Podcasts about abv chicago

Ever since January 22nd of 2014, the ABV Chicago podcast has released a new episode every single week - and nobody could be more stunned about this fact than us. To commemorate a decade of arbitrary beer reviews, brewer interviews, and tipsy shenanigans, we open ten beers from ten breweries that all also got their start in 2014. The twist is that Craig and Ryan both present their five beers to the other as a blind tasting, forcing some surprising brewery, style, and “secret theme” guesses. Also, we spend a little time on memory lane, rank some celebrity hunks, and do what we do best: talk about candy, mostly. Thanks for checking us out at any point over these ten years, and expect a lot more to come because we literally don't know how to stop doing this podcast. Beers Reviewed, In Half-Blind Order Middle Brow Beer Co. - Yard Work (Kölsch) Illuminated Brew Works - Clurichaun Trap (Session Stout) Imperial Oak Brewing - Roundabout (Pale Ale) Werk Force Brewing Company - Really Decent (Light Lager) Penrose Brewing Company - Day Off IPA Sketchbook Brewing Co. - Amistosa (Mexican-Style Lager) Marz Community Brewing Co. - Boogie Nights (Dark Wheat Ale) Pollyanna Brewing Company - In the Cards (Hazy American Pale Ale) Maplewood Brewing Company - Barrel-Aged Cuppa Stuffff (Imperial Stout aged in bourbon & whiskey barrels w/ vanilla beans, cacao nibs, and coffee) Noon Whistle Brewing - Good Piebrations: Banana Cream Pie (Hefeweizen w/ bananas & vanilla beans)  

St. Patrick's Day in Chicagoland is a whole season, and thanks to that more local breweries are making the curiously not-traditional Irish Red Ale. To learn more about this style (and give ourselves a nearly-impossible guessing challenge), we do a blind tasting of the five beers on this show. Also, we let the AI bots tell us more about ourselves, we're dancing in the aisles over that joyous romp The Banshees of Inisherin, and we're looking for new partners for our Glass Wavy™ line. So, whether you're a seasoned beer enthusiast or just starting out on your craft beer journey, ABV Chicago is definitely a podcast worth listening to for its lively discussions, informative interviews, and engaging content. Cheers! Beers Reviewed Blindly Midwest Coast Brewing Co. - Irish Tommy Funkytown Brewery - Cuffin' Season Begyle Brewing - Dicey Riley Old Irving Brewing Co. - Lucky Linny BuckleDown Brewing - Good Times  

Welcome back to our special two part recap of the 2022 Great American Beer Fest. On this episode we discuss day two of the fest with interviews from Craig of ABV Chicago and Mike Billy of Tangled Roots Brewing. Special thanks again to everyone we spoke to at the festival and BIG thanks to GABF and The Brewers Association for inviting us to the fest this year. We look forward to coming back in 2023. Theme music provided by Myke Kelli (@mykekelli) Outro and break music provided by @FluidMinds

Though it may not be many people's pick for Oregon's best beer city, it's hard to ignore the quality beers produced in Bend. From Craig's trip, we have five diverse beer styles from five different Bend breweries that both impress us with new flavors and stir up some nostalgia. Also, Craig talks about his trip to The Last Blockbuster and quizzes Ryan on related trivia. Plus there's talk of squirrels drunk off of tree fermenters, a Rule 34 Brewery, imaginary berries, and a desperate plea for someone to take Ryan's unwanted DVD of the movie “Funny People.” Make it an ABV Chicago night, and we'll take care of those late fees. Beers Reviewed Crux Fermentation Project - Island Pilz (Tropical Pilsner) Boss Rambler Beer Club - We'll Do It Cold! (Cold IPA) The Ale Apothecary - Connor (American Wild Ale aged in Pinot Noir barrels w/ marionberries) Boneyard Beer - Notorious IPA3 (Triple IPA) Deschutes Brewery - The Abyss: Coconut (Imperial Stout aged in whiskey barrels w/ roasted coconut flakes, licorice, cherry bark & vanilla beans)

Episode 147 : Guest Beers from ABV Chicago Nick and Alex are back in the basement for an IRL podcast! We're drinking beers our friends ABV Chicago brought us in exchange for some locals while they were in town! We kick this episode off with Hop Butcher for the World's Green Moss and it makes us think about getting a flavor wheel again. Nick tells a story about food poisoning and not being smart. Alex got some Venmo's for pride and we talk about the Fueled Family Reunion happening 7/17. Nick and Alex recap their weekends including Old Thunder and Four Points and a highlight meeting the Bridge City Brinery crew and the legend of the banana ketchup. After we talk about food trucks we roll into beer #2: Phase Three's Pixel Density Lite. Episode subtitle : I don't have many friends who drink craft beer except for the friends who drink craft beer - Alex. Alex ran into Aadam Soorma and revisited his Goldmark experience before telling Nick about his experience with 2 Frays Brewing in Garfield. We share our appreciation for being at the bar and the service industry handling it as good as they can. From there, we're on to beer #3 which is a wild collab between Half Acre and Morton Salt called It Pours. This one was WILD and we both felt the same about it. We take a palate cleanser break with Mental Titans from Old Thunder and then we talk about the pricing of deodorant and general hygiene soaps and solutions. Beer number 4 is Supermassive Cafe Deth from Revolution Brewing with Dark Matter Coffee. After being wowed by this Revolution stout, Nick drops a gift from @hellobrewtifulpgh, the Platform x Prantl's collab. We called Jen to get her reaction to Alex drinking this beer. We wrap with the normal shoutouts to all our friends and can't wait for you to listen next week! Cheers! Beers We Drank: Green Moss - Hop Butcher for the World (DIPA - 7.5%) Pixel Density Lite - Phase Three (Session IPA - 4.5%) It Pours - Half Acre x Morton Salt (Salt IPA - 7.0%) Mental Titans - Old Thunder Brewing (IPA - 6.8%) Supermassive Cafe Deth - Revolution Brewing (Imperial Stout - 14.0%) Chocolate Almond Torte - Platform x Prantl's (Milk Stout - 8.5%) Music: All The Way Up - Eddy freemusicarchive.org/music/eddy/2_D…th-CloudBounce

Episode 146 : Pride and Podcasting Nick and Alex are back this week for a few conversations about things! First, go vote for us as Pittsburgh's Best Podcast as voted on by the Pittsburgh City Paper readers! (https://citypaper.secondstreetapp.com/Best-of-Pittsburgh-Readers-Poll-2021/gallery/?group=388190) After plugging ourselves relentlessly, we switch gears and talk to Alex about Pride Month. Alex shares the background he knows about it and we explore the conversation around acceptance and openness in the LGBTQ+ community. After the pride month conversation, Nick tells the story of meeting up with ABV Chicago (a local Chicago craft beer podcast). Alex tells us about going back to Grist House. Nick talks Four Points North Side, again. As we wrap this week, we talk about our love of low ABV crushers for the hot days and give a shout to Hop Nation USA and #spicyboisummer. Thanks for listening! Vote for us! Beers We Drank: Point To Point - Four Points Brewing (IPA - 7.4%) Music: All The Way Up - Eddy freemusicarchive.org/music/eddy/2_D…th-CloudBounce

Episode 145 : Alex Does California Alex returns from his trip to California to visit his twin Jake. Nick talks about his episode with Dave from Four Points last week. After that, Nick recaps his week including visiting Shubrew's General Shu's Chinese restaurant which launches us into a discussion about Butler and specifically Zelienople's brewery scene. Alex takes over next and talks about his Cali trip. The twins visited Monterey and Carmel by the Sea and visited Alvarado Street Brewery. Alex was very impressed with the “Yeast of Eden” series of beers. They visited Fieldwork and Camino breweries and Alex was impressed. Travel was kind of a nightmare for Alex heading home from California. After recapping the rest of his trip, Alex explains Goodlander to Nick. Nick transitions to the news section of the podcast and talks about Brew Gentlemen's new pop-up at the Allegheny Overlook! Next up, Grist House is open again! We talk Necromancer and the hype releases they've had recently, which have garnered the attention of ABV Chicago, a craft beer podcast who is visiting Pittsburgh soon. Nick gets on his soapbox about Cold IPA and how we can try to embrace the expansion of beer styles. To wrap up, we talk about how excited we are about Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week coming back and being put on by the Pittsburgh Brewer's Guild. With a quick shout at the end, Fueled By Hops “Fueled Family Reunion” is happening July 17th! It's free! Beers We Drank: Bedtime Story: Chapter 8 - Hightower Brewing (BA Imperial Stout - 14.0%) Music: All The Way Up - Eddy freemusicarchive.org/music/eddy/2_D…th-CloudBounce

Tonight, we have the story of five breweries local to Chicagoland who opened amidst a global crisis, and the five beers that lifted the spirits of two weary beer reviewers. It’s ABV Chicago with your Local News - new breweries and new beers with your old friends, Ryan and Craig. First, we open with a few surprising new buttons, then to one person’s battle cry for ska; and later, a lactose-free label? You won’t believe your ears. Then at 10, it’s the new series: Jaws of Justice. All that after your number one source for arbitrary beer reviews recorded remotely from Chicago.  Beers Reviewed   Art History Brewing - Gravitace (Czech-style Pale Lager) Goldfinger Brewing Company - Vienna-Style Lager Histrionic Brewlab - After (FX) (Pale Ale) Brothership Brewing - DDH Earth Go Hard (New England-Style DIPA) Azadi Brewing Company - Kadak (Mumbai Chai Cutting Stout)

Mike Stephen chats about all things related to podcasting!  Matt Young of Hello From the Magic Tavern, Ryan Ingwersen of ABV Chicago, and Kelly Opalko from the Chicago Podcast Festival stop by the studio to discuss podcasting in Chicago and beyond.  This week's local tunes provided by Sports Boyfriend.

Whether you see it as beer’s #version of Record Store Day or as a viral marketing ploy to drive sales for struggling brands, we here at ABV Chicago embrace these classics with open arms. And our arms are very open on this episode as we sample 12 of the most important beers in American craft beer, all of which either launched or propelled legacy brands. No one in the world really needs our take on these beers, but here you go! Before pronunciation becomes a problem, we share the plagiarised stories of these beers’ varied histories, Craig accidentally ends up in a porn, Ryan forgets about Fat Tire, and we workshop some stuff for Spontaneous September. We also try and sell Jim Koch our palates, Craig yearns for the Days of Malt, and Ryan reviews Baker’s Square from the 90s. Come for the classic beers; stay for the Moist Steven. Flagships “Reviewed” Anchor Brewing Company - Anchor Steam Beer Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. - Pale Ale Boston Beer Company - Samuel Adams Boston Lager Bell’s Brewery - Amber Ale Great Lakes Brewing Company - Dortmunder Gold Yuengling Brewery - Traditional Lager Deschutes Brewery - Black Butte Porter Lagunitas Brewing Company - IPA Allagash Brewing Company - White New Glarus Brewing Company - Spotted Cow Oskar Blues Brewery - Dale’s Pale Ale Dogfish Head Craft Brewery - 60 Minute IPA

When Neil Fisher crushes your porch with a big box of WeldWerks beer for sampling, you don’t hesitate to revel in the flavorful delights contained within. Recorded in October, this 2nd edition (in ten episodes) of us marvelling at the expertly-crafted hype-machine beers from the Colorado brewery includes likely the best beer either of us have had all year. But there’s also some important contributions to the ABV Chicago canon, like “flerbals” and “flavor aliens,” so you can hear what that’s all about. And to really bring the magic to this sequel, there are two games: one about WeldWerks beers, and one with an unmentionable name about discontinued snack items. #keepinitflerbal Beers Reviewed Fake Item Box (New England-style Milkshake Session IPA w/ lactose and vanilla) Blackberry Cobbler Berliner (Kettle sour w/ blackberry puree, vanilla, graham crackers, and lactose) Piña Colada Milkshake (New England-style Milkshake Double IPA w/ toasted coconut, pineapple puree, and vanilla) Cosmic Torero (New England-style Double IPA) Mexican Medianoche (Imperial stout aged in Woodford Reserve barrels for 20 months, aged on vanilla beans, cinnamon sticks, and cacao nibs)

What better for an audio medium than a beer sampling? Pat visits the new Craft Kave at Guaranteed Rate Field to talk beer with special guests Craig and Ryan from the ABV Chicago craft beer podcast.

What better for an audio medium than a beer sampling? Pat visits the new Craft Kave at Guaranteed Rate Field to talk beer with special guests Craig and Ryan from the ABV Chicago craft beer podcast.

If you haven’t heard of Triptych yet, you’re not alone - at least for now. On the edge of the University of Illinois campus, this brewery is making a variety of stellar beers - and we’ve got five to taste for this episode plus an interview with founder/owner/brewer Anthony Benjamin. Learn why you should schedule your Savoy trip soon, how they got connected with the Pygmalion fest, and what Triptych does with their beers that a lot of larger breweries wish they could. Throw in a few drunk texts from Craig, another Ryan’s Produce Minute, and the lasting impact of Stefan Urquelle, and you’ve got yourself another ABV Chicago podcast. We hope you like it. Beers Reviewed Little Secret (Session IPA) These Aren’t the Blueberries You’re Looking For (Berliner weisse) Pygmalion Pilsner Because, Chocolate (Imperial Cocoa Stout) Here Be Dragons (Imperial IPA)

It's the Beer Guys 6 month anniversary!  We celebrate with the crew from Atlanta's Second Self Beer Company. We talk to one of the newest breweries in the state as they prepare to open up their new tasting room.  We also talk to Steve from SweetWater, who fills us in on the latest about the theft of their beers.  Finally, Craig from the ABV Chicago podcast stopped by. He was on a tour of major league baseball parks and found himself in Atlanta. We share some Chi-Town beers, and his bewilderment over Georgia's terrible beer laws.  Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast 026  

We’re all too eager to try more from Boston’s Trillium Brewing Company as we were positively gobsmacked by their beers last time. This time around, we have MC Johnsen from Worth 1000 Beers to help us review these five offerings and steer us into some serious streams of consciousness. We talk a bit about Trillium’s expanded production and second location, saison brewing, and hop blindness. For the digressions on this one, we go deep on candy (of course), feeling cheese, bad accents, ranch-flavored things, elbow dancing, and The Eagles. There’s an exciting announcement for our Patreon patrons; Craig shares his report on new craft beers at U.S. Cellular this season; MC promotes her “RAW” event at the Metro; and Ryan joins the creamy revolution.   Help nominate us for a Podcast Award by going to podcastawards.com and entering “ABV Chicago” in the Arts category between April 15th and April 30th.   Rankings   Ryan Pot & Kettle Oatmeal Porter Sleeper St. IPA Double Dry-Hopped Fort Point Pale Ale Melcher St. IPA Free Rise Saison   MC Melcher St. IPA Double Dry-Hopped Fort Point Pale Ale Pot & Kettle Oatmeal Porter Sleeper St. IPA Free Rise Saison   Craig Double Dry-Hopped Fort Point Pale Ale Pot & Kettle Oatmeal Porter Sleeper St. IPA Melcher St. IPA Free Rise Saison

Episode 111 - Stoneface Brewing Co. Since 2014, the people of Stoneface Brewing Co. have been focused on churning out a small variety of high quality brews. We drink five from the New Hampshire brewery, and there’s nary a complaint to be made about these great beers. But the diversions we take are more, uh, graphic than ever. Expect to hear about a Mozzapocalypse, perfect rimjobs, the genius of Neil Breen, eating babies, Nick Nolte’s Sea Captain period, and Craig’s sexual proclivities. It’s actually not as bad as it sounds. But we do say maybe the worst words we’ve ever said, Craig reveals he’s a Certified Beer Server, and Ryan subjects Craig to a game of “Name That Stone or Face.” Caution: it gets frothy. Beers Reviewed Blip (Session IPA) Rye (India Red Rye Ale) Porter RIS (Russian Imperial Stout w/coffee and vanilla beans) BA RIS (Rum barrel-aged) CORRECTION: Marvin Berry in Back To The Future is actually Chuck Berry’s cousin, not his brother. ABV Chicago would like to formally apologize for this error.

In the annals of ABV Chicago, this one will certainly go down as Craig’s masterpiece. We have five maple syrup and coffee breakfast beers and pair them with five doughnut creations from local baking geniuses Glazed & Infused. Once again we are joined by Chicago Reader’s 2015  Best Food WriterDennis Lee, and like the feeling of syrup in the corners of your mouth and the rot of sugar in your belly after a giant stack of pancakes, he will make you feel disgusting yet oddly satisfied. Dennis shares some Pizzle updates, a sad birthday story, his thoughts on a Freegan challenge, and some helpful explanations of “Red Velvet” and ganache. But mostly we hear about his garbage life and Tinder disappointments. Other topics include continental breakfasts, the film “Independence Day” (and the eternal Paxton or Pullman debate), new CK scents, and Craig’s awful diet. Please send insulin.   Featured Glazed & Infused Donuts   Terry’s Mocha Koffee Toffee Maple Bacon Long John Sweet Tooth (w/Butterfinger topping and vanilla glaze) Red Velvet Chocolate   Rankings   Craig 1. Toppling Goliath Mornin’ Delight 2. Tree House Good Morning 3. Transient Buckley 4. Terrapin French-Toasted Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout 5. Funky Buddha Maple Bacon Coffee Porter   Ryan 1. Tree House Good Morning 2. Toppling Goliath Mornin’ Delight 3. Funky Buddha Maple Bacon Coffee Porter 4. Transient Buckley 5. Terrapin French-Toasted Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout   Dennis 1. Tree House Good Morning 2. Toppling Goliath Mornin’ Delight 3. Transient Buckley 4. Terrapin French-Toasted Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout 5. Funky Buddha Maple Bacon Coffee Porter

While we were in Chicago, we had the pleasure of being guests on the ABV Chicago Podcast. Find out more about this episode on their page. Hope you enjoy it! Here's their writeup: The Beerists swept through this city like a drunken typhoon, and they stopped by to wreak some havoc on Craig’s cellar. John Rubio, Anastacia Kelly, and Mike Lambert join us to do what they’ve been doing for longer than us: review delicious beers. We talk about their Austin-based award-winning podcast, highlights of their Chicago trip, and their observations on this city’s beer culture. Also, Anastacia gives spot-on food pairings, Rubio sings, and Craig and Mike become closer than we are comfortable with. You’re welcome! 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, Anastacia Kelly, and Mike Lambert. twitter.com/thebeeristsfacebook.com/thebeeristsor email us at info@thebeerists.com