The Beervengers(the podcast)

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. 

Episode 42: Getting Lei'd With The Globehopper

This week, the Captain and Beer Wonder welcome returning guest Beervenger,  The Globehopper, with pours from Maui Brewing Company, Other Half, and Three Floyds. The Globehopper introduces the podcast to its first ever beer from a non contiguous U.S. state and we keep you updated on the state of local bars, breweries, and other beer having places. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 41: Hazed and Confused

Captain and the Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger to be, Molly Lamb, host of Brewvana's Beers Less Traveled podcast, for a three pour show featuring Listermann Brewing Company, Bell's Brewery, and J. Wakefield Brewing. Come for the pours, stay for Molly's origin story, linger for the naming ritual, and then stick around for our week in beer, as we check in on some of our local favorites and actually get together for an indoor Beervengers American Independence Day beer tasting at one of our undisclosed locations. This episode (as well as two of our pours) sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars. 

Episode 40: You Say It's Your Birthday?

Beer Wonder and the Captain get together for another day drinking session with pours from Duclaw and Evil Twin. Then we get all sentimental recounting the fantastic birthday celebrations at The Pony Bar (12 years) and Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars (7 years). Come hang out!

Episode 39: Day Drinking With Captain and Beer Wonder

This week, Beer Wonder and the Captain kick back for a little early afternoon adult beverage, known more commonly as day drinking, with pours from Timber Ales, Phase Three, and Threes. We also give a shout out to Pride Month and revisit some of our favorite places that we can now visit again. Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 38: Left Side of the m00nd0gg

This week, Huck, Beer Wonder, and the Captain welcome cohost of the podcast Ironweeds, musician, committed home brewer, and Beervenger to be Chris Scully. Featuring Chris' origin story, Huckups, and six pours from Rare Form, Treehouse, Evil Twin, American Solera, Half Acre, Tilted Barn, and North Coast. Sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 37: Riffs on Reentering the Beervengersphere

This week, Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder enjoy six pours from Finback, Alewife, Redemption Rock, Hoppin' Frog, and Fox Farm, all while taking a look at what the evolving post pandemic landscape is for their favorite bars, restaurants, breweries, and more. Come for the pours, stay for the Huckups, and then maybe another pour or two. Hang out with us and have a beer or three. Sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 36: Librarian at the Gate

Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome special guest, librarian, soon to be father, and Beervenger to be, Charles Moran. This eight pour show includes selections from Mountains Walking* Big Oyster, Coney Island, Hopewell*, 5440, Adroit Theory, Cushwa, Dogfish Head, and Stillwater*. Learn Charles' origin story, stay for the naming ceremony, and along the way learn about Broadway musicals, French cinema, and Queens blackouts from the early oughts. Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

*-denotes sponsored pours from Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 35: A Doctor, a Priest, and a Captain Walk Into a Bar{s) and/or Brewery(ies)

On this Episode, the Captain stays a little longer in the Buckeye State, inviting Dr. Biernerd/ Incredulous Bulk back for a sequel of sorts, while checking in with Huck and Beer Wonder on the NYC beer scene. This week features seven pours from Fifth Hammer, Evil Twin, Samuel Smith, Lock 27, Talea, Devil's Purse, and Warped Wing. This episode features all the usual fun plus a recounting of an afternoon spent crawling through Dayton's historic Oregon District. Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 34: Thirstplace of Ale Libation

Huck and Beer Wonder follow the Captain to Dayton, Ohio, where he meets up with guest Beervenger Incredulous Bulk/ Dr. Bruce Biernerd for a seven pour show including Torch and Crown, Hoppin' Frog, Branch and Bone, Andechs, Brink, Threes, and Wolf's Ridge. Before diving into the Ohio beer scene, this episode takes a hard look at a new movement shining a light on sexism in the craft beer industry. Special thanks to feedspot.com for putting us on their Top 35 Craft BeerPodcasts list, Check it out here. https://blog.feedspot.com/craft_beer_podcasts/ This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.