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Show 120 - Not So Beer Show
We stopped drinking beer. Sweet! At least for this show anyway. Zaccman hooked us up with some outstanding berry mead (cause I can’t say melluh, memel, uh mel-o-mel), Mike’s prison-like hooch (courtesy of Johnny Max) is ready, and Rick has a few other bottles he pilfered, so we get to drinking! Some beer news marking [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 119 - The Bittersweet Beer ShowThis show was recorded weeks ago and some of the topics are dated. Actually, you should skip the third segment all together if you’re easily offended by language, race or politics. Hey, that means you easily offended person - skip the third segment! Don’t say you weren’t warned!
We show our friends from Illinois, Groucho and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 118 - Down Under BeerJoin us as BigFoamyHead hosts a VIP guest - friend of show Joe Galea (http://www.joegaleaband.com) visits us from Down Under. It’s an Australian-American collaboration. Joe visits Graceland, STAX records, and performs on Beale Street - then we drink beer and talk about it. Imagine that?!
Beers we sampled on this show:
Ommegang Abbey Ale
Unibroue Fin Du Monde
Boulevarde [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
22nd Annual Great Taste of the MidwestJoin Rick as he wanders around the 22nd Great Taste of the Midwest in Madison, WI. The weather was perfect, the beers were fantastic! Interviews include the MHTG Club Mom Judy, Christine and Jeremy from the live event webcast, Isaac from New Holland Brewing, Dean Coffee from Ale Asylum, Mike from Dark Horse, Steve from [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 117 - Chicken and BeerYum. Although no chickens were harmed in the production of this show, we did kill a few quality beers as well as do permanent liver damage. Join us as we get a live-from-the-field report from Rick about Great Taste of the Midwest and several other events. We also do a Rufus Thomas (Mister Funky Chicken) retrospective [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 116 - Odds and Ends Beer ShowYet another show where we clean out the beer cooler. Mike and Dick lean towards IPA while Rick cruises all over the place, we do a clone taste test to see how close Mike’s homebrew gets to a Bells classic, and discuss merchandising opportunities for Women’s Volleyball. Cool tunes by Michael Hill Blues Mob and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 115 - Anniversary Beer ShowWARNING: NSFW. I’m sure you’ll figure that out quick enough!
Yes, hard to believe, but we are 3 years old! We celebrate this milestone with the typical third anniversary gift, beer! Not just any beer, but some special homebrew offerings from our friends James Spencer (Basic Brewing), Phil (Clarkehead Brewing) and Craig (BrewBubbas), and a special [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 114 - Pirate Beer ShowWARNING: Not Safe For Work (NSFW) due to explicit language. Send the kiddies out of the room.
Ahrrrr. Gratuitous pirate noises abound in this episode as we hit Brouwerij Van Steenberge for some high seas (and high alcohol) beverages. And we become victims of pirates ourselves, as wives and neighbors reprise Drunks In Space! Bonus [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 113 - THE END IS NEAR… so lets drink a beer!WARNING: Not Safe For Work (NSFW) due to explicit language. Send the kiddies out of the room.
BigFoamyHead goes emo and adds to the national hysteria. If you watch CNN, even casually, you’ll start to notice that the reporting is formulaic - disaster and financial ruin, pretty much in that order. Can you hear the rythmic [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 110 - The Spare Beer ShowYou might think, to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, that “this is a show about nothing.”
Au Contraire mon cheri - this show is about the things we love - beer, blues and BBQ! I know, you are stunned. It’s our “wrap up” show from the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival ‘08. Dick and Rick sitting [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 109 - The Homecoming Beer ShowRick joins us live in the studio! After a non-stop debacle of airline jackassery, he finally makes it home. Cary and Allen join Dick and Mike in the nail-biting waiting. Okay, no nails were bitten during the production of this podcast, but we did drink a lot of beer. And we provide Filipino language lessons [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 108 - Drinking to Forget showIt was just one of those days. Time to drink to forget your blues. We have some great music this session from Chris Thomas King live on Beale St, Omar and the Howlers and some Tab Benoit. Listen in as we do a mini rants on actors and earth week, the state [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 107 - Hopped Up Beer ShowWe have multiple oh sh*t moments in this show. Leading off with a near alcohol abuse moment, we continue to spiral downward. Luckily the beers don’t. With some great hopped up offerings we smack up our taste buds.
Beers sampled on this show:
Mojo Rising
DP IPA
Mike’s IPA
Anderson Valley Imperial IPA
Nefarious Ten Pin
Get your hops on with this [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 106 - Smoked Beer ShowWe get smoked up on this show. Hippie music, smoked malts, and cripple abuse. We get all shlenkerled on this show (listen and you will know what this means) and we have multiple flashbacks. Is it because of the beer or something else? You be the judge. We sample hard the offerings from the Schlekerla [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 105 - Dog Beer ShowFrom the land of Flying Dogs comes our beers this show. We get all up into a Flying Dog Double Dog Pale Ale and a Gonzo Imperial Porter. Plus a lot of bitching about hop prices. Interviews with Eric, the head brewdude from Flying Dog, and Rick does an interview with Jim [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 104 - Big Foamy Head 101 What is this whole craft beer thing about anyway? In this show we take a giant step backwards and reintroduce ourselves and our show to some of the new listeners that have been cropping up. In this show you’ll learn about:
What a beer really is - and isn’t
The difference between Ales and Lagers
Craft Beer vs. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 103 - Gueuze me? “Gueuze me? What’d you say?” Man, the jokes write themselves!
Gueuze is a wonderful form of lambic beers that are blended batches from 3 different years. Tart, acidic, effervescent and down-right yummy. This show takes a few intrepid steps into the world of mead as Rick recounts his experiences stewarding the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 102 - The Flavors of Beer Warning: this is a loud, fast-paced show, sort of different Big Foamy Head show! We have a special musical guest, Andy Tanas, who refuses to sing. But he does share a ton of stories from the road while involved with Lynyrd Skynrd, Black Oak Arkansas, Krokus and more. We share a TON of beers ranging [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 101 - Big Beer Show Okay, we don’t have a theme for the beers this time, except they are all big high alcohol beverages. Several of them are Brewers reserves. Yum.
Join us for a discussion of the Big Beer, Belgians and Barleywine festival in Vail, CO. It’s bockalicious©!
Music from Little Johnny Taylor, who’s talkin’bout a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 100 - The Barleywine Show This is it, show 100. Not too much fanfare, but we do celebrate with some high-powered, delicious barleywine. Join us as we explore the subtle, tender nuances of barleywines, only to have them get us drunk and take advantage of us. We also flash back to Episode 1, have a few kind words from our [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 99 - Urthel Beer Show We have a little beer on this show, in every sense of the word. Little guy on the Urthel label, and little guys in the studio. We are joined by the Beer Elves who help us sample some great beers (and one suck one) from Urthel. Beer Haiku, Beer News, and the usual madness, plus [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 98 - Koningshoeven Trappist Beer Show We get our trappist on with beers from Koningshoeven, a fantastic brewery out of the Netherlands. And, of course, we go down the religion road and offend many people, including the handicapped, suggest Jesus was a homebrewer, etc. We get our blues school on with King Bee, a song sang by many blues [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 97 - Holiday Party Beer Show This is the time of year when you get dragged to neighborhood parties with suck beer. Not so for the Big Foamy Head folks. We have two parties of note that we attended where the beer was better than ever. More nominations for Sexiest Beer of the Year as well. Get your new year off [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 96 - Good and Evil Beer Show We take on the spirit of the Holidays and the lord of the damned. You figure out which is which. Beer News, a double shot of Beer Haiku, some Memphis Music, and the Gilligan Death Watch continues! Plus yet another nomination for Sexiest Beer Alive from our good friends at Should I Drink That. And [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 95 - Blues Beer Show Welcome to a special Big Foamy Head show. We take a trip to downtown Memphis to see one of the legends of blues and the chitlin circuit, Bobby Rush. He put on a show in a very tiny venue. Too bad for him, that made it easy for us to get at him. Enjoy some [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Christmas Video from Beer Safari Here it is, the long-awaited Christmas extravaganza. Screw wise men and camels, we’re drinking beer! A little Holiday love from all your favorite beercasts…
Featuring the talents of:
Chud and Groucho from The Beer Report
Jeff and Greg from Craft Beer Radio
Father Spoon and Sickpuppy from Should I Drink That?
Rick and Dick from Big Foamy Head
JeffreyT and [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 94 - Sexiest Beer Show Sexy Beers? Yep. We launch our crusade to find the sexiest beers alive. If People magazine can do it, why not us? We are joined by friend of show Phil, host of My Life As A Foodie who brings his soft core porn nomination to the table. We have the ever popular Beer News with [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 93 - Beer Scavenger Hunt We play a game in this episode called Beer Scavenger Hunt. Simple rules, go find a beer made of beer. Duh. We do come back with some nice beers and some nice tunes from Joe Bonamassa, Allman Bros. and more. We take a turn for the educational, much to Martin’s dismay, and discuss the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 92 - Road Trip Beer Show Rick is on the road to points northwest, and Dick, Mike and Martin talk about beers brought back from the road, New Orleans specifically. We also get into a deep discussion about Tina Louise, and whether she’s dead or not. Add to the mix some quality beer news and how the big beer world is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 91 - Fall Beer Surprise We clean out the refrigerators once again, sampling some beers from recent trips to Denver, California and elsewhere. We kick off the show with a review of a commercial offering from AB, and believe it or not we don’t kill it. Martin joins the ranks of home brewers in a most economical way, and we [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 90 - Demons of Ale Show We kick the alcohol level up a few notches with these high octane beers from Avery Brewing Co. The featured beers in this show are all named after the Devil, and cover three hellishly good, but distinct, styles: Grand Cru, Oaked Ale and Imperial Stout. We also do the absolutely worst telling of a ghost [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 89 - Dinner with the Brett Pack This is our entry into the mass of GABF shows that have been out lately, but with a twist. We had a special dinner with some of the top brewers at a restaurant in Boulder the night before the Great American Beer Festival. We spent quality time with Sam Calagione from Dogfish Head, Rob Todd [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 88 - Stone and Lagunitas Show Things go downhill rapidly in this installment of Big Foamy Head despite Christy participating. Travel beers from my recent outing to Los Angeles and Denver are whats on tap tonight - Stone XI Anniversary Ale and Stone Vertical Epic 070707. Plus we indulge in a special release from Lagunitas Brewing, Kill Ugly Radio. And there [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 87 - Confused Jew Show Continuing down the Belgian path, but we get off course and wind up in Jerusaleum by way of New York. Ponder on that while you listen to this show that covers the special nuances of great beers from New Belgium, Chimay, Achouffe, Unibroue and Schmaltz. We also talk about a new cultural phenomenon I completely [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 86 - No Style No Class We shed our ideas of beer styles and classes on this installment of Big Foamy Head. We have some fine beverages from Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, a couple from Andelot, and an old favorite from Trader Joes that you really cannot put into a category. We are joined by Clare, Dave and Terry from down [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 85 - Imperial IPA Show We get our hops on with this show. There is nothing like a good smack-in-the-face taste of an IPA, so it gets that much better with Double or Imperial IPAs. Join us as we run through some hopalicious beers and, of course, provide totally irrelevant social commentary. Check out the new opening as well!
Get [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 84 - Pool Beer We celebrate Elvis Week and dodge the killer heat by the pool with some cool Hawaiian beers. These babies come in cans so you can tote them in your cooler cause all of Maui is a beach. The heat has also affected our typical music selection with a little pop punk and Swedish Death [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 83 - Great Divide Brewery Show We sample a wide variety of beers from Great Divide Brewery and get into a very deep (and wide) discussion about styles, reviews, judging and so forth. Rick Sellers from Pacific Brew News joins us and really educates our ignorant asses on the hows and whys of judging. Great music and more. Listen up!
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Show 81 - Aggressive Beer Show Our first show with Rick out in the field, we explore some seriously aggressive beers. No, this is not a new category of beers, just some that we found to be particularly interesting and assertive.
Plus: if you want to hear some crying in your beer, listen to our alcohol-addled rantings as we attempted show 80. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Audio Extra - Beer News He’s Back! Finally we catch up to world traveler and boulevardier Rick Lyke to get the global roundup of what’s happening in the world of beer. Braving the weather, Rick fills us in on what’s going on. Enjoy catching up with us.
Download this late breaking news segment here.
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Show 82 - Red, White, Black and Blue All Over Show No, its not a typo. We are putting this show out before show 81 because of the timeliness of it. Where is show 80? You find out on show 81, get it? Join us as we sample some great new beers (or are they?) from Dogfish Head. We talk with Claus from Dogfish, get a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 79 - Another Damn Belgian Beer Show It is not that we don’t love a good Belgian Beer. It just seems like we are always drinking them. But that is not such a bad thing, is it? We dive into some left-of-center Belgians, courtesy of Kenny, Friend of Show, as we recover from our gigantic neighborhood barbecue that we catered. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 78 - Clarkehead Brewery Show Yep, its true. We have the ever elusive host of Dude Night and proprietor of Clarkehead Brewery on tap for this show! These cat based beers (a tiny portion of feline matter in every bottle) go down smooth. Too bad the conversation doesn’t. Listen in as Phil shares his secrets for fantastic brews and food [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 77 - Boscos Beer ShowSorry for the delay folks, but the audio on this show has been quite difficult. First off, its a live show, our first attempt and we are a bit challenged on the mic. Having said that, the conversation and beer could not be better! Chuck Skypeck, brewmaster and founder of Boscos in Memphis, shares a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 76 - Belgium Ale Beer ShowMo’ good times from the guys at BigFoamyHead! We’re fresh off of our first barbeque competition - The Southaven Springfest BBQ. The team we were on, B3 (beer, blues and bbq), took third place in the shoulder competition for the division we were in. Hey, thats a pretty good [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 75 - Diamond Bear Beer ShowWe’re lucky enough to have a great selection of beers from a “local to us” brewery just 2 hours 38 minutes away in Little Rock, AR.
The Mary Carol Winkler verdict is in - manslaughter. Watch out guys - hide the shotgun!
Rick realizes that Irish Red’s can be excellent when done [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 74 - Founders Brewing Company BeerWe get a hookup from our friends at The Beer Report and get to sample one of the best bourbon breakfast stouts in the country from Founders Brewing Company. Michigan has one heck of a beer scene going on and we at Big Foamy Head are duly impressed with the offerings from [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 73 - Porter Beer Show Indulge us. We had a lot of Porters in the Beer Studio. We had to do something with them, so we did a porter beer show!! What else would you expect from your friends at BigFoamyHead?
We recorded on an infamous date for us Memphians - the day Dr. Martin Luther King, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 72 - Green Flash Beer Show What is a green flash? A flash of brilliant green light, before the day descends into night. People who live along the coast spend their lives hoping to see one. It is also an up and coming brewing company from San Diego that has been making a splash with their Imperial [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |
