Zach Talks Beer
Zach Talks Beer
Zach Nichols
Zach Talks Beer shares informal, enlightening conversations between Zach Nichols and some of the beer industry‘s most interesting & influential figures.
Episode 9: Purpose Brewing & Cellar’s Frezi and Peter Bouckaert
Peter & Frezi join me for a beer beside the barrels and we chat going small, the Belgian reinheitsgebot, love/hate relationships with Brett, and much more.   *The audio is a touch squirrely on this one, but its worth a listen
Mar 23, 2022
38 min
Episode 8: Hanabi Lager’s Nick Gislason
Zach and Nick sit down over a couple beers to chat about making beer in wine country, brewing with bygone grains, Japanese fireworks, and of course - Lager.
Mar 2, 2022
57 min
Episode 7: Working Draft Beer’s Clint Lohman
Clint Lohman of Madison, Wisconsin's Working Draft Beer sits down with Zach to discuss French Pilsner, Underrated hops varieties, and the state of brewing in the upper Midwest.
Feb 16, 2022
48 min
Episode 6: Charlie Papazian; Craft Beer Pioneer
Zach sits down with one of the founding figures of modern American brewing, shares some of Charlie's homebrew, and explores the past, present, & future of beer.
Jan 26, 2022
45 min
Episode 5: Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery’s Christian DeBenedetti
Christian and I enjoy a pint and discuss writing about beer, brewing on the old family farm, and the childhood lawn game from which the brewery name stems.
Jan 12, 2022
45 min
Episode 4: Cannonball Creek Brewing’s Brian Hutchinson
Hutch joins Zach for a beer and a chat about Italian Pils, recipe evolution, New England IPA's influence on "West Coast" IPA brewing, the homogenization of craft beer, and more.
Dec 29, 2021
43 min
Episode 3: Novel Strand Brewing‘s Chantel & Tamir
A dive into transcending hop stigmas, neighborhood breweries, and crowdsourcing ingredient feedback with Chantel & Tamir Danon.
Dec 15, 2021
54 min
Episode 2: Alesong‘s Matt Van Wyk
Let's chat oak barrels, Oregon beer, and selling specialty with Matt Van Wyk.
Dec 1, 2021
42 min
Episode 1: Cohesion Brewing‘s Eric Larkin
Eric Larkin, the brewer behind Denver's new Cohesion Brewing, joins me for a beer and a chat about the history of beer in the Czech Republic and brewing Czech-style lager in America.
Nov 17, 2021
47 min