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Beercast 009 – Beer at the Lake: Wasagaming

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, and the Second Annual Craft Fest in Wasagaming on Father’s Day weekend Saturday.
Get tix @ www.staylakehouse.ca/events
Plus, Manitoba Brewers grabbed a bunch of hardware at the Canadian & Prairie Brewers Awards!

Manitoba Beercast Minute – Patios!

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 Gem for Beerheads, Section 6 Brewing, and more.

Follow us on twitter/X at @mbbeercast.  Touch base via email: beerme@manitobabeercast.com.  The web site is manitobabeercast.com.

Let’s get started, shall we?

The idea of a Manitoba Beer podcast started, naturally, over beers.

Around the table one evening, all agreed that there’s a lot of great beer coming out of the breweries of Manitoba.

Craft brewing allows for nimble innovation. New breweries, each innovating with new core pours, seasonal varieties, one time knock-offs. Hard to keep up.

That, and the challenge of knowing WHERE to get your hands on your favorite beer. Is it available at the vendor, the Liquor Mart, or do you absolutely have to go to your favorite taproom, growler in hand?

And…you can raise the confusion level, by a factor of at least two, for the folks at this particular table… Folks who live and work outside Winnipeg need to expend a little more effort to get their hands on what they love.

So, the consensus that night was there needs to be more information out there, an entry-level guide if you will, on the matters of “What’s out there/Who stocks it/How do I get my hands on it?”

Thus, this podcast. Your humble host will carry his suitcase studio anywhere there’s a beer tap, to let the brewers, distributors, and other interested parties talk about their passion. And to let beer enthusiasts know where to find new and great beer.

So…welcome to the Beercast. The carpentry on the website is a little rough. I might change the paint colour…or there the dang thing down overnight, to give it a different look. But let’s get the table to the centre of the room, the stools pulled up, and let’s get this thing started.