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We're going sky high on The Beer Hour this week! First up we've got the Bay Area's Ghost Town Brewing, with cofounder Ryan Nosek giving us a bit of the history of the brewery, its connections to music, and what makes a West Coast IPA. Then we've got Dr. George Zambelli of the fam ... Show More

We're going to Cincinnati on The Beer Hour this week! We'll speak with authors Michael D. Morgan and Bret Kollmann Baker about their book Tanked in Cincinnati: Fortune and Calamity in the Beer Business. What was Cincinnati's origin as a beer city, and why did it fall off? And wha ... Show More

We're getting some good food and drink on The Beer Hour this week! First up we've got OEC Brewing's owner, founder and head brewer Ben Neidhart joining the show to talk their old European style of specialty beers. Then Evan Burgess and Osmel Gonzalez join to talk their Michelin-s ... Show More

Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing American-style craft beer to Germany. Sally McGrane and Axel Scheele look at two breweries on opposite sides of the pond. 

Josh McJannett, co-founder of Dominion City Brewing, shares how the brewery stumbled into making non-alcoholic seltzers and why they decided to create a new brand for the product.To learn more about City Seltzer and show notes: https://www.shopify.com/blog/city-seltzer-product-ex ... Show More

Pull up a bar stool and prepare to open both your mind and your palate: it’s time to meet beer before it settled down into the fizzy brown brew we know and love today. The ales in this episode of Gastropod represent the future of flavor, but take their inspiration from the pre-in ... Show More

When Jim Koch created Samuel Adams Boston Lager in 1984, American craft beer was still in its infancy. But forty years and thousands of new craft breweries later, both the competition and Jim’s drive to innovate are fiercer than ever...This week on How I Built This Lab, Jim revea ... Show More

Grace Weitz is a craft beer enthusiast and writer for Hop Culture Magazine. She recently completed the Food Studies Master Program at NYU, and she's one of the women behind Beers With(out) Beards, a celebration of women in the beer industry. The ticketed tasting festival will be ... Show More

Come along with Jimmy on his trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, as he meets with some interesting folks doing some very Danish things with beer and more! On this stop of the journey, Jimmy sits down with Saimon Skurichin, proprietor of BRØL (Broel) Brewing, where surplus bread from bak ... Show More

In 1991 newlyweds Kim Jordan and Jeff Lebesch took out a second mortgage on their home in Fort Collins, Colorado to start a craft brewery in their basement. Jeff had been inspired by the fruit and spice-infused beers he had tasted on a bike trip to Belgium, so they named their co ... Show More

Craft beer has a long history in California with breweries such as Anchor Steam that started in San Francisco in the mid-1800s and still brews there today. But lately, the industry has exploded. In the past decade the number of craft breweries in California has tripled to 1,100 – ... Show More

First, he was in finance. Then he got rejected by 100 investors. But now he’s raised $175M… and opened breweries on both coasts. We just popped open cans from the largest non-alcoholic brewery in the US. CEO Bill Shufelt and his co-founder pioneered a non-alcoholic beer you’d act ... Show More