Manitoba Beercast

Ye, gods! Vexations and challenges abound for anybody running a business in Manitoba in April 2025. Brad sits down with beercrank.ca's Cody Lobreau to discuss the current challenges to the Manitoba Craft Beer industry, and the fresh challenges awaiting in a world of fresh and vicarious tariffs. Thanks to our hosts,  Section 6 Brewing of Brandon. Also mentioned, yet another honour pending for...

Just a brief rant about beers and bullies. Buying local is always better.    But now’s the time to point to an inescapable fact. The vast majority of beer is controlled by multinational corporations, many headquarted in America.    Manitoba’s brewers stand at the ready, to help you replace that multinational controlled lager with something local, made from Canadian if not local ingredients.     Wh...

Summer!  Sweet, elusive Summer!  Maddeningly short Summer! Time to shake off the blues and get out to the Lakes, right? So it's time for us to take a look at what the local beer options are at the major summer getaway spots! This time around, Jessica Chubak of the Lakehouse group of venues in Clear Lake talks about their long term commitment to Manitoba beer, their new burger and beer garden,...

Summer is here, and you want to sit in the sun and neutralize your winter palour.  Get on the patios with this fast and furious list of "places to be" this summer. The Beercast will generate weekly content going forward.  If there's not a full episode read to go, the Beercast Minute will fill the void. BTW, more full episodes coming, with discussions on Beerfests, Wasagaming's...

Stone Angel Brewing closes with a St. Paddy's Day send-off.  The Manitoba brewing industry may lose more players, as sales plateau and some drinkers shift their tastes downwards.  Bob and Doug McKenzie sell out to national lobby group Beer Canada, to help fight the smallest tax increase in decades.  Cody Lobreau, the Beercrank, drops by to discuss saisons in a somewhat messy tasting session....

Around 4:30 pm on September 1, 2023, the Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba sent out one torpedo of an email to every taproom in the Brewery industry in this province:  You're all classified as age restricted.  In two weeks time, you can't have kids in your establishments. The timing was funky, the rule changes essentially an act of passive aggression.  Those breweries who...

...and we're back! Today the Beercast finds that the beer choices at certain sports venue aren't what they could be...but one team as gone "all in" on local brews.  Andrew Collier of the Winnipeg Goldeyes (www.goldeyes.com) talks about how the club decided to feature nothing but draft and cans brewed in Manitoba.  He talks about their Craft Beer Corner, Craft Beer Voucher progr...

Scott Shupeniuk of Fort Garry Brewing joins the Beercast for a primer on the company's past, present, and post-COVID plans.  Manitoba Liquor Mart's website search function gets the nod in this episode's "Beer in the Wild" survival tools edition. Follow us on twitter at @mbbeercast.  Our email is beerme@manitobabeercast.com.  The web site is manitobabeercast.com. Visit us a...

Spring 2021 sees the return of Manitoba brewery taprooms, as the Liquor, Gaming & Cannabis Authority will allow them to re-open.  However they have to play by the same rules as restaurants and beverage rooms. We quickly rip through the rules (prepare to have dinner at the taproom).Also, hats off to Devil May Care for their blog post, where they apologize for dissing pilsners all this time, and...

Episode 3 of the Beercast features an interview with Cody Lobreau of beercrank.ca. Cody started reviewing the beers at his local Liquor Mart in the golden age of blogging, and the Beercrank continues to be a great resource for Beerheads.  (It also features the best section on the web for non-alcoholic brews).The episode also features a quick squint at the re-opening of two breweries in Winnipeg un...

Episode 2 of the Beercast answers the long-standing question: When the heck is Brandon getting a craft brewery? The answer is soon, as Black Wheat Brewing (www.blackwheatbrewing.ca) is starting to ship product into the Brandon market, and is putting the finishing touches on their 10th Street home. We talk to Ted Birch, part of the group spearheading the project, about the challenges of putting a b...

Welcome to the first episode of the Beercast.  In the weeks to come, we hope to talk to folks in the industry about their passion, and talk about how to get your hands on the locally brewed beer that you love. After a wee bit of throat clearing, we kick off the Beercast with a reading for a blog post of mine over at beercrank.ca from 2020, called "Be that Guy. Ask for Local Beer". It&apo...

Explore Manitoba's growing brewing industry with the Beercast. Each week, we'll talk to brewers, distributors, and others in the industry. We explore the wide variety of beers from craft and consumer breweries, and tell you how to get your hands on great locally brewed beer. Pods will drop weekly, at all the leading platforms, and at manitobabeercast.com. Get in on the conversation on tw...