BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

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...

Moving into week 4 of Link Up's Series 2 drops, we shift back to Quebec with the champions from Microbrasserie 4 Origines. Co-Founder Michael D'Ornellas and Brand Ambassador Mike Davis hung out with Tiff and Cee and got into their fire Link Up brew, a DDH IPA with Vic Secret, Mosaic and Citra hops. They spoke about being the first brewery to hire a Link Up program participant, their own diversity...

The third drop from Link Up's Series 2 keeps us in Ontario with an OG brewery - Nickel Brook. Marketing guru Liam Moat and Head Brewer Gordo Jones (fresh from Vancouver) joined Tiff and Cee to crack open their Link Up offering, a 6.1% IPA with Citra, Galaxy, Nelson Sauvin and Magnum hops. They chatted about the various diversity and equality initiatives they've participated in, why it's important...

The second release in Link Up's Series 2 takes us back to Ontario with one of the GOATs of haze in the province - Blood Brothers. Co-Founders and actual blood brothers Brayden and Dustin Jones joined Cee and Tiff to crush their epic Link Up double IPA - an 8.5% banger with Cashmere, El Dorado, Citra and Sabro - and talk about their diverse team, the challenges and successes in expanding the talent...

We're back! Link Up just launched their Series 2 round of beer collaborations, so of course, Tiffany and Cee are catching up with everyone involved. The first brewery to launch a beer in Series 2 are the South American Queens from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC's OverHop! Hailing from Brazil, Tati and Paty have had quite the journey in both Ontario and Quebec's craft beer scenes, and they chatted wi...

It's been almost three years between beers with Troy from Labrosse, so we scooped up our resident Lead Blogger and Co-Host Nathan and did it up! Troy talked through all the changes Labrosse has made over the past few years, including their branding and their brews, how the scene has evolved, the value of travelling and visiting other breweries, what exactly a Cold IPA is, and how sneaker fans are...

Happy New Year! You guys may have seen our annual Top 10 Quebec Breweries collab that we drop every year with Matt of Vox & Hops and Noah of Beerism, so we figured we need to finally do one for Ontario! Cee and BAOS Lead Blogger Nathan linked up for the first ever Top 10 Ontario Breweries in 2021, running down their list of some of the most outstanding craft breweries for the year (in no particula...

For our final episode of 2021, we're taking it back full circle. Fellow Australian expat Christina Owczarek started her brewery, XhAle Brew Co., mid-pandemic in 2020 and has gone from strength to strength this year, so much so that we had to get her back on to wrap up this 365. Christina updated us on everything that's gone down, from a slew of new beers to winning an Alberta Beverage Award for he...

The newest brewery in Quebec is truly doing something unique. Founded by Alex Ganivet-Boileau, Jasen Gaouette and Olivier Chabonneau, Lagerbräu is a craft brewery focusing exclusively on lagers. Currently contracting out of Avant-Garde, their first two beers have caused a crispy wave across the province, so Cee and regular co-host Noah Forrest of Beerism hung out with Alex and Jasen (who you might...