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Episode 119 - Fall Beers 2023
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This week bid farewell to long summer days and welcome in the cool autumn evenings.
Beers on this episode:
Roaring Table Brewing - Marzen
Maplewood Brewing - Festbier
Sierra Nevada - Oktoberfest Festbier
Off Color Brewing - Beer For Huddles
Art History Brewing - Good Night Bamberg
Obscurity Brewing and Craft Mead - Apple Cider Donut Beer
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Theme music provided by Myke Kelli (@mykekelli)
Outro and break music provided by @FluidMinds
Check out all our episodes at www.themaltinghour.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Xbox Warning
00:00:00
Speaker
Tell your Xbox to shut up. Well, it's telling me that it's about to automatically shut off in five minutes because I have had it on this whole time and not done anything
Seasonal Transition: Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
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Speaker
with it. This week, we say goodbye to summer and sip on some beers for autumn. This is episode 119 of The Malting Hour. What's the Haps on the Hops? Guy, use that space.
00:00:19
Speaker
This the molten hour where we talk about our drink And tell you what we think, every other week And if we get drunk, well we might slur our speech Gotta get a cab, the friends who wish you had Join us for a drink, join us for a laugh Time is never wasted, wait you're getting wasted The molten hour here, people, people taking places People, people taking places
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Speaker
Welcome to the Molting Hour.
Meet the Hosts: Tony and Brandon
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Speaker
I am one of your hosts, Tony Gullick, joining Always With... Brandon winning chair. And a fire truck just drove by my house. By the time you're listening to this, it's already fall, baby. And we are not and did not go to GABF this year. Next year we'll be back, baby. We'll be back, Brandon.
Lazy Workdays and Beer Plans
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How you doing?
00:01:11
Speaker
Good man. How are you? Pretty good. I'm a little tired. I don't know why. I think it's because there's a lot of not doing anything at work today.
00:01:18
Speaker
Yeah, I kind of had the same thing. Like all of my meetings I had today got canceled. I was like, Oh, okay. Yeah. You know what I do? Yeah. The, no sales today. We literally shipped like five box, five boxes, five boxes for UPS. I overslept as well. So I went to work a little late. Uh, but that didn't matter because pretty much sat around on my phone all day with the other guys. Like,
00:01:45
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it wasn't terrible. But yeah, so that's what's
Fall Beers and Beer Reviews
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Speaker
going on. But yes, it's fall. It's officially fall. The leaves are starting to turn. The air is becoming crisper. The beers, well, beers are becoming tastier. And I say that only because, as you all know, I love cold weather beers. And we've got some in front of us today. As it's been usual, not usually, but as of late,
00:02:13
Speaker
Brandon and I are drinking different beers, which I think makes it a little bit more exciting and interesting. Brandon, I just heard you crack open a beer. And I just cracked it off the four pack. But oh, the one that I chose is from Roaring Table. Oh, OK, OK, OK. It's their Marzen style German style lager. Hey, all right. See, I'm glad I like the design that I can. That's super cool. There were a lot of.
00:02:43
Speaker
Oktoberfest beers at Beer on the Wall when I went there today. I should have grabbed more, but I've already had some, at least one at home. And it is Maple Woods Fest beer. Ooh. Yeah. And I'm going to drink it out of my fancy dry hop beer sign that I got last year from our buddy, Joe, when I participated at the Friday Night Flights. And that's when they were releasing their Oktoberfest.
00:03:15
Speaker
So, have you taken a sip of beer yet? I have not. I know you haven't. I already took a sip of mine. How about I talk about mine real quick? Yeah, so Maple Woods Fest beer. I don't know if I've
00:03:33
Speaker
I don't know if I don't think we've ever had it on an episode and I don't remember having this in years past. And if I did, maybe I had it last year, but this is probably the second time I've already purchased this beer. OK. And just a four pack of it because they have it at my my local. Did we have that when we were at that party? Yeah, we did. We did. Yeah. Our buddy Ron, this is he really likes this beer as well. It is, I mean,
00:04:02
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, and
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Speaker
I don't know how to put into words other than like it's a fucking October fest fest beer, you know, I mean, it's a delicious lager. It's bready. It's not too. There's a nice sweetness to it without being totally sweet. You're not getting, you know, a bunch of fruity fruity notes that you would probably get from or not probably what you would normally get from other
00:04:35
Speaker
you know, loggers. It's, it's, I'd say medium to light body beer more on the light, definitely on the lighter body side, I only say medium I feel like because this there's that bit of sweetness that you get from fest beers in October fest beers.
The Appeal of Year-Round Fest Beer
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So I love this beer, man. It's really, really good.
00:04:55
Speaker
Yeah, from what I remember of it, I enjoyed it to actually to the point I went and bought a mixed four pack. And that is one of the ones I got in the mixed four pack. Oh, look at that. And I almost chose that as my first one. That's funny, because I was like, all right, because when we were talking about this, we said we're going to do, you know, fall beers and or fall type beers and
00:05:22
Speaker
I had this in mind because I was like, well, I've got that one. I've got this Maplewood fess beer already in the fridge. You know, I don't worry about that because I had already gone to beer on the wall and grabbed just a random mixed pack of beer. Well, you know, I've built my own. It was, let's see, one, two, three, four, five. I think I ended up with five.
00:05:46
Speaker
Yeah, I ended up with five beers because I grabbed as I was getting ready to check out. I saw that revolution had like their imperial anti hero. Oh, nice. Yeah. So real quick, just to talk about this.
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Speaker
beer here. The Fest beer is a golden Oktoberfest lager brewed with the finest German malts and noble hops. A super drinkable lager can be swigged or sipped during your end of summer festivities. Our fest beer is bold in flavor without being too heavy. Expect elegant malt notes with a crisp finish.
00:06:26
Speaker
It is coming in at 6%. So yeah, this is a tasty, tasty, tasty beer, 16 ounce. It does not drink like it's 6%. Like I said, it's not too heavy, but there is like this nice body to it that I really, really enjoy. Yeah, so I was looking at one of the other beers earlier. I'm like, I can't find a description. So the one that I'm drinking,
00:06:55
Speaker
I don't think it's listed on the website. So but there there is it's the Marzan from Roaring Table. So anyways, there is a description on the can. So it says we brewed this German inspired March lager often found in the annual Munich Festivity festivities in Illinois in July. Is this an old beer?
00:07:23
Speaker
No, on the bottom. No, it's the same description that's on there. Yeah. That's if it's in Illinois in July, so guess who died to you? Ah, there you go.
00:07:39
Speaker
Expect a rich, bready, deeply malty beer that's both creamy and crisp, thanks to our fully attenuative yeast strain and ambitious mash schedule enjoy in September, like they do on the Weissen. What a description. Do they brew it in March, I'm assuming? They brew the German inspired March, quote unquote, March Lager, Marzen.
00:08:07
Speaker
Uh, and they brewed in, in, uh, in July. Got it. The wording of it is the wording of that description is weird. So it's like, we brew this German inspired in quotes, March logger often found at the annual Munich Festive. He's in Illinois, comma in July.
00:08:23
Speaker
So, yeah, they brewed. They brewed it in July. So that's why they have the quotes of March because the Mars and, you know, historically made it March and then logged in caves and cold places. That makes sense. You know, through the summer. Yeah. So, yeah, I know it's not it's not an old beer and super, super chilled to the point that so when I got home, I threw them in the freezer and then I came down and whenever I came down, took them out of the freezer, threw them in the fridge and they took it out.
00:08:51
Speaker
There's a couple of little, couple of two tree ice chunks that came out. Deep freezer worked well. I've done that before with beers. I normally when I get home, even though, even though I know I'm not going to drink them like right away when I come home sometimes on Fridays after coming to go into beer on the wall, the ones I know that I'm like, all right, there's like two or three I know that I really want to try tonight and I'll pop like, you know, those in right away. And the other go in the refrigerator.
00:09:17
Speaker
I usually do it for about an hour and then an hour or so and then come back downstairs to throw them in the fridge. So that does not happen to me.
00:09:25
Speaker
Yeah, well, I was preoccupied, but it's it's actually all parenting. Yeah, and it's actually all dissipated now. So all the ice has gone, which is nice. And this is this is really, really good. I don't know. I think maybe one other time or once or twice before we've had wearing cable. It's possibility, but it is.
00:09:52
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Like super bready, super getting that deep malt. There's no overarching hot bitterness.
Oktoberfest Memories and Beer Preferences
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It's creamy. It's just really enjoyable. Nice, man. Yeah, I really like that can design. Actually, I really like all of.
00:10:16
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uh, Oktoberfest beer. Um, you know, uh, what am I trying to say here? Candesines. Jesus. Sorry. I, this is why I miss having like Tanner Clark around too. So they can look up stuff while I'm not trying to scramble. Cause once normally when you say, say, say something, uh, you know, they'll go and look for it for, uh, for us. I mean, I like, as I was talking, I checked our site and I like, I have nothing from roaring people.
00:10:46
Speaker
I have two beers from Roaring Table, and one of them is their Fest Beer from last year, I'm assuming from one of our 20 October Fest episodes we did last year. So we did have their Fest Beer. We didn't have this one. But the other beer I had from them was All-American Burger. Oh, I said that coming up in my search. I don't know. If I had All-American Burger, their pale ale. Remember when me, you, Ron, and Mike went to beer on the wall to drink some beers one day, and I grabbed a bunch of beer on the way home? I did. Oh, nice.
00:11:14
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looks like, um, I enjoyed the Fest beer. I said, uh, last weekend solid Fest beer and I gave it, it looks like, uh, three and a half. I was being, uh, I mean, we had been so.
00:11:27
Speaker
Uh, we've battered our taste buds with, uh, October fest beers at that point. Yeah. I remember this one. Cool, cool, cool can. I wish I had a sweater that was like that on the can. Wait, this beer? No, no, no, no, no. Fest beer. The best beer that they did. Well, I've not had that one. Um, but it sounds like, you know, you're, uh, I don't want to say standard and make it like downplay the, the, the work that went into that beer, but it sounds like, you know, sounds like your standard, uh, uh, Martin. So that's cool. I love.
00:11:58
Speaker
So do we have that? The other one from R and cable? Yeah, we had the first beer. I'm almost positive we had the first beer. I think with Matthew, if I'm not mistaken, if not, then I just had it myself. I don't know when the hell maybe maybe maybe I did have it. Maybe I grabbed it, but it says from last weekend. So maybe I had it with myself, just me and myself.
00:12:22
Speaker
I thought it was on the episode. Yeah, so yeah, I look back to our episode with Matt that was not on that episode. I think you. Look at me drinking fess beers by myself. Yeah, I mean, hey, as you should. I mean, it's possible. I was worried for a minute that like our the searching on our site was bad and I was like, oh, no.
00:12:48
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Yeah, I'm actually, yeah, I just looked at it. I'm looking at the picture. Oh, you know what? I'm confusing this can of the fess beer from Roaring Table with the bubble house, get yo festy on. I can't hear you. Why not? Oh, that's me. Yeah.
00:13:12
Speaker
That was great. I was saying that I was confused. I confused that can of Roaring Table, Roaring Beer. What's going on? Roaring Table's Fest Beer with the Bubble House Get Your Festy on their beer because it does look kind of similar.
00:13:30
Speaker
So man, we had a, we had a fantastic, uh, October fest selection last year. We did when we did it with, uh, with Matt, it was fantastic. And then. Who do we do the other one with? I think it just does.
00:13:46
Speaker
And maybe one of the other guys. Oh, great. There's a goddamn ad that popped up. No, Joe. Joe from Percolator joined us. How could I have forgotten that? Oh, man. Was that Oktoberfest or was it Pumpkin Beers? No, that was Oktoberfest 2020 part two. Yeah, that was the second one we did. We did the founders Ultimate Oktoberfest, Temperance, Yingling, Two Brothers and Land Grant. Yes. Look at us, man. Look at us go.
00:14:17
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Um, yeah, so I, I, it doesn't need to be repeated, but I'm gonna repeat it anyways. If I can love Oktoberfest beers, man, it's, it's such a great end of a summer beer style and beginning of the fall. It's a great transitioning, uh, style, you know, it gets you from the, the lighter, maybe fruitier, hoppier beers into.
00:14:41
Speaker
a little heavier, a little more body, maybe some sweeter type beers to get you through those cold, cold days and cold, cold nights. Yeah. My, my weekend originally was pretty open and I was, my thought was I would brew my October fest this weekend. And then things change. Things change, man. Life gets in the way. We will eventually, you know, one day you and I will brew a beer together again, like that into the void, which we have like 9,000 variants of it now in our heads.
00:15:10
Speaker
You know, we'll get to it. We will get to it. I have not brewed a beer either. I still need to. We should do it in November like we did the last one. It's a great idea. I like that. I like that a lot. Yeah, I can. This beer in general, I know I'd said about the Maplewood fest beer I bought a couple of times. I mean, it is a very approachable, drinkable beer that I really do enjoy drinking. And if it was
00:15:41
Speaker
Like a year-round beer, I'd totally be okay with it. I would buy it. It's definitely become one of my favorite Oktoberfest style beers here in Chicago. Yeah, I mean, I don't remember when or if I had it before, but I know that I, I mean, when I had it back a couple weeks ago, like that was probably one of my tops for the night. And then this one right here. I don't remember a lot of the beers that we had.
00:16:10
Speaker
That's what I'm like, I'm kind of like, I don't know, like, just looking at our stuff. Like, apparently, we haven't had roaring cable. And I think I know we've talked about it before, at least a little bit on the show, maybe Dan's brought it up or somebody brought it up. But super good, man. I like I'm it's Lake Zurich, Illinois. Yeah, that's crazy that we haven't had.
00:16:38
Speaker
on the actual. Like the color on this is, I would say perfect. The body is perfect. The mouth feel is perfect. Like everything that you want in a Mars and beer is pretty spot on. So like kudos to them for kind of nailing that style. Yeah, I was going to say the same thing with, you know, the Maplewood Fest beer. I mean, I don't know if you can see, I mean, that's got the nice like golden
00:17:05
Speaker
I had to wipe away all the the dew. Like I've drank a lot of it too already. Like, you know, perfect golden like hay type color, like straw color. Yeah, man, I just really like this beer. I don't know. It's like it's a good fucking beer. Let's see. Let's see. What's the ABV and the one I'm drinking? That was like five. Five point seven. Yeah, there we go. So they're they're roughly ours are roughly close because mine six years, five point seven. So.
00:17:37
Speaker
brain table. Boy, that all American burger is an IPA that the other one that I've had for them. Yeah, it's really, really tasty. I really like that one. I was glad that Ron suggested it to me to have it. It looks like he drank it on on May 1st, 2023. That's the last time Ron had that beer. What's wrong with drinking lately? Just like 25 minutes ago,
00:18:06
Speaker
He was drinking harm's way by, I can't pronounce that. Ooh, an Imperial IPA. Where'd he go, Ron? I'm gonna do a whole, we're gonna do a whole episode where we just read what our friends are drinking right now. He also had a hollow- He had a hollow-jacked Imperial pumpkin from Two-Town Cider House yesterday. Ooh, that sounds good.
Anticipation for Pumpkin Beer Episode
00:18:28
Speaker
Dark and delicious this year's Hollow Jacked is a sinfully sweet treat. Heirloom pumpkins caramelized with dark muscovado cane sugar creates a deep richness culminating in the fall spice finish. Let the flavor and spirit of the great hollow pumpkin take over. It's, I want, I want this 8%. It's a two town cider. Yeah. So it's a cider beer. Yeah. No, it's a cider. Is it a pumpkin cider?
00:18:55
Speaker
Yeah. Did you listen to my. So money like so is it like is it just pumpkin juice? Yeah, it's it's I mean, they use heirloom pumpkins. They're caramelized with cane sugar. Oh, OK. So, yeah, I think we need to find that. Yeah, that sounds really good. I'm looking forward to doing the pumpkin episode because I've had.
00:19:18
Speaker
Just the one pumpkin beer so far. And, uh, you know, as we approach, we're getting ready to go into October. So Christmas beers are right around the fucking corner. Like all the pumpkin beers that we're going to want are going to start going away. So we need to jump on the pumpkin train. Ooh, pumpkin train. That's a good name for a beer. No pumpkin, dude. I'm digging in your eye. Me? Your eye up.
00:19:40
Speaker
No, no, no, I was just rubbing my eye. I'm very tired tonight. Like I said, it was a weird, long day at work with nothing going on. All right, Brandon, how many Bladerhosen are you giving that beer from Roundtable? I'm gonna go solid four.
00:19:58
Speaker
Salad four. I like that. Without, you know, I'm not even gonna look. I'm gonna go four point one nine. Niner. For this fast beer from Maplewood because it is delicious. I would love to have more of these in the future. Just waiting for me. Sitting in my fridge all the time.
00:20:25
Speaker
I gave it. It looks like I gave it a. When I give it. Oh, that's just the regular reading. I gave it a solid four. And the first time I had it this year was a couple weeks ago on the 13th of August. That was a month ago, Tony. Learn how to do math. Who needs math? I don't. Yeah. Yeah, man. I think that's I think we're pretty on the nose here with these beers.
00:20:53
Speaker
way to start off our fall celebration of beer. Can we sing songs like that on the podcast or do we have to get that cleared as well? No. Not if we're singing. You sure about that? Yeah, I don't know.
00:21:14
Speaker
You sure about that? You sure about that? You sure about that? I'm so glad you're watching all this. Did you finish it all? Oh, yeah. And I'm already like my second like I'm like halfway through it again. Like I've been putting it on repeat. Like when I was working, like I have two monitors and I was like, I only one monitor a day. So keep it on Netflix and just put it on repeat. Yeah, man, it's it's great. It's such a funny show. I think you should leave.
TV Show Nostalgia and New Beer Tasting
00:21:45
Speaker
It's funny because there are some, there are definitely some sketches where it's like hit or miss, but for the most part it is just comedy gold. Tim Robinson cracks me up. I was so happy when that show first aired and I found it. I was like, this is great. Tim Robinson was highly under used as days in SNL.
00:22:08
Speaker
I guess some of the SNL. Yeah, dude. Some of those, like I said, he was highly underused. I'll send you some. I'll send you some.
00:22:20
Speaker
Some of the sketches he was in, but apparently like some of the stuff that ended up, I think at least in the first season may have been original ideas that he had for Saturday Night Live for the sketches. So, um, you should also watch. Oh shit. What's the name of it? Uh, it's also on Netflix. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Holding, holding.
00:22:46
Speaker
Oh, man, it's a calm. It's another like sketch comedy thing on Netflix. Oh, what else is he on? I can't think of it, but there's no there's some other comedians on there that I really like. Lauren Lapka, she's on there. Basically, they get a half hour.
00:23:07
Speaker
of like just to do their own sketches. And there's there's you. You got you got to watch those. Those are also very funny. He was also on Michael Bolton's Big Sexy Valentine's Day special. Did you watch watch that? That's very his his part on there is is very funny. God, I wish I could. I wish I knew what the name of the stupid fucking show. Do you ever watch Detroiters?
00:23:34
Speaker
Nope. When it was on. It was on Comedy Central. Also, very, very funny. Yeah, so now that we're done with the whole Tim Robinson recap, I guess we can maybe move on to the next beer. As we can.
00:23:53
Speaker
What did you, it sounded like you had already cracked open a beer, right? I did. Oh boy. What, what is it? Um, so based on my research. Hey, shut up. The show is called the characters. Making its debut. Oh boy. Oh boy. On our show is a brewery. Sierra Nevada. Whoa. Sierra Nevada is Oktoberfest.
00:24:21
Speaker
We have not had, I searched, we have not had Sierra Nevada. We have had Sierra Nevada on the show. Well, then we coded it wrong or spelled it wrong because my searching through all of our stuff showed that we didn't. Anyways, we have not had this year, I know that. It is on the decades of pale ales, if I'm not mistaken.
00:24:46
Speaker
Probably that we probably spelled it wrong episode number three featuring Kevin guy Or it's yeah, or as I'm reading it. It's just not in the description
00:24:57
Speaker
It's not listed, it just says, we sit down and drink paleos for decades. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's the problem. It's like we don't, when we- Some of them. We need to do better about listing the beers in the description. Absolutely. But like, so not making it to be, but the- That beer, that beer specifically, yeah, specifically is. Their Oktoberfest Fest beer. And it's okay.
00:25:24
Speaker
I still have more of mine. Sorry. Keep going. Oh, it's just OK. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not blown away. So it's their fest beer. Not is it a mark? Is it a Martson? It just says Oktoberfest. Oop, fest beer, brooding. Routine with. Care for wider brewery. Oh, that's probably why those fucking assholes. I'm just joking. I know nothing about that. That brewery.
00:25:53
Speaker
But six percent alcohol, but like very kind of watery. So this says this collab with the character is 20 years in the making back when our brewmasters were classmates in Berlin. Cool. Today, Curator is turning German style. I'm going to get shit for the way I'm pronouncing the German style craft beer on its head, just like it did states. Oh, like we did stateside Sierra Nevada.
00:26:21
Speaker
And out of mutual passion is fuse in this fest beers light bright and polished copper rich with biscuity malts and balanced with a punchy blend of German and American hops you son of a bitch Interesting. Yeah, I think I think I think that's my problem is that they used American hops like they didn't go traditional with German hops Because yeah, it's a mix. It's a mix of them
00:26:47
Speaker
It it starts off very like kind of like Cooper Festy, but it's it's super light. The mouthfeel is light like it's. There's there's no body to it, and I don't know why I don't know it, but I'm like. I want I want more, a little more heft when I'm when I'm drinking this beer. I feel like there have there are definitely some fest beers that.
00:27:17
Speaker
come off more on the lighter side of drinking as far as the body goes, only because I feel like the Martzen does have a little more heft to it, a little more body to it. It had always been my understanding that fest beer
00:27:40
Speaker
And Martens were different. And then people were then telling me that they're the same. But a Fespier is basically a more robust in alcohol and body. The Munich Hells was slightly more a hoppy flavor. So Fespier is an actual German lager style that came to replace the Martens lagers served during Oktoberfest in the late 20th century. What? But people still make Martens random place. I looked this up on.
00:28:10
Speaker
Tell your Xbox to shut up. Well, it's telling me it's about to automatically shut off in five minutes because I have had it on this whole time and not done anything with it.
00:28:21
Speaker
So yeah, I thought it was either and I thought, I thought fests beers had maybe had a little less body, but I apparently I was wrong and I'm a man enough to admit it when I was wrong and I was wrong, man. You know, so there I am. Here I am, you know, just being honest with myself and everybody here. So Brandon, what are you going to give that beer? How many, how many, uh,
00:28:48
Speaker
misspelled words or mispronounced words would you give that beer? Take one more sip, take it in. How many chocolates of water? I'm gonna go three and a half.
00:28:59
Speaker
three and a half. I feel like that's even generous for the way you're describing it. Yeah, maybe three to five. I don't know. I mean, I like the beer. It's it's enjoyable. You know what? So but I guess if I'm going for like for what it is and what it's supposed to be, I'm going to go all the way down to three because I would drink this one when there's a can. I crushed the can, unfortunately. Fuck that can. Well, and then I was like, oh, shit, I got to take a picture of this.
00:29:32
Speaker
Yeah, so it was canned in or July, July. It was canned in October 2022. Oh, no. No. Yeah, it was canned in July. So I don't know. And it makes sense. I'll have to maybe I saw that also at a beer on the wall. So maybe I'll grab a can to.
00:29:55
Speaker
to see how I like it as well. Keeps getting tangled in the goddamn wire. I don't know what to do. She doesn't know what to do. It's hard to be a dad. All right, let's see. You're only having two, correct? We're only doing two. I'm in. You might have one. Currently. Currently, okay. I was gonna say, maybe we should take a break or maybe I'll just I'll drink one now and then we'll
00:30:22
Speaker
See where the takes is. I'm gonna let you choose, okay? I have three other beers sitting in front of me. Choose a number between one and three. Two. Interesting. I kinda wanna do that one, but I was thinking of doing one. If we do another beer, then I'm definitely gonna drink number one.
00:30:52
Speaker
The beer that Brandon has selected is Off Colors Beer for Huddles. It's a football beer. It's an amber beer, man. It's perfect for football. It is cloudy as a motherfucker. Look at that.
00:31:14
Speaker
Can't see through it, man. Okay, let's read what this is. Beer for Huddles. Amber Ale, 5.2%, made with victory, pale, Munich, caramel, roasted barley. Hops, super saucer. Whoa. Super, super, super. The secret technique is unsportsmanlike conduct.
00:31:39
Speaker
That is a, an adorable can also. I, I almost got that beer too. And then I was like, eh, I didn't like look it up or anything. So I was like, and I didn't register in my head that that would be like a fall football beer. I was going to save this for football. I was going to save that beer for Sunday, um, to throw at my TV when I watched the bears.
00:32:06
Speaker
Because the bears are awful. I don't know if everybody knows that, but the bears are awful. They don't actually play, they just show up. Okay, so I don't know what I'm getting on the aroma here. It smelled kind of roasty, but it's not roasty. It smells very berry. How's that for a nice technical term?
00:32:33
Speaker
But I think people that like have come from like not come from, but have drank, you know, macro loggers and things like that. And then like craft beers, like when you say beer, you go back to like the stale macro logger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you cracked a beer, like you've got that beer smell and you go to craft beers like.
00:32:59
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you're getting hops, you're getting more of the malt. Yeah, I think people understand when you say it's like beer-y. Okay, good. I just, you know, I don't wanna lose anybody. We don't wanna lose any listeners. So the amber ale, much like the, oh, there goes the Xbox. Much like the brown ale, I feel like is a underappreciated style of beer.
00:33:28
Speaker
And I don't know why more people like the I feel like with the way that fucking crispy boys have, you know, went from man, fucking love hops and I want all these, you know, here's my rant, when all these hops and all these like big ass IPAs to like, fuck those beers. Logger is life. We only drink loggers. If you don't like loggers,
00:33:54
Speaker
You fucking suck. You're not a real beer drinker. Nothing better in life than a fucking pilsner. All right, relax, everybody. Okay, we're going through phases. I really feel like the whole logger thing was spawned by the anti hazy beer, you know, crowd, where it was like,
00:34:14
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Hazy beer isn't a real beer. It's just too sweet and whatever. He's the IPAs are too much. And, you know, I want I want beer that tastes like beer. OK, fine. You guys got it. All right. So my next hope is that and rent. My next hope is that brown ales and amber ales become much more acceptable and appreciated and consumed by your average beer drinker.
00:34:42
Speaker
Now, brown ales, they're delicious. Nice, light and roasty. It's, you know, a lot of good ones are like, like, I don't want to say a thin body, but there's not a lot of like, I like ones that don't have a lot of heft to them. I like, you know, thin bodied or light bodied brown ales that have just a little touch of roastiness and a nice, like fruity, hoppy, hoppiness to it. Nothing too crazy. It's supposed to be like a, to me, a slightly roasted, refreshing beer.
00:35:12
Speaker
amber ale on the other hand, where I feel like is almost like a brown ale in that sense, is that there's some amber ales where I feel like you can get a little chocolate in it. And I feel like I do get a little hint of maybe some chocolate in this beer for huddles. But this one definitely has a bit more body to it that I'm used to with an amber ale. I feel like again, the amber ale like brown ales are maybe lighter in body. At least what I remember and experience with some of those beers are the ones that I enjoy.
00:35:42
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But this is really tasty. This is definitely a. Hmm. This is a football game beer, for sure. I could have two treaties, but that's all I'm going to be drinking is the 16 ounce camp. It's it's really tasty. I really, I really like it. I'm happy to see that. I don't remember beer for huddles ever. And if I don't know.
00:36:12
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If it was out, I just missed it and I shame on me forever missing it because, you know, the Off-Color Beer Force series is always tasty and I really enjoy Amber Ale. So if I missed it in the past, like I said, that's a foul. That's a penalty. Throw the yellow flag. Yeah. So if you're going to give that a couple of footballs, how many footballs would you give that to your beer?
00:36:39
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Oda said pigskins, but yeah, footballs. You know, for an amber ale, you know, and the only thing I want real quick, I want to talk about about this, though. What I don't like about this beer, which is not a lot, but I don't like about this beer. I don't know why that this is the case. I'm going to show you Brandon. How hazy it is, dude, it's like I'm not even hazy, like just like
00:37:09
Speaker
It's like a murky. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. That's that's that's kind of the kind of I got him. It's kind of off putting. I can see that. That's coming. It's coming from someone who likes fucking hazy IPAs. But yeah, I'm going to say how many footballs I'm going to get brands whizzing. I'm going to give it three point eight five footballs. And that is
00:37:37
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I know when we rate things. I'm trying to be more realistic about my ratings. I would definitely choose the Maplewood over this. I do like the spirit. It is tasty.
00:37:48
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I do think though that there might be some better ambers out there. God damn it. I'm going to find them, but it's, it's, it's good. I would, I'm not going to pass this one up. It's not like one of the other beer forest. I'm like, what the fuck are they talking about? This is not that style. I don't even remember which one it is. Uh, Clark will have to remind me what that was, but yeah, I give it a 3.8 footballs.
00:38:16
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OK. All right, everybody. That's it. We'll see you later. I was joking. I like how you muted. You want to take a quick break or you just want to keep going? I still have like a full beer here. We can take a quick break. He wants you to stop talking or she's combing your hair.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah, she's abusing me. All right. Yeah, quick break. I have another one if we want to do another one. So I'm cool with that. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.
00:40:32
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And we're back. Welcome back, everybody. What a great break that was. I really got a chance to, oh, my TV is on the timer now too for how it's about to shut off. Wow, I love my electronics just shutting off. Does your Xbox not turn your TV off?
00:40:46
Speaker
No, I don't have it all hooked up like that. I don't do that shit, man. So I did actually, to the fairness of off-color brewing beer for huddles, I did find a full description of the beer. I should have looked up. Oh, I just heard your Xbox turn on. Here we go. As the foliage color fades and the grunts of late summer to a day's subside, our thirst also transitions into the warm coziness of richer flavors. Subbin beer for hoodies.
00:41:13
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Tree resin amber in color and aromas of warm biscuits. This traditional amber drives deeper into flavor town with pan browned pie crust overtones, as well as a hint of rose incense and early autumn dry leaves. If you get your third down, you may just want to go for it on fourth. Ooh. So yeah, I mean, I don't really get warm biscuits.
00:41:43
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in the aroma. I do get the taste of dead dry leaves though now that I think about it in this beer. That's what I want in a beer. That's why it's hazy as fuck. No, I don't get that. But I will say there are only 29 ratings of this on Untapped at the moment as of this recording. And the overall global score of it is
00:42:08
Speaker
3.85 so I'm there with everybody else I don't know that's crazy it is crazy hazy man and that's the other that's the next other beer we're gonna make it's called crazy hazy oh man I gotta sneeze I don't have every caught that I almost sneezed before I said we'll be right back
00:42:35
Speaker
I just did it again. Holy cow. What's going on? I'm having a sneezing attack right now. Oh, all right. Don't do that. Don't do that. Oh, sneeze attack's the worst. And actually, the break gave me time to sip on this beer a little bit more. See, I worked my way through it just about. Yeah, look at you. So since I'm still working on this one and I do have one more left, which means I don't have to finish it before, you know, the episode's over, I can enjoy that beer into the post show. Brandon.
00:43:05
Speaker
what are you drinking so my next beer is i have another sneeze coming in i can already feel it jesus from art history brewing oh good good night bombberg it is yeah go ahead guess it's an october fest beer
00:43:26
Speaker
Well, it's a Franconia style smoked dark lager. What the fuck? I'm jealous. Yep, that's why I got it. Not to make you jealous, but it's different. Oh man, but a smoked dark lager. Come on. That. Other than Sierra Nevada, you stayed local.
00:43:54
Speaker
Yeah, and it was canned 913. Nice. And the note on the bottom says Fuhrer. Uh-oh. Now I don't know how I feel about this. Yeah, like what's going on here? And I just poured it. It's a lot, a lot, a lot ahead. A lot. That's what she said. No, like a lot. Boy.
00:44:25
Speaker
But super dark in the bottom down there. Let me switch over. Oh, yeah, I just switched over to see it. Nice. It looks like a Guinness through the haziness of this video. It drinks through some of the head. How's the smell? I mean, you probably got a lot of aroma on that head. It smells not super smoky. There's a light smokiness to it. I'm going to meet my microphone so I can blow my nose. Yeah. Keep talking. Yeah. So there's a light smokiness to it.
00:44:53
Speaker
I'm getting some bready, some bready notes. No, like, hop notes or anything like that. The head's dissipating, like, pretty quick. It smells like a Roush beer. Like, like what I like in a Roush beer. And like, until doing this podcast, I was never like a huge fan of Roush beers.
00:45:25
Speaker
And then we found a couple, I started enjoying them. And I think that's, it's not my go-to, but it's definitely like when I see, like I saw that and I was like, yeah, I'm definitely gonna get that. And I'm gonna try that. I'm with you on that as far as Rauch beers go. Mm. Mm, taste-wise. We both took some beer at that time for a little. Yeah, taste-wise, smoky, malty.
00:45:53
Speaker
slightly syrupy. Interesting. Like a sweetness. Yeah. Not like body-wise syrupy, right? No, no, no. There's a very full mouthfeel. It's a really, really good beer. 5.3 alcohol by volume. I thought it would have been a little higher. And it says on there, keep refrigerated below 37 degrees Fahrenheit. As I did, I put it in the
00:46:22
Speaker
freezer. The only notes on here is brewers' notes. It's inspired by the dark smoked loggers of Bamberg, Germany. Bamberg is a city in Germany. I've never been there. I know my father-in-law and mother-in-law have been there. They went on a cruise and ended up there. What's the name of the beer again? It is Goodnight Bamberg.
00:46:49
Speaker
And I do have like a smaller description. Oh, OK. It says here at Art History, we love Roush beer. Beechwood smoked malt from Bombard makes up 40 percent of the grist bill along with Karen Munich malt and Hearstbucker hops. A unique offering that we will try to keep on as much as possible. So I think they try to do this around the clock. Nice. They also have another one called Good Morning Munich.
00:47:17
Speaker
Oh, which is an ode to everyday beer of Bavaria, which is just a hell of a slogger. Yeah. If, if I'm familiar with art history, like they try to replicate beers. Like as far as styles, like sticking through the styles.
00:47:35
Speaker
I mean, they have art history major, which is a hazy IPA. I mean, and that is like as much as you can get. Oh, my God. And a Bach. I think you I think you would really like this. Just it's it's not overpowering overpowering Lee Smoky. It's very like I guess the best. It's like middle of the road smokiness.
00:47:57
Speaker
but you're still getting the malt, you're getting the sugar, you're getting the sweetness. There's no hop bitterness. It's super enjoyable. And I would love to have this again. I really like this. I will be on the lookout for that, because that does sound delicious and right up my alley, man. It's so good. It's so good. Probably my favorite of the night.
00:48:25
Speaker
Um, I can see that just by your, just the way you're reacting to it. I mean, and how your eyes are rolling in the back of your head as you talk about it. Uh, how many furs would you give this beer? And I'm only saying that because that was on the can. I think that's on the can. Oh, brain. Yeah. That sounds like your.
00:48:50
Speaker
How many of those are you giving this? Actually, how many beechwoods? How many how many beechwood chips are you giving it? I'm going to go four to five. Hey, look at you, man. I'm jealous. Now I wish I had some heads for that as well. Yeah, for the for the style that it is, it's represented really well. The global rating of it is three point eight three. What? Fuck those guys.
00:49:17
Speaker
Um, but it's super easy drinking, super like. Smooth man, like it's a smooth beer. Brandon, they have another beer that we have to try. What's that? It's called figgy pudding.
00:49:32
Speaker
It's a Belgian double, and it's a Belgian double brewed with Pilsner and Vienna malt, fig syrup, and Styro, Styrian gold, golden ox. You had me at Belgian. And fig syrup, mmm, nummers. That's nummy time. All right, let me finish this. So give me another figgy pudding. Give me another figgy pudding.
00:49:58
Speaker
Just give us some figgy pudding, man. I don't know, there. Come on. What else? Just give me all the figgy pudding. Just give me some fucking figgy pudding. What is figgy pudding? I was going to say. Hey, let's have figgy pudding this year on our Christmas episode. Yeah. I mean, we sang about it in choir and high school, so. Shit.
00:50:17
Speaker
All right, you do what you do. No, no, no, I'm smelling this. Would you do? Wait, it just something just popped up on the screen when I switched off. I think it said like I had a bad connection or something. So I'm sure it's still recording. Right. Let's see real quick. What am I drinking here? I.
00:50:40
Speaker
What the fuck? Hold on. Nobody knows. I really did. I kept it very local as well because as you know, Maplewood is here in Chicago. Yeah, dude. Let's see. And then I had... Hold on. I cannot fucking multitask this goddamn show.
00:51:10
Speaker
I'm trying to look up this damn beer and I'm like, oh, I can do this real quick. Off color was the other, other beer, also in Chicago. And what I'm drinking right now. Interesting. I, oh, it's a collaboration. That's why I can't, you idiot. Tony, you moron. Okay, here we go.
00:51:37
Speaker
I have cracked open Apple cider, donut beer from obscurity brewing and craft me. And they're in. Oh, okay. So you can keep going if you want. I'm done. Oh, they have a fucking beer cider called welcome great pumpkin and the can looks so cool.
00:52:01
Speaker
All right, but that's not what I'm drinking. Clark's gonna have to get him some of that. Anyways, this is a golden ale with apple cider and cinnamon infused with
00:52:11
Speaker
I don't know how to pronounce this farm's name. Cooper's K-U-I-P. It's Quippers. Quippers, apple cider donuts. So it's a gold nail with apple cider. Is that the same place that does the thing with the... Phase three? Phase three, yeah. Might be. Is it Quippers? I don't know. I have no idea. And I don't care, because I don't care for that beer. Let's see, here we go. Going in for it. It's 5%. Gold nail. Taking a sip.
00:52:43
Speaker
Hey now. That, so it's a donut infused golden ale with apple cider and cinnamon. Yes, this is. This is a, I don't know what I was expecting. I think I was expecting, I was expecting more donut, that is for sure. I'm not getting a ton of donut. And that's okay, I'm okay with that. I do get a nice little subtle amount of cinnamon, which is very nice. What I do get the most of
00:53:14
Speaker
is cider and I am okay with that because it is a nice, like the golden, like the golden ale part of the beer of this, this beer slash cider. That is like the backbone that's carrying everything else. It's making the cider and cinnamon and I'm assuming whatever donut that's in here, this apple cinnamon donut. I mean, um, like
00:53:38
Speaker
This is a very fall beer and it's very delicious. And yeah, man, this reminds me of when we were taking your cider and put the fireball shots, but not that strong of a cinnamon. I mean, definitely not that strong cinnamon, but it, that the body of this and the way this tastes reminds me of your cider a little bit. Nice. It's really good. I,
00:54:10
Speaker
I could, I could, I could drink these, uh, you know, especially now that it's fall, I could definitely sit around the backyard with fire going and, uh, have a couple of these. I think I probably have two of these before I could be like, okay, that's enough before like the, the juice and sugar all kind of caught up to me and they're like, all right, settle down. Take it easy.
00:54:33
Speaker
You know, that's that's too much for one night, but it's it's really tasty. It tastes like fall, man. It's this is an easy drinking beer slash cider. It's delicious. This is fall in a glass, baby. It's fall in a glass. Yep. So can. So your that beer is obscurity brewing is the one that I the apple cider donut beer, right? Yes. Yeah. What about it? What's wrong?
00:55:02
Speaker
No, no, they they've released it the last couple of years and like you can only normally you can only get it at the brewery or the the farm. Well, this is that beer on the wall. Yeah, dude, I've wanted to try it. It's very good. You should get yourself some. I'm looking at that great pumpkin. Welcome, great pumpkin. And it's a Midwest pumpkin patch ale.
00:55:29
Speaker
brooding collaboration with the Quippers family farm in Maple Park. So they do a lot of stuff with them. And it looks like a fun pumpkin beer to have. I want to get that damn can so I can put it on my, that sticker on my beer fridge. Yeah. And I've been to Quippers before, but like, like. Where is, where is Quippers young man? Uh, it's in the boonies as we call it. Hmm. Maple, Maple Park.
00:55:59
Speaker
Oh yeah, I did just read that, so I don't know why I asked you. What an idiot. Me, not you. Yeah, I don't have any plans yet to do any of... Oh yes, I do. What a liar. Next weekend, I'm going to pick apples. I'm picking apples next weekend. It's about... Fuck you, man. Fuck you. It looks like it's close to DeKalb. DeKalb.
00:56:29
Speaker
Um, so yeah, it's about an hour away. We should go. Let's bring a whole family. So we can go drink that great pumpkin or welcome great pumpkin beer. That's all I want to do. I just want to go there to get the great pumpkin beer. Yeah. I mean, I've gone to the farm. I've gone through the last couple of times they've had, I don't know if it's a specialty beer, but they've had some like unique beers on tap. Um, yeah, I've never been to any like pumpkin or picking place that had beer. Really?
00:56:58
Speaker
Yeah. We go to lame places. I'm just joking. The place we go to is pretty cool. Um, where do you normally go? We go Apple picking. We go up to, here we go. Tony is pulling it up on his calendar. Bear with me. My, I did get, uh, I did install Mac fees that my computer would run better and I wouldn't have to freak out anymore. So that's pretty exciting. Uh, got that going for me.
00:57:25
Speaker
We are going Apple picking to Edwards Apple orchard in Papa Grove, Illinois. I've been there. That's a good spot. Yeah, it's cool. I like that spot a lot. Um, the apples are delicious. Um, the place is cool. Some decent food. And, uh, during the height of the pandemic, you know, that small transition period, uh, 2020 where we all thought COVID was going away. That was the one place we all went out to as a family and the kid wear masks while you were like,
00:57:55
Speaker
around everybody and on the actual, even though you're outside and you're sitting on like that hay truck thing that they're pulling you around to get different apples. Yeah. Or a mass, but we spent, I think almost $150 in their little shop because we hadn't done anything all year that we bought like, there's dips and sauces and mustards and shit like that. I've been there. Yeah, we spent too much money that year.
00:58:21
Speaker
I mean, I do that, like, when we go to the farmer's market, man, I'm like, look at this. I was really bummed Labor Day weekend that the farmer's market over by us was a little lacking in participants. I was kind of bummed about that because the places that I normally like to get stuff from, they were not there for Labor Day weekend, which, you know, everybody's enjoying Labor Day weekend. That's cool. But I figured that'd be a good time for some of those places to make some money with everybody having the next day off. What can you do, man?
00:58:49
Speaker
I always go looking for my stampers cheese. I mean, they're always there. They're always there. Do those smoked string cheeses are delicious. Oh, yeah. So when we used to go to the Lincoln Square Farmer's Market, when a little man's school was right there, like they there was this bread place and I can't remember the name of the bread, but they always they had like you had to get there like almost when they opened because they sold a jalapeno sourdough.
00:59:20
Speaker
or jalapeno cheddar sourdough. It was so good, dude. Oh, my God. I would buy that and make grilled cheese sandwiches with that. Oh, my God. I want that right now. So good. And I got to I got to find the name of that place. I did find it at one point and then I looked them up and like it wasn't something listed on their website. I'm like, how do you not sell it on your website? Like what? Oh, my God. Jalapeno cheddar sourdough. That just sounds amazing. Oh, fuck. Yeah, dude.
00:59:51
Speaker
Real quick, back to this beer that I'm drinking. I'm going to give it. What am I? What am I writing this on, Brandon? Oh, what are you drinking again? It's the fucking apple cider donut beer, man. How many donuts are you gonna give it? Thank you. Um, for what this is not specifically based on my feelings of it. 3.8.
01:00:18
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Okay. Only because I don't get a lot of donut. It's a good cider beer blend. The cinnamon, I would like a little more cinnamon in there.
01:00:27
Speaker
As you know, I've been, like I said, I've been sneezing. I feel a little congested right now, uh, down here in the basement. I don't know why. You got some allergies, some allergies. I think so. That's why I was rubbing my eyes so much. You need some, you need some Benadryl? Help me go to sleep. I mean, the thing about this, I was so tired when we started this and then as soon as I hop off here, man, I'm going to fucking catch that second wind. I'm going to be up to like two in the morning. It's the worst and best. But yeah, I like this. Uh, I think it's a fantastic idea for a fall beer. Um, and.
01:00:57
Speaker
You guys are in the Illinois area and you can get your hands on this or you can go to that, uh, uh, the Quippers farm. You know, I don't know if they have it there. So don't quote me on that shit. Uh, but this is, this is good, man, Brandon, you'd like it. I think Beck would like it too. I think Laura would like it. I think, um, anybody who enjoys, uh, apple cider with a little carbonation to it.
01:01:21
Speaker
and the little kick in the back there with some booze would also thoroughly enjoy this beer. Oh yeah. I mean, I've been, I think last year was the first year, but like I saw it and I was like, I want that beer. And then we were going to go earlier this year to that place and then to the farm. And then I forget what happened when we woke up and we were just like, yeah, we don't want to go. So yeah. Plans change, man. Plans change on the fly.
01:01:49
Speaker
Yeah, but I will definitely knowing that they have it like out in distribution, I will seek it out. Amen. If you need to take a quick excuse me, take a quick trip up to Park Ridge to go to beer on the wall. And, you know, there's I almost grabbed a pumpkin cobbler beer for tonight.
01:02:12
Speaker
Ooh. Oh, dude, I almost did two from. Yeah, they do all those other random pastry beers, right? What kind of what is it? Not pastry stouts, but like. No, no, the brewery. Yeah, yeah. Bistro. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, they had. It's a burner wise. It's a Berliner wise pumpkin beer.
01:02:34
Speaker
Yeah, they had they had one on the shelf at bottles and cans. I was like, I don't want to deal with it because not yet. Not yet. In my head, like I think most of those beers are like the. Not the slushy beers, but like close to that, like. Yeah, that's a beer we got to split. Yeah, that is a beer we say. I'm not doing this by myself. No.
01:03:01
Speaker
Yeah, that's a beer we have for the pumpkin beer episode, which is still happening this year. I think this is as close as we're getting to an Oktoberfest beer episode this year, and I'm okay with that because for the last, I don't know, since we've started this fucking show, each year we do an Oktoberfest beer episode. We don't need to do an Oktoberfest beer every...
01:03:19
Speaker
year. Last year made up for this year. We did two last year. We're just trying some new fall beers. I've not had any of these except for the Fest beer from Maplewood. So these are all brand new beers for me. That's same here. By the way, I want you to know what my other beer was, by the way. My other beer was Chicago Henge.
01:03:46
Speaker
from Hot Butcher. And it's their fall beer, but it's a double IPA. By the way, it's their fall beer, but it's double IPA. But they also have the one I think is called Beer Hall, which is their Oktoberfest beer that I saw. But this one has Nelson Savan. Oh, man, I don't have my fucking glasses with me.
01:04:09
Speaker
Get your readers. My readers are put away right now. This is like seven and a half percent IPA. The other beers that I got was that Imperial antihero, like the 10 percent antihero. Got one, Canada. And then some some random bear leach beer. I'm going to read. I'll read it. I'll text you what that is. I wanted to try that this weekend. Maybe I'm sitting around the fire. So I'm I'm excited to try that. Random Lagunitas.
01:04:38
Speaker
Yeah. What is it again? It's zombie inspired beer. So I think it's like zombie the the Tiki drink.
01:04:47
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Yes. Um, cause there's like orange and lemon, like there's a bunch of citrus fruits in there or whatever. It's like 10%. So yeah, it is. That was one of the two for six things at a jewel. Jesus. It's 10% hazy IPA with notes of orange, lime, grapefruit, and allspice. Interesting zombie cocktail inspired IPA Tiki fusion. Yeah. Okay. That's the jewel by you. Correct? Yep. Yes. I'm going to stop there this weekend and grab one of those.
01:05:17
Speaker
as you should. Uh, what we are missing this weekend is great American beer fest. And what we didn't do is give Matthew a way to record. Uh, I realized that this morning, I was like, Oh yeah, right. But, uh, that was on us. Uh, I mean, it is our show, uh, three one two block party goose islands going on right now. Uh, and they're serving pretty much all of their beers.
01:05:44
Speaker
but also a plethora, a plethora, Friday and Saturday today and tomorrow. So many Bourbon County fucking variants. And I'm pretty sad. I won't be there tomorrow to drink 2018 vanilla. And the Regal Rye and 2015 rare.
01:06:16
Speaker
And 2014 original. And 2013's Templeton Rye. Oh, and Clark's favorite 2019 Reserve Rittenhouse Rye. He loved that one so much. He didn't hit it. Yeah, he hit it a lot. And then the mystery pour is at seven. I want to know what the mystery pour was tonight and what the mystery pour is going to be tomorrow. Ooh, the Peaches and Cream wheat wine was tonight, too. Damn. I mean, or 2017 or 2014 probably.
01:06:44
Speaker
My thoughts is probably that's, or, uh, I doubt it'd be double barrel. Jesus. A lot of fucked up people. Here's a five ounce board of double barrel. It's like having a full beer in a shot. Basically. That would be fun. I'd be so sad if I missed that. But, uh, anyways, what do we got in the pipeline? We've got some stuff coming up. Uh, Brandon and I will eventually be in the same room together again, recording.
01:07:11
Speaker
I don't know when that's going to be. But we got a couple of breweries that we're going to talk to soon. And I said it before, and I'll say it again. Exactly, Aggie. Clark will be back before the year is over. He'll be back, I think, for the Maltese, and that's it. Yeah. Which I think will be, I think I said that. It's going to be pretty interesting that the Maltese will
01:07:39
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be a little bit more definitely eclectic since we all haven't been really drinking together that much, except for me and you. You and I might have some similar ones. And my list of the multis- That's okay. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be great to see what everybody thinks. All right, Brandon, you got anything else you want to say to our friends and family?
01:08:04
Speaker
No, the only other thing I was going to add for coming up was we'll be talking to the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild about FOBAB because FOBAB is coming up. Yeah, baby. That is we are going to FOBAB this year. If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, go to the IC Illinois Craft Brewers Guild website. You can get your tickets there. The link will be in the description as well.
01:08:31
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And we will have an episode talking to Ray Stout about full bath coming up. We'll drink some beers on there, do what we normally do, and yeah, it'll be a good time. We've got, yeah, I'm excited for that. They have the Loggers Lounge with also non-alcoholic
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beer options as well or any beer options. So that'll be fun to explore. We had a lot of fun there last year getting to try those. And what else? Yeah, you got pumpkin beers coming up and all the other cool stuff that comes with colder weather. So we say farewell to summer and hello fall. And I welcome the cooler air, not too cold. We don't have to get too cold yet. Doesn't have to be raining all the time.
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I still want to hang out at my yard. I'm not ready to put my furniture underneath my fucking house for the summer. I don't want to put the patio furniture away. Um, but, uh, yeah, this is a great way to get started with fall. Um, good selection of beers, man. I think we did. I think we'd done well. Good job, bud.
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Good job to you. All right, everybody. Thank you for listening. Like, share, subscribe, do all those things. Comment, send us emails, send us suggestions. Yes, we have suggestions in the past from other people that we haven't forgot about them. We just haven't gotten to them yet. So thank you for those who have sent us suggestions of places we should go and breweries we should check out. We will definitely do that in the future when I don't know, but it hasn't gone forgotten. So thank you everybody for listening and your continued support. Remember, we also
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have new stuff up in the shop in our multi-hour store. The website sometimes is a little crazy, some pop-ups. I gave pop-ups, but hey, man, we need them because we need to make some money somehow. But we got some new glassware and I'm wearing my official, I mean, no one can see this, so I'm not going to turn around, but I'm wearing my all-nour hoodie, man. Got my actual hoodie on right now. So I was really excited to get that.
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Matthew got his beer can glass. The pint glasses are cool. You can get a coffee mug. You get a t-shirt. What else do we have over there? We got stuff. Go check it out, though. Go to themultihour.com and check it out. And it's a good way to support the show, as well, until we figure out other ways to try and siphon money from you, our listeners, into the show so we can stop draining it from our own bank account. This is a nice way of
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Thank you, Aggie. And with that, we're going to end it. Brandon, I love you, buddy. I love you too, bud. And we'll see everybody next week. Cheers. Bye.
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