Telling the Social, Cultural & Economic Story of NC Through the Craft Beverages Lens with Kimberly Floyd

03/05/19 • 19 min

CBI009 Telling the Social, Cultural & Economic Story of NC Through the Craft Beverages Lens with Kimberly Floyd

Kimberly Floyd has a Masters degree in Public History with a concentration in Museum Studies from North Carolina State University. She currently serves as the Site Manager at Zebulon B Vance Birthplace as well as the President and Founder of the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum.

Kimberly joins me today to explain what the NC Craft Beverage Museum is and the projects and programs currently being planned for the museum. She explains her mission for telling the social, cultural, and economic story of North Carolina through the lens of craft beverages and the project ideas she has planned to educate children on the historical culture of our state. We also share a Booze Clues moment with a “purple port surprise” while discussing some of the unusual and taboo museum attendee behaviors Kimberly has seen while traveling the world and critiquing museums.

This week on Consuming the Craft:

Tips for museum enthusiasts from a museum professional.
What is the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum?
The projects she has collaborated with UNC Greensboro for research and developing programs for the museum.
Upcoming public access to oral history content.
The Booze Clues Purple Port Surprise.
What Kimberly is excited about for the upcoming NC Craft Beverage Museum.

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CBI009 Telling the Social, Cultural & Economic Story of NC Through the Craft Beverages Lens with Kimberly Floyd

This week on Consuming the Craft:

Tips for museum enthusiasts from a museum professional.
What is the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum?
The projects she has collaborated with UNC Greensboro for research and developing programs for the museum.
Upcoming public access to oral history content.
The Booze Clues Purple Port Surprise.
What Kimberly is excited about for the upcoming NC Craft Beverage Museum.

Connect with Kimberly Floyd:

Consuming the Craft is produced by Podcraft. You can create your own great podcast - faster and easier - at Podcraft.com

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Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Brandy with Dan McConnell of McConnell Farms

CBI008 Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Brandy with Dan McConnell of McConnell Farms

Dan McConnell is the owner of McConnell Farms, a family-owned farm based in Henderson County, North Carolina. Since its establishment in the 1940s, McConnell Farms has grown and produced a wide variety of crops and livestock. Today, the farm primarily focuses on growing row crops such as strawberries, blackberries, and corn as well as fruit trees. Dan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Horticulture with a special focus on Fruits and Vegetables from North Carolina State University. McConnell Farms is one of our generous donors of fresh-pressed cider that allows our students to learn hands-on how to ferment and develop great tasting brandy and other adult beverages.

Dan joins me for today’s Booze Clues segment and discusses why life’s too short to drink bad brandy. We discuss how consumers can change the flavor profile of various wines and brandies by simply adding a fruit juice ice cube into their beverage. Dan explains what the “variety trials” are at his farm and how they are creating new heirloom fruits for consumers. We also discuss why consumers want smaller apples than in previous years when he expects to see high-yield harvests from his fruit trees and the real reason why Johnny Appleseed started planting apple trees.

This week on Consuming the Craft:

Changing the flavor profile of adult beverages with fruit juice ice cubes.
Tasting “a winner” of the peach variety trials at McConnell Farms.
Distilled spirits with figs.
CBI’s experiment with concentrating ginger.
Marrying apricots and peaches - and other fruits - to create heirloom fruits.
Why consumers want smaller fruits.
When to expect high yields from fruit tree crops.

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Improving Quality & Consistency of Fermented Brews with Dan Kuleric of Precision Fermentation

CBI010 Improving Quality & Consistency of Fermented Brews with Dan Kuleric of Precision Fermentation

Dan Kuleric is the COO of Precision Fermentation. Since it’s founding in 2017, Precision Fermentation has been dedicated to providing real-time monitoring solutions to craft brewers that dramatically enhance their control over the fermentation process. With over 20 years of experience in the brewing industry, Dan is passionate about craft beer and the people that produce it.

Dan joins me today to share how Precision Fermentation got started and how they help brewers improve the quality of their craft while working more efficiently. He explains what the BrewMonitor is and how the data it collects helps brewers ensure brew consistency from batch to batch. He also explains how the system allows brewers to spend more time with their families while monitoring the fermentation process in real-time through the use of technology and artificial intelligence.

This week on Consuming the Craft:

How Precision Fermentation got started and how they help brewers improve the way they monitor the fermentation process.
What the BrewMonitor is and how it helps brewers monitor the quality of their fermented brewed products.
How CBI plans to use the BrewMonitor with our students.
How the data collected with the BrewMonitor can help brewers ensure brew consistency.
How the BrewMonitor uses AI technology to alert brewers when their fermentation benchmarks are not met.
The Booze Clues ‘Hoppy Pale Ale’ surprise.
What’s next for Precision Fermentation?

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