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Better on Draft 378 | Elm Street Brewing

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Legends and Lowlifes became Seth’s idea of a Muncie “hipster beer.”

Rob opens the show with the familiar Better On Draft welcome and a round of what everyone is drinking. Wendy starts with an Evil Twin double IPA, Disco Party, and Rob follows with a Beer Brewery Hefeweizen. Seth from Elm Street Brewing joins the conversation and brings a West Coast IPA from Burial. The show settles into an easy brewery table rhythm right away. Seth talks about where Elm Street fits in its part of town. He points to live music, downtown bars, and the chance to help the local music scene grow a little more. The conversation does not rush that part. It lets the practical side of brewery and bar life breathe. From there, Rob turns the focus to beer. Seth says Citronaut is probably the brewery's signature beer because it is the one he drinks the most. He also says Elm Street gets a lot of love for its sours. Seth explains that he spent a long time trying to get people on board with sour beer. He jokes that he kept pushing them until they finally caught on. The discussion then turns to how beer ideas develop at Elm Street. Seth describes the instinct to take a concept all the way out to the extreme. He gives a carrot beer example that turns into carrot cake beer, then into a sour version with whipped cream, before the idea has to be pulled back toward something realistic. That back and forth says a lot about how the brewery thinks. The show stays comfortable in that messy creative space. Seth then shifts to Quadawatt, a beer he began thinking about near the end of July or the beginning of August. He wanted something like an American light lager, as close to a domestic beer as they could make it. The brewery brewed it, let it condition for a while, and tried it later. The result surprised them. It worked. That moment becomes one of the episode's clearest points of interest because it shows the brewery testing an idea and finding that it lands. The show also keeps up its easy host and guest banter throughout. Everyone sounds familiar with the beer world and unbothered by talking shop. The episode ends in the show's usual casual way, with travel plans, a short break coming up, and Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative lined up for the 14th. The whole thing feels like time spent with people who are comfortable talking about beer as a craft, a business, and a local social anchor all at once.

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A relaxed brewery stop that gets better when the beer ideas turn practical.

Better on Draft 378 spends most of its time with Seth from Elm Street Brewing, moving from the house IPA Citronaut into the thinking behind sours, Quadawatt, and a light lager experiment that sounds like it was pushed until it became useful.

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Press play if you want brewery talk that moves from a house IPA to sour experiments and a light-lager pivot.

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