Good Beer Hunting

KEYNOTE Steve Grossman Sierra Nevada Brewing Company On the Past, Present & Future of Craft Beer     Good Beer Hunting was thrilled to partner with Beavertown Brewery at their Extravaganza anniversary celebration this year to bring you some compelling discussions and presentations about the state of craft beer in 2017. A wide range of topics and personalities were available to discuss some of the...

ART & CRAFT Why your brand is as important as your recipes Host:  Matthew Curtis, Good Beer Hunting Guest Speakers:  Nick Dwyer, Beavertown Brewery Michael Kiser, Good Beer Hunting   Good Beer Hunting was thrilled to partner with Beavertown Brewery at their Extravaganza anniversary celebration this year to bring you some compelling discussions and presentations about the state of craft beer in 201...

FOREVER YOUNG (PART 1) Staying Relevant in the Modern Beer Landscape, Part 1 Host:  Michael Kiser, Good Beer Hunting Guest Speakers:  Kim Jordan, New Belgium Brewing Paul Jones, Cloudwater Brew Co.     Good Beer Hunting was thrilled to partner with Beavertown Brewery at their Extravaganza anniversary celebration this year to bring you some compelling discussions and presentations about the state o...

SOUR BEER AS A GENRE How do we update nomenclature to encompass an ever broadening set of styles? Host:  Michael Kiser, Good Beer Hunting Guest Speakers:  Pierre Tilquin, Gueuzerie Tilquin André Ek, Brekeriet Tomme Arthur, The Lost Abbey   Good Beer Hunting was thrilled to partner with Beavertown Brewery at their Extravaganza anniversary celebration this year to bring you some compelling discussio...

THE MODERN BEER PORTFOLIO Balancing a core range vs consumer demand for special releases Host:  Matthew Curtis, Good Beer Hunting Guest Speakers:  Cosmo Sutherland, Beavertown Brewery Evin O'Riordain, The Kernel Darron Anley, Siren Craft Brew   Good Beer Hunting was thrilled to partner with Beavertown Brewery at their Extravaganza anniversary celebration this year to bring you some compelling disc...

KEYNOTE Logan Plant Beavertown Brewery The State of British Craft Beer in 2017   YOU CAN FIND THE ENTIRE #BEAVEREX17 LIBRARY HERE   Good Beer Hunting was thrilled to partner with Beavertown Brewery at their Extravaganza anniversary celebration this year to bring you some compelling discussions and presentations about the state of craft beer in 2017. A wide range of topics and personalities were av...

Today is a special kind of geekery, so pull out your lab coats, pocket protectors and hydrometers, because things are about to get nerdy. Especially when it comes to New England IPAs. One of the amazing things I've found covering the beer industry is the number of brilliant people who fill up the ranks of bartenders, brewers, biologists and more. It makes perfect sense within a profession that ble...

Welcome to another episode of The Fervent Few podcast. Every few weeks we present you with this bonus episode of the GBH podcast where we chat with members of our subscriber community. The Fervent Few subscribe to GBH like a magazine making a monthly contribution via Patreon. Members join us in a forum to talk about a wide range of topics that doesn't just stop at beer. And every week we pick one...

This week, I chat with a couple that makes phenomenal cider in New Hampshire at Farnum Hill. It's all orchard-based from their own land at Poverty Lane Orchards. In fact, it's all made right there on-site in a repurposed barn.  Steve Wood and Louisa Spencer have made a life with their cider, but in recent years as the sort of pseudo-craft-cider boom has created both momentum and vulnerability in t...

Welcome to another episode of The Fervent Few podcast. Every few weeks we present you with this bonus episode of the GBH podcast where we chat with members of our subscriber community. The Fervent Few subscribe to GBH like a magazine making a monthly contribution via Patreon. Members join us in a forum to talk about a wide range of topics that doesn't just stop at beer. And every week we pick one...

You'll sometimes hear people describe craft beer as a sort of zeitgeist all its own, coming out of nowhere to upend a century-old domination of the big corporate brewers, rising like punk rock to legendary status by following its own rules, and changing people's expectations for what beer can be in the process.  And a lot of that's true, though it didn't happen in a vacuum. Way back in episode 18...

Our resident composer for the podcast and our commercial video work, Andrew Thiboldeaux, is writing original scores devoted to beers he finds fascinating. These are interpretations of the experience of drinking them. But they're also just great tunes.

As much as we talk about the acquisitions of craft brands, it's not often we get to hear directly from the people involved, and how they think about and manage these acquisitions.  How do breweries transition to their new realities? How do they get integrated into a portfolio? How do they enable growth, but also look to safety, quality, and sales with a critical eye? It's a lot to handle, and a lo...

There are so many paths people take to follow their passion, often surrounded by the support of friends and family. No matter what excites us enough to go pro for the thing that we love, there's still a shared experience in the fact that entrepreneurship is intimate. It's not uncommon to find partners in business to also be partners in life. Friends, spouses, parents, and siblings are all taking r...

Welcome to another episode of The Fervent Few podcast. Every two weeks we present you with this bonus episode of the GBH podcast where we chat with members of our subscriber community. The Fervent Few subscribe to GBH like a magazine making a monthly contribution via Patreon. Members join us in a forum to talk about a wide range of topics that doesn't just stop at beer. And every week we pick one...

Way back in 1994, in Burlington, Vermont, a little brewery named Magic Hat sprung to life making what for many of its customers was the first "craft beer" they'd ever taste. One of its co-founders was Alan Newman, who became not only the entrepreneurial force behind the company, but the whimsical, hippie, bearded face of the brand itself.  By the time he'd gotten Magic Hat off the ground, he was a...

This weeks guests are from Brussels, Belgium. It's there that they own a very American-inspired brewery called Brussels Beer Project.  I first visited their spot a couple years ago when they'd just established themselves after contract brewing. It was a space defined by a new urban aesthetic that you find the world over, with bright colors, cafe-style furniture, and an open floor plan. Not to ment...

GBH founder—and one of the co-hosts of this podcast—Michael Kiser has previously described some episodes of this podcast as being "bucket-list" interviews. Folks like Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver and Allagash's Rob Todd, for example: folks who've played huge roles in shaping the industry as we know it and still continue to do so. Now, it's my turn. Today, I sit down for a conversation with Yv...

Our resident composer for the podcast and our commercial video work, Andrew Thiboldeaux, is writing original scores devoted to beers he finds fascinating. These are interpretations of the experience of drinking them. But they're also just great tunes.  Central State happens to be a client of GBH's studio team. However, Andrew chooses the beers he wants to score of his own volition.

So many breweries in start-up mode have a crystal clear vision for their future. But as they mature, and as the market shifts, and as those early days start to feel farther and farther away, we find out what a brewery is really made of. Do they stick with that adolescent firebrand kind of rhetoric? Or do they adopt a more practical outlook on what's possible—and even desirable—for a craft brewery?...

Welcome to another episode of The Fervent Few podcast. Every two weeks we present you with this bonus episode of the GBH podcast where we chat with members of our subscriber community. The Fervent Few subscribe to GBH like a magazine making a monthly contribution via Patreon. Members join us in a forum to talk about a wide range of topics that doesn't just stop at beer. And every week we pick one...

Whether personal or professional, there are always types of risks when starting a new business. That's often the case in the beer industry, where men and women quit their day jobs on a near daily basis to chase a dream of serving IPAs, Stouts, or Lagers to a thirsty public. These owners and brewers have a lot on the line. It's no different for the people behind Denizens brewing in Silver Springs M...

"Session" is a new word to many a craft beer drinker's lexicon, but the idea of session beer far predates whatever new lingo is helping sell balanced, lower alcohol brews. You may have also seen the words "light," or "table" used in a similar context. Meaning: easy to drink, balanced, dare I say crushable? Some of you just cringed, I know, but it's been hard going for anyone looking to sell these...

On this week's episode of the Fervent Few podcast, we'll talk with a couple of members of the community about taprooms, social media, what they find exciting about the Fervent Few and whatever else comes up. The Fervent Few is our subscriber community who subscribe to GBH like a magazine making a monthly contribution via Patreon. Members join us in a forum to talk about a wide range of topics that...

The county of Yorkshire has more breweries per capita than anywhere else in the UK. And though it's home to buzzing city hubs such as Leeds and Sheffield, much of the brewing landscape is to be found within the county's rural environment and smaller towns. It's home to traditional breweries such as Theakston's, Timothy Taylor, and Black Sheep as well breweries with a more modern outlook, such as S...