It’s Grit and Grain … LIVE! That’s right! This week’s episode is a special one. Matt and Ron were honored to be invited by Nerd Farmer Podcast host, teacher of the year, and homebrewer(!) Nate…
Try as we might, it would simply be impossible to capture the joy of the last year in a single one-hour episode. Regardless, we gave it our best shot. This week, Ron, Sean, Matt, and…
In the Seattle Beer School Teachers’ Lounge you’ll find Jess Keller Poole — a Certified Cicerone, BJCP Judge, beer journalist, and podcast host on Cheers to Beers — and Shawna Cormier — director of Membership…
In 1984, chemical engineer and homebrewer Will Kemper and his culinary crackerjack wife Mari left Boulder, Colorado, and opened Thomas Kemper brewery on Bainbridge Island, Washington, then quickly moved it to Poulsbo. In 1992, Thomas…
Mari and Will Kemper were early insurgents in the craft beer revolution that introduced America to sophisticated, small-batch suds. With Will’s engineering degree and homebrew recipes and Mari’s culinary prowess and tenaciousness the couple left…
You can’t talk South Sound beer without mentioning 7 Seas Brewing and its founders, Mike Runion and Travis Guterson. From their humble downtown Gig Habor beginnings in 2008, to the 2009 fire relocation across town,…
This week’s guest, if we’re speaking in beer years, is a lifelong friend. But what feels like a lifetime only started around 1987 in University Place when there weren’t any craft breweries in the South…
It’s the old enjoys homebrewing, join the South Sound Suds Society, land a cellar job at Fish Brewing but quickly advances to brewing, joins a lager-only Olympia brewery named after a Warren Zevon song meets…
Sure, you like beer — but have you ever worn it? Wrapped your entire being in it and then spend three days at a convention devoted to it? That’s what the country’s most dedicated beer…
In the late 1980s, Tony Lawrence arrived in Bend, Oregon, for the snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor, but stayed for the dish pit at Deschutes Brewery. Head brewer John Harris knew Lawrence was more than a…