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Does the color of your beer affect how it tastes?  Is Saint Patrick’s day and its green beer ruining your favorite lager?  You better believe that the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast is here to conduct the experiments that no one asked to be conducted. Featured Beers: Cloud Punch.  Bad Astronaut Brewing.  Houston, TX.  German Pilsner.  5.2% ABV. Loggerbier.  Equal Parts Brewing.  Houston, TX.  German Pilsner. 4.9% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs: “It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy Disney World Wu Tang Clan Inside Out (Pixar) Goldfish  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media!  https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Adam returns on this episode to share some great beers from Austin and we gush all about the beer scene in Dripping Springs!  And of course in addition to the beer we stray off course with some truly ridiculous and hilarious stories (as is tradition when Adam joins the podcast). Featured Beers: Hamilton Pale Ale.  Family Business Beer Company, Dripping Springs, TX.  4.9% ABV. Black Skies. Vista Brewing, Driftwood, TX. 4.9% ABV Black Pilsner Electric Jellyfish.  Pinthouse Brewery, Austin, TX. 6.5% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs: Ghost Note Brewing Company Twisted X Brewing Santos.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company (Houston) True Anomaly Brewing (Houston) Spindletap (Houston) Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Karl Malone Nate Bargatze  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston! NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/ Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

After we had so much fun tasting verticals and horizontals during our Eureka Heights episode, Ryan and Drew are back at it again with none other than the Negative Space Milk Stout from 11 Below Brewing!  Come find out all about the awesome Negative Space variants and whether this beer is better fresh or slightly aged (and our thoughts on beer aging in general).   And if that’s not all, we’ll bring you up-to-speed with our quest to visit all 70+ Houston breweries and make up excuses on why it takes so long to get to all of them! Featured Beer: Negative Space.  11 Below Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  9.0% ABV. (2022 and 2021) Bonus Beer:  Java Space  Other Shout-Outs: Eureka Heights Nuke the Whales Saint Arnold French Press Brash Milk the Venom Ghost Face Killah.  Twisted Pine Brewing Company. 11 Below Big Mistake Hot Tub Beers Saint Arnold Divine Reserve Racer 5 IPA Mel Brooks Movies:  Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I, Robin Hood Men in Tights Galveston Bay Brewing Company Whole Foods Brewing Bakfish Brewing (RIP) Vallensons  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Join the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast as we jump in a time machine to drink the top 5 beers of 2010 (hint hint one is a big one!).   But that’s not all - we’re going to give you the full and unadulterated 2010 experience.  This means top 2010 news stories, top music, top movies, slang, and of course after 5 beers we engage in passionate discussions on the history of craft beer itself.  Take a break from your first world problems because this episode is lit! Top 5 Beers of 2010: #5: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. 5.6% ABV #4: 90 Minute Imperial IPA.  Dogfish Head Craft Brewery.  9% ABV. #3: Arrogant Bastard Ale. Arrogant Consortia (Stone).  7,2% ABV. #2: Two Hearted Ale. Bell’s Brewery.  7% ABV. #1: Pliny the Elder.  Russian River Brewing Company. 8% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs: Zymurgy Home Brewing Magazine Antonine Dodson iPad President Obama Mark Zuckerburg H1N1 Swing Flu Great American Beer Festival (GABF) Rodeo Clown (Karbach) & Endeavor (Saint Arnold Brewing) Sculpin (Ballast Point) Chilean Miners Space X / Elon Musk Wikileaks/ Julian Assange/ Chelsea Manning Deepwater Horizon oil spill Chernobyl All Day IPA (Founders) Kidz Bop Radio Justin Bieber Taylor Swift Maharaja (Avery) Avatar / James Cameron Inception Heady Topper (Alchemist) Dinner (Maine Beer Company) MUSIC FEATURED: Tik Tok by Kesha Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys   HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston! NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Ryan and Drew use their extensive research to tell you about beer-related world records so you don’t have to google them for yourself!   And don’t google them, because we may have made some of these up.  Plus, do kids ever throw up where you want them to and is Wade Boggs full of shit? Beer: Dunkel.  Klaus Brewing Company. Houston, TX. 4.8% ABV Fake Landing.  Bad Astronaut Brewing Co.  Houston, TX. 6.6% ABV Fruity Haze Haze Juice.  Eureka Heights Brewing Co.  Houston, TX 6.5% ABV   Other Shout-Outs: Frost Town Brewing.  Houston, TX Beers Looking at You (Beer Shop in Webster) Andre the Giant Wade Boggs It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Hindenburg Texas A&M:  Northgate, Ring Dunk, College Station Nook Brewing Company.  Broken Arrow, OK Brewdog @usernamewithbeerinit Flying Saucer Infinite Ghost.  Parish Brewing Company   HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston! NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/  Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Stout Season is here!  Ryan and Drew go full-on “nucular” by tasting a variety of Eureka Heights Nuke the Whales Imperial Milk Stouts aged across multiple years and their variants.  What can go wrong with drinking four 11% ABV stouts?  Apparently a lot of things. Beer: Nuke the Whales (2021).  Eureka Heights Brew Co. Nuke the Whales (2020).  Eureka Heights Brew Co. Nuke the Whales (Coffee and Vanilla 2021 Variant).  Eureka Heights Brew Co. Nuke the Whales (Coconut, Pecan, Cocoa Nibs, and Vanilla 2021 Variant).  Eureka Heights Brew Co.   Other Shout-Outs: George W Bush Houston Astros Jose Altuve Mattress Mack Bun B Paul Wall Ted Cruz Andre Johnson Talladega Nights Divine Reserve Series.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company Untappd Stone Brewing Independence Day The Simpsons PETA  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/  Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Come join us this week while we take a trip down memory lane, rattling off some of our best beer memories as we discovered beer and craft beer, and of course some of the most painful experiences to keep it from being too sappy!  And on that topic, sometimes there is a fine line between a great beer experience and a painful beer experience.  Is it possible to achieve the perfect buzz?  You’ll have to tune in to find out! Beer: Heavy Hands.  Spindletap Brewery, Houston, TX. 8% ABV. Black Matter. Manhattan Project Beer Company, Dallas, TX.  Coffee Stout.  8.6% ABV. Festbier. SpindleTap Brewery, Houston, TX.  4.2% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs: Yellow Rose.  Lone Pint Brewing. Birra Moretti Belican (Belize Beer) Ghost in the Machine.  Parish Brewing. Epcot Beers Around the World Negative Space.  11 Below Brewing. Pacifico Claro Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Costco Great American Beer Festival Flying Saucer / Beerfeast Notorious BIG HALO Corona / Keystone Light Bombshell Blonde.  Southern Star Jim Adler the Texas Hammer Triceratops. Ninkasi Brewing Company   HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston! NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media!https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Do you hate a beer that everyone loves?  Love a brewery that everyone hates?  Are you the type of person who holds back your opinions for fear of how stupid you sound, or do you just put it out there in the open for all to dissect?   Well, Ryan and Drew choose the latter path, letting rip their beer industry Hot Takes and Unpopular Opinions. Beer: Cloud Punch.  Bad Astronaut Brewing, Houston, TX.  German Style Pils. Neon Sunshine.  Sun Cloud Brewing, Oklahoma, OK.  Belgian Wit.   Other Shout-Outs: Martin House Brewing Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Untappd Brash Brewing.  Houston, TX. Karbach / AB InBev (Love Street)  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

We’re back with the third annual Oktoberfest Episode!  This time we ramp things up by not only tasting our beers blind, but also taking our reigning champ, Paulaner, and putting it head to head with three Houston beers.  And if that isn’t enough for you, Ryan and Drew test the myth of “Das Boot” with a good ole’ fashioned beer boot chug! Oktoberfest Beers: Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier.  Paulaner Brauerei, Munich, Bayern Germany. 6% ABV. Oktoberfest.  New Magnolia Brewing Company, Houston, TX. 6% ABV. Oktoberfest.  11 Below Brewing, Houston, TX. 5.3% ABV. Oktoberfest.  Galveston Island Brewing, Galveston, TX. 5.4% ABV. Disclaimer:  We grabbed the wrong Paulaner Oktoberfest beer (Festbier vs. Marzen) this year so it made for a few curveballs!Das Boot Challenge: Weihenstephaner Helles. Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan. Bayern Germany. 4.8% ABV. Other Shout-Outs: Devil and the Deep Von Wolfhausen.  Eureka Heights Brewing Co. Texas Leaguer Brewing Pints and Panels Music to My Beers - Pearland, TX Vallensons Beerfest Total Wine Article Drew references on switch to light beers (although Paulaner’s website gives credit to Augustiner!) https://vinepair.com/articles/american-oktoberfest-beer-doesnt-taste-like-german-brew-heres/  Four Beers Polka by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

This week we take our beer Adjunct Series into the wild world of blueberries!  That’s right, we’re trying four different styles of beers from four different breweries to tell you the best way to enjoy fruit in your beer.   While we’re at it, we’ll tell you the many different ways of how to brew with blueberries! Blueberry Beers: Blueberry Blonde Ale.  Galveston Bay Brewing, Dickinson, TX.  6.2% ABV. Fullbrook Blueberry Cream Ale. Fullbrook Ale Works, Richmond, TX. 5.2% ABV. Blue Money. Boulevard Brewing Company, Kansas City, MO. 7.5% ABV. Blueberry Boyfriend. Prairie Artisan Ales, Krebs, OK. 5.4% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs Brewsology Beerfest (Houston Museum of Natural Science) Martin House Brewing.  Mystic Mountain Blueberry. Nook Brewing Company (Official Brewer’s corner) Pints and Panels Cascade Brewing Bern Appetit podcast Sonic Drive-In  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media!  https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/  Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

The Beering Ain’t Easy Podcast is celebrating it’s two year anniversary!  We bring back original co-founder Adam onto the show to talk about his move to Austin, Drew turning forty, and Ryan’s bathroom etiquette conundrum.  Plus we do micro-recaps of the HTown Brewery challenge and cover Turkey Forrest, Elder Son, and Klaus Brewing! Beers We’re Drinking: Hops Drop.  Spindletap Brewery, Houston, TX. 6.5% ABV. Space Train.  Eureka Heights Brewing, Houston, TX. 5.5% ABV. Black Quad. Real Ale Brewing, Blanco, TX.  10.5% ABV.  Come visit the Houston Block Party Hosted by the Houston Beer Guide 8/27! https://houstonbeerguide.com/houstonbeerblockparty/   Other Shout-Outs Favorite Podcast Beers:  Pliny for President (Russian River), Plaid Habit (Boulevard), Candy Green (Spindletap) Past Blind Tasting Winners:  Hipster Sauce and Lil’ Snack (11 Below) Favorite Podcast Moments to go back and Listen:  EP 9 The Chase,  S2 EP6 Sticky Situation (Adam after bourbon) Bad Astronaut Brewing Twisted X Blue Owl Ghost Note Brewing Dripping Springs Jester King Brash Equal Parts Live Oak Pre-War Pils Saint Arnold Key & Peele Treehouse Pedialyte  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

It’s been a wild month for the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast, and we’re glad to be back on the air bringing you another one of our patented beer experiments, this time testing whether specialty beer glassware makes a difference on the taste of your beer!  Plus, we bring back friend-of-the-show Sylvia, aka @houstonbeermother, to promote the upcoming and awesome #Houstonbeer event coming to the Houston area August 27th.  You don’t want to miss out on the Houston Block Party! Beers We’re Drinking: Kemah Suprema.  Saloon Door Brewing, Webster, TX.  Lager. 4.7% ABV. Flying Duck. Flyway Brewing, Little Rock, AR. Amber. 4.9% ABV. Amber.  Altstadt Brewery, Fredericksburg, TX. 4.8% ABV. 11th Hour.  Equal Parts Brewing, Houston, TX. IPA. 6.9% ABV. Zeno’s Pale Ale. Lone Pint Brewery, Magnolia, TX.  5.5% ABV.  Glassware We Tested: Spiegelau Teku Tulip Craft Master Grand Solo Cup Pint Glass Frosty Mug   The Main Event:  Houston Block Party Hosted by the Houston Beer Guide https://houstonbeerguide.com/houstonbeerblockparty/  Other Shout-Outs @pourcharacter glasses (Wu Tang) Yellow Rose (Lone Pint) Saint Arnold Summer Pils Ghost in the Machine Port Aransas Vallenson’s New Magnolia Elder Son Brewing Houston Beer Fest Star Sailor Mordor  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!   NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/  Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

It’s a wild world out there folks - fiercely independent breweries selling to macro-breweries, the Houston beer scene rotating owners and brewers like musical chairs, gasoline costing more than craft beer, and hot dog eating champions having to compete on crutches!  What in the world comes next, and how does craft beer fare in a recession?  Are these signs of the end of times, or is this just some elaborate craft beer soap opera?    Either way, he Beering Ain’t Easy podcast is here for it with a tub of popcorn at the ready.  Beers We’re Drinking: Coastal Love.  Wicked Weed Brewing, Asheville, NC. 6.3% ABV. Floridian.  Funky Buddha Brewery, Oakland Park, FL.  5.2% ABV. Vulgar Display of Power.  Brash Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  14% ABV. Loggerbier.  Equal Parts Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  4.9% ABV.   Soap Opera Music Credit: Days of our Lives   Houston Brewery Shout Outs: Closed:  Six Wards Resuscitated:  City Acre, Bearded Fox Sold:  Holler, Local Group, Brash For Sale:  B-52, Copperhead In trouble:  Buffalo Bayou Other Houston shout outs:  Equal Parts, Bad Astronaut, Huggy Bear, 8th Wonder, Petrol Station, Eureka Heights, Laser Brewing  Other Shout-Outs Coors Joey Chestnut / Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest Ballast Point Sold:  Stone Brewing, Modern Times New Belgium Bell’s Brewery X @hazeboiz on Instagram Constellation Brands Phantasm Powder  After recording, we found this great Beer Chronicle article that covers the moves in more detail. https://www.beerchronicle.com/as-temps-rise-so-does-the-pressure-several-houston-breweries-closing-selling-and-changing-ownership-in-2022/  Cost of Beer / Recession Articles : https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/news/drizly-examines-how-recessionary-economics-impact-alcohol-purchasing/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/craft-beer-expensive-cost_n_5670015   HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/ Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

In honor of Father’s Day upcoming, we discuss the transformation everyone must go through when becoming a dad: solitary hobbies, grilling expertise, awkward friend-making, and most importantly, the dad jokes.  We talk about the weird phrases we grew up with, the new ones we’ve picked up along the way, and quiz each other on the proper dad response for a given scenario.  Plus we talk about our dads’ beer preferences and if they have changed since the podcast began! Beers We’re Drinking: Reve Coffee Stout.  Parish Brewing Company, Broussard, LA. S8 Rice Saison. Transmitter Brewing, Brooklyn, NY. Ennio Pils.  New Magnolia Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  Other Shout-Outs: 23 and Me Moose Drool Brown Ale. Big Sky Brewing Company, Missoula, MT. Brewing Projekt Bourbon Paradise. Prairie Artisan Ales. Dupont Saison Top Gun Budweiser Captain Morgan Adam’s Custom Woodworking Favorite Dad Instagram accounts: @thedad  @middleclassfancy   HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/  Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Have you ever tried a Gluten Free Beer?  How are they made without barley or wheat?  What’s the difference between Gluten Free and Gluten Reduced?  The Beering Ain’t Easy Podcast will answer these questions and more as Drew’s wife Meredith joins the show for the first time ever to sample 5 different styles of Gluten Free beer and come to terms with our daughter’s Celiac’s disease diagnosis. Featured Beers: Favorite Blonde. Holidaily Brewing Co. Golden, CO. 5% ABV. Citrus Gose. Holidaily Brewing Co., Golden, CO. 3.9% ABV. Redbridge. Anheuser Busch, St. Louis, MO.  4% ABV. Glutenberg IPA.  Glutenberg Craft Brewery, Montreal, Canada. 6% ABV. Beulah Red Ale. Holidaily Brewing Co., Golden, CO. 5.2% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs: Ground Breaker Brewing.  Portland, OR @thebrewbabe on Instagram Hye Cider Company. Fredericksburg, TX (Hye Hops) Gluten-free grains:   Millet, buckwheat, rice, quinoa, white sorghum Urban South HTX Total Wine Meredith’s top 3 beers: Art Car IPA (Saint Arnold Brewing), Jai Alai (Cigar City Brewing),  Blue Tile IPA (Great Heights Brewing)   Link to Gluten Free Breweries! https://bestglutenfreebeers.com/5-dedicated-gluten-free-breweries-us/   HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Who wants a nice warm beer?  Yeah, we thought so.  But as parents, we’ve found that our kids often distract us mid beer at parties or events and leave us with a lovely can of lukewarm.  Which led us to an experiment to explore - which beer tastes best warm?  The Beering Ain’t Easy podcast has done all the detective work so you don’t have to! Featured Beers (Saint Arnold Brewing Variety Pack.  Houston, TX): Fancy Lawnmower H-Town Pils Amber Ale Art Car   Other Shout-Outs: Yeti Michelob Ultra Lil’ Snack.  11 Below Brewing Company, Houston, TX. Pre-War Pils.  Live Oak Brewing Company, Austin, TX. H-Town Brewery Challenge Featured Breweries: Urban South HTX Platypus Brewing Texas Leaguer Brewing  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!   NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/ Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

This week we bring you an exclusive sneak peak of Bad Astronaut Brewing, a major brewpub coming to Houston’s Hardy Yards later this year!  Chris and brewmaster Rocky walk us through their concepts for the space, their extensive experience in brewing startups to scale ups, and tell us what it truly means to be a Bad Astronaut.  And in true Beering Ain’t Easy fashion, we find a way to get in some hot takes about kids at breweries.  You don’t want to miss this one! Beers We Were Drinking: Loggerbier.  Equal Parts Brewing, Houston, TX.  Other Shout-Outs: Karbach Brewing / Eric Warner Cru Brewing Systems Kroger on 11th Flying Saucer Beer Run -  Song by Tom Snyder NSYNC Professor X Netflix   Bad Astronaut Favorite Music to Brew to: Electric Wizard Dead South  Bad Astronaut Favorite All Time Beers Augustiner Helles Schonramer Pils  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston! WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE:  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Upon seeing the early signs of summer weather in Houston, Ryan and Drew decide to send off stout season in style via a Beering Ain’t Easy patented blind tasting!  This time we put three Oatmeal Stouts head-to-head, including the award winning Settler’s Stout from Vallensons Brewing Company.  Can “new” Houston beers overtake an English beer from the 1700’s, and are the host tastebuds as refined as GABF judges?  Plus we update you on our HTown Brewery Challenge by recapping Baa Baa Brewhouse, Twisted Acre, and Battlehops! Featured Oatmeal Stouts:  Settlers’ Oatmeal Stout.  Vallensons Brewing Company, Pearland, TX.  5.9% ABV. Aybara. Back Pew Brewing Company, Porter, TX. 8.7% ABV. Oatmeal Stout. Samuel Smith, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire England. 5% ABV.   Other Shout-Outs: Saloon Door Tasty AF Great American Beer Festival New Brewer Magazine For the Culture Brewing (coming soon!) Baa Lite (craft lager) Deep Dive N 2 A Dive Bar (new CTS Podcast) Hot Tub Beers (new CTS podcast) Farm Drinkery and Caddy Shack Bar (Spring, TX)  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!  NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/  Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

Can Fruited Sours sweep you away on a tropical vacation from standard craft beers, or should they only be served at the kids table? Will we uncover health benefits unbeknownst to our hosts?  We bring on two guests from the neighborhood to participate in a debate as old as marshmallow creme while we sample six of the biggest name breweries in Slushy/Smoothie beers! Featured Fruited Sours: SLUSHY XL Unicorn Juice.  450 North Brewing Company, Columbus, IN. Smarty Bruja Berry. Ingenious Brewing Company, Humble, TX. Braaaaaaaains - Blueberry, Black Currant, & Plum Double Fruit Smoothie Sour.  Drekker Brewing Company, Fargo, ND. Yesterday. Baa Baa Brewhouse, Brookshire, TX. Triple Spilled - Rainbow Sour Belts, Pineapple, Banana, Orange, Vanilla.  Urban South HTX, Houston, TX.  Collaboration with Craft Beer Kings. Hydra / Hawk. Mortalis Brewing Company, Avon, NY. Collaboration with Horus Aged Ales.  Other Shout-Outs: Smoothie King 8 Row Flint / Rosewater (Houston Bourbon Bars) Disney World  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!   NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media! https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.

We continue on our quest to highlight great guests from the beer industry, and this week we're joined by Marin, owner of one of Houston's best beer bars -  Star Sailor.  We'll hear all about the entrepreneurial challenges of opening a business during Covid, the glorious highs of building an inclusive business environment, and even tips on how Ryan and Drew can be better communicators!  And beer.  Lots of amazing beer. Featured Star Sailor Beers: DDH Art Car.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Houston, TX. 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston Pink Caddy.  Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Houston, TX. Cali Green DDH.  Brash Brewing Company, Houston, TX. The 610.  Great Heights Brewing Company, Houston, TX. Stefan.  Equal Parts Brewing Company, Houston, TX. Eldritch. Equal Parts Brewing Company, Houston, TX.  Wiley Roots Featured Beer Zodiac: Pisces.  Wiley Roots Brewing Company, Greeley, CO.  6.4% ABV.  Other Shout-Outs: @spacecitysnax Hughie’s Constellation Coffee The Montrose Group @htownbeerguys -  Beer can succulents Space Montrose Holler Dollar Pils Y’all North Coast Grand Cru Whip In (Austin, TX) Eureka Heights / Walking Stick / Ingenious / Vallensons / New Magnolia / B-52 Brewing / Urban South HTX Destihl Deadhead IPA Series: Tourbus The Fallen:  Petrol Station / Hay Merchant / Falling Rock (CO) Aristocats  HTOWN Brewery Challenge Tracker - See how we’re doing on our challenge to visit all breweries within 50 miles of Houston!   NEW WEBSITE and MERCH PAGE!  Check out all the great podcasts that are a part of Cross the Streams media!  https://www.crossthestreamsmedia.com/show/beering-aint-easy/   Follow @beeringainteasy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube, email us at beeringainteasy@gmail.com, or follow our beer quest on Untappd, usernames BeeringAintEasyAdam and BeeringAintEasyDrew.