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Doug Pominville of 603 Brewery interviews Devin Bush of Wildbloom Beer.

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The eisbock story is a fun lore of beer myth, a hapless brewery employee left a barrel of doppelbock outside during a snowstorm in Germany and some of the beer froze, concentrating flavor and thus creating a whole new beer style. While the roots of this story may not wholly be true, it’s a fun addition to a beer style made by distillation processes at its most base level.

These beers are rare in the United States as you need special licenses to make them but in Europe, the rules are a bit different and in...

Colby Chandler of All Things Agave interviews Doug Pominville of 603 Brewery.

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Golden honey. Sweet bread. Cereal grains. Slightly nutty with subtle flavors and aromas of hay. Rahr North Star Pils™ is a beautiful base malt for any beer style, but it shines particularly bright in classic lagers like Rev Pils from Revolution Brewing out of Ch...

Foam is perhaps the least appreciated aspect of beer.  Somebody even hate it, wanting a glass filled to the brim with liquid.  But experts insist that beer foam is important.  It is visually appealing, it is an indicator of quality and freshness, and it affects the mouthfeel and even the flavor of the beer.

What makes good foam?  There are factors inside the brewhouse and outside the brewhouse that affect beer foam.  From raw ingredients right on through to how the beer is poured, there are many factors affecting beer foam.  Foam takes the beer experience to the ne...

Vince Marsaglia of Pizza Port Brewery interviews Colby Chandler of All Things Agave.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

At its most basic, whiskey is distilled beer.  And yet, beer makers and whiskey makers rarely share information, techniques and ingredients.

In recent years, some brewers and whiskey makers are taking inspiration from beer, using craft beer ingredients like specialty malts and different yeast strains, to make more interesting base beer that is then distilled to new styles of beer.  And others are completing the circle by aging whiskey in former beer barrels.

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Michael Aubuchon of Koakai Brewing interviews Vince Marsaglia of Pizza Port Brewery.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can su...

Social media is an important part of our lives. We wish people a happy birthday, find out about births or deaths, stay in touch with people, are entertained by hilarious videos and get our opinions out across to everyone (for better or worse). Breweries use social media as well, a sort of visual Yellow Pages to get out their vision, their beers and their events to the masses. But with an everchanging world and social media constantly changing its rules, how do breweries adapt and change? In this episode of the All About Beer podcast, we talk to three...

Brian Hutchinson of Cannonball Creek interviews Michael Aubuchon of Koakai Brewing Co. and Kyoto Japanese Market in Oceanside, CA

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.ma...

Since bursting onto the scene in 1999, double IPA or imperial IPA has captured the imagination of brewers and the taste buds of consumers.  It is consistently one of the most competitive categories at beer competitions like the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival.So what makes great, award-winning double IPA?  And how do brewers that brew it well continue to evolve their beers as consumer trends change, so their beers continue to be relevant and continue to win medals?  Two Brewery of the Year winners tell us the secrets to brewing great double IPA on this epi...

Alex Bakken of Westbound & Down interviews Brian Hutchinson of Cannonball Creek Brewing Company.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

Pilsner Urquell is one of the most famous beers in the world and many would argue it’s the original golden lager as, after all, “Pilsner Urquell” means Original Pilsner. But what is its origin story, how is it brewed and how has Pilsner Urquell the beer evolved (if at all) from its invention in 1842 in the town of Plzen, Czech Republic?

On this episode of the “All About Beer” podcast, we talk to Brewmaster Emeritus and Plzen native Václav Berka about the history of golden lager from the Czech perspective and how Pilsner Urquell conquered t...

Whitney Burnside of Grand Fir Brewing interviews Alex Bakken of Westbound & Down.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can su...

Japanese rice lagers are having a moment in the beer industry right now. It feels like nowadays everyone is brewing one and they’ve become a popular part of the golden lager trend. But what goes into making them and what unique ways are people exploring to bring this style to the next level? We’ve also been told that rice is just a cheap adjunct that adds no flavor of consequence but new research suggests that rice is more than it seems.
 

On this episode of the All About Beer podcast, we talk to a brewe...

Jesse Brown of Formula Brewing interviews Whitney Burnside of Grand Fir Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can su...

There’s been a lot written about the state of the beer industry.  Overall beer is down.  Craft beer is down.  Breweries are closing.  But is it all doom and doom?  Is this “the new normal,” or is this temporary?

Statistics tell us the truth.  And while it is true that the industry is facing headwinds, there are segments and beers that are doing well.  What can we learn from those positive trends to take beer into the future?

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Ashleigh Carter of Bierstadt Lagerhaus interviews Jeff Bagby of Bagby Brewing.

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Since 2009, Brewery Branding has been crafting merch that helps breweries thrive.They’re born and raised in Portland, Oregon, giving them front row seats to the craft beer revolution and inspiring them to serve as your industry ally for everything branded: apparel, headwear, drinkware, and all the “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas you can dream up. 

Brewery Branding has been there, done that, and made the t-shirts to prove it.​ B...

Spencer Longhurst of Barrique Brewing and Blending interviews Jesse Brown of Formula Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

You take a sip of beer and enjoy the flavor.  Nothing could be more simple, right? But being aware of how we taste and being mindful of what we are tasting can enhance the beer drinking experience.  And that can be exported to other areas of life.  Learn to enjoy beer; learn to enjoy life. We talk with two expert beer and flavor evaluators about how they evaluate beer and get some practical tips on how to improve our own beer tasting experience.

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Mitch Steele of New Realm Brewing interviews Kevin Moreland of Fretboard Brewing.

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Since 2009, Brewery Branding has been crafting merch that helps breweries thrive.They’re born and raised in Portland, Oregon, giving them front row seats to the craft beer revolution and inspiring them to serve as your industry ally for everything branded: apparel, headwear, drinkware, and all the “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas you can dream up. 

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Spencer Guy of Atrium Brewing interviews Spencer Longhurst of Barrique Brewing and Blending.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

Budvar (and known as Czechvar in the U.S.) is an instantly recognizable brand throughout the world. Distributed to 70 countries, Budvar brews its classic Czech pale lager for the world to enjoy. What seems to be a very simple style can be a very complex process and Budvar takes their approach to innovation (as well as MANY nods to traditional brewing practices like decoction mashing) very seriously.

On this episode of the All About Beer podcast, we take a deep dive into all things Budvar with their Deputy Brewmaster, Petr Kosin about how Budvar goes from Czech...

Brian Strumke of Stillwater interviews Spencer Guy of Atrium Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support your ma...

Kentucky Common may be a lesser known beer style, but it has seen an increase in interest in recent years, thanks at least in part to it now being included in the BJCP Style Guidelines.  How do new styles get added to the guidelines?  And what is the effect?

For those who love Kentucky Common, they know that it has a wonderful sweetness from malt and corn.  It is similar to cream ale, but features darker color.  Like many beer styles, Kentucky Common evolved because of the ingredients that were available to area brewers and...

Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing interviews Brian Strumke of Stillwater.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support your ma...

There's nothing like a good beer in summer, surrounded by friends, BBQ lit up with burgers sizzling and the baseball game on the radio. Some breweries around the U.S. look to exemplify summer in a single beer style like golden lager or pale ale. But what really makes these beers fit for summer? Aren't all beers good when the weather turns warmer? What are customers looking for in a summer beer and how are breweries delivering on this?

On this episode of the All About Beer podcast, we talk to Washington based Chuckanut Brewery and...

Adair Paterno of Sante Adairus Rustic Ales interviews Tim Adams of Oxbow Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

There is perhaps no crop that illustrates the success of agricultural science like corn.  It has been bred to grow well, with strong stalks and robust disease resistance.  And scientists have engineered multiple uses for it, making it a very agronomically successful plant.

But that success has resulted in an almost monoculture of modern corn in North America.  Historically, corn was a diverse crop, with many varieties grown throughout the land.  Some brewers are helping to revive these heritage corn varieties and embracing the unique characteristics that they bring.  This produces a unique product, is friendly to the l...

Natalie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing Co. interviews Adair Paterno of Sante Adairius Rustic Ales.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn ho...

THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) is a cannabinoid, and the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis that creates the high associated with marijuana use. Since cannabis has become legal in many states, people are using it in new ways, especially in the drinks space. But what’s the right way to do that? How do breweries, drinkers and mixologists deal with the legal ramifications, the oversight, and the actual flavors and aromas of THC? On this episode of the All About Beer podcast, we talk with Warren Bobrow, a mixologist and author, who pushes the envelope in terms of what cannabis can do in...

Samuel Pecoraro of Von Ebert Brewing interviews Natalie Cilurzo of Russian River Brewing Co.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

How does a global brewer ensure drinkers have the same experience, wherever they are in the world.  Brewing has many variables.  How can multinational brewers control those variables?

In this conversation with one of Heineken’s Global Master Brewers, a conversation about global quality covers not just how beer is made, but how drinkers perceive it and even includes a touch of yeast science.  Global brewers like Heineken spend millions of dollars ensuring global quality and we get to take a peek behind the green curtain to see how they do it.

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Van Havig of Gigantic Brewing interviews Samuel Pecoraro of Von Ebert Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can su...

Craft beer has always been more expensive that the beer from multinational brewers.  And with prices increasing lately, beer drinkers are making careful choices about the beer they drink.  But what goes into the price of beer?  Is that $10 DIPA really worth it, or are brewery owners driving Rolls Royces to the bank?

A lot goes into the price of beer.  We’ll sharpen our pencils and find out how much ingredients, marketing and even taxes go into a beer.

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Matt Gallagher of Suncatcher Brewing interviews Van Havig of Gigantic Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support yo...

Brewing with intention, what does that mean? Well, it can mean many things from brewing beers that challenge creative thinking to creating a welcoming space full of options for beer loving patrons to brewing beers that make the brewer happy and fulfilled. In 2025, toeing the line between customer wants and brewer’s passion can be a challenge. How do breweries do what they want while also running a business? We talk to three different breweries about what this phrase “brewing with intention” means to them and how they approach their business, their brewing and their place in the beer world...

Noah Hopkins of Fulcra Brewing interviews Matt Gallagher of Suncatcher Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support yo...

Welcome to a bonus episode  of the All About Beer podcast! On this episode we will be talking to Westchester County, New York brewers who are excited about what is brewing in their neck of the woods. It is sponsored by the Westchester County Craft Beverage Trail.

Westchester County Craft Beverage Trail
Ready to taste your way through one of New York’s most exciting craft beverage destinations? Head to Westchester County in the scenic Hudson Valley, where more than 23 breweries, distilleries and cideries are pouring up local flavor in every glass. Get started with the...

The craft beer industry owes much of its success to the modern IPA. While IPA is a historic beer style, it has exploded in popularity in the last few decades, spawning new interpretations of the style. West Coast.  East Coast.  Double IPA.  White IPA.  Black IPA.  Cold IPA.  New England.  Sour.  Wild.  And many, many others.

Does “IPA” mean anything anymore?  If it does, what motivates a brewer to push the limits of what IPA is and can be?  How do brewers think about IPA recipes, especially when redefining it?

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Aaron Kleidon of Scratch Brewing Co. interviews Noah Hopkins of Fulcra Brewing.  

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can sup...

Is there anything better than beer and cheese? The two are intertwined as some of the best pairings out there and the two are very alike. Cheese and beer are both products of agriculture, the two are made very similarly with cheese undergoing a “ripening” phase similar to fermentation. Cheese has a variety of intensities and flavors, as does beer. Put them together and watch the magic unfold. But how do you pair these two? And how does making cheese work vs. say, brewing a batch of IPA? We’ll talk to two experts about all things cheese and beer...

Joe Short of Short's Brewing interviews Aaron Kleidon of Scratch Brewing Co.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can su...

Non-alcoholic beer is on the rise.  Non-alcoholic beer is one of the few market segments where beer is actually growing.  But non-alcoholic beer is hard to make, with many tasting “worty” or “stewed.”  One brewery that has cracked the code on how to make non-alcoholic beer that actually tastes good is Guinness, Ireland’s famed stout brewer.

We talk with Guinness about how they make Guinness 0 and why it is so popular (it’s not just the taste).  Non-alcoholic beer doesn’t have to be a sacrifice.  What if beer drinkers could choose non-alcoholic beer because it is...

Brady Duncan of MadTree Brewing interviews Joe Short of Short's Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support yo...

Usually maltsters sell big bags of different grains to breweries and that’s it, right? But when using smaller maltsters, perhaps can there be more of a collaborative process? How do smaller, more local maltsters work with their local breweries to help meet their goals, needs and make sure they have everything they need? What are the benefits of having your maltster nearby or on speed dial? Are there any challenges to breweries just using local malt as well? Today on the All About Beer podcast, we talk to a local maltster in Massachusetts who showcases their client’s brew...

Justin Neff of Sonder Brewing Co. interviews Brady Duncan of Mad Tree Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

There was a time when small breweries dotted the land, making beers beloved by the communities they served.  Thanks to Prohibition, changing consumer preference or just the difficulties of running a business profitably, many such beers have been lost to the history books.

But small breweries specialize in connecting with their communities.  And they can source small-batch or historic ingredients.  So, some of today’s small breweries have been reviving lost brands, bringing nostalgia to older drinkers and offering new flavors to younger ones.

We chat with two breweries - Yaz...

Daniel Harrison of Country Boy Brewing interviews Justin Neff of Sonder Brewing Co.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

Who doesn’t like marshmallows?  Ancient Egyptians were the first to enjoy a gooey treat now called marshmallow as early as 2000 BC.  Today, whether it’s in a hot cup of cocoa on a cold winter’s night, or smooshed with chocolate between graham crackers around the campfire, marshmallows are a fun way to add a little sweetness to life.  But what about marshmallow in beer?

Marshmallows add sweetness to beer, obviously.  But quality marshmallows have other flavors, too.  In the hands of a skilled brewer, marshmallows can be used to make novel beers that please...

Chris Poel of Shiokaze BrewLab interviews Daniel DH Harrison of Country Boy Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

After New England brewers changed the world of IPA, other brewers took note of the style, based on its popularity the new flavors the style provided. But as all inventive brewers do, they didn’t merely mimic the hazy IPAs coming from New England.  Instead, they further re-interpreted IPA, trying new hops, new yeast strains and even adding some bitterness back to the beer to satisfy their local palates. Other brewers have pushed the style to be bigger with double, triple and even quintuple hazy IPAs.

And while these brewers have advanced hazy IPA to new frontiers, the...

Scott Brimmer of Brimmer Brewing interviews Chris Poel of Shiokaze BrewLab.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support yo...

The New England IPA (NEIPA) or Hazy IPA has come to dominate the beer landscape with most breweries having at least one (or sometimes entire portfolios) devoted to the beer style. But how did this happen? In 2013, a small group of breweries in New England, all of which were quite tiny at the time, began to brew a beer that took what we knew of as IPA (bitter, clear) and turned it on its head, creating a thickish, orange colored beer with tons of hop flavor but not a lot of bitterness.

The world took notice...

Scott Jennings of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Interviews Scott Brimmer of Brimmer Brewing.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC ca...

Baltic Porters, a beer famous in Eastern Europe, is a unique brew for sure. Born out of the love and thirst for English porters in the 18th and 19th centuries, Eastern European and Northern European brewers took their own access to local ingredients and made a new style out of the original porter and in this, fundamentally changed the way we think about dark beer. For one, most of the Baltic porters are made with lager yeast, a sharp contrast to other porters in America and England brewed with ale yeast.

Baltic porters can also be...

Tobias Zollo of Weihenstephan interviews Scott Jennings of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can support yo...

Museums are fun.  And cathedrals are beautiful.  But what about traveling for beer?  As a social lubricant, beer is a great way to meet people while traveling who can give a local’s perspective and transform sightseeing into an authentic experience.  Next time you’re planning a vacation, build beer and brewery visits into your itinerary and you’ll be a better traveller for it.

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Attention brewers: registration is now open for the 2025 Best of Craft Beer Awards. This is a B...

Josh Brengle of Compañía Cervecera Hércules interviews Tobias Zollo of Weihenstephan

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Malteurop Malting Company
Malteurop Malting Company (MMC) is based in North America—specializing in growing and producing quality malts for the craft beer and distilling industries. With local farms and Malthouses spread across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, MMC's commitment to excellence is fully ingrained into every batch it produces, ensuring breweries and distilleries of any size can create the finest beverages on the planet. Visit www.malteuropmaltingco.com to learn how MMC can suppo...

It’s the end of 2024 and Don Tse and Em Sauter, the hosts of the All About Beer podcast, have much to be thankful for. They are thankful for good beers, travels, water chemistry, and the coming New Year.

Come with Don and Em in their first guestless episode ever as they discuss their years in beer, why they love beer so much, and their favorite tasting rooms and beer adventures of 2024, This episode is also a discussion of the holiday season, which brings its own tasty beers along with tidings of great joy.

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Dusan Kwiatkowski of Live Oak Brewing Co. interviews Josh Brengle of Compañía Cervecera Hércules

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Before there was brut IPA, cold IPA, NEIPA, black IPA and white IPA, west coast IPA reigned supreme.  Like all IPA, hops are the star of the show in west coast IPA, but for all of their attributes: their bitterness, aroma and flavor.  But the best IPAs, those that win gold medals, are built on the right water profile and supporting foundation of malt.  Fermentation matters, too.  Arguably, the American craft beer industry was built on west coast IPA, so let’s take a look at what builds great west coast IPA.

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Lee Lord of Narragansett Beer interviews Dusan Kwiatkowski of Live Oak Brewing Co.

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While walking through the beer shop, you must have noticed a brewery’s rebrand of packaging materials/signage. Sometimes it’s a slight tweak of a logo or a color change, but sometimes it’s a massive reshuffling to something brand new. Why do breweries rebrand and what are its purposes? In this episode, we will talk to a designer who helps breweries achieve their perfect branding and a brewery currently going through the process of rebranding. Both will discuss the challenges and reasons as to why breweries need to remain fresh in an ever changing beer landscape.

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Grant Wood of Bero interviews Lee Lord of Narragansett Beer.

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Holiday times are the right time for a nice gingerbread stout. Firsd Tea has ginger- the defining flavor of this zesty holiday classic. Combine ginger with cinnamon, vanilla, and other flavors to create your distinctive holiday brew. Email info@firsdtea.com  to find out more.

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Situated near the Finger Lakes region of New York State, Rochester is not only a beer-lovers paradise - with 31 breweries in Monroe County - but is also home to numerous museums and outdoor activities.  The area is based in agriculture which reflects not only in Rochester’s food scene, but also in their beer scene, with many local breweries making beer that showcases the local bounty.

This is a bonus episode of the All About Beer Podcast with Don Tse and Em Sauter brought to you by Visit Rochester.

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The most popular sub-style in beer at the moment, the India pale ale or IPA has had a very storied history, or has it? The most overwrought tale in beer is that the IPA was a new style loaded with hops to survive the long voyage to India and when it got there for all the colonists to drink, it was sparkling and delicious, unlike anything people had ever seen before. But is this merely a tall tale or does it hold some truth?
 

On this episode we talk with beer writer Pete Brown about IPA’s h...

Chris O'Connor of Prost Brewing interviews Grant Wood of Bero.

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Chocolate is almost universally loved, including by brewers. Often used in stouts or other dark beers, chocolate can add complexity to beer while complimenting the flavors of malt. As making good beer requires good ingredients and skilled brewers, so too does making good chocolate require the best inputs handled by expert artisans. And combining the two into chocolate beer? That’s a master class in understanding manipulating agricultural products into a culinary masterpiece.

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Jeremy Pryes of Pryes Brewing Co. interviews Chris O'Connor of Prost Brewing.

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Firsd Tea invites you to experiment with lapsang souchong tea- known informally as "brewer's catnip" because of the natural affinity that many brewers have toward using lapsang in stouts, sours, and porters. Lapsang souchong is a deeply smoked tea with woody tannin character. It dances divinely with citrus, raspberry, and vanilla. A little goes a long way. Curious to try for yourself? Email info@firsdtea.com [to learn more about using lapsang souchong...

The Great American Beer Festival recently held its annual awards ceremony in Denver, Colorado and hundreds of breweries from all over the U.S. competed to win gold, silver and bronze medals for approx 100 different beer styles. For those who won gold, especially for popular styles like hazy pale ale and German pilsner, what goes into making these beers and what do they think they did to deserve such accolades? We talk to these two medal winners: Minnesota based Arbeiter Brewing and Iowa based Big Grove Brewery about their process and what they believe goes into making award winning...

Thomas Vandelanotte of Brasserie de Waterloo interviews Jeremy Pryes of Pryes Brewing cO.

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Firsd Tea invites you to experiment with lapsang souchong tea- known informally as "brewer's catnip" because of the natural affinity that many brewers have toward using lapsang in stouts, sours, and porters. Lapsang souchong is a deeply smoked tea with woody tannin character. It dances divinely with citrus, raspberry, and vanilla. A little goes a long way. Curious to try for yourself? Email info@firsdtea.com [to learn more about using lapsang...

In the last few years hop water has seen explosive growth.  For many, it’s a non-alcoholic beverage that scratches the beer itch.  But like all things beer, there’s more to it than meets the eye.  There is a lot of thought and technique into how to extract the desirable flavors of hops and without malt providing balance, hop water recipes are as carefully constructed as beer recipes.

 
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Frezi Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing interviews Thomas Vandelanotte of Brasserie de Waterloo

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The air is turning crisp, so that means it is time for Fall flavor. Rooibos from Firsd Tea works in wheat beers and pale ales to give copper color and textured smoothness. Combine with vanilla, lemon, or chai flavors for those warm, earthy notes of the season. Talk with the team at Firsd Tea, and they'll help you find the best way to use rooibos and other botanicals for your next project. Email...

"Vanilla” in common use, has become synonymous with “boring” or “plain.”  And yet, brewers will tell you that it is an excellent flavor in beer - and not just stouts.  Real connoisseurs of vanilla will even tell you it is one of the most complex spices, with a broad array of aromas and flavors coming from different varieties of vanilla grown in different areas around the world.  Think you know vanilla?  Think again.  There’s nothing boring or plain about it.

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Jeff Lebesch, the co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Co. interviews Frezi Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing

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The air is turning crisp, so that means it is time for Fall flavor. Rooibos from Firsd Tea works in wheat beers and pale ales to give copper color and textured smoothness. Combine with vanilla, lemon, or chai flavors for those warm, earthy notes of the season. Talk with the team at Firsd Tea, and they'll help you find the best way to use rooibos and other botanicals for your...

Kellerbier traces its history to when beer in Bavaria was stored in underground caves which were natural cellars - or kellers.  “Kellerbier” means "cellar beer” and kellerbiers today are a throwback to old lagers.  Naturally carbonated and unfiltered, kellerbiers are said to be more flavorful and with a softer mouthfeel.  And modern brewers are taking the old idea and applying it to modern lagers, resulting in beer lovers rediscovering a love of lager.

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Peter Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing interviews Jeff Lebesch, the co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Co.

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Blue Butterfly flower has been used for centuries in Southeast Asian cuisine to add bright blues, pinks, and purples to foods and teas. Now brewers and distillers have joined in, using this flavorless flower to infuse new colors into familiar drinks. Ready to make brews pop with fresh color? Talk with the team at Firsd Tea, and they'll help you find the best way to use blue butterfly and other...

Myths are everywhere in beer. We don't know when certain breweries were actually created, when some brewing styles were invented, or we have preconceived notions of how certain things should be. In reality, they are not true at all. Beer writer Jeff Alworth has a phrase for some of these: romantic facts. Some are semi-accurate but the truth is stretched slightly, which hurts no one and helps create legend and lore either around a specific brewery or a brewing process. Alworth lays out a list of these romantic facts for this episode of the All About Beer podcast to...

Dick Cantwell interviews Peter Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing.

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Blue Butterfly flower has been used for centuries in Southeast Asian cuisine to add bright blues, pinks, and purples to foods and teas. Now brewers and distillers have joined in, using this flavorless flower to infuse new colors into familiar drinks. Ready to make brews pop with fresh color? Talk with the team at Firsd Tea, and they'll help you find the best way to use blue butterfly and other teas for your next project. Email info...

The Catharina Sour is a popular beer style in Brazil that showcases the rainbow of fruits grown all over Brazil from fruits Americans know like guava and passion fruit but some fruits Americans may not be aware of like caju and jabuticaba.

Recognized as a style by the BJCP, the Catharina Sour is a source of pride for Brazilians as this showcases their love for craft brewing, culture, agriculture and more. But what is Catharina sour and how is it brewed?

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Kelly McKnight of New Belgium Brewing Co. interviews Dick Cantwell.

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Blue Butterfly flower has been used for centuries in Southeast Asian cuisine to add bright blues, pinks, and purples to foods and teas. Now brewers and distillers have joined in, using this flavorless flower to infuse new colors into familiar drinks. Ready to make brews pop with fresh color? Talk with the team at Firsd Tea, and they'll help you find the best way to use blue butterfly and other teas for your next project...

In the early days of craft beer, hopping was limited to bittering hops, flavor hops and aroma hops, added early, late and later in the boil.  Then dry hopping became very popular, particularly with IPAs.  As hops came to dominate the craft beer discussion, brewers began experimenting with all manner of hopping techniques in an effort to extract new, interesting and stable hop flavors and boost the overall hoppiness in their beers.  What are all these hopping techniques and what do they do?

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Christopher Schooley of Troubadour Maltings interviews Kelly McKnight of New Belgium Brewing Co.

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When co-host Em Sauter was in Australia in 2019, she was exposed to the Pacific ale, a style of beer that was refreshing, sessionable, and something she was surprised was only limited to Australia. Five years later, Em is still surprised that this beer style (which has only grown in popularity in its native country) is still not really well known to people outside of Australia.

She hopes this episode will help educate more people about this excellent beer style. On this episode Em and Don Tse chat with two Australians.  First, Briony Liebich, who is an A...

Zach Coleman of TRVE Brewing interviews Christopher Schooley of Troubadour Maltings.

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Unlock iced tea flavor with Firsd Tea's instant black tea. Quick-dissolving and easy to dose, instant black tea makes it convenient to create that refreshing iced tea flavor. Use instant black tea with lemon, peach, or raspberry for a line of fruity iced tea beers or hard teas. Try it with botanicals like lemon myrtle, lemon balm, and lemongrass. Email info@firsdtea.com for support in choosing the right botanicals and the optimal ways...

At the 2024 World Beer Cup, Oregon's 10 Barrel Brewing swept the German sour ale category. For those who got to witness the surprising and exciting achievement, it was exhilarating not just for the audience but but for Tonya Cornett, the senior innovation brewer who has been working at the Bend, Oregon based brewery since 2012.

How does 10 Barrel brew these award winning beers and what’s the secret to their success? This episode gets into process and flavors with Cornett and 10 Barrel brewer Ian Larkin, whose formulated two of the three medal winning beers.

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Tim Gormley of Burial Beer Co. interviews Zach Coleman of TRVE Brewing.

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For a time, all beer was made from foraged ingredients.  Gruits were made from herbs and spices growing nearby and reflected the land around the home of the brewer.  As hops skyrocketed in popularity and as standard, industrial lager took over the world, beer from interesting plants have been all but forgotten.  Thankfully, there are breweries and beer lovers re-discovering the joys of beers made from foraged ingredients.  Foraged beer offers culinary surprises, reflect terroir and paint a unique liquid portrait of the land from which they came.

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Vasilios Gletsos of Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur interviews Tim Gormley of Burial Beer Co.

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Unlock iced tea flavor with Firsd Tea's instant black tea. Quick-dissolving and easy to dose, instant black tea makes it convenient to create that refreshing iced tea flavor. Use instant black tea with lemon, peach, or raspberry for a line of fruity iced tea beers or hard teas. Try it with botanicals like lemon myrtle, lemon balm, and lemongrass. Email info@firsdtea.com for support in choosing the right botanicals and the optimal...

Shaun O'Sullivan of 21st Amendment Brewery interviews Chuck Silva of Silva Brewing on this bonus episode of Brewer to Brewer.

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Amanda Cardinali of The Seed: A Living Beer Project interviews Vasilios Gletsos of Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur.

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Attenuation is the consumption of sugar by yeast.  More attenuation means less residual sugar which generally means a drier beer … or does it?  A lot of factors come into play in how much attenuation a beer will undergo and that is only somewhat related to how dry or sweet that beer will be perceived by the drinker.

On this episode of the All About Beer Podcast, we talk with a Master Cicerone about how attenuation is related (or not) to dryness and we speak with a brewer about how he thinks about attenuation in recipe development.

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Gerard Olson of Forest and Main interviews Amanda Cardinali of The Seed: A Living Beer Project.

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The French Pilsner is a beer style that some craft lager focused breweries have been making lately, especially throughout America.

But what is a French pilsner? Is it made by French breweries? Does it have traditional roots in France? What do French hops and malt add to this lager? What are its brewing techniques and how are they utilized?

On this episode we talk with  two brewers- one from Southern France and one from America about this up-and-coming beer style and how the French pilsner fits into the evolution of lagers.

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Jennings Carney of Pen Druid Fermentation interviews Gerard Olson of Forest and Main.

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Right now around the world, the hops industry is in two modes: In the Northern Hemisphere, the hop farmers are prepping the poles for twine, making sure the bines that start to grow are the perfect plant to make the arduous climb up, and are preparing the farm for the busy season ahead.

While in the Southern Hemisphere, harvest has been over for weeks, so the hop farmers are composting, cleaning the kilns, and are taking a well deserved break. On this episode we talk to two hop farmers, Eric Desmarais of CLS Farms in Yakima, Washington...

 Yvan De Baets of Brasserie de la Senne interviews Jennings Carney of Pen Druid Fermentation.

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In recent years, you may have noticed a different type of tap in breweries and taprooms.  They have a side pull and they can be used to control the amount of foam in a beer.  Maybe you’ve even enjoyed a “milko” pour, a beer, usually a Czech-style lager, poured such that it is almost entirely foam.  These pours come from the Czech Republic’s long beer history and are finally being appreciated outside their borders.  Making good beer doesn’t end when the beer is packaged.  Czech beer culture knows that the dispense of the beer enhances the beer, too.

Marika Josephson of Scratch Brewing interviews Yvan de Baets of Brasserie de la Senne.

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Salespeople are the backbone of the beer industry. 

Either working for a distributor or working for a specific brewery, salespeople make sure beer shops carry their products, host events, and are the front line for many people’s exposure to a beer’s lineup. What is the day to day life of being a sales person and how does this middle tier of the American three tier system of beer work? 

This episode features two guests, a sales rep and a distributor owner, who talk through the ins and outs of this interesting part of the be...