Between the Pints

This week, Ryan and Aaron cover the latest news and happenings in the craft beer industry, despite both running on virtually zero sleep and with zero energy. Oddly enough, this actually makes for some of the most interesting and eclectic commentary yet!

On this episode they cover beer and cider rationing in the UK, the impact of beverages containing THC on the craft beer industry, a South Carolina brewery looking to expand west even while trying to sell their business, and so much more!

Aaron and Ryan sit down with Olde Mecklenburg Brewery's Sales Director Ryan Self to talk traditional German beer, and their being the first in the craft beer industry to roll out plastic bottles. Prost!

Aaron and Ryan talk news and happenings in the craft beer industry, while desperately trying (and failing) to stay even remotely on-topic

In this week’s episode, Aaron and Ryan start a new interview feature called Session Beers. The first Session Beer guest is Joe Vogelbacher from Sugar Creek Brewing. He is the co-founder and President of Sugar Creek and an Advanced Cicerone. He is also going to be featured in a documentary about craft beer and the Cicerone program. In the interview you will find out about the Sugar Creek, the Cicerone program, the documentary and much more. Joe may be the most interesting man in Charlotte craft beer.

The guys would again like to thank Joe and the rest of the crew at Sugar Creek for coming on and bringing beer samples. For future guests, we like swag, but beer samples are more then adequate. The guys would also like to thank Hygge Co-Working for the use of the podcast space and Blank Kytt for the use of the opening and closing music this week. Check them and a lot of other great artists out on the Free Music Archive.

Aaron and Ryan just sit and talk about the news this week as they prepare for a nice run of interviews over the next few weeks.

Coronado Looks to unload Monkey Paw

News about Stone and Boston Beer

Craft Beer branding trends

Overall beer sales continue to decline

2018 Beer Trends

Three HBCU grads open craft beer bar in Harlem

How To Invest in Craft Beer

Deep Ellum Sales to Canarchy

Aaron and Ryan debut their new show, Uncapped. They will deep dive into a single beer or beery subject or interview with a beer person. This week, they go into the Shaun Hill interview from a few weeks ago in which he discussed his own battles with mental health issues and fears of alcohol addiction. He talked about a lot more, but that is what everyone is mentioning. The two also give recommendations and generally digress at the drop of a pop culture reference.

In this week’s episode Ryan and Aaron start playing with the format. You spoke. We listened. In an attempt to get the episodes down to a more listenable time frame we’ve broken the recording into to 2 episodes. No worries, there is the same silliness and pop culture digressions. This is the Brew News episode where the guys cover a lot of the big beer news of the week. The next episode, Uncapped will be a deeper dive into one particular topic.

This is a reposting of the episode. We had a technical issue and this should get you all the Ryan and Aaron you need to hold you off until the new episode drops later this week.

Aaron and Ryan are joined by John Watkins from Lenny Boy Brewing in Charlotte, NC. They discuss brewing for a place known more for kombucha then beer.

The guys also hit on some news and a few recommendations.

On this week’s episode Ryan and Aaron vamp because no one likes us enough to come on at the last minute.  Actually, the guest just postponed to next week. So, the guys talk about trying to educate the growing craft beer public without sounding like the Comic Book Store Guy in the Simpsons.  In other words, talking beer with newbies without being a pretentious prick.