Dec 31, 2019
Today, you’ll hear Mark Spence read the third entry of his blog, Beer is Offal, called “Squeeze, Never Pull,” published on Good Beer Hunting on October 31, 2019.
This article is evocative—but not for the reason you might think. The subject matter—hunting and eating animals—is heavy, but the way Mark...
Dec 28, 2019
Opening a bottle shop is many beer drinkers’ ultimate dream. After all, it’s hard to argue with a work day spent surrounded by delicious beers and excitable people, where passion and knowledge for a product can carry you through. Stock it and they will come.
Of course, if it were really that easy, we’d all...
Dec 24, 2019
Welcome to another Fervent Few episode of the Good Beer Hunting podcast where myself, Jim Plachy, and GBH’s strategic director, Michael Kiser, catch up. We’ll talk about the topics and discussions that took place in our membership community in the last couple weeks.
Our 500 or so subscribers are scattered all over...
Dec 21, 2019
Today’s conversation is one of the hardest—and most edifying—that I’ve been lucky to have. It reaches that level of dialogue and storytelling that I think, on occasion, puts the GBH podcast on the level of oral history. It has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with the quality of people who we’re...
Dec 19, 2019
Here’s an odd thing that enthusiasts don’t always focus on when talking about beer, or wine, or spirits, or whichever hard seltzer brand we happen to be enjoying in the moment: they’re vehicles for alcohol. There may be tasting notes scribbled down or spoken aloud, and we may stop to reflect on what we just...