Sep 23, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
This week on **The Watering Hole**, we're joined by **Trenton from Iron Monk Brewing Company**! We dive into the story behind one of Oklahoma's most recognizable craft breweries, how Iron Monk has…
Trenton InselmanGuestRhettHostJaggerHostYeah, yeah, for sure.
Is it the same recipe as last year? It
The beer we used before was our Kolsch-style light American ale, about 4.2%, really good beer.
And that Belgian-style wheat is something that I think plays better for this crowd because the other beer, and I'm going to use another domestic name so we can cut this if we need to.
was we were making a bush light style beer well every beer out here is bush light all the branding is bush light so if you're going to go get a different beer we wanted to give you something that was a little bit different because we're not going to compete directly with the bush light people so like what we needed to do was give ourselves a chance to have this You know, a little bit different, still extremely light, still extremely drinkable.
But when you drink it, you're not comparing it directly to our competitors.
And so, you know, that Belgian style, that wheat beer that we make, I think it's, you know, been around forever.
And it's our number two selling beer behind 1890, the official beer of Oklahoma State University.
And obviously the 1890 is not the right beer for this because it's a little higher alcohol.
And also because the Pete concept, we can't do Caffrey plus Pete and the royalties and all the things that go with it.
So we talked about it internally and we thought, you know, let's go ahead and make the subtle change.
But we weren't going to blast it that it was different and just see how it does this year.
So I get hints of like...
A little bit of orange.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Is it the same recipe as last year? It
The beer we used before was our Kolsch-style light American ale, about 4.2%, really good beer.
And that Belgian-style wheat is something that I think plays better for this crowd because the other beer, and I'm going to use another domestic name so we can cut this if we need to.
was we were making a bush light style beer well every beer out here is bush light all the branding is bush light so if you're going to go get a different beer we wanted to give you something that was a little bit different because we're not going to compete directly with the bush light people so like what we needed to do was give ourselves a chance to have this You know, a little bit different, still extremely light, still extremely drinkable.
But when you drink it, you're not comparing it directly to our competitors.
And so, you know, that Belgian style, that wheat beer that we make, I think it's, you know, been around forever.
And it's our number two selling beer behind 1890, the official beer of Oklahoma State University.
And obviously the 1890 is not the right beer for this because it's a little higher alcohol.
And also because the Pete concept, we can't do Caffrey plus Pete and the royalties and all the things that go with it.
So we talked about it internally and we thought, you know, let's go ahead and make the subtle change.
But we weren't going to blast it that it was different and just see how it does this year.
So I get hints of like...
A little bit of orange.
Yeah.
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