"In this edition, Phil heads out to Short Fuse Brewing for their soft-opening and manages to corner head brewer Mark Duchow. Who are Short Fuse, what are they brewing, and what is in the future? And we all love their English slant with several brews using

"Phil and Mark are back from their summer travels and both have collected several samples of brewing excellence from across the country. We will be sampling these over the next couple of shows and passing on our opinions as to if these breweries are worth

"In this show, recorded live at the Church Street Brewing tap room, Phil and Mark select 4 brews from Illinois to celebrate Chicago Craft Beer Week which runs from May 18th through May 25th. Joining them once again are Church Street head brewer, T.J. Bach

"In this episode, we return to Church Street Brewing in Itasca, nearly 4 years after we first talked to them (Pubcast 107, July 6, 2013), and find out what has changed and taste some of their new brews. Joining Mark and Phil today are head brewer, T.J. Ba

"This week we take another international focus with a quartet of beers from Belgium, and some classic breweries with tough-to-pronounce names, and classic styles we should all be aware of. If you have not tried these, we recommend seeking them out. As a

"This edition is a report from the UK that Phil recorded on his recent trip to his homeland. Being a 'southerner', he visited a couple of breweries located in the counties of West and East Sussex, on the off-chance that the brewer may be able to chat. Ar

"While both the Landlord and Brewmaster are away for a few days, we wanted to play again our interview with Flesk Brewing's Will O'Brien, recorded back in June of 2013. As the O'Brien brothers get ready to open up a full brewery / taproom in Barrington I

"A friend of the show went to Iowa and brought back a couple of fuit-based brews which prompted us to track down a couple more and give us the theme for this edition. Recorded down at Hopvine Brewing in Aurora, with Mark and Phil are Chuck Fort from Chur

"With March Madness behind us we thought it might be fun to match up a couple of breweries from two states beginning with the letter 'I' - Illinois and Idaho. So with a complete arbitrary approach to balance and fairness we select Solemn Oath brewing to

"Empirical Brewery is located in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago and produces scientifically named beers. We had an opportunity to head over to the brewery and sit down with owner Bill Hurley, and brewers Jacob Huston and Julia Davis, get a couple