Welcome to St Lou-chicag-stin, where most of the 5 beers we offer are awesome. Help yourself to some snacks! We’re all mad here ;)

Perennial Hopfentea
Oddwood Ales Saison
Jester King/Side Project/Off Color Intersection of Species
Mikerphone G Funk Era
4 Hands Constellation Mosaic

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, and Mike Lambert.

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So it’s not technically summer yet, but tell that to blistering hot Austin, Texas. And tell that to Rubio who decided it was a good idea to drink 5 gigantic imperial stouts for this episode- which gets a little bonkers.

Great Lakes Blackout Stout
2nd Shift Liquid Spiritual Delight
Founders KBS 2016
Karbach Chocolate Bourbon Barrel Hellfighter
Transient Neckbeard Nectar

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The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

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6 beers, 31 breweries. That’s what you’ll be staring down the barrel of when you buy a box of the 2016 edition of Sierra Nevada’s epic collaboration project, Beer Camp. We taste all 6, and make a bunch of promises we can’t keep.

Sweet Sunny South
Pat-Rye-Ot Revolutionary Pale Ale
West Latitude Session Rye
Moxee-Moron Imperial Session Pale Ale
Family Values Imperial Brown Ale
Stout of the Union Robust Stout

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

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Rubio, Grant, and Mike taste a mix of 5 beers and talk arm wrestling, legendary reputations, barrel-aged mayonnaise, and wiki-relevancy.

Anchor California Lager
Wiseacre Future Ancestor
Brickstone APA
Mothers Tequila D’LILA
Double Mountain 9

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

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Listener Patrick Grimshaw absolutely inundated us with Chicago beers. We’re featuring 2 different breweries this time- if we can ever get the stupid show started.

Mikerphone Tracelin’ Man
Mikerphone Mad Flavor
Mikerphone Special Sauce
Marz Jungle Boogie
Marz Liquid Dreams

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

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After a listener set us up with some North Carolina beers, we found ourselves in a tough position. There’s some crazy stuff going on there right now, and we had to touch on it a bit. But yeah, 5 beers and 4 jerks- you know the deal.

Burial Shadowclock Pilsner
Haw River Cotton Pickin’ Farmhouse IPA
D9 Systema Natvrae (1st Edition)
Olde Hickory The Event Horizon
Olde Hickory Carolus Magnus

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

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Mike’s a man now! He decided to spend his birthday recording a new episode with us, and it’s a fun one. Tequila happens, a surprise birthday beer, and Anastacia makes us do Mad Libs at the end.

St. Bernardus Extra 4
Allagash White
New Glarus Dancing Man Wheat
Prairie & Friends TRVE Edition Sour Red Farmhouse Ale
Coop Ale Works Alpha Hive

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Occasionally, a beer will be so lustworthy, it transforms into legend. Like Ahab’s white whale, they taunt us with their unattainability and mystery. We’ve obtained 5 of those to see if they live up to the hype.

De Garde Imperial Apricot Bu
Maine Dinner
Jester King Sherry Atrial Rubicite
Goose Island Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout
Samuel Adams 2015 Utopias
Not Ranked: Samuel Adams 10th Anniversary Utopias (2012)

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Mike Lambert, and Jon Haupt.

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What? Another full-length show this week? Yep! We recently acquired a BJCP-curated sensory kit from the Siebel Institute, and decided to record and share our mostly horrible tasting experiences with all of you.

Ethyl hexanoate
Aniseed, apple or licorice
Common sources: Fermentation product, wort composition or yeast health

Geraniol
Floral, geranium flowers
Common sources: Hop addition and variety

Indole
Farm, barnyard
Common sources: Bacterial infection during fermentation

Spicy (Eugenol)
Cloves, all spice
Common sources: Microbial contamination, wild yeast or aging

Earthy (2-Ethyl fenchol)
Geosmin, soil-like
Common sources: Packaging or water-derived contamination

Papery (Trans-2-nonenal)
Cardboard, oxidized
Common sources: Product of oxidation, staling

Isovaleric acid
Cheesy, old hops, sweaty socks
Common sources: Use of old, degraded hops

Acetaldehyde
Green Apple, cut grass
Common Sources: Fermentation Product, staling, or contamination

Butyric acid
Putrid, baby vomit
Common Sources: Bacterial contamination

D.M.S. (Dimethyl sulfide)
Cooked corn, cooked vegetables
Common sources: Wort boil, wort cooling or contamination

Diacetyl (2,3-Butanedione)
Butter, butterscotch
Common sources: Microbial contamination or improper maturation

Ethyl acetate
Solvent-like, nail polish remover
Common sources: Wort composition and yeast growth

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

Photo courtesy of Shane Wilder. See more from his shoot with us here.

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Fruit is being added to beer more and more as the years go on. We try 5 fruity beers on this episode, talk about Grant’s recent mini episode, and run some questions by Mike at the end.

Marz Jungle Boogie Pineapple
Transient Apricot Ardent
Omnipollo Abrahadabra
Founders Mango Magnifico con Calor
Pipeworks Cherry Murderous: The Lookout

The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis and Mike Lambert.

Photo courtesy of Shane Wilder​. See more from his shoot with us here.

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