Pub Chat

We recorded this episode on January 14th but it’s coming out now (TLDR: busy). We take a broadly optimistic look ahead at 2019 with Brett Enquist. We’re drinking Surtur No. 8 Imperial Stout by Borg, made with sheep poo-smoked malt.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction02:24 – Vaguely pooey aroma03:30 – Shit loads of poo07:00 – Oh 201808:48 – Cars are a liability11:00 – Movies13:30 – Transport Fever14:20 – Read a book15:00 – The face book17:25 – 2019, the year of Mastadon?18:25 – Planet Earth but worse25:00 – Not a pooey finish25:15 – The future26:30 – Comic book life28:50 – “Even with Brexit they can’t rid of me”30:45 – 2019: the year of safety / fav beers of 201835:27 – Wrap-up

Every year we recap our top 5 albums with Chris Rohling, and 2018 is no different. We drank some Super Smash Brewers from Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction01:30 – Super Smash Brewers05:55 – The hop struggle06:35 – Bloated in Winnipeg07:10 – 30 Seconds of Relief (really high-brow material)08:00 – Number 5 (Chris)15:00 – Colin17:15 – Adrian’s weird year23:00 – Ariana Grande30:20 – Colin’s #434:21 – Adrian’s #4 (Gorillaz)37:00 – Chris’ #4 (Dessa)39:00 – Colin Enquists “Colin Enquist” pick (Arctic Monkeys)42:48 – Parcels45:22 – Beautiful People will Ruin Your Life48:48 – Robyn49:01 – Leon Bridges50:39 – Chris’ number one54:00 – Colins number one57:00 – Robyn’s back1:01:00 – CHVRCHES, Jeff Goldblum and everyone else who didn’t make the Top 51:15:30 – Wrap-up

For the final episode of 2018 we’re joined by podcasters Alex and Derek from Straight to Amp Podcast to chat about our favourite concerts. We’re drinking a brett saison – Curse of Knowledge by Halcyon Barrel House (Beaus). 

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction00:45 – Curse of Knowledge from Halcyon Barrel House05:00 – Straight to Amp Podcast07:00 – High school band problems10:30 – The plethora of music14:40 – The Nickelback effect16:30 – Good Charlotte days20:40 – Big Shiny Tunes22:00 – Discman problems23:45 – First concerts28:30 – CHVRCHES!32:10 – Saskatoon34:50 – Meet n Greet37:55 – Not wrapping up38:00 – Favourite shows42:30 – Various Floyds43:10 – Height advantages46:00 – Band Beer49:45 – Sexiest show: Charles Bradley52:20 – Actually wrapping up the podcast now

We’re eating fried chicken from five places around Winnipeg. We’d be mad trying to do this alone, so we’re joined by a trio of fried chicken experts: Anthony Carvalho, Clement Betiku and Charlie Fettah. Our beer pairing / grease cleanser is the tasty Lindemanns Oude Gueuze Cuvée René.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction00:30 – How?01:38 – What would a performance enhancing drug for eating chicken be?02:20 – Lindemanns Oude Gueuze03:40 – The rating system: Crispiness, Seasoning, Juiciness, Miscellaneous (Vibe)04:30 – Candies08:45 – Control chicken09:40 – Chicken hacks?10:10 – The beer pairing10:30 – Jollibee (Spicy)12:10 – Crispiness factor14:55 – Biscotti pizza16:25 – Magic Bird (Hot)20:50 – Popeyes (Spicy – allegedly)27:00 – Great men, even better turtles28:55 – Pickles?30:20 – Red Top32:40 – Chicken-ception34:30 – A unanimous favourite?37:45 – Top 5 Hip Hop Albums that are not Top 541:15 – Feeling judged45:30 – A safe place53:03 – I have no idea what’s happening56:20 – We should wrap this up 

On this episode we’re drinking beer-that-comes-in-a-box Fuller’s Vintage Ale (2018). We’re joined by many-time Pub Chat guest (and friend of the podcast) Alyson Shane to discuss the (utter) state of social media in 2018.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – Fuller’s Vintage Ale (2018)

08:05 – The aughties?

10:25 – Venting on social media

14:15 – Changing habits

21:00 – The truth doesn’t matter

26:50 – On quitting Facebook

30:30 – Nothing happens on LinkedIn

35:00 – Ads Ads Ads

38:30 – The Instagram Algorithm

45:55 – The Twitter like button

49:38 – IGTV

50:35 – “I’m too old for all this content”

51:00 – Wrap-up

This week we’re joined by two people who took an impromptu road trip from Minneapolis to visit us – Chris & Kristina. We had them on to talk about their road trip music choices and drink some Hermannator Ice Bock from Vancouver Island Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Hermannator

05:30 – There’s a quiz later

06:10 – Going to Winnipeg (a playlist)

10:15 – Album or playlist

12:38 – Podcasts

15:35 – Where did the flavour go?

17:10 – Getting over the hump

19:50 – A road trip for beer?

22:00 – Leaving Winnipeg

23:50 – Carly Rae Jepsen?

28:20 – “I have no concept of time, you know that.”

32:02 – The Mystery Spot

34:20 – Ball of Twine

35:10 – The Happy Rock

35:50 – The Giant Wiener?

36:30 – Home time

It’s our 250th episode! We’re joined by Hailey – brewery & lab person from Half Pints – to talk about beer, science, and drink some funky beer. We’re celebrating our 250th episode with a bottle of Sang Rouge by Cascade Brewing (thanks Drex!)

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Sang Rouge by Cascade Brewing

01:10 – “If it’s not phenomenal, you’re gonna hear about it.”

02:24 – The verdict

02:45 – Colin’s Cascade anecdote

05:42 – “I love beer” – guess who

08:10 – A day in the brewery lab

10:30 – Science tests

12:30 – Kombucha price gouging

15:55 – This beer is still so good

19:00 – Yeasty things

21:00 – Sports

28:00 – Temperature and science

35:00 – Agar?

37:00 – You can’t shortcut science

37:25 – Wrap-up

This week we’re joined by local performer Danika Frederick to chat about acting and drink some of the surprisingly boozy Dubbel Kriek by Corsendonk.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Corsendonk Dubbel Kriek

06:10 – I Still See You (the movie)

08:45 – How do you get in a movie?

10:55 – Casting

18:00 – “Did I get it?”

20:50 – Acting hierarchy

23:08 – Hollywood

29:20 – Audition stories

45:00 – Wrap-up

We’re joined by two diehard zombie movie fans – Brett Enquist and Andrew Sookram – to chat about some of our favourites, and Adrian gets a lesson on zombie movie history. We’re doing a 3-year vertical of Thor’s Hammer Barleywine Central City Brewers (2013, 2014 and 2015) courtesy of Brett (cheers)

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Thor’s Hammer x 3

06:20 – 2013 (ooooOOooooOoo)

08:00 – Favourites

11:40 – Year of the book

16:40 – “I need to watch Dawn of the Dead”

18:40 – Zombie 2

28:44 – Giant sharks

34:50 – Night of the Living Dead (1990)

44:25 – Rednecks and the apocalypse

47:35 – Shaun of the Dead

57:50 – Train to Busan

1:02:35 – Train facts

1:04:50 – Zombie types

01:12:50 – Wrap-up

We’ve talked a lot about our favourite music on this podcast over the years, one genre we’ve never touched is metal. We brought on friends and metallurgists (sorry, metal-heads?) Dan (Kijiji) Klanjcar and Dale (Bawlz) Kibbins to discuss the loudest type of music. Surly Brewing is one of the continents most well-known metal-loving breweries, so we’re drinking their Bender Oatmeal Brown Ale.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:25 – Surly Bender

03:25 – Unprompted Pub Chat Glass Plug

05:00 – Beauty metal segue

06:50 – Carcass (yes that’s the name of a band)

08:25 – Darkness Day / Live metal

11:25 – Careless hyperbole

16:24 – “I got a track in and needed a break”

16:55 – YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend

19:40 – Gorguts – Obscura

22:40 – You can’t protect stabbers

31:10 – Down with the Sickness

35:50 – The sub-genres

40:00 – Getting into metal

48:00 – Hot Aerosmith Merch (What is glam metal?)

49:57 – We didn’t talk about the radio show!