The Beer Temple Podcast

The Beer Temple Podcast is a craft beer discussion show shaped by trade knowledge, deadpan humor, and the rhythms of a long-running conversation. Chris Quinn of The Beer Temple and Mike Shalau of Is Was Brewing talk like people who have spent years inside the beer scene rather than near it. That gives the show a grounded feel. It is not just tasting notes and enthusiasm. Episodes ask what beer styles actually communicate, why certain trends catch, and how breweries respond when the market stops rewarding the same narrow ideas. A solo conversation about XPAs and West Coast pils turns into a broader argument about whether new labels help drinkers or simply follow fashion. The future-of-craft-beer series pushes the same questions through playful bits, with theatrical characters giving way to real concern about branding, private money leaving the space, and breweries reclaiming more eccentric identities. The show is loose, but it is rarely empty. Jokes about birthdays, muting, honorary titles, and botched outros sit beside serious reflections on how craft beer got flattened by social-media pressure and trend chasing. Book-club episodes add another register. The conversation with Pete Brown on Hops & Glory focuses on the honesty of an unromantic travel story, the value of leaving mess in the narrative, and the difference between mythmaking and telling what happened. That editorial instinct runs through the beer talk too. The hosts seem most interested when beer culture is specific, flawed, and lived-in. Guests and roundtables bring in more industry texture, but the core appeal is the familiar back-and-forth: knowledgeable, skeptical, funny, and willing to wander until the useful point appears. The Beer Temple Podcast fits listeners who know enough about craft beer to care about styles, breweries, and scene politics, yet still want a show that leaves room for absurdity, handwritten letters, and the occasional failed clean ending.