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Episode 175 - An Evening With The Malting Hour Crew
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This week, Brandon, Matthe,w and Tony play catch-up while discussing what they've been up to lately, recent Chicago brewery closures, and their stance on Peeps.
Beers on this episode:
Alarmist Brewing - Pantsless
Short Fuse Brewing - Bear-ie White
Central Waters Brewing - Lupulin Nebula
Theme music provided by Myke Kelli (@mykekelli)
Outro music provided by @FluidMinds
Check out all our episodes at www.themaltinghour.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Hosts' Greetings
00:00:02
Speaker
Don't go closed in central waters. Please take to the other Wisconsin breweries you're used to.
00:00:14
Speaker
Welcome to the Maltin' Hour.
Downtown Adventures and Weather Tales
00:00:44
Speaker
A little rusty. Did I take it out of a way? Welcome to the Malting Hour. I'm one of your hosts, Tony Goldick, joined always with... Brandon Winninger. And to his right, my left... Matthew Muldauer. Hi, guys.
00:00:59
Speaker
Hi. How you guys been? Good, man. Cool. I've been good, too. ah but ah I mean, today was a ah long day. to got up early.
00:01:11
Speaker
We spent some time downtown, so that was fun. Haven't done that in while. We went to the water tower. Becca had to do a return there, so we did that. I tried to see if Benjamin wanted to go up into the Hancock, and he was like... Herbie Hancock? Yeah. He was like, um... He's like, how high is it? i'm like, you go all the way to the top. And he was like looking at it. He goes, I go up there, and I look out.
00:01:33
Speaker
I'm gonna get dizzy. like, That's some self-reflection. I was like, you sure? He's like, yeah, that's not a good idea for me. I was like, okay. You should probably go to the Sears Tower instead.
00:01:44
Speaker
I was like, all right. Yeah, so we did
Disney on Ice Experience
00:01:46
Speaker
do that. and then You didn't try and sneak into Quigley? No. All right. No, we didn't walk over there. Old Quigley? It was funny because it's probably, it was like 15 to 20 degrees colder downtown because we were right by the water.
00:01:57
Speaker
um So we did not do any like much walking around because otherwise i was like, let's go over by the water tower. Let's go. you know um I would have taken them over by Quigley. F.E.L. Shores. Borders. Borders.
00:02:11
Speaker
R.I.P. Yeah. yeah And then we he there's a playground there. There's a firehouse right next to the the water tower. And he was hanging out there and he just like he was found some random kids that he was playing with. And then he just like darted off in another direction and like went up to this it had this like little corkscrew thing that you can like hang on and spin.
00:02:31
Speaker
And he was just standing there staring. And I was like, what the fuck is he? doing And all of sudden, like, he just come comes running around, turns around and runs. He's like, Mila's here. And I was like, wait, what? There's a girl, like, i don't know if she's in his class now, but she was in his kindergarten class. And I heard her brother were there and I turned and her their parents were right there. Like, well small world. But apparently in the water tower on Sundays, they do an indoor farmer's market on the fourth floor of the water tower. Whoa. We only made it to the third floor of the water tower. not know of this market. Interesting. I wonder how that is. have to look into that.
00:03:09
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah. I mean, i don't know if I really want to go downtown for a farmer's market to bring it all the way back
Lake Geneva Weekend Getaway
00:03:14
Speaker
home. Yeah. But all that after Disney on Ice, it was was... What was your favorite part of Disney on Ice? ah The ending was was pretty great.
00:03:23
Speaker
Because it ended or was there a big spectacular ending? cause it was over um No, actually, it was it was the one cool thing that I did that was impressive is they did a lot of like aerial type shit. And I was like, what does that have to do with ice Disney?
00:03:39
Speaker
don't know, but it was impressive. Oh, and then they set the ice on fire at one point. That was pretty cool. was Were there ice agents there too? There was. Oh, shit. They were in charge of putting out the fire on the ice. No Dora the Explorer. Luckily she's not Disney. Oh boy. Yeah, they came out during Encanto. No, it's not funny. And they're like, hey, where's Bruno? You guys don't talk about Bruno? We're looking for him.
00:04:04
Speaker
i was like, you sons of bitches. We go away for a few weeks. should probably cut that part out. No, fuck ice. That's okay. I saw that someone apparently changed one of the digital signs downtown to say fuck ice, fuck Trump. Yeah, I saw that. So kudos to that person. Love this city. Matthew, how's your weekend been?
00:04:28
Speaker
It was pretty great. Jen and I went away for the weekend. We went up to Lake Geneva. A little resort. TFTI. Thanks for the invite. Thanks for the invite, dude.
00:04:40
Speaker
would have liked to have gone with you guys to a resort in Lake Geneva. Yeah. yeah All of Same bed. All cuddling. I would have liked the pancakes you made, but I didn't get that invite either. well Because i knew
Relaxed Weekend and Culinary Attempts
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were in Lake Geneva. What resort did you go to The Abbey Resort.
00:04:54
Speaker
Have you been? No. it was really nice. they They had ice skating. They had their little cinema theater. They had an arcade. Sounds fake. They have two bars, two restaurants, a cafe. Why do you need all that?
00:05:07
Speaker
Come on yeah Right? And then we went to a dive bar last night. If you only have one bar and one cafe, you cannot call yourself a resort. Ah. Even if you just put some dude in a corner selling Coors Light It's like, ah, there's our second bar. Welcome to the resort. The Abbey. The Abbey Resort. Jeez. But it was quite nice. I've never been to something that big as a resort. We got lost quite a bit. and Then we did a spa day yesterday. oh So basically spent the, it was like an adult pool. What does that mean?
00:05:37
Speaker
Nudity? You got to have alcohol there. you could order alcohol. So then any pool that I swim is an adult pool. makess them all free you But you're not allowed. ah But I do it.
00:05:47
Speaker
so it's So it's an adult pool for me and all times. Do they like bring it to you poolside? People peeing in the pool. You haven't gotten out in a while. well we we went to the You drink a lot. We went to the family pool the first night and it was kind of nice and they were playing movie on some inflatable screen. and you got But the chemicals were so intense and we're like, okay, the adult pool has to be less. They have all these chemicals just because they have kids, right?
00:06:18
Speaker
Yeah. The adult pool was not like hitting us with like ammonia just trying to knock us out. get bleached as you come out of the kid's pool. Why does my skin burn, Mom? Why are my eyebrows a different color? That's because your brother shit his pants and they had up to up the pH in the pool.
00:06:35
Speaker
No, like, we were so just sitting in the hot tub and, like, having a hard time breathing. ah Jesus. So, yeah, it was it was a lot of fun. um Some good food at the dive bar was funny.
00:06:47
Speaker
We got there after the kitchen closed. So, like, you can have... sausage or pepperoni pizza, or we can make it vegetarian. I was like, that means they just don't give you the meat.
00:06:59
Speaker
It's just cheese. We're pretty sure it was just tombstones. Oh, nice. What do you want on your tombstone? New York City. I just combined two ads there.
00:07:10
Speaker
I was complimented on my drink drink of choice. ah Ordered for Jedi. I went whiskey ginger ale and a high life. And the guy looks at me and goes, it's a good order. It is a good order. I like the cut of your jib. Now going to cut you.
00:07:24
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Now I'm going to cut your jib. Welcome to the Abbey.
00:07:30
Speaker
Oh, boy. That's good. It's good. But it's a fancy part of Wisconsin I've never been to. Oh, yeah. Lake Geneva? Yeah, there's... never been to Lake Geneva? Nope. Hey, damn. Yeah, this guy's from Wisconsin.
00:07:41
Speaker
Oh, shit. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, that is weird. Jesus, Tony. Just fidgeting. Being from Wisconsin and never being to Lake Geneva. Yeah. Huh. Sorry I didn't come from money. Neither did I, but... Although, the people I went and stayed with, they money, so...
00:07:55
Speaker
I am driven through it. Yeah. Stopped there for a beer. Yeah. That's what you do. At Chucks? No, this is a place that to... I don't the name of it, but it used to be a church. It's pretty cool.
00:08:06
Speaker
They had actually good beer, too. The other cool thing that we saw last night is, you know, like the swamp boats that they have with the air fans? Yeah. Yeah, Louisiana. have those for the ice in Wisconsin. Whoa. That seems like very Wisconsin thing to do. You'll see a picture of that. God damn it. We've got to go to Lake Geneva now.
00:08:22
Speaker
You know what? Cancel our plans. We're taking this trip we're digging this podcast on the road. And I'm leaving today. Every person was ice fishing. It's pretty cool. I guess while you still have thick enough ice, but it's 60 degrees out, it's perfect ice fishing weather. Makes sense. Probably easier to cut into the ice and fall through.
00:08:40
Speaker
Touche. Touche. Let's see. What did you this weekend? I yeah was just inserting myself. I was awake a lot. In a good way. Because I went to bed early. Well, fucking...
00:08:54
Speaker
Friday and Saturday. And like early being 9 o'clock both nights and getting up at 5.30 on Saturday and hanging out, playing some video games, which is I haven't really done. On the Xbox, I should say. I was playing on the Xbox, which was nice to go back and revisit.
00:09:11
Speaker
Then ah Virginia and I stopped over at Short Views for Valentine's Day because you know nothing says i love you. I'm going to a brewery before it closes its doors.
00:09:22
Speaker
um and That was nice. I love you like a short fuse. Hey, that's good. Even better. should be did That's the title of this episode. Nothing says I love you like a short fuse. And then we went over to Beer on the Wall in Park Ridge. Had a couple beers there it was really nice. It was a nice day. It was nice outside. It was nice just kind of like unplanned.
00:09:43
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um And then I thought we were going to make dinner, but it was getting too late in the day and i already had a couple of beers. And so i was like, you know what I want? A slice of pizza. And we stopped over at Tom and Jerry's over by Narragansett and Montrose. Okay. Sliced pizza and fries. It was pretty good.
00:09:56
Speaker
was pretty good. And then I proceeded to go to bed even almost earlier around 8.30 last night because once you turn 44, you go to bed before 10 and you wake up before the sun.
Local Breweries Closing: Nostalgia and Impact
00:10:07
Speaker
And I got up at 4.30, hopped in the shower, and I made myself some blueberry pancakes while my lady slept. And then we went. Cool for showering. Thank you very much. ah Thank you. I'm going to try and do it once a day. um Yeah, and then we just watched a bunch of movies today. Random movies. i Best movie of the day?
00:10:25
Speaker
Debbie does do this. I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. The Chevy Chase documentary. It was pretty good on HBO. Was that new? Yeah. And we also watched ah Armored with ah Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig. How was that? It's funny. i guess i As I was watching, I'm like, I've seen this before. Before that was...
00:10:48
Speaker
A. Polar, Will Ferrell, and Jason Manzougas' movie where they open up a casino in Jason Manzougas' house to raise tuition for their kids.
00:11:01
Speaker
I think I've seen that. That's funny. it's called The House. Oh, well, yeah. Or something like that. That's it, and here we are. Something like that. no um Yeah, so it's been a good good good weekend. Nice.
00:11:12
Speaker
nice yeah I really thought to do something oh on friday I Friday. was really excited because it was Friday the 13th. So I was like, great. I planned on You watched horror movies. Yeah, I planned on watching like four or five of them. Murder people. yep going on the streets and being like, this is my day. and I watched one of them.
00:11:28
Speaker
it that's all And then I fell asleep. What did you watch? Friday the 13th 6, Jason Returns. From where? The grocery store? Yeah, he finally came back. He's like, I brought milk. Stab.
00:11:41
Speaker
My kids thought I was gone, but here's the milk and cigarettes. And my knife. oh yeah we We wanted to watch a movie. I thought for sure, because they had a cinema at the resort, that they would play Friday the 13th. Some kind of horror movie.
00:11:56
Speaker
No Cool Runnings. Oh, perfect, because the Olympics. Yeah, but like Friday the 13th. Yeah, but were you there on Friday the 13th? Yes. is that when you're watching the movies? Yes. Was it in the kids' pool? No, they have a cinema. Just making sure, man.
00:12:09
Speaker
Well, there's kids there, so they probably are like, let's so they were playing Zootopia 2. Oh, I'd watch that. In the pool? area Yeah. What? would have watched it. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. Anyway. This is a cinema. So, apparently, I've never seen The Shining, so I... What?
00:12:26
Speaker
Apparently. Do i have that? Because she kept on being lost in the hotel. she's like shining and I was like, they're in a hotel with Shining. It'll be like podcasting with Dan when he's never seen the movie before and he just stares at the TV. Which is why we fired Dan from the podcast. Stop staring and stop watching the movie, you son of a bitch. But I did fall more in love with curling. Yes, I've been watching a lot of curling. Oh, when's your curling date? Next Saturday, baby. Also, I looked at it. It's only a half hour long. So I remember when i was talking about... with her dad that it was like, just just kind of like try it out and see what we think yeah about it.
00:13:02
Speaker
So it's a half hour long. If we like it, we might go back and I think try and maybe do another like little test run. But ah yeah, I watched a lot of curling in the hockey this weekend to do a curling league. I'm dude, there's bars here in Chicago that do curling.
00:13:15
Speaker
Kaiser tiger industry night tomorrow. Okay. Well, I'm going to be at home. Why not? Why not? don't know. Why not? Why not be at home? Because it's a Monday night. Oh, that was what I was going say. For Saturday, my original plan was to make homemade ravioli.
00:13:30
Speaker
But, you know, didn't end up doing that. I was kind of bummed about that. Smart. I did make some beef stroganoff knife with leftover prime rib. So that turned out pretty fucking great. What's this leftover in prime rib you speak of? It was from this from last Sunday. had it all sealed. I vacuum sealed it up and kept in the fridge. I'm like, I know I'm not going to use this anytime soon.
00:13:52
Speaker
used some of it during the week. I was resealing it. and i'm like I looked how long you do it. They're like, seven days longest, max. and I was like, okay. So do you forget how to podcast when it's been a couple of weeks? yeah Yeah. Don't hold things that you're going to drop over and over again.
00:14:07
Speaker
um Anyways, I want to talk about the first beer. Fijitties, Fijitties. One of the beers that we're drinking. this This episode is not very specific than was just kind of catching up. But I did want to talk about a couple of sad things. Sad things being that a couple breweries have recently shuttered their doors. Obviously, we mentioned short fuse. So I did bring one of their beers. But the one we're that we're drinking. now is the one that I'm very sad about, which is Alarmist.
00:14:32
Speaker
Alarmist is very cool. They have won many medals at JBF, namely Le Joux, which is what I wanted to get, but it is gone. i can't find it anywhere. I was even looking online at like places to order. and like nope Everybody bought it up. but this ah I'm bur drinking Pantless Pale Ale, which I did Pantsless Pale Ale. was either this or Crispy Boy Filsner, but I haven't had Pantsless while. Crispy Boy, I've had enough in my lifetime to probably...
00:14:59
Speaker
Covered another lifetime. Pantsless is one of my favorites. Yeah, I love pantsless. And it was a bronze winner for American Style Pale Ale in 2020 at the Great American Beer Fest. Truly sad. And it was also one of my favorite interviews that we did. Me, Brandon, and Dan, who we fired, went and hung out there and spoke. And we never did our, ah I think we had told him there was going to be a part two. Mm-hmm.
00:15:22
Speaker
We never did that. Maybe we'd have to do like an after. We could probably. but I bet you Gary would come and hang out with us. Yeah. Give him a couple of weeks. whats What's he doing? Jesus Christ. Hey, it was his decision. Yeah, i know. I know. I know. But yeah, that was. ah And I remember when we went there.
00:15:40
Speaker
We showed up and they knew who we were. Yeah. Because we showed up with all the stuff. Like, you guys are multi-hour guys? Like, Like, what do you guys want to drink? It was like probably one of the weirdest, in a good way, like greetings that we got showing up to a recording session at a brewery. They're like, come on in. Make yourselves at home. Thank you. I'm pretty sure that we drank a bunch of beer that episode. Oh, indeed. Indeed.
00:16:05
Speaker
There a lot of ah swearing, lot of distortion from that episode being down in the basement. But it was super fun. so it's it's That chapter is obviously closed for them. Who knows what's going happen. But yeah, Alarmist.
00:16:20
Speaker
Pants list is still delicious. And I'm going to miss you guys. Well, and apparently if anyone is interested in trying to buy a brewery and all the rights and similar what we're talking about, Metropolitan, I believe everything is being ah tried to be sold all at once. Oh, wow. Someone wants the intellectual property to open a brewery. I guess one by brewery. Maybe we have to... $4.50 and two high fives. Yeah, offer him to offer the deal. We'll go up a little bit on Alarmist. Yeah, well I'll go up on Alarmist. Another buck.
00:16:48
Speaker
um that That would be cool, especially if... They continue doing all the cool shit that Alarmus was doing. Yeah, and one of the, I think I was reading, like, they were technically the only bar in Saganash, like, in that whole area.
00:17:03
Speaker
I wouldn't doubt that. There's not a lot. Yeah, i mean, i don't know. what I mean, there's a liquor store across the street, and I think that's the only liquor store I know of in the entire area. And a Starbucks. Except for, like, Whole Foods. but yeah like no I think even that liquor store's been up for sale for a while, too. Oh, really? There's a Starbucks, so, you know I don't do that. That's cool.
00:17:19
Speaker
Who cares about Starbucks? Yeah. Do you?
Beer Tasting Surprises and Palate Changes
00:17:23
Speaker
I don't. I don't like them. Sam, I am. I do not like them the green eggs and ham. Or their practices. With union. Especially that. Yeah. But ah yeah, what are you guys thinking of Pantsless here?
00:17:36
Speaker
Still one of my favorites. This was also ah the first beer that they kind of taught us how to do casks. Oh, nice. Ethan taught us how to do it, and they did pantsless on cask all the time, which is the reason why we thought like maybe Sunil could work. and That's one of my favorite beers that we do on casks. I love this beer. You guys did some collaborations. with alarmists yeah uh we did lay bees uh i believe it was the first one over at that put over at their place where uh most of them if not everyone shotgunned a triple beezer yeah that was i think we they all shotgunned our beers and we're all like we'll take a crispy boy i That sounds about right. for All right, now get to brewing. And then we made Beezle Juice. otherwise And Tim won a design award for that, too. yeah Oh, that's awesome.
00:18:31
Speaker
Yeah. There you go, Tim. Yeah. I'll probably eat, Tim. had basil juice, basil juice, basil juice. I remember. It good. remember. It was pretty good. Yeah, that label. And then no are with we made their first, we helped do their first ever barrel-aged stout. Oh, nice. Rune.
00:18:47
Speaker
Yeah, that was a good one. Rune Master? I had that. um So, yeah, that was their first barrel-aged stout. And then I think once upon a time, Trevor also taught them and they did their first ever sour with us as well.
00:18:59
Speaker
Oh, a nice little connection between older and younger. Yeah, they always helped us out all the time. Anytime we needed to have clean kegs, our keg washer broke down, ah extra hops. They're our first go-to people always. so Good people.
00:19:15
Speaker
Brandon, what do you think of Pantsless here? So this is interesting and maybe this is because you have a drink for context. Literally, I have like a quarter pour taster, but I was like, this is insanely bitter.
00:19:31
Speaker
There's a bitterness to it. No, no, there it is. And I'm like, so this is really bitter. And I was kind of blown away. And I was like, I was trying to think in my head. Normally, i'm pretty good at like kind of narrowing. ah a palal I would not have, yeah you know. But i but now now that you know now that I know it's pantless, I was like, yeah, remember that one being a little yeah more bitter then. But it's like the bitterness is hitting me a lot more.
00:19:54
Speaker
But I do, yeah, this this is one that I would miss, that I will miss. Because it it's super clean, easy to easy drinking, and it's got a nice, it and it's not bitter in a bad way. i Yeah. I like the bitterness. what was going to say. Like, the bitterness is kind of like in the back of my tongue. that's Yeah. That type bitterness. Like, in center. Center, back of my tongue.
00:20:13
Speaker
Yeah. This is like borderline IPA for me. Yeah. Well, it's funny because I forgot it was a pale ale when I took a sip. I was like, oh, yes, Pantsless, the IPA. And I looked down and I oh ooh, Pantsless, the pale ale. Yeah.
00:20:25
Speaker
Yeah, I forgot that this is 100% Mosaic. and'll do That'll do it. After the pandemic, we had our contract with Citroën Mosaic and Trevor was trying to figure out what to do. And i was like, I'll just do a Pale Ale with 100% We made it.
00:20:39
Speaker
we've made it the Roberts guys came over to our place and they looked at us and they're like, do you pantsless on? And we're like, no. And then they compared notes and recipes and like, you made pantsless. And we're like, oh, sweet. Cool. We know how to make your beer. That was refract. That's really, oh really? Oh, love refract.
00:20:58
Speaker
Oh, man. That would have been a good side-by-side. Yeah. Well, i mean, I can stop by a Beer on the Wall tomorrow and grab another pantsless. Do you have any refract liner on? I have a can in my fridge. Look at this. We should do a side-by-side. That would be interesting. i will I'll stop at Beer on the Wall tomorrow and grab one more.
00:21:12
Speaker
Hopefully, still have it. i think there was one more left. Order it on online. Oh, I should. Good idea. You guys do the rest of the show. At least you're on your phone You're not going to be fidgeting and dropping shit. So...
00:21:25
Speaker
um Yeah. So Alarmus, that's a bummer. But yeah, hopefully something the good comes of that brewery and maybe
Speculations on Great Central Brewing
00:21:35
Speaker
the whole brand. And you know good luck and cheers everybody else that ah worked there and had worked there. Hope your future is bright. Since we're talking about breweries closing... um A lot of breweries we talk to have closed. Do you?
00:21:51
Speaker
And Matthew, specifically asking you because they're like neighbors to your production. What's going on with Great Central? Do you know? No. I mean,
00:22:02
Speaker
we have thought kind of on and off for years that they're going to be closed or closing. And then around Christmas, they just put on their signs, you know, wait for holidays.
00:22:14
Speaker
And then they weren't back for like two, three, four weeks in January. so we thought... They were closed, but apparently, and just through people talking to other people, they're still not out of business. I don't know if that means they're trying to get more funding and then start up. or honestly don't know, but apparently it's still not a done deal that they're closed. Was it the was it just a tap room that they closed, or were they still brewing in there?
00:22:44
Speaker
Because aren't they contract brewing for people? Yeah. Yeah. I personally am not down there that often. well It didn't sound like there was anyone going in and out, but like, you know, especially larger breweries, you can brew 24 hours a day. Goose right around there brews. Oh, yeah. You know, three shifts. Goose Island's over there?
00:23:04
Speaker
Yeah. On wood.
00:23:08
Speaker
Cool. Cool. Cool. Keep going. Keep going. ah Wait. Sketchbook has a pineapple hazy beer right now? How miss that? You know, I will say how I miss that is that Beer on the Wall rearranged where I hadn't been. So I hadn't been to Beer on the Wall.
00:23:24
Speaker
Let me preface this. I would once a week go to Beer on the Wall pretty much all the time. stop and Whether it was like to grab beer a beer. eight beers, many beers. After I got the advent calendar, I had not been back since until yesterday.
00:23:43
Speaker
It was kind of crazy. So November, like right around Thanksgiving. now So they have rearranged where all the beers were. Like it's still the same way, but where I remember specific breweries being, we're no longer there.
00:23:59
Speaker
So I'm just kind of blown away by that. Plus I had the apple brandy right away and the pale ale. That'll do it. And then I was walking around and was like, I'm going to some beer go, baby.
00:24:12
Speaker
So what you're saying is a chance that they didn't move anything. No, they definitely did move stuff. They definitely did move stuff. But I think I was so like, huh? That, yeah, I didn't really realize.
Disappointing New Year's Eve Experience
00:24:22
Speaker
um I did have, real quick, I did have a really tasty beer today. In my Simpsons Valentine's Day glass that I almost forgot about. o It was Juice Pants from Maplewood. Juice Pants Boosted Citra. That was fucking delicious. Really good.
00:24:38
Speaker
Really enjoyed that. They're not closing. as i know As of right now, as far as I know, I don't think they're closing. not. They just did so much. At that restaurant. Scanning and all that stuff. yeah i haven't I haven't been in the restaurant yet.
00:24:50
Speaker
And I kind of regret not doing the New Year's Eve thing this year because... Oh, yeah. like I really... I was going to ask if you were doing that, and then I... No, we ended a bit we we paid $100 to go to Easy Street, to which I actually had to make a complaint, and they gave me $50 back in a gift
Valentine's Day Celebrations
00:25:05
Speaker
or certificate. Oh, no! It was really bad. You don't have to go into details, but what was the deal for the $100? So it was a dinner buffet and ah ah like cock not cocktails, cocktails ah like open bar type things. when I got there...
00:25:22
Speaker
and Like, did you have reservation? like, no. But, well you know, we got we didn't reserve a table. And he's like, i we'll go pick a table. And, like, every single booth was open. So we were like, we're going to at a booth. And the booths are huge. I'm well, what could you get a drink? Like, they were really right away. I was like, can we get two old fashions? He's like, I don't know if we can do that like, well, then just give me two, like, Coors Lights. He goes, I'll let you know.
00:25:41
Speaker
Came back, and they came with old fashions. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. So we did this. So we were drinking our old fashion. I get into the details. We looked over at the food. It was like three pizzas, which is fine.
00:25:54
Speaker
But they, we got, it started at nine. We got there like 945. The pizzas had already like, the cheese had already coagulated. There was a Was there not a lot of people there? There was a decent amount, but it wasn't like packed. Then there was a tray of their popcorn chicken that was under a st sterno and a giant thing of salad. And I was like, okay, well, we'll wait till like stuff gets restocked or whatever.
00:26:18
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They did not restock. Nothing restocked. One fresh pizza came out after midnight. The champagne was disgusting. that Virginia and i who decided, I'll tell you, we ended up getting trying to get our money's worth, took sip of the champagne and we're like, this is bad.
00:26:33
Speaker
Now, I will say, they were very awesome and very cool and they took care of us afterwards and the server, she was great. was like, can I get another old-fashioned? She goes, yeah, we can't actually do old-fashioned. She's like, there's just drinks we can't do and I was like,
00:26:46
Speaker
as I already did it, but okay. And I was like, well, can we do this? And she goes, I don't know. Let me go check. And so she checked. so i was like, I just want bourbon on the rocks. And she goes, yeah, we can't do like shots. I go, but it's on the rock. Yeah.
00:27:02
Speaker
So it's not, I like that. i was like, how about this? Pepsi and Coke and whiskey. she goes, well, we did Pepsi products. I go, Pepsi and bourbon.
00:27:13
Speaker
She goes, what kind of bourbon you want? I go, bourbon do have? And the first thing she said was bullet. I go bullet. I want bullet and Coke. So Regina and I proceeded to drink Bullet and Pepsi to the point where like we both didn't eat anything. And we're like, schnockered. So like 12, 15, we're like, we're out of here. Yeah. wo up yeah it was it was not It was not a great experience. But they were very cool.
Berry White Beer and Candy Discussions
00:27:37
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Because like I said, I go, the server was awesome. The service was great. Everybody was awesome.
00:27:43
Speaker
When you say it's a dinner buffet, don't leave out of three pizzas that after 45 minutes, it hasn't been touched. It's coagulated. Like, I don't know. Maybe no one's eating it. And the lady who emailed me back, she goes, well, we've learned that when people show up to these things, they want food right away. and i was like, well Not this time. Looks like everybody was kind of waiting. Like, people probably showed up. We're like, great, we'll have some food when we get there. It doesn't mean you have to have, like, pizza out there right away. You can have, like, the starters or yeah something else.
00:28:11
Speaker
Like, it didn't have any pizza and powder. I don't know. It's just... I have my own feelings. Not even that. Like, you... I love Easy Street, by the way. Well, yeah. But you should be rotating food out. Like...
00:28:22
Speaker
Yeah, like when pizza, you can't let pizza sit there. You can't just let chicken sit there. Like, oh, but it's warm. It's on a sterno. It's like, yeah. Now it's dried out to ass. And then like my expectation would be like have your best things out there in this dinner buffet because I would expected like wings. Yeah.
00:28:41
Speaker
You know, salad. Virginia said like even a, I dont they don't they have one pasta dish it's like, yeah, they could have just made like masta choli. Yeah. like, hey, we're on the northwest side of Chicago. That's every kid's graduation like meal Like, there's masacole and Italian beef.
00:28:55
Speaker
but Yeah. Or, like, they I know they do, like, pizza rolls. or Like, the little pepperoni rolls or whatever. Yeah. It's like, there was just so much more they could have done. i will say that I'm not going to go back and do that.
00:29:05
Speaker
And I will probably go back to Miepwood next year. Because that was well worth the money that we paid. yeah I mean, I don't... Like, it was... It was like last year. You get the story, though. You get the story. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you very much. All right. i paid for that story. Yeah, right. 50 bucks, apparently. 50 bucks. And I got $50 back. And um we were going do the heart-shaped pizza this weekend, but never got around to it. So now I'm going to wait until we go like on a weekend and, you know. We had Friday. We did a heart-shaped pizza. Becca's mom...
00:29:37
Speaker
um had offered to buy all of the ah like Valentine stuff for Benjamin's class. So she but put in an order to target to like, you know, like the Spider-Man Valentines and then some candy and stuff.
00:29:50
Speaker
And she's like, Oh, you're gonna go pick it up. You know, she's like, I put your name as the pick. I was like, I'll get it. She goes, are you coming home right away? Or is it going to sit in the car? I'm like, why? said, well, there's pizzas in there. And I was like, what? So there was like these take and bake oh like Target pizzas in there. There was like three of them.
00:30:08
Speaker
And they like I was like these are raw. Like so I had to throw it. I threw it in the freezer. And I was like I don't know if you can do that. I'm like well I did. googled it again. But they literally just say like leave it out to like get to room temperature kind of first yeah before you cook it.
00:30:22
Speaker
Which I did. And then I cooked it for the allotted amount of time. And I was like, it's still kind of gummy in the middle. So I had taken it taken it out i because I was cutting it because the top looked done. But the bottom was like, and the bottom looked done. But like in the center, I'm like, that's questionable. So I literally threw them like the air fryer. Oh, s smart. well We've got a pizza like mode on there. So you just pumped it up like all the way and put it in for like five minutes. like Here's your pizza. Sorry if your cheese is brown.
Memorable Brewery Collaborations
00:30:48
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hey that's delicious. yeah oh That's how I like my cheese.
00:30:51
Speaker
In end, it was right. yeah wasnt It's pizza. It's heart-shaped pizza. yeah It's heart-shaped box. yep
00:30:59
Speaker
This next beer is from the aforementioned Short Fuse. And this was one of the ones I remember when we were, what was his name? Do you remember? Brian. brian Brian's a great guy. I was actually talking to Clark about it recently because Clark was one of the people who was with us on that episode. Indeed. One of the two. Did he go on both those? Did he do the barrel-aged one too? I don't know. I feel like one of them was just me and you. I think that was the barrel-aged one.
00:31:23
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Maybe it was there. But anyways, when we talked to Brian, this beer, the Berry White, ah wheat it's like a wit beer, I think, or a white, white, wheat, white wheat ale, white wheat ale.
00:31:34
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um What does it say? They ah actually use 120 or 125 Haribo gummy bears in this when they brew this.
00:31:47
Speaker
So it real gummy bears being used in it. Haribo! Honeybow. ah Berry white pale wheat ale with hints of fruit. Hints. Hints. Light crisp pale wheat ale with flavors of mixed fruit that will remind you your favorite gummy treats.
00:32:03
Speaker
Berry white summed up this beer when he said, I can't get enough. Oh, that was a great reading. How do you say can't get enough? Yeah, and I don't think get i don't think that believe the gummy bears actually being in there is a secret. But... yeah I do remember. It actually was on the menu. i yeah I do remember when he took us back into the brewery and we just saw like the stacks of boxes of gummy bears back there. I was like, what? Yeah. And it I mean, that's one of the it's it's a fun beer because the first sip I take, it's like, yeah, it's a pale wheat beer. Then all of a sudden in the background, it's oh, and there's gummy bears. And it's not like super sweet.
00:32:39
Speaker
There is a sweetness to it, but it's not like. you know and Over the top, here's a super sweet beer that's supposed to taste like a gummy bear. And still it's like, here's a beer that tastes like gummy bears. Yeah. I'm going to miss this beer. ah I've had, when I had the house, you know back in the day, i remember one birthday, ah cousin Kevin's friend of our, both of our friends, Jeremy came over and brought a six pack of this and drank like And I'm pretty sure it's in our Facebook cover photo.
00:33:08
Speaker
when I had all those beers. And it sat in my fridge for over a year and I finally opened it after a year and it was still a spot on. Like it did not fade. It tasted like gummy bears still. So again, another beer that's like...
00:33:22
Speaker
You know, going to be sad that that's not around. Also, they're ah as it they had like Lucy Juicy that was there. Oh, yeah. Hazy, that was pretty good.
00:33:32
Speaker
Their Gourd of Darkness, I think, is their pumpkin beer or something like that. ah They also had the cart like Carnival of Darkness. That's ICP. LAUGHTER
00:33:46
Speaker
That would have been a great collab. Yeah, it should have been. But their barrel-aged beers were really good. The ones that we had with them, with Brian. We got a chance to try them. Those were their first barrel-aged beers. Did they ship them off somewhere? Was it like Fobab or Grand American Beer Fest? think so. They were in the process of releasing for that or he was talking about leasing it and Go back to the episode and listen to it.
00:34:08
Speaker
Yeah, those were very good. Brian was very cool. That place was cool. Had I not eaten before, i I forgot they had food there. All the food that was coming out all looked really good. They even have a sandwich called the quadruple bypass that included like brisket, hot links, whole bunch of other food. What? Oh, man. Geez, yeah. It's all right. We don't need that, Brandon. don't need Well, it's funny because like every time we've gone there, it wasn't open.
00:34:36
Speaker
Like, yeah we were just hanging out in the bar. It was either late at night or early. And we went, like, once early, right? Yeah, the first time. The first episode we did was early. The second one. Because we were leaving and they were closing up. Yeah. Or no, we were the first time we were leaving and people i think people were getting ready to start coming in. Yeah. And yeah and the second time it was closed. but Those were back in the days when we did episodes Saturday mornings to meet up with Yeah. We can come in Saturday morning super early and do the episode. That means you've got to be there too, buddy. You better be there. You better be ready to give us some beers.
00:35:06
Speaker
Because, you know, it's 8 a.m. and I got to get my drink on. I get my drink on before I go back home. Yeah. And do my chores at the house. Go back take a nap. mean, that sounds kind of fun, but. It is nice, actually. This is a good life. I have a good life. Matthew, what do you think of this beer? Yeah.
00:35:21
Speaker
Wheat beers have never been my favorite. What a loser. But this is... It's a fun one. Especially because they brewed with the bears. So you just get more of that hint. It doesn't hit you in the face.
00:35:32
Speaker
ah Which is nice. It really is an aftertaste. And it's also not a heavy wheat beer. It's not half a vison. Half a vison. It's not whipped beers with all the coriander and orange.
00:35:43
Speaker
God, get those adjuks out. Give gummy bears. Please. yeah don't want purists. i want gummy bears. You know, I had a 3-1-2 last week. How was that? coaches. I did not like it.
00:35:57
Speaker
It was not good. Was it a can or on draft? It was on draft. It was bitter. It was just really bitter. took a sip. I was like, what is this? Part of me, well, two questions. One is like, i love how are their beer lines? That is my first question. Two is like, how old could is the keg possibly? Also, yeah yeah but and i' I've never been to coaches, so I can't say anything about it. No, those are valid questions for coaches. And I love coaches, too. I love you, Simon. I love coaches.
00:36:26
Speaker
I assume that they just go mostly through Guinness for $4. They also go through a lot Illuminated and Maplewood. Really? Illuminated is right down the street, right across the street. Like ah Kitty Corner, basically.
00:36:40
Speaker
But, yeah, they go through lot of Illuminated. lot Illuminated.
00:36:44
Speaker
Oh, my sweet karaoke. The edible kicking in real good. Dude, I'm so hot right now. You know, and I'm not shitting on a breweries at all, but like, it it always amazes me when you see places that close down that we we know are popular and, like, they're out there and they're award-winning, like...
00:37:06
Speaker
alarmist and short fuse has done well and like it just boggles my mind that illuminated i'm like that's just they're there and they're just doing their thing but I think their margins are probably so low because you know their space isn't isn't massive and like you know their brew space have you seen the brew space yeah yeah it's it's very tall Yeah.
00:37:26
Speaker
and they're still self-distro, right? Yeah. Probably. But yeah, it's just, it's crazy. It's like, you know, like the places that you'd think. that Yeah, probably wouldn't last. Again, if somebody says, hey let's go to a brewery, like Illuminated just doesn't pop into my head. I know. And I've been, then the couple of times I've been there, I've always enjoyed it. Yeah. Ironically, the only time i was there was like,
00:37:48
Speaker
um two years ago and i was doing dry january so didn't drink anything did you go get a pizza from your your spot i did not i did not but that was the first time i had was a pizza boy yeah pizza boy yeah that's the first time i had pizza boy i was with dan and becky and we went there and uh then emil showed up of course oh yeah that that day yeah and it's funny because i always envisioned the space looking different like based on like when you were kind of telling me about it and you were walking through and then i walk in there i'm like huh Everything's like here. Yeah. Yeah. like It's like walking to a dive bar. Yeah.
00:38:21
Speaker
Which is kind of cool. Yeah. Oh, and it was funny because the time we were there, it was January and the power went out. Oh, talking about that. And we were sitting in the dark, just drinking. And the guy's like, well, not going kick anyone out yet because I think they're out there fixing it.
00:38:33
Speaker
Because we were in there and like, I swear to God, I think we heard the explosion of like the transformer like outside. Was Optimus Prime? Yeah, totally. Yeah. And then like, like guy was like, yeah, don't worry. And then it like flickered back on. He's like, all right, I can take payments. And then the power went back out again. It's like, what do we do? Like every we all had open tabs. And i think I think the power went on and we cashed out. But like, yeah.
00:38:56
Speaker
If everybody can just line up so when the power comes back on, we can cash out there. Hurry! Gotta close this down. Yeah, but... um Yeah, I mean, it's a place that I i pass quite frequently, like, going up to Park Ridge, and, like, I was, you know but half the time I'm there, like, I've got Benjamin with me or something. I'm like, yeah, I gotta get back out there one of these days. I'm thinking, hey yeah, i may maybe on one of these random weekends when I don't have anything to do, I'll just they pop on over there yeah and then go to coaches. 8 a.m.?
00:39:23
Speaker
Yeah, maybe. Because I've already been away for four hours. One thing I haven't done for coaches, they there's the St. Patrick's Day parade passes by them. Oh, yeah. and they So they're owned by the new owners of...
00:39:39
Speaker
Christina's place. yes And so they apparently they have a whole bunch of like Irish food, like corned beef. You can go there and eat for free on St. Patrick's Day. So I might do that this year.
00:39:49
Speaker
I say that now. But each year, I'm like, oh, that's when we were friends with one of the bartenders there, me and my old roommates. We're like, yeah, we'll be back tomorrow. It's like we're shutting it down. like We'll totally be here for the parade. And our server or the bartender, she...
00:40:02
Speaker
was closing down, going home, and then coming back by 8 o'clock to open up. And she did it. And we're like, yeah, we'll meet you. It's fine.
New Podcast Segment and Casual Chats
00:40:09
Speaker
And we'd always wake up at noon and be like, where the fuck am I going? parade. Yeah, stand around people. Anyways, Brandon, you want anything else you want about this beer?
00:40:19
Speaker
um This is probably one of my favorite a short fuse beers. I enjoyed their barrel-age stuff, too, that we had with them. But, yeah I mean, just for the uniqueness of this, you know, um i the first time I've ever heard of anybody throwing a gummy yeah of any sort into... I threw a gummy in my mouth before I left. Apparently so. Actually, I didn't. Oh, Tony fidgeting.
00:40:45
Speaker
Tweaking out on us. ah Yeah, I mean, again, so you need the – I'd be curious if they've ever done just like the base of this. I think we've asked them that. and I think they made maybe they had and then they tried this and like this is what they ran with. but like Well done. Have you had gummies before? Why would you drink it without? I don't – The base of this is gummy bears. You ever had a fucking gummy bear before? Yeah, we just drew some beer on top of it. um I think I said this off Mike, the last beer that I had there was Chuck's Pub Ale, which was a bitter.
00:41:20
Speaker
It was really good. it was You would have liked it. Virginia took a sip. She goes, ooh, that's too bitter. And I go, well, your beer is super sweet. so What was she drinking? Crankshaft.
00:41:31
Speaker
Crankshaft. i Oh, the old honeycoes. Yeah, the old honeycoes. We won't get into that. But i think it's a good time for us to take a quick break. And I'm going to finally open up that bag of combos that's been sitting behind your bar for a while.
00:41:46
Speaker
Go for it. We'll be right back. Munchie time. I got the munchies because I'm high on the chronic.
00:41:56
Speaker
And we're back. Welcome back, everybody. It's just a hangout episode. It's just like you hanging out. Thanks for all the head, dude. It's just an episode of us hanging out talking because, you know, that's what the show's about. I'm just happy that I hit record the moment you started singing. and that Oh, perfect. Great. that that should be That's the intro. That'll be easy. Are you guys proud of me that I'm going to edit this as soon as I get home because now it only takes like 10 minutes to do it?
00:42:25
Speaker
Probably longer with all the ah amount of people that you need to bleep out today. not bleeping out anybody today. Fuck that shit. Who's bleeping out what? talking shit about all these businesses. Hey, I'm not talking shit about Easy Street. Easy Street's a great establishment.
00:42:39
Speaker
Their New Year's Eve party sucked. Coaches. Coaches is great. They might have dirty lines. Their karaoke is fantastic. Their pizza is blech, but their wings are amazing. And they got $3 Guinness. And he said they might have dirty lines.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah. $4 Guinness. $3 Guinness. Still $3? Yeah. How did they get away with it? What? They were charging him $4 the whole night. Oh, dude busted. Hey, that was fun. You guys stuck you guys stuck it out like champs.
00:43:06
Speaker
My birthday. Yeah, that was fun. It was a good time. I like that place. I had a great time sleeping. Woke up refreshed the next day.
Tasting Central Waters' Lupulin Nebula
00:43:13
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we came We came home and Mike was crashing by us. it was Virginia's sister. And Mike's like, kind of want to get a snack on the way home.
00:43:24
Speaker
Like, what do you mean? He goes, stopping at McDonald's. okay And then as he's getting to his car, like, Grab me a four-piece nuggy. And he did. Four nuggets where i went to bed. Nothing wrong with that. we we We're watching. And another bolo tie.
00:43:38
Speaker
Oh, my God. So many bolo ties. So many bolo ties purchased at Revolution. want to go back to Rev just to see if they've restocked bolo ties. you don't have to give me a reason to go back to Rev, but I'll go check for you, buddy.
00:43:51
Speaker
Now we know to get the last bolo tie. mean. Fancy gems. And you get, what is it? Mystery is the, she got a code. 15%. don't know what the code was.
00:44:04
Speaker
Becky, I hope you use that code.
00:44:09
Speaker
Just gave away code. Was it a code to buy more bolo ties? It was like 15 or 20% off. the was.
00:44:19
Speaker
Bolo. bono Yolo Bolo. ah Oh, that would have been a good code. Yeah, Yolo Bolo. Well, it's true. That's why we bought so many bolos that night. Matthew, what are we drinking? We are drinking Central Waters i Hazy.
Personal Stories and Humorous Anecdotes
00:44:33
Speaker
i don't know. What is that? Words. It says Lupulin Nebula. ah Damn, I was guessing on the top word, but that's what it says.
00:44:44
Speaker
And this is with Galaxy in Eclipse Hops. That's funny that I was the one who was able to pull it off because normally i'm like, I don't know what I'm reading. i mean... You got your glasses on. Yeah, it's true.
00:44:55
Speaker
I think you have to be high to read it. Dude, true. Hell yeah, dude. You know, it's funny. So i do have these THC pills at home, like five milligrams. i guess if you could take it like you're supposed feel them almost took it this morning at 530 or i right right after I was done eating out on the edge where when i was study in the pancakes. I'm like, should take an edible and keep playing Dying Light?
00:45:19
Speaker
Nah, was going to play Dying Light and have espresso. Other drugs. Yeah. I'll just take caffeine and sugar. Because did buy this Coffee Mate creme brulee creamer, which is fucking delicious. I'm to make a white Russian with it this week. Oh, that'd be nice.
00:45:36
Speaker
Let me know how that turns out. Oh, well. I do that every now and then because we didn't have ah heavy cream or any creamer or heavy or whatever milk one time to do white Russians, but we did have forget Oh, salted caramel creamer. I'm like, yeah I'll just try this.
00:45:51
Speaker
S'mores? Fucking awesome. S'mores would have been good, too. I sell s'mores whiskey at home, guys. Just saying. Oh, yeah. I've done that already. I've got the s'mores Bailey's, too. Do you? Fuck.
00:46:05
Speaker
That's what we had camping. That was gorgeous. That was the greatest combination ever. Yeah. Probably would fucked up your stomach, though. Yeah. Gosh. But, I mean, it really is. When I had to my show gave Virginia that, she goes, oh, my God, this is really tasty. I go, yeah. We went through those two almost two bottles in less than 24 hours. Yeah. Like 12 hours. Because we started drinking it on that Friday and started again with that Saturday. Wait. Am I doing my days right?
00:46:33
Speaker
Did we go Thursday, Friday, Saturday? Thursday. Thursday, yeah. We came home Saturday. Fucking rain. God, that was such a bummer. We did. had to leave. Assholes.
00:46:44
Speaker
Yeah, that sucked. Anyway. You got new tent. Huh? got a new tent. No, I didn't. Not yet. We're going to get a new tent. Maybe. I am. I've got to get one by May. End of... Where are you guys going camping? I have no idea. Cool. I have to find out. I don't know if they've decided yet or wherever.
00:47:02
Speaker
that how camping works now? They just ship you off and you don't know where Yeah, It's like the army, dude. And then there's a camping trip again in July. But yeah, Benjamin's just been asking. It's like, when are we going camping? When are we going camping? Chill out, dude. It is February.
00:47:15
Speaker
and That's what I said. I'm like, oh, we I think when I was telling him that we were doing this like servicing in the forest preserve and he was like, we camp't we camp in there? And I'm like, dude, it's cold.
00:47:27
Speaker
and actually ended up being, yesterday was nice. So so today da was a real nice day. Yeah. Oh yeah. Today was beautiful. the rest of this week is going to until Friday. And then we're back to... Fuck you, Friday. Yeah. Like, mixed snow and rain. Although that could all change, too. Absolutely. You know know, what I saw for Wednesday, it might be 70 degrees here.
00:47:47
Speaker
Yeah. Somebody said it hit 61 today. I believe that. Yeah. That's Beach Brother. that's why That's why I wore my hoodie and two t-shirts today. but
00:48:00
Speaker
Dress appropriately in layers, in layers. If it makes you feel better, the thing all weekend that cracked me up is I got a box of the Reese's Hearts. Uh-huh. And it has a you know, giant heart. Yeah.
00:48:14
Speaker
I assumed that they were hearts, i don't know, when you buy box candy, that they're like, you know, nicely laid in or there's whatever. No, they're individually packaged. They're individually in just a giant box. I just could not stop laughing the entire Every time we looked at the Reese's, would just crack up.
00:48:31
Speaker
In my working in like production, of different things. I was like, someone overproduced the amount of Reese's and was like, how do we get fucking rid of all these Reese's? And they're like, put a giant box. Just dump it in the box. It's fine. Just dump it the box. It's fine.
00:48:45
Speaker
That's for Valentine's Day, buddy. you know, this way. I'm just going to eat all those Reese's in one sitting. It was almost two pounds of reed. Did you bring some for us today? I think I might have said I'll have some in the car. It was $7. Damn, that's it? Yes. That's been pretty good. can bring you all this. should have went to Walgreens today. Discount candy. Yeah, that's true.
00:49:08
Speaker
i didn't Virginia got me a little thing of... fenie ma it's very nice Fancy. I see. I think Becca may have gotten a Fannie Mae thing. And then she bought literally a bunch of, there was like Hershey hearts.
00:49:22
Speaker
um And then it was cookies and cream hearts. Oh yeah. Because I dude i love white chocolate. Hershey's cookies and cream is top notch. I got Virginia a white chocolate bar that had, fuck, what was it?
00:49:37
Speaker
It was like some toasted twistted something. No, man. I'm so high right now. Toaster strudel? No, it was like something. Toasted strudels? you know I'm going to text you guys when I get home so you guys know what I'm talking about But it was a white chocolate bar. and i was like, oh, that was really good.
00:49:53
Speaker
um yeah And I got her some peeps. cause She loves peeps. ah Peeps are good. just No, they're not. They're fucking gross. They're just straight marshmallows. No, they're covered in shitty sugar and they're bad marshmallows.
00:50:04
Speaker
Yeah. Was sugar on a... No. It's a bad time. Peeps can burn in hell. Yeah. In fact, I want to microwave them until they like explode and catch on fire, not to just see them expand. You like you couldn't even s'mores those fuckers. was going say, can you s'mores them? No, you can't, because they're shitty marshmallows.
00:50:19
Speaker
And then the sugar burns on it first and then it's just like... It turns into caramel. No, it does not. It turns into like acid for your soul yeah that makes you want to cry because who the fuck made these ungodly peeps in the first place? Like what motherfucker was stoned one day and was like, hey, let's make something that looks like a fucking duck or whatever the fuck original peeps are supposed to be. i think Let's dye some sugar yellow and just split... What did you say? Chickens? Baby chickens. I guess peep, yeah.
00:50:48
Speaker
put this stupid yellow sugar all over it and sell it to fucking fat kids. Because when I was a fat kid, I'm like, oh, peeps, sounds like a great idea. You know what? And I'd eat it I'd be like, I don't even like this. Why am I fucking eating this? Oh, because I want to kill myself because I hate my fucking life. So I'm eating these shitty candies. Yeah.
00:51:06
Speaker
oh so Anyways, don't eat peeps, folks. They're just gross. Oh, look. little chicken. I
Central Waters IPA Discussion
00:51:12
Speaker
saved a chicken this week. Jesus Christ. That's what you thought of during Brandon's rant?
00:51:16
Speaker
Oh, yeah. He's yelling about chickens. No, he's yelling about the fucking peeps. Oh, speaking about chickens, when we were doing our little scout thing, there was a fucking, there was like a pigeon that exploded in the forest. Jesus. It was literally just, it you could see it was like, like, exploded. And there was like feathers everywhere. What if fox got it? And then a little bit further away, there was a dead deer. Like, it was a deer. it Like, you could just see it was bones.
00:51:39
Speaker
And like literally its bottom half, like its but back legs were like over to the side. And there was just like this sprawled out thing of like fur just all around it. And then like the top part, you know it just had like the one bone or the one leg and the other. like But the fur and the hoof was still, it was really fucking creepy. I did take a picture of it. That's actually that actually be the cover of this episode. Yeah, it was like, it was really fucking weird. Um...
00:52:03
Speaker
And then, of course, you know, all these, you know, little kid scouts are over there like, oh, and Benjamin's going. in there i'm like, don't fucking touch it. What are you doing? Can touch with my tongue? Don't bring that disease home. And the the woman, like the the volunteer that was like running this thing for the Forest Preserve, she's like, I'm not going to tell you you can't touch it. That's your, your parents can make that decision. what All of us were like, all the parents were like, don't touch the deer bones.
00:52:30
Speaker
Don't touch any part of it. waits And the lady he was like, unless you want to. yeah Unless you guys want to. And then just to bring this back around, all fucking peeps should just explode and be in the forest. Yes, there's now even there's no... i don't get it. i don't get it.
00:52:47
Speaker
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00:53:13
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00:53:25
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. It's 8%. What do you guys think of this beer? It's pretty pretty good. um It's interesting. Yeah, we've played a little bit with the Hyperboost, but that's just a concentrated hop oil. I'll get a lot more yields because you don't get great yields on this. mean It made Brandon angry. I want to know how he feels about this beer.
00:53:47
Speaker
Angry. Angry.
00:53:53
Speaker
I like it. It's, I mean, definitely it, it, it falls into that hazy category.
Conclusion: Reflections and Goodbyes
00:53:57
Speaker
Uh, the, you know, it looks like a fucking hazy. Uh, I do like, there's a juiciness to it that I, I kind of enjoy. um And then it's not it's not overly bitter. It's not overly sweet.
00:54:10
Speaker
I feel like if it was just a little bit sweeter, it would be like it would be like a no-go for me. yeah so It's like right on the balance. And actually, like, you know, five-ounce pour of this would be probably my limit on this. you know I think a 12-ounce can for me is good enough. 16-ounce pour is – I think it lot. I've i've come – like, even the Maplewood that I had earlier today – ah I'm just realizing that Hazy's are just a lot for me to yeah to drink.
00:54:39
Speaker
Which, by the way, the Pixelated Beezer was not that way for me. was very good. The Phase 3 Old Irving collab. There's your plug for the day. Was that the one that they did on the release Thursday? Yeah.
00:54:51
Speaker
And then the Barley Wine one was really good, too. was it Was it a barrel age? Yeah. Which one was it? That... was the karaoke starts at 10 karaoke to follow uh that was a blend of our two-year age barley wine in there uh extended age barley wine okay yeah it's pretty good do guys still have that on tap yeah we have some extra six tools also just uh that we're planning some stuff with just a heads up I got nachos from you guys when I went there. Okay. I don't need a half a fucking jar of jalapenos on my nachos. Yeah, you do. Let's focus on the pulled pork. Okay.
00:55:27
Speaker
Thank you. They do it by weight and they accidentally weigh too many nachos. It was funny though. I was like, Jesus Christ. There's so many. It was too many jalapenos for me. I'm like, okay, that's enough jalapenos. I don't need that. They got used to us. Like I ordered the mac and cheese with a side of jalapenos. I mean, it was great, but I love getting the nachos. I got home, so I both of those beers and split the nachos with Virginia.
00:55:50
Speaker
and I got home, and I walk inside. I'm like, I feel like i ate a burger, fries, and four beers. I'm so fucking full. That's so good. It was a good date night. It blows my mind. like It was a week or two ago we went. Yeah.
00:56:07
Speaker
The people like – I'm astonished watching when like a single person orders like the nachos and like houses them. I'm like, dude, I'd do that forever. I mean, that is the first time that i got the nachos.
00:56:20
Speaker
Virginia and I – I hear your son. yeah We got nachos and chicken tenders. And it was way too much food.
00:56:32
Speaker
Yeah. Because I thought, like oh, this is perfect with nachos and chicken tenders. Like, oh, good little. Because the first time we went there, we did the Brussels sprouts and braised carrots, which is a great combo, by the way. Yeah. If you want to have, like, you know, a lighter start to the day. Here's my secret the nachos. Okay. gary Order the chips separately.
00:56:51
Speaker
so you just get all of the all the meat. And then you can just use the chips to dip and put the nachos on as you want. Like making your own nachos. Yeah, but then you get all the meat and you don't have to get all the tortillas.
00:57:05
Speaker
but And then when you get highlighter, then you just have the cheese sauce with the nachos. But I like all the stuff together. Yeah. i want I want to go and do that and they're going to be like, can you fucking talk to Matthew? They're like, God damn it. You actually can't do that.
00:57:21
Speaker
The brewers really need to stop putting in random fucking orders. I did get a four pack of that pixelated meat. I haven't had one since I've been home. now but It's good. It's a good beer. I was convinced you were gonna bring one tonight. ah Nope.
00:57:34
Speaker
Fuck you guys. Don't like Brandon. I mean, I'm saving one for Brandon. Wow. Maybe he assumed you were going to bring one. Yeah. What happened to the Chicago? It's in his car. Fuck.
00:57:49
Speaker
I basically came straight from Wisconsin here. oh really? Yeah. Thanks for doing that. no The woman's in the car, too. drinking the abyss she doesn't like beer now she does now you left me in this fucking car that was delicious good shit able are we doing this last one the abyss no that thing no can who that little thing what is that little thing what do you want to make it an after the final pour yeah it's up to you we're out of time there
00:58:21
Speaker
We're over an hour. Jesus, really? Yep. and That was fun. Well, yeah, let's do a quick after the final pour. We can wrap this up. Make on the same file if you'd like. That's fine. Brandon, love buddy. Love you too, man. Matthew, love you.
00:58:32
Speaker
Love you. Aw, we all love each other. Do you guys gonna say you guys love each other? Fuck off. Okay. Love you, Brandon. See guys next week. Bye. Bye. You can't go lower.
00:58:44
Speaker
we're goingnna work on that ah
00:58:51
Speaker
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00:59:05
Speaker
Until next time, cheers.