This edition is our Craft Beer Week offering and we 'zoom' in with Will County's Jamie Albert who , tells us about what's happening at the brewery including expansion plans! Also, Jamie plugs a very important fest coming up this weekend at the Joliet Holl

Church Street Brewing is celebrating their 10 year anniversary! We have always had a great relationship with these fine folks, and we have enjoyed their brews for many years and followed their changes and expansion with interest. There was a social media

Today we examine the craft style phenomenon which seems to be highly divisive, Hazy or New England IPAs. You either love 'em or hate 'em! We assembled a panel of local expert brewers from the Chicagoland area who join Phil 'The Brit' Clark to examine thi

We begin a new series of podcasts where we try to delve a little deeper into the business of craft beer. We want to go Behind the Pint. To kick us off, we're asking if Craft Beer is really just beer, or if it's a marketing ploy that has exploded into an i

In this edition, my co-host Chuck Fort and The Brit welcome a 2021 GABF Gold Medal winner and someone who is intensely passionate about his craft. Matt Manthe is the brewer behind Odd Breed Ales, a small brewery in Pompano Beach FL, who is making quite a

It was beautiful Fall weather when we headed down to Tinley Park to record our latest episode outside in a beer garden. We're at Banging Gavel Brews who have been brewing since the end of 2014 but still have not been able to brew or serve at their chosen

We finally made it up to Lake Zurich and to a brewery that we have long wanted to check out and sample their brews, and with a 4th Anniversary looming at the end of September this was the right time! Roaring Table Brewing has been slowly but surely produc

Not much to say about this episode except that we miss our dear friend and prior co-host, Mark Naski. This podcast recorded in 2012 was our first with Mark, and he taught us beer school, from John's Tavern (now also no more) in Winfield. He joined the sho

A second 'vacation' recording, and this time we are at the Sedona Beer Company, gazing at the beautiful red rocks and getting a good dose of vortex energy. Heading up this operation, together with her husband Mack, is Sedona native Kali Gajewski. The Brit

It's a vacation edition of the podcast this week, and we are in Arizona. Nestled just south of Sedona AZ, is a small town of 15,000 called Camp Verde, centered around the Verde River valley. Alex Goetting is a 32 year old who has founded a local watering