So when I was there, the biggest thing that happened that year were that there were these 10 albino arowanas. As albinos were the ones that sold for the most money, historically. But they would appear on the market-- I don't know-- it was like a rare Vermeer coming to light.
And she wanted to be an engineer really badly, really wanted to be an engineer. So Albina moved to Lima and was pretty poor, so she moved into a really poor, dangerous area in the slums of Lima.
Now, Nikita Khrushchev was premier when John F. Kennedy was our president of the United States. Like Albina, they thought she was crazy, first in a class.
both in and out of A Song of Ice and Fire. Which character was the toughest to kill off?" George Martin: Well, I won't mention any character names, but the Red Wedding was the The Albigensian Crusade, -the Cathars, who are exterminated by the Catholics and the Great Albigensian Crusade. But they had the fundamental belief, a dualist religion, that
Bear Rainforest. It's the only place in the world where 1 out of every 10 black bears is born white. They're not albinos. They're not polar bears. They're actually a white bear known as the spirit bear, and revered by the First Nations who have lived in this landscape for thousands of years.
So Jack is a real entrepreneur, a very quirky personality. Jack started New Albion Brewery in Sonoma. And that was really the first home built brewery.
And Susie Dennison was the second woman. They made New Albian Ale. And that was really kind of the first built from the ground up brewery, very different than Fritz Maytag
Now, Nikita Khrushchev was premier when John F. Kennedy was our president of the United States. That's Albina. And by the way, as an engineer, this is the three-legged trash pickup that goes up the curvy, small, narrow hills to the slums
And I'm happy to be there, which has been great. So my baby was diagnosed with ocular albinism this year, and we are still learning about his amazing capabilities.
Amazing. So good. So good. His name is Don Pedro Albizu Campos.
This is a guy who used to have one nose hair and wind it around his head. Now he's got an albino ferret on his head, and we're just sitting around. The president may end up with roadkill on his head.
of some old stainless dairy tanks, and opened up and got a license for a brewery in Sonoma. And he called it New Albion, and it made only a few barrels of beer at a time, compared with tens of millions being produced by the larger players on the scene.
It's a loaded question. I was born with a genetic condition called albinism and, basically, albinism means that my body does not produce melanin, which is pigmentation.
Amazing. So good. So good. He is what Malcolm X was to Denzel Washington-- what Pedro Albizu Campos would mean for me.
And it was this crazy story about this Indonesian coal tycoon who was crazy about albinos. And he had a zoo in Borneo that was just albino animals. And so word that came to him of birth of an albino at one of these farms.
And he had a zoo in Borneo that was just albino animals. And so word that came to him of birth of an albino at one of these farms. And he traveled to the see it.
So I think it's interesting that those two women were kind of there at the foundation of the craft beer revolution. That project, New Albion, was kind of doomed from the beginning. I mean, it was too small, and the whole idea of craft beer was too new at that time to really have any kind of chance.
So I don't want to just talk about changemakers. I want to show you a three-minute clip about Albina Ruiz who is a Peruvian engineer who grew up in the jungles of the Amazon.
Now, Nikita Khrushchev was premier when John F. Kennedy was our president of the United States. So Isaac, Albina, Greg, they're all social enterprises.
They are unattractive in some way or should be considered different simply because of the way they were born or the things that they've experienced in their life. Yeah. If you look at albinism, my condition in popular culture and media, usually people with albinism are depicted as the villain or as some mythical, mystical creature that has all these different powers,
And I'm happy to be there, which has been great. Like suddenly, you're not Colleen who has albinism and a vision impairment.
There's also another way to use a focus on the family to reduce crime. The judge who presided over many of the Bogles' trials over four generations was named Albin Norblad. He was a crusty law-and-order Republican, who favored a lock them up and throw away the key approach.
So I tracked down the guy who had bred them. And it was this crazy story about this Indonesian coal tycoon who was crazy about albinos. And he had a zoo in Borneo that was just albino animals.
And then he started-- it was this long seven year period of breeding them, and then breeding the offspring with each other. And eventually, they bred these albinos. So the idea was that they were just going to sell them to celebrities and royalty-- one to each country.
or you know in in you know the converse of that you're a you're a a you know a plotter and uh because I started out co-writing with Christopher golden we wrote a couple of books in this ghost of albian series for um for Del random house um when you're writing with somebody else you have to plot it you have to sit down and have a very intense outline otherwise it's like the
Actually one of them was intimately involved with Jack, but that's a different story. But they made the first beer, New Albian Ale. And Susie Dennison was the second woman.
But nobody could do it because they didn't fully know. So the judge who told me-- Well, this judge named Albin Norblad, he said that he'd had five families like the Bogles in his court, all of whom had more than 50 members in prison
And I was able to bond with my daughter. And after I sent her home, they transferred me to Albion Correctional Facility, which is the medium security facility in New York state on the borderline of Canada. And from there, I didn't receive another visit from neither one of my children.
Actually, I was talking to John Hall from Goose Island in Chicago recently, and he told me he visited New Albian also. So a lot of people who were home brewing at that time kind of flocked to New Albian and were inspired from what Jack and his partners were doing. Actually, I remember Ken Grossman saying something like, you know, what Jack was doing was just kind of a glorified home brewing operation.
She's 80 years old now but had just returned from a tour of Europe with her niece, and she and Jane do a lot of traveling together. Actually, she told me that she and Jane did a lot of the brewing after New Albion got up and running, that Jack kind of left the brewing to them, which is interesting if you think about in the days before the commercialization of brewing, a lot of the brewing was done in the home by women.
It was an important six years though, because there were other members of what I call the pioneer group-- people who started before 1984 building craft breweries. So Ken Grossman from Sierra Nevada visited Jack and the brewery at New Albion. Paul Shipman, the guy who Caleb mentioned, from Redhook-- he came there, the guy from Goose Island in Chicago.
Paul Shipman, the guy who Caleb mentioned, from Redhook-- he came there, the guy from Goose Island in Chicago. People from all over the country who were interested in starting breweries came to see what was happening at New Albion. And a number of breweries started up as a result of that.
That was critical to our developing our businesses and the beers we were selling and how we priced those beers. We learned so much, the same way the later pioneers learned from Fritz and New Albion. Things developed pretty quickly in the '80s.
droid I just wanted to quickly say i want to point out Travis's wood here with his mom Zach it stood up to her um I can you talk a little bit about Albie on cuz out again I came at the end and I don't have talked about that a bit outside um I think in Albion you know
and we're prohibited from doing that from capturing accurate information on a couple levels one is because when somebody leaves the facility I'm prohibited by the Department of Corrections from any subsequent contact with them so they get drafted to Albion they get they get released I'm not allowed to follow up so we work with these families for a long time and then
But the arowana are, by far, the star attraction of this show. So when I was there, the biggest thing that happened that year were that there were these 10 albino arowanas. As albinos were the ones that sold for the most money, historically.
Paul Shipman from Red Hook. Actually, I was talking to John Hall from Goose Island in Chicago recently, and he told me he visited New Albian also. So a lot of people who were home brewing at that time kind of flocked to New Albian and were inspired from what Jack and his partners were doing.
And also, that was-- this would have been in the mid '70s, when the campaign for real ale was happening in England. And so Jack came back to California, to Sonoma, and cobbled together a brewery called New Albion, using old soda tanks, Pepsi tanks, 55 gallon tanks, and dairy tanks to make this brewery.
with his mom Zach it stood up to her um I can you talk a little bit about Albie on cuz out again I came at the end and I don't have talked about that a bit outside um I think in Albion you know here I was in a facility for 20 years I had my own private cell I mean he doesn't sound you know I'm not I know
native tribes. This is our story of the time when our great Chief Yalpa, a great chief; Chol, our finest doctor; Josen an expert pig farmer; Albie our greatest counselor; and me, Timotousen, who is talking to you now went to the other side of the planet to make a film about the strange and exotic land named England.
NPR Host: Yes. Unbelievable as it may sound, it's true. Alba is an albino rabbit that, under regular light, just looks furry and cute, but turn on the black light--
thing. And for you to see, you need to do so through a yellow filter because you gotta block the blue light, otherwise you're gonna have, she's albino, so otherwise you're gonna
craft beer phenomenon. And one of the big leaders, a lot of the phenomenon really started here in California itself with like, New Albion Brewing Company which has