EP-168 Sayre Piotrkowski of HenHouse Brewing

This is our second interview recorded during San Francisco beer week - and
it happened to be our second interview with someone who works at HenHouse
Brewing up in the north bay.  When I first contacted Sayre to come on the
podcast, I didn’t even know he worked for Henhouse, which becomes part and
parcel of the conversation.

Sayre Piotrkowski is a great example of someone who’s hustled their way
through a variety of jobs in the beer world, from door man, to bartender to
beer buyer and sales rep. The variety of his experiences comes together to
form a uniquely complex and interesting take on the implications of today’s
beer market - how the biggest players affect communities, and how the
smallest movers motivate change.

Sayre’s also been quite vocal about his opinions. He wrote an op-ed
outlining his opposition to the Golden Road pub moving into Oakland that
garnered a lot of attention - and we’ll talk about that in depth here. But
it’s the underlying principles at play that really drive this conversation
into interesting territory for me.  And at times, Sayre and I sort of
wander into the wildness together as we sort through the nuance of our own
opinions and the questions we’re asking of each other. So pardon the
looseness of this one if you can, and just come along for the ride. Some of
the things we discuss are still haunting me a bit, as unresolved as they
are. But I enjoyed every minute of it, and I hope you do too.

This is Sayre Piotrkowski of Henhouse brewing, listen in.