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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EP-313 Emma Janzen, Author
September 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBThe intersection between digital media and the more slow, meandering works of book authorship is one that, on its surface, might not seem to be well populated. But these days, to be a writer at all means being a lot of different things. You might work across channels, platforms, industries, styles, digital and print, freelance and newsroom, and all that mode switching is a lot. It’s just, a lot. The folks I’ve seen handle it really well tend to think and work in big phases - blogging or fr...
CL-085 David Neimanis Isn’t (Just) Bitter
September 09, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBWhere does inspiration end and innovation begin? When it comes to contemporary takes on established traditions, that line can seem a bit blurry at times. But in David Neimanis’ piece “The Architecture of Brooklyn Amaro — What it Means to Make Amari in the New World,” which was published on August 19, 2021, he expertly explores that line, its lineage, and what the future holds for American-made amari. In our conversation, Neimanis describes what led him to write about amaro, and Brooklyn-m...
SL-29 Aww, Ship — Companies Thrive in Distribution’s Legally Grey Area
September 08, 2021 15:50 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBThere’s a lot of change taking place in beer and broader beverage alcohol, but you might not notice it. It’s not the form of sales shifting for hard seltzer or Mountain Dew announcing an uncaffeinated, alcoholic version of the soda, but in the quiet space of distribution. Alcohol sales are broken out into three traditional tiers—the producer (tier one) who makes it, distributors (tier two) who move it, and retailers (tier three), who sell it. These are broad brushstrokes, but are a key par...
CL-084 Matt Osgood says They're the Nicest People
September 01, 2021 19:40 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBFinding good, honest people making good, honest beer isn’t as easy as craft beer has led us to believe. But every once in a while, a truly singular brewery—shielded by geography and rooted firmly to the land—reveals itself, putting forth artistry in liquid form while also providing a safe, beautiful, and intentional space for everyone who stumbles across its path. Fox Farm Brewery is one such place. In his latest piece for Good Beer Hunting, titled “Degrees of Intent — Fox Farm Brewery in ...
EP-312 Manny Valdes of Cruz Blanca
August 28, 2021 12:17 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBEvery once in awhile I like to have someone on the podcast who I’ve been talking to or working with for awhile. It’s not always easy to know when the right time is — I have to keep my eagerness in check. Often for a long time. Whether it’s the state of their business, or a major transition, or as market factors shift around it — I try to look for a sweet spot where the guest has learned enough about who they are and what business they’re in, but also started to develop their own vision for...
EP-311 Charlotte Cook of Coalition Brewing
August 21, 2021 13:40 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBThe last few months in the British beer industry have been tumultuous. Inspired by the brave work of Brienne Allan, Britshbeergirl – real name Siobhan Buchanan – used her instagram platform for British beer people to tell stories of sexism, sexual harassment and exploitation in the industry. Scandals rocked several much loved small breweries as well as some of the UK’s biggest – including BrewDog. My guest today, Charlotte Cook, started her career there, and while she left nearly seven yea...
CL-083 Anthony Gladman Deconstructs Decoction
August 19, 2021 16:56 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBAs much as craft beer places value on authenticity and artistry, it’s not always an industry that likes looking backwards. Instead, the search for innovation—innovation in beer styles, in brewing techniques, and in the raw materials of beer—is what propels it forward. That means many older ways of doing things have been left by the wayside. On the malt side, with technological and agricultural advancements continuously improving crop yield and efficiency, are old-school brewing methods like ...
EP-310 Phil McFarland of Canopy Growth
August 14, 2021 18:40 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBToday’s guest is a rare revisit action with a previous guest - Phil McFarland from episode 25 - when he was on the even of shutting down what had been one of Chicago’s premier craft beer bars. The advertising career that gave way to his life as a craft beer bar operator was about to give way to something new - as he took on the sales director role at one of Chicago’s premier craft breweries, Half Acre, just as it was making a step change in its growth and ambition. That was then. Now, we’r...
SM-003 Lager Beer & Public Health Part 3: Name Your Poison
August 10, 2021 18:38 - 46 minutes - 63.6 MBWhat’s in beer today? Unless you’re a brewer, do you know? I mean, do you really know? Usually, Western beer is made up of water, hops, a malted grain like barley, and yeast. That’s the standard answer you’ll get from books, articles, even podcasts. There’s even a famous law in German history, called the Reinheitsgebot, which decreed that proper beer could only contain those four ingredients. But few brewers outside Germany stick to that rule 100% of the time. When we want to get a littl...
CL-082 Courtney Iseman Paints A Picture
August 04, 2021 16:21 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBWhat is art? Throughout the course of human existence, critics, academics, and common people have all attempted to unpack the meaning and value of art as part of society, as well as its role as a reflection of the current discourse. Art can be political. It can be reflective. It can be a weapon. And it can be history in itself. In her latest piece for Good Beer Hunting, titled “Gin Lane vs. Beer Street — How One Artist Captured a Pivotal Century in Our Drinking History,” published on July ...
SM-002 Governing Bodies Part 2: ‘The Devil’s Chloroform.
July 24, 2021 18:19 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBWhat happens when politics and public health intermix? We’ve spent the last year learning all too well that, unfortunately, just about anything can happen. And that’s always been the case. In the mid-1800s, when lager beer was still pretty new to the United States, Americans had to figure it out where it fit into a society that wasn’t much newer. The country was growing, it was urbanizing, it was incorporating new ethnicities and communities, and it was redefining morality almost by the da...
CL-081 Holly Regan is a Trip
July 21, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 57 MBHolly Regan believes that we are all surrounded by opportunities to have transcendent experiences. As humans, we’re often prone to looking inward, thanks both to our egos as well as our desire to seek solace from the chaos and noise of the world. But when we’re able to tap into the beyond, through whatever means available, we have the potential to commune with each other, ourselves, and all creation beyond our sometimes-limited scope of perception. If this sounds a little woo-woo, that’s o...
EP-309 Jess Keller Poole and Shawna Cormier of Seattle Beer School
July 17, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBWhile I cover the beer and beverage alcohol industries, I started from a simple place as an enthusiast. I was excited to drink different beers, then it was fun to homebrew, and eventually write about all those experiences. But for many people - perhaps most - beer is just beer. I can't tell you how many times I've had discussions with friends and family who ask about "beer flavored beer," and they're in the majority. So, what does it mean if we get the chance to share that passion and educ...
CL-080 Gabby Pharms Keeps It Neat
July 15, 2021 19:10 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBThe overlaps between beer and whiskey are plentiful. Both rely on craftsmanship and quality ingredients, and share certain production methods in common. Modern makers in either category have the luxury of looking at tradition while pushing the boundaries of innovation for the future. But it’s the differences between the two that keep things interesting. Single malt whiskey producer Stranahan’s in Denver, Colorado is one such modern maker, one that’s helping to define the budding American ...
Tek Cyear uh de Root — Part 3
July 12, 2021 01:05 - 1 hour - 116 MBYou’re listening to a special-edition, three-part podcast series about Charleston’s Schützenfest, a mid-19th-century German gun and beer festival that initially was a diverse and welcoming environment, but which gradually evolved into a site of white supremacy. In our first two episodes, we delved deeper into both the history of the fest itself and the kinds of beer you might see around Charleston in the 19th century. Now we’ll take a more contemporary view by talking to people living in,...
Tek Cyear uh de Root — Part 2
July 11, 2021 20:56 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBYou’re listening to a special-edition, three-part podcast series about Charleston’s Schützenfest, a German gun and beer festival that initially was a diverse and welcoming environment in the mid 19th century, but which gradually evolved into a site of white supremacy. In our first podcast, we spent a lot of time exploring how African-Americans were excluded from the Schützenfest and later the craft beer industry. Now we explore a simple question: “What were they drinking at the Schützenfe...
Tek Cyear uh de Root — Part 1
July 11, 2021 20:30 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBCharleston, South Carolina:, a city with a villainous history and a place I call home. From the palmetto-lined streets to the many saltwater creeks and whiffs of pluff mud, The Holy City is a place of geographic charm with a history rooted in exclusion and racism. It’s also the subject of this three-part podcast series, which explores a lesser-known chapter in the city’s past. The Charleston Schützenfest, a shooting competition and community festival transplanted from Germany, was held ev...
EP-308 Amy Todd of Zymology Labs
July 06, 2021 16:53 - 53 minutes - 74 MBThrough her business—Zymology Labs, based in Essex Junction, Vermont—Amy offers analytical testing, training, and consulting for the fermented beverage industry. And she’s working to expand the conversation on beer quality in both producer and consumer circles. Although Amy spends much of her time in her own lab space, she’s no stranger to brewery environments. She was a keen homebrewer in college, and the “What’s Brewing?” and food science courses she took during her chemistry degree led ...
CL-079 David Nilsen Builds a Bridge Between Beer and Chocolate
July 01, 2021 22:21 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBIntangible, hard-to-define terms like “local,” “craft,” and even “ethical” remain debatable within beer spheres, but they’re far from limited to one industry. Longtime beer writer and more recent bean-to-bar chocolate expert David Nilsen touches on these topics and more in his newest piece for Good Beer Hunting, titled “Cacao, Brewing, and the Price of Nostalgia — Toward a Better Future for Chocolate Beer,” which was published on June 8, 2021. In this episode, David and I discuss the prec...
EP-307 Keyatta Mincey-Parker of A Sip of Paradise Garden
June 23, 2021 17:19 - 1 hour - 98.5 MBI first heard about Keyatta Mincey-Parker from Donnie, a wine buyer at my local bottle shop. As Donnie rang up my purchases, she told me how Keyatta had created a community garden for bartenders during the summer of 2020, aptly named A Sip of Paradise Garden. The garden’s mission is to provide a healthy and safe space for bartenders to recharge, and during the height of the pandemic, the space quickly became popular. My interest was piqued, and I found myself diving into Keyatta’s story. I...
CL-078 Michael Stein Goes to the Dark Side
June 16, 2021 17:45 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBOver the past couple of decades, brewers and beer historians have recreated a growing number of formerly lost beer styles, like Grodziskie, Merseburger, Horner Bier, and others. Many of those styles come from the traditional brewing regions in Europe. But almost any country with any brewing history at all has its own lost beer styles. Sometimes, those recipes are completely indigenous. Sometimes they were imported from other places and subsequently modified in the new country, becoming their...
CL-077 Beth and Kate are Processing
June 11, 2021 21:31 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBIf you follow news in the beer world, May 2021 became synonymous with the word “reckoning” as a wave of stories about sexual harassment, assault, and inappropriate behavior toward women were shared from across the country and world. Massachusetts brewer Brienne Allan was the catalyst for this, first sharing her own experiences on Instagram, then asking other women for their own stories, and amplifying their voices. This started on social media, but quickly became national news for industry p...
EP-306 Tom Cook + Sam Pecoraro of Von Ebert Brewing
June 06, 2021 20:03 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBWhat does it take to succeed in one of the country’s most competitive markets for craft beer? That’s at the core of this conversation with Sam Pecoraro and Tom Cook of Portland, Oregon’s Von Ebert Brewing. As founder of the brewery, Tom has become acutely aware of changes necessary for his business, which has included a rush to get beer into cans, and then get those cans into grocery stores as more drinkers have shifted purchase behavior to chain retail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sam, h...
SM-001 Lager Beer, Governing Bodies Part 1: Overruled
May 29, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBToday, lager beers represent the comfort zone for most American beer drinkers…and a stereotyped monolith for many craft breweries to rebel against. But 170 years ago, lagers were both the outsider and the trendsetter. Their arrival caused ongoing debates over what beer was, what it should be, and the role alcohol ought to play in American social life, to take a sharp turn. This debate was anchored in beliefs about beer and public health that were simultaneously centuries old, and ever-evolvi...
CL-076 Jonny Garrett shines a light in the dark
May 27, 2021 19:30 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBIn times of crisis, people tend to turn to the comfort of familiarity, whether it be revisiting the family recipes they enjoyed as a kid or just attempting to relive some idealized version of the good old days. Over the past year, between quarantines, lockdowns, and political strife, nostalgia has made a big comeback, in everything from the music we’re listening to, to the very beers we drink. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been reaching for more of my tried-and-true favorites during the p...
EP-305 Tiffanie Barriere of the Drinking Coach
May 22, 2021 13:42 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBTiffanie Barriere is the epitome of southern hospitality—warm, kind, and welcoming. She’s just the person you’d want as your drinking coach, which is fitting: The Drinking Coach is a moniker given to her by a friend, and it eventually became the name of the Instagram account where she shares stories of uncelebrated Black people throughout history, with a cocktail alongside. Tiffanie is more than an incredible bartender—she’s a teacher, a mentor, and a historian, using her platform to shed li...
CL-075 Bailey Berg Drinks Beer In The Last Frontier
May 19, 2021 15:43 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MBHow does one survive in a place where temperatures regularly hit negative 30 degrees Fahrenheit, if not below that? A toasty Barleywine might hit the spot, but in the 49th state of the Union, residents are just as likely to pick up a classic IPA or Vienna Lager as they are an Imperial Stout. How, why, and when did Alaska, of all places, become a beer destination? In Bailey Berg’s first piece for Good Beer Hunting, titled “Way Up North — Exploring the Growing Beer Scene in Fairbanks, Alask...
EP-304 Mary MacDonald and Rob Fullmer, Association of Brewers Guild Professionals
May 15, 2021 15:17 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBThroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been countless stories of how individual people and businesses have adjusted, learned new things, and survived. At Good Beer Hunting we’ve had a collection of audio and written stories specifically asking what these transitions meant for state brewers guilds, the organizations that act as advocates and lobbyists for craft breweries across the country. In May 2020, we had a podcast that looked at survival for these groups in the moment, and in this...
CL-074 Maurizio Maestrelli is Drinking in Italy’s Garden
May 12, 2021 17:23 - 53 minutes - 73.1 MBItaly is definitely not what anyone would consider part of Europe’s traditional brewing heartland: In terms of beverages, the Southern European country is mostly known for its amazing wines, which complement its world-class cuisine. But since the mid-90s, Italy has developed a relatively small but dynamic brewing scene, which originally started in the country’s north, before spreading throughout the Italian peninsula. Brewers like Agostino Arioli at Birrificio Italiano—not far from Lake Como...
EP-303 Jules Gray of Hop Hideout
May 08, 2021 12:47 - 1 hour - 107 MBJules Gray describes herself as “someone that likes to keep busy.” Not only is she the founder of Hop Hideout—one of the U.K.’s first drink-in bottle shops, which opened in Sheffield, northern England, back in 2013—she’s also the organizer of Sheffield Beer Week; the Indie Beer Feast beer festival; and Indie Beer Shop Day, a new initiative she launched during the pandemic to celebrate independent beer retailers across the country. Initially a standalone retailer in the back of an antiques ...
CL-073 Michael Kiser believes in you
May 05, 2021 19:13 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBWorking in media today feels weirdly similar to trying to navigate the Fire Swamp in the classic 1987 film The Princess Bride. Success is possible, but the path is surrounded by quicksand, Rodents of Unusual Size, and numerous other obstacles along the way. It’s tenuous at the best of times, and damn near impossible under trying circumstances—like during a pandemic, for example. It requires ingenuity, a propensity for risk, and a bit of gut feeling. Good Beer Hunting operates a little diff...
SL-028 U.S. Goes All-In on RTDs, is the U.K. SOL?
May 03, 2021 12:15 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBYou may have read or heard industry pros or journalists like me throw around these acronyms lately—FMBs and RTDs. They stand for flavored malt beverages—that’s the FMB—and ready-to-drink cocktails—the RTD. In layman terms, they’re the industry stand-in for what we all see on store shelves as hard seltzer, alcoholic tea, or canned cocktails from the likes of Cutwater Spirits or Fling Craft Cocktails. And most important, whether we’re talking about FMBs or RTDs, both categories are wildly succ...
EP-302 AJ Cox, Brewer and Anthropologist
April 27, 2021 16:51 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBIn beer, even the heaviest intellectual conversations around topics like racism or worker exploitation tend to hit a natural barrier after a couple of pints. That slow fizzle doesn’t happen when you speak to A.J. Cox. In fact, her obvious passion for human rights only increases the longer the conversation goes on. Cox is a brewer and pro-union academic with an affinity for Marxism and social justice. She’s worked in beer both in the United States as well as Ireland, where her tenure at Hea...
CL-072 Katie Mather and The Dream Turned Reality
April 21, 2021 14:43 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBHave you ever dreamed a dream so perfect, so grand, so utopian that it seems impossible to turn into reality? Katie Mather has—but unlike most people, she transformed her vision into something tangible. The pastoral landscape of Clitheroe, a village in northwestern England, provided an ideal backdrop for Mather’s dream to crystallize. Despite the copious amounts of lemons the pandemic dealt out, Mather and her husband, Tom, decided to make lemonade in the form of a Lilliputian shop and bar...
FF-028 John Gross Knows Your Runtime
April 15, 2021 18:11 - 45 minutes - 61.8 MBWelcome to a Fervent Few episode of the Good Beer hunting Podcast The Fervent Few is our subscriber community - made up of 100s of beer fans, professionals, and curious readers from around the world who directly support our editorial with their monthly contributions and help form a direct connection between our editorial and creative teams. We share stories, meet up for special events, and create fun gear for beer fans. You should join - visit goodbeerhunting.com/ferventfew to learn mo...
EP-301 Stacey Ayeh, founder of Rock Leopard Brewing
April 10, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 98.1 MBWhile Rock Leopard is relatively new to the scene, Ayeh is not. He’s worked in the alcohol industry since 2002, when on a trip to Sweden he discovered Kopparberg cider. Seeing its potential he persuaded the company to let him be the UK agent, launching a brand that went on national prominence. Sadly larger distributors saw its potential too, and without an exclusivity agreement Ayeh was forced aside. That was the first of several setbacks that have come to plague Ayeh, but never define him. ...
EP-300 Briana Brake + Atinuke Akintola Diver of This Belongs to Us
April 04, 2021 13:58 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBThe way we find and tell stories of beer is changing, and in recent years, what was once relegated to magazines, websites, and podcasts is becoming more common in film. As craft beer’s trajectory has gone more mainstream, the awareness of the industry and its collection of people and stories has made a longer form, visual format another powerful path to explore the many ways a pint connects to different aspects of our lives and culture. In this episode, we’re exploring what that means, and...
EP-299 Michelle McGrath of the American Cider Association
March 28, 2021 19:27 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MBAs a total percentage of the beverage alcohol industry, cider hasn’t really changed much in recent years. It amounts to about 1% and has been successfully static. I know a lack of growth doesn’t really sound like a success, and 1% doesn’t sound like a lot, but trust me on this one. Or, rather, trust Michelle McGrath. She’s the executive director of the American Cider Association and while it’s certainly her job to speak highly of the category and the success of her members, she’s bringing ...
EP-298 Sara Kazmer of Elsewhere Brewing
March 20, 2021 12:40 - 1 hour - 134 MBEvery brewery has a story, and along with the beer they brew, their narrative is what helps to set them apart. A great story can captivate and connect with consumers, and help build brand loyalty—something any business owner would love to have. And when a couple opens a brewery together, there’s a good chance their love story will become a foundational part of the business’s identity. That was certainly true for Sara and Sam Kazmer, owners of Elsewhere Brewing Co. in Atlanta’s Grant Park n...
CL-071 Jennifer Jordan Hunts for Hops at the Edge of the Driftless
March 18, 2021 00:55 - 43 minutes - 60 MBBeer history has blossomed in recent years, as a new generation of researchers and writers have uncovered fascinating stories from the murky early days of brewing. Some of those discoveries have taken us to exotic locales, while others have illuminated overlooked stories right in our own backyards. And beer history is not just a field for enthusiastic amateurs. Academics and other professionals have been been digging through the archives to tell hitherto unknown tales from the world of beer ...
EP-297 Ben Self of West Sixth Brewing
March 15, 2021 15:45 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBHave you heard the phrase “stick to beer”? It’s a version of an oft-cited phrase that people tell each other when one is veering away from their subject expertise. If you brew beer or write about the industry, you don’t need to share insight about other areas of life … let someone else who’s an expert do that. Stick to beer. In this episode, we aren’t venturing far away from beer, but Ben Self’s background lends itself to it. He’s our guest as co-founder of Kentucky’s West Sixth Brewing, b...
CL-070 Beth Demmon is riding a party wave
March 10, 2021 22:24 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBLately, the world has felt joyless. Even the weekends, which once offered a reprieve from the obligation of work, feel bland and gray when you’re stuck at home all the time. Saturday gives way to Sunday, and time melts into hours of couch-sitting, Instagram-scrolling, beer-drinking, and the occasional debate on what to eat for lunch. I long for a trip away from the mundane cycle my life has become. Against this backdrop, reading Beth Demmon’s latest piece on Good Beer Hunting, “Riding the ...
EP-296 Esthela Davila and Carmen Favela, Mujeres Brew House
March 06, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MBWomen currently make up less than a quarter of all craft brewery owners in the United States, according to the Brewers Association’s survey on demographics within the industry. While conversations around the importance of diversity, inclusion, and equity continue to spark important change within beer, sometimes it can feel like it’s just that—talk. But pioneers within the industry who talk the talk and walk the walk do exist, and in San Diego, the women behind Mujeres Brew House are two of t...
SL-027 A full strength look at non-alcoholic beer
March 03, 2021 23:17 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBWe are well beyond the days of “Dry January,” but the conversation around the success and long term impact of non-alcoholic beer continues. The month long effort at the start of the year is meant to give people a break from alcohol intake, and non-alcoholic substitutes often play a big role. But what Kate Bernot and I have come to recognize in the past several months is that the narrative of booze-free beer is even bigger. And that’s what we’re talking about in this episode as part of the ...
EP-295 James Calder of Society of Independent Brewers
February 27, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBIn today’s episode I’m talking to James Calder, Chief Executive of the UK’s Society of Independent Brewers. SIBA, as it’s more commonly known, plays a similar role to the American Brewer’s Association, representing the interests of around 800 small British brewers who vote on how the organisation supports the industry and lobbies the government at its annual conference and trade show, BeerX. Founded in 1980, its greatest victory came in 2002, when alongside CAMRA it successfully campaign...
EP-294 Javier and Jose Lopez, Casa Humilde Cerveceria
February 20, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBThis week’s guest is a duo from Chicago who this past year, despite a pandemic, launched one of the city’s most exciting Mexican-inspired brewery concepts: Casa Humilde Cervenceria. Chicago is perhaps uniquely focused on Mexican culture when it comes to beer. We’re the city that launched 5 Rabbit Cerveceria—the first Latin-inspired craft brewery in the U.S. who despite many early, and seemingly ongoing challenges, is still in operation on the far Southwest side. Cruz Blanca, a brewpub on R...
CL-069 Stephanie Grant Knows Black is Beautiful
February 17, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBStephanie Grant has an infectious positivity. You can’t help but enjoy watching her cook amazing meals on her Instagram stories; or celebrating Black women in beer in her newsletter, The Share; or scrolling through her vibrant photographs. Her projects and pursuits all seem to radiate joy. But Stephanie’s not afraid of getting real—far from it. In her latest story for Good Beer Hunting titled “Beyond the Beer — Colorism, Black Pride, and the Black Is Beautiful Initiative”, which was publis...
EP-293 Greg Avola, Untappd and Next Glass
February 13, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBThis week’s guest invented one of the most impactful things in American beer history —but it’s not a beer style, or a recipe, or a festival, or a piece of equipment—it’s an app. Untappd grew from a side project for Greg Avola and his partner Tim Mather—one that they moonlighted for on weekends—to a leading social experience for beer geeks in a very short amount of time. Basically you try a beer, you log the experience, and it keeps track of your history. You can share that experience wit...
CL-068 Kristen Foster is Done with Dry January
February 10, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBKristen Foster has been a part of Good Beer Hunting’s Fervent Few community, as well as a contributor, since 2017. Since then, she’s written a number of pieces and published a lot of great photographs — especially her poignant and candid photos of people in and around beer. Some of her recent Signifiers for Good Beer Hunting about Athletic Brewing Company and Notch Brewing also manage to capture that same candid honesty from people who’ve built two very different breweries. Athletic’s appr...
EP-292 Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
February 06, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 69 MBDepending on who you are and your connection to alcohol and storytelling, this interview can be different things to different people. It’s about a book, which is about bourbon (sort of), but also family and marketing and trying to find things that feel real. If you’re a beer enthusiast, you may connect with stories of people geeking out on bourbon and the niche communities that exist. If you work in beverage alcohol, there may be ideas of storytelling and branding that sound familiar. Or ...