This week’s episode finds us chatting with Cody C0ppola from World of Beer. He talks about opening new stores, primarily their new Boulder location, home brewing and even get a quick lesson on Arctic Cloudberries before we dive into the important stuff: would he eat fried dog shit to gain a […]
BnL Podcast
Join Pete and Sam, two friends separated by 1,300 miles but forever linked by the glory of beer, as they discuss beer related news and events. Each episode they bring in a special co-host to weigh in on whatever topic is being discussed. Maybe they’ll learn something too. Listen and find out.
BnL Podcast EP 025 – St. Paddy’s Suicide Vests and a Beer Dinner
This week’s episode finds us (well, Sam) on location at The District, a Denver bar that slings bad ass brew and makes some killer food. They are putting on their first beer dinner on March 30, and are partnering with Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing Company for five courses of amazing […]
BnL Podcast EP 024 – Poop, Clog, Repeat with A Crazy Cat Person
This past episode, we had the supreme pleasure of hosting Nick McCormac of Drink. Blog. Repeat. fame. He gives us the low down on his local upcoming beer week, beer miles and the fucking crazy laws that South Carolina affords it’s loyal craft beer drinkers. I don’t want to say […]
BnL Podcast EP 023 – Barrels of Fun, Sorry for Calling you Ryan
We’re joined on the show this week by Ryan Noah Steingraeber from Rocky Mountain Barrel Company. Once Pete gets his name right, he gives us the low down on barrel wranglin’, the brain-flattening size of foudres, and how to get into the trade of cooperage. Then we dive even deeper into […]
BnL Podcast EP 022 – We Kinda Hate Schmoz but Mostly Thrillist
BEWARE! THIS EPISODE GETS TOPICAL, FOLKS. Our longtime friend, Noel, joins us for this week’s episode and, per his request, we discuss the Thrillist article that lists off a dozen craft beer trends that need to die in a fire. We have our own opinions about it and in true […]
BnL Podcast EP 021 – Kinda Live from Chain Reaction Brewing Company
This week’s episode is a special one. Not only is our podcast now 21 episodes long (enough to legally drink in our minds), and not only is this a triumphant return to a brewery that has been big supporters of us in the past, this episode also happens to be […]
BnL Podcast EP 020 – Secret Shouting and Shit Funnel Cake
In this week’s episode, we welcome back our friend Sarah. We haven’t talked to her in forever so she didn’t yet know the joys of our new show structure. We talk about some of the new hot spots in the Summit County, CO brewery scene, avoid talking about the weather […]
BnL Podcast EP 019 – An Oral History Of Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines
This episode of the BnL Podcast has us joined by guest Laura Lodge, who is the primary organizer behind the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival in Vail. This year’s fest is happening on January 8 and 9, 2016. Laura gives us a great history of the event and how […]
BnL Podcast EP018: Level Headed Super Hero Dicks
This week we host Jeff and Mike, aka Airman and Scarbs, from PARADOX Beer Company in the BnL studio. We discuss a ton of stuff. Airman answers everything in a completely level headed manner and Scarbs washes our sampling glasses. We do have an awesome chat and get down to some deep […]
BnL Podcast EP 017: Taking Moral Inventory on the Underground Whale Road
This episode has it all. Joy, shame, conflict, redemption and some beers. We brought our friend Michael from Saugatuck Brewing Company back on the show to see how he liked our new format. He handled it like any seasoned pro would, even thought Pete tried to drag us down into some […]
BnL Podcast EP 016: The Magic Tap Line that Comes from Heaven
“HOOOOLLYYY SHIT! It’s been a while since we’ve done a podcast!” – Pete It’s true though. And now we’re back at it. To celebrate the occasion, we invited our friends Ryan from Focus on the Beer and Tristan from Porchdrinking.com to help test out our new show. We get into […]
BnL Podcast: Denver Nut Co. and Chain Reaction
If you haven’t heard yet, we’re helping Denver Nut Company put on an event at Chain Reaction Brewing Company. Their collaboration beer (A butter toffee peanut porter) is going to be amazing and raise some money for a good cause. We chatted Ryan (Den. Nut Co. Owner) and Alex (his […]
BnL Podcast: Big Beers and Dumb Labels
Sam made his rookie trip to Vail for the 15th annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival and tooled around with Ryan from Focus on the Beer. We got Ryan back on the show to talk it out and see who could remember what. After we establish who puked where, we […]
BnL Podcast: Deep. Freaking. Thoughts.
Did you miss us? The whole gang is back along with our friend Ryan Hannigan from Focus on the Beer to discuss everything from how not to handle taking third place in a popularity contest, unbridled support and love for Big Beer and skimming over the Founders situation. Pete also […]
BnL Podcast: GABF and Sam Does a Spiegelau Taste Test
The title doesn’t lie. This episode finds Sam Sly actually doing a proper taste test using a true Spiegelau glassware set guided by the loving tender hand of Ryan from Left Hand. His skepticism is put to the test as he rolls through way too much beer for his own […]