Passion. Hard work. Gun toting cats atop flame nostriled unicorns. This is Karben4 Brewing in Madison, Wisconsin. 

Hopalicious is back baby! The guys at Karben4 are working with Dean Coffey and Otto Dilba, co-founders of the former Ale Asylum in Madison, WI, to make this Ale Asylum staple (and others to come!). Check out PART 2 of this hilarious conversation!

K4 has acquired these brands, and the current Karben4 location in Madison was Ale Asylum's original space - so these brands are truly home!

Dean joins us for this episode - and so does Karben4 co-founder, Zak Koga - and along with Joe and Ryan we discover the first beers brewed by Ale Asylum and hear the full lineage of their original packaging line which came from Lagunitas.

The struggle is real as Ryan talks about the need for a magician welder from Cottage Grove and Dean recalls the move to the new Ale Asylum location where everything seemed to go wrong initially. 

That didn't stop the Ale Asylum guys though from being widely successful with their Hopalicious brand and others in their portfolio as they grew significanly for many years before their unfortunate closure.

We may have hit a new threshhold here on the amount of beer drank - the Hopalicious was just tasting so damn good! 

If you're a J.R.R. Tolkien fan, you'll get a taste of a chat about The Silmarillion. Harry Potter also gets an honorable mention!

Tune in...you won't be disappointed. And hopefully - like us - you'll be laughing your ass off!

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Cheers to beer bringing people together!