A podcast about beer and life. But mostly about beer.
We’re just about halfway to FoBAB, so we are once again doing battle with the barrel featuring a roundup of beers we’ve been saving for this very episode. These four barrel-aged beers jostle around in our arbitrary rankings as...
Extended barrel-aging in beers is nothing new. Goose Island’s first Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout in 2010 sat in Pappy Van Winkle 23-year barrels for 2 years and might have been the first “mass produced” example of it (emphasis on...
In this first round of what will become an ongoing arbitrary competition, we conduct a blind tasting of five Chicagoland breweries’ go-to, year-round, flagship hazy IPAs to determine our favorites – and to move the top beer(s) onto the championship...
More breweries are embracing malt-forward easy-drinking options as an essential part of a seasonal lineup, and the Schwarzbier may be one of the styles seeing the most taplists these days. For this show, we put five locally-made Schwarzbiers through a...
