Beering Ain't Easy

It’s Peanut Butter Stout Time, Peanut Butter Stout Time!  We’ll stack up four peanut butter stouts in a taste-off to find out which is the peanut-butteriest while Ryan educates us on the history of adjuncts and how peanut butter is added to the brewing process.  We’ll also give some on hot takes on Reinheitsgebot and our opinions on what stout adjuncts are acceptable to drink.  Lastly, we’ll bring you up-to-date on our HTOWN brewery challenge as we recap trips to No Label, Local Group, 11 Below, Gordon Street Tavern, and Holler!

Featured Beers:

Peanut Butter Milk Stout. Belching Beaver Brewery, Oceanside, CA. 5.3% ABV.

Peanut Butter Pretzel Stout, Martin House Brewing Company, Fort Work, TX. 6.5% ABV.

Peanut Butter Temptress. Lakewood Brewing Company, Garland, TX.  9.1% ABV.

Ridiculous AF. Saloon Door Brewing, Webster, TX. 11.8% ABV.
 

Other Shout-Outs:

Alamo Draft House

JIF Peanut Butter

No Label Interesting Beers: Cof-Hefe, Golden Knight (Golden Stout)

Men’s Health Magazine

Teotihuacan Mexican Cafe - One of Drew’s favorite Mexican restaurants in Houston

Tasty AF - Peanut Butter Milk Stout @ Saloon Door

HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!
 

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What is the best sport to watch while drinking?  To play while drinking?  While we’re at it, what is a sport anyway?  Do things like golf, Nascar, horse racing, and bowling count?  What is your criteria for defining a sport versus a game?  Your Beering Ain’t Easy hosts answer all these questions, plus we share “Uncle Rico” moments as we reminisce on our peak sports performances.

Featured Beers:

Stratospheric Clouds.  Spindletap Brewery, Houston, TX.  NEIPA. 8% ABV.

Dollar Pils Y’all.  Holler Brewing Company, Houston, TX. 5.4% ABV.

Black is Beautiful. Weathered Souls Brewing Company, San Antonio, TX. 8.9% ABV.

 

Other Shout-Outs

Netflix Series:  F1 Drive to Survive

Houston Astros

Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Fun Zone Dolla Dolla Bills Y’all)

Kingpin (Woody Harrelson/ Bill Murray)

Uncle Rico (Napoleon Dynamite)

Varsity Blues

Bern Appetit Podcast

HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!

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What draws you to breweries?  Other than the beer of course! We poll the audience and tap into Ryan’s brewery connection to find out the truth.  Plus, Adam and Drew lament over a challenging solar system science project assigned to their kids and debate whether it is ever acceptable to offer feedback/coaching to your kid’s teachers.  Lastly, we update you on our HTOWN Brewery Challenge status by recapping True Anomaly, 8th Wonder, Great Heights, and Walking Stick!
 

Featured Beers:

Vernal. Equal Parts Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  Marzen. 6.1% ABV.

Gorlami. Equal Parts Brewing Company, Houston, TX. Italian Pilsner. 5.1% ABV.

Slippin’ into Darkness. Brazos Valley Brewing, Brenham, TX.  Russian Imperial Stout. 10.5% ABV.

Hazy Hop Bomb IPA.  Symbol Brewing, Dallas, TX. 6.5% ABV.

Kaleidoscopic.  Urban South HTX, Houston, TX. Triple IPA. 10% ABV.

Other Shout-Outs

Re-grained Spent Grain Food Company

CNN/Fox News

SpindleTap Brewery, Houston, TX.

Eureka Heights Brewing Company, Houston, TX

The Nook Brewing Company. Broken Arrow, OK.

King’s Bierhaus, Houston, TX

Ladder to Heaven.  Hazy DIPA.  Great Heights Brewing Company, Houston, TX.

Purple Flour - Pizza food truck at Great Heights

Eatsie Boys - Food truck at 8th Wonder

HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston

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The Beering Ain’t Easy podcast gets the low down on the Houston Beer Scene in this awesome interview with Houston Beer Influencer Sylvia, aka the @houstonbeermother!  Sylvia has been following the Houston beer scene since the beginning, and she not only acts as a brand ambassador for many Houston breweries, but she also has her own Houston Beer podcast (The Draught Queens) and runs the Houston Beer Guide website.  We talk about upcoming Houston Beer events and releases, must-see breweries, Renaissance Fest, and shine bright lights on all the great beer-related things going on in H-Town!
 

Featured Beers:

Hyper Light.  Back Pew Brewing, Porter, TX. 4.2% ABV.

Blue Testament. Back Pew Brewing, Porter, TX. 5.2% ABV

One Helles of a Lager.  Klaus Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  5.4% ABV.

Hazy Pale Ale.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Houston, TX. 4.7% ABV.

Doc Hoppiday. Saloon Door Brewing, Webster, TX.  6.4% ABV.

Pumpkinator (2020).  Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Houston, TX.

Cocodiculous. Saloon Door Brewing, Webster, TX. Coconut Imperial Stout. 11.8% ABV.

What’s Sylvia Up To?

Follow Sylvia @houstonbeermother on Instagram!

Subscribe to the The Draught Queens podcast!

Houston Beer Guide website

Texas Beer Collective FB Page

@Budzbees Local Honey Farm

Houston Girls Pint Out

Other Shout-Outs

The Maharaja.  Avery Brewing Company, Boulder, CO.

Light Hearted Ale. Bell’s Brewery

SpindleTap Beers:  Heavy Hands, 5% Tint, Hop Gusher, Houston Haze, Houston Haziest, Triple Crown

Saloon Door Beers: Happy Hoppidiculous (coming soon), Tasty AF, V for Vienna, Kema Supremah

Vallensons Beers:  Honey Belgian Ale (Honey Pot)

Renaissance Fest:  Brigadoon Brewery (Black Plague Stout), Polish Tavern, Sea Devil Taproom

Pints for Prostates

Music to My Beers Festival (Pearland)

Nobi Public House

Cidercade

Texzas Food truck at SpindleTap

Frost Town Brewing

Big Al Craft Brew House / Turkey Forest

Grumpy McGregors

Saint Arnold / Great Heights / New Magnolia / Eureka Heights / Twisted Acre/ Misfit/ Location Six / Lone Pint/ Walking Stick/ Galveston Island Brewing / Baa Baa Brewhouse

Martin House

HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!

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Some things are best repeated, so we rekindled the magic from last year and brought back the Oktoberfest Battle!  4 Beers - Local vs. State vs. National vs. International - and only one winner!   Come join us while we talk Oktoberfest, celebrate college football with cheesy player/beer associations, and discuss a real life dad situation where their elementary school daughter asked “what’s a stripper?”  Yikes!

Featured Beers:

Festbier. Ingenious Brewing Company, Humble, TX. 5.5% ABV.

Cozy Bavarian. 3 Nations Brewing, Carrolton, TX. 6.8% ABV.

Oktoberfest. Odell Brewing Co., Fort Collins, CO. 6.1% ABV.

Oktoberfest Marken. Paulaner Brauerei, Munich, Bayern Germany. 5.8% ABV.

Bonus Beer:  Oktoberfest. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, CA. 5.5% ABV.
 

Other Shout-Outs

Beerfest

Team America

D&Q Beer Station

SpindleTap Heavy Hands DIPA

Buffalo Bayou Brewing Crush City IPA

Eureka Heights IPA

Texas Leaguer Mr. Oktoberfest

Altstadt Oktoberfest

Alabama Crimson Tide / Oklahoma State Cowboys

Tim Tebow

Keystone Light / Bud Light / PBR / Red Dog / O’Doul’s
 

HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!

Featured Sponsor:  Thrive Coffee

Remember to use promo code 3BEERS to receive 15% off your first order!

https://drinkthrive.org

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The HTOWN Brewery Challenge page can be found at the following link:

https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy-1/p/houston-beer-links-htownbrewery-challenge/

Featured Beers:

Houston Haziest. SpindleTap Brewery, Houston, TX. 10.5% ABV.

Six Demon Bag. Eureka Heights Brewing Co., Houston, TX. Belgian Strong Ale. 12% ABV.
 

Featured Breweries (HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker)

Misfit Outpost

Fortress BeerWorks

Stovetop Brewing (Craft Beer Cellar Cypress)

SpindleTap Brewery

Senate Avenue Brewing

Galveston Island Brewing

Other Shout-Outs

Beer Chronicle Houston

@hoppywonderwoman on Instagram

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time

Featured Sponsor:  Thrive Coffee

Remember to use promo code 3BEERS to receive 15% off your first order!

https://drinkthrive.org

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So we let Adam drive the agenda on this episode, and let’s just say we hit every topic under the sun while still managing to review Ennio, a tasty Italian Pilsner from the New Magnolia Brewing Company.  Come listen to us discuss the Houston Brewsology Beerfest, 911 call dad hacks, the new Shiner Bock ad campaign, and debate the best beverage to consume at an all-inclusive resort!  You won’t want to miss all the juicy tidbits and nuggets of wisdom we have to offer.

Featured Beers:

Ennio Pils.  New Magnolia Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  Italian Pilsner. 5% ABV.

Featured Event:

Houston Brewsology Beerfest.  Houston Museum of Natural Science.

https://www.facebook.com/events/houston-museum-of-natural-science/houston-brewsology/508424136951094/
 

Featured Sponsor:  Thrive Coffee

Remember to use promo code 3BEERS to receive 15% off your first order!

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Shiner Bock’s new add campaign:

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/shiner-beers-first-new-brand-platform-in-5-years-aims-to-capture-the-best-of-the-texas-experience/
 

Other Shout-Outs

Emergency Responders

Spaghetti Westerns

Andrew Cuomo

The Sopranos

Kings of Leon

Riviera Maya.  TRS Yucaton  - Mexican Resort Adam Visited

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It’s been a little bit since we hit you with a dad-centric episode, so we decided to tackle the dynamics between children in a family, specifically tales of middle children tired of their sibling’s shit.  Come join Adam and Drew and special guest Bernie, co-host of the Bern Appetit and 3 Beers and Mic podcasts, as we not only talk about the dad life, but also tackle Octoberfest travel tips, Anheuser Busch, fast food, and much more!
 

Featured Beers:

Rhinestone Life. Great Raft Brewing, Shreveport, LA. IPA. 7% ABV.

Tropical in Nature. Great Raft Brewing, Shreveport, LA. Hazy IPA. 6% ABV.

One Stop Hop.  Breckinridge Brewery, Littleton, CO. Imperial Hazy IPA.  9% ABV.

Budweiser.  Anheuser Busch / AB InBev - Damnit Bernie!
 

Featured Guest Podcasts:

Bern Appetit

https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/bernappetit/
 

3 Beers and a Mic

https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/3-beers-and-a-mic-podcast/

Featured Product:  Thrive Coffee

Remember to use promo code 3BEERS to receive 15% off your first order!

https://drinkthrive.org
 

Other Shout-Outs

Russian River Brewing Company (Pliny the Elder / Pliny the Younger)

Maine Beer Company

King of Beers documentary

Michelob Ultra

Oktoberfest

Taco Bell

KFC

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Beering Ain’t Easy is celebrating 1 year as a podcast, and we’re bringing on not one but two guests to celebrate in the most epic way we know how - An Official Beer Olympics!  We’ll each go toe-to-toe on games that most of us have not played since college - Beer Chug, Flip Cup, Beer Pong, and Darts - and we’ll reminisce on our favorite moments of the podcast.  Who has the skills and stamina to outlast the rest?  And more importantly, will the hosts or the guests come out victorious? 

Featured Beers:
TEX Beer. 8th Wonder Brewery, Houston, TX. Blonde Ale. 4.3% ABV.

Bombshell Blonde. Southern Star Brewing Company, Conroe, TX. 5.25% ABV.

Buckle Bunny. Eureka Heights Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  Cream Ale. 4.5% ABV.

Pabst Blue Ribbon.  Pabst Brewing Company.  Lager. 4.8% ABV.

Featured Music

Olympic Theme. John Williams

Other Shout-Outs

College Beverages:  Coors Light, Smirnoff Ice, Natural Light, Natty Ice, Naturdays, Keystone Light

Karbach

Pedialyte and Powerade

The Sandlot / Scotty Smalls

Ring of Honor - Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

Big 50  -  Little Woodrow’s.  Houston, TX

Lil Snack.  11 Below Brewing Company
 

Beering Ain’t Easy Favorite episodes per the guests:  The Suburban Life, Houston Hops, Houston’s Best Pilsner, What’s Up with Non-Alcoholic Beers?

NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media!
 

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