Podcast: Brews, Booze, & Reviews

Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 126 – Intro to Sherries

Sherry wine. What is it, besides being a cask that some distilled spirits finish their aging in? Besides being something your grandma cooked with when she was feeling adventurous during the holidays? Sherry is a fortified wine (like port) that can be both sweet (like cream or PX) or it can be dry (fino and…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 125 – Icewind Brewing Company Taproom Takeover

The BBR crew partnered up with the fine folks over at Icewind Brewing in Mapleton, ND to bring this episode to you listeners out there! We chat with the three owners Tyler, Rick, and Scott about their beginnings of the brewery, about everybody’s gateway beer(s), including a funny story about taking the wrong clamp off…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 124 – Loco For Locals 2

The BBR crew wanted to showcase some Fargo/Moorhead brews on the show, but we didn’t want to do it alone. We invited John Kennedy, John Narum, and Duster onto the show. The two John’s are comedians, and Duster is a musician, hanging with a drunk podcast crew. Nothing can go wrong, right? Tune in to…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 123 – IPA’s with the ‘Drunk Letters to Famous People’ podcast

What happens when two podcasts with drunk people combine forces? It sure isn’t the Wonder Twins! In this episode Dustin and Gunner from Drunk Letters to Famous People (referred to as DL2FP from now on) join us in the dungeon as we chat about their podcast, come up with more nicknames, and drink beers in…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 122 – Beer Mail from Wisconsin

What some people in the craft beer scene call a ‘Porch Bomb’ hit The Dungeon recently, and we had to share the wealth. A porch bomb is a shipment of brews that gets delivered to your front porch. It’s usually where the delivery person leaves all your packages from amazon and whatnot, ya know? So…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 121 – Vertical tasting with Beer People’s Andrew Karr

So what’s a vertical tasting, you may (or probably may not) ask? Well, let us tell you in this week’s show! We invited Andrew Karr, an admin from the online group ‘Beer People’, onto to the show, and he brought us a vertical of Bent Paddle’s Double Shot Double Black dating back to 2014 all…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 120 – Intro to St. Patrick’s Day

Welcome once again to another yearly venture into everything Irish. In this week’s episode we invite good ol’ Guest #2 Ben Revier back along with nephew Tucker. Nox gives a little lecture on who Patrick actually was and what he did to become a saint, then we dive right into it. In this episode we…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 119 – Intro to Canadian Whiskeys

This episode here is no super soft birthday party, but it might have a Letterkenny quote or two! BBR got together with Dan Virchow, (photographer, wrestling fan, SDSU alumni) to have a proper snack of poutine before settling in for some Canadian Whiskeys. We chat about what makes Canadian Whiskey unique from other whiskey styles,…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 118 – West Coast IPAs vs New England IPAs

This is our version of a West coast versus east coast battle, and we find it quite amusing! We invite Don K. and Blake B back to the show to discuss the differences between the two styles (and even the subtle difference in east coast ipas vs new england ipas), and poke some fun at…

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Brews, Booze, & Reviews | Ep. 117 – Merlots

One of us watched the movie Sideways the other day, and hearing Paul Giamatti vocally express his distaste for Merlot wines, we decided to take that as a challenge and dive head first into some for ourselves! We invited Sean Ballinger from Bear Creek Winery over to get his expert opinion this ‘controversial’ style that…

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