Part 1 of my conversation with special guest Ben Amiraujlt as we discuss the growth of craft beer . I've also got the Bonehead of the Week and music from the Ty Segall Band, Ceremony, Grinderman and Brainiac.

Show notes:

• Check out Ben's beer blog The Church Key

• Many parallels between craft beer world and punk rock

• Ben reviews beers on his blog

• When will someone invent digitized beer?

• Craft beer first boomed in the '90s

• Plenty of great small breweries popping up now

• Session beer is catching on thanks to Notch

• There's a lot of high-alcohol beers now

• Ben's gearing up for American Craft Beer Fest in Boston

• Social media is raising awareness of craft beer

• Local specialty stores hold regular beer tastings

• Summer beer is out in April

• Beer is economy-proof

• Sam Adams has become almost synonymous with craft beer

• Dogfish Head has made a big splash in last few years

• Comparing Sam Adams to Green Day

• Old-school brewers are trying new things: Guinness, Bud, Newcastle

• Going on a Guinness kick

• To be continued next week

• Bonehead of the Week

Music:
Ty Segall Band - Wave Goodbye

Ceremony - Send Me Your Dreams

Grinderman (feat. Matt Berninger) - Evil (Silver Alert Remix)

Brainiac - Nothing Ever Changes

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The Ty Segall Band song is from the album Slaughterhouse on In the Red Records. Download the song for free from Soundcloud.

The Ceremony song is on LAMC #1 on Famous Class Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your email address) from Bandcamp.

The Grinderman song is on the album Grinderman 2 RMX on Anti/Epitaph. Download the song for free from Epitonic.

The Brainiac song is on the album Hissing Prigs in Static Couture on Touch and Go Records. Download the song for free from Epitonic.

The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian; check out his site PodGeek.