Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast

We celebrate Thanksgiving....and our 100th episode with two of our favorite spots. Creature Comforts was our first guest, so it was appropriate to invite them on. Jonathan Chinouth and Matt Stevens j…

Now that SB85 is law, it's a lot more feasable for breweries to stake their claim in Georgia. 

And one of the more impressive trends we've seen is breweries opening up in smaller communities. 

LaGran…

Gwinnett County is metro Atlanta's second most populous county.

However, until recently, it lacked one thing: Its own craft brewery. Lawrenceville's Slow Pour Brewing Company changed that earlier thi…

You know that we love craft beer. But sometimes, it’s good to take a little break. So in the studios with us are two co-founders of Treehorn Cider, Justin Pierce and Andrew Wheeler.

Plus, we recap of…

Phillip Barnes and Eric Levin were beer traders at first. 

One day, they realized that the distribution system in Georgia was broken, and worked to find a better way to do it. 

That idea is now Moder…

Georgia Senator Hunter Hill joined us on the show this week. He was instrumental in passing SB 63 - which led to this year's passage of SB 85. We talk small business, sensible laws, and why he's runn…

To some, making a BEER cocktail is a sin. 

Jason Santamaria, one of the founders of Second Self Beer Co., started experimenting with beer cocktails in college as a way to make cheap beer taste better…

Chattabrewchee Southern Brewhouse is making history. 

• It's West Point (Georgia)'s first brewery
• It's the first brewery in the state to have self-serve taps
• It's the first brewery in the country to h…

For the Beer Guys, every season is beer drinking season. 

But Oktoberfest is another level entirely. 

Plates of sausages and spaetzle, liters of lager...it's a great celebration to mark fall. 

Atlant…

As it does so often, Geoffrey Williams' craft beer journey started with a Mr. Beer Kit. 

As students at Georgia Southern, Williams and friends Haley and Nathan Cowan, they brewed beer and experimente…

Green Bus doesn't distribute, rarely sells its beer outside its taproom, and they're OK with that. 

When Jason Sledd named his homebrewery (Green Bus Brewing), many people joked that it was just a ma…

Is there a more overused term than "farm to table"?  

Probably not. But the meaning is still important - bringing fresh, local ingredients into a restaurant has been a big trend in dining. 

Tim Steve…

A historic show this week. 

Finally, direct sales are here. That's right, you can actually go into a Georgia brewery and actually buy their product! To celebrate, we talked to Nancy Palmer, Executive…

Take a trip down memory lane

Sarah Belanger and Kamara Davis, authors of the brand new book "North Alabama Beer: An Intoxicating History" joined us this episode.

The early residents of North Alabama …

What goes better with good beer than good food and good times? 

How about some good people too. We welcomed Michael Goot from Ormsby's and Billy Streck from Hampton & Hudson to the studios this week.…

By popular demand, we're talking home brewing this week! 

Homebrewers Andrew Cooper and Michael Rothlisberger joined us in the studio to talk about the joys of brewing. We talked about extracts getti…

Do you have friends who love wine, but turn their nose up at beer? 

Listen to this episode. We've got: 

• Dan Pernice, the General Manager at Osteria Mattone.  Beverage Director for OM, Table & Main, …

Just ahead of their Atlanta stop on their 40th Anniversary Tour, Foreigner guitarist, craft beer enthusiast, and Cicerone Certified Beer Server Bruce Watson chats with the Beer Guys about craft beer …

Beer has a long history in the United States and the world. 

In America, we have had thousands of breweries through the ages. And when you've got history, you've got collectors. 

We talked to two ded…