“Craft Beer Thursday” with Fiala Brothers Brewery & Beer Hall happens each week with WJBC midday host Neil Doyle. Owners Ryan and Steve Fiala give us an update on things happening at the brewery, which is located at 127 E. Beaufort Street in Uptown Normal. You can find more information at Fialabrothersbrewery.com
Listen to the segments each Thursday at 11:05 a.m. on FM 102.1, AM 1230, online at WJBC.com or any of your streaming devices.
You can find past conversations below:
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…