Steve Mastny

Steve founded the BeerDownload podcast with Matt Arata in 2009, as the culmination of a year of beer exploration that saw him drink over 1000 different beers in 35+ different states. The original 256 beer tournament concluded in 2014, and in 2015 Matt and Steve took to the airwaves bringing BeerDownload to the masses on 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio. Steve is a longtime card carrying member of the Chicago Beer Society, and joined the CBS board of directors in 2012. He has experience with beer event planning and organization, including the premier barrel aged beer event and competition, the annual Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer (FOBAB). When Steve isn’t drinking beer, or organizing events so he can drink great beer with hundreds of his closest friends, he dabbles in homebrewing and barrel aging, and is also a licensed professional engineer who has been known to inspect a bridge or two from time to time.