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Beer Birthday: Mike “Tasty” McDole

Today would have been the birthday of Mike “Tasty” McDole, homebrewer extraordinaire, and one time co-host of “The Jamil Show,” or “Can You Brew It?” and also was a regular on the “Sunday Show” on The Brewing Network. Tasty would never refer to himself that way, and on Twitter he claimed to be simply a “homebrewer and a craft beer enthusiast.” But most of us who knew him would, as he also admits, “make [him] out to be much more.” And that is correct, I believe, as Tasty was one of the best. He’s a former Longshot winner, has given talks at the National Homebrew Convention and has won countless awards and had collaborated with numerous commercial breweries on beers. Unfortunately, he passed away a couple of years ago after battling cancer. Join me in raising a toast to Tasty’s memory.

Tasty and me one year at GABF.
My wide Sarah, me, Chad Moshier, Justin Crossley and Tasty at the Firestone Walker Invitational in 2020.
Vic Krajl, from The Bistro, Mike & Shaun O’Sullivan, from 21st Amendment at GABF in 2009.
With Justin Crossley at the Bistro Double IPA Festival in 2010.
With Shaun O’Sullivan at 21st Amendment in 2009.
Tasty at GABF in Denver in 2014.
And a couple of years ago, 21st Amendment Brewery released Tasty IPA in collaboration with Mike.
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