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Episode 297 – This week, we’re drinking a buncha wheat beers. 13, to be exact. That’s a buncha wheat beer.

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This week, we’re lightening things up a bit and cleansing our palates of the hoppy IPA and DIPA we’ve been crushing over the last month, and wheat beer sounded like the perfect beverage to welcome the warming SoCal weather. This week, we brought our own individual offerings to our virtual table and are featuring 13 different beers made with wheat. It’s kind of surprising how diverse wheat beer can actually be.

We say this a lot, but it’s really fun to experiment with one style of beer. You can really see how versatile beer can be when you do this. Different brewers interpret styles in their own ways, and wheat beer really showcases the exciting diversity in the world of craft beer.

Editor’s note: this last paragraph will just remain as-is for future posts until this lockdown is over.

We hope you’re safe. We know this sucks right now. We miss our friends and family, socializing, and even going for a run without having to wear a mask, but this is temporary and staying at home as much as possible, while also keeping our distance from others in public, is something we must all do. That being said, we live in a great time in history where we have a robust internet that allows us all to stay in contact, see each other’s faces, and even get together once a week for a virtual happy hour.

We’ll be recording episodes once a week from here out, which is actually pretty cool for those who normally can’t make it to our typical monthly recording sessions. We’ll be having guests on the show, trying new beers, and continuing to keep doing our thing the best we can. Thanks for sticking with us. We’ll get through this.

Now, on with the show!

BREW THE SHIT OUT OF IT.
WASH YOUR HANDS.
WEAR A MASK.
DON’T BE AN ASSHOLE.

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Opvu9osZH4k

Episode Chapters:
00:00: SupportTheShitOutOfIt.com
00:08: Theme Music
00:14: Begin Show
01:10: New Patron Shoutouts!
02:22: This Week: Wheat Beer
02:49: Paulaner Hefe-Weißbier / Hefe-Weizen / Weissbier – Paulaner Brauerei
04:04: Stealth Mode – Bottle Logic Brewing
06:06: Orange Wheat – Hangar 24 Craft Brewing
09:36: Pineapple Mana Wheat – Maui Brewing
14:01: Florida Cracker – Cigar City Brewing
16:42: Erdinger Dunkel – Erdinger Weissbräu
22:17: Freigeist Abraxxxas Lichtenhainer Weissbier – Freigeist Bierkultur
24:18: St. Bernardus Wit – Brouwerij St.Bernardus
27:08: Mango Squeeze – SLO Brew
31:08: Weihenstephaner Vitus Weizenbock – Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
31:55: Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier – Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
34:37: Oberon – Bell’s Brewery
36:59: Discussing Jason and Greg’s Beers
40:13: Orchard Wit – Bruery Terreux
49:31: Wrap Up
53:18: fourbrewers.com

Beers from this week’s episode:
Paulaner Hefe-Weißbier / Hefe-Weizen / Weissbier – Paulaner Brauerei
Stealth Mode – Bottle Logic Brewing
Orange Wheat – Hangar 24 Craft Brewing
Pineapple Mana Wheat – Maui Brewing
Florida Cracker – Cigar City Brewing
Erdinger Dunkel – Erdinger Weissbräu
Freigeist Abraxxxas Lichtenhainer Weissbier – Freigeist Bierkultur
St. Bernardus Wit – Brouwerij St.Bernardus
Mango Squeeze – SLO Brew
Weihenstephaner Vitus Weizenbock – Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier – Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Oberon – Bell’s Brewery
Orchard Wit – Bruery Terreux

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Theme Song: The Sleeping Sea King

Season 3, Episode 33 – This week, we take a ride on the goser coaster and sample nine gose style beers.

Last week’s show was pretty epic. We decided the best way to recover from the incredibly awesome 24 beer pilsner showdown was to relax with some easy-drinking gose style beers from breweries around the world. Gose is a style of beer that’s usually low alcohol, a bit on the tart side, and made with salt to give it a dry, brackish feel (get into the finer details of the style here). While on paper this sounds like a disaster of a beer, it’s actually pretty damn refreshing. There’s a surprising variety of gose available to us in the southern California market, so we decided to go for it.

The thing with gose is that some breweries want to “amp up” the style and add fruit to the beer to give it an even more refreshing and easy-drinking twist. This works sometimes, but adding more stuff to an otherwise shitty base beer makes for an even shittier beer. Kettle souring has become quite popular as of late and while it’s efficient and cuts down on risking brewhouse infection, some breweries don’t put in the proper care during the process to insure a well made kettle sour. Other breweries go the more traditional route and add bacteria to sour the wort after it has been brewed, or after primary fermentation. The beers on this week’s episode pretty much cover the gamut.

We also answer a few questions from The Mailbag and reflect on life with some user-submitted 4B haikus.

BREW THE SHIT OUT OF IT.

Beers from this week’s episode:
Almanac Beer Company – Golden Gate Gose
Saint Archer Brewing Company – Blackberry Gose
Freigeist Bierkultur Collaboration with Stillwater Artisanal Ales – Atlantis Gose
Anderson Valley Brewing Company – Briney Melon Gose
Uinta Brewing Company – Ready Set Gose
Boulevard Brewing Co. – Hibiscus Gose
To ØL – Gose To Hollywood
Bayerischer Bahnhof Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei – Leipziger Gose
Freigeist Bierkultur – Geisterzug Gose Rhubarb