Drinking And Writing Brewery Radio Show

The DWB Radio Show February 2010

2010-02-11T18:59:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by NeoFuturists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode focuses on New Orleans! Our domestic correspondent Dr. Denese Neu Interviews Kirk Coco of the new NOLA Brewing Company in New Orleans. Plus Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmaster and an interview at one of his famous tappings, Keith Lemcke of the Siebel Institute talks about the state of brewing in Chicago, plus fantastic New Orleans music! Who Dat!!!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - Jan 10

2010-01-05T16:44:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this first episode of the decade kicks it off just right. New decade, new brewery! Half Acre is the focus of this months show. Hear interviews with Matt Gallagher, Gabriel Magliaro and Kate Thomas of Half Acre! Beer, soap, "Big Hugs" and so much more! Also, Sean and Steve talk about their show Drinking & Writing Volume III, To Cure A Hangover at the Hopleaf. Plus music from John Coltrane to help soothe your hungover mind. Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show

2009-12-08T21:48:00Z

This Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this special Christmas episode focuses on FOBAB, the festival of wood and barrel aged beer. What an event! Hear interviews with Andrew from the great blog "Being Totally Sweet In Chicago", Brewmaster Erik Sorenson from Rockbottom, West Des Moines, Iowa, plus Steve Hamburg, Jeff Evans, foreign correspondent Jamie Budzick, Pete Crowley, radio brewmaster, Gary Cuneen from Seven Generations Ahead! And if that isn't enough, Sean and Steve talk about their holiday show Drinking & Writing Volume IV, The 12 Steps of Christmas! Plus your favorite Christmas music! Can you say Joey Ramone? Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - November 09

2009-11-05T19:37:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this show focuses on what Halloween is all about, BEER and FEAR!!! Interviews with Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmaster and his fantastic Oktoberfest at Rockbottom Chicago! An incredible Brewers dinner featuring Rockbottom beers and incredible pairings from new executive chef Chris McCoy! Delicious! And a great interview with Noelle Krimm and her successful show based on Edgar Allen Poe, FEAR. Scary! Plus lots of great Hawaiian music to celebrate the anniversary of the election of our 44th President, and Hawaiian born, President of the United States Barack Obama! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - October 09

2009-10-08T19:00:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda this episode focuses on OKTOBERFEST!!! We also took a trip to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver Colorado! Interviews with our featured writer Ray Daniels and a discussion about the Cicerone beer expert program. Also, listen to Pete Crowley, radio brewmaster, win a medal! Plus sampling beers from Boulevard Brewery in Kansas City, Tommy Saldana from HOPS, Homebrewers Pride of the Southside, and if that isn't enough... lots of polka music! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - September 09

2009-09-10T20:58:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode aired Labor Day Weekend and we worked our butts off for this one! It was a busy August! Russ Chibe from HOPS (Homebrewers Pride of the South Side) talks about their awesome annual Oktoberfest Fundraiser! Interviews at this years Great Taste of The Midwest in Madison Wisconsin, one of the best beer festivals in the world! Along with special correspondent Jamie Budzick, listen to a great interview with Dan Kerry owner and brewmaster of the great New Glarus Brewery, and the New Glarus Yodel Club and their incredible musical "Bowls"... you have to hear it to believe it! Plus interviews at the second annual Microbrew and Food Review in Oak Park with Chris Boggess of Three Floyd's and Gary Cunneen of Six Generations Ahead! And all the music has something to do with workin'! I need a beer! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - August 09

2009-08-11T19:39:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode features various events going on in Chicago. An interview with Dave Phillips of the Chicago Beer Society and The 1st ever "A mid-Summer days Ales" event held at Murphy's Bleachers. Lots of good beer, lots of good people. Plus an interview with the new Artistic Director of the Neo-Futurists, Ryan Walters! Kurt Chiang with info and news about new workshops and classes at the Neo-Futurarium, and lots of info about the play "BEER" and it's future trip to the 2009 Great American Beer Festival in Denver Colorado. Very exciting!!! Plus a lot of talk about good beer and songs I wanted to hear during my birthday month! So there!
Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show-July 09

2009-07-08T00:42:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this show focuses on a new segment we're calling "Small Beer". These will be short videos that teach people about craft beer and all it's complexities and will soon be posted on our website.From tasting beer, to examining the ingredients in beer to the color of beer. Just the basics, mam, just the basics. Plus in this episode we make our way down to Rock Bottom Chicago for another of Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmasters tappings... this tapping... his American Dream IPA. Very Good. And listen to a great interview we did with the owner of the Bluestone in Evanston. Great bar, great beer selection, great food, great owner! And also our favorite patriotic music on this 4th of July of 09. Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - June 2009

2009-07-01T03:18:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode focuses on the upcoming Drinking & Writing Festival V, Write Till You Puke!!! "The Chicago Way". Sean and Steve travel to different Chicago bars, sampling delicious craft beer and discussing the festival. Also Pete Crowley, radio brewmaster, discusses hops as we sample beers from the German Hallertauer Hop Growers Association. Plus interviews with Patrick Conway, owner of Great Lakes Brewery in Cleveland OH, and lots of great Chicago Blues music. Enjoy and Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - May 2009

2009-07-01T02:50:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episide focuses on the Craft Brewers Conference held in Boston. Interviews with Dave Chichura of Oskar Blues Brewery in Colorado, Paul Gatza, Director of the Brewers Association, and Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmaster. Hear us sampling his delicous Kolsch at the Rockbottom tapping, very good. Plus lots of music to celebrate "Boston". Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - April 09

2009-04-27T21:04:00Z

The Drinking and Writing Brewery Radio show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode features interviews from Whiskeyfest, 2009! Held at the downtown Hyatt hotel, Sean and Steve, along with Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmaster interviewed Lew Bryson from Malt Advocate magazine along with drinking a lot of whiskey. Also hear live recordings from "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind" featuring Megan Mercier and Tim Reid, special music including "Templeton Rye" by The Nadas and a special guest interview with John Mayer from Rogue Brewery . Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - March 09

2009-04-03T17:13:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this espisode focuses on Rock Bottom brewery's "SausageFest!" Sausage! Cheese! and Beer! It was awesome! Listen to interviews with Andy Jenkins of Marion Street Cheese Market, Matthew Hallack and of course Pete Crowley, radio brewmaster. Plus unsolicited reviews of the show that just won't go away, BEER. Plus fun music and more talk about, beer! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - February

2009-04-03T16:46:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode is "The Driving Episode". It was so cold in Chicago, Sean and Steve decided to drive around the neighborhood of Andersonville and record the radio show in the warm car! They travelled around the neighborhood and pointed out the spots to have a drink while talking about their new show BEER. Listen to clips from the show as well as really cool songs about beer, the beverage. Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - January 09

2009-01-05T00:48:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode focuses on the new play BEER. Written by Sean and Steve, BEER is the newest Neo-Futurist show and opens January 29th. Performed in Chicago's newest microbrewery, the Metropolitan Brewery, BEER is the story of 10 year old Boon who drinks some of his step-fathers crappy beer, gets sick and passes out. When he wakes, he finds himself lost in a mysterious brewery and the only way he can return home is to learn the brewing process. Through songs and puppets, Boon learns the brewing process and saves craft beer from the evil villain Bud Miller. You just have to see it! But if you can't, listen to this show and hear all about it, plus the cool songs from the show. Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show December 08

2008-12-12T22:36:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode features lots of Christmas cheer... yeah, right! Hear excerpts from Drinking & Writing Volume IV, The 12 Steps of Christmas!!! Phil Ridarelli and I performed the show at Victory Gardens. There are also interviews with Jay Kelly from Victory Gardens, Tracy and Doug Hurst of Metropolitan Brewery and Dan Kerr-Hobert, director of the next Neo-Futurist show Sean and I wrote called BEER!!! It's gonna be awesome! And as a special surprise, listen for one of the songs from BEER!!! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show

2008-11-06T15:42:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode is the ELECTION show!!! We elected to dedicate the show to the late great and ultimate Chicagoan Studs Terkel. Hear interviews with Pete Crowley, radio brewmaster, and information about the upcoming FOBAB, Festival of Wood and Barrel aged beers! Plus a very fun survey and poll of the beer community. If you were at Pete's tapping a couple weeks ago you might hear your entry! Plus audio of Studs Terkel reading from one of his books, patriotic music and much more! And congratulations to Chicago's own President-Elect Barack Obama!!! It's the election show!!!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show October 2008

2008-10-20T01:24:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode features OKTOBERFEST in Chicago!!! Hear interviews with Pete Crowley, radio brewmaster, as we sample several Oktoberfest style beers at Piece Brewery. Special guests include Matt Van Wyck of Flossmoor Station Brewery, Greg Browne of Mickey Finn's and Jeff Sparrow of the Chicago Beer Society. Plus an interview with Diana Slickman and the new Theater Oobleck "election" show. Plus lots of accordion music, PROST!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - September 2008

2008-09-08T01:16:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode with guest host Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmaster, features several fantastic beer events... The 2008 Great Taste of Midwest beer festival held in Madison, Wisconsin, and the first ever Oak Park Microbrew and Food Review. Great interviews with Gary Cuneen of Seven Generations Ahead, Andy Jenkins from Marion Street Cheese Market in Oak Park, IL, Kevin Eichelberger of Red Eye Brewing Company in Wausau Wisconson, Hathaway Delba of Ale Asylum brewery in Madison Wisconson and Larry Bell of Bell's Brewery. Plus music from the great Isaac Hayes and a sneak preview of Pete's medal contending beers he's sending to the GABF. And don't forget to hoist a few for your favorite writer born in September... Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Capote, King, Wells, Burroughs (Edgar Rice), Kesey, and everyone's favorite tea-totaller, Upton Sinclair! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - August 2008

2008-08-05T14:14:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neofuturists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode focuses on the 2nd Annual "Curds & Ale Fest" held at Rockbottom Brewery, downtown Chicago. Interviews with artisinal cheese experts and of course, Pete Crowley, Radio Brewmaster. Plus interviews with Kurt Chaing and Caitlan Stainken, 2 of the newest Neofuturists cast this past month. Hear their experiences as new ensemble members of the longest running late night show in Chicago, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, 30 plays in 60 minutes! What?Impossible. Listen and find out! Plus music, live performances and much more! Salud!

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show - July

2008-07-08T00:01:00Z

The Drinking & Writing Brewery Radio Show explores the connection between creativity and alcohol. Hosted by Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, this episode's theme is "Replication". Part of the show focuses on "Replic-Ale", a beer brewed by several Illinois breweries using the same ingredients. The beers will be available to sample at "Ale Fest" along with 30 or 40 other craft beers, July 12th at Soldier Field. We also focus on Sean's ability to "replicate" by recording the show from his home featuring his family, including newborn Jack. The show is co-hosted by 3 year old Lily Benjamin, a newcomer to the radio scene and also, Sean's daughter. Plus recordings from "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind", recorded live at Theater On The Lake, patriotic music to celebrate the 4th, and a special interview with Frank Kelly Rich of Modern Drunkard Magazine. Also a re-cap of the 6th Annual Drinking & Writing Festival, Write Till You Puke! Which took place in June. and celebrated the life of Hunter S. Thompson. Salud!