🎉 🍻 Cheers to 2017 - here's to 2018! 🍻 ✌

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CHEERS TO 2017!

What a year, eh?

Twenty seventeen has been very good to us, and we're beyond grateful. We want to thank all our followers, subscribers, brewery friends, readers, viewers and listeners for all the support, love, kind words, not so kind words, shares, high fives, beers, hugs and sense of community. We love and appreciate you all and we're excited AF about what 2018 holds for all of us.

We often like to look back on the year that was, just to give us a perspective that we all rarely get when our head is in the game. This year, we:

 Travelled to Vermont, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Michigan, New York, Prince Edward County, Muskoka, Chambly, Vankleek Hill, Toronto, San Diego and Los Angeles
 Brewed two collab beers with Laylow and HELM
 Featured in a national commercial for A&W
 Launched a website
 Dropped a craft beer single in Cee's "Hazy (Dope & Dank Remix)"
 Moved to weekly podcasts after 2.5 years of bi-monthly podcasts
 Attended 7 beer festivals across North America.

On top of that, we released:

 14 Vlogs
 31 Beer Mail videos
 29 Podcasts
 22 Versus videos
 8 Challenge, Rant + Cellar videos
 200+ 10 Second Beer Reviews
 31 Blog Posts on BrewStuds, 3 via our own website

To celebrate everything that was 2017, we put together this great wrap up video. Cheers and Happy New Year!

What a year, eh? Twenty seventeen has been very good to us, and we're beyond grateful. We want to thank all our followers, subscribers, brewery friends, readers, viewers and listeners for all the support, love, kind words, not so kind words, shares, high fives, beers, hugs and sense of community.

...AND NOW FOR SOME OF OUR FAVES!

We dropped a ton of videos this year, spoke to a whole bunch of super intelligent people and drank an insane amount of phenomenal beer. Here are some of our fave videos we think you'll enjoy  

For our second beer trip vlog, the team packed up the whip and zipped down to Vermont to interview some of the best brewers and industry pros in the state (and the country, for that matter). We managed to get our hands on some of the best beers on the planet, leaving our bucket list a whole lot shorter.

Our second day in Vermont was a big one, kicking off with one of the most interesting and engaging conversations we've been blessed to document. Fiddlehead Brewing Company​ Founder Matt Cohen chatted to us about scarcity, hype, mythical beers, the Vermont beer scene, contract brewing, the importance of date stamping and how to survive in craft beer.

This interview is likely our biggest and most exciting to date. The founder and Head Brewer of one of Canada's most revered breweries, Jean-Francois Gravel, alongside brewer Jen Nadwodny kindly sat down with us for almost 2 hours during Brasserie Dieu du ciel's infamous annual bottle release to talk about his fascinating beer journey.

This was one of the most exciting episodes of Versus we've ever done. The legend Justin Gould over at The Farmhouse Tap & Grill hooked us up with two cans of Tree House Brewing Co., INC - their famed NEIPAs Julius and Haze - so we figured it'd make sense to put them up against each other to see which one came out the victor.

We were stoked to be invited to Winnipeg to participate in A&W's Root Brewery Challenge in support of the launch of their new root beer with natural ingredients. Cee​ and Tiffany​ were challenged to recreate A&W's new root beer against two professionals - Jeremy Senaris - (Masterchef Canada Season 3 Runner Up)​ and Steph Jones​ from Red Truck Beer​ - so it was a tough contest!

For our 50th episode, we figured it had to be special, and what better way to see in half a century of podcasts than to link with Luke Pestl​, Co-Founder of our most talked about brewery, Bellwoods. We hung out at the new(ish) Hafis Rd.

The day after Beau's annual Oktoberfest, we headed back to Vankleek Hill to interview the man who started it all, Steve Beauchesne, live at the brewery. We ran through some of their best beers and really dug deep into the philosophy behind the legendary, employee-owned Canadian brewery.

For our second American vlog of 2017, we were stoked to be invited out to the Michigan Brewer's Guild Summer Beer Festival 2017​ in Ypsilanti, MI.

We were fortunate enough to be invited as media to cover the Canadian Brewing Awards in Ottawa on the final weekend of May, and man, it was wild. We connected with some of the best brewers in the country, hung out with our fellow BrewTubers and tasted some of the most incredible beers Canada has to offer.

During our mid-summer trip to Michigan to cover the 20th Anniversary Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival, we figured we should connect with a few local breweries. Stephen and Jason from Detroit's Batch Brewing Company were kind enough to hang out and ply us with some of their phenomenal and extremely unique beers, while discussing the Detroit/Michigan beer scene.

This is potentially our biggest podcast to date and mate, we were super excited for this one. If you've been drinking under a rock, Founders is one of the OG breweries in the USA and currently the 16th largest brewery in the country.

Fresh off the trip to San Diego, Cee​ and Tiffany​ drove up the Southern California coast to one of the most underrated beer cities on the planet, Los Angeles, to discover what the home of the Dodgers has to offer.

San Diego is known as a craft beer Mecca of the USA, so we brought the entire squad down to soak up the sun!

When two members of the internet craft beer media finally meet and have the opportunity to hang in person, what else would they do but a vertical. Cee​ connected with Quebec OG beer writer Noah Forrest​ of Beerism.ca to put back Cee's first ever vertical, and discuss all things beer in La Belle Province.

WHEN HIP HOP MEETS CRAFT BEER

In case you missed it, Cee released his second craft beer-themed track this year after 2014's "BrewHeads", "Hazy (Dope & Dank Remix)" featuring Fort Worth, TX's J/o/e and Los Angeles' TeoLocco of Dope & Dank. Check them both out below - and peep our "When Craft Beer Meets Hip Hop" playlist on Spotify!