Creating community (and a bunch of medals): Walking Tree Brewery.

On Florida’s Treasure Coast, every now and then, gold washes up on the beach. And sometimes, it pours out of the taps! Walking Tree Brewery is barely 3 years old, and from local contests to national (GABF) their beers are winning medal after medal - very few startup craft brewers we've ever met have garnered this many accolades in such a short period of time.

As luck would have it, Vero Beach is also home to Riverside Theatre, where Jimmy just happened to be playing Henry Higgins opposite Kristen as Eliza Doolittle - and on this fine day, the cast and crew (and JAKE!) came out to help with the shoot. Join The Happy Hour Guys out by the former Naval Air Station, where this brewery, in the words of their bartending staff, "is taking names!"

Video 321, HOW TO: Grow your Brewery.

Or: Blackrocks Brewery, 5 years later.

First came the beer: Two home-brewing pals that made terrific beers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 

Next came the Nano: The Happy Hour Guys first started following Blackrocks Brewery in Marquette, MI in late 2010, when Andy and Dave had taken the leap of faith and had a tiny 1 barrel Brewery, just out of the gate, impressing their community and regularly selling out of beer each week. 

Then came the growth: Just 5 short years later, Blackrocks has changed incredibly: Join us at their production facility where they let us in on their personal (and highly specific) manifesto for Success in the Brewing Industry. Enjoy!

Episode #318: Tributary Brewing.

Jimmy, Mark, and Jennifer are in Maine to visit an old acquaintance, Tod Mott, who with his wife and business partner Galen has opened Tributary Brewing Company in Kittery, just across the river from Portsmouth, NH. Tod definitely qualifies in the categories of 'Good TV' as well as 'Rockstar Brewer', having brought IPA to Harpoon Brewing in 1992, and Imperial Stout to Portsmouth ("P Brew") in 1996. And wouldn't you know it, The Happy Hour Guys just happened to show up one day before the release of a certain world renowned Imperial Stout...(funny thing, that!) Click play for more, and enjoy!

We approve of this man's choice of headgear.