E101: Alabaster's Interstellar Ginger Beer and Exploration Company

What do you think of when Ginger Beer comes up? 

A Dark and Stormy? Maybe you're mixing it up with Ginger Ale. Shane Kelly recently opened up a new type of brewery - Interstellar Ginger Beer and Exploration Company - in Alabaster, Alabama. 

We talk to him about the science (!) of brewing ginger beer, and how Alabama is embracing craft beer, cider and ginger beer. 

Truck and Tap's Beers of the Week: 

• Interstellar Beers - First Contact and Sunspot
• Creature Comforts Golden Door
• Red Brick Hype Whale

Headlines: 

• Southbound Taphouse is now open in the Savannah/Hilton Head Intl Airport
• Halfway Crooks opening in Summerhill Redevelopment, Summer 2018 
• Oskar Blues Holding Company Changes Name To CANarchy, Creates Platform 
• Avery Sells Minority Stake to Spanish Beer Conglomerate Mahou San Miguel
• Inventor of “Cat Wine” Introduces Line of Dog Beers
• Budweiser Wants To Put Beer On Mars
• Henderson’s Black Star Line brewery hit with anti-gay, racist graffiti

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