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
136: Doug Constantiner of Societe Brewing on Aroma-Forward West Coast IPA and a Methodical Approach to Funky and Wild Beer
Societe’s Doug Constantiner wants to make beer you can drink a lot of. Not excessively, of course, but consistently. “The holy grail of beer is not the beer that there’s a hundred bottles of, and e...
24 Mai 20201h 37min
135: For Noah Bissell of Bissell Brothers, Less is Definitely More
The conversation about hazy, New England-style IPAs invariably includes Portland, Maine’s Bissell Brothers Brewery. From the early days of the nascent style, they embraced the possibility of expressiv...
18 Mai 20201h 7min
