The Brewing Network Presents | The Session

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The Session | Riip Beer Company Jun 11, 2019

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This week on The Session, we welcome Ian McCall from Riip Beer Company in Huntington Beach, California. Riip started out as a nano brewery using a MoreBeer Brew Sculpture to craft their beers. Today, they are an award winning brewery destination with some serious brewing chops. Tune in and learn about their fabulous beers (we're big fans now!). Also, JP, Sully and Justin reminisce about the old days of the BN and we learn about Sully being super-human on last week's show after a major health crisis.

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The Session | Burgeon Beer Company Jun 04, 2019

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This week on The Session, we are joined in-studio by Burgeon Beer Company, out of Carlsbad, California. Listen in as Co-Founder and Head Brewer, Anthony Tallman, and Co-Founder and Director of Operations, Derek Van Leeuwen, talk to us about their unique and charitable business model that supports environmental initiatives. We'll also learn about their love of hoppy beers, of which many of theirs have earned them medals.

In addition to all the great Burgeon Beer discussion, we celebrate the return our great friend Shaun "Sully" O'Sullivan, from the 21st Amendment Brewery, as a recurring co-host on the show!

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The Session | Ghost Town Brewing May 21, 2019

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Ghost Town Brewing, from Oakland, California, joins us in-studio to talk about how hoppy beers are not what they seem. We are joined by Head Brewer, Justin Burdt, and owner, Ryan Nosek, to talk about their lightening fast growth and love of unique hops. We revitalize an old discussion on early IBU's vs. late additions, learn about some old school recipe techniques, and taste some great examples of several styles of great craft beer!

We also reminisce about old fan songs dedicated to Beevo, and the crew declares who, in all of history, each of the Brewcasters would like to hug...

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The Session | Live From Russian River May 16, 2019

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The Session crew heads up to Windsor, CA to broadcast live from the all new Russian River Brewing Company! Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo invited us to their spectacular new brewery for a day of tours, fun and incredible beer. To round out the day, we set up in the entirely unique, and so so cool, Koelschip room. Vinnie and Natalie custom built this room to create spontaneously fermented beer, and even filled it with wort that day so that one day in the future (maybe 2-3 years) we will have a Brewing Network, spontaneously fermented, Koelschip beer!

Tune in and learn all about the new brewery and so much more. Plus, one of our favorite parts of the day was when we made Beardy do a blind taste test of a Russian River hazy beer AND a Russian River clear beer. After all the comments about his dislike of the hazy style, tune in and find out if he can really taste the difference...

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The Session | Solid Ground Brewing May 07, 2019

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This week on The Session we welcome Solid Ground Brewing, from Diamond Springs, CA. to the studio. We are joined by co-owners KC Sare and Scott Johnson. These guys love brewing clean fermented, continental ales and lagers, but they bring us some big surprises! They've got some big brewery process chops that they use in their brew house that gives them a unique perspective on craft beer. But what sets them apart is their attention to detail and their combination of viticulture and brewing science to create craft beer that defies its own category.

We are also joined by one of our favorite homebrew guru's, Gary Glass, to talk to us about this year's HomebrewCon in Providence, RI. And later, we get a call from Dave Marliave, from Flat Tail Brewing, (or Marliavoovooveevov as we like to call him...sometimes) who is on another quest to save the world, while defiling himself. But it's for a truly wonderful cause that's close to our hearts here at the BN and we hope you'll give it a listen and even support his heroic efforts.

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The Session | Baerlic Brewing Co May 01, 2019

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This week on The Session, we welcome the folks from Baerlic Brewing Company, from Portland, OR. to the studio! We are joined by Baerlic President, Ben Parsons, CEO, Rik Hall and Lead Brewer, Stephen “The Bear” Helwig. Learn about how and why Baerlic is Portland's largest self-distributed craft brewery, as well as why they have some strange obsession with denim vests... And they share some damn good beer with us! Also, we get a visit from a couple of old friends that remind us of the good ol' days! And if that's not enough, we introduce you to our newest team member and co-host, Teresa Psuty, from Crooked Lane Brewing Company in Auburn, CA.

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The Session | Swan Brewing Apr 23, 2019

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This week on The Session, we are joined by our old friend Christian Hood (a.k.a. Krotchrott) from the very early days of The Brewing Network. Well Christian is all grown up now with his very own brewery, Swan Brewing, in Lakeland, FL. We get to try many of their unique creations (Imperial Coffee Blonde anyone?) and learn about the long journey from homebrewer to professional brewer from one of our favorite listeners of all time.

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The Session | Allegory Brewing Apr 02, 2019

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Allegory Brewing from McMinnville, Oregon joins us in the studio this week on The Session. Founder, David Sanguinetti and Head Brewer, Charlie Van Meter, bring us some of there excellent Pacific Northwest creations and collaborations. Hailing from the Willamette Valley in Oregon, Allegory sources many local hops, fruits and other ingredients to keep their beer fresh and uniquely Oregon.

We are also joined by our friend (and Social Media Director) Kim Schimke, who spends the whole show with us this week and makes some crazy suggestions about team building exercise for the BN crew. Oh, and Justin has a breakthrough when talking about his team of mental health professionals...

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The Session | Guinness Open Gate Brewery Mar 26, 2019

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This week on The Session, we welcome Ryan Wagner from the Guinness Open Gate Brewery and Barrel House in Baltimore, MD. Ryan takes us through the transformation in brewing and brewing projects that Guinness has been undertaking in recent years. We get to try some of the classic Guinness beers as well as a few of the new beers they have recently launched. Tune in and learn more about this historic brewing icon and find out what else we can expect from Guinness in the coming years!

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The Session | Sunriver Brewing Company Mar 19, 2019

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This week on The Session we welcome Sunriver Brewing Company, from Sunriver, OR. to the show. We are joined by Director of Brewing Operations, Brett Thomas. Brett takes us through the history and expansion of Sunriver Brewing, as well as a few of their delicious beers. A self-proclaimed "Hop Guy", Brett makes the Pacific Northwest proud with his flavorful and hoppy brews, which earned Sunriver Small Brewing Company and Small Brewing Company Brewer of the Year honors at the 2017 Great American Beer Festival. Brett gives us a few tips and tricks about using hop extracts from Yakima Chief Hops, and impresses us all with with how Sunriver embraces changes in the craft beer marketplace.

We are also joined by our long time friend Lucas Ohio, who performs a couple live songs for us to get us ready for his upcoming set at Spring Brews Fest 2019!

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