I'm Natalya Watson, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. My guests today are Miranda Hudson and Derek Bates, co-founders of Duration Brewing, a progressive farmhouse brewery in Norfolk, England . Bates—known mononymously to most—left his post as head brewer at London's Brew By Numbers in late 2016 to set out on his own. He'd had an idea kicking around for years, but in 2017, he and his wife, Miranda, put their plan into action. Wanting to be a bit out of the way, they found a s...
Nov 07, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Today's guest is historian Omar Foda, author of the book Egypt's Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State. In this book, he traces the country's history through one iconic national beer brand: Stella (not to be confused with Stella Artois). Recently, Omar wrote an article for GBH called, "You Cannot Hate These People — Heineken, Nasser, and the Fight to Decolonize Beer in Egypt," similarly using a specific incident to highlight how decolonization changed everything for one Heineken-owned bre...
Nov 05, 2020•41 min
Today's episode is the kind of conversation I'd typically have in a bar over a few pints with a friend—one in which we'd talk shop and inevitably start prognosticating about a brewery or a beer in a way that would bend each of our opinions into oblivion before we'd finally run out of stamina and order one last round. Brewery Ommegang—what the hell is up with Brewery Ommegang? Over the past couple months we learned that the brewery's CEO, Doug Campbell, was leaving. Next to depart was Brewmaster ...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting Lars Marius Garshol for the first time. Before then, like much of the internet, I had followed along with Garshol's adventures via his eponymous website, Larsblog, where he has been documenting his beer travels and curiosities since the early 2000s. Though he works as a software engineer, Garshol is particularly devoted to the subject of farmhouse brewing in Europe—so much so that he has written several books on the topic, including this year's aw...
Oct 24, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Today you'll hear Claire Bullen read her story, "The Land of Fire and Kveik — Farmhouse Brewing at the Crossroads in Voss, Norway," published on Good Beer Hunting's website on September 30, 2020. This is Claire's second deep dive on kveik, the renowned farmhouse yeast family that originated in Western Norway. Claire's first piece, "A Fire Being Kindled — The Revolutionary Story of Kveik, Norway's Extraordinary Farmhouse Yeast," which you can also hear her read out loud , is a technical explorati...
Oct 22, 2020•39 min
It's really easy these days to think about the things that we've lost, whether it's time with friends and family or the ability to exist in public spaces, whether we'd want to, or not. We are stuck at home, coexisting in our self-selected pods of people we can continue to see, but literally and figuratively, the world is more closed for us. But that's just one side of this coin. Granted, it's digitally, but there are more opportunities to connect than ever, and even as news, politics, or our cli...
Oct 17, 2020•52 min
Today's guest is a revisit with one of my favorite people. Collin McDonnell of Henhouse Brewing in Northern California. It's a bit of a long one, and if you follow GBH closely you probably already understand the nature of my admiration for Collin and the focus of our conversations—so I won't belabor the intro here. In short, we're both business owners who often commiserate, support, and draw out of each other some of the more vulnerable and anxious parts of doing what we do. And our hopes for th...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 27 min
Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Evan Rail, international editor here at Good Beer Hunting. As a longtime fan of Hong Kong action movies from directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo, I've often wondered about life in the city. With Hong Kong in the news over its ongoing protests and the tightening of Chinese rule, it was fascinating to read " City on Fir...
Oct 08, 2020•38 min
I've been downloading a lot of interviews lately by Brandi Miller, a writer, equity advocate, and minister, among many other things. On her podcast, Reclaiming My Theology, she begins every interview with a question that sounds simple, but gets complex answers: "How do you describe who you are?" As humans, we can be many things: consistent or conflicting, led by personal or professional goals—there is no wrong answer to the question of how we construct our identity, both for ourselves and the wo...
Oct 03, 2020•45 min
This is GBH Out Loud, and I'm Ashley Rodriguez. Today you'll hear GBH contributor Beth Demmon read "Witch (Craft) Beer — How a New Wave of Brewers are Incorporating Magic into Beer," published on Good Beer Hunting's website on October 31, 2019. Did we plan to release a story about witches on Halloween? Yes, we did, but Beth's story manages to go beyond stereotypes and explores the world of the unseen, and the spiritual forces that some brewers tap into to create their beer. Part of Beth's fascin...
Oct 01, 2020•20 min
Welcome to A Thousand Words, a special project by Good Beer Hunting. I'm Ashley Rodriguez. In this series of the GBH podcast, we ask members of our team to enter the realm of audio storytelling. Most of us are familiar with the phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words," right? But now, we're challenging our contributors to actually write down those words, and to create pictures of the world around them as told in their own voices.With that in mind, you're about to hear different stories read...
Sep 26, 2020•33 min
Today I'm chatting with one of the newer voices on Good Beer Hunting—Brian Alberts. He's not technically new—we published a story from him back in 2018 about the importance of preserving the historical record in breweries . That was sort of a one-off piece on a topic that until then we hadn't really invested much in frankly: beer history. And the main reason for that was that so much had already been invested in beer's history that GBH's charter was really about trying to capture the zeitgeist. ...
Sep 23, 2020•41 min
I'm Evan Rail, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. Pilsner, as a style, is currently "having a moment," with cult breweries everywhere from Travis County, Texas, to County Durham in northeast England producing highly sought-after versions of the beer that was first brewed in the Czech town of Pilsen in 1842—and which was once the epitome, for many craft beer lovers, of the widely derided "fizzy yellow beer." Formerly largely ignored in favor of Ales, especially variations on I...
Sep 19, 2020•42 min
I'm Evan Rail, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. It's September 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic is still raging on—and nowhere more obviously than in the United States, which has about 25% of the world's reported cases, even though it is only home to about 4% of the world's population. Because of that infection rate, for the first time in memory, U.S. citizens haven't been able to travel to Europe, with almost all of the European Union countries currently closed to travel...
Sep 12, 2020•31 min
I love interviewing Good Beer Hunting contributors in these Collective episodes, mainly because I get to learn behind-the-scenes stories that might otherwise have been left on the cutting-room floor. Hearing about our writers, their lives, and their sources of inspiration lends new context to their work—and makes their already-accomplished articles feel even more complete. Today, I'm talking with Stephanie Grant, who wrote "Drinking While Black—The Isolation and Loneliness of Navigating All-Whit...
Sep 10, 2020•37 min
Hey listeners—this week's GBH Collective episode is a timely conversation between two of our writers who bring two very different perspectives to the site. First up is Kate Bernot, our Sightlines lead reporter. Kate recently wrote a great story about the neo-Prohibitionist laws, policies, and sentiments that seem to be experiencing a groundswell of support during the pandemic. In this conversation, she outlines exactly how goofy, yet unshakable, some of these ideas are when they reach the status...
Sep 05, 2020•33 min
Welcome to this episode of Sightlines. I'm Bryan Roth. This podcast is part of our content for Sightlines Premium, an insights-driven professional community and subscription newsletter designed to help industry decision-makers grow their business. In this episode, you'll get a snippet of that content, as we explore a style-specific case study of what's working for breweries around the country. Discussions of these timely and relevant topics are what drives our content on Sightlines Premium, and ...
Sep 02, 2020•22 min
I'm Jonny Garrett, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. My guest today is Felix Nash, founder of the Fine Cider Co, a distribution company focusing on small-batch, natural ciders. When you first meet Nash, he seems an unlikely fit for the fast, hard sell nature of alcohol distribution. But as you'll likely hear during the podcast, there's a steely grit and relentless positivity about him—both as important in distro as the ability to upsell or talk numbers. His background sounds...
Aug 29, 2020•54 min
This is GBH Out Loud, and I'm Ashley Rodriguez. Today you'll hear our editor-in-chief, Claire Bullen, read " A Fire Being Kindled—The Revolutionary Story of Kveik, Norway's Extraordinary Farmhouse Yeast, " published on Good Beer Hunting's website on July 31, 2019. It's interesting when an article exceeds its bounds, and when a story touches upon themes that end up being even more relevant months, or even years, after it was initially published. Norway's kveik yeast, employed by farmhouse brewers...
Aug 27, 2020•36 min
In today's episode, I'm interviewing someone who—until this pandemic hit—I didn't realize I would miss on a personal level. We've only interacted a couple of times in person—and always at the Foeder for Thought festival, hosted by GBH and Green Bench Brewing Company in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the months following the cancellation of the festival back in March, I found myself paying more and more attention to Ren LaForme's Twitter —and honestly, I think a big reason was that I was lamenting t...
Aug 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast. In my past life, as a barista and coffee writer, one of the questions I struggled with was an essential one: what does it mean for coffee to be considered "specialty?" What makes the coffee from your local cafe different than what's in the can at your grocery ...
Aug 20, 2020•35 min
It's no exaggeration to say that the arrival of COVID-19 has completely upended the beer industry. Breweries large and small have had to radically change their approach in order to survive the pandemic. But these changes prompted a major question: why have beer businesses been so willing to overhaul the way things have always been when faced with economic issues, but so reluctant to address long-standing social issues within the industry, like its lack of inclusion and equity? These imbalances c...
Aug 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min
I'm Bryan Roth, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. We talk a lot about successes in these episodes. Challenges overcome, exciting innovations, and new approaches. But it's rare we focus on failures. In this period of worry about health and financial hardship for businesses, it's inevitable the beer industry will be having more conversations than usual about things that go wrong. That idea is at the center of this episode. In November 2017, we published a marathon conversation...
Aug 08, 2020•50 min
Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast. Jamaal Lemon is a writer, photographer, podcaster, and GBH contributor, and he wrote his piece, " Mutated Anxieties — Living (and Parenting) While Black in the Face of Law Enforcement and COVID-19 ," in under an hour. It's impressive enough to write a full-len...
Aug 04, 2020•36 min
I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. A few months ago—right after the pandemic started changing our lives, and businesses across the United States began closing their doors— I wrote an article about some of my favorite local places . I wanted to know how they were adjusting to the unprecedented circumstances. Things felt so serious at the time, just days after shelter-in-place orders were announced, and before the word "quarantine" was an everyday part of ...
Aug 01, 2020•1 hr 3 min
The last several months have been tough for businesses and organizations across beer, as COVID-19 has forced locations to close, and as resulting financial hardships have become more serious every month. In recent weeks, U.S. beer—like much of the country—has also placed increasing emphasis on acknowledging issues of systemic racism and social injustice. We've covered a host of these stories in the written version of Sightlines, and in this podcast, we're focusing on one other piece of the puzzl...
Jul 30, 2020•41 min
I'm Michael Kiser, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. Ah, to be in the sunny mountains of Costa Rica again: travel seems like part of a future I'm not willing to get my hopes up about just yet. But surely, someday, we'll all be back at it. Like most of us, I haven't been on a plane since this past March. But just prior to the lockdown, I had one of the most intense and educational travel experiences in some time. Just as we wrapped up our annual Uppers & Downers festival ...
Jul 25, 2020•47 min
Welcome to this episode of the Sightlines podcast. I'm Bryan Roth. This podcast is set up a little differently than usual. It's part of Good Beer Hunting's content for Sightlines Premium, our insights-driven professional community, and subscription newsletter that helps industry decision-makers grow their businesses. Today, we're going to hear from Andrew Emerton, specialty brand manager for New Belgium Brewing Company. In this chat, Andrew and I are talking e-commerce, which has become a pivota...
Jul 18, 2020•24 min
Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast. One of the most exciting parts of being at Good Beer Hunting is working with new authors. It's thrilling to see a new corner of the beer world, or a new perspective on something I thought I knew well, told through another lens. And it's equally exciting to see...
Jul 14, 2020•31 min
Today's guest, Joey Redner, is special to me on a variety of levels. He's a brewery founder I've long admired, having started and grown Cigar City Brewing into one of the strongest brands of the second wave of craft brewing—and having done so with very little experience. Instead, he used his instincts as a writer to navigate the business from a journalist's perspective before he ever invested in concrete and steel. Something about that background always seemed to express itself in a worldview th...
Jul 11, 2020•1 hr
