Ten Dollar Beer

 
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In 2006, before the trend of craft brewing reached Manitoba, establishments like Half Pints Brewing Company were trying to make beer differently. Half Pints CEO David Rudge and Brewmaster Chris Young talk about the challenges of being a local brewery and how the Winnipeg music scene played a role in developing consumer taste for local craft beer.

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EPISODE CREDITS

Written, narrated and produced by Kent Davies

Interview participants: Chris Young and Dave Rudge

Episode images: Kimberley Moore

Theme music: Robert Kenning

INTERVIEWS

Chris Young, interviewed by Kent Davies, March 16, 2018 in Winnipeg, MB. Digital Audio Recording. Manitoba Food History Project, “Winnipeg Interviews," Oral History Centre Archive, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.

Dave Rudge, interviewed by Kent Davies, March 21, 2018 in Winnipeg, MB. Digital Audio Recording. Manitoba Food History Project, “Winnipeg Interviews," Oral History Centre Archive, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.

MUSIC

Selections from “Transistor 66 & Half Pints Presents: Meet the Family,” 2011.  Courtesy of Transistor 66 Record Co. 

The Lonely Vulcans – The Lonely Vulcan

Kids on Fire – Grand Mystifier 

Farrell Brothers – Breakin’ Out of Here

Subcity – Too Loud for this City

The Thrashers – Evolution is slow, Kinkers, Betties, & Beer

Microdot- End Credits Roll

Fallenshort - Fallenshort.

Dave Caplan’s Toronto Band, “Up and At ‘Em,” 1926 (AMICUS 45168615) Library and Archives Canada

SOURCES

Beaumont, Stephen. The Great Canadian Beer Guide. Toronto: Macmillan, 1994.

Beer Canada. “Statistics: Manitoba.” Accessed January 24, 2019.

Eberts, Derrek. "To brew or not to brew: a brief history of beer in Canada." Manitoba History 54 (2007): 2-14.

Half Pints Brewing Co. Accessed January 24, 2019.

Manitoba Brew Hub. “The Manitoba Market.” Accessed January 24, 2019.

McNeill, Murray. “Beer remains Manitobans' favourite alcoholic beverage,” Winnipeg Free Press, May 2, 2017. 

Purdy, Brett. “Manitoba pours out a new strategy for craft beers.” CBC News Manitoba, December 16, 2014. Accessed January 24, 2019.

Wright, Bill and Dave Craig. 300 Years of Beer: An Illustrated History of Brewing in Manitoba. Great Plains Publications, 2013.