Season 3, Episode 37 – This week, we’re heading up to the California Craft Beer Summit and making a few stops along the way. The 2016 California Craft Beer Summit is upon us! But, before get into the nitty gritty of the event, we’re driving up to Sacramento and making some stops along the way to pick up some beers from California breweries that we normally wouldn’t have access to. Erin Peters from The Beer Goddess also joins us in our makeshift hotel room studio in beautiful downtown Sacramento,...
Sep 12, 2016•53 min
Season 3, Episode 36 – This week, beers from Side Project, 2nd Shift, New Glarus, and more! This week on the show, we’re drinking beers from Four Brewers listener Andy Richter. Andy originally asked us for a bottle of The Bruery’s Imperial Cabinet to trade for something local to him. John, being the awesome and giving individual that he is, told Andy that he’d send him a bottle for “free” (no trade required) just because that’s how John is (Did I mentionwe, mention that John is the shiz?!). In r...
Sep 04, 2016•47 min
Season 3, Episode 35 – Jason’s got Mirkwood. Another week, another awesome homebrew from Jason . We could get used to this! He’s on a bit of a roll actually, honing his skills on newly upgraded brewing setup and making his versions of New England IPA. His latest brew turned out to be a session IPA. Damn mash efficiency! But, before we get to the homebrew, we’ve got some cans fresh off the line from Almanac Beer Company, and four questions in the 4B Mailbag. Beers from Almanac and Modern Times Ye...
Aug 29, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Season 3, Episode 34 – This week, we head to Canada via Aaron Champion of Cask Ale LA and drink four excellent craft beers from The Great White North. This week on the show, we’re joined by our good friend and fellow beer blogger, Aaron Champion , and he brought us some really interesting and delicious craft beer from his recent trip to Canada. Up until around five or so years ago, Canadian craft beer wasn’t really anything anyone would bat an eye at. A lot of breweries were brewing what was wid...
Aug 22, 2016•50 min
Season 3, Episode 33 – This week, we take a ride on the goser coaster and sample nine gose style beers. Last week’s show was pretty epic. We decided the best way to recover from the incredibly awesome 24 beer pilsner showdown was to relax with some easy-drinking gose style beers from breweries around the world. Gose is a style of beer that’s usually low alcohol, a bit on the tart side, and made with salt to give it a dry, brackish feel (get into the finer details of the style here ). While on pa...
Aug 15, 2016•1 hr
Season 3, Episode 32 – This week, we’re drinking a brewer’s dozen of pilsner and ranking them, like you do. Another 4B Showdown coming at you, this time it’s the Pilsner Showdown 2.0. You might be asking yourself – what happened to the pilsner showdown 1.0? Well we might be asking you to mind your own god damned business. We might also be overcompensating for the fact that we recorded an entire 16 beer showdown that we got so mixed up on which beer number we were on that it ended up incomprehens...
Aug 08, 2016•1 hr 32 min
Season 3, Episode 31 – This week, we’re hanging out with Nichole Richardson, aka Tasting Nitch, all the way from France! This week on the show, we’re going to Paris, France (via Google Hangouts, of course) to drink some beer with fellow YouTuber and blogger, Nichole Richardson, or as she’s more widely known, Tasting Nitch . Nichole Richardson, aka Tasting Nitch Today’s episode really isn’t about the beer more than about Nichole and the beer scene in Europe and France, as well as beer trends in t...
Aug 01, 2016•1 hr 12 min
Season 3, Episode 30 – This week, we’re discussing hoppy brew, Saison, and brewery collaborations with Tomme Arthur of The Lost Abbey / Port Brewing. The Lost Abbey is probably one of the best Belgian-style breweries in the world, creating some of the best saison, wild ale, and barrel-aged beer that money can buy. Today on the show, we’re joined by The Lost Abbey’s (also, Port Brewing Company and The Hop Concept) Head of Brewery Operations, Tomme Arthur . The beers on the show this week represen...
Jul 25, 2016•49 min
Season 3, Episode 29 – This week on the show, we’re hanging out at Mikkeller Brewing Company in San Diego, California with Head Brewer Bill Batten and Barrel whisperer Daniel Cady. World renowned gypsy brewer, Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, recently opened a new brewery right here in the United States. Mikkeller is probably one of the best-known gypsy breweries out there, brewing stellar barrel-aged stouts, wild ales, IPA, and more. Opening a permanent brewery in SoCal is pretty huge, not only for Mikelle...
Jul 18, 2016•54 min
Season 3, Episode 28 – This week, beers from Bruery Terreux. This week on the show, we’re drinking eight beers from Bruery Terreux in celebration of The Bruery opening a second tasting room in Anaheim, California on July 8, 2016! Beer from Bruery Terreux For those not in the know, Bruery Terreux is what The Bruery is branding their sour, funky, and wild line of beers. The beers are all brewed at The Bruery’s brewery, but the wort that is destined to become a Terreux beer is shipped over to the T...
Jul 10, 2016•58 min
Season 3, Episode 27 – This week, beers from AleSmith Brewing Company and Bottle Logic Brewing. Happy Independence Day! This week, we’re keeping the blog post short and sweet. There are vegan hamburgers to be grilled and beers to be drank. This week, we’re drinking some pretty hefty beers from Founders , AleSmith , and Bottle Logic . Before we get too deep into it, we’re gonna start with a trip inside the 4B Mailbag with some Founders Backwoods Bastard . Speaking of which, we’re asking for your ...
Jul 04, 2016•57 min
Season 3, Episode 26 – This week, the Fat Tire & Friends “collabeeration riff pack” and Going In Blind with Nagel. As you may remember, a few weeks ago we sampled the Sierra Nevada collaboration Beer Camp 12-pack . We were marginally dissatisfied with most of the beers. It’s not that the beers outright sucked (there were a couple wins), but they just weren’t noteworthy. This week, we decided to try another collaboration mixer. New Belgium’s take on their collaboration “riff pack” differed fr...
Jun 27, 2016•1 hr
Season 3, Episode 25 – It’s L.A. Beer Week! Let’s drink some beer from Los Angeles breweries. L.A. Beer Week is upon us! This yearly celebration of Los Angeles beer, bars, breweries, homebrewers, restaurants, eateries, food trucks, and beer drinkers has evolved into one of the best celebrations of beer culture in southern California. From Long Beach to Pomona to Gorman, the expansive and densely populated county of Los Angeles has become a destination for beer geeks far and wide. Today, we celeb...
Jun 20, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Season 3, Episode 24 – This week, Jason brewed a Heady Topper clone, and The McNew’s brought us beer from Texas. This week, we are joined by homies Jessica and Sean McNew who recently returned from a trip to Texas and brought back some brew for us to try. But first… Can you believe it? Jason finally got back to homebrewing and came out swinging with a Heady Topper clone! We kick off the show with this juicy wonder, and Jason sure did deliver. He paid particular attention to his yeast health and ...
Jun 13, 2016•52 min
Season 3, Episode 23 – This week, we follow suit with all of the other beer podcasts and try the six beers from the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 12 (six?) pack. This week, we’re going to beer camp! Not really, but we’re gonna imagine we are by drinking the six beers from this year’s Sierra Nevada Brewing Company Beer Camp collaboration variety pack. Sierra Nevada Beer Camp 2016 Our very own Greg Nagel went to Sierra Nevada’s Beer Camp . For a while, it was an actual event that select homebrewers from...
Jun 05, 2016•49 min
Season 3, Episode 22 – New Zealand’s Garage Project recently became available in our local California bottle shops, so this week we’re seeing what the hype is all about…and the hype is real! Before we start the show this week, it should be noted that Matt wasn’t able to make it to Session 35 of Four Brewers due to personal affairs, and thus will not be on this episode or the next one. See you at Session 36, Matt! The first time we heard about Garage Project was at the Firestone Walker Invitation...
May 30, 2016•53 min
Season 3, Episode 21 – This week on the show, 4B listener and super-fan, Mike Kirshner, is at it once again and sent us some really tasty brew from Woodstock, Georgia. Before we start the show this week, it should be noted that Matt wasn’t able to make it to Session 35 of Four Brewers due to personal affairs, and thus will not be on this episode or the next two. See you at Session 36, Matt! We begin by reading our (long overdue) thank you list of Four Brewers’ supporters and podcast reviewers on...
May 24, 2016•48 min
Season 3, Episode 20 – Sour IPA. It’s a thing apparently. But is it a good thing? We’re gonna find out this week on the show. Sour IPA. I don’t know about this. I mean, IPA isn’t supposed to be sour. Sure, there are massively over-hopped sour beers out there that are deliciously awesome, but what exactly is a sour IPA? Is it a standard IPA recipe fermented with brettanomyces, or bacteria? It’s not that simple, right? WHAT’S HAPPENING?! Not all of the beers on the show this week are sour IPAs. Bu...
May 16, 2016•46 min
Season 3, Episode 19 – This week we’re drinking some brews form New York and New Jersey and a new Grapefruit IPA from our friends at Refuge Brewery in Temecula, California. Natalie DeNicholas and John Ryti are also back with us. Four Brewers has the best listeners. It’s true. Just putting that out there. I say that because four of the five beers we’re drinking on the show this week were graciously provided by Four Brewers listener Robert Perry. Getting east coast beers is tough for us, but fans ...
May 09, 2016•33 min
Season 3, Episode 18 – This week: ALL HOMEBREW. Natalie DeNicholas and John Ryti are also joining us! It’s been a slow year for the 4B gang in regards to homebrewing, but today we’re going to make up for the last five months in one episode! Today we’re drinking five homebrews from four brewers (get it?). Maltose Falcons – Saison du Mai First up is John’s triumphant return to brewing, Oat Boner . This beer was inspired by his wildly popular oatmeal IPA, Oats n’ Hoes , but is stripped down and sim...
May 02, 2016•56 min
Season 3, Episode 17 – Today, the 2016 California IPA Showdown. It’s been a while since our last showdown, and we’ve wrestled with how we are going to handle IPA for a long time now. Initially, we thought about trying to get the best of the best IPA from around the country and compare them all blind. The challenge there is it’s nearly impossible to get beer from all over the place, at an acceptable level of freshness, in one place at one time. Plus, as fun as it is to read about a magical elixir...
Apr 24, 2016•52 min
Season 3, Episode 16 – We’re back on the east side with some of New England’s best IPA. I’ve got to say that this is one hell of a show, this week. Listener Chris R. heard a recent episode of the 4B where we weren’t really all that impressed with some of the New England-ish (Pennsylvania, to be exact) beers we had on the show. So what did Chris do? He mailed the fuck out of it and sent us some true New England IPA freshies the day after the show was released. This week, we’ve got beers from Tree...
Apr 17, 2016•53 min
Season 3, Episode 15 – Greg was inspired by a recent trip to Total Wine & More to try beers made by Japanese breweries, and he brought them over to share. This week, we travel to the other side of the globe (actually, Greg just went to the local Total Wine ) and try some Japanese beers that are easy to find (presumably) all over the country. Japanese Beers The coolest part of import beer is the ability to travel the world’s flavors with a quick trip to the big-box beer store. Since delicious...
Apr 11, 2016•49 min
The 4B Flight, Episode 6 – Today on the sixth and final day of The 4B Flight, Second Fiddle from Fiddlehead Brewing Company. We are back with the final episode of this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Fiddlehead Brewing Company – Second Fiddle The final beer of the the flight is a great double IPA from a brewery new to us, Vermont...
Apr 09, 2016•13 min
The 4B Flight, Episode 5 – Today on The 4B Flight, ultra-fresh Hop Tanker from El Segundo Brewing Company. We are back with the fifth of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Hop Tanker DIPA If you listen to the show regularly, you know that all four of us are big fans of El Segundo Brewing Co. Today’s beer was bo...
Apr 09, 2016•8 min
The 4B Flight, Episode 4 – Today on The 4B Flight, John’s opening his 2010 Bourbon County Brand Stout, RARE. We are back with the fourth of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. 2010 Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout If you’re familiar with the very much frowned upon “craft beer black market”, then you know how much...
Apr 07, 2016•12 min
The 4B Flight, Episode 3 – Today on The 4B Flight, a collaboration beer from Prairie Ales and Trve Brewing. We are back with the third of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Prairie and Trve Collaboration Beer Today’s beer is a special treat from Prairie Artisan Ales, made with their brothers and sisters in beer...
Apr 06, 2016•8 min
The 4B Flight, Episode 2 – Today on The 4B Flight, we go full Gooseberry with this sour from Mammoth Brewing Company. We are back with the second of six episodes for this week’s mini-episode-extravaganza that we call The 4B Flight . In case you missed what’s going on here, we’re releasing a new mini-episode of Four Brewers everyday for a week. Why? Because we like you. Mammoth Brewing Company – Gooseberry Sour Today’s beer is a favorite of Matt’s and is certainly right up his alley, Mammoth Brew...
Apr 05, 2016•8 min
The 4B Flight, Episode 1 – Today we begin The 4B Flight , a solid week of new Four Brewers episodes! We’re kicking it off with Monkish Brewing Co.’s collaboration IPA with Other Half Brewing, First Things First . Over the last couple of years, we heard from fans of the show that they wished we could release an episode everyday. While that’s flattering and awesome that these super-fans want to hear us on a daily basis, it’s simply impossible for us to release a full episode everyday. But, we had ...
Apr 04, 2016•8 min
Season 3, Episode 14 – This week, we drink our craft “gateway” beers. Craft beer is awesome, isn’t it? Today, we’re drinking and talking about the beers that converted us from fizzy yellow lager drinkers to the beer geeks we are today. Our Gateway Beers Most of us have been there: you decide that you want to try something different, or a friend offers you their favorite craft beer to try, or maybe you didn’t even know what you were ordering from that pushy bartender with an bad attitude and…BAM!...
Apr 04, 2016•53 min
