Grit & Grain Podcast

A Dark Mild, Schwarzbier, Black IPA, Milk Stout, Baltic Porter, and Barrel-aged Imperial Stout walk in for a performance review. The reviewers leave slurring their words. Welcome to Grit & Grain Episode 71! We pivoted this week, cracking open a prime example from each dark beer style. Between declarations of coffee, toffee, licorice, chocolate, and dark fruit notes, we discuss dark beer parameters such as Baltic states history, grains, malt kilning, beer color measurements, Maillard reactions, color changes during the brewing process, and other alcohol versus color misinformation.

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Alright, Grit and Grainers! Email us at [email protected] with your comments, opinions, and questions such as, Why do iPhone cameras look like a stovetop? Because Tim Cooks. You can subscribe to GGP on Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartRadio, and Stitcher, and please leave us a review. Be sure to also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

If this podcast is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. No such thing as a bad time to visit Tacoma. No such thing as too much barleywine. Tune in next Friday for more sweet chatter. Cheers!

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Beer Nerds rejoice! The one and only Michael Perozzo made the trek up from Vancouver, Washington, to sit down with the Grit and Grain podcast to discuss everything from beer names to branding to his time as the world-famous “Darth Blazer” and much more. Perozzo has spent years as the tip of the spear in the Southwest Washington beer community, from long-time consumer to community organizer, to taproom owner, and now to part-owner and creative brain behind the award-winning Vice Beer. Michael’s passion for the beer world is unmatched, which comes through in Grit and Grain Episode 70.

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Alright, Grit and Grainers! Email us at [email protected] with your comments, opinions, and guesses on how Perozzo brainstorms ideas at his Zzeppelin boutique marketing agency. You can subscribe to GGP on Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartRadio, and Stitcher, and please leave us a review. Be sure to also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

If this podcast is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. No such thing as a bad time to visit Tacoma. No such thing as too much barleywine. Tune in next Friday for more sweet chatter. Cheers!

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In 1920, Michael Loftus, an Irish immigrant and grandfather of BT Loftus, follows the railroad west, settles in Yakima, and buys the family homestead. Twelve years later, Leota Mae, wife of BT Loftus and great-grandmother...

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Electricity introduced AJ Wiltrout to Andy Gaine; beer kept them together. In February 2018, the electrician industry duo opened Caskcades beer bar and game room in downtown Puyallup pouring all styles while pinball machines supplied...

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This week on the Grit & Grain Podcast, we sat down with Larry Rock to discuss funk music, Alabama White Barbecue Sauce, birthing classes, and family. Oh, we did discuss beer too. Rock has been...

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From the Iowa family farm and Critical Juncture Brewing Company to three locations and a distribution company, married couple Lara Zahaba and Brad Benson bet it all on Stoup Brewing. The Italian wine importer and...

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The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) has come a long way since original founder Charlie Papazian launched it in Boulder, Colorado, in 1982. Initially held in conjunction with the American Homebrewers Association’s annual conference, Papazian’s...

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Tacoma’s craft brewing industry today hearkens to a time over a century ago when the city was one of America’s great beer-making capitals, the home to a robust industry of breweries and beer halls. With...

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Job Carr, Allen Mason, Murray Morgan, Michael Sullivan — when Grit and Grain ponders Tacoma’s history, these names pop into our minds. In fact, Michael Sullivan, the only one of those men associated with Tacoma’s...

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At Grit and Grain we do our best to find harmony in the past, present, and future of craft beer. It is no secret that the industry and community we cherish is notoriously resistant to...

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