Oct 23, 2021
There are a lot of parallels between good music and good beer, from the similarly creative processes of conceptualizing new beers and writing new songs to the way independent makers are fighting for their place at the table in two industries that are dominated by massive corporations. Beer media and music publications...
Oct 20, 2021
There are more than half a million bartenders working in the United States, although it’s a pretty safe bet that those numbers have changed in COVID’s wake. Still, that’s a heck of a lot of people mixing cocktails, pouring beers, and popping bottles for guests, all while also acting as therapists, entertainers,...
Oct 16, 2021
Producing and hosting a weekly local radio show likely isn’t how
most beer writers get their start—but that’s exactly where Emma
Inch’s career in beer began.
With a passion for rockabilly music, which she saw as an outlet
from the stress of her day job as a mental health crisis worker,
Emma went from hosting...
Oct 13, 2021
Conversations around beer often focus on what to drink: I had this great beer the other day. Here's something you might like, or a brewery worth supporting. Fewer conversations focus on what not to drink.
But that’s exactly what happened on a spring day in 1974, between a Teamsters union leader named Allen Baird and a...
Oct 10, 2021
Every now and then, I get to host an episode where the conversation has very little to do with beer or other kinds of beverage alcohol. This is another one of those opportunities as we hear from Hoby Wedler, an organic chemist with a Ph.D. from UC-Davis, an entrepreneur, teacher, and genuinely positive guy. If I had my...