A podcast about beer and life. But mostly about beer.
It’s another show about highly drinkable summer styles, and this minor trend of local breweries releasing hopped-up wheat beers caught our attention enough to put five beers in front of us for review. The styles differ despite their shared ingredient,...
After almost 10 years of reviewing beers weekly for the podcast, we remember the time before the hazy IPA became a dominant force. It was just this thing weirdo farm breweries on the East Coast were doing, and when we...
After six episodes and 25 beers, we’re finally putting our top 6 choices for best Chicagoland/Illinois hazy IPA to one last blind test. This showdown features four GABF gold medal-winners and two “underdogs” – and each beer impresses in its...
Another somewhat recent trend in the world of local lagers is the Italian Pilsner, a style with only about a 30-year history that adds a bit more noble dry-hop character to something close to the Czech-style pilsner. It’s all winners...
