Friends with Brews

Scott and Peter post up at Medford Brewing Company with a twelve-glass flight and taste their way through an IPA, a witbier, a Mexican lager, a stout, a bitter, and the Rude Panda porter — with the usual detours into trail runs, Guinness, and Claude Code projects. Friends with Brews heads out to a brewpub — Medford Brewing Company in Medford, Massachusetts — and works through a twelve-glass flight...

For only the second time ever, Peter and Scott share a table — at Harpoon Brewery in Windsor, Vermont — with two full flights, a pile of food, and what Scott calls the drunkest FWB ever. Expect a Boston Irish Stout vs. Guinness debate, mislabeled beers, a cameo from our waitress Kim, and a genuine deep-dive into whether Claude Code is getting dumber. The Topics The Brews (Harpoon flight) Boston Ir...

Liv from New York on a Saturday, it's Peter! Peter's worst hotel adventure ever, Peter runs and drinks coffee, Apple loves bugs, and Scott loves Wispr Flow. The Topics The Brews GREGORYS COFFEE Dark Enough Water Avenue Guatemala San Antonio La Paz Peter Drinks Coffee Corporate Coffee Mug Peter's Platform Segment, a Shout At Liv Hotel Hotel Henri NYC Polar Verity Sense AirPods Pros 3 Bluetooth prob...

The Topics The Brews Snowy Owl Coffee Roasters Mexico Oaxaca Cerro la Bruja Water Avenue Coffee Rogue Valley Dark Roast Arq vs Carbon Copy Cloner Cloud backup software for Mac and Windows : Arq Carbon Copy Cloner: macOS Backup Software - Bombich Software Software sucks Relive | Run, Ride, Hike & more Garmin Connect Strava | Running, Cycling & Hiking App - Train, Track & Share Troublesh...

Peter goes to the Genius Bar. Peter drinks coffee and Scott drinks tea. Listen while we Watch (or talk about watches, anyway). The Topics The Brews La Colombe Coffee Roasters Decaf Monte Carlo Dark Roast Coffee Numi Hojicha The honey in the Mac Foundry Virtual Tabletop Sophos advice Sophos XGS 88 AirPods Pro 3 Amazon is a terrible company with good customer service Single reviews backlog AeroPress...

Cults are bad, unless they're good. Peter and Scott talk about the psychology of changing your beliefs. Also, Ghostty, AI, and COFFEE!! The Topics The Brews Whole Foods Whole Bean Italian Roast New Seasons Market Cottonwood Whole Bean Coffee Scott switches to Ghostty Ghostty is simple and fast Warp 's BS became too much zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh The AI tools...

Peter's fasting, but he still drinks coffee. Scott was coffee fasting, but now he's not. Peter's got the Sophos jacket, and they both have thumbs up for their drinks! The Topics The Brews Turks Island Coffee Roasters French Cay Upper Left Roasters Chapina, Guatemala The Sophos jacket The Links Turks Island Coffee Roasters Upper Left Roasters Chapina, Guatemala FriendsWBrews on Mastodon Friends Wit...

Welcome to the Menu Bar! No, that was a different podcast. But we do talk about menu bar management apps, watches, Overcast, and airlines!! And the stupid Ecobee. The Topics The Brews FOGBUSTER Coffee The Original Fogbuster Portland Coffee Roasters Endless Summer Trail Animals Running Club Stone Cat Menu bar management apps Hidden Bar Bartender 6 - Take control of your Menu bar Ice - Menu Bar Mana...

Peter has some Apple things, Scott gets lowballed while Peter gets highballed, and overall it's a short espresso sized episode. The Topics The Brews Tony's Coffee Mexico Chiapas Downeast Coffee Roasters Deep Sea Dark Roast AirPods Pro 3 Apple Watch SE Sonnet 4.5 (You're absolutely right!) The Links Tony's Coffee Mexico Chiapas Downeast Coffee Roasters Deep Sea Dark Roast FriendsWBrews...

Peter has a calendar scheduling AI assistant and 9 extra time zones. Scott has anxiety about the sound quality of Peter's impromptu Unsere Weisse Berliner Kindl review. The Topics The Brews Oat Milk Matcha Latte at 3st Coffee Roasters in Berlin Backporch Coffee Roasters Early Bird Unsere Weisse Berliner Kindl Time Zones CalendarBridge Dato — Sindre Sorhus Zones: Time Zone Conversion Garmin Fitness...

It’s all Yubikey all the time as Peter and Scott perform live technical exercises for your listening displeasure! The Topics The Brews Samuel Adams Just The Haze IPA Non-Alcoholic Beer Tostado Coffee Roasters Arandas Yubikey Setting up Yubikeys The Links Just The Haze IPA | Non-Alcoholic Beer | Samuel Adams Tostado Coffee Roasters Arandas Yubico | YubiKey Strong Two Factor Authentication FriendsWB...

Scott and Peter do some live coffee drinking and AI agent installs while pondering how much f word is too much f word. The Topics The Brews Wegmans Decaf Espresso Whole Bean Roast Silver Falls Coffee Co. Swiss Water Process Cascade Blend Decaf Mac mini remoting VNC sucks Screens 5 AI agentic coding and workflows Claude Code Warp AI Notion MCP MCP Obsidian Google Gemini CLI Theo - t3.gg So I've...

Scott and Peter talk a lot, and this time it’s all about the Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar watch. Also, GPT 5, FoodNoms AI, YouTube Premium, and a little vibe coding. The Topics The Brews Athletic Brewing Co. Athletic Lite Portland Coffee Roasters Goose Hollow AI Update ChatGPT 5 and Vibe Coding YouTube Premium FoodNoms AI mode The Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar vs Apple Watch Ultra 2 Things Peter miss...

Peter doesn’t want to think different, he wants to run different. Scott just wants his automations to run different. They both watch Adam Mockler, and they both have thoughts about the current political discourse. The Topics The Brews Coava Coffee Roasters S.O. Blend Yorkshire Gold | Yorkshire Tea The Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar vs Apple Watch Ultra 2 macOS Automations Mockler, Meidas Touch, and P...

Coffees, Macs, Kumas, and Mocklers... it's like a grab bag of topics. Also Peter does the math on AppleCare One, Scott tells him how to log into meetings with Dato, and both are angry at reminders. The Topics The Brews Backporch Blend — Backporch Coffee Roasters Market Basket French Roast Whole Bean Coffee Fellow Opus Coffee Grinder Prime Day Mac minis Foundry Virtual Tabletop Tailscale Node Uptim...

Scott went to Japan (and wishes he was still there). Peter went to Japan too, in 2002. They both like Shinkansen and Japanese food. Scott Spotlighted Raycast (that’s a new verb), Scott and Peter both bought refurbished M1 Mac minis to use as Tailscale exit nodes, Peter plays Virtual Tabletop games, and it’s the Year of 5% Linux on the desktop! The Topics The Brews Kirin Ichiban Athletic Brewing Up...

It’s another blurred line and another line blurred! Peter kills two podcasts with one story by merging Blurring the Lines with Friends with Brews again, which is good for Scott because it means he gets to talk to Adam again. Brews, books, and things we’re watching! The Topics The Brews Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea Forecast Coffee Company Yonder Stella Artois Blurring the Lines AI fakery and...

Is it Whisky, or is it Whiskey? None of us care, because John Chidgey is here to tell us about Whisky Whiskey, his video podcast! Don’t worry, there’s an audio only version for people like me who don’t watch things. John, Peter, and Scott also bemoan the state of AI, software in general, and Peter’s body. The Topics The Brews Campos Coffee Superior Blend Trader Joe's Fair Trade Organic Bolivia...

Peter’s new book says to drink raw milk. Scott says no. Science is a process. Peter’s Opus ground it wrong, which leads the guys into talking about problem statements. Speaking of problems leads them into talking about Slack vs. Teams, design culture, and free smart scales and other spies. Tell your friends! The Topics The Brews Wegmans Decaf Espresso Whole Bean Coffee Wandering Goat Coffee - Deca...

Peter drinks tea like a gentleman, Scott drinks the same coffee as last week like a person drinking the same coffee as last week, then they contemplate pushing updates to the Doge website. Scott applies for a job in the dumbest way possible, but also learns about ransomware from the best source – ransomware. The Topics The Brews Wegmans Just Tea Earl Grey Black Tea Sterling Coffee Roasters Kenya K...

Peter and Scott support media. Independent media, that is. Peter and Scott also support coffee and eyeglasses, but not necessarily IPAs. But maybe one Jalapeno IPA? Who knows? They can’t find it in order to find out. The Topics The Brews Sterling Coffee Roasters Kenya Kiamugumo AB Wegmans Decaf Espresso Whole Bean Coffee Eyeglasses Warby Parker Burke Eyeglasses in Tennessee Whiskey Warby Parker He...

Peter loses a lot of glasses, repairs a lot of shoulders, and has a lot of countries he can live in. Scott revisits some drink ratings and still hates most of the drinks he previously hated. The real question is, will Warby Parker glasses help Scott play Baldur’s Gate 3 any better? The Topics The Brews Bird Rock Coffee Roasters Uraga Wegmans Bold Habitat Whole Bean Coffee Side Thumb ratings on Fri...

It’s time for lists, and Peter and Scott have them! Who’s been naughty? Who’s been nice? Who drinks coffee poured over fried rice??!! Ugh, no one, that’s who. That sounds disgusting. The Topics The Brews Joe Coffee Company Amsterdam Oren's Coffee NYC Colombia - SWP Decaf Oakshire Brewing Ill Tempered Gnome The Naughty and Nice List Nice Coffee Peter – Joe Coffee Nightcap Noir Scott – Trailhead...

Did you know you can call ChatGPT from a phone booth on main? Neither did Peter and Scott, until now! iPhones, Superman, old calculators, and post-intelligent USA, it’s all here (or should I say hear? It is a podcast, after all). The Topics The Brews Wegmans Black Tea Wegmans Decaf Espresso Whole Bean Coffee Backporch Coffee Roasters Early Bird - Costa Rica Microsoft Teams turns out to be better t...

It’s all about traveling - tech precautions and travel routers! Also some Mac migration woes with zero traveling whatsoever. The Topics The Brews Wegmans Daybreak Organic Coffee Wandering Goat Coffee - Hair of the Goat Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve 2024 Travel Travails Computing devices and TSA considerations GL-iNet AXT1800 Slate AX OpenWrt Tailscale Nerds be nerding The Great 2024 Mac Migration...