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...