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Episode 184 – Hops for Downloads
We love hops – and more importantly, our listening audience loves hops too. So to keep pushing those download numbers higher, we take our palates to the limit with six random hoppy beers. We talk...
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Great American Beer Festival 2017 Psyche Up!
It’s that time of year again! Were you lucky enough to score tickets to the Great American Beer Festival? Or are you planning on taking it all in and watching the awards ceremony from home? Whatever...
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Episode 195 – Vanilla Stout Bottle Share
For many years now, vanilla has been the adjunct that takes a beer’s status from gold to platinum, instantly raising its secondary value to ridiculous levels. Not wanting to waste a drop, we invited a...
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Episode 200 – The 200th Episode Extravaganza
To commemorate our big 200, we ditched all of our high concept ideas to bring it back to the podcast’s origins by having a bottle share of random beers that interested us. But we couldn’t stop there,...
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Ryan’s Top 50 Beers of 2017
Take a little trip with me. Come back to a time when people cared about year-end lists – approximately three and a half weeks ago, or perhaps never – and allow me to share my completely arbitrary...
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Most Memorable 30 Beers of 2017
It’s the end of the year and time to look back on the… wait a minute, it’s 2018! Between the holidays, getting sick, and drinking, drinking, drinking, this list is unfortunately coming out a little...
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Great Taste of the Midwest 2018
The Great Taste of the Midwest has long been a staple of the Madison beer scene. Always taking place the second weekend in August on the banks of Lake Monona, the fest brings in breweries from all over...
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Half Acre’s Far And Away: Beer List Breakdown
This past Friday, Half Acre released the beer list “as we know it” for their first invitational beer fest, Far and Away. The festival, which takes place on Saturday, October 13th atop the Harris...
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Ryan’s 30 Best Beers of 2018
The criteria for the list is simple: these are the best beers that I had this year that were released this year. Most of these were packaged but some were from draft pours or at festivals (if I had...
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ABV Chicago 5th Anniversary Party
We’ve been doing this for half a decade, so we decided to throw a party! On Groundhog Day, so it will never end, right? Details: Date: February 2, 2019 Where: Beermiscuous, 2812 North Lincoln Avenue,...
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Episode 265 – BA Vanilla Stouts Blind
With a secondary price tag higher than our mortgage payments, this show is an embarrassment of riches in flavor and in rarity. But will we be embarrassed by our blind rankings of eight barrel-aged...
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Episode 266 – Cherry On Tap
Like a lucky slot machine pull, we have a winning lineup of cherries on this show as we try five different styles of beer from five breweries, all featuring cherry. We learn quite a bit about these...
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Episode 271 – Cellar Roulette
It’s a high concept week in the bunker as we gamify our cellars by letting a roll of the dice determine the show’s lineup. Both Craig and Ryan dug deep into their closets to offer up a range of twelve...
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Saisonathon 2019
Join us as we celebrate saisons with our third annual Saisonathon event during Illinois Craft Beer Week! We’re switching things up a bit this year. Same amount of interesting and diverse saisons –...
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Episode 276 – Saisonathon 2019 Live
For the third straight year – and our first at Forbidden Root – we celebrated Illinois Craft Beer Week by bringing together some of the area’s best saisons and saison brewers. On this episode recorded...
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Great Taste of the Midwest 2019
Back for a 33rd year, the Great Taste of the Midwest always signals the beginning of the end of summer (for myself at least). But it goes out with a bang. Between the events the day prior, the bottle...
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30 Most Memorable Beers of 2019
The Year in Beer 2019 featured some well-tread areas – shocking (and some not-so-shocking) brewery sales, cramming your grocery store shopping cart in the mash tun – along with some that we didn’t see...
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Episode 318 – Peanut Butter Cup Stouts Blind
Three great tastes that taste great together: peanut butter, chocolate, and stout combine in all six beers on this blind tasting – and a few prove that there is a wrong way to drink a Reese’s....
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Episode 324 – SIP Dark
As we continue our shelter-in-place recordings, this time we’ve got a somewhat random mix of dark beers to distract us from *gestures broadly* and get us nearly incoherent by rankings time. Whether...
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ABV Chicago Monthly Sampler: April 2020
The pivot to curbside and delivery service for breweries, bars, and bottle shops has given something of a second life to many businesses and has redefined beer buying for the consumer. It won’t solve...
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