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A Podcast & A Beer – Eaters Digest

The October podcast is Eaters Digest. A breezy food news and trends podcast from the Eater brand of websites that stretch across the country. The pod is hosted by Eater Editor-in-Chief Amanda Kludt and Producer Daniel Geneen and covers topics ranging from natural (orange) wine, to restaurant trends to babies in bars. Each show goes by quickly and though the hosts skew towards a younger generation, I find it refreshing to hear about items outside my little bubble even if they do not come down hard on hard seltzer.

I would suggest, since they do talk wine and cocktails a bit that you find say a Rosalie from Firestone Walker or a Nitro White Russian from Left Hand to pair with the podcast.

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A Podcast & A Beer – Noble Blood

The Podcast choice for August is royally messy. Noble Blood from writer Dana Schwartz started with a bang with Marie Antoinette and her unfortunate end then for episode 2, picked up the tale of Charles the Second.

The episodes are not lengthy digressions into dry history. The narration is both crisp and conspiratorial and they hit pockets of history that I did not know of or remember.

For the beer to sample alongside this podcast, I suggest heading to Anaheim, California and Noble Ale Works and see if they have Naughty Sauce, their coffee cream milk beer that was all the rage a few short years ago or maybe go Imperial to Nobility, their Imperial IPA.

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A Podcast & A Beer – 13 Minutes to the Moon

With the 50th Anniversary of the Moon landing (yes, it did happen ya’ kooky nutjobs), it is a good time to go back and dig into the details that we haven’t seen in movies like First Man, Apollo 13 and Hidden Figures) and no better place than the venerable BBC with 13 Minutes to the Moon.

The music and the pacing seemed a bit off in the first couple of episodes but as we reach episode 8, the podcast seems to have found its footing. The interviews from both archival footage and new is weaving together the stories of the flight controllers and the astronauts into a larger story and pinning the arc of the story on one specific section of the flight allows for stories to spin off but return to the 13 minutes of descent to the lunar surface.

For beers to pair with it, I would suggest 8-Bit Brewing from Murrieta. Apollo 11 was using the most rudimentary computer coded via punch cards so a brewery with beers such as Turbulent Juice would be a good choice. You could also look to Florida for a Cigar City beer like Cold Moon Flanders or to Houston for flight control and Great Heights Brewing and their Lupulin Starship or Galactic Fruitier Pellets.

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A Podcast & A Beer – Prime(d)

I am turning away from the Amazon.  I avoid buying from it and try to choose local instead.  I do still shop at Whole Foods but the dollars spent is decreasing.  I just don’t like some of their business practices and that is where I draw the line with beer as well.  You can be a hard competitor.  You can negotiate for days.  You can hold secrets close to the vest.  Just don’t run roughshod over your employees and customers for an extra buck.

All preamble to suggesting a listen to Prime(d) with co-hosts Carolyn Adolph and Joshua McNichols who turn a critical eye onto Amazon from Alexa to personal data.  It gets a little jokey and gimmicky but it also gives the listener a firm grounding in all things Bezos.

To drink with this pod, I would look to Pike Brewing (skip Elysian unless you want to play up the sell-out angle). I would go for the Pike Pale or their XXXX Stout for old-school traditional Seattle. You could also pick up a Stone beer since that company has PR issues as well as a Virginia HQ separate from their West Coast base.

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I am a Brewer

In can be easy to stay in your local beer bubble or, heck, a statewide beer bubble. One good way to break out and get a fresh perspective is to read some out of country beer writing. I Am A Brewer is a more technical and brewing site / newsletter / podcast but you can zoom around reading what you find interesting and the podcast is only ten minutes long so you are not going to be stuck in a meandering discussion.

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Hopped LA is Podcasting

Hopped LA is a great source for events coming up as well as their fancy brewery t-shirts (get one, they are great!) and now they are entering the podcast arena.

And they lined up a great one-two punch for their 1st episode:

Check it out and subscribe and then do the whole 5-Star thing that Apple demands.

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A Podcast & A Beer – Dumb People Town

Over the past few months, I would hear my wife laughing in the other room.  Wondering what was up, I heard her listening to a podcast.  The title didn’t strike me as funny and the short amount I listened to seemed to be a digression from a main story.  Flash forward to weeks later and I hear her laughing again, so I saunter in to listen in and this time, it was funny and I started to get why she enjoyed it.

Long story short, that podcast is Dumb People Town and though it does digress and the humor can become insular to the hosts, there are bits that will make you laugh a lot, and we need that.

So for beers, let’s start with Anaheim’s Towne Park and their White Ale because most of the culprits on this show, are let’s face it, probably white from what they manage to do.

Further away is Good People Brewing and the perfect choice from them is Snake Handler IPA for the obvious and dangerous reasons.

Or maybe you can dumb it up by putting your beer in the worst possible glass for the style.

Beer wise, I would

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A Podcast & A Beer – Song Exploder


There are plenty of podcasts that go on forever. The kind where you decide that you won’t start one because it is better to listen to the full hour and not in snippets. But when you find a podcast that is 10-15 minutes and is really cool, that is bliss.

Song Exploder in that short time frame has a musician, member of the band, producer talk about one song. They explain the genesis of it. You hear the separated tracks (stems) and you basically hear the entire song taken apart and then played at the end.

The host and creator is Hrishikesh Hirway and he is not front and center. I would call him more of an editor. You hear from the guests which have included Björk, U2, Metallica, Solange, Spoon, REM and even composers.

For the beer, go out east to Homage Brewing and pick up some crowlers of Sound Dust or Ride the Fader. Or you can scan your beer shoppe shelves for beers that have musical names to them. One other option is the recent L.A. Ale Works L.A. Phil Brut IPA.

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Brewbound is Podding


The industry website Brewbound is entering the podcast arena with the plan to “feature interviews with the beer industry’s top founders and executives, as well as promising newcomers.”

I will be downloading the first episode to see how Brewbound editors Chris Furnari and Justin Kendall conduct the interview and what questions they ask.

Hopefully they will swing around to talk to some locals as the first two guests of the weekly interviews are Dan Kenary from Harpoon and New Realm Brewing Co-Founder and CEO Carey Falcone.

You can find the show from wherever you get your audio fix.

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New Belgium Built This


I am not a super fan of the How I Built This podcast from NPR, but my wife is and thanks to her pointing it out, I got to listen to a decent little talk with Kim Jordan of New Belgium fame. Now I would have asked some other questions. More about women in beer and more about changing tastes. Maybe there were edits for time, I don’t know, but the podcast did give a nice amount of backstory. It’s worth a listen, so check it out HERE.