We are joined this week by Eric Ruta, founder of Magnify Brewing in Fairfield, NJ. We get familiar with this young brewery and learn the following:

- How Magnify got started

- Challenges to opening in New Jersey

- How the NJ scene has changed in the last 10 years

- Balancing core beers with rotation beers

- Fanfare on can release days

- Maine and New England's influence on Magnify

And much much more.

This podcast is brought to you by TheFullPint.com, a craft beer website with daily news updates, beer reviews and opinion articles.

We are joined by owner/founder of Wren House Brewing Co. in Phoenix Arizona. Wren House Brewing Co. is a fairly new Southwest brewery making a big name right now. Items of discussion include:

- Being the new cool kid on the block

- The slow creation of a "beer scene" in Arizona

- Anxiety in starting up a brewery

- Creating and selling a barleywine in Arizona

- Expansion descisions

- Keeping with trends

- The festival circuit

This week we are joined by Mark Fulton, formerly of Maine Beer Company and current at startup Reason Beer in Charlottesville, VA. Items of discussion include:

- Mark's brewing background

- His time at Maine Beer Company

- The starting core lineup of Reason

- Black IPA??

- Why Virginia is the hot new market for craft beer

- Making complex beers and barrel aging

- The relationship between the startups and the big breweries in town

And much much more.

This podcast is brought to you by TheFullPint.com, a craft beer website with daily news updates, beer reviews and opinion articles.

We catch up with longtime friends Tyler King and Brian White of Brewery Rex. For those not familiar, Tyler King was the former Director of Brewing operations at The Bruery. Brian White is the hype man for Brewery Rex, and has worked at many different breweries here in California. Listen to the story of how Brewery Rex came to be and the following items of discussion.

- What does the name Brewery Rex mean?

- The unique approach to starting up Brewery Rex has taken

- Not conforming to traditional beer business models

- The legend of Cerveza El Whaler

- Packaging trends in the market

- Outlook for 2018

- Thoughts on the festival circuit

- And much much more!

This podcast is brought to you by TheFullPint.com, a craft beer website with daily news updates, beer reviews and opinion articles.

This week, we are joined by Jeffrey Stuffings, co-founder/owner of Jester King Brewery in Austin, TX. 

Items of discussion include:

- How Jester King started with clean farmhouse ales

- How the Texas market takes to the premium products and pricing

- The complex naming and labeling of Jester King beers

- Why people love their fruited sours

- The Methode Gueuze controversy

- Collabs, product scarcity and much more!

This podcast is brought to you by TheFullPint.com, a craft beer website with daily news updates, beer reviews and opinion articles.

This week, we are joined by award decorated brewmaster of Firestone Walker Brewing, Matt Brynildson. On the heels of Firestone Walker's 21st Anniversary, we discuss many items including:

- Brewhouse expansion

- What does a brewmaster do day to day

- Recipe formulation

- IPA trends

- Parabola 2017 controversy

- Barleywine fandom

- What's in store for 2018

This podcast is brought to you by TheFullPint.com, a craft beer website with daily news updates, beer reviews and opinion articles.

We are joined by beer-leberity comedy beer blogger, Alex Kidd of Don't Drink Beer. We discuss how DDB got started, randalling beer through hamburgers, defining shitlords, why pastry stouts and pastry hops are so hot right now and much much more. 

We are joined by our most downloaded, most requested guest, Mr. Bobby Mathews. Bobby drops a big bombshell on us about his future in SD then moves on to give us the raw, unfiltered 411 on where to drink in San Diego. We can promise you that Bobby holds nothing back and this episode is a must listen.

We are joined this week by founder and CEO of The Bruery, Patrick Rue. We are celebrating the 8th year of the infamous Black Tuesday Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout, and we talk about the making of this special beer, the process behind it and more. We also touch on the newly formed Off Shoot Beer Co. and adapting to the current craft climate.

We are joined this week with founder of La Cumbre Brewing out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Topics of discussion include recent Arizona expansin news, hop selection, the art of expanding, the scarce Nelson crop and much more. 

We are joined by one of the most talented brewers in California, Mr. Alex Tweet of Fieldwork Brewing. We discuss Tweet's beginnings in the beer industry, down in San Diego and his big move up north to Fieldwork Brewing. Items of discussion include the East Coast / West Coast IPA debate, IPA being treated as a collectible, and Fieldwork's satellite strategy that's taking over Northern California.

This week, we are joined by Levi Funk. Levi Funk is the owner and founder of Funk Factory Geuzeria in Wisconsin, as well as the owner of Untitled Art. We learned about Levi's beginning, his love of lambic and the evolution of the Wisconsin beer scene.

Our long time friends Brian Herbertson (Herbie Homebrew) and Greg Bechtel have combined forces and talent to launch a brewery for the wildly popular pub chain Simmzy's. We hear of both men's tales of how they got into the industry and what it was like to construct a small brewery from the ground up.

Javi sits down with the face that runs this place, Danny Fullpint. We sip on the finest beer and talk about recent hot topics such as recent brewery closures, brewers hating on hazy IPA, Firestone Invitational and much much more.