The Purgatorious Pig Tavern

Half the CT Crew Visited the WI Crew and a special guest joins in a 20 beer mystery tasting and partial clean out of the Wisconsin Beer Fridge ... Part 4!

Half the CT Crew Visited the WI Crew and a special guest joins in a 20 beer mystery tasting and partial clean out of the Wisconsin Beer Fridge ... Part 3!

Half the CT Crew Visited the WI Crew and a special guest joins in a 20 beer mystery tasting and partial clean out of the Wisconsin Beer Fridge ... Part 2!

Half the CT Crew Visited the WI Crew and a special guest joins in a 20 beer mystery tasting and partial clean out of the Wisconsin Beer Fridge ... Part 1!

We welcome actual listener guest Mike in and he teaches us all about his religion as we go on a quest to help salvage his religious symbols!

Billy Shaver takes some of the crew on a not so guided tour of the Minneapolis St. Paul Beer Scene! 

Half the gang welcomes a new guest to the bar hiring them on a quest to take down his brother in a feats of magic!

We welcome one of our fans on for a guest episode where the gang goes to find an oasis and quite literally fumble through an adventure!

Randy has a flashback and we learn a little more about our best fighter ... with a beer of course!

We sit down and discuss the recent article published by the NY Times about the state of the Beer Industry. The article appeared in The New York Times, published 12/27/2024, titled, "Has the Craft Beer Industry's Keg Finally Kicked?"   Bernstein, Joshua M. “Has the Craft Beer Industry’s Keg Finally Kicked?” The New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024, www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/dining/drinks/craft-beer.html. ‌

A new guest arrives in the tavern and gets the help of half the crew to go retrieve a family heirloom!

The gang is invited to a throwdown on another plane of existence, the Blood Bowl! Tune in to find out how they did!

The crew goes on a hunt to find the meaning of the New Jersey Drones???

The gang faces their worst fears in a fight to stay alive!

The Pig is back open and the crew is greeted by some unsavory part guests!

The final week of the fantasy beer draft! Who will take home the crown and who will be left in last place!?

The gang puts their porters to the test! Some injuries, late picks, and all around shakeup this week!

Week 5 with the almost all encompassing Ale Category! Will this be the week of a power shift?!

It's time for the Sours Showdown, who comes out on top in this puckery batch of picks?!

The gang pits their Lager picks against each other, who will win?!

It's always stout season with the crew and this week we go through and rate the stouts that were drafted!

Fantasy Taps Week 1 rolls out with the biggest craze in craft beer, the IPA! Listen in to find out who wins and what the crew thinks of some of the most famous IPAs out there!

The gang puts their knowledge to the ultimate test in a draft of Beers ranging many of the styles of beer! Follow along during the fall sports season as the gang goes up against each other to determine who has the best Tap Roster!

Rick takes a trip down memory lane describing his first chaotic day on the job at Widgety Widgets!

Shorts Stack goes down memory lane to remember the perfect beer to cure the memory issues she and her crew had! It's all part of this complete breakfast!

Bonus Content! Part of the gang gives their top 5 destination breweries that they have yet to get to and tries some of the beers from these places! 

A new brewery opening up needs some security transporting the brewing equipment. Two new guests help the cause to bring the beginnings of gentrification to a new area!

Trying to make some room in Scott's fridge, we crack open some beers we've been meaning to try and sometimes we rate them!

The gang is called upon to watch over a newly buried town guardsman post funeral following his mysterious death to make sure nothing necrotic happens. Possible cause of death was magic, or appendicitis. TRVE brewing is featured in 2 beer reviews during the episode.

Interview with Eric's college roommate who's come home from Germany to try the new fad - New England style IPAs. We discuss the beer culture in Germany along with some old Beer Adventure Stories!

Santa takes a load off at the Pig and delivers some delayed holiday gifs for the group!

Rick's old cubemate has gone Rogue! The crew heads to the North Pole to stop his evil Santanic plans and give the local elf union their jobs back.

We interview Johnny, the head brewer and owner of Armada Brewing in New Haven, CT. We go through the backstory of the brewery and a whole lot more!

Our first on site recording at Armada Brewing in New Haven, CT! The crew travels to the land of Armada in an attempt to help a king stop the undead and along the way sample all the amazing beers brewed at Armada!  

A new adventurer joins the group for a wild Halloween night bar crawl through downtown! The group enjoys several pumpkin beers along with some pumpkin themed hijinks.

The gang reflects on the closing of Anchor Brewing and reminisces of the times they visited America's Oldest Craft Brewery.

The crew gets some subs and escorts them on a trip to Hell and Back slinging some beers along the way!

The crew goes on a Heist and finds some new beers along the way!

Short Stack works to clear her name and the beers are flowing!

The crew goes on a quest to find some missing children and they also stumble on some great beer along the way!

The crew tracks down a relic of blood while smashing beers. Please enjoy the bonus content at the end for part of what you'll get subscribing to our Patreon.

The crew travels to another dimension to Party Down with some fancy lords and ladies and drink some craft brew in between!

Meet the core team at the Purgatorious Pig as they take on their first job and review a craft beer!

Hello World! Welcome to the Purgatorious Pig Tavern, this is the intro episode of the podcast with Scott the main Game Master (GM) and Eric the audio guy. They go over the rules and regulations of how this is going work and even rate their first craft beer!