Valentine’s Day is a complete sham, marketed to manipulate, shame, and guilt people into spending money. So we did. On chocolate beers.

Samuel Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
Boulevard Chocolate Ale
Southern Tier Choklat

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Sometimes, bad things happen to good beer. And sometimes, they happen to us. Over and over again. Ryan fills in for Anastacia, who dodged this bullet of catastrophe.

Cisco Pedaler Bike Path Blueberry Bleer
Clown Shoes Genghis Pecan
Night Shift Viva Habanera
The Bruery Tout Mais Le Coller
The Bruery The Wanderer
Allagash FV13
Terrapin 10th Anniversary
NoDa Hop Drop and Roll

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Listener Juan Lopez sent us 4 beers from Firestone Walker’s Proprietor’s Vintage Series. Mike shows up completely hammered with a 5th, and we have a show. Well, until he unravels, that is.

Velvet Merkin
Parabola
Double DBA
Sucaba
Seventeen (more…)

Fellow beer podcasters Nick and Dave from craftbeeranonymous.com sent us a great box of Lost Abbey beers. They got us bonkers drunk.

Carnevale
Saint’s Devotion
Serpent’s Stout
Judgement Day
Angel’s Share
Deliverance Ale

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Part 2 of the beers sent to us by listener Sean Grogan! Westbrook is making some great beer! We also talk about our podcast award win, genitals, and cruelty.

Goze
Gozu
One Claw
IPA
Dark Helmet
Udderly Milk Stout

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Listener Sean Grogan sent a huge box full of enough beer for 2 shows. First up are 5 beers from Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, which somehow sent Rubio into a mean, somewhat surreal drunk. This one got a touch raunchy.

Captain James Jack
Copper
Yule Bock
Dunkel
Bauern Bock

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Every year, Rubio throws a party over the holidays for his beer geek friends. Last year, we started recording parts of it for the show. This year, the tradition lives on in this monster of an episode. Please remember to kick us $5 to get the new year started out right.

Segments:

1. Intro with John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis, and Mike Lambert.

2. John Rubio, Mike Lambert, Dan Rader, and Bill Brink:
Firestone Walker Thirteen (2009)
Iron Hill Russian Imperial Stout (2007)
Deschutes Jubel 2010

3. John Rubio, Mike Lambert, John Harvey, and Beer (Zack) Pilgrim:
NoDa Hop, Drop ’n Roll
Hill Farmstead Susan
Midnight Sun Berserker (2009)

4. John Rubio, Grant Davis, Juan De Luna, and Jon Haupt:
Kuhnhenn 4th D (2011)
Cantillon Saint Lamvinus

5. Grant Davis, Beau Paul, Jason Murphy, and Jeff Schussler:
Prairie ‘Merica
Deschutes Abyss (2012)

6. John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Miguel De Luna, and Zachary Savoie:
Lawson’s Finest Liquids Maple Triple Ale
Anchorage The Tide and Its Takers
Cigar City Life is Like

7. John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Bill Brink, and Miguel De Luna:
Hair of the Dog Fred (2004)
Hair of the Dog Bourbon Fred From The Wood
Hair of the Dog Adam
Hair of the Dog Cherry Adam From The Wood

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Cypress Grove Chèvre found out we’d mentioned their delicious cheeses about a thousand times on the show. To show their appreciation, they sent us 12 lbs of cheese and $100 to come up with a pairing episode. Oh, what a beautiful day.

Bermuda Triangle (Jester King Atrial Rubicite)
Humboldt Fog (Orval)
Truffle Tremor (Avery Odio Equum)
Midnight Moon (Duchesse de Borgogne & Founder’s Breakfast Stout)
Lamb Chopper (The Alchemist Heady Topper)
Sgt. Pepper (Brooklyn Sorachi Ace)

No rankings this time.

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Tis the season for Christmas and holiday beers. Santa’s brought us 5 of them this time, but are they what we asked for, or lumps of coal?

Full Sail Wreck the Halls
Anchor Our Special Ale
Southern Tier 2XMAS
St. Bernardus Christmas Ale
Delirium Noel

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Ah, Goose Island. Once the darling of the craft beer community, the brewery has come under criticism after being purchased by AB Inbev. So how’s the beer doing? We dig into some of their vintage ales series to see.

Pepe Nero
Matilda
Halia
Juliet
Pere Jacques
Lolita

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