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Episode 123: Bottles and Cans, Dollars and Sense

  • December 6, 2024
  • Tagged as: brewery business loans

Whether you’re in the beginning stages of starting up a brewery, ready to expand your beer business with a new taproom location, or just a humble home brewer with a dream, we’re here to help…

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Episode 122: Union busting and weird hotel vibes

  • November 22, 2024
  • Tagged as: Airways Brewing, beer podcast, Buoy Beer, craft beer, Elysian Brewing, Great Notion Brewing, Northbank Beer Week, River Barrel Distributing

It’s been a wild few weeks in the beer world around the Pacific Northwest:  Breweries closing, local beer brands changing hands, and a new family-owned distributor enters the chat with the purchase of a beloved…

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Episode 121: Live at Washington Craft Beer Summit

  • November 15, 2024
  • Tagged as: Colin Harvin, Country Malt Group, craft beer, Jon Mendrick, Omega Yeast, Shawna Cormier, Washington Brewers Guild, Washington Craft Beer Summit

Stop #2 of the Grit & Grain roadshow is in the books!  Our best buddy and director of events for the Washington Brewers Guild, Shawna Cormier, invited us to record live from the showroom floor…

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Episode 120: Do the Brewallup!

  • November 8, 2024
  • Tagged as: Brewallup, Caskcades, craft beer, Loowit Brewing, Puyallup hops

We’re on location for Episode 120 — hanging out at Brewallup Craft Beer Festival in Puyallup! The crew trekked over to the birthplace of the Pacific Northwest hop industry to sit down with a few…

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Episode 119: We Tried 140 Fresh Hop Beers!

  • November 1, 2024
  • Tagged as: craft beer, fresh hop awards, fresh hop beer, fresh hop podcast, fresh hops, Yakima fresh hops

That’s right!  One hundred forty!  But it wasn’t us; it was the two most diligent fresh hop hounds in Tacoma: Michael McCourt and Austin Patjens.  Our good buddies hung out with us on Episode 119…

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Episode 118: The Beer Rep’s Journey to GABF with David Maravilla

  • October 25, 2024
  • Tagged as: beer podcast, craft beer, David Maravilla, Great American Beer Festival, Urban Family Brewing

The Great American Beer Festival just wrapped up and after nearly a year of speculation on the changes being rumored at the biggest craft beer awards show and festival, we were eager to grab a…

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Episode 117: Hard Agave, Beers, and Bedtime with Rachyl Fojtik

  • October 18, 2024
  • Tagged as: BeersandBedtime, craft beer, Rachyl Fojtik, social media, Thorntail Hard Agave

That’s right!  Our good friend and social media savant Rachyl Fojtik is back on the mic again! Sometimes better known by her popular online alias, @beersandbedtime, Rachyl has been newly appointed as the social media…

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Episode 116: Beer Beef, Part 2

  • October 11, 2024
  • Tagged as: beer beef, beer industry, craft beer, tap handles

That’s right!  We’re back with another beefy episode filled with beer industry pet peeves!  Ron explains why he has beef with his entire beer cooler, unmarked samples, sticky cans, and plastic kegs — Bethany slams…

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Episode 115: Lyra Teaches Beer

  • October 4, 2024
  • Tagged as: beer eduction, Cicerone, craft beer, Lyra Penoyer, WSET

Time for school!  This week we invited our good friend and long-time beer industry professional Lyra Penoyer to sit down for a few beers and a few great stories.  Lyra is one of those seasoned…

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Episode 114: Adventures in Hop Country!

  • September 27, 2024
  • Tagged as: craft beer, fresh hops, Master Brewers Association, Yakima, Yakima fresh hops

Ron has returned!  And he’s brought fresh hops and f*ck ups from his time in Yakima, where he and Phaedra picked hops, toured farms, and drank all the wine. The two barely overlapped with Bethany,…

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