Aging beer is a crapshot. In this episode, Anastacia presents 5 beers from her collection that we assumed would have benefited from a few years of aging. But did they all live up to our expectations, or were we wrong?

2011 Goose Island Lolita
2011 New Holland Dragon’s Milk
2011 Goose Island King Henry
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break
Deschutes/Hair of the Dog Conflux Collage #1

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Grant is out this week, so we’ve decided to truck forward without him. We taste a mix of 5 beers on this episode that we can’t seem to agree on.

Odell Trellis
Mikkeller Spontenframboos
Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique Edition Special
Stone Bastard in the Rye
De Proef/Surly Long of Tooth

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Sometimes breweries send us beer. For this episode, we taste some promo samples from Green Flash, Founders, and Sam Adams- and we get a little mean.

Green Flash Jibe Session IPA
Green Flash Soul Style IPA
Founders Breakfast Stout
Samuel Adams New World
Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour
Samuel Adams Tetravis

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Brooklyn Brewery is one of the largest and acclaimed craft breweries in the US. In this episode, we taste 5 of their brews, and speak with Brewmaster Garrett Oliver himself.

Sorachi Ace
Local 1
Local 2
Black Chocolate Stout
Hand and Seal

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Canadian listeners Ewart and Aaron were tired of not hearing about beers from their beloved home country, so they decided to fix that by sending us 6 beers from Toronto’s Bellwoods Brewery.

Stay Classy
Bimini Twist
Witchshark
Lost River
Lambda
Skeleton Key

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We got a box of 6 Virginia beers from listener Scott Johnson for this one. Some huge hits here- and one really drunk Beerist.

Three Notch’d 40 Mile IPA
Hardywood Park The Great Return
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Alewerks Rapadou Porter
Alewerks Bitter Valentine
Alewerks Lover’s Greed

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5 Ambers, 3 sad Beerists, and all the awkward humor you’ll ever need. Mike dodged this bullet, but we still love him. Allegedly.

Abita Amber
New Belgium Fat Tire
Breckenridge Avalance
Alaskan Amber
Ballast Point Calico

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Take 4 Pennsylvania brews, one from Jersey, a dash of Boys II Men, and 4 beer geeks, and something is bound to come unhinged.

Carton Brewing Boat Beer
Neshaminy Creek Churchville Lager
Neshaminy Creek County Line IPA
Victory Moving Parts IPA
Saucony Creek Maple Mistress

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We’re back from the Great American Beer Festival with stories, opinions, horrors, laughs, and a few great interviews! Strap in, this is a biggun. Huge thanks to our listeners for making it happen!

Interviews with:
Three Floyds Head Brewer Chris Boggess
Odell Brewer Kevin Bosley
New Belgium Brewmaster Peter Bouckaert
TRVE Woodmaster General Zack Coleman

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Caroline Wallace from bitchbeer.org joins us for an assortment of 5 beers. Everyone pulls weight to make up for Rubio’s lost voice, and we talk poop, beer, poop, and poop. Also, poop.

Toppling Goliath Dorthy’s New World Lager
Toppling Goliath Golden Nugget IPA
Smog City Groundwork Coffee Porter
Foley Brothers Native IPA
Fiddlehead Hyzer Flip

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