The Craft Fermentation Podcast Michele Wonder

Today we will be hearing from a trio of fermentation rockstars, Lauren Price, Charlotte Crott and Lauren Houston, the women behind the Sacramento, CA Mindscape Fermentations.

When this talk took place back in Spring of 2022 their brewery was still about a month away from opening and their goal with this talk was to provide a comprehensive resource and roadmap for future folks who would be looking to start their own brewery, something they themselves wish they had had.

They start with concept, future growth model planning & of course the inevitable financing discussion! Their openness and honesty here is something you just don’t hear many folks being willing to share. They then walk us through each step they took from asking friends for money, figuring out how to deal in commercial real estate, hiring an architect and engineers. equipment buying, brewery layout, permitting and licensing, contractor bidding and so much more! And as a former small business owner myself the advice they give for what you can considering DIYing and what you should pay a professional to take care of resonated quite a bit.

I for one think they more than succeeded in their goal with this talk, it really is a goldmine, so listen in and learn most everything you need to consider if you want to start up your own craft fermentation business! Enjoy…

Find Mindscape Fermentation at
Website: mindscape-fermentations.com
Instagram: @mindscapefermentations

Additional Links
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WCFA Crowdcast Channel register for WIBS '23 and check out our Friday content!



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YouTube: Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance

This podcast is brought to you by the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enabling, empowering and encouraging women and non binary folks in all facets of the craft fermentation space. Your host for this podcast is Michele Wonder, co-founder of WIBS and the WCFA, an award winning homebrewer, BJCP Certified Beer Judge and a Certified Cicerone®

Today we will be hearing from Jesse Bousard, who at the time was the Executive Director of the Craft Maltster’s Guild & Hannah Turner , director of barley, malt and brewing quality lab at Montana State University. Jesse introduces us to the craft malt guild, shares craft malts origin stories and then emphasizes why craft malt is so important and impactful. Hannah then gives us a lesson on how to read and understand the info given on a COA, certificate of analysis. Many of our attendees received a couple malt samples from Mainstem Malt in WA state and Admiral Malting in California and you will hear them do some sensory analysis on those.

As you will hear a bit at the beginning there were some fairly extreme technical issues with getting this session up and going. Jesse ended up being fairly rushed in her presentation and then you will hear a few audio drops when Hannah is giving her presentation but regardless of tech issues Jesse and Hannah both give us some really great education here on THE foundational ingredient in beer…..malt! 

This is a fairly technical talk and if you want to follow along with the slides then we recommend watching this session over on The WCFA YouTube page which is linked below. Hope you enjoy this episode.

Find Jesse Bousard at
Website: https://www.cowpunchcreative.com

Find Hannah Turner at
Website: http://www.montana.edu/barleybreeding
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msu.barley.malt.brew.lab

Additional Links:
Breakdown of a COA
https://www.montana.edu/barleybreeding/learning-center/brewer-resources/coa-descriptions.html

Malt Friability Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n38xVXImeM


Find WCFA & Women's International Beer Summit at...
Website: wcfa.beer
Instagram: wibs_wcfa
YouTube: Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance

This podcast is brought to you by the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enabling, empowering and encouraging women and non binary folks in all facets of the craft fermentation space. Your host for this podcast is Michele Wonder, co-founder of WIBS and the WCFA, an award winning homebrewer, BJCP Certified Beer Judge and a Certified Cicerone®

Today we share this super popular WIBS 21 session titled How to Build A Recipe. Featuring Cat Wiest and moderated by Tyler & Laurie of the Brewd ‘up podcast. We unfortunately had some technical difficulties with our moderators intro so it may sound a bit harsh as we jump right in here with Cat but we do get to hear from Tyler and Laurie towards the end of the talk so all is not lost. 
 Cat tells us a bit about herself and how she came to brewing and then dives right in to dropping the knowledge. First thing in designing your recipe is to ask yourself what your goal is. Do you have a flavor profile in mind? Are you trying out a new technique? Refining a known recipe? What inspires you? Cat then walks us through her recipe for her aspirational red ale. Things get a bit technical as she gives us equations to figure yield and grist percentages, IBUs and isomerization, mash profile and temp considerations  and she answers lots of questions along the way.  Hope you all enjoy and you’ll hear from me again after the talk. Enjoy! 

Find Cat Wiest at:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saltyseascrap/
Find WCFA & Women's International Beer Summit at...
Website: wcfa.beer
Instagram: wibs_wcfa
YouTube: Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance

This podcast is brought to you by the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enabling, empowering and encouraging women and non binary folks in all facets of the craft fermentation space. Your host for this podcast is Michele Wonder, co-founder of WIBS and the WCFA, an award winning homebrewer, BJCP Certified Beer Judge and a Certified Cicerone®

Today’s talk was part of WIBS 22 and is title Beer: A Story About Power featuring Tinu Diver (river) a film maker living in North Carolina. She  opens this talk with the Obama beer summit and quickly get to know this talented and impassioned film maker. 
As she reveals her journey to beer and the genesis of her documentary project, This Belongs To Us,   we hear how important it was for her to find black beer culture and what a revelation that was for her.
She shares her belief that beer needs new stories, fuller, truer and more nuanced and expansive and in the end who is telling the story matters most of all.  
She closes with a plea for craft brewers the world over to step back for just a second from the hectic day to day operation of your small business and self reflect and think about what your beer’s story is. 
There are portions of this talk where she shares photos and a few scenes from her film so if you would like to have the visual experience of this dynamic talk, head over to the Women’s Craft Fermentation Alliance youtube channel where the video session can be seen. 
Now sit back, relax and maybe pop open a Black is Beautiful beer if you still have one in your beer cellar and enjoy!

Find Tinu Diver at
Website: https://www.thisbelongstous.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisbelongstous
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisbelongstous/

Additional Links: 
https://vimeo.com/tinudiver
https://southerndocumentaryfund.org/
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil
https://sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
https://onepintfilm.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dygQrX8FI3Q&t=241s
Find WCFA & Women's International Beer Summit at...
Website: wcfa.beer
Instagram: wibs_wcfa
YouTube: Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance

This podcast is brought to you by the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enabling, empowering and encouraging women and non binary folks in all facets of the craft fermentation space. Your host for this podcast is Michele Wonder, co-founder of WIBS and the WCFA, an award winning homebrewer, BJCP Certified Beer Judge and a Certified Cicerone®

Today’s podcast features our Content Strategy for Digital Creators from WIBS 2021. Moderated by Ash Eliot, who you likely know from Women of the Bevolution and Brave Noise, our speakers Sarah Flora and Natalya Watson share with us how they got into beer and the road to being educators in that space. Nat chats transferrable skills to get into the industry, Sarah gives some tips on how to get started in homebrewing and then we dive into the content creator strategy. They discuss the importance of goals when crafting content and each breaks down how they approach content strategy for different platforms and audiences. Ash inquires about staying engaged when there is so much content out there already and the two of them discuss the benefits and inevitable pitfalls of podcasting. This is then followed up with some great Q&A from that day’s attendees. So, as always, sit back and enjoy this episode of the Craft Fermentation Podcast.   

Find Sarah Flora at
Website: https://florabrewing.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Flora_Brewing/
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/FloraBrewing
Find Natalya Watson at
Website: https://beerwithnat.com/
Virtual Beer School: https://virtualbeerschool.com/
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/beerwithnat/
Find Ash Eliot at
Website: https://womenofthebevolution.com/
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/asheliot/

Additional Links
Em Sauter, Pints and Panels https://www.pintsandpanels.com/
Cicerone Certification Program cicerone.org
UK Beer Sommelier http://www.brew-school.com/courses/beer-sommelier-course/
Beer Judge Certification Program https://www.bjcp.org/
Find WCFA & Women's International Beer Summit at...
Website: wcfa.beer
Instagram: wibs_wcfa
YouTube: Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance

This podcast is brought to you by the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enabling, empowering and encouraging women and non binary folks in all facets of the craft fermentation space. Your host for this podcast is Michele Wonder, co-founder of WIBS and the WCFA, an award winning homebrewer, BJCP Certified Beer Judge and a Certified Cicerone®

Listen in as Natalie Baldwin, then R&D brewer for Breakside Brewing in Portland, OR and Ashleigh Carter, co-owner and head brewer at Bierstadt Lagerhaus talks beer collabs! These two share their views on why your brewery should or should not collaborate;  what guidelines should you put in place to determine if a particular collab is right for your brewery and the importance of learning when collaborating.

They discuss the collab beer they made at Bierstadt and their then upcoming collab at Breakside. And of course you can’t talk to Ashleigh Carter without questions about her brewing philosophy and lagering. Plus a really great question about yeast harvesting temp sets the two off into their entire process of yeast harvesting, some really great stuff here!

Find Natalie Baldwin at
Website: https://www.wayfinder.beer/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nrbeeer/
Find Ashleigh Carter at
Website: bierstadtlager.com
Email: ashleigh@bierstadtlager.com
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bierstadtlager/

Their Collab Beers
Carolina Gold | Bierstadt Lagerhaus  https://untappd.com/b/bierstadt-lagerhaus-carolina-gold/4622174
Deductive Reasoning | Breakside Brewing  https://untappd.com/b/breakside-brewery-deductive-reasoning/4905392


Find WCFA & Women's International Beer Summit at...
Website: wcfa.beer
Instagram: wibs_wcfa
YouTube: Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance

This podcast is brought to you by the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to enabling, empowering and encouraging women and non binary folks in all facets of the craft fermentation space. Your host for this podcast is Michele Wonder, co-founder of WIBS and the WCFA, an award winning homebrewer, BJCP Certified Beer Judge and a Certified Cicerone®