Good Beer Hunting

I'm Natalya Watson, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. My guests today are Miranda Hudson and Derek Bates, co-founders of  Duration Brewing, a progressive farmhouse brewery in Norfolk, England . Bates—known mononymously to most—left his post as head brewer at London's Brew By Numbers in late 2016 to set out on his own. He'd had an idea kicking around for years, but in 2017, he...

Today's guest is historian Omar Foda, author of the book   Egypt's Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State.  In this book, he traces the country's history through one iconic national beer brand: Stella (not to be confused with Stella Artois). Recently, Omar wrote an article for GBH called,  "You Cannot Hate These People — Heineken, Nasser, and the Fight to Decolonize Beer in Egypt,"  similarl...

Today's episode is the kind of conversation I'd typically have in a bar over a few pints with a friend—one in which we'd talk shop and inevitably start prognosticating about a brewery or a beer in a way that would bend each of our opinions into oblivion before we'd finally run out of stamina and order one last round. Brewery Ommegang—what the hell is up with Brewery Ommegang? Over the past couple...

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of meeting Lars Marius Garshol for the first time. Before then, like much of the internet, I had followed along with Garshol's adventures via his eponymous website, Larsblog, where he has been documenting his beer travels and curiosities since the early 2000s. Though he works as a software engineer, Garshol is particularly devoted to the subject of farmhouse b...

Today you'll hear Claire Bullen read her story,  "The Land of Fire and Kveik — Farmhouse Brewing at the Crossroads in Voss, Norway,"  published on Good Beer Hunting's website on September 30, 2020. This is Claire's second deep dive on kveik, the renowned farmhouse yeast family that originated in Western Norway. Claire's first piece,  "A Fire Being Kindled — The Revolutionary Story of Kveik, Norway...

It's really easy these days to think about the things that we've lost, whether it's time with friends and family or the ability to exist in public spaces, whether we'd want to, or not. We are stuck at home, coexisting in our self-selected pods of people we can continue to see, but literally and figuratively, the world is more closed for us. But that's just one side of this coin. Granted, it's digi...

Today's guest is a revisit with one of my favorite people. Collin McDonnell of Henhouse Brewing in Northern California. It's a bit of a long one, and if you follow GBH closely you probably already understand the nature of my admiration for Collin and the focus of our conversations—so I won't belabor the intro here. In short, we're both business owners who often commiserate, support, and draw out o...

Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Evan Rail, international editor here at Good Beer Hunting. As a longtime fan of Hong Kong action movies from directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo, I've often wondered about life in the city. With Hong Kong in the news ov...

I've been downloading a lot of interviews lately by Brandi Miller, a writer, equity advocate, and minister, among many other things. On her podcast, Reclaiming My Theology, she begins every interview with a question that sounds simple, but gets complex answers: "How do you describe who you are?" As humans, we can be many things: consistent or conflicting, led by personal or professional goals—ther...

This is GBH Out Loud, and I'm Ashley Rodriguez. Today you'll hear GBH contributor Beth Demmon read  "Witch (Craft) Beer — How a New Wave of Brewers are Incorporating Magic into Beer,"  published on Good Beer Hunting's website on October 31, 2019. Did we plan to release a story about witches on Halloween? Yes, we did, but Beth's story manages to go beyond stereotypes and explores the world of the u...

Welcome to A Thousand Words, a special project by Good Beer Hunting. I'm Ashley Rodriguez. In this series of the GBH podcast, we ask members of our team to enter the realm of audio storytelling. Most of us are familiar with the phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words," right? But now, we're challenging our contributors to actually write down those words, and to create pictures of the world ar...

Today I'm chatting with one of the newer voices on Good Beer Hunting—Brian Alberts. He's not technically new—we published a story from him back in 2018 about  the importance of preserving the historical record in breweries . That was sort of a one-off piece on a topic that until then we hadn't really invested much in frankly: beer history. And the main reason for that was that so much had already...

I'm Evan Rail, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. Pilsner, as a style, is currently "having a moment," with cult breweries everywhere from Travis County, Texas, to County Durham in northeast England producing highly sought-after versions of the beer that was first brewed in the Czech town of Pilsen in 1842—and which was once the epitome, for many craft beer lovers, of the widel...

I'm Evan Rail, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. It's September 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic is still raging on—and nowhere more obviously than in the United States, which has about 25% of the world's reported cases, even though it is only home to about 4% of the world's population. Because of that infection rate, for the first time in memory, U.S. citizens haven't been...

I love interviewing Good Beer Hunting contributors in these Collective episodes, mainly because I get to learn behind-the-scenes stories that might otherwise have been left on the cutting-room floor. Hearing about our writers, their lives, and their sources of inspiration lends new context to their work—and makes their already-accomplished articles feel even more complete. Today, I'm talking with...

Hey listeners—this week's GBH Collective episode is a timely conversation between two of our writers who bring two very different perspectives to the site. First up is Kate Bernot, our Sightlines lead reporter. Kate recently wrote a great story about  the neo-Prohibitionist laws, policies, and sentiments  that seem to be experiencing a groundswell of support during the pandemic. In this conversati...

Welcome to this episode of Sightlines. I'm Bryan Roth. This podcast is part of our content for Sightlines Premium, an insights-driven professional community and subscription newsletter designed to help industry decision-makers grow their business. In this episode, you'll get a snippet of that content, as we explore a style-specific case study of what's working for breweries around the country. Dis...

I'm Jonny Garrett, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. My guest today is Felix Nash, founder of the Fine Cider Co, a distribution company focusing on small-batch, natural ciders. When you first meet Nash, he seems an unlikely fit for the fast, hard sell nature of alcohol distribution. But as you'll likely hear during the podcast, there's a steely grit and relentless positivity a...

This is GBH Out Loud, and I'm Ashley Rodriguez. Today you'll hear our editor-in-chief, Claire Bullen, read " A Fire Being Kindled—The Revolutionary Story of Kveik, Norway's Extraordinary Farmhouse Yeast, " published on Good Beer Hunting's website on July 31, 2019. It's interesting when an article exceeds its bounds, and when a story touches upon themes that end up being even more relevant months,...

In today's episode, I'm interviewing someone who—until this pandemic hit—I didn't realize I would miss on a personal level. We've only interacted a couple of times in person—and always at the  Foeder for Thought  festival, hosted by GBH and Green Bench Brewing Company in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the months following the cancellation of the festival back in March, I found myself paying more and...

Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast. In my past life, as a barista and coffee writer, one of the questions I struggled with was an essential one: what does it mean for coffee to be considered "spec...

It's no exaggeration to say that the arrival of COVID-19 has completely upended the beer industry. Breweries large and small have had to radically change their approach in order to survive the pandemic. But these changes prompted a major question: why have beer businesses been so willing to overhaul the way things have always been when faced with economic issues, but so reluctant to address long-s...

I'm Bryan Roth, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. We talk a lot about successes in these episodes. Challenges overcome, exciting innovations, and new approaches. But it's rare we focus on failures. In this period of worry about health and financial hardship for businesses, it's inevitable the beer industry will be having more conversations than usual about things that go wrong...

Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast. Jamaal Lemon is a writer, photographer, podcaster, and GBH contributor, and he wrote his piece, " Mutated Anxieties — Living (and Parenting) While Black in the...

I'm Ashley Rodriguez, and you're listening to the Good Beer Hunting podcast. A few months ago—right after the pandemic started changing our lives, and businesses across the United States began closing their doors— I wrote an article about some of my favorite local places . I wanted to know how they were adjusting to the unprecedented circumstances. Things felt so serious at the time, just days aft...