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Jeremy's diploma might actually be worth something thanks to Natty Light.

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THC-sucking cans, breweries that want you to have more dogs, breweries that help you find missing dogs and a NYC altercation that proves that, despite the saying, there are indeed laws while drinking the claws.

Tyler and Jeremy embrace the coming low-cal IPA craze and line up a selection of these neo-session IPA's to determine which will satisfy their hop craving without blowing up their waistline.

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Molson Coors sued again. The battleground moves to hard seltzer as Future Proof defends its turf.

Good news for self-distributed beer in Michigan, lawmakers bump the limit and allows smaller breweries to expand.

And the story of how Pliny the Younger ended up bottled.

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Session IPAs are back calling themselves 'low calorie' IPA's. Jeremy and Tyler discuss the pros and cons of this latest incarnation of beers with low ABV and high IBU's

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Truly wants to reward you for showing up to work hungover. Truly and Rally, people!

And contract brewing. It has an unpleasant stigma attached, but it might be the only thing keeping your favorite brewery afloat.

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Dry January claimes another brewery as MolsonCoors buys Atwater. Our heroes start to realize how bad they are at predicting the future sales in craft beer.

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Ska Brewing and Sweetwater stay afloat by embrasing the selzters and other diversifications of sadness.

A blind-taste beer festival removes the hype and brings the craft.

And beer/wine hybrids are a thing and not just something that happens when your drunk late at night and almost out of booze.

Jeremy and Tyler purge some pent up frustration as they enter the new decade.

It's all been a sham! The preferred method of opening a shaken beer is a lie. What's next? Is the sky blue? Does the Pope truely defecate in the woods? Is the cake a lie?!?!

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An Indiana brewery runs into problems with their ill-fated 'Slushy XL' line. It seems they misplaced all the f*cks they had.

And Papst is craft now. Hipsters rejoice!

It's our last episode of 2019 and we got a few things to cover before we take a little break.

First, the New Belgium deal is finalized but not without some blowback. Say what you want about ABInbev, they aren't involved with murderous dictators... yet.

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Maryland's archaic laws get slightly less draconian.

And Jeremy and Tyler reveal their picks for the 2020 Brewery Deadpool along with the rules for all that want to enter.

It's our last episode of 2019 and we got a few things to cover before we take a little break.

First, the New Belgium deal is finalized but not without some blowback. Say what you want about ABInbev, they aren't involved with murderous dictators... yet.

PLUS!

Maryland's archaic laws get slightly less draconian.

And Jeremy and Tyler reveal their picks for the 2020 Brewery Deadpool along with the rules for all that want to enter.

Sadly, Tyler had to miss the recording this week, but we scored a special guest co-host who brought a special treat that we mentioned in an earlier podcast.

The continuing saga of Ballast Point is revealed plus guest host Eric Talbert grills Jeremy about his ethics regarding supporting craft beer.

Plus: A Documentary about Boise Brewing makes waves and someone snitches on a North Carolina brewery for some suggestive reindeer games.

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The Saga of Ballast Point takes a wild turn when an obscure Chicago brewery buys the beleaguered brewery for a fraction of its 2015 sale price. Our heroes wade into the history of Ballast Point and possibly the strangest brewery acquisition story ever told.

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Anderson Valley also has new owners. It was just one of those weeks.

White Claw and Coke battle over the Surge, and we help craft the legal defense.

And The Founding Fathers of craft beer have a place in the Smithsonian.

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New Belgium becomes the latest independent craft brewery to be snatched up by a larger company. This time the Japanese conglomerate Kirin. Jeremy and Tyler discuss what this means for the 4th largest craft brewery and dig deep inside their new corporate overlords.

PLUS: Fresh hops year-round? A Colorado scientist leads the way into a new age of hop production.

And Lagunitas gets weird again. We write another chapter in the book entitled 'Why Stoners Shouldn't Run A Major Business'.