About this podcast
It’s modern American history, one beer at a time! Join VinePair contributing editor and columnist Dave Infante for Taplines, a weekly interview series with brewing icons, industry insiders, and outspoken experts about the United States’ most beloved and best-selling beers. Bros discussing their favorite IPAs, this ain’t. Taplines is a mix of journalism, history, and beer that you won’t find anywhere else but the VinePair Podcast Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- The Future of America's Beer Industry · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 61After 60 episodes of award-winning modern beer history, this is the final episode of Taplines. To send off the show, we're turning the Taplines Time Machine forward instead of…
- Bud Light's GamerGate Gauntlet, Explained · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 60Journalist Charlie Warzel joins the show today for a wide-ranging, cross-discipline episode to discuss how the GamerGate style of extremely online grievance politics has become…
- How Four Corners Crafted a Big Beer Buyback · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 59George Esquivel is the co-founder of Four Corners Brewing Company in Dallas, Texas. He joins Taplines today to talk about selling his brewery to Constellation, spending five…
- How Anheuser-Busch InBev Built Its Biggest Brand of the 21st Century · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 58Kimberly Clements, co-founder and managing partner of Pints LLC, joins Taplines today to talk about Anheuser-Busch's introduction of a little beer called Michelob Ultra, which…
- Meet the Middle Tier's Master Matchmaker · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 57Joe Thompson, the founder and president of Independent Beverage Group, is a five-decade drinks business veteran, and one of the most prolific brokers of middle-tier mergers and…
- The Oral History of the "F*CK AB-INBEV" Shirt · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 56Steve Luke, founder and head brewer of Seattle’s Cloudburst Brewing, joins Taplines today for a freewheeling conversation about an iconic moment — arguably, the iconic moment —…
- The Cross-Category Battle for the Future of Hard Tea · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 55This week on Taplines, we're going cross-category with our pond-crossing pal from Cocktail College: VinePair's managing editor, Tim McKirdy. Tune in for a genre-breaking…
- The Road to Beer History Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 54We’re putting our normal Taplines format on the shelf today for a very special reunion episode of sorts with journalists Kate Bernot of Sightlines, and Jess Infante of Brewbound…
- Shattering Homebrewing’s Pint-Glass Ceiling · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 53Today on Taplines, meet Annie Johnson. She’s a longtime homebrewer, the self-avowed Queen of Beer, and an old source of mine from way back. Annie has been brewing her own beer…
- Inside Anheuser-Busch’s "Microbrewing" Skunkworks · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 52Like any good parable, the "David and Goliath" self-mythology of the American craft brewing industry in the '80s and '90s was illuminating, compelling — and maybe a bit…
- How Stone Brewing Dropped a $56-Million Stunner on Molson Coors · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 51Today, we’re joined by the one and only Bianca Bruno, an editor of the venerable trade publication Beer Business Daily, who was there, live and in-person, to cover the landmark…
- Saving Narragansett, New England’s Beloved Legacy Lager · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 50After trading hands several times and closing its Rhode Island facility to contract brew, the Narragansett brand was eventually scooped up by a group of investors in 2005. With…
- When Bud Light First Got Fruity · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 49Our guest this episode is Jeff Musial, a bev-alc industry veteran who was working in research and development for new products at Anheuser-Busch in the mid-Aughts. This was a…
- How Cold IPA Got Hot · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 48In 2018, Gold Dot Beer’s Kevin Davey was working as the brewmaster of Portland Oregon’s Wayfinder Beer when he hit upon the idea of brewing an India Pale Ale with lager yeast…
- Why Brut IPA Never Hit It Big · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 47Towards the end of the Teens, Kim Sturdavant was brewing at Social Kitchen & Brewery in San Francisco when he developed a new kind of India Pale Ale. He christened his crisp, dry…
- The Controversial Rise of Big, Honkin' Pastry Stouts · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 46Pastry stouts — sweet, saccharine, indulgent beers built on flavors more common to a bakery than a brewery — emerged towards the end of last decade as a coveted, if occasionally…
- The Inside Story of "Black Is Beautiful" Stout, One of the Biggest Cause Beers Ever Brewed · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 45In the early months of the pandemic, Marcus Baskerville was working as the head brewer at Weathered Souls Brewing Company, the brewery he co-founded in San Antonio, when a police…
- How Budweiser's Iconic 'Whassup!' Ad Went Down · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 44In 1999, Vinny Warren was working at Chicago ad firm DDB and on the hunt for a hit idea for a Super Bowl spot for his client, Budweiser. The King of Beers was still selling…
- Angry Orchard and the Fight for Hard Cider's Soul · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 43Joining Taplines today is Ryan Burk, the former head cider maker of Angry Orchard Hard Cider. These days, he’s making cider under his own label in upstate New York, working as a…
- How Beer Boosted the First Wine Cooler Boom · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 42Nothing exists in a vacuum, Taplines listener, and beer certainly doesn’t. When Stuart Bewley and his cofounder dreamed up the idea for California Cooler, single-serve…
