A podcast about beer and life. But mostly about beer.
In our second exploration of Czech styles made locally, we sample five Czech Dark Lagers – a style that has slowly grown into a dependable stand-by for many brewers. We get into what makes a beer like this that perfect...
We get unreasonably excited when local breweries make historical and international styles that are infrequently brewed, so we jumped at the opportunity to bring five examples together. These suburban Chicago beers serve as tributes to centuries of brewing across three...
The criteria for the list is simple: these are the best beers that I had this year that were (mostly) released this year. I undoubtedly left off many other great beers I had this year because I’m not a very...
At the beginning of last year’s listicle, I warned about breweries starting to close. We lost some ones close to us in 2023, but that paled in comparison to 2024. It seemed like every week another brewery announced its closure....
