The Lager Room Guys Craft Beer Podcast

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinkers” this week are Matt Potenski - Co-Owner & Brewmaster of Coastal Brew Works, AND Al Gattullo - Al Gattullo Craft Beer Cast heard weekly on AM 970 The Answer! Matt, Al and the Guys wrap up 2023 with a chat about some great beer they’ve had this year, a few amazing breweries that they visited this year and several other 2023 retrospective craft beer stories! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Big Beers 12% And Up That We’ve Had This Year!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is John Staradumsky - Owner of Bruguru.com (Drink Outside The Box) and Honest Craft Beer Reviews, and was a former columnist at Yankee Brew News! Tonight is the Annual Christmas Week Show, and John and the Guys have plenty of Holiday Beer Shenanigans in store! They’ll be discussing Holiday Beers, Christmas in the Northeast (and other areas of the US), their traditions and plenty of other holiday chat! And as always on this annual show, Samurai’s brother Bryan Cichon (our steady Christmas Week guest) will be joining us as well! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Holiday Treats / Sweets!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Kevin Drury, Taproom Manager at Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, CA! Kevin tells The Guys all about Almanac, its history, the beer they brew, what lead him to working at this San Francisco Bay Island brewery and much more! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Bay Area Pro Athletes!

The Guys were Live from Wild Air Beer Works in Asbury Park, NJ for a special National Lager Day remote show! Nick & Doug from Wild Air join The Guys! Lagers were discussed (and consumed) and some knowledge was dropped! Happy National Lager Day! Happy Holidays! *NOTE - Live On-Location audio, sorry!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Brendan Arnold, Head Brewer at Alternate Ending Beer Co in Aberdeen, NJ! Brendan tells The Guys all about Alt Ending, its history, the beer they brew, how he got started in brewing and much more, including the new collab with Coastal Brew Works “Beer From The Black Lagoon” Black IPA released a couple weeks ago! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Movie Endings!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Matt Shuster, Brewer at Conclave Brewing in Raritan Township, NJ! Matt tells The Guys all about Conclave Brewing, its history, the beer they brew, how he got started in brewing and much more! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Breakfast Foods/Meals!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Tom Mulvihill, The Beer Whisperer! Tonight is our annual Holiday Beer Show, and we’ll be talking all about Holiday beers, cocktails, food, movies, music, TV shows and plenty of other Holiday related chat, as we most certainly will wax nostalgic (as we always seem to do) about Holiday beers (and Holiday ‘imbibings’) of the past! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Holiday Beers - V4!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Steve Ashton - Owner of Ashton Brewing in Middlesex, NJ! Steve tells The Guys all about the brewery, his history, the beers they brew and this Thursday’s (11/16) Special Release of their new Collab Brew with Coastal Brew Works “The World Is Your Cloister” Belgian Dubbel! “Shark 8” Matt Potenski joins in the conversation as well! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Beers From Colorado!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Don Tse, “The Don Of Beer”! Don tells The Guys all about his most recent trips - Asheville, NC, Chicago, IL and Oktoberfest in Germany! Some new craft beer industry news is discussed as well! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Barrel Aged Beers!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Augie Carton, Owner of Carton Brewing in Atlantic Highlands, NJ! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Augie and The Guys talk about All Things Halloween - candies, costumes, parties, drinks, movies and more! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Horror Movies!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Leah Pizoli of Armageddon Brewing in Somerdale, NJ! Today is Cider Appreciation Day, so they’ve decided to leave the beer in the fridge and appreciate Cider today! Armageddon is making some pretty damn good Ciders, so The Guys have Leah on to tell them all about Armageddon Brewing, how they got started, the Ciders and Meads they make, their events coming up and what they have in store for the future! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Ciders Not Brewed In NJ!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is You - Join the Guys for a beer and everything that they discuss, including some beer news, current events, plenty of chat about Fall & Fall Beers and some info on NYC Bars, Breweries & Distilleries! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Things About Fall!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is John Staradumsky - Owner of Bruguru.com (Drink Outside The Box) and Honest Craft Beer Reviews, and was a former columnist at Yankee Brew News! Tonight is the 4th Annual Pumpkin Beer Show. John and the guys talk about the yearly tradition of making beer with pumpkin. Love them or hate them, they are indeed an annual event! Don’t worry though, they’ll chat about a few other things as well! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Pumpkin Beers - V3!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is You - Join the Guys for a beer and everything that they discuss, including some beer news, current events and plenty of chat about Samurai’s trip to San Francisco, as well as a Rosstoberfest Recap! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Bay Area Beers!

Jersey Johnny was In-Studio, and The Beer Samurai was Live From San Francisco, CA for a special, albeit brief, celebration of International Lager Room Guys Day! So Happy ILRG Day! If you celebrate, of course! *NOTE - Samurai’s Live On-Location audio was slightly windy, sorry!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. This week we have “Shark 8” Matt Potenski Co-Hosting (The Beer Samurai is on temporary assignment) Our “Guest Drinker” this week is John Ross Cocozza - Owner of Ross Brewing in Port Monmouth, NJ! John tells The Guys all about Ross Brewing, it’s history, the process it took to open, the beer they brew and the Rosstoberfest Event they have coming up this weekend! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Beers From Breweries Located On Water!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Al Gattullo - Al Gattullo Craft Beer Cast heard weekly on AM 970 The Answer! Al and The Guys talk about Oktoberfest beer, food and celebrations on this Special Oktoberfest Show! However, since there is currently plenty of industry news, they talk about some local NJ Breweries closing AND opening, as well as a pretty big Craft Distributor shutting its doors! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Oktoberfest Beers!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Don Tse, “The Don Of Beer”! Don tells The Guys all about his beer and whisky writing, what got him into writing about beer (and whisky, don’t forget the whisky!), a little about his background in the industry, and a little look into all of the Anchor Brewing dilemma from his point of view! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Scotches!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinkers” this week are Dave & Erin Andersen, Owners of Buttzville Brewing in Washington, NJ! Erin and Dave tell The Guys all about Buttzville Brewing! What got them into brewing beer, the background and history of their brewery, the beer that they are brewing and plenty more about this Warren County, NJ brewery with a cheeky name! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Ways To Top A Hot Dog!

Listen as Jersey Johnny & The Beer Samurai bring you informative and entertaining podcasts about the world of craft beer. Our “Guest Drinker” this week is Brian Boak, Founder of The Brewers Roundtable and former NJ Brewery Owner (Boaks Beer), not to mention a Tailgate Party Aficionado at the highest level! Tonight is the 3rd Annual Football Tailgate Kickoff Show! We’ll be chatting all about what goes into making a tailgate party the best that it could be! We’ll wax nostalgic about some great tailgate parties (and games) of the past, even one of Brian’s from last football season that I attended! We’ll be chatting a bit about the beer industry as well, and don’t be shocked if a couple of predictions for this year’s NFL Season are discussed! We review beer, discuss upcoming seasonal styles and releases and talk about news and current events in the beer industry. Plus, in this week’s “33’s” segment, they discuss their Top 3 Favorite Tailgate Food & Beer Pairings!