Autumn is upon us, and so are pumpkin beers. Caroline Wallace of bitchbeer.org and Drew Eddy join Rubio and Anastacia for a cornucopia of gourdy goodies. And some baddies. Also Anastacia and Caroline together means this is a raunchy one.

Brooklyn Post Road
New Belgium Pumpkick
Cisco Rumple Drumkin
Schlafly Pumpkin Ale
Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin
Flying Dog The Fear

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We finally work up to doing an IPA show after deleting our first one from the internet. Ryan Mesch joins us to talk hops, IBUs, and Grant’s red wings. Strap in. Things get a little drunk again.

Lagunitas IPA
Stone IPA
Firestone Walker Union Jack
Ballast Point Sculpin
Bear Republic Racer 5
Green Flash West Coast IPAs

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Mike Lambert has risen, and he’s back for our first in a series of shows on the Trappist breweries. Chimay and Westmalle are our subjects this time around, and man do they hit like trains full of drunk.

Chimay Premiere (Red)
Chimay Cinq Cents (White)
Chimay Grand Reserve (Blue)
Westmalle Dubbel
Westmalle Tripel

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Ryan Mesch is back with 4 goodies from his trip to Ohio, and we sample those along with 2 others in this long, strange episode recorded right before his elopement. Goodnight, sweet prince.

White Birch Berliner Weiss
Stillwater Lower Dens
Pike Tandem
Pretty Things Jack D’Or
Prairie Funky Galaxy
Three Floyds Alpha King

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A couple of listeners sent us beers from Paradox Beer Company, which we drank with Alamo Drafthouse Creative Director John Gross, who showed us that there aren’t even rails to fly off of.

Canis Hopus
Paradox of Tao- The Yang
Ol Drowsy’s Madman
Skully Barrel #3
Skully Barrel #2
Skully Barrel #1

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Joe Money and Steven Gonzalez sent us a couple of beers each, and Rubio supplied a fifth for this episode. TJ Swanson of Namaste Brewing fills in for Mike, and all wastey-face hell breaks loose.

Stone R&R Coconut IPA
New Glarus Strawberry Rhubarb
Sound Monk’s Indescretion
The Bruery Bottleworks XII
Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout

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Anastacia went to Chicago and came back with six beers for us to sample. It’s also Rubio’s birthday, and he’s the oldest thing in the thing.

Freigeist Geisterzug
Cisco Saison Farmhouse Ale
Saint Somewhere/Prairie Plus tot L’etat
Beer Here Kama Citra
Perennial Fantastic Voyage
Smuttynose Baltic Porter

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Thomas Whisenand from Indeed Brewing Company hooks us up with 5 of their beers; we discuss the ethics of black market beer sales and trading; and one Miss Anastacia Kelly makes her triumphant return.

Shenanigans Summer Ale
Day Tripper
LSD Honey Ale
Midnight Ryder
Old Friend Holiday Ale

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We dig into the rest of the beers listener Jonathan Murphy sent us with our friend John Harvey. This is a divisive one, folks, full of flowers, anger, and deliciousness.

Slumbrew Trekker Tripel
Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits
CBC Tripel Threat
CBC Heather Ale
Slumbrew My Better Half

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Listeners Joe Money and Jonathan Murphy sent us giant boxes of beer. We start digging into them with our buddy Brian Salisbury of oneofus.net and discover everything we already knew about very old IPAs, dump buckets, and our bodies.

Elysian Valhalla
Elysian Prometheus
Elysian Space Dust
Elysian Savant
Slumbrew Naked Hopularity
Slumbrew Flagraiser IPA
Wachusett Larry IIPA
Wormtown Be Hoppy
Mayflower Single Hop Styrian Aurora
Austin Beerworks Half IPA

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