Episode 048 - Beer Cocktails (AKA "Beertails")

In this episode, we chat with cocktail author and beertail expert Jon Yeager, who runs a Nashville-based beverage consulting company alongside his wife Lindsay. The two have co-authored the upcoming book, The Ultimate Guide to Beer Cocktails, forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing. In this episode, we discuss: The vast sweep of beer history, zooming in and out to identify key moments in the development of the beer cocktail. Where and how these concoctions came about, with special focus on Great Britain and the United States. The use of herbs, spices, and bittering agents like wormwood to create proto-cocktails with strange names like gruit, purl, wassail, and posset. Classic and contemporary beertails ranging from Jerry Thomas's Porter Punch to the Michelada. The answer to the ever-pressing question: What would Jesus Drink? And much, much more.