EP-148 Bruce Gray of Left Handed Giant Brewing Co.
b"I\\u2019ve been writing for GBH for going on two and a half years now. Over that time you may or may not have noticed that I\\u2019ve gradually been trying to build a picture of the modern British beer scene. We\\u2019ve looked at the likes of Beavertown and Brew By Numbers in London, BrewDog up in Scotland, Cloudwater in Manchester, Magic Rock and Northern Monk in Yorkshire and most recently Lost & Grounded in Bristol.\\xa0 It\\u2019s Bristol that we find ourselves in today, or at least, that\\u2019s where today\\u2019s guest Bruce Gray, and his brewery Left Handed Giant, is based. Gray has worked in the beer industry for a number of years now, working in BrewDog\\u2019s bar division before heading to Bristol and setting up a distribution company. He also opened a specialist beer bar called Small Bar, which now has a second site in Cardiff, South Wales.\\xa0 From here he began \\u201ccuckoo brewing,\\u201d as Gray puts it, under the Left Handed Giant brand. Things snowballed for the fledgling brewery, as they are wont to do in a British market hungry for more young brands like his, and now they\\u2019re nestled into a permanent site, brewing 15 barrels at a time. Bristol seems to be the perfect incubator for the ambitious plans for his brewery.\\xa0 It\\u2019s perhaps because Gray has had the opportunity to work at all ends of the chain that he\\u2019s able to articulate his experiences within the beer industry so well. He does so regularly on his brewery's blog, where he\\u2019s earned a reputation for being honest and forthright. On this podcast he\\u2019s no different, giving in-depth opinions on issues such as the much-debated price of beer. He also gives his opinions on CAMRA as well as SIBA, the Society for Independent Brewers, which is the closest equivalent the UK has to America\\u2019s Brewers Association. We have a great conversation here that covers all of the above and more. Listen in."