In this episode, Brian Yaeger opens things up with a surprise award for guest Melanie Betti, brewmaster and co-owner of Spider City Brewing, Bend’s all-women owned craft brewery.

Betti, along with her twin sister Michele and their friend Tammy Treat, launched Spider City five years ago and is both a Certified Sommelier and Cicerone-Certified Beer Server. She discusses how her world-travels with her twin influence the global beer styles always on tap.

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Melani Betti of Spider City Brewing 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
November 23, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Grand Craft Beer: Melani Betti of Spider City Brewing 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />November 23, 2023</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">I</span>n this episode, Brian Yaeger opens things up with a surprise award for guest Melanie Betti, brewmaster and co-owner of <a href="https://spidercitybrewing.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://spidercitybrewing.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700590396190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw19Pzmk0ooU-nEzsd4ZfxGm">Spider City Brewing</a>, Bend's all-women owned craft brewery. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/the_source_-_grand_craft_beer_112323.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/the_source_-_grand_craft_beer_112323.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-53038" /></a></figure> </p> <p>Betti, along with her twin sister Michele and their friend&nbsp;Tammy Treat, launched Spider City five years ago and is both a Certified Sommelier and <a href="https://www.cicerone.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cicerone.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1700590396190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2OzXL4q9cEog7lhTk2uCGt">Cicerone</a>-Certified Beer Server. She discusses how her world-travels with her twin influence the global beer styles always on tap.</p> <p><b>Listen now:</p> <p></b> </p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/gcb-spidercity-final" title="Grand Craft Beer: Spider City Brewmaster/Co-owner Melani Betti" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Grand Craft Beer: Spider City Brewmaster/Co-owner Melani Betti</a></div> </p></div> </p> <div class="wp-block-group fdn-after-article-related"> <h3 class="wp-block-heading">Related Stories</h3> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-beer-melani-betti-of-spider-city-brewing-20188927/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=53030&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/food-drink/listen-grand-craft-beer-melani-betti-of-spider-city-brewing-20188927/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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