Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast

Send us Fan Mail At least there's beer after Total Nuclear Annihilation Brian and Nate have disappointed deeply with their lack of excitement for the Fallout TV series. I've played the games for 20ish years and am a huge fan. When the show was announced I was skeptical, like any video game fan when their fav game is "adapted." But they killed it with Fallout. Such an awesome se...

Send us Fan Mail Last Saturday was our favorite beer fest of the year. Good Word Brewing 's Little Beer Fest. This event brings the best of the very best of low ABV beers to Duluth, GA each Spring. It's been an adventure in previous years with weather ranging from scorching hot to sleet and snow, but this year gave us beautiful sunny skies and temps in the 70s. We love little beers. Pils...

Send us Fan Mail Beer Families, Closing Times, and a Bankruptcy Glad to be back to it this week with all the beery talk we can handle. You know we dabble in beer cocktails and Brian finally gets to try one he's been wanting for a while and shares how that turned out. Remember when all of those crazy light macro beers came out making a big deal out of how few calories they had? Well Molson Coo...

Send us Fan Mail Exploring the Future of Beer and Beyond with Anderson Valley Brewing Anderson Valley Brewing president and CEO Kevin McGee joins us this week to discuss NA beer, FOMO, keeping it classic, and sustainability. The world of beer is constantly evolving, and we dive into some of the exciting trends and hidden gems that are shaping the industry.  NA Beer Stats and Future: A Sobering Ris...

Send us Fan Mail Ale Max Day - A celebration of Air and ale Much like craft beer, sneaker fans love to see cool collaborations. And much like craft beer fans, they'll wait in crazy long lines and search local shops and the internet to get that elusive pair. Atlanta's Ale Sharpton teamed up with marketing magician Craig Stroud to bring the culture of craft beer and sneakerheads together a...

Send us Fan Mail WTF is Bapple? Bapple. Busch Light Apple that is. Apparently this abomination has quite a cult following.  It's come and gone over the years and people are hoarding it when they can find it and paying crazy prices online.  We had no idea. Even crazier?  R.E.M.'s Out of Time turned 33 this week.  Making us feel old and stuff.  For those in Atlanta you likely heard lots of...

Send us Fan Mail A pint of plain is your only man... Drinking holidays are the best holidays.  St. Patrick's Day is a drinking holiday now, but it wasn't always that way.  The story is kind of crazy. Join us as we talk about the lore and legends of St. Patrick and St. Patrick's Day while we sample some Irish beers and whiskey. The Beer (and Whiskey) List Guinness & Smithwick&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Wooden Robot co-founder dies in brewery fall We send our sincere condolences to the family of Dan Wade and his brewery family at Wooden Robot.  Dan tragically lost his life in a fall at the brewery last week.  If you'd like to help support his wife and newborn son with immediate and long-term expenses you can give to the GoFundMe here . The weather here has been crazy lately....

Send us Fan Mail We sat down with our friends Zach and Cliff at Truck & Tap along with our new friend Tiffany Dillon of Gwen Tajz wine bar.  We poked some beers, we mulled some wines (wine wine and barleywine) and we talked about serving traditionally cooler beverages warmer.  Luckily, when we recorded the show it was a seasonally-appropriate cooler temperature, the only cool day in the last c...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Ride the Clydesdales at your own risk Touchdown for Beer Commercials: The episode kicks off with a high-energy discussion about Super Bowl Sunday and its iconic beer commercials. Budweiser, Bud Light, Coors Light, and Michelob Ultra all vie for our attention, but according to the latest buzz, Michelob Ultra emerged as the top-selling brew of the big game. It's a f...

Send us Fan Mail The stovepipe is gonna take over the world. If you follow us on Twitter, errr... X, then you've seen the posts for #LongBeerFriday.  That's Brian's doing.  He loves a good stovepipe and he's finding more beers in these 19.2 oz. cans.  North Coast just announced their Old Rasputin RIS is coming out in a stovepipe can.  Dangerous. With the "Big Game" th...

Send us Fan Mail We made it to FOUR HUNDRED episodes.  Whew. This week marks the 400th episode of Beer Guys Radio. Crazy. We've been pretty steady with the show since we launched in January 2016, and here it is 2024. Thanks for joining us for the ride. We open up with a little WTF action as Truly launched a Hot Wing Sauce Hard Seltzer "just in time" for the Super Bowl. Maybe it woul...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting! ACAT has become a tradition for us.  We've gone every year since we launched and always look forward to it.  This year's event, the 18th, was no exception.  Plenty of awesome cask beers and great people.  It was actually pretty packed, which was nice to see with all the negative talk about craft beer and beer festivals. In keeping...

Send us Fan Mail Beer Mints and Potato Chips Miller Lite always has some interesting swag.  For Dry January it's mints that are supposed to taste like Miller Lite, which I guess is a good thing.  More my taste (maybe?) are potato chips that taste like a citrus IPA.  Honestly, that doesn't sound great, but I would try them. AB InBev does Paris As a beer sponsor backs out  in protest of Ru...

Send us Fan Mail We've always been supporters of Dry January.  We love beer, but we know you need to take it easy sometimes and if you want to take January to purge your liver, we're all about it.  But... a side effect of that is that our pubs and breweries have an even slower month in a month that's already traditionally slow. With that in mind, Jeff Alworth at Beervana suggested w...

Send us Fan Mail Eight years of talking about beers This week marks the 8th anniversary of Beer Guys Radio.  Cheers to us.  So much has changed over the last 8 years it seems like we've been at it a long longer.  Cheers to the next 8! It's Dry January The annual holiday of people deciding they need to chill on their drinking.  If you're playing along we've got some recommendati...

Send us Fan Mail Looking back on the big styles and big stories of 2023. We've almost made it through another year.  Whew.  Seems like they hasn't been a ton of sunshine and puppies for craft beer since before the plague and 2023 definitely brought its share of challenges. The Most Loved Styles We'll start off with some non-negative news and recap the top rated beer styles per Untap...

Send us Fan Mail What a fun way to "work."  As is tradition, it's time for our annul Holiday Blind Beer Tasting, aka The 12 Beers of Christmas, aaka The Interfaith Holiday Beer SPECTACULAR. 13 (so close to 12) beers, 7 beer drinkers, blind tasting and picking our favorites.  Mixed in with some fun facts about drinking and the holidays. The Beers N'Ice Chouffe St. Bernardus Chri...

Send us Fan Mail What's your favorite brewery? Just before we recorded this week's show VinePair dropped an article about 30 of the best breweries in America .  These "best of" lists always bring out some controversy, but we're pretty happy with the spots from Georgia that made the list.  Any of your favorites get mentioned? As the holidays approach the Costco beer advent...

Send us Fan Mail Lawsuits and taxes and beer laws, oh my! 2023 has been a hell of a year for craft beer.  Breweries continue to close their doors or move in together.  Like when you had to go back to your parents' house after college to save some money.  Shit happens and you gotta do what you gotta do. Bevana Drama and Trouble at Tree House Craft beer is no stranger to lawsuits but there are...

Send us Fan Mail This new hop sounds fishy... With our recent love of tinned seafood we were pretty stoked to hear about Anchovy hops, and even more stoked to hear they don't taste like anchovies.  We'll have to find a beer with these soon. Y'all remember a couple of years ago when someone stole two truckloads of beer from Sweetwater Brewery?  Well, some folks in Memphis beat that b...

Send us Fan Mail If it's gonna be dark at 5:00 I'm gonna need more stouts. Oh. My. God.  I hate this time of year.  Set the clocks back an hour and I'm off schedule for two weeks.  I don't sleep right, day is night, up is down.  What is even happening here? Fortunately last weekend was nice so we hit some patios, drank some good beers, ate some oysters, and visited our local ba...

Send us Fan Mail Would you pay $250 for 25 ounces of beer? It's once again time for the semi-annual release of Sam Adams Utopias and with that, the slew of websites touting that it is illegal in 15 states.  Technically a beer, but drinks more like a spirit, and hits a hefty 28%.  Have you tried it?  What did you think? Along with Utopias we recently saw the annual release of Bruery's Bla...

Send us Fan Mail Oh, Spyglass has hazies alright, but there's so much more John Wagner and Isaac Boucher from Spyglass Brewing Co. join us on this week's show.  They brewery made their name with their hazy IPAs.  Thanks to a recent expansion there's now a lot more on tap  Isaac tells us he's been enjoying brewing some lagers and playing with all the new hops.  We joke about peo...

Send us Fan Mail We don't recommend this beer drinking challenge... Seems a guy in the UK has "challenged" himself to drink 2,000 pints of beer in 200 days.  I'm fully opposed to this challenge, but it's hard to look away.  Last I saw he was running behind as he didn't start off with the goal of 2,000.  So, to make his goal, he'll have to drink more than 10 pints...