BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

Now that we had a few weeks off from the interviews, we figured it was time to bring them back full force. You may remember our first podcast with Town Brewery back on episode #72 in January 2018 - as you would imagine, a lot has changed with the Whitby, ON brewery so we figured we were overdue for a catch-up. We hung out with co-founder and brewer Jeff Talmey for a great chat about all the change...

Last week we spoke about the tone-deaf Molson campaign to put together an all-Canadian 2-4 for Canada Day, featuring beers from craft breweries. Well, the photos came out about the participating breweries, so we named and shamed all those involved who chose to team up with a company that has essentially proclaimed an all-out war on craft beer. Either you're looking to sell your brewery so you're c...

If you listened to or watched our last episode, you'll know that we tried to pod outside on the balcony to no avail, so for this episode, we headed back indoors. We grabbed two great beers - The City from Henderson, an English Pale Ale with a phenomenal story behind it, brewed to represent the beer that folks would have consumed a century ago; and Shubie, a raspberry sour IPA from Wellington, a fr...

It's summer, it's hot af and our portable air conditioner only does so much, so for this episode, Tiffany and Cee hung out on their balcony - also known as their courtyard in the sky. We took a break from guests this week and had a chat while finishing off the beers from the latest Nickel Brook event Wobbly Pops that went down right before the podcast kicked off. Our Social Media agency, High Seas...

You may have noticed that we took a break last week to observe #AmplifyMelanatedVoices, but this week we're back with a dear friend who also happens to be the leading voice in diversity and inclusion in the beverage industry in Canada - Renee Navarro. We interviewed Ren back on episode #81, and a lot has happened in her world since then. She created her platform Beer Diversity, she's been speaking...

We didn't anticipate that this week's guests would be so damn relevant and of the moment. You may be familiar with Beny Ashburn and Teo Hunter of Crowns & Hops from episode #67 a few years back. Since the Dope & Dank days, the two entrepreneurs have come a long way, rebranding, winning grants, and executing successful crowdfunding efforts for their new brewery in Inglewood, CA, all while fighting...

Since we've got the hang of this whole Skype podcasting thing, we figured it was time to branch out so we got hold of BAOS alumni and mate Chris Farmer from Mr. Banks Brewing in Melbourne, Australia, and brought him back. You may remember Chris from episode #75 of the OG podcast series, and damn, has he come a long way since then. Chris was always ahead of the curve in Australia with the hazy IPAs...

The last time we had Matt on the podcast, we went #2 in Japan. The man has power. Matt has become a very close friend of the podcast over the last year, with Cee appearing on his podcast Vox & Hops alongside a great collaboration video and giveaway for our Top 10 Breweries in Quebec for 2019 at the top of the year. Now we're all safe at home, we figured it was a great time to bring Matt back on BA...

Moving forward with the guests, this week we hung out with a good friend of the podcast, Noah Forrest, arguably the most sought after beer blogger in Quebec. Tiff and Cee had attended A Night With Nickel Brook prior to the podcast, walking through their flagship lineup with Head Brewer Ben, so they decided to make it an NB night. Luckily, Noah also had a bottle of Nickel Brook's delectable Cafe de...

We've been loving that we can now have guests on the podcast again, so we kept it going with another good friend and fellow BrewTuber, Chris from Hops & Bros. Based in Gatineau, QC, just over the bridge from Ottawa, ON, Chris has been a mate of the podcast for many years now so it was super fun to catch up. Chris broke out some beers from Brasserie du Bas-Canada and Noctem, while Cee and TIff crac...

If you've been following us over the years, you may have noticed that we don't do Skype interviews. Well, we did on Episode #6 and #11/#12, but those were the early days. We moved to a model that was visually-focused so actually being in the brewery with our guests was paramount to what we were trying to achieve with the podcast. But with the pandemic, all rules are out the window. Through the mag...

Quarantine still going, eh? No problem, we gotchu with more isolation content to keep you entertained. Cee and Tiffany are back at it, this week chatting about the Other Half All Together worldwide collaboration, the Brewer's Association's survey showcasing beer sales dropping sharply alongside some local anecdotal opposites, packaging Imperial Stouts in short cans for easy consumption, and how pe...

For episode two of our Quarantine series of podcasts, we had an extra special reason to celebrate - it was Cee's birthday! The day was great for multiple reasons - primarily, of course, because it was the anniversary of Cee's birth, but it was the release of our newest collaboration beer and Bellwoods dropped Birthday Cake Milkshark. What a time. We reviewed the collab beer with Wood Brothers, Hop...

As you all are pretty aware, basically civilization is cancelled for the foreseeable future. We had to put our current season, Against The Grain, on hold, and also postpone the next season that we'd already started working on. We had already planned to do an Adjunct Series of somewhat random podcasts to fill the gaps between themed seasons, so now we bring you the Quarantine Edition. Since Cee and...

Not all incredible beer comes in cans - sometimes you just have to go to the source. Sutton, Quebec is a small ski town about 15 minutes from the Vermont border, and around 5 years ago a brewpub by the name of À L'Abordage opened their doors. After a year or so in business, the owner and head brewer, Cédrik Poitras, discovered New England IPAs and decided to bring this new style to his patrons. Fa...

If you came up on craft beer in Quebec, you may have noticed an attractive green can that started popping up in speciality beer stores in 2017. Ta Meilleure, the unintentional flagship beer of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu's Lagabière, was arguably the first canned New England IPA in the province, and it truly changed the game. We sat down with founders, and brothers, Sébastien and Francis Laganière at...

If you've ever listened to this podcast over the past few years, you'd likely have heard Cee complaining about the severe lack of haze in Montreal - Messorem were the literal answer to his prayers (or complaints, really). Owners Vincent Menard and Marc-André Filion, friends and fellow musicians, were constantly leaving the province to find the beer they truly wanted to drink, so they finally decid...

The first episode of our new themed seasons goes down at Montreal's Pub BreWskey. You might remember us sitting down with Guillaume Couraud and Derrick Robertson in their Old Port brewpub back on Episode #68, but a lot has changed since then. The guys opened a taproom on the ground floor of the Marche Bonsecours building, and in August 2019, they finally installed their own equipment to turn it in...

Welcome to Season 7 of BAOS Podcast - Against The Grain, where we focus on breweries across Quebec who took the path less followed, and brewed beers that weren't so common in our glorious province. We sat down with some of the pioneers of Quebec's new craft beer scene to find out why they decided to do it their way, including Pub BreWskey, Messorem Bracitorium, Lagabière and more. Against The Grai...

It all comes full circle. Scott and I started this podcast as a fun side project. It quickly became a serious part of all our lives with an entire team behind it, and in particular there was someone who was driving the whole thing from the start. My partner in life and business, Tiffany, and I had been talking about doing a podcast about Marketing and Social Media, as we run an agency and we're ge...

Arguably the single most fun - and most infuriating - thing about creating content for the internet is the sheer unpredictability of it all. You never truly know what people will enjoy, so you give it your best and hope and pray that your audience is into it. We knew Rainhard were popular, Jordan Rainhard had been a lauded member of the homebrewing scene in Toronto, so for him to finally open his...

We've mentioned that we've been surprised by a lot of the top episodes, but this wasn't one of them. In keeping tabs on our downloads throughout the year, we noticed this episode consistently hovering in the Top 3, so for it to end up here feels just right. For those who don't know, Noah is a great friend of the podcast, he's featured on numerous episodes and this was arguably the most fun to date...

While Silversmith are Niagara-On-The-Lake actual OGs (as in the the first brewery in the region) and it's understandable that this would be a popular episode, while it was a super fun chat, while Chris was funny af, the fact it got so high in the Top 10 was still a pleasant surprise. It truly shows the power of a brewery with a strong local following, that even though they aren't the biggest and t...

We've now reached the business end of the Top 10, and our fifth most downloaded episode isn't much of a surprise. Our audience began in Ontario, so we know that our ON content is always a little more popular and this particular episode was a ton of fun. We've done maybe three Spotlight episodes, and our second one on Ontario saw us crush some fantastic beers from across the province. The solo epis...

As we round out the bottom five of our Top 10 Most Downloaded Podcasts Of All Time, we come across an interesting one. Our producer Tiffany Alexis, who also runs her wine, spirits and coffee account LiquidxHappiness, co-founded High Season Co., a social media agency, along with Cee back in 2015. There isn't really many other people so well positioned to give marketing advice on the craft beer indu...