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Hey, Chris. Hey, John. How are you? I'm doing

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good. You know, just kicking around. Slightly

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boomy room. Slightly boomy. I was just thinking

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the exact same thing. Yeah. You started talking

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and then I started hearing it. Like, oh, no.

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Well, we are in a different location. We are.

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Our normal place of recording got flooded, so

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that was fun. Yeah. So, you know, just always

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on our toes. Always moving around. Making adjustments.

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Making adjustments. There you go. It's like the

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IT guys just, I wouldn't even say creed. It's

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so. It's just what you do. It has to happen.

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Yep. So. You learn to get creative really fast.

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Really, really fast. How do I problem solve this

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ridiculousness? Mm -hmm. Anyway. Hey, you got

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some beers over there. I do. I do, I do, I do.

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Another. Pick six. Pick six. Hopefully no angry

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reverends this time. You never know. Yeah. I

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don't think we've had these on the show, and

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I'm pretty confident I haven't had these specifically.

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I've had other beers from these people. Okay.

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Yeah, I see real ale. Y 'all like that crinkly

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bag? Oh, my gosh. Okay, so what we've got, and

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in keeping with the theme of starting with a

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10%, although this is just a hair under, we should

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start. With the real L, real heavy. Real heavy.

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Scotch L. Okay. I like Scotch L. 9 .3%. Nice.

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And then from there, we have got Deschutes. If

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you remember, we had one of theirs before. That

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looks familiar, but this is. This is the Black

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Butte Porter. I thought it said Black Butter.

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Black Butter. I don't know what I'm going to

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do with that. That sounds like something that's

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going to. I'm just going to roll with it. Give

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my tummy some issues. And then the last one.

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Is the Alaskan Amber. Okay. I've seen Alaskan

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stuff. I actually have never had anything from

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Alaskan. So there we go. And special bonus. And

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special bonus. Really good. Do you want to tell

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the folks at home? I don't. So again, if you're

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not in Tyler. you probably don't have a Brookshire's

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and you definitely, well, I don't think that

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there's another fresh. Is there another fresh?

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Do they have another fresh? It's the only one

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so far. Okay. So fresh is like the whole foods

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of Brookshire's. Yeah. And they have one in Tyler

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and they got these different things that you

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can get there that they don't have at other places.

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Although they may have this at a Brookshire's.

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I've never looked. It's possible. Yeah. Anyway,

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they have a Cajun crab dip. That's amazing. It

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is. So Chris did not know that I really liked

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this crab dip. So we're going to tear through

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it. He bought it anyway, and wow. It is, I mean,

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I'm in for a treat. You people have no idea what

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you're missing. We will see how well it pairs

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with the beers. Okay, there you go. I mean, that's

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legit. There's always an opportunity for. Being

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disappointed there. Yes. And I did make sure

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I brought my handy dandy fiber enclosure opener.

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The fiber enclosure opener. That sometimes function

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as a bottle opener. There you go. Looks good.

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I was like, I think I have one, but you're going

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to have to carry the show for a minute. Yeah.

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I got to go find it. Actually, I've got one in

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my pocket. This table is too big for this. It

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is. We need to not. set up this far away from

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each other next time. Well, um, it is what it

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is. Yes. Yeah. So I, speaking of gear, um, I

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found a knife that I really like, um, but I had

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been using it for a few months and, uh, gave

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it to a friend of mine to sharpen for me because

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I'm not really good at that. Okay. Um, I know

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I'm not, Not too insecure to say that. And this

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friend of mine, it's the kind of guy that doesn't

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have a lot of, like he doesn't, he's got a lot

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of stuff like gear, and I would say tools is

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really his gear of choice there. But there's

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not usually anything that like he runs across

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that he's like, oh, I really want that. But he

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had him sharpen this knife for me, and he was

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like, where'd you get this? I was like, well,

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it's a Kershaw Launch 11 or something like that.

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And he was like, I really like the way this knife

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feels. And, you know, it's a push -button open

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spring. nice in that in that sense and he's like

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i really i mean i'm gonna find one of these and

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so when he gave it back to me uh after he sharpened

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it i was like why don't you just keep that because

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i'm not like there are many times that i feel

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like i know what to get you for whatever reason

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so you just keep that nice um but All of that

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to get around to. I moved back to a Gerber. Oh,

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yeah. It's a multi -tool. What do they call these?

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It's not the pry bar. The pry bar is the flat

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one. This is the driver or something like that.

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Hold on. Since we're talking about this piece

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of gear. Yeah, we should look it up. I am just

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blinking right now. Center drive? No, that's

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the one that has the… The Dime? No, it's called

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the Armbar Slim. Armbar Slim. I was about to

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say Armbar, but that just makes it sound like

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I've been watching too much UFC. Yes, you have.

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Anyway, so I have had one of these before and

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lost it, or my child took it from me, one of

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the two, which is both are… They have an arm

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bar that has scissors with it as well. But I

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like the slim because of how small it is. But

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it's like this little multi -tool that just has

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a knife and a screwdriver that you can do. It's

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just a bit that flips over to make it Phillips

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or flathead. And then on the other end, it's

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got this all slash bottle opener. And I forget

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that I have this on me very much, but this is

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a perfect time to open it up, use the bottle

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opener. Not bad. So, you know, if you're a knives

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guy, we'd love to hear what your favorite knife

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is. Yeah. I think I'm carrying this, and then

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I have a bigger Kershaw in my bag that is, frankly,

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too big for me to put in my pocket most of the

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time. There you go. All right. So. Wait, wait,

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wait. Plano. Mine says Houston. Just saying.

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Anyway. Yeah. I was trying to see. Real ale.

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Real heavy. They've got a few things on here.

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Yeah. So. Only in Texas. Yep. Working in the

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hill country. Okay. From a foundation of time

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honored brewing tradition. Real Ale believes

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minimal processing produces maximum flavor. Sure.

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And it says part highlands, part hill country.

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Yeah, I saw that. I like the part highlands,

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part hill country. Yeah. And was looking for

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a little more. So they say on their site, this

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is the beer that started it all. With notes of

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rich chocolate and coffee, a luscious creaminess,

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and a roasted finish, Black Butte Porter. doesn't

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only have fans, it has followers. No, that's

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the other one. Oh, I'm on the wrong. Yeah, this

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is the real heavy. I failed. You jumped ahead.

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Fail, fail, fail. I can't believe you jumped

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ahead. Well, I misordered my tabs. It happens.

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I'll blame it on something. Sure. So let's try

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this again. Rewind it and reverse it. Okay. We'll

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just cut that out in post. Okay, here we go.

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The correct one. Real heavy Scotch Ale. A Scotch

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Ale brewed by metal aficionados could be called

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nothing else but real heavy. Our take on the

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Wee Heavy style, Wee, W -E -E, is an imposing

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malt forward brewing weighing in at 9 .3%. It

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is brewed with English crystal malt, English

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hops, and fermented with our house English Ale

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yeast, resulting in a rich brown color. and a

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toffee -accented malt character banging your

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head with a couple of pints of real heavy. I

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don't know how much of that was referring to

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English things when it's supposed to be Scottish.

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All the Scottish people are probably... Well,

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this is Bruton, Texas. Yeah, no. We don't really

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have anybody listening to us in Scotland. And

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for those that want to know, it's a 27 on the

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IBU scale, which is not bad. Not bad. Although

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they're worrying me with their constant reference

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to the English hops. I imagine England has more

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bitterness in them than we do. Well, we're going

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to find out. You say you have something wrong

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with their hop. The bitter. Crackers, people,

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crackers. They are the first people to have done

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the IPA, so you know something's wrong with them.

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Where I was going with that, you were talking

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about bitter. I know. Ritz crackers, gotta love

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them. Yeah, you really do. Or there's something

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wrong with you. Yes. So at the beginning of Hitchhiker's

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Guide to the Galaxy, when he takes Arthur into

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the pub and he just walks in and he says, six

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pints of bitter and fast. And it's like, well,

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which beer do you want? And he just clearly just

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says six pints of bitter. Yeah. It's an IPA for

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sure. Oh, I have no doubt. All right, so. Here

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we go. You messed with your palate before the

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beer. You're right, I did, but I really wanted

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one of those reds. Let's see. Yep, that's a good

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Scotch ale. Getting a lot of founders out of

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this one. Yeah, yeah. Here we go, down the hatch.

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Unfiltered. I can hear that. Wow. That's great.

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That's not bad. No, that's great. That's way

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better than Reverend. Way better than Reverend.

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It's very smooth. It is. Um, it's that, I mean,

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it's what you're, it's what you're expecting.

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Yes. Um, when you, when you drink a Scotch ale.

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So definitely has that bourbon -y hit to it that,

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uh, I don't, I don't know them. I think, you

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know, Some people would call it sweet. I don't

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really think of it as sweet. I don't know what

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that is. Just bourbon. Yeah. Hold on. Yeah, I

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like it. Yes. Not to go overboard here, but I

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like it. I like it a lot. I like it a lot. One

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of your personal favorites is a Scotch Ale as

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well, right? Old Chub? Yeah, Old Chub is definitely

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one of my personal favorites. So how does it

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compare? I mean, right there, I think that it's

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probably actually a little bit – I'm trying to

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factor in that usually I'm – just push that over

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to your side, and then I'll take it in a little

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bit. We're trying to divvy up the crab dip here,

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guys. I I'm trying to think about the fact that

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like, I, I feel like if I was, if I drank old

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chub, usually when I drink old chub, it's, it's,

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um, it's, uh, colder than this beer is right

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now. And I would say, uh, old chub feels like

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it's got more of a bite, um, at this temperature

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than this one does. So it's, it's, I'm not going

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to, I guess smoother is the right word there.

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I don't really know. Um, I don't know that I

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like it better, but... I mean, it's right there.

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I would say that that with the crab is not bad.

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No, no. I wouldn't think it's bad. It's not a

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bad combo. Good. Did you ever watch Friends?

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Bits and pieces. Okay, so there's an episode

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where Rachel, who is not a cook, makes a... But

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she gets the, she messes up the, I almost said

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menu. She messes up the recipe because two pages

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in a magazine stick together. So she ends up

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making what's like on the bottom layer is a trifle

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and on the top layer is like. know oh no it's

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like shepherd's pie on the bottom or something

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like that and a trifle i don't know it was weird

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um and no like everybody hates it except for

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joey and he says what's not to like meat good

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uh oh shoot meat good jelly good whatever good

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good i just uh yeah not gonna not gonna be that

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guy but It's good. Go get you some of this crab

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dip. Yeah, it is the Cajun crab dip, not the

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spinach and feta. Yeah, not the spinach and feta.

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I can't recommend the spinach and feta, but the

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Cajun crab dip, really good. Really good. Got

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real crab in it, which we don't get a lot here

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in Texas. No, and apparently you should pair

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it with a real heavy. Yeah, there's a... I don't

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know. Substitute for crawfish most of the time

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here in Texas. Oh, man, that's good beer. When

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was the first time you had crab? Oh, boy. Was

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that a Bernard's thing for you? No, it would

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have been before Bernard's. I would have probably

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been somewhere between, I don't know. to 10 maybe

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wow okay because i can remember we went it was

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this was a big deal yeah we went to red lobster

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whoa i know cheddar biscuits bro um so we typically

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would only go when it was the unlimited shrimp

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but on one of those my mom got crab legs okay

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and that was my first introduction to crab and

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that was really good yeah Now, crab legs there,

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you had to really work to get the meat. I bet,

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yeah. So there wasn't a whole lot there. Yeah,

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I was probably about that age. Yeah, I think

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I was because even when we went to Red Lobster

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when I was a kid, no, I got some sort of fried

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something always, shrimp or fish. It was always

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fried because that was all I could really conceive

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of eating. Um, I think the first time, the first

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time that I remember having crab. So I, I'm pretty

00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:16.880
sure it's the first time I actually had crab.

00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.339
I was in college and we went to my brother -in

00:17:20.339 --> 00:17:24.980
-law's parents' house. Um, and they're just,

00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.039
they're those types of people that like they

00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:30.299
can, I mean, they can make or cook anything.

00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:36.640
Like dude's a master craftsman and. You know,

00:17:36.660 --> 00:17:39.640
she is as well in so many different ways. And

00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:45.279
so they had made steaks and king crab. And I

00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:49.559
remember being like, this stuff is delicious.

00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:53.940
I don't know where it's been. But you're right.

00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.599
Like after you have like really good crab from

00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.319
somewhere. Yeah. It's kind of hard to go back

00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:05.319
to the little bidding. Imitation crab? Well,

00:18:05.420 --> 00:18:08.579
the kind that make it all the way into East Texas.

00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.400
Oh, that's true. That's true. Further, if you

00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.019
know what I mean. Yep. I was looking back real

00:18:14.019 --> 00:18:17.599
quick. The last one that we had, well, no, I'm

00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:19.779
getting off. I'm trying to get off script again,

00:18:19.859 --> 00:18:23.480
so I'll bring it up later. Later? I just keep

00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.400
trying to jump to the next beer for some reason.

00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:27.859
Oh, okay. I see what you're doing here. I was

00:18:27.859 --> 00:18:29.460
trying to see. We just got to drink faster. Hold

00:18:29.460 --> 00:18:32.259
on. Let me. Well, I'm trying to, well, let me

00:18:32.259 --> 00:18:34.500
look on this one too. I've tried. Now I probably

00:18:34.500 --> 00:18:38.220
need to go back, but I've tried to keep, you

00:18:38.220 --> 00:18:40.619
know, when I'm doing the chapters for the show.

00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:44.220
Yeah. I put in an image for whatever beer we

00:18:44.220 --> 00:18:48.740
use on the show. And so I was trying to see what

00:18:48.740 --> 00:18:50.960
some of the others were from the same company.

00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:56.880
And I know that we had done. Something like Commissar.

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But I'm not seeing any from Real Ale, and I know

00:19:03.859 --> 00:19:07.119
that we had one. Okay, so I don't think I've

00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.099
ever had it on the show, but Real Ale, what I

00:19:10.099 --> 00:19:12.160
will always think of whenever I think of Real

00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:14.559
Ale, and hopefully I'm not botching this completely

00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.720
because that would be really embarrassing, is

00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.740
Fireman's Four. Isn't that Real Ale? Possibly.

00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:26.500
That's not a good sign. I'm not as familiar with

00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:31.099
that one, so I'd have to look it up. Yeah, Fireman's

00:19:31.099 --> 00:19:35.079
No. 4. Yeah, so we had Obsidian Stout from...

00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:39.680
No, see, I'm trying to go wrong company. Again.

00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:42.940
I keep trying to jump. There must be something

00:19:42.940 --> 00:19:46.059
about... Real Ale makes a blonde ale called Fireman's

00:19:46.059 --> 00:19:51.019
4 that was one of the first, like, I really like

00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:54.910
this beer. Okay. um beers for me i think i think

00:19:54.910 --> 00:19:59.009
i one time went to a uh alamo draft house to

00:19:59.009 --> 00:20:02.029
watch a movie okay and may have drank an entire

00:20:02.029 --> 00:20:05.470
pitcher during the movie but like it's blonde

00:20:05.470 --> 00:20:08.990
and it's five percent so it was like you don't

00:20:08.990 --> 00:20:12.250
really even realize that you're doing it it's

00:20:12.250 --> 00:20:15.890
just the fact that the pitcher's out and you

00:20:15.890 --> 00:20:18.230
realize nobody else drank out of that pitcher

00:20:18.230 --> 00:20:22.630
just saying it must not have been too bad No,

00:20:22.670 --> 00:20:27.210
I mean, so what I would say is as a young beer

00:20:27.210 --> 00:20:33.750
drinker, probably like drinking it now as an

00:20:33.750 --> 00:20:36.029
older beer drinker, I would say it probably lacks

00:20:36.029 --> 00:20:39.829
a lot of depth. Okay, fair. But as a young beer

00:20:39.829 --> 00:20:43.869
drinker, it was light enough where it wasn't

00:20:43.869 --> 00:20:48.670
like I really think I've drank a lot of things

00:20:48.670 --> 00:20:54.509
right now. Okay. So we've had two from Real Ale.

00:20:54.630 --> 00:20:58.869
It was Commissar. Okay. That was one of our Russian

00:20:58.869 --> 00:21:03.670
Imperial Stouts. Oh. Yeah. And the other one

00:21:03.670 --> 00:21:07.349
was the Black Quad. The Black Quad. That was

00:21:07.349 --> 00:21:11.490
a Belgian quadruple. Oh. I remember that one

00:21:11.490 --> 00:21:15.710
being rather tasty. Okay. But yeah, the Commissar,

00:21:15.829 --> 00:21:21.819
though, that was right before we had had... Old

00:21:21.819 --> 00:21:24.859
Rasputin. And after Old Rasputin, we kind of

00:21:24.859 --> 00:21:29.460
written off the Russians. If it sounds Russian,

00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:31.140
we're not going to drink it anymore. No, no,

00:21:31.140 --> 00:21:36.660
no. I have had from just on my own from them,

00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.859
I've had Fireman's Four, Devil's Backbone, and

00:21:40.859 --> 00:21:46.200
Hill Country Bock Beer. Hill Country Bock Beer

00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:49.640
was a good like, I mean, again, it's like I just

00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:54.640
mowed the yard beer. Okay. Which is probably

00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:57.220
exactly what Fireman's Four is. It's definitely

00:21:57.220 --> 00:21:59.819
that. Oh, and I've had their Oktoberfest, the

00:21:59.819 --> 00:22:07.680
Bavarian. That's a seasonal. The Fireman's Four,

00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:12.200
it needs to be really, really cold. Okay, yeah.

00:22:12.859 --> 00:22:15.180
And the Devil's Backbone is a Belgian triple.

00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:18.359
I saw that one there, but I didn't grab it. My

00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.920
wife pulled one of those out of the refrigerator

00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:24.920
since I had them in there, and she took one drink

00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:31.500
and almost had a fit. It's not her thing. Okay.

00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:39.640
I would try their Brewhouse Brown. Okay. Yeah.

00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.680
I would maybe even try the 8 -track, which is

00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:48.200
an amber. I don't think I'm going to do the Sisyphus

00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.240
or however they pronounce that. That is a barley

00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:53.660
wine ale. And we're going to call that Sisyphus.

00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:58.440
Sisyphus. Barley wine style ale sounds like something

00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:04.579
that Friar Tuck. Yes. Would have created. Where's

00:23:04.579 --> 00:23:11.089
Robin Hood? Barley wine or barley. Yeah. 8 -Track

00:23:11.089 --> 00:23:13.250
says looking back can provide a better perspective

00:23:13.250 --> 00:23:15.369
on the future. In the good old days when things

00:23:15.369 --> 00:23:17.769
were simpler, you could kick off your shoes,

00:23:17.869 --> 00:23:20.230
crank up the tunes, and crack open a cold one.

00:23:20.549 --> 00:23:23.430
This was our inspiration for 8 -Track, a malt

00:23:23.430 --> 00:23:26.890
-forward amber ale. That's interesting. Well,

00:23:26.890 --> 00:23:29.190
they say this is malt -forward, too. Yeah, but

00:23:29.190 --> 00:23:32.910
I would say an amber, you're not usually malt

00:23:32.910 --> 00:23:38.039
-forward. Anyway, malt forward, I feel like maybe

00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:40.960
feels heavier, and amber is not really where

00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:45.019
I would consider heavy. Designed to showcase

00:23:45.019 --> 00:23:48.079
the simple beauty of a well -crafted beer, cutting

00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:50.740
no corners and using only the purest ingredients.

00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:54.920
Sure, everybody says that. Deep flavors of caramel

00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:57.440
and toffee fade into a smooth finish. You know

00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.539
you're drinking a beer. That's weird. I would

00:24:00.539 --> 00:24:02.619
hope I know I'm drinking a beer. Now you put

00:24:02.619 --> 00:24:04.259
those feet up and crank up some tunes. It's a

00:24:04.259 --> 00:24:08.599
6 .5, so it's not nothing. Yeah, I'd be interested

00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:10.859
in trying an 8 -track. I don't think that I really

00:24:10.859 --> 00:24:21.440
want to go to the Sisyphus. That sounds like

00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:26.319
something I'm supposed to stay away from. Avoid

00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.880
the clap, Jimmy Dugan. Hey, that's good advice.

00:24:35.459 --> 00:24:38.099
Anyway, they got a lot of IPAs too, which, you

00:24:38.099 --> 00:24:40.720
know, if you're into that sort of thing, knock

00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:44.180
yourself out. More for you because we're not

00:24:44.180 --> 00:24:48.240
going to drink it. Nope. Crispy business. That

00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:51.200
is straight out of the 80s. Yeah, it is. It's

00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:57.160
like a Tron feel to that. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.

00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:02.400
German Pilsner. Okay, so something that I thought

00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:05.559
that we could talk about as we finish this beer

00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:08.380
and move on to the next before we get into our

00:25:08.380 --> 00:25:11.099
whatever. This show is called Beer and Gear,

00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:13.940
but something that we don't talk about very much,

00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:19.859
I would say, is beer gear. Beer gear, okay. Okay,

00:25:19.900 --> 00:25:27.619
so. All right, here we go, folks. Do you have

00:25:27.619 --> 00:25:34.099
any gear? That you would consider beer gear.

00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:39.039
I need you to think about that as you chew on

00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:44.180
that Ritz. Because I'm going to stick this Ritz

00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:49.400
in the crab dip. I mean, think about what that

00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:56.240
would be. Well, my initial narrow, short -sighted

00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.619
definition is I don't brew my own beer. No. I

00:26:00.619 --> 00:26:06.200
do have a handful of beer mugs. Yeah. But then

00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.559
when I try to widen that and I go, what kind

00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:13.059
of gear would I use if I was drinking? Because

00:26:13.059 --> 00:26:17.279
I know what gear I wouldn't be using. Stay away

00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:19.599
from the guns. Stay away from the guns. Stay

00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:22.700
away from the saws. Stay away from the nail guns.

00:26:23.380 --> 00:26:25.019
Probably need to stay away from all the network

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:27.299
gear at the same time too. Just saying. Yeah,

00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:30.759
that could get creative. Hey. What happened?

00:26:30.900 --> 00:26:35.960
Hello, Switch. Turn into Gary Busey. Hello, Switch.

00:26:37.900 --> 00:26:43.299
Hello, Nick. Computer. He's all, hello, pants.

00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.099
If you remember that old Amazon commercial. Other

00:26:49.099 --> 00:26:56.920
than a TV, I'm not sure that what I have I would

00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:01.019
qualify as. Nice, a TV as beer gear. You got

00:27:01.019 --> 00:27:05.059
a favorite TV out there right now? Well, probably

00:27:05.059 --> 00:27:07.539
the one in my living room. Whichever one I have

00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:09.019
in my living room, that's my favorite. Well,

00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:12.160
actually, lately my favorite has been pulling

00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:14.680
out the projector and shooting that up on the

00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:16.640
wall at the house and then kicking back. Nice.

00:27:16.859 --> 00:27:19.599
That's been my favorite TV. Yeah, that's not.

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.359
If you can call it a TV. That's not nothing.

00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:26.980
That's a big deal. Okay, so just to. jump right

00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:32.240
in there um i actually so did i really lose that

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:40.440
tab that would be terrible right now um surely

00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:44.880
not okay there it is um so i was thinking about

00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.440
this and you know gear is is really anything

00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:53.569
that you use in order to enhance the Or make

00:27:53.569 --> 00:27:57.490
possible the thing that you're whatever. So I

00:27:57.490 --> 00:28:02.069
really do think like you nailed it with the mugs.

00:28:02.150 --> 00:28:06.009
Okay. You got a mug collection. I actually am

00:28:06.009 --> 00:28:10.130
fascinated by the different drinkware that you're

00:28:10.130 --> 00:28:14.950
supposed to use with alcohol and in general.

00:28:15.009 --> 00:28:17.410
Okay. Because I'm one of those guys that like.

00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:20.420
I grew up playing golf. My dad is a golfer, so

00:28:20.420 --> 00:28:23.079
I grew up playing golf. And I didn't grow up

00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:26.079
playing golf well. I just grew up knowing that

00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:29.920
there's a lot of rules to golf. There's a lot

00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.400
of etiquette. There's a right way to do everything.

00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.799
And there's a wrong way. And by there's a wrong

00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.059
way, I mean there's a lot of wrong ways. And

00:28:40.059 --> 00:28:43.720
I learned about every single wrong way to play

00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:50.359
golf because it's not. Not usually kid -friendly,

00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:54.559
especially not like ADD kid -friendly. Not that

00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:57.339
kind of whatever. So I feel kind of the same

00:28:57.339 --> 00:29:00.799
way when it comes to drinkware in general. Like

00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.339
there's a lot of rules here that I don't understand.

00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.779
I have a friend who made kind of his own rule

00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:11.319
about it when it comes to beer, and that's I

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:17.819
only drink beer out of pint glass. I don't. It

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:21.319
can be glass or metal. He doesn't care, but he's

00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:24.559
not drinking beer out of other types of glasses.

00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:30.319
Okay. They bring it in a tulip glass, which evidently

00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.619
is supposed to be used for certain things, and

00:29:32.619 --> 00:29:35.720
he's not really down with that. Okay. I think

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:38.420
I could probably convince him with a mug or like

00:29:38.420 --> 00:29:41.990
a Stein even. But he really just wants it out

00:29:41.990 --> 00:29:44.970
of a pint glass. And by pint glass, I mean the

00:29:44.970 --> 00:29:47.430
American pint glass, not even the Imperial pint

00:29:47.430 --> 00:29:49.509
glass, because that's got some curves on it that

00:29:49.509 --> 00:29:53.150
he's not okay with. So there's the things like

00:29:53.150 --> 00:29:54.990
that. That's like, okay, you look at all the

00:29:54.990 --> 00:29:56.509
different beer glasses and you're like, well,

00:29:56.549 --> 00:29:58.170
this is my favorite one. So that's the one I'm

00:29:58.170 --> 00:30:01.210
going to buy. And then I just, I pour all of

00:30:01.210 --> 00:30:04.069
my beers into them. But there are different like

00:30:04.069 --> 00:30:07.049
uses for these beers or these different. For

00:30:07.049 --> 00:30:09.609
these glasses. Yes. There's supposed to be different

00:30:09.609 --> 00:30:14.910
types of glasses used with different beers, which

00:30:14.910 --> 00:30:16.789
is always funny to me because, like, we've got

00:30:16.789 --> 00:30:20.089
a Rotolo's here close to us. Mm -hmm. And then

00:30:20.089 --> 00:30:26.009
they also do it over at, oh, my gosh, what is

00:30:26.009 --> 00:30:29.509
that place? True Vine. True Vine, for sure. Okay.

00:30:29.690 --> 00:30:32.849
And then. You thinking the one downtown? No,

00:30:32.930 --> 00:30:41.000
just the chain. Holy cow. BJ's? BJ's. Thank you.

00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:43.559
They do it at BJ's too where they will bring

00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:49.480
out, basically, it's either a pint or a tulip.

00:30:50.099 --> 00:30:53.619
I mean, there's kind of some whatever. I guess

00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:55.400
I've never had them bring it to me in a tulip.

00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:00.259
I mean, I have. The one that we, when we went

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:05.440
for the other week. They were basically pouring

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:08.599
everything into solo cups at that point. I don't

00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:12.319
know if their washing machine was dishwasher.

00:31:12.579 --> 00:31:14.480
Sorry, not washing machine. Their dishwasher

00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.519
was just broken or what, but they were done with

00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.559
that. And then I've had a few people or a few

00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:21.299
different places bring me like a Pilsner glass,

00:31:21.500 --> 00:31:25.380
which is those like really tall ones with the

00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:32.079
flat base. But there's the American pint. There's

00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:35.059
the Imperial pint, which is like the, you know,

00:31:35.059 --> 00:31:39.160
British version of a pint. It's got like the

00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:42.420
little bulb, not bulb, but like the bump on the,

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:46.339
like close to the top. There's the Pilsner glasses,

00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:49.440
which are tall and skinny. I actually have one

00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.640
of these at home from Disney World. Thank you

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:57.119
very much. Okay. What's that place with all the

00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:00.190
different countries? Epcot. Epcot, there you

00:32:00.190 --> 00:32:08.890
go. And I think the Germans had a Pilsner glass,

00:32:09.130 --> 00:32:10.910
which I thought was funny. It felt like it should

00:32:10.910 --> 00:32:13.630
be a Stein. Anyway, there's the two glasses,

00:32:13.789 --> 00:32:15.750
which we've all seen as like the little fluted

00:32:15.750 --> 00:32:19.230
glasses. And then I've never heard of a thistle

00:32:19.230 --> 00:32:22.490
glass. Have you heard of this? Okay, so it's

00:32:22.490 --> 00:32:31.640
like a reverse. imperial pint mixed with a pilsner

00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:34.740
glass or not a pilsner glass with like a with

00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:37.839
like a goblet or a tulip and that it's got the

00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:40.640
stem at the bottom and then there's this littler

00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:44.259
bulb and then it flares out from there yeah yeah

00:32:44.259 --> 00:32:47.380
i see that here um that one is a modified version

00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:49.900
of the tulip glass the shape of the thistle glass

00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:54.309
resembles scotland's national flower The thistle,

00:32:54.329 --> 00:32:57.089
of course. It is characterized by a short stem,

00:32:57.309 --> 00:33:01.690
bulbous bottom. Sorry, I'm a 13 -year -old. And

00:33:01.690 --> 00:33:03.890
elongated top section that's noticeably more

00:33:03.890 --> 00:33:06.049
sharp and angular than that of the tulip. You're

00:33:06.049 --> 00:33:09.130
supposed to drink Scotch ales in this and wee

00:33:09.130 --> 00:33:13.170
heavies. So that would have been a good glass

00:33:13.170 --> 00:33:21.640
for this. Then you've got the goblet or chalice,

00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:26.480
which we all like to feel like we're Viking lords

00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:30.339
at some point. There's even an IPA glass, which,

00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:33.000
Lord help us, I don't even know why it exists.

00:33:33.500 --> 00:33:37.579
Nope. Which looks very similar, I will tell you

00:33:37.579 --> 00:33:41.420
though, to a stout glass. It made me think of

00:33:41.420 --> 00:33:44.720
what you would use for a whiskey for tasting.

00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:49.460
Yeah. So a tulip glass and a stout glass look

00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:51.880
very similar to me, except the tulip glass has

00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:54.259
like a stem at the bottom and the beer goes all

00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:57.039
the way to the bottom of the stout glass. Okay.

00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:05.319
It's called a Spiegelau. I don't know. probably

00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:08.480
German, designs a distinctive stout glass in

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:11.460
partnership with Left Hand Brewing Company from

00:34:11.460 --> 00:34:14.519
Colorado and Rogue Ales from Oregon. And this

00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:17.460
deserves a spot in every beer connoisseur China

00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:20.460
cabinet. Okay. That was quite a sentence. Yeah,

00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:23.860
it was. The shape of the base and the angle of

00:34:23.860 --> 00:34:27.400
the bowl accentuate the roasted malts and notes

00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.900
of rich coffee and chocolate that define stout

00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:34.050
beers. I'm just saying maybe I need to get you

00:34:34.050 --> 00:34:42.250
a stout glass. Hmm. And then there's the Weissen

00:34:42.250 --> 00:34:45.670
glasses or Weissen glasses. Yes. For wheat beers.

00:34:45.809 --> 00:34:49.809
And they're just tall. It's like somebody took

00:34:49.809 --> 00:34:54.250
a Pilsner. It's like a tall version of the yard

00:34:54.250 --> 00:34:59.170
glass. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, exactly. And

00:34:59.170 --> 00:35:05.610
it's for wheat beers. So evidently a wheat beer

00:35:05.610 --> 00:35:08.849
does well in a tall glass. This is a strange

00:35:08.849 --> 00:35:10.550
glass. Have you ever heard of a strange glass?

00:35:10.710 --> 00:35:13.869
That's basically just a tall straight glass.

00:35:14.829 --> 00:35:19.130
I don't know that one. Strange meaning, which

00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:22.630
comes from the German word for pole, which is

00:35:22.630 --> 00:35:25.630
hilarious, is narrow, straight, and cylindrical.

00:35:25.750 --> 00:35:30.480
It's like a champagne flute except. I don't think

00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:32.400
that I would ever think of champagne flute when

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:35.719
I see that. No. It's just narrow. It's very cylindrical.

00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:37.800
Now, the image I've got in front of me shows

00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:41.699
two variations of the tankard mug. Okay. One

00:35:41.699 --> 00:35:45.940
is straight and the other widens out towards

00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:48.840
the bottom. Nice. Either way, you put beer in

00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:51.619
it, I'm going to drink it. Yeah. And then there's

00:35:51.619 --> 00:35:53.739
the stemmed beer glasses, which look a lot like

00:35:53.739 --> 00:35:58.179
a wine glass. Yes. And then the beer mugs and

00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:02.050
the... Glass beer boot, which... I was actually

00:36:02.050 --> 00:36:03.730
going to make a comment about the boot. Being

00:36:03.730 --> 00:36:07.230
from Texas, it's like, yeah, but evidently did

00:36:07.230 --> 00:36:10.269
not start in Texas. No, but have you had a boot?

00:36:12.670 --> 00:36:15.610
I mean, I've had a smaller boot. I think this

00:36:15.610 --> 00:36:18.030
is talking about a bigger boot. Well, the boot

00:36:18.030 --> 00:36:20.070
that I've had, unfortunately they don't do it

00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:24.630
anymore, is Blake's in Columbus, Texas. No, I

00:36:24.630 --> 00:36:28.460
haven't. But they had a boot. That was 44 ounces.

00:36:28.820 --> 00:36:33.699
Goodness. It was amazing. So when we would have

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:37.539
our celebratory meal, which is the end of the

00:36:37.539 --> 00:36:42.539
trip, we would go to Blake's. Food's on one tab.

00:36:43.300 --> 00:36:45.559
Personal beverages is on a different tab. I don't

00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.420
know what you mean. You're putting Dr. Pepper's

00:36:47.420 --> 00:36:48.900
on a different tab? Yes, Dr. Pepper's on the

00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:51.099
personal tab. That's weird. But we would get

00:36:51.099 --> 00:36:53.820
a boot. And I would typically get it with Shiner

00:36:53.820 --> 00:36:55.159
because that was about the darkest that they

00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:58.340
offered. Isn't that funny? Yeah. What are you

00:36:58.340 --> 00:37:02.920
doing? Yeah. But it was so good. They would bring

00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:07.159
it to you right away. And so by the time you

00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:08.920
get to the end of your meal, you're getting down

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:13.739
to the bottom of the boot. And it was good. So

00:37:13.739 --> 00:37:16.000
evidently this was like an Oktoberfest tradition.

00:37:16.900 --> 00:37:20.039
Okay. But like we have a lot of boot mugs in

00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:24.099
Texas because, you know. boots but i think the

00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:26.940
point was not for it to be decorative so much

00:37:26.940 --> 00:37:30.739
as the size of a boot yes well i imagine somebody

00:37:30.739 --> 00:37:34.199
somewhere back there just used their boot their

00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:36.460
shoe their boot off and put it on the table and

00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:41.300
said fill it fill it man i could see it oh yeah

00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:44.920
and the other guys around said they come in boots

00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:51.929
nice reference yes i i think I think if you can't

00:37:51.929 --> 00:37:53.690
picture this, then you probably haven't been

00:37:53.690 --> 00:37:57.289
around enough people drinking beer. How dare

00:37:57.289 --> 00:38:00.050
you finish that? That's what I do. I'm like,

00:38:00.210 --> 00:38:02.989
yeah, I got to hurry up here. I podcast and I

00:38:02.989 --> 00:38:07.829
drink beer. You should talk more. So anyway,

00:38:07.929 --> 00:38:11.050
there's that. I think the other types of like

00:38:11.050 --> 00:38:13.949
gear that I was thinking around this. Have you

00:38:13.949 --> 00:38:18.010
seen the, I'm a baseball guy. So, sorry. Yep.

00:38:18.070 --> 00:38:20.250
It's all right. But they make like these mugs

00:38:20.250 --> 00:38:23.110
now out of baseball bats, which feels way too

00:38:23.110 --> 00:38:28.250
kitschy, I guess, to me. I've not seen the baseball

00:38:28.250 --> 00:38:30.650
bat, but what comes to mind, and I don't know

00:38:30.650 --> 00:38:33.530
if they do it anymore, but Dairy Queen used to

00:38:33.530 --> 00:38:36.489
be able to get the ice cream in the baseball

00:38:36.489 --> 00:38:39.610
helmet. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think Dairy Queen

00:38:39.610 --> 00:38:41.650
does it anymore, but they do it at the like ballpark

00:38:41.650 --> 00:38:45.170
and stuff like that. Usually there's a helmet

00:38:45.170 --> 00:38:50.719
that you can. Buy a souvenir one. When we went

00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:54.420
to a banana balls game down in Houston, banana

00:38:54.420 --> 00:38:59.960
ball, not banana balls, my son wanted one, but

00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:03.860
they come in Astros helmets. And so I said, no.

00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:08.119
I was like, no. I'm not buying that. No. You

00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:11.199
can't have it. I'm not allowing you to. No. We're

00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:13.320
not doing that. If it came in a Savannah bananas,

00:39:13.539 --> 00:39:17.360
like. Sure. then, yeah, I'd be fine with it.

00:39:17.380 --> 00:39:19.320
But that right there, I can tell you they're

00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.400
using the Houston Astros stuff and we're not

00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.699
doing that. And probably the only thing worse

00:39:24.699 --> 00:39:27.440
for you is if it would come in a Yankees. Actually,

00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:29.760
I don't like Houston more than I don't like the

00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:34.860
Yankees. Really? Yeah. Just saying. Okay. I think,

00:39:34.860 --> 00:39:41.820
like, as someone who I do consider myself a baseball

00:39:41.820 --> 00:39:47.420
fan, May or may not be everybody else's definition

00:39:47.420 --> 00:39:54.079
of it. You can't discount the number of just

00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:58.039
historic players that have played for the Yankees.

00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:01.420
That doesn't mean that I'm an A -Rod fan. That

00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:06.760
means that like Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth and

00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:12.500
Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and all of these

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:21.360
old, Like there's a reason that these guys are

00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:26.440
kind of legendary. And it makes me be a Boston

00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:29.400
fan for, you know, thinking about Ted Williams

00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:33.159
and Yastrzemski and all these other guys. And

00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:38.739
a Dodgers fan for kind of the same. I mean, there's

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:41.900
a whole freaking day where everybody wears a

00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:46.400
Dodger player's number. And that like, you can't

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:48.440
know it was the Brooklyn Dodgers, not the Los

00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:52.400
Angeles Dodgers back then, but still like, you

00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:56.320
can't discount like the, just the history of

00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:01.019
it. And as a lifelong Rangers fan, I think part

00:41:01.019 --> 00:41:04.460
of it, my feeling inside of that is just has

00:41:04.460 --> 00:41:08.400
to do with how the Rangers haven't been around

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.900
for very long in the grand scheme of things.

00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:14.949
And so, you know, my grandfather was a, Cardinals

00:41:14.949 --> 00:41:17.590
fan because St. Louis was actually the closest

00:41:17.590 --> 00:41:21.349
team to where he lived in East Texas. Sure. And

00:41:21.349 --> 00:41:30.030
he bought his wheat from up there. Okay. When

00:41:30.030 --> 00:41:32.829
he had a bakery. Anyway, all these different

00:41:32.829 --> 00:41:39.869
things mean like I can watch the Dodgers and

00:41:39.869 --> 00:41:44.139
the Blue Jays. Cheer for the Dodgers because,

00:41:44.219 --> 00:41:46.960
you know, Jose Bautista was a Blue Jay and I

00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:52.239
freaking hate his guts. Anyway, there's a lot

00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:57.000
of baseball, I think, and a lot of guys that

00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.079
are baseball fans that would disagree with me

00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:02.059
about why I feel the way I do about the Yankees,

00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:05.739
but whatever. The other thing that I was going

00:42:05.739 --> 00:42:11.340
to say, though, is I, like, okay, so. I've always

00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:14.079
wanted a Stein, like a real Stein. I've gotten

00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:16.699
some, I've gotten some little cute little Steins

00:42:16.699 --> 00:42:19.619
that are like, Oh, that's neat. But like the,

00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:24.079
the, like this is a Stein and this is for beer.

00:42:24.739 --> 00:42:29.139
Like I'm, I'm waiting on the right one for that.

00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:31.940
Like I'm, I'm waiting to see the right one for

00:42:31.940 --> 00:42:36.800
that. But Stanley actually has a cool little

00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:39.380
Stein. I would say it's even, they've got a version

00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:42.920
that even has the, top on it okay um but i just

00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.699
can't bring myself to get it because everybody's

00:42:45.699 --> 00:42:49.519
all stanley and i came in as a yeti guy whenever

00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:52.679
the you know yeti started doing their drink wear

00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.860
stuff so yeti if you're listening you're not

00:42:55.860 --> 00:42:57.920
i get it but if you're listening can you come

00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.800
out with a stein please yeah i see this stanley

00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.920
um intriguing yeah but uh you know i mean even

00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:11.320
down to like the 12 ounce uh can cooler like

00:43:11.320 --> 00:43:14.679
the colster i think it's they call it instead

00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:19.679
of a koozie um my dad had a stein when i was

00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.380
a kid because he was stationed in germany nice

00:43:23.380 --> 00:43:25.960
yeah when he was in the army yeah i don't know

00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:28.500
what happened to it but it was it was awesome

00:43:28.500 --> 00:43:30.179
because it was actually from from germany he

00:43:30.179 --> 00:43:32.480
brought it back that's amazing and it had the

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:35.659
the the cap on the top yeah just seems like the

00:43:35.659 --> 00:43:39.099
right thing to do so that you know The fly doesn't

00:43:39.099 --> 00:43:43.480
make it into your beer. Exactly. It keeps other

00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:45.500
people out of your beer too. That's right. You

00:43:45.500 --> 00:43:49.840
stay away from. I need the lid on it to have

00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:52.619
like a fingerprint situation where it's like

00:43:52.619 --> 00:43:55.639
only my finger opens this. Yes. Everybody else

00:43:55.639 --> 00:44:00.199
gets spikes into their hand. Oh. But like, you

00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:03.699
know, Yeti, again, just talking about like coolers

00:44:03.699 --> 00:44:08.829
because that's a gear. It is. Yeah. Been a Yeti

00:44:08.829 --> 00:44:12.269
guy for a long time. I've got a 65, which honestly

00:44:12.269 --> 00:44:15.469
is a little bit big most of the time when you're

00:44:15.469 --> 00:44:18.610
just trying to haul around beer. But instead

00:44:18.610 --> 00:44:22.550
of going smaller, the other 65 I have because

00:44:22.550 --> 00:44:26.769
it fits in between on like a regular 16 -foot

00:44:26.769 --> 00:44:32.590
canoe. It fits in the canoe. But they also make

00:44:32.590 --> 00:44:37.980
a 105. They make a 110. Which I think a lot of

00:44:37.980 --> 00:44:41.019
people get. But the 105 is the same width of

00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:44.699
the 65. It's just taller. Okay. And so I think

00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:51.420
probably even though it's $500. Ouch. Yeah. And

00:44:51.420 --> 00:44:55.760
the 110 is $440. I just want to throw something

00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:00.880
sometimes. Anyway, that's probably going to be

00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:02.760
the next one that I get instead of getting one

00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:06.000
that's actually better for pulling around. beer,

00:45:06.019 --> 00:45:09.699
like the 35 or the, you know, even one of the

00:45:09.699 --> 00:45:15.460
50s that has the wheels on it. Just saying. That's

00:45:15.460 --> 00:45:17.039
expensive, man. If you've ever looked at this

00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:21.099
stuff, it is not cheap. No, it is not. It makes

00:45:21.099 --> 00:45:24.159
you start wondering what Arctic is coming out

00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:28.380
with. Yes. But then the other thing was the last

00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:30.500
thing I want to kind of point you, or two websites

00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:36.789
I want to point you at. There's one called Keg

00:45:36.789 --> 00:45:47.250
Works, which has just a ton of peripheral stuff.

00:45:47.449 --> 00:45:52.769
This is for people who have bars or are building

00:45:52.769 --> 00:45:55.489
a bar or something like that. But they actually

00:45:55.489 --> 00:46:01.670
have the different types of glasses that we talked

00:46:01.670 --> 00:46:05.730
about. And then there was a, have you ever heard

00:46:05.730 --> 00:46:10.369
of aged and or I would say no. So aged and or,

00:46:10.510 --> 00:46:18.710
um, aged and or .com. Um, they make like gear

00:46:18.710 --> 00:46:28.449
to carry around your spirits and your, uh, what

00:46:28.449 --> 00:46:33.860
do you call it? Cigars. And they have some stuff

00:46:33.860 --> 00:46:35.579
for, like, just sitting at home. They have, like,

00:46:35.619 --> 00:46:38.800
decanters and things like that. But they really,

00:46:38.900 --> 00:46:42.000
like, I was like, what is the thing that's like

00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.880
that? And honestly, I don't really have a good

00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:53.719
beer version of this yet. So if you know of one,

00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:56.239
please let us know. I just like that travel humidor.

00:46:56.519 --> 00:47:00.130
Yeah, right. Isn't that nice? I think I bought

00:47:00.130 --> 00:47:02.210
that for – no, I didn't. I bought a different

00:47:02.210 --> 00:47:04.429
one. I was going to get that one, but I bought

00:47:04.429 --> 00:47:05.949
a different one for a friend of mine. I have

00:47:05.949 --> 00:47:08.389
the Neat Travel, which is really cool because

00:47:08.389 --> 00:47:11.889
it's actually that glass broke, which sucks.

00:47:12.150 --> 00:47:18.329
But it's a glass that a little whiskey container

00:47:18.329 --> 00:47:20.949
fits in the glass, and then that fits in this

00:47:20.949 --> 00:47:23.869
holder. But you've got to be really careful when

00:47:23.869 --> 00:47:26.050
you get it home and your kids are doing the dishes.

00:47:26.630 --> 00:47:29.199
Oh, yeah. Because they'll just break that crap

00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:33.400
immediately. I can see that. Anyway, the flight

00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:38.599
bottles, they've got little bottles that fit

00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:43.139
in a little container that zips up, and that's

00:47:43.139 --> 00:47:48.019
really cool. They've got a travel decanter. Anyway,

00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.940
all these things and their little glasses, their

00:47:51.940 --> 00:47:57.320
neat glasses. I don't know which version of the

00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:02.760
glass we would call that, but it's like a whiskey

00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:10.619
version of that tulip kind of without the stem.

00:48:11.940 --> 00:48:17.599
I did find a – there's a site called elevatedcraft

00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:22.460
.com. Okay. And they have a pint glass that I

00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:26.860
really – I'm intrigued by that has a, it's like

00:48:26.860 --> 00:48:30.099
the glass pint glass. You can keep like a whole

00:48:30.099 --> 00:48:33.360
bunch of those in your freezer, which is what

00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:35.980
I like to do with beer glasses, put them in the

00:48:35.980 --> 00:48:42.139
freezer. And then they've got like these, it's

00:48:42.139 --> 00:48:45.260
almost like a koozie, but it's a metal outer

00:48:45.260 --> 00:48:51.590
that you slide the glasses into. And that's what

00:48:51.590 --> 00:48:53.829
you're holding on to so that your hand isn't

00:48:53.829 --> 00:48:58.449
freezing. But the bottom of those outer shells,

00:48:58.710 --> 00:49:04.010
what do they call it? The vacuum insulated steel

00:49:04.010 --> 00:49:08.010
base. There you go. Sounds fancy. The bottom

00:49:08.010 --> 00:49:12.110
of it has a bottle opener on it. Just saying.

00:49:12.909 --> 00:49:15.250
Sounds fancy. If there's a beer thing, it should

00:49:15.250 --> 00:49:19.460
probably have a bottle opener on it. Yes. I know

00:49:19.460 --> 00:49:22.079
there's a science behind the reason why they

00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:24.980
say this is the glass that you should drink our

00:49:24.980 --> 00:49:28.260
beer in. But I've never really tried to dig into

00:49:28.260 --> 00:49:31.320
that because like Chimay, we love Chimay. Yeah.

00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:33.260
We've just had it out of the mugs that we have,

00:49:33.420 --> 00:49:36.880
but they actually have their own glass. And then

00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:38.579
when you start looking at a lot of the other

00:49:38.579 --> 00:49:43.360
Belgian beers that are out there, typically.

00:49:44.250 --> 00:49:47.250
It seems like every one of them that is a Trappist

00:49:47.250 --> 00:49:50.809
tends to have their own preferred glass that

00:49:50.809 --> 00:49:54.110
you would use. A lot of these look like goblets.

00:49:55.710 --> 00:49:59.849
Yeah, the Chimay is for sure. Like the new Belgian

00:49:59.849 --> 00:50:05.250
14 -ounce is a snifter. A snifter. Which looks,

00:50:05.409 --> 00:50:09.269
I mean, it's got that stem to it. There's a bad

00:50:09.269 --> 00:50:11.389
joke and I'm not going to say it. I'm just going

00:50:11.389 --> 00:50:15.710
to stay over here. Let it go. Let it go. Yeah,

00:50:15.769 --> 00:50:19.010
those Chimay's are definitely, they look hefty.

00:50:19.110 --> 00:50:22.190
I almost got that Chimay beer tasting pack that

00:50:22.190 --> 00:50:27.250
has the glass in it. Did not pull the trigger.

00:50:27.489 --> 00:50:30.369
That's why I have mine. There you go. They've

00:50:30.369 --> 00:50:34.230
got a Chimay Belgian beer, Stein. It's got the

00:50:34.230 --> 00:50:42.250
red with the sword on it. Anyway. This is a.

00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:45.940
This is a type of gear we've not talked about.

00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.519
This is a type of gear we haven't talked about.

00:50:47.579 --> 00:50:49.860
And there's even a site called the beer gear

00:50:49.860 --> 00:50:53.579
store. Oh, it's not the beer and gear store.

00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:58.659
It's just the beer gear store. Um, where you

00:50:58.659 --> 00:51:05.760
can find all kinds of fun little things. We all

00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.079
know what you've been doing in your spare time.

00:51:08.259 --> 00:51:10.599
Well, I mean, you know, you look for it every

00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:12.639
once in a while, and then you're like, oh, yeah,

00:51:12.659 --> 00:51:15.619
I found that, didn't I? Because I was looking

00:51:15.619 --> 00:51:20.800
at tap handles. Yeah. Not that I need tap handles

00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:23.659
for anything, but I think they're cool. It would

00:51:23.659 --> 00:51:28.099
be a fun thing to, like, collect, I guess. You

00:51:28.099 --> 00:51:30.239
find a tap handle for every beer that you really

00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:36.199
liked. Yeah. Oh, we didn't even talk about, like.

00:51:39.409 --> 00:51:43.130
What's your favorite? Like you've got your. Well,

00:51:43.190 --> 00:51:44.469
I have the one on my key chain. You have the

00:51:44.469 --> 00:51:46.070
one on your key chain. And then I've got the

00:51:46.070 --> 00:51:50.130
one that I typically keep in the backpack. Yeah.

00:51:50.769 --> 00:51:53.449
I don't remember the name of the brand, but it's

00:51:53.449 --> 00:51:55.050
the one that you see everywhere. It's kind of

00:51:55.050 --> 00:51:59.389
horseshoe shaped and it's got the opener on the

00:51:59.389 --> 00:52:01.269
one end of the horse track and the other end

00:52:01.269 --> 00:52:03.809
just got the circles. You can just kind of hang

00:52:03.809 --> 00:52:11.789
it up. Yeah. Oh. I'd be in trouble for this one.

00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:14.650
Oh, that's a horrible version too. Oh my gosh.

00:52:14.949 --> 00:52:18.510
I kind of butchered that. I was looking up beer

00:52:18.510 --> 00:52:22.590
tap handles. And if anybody has ever seen the

00:52:22.590 --> 00:52:27.710
movie Dogma. Yeah. They have the buddy Jesus.

00:52:28.050 --> 00:52:31.690
Yeah. Well, it's a buddy Jesus tap. But then

00:52:31.690 --> 00:52:33.590
when you actually click on the image to look

00:52:33.590 --> 00:52:40.429
at it, they kind of butchered it. Oh, that's

00:52:40.429 --> 00:52:43.389
terrible. Yes, it is. I guess it's really small.

00:52:43.550 --> 00:52:46.110
Hopefully it's really small. That looks pretty

00:52:46.110 --> 00:52:50.670
butchered to me. I was not expecting to see that

00:52:50.670 --> 00:52:55.250
in the beer tab search results. Well, there you

00:52:55.250 --> 00:53:01.389
go. Anybody got a favorite koozie out there?

00:53:01.489 --> 00:53:06.849
Just saying. Oh, we can do. Oh, is that? I bought

00:53:06.849 --> 00:53:10.590
an inappropriate one one time. For like a road

00:53:10.590 --> 00:53:13.630
trip with my wife. Okay. And she threw it away

00:53:13.630 --> 00:53:16.889
when we got home. Oh. I was like, good for you.

00:53:16.949 --> 00:53:20.630
You got in trouble. I did not. I mean, I did,

00:53:20.710 --> 00:53:25.489
but not like. I knew what I was doing. It was

00:53:25.489 --> 00:53:31.429
not unintentional. Pushing the buttons. That's

00:53:31.429 --> 00:53:34.050
what we do. She said, I am so disappointed in

00:53:34.050 --> 00:53:36.489
you. I am so disappointed. I don't even know

00:53:36.489 --> 00:53:38.920
how to tell you. That's some of the worst when

00:53:38.920 --> 00:53:42.139
you get that from your parents. I am so disappointed

00:53:42.139 --> 00:53:44.059
in you right now. Oh, I don't want to think about

00:53:44.059 --> 00:53:46.260
that right now. Oh, those are brutal. Mm -hmm.

00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:52.119
Golly. Why'd you have to bring that up? Give

00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:58.780
me another beer. Another beer. Here we go. The

00:53:58.780 --> 00:54:04.179
Porter. The Black Butte. Oops. Boom. Chris, that

00:54:04.179 --> 00:54:10.690
says butt. Butte, B -U -T -T -E. This is a family

00:54:10.690 --> 00:54:12.969
-friendly show. What are you doing? I'm just

00:54:12.969 --> 00:54:19.230
saying. He touched the button. What you could

00:54:19.230 --> 00:54:25.289
say is kick save and a butte. And a butte. Jason

00:54:25.289 --> 00:54:27.429
will appreciate that joke. Jason, you don't get

00:54:27.429 --> 00:54:29.210
to answer. Any of you kitties out there know

00:54:29.210 --> 00:54:31.909
what that's from. I think we've said it, though,

00:54:31.949 --> 00:54:39.190
before. Never mind. We potentially have. Yeah.

00:54:39.190 --> 00:54:41.750
So there's a couple of things that we should

00:54:41.750 --> 00:54:44.429
talk about real quick before we get towards the

00:54:44.429 --> 00:54:48.130
end. First of all, we passed our two -year anniversary

00:54:48.130 --> 00:54:50.929
and then just didn't even talk about it. Didn't

00:54:50.929 --> 00:54:53.989
even talk about it. We just kept going. Three

00:54:53.989 --> 00:54:57.949
or four shows back now. Yeah. I thought it was

00:54:57.949 --> 00:55:01.590
just two. It's every other week that really.

00:55:02.159 --> 00:55:05.019
Happy anniversary. Happy anniversary. Crazy to

00:55:05.019 --> 00:55:06.659
think we've been at it for two years plus. Can't

00:55:06.659 --> 00:55:11.719
believe you forgot our anniversary. Yes. And

00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:17.579
then two. I am disappointed. Is we got to indoctrinate

00:55:17.579 --> 00:55:22.119
my son on his 21st birthday. We did. And that

00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:24.059
was huge to me because you were there, Jason

00:55:24.059 --> 00:55:26.440
was there, my dad was there. Yeah. And so he

00:55:26.440 --> 00:55:29.719
got to be surrounded by some guys and just have

00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:32.360
a good time and try some different beers. I mean,

00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:36.340
I got a bone to pick here, Jason. Uh -oh. No

00:55:36.340 --> 00:55:40.460
beer? He was in the middle of his carnivore.

00:55:40.619 --> 00:55:44.320
You don't have to stand up for him. We're on

00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:47.019
the show right now, Chris. I heard his excuses

00:55:47.019 --> 00:55:49.780
in the moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, no

00:55:49.780 --> 00:55:52.440
beer? Really? And he wasn't in the middle. He

00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:56.619
was almost at the end. Yeah. So are you done

00:55:56.619 --> 00:56:01.099
yet? Thursday. Okay, so Thursday, after Thursday,

00:56:01.260 --> 00:56:06.920
we need to go take a trip. It sounded like maybe

00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:12.840
he wasn't going to come back. Jason. But it was

00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.940
cool for me. Nobody likes a quitter. To share

00:56:15.940 --> 00:56:18.340
that milestone with you guys. Absolutely. It

00:56:18.340 --> 00:56:20.860
was so cool of you to invite us into that. Yeah,

00:56:20.860 --> 00:56:22.659
and it was awesome that it just happened to fold.

00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:24.559
That was the right night for his birthday on

00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:29.619
Saturday, which was nice. And I love the fact

00:56:29.619 --> 00:56:32.900
that he agreed that he would never drink another

00:56:32.900 --> 00:56:35.860
IPA in the rest of his life. Yeah. So that was

00:56:35.860 --> 00:56:39.800
quite fun. The pact has been formed and sealed.

00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:43.780
He gets it now. And he got to hear John share

00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:46.679
the story of why you don't drink IPAs. Yeah,

00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:50.219
no, that's disgusting. Guys, this is not meant

00:56:50.219 --> 00:56:54.079
for consumption. And I am glad that my dad didn't

00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:56.920
try to. get you off into the girl conversation.

00:56:57.079 --> 00:56:59.659
That was kind of nice. We were over there ordering

00:56:59.659 --> 00:57:02.219
the pizzas and Garrett and I, and I'm just kind

00:57:02.219 --> 00:57:05.420
of looking back and I'm like, I should have warned

00:57:05.420 --> 00:57:09.679
him before I walked away. That's funny. I mean,

00:57:09.699 --> 00:57:11.780
honestly though, it was a little bit loud in

00:57:11.780 --> 00:57:13.300
that room. So he could have said something and

00:57:13.300 --> 00:57:16.849
I didn't hear it. Yeah, that's fair. But one

00:57:16.849 --> 00:57:18.530
other thing. He's like, why did he respond that

00:57:18.530 --> 00:57:20.309
way? It's because he couldn't hear what you were

00:57:20.309 --> 00:57:24.750
saying. Garrett and I went to BJ's on Saturday

00:57:24.750 --> 00:57:30.590
night. Okay. To try another round to see what

00:57:30.590 --> 00:57:32.489
he might like because they do a flight of beers

00:57:32.489 --> 00:57:37.409
as well. Okay. So he liked the Jeremiah Red.

00:57:37.489 --> 00:57:40.769
I think that was his favorite of it. That's one

00:57:40.769 --> 00:57:43.110
of my favorites. He liked the Tatanka Stout.

00:57:43.909 --> 00:57:46.900
Yes. And I know he liked it because he completely

00:57:46.900 --> 00:57:50.260
drank the entire flight. Like he did Jeremiah

00:57:50.260 --> 00:57:54.360
Red. We did not like the Oasis. Okay, that's

00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:58.599
one of my like. It was okay. Yeah, I've gone

00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:00.699
back to that one a few times. He took a couple

00:58:00.699 --> 00:58:02.360
of drinks and he just left that one sitting.

00:58:02.940 --> 00:58:05.380
And then separately, what do they call it? They

00:58:05.380 --> 00:58:09.199
got rid of the pea importer. Was it too bitter?

00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:13.000
Like why didn't he like the Oasis? He felt it

00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:17.150
was hoppy. Okay. That's interesting. What is

00:58:17.150 --> 00:58:20.369
the name of the new one? The new porter? That

00:58:20.369 --> 00:58:25.010
replaced the PM porter. Which one was the 10?

00:58:25.090 --> 00:58:28.610
Was that the Tatanka? Tatanka. Yeah, the new

00:58:28.610 --> 00:58:31.289
porter is called Sweet Sin Chocolate Porter,

00:58:31.449 --> 00:58:34.670
and you do taste Ghirardelli chocolate, which

00:58:34.670 --> 00:58:37.150
is exactly what they say on the menu. Like a

00:58:37.150 --> 00:58:41.130
dark Ghirardelli chocolate? I didn't taste dark.

00:58:41.489 --> 00:58:43.789
Just chocolate? Just kind of a sweet chocolate.

00:58:44.219 --> 00:58:47.179
Wow. Okay. So I liked it. He didn't so much like

00:58:47.179 --> 00:58:51.940
it. Interesting. So, um, so, but yeah, again,

00:58:52.059 --> 00:58:55.000
it was great to be able to share his 21st birthday

00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:57.780
with y 'all kind of a milestone thing. Yeah.

00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.820
Um, unfortunately all his friends are underage,

00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:04.340
so they couldn't partake. Yeah. So maybe a year

00:59:04.340 --> 00:59:08.019
from now, as his buddies start to hit 21, he

00:59:08.019 --> 00:59:11.039
can be a part of what they're doing and share

00:59:11.039 --> 00:59:15.269
them. Pact of not drinking IPAs. Don't raise

00:59:15.269 --> 00:59:17.869
another generation of IPA drinkers. No. That's

00:59:17.869 --> 00:59:20.469
all I'm saying. Okay, so I'm realizing we opened

00:59:20.469 --> 00:59:22.130
this and we didn't talk about it. I haven't even

00:59:22.130 --> 00:59:26.889
taken a drink yet. Oh, I did. Ooh. So. I'm just

00:59:26.889 --> 00:59:29.570
going to say that I like the Real Heavy more

00:59:29.570 --> 00:59:33.989
than the Black Butte. Fair. So they say this

00:59:33.989 --> 00:59:36.389
is me going back to the beginning of the show,

00:59:36.469 --> 00:59:38.150
folks. So, yeah, it's going to sound like you've

00:59:38.150 --> 00:59:39.710
already heard this. I'm like, wait a minute.

00:59:39.789 --> 00:59:41.949
This is the beer that started it all. With rich

00:59:41.949 --> 00:59:44.570
notes of chocolate and coffee, a luscious creaminess,

00:59:44.690 --> 00:59:47.889
and a roasted finish, Black Butte Porter doesn't

00:59:47.889 --> 00:59:51.170
only have fans, it has followers. Weird. Tastings,

00:59:51.170 --> 00:59:54.389
pairings, gatherings, there's nothing like, there's

00:59:54.389 --> 00:59:58.949
nothing this classic can't do. And they say flavor

00:59:58.949 --> 01:00:03.630
is chocolate, coffee, and creamy. The malt is

01:00:03.630 --> 01:00:08.489
a dark chocolate malt, wheat crystal 75 malt,

01:00:08.809 --> 01:00:13.480
premium two -row malt, And carapils malt. The

01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:18.679
hops are cascade and tetanang. That almost sounds

01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:20.300
Asian to me. Yeah, I don't know anything about

01:00:20.300 --> 01:00:22.059
it. I don't know that. But it's available year

01:00:22.059 --> 01:00:26.000
-round. So here we go. You would think if they're

01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.860
calling it their starter, the classic, that it

01:00:28.860 --> 01:00:33.179
would be available year -round. Go ahead and

01:00:33.179 --> 01:00:39.000
drink. I mean, it's fine. There's nothing. I'm

01:00:39.000 --> 01:00:43.559
not like. against it, but it doesn't taste as

01:00:43.559 --> 01:00:48.139
good to me. And I don't think it pairs as well

01:00:48.139 --> 01:00:52.420
with the crab. No. Which is a big deal right

01:00:52.420 --> 01:00:54.559
now because the crab is so good. Yeah, it is.

01:00:58.900 --> 01:01:01.000
And you would think something from Bend, Oregon

01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:03.280
would taste better with crab. You would think

01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:05.039
so, yeah, being on the coast. Come on, Oregon.

01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:14.599
It almost tastes flat. Interesting. That's how

01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:19.760
I would describe it. There's no bite. There's

01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:25.559
no carbonation of any kind of feel. It's like

01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:32.179
the flatness feel of a flat soda. There's nothing

01:01:32.179 --> 01:01:35.440
there. I had that on one of the ones that we

01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:39.599
had. last show or the show before that i can't

01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:42.280
remember which one this one i don't know i guess

01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.679
i'm probably because i just had some of that

01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:50.900
crab dip i'm getting some of the it's hard to

01:01:50.900 --> 01:01:54.000
tell like the the spiciness of the crab dip and

01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:56.179
it's not that the crab dip is spicy don't get

01:01:56.179 --> 01:02:00.360
me wrong no like that that cajun element of it

01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:03.980
um i think is making it taste a little bit like

01:02:03.980 --> 01:02:07.820
it's got some some more bite to it than it does

01:02:07.820 --> 01:02:11.780
it to me it's the it's the end of it the very

01:02:11.780 --> 01:02:16.139
end of the the of this porter is like hold on

01:02:16.139 --> 01:02:30.079
let me try it again yeah i just expect a porter

01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:33.340
to be i guess smoother than that and that that's

01:02:33.340 --> 01:02:36.559
hard to I'm rationalizing my brain with you saying

01:02:36.559 --> 01:02:39.539
that it tastes flat because flat sometimes is

01:02:39.539 --> 01:02:45.239
kind of a smooth, but it's not like I'm not really

01:02:45.239 --> 01:02:51.539
getting a flat. I'm getting a weird finish. What

01:02:51.539 --> 01:02:53.639
doesn't come through is the chocolate. Yeah,

01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:55.280
no, not at all. And typically with the porter,

01:02:55.460 --> 01:02:59.530
I expect chocolate. I mean, maybe I'm just getting

01:02:59.530 --> 01:03:01.730
a lot of coffee, but it doesn't taste like coffee

01:03:01.730 --> 01:03:04.650
to me. It's definitely coffee. But that's not

01:03:04.650 --> 01:03:08.789
the end. No, no, no. And I don't get the creamy

01:03:08.789 --> 01:03:15.849
either. No. No. And, you know, maybe we got a

01:03:15.849 --> 01:03:20.329
bad set of bottles here. Maybe. But I don't know

01:03:20.329 --> 01:03:22.469
that this is going to be. I definitely recommend

01:03:22.469 --> 01:03:25.869
real heavy. I don't know that I'm going to be

01:03:25.869 --> 01:03:34.050
a. Black Buck fan. That was just for you. Thank

01:03:34.050 --> 01:03:36.710
you. Appreciate it. Everybody else is like, what

01:03:36.710 --> 01:03:39.489
a jerk. It's always good for a laugh, folks.

01:03:40.090 --> 01:03:44.090
You hear every other week, two weeks. Yeah. There

01:03:44.090 --> 01:03:47.909
you go. Every other week. Wow. Those are expensive.

01:03:49.090 --> 01:03:52.730
What? Clicked on a site that specializes in beer

01:03:52.730 --> 01:03:57.110
taps. Okay. Like custom beer taps? No, no, no,

01:03:57.110 --> 01:03:58.849
no, no. It looks like you would buy them to put

01:03:58.849 --> 01:04:01.210
them in your own bar. Okay. Because it's got

01:04:01.210 --> 01:04:03.349
Bush Light and it's got Stella Etoile. This is

01:04:03.349 --> 01:04:07.710
just a normal. Yeah, Budweiser. But even like

01:04:07.710 --> 01:04:12.369
the Natty Light, $75. No, absolutely. It looks

01:04:12.369 --> 01:04:15.269
like it's tall. No, you can't put Natty Light

01:04:15.269 --> 01:04:19.570
on something and then it costs $75. That is a

01:04:19.570 --> 01:04:25.000
pallet of beer. Yeah, pretty much. The only thing

01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:28.079
that's allowed to cost $75 from Natty Light is

01:04:28.079 --> 01:04:32.019
a pallet of beer. A keg. No, a bunch of kegs.

01:04:32.380 --> 01:04:36.260
You're not allowed to, no. Natty Light, are you

01:04:36.260 --> 01:04:40.139
kidding me? No, people don't pay money for that.

01:04:40.280 --> 01:04:42.699
I bet a keg would still be, well, I don't even

01:04:42.699 --> 01:04:44.820
know what a keg goes for anymore. Well, no, but

01:04:44.820 --> 01:04:48.980
I'm saying it shouldn't. Hmm. This is me with,

01:04:49.099 --> 01:04:52.840
I'm the old man who's saying gas is too expensive.

01:04:52.940 --> 01:04:55.000
Yes. I mean, it definitely is, but you know what

01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:57.980
I'm saying. Poor Mr. Sasquatch. There's a Sasquatch

01:04:57.980 --> 01:05:03.059
tap, and unfortunately, the screw's going right

01:05:03.059 --> 01:05:06.159
up the back end. That is not nice. Sorry, Mr.

01:05:06.460 --> 01:05:11.920
Sasquatch. A Natty Light keg is $90. Oh, my gosh.

01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:17.440
That, I just, I'm not. Only way to justify that

01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.400
is you've got to get it so stinking cold. Because

01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.679
it changes the, in my opinion, it changes the

01:05:22.679 --> 01:05:26.639
flavor profile. And Natty Light starts to taste

01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:29.280
pretty darn good. I don't think it tastes good

01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.059
no matter how cold it is. I would argue that

01:05:33.059 --> 01:05:35.360
the colder it gets, the better it gets. Well,

01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:37.920
absolutely that's the case. I just don't think

01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:41.219
it ever gets cold enough to... Okay, wait, you

01:05:41.219 --> 01:05:46.920
can get a half barrel. For $76 .99. Oh. Just

01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:51.800
get the whole thing and be done. Jeez. It's like

01:05:51.800 --> 01:06:02.500
2 % beer. Anyway. Yikes. Man. Well, there you

01:06:02.500 --> 01:06:11.300
go. I don't like you. No, it's not one of my

01:06:11.300 --> 01:06:18.630
favorites. So that kind of gives us two from

01:06:18.630 --> 01:06:22.769
them, I guess, now that we've not been pleased

01:06:22.769 --> 01:06:25.889
with. Pleased with. Deschutes. What was the other

01:06:25.889 --> 01:06:29.369
one from them? The Black Obsidian or Obsidian

01:06:29.369 --> 01:06:34.670
Black. Let's see. Hold on. Because that sounds

01:06:34.670 --> 01:06:45.769
like one that I liked. Deschutes Brewery. Obsidian

01:06:45.769 --> 01:06:49.329
Stout. Obsidian Stout. Yeah, no, I remember not

01:06:49.329 --> 01:06:51.429
liking that one. Yeah, I don't think that we

01:06:51.429 --> 01:06:55.690
enjoyed that one at all. Really don't. So they're

01:06:55.690 --> 01:07:01.889
striking out. Sorry, Oregon. You're just... I

01:07:01.889 --> 01:07:03.969
guess your beer's a little too woke for me. Not

01:07:03.969 --> 01:07:09.050
our favorite thing. Nope. Bring back the Texas

01:07:09.050 --> 01:07:16.250
beer. Hold on. I got to drink this really fast

01:07:16.250 --> 01:07:25.289
so that we can get on to the last one. Oh, yeah.

01:07:26.570 --> 01:07:34.949
You said, oh, yeah. I just can't say it. Please

01:07:34.949 --> 01:07:40.130
cut this part out of the podcast. You're forcing

01:07:40.130 --> 01:07:42.070
it down like I did the river. Yeah, this is not

01:07:42.070 --> 01:07:56.159
good. No. Okay, I did it. It's making me wish

01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:58.179
that I had kept some of the real heavy to fix

01:07:58.179 --> 01:08:02.980
that. It's like the more you chugged it, the

01:08:02.980 --> 01:08:07.500
worse. Yeah, and let me just say, it is not the

01:08:07.500 --> 01:08:11.280
worst beer that we have had. No, no. It is hard

01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:14.139
to go from one that I liked as much as the real

01:08:14.139 --> 01:08:17.869
heavy to that. Because that doesn't feel right.

01:08:18.050 --> 01:08:21.649
That feels like I have made an enormous mistake.

01:08:23.710 --> 01:08:26.869
And that's a second beer. What have I done? Has

01:08:26.869 --> 01:08:29.789
that been the first beer? I really don't think

01:08:29.789 --> 01:08:34.489
it would have gone well. All right. So we're

01:08:34.489 --> 01:08:38.170
going Alaskan? Alaskan and... So this is a red.

01:08:38.510 --> 01:08:44.770
This is a red, yes. Do you have a... What do

01:08:44.770 --> 01:08:52.760
you call it? security breach talk for us or not?

01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:59.640
I was supposed to, however, however, I do not.

01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:02.220
Cause we were going to do a Linux breach, right?

01:09:02.300 --> 01:09:05.460
We were going to do a Linux breach. So let's

01:09:05.460 --> 01:09:08.699
see what I can pull off, off the top, off the

01:09:08.699 --> 01:09:12.399
top of your head. Well, let me just say like,

01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:15.319
go check out elevated craft. It seems like they

01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:19.930
got a lot of stuff. Aged in or if you're into

01:09:19.930 --> 01:09:27.090
the more scotch, bourbon, whiskey side of things,

01:09:27.210 --> 01:09:29.350
maybe you want to be able to take that stuff

01:09:29.350 --> 01:09:31.569
with you. Hey, if you like the show, then how

01:09:31.569 --> 01:09:33.729
about donating? Will they save you money on therapy,

01:09:33.850 --> 01:09:35.729
do you think? Travel humidor, whatever you call

01:09:35.729 --> 01:09:39.949
it. And then tell us what your favorite Stein

01:09:39.949 --> 01:09:44.800
is because I would love to know. If anybody has

01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:47.479
some steins that they're like, oh, this one,

01:09:47.539 --> 01:09:50.960
you should get this one. Because I'll go get

01:09:50.960 --> 01:10:01.960
it. I'm a fan. We already have massive mugs.

01:10:02.260 --> 01:10:11.119
Yeah, we do. From World Market. They work quite

01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:15.619
well. They hold a lot of beer. Yes, they do.

01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.840
I don't know that I've ever filled it. I did

01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:24.579
when we had leftover Archangel. Yeah, out of

01:10:24.579 --> 01:10:28.020
the... Took it home, filled it up, and proceeded

01:10:28.020 --> 01:10:31.859
to drink it. Because you could have just drank

01:10:31.859 --> 01:10:35.399
it out of the growler. I could have. Yeah. But

01:10:35.399 --> 01:10:37.369
it's not as fun as drinking from the mug. Yeah,

01:10:37.369 --> 01:10:40.430
I mean, I know, like, y 'all were firmly in the

01:10:40.430 --> 01:10:43.529
Archangel camp. I got to say I'm a Shepherd Boy

01:10:43.529 --> 01:10:48.050
fan. No, not for me. I mean, it's not bad. It's

01:10:48.050 --> 01:10:50.489
not bad. No, I get what you're saying. It's not

01:10:50.489 --> 01:10:52.890
bad. But, like, it definitely was the one that

01:10:52.890 --> 01:10:55.609
I liked better. And I don't know if it's because

01:10:55.609 --> 01:11:00.970
of the – I mean, I really do like Dragon Slayer

01:11:00.970 --> 01:11:05.390
more than – Yeah, that's a good one. What's the

01:11:05.390 --> 01:11:13.310
other one? Archangel is Giant Slayer and St.

01:11:14.069 --> 01:11:19.069
James Gate. And then yours that you're talking

01:11:19.069 --> 01:11:25.350
about is, oh, no, no, no. No, it's Giant Slayer

01:11:25.350 --> 01:11:27.909
and St. James Gate is the Shepherd Boy. Is Shepherd

01:11:27.909 --> 01:11:42.329
Boy, yeah. So it's Giant Slayer and, yeah. Oh,

01:11:42.329 --> 01:11:44.189
it's killing me. Whatever their other stout is.

01:11:44.609 --> 01:11:49.250
Yeah. Sanctimonium. Sanctimonium. Sanctimonium.

01:11:49.250 --> 01:11:52.430
It's because I don't really, like I'm not a huge

01:11:52.430 --> 01:11:55.750
Sanctimonium fan. Oh, I like the Sanctimonium.

01:11:55.810 --> 01:11:59.489
I think I like Giant Slayer better than Sanctimonium.

01:12:00.729 --> 01:12:04.250
That's close. That's close. That's tough. Go

01:12:04.250 --> 01:12:05.869
to Truevine and tell us what you think. Both

01:12:05.869 --> 01:12:08.810
of those are good. Did you find something from

01:12:08.810 --> 01:12:11.760
Linux? Not quite what we hoped for. Man, I was

01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:13.520
stalling like nobody's business. I know. You

01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:15.199
were doing a great job. I was trying so hard.

01:12:15.380 --> 01:12:17.300
You were doing a great job. Right. I'm going

01:12:17.300 --> 01:12:19.319
to try this Alaskan Amber and we're going to

01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:22.020
find out what we think here. All right. It's

01:12:22.020 --> 01:12:28.359
a 5 .3 alt style ale. That's weird. Yeah. Does

01:12:28.359 --> 01:12:32.300
that have a... So it says, the name of this beer

01:12:32.300 --> 01:12:36.079
style comes from the German word alt, meaning

01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:40.789
old. Oh. This refers to the aging... that alts

01:12:40.789 --> 01:12:43.810
undergo since they ferment more slowly and at

01:12:43.810 --> 01:12:47.470
a colder temperature than most ales. Slow fermentation

01:12:47.470 --> 01:12:50.770
helps condition the flavors in Alaskan Amber,

01:12:50.930 --> 01:12:54.850
contributing to its overall balance and smoothness.

01:12:55.090 --> 01:12:57.270
Okay, you need to smell this before you drink

01:12:57.270 --> 01:12:59.710
it because it is not what we've been drinking.

01:13:02.329 --> 01:13:08.159
There's some apple juice in this. I'm just saying,

01:13:08.260 --> 01:13:10.560
like, we're about to experience something very

01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:13.159
different than what we were just drinking. So

01:13:13.159 --> 01:13:17.920
just from the smell, I can't actually see the

01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.899
color of this beer. I'm going to say this is

01:13:21.899 --> 01:13:25.880
a lot lighter than, like, this is probably a

01:13:25.880 --> 01:13:29.739
light red. I don't think this is a normal amber.

01:13:30.800 --> 01:13:38.649
Well, let's find out what we got. Take a minute.

01:13:38.970 --> 01:13:41.149
You've preconditioned me to what to expect now.

01:13:42.710 --> 01:13:45.050
Well, you smell that, right? Am I making that

01:13:45.050 --> 01:13:48.449
up? It's a little sweet, yeah. All right, here

01:13:48.449 --> 01:13:59.770
we go. Okay, here we go. Okay, it's not apple.

01:14:00.310 --> 01:14:07.689
It's pear. That's pear juice. That's what that

01:14:07.689 --> 01:14:09.989
tastes like to me. That's pear juice. And I have

01:14:09.989 --> 01:14:19.189
had two. So a, a 9 .3 and a five, right? Is it

01:14:19.189 --> 01:14:26.729
five? Where's the 5 .5, 9 .3 and 5 .5. I'm telling

01:14:26.729 --> 01:14:32.930
you, this is a, this is a, this is, it's not

01:14:32.930 --> 01:14:35.949
an apple juice beer. It's like a pear juice beer.

01:14:38.470 --> 01:14:42.569
Okay, here's what they say. Pear. Rich, malty,

01:14:42.569 --> 01:14:45.430
and long on the palate. With just enough hop

01:14:45.430 --> 01:14:48.689
backing to make this beautiful amber -colored

01:14:48.689 --> 01:14:53.289
old -style beer noticeably well -balanced. Alaskan

01:14:53.289 --> 01:14:56.229
Amber is made with a generous blend of the finest

01:14:56.229 --> 01:14:59.430
quality European and Pacific Northwest hop varieties

01:14:59.430 --> 01:15:03.909
and premium two -row pale and specialty malts.

01:15:04.409 --> 01:15:07.729
Our water originates in the 1 ,500 -square -mile

01:15:08.639 --> 01:15:15.060
Juno, Juno, Icefield. Did you just Juno? I Juno'd

01:15:15.060 --> 01:15:18.159
the Juno, yeah. Whatever that means. There you

01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:21.739
go. And the more than 90 inches of rainfall we

01:15:21.739 --> 01:15:26.800
receive each year. It's an 18 on the IBU, which

01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:29.279
I would agree with. Oh, yeah, no, it's not bitter

01:15:29.279 --> 01:15:34.579
at all. So, and then what is the history? Ooh,

01:15:34.579 --> 01:15:37.970
the story behind the label. The story behind

01:15:37.970 --> 01:15:40.470
Alaskan? That's what it says, the story behind

01:15:40.470 --> 01:15:43.510
the label. There are no roads connecting the

01:15:43.510 --> 01:15:46.609
remote coastal community of Juneau, Alaska, to

01:15:46.609 --> 01:15:50.529
the lower 48 or even the rest of the state. Everything

01:15:50.529 --> 01:15:54.409
must travel by air or sea. Ocean -going vessels

01:15:54.409 --> 01:15:58.289
from fishing trawlers to small skiffs are a common

01:15:58.289 --> 01:16:01.810
sight as they travel the icy waters of southeast

01:16:01.810 --> 01:16:05.430
Alaska. Each evening, fishermen from all walks

01:16:05.430 --> 01:16:08.369
of life return to a safe harbor and close the

01:16:08.369 --> 01:16:12.649
day with a cold Alaskan amber. I'm going to call

01:16:12.649 --> 01:16:14.789
bull on that last line. Yeah, I don't think so.

01:16:14.829 --> 01:16:16.109
I think they're probably going to go with something

01:16:16.109 --> 01:16:18.029
that's going to heat them up a little more. This

01:16:18.029 --> 01:16:26.229
is for sure a lawnmower. Or sorry, I shouldn't

01:16:26.229 --> 01:16:28.130
say lawnmower because that's an actual beer.

01:16:29.170 --> 01:16:33.199
This is a I just finished. Mowing beer. Mowing

01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:40.239
beer. I cannot get over the pear taste. It tastes

01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:46.760
like you know those canned pears? Yeah. It's

01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:51.479
like you drank the pear juice. I get it. There's

01:16:51.479 --> 01:16:55.020
some water in there. But other than that, what

01:16:55.020 --> 01:16:57.800
you taste is pear juice. And I would be willing

01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:01.710
to say it pears well. With the crab dip. Joke.

01:17:01.949 --> 01:17:05.609
Yep. Sorry. Pear juice pairs well? Pairs well

01:17:05.609 --> 01:17:11.710
with the crab dip just because it's so sweet

01:17:11.710 --> 01:17:18.170
compared to like the Cajun flavor. I really am

01:17:18.170 --> 01:17:20.369
trying not to say spicy because it's not spicy.

01:17:20.649 --> 01:17:22.649
I don't want anybody to think like don't get

01:17:22.649 --> 01:17:26.710
the crab dip because it's spicy. No. If you don't

01:17:26.710 --> 01:17:30.180
like spice, don't. Discount this crab dip. It

01:17:30.180 --> 01:17:34.119
is weird to me that it talks about like the Blair

01:17:34.119 --> 01:17:38.560
Bonnet or whatever had something about the, I

01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:44.840
don't know, I was almost thinking like saltwater

01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:48.619
taste to it because it's not like there's nothing

01:17:48.619 --> 01:17:56.760
about it that's even remotely savory. No, no.

01:17:59.560 --> 01:18:03.399
I don't think you'll find this beer in my refrigerator

01:18:03.399 --> 01:18:09.739
anytime soon. No. It's not bad. I am really wishing

01:18:09.739 --> 01:18:14.899
that I had like a clear mug to pour this into

01:18:14.899 --> 01:18:18.539
just so I could see the flavor of it, the color

01:18:18.539 --> 01:18:22.539
of it. Because as much as they're saying, not

01:18:22.539 --> 01:18:26.829
saying, it's called Amber. It's a red can. Yeah.

01:18:26.930 --> 01:18:33.949
I just don't think this is a red. It feels like

01:18:33.949 --> 01:18:42.710
it's on the very blonde side of red. Yeah. I've

01:18:42.710 --> 01:18:44.470
got a little just kind of there in the top of

01:18:44.470 --> 01:18:51.130
the can, and that's not very amber. No. And so,

01:18:51.210 --> 01:18:54.659
like, again, if somebody wants to. actually pour

01:18:54.659 --> 01:18:58.880
this into something and find out more power to

01:18:58.880 --> 01:19:06.920
you. I would not, the way it tastes is not super

01:19:06.920 --> 01:19:10.520
red. No, I don't think I, I don't think I like

01:19:10.520 --> 01:19:12.760
this one. It's not, again, it's not a bad beer.

01:19:12.939 --> 01:19:16.239
I like it better than the Butte. Oh, by far,

01:19:16.279 --> 01:19:19.640
by far. But having just recently had the Jeremiah

01:19:19.640 --> 01:19:22.439
red. Yeah, see, that's what I call a red. Yeah,

01:19:22.479 --> 01:19:27.279
that was good. That's a red. Yes, absolutely.

01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:30.800
I like reds that are on the, I don't know how

01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:34.600
to say this, on the brown side of red. It's not

01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:36.779
a brown ale. Brown ales to me taste too much

01:19:36.779 --> 01:19:42.520
like nuts. Yeah, that's fair. But that's fair.

01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:47.060
And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just.

01:19:47.550 --> 01:19:50.149
That's not my preference. I would say I'm firmly

01:19:50.149 --> 01:19:55.409
in the like dark or red and this one I don't

01:19:55.409 --> 01:19:57.550
really, I don't think I would count it as a red.

01:19:59.149 --> 01:20:02.050
Even though it's called amber. That's messing

01:20:02.050 --> 01:20:10.270
with me. True. But maybe that's a byproduct of

01:20:10.270 --> 01:20:12.970
drinking too. I don't know that I would like

01:20:12.970 --> 01:20:16.340
some of their other. Because they get in the

01:20:16.340 --> 01:20:19.220
IPAs and they get in the seltzers. Well, that's

01:20:19.220 --> 01:20:21.399
what I'm saying. Like, I've seen the Alaskan

01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:28.119
brand before, and I've never been like, yeah,

01:20:28.180 --> 01:20:31.600
I'm going to try that. Because even the, like,

01:20:31.739 --> 01:20:35.779
what's the, like, they've got a, yes, I'm 21.

01:20:36.979 --> 01:20:41.100
They've got a 12 -can mixed pack or whatever.

01:20:44.140 --> 01:20:48.039
What is this? There's a Husky IPA, a white, and

01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:52.000
a Kolsch. So these are not really our beers.

01:20:52.079 --> 01:20:55.140
And I would say probably the amber is more on

01:20:55.140 --> 01:20:59.840
the pale side than ambers that come from brewing

01:20:59.840 --> 01:21:04.260
companies that maybe have a darker beer. I will

01:21:04.260 --> 01:21:06.840
say, after the last show, I did try the Kolsch.

01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:10.000
I haven't had the Hefe yet. It's still sitting

01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:13.239
in the refrigerator. I mean, it's a wheat beer.

01:21:13.460 --> 01:21:16.439
The Kolsch was not bad. It's not my go -to beer,

01:21:16.640 --> 01:21:21.119
but it wasn't bad. Okay, what did it taste like?

01:21:24.340 --> 01:21:27.020
To me, it just tasted like what I would just

01:21:27.020 --> 01:21:30.899
call a textbook light beer. Okay. I mean, there

01:21:30.899 --> 01:21:34.399
was nothing spectacular about it. It was reasonably

01:21:34.399 --> 01:21:38.460
smooth. Needs to be really cold. Yeah, and whether

01:21:38.460 --> 01:21:41.720
it was cold or not, I don't know. as far as cold

01:21:41.720 --> 01:21:46.460
enough. But, I mean, it wasn't bad. Uh -huh.

01:21:47.319 --> 01:21:49.119
I don't know that I have a whole lot more to

01:21:49.119 --> 01:21:51.020
say about it other than it wasn't a bad beer.

01:21:51.119 --> 01:21:53.140
There's a lot of beers that fall into that category.

01:21:53.899 --> 01:21:56.199
They're not bad, but I just don't have a whole

01:21:56.199 --> 01:22:00.899
lot to say about them, and especially after you've

01:22:00.899 --> 01:22:03.619
already drank it and you don't have a lot of

01:22:03.619 --> 01:22:06.939
description for it. It's just kind of, man, it's

01:22:06.939 --> 01:22:09.840
okay. It's man. Yeah, that's why we do this while

01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:16.720
we're drinking it. Correct. Yeah, now I'm looking

01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:27.619
at the Alaskan Brewing site. They do have a porter.

01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:32.739
Okay. I thought I saw another one, but they've

01:22:32.739 --> 01:22:36.079
got one called a smoked porter. And a bottle.

01:22:36.100 --> 01:22:38.600
This is a specialty or a limited run porter.

01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:46.359
It's got a, I don't know, reindeer on the front

01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:52.659
of it. Known as a Roche beer. In German, smoke

01:22:52.659 --> 01:22:54.979
-flavored beers were virtually unknown in the

01:22:54.979 --> 01:22:57.340
U .S. until the Alaskan Smoked Porter was developed

01:22:57.340 --> 01:23:04.199
in 1988. The dark, robust body and pronounced

01:23:04.199 --> 01:23:07.520
smoky flavor of this limited edition beer make

01:23:07.520 --> 01:23:11.020
it an adventuresome taste experience. So this

01:23:11.020 --> 01:23:13.239
makes me wonder, like, is this like the, you

01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:18.399
know, the bourbon aged version or the scotch

01:23:18.399 --> 01:23:21.779
aged version of like a bourbon beer? Or is it

01:23:21.779 --> 01:23:24.239
like, what kind of smoke are we talking about

01:23:24.239 --> 01:23:28.250
here? Alaskan smoked porter is produced in limited

01:23:28.250 --> 01:23:31.050
vintages every year and released every fall.

01:23:31.189 --> 01:23:34.729
So it is every year and every fall. Unlike most

01:23:34.729 --> 01:23:37.170
beers, this smoked porter may be aged in the

01:23:37.170 --> 01:23:40.789
bottle for years, much like fine wine. So they

01:23:40.789 --> 01:23:44.689
just hold on to it for years. That seems like

01:23:44.689 --> 01:23:47.869
something that's like an IPA. Like you shouldn't

01:23:47.869 --> 01:23:51.390
drink this when it first arrives. Correct. Wait.

01:23:51.930 --> 01:23:54.770
Wait a while, please. You'll thank us later.

01:23:55.130 --> 01:23:59.090
Yeah. I don't know what to do with that. This

01:23:59.090 --> 01:24:03.390
feels like they don't. It's just not like darker

01:24:03.390 --> 01:24:10.670
beer is not their thing. I would agree. Please

01:24:10.670 --> 01:24:14.550
tell us if we're wrong, but this is the general.

01:24:17.609 --> 01:24:20.670
Yeah, I don't know that I'll be trying an Alaskan.

01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:26.720
Anytime soon. Don't get me wrong. I really want

01:24:26.720 --> 01:24:29.779
to go on an Alaskan cruise. Well, I don't, and

01:24:29.779 --> 01:24:32.439
I think I've told you about that before. Yeah,

01:24:32.500 --> 01:24:34.420
didn't we talk about that? It may have been even

01:24:34.420 --> 01:24:37.699
last show, but it's typically old people die

01:24:37.699 --> 01:24:39.640
on the Alaskan cruises. That's what you said.

01:24:39.720 --> 01:24:41.500
I was like, I've never heard that. I don't even

01:24:41.500 --> 01:24:42.500
know what you're talking about. When my wife

01:24:42.500 --> 01:24:44.819
is ready to go on the Alaskan cruise, I know

01:24:44.819 --> 01:24:47.479
she's ready to off me. Yeah. Because she watches

01:24:47.479 --> 01:24:50.659
all of the... True crime stuff. Oh, my gosh.

01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:53.060
To learn what to do and what not to do. Yeah,

01:24:53.060 --> 01:24:55.640
I told you about the, we talked about this because

01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:59.220
then I told you about the Jim Gaffigan bit. Yeah,

01:24:59.239 --> 01:25:00.819
yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was the last show.

01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:13.100
Yep. Yeah. No, we're not doing that. No. Oh,

01:25:13.220 --> 01:25:15.800
my gosh. This guy's just sloppy. It's like he

01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:20.479
wants to get caught. Yep. Some of them are, that's

01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:24.420
for sure. It's just they snapped. This is happening.

01:25:24.420 --> 01:25:26.140
And they did what they did in the moment, and

01:25:26.140 --> 01:25:29.000
then afterward it's like, oh, boy, how do I cover

01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:35.340
this up? All right, we have babbled here long

01:25:35.340 --> 01:25:38.079
enough. Did you find anything? Not enough for

01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:41.920
what I need to do. Okay. So I will take the L.

01:25:42.520 --> 01:25:45.699
That is a loss on my part, and I will bring Linux

01:25:45.699 --> 01:25:48.420
in two weeks. All right, I'm going to go ahead

01:25:48.420 --> 01:25:53.260
and end the show with this here find that I just

01:25:53.260 --> 01:25:57.800
made. I've never heard of Light in the Box as

01:25:57.800 --> 01:26:01.960
a site. Lightinthebox .com. Okay. Feels like

01:26:01.960 --> 01:26:03.760
I'm sending you all to something that you shouldn't

01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:08.500
go to, but there is a Thor Hammer beer mug for

01:26:08.500 --> 01:26:13.000
Oktoberfest. It looks like Mjolnir. That was

01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:16.140
Light in the What again? Lightinthebox .com.

01:26:16.340 --> 01:26:18.220
Light in the box. Is that kind of like light

01:26:18.220 --> 01:26:22.600
in the loafers? I hope not. But the thing sure

01:26:22.600 --> 01:26:27.180
does look like, you know. Oh, and on the other

01:26:27.180 --> 01:26:33.119
side it does have an opener. Oh. Yeah, that's

01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:34.640
definitely how you want to do that right there.

01:26:34.739 --> 01:26:38.760
That's legit. Okay. I would drink a beer out

01:26:38.760 --> 01:26:45.930
of the Thor hammer. That's intriguing. No, I

01:26:45.930 --> 01:26:48.689
don't want you to know where I am. Don't order

01:26:48.689 --> 01:26:53.369
something from this website. I don't feel like

01:26:53.369 --> 01:26:56.449
your credit card information is going to be safe.

01:26:56.569 --> 01:26:58.770
But, like, that's funny. You should look that

01:26:58.770 --> 01:27:08.649
up. Okay. Whosoever holds the hammer shall be

01:27:08.649 --> 01:27:13.560
worthy to drink the beer. Shall be worthy of

01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:16.659
the power of Thor, I guess is what it says. It's

01:27:16.659 --> 01:27:19.479
on its side and upside down. I'm like, I'm not.

01:27:20.680 --> 01:27:26.000
Somebody didn't think that through. No. Yeah,

01:27:26.119 --> 01:27:28.260
it's, well, it should be worthy of the power

01:27:28.260 --> 01:27:35.340
of Thor. Which is direct from the movies. But

01:27:35.340 --> 01:27:37.699
I do, to your point, I do like the. If he be

01:27:37.699 --> 01:27:41.140
worthy. The opener on the bottom. That's kind

01:27:41.140 --> 01:27:43.829
of in. Kind of nice. Yeah, for sure. And I see

01:27:43.829 --> 01:27:47.510
it in gold and in silver. You know, in case you

01:27:47.510 --> 01:27:51.390
want to get. I'd take the silver. Yeah. If I

01:27:51.390 --> 01:27:55.189
was picking. If I was picking. Anyway, that is

01:27:55.189 --> 01:28:01.470
for sure a tourist trap. They have a regular,

01:28:01.770 --> 01:28:03.489
it looks like a coffee mug, but it's got Santa.

01:28:04.029 --> 01:28:05.930
Beer mug. And it says, it's the most wonderful

01:28:05.930 --> 01:28:09.850
time for a beer. That's all the time, right?

01:28:10.250 --> 01:28:13.510
That's all the time, yes. All right. Thanks for

01:28:13.510 --> 01:28:17.149
joining us. Thank you, everybody. I'm going to

01:28:17.149 --> 01:28:18.890
sit here and eat some more crab dip. Sounds good.

01:28:18.970 --> 01:28:43.989
See you. See you. That was a humdinger of a show.

01:28:44.149 --> 01:28:45.949
How do they do it? Nobody knows.