Brew Skies Happy Hour
Crack open a cold one and join brewer Bret Kollmann Baker and beer historian Michael D. Morgan as they explore how America went from fewer than 100 breweries in the late 1970's to more than 10,000 today.
Brew Skies Happy Hour
2: America’s First Craft Brewery
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Bret Kollmann Baker and Mike Morgan
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Season 1
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Episode 2
In 1976 an unemployed sailor named Jack McAuliffe dropped $5,000 on a bunch of repurposed materials and built New Albion Brewing Company by hand. Childless and certain that he never wanted kids, Jack got a vasectomy in his 20s which we only bring up because this is an interview with the biological daughter he didn't know he had. Join us on a wild story about the birth and collapse of New Albion and a very unlikely family drama.