Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Talking wild yeast and craft malt with Sceptre Brewing Arts Sceptre Brewing Arts has had an interesting life. Originally opened in 2017 as Oak Brewpub, it quickly closed. Then it reopened... then closed again. After closure #2 the owners of Atlanta's Argosy beer bar scooped it up to open Sceptre. What a ride.  Trevor Jones knew the owners from Argosy. He's brewed with At...

Send us Fan Mail La Cumbre Brewing is helping Albuquerque keep cool Prior to taking starting La Cumbre Brewin g founder Jeff Erway was a music teacher.  After tiring of the bureaucracy of the education system and discovering he was pretty good at making beer and after working for others for a short while opened his brewery 10 years ago this year. Erway joined us this week to talk about his brewery...

Send us Fan Mail Big beers and bold art are where it's at for Abomination Brewing Like man breweries, Abomination Brewing was started in a garage by friends Joe Feldman and Josh Arno.  Word got around that they were making great beers and people started to ask them to brew beers for their events, finally growing to the point they needed to expand and become an actual brewery.  The pair tells...

Send us Fan Mail Monkey Town Brewing carries on the legacy of Dayton, Tennesse Unless you're a history buff, or maybe a bit older, you may not be familiar with Dayton, Tennessee, the home of Monkey Town Brewing.  They don't make a lot of waves these days but back in 1925 they were national news.  Local schoolteacher John T. Scopes was accused of teaching evolution to his students, which...

Send us Fan Mail Ology Brewing sees growth and expansion amid Covid-19 lockdowns Any time you turn on the news these days there's plenty of gloom to go around.  The hospitality industry, including breweries, has been hit extremely hard.  However, Tallahassee's Ology Brewing is keeping busy and planning expansions.  They opened their 3rd taproom in April and will be starting up a distille...

Send us Fan Mail Brewery Ommegang brings trendy new beers to their classical Belgian-style offerings If you're as old as dirt like Brian and me then there's a good chance Brewery Ommegang was part of your craft beer journey.  The late 90s to the early 2000s where was when I really started to explore craft beer.  Mainly because I got my tail out of Arkansas where there was a bit more to e...

Send us Fan Mail DSSOLVR Takes Old School and New School and Brews Until Surreal What exactly does it mean to be Brewed Until Surreal ?  DSSOLVR founders Mike Semenec and Vince Tursi (pictured above) explain it to us, and then things get weird. The pair are old homebrewing buddies that took their separate paths then came back together to start their own brewery.  Tursi previously worked with amazi...

Send us Fan Mail Pontoon Brewing made waves with their Rainbow Smiggles release, but there's more to their beers than cereal and candy Sean O'Keefe, owner and CEO of Pontoon Brewing , is cool with the flack he got when he launched Rainbow Smiggles.  He expected it.  The Berliner Weisse infused with fruit and Trix and Skittles is part of the brewery's Serious Series after all.  Ponto...

Send us Fan Mail Almanac Beer Co. wants to capture a specific place and time with every beer We last spoke with Almanac Beer Co. at the 2016 Great American Beer Festival in Denver*.  Co-founder Jesse Friedman and (current) Brewmaster Phillip Emerson joined us just after collecting a silver medal for their White Label.  As you might expect, everyone was in good spirits and we had a great conversati...

Send us Fan Mail Off Color Brewing was founded with a goal of brewing forgotten beer styles and swears they'll never brew an IPA Off Color Brewing co-founder John Laffler has remained true to his word.  Despite the hotness of trendy IPAs,  he's yet to offer one at his brewery.  Instead you'll find sahti, chicha, and kotbusser or slightly more familiar styles like gose, saison, and w...

Send us Fan Mail San Diego's "Dr. Bill" talks changing preferences, beer cellars, bottle shares, and brewing what the people want at Wild Barrel Brewing Wild Barrel Brewing co-founder and CEO Dr. Bill Sysak is a legend in the San Diego beer scene.  He started his craft beer journey at the tender age of 15, holding tastings with his dad. These tastings also sparked his passion for be...

Send us Fan Mail Breakside Brewery's co-founder and brewmaster Ben Edmunds talks changing business practices, brewing with unusual ingredients, and a ton of collaborations for their 10th anniversary Like every other brewery Portland, Oregon's Breakside Brewery is doing things a bit differently for now.  Co-founder, co-owner, and brewmaster Ben Edmunds tells us they are operating on to-go...

Send us Fan Mail The Cannon Brewpub has been serving up classic brews for over 20 years In 2018 we took a Georgia Brewery Tour and visited every brewery and brewpub in the state, including our first trip to The Cannon Brewpub .  It's surprising to me I'd never been there before as it's one of the oldest breweries in the state. The Cannon doesn't brew anything too crazy (OK, occ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Hops & Ledgers Podcast! Hops & Ledgers is a series of quarterly podcast episodes that will focus on the business aspects of the craft beverage industry.  Presented in partnership with Wipfli CPAs and Consultants , each episode will cover a different area of interest to launch or grow your brewery.  Our intentions with the launch of this new podcast were to b...

Send us Fan Mail Making the best of our quarantine with some Belgian beer talk Like everyone else we're having to make some adjustments as the country is on lockdown.  We've had some guests cancel as they try to take care of their personal matters so this week Brian and I logged on from our personal pandemic bunkers to talk Belgian beer. Wayyy back in the 1990s and early 2000s we didn&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Ironmonger Brewing and Viking Alchemist Meadery team up for destination location in Marietta, GA March was supposed to be a big month for celebrations in Cobb County, GA.  The local tourism bureau dubbed the county-wide event Bubbles & Brews to celebrate all their great craft beverage makers.  They did not plan for a global pandemic to take over mid-month. Ironmonger Brewing a...

Send us Fan Mail Beer and math and ancient yeast mix it up at Fractal Brewing Project Fractal Brewing Project is one of the new kids on the Huntsville beer scene but their Head Brewer Bradley "Robo" Robison isn't new to the game.  Robo previously brewed at Huntsville's Below the Radar and Rocket Republic, and he also served the good 'ol US of A in the United States Marine...

Send us Fan Mail Wild Leap Brew Co. keeps jumping with new beers and distilled spirits Wild Leap Brew Co. has been making waves with a huge showing in our Best of Georgia Beer awards and being named Best New Brewery by USA Today .  They've earned their honors with a constant stream of tasty beers like the Truck Chaser series of ice cream truck-inspired brews and their DIPA Alpha Abstraction s...

Send us Fan Mail FiftyFifty Brewing's Alicia Barr talks craft beer and cannibalism FiftyFifty Brewing's co-founders Alicia and Andrew Barr were both working as engineers when they decided they'd had enough of the rate race and wanted a change of pace.  After some planning, they loaded up the truck and the moved to Truckee... California that is. The Barrs homebrewed prior to starting...

Send us Fan Mail The Taps @ Ph'East offers a variety of beer, whiskey, and of course... sake When we originally scheduled to meet up with the crew at the Taps @ Ph'East (the awesome bar inside the new Asian food hall at The Battery Atlanta) the plan was to talk about their new concept, a bit about Asian beers, a bit about sake, and a bit about pairing.  That was the plan, anyhow. Zach Yu...

Send us Fan Mail MadTree Brewing looks to give back as they celebrate 7 years This week we head to Ohio to chat with MadTree Brewing 's Trevor Self.  Trevor has worn a lot of hats during his time with the brewery.  He started out like many others, volunteering his time to help can delicious beers.  This eventually let to a real, paid position and finally into a QA role where he helped transit...

Send us Fan Mail Rainy Day Brewery wants you to brew your own beer and explore some classic styles Amid the craze of massively-hopped IPAs and boozy, barrel-aged stouts there's a bit of a resurgence in the love of classic beer styles.  Here in Georgia, and I'm sure some other places as well, we're seeing breweries focus on these drinkin' beers .  Pale Ale, Pilsner, Blonde Ale,...

Send us Fan Mail The Superb Owl is coming and you're going to need some beer... It's time for the biggest football matchup of the year, which is also a great excuse for some killer parties.  The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers throw down in Miami this Sunday and we're ready for the party.  To prep for the festivities we sampled a few beers from the team's cities and...

Send us Fan Mail Despite Mother Nature's best efforts, the 16th Annual Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting was a huge success It was an unusually warm day for the 16th Annual Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting and this brought with it some crazy weather.  As attendees filled Bold Monk Brewing to sample the cask ales the rain started coming down strong and with about an hour left the hammer dropped.  The parking l...

Send us Fan Mail Bottleshare founder Christopher Glenn lives to help those in need Last week we sat down at Bottleshare Benefit Bash Vol. 1 to talk with Bottleshare founder Christopher Glenn as well as his collaboration partners Trey Sinclair of Dry County Brewing and Sean O'Keefe of Pontoon Brewing . Chris' story is pretty amazing, after a serious accident left him unable to return to h...