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Episode 180 - The Kentucky Mushroom Job
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This week, Brandon, Tony, and Matthew play catch-up while drinking a 3-year vertical of OIB's Kentucky Common, "Years" NA beers, and the random Binny's "Premium" BYO 4-Pack Tony built. Two AI country songs are also involved in this episode.
Beers on this episode:
Years - Pils
OIB - Long Forgotten 2025
OIB - Long Forgotten 2024
OIB - "Long Forgotten" 2026
Boulevard Brewing - BA Vanilla Imperial Stout
OIB - Cushy Berry
Years - Belgian Wit
Art History Brewing - ESB
Pipeworks - Easter Bunny vs. Unicorn
Theme music provided by Myke Kelli (@mykekelli)
Check out all our episodes at www.themaltinghour.com
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Theme
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ah Whenever you're ready. Welcome to the malting hour. I am... I gotta to clear my throat. Who are you now? It's that Christmas tree cake. It's causing...
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What's the haps on the hops? Got yeast, that's peace. This the Molten Hour where we talk about our drink and tell you what we think every other week. And if we get drunk, well, we might slur our speech. Got the gift of gab, the friends you wish you had.
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Join us for a drink, join us for a laugh. Time is never wasted, when you're getting wasted? The Molten Hour here, people, people, take your places.
Matthew's Germany Trip and Beer Culture
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People, people, take your places.
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Welcome to the Molting Hour. one of your hosts, Tony Gold, joined always with... Brandon Winninger. And to his right... Matthew Moltenauer. Hey guys, how's going? Pretty good. Brandon? Yeah, I'm good. I'm surprisingly good. Good, man. Surprisingly good. Good. You seem good. You look happy. You look healthy. You look full of life right now. Yeah.
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Full something. Shit. Whatever. i don't know. Matthew, you just came back ah from ah Germany. Yeah. How was that, man? Deutschland. That was really fun.
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Completely exhausted. Anyway, ah so this is not a recap about your... No, I'm just joking. Go ahead, please. Okay.
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They like drinking Hellas. A lot, a lot of Hellas. They have probably 20 different breweries and they all make a Hellas. I mean... and they all do it well. That's the thing. Yeah.
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It's like, that was, I mean, I don't know. I'm sure i've had I had a couple Hellas when I was out there many moons ago. But like, everywhere you go, it was just like a deliciously clean beer everywhere
Future Travel Plans and Beer Naming
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you go. so great.
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Brandon, I know you and I have talked about it. We'll get back to you, Matthew. Brandon, I know you and I have talked about Oktoberfest for many moons since we've probably done this this podcast. I'm proposing here right now.
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i feel like this is a realistic goal, especially in these crazy times that we all live in.
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The next five years, or we're going four. It's 2026. By 2030, 2031. twenty thirty one We go to Germany. Oh, easy. look Easy peasy. Perfect.
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I don't know what's happening for me in the next like five or, you know, so four or five years. There's a lot of things in motion right now. Who knows what's going to happen? But I do want to go to Germany with you. Now I want to pivot and dive into your things in motion. like We can talk about that off, Mike. What's going on with your life, Tim? We talk about that off, Mike. That's fine. That's fine. I don't fully know, but I have plans and there's ideas and stuff.
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There's things happening. Plans and ideas and stuff. Plans and ideas. That's the name of a beer. Plans, ideas and stuff. I swear to God. Copyright. i nine it Copyright melting hour. Plans, ideas and stuff.
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It sounds like a good, ah what was that what was that ah odd side of
Beer Collaborations and Unique Experiences
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Vinny's collaboration? oh Something. It was just a bunch of random shit. Something in atmosphere. Yeah. Yeah. yeah And that was fantastic. yeah the God, what a crazy.
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What a mishmash of fucking shit you can put into a beer. That you can taste about 98%. Yeah, that was fantastic. It was insane. You're done with those, right? I think we had our last one. I think so, yeah.
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That was such a good beer. Anyways, so there's lot of hells, huh? Yeah. A lot of hells. A lot of hells. lot of hells. Yeah. I mean, they only come in liters. So that was the fun part of a lot of places.
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You could only order in liters. They did not serve anything smaller than that. Virginia would be, they to have a good time there. Would be dead. But she would, yeah. But I would like, be like, I'm sorry, babe. on my third. and I know you're about to finish your first. It's like, oh, I'm so sorry.
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Yeah. you're going stay here, go to sleep, i'll go to the next place. Pretty much. Yeah. I mean, that's, I mean, that was pretty much like, and like our, I think I've talked about this before, but like our first introduction into Munich was the, the Freiling fest. We walked into that festival.
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Just because oh purely I wanted to go see where the, the park where they go have, where they had like a Oktoberfest, not knowing that they have like almost the same experience in the spring. And we walked in there and it was, it was, yeah, it was awesome. And like I told you, it was like,
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The first thing, literally the the gate we walked into, like right to our right was this beer carousel. And so that was literally the first thing that we did was this beer carousel. So now I understand the text. Yeah. Like we did that beer carousel. It was like, this is crazy. And then took, you know, my new bride around and we walked around and drank with some 16 year old Trump supporters. Cool. Yeah.
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You know. Wonder how that's changed. Yeah, right?
Historical Anecdotes and Beer Carousel
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and then walked her And then, like, by the time we were done, she was, like, my wife was double fist in pretzels. Hell yeah. Dude, there's nothing hotter than a wife, double fist in pretzels. Yep.
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Yeah, and know but that was awesome. and And it's funny because we kept saying, like, oh, we're going to go. We should go back and stop at the fest. But, like, we just had so much other stuff that we did that, like, we didn't need to. Yeah. You know, we did, like, a beer and food tour while we were there.
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And then we went off to the Neuschwurstein Castle. I'm sorry. Say that again. Yeah. I don't know. Do you know the name? Neuschwurstein Castle. Yeah. Whatever he said. Du hast? But it's apparently the castle. It's the Swan Castle. Ah. Yeah. Disney modeled their castle after. Oh.
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so So Disney just rips things off from other people. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, King Ludwig II, also known as the Mad King, because he built four castles and was bankrupting Bavaria until, theoretically, he died for unknown
Kentucky Derby and Beer Preferences
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causes, but was most likely his family. Can you go down you said your lineage where you said that there's a possibility that they are you are related to this King Ludwig? Yeah. my My brother... Knows more about it, but it was the interesting aspect to that.
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The salt trade that came through Salzburg, the oldest known documentation of ah Munich was an illegal document. Essentially one city suing them because the family at that time went and burned the bridge where all the salt could go. So then it had to go through Munich and they, we did this whole beer tour and everything else. My brother's like, okay, that was our family. We're the assholes.
00:06:32
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That makes sense. Why don't we have your brother on this podcast? Come on. Yeah. We've got the info. He's in Copenhagen. Well, tell him to in. Till when? Till when, Matthew? Forever.
00:06:43
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Really? Whoa. I don't know. That's wild. He might come back for a wine wine thing in Napa or something on the 15th. What? comes back for wine?
00:06:55
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i would Oh, God. I'm gassy. got I got the burps. I got them. All right. So do we want to silly or do we want to go? Let's go silly first. All right. Because we just had the Kentucky Derby, which Tony can tell us all about. Yeah. The Renegade won and came from behind. And it was the younger brother of the two jockeys who beat his eldest brother and is the first female trainer of a horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
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How do you know this? I watched it yesterday. how Oh. Let let you guys let you know something else that was kind of fun. Randomly, Virginia and I had some mushroom chocolates on Friday and stayed up until 7 o'clock watching Planet Earth and slept until the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
00:07:36
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That does sound fun. It was pretty fun. Yeah. So, this is the third year. I also ordered gyros from Jeff's Red Hots for lunch and dinner that day.
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It was lunch dinner because we had it by the time the Kentucky Derby done. I thought I was going to be like, we ordered twice. Because forgot once that we
Humorous Beer Flavor Comparisons
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ordered. No, i didn' I did the Euro plate and made the mistake of not getting extra tzatziki and an extra pita. So I have leftover a Euro meat. like they For $15, Jess Red Hots loaded it up. And Virginia just got the sandwich for like $6 and it was perfect. I got fries. get me i know i'm an idiot So what are we doing? Sorry.
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So for the third year, we've been making a Kentucky Common. ah which is basically like an amber cream ale. One of my favorite styles, but...
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We do very well with it because no one else makes one of these. And I time it to do alongside the Kentucky Derby. But I have ah the very first one that that we did three years ago.
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And then I have last year's. And then I have this year's. o So I thought we'd compare how it holds up over three years. i mean, this is... It's
Non-Alcoholic Beverages and Caffeine Stories
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funny. i I remember having this. Yeah, I do too. go I remember the i each year I've had it. And it's a little smoky. You know what's funny? Is it supposed to be? like I don't know. like this is gonna sound getting a little like kind of like a smoky essence out of it. This is the worst descriptor I can give.
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and I don't mean this as an insult because I already took a sip and it tastes delicious. um Growing up, my family was a big fan of canned vegetables. We were a canned vegetable family. That's what we had. yeah Broke, we got canned vegetables.
00:09:20
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I'm not broken. I still get canned vegetables all the time. Smelling this, it kind of reminds me of canned peas.
00:09:27
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I don't get that. I don't know. Is that mushroom still hitting you? Maybe. It's a little far off. I'll be honest. I'm surprised that it's not more oxidized. It's the sweetness. Canned peas are super sweet. But the taste on it is, yeah, no oxidized. Yeah. Like what you literally just said. I'm like, I'm surprised. It's not oxidized. It's...
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Drinks clean. but i' like yeah It doesn't taste... and Maybe I'm crazy. like I'm getting like ah like a slight bit smokiness off of it. And I don't know why. i wonder if it's just from the toasted grain that was used for it.
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Yeah, we always use some fun stuff on this. um It's very good. Yeah, i mean I've kept it nice and cold for a while. Three years. Put it close to your heart. you think I missed? think that is last year's, and this is three years. That's what thought. I was going to say, don't remember three years ago being tall boy and then going down to 12th. Yeah, I thought we wanted tall boy, a small tall That would be stupid.
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Yeah, you would think this guy worked for
Tasting and Analyzing Beers
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the place. Come on. Trevor, get your boy in check. Oh, no. Did you put this in the dishwasher? No, why? Metallica, not Metallic-ing? It's a-talica, though. It's Natalica. Yeah.
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Nutella. Oh no. It's bound to happen. You know, I spent good money on this cup. That's a disappointing to see. you all yeah But this is kind of like Kentucky common, one of uniquely American styles. So it's kind of like anchor steam, which is little bit more malt character.
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You wouldn't slam that. That's a good care. That's a good like reference point. Ooh, this looks darker. That is darker. That is that's much darker. oh Let's see how this one held up. That looks closer to a brown ale.
00:11:14
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Yeah. That smells like canned peas. No. I wanted to i wanted to re reiterate that. No. It's the sweetness. Nope. It's the sweetness of the canned peas. I'd say editors know, but you're the editor.
00:11:27
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yeah Yeah, when I go home, I'm slapping this all together. This smells like like a dirty diaper. i want to insult the beer, but it smells like butt. Baby's butt.
00:11:39
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Baby's butt covered in shit. Bigfoot stick? this is this This is different. Different.
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Ooh, that's not so good. No, that one is not holding as well. That's not good. You kept this one cold as well, huh? That's not good. No, I think... It's not bad, but it's not good. No, I remember the the theory or one. i i forget who had it.
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I forgot if I gave one to my grandmother and her husband. What an asshole. I think I found it in the back of someone's fridge, and i was like, I'm taking this. This will be fun to have a comparison. I thought I was going to do that last year. Yeah, you should have. And then...
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yeah If anybody has this... You shouldn't take 5% beers and age them for three years. Yeah, it turns out not so good. ah Yeah, that's... ah There is like a... I don't want to take another sip.
00:12:32
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ah it's not it's not like It's not like it's turned. It's not like it's like oh it's sour or like awful. No, it is deoxidized. I'm getting that waxy... There we go. ah Not vegetal, but there is something that's like...
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You know. Oh, Brandon's... I think Brandon's going to pour a fucking... Ah, yes. The Cuvie for the end of the night. Perfect. Where everybody... Whoever loses a trivia question has to drink that. Oh, we thank you for sharing that. what So this was like... This was, ah I mean, completely unplanned like experiment. So what what is interesting is the stark dis dick difference between the the two and the three years.
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Yeah. Like that was a... ah if If you put those to me side by side, I couldn't have told you that they were the same beer or supposed to be the same beer. and And I mean, that goes to like aging stuff. like But the two-year, fuck, that held up really well. like That was a fantastic beer. So now I'm excited to try this year's. Have you guys had this year's at all yet?
00:13:40
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yeah Do you remember us hanging out for Della Days? Yeah. That was a long day. yeah You guys were there? Yeah, dude. I have i havem a magnet based off of this label now.
00:13:52
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Ooh. Which if anybody else wants, I have two. i have Because you gave me a can. If you want to give me that can, I'll make label i'll make a magnet for both of you. How...
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How do I make magnets? Well, here's the thing. What I do is is I buy these magnet sheets and I slap stickers on them. How do they work? What is magnet, daddy? Daddy? It's Clark here. So I do... Yeah, so this one hits... Oh, we should have called us. Yes. I do like that.
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Okay. Doesn't smell like canned peas.
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See, this... Yeah, this is more attuned to... I had this... You... The last time we recorded... think Brandon still has his can right there. I took my can home and I think I drank it the next day. And I just, it's it's great.
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I feel like we should do, now we have to do like a running. Mushrooms? Well, yeah, that too. But, like a running of like this beer. Every year, just bring the last three years. The previous year, yeah.
00:14:57
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Make that happen, Matthew. see See where we're at. yeah gary I don't think there's any more I can find of these two. I'd say that's guaranteed employment with you in this show if you can keep doing that. We'll keep you around just for that at least.
00:15:07
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Oh, you didn't remember the contract we all signed drunk. I own you. The fuck does that mean? He owns us. Fair enough. Keep bringing beers. and Yeah. We'll be your servants. And he told us he was taking us to Munich.
00:15:22
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Sweet. Next year. yeah It's in the contract. Can't wait. Yeah, you guys can fit in the cargo, right? On his dime. Fantastic. I'll buy your beers. You said first class. Yeah. It's in the contract. First class cargo. i' think That's not terrible. Well, you put it like that. That's not terrible. ah Yeah, no, this beer is it's delicious.
Holiday Traditions and Cooking Plans
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it's sweet.
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It's not like super sweet, but it is is just very enjoyable. i really enjoy the the new label um for this. Well, that was just a one-off. I know. That's what I mean. Oh, but there's also the other label that's out there. Yes. I forgot. My bad. Because I saw it actually today at Biddy's. As I said that, I was like, wait a minute. This doesn't exist elsewhere. That's right.
00:16:03
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Yeah. I want to, but we're going to use this, this can picture for the episode picture. Because it's a sweet. house of chicago same beer as the kentucky yep just did a little something fun for blues builders and jim belushi yeah at the house of blues fantastic an amber lager 5.2 percent old erving there's our sponsor for the episode we got it out of the way finally get some old erving out of the way why don't we hang out with jim belushi on this episode like hey jim come on i mean if we had some weed he'd definitely be down
00:16:44
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Well, invite them. I don't know. You had a better contact than we did. and didn't work either. Bummer. But I got beer into their hands, so that was fun. i As long as you get beer into their hands, it's all the matters.
00:16:55
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yeah Priorities, man. Priorities. Do you guys want to take deviation to or are we going to the premium side? The duck side. It's up to you guys. Brandon, did you open up the other beer that you have right now?
00:17:09
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The Years? Yeah, I'm drinking the Years Belgian Wit. Is there another one for us to try? There's Pills. Can we try some of one of those? Just because you... So you were... Yeah, i'd like... to i tell Let's talk about how you got that. Yeah, so I got ah one of the beer reps from... um Oh, God. Why am I drawing a blank? Because you drank actual beer. Yeah. ah So for years...
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um for years, Beard, they're done, oh, pilot project. so here's beers yeah For For years, these beers. Oh, shit. I saw a thing about lear's book Pilot Project and um Tony, who used to be a ah beer rep for Lagunitas and he was around like when I was at Fishman's.
00:17:59
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um He worked for Pilot Project now and he had posted about this and I was like, dude, like where can I grab those? Because I would love to try those and you know try to put them on an episode. And he was like, oh, it's like I'll drop some off by you. so He dropped off three different ones. There's the wit, the pills, and then there's ah also a lager.
00:18:18
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I think I have some of the lager left too. we can see So far, these have been... Have you been drinking these before today? I've had... i had the i think this is my first time having the wit, but I had the pills and the lager.
00:18:31
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do you have some of the wit left in your can? Yeah. i Do you want to try it? No, the wit is really good. The Pills is very good. It's very clean, very clear. It smells good. like For an N.A. beer? Yeah. and yeah I would say, like taste real quick, taste-wise, it's still kind of like with the N.A. beer stuff. yeah To me, it's like there's a homebrew flavor to it as far as like you know an unfermented.
00:18:52
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But that's really clean, and like that's that's a good drinkable Pills. Yeah. I like the wit. The wit. Yeah, that's... That's like having a good and a like sour where you're like, you know, man, a sour is it's like, oh, here's this flavor. It's sour. It's hard to tell yeah whether it's a beer or not.
00:19:10
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The Belgian whip, it's good. It's, it's got the, like it hits everything that I want. There's a sweetness in the back. Yeah. Um, Yeah, that's good. Well, and both are interesting because they're brewed to be 0.5%, which is one of the new new ways is finding yeast and different things that basically just brew it to the style.
00:19:32
Speaker
So you're not having to do alcohol removed. Really? Yeah. Omega's talked to us for a while, but we haven't done anything with it yet. It's... I don't know much about that. But yeah but it's a specific yeast strain to get it to 0.5 instead of... we're Yeah, like this basically just like stops the fermentation from going further than... That makes more sense.
00:19:53
Speaker
What I do, like I... I mean, these are good. I love these. But like I'm, you know, we've talked about this before. We're huge fans of Revolution. i want to try the Anti-Zero. Oh, yeah.
00:20:04
Speaker
I... I looked on their website and it was like, you can only order it for shipping currently. And I'm like, well, is it not available in the shop? I bet if you go there, you I went to the, like, but I went to their website and it's not on their, like, regular website. that They just had some shipping I saw it when I went there to pick up the... They they might have it now. Like, or like or just, what they haven't updated their website or whatever, but...
00:20:26
Speaker
I'm curious to try it because you know like Antihero is a fantastic beer so like it'd be nice to see what the NA version of it is yeah now that we've gone I mean we've as far as this show is concerned we've really ridden the Roto Roto Roto
00:20:50
Speaker
december twenty eighteen that's How long? Longer than my marriage. Oh! Well, it would be eight years at the end of this year. So we're about seven and a half years. So in seven and a half years. And we've really been a part of, or at least made ourselves a part of trying the NA beers as they've kind of evolved. There wasn't a lot of NA beers except for like, here's O'Doul's, here's Sharp's.
00:21:19
Speaker
That's Heineken Zero. Yeah. like Yeah. I was going to say right at the beginning the pandemic, I remember like Sapporo, Heineken, Guinness Zeros. zeroes and guinness the the Guinness Zero is not bad. the Guinness Zero is probably my favorite. Yeah. Other than the one sour from Go Brewing. no i will no i will say guinness the guinness zero is my favorite for a beer that um like closely matches the style heineken zero is also yeah heineken too i don't love heineken but i remember one i think that's why i don't put it in my like well there was one like dry january that i was out and i was drinking heineken zeros and i was like this is great i feel like i'm like
00:22:00
Speaker
drinking beer with everybody else. Yeah. Just, you know, not having fun. Yeah, I feel like a lot of them. I'm joking. Well, I think that's why you short the lagers because I feel like the ones that have been most closely resembling beers, like the Sapporo, tasted like Sapporo.
00:22:16
Speaker
Yeah. Pilsner's really good from yours right there. That's that's really tasty. yeah It's crisp. It's refreshing. There's not like a weird underlying sweetness. There is that little bit of like fresh wort, you know, taste to it. But that has come to be what I have expected from all NA beers.
00:22:34
Speaker
But this one is still approachable. No, don't hate it. No, yeah that is, I think you'll like, you've had the pills, right? Yeah. Yeah. it's It's really good. It's delicious. So Brandon, you might know more about this than I do. It seems like, especially. Burn. I totally burned Matthew right there. I'm going eat this old cake while you talk. Go ahead. yeah Yeah.
00:22:55
Speaker
Um, at the beginning of the pandemic, it definitely seemed like big drop in athletic along with like the big macro guys. Like, Oh yeah. We're the ones do it all this past year. I feel like I've really just been hearing about go brewing and then, know, pipe works. There's rev did there's years.
00:23:13
Speaker
Um, is that still kind of how the market is or has it been more dominated by local guys coming up or is it still mostly like athletic and the big guys? No, I feel like I've been hearing less about athletic. Go brewing is still big because go brewing is local. And I feel like more of the local places or places like years beer are like getting into the market.
00:23:39
Speaker
um, So I feel like... Holy shit, you weren't joking about canned vegetables. There's a whole case of canned green beans over there. Yeah, my wife went to Costco today. Man, those are my favorite. yeah I love canned vegetables. I know they're high in sodium, but canned vegetables are best. you ask them nicely, maybe we'll give you a canned... That's how we get Benjamin to eat his vegetables. That's how did I was a kid, and it got me into like eating fresh stuff as I got older.
00:23:59
Speaker
Yeah, so... Yeah, so like i I'm... I'm just going to keep eating my cake. I'm very like... I don't want to say that I'm attuned to like everything that's NA, but like, I'm more conscious of it now. And I kind of like, you know, that's why this one, caught like the years beers caught my eye. And, um, but I feel like there's more local places now that are kind of putting, that that are putting their foot in the market because they're not just dry January, but there's a lot of people that are pulling back from like their everyday drinking. And like, like I'm one of them and I'm looking for alternatives to like, Hey, if I go out, like, if you go out places, you're not always going to find this. Like, I don't think I've ever seen this anywhere, you know.
00:24:41
Speaker
But, like, I've seen it at the stores now. But, like, you're not going to find that, you know, in your bars and taverns and stuff like that. But... Having those options like when you're at home and like being able to buy something just to be like, all right, had a rough day. got fired from my job.
00:24:56
Speaker
I'm going wasted on some years beer. You know, like, you know, you don't want to you don't want to drink necessarily, but you want something that kind of satiates that that overall urge, you know, that that need quite like that quite quite just that thirst, man. wow And that's how I am a lot of the times now. Like it's like, oh,
00:25:17
Speaker
I'd love to have a beer, but I don't want to get wasted. that's so That's my approach to why I have carbonated water around a lot because I do love something flavorful and carbonated. it doesn't need to have alcohol on It's just that's what I want. I want something carbonated. I don't want soda, but I want something that's like crisp,
00:25:36
Speaker
flavorful and like kind of quenches my thirst. So like, that's why like having lime and like grapefruit, um, carbonated water has always been a go-to. And if I really want to like spice things up, if I have like fresh, uh, lemons or limes, like, Oh, I'm gonna squeeze a little bit in there. And it's, ah, it's the best. It hits the spot. And i mean like not to put another notch under old Irving's belt, but like Chicago has been awesome. Yeah.
00:26:00
Speaker
Excuse me. Like that like is like it's got the hops. It's got like, you know, kind of like the fruity notes. It's I like drinking that. no I do too. I brought it to work. Maybe that's why i got fired because I show up on a couple of work calls drinking Chicago. now guy just goes it away Look at it. It says it's sparkling hop of water, dicks.
00:26:21
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that No, I brought it to work a couple times when you gave me some, Matthew. And it's kind of funny. like I walk out of my... Because I'll have it after lunch. It's kind of like, ooh, cool. After lunch, going to drink this. I've done that with hop tea that I bought before.
00:26:35
Speaker
And it's like, yep I'll just walk out to the warehouse because I'm the floor manager. I'll just crack it up. You know what time it is, everybody. and people have given me a second look. I'm like, it's hop water. yeah It's water. Yeah.
00:26:49
Speaker
It's kind of funny. So we were thinking of doing the next flavor, but Trevor was thinking about wanting to do caffeine in it because he doesn't do coffee really anymore. Okay. You're made caffeine, hot water.
00:27:01
Speaker
Yeah. If there is, yeah I'd be down for that because I've cut back significantly on coffee. Now he only has 12 cups a day. Now used to have a whole bunch. I've gone to the point where I'm like not having coffee at all.
00:27:15
Speaker
during the day. That's terrible. It's tough. It is tough. but This is why you're a miserable asshole. No, I've been miserable asshole my whole life. No, but but it's it's funny that you said that because like i I've gone from like where like we'd make a pot of coffee and I'm like racing to get everything. and like But now like I'll fill up a ah cup and that's my cup for the day. And like I'll sip on it. Your cup for the day?
00:27:39
Speaker
Yeah. And like my manager was even like, the other day he was like, what are you always, before he fired me, he was like, What are you always drinking? And I'm like, you know, I had like my Cubs cup and it was iced coffee. I'm like, oh it's iced coffee.
00:27:56
Speaker
He's like, you drink that every day? I'm like, yeah, I literally, i when it gets a little warmer, I'll fill a cup with ice. I'll pour hot coffee over it and a little bit of like i do that milk or whatever. I said, and I sip on this all day.
00:28:09
Speaker
like and he's like, really? He's like, yeah. I'm like, I don't, I can't do, if I do too much caffeine, caffeine has a weird like adverse effect on me. If I do too much of it, you get tired, right? get tired. Same here.
00:28:23
Speaker
So I have to like kind of space it out. So even to the point where like I started to skip the coffee in the morning and last week Becca went and got a case of Diet Dr. Pepper. And I'm like in the morning I just crack one of those and I like sip on that throughout the day now. Diet Pepper is the best. Oh, yeah.
00:28:41
Speaker
So I went to my bag because I bring this back and forth from home. So I have the, what it, the little motorized whisk for coffee or like whatever. Yeah, we've got one.
00:28:52
Speaker
And you know the whole like trend where you like whip coffee and some coffee. So I would buy espresso and do that. and It was great. It was really good. But that was like in my height of like um so much caffeine all the time So every now and then, what I know, like, I will go, like, days without coffee, and it's, like, the middle of the week, and it's, like, a tough day at work.
00:29:11
Speaker
Like, I bring this back and forth from home, is this little guy here, my Nescafe Gold Espresso. It's instant espresso. This $12 fucking thing. Okay. It's, it's, uh, I mean, 3.5 ounces. I mean, it's, it's good. You just need one scoop.
00:29:27
Speaker
You'll see one scoop. But what I'll do is if I'm like really like struggling at work, you do three scoops. Nope. I'll make a cup of coffee and put one little scoop in there with some cream. And that's it. And now like, it says gold espresso. I am literally golden for like the rest of the day, but I use it just as something like to have. And sometimes on the weekends, if I wake up, i'm like, I'm having breakfast. i'm like, you know what?
00:29:47
Speaker
have this. I'm going to start my day. Start my day with this. Usually, it's days when it's Friday night or a Saturday night where I'm like, it's 9 o'clock, I'm going to bed, and then it's like 4.30 in the morning. I'm like, well, I'm awake. I'm going to make breakfast and start my day.
00:30:02
Speaker
and I'll make one of those. and its yeah just Just bury the fucking teaspoon that's in there so it's harder for me to get. Thanks. That's that's awesome. just Keep shaking. Open up. Smell it. It smells really good, too.
00:30:13
Speaker
I was just trying to figure out how much caffeine's in it, which it doesn't say. I mean, one scoop is an espresso. Do you know how much caffeine you just inhaled with those fumes that were coming You're going up all night. All right, before we take a break, because we're getting real close, let's try something else real quick. Sure.
00:30:34
Speaker
Dude, it's up to you. You're a dealer's choice. um'm i'm I'm the dealer, but you're there. I was going glass. Yeah, go glass. There we go. That's... Once you go glass, don't tap that ass. Is that the saying? No, it's not. It's not a saying.
00:30:49
Speaker
It's why he should have been left in Munich. Ugh. Matthew, what are we drinking? Boulevard Vanilla Imperial Style. Yeah. So this is... i went to Benny's.
00:31:03
Speaker
um Let me look this up. Boulevard's Napoleon Six Pack. It's Neapolitan, not Napoleon. Come Boulevard's Neapolitan six pack.
00:31:15
Speaker
shit I want to know what your results came back as. Jesus Christ. Here it is. I'm pull up right now. Let's see. This is from an actual... okay So it's got... take geki This is from a fucking brewery. Oh, bourbon barrel aged weeded Imperial Stout. Oh. 13.5%. Here, I'll go to... Did you say weeded? six-bottle variety pack that includes two bottles of each of the fine barrel aged beers.
00:31:44
Speaker
Vanilla Imperial Stout, 13.5% ABV. that's what we have There was a chocolate milk stout, which is 12.2, and a strawberry sour. So chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, all type of a barrel-aged type beer.
00:31:59
Speaker
i do enjoy Boulevard's beers. Let's see what this... Oh, by the way, this is from 2025. It is very vanilla. Yeah. Okay. Cool. And I love vanilla. That's all... ass all That is a lot of vanilla. when I smelled it first. You dealt it. That means you dealt it, dude. first hit I got was like, it smells, or it it kind smelled like marshmallow fluff. Yeah. Like, if you open a can of fluff and like.
00:32:26
Speaker
So. hoo oh We're all big guys. We know what a can of fluff smells like. This is. um
00:32:35
Speaker
The weird thing about this is that there's this like rich vanilla up front. And then I hit this super bitter, dark... Chocolate. Baker's chocolate in the back that there's no in-between to kind of balance it out. Yeah, it's very bitter on the back end. It's missing that like sweet, smooth transition. Yep. you know The vanilla's great. The bitterness is great.
00:33:01
Speaker
But when you go from one extreme to the other, kind of is just like, whoa. I don't know. Maybe if it warms up, maybe it'll be better. There's a little bit left in there. Maybe we'll let that warm up for the rest of the episode. We got some gold espresso.
00:33:14
Speaker
I mean, that's going to bear up. Put a little gold espresso on this. don't think it'll be up all night. Can you get that? Can you get that? ah oh Yeah, I can get that. A little bit. A little bit. You guys want to couple lines of the espresso from Call of Night? Do it off of the Christmas tree cakes, Little Debbie that you got? Oh, no. Now it's a party. It's Best Buy January 20th, 2026. Well, you're not dead yet. but so it's a little It's a little stiff. It says Best Buy, not You Will Die. A little stiff, but it's still pretty good.
00:33:44
Speaker
It's the story of my life. It's a fucking cake with preservatives. You know, it just preserves your body even longer. Um... there i I don't know what kind of vanilla they're using, but there's like a a berry.
00:33:59
Speaker
It goes vanilla, berry, then bitter chocolate. What's really weird is I want to dislike it, but I keep going back and drinking more. It's not terrible. It's just not great. But I feel like every time I go back, I've i've swirled it a couple times and I go back and take a sip.
00:34:12
Speaker
like the That taste. like sweet like that drop off where it's like too sweet to bitter is kind of melding a little bit. yeah the It's not as harsh in the bitterness now. I realized that right before you said that, the other taste I have swung it around. Well, I think as well as, as it opens up, warms up that you'll get a little bit more of that as well.
00:34:36
Speaker
which I think is what's happening because it was he brought some very cold beers. I know. So good job. Thank you. I was trying to hope they were gonna play in hockey with Benjamin. hope we'll get a little closer to room temp. No, like when you do this and like give it it's some head. Now it's like give it some of that nice nice juicy head. Yeah, give it that nice deep thick head. Like you just giving it to it. Oh, that's better, man. it tastes like Now it tastes like vanilla and cocoa and the bitterness has kind of disappeared.
00:35:06
Speaker
Yeah. That's actually quite tasty now. Yeah. I wonder, too, if it might have been a little bit higher carb than I was expecting. Yeah. That could be, too. it's like we're shaking off maybe... I just said the whole whistle thing through my teeth.
00:35:19
Speaker
um I feel like we're maybe shaking off maybe a little bit of oxidation, too. 2025? I mean, there shouldn't be a lot. but It should be, but it's also been not chilled. Maybe it was chilled and then not chilled because it was sitting in their premium. We don't know how Benny's handles their cans and theirre bottles. like it It did get a lot better the more sips I've taken. like This is now like kind of enjoyable. If if I would have had that first, would have been like, okay. Yeah.
00:35:49
Speaker
Yeah, and I think knocking out a lot of the CO2. I think I enjoy it more now that it's closer to being still. But yeah, actually just seeing the bubbles. Sorry, I meant say yes. Knock out the CO2, not oxidation. That's why. Brandon and I are already looking at you like, what the fuck are you talking about? Bro, it's not that old. Let him go, man. Let him go. Let him go. He had mushrooms on Friday. He's still on that magical mystery tour.
00:36:19
Speaker
I think it might have just been a high carb level. love Cheap Trick. no to The Beatles.
00:36:27
Speaker
The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you away. No, I know. Did Cheap Trick cover it? I think they did. I like to hear that. I did. Chicago natives? No, I saw them in concert in Kansas City, like when Becca and I first started dating. So you went to Kansas City to see a Chicago band?
00:36:46
Speaker
No, I went to Kansas City to go visit her family. And they were like, hey, the cheap chis Cheap Trick's playing. when i go? I'm like, what? I'm not going to say no to Cheap Trick. Like... No, it's strawberry. Oh, wait. right Sorry, keep talking. Is that the only one you brought? Yeah.
00:37:01
Speaker
Okay. I can bring you more. intent and Don't tell my wife.
00:37:06
Speaker
Find something else with strawberry to mix with it. was going pour little bit of water. Actually, that would be... And then can bring it to her. No, do that. I think that would be good. And then bring some more, bring some more. She doesn't know it's here, it doesn't matter.
00:37:19
Speaker
I'm gonna tell her as as we leave. I'm actually gonna go upstairs be by the way, there is a strawberry cookie. I think you gotta go easy on it though. Like, that's too much. don't know. That might be just ki
00:37:33
Speaker
it. So I brought, we just packaged cookie. Oh, it's an old Irving ad. but Yeah, welcome to the Molting Hour.
00:37:43
Speaker
Where's our check, Jeff?
00:37:47
Speaker
Hey, dude, little splash. Can I splash can i can i try some? Little splash. No. no give me give give the fuck Give him both if he needs them. Little splash. and Depending on how much you got left. Literally, it's just a... Oh, no! Yeah, use the rest of that.
00:38:01
Speaker
No, no, no, you put too much. I put less, and I think it needs a little bit less. You don't know. You don't know. So, the Cushy Berry, which is our raspberry strawberry, you heard too much you put way too much. It overtook everything.
00:38:17
Speaker
right, yeah, yours is nice. See? You just need a little yellow splash. because Because the Cushie is so good. cushies Whatever I did is match. Strawberry Cushie is very good. No, mine is the best, Brandon.
00:38:29
Speaker
No. No, it is not.
00:38:34
Speaker
And with that, we're going to take a break. No, no, we're not. No, I think we should. he's Actually, Matthew's not wrong about this. Oh, come on. What, the Cubs lose? No.
00:38:45
Speaker
No, just a friend texting pictures of one of our other friends that had passed away. like bunch of pictures of him. I'm like, why are you doing that now, man? Why are doing that now? Come on. Is that who think it is?
00:38:57
Speaker
John Mott. Yeah. You don't have say his name, RIP John Mott. Hey, I will say John's name every time I can. Absolutely. John Mott, the GOAT. Cheers to him. That guy's great guy.
00:39:08
Speaker
oh Matthew did not get a chance to meet him. No. Hilarious though. I still have funny ass pictures of him on the ground. and Met him one time and that guy stole my heart.
00:39:18
Speaker
Funniest guy ever. Aw. He was great. Very sweet. okay And with that, now we will take a break. And that cushy strawberry into there was quite nice. It kind of made it Neapolitan.
00:39:30
Speaker
I want to try it. Or as as I said, Napoleon.
00:39:45
Speaker
You set it on the table like it ought make me smile Brown bottle, dusty collar Been asleep for quite a while Two years in the cellar, five percent in fancy talk, but I know that kind of trouble by the smell you uncourt.
00:40:06
Speaker
You said go on taste it like that made it sound so sweet, but I've seen enough heartbreak to leave it sitting by the seat.
00:40:18
Speaker
I'm passing on that beer, that two-year beer. I'm keeping my name clear, that two-year beer.
00:40:28
Speaker
You can call it agent rare, I call it stale down there.
00:40:35
Speaker
That two-year beer. I like a cold one Friday with a little frost on top. Not a bottle with a history and a cap that can't get off.
00:40:49
Speaker
You can brag about the wait and say it sat there through the rain. That's learned to linger ain't the kind I need today. You ticked it in the lamplight, said it's smooth as summertime.
00:41:04
Speaker
But I'm too old for gambling on what two long years can hide.
00:41:11
Speaker
We'll be right back.
00:41:32
Speaker
So pour yourself a winner if your heart is set on change. I'll take ice and a glass and a port swing after rain. Let the others chase the story, I'll just wave it on by.
00:41:47
Speaker
Some bottles need a second chance, this one needs goodbye.
00:42:20
Speaker
I'm keeping my name clear. That two-year beer. You can call it Asian rare, but call it stale down there.
00:42:31
Speaker
I'm passing my name clear.
00:43:11
Speaker
And we're back. Welcome back, everybody. Matthew tried sneaking it in there, but we're not doing that. We're not doing that. We're just sitting here hanging out, catching up. It's been a while since we've done a full episode, and Matthew is reaching and for the next beer. Matthew, what is it?
00:43:28
Speaker
I'm excited by this one. This one's Art History's Extra Special Bitter Ale. know I grabbed that specifically for you. Aw. Thinking about you. Because you're a bitter person. You are. Extra special dinner.
00:43:41
Speaker
You're an extra special bitter person. You're so bitter. ah Well, I'll pour it into your Metallica.
00:43:52
Speaker
Yeah, that a nice looking pub ale. If I didn't say this, 5.8%. little bit higher than I would have thought. Brewer's Notes, this deep mahogany pub style ale is brewed with Maris Otter and Crystal Malts. Perfect. That's exactly what you want. Admiral Fugle and Golding's House. Wait, wait, wait. What was that? Admiral?
00:44:13
Speaker
Admiral. You named Amarillo? No. Admiral. Admiral? Admiral? Oh, Admiral. Just the way you said it. sound like you were to Amarillo. Well, no. Thank you for it.
00:44:25
Speaker
interjecting Now that i finished that cake, I'm going to get back into these Takis while you're talking. Finishes soft on the palate with layers of caramel, toffee, and orange marmalade.
00:44:37
Speaker
the it was my first time ever having Takis. Really? no You've never had Takis before? No. Those are really good. Yeah, they are. I thought were from Chicago. i am. I'm also not junior high kid.
00:44:49
Speaker
I've had Takis forever. So of junior high kids. Takis are so good. That's why like, ah so Benjamin gets these, we buy these like Lunchables for him to take to school, but they're not allowed to take like snacks.
00:45:03
Speaker
So we have to pull the Takis out and put it in there. Well, it but he doesn't like the Takis either. So like, like fill it with like, replace it with Cheez-Its or, you like goldfish or whatever. Like his style.
00:45:16
Speaker
But then, like, yeah, like, we've got all these Takis. I did see a really cool recipe for a Takis beef jerky that I might be doing because... Did you just dump that? I was going to say, I have thoughts. Well, I want to, because we did have the big barrel-aged... Nope, nope, nope. We had the barrel-aged beer, so I'm wondering...
00:45:42
Speaker
It was not what I was expecting. Nope. Same here. I don't know what's going on with this. I don't know.
00:45:50
Speaker
Got the same aroma?
00:45:55
Speaker
That's a little better. It's a little better, but yeah, it's... There's some like extra sweetness going on. and It's very sweet. There's something that's fruity about it that does not make sense for an ESP.
00:46:07
Speaker
I did say do orange marmalade. Yeah, well... Take that shit out of it. um
00:46:15
Speaker
Yeah, that that was not what was expecting. Have you tried it yet? did. And it's a... i did um and it's okay I and like dump worthy. don't know, but it was just kind of ironic that both of you guys at the same time were just like, me and well, I took my sip and I was like, oh, is it because of the talkie? And then I saw Matthew do it and then pour some more. and I was like, no, I don't i don't need more. um I'll have a sip of yours.
00:46:41
Speaker
But there is – this is not what I think of when I think of an ESB. there There is something – the orange marmalade, which I was very much focused on the Takis I was about to eat, I missed. And I don't think of orange marmalade when it comes to an ESB. So like I'm a couple sips in and I'm not even getting any – like a slight orange hue.
00:47:02
Speaker
um There's something fruited candied fruit in there that I don't like. I feel like it's overpowering everything and just like washing away like what would be a good ESB. like It's just like, no.
00:47:14
Speaker
No. Yeah. I don't care for this. Yeah, very weird. Yeah, I don't know if it's because of age or something else. but i' was trying to see if there was a a stamp on the bottom of the can. There's not. There's just a sticker, so I'm going to have to Go with that. This could have been a beer that has been out for a while and just kind of sat on the shelves at Benny. So I'm not going to actually, radio know, mean we haven't rated anything tonight, but I'm not, I'm not, I'm not reading. I'm not, I'm not going to knock this one based on what they said they were going have. Yeah. um
00:47:49
Speaker
Maybe they're having this fresh, that little of orange marmalade would be nice. I could see that being nice in an ESB. ah For NESB being, you know, NESB should be easy drinking. There's a little bitterness to it. It's little light, little roasty, and just easy to drink. It's also 5.8%. Is that correct? Yeah. It's it's pretty high for NESB. Yeah, a little bit high, but i was like, they had all the correct malts, all the correct ah hops. have to think that this is something that's been sitting around for a little bit and... you That's the the risk you run by grabbing random beers.
00:48:19
Speaker
This is from their premium, Benny's premium four-pack build, which was like $15. fifteen bucks yeah but that's I will say even what you're saying though is you're talking. I want the other one. I know the other one. I know the other one's i know the other one's insane. I'm sorry. But i do the is was I do want to save to have.
00:48:37
Speaker
This one I'm excited about trying. I also don't want to drink it alone because I will go drink this by myself tonight. um But I was actually surprised by what you were saying. was like the premium. And you're like, oh there's a lot of old Irving beers in there. I was like, uh-oh. And then you told me that like most of the old Irving beers were just like April code. And I was like, oh, so they're all fresh beers. Yes, a lot of them are very... There we go. A lot of them are... like The oldest one, I think, was Double Sentinel.
00:49:03
Speaker
Or Cinnamon Prost. Yeah. The Cinnamon Prost holds up. The Double Sentinel, I also feel like being a ah double IPA is going to do fine as well. But then there was things that you guys had just released. I think pit actually maybe Pitmaster was the oldest one.
00:49:17
Speaker
Oh. Yeah, which is not that old either. So your beers, the old Irving beers tend to to hold up and... yeah The other one, oh, God, there was something else i was going to grab. Oh, I was going to grab the Maplewood.
00:49:31
Speaker
they have their juice box mix pack, which has four, like, son of juice. think juice, not juice pants isn't there, but it's son of juice, some other type of juice, another type of juice, and then a logger.
00:49:44
Speaker
They have all these other juices. But i've I've wanted to try it for so long. um It's $20 for a 12-pack. I'm going to go back and get it. What I didn't bring you tonight, by the way, was Hop Stupid.
00:49:56
Speaker
it was not it was I got it warm. It wasn't going to be chilled at the time. I was able to chill these. I figured the four pack would be better. but yeah Hopefully I save a Hop Stupid for the next time because it's been a while since Laguanita's put out Hop Stupid.
00:50:07
Speaker
I'll probably have one those before I call it a night to night. I do like Hop Stupid. so What are we drinking right now? We are now drinking the Pipeworks Easter Bunny vs. Unicorn. This is their Hoppy Wheat Wine Style Ale. This is insane. 10.6%.
00:50:25
Speaker
And the label art is by B.J. Olson. B.J. With an angry buddy throwing. Don't make an artwork. ah Straight out of Oregon. Yeah. Throwing an egg at the unicorn who said.
00:50:36
Speaker
This was one of my favorite. When these came in bombers, when they first did this, I was camping with friends up in Wisconsin, Yellowstone, Wisconsin. And there's a very cool...
00:50:50
Speaker
beach park there that the beach is at the bottom and you go up into the hills and there's like very cool campsites and it was a very cool past the I did not pass the Amish while i was driving the horse and bunny in Wisconsin yeah <unk>re not yeah very cool but I remember I remember showing up there the Saturday everyone got there Friday we got there Saturday and i brought this beer and we're out there like on the beach it's like May or whatever it's still like Not too warm, not too cool.
00:51:23
Speaker
And we cracked this open and me and Mike just devoured this beer, loving it as much as we could. And then he drove us around with his top, the Jeep top off. Probably should have been doing that. there Some pictures. It was very funny, very fun.
00:51:39
Speaker
But this still holds up to what I remember. In fact, it tastes a little tamer. It almost comes off the first sip I had. i was like, wow, there's, doesn't feel like there's a lot going on. And the second sip, I was like, nope, there's, that's it that's a wheat wine. But the first sip was very like,
00:51:55
Speaker
Cool, calm, and collective. This is a very tasty beer. It's a lot lighter than I was expecting. um I've never had this one from them before. i don't think i have either, actually. I enjoy this. It's one that I don't think they do all the time, and I always look for it because i remember being one of my favorite versus unicorn beers. Yeah. Because the i think the first that they did it, was like, oh, cool. They're they're doing a different variation, and they're doing Easter Bunny versus unicorn.
00:52:19
Speaker
Like, oh, a wheat wine. It's the first time i ever had a wheat wine. It still holds up as a very tasty beer. I think it's an easy drinking beer that doesn't have a lot of that like say in the back flavor of like when something's highly a alcohol.
00:52:37
Speaker
ah Like the back your mouth. what Yeah, it doesn't have the alcohol burn. Not the burn, but like... Words. I need an adult. Anyways, it it it is very it's pretty smooth.
00:52:49
Speaker
It's pretty fucking smooth. What's the ABV on this? 10.7. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, it's a good beer. It's a fun beer to drink on Easter when Jesus is risen, if you believe in that shit.
00:53:00
Speaker
And then you're with your family. You're having ham. Yeah, my family is just ham. Man, we're a ham family, too. Brandon, you a ham family? You're lamb family. um Yeah, we're a lamb cake family.
00:53:13
Speaker
um But we're also... like think sometimes we do ham, but my sister like coordinates now. It's usually Italian beefs. Oh, yeah. and now Something else. but yeah That's what we did this year. It was like Italian beefs, and I think they had fried chicken, too. Shit. It was a graduation party? Yeah, it seems like it. That's a fun Easter. Yeah.
00:53:36
Speaker
and We do ham with horseradish. I'm sorry, with what? Horseradish. You said it differently. So I said horseradish. yeah like your horse it no doublebb horse myish I can put horseradish, horseradish, or a horse's radish on anything. Horser sauce? Or horse shit with that kind mouth.
00:54:00
Speaker
Ham and horseradish. I can see how that works. I've never done it. That was my mom. I enjoy both. My mom loves horseradish, especially fresh. Fresh ground. make any horseradish chips?
00:54:12
Speaker
Yeah, she does. So when do we get those? Go up to Wisconsin. You son of bitch. You were just there. You just did a beer fest where you could have her chips.
00:54:24
Speaker
Dude, you never told me the name of her chips. Wisconsin Delectables. Now I know. i mean There's multiple episodes that you can go back and listen to. i will go back and I'll check. I'm pretty sure you did. I am 100% sure I have. At least twice. Mm-hmm.
00:54:38
Speaker
I remember a lot from these episodes. i would have known that. We've quizzed them on this before. Not quizzed them. I don't remember that episode.
00:54:51
Speaker
By the way, if you ever get an Italian sausage from the Mars Cheese Castle, it's top fucking notch. you Like from? the the No, not from the actual butcher area. But you know like when you come out of the cheese area, there's like that small little cooler where you get like the root beer brats. Yeah.
00:55:09
Speaker
I saw the Italian sausage this and like, should I give it a try? We did Italian sausage. I did a homemade ah red sauce. But I added sauteed bell peppers and onions to it. Ooh. And we just had that with some pasta. Nice. That ah Italian sausage is really, really good.
00:55:24
Speaker
Nice. And also the root beer brats, if nobody's ever gotten them before, get them. It's it's awesome. No, I think you got those last time you were up there, and I think you brought some back. We came here and hung out. we we Yeah, those were good. Yeah, the root beer brats are awesome. I'm...
00:55:39
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Once I get back from North Carolina, was thinking about it. like, man, there's two things want to Brew beer and make sausage. But I also have... I got free time. Perfect. I'll call upon you if you're service. um My mom for Christmas. Maybe I'll North Carolina with you. Hey, you want to join us? You're more than welcome. We just upgraded the seats. More life space and biz, baby. Hey, we got an extra bed for you if you want to come join us. We got a pool and everything. Although it looks like it's going to be in the 70s and raining, it's fine. I'm just to be cooking and drinking.
00:56:09
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Two things i want to do this summer is make sausage and brew beer. But also ah for Christmas, my mom got me this butcher box of steaks. Some the steaks I have left are the sirloin steaks.
00:56:21
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So the sirloin steaks, was like, oh, I saw a recipe where like you can slow cook them. Slow cook them. They become tender. it's Yeah, yeah. So I did it. Fuck that. That shit was like very dry. And luckily, at the last second after I had like pulled them out of the slow cooker...
00:56:38
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I decided to take the au jus, make a roux and make a gravy and with onions and everything. and It was fantastic and that saved it. My thought was going to defrost these other two sirloin steaks, ground them with short rib and maybe some...
00:56:53
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some other type of beef so that there's a fat make burgers out of those maybe we'll do a finally do a fucking grilling and drinking oh nice nice so you guys are the ones I thought about for making those burgers so a little sirloin a little short rib whatever that sounds delicious but look at that we went through an entire episode here we had how much random beers some hits some misses but that's how it goes Matthew Tony Brandon I love you man love you love me too man um
00:57:25
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Matthew, welcome back. We'll see you right next time. Bye.
00:57:36
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Matthew flew to Germany, came home a grin, said, give me that Hellsborgs, pour me one again.
00:57:47
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He loved the foam, the golden glow, the barley in the glass. Now every time he grabs a mic, that Munich trip comes back.
00:58:00
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Mountain Hour, Mountain Hour, different dudes, same fight. Mountain Hour, Mountain Hour, best friends every night.
00:58:11
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One tune, one table, same old on his side.
00:58:32
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He laughed at the whole wide world, then he wanted one more point Said give me hops and a little time, let the river run through Even on that sideways ride he knew what good beer do
00:58:57
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Different dudes, same fight Mountain hour, mountain hour Best friends every night One tune, one table Same old honey sound Mountain hour, mountain hour
00:59:31
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Brandon lost his job last Friday, took it square in the chest, but he stood up straight next Monday, said, I'll find one better yet. He's a badass with a steady hand, a dad, a man, a friend, best husband the county, and he'll come.
00:59:59
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Mountain Hour, different dudes, same fight. Mountain Hour, Mountain Hour, best friends every night. One tune, one table, same old honest sound.
01:00:12
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Mountain Hour, Mountain Hour.