BEERS WITH NIGEL
Beer Karma — it’s real. Please follow rule #2! You hear Nigel and Nick preach this rule of living all the time. The rule is hard, but this shirt is soft like the sultry smooth jazz voice in the podcast intro. Don't miss your chance to rock this t-shirt and spread the gospel of Beer Karma.
Act 81: Do you have a personal beer shopper?
We get to meet a lot of people in this "job." But we're sure we've met many with a better job title than Macadoodles' Aaron Plaskett — Beer & Bourbon Manager. So, how does Aaron describe his job at…
Act 80: A Brew with a View
John Gales, from Brew View magazine, joins Nigel and Nick all the way from his home in Vermont. Gales talks about using the magazine to tell good beer stories and spread the word about the constantly-growing craft…
Act 79: Behold, the legend of the Hennessy Ninja
Hennessy Ninja, a shawdowy flight into the craft beer world of a legend who may or may not exist. Aubrey Perry, a recovering IT professional on a crusade to champion the cause of craft brewers in a world of drinkers operating without an app to guide them...
Act 78: Who needs plan? Let's just make it happen
We've been trying to plan this episode for quite some time. But as we learn in this episode, Josh Edwards don't need no plans! Listen in as Nick and Nigel walk down the road to Smoke Brewing Co. for…
Act 77: Behold, the beergraphic memory!
We know Nigel travels beer. We know he's started dragging Nick along for some of those travels. But in this episode we learn, "you know nothing, John Snow." The soon-to-be-dubbed Mr. 3000 joins us for Act 77. Chris O'Leary, editor of…
Act 76: Drinking a podcast cuvee!
Nigel and Nick head over to South Kansas City for a collab recording session with the guys from the Lawnarchy podcast. Aside from their love of KC, what do these five have in common? They were both nominated for The Pitch's Best of KC award…
Act 75: The run-around with the traveler Blues
Our friends Karen & Lenny, aka @cedarandsilver, have been living the #airstreamlife criss-crossing the country for the last 4 years. What started as Karen’s dream…
Act 74: Initiation by Fireball
Two of the three members of the Kansas City-based band, Run With It, join Nigel and Nick in studio for this latest episode. The duo tells their musical stories, including a dark chapter…
Act 73: Let’s open a pizza joint; check that we’re opening a brewery!
After meeting during this year's Barrel & Flow Fest in Pittsburgh, Nigel and Nick invited the gang from Four Cities Brewing in New Jersey to join the show and talk about their path to opening a brewery (in case you missed the foreshadowing…
Act 72: Ladies and gents, please give a round of applause for our podcast daddies
It's Barrel and Flow week! Nigel and Nick welcome back Day Bracey and Ed Bailey, hosts of the Drinking Partners podcast and founders of the Barrel and Flow festival in Pittsburgh, PA. There were many beers consumed…
Act 71: Entertaining out-of-town guests
If you drink beer, they will come. That’s how the saying goes, right? Kevin and Ryan, of Dry Dock Brewing, were in town this week and Nigel and Nick decided it was time to extend a little KC beer hospitality. While sharing (many) beers at…
Act 70: At the convergence of wagon trails and beer
Jessie Rose isn't burper. There you go. That's your breaking news for the week. What Jessie is though, is co-owner and head brewer for 3 Trails Brewing in Independence, Mo. Nigel and Nick are close to rounding out…
Act 69: Is it cake?
69, baby! Yeah, we take the easy jokes on this show. For the 69th episode of this podcast, Nigel and Nick hit the road again and travel to Old Town Lenexa, Kansas to sit down with Craig Adcock, chef, baker, wine afficianado, beer lover and owner of Jude's Rum Cakes and Table Ocho. Oh, he's also a rum maker…
Act 68: Hammy went HAM... and then we had beer
Who knew that upon entering Apex Aleworks there's a chance you'll be welcomed with a performance of Shakespeare behind the bar? Well, it happened while Nick and Nigel were setting up the gear for another road show, this one in Independence, Mo with Apex Aleworks owner Tim…
Act 67: The lake doth overflow... and is that a big wheel?
These guys won't be stopped by something so minor as a flash flood! Last week, Diametric Brewing, in Lee's Summit, Mo, hosted Oklahoma City's Vanessa House and Kansas City's Vine Street Brewing for a collab brew day. And because it's what they do, Nigel and Nick crashed the party and…
Act 66: David saves the day
A rough week for Nick. He and Nigel hopped in the FJ Mobile Studio-Mobile and trekked to North Kansas City for a visit with Bri Burrows at The Big Rip Brewing. Unfortunately, Nick somehow didn't…
Act 65: The Pleasure Way and a Brewmance walk into a tap room...
Sometimes, the beer names just write themselves. Such was the case when Nigel and Nick parked their car outside Crane Brewing in Raytown, Mo. this week…
Act 64: Let’s get weird
Nigel and Nick hit the road again — this time to Long Bell Pizza, located on the western edge of Lee’s Summit, Mo. Owner and chef, Jason Eggers joins the show to talk about his approach to cooking food, his wide variety…
Act 63: Beer is good, but can also DO good
Beer is good. This we know. But beer can also DO good. Act 63 is evidence of that, as Sam Jones & Simon Sheckells are…
Act 62: Dan! Is there a Dan in the house? Somebody call Dan
East Forty brewing was the first brewery to open in Blue Springs, Missouri and has been part of the boom of breweries on the east side of Kansas City during the past 5 years. We chat with…