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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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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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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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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Timely show! Believe it or not!?!?!

Groucho and CHUD sit down for 40 minutes of St. Patrick’s day conversation. Mix in a little conversation about recent events in Japan, and you have a show that is current and fresh!

On the show:

1. Strangford Lough Brewing company history
2. Brilliant brewing plan!
3. Emma!
4. Japan Tsunami conversation.
5. Nuclear energy is not getting a publicity boost anytime soon.
6. NIMBY!
7. Wedding ring down!
8. Passport debacles.
9. Extract brew?
10. American Idol talk???
11. Granite City Peoria - A 1 minute review.
12. Destihl love. Again!
13. CHUD’s band talk… Still no theme song!
14. Emma!
15. We’re being nice at this point… Lucky their Irish!
16. Historical misspeak!
17. Beer Report St. Patrick factoids via the CHUD.
18. Is this St. Patty’s best?
19. Legbiter Ale? Cheap Pittsburgh defense move! Chopblock Ale?
20. Chicago vs downstate IL hate.
21. CHUD gets fired up about Wisconsin Union battle. Nearly a rant!

Beer on the show NOT sent to us by Strangford Lough!

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Short show! 16 minutes of TBR goodness!

Groucho, CHUD and AB take 2 versions of Ireland’s beloved beer and pit them off in a battle of aged (forgotten) space takers from the TBR Fridge.

Guinness Extra Stout versus Guinness Draught

1. Podcasts? (Once again… TBR makes erroneous statements about Craft Beer Radio. Sorry… Again!)
2. Neuticals.
3. Guinness Draught pours first.
4. CHUD tries to defend the beer’s honor.
5. Guinness Lot number: L9244GJ001
6. Fun with mixers.
7. REAL Guinness.
8. Newt Gingrich still looking for the right family.
9. AB hypothesizes that beer does not sit around very long in Ireland.
10. CHUD’s anti-aging philosophy!
11. Epic fail show.

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Two beer special!  Groucho, CHUD and AB hang out for a bottle of Founders Nemesis and Leinenkugel’s Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout! 

GROUCHOS MICROPHONE GOES WEIRD FOR A GOOD CHUNK OF THE SHOW!!!  SORRY!!!  IT DOES GET BETTER HALFWAY THROUGH.  MIGHT HAVE BEEN ALL THE TED WILLIAMS IMITATIONS!

On the show:

1. Ted Williams voice
2. Cuba baby!
3. Homelessness?  Groucho is out of touch!
4. NASA announcements suck.
5. Lasering at income aircraft is not smart!
6. twang.com
7. Groucho’s volume sucks!
8. 7 Hour energy is our idea!!!
9. The gout!
10. Leinie’s love.
11. The Citadel Sanitarium.
12. Putin, CHUD loves him.
13. Impending divorces.
14. Smith’s and Morrissey hate.
15. CHUD bares his artistic soul
16. Groucho lays down the velvet vocals to Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence.
17. Groucho and CHUD are going to start a brewery in a 3rd world country.
18. Brazil with Hawgdog?

Beers on the show purchased at some unknown liquor store in Schaumburg near IKEA!  That’s all I can remember!  Sorry!

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Canned beer goodness! And from a hundred miles up the road!!!

Groucho, CHUD and AB get back in the saddle with a local brew… Setting our expectations low, we are pleasantly surprised when we find this beer to be a potential star!

Beer on the show: Great River Brewery 483 Pale Ale

One the show:

• What are the Quad Cities?
• Great River Brewery background.
• 4th city identified!  Bettendorf!
• Chud is like Sting.
• Krypter lead singer woes.
• No Facetime on Groucho’s iPhone.  AB is an Android!
• January is….  Radon Awareness month!  The RAM!
• January is also Pinewood Derby month!
• Hoopmaster could follow Ted Williams lead and get famous with a viral video.
• Patriots lost!  Go Packers… Or Bears…  Whatever your pleasure.
• Bears fans still suck!
• Groucho’s Illinois government worker pension hatred.
• Quad Cities review.
• Yahoo answers.
• People swallow 7  to 8 spiders a year in their sleep?

Beer on the show purchased at Broadway Liquors in Pekin Illinois; at the robbery price of 3.79 a 16oz can!

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Just in time for the Holidays! The Homeless Hoopmaster revisits Pekin Beer Report Studio for a friendly visit that soon turns to trying to find a decent beer from Kentucky. Sorry Kentucky if you are reading this… But the examples of beer on the show did not serve the state well! Which is sad, we had high hopes for the BBC brews after having some good special editions beers in years past. But, then again, with bad beers, come lots of non-beer conversations. Notably… CHUD is very upset about current TSA screening processes. So, if you want some timely conspiracy talk mixed with your beercast… Tune in!

Segue city!!! The longer is goes… The more abrupt this interruptions! Hoops has mad conversation skills!

Side note: Hoops keeps grinding on the table with his beer! Sorry for the pounding you hear all over the show. Next time he gets a boom mic! Groucho, the producer should have caught that while recording… But Hoops is an energy that is hard to contain!

Beers on this show: Pabst Blue Ribbon, Twang Beer Salt, Bluegrass Brewing Company Amber Ale, Alltech Lexington Brewing Company’s Kentucky Ale, Bourbon Kentucky Ale, O’Fallon Wee Heavy, Shorts Huma-Lupa-Licious, Arbor Brewing Sacred Cow IPA, BBC American Pale Ale

On the show:

• Twang! www.twang.com
• The Pride of Peoria burns to the ground… and Hoops was there to see it!
• Shakes the Clown
• What is the value of the salt in beer? Redneck Corona?
• Neanderthal children.
• The “Pitch Bucket” returns! Stolen from www.goodbeershow.com
• The Twang settles!
• Check out the new www.thebeerreport.com! Beer and Music reviews from CHUD!
• Louisville.
• CHUD: Music boundaries are gone.
• Kids cant get away with anything with social networks following them around!
• CHUD’s TSA rant gets sidetracked.
• Muffin beer gets dumped!
• Rapiscan rant gets started again by CHUD. (Sure to get us on some kind of government list)
• Tranny man-face beer!
• Aging a growler
• Ferris Bueller tangent.
• Hoops guilt’s CHUD hard about not being invited to the Wedding.
• Shout outs for having awesome 3 Floyds and O’Fallon Beer at the Wedding.
• CHUD requests that O’Fallon add Chinook Hops to all 5 Day IPA’s. As a matter of fact… He challenges O’Fallon to do a special batch and call it “CHUD Sauce”
• http://ofallonbrewery.com/
• Contamination of the “Pitch Bucket”!
• CHUD informs us on Deer eating birds.
• Confessions of the Hoopmaster: Pissing on the floor???
• Never had a bad Michigan beer! Groucho will have a Double-wide in the UP!
• Da Yoopers!?!? Tirty Point Buck?
• Confessions of the Hoopmaster: Worried that CHUD may have soiled his girlfriend.
• Confessions of the Hoopmaster: Rooming with co-workers at conferences.
• Sharper Image.
• A Bad beer from Michigan??? Sacred Cow is infected??? All bottles foaming and taste terrible!
• Hoops pallette has been more compromised than this Arbor Brew beer.
• Donovan McNabb beer?
• Holiday Show??? Why now? LOST DUCK Brewing in Fort Madison IA.
• Hoops on Facebook?
• Kentucky blowout beer show???
• Drinking the “Pitch”. Band Ade taste?
• Merry Christmas, don’t fly, go to Arkansas with Hoops, save the seals!
• Tirty Point Buck… Da Yoopers!

O’Fallon Wee Heavy bought at Friar Tuck in Peoria IL. Alltech beers bought at the World Equestrian games in Lexington Kentucky. Michigan beers bought a little joint between St. Joseph and New Buffalo Michigan in August.

Da Yoopers were shamelessly ripped off… But we cut the song down. Seek them out! They sing such classics as : “The Bears Still Suck” and “2nd Week of Deercamp”!

Listen here! http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebeerreport/TBR_Special_Edition_-_Hoopmasters_Ho.mp3

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Groucho went on vacation… And brought back beer! Shocker right??? So, you get to hear about some beer from Denver and the local Denver liquor store… You also get a heap of Groucho and CHUD’s “noodling” conversations that lead everywhere and nowhere! Thus, you get Denver Noodles!

Beers on the show: Oskar Blues Mama’s Little Yella Pils, Dale’s Pale Ale, Russian River Pliney the Elder, Alaskan Brewing Smoked Porter.

On the show:

• Get your ass to Denver.
• Hippie dude at the Oskar Blues Bar.
• Beer, BBQ and Blues? Trendy or just imitating Big Foamy Head?
• CHUD hates John Mayer.
• Radionowhere podcast is not kid-safe!
• Canned beer!
• Machete, the movie leads to The Expendables, leads to Over the Top, leads to Quantum of Solace???
• Can you drink Kerosene? Duel Survival. Man, Woman Wild sucks!
• Jedi’s??? Really???
• Plastic Man. Underrated DC superhero? (Flaming Carrot comics geek speak proceeds)
• DaveCo story.
• Pliney acquired… And remincing about the Stone 10th annual Beerfest.
• Alanis isnt so ironic?
• Dave’s I know! Kids in the Hall tribute!
• Psychic listeners… We feel your vibes!
• Bloomington-Normal Beerfest still sucks… But they did have a Firkin of Oak Aged Flemish Sour from 2 Brothers!
• CHUD held back his Belgium home brew!

Beers on the show purchased at DaveCo liquors somewhere outside of Denver. Thanks to “Dave” at DaveCo. (He was not “THE” Dave… But a cool manager who hooked us up with fresh Pliney!) http://www.davecoliquors.com/

Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebeerreport/TBR_Special_Edition_-_Denver_Noodles.mp3

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Pekin’s #1 podcast (very independent survey) is back at you for another special 1 beer edition.  Sit back and wonder about the masses that struggle with the paltry beer selections in the gluten free section as we try an imported selection of this VERY narrow segment of the beer shelves.

Beer on the show:  Nick Stafford’s Hambleton Ales, Toleration, (gluten free beer).  http://www.hambletonales.co.uk/

1. Its not a Russian River beer!
2. Urine whiskey?
3. Celiacs disease.  Causing children not to thrive!!!
4. Ordering poorly at Indian Restaurants.
5. New Peoria Indian restaurant.  CHUD has a theory about how the outside appearance is in complete opposite with the ethnic food served.
6. Arthur Bryants BBQ in Kansas City Mo.
7. British women….  Hot, and then not-so?

Beer on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria IL.

Get the episode here:  http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebeerreport/TBR_-_Toleration.mp3

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BEER DELIVERY ALERT!

Groucho and CHUD are happy to welcome Newcastle’s latest offering via a package from the manufacturer. Newcastle Hop’s and Glory Ale.

On the show:

1. We waffle back and forth a few times on what we were expecting vs what we got.
2. Groucho edits the New Castle Wiki?
3. Castle Jerry. The mixed drink that is made from a classic New Castle and a Sailor Jerry shot.
4. Clear bottles?
5. Beer lunch taken away from the employees.
6. New Castle, the hipster dark beer?
7. Import Golden Ale?
8. This beer would be great when its 90 degrees!
9. Check out the new blog. CHUD reviews albums, restaurants and mead’s! www.thebeerreport.com
10. Also check out our Facebook and Twitter feeds on the homepage.

All in all… The beer got a good mark for taste and quality. But it is not to be compared to any of the “extreme” American Craft beers we normally drink on the show. If you find yourself stuck between Macro’s and imports. This is a great choice to have available! If someone has 90 degree weather going on… Have one and confirm to us that Hop’s and Glory rocks when sweating!

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Special_Edition_-_Newcastle_Summ.mp3

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4 20 Compliant Beer Review!!! LOL! We owe O’Fallon another review… We were drunk!

At the end of a great night of shows… Why not do a one off review? It seemed like the smart thing to do at the time! That is what we did… Groucho may slur his words while reading the information cards… But you will get the idea. The tone is sooooo subdued that you might suspect that we have other sources of Hemp at TBR studios!

O’Fallon has brewed a unique beer here… Earthy and dark. Its a nice change from the beers we normally see from these guys! Do we know what Hemp tastes like??? Not really. Its kind of hard to seek out in a beer.

Seek it out in the Midwest. See what flavors you pull out of this one. Enjoy some Rainmakers from KC Mo at the end of the show.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/Hemp_Hop_Rye.mp3

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Groucho went overseas and brought back some contra-band!  All kinds of beer beverages from a brewery on the island.  Also, we were lucky enough to have a Facebook fan, PJ, send us 3 beers from the Maui Brewing company.  It all adds up to over 2 hours of recorded material.  Fortunately Groucho used a chainsaw and ripped this thing down to about an hour!  You’ll hear lots of pop tops between cuts!

Beers on the show:  Malta, Lemon Piton Shandy, Piton & Rooster Select from the Windward and Leeward Brewery, St. Lucia.   Maui Brewing Company’s Bikini Blonde Lager, Big Swell IPA and Coconut Porter.

On the show:

• Whats a Malta?   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_(soft_drink)
• Moll asses!
• Reefer madness on the island!
• 30% of Americans smoke dope?  Beer Report fact machine is back at work!
• German roadtrip?
• Does Brahma still suck?
• Rastafarian?  The lost generation of great men?
• Captain… Oh high my Captain?  Groucho’s cracked rib?  Naked old ladies!  Captain passed out at the rudder.
• Blended beer?
• How did people end up on Hawaii
• Thats not Don Ho!
• Kevin got bad service at Maui Brewing???
• Dog the Bounty Hunter…  How hard is it to be a bounty hunter when you have 10 square miles to cover!?
• Maui’s write up on why they use cans.  Listen up!
• CHUD doesn’t know his Jobim!
• CHUD volunteers to run Maui Brewing’s mainland operations if they build in Bloomington IL.
• The Honey Report?
• Kill sequence intiated!

Beers on the show brought back from St. Lucia (Probably illegally!) and all the Maui Brewing beer sent to us from PJ!  THANKS MAN!!!

Make sure to check out our new blog at thebeerreport.com!  CHUD’s Metal reviews are not to be missed!

Download the show here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Special_Edition_-_The_Island_Bee.mp3

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Back in the saddle… This show proves that we have not lost a step… Even if Groucho took a vacation and blew off his Beer Report responsibilities!  We are back now…  And after listening to this… I’d say as good or better than ever!  Enjoy!

Beers on the show:  Sui Generis by Avery Brewing Company.  Batch 9000 from Bells Brewing Company.

On the show:

1. We got the funk!
2. Shout Outs!  Gary!  Kevin! 
3. Maudite again???  Groucho forgets anything he has liked from Unibrue.
4. www.twitter.com/thebeerreport
5. Twitter fridge!
6. Listener email.  Brewing talk.  Eric from Seattle.  Link to www.odonatabeer.com
7. Mel Gibson meant it!  There are no “take backs”!
8. Thebeerreportonline.com????  Groucho jumps another blog for name infringement.
9. The Beer Report has grown up!?!?!
10. check out the www.thebeerdownload.com
11. Your band name needs a url!  www.krypterband.com.  Hear the power of the CHUD as he rocks the skins!
12. Groucho sings… Time to shut her down!
13. Gary gets a second shout out… That sounds eerily similar to the first one!  Weird!!!!  He’s a lumberjack???  He’s OK!  Our tribute to our Canadian fans!
14. Groucho was looking for a “Wafer thin mint”.
15. Look out for our island show next!

Sui Generis supplied by Rick from Big Foamy Head.  Check them out at www.bigfoamyhead.com.   Bells 9000 picked up at Broadway Liquors in Pekin IL.

Listen here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Litigation_and_Lyricism.mp3

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Groucho had a chance to run the recorder a few times during our stay at the DLD!  Check out this piece-meal bit of show!

1. Highlight… Jim the Bartender at Binny’s on the South-side gets interviewed at the urinals
2. Groucho says “Kudos”.
3. We never did find Nick Floyd.  Bob had photographic proof of finding Nick later.
4. Interview with Travis from 3 Floyd’s.
5. Groucho, CHUD and Chad find a bottle of Odanata on the share table.

TBR Dark Lord Day 2010 review

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We were drunk….  We should have stopped recording… And drinking….  But we couldn’t!  So, the results are online!

And we spoil ourselves with a Cantillon Vigneronne.  A classic Belgian beer with blends of lambic, fermented with Italian grapes.

Link to the brewers website:  http://www.cantillon.be/br/3_105

We get a little “beery” the first 10 minutes or so.  Dont give up.  CHUD has a wild idea that they should go camping at Shawnee National Forest.  Groucho then explains his problem with cleaning fish.

Download the train wreck here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Special_Edition_-_Cantillon_Vign.mp3

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Groucho and CHUD just through down a couple of gallons of beer…  Then we decide to cut another show.  Here is what is left!  If we sound ripped…  Would you be shocked?

Beer on the show:  Ale Asylum’s Satisfaction Jacksin.  One more purchase from Groucho’s Winter trip to Wisconsin.

1. Kudos!  Nearly a CHUD rant!
2. Texas drinking rules.  Oklahoma is ugly?  Lets not forget slamming Missouri.
3. Trapped under ice!  Not the Metallica song, just conversation about what to do in Madison Wisconsin when its really cold.
4. Miami is HOT!

Beer on the show purchases at some unknown grocery store in Wisconsin Dells.

File here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Ale_Asylum.mp3

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Stu and Groucho

Week of the Barrells has been running this week at the Old Chicago locations on Peoria IL. Groucho was fortunate enough to run into Stu from O’Fallon, Mike from Left Hand and Steve King from Specialty Distributing (They help organize the event)

The Peoria Beerfest starts this Friday night and runs through Saturday.  Check it out!  Its a great fest…  The best between Chicago and St. Louis!

Unfortunately… I will not be there filming the event this year.  We, Grouch AND CHUD will be over in Munster IN for the annual celebration that is Dark Lord Day.  Look for film…  And look for Twits from Groucho (thebeerreport) as he brags about whats going on in the line for the best beer in the world!

Oh, here is 2009’s DLD video:

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Groucho was kicking in the Dells with the kids…  As a trade off for his good behavior…  He was allowed a side trip to the New Glarus Brewery.  Just miles from Madision.

LOTS OF BEER TALK ON THIS SHOW!!!

New Glarus beers on the show:  Honey Bock, Organic Revolution, Snowshoe, Stone Soup, Hearty Hop, Coffee Stout, and Unplugged Cran Bic.

On the show:

1. Groucho loves Wisconsin.
2. Lienenkugal talk.
3. Talk of Dan Kerry and the New Glarus Brewery.
4. Albita Hop Tea.  A review.
5. The Norwegian Navy…  Imagined by The Beer Report.
6. Ultimate Warrior in Spike.
7. Are these beers really that “Wow”?
8. Bill the Cat!
9. Texas textbooks.
10. The Beer Report Studio Evergreens are back in action.
11. New Glarus, they walk the line…
12. End of days protection in seed form.
13. “The Beer Geekery”  Thats our new term…  Copyrighted TBR 2010.
14. Tampering with the Tea Party.
15. The Final Frontier?
16. Craft beer Hell for Groucho mocking Jim Koch’s radio ads.
17. Cheers to PBRick: http://www.odonatabeer.com

All beers on the show picked up at the New Glarus Brewery in New Glarus Wisconsin.  Its worth the trip!  Put it on your list of places to see in Wisconsin!

Download the show here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR-NEWGLARE-US.mp3

Music at the beginning and end of the show is from Too Much Joy.   Check out www.sayhername.com for more great TMJ tunes.  The song played on the intro and outro is “Drunk and in Love”.

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For once… This show has absolutely NO ulterior motives or themes…  We just start drinking some beers… And the rants an raves start to flow.  Groucho is caffeinated…  It will become apparent after listening for 5 minutes.

Beers on the show:  Half Acre Brewing Magnus (New brewery from Chicago!), Oskar Blues Old Chub, Ska ESB

On the show:

• Yelp?  Yokel?
• Northsiders.  Cubbie bleacher bums are a-holes.  Sox fans are superior.
• Yuppie Chicago burns with a Cubs win.
• Stuff White People Like Blog.
• 2012 - The movie review.  Massive Spoiler and commentary on what a sequel would be like.
• No Rice?  What does that mean Oskar Blues?
• Bottling in cans?  Questions to brewers.
• Thanks for the iTunes reviews!
• www.thebeerdownload.com
• AB and CHUD’s P90X workout.
• Mafia Wars and Farm-ville are HORRIBLY ANNOYING!
• The Beer Report on Twitter.  www.twitter.com/thebeerreport.
• Ska Brewing is totally killing it with these new canned beers.  We recommend them to everyone! (Groucho gives them Kudos…  CHUD says Kudos are not metal)
• Groucho and Margaret drug everyone to Illinois.  Lets all move to Colorado next!
• You haven’t lived until your boy has covered your bathroom in pee.
• Beer Education series, ep 102.
• www.Odanatabeer.com
• Beer with confidence issues.
• Beer roundup.
• Please…  Get us some more iTunes reviews.  We will give away a beer!

Half Acre Magnus purchased at Binny’s Beverage Depot in Chicago Illinois.  Oskar Blues provided by Bonus Beer Bob from the Good Beer Show (www.goodbeershow.com).  Ska ESB purchased at Friar Tuck Beverage in Peoria Illinois.

Download Peoria/Pekin’s finest podcast here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_March_2010.mp3

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Another show with the ladies…  God help Groucho!

On this show, Groucho, CHUD, AB, Sly and Margaret share some of the basics of where beer comes from.   Consider it a review for those who know it all.  Fact check our fact-less show.  Hope that our slight knowledge informs a few of the macro masses and can influence just one drinker into the fold of craft beer fans.

Beer on the show:  Ska Brewing Modus Hoperondai IPA

Show topics:

• AB is causing problems in the studio.  Margaret cannot be quiet.
• Canned beer on a beer podcast???  Advantage consumer!!!
• The Chocolate massacre show?
• What does the HHH mean?  Lip up fatty?
• The History of beer!!!  Starting 4000 years ago.
• 9000 years ago?
• Mead definition.
• When did Muslims give up the booze?
• Beer made the pyramids.  Stonehenge as well.
• Passion = Geek.
• Down with tea!  Teabagging the other beer podcasts / brewcasts / beercasts.
• Code of Hammurabi.
• Beer in religion.
• Prison Wine.
• Beer styles.
• Sister Sly hates Morgan Street Brewery despite their awesome Stout.  Says they are A-Holes.
• Code of the hobos?
• Wikipedians.
• We cannot use the term Brewcast or brewcasting.  Or can we?  Do we care???
• Groucho and CHUD completely make up the rules of Lambics.
• Margaret gets the cat call.
• Floating a bogus article on Wiki?
• Drink local, be more ecologically friendly!
• Health benefits from Hops?
• Beer bellies…  Mmmmmmmmm.  Manswers from AB.
• Where to start for noobs ready to buy.
• CHUD and AB’s wedding update.  CHUD riding in on a horse?
• Groucho is officially asked to be in the wedding!
• Conan O’Brien… Where is he going?  33 millions goes fast!
• Mono Myth…   Lots of heavy non beer stuff towards the end of the show.  Bible stories?
• The Naked Lunch?

Don’t forget the beer review contest.  Get your reviews into iTunes for our drawing for a bottle of Groucho and CHUD’s home-brew.  Maybe something else as well!

Beer on the show bought at Sam’s Wine and Spirits near downtown Chicago

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Special_Edition_-_Beer_101_Origi.mp3

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Lets see how this works out!  As usual… A day late!

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There is no such thing as a bad review!  Unless you are Domino’s.  Taking Domino’s recent ad campaign as idea for a show… We get some help reviewing the reviews for this show on iTunes.

Join us as we have the 3 ladies of The Beer Report on to help bring life to some fantastically poor reviews of the show.  Margaret and Sister Sly read the reviews while AB throws in her 2 cents worth.

Beers on the show:  Victory Brewing’s Wild Devil.

On the show:

• Bad iTunes reviews read aloud on the show.
• Contest.
• Please submit podcast’s for CHUD to review.  “Pud’s Chodcast Review”?
• AB starts going into convulsions over Philosophy podcast reviews.
• Happy drunks…  CHUD gets slap happy when he drinks.
• CHUD changes his tune on the beer after it warms up.
• The worst of the beer podcasts?
• Watching beer DVD’s.
• How does this Hydrometer work?  Our brewing experience.   Groucho and CHUD’s basic brewing techniques.
• Groucho’s microphone starts to break down by the end of the show… Thus proving the reviews right!  We do not fund our show well enough to get better equipment!
• Margaret hates her name.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_-_Bad_Review_Show.mp3

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

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WARNING!!!  THIS SHOW IS TOTALLY SELF INDULGENT!  ABSOLUTELY NO TALK ABOUT BEER!!!   All talk between Groucho and CHUD have everything to do with things other than beer!

Beer on the show:  Delirium Tremens, though, you would not know it.. From the lack of beer conversation!

On the show:

• Ruby left a Present under the Christmas Tree (get it free at www.sayhername.com)
• CHUDco Records Advertisement.  (Oldie-but-a-goodie from Kurt at the now defunct Real Happy Hour)
• Its been a good year.  CHUD reminisces about AB coming to Illinois
• Mojo!
• Red hot dirty crochet.
• Jew’s rocking the Christmas Tunes!
• CHUD’s first gray hairs!
• World traveller Groucho.
• 35lbs lost!
• Groucho attends the Trans Siberian Orchestra.  A brief review.  The Jesus laser light show?
• Aliens ask what was the best present you ever got?  Groucho and CHUD indulge in some memories
• What was the best gift you ever gave?
• Christmas presents that went wrong?
• Corporate greed and Holiday induced socialism.
• A very Rob Halford Christmas?
• CHUD paying it forward?
• Soof yan?  Suff Jan?  Midget fisted?
• Thanks for listening!  Happy New Year!

 Be sure to check us out on Facebook!  Post on our page and get a shout out on Episode 52!

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Christmas_2009.mp3

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I would love to tell you that this show has been worth the wait… But that would be an all out lie.  We can promise you that this is the first of several new shows coming out in the next 2 months.  Enjoy!

Beers on the Show:  Dimitroff’s Late Late Late Oktoberfest, Avery Brewing Brabant, 3 Floyd’s Moloko,

On the show:

1. Rex calls.
2. Lantana Berry Cleanse commercial
3. Where is Rex really from?
4. Heavy Cross by Gossip.
5. Listener mail!
6. We have another female listener!  Leah!
7. Pekin’s #1 Podcast!
8. TBR Aliens attack again!
9. Fund Raisers at your kids school.
10. Give till it hurts!
11.  Megadeath in Peoria!
12. Guitar power stances.
13. Podcasts stick it to the man!

Beers on the show are all gifts!  Dimitroff’s Octoberfest and Moloko were from Nightcrawler, Brabant from Rick at www.bigfoamyhead.com.  THANK YOU GUYS!

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Enjoy this quick show on the birth of our Apple IPA homebrew.  Groucho and CHUD give praise to what they feel is one of the greatest creations in Homebrew…   Only to have this show fairly balanced out with reviews from Phil, from My Life as a Foodie, and the boys from Real Men Drinking Beer.

On the Show:

1. Talk about how the beer was made.
2. Blinded by cider.
3. Urban Foraging?
4. Smoked Rubard Ale?
5. Outro!

Thanks again to our buddies for taking time to send us a review! 

Check out Phil’s soon-to-be award winning podcast at: www.mylifeasafoodie.com

Listen here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/Real_Men_and_Foodies_Drink_Apple_Bee.mp3

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Its a one beer show.  We have been cellering this one…  And now is the time to pop the cork! 

This is the beer that Groucho and CHUD drank from the fermenters while visiting the brewery.  Go back and look… It was the on our St. Louis trip. 

• Founders Breakfast Stout
• Steven’s Point? 
• Seibel
• Blintz’s?  Medici in Bloomington.  There brunch rocks!
• This beer gives CHUD sexual satisfaction!
• We need a theme song!  Blues, Metal…  Pirate accordian… Anything!
• The Jenna Jamison of beers?
• SIDT orgasm clip.
• Ramones talk. 
• Ramones Jukebox.
• Praise to O’Fallon.
• Is that you Rex?  Sorry we missed your call!

Smoked Porter picked up at Friar Tuck in Peoria IL.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Barrell_Aged_OFallon_Smoked_Por.mp3

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Back in the saddle!  Groucho and CHUD compare a few beers that were found at Friar Tuck on the import racks.

Get ready for a few shows in quick succession!  Sorry Rex… No episode 51 yet! 

Beers on the show:  Mikkeller Stateside IPA, Brewdog Punk IPA,

On the show:

• Pancakes!  Yell them loud and proud!
• Groucho’s Great Taste of the Midwest 2009 afterthoughts.
• I would walk 500 miles.
• Beer info?  We do some fact finding on these beers.  Odd for us.  We wont let it happen again!
• Brew Dog story.
• CLIPPING!!!  WE HATE OUR ZOOM H4 RECORDER!  Agressive show cuts are from having to remove clipped area.
• Eurpenis’s…  Sickpuppy of course!
• Link echange for Beer Pong tables?
• Wrap-up. 
• We have a FACEBOOK page!  http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=56796592118&ref=ts

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria while Groucho and CHUD were in a theme mood. 

Download this short and sweet beer show here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_World_IPA_Special.mp3

BTW…  Check out Groucho on the latest edition of Big Foamy Head with Bonus Beer Bob at the Great Taste of the Midwest!  www.bigfoamyhead.com

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Groucho tags along with Bob to file this report on one of the worlds best beerfests.  Along the way, we see some old friends of the show.  Namely:  Dave Engbers, the gang from O’Fallon brewery and Travis from 3 Floyds.  Also, look out for Rick from Big Foamy Head in the final minutes.

BEWARE:  The F bombs start to drop when the beer gets consumed…  The last 5 minutes really light it up!

TBRVideo-GreatTasteoftheMidwe.m4v

Check out more Bonus Beer Bob at www.goodbeershow.com

THANK YOU BOB!!!!

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Groucho gets the hook up on some left over brews from the Peoria Brewfest.  I think its time to be a Jaycee!  They get to take the extras home!!!  Who knew???

Beers discussed on the show:  Old Jock, Dragonmead Under the Kilt Wee Heavy, Southern Tier Imperial Cherry Saison

Topics on the show:

• American Brewers RULE!
• Taxing craft beer to death!
• CHUD’s big news!  Congrats to AB and CHUD!
• Frozen Honeymoon?
• Old news…  Celebrity Deaths.  David Caradine is a hero!
• NASA talk leads to making Meth at home.
• Groucho and CHUD brew during breaks.
• Apples and Beer?  A combo that gets no repect?
• TBR beer is superior to Southern Tier???
• Dumpster diving.
• Gran Torino on DVD.  Racism in the Midwest.  Family values.
• America is on the decline, we should welcome imigrants.
• American teens are spoiled.
• Healthcare in the US.
• CHUD says “Let the uninsured die!”
• Religion and the IMF are the root of all world problems.
• CHUD’s monkfish dream.
• XXX Interview with Rick Dowland, how did it go CHUD?
• Cheap headphones.

Thats it for now…  Look for a full report from the Great Taste of the Midwest from Groucho.  He will be teaming up with Good Beer Show’s Bonus Beer Bob for some serious drinking in Madison!

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Sloppy_Seconds.mp3

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As part of our exclusive deal with Icelandic trust… The Beer Report gets an exclusive interview with XXX’s Rick Dowland. 

XXX has a new offering this year… XXX Nips!

CHUD takes time to talk with Rick about what we can expect when it hits American markets.

WARNING>  CHUD has a little rant after this interview…   And uses the F Bomb more than he might normally do in a full hour long show!

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Interview_-_Rick_Dowland_XXX_Brw.mp3

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Part 3 of the Great Hoopmaster Beer Darting event…  The end to a great night of beer drinking.. It really does not get any better than 3 guys hanging out and shooting the BS.  Look for Hoops to reprise his role in about a year or so!

(Pre Show beer:  Flashback Ale by Boulder Beer Company)

If you have the endurance to withstand it… Here is the link:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Hoops_Dart_Party_3.mp3

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1. (Pre Show beer:  Thirsty Dog Siberian Night Imperial Stout)
2. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA
3. Lakefront Brewing Bridgeburner Special Reserve Ale
4. Dogfishhead World Wide Stout
5. Avery 15

 On the show:

If you have the endurance to withstand it… Here is the link:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_Hoops_Dart_Party_2.mp3

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Oh, the darts come later!  Trust me.. it was worth naming the show after it.

Beers on the show: 

1. (Pre Pre Show) Troegs Sunshine Pilsner
2. (Pre Show) Schlafly Bier De Garde
3. Real Ale Rio Blanco Pale Ale
4. Real Ale Brewhouse Brown Ale
5. Real Ale Full Moon Pale Rye Ale

On the show:

• Dinosaur tracks of Texas and how pathetic our existence is!
• A real brewing gem: http://www.realalebrewing.com/
• Texas history…  And why Texans are Texans.
• Hoops shows up late.
• Kelleher’s Irish Pub for dinner with the wives.
• Groucho and CHUD continue the nut brown ale hate.
• Beer from the future???
• Conan taking the Leno slot.  Carson is still the King!  Richter is reason to tune in!
• History channel is now all about Bigfoot, Christian Right Wing Propaganda, and Druidic hate!
• Weather channel scare tactics!
• Hoopmaster was a storm-chaser?

Beers purchased at Kroger in Galveston Texas…  Sunshine Pils swapped at Darklord Day…  Schlafly Bier De Garde picked up at Friar Tuck… When???  Who knows!

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Groucho, CHUD and AB sample a bottle of their experimentally bottled Cherry Beer after doing episode 50. 

We also talk about the movie Watchmen, while not relavant now…  You can save this podcast for the DVD release in July!

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Groucho running solo at this years Darklord day in Munster Indiana.

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Above:  Groucho, Thor and Nightcrawler imbibing on flights at the Night of the Barrels.  The event was held at Old Chicago on the Peoria Riverfront.

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Mike is an old friend to the show… See previous beerfest videos to see this guy work his magic!  Make sure to stop by the Moo Mobile and check out the the hardware on the tailgate!

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Link the Jaycess Website:  http://www.peoriajaycees.org/

Check out the Fauerbach history at their site:  http://www.fauerbachbrewery.com/

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We made you wait a month!  This better be good!

Beers on the show:  Sierra Nevada Hop Harvest Ale, Hook Norton 12 Days Christmas Ale, Stone Brewing Bitter Oatmeal Chocolate Stout.

1. Breaking in to the studio
2. New Advertiser!
3. New account Rep from Icelandic Trust.
4. Sigor Ros talk.
5. Beer Safari call-in’s (Poorly transferred!  Sorry!)  Jeffrey T from www.goodbeershow and Father Spoon from www.Shouldidrinkthat.com
6. What have we done in 50 shows?
7. Facebook kicks MySpace’s arse!
8. NASCAR…  All 20 seconds we know about it!
9. Tribute beer from our trip to England.
10. Outlasted Michael and Evo!!!
11. Mikey Mason call in.   mikeymason.com/
12. OctoMom!
13. Conan - Directors Cut.
14. Gymcata!
15. CHUD hates Nut Brown Ales.
16. Class Reunions coming up!
17. Phil from www.mylifeasafoodie calls in.
18. www.Beersafari.com and the generosity of the guys at www.bigfoamyhead.com.
19. The taxing state of Illinois.  Rod was right… Pat Quinn wants to tax you!!!
20. Manny… Our man on the West Coast! 
21. Parmistan.
22. Sigor Ros…  Again.
23. Thanks to the fans…  Groucho tells a story about meeting a customer at the dealership.
24. Where do we go from here?  100?  The last few minutes of the end up talking about some of the Beer Report glory days.
25. Special recording of a typical conversation with the Homeless Hoopmaster!  He plugs D’Arcy’s Pint in Springfield.

Beers on the show picked up at Friar Tuck in Peoria and Bloomington.  Stone Beer sent in by Manny!  Thanks dude!

Listen to our 112th show here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR_50.mp3

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Thanks Bubby!

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I’m sure any brewery would love to be our special focus…  Especially when we nail down racism as our big topic of the night! 

The audio is a little grainy..  Sorry!  We should really not drink when we are setting up!  Groucho sounds a little quiet at the start… But that picks up after a few minutes.  (Or you just get used to it!)

OH…  NO EDITS!  Just a whole hour or so of Groucho and CHUD chatting away.

Beers on the show:  Victory Hop Wallop, Victory Moonglow Weizenbach

1. The Hop Wallop story is sketchy at best…  And he looks like Popeye.
2. CHUD gets warm cockles!
3. SIDT on Tiki Chat…  Sound quality issue?
4. TBR studios on lockdown?
5. New Segment:  Narrate an online Beer Review.  Donkey Runners review of Moonglow.
6. Jet Jaguar is not on DVD!
7. Whats my name Frau Weizen?
8. 3G networks in the boonies
9. CHUD’s Chi is out…  Ricky Williams mint paste is helping.
10. R A C I S M in Pekin and in general.  (15 minutes of unPC talk)

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria and Bloomington IL.

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When you are drinking a beer from the Great White North… Well, you feel inspired to participate in the sports of the northerners…  Ice Hockey!  Well, we didnt have enough ice… Or skates…  So, we did the next best thing.

An Air Hockey review of New Glarus Spotted Cow Ale. 

BONUS… This episode is in stereo so you can follow along!

Beer purchased at a Mobil gas station in Madison WI.

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No words can describe the utter beer geekery involved with this show.  We promise not to let it happen again!  (Well, not too soon!)

Beer on the show:  Cantillon Iris

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Groucho and CHUD get together for a extended talk session…  So, we have chopped it up into little bite sized parts.  Who wants to listen to us talk about our fantasy football stats?  Thats what we thought!  So, hopefully these are the best bits.

Beers on the show:   Stone 08.08.08, Lost Coast Downtown Brown, RCH Brewery Pitchfork Rebelious Bitter.

On the show:

• Obama & Clinton madness.
• New TRHH at www.everclearchannel.com
• New Brain Gravy at http://braingravy.libsyn.com
• O’Fallon plug from SIDT.
• Car Talk.  Which one of the big 3 is going away?
• Honda Fit.
• Winning beer during Fantasy Football.  Thanks to Manny for the beers!
• Horse names. Breaking Horses with Jud.
• Green tech is out… Now we have 1.25 gas!
• Crooked Tree IPA from Darkhorse rocks!
• Alwans Meat Market vs Wal Mart.
• CHUD cant pour and talk about Ted Stephens at the same time.
• German beers still confuse us!
• Budweiser American Ale.
• CHUD’s GWAR story.
• A metal-off between CHUD and BONUS BEER BOB!

Beers on the show provided by Super-Fan Manny!  Thanks for the So-Cal brew!  Pitchfork picked up at Friar Tuck in Peoria IL.

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It rings in at a hefty 55 minutes!  Check out all the Beer Safari podcasters (with a few exceptions) enjoying a gift exchange.

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Groucho, CHUD and AB finally check out the handpicked and hand-squeezed cherry beer.  Both batches.  Brewed with the (sometimes clean) tender hands of Groucho and CHUD.

1. 2 intros for the price of one!
2. Bret’s Beer.
3. Wang…  Outsourced.
4. Ford wont bring 80MPH car to the states… And now they don’t have Matt Millon.
5. Scary smells from the Wild batch.  Horse blankets…  Oh yeah!
6. AB starts to wimp…
7. The new season of 24.  Africa being raped. 
8. We are Anti Brewers. 
9. I am stuck on Band Aid?
10. The secret of homebrewing that nobody ever talks about.
11. Boulder Brewing Cold Hop.
12. AB wimps out on the “outtro”.
13. We need some emails!  AB needs to come unhinged!

Beers on the show:  Homebrew cherry wheat and Homebrew Wild Cherry with Brettanomyces.  Brewed by Groucho and CHUD!!!

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Just in time for the most important election of our lifetime!  (Dont they say that about all of them?)

Beers on the show:  Duchess de Burgeon Flemish Sour Red, 3 Floyds Black-heart English Style Pale Ale,

Still undecided about who you are going to punch the ticket for in November???  Well, just when you thought no more information could be dredged up…  Here come Groucho and CHUD to the rescue.  Tonight, we have brought facts to the table that NO ONE knows! 

On the show:

• CHUD has not voted in Illinois yet.
• Ron Paul.  He bailed on us and pretty much screwed the Libertarians.
• A TBR Portrait of the young John McCain.  Working with the Sioux people on reservations, and thought by many to have saved one tribe from winter starvation though his noble deeds.  Hints of a previous relationship and marriage.
• Beer Intermission
• A TBR Portrait of the rise of Barack Obama.  Starting off with humble roots at his Grandparents farm…  Working up the ranks of local reporter… And fighting off the evil Jack Ryan (once married to 7 of 9!) in order to save Chicago from certain disaster.  Using his political ties to save Michelle Obama.
• A TBR Portrait of Libertarian Candidate, Robert “Bob” Barr.  From a flaming liberal youth to gunning for Bill Clinton…  To changing his mind from all of his past Republican leanings.
• Anne Rand?  Whos that CHUD?
• Wiccans are lame.  Portly and not Military material.
• AB will not give in to the Green Party on wiping her but!

Duchess purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria.  Blackheart brought back from 3 Floyds by Super Fan Nightcrawler!  Thanks!

Music on the show comes from a lot of places… But most notably:  FreeSound.org, LIVE, Dead Kennedy’s and Ted Leo and Pharmacists.

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Maharaja Premium India Pilsner vs. Avery Maharaja India Pale Ale

Groucho, CHUD and AB try 2 beers named Maharaja and compare them soley for our amusement!  One beer is a pilsner…  The other a killer American IPA!  How did they fare???  You might be surprised!  We were!

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria IL.

Listen to the show here:  http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR-maharajasmackdown.mp3

PS… If the feed is all messed up for a few days… Blame Wordpress and Podpress!!!  This DIY stuff is a pain in the ass!

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No apologies for this long and drawn out show.  The first 30 minutes are not even edited!  Just a gabfest about a bunch of current events.

Beers on the show:  Arbor Brewing Brasserie Blonde, Magic Hat Circus Boy Heffewiezen, Big Buck Brewery Redbird Ale, Anderson Valley Brewing Company Boont Amber.

On the show:

1. Great Moments in Metal - Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympiad.
2. Pints for Prostates.  http://www.lyke2drink.com/pints/
3. People in Michigan dont drink craft beer?
4. iPhone is inept in Portland.  Apparently, paper maps arent dead yet!
5. Macro talk:  Lienies Fireside Nutbrown beer, Bud American Ale, Hoegartten, and Goose Island 312.
6. CHUD offends all bikers.  Pedal Bikers that is.
7. Football talk:  Neck Beard is starting for the Bears, the new Dolphins, Shawn Alexander and other misc NFL talk.
8. Politics talk:  Biden as VP, McCain…  Maverick?, Clinton’s… The origional BS’ers.
9. Space program, science and math.
10. Musicians in military uniforms.  WTF?
11. Volunteering political parties.  Barr - Root 2008!  Why to vote 3rd party.
12. Beer for throwing hay!  Phantom talk.
13. Destihl Octoberfest.
14. Olympics Talk:  Bad sportsmanship and kicking refs.
15. Mongolians.
16. Hootie vs Dave Matthews Band vs Coldplay.
17. Judast Priest.
18. Hoops gets bad beer advise at Friar Tuck.
19. Micheal Phelps…  Mutant?
20. Jesse Owens…  2 packs a day to the gold!

Beers on this show bought at Brewpubs, Grocery and gas stations across western Michigan.  Except for the Anderson Valley… That was poorly recommended at Friar Tuck in Peoria.

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1. The new homebrew batch recap.
2. picking cherries and adding to the beer.
3. How to say Jamil?
4. What makes home-brewing fun?
5. Horse-blanket smell…
6. Re-Runs.  Back episodes are all out there.
7. InBev buys AB. (Yeah, we are a few weeks late!) Buy and drink local!!!
8. Sometimes Macro beer is the better way to go!?!? Bud Lime.
9. Apologies.
10. My Life as a Foodie rocks.
11. CHUD’s Interpretive dance.
12. Rogue guy… Whats that all about?
13. Hans Zimmer, can you trust him for your soundtrack?

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Bloomington and Peoria.

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1 cent show!  What a value!  This week we tribute our show to a longtime fan who threw us a donation!  Thanks for the love Irish! 

Well, this show has taken a few weeks to get out…  We are blaming VISTA!  Between installing drivers and trying to find my Soundforge “key”…  We are lucky this show is out at all!  Now, with everything in place… We have come out with a TBR tour de force! 

New Beer Safari Promos, a new segment called “Great Moments in Metal”, a tribute to Irish, and another soundtrack show.  All the songs on this show come from Too Much Joy.  Listen to Too Much Joy, and buy some stuff at www.sayhername.com.

Beers on the show:  Widmer Heffeweizen, Instadt Passauer Weisse, Cantillon Lou Pepe 2001, Seefurth Family Mama Mia Pizza Beer.

Of note:

1. www.beersafari.com promo.
2. Great Moments in Metal - Julius Cesar.
3. Intro and tribute to Irish.
4. Wii Fit.
5. Not renewing my “All About Beer Magazine” subscription.
6. Doublewide recap and Apologies from Ep 44.
7. Iron Maiden concert recap.
8. Throwing darts for mirrors at the carnival.
9. George Carline dies (Leads to) CHUMPS Scientology graph. (Leads to) Trailer Parks on Mars and the giant Easter Egg hunt that is our universe. (Leads to)   Mars, Venus and Jupiter are the new Axis of Evil. (Leads to)  George Bush.
10. The American Wheat Beer style sucks!
11. Charlie the Beer Guy’s interview with Brouwerij Van Steenberge
12. The passing of George Carlin.
13. How to you say Cantillon?
14. BJACP BDG LPGA pledge pin.
15. Yeast stand-off at the bottom of the Louis Pepe leads to heavy breathing!
16. Chud…  Wheres the Metal?
17. The Mikey Mason experience!
18. AB cant handle the Gueze.
19. Amore.
20. The eel whisperer.
21. Pizza Beer with Dino.
22. Fishing for hogs on the flooded Mississippi river.

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck and Broadway Liquors in beautiful Pekin IL.

KEEP THOSE DONATIONS ROLLING IN!!!

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The first and last show where backing music is played throughout. Check out Groucho and CHUD’s completely politically incorrect discussion on Trailers, Bluegrass and West Virginia Hillary supporters.

Beers on the show: Boulevard Doublewide, Bluegrass Brewing Company Mephistopheles Metamorphosis.

• Mouth bombs.
• Podsaft Music.
• Trailer Facts.
• BA shilling and yet more reasons to subscribe to DRAFT Magazine.
• Jesus wanted you to drink beer.
• Libertarian election talk.
• CHUD’s bloody nose.
• The Pledge of Allegiance.
• Hanging with Nightcrawler.

Music on the show: Doublewide by Southern Culture on Skids, Mojo Nixon, Hot Club of Cowtown, Hayseed Dixie, Steve Earle and the Del McCrourey Band, Meat Puppets, Joe Henry, John Williams and the Boston Pops, Charlie Daniels Band, The Beat Farmers featuring Country Dick Montana.

Oh yeah… There were a bunch of tornadoes that killed people over the Holiday weekend…  We know that… And we apologize if anyone is offended…  But living in the Tornado Alley of Tazewell County IL gives us plenty of room to poke jokes and twisters and trailers!

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Beers discussed on the show:  Chud’s Homebrew, Anheuser Busch Shock Top, Boulder Killer Penguin 2006, Ninkasa Double Red (From Ethip!) Victory 12.

Also on the show:

Recap of the Night of the Barrels.
Technical Glitches!
Listener Mail.
Contest winner for the Maureen Ogle Book…  David G.
Look for 44 real soon!

Intro music by Too Much Joy…  ‘Outro’ Music by Southern Culture on Skids.

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We’re back…  This is the first of many new shows coming in the next month or 2.

In this video review… Groucho and CHUD are back to the old faceless beer reviews.  Check out the Sorghum beer made my Anheuser-Busch…  It surprised us!

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Episode 43 was recorded and lost promptly thereafter…  CHUD and Groucho will return with new material VERY soon…  We will probably record again at Mothers Day.

Breaking News!!!  Word on the street says that Homeless Hoopmaster may make an appearance on Ep 44.

CONTEST UPDATE:  Since we did not record the drawing of the name for the signed Maureen Ogle book…  You still have a few days to enter!  Use the contact form on this site, or email Groucho@thebeerreport.com

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If you want to watch this in higher quality… We will be uploading this to Google Video and Veoh soon.

This is the video we shot while hanging out on Saturday at the Peoria Beerfest. It was a great time, probably record breaking in attendance and cold!

Dont pitty us though… We had some killer brews and hung out with some cool beer people!

Check it out!

Look for show 43 with a wrap-up of Night of the Barrels and more talk about the fest! How are we gonna wait till next year???

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On this show, we play with a new gadget that Hoops picked up for the convalescing Groucho. The Excalibur Brewmaster! Listen and be amazed and Groucho and CHUD pick the Brewmasters brain on brewery info… Worldly toasts… And barroom humor!

Beers on the show: New Holland Red Tulip, Founders Harvest Ale, Dark Horse Tres, Weyerbacher Insanity Ale.

On the show:

Fun in Brewmaster, including: a Turkish toast!
Brewmaster Jokes.
CHUD does not know that much about fresh hopped beer.
Founders Breakfast Stout breakfast… We are there next year!!!
Piraat=Belgium Gasoline (Or do they call it Petrol?)
Hop bed powder! Sweet Dreams!
Chud’s beer library.
Sailor Jerry Naval Spiced Rum and sending it around the world.
Calling out Rumbaar!
Booberry Cereal
Beowulfe
Coming Soon: Angelina Jolie as Mary!
Is there anything of worth in the Brewmaster?
Come to The Peoria Brewfest!!!
Chud may not come back from the Napalm Death concert! But at least his teeth will be in tact!
Face-guards and Niel Anderson.
4′12″?
Destihl Tribute to Troy Nelson.
A hasty retreat after Margaret calls!

Link to the Destihl. Info on Troy’s benefit: “Sunday, April 27th from 10am to 10pm for a day of tribute, celebration, and remembrance of our great friend”

Link to the Maureen Ogle website, remember to enter the contest to win an autographed copy of her book, Ambitious Brew!

Beers on the show provided by: Nightcrawler, Bubby from Brain Gravy, JeffryT from Good Beer Show

This show presented by Rumbaar. We’re not worthy!!!

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The 2008 Peoria brewfest promises to be one of the best ever!

Check out all the info at the Peoria Jaycees website, or check out some of Michael from Specialties posts on the subject at the Beer Advocate forum. (Or check out posts on the subject at the Confrontation board!)

For this pre-Fest show… You get to hear 2 conversations that Groucho had with Dave from Founders Brewing and, Dave and Charlie at O’Fallon.

Look out for more audio and video from the fest after its all blown over! And we have recovered!

Links:

Jaycees
Specialty Import
Founders Brewing
O’Fallon Brewery

Look for show 42 soon! Like a few days!

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Groucho and CHUD talk to Maureen about what she had to endure to make this book, some of the lumps that come from righteous craft beer snobs and Budweiser bashers.

We are not here to take a side, but this book is a testament to the American spirit of enterprise and innovation. You can learn a lot from the early pioneers of brewing… And learn more about the boom of the Craft Brewing industry.

Get more info on Maureen and read her (very beer inspired) blog at www.maureenogle.com

Also, email groucho (Use the contact page if you cannot figure out how) to enter in a contest to win an autographed copy of this book.

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Good work! You made it through the week! Now you have to pay some penance for all that Barleywine last night!!!

Style of the day: American Wheat Ale

Beer of the day: James Page Brewing companyy’s White Ox

Hope you enjoyed this week of beercasting goodness. We will not be doing this again next week!!! Consider these past 5 shows as Episode 41. Now, if we get a good response fron it all, we are more than happy to do it all again! Feedback is always welcome, plus it will enter you in the contest for the Autographed copy of Maureen Ogles “Ambitious Brew” book.

Oh… Over ten minutes this time! Sorry for any false advertising on that 3 to 5 minute promise!

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OK… We have made it this far… Time to get messed up! Lets pull out a big heavy and pretend like we dont have to work tomorrow!

Beer style of the day: American Barley Wine

Brand of the day: New Holland Y2K Barleywine (Brewed in 2000)

Thanks for to Chad for the beer. Link to Chads website: http://www.theextraeffort.com/daddyslittleghoul/portfolio.html

Oh, that 5 minute limit kinda fell to the side! This one is closer to 10 minutes!

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HUMP Day! You made it this far… The Weekend is just around the corner!

Lets use this midweek break for a nice import. Something to bring a little culture and taste of the world into our pathetic mid-week lives!

Beer Style of the day: ESB

Beer of the day: Fullers ESB

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Back for more? A couple more days like this, and you will be numbed to the pain!

Day 2! You have made it to Tuesday… We aren’t even halfway through the week! Time to start drinking with strategy!

Beer Style of the day: Doppelbock

Beer: Troeg’s Troegenator Double Bock

Bonus! This show is longer than Mondays for those of you complaining!

Special thanks for BoSoxPats and Bubby!

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New Format!

Cant get enough Beer Report… But when you do get it… Its too long??? Well, we have the fix for you! Our new Beer A Day Podcast! Now you can listen to TBR while working out for 4 minutes, taking a very short comute, or taking a bathroom brake!

Tune in as Groucho and CHUD spend less than 5 minutes per show giving you the lowdown on a beer style and sample.

Mondays Beer is American Pale Ale. Our sample of the style is 2 Brothers, “Bitter End”.

Enjoy, and make sure to tune in every day!

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Sorry for the delay. As some of you may have heard… Groucho has been laid up due to an injury for the past few weeks.

Don’t worry, hes recovering, and in his absence… CHUD has come through with an interview that was previously set up by Groucho.

Rick Dowland is the brewery Rep in the United States for XXX Brewing. You may not be aware that XXX is bringing their new beer, “Blaster” to the States this summer.

Rick gives some insight on how Blast works… With its patented “Blaster Packets” that “enhance the fun”.

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While Groucho is laid up at the compound convalessing… What would be better than an afternoon watching Brother CHUD brew some beer???

Tune in for some finer points of “extract” brewing!

Hopefully is part one of two eps! Hopefully!

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So its been a while since we were “that” dumb beer show out of Pekin… You’ll be glad to know we are back at the grindstone with more international stereotypes and TBR geographical knowledge. Tune in for a long show, we make up for our absence with some fun facts about Thomas Hardy, the Industrial Revolution and Aborigines.

Beers on the show: Bottleworks Krulecop, Jenlain, Super Baladin, Thomas Hardy’s Ale,

On the show:

Cruel cops
Beer Report Bucket!
Closet space.
Belgiumites vs. Germans vs. French brewers.
Speaking Australian, Crocodile Dundee, and Aboriginal birth control.
Italy absolved!
TBR presents the Industrial Revolution.
Budweiser’s new adman.
Amy Winehouse.
Nikki Six, DJ Ashba, and the 6AM Project.
Don’t let CHUD store your beers!
Thomas Hardy facts… CHUD’s rant on Tess of the D’urbervilles.
Contest results.
English porn talk.

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria and Bloomington IL.

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1. Matt’s first brew-pub in Elmwood
2. Midwest beer culture… Or lack of it.
3. Training servers
4. No other beers served!
5. The Lager
6. “Doing Law” and the natural progression to brewing!?! (Supportive Wife!!!)
7. Siebel Beer School in Chicago
8. Canning beer
9. Incoming call from Margaret
10. The Hefeweizen (Lemon-free)
11. What does a brewer drink?
12. Natural Yeast Beer in the news!
13. The Nut-brown Ale
14. CONTEST QUESTION
15. Pleasant restrooms
16. Coffee Stout
17. The Destihl name
18. Building in Champaign
19. The Future
20. Music to brew by
21. Hiding behind the glass
22. Destihl mints and tattoos?

All beers on the show were made at the brewery… And they were all GREAT!!!

All comments about people in Pekin only liking Bud Lite are from Groucho and CHUD…. For the record: Matt LOVES Pekin! (So do we… But its kinda fun to give our hometown some grief!)

Check out Destihl at http://www.destihl.com/

Check out this shameless attempt to promote a local business at.

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OK, so we dont have a couple hundred millions dollars laying around… But who says we cant make our own monster movie here in Central Illinois? This one has a whole cast of characters, so dont feel left out if you dont recognize them all! The names have been changed to protect the innocent!

Beers on the show… CHUD’s Snow Brew and Three Floyds Broo Doo (Not sure of the spelling on that one, I just know it has a troll on the label)

Download this monster of a show.

to Nightcrawler for the hooking us up with the Broodoo!

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If you were expecting part 2 of the St. Louis brewery tours… Sorry to dissappoint!? The fact is, part 2 is a big file, and I didnt want to take space away from the audio show for a month to host it.? (I have the cheapo libsyn plan!)

So, here is a nugget that I recorded in Indiana before Christmas…? Travis, one of the brewers at 3 Floyds was nice enough to let me in the back for this short 2 minute film.

Look for something.. I dont know what!? Soon!

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBRV15.mov

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1. CHUDco Records presents: Its a Death Metal Christmas. (http://www.therealhappyhour.com/)
2. Santa in the future.
3. Rick Allen vs the Snake from Emmit Otter’s Jug Band Christmas.
4. Growler life.
5. 104.7 the Fox gets in on The Beer Report. (Thanks to Rick S.)
6. CHUD’s Creationist Museum review.
7. Indy is cool. (Nothing to back that up)
8. “You got fat, you got old…”
9. Grits, chitlins and pinkeye.
10. Our opportunity in radio… Practice makes perfect.
11. (Probably lost any chance of ever getting a sponsorship with the Tabernacle performance)
12. West Iowa beer drinkers. Craft beer aint gonna take the wild frontier of the US anytime soon.
13. Officially Whores… Paypal button now on the homepage.
14. Groucho is a coward.
15. Santa straight talk from CHUD.
16. Putting AB on the spot.
17. Check out the Beer Safari Christmas 2007 video show (just Google Video “Beer Safari).
18. This is our country.
19. Hanging out with (Famousas1) at 3 Floyds.
20. Musical exit: Mojo Nixon - Son of Santa

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• Reggie exhumed
• Pilgrims rock!
• Bed boards?
• Chud taking his cat to the vet.
• Perve German bartenders surrounded by birds.
• We hate the Swiss.
• CHUD is waiting for Armageddon.
• Boiler power!
• Wheres Margaret?
• Listener emails.
• Gay bars.
• CONTEST!!!!
• Darth Maul rides a Vespa.
• Goat stories.
• “I’ll take occult definitions for $500 Alex”.
• O’fallon loves beer!
• Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with my 2 headed love child.
• Drunk dialing (619) 239 KING.
• WE ARE ADULTS NOW!!!

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Kinda early for Halloween! But, this zombie beer show certainly will scare any beer drinker!

Groucho and CHUD are joined by AB for a rapid fire taste test of some year old IPA’s… Its not pretty, so I will warn you now. Also, apologies in advance to any brewery who had a beer on the show… This was not a fair shake!

In all fairness to Clarke… We let him have a shot at rebuttal on the show… Listen in as Clarke throws in his 2 cents during the show.

Beers on the show: Clarkehead Homebrew IPA, Sand Creak Brewing Company Wild Ride IPA, LaCroix sparkling water, Green Valley Brewing Organic Wildhop lager, 2 Brothers Heavy Handed IPA, Founders Dry-Hopped Pale Ale, Dogfishhead Aprihop, Clarkehead Cider

Also of note:

• Craft-beer Radiohead.
• Back to the beer future.
• Home-brew from Clarke, check out his new show at http://zeroface.wordpress.com
• Good Beer Show, TBR and Big Foamy Head collide on GBS 127. (http://www.goodbeershow.com/)
• Pecker gnats.
• Low F-Bomb count show. Peer pressure from 3 dimensional podcasts?
• Fu….. Kin….. A
• First F-Bomb casualty.
• Year old beers.
• Groucho cursed too much on ep 35.
• Paranoia of chunckage? Smegma.
• Sparkling water.
• Dig’em and Kool - Aide spunk?
• 5 minutes of 5 bad beers.
• The Wife Whisperer.
• Clarke’s beer beeped us in the mouth?
• Uterus theft.
• Knox county, Illinois is fattest in the state!
• Risking our lives crossing an interstate bridge. SUV’s caused Minneapolis bridge colapse.
• Bono throwing the money lenders out of the temple. Chad, the country… Not the forum member.
• Clarkes hard cider.
• Skidoo, thats Canadian for Snow Mobile.
• Moose farts contribute to global warming.
• CHUD drinks from the dump bucket! Will AB heave?
• Little known IPA facts. The Chinese Straits!
• Apology for the brewers on tonight’s show.

Download this wickedly bad show here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR36.mp3

Intro theme song from Too Much Joy, visit www.sayhername.com for more great music.

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Groucho had a great time drinking some fine Darkhorse beers on draft, and trying some of the “secret stash” that Mark brought along.

Listen as we talk about Aaron, the head brewer and some of the processes that take place at Dark Horse… Like picking labels, making beer, and creating contests based on Aaron’s beard!

Also hear the “Clink and Drink” for Good Beer Show… Yeah, thats “ours”!

Show.http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBRextra-Darkhorse.mp3

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1. BLUBRRY BABY!!!
2. http://www.beersafari.com/
3. Chris Moyles rating.
4. Frog Legs, AB had a bad childhood experience with frogs?
5. Warhammer 40K, Dawn of War. (Added for geek cred)
6. Oldest house in Scotland?
7. Beer for Breakfast… Ala The Replacements.
8. American Brewers are over the top.
9. 6 X 6 = 18.
10. Global cooling screwed the Scots.
11. CHUD Golf.
12. Stings tantra.
13. Madonna wants a wiener?
14. Article from Clarke about movie theaters.
15. Movie Piracy… In the theaters!
16. Letter from Jim Koch to Groucho.
17. French leaders… Kicking ass? Sarkozy! Canada a better place?
18. Chipped Sam Adam’s glass.
19. Badminton
20. PB Ricks Beeratitudes

Beers on the show purchased at Friar Tuck in Peoria and Bloomington Illinois.

Download this show steeped in culture here:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR35-5.mp3

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Christian came to Peoria as part of a tasting event at Sully’s. 2 Brothers is one of the only bottling brewers in Illinois, and they have lots of offerings!

In the interview, you will hear a little about how 2 Brothers listens to the thirsty masses, and how good Italian restaurants go macro! (Fun analogy!)

Download here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBRextra-2Bros.mp3

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The first 8 minutes are all about what the Beer Report is… Or has been! Listen and be bored by our recap of what we do.

If you can make it to about 20 minutes… After CHUD and AB have a little relationship talk… You will be amazed by some classic TBR talk. Complete political incorrectness!!! Be warned… No one is safe!

Beers on the show, Schlenkerla Rauchbier Marzen, Black Sun Stout by 3 Floyds Brewing.

On the show:

1. Recap of what the The Beer Report is, and what to expect.
2. (Madhatter mistakenly credited to Victory… Its from New Holland!)
3. AB likes here Wal-Mart donuts.
4. AB and CHUD still fighting.
5. Sams Choice… Sams Dead!
6. Leaded Thomas Trains.
7. Low tolerance of AB. Cheap date?
8. CHUD has to rewire an outlet.
9. Jiminy Cricket… Homeless or Uptown?
10. Paris Hilton (One Month late!).
11. Terrorists. Westernized Jihadists.
12. Racism in Pekin.
13. White on White hate.
14. Barry Bonds pulling a Chris Benoit?
15. Freemasons and Jew-bala.

Beers on the show purchased at Broadway Liquors in Pekin IL, and Sam’s Wine & Spirits across from Goose Island on the North side of Chicago.

Download here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR35.mp3

Intro music by Too Much Joy… http://www.sayhername.com/

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So, hear Groucho beg a little for that.

Then, hear Groucho, CHUD and Margaret shill and beg for a few bucks for Margaret’s ride to Santa Fe NM in September… All proceeds for her entry fee go to the Imus ranch (And you know we LOVE that cause)…

Thanks in advance for listening and for even thinking about contributing! Go to www.thebeerreport.com for a direct link via paypal.

Listen to the shilling here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR-_Shilling.mp3

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Watch as Groucho and CHUD compare the best of Belgium with the best of the NASCAR scene!

Check out more videos and podcasts at our website:� www.thebeerreport.com

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Beers on the show: Michelob Bavarian Wheat, O’Fallon Oak Aged Smoked Porter.

Big Brother beer on the show? Yeah, and it was not that bad! Check some out for yourselves… I know its on shelves across the USA.

Subjects of interest:

1. Head retention?
2. CHUD is the topic of conversation at other Podcasts. http://www.beersafari.com/
3. Keith & the Girl, Wing’n It pool party, and other podcasts.
4. Watching porn on your iPod.
5. What AB sees in her microphone.
6. Contest results!
7. Margaret saves some entries.
8. Eddie’s rant on dirty pubic toilets. Eddie… Email us!!!
9. Guinness neon light.
10. WWF murder. Steroids. Barry Bonds. Football.
11. Our show sucks… Listen to Dude Night! This ep is “filler”
12. CHUD has pissed off AB, and she knows there are other Brew-casters out their available!
13. Good Beer Show theme song by Mickie Mason… Killer!

Special thanks to Dave Johnson at O’Fallon for the bottle of Smoked Porter.

CHUD picked up the Bavarian Wheat at an unknown gas station between Bloomington and Pekin.

Download some “Filler”: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR34.mp3

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Beers on the show: Pride and Joy by 3 Floyd’s, Hennepin by Ommegang, Avocado Honey Ale by Island Brewing.

On the Show:

• Horseback riding
• Killer Bees
• Cheap Screws
• Woman Logic

Download this short show here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR-KR.mp3

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Remember… Drink lots of O’Fallon!

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Beers on the show: JK Scrumpy’s Organic Farm Cider, O’Fallon Gold, O’Fallon Wheat, Peire Cellis’ Signature Series Grotten Brown Ale. Also, conversations about Original Sin Cider, Golden Draak and Leinekugel’s Summer Shandy.

On the Show:

1. Sister Sly’s ethnic background.
2. Listener Emails.
3. CHUD has to watch chick flicks.
4. Cheers to Lance in Iraq
5. Dr. Phil abducted by aliens and is suing Oprah for 75 million!
6. Contest entries.
7. CHUD rants!!!
8. 1 minute interview with Bruce.
9. Smart people go to college.
10. Drew Berry-sly.
11. Cuddle-Time.
12. Family dirty laundry.
13. Waffle sauce?
14. Dolphin porn.

Organic Scrumpy gifted to us by Bruce from http://organicscrumpy.com/, O’Fallon Sampler purchased at Broadway Liquors in Pekin IL.

Download the show here: http://media.libsyn.com/media/thebeerreport/TBR33.mp3

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