All About Beer

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 episo...

Dusan Kwiatkowski of Live Oak Brewing Co. interviews Josh Brengle of Compañía Cervecera Hércules This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea Firsd Tea offers more than tea, bringing herbs and botanicals from across the globe to your doorstep. Be it flower, root, or leaf, contact Firsd Tea to find colorful, fragrant, flavorful botanicals. Email info@firsdtea.com   to find out more. Stomp Stickers Stomp...

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 Ame...

Lee Lord of Narragansett Beer interviews Dusan Kwiatkowski of Live Oak Brewing Co. This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea Firsd Tea offers more than tea, bringing herbs and botanicals from across the globe to your doorstep. Be it flower, root, or leaf, contact Firsd Tea to find colorful, fragrant, flavorful botanicals. Email info@firsdtea.com   to find out more. Stomp Stickers Stomp Stickers is a...

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 curr...

Grant Wood of Bero interviews Lee Lord of Narragansett Beer . This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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. Stomp Stickers Stomp...

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 bo...

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...

Chris O'Connor of Prost Brewing interviews Grant Wood of Bero . This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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. Stomp Stickers Sto...

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 i...

Jeremy Pryes of Pryes Brewing Co. interviews Chris O'Connor of Prost Brewing . This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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 d...

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 su...

Thomas Vandelanotte of Brasserie de Waterloo interviews Jeremy Pryes of Pryes Brewing cO. This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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 char...

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.   This Episod...

Frezi Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing interviews Thomas Vandelanotte of Brasserie de Waterloo This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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 wit...

"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 van...

Jeff Lebesch, the co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Co. interviews Frezi Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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 seaso...

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,...

Peter Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing interviews Jeff Lebesch, the co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Co. This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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 t...

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 creat...

Dick Cantwell interviews Peter Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing . This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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...

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 a...

Kelly McKnight of New Belgium Brewing Co . interviews Dick Cantwell. This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea 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...

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...

Christopher Schooley of Troubadour Maltings interviews Kelly McKnight of New Belgium Brewing Co. This Episode is Sponsored by: Firsd Tea Firsd Tea is your source for chamomile, hibiscus, ginger and a whole host of herbs and botanicals. Whether you are working on a new experience, or want to give your existing brews a boost, contact Firsd Tea for the botanicals you need. Email info@firsdtea.com for...