The Brewing Network Presents | The Session

This week on The Session, we welcome Ian McCall from Riip Beer Company in Huntington Beach, California. Riip  started out as a nano brewery using a MoreBeer Brew Sculpture to craft their beers. Today, they are an award winning brewery destination with some serious brewing chops. Tune in and learn about their fabulous beers (we're big fans now!). Also, JP, Sully and Justin reminisce about the old d...

This week on The Session, we are joined in-studio by Burgeon Beer Company, out of Carlsbad, California. Listen in as Co-Founder and Head Brewer, Anthony Tallman, and Co-Founder and Director of Operations, Derek Van Leeuwen, talk to us about their unique and charitable business model that supports environmental initiatives. We'll also learn about their love of hoppy beers, of which many of theirs h...

Ghost Town Brewing, from Oakland, California, joins us in-studio to talk about how hoppy beers are not what they seem. We are joined by Head Brewer, Justin Burdt, and owner, Ryan Nosek, to talk about their lightening fast growth and love of unique hops. We revitalize an old discussion on early IBU's vs. late additions, learn about some old school recipe techniques, and taste some great examples of...

The Session crew heads up to Windsor, CA to broadcast live from the all new Russian River Brewing Company! Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo invited us to their spectacular new brewery for a day of tours, fun and incredible beer. To round out the day, we set up in the entirely unique, and so so cool, Koelschip room. Vinnie and Natalie custom built this room to create spontaneously fermented beer, and eve...

This week on The Session we welcome Solid Ground Brewing, from Diamond Springs, CA. to the studio. We are joined by co-owners KC Sare and Scott Johnson. These guys love brewing clean fermented, continental ales and lagers, but they bring us some big surprises! They've got some big brewery process chops that they use in their brew house that gives them a unique perspective on craft beer. But what s...

This week on The Session, we welcome the folks from Baerlic Brewing Company, from Portland, OR. to the studio! We are joined by Baerlic President, Ben Parsons, CEO, Rik Hall and Lead Brewer, Stephen “The Bear” Helwig. Learn about how and why Baerlic is Portland's largest self-distributed craft brewery, as well as why they have some strange obsession with denim vests... And they share some damn goo...

This week on The Session, we are joined by our old friend Christian Hood (a.k.a. Krotchrott) from the very early days of The Brewing Network. Well Christian is all grown up now with his very own brewery, Swan Brewing, in Lakeland, FL. We get to try many of their unique creations (Imperial Coffee Blonde anyone?) and learn about the long journey from homebrewer to professional brewer from one of our...

Allegory Brewing from McMinnville, Oregon joins us in the studio this week on The Session. Founder, David Sanguinetti and Head Brewer, Charlie Van Meter, bring us some of there excellent Pacific Northwest creations and collaborations. Hailing from the Willamette Valley in Oregon, Allegory sources many local hops, fruits and other ingredients to keep their beer fresh and uniquely Oregon. We are als...

This week on The Session, we welcome Ryan Wagner from the Guinness Open Gate Brewery and Barrel House in Baltimore, MD. Ryan takes us through the transformation in brewing and brewing projects that Guinness has been undertaking in recent years. We get to try some of the classic Guinness beers as well as a few of the new beers they have recently launched. Tune in and learn more about this historic...

This week on The Session we welcome Sunriver Brewing Company, from Sunriver, OR. to the show. We are joined by Director of Brewing Operations, Brett Thomas. Brett takes us through the history and expansion of Sunriver Brewing, as well as a few of their delicious beers. A self-proclaimed "Hop Guy", Brett makes the Pacific Northwest proud with his flavorful and hoppy brews, which earned Sunriver Sma...

This week on The Session, we welcome Cleophus Quealy Beer Company, from San Leandro, CA, to the studio to talk about their unique take on craft beer. Owner and Brewmaster, Dan Watson, along with General Manager, Jessica Clare, talk to us about their penchant for beers that don't adhere to mainstream styles and process. 60% of their beers come out of their exciting barrel program, with a strong foc...

This week on The Session, we welcome Secret Trail Brewing Company from Chico, CA. to the studio! Owner and Head Brewer, Charlie Barrett, Assistant Brewer, Jake Dickman, and Sales Rep, Monte Cano, all chime in to tell the stories behind the beers of Secret Trail. We'll learn about how Secret Trail changed zoning laws in Chico to allow for a brewery taproom like theirs, as well as how they stepped u...

This week on The Session, we welcome Bale Breaker Brewing Company from Yakima, Washington. Crafting fresh-off-the-farm brews from the middle of a hop field, Bale Breaker is a family-owned brewery located in the Yakima Valley. Backed by four generations of hop farming experience, Bale Breaker started in 2013, and has grown to become the fifth largest independent craft brewery in Washington. Hops ar...

This week on The Session we welcome long time friend of the Brewing Network, Garrett Marrero, from Maui Brewing Company. Garrett has made a career out of respecting local craft beer and has been building one of the best examples of how craft can engage, support, and enhance community. Learn about the origin of the ever popular Coconut Porter style of beer, as well as many other fantastic Maui brew...

The team at Laughing Monk Brewing has been supplying the San Francisco Bay Area with great Belgian-style beers since 2016. Their attention to detail and ensuring the beers are drinkable and full of flavor has made Laughing Monk a hot commodity on any tap list. Today on The Session, Amelia Franklin and Karl Bauermeister sit down with us and explain their philosophy on brewing not just Belgian-style...

How does a cross-country bike ride in Spain lead to an 8-year journey to open a brewery in California? Well the founders of Camino Brewing Co. in San Jose, California did just that! Allen Korenstein and Nathan Poulos joined us in the studio tonight to talk about their epic journey from humble homebrew beginnings to a 10bbl setup in the South Bay. There, they brew everything from lagers to barrel-a...

Sacramento, CA has been experiencing a flood of new breweries recently, and sitting at the heart of it is New Glory Craft Brewery. It's hard to imagine that a six-year-old brewery would be considered "old", but in this market anything goes. To tell us more about New Glory and the Sac brew scene, Kyle Leddy and Trevor Davies joined us in the studio - and they brought beer! Learn more about your ad...

Hailing from Spokane, Washington, The Hidden Mother Brewing has been making waves in the beer scene since February 2018. Mike and Remington (yes, that's his real name), made a special trip to the studio just to be interviewed by us. So already you know there is something wrong with these two. Mike also came dressed in a taco costume, which explains the puns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

This week on The Session, we welcome The Booth Brewing Company to the show to talk about taking craft beer all the way from Seoul, South Korea to Eureka, California. The Booth started their brewing adventure in Seoul and recently opened a brewery in California to bring their special flavor to the largest craft beer market in the world. We are joined by Dave Franklin and Youngwon Lee, who tell us t...

This week on The Session we welcome The Civil Life Brewing Company to the show. Based out of St. Louis, MO, Head Brewer Dylan Mosley speaks with us about the session-able and English style ales that they specialize in. Learn about their brewing history, the St. Louis beer scene, and the techniques Dylan employs to keep their beer fresh as long as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...

This week on The Session, we welcome Chris Burcher from Wolf Hills Brewing Company, from Abingdon, VA. to the show. Chris talks to us about the rise of the hyper-local brewery and how he pulled back his distribution to focus on his own local market. We have a great, and refreshingly honest, discussion about how focusing on local allowed Wolf Hills to reduce costs and increase profitability. Chris...

This week on The Session, we welcome back to the studio Shaun O\'Sullivan from 21st Amendment Brewery, along with Dick Cantwell from Magnolia Brewing Company, as the two discuss their latest collaboration, Eclectic IPA Month. Each brewery will brew 6 artisanal craft beers, for a total of 12 IPA\'s for fans to enjoy throughout November. Tune in and learn what\'s new at Magnolia since Dick took the...

This week on The Session, we welcome Evan Watson, Owner, Brewer and Co-Founder of Plan Bee Farm Brewery in Poughkeepsie, NY. Evan\'s brewery focuses on making beer exclusively from ingredients grown in the state of New York, with many of them grown right on the brewery farm. We learn about how Plan Beer Farm Brewery is able to create its own unique terroir by sourcing ingredients hyper-locally and...

This week on The Session, we welcome Mark Osborne, founder of Adroit Theory Brewing Company from Purcellville, Virginia. Mark tells us all about his small brewery that has brewed well over 600 different beers in just 4.5 years! They love variety and shared several of their current selections with us on the show, including BLVCK Celebration, and Imperial Porter brewed with Orio Cookies that was a b...

The folks from Epidemic Ales joined us in the studio for this episode of The Session. In addition to being Concord\'s only brewery, the team at Epidemic Ales are brewing the official beer of the 1st annual Concord Octoberfest! Learn all about how these beer-lovers started as homebrewers and grew into a commercial brewery that\'s already expanding despite being so young. We talk a little hop blend...