Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine® Podcast

The podcast for those who make and drink great beer.


Podcast Episode 386: Hazy IPA Q&A from the Brewer’s Retreat, with Fidens, Sapwood Cellars, and North Park

In this direct fire Q&A with audience questions, recorded live at the Brewer’s Retreat at Dogfish Head in Delaware, Steve Parker of Fidens, Scott Janish of Sapwood Cellars, and Kelsey McNair of North Park discuss hazy IPA and ways to promote haze stability, balance high finishing gravity, reduce metals in finished beer for longevity, and more.

Podcast Episode 385: West Coast IPA Q&A from the Brewer’s Retreat with Green Bench, Burial, and Russian River

In this direct-fire Q&A with audience questions, recorded live at our Brewer’s Retreat at Dogfish Head in Delaware, Khris Johnson of Green Bench, Doug Reiser of Burial, and Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River discuss West Coast and American IPA, and the dynamic changes in their recent approaches to brewing it.

Podcast Episode 384: Eric Tennant of Benchtop Brewing Smooths the Edges of Foeder Lager and Barrel-Aged Barleywine

With a name like Benchtop, you’d expect experimentation backed by quantitative evaluation, and that’s exactly how founder Eric Tennant approaches brewing passion projects such as foeder lager and barrel-aged barleywine.

Podcast Episode 383: Alex Lawes of Whiplash and Grzegorz Ziemian of Stu Mostów Are Recreating Historical Styles While Pushing Craft Beer Forward in Ireland and Poland

From interviews recorded at 3 Sons Lumberjack Day in Dania Beach, Florida, these two brewers from different corners of Europe cover a range of topics, from using a mash press filter for imperial stouts to riffing on grodziskie with mixed cultures and fruit.

Podcast Episode 382: Brewlihan’s John Hoolihan Uses Tannin and Acidity to Build Support for Sweetness in Top-Rated Mead

Making sweet dessert meads isn’t particularly difficult in and of itself, but building drinkability and balance into big flavors and high finishing gravities poses challenging flavor questions. Florida’s Brewlihan answers them with beautifully structured meads that find balance through the flavor triangle.

Podcast Episode 381: Human Robot’s Andrew Foss Wants You to Experience “The Wave” When Drinking Their Lager

Lager is anything but a minimalist pursuit for the head brewer of Philadelphia lager stalwarts Human Robot. Flavor and character are primary focuses, and the brewery achieves those with all the tools in the toolbox—interesting ingredients, customized approaches to decoction and other processes, and a variety of fermentation profiles that maximize different types of expressions.

Podcast Episode 380: Garrett Oliver and Vinnie Cilurzo are Brewing for Impact With Fonio Grain

These leading brewers and great friends from Brooklyn Brewery and Russian River share what they’ve learned from brewing new beers with the African grain fonio.

Podcast Episode 379: Cinderlands Builds Full Dynamic Range into Fruit Beer and IPA by Thinking Beyond Purée and Pellets

This Pittsburgh brewery’s initial journeys into fruit had lanes both classic and modern, with mixed-culture foeder creations as well as juicier, acid-forward American fruit beers. Now, however—as the team deepens its repertoire in food and flavor science—Cinderlands is remixing the program with fruited riffs on their most popular and sessionable styles.

Podcast Episode 378: Mark Hunger and Steven Pauwels of Great Lakes Brew Distinctive Craft Lager, Under Pressure

The brewmaster and the co-CEO of this Midwestern stalwart respect their brewery’s three and a half decades of tradition—but they also test assumptions while tackling new beers that reflect today’s trends.

Podcast Episode 377: Shaun Yasaki of Noble Beast Makes Quirky and Nuanced Lager Work at Pub Scale

This Cleveland brewery takes an intentionally small and sustainable approach to making creatively fulfilling beers, and it all starts with the flexibility of their 10-barrel brewhouse.