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Sour Feelings and Brewery Faux Pas
Beering Ain't Easy - March 05, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutesWe drink two of the best sours in Texas, Atrial Rubacite from Jester King and Sea of Waves from True Anomaly, all while sharing our opinions and detailed instructions on how to perform the biggest faux pas when visiting breweries. Ryan brings it home with some beer news and Drew shares his todd...
BAE After Dark: Hot and Smoky
Beering Ain't Easy - February 13, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutesWe back? It’s been a minute since our last episode, so we pay penance to the beer gods by drinking weird beers while we bring you up-to-speed with the state of affairs in craft beer and in our hoods. Tarot cards, anonymous Facebook posts, and Troy Aikman branded beer, all in the same episode? ...
Fear Factor: Beer Mixed Drink Edition
Beering Ain't Easy - September 26, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutesIt has been well established on our Podcast that host Ryan likes his beers (and other drinks) unadulterated. So what did we do to him? We made him face his fears and drink a wide range of beer mixed drinks for the first time ever, tournament style! And let him talk about more conspiracy theor...
Drinking Euro Beer and Howling at the Moon
Beering Ain't Easy - September 06, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutesRyan and Drew crack into some of the best beers from Belgium and Germany while sitting outside on the edge of the Austin, TX wilderness. In an episode rife with bad accents and pronunciations, your hosts discuss why Euro beers have fallen down so far on the Beer Advocate ratings while paying ho...
The Mexican Lager Blind Tasting
Beering Ain't Easy - August 01, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutesIn this episode, we do what we love best - beer news and blind tastings - but also answer some pretty important questions. Mexican Lagers are often considered basic beers, but are craft Mexican lagers an exception? And more importantly, could you pick them out of a lineup? And while we’re at ...
Beer GPT
Beering Ain't Easy - July 04, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutesThe Beering Ain’t Easy podcast has evolved into a new form fueled by Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence, or in short, Beer GPT. We test out the capabilities of current AI and whether it poses a risk to white collar jobs, the writer’s guild, or at a minimum the low-grade humor you come to lov...
Fat Tire's Recipe Change and Sustainable Beer
Beering Ain't Easy - May 16, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutesOne of the earliest US craft beer icons from New Belgium, the one and only Fat Tire, has gone through a major overhaul. New recipe, new logo, and new branding with sustainability at the forefront. We pull out our last batch of the old recipe and drink it side by side with the new and debate w...
Aging IPA's and the Bud Light Saga
Beering Ain't Easy - May 03, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutesSo, you’re supposed to drink IPA’s fresh, right? Well it may be common sense to you but we’re going to test it in an experiment anyway as is tradition. We sample three Saint Arnold Art Car IPA’s at varying levels of freshness and answer why do IPA’s degrade, how do they degrade, and what are t...
The Houston Flying Saucer with Asa Hanrahan
Beering Ain't Easy - April 18, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutesAsa Hanrahan, General Manager of the Houston Flying Saucer, joins the podcast to share his experiences spanning 16 years at the cornerstone beer bar and landmark of Downtown Houston! We discuss the craft beer evolution in Texas, Houston new downtown patio space along Main Street, the staying po...
The Hops Are Watching: Beer Conspiracy Theories
Beering Ain't Easy - April 04, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutesThis week we talk about the one topic Ryan enjoys more than beer… conspiracy theories. We go through a series of wacky beer-related conspiracy theories and make up a few unsubstantiated theories of our own. Plus Ryan runs down Birds Aren’t Real and his favorite conspiracy theories of all time a...
Does the Color of Your Beer Affect its Taste?
Beering Ain't Easy - March 03, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutesDoes the color of your beer affect how it tastes? Is Saint Patrick’s day and its green beer ruining your favorite lager? You better believe that the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast is here to conduct the experiments that no one asked to be conducted. Featured Beers: Cloud Punch. Bad Astronaut Br...
The Austin Drip
Beering Ain't Easy - February 14, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutesAdam returns on this episode to share some great beers from Austin and we gush all about the beer scene in Dripping Springs! And of course in addition to the beer we stray off course with some truly ridiculous and hilarious stories (as is tradition when Adam joins the podcast). Featured Beers:...
Negative Space at Ludicrous Speed
Beering Ain't Easy - January 31, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutesAfter we had so much fun tasting verticals and horizontals during our Eureka Heights episode, Ryan and Drew are back at it again with none other than the Negative Space Milk Stout from 11 Below Brewing! Come find out all about the awesome Negative Space variants and whether this beer is better ...
Time Machine: Best Beers of 2010
Beering Ain't Easy - January 18, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourJoin the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast as we jump in a time machine to drink the top 5 beers of 2010 (hint hint one is a big one!). But that’s not all - we’re going to give you the full and unadulterated 2010 experience. This means top 2010 news stories, top music, top movies, slang, and of cour...
Beer World Records
Beering Ain't Easy - December 20, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutesRyan and Drew use their extensive research to tell you about beer-related world records so you don’t have to google them for yourself! And don’t google them, because we may have made some of these up. Plus, do kids ever throw up where you want them to and is Wade Boggs full of shit? Beer: D...
Going Nuclear: A Eureka Heights Tasting
Beering Ain't Easy - November 15, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutesStout Season is here! Ryan and Drew go full-on “nucular” by tasting a variety of Eureka Heights Nuke the Whales Imperial Milk Stouts aged across multiple years and their variants. What can go wrong with drinking four 11% ABV stouts? Apparently a lot of things. Beer: Nuke the Whales (2021). ...
Painful Experiences and The Search for the Perfect Buzz
Beering Ain't Easy - October 25, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutesCome join us this week while we take a trip down memory lane, rattling off some of our best beer memories as we discovered beer and craft beer, and of course some of the most painful experiences to keep it from being too sappy! And on that topic, sometimes there is a fine line between a great b...
Hot Takes and Unpopular Opinions
Beering Ain't Easy - October 11, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutesDo you hate a beer that everyone loves? Love a brewery that everyone hates? Are you the type of person who holds back your opinions for fear of how stupid you sound, or do you just put it out there in the open for all to dissect? Well, Ryan and Drew choose the latter path, letting rip their ...
Oktoberfest: Houston vs. The World
Beering Ain't Easy - September 27, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutesWe’re back with the third annual Oktoberfest Episode! This time we ramp things up by not only tasting our beers blind, but also taking our reigning champ, Paulaner, and putting it head to head with three Houston beers. And if that isn’t enough for you, Ryan and Drew test the myth of “Das Boot”...
Adjunct Series: Blueberry Beer
Beering Ain't Easy - September 13, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutesThis week we take our beer Adjunct Series into the wild world of blueberries! That’s right, we’re trying four different styles of beers from four different breweries to tell you the best way to enjoy fruit in your beer. While we’re at it, we’ll tell you the many different ways of how to brew ...
2 Year Anniversary: Drew Turns 40, Adam Moves to Austin
Beering Ain't Easy - August 23, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutesThe Beering Ain’t Easy Podcast is celebrating it’s two year anniversary! We bring back original co-founder Adam onto the show to talk about his move to Austin, Drew turning forty, and Ryan’s bathroom etiquette conundrum. Plus we do micro-recaps of the HTown Brewery challenge and cover Turkey F...
Glassware Experiments and the Houston Block Party
Beering Ain't Easy - August 10, 2022 10:00 - 49 minutesIt’s been a wild month for the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast, and we’re glad to be back on the air bringing you another one of our patented beer experiments, this time testing whether specialty beer glassware makes a difference on the taste of your beer! Plus, we bring back friend-of-the-show Sylv...
Brewery Shakeups and Recession Beers
Beering Ain't Easy - July 06, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutesIt’s a wild world out there folks - fiercely independent breweries selling to macro-breweries, the Houston beer scene rotating owners and brewers like musical chairs, gasoline costing more than craft beer, and hot dog eating champions having to compete on crutches! What in the world comes next,...
Things Dads Say
Beering Ain't Easy - June 14, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutesIn honor of Father’s Day upcoming, we discuss the transformation everyone must go through when becoming a dad: solitary hobbies, grilling expertise, awkward friend-making, and most importantly, the dad jokes. We talk about the weird phrases we grew up with, the new ones we’ve picked up along th...
Gluten Free Beer
Beering Ain't Easy - May 31, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutesHave you ever tried a Gluten Free Beer? How are they made without barley or wheat? What’s the difference between Gluten Free and Gluten Reduced? The Beering Ain’t Easy Podcast will answer these questions and more as Drew’s wife Meredith joins the show for the first time ever to sample 5 diffe...
What Beer Tastes Best Warm?
Beering Ain't Easy - May 17, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutesWho wants a nice warm beer? Yeah, we thought so. But as parents, we’ve found that our kids often distract us mid beer at parties or events and leave us with a lovely can of lukewarm. Which led us to an experiment to explore - which beer tastes best warm? The Beering Ain’t Easy podcast has do...
Bad Astronaut Brewing
Beering Ain't Easy - May 03, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutesThis week we bring you an exclusive sneak peak of Bad Astronaut Brewing, a major brewpub coming to Houston’s Hardy Yards later this year! Chris and brewmaster Rocky walk us through their concepts for the space, their extensive experience in brewing startups to scale ups, and tell us what it tru...
Gelatinize My Oats: Oatmeal Stout Blind Tasting
Beering Ain't Easy - April 19, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutesUpon seeing the early signs of summer weather in Houston, Ryan and Drew decide to send off stout season in style via a Beering Ain’t Easy patented blind tasting! This time we put three Oatmeal Stouts head-to-head, including the award winning Settler’s Stout from Vallensons Brewing Company. Can...
The Fruited Sour Episode
Beering Ain't Easy - April 05, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutesCan Fruited Sours sweep you away on a tropical vacation from standard craft beers, or should they only be served at the kids table? Will we uncover health benefits unbeknownst to our hosts? We bring on two guests from the neighborhood to participate in a debate as old as marshmallow creme while...
If You Pour It, They Will Come: Featuring Star Sailor
Beering Ain't Easy - March 22, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourWe continue on our quest to highlight great guests from the beer industry, and this week we're joined by Marin, owner of one of Houston's best beer bars - Star Sailor. We'll hear all about the entrepreneurial challenges of opening a business during Covid, the glorious highs of building an incl...
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