Talking today's hot news with some cool people

UPDATE: Things move quickly in the world of craft beer.  In this episode we discuss Brewery X's purchase of Modern Times.  Only Brewery X ended up backing out of the deal and now Maui Brewing purchased them.  Our details are out of date, but the general discussion still holds up.

Rather than featuring a specific beer or brewery on this week's show we decided to invite some friends in to share a few beers and talk about some of the happenings in the beer world today.  The burning issues.  Like PBR's 1,844 can pack.  Important stuff, ya know.

Jason Pellett, founder and brewmaster at Atlanta's Orpheus Brewing joined us.  We've enjoyed Jason's beer's since before the brewery opened.  Sitting on the patio sipping geuze and talking all things wild.  Or maybe at a secret tapping at somewhere it shouldn't have been tapped, but I'm not gonna tell if you don't.

The one and only Bill Boyer came along as well.  Bill's an old homebrewing friend and he is on fire in the homebrew circuit.  His brews have earned him over 200 medals in competitions, with 100+ just this year.  His homebrewer is called Beer and Fire and encompasses beer, cider, mead, and hot sauce.  He also grows his own peppers.  Bill is a regular Renaissance man.

Hot topics this week

In addition to huge packages we also talk about the sale of Stone Brewing and Modern Times, and Melvin pondering a "strategic partner."  We discuss the horrible news out of New Jersey and the new constraints on brewers there.  Bill shares a bit about mead and cider and homebrew competitions before we run out of time.  We'll have him back in the future to talk more on these subjects.

The Beer List

• Deschutes / Bitburger collab - Dry Hopped Zwickl
• Take 16 Nostalgia (BA Sour Red).
• Barrrique - Lagerbier.
• Orpheus - 12th Labor
• Orpheus - Fragmentation of Silence
• A few goodies from Beer and Fire

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