Life Behind Beer

We're talking drinking in public, wastewater issues, avocado ale, and dreaming up non-traditional beer collaborations. Devin and Crystal from the Iron Horse sales team guest.

We're talking trademark disputes, do you buy beer for the label, and debunk more beer myths. Iron Horse GM Greg Parker joins in the conversation.

Like David Byrne on the title track, our hosts ask how did we get here, as in how we got to the beer industry. We rundown such topics as Deschutes move into Virginia and Big Beer's slide into Cannabis beverages. We also debunk frozen glassware and Dark Beer.

New Format! New Host! We're talking about the Brewers' Association Indie Seal, Beavertown selling a minority stake to Heineken, and more industry news.

This episode is talking about whether awards matter or not as well as tackling several issues from earlier episodes.

Sometimes we have more beer than show. So we decided to do some short one beer episodes. This is the fifth in that series and we're talking porters and Chicago.

The different ways indie breweries are tackling ownership and raising capital that's a little more involved than traditional business and BeerAdvocate's predictions for the future of craft beer and Wes' rebuttal.

Sometimes we have more beer than show. So we decided to do some short one beer episodes. This is the fourth in that series and we're talking spontaneous fermentation and coolships.

The problem with using IBUs for marketing or judging a beer's flavor and the FDA's new regulations about beer calorie counts in national chains.

Spinning off Weird Beer Watch into minisodes, we finally drink the Big Ass Money Stout discussed in Episode 11 and talk about the ugliest beer we've seen.