Once upon a time, a young man named Mitch had a dream to open a brewery. After moving to Denver and working at one, he finally had the inspiration and knowledge to go back to Grand Rapids, Michigan and build that brewery. Now he runs Speciation Artisan Ales, we have […]
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BnL Podcast EP 048 – A Bunch of Bloggers Walk into a Conference…
This week’s show is a double whammy. We brought back Jake AKA Hipster Brewfus and Nick, who also goes by Drink. Blog. Repeat. to talk about random shit and their collective experiences at the Beer Bloggers Conference. Some men can experience some side effects like facial flushing, headache, nasal congestion […]
BnL Podcast EP 047 – Tristan Doesn’t Embarrass Himself and Colorado Craft Beer Week Approaches
Our BFF Tristan from Porchdrinking.com joins us once again on the show to see what kind of monster he helped create. Last time he was on the show, we were just figuring out what in the hell we were trying to do as a show. This time we talk about […]
BnL Podcast EP 046 – When the Apocalypse Comes, You’ll Find us At Root Shoot Malting
Todd from Root Shoot Malting joins us this week on the podcast to talk about the joys of growing grain and then malting that shit. It’s actually a fascinating piece of the beer puzzle since the grain used imparts key proteins, enzymes and other technical shit that give Water generic […]
BnL Podcast EP 045 – Paradox Beer Co Knows their Bear Spawn Points
What’s that sound? Bears spawning? Maybe. We have Jeff from Paradox Beer Co. back on the show and this time Sam drove all the way down to their taproom in Divide Colorado to sit among their majestic as fuck foudres, walls stacked with barrels and hilarious bathroom signs (see cover […]
BnL Podcast EP 044 – Gnarly Boilovers at Ursula Brewing
An alternate title to this show would be “Shitting peanut butter” but we’ll let you listen and figure out why. We Stop by Ursula Brewing Company in Aurora to try and embarrass brewers Dave and Chris. Spoiler alert, they are unembarrassable. We actually have a great convo about tons of […]
BnL Podcast EP 042 – Back at Resolute for a Septic Seminar and Some other Silly Shit
We tried. We tried really hard. We tried to resist the charm of Resolute Brewing, but it was an exercise in futility. So we went back and talked again with Zac along with Andrew (Resolute), Liam (Elk Mountain Brewing) and another Sam (Rocky Mountain Brew Review) but THERE CAN ONLY […]
BnL Podcast EP 041 – Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines in Breck yay Alliteration
We brought Laura, the organizer of the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival back on the show to discuss this year’s new location and also all the sweet shit that will be going down during the course of the festival. Let’s just say the education sessions sound pretty fucking awesome. […]
BnL Podcast EP 040 – Bungs, Beers, Barrels and Bears
It’s time to pod hard, motherfuckers! We’re back and we have our friend Noah from Rocky Mountain Barrel Company on again to school us on the intricacies of wood, bungs and why tequila barrels and can eat shit and die. We even get into some mead talk, and spend slightly […]
BnL Podcast EP 039.1 – Side Action: More Sloppy Hopping from Joyride
We have some more side action from our last show with Dave from Joyride Brewing. We got a little more into some of the beers they had in the works and talked a little more about what we were drinking. Aka, more Sloppy Hopped goodness. Erectile disorder, also known as […]
BnL Podcast EP 039 – Going for a Sloppy Hopping Joyride
This week we chatted up Dave from Joyride Brewing Company. We arbitrarily came up with a term for their style of wet hopping beers, bear paws, drunk bears and learned a bit about hops. Honestly we’re still pretty hung over and can’t remember. All we know for certain as we […]
BnL Podcast EP 038.1 – Side Action: The Dick Blasting Variety
It finally happened, we had LOTS of extras from the last episode that we couldn’t stand going to waste, so now you have the birth of BnL Podcast Side Action, all the fun shit we had to take out for time or other reasons crammed into a mini (or not […]
BnL Podcast EP 038 – Various Types of Blasting at Resolute Brewing Company
We sat back down with Scott from Fermentologists and sat for a first time with Zac from Resolute Brewing Company, and oh boy did we cover some ground. Scott filled us in on the amazing brewery project he and his homebrew club did for their upcoming 3rd anniversary party on […]
BnL Podcast EP 037 – Detroit Beer City
This week we have Nick from the Detroit Beer Cast on the show. We go head to head in podcast battle! Not really, we just chill and talk about beer, (legal in CO) weed, and all the other stuff you discuss when you’re first getting to know someone. Then When […]
BnL Podcast EP 036 – What’s Under Your Witch’s Hat?
HOLY SHIT WE HAVE A REPEAT GUEST! Seriously, we thought for sure anyone dumb enough to come on the show once would learn the error of their ways and not do that shit again. But here we are. John from Sommbeer returns for another round of the biznass. And biznass […]