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You\u2019re listening to a special-edition, three-part podcast series about Charleston\u2019s Sch\xfctzenfest, a German gun and beer festival that initially was a diverse and welcoming environment in the mid 19th century, but which gradually evolved into a site of white supremacy.

In our first podcast, we spent a lot of time exploring how African-Americans were excluded from the Sch\xfctzenfest and later the craft beer industry. Now we explore a simple question: \u201cWhat were they drinking at the Sch\xfctzenfest, and what were those excluded from the Sch\xfctzenfest drinking?\u201d We have Mike Stein and Peter Jones, president and CEO of the Lost Lagers beverage research consultancy, respectively, to help answer that question. Mike and Peter were also researchers for the three-part editorial series that went out on Good Beer Hunting this week\u2014if you haven\u2019t already, give those stories a read. In this episode, they\u2019ll talk about indigenous ingredients, enslaved brewers, and some of the first Guinness beer to reach the United States.

After this, tune into Part Three of this podcast series, where I meet up with Mr. Sammy Backman of Backman Seafood, KJ Kearnery of Black Food Fridays, and Jaime Tenny of Coast Brewing Company, to talk about the influence of exclusion in Charleston and in their respective industries.