Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to meet up with beer community friends Tom and Tracy Munden here in Nashville. They were visiting from Colorado and live in the western part of the state.

Tom reached out to us after listening to our podcast. We all spent a few hours together one evening at Stoke Haus Brewing and Barbecue in East Nashville. It was there we shared a lot of laughs over some great beer. Plus, some unexpected surprises that you will hear us talk about.

Tom is known as Colorado Beer Hunter on social media platforms. He's also a Cicerone-CBS.

He's been all around Colorado visiting many of the breweries and has a website dedicated to all his brewery travels.

In addition, he's been a judge in a local beer festival. That led us into doing a bit of a deep dive of what you can learn judging beer styles.

One beer style we debated was the seasonal pumpkin beers that are out right now

Our beer discussion also led us down the path of " Untappd", and the rating system used by all of us. Tom has rated more than a few beers on there!

Cheers!

Our friend Cody Brown from Cody’s Beer Adventures sent us a box, so naturally we had to open it on camera and see what was inside.

We dug into a haul featuring North Carolina craft beer from Salty Turtle Beer Company, Bill’s Brewing Company, Wilmington Brewing Company and more, with everything from hazy and West Coast IPAs to a honey brown ale.

And Cody didn't stop at beer. There were a few bourbon and whiskey surprises hiding at the bottom of the box too.

Thanks to Cody for the killer beer mail and for giving us another reason to put Wilmington and the North Carolina coast on our craft beer travel radar.

This is a BONUS VIDEO and not a numbered episode of The Brewery Underground Podcast.

Cheers from The Brewery Underground!

We’re smack dab in the middle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee for a special collaboration episode with our friends The Foamy Heads!

For Episode 144 of The Brewery Underground Podcast, we sit down with the team behind Smackdab Brewing for a behind-the-scenes look at a brewery that’s getting closer to opening its doors. We recorded inside their future taproom while the work was still underway, giving us a chance to hear the story before the first official pint is poured.

The Smackdab crew shares how a group of homebrewers spent years working toward opening their own brewery, why they chose to put down roots near downtown Murfreesboro, and the work that has gone into transforming an older family-owned building into their future home.

We also talk about their plans for the beer. Expect everything from traditional lagers, Czech pilsners and dark beers to hazy and West Coast IPAs, fruited sours and more experimental releases. Smackdab even has a cool concept planned for its beer menus: “Analog” for traditional styles and “Digital” for the more modern and experimental side of craft beer.

And because this is a Foamy Underground collaboration, with our good friends Rich and Mitch, you know there are plenty of laughs, beer conversations and detours along the way.

Join The Brewery Underground Podcast and The Foamy Heads as we get an early look at Smackdab Brewing and the next chapter of craft beer in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

This is a Foamy Underground Production.

Cheers!