Beer with Strangers

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Boulder is home to the Brewers Association as well as to the American Homebrewers Association. It’s a region that takes its cultural responsibilities pretty seriously. This week, I spoke with journalist Michael J. Case who wrote the history of Boulder County Beer.

Michael told me some great stories about early homebrewing classes the association put on as well as about how the Boulder County brewing community has negotiated the kind of expansion that it has.

Purchase Michael J. Casey’s book Boulder County Beer.

Follow is writing for the Boulder Weekly here. Follow his beer adventures on Instagram, and read his film writing at michaeljcinema.com and follow him @MichaelJCinema.

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Jenny Barnwell from JetSetHers.com talks about the transition from Florida to Colorado and some of her favorite spots around the state.

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Jacks Mullins, host of Beer and Business talks, well, beer and business and drinking your way around Atlanta.

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Doug Hoverson is the author of The Drink that Made Wisconsin Famous: Beer and Brewing in the Badger State and Land of Amber Waters, the History of Brewing in Minnesota. Amber Waters won the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota non-fiction. He has also written about beer for publications ranging from All About Beer and Good Beer Hunting to The Onion. Doug is an award-winning homebrewer and a National rank beer judge.

Aside from his beer-related pursuits, Doug teaches history and political science at Saint Thomas Academy High School in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, where he also coaches track & field and debate. He and his family live in Minneapolis.

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Executive & Career Coach and CEO Terry McDougall Coaching. Terry spent some of her formative years in Milton, Delaware when it was an impossibly-sleepy town and not yet home to the Dogfish Head brewery and distillery. Terry talks about pre-dogfish Milton as well as Ravinia Brewing in her current hometown.

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John Russo from 902 Brewing is back to talk about hauling beer in Jersey City, Anchor's label change, and the 5,000-gallon ancient Egyptian brewery.

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Sam Phanor wears a lot of hats, from police officer to entrepreneur, but recently he's been interested in helping homebrewers and pro-brewers better get their brand. He takes us on a tour of Fort Lauderdale's emerging craft beer culture.

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Lee Graves, a graduate of the College of William & Mary and former career journalist, has been writing about beer since 1996, when he started a weekly beer column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He has written for numerous publications and has authored three books: “Richmond Beer: A History of Brewing in the River City,” “Charlottesville Beer: Brewing in Jefferson’s Shadow,” and, most recently, “Virginia Beer: A Guide from Colonial Days to Craft’s Golden Age.” In addition to writing, Graves is involved in beer history efforts and serves as president of the non-profit group Richmond Beeristoric. Graves has two daughters and lives in Richmond with his wife, Margaret.

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Public historian Garrett Peck traces Washington DC beer culture from colonial days through prohibition, sharing stories of bootleggers, Tories, and how Scotland's beer culture jumpstarted American brewing in Alexandria.

About the Guest:

Garrett Peck is an author, public historian and tour guide in the nation's capital. He leads tours through The Smithsonian Associates, and his Temperance Tour of Prohibition-related sites has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV and the History Channel program "Ten Things You Didn't Know About" with punk rock legend Henry Rollins.

He was featured on a two-hour documentary about Prohibition by the Smithsonian Channel. His eighth book, A Decade of Disruption: America in the New Millennium, was published in spring 2020.

Peck was involved with the DC Craft Bartenders Guild in lobbying the DC City Council to have the Rickey declared Washington's native cocktail in 2011.

He researched and pinpointed the Washington Brewery site at Navy Yard, and is particularly proud that Green Hat Gin is named after a character Peck wrote about in Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: congressional bootlegger George Cassiday.

He has lectured at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the Smithsonian Institution, and often speaks at historical societies, literary clubs and trade associations.

Peck is on the board of the Woodrow Wilson House and is a member of the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of D.C. A native Californian and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and George Washington University and U.S. Army veteran, he lives in Arlington, Virginia.

His books include:

Prohibition in Washington, D.C.: How Dry We Weren’t

Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.

His biography of Andrew Wales can be read for free online on the Alexandria Historical Society website.

The rest of his work can be found at www.garrettpeck.com

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