The Brewing Network is a multimedia resource for brewers and beer lovers. From our headquarters at The Hop Grenade Taproom & Bottleshop in Concord, California, we produce live streaming radio, podcasts, and video featuring the best professional and homebrewers from around the globe to share our love of craft beer and brewing with you.
SHARING THE LOVE FOR
ALL THINGS BEER
The Brewing Network is a multimedia resource for brewers and beer lovers. From our headquarters at The Hop Grenade Taproom & Bottleshop in Concord, California, we produce live streaming radio, podcasts, and video featuring the best professional and homebrewers from around the globe to share our love of craft beer and brewing with you.
THE TEAM
Justin Crossley is founder of The Brewing Network and the host of The Session. He began his career in terrestrial radio, but quickly realized that program directors tend to shun drinking on the job. He founded the BN to share his love of radio and beer and is known as the one person who can talk the most about beer, without actually knowing anything about it.
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Jason “JP” Petros is co-host on The Session, bringing an “everyman” style of making beer to The Brewing Network. The addition of Dr. Homebrew to the BN introduced the soft, caring side of JP, marking a great moment in his personal history. When he’s not making radio happen here, you can find Jason at Disneyland, recording EarzUp Podcast, selling Covears, and writing about himself in the third person.
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Scott “Moscow” Moskowitz co-hosts and produces The Sour Hour. He began working in the radio industry in 2001 on the FM dial in Southern California. After stints at Clear Channel and CBS Radio in San Francisco, he joined The Brewing Network in 2009 as producer of The Session before starting The Sour Hour with Jay Goodwin in 2014. When he’s not sampling the latest mixed-fermentation creations, he can be found on the ice, behind an easel, or at a card table.
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Jamil Zainasheff is owner/brewer of Heretic Brewing Company and has been hosting The Jamil Show and Brew Strong on The Brewing Network since 2006. Jamil started as a homebrewer and brewed an award-winning example of every style in the BJCP Guidelines and wrote a book about it, Brewing Classic Styles. He also co-authored Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation and has written extensively for BYO, Zymurgy and many others.
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Mike “Tasty” McDole is an award-winning homebrewer and craft beer enthusiast. His homebrewing focuses on recipe development and process repeatability. Tasty’s recipes have been brewed around the world. He’s active in the Northern California craft beer scene, where he is familiar to craft beer brewers, distributors, bar owners, bar staff, and drinkers everywhere. Tasty’s common sense approach to homebrewing is heard on The Session and The Jamil Show.
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Beverly “Beevo” Moore is a married mom of one. Her hobbies include singing, napping, and Disneyland! In 2007, Justin asked her to fill in as the chat room moderator while he searched for a permanent replacement – and after doing it for a few months, she offered to take on the task permanently. She now works with Justin on the BN’s accounting and event planning…and a bunch of other bullshit.
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Jay Goodwin is the co-founder and director of blending and brewing at The Rare Barrel in Berkeley, California, and the host of The Sour Hour. He began his craft beer journey in college, when he and his roommate (future Rare Barrel co-founder Alex Wallash) began homebrewing in their apartment. Jay went on to work at The Bruery for four years before founding The Rare Barrel in 2013.
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Nathan Smith has been a San Francisco Bay Area homebrew geek since 1998. His homebrewing career was corrupted by the BN shortly after its launch in 2005 and has never the same since. He’s a sought after resource for hops, IPA and Belgian-style brewing and can often be heard pontificating half-truths and rumors about stuff nobody understands. He can be found on Twitter @nathanhomebrew.
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Warren “Beardy” Billups is more than just a hot mess of hair and rugged good looks. He started homebrewing and listening to The Brewing Network in 2009 and helped The BN Homebrew Club win the National Homebrewers Conference Club of the Year award in 2011 and 2012 with his decidedly average, yet surprisingly satisfying, attempts in cider. He is now the brewmaster at Loma Brewing Company and a co-host on The Session.
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“KimsBayBrews” Schimke grew up in Sacramento, California with craft beer loving parents who took her touring around Northern California’s craft breweries since she was preteen. Kim moved to the Bay Area in 2012 and began pursuing the craft beer industry. Kim has done public relations, marketing, and social media for breweries and the BN. Additionally, she manages her own beer-centric social media pages @KimsBayBrews. Kim is also Batman.
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Doc is the BN’s resident scientist and longtime homebrew legend. He’s a dentist by trade and fell in love with the science of beer many decades ago. Today he practices dentistry in Moraga, California, and parties with the BN on The Session.
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Brian Cooper is a Master Level BJCP judge and judge educator, and has been brewing beer and mead for nearly two decades. He is founder of the Mad Zymurgists Homebrew Club, organizer of San Francisco Beer Week’s Beer Judging 101, and the co-host of Dr. Homebrew.
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Shaun “Sully” O’Sullivan is the co-founder and brewmaster of the 21st Amendment Brewery. He enjoys being a father to his amazing son, loves to travel (he does a lot of that), and has been a Brewing Network staple as co-host of various shows since 2005. His beer is now available in cans.
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