Beering Ain't Easy

Can we all admit that Houston makes some damn good Pilsners?  This week Ryan and Drew set up another spectacular blind tasting to crown Houston’s Best German Pilsner in an episode rife with controver…

After many months on the road gathering the latest and greatest beer news, Ryan and Drew highlight the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs, and the the rising and falling breweries of the Houst…

And the winner is… America, obviously.  The Beering Ain’t Easy podcast embarks on a blind tasting adventure through the most recognizable American Lager macro beers and one notable exception - Troy A…

We drink two of the best sours in Texas, Atrial Rubacite from Jester King and Sea of Waves from True Anomaly, all while sharing our opinions and detailed instructions on how to perform the biggest fa…

We back? It’s been a minute since our last episode, so we pay penance to the beer gods by drinking weird beers while we bring you up-to-speed with the state of affairs in craft beer and in our hoods.…

It has been well established on our Podcast that host Ryan likes his beers (and other drinks) unadulterated.  So what did we do to him?  We made him face his fears and drink a wide range of beer mixe…

Ryan and Drew crack into some of the best beers from Belgium and Germany while sitting outside on the edge of the Austin, TX wilderness.  In an episode rife with bad accents and pronunciations, your …

In this episode, we do what we love best - beer news and blind tastings - but also answer some pretty important questions.  Mexican Lagers are often considered basic beers, but are craft Mexican lage…

The Beering Ain’t Easy podcast has evolved into a new form fueled by Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence, or in short, Beer GPT.   We test out the capabilities of current AI and whether it poses a r…

One of the earliest US craft beer icons from New Belgium, the one and only Fat Tire, has gone through a major overhaul.  New recipe, new logo, and new branding with sustainability at the forefront.  …

So, you’re supposed to drink IPA’s fresh, right?  Well it may be common sense to you but we’re going to test it in an experiment anyway as is tradition.  We sample three Saint Arnold Art Car IPA’s at…

Asa Hanrahan, General Manager of the Houston Flying Saucer, joins the podcast to share his experiences spanning 16 years at the cornerstone beer bar and landmark of Downtown Houston!  We discuss the …

This week we talk about the one topic Ryan enjoys more than beer… conspiracy theories.  We go through a series of wacky beer-related conspiracy theories and make up a few unsubstantiated theories of …

Does the color of your beer affect how it tastes?  Is Saint Patrick’s day and its green beer ruining your favorite lager?  You better believe that the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast is here to conduct th…

Adam returns on this episode to share some great beers from Austin and we gush all about the beer scene in Dripping Springs!  And of course in addition to the beer we stray off course with some truly…

After we had so much fun tasting verticals and horizontals during our Eureka Heights episode, Ryan and Drew are back at it again with none other than the Negative Space Milk Stout from 11 Below Brewi…

Join the Beering Ain’t Easy podcast as we jump in a time machine to drink the top 5 beers of 2010 (hint hint one is a big one!).   But that’s not all - we’re going to give you the full and unadultera…

Ryan and Drew use their extensive research to tell you about beer-related world records so you don’t have to google them for yourself!   And don’t google them, because we may have made some of these …

Stout Season is here!  Ryan and Drew go full-on “nucular” by tasting a variety of Eureka Heights Nuke the Whales Imperial Milk Stouts aged across multiple years and their variants.  What can go wrong…

Come join us this week while we take a trip down memory lane, rattling off some of our best beer memories as we discovered beer and craft beer, and of course some of the most painful experiences to k…