The Skol Hop

The Vikings lost a close one to the Lions which means we had to spin the Wheel of Purple Punishments. What a silly idea, the Wheel of Purple Punishments. Our featured beer tonight is from SingleSpeed in Waterloo . Austin brought their Hold My Pretzel Festbier, and we really enjoyed it! We look back at the frustrating things from the Lions game, but there were some positive takeaways too. We talk R...

We enjoyed more beer from Titonka Brewing and got to work discussing everything that’s happened so far for the 5-0 Minnesota Vikings at their bye week. We dig into the crazy stat that’s been circulating about how the 4 teams in the NFC North lead the league in point differential and are also all above .500. We wonder out loud if the Vikings are the best team in that division and who their biggest...

The Vikings are 5-0 and we escape the wrath of the wheel of Purple Punishments! It’s easy to talk about your favorite football team when they’re undefeated and we wasted no time getting down to business to talk about the Vikings win over the New York Jets in London this past week. We discuss our roses and thorns from the game and give out game balls. Somehow, Kirk Cousins re-enters the chat and we...

The Vikings beat the Jets in London! Austin and Evan share their initial reactions to the win! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us as we hang out with Dustin Baker of Vikings Territory and Vikes Now ! We talk TJ Hockenson's timeline for return, Vikings trade talks, surprises from the Vikings season so far, and extensions for Kwesi, KOC, and Sam Darnold. We always enjoy our chats with Dustin! Grab your favorite beverage and join us! Skol! Shoutout to Big Top Ventures for sponsoring today's episode! They can get you the...

We celebrate our favorite team being 4-0 with some free beer compliments of Titonka Brewing out of Titonka, IA! They provided us with their Rooster Tail Red and their Middle of Nowhere New England IPA. Both were great! And so was our conversation as we recap all that happened in the Vikings win over the Packers, making them the final undefeated team in the NFC. We also look ahead to the Vikings tr...

The Vikings took it to the Texans in Week 3 and we both picked the Vikings to lose in our preseason picks. You know what that means…The Wheel of Purple Punishments strikes again!  If you’re looking for some entertainment (and a couple of dudes who like drinking beer and talking about the Vikings), you won’t want to miss this. While we suffer the consequences of the Wheel, we enjoy the Eagle Amber...

The Skol Hop makes their predictions for a week 3 showdown against the Houston Texans at the Minnesota Vikings! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We made it to the Iowa Podcast Awards and had a blast recording a live episode while we were there! Of course the Vikings had to go out and beat the 49ers, which meant that we couldn’t say the word “Vikings” per the Wheel of Purple Punishments. We netted roughly 80 pushups between the two of us, but it certainly could have been worse. In between bouts of pushups, we sipped on 5ive Cities Brewing’s...

The Vikings  beat the 49ers  in the home opener at US Bank Stadium! Austin and Evan share their initial reactions to the win! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A quick shameless plug to head to iowapodcastawards.com/vote and vote for The Skol Hop for the People’s Choice Award! Football is back, baby! Fall is here and we kicked things off the right way by sipping on a delicious beer from Toppling Goliath - the Caramel Apple Fandango. Put quite simply, it’s autumn in a can. We highly recommend! In addition to great beer, we had a Vikings victory to talk ab...

The Vikings looked pretty darn good in the season opener at MetLife Stadium against the New York Football Giants. Evan and Austin of  @TheSkolHop  give their immediate reactions to the week 1 victory for the purple team! Join us each week on our podcast!https://open.spotify.com/show/4CgGXjGG6JvvNp4WvAm2vR?si=ca090b8ba6a44f75https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-skol-hop/id1687810587https://www...

A quick shameless plug to head to iowapodcastawards.com/vote and vote for The Skol Hop for the People’s Choice Award! We’ve tried a lot of different Iowa beers in 55 episodes, but today we came across a new brewery and it did not disappoint! We tried Keg Creek Brewing’s Midwest Haze as we preview some of the upcoming Purple Punishments that we’ll subject ourselves to if we incorrectly pick the Vik...

A quick shameless plug to head to iowapodcastawards.com/vote and vote for The Skol Hop for the People’s Choice Award! It’s almost fall, and you know that that means? Amber beers and NFL Cutdown Day! Thanks to Gezellig in Newton, IA for the delicious Amber Lager we were able to enjoy. While sipping on these we discuss the Vikings final preseason game against the Eagles and the inevitable roster cut...

A quick shameless plug to head to iowapodcastawards.com/vote and vote for The Skol Hop for the People’s Choice Award! Joined by friend of the show Forrest this week, we enjoy Exile’s Gnomey’s Travels while we touch on all of the major Vikings news from the past week (McCarthy out for the season, Gilmore and Corral join the Vikings). We also make some snap predictions on NFC North records, and it’s...

We’ve got some BIG news to share! We’ve been nominated for a handful of awards at the first ever Iowa Podcast Awards in September! We spend a little bit of time explaining which awards we’ve been nominated for and announce that we’ll be recording an episode LIVE at the awards on September 15th (week 2 home opener against the 49ers)! To say we’re pumped is an understatement. We’d love it if you wen...

With only a few weeks until the 24-25 NFL season is in full force, we decided to look back one final time on the 23-24 season and discuss our favorite and least favorite Vikings moments. Wasting no time at all, we turn the corner sharply in our conversation with Dustin Baker of Vikings Territory and discuss 3 training camp myths that have been busted with a few weeks of camp and the preseason stil...

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...