#71: Mike Sardina | Hill Farmstead

We're ruefully without Matty this week. HOWEVER -- Noah made it
to the Northern Kingdom of Vermont, visiting with old friend,
former coworker, current Hill Farmstead employee, and general
beer savant, Mike Sardina. If you don't know Mike (you're in the
minority), he's lived in cities across the country, making home
within some of craft beer's strongest factions. Yet, he's moved
to Greensboro, VT on not one, but two separate occasions, and we
accordingly start off by prodding at what exactly it is that
makes Vermont and its beer scene so special. We also get into
Mike's current role at Hill Farmstead, the effect COVID-19 has
had on the brewery, and how it's come out on the other side very
different for all the right reasons. Naturally, the conversation
regularly goes back to Edward, and through it we touch on the
need for "radical candor" in the brewing, the omnipresent
importance of conscientious consumption, and of course...
B-B-friggin'-Q.   
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Music: "Mountain Climb" by Jake Hill