The Craft Fermentation Podcast

Today we will be hearing from Jesse Bousard, who at the time was the Executive Director of the Craft Maltster’s Guild & Hannah Turner , director of barley, malt and brewing quality lab at Montana State University. Jesse introduces us to the craft malt guild, shares craft malts origin stories and then emphasizes why craft malt is so important and impactful. Hannah then gives us a lesson on how to read and understand the info giv...

Today we share this super popular WIBS 21 session titled How to Build A Recipe. Featuring Cat Wiest and moderated by Tyler & Laurie of the Brewd ‘up podcast. We unfortunately had some technical difficulties with our moderators intro so it may sound a bit harsh as we jump right in here with Cat but we do get to hear from Tyler and Laurie towards the end of the talk so all is not lost. 

 Cat tells us a bit about herself and how sh...

Today’s talk was part of WIBS 22 and is title Beer: A Story About Power featuring Tinu Diver (river) a film maker living in North Carolina. She  opens this talk with the Obama beer summit and quickly get to know this talented and impassioned film maker. 

As she reveals her journey to beer and the genesis of her documentary project, This Belongs To Us,   we hear how important it was for her to find black beer culture and what a revel...

Today’s podcast features our Content Strategy for Digital Creators from WIBS 2021. Moderated by Ash Eliot, who you likely know from Women of the Bevolution and Brave Noise, our speakers Sarah Flora and Natalya Watson share with us how they got into beer and the road to being educators in that space. Nat chats transferrable skills to get into the industry, Sarah gives some tips on how to get started in homebrewing and then we dive i...

Listen in as Natalie Baldwin, then R&D brewer for Breakside Brewing in Portland, OR and Ashleigh Carter, co-owner and head brewer at Bierstadt Lagerhaus talks beer collabs! These two share their views on why your brewery should or should not collaborate;  what guidelines should you put in place to determine if a particular collab is right for your brewery and the importance of learning when collaborating.

They discuss...

WIBS ON THE RUN: We are very excited to share with you the first in a series we are calling WIBS On the Run. My wife and I were lucky enough to get to travel to Ireland this past September and thru our friends at The Beer Ladies podcast we were able to meet up with Claire Dalton of Dungarveen Brewing Co in County Waterford. She gave us a tour of the facilities along with a taste right out of the barrel of a special collab they are ...

SENSORY SERIES: We are so happy to share this WIBS 2022 session from BJCP National Beer Judge and Master Cicerone Nicole Erny. She is a beer professional from Northern California with a focus on sensory and education. For the past 13 years, she’s built her career from beertending at a specialty beer bar to consumer-facing beer events to education and exam development with the Cicerone Program to sensory education, quality program d...

101 SERIES: Today we bring you a WIBS 2021 session, Cider Making 101 with Michelle Pagano, who you may know as the Brew Babe on Instagram. Michelle started out as a beer lover but when she found out that she had to kick gluten out of her life she turned to cider and has not looked back. This talk will give you the big picture overview of what cider is, how apples are classified and described when it comes to cider making and a full...

LEADERS OF THE INDUSTRY SERIES: This episode features WIBS 2022 keynote speech given by Julia Herz: Gender & Beer and What's the Deal Here? In this talk you will hear Julia discuss her beliefs about breaking down the idea of gender in the fermented beverage industry, she discusses the importance of entering competitions, the importance of continually learning and boosting not just your brewing & eductionional confidenc...

LEADERS OF THE INDUSTRY SERIES: Hey all, this WIBS 2021 session is called Retrofuturism with Annie Johnson and Don’t worry, she explains what that means and what that means to her and her beer mindset. This session was moderated by Shani G, founder and beer lover behind the Black Beer Experience based out of Nashville TN. You will find links where you can check out the awesome work she is doing in the show notes. In this talk Annie...

DEI SERIES: This episode features a very special WIBS 2022 roundtable discussion with three women who are creating real action for real problems, especially as it pertains to authentic representation of BIWOC folks in the beer and greater craft fermentation industry. With their critical eyes trained on not just inquiring about what the local brewery is doing to increase access but zooming out to see the overall socio economic struc...

N/A SERIES: This week's episode is a WIBS 2022 roundtable discussion featuring a diverse swath of the team behind Athletic Brewing Co., A brewery with a meteoric rise to the top who was recently listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential business of 2022 and named 2021’s craft brewery of the year by trade publication Brewbound. This is truly a remarkable thing and a true shift in the beer beverage segment. 

BREWERY SERIES: This week we are going to explore a topic that so many of our WIBS attendees were asking for, going from a homebrewer to a head brewer. Once that homebrew bug bites you that aren’t many of us who don’t think about opening our own brewery. While only a select few actually pull the trigger and successfully follow through, we wanted to bring you this talk with Teresa Psuty & Ellen Sherrill of Crooked Lane Brewing t...

101 SERIES: This 2021 Women's International Beer Summit session was one of the most popular amongst both commercial brewers and homebrewers Join one of the premier German inspired lager brewers in the country as Ashleigh Carter of Bierstadt Lagerhaus in Denver, CO gives you ALL the tips and tricks to take you lager brewing to the next level. 

Ashleigh walks us through her entire process from recipe formuiation, mashing techniqu...

DEI SERIES: Today we are very excited to bring you this session which was one of the most anticipated of the 2022 Women’s International Beer Summit. This is a roundtable discussion titled Making Noise for a Safe & Discrimination-Free Beer Industry. Featuring Brienne Allen, professional brewer and co-founder of  the Brave Noise collaborative brew initiative, Ren Navarro a diversity educator and founder of Beer. Diversity, Jen Bl...

HISTORY SERIES: Listen in to this fascinating and very insightful talk by the curator of the Smithsonian's American Brewing History Initiative, Theresa McCulla. In this talk she discusses the integral role women have held in brewing beer from the very beginnings right through to the birth of the craft beer movement. 

Theresa McCulla, Ph.D., is Curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian Inst...

101 SERIES: Join us for our very first podcast episode. This talk was given at the 2022 Women's International Beer Summit where Linda joined us live via the magic of the internet from Oslo, Norway where she is a brewer at Eik & Tid, a commercial raw ale brewery.

Linda van Loon was born and raised in the Netherlands where she fell in love with the world of yeast, bacteria and fermentation. After obtaining a degree...