Beers, Business, and Balls

Who doesn’t love The Wonton Don?! Our Episode 60 guest is the one and only Donnie Does, who made his name on traveling the world and discovering new cultures. You’ll recall that just a few months ago, Donnie put out a plea for someone to make him a “breakfast beer,” and this summer, we delivered plenty of fresh “Don’s Early Light” to the Barstool Sports HQ2. Donnie joins us for a quality hour of b...

BEERS : What if we told you there were two successful breweries across the street from each other?  We travel to Beer on Earth for this live segment with founder Adam Henderson.  Beer on Earth isn’t the biggest brewery space in Rhode Island, but Adam shares his story of turning his passion into his career...much like our friends at Side Hustle in Episode 57.  As an award-winning hom...

BEERS : Will reviews a visit to a pop-up of a solid New England player in Widowmaker Brewing Company.  Their IPA’s can be found on the taps of most Boston-area beer bars and in the cans at most local liquor stores, so Will breaks down his experience getting Widowmaker’s flagship Blue Comet straight from the source.  Jake’s trip to Texas a few weeks back meant loads of craft beer, and “Th...

BEERS : Mike Palmieri and Lee Holyoak had unlikely paths into the beer world; Mike was an executive at AT&T, while Lee was a tennis pro at the Long Cove Club.  But their passion for good beer (and Lee’s homebrewing competition medals) brought them together to form Side Hustle Beer Company, and they set up shop in a popular area of Hilton Head Island.  Mike and Lee give us a glimpse i...

BEERS: Apponaug Brewing Company is re-defining what it means to be a brewery.  When Tamara McKenney founded Apponaug, she envisioned a place that would intertwine craft beer, community, and great food: as she calls it, the “tripod.”  When she hired Mike Webster as her head brewer - who made stops at Tree House and Fox Farm - and a head chef to design a menu from the ground up, her dream...

BEERS: Where else but Long Live?!  Will swung by the Providence favorite this weekend to try their newest collaboration, “DDH Sea Life,” made in partnership with South Shore-based Vitamin Sea Brewing.  With the engagement of so many users on Untappd and beyond, the guys turn this into a discussion on marketing for breweries - how can beer brands use social media to get more customers com...

BEERS: Maine Brewing Company is always a favorite of ours, and this week, Will reviews Lunch...you can have it for lunch OR dinner (or breakfast) and it’ll hit different regardless. Will also tells us why Peroni on draft is an elite beer.  Jake reviews Affluente, a beer we received courtesy of our friends at Blackstone Valley Brewing Supplies in Woonsocket.  This Italian pilsner from Tri...

BEERS: With June 21st comes summer, and with summer comes outdoor beer!  It’s Sour Season once again, and the guys are coming in HOT out of the gates. Will recaps his visit to Narragansett Brewing Company’s new taproom at India Point Park in Providence, and reviews Dragonfruit Sour - an awesome summer sour that’ll leave you coming back. Jake reviews Summer Ginger Sour by Brewport, an up-and-c...

BEERS: It’s the first week of June, and the summer days are coming! That means outdoor afternoon beers are BACK! We pregamed the Newport Polo event with a couple of drinks at Newport Craft Brewing & Distilling (compliments of our friend Brendan O’Donnell), and what a time it was.  Will reviews the “Annual 20” selection, a special-release farmhouse ale that comes out once a year (as the name sugges...

BEERS: Morgan Snyder, the founder and head brewer of Buttonwoods Brewery, brings a unique perspective to the beer world. Buttonwoods, one of Rhode Island’s newer breweries (approaching 4 years of age), specializes in well-hopped IPA’s and out-of-the-box saisons, and it all stems from Morgan’s commitment to passionate & well-thought-out brewing processes. We discuss Morgan’s background in hospitali...

The Big Apple - stand up! It’s New York Rangers prospect Brett Berard joining the show this week. The product of East Greenwich, Rhode Island joins us from his dorm room at Providence College to discuss his hockey journey so far, and what’s to come. Brett recaps his time with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program, foregoing his high school career to chase his dream. We discuss being bor...

It’s one of the most complete interviews we’ve ever done on Beers, Business, and Balls: we welcome Brendan O’Donnell to the show this week. Brendan’s path to the beer industry was one of the most unconventional, yet interesting stories we’ve ever heard. Brendan started school at Roanoke College in Virginia with nothing more than an interest in business and his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers. After...

BEERS (4:22): Sending it back to New Hampshire for this one! Will reviews “Face Plant Into Rock” by Granite Roots - this Belgian Tripel will have you face planting into some of your own rocks if you aren’t careful.  Jake reviews Common Man IPA, a staple of New Hampshire convenience stores...a good selection for a neutral setting. BUSINESS (10:47): We catch up with Scott Greenberg, an entrepreneur...

ONE YEAR! We finally made it! On behalf of all of us at House Enterprise, we’d like to thank each and every one of you that engages with our content and listens each week. We couldn’t do it without you! For our one year anniversary episode, it was only right to bring back two guests who were with us from the very beginning. You know Dave Silverman from Episode #2, but mostly from his role as the N...

BEERS: With baseball back and in full swing, Will reviews Pinstripe Pils by Blue Point Brewing Company. With a can decked out in Yankee pinstripes, it’s hard not to picture yourself at the stadium crushing a few light beers. Jake reviews a collaboration from Revival Brewing Company and Union Station Brewery after visiting their new location on Sims Street in Providence.  A blueberry-vanilla s...

MARCH MADNESS IS BACK! We officially have a bracket, so there’s no better way to break it down than with Twitter’s favorite college basketball personality, Captain Xavier.  We also bring in our House writer (see what we did there?), Sam Basel, who’s been killing it all year covering the A-10 and NYC-area college hoops for us.  Cap is sad about the brutal end to the season for the Muskete...

Email is traditionally not the “sexy” way to start a product, but if you ask Front Office Sports Founder & CEO Adam White, it’s what makes him who he is. Adam joins the show to divulge how he built a titan social media presence around the $615 billion business of sports. We discuss the origins of FOS, all the way from when he was a student at Miami...working as a teachers assistant and at a bar to...

The crossover pod you’ve been waiting for! This week, Mike Gilligan and Oliver Martel from “Small State Big Takes” join us for our first ever collab show. In the true spirit of collaboration, we start this week’s show as the SSBT guys do every week: with our “big take” of the day.  The takes were big, controversial, and raunchy…ranging from Damian Lillard to how you like to eat your muffin. B...

If you’re a baseball person, you know Bobby V. But even if you don’t keep up with America’s pastime, there’s still a chance you know this week’s guest for a few reasons: as an ESPN analyst, a restaurant owner in southern Connecticut, or most notably,  a “master of disguise.” We are honored to have Bobby Valentine on our show this week to reflect on a career with a plethora of accomplishments....

While the Super Bowl is over, we have more football content for you!  Jake Wallack, or “JWall” as his fans affectionately know him, won the Madden Club Championship on February 9th - he joins the show to relive his big victory.  JWall takes us through the process of qualifying for a competitive Madden tournament, his 14-6 win over one of the best Madden players in the nation, and his strategy to t...

EPISODE 40 Super Bowl Sunday has finally arrived! It’s the Chiefs and the Bucs - can Tom Brady separate his legacy from the New England Patriots and win yet another title, or will it be Patrick Mahomes’ time to take over as the face of the NFL?  We bring in former NFL safety Quintin Demps to discuss his career, what he learned from Andy Reid, and what to expect this weekend. BEERS Is it IPA s...

The Bryant Bulldogs are taking the entire Division I basketball landscape by storm in 2021, so we thought it’d only be right to sit down with the architect of one of the best turnaround stories in the 21st century (starts at 19:31).   Jared Grasso knew he was a basketball guy from the minute he picked one up (22:16); the son of a coach, he went on to become a 4-year starter and 2-year captain at Q...

When you think of the wine industry, you probably think of the rolling Tuscan hills, old money, and dressing to the nines for a fun Saturday fall afternoon with your friends. But it means far more to Sigma Chi alumnus Brandon Chaney, who left his career to pursue winemaking full-time. The proprietor and founder of Fairwinds Estates Winery in Napa Valley, Brandon is an accomplished tech entrepreneu...

Our first show of 2021 kicks off with a bang!  Bryan Hoch, longtime New York Yankees beat writer on MLB.com, joins the guys for our first episode since December 22 (interview starts 16:46). Bryan has a decorated career in sports journalism, particularly in baseball - from his humble beginnings starting a Mets blog in high school, to covering the most storied franchise in sports, Bryan shares memor...

If the names Dooley, Fringe Guy, Jimmy Heaters, or the Rally King mean anything to you, then buckle up. Although it started as a meme page on Instagram, Friday Beers has become more of a rallying cry for the 9-5 corporate worker - wherever you are in the world, and whatever time it is, the feeling of a Friday Beer just "hits different."  In Episode 36, Jake & Will sit down with Jack and Max Barret...