaving town

36:30 – Drinking the “Chef May I”

37:50 – Wrapping it up