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Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Collective podcast, the show where members of our team interview each other to get a behind-the-scenes look at some of our favorite articles. I\u2019m Ashley Rodriguez, and I produce Good Beer Hunting's podcast.

One of the most exciting parts of being at Good Beer Hunting is working with new authors. It\u2019s thrilling to see a new corner of the beer world, or a new perspective on something I thought I knew well, told through another lens. And it\u2019s equally exciting to see others respond to the stories our first-time authors choose to tell.

In this episode, I\u2019m chatting with Lucy Corne, a freelance beer writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. Lucy wrote an article as part of our Mother of Invention series, made in partnership with Guinness, about the reemergence of traditional beer styles in South Africa. In this piece, she details how craft brewing enthusiasts are reclaiming traditional brewing styles\u2014like umqombothi, a sorghum-based, wild-fermented beer\u2014and throughout this interview, we talk about how local beer identities are made and how information gets passed along. Because traditional sorghum beer is often brewed inside peoples\u2019 homes, it can be difficult to trace its history\u2014but there are lots of folks attempting to highlight its origins.

Lucy also runs a blog called The Brewmistress, where she\u2019s chronicled the effects of COVID-19 on the South African craft beer scene, including the rise in homebrewing after a nationwide ban on the sale of alcohol and tobacco went into effect in late March. Her writing on the subject should resonate far and wide, given that, in this current moment, there\u2019s no part of the beer world that hasn\u2019t been touched by the coronavirus. Here\u2019s Lucy.