first run of beer made by the 21st Amendment. it’s kinda stunning to see.

Two Guys Drinking at a Bar is pretty funny. Check out all 14 episodes. Although you might want to wait a bit between watching them. I watched them all in a row and got annoyed. But it wouldn’t be soooo bad spread out over a week or 14.

It was time to clear out all beer leftover from past shows. While we talk about the beer we covered all the stuff that’s been going on around our local. Like Russian Rivers new Brewery, Magnolia’s face life, Booneville and the marching band, Portland Brewers fest, the new front page and why you should tell your friends about the show.

The German restaurant we talked about is called Schroeder’s Restaurant located on 240 Front St.

other beer blogs that we didn’t meet up with at Booneville:
betterbeerblog
The Thirsty Hopster
Brookston Beer Bulletin
Hedonist Beer Jive

Stealth Ship

Leftover beers on the show:
Landshark, Spaten, Samual Adams Summer Ale, Radeberger, Bass, Trumer Pils, Sierra Nevada, Stout, Negra Modelo.

Homework: put the foam of the beer on different parts of your tongue.

if you have suggestions, comments or beer send them our way. all that info is on the contact page.

John reports on going to the Craft Brewers Festival held in San Diego. The CBC is held in different places around the country once a year. Brewers from all of the world attend. During the week there are talks about beer, sessions about beer, judging beer and of course drinking beer. As there are lots of great breweries in San Diego we got to tour such as Stone Brewery, Port Brewing, Green Flash, Karl Strauss and San Deigo Brewing Company and others.

Along side the CBC was the World Beer Cup. It lands in the US either other year. One of the brewers at the table was Mike from Iron Springs. His stout won a Gold medal. Thrill of victory to be sure. For a complete list of Cup winners click here.

Who is Richard Guidelines?

Pink Boots Society

Beers on the show:
Coors Lite

Homework:
Drink the freshest beer you can find at your local, brew pub or brewery.

Date: May 10, 2008
Times: Taps open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Music until 6:00 p.m.

Place:
Mendocino County Fairgrounds
14400 Hwy 128; Boonville, CA

get tickets online and save.

show notes go here.

A “perfect storm” has caused the price of hops to sky rocket. Many things factor into to making this happen: bad crop yields, increased consumption in other countries, and hop farms going away. It doesn’t help that just a few years ago hop prices were so low that there wasn’t incentive to keep growing them when growing corn to be used for ethanol production will command a higher price. The beer that we know and love may go away or may become more expensive to drink.

the Homework
Grow some hops! Or enjoy a big hoppy beer at your local.

the Beer list
Repeal Rye from 21st Amendment

Guests: Stu Stuart and Shaun O’Sullivan

Beer can be made from all kinds of different things like Lemons, Tomatoes, Oysters, Apples, Myrrh, Ginger, and Chili Peppers. Think of it as hanging out with your odd cousin. Sometimes weird is nothing more than an interesting label.

Links:
The Guerneville video.

Burrito Tunnel doesn’t go south or north.

Motor’s favorite rockstar.

America the Beautiful by Moon Unit.

Homework: Gather your friends around weird beers. Tell us how many inches of Zappa you have.

Beers on the show: Floris Apple, Stiegl with Lemon Soda, Monty Python’s Holy Ail, Budweiser Chelada, Nora.

Saturday, April 12, 2008
11:00 AM

The Bistro
1001 B Street
Hayward, California 94541