Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We're broadcasting from Monday Night Brewing's Garage this week.  Does your homebrew blonde ale continually have an underripe apple taste? Or is there a rancid butter taste in your porter? Does your IPA taste more like band-aids than tropical hops?  This is the show for you. BJCP Grand Master beer judge Mike Castagno was an award-winning homebrewer before going pro at De...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Pellett's beers are out of the ordinary. After all, it was certainly a bold move for Atlanta's Orpheus Brewing to make a tart plum saison (Atalanta) one of its flagship beers.  But persistence pays off. Now, the downtown brewery is filled to capacity, has one of the first coolship projects in the state, and is making some of the most unique beers in the south.  We...

Send us Fan Mail (note: Ironmonger Brewing is a partner of Beer Guys Radio) David Sheets loves a challenge.  As the founder of Ironmonger Brewing , he was looking for a way to get his brewery's beers noticed. So he made the bold decision: Blind taste his beers against one of the most heralded breweries in the country.  The Trillium Challenge was born. How did it work? He lets us know during t...

Send us Fan Mail ROAD TRIP!   The Beer Guys have a quest. To visit every brewery in Georgia this year. We were able to head to southwest Georgia this episode, and check out Pretoria Fields Collective. It's a brewery started by farmers and dedicated to making everything as local as possible - from the fruits they use in some of their beers, to the malt to even the hops. Head brewer Eric Kirchn...

Send us Fan Mail This week, we're talking to the couple behind Variant Brewing Company. Matt and Lauren Curling opened up their Roswell brewery in 2017, and immediately caused a splash in the Georgia craft beer scene. We talk to Matt and Lauren Curling about starting up a brewery, the importance of keeping a variety of beers in your taproom, and a distinct lack of shiplap. Truck and Tap’s Bee...

Send us Fan Mail Shades On, Bottoms Up!   That's the motto of Sandy Spring's newest (and first) brewery, Pontoon.   Sean O'Keefe, CEO and Co-Owner and brewmaster Cole Brown welcomed us to the brewery this week. We sample their newest brew, a hazy IPA called "Don't Haze Me, Bro!" talk about starting a brewery, and Pontoon's obsession over otters.   Truck and Tap&a...

Send us Fan Mail When you think of cask ales, you may think of warm, flat beer.  That's not the case, and Owen Ogletree wants you to know about it.  For the past 14 years, he's hosted the Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting. Breweries from around the south (and the world) send in their special beers they've made specifically to go on cask.  For this show, we talk to some breweries in planning,...

Send us Fan Mail Yash Patel first started brewing at age 13.  While his dad was pretty happy about that, mom...not so much. However, since the brewing bug hit him quickly, he has spent a lot of time brewing beer. So it only made sense for him to take over ownership of Macon Beer company, central Georgia's first craft brewery.  We talk to Yash, a native Maconite, about his beers, the growing c...

Send us Fan Mail For those that don't know, The Giving Kitchen was founded to help those in the service industry going through some tough financial times. SweetWater Brewing has helped out for the past several years by brewing "Second Helping," an IPA with juniper berries. We talk to SweetWater's Steve Farace about the development of the beer. We'll also learn more about T...

Send us Fan Mail If you got a homebrew kit over the holidays, listen up. This week, we are talking to some innovative homebrewers that are taking their game professional. Kevin Downing, Corby Hannah, and William Teasley are three friends that formed Brothers that Brew. Now, they're prepping for the launch of Khonso Brewing. We talk to them about their beers, getting started in homebrewing and...

Send us Fan Mail Our listeners (over 2,500) have spoken, and we've got the results!  Check out the best of Georgia and Alabama beer 2017.  A full list will be available on Monday, Jan. 1 2018 at beerguysradio.com.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Thanks for listening to Beer Guys Radio!  Your hosts are Tim Dennis and Brian Hewitt with producer Nate "Mo' Mic Nat...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas from Beer Guys Radio! We hope you're having a good time with friends and family this weekend. We're also taking a break. Please enjoy this "best of" show with Second Self, Modern Hops, Eventide, Burnt Hickory and Monday Night. Next week, it's the BEST OF GEORGIA BEER show - keep on voting! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

Send us Fan Mail STATS has been a staple of downtown Atlanta for nearly a decade.  But they recently made a big change, becoming a brewpub.  Austin Edwards has worked tirelessly for months, and now there are six of STATS own brews on tap.  We talk to Austin about starting up a brewpub, recipe selection, and the downtown Atlanta "Tourist Triangle" area. Truck and Tap’s Beers of the Week:...

Send us Fan Mail In case you missed it, there was snow in Atlanta on Friday. Amidst the panic and general hullabaloo, the grocery stores emptied of bread and milk, the perpetual traffic jam, there's a good side to this weather. Winter beers. We talk about everything from Stouts to Barleywines to Scotch Ales, including sampling some of our favorites. Joining us in the studio was FishScales, on...

Send us Fan Mail What do you think of when Ginger Beer comes up?  A Dark and Stormy? Maybe you're mixing it up with Ginger Ale. Shane Kelly recently opened up a new type of brewery - Interstellar Ginger Beer and Exploration Company - in Alabaster, Alabama.  We talk to him about the science (!) of brewing ginger beer, and how Alabama is embracing craft beer, cider and ginger beer.  Truck and T...

Send us Fan Mail We celebrate Thanksgiving....and our 100th episode with two of our favorite spots. Creature Comforts was our first guest, so it was appropriate to invite them on. Jonathan Chinouth and Matt Stevens joins us to talk about a busy year for the Athens brewery, as well as plans for next year's Get Comfortable Campaign. We also talked to longtime sponsors Lisa and Morgan McLellan f...

Send us Fan Mail Now that SB85 is law, it's a lot more feasable for breweries to stake their claim in Georgia.  And one of the more impressive trends we've seen is breweries opening up in smaller communities.  LaGrange's Wild Leap Brewing is one of those. Rob Goldstein and Chris Elliott join us in studio this week to talk about the process.  Plus, we'll talk Thanksgiving beer p...

Send us Fan Mail Gwinnett County is metro Atlanta's second most populous county. However, until recently, it lacked one thing: Its own craft brewery. Lawrenceville's Slow Pour Brewing Company changed that earlier this year.  Located just off the Lawrenceville Square, Slow Pour took a dilapidated building and turned it into a gathering place.  One of Slow Pour's founders, John Reynol...

Send us Fan Mail You know that we love craft beer. But sometimes, it’s good to take a little break. So in the studios with us are two co-founders of Treehorn Cider, Justin Pierce and Andrew Wheeler. Plus, we recap of a busy week in beer, including a Creature Comforts collaboration, a preview of Roswell’s newest brewpub, and homebrew talk with Gary Glass, the director of the American Homebrewer’s A...

Send us Fan Mail Phillip Barnes and Eric Levin were beer traders at first.  One day, they realized that the distribution system in Georgia was broken, and worked to find a better way to do it.  That idea is now Modern Hops. We talk to Philip, Eric and Michael Lowenberg about the craft beer scene in Georgia, what they are doing to change it, and what's been different since SB85. We also get a...

Send us Fan Mail Georgia Senator Hunter Hill joined us on the show this week. He was instrumental in passing SB 63 - which led to this year's passage of SB 85. We talk small business, sensible laws, and why he's running for governor.  We also talk to Chris Morley, owner of Mason's Brewing in Brewer, Maine. He got an interesting letter from ABInbev's legal department. Truck and...

Send us Fan Mail To some, making a BEER cocktail is a sin.  Jason Santamaria, one of the founders of Second Self Beer Co., started experimenting with beer cocktails in college as a way to make cheap beer taste better.  Today? You could call him a mixologist. He regularly crafts cocktails for friends and family, and they dabble a little bit in (non-alcoholic) mixers at Second Self's taproom. ...

Send us Fan Mail Chattabrewchee Southern Brewhouse is making history.  It's West Point (Georgia)'s first brewery It's the first brewery in the state to have self-serve taps It's the first brewery in the country to have a female, active duty military owner.  We talked to co-owner Mike Denehy and brewmaster Barry Stevens this week. With a grand opening, some delays from Irma, it&...

Send us Fan Mail For the Beer Guys, every season is beer drinking season.  But Oktoberfest is another level entirely.  Plates of sausages and spaetzle, liters of lager...it's a great celebration to mark fall.  Atlanta's Der Biergarten is the closest you can get to Munich. With an authentic experience, traditional German fare and a great German beer list, it's the home of Bayern Muni...

Send us Fan Mail As it does so often, Geoffrey Williams' craft beer journey started with a Mr. Beer Kit.  As students at Georgia Southern, Williams and friends Haley and Nathan Cowan, they brewed beer and experimented with fermentation.  Fast forward, and Eventide Brewery is now Grant Park's brewery of choice.  With a core brand of "Drinking Beers" (Kolsch, Pale Ale, IPA) on bo...