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Subscribe and never miss link below. an episode! beer—the way New Belgium was. This slot just as easily could go to La Folie or Le Terroir, but to this day, I think it’s amazing, yet crazy, that New Belgium bottled a bière de garde with lemon peel and Brettanomyces and put it in 6-packs for wide distribution. When you talk about a brewery that is willing to push the conversation forward, releasing that beer was a bold move. The beer was absolutely beautiful, too, and I probably bought more of those 6-packs than anyone in central Colorado.”

Odell IPA

Odell Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) “Odell released their IPA in 2007, just before I left Colorado. I was not a huge IPA fan at the time—definitely more into sour beers, stouts, Belgian styles, and stronger ales—and I think part of that was that there weren’t a ton of great contemporary IPAS on the market in Colorado at the time (at least not ones that were widely available). I had had the Pizza Port and Russian River beers at GABF and when traveling to the West Coast, and when Odell IPA came on the market, it was a game changer. It was the first Colorado-brewed IPA to have the aromatic intensity and balanced bitterness that the best San Diego and Norcal versions had. It was the first IPA that I could drink regularly that really opened my mind to the potential of hops.”

Deschutes Fresh Hop Mirror Pond Pale Ale

Deschutes Brewery (Bend, Oregon)

“I moved to Portland in 2008 with the goal of making the leap into the beer industry. Shortly after I moved, hop harvest began, and in the Northwest that means that it is fresh-hop beer season. My only exposure to fresh-hop beers to that point had been Great Divide’s bottled Fresh Hop Pale, but that fall was my first real exposure to a wide range of fresh-hop beers. I remember visiting Deschutes’ (then new) Pearl District brewpub and having an imperial pint of fresh-hop Mirror Pond, made with Oregon-grown Cascades, and sensing that I had made a smart choice in moving to the Northwest.”

Augustiner Pils

Augustiner Bräu (Munich, Germany)

“I did the diploma program at Siebel, which included studying in Munich and traveling to some of the great breweries of Germany, Belgium, and Austria.

Even though Munich is a helles city, my friends and I would order Pils at the Augustiner stuben. Invariably, the server