Pub Chat

This episode we’re drinking Black Oak’s Nut Brown Ale and talking about apps with the always-wonderful Kieran Moolchan. We’re looking at apps we use every day, innovative apps we’ve tried and some utterly useless apps as well.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:55 – Black Oak Nut Brown Ale

03:30 – Tasting the beer

05:45 – Music apps

14:30 – Sleep Cycle

17:25 – Pocket

20:05 – Jukio

22:00 – Inside

24:00 – Comixology

26:15 – Skype and Microsoft Office deal

27:25 – Functional hairstyles

29:30 – More apps, games, and owning domains

37:50 – Ticketmaster and Path

41:10 – Skip the Dishes

42:30 – Google Plus

46:20 – Wrapping up

This episode is all about the things we enjoy that we don’t always want to share with people. We covered our guilty-beers, restaurants, TV shows and so much more. Our regular music aficionado Chris Rohling joined us to share his take on the subject and drink his own Minnesota guilty beer.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:50 – Guilty pleasure beers and blind tasting

11:00 – Guilty pleasure foods

19:35 – Bad TV shows

34:40 – Guilty pleasure hangouts and shops

45:35 – Guilty pleasure music

56:50 – Return to teen TV dramas

58:00 – Wrapping it up

This episode we’re drinking Elysian Split Shot Espresso Milk Stout and talking all about our favourite movie directors with our intern Luke Jacob Thiessen. This is a pretty long episode, so make sure you have a few beers lined up to enjoy while you’re listening.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

01:40 – Elysian Split Shot

03:10 – About Elysian

07:00 – Scorcese, various curse words

15:30 – Steven Soderbergh

18:00 – Directing duos

19:35 – Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings

21:50 – Coen Brothers and film producers

31:00 – Quentin Tarantino

38:20 – Michael Mann and Tom Cruise

45:45 – Woody Allen

50:55 – Wes Andersen

52:45 – James Cameron and Avatar

57:45 – Michael Bay

1:00:00 – Spike Jonze and Her specifically

1:03:50 – Christopher Nolan

1:07:00 – Danny Boyle

1:11:00 – David Fincher

1:13:05 – Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow

1:18:05 – Wrapping up

Kevs Kitchen (Twitter) joins us to talk all about food, home cooking, beer and whole lot more.  To top it all off, we’re drinking a favourite of ours, the excellent Sculpin IPA by Ballast Point from San Diego.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:15 – Ballast Point Sculpin

01:30 – Tasting the beer

03:10 – Ballast Point and fishing

04:55 – Home cooking

10:00 – Immersion circulator cooking

12:10 – Chemistry in cooking

18:30 – The most expensive book ever

19:30 – Recipes versus techniques

22:45 – Planning versus ingredients on hand

25:45 – Sustainable and natural ingredients

29:05 – Motivations for drinking beer

31:30 – Making condiments and infusing liquors

37:20 – No excuses for not cooking

43:10 – Brewing beer, variety and consistency

49:50 – Wrapping it up

Abstract Artform is back on the podcast and he brought ribs! We’re talking all about barbeque, from our favourite sauces and rubs to cuts of meat and wild game. Dead Frog Commander Imperial Stout (2014) was the drink of choice.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introductions

00:52 – Barbecue

03:25 – What makes good barbecue

08:00 – Barbecue competitions

12:55 – Southern barbecue styles

15:40 – Dead Frog Brewery

17:20 – Dead Frog Commander Imperial Stout

19:10 – Back to barbecue competitions

24:20 – Styles of barbecue by location

28:00 – Barbecue methods

32:25 – Wild game

35:50 – Why barbecue

40:15 – Cheap beer and the hood-est rats

41:10 – Wrapping it up

This episode we’re joined by Audrey from GoWPG to drink a delicious summer beer, Weizen Heimer from Half Pints and talking all about our great city. There’s lots of great things to do in Winnipeg so we decided to choose a few of our favourites.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
00:10 – Half Pints Weizen Heimer
01:55 – Favourite Winnipeg pubs
03:40 – Winnipeg Fringe Festival
06:15 – Folklorama
08:20 – Belgium
09:25 – Things to do in Winnipeg
16:30 – Winnipeg Folk Festival
19:10 – Jazz Festival
21:25 – Table for 1200
22:45 – RAW:almond
25:15 – We have a barge festival?
26:50 – Winnipeg restaurants
30:35 – Wrapping it up

This episode it’s just the two of us and we’re talking about the movie The Purge, because the sequel is coming out next week. In addition to the movie, we’re also purging our collection of Pub Chat-destined beer.

There were a few beers of questionable freshness in the cellar, so we decided to fix that problem the only way we know how – drinking. The line-up is Inveralmond Blackfriar Scottish Ale, Uncommon Brewers Siamese Twin Dubbel & finally Uinta Brewing’s Crooked Line Cahoots Rye IPA!

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
01:00 – Inveralmond Blackfriar
04:25 – High concept
06:15 – The Purge
16:45 – Uncommon Siamese Twin Ale
22:00 – More on The Purge
27:20 – The Purge sequel
28:45 – James DeMonaco
32:40 – Ethan Hawke, Johnny Depp, etc
36:10 – Uinta Crooked Line Cahoots
41:00 – Johnny Depp’s filmography
43:45 – Back to the beer
44:30 – The Purge going forward
47:00 – Wrapping it up

In this episode Craig Thorn and Phil Hinson join us to discuss Unibroue La Terrible. On top of the beer, which we both had different vintages, we talked beer price and availability, comparing Winnipeg to Montreal to Phoenix. This episode is all beer talk.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Unibroue La Terrible
06:15 – Cheers, tasting the beer
11:00 – Prices and availability
13:50 – Standard Lager
14:45 – London breweries
17:35 – The state of craft in Manitoba
25:30 – Beer in Quebec
27:55 – Beer in Phoenix
29:00 – More comparisons
33:30 – Rogue
35:40 – Further comparisons
37:40 – Farmery
39:50 – Other breweries
44:50 – Creating scarcity, rare brews
48:15 – Big hype beers
59:15 – Brewheads and beer apparel
1:08:35 – Wrapping It Up

In this episode we bring back Ryan to discuss Mad Men once again. Like last time we are drinking a trappist beer but this time we are drinking Chimay Blue. Naturally we make predictions and get side tracked discussing other television shows we watch.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

00:50 – Chimay Blue

06:30 – Chimay label changes

10:45 – Rochefort and Westvleteren

11:40 – Looking back at Mad Men predictions

14:25 – Contrasts to Breaking Bad and more observations

18:35 – Thoughts on the last season of Mad Men

22:40 – Questions going forward

26:50 – What do we think of…

41:15 – Community, food in Mad Men and Hannibal

43:45 – Possible predictions

47:30 – The Walking Dead, Fargo and avoiding spoilers

51:10 – Wrapping it up

In this episode we bring Ameya back to discuss our favourite beer websites. Before we get to that we drink some Goose Island Bourbon County Stout that we’ve been aging and discuss some very random things. 

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
00:45 – Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
05:50 – Bourbon County releases
09:20 – Winter in the North
12:05 – Bad roads and repairs
17:20 – Back to the beer
17:45 – Imperial and barrel-aged stouts
21:45 – Canadian craft breweries
22:25 – Some travel plans
24:00 – Michigan craft beer scene
27:25 – Beer stuff in Winnipeg
28:15 – Sours
29:50 – Style, season and serving temperature
33:25 – Beer websites
41:35 – Beer Advocate and RateBeer communities
44:20 – Beer Pulse and beer label approval
52:50 – Twitter for beer
57:20 – Wrapping it up