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Taming the Wild — Bootleg Biology’s Hunt for a Tennessee Yeast — Good Beer Hunting

Aug 13, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

Three Nashville brewers sipped beer from small plastic cups in the backroom of Bootleg Biology, Tennessee’s only yeast lab. The lab’s garage door, framed by an old red, white, and blue brewers’ conference banner, was open despite the early February cold. The beer they were sampling was brewed with a wild yeast collected from a sunflower. Surrounded by brewing and lab equipment, they compared tasting notes. They pronounced it “Belgian saison-y,” with flavors of bubblegum and banana.
Back to the Future — Fidens Brewing in Albany, New York — Good Beer Hunting

Aug 6, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

The early, early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2021, should’ve been quiet. In most of Albany, they were. But if you hung a left off of New York State Route 5 onto Walker Way, you couldn’t miss the line of cars—more than 100 long—that extended well beyond the shuttered garage door emblazoned with a script font reading “Fidens.”The occasion was the brewery’s second anniversary.
Nobody Walks — In a Sprawling Los Angeles, Restaurants Create a Constellation of Cocktail Culture — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 31, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

In a city known for its spectacular array of Mexican cuisine, it’s fitting that one of its best-known cocktails is modeled after barbacoa, a slow-cook method of preparing meat meant to create a tender, juicy, and extra-flavorful final result. Made with mezcal, lemon, lime, ginger syrup, and chipotles, with red bell pepper and beef jerky for garnish, Julian Cox’s breakout cocktail, invented in 2008, is the superlative example of a drink born of the Angel City.
Amidst the Concrete, a Jungle — Finding My Great Outdoors in the Middle of London — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 29, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

The fox is barely visible. At first it is just a rustle in the tall grass. Twilight has dyed the winter landscape deep blue, and sound works faster than sight. When it does emerge, the fox moves swiftly through the open, a spark running down a length of wire. Though darkness has nearly closed in over the woods, they still flare with gestures of life. Crows crowd the corridor of old oaks, the trees’ self-appointed guardians and defenders against the rasping magpies.
Praying Before Eating – From ‘Libations’ to ‘Pouring One Out,’ Spilling Drinks Connects Souls Across Centuries and Continents — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 23, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

When a loved one dies, we tell stories and drink in their honor. An Irish wake is a celebration of the life of the departed, with memories shared over a whiskey or a pint of beer while the deceased lies in the same room. In Mexico, there’s Día de Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, where it’s believed that spirits walk among the living, prompting family members to build colorful altars called “ofrendas,” which are decorated with photos, food, and beverages to toast the spirits.
Finding The Joy Of Craft Beer — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 18, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

0:00 / 0:00 Despite alarming headlines and loud proclamations that “craft beer is dead,” that’s only part of the story—and not a particularly accurate one, at that. Industry insiders can get bogged down in the depressing details (even we’ve been guilty of it at one time or another). But reporters Kate Bernot and Beth Demmon decided to see how and where the heart of craft beer still beat, and went to the 2024 Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival in Paso Robles to find out.
281. Read. Look. Drink. — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 12, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

We’re voracious consumers of culture. And each week, a member of our team shares the words, images, and beers that inspired them. Read.// Summer is for music. And no one writes about music like Hanif Abdurraquib. His collection “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us” is a moving meditation about … well, everything.
The Hunt For Craft Beer's Cool — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 10, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

0:00 / 0:00 Beer is having a hard time these days. Category-wide, sales are down and interest just isn’t the same it used to be. But what if the enthusiasm that got us to this point—excitement that helped lead to almost 10,000 small and independent breweries scattered across the country—is still just as palpable now as it was one, two, or 10 years ago? It’s just a matter of looking.
Bavarian Beer Culture and the Dash of Decoction Mashing — Brasserie de la Mule in Brussels, Belgium — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 9, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

In some ways, Brasserie de la Mule resembles other new breweries in Brussels. Its home is a 19th-century, brick-and-stone building in the Belgian capital’s lively, multicultural Schaerbeek area, once used as a stable for the horses that pulled the city’s first trams, hence the name.
On Becoming Hawk — Good Beer Hunting

Jul 9, 2024 | goodbeerhunting.com | Stephanie Byce |Michael Kiser |Kyle Kastranec |Mark T. Spence

0:00 / 0:00 # On Becoming HawkHi there - this is Michael Kiser, founder and publisher of Good Beer Hunting. I’m coming to you today with a difficult message—but a simple one. Good Beer Hunting—after nearly 15 years, and at least 10 of that that I would consider serious years—is going on a platform-wide sabbatical. It’ll be indefinite. It might be permanent.