BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

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...

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...