Amy Tabor, General Manager of Open Harvest Co-op Grocery joins us along with Marcus Powers, Co-Founder of Zipline Brewing. Open Harvest is working with the City of Lincoln to find a way to allow Open Harvest to be able to sell Craft Beer and other alcoholic beverages from their storefront on 1618 South Street in Lincoln […]

Local homebrewers join the podcast this week to talk about getting into homebrewing and what resources are available to support their craft. Jeff Anderson, Vice President of Lincoln Lagers, joins us to talk about how the Lagers group supports the growing homebrew movement in Lincoln as well as local resources. Gwyn Evans also joins us. Gwyn […]

Travel to places across Nebraska you never heard of and enjoy Zipline’s Copper Alt along the journey. Sarah Baker Hansen and Matthew Hansen of the Omaha World-Herald spent the better part of a year traveling Nebraska in search of little known places and people. Along with a rollicking live crowd at FUSE Coworking, Matthew and Sarah and […]

Kim and Paul Kavulak welcome us to the Nebraska Brewing Company Tap Room in La Vista. Joining us at the Tap Room is Nebraska State Senator Carol Blood who played a huge roll in advocating for local brewers during the debate of the controversial bill LB632 in the Nebraska Legislature. Senator Blood talks about the results […]

Writer, teacher, and beer ambassador Erin Miles of Perfect Pour Magazine and Lincoln City Councilwoman Leirion Gaylor Baird enjoy Zipline’s new year round IPA, Alpha Modern on this episode of Pints and Politics. It’s a session IPA that has a lot of hops on the nose, but doesn’t have as much of the bitterness on the back of […]

We travel the world talking about how one of our guests affected the 2007 French election, recent coverage of legalizing marijuana in Colorado and its affects on Nebraska, craft beer similarities between Kalamazoo and Lincoln, and starting a french restaurant in Nebraska. We get to travel to Kalamazoo and sample an ale brought in by […]

We chat with Sam Riggins, former brewer at Nebraska Brewing Company, who will be bringing an exciting new Brewery to Lincoln in 2018. He plans to create a variety of Belgium farmhouse beers including examples of Saison which he brought to the show. Tommy Rezac of 1400 KLIN radio also joins us to talk his favorite […]

The founders of Code Beer Company, (19th and N St, Lincoln) Matt Gohring and Adam Holmberg, welcome Pints and Politics to their newly opened brewery along with Kevin Shinn of Bread & Cup. They get to try out Code Beer Co.’s Pale Ale, a hop forward, heavy on the nose beer that uses Simcoe and […]

Dan joins Dallas Schilling, owner of SchillingBridge Cork and Tap House to talk about the great brews on display at SchillingBridge’s location in Fallbrook. Dallas pulled out his newest brew, “ayePA” Created from German Huell Melon hops and then dry-hopped with Triple Pearl hops from Plattsmouth, Neb. It is filled with melon & citrusy flavors […]

We are live again celebrating the Lincoln Beer Tour from Blue Blood Brewing with owner Brian Podwinski and Mayor of Lincoln Chris Beutler. Brian opens up Blue Blood’s newest IPA, Hop In Herre, a limited release American IPA. It’s an unfiltered IPA and the hoppiest beer yet from Blue Blood with a lot of citrus notes. […]