Pickled Eggs & Cold Beer

1:28:03 | Dec 14th, 2018

The Alutiiq nation names him as neginla eh while the Bella Coola call him boqs. The Chinook people refer to him as skookum while the Cree call him wetiko. The Inuit know him as urayuli, the Lummi nati...Show More

1:19:47 | Oct 12th, 2018

William and Ralph were Irish-American brothers who immigrated from New York to Melbourne, Australia in 1886.  Three years later they were producing their first beers for local consumption, and three y...Show More

1:56:21 | Sep 28th, 2018

In 1810 Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria married Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildberg – the occasion was marked with a folk festival centered around horseraces, games, music, and tremendous quantities of b...Show More

1:49:40 | Sep 21st, 2018

First brewed in 1849 by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, today’s beer, remained with Schlitz until 1982 when it was acquired by Stroh Brewing of Detroit, who in turn managed it until 2000 when it w...Show More

1:47:00 | Sep 14th, 2018

The ancient Greeks argued there were three fundamental types of ethical government, distinguished by the number of people allowed to participate in the legislative process – democracies, aristocracies...Show More

1:36:15 | Sep 7th, 2018

Before the Spanish conquest of Mexico there was fermentation: corn was transmuted into tesgüano, agave into pulque, and honey into tepache.  Soon after the conquest the first Mexican brewery was found...Show More

2:08:52 | Aug 31st, 2018

First brewed in 1844 by German immigrants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, today’s beer has long claimed that it was awarded the title “America’s Best” at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, launching it i...Show More

1:26:02 | Aug 24th, 2018

[Note: We had some engineer and sound issues with this episode - the quality just isn't where we would like it, and you have our apologies - that said it is a fun one, and we didn't want to lose it, s...Show More