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Reuben's Sightglass
by Reuben's Brews
Sightglass goes on a journey to understand what makes craft so much better, from the perspective of craft beer and beyond.Hosted by Reuben's Brews Co-founder, Adam Robbings.
Episodes
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Building community, in the context of beer and sport: With Ballard FC
Today we sit down with Lamar Neagle and Sam Zisette, two of the co-founders of Ballard FC. Ballard FC is a USL 2 team based in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, and had its inaugural season in 2022. USL 2 is the fourth tier of the US professional soccer system, MLS being the top tier, USL 2...
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Breaking the Mold: Starting a Brewery without a Brick-and-Mortar Location, with Kings and Daughters
I first met Kyle Larsen in the UK when he was head brewer for Siren Craft Beer. In quite a crazy coincidence, Kyle - originally from Seattle - was working at a brewery very close to where I was originally from in England. We kept in touch, and as he moved back to US he opened his own brewery…
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The future of authenticity, with Monday Night Brewing
Having met co-founder Jeff at a Brewbound conference back in 2019, it was only time before Reuben's Brews and Monday Night Brewing brewed a collaboration beer together. Jeff Heck and Peter Kiley came to Seattle in December 2022 to brew, and so we couldn't resist the chance to sit down and talk...
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2023 Beer Predictions
Adam sits down with Kendall Jones of The Washington Beer Blog to talk about the trends they saw in 2022, and then translate that into what they see coming in 2023 for craft beer. They talk about non-alcoholic beer, with some warnings for craft brewers. They talk the impact of inflation, and the...
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John Harris and Adam Robbings on their mashup collab Cri-Star IPA
This special episode of Reuben's Sightglass was recorded live at Reuben's Brews on March 8th, 2022 at the Seattle launch of Cri-Star IPA. Many thanks to John Harris of Ecliptic Brewing for making the drive up to Seattle and for the Reuben's and Ecliptic teams for making this delicious beer...
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Exploring the Wide World of Rye Beers with Reuben's Brews
Our host for this episode, Kendall Jones, is a central figure in the Washington brewing community. He is the founder of the Washington Beer Blog , co-founder (alongside Adam Robbings) of the Hop Mob, and a perennial judge at Washington State beer competitions. He also visited Reuben's Brews on…
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Brewing in the UK Craft Beer Scene, with Darren Anley of Siren Craft Brew
Siren Craft Brew was founded by Darren Anley in 2013, and has quickly grown to one of the best craft breweries in the UK and known worldwide for its collaborations. Located just outside of Reading, near in fact to where Adam used to live, Siren is known widely for its innovative and daring beers,...
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How to Tell a Story with Your Beer through Design, with Ben Butler of Top Hat
Design is one of the least discussed but potentially most important things a brewery can do to tell their story. If you do it well you will connect with your customer, helping to build a critical and lasting bond, or as Ben Butler of Top Hat puts it, a "gentle handshake." This is especially true...
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The Art of Running a World-Class Beer Bar: Nat and Vern from Brouwer’s Cafe
Sightglass Season 4, Episode 5: The Art of Running a World-Class Beer Bar: Nat and Vern from Brouwer’s Cafe The cornerstone of the craft beer industry are the retailers: bottleshops, grocery stores, and restaurants who all help consumers on their journey to discovering new beers and new…
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Understanding the Wholesaler Tier, with Scott Cook of NW Beverages
Sightglass Season 4, Episode 4: Understanding the Wholesaler Tier, with Scott Cook of NW Beverages Since the end of prohibition the alcohol industry in the United States has been governed by the Three-Tier System for alcohol distribution. The first tier is something we've covered often on…
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What a Leading Brewery Accountant Wants You to Know About Starting a Brewery, with Chris Farmand of Small Batch Standard
Sightglass Season 4, Episode 3: What a Leading Brewery Accountant Wants You to Know About Starting a Brewery, with Chris Farmand of Small Batch Standard Thanks to our friend Chris Farmand and the entire team at Small Batch Standard for their contributions to the health of our craft brewing...
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How to Launch a Successful Neighborhood Brewery with Tommy Ransom and Audra Johansen, Ravenna Brewing
Season 4, Episode 2: How to Launch a Successful Neighborhood Brewery with Tommy Ransom and Audra Johansen, Ravenna Brewing In this special live-recorded episode Adam Robbings, co-founder of Reuben's Brews, and Matt Lutton, Marketing Manager of Reuben's, sit down with Ravenna Brewing's owner Tommy...
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Episode 0 - The History of Reuben’s Brews featuring Co-Founders Adam and Grace Robbings
Episode 0 - Introduction: The History of Reuben’s Brews featuring founders Adam and Grace Robbings. In this live recording of Reuben’s Sightglass Podcast, Adam, Grace, and Matt discuss the backstory of Reuben’s Brews and the business of beer. It all started with Grace and her newborn son, Reuben,...
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James Dugan, Andy Miller, and Paul Reiter, Great Notion
James Dugan, Andy Miller, and Paul Reiter are our friends, our new Ballard neighbors, and the people behind the iconic Portland brewery, Great Notion. They live by the slogan “Keep Beer Fun” and have built their brewery by staying on top of and creating new beer trends. They’ve even broken the…
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Tomme Arthur, The Lost Abbey, Port Brewing, and more
Tomme Arthur - member of the "first name club" in craft beer - is a legendary and highly influential brewer out of San Diego, California. We sat down with Tomme to discuss his career, from his roots in the nascent San Diego craft beer scene in the '90s to his recent endeavors, which include new...
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Manny Chao, Georgetown Brewing
Georgetown Brewing Company is an icon in the Seattle and Pacific Northwest brewing community and have brewed some of the most popular local beers of the last two decades, including Manny's Pale Ale and Bodhizafa IPA. This week we are sitting down with one of the co-founders of this iconic…
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David Walker, Firestone Walker Brewing Company
Firestone Walker Brewing Company is a brewery that we've long looked up to: they brew a tremendous portfolio of quality beers, they've got a number of locations around Southern California that shows off their authenticity so well, and they've maintained a distinct and clear voice throughout their...
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Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association
Welcome to Season 3 of Reuben's Sightglass! This season begins with a scene-setting interview with the one-and-only Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association. We explore the lay of the land at this point of Covid recovery and explore what you, the consumer, are telling us as...
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Michael Ferguson, Hop Breeder at HAAS
Michael Ferguson is the Director of Hop Breeding at Haas, one of the Yakima Valley's premiere hop growers. His job is to cultivate the next great hop, and that involves breeding and evaluating thousands of clones, in search of the needle in the haystack. And we may have just found it. Adam and…
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The Year in Review: 2020
Our guests on our 2020 Year in Review episode of Reuben's Sightglass are Jamie Bogner, Cofounder and Editorial Director of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine, Jeff Alworth, beer writer and editor of Beervana, and Kendall Jones, beer writer and founder of Washington Beer Blog.
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries, Issue #6
It has been three months since we last checked in with our friends John Dantzler (Torch and Crown Brewing, New York City, NY), John Harris (Ecliptic Brewing, Portland, OR), and JC Hill (Alvarado Street Brewery, Monterey, CA), so we rang them up to see how their breweries and their communities are...
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Kit and Jesse Schumann, Sea Wolf Bakers
Adam speaks with the founders of one of his favorite local bakeries, located walking distance from his and Grace's home in Seattle. Kit and Jesse got their start around the same time as Adam began brewing, and the stories of how both family-owned businesses based in fermentation got off the…
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Dave Green and Will De Remer, Skagit Valley Malting
Just 50-some miles up the road from Reuben's Brews is the Skagit Valley, an important agricultural region in Washington State and home of world-famous tulips. Adam and Matt speak with Dave and Will from Skagit Valley Malting about their unique role in the brewing, distilling, and baking…
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Matt Hoffmann and Steve Hawley, Westland Distillery
Seattle's Westland Distillery was founded in 2010 and has quickly made its mark on the worldwide whiskey scene. Westland's Co-Founder and Master Distiller Matt Hoffmann and Director of Marketing Steve Hawley sit down with Adam and Matt to walk through their unique vision of American Single Malt...
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John Holler, Holler Brewing
At this year's Texas Brewers Guild annual meeting, held just before the shutdowns, Adam met John Holler, of Holler Brewing in Houston, TX. John and his wife Kathryn's journey to starting a brewery echoes our own origin story. Adam and John also discuss the unique challenges of being a brewery in...
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries, Issue #5
In this fifth installment of our series of the impact of Coronavirus on breweries we connect with our friends in Oregon, California, and New York City to see how life at their breweries is progressing now that all areas have begun reopening in phases. A continuing discussion emerges around the...
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Aaron Lindstrom and Steve Popplewell, Theo Chocolate
In this episode Adam and Matt speak with Aaron Lindstrom and Steve Popplewell of Theo Chocolate in Seattle, WA. Steve is the senior chocolatier and Aaron is the chocolate ambassador for one of Seattle's most successful chocolate brands, and we bond over the creative process of developing flavors...
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Jack Harris and Chris Nemlowill, Fort George Brewery
In this episode Adam speaks with Jack Harris and Chris Nemlowill, the founders of Fort George Brewery in Astoria, OR. The conversation ranges from the history of the brewery and the influence of brewing at the mouth of the Columbia River, to the extraordinary changes in brewing and restaurant...
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Annie Johnson, Larry Rock, and Rodney Hines on Diversity in the Brewing Industry
This week co-founder of Reuben's Brews Adam Robbings sits down with Annie Johnson (2013 AHA Homebrewer of the Year), Larry Rock (Sales Representative, Reuben's Brews), and Rodney Hines (co-founder of Metier Brewing) for a panel discussion about diversity in the brewing industry. How can we all...
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Bryan Roth, Good Beer Hunting
Bryan Roth, editor of Sightlines by Good Beer Hunting, has a unique perspective on the Coronavirus crisis in the brewing industry. He has close relationships with breweries nationwide but doesn't work at a brewery. Adam talks with Bryan about his 30,000ft, writers-eye view of the landscape while...
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries, Issue #4
In this fourth installment of our series of the impact of Coronavirus on breweries you'll get a detailed view of the crisis from the perspective of four brewery owners in California, New York State, Oregon, and Washington. As states move towards phased reopening our panel discusses what’s next:...
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COVID-19 Survey Results
Last week Reuben's Brews put out a public survey to gauge sentiment around Washington State's phased reopening program, and the reopening of our tasting rooms. With almost 1,500 responses, we wanted to share what we've learned. Listen in on this live conversation between Adam and Grace Robbings...
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Andy Gundel, Urban Family Brewing Co.
Recently Adam sat down with Andy Gundel of Urban Family Brewing Co., a friend and a neighbor, who has a unique perspective for a brewery owner: he took over an existing business and has taken it to new heights. Andy discusses his path towards brewery ownership, the changes he's led over the years...
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Gary Sink, Beveridge Place Pub
Earlier this year we sat down with Gary Sink, the publican behind West Seattle's Beveridge Place Pub. Gary is a fixture in the Pacific Northwest craft beer community, and in this episode we hear about his path to owning and opening one of the seminal beer bars in the city. Reuben's Brews has a…
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries, Issue #3
This latest episode of The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries series checks in with three of our friends around the nation: John Harris from Ecliptic Brewing in Portland, OR, JC Hill from Alvarado Street in Monterey, CA., and John Dantzler from Torch & Crown Brewing in New York City. Every two...
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Doug McClure and Tom Vial, Zeeks Pizza
A conversation with Doug and Tom, the founders of Zeeks Pizza, a Seattle and Pacific Northwest institution born in 1993, and one of Reuben's Brews' first accounts. Zeeks' story begins with two friends leaving the corporate world for one of passion and entrepreneurship, which mirrors Adam's…
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries, Issue #2
This is this second episode of The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries series we check in with three of our friends and discuss how their breweries are navigating the Coronavirus pandemic. Every two weeks for the next couple of months we will speak to John Dantzler from Torch & Crown Brewing in…
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Chad Kuehl, Wander Brewing
In our third of three conversations from a trip to Bellingham, WA we took late last year we interviewed our friend Chad Kuehl, the owner and head brewer of Wander Brewing. We have a great discussion about how Chad and his wife Colleen got in to the brewing business and how they chose Bellingham…
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The Impact of Coronavirus on Breweries, Issue #1
This is the first of a series of podcasts following three of our friends and their breweries through the Coronavirus pandemic. Every two weeks for the next couple of months we will speak to John Dantzler from Torch and Crown Brewing in New York City, John Harris from Ecliptic Brewing in Portland,...
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Frank Trosset, Aslan Brewing
In our second of three conversations from a trip to Bellingham, WA we interviewed Frank Trosset, the head brewer of Aslan Brewing Co., one of the Pacific Northwest's only organic craft breweries. We discuss some of the unique challenges his team faces, including limitations in hop selection to...
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Mari and Will Kemper, Chuckanut Brewery
In the first of three conversations from a trip to Bellingham, WA we interviewed Mari and Will Kemper of Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen. Join us for a free-flowing conversation about their more than 25 year career in craft brewing and learn more about Will's important contributions to the industry...
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Kendall Jones - The Year in Review
On 12/30/19 we sat down with Kendall Jones, editor of the Washington Beer Blog, to discuss the year in beer and other thoughts as the decade concludes. This live recording was made at Beveridge Place Pub in West Seattle.
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Brewer's Symposium - The Art of Barrel Aged Sours
The Art of Barrel Aged Sours is the third of three panel discussions we hosted in May 2019 during Seattle Beer Week. In this special, short episode we feature a portion of the conversation panelists Patrick Ceriale (Urban Family Brewing), Gordon Schuck (Funkwerks), Chad Kuehl (Wander Brewing)…
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Brewer's Symposium - The Art of Hops
The Art of Hops is the second of three panel discussions we hosted in May 2019 during Seattle Beer Week. In this episode, we feature the conversation panelists Michal Frankowicz (Fort George Brewing), Michael Hunsaker (Grains of Wrath Brewery), Patrick Jansen (Matchless Brewing), and Adam…
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Brewer's Symposium - The Art of Lagers
In May 2019 we hosted an event at the brewery during Seattle Beer Week and had three panel discussions with some of our friends and colleagues, hosted by Kendall Jones of the Washington Beer Blog. In this episode, we discuss The Art of Lagers. Panelists include Aaron Blonden (Matchless Brewing),...
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Andy Roy, Roy Farms
Andy Roy, a fifth generation hop farmer from Moxee, WA, joins Sightglass for a conversation about the hop farming industry, the intrinsic link between the farmer and the brewer, and a recap of the 2019 hop harvest. Andy is a hops contract manager at his family farm, which has been around in the...
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Peter Mark, Kuma Coffee
In our first episode of Sightglass, we talk with Peter Mark, the owner of Kuma Coffee in Seattle. Our conversation runs through the history of the company and the processes by which Kuma selects and roasts their beans. The parallels to the brewing industry are astonishing.
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Sightglass goes on a journey to understand what makes craft so much better, from the perspective of craft beer and beyond.Hosted by Reuben's Brews Co-founder, Adam Robbings.
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