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Beer Busters

Celebrating and exploring the world of craft beer, Beer Busters is a mostly on the road podcast featuring Dan Baker, Steph Heffner and Wayne Baker. We travel to breweries and other beer spots to sit down and chat and drink and play games with a wide array of people in the industry.

Latest Episodes:

214: Philadelphia Grain & Malt Symposium Mar 19, 2021

Show notes

This episode features audio from our recent live virtual happy hour segment as part of the 2021 Philadelphia Grain and Malt Symposium. We were joined by our friend Nate Kresge, Founder of Harrisburg-based media production company, GK Visual in a panel discussion along with a lineup of people from the brewing industry including, Dan Hershberg from Workhorse Brewing, Dain Shirey from St. Boniface Brewing, and Tom Baker from Earth Bread + Brewery. Our discussion centers on the creative solutions the industry has employed in the face of a challenging year, and what the industry looks like moving forward. It all starts with a demonstration on DIY pizza dough making, and tips for making your own homemade pie, from pizza legend and James Beard Award winning chef, Jeff Michaud, owner of Osteria Philadelphia. The event is produced by Deer Creek Malthouse in partnership with USciences, and sponsored by DirectLync.

This episode also includes a segment with Moo-Duck Brewery and Pour Man’s Brewing that was meant to be included in the previous episode, but fell through the cracks. Ryan from Pour Man’s talks about their exciting new project, the Lancaster Brewers Guild. We can’t wait to see where it goes and we are sorry it got missed in the last release.

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213: Pour Man's Brewing and Moo-Duck Brewery (or Going Hamms) Mar 05, 2021

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Moo-Duck Brewery in Elizabethtown and Pour Man’s Brewing in Ephrata are longtime friends of the podcast and longtime friends of each other, regularly collaborating and brewing at each others’ facilities. Mike Brubaker from Moo-Duck and Ryan Foltz, Sam Son, and Mike King from Pour Man’s join us this episode to chat about their collaborations, new developments at each brewery, continuing to navigate the post-COVID world, and more. In Happy Fun Time, we play a round of Bad Beer Reviews – a game about the most colorful commentaries on BeerAdvocate.com. All of this, and much more shenanigans, while we enjoy a solid lineup of brews from both breweries.

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212: Craft Tastings (or From the Pantry) Feb 19, 2021

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Welcome to a slapdash, socially distant installment of our annual Valentine’s Day-ish tradition of a beer and food pairing session with Greg Orth, founder of Craft Tastings, LLC. Since we were unable to proceed in our normal fashion – gathered around the pool table in the Beer Busters basement with whiskey, popcorn, surprises, bacon, grilled cheese, or lots of chocolate – this time around we tried a free-for-all quarantine pairing. With various beers from our beer fridges and snacks from our pantries, we mixed and matched through the most DIY and off-the-rails Craft Tastings episode to date. In the midst of the madness, we played a round of There’s Weird in My Beer in Happy Fun Time, and talked a lot about snack foods. As Greg likes to say, if you’re drinking beer and eating snacks, you can’t go wrong.

We also caught up with our friend Mark Brault from Deer Creek Malthouse to chat about our involvement the upcoming Philadelphia Grain and Malt Symposium.

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211: Mad Chef Craft Brewing (or Short on Gym, Long on Beer) Feb 05, 2021

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For the first time since the before times, we catch up with our good friends from Mad Chef in Lancaster, PA. Joining us this episode are Co-Owners Francisco “The Real Slim Cheffy” Ramirez, Greg “Just Greg” Kendig, and Brewer Pim “Dutch” Harmsen. We talk new beers and old favorites, the effects of COVID on the business, and a very exciting update on the future at Mad Chef. There is also a not unsurprising amount of tomfoolery, as Francisco, the Mad Chef himself, exudes irresistible joy everywhere he goes. In Happy Fun Time, we played a round of no frills Libation or Fabrication. All this while sipping on Mad Chef brews, and a few others sprinkled in for good measure.

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210: McCall Collective Brewing (or Word Salad) Jan 22, 2021

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This episode we are joined by Kaitlin McCall, Co-Owner of McCall Collective Brewing, and her brother-in-law and Brewer, Matt McCall. Allentown’s first fully female owned brewery, McCall Collective opened in August of 2020. We discuss what lead the McCall’s (along with Co-Owner, and Kaitlin’s husband, Chris) to open a brewery, Matt’s brewing history, the pressures and changes necessitated by open among the COVID pandemic, and more. Dan does some news (remember that?), reporting on the winners of the Pennsylvania Farm Show’s craft beer competition – among them are two McCall beers. In Happy Fun Time, Wayne hosted a round of Bad Beer Reviews (check out our gameshow videos on YouTube), while sipping on various brews.

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209: Brü Daddy's Brewing Jan 08, 2021

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Joining us for our first podcast in the New Year, is Todd Reinhardt, Brewer at Brü Daddy’s Brewing Company. We chat about the history of Brü Daddy’s, some medal-winning beer, their new entry into canning, and more. Todd also talks about his brewing history, from working his way into Two Rivers Brewing, then onto Free Will, before landing at Brü Daddy’s. In Happy Fun Time Games, we play a round of There’s Weird in My Beer, a game all about beers with bizarre ingredients. (Which is also available in video form on our YouTube Channel.) All this while Steph sips on an array of Brü Daddy’s brews, and Dan and Wayne polish off some more beers from recently featured brewery, Shy Bear Brewing.

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208: Virtual Christmas Spectacular 2020 Dec 25, 2020

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It’s the most wonderful time of the worst year ever! What better way to celebrate the holiday season and the merciful end of 2020 than to drink and chat with some old friends. Joining us, in succession, for our Christmas episode this year are: Kevin Keller, who we first met through Hop Hedz Gear and has gone on to work for Evil Genius and found Prototype Brewing and Meadery. Next up is Mark Graves, currently at Cape May Brewing, we’ve followed Mark from Manayunk Brewing, to Flying Fish, and beyond. And, last but not least, our good friend and long time patron, James Lamberg – one of the nicest and most generous friends of Beer Busters. We sip of seasonal brews, chat about all kinds of things, make merry, and – oh yeah, we played Libation or Fabrication with Mark, and there will be another video version of that coming soon to our YouTube channel.

Wishing all of our listeners, friends, and family a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and hope for a brighter New Year. Cheers!

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207: Stickman Brews (or How's Your Flow?) Dec 11, 2020

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One of our favorite pandemic activities is getting goofy with our good friend Ethan Buckman, Co-Owner and Brewer at Stickman Brews. In this episode we chat about Stickman’s new experimental series, selling beer to go, supporting small businesses, and (mostly) random conversations that straddle the line between poignant and absurd. In Happy Fun Time, Wayne hosted a round of Bad Beer Reviews, the game all about the crazy things people write on BeerAdvocate.com. Also, we tried something new…look for the video version of the episode’s Happy Fun Time Game on our YouTube channel (yes, we do have a YouTube channel – we almost forgot too.) All this and more, while we partake of a generous array of Stickman Brews.

(We also mentioned Dan's recent standup performance, which you can watch here if you're into that sort of thing. Dan starts at 51:42 but you should watch the other comics too!)

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206: Stolen Sun Craft Brewing & Roasting (or Problematic Holes) Nov 27, 2020

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The last on-location podcast episode we recorded before the Coronavirus pandemic shutdown was at Stolen Sun Brewing in Exton, PA. Several months and wildly off-the-mark predictions later, Stolen Sun founder, Jonathan Zangwill returns to the podcast under very different, socially distanced circumstances. We discuss the expansion of the brewery, recent projects, dealing with COVID and more. In Happy Fun Time, Wayne hosted a round of There’s Weird in My Beer, all about brews featured in this year’s Extreme Beer Fest (Cyberspace) hosted by Beer Advocate. All of this and so much more, as we sample a healthy array of Stolen Sun brews.

Oh yeah, and we also talk about that time Dan ate yeast.

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205: New Trail Brewing (or Haze-Adjacent) Nov 13, 2020

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Joining us this episode is Mike LaRosa, Director of Brewing Operations at New Trail Brewing in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Opened in April of 2018, New Trail has become one of the most talked about breweries in the state in its relatively short lifespan. Part of that success can be attributed to our guest, LaRosa’s long and impressive resume in the beer industry. We chat about this and what led him to New Trail, as well as distribution updates, collaborations, and – of course – how the brewery has navigated the challenges of COVID. In Happy Fun Time, Wayne hosts a round of origial-flavor, no-nonsense, Libation or Fabrication. All this and more, while we sip on a selection of New Trail brews, that showcase the breweries chops beyond their hugely popular lineup of IPAs.

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