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
3: An Appliance Heir, an Impulse Purchase, and "the Knowledge"
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Bret Kollmann Baker and Mike Morgan
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Season 1
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Episode 3
In 1960s San Francisco, Fritz Maytag was an ambitious but aimless recent Stanford graduate. Looking for a purpose in life, he bought a flailing 19th century brewery called Anchor Steam that made really bad beer. Faced with certain failure, Fritz brought a microscope from home, bought a book about brewing, and became the person that you would least suspect to transform the business of brewing and turn the flower power counterculture onto a new type of beer.