The High & Mighty Beer Show

The Brothers recall the highlights of the 2012 Mediona Festival in Catalunya- beer-label breasts, reformed pot-smoking homebrewers, and brilliant foreign-influenced ales.

The Bros manage to talk beer labels with the ACLU, lecture on Chinese & American prohibition history, and gripe about the 3-tier distribution system-all in a half hour.

The maverick brewers of Cologne’s edgy Freigeist ales, Peter Esser and Sebastian Sauer, discuss their offbeat revival of sour, smoked, and unfiltered German beer.

The Brothers bask in the after-glow of their first festival, and send Peter and Sebastian, of German brewery Freigeist, on an American beer-run.

In part “due” of the Italian series, Dan talks pizza crust, Almond 22’s Juri Ferra talks industry politics, and Bruno Carilli’s Toccalmatto beers speak for themselves.

In this zany and occasionally inappropriate episode, Dan takes his bros on an Italian beer excursion that never quite arrives at its destination.

Joel shocks and awes hic brothers with tales of Czech debauchery-beer baths, open fermentation, and a brewhouse parrot that says “pivo” on command.

Paul “Dad” Shelton recalls lager beer from 40’s Virginia and 50’s Chicago, and the boys discuss their more current preoccupation with the Czech original.

Distributor Marc Beirens discusses the historic first release of Westvleteren Trappist beer in the US, and the Bros foolishly sample strong beer from all five Belgian monasteries.

The Shelton Brothers’ questions about Trappist monks-their beer, their vows, and their wardrobes–are answered by Marc Beirens, distributor for all six monastery breweries.

The Sheltons reveal their ambivalence for Extreme Beer, and call on noted envelope-pushing Mikkeller brewer Mikkel Bjergsø to explain himself on air.

A chat with Denmark’s famed gypsy-brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø inexplicably inspires both a lite-beer taste-off and some questionable Beach Boys harmonies.

A brief hop history serves as a front for the Brothers’ pro-Euro hop agenda, and Nino Bacelle, of Belgium’s De Ranke, is called in for muscle.

The boys ponder the worst of the Islands-Jimmy Buffet, Spam, and Primo Beer-in this fifth and final Hawai’i episode.

In Kona, the Bros hang with Garrett Marrero and John Walsh of Maui Brewing, and uncover the mysteries of Hawaii’s favorite cocktail at Don’s Mai Tai Bar.