Listener Matthew Fifer sent us six beers from Kalamazoo, MI’s Bell’s Brewery. Hells yeah… Bells yeah.

Smitten Golden Rye
Porter
Two Hearted
Hell Hath No Fury
Third Coast
Expedition

OUR BIG FIVE-O! To celebrate, the five of us pulled some of our favorite beers together for one whopper of a show.

Orval
Petrus Aged Pale
Three Floyds Zombie Dust
Cantillon Lou Pepe Frambois 2007
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 2009
Goose Island King Henry

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8 beers from Russian River, all ending in -TION. Our buddy Schoun shares his spoils with us after his trip to Russian River for Pliny the Younger Day.

Redemption
Temptation
Salvation
Consecration
Damnation
Sanctification
Supplication
Beatification

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Listener Evan Gundy sent us a HUGE box of beer from Oklahoma. Wow, Oklahoma. Who the hell knew?

Choc Gose
Prairie Hop
Marshall El Cucuy
Prarie Noir
Mustang Imperial Court Stout
Coop DNR

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Among the biggest beers brewed, barleywines pack a punch to the palate. Nevertheless, we have 6 to try, and if we die, we’re taking Ryan Mesch with us.

Brooklyn Monster
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot 2013
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot 2010
Great Divide Old Ruffian
Stone Old Guardian
Firestone Walker Sucaba

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Ron Jefferies is making amazing wild beers in Michigan. Tonight, we sample 7 of them and get a little (a lot) drunk in the process.

Baudelaire Beer iO Saison
ES Bam
La Parcela
Fuego del Otoño
La Roja
Oro Del Calabaza
Madrugada Obscura
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English or American, Porters are dark malty joys that most everyone seem to love. Unless your name is Anastacia. Or the vanilla porter farts in your face. Spoilers.

Samuel Smith Taddy Porter
St. Peter’s Old Style Porter
Fuller’s London Porter
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Southern Tier Porter
Deschutes Black Butte
Sierra Nevada Porter
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Stone has been a force for abrasively hoppy beers since 1996. We have 6 of their beers for this show, 3 of which were sent to us by Stone themselves.

IPA
Ruination IPA
The Perfect Crime
Enjoy By 2.25.13
Sublimely Self-Righteous
Vertical Epic 11.11.11 (Aged in White Wine Barrels)

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We’re so excited to finally have Ballast Point beers available in Austin, that we couldn’t not do this show. 6 beers, 4 hungover Beerists, and Anastacia’s finally back from Vegas!

Wahoo Wheat
Calico Amber
Pale Ale
Big Eye IPA
Sculpin IPA
Victory at Sea
Indra Kunindra

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