Beering Ain't Easy

So, you’re supposed to drink IPA’s fresh, right?  Well it may be common sense to you but we’re going to test it in an experiment anyway as is tradition.  We sample three Saint Arnold Art Car IPA’s at varying levels of freshness and answer why do IPA’s degrade, how do they degrade, and what are the best and worst types of beers to age?  And just in case proving common sense beer facts is not your thing, we also provide a meticulous and entertaining recap of the Bud Light Culture War Saga from the month of April!

Beers We’re Drinking:     

Art Car.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  1 month old, 4 months old, 6 months old
 

The Bud Light Saga

Dylan Mulvaney

Easy Carry Contest

Big Kettle Brewing

Kid Rock

Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene

Coors Light

Rep Dan Crenshaw

Ultra Right Beer
 

Other Shout-Outs:

Eureka Heights Brewing

Flying Saucer

Topo Chico

Karbach

Crush City IPA

Dos Equis

Beer Advocate

Untappd

hazeboiz

Parish Brewing Company.  DDH Ghost in the Machine.

Saloon Door Brewing

Bakfish
 

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Asa Hanrahan, General Manager of the Houston Flying Saucer, joins the podcast to share his experiences spanning 16 years at the cornerstone beer bar and landmark of Downtown Houston!  We discuss the craft beer evolution in Texas, Houston new downtown patio space along Main Street, the staying power of the franchise, and the resurgence of Euro beers.  You’ll even find out the most famous people to step foot in the Houston Saucer!  And if that’s not enough, Drew finally joins the Ring of Honor after 18 years!

Beers We Mentioned:     

New Belgium Sunshine Wheat

Green Flash West Coast IPA

Arrogant Bastard Ale

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and Celebration

Live Oak Pilz

Shiner Blonde

Euro Beers:  Duvel, Paulaner Hefeweizen, Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen, Guiness
 

Other Shout-Outs:

The First Five Texas Breweries:  Shiner, Saint Arnold, Rahr, Real Ale, and Live Oak

Rodeo Goat

Paradigm Brewing

Bad Astronaut Brewing

Great Heights Brewing

Altstadt Brewing

Petrol Station & Hay Merchant

Treehouse

Doug Flutie

Adrian Peterson

Ken Grossman

Dallas Keuchel

Paul Val

Christina Hendricks

Frank the Tank
 

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This week we talk about the one topic Ryan enjoys more than beer… conspiracy theories.  We go through a series of wacky beer-related conspiracy theories and make up a few unsubstantiated theories of our own. Plus Ryan runs down Birds Aren’t Real and his favorite conspiracy theories of all time and Drew explains the myth of the Sumerian beer goddess Ninkasi.  As Shania Twain might have said: Man, hops make me feel like a woman!

Featured Beers:     

Banger IPA.  Saint Arnold Brewing.  Houston, TX.  Imperial Hazy IPA. 8.4% ABV.

Houston Haze.  Spindletap Brewing.  Houston, TX.  Hazy IPA. 7% ABV.

HTX IPA. Urban South HTX.  Houston, TX.  Hazy IPA. 6.2% ABV.

Tetraplex.  Grimm Artisanal Ales. Brooklyn, NY.  Triple IPA. 10% ABV.

Other Shout-Outs:

Ninkasi Brewing. Eugene, OR

Star Sailor (Houston, TX)

Paradigm Brewing.  Houston, TX

Bad Astronaut Brewing.  Houston, TX

Karbach Brewing.  Houston, TX

Belching Beaver Brewing.  San Diego, CA.

Corona

Bill Gates / Heineken

Hazeboiz

Busch Light

Southern Star. Conspiracy Theory IPA.

Great Heights Brewing.  Houston, TX
 

Conspiracies:

Phytoestrogen

JFK

Mount Rushmore

John Connor / Terminator

Roswell, New Mexico

Richie Rich

X-Files

Area 51

Fake Moon Landing

Birds Aren’t Real

HEB > Total Wine > Specs

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Does the color of your beer affect how it tastes?  Is Saint Patrick’s day and its green beer ruining your favorite lager?  You better believe that the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast is here to conduct the experiments that no one asked to be conducted.

Featured Beers:

Cloud Punch.  Bad Astronaut Brewing.  Houston, TX.  German Pilsner.  5.2% ABV.

Loggerbier.  Equal Parts Brewing.  Houston, TX.  German Pilsner. 4.9% ABV.
 

Other Shout-Outs:

“It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy

Disney World

Wu Tang Clan

Inside Out (Pixar)

Goldfish
 

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Adam returns on this episode to share some great beers from Austin and we gush all about the beer scene in Dripping Springs!  And of course in addition to the beer we stray off course with some truly ridiculous and hilarious stories (as is tradition when Adam joins the podcast).

Featured Beers:

Hamilton Pale Ale.  Family Business Beer Company, Dripping Springs, TX.  4.9% ABV.

Black Skies. Vista Brewing, Driftwood, TX. 4.9% ABV Black Pilsner

Electric Jellyfish.  Pinthouse Brewery, Austin, TX. 6.5% ABV.
 

Other Shout-Outs:

Ghost Note Brewing Company

Twisted X Brewing

Santos.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company (Houston)

True Anomaly Brewing (Houston)

Spindletap (Houston)

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Karl Malone

Nate Bargatze
 

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After we had so much fun tasting verticals and horizontals during our Eureka Heights episode, Ryan and Drew are back at it again with none other than the Negative Space Milk Stout from 11 Below Brewing!  Come find out all about the awesome Negative Space variants and whether this beer is better fresh or slightly aged (and our thoughts on beer aging in general).   And if that’s not all, we’ll bring you up-to-speed with our quest to visit all 70+ Houston breweries and make up excuses on why it takes so long to get to all of them!

Featured Beer:

Negative Space.  11 Below Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  9.0% ABV. (2022 and 2021)

Bonus Beer:  Java Space
 

Other Shout-Outs:

Eureka Heights Nuke the Whales

Saint Arnold French Press

Brash Milk the Venom

Ghost Face Killah.  Twisted Pine Brewing Company.

11 Below Big Mistake

Hot Tub Beers

Saint Arnold Divine Reserve

Racer 5 IPA

Mel Brooks Movies:  Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I, Robin Hood Men in Tights

Galveston Bay Brewing Company

Whole Foods Brewing

Bakfish Brewing (RIP)

Vallensons
 

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Join the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast as we jump in a time machine to drink the top 5 beers of 2010 (hint hint one is a big one!).   But that’s not all - we’re going to give you the full and unadulterated 2010 experience.  This means top 2010 news stories, top music, top movies, slang, and of course after 5 beers we engage in passionate discussions on the history of craft beer itself.  Take a break from your first world problems because this episode is lit!

Top 5 Beers of 2010:

#5: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. 5.6% ABV

#4: 90 Minute Imperial IPA.  Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.  9% ABV.

#3: Arrogant Bastard Ale. Arrogant Consortia (Stone).  7,2% ABV.

#2: Two Hearted Ale. Bell’s Brewery.  7% ABV.

#1: Pliny the Elder.  Russian River Brewing Company. 8% ABV.
 

Other Shout-Outs:

Zymurgy Home Brewing Magazine

Antonine Dodson

iPad

President Obama

Mark Zuckerburg

H1N1 Swing Flu

Great American Beer Festival (GABF)

Rodeo Clown (Karbach) & Endeavor (Saint Arnold Brewing)

Sculpin (Ballast Point)

Chilean Miners

Space X / Elon Musk

Wikileaks/ Julian Assange/ Chelsea Manning

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Chernobyl

All Day IPA (Founders)

Kidz Bop Radio

Justin Bieber

Taylor Swift

Maharaja (Avery)

Avatar / James Cameron

Inception

Heady Topper (Alchemist)

Dinner (Maine Beer Company)

MUSIC FEATURED:

Tik Tok by Kesha

Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys

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Ryan and Drew use their extensive research to tell you about beer-related world records so you don’t have to google them for yourself!   And don’t google them, because we may have made some of these up.  Plus, do kids ever throw up where you want them to and is Wade Boggs full of shit?

Beer:

Dunkel.  Klaus Brewing Company. Houston, TX. 4.8% ABV

Fake Landing.  Bad Astronaut Brewing Co.  Houston, TX. 6.6% ABV

Fruity Haze Haze Juice.  Eureka Heights Brewing Co.  Houston, TX 6.5% ABV

Other Shout-Outs:

Frost Town Brewing.  Houston, TX

Beers Looking at You (Beer Shop in Webster)

Andre the Giant

Wade Boggs

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Hindenburg

Texas A&M:  Northgate, Ring Dunk, College Station

Nook Brewing Company.  Broken Arrow, OK

Brewdog

@usernamewithbeerinit

Flying Saucer

Infinite Ghost.  Parish Brewing Company

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Stout Season is here!  Ryan and Drew go full-on “nucular” by tasting a variety of Eureka Heights Nuke the Whales Imperial Milk Stouts aged across multiple years and their variants.  What can go wrong with drinking four 11% ABV stouts?  Apparently a lot of things.

Beer:

Nuke the Whales (2021).  Eureka Heights Brew Co.

Nuke the Whales (2020).  Eureka Heights Brew Co.

Nuke the Whales (Coffee and Vanilla 2021 Variant).  Eureka Heights Brew Co.

Nuke the Whales (Coconut, Pecan, Cocoa Nibs, and Vanilla 2021 Variant).  Eureka Heights Brew Co.

Other Shout-Outs:

George W Bush

Houston Astros

Jose Altuve

Mattress Mack

Bun B

Paul Wall

Ted Cruz

Andre Johnson

Talladega Nights

Divine Reserve Series.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company

Untappd

Stone Brewing

Independence Day

The Simpsons

PETA
 

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Come join us this week while we take a trip down memory lane, rattling off some of our best beer memories as we discovered beer and craft beer, and of course some of the most painful experiences to keep it from being too sappy!  And on that topic, sometimes there is a fine line between a great beer experience and a painful beer experience.  Is it possible to achieve the perfect buzz?  You’ll have to tune in to find out!

Beer:

Heavy Hands.  Spindletap Brewery, Houston, TX. 8% ABV.

Black Matter. Manhattan Project Beer Company, Dallas, TX.  Coffee Stout.  8.6% ABV.

Festbier. SpindleTap Brewery, Houston, TX.  4.2% ABV.
 

Other Shout-Outs:

Yellow Rose.  Lone Pint Brewing.

Birra Moretti

Belican (Belize Beer)

Ghost in the Machine.  Parish Brewing.

Epcot Beers Around the World

Negative Space.  11 Below Brewing.

Pacifico Claro

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

Costco

Great American Beer Festival

Flying Saucer / Beerfeast

Notorious BIG

HALO

Corona / Keystone Light

Bombshell Blonde.  Southern Star

Jim Adler the Texas Hammer

Triceratops. Ninkasi Brewing Company

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