BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

You know what's better than one Vermont brewery in our Top 10 most downloaded podcasts of all time? Two Vermont breweries! Earlier this year, we spent a weekend in glorious VT and finally got to hang out with the team at Switchback. Tiff and Cee visited Switchback on their first ever Vermont trip in 2016, so this was a cool full circle moment. The brewery was huge, so much larger than we expected,...

Vermont is a truly special place to the BAOS team, and back in September 2018 we partnered with the good folks at Tourism Vermont to hang out in the Green Mountain state and interview some breweries. One pleasant surprise was 14th Star, a military-themed brewery in St. Albans about 10 miles from the Canadian border. We had a fantastic chat with Head Brewer Dan - who has since departed, and I kept...

Number #9 in our Top 10 most downloaded podcasts of all time is our chat with Officer Brad (he's actually an officer, we thought he was joking but he showed us his badge after the podcast) of Pit Caribou. It was crazy that he flew all the way to Montreal from Gaspe just to chat with us, as they're one of the most respected breweries in the province. Even though the brewery how now changed hands, B...

Change is good for everyone. The podcast has been running for around four and a half years now, and we feel like it's time we switch it up. We've now updated all our previous episodes into five seasons based on the year they were released, and all future episodes will be released with a thematic narrative element, beginning in 2020. Between now and Christmas 2019, we'll be reposting the Top 10 mos...

If you read our blog, you'll be familiar with our latest guest. Nathan of NathanDoesBeer first appeared on our Ottawa podcast (Episode #135), and since he was in Montreal to shoot our forthcoming "Where To Drink In Montreal" vlog, we figured we may as well get in a chat. We shoot the breeze about a bunch of stuff, including Nathan's recent writing work for BAOS, the facts and opinions on the OCB s...

For 32 years, Great Lakes have represented Toronto craft beer, so it was awesome to finally sit down with Marketing & Communications Manager Troy Burtch at their Etobicoke brewery. Their iconic Canadiana-style labels have imprinted themselves on the Ontario craft beer scene unlike almost any other brewery, and the styles they produce are far and wide ranging - from crispyboi pilsners to classic En...

Every time we tell Montreal beer lovers, "No, we haven't been to MaBrasserie", we're met with a perplexed facial expression. So finally we got our act together and headed to Rosemont to meet with Guillaume, who heads sales for the coop brewery, but he also has an in-depth understanding of beer in that he's the Vice President of homebrew club LABAQ. We hung out in the brewery, sampled some fresh En...

If you've been following us over the years, you'll know that one great beer region we haven't dabbled in to date is Europe. But for this episode, Europe came to us. Founded in 1821, you can't get much more OG than Belgium's Rodenbach, and their Master Brewer Rudi Ghequire was in Quebec to celebrate the launch of three of their beers into our market. We were lucky enough to not only sit at his tabl...

It's been four whole months since we've had Tiffany from High Season Co. on the podcast, so we figured we were overdue for a chat. This time around, it wasn't just all marketing talk. We ran through our summer beer activities, why we're not into beer festivals as much right now, some great examples of beer marketing, the #IAmCraftBeer hashtag, fall beer trends we're looking forward to, and even a...

Sometimes you see a brewery's products everywhere you go, and for some reason you just don't get around to giving them a crack. Well, that's part of the reason why we run this podcast, folks, as it gives us an excuse to check out literally every brewery. We finally connected with Stephane and Matthieu of Vilains at the launch of their brand new Parasol IIPA at Bar Pamplemousse in Montreal, we ran...

Every year in late August, Cee and Tiff make the pilgrimage to Brooklyn, New York to attend Afropunk, an eclectic music festival. While they'd been filming Where To Drink In Brooklyn vlogs, they had never actually done a full podcast with anyone in the city - until now. We learned about BierWax, a Hip Hop-themed craft beer and vinyl bar located a few blocks from downtown BK in Prospect Heights, vi...

For our long time listeners and viewers, you may recall that waaay back in the day we used to interview a lot of our talented friends in the music or entertainment business, but over the past few years we've focused almost exclusively on speaking with breweries. Well folks, we finally got an opportunity to combine beer and music once again, hanging out with fellow podcaster and lead singer of the...

This is a first for us. While we've done podcasts with just the team in the past, we've never had a solo episode - until now. Cee has been going a little too hard lately with travel and beer, so as he's been under the weather there was no podcast for this week. He had an idea to use this opportunity to chat, basically talk to himself, about an issue we feel is plaguing the craft beer world - balan...

Cheers to one hundred and fifty episodes! While we were in Vermont on a brewery campaign to disconnect for 24 hours, we swung by Colchester to meet with Evan and Dave at Green Empire. We first heard of them during the Stowe Cider episode and have been keeping tabs since, so it was great to get to see where the magic happens. We hung out at their production facility, where later this month they'll...

Toronto's East End is teeming with fire breweries, and one place we've been wanting to have on for a while is Rorschach. These guys have been heavily lauded for their eclectic beer menu, great location and dope brewpub vibes. We hung out with Head Brewer and Co-Founder Matt on Rorschach's fantastic patio to crush some of their "weird beers", half of which contained lactose, and chat about how the...

For our second Virginia podcast in partnership with Visit Virginia, we headed down south to Norfolk to hang with one of the OGs of the region, Kevin O'Connor from O'Connor Brewing. As the second largest brewery in the state, O'Connor have set the tone for Virginia's beer scene over the last decade, and Kevin is one of the most respected brewers around. We hung out at their roomy taproom at their 2...

Virginia is a region we've been wanting to visit for some time, so we were stoked to partner with Visit Virginia to get us down to the state for lovers to hit as many breweries as humanly possible. The first podcast saw us venture out to Sterling, around 45 minutes out of Alexandria (right across the river from Washington, D.C.), to meet with Co-Owners Jake and Lee of Crooked Run. These guys came...

If you've been following our recent episodes, you may have noticed a bit of a trend towards low ABV beers happening in QC. This session trend has gotten so real that the newest brewery in Quebec exclusively makes session beers. Echo Session Ales, ran by TV guys JF and JP, are making some serious noise in La Belle Province with their first two canned offerings, a Witbier with whole oranges and a ha...

Quebec is home to some legendary breweries, but not many have impacted the cultural zeitgeist more than À la Fût. Located in Saint-Tite, about 2 hours north east of Montreal just past Shawinigan, the town is most famous for their Western Festival held every September. We've been told it rivals Calgary's Stampede. The town and brewery itself make you feel like you're back in old Western times, with...

Commonly renowned as one of the finest breweries in Toronto if not Ontario, Blood Brothers have been at the top of our interview list for some time. We swung by to meet the owners and Head Brewer Patrick back in March, so it was dope to finally get some time to sit down with Pat on the newly opened patio to crush some of their latest releases. We spoke about why Blood Brothers do what they do, the...

This is the episode we never wanted to do. On June 5th, we arrived at Montreal's Saint Houblon to interview Chris Needelman, Head Brewer, at their Little Italy location. We were told by the server that Chris had tragically passed away the week before in a car accident. Although we'd never met Chris and had only corresponded via email, the news hit us hard. It didn't feel right to just replace his...

You may remember Shawn and Renaud from back in episode #38 when they were contracting out of Oshlag. A lot has changed in these past couple years. The boys are now on the cusp of opening up their very own facility, conveniently in the same warehouse complex as Oshlag, this coming Saturday June 22nd. They're the perfect outcome for contract brewers personified. They built their brands over the past...

If you've been following BAOS, you know we're certified #hazeboiz, and Rouge River have been at the top of our list of Ontario breweries to interview. We finally made our way out to Markham recently to hang with Co-Founder and Head Brewer Jordan Mills for a quick chat before he judged a GTA Brews homebrew contest. We mostly spoke about why their hazy beer is so damn good, and Cee was stoked to cru...

Hamilton, Ontario has become one of the new frontiers of craft beer in the province. Grain & Grit opened in the middle of the HammerTown beer boom in 2017, and have carved a great niche for themselves with their bright taproom, inclusive events for animals and kids, and of course for their fantastic beer. We finally got out to the brewery to hang with Lindsey and Joe and find out why their Instagr...

Nine episodes ago, we brought our producer Tiffany on for a podcast about marketing in Craft Beer. The response was so overwhelmingly positive that we had to bring her back for another one! This time around, we delved deep into how we can all contribute to the growth of this burgeoning industry via all forms of marketing, including digital, offline, diversity, word of mouth, working with media + i...