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We join Tim and Steve Beauchesne live from Vankleek Hill!
A little about Andrew Vincent, he has played Bluesfest twice, Westfest, Tulipfest, etc. I have also been lucky enough to open shows for people like Kathleen Edwards, Feist, Cat Power, Jim Bryson, and Hawksley Workman. He is a singer songwriter, and occasional rock and roller, from Ottawa, Ontario. Since 1998 he has released a handful of mostly well-received records on Ottawa’s Kelp Records. His latest are available for name your price downloads, they are Keep it that Way and Rotten Pear
Things that we talk about during the podcast
-Steve meeting Andrew Vincent for the first time
-Tim talks about how the concept of Beau’s Brewery was created, such an inspiring story
-Steve then comes on to tell the “real” way of how it happened
-Say What and homebrew kits
–Members of Barleyment and the home-brew competition at Oktoberfest
-The winner, Patrick getting blisters working on the Vanilla beans
-Tim owning his own companies since his 30s
-How the logo came about
-The family moving to Vankleek Hill in 1983
-The additions to the factory that are ongoing, ie bottling machines
-10,000 bottles a day being pushed through Beau’s Brewery
-At the start they were hand pumping the beer one bottle at time
-Started at 5 employees now just a little shy from 70
-After the break we talk about the rise of microbreweries right now, why they died at prohibition and how the bigger breweries came about
-The importance of eating locally and supporting
-More breweries in the United States today then during prohibition
-The fact that Beau’s Brewery invites competition
-Oktoberfest, if you have not gone, go! We talk about this history (200 people the first time, now 20,000)
– FeBREWary on Sparks Street February 16th-17th, 7 different beers in the 4 weeks coming from Beau’s Brewery
-Beau’s is reshaping people’s lives, it is such a well run company, it was such a pleasure to meet with Tim and Steve, thank you guys!
We finish with Canadian dream from Andrew Vincent.
Thank you for joining us this week!
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