222: Good Word’s Todd DiMatteo Goes Big on Little Beers
Todd DiMatteo never intended to head up the production side of Good Word Brewing and Public House in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. However, after a rocky start with a previous brewer forced hi...
27 Jan 20221h 12min
221: Jan Chodkowski of Our Mutual Friend Embraces Both the Bold and the Sublime
Denver’s Our Mutual Friend might be better known in brewing circles for their commitment to mixed-culture beers, but ask head brewer Jan Chodkowski, and he’ll admit to being a hophead. It’s no surpris...
19 Jan 20221h 8min
220: Kyle Harrop of Horus Aged Ales Pushes the Edges of Adjunct Technique
If there was a Guinness world record for most beer collaborations, Kyle Harrop of Horus Aged Ales would surely hold it. The 400-plus beers Harrup has brewed with other breweries are even more impressi...
11 Jan 20221h 14min
219: For Firestone Walker Cofounder David Walker, Innovation and Collaboration Are in Craft Beer’s DNA
For this final episode of 2021, David Walker of Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, California) joins the podcast to talk about the brewery’s remarkable evolution—from the earliest days of making pale ale ...
1 Jan 20221h 5min
218: Broken Strings’ Charles Frizzell Believes That More is More in Flavor-Forward Beers
Brewing is in the family for Broken Strings founder Charles Frizzell. His grandfather spent the better part of his brewing career at Puerto Rico’s Corona, and he grew up hearing the stories. Today, Fr...
22 Dec 20211h 7min
217: North Park Beer’s Kelsey McNair Is Making Better West Coast IPA By Tinkering with Hazies
Kelsey McNair of San Diego’s North Park Beer still can’t quite fathom how the brewery walked away with two medals in IPA categories in the 2021 Great American Beer Festival—a silver for their Art Is H...
13 Dec 20211h 14min
216: Lars Marius Garshol Is Doing the Research and Shifting the Paradigms
Few people have been as influential in adding to what we know about traditional brewing and changing how we think about fermentation and farmhouse brewing than Lars Marius Garshol. On his blog and in ...
6 Dec 20211h 3min
215: Browar Pinta’s Paweł Maslowski and Bart Ociesa Apply Modern Creativity to Classic Styles
American brewers have long been influenced by European brewing traditions, but what happens when European brewers take some of those American twists and apply them to their own beers? Poland’s Browar ...
29 Nov 202157min
