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After The Final Pour - S8E6 - Maplewood "Black Seed"
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This week's After The Final Pour we drink Maplewood Brewing Company's "Black Seed" barrel aged imperial stout.
"A wheated stout aged in Apple Brandy Barrels. Black Seed is brimming with roasty notes of chocolate and caramel that play perfectly off the candy apple notes from the brandy barrels. Indulgent, dessert-like flavors that somehow carry a tinge of nostalgia, this is a bold but fun stout that allows the unique barrel notes shine."
Thanks to Kevin and Deb Goggin for the theme song.
Outro music by Fluid Minds
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Introduction to 'After the Final Pour'
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This is multi-mini or after Final Four? After Final Four, baby! Not that I remember the difference. To the moon! After the Final Four happens after an episode.
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When life gives you an empty cup Just crack a smile and fill it up, fill it up Welcome to After the Final Pour, brought to you by The Malting Hour. I am
Meet the Hosts
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one of your hosts, Anthony Joseph Golick. To my far left we have
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Brandon, Michael, Michael, Winninger. Ooh, I forgot Anthony Joseph Patrick. Thank you. And to his right, my left, smack dab in the middle, stuck in the middle with us. Daniel Lee Polly. Lee, you have the same middle name as my father. Stuck in the middle with you. Thank you. We have a
Christmas in July Special: Barrel-Aged Beers
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special after the final pour because we're coming off the heels of our Christmas in July, even though now this is August, but
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I thought it'd be great. Normally, around Christmas time, winter, fall, we're drinking a lot of barrel-aged beers. I've had this barrel-aged beer here in the multi-hour studios for a couple months. I think since the beginning of summer. Oh yeah, definitely. Maybe before, I think when June was when we got together and did this. Okay. Something like that. I don't know, but it was around then. Yeah, me, you, brother-in-law Mike, and our buddy Ron.
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all got together to go to beer on the wall and drink some beers and then of course after having like eight tasters of beer which by the way I have a free uh
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flight of tasters from how much I've been to, I'm at close to my second free flight of tasters from Beer on the Wall, from how much I buy from them. After that, I decided, hey, what better time than now to start buying beers? And so this is one of the ones that I got from my mix. I think I did a mix four pack and then I grabbed this as well, just to have. And who wants to read what this is? Because it's a local
Review: Black Seed by Maplewood Brewing
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beer. This is?
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Black Seed by Maplewood Brewing Company from Chicago, Illinois. 12% ABV, a weeded stout aged in apple brandy barrels. Black Seed is brimming with roasty notes of chocolate and caramel that play perfectly off the candy apple notes from the brandy barrels. Indulgent, dessert-like flavors that somehow carry a tinge of nostalgia, this is a bold but fun stout that allows the unique barrel notes to shine.
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I'll tell you this, all I knew about this was that it was a barely-aged stout. It was 12%. The Apple Brandy, though. I had no idea that was a part of it. And if you guys know me, Apple Brandy Ryway from Revolution is one of my favorite variants they've ever done. It's so delicious. It's like...
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And even Goose Island's Carmel, which is like a caramel apple barley wine is also delicious. This is the first time having a stout that has like apple brandy in there. And I must say,
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very very tasty there's no head on the spear whatsoever it pours like fucking motor oil okay so can i say i think i have it the carmella and i've never had it also don't you also have like an um a
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Apple right way he left still too. Yeah, I
Exploring Barrel-Aged Beers and Planning Favorites Episode
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think so. Cool Brandon, you know what we should do for an episode? We'll drink those two. That would be so much fun. Just two of my favorite barrel aged beers from Chicago that you've never tried. That's why we should try it. We should do that episode because you've never had one. I think the Carmel is so good. The Earl Grey Tea one I think I've never had either. That's a hit or miss for people. Yeah. I had that one. I think I drank that.
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one sunday while cleaning my basement and had football on and it was uh it was kind of like i woke up early that day and i was like one o'clock and i had it i'm like you know what i'm gonna crack this open and sip on it that's um it's an interesting one did you have that one the london fog or whatever i liked it yeah it's interesting i know it was kind of like all people didn't like it but i like it agie didn't like it agie did you have carmelo before uh yeah i did did you like it um from what i remember i did but to be honest with you i didn't i can't
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Remember specific. I'm not sure if Clark has one left. I know he did for a while But that I think he and I both agree that that was like one of our favorite variants of that year and kind of Overall has been one of my favorite variants from them, but that's not really what we're talking about We're talking about this maple with beard black seed Brandon. What do you think of this one?
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I like it. When I smelled it originally, what I really got was kind of chocolate notes. It's kind of chocolatey, malty. There was something fruity I could put my finger on.
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yeah so maybe a little bit but i feel like the chocolate is kind of overpowering and then when i went in the sweetness kind of is what surprised me is how sweet it was but then the the candy apple description kind of like is very kind of right on the nose and then i feel like the barrel is coming through it's got a nice characteristic that's kind of enhancing the the roastiness of the malt playing well with the chocolate and like you know the caramel that they say is in there and i feel like this is just
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Um,
Tasting Notes: Chocolate and Apple Brandy
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I'd be curious what the base beer is or having the base beer with the based out. Uh, and just, you know, you can see the difference of what, what kind of comes out, but, uh, whatever they did, this is really good. And I do agree that it has some like dessert, like flavors, like this could easily.
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It's gonna make its way into an ice cream if I had a couple of cans of this. Yeah, I feel like with this as dark as it's poured, like it's not see-through. It's like super rich. It's not a super thick beer. Yeah. Like I was expecting it to be a lot thicker than I'm getting from it. I was actually gonna ask so it says it's a weeded stout. The body on there though I feel like that's
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that there is a nice body to it, but the way it pours, man, I thought it was gonna be like thick, like oh yeah, cupa, like their cupa series is thick. It's definitely not like that. Their cupa series though is like full of adjuncts, which is probably also thickens it up. Absolutely, but that's like the way it was pouring, that's what it looked like. I thought it was gonna be like a thick, thick beer. I get a lot of that, like,
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It's a light carbonation. There is a nice sweetness to it. There's a fruitiness on the nose. Also the barrel. I also feel like there's a lot of dark chocolate, like dark cocoa, baker's chocolate almost, bitterness to this, which I think plays very well with the Apple brandy barrel.
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So I feel like those things, like fruity and dark chocolate, kind of what makes this beer really nice to me. Like this is a good dessert beer and I'm glad. I'll say this, could I
Dessert-Like Qualities and Personal Experiences
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drink an entire 16 ounce can of this? Yes, should I?
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No, but it was like this one I'd work through, you know, like I could easily like, I mean, from what I poured, I'm still powering, I'm powering through it a bit like I want to slow down. But it's it's so tasty. I really, really do. This, this would be one of those beers that like I would pour half of it and then put it back in the fridge, like put it
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Cover on that or whatever and then go like yeah, I'll come back tomorrow Yeah, I wouldn't I would just like fucking I'm gonna dream tonight. It's gonna feel Regret tomorrow. Yeah, and how you feel about this because you've had this one Yeah, I've had it before I do think I finished the whole 16 ounce can but it was like a zipper Very good
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Sorry. I really like, I've always liked the Apple Brandy barrel stuff and the Apple character comes through really well. I kind of actually burped a little bit ago and the Apple came up. It's funny how like, what do you do? Like when you burp after having certain beers that what you can get.
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from the beer afterwards. There's a lot of good hoppy beers where it's like, ooh, that actually added- Brought something. Yeah, exactly. Which also makes it pleasant. Apple effervescence was what came up. But no, I really do like this beer. Maplewood,
Maplewood Brewing Reflections
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I don't think it's ever steered me wrong on any barrel aged stuff. I can't even think of a beer that I don't like from them.
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I can think of one that I didn't really care of which is so weird and I'll tell you guys what it is right now. Just regular fucking juice pants. Ew.
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That's not beer age. No, no, I'm saying it's beers in general. All of their beers I love. Sunna Juice is great. Even Juice George was pretty good. And they did the Sunna Juice with just like what they did. But you didn't hate it. No, I didn't hate it. It just was not like I actually prefer Sunna Juice over Juice Pants. But Juice Pants is like they're big.
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Like, when they release it, it's a bigger deal for me, I feel like. Yeah. I don't know if I've had juice pans. It's right. I mean, it's not bad. It's just not my favorite. There's all other ones that I really enjoy. Yeah, there's not much from them that I don't like. I remember when that came out in, like, Bombers, the juice pan. Oh, really? Whoa. Yeah, that was... And you're old. Yeah. No, I really liked that beer. Back in my day, they had Bombers a juice pan.
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And they were like handwritten fucking missing it dude Hans Gruber falling off the fucking roof. This is it. Yeah, that's the end of die-hard Continuing from our spoiler alert Christmas in July. What if I what
Movie Tangents and Podcast Ideas
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if I thought he was gonna live from? Breakfast Club is there to you never seen the breakfast club bro. It came out when I was like negative three
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You know, will you ever get my buddy Leo on here who does his own, he's got his own movie podcast now and he has his own website, a movie guy, which you guys should check out. It's good reviews. I agree with him on about 99% of the movies. So of course I'm gonna like his website. It's hilarious. I was actually looking at his Facebook page today and I was, you commented on something and then I was scrolling through and I'm like,
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Tony's the only one in the comments. Hey, man. I love it. But you know what? He's got an active following on X. Sorry. He's got an active following on X now. But it would be fun to sit here and watch a movie while drinking through some beers. He doesn't drink anymore, but he said he wants to go on the podcast. So it'd be fun to discuss brews and views, man. Hot water, maybe.
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Cool, Dan. Get off the hot water train, okay? We've been doing the hot water thing for years. He's talking about for the... I know, I know, I get it. He doesn't drink. I'm being considerate. Or he can drink whatever the fuck he wants. He doesn't need a replacement for beer. He's already figured it out. I lied. He can have some bourbon. I lied earlier. Of course you did, you fucking liar. I was negative two. When did it come out? Eighty-five. Bro, I was three. Have you seen Star Wars? Some.
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Have you seen the original? The New Hope? Wait, like the original of like the prequel original? No, original. Like the very first Star Wars movie ever released. I did. I saw it when I was in like elementary school. Oh, so you can see movies before you were born. Okay, that's cool. We just wanted to make sure. Have you ever seen movies like cool?
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Luke or like, um, Casablanca pieces of that. It's a wonderful life. Oh, so you can, I almost was going to say, I just blanked out as what his name is for a voting scale last episode. What? It's a wonderful life. What's the dude's name? He Stewart. Yeah. What's his name? In the movie. Yeah.
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Good thing you got two weeks to edit this, huh? I'm not editing this at all. I'm going to edit this tonight and get it ready for the following week. George Bailey. George Bailey. We're dumb.
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How many potters are you going to have? I bet you there was a bunch of people, like who listened to this with the fucking yelling in their listening device or car radio saying fuck it's George Bailey. I've seen that movie, but I have not seen that movie probably. Not seen. I've not seen that movie. Oh, I thought you saw a different version. Probably. I mean, under 10 years, I don't know,
Favorite Christmas Movies and Traditions
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maybe 10 years. I mean, my Christmas, my go to Christmas movie is a Christmas story. Have you seen a Christmas story, Dan?
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I have. Dan, what's your go-to Christmas movie? Do you have one? I really, no. A boxer. Does that take place around Christmas? So my, my child, one of my favorite childhood movies was Home Alone. There you go. Kevin's at home.
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That's what Clark and I would say when we'd go see the house. I knew that movie word for word. My sister and I used to sit there. We would just recite the whole movie. My mom would just scream at us. We're like, shut the fuck up. She didn't say that. She was like, shut up. Don't you want to watch the movie? We'd put it on mute, and we would just be doing the lines. It's awesome. I would say that my favorite guy, Ghostbusters, there's so many great people in this movie that you can tie back to their 80s movies.
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Um, the other, uh, I would say that my favorite Christmas movie is, I watch it every Christmas Eve while I'm wrapping gifts. I've never heard of that one. White Christmas. Oh. What the fuck? You're stupid. White Christmas. Yeah, White Christmas. Yeah, White Christmas. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude. Oh yeah, I've seen that. I love that movie. That's a good one. That's great. I've never seen it. Really? You've never seen it? It was very progressive. They, they dressed as women.
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Oh yeah, it was so progressive when they did the whole minstrel show. Oh yeah. There's a lot to be frowned upon that movie. I still can't believe you haven't seen Elf. Yeah, I've never seen it. All I know is- You would like it. I believe it. I believe it. There's a lot of stuff. Let's get high and watch Elf.
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cool in right now. I'm taking off tomorrow. Let's do this. All right, let's wrap this up. Dan? Wait, we didn't do our full ratings of this. Fuck. He started saying asking you how many potters. Oh, yeah. How many? Potters. Potters. Potters. But we're not on Christmas anymore, so I'm going to say, how many caramel apples? Caramel apples? I'm giving this one 4.3 caramel apples. It's really good. It's really good.
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If I see it again, I'd probably buy it. Not like going out of my mind over it, but it's a really well done beer. I really enjoy it. I think the dark chocolate apple is what really makes this a tasty beer for me.
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Yeah. Did I, I'll give this a four or five. You're not going to throw it to Brandon. Well, you're the one asking us. He looked like he was looking, he was looking at how many, four, five. I like it. I dig it. Uh, same reasons as you said, I was saving that for Becca. Oh yeah. I texted her that there was more. And then she's like, no, no.
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Send that can this way. Nope. No, I want to spill some more on the floor. Brandon, how many? That's your floor portion. Brandon, how many caramel apples are you getting? Let's see.
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I'm between four two and four five, roughly. I do. I like this a lot. I feel like everything plays well with each other. Just like us. Yeah.
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the caramel apple meat, like chocolate stuff. It's just, it's good. And like, I think I had said like, this would be a great ice cream, but like just putting this in baked goods or whatever and like pairing this with baked goods, this is a perfect dessert type thing. It's not overly sweet. Cause I think I had said like I could do half of this and then like, I could probably, you know, if I nursed it, I could do the entire thing. But I think, I think from how you and I are drinking it now, we could easily,
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I just like how it's on the border of being too sweet, but it's not. So it makes it just that much better to drink and more easy drinkable. I agree.
Conclusion and Future Content
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I think it's a very good beer and I'm glad I bought it. I'm glad it had the intuitiveness to save it for us.
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I would have drank this on my own and been like, ah, this would have been a good beer for an episode. So maybe we did this. Maybe after the final pour. It's been a while since I went after the final pour. Thanks for sharing. Hey, Dan. Thanks for joining us for an after the final pour. You're welcome. Brandon, I love you, man. Love you too, man. And everybody thanks for listening. Keep listening. And you know, we'll keep doing this probably. We got nothing else to do. Help us. Bye.
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This has been The Malting Hour. Be sure to follow us on all social media by searching The Malting Hour and at themaltinghour.com. You can also follow us individually on social media. Brandon can be found on Instagram as bmdub81, on Twitter, bdub81, and on Untapped as bdubdrinksbeer. Tony can be found on Instagram and Untapped under Ace of Elps Chicago. On Twitter, The Ace of Elps Chicago. Clark can be found as Clarkowski on all three.
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