Aug 5, 2018
Podcast: A preview of 2018 Great Taste of the Midwest Beer Festival with guest Corey Kuczynski
It's August, it's hot, and time for
prime beer festival season. On this podcast the boys review the
history, do a retrospective and make predictions for this year's
Great Taste of the Midwest.
We've invited one of our brew buds and GTMW veteran, Corey
Kuczynski, to break it all down as we prepare for this year's
extravaganza of trending, traditional and tasty craft beer
available for consumption (for those that have a ticket) on
Saturday, August 11 in Madison, WI. As with every show, we also do
some beer tastings....this time from breweries that are regular
fixtures at Great Taste. A festival that hosts more than 190
breweries and 1400 beers (not to mention meads, ciders and over 100
cask ales) should provide plenty of choices. Of those we sipped our
sponsors double IPA called Always
the Hard Way from Pig Minds, and also sampled Founders
Backwoods Bastard, New
Glarus Coffee Stout and a revisit with Urban Chestnut
Stammtisch Pilsner (one of the finest pilsner's on the
planet). Speaking of Great Taste beers...Kent and Brent lead a new
segment called BEER TAG, where they offer a fun beer name from last
year's Great Taste and Mike and Corey have to guess between two
breweries to choose the one that brewed it. They didn't do so good,
but who really cares...the segment was educating and super fun!
Finally, we shared clips of an
underground band called Brain Kingdom
with clips from their 2005 Nashville studio project called Tacos &
Swimming Pools. The album was recorded in just 3 days in a small
Sony satellite just of music row, featuring original songs written
by Don Peterson with Brent Shelton on bass/guitars and Mike
Tarrolly on drums, plus a host of fine local musicians who hung out
and joined in when called upon. Share this podcast with your
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Plus...tune in next episode as we preview Screw City Brew Fest
2018! #drinkitup 
