Cheers To Beers

A small group of us gathered to Pilsnerfest with masks and at a safe distance. These are their stories. Featuring: Otherlands Kellerbier, a speaker phone catch up with Shawna, and another round of 16 CanDolls. Hail Pilsner. 

Shawna's joining me on the pod to interview our friend and head brewer at Lowercase Brewing, John Marti. We're drinking Ayinger Jahrhundert Bavarian Pilsner and talking the difference between Franconian and Bavarian styles, bartending as an introvert, how John's basically a Trappist monk, and industry chit chat and hot goss per ushe. Grab a German Pilz and join us! Cheers!

"The noun for disingenuous is fuckin' liars". Jess and Shawna give advice about homebrewing and vent about industry bullshit. AHA videos: https://www.homebrewcon.org/ AHA educator: Amanda Burkemper

I talk with graphic designer and illustrator Casey Callahan over a NE Lager, a collaboration with Lowercase Brewing and Seattle Beer School ft. Casey's design! We chat about breweries giving credit to artists, how to navigate the beer industry as an artist, and "equal" treatment in the industry. Cheers! @seattlebeerschool @caseyskylar

What good beer can you find at the grocery store? Spoiler alert: you have to check the date codes.  Watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/7V5hZFTc1ZM

Shawna's back on the pod! Recording live from Tucson, AZ We're drinking various IPAs, I got myself a Standard Brewing hazy and Seapine double IPA. Because we just needed a little comfort in taking on some topics. We get into Cicerone-level knowledge versus working at a brewery, do exact styles even exist, more covid drama and we get REAL about "diversity" in the workplace.

My guest today is captain of the ship at Bottleworks, Brandon Wiley! And we're drinking different lagers because we're tired, damnit, and just want to kick it and gossip with friends. Brandon: Stoup German Pils Jess: Machine House x Lowercase London Lager   New news: Cheers to Beers is now apart of the Titancast network! Prost!   This 'sode we talk how small breweries are adapting to the consumpti...

The Art of Beer is an on going series where I drink and chat with artists who work with breweries.  For The Art of Beer 2 I'm joined by Ryan Williams, the artist from Holy Mountain Brewing in Seattle, WA. Ryan Williams: @spiritofgoodliving  http://spiritofgoodliving.com/ And we are drinking the Samiclaus Doppelbock and Fort George Cathedral Tree Pilsner. Mysticism in the artistic process, his work...

This 'sode I'm joined by head brewer of Standard Brewing, Ken(do) Sorensen and we're talking all about Brett(anomyces)! We are drinking Old Money from Standard and the OG of the OGs, Orval.  We're talking the "cross-section of magic and science", a new hop varietal, "Northgate Goldings", the homogenization of American beer, and more from the wine vs beer debate. Grab some Orval and join us! Cheers...

In this episode Jess and Shawna line up 4 different barrel aged big bois and test out how they've aged, whether or not they're good, and approximate why.   Goose Island: Bourbon County Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout  2015 Fremont Brewing: Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout 2017 Reuben's Brews: Three Ryes Men Rye and Bourbon Barrel Aged Rye Wine 2017 Georgetown Brewing: Tombou...

Welcome to a new Cheers to Beers series called The Art of Beer where I’m chatting with artists who work with breweries. This episode I'm joined by Connor McPherson of Aslan Brewing Company who has done their murals at all three locations and the specialty bottle labels.  We get into how his travels have inspired his work, the persistence of an independent artist, and anime club. Grab a doppelbock...

Sheet cake stouts, who we were in high school, and fuck the patriarchy aka your aunties get drunk on saisons. PLUS - Letting go of the ego as a brewer and creator and how do you define success? Is it monetary? Is it creativity? Is it internet clout?? Also never plugged my instagram in the intro: @jessjessbeer Follow Stamp Act Coffee: @stampactcoffee

We're back at The Masonry drinking Jester King! I'm joined by founder of Drunk Herstory and overall badass beer lady, Libby Borchert. Aaaaand we decided to get a whole magnum of farmhouse delight. In this ep we're talking about pineapple and jalapeno pizza, disrupting the 3 tier system, and encouraging women to be active in their local beer scene.  Grab a beer and drink along! Cheers!

Shawna and I drink all the pumpkin beers so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. Plus: the American history of gourds, a lost rural Californian language, and how far can we throw a pumpkin?! The beers we cover: 1. Dogfish Head Punkin’ Ale 2. Elysian Night Owl 3. Dorchester Brewing / Abomination Brewing Hop Roulette 4. Anderson Valley Fall Hornin’ 5. Pfriem Pumpkin Bier Check out @sam_hiemer for more...

Welcome to another Half Pint 'sode with Shawna Cormier We're delving into fermented fruit juice, secondary fermentation with fruit, non grape wine, and beer fermented with wine grapes. We're drinking and comparing a blueberry wine from Oyster River Wine Growers and the Viognier from Floodland Brewing and Kobayashi Winery. What tasting notes and pontifications do we come up with? Bust open a weird...

We are live on the scene of Pilsnerfest 2019 where the sun is shining, the pilsners are slamming, and there ain't a single IPA in sight. Follow Shawna and I as we interview some characters (including the CEO) on a groundbreaking new game: "16 CanDolls", shitty SoCal lagers, Pilsner recipes, and our Grandfather Randy Mosher. Grab a pilsner and join in on a speciality live episode. Cheers! 

This episode is all about wild beers! I'm joined by Jeremy Rodriguez and Matt C. to talk Beachwood Blendery and Upright Brewing. We talk wine and beer crossovers, Lambic vs Methode Traditionnelle, is brett actually wild, and beer aged on crystals and Wu Tang, and the trials and tribulations that is working with wild yeast. As Matt says "The target is never where you want it". Grab a wild saison or...

Half Pints are back! In the newest minisode, I introduce my new occasional co-host, Shawna Cormier. We talk about summer dranks and how there's a trend in both the beer world (and in the beverage industry in general) of how no one wants to drink something that actually tastes like alcohol. We try to understand this phenomenon by cracking open some White Claw and True hard seltzers.  Drink along wi...

"I'm done when it stops being about bringing people together"   Mike from Modern Times (currently PDX) and I drink a lot of MT beers. Including Black House Nitro Stout, Poly Rhythmo Pilsner, and Shrine of the Forsaken Gods (Jester King collab). Listen to us talk about loving beer for what it does for people and community, going from being a "spy" to a brewer, and that one time Mike almost died fro...

Cheers to Beers is back babbyyy! And we're jumping back in with a good ol' fashioned hang sesh.    Join me and my industry (but more importantly close and beautiful) friends Samira and Matt as we drink Jester Kind Fantome del Rey + Rainier chambongs at the Masonry Fremont. Disclaimer: I say the wrong name of the beer in the intro! My Bad! It's del Rey not del Mar. No matter how I said it it's stil...

A brand new minisode comin' at you in 2018! Join your host, Jess Keller, and friend of the podcast Coel as we talk the relationship between weed and beer culture and the phenomenon that is Underbergs. Grab the last half of your beer or J and join us!

Waddup Beer Fam! It's been a hot sec but Cheers to Beers is back, baby! Now introducing mini episodes called Half Pints, I'll be releasing these between full episodes as I get back into the podcasting game. The Half Pints episodes will be me and friend of the podcast, Coel, bantering on my balcony (while drinking of course). Topics will range from seasonal beers, to venting about work, to anything...

It's a space themed episode with actual scientists! Remember when NASA released the news on a star called TRAPPIST-1 that has seven exoplanets orbiting it with some being potentially Earth-like? Yeah, I talk all about that with astronomers Jake and Dave. And what a better beer to have when talking about space, stars, and potential extraterrestrial life than a Trappist ale. We're drinking the Westm...