Zahra Tabatabai's guest appearances

Zahra Tabatabai

Good Beer Hunting

Shirin Conversations

Brews with Broads

OwlTail

Check out Back Home Beer's Website  and Instagram for updates on where to find Zahra's delicious beers!Read some of the profiles on Zahra that she and I spoke about from Brooklyn Magazine and Wine Enthusiast Groovy music by Megan Bagala, and art by Sabrina Rain at The Hoppiest Shop 

Check out Back Home Beer's <a href="https://www.backhomebeer.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website </a> and<a href="https://www.instagram.com/backhomebeer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> for updates on where to find Zahra's delicious beers!Read some of the profiles on Zahra that she and I spoke about from<a href="https://www.bkmag.com/2021/11/08/born-in-iran-and-brewed-in-brooklyn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Brooklyn Magazine</a> and <a href="https://www.winemag.com/2021/05/19/iran-beer-back-home-brewing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wine Enthusiast </a>Groovy music by <a href="https://www.meganbagala.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Megan Bagala</a>, and art by Sabrina Rain at <a href="https://thehoppiestshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hoppiest Shop </a>

Taking a Risk and Taking a Rest with Zahra Tabatabai

For all the power that memory provides us, its the connection to our senses that’s the most visceral. While we can close our eyes and picture loved ones or a perfect summer day, it’s the moment we smell a bag of candy or taste the right combination of spices that the past rushes back to life. Our eyes and ears can tell us about the present, but our nose and taste buds can be our time machine. In this episode, we explore what it means to chase flavor memory with Zahra Tabatabai, founder and CEO of Back Home Beer, a fast-growing company based in New York City rooted in her family’s past. Zahra started homebrewing in order to recapture past tastes from her grandfather’s days of homebrewing in Iran as a way to bring those memories back for her family. A hobby soon became more, and now her Sumac Gose and Persian Lager act as ways to recapture the ingredients and flavors of the past. As you’ll hear in this conversation, at the core of Zahra’s journey is her grandfather, Gholam-Reza, who was better known by his familial nickname of “baba joon,” a term of endearment that translates to “father dear.” Join me and Zahra as we talk about what led her to this moment, the speed of which her beer flies of shelves in New York and now Washington, D.C., and what it means to look back in time to bring something special into today.

For all the power that memory provides us, its the connection to our senses that’s the most visceral. While we can close our eyes and picture loved ones or a perfect summer day, it’s the moment we smell a bag of candy or taste the right combination of spices that the past rushes back to life. Our eyes and ears can tell us about the present, but our nose and taste buds can be our time machine. In this episode, we explore what it means to chase flavor memory with Zahra Tabatabai, founder and CEO of Back Home Beer, a fast-growing company based in New York City rooted in her family’s past. Zahra started homebrewing in order to recapture past tastes from her grandfather’s days of homebrewing in Iran as a way to bring those memories back for her family. A hobby soon became more, and now her Sumac Gose and Persian Lager act as ways to recapture the ingredients and flavors of the past. As you’ll hear in this conversation, at the core of Zahra’s journey is her grandfather, Gholam-Reza, who was better known by his familial nickname of “baba joon,” a term of endearment that translates to “father dear.” Join me and Zahra as we talk about what led her to this moment, the speed of which her beer flies of shelves in New York and now Washington, D.C., and what it means to look back in time to bring something special into today.

EP-333 Zahra Tabatabai of Back Home Beer

On today’s episode, I am joined by Zahra Tabatabai, the founder of a Brooklyn Based, first-generation, and woman-owned beer company, Back Home Beer. Zahra wasn’t always a professional brewer. A former journalist, writing for Fox News and ESPN, she started brewing in her Brooklyn apartment motivated by stories of her late grandfather’s home brewing operations in Shiraz. What began as a hobby turned into something more. She found a way to educate others on the richness of our Iranian Culture through ingredients used in her beer, all the while staying true to her brand’s mission of empowering women, supporting immigrants, and taking care of the community she’s a part of. 

On today’s episode, I am joined by Zahra Tabatabai, the founder of a Brooklyn Based, first-generation, and woman-owned beer company, Back Home Beer. Zahra wasn’t always a professional brewer. A former journalist, writing for Fox News and ESPN, she started brewing in her Brooklyn apartment motivated by stories of her late grandfather’s home brewing operations in Shiraz. What began as a hobby turned into something more. She found a way to educate others on the richness of our Iranian Culture through ingredients used in her beer, all the while staying true to her brand’s mission of empowering women, supporting immigrants, and taking care of the community she’s a part of.