Good Beer Hunting
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
EP-207 Derek Gallanosa and Cory Meyer from Moksa Brewing Company
23 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Moksa Brewing Company in Rocklin, California sold out the slots for their brewery club program in 2017. What's particularly notable about that? They h...
SL-003 The Race to Build the Next Lifestyle Beer
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After more than a decade of wild growth, Michelob Ultra is now well-established as Anheuser-Busch InBev's king of "better-for-you" beer. As odd as it ...
CL-018 Rekindling an old flame with Peter Frost
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributors and...
Foeder for Thought festival preview
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a special preview episode for you. Last year, you may recall we led a series of discussions at Foeder for Thought, the festival for ...
Signifier: Made in Partnership with Guinness — Guinness is Good For You — 5 of 5
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special edition of the Good Beer Hunting podcast—a series of episodes made in partnership with Guinness devoted to one of the world's m...
Signifier: Made in Partnership with Guinness — Guinness is So Extra — 4 of 5
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special edition of the Good Beer Hunting podcast—a series of episodes made in partnership with Guinness devoted to one of the world's m...
Signifier: Made in Partnership with Guinness — Coming to America — 3 of 5
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special edition of the Good Beer Hunting podcast—a series of episodes made in partnership with Guinness devoted to one of the world's m...
Signifier: Made in Partnership with Guinness — The Essence of Guinness — 2 of 5
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special edition of the Good Beer Hunting podcast—a series of episodes made in partnership with Guinness devoted to one of the world's m...
Signifier: Made in Partnership with Guinness — A Survivor's Guide — 1 of 5
16 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a special edition of the Good Beer Hunting podcast—a series of episodes made in partnership with Guinness devoted to one of the world's m...
FF-018 Jim Plachy takes a run at the cellar and grandmas everywhere
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Fervent Few episode of the Good Beer Hunting podcast where myself, Jim Plachy, and GBH's strategic director, Michael Kiser, catch u...
EP-206 Ben Duckworth and Steve Grae of Affinity Brew Co.
09 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"It's just beer" is a mantra screamed into the social void daily. Its believers just want to enjoy a beer in peace, to escape the world for a damn sec...
CL-017 Kate Bernot and the mystery of #FlagshipFebruary
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributors and...
EP-205 Brian Carriveau of Bon Appétit Management Company
02 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On every home game day, tens of thousands of baseball fans filter into the San Francisco Giants' ballpark. Many of them will buy beer, and thanks to B...
SL-002 So, you opened a brewery. Now what?
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to open a brewery these days? And what happens after you do? These questions are at the center of two conversations we have in this ...
EP-204 Jude La Rose and Jeremiah Zimmer of Hop Butcher
26 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guests represent a kind of brewery that lives, sometimes tenuously, in the spaces in between traditional brewery models in American craft brew...
CL-016 Bryan Roth will sleep when he's dead
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributors and...
EP-203 Roger Bialous of Georgetown Brewing Company
19 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
[photo by Jim Henkens] How do you become one of the largest breweries in one of the most beer-loving states in the country these days, and not sell a ...
CL-015 Going down under with Luke Robertson
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributors and...
EP-202 Connor Casey, Tim Sciascia, and Aaron Wittman of Cellarmaker Brewing Company
12 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood looked a bit different in 2013, when Cellarmaker Brewing Company opened here, on Howard Street. Tech companies were ...
MU-013 Anchor Christmas
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our resident composer for the podcast and our commercial video work, Andrew Thiboldeaux, is writing original scores devoted to beers he finds fascinat...
SL-001 TTB and the Government Shutdown
05 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the very first Sightlines episode of the Good Beer Hunting podcast. These episodes are where we dig in to a timely topic with experts from ...
EP-201 Liz Garibay of History on Tap
05 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like beer enthusiasts, myself included, are always looking forward. When we're not trying to figure out what the next IPA is going to be, it'...
CL-014 Carla Jean Lauter will tell you all about lobster and beer
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributor...
EP-200 Andy Parker + Colin Quinn of Avery Brewing Co.
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is one of those where just a couple weeks difference in when we actually sat down with each other would have dramatically transformed ...
FF-017 Jim Plachy breaks the fourth wall, fires up the shill machine
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Fervent Few episode of the Good Beer Hunting podcast where myself, Jim Plachy, and GBH's strategic director, Michael Kiser, catch u...
EP-199 Andy Moffat of Redemption Brewing Company
22 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A decade in beer can feel like a lifetime. As Tottenham's Redemption Brewing Company approach their 10th birthday, looking back is kinda dizzying. Red...
CL-013 Alyssa Pereira finds the spirit of radio
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's another episode of the GBH Collective, an ongoing series of interviews where we dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributors and frie...
EP-198 Shannon Vinson and Blake Tyers of Creature Comforts Brewing Co.
15 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I met Shannon Vinson not at a beer festival, or a beer bar, or at Creature Comforts Brewing Company in Athens, Georgia, where she works, but in New Yo...
FF-016 Jim Plachy goes solo, gets sour with Collective Brewing Project
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is a fun one for me, largely because I'm not on it. About a year ago, we started a subscriber community called The Fervent Few . A...
EP-197 Marie and Jamie Fox of Gunbarrel Brewing Company
08 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We've all heard the adage of "location, location, location." The idea that when it comes to real estate, it's about where you are—something that can...
CL-012 Kyle Clark is a glass case of emotion
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributor...
Strong Feelings
01 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is a unique one for us. It brings together a bunch of voices who were in Nashville for the 2018 Craft Brewers Conference. In order...
CL-011 Will Cleveland is a man about town
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer Hunting contributor...
MU-012 Saison Dupont
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our resident composer for the podcast and our commercial video work, Andrew Thiboldeaux, is writing original scores devoted to beers he finds fascinat...
EP-196 Brendan Palfreyman of Trademark Your Beer
17 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest comes at the beer world through a unique angle—the legal lens. He's a lawyer based in New York State whose firm works with small b...
FF-015 Jim Plachy Runs the Numbers, Passes the Potatoes
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Fervent Few episode of the Good Beer Hunting podcast where myself, Jim Plachy, and GBH's strategic director, Michael Kiser, catch u...
EP-195 Holy Mountain Brewery + Friends
10 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The more of the beer world I've seen during my travels, the more dots I've been able to connect between certain kinds of breweries. Not just with the ...
Within Reach — Exploring new markets and winning new fans for craft beer
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At GABF in Denver this year, we teamed up with the folks at New Belgium to host a conversation called Within Reach to talk about exploring new markets...
EP-194 Dave McLean of Admiral Maltings
04 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Photo by Clara Rice When Dave McLean moved to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood after college, he was chasing one particular thing: the Grat...
CL-010 - Kyle Kastranec phones home
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to another episode of the GBH Collective, a special series of interviews where we have the chance to dive a little deeper with Good Beer ...
EP-193 Nick Crandall of Redhook Brewery's Brewlab
27 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone wants to talk about innovation in beer these days, which could mean anything from playing with a new ingredient, or piece of equipment, or wo...
FF-014 Jim Plachy comes out of the cellar — and other scary stories.
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
EP-192 Chef Tim Anderson of Nanban
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Something that's been on my mind a great deal of late, is where beer intersects with other cultures, particularly those also within food and beverage....
CL-009 - Claire Bullen puts on her pants one leg at a time just like you
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're going to do something a little different today. Over the past year or so, you've heard a small sub-series of interviews we've dubbed the GBH Col...
EP-191 Kim Sturdavant of Social Kitchen and Brewery
13 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the brut IPA, taglined as San Francisco's newest beer style, began to hit internet headlines last spring, the reaction was polarizing. This new t...
#BEAVEREX18 — I Can See Clearly Now — Chasing Beer Trends as a Means to an End
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I Can See Clearly Now — Chasing Beer Trends as a Means to an End Host: Jonny Garrett Panelists: Andy Parker (Elusive), Matt Brynildson (Firestone Wa...
#BEAVEREX18 — Let's Stick Together — The Value of Collaboration and Fostering Positive Relationships
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Let's Stick Together — The Value of Collaboration and Fostering Positive Relationships in Beer's Modern Era Host: Matthew Curtis Guest Speakers: Dav...
#BEAVEREX18 — Food for Thought — Where Does Beer + Restaurant Culture Intersect?
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Food for Thought — Where Does Beer & Restaurant Culture Intersect? Host: Claire Bullen Panelists: Jonny Hamilton (Beavertown), Travis Hixon (Blackbe...
#BEAVEREX18 — Go Your Own Way — The Value of Independence vs Investment
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Go Your Own Way — The Value of Independence vs. Investment Host: Michael Kiser Panelists: Logan Plant (Beavertown), Giovanni Campari (Birrificio del...
#BEAVEREX18 — The GBH Collective — How to Advance the Narrative Within Beer Writing
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The GBH Collective — How to Advance the Narrative Within Beer Writing Michael Kiser, Matthew Curtis, Claire Bullen & Jonny Garrett (Good Beer Huntin...
#BEAVEREX — Quality Fermentation — Exploring Beer's Place in the Realm of Wine & Cider
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Quality Fermentation — Exploring Beer's Place in the Realm of Wine & Cider Host: Michael Kiser Panelists: Lauren Limbach (New Belgium), James Rylanc...
#BEAVEREX18 — A is for Action — How the Inclusivity Debate Becomes a Movement
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A is for Action — How the Inclusivity Debate Becomes a Movement Host: Matthew Curtis Panelists: Lily Waite (We Are Beer/GBH), Alexandra Sewell (The ...
#BEAVEREX18 — A Change Can Do You Good — Keeping a Brand Fresh in a Dynamic Market
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Change Can Do You Good — Keeping a Brand Fresh in a Dynamic Market Host: Michael Kiser Guest Speakers: Nanna Guldbæk (Lervig), Nick Dwyer (Beaver...
#BEAVEREX18 — The Shit Post — How Social Media Managers are Coping with the Hardest Job at a Brewery
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Shit Post — How Social Media Managers are Coping with the Hardest Job at a Brewery Host: Chris Hall Panelists: Kamilla Hannibal (Beavertown), Ri...
#BEAVEREX18 — Michael Kiser's Opening Statement + Keynote
10 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Opening Statement & Keynote Michael Kiser, Founder and Director of Good Beer Hunting The Future of the Relationship Between the UK and US Beer Industr...
EP-190 Hollie Stephenson + Peter Wiens of Guinness Open Gate Brewery
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode rounds out our focus on the Baltimore scene where we talked to folks from Black Diamond, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, Chri...
EP-189 Peter Franchot, Maryland Comptroller
29 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is a first for GBH - we're speaking with a state wide, publicly elected political figure - who finds himself at the center of a politica...
BCTC-06 Message in a Bottle—Keynote Panel
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, we were lucky enough to be invited to Cooperstown, New York to take part in Brewery Ommegang's annual camping and music festival, Belgium C...
BCTC-05 Message in a Bottle — The U.S. Evolution of Belgian
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, we were lucky enough to be invited to Cooperstown, New York to take part in Brewery Ommegang's annual camping and music festival, Belgium C...
BCTC-04 Message in a Bottle — Vertical Integration
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, we were lucky enough to be invited to Cooperstown, New York to take part in Brewery Ommegang's annual camping and music festival, Belgium C...
BCTC-03 Message in a Bottle — Unpreproducibly Belgian
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, we were lucky enough to be invited to Cooperstown, New York to take part in Brewery Ommegang's annual camping and music festival, Belgium C...
BCTC-02 Message in a Bottle—International Export
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, we were lucky enough to be invited to Cooperstown, New York to take part in Brewery Ommegang's annual camping and music festival, Belgium C...
BCTC-001 Message in a Bottle — Striking a Balance
23 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, we were lucky enough to be invited to Cooperstown, New York to take part in Brewery Ommegang's annual camping and music festival, Belgium C...
EP-188 Colin Marshall, Tom Foster, and Zach Kaiser of Diamondback Brewing
16 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guests are behind a fairly new brewery in Baltimore - a city where many of the breweries are fairly new. I remember Chicago going through this...
MU-011 Guinness Extra Stout
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our resident composer for the podcast and our commercial video work, Andrew Thiboldeaux, is writing original scores devoted to beers he finds fascinat...
EP-187 Chris Leonard of Heavy Seas Beer
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When beer lovers think of what goes on behind the scenes at a brewery, thoughts may drift to barrels or exotic ingredients or post-shift taste trials ...
EP-186 Black Narrows Brewing Co. Family Meal
01 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I spent the better part of last week traveling around the Baltimore area for the first time. I was there to shoot a series of short documentary videos...
EP-185 Taylor and Dan Suarez of Suarez Family Brewery
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Suarez Family Brewery has become something of a North Star for our editorial staff—not to mention many brewers and drinkers around the country—for...
EP-184 The White Hag Hagstravaganza 4
18 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before we get started today I want to tell you about a couple of upcoming GBH events happening right here in London this September. First up, we're in...
EP-183 Ryan Witter-Merithew and Mahalia Breen of Casita Cerveceria
11 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A reoccuring theme we've had here on the audio version of GBH is one of partnerships. Marriages, siblings, friendships — the full gamut. The guests ...
ITW-01 Into The Wild with Dick Cantwell + Jay Goodwin
04 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of the podcast, made possible by the underwriting of New Belgium Brewing and our collaborative series, Into the Wild. Last w...
EP-182 Kimberly Clements and Daniel Lust of Pints
28 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're going to dig into a part of the beer business that's hard to crack—distribution. It's typically very difficult to talk about this part o...
EP-181 — Jeff Cioletti, writer
21 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After last week's brief layover in Colorado for a chat with WeldWorks, we're returning to Spain this week. If you haven't already, you can check out a...
EP-180 WeldWerks Brewing — Colin Jones, Neil Fisher, Kristin Popcheff, Jake Goodman, Arne Garlick
14 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's podcast is with the folks from Colorado's WeldWerks Brewing Company—and it's a fun one. In fact I might go as far as to say that this is one...
EP-179 Xavier Losada of Bee Beer Craft Beer and Cheeses
07 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Beer people love to talk about how the beverage they care about so much has brought the same kind of sentiment with other human beings. We're often fi...
EP-178 Phil Tavey of Grand Cru Beers
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest sit at the intersection of so many aspects of Irish craft beer. He's an importer of American brands like Lagunitas. He's a distributor o...
CL-008 Best friends, bylines, and beers
24 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For this latest version of the GBH Collective, I sat down with Oliver Gray, a fellow writer at Good Beer Hunting who recently took his love for beer b...
EP-176 Natalya Watson of Duvel Moortgat
16 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Natalya Watson of Duvel Moortgat. Watson's upbringing was something of an adventure, born to Northern Irish parents in Canada, then l...
EP-175 Brian and Mary Rooney of BKS Artisan Ales
09 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
To some, vacation prep can feel almost as time consuming as act of being away itself, sorting through an endless number of online suggestions and guid...
EP-174 Nick Cho of Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is basically one of my personal hobbies. He's one of my windows into coffee culture, and following him on Twitter has given me insight i...
EP-173 Jez Galaun and Xochitl Benjamin of Brixton Brewery
26 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode I'm joined by Jez Galaun and Xochitl Benjamin, two of the four founders behind South London's Brixton Brewery. Six months previousl...
EP-172 Jason Perkins of Allagash Brewing Company
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is with one of the country's best and most-loved brewers. But unless you follow the industry closely, you probably don't know him....
EP-171 Alex Tweet of Fieldwork Brewing Co.
12 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is a fascinating one for me. I first came to know Alex Tweet, one of the founders of Fieldwork in Berkeley, California, during his r...
EP-170 Georgia Roundtable with Nancy Palmer, Brian Purcell, Bob Sandage, and Nick Purdy
05 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our editorial director, Austin L. Ray, lives in Atlanta, which means I've had plenty of reasons to spend some time down there over the past few years ...
CTA-01 Matthew Dick of Boundary Brewing
28 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to this special edition of the GBH podcast, which forms part of our Coming to America series, brought to you in collaboration with Guinness. B...
EP-169 Devon Kreps of 7venth Sun Brewery
21 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I didn't expect to talk about a serial killer when I sat down with Devon Kreps recently, but sometimes life can be full of surprises. For a while, tha...
FF-013 Jim Plachy is a value brand, and members tell us about lagers and travel-planning
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of The Fervent Few podcast. Every few weeks we present you with this bonus episode of the GBH podcast where we chat with me...
EP-168 Sayre Piotrkowski of HenHouse Brewing
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is our second interview recorded during San Francisco beer week - and it happened to be our second interview with someone who works at HenHouse B...
MU-010 Austin Beerworks Pearl Snap
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our resident composer for the podcast and our commercial video work, Andrew Thiboldeaux, is writing original scores devoted to beers he finds fascinat...
EP-167 Collin McDonnell of HenHouse Brewing
08 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I was lucky enough to get to the San Francisco and Bay Area for beer week earlier this year, and for the first time, I stayed on the Oakland side. Not...
FFT-005 Sour Wild Ales Guild (S.W.A.G.)
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The state of wild and sour beer in America is rapidly evolving. And this year, in partnership with Green Bench Brewing in St Petersburg Florida, the ...
FFT-004 Troy Casey, Casey Brewing & Blending
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The state of wild and sour beer in America is rapidly evolving. And this year, in partnership with Green Bench Brewing in St Petersburg Florida, the G...
FFT-003 Sour Beer and Retail
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The state of wild and sour beer in America is rapidly evolving. And this year, in partnership with Green Bench Brewing in St Petersburg Florida, the G...
FFT-002 Interview w/ Q&A - Chase Healey of American Solera
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The state of wild and sour beer in America is rapidly evolving. And this year, in partnership with Green Bench Brewing in St Petersburg Florida, the G...
FFT-001 State of sour/wild beer in Florida
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At this year's Foeder for Thought, the festival of wild and sour beers hosted by Green Bench Brewing Co. in St. Petersburg, Florida, the GBH team co-h...
EP-166 Mike Benner of the Society of Independent Brewers
31 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Mike Benner, Chief Executive of the Society of Independent Brewers, or SIBA for short. SIBA is the largest UK trade body represen...
FF-12 Jim Plachy gets categorical and a member shares their SKU'd perspective on distribution
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of The Fervent Few podcast. Every few weeks we present you with this bonus episode of the GBH podcast where we chat with me...
EP-165 Arianna Auber of Austin American-Statesman
24 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Texas continues to receive plenty of attention from the beer world, and here on the GBH podcast, this episode rounds out a trio of recent opportunitie...
EP-164 Austin Beerworks
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I'm currently sitting in the car outside Black Back Pub in Waterbury, VT waiting for one of my favorite bars in the country to open its doors. I came ...
EP-163 Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery
11 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You may have already heard of Wild Card Brewery's Jaega Wise—especially over the past few months, as she's positioned herself as a prominent anti-se...