Staying safe and staying at home, Wendy, Rob, Nick, Ken, and Dan are back to chat about the local news, how a brewery actually is opening during this time, and how sales are up for the industry but we may see a 40% reduction in breweries. All of that and Read more…
We are still at home but we are still gonna keep pushing out content! We talk about the effect of COVID19 on the industry both in regards to production and local breweries. We talk about the grant funded by Sam Adams and we talk about what we’ve been doing to Read more…
And in one week we have been told to shelter at home, so what do we do? We crack open a beer and talk about all the good things happening in the world of beer and alcohol. We promote all of the businesses we can that are doing their part, Read more…
We were promised a deep cleaned studio and were the first ones in it, so we trekked to Royal Oak where Ken, Rob, and Wendy chat about what is going on in the industry. Ken makes his pleas to those who are wondering how they can help, and we talk Read more…
It feels like it has been forever since we had the opportunity to sit down with John Leone from ROAK, and it was four years ago on Episode 22. No longer the new guy on the block as they enter their fifth year, we take the opportunity to catch up. Read more…
CRAFT BEER PODCAST INFO: It’s been nearly four years since Cary has come onto the show and he comes back to give us the details we wanted to know! Talking to us about the new brewery in Ferndale, the differences between the two, and we get to try his Lumberjack Read more…
Liz and Dani of the Detroit chapter of Girls Pint Out join us to talk about female fans of craft beer, and we learn that all beer is girl beer! We go over some news including some Michigan government updates about token laws and distro, and we try to map Read more…
We go over the life and death of Black Lotus and the last five years with him as the head brewer, what changed, and why the sudden closing. We learn where the hardware from Black Lotus went (hint, previous guest on Better on Draft), and Nick updates us on his Read more…
We may have managed to cram in the most gambling puns into this episode, but Loaded Dice is a gamble that Jef Smith is willing to take. Setting up in Troy, MI this will be the first (not national chain) brewery the city has seen, and the city is more Read more…
We end the year with our two main sponsors, Jack of Zetouna Liquor and Kevin of North Center Brewing. Ed joins us for another episode and we talk about lowering the drinking age, some of the bigger news that hit this year, and recap with what 2020 may bring us! Read more…
