The Beerists Craft Beer Podcast

I think listener Juan Lopez is insane. Why else would he send a box of 6 of the best beers around to a podcast instead of drinking them? Maybe he has a brain parasite. De Garde Nelson Hose Ale Apothecary Sahalie Cascade Sang Royale Hill Farmstead Clara Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee Firestone Walker 18th Anniversary Vote for us for "Best Food & Drink Podcast" at podcastawards.com  once per day to...

Look. I hope you realize that even though we're smashed by the second half, our opinions on these 5 beers are still somewhat valid. Also, neck babies, old people problems, and Trapped in the Closet. Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose Rodenbach Caractere Rouge Fremont Triple Trifecta Oud Beersel Oude Geuze Vieille Oud Beersel Oude Kriek Vieille Vote for us for "Best Food & Drink Podcast" at podcasta...

5 new hoppy beers and harrowing tales of life and near-death with Rubio, Mike and Harvey. This episode may contain strippers, guns, and drugs. Oskar Blues Icey Pale Ale Founders Black Rye Lone Pint Yellow Rose Prairie Funky Gold Amarillo Stone/Baird/Ishii Japanese Green Tea IPA Vote for us for "Best Food & Drink Podcast" at podcastawards.com  once per day to help us win our 3rd podcast award! Subs...

Caroline Wallace of  BitchBeer.org  joins us as we delve into a 5 year vertical of The Abyss. Deschutes The Abyss 2010 Deschutes The Abyss 2011 Deschutes The Abyss 2012 Deschutes The Abyss 2013 Deschutes The Abyss 2014 Subscribe! Point your podcatcher to our RSS feed:  feed://feeds.feedburner.com/thebeerists Or, subscribe via  iTunes  (Give us a review and a rating!) The Beerists are:  John Rubio,...

We drink five 9+ percent beers while Grant namedrops horrible band names. Anastacia calls in sick, Mike is in bliss, and Rubio's girlfriend drops in for the second half. Apologies for the music. Three Brothers Savage Blonde Firestone Walker Maltose Falcons The Lost Abbey Track 10 Alesmith Decadence 2012 Green Flash Palate Wrecker   Rankings: Rubio Maltose Falcon Savage Blonde Palate Wrecker Decade...

Our buddy Aaron Haley provided us with 5 beers from Portland's Cascade Brewery for this one. Rubio gets drunk, the gang throws airballs, and Budweiser hates you. Apricot Tangerine Dream NW Noyeaux Sang Noir Bourbonic Plague   Rankings: Rubio 1. Noyaux 2. Bourbonic Plague 3. Apricot 4. Sang Noir 5. Tangerine Dream Grant 1. Noyaux 2. Apricot 3. Sang Noir 4. Bourbonic Plague 5. Tangerine Dream Mike 1...

Carlos Arellano from  stayhoppy.com  sits in to help us sample 5 beers sent to us by listener Michael Jacobs from the great state of Virginia. Grant makes a couple of jokes, Rubio cares, and the Mike scale for life is established. Apocalypse Golden Censer Apocalypse Red Hopocalypse Center of The Universe El Duderino Blue Mountain Dark Hollow 2014 Concealed Darkness Champion Megalodon Rankings: Rub...

We bring together 5 collaboration beers, including 2 new ones by Jester King, Prairie, and Evil Twin- and we were lucky enough to interview them about their projects. Boulevard/Ommegang Collaboration No 4 Saison Epic/Crooked Stave Elder Brett Deschutes/Diestelhauser Doppel Dinkel Bock Jester King/Prairie Natural Union Jester King/Evil Twin World's Worst Twin   Rankings: Rubio 1. Jester King/Prairi...

Sweet and sour is a great way to describe every level of this episode- from the 5 beers we're tasting, to the way the room felt. Big laughs, blistering disagreements, and uncomfortable confrontations you won't want to miss. Monk's Cafe Duchesse de Bourgogne Cuvee des Jacobins Zoetzuur Rodenbach Vintage 2012   Rankings: Mike 1. Monks Cafe 2. Rodenbach Vintage 2012 3. Cuvee des Jacobins 4. Duchesse...

Mike brings 5 beers for us to taste, Rubio is fed up with shouting out Jack Swoboda, Anastacia fails at funny, and Grant should never talk again. Perennial Peach Berliner Weisse Claremont Craft Ales Indian Hill Claremont Craft Ales Jacaranda Speakeasy Syndicate No 1 Speakeasy Syndicate No 2   Rankings: Grant 1. Perennial Peach Berliner Weisse 2. Claremont Craft Ales Indian Hill 3. Claremont Craft...

It's a new year! United Airlines loses Mike's luggage, Rubio can't pronounce anything, Grant hates everything, and the legend of Michaelstacia begins. Pizza Port Swami's IPA Lagunitas Brown Shugga' Petrus Winter #9 Jester King Biere de Miel Alvinne Wild West   Rankings: Mike 1. Petrus Winter #9 2. Pizza Port Swami's IPA 3. Jester King Biere de Miel 4. Alvinne Wild West 5. Lagunitas Brown Shugga Ru...

Take a heartwarming stroll with Anastacia, Rubio, Habeab, and Sahara- as they've decided to spend their Xmas Eve tasting beer, making horrible puns, hating babies, and not being with family. Southern Tier Sonnet Founders Dirty Bastard Hitachino Nest Commemorative Ale Stone Smoked Porter w/Chocolate and Orange Peel Brewdog Cocoa Psycho   Rankings: Rubio 1. Founders Dirty Bastard 2. Southern Tier So...

Ok, so it's not a christmas themed show. We've gathered 6 beers to taste, one of which blew our minds. Put that in your stocking and smoke it. Perennial Regalia Ducato Beersel Mattina Rivertown Ville de Rivere Geuze Prairie Christmas Bomb! Founders Big Lushious Lost Abbey Track 8   Rankings: Mike 1. Lost Abbey Track #8 2. Prairie Christmas Bomb 3. Beersel Mattina 4. Founders Big Lushious 5. Perenn...

Caroline Wallace of BitchBeer.org joins us to share 5 saisons that prove that sometimes a saison isn't a saison. Perennial Dual Artisanship Anchorage Love Buzz BRU 2nd Anniversary Imperial Saison Adelbert's Contemplating Waterloo Trinity Little Death Ride   Rankings: Rubio 1. Adelbert's Contemplating Waterloo 2. Anchorage Love Buzz 3. Trinity Little Death Ride 4. Perennial Dual Artisanship 5. BRU...

Aging beer is a crapshot. In this episode, Anastacia presents 5 beers from her collection that we assumed would have benefited from a few years of aging. But did they all live up to our expectations, or were we wrong? 2011 Goose Island Lolita 2011 New Holland Dragon's Milk 2011 Goose Island King Henry Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break Deschutes/Hair of the Dog Conflux Collage #1 Rankings: Rubio 1....

Grant is out this week, so we've decided to truck forward without him. We taste a mix of 5 beers on this episode that we can't seem to agree on. Odell Trellis Mikkeller Spontenframboos Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique Edition Special Stone Bastard in the Rye De Proef/Surly Long of Tooth   Rankings: Mike 1. Odell Trellis 2. Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique 3. De Proef/Surly Long of To...

Sometimes breweries send us beer. For this episode, we taste some promo samples from Green Flash, Founders, and Sam Adams- and we get a little mean. Green Flash Jibe Session IPA Green Flash Soul Style IPA Founders Breakfast Stout Samuel Adams New World Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour Samuel Adams Tetravis Rankings: Grant 1. Founders Breakfast Stout 2. Green Flash Soul Style IPA 3. Samuel Adams Tetrav...

Brooklyn Brewery is one of the largest and acclaimed craft breweries in the US. In this episode, we taste 5 of their brews, and speak with Brewmaster Garrett Oliver himself. Sorachi Ace Local 1 Local 2 Black Chocolate Stout Hand and Seal   Rankings: Grant 1. Sorachi Ace 2. Local 2 3. Hand & Seal 4. Black Chocolate Stout 5. Local 1 Rubio 1. Hand & Seal 2. Sorachi Ace 3. Black Chocolate Stout 4. Loc...

Canadian listeners Ewart and Aaron were tired of not hearing about beers from their beloved home country, so they decided to fix that by sending us 6 beers from Toronto's Bellwoods Brewery. Stay Classy Bimini Twist Witchshark Lost River Lambda Skeleton Key   Rankings: Mike 1. Skeleton Key 2. Lambda 3. Lost River 4. Bimini Twist 5. Stay Classy 6. Witchshark Rubio 1. Skeleton Key 2. Lambda 3. Bimini...

We got a box of 6 Virginia beers from listener Scott Johnson for this one. Some huge hits here- and one really drunk Beerist. Three Notch’d 40 Mile IPA Hardywood Park The Great Return Blue Mountain Dark Hollow Alewerks Rapadou Porter Alewerks Bitter Valentine Alewerks Lover’s Greed   Rankings: Mike 1. Blue Mountain Dark Hollow 2. Alewerks Bitter Valentine 3. Alewerks Lover's Greed 4. Hardywood Par...

5 Ambers, 3 sad Beerists, and all the awkward humor you'll ever need. Mike dodged this bullet, but we still love him. Allegedly. Abita Amber New Belgium Fat Tire Breckenridge Avalance Alaskan Amber Ballast Point Calico   Rankings: Rubio 1. Alaskan Amber 2. Ballast Point Calico 3. New Belgium Fat Tire 4. Abita Amber 5. Breckenridge Anastacia 1. Alaskan Amber 2. New Belgium Fat Tire 3. Abita Amber 3...

Take 4 Pennsylvania brews, one from Jersey, a dash of Boys II Men, and 4 beer geeks, and something is bound to come unhinged. Carton Brewing Boat Beer Neshaminy Creek Churchville Lager Neshaminy Creek County Line IPA Victory Moving Parts IPA Saucony Creek Maple Mistress Rankings: Rubio 1. Churchville Lager 2. County Line IPA 3. Maple Mistress 4. Boat Beer 5. Moving Parts Grant 1. Boat Beer 2. Mapl...

We're back from the Great American Beer Festival with stories, opinions, horrors, laughs, and a few great interviews! Strap in, this is a biggun. Huge thanks to our listeners for making it happen! Interviews with: Three Floyds Head Brewer Chris Boggess Odell Brewer Kevin Bosley New Belgium Brewmaster Peter Bouckaert TRVE Woodmaster General Zack Coleman Subscribe! Point your podcatcher to our RSS f...

Caroline Wallace from bitchbeer.org joins us for an assortment of 5 beers. Everyone pulls weight to make up for Rubio's lost voice, and we talk poop, beer, poop, and poop. Also, poop. Toppling Goliath Dorthy's New World Lager Toppling Goliath Golden Nugget IPA Smog City Groundwork Coffee Porter Foley Brothers Native IPA Fiddlehead Hyzer Flip Rankings: Rubio 1. Golden Nugget 2. Native IPA 3. Ground...

The votes are in, and it turns out our listeners wanted to hear us taste some bourbon! Mike and Rubio are ecstatic, Anastacia hates it, and Grant becomes a man. One that cries a lot. Jim Beam Black Buffalo Trace New Holland Beer Barrel Bourbon Blanton's Yamazaki 18 Pappy 23 Subscribe! Point your podcatcher to our RSS feed:  feed://feeds.feedburner.com/thebeerists Or, subscribe via  iTunes  (Give u...