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This week we are tasting the first entry in Iron Horse Brewing's Release the Beast series - Citra Pale Ale. Chad proves he can shop for beer somewhere else than Tavour.

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The Boys discuss imports, mule culture and the rise of Australian beer, Panfa gets super incredibly technical on hops and The WEG announces a very special Give Us Ya GABS Pitch competition! It's exclusive, only available on all podcast platforms and definitely a faultless episode, 3.5 stars on Untapped.

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There's a lotta beer in Michigan

Author Patti Smith joins us this week to talk about her book, Michigan Beer: A Heady History.  If you've been with for a while, you may remember our episode with Ron Smith and Mary O. Boyle discussing their book, Atlanta Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Hub of the South.  This is like that, but with much more Michigan.

We start with the early days of brewing where, like most of the US, Bavarian immigrants had heavy influence.  Except in the Upper Peninsula where French-Canadians helped make spruce beer a hot item.

There were a few powerhouse brewers in the 19th century across the state, many wiped out by Prohibition.  Michigan was an early-adopter of state prohibition - but also the first to ratify the 21st Amendment to end it.  I hope they learned their lesson.

Modern brewing in Michigan saw the state peak at over 400 breweries, they've taken a bit of a hit with the pandemic, but their still going strong.

We just brush the surface in the show so make sure to pick up the book if you want to know the full story of Michigan beer.  (The link goes to the publisher's website, 'cause they get more money that way, but it's also available on Amazon.)

The Michigan Beer List

• Bells Tequila Barrel Aged Flamingo Fruit Fight
  Founders KBS Hazelnut
  Old Nation B43
  Jolly Pumpkin Bam Noir

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Cheers to American Beer

Around the world there are still plenty of people that see American beer as watery lagers with no real character.  We may have taken a while to catch up, but today American beer offers a huge variety of top notch styles in every state.  Jason Murphy, staff writer for PorchDrinking.com, wanted to explore the map of American beer so he set out on a mission to try a brew from all 50 states and write about his adventure.  It was a huge undertaking but he came out victorious.  You can read his full article right here - Craft Beer Across America | 50 Beers From 50 States.

Jason is local to the Atlanta area and we've chatted on Instagram about the beers and breweries we enjoy.  He's even suggested breweries for the show that he was impressed with, like South Dakota's Covert Artisan Ales who joined us on the show a few month's ago.  We thought what Jason was doing was pretty darn cool and we'd discussed getting together for a beer so we said, why not turn it into a show.  So, here we are.

In the lead up to this episode I gave the heads up to some of our friends and radio affiliates that we'd be featuring breweries in their states and which ones we we talk about.  When I reached out I may have said these were smaller, lesser known breweries.  People took offense to that.  My bad.  What I should have said is that these are some breweries that may not get as much hype or press as some others, but they are still stellar breweries that people need to know about.  That's what I should have said.  It's likely you'll recognize a lot of these names, but you're sure to find a few new ones as well.

We sampled a few of the beers on his list as we talked about how this came to be and what trends he saw as he gathered his breweries.  We didn't have time to mention all 50 breweries, but definitely hit the link up there to see the full list.  Jason tells us some of the stand outs for him and we grieve on Untappd a bit.

Give this episode a listen, read Jason's article, and go out and find a new favorite brewery.

The Beer List

• Epic Big Bad Baptist In The Rye
• Dogfish Head Utopias Barrel-aged World Wide Stout (not in the article, but we wanted to dr

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SoulPhoodies Tamara Celeste and Derek Kirk speak with Atinuke Diver about This Belongs to Us, her documentary chronicling the stories of Black women brewers in the American south, and their journeys of reclamation and revival as they navigate the predominantly white- and male-dominated landscape of beer in America.

Join Brian and Patrick on the Hard Compound, an American take on F1. This week:

• Ocon wins! Alonso puts on a masterclass! Williams points! Then points again! But, wait. There's more! So many big stories from Hungary 2021 and from the first half of the Formula 1 season. 
• We discuss why Toto Wolff will re-sign Bottas, not sign George Russell.
• Our big predictions for the second half of the season. 
• Alpine giving up development at the worst possible time. 
• Ferrari's return to form. 

And as always, thank you for listening to everybody's most beloved father & son F1 podcast!

Contact: hardcompoundpod@gmail.com 

And as always, thank you for listening to everybody's most beloved father and son F1 podcast!

Join Brian and Patrick on the Hard Compound, an American take on F1. This week:

• Ruthless Lewis is back! 
• The Stewards punted. 
• Bad day for the Brits. Worse day for Red Bull. Awfulest of weekends for Checo. 
• Alonso put on a lights out masterclass. 
• Leclerc was the best driver on the grid at Silverstone. 
• Has Riccardo (finally) unlocked that McLaren’s speed?
• Patrick’s engineering 101 this week: DRS.
• For $14 you can buy a tiny sliver of F1.
• Our crazy prediction for Hungary: Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren

Contact: hardcompoundpod@gmail.com 

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Join Brian and Patrick on the Hard Compound, an American perspective on F1. This week:

• Lewis Hamilton's record is not the same as Tom Brady's
• George Russell made a deal with the devil – and sided with the Daleks
• The joys of watching Gasly and Norris 
• Verstappen is the best driver on the grid and has been for at least the past 2 years.
• How America will dominate F1 – from the business and social media side.
• An explainer on Dirty Air
• The only one keeping Mercedes from throwing in the towel is Lewis Hamilton
• Our crazy prediction! Russell gets a point! For Williams! (Made prior to qualifying.)

• Contact: hardcompoundpod@gmail.com 

And as always, thank you for listening to everybody's most beloved father and son F1 podcast!

Join Brian (dad) and Patrick (son) on the Hard Compound, an American perspective on F1. This episode:

• America dominates beer. When do we dominate F1? We discuss why it's very unlikely -- on the driver side. On the business side, America's takeover of Formula 1 has already commenced. 
• Streaming F1TV on the way back from Charleston and witnessing that horrific Grosjean crash
• That crash. Everything went right for Grosjean, just as everything went wrong for Bianchi.  
• Max is the best, but what is up with Riccardo?
• We agree with you, Leclerc did not deserve driver of the day
• "I hate NASCAR (even though those are my people)"
• An explainer on "lock ups" 
• Our beers come from: 21st Amendment Brewery (Cal) and Griffin Claw (Mich) 

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And as always, thank you for listening to everybody's most beloved father and son F1 podcast!

Enough about bourbon, let's talk about BEER. This week April explains how to make beer, we recount some of the history of American beer, and we talk about our beautiful city, Louisville, and it's beautiful, bubbling beer culture. 

Also on the table for discussion: April's mighty hatred for beer cans, our favorite places to grab a beer in Louisville, and the joke about beer that Maddie made once and won't stop making until someone laughs. 

This week's trivia question: What is Maddie's favorite town in Iceland? 

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It's the return of Style Roulette, and we go a bit wild with some Brett beers. We discuss the advent of the American Wild Ale category, and have a closer look into the curious type of yeast known as Brettanomyces.

Sydney Beer Week

Details for our Sydney Beer Week events... yes, that's right, we're doing two this year!

• Live at the Royal Albert: our traditional Monday of Beer Week event, with special guests, great beers, prizes and giveaways (also: Frankie's afterwards)
• Style Roulette Live: in collaboration with Bucket Boys, we bring you the first ever live version of our Style Roulette series, where you get to roll the dice to pick a style, help pick a beer of that style from the Bucket Boys fridges, and discuss it with our resident beer experts

Beers

• Prairie Artisan Ales Prairie-Vous Français
• Orval Trappist Ale
• Bruny Island Second Breakfast

Links

• Style roulette: 28A - Brett Beer
• BJCP 2015 Style Guidelines
• Brettanomyces
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• International Trappist Association
• Leicestershire monks brew Britain’s first Trappist beer
• Bucket Boys x Sessionable Advent Calendar

Beer Recommendations

• Brad: Wildflower Good as Gold Blend #1
• Adrian: Garage Project Chocolate Beer
• Liam: Jester King Spon

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Brad: Bodyguard
• Adrian: Octopath Traveler
• Liam: Optus Sport

Dr Pat Mace from USA IPA trailblazer Lagunitas Brewing Company joins the podcast for an informal Q&A session.

Note: The audience members were not mic'd up for questions. Audio for these bits have been boosted, but they are also transcribed below. As the Lagunitas slogan goes, "Beer speaks. People mumble."

Audience Questions

1. (6:44) "I'd to know how... I mean, I don't really know the history about
   this beer, the IPA - your IPA - how long has that been available in
   the US for, has the recipe changed over the years?"

2. (14:44) "You guys are just down the road, do you guys do much collab or...
   how well do you guys get along? Do you get along well? Do you share
   brews? Are you comrades or competitors? Or a bit of everything?"

3. (21:19) "If you're thinking of the increased distribution you're getting from
   Heineken, and you're at full max in these two breweries, are you
   looking at building more, like increasing the size of the breweries
   in California and Chicago, or are you looking at maybe building a
   third?"

4. (23:12) "I was just keen to find out the history of the name 'Lagunitas'."

5. (24:25) "I was going to ask... as a sort of IPA pioneer, what do you think
   about New England IPAs? It's the beer of the moment - what's your
   take?"

6. (25:06) "Just the beers in the bar that are going to be available in
   Australia or are you distributing more beers?"

The latest Style Roulette episode talks about Belgian IPAs, a hybrid between classic Belgian golden ales and hop-forward American IPAs.

Clarification: 21C is not actually a style in the official BJCP guidelines, although it does list various different IPA styles unnumbered after 21B (Specialty IPA). The app we were using lined up 21C with the first of these Specialty IPAs, which was Belgian IPA. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused.

Beers

• De Ranke XXX Bitter

Links

• Style roulette: Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA
• BJCP 2015 Style Guidelines
• Belgian IPA: The Hybrid of Belgian Yeast & Hoppy IPAs
• The problem with Belgian IPAs
• Bitter, Boozy, Weird — Is America Ready for the Belgian IPA?
• AIBA introduces NEIPA and new Pale Ale styles
• Herman's Hands | Second Line Kickstarter

Events

• Basement Brewhouse Barrel Aged Beer Night (Sunday March 11)
• Dave's High Country Hop Harvest Festival 2018 tour (Friday March 23 to Sunday March 25)
• Dave's Darker Days 2018 tour (Friday June 29 to Sunday July 1)

Beer Recommendations

• Liam: Batch A Currant State of Infusion
• Adrian: Shark Island Australian Ale

Non-Beer Recommendations

• Liam: Breaking Bad
• Adrian: Monster Hunter World

Bill Reed has been on the restaurant scene in Brooklyn for more than 10 years. He's been a fixer, opener, closer, and done all the jobs you could imagine. Humboldt and Jackson is his American tasting room in Williamsburg. Harry and Bill discuss the finer points of drinking American beer, wine and spirits, and what's it like for a Philly boy to be making it in Brooklyn.