BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

For the final podcast of 2020, we figured we'd just kick back with some fire brews and hang out with some homies. Émilie has been a friend of the podcast for a couple of years now, and it was finally time to have her on. A prolific Instagrammer, actress, dancer and a well-known Quebecois craft beer personality, Émilie is basically known as "mother beer" to her fellow female beer Instagrammers with...

Back in 2011 when Cee first started his 365 Days of Beer thing (long before the podcast), he took an Ontario beer trip with former co-host Scott, and the first brewery they went to was Nickel Brook. They happened to meet co-founder John Romano, who gave the guys their first-ever private brewery tour, something that they always appreciated. Fast forward to 2020 and Nickel Brook have updated their b...

Just before we recorded this episode, we realized that this was our first ever podcast with a brewery from Quebec City - something that was truly well overdue. Thanks to our fave guest co-host Noah Forrest of Beerism, we were put onto Brasserie Générale earlier this year, and when Tiff and Cee headed out east this summer they were top of the list to visit in the province's capital. Having recently...

One of the top contenders for the MVP of Quebec craft beer in 2020 is Pub BreWskey. Helmed by Derrick Robertson, his unique and genre-bending beers have made a huge dent in the QC scene this year, and his sours have essentially made them the "smoothie guys". And while their smoothie sours are unbeatable in Canada, their haze, stouts and crispybois are nothing to sneeze at, either. Once again, we b...

Over the past few years, one organization has dominated the conversation surrounding diversity and inclusion online. Beer Kulture, founded by Dom and Latiesha Cook in 2017, has been unapologetic in their approach to ensuring BIPOC have a voice in craft beer. With features in Bloomberg, Forbes, Vinepair, Brewbound, Hop Culture, Good Beer Hunting and of course, BAOS Podcast, the world is truly takin...

Blind craft beer taste tests are becoming quite the thing for the team at BAOS, and for this episode, we went all out. We brought in the dream team of Noah Forrest of the esteemed Beerism.ca, and Matt McGachy of the dominant Vox & Hops (and vocalist of Cryptopsy), to help out Cee with a festive four-pack guessing game thanks to La Canette, a fantastic specialty craft beer store in the Villeray nei...

It feels like we talk about our storied group chat with our Canadian beer media homies every damn episode, so for the first time ever, we finally had the whole squad on the podcast. Regular BAOS co-host Noah Forrest of Beerism, Nathan Lefebvre of NathanDoesBeer (and BAOS's lead blog writer), and Christoph Paquette of Hops & Bros (and 5e Baron) joined Cee for an epic display of exquisitely-timed be...

Champ Libre has been making fantastic beers for the past few years, and they were one brewery we've always wanted to have on. The whole #TeamLactose thing gathered steam in early 2019, and that's really when Cee and Champ Libre founder Alex really connected online. Thanks to Noah of Beerism, who once again co-hosted with Cee, we finally had Alex on the podcast, primarily to support their most rece...

There haven't been too many people who have been on the podcast twice, let alone three times, and JP Lalonde is one of those distinguished few. From his beginnings with La Succursale, to opening Birra in the heart of Montreal's Little Italy, to now opening his third brewery right before a global pandemic, JP isn't short of courage, passion and dedication to his craft. Brasserie Silo is JP's newest...

If you follow us on social, you would have seen Aylmer, QC's 5e Baron's stunning cans plastered all across our pages since they opened mid-pandemic this summer. We obviously wanted to have them on the podcast for the first time in person at their gorgeous brewery, but we figured we may as well get something going sooner than later so we can celebrate their amazing beer, branding and energy. Noah F...

It seems that having Noah co-host the podcast with brewery owners who are friends of ours results in extremely long episodes. And we're here for it. Noah joined Cee once again for a great chat with Michael D'Ornellas and Keegan Kelertas of Microbrasserie 4 Origines, whom you may remember from episode #83 of the original seasons. Since we last hung out with the boys, a lot has changed. We crushed h...

You know how a podcast about craft beer can go. You hang out with cool people who are doing really cool things and making even cooler products, you're jamming and having insightful conversations, and all of a sudden a few hours have flown by. That can happen. But in five and a half years, we finally cracked our record for the longest podcast with the most hyped brewery in Ontario. Steve "Bebo" Pil...

While interviewing breweries, learning about their stories and trying their range of beers is our fave thing to do, sometimes it's nice to just hang out with an old friend and shoot the breeze. Noah Forrest runs Beerism, Quebec's premier Anglophone craft beer blog. He's been on the podcast a handful of times as both a guest and a co-host, so since the scheduled podcast was postponed, we figured we...

We don't often get to be part of craft beer history, and this episode was one of those occasions. Theodore Mack Sr. purchased the Peoples Brewery in 1970, making him the first African American craft brewery owner - ever. They were well known for their Peoples Beer Lager, which got some serious traction in its day. Now, more than 50 years later, with the help of the team at Oak Park Brewing in Sacr...

Over the years, we've rarely diverted from covering craft beer in our content. One time we did a great podcast with an amazing ciderie in Vermont, and another time we hung out at our favourite winery in Niagara, so we felt like it was time to venture off the beaten path and discover something new. We hung out with Justin McKellar of contract facility Equals Brewing in London, ON, to discuss their...

If you've been around for a while, you'll be familiar with our relationship with Shehan De Silva of Lost Craft. We somewhat controversially came up together, making a dual splash on the Ontario craft beer scene back in 2015/2016, and Shehan has always been a great friend of the show. We haven't had him on since episode #41, so we had a lot to catch you guys up on. We discussed the challenges that...

For all our long-time BAOS YouTube viewers, you may have seen one of our half a dozen or so blind craft beer taste test challenges that we've done over the years. Now that Dahn (Tiff's cousin from England) is around, we've been schooling him on craft beer and we figured it'd be fun to put his new knowledge to the test in his first ever blind craft beer taste challenge. Tiff, as always, tricked us...

During the pandemic, we've spoken to a lot of breweries across the globe, from Los Angeles to Toronto, from Montreal to Melbourne, but there's one area of the supply chain that we've yet to touch base with - the deps. Specialty beer stores are a serious lifeline for breweries here in Quebec, as they're one of the main ways breweries can get their products to the people. One store that has been mak...

Tiff and Cee have essentially been going non-stop since the lockdown began, with work, clients, podcasts and more from the very beginning. Last week, they finally zipped out to Quebec City and Gaspé for a mini work/vacay, so they took the week off from the podcast to give both themselves and the listeners some relaxing time off. The Quebec City portion of the trip was in collaboration with the Que...

The third and final episode in our trio of Aussie bangers wrapped up with the legend Dereck Hales of Bad Shepherd Brewing in Melbourne. Originally from Northern Ontario, Dereck and Cee basically did the opposite move so they have a lot in common. You may have caught Dereck in the last Australian vlog from April 2019, but this was the first full-length chat they've had. We got into how Bad Shepherd...

Now that we're on an Aussie beer media kick, we figured we'd keep it going. We connected with Matt of The Revel Brewing Show at the beginning of 2019 when he was still preparing for launch, and in that time, Matt has taken the podcast to an enthusiastic Aussie craft beer scene and they're truly making a dent with it. We initially were meant to connect for this episode back in June, but it fell rig...

Since we launched in 2015, we've typically focused on the North American craft beer scene, but over the past few years we've really drilled down on supporting the Australian craft beer scene. It's always dope to link with fellow beer media homies, so to link with beer media fam Down Under is extra cool. Cee connected with The Sunday Sesh boys - Steve, Mick and Stevo - a while back and Steve is a r...

If you're an OG BAOS BrewHead, you may have been around for episode #49 when we first interviewed the boys behind Laylow Brewery in Toronto, the first Hip Hop-focused brewery in the country, potentially. We launched our engineer/photographer Notion's debut album at Laylow in 2017 with our first ever BAOS collab beer Hops On My Sleeve, and we've become fast friends ever since. We finally got to cat...

You may have seen the Black Is Beautiful worldwide collaboration concept basically everywhere online. Now with over 1000 breweries signed up across the globe, a small brewery in San Antonio, Texas has really made a name for themselves with their selfless and beautiful idea to support social justice and racial equality everywhere. Co-Founder of Weathered Souls Marcus Baskerville joined Cee and Tiff...

While doing the podcast over Skype isn't optimal, it's given us an opportunity to catch up with some breweries we haven't had on in a while, and it's been genuinely awesome. We last hung out with Patrick, head brewer at Toronto's Blood Brothers, on episode #144 from July 2019, and while they were insane a year ago, they've continued to go from strength to strength. Patrick kindly remembered that T...