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 brewery into a pre-existing building, and the importance of having a “lawn mower beer” in the product mix.  Also, a discussion on how post-COVID industry changes have made it a little easier to get your hands on your favorite craft beer, and another edition of “Beer in the Wild”.

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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’s the closest this podcast will come to a manifesto. Think of it as a way of setting the table for the coming weeks.

Also debuting this week is the first episode of “Beer in the Wild”.  In hopes of getting more Manitoba beer to folks outside Winnipeg’s Perimeter Highway, this feature will highlight vendors, stores, and bars featuring Manitoba brewed beers, as a way of building availability of the good stuff to the legion of Rural Beerheads.

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Our email is beerme@manitobabeercast.com.  The web site is manitobabeercast.com.

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 twitter (@mbbeercast) or reach out to us at beerme@manitobabeercast.com.