Michigan's Great Beer State Podcast

Aug 26, 2020

In 1982, Ted Badgerow and his friend Gordy were issued the first brewery license issued in Michigan in thirty-seven years. Ted shared stories from the early days and the too-short run of Real Ale Company in Chelsea, when we sat with him at Motor City Beer Works in 2018. Ted has returned to the Michigan Brewing...

Aug 19, 2020

In episode thirteen, we go back to the Rising Tide archives for an interview with Aubrey Martinson, co-owner of Chelsea Alehouse Brewery. We spoke with Aubrey, who has since become a member of the Michigan Brewers Guild Board of Directors, about beer & community while sitting in Bell's Beer Garden in Kalamazoo, in the...

Aug 11, 2020

In Episode twelve we talk in the here and now with the bearded half of Beards Brewery, and member of the Michigan Brewers Guild Board of Directors, Peter Manthei.  Peter is a Petoskey local who always dreamt big and who says he also knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur growing up. 

Aug 4, 2020

Episode eleven takes us to the Upper Peninsula to talk to Derek “Chumly” Anderson, the original brewer at The Vierling Restaurant & Marquette Harbor Brewery, who's been brewing there since 1995.  Chumly chatted us up on the patio of Blackrocks in 2018, about the early breweries of the U.P. and beer culture...