312: Pure Project’s Winslow Sawyer Brews With Style, Not to Style
When Winslow Sawyer and his partners launched San Diego’s Pure Project in the middle of the last decade, they weren’t focused on brewing particular styles. Instead, they began with the tenet of buildi...
16 Jul 20231h 9min
311: Shawn McIlhenney is Rebrewing the Family Legacy
Ask most American brewers about their first experience with New Zealand hops, and nine out of ten will probably name one single beer—Alpine Beer’s Nelson. Alpine founder Pat McIlhenney was one of the ...
9 Jul 20231h 8min
310: Ghost Town’s Justin Burdt Boosts Hop Contrast in West Coast IPA and Pils
Justin Burdt loves hops, and has developed a unique and somewhat counter-intuitive approach to selecting them for Ghost Town’s award-winning West coast IPAs. His focus on tight and lean intensity reli...
30 Jun 20231h 37min
309: Firestone Walker, Lawsons, and Breakside Discuss Brewing Modern West Coast-Style IPAs at the Brewer's Retreat
As part of the recent Craft Beer & Brewing Brewer’s Retreat, hosted by Russian River in late May 2023, Jamie moderated panel discussions before a live audience of attendees and featured brewers. This ...
26 Jun 20231h 1min
308: Brewer’s Retreat Panel on Wine-Beer Hybrids with Russian River, Side Project, and Hanabi
As part of the recent Craft Beer & Brewing Brewer’s Retreat, hosted by Russian River in late May 2023, Jamie moderated panel discussions before a live audience of attendees and featured brewers. This ...
18 Jun 202355min
307: Brewer’s Retreat Panel on Hazy IPA with Monkish, Trillium, and Weldwerks
As part of the recent Craft Beer & Brewing Brewer’s Retreat, hosted by Russian River in late May 2023, Jamie moderated panel discussions before a live audience of attendees and featured brewers. This ...
12 Jun 20231h 9min
306: Celebrated Hop Breeder Ron Beatson Discusses the Unique Characteristics of New Zealand Hops
New Zealand’s climate, latitude, and singular terroir offers the right environment for hops of unique expression, but it’s their longstanding breeding program that has made possible so many of the sig...
2 Jun 20231h 7min
305: Matthias Trum of Schlenkerla Isn't Preserving the Ashes, He's Keeping the Rauchbier Fire Burning
Matthias Trum is the sixth-generation brewer at Bamberg’s Heller-Trum Bräu—better known as Schlenkerla—and he is as obsessed with local history as he is with producing world-class smoked lagers via th...
27 Mai 20231h 26min
