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czech dark lagers

Episode 589 – Czech Dark Lagers

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...

hop roundup winter 2025

Episode 577 – Hop Roundup: Winter ‘25

We love hoppy beers, and truthfully, we need to find an excuse to try more local releases that catch our attention. Introducing the Hop Roundup: a quarterly series of episodes focused on notable hoppy releases in a general timeframe. For...

singles

Episode 572 – Singles in Your Area

In an ill-advised experiment almost 4 years in the making, this episode is our style exploration of the Belgian Single – sometimes called Patersbier, sometimes Enkel, and definitely rarely made stateside. Even most of the Trappist breweries keep them in...

Ryan’s Top 40 Beers of 2024

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...