Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Spencer Hilton and Kyle Geeraert with Origin Malting and Brewing Co.

Let’s Meet For A Beer

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Spencer Hilton and Kyle Geeraert - Origin Malting and Brewing Co: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Wade Brown of Born Colorado Brewing

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Wade Brown - Born Colorado Brewing: website | facebook | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Damon & Andrew Moreau of Common Crown Brewing Co.

Let’s Meet For A Beer

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Damon & Andrew Moreau - Common Crown Brewing Co: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Karen Kho of Empire Provisions

Let’s Meet For A Beer

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Karen Kho - Empire Provisions: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Matt Phillips of Edmonton's Northern Chicken

Let’s Meet For A Beer

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Matt Phillips - Northern Chicken: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Bud Kelly of Troubled Monk

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Bud Kelly - Troubled Monk: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Apex Brewing Company's Andrew Kulynych.

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Andrew Kulynych - Apex Brewing Company: website | twitter | instagram

This episode Let’s Meet For A Beer becomes Let’s Meet For A Cider when Sunny Cider cofounders Tim Kitchen and Dennis Scanland join the show. We discuss how an urban farming company and a home cidery project evolved into a community centred Cidery making traditional 100% fruit cider using apples grown in communities across Calgary.

Tim and Dennis first got to know each other as neighbours, living just down the block from each other in Calgary’s community of Sunnyside. Dennis had an urban farming company called Dirty Boys, which later morphed into YYC growers. For those who aren’t familiar, urban farming is the practice of growing vegetables in other people’s “donated land,” which in this case meant a quarter acre of land spread across many front and back yards in Calgary. These vegetables would then be sold to restaurants or farmer’s markets, with the owners of the land being compensated with a share of the harvest, or “the rent was mostly vegetables” as Dennis put it.

As part of the urban farming business Dennis got his hands on literal tonnes of apples and he and Tim would start out making cider in Tim’s garage as a hobby, and they tell us that their first couple batches of cider didn’t turn out all that great, but with after friendly advice they learned the trick to making that cider better, patience. By 2017 they’d be collectively harvesting 20,000kg of apples around the city and thought if there was this much fruit available they might as well make a go of it and turn this into a proper cidery. After two years and a surprise visit from the AGLC, they’d open the doors of Sunny Cider in May of 2019.

Regular listeners of the show and supporters of Calgary’s brewing industry will already be familiar with community being a common focus in the space, but Sunny Cider is unique in that their community project came first, and they built the cidery from there. While Sunny Cider may not be located in it’s namesake community of Sunnyside, they continue to source a huge portion of their fruit from communities across Calgary, working with community centres to create fruit drop offs so they can get their hands on the amazing apples, pears, and other local fruits that make for great cider. Tim sums up their approach perfectly: “I didn’t set out to make great cider, it came as a result of working to make a strong community"
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Tim Kitchen & Dennis Scanland - Sunny Cider: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Socrates Korogonas & Brett Ireland from Last Best Brewing & Distilling

Let’s Meet For A Beer

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Socrates Korogonas & Brett Ireland - Last Best Brewing & Distilling: website | twitter | instagram

Thanks for listening to Let's Meet For A Beer Uncut: Isolation Edition. In these unedited conversations with members of our community affected by COVID-19 we talk about how we can help each other and make it through this together. Today we talk to Calgary radio legend Gerry Forbes

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