Don’t have a Go-To Beer because I Go-To Wine, besides I would have to change my name to BeerWoman.

QOTD: Calories are what hold me back, but that’s a lame excuse for not trying more beer. I almost broke down earlier this year and bought Watermelon Beer–(Hell or High Water) from 21st Amendment Brewery–I might still do so. There definitely is some interest. Husband whines when I purchase “fancy beer”. He prefers Michelob or Bud.

Amazing! The Jags will do that to you. Yeti is a sipping beer. It may not have been the best choice for football. Take your time and enjoy what you can and don’t worry about finishing it. Save the cap and put it back in the fridge. It will mellow a tad, but you can drink it over a few days. I do.

The brewery that (I think) is doing the best things with wood (and apologies to White Birch, Great Divide, Dogfish Head and others who are KILLING IT) is Founder’s out of Michigan.

Their Kentucky Breakfast Stout is Bourbon aged. They also have a barrel aged Scotch Ale called Backwoods Bastard that only comes out once a year and goes really fast. It is one of my top 10 beers of all time, but I also am a big Scotch and Bourbon fan. (Both you say? Really? Yes! I say)

512 also has a barrel aged Pecan Stout that is tremendous, but hard to find outside of Austin.

GV – Great show, lots of fun and a great guest! Portmouth Brewery is amazing, I live in Portsmouth, NH! GARY COME TO NH FOR YOUR NEXT BOOK DEAL I CAN HELP YOU WITH PLACES TO CHECK OUT!

QOTD: I love beer! Currently drinking a lot of the Redhook Big Ballard IPA (it’s a double IPA)!

WHO LIVES IN NH?

EPIC show!!

QOTD: Been drinking a bunch of belgian styles from around NY/New England/PA. Right now on a Victory Golden Monkey kick, but also loving me some Butternuts IPA and other IPAs that seem to filter through. Go local on the brews!!

Great Show. We had the choclatier from Austin and now Mark (mike) with the Longhorns shirt. This show is getting better all the time. Give Cleveland a couple of years to get Colt up to speed and prepare to be amazed.

QOTD I’m a big fan of European and Craft beer so its hard to pick a favorite and I rarely buy the same beer twice in a row. Some of my fav’s lately have been Anderson Valley Oatmeal Stout, Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout, Stone Ruination, Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA, Hoegaarden and Dogfish Head Palo Santo.

Yea and beer can take on a pretty dramatic transformation when aged. Throw some of those big beers in your cellar for a year or two or three and see what you think.

You named the two absolute best Oatmeal Stouts on the market. Palo Santo Marron may be the best wood aged beer out there. It’s incredibly brilliant. I like your style Cole.

Dude great show and awesome guest.
Qotd1: Nothing, I drink great and intense beer almost equally as much as wine.
Qotd2: I don’t drink anything specific but I find myself going towards the IPA style beers lately.

Great show and great guest. Come over to Germany, visit Franconia and drink e.g. the “Rauchbier” (smokey beer 😉 ) from Bamberg… or the beers from one of the small brands overhere.

Mpls?

Damn, I was going to make a Larry V joke, but Mike beat me to it. Great show as always Greg and fantastic job Schneider Mike.

QOTD: I have definitely tried many different beers. Whenever there is a new beer on the list, I will always try that over anything I’ve had.

QOTD2: Standard would be Summit or Surly Furious. I would have to say that the reason there are more standards in beer is because they are not as widely varied as wines. Once you’ve had the 15 craft selections at the liquor store and local restaurants, there are no more to try unless you want to take a special trip for beer 25 miles away at a liquor store in the cities. Wine on the other hand more quickly evolves even at the smaller liquor stores.

Various pumpkin ales and other spiced winter ales go GREAT w/ Thanksgiving dinner!
🙂

Quite simply THE BEST beers I’ve ever had from Mex, Mike. The Obscura is absolutely amazing, the honey ale is their only weak effort, the Cupacabra hoppy pale ale is really good and their barleywine ale is unbefreakinlievable…

Great show! India ales are great! Orangey blue moon is good. Good Guest!!! Go to beer… Red Stripe, Holding me back?? Not Sure…

Red Hook Longhammer is giant on Cascade Hops. Green Flash and Stone IPA also nail you with giant grapefruit flavor. Thanks for the “great show”. I really appreciate that.

Thanks for the ups. I appreciate that.

My advice to you is to drink local. When you’re in a new city, try the beers on draught that are local and fresh when you can and keep expanding that wine palate in the meantime! Good strategy.

Someday I will go to German. Part of my family is originally from Germany.

I got to the end and thought, ‘huh. I got all the way to the end without knowing we had the same first name.’

QOTD: the awful smell. I was at this party with a keg (not a ‘kegger’ by any means; it was prospective grad student weekend in WI). I went into the kitchen, where the keg and many beer drinkers were, and walked right out. The stench was nauseating. I am pretty sure if I stayed there for any longer it would have been vomit over everything.

I haven’t commented for a couple hundred episodes. what is keeping me from expanding my beer palate? same thing as what is keeping me from expanding my wine palate: money. Gary, are you talking about the Rogue Dead Guy Ale? that is actually one of the beers in my little turn table of standby beers. I never drink the same beer two six packs in a row, I am always trying new ones the same way I do with wine. call me crazy but I really get bored if I drink the same thing all of the time. my first beer that I fell in love with was from a small brewery in south Burlington Vermont, I had never had a beer like Magic Hat #9. Now I am living out in Cali, I go to Bevmo and get any kind of beer or wine I want. I seem to gravitate toward Belgian style beers and English Ales. I had some really good beer when i was in Fremantle Australia. I specifically remember the Black Swan ale. I’m not even sure you can get the real Australian beers over here. Mike, do you know if you can get good Australian beers here in the U.S.?

Greg!! You are my new favorite beer reviewer. I hope you have Schnerzer Mark on the show again soon!

QOTD: Since I’ve been doing this live comedy show lately that takes place in a bar, I’ve been swayed into drinking more beer by way of convenience. SO it seems that Negro Modelo has been my go-to full-flavored beer lately without going to something too heavy. I love me a Belgian ale, but when drinking multiple beers after a show, this is a fairly complex medium-bodied beer that stays fresh and clean while lending some malty notes as well.

Funky, Funky is Cantaloop by US3. Sounds like the Indomitus is more like a Gueze. But what do I know.

Yeah, coming from the state of the senator who pushed through Prohibition has its downs.

A Gueze is a “flavorless” sour. A wild ale is kind of sour. You’re right brother.

Definitely always good advice to drink local. Everyone should try that, even if only a few times a year.

By the way, I’m from Canton, so not too far from your home town, and have tons of family in Cleveland. I feel fortunate to have Great lakes beer everywhere here, along with a few other nice breweries. Dortmunder on draft at my favorite pizza shop is nice to have. I get to try some nice Hoppin’ Frog beers whenever, since the brewery is right down the road.

Also, Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster is a nice DIPA. It was surprisingly light on the smell for the style, but has a nice cirtus thing going on. What did you think of it?

“The Browns are dead.”
^wtf dude?

…I think Holmgren has defibrillator paddles…

Wow. You described one of the beers as “chocolate on the back end”.

Actually, a “wild ale” does not have to be sour at all Mark.