The Craft Beer & Brewing Podcast

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Podcast Episode 410: NZ Grape Ale? All-Riwaka Pils? Fork & Brewer’s Brayden Rawlinson Applies European Influence to Local Ingredients

The New Zealand Beer Awards’ reigning champion microbrewer punches above his weight class, with medal-winning lagers produced unconventionally in a small brewpub where time definitely equals money. But he’s also pushing boundaries with localized takes—as with a tart, sparkling harvest ale that combines country’s signature white-wine grape with its signature hop.

Apr 25, 2025

Podcast Episode 409: Paweł Lewandowski of Mount Puts New Zealand Pilsner in Perspective

Brewers outside New Zealand tend to associate its hops with IPA, but for more than 30 years, Kiwi brewers have been making their own kind of pilsner using the homegrown harvest. In this episode, the head brewer at Mount—home of the award-winning Mountie Pilsner—shares the keys to finding balance and drinkability in a cool-pooled, dry-hopped lager of 45 IBUs.

Apr 18, 2025

Podcast Episode 408: Brent McGlashen of Mac Hops is Harvesting Sunshine on the Family Farm in Motueka

This fifth-generation hop farmer has watched craft beer pull New Zealand’s hop-growing industry back from the brink, and today he and his team are using experience, data, and more sophisticated tools to optimize their varieties for the different types of brewers who use them.

Apr 12, 2025

Podcast Episode 407: Biotransformation Myths and Realities in Hoppy and Nonalcoholic Beers, with Dr. Peter Bircham

The molecular biologist and head of R&D for New Zealand’s Garage Project has spent his career studying yeast and coaxing them to work in more effective ways. Today, he’s working on everything from refined thiol expression to better mouthfeel and malt expression in nonalcoholic beers.

Apr 4, 2025

Podcast Episode 406: Dr. Tom Shellhammer and Dr. Ron Beatson Discuss the Impacts of Genetics, Terroir, and Pick Timing on New Zealand Hops

Is it the hop variety that matters most? Or when it’s picked? The soil it’s grown in? How it’s fertilized and irrigated throughout a season? Or something else? These two preeminent researchers—one from the States, one from New Zealand—debate the relative impacts of various factors on hop flavor and aroma.

Mar 28, 2025

Podcast Episode 405: Pete Gillespie of Garage Project and Hāpi Research Is Fighting the Forces of Homogenization

The founder and head brewer for Garage Project in Wellington, New Zealand, is tackling more than just brewing these days. Garage Project’s team is breaking the fourth wall, investing in the Hāpi Research partnership with hop grower Freestyle—all for the sake of deeper hop flavor.

Mar 21, 2025

Podcast Episode 404: Bright Spots in Beer’s Economic Data with Contributing Editor Kate Bernot

Earlier this week, Brewing Industry Guide All Access subscribers received Kate’s latest article about how commonly shared economic and sales data for beer may not be painting an accurate picture. On this episode, she shares perspectives behind that story and insights into how craft brewers are bucking some prevailing trends.

Mar 14, 2025

Podcast Episode 403: Offset’s Conor Brown Is Lying to You About Low-ABV IPA

If a beer is 5 percent ABV or less, can you really call it an IPA? You might, if you’re subject to Utah’s peculiar alcohol regulations—ultimately, though, it's the award-winning flavor and aroma that absolve the pale little “lies” told by the Park City prodigies at Offset Bier.

Mar 7, 2025

Podcast Episode 402: Colorado West Coast–Style IPA Roundtable With Cannonball Creek, Westbound & Down, and Amalgam

Brian Hutchinson of Cannonball Creek, Jake Gardner of Westbound & Down, and Phil Joyce of Amalgam discuss the similarities as well as points of difference in their award-winning approaches to brewing West Coast–style IPA.

Mar 1, 2025

Podcast Episode 401: Superior Stouts and Standout Sours With Louisville’s Atrium

Mark Rubenstein and Spencer Guy of Louisville, Kentucky’s Atrium Brewing share the creative fuel and technical process behind their high-scoring stouts and crowd-pleasing fruit-forward quick sours.

Feb 22, 2025

Podcast Episode 400! Craft Beer Vibe Check With Special Host Neil Fisher of Weldwerks

Neil Fisher of Weldwerks is back for a special 400th episode conversation that touches on current challenges in craft beer, opportunities on the horizon, discipline and fundamentals, advantages of openness, fostering connection, and more.

Feb 14, 2025

Podcast Episode 399: James Herrholz of Corporate Ladder Lays It on Thicc with Award-Winning Dessert Stouts

Contrary to popular misconception, great dessert stouts require balance and intention. In this episode, James Herrholz explains how Corporate Ladder uses roast, bitterness, and a wide range of malt to build depth and dimension into indulgently sweet beers.

Feb 7, 2025

Podcast Episode 398: River North Explores the Outer Limits of High-ABV Brewing

For the past decade, Denver’s River North Brewery has pushed the limits of fermentation with ultra-high-gravity beers, and in this episode they share insights into building balance and refinement in very, very big beers.

Jan 31, 2025

Podcast Episode 397: Brewing Scientist and Historian Greg Casey Builds a Case for the Worldwide Impact of American Lager Brewing

After decades leading yeast and quality programs at some of the biggest breweries in the Western Hemisphere, Casey retired to work on his passion project: telling the story of American lager brewing from the 1830s to the present.

Jan 24, 2025

Podcast Episode 396: Matt Manthe, Formerly of Odd Breed, Is Drawn to Doing the Hard Things

Drawn to the challenges of complex fermentations, this microbiology major and VLB-trained brewer continues to apply the lesson’s he’s learned about yeast selection, hop load, acidification, Brett acclimation, and more—lessons that could be valuable to any brewer working with mixed cultures.

Jan 17, 2025

Podcast Episode 395: For Marcin Chmielarz, Baltic Porter Day Is Every Day

The expert, brewer, and publican who helped to elevate Poland’s true national beer style—porter—dives into the style and its modern evolution from a local perspective, also telling the story behind the special day he conceived nearly a decade ago.

Jan 10, 2025

Podcast Episode 394: Marcin Ostajewski of Browar Grodzisk Is Spreading the Gospel of Grodziskie

The low-ABV, 100-percent-oak-smoked-wheat-malt beer came back from the dead in the past decade, and the original Grodzisk brewery was similarly revived to focus on the style. In this episode, head brewer Marcin Ostajewski shares history as well as contemporary techniques for making the beer dubbed “Polish champagne.”

Jan 3, 2025

Podcast Episode 393: Your Favorite Craft Beer & Brewing Podcast Episodes of 2024

These are the conversations that piqued your interest, with highlights from the most-downloaded podcast episodes of the past year.

Dec 27, 2024

Podcast Episode 392: Zichovec Nods to Czech Tradition While Exploring Modern Craft Beer

Brewing in Czechia is steeped in tradition, but there are corners exploring modern craft styles in a very Czech way. In this episode, the brewers of Zichovec in Louny, Czechia, talk through their approach to classic styles with modern flair as well as modern styles with a local touch.

Dec 20, 2024

Podcast Episode 391: Kevin Ely of Wooly Pig Finds Small Tweaks That Make Big Impacts in Robust, Farm-Brewed Lagers

What happens when an experienced brewmaster trades his 100-barrel production plant for a five-barrel kit built into an old farm? Smart but simple efficiency measures, lagers that lean into the farm’s terroir, and a focus on gentle processes that optimize flavor by reducing stress on ingredients, wort, and fermenting beer.

Dec 13, 2024

Podcast Episode 390: Sam Calagione Says the Spice Must Flow

In this final panel discussion recorded at the Brewer’s Retreat at Dogfish Head in Milton, Delaware, this past October, Sam Calagione takes the moderator reins as Ethan Frisch of Burlap & Barrel shares insights into spices while Bryan Selders and Mark Safarik of Dogfish Head discuss how they use various spices and ingredients in their boundary-defying beer.

Dec 6, 2024

Podcast Episode 389: An International Look at Brewing Barrel-Aged Stout with Firestone Walker, Omnipollo, and FrauGruber

Firestone Walker Brewmaster Matt Brynildson, Omnipollo cofounder Henok Fentie, and FrauGruber cofounder Enzo Frauenschuh explore international approaches to brewing and collaborating on barrel-aged stout, from recipes to aging conditions, barrel choices, adding adjunct ingredients, and more.

Nov 29, 2024

Podcast Episode 388: Best in Beer Critics Roundtable as Stan Hieronymus, Kate Bernot, and Joe Stange Share Their Personal Picks

After two days of judging for our Best 20 Beers in 2024, the team sat down to discuss their own most enjoyable beers and experiences of the past year—along the way identifying some trends that may offer hope for the next chapter of craft beer’s story.

Nov 22, 2024

Podcast Episode 387: Best in Beer 2024 Special with Jamie Bogner and Joe Stange

Hear the stories behind the stories, as Jamie and Joe share your Readers’ Choice picks for favorites of the year, and as they reveal and discuss Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2024.

Nov 14, 2024

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