Oshkosh Beer Show: RIP

This feels weird. For the past 16 months, Thursday mornings usually found me posting the beer video Adam Carlson and I had shot a day or so earlier. That’s not happening this Thursday.

The first episode of the Oshkosh Beer Show went up on June 3, 2015. The last show was posted last week. What I mean by “last” is that there won’t be any more of them. The Oshkosh Beer Show is over and done with.

It was a fun project, but with our schedules being what they are it became a bit of a grind trying to make time for a weekly video. And when a good time turns into a grind it means it’s time to start doing something else. So that’s what’s going to happen.

In November I’ll start working on a new series of videos named Beer Stories from Oshkosh. These will be short videos featuring people involved with the Oshkosh beer scene telling their stories and explaining what they’re up to with beer around here. I’ve already made a couple videos in this vein that you can check out here. If you have an Oshkosh beer story you’d like to share, get in touch. I’m hoping to cover a lot of ground with this.

In the meantime, thanks for watching the Oshkosh Beer Show. Prost!

Oshkosh Beer Show 60 - The Wild World of Sour Beer

Adam and I drink deep from a bomber of Wease the Juice from O’so Brewing of Plover, Wisconsin. As we guzzle, we plumb the complex world of sour ale.

Oshkosh Beer Show 59: ​The Beer Predominant

This week Adam and I drink Idiot Farm Imperial IPA from Karben4 Brewing as we discuss the good, bad and fugly aspects of the fact IPA has come to dominate the craft-beer scene...

Oshkosh Beer Show #58 – ​Seasonal Creep

This week, Adam and are talking fall seasonal beers and how they've become untethered from the season. While we yap, we slug down Oktillion, the new Oktoberfest-style beer from Ale Asylum of Madison, Wis.

Oshkosh Beer Show #57 – ​Fresh IPA!

This time Adam and I are drinking an IPA that’s 60-days old while discussing the ins and outs of fresh beer. The evolution of the American IPA has resulted in an obsession with freshness. We explore how this aspect of beer culture has developed.

Oshkosh Beer Show #56 – ​Something Stoopid

This week, we're slugging down beer from Lagunitas Brewing. We yap about the brewery and give the once over to Lagunitas Stoopid Wit.

Oshkosh Beer Show #55 - Up in Smoke

After a month off, we're back and talking New Glarus Brewing. This time, we're drinking the brewery’s latest Thumbprint Series release, Smoke on the Porter.

Oshkosh Beer Show #54 - The Ruby Owl Takes Flight

Oshkosh Beer Show co-host Adam Carlson tells of his new digs, the Ruby Owl Tap Room in lovely downtown Oshkosh. Check out the taplist for the Ruby Owl HERE.

Oshkosh Beer Show #53 - Anti-Hero IPA from Revolution Brewing

This week, we’re drinking Anti-Hero IPA from Revolution Brewing of Chicago. Revolution has just begun distributing its beer in Wisconsin. We yap about the brewery as we down Revolution’s flagship beer.

Oshkosh Beer Show #52 - 3rd Sign Brewery

This week, Adam and I check out a very nice Witbier from 3rd Sign, a new brewery from Waunakee, Wisconsin that just began sending its beer to Oshkosh.

Oshkosh Beer Show #51 – Toppling Goliath’s Sol Hunter

This week, Adam and I are drinking Toppling Goliath’s Sol Hunter Pale Ale, a beer that showcases Equinox (a/k/a HBC 366), one of the newer American hop breeds.

Oshkosh Beer Show #50 – With ​Leoš Frank of Lazy Monk Brewing

This week we get together with Leoš Frank, co-founder and brewmaster of Lazy Monk Brewing in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Leoš treads a unique path among American craft brewers by specializing in the beers of his Czechoslovakian homeland.

Oshkosh Beer Show #49 – Get Your Short's On

This week, we crack into a few beers from Short’s Brewing Company of Bellaire, Michigan. Short’s is about to begin distribution in Wisconsin. We get a tasting tour of what the brewery has to offer.

Oshkosh Beer Show #48 – ​IPA, Door County Style

This week Adam and I are drinking Sideshow, a Door County Style IPA. You didn’t know there was such a style? We didn’t either, but here it is. Sideshow surprised both of us and in different ways.



We've given our take on it, now hear what the brewer has to say. Here's Danny McMahon, brewmaster for Door County Brewing, talking about Sideshow IPA.

Oshkosh Beer Show #47 - Fruited & Deluded

We venture into the realm of fruited American ale: hop-forward beers flavored with citrus fruits. Love 'em or hate 'em, you can count on seeing plenty of them in the summer ahead.

Oshkosh Beer Show #46 – ​Beerito!

This week, Adam and I are drinking Beerito, a Vienna-style lager from Oskar Blues Brewery. Beerito is made with malt from Troubadour Maltings, one of the new craft maltsters on the American beer scene.

Oshkosh Beer Show #45 – ​Dog Daze IPA with RJ at Bare Bones Brewery

This week, we head back to Bare Bones Brewery in Oshkosh to taste Dog Daze IPA with brewmaster RJ Nordlund.

Oshkosh Beer Show #44 – ​Barley John's Old 8 Porter

Barley John's Brewing Company opened its brewery in New Richmond, WI. last August. This week, we’re drinking Old 8 Porter, the first of Barley John's beers to reach Oshkosh.

Oshkosh Beer Show #43 – Irish Red at the Ruby Owl

This week we’re drinking Milwaukee Brewing Company’s Wolfhound Imperial Irish Red Ale  and getting an early look at the Ruby Owl Taproom, a gastropub opening soon at 421 N. Main Street in downtown Oshkosh.

​Oshkosh Beer Show #42 – Meet RJ Nordlund, the new Brewmaster at Bare Bones Brewery

This week we’re at Bare Bones Brewery in Oshkosh getting to know RJ Nordlund, the new brewmaster at Bare Bones.



During the episode we touched on RJ’s musical career. Here's a set of links where you can check out his music.

RJ Nordlund solo acoustic. 

Nordlund & The Nomad Assembly on Facebook.

Nordlund & The Nomad Assembly on Band Camp.