158: 2020 Best in Beer Podcast Special!
2020 was a challenging year for trying new beer, but like everyone has done over the past eight months of shutdowns and socially distancing, we persevered. We were able to taste thousands of beers ove...
23 Loka 20201h 45min
157: Finback Cofounder Kevin Stafford Strives For Harmony in Creative, Boundary-Pushing Beers
For Kevin Stafford, Head Brewer and Cofounder of New York’s Finback Brewery, exploration and creative expression has always been the brewery’s goal, as they wholeheartedly embrace the new. But there’s...
20 Loka 202054min
156: Levi Funk of Untitled Art and Funk Factory Aims to Create New Styles
For Madison, Wisconsin-based entrepreneur/blender/iconoclast Levi Funk, the apparent conflict in philosophies between his two brands isn’t a conflict at all. While his blendery and passion project, F...
9 Loka 20201h 16min
155: Zebulon's Mike Karnowski Sees the Future in Beers of the Past
"I’ve become a traditionalist. I’m more interested in going backwards,” says Mike Karnowski, founder of Zebulon Artisan Ales. “As I see what craft beer is turning into, I’m turning around and running ...
6 Loka 20201h 10min
154: Jake Gardner of Westbound & Down Breaks Down Complex Brewing Challenges
For Jake Gardner, Head Brewer of Westbound & Down (Idaho Springs, Colorado), brewing means defining goals for a beer and mapping out the way to achieve those goals, naming the challenges and articulat...
29 Syys 20201h 22min
153: Grains of Wrath Head Brewer Mike Hunsaker Strives For Quality That Fellow Brewers Respect
Grains of Wrath’s Mike Hunsaker has never been afraid to work for his success, and that journey of working and learning has led him to brewing gigs from Virginia to Cleveland and Oregon. Today, as Cof...
21 Syys 20201h 7min
152: Matt Riggs of Riggs Beer Goes Grain-to-Glass With Estate-Grown Ingredients and Six-Row Malt
For Matt Riggs, the drive to open a brewery on their family farm in central Illinois was driven by two passions—a desire to sustain the farm into future generations by adding value to their crops beyo...
14 Syys 20201h 23min
151: Author Chris Colby on How to Make (Good) Hard Seltzer
Chris Colby has been writing about brewing process and techniques for the better part of two decades. His new book from Brewers Publications, How to Make Hard Seltzer, sheds light on the rapidly evolv...
7 Syys 20201h 8min
