Beer Report Extra! Groucho, CHUD and AB have been trying to age this show in order to make it better… But, like a Pliney, our shows are best fresh! Dont even try to reference how old this show is. It will frighten you how long its been sitting.

Beer on the show: Scots Pine Ale. Visit them at www.heatherale.co.uk

1. Product of Scotland!
2. Sweet and Piney!
3. XXX, Rick Dowland interview… Will show up eventually! Blast Beer idea was stolen by Colt! Snoop Dog is part of the Man trying to keep XXX Brewing down!
4. Kevin Matthews stuff… Old DJ from WLUP in Chicago that was cherished by the whole Markks family back in the 80’s/90’s.
5. WSCR 670 talk. Mike North got screwed. Boers and Bernstein are great?
6. Lawrence Holmes love! twitter: @laurencewholmes
7. Bell’s Raspberry Ale was a bit of a letdown. So was Angelshare!
8. Re fermenting our home brew. Thanks to Phil at MyLifeAsAFoodie!
9. Building a bat house? METAL!
10. Wake AB and kill this show!
11. Great import with a good story.

Beer on this show bought at Friar Tuck in Peoria IL.

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Epic long show! 80 minutes… Savor it until 2012! CHUD swings by to record one more show before the end of the year. Grab a few and listen in while we listen to some Christmas music and drink some amazing beer!

Beers on the show: Newcastle Winter IPA, 3 Floyds 2007 Behemoth, Dalton Brewing Cerberus Russian Imperial Stout 2011.

On the show:

1. Holiday show mistart… Where is Dino?
2. Newcastle PR firm and creating buzz.
3. Sailor Jerry and Newcastle Brown = The Castle Jerry boilermaker
4. Hoopmaster is MIA.
5. Love for the Newcastle and how this beer works when are sitting in the current English pub.
6. Kudos to you CHUD.
7. Beer Advocate event visited by Groucho at Kellehers in Peoria. The Beer Report’s beers did pretty decent.
8. Apology to the entire population of Russia for the last show and our support of Vlad Putin.
9. Screw aging the beers!
10. DeStihl (Normal) on New Years Eve?
11. Homebrewing love.
12. Tried that beer yet Kevin? Go Seahawks!
13. Lets get back to O’Fallon Brewery to deliver some beer!
14. Stone Beer Fest 2012???
15. Zombie Christmas.
16. Zombies Suck now!
17. Chinese Vampire generation.
18. Euro has got to crash!!!
19. We need a new planet to exploit.
20. No sympathy for the 99%. Look around the rest of the world!
21. Last Star Fighter reference… Kudos to those who knew that one!
22. Hipster Christmas albums.
23. Dino… The king of Cool.
24. Bonus Beer Bob… He’s metal, and his stories ARE better than yours… And he DID do all that cool stuff! The most interesting man in the world!
25. CHUD gives Bob’s beer the re-verb lead-in.
26. Chocolate Velvet Cake beer?
27. Homebrewing is like underground black-metal tapes.
28. Christmas movies. Muppets are commies.
29. Beer Safari Christmas Videos… Remember when???
30. Don’t go throwing Port wine around hoping to make a decent beer!
31. TBR toastes Jimmy Carter!
32. Trans Siberian Transexuals.
33. The Killers, Hot Fuss.
34. THANK YOU! Toast to 2012 and many thanks to our listening public!

Christmas music on the show by She & Him, Sufjan Stevens, Bowling for Soup, Dean Martin, Slow Club, 3 Redneck Tenors, They Might be Giants, The Killers.

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Canned beer on special tonight! This show is a one session… No edit canfest!

Beers on the show: Brasserie de Saverne Boris Organic Ale, Wild Onion Hop Slayer.

On the show:

1. Serf wear?
2. French beer and who drinks it.
3. Who is Boris?
4. Putin… Round 2?
5. New cold war could make the US interesting again.
6. Monster Energy drink has a logo on everything!
7. Can Clinton come back?
8. Aprehentious
9. More hate for www.Ratebeer.com and www.Beeradvocate.com.
10. We are not beer geeks.
11. “I want the beer that Dale Earnhardt drinks!”
12. Overplaying head.
13. Dirty, Sassy and nicely floral… Wild Onion kicks in some serious hop infused goodness into the show.
14. 420 compliant?
15. Hash? CHUD would legalize it all!
16. Groucho admits defeat to Hop Slayer!
17. Todd and Craig Ahlstrom???? WTF? (Getting our flaming retardant email address administered after editing this show”
18. Luggage theft suspected of funding www.beeradvocate.com
19. Beer newbies.
20. 18″ ear hoops?
21. Neck stretching would be a cooler masochistic hobby! Scrotum stretching? Full sleeve tat’s.
22. Ahlstrom tat’s?
23. Name that Alhstrom. (Craig = Jason?)
24. Who are the real Brothers in Beer? Groucho and CHUD? Todd and Jason?
25. www.onionpub.com
26. This beer is healthy. Its got LOTS of health! Reduces colon polyps!
27. Contest is over, and we finally sent out a brew to super fan Kevin.
28. Every night is a Republican debate. 8 8 8!!!!
29. Putin will solve all of America’s problems!
30. Saddam porn?
31. The Boston Wild Beer fest is probably a totally awesome.
32. We are big in Botswana! North South Africa.
33. Beer Report geography kicks in full speed.
34. Super rich need to buy more Kashmir jackets. Avoid Pottery Barn.
35. Beer of the Year?
36. Pliney thoughts?
37. Great hop harvest. Jeff at www.craftbeerradio.com said he had tons of hops left over as well.
38. Goat cheese wth hops… WOULD ROCK!!!
39. Huffing Hops.
40. Timestamped show.
41. Left Hand Nitro Stout! Just released!
42. Guinness Black Lager? Crap?
43. Giant F*ck-all Pile of Hop Beers.
44. Craig and Sam? Billy? Wendy? Mike? Bob? Phil? Brian? Ron? Reggie Ahlstrom!

Beers on the show purchaed in Ontario Canada at LCB and Broadway Liquors, Pekin IL.

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Been a long time huh??? Hey, its been a busy summer!

Groucho, CHUD and AB sat down for some great Georgia brews thanks to fan of the show PJ. We are shocked to see that you CAN find some decent beer south of the Mason Dixon line. Who knew? We thought it was all Brahma and Busch Light down there!

Beers on the show: Sweetwater 420, Sweetwater IPA, Sweetwater Happy Endings (Catch and Release Series), Kirkland Pale Ale and Kirkland IPA.

1. Google Plus… Does it still matter?
2. Fail boat?
3. Brian Dennehy? What happened?
4. Cheap Pee Wee jokes.
5. Strangford Laugh brewing company was a big scam. German malts in St. Patties Best?
6. Deadliest Warriors. Taliban vs Irish Freedom Fighters.
7. Expired beer.
8. Huck and Tom catching fish on the bottles… Less Injun Joe.
9. Serving cat at the flea market.
10. Globe Trekker, eating rat in Africa.
11. China bashing.
12. Paris Hilton’s contributions to society actually outweigh the Cardashians!
13. Happy Endings.
14. First Georgia beers on the show?
15. More Pee Wee talk.
16. Superfans… Pj, Gary, TeeWinks, BoSoxPats (May be a rep from Colt 45) Keelhauler, Kevin F.
17. How many years on the air now?
18. iPod deaths.
19. Hall Pass… Too much cock for Groucho.
20. Captain America talk… CHUD whips out his nitpickers guide.
21. CHUD goes to Vegas.
22. David Copperfield. Underwhelming?
23. PJ sets us up with some COSTCO beer!
24. What the hell is “Signiture” service? A joke at this point.
25. Kevin Costner vs Dick Cheney.
26. Dances with BP.
27. Dick Cheney is heartless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
28. Kirklands signiture?

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Special thanks to PJ for donating these fine beers AND OTHERS IN THE PAST to The Beer Report. We totally appreciate all fan support!

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( I swear writing one of these sounds like I am writing a letter to Penthouse forum. Hey look at the cool stuff I did, and listen to me brag about it. Its not my intent. But the excitement is very similar)

Saturday was starting off early. As ussual! Madison is a good 3 hours from home. So, not knowing much about where I was going to park catch up with the guys… I left at around 7:45 AM.

I caught a couple text’s from Dave telling me they would be at the park when I got into town. It was confirmed that I would be serving and I was on my own for a parking space. Parking worked out well… I pulled up to a baricade and talked to a “Police Ranger” asking him where to park. He told me that the area I was in was restricted to staff. I told him I was serving for a brewery… He let me park without any more questions!

One text to Dave, and he was on his way down with my wristband. I stood around at the gate for a while… But after watching all these dudes walking through proclaiming they were volunteers… I realized I was doing that “Law Abiding Citizen” thing that I seem to be falling into. Must be making up for past transgressions?

I caught Dave midway to the gate. We headed to the O’Fallon booth to find head brewer, Brian Owens, hanging out with his new brewing partner Jason Small. This is killer! Brian never comes to these fests! Well, not the few that I have caught up with Dave at in the past. Dave is now representing Buffalo Brewing Company. So, I would be left wtih Brian and Jason. I was praying that I would not let them down! This was all new to me! Brian was pretty easy. He said “go grab some beers” when we were just standing around.

I started to wander.

One mega-plus side to showing up to a fest 2 hours early… Turns out that you have lots of time to sample beers before the crowds are released. I had to tweet our buddies Mike and Chad that I was getting a pretty good buzz while they were standing in line outside!

I looked around a lot of stations. Said “Hello” to Matt Potts from DeStihl. He was obvously in the middle of some hose problem when I tried to chit chat. I grabbed a St. Dekkara Sour… It was brilliant as usual. Ran into Travis at the FFF booth and talked a bit. I was tipped off by Brian to check out the wild beers over at the Livery. Holy Crap! They had 4 amazing sours! All excellent!

This kind of sets the mood. You have all these great beers at your fingertips. What do you do? Well for me… I get bored doing this by myself. I got back to O’Fallon and readied myself for the crowds. Brian gave me a rundown the beers and ABV we were serving.

Wheach, Gold, 5 Day IPA, Hemp Hop Rye, Black Hemp and some freshly bottled Pumpkin Beer.

We still had lots of time. I got a chance to talk with Jason and found out that he is just like the rest of the brewers in this St. Louis circle… Laid back and easy going. Learned some new info on the brewery: Stu, who we first met at the brewery when he was low man on the pole… Had left for a corporate job (Ha! Sorry Stu! Missed ya!) Also, Tony and Fran had some the brewery to Jim Gorczyca, a former A/B executive. Turns out that our lack of O’Fallon beers in Peoria were part of a larger problem as the brewery was going through some struggles. Jim did not come to the fest, too bad, I wanted to meet him. But there is word they GOOD changes will be coming soon for the brewery.

We had a few regulars at teh booth that loaded up on Wheach… Turns out they were all St. Louis transplants that were missing their local beer. I was pretty generous on a few of these ladies pours. They kept coming back to seek me out!

About 3 hours in… I ran off again. You will see that in the video. Its a madhouse. It had rained that morning… And I had hoped that it would not turn into a mudbath. The grass stayed amazingly dry-ish. About 5PM it started raining again, but by that time… The grass was the last thing on my mind.

I did run into Chad and Mike from the Peoria beer scene. We had a frantic “Bonus Round” for the last hour. I used by brewers pass to grab a few (dozen) behind the tappers glasses before the fest shut down at 6.

After that… I hit our station for tear down. We still had some beer… So, those kegs were heavy! After getting the truck all packed up. We headed over to the brewers dinner. That was a welcome relief. As you can hear from my voice at teh end of teh video. I was horse, and pretty exhausted. Some chow and a Coke had me back in good spirits for the rest of our night out. You see… Everybody hits the local bars after the fest!!! So, I will leave you with this…. It was more drinking and beer talk till 1AM!

Good times! Thanks Dave, Brian and Jason!!!!

Oh, the ap for the Great Taste. I almost forgot. It was cool… But it was far to complicated and tedious for guys drinking beers. Then again… I was not spending time in lines. That might be a good place to use it. Also, bandwith was at a premium during the fest. I am guessing that all 3000 folks there had a smart phone in their pocket, and you could tell this by the slow network response on the ap.

Links:

www.ofallonbrewery.com

www.buffalobrewingstl.com

http://www.mhtg.org/great-taste-of-the-midwest

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Beers on the show: Butternuts Pork Slap and Moo Thunder. Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout.

On the show:

1. New Rainmakers album is out. 10 years in the making. CHUD says “If you dont like “Reckoning Day”
2. Farmhouse???
3. DOA Beer? Disappointing craft canned beer?
4. Made on dates are VERY helpful!
5. The power of cheesy logo’s and good marketing.
6. We try the Stout next… Again… Weird results.
7. Dump bucket is getting a workout.
8. Beer Ninja tactics by the Macros.
9. Groucho is getting a “heavy thickness in his mouth?”
10. CHUD has not put down a big buck yet. Besides an Old Dominion.
11. Beer and mixers do not work well together.
12. CHUD’s band finally has a singer??? Nothing to prove it even after the edit.
13. What are the limitations of eating underdone pork?
14. The Illinois Craft Beer Bill is a big steaming pile “crafted” by Big Brother Beer*.
15. DeStihl Champaign opens. CHUD gives an impromptu review. Thanks again to Matt Potts.
16. DeStihl Trippel was rocking.
17. CHUD needs to write more!!!!
18. Gumby’s Pizza, Grog’s or Flinger’s Pizza. CHUD says Flinger’s rocks.
19. The Beer Report tries to rationalize our review process and what the value of REAL reviews are to the listening public. There is little reason for us to kiss a breweries *ss.
20. Will Old Dominion suck from this point on?
21. Pork Slap!

Beers on the show picked up on Groucho’s recent trip to Washington DC… Purchases made even after being strongly advised against it by friend of the show, Bubby.

The Term “Big Brother Beer” has been stolen with little regard from The Good Beer Show. www.goodbeershow.com. All royalties from this show will be forwarded to his Swiss bank account once they are calculated.

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Groucho does it again… Brings back beer from a trip!

Beer on the show: Russian River Supplication

This episode of The Beer Report is sponsored by www.newcastlebrown.com. Check out the lighter side of dark!!!

On the show:

1. Pop the cork!
2. CHUD has no love for Ommegang?
3. Love for Destihl St. Dekkara Wild Ale.
4. “Clarke” dissed on the Russian River for poor service.
5. thebeerdownload.com’s Steve can put away the brew!
6. Beer drinkers excercise more?
7. Puritans and teetotalers young!
8. Going to heaven on a curve?
9. Michelle Bachman?
10. The Mason’s do great work.
11. Then things took a turn… Groucho, AB and CHUD get into some social archetectural discusion that runs on for another hour. Groucho take the pruning shears and cuts this sucker down before you hear him and AB start reaching for each others throats!
12. Damnation needs to be re-evaluated! Old Ales suck, according to Groucho.
13. Aliens are back to take us out.

Beer on the show purchased at DaveCo in the greater Denver CO area. Thanks to Dave for helping out… Not THAT “Dave”… Some other guy… But of course we thought the same thing… “Is he THAT Dave?”. Nope… Just a Dave who works there.

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This show is a mess… Could you expect anything different from us? We were required by common decency and some loose podcaster standards to be factual and knowledgeable about our favorite pastime… Beer. Well, this show proves that you sometimes dont get it right.

We should have leveled and beat down http://www.motherearthbrewco.com/ for their wussy stance on store shelves showing off low BA and Rate Beer scores next to their products. They have since repealed it, but you have to wonder who someone with such thin skin could run their own business!

Unfortunately, flat out got it wrong and picked another brewery to aim the attack dogs at. Namely, http://www.motherearthbrewing.com/. These guys started out as innocent bystanders in the beginning of the edit. But after reviewing our criticism of their website and mission purpose. We have decided that their “We are green, look at us” overkill was worthy of a smackdown as well.

And, in the end. Neither of them offer any beers in our area. So, we drank the most recent craft beer brand to blow into our neighborhood…. STONE BREWING from Escondido California. Long a show favorite.

Beers on the show: Stone 11th Anniversary Ale, Stone Black IPA, Stone/Mikkeller/Ale Smith Trippel Ale,

Outline of events:

1. Stone is here in Peoria!
2. Parallel tasting anyone?
3. Chud wipes out.
4. Stone bottles are too informative!?!?
5. Beeradvocate reviews? Unprofessional reviewers? http://www.motherearthbrewco.com/index.php
6. Mother Earth Brewing complains of unfavorable reviews on sites like BA. CHUD rant ensues. http://beernews.org/2011/03/mother-earth-brew-co-apologizes-removes-controversial-post-claiming-boycott-of-ba-rb/
7. Lesbian bed death leads to Mother Earth website review, moves onto can we get back to the beer, bashing begins when we start talking about “green”, finally getting annoyed by loving Mother Earth.
8. Soybean rage???
9. What is the green balance of solar panels and wind turbines?
10. Beer awards are like *ssholes.
11. Canned beer is great beer!
12. Quad Cities quiz!
13. Great River Brewing Company Roller Dam Red… A review.
14. Can we handle a brewers criticism of TBR? Spoon didnt like it!
15. When we were Belgian Beer n00bs!
16. CHUD struck by lightening?!?!
17. CHUD holds up the show! “Man up” advice for Mother Earth.
18. The riddle of steel?
19. Conan the Barbarian Wiki is weak! Cliffs Notes Conan from Groucho.
20. Stone beers kind to the working mans wallet!
21. Moe’s Home-wrecker burrito is not good food between flights!
22. Craftbeer cruise? Jeff from Craftbeer Radio had done that… Sounds cool!
23. Beer Safari Beer Cruise??? Lets “effort” that!
24. CHUD swears off Bud/Miller/Coors??? Can he do it?
25. Starbucks is in Pekin, Stone is in Peoria… Game over man!
26. Everybody’s Drunk! Pick up the new Rainmakers album, “25 On” today!

Once again, or apologies to the folks at Mother Earth Brewing. We DO look forward to trying a beer from you guys in the future. But, the Green thing is really getting over done.

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In Stereo! Get your headphones cranked for a couple of tunes on this show. Groucho and Chud touch base on some great performances, play a Mikey Mason song, and let CHUD come unhinged on Charlie Sheen.

Beers on the show: Two Brothers 2009 Bare Tree Wheat Wine. www.2brosbrew.com

On the show:

1. Show Sponsor: Ad from New Castle Brown ale www.newcastlebrown.com
2. The Bear Stick!
3. Love for Two Brothers Beers.
4. Its a numbered Episode!
5. Contest is over. We owe a beer to Swedish Brick for his awesome iTunes review.
6. Send us email… We love doing email shows!
7. If your beer sucks… Blend it!
8. Piers Morgan is hoity toity?
9. Cool to be unkept?
10. CHUD dont like Firefly… Sorry Mikey! www.mikeymason.com
11. Guitar comics
12. The Real Happy Hour returns? Maybe not??? CHUD recommends a podcast?
13. Niel Young’s Freedom conversation turns into love for the Weld double disk.
14. Why would we not be drinking the 2006 vintage Bare Tree???
15. Cigar mouth.
16. Cigarette bashing!
17. Aerosmith carb loaded… When did Stephen Tylor get so gay???
18. Charlie Sheen… CHUD watches TAHM?
19. Rock stars are lame now… Near CHUD rant!

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Groucho, once again comes back into the states with some beer in his luggage! This time Hoopmaster even donated some beer to the show.

Beers on the show: CayBrew (Cayman Islands) and Balashi (Aruba)

On the show:

• Groucho travels the globe for beer!
• Groucho is abstaining from Bud/Miller/Coors after Discovery Channel cancels Brewmasters.
• AB buys Goose Island… Another reason to abstain.
• Could we be bought off?
• Arubanese.
• Trump and the birthers!
• Hoopmaster contributed the Balashi.
• Groucho and customs declarations.
• Cuban cigars.
• Joe Biden is a tool.
• The show goes all political for 5 minutes.
• Airport security!
• Donate to Japan, and or, Mikey Mason’s kick start.
• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1282225399/mikey-masons-comedy-album-for-geeks-like-him
• Where’s Haiti?… CHUD ditched a girl for missing the answer.
• NATO help? Not worth it.

Beers on the show purchased outside of the continental USA where the weather is far superior! Especially in March!

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