Pub Chat: Episode 61 - Bourbon County Stout

Good beer conversation with one of our favourite guests

In this episode we bring Ameya back to discuss our favourite beer websites. Before we get to that we drink some Goose Island Bourbon County Stout that we’ve been aging and discuss some very random things.

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Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
00:45 – Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
05:50 – Bourbon County releases
09:20 – Winter in the North
12:05 – Bad roads and repairs
17:20 – Back to the beer
17:45 – Imperial and barrel-aged stouts
21:45 – Canadian craft breweries
22:25 – Some travel plans
24:00 – Michigan craft beer scene
27:25 – Beer stuff in Winnipeg
28:15 – Sours
29:50 – Style, season and serving temperature
33:25 – Beer websites
41:35 – Beer Advocate and RateBeer communities
44:20 – Beer Pulse and beer label approval
52:50 – Twitter for beer
57:20 – Wrapping it up

Pub Chat: Episode 60 - w00stout

We learn a ton about coffee

In this episode we are joined by coffee fanatic Jared Falk . He educates us on coffee and shows us how he brews his coffee. On top of that we drink Stone Brewing’s w00tstout while discussing Wil Wheaton.

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Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
00:50 – Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout
02:50 – Tasting the beer
03:30 – About Stone Brewing
07:30 – Going to a baseball game
10:00 – Different kinds of coffee
13:25 – Freshness matters
14:55 – Coffee brewing processes: Chemex
17:05 – Aeropress
17:50 – It’s basically a Tassimo
20:40 – Jared’s coffee habits
22:15 – Direct trade and Ethiopian Coffee Exchange
24:00 – Finding good coffee
25:45 – Coffee from the farm to the store
27:55 – Roasting your own beans
32:30 – Tasting notes in coffee
35:45 – Will Wheaton and Star Trek
39:00 – Preparing to brew the coffee
47:30 – Starting to brew
50:25 – Equipment to use for Chemex coffee
53:10 – Serving and tasting the coffee
56:45 – Wrapping it up

This Blog

And its future

I really have no clue what is in store for cenquist.com. It will continue. In some form. But at this time I haven't decided what I will do. I'm going to kind of take a sabbatical from it. At least in the sense of regularly scheduled posts.

The Bi-Weekly Beer Reviews are officially retired. Thanks for reading them. It was fun and I learned a lot about beer but honestly, I never enjoyed writing them too much. Beer won't vanish from the blog, I promise. You will still get Pub Chat posts, and hopefully some photo essays from beer related events and trips.

Photos are one thing I want to bring to the blog. Something I want to improve upon doing and see what I can do in a sense to highlight them on here. Maybe my outlet for that will be here in a form of photo essays. Still not sure yet.

I will also be semi-retiring The Great Burger Hunt. The odd review will show up but not monthly anymore. I've done quite a bit of the big places in the city, only really a few left of the true burger joints to do anyway! The topic of food will not be going anywhere. I would like to post more recipes on here. I do have a few beer based cooking recipes I have been trying to master to post on the here. One or two should show up soon.

There are a few things in the works that may or may not see the light of day too. The suspense is killing you I'm sure.

Essentially though I am just burned out from school and life, so I am taking a mild break until sometime in the summer or so. Allowing me to figure out what is in store for the blog and myself. So really what I am trying to say is I have no idea what I'm doing with this blog and when I will return to regularly scheduled posting, other than Pub Chat posts.

Pub Chat: Episode 59 - Electric Unicorn

Pizza, pizza, pizza!

In today’s episode we go to the vault of unreleased episodes from last summer (this was the only one). One of our favourite guests Kevin Lawrence joins us to discuss pizza, and berate Adrian, while we drink Electric Unicorn from Pipeworks Brewing. We ate a bunch of pizza before. So we decided to talk about pizza. Because who doesn’t like pizza?

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Show Notes

00:00 – Intro
00:20 – Pipeworks Unicorn’s Revenge
02:35 – Tasting the beer
04:40 – Kevin imagines the brewery
05:20 – Back to the beer
06:30 – Pizza experiment
11:15 – Adrian’s pizza initiation
12:30 – Favourite types of pizza
13:55 – Thick or thin
15:05 – Best cheese options
17:20 – Best pizza in Winnipeg or anywhere
18:40 – Best late-night pizza
20:15 – Kevin calls his own phrasing
21:15 – Adrian’s fun fact
21:50 – Wrapping it up