613BeerCast

New England IPAs are purposely cloudy, hazy, packed full of juicy hops and have a creamy, smooth mouthfeel. The so-called style is taking North America by storm and breweries are brewing up their own interpretation of this regional beer. Beer List:

Sasha Dunfield runs Ottawa Beer Events, a website dedicated to beer in Ottawa. She (along with her partner, Matt Petitpas) also hosts beer tastings.

Fermented Malt Beverages (FMB) also known as 'malternatives' or 'alcopops' are beer strength beverages flavoured with a distilled spirit and other additives. The category has grown substantially over the years with the introduction of Not Your Father's Rootbeer. Katy and Chuck have a go and some of the prominent FMB's in the US market.

International Women's Collaboration Brew Day is an annual event held on March 8th to coincide with International Women's Day. This year Ottawa's Barley's Angels teamed up with Brasserie Étienne Brûlé Brewery to brew a historical ale with organic dark maple syrup.

Matthew O'Hara is the Brewmaster at Beau's All Natural Brewing Company and Jenn Beauchesne is the Director of not-so corporate Communications at Beau's All Natural Brewing Company in Vankleek Hill, Ontario.

Chuck and Katy talk about the trend of ordering beer online and having it delivered by mail.

Sam Corbeil is the co-founder and brewmaster of Sawdust City Brewing Company in Gravenhurst, Ontario. Dimitri Van Kampen, Founder of Spearhead Brewing Company, and currently branching out with new projects (one that he talks about in this podcast). Sam and Dimitri talk to Chuck about their collab, A.P.B (an American Pale Brett).

Beau's All Natural Brewing Company started International Gruit Day in 2013 and has become one of the leading breweries brewing the style and championing its resurgence. In this episode, Katy and Chuck sample 4 of Beau's gruit offerings.

Marc-André Chainey is the mad scientist behind Waller St. Brewing. He is known for speaking passionately about the brewing process, giving extremely detailed (and interesting) tours of his basement brewery and wearing suspenders. Waller St.'s flagships are: Speakeasy Red, Moonlight Porter, Bootleg Blonde and Blind Pig IPA.

Andy Nita is Chief Beer Officer of the Nita Beer Company, a brewery that opened in January of 2015 in the Colonnade Business Park of Ottawa. Their flagship beers include 5 Fingers and Ten12.

613BeerCast #35 - Robin LeBlanc and Jordan St. John

Beer is an amazing thing! For Dan Beaudoin, it made him quit his job as a designer and strive to learn more about brewing and eventually become someone who designs beers. Learn about what made him make the leap and how he ended up in Embrun at Brasserie Etienne Brule!

Beyond the Pale is known for their over the top flavours and rambunctious parties, but what about the two guys behind the beers? How has it been operating a brewery for the past three years?

A brewery is a hub for a community and we're slowly seeing each Ottawa neighborhood get their own. Opening soon in Orleans will be Stray Dog Brewing Company - a place for those in the East end to call their own.

Whiprsnapr Brewing Company is one of Ottawa's west end breweries that's just recently celebrated their second birthday. 613BeerCast talks beer, distribution and quality with founder/brewer Ian McMartin.