You've (almost) made it through another year.  Congrats.  There was a lot going on in 2022 and you may have missed some of the beer stories with all this going on.

PBR started off the year with some interesting Tweets.  We saw some big acquisitions and mergers, a few major closures, and we lost a legend.  NA beer continued to grow, and it continues to be highly-debated whether or not the sectors growth is meaningful.

West Coast IPA came back around for a visit, and we're guessing we'll see more of it.  Brian's betting on more rauchbiers, but I'm not so sure about that one.

Our biggest concern is that breweries are out of Covid money and some that may have been ready to call it quits in 2020 are facing that now, along with others.  I'm afraid we'll see a lot of closures in the new year.

Well.  Whatever happens.  We'll be at the studio having a nice, cold pint and waiting for it all to blow over.

Cheers and Happy New Year!

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It's the most wonderful time to drink beer...

Winter beers are the best beers.  I know it, you know it, we all know it.

Our holiday beer blind tasting has become a tradition.  Last year our friends from Rainy Day Brewing joined us for the tasting.  They commented that you know it's getting bad when they have to "Call in the Jews" for a Christmas beer tasting.  We liked their style so we rolled with that this year for the 2nd Annual Interfaith Holiday Craft Beer Spectacular, cause we're inclusive like that.

Rules are the same as always.  Blind taste the beer and pick your favorite.  Simple.  At the end of the show we tally everyone's favorites for an overall Top 3.

This year's holiday beers included...

• Abita Christmas Ale
• St. Bernardus Christmas Ale
• Highland Cold Mountain
• Bold Monk Leon
• Anchor Christmas Ale
• Shiner Cheer
• Rogue Santa's Private Reserve
• Delirium Noel
• N'ice Chouffe
• Bell's Christmas Ale
• Southern Tier 2XMAS
• Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome
• Sierra Nevada Celebration
• 21st Amendment Fireside Chat

I'm gonna be straight with you here.  Overall, this year's offerings didn't seem to meet the mark we expect of many of these beers.  We've had many of these before and had high expectations.  However, there are a few standouts and you'll no doubt have some good selections to enjoy through the holidays.

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, and we hope you enjoy any other holiday you celebrate.

Cheers!

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When I first experienced beer cocktails I don't think that was even a term at the time.  As a kid my parents used to enjoy what they called "Tomato Beers."  It their simplest form it was simply tomato juice and a macro lager over ice with some salt and pepper.  To fancy it up they may use V8 juice or shove a celery stalk in the glass.  Sort of a podunk Michelada.  I stole sips at the time and I guess I enjoyed it; I sure do enjoy a Michelada now.

It's likely you've dabbled with beer cocktails as well.  A simple Boilermaker or Black & Tan are technically beer cocktails.  Now we've got a whole variety to check out liked the Dublin Iced Coffee, Hazy Day Afternoon, or maybe an El Chapo.

Beer cocktails can be pretty simple or overly complex.  But they're a fun way to mix things up with your beers.  If you've got a favorite let us know!

And here's one to get you started...

Hazy Day Afternoon

Ingredients

• 1.5oz light rum
• 0.5oz guava nectar
• 0.5oz pineapple juice
• 0.5oz orange juice
• 0.25oz lime juice
• 0.5oz simple syrup
• Hazy IPA

Preparation

• Combine all ingredients except IPA in a shaker and shake. Strain into Collins glass with fresh ice and top with IPA.

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We survived Thanksgiving and are back in the studio this week with our friends from Printer's Ale Manufacturing Co. 

Printer's is located in Carrollton, GA, about 50 miles west of Atlanta.  Not a bad trip for ATLiens on a weekend but far enough they don't get as much hype as some of the in town breweries.  That's too bad, because they are making some great beers and doing a lot of other cool things in Carrollton.

On this visit we introduced their Woodcut Wild series of beers in Kriek, Framboise, and Peche.  After brewing, the mash for these heads to Printer's coolship but does get a little punch up with some commercial strains when going into barrels.  Oh yeah, they also brew with aged hops grown right at the brewery, and future beers will use fruit from their orchard.  Neat.

We chat with Specialty Brewer Josh Watterson and owner Greg Smith about the importance of terroir in brewing, something that was previously (mostly) ignored by American brewers.  We discuss the Qatar/FIFA World Cup kerfuffle with Budweiser, mall Santas, what's in the pipeline at Printer's, and the size of Batman's mouth.

Hope you enjoying this episode!  Coming up we'll be talking beer cocktails and the Beer Guys Radio Interfaith Holiday Craft Beer Extravaganza with our Jewish friends from Rainy Day Brewery drops on Dec. 17th.  Woot.  

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I promise we didn't mean to talk about knives so much...

OK, just listen to the show and you'll see why knives get such a prominent spot this week.  I met Sam Riggins of Cosmic Eye Brewing on a knife forum.  (Shout out to to the Spyderco Millie, PM2, Para3 Club!) We had to at least mention our love of knives, but it ended becoming a whole segment.  If you're just here for beer talk, pop on over to the 2nd segment.  But there is some hot knife chatter to start things off.

Plenty of beer talk, too.  We discuss a Twitter initiative to rebrand the Amber Ale, Thanksgiving beers, and learn about the beer scene in Nebraska.  Sam shares about his artwork and rebranding, and we learn about Dampfbier.

Oh yeah, and Smalls joins us to talk about her Alaska adventure and share some BIG news.

Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

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What's up, Y'all?  How's your week gone?  Drink anything good?

This is gonna shock you, but we did drink some good things.  And we talked to some good people.  Jason Pellet from Orpheus Brewing and Nathan Schieber from Cherry Street hung out in the studio with us.  We cracked some new brews and some vintage brews and covered some hot craft beer topics.

On the show this week...

• Pumpkin beers, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, and pumpkin spice
• Is everything we know about lambic wrong?
• Pandemic impacts and the Chicken Wing Index
• Slowing your roll on beer releases
• Expansion, right sizing, and "growing down"
• Learn to Homebrew Day
• What's coming from Orpheus and Cherry Street

The Beer List

• Rothaus Pils / Tannen Zäpfle
• Cherry Street - Peach Damebier (Aged in Peach Brandy Cask).
• Drie Fonteinen Oude Geuze
• Lost Abbey Track #10 (BBA with Coffee and Cacao Nibs)
• Orpheus - Like A White Curtain Blowing In the Draft From A Half Opened Window Beside A Chair On Which Nobody Sits (Wild Ale aged in Wine Barrels)

We popped a few more that I forget now.  So many good beers.  Cheers!

News Sources / Credits

• https://zythophile.co.uk/2022/10/31/is-everything-you-have-ever-read-about-the-history-of-lambic-and-gueuze-totally-wrong-raf-meert-thinks-so/ 
• https://www.probrewer.com/beverage-industry-news/a-new-tend-in-craft-brewing-lost-abby-announces-bold-move-to-grow-down/ 
• https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/packaging-distribution/green-flash-unveils-refreshed-branding-lets-take-a-look/ 
• https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/aha-events/learn-to-homebrew-day/

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Coffee. Beer. Food.

Good Measure Pub & Brewery makes it easy to know what you're getting when you visit.  Coffee.  Beer. Food. emblazoned across the front of the building.  The Brewery recently added food to their offerings and they share ownership, and a building, with Carrier Roasting Company.  Sounds like my kind of place.

Andrew Leichthammer is the owner and head brewer at Good Measure.  He digs a table beer and offers several at his pub and we talk about what exactly a table beer is.

We also talk cask ales.  We're seeing more mentions of these lately so we discuss if this old style is the next big thing in American craft beer.  Andrew's on board with it and has a beer engine on the way.

Pastry peanut butter, coffee beers, and vintage ales round things out.  It's a good one.  Enjoy!

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Modist Brewing has you covered for your THC and ABV fix

Did you hear that Minnesota "accidentally" legalized weed?  The story circulated earlier this year and it's somewhat true.  They did unintentionally legalize hemp-derived THC edibles, like infused snacks, and drinks.  Way to go, Minnesota.

Modist co-owner and head of marketing Daniel Paul Wellendorf chuckles when telling the story that opens our discussion on their Tint THC seltzers.  They keep the dosage pretty low at 3-5mg per can.  This is a chill kind of drink, not a baked out kind of drink.  They also have Pastry Lagers, (Thank you Lord for answering our prayers) along with "normal" beers like your NE IPA, West Coast IPA, some tasty fruited sours.  

Wellendorf shares about their unique brewhouse that helps them brew with much less water than a normal brewhouse.  Being eco-friendly is a nice side effect but the main reason they have the brewhouse is to get as much out of their beers as they can.  

We wander across other random topics this week as well.  Talk about our new Beer Caramelizer we can't wait to try, offer up beers for Spooky Season, and more talk of packaging sizes cause were kind of obsessed with that right now.

Modist's beer is available in good chunk of Minnesota and select areas of Wisconsin, Ohio, Chicagoland, and... Arizona?  Yep.  Arizona.

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Beer and Biscuits with Brahmari Brewing

Brahmari Brewing doesn't currently have any bees but their name is from the Sanskrit term for "like a bee."  Brahmari specifically refers to a black Indian bee and is the Hindu goddess of bees.  Neat.

Despite their lack of an apiary, Beekeeper Arthur Jefferson shared the brewery does have a way of attracting bees.  I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.  Arthur and Head Brewer Brian Quade joined us on the show this week to talk about their awesome Asheville brewery.

Brahmari brews batch of beer with a bunch of Bo Berry Biscuits, gets busted by Bojangles

Yep, you read that right.  Probably.  We get the full scoop on Brahmari's It's Biscuit Time blueberry sour.  If you've had it once you're lucky, this one won't be back, at least not under the same name.  

As we sip some tasty Brahmari brews we chat about the great beer scene in Asheville, NC and get Arthur and Brian's picks on where to go after we visit Brahmari.  We talk beer fests and music and bringing the two together, a quick mention of Brahmari's new location in Charlotte, candles, and leichtbiers.

The Beer List

Thanks to Brahmari for the awesome sampling of their brews.

• Murder on the Mountain (Black Kolsch)
• Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives (Kolsch)
• Cubism Dream (BBA German Pilsner)
• Special. Magical. Shirtless. Power (IPA)
• Polyphasic Echo (IPA)
• Out Loud (DIPA)

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Did you miss us?

It's been an... adventurous... couple of weeks.

While driving down the interstate another car decided to see how fast they could go and I got in his way. After ping-ponging me off a couple of other cars, I walked away, but my trusty Ford Explorer did not. RIP. Brian was going to carry on, but then he got the flu and spent a week locked away from everyone. BUT, we're back and (mostly) good as new.

Fireside Beer Chat Vol. 2

Smalls joined us in the studio this week along with our friend Earnest Hansley so we opened some beers and ran on about the hot topics in beer right now. I'm calling these episodes our Fireside Beer Chat. We have no fire, but it's there in spirit.GABF is underway in Denver and expects 40,000 attendees this year. It's a great event that every beer lover should attend at least once. Denver pulls out all the stops for the week and it's a great time all around. We talk seasonal creep that leads to Spooky Season, Thanksgiving sides, and Holiday beers and talk about how big we like our cans. And we argue about Rauchbier and American vs. English Barleywines.

We had a good time and cover some burning topics. Enjoy.

Beers of the Week

• North Coast Old Stock Ale 2013 (Bourbon Barrel)
• Brooklyn Brewing Black Chocolate Stout
• Goose Island BBA Oatmeal Stout with Coffee and Maple Syrup
• Bold Monk Festbier

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