This past Sunday, the Good Beer Seal traveled to B. United International in Oxford, CT, for their Nepenthia open house, which offered the opportunity for 400+ industry insiders to meet a dozen of the world’s most interesting artisanal brewers, three of whom join Beer Sessions Radio™ host Jimmy Carbone for this week’s episode (listen here). In the studio are Jon Lundbom from B. United, Paolo Fontana of Birra Baladin, Michael Brogaard of Dansk Mjod in Denmark, and Rob Lovatt of Thornbridge Brewery in the United Kingdom. Hear about the very cool things B. United has planned (a dedicated Viking Blod tanker? yes!) in a myriad of even cooler accents.
Among the many offerings and workshops at Nepenthia was a Beer Spirits workshop and tours around B. United’s bucolic country setting. The world scope of the breweries stretches from Japan to Europe to Kenya (Dansk Mjod is working to harvest honey from Africa). Interest in international artisanal craft brews has propelled B. United, which is more interested in delivering “quality liquid” than carrying as many brands as possible.
Next, Jimmy looks to his back yard and the craft beer scene that is growing in Bed-Stuy when Michael Brooks and Bryan Lindner from Bed-Vyne Brews talk about starting a beer retail outlet in June. Their list includes affordable offerings to the newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood, which doesn’t really have a proper retail craft beer shop.
Plus, Greg Engert and Megan Parisi of Bluejacket Brewery in Washington, D.C., which has its own laws and unique challenges of being able to import directly from around the world.
Listen in and learn what these amazing brewers are offering and what they’ll have coming up in the next few months.