Graining In
202 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 215 ratingsGraining In. A weekly podcast where Noah Bissell (mediocre brewer, recovering pessimist) and Matt Robinson (taproom manager, retired rapper) sit down with and without guests to discuss eclectic topics *usually* relevant to the world of beer. Conversations are sometimes technical, often not, but always aim to find the macro threads that keep people motivated and inspired to wake up every morning and pursue their craft. Everyone’s day starts with that first step, so turn the auger on get to Graining In.
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#46: Past Wrongs Made TanneRite
May 04, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBMatt "Noodle Brain" Robinson and Noah "Lee Something Jr." Bissell are left to their own devices this week. Accordingly, the conversation begins with a recounting of a recent experience involving a 600 gallon foeder, ten pounds of explosives, and an ocean of catharsis. After a shameless request for reviews on streaming platforms and feedback on Instagram (@GrainingInPod), the guys roll out a new "segment", where Noah gets Matty's take on world events and their relation to the beer. Surprising...
#45: Peter Bissell | Bissell Brothers
April 28, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBAmid a precarious time for securing in-person guests, we decided to keep it in the family this week. We talk with Peter Bissell, co-founder of Bissell Brothers, co-owner of High Roller Lobster Co., and most critical to this conversation, Noah's older brother. Matt gets himself comfortable in the interview chair, and walks through some of the key points in the trajectory of Bissell Brothers history as well as Peter and Noah's relationship, getting the individual perspective of each brother al...
#44: Alex Kidd | Don't Drink Beer
April 21, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBIn a socially distanced world, devoid of live interviews, we finally dipped our toes into the remote recording waters. Those waters were mighty fine, as this week's guest is none other than the Pastry Stout Playboy himself, Alex Kidd. Unless you've been in quarantine for the last decade, you know that Alex is the man behind Don't Drink Beer, a blog that remains unparalleled in its wonderfully unique combination of humor, insight, and perspective. We get into DDB's origin story and wild traje...
#43: Flattening Curves, Rolling Herbs
April 13, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBFrom the safety of Noah's bedroom, the guys address the COVID-19 elephant in the room. We get into the way brewery operations have looked in the current landscape and how Bissell Brothers, in addition to thousands of other breweries in the country, have leaned into a beer sales channel they never considered a few months ago: home delivery. After debating the viability of home delivery in the post-pandemic era, the conversation shifts to a less heavy realm in light of an impending "holiday". ...
#43: Flattening Curves, Rolling Herbs
April 13, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBFrom the safety of Noah's bedroom, the guys address the COVID-19 elephant in the room. We get into the way brewery operations have looked in the current landscape and how Bissell Brothers, in addition to thousands of other breweries in the country, have leaned into a beer sales channel they never considered a few months ago: home delivery. After debating the viability of home delivery in the post-pandemic era, the conversation shifts to a less heavy realm in light of an impending "holiday". ...
#42: Jake Hill | Singer • Songwriter • Pizzaman
April 06, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBRecorded in the Hometown of America - Plymouth, MA - here is our long-awaited conversation with THE REAL Jake Hill! In addition to owning the beautiful voice that starts and ends the podcast, Jake has an extremely interesting musical resume as well as an increasingly captivating story in the culinary world. We talk about his beginnings in music (SKAcopaths - RIP), the frustratingly mysterious nature of writing folk songs, and his work as part of Jay Kill & The Hustle Standard, a duo who's so...
#42: Jake Hill | Singer • Songwriter • Pizzaman
April 06, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBRecorded in the Hometown of America - Plymouth, MA - here is our long-awaited conversation with THE REAL Jake Hill! In addition to owning the beautiful voice that starts and ends the podcast, Jake has an extremely interesting musical resume as well as an increasingly captivating story in the culinary world. We talk about his beginnings in music (SKAcopaths - RIP), the frustratingly mysterious nature of writing folk songs, and his work as part of Jay Kill & The Hustle Standard, a duo who's so...
#41: Cameron Bosch | Permanent Hangover
March 30, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBCo-owner/business director of Permanent Hangover and packaging extraordinaire Cam Bosch made his way up north for an overnight in Milo! Though he packages beer by day (first at Bissell, now at Oxbow), his side hustle for the last couple years has been helping grow and develop Permanent Hangover alongside its founder, Andy Godish. Perma Hang occupies a small, hard-to-define space of companies and brands that, despite not actually producing beer, have become undeniably relevant through their c...
#41: Cameron Bosch | Permanent Hangover
March 30, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBCo-owner/business director of Permanent Hangover and packaging extraordinaire Cam Bosch made his way up north for an overnight in Milo! Though he packages beer by day (first at Bissell, now at Oxbow), his side hustle for the last couple years has been helping grow and develop Permanent Hangover alongside its founder, Andy Godish. Perma Hang occupies a small, hard-to-define space of companies and brands that, despite not actually producing beer, have become undeniably relevant through their c...
#40: Carol Stoudt | Stoudt's Brewing Co.
March 23, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBAn incomplete version of Graining In humbly got the opportunity to speak with brewing legend, Carol Stoudt. Carol is in the process of retiring, but she spent the last 33 years as brewmaster of Stoudt's Brewing Company in Adamstown, PA. While the conclusion of a brewing career longer than either Noah or Matt has been alive would be completely applaudable in its own right, when she founded her brewery (an extension of her family steakhouse), Carol Stoudt became the first female brewmaster/hea...
#39: Do You Respect Wood?
March 16, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBThe guys make a triu--... well, a return to the solo format! They had a lot of rust to work off, but in the process, Noah recaps his trip to Philadelphia and Matt shares his experience of picking a fight with the wrong star and getting burnt/blinded as a result (seriously). On the eve of another barrel-aged Milo beer, Matty also brings up a phenomena he's noticed repeatedly in the taproom: the strong attraction most customers have towards the brewery's wooden vessels. This leads to a convers...
#38: Baxter Key | High Roller Lobster
March 09, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBBaxter Key - "The coolest person on Earth" (-Noah's dad), seafood savant, DJ, typophile, and least importantly, this week's guest! Baxter is the co-founder/owner of High Roller Lobster Company, and we get right into its history as Bissell Brothers was one of the first places High Roller's food ever was served (second only to the lawn of Baxter's childhood home). We also get into how he could have ended up in the breakfast game, what it really means to be a High Roller, what merch and travel ...
#37: Matt Miller | Bearded Iris Brewing
March 02, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBIn our first ever hotel room recording, we talk with Matt Miller of Bearded Iris Brewing. Matt's one of three owners of the brewery, an operation that left a huge impression with Noah (and presumably hundreds of other brewers in town) during the 2018 Craft Brewers Conference held in Nashville. The guys talk with him about starting the brewery there, it's evolution since, and also dive into branding, the importance of agility in business, and a surprising similarity between saison and IPA. W...
#36: Genevieve Richardson | Sleek Machine Distro
February 23, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBIt's finally time to share our conversation with Genevieve Richardson, which was recorded over a month ago on a day marked by broken pipes and an extremely smoky wood stove. In addition to being extremely funny, Gen is the sales manager of Sleek Machine, and our conversation touches on how she manages over 300 accounts, the evolution of what defines "representation" in beer, how Matty would fare in sales, and how seemingly everything in life comes back to the possibilities created from the g...
#35: Henry Nguyen | Monkish Brewing
February 17, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBWith the podcast computer safely returned, it seemed only fitting to share a conversation with the man that ultimately got it back to us -- Henry Nguyen. He and his wife own Monkish, which produces some of the most sought-after beer in the US. But instead of talking about the freedoms of success, Henry talked with Matty and Noah exclusively about experiences and emotions that discussed too infrequently in the brewing industry. Between incessant self-doubt, the weight of indecision, fear of t...
#34: Going Back to Cali
February 10, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBGRAINING. IN. IS. BACK. The guys, back from the City of Angels, are recording on a new computer, and waste no time explaining both why that is and why an episode hasn't come out for three weeks...*spoiler alert*, it's because Noah left his laptop and the trifecta of interviews recorded on them at LAX security. The guys discuss how they each dealt with not having the weekly ritual of the podcast in their lives, share some experiences from the the trip itself (one of which involves two types ...
#33: "We're Fine"
January 20, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBFresh off a bottling run of a fruited spruce beer, the guys begin with a back-and-forth about the merits of one of Maine’s few indigenous adjuncts. Then things pivots to the upcoming trip to Los Angeles, with a discussion of their favorite LA movies, the food and beer they’re most excited to enjoy, and their first experience at the Comedy Store. This leads Matty to share a previously-withheld, albeit long-standing resolution: to perform standup! He spends the rest of the episode in extreme d...
#32: Jacob Buck | Maine Malt House
January 13, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBThe guys get blessed with a rare "in-studio" guest this week, with Jacob Buck making the 2.5 hour trek south to Milo, all the way from Mapleton, ME. Jake runs Maine Malt House with his three brothers and their father on their multi-generational family farm. BBB will buy about 200 tons of grain produced by the Buck family in 2020, so their is no shortage of Noah playing fanboy as Jake explains how their farm - which for decades had grown only potatoes - diversified itself by beginning to prod...
#31: Matt Steinberg | Exhibit 'A' Brewing
January 06, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBRecorded in Framingham, we talk with Matthew Steinberg, founding brewer/owner of Exhibit 'A'. Matt boasts over two decades in the brewing industry, and geeks out hard with the guys on his history in the New England scene, from his time at Harpoon, Mayflower, and Rapscallion. That opens itself up to some really interesting broader conversation on the nature of both ownership and mentorship, with three very different perspectives and paths into beer sitting at the same table. Noah wasn't going...
#30: New Year, New Ro'
December 30, 2019 01:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBWith the decade coming to a close, the guys are in a particularly reflective mood. Matty's ready to completely reinvent himself, Noah's standing ground with arms folded, and per usual, the resulting dialogue finds itself in a happy medium. The conversation reflects on the good, bad, and ridiculous that seven months of podcasting has brought the guys, and touches on their hopes and dreams (or lack thereof) for 2020. The pseudo-psychiatric self indulgence wraps up with Noah and Matt sharing th...
#29: Anna Jobe | Nightshift Brewing
December 23, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBMatty and Noah find themselves on the docks of Boston this week. They're not there to sneak onto a Ben Affleck movie, but instead to talk to Anna Jobe, Innovations Brewer at Nightshift's newest location on Lovejoy Wharf. Anna's been with the brewery since nearly the beginning, which made for an easy, eclectic, and very interesting chat. Anna gives a brief arc of the brewery's culinary-inspired focus when she started and the transition into the present, where they make just about everything i...
#28: Mike Fava | Oxbow Brewing
December 16, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThe guys venture into the woods of Newcastle, ME to talk with Mike Fava, head brewer of Oxbow Brewing. The conversation - held inside a literal farmhouse next to the brewery - makes a great case for the podcast's best so far. Fava (as he's known by essentially everyone) cut his chops brewing at Dock Street and Nodding Head in Philadelphia, and he walks us through how he ended up going from pub to farmhouse brewer with some help from a guy known as "The Dude". He shares his thoughts on what d...
#27: Festivus for the Rest of Us
December 09, 2019 05:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBAll sides of holiday spirit are in full effect on this week's episode! After getting some heavy ghosts of Christmas Pasts out of the way (i.e. self-indulgent reminiscing), it's onto a series of Christmas-themed reflective beer questions. What beer would the guys drink if stranded for a week (Home Alone)? What beer did they fall in love with in the past year (Love Actually)? What events in the beer world surprised and scared them the most (Rudolph and Krampus)? And finally, to cap things off ...
#26: Drue Nickerson | 320 Ink
December 02, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBRecorded at Noah's house, the guys get to talk shop with Drue Nickerson, owner of 320 Ink. Drue's company has been responsible for printing virtually all of the brewery's merch over the last 3-4 years, and while talking textiles might be like inherently dry subject matter, it turned out to be anything but. Drue gives the guys a 101 class in the mysterious art of screen printing, but it quickly shifts focus to business in general, determination, and the importance of doing things differently....
#25: Austin Miller | Mami Portland
November 25, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBThe guys are privileged to sit down with Austin Miller, co-owner of Mami Restaurant. Though he grew up in Montana, he became obsessed with Japanese food by way of the woman he eventually married and hasn't looked back since. He tells the story of acquiring the food truck the business was born out of, a feat that demanded an absurd amount of resolve and set the ethos for how he and his wife would go on to run their business. We also talk Yelp (it sucks), his ramen pilgrimage to Japan (it did ...
#24: A Beer By Any Other Name
November 18, 2019 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBMatty and Noah are reunited to talk broken bones, Charleston, and a topic of surprising depth: beer names. With an ever-growing number of conceptualized or finished beers requiring monikers, the need come up with a fitting name for a given beer - and the process of getting there - is starting to weigh heavy on the guys' minds. As some thinly-veiled therapy, they let their polar perspectives clash by listing and explaining their respective five "favorite" beer names out there, in hopes of fi...
#23: Adam Goodwin | Charles Towne Fermentory
November 11, 2019 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBNoah - while regretfully Mattless again - is in the beautiful city of Charleston, SC, talking with Adam Goodwin. The conversation picks up right as Adam's brewery, Charles Towne Fermentory, wraps up its third annual There Will Be Hops beer festival. After discussing the value of fests through brewer eyes (and the impetus to host one), the guys talk about Adam breaking into the brewing industry as an early employee Tired Hands, later becoming head brewer at Trillium, and his experience openin...
#22: Greg Engert | Neighborhood Restaurant Group
November 04, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBRecorded at the Partisan in Washington, DC, Matty and Noah get to talk with the Michael Jordan of beer and hospitality expertise - Greg Engert. In addition to being Matt's personal hero, Greg is the beer director for Neighborhood Restaurant Group, an organization that operates roughly twenty bars and restaurants in the capital region, including Bluejacket and Churchkey. He sheds invaluable light on the benefits of having so many irons in the fire, weighs in on the changes he's seen in craft ...
#21: Uninformed Social Studies
October 28, 2019 03:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBAfter a chunk of heavy hittin' guest episodes, the guys take a minute to reflect on some of the traveling that happened to make them happen. D.C. in particularly is discussed, from its "lawless" beer scene, Snallygaster, and Matt's ambiguous experiences there in middle school. Additionally, Matt reveals his mom would really like the language on the show cleaned up a bit, despite her proclivities towards southern rap, while Noah reveals big (i.e. impossible) podcast plans for his upcoming sti...
#21: Uninformed Social Studies
October 28, 2019 03:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBAfter a chunk of heavy hittin' guest episodes, the guys take a minute to reflect on some of the traveling that happened to make them happen. D.C. in particularly is discussed, from its "lawless" beer scene, Snallygaster, and Matt's ambiguous experiences there in middle school. Additionally, Matt reveals his mom would really like the language on the show cleaned up a bit, despite her proclivities towards southern rap, while Noah reveals big (i.e. impossible) podcast plans for his upcoming sti...
#20: Dr. Jason Bolton | University of Maine
October 21, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBThis week, the guys go geek and talk with Dr. Jason Bolton, a food science professor at the University of Maine. In addition to creating and teaching the course "Brewing with Food Science" at UMaine, Jason is also the food safety specialist of the University's Cooperative Extension, which serves as a resource for Maine's brewing industry, as well as all food and beverage producers and retailers in the state. While Noah and Matty were intimidated by his immense education, this good doctor wa...
#20: Dr. Jason Bolton | University of Maine
October 21, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBThis week, the guys go geek and talk with Dr. Jason Bolton, a food science professor at the University of Maine. In addition to creating and teaching the course "Brewing with Food Science" at UMaine, Jason is also the food safety specialist of the University's Cooperative Extension, which serves as a resource for Maine's brewing industry, as well as all food and beverage producers and retailers in the state. While Noah and Matty were intimidated by his immense education, this good doctor wa...
#19: Jeff Cozzens & John Lenzini I Schilling Beer Co
October 15, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBStraight outta Littleton! Recorded in the heart of the cellar at Schilling Beer as a double session with two of the company's owners, smack dab in the middle of the brewery's 6th anniversary, this is a fun one. Jeff Cozzens, the business/community outreach side of the brewery, leads off the conversation. He talks with the guys about Lederhosen and Schilling's evolving role as an anchor of a small New Hampshire town, and also offers a special shout-out to a particular breed of Untappd user. ...
#18: JC Tetreault I Trillium Brewing
October 07, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBJC Tetreault, the fated farmer himself, somehow wound up in Milo for a night. Even weirder, he spent most of his night talking to Matty and Noah. Considering Trillium's worldly prominence, it'd be easy to assume you know enough about the brewery's founder...but you'd be wrong. In this conversation, JC and the guys talk hops and hospitality, leadership and lager, cultivation and cooking, and just about everything in between. He also shares a huge amount of insight into how he balances his wor...
#18: JC Tetreault I Trillium Brewing
October 07, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBJC Tetreault, the fated farmer himself, somehow wound up in Milo for a night. Even weirder, he spent most of his night talking to Matty and Noah. Considering Trillium's worldly prominence, it'd be easy to assume you know enough about the brewery's founder...but you'd be wrong. In this conversation, JC and the guys talk hops and hospitality, leadership and lager, cultivation and cooking, and just about everything in between. He also shares a huge amount of insight into how he balances his wor...
#17: The Lupulin Losers
September 30, 2019 03:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBThe guys are reunited! The conversation quickly becomes decidedly hop-forward, with Noah freshly home from sniffin' hops in Yakima. He does his best to break down the hop selection and contracting processes to Matt, which reveals (or reiterates) a noteworthy level of expertise on Home Alone and crude oil on the respective sides of the table. Citra is mentioned in excess, but Fuggles comes in just once and hits its mark perfectly. It certainly won't be the last time our favorite flowers domin...
#16: Alex Lyscars I Bissell Brothers
September 26, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBWith Matt MIA, Noah finds conversational comfort in the soothing voice of Alex Lyscars. Alex is the Community Outreach Coordinator at Bissell Brothers, a job he essentially created within the brewery that aims to further the business' social impact. He breaks down for Noah the many ways BBB determines the list of charitable organizations it works with, how he continually tries to expand its impact, and the emphasis on "Community" within his title. Additionally, the guys talk about how Graini...
#15: Dancing on the Service Ceiling
September 16, 2019 06:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week, a Three Rivers food pop-up prompts a discussion about serving in the beer industry. Through a conversation that includes nostalgia, moonwalking in kitchens, Spike TV, the magic of connecting across the bar, the guys end up where they usually do: right where they started. However, there's at least a slight chance that you just may want to become a butler after listening. They are the moving target of hospitality, after all.
#14: Tobias Parkhurst | Cushnoc Brewing
September 09, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBRecording from the state's capital, the boys break bread (pizza) with Tobias Parkhurst of Cushnoc Brewing Company. To put it lightly, Tobias is an interesting dude. After spending all of his 20s traveling the country as a professional skateboarder, he moved back (considerably less spry) to his hometown of Augusta to take over his family's commercial glass business. Ever since, he's been "selfishly" playing a large entrepreneurial role in Augusta's steady evolution into a town that attracts m...
#13: The Fruit Route
September 02, 2019 03:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBWith the '19 Maine berry crop starting to roll into the brewery, the guys decide it's as good as time as ever to talk fruit. Matt - channeling his inner Thoreau following a recent trip to a blueberry farm - inquires about how sourcing works and how brewer/grower relationships evolve. Across the table, Noah does his best Atticus Finch impression in defending the superiority of whole fruit over aseptic puree, even in the barren tundra of Maine. The struggles of living in a world of distraction...
#12: Greg Norton | Bier Cellar
August 26, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBThis week, Matty and Noah talk beer retail with Greg Norton of Bier Cellar. Greg's store is arguably the most respected bottle shop in Maine, and the perspective and insight he shares makes it very easy to see why. Despite Matty forgetting a big chunk of pertinent equipment, some bootstrapping (and a very patient guest) allowed us to have a conversation we felt genuinely honored to be a part of. Greg reflects with the guys on how quickly beer culture continues to change, the wide range of pe...
#11: Fifty Shades of Homebrewing
August 19, 2019 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBAfter a brief recap of Foam's Funk on the Water festival, the conversation dives straight into homebrewing. Matty takes the stance that it is the hobby of Satan himself; Noah is curiously unable to explain where his interest in it even came from (malevolent forces?); and both guys fail to determine why anyone homebrews in the first place. Whether making beer at home is true witchcraft or merely a laborious pastime remains a mystery, but thankfully, the episode is saved from falling too deep...
#10: Luke Pestl | Bellwoods Brewery
August 12, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBThis week, the guys get blessed by the presence of Luke Pestl. Luke owns what many would say is the best brewery in Canada and it was a blast talking to him, particularly on our home turf in Milo. After addressing the obvious question of how he wound up in Piscataquis County with his wife and three children, we get into a wide variety of topics like his history in beer, Bellwood's philosophy. and what makes Canadian beer culture unique. Luke shares a ton of insight on the value of food in a ...
#09: Conversations in Magical Fermentations
August 05, 2019 02:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBNoah and Matty decide to go down the rabbit hole that is spontaneous fermentation. The conversation bounces between why lambic-style beers are the top of the mountain for so many brewers, experiences and thoughts on the style, philosophy on how a coolship (R) should be used, and ultimately why it's worth bowing down to Belgium. Through Matty's relentless questioning, he discovers his employer may very well be completely full of crap (anyone hiring?). Lastly, it'd be a be shame not to mentio...
#08: Evan Richardson | Eaux Restaurant
July 29, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBThis week, Matty and Noah had the pleasure of getting southern hospitalitized by Evan Richardson, chef and owner of Eaux in Portland. Evan made his way to Maine from the Big Easy and is tirelessly proud of that fact. His restaurant serves food that pays deep homage to Louisiana and Creole (NOT Cajun) cooking while also embracing the indigenous flavors of Maine. The concepts of fusion, balance, and adaptation run throughout our conversation, and we find parallels between kitchens/restaurants ...
#07: Kookiness as a Brand
July 22, 2019 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBThe guys sit down and recap a beef-squashing collaboration brew with Novare Res and attempt to dissect the deep love of Taras Boulba from Noah and brewers at large. The eccentricities of Belgian breweries also comes up, which leads to a surprisingly decent conversation about how branding - intentional or incidental - influences everyone's beer drinking decisions, whether they realize it or not. Weaved throughout the episode are hints that Matt may be illiterate and that Noah may soon legally...
#06: Shahin Khojastehzad | Novare Res Bier Cafe
July 15, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBThis week, we record at Novare Res with one of its owners: Shahin Khojastehzad. He preciously fell in love with better beer at and age at which many people haven't even been buzzed, and he and offers a uniquely honest take on the history of Novare, balancing local with global, maintaining standards, and the value of pub culture. We also dig into Novare's quest to get better while staying true, leading to a very open discussion of why they stopped carrying Bissell Brothers after they changed ...
#05: NYC and the Staunch Conch Beer Festival
July 12, 2019 22:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBThis week, Noah recounts his experience doing a two-way collaboration with Other Half, first in Portland and later in the wild world that is NYC. We weigh in on brewing in one of the most human-dense places in America, the resolve required to become a bike messenger, Other Half's Green City, and beer festivals as a whole. The perils of consuming exotic urban shellfish and the joys of observing amateur wrestling are also contrasted as we try to worm our way through the Big Apple.
#03: Beer Collaborations & Wedding Salutations
July 11, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBThis week, we record from Noah's dad's garage and hold a weigh-in for the pros and cons of beer collaborations. We also chat about public speaking with a mullet, Napoleon Complexes, and struggle to connect Sammy Sosa to Trillium.
#04: Zach Page | Lone Pine Brewing
July 11, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBThis week we talk with Zach Page, Director of Brewing Operations at Lone Pine Brewing. Zach shares his story - from growing up in Indiana, leaving a PhD program at Brown to become the second employee of Trillium, and ultimately his decision to start fresh in Maine. We get tales from the early days of brewing at Fort Point and moving north to help Lone Pine navigate a huge expansion. We talk a lot about scaling production alongside company culture, a little about Zach's aggressive modesty, an...