We drink five 9+ percent beers while Grant namedrops horrible band names. Anastacia calls in sick, Mike is in bliss, and Rubio’s girlfriend drops in for the second half. Apologies for the music.
Three Brothers Savage Blonde
Firestone Walker Maltose Falcons
The Lost Abbey Track 10
Alesmith Decadence 2012
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Our buddy Aaron Haley provided us with 5 beers from Portland’s Cascade Brewery for this one. Rubio gets drunk, the gang throws airballs, and Budweiser hates you.
Apricot
Tangerine Dream NW
Noyeaux
Sang Noir
Bourbonic Plague
Carlos Arellano from stayhoppy.com sits in to help us sample 5 beers sent to us by listener Michael Jacobs from the great state of Virginia. Grant makes a couple of jokes, Rubio cares, and the Mike scale for life is established.
Apocalypse Golden Censer
Apocalypse Red Hopocalypse
Center of The Universe El Duderino
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow 2014 Concealed Darkness
Champion Megalodon
We bring together 5 collaboration beers, including 2 new ones by Jester King, Prairie, and Evil Twin- and we were lucky enough to interview them about their projects.
Boulevard/Ommegang Collaboration No 4 Saison
Epic/Crooked Stave Elder Brett
Deschutes/Diestelhauser Doppel Dinkel Bock
Jester King/Prairie Natural Union
Jester King/Evil Twin World’s Worst Twin
Sweet and sour is a great way to describe every level of this episode- from the 5 beers we’re tasting, to the way the room felt. Big laughs, blistering disagreements, and uncomfortable confrontations you won’t want to miss.
Monk’s Cafe
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Cuvee des Jacobins
Zoetzuur
Rodenbach Vintage 2012
Mike brings 5 beers for us to taste, Rubio is fed up with shouting out Jack Swoboda, Anastacia fails at funny, and Grant should never talk again.
Perennial Peach Berliner Weisse
Claremont Craft Ales Indian Hill
Claremont Craft Ales Jacaranda
Speakeasy Syndicate No 1
Speakeasy Syndicate No 2
It’s a new year! United Airlines loses Mike’s luggage, Rubio can’t pronounce anything, Grant hates everything, and the legend of Michaelstacia begins.
Pizza Port Swami’s IPA
Lagunitas Brown Shugga’
Petrus Winter #9
Jester King Biere de Miel
Alvinne Wild West
Take a heartwarming stroll with Anastacia, Rubio, Habeab, and Sahara- as they’ve decided to spend their Xmas Eve tasting beer, making horrible puns, hating babies, and not being with family.
Southern Tier Sonnet
Founders Dirty Bastard
Hitachino Nest Commemorative Ale
Stone Smoked Porter w/Chocolate and Orange Peel
Brewdog Cocoa Psycho
Ok, so it’s not a christmas themed show. We’ve gathered 6 beers to taste, one of which blew our minds. Put that in your stocking and smoke it.
Perennial Regalia
Ducato Beersel Mattina
Rivertown Ville de Rivere Geuze
Prairie Christmas Bomb!
Founders Big Lushious
Lost Abbey Track 8
Caroline Wallace of BitchBeer.org joins us to share 5 saisons that prove that sometimes a saison isn’t a saison.
Perennial Dual Artisanship
Anchorage Love Buzz
BRU 2nd Anniversary Imperial Saison
Adelbert’s Contemplating Waterloo
Trinity Little Death Ride