Brian Alberts's guest appearances

Brian Alberts

Good Beer Hunting

Rob (from the Internet) Talks About Beer

Jennifer Myers

Colin Quinn

Tom Palmer

Steve Wood

Andy Parker

Chris Baker

Stan Hieronymus

Michael Tonsmeire

Mitch Steele

Ray Daniels

Ron Pattinson

Tomme Arthur

Chris Lohring

Dave Infante

Chris Leonard

OwlTail

Return guest, Beer historian and writer Brian Alberts and I talk Munich Oktoberfest, fall festivals, fest beers and discuss glass envy. If you've ever wondered about the differences between US and European Oktoberfest, tune in!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robtalksbeer/message

Return guest, Beer historian and writer Brian Alberts and I talk Munich Oktoberfest, fall festivals, fest beers and discuss glass envy. If you've ever wondered about the differences between US and European Oktoberfest, tune in!--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/robtalksbeer/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/robtalksbeer/message</a>

Episode 66 - Brian Alberts - Oktoberfest!

Today I’m chatting with one of the newer voices on Good Beer Hunting—Brian Alberts. He’s not technically new—we published a story from him back in 2018 about the importance of preserving the historical record in breweries. That was sort of a one-off piece on a topic that until then we hadn’t really invested much in frankly: beer history. And the main reason for that was that so much had already been invested in beer’s history that GBH’s charter was really about trying to capture the zeitgeist. But over the years, thanks to people like Brian, my perspective on that history had evolved. And seeing its relevance to the seemingly unprecedented movement of American craft helped me realize how little is really unprecedented at all. When we launched the From Barrons to Barrels series this past winter, Brian was the first person I reached out to discuss what was possible in the series. The stories were meant to be rooted in Midwestern beer history, but that doesn’t mean that it was meant to explore than history through conventional means. Rather, we wanted to find a way of connecting some of those dots between past and present. And for us, that means through the various lenses of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, and politics. When it comes to those things—alongside and interwoven with our beer—history really does repeat itself. Or at least, offers up the same songs but in a different key. Now Brian has a few feature stories under his belt—including a look at the Munich Beer Riots of 1844, the reactionary alcohol policies and life under the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, and the longstanding economic dependency between Milwaukee and Chicago brewers. This is Brian Alberts, listen in.

Today I’m chatting with one of the newer voices on Good Beer Hunting—Brian Alberts. He’s not technically new—we published a story from him back in 2018 about <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2018/2/27/closed-thanks-for-the-memories-an-argument-for-historical-preservation-1" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">the importance of preserving the historical record in breweries</a>. That was sort of a one-off piece on a topic that until then we hadn’t really invested much in frankly: beer history. And the main reason for that was that so much had already been invested in beer’s history that GBH’s charter was really about trying to capture the zeitgeist. But over the years, thanks to people like Brian, my perspective on that history had evolved. And seeing its relevance to the seemingly unprecedented movement of American craft helped me realize how little is really unprecedented at all. When we launched the From Barrons to Barrels series this past winter, Brian was the first person I reached out to discuss what was possible in the series. The stories were meant to be rooted in Midwestern beer history, but that doesn’t mean that it was meant to explore than history through conventional means. Rather, we wanted to find a way of connecting some of those dots between past and present. And for us, that means through the various lenses of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, and politics. When it comes to those things—alongside and interwoven with our beer—history really does repeat itself. Or at least, offers up the same songs but in a different key. Now Brian has a few feature stories under his belt—including a look at the <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/7/13/streets-as-stages-the-munich-beer-riots-of-1844" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Munich Beer Riots of 1844</a>, the reactionary alcohol policies and life under the <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/5/6/pandemic-interrupted-a-besieged-beer-scene-in-1918-milwaukee" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918</a>, and the longstanding economic dependency between <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2020/2/3/the-first-chicago-handshake-how-19th-century-milwaukee-beer-barons-leaned-into-chicago" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Milwaukee and Chicago brewers</a>. This is Brian Alberts, listen in.

CL-055 Brian Alberts Gets into the Mash Tun Time Machine

Kate Bernot

Hey listeners—this week’s GBH Collective episode is a timely conversation between two of our writers who bring two very different perspectives to the site. First up is Kate Bernot, our Sightlines lead reporter. Kate recently wrote a great story about the neo-Prohibitionist laws, policies, and sentiments that seem to be experiencing a groundswell of support during the pandemic. In this conversation, she outlines exactly how goofy, yet unshakable, some of these ideas are when they reach the status of conventional wisdom. Have you seen a headline lately about how Americans are drinking insane amounts of beer during lockdown? Yeah, on average, it’s bullshit. But that’s not stopping the rhetoric. And, as Kate explains, those headlines add up to a kind of critical mass of truthiness—which starts influencing politicians and policymakers. Next up, we have Brian Alberts, a scholar who writes about beer history for GBH. He explains why these repeated moments of Prohibitionist rhetoric appear throughout American history. He also describes why, instead of operating cyclically, these episodes are the result of a force meeting a counterforce—and both sides gaining strength at the same time. Is temperance a war of attrition? Or will previous precedents point to likely future results? This conversation digs into the many factors influencing America’s long pattern of Prohibitionist tensions. This is Kate Bernot and Brian Alberts. Listen in.

Hey listeners—this week’s GBH Collective episode is a timely conversation between two of our writers who bring two very different perspectives to the site. First up is Kate Bernot, our Sightlines lead reporter. Kate recently wrote a great story about <a href="https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2020/8/13/covid-revives-neo-prohibitionist-calls-for-alcohol-regulation" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">the neo-Prohibitionist laws, policies, and sentiments</a> that seem to be experiencing a groundswell of support during the pandemic. In this conversation, she outlines exactly how goofy, yet unshakable, some of these ideas are when they reach the status of conventional wisdom. Have you seen a headline lately about how Americans are drinking insane amounts of beer during lockdown? Yeah, on average, it’s bullshit. But that’s not stopping the rhetoric. And, as Kate explains, those headlines add up to a kind of critical mass of truthiness—which starts influencing politicians and policymakers. Next up, we have Brian Alberts, a scholar who writes about beer history for GBH. He explains why these repeated moments of Prohibitionist rhetoric appear throughout American history. He also describes why, instead of operating cyclically, these episodes are the result of a force meeting a counterforce—and both sides gaining strength at the same time. Is temperance a war of attrition? Or will previous precedents point to likely future results? This conversation digs into the many factors influencing America’s long pattern <a href="https://twitter.com/maureenogle/status/1295824574853120005" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">of Prohibitionist tensions</a>. This is Kate Bernot and Brian Alberts. Listen in.

CL-053 Kate Bernot and Brian Alberts on the Temporality of Temperance