CL-040 Jonny Garrett is a Crispy Boi
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One of the greatest pleasures of being an editor is fielding pitches that our writers send in, which range from the bold to the brilliant to the baffling. Recently, GBH staff writer Jonny Garrett sent in an idea that was a mix of all three. That pitch evolved into his recent piece, “TL;DR – Tracing the Origins of Beer Language, from Michael Jackson to Emojis."
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CL-048 Anthony Gladman is social distancing in an orchard
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Until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the British cider scene was gathering some momentum and press as both an off-shoot of the craft beer movement and a traditional part of Britain’s beverage heritage. Anthony and I discuss the unique conservational approach of Find & Foster, and whether the world of cider is better or worse placed to weather the current storm than beer.
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COVID-003 — From the Newsroom
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We’ve shifted our editorial platform dramatically, so we check in with the reporters on our team. First, we're chatting with Kate Bernot, lead Sightlines contributor. Kate has years of experience reporting on breaking stories, and we talk about how this moment is different.
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COVID-002 — Finding Moments of Brightness
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In this check-in, we talk to talk to our team about the bright spots: the ways that folks have come together, the ways that communities have brainstormed creative solutions—anything that makes us feel better in this weird time. We catch up with Jim Plachy first, who is the community manager of the Fervent Few, our subscriber-based community. Then we jump to Jonny Garrett, a U.K.-based GBH contributor with some hot tips if you find yourself working from home with your significant other for the first time.
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COVID-001 — An Update on Coronavirus
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We decided to bring you a special edition of the GBH Collective podcast, checking in with our team of writers and editors across the globe. Our team has always consisted of folks reporting from their corners of the world, and this global crisis is no exception. One thing we always try to do at GBH is be frank and have open conversations … and that includes bringing you folks—our listeners, supporters, and fellow beer professionals—in on how we’re handling the current state of affairs.
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CL-047 Eoghan Walsh Really Wanted Rich Soriano to Talk about Lambic
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In his first piece for Good Beer Hunting, Eoghan Walsh manages to make it feel like the reader is right there with them, and over the course of a few thousand words, we travel to a number of special Lambic producers and pubs, slowly learning how an American has ended up being one of the faces of Brussels traditional brewing scene. We start, though, by addressing the fact that that’s the last way that Soriano would want to be described.
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CL-046 Mark Spence Owns His Feelings
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Beer is Offal is a food blog. That’s a simple way to put it. But that doesn’t capture all of it. As Mark Spence, the author of Beer is Offal, discusses in this episode, the blog deeply personal, and it differs from most food writing in that it’s not a series of recipes, it’s not about someone trying to learn a new cuisine or venturing into traditions of cooking that aren’t part of their background. It stays so close to the chest, and in that way, the ideas Mark talks about become wonderfully relat
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CL-045 Breandán Kearney Can Sniff Out a Lie
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Breandán Kearney's latest piece for Good Beer Hunting is titled, “Flying With Clipped Wings — West Kerry Brewery, County Kerry, Ireland.” Few beer articles have two deaths in their opening paragraphs, but even fewer manage to tell such an uplifting story of personal grit, and success against the odds.
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CL-044 Claire Bullen Has A Lizard Brain
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Claire Bullen took over the role of editor at GBH in June 2019 but has been on the editorial team since mid-2018. Claire is responsible for two of our 10 most popular stories of the year; she published a book in March; and shone like the beer beacon she is at this year’s North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards and British Guild of Beer Writers Awards, winning nods including Best Book, Best Technical Writing, and Best Travel Writing. It’s an understatement to say that we’re lucky to have her on
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CL-043 Kate Bernot Reads All The Comments
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Hey! Did you hear we hired someone new?
info_outlineWelcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I’m Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast.
If you’re part of the beer world, you’ve probably heard folklore about our Founding Fathers—the men who signed the Constitution, the first American presidents—brewing their own beer. That’s an appealing story, a fun tidbit you might tell a friend when they ask you about your own brewing adventures.
And yet, how critically have we regarded this story? Think about the timeframe folks like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson were operating in. Both men, the first and third presidents of the United States, respectively, were slaveholders. And it’s much more likely—guaranteed, even—that their slaves, not them, were the actual brewers.
Dr. J Nikol Jackson-Beckham pulled at the thread of this tale to point out its logical fallacies, and to shine a light on the actual brewers, specifically Peter Hemings, in her piece, “Missing Ingredients — The (Incomplete) Story of Thomas Jefferson’s Unsung Brewer,” which was published on our website on December 12, 2018.
The path to this story wasn’t quite linear for Dr. J, as she’s known throughout the beer world. Dr. J, who has a PhD in Communication & Cultural Studies, and who uses her training to study the beer world, started having inklings about this story as she was still working on PhD, but couldn’t quite find a place for it. We’ve all had this happen—a brilliant idea strikes us while we’re working on a different project, and we can’t exactly articulate where it belongs. So it stayed with her. For almost a decade. Now, in our conversation, she shares more about its long evolution—and its rewarding payoff.
This is the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast. Here’s Dr. J.