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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 …
5 years, 7 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 gara…
5 years, 8 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…
5 years, 8 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 …
5 years, 8 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 …
5 years, 8 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 thr…
5 years, 9 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…
5 years, 9 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 nascen…
5 years, 9 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 C…
5 years, 9 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?…
5 years, 9 months ago