Pub Chat

It’s Christmas Eve and time to finish off your Craft Beer Advent Calendar. The three of us are at the end of the box and thoroughly enjoying ourselves. Thanks for tuning in over the last 24 days and Merry Christmas!

Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3

Show Notes

If you’re drinking the advent calendar in order, these are the beers you drank over the last 6 days!

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – Day 19: De Molen Winterporter

09:00 – Saving bottles

11:35 – Day 20: Colorado Vixnu Imperial IPA

16:00 – Adrian is always right

24:00 – Day 21: Fust Wallerstein Winter-Bockle

33:05 – Day 22: Rooie Dop Final Countown Winter Saison

42:40 – Day 23: Mosco Beerat Ale Behira

50:00 – Day 24: Sound Entendez Noel

59:30 – Wrapping it up

In todays (other) episode we’re drinking scotch with scotch aficionado Devin Brews (Doctor Teeth) and drinking Old Jake’s Farmhouse Ale from Edmonton’s Alley Kat Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:30 – Alley Kat Old Jake’s Farmhouse Ale

04:50 – Farmhouse ale, biere de garde and saison

11:50 – Edmonton pubs

14:00 – Cheap whiskey, expensive scotch

18:00 – Blended scotch versus single malt

21:45 – Scotch regions

27:55 – What is peat?

30:15 – Drinking some scotch

33:45 – Favourite scotch

36:05 – Really expensive scotch

40:35 – Scotch advent calendar

43:40 – Ice or spring water in scotch

46:50 – Wrapping it up

We’re back with the third installment of our four-part Craft Beer Advent Calendar episodes. This episode we tackle such weighty topics as diacetyl, Werther’s Originals and donuts.

Part 1 • Part 2

Show Notes

If you’re drinking the advent calendar in order, these are the beers you drank over the last 6 days!

00:00 – Introduction and Day 13: Inveralmond Blackfriar

05:25 – Diacetyl and Werther’s Original

10:00 – Day 14: Loncium Schwarze Gams

14:15 – Colin loves donuts

15:10 – Day 15: Porcupine Quill Karoo Red

21:25 – Day 16: Oud Beersel Bersalis Kadet

29:50 – Day 17: Wold Top Marmalade Porter

35:50 – Day 18: Jeune Gueule Weiti

40:45 – Wrapping it up

It’s time for the second of our four-part Craft Beer Advent Calendar episodes. This time, Colin, the intern and myself are drinking a few beers from a little further afield.

Show Notes

If you’re drinking the advent calendar in order, these are the beers you drank over the last 6 days!

00:00 – Introduction and catching up

00:30 – Day Seven: Croucher Anzus

06:05 – Reality sets in

08:25 – Day Eight: Weltenberger Kloster Anno 1050

12:25 – Day Nine: Cucapa Honey

15:45 – LJT translates Spanish

21:45 – Day Ten: Gaedingur Stout

27:30 – Day Eleven: Wals Tropical Christmas Saison

32:25 – Adrian pronounces “squirrels”

33:55 – Day Twelve: Big Sky Biere De Noel

38:55 – The label, and eating reindeer

41:55 – Wrapping it up

To celebrate the festive season we’re running a 4-part special with all three of us drinking this years Craft Beer Advent Calendar. We’ll have a new episode every 6 days in the run-up to Christmas, each featuring 6 beers (in the correct order!) from the calendar. In this first episode, we get into the advent calendar and the first 6 beers.

Show Notes

Spoiler Alert: If you’re drinking the advent calendar in order, these are the beers you drank over the last 6 days!

00:00 – Intro: the Craft Beer Advent Calendar

02:40 – Day One: Nogne God Advent

06:30 – Other advent calendars

08:05 – Back to the beer

09:10 – Teerenpeli Hippaheikki ESB

12:10 – Back to the calendar

15:45 – Penpont Chateau Civrac Old Ale

18:00 – Beer Advent Calendar complaints

24:00 – Back to the Chateau Civrac

25:00 – Peak Organic Hop Blanc

29:10 – Organic, natural and GMO beer

30:50 – Birrificio Krampus

39:30 – Beer selections so far

40:35 – Fat Man Red Suit Big Sack

45:25 – Wrapping it up

Do you like poutine? Do you like LJT? If you are a sane individual, the answer is probably yes. Luke Jacob, the sexy intern, is hosting us this week. We’re talking about that pinnacle of Canadian cuisine, and drinking a beer that has absolutely nothing to do with it. We’ve got the highly-rated, Brett-and-galaxy-filled Galaxy White IPA from Anchorage Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:30 – Anchorage Galaxy White IPA

04:40 – Tasting notes

06:30 – Pairing beer with poutine

08:00 – Regional foods

14:30 – Gravy

16:10 – Specialty poutines

21:20 – Deep fried cheese curds

23:35 – Deep frying in general

30:15 – Chips, cheese and gravy

32:15 – Best poutine in Winnipeg

36:05 – Cheese curds

38:45 – The beer warms up

40:25 – Homemade poutine

42:30 – Wrapping it up

This week we’re joined by the Queen of the Internet, Alyson Shane and John aka one-man synth pop band Aband*nthecar to talk about music festivals and drink Westmalle Tripel. We also managed to get completely distracted and talk about Kriss Kross, among other things.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

01:25 – Westmalle Tripel

05:30 – About Westmalle

08:20 – Trappist monks, beers and saints

15:20 – John dresses as Kriss Kross

16:50 – Sewing with Nancie

21:05 – Reddit and upvotes

26:45 – More on starting a religion

28:50 – John’s music, Aband*nthecar

35:35 – Music festivals

38:40 – Coutryfest

44:15 – Folk Fest

49:35 – Rainbow Trout

53:45 – Wrapping it up

This episode we’re drinking Palliser Porter from Bushwakker Brewing in Regina. We’re joined by Taylor Cole to talk all about various forms of cosmetic surgery. This is a foreign topic to us, but it’s apparently more common than you might think.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

01:15 – Bushwakker Brewing and Palliser Porter

07:15 – Saskatchewan beer scene

14:10 – Boob jobs in Las Vegas

16:05 – Plastic surgery tourism

18:15 – Over, under, and nipple removal

23:15 – Butt jobs

26:25 – Fake boobs and strippers

28:45 – Breast lifts, face lifts, hair implants

31:35 – Nose jobs

35:50 – Addiction and too much plastic surgery

41:00 – Plastic surgeons and medical specialties

47:10 – Penis surgery, dick enhancement

51:30 – Circumcision

54:22 – The extra stitch

55:10 – Back to surgical male enhancement

57:40 – Wrapping it up

This special episode of Pub Chat we’re talking all about serial killers with true crime enthusiast Cella Rousseau. We’ll look at their history, psychology and plenty of other weird and freaky things. We’re drinking the brilliant Zombie Monkey from Tallgrass Brewing Company.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:15 – Zombie Monkey

02:00 – Beer observations

05:05 – Interest in serial killers

10:30 – Phantom limb

11:20 – First use of the term “serial killer” and rise in popularity

13:30 – Serial killers in Winnipeg, Canada and Britain

20:15 – Serial killers elsewhere

23:35 – Death sentence

29:15 – Sociopaths, bearing arms, legalizing murder

37:35 – Serial killings on TV

39:50 – Return to serial killers

42:40 – Female serial killers

48:30 – Hollywood glorification

51:00 – Wrapping it up

In this episode we’re drinking Green Flash Brewing’s Double Stout (which is apparently a black ale) and chatting with the fountain of knowledge & wisdom that is Joey Heflich. Listen to find out why we’re endorsing Joey for Mayor of Winnipeg in 2018.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:15 – Green Flash Double Stout

01:15 – Green Flash Brewing

04:25 – Politics, economics and cheese

08:00 – Public versus private spaces

10:55 – U.S. congress and government shutdown

15:30 – Canadian history and the war of 1812

19:15 – Turning 30 and looking back

30:15 – Reading books

32:05 – Having a code to live by

44:15 – Choosing to be ignorant

46:30 – Dollar stores

51:05 – Joey for Winnipeg Mayor

58:40 – Passport renewal versus marriage

1:01:05 – Cheese and cross-border shopping

1:12:50 – Wrapping it up