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Brian’s A/C is busted, it’s still hot as hell, and somehow Oktoberfest season is already here. So naturally, we kick things off talking about sweating through late summer while drinking beers designed for Fall.

We also get into boilermakers this week, including a couple with a nod to Dolly Parton: The Dumb Blonde and The Jolene.

From there, beer news gets weird.

There’s The Great Pabst Blue Ribbon Heist, which sounds like something we would have made up after a few beers, but apparently not.

We talk about distributors trimming regional craft brands from their portfolios and what that means for breweries that once counted on broad distribution to keep growing.

That leads us into some reminiscing about the old days of craft beer hype, when people would stand in line for hours just to get a few bottles of a rare release. We did it. You probably did it. At the time, it somehow made perfect sense.

There’s also a bit of surprising good news from the Brewers Association: brewery visits are up in 2026. With all the doom-and-gloom surrounding craft beer lately, it’s nice to hear that people are still getting out and drinking beer where it’s made.

We remember Jason Wilson, an Alabama craft beer pioneer who recently passed away and the role early brewers played in building beer culture in places where craft beer had a much tougher road.

Then we go way back for one of the coolest stories of the week: Guinness discovered aboard a 162-year-old shipwreck.

And finally, $10 million in gold found buried underneath a Belgian brewery.

Beer, treasure, shipwrecks, heists, busted air conditioning… pretty standard week around here.

Crack one open and join us.

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