BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

While we typically focus on the breweries themselves on the pod, it's always fascinating to chat with the people who help drive the industry forward. Specialty beer stores are the primary way that craft beer drinkers in Quebec obtain their sweet, sweet liquid, and they have a holistic understanding of the consumer that even the breweries may not have .  Cee hung out with friends and beer traveller...

Cottage country is an unassuming place for craft beer. Muskoka is a region where city folk go to relax and unwind, surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery Canada has to offer, and the last thing you'd expect is to find fire craft beer. Opening their doors to the public only a couple of years ago, Canvas Brewing has been knocking out quality brews to appeal to both the newer craft beer dri...

It's not every day we get to hang out with the literal newest kids on the block. Brasserie Mellön, founded by friends Alexandre Pontbriand + David Goudreau, opened last weekend (Saturday, May 1st, 2021) in Montreal's Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie after 5 long years of hard work and dedication. Anxious and unsure how they'd be received by the beer-drinking public and the neighbourhood at large, they we...

Kahnawake Brewing was the first brewery in Canada to be opened on native indigenous territory. They literally assisted in writing the laws to allow a brewery to operate, and they've been changing the game ever since. We first visited Co-Founder Drew Stevens back in May 2018 on a rainy Spring day shortly after their March opening, so we were overdue to have him back on the pod. Our good mates Noah...

While it's our job to put our awesome community onto amazing breweries, sometimes it works the other way around. Every time we'd post about lagers and ask about their favourite crispyboiz, one name continually came up: Old Flame Brewery. With two locations in Port Perry and Newmarket, Ontario, Old Flame has been going strong for 7+ years brewing some of the most on-point lagers in the province. We...

It's always an honour to get to chat to the people behind the breweries who shaped your early beer-drinking years, so finally bringing Daniel Addy Jibb, Co-Founder of Microbrasserie Le Castor, on the pod was a milestone for us. Being that they've also known each other a long time, it was only right that we brought back our fave special guest co-host, Noah Forrest of Beerism, Quebec's premier craft...

Craft beer is forever changing and morphing with the times, and one of the newest trends in the game is functional beer. While this segment took hold in the US quite fast, it's been a slow uptake in Canada - until now. Enter Rally Beer Co. Co-Founders Alan Wood and Spencer Sgro kicked off their new venture mid-pandemic in 2020, and they're truly bringing something different and super unique to Ont...

The last time we hung out with JF on the pod was back at their winter bottle release in St. Jerôme in 2017. We'd kicked it at one of our fave events of the year, Journée Péché, every March for the past few winters but we were long overdue to have the guy who created the greatest coffee stout in the country back on the pod for a long chat. This interview was basically our own private, virtual Journ...

Another brewery who evaded us all these years on the podcast is one of the breweries that got Cee into craft beer over a decade ago. Muskoka Brewery are Ontario legends and they celebrate their 25th anniversary this June, so it was the perfect time to have President Todd Lewin and Head Brewer Gary Jollimore on the pod for a lengthy chat. This was a super engaging conversation, with the fellas divi...

Last summer, Cee and Tiffany headed out east to Quebec City to visit breweries and vlog it up. One place they weren't able to get to was La Souche, so obviously they'll be there next visit but the next best thing was to have the team on the podcast. La Souche are known for their fire sour beers, so we were stoked to have the boys on and get into some brews. Cee hung out with Co-Founder (and the la...

If you're a longtime BAOS listener, you'll know that we really stay true to the "And Other Shit" in our name, but to be honest, we haven't really dabbled much outside of beer in the past year or so. It was time to fix that. We heard about Doctor Nick's Amazing Man Stuff back in January and Cee has been using their beard products daily since, so it was great to have Co-Founder Nick Phelps on the po...

One of the most unique concepts that we've ever seen in craft beer comes courtesy of Mike Laba and Chris Goddard, the founders of Craft Brand Co., based out of Toronto, ON. What began as a craft beer import agency slowly morphed into a beast unto its own, securing sought-after international contracts with breweries like Omnipollo (Sweden), Mikkeller (Denmark) and Lervig (Norway) to brew onsite in...

We've been on a bit of a run lately with bringing back past guests who are well overdue for a visit, so this week we're hanging with Founder Stéphane Dubois and Head Brewer Benoit Brame of Toronto's Bandit Brewery. We last kicked it with Bandit back in the summer of 2018, and a clearly lot has changed with the only brewery in Roncesvalles.  With co-host Notion (of both Illnote Studios and BAOS's v...

Just 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 Twee...

Back 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 we...

One 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 ther...

Toronto 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.  Owner and Head Brewer Callum Hay joi...

Back 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...

It'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. We got stuck into the 2021 version of our co...

Back 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. Cee hung out with Co-Founder...

It'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. In late fall 2020, Christina...

Gatineau, 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. The fellas chatted about how the brewe...

Back 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...

Barrel-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 spe...

We'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! Matt and the team have been brewing exceptional beers since they la...