February 23, 2025 • 15 mins
Celebrating Craft Beer: The Newest Inductees to the Hall of Fame plus we have an exclusive interview with Swedesboro Brewing's Associate Brewer.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to this week's episode of The Chronicles. I'm Gary Montroue,
so your host, and a lot to get to the
big news, I guess is the announcing of the first
class of the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame. That
announcement was broadcast online publicly on February fifteenth. And I'm
(00:37):
gonna go over the names of the new inductees powerhouse lineup.
I'll give a brief summary of them. Also, first, and
this is in no particular order, but first, this is
Jack McAuliffe. McAuliffe was born in Venezuela, but moved to
Virginia by the third grade. He joined the Navy in
(00:58):
nineteen sixty four and discovered his love for brewing while
in Scotland. After his discharge in nineteen sixty eight, he
planned to open a brewery and moved to Sonoma, California,
where he started the New Albion Brewing in nineteen seventy
seven with friends. It was the first modern microbrewery, closing
(01:20):
in nineteen eighty two, but certainly influencing the craft bear movement.
Now retired, Jack lives in Arkansas and next to Susie Stern.
Susie was originally from the East Coast and was a
former un employee. She moved to Sonoma County and there
(01:45):
she funded Jack McAuliffe's micro brewery dream with fifteen hundred
dollars and learned brewing on the job. She later handled
administration duties until the brewery closed in nineteen eighty two.
Jane Zimmerman. She was a friend of Susie Stern and
(02:07):
was introduced to Jack McAuliffe, who proposed the idea of
New Albion Brewing Company. She also invested and helped start
the brewery, but left after after bet a year. She
returned to school at Sonoma State U and became a psychotherapist.
Zimmerman stayed in Sonoma, California and worked at the Center
(02:31):
for Healing Arts and is now retired. Bert Grant Grant
was born in Dundee, Scotland, and moved to Toronto, Canada
at the age of two. He started as a beer
taster at sixteen and worked for Carling, O'Keefe and Strowe
(02:54):
breweries before becoming a consultant holding patents for hot processing.
He built the first hop pelletizer and two processing plants
in Yakama Valley in nineteen sixty seven, making it his home.
In nineteen eighty two, he opened the first U s
(03:14):
brew pub, known as Grant's Brewery Pub. He is noted
for pioneering Imperial stout and Scottish ale, and was among
the first to brew an i p A. Grant often
wore a kill and carried hop oil, claiming all beer
should have more hops. He died in two thousand one
(03:39):
at the age of seventy three. Ken Grossmann. Grossman grew
up in southern California and started home brewing with his brother.
After attending college in northern California, he opened a home
brew shop and built Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. The brewery
(04:01):
launched in nineteen eighty with Sierra Nevada pale Ale, which
changed the style using American hops. Grossman focused on environmental
and social impacts and innovated new beer techniques. Sierra Nevada
is now the third largest craft brewery with locations in Chico, California,
(04:23):
and Mills River, North Carolina. Fritz Maytag Frederick Lewis Maytag,
the third originally from Iowa and part of the Maytag
appliance family, moved to California for Stanford and stayed after
(04:44):
graduating off and dining at the Old Spaghetti Factory in
San Francisco, where he learned that his favorite beer, anchor,
Steam was closing. In nineteen sixty five, he visited the
brewery and bought a controlling in interest. After extensive research,
he revived Steam Beer and established Anchor as the first
(05:08):
craft brewing He introduced several beer types and began distilling
in nineteen ninety three. Maytag sold the brewer in twenty
ten and retired in northern California. His influence on craft
beer is significant. Jim Cook born in Cincinnati to a
(05:32):
family with a beer brewing tradition. He was originally discouraged
by his father from following the same path. After working
with Outward Bound and earning his dual MBA j d
from Harvard, he joined Boston Consulting Group. Believing in a
(05:53):
market for flavorful beer, he founded the Boston Beer Company
and launched Samuel Adams Boston Lager in nineteen eighty five. Today,
it is one of the largest beer brands in the country,
and he has created unique beers like Triple Bach and Utopias.
(06:15):
Charles Finkel. Finkel was born in New York and grew
up in Oklahoma, studying design and marketing at the University
of Oklahoma. After graduating, he worked for a wine merchant
in New York and later moved to Houston, where he
met his wife, Roseanne. In nineteen seventy eight, they started
(06:39):
Merchant Duvain in Washington, introducing various imported beers to the US.
They inspired many American brewers and opened Pike Brewing in
Seattle's Pike Place Market in nineteen eighty nine. Roseanne Finkel
(07:01):
Roseanne was born in New Orleans but raised in Houston, Texas.
She met Charles Finkel through a mutual friend, leading to
a romantic relationship and marriage. Six months later. They started
a wine venture and later moved to Seattle to manage
Chateau Saint Michel, selling their share afterward. In nineteen seventy seven,
(07:28):
Roseanne and two friends opened Truffles, a grocery store, and
in nineteen seventy eight they founded the import company Mercea Duvin,
combining Roseanne's business skills with Charles's design talent. She passed
away in two thousand. Michael Jackson Jackson was the son
(07:52):
of a Lithuanian Jewish father who moved to Yorkshire, England,
where he changed their family name. He started his career
at sixteen as a cub reporter for a local newspaper
and later moved to London to write for larger publications.
His love for beer began during an assignment in the Netherlands.
(08:14):
Jackson's first book, The English Pub, was published in nineteen
seventy six, but his significant work was The World Guide
to Beer, released in nineteen seventy seven, which defined modern
beer styles. He organized a beer dinner in New York
(08:34):
City in the nineteen eighties, wrote over a dozen books,
received many awards, and promoted beer globally. He was known
as the beer Hunter and the Bard of Beer. Jackson
died in two thousand and seven from complications of Parkinson's
(08:54):
disease at the age of sixty five. And I must
add that I did se spent some time touring with
Michael Jackson and learned so much from him, especially how
to treat people. And Michael, in fact, I usually pleased
he spent a night at my house and gave me
a private beer tutored tasting. So I'll never forget him
(09:17):
for his hospitality, his passion, and for taking an interest
in me. Next, Charlie Papaisian. Papaisian grew up in New
Jersey and studied nuclear engineering at the University of Virginia.
He became interested in home brewing through an older neighbor.
(09:38):
After college, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, found a teaching job,
and turned his garage into a home brewery. In nineteen
seventy eight, he founded the American home Brewing Association and
published The Joy of home Brewing. He later started the
Brewers' Association and organized the Great American Beer Festival and
(10:02):
the World Beer Cup. Papasian has published seven books on
home brewing and recently retired, but he continues to brew
and lives by his motto Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.
Fred Eckart Eckart was born in San Francisco but adopted
(10:25):
and raised in Everett, Washington. He joined the Marines at
age seventeen, serving in World War II and the Korean War.
He began home brewing in nineteen sixty eight, published a
treatise on lager beer in nineteen seventy and wrote extensively
about beer for fifty years. He co founded the Oregon
(10:50):
Brew Crew and died at the age of eighty nine
in twenty fifteen. Well, congratulations to all. For additional information
about the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame, go to
American Craft Beer Hall of Fame dot com. And now
let's proceed with the rest of Beverage chronicles. One of
(11:26):
New Jersey's more successful breweries, it is Swedensburg Brewing Company.
A couple of years ago, they were recognized by USA
Today's ten Best Competition as I believe it was the
second best new brewery in America. They've expanded, moving into
other areas. Things have and they have a new associate
(11:53):
brewer fell by the name of Anthony Malench and I
would able to stop by the brewery and have a
brief chat with him not that long ago, and I'd
like you to hear it. Give us some of your
background and brewer.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, I've been home brewing since about twenty ten. This
being hired here was my first professional brewing job. I've
been here for about a year and a half now.
I've done a few homebrew competitions. I've made it to
(12:33):
the final rounds of those, and a couple local homebrew competitions.
I've won a gold medal for my Irish Red and
my strong Scotch chail.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
What's it like going from a home brewer to a
professional brewer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Honestly, it's just been a direct scale up. The processes
are a little more involved, virtually the same, very heavy
on cleanliness and sterilization, sanitization, just like in homebrewing, a
little more automation, which actually makes it slightly easier than homebrewing.
(13:13):
You're doing a lot less scrubbing by hand. But other
than that, it's been an easy switch.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
What do you want to bring to the brewery? What
impact do you want to make? Are there any new
flavors and new recipes that you'd be working on? Continue
as things are? Certainly you want to make your mark
on the place.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, I want to try and continue the way
things have been going. Maybe do a little refining of
a few of the beers that we produce, Just try
and make the most two style beers that I can make.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Do you bounce ideas off Marvin and the Sun if
there's something you want to do? Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We discussed that we have the Brewer Select series for
kind of just playing with new resis, you know, try
want to try something different that we don't have on tap.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Sounds good, Anthony. Thanks and that's it for this week's
episode of Beverage Chronicles. Gary monterrou so here do you
want to mention again? For Swedesboro Brewing. The address is
ninety five Woodstown Road, Unit PE in Swedesboro, New Jersey,
and their website is Swedesburg Brewing dot com. I think
(14:27):
you'll enjoy it there, really great company putting out some
remarkable beers. Next week, I'm going to be reporting from
the Philadelphia German Beer Fest, and that's always an exciting
time for me. I really enjoy that. Have been a
lot a lot of certainly a lot of domestic German
style beers will be served as well as some inputs,
(14:51):
so I hope you'll be able to join me then
or some of our racers will be back as well.
Have a good week everyone,
Welcome to this week's episode of The Chronicles. I'm Gary Montroue,
so your host, and a lot to get to the
big news, I guess is the announcing of the first
class of the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame. That
announcement was broadcast online publicly on February fifteenth. And I'm
(00:37):
gonna go over the names of the new inductees powerhouse lineup.
I'll give a brief summary of them. Also, first, and
this is in no particular order, but first, this is
Jack McAuliffe. McAuliffe was born in Venezuela, but moved to
Virginia by the third grade. He joined the Navy in
(00:58):
nineteen sixty four and discovered his love for brewing while
in Scotland. After his discharge in nineteen sixty eight, he
planned to open a brewery and moved to Sonoma, California,
where he started the New Albion Brewing in nineteen seventy
seven with friends. It was the first modern microbrewery, closing
(01:20):
in nineteen eighty two, but certainly influencing the craft bear movement.
Now retired, Jack lives in Arkansas and next to Susie Stern.
Susie was originally from the East Coast and was a
former un employee. She moved to Sonoma County and there
(01:45):
she funded Jack McAuliffe's micro brewery dream with fifteen hundred
dollars and learned brewing on the job. She later handled
administration duties until the brewery closed in nineteen eighty two.
Jane Zimmerman. She was a friend of Susie Stern and
(02:07):
was introduced to Jack McAuliffe, who proposed the idea of
New Albion Brewing Company. She also invested and helped start
the brewery, but left after after bet a year. She
returned to school at Sonoma State U and became a psychotherapist.
Zimmerman stayed in Sonoma, California and worked at the Center
(02:31):
for Healing Arts and is now retired. Bert Grant Grant
was born in Dundee, Scotland, and moved to Toronto, Canada
at the age of two. He started as a beer
taster at sixteen and worked for Carling, O'Keefe and Strowe
(02:54):
breweries before becoming a consultant holding patents for hot processing.
He built the first hop pelletizer and two processing plants
in Yakama Valley in nineteen sixty seven, making it his home.
In nineteen eighty two, he opened the first U s
(03:14):
brew pub, known as Grant's Brewery Pub. He is noted
for pioneering Imperial stout and Scottish ale, and was among
the first to brew an i p A. Grant often
wore a kill and carried hop oil, claiming all beer
should have more hops. He died in two thousand one
(03:39):
at the age of seventy three. Ken Grossmann. Grossman grew
up in southern California and started home brewing with his brother.
After attending college in northern California, he opened a home
brew shop and built Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. The brewery
(04:01):
launched in nineteen eighty with Sierra Nevada pale Ale, which
changed the style using American hops. Grossman focused on environmental
and social impacts and innovated new beer techniques. Sierra Nevada
is now the third largest craft brewery with locations in Chico, California,
(04:23):
and Mills River, North Carolina. Fritz Maytag Frederick Lewis Maytag,
the third originally from Iowa and part of the Maytag
appliance family, moved to California for Stanford and stayed after
(04:44):
graduating off and dining at the Old Spaghetti Factory in
San Francisco, where he learned that his favorite beer, anchor,
Steam was closing. In nineteen sixty five, he visited the
brewery and bought a controlling in interest. After extensive research,
he revived Steam Beer and established Anchor as the first
(05:08):
craft brewing He introduced several beer types and began distilling
in nineteen ninety three. Maytag sold the brewer in twenty
ten and retired in northern California. His influence on craft
beer is significant. Jim Cook born in Cincinnati to a
(05:32):
family with a beer brewing tradition. He was originally discouraged
by his father from following the same path. After working
with Outward Bound and earning his dual MBA j d
from Harvard, he joined Boston Consulting Group. Believing in a
(05:53):
market for flavorful beer, he founded the Boston Beer Company
and launched Samuel Adams Boston Lager in nineteen eighty five. Today,
it is one of the largest beer brands in the country,
and he has created unique beers like Triple Bach and Utopias.
(06:15):
Charles Finkel. Finkel was born in New York and grew
up in Oklahoma, studying design and marketing at the University
of Oklahoma. After graduating, he worked for a wine merchant
in New York and later moved to Houston, where he
met his wife, Roseanne. In nineteen seventy eight, they started
(06:39):
Merchant Duvain in Washington, introducing various imported beers to the US.
They inspired many American brewers and opened Pike Brewing in
Seattle's Pike Place Market in nineteen eighty nine. Roseanne Finkel
(07:01):
Roseanne was born in New Orleans but raised in Houston, Texas.
She met Charles Finkel through a mutual friend, leading to
a romantic relationship and marriage. Six months later. They started
a wine venture and later moved to Seattle to manage
Chateau Saint Michel, selling their share afterward. In nineteen seventy seven,
(07:28):
Roseanne and two friends opened Truffles, a grocery store, and
in nineteen seventy eight they founded the import company Mercea Duvin,
combining Roseanne's business skills with Charles's design talent. She passed
away in two thousand. Michael Jackson Jackson was the son
(07:52):
of a Lithuanian Jewish father who moved to Yorkshire, England,
where he changed their family name. He started his career
at sixteen as a cub reporter for a local newspaper
and later moved to London to write for larger publications.
His love for beer began during an assignment in the Netherlands.
(08:14):
Jackson's first book, The English Pub, was published in nineteen
seventy six, but his significant work was The World Guide
to Beer, released in nineteen seventy seven, which defined modern
beer styles. He organized a beer dinner in New York
(08:34):
City in the nineteen eighties, wrote over a dozen books,
received many awards, and promoted beer globally. He was known
as the beer Hunter and the Bard of Beer. Jackson
died in two thousand and seven from complications of Parkinson's
(08:54):
disease at the age of sixty five. And I must
add that I did se spent some time touring with
Michael Jackson and learned so much from him, especially how
to treat people. And Michael, in fact, I usually pleased
he spent a night at my house and gave me
a private beer tutored tasting. So I'll never forget him
(09:17):
for his hospitality, his passion, and for taking an interest
in me. Next, Charlie Papaisian. Papaisian grew up in New
Jersey and studied nuclear engineering at the University of Virginia.
He became interested in home brewing through an older neighbor.
(09:38):
After college, he moved to Boulder, Colorado, found a teaching job,
and turned his garage into a home brewery. In nineteen
seventy eight, he founded the American home Brewing Association and
published The Joy of home Brewing. He later started the
Brewers' Association and organized the Great American Beer Festival and
(10:02):
the World Beer Cup. Papasian has published seven books on
home brewing and recently retired, but he continues to brew
and lives by his motto Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.
Fred Eckart Eckart was born in San Francisco but adopted
(10:25):
and raised in Everett, Washington. He joined the Marines at
age seventeen, serving in World War II and the Korean War.
He began home brewing in nineteen sixty eight, published a
treatise on lager beer in nineteen seventy and wrote extensively
about beer for fifty years. He co founded the Oregon
(10:50):
Brew Crew and died at the age of eighty nine
in twenty fifteen. Well, congratulations to all. For additional information
about the American Craft Beer Hall of Fame, go to
American Craft Beer Hall of Fame dot com. And now
let's proceed with the rest of Beverage chronicles. One of
(11:26):
New Jersey's more successful breweries, it is Swedensburg Brewing Company.
A couple of years ago, they were recognized by USA
Today's ten Best Competition as I believe it was the
second best new brewery in America. They've expanded, moving into
other areas. Things have and they have a new associate
(11:53):
brewer fell by the name of Anthony Malench and I
would able to stop by the brewery and have a
brief chat with him not that long ago, and I'd
like you to hear it. Give us some of your
background and brewer.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, I've been home brewing since about twenty ten. This
being hired here was my first professional brewing job. I've
been here for about a year and a half now.
I've done a few homebrew competitions. I've made it to
(12:33):
the final rounds of those, and a couple local homebrew competitions.
I've won a gold medal for my Irish Red and
my strong Scotch chail.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
What's it like going from a home brewer to a
professional brewer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Honestly, it's just been a direct scale up. The processes
are a little more involved, virtually the same, very heavy
on cleanliness and sterilization, sanitization, just like in homebrewing, a
little more automation, which actually makes it slightly easier than homebrewing.
(13:13):
You're doing a lot less scrubbing by hand. But other
than that, it's been an easy switch.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
What do you want to bring to the brewery? What
impact do you want to make? Are there any new
flavors and new recipes that you'd be working on? Continue
as things are? Certainly you want to make your mark
on the place.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, I want to try and continue the way
things have been going. Maybe do a little refining of
a few of the beers that we produce, Just try
and make the most two style beers that I can make.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Do you bounce ideas off Marvin and the Sun if
there's something you want to do? Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We discussed that we have the Brewer Select series for
kind of just playing with new resis, you know, try
want to try something different that we don't have on tap.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Sounds good, Anthony. Thanks and that's it for this week's
episode of Beverage Chronicles. Gary monterrou so here do you
want to mention again? For Swedesboro Brewing. The address is
ninety five Woodstown Road, Unit PE in Swedesboro, New Jersey,
and their website is Swedesburg Brewing dot com. I think
(14:27):
you'll enjoy it there, really great company putting out some
remarkable beers. Next week, I'm going to be reporting from
the Philadelphia German Beer Fest, and that's always an exciting
time for me. I really enjoy that. Have been a
lot a lot of certainly a lot of domestic German
style beers will be served as well as some inputs,
(14:51):
so I hope you'll be able to join me then
or some of our racers will be back as well.
Have a good week everyone,
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