Good Beer Hunting

EP-371 Chantel Columna of Novel Strand Brewing

08 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Like most of my beer friends, I first met Chantel Columna on Instagram. Our online conversations eventually led to an in-person meeting when a work tr...

CL-127 Legacy, Heritage, and Family — How To Live Forever Through Food

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Family recipes, passed down through generations, are one of life's greatest blessings. In my house, it's a salsa recipe, started in earnest by my moth...

EP-370 Tony Rahí Jaquez Moreno of Outsider Brewing

01 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For many of us, beer is a passion. It's something that tastes great, brings us together with loved ones, and provides small details we can fret over i...

CL-126 Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, No Booze — On Sobriety & Cutting Back on Consumption

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The phrase "sober curious" is picking up steam in beverage alcohol circles—perhaps most notably in the craft beer industry. More non-alcoholic produ...

EP-369 Josh Merced of Northern Arizona University

24 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last decade, one of the aspects of beer and brewing I've admired the most has been an increased attention from the world of academics. Wine h...

EP-368 Sara and Sam Kazmer of Elsewhere Brewing

17 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 2019, my husband and I traveled to Cuba, and as part of our entry into the country, we had to book a cultural experience. We chose a tour arou...

CL-125 Love, Loss & Grief — Remembering John Stoner

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As a former resident of Richmond, Virginia, and with family and friends still there, I visit the city fairly frequently. But seeing it through the eye...

EP-367 Becky Clark and Sean White of Little Fish Brewing

10 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Whether food or drink, there's so much that goes into process. That could mean how a brewer combines hops, malt, water, and yeast to get the flavor of...

EP-366 Eric Pham of Prison City Brewing

03 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many of the people who work in the craft beer industry got their start because they were passionate about the liquid in their glass. Eric Pham, head b...

EP-365 Michelle Vanderwalker and Sean Umstead of Kingfisher Cocktail Bar

27 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For years, spirits have taken up a larger share of alcohol consumption across the U.S. Almost exclusively stealing sales from beer, this trend has bee...

EP-364 Josh Kopp & Chrissie Pinney of Hana Koa Brewing Co.

20 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Beer has never been "just beer." It can divide as well as it can unite. Some efforts to use beer as a force for good have resulted in initiatives that...

CL-124 Discovery in What's Not There — Finding the Great Outdoors While Searching for Bigfoot

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I recently learned that California has 461 recorded Bigfoot sightings. That's second only to Washington State, but far more than the mythical creature...

EP-363 Paul Schneider of Cinderlands

13 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today's guest, if we're speaking in beer years, is a lifelong friend. But what feels like a lifetime really only started around 2011 in Chicago when G...

SM-009 Frontline Frenemy — Alcohol's Backhanded Role in the American Civil War

06 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the runup to the American Civil War, the number one political issue on everyone's minds was…slavery. Of course it was. But it's easy to forget th...

CL-122 A Sip Of The Big Apple — A Brief History of NYC's Beer Bars

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

New York City is, in almost all respects, on the cutting edge, the vanguard of the very cultures we consume through fashion, art, music, and food. But...

EP-362 Peter Kiley of Monday Night Brewing

29 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Creativity of all kinds fascinates me. I love seeing artists work and watching their final products take form. But most of all, I love to hear them ta...

CL-121 Full Tank - How a Maine Gas Station Became a Craft Beer Pioneer

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes, hidden gems remain hidden for a reason. Those in-the-know may jealously limit access to outsiders; other times, it's simply because surpris...

EP-361 Shibli Haddad of Arroyo Shell

15 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if I told you one of the best places in the country to find the coolest, freshest craft beer is in Pasadena, California? That probably wouldn't s...

EP-360 Nicole Oliver of Edmund's Oast Brewing Co

08 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Science has always been intimidating to me. I was never good at memorizing the periodic table or combining an array of chemical compounds to get a des...

CL-120 David Neimanis On The Magic (And Misconceptions) Of Non-Alcoholic Spirits

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Non-alcoholic spirits, beer, wine, and beyond have finally graduated from punchlines to premium products in their own right, filling up store shelves ...

SL-034 Does Cider Have a Problem? Or an Opportunity?

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The question at the center of this episode is simple: Does hard cider have a problem or an opportunity? The answer may be a little bit of both, with y...

EP-359 Soham Bhatt of Artifact Cider Project

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When you think about beer or wine or spirits or any alcoholic beverage "beyond" these categories, what do you think of? Is it flavor? Friends? Or mayb...

CL-119 David Nilsen On His Craft Beer Origin Story, Thanks To Great Lakes Brewing

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spring is a time of emerging, reawakening, and growing beer sales after the category's typical winter lull—at least for most breweries. But Ohio's l...

CL-118 Stephanie Grant Says We All Need To Get Outside

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Experiencing the uninterrupted beauty of nature should be easy, and in theory it is—for some. As writer Stephanie Grant explores in a new story, goi...

EP-358 Jesse Epstein of Shmaltz Brewing

18 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At some point in your life, you've probably been told that you're not supposed to talk about religion or politics in certain settings. Especially when...

CL-117 Rachel Hendry Unpacks 500 Years Of Champagne's Influence

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Everybody loves bubbles. What's not to love? They're fun, they pop, and they taste amazing—especially in drinks like Champagne, or what the French w...

NG-006 — The Evolution of SoCal Cerveceros

11 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly all of the stories you read and interviews you hear from Good Beer Hunting include professionals in beer. But one of the wonderful things about...

EP-357 Julia Herz of American Homebrewers Association

04 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This conversation is all about stories. Tales of recent history and childhood memories. Recalling inspiration from others and happy accidents. Joining...

NG-005 Next Germination — The Brown Gradient Beer Wenches Transform Utah Beer

25 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Representation in beer matters for everyone—the more people means more ideas means better experiences—but as you'll soon hear, it holds particular...

CL-116 Chelsea Carrick on Promises, Politics, and The Price of Beer

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change. Drought. Lack of clean water. We hear about these issues all the time, but how much do we see them? Do we feel them? And are we really...

EP-356 Jesse Valenciana, Journalist, Author, and Cook

18 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When I'm doing prep for the interviews you hear on this podcast, I try to look across digital footprints for insights that help me gauge a person, the...

EP 355 - Cecile Macasero and Dina Dobkin of Fort Point Beer Company

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You're used to hearing about beer, but in this conversation, we're pairing that topic with food. Brewpubs and beer-focused bars and restaurants across...

SM-008 Beer For All or None: The Busch-Lasker Controversy of 1922

04 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It was 1922, and August A. Busch, Sr. needed a break. A long one. It turns out that running a gigantic brewing company like Anheuser-Busch during Proh...

EP-354 Rafael D'Armas of Montclair Brewery

28 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does a banana taste like? I want you to take a moment to consider it, whether you like them or not. As you think about unpeeling the fruit and ta...

NG-004 Next Germination — Lost in Translation

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Past is prelude, as they say, and it's always interesting to find foreshadowings of our contemporary beer culture deep in the history books. Take mona...

NG-004 Next Germination — A Land of Rice and History

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the wonderful and unique things about food and beverage is the ability to transcend time. Something with a long history and personal past can b...

EP-353 Natalie Rose Baldwin and Ben Edmunds of Breakside Brewery

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You don't have to be an in-the-weeds beer enthusiast to figure out there can be a whole lot of ways to make a beer. Just look at any taplist. There ar...

CL-115 Anaïs Lecoq Shouldn't Have To Keep Waiting

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if French women scream at the top of their lungs for acceptance...

Empire State of Mind: Launch event at Villages Taproom, London

24 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes it feels like everything that can be said about beer has been said. But then something comes along that fundamentally changes the way we thi...

CL-114 Jacopo Mazzeo Keeps Coming Back

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What's new is old and what's old is precious in a small corner of southern England, where writer and journalist Jacopo Mazzeo takes us on a tour of th...

EP-352 Joe Mettle and Roger Apollon, Jr of Entrepreneurship and Equity in Brewing

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of my favorite things about hosting this podcast is the chance to meet people and discuss who they are, not just what they do in the world of beer...

CL-113 Megan Eaves On The Incomparable Wild Of Africa

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You can't fully understand the awe-inspiring nature of an African safari until you've experienced it for yourself, or at least so says freelance write...

SM-007 Women's Work: What the Story of a 17th-Century Brewster Can Teach Us About 21st-Century Brewery Ownership

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In July 2022, Miller Lite hosted an event in Philadelphia where the brand released a special-edition can. It used beer history to convey a simple mess...

EP-351 Ale Sharpton of Cruisin' for a Brewsin'

03 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you've spent a significant time in the beer community, then you probably have heard the name Ale Sharpton. Back when I was a fledgling beer writer ...

CL-112 Lana Svitankova Wants To Taste Everything

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The concept of "beer-flavored beer" doesn't actually exist—at least not universally. One person's disgusting is another person's delicious, and a lo...

EP-350 Colleen Quinn of Greater Good

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, there's a good chance you've read, heard, or watched news about the incredible rise of non-alcoholic brands. A company like Athletic ...

CL-111 Hollie Stephens Is Running Out Of Time

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Earth is burning—so why don't more people care? It turns out, one way to get people's attention is to let them know that if things don't change ...

CL-110 Courtney Iseman Found Her Family

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How many of us have dreamed of opening a "third space"—as in, a social space that isn't our home and isn't our workplace—whether it be a collectiv...

EP-349 Nicki Werner of Jefferson Beer Supply

12 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When people think of South Dakota, beer doesn't likely come to mind. Maybe Mount Rushmore. Probably agriculture. But in this episode, we're exploring ...

EP-348 Reggie Duvalsaint — Ballpark Vendor Extraordinaire

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So … what did you do over your summer vacation? It's a classic question so many of us would answer whenever returning to school each fall, and if Re...

CL-109 Oliver Gray Finds His Place

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's an inherent tension in making art. The best art comes from a deeply personal place, but also speaks in a universal register. That's not to say...

Scott and Whitney Selix of Lua Beer

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we're taking a trip to Des Moines, Iowa, where Whitney and Scott Selix share with us stories of their hospitality careers and what it ...

CL-108 Matt Osgood Is Tied To History

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lager might be having a moment, but as a whole, craft beer drinkers don't always reach for the easiest beer on the menu. Instead, the newest, most int...

EP-347 Jasmine Mason and Ashley Johnson of Cider Jawns

15 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's time to talk apples. Or, at least, how apples fit into all the other flavors you might experience when you pop open a bottle or can of hard cider...

CL-107 Jerard Fagerberg On Letting Go With Intention

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Like many craft beer enthusiasts entering their late 30s and early 40s, I've found the booze real estate in my refrigerator is starting to shrink. Fir...

EP-346 Liz Preston of Prestonrose Farms

08 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This statement shouldn't come as a surprise: Beer is agriculture. With ingredients that come from the ground there are so many ways a region, climate,...

CL-106 Jonny Garrett Wonders "What Is Beer?"

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Around the world, the craft beer community disagrees on a lot of things, but one big schism is over what beer actually is. Is it a rigid adherence to ...

CL-105 Matt Osgood Isn't Sure What To Do

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, a lot of things seem really bad. There are microplastics embedded in all of our bodies—including millions of bodies now stripped of auton...

EP-343 Kindsey Bernhard of Austin Beerworks and Boys Are From Marzen

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When we think about beer and brewing, it's easy for our minds to wander toward the person making the beer we drink. Brewers create a little bit of mag...

Martyn Cornell of Zythophile.co.uk

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Okay, maybe it's not Harry Styles or Bad Bunny, but writing about beer history is, relatively speaking, kind of hot right now. Writers at a number of ...

NG-002 Next Germination — A Black Woman Made This Beer

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

HBCUs—or Historically Black Colleges and Universities—have long been important institutions in the Black community. The first HBCUs were establish...

CL-104 Lana Svitankova is on a mission for Ukraine

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As a writer, photographer, translator, and the first Certified Cicerone in Ukraine now living in Switzerland, Lana Svitankova wears a lot of hats. One...

Denise Ford Sawadogo of Montclair Brewery

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I first learned about Montclair Brewery during Black History Month. Since opening in 2018, the brewery has honored prominent Black figures—from Har...

CL-103 Emma Janzen Bears Witness in Oaxaca

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first time I connected with Emma Janzen off social media happened last year when she, very graciously, offered to help guide me in the early stage...

Pittsburgh Mixed Culture Festival

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's episode is a preview of a festival coming up in Pittsburgh on July 30th called Mixed Culture. GBH is intimately involved as partners on the br...

EP-341 Sarah Flora of Flora Brewing

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Expertise is an easy thing to pin down … or is it? There's the oft-cited 10,000 hours that it takes to become an expert. Or there's a dictionary we ...

CL-102 John Harry Knows This Land Is Not Our Land

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes, we can make the mistake of thinking history only applies to things that happened long ago. But as Wisconsin-based beer historian and writer...

NG-001 Next Germination — Keeping Neurodiversity In Mind

25 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first episode in our Next Germination series, produced in partnership with Guinness. For those of you that have been reading and listen...

EP-340 Daniel Muñoz + Jeremy Grinkey of Everywhere Beer

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Does the world really need another craft brewery? Honestly, no—but Daniel Muñoz and Jeremy Grinkey think the world just might need their brewery,...

CL-101 Anthony Gladman Rejects The Hype

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Some people call it boring brown beer, but others think of it as liquid from heaven. In a love letter to what's arguably the most British of beer styl...

SM-006 Worth Saving: Brewery Records and the Future

21 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Breweries love to talk about what they bring into the world. In other words, their beer. Breweries tend to talk less about what they leave behind. The...

EP-339 Paula de Pano of Rocks + Acid Wine Shop

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

While beer is in the name of this podcast, we explore all kinds of beverage alcohol with our guests. In recent episodes, we've talked about alcohol-in...

CL-100 Kate Bernot Keeps It Twisted

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What were you drinking in the early 2000s? When we look back on trends and data, there's a good chance it was a flavored malt beverage along the lines...

EP-339 Greg Browne of Art History Brewing

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today's guest has been a bit of a ghost int he GBH machine for more than a decade - since our founding really - and he's someone I think about every t...

CL-099 David Jesudason bellies up to the 'color bar'

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The color bar may be Britain's most shameful secret—even though it's not so secret after all. In journalist David Jesudason's intensely researched a...

EP-337 Tara Hankinson and LeAnn Darland of Talea Beer Company

16 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There is a lot of calculated nuance in today's beer industry. You have to be purposeful in your business plan, consider who you're selling to and wher...

CL-098 Jerard Fagerberg Wants To Talk About Money

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Who wants to talk about money? We're going to. I'm joined today by Jerard Fagerberg to talk about his piece titled "Pour Clean, Like the Source — CA...