Category Archives: Pubcasts

Pubcast 173 – Big, Rare, and Awesome

This show welcomes two craft beer aficionados to the friendly confines of the Brit and Yankee studio, and they bring with them fabulous brew gifts!  Admittedly, you may not be able to obtain these gems to easily, but we’ve done the tasting to help you decide if they need to go on your wishlist!
First up we head to Three Floyd‘s, just over the Illinois border in Munster, IN.   Alpha Kong is a Belgian sextuple (who knew!) with cardamon.
Next back a few miles to Lansing, IL and Transient Ale’s Objectification Barrel Aged Sour Blonde Ale.  This is one of their special reserve series.
Then back over to Three Floyds again for their Wiseblood, Wood-Aged Baltic Porter.
Finally, our brew-de-resistance, Wicked Weed from Asheville, NC. produce a series called Dark Arts.  Our one is the Tequila Barrel-Aged Dark Arts with Brettanomyces and Espresso and we found it is quite a mouthful in many ways!
All this and the lads comment on a couple of 2016 beer predictions, and we enjoy much pub talk!!

Pubcast 170 – ‘Twas The Show Before Christmas

Sketchbook Brewing beers feature in this seasonal show; Juniper Orchard, plus an unreleased early bottle of Lapwing Strong Scotch Ale aged in FEW gin barrels.
Mark’s other half, Tina Naski, brings us a sample of her latest home brew, a sessionable 80 Shilling Scotch Ale.
We finish up with Bell‘s Bourbon Cherry Stout, and a sharing of a magnum of Anchor Steam 2015 Christmas Ale…this is the 41st year of production for this seasonal favorite.
We get music from band As 40 Sleeps, and to end our final show of the year, our traditional presentation of The Night Before Christmas. Happy Holidays and Cheers!

Pubcast 168 – Miskatonic Brewing

Mark and Phil head down to Miskatonic Brewing Co in “bucolic bosom of suburban Darien”, and meet up with Josh Mowry, “Demi-God of Bureaucratic Malevolence”, and John Wyzkiewicz, Head Brewer.

These cohorts in hops at this relatively new suburban brewery sit down and tell us what makes them tick, and we tell them how feel about their beers.

Our Style of the Week is Old Ale, and luckily there is one on tap at Miskatonic, in the shape of Grendel.

Play the show from our player below…

Pubcast 166 – Schlafly Report

Our focus for this week is a report from the Taproom at Schlafly Brewing in St. Louis, where Mark and Phil chat about their history and their beers, as served by long-time Taproom barman, Kevin Nash.
Also, left-over business from last week’s Style of the Week has us tasting a baseline Imperial Stout from the UK and the USA. We finish up with Schlafly’s Quadrupel.


Beers tasted are Samuel Smith’s Imperial Stout from Tadcaster, Yorkshire and Spiteful Brewing’s Malevolance Russian Imperial Stout.