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  Pull Up A Stool with Jim Wagner

  DuClaw Brewing Company January 1, 2013 - Julie Johnson

  All About Beer: When was DuClaw founded? Jim Wagner: DuClaw was founded in 1996 by Dave Benfield, who is still the owner.

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  Pull Up A Stool with Ben Edmunds

  Breakside Brewery November 1, 2012 - Brian Yaeger

  All About Beer: With no professional experience and brewing for a brand new brewery in a city renowned for its beer culture, were you intimidated when you first started? Yeah, absolutely. For months I had a huge amount of anxiety. I was confident that I could make good beer, but I wanted to enter the... View Article

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  Pull Up A Stool with Pat Conway

  Great Lakes Brewing Co. September 1, 2012 - Julie Johnson

  All About Beer: The words “environmentally and socially-conscious” appear first in a list of attributes that describe your company. Where did that commitment start? Pat Conway: It’s been an evolution. My brother Dan and I almost immediately had a recycling effort at the brewery back 24 years ago. Now we have the three waves in... View Article

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  Pull Up A Stool With Brad Wynn

  Big Boss Brewing Co. July 1, 2012 - Julie Johnson

  Big Boss has been through a lot of incarnations, hasn’t it? It was Tom Cat, which became Pale Ale (it was really owned by the same people), then it became Rock Creek, and that’s when I became involved. Rock Creek became Chesapeake Bay for a very short time and nearly went under. We came back... View Article

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  with John McDonald

  Boulevard Brewing Co. May 1, 2012 - Julie Johnson

  What was your background before you turned to brewing? I went to art school for college, then had to figure out a way to make a living. So I became a carpenter/cabinet maker and did that for about 15 years. I became a homebrewer in the mid-’80s and was enamored with the small breweries that... View Article

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  with Geoff and Marcy Larson

  Alaskan Brewing Company March 1, 2012 - Julie Johnson

  Congratulations on this anniversary! What’s the most surprising thing to you about the fact that you’re sitting there in Juneau, observing the 25th anniversary of your brewery? Marcy: It went by so fast—in some ways. It seems like forever ago that we were first were trying to raise the money and all that, but on... View Article

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  with Jason Oliver

  Devils Backbone Brewing Co. January 1, 2012 - Julie Johnson

  What do you bring to brewing from your early background in history and philosophy? That’s a great question, and one I’ve thought about a lot, funnily enough. My approach to brewing is…almost like a “liberal arts” approach. I like to look at different relationships. I use science and craft to help me get there, but... View Article

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  Pull Up a Stool with Wayne Wambles

  Cigar City Brewing, Tampa November 1, 2011 - Julie Johnson

  I recently gave a presentation at the National Homebrewers Conference in San Diego on aging beer on exotic wood, which covered Spanish cedar—they use it to construct the humidor boxes to age cigars and they also use it in the construction of cigar inserts. I also discussed lemon and grapefruit wood aging in the Dos... View Article

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  with Jack McAuliffe

  Founder of New Albion Brewing Co. September 1, 2011 - Julie Johnson

  In 1976, an ex-Navy man named Jack McAuliffe founded America’s first modern microbrewery, New Albion Brewing Co. in Sonoma, CA. In an era when American brewing was dominated by a few large facilities brewing versions of light lager, McAuliffe hand-built his brewery from the ground up, and brewed full-flavored bottle-conditioned ales in the English tradition.