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This Pint Has 20 Ounces

47 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -

Broadcasting out of the AF23 hangar in Calgary's Currie Barracks, Nick and Jonathan explore the Albertan craft beer landscape and the characters that manifest it. They joke, they drink, they talk community, beer, arts, sports, industry and events, with some embarrassing "Canfessionals" thrown in for good measure.

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47 - Farewell Episode

October 23, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

All good things must come to an end, so we’re not going to sugarcoat it… this is the final episode of This Pint Has 20 Ounces. This episode Jonathan, Nick, Mama T, and producer Alex are on the mic for one last hurrah and to reminisce about the great times they had. By the time you hear this episode, Nick will be kicking back on Vancouver Island living the island life. He breaks the news to us that he’s resigned from his position at Wild Rose which unfortunately means the end of the...

46 - Deidre Lotecki (Sweet Relief Pastries)

October 09, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB

Continuing our theme of tasty guests on the podcast, this week Deidre Lotecki of Sweet Relief Pasteries joins us for a delicious dessert, and to talk about how she’s serving up sweets for Calgarians. Deidre first got in touch with the Wild Rose team to speak to Nick about getting her hands on some Wraspberry Ale for a unique father’s day special: beer cupcakes. This was an idea she’d had for a few years but never had time to pursue, but with COVID disrupting business-as-usual she ...

45 - Shaun Albert (Oil Jefe)

September 25, 2020 07:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

In a city of oil bosses, this week’s guest stands out as one who can bring the heat - figuratively and literally - Shaun “The Oil Boss” Albert of Oil Jefe. Shaun’s affinity for chili oil began nearly a decade ago when he tried it for the first time at King’s Wonton. Having a background in recipe development before his career in the trades, Shaun found himself wanting to kick up the heat a bit and started making his own chili oils at home. His friends would visit, try his delicious ...

44 - Shawn McDonald (Springbank Cheese)

September 11, 2020 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.8 MB

Step aside wine-and-cheese, there’s a new king of tasting pairings in town. This week’s guest, Shawn McDonald of Springbank Cheese in Marda Loop, is here to take our tastebuds on a journey with a beer-and-cheese tasting flight. Known by many as “the cheese troll,” Shawn has been working with family-and-friend operated Springbank Cheese for more than 15 years. Int hat time he’s seen the palates of Calgarians expand dramatically, at times in tandem with phenomenons such as Alberta’s ...

43 - Colin Mundy

August 28, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes - 34.1 MB

This week we’re joined by a former Wild Rose team member who is now repping a whole different side of Alberta's craft beer industry, Colin Mundy of GP Brewing Co. There are a lot of assumptions and stereotypes about craft beer... and the people who drink it. For many the label “craft” can mean ultra boozy beers, overly hoppy brews, face puckering kettle sours, or expensive four-packs of tall-boys, despite the fact that the term really just refers to beer brewed without preservative...

42 - Jordan Saracini

August 14, 2020 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MB

Eighty Eight Brewing’s Jordan Saracini joins the podcast this week for a chat about the Olympics, 80s music, nostalgia, pizza, and of course excellent craft beer. Jordan and his partners’ origin story is a common one in the craft beer industry - a group of friends who started homebrewing together back in late 2013. The level at which they started brewing was a little less common however, skipping over brewing kits and jumping straight to whole grain. Within just a few years they’d ...

41 - Mark MacDonald

July 31, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MB

What do you get when you combine a passion for comics with a passion for craft beer? This episode’s guest, Mark MacDonald of Zero Issue! In our first episode back at the taproom since re-opening we talk to Mark about Zero Issue’s backstory and their iconic cans. With Jonathan occasionally having beers turn him into a super hero and Nick looking the part of a super hero, it only makes sense that they were drawn to the super hero and sci-fi inspired artwork featured on Zero Issue’s c...

40 - Tom Allen

July 17, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 33.3 MB

Were can you find standup comedy, knife juggling, and fire breathing in one place? With this week’s guest, Tom Allen of TomCat Performance! In our final remote-recorded episode we talk about how to get into circus performance, and the difference between English and Canadian comedy audiences. Tom says he has always had a performative compulsion, which led him to become a circus performer nearly 15 years ago, before immigrating to Canada. This started out with juggling fire, and led...

39 - Marc Creaser

July 03, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MB

This week we’re joined by former Wild Rose team member turned Bitter Sisters brewmaster, Marc Creaser. Marc calls in from the brewery to recount his beginnings in the craft beer industry and how Bitter Sisters is keeping their thirsty customers safe during Alberta’s re-opening. Marc got started in craft beer nearly a decade ago while studying at Mount Royal. He had a bunch of friends working in the kitchen at the Wild Rose Taproom and through them got to know the rest of the team a...

38 - Bryce Krawczyk

June 19, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

In the podcast’s first entirely remote interview during social distancing we talk to professional powerlifter Bryce Krawcyzk of Calgary Barbell. Since getting into powerlifting in 2012 Bryce has set multiple world records and now helps other powerlifters achieve their heavy goals. Bryce got into weightlifting because he was a skinny kid who just didn’t want to be skinny anymore. Before long he went from skinny kid to one of the world’s strongest men, setting a deadlift world record...

37 - Jordan Sorrenti

June 05, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

Great Barbecue and great beer are a match made in heaven, which makes this episode’s guest, Jordan Sorrenti of Paddy's Barbecue & Brewery, the Barley Belt’s greatest matchmaker. Nestled in the heart of Calgary’s Barley Belt district, husband and wife duo Jordan and Kerry Sorrenti are serving up world class barbecue and award winning beers to wash it down. But the question on everyone’s mind is who the heck is Paddy? We learn that this Barley Belt staple is named after Jordan and Ke...

36 - Ben Collins

May 22, 2020 07:00 - 48 minutes - 45 MB

Our guest on the show this week is Ben Collins of Uprooted Farm. Along with the help of his partner Kait, Ben takes a craft approach to farming, growing food that they’d want to eat, with flavours that take you to times in your life like pulling a carrot out of your grandma’s garden. Over the past four growing seasons Uprooted Farm has expanded to roughly 2/3rds of an acre, filling a niche that Ben refers to as a “market garden.” He’s certainly no stranger to the Wild Rose Taproom,...

35 - Bill McKenzie

May 08, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MB

This week Bill McKenzie returns to This Pint Has 20 Ounces for a followup interview. On Bill’s last appearance he offered a CEO’s perspective on the brewery’s acquisition by Sleeman, and now having successfully facilitated it and gracefully bowed and out after handing over the proverbial keys to the brewery, he returns to reminisce and reflect on his favourite memories during his time at Wild Rose. When Bill’s nearly 8 years at Wild Rose began it was 2012, just as Calgary’s craft b...

34 - Nick Ossais

April 24, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Regulars at the taproom have probably seen our host Nick and his glorious beard before, and this episode we talk to the man responsible for it! Nick Ossais, owner of Marda Loop Barbershop, tells us how cutting hair is in his genetics in this interview recorded live back before social distancing guidelines made the taproom pick-up only. Nick Ossais has been spending time in barbershops since he was just a kid, helping out sweeping floors and pricing product in his dad’s barbershop. ...

33 - Andrew Bolinger

April 10, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB

Andrew Bolinger, founder of The Strength Edge, joins us on This Pint Has 20 Ounces to chat about Calgary’s powerlifting and strongman community and why he founded The Strength Edge as a place for the city’s strongest men and women to get together and train together. A self described misfit, Andrew was having a hard time finding a gym where he could do strongman training and got wind of a group of guys who trained in a parking lot on Sundays. The first time he showed up he wasn’t qu...

32 - Byron Brooks

March 27, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

Calgary’s craft brewing industry is often applauded for its strong focus on collaboration and cooperation over competition, which was a massive inspiration for this week’s guest, Byron Brooks of Builders and Brews. Byron tells us of how after being contracted for some construction work at Annex Ale Project he was inspired to create this collaborative spirit into his own industry. A carpenter by trade, Byron has worked on a massive range of products across his career, from furniture...

31 - Mark Kerrigan

March 13, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

This episode we sit down with one of the longest standing team members at Wild Rose, the head brewer at the AF23 taproom, Mark Kerrigan. As a 15 year veteran and employee #6, Mark has a lot of insight into how the brewery has evolved and gives us an inside look at what’s changed during that time at the brewery and in Calgary’s beer scene at large. Mark’s career in the beer industry started in London Ontario on the packaging line for Labatt’s as a summer job. After finishing up his ...

30 - James Dobbin

February 28, 2020 08:00 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MB

“You can be 14 again, but with a bank account and beer.” This episode Nick and Jonathan feel nostalgic for their teen years when Revival Brewcade’s James Dobbin tells us how Alberta’s smallest craft brewery is combining everything you love about beer and arcades. Located in the heart of the beautiful Calgary community of Inglewood, Revival’s story is in many ways a story of red tape. James fills us in on the struggles he and his business partner faced trying to open up the brewery...

29 - Brad Simm

February 14, 2020 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

It’s your friend when you have no friend at the bar, it’s the local arts and culture magazine you find at every cool place in town… it’s Beatroute Magazine, and this episode we talk with the magazine’s Associate Editor and Founder Brad Simm about the publication’s scrappy beginnings and exciting future. Beatroute was founded by Brad and a former student of his at MRU, Glenn. At the time it first started popping up in cool venues and spaces across Calgary the now defunct FFWD was st...

28 - Luke Leimenstoll

January 31, 2020 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MB

How does a brewmaster stay fit? If you’re Wild Rose’s brewmaster you stay fit by working with Luke Leimenstoll, founder of Calgary’s Movement U and this week’s guest on the podcast! Luke Leimenstoll joins us for some pint-glass forearm curls while he fills us in on his more than decade long history helping Calgarians achieve their fitness goals. As a natural entrepreneur Luke started his own fitness company at 23 years old after moving to Calgary from Thunder Bay, Ontario so he’d h...

27 - Yama Nomad

January 17, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MB

This week Josh & Jonathan are joined by Alex & Pat from Yama Nomad, a Calgary based company that outfits “badass mountain adventure vans.” They give us the rundown on their van rentals and custom conversions, as well as teaching us that the #vanlife isn’t just for Chris Farley. Yama Nomad started out as a simple desire Pat & Alex had to do their own mega-road-trip in a sweet van. However the timing for a massive trip wasn’t right for Alex’s job so they built out their first van jus...

26 - Graham Matheos

January 03, 2020 08:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB

Graham Matheos drops by the taproom this week to tell us about One For The Road, the local non-alcoholic craft brewing company that’s making Alberta’s amazing craft beer community inclusive to everyone, even those who don’t drink. After quitting drinking for a year in solidarity with a close friend, Graham would discover a number of positive benefits in his own life and health as a result. In the 14 years since then Graham found himself drawn to Alberta’s booming craft beer culture...

25 - Ashley Hartley

December 20, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB

Ashley Hartley joins us this episode to tell us about her role Director of Marketing with the Panel One Comics Society, and how this Calgary based not for profit that was founded over a tweet celebrates Canadian comic creators and graphic storytellers. Panel One started in Calgary five years ago, but today has 175 members spanning across Canada. What began with a single tweet suggesting the idea of hosting a festival for Canadian comic creators has become a resource for support, ne...

24 - Brett Ireland

December 06, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB

This week’s episode is a meeting of Alberta beer originals when Brett Ireland of Last Best, Jasper Brewing, Banff Ave Brewing, AND Campio Brewing joins us at the Wild Rose Taproom. While Alberta’s beer industry is 120 breweries strong today, both Wild Rose and Jasper brewing were among the first ten brewers in the province. Brett clears up the legend behind their brands, clarifying that one of his business partners did indeed win the lottery but that it’s not quite the story that m...

23 - Jason Mehmel

November 22, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

This episode Jonathan and Nick are joined by self-proclaimed Theatrical Ambassador Jason Mehmel! Jason is the Artistic Director for Sage Theatre and the mastermind behind the local comic anthology series FIGHT COMICS. Sage Theatre is a local theatre production company that just had it’s 20th birthday. Sage’s style is described by Jason as “tightly focused, highly dramatic, intimate theatre” that tells stories about “what it means to be human here and now.” Or for those of us less a...

22 - Mark Kondrat

November 08, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MB

Nick and Jonathan are joined today by returning guest Mark Kondrat! We chat with Mark about his podcast, Let’s Meet For A Beer, and dive into the history of the Alberta Beer Festivals team and how many of their current festivals came about. Mark claims to be a on trick pony with everything he does revolving around beer and his podcast is no exception. Meeting for a beer is the best way to take time out of your day and get to know someone, and Mark uses the Let’s Meet For A Beer pod...

21 - Local Laundry

October 25, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MB

With Josh away Jonathan is joined by former guest, current co-host, and Wild Rose team member Nick McMorrow. Jonathan and Nick sit down for a chat with Connor Curran to talk about his business Local Laundry - a Canadian made clothing company aiming to build community in everything they do. Connor says that he and his partner don’t seem themselves as part of the fashion industry - “We’re not selling clothes, we build community” although Jonathan is quick to challenge him - anyone wh...

20 - Sabo Forte, Noodles AKA The Hand

October 11, 2019 07:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MB

This episode Josh is away and Jonathan is flying solo for a double DJ set. We open the episode with Sabo Forte, Calgary’s #1 open format DJ, and after Mama T shares some embarrassing stories we chat with Noodles, the DJ spinning every Sunday afternoon at the Taproom. Sabo Forte joins us to discuss his brand new album, The Most Obvious Loophole, what makes an open format DJ, and MCA Day YYC. Sabo began working on The Most Obvious Loophole during a trip to Europe, and just after retu...

19 - Brad Conrad, Dana Murzyn

September 27, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MB

We’re getting raw this episode when Josh goes solo with Brad Conrad, General Manager of Rodney’s Oyster House in Calgary, and that rawness continues when Jonathan and Mama T get into it over their childhood celebrity crushes. After the sage wisdom from T, Jonathan fans out over our interview with Calgary Flames Alumni and 1989 Stanley Cup winner Dana Murzyn. Our first interview this episode is with Brad Conrad, a man who’s been known to shuck a few oysters and General Manager of th...

18 - Brad Smylie, Alison Planche

September 13, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MB

This time on This Pint Has 20 Ounces we raise a glass with the Brad Smylie, owner/operator of the recently expanded RAW Distillery, and with Alison Planche from the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s community engagement team. During the break we’re sitting down with Mama T again to get to know her and ourselves a bit better. Our first guest is Brad Smylie, owner/operator of Canmore's RAW Distillery, is outrageously modest for the huge things he’s achieved. Their unique spirits just rec...

17 - Don Tse, Josh & Jonathan

August 30, 2019 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MB

This episode the Don of Beer is back. Don Tse updates us on his legendary beer counter and his recent trips to craft breweries outside of Canada. During the break we get serious with Mama T, and afterwards Josh and Jonathan write a love letter to their ideal guests on the show. Returning guest Don Tse, The Don of Beer, fills us in on his recent trip to Iceland, where beer was illegal until March of 1989, but tells us that for an industry that has only been around 30 years their cra...

16 - Spencer Hilton, Derek Skaggs

August 16, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MB

This episode we sit down with Spencer Hilton of Hilton Family Farms to discuss the world class Alberta barley they produce. After the break we chat with Derek Skaggs, a member of the Calgary Fire Department and owner of Skaggs Design Co. For longtime listeners of This Pint Has 20 Ounces Hilton Farms may already be a familiar name. Spencer’s son in law Kyle Geeraert has previously appeared on the podcast to discuss Origin Malting & Brewing, which is the other half of their seed to g...

15 - Mike McNeil, Trevor Prior

August 02, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

This episode we’re joined by Mike McNeil from the Alberta Small Brewer’s Association, Mama T tells us about her most prized possession, and later we sit down with the co-founder of motorcycle self-maintenance school Dirty Jeans DIY Trevor Prior. Alberta’s craft beer industry is currently 117 breweries strong and growing, and the Alberta Small Brewer’s Association (also known as ASBA) was formed to make sure those breweries are able to be represented just as well as large brewers. B...

14 - Ashley Hanson, Laura Bechard

July 19, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

This week we’re joined by Drumheller radio personality and Dinosaur Downs spokesperson Ashley Hanson, Mama T is back with the hard truth about what discerning women look for in a man, and after the break we speak with Laura Bechard of Green Gram Botanicals about how her family’s century old farm is moving into the future with a medicinal cannabis facility. Dinosaur Downs isn’t just the only dirt stock car racing track in southern Alberta, it’s also been the subject of songs written...

13 - Kacey Foore, Dj Cosm

July 05, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MB

Our first guest this episode is Greta Bar’s Kacey Foore. She and Josh recount the recent Calgary Beer Fest, and Kacey’s important job on the Greta team of shaking hands and kissing babies. We get the drop on Geta: Calgary’s go-to spot for beer, arcade games, and street food, or what Jonathan describes as “an adult fun-house.” If you drop by Greta Bar on a Sunday, Kacey guarantees it’ll be “coco-bananas!” Sunday is re-greta night, where things get a little wild and you just might re-...

12 - Abbie Thurgood, Dave the Beer Guy

June 21, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

This Pint Has 20 Ounces is back with an episode packed full of Calgary celebrities! We kick things off with Abbie Thurgood, vocalist for stellar prog-rock band Gone Cosmic, then during the break we get some tips from Mama T on how to travel on a budget. After our trip with Mama T we’re joined by a man with a job title that makes everyone jealous, Willow Park’s Dave The Beer Guy. Just what does it take for the stars to align and make a band like Gone Cosmic possible? Vocalist Abbie ...

11 - Zac Hartley, Kate MacGregor

June 07, 2019 07:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MB

This episode kicks off with Zac Hartley of Burgundy Oak, to tell us about how wanting some ribs at the cabin led to a thriving Calgary business, and later we speak with architect and real estate developer Kate MacGregor about her firm, XYC Design, and her contribution to Calgary’s East Village. During the break we’re back with another Canfessional! It all started when Zac attended the Penticton Rib Festival. Later at family cabin Zac wanted to recreate a great recipe he’d tried, so...

10 - Bill Mckenzie

May 24, 2019 07:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MB

"I don't care how great your beer is, if you don't have great employees representing your brand it's hard to win." In this extra special episode of This Pint Has 20 Ounces we're joined by Wild Rose CEO Bill Mckenzie to discuss the recent acquisition of Wild Rose Brewery by Sleeman, as well why the Wild Rose team describes their culture as a reverse mullet. This episode we bust out our journalistic chops for a hard-hitting interview with our boss, Bill McKenzie. In this interview ge...

09 - Brent from Boogies, Nick Mcmorrow

May 10, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MB

This episode we're joined by Brent from Boogie's Burgers to flip our perception of Calgary's burger scene, Mamma T gives us the heartfelt truth about loving people for who they are, and Strongman Nick McMorrow lifts up our understanding of the Strongman sport both here in Alberta and nationally. Boogie's isn't just Josh's favourite burger joint, it's a way of life and a Calgary institution. With Brent form their Marda Loop location in the guest seat the boys get the scoop on their ...

08 - Mitch Belot, Kyle Geeraert

April 26, 2019 07:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MB

This episode we're joined by Mitch Belot, local purveyor of good old fun Saturday night music, Mamma T returns to answer your questions, and our second guest is Kyle Geeraert from Origin Malting & Brewing, the source of Wild Rose Brewery's barley malt. Our first guest this week is Mitch Belot, joining us to plug the band's upcoming album. Josh confesses his fandom for the swampy blues-rock band, and gushes over their performance at a recent show here at the Wild Rose Taproom. Later...

07 - Don Tse, Tami Miguens

April 12, 2019 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

Self-proclaimed beer geek Don Tse shares how he came to be known as The Don of Beer, another Canadian traveller shares their embarrassment anonymously as a canfessional, and we keep geeking out when Tami Miguens joins the podcast to talk robotics, AI, and Calgary's tech scene. Don Tse, better known as The Don of Beer, plans a Beastie Boys parody band with Josh and Jonathan, because these boys have to fight for their right to barley. Previously known as "Beers to You," Don's role as...

06 - Emma McCaul, Jackson

March 29, 2019 07:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MB

This episode we're joined by Emma McCaul, the brains behind Calgary's Art Spot and Market Spot exhibitions, and Jackson, one of the masterminds at the brand new Evil Corporation Brewing. Art Spot began in Emma's home, a home you just might have been to a party at once before, and has grown into the Arts & Events company behind the Under $100 Art Show, which most recently sold over $114,000 worth of artwork from over 100 artists in just four days. It hasn't always been a walk in th...

05 - Vito Borrelli, Sargeant & Comrade

March 15, 2019 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MB

This week Vito Borelli discusses his non-profit work and love for travel, Josh shares a personal canfessional from his days a server, and later we're joined by Calgary hiphop duo Sargeant and Comrade. As a survivor of congenital heart disease as well as Hodgkin's lymphoma, Vito Borrelli has wisdom to share with Jonathan and Josh about how to stay positive in the face of adversity. He shares his story of participating in the Offbeats youth group at the Heartbeats Children's Society...

04 - Lex, Jonas Hurtig

March 01, 2019 08:45 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

Calgary street-wear icon Lex starts off this episode by sharing the success story behind Lex Ave. Later we're joined by Wild Rose alumnus and head brewer of Cabin Brewing, Jonas Hurtig. Renovations at Lex Ave are complete and owner Lex tells us where it all began. Speaking to the value of positive intent and doing what you love, Lex's story takes us back to his first rides on the now-retired #26 Dover bus route and his night-shift kitchen job. Discovering they'd shared a highschoo...

03 - Drew Jones, Mike Bell

March 01, 2019 08:30 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MB

Drew Jones comes on the show to talk about The Frontier's residency at Wild Rose, as well as his love for all things soul. Later Mike Bell joins us to discuss the YYScene and how he sees Calgary's Arts culture. How do you balance work, life, music, and family? Frontiers frontman Drew Jones says "You don't." Instead you just burn out, recalibrate, and realize what's really important in your life. During this interview Drew takes us back to The Frontiers' early grinding days, discuss...

02 - Mark Kondrat, Mike Roberts

March 01, 2019 08:15 - 56 minutes - 52.1 MB

Alberta Beer Festivals CEO Mark Kondrat shares how he and his partner first got into beer festivals and how ABF has grown with them. Next, Mike Roberts from Co-op Wine & Spirits talks about how his role as a sommelier makes him like a bridge. This episode we tackle how to make barley sexy when Mark Kondrat comes on the show to discuss how he works to connect people with breweries and their stories. From the first International Calgary Beer Fest at SAIT, Mark and his team have taken...

01 - Brian Smith, Danny Vacon

March 01, 2019 08:00 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB

We chat with Brian Smith of Wild Rose Brewery about his history with the beer industry. Later, Danny Vacon talks veggie burgers and gives us a peek behind the curtain with some of his more recent projects. In our first interview, Brian tells us about his role as Head of Brewery Operations at Wild Rose, his introduction to craft beer, and reveals his surprising history with the Grateful Dead. This episode's Canfessionals reveals the embarrassing story of two bar-hopping friends s...

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