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
Ep 19: Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company - Part 2
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Bret Kollmann Baker and Mike Morgan
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Episode 19
“The ethnic cleansing,” is how top executives at Anheuser-Busch described their effort to destroy Sam Adams, Jim Koch, and the nascent craft beer industry in the 1990s. The efforts of Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser and Bud Light among many (MANY) other brands, led to 8 long years of negative growth for craft beer in the United States. This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch.