ABV Chicago Craft Beer Podcast

It’s no secret that we love Missouri breweries, and we’re delighted to try four beers from 2nd Shift Brewing. In this short show we manage to cram in our usual beer reviews, a thorough discussion of yellow candy, a few songs from Craig, and a sneaking suspicion that we have been drugged. This one ends with a tingle!

 

Ryan

1. Liquid Spiritual Delight

2. Art of Neurosis

3. Albino Pygmy Puma

4. Mullineaux

 

Craig

1. Liquid Spiritual Delight

2. Art of Neurosis

3. Mullineaux

4. Albino Pygmy Puma

Direct download: ABV_Chicago_53_2nd_Shift.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:17pm CDT

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We’re clearing out Craig’s cellar on this episode by drinking the first five beers Revolution Brewing released under their Deep Wood series. We learn valuable lessons about aging barrel-aged beers, distinguishing dark fruits, and drinking five high-ABV beers before attempting to make sense of rankings. Craig pulls back the curtain on some of our recording secrets, and Ryan does stuff with prunes. This episode is not for suckers, fools, or ho-hum emcees.

 



 

Ryan

 

1. Very Mad Cow (2012)

 

2. 3rd Year Beer

 

3. Straight Jacket (2012)

 

4. Bean Gene (2013)

 

5. Mean Gene (2013)

 



 

Craig

 

1. Very Mad Cow (2012)

 

2. Straight Jacket (2012)

 

3. Bean Gene (2013)

 

4. 3rd Year Beer

5. Mean Gene (2013)

Direct download: ABV_Chicago_52_Revolution_Deep_Wood.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:13am CDT

Now that we’re a year old, we can finally drink like grown-ups, while still behaving like children. So we attempt to class up the joint by drinking six fancy beers from Cantillon and inviting Ken Getty to join us. Listen in as Craig handles some actual research while trying not to fumble his lambic basket (literally and figuratively). Ken explains why Cantillon’s brewing methods are so hard to reproduce, and why these fruited lambics are so important to drink fresh. Ryan mostly gets heartburn. Oh, and you might not want to listen if the term “Fou’ Foune” offends you. Happy birthday to us!



Ryan

1.   Fou’ Foune

2.   Lou Pepe Kriek

3.   Iris

4.   Lou Pepe Framboise

5.   Lou Pepe Gueuze

6.   Cuvée St-Gilloise



Craig

1.   Fou’ Foune

2.   Lou Pepe Gueuze

3.   Lou Pepe Kriek

4.   Cuvée St-Gilloise

5.   Iris

6.   Lou Pepe Framboise



Ken

1.   Fou’ Foune

2.   Lou Pepe Gueuze

3.   Iris

4.   Cuvée St-Gilloise

5.   Lou Pepe Kriek

6.   Lou Pepe Framboise

 

Direct download: ABV_Chicago_51_Cantillon.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:06am CDT

For this milestone episode, we revisit the inimitable Hill Farmstead by drinking and reviewing seven more beers. We reminisce on some of our favorite beers and episodes from the first 49 and reach an unprecedented level of, uh, professionalism by the end of the show. The beer is as good as the content is ribald. Here’s to another 50 episodes of craft beer irreverence!

 

Ryan

1. Arthur

2. Damon (Bourbon Barrel Aged)

3. Damon (Port Barrel Aged)

4. Beyond Good and Evil

5. Vera Mae

6. Jimmy

7. Everett

 

Craig

1. Arthur

2. Damon (Bourbon Barrel Aged)

3. Beyond Good and Evil

4. Vera Mae

5. Damon (Port Barrel Aged)

6. Jimmy

7. Everett

Direct download: ABV_Chicago_50_Hill_Farmstead_II.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:44am CDT

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