Hoppy Night in Canada: Recent Episodes
Hoppy Night in Canada
Brew north, strong and free! Podcasting from Victoria, exploring the wide world of Canadian craft beer.
The bracket to determine BC's best beer is over! (Technically it's been over for a couple of weeks, but who's counting?). We're back with one more round of analysis and reflections on the winners, runners-up, upsets, and surprises.
The bracket to determine BC's best beer continues! We discuss the results and our impressions of the first round (plus the first half of the second round) and lay out some predictions for what we expect see in the upcoming week's voting.
After a three year hiatus, we're back! Just in time, too - there's a bracket starting to determine BC's best beer. In this episode, we discuss the play-in rounds and the bracket announcement itself, in advance of the first round of votes. Listen along, play along, and drink along. Cheers!
New beers! And we take a look at this years Golden Plates beer-related winners. Spoiler: we disagree with them.
The tasters keep coming! Hear about some beers of the moment and reflect on our new year-round beer fest life.
Another years gone by, so lets take a trip down memory lane and see how we fared in our 2017 predictions. We toast the ones we got right and make some claims as to what 2018 has in store for Canadian craft beer. Cheers!
Back for another taster episode! Listen to what were drinking this week and hear a tale of silly growler policies.
Our first taster episode! We talk beers of the moment and discuss the recent prohibition whisky raids on British Columbia bars.
After an unexpected season haitus, we triumphantly return to discuss the best strategies for sharing beer over the winter, and share a few ourselves. Come for the holiday cheer(s), stay for the first gold star double 10/10 rating weve ever given!
We return in time for summer! Lets talk dry hopped sours - including some of our favourite beers of all time - and beer tourism.
Our heroes talk about the future. Like, with jetpacks? No, with IPAs! Its a brave new hoppy world; we tackle hazy/NE-style IPAs, Milkshake IPAs, and IPAs with additives (jasmine and coffee, to be specific).
Weve been making this little podcast for a year, so its time to look back at what the beer world gave us in 2016, put on our prediction hats for the year to come, and then dive into the venerable topic of cellaring beer. We cap it off with a vertical tas
Because barleywine is life, we check out the latest release releases from Steel & Oak brewing - its the same barleywine, aged in two different types of barrels. We talk barrel aging, bottle conditioning, and why some beer is better with age. Curious
...and were back! Kicking off season 2, we tried a sampling of BCs fresh hop beers of fall. Yeah, yeah, its almost winter now, but we did our best. We talk freshness, bitterness, grassiness, and even get into the science of hops. Cheers!
In which our heroes take on some North American Saisons and discuss the frustration of cross-provincial beer distribution - possibly our most Canadian topic yet. Plus: an important announcement about the shows future! Dont worry, were not going anywhere.
One of our heroes couldnt get his hands on the shared beer, but we make it work anyhow. Then its back to school, where we walk Cicerone and just why two folks who dont work in the industry would want to get certified to talk about beer.
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In a very special episode our heroes meet face to face, break the usual format in favour of sharing a couple of special beers, and bring in a guest to share in the revelry!
Wherein our heroes get an email, discuss our favourite breweries in our respective cities, and contempate how to rate a beer. John apparently doesnt know what a Kölsch is, but we try some and the results are pleasantly surprising! Most importantly, we fi
Our heroes change the show format, then put their thinking caps on and try to figure out what makes a collaboration beer work. Also, its time for Belgian Witbiers!
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In which our heroes run the calendar in search of seasonal beers they love (and a few they dont). They also finally found a sour beer to share.
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Our heroes dive into beer events: festivals, tap takeovers, and beer pairing meals. They then try some IPAs, and John says the word “character” way too much.
Theme music: “Never Is Now”, by Sinkhole. Licensed under Creative Commons.
In which our heroes introduce themselves, talk about 2015 beer trends, and drink a couple of stouts.
Theme music: “Never Is Now”, by Sinkhole. Licensed under Creative Commons.