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

369: Cellar West Brewery

·58 min·3 clips

“This beer’s a chugger” and “you could just chug a gallon of this fucking thing.”

Jon Holzer leads the crew through a Cellar West Brewing lineup from Lafayette, Colorado. The beers were sent in by Zach Nichols. The episode starts with a little housekeeping and thanks for new Patreon supporters, which helps loosen up the room before the tasting begins. The brewery is described as having a farmhouse and Belgian bent, and that detail gives the beer talk some helpful framing. One beer gets a mostly positive response. It comes across as balanced and well made, and the hosts spend time on whether the nose, malt, and hop profile all land in the right place. Another beer draws a more split reaction. One host finds it a little hop-watered and wants more body. Another hears more bitterness than hop character and thinks the finish lands a bit too sharply. Someone else pushes back and likes the pine and fruit notes. That disagreement becomes part of the fun. The show keeps circling practical questions like whether the recipe feels soft, rounded, sweet, or too bitter. The conversation stays tied to what it is actually like to drink the cans. There is also a steady sense that Cellar West is doing something distinctive with hops, and the hosts seem interested in that even when they do not all love the same result. A few jokes and offhand remarks break up the tasting. The rhythm stays loose and conversational. The panel does not hurry toward a verdict. Instead, it lets the beers show where the group agrees and where they do not. By the end, the episode has the familiar Four Brewers feel of friends hashing it out in real time while still paying close attention to the glass in front of them.

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Loose beer talk, sharp opinions, and a few cans that split the room.

Four Brewers stops in at Cellar West Brewing in Lafayette, Colorado, and the appeal is the hosts' back-and-forth as they work through the beers without forcing agreement. One brew lands as soft, rounded, and well balanced.

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You want honest beer banter that actually argues about the pour.

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