Four Brewers: Craft Beer and Homebrew · John Holzer, Greg Nagel, Joe Senigaglia, Jason Harris

368: Liquid Gravity Brewing Company

·1 hr 4 min·4 clips

Pale from the Crypt is called “world-class” and “fucking great” after the hosts compare its balance to an IPA.

The crew starts with Liquid Gravity because the brewery got name-checked on a previous episode. They bought the beers out of curiosity and because none of them was sure they had really spent time with the brewery before. The mic problem turns into quick-fire podcast chaos right away. One host remembers finding Liquid Gravity during COVID, when breweries were shipping beer and people were chasing good new cans. That first West Coast IPA made a strong impression. Another host thinks they may have had Pale from the Crypt once during one of the pandemic shows. They also mention a possible early collab with Michelinie. That leads into a brief spelling mess and a side conversation about names that are hard to track down. Once the beer is in front of them, the talk shifts to blood orange. The crew notes that bitter orange peel has a traditional place in the style, then jokes about what happens when a brewery gives it all the oranges. Refuge comes up as a benchmark. One host says Refuge’s blood orange wit kicked ass and had the balance they wanted. Lost Coast’s tangerine wheat and Buffalo Bill’s orange blossom cream ale also get brought into the mix. Those beers serve as older craft-beer reference points. The Liquid Gravity beer lands sweeter than expected. For at least one taster, it gives up some of the wheat ale character they were hoping to find. The group keeps circling back to whether the citrus is supporting the beer or crowding it out. Hop character and yeast character come up too, mostly because they are harder to detect than the description might suggest. The discussion stays blunt and rooted in what they actually taste.

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A casual brewery tasting that keeps asking whether the citrus is doing too much.

Liquid Gravity Brewing Company gets a relaxed, beer-soaked run here, with the hosts working through beers from the brewery and circling back to how they first came across it during the COVID shipping era.

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Liquid Gravity, COVID-era memories, and a blood-orange-versus-wheat debate in one beer chat.

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