Join us as we enjoy beers from Madtown's up-and-coming Brewery and Brew Pub - The Ale Asylum. Hint for the unlearned, Madtown is an alias for Madison, WI. Limited availability in bottles, but always available in growlers and pints from the pub. It's beer that's «fermented in sanity.»

Class and culture abound during this show. Well, class and culture as defined by the BigFoamyHead hosts!

Book readings? Yes! We read an excerpt from Charlie Papazians book «Microbrewed Adventures.»

Movie Information? Of course! We celebrate the opening of Black Snake Moan - «everything is hotter down south.» This movie was filmed in Memphis and set in Stanton, TN which is about 40 miles from the beer studio. You can hear the sounds of the cicada, frogs and crickets throughout the movie that is synonymous with the midsouth in the summer time.

Art? Indeed. We have a discussion on some of the folk art which is featured in the liver stretching exercise preshow video. We also talk about the art of brewing and beer competitions.

More class and culture? Of course! We delve in to Haiku, the ancient Japanese form of poetry. Rub your eyes and wake the kids!

The movie inspired us to dig out some of the older blues tracks... including one of the original versions of Black Snake Moan and a cover of Memphis Minnies «Tricks ain't walking.»

That's not enough you say? Okay, we're starting something new - promoting interesting blogs! This week we recommend Beer Haiku and The Opinionated Beer Page.

Still not enough? We have a great news segment with Rick Lyke.

Beers we sampled this show...

• Ale Asylum Madtown Nutbrown Ale
• Ale Asylum Hopalicious American Pale Ale
• Ale Asylum Ambergeddon Amber Ale

Seek Asylum. Listen here!

We had a huge selection of Stout beers waiting for us to imbibe. Stouts... dark roasty goodness. All were very dark, accoring to the style guidelines, but thats where the similarities ended. There is great diversity in the stout beer style - from the English session stouts to the «over the top» American stouts. Our samplings were in the «over the top» end of the spectrum.

On our preshow «liver stretching exercise video» we sampled a Dogfish Head World Wide Stout, courtesy of BuBBy, Supreme Dictator of the World, cohost of the Brain Gravy podcast and administrator for the TikiBarTV UserPlane site. Thanks BuBBy!

What? There is no video?!!! Opps! Okay, we had one of those infamous technical glitches... the video isn't available. We very much enjoyed the beer though.

Our neighbor Mike joins us. He jumped right in and did a great job - we're truly fortunate to have so many beer enthusiasts within walking distance to the studio!!

We have a great interview with the winner of the The Blues Foundation International Blues Challenge that was held here in Memphis on Beale Street, February 1-3rd. The first prize went to Sean Carney Band from the Columbus Blues Alliance. Sean also took the Albert King Award for best guitarist and was also the Best Dressed!!

We begin a discussion on Moving to Kegging that will be of great interest to homebrewers. It's a very technical topic, so a post was added to the site. Click the text above to read all about it. Video to follow!

Add some beer news from Rick Lyke, some really excellent music and you have a show! A stout beer show to be precise.

Beers we sampled this show...

• Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
• Old Dominion Brewing Co. Dominion Oak Barrel Stout
• BrewBubba's Kentucky Breakfast Stout (22% ABV)
• Lost Coast 8 Ball Stout
• ReaperAle Mortality Stout
• AleSmith Speedway Stout

You know the drill. You wanna listen? Just click here.

Join us as we enjoy some of our favorite beers, those offered by Bells Brewery, Inc. out of Comstock MI. Lots of strange current events to ponder from diaper wearing astronauts to the TRAGIC loss of Anna Nicole. We're joined by Rick Lyke, http://lyke2drink.blogspot.com, for some real beer news. Then we round out the evening with a fantastic interview with the main man himself - Larry Bell.

Beers we sampled this show...

• Bell's Best Brown Ale
• Bell's Two Hearted Ale
• Bell's Porter
• Bell's Kalamazoo Stout

Want to know what Larry Bell thinks about you putting fruit into his Oberon? Listen here.

We didn't do a preshow video this time, but we'd like to introduce to «Punchy» for grins...

We drink beer, listen to music and chat a bunch. What else would you expect from the Big Foamy Head beer studio?

Listen to some blues Mike Morgan and the Crawl, Stax Music artist Ann Peebles and some Walter Trout.
Check out a new series of videos on YouTube God, Inc.. It's funny, well done, professional stuff!

Beers we sampled this show...

• Tyranena Rocky's Revenge
• Tyranena Bitter Woman IPA
• Tyranena Shanty Town Dopplebock
• Tyranena Spank Me Baby Barleywine Style Ale
• Tyranena Hop Whore IPA

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