Malt Couture

For the first time ever it's a solo hosted episode with Stephen taking the reigns of an entire episode. He shares some never before told details about when the Malty Boyz™ went to the Great American Beer Fest 2019 and how the trip went down. In the Beer News, there's a new #1 selling beer in the US after Bud Light gets overtaken by Modelo, NASCAR beer prices go viral, and there's a french fry eati...

This episode introduces a new segment called The Malt Seat! Stephen sits down with @BeerAficionado himself, Doug Veliky, the mind behind Beer Crunchers and the Chief Marketing Officer at Revolution Brewing to discuss the hop water and NA beer trend. Then Doug's thrown into The Malt Seat to answer spicy questions about the Chicago beer and food scene, barleywine, and collecting ticket stubs. In the...

Stephen and Michael interview Drew Pool of Wren House Brewing about the "Life" International Barleywine collaboration to help fundraise for Alex and spread colon cancer awareness. They discuss where the recipe came about and how collaborations like this help facilitate conversations. In the Beer News, Christmas is cancelled after Anchor Brewing plans to end their national distribution and releasin...

Michael returns to Malt Couture. That's good! Then Alex finds out he has cancer. That's bad. But you can support Alex through the links below. That's good! The Beer News features a story about Founder's second racial discrimination lawsuit. That's bad. But in Wisconsin, they're updating old dumb beer laws. That's good! To allow children to serve alcohol to adults.......... (That's bad.) Can we go...

Tesla releases GigaBier, a pilsner inspired by the Cybertruck, that honors the traditions of Reinheitsgebot beer brewing and uses Cyberhops and features a glow-in-the-dark watermark! The Malty Boyz™ have gone ahead and offered $1000 to anyone who can send them a bottle. Also in the Beer News, Belgian officials destroy Miller High Life for calling themselves the "Champagne of Beer" and dusty shelf...

It's that time of year again when the The Malty Boyz™ celebrate the coolest holiday: 4/20! This year Stephen's indulging his sweet tooth and assumbled a collection of mead from four mead producers never before featured on the podcast. Scrolling through Mazer Cup and homebrewing compeititon results, Stephen reached out to Matthew Mead, The Meredery, Klausing Mead, and Williamson Mead and Brewing to...

While The Malty Boyz ™ are no stranger to hop water it looks like this delicious non-alcoholic beverage is trending towards becoming a new staple in the craft brewing world. Alex and Stephen crack open Hop Water from Noon Whistle and taste the new frontier of NA drinks. In the Beer News, the old Hair of the Dog facility has found a new owner, New Belgium expands by taking over the old Ballast Poin...

It's a double dose of non-barrel aged barleywine when Alex brings in Life from Breakside Brewing and Stephen finds a dusty Canadian classic lurking among the shelves. Alex also brings in a pastry stout from Tennessee that has the Malty Boyz™ chasing waterfalls. In the Beer News, Lost Abbey takes a step back to reevaluate their business model, a head brewer starts an OnlyFans to boost her income, a...

Don't be like water making its way onto endcaps. Do be assertive, but adjust to the customer's preferences, and you shall find a way onto shelves and into tap lines. If nothing within you stays hazy, outward things will disclose themselves to be bottom fermented. Empty your mind, be untradeable. Overabundant, like water (unless you live in California then, please, conserve water). If you put water...

It's Alex and Stephen for the next couple months and this episode starts off with a callback to the "spritz tasting" Patreon episode before Alex brings in some heavy hitting bourbon and Stephen finds yet another dusty shelf turd. In the Beer News, the executive director of the Oregon L iquor and Cannabis Commission reveals himself to be a total bourbon shitlord, Westvleteren adds a label to their...

Achel loses it's trappist title after the last monks depart from the abbey. The Malty Boyz™ do make one last ditch effort to entice a monk to stay but may have made the situation worse. In more Beer News, a beer spa opens up in Denver and the Boyz wonder who it's for after looking into the spa treatment packages and Hormel Foods teams up with Modist Brewing to make a chili cheese beer must to Step...

The podcast has come around full circle as the 2017 Straight Jacket Barleywine from Revolution Brewing Co. was the very first beer ever featured on Malt Couture. 230 batches later, Stephen brings in the 2022 Straight Jacket and makes a bold claim. Alex brings in some rare Canada juice from Temporal Artisan Ales. Michael's living on Ohio time and is up past his bedtime. In the Beer News, New Belgiu...

The Malty Boyz™ kick off 2023 drinking a crispy collab from Humble Sea Brewing Co. and Firestone Walker and recap what they did to ring in the new year. In the Beer News, Cantillon ages bottles of beer at the bottom of the ocean, the Boyz react to Untappd's Best Beers of 2022 lists, and Stephen doesn't understand metric conversion for temperature. Michael reports live from Ohio. For the Bottleshar...

Alex takes Michael and Stephen on a trip down memory lane as he recounts his first ever in-person trade for a bottle of Midnight Sun's 2010 Barfly batch 1. See if this old money gem still holds up 12 years later. In the Beer News, a brewery in Canada gets sued by both Patagonia and Stone Brewing and a hard seltzer bars enters the arena in Asheville, NC. In the Bottleshare, Michael takes it up the...

The ghosts of Beersmas Past, Super Past, Present, and Future make their annual haunting of ol' Ebenezer Kidd and this year Alex must confront some harsh truths about his holiday beverage choices. Classic holiday brews are presented while indulgent bottom shelf egg milk punch are placed high on a pedestal. In the Beer News, Kern River Brewing announces it'll become an employee owned brewery and Ste...

The Malty Boyz™ explore some lesser known West Coast IPA brewers based off the suggestions of the Malt Mavens. Hoppy offerings from Ghost Town Brewing, Von Ebert Brewing, Wilmington Brewing Company, and Flatland Brewing Company will be put through the wringer and then power ranked at the end. Tune in to fine out which of these hometown darlings will gain the biggest prize in craft beer podcasting:...

It's that time of the year again to leave Thanksgiving dinner early, put on your warmest winter coat, and stand outside in the freezing cold with grandma outside your local Binny's waiting for that Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout release. This year the Malty Boyz™ get the official media kit for the BCBS line up and review the entire horizontal. Alex and Stephen start things off while Micha...

The Malty Boyz™ drink perhaps the rarest tick ever when they pop a never released Fantôme homebrew from 1988. Individually hand labeled by Dany Prignon's niece and bottled from a keg this is effectively Fantôme Batch 0. Hear what secrets this ghost has in store for the Boyz. In the Beer News, The Boyz drink Sierra Nevada's Bigfoot aged in E.H. Taylor barrels, complete with minty tube, Lakefront Br...

When the Beer News brings the Malty Boyz™ a story about a Grateful Dead themed brewery with a cocaine dealing bartender it unlocks a tale from Alex's about a giant crack apple filled with whimsical characters like Mr. Engineering Student, Mr. Stoner Frat Bro, Ms. Danielle Steel, Craft Beer Kevin, and even ol' Alex Kidd himself. In the Bottle Share, Alex brings in a eisbock final boss from Struise,...

After years of typing away on a keyboard in a damp, sour smelling basement, Alex vocalizes his inner craft beer shitlord to Stephen and Michael in the form of a Freudian Slip while referring to a San Diego brewery. The Malty Boyz™ also discuss using Calzones as drinkware and brewing beer on cruise ships. In the Bottle Share, Alex brings in three barleywine variants celebrating Kros Strain's 1000th...

Hair of the Dog is selling their brewing equipment including the iconic concrete egg, an ovoid specialty fermenter, and The Malty Boyz™ listen in on what interested parties are saying. Alex lands the only new Dark Lord variant from the 2022 Dark Lord release and the Boyz yearn for the full festival to make a comeback. Plus, news from the City of Brotherly Love not living up to their nickname. Mich...

A brewery makes an accounting blunder and needs to sell $24,000 worth of food in order to stay open. The Malty Boyz™ take a look at their panini centric menu and see if fundraising endeavour is feasible. Then grandma chimes in and all hell breaks loose! Genesee Brewing released a flavored kellerbier which leads Alex and Stephen to find out they have very different opinions on what they consider wa...

IT'S HAPPENING! The Malty Boyz™ drink Bud Ice! But it comes with consequences when a 90s marketing campaign comes back to haunt them. In the Beer News, Denver loses a gem of a brewery when Black Project announces their closing their doors, meanwhile, Miami wonders who was the Dogfish Head taproom afloat. Alex brings in a domestic märzen from Wallenpaupack Brewing Co. and Stephen finds a Bottle Log...

Bufflo, New York has a broken table problem thanks to the sale of draft beers quintupling during the NFL's opening weekend. It's another heatwave in Los Angeles and that means talking about Beavertown Brewery. Alex exposes Stephen and Michael to yet another Iowa pastry purveyor. Stephen and Michael grill also about what it was like for him to take the Bar Exam. Thanks to Ollie for sponsoring the e...

The Malty Boyz™ nestle up with 5 legendary beers from the Midwest beer scene. All of them were bottled between 2010-2012 and at one time held a spot in the BeerAdvocate top 100. They'll be drinking Bell's Brewing Black Note Batch 1, Hoppin' Frog Barrel-Aged Naked Evil, Dark Horse Brewing Bourbon Barrel Plead the Fifth, Town Hall Brewery Wee Jack, and Short's Brewing's Colossally Ludicrous then pow...