The legendary Home Brew Mart in Linda Vista is bringing the Home back to Home Brewing! Jim joins me all week to talk about what they are brewing now that they have seprated from Ballast Point. We start by going back to Jim's Wisconsin roots with a homage to Spotted Cow, a beer they call, Dream Vacation in the Dells.

A porter in Summertime? Yep! Dan from Little Bird Brewing has flexed the balance in his beers and it shows with this Coco Bird Coconut Porter. With just enough coconut flavor and aroma to balance out the maltyness of the beer you get a perfect drinkabale balance in warm or cooler weather.

Warning: things are about to get a little heady into the brewing process, which is alright! Dan From Little Bird Brewing breaks down his thoughts an ideas when it comes to making the popular Hazy IPA with Hazy Bird Hazy IPA.

In today's beer world most people will reach for a light yellow beer when it's hot out. But a long time before now there was another light in body but flavorful and dark beer that people would reach for, the ESP or in this case an English Pale. Dark on color but huge on both flavor and drinkability Little Bird Brewing's West Kensington will transport you back in time where it would all "start in a tavern" and still keep you refreshed.

Community is a big thing for Little Bird Brewing, being right in the middle of a neighborhood. It's a meeting place, a place to tell stories, a place to get away for a bit or just get to know your neighbors. No surpise the people who are always there are just as important as the beer. Today's beer the Nestor IPA takes its name from a beloved regular who loved this beer.

That little space on the corner of Thorn St & 32nd has going through a lot of changes and it's currently being reinvented again. This week Dan from Little Bird Brewing talks about the transition from Thorn St Brewing and what to expect in the tasting room at Little Bird. We start with something he knows a lot about, a Mexican Style Lager called Solita.

Can a snooty cocktail like an espresso Martini be "pinkies up" but still uber-crushable? The way Smile Spirits puts it together it 100% can be. Wrapping up the week with another 7% ABV beverage that is lighter then your massive 15% canned cocktail. The Smile Espressso Martini isn't the end of the night, it's the start of your afternoon.

Don't let the "Spicy" in the Smile Spicy Vodka Mule put you off. A recipe that came from batching cocktails as fast as you could pour them out and realizing that when the peppers don't sit on the liquid for long you get all the flavor and none of the punch!

It's been a Summertime favorite for me the Lemonade Tea Vodka. When you're out and it's hot its just the right about of sweet to tea and at 7% ABV you can have a few with out worrying about taking a nap on the 12th hole.

It's harder then you think to put a simple cocktail in a can. If you've been to a bar ever, you know that a cranberry vokda is an absoulte staple. It's flavorful, delicious and gets you where you need to be. But, sometimes when you try and put a delicate flavor like cranberry in a can it can come off a little like cough syurp. Smile hits a homerun with with their Cranberry Vodka Soda, that taste like you just ordered it from your favorite hole in the wall.