ITW-01 Into The Wild with Dick Cantwell + Jay Goodwin

This is a special episode of the podcast, made possible by the underwriting
of New Belgium Brewing and out collaborative series called Into the Wild.

Last week New Belgium kicked off their Sour Saison blending tour, starting
in California, pulling this rad vintage trailer behind a pick-up truck and
parking it at bars and breweries across the country. I joined them for that
leg of the journey, and again recently here in my home town of Chicago. And
right now it’s headed back to Denver and then LA, so you still have time to
link up with the tour.

One of the reasons this collaboration is so special for us is because it’s
helping us devote a portion of our editorial, this podcast, and our design
team to a category of beers we love - wild fermentation, sour, wood-aged,
mixed-ferm — those beers that are keeping alive an ancient tradition for a
new generation of drinkers.

You can see the content and the event schedule at
goodbeerhunting.com/intothewild

In addition to the articles we’re writing, we also published a print mag,
which we’re handing out for free at the events. And, we’ve been able to put
together some one-off podcast episodes, like this one, featuring Jay
Goodwin of The Rare Barrel, and Dick Cantwell formerly of Elysian, and now
the owner of Magnolia brewing and author of numerous books on brewing.

So while the taproom at The Rare Barrel was full of people sampling and
blending sour saison, and Dick Cantwell was demonstrating how to take apart
and re-build an oak barrel, we got together on the stage and struck up a
conversation about the state of the category.