Pub Chat

It’s a short episode this week and we’re rolling guest-free for the final instalment of Cocktail Month 2018 and drinking some Porter from Le Corsaire Microbrasserie in Quebec. We recapped the last four years of learning about cocktails and of course, had another cocktail.

PS. We’re taking a break for the holidays so no new episodes for the next few weeks!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Corsaire Porter

03:50 – Cocktail culture in Winnipeg

07:45 – Cocktail science books

08:45 – Dry-ice

11:00 – Year 2 cocktail making problems

13:15 – Impressive ingredients

15:00 – Learning

17:55 – “This is Pub Chat dammit”

19:05 – Cocktail making

21:15 – White Russian #facts

23:00 – The Brown Russian

25:00 – Wrap-up

26:00 – Hot news tease

This week is episode 3 of Cocktail Month, and we’re joined by Forth bartender Helen (check out episodes 1 and 2 if you haven’t listened yet). We’re drinking Driftwood’s Oumuamua Milk Stout, and of course a couple of delicious drinks as well.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:45 – Oumuamua Milk Stout

04:45 – Getting into the cocktail biz

07:20 – Bartenders choice

15:45 – What does the bartender choose?

18:20 – Our cocktail – Butterfly pea flower?

19:46 –  “It looks…. muddy?”

22:10 – Beer inspiration

24:00 – “Trash Panda spoke to me on a spiritual level”

31:45 – Helen’s cocktail (Tiki time)

34:50 – There’s an umbrella on top

38:40 – Wrap-up

It’s episode 2 of this years Cocktail Month, check out episode 1 if you haven’t already. This week, we’re joined by Chad Friesen – he and his wife Teri-Lynn own Abiding Citizen Craft Beverage Company. They make a variety of small batch bitters, shrubs and syrups to help anyone put together a delicious cocktail. Chad brought some along to use in his cocktails (yes, multiple) and we also tried some Tangerine Dream beer from 4 Mile Brewing, BC.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:28 – Tangerine Dream

03:50 – Abiding Citizen, the origin story

6:15 – No booze bitters?

11:20 – Making beer cocktails

13:15 – How many home-bars is enough?

19:24 – Cocktail #1 – Trash Panda & Tequila

23:00 – Bitters dosage

29:50 – Our cocktail – Mulden Draak

34:42 – “Tea is the double-double of Britain”

38:30 – Cocktail #3 – Looks like a tequila sunrise, tastes 10x better

40:15 – Wrap-up

Cocktail month is back! For the first episode, we’re joined once again by Sarah Michaelson, a.k.a. Mama Cutsworth. In addition to her DJing career, improv and running a DJ academy, she’s also been  bartending at Forth Bar in the Exchange District. Given our shared love of music, we chose +1 (the First Avenue Beer) by Surly Brewing to enjoy while we chat about cocktails and music and so much more.

Sarah made a gorgeous “Roasty Toasty” cocktail using the Corsaire Brown Ale & bourbon, while Colin created a reverse milkshake IPA using Crafty Radler and some dry-hopped gin.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:45 – The legend of First Avenue

12:00 – Donald Glover

19:25 – Getting into cocktail making

24:20 – This years beer selections

28:25 – Our cocktail – dry hopped gin and radler (reverse milkshake IPA)

32:25 – Milkshake IPA, the new hotness

35:20 – The next cool thing? (Probably-wrong predictions)

37:55 – Travelling with beer: key-keg in a duffle bag

39:45 – “I love packing”

45:30 – The privilege of a Canadian passport

52:20 – Sarah’s cocktail (Corsaire Brown + maple syrup + creaminess)

58:20 – Treat time!

1:00:15 – Keeping the beer integrity

1:02:00 – Martinis?

1:07:20 – Wrap-up

This episode came to be after having an actual chat in a pub about the weird food combinations of our childhood. We’re joined by Carlene Kurdziel (technically one-time Pub Chat host) to explore some strange tastes (peanut butter and pickles?), some great tastes (everything bagel cream cheese doughnut plus smoked salmon) and drink some Neapolitan Milk Stout by Saugatuk Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

02:30 – Neapolitan Milk Stout

04:55 – Weird beer

12:20 – Scrambled eggs and maple syrup

14:50 – Hypothetical cheetos and milk

15:30 – “Cheesy milk?!”

19:30 – Baked beans?

24:20 – Peanut butter and pickles!

29:15 – Cheez Whiz and jam sandwich

34:50 – Fries and ice cream

35:30 – Curry and chips

37:00 – (Not so weird) Smoked salmon & everything bagel

43:00 – Wrap-up

We’re joined by Sam from Witchpolice Podcast to talk about the Winnipeg music scene & our shared love of podcasting. This episode we’re trying some non-alcoholic beers – Grolsch Non Alcoholic and Clausthaler Amber Dry Hopped. If you’re even slightly interested in the Winnipeg music scene, check out the extensive Witchpolice archives – Sam has a tonne of content from some of the biggest names in Winnipeg music.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – No-alcohol Grolsch

11:05 – “Drinking” in the park

11:35 – Witchpolice, the origin story

13:00 – Preserving Winnipeg music

17:00 – Figuring out your angle

21:00 – Podcasting: a great platform

26:00 – Podcast tech

29:45 – Clausthaler Unfiltered Amber Dry Hopped

36:55 – The podcast explosion

42:30 – Hints at future Pub Chat things…

45:00 – Live episodes: a performance

46:30 – September 30: The Manitoba Podcast Festival

We’re joined by Meghan (once a Winnipegger, now in Toronto) to talk about some of the new stuff in the Toronto beer scene. She’s drinking Kaleidoscope Imperial IPA from Halo Brewing  and we’ve got some 12 Minutes to Destiny Raspberry Hibiscus Lager by Flying Monkeys (from Barrie, Ontario).

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – The Sour Patch Kids

02:30 – 12 Minutes to Destiny

11:00 – Cool Toronto beer

23:00 – Kaleidoscope IIPA

24:30 – Halo Brewing

29:29 – “There’s no such things as an empty brewpub”

37:30 – Halo / Laylow

42:00 – Wrap-up

This week we’re joined by Chris from the Quality Inn beer store – he’s here to help us drink four years of the Unibroue Grand Reserve 17 (2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015). We’ll be chatting about the ever-increasing variety of beers that are finding their way on to shelves in Manitoba these days.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Unibroue 17

06:20 – A bit *too* old?

09:30 – A whole bottle

13:30 – The beer sellin’ world

18:45 – Follow the empties

27:00 – Beer stores from afar

30:45 – Privatization? Fingers crossed!

33:00 – A room of beer

42:40 – Wrap-up

This week we’re talking about mental health with Kieran and Justin from Critical Cause. They talk about what lead them to starting this yearly fundraising (game-streaming) event, that contributes to their Winnipeg Foundation fund in support of mental health research and initiatives. We’re drinking the Soothsayer Milkshake IPA from Parallel 49 in Vancouver.

The fourth-annual Critical Cause starts this Saturday, April 28 at noon, and runs for 24 hours. If you’re interested in learning more or want to donate to the fund, head to criticalcause.org.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:55 – Soothsayer Milkshake IPA – Parallel 49

05:00 – #marketing

05:37 – Critical Cause, the origin story

08:40 – How does a fund work?!

14:00 – 24 hours #nosleep

18:35 – The technical setup for streaming

20:00 – Winnipeg game community

27:30 – Stream teasers

31:30 – Is that Jafar?

32:30 – Wrap-up

Our friends 3PEAT are back (minus E.GG) – they’ve got lots of exciting stuff coming up. We drank east coast beer with them last time, so we’re doing it again with some Dirty ol’ Town Black IPA from Garrison.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:50 – Black IPA?

02:30 – Dirty ol’ Town Black IPA

06:25 – 3PEAT NEWS

08:10 – Production

11:00 – ‘Murica

20:00 – Europe trip

28:00 – Recording an album

33:30 – I’m just a dude

37:35 – Wrap-up