A podcast about beer and life. But mostly about beer.
gations. Dancing Gnome, when I visited Pittsburgh, suffered that fate. Try as I might, I never made it to the brewery. Fortunately, I met up with Nick Adams from The Weekly ReCap to talk about Pittsburgh beer. We swapped local beers and he gave me this Renaissance.
hen planning a vacation, I always check to see what breweries I’ll be around. It usually becomes a combination of obvious choices and asking friends and the internet for help. For Portland, ME there were obvious choices (Allagash, Bissell Brothers, Oxbow) that I knew I was going to hit. Between interneters and locals, I managed to hit a few that I otherwise wouldn’t have, resulting in many of the breweries featured on our Portland, ME show. One brewery that kept getting mentioned, even though not in Portland, ME, was Barreled Souls.
Sours do not do well in Chicago. I’ve been fortunate enough to speak to many brewers on the subject and that’s been their consensus opinion. They sit on the shelves and don’t sell through fast enough or at all. Other...
Goose Island has a long history with the Pitchfork Music Festival. Before they were bought out by AB InBev in 2011, Goose Island supplied beer for the festival. Starting in 2011, Pitchfork switched over to Heineken for their beer needs....
