Episodes
Episode 063- An Uplifting Brewery
Katie Davidson wanted a place in her hometown where anyone and everyone could gather for a drink, so she created one. Hot Air Brewing in Creston, Iowa has become a popular brewery with 13 different beers on tap with various styles. Katie has been dedicated to supporting her hometown and growing the craft beer community in her city with new craft beers.
Episode 062- From Teachers To Opening A Brewery
Opening their own brewery has been a dream for the Naus brothers. The city of West Allis was so welcoming and excited to have Perspective Brewing join their community, it only made sense to call it home. Ben and Dan have incorporated their own joys and passions into the brewery through beer, soccer and travel. Traveling around the world has had a large impact on this brewery. Through traveling, they have been able to try various beer styles, build relationships around the world and help create those same beer styles here for us to enjoy. This is their perspective.
Episode 061B – Opening A Second Brewery Across State
Welcome to the last episode in our Opening A Second Brewery Location series. We hope you have enjoyed the different episodes describing the different challenges each faced as they opened a 2nd location during a global pandemic, in a different state, across town, in your existing brewery and finally todays episode…across the state.
This last episode is actually 2 episodes. The first was our interview prior to their opening and the second was several months after they had opened. We wanted to find out what their thoughts and perceptions were prior to opening and in the follow up interview what the reality was.
Our guest Nick, the VP of Operations & Marketing, is someone you can have a great conversation with any day of the week, but his passion for what he does comes through in both interviews. When we met for the first interview, they had just completed painting the space and you could tell that Nick was a little worn out, but he became totally animated as he talked about the brewery, the new space and the people he had met in the community as they converted the space into a brewery.
Episode 061A – Opening A Second Brewery Across State
Welcome to the last episode in our Opening A Second Brewery Location series. We hope you have enjoyed the different episodes describing the different challenges each faced as they opened a 2nd location during a global pandemic, in a different state, across town, in your existing brewery and finally todays episode…across the state.
This last episode is actually 2 episodes. The first was our interview prior to their opening and the second was several months after they had opened. We wanted to find out what their thoughts and perceptions were prior to opening and in the follow up interview what the reality was.
Our guest Nick, the VP of Operations & Marketing, is someone you can have a great conversation with any day of the week, but his passion for what he does comes through in both interviews. When we met for the first interview, they had just completed painting the space and you could tell that Nick was a little worn out, but he became totally animated as he talked about the brewery, the new space and the people he had met in the community as they converted the space into a brewery.
Episode 060 – Things I Found Out Opening Supermoon Beer Company
This brewery has been super lucky as it has grown in a Milwaukee Suburb. What started out as a house the brewer/owner and his family lived in later turned out to have been zoned as a brewery 100 plus years earlier when the house was built. This home brewer who found his passion for beer at a Friday Night Fish Fry at another Milwaukee brewery. Each Friday he would stop in for fish, ask a lot of questions and then spend the weekend brewing.
The more he brewed the greater his passion for brewing grew. He finally found a job at a brewery in Illinois that would help him to experience how to run a brewery and help him on his path to his own brewery.
With a brewery in his basement, licensed and permitted to sell packaged beer, he started to sell barrel aged beers in bottles out of his house on Saturdays once a month. You had to pre-buy and drive by to pick up your beer during the hours they had specified. If this sounds a little rigid, it is because they started selling beer during the global covid pandemic.
If you were going to open a brewery, this was definitely the route that you’d want to take. You could almost say that the planets started to align for this brewer as he and his wife discussed the future of their home, and the business.
But I don’t want to ruin the story. Listen in as Danielle and Travis talk to this new brewer about his unique entry into the world of brewing and brewery ownership.
Episode 059 – A Great Place To Gather
In Episode 059 we spend time with Joe Yeado, owner of Gathering Place Brewing Company in the Riverwest area of Milwaukee. Home to 4 other prominent Milwaukee breweries, with one literally just around the corner. Joe and his wife just purchased a small brewery located in another Milwaukee suburb call Wauwatosa (Tosa to the locals). And like the original brewery, this location is on a street with 4 other breweries. But that is where the similarities end. Both locations have their own vibe and a different set of customer demographics. Listen in as Danielle and Travis learn from Joe what makes Gathering Place so special and why they bought the other brewery.
Episode 058 – Your Passport To Craft Drinks And So Much More!
We have all become familiar with the beer passports that many states and regions have. The process is a lot like this, stop in a brewery, order a drink, get your book stamped and head off to the next location.
It is a great way to see your state, visit breweries you might not have visited without the passport, have some fun and meet some interesting people.
But what happens when the passport is much more than a tool to get people to stop in for a drink to get the stamp. What is people got much more information about craft beer, your location, your history, and access to an app that supports the passport, and it never expires?
Now, tie the passport, the app, and social media together and you begin to develop a digital community that meets at breweries.
Passports invite you to join friends, support the best local businesses, drink some drinks, try something new, and meet new people… what’s not to love?
Episode 057 – You Know You’re Soaking In It…..
From hotels to rehab facilities, health clubs to professional sports organizations. Hot tubs offer many benefits for the body, the mind and the sole. After a tough workout a hot tub can help relieve muscle pain and soothe aching joints. It may also lower blood pressure and support heart health. We all know that hot water helps melt away stress and anxiety as it helps to hydrate the skin. And once we hop out and crawl into bed it helps us fall asleep faster and enjoyed a higher-quality sleep. Dino Sarancic and his family are well aware of the heath benefits of bathing and that those are increased with the addition of beer.
Episode 056 – Opening a 2nd Brewery in The Same Location.
If you didn’t know anything about us, we wanted you to get the vibe that you were going into a real cool bar…we really wanted to focus on the guest experience.
Tom Dufek
Young Blood Beer Company
