Podcast Episodes

Drekker's Mark Bjornstad on Balancing Tart, Thick, Envelope-Pushing Fruit-Smoothie Ales

Episode 142

Drekker Brewing in Fargo, North Dakota, has grabbed the attention of enthusiasts across the country with funky, smoothie-thick, highly fruited beers such as their Chonk and Braaaaaaaains series.

He…

Published on 5 years, 5 months ago

Chris Harris of Black Frog Just Brews What He Likes to Drink

Episode 141

The way Chris Harris caught the brewing bug will be familiar to many: It all started with a Mr. Beer kit. From there it evolved into a 20-gallon garage nanobrewery, and later the 2.5-barrel system he…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Jeff Herbert of Superstition Meadery on Envisioning and Making Best-in-Class Craft Beverages

Episode 140

While technically considered wine, mead has long had a stronger affinity with the world of beer and home brewing than it has with the wine world, and the growth of flavor-forward ingredient-laden mea…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Andy Farrell, Brewing Innovation Manager for Bell's Brewery, on the Delicate Design of Low-Cal IPAs

Episode 139

Making a great low-ABV, low-calorie beer is a lot more work than just scaling down a larger recipe, so when Bell’s Brewery decided to enter the very hot low-calorie category with a lighter riff on th…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Jeremy Tofte of Melvin: Learn From Mistakes, Focus on Improvement

Episode 138

Dickens’ opening paragraph for “A Tale of Two Cities” provides an appropriate metaphor for the past few years of Melvin Brewing’s existence—best and worst, wisdom and foolishness, belief and incredul…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Odell Brewing's COO Brendan McGivney Believes IPA Can Always Be Better

Episode 137

It’s one thing to make great beer, it’s another thing to do it consistently, and it’s another thing entirely to maintain such a high standard for three decades. But take a look at Odell Brewing’s med…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Doug Constantiner of Societe Brewing on Aroma-Forward West Coast IPA and a Methodical Approach to Funky and Wild Beer

Episode 136

Societe’s Doug Constantiner wants to make beer you can drink a lot of. Not excessively, of course, but consistently.

“The holy grail of beer is not the beer that there’s a hundred bottles of, and e…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

For Noah Bissell of Bissell Brothers, Less is Definitely More

Episode 135

The conversation about hazy, New England-style IPAs invariably includes Portland, Maine’s Bissell Brothers Brewery. From the early days of the nascent style, they embraced the possibility of expressi…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

Eric Wallace of Left Hand Brewing Co. Shares Perspective and Advice for Brewers Navigating the COVID-19 Shutdown

Episode 134

This isn’t the first time in his 26 years in the craft beer industry that Eric Wallace, Cofounder and President of Left Hand Brewing Co. and former Chairman of the Brewers Association Board of Direct…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

New Belgium’s Ross Koenigs Takes an Analytical Approach to Hops and Cannabis

Episode 133

Hazy IPA is all the rage, but what’s actually going on when brewers pile many pounds per gallon of dry hops into a tank still in active fermentation? It’s one thing with a homebrew-scale fermenter to…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago