Listener Jason Straub sent us 6 corked and caged beers from Odell Brewing. We’re all here to try them, even Grant. Thank you Jason!

Shenanigans
Saboteur
Amuste
Deconstruction 2010
The Meddler
Friek
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We’re going to record our 1-year anniversary show on April 19th. For that show, we’ll be drinking some interesting (horrible) stuff, and reviewing it.

And you’ll get to vote on what we have to drink.

Here are the choices:

1. Malt Liquor Show #2
2. Crap we drank in our teen years (Boons Farm, Mad Dog, etc)
3. Malt beverage Show (Wine Coolers, CHELADA, 4-Loko, etc)
4. Mexican Import Show

Here’s how to vote:

1. Click the link below and make a donation.
2. Click “Add special instructions to the seller” when you’re making your donation and let us know which of the four show types you want us to do.

The show idea that gets the most money donated to it will be the show we record on April 19th. All money will be put towards getting The Beerists to the Great American Beer Festival in October.

If you’re skeptical at the value of such a show, see our Malt Liquor episode.

Deadline is April 18th. Do your worst.

One more thing. Each person who has ever donated to the show will be eligible for a delicious delicious prize, to be named later.

We’ve gathered some nice Springtime beers from six different widely-distributed breweries. So go to the store, get some, and drink along.

Samuel Adams Alpine Spring
New Belgium Shift
Lagunitas New Dogtown
Deschutes Chainbreaker
Dogfish Head Aprihop
Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
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The GABF 2012 Small Brewer of the Year, Funkwerks, is making some interesting and drool-worthy beers. They’ve sent us 5 of them to try on the show. Music provided by Grupo Fantasma.

Saison
Single Hop Polris
Solenna
Tropic King
Dark Prophet

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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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Help us get to the GABF! Kick us a few bucks!

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We would really like to go to the Great American Beer Festival, and need your help.

Taking this trip would be amazing for us, and for our listeners. The dream is that we’d record interviews with craft brewers, take a bunch of photos, record some GABF podcasts (possibly on location), and maybe even make some great connection for future shows. The problem is, we don’t have any money to do it with.

If you listen to The Beerists, please consider sending us a donation to (hopefully) make it possible. $10, $20, $50, or whatever you can spare is a huge help.

We’ve loved the journey of producing this podcast. We’re about to release our 50th Episode, and have provided our show 100% free of charge since the we started this a year ago. It’s absolutely thrilling to be going into our second year, and I can’t wait to share some of the fun shows we’re planning for the months ahead.

A huge thank you for your help & support. It really means a lot.

-John Rubio

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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