Episode 32: Samer Khudairi
This week we’re talking to Samer Khudairi about the Boston beer scene, being a COVID lifeguard, and why he loves both classic styles and weird beers. One of the best parts of covering the beer industry is watching fresh new voices enter the space. The craft beer industry has long suffered from a tendency to highlight […]
Episode 31: Chalonda and Nik White
This week we’re catching up with Chalonda and Nik White to check out the Chicago beer scene that they both represent so well. Chalonda White represents one of the freshest voices on craft beer. And her husband Nik White is an old school Chicago beer guy. Together, this dynamic husband and wife squad are helping push the craft beer […]
Episode 30: Ben Keene
On this season of the Beer Edge podcast, I’m talking with writers, brewers, and others about how COVID has impacted their local beer communities across the country and the world. We start today with writer, editor, and my friend, Ben Keene, the former editor of Beer Advocate Magazine. Ben moved out to Seattle a few years ago […]
Drink or Be Dry, Thoughts on a Sober Month
Thoughts On A Dry January By Andy Crouch – January 19, 2021 Dry January feels like CrossFit to a lot of people. Not in the “I’m getting healthy” fashion but in the seeming braggadocio of it all. In their minds, people participating in “Dry January” just can’t shut up about it. This criticism of Dry […]
Episode 29: 2020, A Year In Beer Part Two
We’re back with part 2 of our End of the Year Roundup with John Holl, Neil Witte, Carla Jean Lauter, and Josh Noel. In this episode, we discuss COVID’s impacts on the beer industry, whether beer bars will survive, and what Josh plans to sing when he joins us for karaoke in Maine when the […]
Episode 28: 2020, A Year In Beer Part One
Back in March, right before the long quarantine set in, my partner John Holl and I traveled up to Portland, Maine to speak at a beer conference. On the night before the conference, John and I hit up some of our favorite breweries around Portland, including Allagash where we ran into draft beer genius and longtime industry […]
Episode 27: Peter Bissell Part Deux
On this continuing episode of the Beer Edge podcast, Andy Crouch talks again with Peter Bissell of Bissell Brothers Brewing. In this episode, we dig a little deeper and wax a bit more philosophical about business, beer, and life. Bissell discusses his influences, both in the beer industry and business in general, the importance of […]
Episode 26: Peter Bissell Part One
On this episode of the Beer Edge podcast, Andy Crouch talks again with Peter Bissell of Bissell Brothers Brewing, one of the beer industry’s most interesting voices. Founded in 2013, with a mission to change people’s perceptions of what beer and the beer experience can be, while always staying dedicated to its home state of Maine, […]
Episode 24: Joey Redner Part Two
On this episode of the Beer Edge podcast, Andy Crouch talks again with Joey Redner of Cigar City Brewing about how Redner started to think about Cigar City’s future and what gave him second thoughts about navigating it alone. We go into detail about his thought process leading up to the sale of his brewery, his […]
Episode 24: Joey Redner Part One
On this episode of the Beer Edge podcast, Andy Crouch talks with Joey Redner of Cigar City Brewing about his beer journey from beer writer to Florida’s craft beer godfather. To tell his story, we’re spreading it out over two episodes. In this first episode, we start with the early days of Cigar City and work […]