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Episode 36 - Quarantine Vacation Beer
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On this episode we discuss beers from our safe trips and the beers we acquired during these ventures in COVID times.
We also welcome Clark Fetridge to the show as a co-host, intern, fact checker and all around info guru.
Theme music provided by Myke Kelli (@mykekelli)
Outro provided by Fluid Minds (@fluidminds)
Check out all our episodes at www.themaltinghour.com
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Transcript
Introduction & Trip Teasers
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I really like how
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There's instructions in that song where our... it's a show, Fred. He's had music on this show. It's a theme song, so he's a friend. He gives everyone the instructions to have a seat, and I think you should all have a seat, as we're sitting here. Welcome to the malting hour. I am one of the hosts, Tony Goley, joined always with... Random Lininger.
00:01:01
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That sounded like a game show. I like that. Welcome everybody to another episode of The Malting Hour. Is the theme song just going to keep playing? It's the entire thing. Yeah, it's very long. That's how you end it.
00:01:22
Speaker
Holy cow. Well, as I said, welcome to the Malting Hour. You know, one day this show will just run without any problems, right? No.
00:01:33
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Yeah, I don't want that. Welcome, everybody.
Trip Recaps & Oktoberfest Brewing
00:01:36
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This week, Brandon and I, we both took separate trips very carefully. Brandon, you went to go see your in-laws, and where'd you go see your in-laws? Where are they standing at? They were in the state of Missouri. I was right, so I was trying to figure... I'm sorry, everybody. I've got something in my throat. Hold on one second. Editor's note. Tony has something in his throat. About a dollar for every time that happened.
00:02:01
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Hey, yeah, I was trying to tell Laura where you guys were at and I'm like.
00:02:08
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They're in, I think they're in Missouri, I think, or they're in Kansas. Either one. I don't know. I'm not sure where they're at. Very close to Kansas though. Yeah, I know. No, I know that. So that's what I ended up telling her. I'm like, that's one of the two. They're not far apart. Um, and I took a short trip up to Michigan, uh, with Clark, uh, fan favorite Clark Fetridge. Uh, we went up there and, uh, very safe. We sat on some patios.
00:02:33
Speaker
outside stuff, social distancing, and then we were at his family's home. So we drank a whole bunch of beers there. So we thought it'd be, since we're now in October, we thought, you know, summer's done. It's officially done, considering we already did a pumpkin beer episode, but it's officially done. We thought it'd be fun to talk about our trips. And we grabbed some beers, right? You grab some beers, I grab some beers, we're gonna drink these beers. We're not sharing the same beers, we just happen to have beers
00:03:00
Speaker
From our trips. Correct. But we're doing something special first. We've done this before. In fact, I just listened to the old Halloween episode. We drank the Almond Joy beer on it. Ah, yes. Last year's Halloween beer that we brewed together, which, man, kind of wish I still had some. Not that I want to drink it all the time, but I remember it being very good. It turned out great, and apparently we all thought it was good on the show. Yeah. No, I liked it.
00:03:25
Speaker
But you got a chance to brew beer, man. I did. What did you brew? Tell us all about it, baby. So before I went off on vacation, actually the day before I went, I ended up brewing an Oktoberfest. So the grains that I used, basically I kind of searched around looking to see what like Hofbrau uses for their Oktoberfest. And then I found a couple of other
00:03:51
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It's a good choice. ... recipes online, and just kind of switched some of the malt a little bit, and ended up with something that I think turned out decent. And this is the first beer that I've actually brewed that I've nailed all my numbers 100%. And well, the OG was maybe a little bit off, but Final Gravity hit perfectly, so I was pleased with that.
00:04:17
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What is the alcohol of the alcohol? What is the alcohol of this? What's the ABV of this beer? How drunk is this beer?
Brewing Challenges & Solutions
00:04:27
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It is, I think, 6.9. Wow. That's pretty good for an Oktoberfest. So I poured myself a glass right before we started. And by the way, great job on the burst carbonation. You did it perfectly. It is fully carbonated. And I took the first smell.
00:04:44
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that I have from it. It was funny because while you were gone, I was watching your cats. I don't know if you knew that. Aggie did ask me to come take care of them while you were gone. It's very, very long note. It was very nice. And you had me check on your beer. And it was funny when I opened up your office where you're fermenting your beer. It was very, like in your face, holy cow of beers fermenting in here. And I was like, Whoa, okay, so that's just chugging along. The first smell that I got from this beer was kind of like that. Like
00:05:15
Speaker
Yeasty and not in a bad way in a very good way. Like, oh, okay. Like, you know, October fest beers normally don't smell like that. And now that I'm smelling it again, it just smells like a good October fest beer. And I'll be honest, Brandon. So when I took the sip.
00:05:30
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I took a sip, I put it down and went, Holy shit, Brandon, dude, this is fucking delicious. This is really, really good. And it's and I sound like I'm shocked. Like, I can't believe you did this. But honestly, like, dude, this is something that I feel like you should make every Oktoberfest. I will go in on it with you. Brew it for me. Give me a gallon keg of it, whatever. I'm happy that I've got a full freaking growler of this.
00:05:55
Speaker
This is delicious, man. It's sweet. And you didn't even lager it. And it doesn't taste that way. It has that, it's very clean tasting, but it's sweet. It's everything that, and multi, it's everything that I want from an Oktoberfest beer. And man, I just, I couldn't be prouder, prouder of you. This is fantastic.
00:06:14
Speaker
Yeah, thanks, man. Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. The only issue I'm having with it is for some reason, like, it's just really heady coming off the tap. So I got to kind of pour it slow. And I've like, I've raised the temperature in the kegerator. I even lowered the PSI. So my serving pressure on this, I've got it at like eight.
00:06:33
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You could probably, I mean, if you want, you could release pressure, like purge the keg, like take it off the gas, purge the keg. Maybe even drop it down to like five or six PSI. It also could be how warm your hose is, but you've poured beer off there before and it hasn't been very heady, so maybe just try releasing some pressure. This is also the new keg or the new dual tap. And the dual tap line is insulated, so... Oh yeah, so that shouldn't be a problem.
00:06:58
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It shouldn't be in there. Hey guys, it's me, Clark.
Brewing Process Improvements
00:07:02
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It's Clark. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Clark's here. You are coming in very loud. I need you to back up from whatever microphone you're using. I wanted you to know I was here. What are you doing? Oh, you didn't know I was here. No. This is... What the fuck? I'm sorry. I should have told you I was going to hack into the...
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It's now time for Clark's interlude with Clark. I want to offer those exact sentiments that Tony offered about Brandon's new beer. I think it's delicious.
00:07:43
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He's staying sweet. Hey guys, how are you? Hi, Clark. So here's the thing, everybody. We fooled you. We knew Clark was actually going to be here. I just thought it would be funny if he jumped on in. Clark was kind enough on the last show to jump in and give us factoids and kind of help out at the show. And we thought it'd be fun if there was a chance that he's available that he does it. We're not going to talk to him all the time. In fact, I'm going to make it a point
00:08:12
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to forget he's there until he jumps in just like he did. Yeah it's so many things to say you're talking about the delicious beer brand and made which i agree with and you're talking about k graders. Well actually yeah you can't create it is so you got some questions for brand. Yeah but the beer i agree with everything you said tony.
00:08:33
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On the nose, beautiful, yeasty, a little sweet, great mouth feel, everything. I'm going to have a hard time not drinking the salt tonight, which is terrible because I'm a manager tomorrow. It's so good, Brandon. It is really awesome, buddy. Thanks, man. Yeah. Like I said, I was pleasantly surprised. Not that I was worried because the day actually went smoothly. Everything kind of went as planned.
00:08:59
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with that sweet ass warchiller that you got. Hell yeah, do that. Thank you, Cold Break. Yeah, the warchiller was awesome. And then the new setup I got, I mean, I just felt better having the way my water's set up coming in off the hose. I bought the connections to actually run it straight into the kettle instead of pouring it over the side. And so all of it, I had my lines set up. So everything kind of went as smoothly as possible. And I didn't drink until it was done. So it was good.
00:09:27
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I did not do something stupid. As I say, that's Mike's golden rule for when it comes to brewing. You got to wait until you're like, yeah, to the boil at least to have your first beer. I now wait until I'm ending the mash to have my first beer. Yeah. Especially when I have like an easy hop schedule. Yeah. And I think for this, I didn't crack a beer until like I was halfway through the boil because that was like my last addition. And then I was just whatever.
00:09:55
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cracked open, I think, oh, one of the pumpkin beers that I had leftover that I bought from that mix six. So yeah, so after that, it was smooth sailing. And it was, you know, I was efficient, I cleaned up as I went. So like, by the time I was done, really, all I had to clean out was the cattle. So it's kind of nice to do a brew day on your own.
00:10:16
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Not that I don't enjoy brewing with friends. I do actually. I miss brewing, especially with both you guys, because you guys are the two that I brew with the most other than Mike. But it is kind of nice when you're brewing on your own, you have that opportunity to just kind of be there and be like, OK, well, I can clean this up and make sure it makes the brew day so much more efficient. Totally. Yeah. Go ahead. I'm sorry. No, go ahead. No, I was going to say, Clark, Clark, you're still there, correct?
00:10:46
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Yes, I'm here.
00:10:48
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So you also have a new kegerator and the, do you have a dual tap on that one as well? Do you have any issues with the head, too much head on a bear or have you had any? The only time I've had issues was right in the middle of the summer and it was really hot. I think something with the humidity kind of messed that up, but lately the two kegs I have connected right now are behaving very well. But there have been some that I have had issues with.
00:11:19
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Okay, so maybe that's learned.
00:11:21
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Yeah, I mean, as you guys probably know and as some of our listeners know, I think apparently long lines and apparently it can take a couple of days or up to a week for the cake to get conditioned, as I've read, which I don't necessarily believe, but. Yeah, don't believe don't believe what you see on the Internet. It's not. Yeah, but I've noticed with my cake grater and real tap that I can boost up the PSI and the CO2 to close to 10 and it behaves much better when I was just born from a
00:11:49
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a homebrew keg with a tap handle, or what's the word, picnic tap? Is that the word, picnic tap? I'd have it down to like three or four. So it's interesting. Nowhere I've ever reason. Yeah, the old tap, the single tap I had on here, again, like really no different setup. Although, actually, if I look at the single tap, that one doesn't even look like it was insulated. So I don't know. That one I never really had.
00:12:18
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Yeah, I never really had too bad of an issue with that one. I originally had thought like, because, you know, I force carved it and I was shaking the beer up, I had shaken it up yesterday morning. And then I dropped the PSI on it.
00:12:37
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And then I did a release, and then I let it sit for like two hours, maybe. And then I went to pour some off, and it was still kind of foamy. I was like, oh, maybe I just shook it up too much. And then I dropped, that's when I, because I had it initially at about like 10 PSI, I dropped it down to seven. Still coming out a little foamy. I turned the temperature up on the kegerator, make it a little colder in there.
00:13:01
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See if that makes a difference. But I don't know. Like I haven't run into the issue before. So what temperature do you have it at? I don't know what the temp in there is. Like six. It's free. It's going to freeze, man. It's not good. Dangerous.
00:13:22
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No, I mean, that's what it was. That's what it's been at before. So, um, I was sick. You were being serious. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. I thought the same thing. You did. Like, I thought you're being, I thought you're being sick. I can't see better. Yeah. Yeah. Six degrees. Like, Ooh, that's a problem. No, I don't know what the actual temperature is in there, but like I'm the dial. Um, Oh, that would make, that would help.
00:13:48
Speaker
Yeah, I was gonna say, maybe grab your ink bird and throw it in there and see if you can get a temperature reading what's in there and then mess around with the dial. Maybe it's just a little too warm. Yeah, maybe they'll do that. Just warm enough. And a quick question for Brandon before we move on from the keg raider talk. On the last, after the final pour, you mentioned you got a keg from revolution of freedom of speech or one of the freedoms? Yep, yeah.
00:14:16
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how did that work out how long did you have that in there because i just bought a sixth barrel of anti-hero and i've never had a commercial very like two weeks um we went through we went through it really quick because
00:14:30
Speaker
Two weeks, you drink it that fast. Oh, yeah. Oh, because I assume mine will be in there for at least a month. I just don't want it to get bad. Yeah. So your recommendation is just drink it as quick as possible. I think you're both safe with those. Yeah, I think I think you're both safe. You think about like restaurants and bars that have bigger kegs that are on tap and you know, some beers sit there for a while and
00:14:57
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I'd say a month is probably pretty good for what you can go for, Clark, especially with anti-hero. What did they charge? Did you say you got a six? A six still? Yeah. Yeah. What did they charge you for that one? I think it was 80.
00:15:10
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Plus the $50 deposit. Plus the deposit. Yeah. And I think that's what the freedom of speech was, too. Yeah, that was awesome. I'm glad I did that. When I'm done self-quarantining again, I may swing over, try out half acre this time, and see if I can get something. Oh, nice. Yeah, I saw some barrel of a hot butcher beer the other day. I'm like, ooh, boy.
00:15:31
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That would be in a keg problem. Yeah. Well, if that's the case, we can talk off mic here, but I'd be happy. Maybe all three of us can go in on that and just fill up some growlers or whatever. I don't. Perfect. That sounds awesome. That's the other thing I still need to do with the kegerator thing is drilling another hole for the gas line. Cause I had, I hadn't been keeping my regulator inside cause I only had a single tap. So it wasn't that big of an issue.
00:15:57
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But I've got a dual regulator And then like literally trying to fit two kegs and the regulator in there was it's like a pain in the ass So I moved it back to the outside and ran the line in and I bought off of Amazon. I bought some more line And it came with like the quick disconnect hoses and everything like that. So
00:16:19
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I'm gonna drill, I don't know, I found my, I have a circular bit and I'm gonna draw this, drill the smallest hole that I can, just enough to get the line through there. See what happens. Cool.
00:16:33
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But I did, I am fucking psyched that I got, so I also ended up buying quick disconnects for the beer lines too. Good idea. Yeah, so I was so happy I got those and it was just, I switched out or I put them on the new beer line that's not taken yet. And then I think when this kegs finished, I'll pull that line off and I'll switch that one to a quick disconnect.
Future Brewing Projects & Pumpkin Beer Debate
00:16:55
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Yeah, I need to do some house cleaning with my kegerator here because there's two lines that I've not used. And I think it's time that I, I've not used them maybe in months and I haven't even looked at them, but I think it's time I swapped those out, get some new lines and clean my current lines that I'm running some beer through because I'm about to brew some more beer and officially try
00:17:16
Speaker
my hand at a hard, hard seltzer. So I'm looking forward to doing that. I think we talked, I don't even know where we talk about things anymore. I don't know if it's a show or when we're just texting or whatever, but the three of us have not in the same text group, but separately,
00:17:35
Speaker
decided that because of how the pumpkin beer episode went, we're going to brew some pumpkin beers. Brandon, you and I are going to brew the same beer. And Clark, you had mentioned doing your Mr. Rumkin. Is that right? Yes, sir. If you guys are interested, if we're brewing anytime soon, if it's ready, I feel like we're just revisit the whole pumpkin beer thing one more time and talk about the beers that we made because it's what we wanted instead of what we got. Can we get a yay on that maybe? Yay.
00:18:04
Speaker
I'm down. All right, excellent. The one thing interesting I did notice about you, so there's no actual pumpkin in the beer.
00:18:12
Speaker
Correct. I have stressed that on the very first episode that we did the pumpkin beers. And the reason why I know that because I mean, number one, it's my feeling on it. But I also said this on the first time we did the pumpkin beer. I don't for me personally don't see a need to put the pumpkin in it. Clark, I know you do actually use pumpkin in your beer. Me personally, mine is is more of a pumpkin. I'm shooting for a pumpkin pie beer.
00:18:41
Speaker
this time around, like a pumpkin pie. I'm using flaked oats, a little bit of lactose, and then the seasonings of nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice. And that's it. I've never used pumpkin in a beer. I have no desire to. So Clark, does your beer have pumpkin in it?
Trip Beer Reviews & Highlights
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Speaker
It does. It has a fair amount. And what I do first is I actually roast it with a bunch of spices to try and at least get something from it when it's in it. I do put it in the mash, too. I think it gets more color from that than anything else. But, you know, my pumpkin beer is one of the better ones I've made. So I figure I just keep up, keep up. You do. You do say that it is one of your better home brews. And Brandon, as I was talking earlier today,
00:19:26
Speaker
Let's say maybe you do something different. If you want, maybe you add pumpkin to the recipe that you and I are going to brew, uh, separately, but you know, we're using the same recipe. Maybe you add pumpkin to it. Yeah. It'd have to be like canned pumpkin or something. They're probably the easiest to do. Isn't that what I do? All right. But anyways, I thought you did your roasted pumpkin. He does. Well, I wrote that gets a little caramelized. Yeah.
00:19:52
Speaker
Fucking smart. If you go back to that episode, we discussed all of this. If anybody wants to go back, it's October 29th, 2019 on the 212 round table, we discussed all of this. You should go back because it's October, baby. But that's a good question to that podcast. When you throw that you're pumpkin in, do you put it in the mash or do you put it? Yep, I put it in the mash for the whole hour. Oh, that makes sense. I call that the malting hour, if you will.
00:20:19
Speaker
Hey, welcome to the morning hour. I am your host, Tony, joined always with Brandon winning and our side guy, Clark. All right. You're allowed to talk when we throw to you, dude, Clark. All right. Well, now that we've got all that out of the way, Brandon, congratulations on this beer, man. It is it is very good. I really like it. I would.
00:20:47
Speaker
Honestly, I would drink this whenever. If this becomes a beer that you decide to brew all the time, count me in. I'd be more than happy to come by and help you drink it. If you are worried about it going bad, you know, when I bring this growler back over, I can bring my own growler and fill it up again because this is something I could definitely drink. Dude, congratulations. This is a very, very, very tasty beer. I'm very happy for you that you got to do another beer that turned out great as opposed to your last time
00:21:16
Speaker
With the half a wisen that did not turn out. And I'm glad you stuck with it. And this is it's really good, dude. Yeah, that was just the fucking hose. Fuck that hose. Like, no, the chiller, the fucking work chiller. Do you guys know that WAP stands for wings and pizza? Do we got to make a rap? I make a rap about reason.
00:21:38
Speaker
Maybe I'll Google that. Here we go. I'm just going to read exactly. No, no, no. We're going to move on to what this episode is all about. Isn't that what you wanted me here for? To just kind of chime in with various bits of information. So you said, WAP, let me just. Why don't you confirm what WAP means? Because I'm pretty sure it means wings and pizza. Oh, goo. Wet ass Pilsner. Wet ass Pilsner. That's correct. All right. All right. Now that we've gone through all this, the real reason why we're here tonight
00:22:07
Speaker
Is to talk about vacation beers, baby Brandon you and I have done this before But the last time you know, we were together and we were able to share some beers together this time It's a little different. We're gonna drink some beers separately and talk about it. All right. Anyways So let's Brandon. Do you want to go first? You want me to go first and technically Clark even though you're the side guy you're our side piece You're a side chick when it comes to this show
00:22:34
Speaker
You and I did this trip together, so technically I guess you're a guest on this one. It just kind of feels appropriate that maybe you kind of should be. But, you know, you'll be able to fact check things I'm talking about, that's for sure. But also be able to, you know, bring up things that Brandon might miss.
00:22:49
Speaker
Oh, I'm going to. Oh, geez. All right. Brandon, would you like to go first? Sure. So the first one, I have not opened it yet. I'm opening it now. I got this one. It's a local area brew from the Kansas City area. Casey, what what? It is. It is called the Mad Scientist Experimental Series number four from Wichita Brewing Company.
00:23:18
Speaker
in Wichita, Kansas. It is a New England style double India pale ale. And it says, WIPA DDH with Lotus and Sultana hops. I'm not familiar with drinking either one of those hops. Maybe Lotus, would you say Santana was the other one? Yeah, Carlos Santana.
00:23:47
Speaker
And sultana hops. Oh, sultana, sultana. I don't know that hop. That's for sure. Oh, this is very heady. Mm hmm. Like a good heady beer. This is weird. So do it this way. Says they leave the beer unfiltered. It's an unfiltered beer. Mm hmm. Let me see if there's any like interesting facts on the side of the can. Yes, that's important.
00:24:15
Speaker
It says keep cold, drink fresh. That's an interesting fact. That is literally all it says except for the government warning. No fun stories to read. Interesting looking can though. As far as the color goes, from what I can see on top of all this fucking head. So angry about the head. Yeah, dude pissing me off. I've been dealing with- No, there's a picture on untapped here where it's got like a four inch head in the glass. I see what he's saying.
00:24:43
Speaker
Yeah, so it might be intentional, but it's definitely hazy. What's that aroma, baby?
00:24:54
Speaker
Uh, again, so that's gotta be, I don't see, I don't know if I've ever smelt or like you said, like dealt with lotus or sultana. Cause this is not like a hop smell that I, I can tell it's hops, but it's totally different than anything I've smelt before. I like that using smelt like the, the word, like the fish smelt. And then he said dealt about half a second later. I've never smelt and dealt with this before. Ooh. Yeah. Maybe you're just making a rhyme all the time.
00:25:24
Speaker
Hey, sometimes the Chicago comes out. What do you want? Hey, I smoked that. Don't worry about it. Oh, that's more New York. Sorry. Yeah, half these pictures on Untapped have huge amounts of head. It's interesting.
00:25:35
Speaker
So interesting side note about the, your Chicago accent turned a New York accent. There is, it was on Amazon video, I think there's a Jim Gaffigan special that was on there and he was in Canada and he kept doing Canadian accents and they all sound like New Yorkers. And he kept doing, he's like, this guy doesn't even know what a Canadian is. He's never met a Canadian before. We don't sound like that. And I was like,
00:26:02
Speaker
Yeah, I love Jimmy Deafkin. But yeah, so aroma is awesome. Again, like nothing I've, you know, nothing I can compare it to, like, fruity. Oh, it's definitely fruity. It's fruity, not so much piney. I can smell the sugar. Like, there's a strong maltiness that's like coming through.
00:26:24
Speaker
And it sounds like my cup of tea or cup of brew. Yeah, same thing. So as far as New England IPAs go, it tastes like other New England IPAs that I have had that haven't been made in New England. You could definitely tell they're attempting it. It just tastes like a really solid double IPA. Light on the mouth feel, not like super creamy.
00:26:52
Speaker
Did you get this from the brewery or from a shop? I got this from the shop. I did a mix six out there. Ooh, this guy's smart, man. Yep. Yeah, because I told you this story. So we were trying to go to a brewery that is in their hometown called Angry Swede Brewing Company. That sounds cool. And it's in an old bank.
00:27:20
Speaker
So they still make use of the vault. The basement of the bank actually in the 20s was a speakeasy and they've got that still set up down there. So I was super excited to check it out. We never got a chance to. So something to look forward to next time we go down there. Yeah, when you're describing that place to me, it sounded super cool. Would like to have gone or maybe go one day. Maybe we'll go together and drink with your father-in-law, who's a very cool guy. Yeah, dude. And then he can take us flying.
00:27:50
Speaker
Cool. Laura would love if I did that with you guys. After going to a brewery. Hey, we're going to go flying. Now we're going to fly. Well, that's cool. So it's funny that that's what you went with because the first beer that I'm going to do here is full turbo batch number four or double IPA, 8% alcohol.
00:28:12
Speaker
volume one pint from Transient Artists and Ales. So as I was saying, Clark and I made a trip up there. Clark's family has a home up there. So if you guys want to go bother Clark, if he ever pisses you off while you're listening to on the show, go find him in Michigan. I'm telling you what. But Clark and I decided to make a whole day of it and actually
00:28:34
Speaker
I'm currently piecing together a little bit of video that we took while we were up there doing some beer reviews.
Transient Brewing Visit Recap
00:28:41
Speaker
At one point, Clark and I get into a fight, which is very early on. We missed out on two of the breweries that we wanted to go to, but transient was probably, Clark, would you say one of the better stops?
00:28:54
Speaker
I'd say it was one of the better stops. One of the breweries that had the more interesting options for us, at least. And it's been a go-to for us. Sorry, go ahead. I was just going to chime in and say, where exactly is Transient? For those that don't know. Yeah. Transient is in Bridgman, Michigan, just between New Buffalo and St. Joe. Very quaint little town where
00:29:19
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tapestry brewing is over there, and green bush isn't far away, correct? Or am I? Yeah, green bush is just a couple of minutes down the road, actually. Yeah. I've been to tapestry. A couple of minutes up the road. Yeah. Yeah, that day was, the weather was great. And when we went there, we tried, if I'm not mistaken, two imperial stouts apiece and something hazy, maybe. I could be confused. At that point of the day, it was a lot.
00:29:48
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You're right. No, I definitely had two. We just had two styles. We just had two styles. Yeah. It looks like I had Barklord and that Peso and Sam. One had cinnamon that we both liked. Yes. That was, uh, that was, was that Barklord? Barklord. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so they had a whole bunch of, uh, of random bottles for sale. And, uh, my neighbor, Jeff, as we all know, Jeff, uh, fan favorite as well, just like Clark, um, his daughter Christina always gives me beers from new glare. So I decided to pay it forward.
00:30:17
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and I bought a beer that was a, which I found as a Berliner Weiss, it is a, on there it just says sour wheat ale with Michigan cherries, and I tried that last Sunday and it was also very good. But this one, this was the beer that we brought back. It is a hazy New England IPA, a double IPA, but it's, you know, this is a New England IPA for sure. It smells great, kind of smells like, you know, candy fruit, almost like, not bubble gum, but,
00:30:47
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I don't know, there's like a sweetness to it. And it's not like super citrusy, I guess is what I kind of expect from these New England IPAs. Now say this, I've already taken a sip over when you guys were talking or what Clark was answering for me about transient. My first impression of this beer when I first had it
00:31:05
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I wasn't super stoked about it. In fact, my I think my untapped check in wasn't all that that great, to be honest. I think I was just kind of like, man, I don't think this is worth 18 dollars or whatever much we paid for it. Sorry, transient. I do like what you do. But I guess I was just having an off night right now. Was this the four pack you were telling me about? Yes. OK. Drinking it now.
00:31:34
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It's very light, it's kind of crisp, and I think, Clark, when you checked it in, you said it kind of reminded you of like a lager. Yeah, I wrote that, I said it was nice, and then I wrote and creamy, question mark, and then I said a lager or kolshi yeast to finish at the end. Question mark. It's like a lot of things going on that don't really work together. It wasn't bad by any means, but I just wasn't a huge fan of it.
00:32:00
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Yeah, and I felt the same way. I was kind of underwhelmed and maybe it's because I'm drinking this after that we had the Oktoberfest, but I like it a lot more now. It's that creaminess is there. I think it's very refreshing. It's kind of like this candied fruit, New England IPA double. For it being eight percent, that blows my mind because it does have that Kolsch Lagerie finish to it. So
00:32:28
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I feel like I was a little too harsh on the first time I had it, so I'm gonna go back and check this in tonight and update it to a little bit higher. I haven't, I think when I checked it in, I didn't even give it a low rating. Did I give it a low rating? You didn't, I don't see a check-in from you. Ooh, boy. Then I'm safe, baby, because I'm gonna give this a great check-in tonight. Fantastic. Yeah, out of all the breweries I went to, transient was the most satisfying, I feel like.
00:32:57
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Because it was right before we went to your family's home and hung out and flew a drone for a little bit. I mean, who doesn't want to fly a drone like a little kid before we went to Watermark, which is my second beer. But yeah, Brandon, I think you'd like this beer. Having it now, Clark, do you still have a can of this left?
00:33:20
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No, I finished both of them, actually. And honestly, the second time I had the second time I had I sort of had the same feel. It was fine. Perfectly good. I drink it again. Just nothing. As you said, not worth the price point. Yeah, I would have it if it was untapped and I feel like that's it untapped untapped. It's no juice is loose, which is there. Yeah, we we.
00:33:49
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We had a, we stopped at, what was it? How many breweries total? Four, three, four. Well, we stopped or went in? We actually break at three breweries.
00:34:03
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Oh, so Burnham Brewing in Michigan City. There we go. Then we tried to go to Beer Church in New Buffalo, too crowded. Then we tried to go to Ghost Isle in New Buffalo, too crowded. So we hopped on over to a big farm, a new place called River St. Joe, which is kind of a farm to table type place. Really neat location. Great outside city. Yeah, the interesting beers think we may have been served the wrong beers at one point, but then we think maybe we weren't.
00:34:31
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Uh, but if you want a $25 hanger steak, that seems like the place to go out there. The place
Future Brewing Plans & Tasting Event
00:34:38
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is very cool. I'm, I'm only knocking it because I didn't get a steak, which I probably totally paid $25 for that steak. Next time. Yeah. Then we ended up transient and then watermark. You know, and I'll tell this story once I get to that beer, because we're going to take a break here in a second, but watermark is really kind of becoming
00:35:01
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my favorite Michigan brewery. Me too. It gets better and better. And it's funny because the story that you told me, because you joined the mug club when they were opening. And I remember the first time you went, you were like, not that great. And then every time after that, it's every time I've been there or you've been there, the beers are just on point. Very good. And the spot's very nice. But we'll get into that.
00:35:27
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When we return from this break, can we go to break, right? Sorry, I'm jumping gun here. We're gonna take a break. The interlude into the break. It sounds so sad. And now, rhyming time with Jeff Darganal.
00:36:21
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Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy.
00:36:30
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I just want to keep listening. What is this? This is ween. You remember the little daisies? Yeah. No. What? Wait for the chorus. Maybe it's like it was famous because of Beavis and Butt-Head. Yep. Wait for the chorus. My little daisies, happy I love.
00:37:06
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Anything, Clark? No, nothing. Wow. Sorry.
00:37:25
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Give me no flag, yeah It's all you It's me too It's your world Use the girl, use the girl I do this shit
00:37:51
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Is that love? Oh, push the little daisies and make them cover
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00:39:03
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I don't know. That means it's ghost cookie season. And we're back. That's what that means. I like ghost cookies. Oh, yeah, those ghost cookies. Oh, OK, Clark, as our side piece, you're in charge of getting us ghost cookies for the next episode. Yeah, so what's the ghost cookie episode? What kind of beers do we drink with that?
00:39:26
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Uh, you know what? That, that's just the Halloween episode. That's when we do our pumpkin beers and we have ghost cookies too. Perfect. Becca is planning. So my mom used to make, uh, witch finger cookies.
00:39:39
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Mm hmm. So it's basically like an almond cookie and then like the fingernail is like an almond sliver and my mom would dip it in like raspberry jelly. So it looked like make those for the Halloween. She did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So she planned on making like she wants to do a whole bunch this year to like give to people. So I'll take some. I will for sure take some. I think by the time.
00:40:04
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I mean, if you guys are comfortable, you know, as we we share this with the whole world right now, as five people in Russia have listened to this show, maybe they listen to current shows, maybe their current listeners. I don't know. I feel like maybe the pumpkin beers that we brew, we might actually be able to get together in one place and drink them together. I don't know. I'm not saying that's what we can. We're going to do. But it's a possibility. And then maybe we have some ghost cookies and finger cookies as well. Yeah, we can definitely give it a shot.
00:40:32
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plan towards that at least. That that is the plan. Welcome back to the monthly hour. If you're listening to the only the second half, well, go back and listen to the first half, because we did a whole lot of talking there and some drinking at that point. Just some highlights. Clark showed up. We drank Brandon's Oktoberfest. We drank. Well, Brandon drank a beer that he got from Kansas City doing an IPA. And I drank a beer from Michigan Transiens
00:41:03
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What did I get? Full turbo. Full turbo. The cans turned. The cans turned. Full turbo. So we're talking about vacation beers as summer has now ended and we are officially in the fall here in Chicago. Tonight we have a frost warning. I don't know if you guys know that. It's going to be pretty cold. No. It's going to get real cold and I don't think my jalapenos are going to survive.
00:41:26
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Anyway, moving on, let's go back to you, Brandon. What what else did you grab while you were out there? Well, actually, before you before we do that, was there anything you were looking for specifically while you're out there or were you just like, here are some beers that I I don't know of, don't recognize. And this is what I'm going to grab for my mix six. That's pretty much what it was. Yeah, that's awesome. I was, you know, specifically looking for things that I haven't had.
00:41:54
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But, and I was kind of going with stows that I'm familiar with. So the New England IPA was one. The next one that I actually have here is an oatmeal stout. Oh man. So side note, I have recently bought, actually I should say I helped my dad out this week and he's like, let me buy you something. And I said, no dad, I don't need any food.
00:42:15
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We go to the grocery store, he's like, well, let me eat some shrimp. And I said, no, dad, I've got a ton of food at home. He said, let me get you a six pack. And I said, no problem. So I got an oatmeal stout. I got what is it the poet from New Holland, which is an oatmeal stout. And I
00:42:27
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Absolutely love that. I love that beer too. I just think it's funny you go into the store with your dad. Hey, let me buy you some shrimp. Because he was buying shrimp for himself. He's like, the hot bar. They got these really good fried shrimps. Oh, OK. I thought I was going to be like, hey, here's a bag of frozen shrimp. Thanks for having me. That was what I was thinking when he told me he'd get you some shrimp. Was it on sale? But no, he was actually buying the cooked shrimp from the hot bar.
00:42:55
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I was like, Dad, can't you spring for the crab legs? Come on, man. As you guys know. Come on, Rog. Come on. That's how my dad sounds. Hey, let me get you some shrimp. It's me, Rog, from the Christmas episode. Forget about it. Hey, I'm walking here. Sounds like he's from New York. Or Canada. Fucking Canadians. Fucking Canadians. So what's the oversell? We don't have any listeners in Canada, so we can say that. No, we do. We actually do. We do. There was some hits in Canada, man. Oh, what am I talking about?
00:43:24
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Tell us about this oatmeal stout that you got. So this is the free, and it literally is just called oatmeal stout. That is fantastic. That's like a Mike way of naming beers. That's what Mike does. Mike doesn't like giving names to beers, which I understand. He likes to just name it what it is. Me, and you, and Clark. I mean, we just like to give it some pizzazz, you know? So actually, and I never told you, the Oktoberfest is actually called Meinkind.
00:43:54
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which is my child in German. Which is great, but in my thoughts, when I hear mine, my first thought goes to... Mein Kampf. Thanks. I'm going to Google that too and hold on a second. Brandon, just go ahead and talk about the Oatmeal Stout and we'll let Clark figure that out on his own. Yeah, so Oatmeal Stout from Free State Beer.
00:44:21
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Oh, Free State Brewing Company. It says Free State Beer, Free State Brewing Company. Oh, there's words. I like words. Free State Brewing Company established in 1989 is the original craft brewery in the Great Plains region. We continue to enjoy exploring both new and traditional flavors in beers and pairing them with good food, lots of laughter and lively conversation. Hashtag because without beer. What?
00:44:52
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What is that how it ends? It literally in lively conversations, period. Hashtag because, just hashtag the worst because without beer.
00:45:05
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I don't understand that. I'm lost. I wish we had a guy that would look shit up like that. Actually, and there's also- If you look into that, that'd be great. Oh, there's some working on it. Yeah. Just look up, maybe just Google hashtag because without beer. I can't wait for that to be the regular thing where Clark just goes working on it.
00:45:27
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Yeah, because then at one point we can just have that recorded. He doesn't even actually have to talk. We can just play that and then he can talk when he finds something even easier. A coffee like brew finishing soft and velvety from a rich foundation of oats with subtle vanilla notes. We brew free state oatmeal stout from seven malts and roasted grains offering full bodied flavor. Right. So have you haven't tried this one yet until I have not.
00:45:56
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Um, but this thing is like black as night. It is super dark, like crazy dark, the only cow. I'm going to do the old light test with the, uh, phone monometer. Oh, I thought you were doing the old light test with the bulb. Uh, Clark, did you find anything on what this actually means? Hashtag because nothing yet still working on it.
00:46:26
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Yeah, so this is it's crazy how dark this is. I'm going to take a picture because like I'm shining the light through it and it's like not even There's no light whatsoever going through And the head is brown
00:46:44
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So I like that. I like that. You know, I have yet to do a stout that the head is like a brownish. I kind of like that. I feel like I don't know, like, you know, they say you eat with your eyes. I feel like you also drink with your eyes. So when I see that, I prefer that with a stout. I feel like I'm getting something very roasty and rich when I see like a dark head. Exactly. So how do how do I describe this beer?
00:47:16
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It's definitely. The nose on it, it reminds me of like Guinness, actually. So it's kind of kind of kind of got that Guinness aroma to it. And the actual body of it is, I would say, just lighter than Guinness. That's funny because you and I just did, which is coming out next week, the after the final pour of an organic stout, we kind of felt the same way about.
00:47:45
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Yeah, it's very similar to that. The description on this is pretty well spot on. I get that oat flavor and it says subtle vanilla and it is very subtle, if even there at all.
00:48:05
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curious to see if it says like when this was bottled because I'm wondering if like those subtle notes would fall off at some point yeah that's the problem with some of those mix six packs is that unless there's I think we've said this before in the show that you know some places that sell mix six packs those are old beers are trying to get rid of so be sure to look at the dates on those cans and bottles if they have them if they don't well
00:48:28
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you're just kind of you're you're rolling the dice on if it's a fresh beer or not. I do know places that definitely just use the mix six for old beers. And then I know of other places that kind of have a mix. So you got to just kind of look at those bottles and cans everybody. Yeah, so I mean, this says Best Buy 1030. Oh, you're fine. That's I mean, that's I don't think it's something that I think the vanilla notes are probably coming from the actual beer itself and not vanilla being added. Oh, yeah.
00:48:58
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No, I agree. Super subtle and it says coffee-like and I don't get coffee.
00:49:06
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Yeah, I feel like coffee almost is a generic term when it comes to stouts at this point. Yeah. I feel like I get it. And even roasty. But I mean, that's that's what you get from a stout or a porter. You get those roasty and coffee notes. But if you're going to say like coffee, you almost want it to be like, oh, I had a sip of coffee, but like cold coffee that was carbonated and had alcohol in it. Yeah, I just yeah, I feel like which funnily let me taste that.
00:49:34
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Yeah, so funnily enough, that just struck him ahead. I was like, man. So I think if I do that beer this weekend, I do like the addition of pumpkin. And then when we did the pumpkin episode, I had that coffee pumpkin beer. Yes, the vanilla wafer beer. Throw in a pack of,
00:50:03
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like a 12 ounce bag of ground coffee into the mash. I'll tell you this, the best way to do that is to add cold brew coffee. That's what I thought. And do that, because otherwise you'll get a little bit of astringency to it when it's super hot. Oh, yeah. But you know what? I'm telling you, man, I think that'd be fun if you and I did the same recipe, but you added something to it. Add the pumpkin, add the coffee, and then all three of us get to try three different pumpkin beers.
00:50:32
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Yeah, it's a little bit of everyone's own recipe and the other, for the most part. Cool. So did you find out about that because thing? I still got nothing. But I did see they're over 25 years old. So wow, that's an old brewery. That's it. When you drink that beer again. Oh, yeah, totally. I would I would drink it again. I wouldn't seek it out.
00:50:58
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Because there's so many better scouts out there. But I would definitely drink it again. And then I don't think this one says what the ABV is. Weird. Really? Yeah, you're right. What's going on with this brewery? 25 years old. Come on, guys. What's working on it? 6.1. OK. Yeah, you know what? Yeah, I guess it feels.
00:51:25
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I mean, at this point, like ABV is kind of like, eh, like when it's around, like I can definitely, I start to tend, I tend to feel the ABV or notice it a little bit more when they're like eight and above. But I feel like there's this window of like between five and seven. That's just like, everything's kind of, most of the time it's like, I can't really tell that huge of a difference. And if it's below five, it's like, okay, yeah, you could tell it's a lighter beer.
00:51:54
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That's this small window is what I'm stuck because I think that's probably what I drink the most of this stuff. That's between five and seven percent. Five and seven is my like creeping time of like cooking. That's when I have my first beer when I get on work between five and seven. So I like that. Yeah. Yeah. So the ABV five to seven between five and seven. There you go. That's when I have my first beer.
00:52:16
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That's cool. Actually, I like that you went with a stout. So I originally had another beer from Watermark, but I liked it too dang much that I drank it. And I relied on Clark. Clark gave me... You dumb bastard. Yeah, well, Clark gave me a beer. It's called Hurricane Squeeze, which is... Clark, what kind of beer is this? I can't see in my basement because it's so dark always. Oh, I can see it now. It's just an IPA with grapefruit, I believe.
00:52:46
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It's a grapefruit IPA, that's seven and a half percent. But the beer that I bought originally to drink tonight was touching tires, which was also a Clark recommendation. It's like a session. It was easy. I mean, it's like a session. I'd call it a session hazy. I mean, it's a hazy IPA, but it's like four and a half percent.
00:53:07
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which is why I had a hard time not drinking it because you were spot on and you were very nice enough to give me a extra can that you should have had. And I drank it. It's really good. Touching tires from Watermark is the best sessionable, hazy, juicy IPA I've ever had. And I absolutely loved it. And I would love for Watermark to please start selling in Chicago, please.
00:53:37
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I will be up there next week maybe I'll go get like sixty cans or something. That seems over the top but a four pack would be. Fifty five. Okay that sounds about right. So what is it in four packs how many four packs is that fifty five. You're the guy who does the math you you we don't think you do all the the heavy lifting. Brandon and I just go.
00:54:00
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Okay, so you figure out you figure out the math. Well, I talked about hurricane squeeze, which is a beer that you gave me. It's a grapefruit IPA from watermark. And as I was saying before, I think the break watermark or after the break, I don't remember at this point. Watermark has become one of my favorite breweries in Michigan.
00:54:19
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I've tried some hazy beers. I've tried a pineapple smoked beer that I didn't think was good until I let it warm up a little bit. I've had barely aged beers from them. I've had double IPAs from them.
00:54:35
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I have not had a bad beer for them yet, so if you have a chance, check out Watermark in Michigan. If you're in Chicago, it's a quick trip. You can go up there, grab some beer, have a beer, come on back safely, drive to Indiana, but don't stop there. Here we go, Hurricane Squeeze. I've not had this. Park, you have your own feelings about it, and right off the bat, just smelling it. That is grapefruit to the max. Here we go.
00:55:12
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This is like drinking straight up grapefruit juice that I don't dislike. Clark, I can understand your feelings on it. It's probably the only watermark beer I think I've seen that you didn't like, so to speak.
00:55:28
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Well, so I've had this, I bought a four pack. I was trying to get to 55. It didn't work out that way with a couple of four packs. But the first one I drank looks like the middle of August this summer. And I gave it a four on tap and I thought it was really good. I said it tastes like the sweet side of grapefruit in a good way. And I was drinking it down on the beach and it was very tasty. Then I had one a week or two later.
00:55:57
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I don't know, it's like lost carbonation or something, but that might have something to do with the grapefruit juice that they put in there. It just, something wasn't hitting me right after I had it a few weeks after I bought it. This is, man.
00:56:13
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Do you guys remember when Ballast Point released all their, what is it? Grapefruit Sculpin, right? Sculpin, yeah. All the Sculpin, and it was obnoxiously expensive because they were trying to bone every beer geek in the world at that point. And Grapefruit Sculpin was like $18 for a six pack, which now, in hindsight, really not that expensive. For a six pack. This,
00:56:43
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Man, I love this. This is like carbonated grapefruit juice with a little bit of sweetness. It's a nice golden color to it. This is a solid IPA with grapefruit in there. I mean, the grapefruit aroma is. Almost overpowering, like it's like biting into a. It's like taking a fresh grapefruit, smelling it and then biting into it and be like, oh, look, it's a carbonated grapefruit. Are you a grapefruit fan in general? Mm hmm.
00:57:13
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Well, that probably helps. Yeah, I don't like eating grapefruit, but I like the idea of grapefruit in beers. In the brew club, when we did the Great Lakes Brew Fest, we did smooth sailing, which is the pale ale that I did, which is the citra hopped pale ale with grapefruit juice that will send your heart to the sea. I'm reading from the official sign that we brought up. Oh, yeah. And what I did was add like,
00:57:43
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I think 64 ounces of frozen, 100% grapefruit juice to the actual kettle as I was chilling it. So there's like a lot of grapefruit juice in it. And I think Citra and grapefruit juice work very well together. There's a lot of grapefruit in this. This is definitely not a, oh, I'll have an IPA that has like, oh, a hint of grapefruit.
00:58:08
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If you don't like grapefruit, you won't like this. It's like if a coffee beer is like if you don't like coffee, you won't like this. Don't drink this beer. This is this is one of those beers where it's like if you if you really don't like grapefruit, don't drink this. If you like grapefruit, I think you'd really enjoy it. I'm very happy with this. This is very refreshing. It's kind of weird to drink it when it's like fucking 50 degrees out right now at eight o'clock at night. Yeah. But yeah, watermark.
00:58:37
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Watermark's hitting all the right notes, and I look forward to drinking more beers from them. Anybody else can say something? I mean, come on. Let's go, guys. What I was going to say is when this is, when things get a little better, I definitely want to make the trip up to Watermark. Let's do it. Yeah. Clark? Clark? Clark? I mean, you and I were saying maybe we do a fall trip. I was just saying. Oh, any time. I've got my fanny pack. I'm ready to go. Clark and I colored in a picture.
00:59:08
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Fun. Yeah, so if you don't know, at Watermark, they have a vending machine at the entrance. And in that vending machine are not your normal vending machine items. Oftentimes, you'll find a pregnancy test, other items. They have some candy. My boys often like to do the vending machine on that one.
00:59:30
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But like those sticky hands, those gel sticky hands that you can fling at a wall and they got a lot of toys in there. We got a mustache set once over the summer. A lot of fun.
00:59:42
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But this time, they also have some mystery items. They have a $20 mystery box. So I said, screw it. I've never done it before. I've been wondering. So I put $20 in. This mystery box drops. You open it up, and there are crayons in there. Tony, what else did we see? Like a strawberry shortcake kind of looking coloring book picture?
01:00:05
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The three crayon colors were like purple, black, and red. Inkish or red. Yeah. And it said color in this picture and bring it to the bar for your prize. Yeah. But it gave a list of the prizes of what we were going to get. Oh, that's right. That's right. Which was stickers, two beer glasses, and a fanny pack. Ooh. Nice. And so Clark and I thought, hey,
01:00:28
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If we took our time, because we're getting ready to leave. If we took our time and colored this in, very nice. Maybe they'll be like, wow, you guys really put the effort in. Here's a bonus thing. Here's the keys to the brewery. And what happened when we brought the keys to the brewery? Here's 55 beers. What happened when we brought the picture up there, Clark? Well, they were surprised. They called some guy over, I guess, the manager at the time.
01:00:57
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Which it did say something to the effect of, oh, well, the last guy that did this just kind of scribbled for two seconds and handed it to us. So I thought, OK, great. We're in. We're in. We did it. We're going to get the Supreme Deluxe prize. And we still got a nice return, the fanny pack, which I did wear. And I was wearing it. Yep. And what did they say? They go, who even wears a fanny pack?
01:01:24
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To which my reply was, did you just say that as an adult to adult? But yeah, you got two beer glasses, some stickers, stickers that you didn't have before, the fanny pack, and a koozie. And you gave me the koozie, man. That's right, the koozie. I forgot about the koozie. A nice little sniffter, a watermark branded sniffter, and a nice little watermark branded, just regular old tall beer glass.
01:01:49
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We figured that those beer glasses are probably about eight bucks a piece, so that's $16. Fanny pack had to be at least five, you know, koozies maybe a buck, stickers, I don't know, probably free, but you know, you got like $2 bonus or $3 bonus on that, man. You got it. So Brandon, when you join us, we're all going to, the three of us are going to put in for the $50 mystery bag. I'm in. It's 50 identical items for $50. Oh, that's what it was. Well, it'll change by then. They usually have something around $50.
01:02:19
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Yeah, we gotta do it. Over the summer they had a 120 ounce jar of chocolate pudding. And if you ate all of that chocolate pudding in two hours, you got like a $100 gift card and your bill was free or something like that. And you die. That sounds like awesome and awful at the same time.
01:02:42
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Yep, like I love pudding, but not like that. I'm not like Carl Grimes, you know, I'm not gonna eat that much pudding in one sitting on a rooftop, hoping that my my beer tab is covered and I get $100 gift certificate, but $100 gift certificate at Watermark, it might be worth it. Might be worth that pudding. Mm hmm. Overall, I will say that the beers that
01:03:05
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tried on my trip was great. And it was very nice. Thank you, Clark, for allowing me to go with you to get a little bit away from reality almost. You and I also did something else that was fun that has nothing to do with this. And Brandon, I messaged you about it. And I realized that the first time it was mentioned was the last Halloween pumpkin beer episode, you know, Halloween beer episode.
01:03:30
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We didn't call it a pumpkin beer episode because we only had, we had three pumpkin beers, one terrible one, two decent ones, and then the Aleman salted caramel beer. And then the, do you guys remember we did the rogue dead guy barrel aged beer? Oh yeah.
01:03:47
Speaker
It tasted like iced tea with a shot of whiskey, apparently. But we had mentioned, oh, you know what we should do is do a pumpkin spice bourbon county, which Clark and I maybe regretfully the next morning decided that's what we were going to do. And for anybody who's got a bourbon county sitting around, it's very easy and it was very good. You just had a little.
01:04:10
Speaker
Well, Clark, you actually had pumpkin spice. We were going to try and find cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, whatever, and throw it in there. But you actually had a pumpkin spice jar.
01:04:24
Speaker
I might have that. Yeah. We're always ready. Always ready. You're like, one day we're going to want to do the pumpkin spice bourbon county. We got to get the pumpkin spice seasoning jar. It was very good. But yeah, that was a lot of fun. It was nice to get away and have a
01:04:44
Speaker
basically the only vacation that I've pretty much had for this year during 2020. And Brandon, I could imagine that maybe you had the same feeling, getting a chance to kind of get away, have some time off of work and spend time with family outside of your own home. Yeah, totally. Yeah, it was a nice way to kind of reset. So that was good. And then, you know, now being back,
01:05:10
Speaker
you know, back into the swing of things. It's actually it's nice, too, because my mother-in-law actually came back with us. So she was going to stand there. Yeah, your mother-in-law is there now, which is helpful because, you know, we're quarantining for two weeks. So we've got our kid home. So we needed somebody to wrangle him. Worked out perfectly. Mother-in-laws are the best. So any time Clark is trying to find some information for us, this is the perfect clip that should be played.
01:05:39
Speaker
I'm right on top of that rose. Now, if anybody knows that's from it is from don't tell mom the babysitter is dead. You shouldn't have said it. You shouldn't have said it. I think we should just let people guess. Oh, I should edit it out.
01:05:54
Speaker
Yeah, if anybody knows where that's from, we'll send you a coaster and a sticker. Yeah. That's kind of what I want to do. I know, Brandon, by the way, thank you for procuring coasters and stickers for us. Clark, do you have coasters and stickers?
01:06:10
Speaker
from us. I do. I'm using one right now. Can you give them back? We're about to go ahead and start giving those away. People who are listening, if you guys have suggestions for shows or of the likes, an idea for a show
01:06:30
Speaker
We'd be happy to send you a coaster and a sticker. That's an official thing here. Mike, you are immediately disqualified. You cannot ask for that. You already have those. I think, actually, I gave Mike one of the big stickers, too. So, hmm. What? I've got a former neighbor that actually might work out as a decent guest. I think, Tony, I told you what's going on with him. Oh, yes. Yeah. And we have yet to do a full-on homebrew show. We do. You know, listening to last year's show, I forget that The Malting Hour
01:07:00
Speaker
hasn't always been the malting hour. All last year was the 212 Roundtable, which was, you know, when we were doing the 212 Brew Club, which kind of still exists, but only in theory. The malting hour has kind of just become its own thing. We were way more focused on
01:07:17
Speaker
the home brewing aspect. And we do want to come back to that. But yeah, I still want to do a full on or we want to do a full on homebrew show. And yes, Clark, you are correct. It would be nice to have him on there. That guy you're talking about. Ooh, mystery guest. His name's Lincoln.
01:07:36
Speaker
And he has his beers pouring at Pilot Project now. Yeah, it's Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln is pouring beers at Pilot Project, which Pilot Project was brought to my attention by my old beer friend, Dan, who wanted to get us in there. It just never worked out because apparently everybody had locked up. But Lincoln got in. Oh, nice. But anyway, yeah, that would that would be a good idea.
01:08:06
Speaker
Yeah, I'm down. Cool. Well, I think I think the show has run its course. And again, we've gone well over an hour. I mean, I've got more beers I can drink. I mean, you want to talk about the beer. I'm down to talk about it. No, no, no. We've gone through last year's Bourbon County lineup right now. Yeah, totally. Let's do it. Let's do it. Actually, I got to be honest. So I'm going to I would like to make this you guys ready for this. I want to make this statement now.
01:08:36
Speaker
I don't think Prop Day is going to happen. I don't know what they're going to do. Clark, you and I have discussed this idea and I think Brandon, I discussed it with you as well, but I think it only makes sense for us to do our own French press Prop Day because Prop Day
01:08:54
Speaker
It's not gonna be the same. There's no way it's gonna be anywhere what we're used to, what we're expecting. I don't know what they're gonna do, but it won't be the big gathering of people hanging out, drinking variance, and being able to talk about it. And last year, Brandon, you and I, we did our own pre-prop day and then post-prop day. We tried to do a regular prop day, but that recorder I had sucked. But I think this year,
01:09:21
Speaker
We're going to do a a Bourbon County blowout with making our own prop variants. So that'll be our. Fantastic. Mm hmm. Yummy. All right. Well, Clark, welcome, you know, to to to the show, even though you've been on the show, but, you know, now you're now you're here. Welcome to having a purpose. Yeah. Well, thank you for having a purpose on the show, aside from drinking and talking about it.
01:09:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I'll find that purpose working on it, actually. Right on top of that, Rose! Yes! Whoo! That's awesome. But yeah, thank you everybody for continuing listening to the show. We appreciate it. Be sure to check out the vaultinghour.com. Brandon and I have discussed how we can really make that website something for you to actually go to other than clicking on it and listening to the show.
01:10:17
Speaker
Um, but we'll be updating that, but be sure to follow all of us. Uh, number one, the malting hour on Facebook, the multi hour.com, the malting hour on Instagram, Brandon, where can people find you? Uh, B dub 81, um, Twitter. And I think B M dub 81 on Instagram. Excellent. Clark, where can people find me? Clark.
01:10:43
Speaker
Mike whose turn is it? Well, Clark, I'm saying where can how can people find me? No, it's my turn, but I want Clark. Oh, because the last time I only loves beer 69. I mean, yes, that's our joke. But I don't remember. I always forget. I am. Oh, is that my job now that I have to actually give out your actual
01:11:08
Speaker
That was kind of like a like, Hey, can you do that for me? But it's fine. I'm the ace of Phelps. T H E A S a P H E L P S on Twitter. I think it's the same thing on Instagram. Yeah. Hold on. Hold on. Nope. I'm looking right now. Instagram. It's just asafelp Chicago. Ah, two different things. So asafelp Chicago on Instagram. I'll upgrade. I'll upgrade. Update all that asafelp Chicago on Instagram, the asafelp on Twitter.
01:11:38
Speaker
And that's it. Just follow us. And Clark, how can people kind of follow you? I guess they're interested in like, I make it very simple for everyone. Untapped Instagram, Twitter. That's about it. Clark goski. Clark. Oh, WSKI. By the way, Clark, I want to say this to you. I'm gonna this is official. I'm bummed the socks last today.
01:12:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's all good. It's a weird feeling, weird season. It's cool. It was supposed to be the Stocks and the Cubs in the World Series. That's my dream. I don't think the Cubs are going to make it either, but I'm just bummed the socks didn't make it either, man.
Closing Thoughts & Positivity
01:12:18
Speaker
It'll be fine. Let's all give a virtual hug. Everybody give a virtual hug right now. Ready? Arms out. Bring it in.
01:12:33
Speaker
Thank you very much. Hey, there's still baseball, so let's be happy about that. There's a 3-0! Nick Foles, starting it up. Here we go, baby. All right. Shit. Thank you, everybody, for the scene of the Molting Hour, Brandon. I love you. Love you too, man. Clark, you're all right, man. I appreciate you. That's my new thing. I always say, Brandon, I love you, and now it's going to be Clark, you're all right, man.
01:13:02
Speaker
Perfect. All right, we'll see you guys next time. Keep looking to the stars, right? Bye!