The Beervengers(the podcast)

Episode 62: Pride and Pilsner

This week, Captain, Huck, and the Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger to be Ryan LaFever, beverage manager for The Bier and Cheese Collective and curator of The Beervengers sponsored pours since November of 2020. This five pour episode, featuring pours from Wild East, Fifth Hammer, Oslo, New Glory, and Dust Bowl, focuses on Pride Month. Notably how it's being celebrated at 35-11 Ditmars Blvd., with a side trip to Fresno. Oh yeah, we also hear Ryan's origin story, give him a Beervenger name. and learn of the centuries old rivalry between Kolsch and Altbier. Come hang out. This episode sponsored by the Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 61: Five Beers and Seven Breweries Ago

Captain and Beer Wonder welcome back Hophead Huck for a five beer and seven brewery episode, with pours from Russian River, Abomination, Tox, District 96, Crow & Wolf, Firestone Walker, and Moonlight. Learn all about Huck's new secret West Coast location, our week in beer, and, you know, the usual (and sometimes unusual) hijinks. Sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 60: The Rereturn of Dame Hazy Molly

This week, Captain and Beer Wonder welcome back one of our favorite Beervengers, Hazy Lady/ Dunkel Dame and, from Wanderlinger Brewing Company, Events Coordinator Molly Lamb, for an exciting three pour show. If you're doing the math, that's two full pours as well as two half pours. And if you can't do the math, you may need to go to Molly's Beer School in Chattanooga. We promise, when you listen to the show, this will all make sense. This episode sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective and Wanderlinger Brewing Company.

Episode 59: Getting Funky With Kid OBK

This week, Captain and the Beer Wonder welcome, from Brewvana, City Brew Tours, Unboxed Experiences, and the Brews Less Traveled podcast, guest Beervenger to be, Brian Hatheway. This three pour show features selections from Necromancer, Torch and Crown, Barrier, and Other Half. Brian tells us his journey from his first craft beer to home brewer to the beer professional that he is today. And he even finds time to school us on the exciting Pittsburgh beer scene. If all that, our week in beer, and the sacred naming ritual isn't enough for you. check out the Brews Less Traveled podcast for the entire month of May, where Captain and Beer Wonder will be Brian's guests. This episode sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 58: A Darker Shade of Pale

This week, Captain and Beer Wonder welcome back Globehopper with pours from Decadent, Off Color, Freigeist, and an as present untitled brewery. Topics include Beervenger gatherings, sustainable community practices, upcoming events, and other stuff. Come join us, won't you? Sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective at 35-11 Ditmars in Astoria Queens.

Episode 57: Savour Of The Month

This week, Beer Wonder and the Captain welcome guest Beervenger to be, from Unboxed Experiences, Brewvana, and Logboat Brewing Company, it's newly certified Cicerone Mary Catherine Crook. In her epic origin story, MC details her beer journey from Missouri to Washington D.C. and how she became a Cicerone along the way. This three pour show features selections from Alma Mader, OEC, and Nightmare, and includes stories about New York City Beer Week, International Women's Day, and a detailed discussion about "off" flavors. Come for the pours, stay for the origin story, and stick around for the naming ceremony. This episode sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 56: NYC Beer Week 2022, Stoutapalooza, and Whatnot

Join Captain and Beer wonder for some hearty happy hour pours from Hermit Thrush and Seven Island. Catch up on what's left of NYC Beer Week 2022, the intimate house party we're calling Stoutapalooza, and a few other things. You know. That's what we do. Sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 55: Kumbaya And All That Bullshit

Beer Wonder joins the Captain for some day drinking with pours from Tripping Animals and Hudson Valley. Topics include guarded optimism about the immediate future, Wordle strategy, and trying to avoid being smug about how empathetic and evolved Beervengers are as a people.  Sponsored by the Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 54: Getting Beery With Leary at Sweet Avenue

On this installment, Beer Wonder and the Captain welcome Gerard Leary, proprietor of Sunnyside's Sweet Avenue. This three pour episode features selections from Pen Druid, Mast Landing, and Equilibrium. Get to know Gerard and find out how The Beervengers are adapting to the unpredictability of 2022. Sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective and Sweet Avenue.

Episode 53: Talkin’’Bout a Beervolution

This week. Captain and the Beer Wonder welcome back Hazy Lady aka Dunkel Dame for a three pour show featuring beers from Hoof Hearted Brewing, Naked River, and Area Two(Two Roads). We look at where we've been, where we're going and, oh you know, the usual kind of stuff we always do when we have to break out a new calendar. Along with all the features you've come to expect from every episode. Join us, won't you? This episode sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective.. 

Episode 52: Happy Holidales

This week, Captain and  Beer Wonder get together for an intimate post work holiday happy hour hang with pours from Collective Arts, Vitamin Sea, and Greenpoint. Join us for a freewheeling discussion about beers, bars, breweries, and somewhere along the line we get to something or other about holiday time. We had fun. Won't you join us? This episode sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective at 35-11 Ditmars Boulevard.

Episode 51: California Beer We Come

This week, Captain and Beer Wonder welcome back California Beervenger Brew Guy Phil as they talk all about their California beer journeys as well as Phil's guiding hand through it all on an exciting five pour show featuring beers from Jacked Up, Rockaway, Three Floyds, and Humble Sea. Sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective.

Episode 50: Fifty Is Nifty

On this episode, Captain and Beer Wonder welcome back Huck for a five pour show featuring beers from Anchorage Brewing Company, Folksbier, Big Alice, Burlington Beer Company, and Drowned Lands. Our original Beervengers team looks back, looks forward, and occasionally looks directly in front of themselves. And(spoiler alert) a good time is had by all. Won't you join us? This episode sponsored by The Bier and Cheese Collective(formerly Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars).

Episode 49: Curtain Up!

This week, Captain and Beer Wonder welcome the Happy Hour Guys(Mark Aldrich and Jimmy Ludwig) and Dave Lopez of Gun Hill Brewing to talk about Curtain Up Beer. Curtain Up has 76 breweries and counting participating in this exciting project that serves to help arts workers affected by the COVID 19 crisis. Buy it for the cause. Drink it because it's delicious. And listen to this episode to learn how it all started. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 48: Straight From The Pony‘s Mouth

Captain and Beer Wonder welcome the man behind the beer, the man who created the source from which The Beervengers discovered, nurtured, and developed our unique abilities, Dan McLaughlin of the hallowed Pony Bar. The Pony Bar started twelve years ago but Dan's journey started years before, spanning beginnings in upstate New York, through the challenges of when Hell's Kitchen's name made sense, up through and continuing through a worldwide pandemic. The Pony Bar remains the source of our inspiration. Hear the whole story, or at least the hour long version of it, as we share pours(courtesy of this week's co-sponsor, The Pony Bar) from Drowned Lands, Greenpoint, and Lawson's. Come hang out!

Episode 47: Falling Forward?

This week, Beer Wonder and the Captain hang out while enjoying pours from Proclamation Ales, Big aLICe, KCBC, and The Beer Trekker. We take a look at what the year has brought us so far and peer into the year ahead. Not too far. Just into the fall. If this style takes off, we may have something similar in a few months.

Episode 46: The Return of The Golden Mile

The Captain and Beer Wonder welcome back Dr. Bruce Biernerd (The Incredulous Bulk) for his fourth appearance with pours from Edmund's Oast, Listermann's, Craft Cream Works, Evil Twin, and Hoppin' Frog. This episode is packed full of beery goodness and camaraderie, but the bulk(pun intended) of the episode focuses on the epic return of The Dayton Golden Mile, a 12 hour, 12 stop crawl that Captain and Dr. Biernerd attended and gleefully participated in from beginning to end. Join us for the tale and you'll want to join us in person next year. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 45: Beer and Empathy

This week, Captain and Beer Wonder enjoy pours from Potosi, Sixpoint, and R. Shea, while checking in with some of our old friends, making some new ones, and further exploring the Beervengers' Golden Rule. Don't be a dick while drinking your beer in the Beervengersphere. Or anywhere else for that matter. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 44: Don't Be A (White Boy Summer) Dick

This week. Captain and Beer Wonder enjoy some great new pours from Evil Twin, Greenpoint, and Three Chiefs, all while pondering the always important but ever increasing need to maintain civility, patience, and kindness while Beervengering in an ever evolving pandemic. Always good for a few laughs. Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 43: We Sipped, We Quaffed, We Crushed It

This session of Day Drinking/ Happy Hour with Captain and the Beer Wonder features pours from Interboro, Bottle Logic, and Garvies Point. Come for the updates on new and returning beer destinations, stay for the detailed travelogue of exactly where the Beervengers met in person for some exciting Beerventures (Spoiler: it's pretty much all in Brooklyn). This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.