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PodSwap | Beer Stories - Co-Founder & CEO of Heart of Darkness Craft Brewery, John Pemberton

Niall Mackay Season 9 Episode 36

Produced by Seven Million Bikes Podcasts, welcome to Episode 7 of Beer Stories! Enter The Darkness with Alex & Mischa as they sit down with the man behind Heart of Darkness Craft Brewery in Saigon, Vietnam! The boys discuss the joys of starting a brewery from scratch in a foreign country, how John first discovered craft beer, HOPS!, building a brand, Joseph Conrad, Wholesale vs. Retail, why quality is the most important thing to any good craft brewery, thoughts on lo/no alcohol beers, John's favourite beer, how craft beer can help sustain a healthy marriage, and Contract Brewing vs. Export. We also get a wide range out of The Hangover Check and a spirited round of Fact or Fiction! Cheers! 

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Hey, it's Niall I am excited to share Beer Stories hosted by my good friends Misha Smith and Alex Violet from Pastoral Street Brewing Company and produced by me at Seven Million Bikes podcast. So check out Beer Stories here on a Vietnam podcast. It's gonna be a special pod swap, and we're gonna do more of these over the coming months. There will be new episodes every week, this is for beer enthusiasts, not beer snobs. So if you love beer, you'll love this podcast. The link is in the show notes. Go and follow that if you need it. And enjoy the podcast. Chills.