Heavy Hops
Heavy Hops uses beer and heavy music as lenses to frame larger cultural and social questions. Guests from the music and beer industry join hosts Alexi D Front (Scorched Tundra) and Sam Cangelosi to share their stories and discuss why and how the worlds of heavy music and beer matter and are highly intertwined. Dive and get heavy with new episodes every Thursday..
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March 4, 2021 • 93 min
Joining us today are Matthias Neidhart and David Frost of B. United International – an importer of specialty beer, cider, sake and meads – based in Connecticut. Brewers and producers they represent such as Hitachino/Kiuchi, De Dolle, Schlenkerla, Reissdorf, Domaine DuPont, and Loverbeer have had an enduring impact on the evolution of beer in America over the last twenty five
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February 25, 2021 • 135 min
I first encountered Breandán Kearney‘s work during my time at Local Option beer bar in Chicago. I carried on a tradition of showcasing artisanal brewers from around the world, giving them a draft platform in one of the best beer cities. Importers such as Shelton Brothers (RIP), B-United and 12% Imports allowed me incredible access to producers who – informed
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February 18, 2021 • 67 min
Chris Quinn, owner of Chicago’s Beer Temple tap room and bottle shop, is back for a conversation covering how winter reopening compares to summer, category transcendence and classification of hard seltzers, and making manufacturing sexy again. We discuss Drizly’s acquisition by Uber and the risk of allowing big tech to turn us all into Sofa Heroes. Not sure who Chris
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February 11, 2021 • 73 min
The first time Sam, Bryn and I visited Door County, Wisconsin was in January 2019. At Half Acre’s Far And Away Festival the previous autumn I was introduced to Hacienda Beer Co, only to discover I’d in fact known most of them from their time studying at Siebel Institute and mine serving them on their many visits to Local Option.
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February 9, 2021 • 73 min
Marc Strömberg is an illustrator and musician who grew up with the Umeå hardcore scene, one generation after Johannes. Marc recalls an era in which genre torchbearers from around the world such as Earth Crisis, Biohazard, The Locust, and Ignite trekked thousands of miles outside of a conventional tour routing to play in Umeå. The attraction Marc and others in
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February 4, 2021 • 80 min
Our conversation begins with the void in our industry left by the closure of bars, taprooms and restaurants, which we refer to as the On Premise. There are moments of stewardship, willingness to explore new brands and flavor profiles, and trust building that occur in the on-premise space. The same can’t be said when you’re cruising through a grocery store
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January 28, 2021 • 60 min
Grant McKee is the owner of Bucket O’ Blood Records, a store specializing in records, books and graphic novels in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. From a young age Grant was an avid reader and an aficionado of all things heavy and horror. We discuss how he turned his passion into a business – adding selling online to his arsenal – and
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January 21, 2021 • 56 min
Our conversation with Johannes Persson continues, with the topic shifting to his main musical project, Cult of Luna. We pick up on the DIY ethos so crucial to his professional development in our discussion about Red Creek Recordings, Johannes’ new record label venture, a project only 2020 would have made time for (Johannes points out the next Cult of Luna
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January 14, 2021 • 82 min
In September 1994, 16 year old Johannes Persson, a vegan, straight edge, member of the hardcore music scene found himself at the center of a socio-political movement at its inflection point. Umeå – located 8 hours drive north from Sweden’s capital Stockholm – had recently seen a number of arsons and direct actions aimed at drawing awareness to animal rights
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January 7, 2021 • 97 min
Grant Netzorg, frontman of the Denver based doom trio In The Company of Serpents joins us for our first conversation of 2021. The bands recent release, Lux, landed on multiple 2020 year end lists, including our own. We dive into the album touching on production and how the album differentiates from past releases. Grant opens up about the lyrical content,
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July 24, 2020 • 48 min
Brant Dobuvick is the Director of Brewing Operations for three successful Chicago brewpubs: DryHop Brewers, Corridor Provisions & Brewery, and Crushed By Giants (which opened on July 17, 2020). In this engaging conversation we discuss what it means to be a small brewpub in Chicago in the midst of a changing landscape impacted by COVID 19, the cultural synergy between
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