42 min
71 - Mike Patriquin & Ty Pyette (Hell's Basement) The Explore84 Podcast
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- Self-Improvement
Mike Patriquin of Hell’s Basement joins the show along with brewer Ty Pyette to discuss their brewery, Medicine Hat’s first since prohibition, named for Rudyard Kipling's comments after seeing coal workers burn off pockets of natural gas that the area had “all hell for a basement"
Mike had first moved to Medicine Hat in 2014 and had thoughts about starting a brewery, and after meeting a few other guys with the same plan at Beerfest in 2015 they decided to join forces and in just 6 months they were up and running, a much different timeline than most brewers. At the time they were Medicine Hat’s only craft brewery but since then two more and a distillery have popped up, and true to the Alberta craft culture they’ve been big collaborators.
Ty was born and raised from Montana, getting into craft beer young after stealing a home brewing kit from his dad at 14 years old. He fell in love with the process and wanted to get into the craft beer industry, but with the legal drinking age being 21 in the states he didn’t want to wait. This brought him up to Alberta to the renowned Olds College brewing program, and fresh out of school he found his way to Hell’s Basement. Ty has now decided that he wants to make Canada his permanent home and applied for permanent residency just days before this interview was recorded!
Toward the end of our interview we’re also joined by Chris Istace, an outdoors and travel writer working closely with Zen Seekers and Tourism Medicine Hat on a spotlight of Alberta’s Highway 3, including what he calls a “brewery corridor,” brining local tourists from across Alberta into the doors of great breweries such as Hell’s Basement.
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Let’s Meet For A Beer: website | facebook
Alberta Beer Festivals: website | twitter | instagram
Mike Patriquin & Ty Pyette - Hell’s Basement: website | twitter | instagram | facebook
Chris Istace: website | twitter | instagram | facebook
Mike Patriquin of Hell’s Basement joins the show along with brewer Ty Pyette to discuss their brewery, Medicine Hat’s first since prohibition, named for Rudyard Kipling's comments after seeing coal workers burn off pockets of natural gas that the area had “all hell for a basement"
Mike had first moved to Medicine Hat in 2014 and had thoughts about starting a brewery, and after meeting a few other guys with the same plan at Beerfest in 2015 they decided to join forces and in just 6 months they were up and running, a much different timeline than most brewers. At the time they were Medicine Hat’s only craft brewery but since then two more and a distillery have popped up, and true to the Alberta craft culture they’ve been big collaborators.
Ty was born and raised from Montana, getting into craft beer young after stealing a home brewing kit from his dad at 14 years old. He fell in love with the process and wanted to get into the craft beer industry, but with the legal drinking age being 21 in the states he didn’t want to wait. This brought him up to Alberta to the renowned Olds College brewing program, and fresh out of school he found his way to Hell’s Basement. Ty has now decided that he wants to make Canada his permanent home and applied for permanent residency just days before this interview was recorded!
Toward the end of our interview we’re also joined by Chris Istace, an outdoors and travel writer working closely with Zen Seekers and Tourism Medicine Hat on a spotlight of Alberta’s Highway 3, including what he calls a “brewery corridor,” brining local tourists from across Alberta into the doors of great breweries such as Hell’s Basement.
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Let’s Meet For A Beer: website | facebook
Alberta Beer Festivals: website | twitter | instagram
Mike Patriquin & Ty Pyette - Hell’s Basement: website | twitter | instagram | facebook
Chris Istace: website | twitter | instagram | facebook
42 min