The Brewery Underground Podcast | Craft Beer Interviews, Reviews & Beer Travel

There are a lot of great breweries across the United States. Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland, Ohio is among them. There was so much to discuss with Michael Williams, Historian and Advanced Cicerone with Great Lakes, this turned into a two-part episode. Great Lakes serves up a lot of great beer! We tried some during this episode! Michael told us all about how this fantastic brewery got sta...

Scott and Steve are normally the ones asking the questions. On this episode, we are put on “the hot seat”. We went to the home of our friends Tom and Frankie Shumacker. They wanted the "inside scoop" on how we go about doing this podcast. We had a fun debate over flights vs pints. Lightning round questions of topics you wouldn’t expect "is a hot dog considered a sandwich"? Plus, Scott's idea for a...

Welcome to Part 2 of this episode that we did with our homies the Foamy Heads - Rich and Mitch - who are another podcast duo out of Nashville, TN. We recorded this on the patio at Fail La Force Brewing in Nashville. This episode continues the discussion we had about the state of craft breweries and craft beer, after we've seen several local breweries close recently. We also had some shared bottles...

This was an episode we did with our homies the Foamy Heads - Rich and Mitch - who are another podcast duo out of Nashville, TN. We recorded this on the patio at Fail La Force Brewing in Nashville. We came together for this episode over the fact that we wanted to discuss the state of craft breweries and craft beer, after we've seen several local breweries close recently. We had a great discussion a...

Steve and Scott got to experience the Music City Brew Hop first hand on Friday 9/27/24 in Nashville, TN. This episode describes our Brewery Adventures on the West Loop of Music City Brew Hop's tour. We rode to 5 of their 6 stops and went to 5 of the 7 breweries on this loop. We started at Tennessee Brew Works then proceeded to Fait La Force Brewing, Jackalope Brewing Company, Diskin Cider and ende...

We are really excited to bring you this episode. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot and we hope you enjoy it. Dru and Ross own the Honeytree Meadery in Nashville, TN and it's a phenomenal place. In this episode, you're going to learn what mead is, how it's made, misconceptions about mead, what makes Honeytree's mead different than most (if not all) other meads in the WORLD. You're going to lear...

Rick Lyke is the Founder of Pints for Prostates and he joined us for an interview on 9/12/24. Pints for Prostates is a grassroots campaign that raises awareness about prostate cancer and the importance of early detection. Rick himself was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 47 and was successfully treated, after a friend of his encouraged him to get tested, even though he had no symptoms....

Here we are! Celebrating the season that is Oktoberfest! In this action-packed episode, Scott and Steve try variations of Oktoberfest beer and rank our favorite! We're joined by Grayson Miller of Crazy Gnome Brewery in Nashville. He tells us what Oktoberfest season means to him. Joel Geier of The Brewery Travels Podcast checks in to discuss some really fantastic Oktoberfest events across the c...

Scott Mertie of Nashville Brewing Company returns to the podcast to talk about Oktoberfest beer. His knowledge, insight and passion on how this beer first got started many years ago is extremely fascinating. Scott has traveled to where it all began in Munich, Germany, the home of the largest Oktoberfest event in the world. We recorded this episode on location from Blackstone Brewing Company. It wa...

Steve and Scott are back with our good buddy Chris Finen, who is an honorary member of the Brewery Underground Podcast. Chris joined us last on episodes 32 and 33 when we talked to Adam from Music City Brew Hop. This episode has us talking about some of our favorite local places (mostly) that we like for craft beer AND food. We talk mostly about taprooms, restaurants and brewpubs but we toss in a...

From Porch Beers USA, of the beer community, Keith and Coop make their return to the podcast where they talk about a passion for helping charitable organizations. in addition, these guys travel the country finding the best breweries and have some really funny stories about unique things they've encountered from the road. Including alcohol laws that are often different in state to state. We had...

Cincinnati, Ohio is home to a lot of great breweries. MadTree Brewing is among them. One of the biggest in the area. Ryan Blevins & Brittany Frey joins us to talk about everything MadTree. Ryan is Director of Brewing Operations. Brittany, The Head Brewer. With two locations, they are getting ready to open up another. Ryan and Brittany are here to tell us how they go about creating some really...

Steve and Scott discuss our 2 separate Brewery and Travel Adventures during the same time period. Steve traveled to Western Michigan as Scott was in North Carolina. From July 18th thru July 26th, we both visited multiple breweries in different parts of the country and I'm sure we boosted the local economy in both areas. Steve was in Holland, Comstock Park and Grand Rapids Michigan conquering B...

Our buddies from the beer community, Keith and Coop of Porch Beers USA, checked in with on us 4th of July weekend from their home state of Delaware! Keith and Coop have traveled the country in search of some of the greatest craft beer and breweries! Including here in Nashville! They have covered a lot of ground and driven many miles! These guys are passionate about what they do and pretty darn fun...

Welcome to Part 2 of this episode with Adam Smith from Music City Brew Hop. In this episode we talk to Adam about how he started Music City Brew Hop, Christmas light tours, the different ways you can buy tickets for the trolley, the criteria to drive a trolley (it's not Duck Boat experience, BTW), and pricing for the trolley including a discount code if you're thinking about riding the Mus...

This week we talked to Adam Smith who is the owner of Music City Brew Hop in Nashville, TN. What an unbelievable guest Adam was. So much so - that we ended up with enough content for 2 episodes. This is Part 1 where we talk about what exactly the Music City Brew Hop is, how it got started, how many breweries and which ones do they stop at, what days and hours they operate, is it a party bus, is th...

Bonus Episode! We had this short recording we did on 7/10 that recapped our week of recording 2 episodes, joining 2 live virtual happy hours and meeting up with some great people that were brewery hopping in Nashville from Louisville. We couldn't find a good place to put this so it lives as its own episode (or at least a partial one). It's 8 minutes long including the music so we don't want to hea...

We are thrilled to be joined by our friend Liz from Cincinnati. Known in the craft beer community as Everyday I'm Bubbling (@everyday_im_bubbling) • Instagram photos and videos We talk about the craft beer scene in Cincinnati and discuss some of our favorite breweries and many others we need to check out. Liz highlights some of the great events around town worth attending. Last but not least,...

Happy 4th of July, everyone! Here is our newest episode with Joel Geier from Brewery Travels. We talk to Joel about his epic brewery travels with over 1300 breweries visited, his process for when he visits a brewery, the book he's writing, the podcast he's involved with, what he plans on doing in the future, Untappd and a so much more. In the time between when we recorded this episode and...

Greg and Abbey Anderton joined us. We did this show on location from Deep South Growlers in south Nashville. Deep South has two locations in Middle Tennessee. We discussed what brings people into their taproom. The process for selecting the beers, ciders and seltzers you see on the menu. Oh yeah! Scott plays a part in what they sometimes decide to make available! This was a great conversation with...

Steve and Scott recorded on location at the brand-new and beautiful Cyanide Cider in Nashville, TN. Cyanide Cider is so new that they haven't had their soft or grand openings yet - at the time this podcast drops. Grayson Miller was nice enough to sit back down with us again to talk about this newest venture of his. You may remember Grayson from Episode 5, as he is also the owner of Crazy Gnome...

Here we go again. We’re calling this one our Top Breweries and Beers of 2024 (So Far). We discuss our favorite breweries that we visited this year, our favorite beers and beer styles that we’ve had, and we even tell a few stories. Plus, we announce Steve’s Cider and Seltzer Summer Tour of 2024. We had fun doing this one and we actually kept it under an hour. Leave us some feedback if you listen to...

Steve and Scott recap their recent Brewery Adventures from Cincinnati, that they had over Memorial Day Weekend 2024. We visited 16 breweries in 5 days, went to 2 Cincinnati Reds games, met up with some fellow beer connoisseurs and beer community friends from Cleveland, OH. They also drank a bottle of whiskey, had Skyline Chili, discovered a miraculous BBQ sandwich, rode a trolly and had our first...

We bring you another edition of the best of the Brewery Underground podcast featuring interviews from Black Abbey Brewing Company, The Beer Babes, Rhizome Productions, Rhinegeist Brewery and Nashville Brewing Company. Cheers!

Scott and Steve are "on assignment" this week! Therefore, we bring you interviews with some of our previous guests in a best of episode.