For the past few years, Tooth and Nail have hosted a Stout Extravaganza for St. Patrick’s Day. COVID restrictions obviously didn’t allow for that this year, so in lieu of the typical festivities, they launched a special canned 4-pack of a spectacular stout lineup which includes their year-round oatmeal stout, their imperial stout with coffee and chocolate, and two never before canned versions including a blend, and finally the 2020 release of their bourbon barrel-aged stout.
Read MoreJust like 2017, we're delivering back-to-back Ottawa episodes to give the long-time listeners a little touch of nostalgia. Tooth & Nail, while only just over 5 years old, are regularly mentioned in the same breath with some of the breweries in Canada. Their Vim & Vigor Pilsner is highly regarded universally as one of the best examples we have in our fine land, and their owner and founder Matt Tweedy joined us for another fantastic chat.
Read MoreBack in 2017, Cee and OG co-host Scott headed out to Ottawa for the Canadian Brewing Awards, and while in town, they headed over to Dominion City to hang out with Co-Founder Josh McJannett and Head Brewer Scott Denyer after a super rough evening at the awards the night before. We've been back through the brewery a number of times since but have yet to have the boys back on the podcast, and this week was finally the time.
Read MoreOne of our fave advantages of doing our podcast virtually is that we get to talk to breweries that we usually wouldn't unless we were in their town, and it's really made the Adjunct Series super interesting to produce. Canada's West Coast is somewhere we've always wanted to get out to, and in particular, we've wanted to get out to Delta, BC to see the team behind one of our fave breweries out there, Four Winds. Instead, they came to us (virtually).
Read MoreToronto has so many amazing breweries that it's tough to actually hit them all up, and one of those breweries for us is Halo. Known for their impeccable kettle sours, IPAs and stouts, along with their gorgeous branding, they've been a fave every time we hit up a beer bar and finally, while we still never got to the venue itself, we brought them on the podcast.
Read MoreBack in February 2020, we launched our first ever themed season, Against The Grain, where we spoke with breweries in Quebec who took the path less followed and brewed beers that most breweries didn't. We had two final episodes lined up and booked, but they happened to be booked the first two weeks of the COVID lockdown and of course, they never happened. One of those breweries was Brasserie du Bas-Canada.
Read MoreToronto’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.
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