Are rigid beer styles useful anymore? Were they ever? Jeremy and Tyler dive into the debate about what makes certain beers different and discuss what value they have in the current beer market.

PLUS

Non-Alcoholic Beer is booming, and so are the problems. How a secretive industry is making the situation worse.

The ten best new breweries in the country

And craft beer in the land of wine.

Tilray is still on a buying spree as it buys Montauk Brewing Company. Jeremy and Tyler discuss this latest competitor in the larger craft beer world.

PLUS!

Is Pepsico marketing Hard Mt. Dew to kids? Industry trade groups seem to be making that accusation.

Compounds in beer that could help stave off Alzheimers

In defense of the Cold IPA

And Much More!

Ommegang, once viewed as the best brewery in the USA, finds itself stumbling time and again. Tyler and Jeremy discuss what happens when a brewery loses its way on the road to success.

PLUS!

How every IPA in America ended up exactly the same.

Beer continues to lose market share. What that means for the beverage industry as a whole.

And the story of the only brewery in the world where you might run into a polar bear on the way home.

Monks aren't supposed to steal COVID money! Jeremy and Tyler dive into the tale of corruption, intrigue, and the biggest question of them all: How many monks do you need for a monastery?

PLUS

The stats from this decade's first Oktoberfest!

The beer commercial that helps heal partisan divides.

And the world's most intense drunken race.

Tyler is back from GABF and he reveals all in this episode. Well, the parts that he remembers anyway.

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Beer sales slumped this summer. What does this mean for the beer industry.

The biggest beer competition you've never heard of.

And a new fad from Brazil, drinking from the ass. ...Insert all the butt jokes here.

The founder of Brewdog, who claimed there was a conspiracy against him... was the victim of a conspiracy against him. Jeremy and Tyler dive into the twisted tale of sex, revenge and beer that is the Saga of James Watt.

PLUS!

The story of the Voodoo Ranger's conquest of the IPA market.

The collapsing UK economy threatens a rich history of British Beer.

and the ideal tailgating lineup.

It's All Beer is back, Baby!

It's been a long summer. Tyler and Jeremy recap the biggest stories that unfolded over the last couple of months and discuss why, despite Sapporo's claims to the contrary, they really hope they change Stone Brewing.

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A hop plant disaster! A city brutally weed-wacks a brewery's fresh hop dreams.

An extinct volcano throws the nation's CO2 supply into chaos.

Hop plants have terroir. Brace yourself for your most annoying beer geek to become even more insufferable.

Stone sells to Sapporo, the Modern Times Sale reverts to Maui and New Jersey embarks on some insanely restrictive beer laws. Jeremy and Tyler pause their summer break and trudge back into the Beer Cave in order to sort this mess out.

Yep Stone is no longer independent and the Internets are in an uproar.  Or, at least, fractionally more irrate than normal. Will Stone be okay? Will craft beer be okay? Will life on Earth be okay?!?! (Answers: Probably, yes and not long term)

PLUS!

The legal battle over Modern Times is over and the winner is... well, the original bidder.

And, yeah, New Jersey enacts some new restrictions on breweries that melt the rational mind.

In their last episode before a long summer recess, Tyler and Jeremy explore a series of Kolsch both German and American-made.

On the journey, they check in with the latest Modern Times Debacle, ruminate over the rise of the ferkin and discuss a long-forgotten ad campaign that nearly killed off the second-largest beer producer in America.

Who knew there could be something worse in a Coors Light can than Coors Light?!? Tyler and Jeremy delve into the mystery behind the latest Coors and Keystone recall and the Mystery of the Slime.

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Beer Wars has come to an end. ABInbev triumphs and earns the right to say whatever they want about Miller Light. What does an increase in lawsuits mean for the industry?

Bouy Bee Co collapses, sending cans down the Mighty Columbia

And More!