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February 2, 2021

Episodes

Beercast 002 – Black Wheat Brewing

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”.

Follow us on twitter at @mbbeercast. Our email is beerme@manitobabeercast.com. The web site is manitobabeercast.com.

January 24, 2021

Episodes

Beercast 001 – “Be that Guy. Ask for local beer.”

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.

Follow us on twitter at @mbbeercast. Post your sightings of “Beer in the Wild” and tag us in.

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

October 1, 2020

Episodes

“Manitoba Beercast” Trailer

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.

August 18, 2020

Blog Posts

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.