Rock & Roll Happy Hour

The song goes the first cut is the deepest, but when you put you hand where it doesn't belong that cut might take a pinky. Atleast that's the case for Roadies head brewer Peter. To mark the event and give a little levity they named their latest Hazy IPA Deepcuts. It's balance makes this a perfect festival that you can enjoy at this year's Rhythm & Brews.

Another person who has seen their fair share of Rhythm & Brews Festivals Kris from Prey Brewing was a part of the SDBG and helping with the planning of the event before COVID shut it down. Today he drops by the studio to talk about his experiences and preview what Prey Brewing will be pouring June 28th!

Burgeon Beer just dropped a brand new tasting room in Vista, so it makes sense to feature them today for the Rhythm & Brews festival! Pouring a staple to their line up and a beer you'll find at the festival, we toast to a Tuesday with Carlsbad Crush.

It's finally back after a long post COVID hiatus the San Diego Brewers Guild has brought back the Rhythm and Brews festival on June 28th! All week we're featuring different breweries who will be pouring at the event. We start the week off with the brewery that originated the festival, Mother Earh Brewing.

This week has been all about Duck Foot Brewing's 10 anniversary on Satruday but it's also been about their breweries diversity. One of the things that head brewer Matt excells in making true to form fresh Belgian style beer in San Diego. His take on a Belgian double shows off why this is such a popular style of beer across the pond.

At first glance the baloon dogs on the label of Duck Foot Brewing's Sour on Love is innocent enough, untill you look closer....kinda like this beer a Berliner weiss style with a metric ton of fresh pink guava and mango.

What came first the can art or the beer? Matt from Duck Foot Brewing's answer is "yes." Today we get into a very cirtus forward crushable IPA that is big on flavor, low on ABV and comes with a Price is RIght kinda twist.

Isn't this a punny beer for a Tuesday...Matt and Brett from Duck Foot are back again as we draw closer to their anniversary this weekend. Another beer from the Duck Foot arsenal is a very unexpected brew in both style and name as they introudce us Bowling Knight American Stout.

Hard to beleive that this weekend celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Duck Foot Brewing! One of the very first breweries to feature a full line up of gluten reduced beers, Duck Foot flexes on a very diverse line up of beers. We start this week's journey with a beer as iconic as the can art, 2 AM Tacos Mexican Style Lager.

Cody from Michi Brew Co saved the most intriguing for last. Chelan West Coast IPA again bucks the trend of where IPAs are going and blends it where IPAs have been. Blending the best of the origins of the West Coast IPA and what the West Coast IPA has become makes this beer nostalgic and new with every sip.

True to form what Michi Brew Co has been offering up all week, their Hazy IPA called Memphre is an experience all to its own. Where many local breweries take a West Coast hop forwardness to their brews, Cody goes for something more to how Hazy IPAs started out.

Another light and crushable beer served from Cody and Michi Brewing! Today he deleivers his take on a Mexican Style Lager, but he's got a few tricks in the brew process that set his apart from others you may have tried. Listen to find out what they are.

Cody from Michi Brew Co continues to impress with his light and crushable beers! After the XPA yesterday he doubled down with a Rice Lager called Akita that checks all the boxes!

San Diego has a new brewery in North County and they've got a big idently. Tapping into the robust local tiki community Michi Brew Co has been met with raucous fan faire. But it's not just all imagery, it's a lot to do with the beer as all week we hang out with Cody and talk about how Michi came to be. We start with a perfect style for Summer in San Diego and their XPA called Mungo.

It began today! A Memorial Day Weekend in San Diego and the real party is in Alpine at McIlhenny Brewing as all weekend they celebrate year 4. Just like last year Shawn and Jamie have brought a BIG special beer to wrap up the week and kick off their party, a very smooth an easy drinking Bourbon Barrel Aged Barley Wine with the name Malt Head Mayhem.

It's hard to make a good IPA, its even harder to make a lot of good IPAs that all taste different! Shawn from McIlhenny Brewing does it with ease! A beer that started out as a collab with Burgeon Beer, Parallel Paradise has taken over a life all of it's own.

It's the "gateway" IPA you'll find at McIlhenny Brewing. Wizards Wand IPA is the beer bar tenders give to people who say, "I don't like IPAs" and the turn them into fanatics. It's easy to see why, light bodied and easly crushable, with low bitterness and a lot of hop flavor makes this a must have IPA.

Appologies to Jamie and Shawn from McIlhenny Brewing for accusing them of poking the smot in the parking lot, but the studio smells like marajuna! That's the magic of this new beer they are rolling out just in time for 4:20, I mean summer, Is really is how amazingly drinkable Nectaron Express is with that kinda sticky-icky armoa.

It's Memorial Weekend in San Diego so it's time for one thing, the McIlhenny 4th Anniversary Celebration! It's a 3-day Weekend long party that honors the tradition of family beer making! We start things off a beer perfect for the warming weather and Shawn explains exactly why their Brite Lites Helles is so damn intriguing.

Down to our last beer as Tom Nickel from Nickel Beer and O'Brien's fumbled the ball at the one yard line and forgot the chocolate pairing! He did bring the most important part of the evening, a inspired Serrano pepper infused version on Nickel Beer's Stonewall Stout.

IT really is amazing how many of these local brewers that make fantastic pepper beers tie back to one place. Tonight we explore that commonality over a Chipotle and Pasilla pepper Porter called Dark Knight. It's also paired with a very unexpected taco from O'Brien's

With pepper beers, food provides a lot of inspiration. For today's beer from OB Brewery it was the want to make the perfect "taco beer" and they did it in a very sneaky way. Mixing both raw and roasted jalapenos in a traditional Belgian Saison base beer makes this a sneaky beer with a lot of flavor! Of course we had to pair it with the huge flavor of O'Brien's Ahi Nachos.

It's like a bonus Cinco de Mayo! Taco Tuesday and a Jalapeno Lager from Weir Beer called Double Dog Dare Ya! It's a light crushable lager with a subtle pepper flavor with zero heat. This beer begs to be paired with a fish taco from O'Brien's...so that's exactly what we did!

Somehow after years of resisting pepper beers, Tom Nickel from Nickel Beer Co has worn me down and to celebrate Cinco de Mayo all week we're going to try different pepper infused beers made in San Diego. We start with a twist on a popular Nickel Beer Jalapeno Gold, with Jalapeno in Paradise paired along with some scallop ceviche from O'Brien's Pub.

We're down to the swan song! Last beer of the week and we get to taste the terroir of El Cajon. Created in a naturally fermented vessel called a Cool Ship, In Praise of Blackberries is as wild as a beer gets!