EP-328 Audrey Gehlhausen and Chris DellaBianca of Billy Goat Hop Farm
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If you\\u2019ve gone on a brewery tour or listened to someone wax poetic about what goes into a beer, you may have heard this phrase: \\u201cBeer is an agricultural product.\\u201d It\\u2019s a simple statement, but one that\\u2019s repeated because it can often get lost. We most often exist around beer\\u2019s final state\\u2014an alcoholic liquid dispensed from a tap or poured from a bottle or can. No wonder we aren\\u2019t actively thinking about what happens before we take that first sip.
In this episode, we\\u2019re taking a chance to step back in that timeline with Audrey Gehlhausen and Chris DellaBianca of Billy Goat Hop Farm, a 32-acre, family-owned farm in Montrose, Colorado, where Audrey and Chris harvest hops like Cascade, Chinook, Comet, and more. They\\u2019re responsible for one of the core ingredients in beer that provides a host of aromas and flavors. But we\\u2019re not just talking about all that, as Audrey and Chris\\u2019 connection to beer through farming raises a range of other important topics that touch climate change, labor, and running a business.
While I\\u2019m certainly guilty of not overthinking each beer I\\u2019m drinking, I love knowing the value of interactions like this. To pause and think about how beer touches so much before it hits the side of your glass. Beer is an agricultural product, and in this conversation, you\\u2019ll get another opportunity to learn why.
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