The Beervengers(the podcast)

Episode 27: What's Belgian, Blonde, and Green All Over?

Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome back Belgian Blonde with pours from Oyster Bay, Alementary, Fair State,  Surly, Evil Twin, and Westbrook. This week we take an extended look at how breweries everywhere are creating both unified and unique ways to contribute to the environment and their communities through conservation and sustainability. And a trip to the Captain's Cellar leads to a lengthy discussion of the acronym OFYMD. Let's just say it's a good idea we decided from the jump to categorize this podcast as explicit. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 26: Motherpucker 2: A Symphony of Sour

This week, Huck, Captain, and Beer Wonder welcome the return of guest Beervenger Motherpucker for six new pours from seven breweries, including Bell's, Catskill, Counterweight, KCBC, Evil Twin Omnipollo, and River North. This week, included with the usual hijinks and chicanery, is a thoughtful discussion of how music soothes the savage beer drinker. I mean, we're usually not especially savage, but just listen and you'll get the idea. For Motherpucker's Beervengers Spotify playlist go to https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5oWOqUsPZrAmzlWRbSRLKC?si=l9OzQjZ4S9aPQEM5X5SECQ and for Tom Waits on Fernwood 2Night go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlmBZsVPK8. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese 

Episode 25: Brew Wonder

This week, Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder enjoy six pours from five brewers including Interboro, Finback, Collective Arts, Wild Leap, and an exciting new brewer you'll have to listen to the show to find out about. Featuring a trip to the Captain's Cellar, Huck Ups, and a digression or three. You'll even learn that, while we hope our show brings you pleasure, you shouldn't feel guilty about it. Come hang out! Sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars. 

Episode 24: For Whom the Cowbell Tolls

Captain, Huck and the Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger to be, Eric Chercover, who brings the unique flavor of French, Canadian, naturalized American, and current Michigander to the podcast. That's a lot of descriptors but there's so much more. Seven unique pours are featured on this show from Shorts Brewing Company, Dark Horse, Folksbier, Big Alice, Suarez Family, and Japas Cervejaria. All brewed in in Michigan and New York, with a little Japanese Brazilian flavor thrown in for good measure. This just might be the most multicultural show featuring four white guys ever produced! Listen all the way through to learn Eric's Beervenger name and his unique take on our theme song. Come hang out. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars. 

Episode 23: Belgian Babe 2: Beer in the City, or Acquiring Taste(and Fans)

Join the Captain, Huck, Beer Wonder, and guest Beervenger Belgian Babe for a packed episode that salutes our fans. This outing features seven pours yet only four beers from Lost Forty, Grimm, Victory, and The Bruery. Big thanks to Acquired Tastings podcast for inspiring this episode. This is a fun one. Sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 22: Wheat Lightning Strikes Twice

This week, the Captain, Huck and Beer Wonder welcome back Wheat Lightning on a six pour show featuring beers from Rogue, Tripping Animals, Bridge and Tunnel, Blackberry Farms, Schilling, and White Elm. Learn what Wheat Lightning's been up to, including her new children's webseries Maestro's Magical Music Box. And if all that's not enough for you, stick around for a late surprise cameo appearance from Cider Girl. Sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 21: Brew Guy in Town or, Get Your Phil

The Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger to be who now is, Brew Guy Phil. Learn all about West Coast beers and how to avoid rookie mistakes while home brewing. And other stuff too. Phil's story has many layers. Featuring pours from Monkish, Transmitter*, Trillium, Wild East*, Kingston Standard, and Revision. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

*-denotes sponsored pour provided by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars

Episode 20: Introducing The Globehopper

This week, the Captain, Huck, and the Beer Wonder welcome guest BTB(that's Beervenger to be) Jonathan Mayer. Enjoy this epic origin story as Jonathan takes us around the world while we enjoy pours from Transmitter, Evil Twin, Ebbs, Rockaway Brewing Company, Suarez Family Brewery, and 903 Brewers.  Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 19: Meet Mr. White; A Story O' Beer and Cheese

This week, the Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome Guest Beervenger to be, Rick White, owner of Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars. Featuring pours form Fair State, Schell's, Barrier, The Alchemist, Bronx Brewery, Interboro, Carton, Bronx Brewery, and River North. Learn all about Rick's trials, tribulations, and triumphs. And also why he doesn't have to like sours. This show is packed full with...show? Endings aren't always my strong suit. Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 18: Barley Winos

This week, the Captain, Huck, and the Beer Wonder explore the world of barleywines as we let barleywines explore us, featuring pours from Goose Island, Moody Tongue, Fifty West, KCBC, and Central Waters. We take a trip to the Captain's Cellar, ponder our pours, give a thumbnail sketch of the history of barleywine, and, at some point, discuss the increasing popularity of the "unreliable narrator" genre in television and films. There's some other stuff, too, but our memory is a little hazy thanks to the barleywines. Listen and help us rediscover our paths. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 17: Nearer My Beer to Thee

This week, Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome back Cider Girl for a show about things both physically and organically close to beer including cider, mead, spiked seltzer, and gluten free beer. In other words, it's our near beer episode, featuring pours from Doc's Hard Cider, St. Ambrose, Evil Twin, Ghostfish, Interboro, Tripping Animals, Mumford, Bierwax, The Sampler, and Prairie. Ok, five of those are for one pour, but we still had a good time. Cider Girl shares her recent obsession with beer bread(email us for the recipes), we take a trip to the Captain's Cellar, we bask in the relief and joy of Inauguration Day, and though we veer off on some tangents, it always comes back to beer. Come hang out! This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars. 

Episode 16: The Luck of the Irish Red

This week, the Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome a new guest Beervenger, Irish Red, featuring pours from Shoveltown, Crooked Stave, Keg and Lantern, Freethought, Schilling, and Standard Brewing(Seattle). Learn all about Irish Red's origin story, the state of  beer in the state of Massachussetts, how we're all looking forward to life after January 20, and much, much more. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese.

Episode 15: The Strange Case of Dr. Biernerd and Mr. Bulk or, That's Incredulous!(Bulk)

This week, the Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome, direct from our regional office in southern Ohio, Dr. Bruce Biernerd aka The Incredulous Bulk, featuring, in a seven pour show, selections from Night Shift, Evil Twin, Hopworks, Branch and Bone, Listermann, and Fifth Street Brewpub. Learn all about beer crawling in before times, now times, and cast an eye to the after times. Of course, no new guest Beervenger appearance would be complete without a new origin story. There's lots more fun in store, but at this point, just stop reading and listen. You're in for a good time. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 14: Happy New Beer?

The Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder take a little more time than usual so they can reflect on 2020 and their years in beer including, what's destined to become a tradition, the First Annual Hucklebeery Awards. Featuring pours from Singlecut, Fifth Hammer, Trillium, Perennial, and Grimm. Auld acquaintance may be forgot, but our year in beer is remembered in detail. Albeit in somewhat boozy detail. Come for the pours and stay for the memories. This week's episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 13: Frankly Drinking

This week, the Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome another guest Beervenger, Craft Beer Frank aka The Inspector to the podcast with pours from Great South Bay, Stone, Five Boroughs, Finback, Suarez, and Hardywood. Frank shares his origin story, we talk the ins and outs of interstate delivery, and, you know, other fun stuff too. Come hang out, Sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 12: Motherpucker Please!

This week, the Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome Motherpucker and dive headfirst into the fruity and acidic world that is the sour beer. Featuring pours from Singlecut, Grimm, DuClaw, Collective Arts, and the Suarez Family Brewery. Come for the sours and stay to hear about Huck's special Christmas present. This week we also celebrate that the much awaited Curtain Up beer is a thing that now exists in the world, we wish Singlecut a happy 8th birthday, and we remind ourselves to support our local small businesses. Come hang out. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 11: Belgian Blonde Ambition

The Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome another guest Beervenger, Belgian Blonde, to an all new episode of the beercast. Featuring pours from LIC Beer Project, Stillwater, Trillium, Schilling, Circa, Lexington Brewing, and Hill Farmstead. Learn all about how Belgian Blondes have more fun, bird friendly coffee, and much more. Special mention to the NYC Brewers Guild and Curtain Up Beer, now available from Gun Hill Brewing. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars at 35-11 Ditmars Blvd in Astoria Queens. 

Episode 10: Wheat Lightning Strikes!

This week, the Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger Wheat Lightning. Featuring pours from Bell's, Founders, Southern Tier, Goodwater, and Hardywood. Learn all about the origin story of Wheat Lightning and expand your knowledge of winter seasonal beers. The Captain enjoys his beer so much this week that he can't tell a scotch ale from a porter and has to be taught that the Southern Tier is not Long Island.  All this and more on another six pour episode. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 9: Meet Your Friendly Neighbourhood Tripel Man

The Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger Your Friendly Neighbourhood Tripel Man featuring pours from Threes, Five Boroughs, Grimm, Victory, Brewery Vivant, and Great Lakes. Learn the origin of YFNTM and what being a Beervenger in the City of Brotherly Love is all about. Featuring our weeks in beer, more musings on late November holidays, and much much more. This episode sponsored by Astoria Bier and Cheese Ditmars.

Episode 8: How Much Nut Could a Nutpool Nut...

The Captain, Huck, and Beer Wonder welcome guest Beervenger Nutpool to an all new episode of The Beervengers(the podcast). Featuring pours from Trillium, Stone Corral, Evil Twin, and Big Alice. Learn all about how Nutpool became Nutpool, an exciting collaboration between Gun Hill Brewing and the Happy Hour Guys to benefit the performing arts community, and much much more. Enough to fill an hour anyway.