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
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
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
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
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