In Batch 536 of Craft Beer Republic, a listener hand delivers Heady Topper to Flex, and Flex runs some beer science on whether you really have to drink it from the can. Greg goes to a Weezer show where the only beers are Michelob Ultra, Bud Light and a hazy that is anything but hazy. Plus Poop Beer Gate gets a strawberry cheesecake sour, and Goose Island goes three barrels deep. Heady Topper: Can or Glass? Listener Davis was in town for a Chicago beer trip and a Packers game,

Stone Brewing's founders are taking back the famous Escondido bistro, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has acquired Starr Hill, and a Canadian man's 30 to 40 beers in Las Vegas end with a stolen flamingo. The new Craft Beer Republic episode, "40 Beers and a Flamingo," also finds Flex the best vacation beer of his life in Fort Myers and Greg letting a Giants fan trash the Dodgers for over an hour before telling her where he's from. Stone Brewing's Founders Take Back the Escondido

Shock Top teams up with Spirit Halloween on a candy corn beer, Sam Adams front-of-house staff vote to unionize, and Sapporo layoffs at the former Stone Brewing facility in Escondido will reach 272 workers. The new Craft Beer Republic episode, "Chuck Ducking Knows How to Party," also brings back Poop Beer Gate and introduces a 76-year-old Florida man with a silver cup full of rum. Shock Top and Spirit Halloween Make a Candy Corn Beer Tilray's Shock Top is partnering with Spiri

Stone Brewing's production exit from Escondido, the ongoing sale of Rogue Ales intellectual property, a unionization effort at the Sam Adams Boston Brewery, and a $10 million gold discovery beneath a former brewery lead the latest Craft Beer Republic episode. Greg and Flex also get into changes at 14 Cannons, a particularly unusual beer origin story, and two IPA reviews. The new episode, "Bad Beer, Great Wi-Fi," pairs current craft beer industry news with a look at Bitrate Fl

Yeast cakes, PB&J beer, & wild beer names! The CBR crew talks Stone Brewing's latest move & a teacher who got too cozy with whiskey in class