WNY Brews

The Final Selection Event for Jonah Epstein's My City Brew was this past week at World of Beer. On this episode, I speak to Jonah, Dave Schiralli, the recipe designer, and a bunch of others including (in order)

Scott McMillan from The Buffalo Beer League,

Paul Marko from the Buffalo Beer Geeks

Ethan Cox from Community Beer Works

Dan Syracuse from Pizza Plant

Dave Rivers from Keg Works

Jonah Epstein from My City Brew

Dave Schiralli from 12 Gates Brewing

and Jonah Epstein again from My City Brew

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John Domres is running the greatest one-man show in Buffalo at Buffalo Brewing Company. Open since 2016 and kickstarted with a handful of backers, Buffalo Brewing Company has just completed a renovation to bring their 2-barrel operation to a 5-barrel brewhouse. Nestled in a former horse foundry about the size of a garage on Myrtle Ave, the small brewery has big plans for 2018.

Check them out at Buffalo-Brewing-Company.com

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What have I been doing?

Besides the holidays and the general business that 2 kids cause, I've been working on Voice Over work, side-gigs, recorded an audiobook, AND have put time into the podcast, just not in a forward-facing way:

-I've been updating the site to be more secure

-Working on a searchable water database (send any local water reports you have to [email protected])

-Recording audio of some BJCP materials for personal study guides.

-Brewing a bunch.

-Working on a Grainfather review.

After summer, I would love to get back to doing an episode a week, but it's hard to do with 2 kids and all the side-gigs I take on.

Same with the episodes, except the videos take a little more time.

This is the big announcement. There are many home brewing blogs on the internet and some of them are great...some, are not. We have the collective knowledge in Buffalo to make a truly great one, but I need people to write or simply contribute

-Recipe's

-Reviews

-Moderation

-Events

-Videos

-Articles

I want to keep it simple, so if you write an article, recipe, etc. for WNY Brews, you can monetize it however you'd like. If you want to run ads on it, all of that revenue goes to you. If you write an article that brings in hundreds of thousands of views, you make any advertising revenue from that page. I keep nothing. It's not about building a media empire, it's about building a resource and making it worth it for all involved.

You can support the podcast in many ways and almost all of them are free:

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Stay up to date on new videos. Also, by subscribing, it's like you're raising your hand and saying you watch the content. People and Google see that and it helps to get out in front of more people.

I'm much more active on Twitter, but I plan on ramping up the Facebook feed this year to feature more quick videos.

You can directly help the podcast through a monetary donation at Patreon.com/WNYBrews.

Send an email and let me know what you think. I'm always open to suggestions and willing to try practically anything if people like it.

We are a member of The Hopped Up Network. A growing podcast network of independent beer podcasts based across the country. Check out all of the latest episodes from each podcast at HoppedUpNetwork.com  

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and you can't have clean beer without clean lines. Don't spend your money on good beer if it's being pulled through terrible lines.

In this episode, I talk to Andy Dvornski of The Clean Beer Initiative about his business and his process. The Clean Beer Initiative handles dozens of establishments' draft systems around Western New York making sure the lines are cleaned on a regular basis. It makes finding a good place for craft beer much easier.

If you follow @CleanBeerWNY on Twitter, you can even see what lines were changed and when at all of their accounts.

We also talk about a second beer-business Andy has taken on: 716 Tapped.

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A dreaded Just-Me episode. I had some housecleaning things to talk about and didn't want to stack the front part of the next episode with them. Since I had some extra time I decided to get into a story that illustrates my current political feelings regarding independent breweries. I may delve into this deeper if I can ever find a mutual moment with the planned guest.

About a month back I ran a contest to coincide with @BuffaloEats Buffalo Brewery Battle on Twitter. After all was said and done, Big Ditch came out victorious, but what I asked for were predictions.

I received a handful of filled-in brackets and scored them using a 1-2-3-4 system (4 points for predicting the final, 3 for the final two, 2 for the final four, and 1 for the elite eight).

We had two winners tie with 17 points so each will be receiving a consumers gift card so I may "buy them a growler fill".

I started a Patreon page a while back. Patreon is a way for listeners to pledge money for content in a style similar to NPR. It's a monthly pledge and this month, we got our first Patron in Andy Dvornski of The Clean Beer Initiative. Look for en episode with him soon.

I generally don't like to get political, but take a listen. InBev sucks and I lay out a rant about why.

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I sit down with Brian and Scott from The Buffalo Beer League @BuffBeerLeague to discuss all of the featured events during this year's Buffalo Beer Week. You can find all the info at BuffaloBeerWeek.com

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@BuffaloEats is running a Twitter tournament to determine the best brewery in Buffalo and I want to make it a contest! Fill out a bracket at WNYBrews.com/bracket and email it to me at [email protected] or send it to me via Twitter @WNYBrews. The person who fills in the most accurate bracket will win a $15 gift card to Consumers Beverages from me.

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Drew Hardin comes back to talk about making a New England IPA. It seems like everyone is jumping on board the bandwagon. They're often described as "juicy', "hazy", or "creamy" and they're everywhere at the moment.

Drew has brewed a few for himself and for CBW and walks us through each ingredient based on his experiences. I've already started following his advice, and can't wait to see how it will turn out.

You can generally find Drew at Community Beer Works

Sato Brewpub

or Hatchets and Hops

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Welcome to a retrospective episode of Western New York Brews! I’ve hesitated releasing anything for 42 because of how significant the number is. Episode 42 is easily the most important number I’ve recorded so far, and probably the most significant until episode 100. It is after all, the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

It’s been 41 episodes so far (in more time than it should have taken) and I finally figured out what I should do. Using the theme of life, the universe, and everything, I thought I would talk about what we’ve done and what I’ve been planning in regards to WNY Brews.

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