In Memoriam: New Glarus Berliner Weisse Avery Brewing Company Sui Generis

Hey, it's BigFoamyHead by the numbers - Some Beer, Some Blues, Some BBQ. We hit all three topics in our trinity, and add a few off topic items too... stream of consciousness podcasting!

Mike down with H1N1, or was it just a hangover?
New Glarus Berliner Weisse - real and made up facts about this beer style.
Smoking meat in the winter time, electric smokers, gas smokers - is it real bbq?
Cast Iron skillets and other gift ideas for the women - Pressure Washers?
Avery Sui Generis
Brettanomyces culturing
Homebrewing Sour Beer Barrel projects
The Memphis Charitable Foundation Blues Ball doesn't benefit the Blues Foundation.
And speaking of The Blues Foundation, the usually chilly International Blues Challenge is coming in January 2010.
The Colorado Blues Society tie in.
Tab Benoit at Little Bear in Evergreen, CO

Music samplings

• Joe Lewis Walker Eyes Like a Cat

It's tart and sour here.

In Memoriam: English Six Grain Ale Adler Brau Tilted Kilt Scottish Ale Pie Eyed India Pale Ale Stone Cellar Stout

Father and Son partners Tom and Steve Lonsway living the dream in the Fox Valley of Appleton, WI. The Stone Cellar is a cool brew pub in a very cool building.

This is a rare recording from Big Foamy Head West, so it has some different audio character. Dick shares his experience running from Mt Hood to the Coast on the Live Strong relay team.

Music samplings

• Buddy Guy
• Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood

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In Memoriam: J.W. Lees Harvest Ale aged in Lavagulin Whisky Cask J.W. Lees Harvest Ale aged in Calvados Cask J.W. Lees Harvest Ale aged in Sherry Cask J.W. Lees Harvest Ale aged in Port Cask

What could be better than a great beer? A great beer aged in a Scotch Whisky cask. Or maybe Calvados, or Port, or Sherry - or all of them! We get our cask on with this show and try the same barleywine four different ways. J.W. Lee takes the art of cask beer to a new level.
And speaking of art, its a double dose of class and culture with the ever popular Beer Haiku and a presentation on How to be a Blues Singer. Add in some tunes from Joe Bonamassa, piss off the Dutch, rag on more dead celebrities (including one Mike didn't know was dead) and you have another Big Foamy Head show. And how about pimping that 4 year anniversary and Facebook page? You better listen, cause we know where you live...

Aging this show wont help, so listen up now.

The blues world lost one of its greats this past June, Koko Taylor. She was born in Shelby County, just outside of Memphis, eighty years ago, and spent the majority of that time on earth singing the blues in a distinctive style. She inspired many artists, male and female alike, and received countless awards. Take a little time and get to know Koko if you don't know her, and celebrate her life and legacy if you do.
Download this tribute here.

In Memoriam: Coney Island Lager 6% Sword Swallower - 6.8% Albino Python - 6% Human Blockhead - 8.8% to 10%

Our post Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival show. We talk about the acts we saw during 3 rain drenched days "down by the river" at Tom Lee Park. Some of the acts we saw - Steve Miller Band, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Snoop Dogg, Elvis Costello, Shine Down along with some great blues acts - Tommy Castro, Guitar Shorty, John Mayall and the Blues Breakers, Richard Johnston and many others.

We also fire up the BBQ and have a meat fest - Thick Pork Chop sandwiches, Kielbasa and cheese plates, Chicken in white barbecue sauce and lots of slabs of ribs.

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This show is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. The music is unedited and uncut.

If things don't quite work right, its because we're in the process of moving. Bear with us, should be done soon. Unless we start drinking...

Dust off your bag pipes and your kilt with your family tartan.  We're heading to Scotland... well, we're drinking Scottish Ales made with Spruce Tips, Gooseberries, Heather and the ever popular Bog Myrtle.  Just in time for the end of the hop shortage scare of 2008.

We have a new segment called «Buy That Man a Beer.»  Our first honoree is Capt Sullenberger.  We were given early access to the black box recording, so you don't want to miss this!

In the second segment Rick recounts his lost interviews from the Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival in Vail Colorado. 

• Eric Wallace of Longmont's Left Hand Brewing Co., the vice president of the Colorado Brewers' Guild board Save Colorado Craft Beer http://savecoloradocraftbeer.com/
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• Darrell Jensen, Executive Chef, Centre V Brasserie, The Arabelle at Vail Square - Brew Masters Dinner.
• Bill Lodge, Laura Lodge.  Event Coordinators.
• Julia Herz Brewers Association Director of Craft Beer Program - Beer Cheese pairing session.  Avery Brewing, Duvall USA, Dogfish Head, Pagosa Springs, Cambridge Brewing

It's a long way to the top (If you wanna rock-n-roll) - music this show includes AC/DC, Dave Gross and Albannach.

Beers we sampled this show...

• Grozet
• Alba
• Fraoch
• Ebulum

Audio link here.

We get all up in the hops with our selections from Port Brewing on this latest installment. Musical pairings and selections by Fab T-Birds, Blondie, Jethro Tull, and Wynonie Johnson, and the ever-popular What's Bugging Mike. Rick shares a seasonal dose of Class and Culture with «Twas the night before brewing», by 'Chipper' Dave Butler, Northern Colorado Beer Examiner. Full length version can be found here. 

Beers consumed on this show:

• Port Brewing Shark Attack Double Red
• Port Brewing High Tide Fresh Hopped IPA
• Port Brewing Old Viscosity

Download this hopped up bit of fluff here.