Toronto’s Karbon Brewing Company started with an ambitious goal; to become Canada’s first carbon negative brewery by 2024. Putting sustainability as a business priority is a lofty ambition at the best of times, as is starting a brewery during a pandemic and Karbon has endeavoured to do both. Rather than relying solely on carbon offsets, Karbon aims to use innovative technological solutions to reverse the carbon footprint of the brewing process.
Read MoreIt's been a solid run of back-to-back pods with amazing breweries across the continent, but sometimes we need to just slow it down and do a little catching up with the team. Tiffany Alexis, our illustrious producer, expert Social Media Marketer, YouTuber and just gorgeous human being, joined Cee for a couple of beers and a great Friday night chin wag.
Read MoreNickel Brook Brewing Company’s Mystery Pack is back with it’s second volume! Many of you in Ontario will recall the first Mystery Pack, released in late 2017, when Nickel Brook launched a pack of four beers and let us, the drinkers, vote for our favourite which would go on to become part of the year-round lineup.
Read MoreBack in 2017, we were sent an interesting bottle of beer with a black label that said "Gin Ale" on it, from a brewery I hadn't heard of. After I posted it, it became our #1 requested beer for trades with friends in Ontario and the US. That was Amiral's entrance into the Quebec craft beer scene, and now almost four years later, they're back with a full six-pack lineup.
Read MoreIt's not often we meet other Australians here in Montreal, and it's even less often we connect with Australians in the craft beer industry in Canada. Back in the summer of 2018 at the glorious Foudres Unis festival, Cee connected with Christina Owczarek via a mutual friend (shouts to Jake!), a fellow Aussie from Melbourne who has been in the craft beer world for years.
Read MoreGatineau, Quebec has been experiencing somewhat of a craft beer renaissance over the last couple of years, and one of those fire, innovative, new breweries is À La Dérive. Cee discovered them last summer and was blown away by the quality of their New England IPAs, so he was super excited to catch up with Co-Founders Sébastien Gandy and Jean-François Cardinal.
Read MoreWell, here we are on the final day of Dry January, the month of abstinence from alcohol regularly observed by many within and outside the craft beer community. Much is written each year on Dry January, both by those who swear by it, and those who are tired of hearing about it.
Read MoreBack in 2018, Cee and Tiff collaborated with the Colorado Tourism Office and visited their beautiful state for 12 days (check the vlogs on our YouTube channel!). On their final night in Denver, they hit up the Great American Beer Festival, the biggest beer festival on the planet (or North America at least) and discovered the gloriousness that is Weldwerks Brewery. While they tried the collab with Troy Casey of Casey Brewing during episode #108, this was their first real exposure and they were blown away.
Read MoreBarrel-aged sour beers are truly the ultimate mark of patience in the beer world, and nobody encapsulates that better than Sean McVeigh of Kanata, ON's Small Pony Barrel Works. The last time we hung with Sean on the podcast was in 2018 so this was a great return for the lord of the sours. A lot has been happening in his world, from the move into small bottles for the LCBO and even canning some special one-offs.
Read More2020 was a big year for Cinquième Baron. Upon opening their doors in May, they hit the ground running and had a resounding response from the community in Aylmer, the rest of Gatineau, across the bridges in Ottawa, and stretching across Québec and Ontario. They’ve swept the style spectrum making top tier lagers, out of this world IPAs, and spectacular stouts.
Read MoreWe're back - Happy New Year! While it was genuinely great to take a bit of a breather after the hectic end of 2020 podcast run, it's amazing to jump online and chat to some of our favourite breweries once again. We figured we'd kick 2021 off proper by bringing back an old fave from 2018, Matt Reiner of Toronto's Rorschach Brewery!
Read MoreToronto’s Avling Kitchen & Brewery opened their doors in Toronto’s Leslieville neighborhood in 2019. Since then, they’ve had a colourful lineup of beers spanning the style spectrum including hefeweizen, several varieties of lagers, and a notably wide range of saisons, just to name a few. Through the latter part of 2020, after many months of aging, they’ve also been rolling out bottles from the inaugural lineup of their ongoing barrel program. I was excited when they very kindly sent the lineup for me to try. Let’s see how they’re tasting!
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