Pub Chat

Our guest this week is Sarah Tone, she was the Communications Coordinator for the 2017 Canada Summer Games when they were in Winnipeg last year. We’re talking about large SPORTS events and drinking the Kellerbier from Mahrs Brau.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – No sausage

02:00 – Mahrs Brau Kellerbier

07:40 – Horse-drawn beer delivery

10:55 – The Olympics

12:15 – Winter vs. Summer

16:00 – Badminton

18:00 – Racketball

20:10 – Curling

27:00 – Sports injury

29:05 – Big events, the aftermath (how to do it well)

33:40 – The Swimming Games?

37:00 – 40 *billion* dollars?

48:00 – #environment

51:25 – Is that how we’re gonna end?

53:00 – Wrap-up

Today’s episode we’re joined by “Luke Jacob Thiessen” to chat about an interesting selection of beers from around the world.

Our thanks to Katrina & Carlene from A Passion Podcast and Alyson Shane (from the internet) for their help with this one.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:35 – Mexican beer? “You get them in a bucket”

04:05 – “Flowers are the sex organ of the plant”

09:25 – Breadstagram

11:30 – A traditional belgian beer

14:05 – Do not drink and drive

19:10 – Sea glass?

23:00 – K9 Chief

26:55 – Surly Xtra Citra

27:20 – “Corn all the way or go home”

35:55 – Wait, what?

37:50 – Wrap-up

This week we’re chatting to Michigan-er, dog-owner, beer enthusiast and previous guest-of-pub-chat Ameya Pilgaonkar. We’re chatting about the coming indoor farming revolution and Michigan beer (among other things).

Show notes

00:00 – Introduction

02:00 – Halcyon Barrel House Shifting Sands Peach

05:30 – The plague of minimalist beer labels

10:00 – Beer distribution

16:00 – GABF

20:50 – Tripel gateway beer

22:10 – Indoor / Vertical Farming

30:50 – Weird indoor food?

36:30 – Fake banana news

39:00 – Heirloom veg?

42:00 – Wrap-up

This week we’re joined by Mike from Pacific Beer Chat to talk about the beer scene over on the west coast. We’re drinking High 5 Hazy IPA by Yellow Dog Brewing, while Mike is enjoying some Burly Wine from Half Pints.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

02:50 – Trains!

03:00 – Brewers Row

06:45 – The BC brewery count

08:00 – Small town breweries

09:30 – Hazy stuff

11:55 – [we forget everything]

13:40 – Burly Wine 2017 – tasting fresh

18:00 – BC breweries – what’s hot

21:10 – German beer?

24:30 – Field House

30:00 – Bridge Brewing

38:00 – Baseball?

41:45 – Take-home beers from BC?

43:32 – Wrap-up

A few weeks ago we went down to Stone Angel to help out with brewing a batch of Nocturne English Mild. There’s plenty of down-time in the brewing process so we recorded an episode with head brewer Paul McMullan and fellow beer drinker Cole Neustaedter. Given the location, we’re drinking Stone Angel’s first ever beer, their “Kolsch-ist Blond Ale” Luther’s Folly.

Show notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:05 – Luther’s Folly

07:00 – A low-carb beer on tap!?

10:00 – The origin story

11:40 – Stone Angel?

14:00 – Carving an angel

15:15 – This is the angel

21:40 – Home-brew beer

23:00 – PicoBrew

28:00 – #winnipeg

33:10 – Wrap-up

This week we’re sampling cereal with serious cereal sampler Kieran Moolchan. We’ve got five favourite cereals on deck, plus Furious Black from Surly Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:20 – Cereal?

02:40 – The Dirty Thirties

03:50 – Furious Black

05:20 – Cereal history / Sexually repressive cereal?

10:05 – Advertising & cereal

11:40 – Weetabix

18:35 – Disney and cereal

19:15 – Cereal mascot trivia

20:45 – Fruit Loops, conceptually solid?

22:30 – “What’s the proper cereal tasting order?”

23:30 – Rice Krispies

25:45 – Corn pops!

29:55 – Fruit Loops

33:20 – Pizza > Cereal

38:00 – Frosted Flakes

39:40 – Reese’s Puffs

41:20 – Healthiest cereals (all of them are lame)

45:00 – Cereal sugar shakes

45:55 – Wrap-up

This week we’re celebrating 6 years of Pub Chat. It’s just the two of us for the most relaxed episode of the year. We’re drinking the stupendous Noa Pecan Mud by Omnipollo.

Show Notes

00:00 – Intro

01:30 – Noa Pecan Mud by Omnipollo

08:30 – A Year in Pub Chat

11:00 – A Year in Beer

12:20 – Couch Chat

13:00 – IPA vs. Stout

23:30 – “Look out for bright pink”

26:30 – Wrap-up

Our guest this episode is local textile artist Katrina Craig. We’re drinking Bristol ESB from Microbrasserie Le Corsaire.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Bristol ESB

08:50 – Textile art (a weird niche)

15:30 – Tablet weaving

18:10 – “What can you put on a body?”

20:40 – Heartbreak objects

24:50 – Crit

29:00 – “It washes over” – the show that’s already happened (whoops)

34:35 – Budgets

36:30 – Wrap-up

This week we’re talking to Chain for Change Winnipeg Director – Karly Tardiff – about some crazy Guinness World Records. Our beer is Bench Creek Brewing Veruca Salted Brownie Oatmeal Stout (phew.) Congrats to Chain for Change on surpassing their fundraising goals!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Bench Creek Brewing Veruca Salted Brownie Oatmeal Stout

03:00 – Chain for Change Winnipeg, the origin story

09:50 – As the beer warmed…

10:35 – Guinness World Records, the origin story

15:31 – Welsh content

18:00 – Weird records

24:45 – Marmite

27:28 – How to break a Guinness World Record

36:00 – Wrap-up!

We’re back with Aaron Onio from the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre (CMBTC) – this time we’re (finally) talking about trains! The beer of the day is Tom Green Cherry Milk Stout by Beaus.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:05 – Tom Green Cherry Milk Stout

06:00 – Beer subscription packages?

10:10 – The love of trains

19:00 – Aaron and trains

24:45 – Steam model trains!

28:05 – Timezones!

32:00 – Train station

36:50 – Safety

46:00 – Maglev

49:50 – Hyperloop

53:20 – Wrap-up