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The 4B Flight: Funky Buddha Brewery – Floridian Hefeweizen

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The 4B Flight 3.0, Episode 1 – Continuing with the box o’ beers from Phil Lorenzini, we’re drinking two more brews from Funky Buddha Brewery.

Welcome to the Spring edition of The 4B Flight! The 4B Flight is a biannual series in which we do one standard episode of Four Brewers, followed by six mini episodes for an entire week! The 4B Flight is served up in Spring and Autumn. Enjoy!

More Funky Buddha Beers!
More Funky Buddha Beers!

Today, on day one of The 4B Flight, 3.0, two more beers from Funky Buddha! The first beer is a seemingly standard, yet tasty American-style Hefeweizen, and the second beer is a chocolatey-delicious milk stout made with cacao nibs.

Huge thanks to Phil for hooking us up with these beers. Phil is a long time listener of the show, going back to the NBT days, and we’re lucky to have him as a listener.

Catch The 4B Flight 4.0 in October of 2017!

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Beer from today’s episode:
Funky Buddha Brewery – Floridian Hefeweizen
Funky Buddha Brewery – Nib Smuggler

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[S3/E4] Glasswhalez: Style-Specific Beer Glassware

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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.

Style-Specific Beer Glassware
Style-Specific Beer Glassware

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.
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…)!

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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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