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 brew...
After 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 backwards to speculate on how the American beer industry's past might inform its future with the inimitable historian and author of 'Ambitious Brew' Maureen Ogle. Maureen was our first guest, so it only makes sense that she'd be our last guest, too. Tune in one more time to hear her and Dave ponder what the U.S. beer business might look like 25 years from now. Don't forget to like, review, and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Bud Light's GamerGate Gauntlet, Explained
Journalist 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 the dominant format for conservative backlash today, why it works so well, and why companies like Anheuser-Busch InBev — with all the resources in the world and a decade to learn how to brace against bad-faith attacks — keep falling for it. Don't forget to like, review, and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1:07:46
How Four Corners Crafted a Big Beer Buyback
George 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 years within the belly of Big Beer's Big Golden Beast, then retaking control to go independent again in 2023. It's a rare perspective that only a few brewers across the country have, and Esquivel graces us with rare candor when telling his tale. Don't forget to like, review, and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1:05:40
How Anheuser-Busch InBev Built Its Biggest Brand of the 21st Century
Kimberly 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 August Busch III personally tapped her family's Arizona distributorship to help test out in 2002 in advance of a national release. Don't forget to like, review, and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Meet the Middle Tier's Master Matchmaker
Joe 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 acquisitions in the United States. He joins Taplines today to talk about how Coors’ “silver” network and Miller’s “blue” network became Molson Coors’ “blue/silver” network — an esoteric saga he knows well, given he was involved in many of those transformative deals in the '80s and '90s. Don't forget to like, review, and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.
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