Good Beer Hunting
722 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 232 ratingsAward-winning interviews with a wide spectrum of people working in, and around, the beer industry. We balance the culture of craft beer with the businesses it supports, and examine the tenacity of its ideals.
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CL-098 Jerard Fagerberg Wants To Talk About Money
April 13, 2022 18:27 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBWho wants to talk about money? We’re going to. I’m joined today by Jerard Fagerberg to talk about his piece titled “Pour Clean, Like the Source — CA Draft Tech in Oakland, California,” which was published on Good Beer Hunting on February 18, 2022. In this piece, he outlines the creation, evolution, and expansion of CA Draft Tech, a sanitation service for taprooms, bars, and restaurants across the Bay Area. With the help of SMBX, an alternative financing company that allows consumers to in...
FFT-019 Tomme Arthur of The Lost Abbey
April 06, 2022 16:10 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
FFT-018 Jason Perkins of Allagash Brewing Company
April 06, 2022 16:06 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
FFT-017 Pierre Tilquin of Gueuzerie Tilquin
April 06, 2022 16:01 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen
April 06, 2022 15:59 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery
April 06, 2022 15:56 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company
April 06, 2022 15:55 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company
April 06, 2022 15:53 - 10 minutes - 13.7 MBThe long-awaited return and continuation of Foeder for Thought - GBH’s collaboration with Green Bench Brewing Company in St Petersburg Florida. GBH’s Founder, Michael Kiser, hosts a series of talks with wile ale producers from around the world in front of a live audience. Episodes from 2022: FFT-013 Khris Johnson of Green Bench Brewing Company FFT-014 Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing Company FFT-015 Jeffery Stuffings of Jester King Brewery FFT-016 Christian Gregory of 3 Fonteinen F...
EP-336 Kate Bailey of Hand & Heart
April 02, 2022 18:59 - 1 hour - 105 MBIt’s been nearly one year since craft beer began to face its biggest reckoning against sexism, racism, and toxic work culture to date. In that time, there has been some progress, but there has also been a growing polarization between those making calls for change and those making accusations about an out-of-control cancel culture. In the midst of this ongoing controversy and debate, Kate Bailey from Hand & Heart has been working to establish a first-of-its-kind foundation for reconcil...
CL-097 William Costa on the Subculture in the Subtropics
April 01, 2022 17:38 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBCraft beer is starting to show up in places where many of us have never been, and maybe never even thought about visiting. The small South American nation of Paraguay could be considered fairly remote by most standards: Paraguay is fully landlocked, roughly in the middle of the continent, bordered by the much larger countries of Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia. Its capital, Asunción, is fairly off-the-radar compared to popular South American tourist destinations like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos...
EP-335 Alessandra Agrestini of The Italian Grape Ale Beer Challenge
March 26, 2022 14:08 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBAs far as we can tell, many of the earliest beers ever made were actually beer-wine hybrids, brewed out of both grain and fruit. Fast-forward 10,000 years or so, and beers made with grapes are once again in fashion. Sometimes called “Oenobeers,” after oenology, the science of winemaking, Grape Beers or Grape Ales are becoming more popular in a lot of beer regions, especially in Italy and other wine-loving countries. In this episode, I’m talking to Alessandra Agrestini, the president of the...
CL-096 Alexander Gates on the Archipelago of His Beer Journey
March 24, 2022 14:46 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBThere’s a difference between idols and mentors. The allure of idols is their unattainability—their preciousness fueled by the impossibility of a first-hand connection. Mentors, on the other hand, spark curiosity and encourage personal growth by sharing their experience with others. Mentors, often selflessly, help shape the future, and ensure the traditions they hold so dear remain intact for generations to come. That’s exactly why writer Alexander Gates decided to profile Cindy Goldstein, a...
EP-334 Jeff Alworth of Beervana
March 19, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes - 76 MBIf you’re a beer enthusiast, you’ve likely come across Jeff Alworth at some point. The longtime blogger, journalist, author, and podcaster is one of the most valued in the country, and his research and storytelling is nearly unmatched. This isn’t meant to be hyperbole, as the reason Jeff and I are talking on this episode is because we got to catch up as he traveled the country to promote the second edition of his book, The Beer Bible. We sat down outside at Asheville, North Carolina’s Zill...
CL-095 Adrian Tierney-Jones lets an arrow loose through time
March 11, 2022 13:04 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBJW Lees’ Harvest Ale is not a beer to drink casually, and it’s not one to speak casually about, either. As an icon of British brewing, this Barley Wine is described by journalist Adrian Tierney-Jones as elegant, eloquent, and contemplative in his piece titled “The Arrow of Time — How JW Lees’ Harvest Ale Has Defined British Brewing for Decades”, which was published on February 16, 2022. As a longtime freelancer who writes about beer, pubs, and travel, Adrian has a unique perspective on Har...
FU-001 Foeder for Thought is on, and SMBX is in the house
March 10, 2022 18:47 - 3 minutes - 4.19 MBGBH Co-Founder and Creative Director, Michael Kiser returns with of one of our favorite festivals with Greenbench Brewing in St Pete, Florida, and a new kind of fundraising that helps you invest in the future of GBH and our industry.
EP-333 Zahra Tabatabai of Back Home Beer
March 05, 2022 14:18 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MBFor all the power that memory provides us, its the connection to our senses that’s the most visceral. While we can close our eyes and picture loved ones or a perfect summer day, it’s the moment we smell a bag of candy or taste the right combination of spices that the past rushes back to life. Our eyes and ears can tell us about the present, but our nose and taste buds can be our time machine. In this episode, we explore what it means to chase flavor memory with Zahra Tabatabai, founder and C...
CL-094 Anthony Gladman Believes The Time Is Ripe
March 03, 2022 15:06 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBThere are some artistic endeavors that occur against all odds. Perry, or cider made with pears, is one of those things. Perry pears are hard to grow, hard to ferment, and sometimes hard to explain. But when all the elements of time, energy, climate, effort, and care come together, the end result can be otherworldly. In his piece titled “Madness and Bitter Fruit — Making Perry in the Shadow of May Hill,” writer Anthony Gladman dives into the relatively unknown world of perry, and how ancien...
EP-332 Amin Anjedani, Sam Madani, and Kai Drewry of BOMANI Cold Buzz
March 03, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes - 75.9 MBWalk down the right aisle at your grocery or convenience store and you might come across an alcoholic version of just about anything. Hard seltzer is an obvious. Hard kombucha is gaining traction. Hard yerba mate? You bet. It should be no surprise that hard coffee is now a category worth tens of millions of dollars. In this episode, we meet the people behind one of the companies carving out a corner of this increasingly successful—and interesting—hard coffee space. We meet Amin Anjedani, Sam...
EP-331 Dave Infante of Fingers Newsletter
February 28, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBIn this episode, we’re talking about dads. Their influence on us, the things they taught or didn’t teach us, and how we do or don’t follow in their footsteps. That’s actually a small part of this conversation with Dave Infante, but perhaps the most surprising and fun piece of it all. Come for the dad talk, stick around for a reflection on alcoholic milk, labor relations, journalism, and more. It’s an eclectic lineup of topics, but if you’re familiar with Dave, it may not be surprising. As ...
EP-330 Shyla Sheppard + Missy Begay of Bow & Arrow Brewing
February 26, 2022 13:18 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBThe world is full of misconceptions like “Deserts are only barren wastelands,” or “women don’t brew beer,” or even “Native Americans no longer exist on the land that was once wholly theirs.” But after six years in business, Missy Begay and Shyla Sheppard of Bow & Arrow Brewing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are used to defying these kinds of falsehoods and mistaken expectations. As the first and only Native-woman-owned brewery in the United States, Bow & Arrow is a pioneering steward of the land...
EP-329 Brienne Allan of Brave Noise Beer
February 19, 2022 12:00 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBBrienne Allan became a household name in the beer industry last year, when she inadvertently sparked a reckoning against sexism in beer that quickly went global. Her face and words were featured everywhere from Imbibe to the Boston Globe, Eater, right here at Good Beer Hunting, and her Brave Noise initiative with Ash Eliot was named Brewbound’s Cause of the Year for 2021. But now that nearly a year has gone by, what’s changed? For starters, Brienne left her home at Notch Brewing in Salem...
Changing the Channel — Why Beer TV Ads Are Declining
February 10, 2022 13:38 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBFrom talking frogs to Bud Light loving dogs and Will Ferrell unexpectedly shilling Old Milwaukee, there's a long history of beer advertisements that have found cultural relevance. Viewers across the country see these commercials every week during sporting events and reality TV shows. But as fewer people drink beer and more cut the cable cord, what's next for this segment of advertising? That's the question at the core of Kate Bernot's story on Good Beer Hunting that explores what happens ...
SL-032 Speed Bumps — Exploring Beer Distributors' Campaign Against Human Trafficking
February 03, 2022 13:11 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MB“For the past two years, the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) has conducted an awareness and advocacy campaign to combat human trafficking, an initiative whose focus and scale are unprecedented in the organization’s history.” That’s from the start of Kate Bernot’s story on Good Beer Hunting about a worthwhile cause to fight a global problem of trafficking here in the United States. But as you’ll read and as you’ll hear in this conversation, there’s far more understanding to wh...
CL-093 Ruvani de Silva Wants Texas Beer To Be Even Bigger
January 30, 2022 12:00 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MBWhether you’re speaking with her directly or reading her words, Ruvani de Silva seems to emit an effortless effervescence that’s both passionate and genuine. Her enthusiasm for her adopted home state of Texas is obvious, and her curiosity about the people moving it forward is heartfelt, which leads her to reveal compelling truths about beer and beyond. In her latest piece for Good Beer Hunting, titled “Capturing the Flavor of Texas — Community Cultures Yeast Lab in San Antonio, Texas,” wh...
EP-328 Audrey Gehlhausen and Chris DellaBianca of Billy Goat Hop Farm
January 29, 2022 14:07 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBIf you’ve gone on a brewery tour or listened to someone wax poetic about what goes into a beer, you may have heard this phrase: “Beer is an agricultural product.” It’s a simple statement, but one that’s repeated because it can often get lost. We most often exist around beer’s final state—an alcoholic liquid dispensed from a tap or poured from a bottle or can. No wonder we aren’t actively thinking about what happens before we take that first sip. In this episode, we’re taking a chance to st...
EP-327 Becky Ryman + Logan Ackerley of Wallenpaupack Brewing
January 08, 2022 12:00 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBThere’s a brewery with a funny name hidden away in Pennsylvania’s Pocono mountains that’s slowly growing into a local powerhouse. Named after a nearby lake, the beer from Wallenpaupack Brewing Company is good—I can attest to that—but it’s the way this business is setting itself up for the future in the middle of Yuengling Country that caught my eye, and brings owner, Becky Ryman, and head brewer, Logan Ackerley, to your ears. In this episode, we’re going to hear from Becky and Logan about ...
CL-092 Emily Monaco Goes Digging in the Land of Terroir
January 06, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBEmily Monaco’s latest story starts off with a very loaded concept, that controversial T word: terroir. This romantic, albeit somewhat undefinable term, has been synonymous with wine—and especially French wine—for generations. But now, as French beer continues to come into its own, the tastes of right here, right now are being emphasized by a number of breweries, but one in particular: Deck & Donohue. Not that Deck & Donohue would use the word “terroir” to describe its mission. In Emily’s p...
EP-326 Chris Leguizamon of Pure Project
January 04, 2022 15:53 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBGenuinely nice people seem to be harder than ever to come by. But Chris Leguizamon, otherwise known as “Chris The Beer Educator” on Instagram, is one of them. As the education program manager at Pure Project in San Diego, California, Chris is in charge of teaching both his coworkers and consumers about the joys of craft beer, coffee, and mead—a role he takes very seriously, but always manages to do with his trademark ear-to-ear smile. Chris has been a fixture in San Diego’s craft beer sce...
EP-325 Noah and Peter Bissell of Bissell Brothers
December 17, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 82 MBToday’s podcast was inspired by a single tweet, or more accurately a reply to tweet, from Bissell Brothers cofounder Pete Bissell. It came in response to a post about a new Good Beer Hunting article entitled Making it to a Million — How Allagash Helped Grow Maine’s Grain Economy. It was a story about the remarkable fortunes of a handful of grain farmers and maltsters in Maine, who have benefitted from Allagash’s drive to include more local grains in their beer. It’s a wonderful example of ...
EP-324 Will Rogers of Charles Faram
December 15, 2021 17:37 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBHops are in Roger’s blood. He grew up on a hop farm and, after a few years in IT, came back to that world to work for Farams. In our conversation you’ll get a real sense of the pride he takes the business, as well as his deep knowledge of hops as both an agricultural plant and a beer ingredient. But most of all you’ll hear his passion for British hops, which its fair do not inspire the same level of excitement that many new world varieties do. That though, might be about to change. We star...
EP-323 Melissa Hidalgo, Dr. Beer Butch
December 05, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBMelissa Hidalgo might be the smartest beer person I know. She has a Ph.D in Literature from U.C. San Diego; is currently a professor of women’s, gender, and ethnic studies at California State University, Long Beach; and, if she wasn’t busy enough with her work in academia, she’s also a longtime beer writer who often goes by the pseudonym Dr. Beer Butch. Melissa has been writing about beer for over 10 years, but it was a pint of Guinness that started her beer journey well before that. As a ...
CL-091 Catie Joyce-Bulay Asks The Million Malt Question
December 04, 2021 14:57 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBIf you’re a voracious fiction reader like I am, your biggest impression of Maine may come from Stephen King novels. But the United States’ northeasternmost state is far more than pet cemeteries and telekinetic prom queens. It’s also home to some of the country’s highest-quality grain growers and maltsters, many of whom are based in an area that’s long been used for another crop: potatoes. In her piece titled “Making It to a Million — How Allagash Helped Grow Maine’s Grain Economy,” writer ...
EP-322 Naveen Pawar and Adam Leibowitz of Mighty Squirrel Brewing
November 20, 2021 14:29 - 55 minutes - 76 MBIn today’s alcohol marketplace, it’s all about the pivot. You better be able to change on a dime when it comes to what you make, where your brands are sold, and how you think about growth. But well before the COVID-19 pandemic brought all these things into focus, Mighty Squirrel Brewing Company created its own reinvention, turning itself from a company making a sport-focused, protein-enriched beer in 2015 to one of the most successful Hazy IPA producers in the country by 2018. The beer tha...
SM-005 That Dog Won’t Hunt: Charleston Beer’s Past, Present, and Future
November 20, 2021 14:24 - 1 hour - 122 MBIn summer 2021, Jamaal Lemon, Brian Alberts, Mike Stein, and Peter Jones worked together to publish Tek Cyear uh de Root, an article series that explored the way beer history and culture merged with systems of racial oppression in the 19th-century Charleston Schützenfest. In that series we mentioned an even earlier example of the same phenomenon, a brewery owned by Edmund Egan in the 1770s. Egan’s brewery ran on the labor of six brewers, two coopers, and seven other Black workers, all ensl...
SL-031 Cutting America Off — The Controversial Researcher reshaping Our Drinking Habits
November 18, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBBack in the summer of 2018, Good Beer Hunting readers were introduced to a name that stuck with me for years: David Jernigan. He’s one of the country’s leading researchers in the area of alcohol use and policy and at the time, was acting as an expert for a government task force in Maryland looking at potential alcohol reforms. In reporting for Sightlines, his name was mentioned by sources who also said words like “prohibition” or “temperance.” That connection will make better sense to you ...
CL-090 Helen Anne Smith Wants More For The Hospitality Industry
November 17, 2021 17:50 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBBuzzwords like “craft,” “ethical,” and “sustainable” seem to be everywhere in hospitality. But do those terms actually mean anything, and if so, how do they relate to the most important resource of all: people? Burum Collective founder and writer Helen Anne Smith explores this strange and sometimes intentionally dissonant question in their first piece for Good Beer Hunting, titled “Last Call — The Human Sustainability Crisis at the Heart of the Hospitality Industry,” which was published o...
EP-321 Cortni McKenzie of Many Faces and Good Road Cider
November 06, 2021 13:45 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBIn this episode we’re going to chat about the present and look back in time. You’re going to get to meet Cortni McKenzie, an aspiring beverage alcohol professional who got a taste of what it’ll take to excel in the industry this past summer and continues to put in the work to establish herself this fall and beyond. Earlier this year, Cortni was part of the Many Faces Initiative, a North Carolina-based internship program that provided mentorship and immersive training for people of color in...
EP-320 Aaron Hosé, One Pint at a Time
November 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBEarlier this year, I had the honor of moderating “The Art of Storytelling: Highlighting Important Stories” at Crafted for Action, a four-day, hybrid conference for craft beer lovers. One of the members of the panel was Aaron Hosé, an Aruban-born filmmaker who has been working in the biz for over 20 years. Though the panel was virtual, I had a chance to meet some of the speakers in person at the opening event here in Atlanta. That’s where I met Aaron Hosé. He was actually the first person I r...
SL-030 Beyond Beer — Will a Global Outcry Have Lasting Impact on Mikkeller?
November 01, 2021 16:02 - 29 minutes - 40 MBOver the past several months, Good Beer Hunting reporter Kate Bernot has been at the forefront of covering allegations of sexual harassment, bullying, and unsafe working conditions at Mikkeller, a Denmark-based brewery with bars and brewpubs all over the world, including a prominent location in San Diego. Kate’s coverage has included stories on protests at the brewery’s Copenhagen headquarters and stories from former employees who alleged instances of inappropriate workplace behavior and sil...
EP-319 Blake Enemark, Tailgunner Brewing Company
October 23, 2021 16:06 - 45 minutes - 61.8 MBThere are a lot of parallels between good music and good beer, from the similarly creative processes of conceptualizing new beers and writing new songs to the way independent makers are fighting for their place at the table in two industries that are dominated by massive corporations. Beer media and music publications have a lot in common, too. Although I mostly write about food and drink nowadays, I got my start by writing music reviews for the San Francisco Bay Guardian while playing gu...
CL-089 Gloria Rakowsky Searches For Truth Behind The Bar
October 20, 2021 16:14 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBThere are more than half a million bartenders working in the United States, although it’s a pretty safe bet that those numbers have changed in COVID’s wake. Still, that’s a heck of a lot of people mixing cocktails, pouring beers, and popping bottles for guests, all while also acting as therapists, entertainers, and occasionally bouncers for the mere privilege of serving us. But where do we form our collective expectations about the role of bartenders? In her latest piece for Good Beer Hun...
EP-318 Emma Inch of the British Guild of Beer Writers
October 16, 2021 09:54 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBProducing and hosting a weekly local radio show likely isn’t how most beer writers get their start—but that’s exactly where Emma Inch’s career in beer began. With a passion for rockabilly music, which she saw as an outlet from the stress of her day job as a mental health crisis worker, Emma went from hosting club nights to approaching her local radio station with a show idea. Then a few years later—as she began noticing a change in her local beer scene in Brighton, England—she pitched an ...
SM-004 ‘Every Can Counts’ — Boycotting Coors in Colorado, the Castro, and Beyond
October 13, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBConversations around beer often focus on what to drink: I had this great beer the other day. Here's something you might like, or a brewery worth supporting. Fewer conversations focus on what not to drink. But that’s exactly what happened on a spring day in 1974, between a Teamsters union leader named Allen Baird and a gay leftist activist named Howard Wallace. Wallace ran into Baird outside a supermarket in the Castro, San Francisco's queer neighborhood, and they started talking about Coor...
EP-317 Hoby Wedler, Ph.D. Chemist and Entrepreneur
October 10, 2021 13:27 - 40 minutes - 56.1 MBEvery now and then, I get to host an episode where the conversation has very little to do with beer or other kinds of beverage alcohol. This is another one of those opportunities as we hear from Hoby Wedler, an organic chemist with a Ph.D. from UC-Davis, an entrepreneur, teacher, and genuinely positive guy. If I had my way, I’d likely put that last description first for sake of what Hoby radiates out into the world. He was recently named to Wine Enthusiast’s “40 Under 40 Tastemakers” for h...
CL-088 Doug Hoverson Lives On Native Soil
October 07, 2021 21:15 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBEvery inch of the land now known as the United States of America actually belongs to someone else. Some call them Native Americans. Others prefer American Indians, First Nations, Indigenous Americans, or use other monikers to describe the multitude of tribal identities that have been used, abused, and exploited throughout the generations by (mostly) white imperialist settlers. But these invaders didn’t simply erase history—they repackaged it with a new narrative, one that leverages ancient...
EP-316 Amber Rosado of Mason Jar
October 02, 2021 13:20 - 59 minutes - 81.3 MBIf you’ve gone job hunting in the past 15 years, you may have sought out new professional challenges, a different geography, or more money, but there’s an ever-important part of the process for many that seeks out a harmonious crossover of personal and professional. I know I’ve looked for some semblance of that, where I don’t want my job to define who I am as a person, but I do want who I am as a person to influence how I go about my job, and ultimately, how much I may enjoy it. On a hunt to...
EP-315 Laura Garcia, Brewer from Baja
September 26, 2021 03:35 - 45 minutes - 62 MBThroughout my freelance beer-writing career, one person’s name has continued to pop up as someone to pay attention to. That person is Laura Garcia, a brewer who has worked across the state of Baja California, but primarily in Baja’s capital city of Mexicali, which also happens to be her hometown. But this isn’t a story about how I know Laura. It’s a story about why you should. Hailed by many as the best brewer in Baja, Laura worked her way from beer lover to beer judge to brewer and beyon...
CL-087 Theresa McCulla Helps Reconstruct a Life
September 24, 2021 07:37 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBAs the curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Theresa McCulla has access to some of the United States’ most treasured brewing artifacts. It was the uncovering of one such artifact that led her to explore the life of Patsy Young, an enslaved woman, brewer, wife, and mother who fought for her freedom (twice) and who left an indelible legacy on the narrative of American brewing. In her first piece for Good Beer Hunting, tit...
EP-314 Vik and Viv Nayar of Two Robbers
September 18, 2021 11:00 - 56 minutes - 77.7 MBI’ve found myself adding some qualifiers to interview requests lately, ensuring people that while I create stories, analysis, and podcasts for Good Beer Hunting, the interests of myself and the publication extend far beyond what the name may suggest. If you click around goodbeerhunting.com or scroll through our podcast archive, you get the idea—we focus on so much more than just beer. That’s the way of the beverage alcohol industry these days, and why we’re talking to Vikram and Vivek Naya...
CL-086 David Jesudason Sets Sail on the Myth of IPA
September 15, 2021 20:49 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBWhat is an IPA? Most drinkers around the world would probably identify IPA as the flagship style of the modern craft beer movement. As its popularity has grown, it has become known for a bunch of different—and often contradictory—characteristics. A modern IPA is either bitter or not bitter; pale, white, or black; very strong, sessionable, or nonalcoholic. But while IPA in all its forms is loved around the world, relatively few drinkers would be likely to name the drink’s intimate connection ...