We finish off our celebration of Stone Brewing’s 15th Anniversary featuring the latest in their long line of collaboration brews. This collaboration was extra special for two home brewers who were selected through a contest held at the brewery, to have their beer made full scale with the help of Stone and Troegs Brewery.…

Our celebration of Stone Brewing’s 15th Anniversary will begin by featuring none other than their just released 15th Anniversary beer. The style this year is an “Escondidian” Imperial Black IPA. We are both huge fans of the Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA that they do year round, it will be interesting to see what…

Last week we doubled down on a pilsner and now this week we are going Tripel, Belgian Tripel of course! Today on the podcast we will be trying the summer seasonal from The Bruery called Trade Winds Tripel. It’s a Belgian-style Golden Ale brewed with rice and spiced with Thai Basil. Should…

It has been over a year since we last tried (and enjoyed) the 09.09.09 Vertical Epic from Stone Brewing. I (Andrew) have been storing two other bottles since then and we thought it would be interesting to try it one more time and see what changes may have occurred, before waiting until December 2012…

Today on the podcast we have a limited release Pipeline Porter from Kona Brewing Company. It’s funny, this is one of those porters that I’m pretty sure I have ever year and enjoy, but can never remember exactly what it tastes like. Finally, thanks to our website and tasting room, I can…

Our friends at Rogue Brewing Co. have brought us a very strangely named seasonal beer to say the least. It’s called Yellow Snow IPA. It makes me wonder two things; Are they just big Frank Zappa fans (he has a song called Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow) and is this beer made…

They say the waiting is the hardest part, but I say it’s the anticipation that’s killing me. For the last year we have spoken longingly of last years seasonal from Left Hand Brewing, Fade to Black Vol. 1. So the day has finally come when their next iteration, the Fade to Black Vol.…

Today on the podcast we have another Winterfest seasonal. This one is a dark double bock lager made for Trader Joe’s by Gordon Biersch and is currently available now until it sell out. Enjoy!