Tap The Craft - Craft Beer Education

Episode 68 keeps you informed on the new Untappd 3.0 update and provides you with a good dose of our buddy Kris McKenzie too. We love it when Kris joins the show because he provides our east coast listeners some great beer insights from the region…and is just a great guy to hang out with.

Stoke the fire because Episode 67 hits you with a bit of smoked beer talk.  Learn about the classic smoked beer style guidelines followed by a tasting of the Alaskan Smoked Porter. There is a new Kickstarter campaign called the Growler Chill and we discuss the details of the product. Have you seen the bottle

Bust out the leather pants, tease up the big hair and amp yourself up for Episode 66 where we stage dive into the mosh pit to discuss some of the music branded beers available in the market. Find out if they are just gimmicks or actually good beers. Are growlers going away? John and Denny

We were up all night with Episode 65 drinking and talking about coffee beers. We summarize a couple great articles from Craftbeer.com discussing single origin coffee beers and barrel-aged coffee bean beers as well as some home brewing experience with coffee beer brewing.  We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes segment in

Episode 64 starts off 2017 with some craft beer predictions for the year.  We welcome Kris McKenzie back as a guest host as John is enjoying some vacation time.  Kris and Denny discuss two articles with different takes on the craft beer scene for the year as well as insert our own predictions of the

Episode 63 finishes off 2016 with our Top 10 Beers of the year.  We also get Top 5 lists from a few of our listeners around the country listing a bunch of great beers urging us to do a road trip. We briefly discuss an article about five cliches people need to stop using as

Put your parka on for Episode 62 with a winter warmer warning…we talk a lot about winter seasonal beers starting off with the BJCP style guidelines, followed by our tasting notes segment with Full Sail Brewing Wassail and reviewing an article from craftbeer.com with a number of beers to cozy up to this winter.  Denny

Happy Thanksgiving and we give you Episode 61 with an explanation and history of cask ales. We also discuss several beer industry news articles and a guide to pairing your Thanksgiving meal with beers.   We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes segment in the next episode by picking up a bottle of

In Episode 60 we dive into the Trappist Dark Strong Ale with style guidelines as well as a tasting note segment with one of the commercial examples.  We also talk about an Advent Beer Calendar box you can purchase in our Check it Out segment.   We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes

There’s a new hop in town, and in Episode 59 we talk about the Idaho 7 hop, as well as the antiquated taxation of craft beer. Find out how much tax small breweries have to fork over in order to provide you with your awesome craft beer.  We also discuss a number of news articles

In Episode 58 we bring you a ton of content from Ohio brewery tours, to Boise Hoptober  Freshtivals, to Seattle Great Pumpkin Beer Festivals to Colorado Great American Beer Festivals…a lot of beer talk for sure!  John talks about visiting a few Columbus, OH area breweries and Denny talks more fresh hop beer goodness.  Find

It’s fresh hop beer season, so in Episode 57 we discuss what fresh hop is all about and provide some examples to try.  Denny tells about his adventures in Bend, OR visiting Boneyard Beer and tasting some great beer in Eugene, OR with Hop Valley and Ninkasi Brewing.  Find out how you can be entered

We celebrate the American Stout in Episode 56 by discussing the American Stout style guidelines and doing our tasting notes with the Deschutes Obsidian Stout.  We also discuss Denny’s experience using the Fizzics Home Draft System and answer a listener question concerning getting started in homebrewing.  We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting

It’s Episode 55 and we cover a variety of topics, you could say a bit of everything.  Our listeners have been very active and provided a ton of feedback, as well as articles and questions.  Find out if a beer changes its ingredients is it still ok to call it by the same name.  As

In Episode 54 we virtually travel to Koln, Germany to tackle the Kolsch style and discuss the style guidelines.  Learn about this “controlled substance” as we explore the history as well.  We finish off the style showcase with a tasting and we encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes segment in this episode

It’s Episode 53, our first show of our third year and we bring you a few news articles covering a wide gamut of topics such as some questions brewer’s wish you would ask, four must try saisons this summer, more craft beer takeovers and a new beer historian job opening at the Smithsonian.  We encourage

It’s Episode 52 and we discuss the beers in the New Belgium 25th Anniversary Fat Tire & Friends CollaBEERation sample pack. We also answer a listener question concerning “whale” beers.  We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes segment in this episode by picking up a bottle or can of the Arrogant Brewing

In Episode 51 we discuss an article from Craftbeer.com website concerning single hop variety beers. We also answer a listener question concerning beer rules we would follow and discuss an article suggesting people who like IPA beers are psycho.  We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes segment in the next episode by

We dive into the history books in Episode 50 as we discuss the Gose style notes. This beer style has been resurrected from the grave and has been very popular of late.  We also answer some listener questions concerning oxidation, specific gravity and nut brown ales.  We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting

In Episode 49 we explain the Reinheitsgebot and provide some background to this interesting beer purity law.  We also discuss our American Craft Beer Week activities and some of the great beers we have tried.  We encourage you to participate in our listener tasting notes segment in our next episode by picking up a bottle