The Brewing Network Presents | The Session

The Session is a beer show with its boots on the brewhouse floor. It is built around Justin Crosley talking with brewers, homebrewers, brewery operators, and club members while actual beers get opened and discussed. The conversations are casual. They are also full of brewing detail. Recent episodes move through Karl Strauss, Wren House Brewing, Fieldwork Brewing Company, Crafty, Coniston, the Arizona Society of Homebrewers, and live brewery settings such as Modern Times. The show often starts with a trip, a glass, a guest, or a room. Then it widens. A tasting can become a conversation about New Zealand hop character, white peach, pineapple, and a Pizza Port collaboration. A visit to Wren House becomes a practical exchange about hop selection, whole-leaf evaluation, pellets, and recipe changes over time. A homebrew-club stop turns into a serious look at rice lagers, cereal mashing, rice hulls, garage fermentation, and why clean lager brewing is hard. The Session respects homebrewers without treating them as hobby-side characters. It also treats professional brewers like working people, not brand mascots. That gives the show a useful texture: awards, brewery heritage, production capacity, customer overlap, and business decisions sit beside jokes, corrections, and another pour. Episodes can wander, but the wandering usually lands somewhere concrete. The best moments come when a guest explains why a choice matters in the finished beer. There is admiration here, but not much polish. That works in its favor. It feels like being close enough to hear brewers compare notes before anyone turns the exchange into a presentation. For listeners who care about styles, process, brewery culture, and the difference between a good story and a good beer, The Session has real shelf life.