Brews, Booze, & Reviews

Besides being serenaded in the background by musicians, and the wind being inconveniently noisy, the BBR crew had quite the blast hanging out at the socially distant event of the summer for the F/M region! Not only did we see lots of animals (and even take selfies with a camel), but we BECAME animals hunting down some tasty brews here at the Red River Zoo. We got to chat with representatives about the following beers: Lupulin Brweing and their CPB and Fashion Mullet, Dogfish Head and their Slightly Mighty IPA, Seaquench Ale, and 60 minute IPA (we also got news about new flavors from Angry Orchard coming out in 2021, and Sam Adams and DFH are making an N/A brew), Summit's Triumphant Session IPA, Slugfest IPA, and their Oktoberfest, and finally with Empyrean sampling their Dark Side vanilla porter, Long Route peanut butter porter, Pitched Blue Black and Blueberry Ale, and their Aries Marzen. Wild times were had, and we can't wait for you all to hear it! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for fu

Do YOU think you know the difference between Crown Royal, Jameson, Jim Beam, Black Velvet, Jack Daniels, and Wild Turkey? Well hop on the struggle bus with us as we welcome special guests Don and Torry back to the podcast to see if anyone can guess correctly on which whiskey is which. There are surprises galore on this show as a couple of our  misconceptions shine through, and opinions warp by the end of this adventure! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about us, or to listen to our back catalogue of episodes, head over to https://brewsboozeandreviews.com/ On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, ma

Welcome once again to another fridge clearing episode of BBR! This is our fourth Nox's Notables, which Nox uses to showcase some of the more review-worthy beers recently released, most of which are from the FM area. In this show, we sample and review a collab set of brews that can cuvee with each other called Mutually Inclusive. Pryes Brewing did one, and Drekker Brewing did the other, and it was quite the experience! We also check out Lindeman's Cuvee Rene Oude Kriek Lambic Ale, Flying Ember's Stick Figure hard kombucha, Two Chicks Citrus Margarita Sparkling Tequila and Citrus Cocktail, Apostelbrau's Roggen Bier, the Cloverfield American Wheat Ale with Honey and the Down for Mimos Blonde Ale with Orange from DrumConRath Brewing, and three additional brews from Drekker: their Long Haired Freaky People DIPA, Strawberry Cheesecake Secret Handshake Milkshake IPA, and Bumbleberry Pie Slang Du Jour Sour A La Mode. Believe it or not, one of these beers gets our highest ever rating, a damn near perfect 6! Tune in to

In this quick-shot episode of BBR we pick up Stone Brewing's Tiki Escape Mix Pack because it sounded like a tasty summer dive into some great beers! In this mix pack, we sample their Buenaveza Salt & Lime Lager, the Scorpion Bowl IPA, the Tangerine Express Hazy IPA, and the Tiki Escape IPA.  (image courtesy of https://linkin.bio/stonebrewing) We also like to shop local as much as possible, and you could purchase mix packs like this at our sponsor's establishment in Moorhead, MN. Check them out at http://www.bridgeviewliquors.com/ for all your adult beverage needs! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support the podcast, you can do so by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about us,

What's a better wine to enjoy in the hot summer months than a nicely chilled glass of white? And while Chardonnay is arguably the most popular of the white wines, today we delve into the sweet and/or dry world of Rieslings! We here at BBR most definitely were looking for an amusing adventure, so we collected our thoughts, set our eyes towards a gathering of grapes, and with a hearty twist of the bottle cap, we sample and review Boundary Break's 'OLN Ovid Line North' Medium Dry Riesling, Elk Cove's 2017 Willamette Valley Estate Riesling, the 2018 KungFu Girl from Charles Smith Wines, RELAX's RIesling, Nik Weis's St Urbans Hof Estate Riesling Old Vines,  and two from Chateau Ste Michelle: their 2018 Columbia Valley Dry riesling, and their 2017 Harvest Select Sweet Riesling. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to s

We here at BBR absolutely love craft beer, and with that comes the love of the craft beer scene! Since we are based primarily out of the Fargo-Moorhead area in ND & MN, we have a blast supporting our friends and breweries as much as we can, so in this show we get back to our roots, and enjoy eight brews made right here in the metro region! During this episode we sample and review Swing Barrel's three flavors of their Short Shorts Hard Seltzer, then hit up Drekker with their collab with Brewing Projekt called Flow Futuristic, followed by DrumConRath's Bog Road Special Gose Strawberry Lemonade Sour Ale and Ligh-Pa New England Style session IPA. We end the podcast with two from Junkyard: Mama's Trip to Hawaii Tropical Punch Style Sour Ale and Tangerine from their famous Super Slurp Fruited Sour with Lactose and Vanilla line. Such tasty beers! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please r

We here at BBR like to think of ourselves as having international tastes with otherworldly palettes. No? Perhaps this episode on Japanese sakes will change your mind! As is our tradition when we do our first show on a certain category of alcohol, we like to do an educational portion that covers some FAQ's, history, and what the true definition of that liquid is. Sometimes Nox can run a little long on this part, but he keeps it a little more brief in his quest for knowledge of this fermented brew. In this episode we taste and discuss Miyashita Sake Brewery's "Sunshine Country", Tentaka's Hawk On The Heavens, Kitsukura Brewery's Honjozo Taru Sake, Bushido's sake in a can, and Umenoyado Brewery's Ty Ku Junmai Ginjo. Crank up The Vapors and let's get this Nomikai started! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to support the

Well neighbors, we had to tick this one off our list, so today we bring you RUMS. The most confusing and unregulated of the major distilled spirits, it was a wonder doing research to find the answers to some of the most common questions we could come up with. How does this booze differ from others, how is it made, and what are all the different kinds and regions? These and other topics are debated in the sugarcane-filled world of rums. In this episode we sample and review Rhum J.M., El Dorado 12 Year, Appleton Estate 8 year and 12 year, Kirk & Sweeny 23 year, and Plantation XO. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to, you can support the podcast by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about u

The Dungeon erupts into quite a few heated discussions about the topic of today's show. Big Ern and Nox are coffee drinkers, so BBR did an episode dedicated to this specific adjunct of beer. But wait, there are 4* different styles involved with the 6 beers we sample and discuss today. Those brews are Beaver Island's Muggsy's Coffee Lager, Deschutes Luna Jo Cold Brew Coffee Lager, Burning Brothers Roasted Coffee Ale, Oskar Blues Death By Affogato Porter, Founders 2020 KBS, and Pabst Blue Ribbon Hard Coffee. Will our returning guest and host of Ben's Jazz Attic, Ben Revier, be the peaceful moderator in this chuckled-filled episode? Tune in to find out! Special thank you to our sponsors, who can be found at https://www.bridgeviewliquors.com/ and https://fargounderground.com/  If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to,

The BBR crew took a much needed weekend off, but not to worry, we do have an episode tucked away just for such an emergency! Recorded June 14th, we go over an astounding 9 brews total. With our guest Blake back on, there's sure to be an argument or three about how the following beers taste: From Icewind we have the Mapleton Margarita Lime Gose, the Sundog Lager, and the Wynona Porter. From 903 brewing in Texas we have sample their Kilt Switch Scotch Wee Heavy and their Sherman Bock German Bock. We also sample and review a collab between Blackstack Brewing and Falling Knife Brewing called Chop Chop. Then Dorothy's new World Lager from Toppling Goliath, followed by Schell's Shift Happens DDH Lager, and Thesis Beer Project's Thesis Pieces: After Dark Imperial Peanut Butter Porter. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to,

While we here at BBR didn't debate whether these beer-coctions are called Radlers or Shandies,  we DID debate on which of these brews were the best on this day! While a traditional half-and-half mix of a good lighter-tasting beer and a real lemonade (or lemon-lime soda) sounds like an easy thing to try yourself at home, these fantastic breweries have given great thought and research into their OWN recipes. We sampled and reviewed Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, Jack Pine's Lemon Shandy Cream Ale, Fargo Brewing's Kenny's Lemonade Radler, Revelation Ale Work's Rev RADler, and Half Brother's Half Twisted Radler. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to, you can support the podcast by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks

Welcome to another highly educational edition of BBR! In this episode we invited Grant Wigen, formerly of Kilstone Brewing, to ponder over all things beer, like the argument that there are only really two basic types of beer: Ales and Lagers. What are these two types of beers, and how do they differentiate? We sample and review Leinenkugel's Original, Red Stripe Lager, Coors Banquet, Fargo Brewing Company's The Hoff Kolsch, Junkyard's Grandpa Bill's Pils, Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale, and Guinness's Blonde Ale. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to, you can support the podcast by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages to discuss for you fine folks. For more information about us, head over to BrewsBoozeAndReviews.com  On behalf of everyone at Br

During the holiday weekend, we here at BBR wanted to put this non-monetary bonus episode out there for our listeners who are drinking responsibly and being safe while enjoying some fireworks or are on the lake. Tom from WellBeing Brewing shipped us a care package we purchased from their website consisting of four NA beers, and two sparkling craft waters. We sample and review their Victory Wheat sports brew, Heavenly Body Golden Wheat, Hellraiser Dark Amber, Intentional IPA, followed by their CBD sparkling cousins the YuzuBloom and MelonGrass sparkling waters. Today's show is the first time a couple of us have tried CBD waters, and they didn't disappoint! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to, you can support the podcast by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase

For our second year in a row we tackle scotches on Father's Day like the champs we are! In this particular episode we get high and mighty with five different single malt scotches from four different regions (Northern, Western, Central, Eastern) of the Highland variety. We sample Deanston 12 year, Tomatin Limited Edition 15 year in Moscatel casks, Oban 14 year, the Game of Thrones House Baratheon inspired Royal Lochnagar 12 year. and the Glenmorangie Alta Private Edition No. 10. Our returning special guest Chris Larson helps our own Chris Kjelshus as he takes over and teaches the rest of us even MORE interesting facts about this fantastic type of Scotch. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at info@brewsboozeandreviews.com. If you like this show, please rate and review us on your favorite platform. If you would like to, you can support the podcast by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase

The late great Dr. Suess once said, "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose" in a book called 'Oh, the places you'll go'. Our friend and colleague Jayde is moving (although only an hour away), and so we wanted to make sure that we got her to do her very own episode beforehand. She chose to do a WIYM show, with the goal of everyone bringing something they are thoroughly enjoying at the time, or were VERY curious about tasting. We also invited one of our favorite beer tasters Blake back to have some fun, This podcast opens up with Big Ern's rum-blended fruit slushy drink, then we dig into sampling Golden Road's Champango, B.Nektar's Zombie Killer Cider, Drastic Measure's Hittin Licks Smoothie Sour, Disgruntled Brewing's Dessert First Sour Ale,  Stacked Deck Brewing's Jazz Cabbage NEIPA, and ending with Blackstack Brewing's Little Spoon Cereal Milk Stout. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please fee

We once again have the pleasure of being invited to another brewery, and this one is BRAND NEW! Opening for offsale for the first time about a week before we invade their space, John and Sean open their doors to us so we can sit down, find out a bit more about who they are, and sample and discuss some of the beers they have on tap! We chat about the Honey Blonde Bombshell Blonde Ale, the Session One Amber Ale, the Squeeze Play Wheat IPA, the Indies 4 Brown Ale, and their Sugarfoot Jr. Vanilla Oatmeal Stout. Come have some laughs as we make fun of ourselves, and happily lap up these brews! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at brewsboozeandreviews@hotmail.com. If you like this episode and want to support us, please rate and review this episode. You can also help us by clicking the donate button at the bottom of this episode description. It allows us to purchase more beverages for us to discuss for you fine folks.  On behalf of everyone at

How do you say Torulaspora Delbrueckii? We have NO IDEA, but it's a yeast that gives unique flavors to Hefeweissens, which is what we are sampling today! Ya know, in the springtime, you want a refreshing, lighter beer to go with the budding of flowers and grass growing, don't ya? What better example of that than the old stanby-by Hefes? In this super-sized episode we invite an old regular guest of ours, Don, back to the Dungeon for our first episode back since the pandemic took over our lives. We have a good time drinking Icewind's Weissen Shine, Weihenstephaner's Hefe Weissbier, Paulaner's Hefe-Weizen, Utepils' Ewald the Golden, Great Lakes Brewing's Lemon Hefeweizen, and Fargo Brewing Company's Life's a Peach. Join us in raising our glasses to a good time! If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, please feel free to e-mail us at brewsboozeandreviews@hotmail.com. If you like this episode and want to support us, please rate and review this episode. You can also help us by donat

Welcome once again to another Zoom episode of Brews, Booze, & Reviews! Being stuck in one place to often these days has us craving some vacation time, and with vacation time, comes vacation beers! We put together a short list of some of the more widely accessible import beers and pretended we were in a fascinating new place (not really, we stared at screens the whole time). This episode contains a beer from Belgium (Leffe Blonde Abbey Ale), a beer from Germany (Hofbrau's Maibock), one from Mexico (Modelo Negra), and on from the UK (Robinson's Trooper).  Come escape with us as we discuss aromas, tasting notes, and have some laughs doing it! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail us at brewsboozeandreviews@hotmail.com. If you like this episode and want to hear more, please rate and review our podcast. We appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners in helping us make better content for future episodes.  On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your

You ever go into the liquor store and see those little cans of mixed drinks and thought to yourself, "Are these even any good?"  Well do we have a surprise for you today! We picked up four different flavors at our favorite liquor store, and we're here to tell you what WE think. In this episode we sample the Mojito and Moscow Mule from Plain Spoke Cocktails, and the Chai White Russian and Bourbon Old Fashioned from Dashfire Bitters. How do the takes on each of these cocktails hold up under scrutiny of not only tasting like the drink they represent, but are they better than one poured by your average bartender? Stay tuned to find out! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail us at brewsboozeandreviews@hotmail.com. If you like this episode and want to hear more, please rate and review our podcast. We appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners in helping us make better content for future episodes.  On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses b

Welcome back to another Zoom episode of Brews, Booze, & Reviews!  On this episode we discuss and rate Sociable Cider Werks's Hop A Wheelie, Loon Juice's Extra Juicy, Milk & Honey Cider's Heirloom, and Seattle Cider's Tangerine Turmeric. Then Big Ern and Chef Kev bust out Wild Terra's Stargazer banana blueberry cider. We chat about our expectations, and our final thoughts on ciders in general so far. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail us at brewsboozeandreviews@hotmail.com. If you like this episode and want to hear more, please rate and review our podcast. We appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners in helping us make better content for future episodes.  On behalf of everyone at Brews, Booze, & Reviews, may your glasses be full, and your spirits high! Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brews-booze-and-reviews/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brews-booze-and-reviews/su