Speaking of Beer

…is The Song of the Day! Thanks, Beatnik Turtle!

SoB Newshound™ Eric sent me this link. It goes to an article talking about East Coast/West Coast differences vis-à-vis hops, and mentions a couple of Smackdown brews. Enjoy!

The Top Ten Reasons Beer is Better Than Jesus

Those easily offended be warned: it’s pretty brutal.

OK, so…

Due to a technical glitch, the original Show 32 has gone pfffffffft! into the world of ones and zeros* .

Bummer. But keep those show beers chilled, as it will come back, in the not-too-distant-future.

During the meanwilst, the new and completely different show 32 is about to land on the shores of the podosphere. To drink along you should acquire: a dunkelweizen, such as Prescott Brewing Company’s Funkendunkel (or Ayinger Ur-weisse or Franziskaner Hefe-Weisse Dunkel or Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel or Hacker-Pschorr Dunkle Weisse)

and

Aventinus Wheat Doppelbock (no significant alternatives)

Also, SoB is going to have a little hiccup in the schedule (beyond the usual) as I enjoy a little summer vacation with my family. Look for the next show in about three weeks, and cross your fingers (like I am) that much beery good content will come out of this little hiatus.

I’ll be back in a flash, and until then, drink well!

*my deepest apologies to Mark A., CMAAAAAAAAAR!, Thomas from Flagstaff, Yooper, Doug Kress, Enormous from Australia, Kris Mayo, Brain Brown, Tim Adamec, Alec/clichekiller, Rhettro, and Rhettro’s lovely air-guitar goddess of a wife

OK, this is only tangentially related to beer…but folks are clamoring for pictures, and I aim to please. The pool party was a beer showcase…everything from Flying Dog Gonzo Porter to Shiner Bock to homebrewed Maibock was in evidence, and plenty of folks rode their favorite brews to the maximum level of human inebriation. Sadly, I had to leave before actual injury occured, but here’s what I got before then:

Body in pool = Debbie

Note the presence of much Stone

Love you too, Brian

Meat + Skewers = Yum

Back atcha, Enormous

An email from long-time listener J.R. Murdock:

“You wanted stories, I’ve got one, a short one, but a story.

I’d listened to your show about Stouts and the one with the Chocolate Stout. I decided to give the Double Chocolate Stout a try. I loved it. I enjoy a good Guiness from time to time, but have definitely changed my tune to when it comes to stout.

A friend of mine had a birthday party and he was planning on drinking “nothin’ but Guiness” the whole night. I brought a couple Imperial Stouts and a couple Double Chocolate Stouts. Before any of his party goers arrived, we’d downed both and he’d all but sworn off Guiness. Once the party got underway, he had a couple Guiness, but sent people to the store to buy more Chocolate Stouts. By the end of the night I had converted most of the party goers off of Guiness and onto anything else, I even got a few converts to Arrogant Bastard. My friend had to have another party to try and get rid of all the Guiness that was left over, and we made brats and Guiness (Thanks to Mike)

I’ve spread the word far and wide. Pod on! Charlie, Pod on!”

Sweet, sweet music to my ears!

I was hoping to have show 30 up today, but it looks like that ain’t gonna happen. Look for it around Monday or so. Meanwhile, enjoy these beer-related tidbits provided to me by Eric. Just click on the hypertext and be swept away to a beery story!

Miller tap on Coors keg equals state fine (could anyone tell the difference?)

Beer festival runs out of ale

Do you have Dale in a can?

Latrobe brewery produces first beer in a year

Summer beers

How strong is that beer?

Stone Ruination IPA to be available in “snack size bottles”

For beer fun & news, just follow the links! Thanks to Eric for all of these.

Pizza beer: story here video here

Gluten-free yeast

American Craft Beer Week (going on NOW!)

Go green with New Belgium

Fruity Michelob Ultra (not that that’s a good thing…)

There’s more to spring than bock beer, as made abundantly clear by the great Jonathan Coulton’s ode to getting back to nature, “First of May.” And now you can hear a hilarious version produced by a bunch of podcasters* á là Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” recorded as a tribute to the late great Joe Murphy, a huge Coulton fan. I imagine Joe’s celebrating spring the right way out on the Elysium fields about now…

Catch some podcasters In flagrante delicto here.

Thanks to Paul Fischer and Phil Rossi for putting this together!

*Heather Welliver, Phil Rossi, Martha Holloway, Debbie from Mesa, Barb Fischer, Bill Shunn, Rich Sigfrit, Jared Axelrod, Tim Callender, Jack Mangan, Mathew Wayne Selznick and Command Line

Thanks to ditto for this one. Mad science skilz are used to decipher beer foam. Check it out here!