Four Brewers: Craft Beer and Homebrew

Season 3, Episode 34 – This week, we head to Canada via Aaron Champion of  Cask Ale LA  and drink four excellent craft beers from The Great White North. This week on the show, we're joined by our good friend and fellow beer blogger,  Aaron Champion , and he brought us some really interesting and delicious craft beer from his recent trip to Canada. Up until around five or so years ago, Canadian cra...

Season 3, Episode 33 – This week, we take a ride on the goser coaster and sample nine gose style beers. Last week's show was pretty epic. We decided the best way to recover from the incredibly awesome  24 beer pilsner showdown  was to relax with some easy-drinking gose style beers from breweries around the world. Gose is a style of beer that's usually low alcohol, a bit on the tart side, and made...

Season 3, Episode 32 – This week, we're drinking a brewer's dozen of pilsner and ranking them, like you do. Another 4B Showdown coming at you, this time it's the Pilsner Showdown 2.0. You might be asking yourself – what happened to the pilsner showdown 1.0? Well we might be asking you to mind your own god damned business. We might also be overcompensating for the fact that we recorded an entire 16...

Season 3, Episode 31 – This week, we're hanging out with Nichole Richardson, aka Tasting Nitch, all the way from France! This week on the show, we're going to Paris, France (via Google Hangouts, of course) to drink some beer with fellow YouTuber and blogger, Nichole Richardson, or as she's more widely known,  Tasting Nitch . Nichole Richardson, aka Tasting Nitch Today's episode really isn't about...

Season 3, Episode 30 – This week, we're discussing hoppy brew, Saison, and brewery collaborations with Tomme Arthur of The Lost Abbey / Port Brewing. The Lost Abbey  is probably one of the best Belgian-style breweries in the world, creating some of the best saison, wild ale, and barrel-aged beer that money can buy. Today on the show, we're joined by The Lost Abbey's (also, Port Brewing Company and...

Season 3, Episode 29 – This week on the show, we're hanging out at Mikkeller Brewing Company in San Diego, California with Head Brewer Bill Batten and Barrel whisperer Daniel Cady. World renowned gypsy brewer, Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, recently opened a new brewery right here in the United States. Mikkeller is probably one of the best-known gypsy breweries out there, brewing stellar barrel-aged stouts,...

Season 3, Episode 28 – This week, beers from Bruery Terreux. This week on the show, we're drinking eight beers from  Bruery Terreux  in celebration of The Bruery opening a second tasting room in Anaheim, California on July 8, 2016! Beer from Bruery Terreux For those not in the know, Bruery Terreux is what  The Bruery  is branding their sour, funky, and wild line of beers. The beers are all brewed...

Season 3, Episode 27 – This week, beers from AleSmith Brewing Company and Bottle Logic Brewing. Happy Independence Day! This week, we're keeping the blog post short and sweet. There are vegan hamburgers to be grilled and beers to be drank. This week, we're drinking some pretty hefty beers from  Founders ,  AleSmith , and  Bottle Logic .  Before we get too deep into it, we're gonna start with a tri...

Season 3, Episode 26 – This week, the Fat Tire & Friends "collabeeration riff pack" and Going In Blind with Nagel. As you may remember, a few weeks ago  we sampled the Sierra Nevada collaboration Beer Camp 12-pack . We were marginally dissatisfied with most of the beers. It's not that the beers outright sucked (there were a couple wins), but they just weren't noteworthy. This week, we decided to t...

Season 3, Episode 25 – It's L.A. Beer Week! Let's drink some beer from Los Angeles breweries. L.A. Beer Week  is upon us! This yearly celebration of Los Angeles beer, bars, breweries, homebrewers, restaurants, eateries, food trucks, and beer drinkers has evolved into one of the best celebrations of beer culture in southern California. From Long Beach to Pomona to Gorman, the expansive and densely...

Season 3, Episode 24 – This week, Jason brewed a  Heady Topper  clone, and The McNew's brought us beer from Texas. This week, we are joined by homies Jessica and Sean McNew who recently returned from a trip to Texas and brought back some brew for us to try. But first… Can you believe it?  Jason  finally got back to homebrewing and came out swinging with a  Heady Topper  clone! We kick off the show...

Season 3, Episode 23 – This week, we follow suit with all of the other beer podcasts and try the six beers from the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 12 (six?) pack. This week, we're going to beer camp! Not really, but we're gonna imagine we are by drinking the six beers from this year's  Sierra Nevada Brewing Company  Beer Camp collaboration variety pack.  Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 2016 Our very own Greg Nag...

Season 3, Episode 22 – New Zealand's Garage Project recently became available in our local California bottle shops, so this week we're seeing what the hype is all about…and the hype is real! Before we start the show this week, it should be noted that Matt wasn't able to make it to Session 35 of Four Brewers due to personal affairs, and thus will not be on this episode or the next one. See you at S...

Season 3, Episode 21 – This week on the show, 4B listener and super-fan, Mike Kirshner, is at it once again and sent us some really tasty brew from Woodstock, Georgia. Before we start the show this week, it should be noted that Matt wasn't able to make it to Session 35 of Four Brewers due to personal affairs, and thus will not be on this episode or the next two. See you at Session 36, Matt! We beg...

Season 3, Episode 20 – Sour IPA. It's a thing apparently. But is it a good thing? We're gonna find out this week on the show. Sour IPA. I don't know about this. I mean, IPA isn't supposed to be sour. Sure, there are massively over-hopped sour beers out there that are deliciously awesome, but what exactly is a sour IPA? Is it a standard IPA recipe fermented with brettanomyces, or bacteria? It's not...

Season 3, Episode 19 – This week we're drinking some brews form New York and New Jersey and a new Grapefruit IPA from our friends at Refuge Brewery in Temecula, California. Natalie DeNicholas and John Ryti are also back with us. Four Brewers has the best listeners. It's true. Just putting that out there. I say that because four of the five beers we're drinking on the show this week were graciously...

Season 3, Episode 18 – This week: ALL HOMEBREW. Natalie DeNicholas and John Ryti are also joining us! It's been a slow year for the 4B gang in regards to homebrewing, but today we're going to make up for the last five months in one episode! Today we're drinking five homebrews from four brewers (get it?). Maltose Falcons – Saison du Mai First up is  John's  triumphant return to brewing,  Oat Boner...

Season 3, Episode 17 – Today, the 2016 California IPA Showdown. It's been a while since our last showdown, and we've wrestled with how we are going to handle IPA for a long time now. Initially, we thought about trying to get the best of the best IPA from around the country and compare them all blind. The challenge there is it's nearly impossible to get beer from all over the place, at an acceptabl...

Season 3, Episode 16 – We’re back on the east side with some of New England’s best IPA. I’ve got to say that this is one hell of a show, this week. Listener Chris R. heard  a recent episode of the 4B  where we weren’t really all that impressed with some of the New England-ish (Pennsylvania, to be exact) beers we had on the show. So what did Chris do? He mailed the fuck out of it and sent us some t...

Season 3, Episode 15 – Greg was inspired by a recent trip to Total Wine & More to try beers made by Japanese breweries, and he brought them over to share. This week, we travel to the other side of the globe (actually,  Greg  just went to the local  Total Wine ) and try some Japanese beers that are easy to find (presumably) all over the country. Japanese Beers The coolest part of import beer is the...

The 4B Flight, Episode 6 – Today on the sixth and final day of The 4B Flight, Second Fiddle from Fiddlehead Brewing Company. We are back with the final episode of this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call  The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Fiddlehead Brewing Company – S...

The 4B Flight, Episode 5 – Today on The 4B Flight, ultra-fresh  Hop Tanker  from El Segundo Brewing Company. We are back with the fifth of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call  The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Hop Tanker DIPA If you listen to the...

The 4B Flight, Episode 4 – Today on The 4B Flight, John’s opening his 2010 Bourbon County Brand Stout, RARE. We are back with the fourth of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call  The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. 2010 Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout...

The 4B Flight, Episode 3 – Today on The 4B Flight, a collaboration beer from Prairie Ales and Trve Brewing. We are back with the third of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call  The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Prairie and Trve Collaboration Beer To...

The 4B Flight, Episode 2 – Today on The 4B Flight, we go full Gooseberry with this sour from Mammoth Brewing Company. We are back with the second of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call  The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Mammoth Brewing Company – G...