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Week 2 of the Bellingham Brewery series, weâre at Boundary Bay, one of the oldest breweries I have ever visited! We chat with Janet Lightner who has been running the brewery since â97. Thatâs a long enough time to raise a family, and indeed she did! Now the gang helps run the brewery too! I didnât expect to be crashing into a brewery with a family history but shoâ nuff here it is! Janetâs food expertise helped to host food and beer dinners and expand the restaurant half of the brewpub year over year!
This is part one of two. the second part is coming out next week to Patrons only! Go to Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to find out more.
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For the next few weeks, weâll be in Bellingham exploring the amazing scene over there. This time weâre at Bellingham Cider Co and chatting with Josh about some of the fun stuff they get up to! The cider industry is quite different than Beer and of course, brewing cider is a little bit simpler than beer, as Josh explains.
This is part one of two. the second part is coming out next week to Patrons only! Go to Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to find out more.
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Austin Rood, the Board of Directors President of my favorite brewery, Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery up here in Greenwood, Seattle sits down with me to chat about Co-ops. Heâs not a pro brewer and he only owns 1/2000th of a brewery. Just like me. And could be you too! We talk about what co-ops even are plus hang out with a couple of beers and chat about politics, pretentiousness in beer, capitalism and bud light. Flying Bike is a cooperative brewery which means it is owned by its members. On its surface, the $200 joining fee looks like a fancy mug club membership, but it isnât! Itâs so much more. But how do you express that in a world where phrases like âso much more than a mug clubâ are just marketing talk for âitâs just a mug club we want you to think is good.â How did we get here and how do we move forward? Give it a listen!
This is part one of two. the second part is coming out next week to Patrons only! Go to Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to find out more.
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Josh Snyder and Tommy Brooks join up with the Cycling Certified Cicerone to talk about beer in a business that isnt just a brewery. These boys from Zeeks sit down at Reubenâs Brews to talk about how a pizza company can turn itâs beer program from a Dud Light to a Craftstronomical success!
This is part one of two. the second part is coming out next week to Patrons only! Go to Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to find out more.
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Finally getting to check out a cult favorite brewery. With brews like Bad Light, Samoa Girl Scout Ale, and Habanero Amber, they have some of the most unique beers you can get your hands on in Ballard. Jason Shrum steps up to the plate today to tell the story of the breweryâs founding. This is part one of two. the second part is coming out next week to Patrons only! Go to Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to find out more.
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Reubenâs Brews! What an exciting interview. I got to ask important questions like âWhere did the name Reubenâs come from?â The answer might surprise you given that the co-founders are Adam and Grace Robbings. Jk itâs not all that great of a mystery, but you still have to listen to find out. This is part one of two. the second part is coming out next week to Patrons only! Go to Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to find out more.
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Yikes! That was a bit of a hiatus. I probably coulda started episode up last week or maybe even one week before, but nothing could be done. Thanks to a non-cicerone related bike accident, I broke my collar bone. It set my schedule back a bit, but it was kinda nice to just relax for a while. Thankfully for me, I have plenty of episodes recorded and waiting to hit the editing room. Stoup is the first of those! So to all those waiting patiently, here we go!
Stoup is a fantastic brewery in Ballard, in the region of Lucky Envelope, Populux, and Reubenâs. Known for nailing a wide variety of styles including their German styles especially, they hit the ground running in 2013. The three founders, Robin, Brad, and Lara (who I spoke with today) came to the table with a good assortment of experience and skills and were relatively early to the scene, a hand of cards that has served them well as their brewery continues to grow rapidly. Give it a listen!
Thank you to Hans Peng, my newest Patreon member! He gets some stickers and coasters and will get to choose a question that will be asked in an upcoming episode all in addition to access to the real feed with every episode!
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I was on my way Beer Now, a conference in Great Falls, Montana for beer bloggers, when I decided to stop by Missoula for a quick pint. There, I found Greg Howard, one of the two brothers responsible for the creation of Great Burn Brewing. He and his brother decided to open up a brewery after the death of their fire fighting 3rd brother, and in a way created a memorial to him and his work as a fire fighter.
The Great Burn was a huge wild fire that devastated a huge swatch of Montana in 1910, a fitting event to inspire the a brewery! Hopefully nothing here ever catches fire like that!
We sat down in the noisy taproom to chat about Gregâs family and past and get the scoop on this 2014 brewery that has to compete with Montana power houses like Big Sky and Bayern. Be forewarned, my travel kit for recording is a little sparse, so please forgive some shoddy audio. I feel shame.
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Metier Brewing has taken the place of the old B-Side brewery. They have a focus on creating a strong community formed around damned good beer. In this episode, we talk with Rodney the CEO, Bob the Head Brewer, and Dreux the Manager about the business challenges they face. We talk about how to sell beer. Is it delivering a consistent, nostalgia inducing product, or does it have more to do with the values of your brewery?
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Burke Gilman Brewery is a new brewery along the Burke Gilman Trail right smack dab in the middle of the Burke Gilman Beer desert where previously only Ravenna Brewery laid claim. Thanks to their mentors at Ravenna, Ty and Kenneth along with some other founders were able to make the home brewers dream come true. Since they are such a fresh brewery, the trials of opening a new brewery still sting, which makes for an exciting episode with tons of details on the hardships of opening a brewery that a well established place has long forgotten.
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Metier Brewing has taken the place of the old B-Side brewery. Bob (up until about a week ago) kept brewing in the same space as it transitioned from B-side over to new ownership to become Metier. They have a focus on creating strong community formed around damned good beer. In this episode we talk with Rodney the CEO, Bob the Head Brewer, and Dreux the Manager about their beer origins and the origins of the brewery. It is part 1 of 3. Part 2 is about beer and part 3 is about my favorite: businessy stuff.
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Nani Moon Meadery in Kauai is easily the best mead I have ever had. Mead brewer Stephanie is a self taught pro of the craft. In this episode we start with the compelling origin story of Nani Moon then get a walk through of the meads she has available. Finally, we wrap up with her advice on how to start and run a meadery. Some visitors assume the brewer is a man working somewhere behind the scenes, but Stephanie doesnât mind. If any of those old visitors listen to her here, they may remove their feet from their mouths at their leisure.
Washington Beer Talk has a Patreon now! Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to select a rewards tier. Get access to extra and extended episodes and more! This is a free to listen episode, but next week wonât be so check out the Patreon for access
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Kauai Beer Company is one of two breweries on Chicken Island, Hawaii. There is no way to show it in the podcast, but they brew some of the best beer I have ever had and it simply isnât fair. I showed up there one weekend on vacation and now my life is ruined forever. Thankfully I had some podcasting equipment so we set up in the noisy office to record a little interview. Founder Jim, Brewer Justin, and Enigmatic Marketing Guy Larry all joined along with my co-host Mia and spectator Renee for the 51st episode of WBT.
I am experimenting with the format of the episode. If you like (or didnât) the sound of this episode in particular (ignoring the abysmal room sound quality (should I have mentioned that, am I the only one who would have noticed?)) then please leave a comment to say so!
Also, Washington Beer Talk has a Patreon now! Patreon.com/CyclingCicerone to select a rewards tier. Get access to extra and extended episodes and more!
Shout out to my first Patrons, Kennan Bieber, Terri Bieber, and Claire Bieber and also CraftBeerBoot. Iâm glad you love the show!
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Hey, Washington Beer Talk Listeners. This is Andrew Bieber, The Cycling Certified Cicerone. There is no new episode this week, instead just a quick announcement. From here on out, weâll be switching the posting schedule from every Friday to every other Wednesday. Switching to a midweek release day is an easy choice - it will make sure you get your WBT right when you want it - in time for your commute, workday lunch, or evening bike ride, plus if I am a little tardy with posting the new episode, you donât need to wait till Monday to get your brewery fix. Also, responding to other feedback, weâll be shortening the episodes a bit. Our interviews tend to get a bit carried away these days and an hour or more long episode canât quite be knocked out in a single commute, so expect to see more 30-45 minute episodes.
If you are now lamenting that you donât get your episode this week, well fear not because I have another exciting announcement! WBT has made the move to Patreon. If you donât know, Patreon is a crowdfunding platform where fans of Washington Beer Talk can get access to extra episodes including extended interviews and multipart episodes, Cycling Cicerone swag, and other great perks like episode shout outs. This week, exclusively for patrons, is part 2 of my discussion with Will from Bosk where we talk shit on beer snobs and find out which breweries heâd marry, bang, and kill. This episode is just for those who become patrons of the show over at patreon.com/cyclingcicerone. If you want to get access to a bonus episode every other week, and maybe score a shirt, a pint glass, or more, go check out patreon.com/cyclingcicerone. Thanks for listening to Washington Beer Talk. Iâll be back next Wednesday with Kauai Beer Company. And that one is for everyone!
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Bosk has made an interesting Gamble. They have opened a production scale brewery in a beer market that is arguably running out of room and in addition to that, they are choosing to focus on lager beer! Will Lefevre is the head brewer here at Bosk and heâs been given free reign to brew how and what he wants⊠more or less. We talk about what itâs like getting a gig like that, what it was like before when he worked at Lagunitas (now Heineken), and what is on the road ahead.
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Flycaster Brewery is a tiny little brewery out in Kirkland. Theyâll be showcased in East Side Beer Week on one of my bike routes (TBA). Jeremy Eubanks and his wife co founded the fly-fishing themed brewery in May of 2014, making it one the oldest breweries in Washington and the first in Kirkland. Itâs managed to stay small because Jeremy runs this brewery as his side hustle, still maintaining his day job in the tech world. He has some warnings for those that want to follow in his footsteps.
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This is part 2 of a 2 part episode. Go back to last weeks episode if you donât want to be hopelessly lost. In the concluding half of the Post Doc Episode, taproom manager David jumps in and gives us some more details and tells his story of how to break into the beer world.
Post Doc is over in Redmond. It started with a joke - the obvious answer to what you do with your life when you are post doc is open a brewery. That is just what Tom and Debbie, along with their respective partners, decided to do. The post docs expertise in chemistry helps give capital P Post Doc the upper hand. But what do you do when your landlord tells you they plan on demoing your building when the light rail comes to town. Get the answer in this two part series.
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Post Doc is over in Redmond. It started with a joke - the obvious answer to what you do with your life when you are post doc is open a brewery. That is just what Tom and Debbie, along with their respective partners, decided to do. The post docs expertise in chemistry helps give capital P Post Doc the upper hand. But what do you do when your landlord tells you they plan on demoing your building when the light rail comes to town. Get the answer in this two part series.
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Spindletap is an interested Houston phenomenon. Their hazy IPA catapulted them to the spotlight and they have been living the high life ever since. Rushing from release to release, with their IIPAs making up for their non IPAs, they feature on average at least one âIâ per tap handle. They use their giant space to their advantage to throw giant events. They even used their huge warehouse, shared with a friendly neighborhood oil logistics company, to stage relief supplies for hurricane Ike. True Houston super stars
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Back in Texas, we chat with JJ and Paul of Under the Radar Brewery. This brewery is right in the middle of Houston and is a little special. With the founders and owners taking a step away from the brewery, Head Brewer JJ and Manager Paul, seamlessly step in to keep the beer flowing strong!
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