12 beers, 3 from each beer Santa, served up blind in Christmas wrapping. Sounds nuts? Pfft. That’s how we holiday.

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The Beerists are: John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, Grant Davis, and Mike Lambert.
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Mike’s doing a big favor to humankind, so we decided to let him have a Tripel show. Because of that, we’re obviously drunk by beer two.

Westmalle Tripel
St. Bernardus Tripel
Tripel Karmeliet
Allagash Tripel
Save The World Princeps Pacis

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

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I’m not sure who thought it would be a good idea to taste five huge beers, or why we decided to start with three above 11%, but that might explain the hostility and murder talk.

Deschutes Black Butte XXVII
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Narwhal 2015
Stone Double Bastard in the Rye
Modern Times Universal Friend
Almanac Dogpatch Grand Cru (Red Wine Barrels)

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

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Anastacia and Mike dug some interesting Belgian-style brews from their cellars for this one. Follow us into Yumtown.

Westvleteren 12
Chimay Grand Reserve 2012
De Struise Black Albert
Cantillon Fou’ Foune 2012
La Trappe Quadrupel

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Three Beerists, Five beers, all with non-traditional, extra stuff in them like raspberries, carrots, salt, chocolate, coffee, and even something called oranj.

New Belgiun Salted Caramel Brownie
Stone 24 Carrot Golden Ale
Lakewood Raspberry Temptress
Southern Tier Choklat Oranj
Brooklyn Intensified Coffee Porter

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You take some hops and some malts and some hops and some malts, you’ve got a hop malt stack. A hop malt stack.

Apologies on this one- I had some minor audio issues which should be corrected next episode.

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Hops & Grain A Pale Mosaic
Oskar Blues IPA
Ballast Point Calm Before the Storm
Founders Backwoods Bastard

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I can’t believe Mike missed this one. We’ve got 5 stellar beers, John Harvey, Grant’s uncomfortable balls, Anastacia’s cruelty, and Rubio’s rude awakening.

The Brew Gentlemen Rutherford Saison
Paradox Skully Barrel No. 28
Avery Raspberry Sour
Adelbert’s Hibiscus Saison
Bruery Terreux/Jester King Imperial Cabinet

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Listener Andy Godish brought us 5 beers to taste completely blind in this ultra caj episode. It’s so super caj, that at some point, I think we even forget we’re recording a show.

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

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Three Beerists, five random beers– some new to market, some overlooked gems. Mike should be in technical school, Anastacia wears a bird head, and Rubio gets sloppy drunk.

Urban Family Brett Baby Cakes
Paradox Skully Barrel No.29
Green Flash Treasure Chest
TOØL Snowball Saison Ale
Petrus Aged Red

Rankings:

Anastacia
1. Petrus Aged Red
2. Green Flash Treasure Chest
3. To Øl Snowball Saison
3. Urban Family Brett Baby Cakes
5. Paradox Skully Barrel No. 29

Mike
1. Petrus Aged Red
2. Urban Family Brett Baby Cakes
3. To Øl Snowball Saison
4. Paradox Skully Barrel No. 29
5. Green Flash Treasure Chest

Rubio
1. Petrus Aged Red
2. Urban Family Brett Baby Cakes
3. To Øl Snowball Saison
4. Paradox Skully Barrel No. 29
5. Green Flash Treasure Chest

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

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Once in a while, we get a lineup that makes us blissfully sing our exuberant love for all things beer. This, unfortunately, isn’t one of those episodes. I apologize for the scat singing.

Undertow
Tutti Frutti
Apridisiac
Belgian Cherry Tripel
Red Rock Flanders Red

You’ll have to listen to this one to get our rankings.

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

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