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Episode 316: It’s Oktoberfest! Prost?

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It’s been a sad year for beer festivals in 2020, and Germany’s Oktoberfest wasn’t immune to the global pandemic that is shaping our social lives. But, that’s not going to stop us from celebrating!

As we mentioned in episode 300, we are forwarding all of our donations from Patreon and PayPal for the month of June to Black Lives Matter causes. Below are a list of links related to Black Lives Matter.

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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/GOgrkBNaF3o

Episode Chapters:
00:00:00: SupportTheShitOutOfIt.com
00:00:11: Four Brewers Theme
00:00:16: Begin Show
00:03:05: Oktoberfest (2020) – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
00:04:32: Samuel Adams OctoberFest – Boston Beer Company
00:06:12: Spaten Oktoberfest Ur-Märzen – Spaten-Franziskaner-Löwenbräu-Gruppe
00:07:40: Oktoberfest – Enegren Brewing Company
00:10:03: Spa-ten Spaten Oktoberfest (cont’d)
00:21:23: Oktoberfest – Left Hand Brewing Company
00:25:20: Weihenstephaner Festbier – Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
00:28:18: AleSchmidt Oktoberfest – AleSmith Brewing Company
00:37:42: Oktoberfest – Smog City Brewing Co.
00:40:22: Fest Bier – Highland Park Brewery
00:49:23: fourbrewers.com

Beers from this week’s episode:
Oktoberfest (2020) – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Samuel Adams OctoberFest – Boston Beer Company
Spaten Oktoberfest Ur-Märzen – Spaten-Franziskaner-Löwenbräu-Gruppe
Oktoberfest – Enegren Brewing Company
Oktoberfest – Left Hand Brewing Company
Weihenstephaner Festbier – Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
AleSchmidt Oktoberfest – AleSmith Brewing Company
Oktoberfest – Smog City Brewing Co.
Fest Bier – Highland Park Brewery

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Theme Song: The Sleeping Sea King

Season 3, Episode 4 – Does the shape and size of a glass really affect a beer’s characteristics? This week, we try to find out for ourselves.

Does glassware make a difference when it comes to truly enjoying a craft beer? Glasses designed for more traditional beer styles have been around for a long time and it’s believed that they enhance certain characteristics of the beers that are consumed from them. Seasoned beer drinkers know that drinking a beer out of a glass is an overall better experience when compared to drinking straight from the bottle, even if it’s a standard “shaker” glass that brewers tend to despise. Well known beer establishments still serve beer in shaker glasses, despite the claims that the physical shape of the glass is doing a disservice to the beer inside of it.

Recently, beer glassware has reached a new level. IPA, stout, and even American wheat beers can now be served in style-specific glassware that supposedly enhances their qualities and nuances in certain ways. This week, we’re putting these glasses to the test.

Disclaimer: all four of us on the show believe glassware affects beer perception. We tend to use the Libbey 3807 Belgian-style beer glass as our daily driver for consuming beer. Generally speaking, it’s a suitable glass for a wide variety of beers.

Tattoo: Jesse Friedman of Almanac Beer Co. – NO SHAKER GLASSES

This week, we’ve got four different glasses that were designed for four different beer styles: a pilsner glass, a hefeweizen glass, a stout glass, and an IPA glass. The manufacturers of each glass claim that they are designed to make the specific style of beer that’s inside the glass shine in different ways. Are the claims true? Is there a science to “proper” glassware?

Perhaps (of course there is…)!

BREW THE SHIT OUT OF IT.

Beers from this week’s episode:
Firestone Walker Brewing Company – Pivo Pils
Spaten-Franziskaner-Löwenbräu-Gruppe – Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrüb
Firestone Walker Brewing Company – Velvet Merlin
Stone Brewing Co. – Stone Unfiltered Enjoy By 02.14.16

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