Pub Chat

We’re back for more cocktails – this time with Nicole Cote from Albert Street Cocktail Co. We’re drinking 2016 Cuvee from Nickelbrook Brewing!

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – 2016 Cuvee by Nickelbrook Brewing

06:50 – Back wash?

09:10 – The Gym?

11:25 – Cocktails

15:05 – Tequila barrel-aged

24:00 – Colin’s cocktail

35:00 – Nicole’s cocktail

41:00 – Wrap-up

We’re back with week two of Cocktail Month 2017 and we’re joined by Chris from The Cornerstone and PEG Beer. He made a delicious cocktail and we’re drinking Phillips Thorny Horn Sour Raspberry Brown Ale.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:30 – Phillips Thorny Horn Sour Raspberry Brown Ale

05:20 – Australian beer ads

07:00 – Basically a manhattan with beer on top

09:30 – Drink culture in Australia

15:14 – Adrian’s cocktail

20:50 – Self-induced pepper spray incident

23:00 – Making beer cocktails

26:00 – Chris’s cocktail

27:50 – It comes with a twizzler

30:05 – Wrap-up

Cocktail Month is back for a third year. Our first guest bartender is Nancy from the Grove, she made a delicious cocktail. Meanwhile, we sampled the Son of the Morning Golden Ale from Driftwood Brewing.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:35 – Son Of The Morning by Driftwood Brewing

06:00 – Cocktailing

11:00 – Coming up with beer cocktails

16:00 – Colin’s cocktail

24:50 – Drink Imperial before it gets warm

28:20 – Hermann’s eggs

33:37 – Nancy’s cocktail

37:15 – Wrap-up

Chris Rohling is back and he’s drinking  cocktails, while we enjoy the Collective Arts Collective Project IPA #1. Unfortunately for all you non sports-lovers out there (me), we’re talking about the XFL. #sports

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:40 – He’s back

01:50 – Collective Arts Collective Project IPA #1

06:15 – Actually talking about the beer

07:00 – “This was the XFL” *sigh*

14:26 – Trains

27:29 – “The XFL should get wiped from the annals of history”

34:00 – Goodbye

Today we’re drinking 2015 & 2016 of Cellar Dweller Barley Wine from Driftwood Brewery with Joel Schwab. All of us love beer, and labels, and we’re here to air our uninformed opinions about them.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

02:00 – Cellar Dweller Barley Wine

08:00 – Driftwood’s gorgeous labels

16:00 – Beer labels must stand out

18:55 – Retro beer labels

27:00 – Dead Guy

36:00 – Andy Warhol cans

39:30 – Beer merch

42:00 – Wrap-up

This week we’re drinking La Baron Noir Baltic Porter from Trou du Diable in Quebec. We’re joined by homebrewers Andrew & Mike (Pro’s vs Schmo’s winners!) and they’ve kindly brought a selection of their home brew for us to sample – including a partygile, peanut butter stout and imperial stout.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:10 – La Baron Noir

06:10 – California Common

09:50 – Child labour

12:40 – That brewery smell

16:45 – Pub Chat-inspired Peanut butter stout

23:00 – Beer Geeks

37:10 – Imperial Stout

46:00 – Parti-gyle beers: Wheat wine, saison & Brett saison

53:30 – Wrap-up

We’re joined by Alyson Shane and John Luxford this week to talk about home brewing, squirrel repelling techniques and 7-Eleven hot dogs.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:40 – Beer space invaders

03:10 – The internet is fragile

05:45 – First time all-grain home brew

13:05 – Pineapple decorations

16:30 – 7-Eleven food

18:30 – Ikea Exit Hot Dogs

26:05 – Aurora Heart Chocolate Raspberry Stout by Flying Monkeys (finally)

31:10 – Repelling squirrels

37:55 – “A geodesic chicken wire dome”

We’re drinking some beer with Jeremy Grisim – brewer at Little Brown Jug in Winnipeg. Jeremy brought along some mystery beer (among other things) and of course talking beer.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

01:00 – Mystery beer

05:20 – Jeremy’s first IPA: his own

08:40 – Brewing as a career

17:00 – Little Brown Jug

27:20 – Recipe creation

29:55 – Parallel 49 Russian Imperial Stout

33:30 – Weird beer

36:30 – Flavoured bubbles?

40:05 – Wrap-up

I think we’re both pretty surprised we made it this far – but here we are, five years later and Pub Chat is still going strong. In today’s episode, Colin & I reminisce while drinking Acadian Groove Canadian Maple Porter from Flying Monkeys and Courage Imperial Russian Stout from Wells & Youngs.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:45 – “I feel like we just did this”

01:15 – Technical difficulties

02:38 – Courage Imperial Russian Stout

10:30 – Acadian Groove

16:40 – Pub Chat hangovers

23:40 – The natural wine people

27:30 – Alyson Shane

30:30 – Top Breweries

38:40 – Back to the beers

41:10 – Colins hats

Today we’re drinking Sour III from Central City – it’s a 9.5% barrel aged sour. We’re joined by brewer and sour-lover Scott Sawatzky.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction

00:50 – Sour III from Central City

05:00 – Why we’re talking sours?

06:40 – Scott’s Sour Beer-eiphany

09:00 – “Sour”

16:30 – Ancho Tamarind Brett Saison

18:20 – Coolship

20:40 – Funky stuff

30:38 – Crank Arm Brewing Brett Saison