Best Craft Beer Brewing Magazine Podcasts (2025)

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437: Happy Birthday Simcoe! Vinnie Cilurzo and Jason Perrault Look Back on 25 Years of the Groundbreaking Hop 1:22:23

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This year marks the 25th birthday of Simcoe, and when Russian River cofounder Vinnie Cilurzo suggested recording an episode of the podcast in Yakima to celebrate it, we weren’t going to say no. Rather than sit around a table, we took to the experimental hop rows at Perrault Farms and recorded while walking the field. The result is a wide-ranging co…

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The Beervana Sessions — Brave & Garage Project 1:08:19

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Michael & Martin bring you the first of the live Beervana Sessions, a live Q&A recording at the Beervana Festival in Wellington on August 22-23. In this episode Pete Gillespie and Dave Bell from Garage Project talk about their Chance Luck & Magic series, including the 2021 vintage which was crowned Champion Beer at the NZ Beer Awards. Plus Matt Smi…

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436: Blake Masoner of Craft Coast Strives for Excellence Beer After Beer, Taco After Taco 1:32:45

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At Craft Coast in Oceanside and San Marcos, California, Blake Masoner is happy if you show up for tacos and stay for a beer. The fairly priced tacos are scratch-made, down to the tortillas themselves, packing loads of flavor into every bite. Fellow San Diego–area brewers refer to them as “The best tacos between here and Tijuana”—but the beer they b…

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Episode 69: Small-Scale Lagering 1:13:03

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Lagers have been having a moment for a long time now. In this current age of brewing, there are many small breweries that are giving the time and attention to making lagers of note. We have two guests here that will explain how to best approach the style, and bring great pints to your patrons. Andreas Miller has over 20 years of experience in the b…

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435: Josh Penney of Threes Brings a Bicoastal Sensibility to Hoppy Lager, Hazy IPA, and More 1:13:02

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Before joining Threes, Josh Penney spent the better part of a decade brewing in Southern California, with nearly half of that time at hoppy-lager innovators Highland Park. Now at the helm of Threes in Brooklyn, he’s taking the knowledge he built in lager fermentation and layering in hops of various formats to create beers that pop from the package …

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Knocking on (Ben) Heaven's Door 1:08:00

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Michael and Martin are joined by Ben Heaven who was catapulted into national prominence when his Judas Sheep Dark Lager won a place in the New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 25. Ben runs a tiny farm-based brewery — Heaven's Brewery — in the Marua Valley, north of Whangarei. His sudden fame is backed by years of brewing both in England and New Zealan…

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434: Frank Bilello of Noble Savage Lets the Beer Become What it Wants to Be 1:01:51

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The Untappd Community Awards offer an interesting barometer of consumer excitement around breweries and beers, but for Noble Savage in Glen Cove—east of New York City, on Long Island—landing two beers among the top three hazy IPAs in the United States proved quite an accomplishment. Founder and head brewer Frank Bilello has kept things small, tinke…

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Celebrating Isthmus 3D — Definitely Delicious Drop! 58:01

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Martin and Michael are joined this week by Hamish Ward and Caroline Muller-Ward, the husband-and-wife team behind Isthmus Brewing. They're here to talk about the roller-coaster ride they've been on over the past couple of years since Hamish lost his brewing job at Deep Creek. After some ''dark times'' they're on a high at the moment after their 3D …

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433: KCBC Brings Brash Energy and a Bit of West Coast Sensibility to Beer in NYC 1:14:01

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Making beer commercially in New York City is so difficult that it all but stopped until the previous decade’s craft-beer boom rekindled the fire. Today, about 40 breweries make beer in the city, but doing so comes with its own set of rules. Beyond the regulatory and logistical hurdles, there’s an underlying creative challenge: NYC is the culinary c…

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Weird & Winderful — Beervana Wrap, New World Beer & Cider Awards 1:04:24

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Michael and Martin give you a run-down of Beervana, including their picks of the annual festival, held in Wellington last weekend ... which may, or may not, include an ice cream made from beer! Plus they take a look at the just announced New World Beer & Cider Awards, running through the list of the Top 25 beers and giving their recommendations on …

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432: Ben Clayton of Test Approaches Brewing with a Chef’s Discipline and a Beginner’s Mind 1:10:56

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Ben Clayton of Brooklyn’s Test honed his approach to brewing while working in the context of a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City. Today, building a deep, meaningful supply chain for interesting ingredients animates him more than lighting up the beer-trading boards. Accolades have followed, and today he’s finding stories to tell in though…

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Burn Brothers — Jason Bathgate & Andrew Childs 1:13:54

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Ten years brewers Jason Bathgate and Andrew Childs were severely burned in a workplace accident when boiling wort exploded from a brew kettle as they were adding hops. They suffered burns to 30% and 40% of their bodies respectively. Martin chats with Jason, formerly of McLeod's and now running his own brewery, Aliment, and Andrew of Behemoth Brewin…

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431: Using Taproom Data and Insights to Optimize Brewery Decision Making, Presented by Arryved 1:15:04

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The best beer isn’t brewed in a vacuum—it’s brewed with your guests in mind. Every pour, every seasonal release, every new recipe starts with one question: What do people actually want to drink? In this episode, we dive into how breweries are using real taproom data to answer that question—and brew what sells. From tracking style velocity to spotti…

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Episode 68: The 2025 North American Hop Report 53:20

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While many of us are still holding on to the last days of summer, trying to make the most out of downtime, the work is gearing up on farms across the Pacific Northwest in North America. It’s almost hop harvest season and we’re going to talk with farmers and hop professionals on what is happening for the 2025 season. Guests include Diane Gooding of …

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430: Float House Explores the Intersection of Beer Culture, Beer Flavor, and Hemp-Derived THC 1:11:06

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Hemp-derived THC products, including beverages, have exploded on the market in recent years as producers take advantage of a federal legal loophole that leaves the products legal—or at least not-illegal—in many states. Much of this nascent beverage market is focused on seltzer-style minimalism or sweet, fruit-forward drinks, but Connecticut’s Float…

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429: Cody Peczkowski of Moontown Maximizes Malt Expression in Medal-Winning Märzen 1:14:04

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In Whitestown, Indiana, just outside Indianapolis, this small-town lager brewery has made big waves with multiple World Beer Cup golds for its märzen, Follow the Lederhosen—not to mention a WBC silver for its pale Skool House Bock, knockout scores from Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine® judges, and five GABF medals for various lagers. However, Moontown…

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NZ Beer Awards Analysis and Wrap 1:07:42

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Michael and Martin delve deep into the New Zealand Beer Awards announced last weekend in Christchurch. We run through all the trophy categories, picking out trends, analysing results and looking at some surprise results. Congratulations to Brave Brewing who took out Champion Brewery, and to Garage Project who took out Champion Beer with Chance Luck…

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428: Shaun Kalis of Ruse Layers Flavor and Aroma in IPA With Old and New School Methods (Plus a Healthy Dose of Dankness) 1:03:40

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Portland, Oregon’s proximity to hop country gives its brewers an enviable perspective on hop flavors, aromas, evolving technologies, and seasonal expressions, and the brewers at Ruse don’t take that for granted. When developing recipes, cofounder Shaun Kalis loves pushing the envelope to find additional intensity using the latest flowable hop produ…

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Craftwork — A Slice of Belgium in Oamaru 1:05:35

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In this episode Martin catches up with Lee-Ann Scotti and Michael O'Brien, the couple behind Oamaru's cult Belgian-inspired brewery, Craftwork. Michael and Lee-Ann talk about why they love Belgian beer, how they created their wonderful bar in Oamaru's delightful Victorian precinct, and they reflect on their first Bruxelles Oamaru festival. Michael …

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427: Low-Calorie and Low-Carbohydrate Brewing with Lagunitas, Societe, and White Labs 1:01:37

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This special low-carbohydrate and low-calorie focused episode of the podcast is brought to you interruption-free by the yeast and fermentation specialists at White Labs. White labs has been on the forefront of innovation in the fermentation space for many, many years and brewers around the world depend on their yeast and related brewing products to…

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426: Whitney Burnside of Grand Fir Finds New Use for Old Growth 1:03:26

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Whitney Burnside built her résumé at some of the best breweries in the Pacific Northwest, so when she and her husband Doug—a celebrated chef—embarked on their post-COVID project of working together on a brewpub they dubbed Grand Fir, the Portland beer world grew excited (we did too—for more, see Kate Bernot’s case study on Grand Fir from our Spring…

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Beer Wonderland — An Inside Look at Beervana 59:55

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In this episode Michael and Martin talk to Ryan McArthur, festival director for Beervana, New Zealand's biggest beer festival, which is on in Wellington on August 22 & 23. Keeping a huge beer festival relevant and sustainable is no easy task but Beervana just keeps getting better and better. Plus, Ryan has some inside tips on how to make the most o…

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425: Economist Lester Jones Shares the Truth of Today's Craft Beer Market and Debunks Prevailing Misconceptions 1:06:59

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This week’s interview wasn’t initially intended for the podcast and wasn’t recorded that way (Brewing Industry Guide subscribers read it last month), but the topics are salient and the audio listenable, so we thought it would be an interesting change of pace. Lester Jones is the VP of Analytics and Chief Economist for the National Beer Wholesalers …

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Episode 67: Improving your Beer Quality 59:20

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Sensory analysis, setting up a lab for QC tests, and understanding your raw ingredients are all paramount when it comes to improving the quality of your beer. We talk with two experts - Lindsay Barr and Ashton Lewis - who are here to help you level up beer quality in a small-scale brewery. Guests: Lindsay Barr is the CSO and Founding Partner of Dra…

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437: Happy Birthday Simcoe! Vinnie Cilurzo and Jason Perrault Look Back on 25 Years of the Groundbreaking Hop 1:22:23

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The Beervana Sessions — Brave & Garage Project 1:08:19

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436: Blake Masoner of Craft Coast Strives for Excellence Beer After Beer, Taco After Taco 1:32:45

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Episode 69: Small-Scale Lagering 1:13:03

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435: Josh Penney of Threes Brings a Bicoastal Sensibility to Hoppy Lager, Hazy IPA, and More 1:13:02

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Knocking on (Ben) Heaven's Door 1:08:00

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434: Frank Bilello of Noble Savage Lets the Beer Become What it Wants to Be 1:01:51

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Celebrating Isthmus 3D — Definitely Delicious Drop! 58:01

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433: KCBC Brings Brash Energy and a Bit of West Coast Sensibility to Beer in NYC 1:14:01

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Weird & Winderful — Beervana Wrap, New World Beer & Cider Awards 1:04:24

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432: Ben Clayton of Test Approaches Brewing with a Chef’s Discipline and a Beginner’s Mind 1:10:56

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Burn Brothers — Jason Bathgate & Andrew Childs 1:13:54

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431: Using Taproom Data and Insights to Optimize Brewery Decision Making, Presented by Arryved 1:15:04

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Episode 68: The 2025 North American Hop Report 53:20

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430: Float House Explores the Intersection of Beer Culture, Beer Flavor, and Hemp-Derived THC 1:11:06

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429: Cody Peczkowski of Moontown Maximizes Malt Expression in Medal-Winning Märzen 1:14:04

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NZ Beer Awards Analysis and Wrap 1:07:42

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428: Shaun Kalis of Ruse Layers Flavor and Aroma in IPA With Old and New School Methods (Plus a Healthy Dose of Dankness) 1:03:40

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Craftwork — A Slice of Belgium in Oamaru 1:05:35

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427: Low-Calorie and Low-Carbohydrate Brewing with Lagunitas, Societe, and White Labs 1:01:37

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426: Whitney Burnside of Grand Fir Finds New Use for Old Growth 1:03:26

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Beer Wonderland — An Inside Look at Beervana 59:55

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425: Economist Lester Jones Shares the Truth of Today's Craft Beer Market and Debunks Prevailing Misconceptions 1:06:59

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Episode 67: Improving your Beer Quality 59:20