{"podcast":{"title":"Beer In Front","slug":"beer-in-front-26093","podcast_index_feed_id":26093,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5704447/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/beer-in-front","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/62cc1808e822dfe4ac923a775f56e035.jpg","author":"Dave Zalatoris","episode_count":274,"summary":"I'm Dave, a regular Chicago Beer Guy with a podcast about some old school beers and new classics. Sometimes the Beer In Front of you is the best one yet! https://www.patreon.com/beerinfront https://linktr.ee/BeerInFront Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-in-front--5704447/support .","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beer-in-front-26093"},"episode":{"title":"293 The Wildest Story In Beer","slug":"293-the-wildest-story-in-beer","published_at":"2026-03-03T13:53:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beer-in-front-26093/293-the-wildest-story-in-beer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beer-in-front-26093","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/293-the-wildest-story-in-beer--70408196","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70408196/ep_293.mp3","summary":"🍺 New Episode – Beer in Front 🎙️ Quick solo show this week (yes, I sound a little congested 😅), but we’ve got a LOT to cover. 🚨 Chicagoland Closures We’re up to six brewery closures in two months. It’s a tough stretch for Illinois craft beer. If you’ve got a favorite spot — now’s the time to support them. 🌎 Beer News BrewDog sold to Tilray for $40M (once valued near $2B 😳) Pickle beer collab: Grillo’s x PBR Firestone Walker dropping a dragon fruit sour Revolution expanding the Cold Time lineup 🐟 Deep Dive: Ballast Point From a homebrew shop… To a $1 BILLION sale… To being sold for a fraction of that… To fighting its way back to independent roots. One of the craziest stories in craft beer history. And yes — we revisited Sculpin IPA 🍊 Still bitter. Still balanced. Still holds up. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beer-in-front--5704447/support . Beer Media Group","meta_description":"🍺 New Episode – Beer in Front 🎙️ Quick solo show this week (yes, I sound a little congested 😅), but we’ve got a LOT to cover. 🚨 Chicagoland Closures We’re…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1529,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beer-in-front-26093/episodes/293-the-wildest-story-in-beer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beer-in-front-26093/293-the-wildest-story-in-beer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}