Episode 100 •12 Beers, One Flight: Friends with Brews at Medford Brewing
Monday, 29 Jun 2026 •31 minutes
Scott and Peter post up at Medford Brewing Company with a twelve-glass flight and taste their way through an IPA, a witbier, a Mexican lager, a stout, a bitter, and the Rude Panda porter — with the usual detours into trail runs, Guinness, and Claude Code projects.
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The brew
Friends with Brews heads out to a brewpub — Medford Brewing Company in Medford, Massachusetts — and works through a twelve-glass flight between the two of us: a West Coast IPA, the PoWit witbier, a Mexican lager, a dry Irish stout, an English bitter, and the ~8% Rude Panda imperial porter. Thumbs go up, thumbs go down, and the bitter earns a very diplomatic 45-degree thumb.
As always, it wanders well past the beer.
The Topics
- The twelve-beer flight at Medford Brewing Company, and who ordered what
- Tasting notes and ratings across the IPA, PoWit, Mexican lager, dry Irish stout, English bitter, and Rude Panda porter
- Today’s 5.5-mile trail run and the Japanese rice bowls afterward (Scott’s gyudon, Peter’s tuna/yellowtail/salmon donburi)
- Why Peter thinks Guinness is “weak,” and a dry stout that’s “a less watery Guinness”
- Business ideas that already exist: a coffee/yoga/running shop, Runderwear, and the Poopsicle
- Pocket-Sized Podcast nostalgia, dated by the iPhone 4S and Siri
- “VLAN tag us”: firewalls and the trunking-vs-tagging debate
- Claude Code projects, from Obsidian vaults to a YouTube-to-blog pipeline, plus going expat
- Shipping version 1.0, because real artists ship
The Links
- Medford Brewing Company: https://medfordbrew.com
- EchoFeed: https://echofeed.app
- Matt Birchler’s Quick Reads: https://birchtree.me
- Website: https://friendswithbrews.com
- Scott: https://scottwillsey.com
- Peter: https://nikolaidis.com
- FriendsWBrews on Mastodon
- Friends With Brews Podcast