Our best buddies at Vice Beer just celebrated their 3-year anniversary, so we figured it would be the perfect time to get owner, operator, and North Bank beer ambassador Michael Perozzo back on the mic…
Episode 161: Hop Selection Connection
- October 3, 2025
- Tagged as: hop selection, Lucky Envelope Brewing, Yakima hops
Back again with another hoppy episode this week! This time, we wanted to change it up and give you all a peek behind the curtain at a yearly industry tradition. During hop harvest season, brewers…
Nestled quietly in the margins of Oktoberfest and fresh hop season, pumpkin beers lay waiting to provide a reprieve from the punchy wet hopped IPAs and robust Marzen lagers. This week, we quickly sample 15…
This is super special! We all know Yakima is known for its incredible hop agriculture, but what many folks may not know is that the modern hop industry has its roots a little closer to…
That’s right! Besides being fresh hop season, pumpkin season, and festbier season, it’s also homebrew competition season. We’re lucky to be joined this week by Dustin Striplin from the Browns Point Homebrew Club to talk…
Episode 157: Fresh Hop Season Preview
- August 22, 2025
- Tagged as: fresh hop beer, fresh hop podcast, fresh hops
We are just about a week away from the most wonderful time of the year for Pacific Northwest beer nerds — fresh hop season! The chaotic, beautiful, and fleeting annual period where hops are plucked…
Episode 156: Live from Brew Five Three Beer and Music Festival!
- August 15, 2025
- Tagged as: Brew Five Three, Gini Sommer, Tacoma arts Live
It’s that time of year again! Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival, Tacoma’s biggest beer taster-glass gathering, kicked off in a new location this year, the historic Armory building, and we were lucky enough…
Episode 155: German Purity Law (wink wink) with Four Generals Brewing
- August 8, 2025
- Tagged as: Four Generals Brewing, German beer, Germany, Renton
Nestled in the small downtown area of Renton, Wash., a sleeping giant of a brewery is starting to make giant waves. We are joined by the family-owned and operated Four Generals Brewing. Brewer Ross, parents…
Episode 154: Hop Growers and Grain Makers with Haas Farm and LINC Malt, Part 2
- August 1, 2025
- Tagged as: Haas Farms, hops, LINC Malt, malt
We’re back with part 2 of our raw ingredients special, featuring Rikki Welz from Haas Farms and Brian Estes from LINC Malt. With Grainmaker only one week away, we figured it would be a great…
Episode 153: Hop Growers and Grain Makers with Haas Farm and LINC Malt
- July 25, 2025
- Tagged as: Brian Estes, Haas Farms, LINC Malt, Rikki Welz
It’s an extra special double header! We are joined this week by our best buddy and legendary hop sniffer, Rikki Welz from the world-renowned Haas Farms, and we are so happy to welcome Brian Estes,…