Between the Pints

Ryan and Aaron dive into the week's excitement with Scofflaw Brewing being its usual self, and the start of the new Beer Growth Initiative by industry trade groups. They also cover articles addressing the LBGTQ community and craft beer's role in creating a welcoming environment, cover once again the constant debate over children in taprooms, and discuss common mistakes that start up breweries make.

The guys thank Hygge Co-Working for the podcast space. You can find more from Ryan at beercounselor.net and medium.com and Aaron at liquidassets.blog. Until next time, Slainte!

Ryan sends in his last solo missive about the GABF. He is a crappy traveler, needing two days to recover from traveling and drinking so he apologizes for the episode being a little late.

In this episode, he gives his overall impressions of the festival and the awards.

Ryan would like to thank Dave, Ginny, and Maddie the Greyhound for their hospitality and more important their friendship as they housed him for 4 days. He would also like to thank his beloved for letting him go and have fun without her. Hopefully, they will find a way to go together next year.

Thanks to the band Lobo Locos for the use of the song Running Eiskrokodil as the opening and closing music. Look out for new beercounselor.net posts. The first should be a rundown of Ryan's favorite beers he tasted at the festival. Also, look for a new Between The Pints full episode dropping on Thursday. Until then, slainte!

Ryan continues his GABF beercation dropping another episode to recap a nice day in Denver.

He hit Fresh Craft, Seedstock Brewing, and had another session at Hogshead.

Keep a look out for the blog post he mentioned going up today at beercounselor.net. He will post another Short Pour tomorrow with a recap of the GABF medal ceremony. Until then, slainte!

Half of the dynamic duo, Ryan, is in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. He is going to be dropping daily updates about what he is doing and what he is drinking.

Highlights of his first two days include visits to Call To Arms Brewing and Hogshead Brewing; taking in a panel discussion about marketing to more diverse audiences for craft beer; seeing craft beer celebrities like show patron saint Garret Oliver; and drinking some good beer.

Highlights of his GABF tasting include

Elliott Bay Brewhouse, Vietnamese Coffee No Doubt Stout

Hopworks Urban Brewery, Secession Cascadian Dark Ale

Brasserie Saint James, Framboise Sauvage

Epidemic Ales, Nutty But Nice Peanut Butter Stout

Thanks to the band Lobo Locos for the use of the song Running Eiskrokodil as the opening and closing music. Ryan will post more about the panel discussion on his blog, beercounselor.net later today. Also, stay tuned for another Short Pour from Denver tomorrow. Slainte!

Aaron and Ryan manage to talk and entertain themselves for an hour even though there was no real news to discuss. The beer world is gearing up for the Great American Beer Festival. So, they either don’t have any news or they hold any bad news for Saturday when the awards are announced.

The guys did manage to find a few articles to riff on for the show.

Keep your ears peeled for quick hit podcasts from Ryan as he attends this year’s GABF. He’ll try to do summaries of what he has drank and where has been for each day to get you a feel of what is happening at craft beer’s biggest party.

The guys thank Hygge Co-Working for the podcast space and Benjamin Banger for the use of Bobby Drake as the opening and closing track. You can find more from Ryan at beercounselor.net and medium.com and Aaron at liquidassets.blog. Until next time, Slainte!

Aaron and Ryan get through their quickest show in their run.  Yet somehow still digress wildly and forget names of famous people all in less than 20 minutes.

First, they hit the IRI retail data for the beer industry.  Good news, craft beer is doing well. 

The Brewdog Network is here proving that the Brewdog crew knows how to make money and stick their feet firmly in their mouths all at the same time.  The more things change, the more things stay the same.

The guys thank Hygge Co-Working for the podcast space and Yung Kartz for the use of Diamond Clean as the opening and closing track. You can find more from Ryan at beercounselor.net and medium.com and Aaron at liquidassets.blog. Stay tuned for a new episode next week and Ryan will be reporting in from Denver and GABF throughout next weekend.  Until next time, Slainte!

Because Aaron and Ryan get tired of listening to themselves talk (at least Ryan does) they invited Neil Gimon of Dreamchasers and Townes Mozer of Lenny Boy to talk more about beer rating sites. The guys get into rating sites like Untappd, Beer Advocate, and even Yelp. What do they really think of them and how do they use them to improve their products and their taprooms.

As always, Between The Pints digresses into unscripted territories. This week it is the merits of Pacific Rim and John Wick as cinematic masterpieces.

The guys thank Hygge Co-Working for the podcast space and teeho x VYVCH for the use of Soma as the opening and closing track. You can find more from Ryan at beercounselor.net and medium.com and Aaron at liquidassets.blog.  Until next week, Slainte!

On this week's episode, Ryan and Aaron go through some of the recent brew news.

• 4 Small Breweries Happy to Stay Small

• On The Dotted Line

• Constellation puts up $4 billion stake in Canopy Growth

• Constellation Brands lays off more than half its craft personnel

• Stone files injunction against MillerCoors

• Jim Koch Meets with President Trump

Recommendations

• Dogfish Head Pennsylvania Tuxedo

• Galavant

• Lancaster Brewing Milk Stout

• Shacksbury Ginger Spritz

• Cork Dork

As always the guys would like to thank Hygge Coworking for the use of the podcast space. This week, we want you the listener to guess the theme music. Some of you will get as soon as you hear it because it will take you back to a certain time and place that will bring you great joy.

Find our written work at liquidassets.blog and beercounselor.net. Thanks as always for listening.

Slainte

Aaron and Ryan were gone for a couple of weeks because Aaron and his wife welcomed a new tiny roommate and Ryan moved into a new house. They make their return with the first of a two-part series on online beer rating systems and what they mean for the craft beer industry.

In the episode, besides the many tangents the Between the Pints has quickly become known for, they do manage to talk about Untappd, Beer Advocate and Rate Beer and how those sites are a part of a larger crowdsource movement that has changed not only craft beer reviews, but the way many of the things we enjoy for entertainment are critiqued. Basically, the guys try to figure out if these sites are Tools of Knowledge or Tools of Ignorance.

Also, Aaron declares that furries are OK and Ryan takes shots at right answers.

As always, the guys want to thank Hygge Coworking for the use of the podcast space. This week’s music is “Guitar Strut” by Lorenzo’s Music and can be found on Free Music Archive.

In the latest episode of Between The Pints, Aaron and Ryan welcome Rachael Hudson from Pilot Brewing for an interview.

The guys talk to Rachael about the new concept she and her husband Jeff are bringing to the craft beer world with Pilot Brewing. The name has a double meaning as Jeff is an airline pilot and more importantly all the beers brewed at Pilot will be in small batches and brewed by everyone on staff.

Take a listen to learn more about Pilot Brewing and Rachael's journey to becoming a brewery owner.

The guys would also like to thank Hygge Co-Working for the use of the podcast space, and Black Ant and Free Music Archive for the opening and closing music this week.

Finally, you can find Aaron behind the bar at Kit’s Trackside in Pineville and at liquidassets.blog and you can find Ryan slinging beer at Craft Tasting Room and Growler Shop, beercounselor.net, and at Craft Beer Consulting, LLC.

See you next week.