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For years the guys have made off hand comments about adjuncts in beer but they have never devoted any time to the controversial subject. On this episode Mike and Kevin dive into the culture in beer that Kevin is only slightly responsible for.

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Have you ever walked into a bar, restaurant or hotel and see a beer that appears branded towards them? A brewery makes that beer. Sometimes it's made just for that place while other times it is a rebrand of an existing beer. Kevin and Mike talk about the practice of private labeling in the beer industry.

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A good brewery needs good branding. That means a company name, logo, beer names, label design. It's all important. Mike and Kevin dive into the branding in the beer world and what they think is important with it.

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Eric Hild is the Senior Lead Brewer for Toppling Goliath Brewing in Decorah, IA. Mike and Kevin talk with him about how he started in beer and worked up through the ranks of one of the countries most prolific breweries.

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Being in the beer industry people will commonly make generalizations about your job.

"You must drink all day." "You have the best job in the world."

Along with those there are many others. Kevin and Mike talk about some of the things drinkers and fans tend to not know about how the beer game works.

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Mike and Kevin sit down to talk with Kelly Meyer. Kelly is the former owner of The New Braunfels Brewing in Texas. After selling the brewery last year he authored the book How Not to Start a Damn Brewery, an honest approach to the mistakes he made when running the brewery for 10 years. That book has turned into a podcast of its own that discusses with other folks in beer their struggles in an industry that all too often only focuses on the good and successful stories. Kelly talks more with the guys about these struggles, his life after beer, pastry stouts and more.

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Kevin hasn't been on the show a long time. He wasn't involved in a lot of the earlier topics. Mike decides to hit Kevin up with some of these early episode topics like Work/Life Balance, Food Pairings and Getting into the Industry and get his takes on them.

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The Bruery has long been an innovating brewery in the beer industry. Barry Holmes & James Bruner join the show to talk about their focus as a business and catering to their memberships and locals alike.

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Joel is deciding it is time to step away from the show. Join the gang in seeing what Joel is going to do.

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