A podcast about beer and life. But mostly about beer.
As I’ve repeated many times over these reviews, finding a brewery new to you rocks. Sometimes there’s some hype, but mostly you get to try the beers and they stand on their own merit. There was a little bit of...
A few years ago (I can’t remember how far back, thanks pandemic) I was in Madison, Wisconsin for the Great Taste of the Midwest. The day before the main event on Saturday – Great Taste Eve – always starts at...
When you hear Half Acre’s name, you immediately think pale ales, IPAs, and double IPAs. And for good reason. Beers like Daisy Cutter, Gone Away, and Vallejo are institutions in Chicago craft beer, right by beers like Anti-Hero and (a...
When we started the podcast in 2014, we set a goal that we quickly realized. Get some of the best double IPAs from across the county and put them on a show. That became our fourth episode, one in which we pushed the limits of how much alcohol we could drink (that includes pre- and between-beer-break-drinking). Then in late 2016/early 2017 we could not contain our excitement over getting seven local New England-style Double IPAs (and one IPA) for our Chi NEIPA show. We didn’t think we’d ever be able to pull it off. Things have now changed and I’m beyond excited to be having Triptych’s Church for Brewers, a West Coast-style Double IPA.
