Sessionable

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined once again by Wildflower Brewing & Blending brewer and co-founder, Topher Boehm, who first appeared on the show back in episode 64 just before their first release. We discuss recent developments at the brewery as well as some exciting projects in the pipeline.

Beers we drank

• Wildflower Organic Table Beer
• Wildflower Waratah 2019
• Unreleased Wildflower x Momento Mori collaboration

Links

• Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia by Max Allen
• Brash Higgins
• Momento Mori
• Ravensworth
• Smoke taint in wines
• Wildflower blog
• Farmhouse Beer Blog

Tom brings us some terrible reviews from beer social media platform Untappd care of instagram account Untappd WTF.

Beers we drank

• Mountain Culture Tomorrow Noon Oat Cream IPA
• Garage Project x Modern Times Easy As Hazy IPA
• Grifter Serpent's Kiss
• Wildflower Organic Table Beer
• Batch American Pale Ale

Links

• Cryo Hops
• Mikkeller Brewpub London
• Ten Years of Crafty Pint
• Bracket Brewing

Beer Recommendations

• Batch Pash the Magic Dragon
• Wildflower Organic Table Beer

Game Recommendations

• Good Sudoku
• The Alto Collection
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2

Movie Recommendations

• You Cannot Kill David Arquette
• Greyhound

TV Recommendations

• Hannibal
• The Mandalorian
• Ted Lasso
• Central Park
• Jeopardy!
• The X-Files
• Ren & Stimpy
• Animaniacs
• Rust Valley Restorers

Music Recommendations

• Run the Jewels - RTJ4
• Taylor Swift - Folklore

Podcast Recommendations

• Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
• Election Profit Makers
• Mystery Show
• Reply All #158: The Case of the Missing Hit
• 99 Percent Invisible #389: Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out
• Song Exploder #176: Semisonic - Closing Time
• Song Exploder #150: Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
• CrossBread

After a few months of being in various states of chaos, we catch up to talk beer and random shit.

Beers we drank

• White Bay Sunny Pale Ale
• Reschs Pilsener
• Batch Tasman Tango South Pacific Ale
• Batch A Currant State of Infusion
• Mountain Culture Status Quo NEPA

Links

• Philter tap room opens in Marrickville
• Return of the Reschs silver bullet
• Power Slam Wrestling Card Game
• Hawkers Hopefully Beirut
• Modus Operandi Newcastle brewpub greenlit
• Founders First / FogHorn take over Hunter Beer Co
• Resin Brewing

Beer recommendations

• Slow Lane Brewing
• Capital Brewing XPA
• Nomad Powder Day Salted Caramel Double Milk Stout
• Garage Project Australia

TV recommendations

• Star Trek: Lower Decks
• Lovecraft Country
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• The Legend of Korra
• Search Party
• ZeroZeroZero
• The Fall
• Line of Duty
• Misfits

Movie recommendations

• Palm Springs
• BlacKkKlansman
• Doctor Sleep

Game recommendations

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
• Xbox Game Pass
• Remnant: From the Ashes
• SnowRunner
• FarCry New Dawn
• Doom Eternal
• Eberron: Rising from the Last War
• D&D Map Sketcher
• Ars Moriendi 3D

We made the dubious decision to watch Netflix series Brews Brothers so that you don't have to.

Beers we drank

• Staves Odyssey
• Mountain Culture Oat Cream NEIPA
• Batch Meli's Wet Hop Galaxy IPA
• Batch Beastie Boysenberry
• Batch Mole Poblano
• Mountain Culture Back to Cali West Coast IPA
• Staves Cabin Fever Wet Hop Pale Ale
• Wildflower St. Florence 2019: Gamay (Swinging Bridge)

Links

• Ekim sold to a local
• White Bay Beer launches in Sydney
• AkashaTV

Things to watch during isolation

• Waiting...
• Drinking Buddies
• Brew Masters
• The Beer Hunter
• Normal People
• The Last Dance
• SB Nation: This is not an endorsement of arson
• Agents of SHIELD
• Beastie Boys Story
• For All Mankind
• Parasite
• Onward
• Coherence
• Billions
• Pine Gap
• Nat's What I Reckon

Things to eat during isolation

• 30-minunte pho ga recipe
• Better pressure cooker butter chicken recipe
• Osso buco
• The best crispy roast potatoes ever recipe
• Homemade gyro meat
• Slow-cooked lamb shanks
• Cinnamon scrolls
• Anzac biscuits
• Cadbury Dairy Milk Marble
• Arnott's Chocolate Scotch Finger

Things to play during isolation

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Not For Broadcast
• Out There
• Legends of Runeterra
• Picross S4

In lieu of the oft-delayed next season of Sessionable, we recorded an episode through the magic of the World Wide Web!

Apologies for the lack of show notes - the Internet gremlins ate them up! Send us a message if you'd like any links or info on what we talked about.

A mini-episode with a few hot takes on this year's GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll.

GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers 2019

• Hottest 100 Beers
• Beers 101-200
• Independent Hottest 100 Beers
• Hottest 100 New Beers

We get together for our annual yearly recap and, since it's also the end of the decade, we go through that as well.

Also, we have a few important bits of housekeeping we'd like to announce.

Beers

• Batch Chapeau! 2019 Raspberry Sour
• Boxcar Home Over There IPA
• Wildflower Gold (Blend #1)

Links

• Balter announces sale to CUB
• New Belgium’s employee owners approve sale to Lion
• Scale up without selling out says Founders First CEO
• Ballast Point’s rise, fall and sale: Inside craft beer’s most baffling deal
• GABS Festival and Hottest 100 sold

Non-Beer Highlights of 2019

• TV: Watchmen, The Mandalorian, The Witcher, Chernobyl, Unbelievable, The Imagineering Story
• Movies: Fyre, Avengers: Endgame, Midsommar, Jojo Rabbit, They Shall Not Grow Old, Free Solo
• Video Games: Pokemon Sword and Shield, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Untitled Goose Game
• Board Games: Betrayal Legacy, 6 Nimmt!, Marvel Champions
• Podcasts: My Favourite Murder, My Dad Wrote A Porno, Drink's Adventures
• Other: Crafty Pint's advent calendar

The Blue Mountains recently became NSW's newest craft beer destination with the opening of Mountain Culture Beer Co in Katoomba. We visited the new brewpub and had a chat to co-founder and brewer DJ McCready.

Beers

• Mountain Culture JP2 Juicy Pale Ale

Non-Beer Recommendations

• DJ: Hot Star Chicken
• Tom: Watchmen
• Adrian: Everything is Alive

Beer

• DJ: Wildflower Too Easy Motueka
• Tom: Bruery Terreux Frucht Cucumber
• Adrian: Batch Method Man-Darin

We recently visited the future Marrickville home of Sydney-based co-operative brewery, Hopsters. All around legend Byron Lotz joined us for a chat and brought along some tasty goodies.

Beers

• Hopsters Pale Ale
• Hopsters IPA

Links

• Hopsters page on Facebook
• Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Tom: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Adrian: Untitled Goose Game
• Liam: Top Boy
• Brad: Shuffleboard
• Byron: Make some bread

Beer

• Tom: Philter Haze NEIPA
• Adrian: Moon Dog Splice Of Heaven Pine Lime IPA
• Liam: Bodriggy Brewpub
• Brad: Grand Ridge Joker & the Thief Black IPA
• Byron: Resident Culture x Southern Grist Country Club Kids Imperial Stout

On the back of Tom and Adrian's recent trip to Belgium, we discuss the current state of the Belgian beer scene.

Beers

• Cantillon Vigneronne
• Brasserie De La Senne x Cambridge Narrenvat Barrel-Aged Brown Ale with Brett
• Oud Beersel Oude Geuze Vieille Barrel Selection Oude Pijpen

Links

• Cantillon
• The Moment Cantillon Happened
• Lambic.Info
• Wildflower x Brash Higgins Zibeerbo
• Nüetnigenough
• Dynamo - Bar de Soif
• L'Ermitage Nano Brasserie
• Brasserie de la Senne
• Weekend der Spontane Gisting
• Rodenbach
• DOK Brewing Company
• Bumper pool
• Oud Beersel
• Beerlovers Bar
• Lambiek Fabriek
• Slay the Spire

Beer Recommendations

• Adrian: Wayward Codebreaker
• Brad: Wayward Shadynasty's Pale Ale
• Liam: Belgiam Smaak podcast
• Tom: Mountain Goat x Garage Project Horn Please!
• Willie: Bridge Road B2 Bomber Mach 9.0

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Brad: Formula E
• Adrian: Killing Eve
• Liam: Mordhau
• Tom: 7am
• Willie: FIFA Women's World Cup

(A thousand apologies for rendering a few of these recommendations useless thanks to the release delay -Ed.)

Brad recently went back home to the UK and in this episode he reports back on what the beer scene is like these days. We're also joined by special guest William Wilson, card-carrying CAMRA member and previous guest of the show, to give his two pence.

Beers

• Wylam x Yeastie Boys WxY⁴ DDH New Zealand Hop IPA
• Little Earth Project Stupid Sexy Suffolk Flanders Red
• Cloudwater Tasty Like Nelson Double IPA

Links

• Sydney Beer Week cancelled for 2019
• Brewdog key keg cask ale

Beer Recommendations

• Brad: Wylam x Other Half Is There Music In Your Dreams? Double IPA
• Adrian: Otherside DDH Super Dry IPA
• Liam: Akasha Black Smith Black IPA
• Tom: Wayward Coffee & Donuts Milk Stout
• Willie: Brick Lane Last Call Brexit Ale English Bitter

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Adrian: Cairo Takeaway
• Brad: The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• Liam: Chernobyl
• Tom: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Willie: The Iron Duke

A bunch of us catch up to talk about various world domination projects in the beer industry.

Beers

• Wayward Red IPA
• Dainton Caramel Creme White Chocolate NEIPA
• Stone & Wood Counter Culture Killer Kween Imperial Berliner Weisse with Raspberries

Links

• GABS Brisbane
• Phew
• Bucket Boys equity campaign
• Cloudwater's Bermondsey Beer Mile location
• Magic Rock acquired by Lion

Beer Recommendations

• Adrian: Bridge Road The Harvest 2019
• Brad: Grand Ridge Ekka's IPA
• MC: Modus Operandi Born to Rum Porter, 4 Pines Honey Imperial Stout
• Tom: Batch Buckley St. Brown Ale, Coastal Blueys American Brown Ale

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Adrian: The Gardens Between
• Brad: Gelato Messina
• MC: Barrel-Aged Stout & Selling Out by Josh Noel
• Tom: The Expanse

We visited Beechworth for Bridge Road's annual High Country Hops festival. Head brewer Ben Kraus and MC from Crafty Pint and New South Ales joined us for a chat about this year's celebration of the hop harvest.

We dropped by the Alexandria brewing facility and venue of Yulli's Brews, the offshoot label of Surry Hills vegetarian institution, Yulli's. Tom, Harvs, and Gen talk us through the goings on of the brewery.

Beers

• Yulli's Brews Apricot Dolly Aldrin
• Yulli's Brews Hans Groppo

Beer Recommendations

• Yulli's Tom: Two Bays Pale Ale
• Gen: Resch's
• Harvs: Happy Goblin Ginger Beer
• Adrian: Try some kveik beers
• Sessionable Tom: Capital Summit Session XPA
• Liam: Grifter C-Boogie

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Yulli's Tom: Yulli's Cloudy Sake
• Gen: Gen's World Famous Bloody Marys (every Sunday at Yulli's)
• Harvs: Orangina
• Adrian: Radio Free Alice
• Sessionable Tom: Russian Doll
• Liam: Make dumplings

It's a tale of two sours as we explore the very closely related styles of Flanders Red and Oud Bruin for the latest Style Roulette.

Beers

• Liefmans Goudenband
• Rodenbach Grand Cru
• New Belgium La Folie

Links

• Style roulette: 23B - Flanders Red Ale | 23C - Oud Bruin
• BJCP 2015 Style Guidelines
• Flanders Red and Brown
• Larsblog

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Tom: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
• Adrian: Salted Egg Potato Chips
• Liam: Cog

Beer Recommendations

• Tom: Wayward Kveik to Market IPA
• Adrian: Dugges Tonkanilla Mangorage
• Liam: Beer memes

With the dust having settled on another GABS Hottest 100 Beers poll, listen as we make some correct and some incorrect predictions in a session recorded before the release of the results.

Beers

• Maui Hop Kine IPL
• Otherside Lo-Fi Citrus Wheat
• Nine Fingers Born in the U.S.Ale
• Waikiki Skinny Jeans IPA

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Tom: Heavyweight
• Liam: Das Boot (TV series)
• Adrian: Slay the Spire

Beer Recommendations

• Tom: Milk the Funk
• Liam: Staves Pale Ale
• Adrian: Akasha Bittersmith IPA

The crew from Capital Brewing Co. recently hosted Liam at their Canberra brewery to discuss their beers as well as the ethos behind the way they run their operations.

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Joe: Escape at Dannemora
• John: Visit the ACT
• Laurence: Light to Light walk
• Liam: Pine Gap

Beer Recommendations

• Joe: Chur Underarm Trans-Tasman IPA
• John: Goose Island Madame Rose
• Laurence: Sailors Grave Into the Pines Forest Ale
• Liam: Capital Tropical Popsicle Sour

It's a low-key Christmas episode this year, with Adrian and Liam recapping the year that was 2018 in beer.

Beers

• Bodriggy Staunch Pilsner
• Social Bandit Sooky LaLa Sour
• Batch Juicy As Phuck
• Erdinger Pikantus Weizenbock

Links

• Hops & Vine
• Indie Seal

Beer Recommendations

• Adrian: Dainton Mocha Chocca New England Black Rye IPA
• Liam: Bright Blowhard Pale Ale

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Adrian: Diablo 3 on Nintendo Switch
• Liam: For The Children: 25 Years of Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

A blind tasting and discussion of beer 12 from the 2018 Bucket Boys Advent Calendar

Merry Christmas!

A blind tasting and discussion of beer 11 from the 2018 Bucket Boys Advent Calendar