2019 Throwback: EP 039 The Alaska Beer Frontier with Dr. Fermento

Crude Conversations

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4.9 • 152 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this episode, Cody has a conversation with longtime Alaska beer columnist Jim Roberts, better known as Dr. Fermento. Jim's been writing about and involved in the Alaska craft beer scene for over two decades. Back then, there were only about eight breweries in Alaska, today there are over forty. In an article he wrote for Crude in 2018, he called Alaska "the Beer Frontier." Cody and Jim talk about how Jim is "a beer drinker with a writing problem," some suggestions for the curious and the uninitiated beer drinker, how there's a niche for every beer drinker in the world in Alaska, and the time Dr. Fermento was invited to the Playboy Mansion.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show!
0:12.0	This week I sat down with Jim Roberts, better known as Dr. Fremento, a longtime Alaska
0:16.7	craft beer columnist.
0:18.7	If you want to know about Alaska craft beer, Jim's your guy.
0:22.3	He and his wife came to Alaska in 1979 and he quickly started familiarizing himself with
0:27.1	home brewing and getting to know the local craft beer scene and the people involved in
0:30.8	it.
0:31.8	Fast forward to 1992 and Jim is the president of Anchorage's Great Northern Brewers Club.
0:37.7	Fast forward again to 1997 and he's riding a weekly column in the Anchorage Press
0:41.7	newspaper.
0:42.7	Today, he continues that weekly column with the same intention he began with to introduce
0:47.6	people to great Alaskan beer.
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1:25.9	Trina Dubber, Seward Brewing Company, the grind coffee shop in Juno, Derek Adolf, Blue
1:33.8	and Gold Board Shop, Sharon Liska, Alaska Surf Adventure, Akila Space and Northern
1:40.7	Knives.
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