Act 134: Welcome to the ghetto burbs & the home of Street Katz Brewing and a pack of trash pandas

About this episode

Nick and Nigel visit Dan and Ashley Maloney at Street Katz Brewing, discussing their brewing journey and local beer culture.

Nick and Nigel take the show on the road to the "ghetto burbs" for Episode 134, recording live at the home of Dan and Ashley Maloney — the couple behind Street Katz Brewing. The still was running when they arrived. It was still running when they left. Dan's beer journey started with hot Budweisers at an Albuquerque frat house and bottomed out somewhere around a coolers original in 1983. These days he's running 30–50 gallon homebrew batches out of the garage with a nitro pull on the fridge. Ashley fills in the details Dan leaves out — including how they met at a brewery soft opening over a beat-up '77 Chevy, and how the Street Katz name came from a crew of mischievous brewery regulars with raccoon, skunk, and possum nicknames who made it their mission to terrorize local taprooms. This episode includes a mystery beer pulled from a golf course cooler, a Martin House wine barrel-aged sour that nobody quite knew what to do with, a birthday toast to Nigel's 60th, Ron's legendary laugh apnea, and serious (well, semi-serious) talk about the long road to opening a brick-and-mortar Street Katz brewery. The train was never on the tracks. That's kind of the point.

People in this episode

Hosts: Nick, Nigel

Guests: Dan Maloney, Ashley Maloney

Topics covered

• brewing
• homebrew
• local culture
• beer journey
• community

Keywords

• Street Katz Brewing
• homebrew
• beer journey
• Albuquerque
• local taprooms

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Street Katz Brewing

Places: Albuquerque, ghetto burbs