Grit & Grain Podcast

By Matthew, Bethany, and RonArts Leisure Food

Grit & Grain Podcast episodes

June 23, 2023 Episode 51: Will and Mari Kemper, Part 2
In 1984, chemical engineer and homebrewer Will Kemper and his culinary crackerjack wife Mari left Boulder, Colorado, and opened Thomas Kemper brewery on Bainbridge Island, Washington, then quickly moved it to Poulsbo. In 1992, Thomas...
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51 min
June 16, 2023 Episode 50: Mari and Will Kemper
Mari and Will Kemper were early insurgents in the craft beer revolution that introduced America to sophisticated, small-batch suds. With Will’s engineering degree and homebrew recipes and Mari’s culinary prowess and tenaciousness the couple left...
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55 min
June 09, 2023 Episode 49: Mike Runion
You can’t talk South Sound beer without mentioning 7 Seas Brewing and its founders, Mike Runion and Travis Guterson. From their humble downtown Gig Habor beginnings in 2008, to the 2009 fire relocation across town,...
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1 hr 4 min
June 02, 2023 Episode 48: Kent Wetzler
This week’s guest, if we’re speaking in beer years, is a lifelong friend. But what feels like a lifetime only started around 1987 in University Place when there weren’t any craft breweries in the South...
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59 min
May 26, 2023 Episode 47: Stacey O’Connor
It’s the old enjoys homebrewing, join the South Sound Suds Society, land a cellar job at Fish Brewing but quickly advances to brewing, joins a lager-only Olympia brewery named after a Warren Zevon song meets...
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54 min
May 19, 2023 Episode 46: Jeff Lee and the CBC
Sure, you like beer — but have you ever worn it? Wrapped your entire being in it and then spend three days at a convention devoted to it? That’s what the country’s most dedicated beer...
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54 min
May 12, 2023 Episode 45: Tony Lawrence
In the late 1980s, Tony Lawrence arrived in Bend, Oregon, for the snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor, but stayed for the dish pit at Deschutes Brewery. Head brewer John Harris knew Lawrence was more than a...
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56 min
May 05, 2023 Episode 44: Mashing In with Matt & Ron
Broadcasting from the Red Room in the historic Parkway Tavern on the North Slope of Tacoma, Washington, this is Mashing In with Matt & Ron. Spend an hour with us Mashing In the hottest and...
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58 min
April 28, 2023 Episode 43: Mike Hunsaker
Mike Husaker drove thousands and thousands of miles to become a gold medalist brewer. He took all the crap jobs and low paying gigs to take his chemical engineering degree and 10 years of homebrewing...
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1 hr 4 min
April 21, 2023 Episode 42: Charles Finkel, Part 2
After many years in the wine and beer distributing business, Charles and Rose Ann Finkel opened Pike Place Brewing in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market neighborhood in 1989. While working tirelessly to guide and grow...
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59 min

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Craft beer sales and brand manager — Matt McLaren, professional brewer and line cleaner — Bethany Carlsen, and bottle shop owner and operator — Ron Swarner explore and celebrate the craft beer…