Arts and sciences

[podcast] This week Doug and Tony discuss some of the different approaches to packaging beer from label art to designer kegs as well as some of the ways science is becoming a higher-profile part of the craft beer culture.

Introducing a new(ish) podcast

Since Tony does a bunch of brewery industry interviews anyway, he thought he would record them and play them back here. This is the first in a series. Our hope is to put on out each Thursday to complement the main BWS podcast

Gear idear

I’m not nuts about “Q&A” style stories that are basically a transcript of the conversation. That said, if you are brave enough to wade through this epic you’ll see that some brewers made a keg that looks like a Star Wars droid. It doesn’t look too difficult, but I’ll leave that to you to decide.

Beer Science

I understand very little of this, so we’ll check in with our co-host and see if he has a clue…

This is more my speed…

The beer comes to us

Increasingly, beers are moving closer to the East Coast to get fresh beer to people who prefer their beer that way. It’s still more than 100 miles from us, but still, it’s pretty cool to see them growing wisely (if that’s what they’re doing).