The Beerists Craft Beer Podcast

Listener Evan Gundy is a beer-sending maniac. We taste some of the beers from the 3rd box he's sent us, and Rubio gets ultra mega drunk. Lift Bridge Hop Dish Rough Tail Hoptometrist Knee Deep Hop Shortage Prairie Puncheon Prairie Bomb! & Pirate Bomb! Comparison Rankings: Rubio 1. Prairie Bomb! 2. Prairie Puncheon 3. Pirate Bomb! 4. Rough Tail Hoptometrist 5. Lift Bridge Hop Dish 6. Knee Deep Hop S...

We got to visit  Crooked Stave  in Denver on our GABF trip this October and were blown away by their beers. So, we brought 6 of them back to share with you. Vieille Artisanal Saison St. Bretta Summer Surette Provision Saison Hop Savant Galaxy Origins Batch 2 L'Brett D'Or Rankings: Anastacia 1. Origins 2. Vieille  3. St. Bretta Summer 4. Hop Savant Galaxy 5. Surette 6. L'Brett D'Or Rubio 1. Vieille...

The  American Homebrewers Association  invited us to interview some folks at their rally at  Jester King Brewery  in Austin, TX. Interviews with: AHA Director Gary Glass Ricardo Ruiz and Dave Moore of  Definitive Ales Sam Adams Longshot Winner Corey Martin of the  Austin Zealots Matt Nixon of  Texas Beer Brigade Eric Lowe of  Meridian Hive Meadery Brian Stevenson of the  Austin Zealots Subscribe!...

We're recording on Halloween and thought it appropriate to drink beers as dark as the night. Remember to vote for us at podcastawards.com! Ommegang Game of Thrones Take The Black Stout Copper Kettle Mexican Chocolate Stout Alaskan Smoked Porter Stone Suede Epic Big Bad Baptist Rankings: Rubio 1. Big Bad Baptist 2. Mexican Chocolate Stout 3. Suede 4. Alaskan Smoked Porter 5. Take the Black Stout Mi...

Jourdan Miller sent us another box full of beer! This episode gets a lot dark. Hopefully, we can get through it together. Devil's Backbone Vienna Lager Devil's Backbone Eight Point IPA Old Dominion Morning Glory Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout Weyerbacher Old Heathen Weyerbacher Merry Monks Rankings: Mike 1. Merry Monks 2. Vienna Lager 3. Eight Point IPA 4. Old Heathen 5. Oak Barrel Stout 6. Morning...

Stone's QM series is an experimental, barrel-aged series of 500ml variations on their beers. Steve Gonzalez sent us all 6 of their 2013 lineup, and we fight impending death to taste them. Stone QM 2013 Series 1-6 Rankings: Mike 1. Batch 4 2. Batch 3 3. Batch 6 4. Batch 1 5. Batch 5 6. Batch 2 Rubio 1. Batch 4 2. Batch 3 3. Batch 1 4. Batch 6 5. Batch 5 6. Batch 2 Anastacia 1. Batch 4 2. Batch 1 3....

With help from our INCREDIBLE listeners, we got to go to the Great American Beer Festival. Here are the stories, interviews, and shenanigans we recorded while in Denver. Interviews with: Jesse Friedman of  Almanac Beer Co. Tyler King of  The Bruery Vinnie Cilurzo of  Russian River Steve Gonzalez of  Stone Lee Gidley of  Hoppin' Frog Subscribe! Point your podcatcher to our RSS feed:  feed://feeds.f...

Grant took a trip to Omaha and brought back a bunch of beers from Nebraska Brewing Company. We drink 5 of them, struggle with illness, and ponder the simpler times. Apricot Au Poivre Romancing the Cone Hop God Black Betty Sexy Betty Rankings: Mike 1. Black Betty 2. Romancing the Stone 3. Hop God 4. Sexy Betty 5. Apricot Au Poivre Rubio 1. Black Betty 2. Romancing the Cone 3. Sexy Betty 4. Hop God...

Jonathan Murphy is an endless font of beer. The gang's all here, and we're drinking 5 more beers he sent us. Someone just might lose an eye. Smuttynose Farmhouse Ale Smuttynose Homonculus Smuttynose Fashionably Old Ale Cambridge Brewing Sgt. Pepper Night Shift Bee Tea   Rankings: Mike 1. Bee Tea Wheat Ale 2. Sgt. Pepper 3. Farmhouse Ale 4. Homunculus 5. Fashionably Old Ale Grant 1. Bee Tea Wheat A...

Rubio and Grant dropped in on the Texas Craft Brewers Festival to enjoy some TX brew, and interview folks in the hot hot sun. Interviews with: Ron Extract of Jester King Will Golden of Austin Beerworks Chris Troutman of Austin Beer Guide Chad Montgomery of Big Texas Beer Fest Erik Ogershok of Real Ale Subscribe! Point your podcatcher to our RSS feed:  feed://feeds.feedburner.com/thebeerists Or, su...

Autumn is upon us, and so are pumpkin beers. Caroline Wallace of bitchbeer.org and Drew Eddy join Rubio and Anastacia for a cornucopia of gourdy goodies. And some baddies. Also Anastacia and Caroline together means this is a raunchy one. Brooklyn Post Road New Belgium Pumpkick Cisco Rumple Drumkin Schlafly Pumpkin Ale Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin Flying Dog The Fear   Rankings: Rubio 1. Schlafly Pu...

[audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebeerists/The_Beerists_77_-_California_IPAs.mp3] We finally work up to doing an IPA show after deleting our first one from the internet. Ryan Mesch joins us to talk hops, IBUs, and Grant's red wings. Strap in. Things get a little drunk again. Lagunitas IPA Stone IPA Firestone Walker Union Jack Ballast Point Sculpin Bear Republic Racer 5 Green Flash West Coast IPA...

Mike Lambert has risen, and he's back for our first in a series of shows on the Trappist breweries. Chimay and Westmalle are our subjects this time around, and man do they hit like trains full of drunk. Chimay Premiere (Red) Chimay Cinq Cents (White) Chimay Grand Reserve (Blue) Westmalle Dubbel Westmalle Tripel And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack  thing...

Ryan Mesch is back with 4 goodies from his trip to Ohio, and we sample those along with 2 others in this long, strange episode recorded right before his elopement. Goodnight, sweet prince. White Birch Berliner Weiss Stillwater Lower Dens Pike Tandem Pretty Things Jack D'Or Prairie Funky Galaxy Three Floyds Alpha King And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack...

A couple of listeners sent us beers from Paradox Beer Company, which we drank with Alamo Drafthouse Creative Director John Gross, who showed us that there aren't even rails to fly off of. Canis Hopus Paradox of Tao- The Yang Ol Drowsy's Madman Skully Barrel #3 Skully Barrel #2 Skully Barrel #1 And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack  thing!   Rankings: Gran...

Joe Money and Steven Gonzalez sent us a couple of beers each, and Rubio supplied a fifth for this episode. TJ Swanson of Namaste Brewing fills in for Mike, and all wastey-face hell breaks loose. Stone R&R Coconut IPA New Glarus Strawberry Rhubarb Sound Monk's Indescretion The Bruery Bottleworks XII Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank Yo...

Anastacia went to Chicago and came back with six beers for us to sample. It's also Rubio's birthday, and he's the oldest thing in the thing. Freigeist Geisterzug Cisco Saison Farmhouse Ale Saint Somewhere/Prairie Plus tot L'etat Beer Here Kama Citra Perennial Fantastic Voyage Smuttynose Baltic Porter And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack  thing! Rankings:...

Thomas Whisenand from  Indeed Brewing Company  hooks us up with 5 of their beers; we discuss the ethics of black market beer sales and trading; and one Miss Anastacia Kelly makes her triumphant return. Shenanigans Summer Ale Day Tripper LSD Honey Ale Midnight Ryder Old Friend Holiday Ale And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack  thing!   Rankings: Mike 1. Da...

We dig into the rest of the beers listener Jonathan Murphy sent us with our friend John Harvey. This is a divisive one, folks, full of flowers, anger, and deliciousness. Slumbrew Trekker Tripel Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits CBC Tripel Threat CBC Heather Ale Slumbrew My Better Half And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack  thing! Rankings: Mike 1. CBC He...

Listeners Joe Money and Jonathan Murphy sent us giant boxes of beer. We start digging into them with our buddy Brian Salisbury of  oneofus.net  and discover everything we already knew about very old IPAs, dump buckets, and our bodies. Elysian Valhalla Elysian Prometheus Elysian Space Dust Elysian Savant Slumbrew Naked Hopularity Slumbrew Flagraiser IPA Wachusett Larry IIPA Wormtown Be Hoppy Mayflo...

Listener Eric Saa sent us 6 DC Brau beers, and Habeab Kurdi joins us again to try them. One uf us gets ripshit drunk. Cue the Pearl Jam. El Hefe Speaks The Public Penn Quarter Porter The Corruption The Citizen On The Wings Of Armageddon And be sure to check our Facebook page for details on our  "Thank You" Gift Pack  thing! Rankings: Grant: 1. On The Wings Of Armageddon 2. El Hefe Speaks 3. The Ci...

We got 5 Los Angeles and Orange County beers that none of us have ever heard of from listener Josh Oakley. Our buddy Habeab Kurdi joins us to try them all. Cismontane The Mesa Brouwerij West Dog Ate My Homework Beachwood Thrillseeker Bootleggers Black Phoenix Golden Road Wold Among Weeds Rankings: Grant: 1. Brouwerij West Dog Ate My Homework 2. Bootleggers Black Phoenix 3. Golden Road Wold Among W...

Evan Gundy strikes again, this time with a giant shipment of Prairie Artisan Ales. Chris Kuemmel joins us for what is seriously one of the most delicious shows we've recorded. Prairie Ale 'Merica Somewhere Pirate Noir Okie BOMB Rankings: Rubio 1. Okie 2. Bomb 3. 'Merica 4. Somewhere 5. Pirate Noir 6. Prairie Ale Grant 1. Okie 2. 'Merica 3. Bomb 4. Somewhere 5. Pirate Noir 6. Prairie Ale Chris 1. '...

We tried to clean it up, we really did, but listeners Mike and Jillian Adams got us wasted on a box of SweetWater beers. We try 6 of them, along with Caroline Wallace of  BitchBeer.org . Road Trip Happy Ending Some Strange IPA The Gimp 16 So Fine Rankings: Mike 1. IPA 2. Some Strange 3. Happy Ending 4. 16 So Fine 5. The Gimp 6. Hop Trip Rubio 1. IPA 2. Happy Ending 3. 16 So Fine 4. Some Strange 5....

Warning:  This one gets pretty raunchy and mean. We've fallen behind on some of the beers we'd like to talk about on the show. There are 6 of them on this episode, and we're joined by the lovely Caroline Wallace of  bitchbeer.org . Also, balls happen. Marshall Arrowhead Wynkoop Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout Tallgrass Ethos IPA Almanac Farmer's Reserve #3 Steel Toe Size 7 IPA Knee Deep Simtra IPA Ran...