Do I Feel a Saison Coming?

About this episode

The episode features discussions on various craft beers, a brewery soft opening, and listener engagement regarding a beer festival.

Welcome to the Oregon Trail of craft beer. Flex drains two bad beers before a saison finally turns the night around, Greg checks out a brewery soft opening where every beer tastes suspiciously similar, and listener Steph joins the growing campaign to drag Flex to Great Taste of the Midwest. There’s also a coffee stout made with poop-adjacent beans, Cinco de Mayo drinking regrets, glow-in-the-dark 15% malt liquor light bulbs, and a DUI story featuring a .349 BAC that really should’ve come with a priest. Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Supermoon Beer Company’s Saison, a crisp farmhouse ale with light funk and old-school saison character. Greg is drinking Altamont Beer Works ’ Cali Hop Trip, a modern West Coast IPA collaborate with Firestone Walker and Hollingbery & Son Hops. Flex accidentally assembled the worst beer lineup imaginable before the show, including a metallic peach Berliner and an expired IPA that both ended up down the drain. Greg recaps a local brewery soft opening where the beers tasted unfinished and somehow nearly identical despite being different styles. Listener Steph leaves a voicemail demanding Flex stop dodging Great Taste of the Midwest, which…

People in this episode

Hosts: Flex, Greg

Guest: Steph

Topics covered

• craft beer
• saison
• brewery soft opening
• listener intervention
• Cinco de Mayo drinking
• beer reviews

Keywords

• craft beer
• saison
• brewery
• Cinco de Mayo
• beer reviews
• listener voicemail
• intervention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Supermoon Beer Company, Altamont Beer Works, Firestone Walker, Hollingbery & Son Hops

Products: Saison, Cali Hop Trip, poop coffee beer

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