Episode XXVIII: COUNTDOWN TO HOLLERPALOOZA II: We are pumped to have a full house, live and in studio tonight (7pm sharp) as we welcome the husband and wife team of John and Kathryn Holler from Houston’s Holler Brewing Co. as well as local craft beer evangelist and Nobi Public House General Manager Channing Herrin to the show. Few, if any, breweries have gotten off to as impressive a start as Holler Brewing, which celebrated a Great American Beer Festival win and a Certified Cicerone® achievement inside the first year of operation. We look forward to learning more about the brewery, the couple behind it (our advance investigative staff has unearthed an impressive beer background between the two including the Siebel Institute in Chicago, Doemens Academy in Munich, the aforementioned Certified Cicerone program and out-of-state brewery experience) and their journey of education, experience, permitting, planning, test batching, more permitting and construction to get to where they stand today. On that note, the brewery is celebrating its second anniversary this Saturday with Hollerpalooza II, which we will cover in depth. Rumor is there will be multiple new Holler beer releases along with live music, food and free admission. We are also excited to discuss, and hopefully try, the recent Holler/Nobi Pub collaboration “Not Trending: Brown Ale” that Herrin helped brew at Holler. According to our research, “Not Trending: Brown Ale” is a Texas Brown Ale dry hopped with Chinook and Amarillo with a dank, floral aroma and a big malty flavor with a bitter, dry finish. Since we have been trying to get Herrin on the show for a while, we have a ton of questions for him regarding the status of the local, state and national craft beer, NEIPAs, impact of social media on craft and much more. If time allows (thought it likely won’t with this lineup), we will bring back the Galactic Coast Challenge where we will see if brewers still keep the exclusive edge over astronauts, aquanauts, aviators, American Ninja Warriors, artists, authors and Air Force Generals. We also p[lan to preview the upcoming Weekend Live Music Calendar (Pick of the weekend could be national acts Mickey Avalon and Dirt Nasty tonight at Scout Bar). And as always, we will put our guest to the test with our signature, on-topic, super-special audio quiz. Did we mention there will be beer? Thirsty yet? Then grab a brew and tune to the Galactic Coast Power Hour on Vinyl Draught Radio at 7pm!! The show is available live on YouTube, www.vinyldraughtradio.com, iHeartRadio, Spotify, the TuneIn app, the Player FM app and the Live 365 app. NEW DEVELOPMENT ALERT: Android users can now download the Vinyl Draught Radio app from the Google Play store (Apple IOS Version awaiting approval and coming soon). All episodes are also available on iTunes, Google Play and SoundCloud. Cheers!! - John Ennis, along with co-hosts Michael Taylor, Sylvia the Beer Fed Mother and the world’s most talented production/support team of Teagan Shunkwiler, Matthew Sweatt and Houston Radio Legend Atom Smasher at the controls. Prepare for Liftoff!!