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Dino Funari of Vitamin Sea Brewing on Creating Trendy Styles That Stand Out From the Crowd
Episode 132
You’d have to be confident, or crazy, to open a brewery focusing on New England IPA right smack dab in the turbid heartland of the style, but that’s what Dino Funari, and his partners Peter Kiley, Jo…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Sensory Expert Lindsay Barr Wants You to Become a Better Beer Taster
Episode 131
Taste. It’s a hard subject to quantify but there’s nothing more important in the world of beer. We spend hour after hour talking about the minute details of brewing process and technique, but how muc…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Destihl Founder Matt Potts on Developing Your Voice with Sours and Hazy IPAs
Episode 130
In the midst of the last Great Recession, Potts felt the itch to turn his brewing hobby into a profession. While preparing and studying at the Siebel Institute, he fell in love with sour beer. He set…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Kate Lee and Brian Nelson of Hardywood Park Get Dark and Spicy
Episode 129
In this conversation with Hardywood Park Craft Brewery's Kate Lee, vice president of operations and quality, and Brian Nelson, vice president and head brewer, they dive into a variety of brewing chal…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Matt Tarpey of The Veil Will Brew With Anything
Episode 128
The Veil Brewing Company’s Matt Tarpey has never been afraid of risk. From early career moves that took him around New England to brew with some of the country’s more influential brewers, to a stint …
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Kyle Matthias of Deschutes on their “All-In” Approach to Innovation Brewing
Episode 127
If you visit the Deschutes Brewery taproom in Bend today, you can’t miss the innovation brewhouse. It’s right there in the front window to your left as you walk in, tucked beneath the towering fermen…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Ben Edmunds of Breakside Brewery on Optimizing for “Pleasantness”
Episode 126
For Portland, Oregon’s Breakside Brewery, beer should offer maximum enjoyment without losing its character and sense of identity. Dual core IPAs Wanderlust and Breakside IPA scratch different hoppy i…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Brad Clark of Private Press Discusses Intention, Quality, and Expression in Brewing and Blending Barrel-Aged Stouts and Barleywines
Episode 125
Leaving a senior-level job (overseeing brewing operations for a 14,000 barrel per year brewery) to launch a small startup brewery with a tightly focused approach to brewing and an extremely limited s…
Published on 5 years, 9 months ago
Tony Lawrence of Boneyard on Balance, Hops Selection, and Resisting Consumer Whims to Stick with What Works
Episode 124
Tony Lawrence, founder and brewer at Boneyard Beer in Bend, Oregon, has had a distinguished career—from his start at early-days Deschutes to the cobbled-together brewery he launched in 2010. Even in …
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago
Blake Tyers of Creature Comforts on Wood-Aging Beer
Episode 123
It takes a huge leap of faith to abandon a linear production model to embrace the chaos and uncertainty of a blending-focused wood cellar. But Athens, Georgia’s Creature Comforts Brewing is unburdene…
Published on 5 years, 10 months ago