Pints and Provisions

Evan Skypes in with Ryan to get his take on Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.'s Assassin Day 2018.  It's cold, windy, and full of dedicated beer enthusiasts from around the world seeking out the whiskey barrel aged imperial stout.  Sounds like all is well with the 2018 edition of the beer with lots of viscous dark fruit flavors.  We also hear from friends waiting outside the brewery as they wait to get tastes of the much anticipated variants which included coffee and coconut.  Thanks to our support from the Hopped Up Network, go check our the newest episode and all our great partners!  Cheers from P+P!!

Shooting from the hip on this episode where Evan, Mark, Ryan, and Dan talk about beers and college basketball teams.  We taste pastry stouts from Angry Chair Brewing and More Brewing Co. and sample sours from Casey and Jester King.  No direction here other than letting us do what we do best: comradery between four passionate beer guys trying to get through a podcast before we are stranded by a spring snowstorm!  Cheers from P+P!!

Ryan and Evan geek out in the nerdiest way possible as they dissect J. Wakefield Brewing's "It Was All A Dream".  We provide a little background on the Miami based brewery while taking listener questions and sharing our favorite beer and food pairings.  From the simplest of beers to the big barrel aged adjunct stouts to your cellared barleywines, we provide some pearls on how you can intellectualize the most complex of beers.  Cheers from P+P!!

Dan talks to Evan about his experience at the Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival held at Fifth Third Ballpark near Grand Rapids, MI.  He talks about the best beers and biggest surprises in addition to what makes it such a great event.  We sip on some Michigan beers while we talk about what makes Michigan such a great beer state.  Cheers from P+P!

Evan, Mark, Ryan and special guest Bryan get you schooled on making a great charcuterie board so guests are never disappointed.  Bryan certainly drops knowledge on how to best pair meats, cheeses, and accoutrements with our beers while we crack a Side Project La Ruche.  Then we dip into the "milkshake" IPA style where Tired Hands are the leaders and others follow suit such as Bearded Iris Brewing "Mood Ring".  We also enjoy breaking down a blind taste test provided by Ryan.  Beyond that, we talk local beer projects and events such as the new Bearded Owl release just in time for St. Patrick's Day.  Thanks again to Bryan for his input and we look forward to next time when we interview Dan on his experience at the recent Great Michigan Beer Festival in Grand Rapids.  Cheers from P+P!!

Join Evan, Ryan, and Mark for a (more or less) live recording of a homebrewing crash course!  We brew a NE style IPA and crack some Aslin and Side Project/Casey beers while we walk through some of the integral steps of the brewing process.  Also included is a shout out to Ss Brewtech and Rufus Teague for enhancing our experience with brewing and smoking meat.  Included for your listening pleasure are neighbors driving by, garage doors opening, equipment banging, and kids screaming upstairs!  Looking forward to the finished product, cheers from P+P!!

The entire crew is together for a dive into beer destination vactions (beercations).  First, we review the best beers we drank this week and what's going on in craft beer at the moment.  Then we taste beers from Oregon breweries deGarde and Great Notion, California breweries Bottle Logic and SARA, and taste brews from Hill Farmstead and Trillium.  It's good to have everyone together!  Cheers from the P+P Crew!!

Dan joins Mark and Evan (we missed Ryan today) for a dive into the Hazy IPA craze.  East coast, West coast, and no coast hazy IPAs are sampled.  Where are the best ones brewed?  Why are these so good?  Is there fatigue setting in on this style?  From Treehouse to Monkish we look at why we love this style and where the good ones are.  Lots of coverage on some local breweries such as Bearded Owl and Triptych.  Also a brief sample of some locally roasted coffee and destinations for the "Beercation".  Cheers from the P+P crew!!

On our pilot episode we spend much of our precious beer time tasting and talking about some great bourbons.  We cover using a french press to create your own pastry stout.  Finally we taste one of the pastry stouts from Angry Chair Brewing, Imperial German Chocolate Coffee Cupcake stout.  Shout outs to some local establishments here in Peoria include Whiskey City Architectural Salvage, Bearded Owl Brewing, and Industry Brewing.  Brief topics include meat smoking and beer-cations (beer destination vacations).  Cheers from the P+P crew!!