Beer School
By John Foster, Motor and special Guests
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Podcast Description
We're here to help you and your friends learn to like more than one kind of beer. There's lots of different beers to like. Some are made right down the street from where you live and others have to travel half way around the world to get to you. Learn why beer tastes like it does, how other styles came about, and all the verbs you might use to describe what you are tasting. The best part is the home work is beer! Beer School topics include: beer, culture, brewing, stories, guides to styles and much, much, more. You don't have to like every beer but don't drink the same beer day after day.
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Slow Beer | Pilsner C-O-L-D is too C-O-L-D for most browns, porters, bocks, belgians, stouts or barley wines. but the cooling systems of most American Bars are set too low for all of these beers. What can YOU do? You gotta let it warm up. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Factory Beer Tastes the Same | Budweiser, Bud Light, Coors and Coors Light go head to head to head to head. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IPA Day | IPA Day is August 4, 2011 | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Almanac (not Old Oak) | Almanac Beer Company stopped by to talk about their beer and what it's about. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forties | Forties are beers that either come in 40 ounce bottles or cost around $40. | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Back to School | learning more about beer by drinking it, going to a class and brewing. | 8/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boonville | Boonville is a short beer festival in middle of a brewers party. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby | Two growlers of McMenamins Ruby got special delivered from Portland. | 5/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anchor's Away | Anchor Brewing got sold. The sky is not going to fall. | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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IPA | Why is it still called IPA if it doesn't go to India? | 4/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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That's Right Cans! | The container of the future is not made of glass. | 4/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Never Beer | Listeners complain that we drink beer that they can't try so we have beer on the show that NOBODY can try. | 4/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Belgium by Bus | yes you (and your new friends) could be traversing Belgium in search of that perfect pint. | 3/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Like Chinese | Exploring the nation that consumes the most beer. | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Motor is Older | Motor made it around the sun once again. So we celebrated that. | 3/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gabby vs Justine | Gabby likes things that Justine can't stand. And the other way around. | 1/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Travel There | Traveling to beer as a destination is a fun way to see the world. | 12/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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T-Day Two Point Oh | The HomeBrewChef aka Sean Paxton drops by to talk turkey. | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Holiday Beer Part 4 | Time travel back to 1986, 1987 and 1988 for some old Anchor Holiday beer. | 11/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BRU/SFO Project | Two San Francisco breweries make a month long festival featuring Belgium style beer called the BRU/SFO Project. | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer by BART (front part) | There's no reason to take a car when public transportation can take you to beer. | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer by BART (other part) | Social Networks, Whuffie, Spatial Reputation, and accidently becoming a beer judge. | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vermonster vs Monster | In the style of a cheesy Japanese movie two monsters go head to head. | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost | We found a bunch of beer in the closet also known as Virtual Fry's that listeners sent to us. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thor | Why isn't the world covered in grey goo? It turns out that yeasts are pretty picky eaters. | 7/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fritz from 98 | We're going on a field trip using the time machine to October of 1998 to Napa California to hear Fritz Maytag speaking at the Northern California Homebrewers Festival. | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hillary and Kristen | Hillary is more interested in the magazine than being on the show. | 7/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pre NHC | The Nation Homebrewers Convention is happening in our backyard. | 6/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rob Widmer at the Oregon Brewers Festival | During the Oregon Brewers Festival 2008 we took over the Brewing Network gear and chatted with Rob Widmer of Widmer Brewing. | 5/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Seventy Two | There were some beers leftover from the Closet Cleaning show so we finished them. | 3/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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SF Beer Week | SF Beer Week involved 150 different events over the week of February 6 - 15. | 2/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer in Review 2008 | Top three beers, remembering festivals, favorite show moments, more politics and a big plate of steaming hash browns! | 1/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Closet Cleaning | Cleaning out the closet (aka Virtual Fry's) and complaining about lists. Thomas geeks out with us about making a Apple II and talking with Woz. | 12/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Repeal Day | December 5th marks the 75th year of the repeal of prohibition in the US of A. | 11/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Holiday Beer Part 3 | Tis the season for cookies, fires and beer. | 11/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One Beer One Hundred Days | Buy two cases of something fresh then drink one beer every three days for 100 days. | 10/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pumpkin | The fall brings us pumpkins and sometimes they end up in beer. | 10/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Five | Five more beers that you should try. | 10/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Octoberfest with MacorMcQue | MacorMcQue a brewer from Gordon Biersch joins us with samples of three different Octoberfest beers made from the same recipe. | 10/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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the Beer Geek dot com | Chris and Meredith are spending a year traveling around around the world touring beer. | 9/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Root Beer | Root beer, like beer has 1000's of variations. | 8/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rock & Roll | Beer has always included music. For centuries in fact. | 8/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OBF | Recounting tales from the Oregon Brewers Festival | 8/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Not Belgium | Belgium style beers are brewed everywhere these days. | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fruit Beer | Fruit beer is good beer. There's lots of flavors from in-your-face to barely there subtle. Recorded on location at the 21st Amendment Brewery. | 7/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Safe | Beer that is "safe" to take to a party that your friends will actually think of as "good beer." | 7/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leftovers | It was time to clear out beer leftover from past shows. | 5/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love Beer | John reports on going to the Craft Brewers Festival held in San Diego. | 4/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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75 years of Beer | Beer has been shipping as beer for 75 years. | 4/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hop Crisis | The hop shortage is affecting the price of beer and might change what we drink. | 3/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Weird | Some sytles of beer are just weird. | 3/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Imperial Irish Coffee Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Oyster Stout | Stout does not need utensiles. But you do need an open mind. | 3/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Touring Belgium | Forget the sunny beach or skiing down the mountain. Go to Belgium to tour beer instead! | 2/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oraganic | Organic beer taste like beer as it's still Barley, Hops, Yeast and Water. We talk about why it's better beer. | 2/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I don't feel Absinthe | Hanging out with the Green Fairy. Oh and we're 1 year old! | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Class Reunion | Rosie the Intern returns with glasses and presents. | 1/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nothing | Robot love, one beer, the award we didn't win, a wrong turn at Absinth and nothing else. | 1/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer in the Movies | Quiet on the set, lights, camera, beer, opener, ACTION! | 1/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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College | Drinking beer at college comes with surprises, statistics and lies. | 1/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer in Review | Top three beers, remembering festivals, books we like, favorite show moments, and some politics. | 12/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Holiday Beer Part 2 | Bake some cookies, light the fire and chill more Holiday beers. | 12/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brew a Career | Melissa is proof you don't need to go to school to brew great beer. | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Holiday Beer Part 1 | Break out the cookies, light the fire and chill the Holiday beers. | 11/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer is Good for You | Beer has many properties that make it good for everyone over 21. | 11/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Those Fall Colors | GABF, Long Shot, Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day, pumpkin beer, 10 years of Magnolia, Beer Bus and Twin Peeks | 11/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Motor phones in from the GABF | Motor calls the robot with reports from the GABF. | 10/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pre GABF | The GABF is next week! | 10/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Brewer's Perspective of Brewing | A perspective of brewing and beer culture from 1983 to present. | 9/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Belgium 101 | Six beers from Belgium. | 9/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zappa and the Three Beers | Pushing the idea of "Your Next Four Beers" further. | 8/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dad's Beer | Hamm's, Schlitz, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Olympia and Old Milwaukee were beers my father and his friends drank. | 8/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Syllabus | What Beer School is all about. Restating our mission. | 8/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doctor Bill in the Classroom | Doctor Bill's house is the 3rd best beer bar in California. | 8/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Road Trip | Stories about places that we've been in search of beer. | 8/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Home Brewing Part 2 | If you can boil water you can make beer. | 7/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawn Mower Beers | You don't want a big hoppy over the top beer when working outside on a summer day. | 7/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surviving a Beer Festival | Beer festival season is here. Remember it's a marathon not a sprint. | 7/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 21st Amendment at the 21st Amendment | Talking about the 21st Amendment live from the 21st Amendment. | 7/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brewing a Sustainable Community | The local brewery affects thousands of people in the community. | 6/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Home Brewing Part 1 | Learning to appreciate beer by making your own. | 6/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Eighteenth Amendment | The Eighteenth Amendment didn't happen over night. It took forces 75 years to make it happen. | 6/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Beers of Summer | Summer is here! Summer beer is here! Try it with Lemonade. Seriously! | 5/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pint of Whatever | We picked up a bunch of random beers then talk about what and how we are tasting. | 5/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Extravagant Tour of Taste | Sean Paxton stops by for a beer with food tour of taste. | 5/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Another Four Beers | A super dark beer and three beers that look like they should. | 5/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Touring San Francisco Beer | A beer travelers guide to San Franciso. | 4/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Live from City Beer! | Buy us your favorite beer and tell a story about it. | 4/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pail of Pale | Bass Ale, Sierra Nevada Pale and Full Sail Pale are fine examples of the Pale style. This is the first show that singles out a specific beer style. | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lowenbrau and Bohemia | Lowenbrau and Bohemia are two styles of beer brewed around the world. | 4/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer and Salad | We pair beer with a variety of different salads with a salad chef and the inventor of the toasted raisin. | 4/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Everyone Knows Your Name | We're talking about pubs. Fav's and rave's, the special, out of the way place, the past, the place to go to be invisible, how to make a new place your own and the places we're never going back. | 3/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Next Four Beers | Four unique beer styles are your homework. | 3/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What's in Nico's Fridge? | We took the train to Fresyes, err Fresno! | 3/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Epiphany and Now - Part 2 | Part 2 of the beer that made us beer geeks and what we seek out now. | 3/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Epiphany and Now - Part 1 | The beer that made us beer geeks and what we seek out now. | 3/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beer versus Beer | Comparing the same beer in a bottle and a can. Bud vs Bud, Foster's vs Foster's, and Heineken vs itself. | 2/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rockstar Bartender | We kidnapped a bartender! Then made her talk about bar etiquette. | 2/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting Beyond American Tastification | Taste the four basic tastes of beer: sweet, bitter, sour, skunk. | 2/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It all starts here... | Beer School where the homework is beer. We talk about terms to get us started and the reason why we like the beer that we like. | 2/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 99 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Probably a great show if you live in San Francisco and you're not into beer.
Most of the shows I've listened to are chatter about San Fran bars and brew pubs and unfortunately very little about the actual beers. Content strays off topic for most of the time. Shows are far too long because of this. The reviews of beers are typically "This beer is good" and they say for every beer they have. Not very detailed in their reviews and they select fairly generic commercially accessible beer (ex Sierra Nevada, Bass, Guiness). After listening to a nubmer of shows, I just don't get the feeling these guys have a very deep knowledge of beer.
Unfulfilled Potential
The basic premise of the show is to help get people out of the "one kind of beer' rut. This is a great idea and the hosts clearly have the knowledge and ability to pull it off. Unfortunately, the hosts run every episode so far off the rails that their message is completely lost. Beer School has the potential to be very educational, entertaining and, most importantly, helpful. Beer School would be a killer podcast if John and Motor could simply maintain some focus. 30-45 minutes would be more than enough time to educate and have some fun with the topic. I truly believe that listenership would increase significantly.
Beer School is cool
The hosts, John and Motor are beer lovers that cater to listeners with mono-beer experience with a desire to move on. Their goal is beer education for those that are ready to purchase other than standard convenience store beers. The podcasts vary somewhat in beer educational value, but typically are above average. Even a seasoned beer drinker will find new beer vocabulary in many of the podcsts . Something for everyone: Some campy jokes, "There was this bear that went into the bar..." Ground breaking Podcast descriptive technique, quoting Pantone color numbers for beer color. Unconventional opinions, such as beer in cans is superior. Beer critique, "stays on the inside of the glass until it pours down my throat..." Controversy, the "RockStar Bartender" episode. All in all, a great listen. Send these guys a beer coaster...
