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DBRcast – Ep4 – Dark Lord 2012 vs Mephistopheles 2012

Posted on December 18, 2015April 19, 2016 by Drews Brews Reviews

During an evening among friends, I finally broke out my 2012 aged Dark Lord, one of the first “big beers” I ever acquired, and we taste if it was worth the time and expense. I also happened to have a 2012 Mephistopheles chilled for that evening, so we pop it to compare these two big Russian Imperials and get a better perspective on the Dark Lord hype.

I’m joined on this 20 minute odyssey by my brother, Ryan, and our friend Tom from Pints of Interest fame, a beer novice Josh, and regular DBRcast member Chris.

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DBRcast – Ep3 – Hefeweizen Showdown

Posted on November 30, 2015April 19, 2016 by Drews Brews Reviews

We blind beer taste 13 Hefeweizens and Wits, yes f’in 13, to see which one reigns supreme. Equipment (i.e. user) malfunction cut off the tasting portion, so we just have the results. Seems to work better this way and probably how we’ll handle it going forward.

So listen up as we get competitive to see who brought the best/worst Hefeweizens of the showdown! We also inadvertently include a duplicate, which makes for interesting results. Once we crown the hefe beer champ, we also factor in the cost to determine the best beer for your buck. For a list of everything we drank, we refer to them by name and number, see the full post below.

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DBRcast – Ep2 – The Pizza Boy Controversy

Posted on November 9, 2015April 19, 2016 by Drews Brews Reviews

We take a break from blind beer drinking to do a straight review of iNTaNGiBLes’s Acidulated Hive, followed by a discussion on inflated beer prices and a controversial Facebook post concerning Al of Hampden defending the price of Pizza Boy’s sours. Don’t bother looking for it, the Facebook post mysteriously vanished the next day…

We finish by sipping on Revolution Brewing’s Bene Gene, a coffee and bourbon barrel-aged take on their Eugene porter. It took us six months to finally drink it, so was it worth the wait?

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DBRcast – Ep1 – Vermont IPA Showdown

Posted on October 19, 2015April 19, 2016 by Drews Brews Reviews

Straight from the DBR bar, we have our first blind taste test podcast. Why a podcast? Because there are never enough! And I’m too lazy to write up the results and, bonus, I already have the equipment.

We have a good reason too, having just come back from Vermont with some of the top IPAs in the country. Namely, the renown Heady Topper, Sip of Sunshine, and up-and-comer Second Fiddle. With all of these at our disposal, we naturally arrived at the only question that matters. To paraphrase Iron Chef, which one reigns supreme?

As arbitrary as pointing out a “best IPA” really can be, we decided to give it a go by pitting four beer nerd palates against 3 of Vermont’s finest and 5 local mystery IPAs (done more to confuse our palates for the big 3) in a blind showdown.

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