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Trends in Beer
This Chick Talks Beer - January 13, 2020 03:00 - 25 minutesJust a quick chat about trends in beer since people seem to think the industry is dying. Do they help or do they hurt the industry?
Decade In Beer
This Chick Talks Beer - January 03, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutesThis week I sit down with Nik White of Chicago Beer Pass to reflect on our favorite moments in beer over the last decade.
EP. 01 - Decade In Beer
This Chick Talks Beer - January 03, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutesThis week I sit down with Nik White of Chicago Beer Pass to reflect on our favorite moments in beer over the last decade.
Episode 51: Sh*t my Podcasters Say
Drinking Points - June 23, 2019 17:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to the episode 51 of Drinking Points! This week we introduce a new theme song and a new outlook on the show. We discuss growing as a podcast, what we’ve been up to this week and...our recently played albums on Spotify! Troy’s dad gets a thorough mention as we talk about Father’s Day, his...
Minisode 6: After a Brief Hiatus...
Drinking Points - June 11, 2019 00:34 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHere it is: Minisode #6. As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus for the last couple of months. It’s a break that we needed, but that we couldn’t wait to end. This minisode is a PSA about mental health and mental illness. “While we were away, I was battling my own mind. I’v...
Episode 50: Hops n Homeruns
Drinking Points - April 02, 2019 21:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsEverybody stand up, stretch, and grab yourself another beer because we’re talking about the ballpark this week. We chat a little bit about the Buffalo Bisons’ new field sponsor, Bisons mascots (animate and inanimate), and a man at the ballpark that’s even more recognizable than a mascot. Resurge...
Episode 49: Under the Influenza
Drinking Points - March 15, 2019 22:11 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're back baby! Troy's been under the weather for about a week and a half, which we're not only going to use as an excuse for our absence, but we're also using it for the theme of this episode! We go over the history of Buffalo's largest hospital, which played an important role in the area duri...
Episode 48: Love is in the air (and the water)
Drinking Points - February 20, 2019 01:40 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsShowing some love during the week of Valentine’s Day. As you may know we really dig talking about the Erie Canal, but Episode 48 is all about the Love Canal. We talk about how a city planned to be a clean, futuristic utopia powered by hydroelectricity lead to the creation of a toxic waste dump: ...
Episode 47: Bucha Didn't Know
Drinking Points - February 11, 2019 22:20 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we felt that after recording last time with Vinylly Friday, we needed to take a break from the brews--of beer, that is--because in this episode we're drinking Barrel + Brine kombucha! We discuss the somewhat disturbing way that kombucha is made as well as the tons of other fermented go...
Episode 46: Fasten Your Belt Line
Drinking Points - February 04, 2019 23:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week, we were joined by our buds Tim and Eddie from Vinylly Friday for a regular ol' collab-a-thon! This time around, we let them pick the brewery: we drank Main Course DDHIPA by Belt Line Brewery & Kitchen, a brand-new brewery and taproom that just opened down in the Hydraulic neighborhood...
Episode 45: One Beer Anniversary
Drinking Points - January 27, 2019 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIt’s our One Beer Anniversary Episode! An entire year has passed since we started Drinking Points! This week we go back to Episode 1, and reminisce about (read: completely rip on) our Pilot Episode too! We were welcomed back to record at Big Ditch Brewing Company yet again, which coincides wit...
Episode 44: Blizzard? S'now Problem
Drinking Points - January 12, 2019 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSometimes episodes are written around a historical event, sometimes they’re written with a certain beer in mind. Other times, a brewery releases a beer about winter weather with 7.7% ABV and 77 IBUs and we’re left with no choice but to do a Blizzard of 77 episode. So crack a beer and bundle up, ...
Episode 43: The Experimental Episode
Drinking Points - December 31, 2018 18:18 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're excited to say that this is (what feels like) our first real episode that we've recorded since ermmm... October? We took a classic Drinking Points field trip to the Buffalo Museum of Science to go along with this episode's beer, XPA by Woodcock Brothers Brewery! Also, we do an extra specia...
Minisode 5: (Last) Christmas Episode
Drinking Points - December 24, 2018 18:12 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJoy to the world! This is our off-the-cusp Christmas mini(?)sode! In this episode, we talk about Christmas trees, Christmas traditions, and... Christmas! And drink wintery beers! Join us around the Netflix Fireplace (Birchwood Edition) and let us join your holiday celebration this year! Happy Ho...
Episode 42: Where Momma Hides the Cookie Brown Ale
Drinking Points - December 17, 2018 19:06 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're back (again!) And this time, in a brand new space: we've moved to the Old First Ward! Obviously we're super excited, so allow us to gush about our new apartment and the building we live in now and its historical significance in the city. Now as this is both our first experience "leaving th...
Episode 41: This is not an Episode
Drinking Points - December 04, 2018 02:48 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHey, uh... sorry we've been gone for a minute. We promise we were thinking about all of you the whole time and feeling really guilty about it. And we were drinking local beer. Anyway, in this episode we're kickin' it old school: Old First Ward-school. We finally made it down to Gene McCarthy's/...
Episode 40: Beer Me Up Scotty
Drinking Points - November 16, 2018 17:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs the snow starts to fall, November begins to pass us by, and the last thursday of the month approaches, it begs the question: WERE THERE EXTRATERRESTRIALS PRESENT AT THE FIRST THANKSGIVING?! While there’s no record of aliens NOT attending the first feast, there ARE records of UFO sightings i...
Episode 39: If I Could Turn Kaltenbach Time
Drinking Points - November 10, 2018 03:56 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis episode we throw things back and go back to our roots: this is our Buffalo Brewing Company episode! Surprisingly, we've only just had our first experience drinking with them in the last month! They're a two-year-old brewery that carries the same namesake as a brewery from a century ago, mak...
Minisode 4: A Seven Ounce Episode
Drinking Points - November 06, 2018 01:53 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhy are we posting a minisode this week? Well, we're still hungover (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) from Halloween. There isn't really a theme to this one, if we're being honest... but we do talk a lot about cats, adorable rodents, Troy's blog, beer, and a bunch of other Schlitz. Mu...
Episode 38: Scareman of the Boo'rd
Drinking Points - October 26, 2018 15:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThroughout the nineteen-forties, fifties, and sixties, Buffalo’s theatre district was fortunate enough to host some of the biggest names in entertainment. On any given date, Shea’s Buffalo and the Town Casino across the street were sure to be home to an evening show, leading to late night after-...
Episode 37: Cider Killers
Drinking Points - October 19, 2018 16:44 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs the third of four Halloween episodes goes live we think it’s safe to say that we’ve gone from spooky, to creepy, to downright scary with this episode. What makes it cross the line to ‘scary’? The fact that these are the stories of the real monsters that have terrorized our communities: Serial...
Episode 36: I Put a Spell on You
Drinking Points - October 14, 2018 00:22 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we discuss the true horror behind a popular urban legend in Angola NY, the curse of an Egyptian king cast in Niagara Falls, and we list off a number of “coincidences” that have happened along the Great Gorge Route near Devil’s Hole. Ready or not, we drink another pumpkin beer...well it...
Episode 35: Get in the spirit!
Drinking Points - October 05, 2018 17:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHave you ever wondered why things make you creeped out? To kick off the show, Haley gives a run down on exactly why we find things creepy, and why she likes being spooked, while Troy reaffirms that when it comes to scary stuff, he’s a little baby b***h. That being said, welcome to the first of ...
Episode 34: A Brew Hope
Drinking Points - September 29, 2018 23:39 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we're revisiting Rochester! Haley's already feeling a little spooky so she'll be talking exclusively about Mount Hope cemetery and its most famous/interesting residents (no offense to the rest of the people buried there...) Also we discuss a newer brewery in the area, as well as anothe...
Minisode 3: Ballpark Brewbash
Drinking Points - September 24, 2018 01:38 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHey-ey-ey-ey we just got our new equipment in the mail, and drank a ton of new beers this weekend at the Ballpark Brewbash, so we thought it would be the perfect opportunity for a quick little minisode! Remember: live every day like it's Buffalo Beer Week. Beers discussed: -Random Company b...
Episode 33: Drinking Hops
Drinking Points - September 21, 2018 03:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHey there! This is a special pre-recorded episode that we recorded with the guys from What the Hops at Big Ditch during the Packet re-release! Regrettably, there isn't a ton of history in this episode, and that's mainly because we were going with What the Hops' style of podcasting: just shooting...
Episode 32: History Brewseum
Drinking Points - September 15, 2018 03:37 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHere it is: our Buffalo History Museum episode! To celebrate their upcoming Party on the Portico, we've decided to make this episode all about them (or at least mostly about them...) We love history! So obviously we love the history museum. Hear all about the origins of the museum as well as wha...
Episode 31: Music To Our Beers
Drinking Points - September 07, 2018 23:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week we're celebrating Buffalo's music scene to get in the spirit of Music is Art, the nonprofit started by a member of one famous Buffalo-based band. When you think of music and entertainment in Buffalo, you can't not think about the Theatre District, or its centerpiece: Shea's Performing ...
Episode 30: Throwback Thirty
Drinking Points - September 01, 2018 02:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIt's our thirtieth episode! You know what they say: 30 is the new 20! So for this, our thirtieth episode, we've decided to make our own little "clip-isode" where we go over our last 29 episodes (and the minisodes) and bring up some stuff that's come up since the episode has come out. Haley does ...
Episode 29: Keep On Capen On
Drinking Points - August 24, 2018 15:46 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis episode's for anyone going back to school this week coming up: this is our University at Buffalo episode! (Probably one of many, because there's a ton of history behind the school.) Consider this our most general UB episode, because Haley goes over the founding of the school and how the two...
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