The Skol Hop

With a Big Grove Tailwind Golden Ale to sip on, the boys talk some early Vikings training camp news and then make their picks for all 17 games of the Vikings 2024 campaign. Like last year, we each picked the winners/losers of each Vikings game and had our wives and kids pick the games as well. We also did a coin toss, heads predicting a Vikings win and tails a loss. Ev nearly lost his coin flippin...

As we celebrate 50 episodes of The Skol Hop, join us for a little road trip to see and experience 11 different craft breweries around the state of Iowa! If you’ve followed our show for any length of time, you know that we like drinking beer and talking about the Vikings. More specifically, we only drink Iowa craft beer on our weekly episodes. On this trip we take you inside the different breweries...

With impeccable deduction, Evan correctly identifies the brewer and name of this week's featured brew from Five Cities Brewing - Crush Tangerine Wheat. While sipping on this delicious beer, we discuss the newest Netflix series on NFL wide receivers and how disappointing it has been so far. We also talk about the recent news surrounding Jordan Addison and what this means for the young player wi...

Could it be? Did beer from enemy territory make its way onto the set of The Skol Hop? Indeed it did, but no worries, it was not consumed on the show and our commitment to only drinking Iowa brewed beers on the show remains intact.  Austin guesses the brewery and gets close on the type and ABV as we sip on the NoCoast Beer’s Flying Johnny American Pale Ale. We sip on a few of these while continuing...

Austin brings Firetrucker Brewing’s Tropical Burn for Evan to guess in the Mystery Beer game. It was definitely a tricky one to guess, but a delicious one to drink! Before jumping into the 3rd week of our series of best Vikings to wear each jersey number, we cover a few offseason talkers. We talk about the competition at guard on the offensive line, possibly bringing back Cam Akers, and getting th...

Austin recaps his trip with Big Top Ventures to Mexico and fails to guess any of the categories of this week's Mystery Beer, which is SingleSpeed’s Cerveza De La Casa Mexican Lager. Evan recently went to Skol-land and picked up a little gift. Then, as part 2 of a 5 part series, we break down the most notable Vikings to wear each jersey number from 20-39. As we note in our conversation, if you’...

We're starting a little mini-series here to get us through the dog days of summer! We decided a while back to take a look at all of the best Vikings to wear each jersey number from 0-99. In this episode we cover the first 20 numbers, from 0-19. There are a lot of great Vikings who've worn those numbers and we do our best to cover them all! We also enjoy a few Bulldog Blondes from Five Citi...

With a sub-par wrap job, Austin presents another mystery beer that Evan has to guess. Turns out to be Peace Tree’s (from Knoxville, Iowa, not Coralville) Prickly Pear Sour and it was pretty good! We talk about various Vikings mini camp highlights, such as the quarterback situation and the loaded tight end and cornerback rooms that will ultimately be slimmed down before the season begins. Lastly, w...

Austin guesses correctly the Hazy Forecast IPA from Backpocket Brewing. We also get a chance to hang out with Dustin Baker. With Dustin we talk about the Dalton Risner signing, the weakest spots on the Vikings roster currently, and surprising (or not surprising) cuts the Vikings could make this offseason. Before hanging out with Dustin, we briefly discuss the historic Justin Jefferson contract ext...

Austin brings another mystery beer and Evan guesses the style and brewer before the full reveal of Peace Tree’s Get a Little Hazy hazy IPA, and it was delicious! While sipping on these, the boys chat about a Vikings Territory article that outlines what tier the Vikings could be heading into the 2024 season, basing things off of the current betting odds to win the Super Bowl this coming season. Unf...

Evan brought the beer this week and continued the Mystery Beer tradition. He also composed a poem/riddle to help Austin guess! With SingleSpeed’s Ctrl Alt Bier in hand, we discuss the Vikings tight end situation going into the summer months and the addition of Robert Tonyan. We also take a deep dive into a Vikings Territory article by Dustin Baker on the “Mushiest” spots on the Vikings roster curr...

Austin brought a mystery beer this week and it was a good one! Exile’s Shark Wrangler is excellent! Because it’s episode 40, we pay homage to, arguably, the greatest #40 in Vikings history: Jimmy Kleinsasser. Though he wasn’t a stat monster, he was the definition of a Viking during his tenure with the Purple team. Finally, we spend some time dissecting Dustin Baker’s article on Vikings Territory t...

Evan brought the beer this week and it’s the first time ever that we’ve featured the same beer twice on the show. After a few guesses, Austin nails it by guessing Big Grove’s Burch the Bear Brown Ale ! Of all the beers we’ve had so far on this podcast, that’s definitely one worth having more than once! Once the mystery beer was discovered, we dove into all the of the scheduling possibilities that...

Joined by friend of the show Forrest, Austin brings a mystery beer wrapped in tin foil that Evan and Forrest have to guess. It takes a few minutes, but eventually they guess correctly that it’s Great Revivalist’s Peach Wrangler ! The guys enjoy a few of these while recapping the draft for both the Vikings and Bears and ultimately dishing out letter grades for each team. Whatever you enjoy, grab yo...

After a few weeks away from the desk, we’re back at it, sipping on some surprisingly delicious Blood Orange Wheat from Reclaimed Rails Brewing Company of Bondurant, IA. Being that this was recorded less than 48 hours from the start of the 2024 NFL Draft, we give our final pre-draft thoughts and predictions and we also dive deep into some prop bets and picking some over/unders. Then, we bust out so...

We’re joined once again by Dustin Baker of VikesNow to discuss the upcoming draft in a little over a week! Some talking points include the Vikings’ propensity to draft college teammates, the interesting situation the Vikings find themselves in at the Kicker position, how to navigate the season of smokescreens, diplomatic responses, and how much to read into everything you hear surrounding the NFL...

On this special episode of The Skol Hop, we break down our Top 10 Vikings’ players of all time! There’s a little debate as to what constitutes a top 10 list. Austin picks 10 different players in no particular order, while Evan counts down from 10 to 1. What do you think? How would you construct your Top 10 list and who would be on it? Let us know! Oh yeah, we also enjoyed a delicious beer from No...

We did it! We brewed our own beer and tried it for the first time with friend-of-the-show and master brewer behind the project, Forrest. We crack open the first bottles and give our first impressions of the beer we brewed a while back. It did not disappoint! We also get into Forrest’s thoughts on the draft, both for the Vikings and his Bears. Near the end we play a little Quarterbacks as Beers gam...

While enjoying the final beer in the No Coast Nitro trifecta, the S’Mores Nitro Milk Stout, we dive in to various headlines about the Vikings draft day prospects and various draft day trade proposals. The biggest headline (and question mark) continues to be what the Vikings will do at quarterback. It’s a narrative that just won’t go away until after the draft. There were also a handful of rule cha...

From the new “Command Central” of The Skol Hop, we run through most of the free agency additions and subtractions for our favorite purple team after the first full week of official free agency in the NFL. While we do so, we enjoy another No Coast Nitro beer. This time we tried the Nitro Cold Brew Coffee Milk Stout, and it was delicious! Two interesting things developed in our conversation: First,...

The writing was on the wall a long time ago, but it became official on the first day of “legal tampering,” whatever that means. Kirk Cousins takes a huge 4-year deal with Atlanta, leaving the Vikings with many question marks at the QB position. We talk about the possibilities in front of the Vikings front office as they make moves in this frantic free agency season. We also look back, fondly, on K...

What is the best way to toast a beer? We struggle to figure this out and attempt the perfect toast many times. Spoiler alert: we get it right at the end! After a quick update on some Vikings talkers from a busy NFL Scouting Combine week, we discuss the all-important running back position after Alexander Mattison’s somewhat surprising release by the Vikings this week. We also talk at length about t...

With a Gezellig Brewing Lucky Irish Red Ale in hand, we discuss the beer brewing process we undertook in the previous episode with the help of friend-of-the-show Forrest. Before our interview with Dustin Baker and Wes Johnson, we discuss the Justin Jefferson contract, as well as the Kirk Cousins situation and how that informs everything else for the Vikings 2024 offseason. Be sure to tune in to th...

On this very special episode of The Skol Hop, we're joined by friend of the show Forrest to brew the first ever Skol Hop beer, and we couldn't be more excited! In the middle of the brewing process in Austin's garage, we take some time to sit down and talk about the Vikings offseason. Not only does Forrest have a knack for brewing beer, but he's pretty knowledgeable about the up and...

It’s hard not to talk about the Super Bowl, even though the Vikings weren’t in it (again). But after a short recap of the game and admitting that we didn’t know the rule changes either (sorry 49ers fans), we switch gears and open up OverTheCap.com ’s Cap Calculator to play around with all of the possibilities the Vikings face this offseason. Some guys get nice new contracts, while others get cut (...