Brew Ha Ha with Herlinda Heras and Daedalus Howell is a live radio show and podcast all about craft beer and the people who produce it. The show is recorded live on the radio on Thursday afternoons at 5pm as part of The Drive. With so many large and small craft brewers in the area, Brew Ha Ha is perfectly situated to have access to the most interesting people in the world of craft beer today.
Each episode has its own web page, which remains available permanently here on the BHH website. The right sidebar lists Podcast Episodes, all the way back to the first episode on February 8, 2018. These episode pages provide unique advantages for guests and for audiences. The individual episode pages are carefully curated for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) so that they will be ranked high in Google search results when people search for the guests’ brands or names. There are daily topical promos on The Drive that mention the sponsor, to remind listeners of the weekly show on Thursdays. The hosts also promote the podcast during the live show. This is designed to provide a first-class grade of service to sponsors.
Audiences are encouraged to subscribe to the podcast on a podcast app to get every episode on their phone or other devices. Whether people find this podcast here at its own website, at the station’s website or on popular podcast platforms, ultimately most of the regular ongoing listening will happen in the subscriber’s podcast app.
Guests and sponsors can easily republish the audio player of an episode anywhere in their own media. They can also put links to it in any and all of their outbound advertising, for their audience to easily visit the podcast.
The Drive
The Drive on Wine Country Radio is on the air Monday through Friday from 3:00 – 6:00 on Wine Country Radio 95.5 FM . It is Sonoma County’s favorite radio show, with a roster of guests that includes local leaders, journalists and reporters, public officials, actors and directors, librarians, therapists, comedians, musicians and more. The show is #1 in its time slot with a stadium full of daily listeners.
Brew Ha Ha with Herlinda Heras and California Wine Country with Dan Berger are among the weekly featured segments on The Drive, along with others such as, Theater Thursday with Harry Duke, The Dining Car with Clark Wolf and The Blotter with SRPD Sgt. Patti Steffens.
Herlinda Heras
Herlinda Heras is the host of Brew Ha Ha. She is one of the busiest and most well-connected people in the craft brewing world. She regularly travels the world for beer conferences and for judging in brewing competitions.
Herlinda brings a wide range of guests to Brew Ha Ha, from the most important and influential people in the brewing community to some award-winning individual home brewers with great stories to tell. Herlinda is a proud Member of the International Pink Boots Society for women beer professionals. She has even done Mexican food pop-ups in London.
Herlinda has been a Beer and Food judge in numerous events in Europe, Asia and Latin America, including these: the British Pie Awards, England; World Bread Awards; Quality Food Awards, UK; Birra dell’Anno beer awards, Italy; Kraft Roku beer awards, Poland; Ibeerian Beer Awards, Portugal; Suomen paras Olut & Sahti beer Awards, Finland; USA Beer Ratings and Taste Alliance, USA; Asia Beer Championship in Singapore; Aro Rojo international beer competition, Mexico; National Fish & Chips Awards in London, England.
Daedalus Howell
Daedalus Howell’s work traverses literature, film, journalism, broadcast, and conceptual art with a singular blend of wit and cultural inquiry. Since August 20, 2025, he has been the host of The Drive, 3-6 PM weekdays, on Wine Country Radio 95.5 FM.
Based in Petaluma, California, Howell has built a multifaceted body of work that interrogates the myths of media and identity through a heady admixture of humor and self-reflection.
He is also the editor of a portfolio of local newspapers, including the Healdsburg Tribune, North Bay Bohemian and the Pacific Sun.
Harry Duke
Harry Duke is the host of Theater Thursday on The Drive and he has also been a co-host and guest host on Brew Ha Ha and on The Drive. He has been the Theatre Correspondent for The Drive since 2015 and he was the Drive’s regular co-host in 2021/22.
Harry has long made it a point to visit a microbrewery in every city where he has lived or traveled, from Siskiyou County, California’s Etna Brewing to Oklahoma City’s Twisted Spike Brewing to Millville, New Jersey’s Glasstown Brewing. Harry is partial to pilsners and Belgian Tripels but he is always willing to try (and frequently enjoys) other beer styles.
Brew Ha Ha Founding Fathers Steve Jaxon and Mark Carpenter
The first BHH logo.
In the earliest days of Brew Ha Ha, Steve Jaxon hosted the show featuring Joe Tucker, founder of RateBeer.com, with Herlinda Heras. After Joe moved to another city, Herlinda Heras remained with the show that featured Steve Jaxon and Mark Carpenter. You can hear them on the archived podcast editions of this show, beginning with this edition from February 8, 2018.
Steve Jaxon was the host of The Drive, weekdays from 3 to 6 PM, for more than 15 years, and he celebrated 50 years in radio in 2023. When he retired in August of 2025, Daedalus Howell became the host of The Drive and of Brew Ha Ha.
Mark Carpenter was the brewmaster at Anchor Brewing in San Francisco. Since starting there in 1971, he produced the beer that made Anchor Brewing famous as one of the leaders in craft beer, before that even became a local trend. He shares his extensive knowledge of beer and brewing in every episode he is in.
The Brew Ha Ha Logo
Here are small and large sizes of the logo for Brew Ha Ha with Herlinda Heras and Daedalus Howell. Guests may download these files and use them to promote their appearance on the show.
^^ BHH logo, 1400 x 1400 pixels @ 144 pixels/inch:
^^ BHH logo, 576 x 576 pixels @ 72 pixels/inch: