Grit & Grain Podcast Matthew, Sean, and Ron
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Beer gurus Matt McLaren (Orcas Distributing), Sean Jackson (Parkway Tavern) and Ron Swarner (Peaks & Pints) explore and celebrate the craft beer industry, community, and history in Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding Pacific Northwest region, with assistance from opinionated beer industry insiders. Engineered by Doug Mackey of Channel 253, you can hear the three India Pale Yale graduates and featured guests every Friday as they think and drink in a room completely devoid of oxygen as not to degrade the beer.
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Episode 92: Shabby Road and Hazy Black IPAs
This week the team finally sat down with none other than Jon Sleight of the lauded Jon’s Homebrew and Wine Supply in Puyallup, Wash. This seemingly humble, local homebrew supply store has spent years at...
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Episode 91: Clean Lines and Dirty Minds
Break out your gloves, goggles, and your pH strips! For Episode 91, the Grit & Grain Podcast dives into the rarely talked about, but supremely important, sector of the beer world — line cleaners. You...
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Episode 90: Light and Dark with R.J. Adler
Happy April Fools’ week! This week, we couldn’t help but embrace our delinquent side and R.J., being the gold standard human being that he is, was kind enough to let us T.P. him so we...
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Episode 89: Lawnmower Beers
Happy lawn mowing season! No better way to ring in the first few sunny days of the year than a review of our favorite warm-weather beers that pair perfectly with your yard work regimen. Crack...
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Episode 88: Homebrewing
The Grit & Grain Podcast does our best to be window into the beer world keeping an ear to the ground on local and national happenings … turns out Phantasm powder isn’t the only thing...
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Episode 87: Bret Gordon of Lumberbeard Brewing
There have been plenty of episodes where you’ve heard us sing the praises of the fantastic breweries in Spokane, Wash. It’s time we grabbed the story behind one of the best. Bret Gordon, founder, and...
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Your 2 Nashville Listeners
If your like beer, the Pacific Northwest and history…you need to listen. 10/10 for the outros, #beernudes and VISIT TACOMA (see ya soon PW)!
Portable Tavern Banter
Have fun; learn about beer. Are you looking for very fun discussions on beer, brewing, and the business of beer? Even if you don’t live in the South Sound/Tacoma area, if you are interested in everything that goes into a beer scene, its history, its networks, its personalities, this podcast brings it. Co-host Matt McLaren, an Advanced Cicerone, really knows his beer and is fantastic interviewer and conversationalist. His foils are two tavern owners, one who interjects colorfully off-color remarks, and another who stumbles through a signoff that is stream of (mostly) consciousness. And the F*** Up Stories is a great segment. If you want to feel like you’re in a tavern instead of washing dishes, walking a dog, or whatever you’re doing when you listen to a podcast, I highly recommend Grit N Grain.
PNW Beer History, Industry Stories, and so much more.
Hear stories from inside the the beer industry, with a focus on PNW and especially (but not exclusively) the Tacoma beer and brewing scene. Presented by 3 of Tacoma’s finest in the biz, you’ll hear history and wonderful stories, interviews with some of the area’s pillars, titans even, of the craft beer industry. Not just for beer and brewing geeks, there lots of local history and inside stories about the whole industry.
You’ll laugh ! You’ll cry ! Like a delicious brew, you’ll clamor for more !
Sometimes hilarious, often informative, always interesting, check out the interview list and pick your favorite - give them a try !