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After The Final Pour - S10E3 - Afterthought Brewing Company "Saison Meer"
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Following in the footsteps of last week's episode, Brandon has Tony guess what beer he's drinking on this episode of After The Final Pour.
Beer Description:
Afterthought Brewing Company "Saison Meer: Malbec Barrel Aged"
Saison brewed with Midwestern ingredients and aged in a Malbec barrel.
Thanks to Kevin and Deb Goggin for the theme song.
Outro music by Fluid Minds
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Transcript
Introduction and Mystery Beer Setup
00:00:30
Speaker
When life gives you an empty cup
00:00:44
Speaker
Welcome to After the Final Four, I'm one of your hosts, Tony Gullick, joined always with... Brandon Winninger. And it's an ah official After the Final Four, because we just stopped... We just finished doing Brandon's Mystery Beer Show.
00:01:02
Speaker
Woo! Yeah, ah and now this is a mystery After the Final Four for me.
Aroma and Initial Impressions
00:01:06
Speaker
um When you poured this, I was on my phone finding out that I might get a beer from Dubuque, Iowa, which I hope is possible. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.
00:01:17
Speaker
As you poured this, I was like, whew, there's little bit of funky sourness. know if it's funk, but there's definitely something sour coming off of this. This smells like it might give me heartburn.
00:01:30
Speaker
I know. It's funny because I had been saving Okay. okay Because we have a friend that I thought would enjoy this. But, you know, it's one we haven't had on the podcast. And i was like, here we go.
Identifying Beer Style
00:01:44
Speaker
I have a guess of already what the brewery might be. Go for it. Russian River. Negative, Ghost Rider. Interesting. The ship has taken off with your bad guess.
00:01:57
Speaker
Can I give another guess? Go ahead. Is was. Absolutely not.
00:02:04
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Okay.
00:02:06
Speaker
Style.
00:02:10
Speaker
Oof.
00:02:12
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Wild fermentation.
00:02:15
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mean, no. a Not by how this was done, no. Okay. I think it's a kettle sour. Nope. Is it a Brett beer? Yeah.
00:02:27
Speaker
ah So let's let's talk about the beer itself. like From what you're tasting, what are you getting? What are you enjoying? or what do you know i enjoy it. I think it's very tasty. Your cellar keeps everything at a very nice temperature.
00:02:38
Speaker
It is sour without being super acidic. It's almost like, reminds me of like tart fruit. Yeah. um Like a white wine, like a tart white wine. That's kind of what it's given off.
00:02:53
Speaker
Yeah. So you're not saying it's not it's not wild? There's no brett? I mean, don't know if brett's a yeast in this style, but... Well, I guess brett is kind of a wild yeast.
00:03:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:03:12
Speaker
It's whatever, however it's fermented. iss
Revealing the Beer - Afterthought Brewing
00:03:16
Speaker
It's a sour, right? Is it a sour? It's in that camp.
00:03:23
Speaker
Is it lambic?
00:03:26
Speaker
Is it a... You're way better at this than I am. might If you remember, Clark and I one time guessed a pale ale as a Saison.
00:03:37
Speaker
You dumb bastards. I mean, what? You guys were good at it. Don't worry.
00:03:44
Speaker
How old is this beer? 2019. Okay, so it's not that old. Six years old. i mean It's pretty it's still old. yeah Well, it's funny because 2019 doesn't feel that long ago. No, I know.
00:03:56
Speaker
Um...
00:03:58
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I don't know. It's delicious. It's refreshing. just swirled it. Did you see it? No. It's not as was.
00:04:10
Speaker
Is it local? This is a Dan beer for sure. Chicago a land area.
00:04:20
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Am I right by saying this is a beer for Dan? Oh yeah, totally.
00:04:29
Speaker
Is there a fruit in here?
00:04:34
Speaker
I can't say because the description is vague. and Okay.
00:04:39
Speaker
Because it's like, there's kind of like, it's not like a stone fruit thing. It's always like peach, like peachy. You know, like peach and grape. Think of a drink you would have with a fine steak dinner.
00:04:54
Speaker
Wine? Yeah. Like red wine? Maybe. Like a wine barrel aged beer? Possibly. like a fine With a fine steak dinner, for me, that's a fucking glass of bourbon with like ah two pieces of ice in it. yeah But no, you're going like traditional. Yeah, with red wine.
00:05:12
Speaker
So I can see it. so i was okay if it's if if wine So it's a wine barrel aged beer. Is that correct? Correct. So I was right with grapes, at least. Yeah.
00:05:27
Speaker
Not a wild. Is it a regular style type of beer? A regular what? Like is it a standard style of beer that's just wild? Okay. No.
00:05:38
Speaker
I am drawing a blank because I feel like sour and wine barrel aged. Think of something that sounds...
00:05:50
Speaker
and This is not representative of anything, but like almost an Asian name for this style of beer. Sake?
00:06:01
Speaker
No, but it does start with us S. Sangria? That's Spanish. Soy sauce? Do you know what you mean Dark Lord?
00:06:13
Speaker
What's a style of beer that starts with S? Saison. Yes. This is a wine barrel aged Saison.
00:06:21
Speaker
from a local brewery.
00:06:27
Speaker
Jeez, I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea. um'll say I'll say this. It's really good. I'm blown away i just because it doesn't say on the bottle but I'm kind of blown away by by the ABV. What do you think it is? 7%.
00:06:43
Speaker
seven percent Okay. going 7% red wine age Okay. Is it from Afterthought? It is. Yes. Fuck. I was reaching for it so bad. all right. Cool. Cool. Cool.
00:06:57
Speaker
So. All right. We'll get into it. So it's Afterthought Brewing Company Saison Mir Malbec Barrel Aged. Ooh. A Saison brewed with mid Midwestern ingredients and aged in a Malbec barrel.
00:07:10
Speaker
Thank you for getting me there. aye Bottled on December 28th, 2019. Wow. This is really good. Yeah.
00:07:20
Speaker
This is man, if you want to do like barrel aged or saisons or introduce somebody to those type of beers, this is ah fun beer to do it with. Like this is, you can give this to your wine friends, uh, mixed drink friends, like friends who like cocktails. Yeah. Um, definitely wine drinking friends, I think would be the friends to share this with. Oh yeah.
00:07:45
Speaker
It's really good. Very tasty. Oh, man. God, I'm glad I figured it out. ah So, like, when you said it was and it was, I was like, what's the other one?
00:07:57
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but what is could it be Afterthought, yeah. It was like on the tip of my tongue. It was just an afterthought that you had. Yeah, was an afterthought. No, this is great. Yeah, du this held up really well.
00:08:10
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I'm glad you chose this. I thought maybe you were going to go stout, like to kind of stump me with a stout with adjuncts.
Enjoying the Beer and Afterthought's Closure
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Speaker
Yeah. I'm glad you went with this instead. No. i was I was glad I saw this because I was like, I'll keep it in the same wheelhouse that we were doing. So, yeah.
00:08:25
Speaker
Oh, man. Fantastic. what What would you rate this? Oh, by the what's the ABV? um I said seven. Five. Probably high. I don't know.
00:08:37
Speaker
Does ABV go higher? as you egypt I don't know. I'm going to give this a four four. yeah Yeah. I feel like this is something I would go back to. This is something that I think is done really well. yeah Especially being a barrel age saison.
00:08:56
Speaker
It I guess that's why I was so focused on the wild fermentation because of the mix of the barrel and Saison that, you know, there's something wild here that's making this tart or whatever.
00:09:07
Speaker
But yeah it's, man, holy cow. no it's Also, it's very clear. Very clear in a straw color. Like, it's it's a really, it looks, if someone saw this, they'd be like, oh what are you drinking? Coors Light?
00:09:20
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Yeah. Well, and based on my research, looks like After Thought Brewing is permanently closed down. oh no
00:09:32
Speaker
ah So we might not be having this ever again. do you have any more afterthought beers? I might have one. That was really good, man. thank you for Thank you for giving me that one.
00:09:43
Speaker
You're welcome. Good call. Good call. was fantastic. Very tasty. Yeah, that's 4-4 for me. What do you what do you give it? Yeah, I'm in the same wheelhouse. 4-3, 4-4.
00:09:55
Speaker
Really good. I was surprised because, again, like Cezones are not my... My jam most of the time, but like this one was really well done. and it's It's got that sourness. It's got that like bitterness.
00:10:09
Speaker
but I can't say there's barrel flavor. No, but there's a wine flavor. Yeah, I feel like the wine flavor came through really prominently. and Yeah, dude, I enjoyed that. It's funny. With the beers that we've had tonight, with last week's episode of the Mystery Beers for You, and then now...
00:10:26
Speaker
This after the final pour. This is like the most Dan episode that we've had ever without having Dan here. Dan doesn't like us anymore. R.I.P. Dan. R.I.P.
00:10:38
Speaker
True legend. Hip-hops. I don't know he still listens. Dan, do you still listen? Dan, still listen, send us a
Listener Shoutouts and Future Plans
00:10:45
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message. And if you don't get a text, well, we're going to know you don't listen. I know who does listen.
00:10:49
Speaker
Matthew. Hey, what's up, buddy? Love you. We'll see you soon. going to hang out and we're going to go camping. Hopefully I'm going to get that fucking s'mores beer to bring. Dude, that would be awesome. That would be awesome.
00:11:02
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I am looking forward to the camping trip and we'll just do the TASCAM. We'll do TASCAM. Oh yeah, totally. But you should, I mean, you should text them and be like, hey, we'd love to review this for our podcast. Absolutely.
00:11:17
Speaker
Yeah, I will... Here's my address. ah This is where we're going to do this. Send the cases of the beer. Send all your beers. Actually, am going to do that. I am going to them know that. Yeah, dude. Come on. Don't be modest. I know.
00:11:30
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I know. I just don't... i don't want just... you know Especially if somebody's like, send me beer. Like, hey, I do a podcast. And that's it. Like, whatever you can send, send. And like, if you just want to send something... Like, I'll pay...
00:11:40
Speaker
like I'll buy beer or shipping whatever. Offer to or whatever. We have had a beer or two of theirs on an episode when I went out there. so But anyways, Brandon, this is fantastic. yeah It was very good.
00:11:55
Speaker
i don't have heartburn. No, that's... From all the... From we've had tonight, I'm surprised I do not have heartburn. There was some... That's good. There was some acidity. I didn't bring the thumbs down. That's right. It's always in my bag, baby. Always in my bag. Oh, good. Good job. Just in case.
00:12:09
Speaker
All right, Brandon, I love you. Love too, man. And we'll see you right next
Conclusion and Social Media Details
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week. Bye. Happy summer. No, not yet. Fuck. You stupid son of a
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This has been The Malting Hour. Be sure to follow us on all social media by searching The Malting Hour and at themaltinghour.com. You can also follow us individually on social media. Brandon can be found on Instagram as bmdub81, on Twitter bdub81, and on Untappd as bdubdrinksbeer.
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Tony can be found on Instagram and Untappd under Ace of Elps Chicago, on Twitter the Ace of Elps Chicago. Clark can be found as Clarkowski on all three. Dan can be found on Instagram as hip underscore underscore hops and to hip hops on YouTube. Be sure to subscribe, like, and rate the show on your preferred podcast listening platform. Until next time, cheers from all of us at the Malting Hour.