Drink Local

Drink Local Podcast is back to wrap up Black History Month with with Episode 32: Beer, Ball & Black History! We toured the NoCal beer scene from Sacramento back down to San Luis Obispo, visiting numerous black-owned breweries along the way. On Episode 26: The Banned Episode we tried some Black History collabrews from some of these breweries. In WMYWD Misa recounted our basketball experience while William bought too much beer!

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The Beers:

Urban Roots Brewing x Berryessa Brewing Co. Empty Promises (Classic English Style Pale Ale)

Hella Coastal Brewing Beer is Black History (West Coast IPA)

Oak Park Brewing People's Beer (Lager)

Tasters! We sip on beers from Occidental Brewing Company, Casa Agria Specialty Ales, and Pure Project while recounting our favs of 2022! A tale of two German breweries as we get some cold filtered jokes off about Enegren and lavish HUGE love on Occidental! In WMYWD Misa talks Rui Hachimura and William goes full McFly over being called "boss".

Here's a list of our favorite breweries and bottle shops of 2022:

PORTLAND

Occidental Brewing Co.

Steeplejack Brewing Co.

Baerlic Brewing

Away Days Brewing Co.

Belmont Station

Beer Spot

The Beermongers

SAN DIEGO

Pure Project

Mujeres Brew House

Fall Brewing Company (South Park Golden Rhino Room)

Bottlecraft

LOS ANGELES

Eagle Rock Brewery

Homage Brewing (Chinatown location)

Highland Park Brewery

Far Field Beer

The Beers:

Occidental Brewing Company Pilsner

Casa Agria Specialty Ales The Breaks (Hazy IPA)

Pure Project Rain (Unfiltered Pilsner)

Hey Tasters! We drink an Urban Roots/DJ Quik collab, bow down to Highland Park Brewing's  DDH Timbo Pils, and get Kawaii with a Kölsch! We look at Japan's bold stimmy scheme & show love to Far Field Beer Co., HPB & MacLeod on York. On WMYWD William talks leg lengthening, and Misa gets hooked on "Formula 1: Drive to Survive" after finishing her work on the Japanese translation of the Giannis book.

The Beers

Urban Roots Brewery x DJ Quik: Pitch in on a Party (West Coast IPA)

Highland Park Brewery DDH Timbo Pils (Double Dry Hopped West Coast Pilsner)

Duck Foot Brewing Co. Kawaii Kölsch (Kölsch)

We're back! William's got a bottle shop gig, Misa's translating NBA books & we're still drinking local! We talk about our mini fridge & sticker addiction, Stone Brewery & Modern Times getting bought, people lying on IPAs, breweries we love and of course What Made Us Wanna Drink.

Cerveceria Del Pueblo Curuba (Fruit Tarted Ale)

Maine Beer Company a tiny beautiful something (Pale Ale)

Almanac Beer Co. Westley Crusher (Next Coast IPA)

We got excited while comparing some American-made Japanese-style Rice Lagers from Occidental, Original Pattern and Topa Topa that we picked up during our most recent beer excursion! And then we talked about a random assortment of topics related to Japan. In What Made You Wanna Drink, William creates jobs and fixes the entire economy while Misa goes off about Shohei Ohtani. We finally close it out with some quick Olympics takes. Come join the fun and feel free to submit some questions! Bottoms Up!

The Beers

Topa Topa Brewing Co. KQ Express (Hoppy Rice Lager)

Occidental Brewing Co. Dry Lager Beer (Lager)

Original Pattern Brewing Co. Yamagata (Rice Lager)

Back after a bit of a break, Drink Local reviews the first leg of our recent beer tourism up and down the west coast; Seattle, Washington! We consume some great brews from Ex Novo, Great Notion and Foreland and talk about the literal peaks and the figurative valleys of our Seattle experience. We provide a mini audio tour of our favorite breweries in the Ballard district and lay the groundwork for our next leg of the trip! Bottoms up!

The Beers

Ex Novo Krispy’s Kölsch (Kölsch)

Great Notion Brewing Seedless (Sour)

Foreland Beer Glass Volcano (Black Lager)

In Episode 26: The BANNED Episode, we do the unthinkable! We drink FOUR big IPAs right after promising not to drink anymore of them on the podcast! A friend and listener happened to hear us talking about some incredible Black History Collabrews involving Oak Park Brewing in Ep24 and actually SURPRISED US WITH THEM! So we had to drink’em! We talked about Judas & The Black Messiah and in WMYWD William talked about raffling his old video games for charity! Of course we took Questions From The Beer-Curious!

The Beers

Hella Coastal America: Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free! (West Coast IPA)

Hunters Point Brewery America's Native Son (Black IPA)

Oak Park Brewing Company All I Want is That Milk & Honey You Promised! (Red IPA)

Full Circle Brewing Company Eye Am A Revolutionary (Hazy IPA)

In a wild episode 25 of the Drink Local Podcast Misa & William exuberantly rave about Indie Brewing’s Pacific Kolsch Highway, Bottle Logic’s Cantrip Kolsch, Mumford’s mega-collab El Nuevo Pres Lager and the sensational Edel-Hell Helles Lager from Occidental Brewing! We fail to keep our promise of talking about dealing with duds (aka drinking beers we don’t enjoy). We also present another Binge Drinking Segment in which we talk about FX’s Snowfall and William discusses growing up in LA during the crack epidemic. In WMYWD Misa reflects on decompressing with games and playing Persona 5 Strikers and Will laments on survivor’s guilt and COVID-19 related depression. And of course we take tons of Questions From The Beer-Curious!

The Beers:

Edel-Hell (Helles Lager) by Occidental Brewing Co.

El Nuevo Pres. (Lager) by

Mumford Brewing

Tripping Animals

Interboro Spirits & Ales

People’s Republic of South Central

The Sampler Bushwick

Bierwax

Pacific Kölsch Highway (Kölsch-style Ale) by Indie Brewing

Cantrip Kölsch by Bottle Logic Brewing

Welcome to another episode of The Drink Local Podcast! It’s been about a year since we kicked off this podcast! For Episode 24 we’re proud to present the long-promised El Segundo Challenge. What’s that? Well, William has been mindlessly enjoying IPAs from El Segundo Brewing for quite some time before it finally occurred to him that maybe he should compare them, just to make sure that they aren’t all the same delicious beer. We get deep into it with their Tone Series. We start things off a little differently by taking Questions From The Beer-Curious right away and touch upon the California Craft Beer Festival that's going on. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get any of the special beers that we wanted including some from Original Pattern. You can read more about our visit to the Oakland brewery here.

Then, we finally talk The Good Lord Bird on our new Binge Drinking segment. In What Made You Wanna Drink, Misa laments the number of overtime games that the Los Angeles Lakers have been drawn into and William talks about the Black History Month Tribute that Oak Park Brewing Company is doing with three other California black-owned breweries (Hunters Point Brewery, Hella Coastal, and Full Circle Brewing Co.). Lastly, on a more serious note, William gets emotional while sharing some of his thoughts on the increased levels of violence impacting the Asian-American community.

The Beers:

Office with a View (IPA)

On the Horizon (IPA)

LA Showdown (IPA)

In the first Drink Local Podcast of 2021 ‘New Year, New Brew’, we talk about a relatively new brewery called Paperback Brewing and try a bunch of their beers. We banter while buzzed about all sorts of current events from celebrity birthdays to the insurrection and follow up on our New Year’s Resolution progress. In What Made You Wanna Drink, William complains about the new Jim Beam High Ball commercial and Misa discusses her recent COVID-19 scare. William is also dismayed to find out that he and Eminem share a birthday and we debate Godzilla vs King Kong. Finally, in Questions From The Beer Curious, we assess how Americans feel about Japanese beer.

The Beers

All from Paperback Brewing

¡VIVA LUCHA LIBRE! (Mexican lager)

Beyond the Deep (hoppy lager)

Hollywood Hellcats (West Coast IPA)