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We share stories about craft beer and the people behind it. On this podcast, you'll hear interviews with brewers, brewery owners and other craft beer industry folks telling it like it is in their own words. Born out of a genuine passion for craft beer, BAOS Podcast are Canadian-born with a worldwide perspective. Focused on the beer scenes in North America, Australia and across the globe, we’re a team who travels for the love of craft beer, showcasing the best brews we find and interviewing t ...
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My First Million Key Takeaways Instead of focusing on how something might fail, consider how big the idea could be if everything worked out You don’t always want to sit behind a defensive moat; sometimes, a high-velocity attack is the best way to win Mental models from one discipline are often applicable in another discipline; cross-pollinate ideas…
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Discovering new breweries is always super fun, so when Cee stumbled upon Dallas, TX's Celestial Beerworks at our fave WNY store, Brewed & Bottled, thanks to a suggestion from the owner, Chris, he immediately reached out to get them on the pod. Matt and Molly joined Cee to chat about their long craft beer journeys from the 1990s 'til now, how the la…
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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg Key Takeaways The Trump win represents a dismissal of Wokeism and judgmentalism and is a ringing endorsement of meritocracy and common sense Donald Trump has increased his support across the electorate; except for two demographic groups (65+ and white college women), every single demographic group shift…
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Niagara Falls is home to one of the most versatile breweries in the province, who not only brew killer beer but their taproom experience and food is also top tier. Counterpart was our favourite discovery of 2023, so we were well overdue to catch up. Greg hung out with Cee and Nate to chat about their major Halloween drop for 2024 (7 beers!), their …
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My First Million Key Takeaways Paradoxically, life gets easier when you choose to do hard things Have a goal that you can strive towards, but be cognizant of how you feel along the way in pursuit of that goal One of the hardest things in life is figuring out what you want “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dre…
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Pomp Podcast Key Takeaways The fundamental aspect of the American Dream is creating a better life for your kids than the one you lived Two-thirds of the American workforce has a high school education, and only one-third has a college education; on average, a person with a college education lives seven years longer than a person without one “Right n…
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Ontario's Prince Edward County is a region we hype up on the pod regularly, so we were stoked to have the newest brewery in town hang out and crush some brews. Husband and wife team Colin and Steph VanderMeulen joined Cee and Nate to chat about the Dune Hopper story and Colin's history in craft beer, why they try not to fit in but offer something d…
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Founders✓Claim Key Takeaways “If Steve Jobs studied Edwin Land, I think every other founder should as well.” – David Senra Optimize for breadth as well as depth; hire the chemist who does photography on the side! Something magical exists at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences “Missionaries make better products.” – Jeff Bezos Mission…
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Fall is our favourite beer time of the year, and while in 2023 we did a deep dive into all things pumpkin ales, in 2024, we switched it up and dove super deep into Fest Biers! Cee and Nate picked up every Fest Bier available at the LCBO (the provincial liquor store in Ontario for those outside of the region) and ran through them while getting into …
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Founders✓Claim Key Takeaways Some failure is inevitable; learn from it, do not beat yourself up over it, and keep moving forward Business is not a battle to be waged; it is a puzzle to be solved True entrepreneurs never fail; sometimes the business venture doesn’t work out for them, but they never fail Go to where it is less crowded; there is no su…
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Quebec has been brewing some of the best beer in Canada for a hot minute, and one of the stars of the province is Sir John. Located around 45 minutes north of Montreal in Lachute, Sir John is renowned for their juicy, hazy IPAs and bold, pastry stouts, so we were stoked to finally get the fellas on the podcast. Joel and Simon joined Cee and Nate to…
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Write of Passage Podcast Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org You know him as the CEO of OpenAI — but did you know that Sam Altman is an avid writer? As one of today’s most successful entrepreneurs, Sam champions the tremendous value of writing: how it clarifies your thinking, expands your ideas, and level…
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Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways “The founder has to be accountable for the story. The founder holds this secret knowledge and vision that other people do not.” – Lulu Meservey Go Direct: If the founder’s secret has to go through seven layers of filtering before it is shared with the world, then it will become something that is already familiar t…
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How to Take Over the World The story of how John Wooden won ten national championships on the way to becoming the greatest coach of all time. ----- Sponsors: Vesto Gains In Bulk - Use code Ben for $20 and a free shaker. How to Take Over the World Premium - For all endnotes, takeaways, and bonus episodes subscribe for only $7/month. ----- Writing, p…
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This might be a podcast-first: seven custom-designed and printed glasses just for this episode. Glassware is arguably the most important element of craft beer as it's the actual vessel through which we get to experience it, yet it rarely obtains the shine it so glaringly deserves. Tonight, we fix that. Dan of Zenan, the largest glassware company in…
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Independent bottle shops were one of the biggest wins from the pandemic for Ontario craft beer drinkers, and in this latest episode of The Business of Beer, we catch up with two bottle shops x contract breweries that approached it completely differently. Michael of Gather Brewery & Glassworks and Alexander of Lovebird Snack Club joined Cee and Nate…
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career✓Claim Key Takeaways “Every tap on a mobile app is a miracle for you as a product developer.” – Nikita Bier Teens see each other everyday; this is one of the most important factors for why teen consumer apps have a higher probability of going viral If you are building a product with network effects and that…
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Founders✓Claim The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia. The saga begins with an emigre from Sweden, Immanuel Nobel, who was an…
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Write of Passage Podcast Key Takeaways Writing invokes clarity of thought; it forces you to ensure that every you say is actually correct Productive writers are always thinking about the topics they write about, even if they are not sitting in front of their computer The goal of writing is not to convince the reader that you are right, but to force…
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My First Million Key Takeaways The nine non-obvious lessons that Shaan Puri has learned while building an audience: 1. Forget the numbers 2. Find your inner nerd 3. Build a magnet, not an audience 4. The First, Last, Best, Worst, Weirdest framework 5. Use the Five D’s 6. Nothing is too long, only too boring 7. Don’t worry about style or production …
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Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways The keys to creating a business culture of excellence: Have a small number of people who are elite in their field Compensate them very well Ensure that compensation and promotion are perfectly tied to performance Ruthlessly minimize bureaucracy Celebrate people who do big things with the fewest number of people po…
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The American three-tier distribution system can be a bit of a confusing beast to comprehend, with different rules in each state and more variances than any individual human could ever remember. Good friend of the show Kevin Abbott of Barrel of Monks in Boca Raton, FL joined Cee for a deep dive into the three-tier system and how it works, why they d…
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Infinite Loops Key Takeaways Investing is a service-based business; focus on the karma! “The four horsemen of the investment apocalypse are fear, greed, hope, and ignorance. And only ignorance is something that you can address.” – Jim O’Shaughnessy Take actions that increase the surface area of your luck Ironically, in a changing world, playing it …
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Artificial Intelligence Podcast Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh…
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One of our most watched videos on YouTube is about the life of a craft beer sales rep, and strangely it's something we've never explored at length on the podcast before. Micah Overton of Lilypad, a "CRM crafted for beverage suppliers and distributors to stay organized and sell more liquid", joins Cee to talk about a day in the life of a beer sales …
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Twenty Minute VC Key Takeaways “Extraordinary careers, when you are junior in venture, do not get built sitting behind a desk in an office behind a laptop. You have to be willing to go meet with founders in person, figure out how to understand their business and how to convince them to even spend time with you when you are not one of the big genera…
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rational vc Key Takeaways Check out the Rational VC website Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of di…
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How to Take Over the World Key Takeaways “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan The greats do not cower when they are slighted; instead, their determination only grows further “I never asked any of my teammates to do something that I wasn’t willing to do myself. If you don’t want to play…
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career✓Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Rory Sutherland is widely regarded as one of the most influential (and most entertaining) thinkers in marketing and behavioral science. He’s the vice chairman of Ogilvy UK, the author of Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious …
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Founders✓Claim What I learned from reading The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone. --- EightSleep: Get the best sleep of your life and unlock more energy with the Pod 3. Get $150 off at eightsleep.com/founders/ --- One of the best podcasts I've heard this year: Listen to Invest Like The Best #336 …
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Modern Wisdom Key Takeaways The emotion that we do not want to feel is often the emotion that we invite in the exact way that we try to avoid it The spiritual path for so many is just another way to say, ‘I am not good enough yet You are not going to get to where you want to go by being a really sh*tty boss to yourself Enjoyment is a state of mind …
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career✓Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Mike Maples, Jr. is a legendary early-stage startup investor and a co-founder and partner at Floodgate. He’s made early bets on transformative companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, and Applied Intuition and i…
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My First Million Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Episode 609: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) break down the genius marketing tactics used by the brands you can’t get out of your brain–no matter how much you want to. — Show Notes: (0:00) The h…
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Ayr, Ontario is an unlikely town to find some of the best beer and spirits in the province, but the lords at Willibald have been taking care of the community for years now. Cam and Gordo joined Cee and Nate to catch up on what's been happening with them for the last two years, why they chose their Hell Lager as their flagship and the thinking behin…
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How to Take Over the World Key Takeaways Check out Ben’s website Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org "When I was a child, my mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the pope. Instead, I was a painter And became Picasso." What made Picasso such a great artist? And what made him such a…
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How to Take Over the World Key Takeaways Following your curiosity is the best approach for making scientific discoveries Some of Ben Franklin’s favorite quotes: “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” “Lost time is never found again.” “Love your enemies for they te…
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One of the most important aspects of marketing in craft beer in recent years is Social Media. We've spoken about it at length via the original The Business of Marketing Craft Beer three-part podcast series, but we figured it was time to really dive deep into all things social. Tiffany Alexis, Co-Founder of both BAOS and High Season Co., joins Cee t…
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Conversations with Tyler Intro One person’s freedom is another person’s unfreedom Unanimity theorem, also known as the Stiglitz-Greenwald theorem, posits that in the presence of incomplete markets and imperfect information, the competitive equilibrium is generally not Pareto efficient Sharecropping can create poor incentives for tenants to work har…
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Founders✓Claim Key Takeaways Support David Senra and get access to the world’s most valuable notebook for founders Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org What I learned from reading Sam Walton: The Inside Story of America's Richest Man by Vance Trimble. ---- Founders Notes gives you the superpower to learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs on d…
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Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show✓Claim Show Notes: (0:00) Audio issue (0:51) Introduction (3:40) Deals are long-term relationships (6:02) Facebook-WhatsApp acquisition story (12:04) The most important part of deal-making (16:44) Don’t come off as desperate (19:35) Maintaining momentum during a deal (25:53) Know everything about the person you’re …
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Artificial Intelligence Podcast Key Takeaways Hardship will show you who your real friends are; don’t eat with people that you wouldn’t starve with On evolving: You do something for awhile, you do it at the highest possible level for you, and then at some point you pivot and start supporting the young talent that eventually emerges For certain indi…
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At thirty-seven years in the game - that's right, 37 years - Etobicoke's Great Lakes Brewing are certified OGs and are essentially unstoppable. Face of the brand (among other more important things) Troy Burtch joined Cee and Nate to chat about their approach to craft beer over the decades, how craft beer in Ontario has changed, the impact of Gen-Z …
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Prince Edward County is one of Ontario's most exciting craft beer scenes, and the jewel of PEC is Slake Brewing - both for its view and quality brews. Co-Founder and Brewer Nick joined Cee and Nate to chat about beers that you don't have to think about (ie No Thinkies), their barrel program and why they dialled it back, their approach to beer, hop …
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Ottawa's Tooth & Nail is both one of Ontario's most heralded and more underrated breweries at the same time. They've made our Top 10 Breweries in Ontario list every year due to their incredibly well-crafted beers, and it's a crime that we waited three years to catch up with Matty. Cee and Nate chatted with Matt about how they got their initial trac…
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The second episode of our new season, The Business of Beer, brings in the Co-Founders of the breweries represented in Episode #1. Jeff Talmey of Town and Andrew Silver of Fine Balance join Cee and Nate to chat about the current state of the craft beer industry, being a boutique craft brewery versus a growth-oriented craft brewery, the pros and cons…
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While Quebec was slow to enter and embrace the haze game, they've delivered on a level that has made the province some of the best producers of the style in the country. Montreal's Messorem Bracitorium opened in the summer of 2019 and the fanfare was immediate - clearly the hazeboiz and hazegirlz were ready for something local that paralleled their…
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Welcome to our brand new season, The Business of Beer! This whole thing started in early 2024 when Cee and Tiff did a pod focused on why so many craft breweries are closing, and that led to a whole slew of episodes focused on varying aspects of the craft beer industry. These episodes became so popular with guests reaching out to be on the pod to no…
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While Toronto's Henderson Brewing feels like they're Ontario OGs, they're only 8 years old and it's well overdue that we have them on the pod. Co-Founder Adin Wener joined Cee and Nate to chat about their gateway approach to beer, their incredible partnership with Rush, how the expiration of the Master Framework Agreement isn't going to be the craf…
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In 2024, it's never been a tougher time for craft breweries and brewpubs, but for Toronto's Laylow Brewery, the recent closure of their taproom opened up amazing new possibilities. Co-Founders Dan and Colin joined Cee at home in Hamilton to chat about their first canned beer ever thanks to Avling Brewery, the pivot from brewpub to beer and lifestyl…
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We love seeing a brewery grow and thrive from inception, and we've had the pleasure of watching Montreal's 4 Origines do just that since 2018. Keegan and Mike joined Cee and Nate to catch up on the last few years, they touched on their upcoming 6th anniversary, the opening of their West Island brewery Origine Brasse, the differences between beer ta…
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