- Hey everyone, we are backstage.

- But what backstage?

This is not the, "You Oughta Know" set.

- It's not, but can you guess where we are?

Here's a hint.

These are few of the performers who have crossed this stage.

- Need another hint?

We are are still in Philadelphia.

Still can't figure it out?

- Then stick around 'cause "You Oughta Know" starts right now.

(upbeat music) Welcome to the show.

I'm Shirley Min.

- And I'm Regina Mitchell.

I am so excited.

We're all location!

- We're at City Winery Philadelphia in the Fashion District.

And it just feels good to be out and about in the community, doesn't it?

- Absolutely.

And plus now, they've kind of relaxed the mass mandates.

So it's tough for everybody to get out and do something fun.

- Absolutely.

And so today, we're gonna show you some places where you can kick back with a drink, maybe two.

- See, listen to this one.

And you can do this and have maybe a cold one, and enjoy a drink on your porch or your deck, or even in your driveway.

- I've had many driveway party.

- Why do I know this?

(both laughing) Well, this is gonna be a fun show, seeing what the city has to offer.

And this region actually has a lot.

- It really does.

So like the City Winery, there is just so much going on here.

They are not only serving up drinks, but also entertainment.

Take a look.

(upbeat music) - City Winery actually started in New York City.

Our founder is Michael Dorf.

He actually was the founder of the Knitting factory up in New York.

He tried to find a way to bring wine and music together as one into fusion.

Our motto is indulge your senses.

So he really wanted to incorporate kind of good taste, good food, good music, all in one.

Now we actually have seven locations across the country, and we are gonna be announcing four more this year.

Very exciting times, we're growing.

And City Winery is located right in the heart and center of the city for Philadelphia.

We are in the new Fashion District, only a few blocks from Old city, few blocks from city hall, Market street, Broad street line.

It's really easy to get to us.

We're right off of 676.

There's plenty of parking around, as well with the parking garages in Chinatown.

This April will be our first full year open.

We do have a lot going on.

I think a lot of people don't really realize how much we have in our space.

We have two concert venues.

One is 150 seat loft venue.

We do a lot more intimate performances there, a lot of singer/songwriters, some jazz.

We also do comedians in that venue.

And then downstairs, we have our concert venue, which seats about 350.

So we're excited to host a different variety of acts.

We have music almost every night of the week.

♪ City Winery ♪ So we're really excited going into the spring.

We are a safe environment.

We require a mask.

We ask everybody to be vaccinated.

We do have outdoor seating as well coming up.

We'll be opening up our patio.

We set up hedges out there.

It's a nice spot to grab a glass of wine for happy hour.

Catch some live music out on the patio.

We do free shows on the weekends in the summer.

We just launched our wine tastings as well, which are guided by our in-house winemakers.

So our winemaker will kinda educate you and guide you through the wine selection process.

So he'll let you know what kind of fruits you're looking for, what kind of smells, what kind of tastes.

You can grab a bottle to go from City Winery and take that home with you.

- At the tasting, we do five wines: we have Sauvignon blanc, a Chardonnay, a rosé of Syrah, a Pinot noir and a Cabernet Sauvignon.

And what happens is you get to try all of those wines.

I talk you through where those grapes come from, how the wine was made, and what to look for during the actual tasting, and how to drink wine, how to look at wine, how to smell wine.

And by the end of the tasting, you've drunk some really good wine.

And also you might understand those wines a little bit better.

(upbeat jazz music) - And as well, we started doing bartending classes.

That is led by one of our lead bartenders.

He guides you through a set of three different cocktails so that you can take that knowledge home and prepare those at home as well.

So we'll be doing that throughout the year, especially for people who wanna get out this spring or looking for something to do.

There's always something going on at City Winery.

So you can come here almost any night of the week, catch a great concert, get some great food, have a wine tasting with our winemaker.

Whatever you're looking for you can stop in and find something for everybody.

So keep an eye out.

We have a ton of events coming up.

(upbeat music) - I love Kindred the Family Soul, who we caught a glimpse of in the story.

- They definitely know how to put on a performance, that's for sure.

We should ask them to come onto our show.

- That would be such a great idea.

- That would be fun.

- Well, let's keep the good times and wine flowing.

- Moore Brothers, with locations in Delaware and New Jersey, is known for their relationships with their wine growers.

- That's right.

Every bottle sold has a story about the people who make them.

(gentle music) - Welcome to Moore Brothers Wine.

We're now a 25-year-old institution.

(gentle music) The story really started with Le Bec-Fin restaurant.

Most people don't even know what a Le Bec-Fin is anymore, but that's where it started.

I was the sommelier and the general manager for 20 years.

(gentle music) What always intrigued me were the people who were excited about wines they were making that could come from nowhere else in the world.

We had this idea that by the direct connection, personal connection with some of these extraordinary people whose wines were not being distributed, the stores are really exclusively a direct conduit of the wine culture of these places.

(gentle music) We're very interested in the people 'cause the people are extraordinary.

- We have decades-long relationships with these wine growers.

And so I can tell you about a wine that's made of Gianni that's grown in gracious, in a single vineyard, that was fermented in concrete tanks.

Who cares?

Honestly, who cares about that?

But about that same wine, if I told you that one single human being named Patrick Brune grew that wine in vines that his grandfather owned that all are 80 years old, and he himself farmed those grapes and made the wine by himself without any help from any employees, I think when you bring the human component in, that's pretty fantastic.

(gentle music) The most important component of the in-store experience is our tasting table.

(gentle music) We're gonna run through how to properly get a great tasting experience with wine.

So the first thing you wanna do, swirl the wine in the glass because you're increasing the surface area of what you're then gonna smell.

Make sure you stick your nose in there as far as it'll go.

You really get an impression of the wine's aromas and the quality of those aromas.

And then after that, take a good measured sip.

You wanna coat as much as your mouth as you can 'cause that'll give you the best impression of what you're tasting.

(gentle music) We're a direct conduit from the wine grower to our customers.

And telling that story, over five minutes tasting four different wines of...

It's my dad, it's 20 minutes tasting four different wines.

It's the easiest way to understand what we do here at Moore Brothers.

(gentle music) We're 25 years old this year as a company.

For me, it's a true privilege to be doing this.

- To see the excitement and the interest that we're very fortunately able to transmit.

It's reinforced every time they try something new.

And they learn about it, and they come back for more of it.

It's very, very satisfying.

(gentle music) - This story makes me love wine even more.

- Is that possible?

- I don't think.

But I do adore how Moore Brothers connects us to the growers with each bottle.

- That's right.

And from wine to beer, we check out a few New Jersey breweries that you may wanna visit, now that we're getting a little bit more sunlight.

- This is a great walking downtown, a lot of history, a lot of great restaurants, and we are located right in the heart of it.

It's called Kings Road, after Kings Highway.

In the late 1600s, it was known as the Kings Road.

We make our own craft beers, but we also make our own homemade sodas.

So we frequently have families come in with little children.

We recently brewed a beer called Gorian Knot.

It's actually considered an ancient ale.

It is based on a 2,700 year old recipe that was found in King Midas' tomb.

They determined what the ingredients were of the beer, and we try to stay as true to that recipe as possible.

- It's been really great that they've opened breweries here in Southern New Jersey.

There's so many different types of beers.

There's so many places that you can go now, and you can socialize.

Order your favorite beer that you may not get on tap somewhere else.

Try something you you've never tried before.

- I think that there are so many breweries because there's a niche.

It's about time.

The few that I've been to have been terrific.

(gentle music) - Beginnings of Lunacy started with a bunch of friends home brewing.

We started making beers that were really consistent.

We were like, "I'd rather drink mine than buy theirs."

This is a great place.

You can bring your family, you can bring your dog, if they're on a leash.

It fun, it's a great vibe, it's a good experience.

There's people who come, they wanna know how you did it.

"How'd you make it?

What's that hop?"

So C-3PA is one of our popular beers that we sell here.

The hazy 6.5%, kind of a juicy bomb.

It's got three Hops, all start with the letter C. So there's citric, cascade, and columbus.

We actually won two festivals in Wildwood with it.

There's a respect to it, and they respect it when something's well done.

- They do great beers, they have nice people.

It's a great spot for kids, dogs, and even old guys.

(upbeat music) - And I would say our vibe is small town main street.

We get a lot of families.

I actually have people who have their first dates here.

The benefit of coming to Devil's Creek in Collingswood is you don't actually have to leave the town to have a whole night of entertainment.

Since this is a BYOB town, you can take a crowler to go and enjoy it with your dinner.

I'm very proud to have won a silver medal for our beer, Bringing the Heat, which is a Belgian dark strong ale with habanero and yeho.

- We're just coming out for a nice post COVID evening and just enjoying the scenery and the beautiful night.

And we came here and had a drink, got a couple of growlers, went across the street, had dinner.

- Our brand name Tonewood comes from the woods that are used to make acoustic instruments, such as mandolins, guitars, fiddles.

We're a 15 barrel brew house here in the heart of Oakland.

We're right in the middle of a community and I think that's a big reason why everyone loves the place here.

We're really focused on creating interactions with our customers.

Everyone just gathers around and gets to meet their neighbors.

And we wanted to be like a community meeting center ultimately.

There's Eli Facchinei and Taylor Facchinei.

They both kind of co-run the brewery.

I focus on going out and building relationships with our restaurants, liquor stores, bars all in our area.

If it helps drive people into our area, it only helps drive more business.

If everyone's making good beer around us, it only helps bring more travelers into the area.

The one beer I wanted to highlight, we do a dry hop Pilsner called Parkway to Paradise, and we did it in collaboration with Moore East Pier and Wildwood, fresh hops, crisp and clean, super easy drink.

- It's a great place.

It's a small town.

It's got this small town feeling.

It gives consumers a variety that they're looking for.

- One of the things about craft beer is that it's for everybody.

The accessibility is something I've always really appreciated.

You've got questions about the beer?

The guys and girls that work at these places are so eager to talk about their products, and tell you why they love their beer.

And you're gonna love their beer too.

- Those look like some fun places to visit.

- They do.

And here is another brewery to check out as we highlight a woman-led operation.

- Oh, I like that.

Our very own, Keilani Pamasanno finds out what makes Triple Bottle Brewing different from all the rest.

(gentle music) - There's nothing like grabbing a beer at the end of the day.

But when that beer is brewed with a mission, it just hits different.

I'm sitting with Tess Hart, owner of Triple Bottom Brewing, a woman-owned fair chance brewery with a triple bottom line.

Tess, what does it mean to have a triple bottom line?

- We call our triple bottom line beer People Planet.

Most businesses have a single bottom line, which is just your profits at the end of the day.

You're just looking at those financial statements.

For us, we are also looking at our impact on our community and on the environment.

And that is how we make our business decisions every day, looking at those three bottom lines and seeing how we can push the ball forward on all of them and live up to our name.

- Your hiring practices also focus on giving people a fair chance.

What does that mean?

- So to us, being a fair chance business means that we are radically inclusive and intentional employers who seek out folks who otherwise aren't given a lot of opportunities in the mainstream economy.

And our team members have all sorts of experiences.

Some of them are industry pros, many are artists, but there are also folks who may have experienced homelessness or incarceration, and may not have a chance to enter a living wage job like we're offering here.

And so our commitment to our team is that we are creating opportunities for everyone, that everyone has a chance to grow and always to earn a living wage while they're working here.

- You've recently been certified a B Corp. What does it mean to become a certified B Corp?

- We're so excited to be a B Corp.

So B Corps are businesses that meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental impact, which is a big lofty thing.

It's a real serious external validation of the mission that drives us every day.

- Beer is a really social thing.

It's what brings people together.

They pick it to...

They celebrate with beers, and it seems very intentional that you've selected beer because a lot of conversation happens around beer.

Do you see a lot of conversations kind of being sparked about the industry, but also the mission that you have here?

- Yeah.

I think one of the reasons that I wanted to have the type of impact we're hoping to have here through a brewery was because I think people come to breweries looking for a story, not just to drink.

And so there's this sort of open mindedness that people bring with them when they walk through the door and that helps them connect with each other.

So not only are they learning from other people's experiences, and if we can really create a place where lots of different people are coming together, then that in itself is a really wonderful thing.

But then also to take a little bit of a closer look into the story behind the beer and the business that's making it.

My hope is, I think all of our hope is, that it sort of begins to inspire people to see how they can make decisions on the daily basis that are having a positive impact on their communities.

- Well, cheers to good beer, good vibes, and good intentions.

- Cheers.

- Thanks for sharing Triple Bottom's story with us.

- Thank you for coming.

- Businesses like Triple Bottom can really bring neighborhoods together.

- They can.

And the creators of Mural City Cellars in Kensington tapped into that vibe when they created their vision.

(gentle music) - Mural City Cellars is Philadelphia's first, independently owned urban winery.

We obviously don't have any vineyards here in Kensington, but we source all of our grapes locally from within a 300 mile radius of the city and make the wine here in our space.

We bought a house in Kensington and just fell in love with this neighborhood.

We were walking our dog and walked by this building when it looked completely different and just had a vision to put the winery here and it worked out.

- The space is a 1200 square foot warehouse over here in Kensington.

It's not very large, so we actually take about two thirds of it and use the two thirds for production.

And one third, we currently use as a retail section, but we also incorporate private tours and tastings on the weekend in which we utilize the entire space.

- [Francesca] The tasting is totally private to your group and personalized to your experience.

- We make a variety of different wines.

We're very hands on when it comes to our wine making process.

And by hands on, I mean, we hands are literally in the vats of grapes, but we're also very hands off meaning that we're not adding any color, any sugar to increase or change anything.

We really wanted to showcase the small vineyards that we work with within the area.

- We are extremely busy mid-August through mid-November.

We go and pick the grapes with them in the vineyards.

We drive the Penske truck back here and we start processing the grapes.

- [Nicholas] Pressing to bottling, to everything happens in this space.

Even putting labels on, we only have two machine that actually plug in everything else is done by hand or it's gravity fed or hydraulic.

- Nicholas and I are not artists or designers.

And we really found that there was so much talent here in the city.

We wanted to showcase and highlight local artists.

We worked with three Philadelphia based female artists for our 2019 vintage.

And we're just thrilled with how they came out.

And next year we're gonna be making our new wines and work with completely different artists for the labels.

- We run a program called the CSW.

It stands for community supported winery.

It's very similar to that of a CSA.

You pay up front for the year with that you also receive two bottles of CSW wines per month, 10% off of all the other wines that we make here.

And then 15% from each membership actually gets donated back into the community.

- We're definitely inspired by the brewery scene here in Philadelphia.

It's super casual.

There is a lot to be known, but it doesn't have to be intimidating.

Nick has a really easy way about talking about wine, tasting wine.

It doesn't have to be so serious and uptight, in the end it's really about whether you like it or not.

- Checking out neighborhood breweries can be fun, but grabbing a cold one and enjoying it in your backyard can be pretty satisfying too.

- Well that's true.

If you've ever wondered about those creative labels on your favorite brew, you're not alone.

We got an expert to decipher them for us.

- Hey everyone, Gary Montero here at Canal's Liquor Store in Briton, New Jersey.

I'm gonna do my beer shopping for the weekend, but first I gotta decipher those labels.

So I know I'm getting just the right product.

Come join me.

(gentle music) Less than 40 years ago, there were only 80 breweries in the US.

Now the number is approaching 9,000.

With this increase in breweries this can present a bit of a problem for consumers.

How do I know what to buy when I go into a package of good store, where you would go to see possibly shelves filled with craft beer.

(upbeat music) Most of these breweries are very, very small.

How do they get themselves known?

Well, in most cases it's gonna be because of packaging.

Now the packaging will be either fancy artwork or possibly even a very cool name, such as this one.

This beer came out about 10 years ago from a company in Maryland called Duclaw, the beer is called Sweet Baby Jesus.

The logic being, "Wow, this beer is so good.

Sweet Baby Jesus, do I love it."

When you're going into a store, you wanna buy a beer, what are some things you wanna look for?

You wanna look first of all for alcohol by volume.

I think that's really, really critical.

Why does that make sense?

You have people coming over your house.

They wanna have a beer or two.

You wanna serve them a 12% beer and then have them driving?

I don't think so.

They should at least be aware of what they're drinking.

The other thing I look for is freshness.

You go to a store to buy food.

You want the freshest food possible, well, the same thing applies to beer.

Here's a beer from Founders in Michigan called Sumatra Mountain Brown.

This is a brown ale, but if you turn the label over, you'll see that this was bottled, the tail end of March.

What's the window of freshness up to maybe six months.

Let's say four to six months.

Go beyond that time, yeah, it's a little bit sketchy.

Another thing I look for is as much information as possible concerning the ingredients or the flavor.

Here's a beer from Allagash up north in New England, it's called Little Brett and it says, pineapple and citrus notes burst from the aroma of this straw colored beer.

And it's also telling me the hop strains that are used.

A lot of information provided by this company.

Here's a beer, one of my favorites.

It's a good dessert beer.

It's called Lindemans Framboise.

But what they mention on here is that the sweetener that they use is stevia.

Stevia is a plant-based and it can cause allergic reactions to some people, just be aware of that.

It's also also related, believe it, not to ragweed.

So I hope these tips will help you as you're shopping, looking for new beers, and I'm gonna do some shopping for myself.

See you next time.

- All this talk about beer and wine.

Obviously we had to get glasses for ourselves.

So I wanna thank the City Winery for providing me their very own Cabernet Sauvignon.

- Oh, and this glass of Chardonnay that I'm pretty much almost done with.

(all laughing) - And I'm having rosé, which is French for mom juice.

- Cheers to that.

- Cheers to that, Who doesn't love some mom juice?

- Well, I wanna introduce you to Ann Ishii.

She is the new host of "Movers and Makers".

So Anne, welcome to WHYY and to the set of, well not to the set, but to, "You Oughta Know."

- Thank you.

- Absolutely, and you know what?

You are such a renaissance woman.

I mean, you're an entrepreneur, you're a writer, you're an author.

You are mom.

Okay.

- All true.

- Plus you speak fluent Japanese.

So how do you take all that and translate into hosting "Movers and Makers"?

- I think it's pretty natural that my life's mission and the goal of the show are really similar.

It's to find out who are our cultural heroes and just get really deep in the community.

Learn more about the arts and culture producers of the region.

Those are the people I actually wanna be friends with.

These are my people, so I'm having a lot of fun.

- The show and this season in particular does a wonderful job of capturing the beauty, the personality of Philadelphia, as well as surrounding areas.

Are you finding that in this journey, you are making new discoveries as well?

- Oh, absolutely.

And you know, I don't want people to take this the wrong way, but I think people come into Philadelphia expecting something a little gritty, intense, a little hard, but what I'm learning from meeting all these amazing people and you just said yourself is, there's a lot of beauty and it is so much fun.

People are having so much fun.

- Absolutely.

So what can we look forward to in this current season of "Movers and Makers"?

- Well, we have an episode coming up where we're gonna be in Germantown visiting.

- We were just talking about Germany out there.

- Okay, I wish I lived there, it's so pretty.

And then, so we are going to The Colored Girls Museum up there.

We'll be exploring Kensington.

I don't know if anybody lives in Kensington?

- I know Delaware.

- Rep your hood.

- Delaware counts.

That's part of the region, you know, the extended universe.

And then we're doing a deep dive into the Fairmount Waterworks where they have an amazing exhibition on pool segregation.

- And I heard that you guys are gonna just showcase the NAM Swim Club, which I know a lot about to have some friends that are there and plus were members so- - That's awesome.

- Yeah.

Yeah, a lot of history there.

- A lot of beautiful lifeguards there.

- See, I'm not even gonna talk about that.

All the wrong reasons.

- That's an added bonus.

- Anne, do you like hosting?

Do you like being in front of the camera?

- I love it.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm just so delighted.

I got to do this, it's surprising to me as anybody.

This is not my background, but I love putting on cute clothes any excuse to put on my eyelashes and earings.

- Absolutely, and talking about your cute clothing, we a totally girl crushing on your style.

- Crushing so hard.

We love it.

Every time you show up I'm like, "Oh, where did she get that?"

- Yes, yes.

All your pictures, your Instagram, everything.

And you say that your mother influences your style.

- Yeah, she's crazy, so- - What mother isn't crazy?

- That's Touche.

She's of the genre of sort of space cadet, weird, eccentric.

And I don't know, she's just always enjoys expressing herself in strange ways.

And she's really not afraid of showing off her strangeness and I'm not going for strange.

I'm going for funny or weird or cute quirky maybe.

And I definitely got all of that from her.

- Listen, I can totally relate.

And plus I think we can say that our mother give us kind of a critique, would you say critique?

- Yeah.

I know my mom gives me lots of strong opinions about my outfits.

I'm scared about what she's gonna say about what I'm wearing today but... - Let's agree to disagree, mom.

Right?

- Yeah.

Well, Ann, thank you so much for being here.

We really had so much fun having you on set.

So Annie, she is the new host of "Movers and Makers".

We wanna extend a giant thank you to the City Winery for hosting us and a big, big thank you to all of you for joining us.

- That's right.

And we hope to see you soon again.

Go grab yourself for glass wine.

Goodnight everybody.

- Bye.

(upbeat music)