Brews, Booze, & Reviews

Welcome to a brand-new experiment: an ALL-GUESTS bottle share chat! Nox gets together with a couple returning guests, and a new one! Don, Blake, Alex from Terps Candy, and Sam from DrumConRath Brewing are back and welcome newcomer Jarek Kath of Proof Distillery here in Fargo, ND. Each person brought their own beverage to sample out (we forgot Alex’s in this one), and we sample and review some great choices! We find out how a brewer will make a barleywine, we chat conspiracy theories about Big Vanilla and Big Sugar, we find out the difference between a pot still and a column still, and how did moonshiners go blind, we get a lesson onbhow to enjoy a bourbon pour, and a distiller ( Jarek ) educates about barrels.

In this lengthy, highly educating episode, we sample and review Boulevard’s Tank 7 Saison, Firestone Walker’s 2016 Helldorado Barleywine, Haye’s Public House’s The Morrigan barrel aged black IPA, Turning Point Brewing’s Lasercannon Deth Sentence barrel aged stout, Deschites 2017 The Abyss aged in rum barrels, Foursquare’s 2008 single blended Barbados rum, and Proof’s Crooked Furrow bourbon.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

We finally made it to the last installment of the series on barrel aged brews! We've previously asked brewers from two local breweries (Junkyard Brewing and Drekker Brewing) 10 questions we thought our audience might want to know about what barrel aging a beer is all about. In this LAST CALL edition, we stick with the traditional LC formula and get a little tipsy with Mick Klein and cousin Torry while asking the brewers off the wall hits such as "How do you get such a high ABV% if it doesn't come from the barrel", and "What's a yeast cake", to "How does barrel temp affect the beer", and "what future barrel projects do you have coming"?

We sample and review Great Divide Brewing's Wood Werks Barrel Series #3 brown rye ale, Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck's 2013 Trignac XII, and 3 Floyds Brewing's Pillar of Beasts barrel aged salted caramel barleywine. Some hefty bois to round out the trifecta, and we hope you enjoy!

For more information on our guest Mick Klein and his music, head over to - https://mickklein.com/ and show him some love!

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. You can also leave a voice message for us at - https://anchor.fm/brews-booze-and-reviews/message. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

Welcome to part 2 of our barrel aged series. Things get just s little bit looser as we go along here, but we have questions about the barrels themselves answered, and some advice for homebrewers looking to achieve similar results.

In this episode we sample and review three beers from Drekker's Sixth-year Anniversary party when they released Six Feet Apart, Six Feet Under, and Six Ways From Sunday, all bourbon barrel-aged stouts.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. You can also leave a voice message for us at https://anchor.fm/brews-booze-and-reviews/message. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

Welcome to our highly anticipated Barrel-aged series where we hear from actual local brewers themselves on the process! The BBR crew got cousin Torry back to the dungeon, along with special guest and long time musician Mick Klein, to get some ethanol education and enjoy some tasty beers! We got interview soundbites from Aaron Juhnke, the owner and brewer at Junkyard Brewing in Moorhead, and Tom Knowlton, brewer over at Drekker Brewing in Fargo, to give answers to some questions we thought you might like to know!

In part one we rate and review these three barrel-aged brews released in 2020 from Junkyard:King Size stout double barrel aged Willet bourbon barrels, and two Basement Business barrel-aged barleywines, one aged in Willet Bourbon barrels while the other aged in Willet rye barrels. 

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. You can also leave a voice message for us at https://anchor.fm/brews-booze-and-reviews/message. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

When we think of Brandies and Cognacs, we envision sitting beside a nice fire in a chair with a blanket over your legs, brandy in hand, almost romanticizing it like in a Norman Rockwell painting. Our friend Ben stops in again, and we actually cover a bit of ground on what these spirits are, where they can come from, and the differences of how some are made. 

In this episode we sample and review E&J Brandy's VSOP Grand Blue, Ara Jan Armenian Brandy, Copper & King's Butchertown Reserve Cask, Tattersall Apple Brandy, Courvoisier, and Hennessy.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. You can also leave a voice message for us at https://anchor.fm/brews-booze-and-reviews/message. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

You know what rhymes with Tuesday? Alcohol! Wait... what? In this last call episode the guys add four beers and a whiskey to the mix, and somehow make it to the end in one piece.  There's actually a semi-startling revelation from one of our co-hosts, so stay tuned!

In this show we sample and review Old Grand-Dad 114 from Beam Suntory, DCR Brewing's Gear Wild Berry Smoothy Sour with berries, and three from Drekker, including Flash Kick Double IPA, Chonk Birthday Cake Sundae Sour, and GORP Be With You Trail Mix Sour.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. You can also leave a voice message for us at https://anchor.fm/brews-booze-and-reviews/message. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

Welcome to another spoooooooooky episode of BBR! Today former cohost Travis lent us his apartment to record the show because the work on the dungeon has fell behind, and to him we say thanks! Along with several pumpkin 'beers' we sample and review for you fine folks, we sprinkle in a few doses of discussions on horror flicks, such as what are the top three movies people SHOULD watch in the genre, least scary movie, and what we think about certain films in general.

In this episode we sample and discuss Ace's Pumpkin Hard Cider, Samuel Adams' Jack-O, Dogfish Head's Punkin Ale, New Belgium's Voodoo Ranger Atomic Pumpkin, Avery Brewing's Rumpkin, three from Southern Tier Brewing including Pumking Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Pumking Nitro, and Cold Brew Coffee Pumking, Shipyard Brewing's Smashed Pumpkin, and Rebel Hard Coffee's Limited Edition Pumpkin Spice Latté. That's a frightening amount of brews to taste, but we're up to be the heroes (or zeroes) in this story and get it done!

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this podcast, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support our efforts, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. You can also leave a voice message for us at https://anchor.fm/brews-booze-and-reviews/message. For more information about the show, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

Once again we come to you from Minot, North Dakota, to Atypical Brewing and Barrelworks! In this episode we sit down with Eric The Sour to learn more about the brewery, what the difference with between wet hops and fresh hops, and some of their beers! In this show we sample and review their Stouty Face Stuck Mash Stout, Split/Shift Coffee Brown Ale, Limestone Cowboy Gose, Hef'N A Bavarian Hefeweizen, Wet Hop American Summer, and London Fog Cream Ale w/Vanilla and Tea. Then Eric takes us to Souring School and teaches us a few things about the souring process, all while we sample their Weird Alchemy, and their Gin & Spruce Barrel Aged Golden Sour Ale. We finish up by sampling a brew waiting for release call Electric Nectar Blended Barrel-Aged Sour w/Whole Colorado Peaches! A VERY bold statement was issued in this episode as well!

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about us, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

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On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

Hello once again, neighbors, to another taproom takeover edition of the show, Minot-style! In this episode, Aaron and Brian from Souris River invite us exclusively into their taproom to tell tales not only of brewing, but local stories and legends as well! We sample and chat about their Bakken Brown, Squirrel Killer IPA, Bootlegger Porter, Mandolin Mayhem Marzen, Turtle Mountain Sour, Peanut Brown Sour, and 52 Pines Wheat Ale.  We discuss science-y things, proper pronunciation, and most importantly BEER!

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about us, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high!

Cheers!

Even though there aren't any "Fests" going on this year for obvious reasons, the BBR crew still wanted to pretend there was, so we got together and drank a bunch of Fest-style beers. In this episode we sample and review Summit's Oktoberfest Marzen Style, Sierra Nevada's Oktoberfest, Swing Barrel's Mr. Oktober Oktoberfest Lager, Icewind Brewing double showing of their Frozen Hosen Oktoberfest Marzen and their Festbier: Dirndl Dropper, and Hacker Pschorr Oktoberfest Marzen, followed by a revisit from last year's winner, and from our host beer Marchtoberfest from DCR Brewing. We'll don our Lederhos'n and our Tyrolean's and hoist our steins once again to be filled to the brim, because today, our spirits are high!

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at [email protected]. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about us, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/

Cheers!