144: Cellarmaker’s Tim Sciascia and Connor Casey Discuss Evaluating Hops, Brewing Hazy West Coast IPA, and More
Connor Casey and Tim Sciascia of San Francisco’s Cellarmaker Brewing have a well-earned reputation among peers as savants when it comes to hops. From the colorful descriptive language they’ve develope...
17 Jul 20201h 15min
143: New Anthem's Aaron Skiles on Learning Through Problem Solving with Hazy IPA
Wilmington, North Carolina’s New Anthem Beer Project has become a force in the world of hazy IPA through their creative and meticulous approach to ingredient quality and process integrity. In this epi...
11 Jul 20201h 11min
142: Drekker's Mark Bjornstad on Balancing Tart, Thick, Envelope-Pushing Fruit-Smoothie Ales
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...
3 Jul 20201h 11min
141: Chris Harris of Black Frog Just Brews What He Likes to Drink
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 ...
26 Jun 202047min
140: Jeff Herbert of Superstition Meadery on Envisioning and Making Best-in-Class Craft Beverages
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 mead...
21 Jun 20201h 16min
139: Andy Farrell, Brewing Innovation Manager for Bell's Brewery, on the Delicate Design of Low-Cal IPAs
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 the...
17 Jun 20201h 3min
138: Jeremy Tofte of Melvin: Learn From Mistakes, Focus on Improvement
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 increduli...
6 Jun 20201h 17min
137: Odell Brewing's COO Brendan McGivney Believes IPA Can Always Be Better
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 meda...
31 Mai 20201h 7min
