Episode 35 - Jeff Cioletti, author, The Year of Drinking Adventurously

Episode 35 - Jeff Cioletti, author, The Year of Drinking Adventurously

Jeff Cioletti is the author of a new book called The Year of Drinking Adventurously which offers 52 ways to expand your drinking horizons, one for each week of the year. We talked to Jeff about which beers made the cut, why malört is so revered in Chicago, and, most importantly, how to correctly pronounce his last name.

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Episode 34 - Dave Brodrick, Blind Tiger Ale House

Episode 34 - Dave Brodrick, Blind Tiger Ale House

Today we're stoked to welcome the owner of one of our favorite beer bars in New York City, Dave Brodrick of the Blind Tiger Ale House in the West Village. We've been going to the Tiger for nearly a decade now (some of us remember it from the original location) and it never ceases to be awesome. That's almost purely a reflection of Dave who's been living the good life up in Vermont for the past five years, opening both the Worthy Kitchen and the Worthy Burger in Woodstock and South Royalton respectively. Dave talks to us about how he got into the bar business in the first place and divulges some transcendental meditation knowledge about how he decided to start The Beanery, a new coffee-focused brewery he runs with some of his business partners out of Smutt Labs in New Hampshire.

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Episode 33 - Evan Watson, Plan Bee Farm Brewery

Episode 33 - Evan Watson, Plan Bee Farm Brewery

We're excited to have Evan Watson from Plan Bee Farm Brewery joining us this week. Evan makes beer the hard way, using only New York State ingredients and propagating native yeast strains from fruit skins and collecting them his bee hives. He talks to us about his brewery's recent relocation from Fishkill to Poughkeepsie and why he chooses to work with the natural bounty of the Hudson Valley rather than those from the Pacific Northwest and Germany. 

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Episode 32 - Mike Kivowitz, New Jersey Craft Beer

Episode 32 - Mike Kivowitz, New Jersey Craft Beer

Today we're talking shop with Mike Kivowitz of the website and app New Jersey Craft Beer. Mike's a great guy and does a lot to spread the gospel of good beer around the Garden State. He brings us a couple of beers, one of which gets wrecked right off the bat. Wanna know which one? Tune in to hear...

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Episode 31 - John Holl is Back

Episode 31 - John Holl is Back

This week we welcome back John Holl. Yes, John is officially our co-host but due to his rigorous travel schedule as the head of All About Beer magazine, he often misses recordings. As a result, we decided to dedicate an entire show to catching up with his travels and adventures. We also spent some time catching up on listener mail which revealed that Justin still hasn't seen Reservoir Dogs, can't pronounce "epinephrine", and doesn't know (or care) who Jason Statham is.

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Episode 30 - Jeremy Lees, Flounder Brewing Co.

Episode 30 - Jeremy lees, Flounder Brewing Co.

This week we talk to Jeremy "Flounder" Lees of New Jersey's Flounder Brewing Co. Jeremy was the winner of the 2016 Brewing and Business Experienceship Award from Samuel Adams, which includes a mentorship program with Sam Adams as well as a collaboration brew that will be available in New Jersey sometime in the near future. jeremy tells us about how he began brewing and why he's planning to stay small, despite repeated nods to get bigger.

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Episode 29 - Christian DeBenedetti, Wolves & People

Episode 29 - Christian DeBenedetti, Wolves & People

Most people know Christian DeBenedetti as a beer writer and author of The Great American Ale Trail. He's now released a second book, a beer-pairing cookbook called Beer Bites, and is opening a brewery outside of Portland, Ore., called Wolves & People, on the his childhood farm. Christian chatted with us about how he got started as a beer writer, his friendship with the legendary Michael Jackson, and his plans for Wolves & People.  

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Episode 28 - Brian Strumke, Stillwater Artisanal

Episode 28 - Brian Strumke, Stillwater Artisanal

This week we're psyched to welcome Brian Strumke of Stillwater Artisanal to Steal This Beer! Brian's been brewing professionally for about five years under the Stillwater moniker and has traveled throughout the world making beers at other people's breweries. He's once again settled in Brooklyn (for the second time) but still travels more than he's home. Tune in to hear about what he considered his great work (HINT: it's an adjunct beer) and a new sour and wild ale project that he's launching later this year.

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Episode 27 - Rob Kolb, Transmitter Brewing

Episode 27 - Rob Kolb, Transmitter Brewing

Our second installment of our conversations with the Transmitter Brewing duo is here! This episode we're talking with Rob Kolb, the bearded half of the group. Rob brings some cool beers for us to try including a chocolaty surprise from the Appalachian Mountain South!  

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Episode 26 - Anthony Accardi, Transmitter Brewing

Episode 26 - Anthony Accardi, Transmitter Brewing

Anthony Accardi is one-half of the Long Island City brewing team known as Transmitter Brewing. (His other half, Rob Kolb, will be featured next week.) Anthony talked to us about the challenges of owning a brewery in New York City and why he and Kolb decided to specialize in Brett-fermented beers. 

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Episode 25 - Greg Doroski, Threes Brewing

Episode 25 - Greg Doroski, Threes Brewing

This week we welcome Greg Doroski, headbrewer at Threes Brewing in Brooklyn. Greg was a brewer at Greenport Harbor, out on Long Island, before relocating to Brooklyn last year to help open Threes, where his passion for saisons and farmhouse ales is currently on display. Greg tells us about how he got into the business and why his best selling beers are not necessary his favorite ones (HINT: they include lots of hops and cheeky names like I Hate Myself and You People). 

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Episode 24 - Industry News Show

Episode 24 - Industry News Show

With news of craft beer buyouts and mergers coming in almost weekly now, we decided to weigh in on the issue. (Before you tune in, maybe check out this article from our friend Jeff Alworth as well as this one over on Mitch Steele's blog if you'd like to contextualize our frames of reference in the days leading up to recording this show.) We brought our old friends Aaron Goldfarb (Episode 2) and John Kleinchester (Episode 18) along to weigh in with their takes. It was a lively discussion. We didn't all agree on the meanings of these mergers and buyouts but that's to be expected. We hope you enjoy.    

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Episode 23 - We've Got Mail!

Episode 23 - We've Got Mail!

This episode is dedicated to you, dear listeners. That's right--you've been flooding our inbox and filling in our comments form for months, with all manner of questions and concerns about beer and beyond. (Thank you!) And today we take a breather from our regular format to address many of those here on our very first mail episode! We even brought along a few beers to blind taste on each other. 

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Episode 22 - Bob Olson, Bolero Snort Brewery

Episode 22 - Bob Olson, Bolero Snort Brewery

It's Monday and we've got more Jersey brewing for you. Today, Bob Olson from Bolero Snort Brewery joins us to talk about his bull- and pun-obsessed brewing operation. Bob's also well connected in the beer trading world so he's brought some killer obscure stuff for us to blind taste.

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Episode 21 - Brendan O'Neil, NJ Beer Co.

Episode 21 - Brendan O'Neil, NJ Beer Co.

Today, head brewer of Jersey City's own NJ Beer Co., Brendan O'Neil, drops by the B-rizzle Mobile Studios™ to talk to the STB gang about he became a brewer in the Garden State.

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Episode 20 - Jimmy Ludwig, The Happy Hour Guys

Episode 20 - Jimmy Ludwig, The Happy Hour Guys

This week Augie and John sit down with Jimmy Ludwig, one-half of the duo known as The Happy Hour Guys. You know, those two affable Broadway actors who travel all over the country visiting amazing breweries, bars and distilleries, interviewing on camera some of the nation's top craft beer personalities? As of this taping, they had surpassed 300 episodes! Congrats guys. 

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Episode 19 - Grimm Artisanal Ales

Episode 19 - Grimm Artisanal Ales

Lauren and Joe Grimm are nomad brewers based in Brookyn, NY. They make small batches of their esoteric and artful Grimm Artisanal Ales at Beltway Brewing in Virginia and now Flagship Brewing in their native New York City. Tune in to hear them tell their story and to discuss what it's like to be a couple of wandering brewers in the wild world of craft beer!

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Episode 18 - John Kleinchester, Two Roads & Beertography

Episode 18 - John Kleinchester, Two Roads & Beertography

Today we're talking to John Kleinchester of Two Roads Brewing and the man craft beer photography website, Beertography. John tells us what it's like working at one of the coolest and most forward-thinking production and contract breweries on the East Coast (no, he can't get you an Lawson's Sip of Sunshine) and for one of the best brewers in the business (Phil Markowski).  As a Jersey City resident, he indulges us in some local color walking the streets outside our Barcade Jersey City mobile studios.

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Episode 17 - Mary Izett, author of Speed Brewing

Episode 17 - Mary Izett, author of Speed Brewing

Mary Izett is a fixture in the New York City homebrew scene, and she's just released an awesome quick-brewing book that documents many of her awesome fast fermenting recipes,  Speed Brewing: Techniques and Recipes for Fast-Fermenting Beers, Ciders, Meads, and More. Mary is also one-half of Cuzett Libations along with her partner Chris Cuzme. 

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Episode 16 - Dan McLaughlin (Pony Bar, Kiabacca)

Episode 16 - Dan McLaughlin (Pony Bar, Kiabacca)

This week we welcome Dan McLaughlin of Hell's Kitchen's legendary beer bar, The Pony Bar, and its next door neighbor and Dan's newest bar, Kiabacca. Dan's been around the NYC beer scene for a while now, starting as a bartender at the original Blind Tiger before branching out on his own. He's seen a lot of changes and in the scene and he talks to Augie and John about these changes. Of course he brings some utterly rare killer whales for the panel to try.

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