Brewtal Battle Podcast

Unable to host the yearly Baltimore Beer Festival to showcase Maryland breweries, the Brewers Association Of Maryland came up with a different way to celebrate. Carlin and Rebecca talk about it in this episode and evaluate the beers this new idea spawned.

Friend and former guest of the podcast Rich Smith went to Illinois recently and brought Carlin and Rebecca a bunch of beer goodies. This episode features some of those beers.

Carlin and Rebecca sit down to showcase a brewery with an imaginary backstory, but beers that bring you back to reality. This one was made possible by Rich Smith, who recently visited Illinois and provided the beers for the show.

Farm breweries became a legal option in Maryland in 2014. Two brothers decided three years later to start one in Whiteford, Maryland that has grown to offer a lot of different styles consistently. Carlin and Rebecca recently visited, so here are their thoughts, while tasting some of the beers.

Yet another line-up of beers from Kyle Norman appear in this episode, The first beer gets the episode off to an interesting start, and that momentum continues with four more beers that deliver some surprising flavor profiles.

Carlin and Rebecca have some homebrews to crack open and evaluate in this new episode format. Two of the beers are fresh, while the other two are aged. See how they stack up.

A brewery with a rustic aesthetic and serving traditional styles with a modern twist, this is the showcase for Gaithersburg, Maryland’s Elder Pine Brewing & Blending. Carlin and Rebecca recently visited the brewery, so they have beers to taste and extra information to share.

Carlin and Rebecca recently made a trip down to Rockville, Maryland for some socially distanced craft beer drinking. This well prepared brewery that started the Biermi website has been one the podcast hosts have been wanting to dig into.

This episode of 12 blind beers has an extra element of surprise. Carlin pulled beers that have aged too long in the cellar, but some actually don’t taste so bad.

For this showcase Carlin and Rebecca dig into the origin and beers of one of the newer Vermont breweries causing a buzz in the craft beer industry. Heavily focused on hazy IPAs, but experimenting with so much more, this brewery deserves some attention.

Carlin talks about, and tastes examples of, anniversary beers put out by The Bruery. He also tastes two imperial stouts that sound like they should have great flavor profiles.

As promised, Carlin and Rebecca sat down and recorded a second On The Shelf episode to make up for lost time. This one features a pretty light line-up with three Maryland breweries and one from Pennsylvania.

It’s been quite some time since Carlin and Rebecca grabbed some beers off the shelf of their local liquor store and tore into them for the podcast. This episode is a much-needed return to evaluating four beers available right now, two local and two more widely distributed.

Carlin opens up by talking about The Bruery’s Melange series of beers, which focuses on blending. He then tastes an example of one, along with three other interesting beers. While most please, one really ends up missing the mark.

Taking inspiration from some barrel aged favorites from The Bruery, Carlin and Rebecca reach back into their beer cellar to taste through some very nice and decadent variations of a beer that has garnered a lot of hype in the past.

Union Craft Brewing out of Balitmore, Maryland just celebrated its eighth anniversary, and to celebrate they released a special box of beers and merch. Carlin and Rebecca sit down to try the beers and talk about their overall assessment of the box.

Featuring a brewery from Nashville, Tennessee with a flair for sours, this brewery showcase episode has information on the origins of the company and four beers to pair with it.

More beer mail means beers from Kyle Norman. This time Rebecca is tasting five beers totally blind, while Carlin is partially blind.

Having been about a year and a half since the last Blend It Yourself episode, the format is finally revisited. This one features more blends, some not so great, and some quite nice.

This time around, in the addition to featuring some fun stouts, Carlin and Rebecca crack open two lighter styles from Offshoot Beer, The Bruery’s hoppy arm of the company.