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Hosted by Matthew, Bethany, and Ron · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 100 episodes
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Craft beer sales and brand manager — Matt McLaren, professional brewer and line cleaner — Bethany Carlsen, and bottle shop owner and operator — Ron Swarner explore and celebrate the craft beer industry, community, and history in Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding Pacific Northwest region.
Matthew, Bethany, and Ron hosts Grit & Grain Podcast, a arts show with 100 episodes published.
Last weekend, we packed up the cars and made the trek over to Spokane for the amazing Grainmaker Fes t — the annual celebration of specialty malt with more than 50 participating breweries and 25 special collaboration bee
We made it fam! Two-hundred episodes officially in the book. We continue our special double-header with Georgetown Brewing Research & Development Brewer Matt Edwards and tagging in for Part 2 is co-founder, Roger Bialous
It’s crazy to think we are one episode away from 200! To celebrate the occasion, we got together with The Pink Boots Society and Georgetown Brewing , put together a special collab beer, and released it for this special d
We are rounding the corner to Episode 200, which is insane! We definitely didn’t want to hit the next milestone without spending a Sunday morning goofing around with our previous co-host and best buddy, Sean Jackson. We
This weekend has some of the best annual events we know of — all happening at once! On that list is the insanely popular Lagerhead Festival at No Boat Brewing in Snoqualmie . The 3rd annual celebration of all thing
We’re back, baby! The team took a week off for the holiday and some travel, and we’re pumped to be back on the mic to catch up on what everyone has been doing. Bethany was off in France fantasizing about how French
We know many of our listeners have tried their hand off-flavor tasting . Whether you’re studying for certification exams or just leveling up your brewing game, off-flavor identification is a must. But many of the o
This week, we’re on location at Washington Brewers Fest . Held each year smack dab in the middle of Seattle Center , with dozens of Washington breweries and cideries, local food, and all the funk music you can handle. We
A little over a year ago, we had the fantastic folks behind Burien’s own Logan Brewing on the podcast to celebrate our amazing collab with them and Lander Coffee for Tacoma Beer Week 2025 . Since then, they’ve opened a n
The 2026 Firestone Invitational Beerfest was amazing. Matt, Ron, and Phaedra had all planned to meet up for the festival, but Ron had to rain check this one as he had a staff emergency and hung back to cover the bar, bec
The World Beer Cup added a “Rice Lager” category for the first time in 2026, and two Northwest breweries promptly earned medals in it — which is pretty amazing. Much like Mexican lager, rice lager, or Japanese rice lager
Way back when our episodes were still in the double digits, the stellar brewing talent Mike Hunsaker sat down to tell us about his journey setting up shop in Washington and winning every award in the book brewing at Grai
Happy Seattle Beer Week! A bunch of amazing brewers and beer folks have converged on Seattle this week to celebrate all things beer. We took advantage and dragged Michael Messenie down for a quick pod to talk all things
Happy Cinco de Mayo / May the 4th week! Owners and operators of Vice Beer , Michael and Bria Perozzo are in the house! We are flush with Star Wars-themed beers, and we just couldn’t wait to bring the Tournament of
Matt’s back from Berlin! He was gone so long and missed so much that we figured we might as well just crack a few beers and catch up a bit. Ron’s been busy traveling all over the PNW trying to hire as many br
Matt’s still in Germany, and Ron, Bethany, Phaedra, and Doug held down the fort beautifully for this week’s super special episode. We are joined this week by one of the strongest brewing duos working the stat
There are brewers who arrive with a résumé, and then there are brewers who arrive with a landscape. Kulshan Brewing Head Brewer Wes Finger brings the latter — a stretch of Bellingham terrain shaping how he brews and how
This week, we are joined by Stoup Brewing co-founder, board president of the Washington Brewers Guild , and all-around industry powerhouse, Robyn Schumacher! After spending her early career teaching high school biology f
The Grit and Grain team was lucky enough to be invited to the famous yearly celebration of Double Mountain ’s legendary inception, so we packed up the cars and took a field trip to beautiful Hood River. Nestled in the Br
Happy Orval Day Eve! Saturday, March 21st, marks this year’s international celebration of one of the most unique and highly regarded beers ever made, Orval . A 1000-year-old Belgian ale brewed by Trappist Monks and bottl
Sean Jackson
Vice President and Deputy B-21 Program Manager · Northrop Grumman Aeronautics Systems
2 appearances on this show
Leslie Shore
Cold Stream Malt & Grain
1 appearance on this show
Brian Estes
LINC Malt
1 appearance on this show
Matt Edwards
Georgetown Brewing
1 appearance on this show
Aaron Cohn
Merchant du Vin
1 appearance on this show
Parker Rush
Narrows Brewing
1 appearance on this show
Kate Milne
Larrabee Lager Co.
1 appearance on this show
Kirby
Wyckoff Farms
1 appearance on this show
Todd Clement
Monkless Belgian Ales
1 appearance on this show
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