BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

For three weeks in a row, Cee and Tiff held it down, and this week, they truly brought the gems. Their agency, High Season Co., is known for sharing Social Media tips, tricks and strategies via their YouTube channel, and tonight they brought the gems to the pod especially for the craft beer industry. They reviewed some of the best craft brewery Instagram accounts in Canada live on the pod, and the...

The All-Star team of Cee and Tiff are holding it down this week, and they got into something a little different (again). They recorded the episode in Prince Edward County, a new fave spot for the BAOS squad, and got into what they've been up to in The County. They also touched on their thoughts on the year in beer for 2021, teasing the upcoming annual Top 10 Breweries in Quebec collab with Vox & H...

We've been loving these low-key hang pods lately, so Tiff is back again with Cee for this super casual episode. They chatted about their recent projects, including The Chin Wag biweekly  Instagram Live sessions, their new Stout Sessions video series, and they debuted a teaser for a new YouTube Live concept. Entitled "Murder She Drank", the idea was totally stolen from YouTubers Keto Connect, whose...

This week, we're staying put in Kingston, Ontario and hanging out with the fellas from one of the coolest new breweries in the area, Daft Brewing. CEO Adam Rondeau and Head Brewer Ryan Dhillon joined Cee and Nathan for a genuinely dope conversation, touching on why they specialize in sours, teaching the locals about craft beer, their impeccably vibrant branding and their taproom, why they decided...

Kingston, Ontario is a region that hasn't typically been strongly associated with craft beer, but over the last few years, the scene is really beginning to shine. Newcomers Fine Balance, which opened in the summer of 2020, have made a real splash in the region and beyond. Co-Founder Andrew Silver joins Cee and Nathan of NathanDoesBeer/BAOS blog to chat about their unique marketing plan leveraging...

This week, we're heading back to sunny Florida. Odd Breed Wild Ales make some of the most sought-after beers in the region, and we're honoured to chat with Founder and Head Brewer Matt Manthe and Co-Owner Kevin Abbott (who you might remember from Barrel of Monks). We got into their very unique process (which is focused on barrel-aging and blending) and equipment, Matt's deep brewing history, non-c...

It feels like every other week there's another brewery in trouble for doing something pretty damn horrible, often leading to being "cancelled" by the craft beer scene at large. But is there, or should there be, a path to redemption for these breweries if they learn from the experience and actually change for the better? Our producer Tiffany joins Cee for a spirited and honest discussion about this...

This isn't exactly Silicon Valley, so a craft beer accelerator is something that essentially hasn't existed in the industry - until now. Enter Community Brewing Ventures. Director of Strategic Partnerships Aaron Gore sat down with Cee to discuss exactly what a brew accelerator is, how CBV works with all their partner breweries, what makes their approach unique, how their funding works, the importa...

We finally made it to the Sunshine State. For our first ever podcast with a Florida brewery, we hung out with Kevin Abbott, the conveniently named gentleman behind the Belgian-inspired brewery, Barrel of Monks. Cee hung out with Kevin for an insightful chat about their unique origins, the beauty that is Belgian beers, the challenges of being a brewery in Florida back when it wasn't poppin', how th...

Over this season of the podcast, we've touched on the booming segment of non-alcoholic beer, but this is the first time we've really gotten deep. Ted Fleming, Founder of Partake Brewing, Canada's premier craft non-alcoholic brewery, joined Cee to tell his story of why he started the brewery, he explains Partake's unique approach to NA beer, and where he sees NA beer going in the future. The fellas...

The Adjunct Series is back! After a summer 2021 hiatus (well, sorta, we did drop the entire Link Up season), our do-whatever-we-want series has returned. Cee and our Co-Founder, Producer and perennial fave Tiffany Alexis hung out to catch everyone up about what went down this summer. They broke down the Link Up project in detail while crushing both the Town and BreWskey Link Up beers, they lighten...

The first four episodes of the season were really focused on the breweries involved, and now that we're sitting down with our Link Up Co-Founders, we can finally go deep on what the program is truly about. 5e Baron's Jacob Barrette and Danielle Duchesne joined Tiff and Cee to chat about the genesis of LinkUp and the problem they're trying to fix, why this cause is so important to 5e, the response...

It's been an amazing season thus far and moving into the second half, we're connecting with the team behind our most watched and longest episode of all time - Third Moon. Steve "Bebo" Pilotto and Chris Steininger launched mid-pandemic in 2020 to a thunderous response, quickly becoming one of the most sought-after breweries in Ontario (and Canada as a whole), even landing a top 5 position in RateBe...

The third episode from our inaugural Link Up season was with the podcast's #1 returning guest, Derrick Robertson of Montreal's BreWskey. The first Quebec brewery to launch a Link Up beer in the series, BreWskey came out strong with a phenomenal double IPA that truly spoke to their strengths. Derrick kicked it with Tiff and Cee to break down why he decided to take part in the program, the meaning b...

The second episode from our Link Up season was with a good friend of the show, Jeff Talmey, Co-Founder of Town Brewery. Jeff was one of the first people we approached about being part of the Link Up launch series of collaboration beers, and he jumped at the opportunity. Jeff hung out with Tiff and Cee to chat about why he got involved in Link Up, we ran through the beer Town produced, the challeng...

We're back with a brand new season of BAOS Podcast, and this one is something very special and very close to us. We'll be focusing this entire season on Link Up, a non-profit started by the good folks behind Microbrasserie 5e Baron in Aylmer, QC and Tiffany and Cee here at BAOS and High Season Co. Our aim with this program is to help BIPOC from underrepresented communities learn about and enter th...

It's been quite the run for the live Quarantine Edition of our ongoing Adjunct Series, and tonight, we wrapped it up with a bang. Longtime followers would know that our trip to Virginia in 2019 was a memorable one, where we travelled for a week from the northern part of the state all the way down to Virginia Beach, and we truly loved our experience. One thing we've been missing during the pandemic...

Podcasting is an interesting endeavour. The things you think folks will love don't always resonate, and the things you think are mid end up over-performing. An example of the latter are the pods where Cee just hangs with a co-host for a bit of a chin wag with our rotating schedule of guests like Scott, Tiffany, Noah or Nate. These episodes always perform the best, so we're delivering for y'all. Na...

Ottawa is Canada's capital city, and in the past few years it has truly become synonymous with craft beer. One of the OG breweries in the city is Bicycle, who kicked things off in 2014 when husband and wife team Fariborz and Laura Behzadi opened up their own space after wanting something of their own to work on together. In this time, they've built a true community hub with a legion of loyal custo...

Sitting less than an hour east of Toronto, the Durham region's craft beer scene has been blowing up in the past few years. One brewery that caught our eye was Bowmanville's Chronicle Brewing, with their eclectic, game and fantasy-centric label art, and impeccable and wide-ranging list of beers. We've been fortunate enough to try a few of their beers over the last year and change, but finally we go...

From our ~250 podcasts over the years, it feels like the ultimate goal of most brewers is to control the entire process from grain to glass. The team behind Brasserie La Ferme are already living the dream with their property in Shefford, QC, with over 100 acres of land where they grow hops, a variety of cereals, fruits and berries, and they even have a company running an apiary in the backyard. Wh...

We say it over and over, but our favourite place on earth is Vermont, and the one thing about this whole pandemic thing that we're missing the most is our regular trips south of the border. Come to think of it, we haven't even had a brewery from VT on the pod - until now. You may remember Episode #129 from the OG series where we hung with the whole family behind St. Albans, VT's Mill River Brewing...

Back in 2014, Elora Brewing Co. opened its doors in a small town northwest of Toronto (Elora, if you didn't guess). Since the beginning, they've been ahead of the curve, producing one of the first readily available (via distribution) NEIPAs back in 2017. We've been fans since we cracked our first bottle of Elora Borealis, their NE Pale Ale, and while we've never had the chance to visit the brewery...

This whole virtual podcast thing has really opened up the world for us, allowing us to share a beer with people we otherwise may not have been able to. Recently we connected with Will of Tribus Brewing in Milford, Connecticut, and we were immediately taken by their quality photography, slick social and delicious-sounding beers. So of course, we were excited to learn more about these guys and set u...

Keeping it local is often a tenet that craft beer lays heavily on, and not many live it like Avling. Founder Max Meighen worked in both kitchens and brewhouses around the world, and he brought that experimental, palate-driven ethos to his business. Head Brewer Brandon Judd studied in Germany and has worked for many incredible breweries in Toronto, and his patient, dedicated craftsmanship shines in...