Episode 33: Jagged Little Pils

08/01/14 • 78 min

Appalachian Marketing Manager Mike Parker and Head Brewer Jay Kendig joined us on-location at theABC brewpub in Collegeville. As patrons dined and enjoyed brews, we chatted about the history and current goings-on at Appalachian Brewing. Dan’s news included stories about dung, bacon, stolen beer and an emotional roller-coaster involving w00tstout 2.0. In Happy Fun Time, Wayne debuted the new game Beer by Numbers and Steph’s school of brewology focused on weizenbocks in Know Your Beers.

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Episode 32: Fresh Hopped

On this episode we recorded with Justin and Kaelin Mast at one of the most awesom locations we’ve ever been lucky enough to visit, French Creek Organics, an organic hop and produce farm in rural St. Peters, Pennsylvania. We set up in the barn with the doors wide open and sipped beers and chatted while overlooking the beautiful farmland (and the hops!) Justin and Kaelin chatted about the joys and frustrations of hop farming and organic farming in general as well as their homebrewing history and much more. Dan did the usual news thing, we played the brand new Hopscotch game in Happy Fun Time, Steph talked about fresh hopping in Know Your Beers and we enjoyed an array of fresh hopped beers from various breweries.

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Episode 34: Pierced Beers

Dean Pierce, founder of the up and coming Pierce Brewing Company in Wyomissing, PA, joined us in studio with his dad and brand enthusiast Tom. Dean has only been homebrewing for a little over a year but has receieved a number of accolades and awards for his beers. Every single one is well-deserved and more; the tasting segment this episode was long and heavenly. Oh, yeah...we also did some news, played Call My Beer Bluff and got our beerducation on in a Know Your Beers all about SMaSH Beers.

Plus bonus audience member/guest John Gillespie, author of Beer Country. John will be an official guest in the near future.