Episode Details

Greg and Flex jump back to 2016 to look at the beers that ruled craft beer, the ones everyone was chasing, and which “whales” do not feel quite as impossible anymore. Along the way, Flex gets exactly what he loves most: lists.

Highlights

• The #1 beer from every year since 2016
• Bell’s Two Hearted and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale absolutely dominating the list
• Pliny, Electric Jellyfish, and whether hype matches reality
• The top 10 beers people were chasing in 2016
• Dark Lord, Heady Topper, Julius, Utopias, Pliny the Younger, and more
• Which beers actually felt like whales
• What once-impossible beers are much easier to get now
• The beers Greg and Flex wish they could always get

Mentioned in the episode

• Bell’s Two Hearted IPA
• Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
• Russian River Pliny the Elder
• Russian River Pliny the Younger
• Pinthouse Electric Jellyfish
• Tree House Julius
• The Alchemist Heady Topper
• 3 Floyds Dark Lord
• 3 Floyds Zombie Dust
• Samuel Adams Utopias
• Maine Beer Company Dinner
• Cigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout

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