Cheers To Beers

Jess and Shawna talk industry changes in Washington and California, show union support and rage about BS.

Jess and Shawna on the Grit and Grain podcast!  Give them a follow, sub, and check out their network for more of their episodes and locally produced podcasts: channel253.com

Jess and Shawna interview the ladies of Yakima Chief Hops about the history of Yakima farms, how the Pink Boots hop blend is developed, and hop education. Brought to you by the Pink Boots Society.   Links: https://www.yakimachief.com/pink-boots-blend.html https://www.pinkbootssociety.org/pink-boots-brew/    

Jess and Shawna talk to the founder of Pink Boots Society, Teri Farhendorf and President of the committee, Blanca Quintero, about the past and present of Pink Boots. 

We're Back! Just in time for the end of the year! So you KNOW we're drinking Sierra Nevada Celebration. Join us in discussing the year for Seattle Beer School and the beer industry as a whole.  Come hang out with us in Portland! Dec 16-18th! Tickets to Falalalalager: falalalalager.eventbrite.com Open that Celebration and join us as we talk about how we had Brouwer's Cafe tap a 10 year old keg of Bigfoot, a mini lesson on Stjørdalsøl, and how we think dark malts are making a comeback in the new year.

Jess and Shawna chat with Mark Dredge, author of A Brief History of Lager, about Vietnamese lager and beer culture. Mark collaborated with Lowercase Brewing to brew a Hanoi-inspired, low ABV, rice lager. We do a blind tasting of it, talk German lagers with an English accent, and the French colonization of Vietnam and how that led to lager brewing there.  https://www.beerdredge.com/ @markdredge 

Part 2 on our series about Kölsch sponsored by the Goethe Pop Up in Seattle. “Kolsch is the only language you can drink”  Jess and Shawna interview Arno of Fruh Brewery in Cologne, Germany and talk beer culture in America vs Germany, the history of Früh, and Kölsch vs Altbier.

Jess and Shawna try non-alcoholic beers so you don't have to. Plus! A spicy Seattle Gossip Corner, Tales from Behind the Bar, and Jess' signature mocktail.    “Exploring Seattle's Booming Beer Scene” "Past Meets Presence - A Voyage to Seattle's Ballard Brewery District" 

Jess and Shawna talk to Barry Chan from Lucky Envelope about his collaboration on a Kölsch style ale with Lowercase Brewing. We talk about the lack of good Kölsch style beers in the US, using dry yeast in brewing, the process of forming a Kölsch style recipe and retro 80s video games. Grab a Kölsch (or Kölsch-style ale) and join us! Cheers   This episode is sponsored by the Goethe Pop Up Seattle https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/gps.html

Jess and Shawna pick their respective top 3 summer beers and discuss why and how they are ideal for beating the heat. 

Reflecting on the most recent social media blowup on how women are treated in the industry.

F*uck, Marry, Kill, brewery addition, the best Mexican imports, what a Mexican lager even is, and don't be racist on Cinco de Mayo.    Past Meets Presence Articles:  https://bit.ly/33j82Lw https://bit.ly/3xMZ6vP 

That which we call a beer by any other name would taste as sweet. 

Jess and Shawna are joined by Sean and Corey of Number Six with Cheese! To talk about different light beers across the US and share our best Drunchies moments. We're drinking Rainier, PBR, Modelo, and Montucky and Jess is eating Taco Bell. In this 'sode we discuss the Divorced Parents Tuna Bowl ,the history of Malort, auditioning for beer commercials, and the best dessert in fast food.

Representation matters! Black people love beer! Drink more west coast IPAs! Jess and Shawna are joined by Chanell Williams aka @hopsgalore to talk representation in the industry, beer influencers, LA vs Seattle, and the box set VHS of Titanic that changed all of our young lives. Get yourself a Block 15 Sticky Hands (or any IIPA) and join us! 

Seattle Gossip Corner but make it the whole episode. There'a all sorts of shenanigans in the beer world right now: co-opting trauma to sell beer, diet beers, and outrageous lawsuits. Grab a beer and join us!

Jess and Shawna rate the super bowl beer commercials, hate on theme park beers, and introduce a new segment, Seattle Gossip Corner.

Jess and Shawna talk to Caitlin Braam of Yonder Cider Co about everything cider! We talk what semi-sweet cider actually means, Miller Lite with green olives, and ciderkins.   @yondercider | yondercider.com @fastpennyspirits | fastpennyspirits.com

Jess and Shawna review craft beer in 2020 and make predictions for 2021. In this episode talk how the Seattle beer scene dealt with the pandemic, the best beers of 2020, and Ken Grossman in the 80s Check out Beer Kulture: @beerkulture beerkulture.com

Jess is joined by Dave Riddile (No Anchor, Here Today, Good Beer Hunting) and Shawna joins virtually via text message. We are drinking Machine House Dark Mild.  This episode we are drinking Machine House Dark Mild and talking about starting a new brewery during a pandemic, March Mildness, and don't take a Nissan Leaf to Skagit Valley.  https://wefunder.com/heretoday

Get ready for a classic Jess and Shawna rant (but make it mini).  In this ep we talk ABinBev being fucking sneaky with their sellout beer agenda, sketchy Beer venture capital groups, and journalism in the social media age. 

Drink West Coast IPAs and be Dankful.    The Beer Kitchen: The Art and Science of Cooking and Pairing with Beer by Melissa Cole  The Oxford Companion to Beer 

The history of witch imagery, how it's related to women brewing, and spoiler alert, the patriarchy and colonialism ruins the party again. Happy Halloween!

A Lit, Theatre, Film Major Walk into a Brewery... Jess and Shawna chat with Michael Dempster of Mirage Beer. We talk capturing wild cultures in a traveling coolship, a love for both saison and NEIPA, the infamous labels, how it's radicalized him and what he's working on to be better.

wtf is the difference between Bav(arian) beer and Franc(onian) beer? Jess and Shawna try to find the answer. Plus! We get the inside scoop on a call in with Ben Howe from Otherlands Beer. 

A small group of us gathered to Pilsnerfest with masks and at a safe distance. These are their stories. Featuring: Otherlands Kellerbier, a speaker phone catch up with Shawna, and another round of 16 CanDolls. Hail Pilsner. 

Shawna's joining me on the pod to interview our friend and head brewer at Lowercase Brewing, John Marti. We're drinking Ayinger Jahrhundert Bavarian Pilsner and talking the difference between Franconian and Bavarian styles, bartending as an introvert, how John's basically a Trappist monk, and industry chit chat and hot goss per ushe. Grab a German Pilz and join us! Cheers!

"The noun for disingenuous is fuckin' liars". Jess and Shawna give advice about homebrewing and vent about industry bullshit. AHA videos: https://www.homebrewcon.org/ AHA educator: Amanda Burkemper

I talk with graphic designer and illustrator Casey Callahan over a NE Lager, a collaboration with Lowercase Brewing and Seattle Beer School ft. Casey's design! We chat about breweries giving credit to artists, how to navigate the beer industry as an artist, and "equal" treatment in the industry. Cheers! @seattlebeerschool @caseyskylar

What good beer can you find at the grocery store? Spoiler alert: you have to check the date codes.  Watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/7V5hZFTc1ZM

Shawna's back on the pod! Recording live from Tucson, AZ We're drinking various IPAs, I got myself a Standard Brewing hazy and Seapine double IPA. Because we just needed a little comfort in taking on some topics. We get into Cicerone-level knowledge versus working at a brewery, do exact styles even exist, more covid drama and we get REAL about "diversity" in the workplace.

My guest today is captain of the ship at Bottleworks, Brandon Wiley! And we're drinking different lagers because we're tired, damnit, and just want to kick it and gossip with friends. Brandon: Stoup German Pils Jess: Machine House x Lowercase London Lager   New news: Cheers to Beers is now apart of the Titancast network! Prost!   This 'sode we talk how small breweries are adapting to the consumption outside of taprooms, emotional labor of the service industry, who's dating who in the lager scene, PNW beer gossip and more!

The Art of Beer is an on going series where I drink and chat with artists who work with breweries.  For The Art of Beer 2 I'm joined by Ryan Williams, the artist from Holy Mountain Brewing in Seattle, WA. Ryan Williams: @spiritofgoodliving http://spiritofgoodliving.com/ And we are drinking the Samiclaus Doppelbock and Fort George Cathedral Tree Pilsner. Mysticism in the artistic process, his work with Holy Mountain, the transition as an artist from graphic design to illustration, and I can't resist a little baseball talk. Grab whatever's in your fridge because shelter-in-place people! Cheers!    

This 'sode I'm joined by head brewer of Standard Brewing, Ken(do) Sorensen and we're talking all about Brett(anomyces)! We are drinking Old Money from Standard and the OG of the OGs, Orval.  We're talking the "cross-section of magic and science", a new hop varietal, "Northgate Goldings", the homogenization of American beer, and more from the wine vs beer debate. Grab some Orval and join us! Cheers! 

In this episode Jess and Shawna line up 4 different barrel aged big bois and test out how they've aged, whether or not they're good, and approximate why.   Goose Island: Bourbon County Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout  2015 Fremont Brewing: Bourbon Barrel Aged Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout 2017 Reuben's Brews: Three Ryes Men Rye and Bourbon Barrel Aged Rye Wine 2017 Georgetown Brewing: Tombourbon Barrel Aged Brown Ale 2019   Also we call 1-800-GOOSEME, Jess can't remember what waxing is, and Alaska Airlines, if you're listening, and I know you are, sponsor us.   Mentions: The Chemistry of Beer Aging: A Critical Review https://scinapse.io/papers/2016506425 Barrel Aged Stout and Selling Out by Josh Noel

Welcome to a new Cheers to Beers series called The Art of Beer where I’m chatting with artists who work with breweries. This episode I'm joined by Connor McPherson of Aslan Brewing Company who has done their murals at all three locations and the specialty bottle labels.  We get into how his travels have inspired his work, the persistence of an independent artist, and anime club. Grab a doppelbock and join us for the final episode of 2019! 

Sheet cake stouts, who we were in high school, and fuck the patriarchy aka your aunties get drunk on saisons. PLUS - Letting go of the ego as a brewer and creator and how do you define success? Is it monetary? Is it creativity? Is it internet clout?? Also never plugged my instagram in the intro: @jessjessbeer Follow Stamp Act Coffee: @stampactcoffee

We're back at The Masonry drinking Jester King! I'm joined by founder of Drunk Herstory and overall badass beer lady, Libby Borchert. Aaaaand we decided to get a whole magnum of farmhouse delight. In this ep we're talking about pineapple and jalapeno pizza, disrupting the 3 tier system, and encouraging women to be active in their local beer scene.  Grab a beer and drink along! Cheers!

Shawna and I drink all the pumpkin beers so you don’t have to. You’re welcome. Plus: the American history of gourds, a lost rural Californian language, and how far can we throw a pumpkin?! The beers we cover: 1. Dogfish Head Punkin’ Ale 2. Elysian Night Owl 3. Dorchester Brewing / Abomination Brewing Hop Roulette 4. Anderson Valley Fall Hornin’ 5. Pfriem Pumpkin Bier Check out @sam_hiemer for more spooky art like the hop label on Hop Roulette Give a listen to Jess on @tunesandtumblers

Welcome to another Half Pint 'sode with Shawna Cormier We're delving into fermented fruit juice, secondary fermentation with fruit, non grape wine, and beer fermented with wine grapes. We're drinking and comparing a blueberry wine from Oyster River Wine Growers and the Viognier from Floodland Brewing and Kobayashi Winery. What tasting notes and pontifications do we come up with? Bust open a weird beer-wine-cider Frankensteinien bottle and find out! For more natural wine info and facts follow @marissaross and @winefolly And for all the fun native yeast and wild beer follow @floodlandbrewing

We are live on the scene of Pilsnerfest 2019 where the sun is shining, the pilsners are slamming, and there ain't a single IPA in sight. Follow Shawna and I as we interview some characters (including the CEO) on a groundbreaking new game: "16 CanDolls", shitty SoCal lagers, Pilsner recipes, and our Grandfather Randy Mosher. Grab a pilsner and join in on a speciality live episode. Cheers! 

This episode is all about wild beers! I'm joined by Jeremy Rodriguez and Matt C. to talk Beachwood Blendery and Upright Brewing. We talk wine and beer crossovers, Lambic vs Methode Traditionnelle, is brett actually wild, and beer aged on crystals and Wu Tang, and the trials and tribulations that is working with wild yeast. As Matt says "The target is never where you want it". Grab a wild saison or sour and join us!   The Unabridged List of Matt's Shoutouts:  Jeff Alworth and his article on Lambic beer: https://bit.ly/2kqXG9I Trevor Roger (deGarde Brewing) Lauren Salazar (New Belgium) Paul Arney (Ale Apothecary) Chad ??? Ryan Fields (of Beachwood Blendery and now Wild Fields and Jeremy's mentor) Brett Trey (sp?) Harrison McCabe (current Barrel Master at Beachwood Blendery) Alex Ganum (Upright Brewing) Adam Paysse (Floodland Brewing)

Half Pints are back! In the newest minisode, I introduce my new occasional co-host, Shawna Cormier. We talk about summer dranks and how there's a trend in both the beer world (and in the beverage industry in general) of how no one wants to drink something that actually tastes like alcohol. We try to understand this phenomenon by cracking open some White Claw and True hard seltzers.  Drink along with us (if you dare). For more about Seattle Beer School follow us on insta @seattlebeerschool and check out seattlebeerschool.com 

"I'm done when it stops being about bringing people together"   Mike from Modern Times (currently PDX) and I drink a lot of MT beers. Including Black House Nitro Stout, Poly Rhythmo Pilsner, and Shrine of the Forsaken Gods (Jester King collab). Listen to us talk about loving beer for what it does for people and community, going from being a "spy" to a brewer, and that one time Mike almost died from McDonalds.  Side Note: I KNOW I said Floodland(s) not FloodLAND don't @ me!!  Grab a Modern Times beer and drink along with us! Cheers!  

Cheers to Beers is back babbyyy! And we're jumping back in with a good ol' fashioned hang sesh.    Join me and my industry (but more importantly close and beautiful) friends Samira and Matt as we drink Jester Kind Fantome del Rey + Rainier chambongs at the Masonry Fremont. Disclaimer: I say the wrong name of the beer in the intro! My Bad! It's del Rey not del Mar. No matter how I said it it's still a bomb-ass beer.    Listen to us struggle to pick a beer, get deep into what it means to work for a craft brewery, experiencing sexism as a bartender, and get some solid advice on how to do your nighttime drunchies.    Grab a Jester King (or whatever beer you got) and join us! Cheers! 

Waddup beer nerds we're back with a full length 'sode for ya! This episode was recorded in San Diego with my two closest friends from college (UCSB go gauchos), Bianca and Amanda. We are drinking the BooKoo IPA from Mother Earth in Vista, CA. Although this episode is less beer-centric and more telling crazy stories from college (please don't judge me for all the vodka I drank), it feels like a sleepover and who doesn't love reminiscing with their friends? Take off your bra, put on yoga pants, and join me and my girls as we share a beer and embarrassing stories.  In this episode we talk Amanda's bachelorette party, nightmare roommate situations, and we have an existential crisis over about the evolution of social media. Grab a beer and join us! Cheers! 

A brand new minisode comin' at you in 2018! Join your host, Jess Keller, and friend of the podcast Coel as we talk the relationship between weed and beer culture and the phenomenon that is Underbergs. Grab the last half of your beer or J and join us!

This week I am joined by fellow beer podcaster, Evan Pedrola (Beer and/or Movie) to chat over Stoup Brewing's Citra IPA. In this Seattle-centric episode we talk about PNW IPAs, zombie war hammers, and the way this city has changed over the years. Grab an IPA and join us! Cheers!

Waddup Beer Fam! It's been a hot sec but Cheers to Beers is back, baby! Now introducing mini episodes called Half Pints, I'll be releasing these between full episodes as I get back into the podcasting game. The Half Pints episodes will be me and friend of the podcast, Coel, bantering on my balcony (while drinking of course). Topics will range from seasonal beers, to venting about work, to anything interesting going on in the beer world. This episode was recorded on Friday the 13th and we get into seasonal and trendy styles of this Fall. Grab a schooner and join us! Cheers! 

It's a space themed episode with actual scientists! Remember when NASA released the news on a star called TRAPPIST-1 that has seven exoplanets orbiting it with some being potentially Earth-like? Yeah, I talk all about that with astronomers Jake and Dave. And what a better beer to have when talking about space, stars, and potential extraterrestrial life than a Trappist ale. We're drinking the Westmalle Tripel in honor of the Belgian scientists who found this star. Strap in for some insight on these planets, the potential for alien beer, and everything you need to know about TRAPPIST-1! Grab a beer and join us!   

We're changing things up in this new episode of Cheers to Beers! This 'sode I'm joined by astronomy nerds Jake Lustig-Yaeger and Dave Fleming as we take on the Lite Beer Challenge! We work through the tasting notes of 5 lite beers followed by a blind taste test. Grab 5 lite beers and join us!