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Back from a brief IPA supply-based hiatus, we resume our quest to review and rank as many long-tenured and well-regarded flagship IPAs as po...
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Back from a brief IPA supply-based hiatus, we resume our quest to review and rank as many long-tenured and well-regarded flagship IPAs as po...

After a few months of recovery from Barrel-Aged December, we're back in the wood groove with four big beers from a Mt. Rushmore of Chicago's...

We can't overstate the importance of the Amber beer on early craft beer culture, as just about any brewpub worth its malt back then would ha...

Knoxville's Xul Beer Company first opened their taproom in 2020, and in under six years they've made a big name for themselves mostly on the...

When a batch of out-of-state breweries start showing up on local shelves, it doesn't get us as "hot" as it used to - but there's no shortage...

A proper British Bitter actually exists on a spectrum of Ordinary, Best, and Strong - or as we mostly know them in the U.S., Extra Special....

When you spend any amount of time in Wisconsin, you'd better leave room in your trunk for a whole lot of delicious beer - and that's exactly...

Though beer has long lived in wine's shadow as a prestige drink, it can do an impressive job of borrowing flavors or even mimicking them fro...

In a time before hazy, there once was the Double IPA: malty, boozy, bold, and bitter. While some trends suggest the days of haze are a bit b...

We know from various beer festivals that Ohio has a pretty incredible craft beer scene, and this show courtesy of listener Ryan Lamb focuses...

Being stuck in the winter that will never end isn't so bad when you've got some dark and roasty beers, so for this show we get five differen...

The painful reality of 2026 craft beer is seeing great breweries make the decision to close, and this episode is a tribute to two of those t...

The West Coast is still best when it comes to hoppy beers, and this episode provided to us by listener, Patreon supporter, and Californian D...

To close out the most recent season of Revolution's Deep Wood series, we have quite an array of barrels in this foursome that - once again -...

We're celebrating a dozen years of providing our arbitrary craft beer opinions through a half-blind episode focused on six different styles...

Compared to the pace at which Hop Butcher releases IPAs, their barrel-aged offerings might as well be Halley's Comet. But when they do relea...

We settle for no less than the best when it comes to choosing beers for our semi-regular hop roundups, and these five locals more than rise...

Aging beer or spirits in the wood from the Amburana cearensis tree native to South America can add noticeable cinnamon spice and vanilla - a...

For the first time in Barrel-Aged December history, we have a whole show of gin barrel-aged beers - and we'll tell you why that's something...

We're hot on the case of the Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beers 2025's best medal recipients (that we have access to), and we'll solve t...

Taking a break from our usual Barrel-Aged December, we round up five festive beers that'll help make the holidays go down a lot easier. We s...

Two things are absolutely certain when it comes to Revolution's yearly Deep Wood releases: one is that all the beers are going to be slightl...

Just in time for another Black Friday, we sat down with our good friend Ryan Tracy at his Beer on the Wall shop out in Elmhurst to sample th...

This episode is a tribute to the great 1840 Brewing out of Milwaukee and a celebration of the beers and memories they made during their year...

The latest installment in our journey to discover America's best IPA, we're going coast-to-coast for a pretty special lineup that'll help us...

At the tail end of summer, we recorded this little gem when we knew we'd need it most to help keep us thinking warm thoughts as the temperat...

The barrel storm that is Revolution's Deep Wood series rages on throughout the Fall and Winter months, so we're catching up on the last rele...

Unnecessarily crammed with junk, this year's spooky six-pack is an adjunct party that no one ever wanted to be invited to, as we're on to ou...

In our annual leadup to Chicago's best beer fest, we're talking all about the Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beers as it is set to return...

Denver is the closest to Heaven that we'll ever be, and we don't want to go home right now. Broadcasting amongst the Rocky Mountains (from o...

One of Illinois' best breweries rarely makes it up to Chicagoland shelves, so when Craig had a chance to go down to Savoy for a visit to Tri...

In our seemingly endless quest to find the best long-made IPA that America has to offer, we are a little all over the map on this one with a...

Our favorite time of year approaches again, but we can't set off for Denver without doing a ridiculous amount of prep work and research. So...

Just like most good things in life, the beers we so love can be quite taxing on the planet before even getting to our glasses. But some brew...

There are many essential ingredients for a successful Oktoberfest celebration, but none is more important than the beer. But which style is...

The last few months have seen a steady number of big anniversary parties from suburban breweries - and some even released a beer to commemor...

When one of our oldest friends and beer industry vet, Aaron Keefner, came back into town from his adopted city of Pittsburgh, we knew we wer...

For the last few years, Revolution Brewing has tried convincing us that barrel-aged stouts and barleywines can indeed be enjoyed on 90-plus...

Miskatonic has been a western suburban outpost for great beer with an extremely loyal following for a decade now - and it's due time they ge...

Matt Gallagher has been instrumental to Chicago's craft beer scene for almost two decades as a co-founder of Half Acre, but it's his new bre...

In our ongoing series that seeks to find the best IPA we can get our hands on, we keep this one a bit more regional with five long-beloved a...

During a particularly sweltering summer, no beer style has come through in the clutch as much as the lime lager. The sheer number of availab...

It seems like it's been far too long since we've extended a hearty "hello" to some new breweries in Chicagoland, so we're psyched to gather...

Although he might use the term "silly little beers," Mike Schallau's is/was brewing is making some of the most thoughtful and impressive sai...

Newly adopted as its own category for this year's GABF competition, the West Coast Pilsner has the hoppy influence of its namesake locale wh...

In just 5 years, Goldfinger Brewing Company has made Downers Grove, Illinois a true destination for lager-lovers and much of that is to the...

In our second of our quarterly "random hoppy things" episodes wherein we gather notable hop-driven drinks from local breweries, we have a mu...

In our continuing quest to find the best legacy IPA (that also happens to be widely available), we blindly taste and rate a set of five here...

It's been over a month since we last drank barrel-aged beers, so to reward our tremendous restraint we're throwing another MoBAB: a show tha...

Who says you need a lot of alcohol to have fun? Well, a lot of people, I'm sure. But this show sets out to prove beers that are under 4% alc...