BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

If you're a long-time follower of the podcast, you'll be stoked to see one of our guests this week. Michigan craft beer holds a very special place in our hearts, so we were stoked to have the fellas behind the Brew Detroit podcast on the show. Old mate Dave Cicotte and new mate Zach Clark joined Cee to chat about the work they're doing with Brew Detroit, how the Michigan beer scene is faring, thei...

After an extended summer break, the pod is back! We're kicking off with a great chat with the CEO of Junction Craft, Stuart Wheldon. Junction are celebrating their 10+1 anniversary (we were all drinking Conductor back in the day), so Cee and Stu ran through Junction's history, their reinvention and rebranding, how they conquered some financial issues over the pandemic, their move into RTDs, the ac...

The sixth and final week of Link Up's Series 3 went down in our home base of Montreal with one of our all-time faves, L'Espace Public! Co-Founder Simon Livingstone joined Tiff and Cee to chat about how their community is pivotal to their business, how they're welcoming more palates into craft beer with their offerings, the other programs they've introduced, and some advice for other breweries to b...

Five weeks deep in Series 3 of Link Up, and the latest drop comes from one of Toronto's finest, Rorschach Brewing! Co-Founder and Head Brewer Matthew Reiner and Marketing Manager Nolan Maguire joined Tiff and Cee to chat about their diversity efforts, how they craft their recipes to appeal to a wider audience, their support for the LGBTQ+ community, and how they've been approaching widening their...

Lost Craft were one of Ontario's first-ever BIPOC-owned craft breweries, and long-time listeners will know that they're close friends of the show, so it was key for us to bring them in for week 4 of Link Up's Series 3. Tiff and Cee sat down with Founder Shehan De Silva to chat about what it was like being the "only one in the room" back in 2015 when he started, whether he has faced microaggression...

Art and craft beer go hand in hand, and Vancouver, BC's Hypha Project are truly taking it to the next level. Co-Founder Cris Ohama sat down with Cee to break down how and why art has played such a huge role in the formation of their brewery, how their events are bringing in new and diverse drinkers to craft beer, their plans for their own brick-and-mortar brewery and art space, and how the scene i...

You may have seen breweries focused on low ABV beers, but have you ever seen a brewery that only knocks out killer, high-octane brews? Based in Worcester, MA, Greater Good Imperial Brewing is America's first and only brewery entirely obsessed with crafting and perfecting imperial craft beers. Cee hung out with CEO Colleen Quinn to hear all about their mission, how their unique approach to their be...

Week 3 of Link Up brings one of the GOAT breweries in Ontario to the table - Bellwoods Brewery! If you're a long-time listener, you'll know how passionate Cee is about Bellwoods, so this was an exciting episode for us. Tiff and Cee hung out with Co-Founder Luke, Head of Marketing Paige, and Marketing's Danysha to hear about their amazing CCIC (Community, Culture, & Inclusion Committee) initiatives...

The second drop of Link Up's Series 3 comes from Kingston, ON's Fine Balance Brewing, and while they're still less than two years old, they've already been making some serious noise in Ontario's craft beer scene. Tiff and Cee hung with Founder Andrew Silver and cracked their gem of a Link Up brew, a juicy 5.5% Pale Ale with Citra, Citra Cryo and Vic Secret hops. They chatted about their quarterly...

Western New York has become hallowed ground for craft beer fans across the globe over the past few years, and one brewery that has truly lit the beer scene on fire is Mortalis. Based just outside of Rochester, Mortalis excited drinkers with their highly sought-after pastry stouts and smoothie sours, while catering to most palates in their taproom with fire haze, crispies, and even wheat ales. Co-F...

Spring is here, so that means Link Up's Series 3 has launched! We're kicking things off with the first brewery from Quebec City to participate in Link Up, BG Brasserie Generale! Co-Owner and Head Brewer Max Bergeron sat down with Tiff and Cee to crush their fire Link Up offering, a 7.7% sour ale with blackberries, blueberries, marshmallow and lactose, while they chatted about the challenges of div...

We made it to a century, y'all! The Adjunct Series is going strong, and we're stoked to celebrate our 100th episode of this series by hanging out with the team behind Toronto Brewing. Cee and Scott shopped at Toronto Brewing when it was operating out of founder Zack Weinberg's home in their homebrew days back in 2011, so this was a great full-circle moment. During the pandemic, Zack opened a secon...

Nestled in the Eastern Townships of South Western Quebec, Knowlton is home to its namesake brewery, La Knowlton Co., which is renowned in the region for its easy-drinking, approachable craft beers. Co-Founder Nicholas Allan joined Cee for a great chat about their story and build-out, why they make crushable beers, how they came up with their unique art direction, their approach to experimentation,...

For our first ever podcast with a brewery hailing from the East Coast, Cee hung out with Mike "Hogie" Hogan, the Co-Founder and Masterbrewer of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island's Upstreet Brewing! Alongside their great range of brews at Upstreet, the team founded Libra, their phenomenal non-alcoholic line of beers that we've been huge fans of since they dropped in late 2020, so we got to hear a...

If you've ever travelled around North America (or Europe for that matter) and entered a store that sells craft beer, it's almost a certainty that you've seen Collective Arts' bright and funky can art in the fridge. Cee hung out with Co-Founder Matt Johnston and Head Brewer Ryan Morrow to get the full Collective story, including their humble beginnings as a contract brewery, how they started in Ham...

Keswick, Ontario is a small town about 45 minutes north of Toronto in Cook's Bay on Lake Simcoe, and only a year ago they finally got their very own craft brewery. Kyle Stewart, Co-Founder and Brewer at Turkey Shoot Brewing Co. has one of the shortest times from homebrewer to pro brewer that we've ever encountered, so we got the full story of how they came to be along with chatting about the great...

Continuing the run of Ontario Haze Lord pods with our fave co-host Nathan of NathanDoesBeer, this week we're hanging with Jeremy, Co-Founder of Cambridge, ON's Barncat Artisan Ales. Barncat was arguably the first brewery in Ontario (if not Canada) to brew a New England IPA, so Jeremy knows a thing or two about the murk. We chatted about the history of the NEIPA and its journey to beer omnipotence...

This was the biggest podcast we've ever done! Recently, we dropped a huge 6-way collab with some of our closest friends in the craft beer industry, so we had them all on the pod to chat about it. "C'est Juste d'la Bière" is dedicated to acknowledging the toxicity of the craft beer scene with the aim of turning it around. Joining Cee is Matt McGachy of Vox & Hops, Noah Forrest of Beerism, Gabri-Ail...

One of the most requested guests for the podcast had been Troy at Badlands, so finally Cee and Nate made it happen! Renowned for their exceptional haze bombs, Troy has truly put his brand on the map with their army of fans who scramble to get hold of their prized, murky brews. The fellas chatted about a ton of things, including Troy's recent trip to Yakima, his incredible grasp of hop use, how the...

Breweries who hadn't historically canned their beer definitely faced some serious challenges in March of 2020, and one of those spots is Montreal's Le Dispensaire. For the first time since Episode #99 of the OG series, Head Brewer Arnaud returns to the pod joined by Co-Founder Jesse to chat with Cee about being one of (if not) the only breweries in Quebec concentrating exclusively on growlers and...

Based in South Western Ontario, Willibald Farm Distillery & Brewery has been knocking out incredible spirits and brews for 4+ years now, so Cee and regular fave co-host Nathan were stoked to hang out with the team behind it all. Co-Founder Cam and Head Brewer Joe kicked it with the boys to chat about Joe's incredible brewery resume, how the place came together, their web order popularity, how they...

It's not often that a brewery celebrates a decade in the game, so we were extra stoked to hang with Co-Owner of L'Espace Public and longtime friend of the pod, Simon Livingstone, to hear all about it. We last had Simon on back in February of 2018, so there was a lot to catch up on - from reviewing their history to the opening of their large production facility near the bar in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve...

Back with the Adjunct Series after dipping into Link Up for 6 episodes (definitely check those out, some great conversations were had), and Cee is hanging with Joanne Richter, Co-Founder of the only craft brewery in Uxbridge, Ontario, The Second Wedge. Joanne touched on how she and her husband Rob got the brewery together over 3 years, the scene in the Durham region, how important their community...

The sixth and final episode from Link Up Series 2 is with a brewery that we had in mind from the very beginning - the first brewery in Canada on a First Nations reservation, the Indigenous-owned Kahnawake Brewing! Co-Founder Drew Stevens joined Tiff and Cee to crush the first crispy to be released through Link Up, a gorgeous 5.5% pomegranate Pilsner. They chatted about the help that Drew and his t...

Week 5 already? This Series is flying by, and this week we return to Ontario with Bloomfield's Matron Fine Beer! Co-Founder Justin da Silva connected with Cee and Tiff to crack his 7.5% West Coast Double IPA with local Cascade, Mosaic and Galaxy hops. They chatted about how to grow interest in craft beer in regions that don't inherently have a lot of diversity, why he feels like diverse representa...