Don't be like water making its way onto endcaps. Do be assertive, but adjust to the customer's preferences, and you shall find a way onto shelves and into tap lines. If nothing within you stays hazy, outward things will disclose themselves to be bottom fermented. Empty your mind, be untradeable. Overabundant, like water (unless you live in California then, please, conserve water). If you put water into a cup, it becomes a marketing campaign that you get sued by AB InBev for. You put a barrel-aged stout into a bottle and it becomes a bottle that you can flip for expensive expedition gear. You put it in a teapot, well now you have beer in a teapot and that's weird. Now, beer can flow or it can sit in your linen closet until it's past it's prime and no one cares anymore except for people like Alex. Don't be like water, my friend, and drink your beer.

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It's Alex and Stephen for the next couple months and this episode starts off with a callback to the "spritz tasting" Patreon episode before Alex brings in some heavy hitting bourbon and Stephen finds yet another dusty shelf turd. In the Beer News, the executive director of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission reveals himself to be a total bourbon shitlord, Westvleteren adds a label to their bottle, and Budwieser doesn't include horses in their commercial for the big game. Stephen also test's Alex's friendship with Michael.

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Achel loses it's trappist title after the last monks depart from the abbey. The Malty Boyz™ do make one last ditch effort to entice a monk to stay but may have made the situation worse. In more Beer News, a beer spa opens up in Denver and the Boyz wonder who it's for after looking into the spa treatment packages and Hormel Foods teams up with Modist Brewing to make a chili cheese beer must to Stephen's delight. Närke makes it's first appearance back on the podcast having last been drank at The Spider Den. The Bottleshare features beers from Finback, Utica Club, and Off Color. Michael eats glue.

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The podcast has come around full circle as the 2017 Straight Jacket Barleywine from Revolution Brewing Co. was the very first beer ever featured on Malt Couture. 230 batches later, Stephen brings in the 2022 Straight Jacket and makes a bold claim. Alex brings in some rare Canada juice from Temporal Artisan Ales. Michael's living on Ohio time and is up past his bedtime. In the Beer News, New Belgium revamps it's flagship Fat Tire recipe and branding and a Philadephia brewery bans children in the taproom.

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The Malty Boyz™ kick off 2023 drinking a crispy collab from Humble Sea Brewing Co. and Firestone Walker and recap what they did to ring in the new year. In the Beer News, Cantillon ages bottles of beer at the bottom of the ocean, the Boyz react to Untappd's Best Beers of 2022 lists, and Stephen doesn't understand metric conversion for temperature. Michael reports live from Ohio. For the Bottleshare Alex brings in a Maplewood's Barrel Aged Cinammon Double Coconut Cuppa.

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Alex takes Michael and Stephen on a trip down memory lane as he recounts his first ever in-person trade for a bottle of Midnight Sun's 2010 Barfly batch 1. See if this old money gem still holds up 12 years later. In the Beer News, a brewery in Canada gets sued by both Patagonia and Stone Brewing and a hard seltzer bars enters the arena in Asheville, NC. In the Bottleshare, Michael takes it up the ass but it's not what you think it is (unless you're Brazilian, then it is what you think it is).

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The ghosts of Beersmas Past, Super Past, Present, and Future make their annual haunting of ol' Ebenezer Kidd and this year Alex must confront some harsh truths about his holiday beverage choices. Classic holiday brews are presented while indulgent bottom shelf egg milk punch are placed high on a pedestal. In the Beer News, Kern River Brewing announces it'll become an employee owned brewery and Stephen discovers what the number one television show is much to his disbelief. So grab your beernaments, put down the gingerbread dive bar, and pump up the volume on his very special holiday episode!

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The Malty Boyz™ explore some lesser known West Coast IPA brewers based off the suggestions of the Malt Mavens. Hoppy offerings from Ghost Town Brewing, Von Ebert Brewing, Wilmington Brewing Company, and Flatland Brewing Company will be put through the wringer and then power ranked at the end. Tune in to fine out which of these hometown darlings will gain the biggest prize in craft beer podcasting: bragging rights!

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It's that time of the year again to leave Thanksgiving dinner early, put on your warmest winter coat, and stand outside in the freezing cold with grandma outside your local Binny's waiting for that Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout release. This year the Malty Boyz™ get the official media kit for the BCBS line up and review the entire horizontal. Alex and Stephen start things off while Michael arrives late and speed runs the entire line up.

The Malty Boyz™ drink perhaps the rarest tick ever when they pop a never released Fantôme homebrew from 1988. Individually hand labeled by Dany Prignon's niece and bottled from a keg this is effectively Fantôme Batch 0. Hear what secrets this ghost has in store for the Boyz. In the Beer News, The Boyz drink Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot aged in E.H. Taylor barrels, complete with minty tube, Lakefront Brewing adds a bit more flair to their brewery, and the latest Miller Lite viral consumable might be a rare swing-and-a-miss for Sofia Colucci.

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