436: Blake Masoner of Craft Coast Strives for Excellence Beer After Beer, Taco After Taco
At Craft Coast in Oceanside and San Marcos, California, Blake Masoner is happy if you show up for tacos and stay for a beer. The fairly priced tacos are scratch-made, down to the tortillas themselves,...
19 Sep 20251h 32min
435: Josh Penney of Threes Brings a Bicoastal Sensibility to Hoppy Lager, Hazy IPA, and More
Before joining Threes, Josh Penney spent the better part of a decade brewing in Southern California, with nearly half of that time at hoppy-lager innovators Highland Park. Now at the helm of Threes in...
12 Sep 20251h 13min
434: Frank Bilello of Noble Savage Lets the Beer Become What it Wants to Be
The Untappd Community Awards offer an interesting barometer of consumer excitement around breweries and beers, but for Noble Savage in Glen Cove—east of New York City, on Long Island—landing two beers...
5 Sep 20251h 1min
433: KCBC Brings Brash Energy and a Bit of West Coast Sensibility to Beer in NYC
Making beer commercially in New York City is so difficult that it all but stopped until the previous decade’s craft-beer boom rekindled the fire. Today, about 40 breweries make beer in the city, but d...
29 Aug 20251h 14min
432: Ben Clayton of Test Approaches Brewing with a Chef’s Discipline and a Beginner’s Mind
Ben Clayton of Brooklyn’s Test honed his approach to brewing while working in the context of a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City. Today, building a deep, meaningful supply chain for interes...
22 Aug 20251h 10min
431: Using Taproom Data and Insights to Optimize Brewery Decision Making, Presented by Arryved
The best beer isn’t brewed in a vacuum—it’s brewed with your guests in mind. Every pour, every seasonal release, every new recipe starts with one question: What do people actually want to drink? In...
19 Aug 20251h 15min
430: Float House Explores the Intersection of Beer Culture, Beer Flavor, and Hemp-Derived THC
Hemp-derived THC products, including beverages, have exploded on the market in recent years as producers take advantage of a federal legal loophole that leaves the products legal—or at least not-illeg...
15 Aug 20251h 11min
429: Cody Peczkowski of Moontown Maximizes Malt Expression in Medal-Winning Märzen
In Whitestown, Indiana, just outside Indianapolis, this small-town lager brewery has made big waves with multiple World Beer Cup golds for its märzen, Follow the Lederhosen—not to mention a WBC silver...
8 Aug 20251h 14min
