Ayyy bay bay. Batch 3 of @maltcoutureddb is live now! We take it to the bay for the hyphiest batch to date, no whip remains unghost ridden, scraper bikes, whistle tips, this episode has everything a hella NorCal Rone could desire. With some spicy offerings from @rusticales and @russianriverbrewing ! Subscribe and leave a 5 ⭐️ review.

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I feel like the @funkfactorygeuzeria Meerts lineup has done a fantastic job of flying under the radar with regards to sheer quality and crushability while providing an attendant depth that most American wilds don’t approach. This is a tiny stage to dance upon and like the Belgian Fred Astaire this beer Ginger Rogers the steps backwards in lightly acidic heels. This is a weird style that is almost table Beer meets young lambic, but the net result is this fantastic canvas for focused clean faintly brackish expressionism. The kombucha variant was insane and refreshing to the point of blurring beverage lines. The apricot treads a dainty line and lays off the throttle of the Fou Foune acidity, while still providing some gristy Belgian singlesque structure. It feels akin to fruited @brasseriedupont Avril at times, and when it opens up the fruit and musk remind me a ton of the elegant brett profiles captured in the Chad Yakobsen @crookedstave canon. It’s anomalous to find beers that are complex enough to sustain interest of jaded stretch marked “experts” and pilates cayenne cleanse palates alike. This is one such beer.

The journey to @brewyardbeerco is an epic quest in itself. Located under a freeway overpass and at the end of a leaky industrial corridor of no fewer than six cranes and forklifts, it is a trek. The space itself is batshit crazy as there was a live band playing Rockabilly, old trucks turned into tables, a wall of toys strewn about, and what appeared to be a MUG CLUB. The beer itself seemed to have that odd German purity emphasis you would see from places in the early 2000s that usually warrants trepidation. The staff is amazing, super knowledgeable and approachable and couldn’t be nicer or more forthright. The fans seem to absolutely love every aspect of this whole affair even if the beer is nonstandard and undercarbed. There wasnt a single IPA on tap, which usually I would applaud, but this felt more oversight than ambitious. The dunkel was clean and without comment. The Weizenbock aged on Mahogany was also just fine. Jewel City was their common and it was really well done, only fitting that Golden Road just miles away also has a Jewel City IPA. Perfect. The entire experience compelled shoulder shrugs but no active complaints. It’s fine. I’m fine.

The name BREWYARD itself seems to get lost under a tide of innumerable similar breweries and beers. So it’s the furthest thing from false advertising.

Stampede indeed, cicerhinos in full force. To get to today’s @monkishbrewing can release there were dudes legit running to get to the line, dashing across busy ass Western ave, that awkward cargo shorts and flip flops hurried waddle. You know the look of a champion when they swing that growler bag avoiding the retaining wall on the haze hunt. This is an extremely citra driven, creamy albeit drying DDH hazebanger that makes floccbois creamy their oaty jeans. The pizza guys are monkish have zero chill and between the hops and the intense garlic the whole place feels like a red and white checkered table cloth Italian restaurant. The summer fashion is flatbilled hats with chunky white SPY sunglasses on top. Male to female ratio in attendance mirrors a Fairbanks logging camp. The beer is fantastic and this spot still somehow has a segment of dudes who are legit happy to try things and meet one another, despite the furtive razzler in attendance. Just four consecutive razzles and he can afford a Magic lambic that is maybe 20% better than regular ass Oude Gueuze, these are the peaks and valleys of the current Beer climate. You only feel the heat if you focus on it.

Tessa has tumbling practice after Mason gets out of Theater Play, but my Ford Flex has this engine picture on and we have to go to Taryn’s birthday party for her cat, she’s still single, god can you imagine? I need to get my blunt cut done in the back with chunky yellow highlights but that cuts into my session with my life coach and he books so far out. So I have to either push my wine and painting night with the Alpha Phis or totally bail on goat yoga with Madison. Either way I look like garbage and honestly it’s affecting my vision board, being too invested and too honest has always been a problem of mine, this is a side note but I feel like the Summer line of Lulus have totally predictable mesh outcropping almost totally similar to the spring line, Kaitlyn told me about this new app that’s uber but Spotify for mimosas for dog brunches. She’s been crushing it at Rodan and Fields just making us all supes jelly, like could you not? Plus the housekeeper keeps putting things in weird places like ok why would my Urban Decay go in the same drawer as my Invisalign retainers? Sometimes I wonder what she’s even thinking. I’m sorry, Jessica I’m just on this cayenne cleanse and I’m being a total Seeyou. There should be a job just like playing with dogs, it’s fucked up that the world won’t let you do what you want. Have you had eggs benedict, I feel like crab cakes is like a French tip on a French tip, it’s too extra for me. Plus Kevin is going through this midlife, reassessment and just burning through our kitchen renovation budget, he bought a Nissan sorry Datesun two hundred Z or something, mid life crise, I don’t even want to get into it. Yeah sorry we are ready, just give me the butteriest chard. I hate when the server like hovers like Erghhh we get it, hey omg it’s Mason’s tap instructor i have to take this at the table sorry “Heyyyy THEO! No no I’m at brunch go ahead-“

Damn this @newbelgium return to greatness has been fantastic to witness. This kriek is pillowy soft with that crackly vitamin Pink EmergenC meets Syrah dryness. It’s fantastic to witness them go small format go small batch go nonpasteurized and warm up the deltoid to show these small players they still can compete. If you enjoy @caseybrewing Fruit stands in all their innumerable cherry variants you’ll love this. Rocky Mountain comeback.

Have you ever ridden Splash Mountain? At first it’s all singing frogs and Br’er Rabbit and Uncle Remus and waitasecondisthisracist- Then a huge drop and you’re left what the fuck happened. That’s how Good Boy Wally drinks. The look is moderately cheery, one parts full pulp, one part flocculated miso broth. with a massive sustained carb. The nose is fantastic with street vendor guava, lukewarm mango, Bath and Body works herbaciousness and a touch of the Galaxy brush imparting like chard/arugula. The taste follows through with an oddly thin mouthfeel but without any fusel drag, apricot pith and Patchouli oil all like YOURE NOT MY REAL MOM YOU HAVE TO KNOCK IM JUST LISTENING TO SYSTEM OF A DOWN GET OUT. Then Uncle Remus shows up and this questionably antebellum affair gets offensive real quick. You brace for the drop after the swallow and shit goes off the rails, they’re taking your picture as your mangle countenance is twisted into malignant hoppy horror. The froth sprays and the adventure is over. The swallow is gone and there is tinny fanfare being piped in as you try to process how things went so shitty so quickly. The swallow is straight up landscaping bark and the pinnacle of dry hopping excess. If you have ever tasted that wasabi sludge from hop excrement in a fermenter you know how spicy I am talking. It burns with a twinge of novocain and incense bittering like you tasted hand soap. 90% of this is fun, then the alphas get way too alpha and oily. It is a functional error in dry hopping to this degree and it smashes the balance with diced green onion for a painful three seconds every swallow. #PHX #phoenix #TIPA #IPA #HOPhead #hops #beer #hoppybeer #weekend #instadaily #keto #whole30 #jakepaul #liltay #lilxan #RIPXXXtencion

Lagunitas super cluster is a MEGA ALE whatever the fuck that is. It’s a bit of a misnomer in every sense since it looks like straight up two row and 8% abv. Back in my day we would cum into an ankle sock and call that a west coast DIPA. I dont even know if this is out yet since they sent it to me yesterday, but I am sure this will be in 12 packs for like $10.99 just completely destabilizing the grocery store competition. It’s an intensely citra driven beer that has a smattering of crystalesque body, that leans toward the early 2010 days of bittering, boil C-hops, olfactory dominated by them 60/15/0 kettle additions over the hamfisted Julius craze we are currently suffering through. It’s good, it’s fine, you can play God of War 4 and forget about it. Not everything needs to be some revelatorry R L Stine hopchiller. #IPA #hophead #hops #craftbeer #cerveza #birra #hops

For those who have been following DDB over the years, my long-standing love for BA OE is no secret. I loved this hidden gem back when it was draft only in 2012, in 2013 I won one of 12 (probably illegally) raffled bottles at a Beer Belly event, and have loved to watch this beer develop and grow with Smog City themselves. This is unquestionably the best beer that they make and any less competent brewery would buildout an entire program around it with bullshit pageantry and raffles and variants and reserve societies, marking it up exponentially. Not them Smoggers. It’s still the same price, increased quality, no absurd limits, and just god damn flawless execution.

This year’s blend returns to a more tightly wound HotD Adam from the Wood meets Kuhnehnn Bourbon Barrel Fourth Dementia. It has so much carmelized brown sugar, cream of wheat with Willett, creme brulee shell, peanut brittle, See’s Candy scotch kisses, and a depth of red fruit akin to Vacquereyes. The swallow is clean and imparts a faintly bittering oak and a full swallow drinks very similar to a rye manhattan or a less sweet Sazerac. The fact that this beer is being released tomorrow with no limits is bonkers to me. It is a style defining beer that continues to evolve and I never buy enough. They will be tapping the Barleywine is Life single barrel variant of BAOE at tomorrow’s show and that is somehow even better than the component blend. See you maltgarglers there. #BIL #barleywine

#malt #bourbon #rye #craftbeer #instadaily #birra #cerveza #cocktails #LABW #weekendbeer

Thanks to everyone who downloaded and listened to batch 1 of Malt Couture yesterday! BUT THE BITS DONT STOP THERE: the @maltcoutureddb release party and BA OE triple bottle release at @smogcitybeer is tomorrow, with live comedy show with cohosts @thesloh and @paulmichaelgabriel

Come out for banter, biersticks, giveaways, moobsigning, comedy, games, q and a, and of course, photo ops with the OG toaster [seriously]

Show starts at 7:30pm, come be about that Life. #bil #barleywineislife #maltcouture #craftbeer #labeerweek #labw