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After The Final Pour - S8E5 - Afterthought Brewing Company "This & That"
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This week Brandon, Tony and Danny sample Afterthought Brewing Company's collaboration with Is/Was Brewing "This & That".
Beer description:
"Collaboration with Is/Was Brewing. Saison brewed with triticale plus Callista and Grungeist hops. Fermented in stainless steel with our mixed saison culture."
Thanks to Kevin and Deb Goggin for the theme song.
Outro music by Fluid Minds
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Transcript
Introduction to 'After the Final Pour'
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Welcome to After the Final Four. Brought to you by The Malting Hour. I am your host, Tony Golic, joined always with... Brandon Winninger! That's gonna clip so fucking bad. Let's start that over.
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When life gives you an empty cup Just crack a smile and fill it up Fill it up!
Casual Banter and Atmosphere Setting
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Welcome to After the Final Four, brought to you by The Malting Hour. I am one of your hosts, Tony Golic, joined always with ASMR Brandon Winningcher. And to his right, Dan!
00:01:15
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He's back, he stole your thunder. Oh man, here we are and I fish a reel after the final pour. We're just a couple guys hanging out in the bar drinking, you know what I mean? You know, why are your lights dimmed down? Your light should be dimmed down right after the final pour. You've got to control it. Where? Over here? Yeah. I see it, hold on.
00:01:38
Speaker
Welcome to after the final pour. What do we drink it? Can you read in the dark?
Review of Gin Barrel-Aged Saison
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Yeah, we are drinking this and that gin barrel age from Afterthought Brewing. It's a collab with is was 5.2 percent. This is a Saison brewed with
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tritical plus calista and grungeist hops Fermented in a gin barrel with our mixed Saison culture. This is over a year old old beer now we had Okay, now we had the non we had that so there was a or sorry. There's an is was version There's an afterthought version and it might even be two is was there might be like a Brett and unbreaded I thought we had with them. We had the Brett
00:02:26
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And I had mentioned that they had it in Gin Barrels and you guys were like, I want to try that. So I saved it. Thank you. Until now. Grazie. Brandon, what do you think of this baby?
Positive Impressions of the Beer
00:02:38
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I love it. It's really fucking good.
00:02:42
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this is the closest thing that i've had to like that craft gin week from uh off color yes just in not they're different beers but just the way gin is used in this the the gin barrel is used in this is fucking phenomenal i'm not a huge gin fan in general yeah me either but gin beers are like either really good yeah gin barrel aged beers or gin type theme beers there's some type of except for you know heavy junipers is tough for me yeah but this is
00:03:11
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this is good like that whole bottle boom i can drink that myself oh yeah 100 drink this it's very i mean this is the tardest thing we've had of the night yeah and but still like not too tired no no it's not it's not nice it's not heartburn inducing or anything very flavorful that tartness yeah a little bit it's like uh
00:03:30
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a juice juice like tartness you know like the tartness that you get from some type of juice does that make sense yeah great it doesn't taste like root beer so we got that going for us fresh lemonade yeah it's like a lime a little bit of lime in there yes i think lime maybe a little lime zest sprinkled yeah i think i mentioned this when we did that last episode but yes one of the like most mind-blowing memorable beers i've had was half acre's pony pills aged in gin barrels i think you did mention that and that sounds really good so good
Comparison to Tart Beers
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i love this beer i like the type like this is the type of like crisp tart refreshing refreshing beer i like to drink that i could drink like all the time that's why i do i don't want to like i can't compare this to any other beer other than like that the craft gin week from off color but like this is why i'm drawn to if you if you were to
00:04:23
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turn down the sweetness on Revolutions, some of their freedom beers. That's why I like those beers, because of the tartness of them. I think one of the freedoms they have with like black currants, or the blueberry, one of those are, yeah, blueberry and ginger, that's what it is. The freedom, whichever one of that, a pursuit of freedom, that one, that one's not super sweet, and you get blueberry and ginger,
00:04:52
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And that is like kind of what I'm getting, that type of, of refreshness from this beer right here. I would drink this all the time. I can see that. What's ABV in this? Um, I said it, but I don't remember. I don't remember. I wasn't really listening to you. Sorry. Not, nothing personal. It's not an insult. It is 5.2. That's not bad. It's our lowest ABV beer for the day. Not lowest, but one of the lower. Yeah.
00:05:17
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Yeah, and that's I like the fact that like these gin barrel aged beers, they're not like over the top, like with the ABV, you know, and I know there's there's some there's some bourbon barrel aged beers out there that don't go like breaking like the 10 percent mark
Enhancing Approachability with Low Alcohol Content
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or whatever. But I do. This is such a flavorful beer.
00:05:38
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And at that low ABV, it makes it much more approachable and drinkable for people that want to enjoy this entire thing. Because if this was a 12% beer, I'd have this, and then I'd be like, I'd be shot for the night. Yeah, exactly. I'd be like, I can't really drink anymore. But I will. Yeah.
00:05:55
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I should, my decision making is gone for the night, but. So I'm gonna have another beer. Yeah, but what I'm saying is like it's so approachable that you can, like I could even do two of these probably in a night. I can probably finish the whole bio. Yeah. Oh yeah, easy, easy, easy.
00:06:15
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Really fucking good really well done And I love that you're not getting that punch in the face of it. It's basically all of the things that I like about barrel Minus all of the things I hate about Jim Sure, I mean it actually makes me want to And then I say that the gin stuff's not there it just plays so well with the beer itself I get a lot of I feel like it's
Exploring Gin Cocktails
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Associate gin with like citrus, you know, and like I feel like that is what's very present here
00:06:49
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Yeah. I mean, you don't get a lot of like the juniper notes from it. Right. Like that. It's there though. I mean, there's like slight notes in there. I feel like an aftertaste type. Yeah. It's like the herbaceous notes of gin. What I want is someone to make me a really good gin cocktail. Laura makes the aviation that she makes is very good. Not with aviation gin. It's called an aviation.
00:07:14
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And it's really good. It's got like crรจme de la violette in it and maraschino liqueur and lemon juice and
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I think that's it. It might be missing something else, but it's very tasty. It's like a purple cocktail. And you put those like... I think I tried it last year. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you did. I think I had one. Put those $20 Luxardo cherries in there as well. And it's a good drink. The cherries are good. The cherries are fucking really good. And then hold on to that syrup because you can find other things to do with it as I have added to other drinks. It's very tasty. But I do want a different type of gin cocktail because maybe I do like gin.
00:07:56
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Maybe I do like good gin. I will say that like spruce tip gin is rough for me. Laura likes that. I think I love it. Well, we've got some maple wood spruce tip gin at home. Is that the one I got you guys? Community. Laura likes it a lot.
00:08:15
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Good. I can't remember what what it is, but it's like they have like a gin. It's like a Thai basil and oh I think she had that last time we were there we went for her birthday And not gin related But they had a beer for gay pride month called like this is gay or something like that And it was a tequila based drink that she liked but I had first time ever having duck fat washed bourbon It was fucking
Future TikTok Drink Recipes
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Good. What are we gonna do with some of those TikTok drinks we've sent to each other? Gotta have a whole episode just based on that. We did After Final Poor's based on some of those. Oh, I got that. Trust me, Dan. You'll be interested. My favorite spirit of choice recently is Mezcal. If I see a Mezcal cocktail, I'm in. I had a little bottle of Mezcal from Mexico that... I think all of them, mostly.
00:09:09
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A friend of mine fought me and another friend came over and we didn't have a whole lot of stuff in the house and she pretty much drank most of it. It was a small bottle too so I was pretty bummed about that.
Music Mention: Handsome Boy Modeling School
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Back on the gin train, I just remembered, handsome boy modeling school. It's coming out with an album called Music to Drink Martinis to. I'm sorry, what? Do they have an album coming out? Yeah. And it's only being sold as a set with a gin bottle. So I bought it. It's already out? Or you can just buy it? It's probably sold out. I probably can't buy it.
00:09:48
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I'll send you the link. Thank you. I'll look at it when we're done here. Oh my god, that's awesome. Hey, so how's your girl? It's just so how's your girl? White people. White people. I answered by my high school. Okay, how many martini glasses are you giving this one, Braden?
High Rating and Year-End Consideration
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I'm going 475. 475. For what it is, I enjoy it. Daniel, son. That seems wrong to say. I shouldn't have done that. Dan. Danny. I'm going to go 475 also. I will say some afterthought beers get too acidic for me, but this one, I don't know if it's like the gym barrel or what, but it's balanced to me. It's not too acidic.
00:10:34
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It's sort of bouncing all the right ways. The acidity is not bothering me at all. I'm going like 4.8, maybe even like 4.8.5 on this. This is up there as one of my favorite beers I've had this year. Might even make it onto the Maltese. I don't know. My Maltese list, I don't know if you guys are actually keeping track because I have been this year. I've been very adamant about making sure I know what's on my list for the Maltese and my list is growing.
00:10:59
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I think I'm at like seven or eight beers now where I'm like, oh, I don't know, that was really good. So, ooh, excuse me. This is definitely gonna be added to it. So at some point I'm gonna have to trim down the list. We'll see what happens. You guys got anything else you wanna say about this, this beer or anything else? Dan's sending me the link. I love, yeah, sorry, I'm sending this. Handsome Modeling Boy. Handsome Modeling Boy. Look at this. Dan's Handsome Boy Modeling. Ooh.
00:11:27
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Anyways, I am digging this, I love Afterthought, I love Is Was, so it's like a... Is it really like $35 for this? Yes, I know, I thought it was gonna be more than that too. I honestly thought it was like 90 bucks probably. No, I mean you get a small bottle of gin.
00:11:42
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Colored vinyl, it doesn't say if it's limited or anything, so I don't know what the limitation is, but... Interesting. Yeah. Hey, check out Handsome Boy Modeling School for everyone out there. Yeah, if you've never listened to Handsome Boy Modeling School... If you like hip-hop, you got your little Deltron 3030 in there. If you like alternative, Jack Johnson's in there.
00:12:00
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Yeah, there's there's there's a lot of people with fucking uh, who's uh, somebody from uh, I don't know Lp was on one song with what's his name from uh, there's like a tarry teenage riot There's a story behind that song and that the whole recording was a giant mess. Uh, that was just didn't make sense and they couldn't go back and rerecord it I'd listen to an interview with lp about that. It's kind of a funny story. Dj shadow is part of the first one. Who's this? Who else is on there?
00:12:29
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No, but they got one of like the alternative days and I can't remember his name right now. Why are you on the second album? Uh, Lincoln parks on there. Um, there's a lot. Anyways, you should check out hands one mile like school first album. So how's your girl? Second album. White people. Fantastic. Good stuff. Brandon.
00:12:50
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I'm going to come to you next because I always use my goodbyes for the last. Dan. Yo. Welcome back again. Thank you. This is great. It's been good. It's a good selection tonight. Yeah. I think overall everything that we drank this evening was fantastic. Brandon. Love you buddy. Love you too man. We'll see everybody next week.
Conclusion and Social Media Plugs
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Bye.
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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 Untapped as bdubdrinksbeer. Tony can be found on Instagram and Untapped under Ace of Help Chicago, on Twitter, The Ace of Help Chicago. Clark can be found as Clarkowski on all three.
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