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The Northwoods Beer Guy Podcast
Ep 107 - Unexpected Flavor: When Sours Surprise and Honey Harmonizes
A familiar voice returns to the Northwoods Beer Guy Podcast as Brian rejoins Mike after a long absence since appearances on episodes one and two. Their reunion brings a diverse lineup of six unique beers that take listeners on a journey from the shores of Hawaii to the heartland of Wisconsin.
The duo kicks off with Kona Brewing's Big Wave, a golden ale that serves as the perfect gateway beer for craft novices, before diving into more adventurous territory with 608 Brewing's scandalous "2 Hot for Chancellor" fruited sour. This beer not only delivers surprising flavor complexity but comes with local university controversy baked right into its provocative label art.
As they progress through their tasting adventure, Mike and Brian encounter everything from the subtle maltiness of New Glarus Tailwagger amber to the perfect harmony of 608's Udder Punk Maple Walnut Milk Stout. The conversation takes an aromatic turn with Burr Oak's coffee-forward Mochaccino Milkshake Porter before concluding with Lakefront Brewing's deceptively smooth 11.2% bourbon barrel-aged Honey Bock.
Between sips, the friends discuss their approach to coffee sourcing during travels, debate what makes an ideal introductory craft beer, and propose that National Beer Day should become a recognized holiday with paid time off. They also tease a potential new segment focused on documentaries they've watched, asking listeners to weigh in on the idea.
Whether you're a seasoned craft beer enthusiast or someone looking to expand your palate beyond mainstream offerings, this episode offers honest assessments of diverse beer styles and the surprising discoveries that come when brewers push creative boundaries. Pour yourself something interesting and join the conversation where warm campfires and cold beers always await.
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Grab a beer and pull up a chair. Welcome to the Northwoods Beer Guy Podcast. Hey, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to the Northwoods Beer Guy Podcast. This is Mike, the Northwoods Beer Guy, and today, if you've been with us since day one, you will recognize the voice on the guy that is sitting across from me. He was on episodes one and two and now on episode 107 yeah, nice to be back well I say welcome back, brian.
Speaker 1:I say we've been trying to get him on for a long time and your schedule has been crazy, yeah, you know. So we're hoping, uh, moving forward, now he's gonna be able to be on a little more often, right, yeah, so Jim and I were preparing for this week and he came under the weather, so to speak, and I found that out Saturday, sunday, was yeah, I can't go. I'm like I need somebody. So luckily your schedule was open and you were able to come back out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you bet it's good to be around the table again. You know I think I'm a little more seasoned on these. Yeah, you know I run into you enough to taste some stuff behind the scenes, but I'm looking good, looking forward to it no-transcript.
Speaker 1:Maybe look at doing, you know, maybe once a month, once every couple months, something like that. Yeah, a little special edition, yeah, you know, just to see, you know hopefully you know if the uh the listeners out there, if you'd be interested in something like just to see, you know hopefully you know if the listeners out there, if you'd be interested in something like that, let us know, because you know, I think it'd be kind of an interesting little change of pace.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, you get some of those popular Netflix series that everybody's into Hulu. Yeah, there's all. I started the one we were just talking about.
Speaker 1:There's all sorts of different channels out there. I've learned that have documentaries on anything you can think of so so we're going to kick that around a little bit. But uh, yeah, today we're, uh, we're. I'm just trying to figure out what we're going to do for beers and I got to looking and I'm like you know, I came up with six and they're kind. It's just kind of a mixed bag of beers. I really didn't have anything that really fit well with any of these you to do a whole class of that style.
Speaker 1:So we've got everything from well. Basically it's from 4.4% up to 11.2%, and I didn't realize that last one was 11.2% until I looked it up, so we'll see how that goes. We're going to do that at the last one.
Speaker 2:We'll do that one last. Yeah, all right, get primed up a little bit maybe. Huh, exactly, it was a good-looking bunch of beer actually. Yeah, I'm always into the art. I love the looks of the cans and some local stuff here, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, we've always talked about that. You know, brian always says that part of it should be the artwork and even the bottle cap and such. Now we have two bottles and four cans. So the bottle caps are kind of, and the two bottle caps just have the logos of the, the brewery on them. So they're not, you know, but there's some interesting artwork definitely on some of these cans and the bottles too.
Speaker 2:So I mean, it makes them look like they're gonna taste better see that's as long as it looks like it then you know it's gonna be exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, we might as well break into the first one.
Speaker 2:What do we got here? Get this going here.
Speaker 1:You know, get you kind of back in the swing of things a little bit. So the first one we have is by Big Kona, or I should say Kona, and it's their Big Wave, and it's Liquid Aloha, nice, and basically I apologize, I did not have time to print anything out so I'm just reading right off the old untapped here to give you a description Right on. This is Big Wave is a light, golden ale with a subtle fruitiness and delicate hop aroma. A smooth, easy drinking, refreshing ale. The lightly roasted honey malt contributes to the golden hue of the beer and also gives a slight sweetness that is balanced out by our special blend of hops Hops. So it should be pretty mellow, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:I like that honey, honeydew or honey. That sounds good.
Speaker 1:Honeydew. That's a list that you get typically, or you're talking the honeydew melon. Yeah, yeah, or what they're in that description color wise, I mean, it looks like kind of your kind of a normal looking beer. So to speak. You know that not real dark at all beer color yeah, it looks like beer yeah, looks like beer.
Speaker 1:You can smell the hops. There's a little bit of a hop smell to it, a lot of hop there. Boy, I don't know, I don't get a whole lot. I mean you get some hop on the flavor, but not a whole lot. No, I, when you first smelled it, it smelled like it was going to be hoppier or you know, the flavor would be a little hoppier, but it's not bad. I mean, I could see a, possibly a lawnmower beer yeah, yeah, I mean it's, it's refreshing.
Speaker 2:I guess I'm waiting for the honey. I mean you do get a little bit of the sweet as it fades, you know, not a lot of it, not a lot it's funny because I'm usually not a real big fan of like, like your honey, weiss or yeah, those kind of.
Speaker 1:They always got a weird taste to them, but this one, I really don't taste a lot of honey to it, no, so it must be a pretty, pretty small amount that they use in there.
Speaker 2:I do get a little bit of some sweetness at the end though. As it's fading out, I get a little bit on the Kind of like the very finish, very, very finished.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Way at the end. I can taste that too. Yeah, yeah, but that's about the only other flavor you get.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, there isn't a whole lot else.
Speaker 1:I guess liquid aloha. When I was in Hawaii, when Susie and I went there to watch our daughter play basketball over Thanksgiving, it didn't really taste like that.
Speaker 2:You had some of that.
Speaker 1:No, a liquid Aloha Aloha didn't taste like this.
Speaker 2:No, have you had this in the past?
Speaker 1:I have had this one in the past. We were actually talking about going to the brewery when we were there, but it was Right, it was a little ways out, you know, and I didn't know how much an Uber would be to go from the hotel over out there and back. You know, because it's it was probably a good eight, 10 miles from where we were at. I'm really surprised you didn't go. Well, we went to two other breweries.
Speaker 2:Oh, you did, oh yeah, nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we went to Maui Brewing, which we actually did an episode from Susie and I did, oh nice. And then we went to Waikiki Brewing and I've got all our notes we have not recorded. We were going to do a wrap up show there and then of course, got busy and uh, couldn't you know we didn't get it done, the episode. But I've got all our notes on the beers and there between those two, honestly, I think Waikiki the beer was a little bit better. Their food was amazing, you know, it was like dang, you know. So I mean, that was one of those places that I was going to let everybody know. If you're there, you got to go there because that's one of the few, you know I'll probably count them on one hand where the beer and the food are both extremely good, right, right, and theirs was.
Speaker 2:And it was just like man At the brewery, at the brewery Restaurant, food the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1:Yep, and it was something, and that one we decided we were going to walk to. Well, we walked to both of them, but, like Maui, brewing from our hotel was probably I don't know just four blocks. Maybe Nice and Waikiki Brewing was probably a little over a mile, you know. So it wasn't bad, right, but we went through and I can't remember how many beers they had on tap. I think it was 14. Oh, wow, yeah, and I ended up. They just brought me the rest of them. Here you go.
Speaker 2:Might as well try them on. I'm sure you didn't look like a tourist, no.
Speaker 1:They knew I was kind of a big deal, yeah, and we got there, I think.
Speaker 2:I mean, you gave them a, you know, preemptive hey, we're going to be in town.
Speaker 1:No, they looked it up and saw that, yeah, yeah, that's it Right. No, they looked it up and saw that, yeah, yeah, that's it Right, but no it was really cool.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, it's okay, it's okay, yeah, I guess yeah, for your opinion.
Speaker 1:I guess what for a score? You remember our scoring zero to five by a tenth of a point. What were you thinking?
Speaker 2:You know to me it's an average. I mean it's two and a half, two, seven, you know. I mean, if I would just want to keep it simple, um, I wouldn't give it a three no, so you're gonna thinking like a two, five yeah, that's exactly what I think so exactly what I'm doing, just it's a.
Speaker 1:It's good, yeah, um yeah, ice cold on a hot day, it's probably really good like I said kind of a lawnmower beer, right? Other than that, I guess I was expecting a little bit more, right. And like you said, you do get a very faint kind of a sweetness on the very finish, but not.
Speaker 2:No, honey, I didn't get any honey out of that, not a lot, no, just a little bit at the end, there on the lips a little bit.
Speaker 1:Eh, meh, eh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh. If, if somebody goes hey, you want one of these, yeah, okay all right, you know all you got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was gonna say you're looking in their cooler. Is that all you got, or?
Speaker 1:is that? That's just a you know. Get the whistle going right, you're right.
Speaker 2:Right, it's a warm-up one. I wonder if that one might become a little more full warmer.
Speaker 1:Well, we, got a little bit left, we can try it. I'm I'm worried that that it'll just going to get warm, just get warm. All right, I don't know We'll try it, though we do have a little bit left and we'll see.
Speaker 2:But like.
Speaker 1:I said it's not offensive at all. I mean, this would be one. I think if there's people that have never tried a craft beer, they could drink this one. Yeah, it's a good starter.
Speaker 1:Oh you know, yep, I agree, yeah, and you know, that's one thing that, like jim and I have been talking about trying to, to let people know if, if they're new, that you could drink this beer. You know, and some of them it's like, yeah, I wouldn't start with. You know, right, you never had one, I wouldn't drink that one, but this one would be easy peasy.
Speaker 2:I think, yep, yep, that's a good beer, absolutely if you're new to the game.
Speaker 1:Exactly, that's what I think, so if you see it out there. Don't be afraid of it. It'll definitely be one that you could enjoy or at least try yeah. So I'm looking up the next beer as we're talking, and they reused the UPC code.
Speaker 2:So it came up to a whole different beer, is that right?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:But hey, you know it happens. What was that last one? Again, that was Kona. Yeah, the Big Wave.
Speaker 1:Yep, liquid Aloha, and they've got, you know, a pretty decent selection. You can find them around a lot, you know, because they do actually have breweries. They do have one, like I said, in Hawaii. They do actually have breweries. They do have one, like I said in Hawaii, but they have other ones in the continental US too, oh, no doubt. So they distribute really all over the country, so pretty much anywhere where you're actually going to find it. I've got a neat.
Speaker 2:Look to it. I mean there's actually like raised stenciling on the bottle that says liquid alcohol. I like that stuff, man. Like you said earlier, it kind of separates.
Speaker 1:I really do man. You know that really does separate it from, like the other bottle that we have sitting here.
Speaker 2:It does.
Speaker 1:It's more of just a plain bottle. Yeah, something like that. It separates them.
Speaker 2:I mean it takes a lot, doesn't it, to make their own glass. I mean that's a whole thing.
Speaker 1:You would think it would add some cost to it maybe.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so.
Speaker 1:Huh, nice Well, does that change your score? No, nope.
Speaker 2:Nope, I just think it's pleasant looking.
Speaker 1:You were just going to bring it up because it's Hawaiian, exactly you know it's light blue. Yep, and it's got like the flowers and the waves.
Speaker 2:It's almost like finding Nemo, you know font.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I like the look.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Now that you mention it, it definitely kind of does have that. Look to it Hawaiian-ish. Yeah, there you go. Hawaiian-ish, that's the technical word for it. Yeah, so the next beer that we got Now this is a totally different style, because the last one you know was pretty. This one is a fruited sour. Jim would love that. Jim would love it A fruited sour Jim would love that.
Speaker 1:Jim would love it. This is from 608 Brewing and that's out of La Crosse, wisconsin. You bet this one. I got to figure out how we're going to describe this because this is their Too Hot for Chancellor. Is the name of this beer A little inside there? Yeah, they actually first came out with this now. I think it was in 20, was it 22? Or 23? It might have been 23. And it was brought back by popular demand.
Speaker 2:the end of this last year and this year.
Speaker 1:Now for those of you that maybe aren't familiar with it if you go online and just look up UWL Chancellor, it's probably going to pop up right at the top of the story list. Let's just say there was some. I don't know how would you say it. Difference of opinion on some activities, I guess. Yeah, you know, extracurricular out ofof-school activity Out-of-school yes, I guess We'll probably leave it at that. Right, I think you have to pay. There was a.
Speaker 2:I think there might have been a fee involved Right. So Too hot for Chancellor Too hot for Chancellor.
Speaker 1:I love it, I love it Well, and on untapped, it says back by popular demand the infamous fruited sour with apricot, cherry peach and vanilla. So this will be interesting to see if we can actually pick out, because that's the one thing I've noticed lately. Well, I'm sure you have too. A lot of these. Sours aren't sour anymore, and sometimes they put so much stuff in it that it's hard to pick out the flavor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, right, I was thinking the same thing the sour is going to overwhelm the vanilla. Yeah or they put the vanilla in to round out the sour right. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:That's a darker looking one, and I'm trying to think it's almost the color of apricot like apricot color yeah, yeah, white, white head on it never hurt anybody, no boy it smells sweet.
Speaker 2:Well it, Well. It ain't bad For a sour, it's not that bad.
Speaker 1:I don't think I'd want too many of them.
Speaker 2:I think I might get heartburn from it. Right, right.
Speaker 1:But boy, I'm trying to. Okay, so apricot, cherry peach and vanilla, I'm getting almost all of it. Man, it's kind of surprising.
Speaker 2:It surprised me big time. I it's kind of surprising. It surprised me big time. I'm getting almost all of that.
Speaker 1:Starts off, I definitely get the apricot. Mm-hmm. On the finish I get the vanilla. You know, on that very end of the flavor, yeah, cherry is. Yeah, it's there. That's there too. The only one I think I might be missing yet is the peach.
Speaker 2:But that could be with that apricot in the first part of it. Yeah, right, right, I that's a. That's got a lot going on. Man, it's a busy beer but it's not bad. But it's. It subtly goes through all the flavors. Yeah, it really does I'm not. I'm not a huge sour guy. I'm not right.
Speaker 1:Well, typically I'm not going to be. You know that's not going to be my first choice typically now I I did go through that year where I made it my first choice, so I could stand them, and then they went and switched the formula on me and it's all sweet now, is that right? Well, this is sweet for sure too.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's rich and it's got a richness to it. Oh yeah, it's good man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I say, you can still find the ones that are, I should say, tart where it kind of hurts your jaw. Yeah, yeah, you know but those are fewer and farther between than what these are, because, again, I'm sure this style is way more popular than the really tart, hard-to-drink ones, right, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is more appealing, I think, to a more mass scenario. Yep, I would agree with you what's the alcohol content on?
Speaker 1:that this one. It is 5%, so it's a little bit stronger than the Kona, but it definitely has a lot more flavor to it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it blows that Hawaii-ish beer out of the water. I really actually like it.
Speaker 1:I am surprised. I was going to say it's one of those where it's like you hate to say it, but it's not bad.
Speaker 2:It really isn't to say it, but it's not bad, you know it really isn't. Yeah, I still don't think, jim would be thrilled with it.
Speaker 1:But no, it isn't as drastic, as it does have a little bit of sourness on the right before the right before the vanilla kicks in, but it's not terrible at all.
Speaker 2:No, no like I said, the sweetness overpowers you know you mentioned earlier on the s a lot of times. They're just super overpowering, Right. This is not the case. This isn't bad.
Speaker 1:And when you look on our social media, you'll see the picture. And I didn't. Yeah, here I'll let you. I didn't see the censored thing on there. So, ladies and gentlemen, I'll post a picture of the can by itself so you can get an idea. You'll have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Oh, that is classic. I give him credit. That's pretty. We'll say gutsy. I think it even looks like the guy.
Speaker 2:It kind of does, yeah the picture of him running.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean With a bowl of apricot. Yeah, I was going to say it's.
Speaker 2:I can see why they brought it back. I mean, I think people would enjoy that, oh yeah. I honestly do yeah, fruited sour.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I give 608 credit. That's a pretty gutsy label. Yeah, I mean honestly A local, A local Scandal yeah yeah, we'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2:We'll leave it at I like it. Veteran-owned business too 608.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess I can go first on this one yeah shoot, I think you're right. The flavor I still kind of had a hard time picking out the peach, but that could be the peach and apricot could be playing together right away.
Speaker 1:I did like that. The finish had that vanilla kind of an aftertaste. The cherry was right before that. The only knock on it for me is I think I'd get heartburn if I had an entire can of it. This is a 16-ounce can, so you've got a lot of beer going on there. But other than that it's not bad. I think I'm going to go like a 2.7. I think it's better than average and I think again, I think most people could try it if they've never had a sour before.
Speaker 2:I think for the category and what it is, I think they did an exceptional job with it. I'm at a 3.0. 3.0?.
Speaker 1:Solid Nice.
Speaker 2:Which I normally on that style of beer. It's hard to get above the average on any of them, really Right. So I really enjoyed that one and I got the cherry, I think is what I liked the best out of it. Yep, right through the middle of that man.
Speaker 1:Yep, it was really good. That's where I felt our taste of the two was right in that middle part of the sip and it was like it's good, Pretty good. Yeah Well, like I up man.
Speaker 2:And we'll leave her at that, because that's yeah.
Speaker 1:The backstory's worth the time to check it out. The backstory would be probably to get you through that can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know Right so.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Grab a can and look it up. And look it up and enjoy. Get a chuckle out of it. Yeah, there you go. Yes, enjoy the story. Yeah, it's good, get a chuckle out of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there you go. Yes, enjoy the story. Yeah, it's good, pretty crazy. So, yeah, I guess you've been keeping yourself busy and all that good stuff. Now that winter, hopefully, is over, yeah, you know, you'll be getting back up to your camper as well. Yep, up in the seed area. Yeah, nice, buckhorn, we'll be getting back up by Hayward. Hopefully the mice weren't too bad. Right, that's always the roll of the dice every spring. Yeah, you know. Yeah, so, hopefully. And then I don't know, like the last couple days it's been nice, but like today it was fairly chilly and the breeze was kind of One thing I should have brought up earlier and I do apologize, you know, friday is today On. I do apologize, friday is today. On Monday it was National Beer Day, wow. And I have a question and maybe you can help me, since you were military. Maybe you have a connection where we can somehow get something in place where it's a recognized national holiday, where everybody gets the day off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right you know, and you got to drink beer.
Speaker 2:So maybe we can work on that. I mean, they have a lot of days for everything else. Exactly what's taking so long here, man?
Speaker 1:Typically every day has about 18 holidays.
Speaker 2:I think are associated with it Right.
Speaker 1:But of course, the only bad part is, I'm going to say the same thing when it's National Stout Day, National IPA Day.
Speaker 2:Well, first we get the one and then we can break them down Once we get the foot in the door. Yeah. Then the subcategories, and we'll go crazy, you know. Yeah, like that commercial where they do your cousin from Boston. Yeah, and they show them the different seasons. You know reasons to drink beer.
Speaker 1:I love it, man, exactly. So yeah, if we can just get one of those days a paid day off, then we can try and get the rest of them in there. Right, that'd be perfect, perfect, at least I think it would be. I'm in man, perfect, all right, so there's two. So hopefully, if anybody out there is listening that agrees with us let us know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe we'll put a petition up on the page or something. Yes, we'll get a petition going Electronics signatures and we'll send it right up.
Speaker 1:Somehow. I don't think we're going to be very successful, but it's worth a shot, right, well, all right. Well, let's move on to our third beer. And now this beer is actually kind of a newer one, from New Glarus. It hasn't been out all that long. To be honest with you is that right yeah and this is their tail wagger amber and it it's. It has a one sentence description on untapped fruity caramel and eminently drinkable all right, we'll see about that. But look at the dog on the label.
Speaker 2:Oh, nah, nah, Nah, nah, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 1:They got a whole bunch of writing on there, but it's like micro print.
Speaker 2:We'll see. I like that. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's like a Spanier or a Spaniel Spaniel.
Speaker 1:That's kind of what it looks like us, yeah, no, so we'll see. Now, this one is an amber.
Speaker 2:So it's a. You know more of that amberish color.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely darker than the first one read that description again because, uh, fruit, fruity caramel and eminently drinkable caramel. Easy going tail wagger amber plays well with others. No matter if you choose to bring some home or enjoy a brief escape at your local happy hour, this amber is the perfect companion, both smooth and approachable, brewed with malted barley from Wisconsin and our cousin state of Minnesota. When days are short and work is long, this friendly Jeepers, it's a friendly greeting will set your tail wagging to cheers.
Speaker 1:It was right in where their logo started, so it was one shade darker than that.
Speaker 2:There's a little run-on there, I think I don't know. I took one.
Speaker 1:I'm still smelling the sour right now. Hmm, hmm, yeah, hmm, kind of I don't know yet it could be one yeah with me. Honestly, it's like I really don't know. There's definitely not as much flavor as that sour head no, no, no you know this is compared to that.
Speaker 2:I hate to say that. Aloha beer, yes, it's kind of the same little little, a little more malty yeah, yeah, than that, yep, but that's kind of the only difference.
Speaker 1:Right now, it's just the malt factor yep it's just a little little hardier. Oh, what was the? Uh, this is 5.8 percent, so a little bit higher. But caramel, then they kind of get a little bit. But maybe.
Speaker 2:Huh, it's interesting that it's one of those where it's like it's not terrible, no, but it doesn't. Eh, it's not terrible, no, but it doesn't really knock you back at all. I mean Right. I was going to say Like that fruit, that second, oh man, that sour.
Speaker 1:That one you knew.
Speaker 2:You got flavor right off the bat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything, this one, this does remind me of an amber, yeah, because they're usually a little bit more malt forward, are they? Yeah, a little bit more malt forward, are they? Yeah, and usually they don't have huge flavor, I mean for that style, this is probably a decent representation. I think it's one where I don't think anybody'd be turned off by it, like like I can't drink that. Maybe I don't know if you don't like malty beers, but it's not like it's over the top. No.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. I think it it's another good introduction type style on a craft it, it, it's, it's okay.
Speaker 1:I was going to say that's kind of it's just okay. The the way to describe it is it. It's okay. You know, again, if somebody showed up with a six pack, say, hey, you guys want one of these, sure. I'll take one right, you know but I don't know, I guess.
Speaker 2:Um, I was hoping to have a little bit more to it, but well, the first little sip that I took I was like. And then no, yeah, like, wait a minute, that was right rinsing out my glass from the sour. So maybe I mean, yeah, that probably. Uh boosted it up or did something to it. I should grab one. Oh, I got one right here.
Speaker 1:Oh, there you go, he's got a water bottle. Yep, we didn't think of that through.
Speaker 2:You're not on location, you're on.
Speaker 1:No, well, I'm at Brian's studio, so to speak, Right? So yeah, it is just like another room. It basically is yeah, it is just like another room.
Speaker 2:It basically is yes, yeah, you know, shoot, I'll throw a number out on it. I mean it's a 2-5 for me. Again, I mean it's not bad, it's not great, it doesn't blow you away.
Speaker 1:No, you know, Jim would be freaking right now. Why, well, you can't have a tie? Oh really, oh yeah, how are people supposed to know which is better? I'm like it's okay, dude, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 2:Well, if you want to look at it that way, I would say it's better than the Hawaiian. So you'd go like a 2.6?.
Speaker 1:I would, yeah, I would, edge it out Absolutely. There you go.
Speaker 2:Jim, there's for Jim 2, 2.6.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is better. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I agree, I was going to 2.6 as well. Oh yeah, just because I think for an amber it's where I think it should be typically. You know, you see a lot more that taste kind of like that, a little more subtle in the flavor, more malty, but again, it's close to average, that's where the amber is characteristically more malty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, where does the amber part of it come from? I mean just the processing of it, or just the description.
Speaker 1:Now, this is just my amateur opinion and my brother Brian. When you listen to this, you can feel free to text me like he Every week when I have a question. He'll text me and be like really dude.
Speaker 2:You didn't know that.
Speaker 1:You didn't know that. I think amber it more gets the name from the color. Yeah, you know because it's that kind of that darker amber-ish color. Yep, yep, you know. So just like a brown ale or a red ale Right, right, right and, and I think they all kind of fall into that same category where it's based on color and the. The flavor on all of them is pretty mellow right it is so real mellow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's not offensive at all, and I think people could drink it yeah you know so awesome yeah well, I guess we can just keep keep plugging along, or?
Speaker 2:unless you have. You have something you'd like to? I'm good.
Speaker 1:We already did that one, sorry. All right, I got to look up the next one and this one you probably will love.
Speaker 2:Well, I was looking at that one, I was looking that one over.
Speaker 1:So this is also by 608. Yep, and this is their Utter U-D-D-E-R. Utter Punk Maple Walnut Milk Stout. Mm-hmm, that sounds great.
Speaker 2:I am very interested to see how this is.
Speaker 1:I have not had this one, oh wow, so I'm really interested to see how this is. And the artwork is interesting. It is. It's like a caricature of an utter yeah With tattoos and some piercings. Oh, I didn't see the piercings.
Speaker 2:yeah again I give these almost like a well, we won't go yeah, yeah, I'll say this could kind of fall into that same story a tattoo of a bull on one, yeah, one of its teats yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 1:It's like that's funny, man, I give them credit. They got some good artwork yeah.
Speaker 2:That's classic. I like it, man, it is. The punk is back, and this time with a maple and walnut. Cheers, friends.
Speaker 1:Now this one is 5%, so it's kind of back down in here a little lower than the amber Contained walnuts, real walnuts. It says Real walnuts and it's a milk stout.
Speaker 2:I'm really interested to see how that maple and how the walnut if it pops. I don't know if I've ever had a walnut in beers I've got another one at the house that BK gave me.
Speaker 1:He brought it back from Kansas, I believe, and it's a black walnut like an ale, really good, and I know jim kind of didn't care for it and it I don't know. I thought it was really good, for a black walnut usually has a really strong flavor, but this was really good.
Speaker 2:So well, let's crack it, let's do it, man. I, I, I'm I'm looking forward to this one, like, like I said, I'm very interested in this to see how it is.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, it's definitely a milk stout. It has that dark, tan head. It sure does. Like I said, I'm hoping that the maple it's only 5%, 5%, so it's very drinkable, I'm sure.
Speaker 2:All kinds of froth on there.
Speaker 1:Look at that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's awesome, I mean mean it?
Speaker 1:looks like wow, it should be. I can smell the walnut and the maple. Oh yeah, I can taste them both. Yep, absolutely, that's wild. Typically I've always noticed, you know, like if you have a maple beer, typically like, the maple just way overpowers everything, yeah yeah, you know, and this is not not bad at all, honestly, that's a subtle, real subtle maple and that's pretty good. But then you get that walnut flavor at the end, yep.
Speaker 2:And then it kind of gets to me almost a little hoppy-ish at the end. Yep, it's not there right away. I'm not a hop fan, usually, right, but it's just a little bit at the end of that, um, but before that all of it, I can taste it all right there. That is crazy, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, because I haven't had this. Nope, never had this one and, like I said I am, I'm blown away by it. Honestly, just the fact that you can taste both, both those flavors you know, because I thought if anything, it's going to be super maple syrup flavor. Yep and then you wouldn't taste the the walnut at all, but syrupy kind of yeah too, too heavy in it yep, because we've definitely had ones like that before. Yeah, you know, I've I know you and I have shared one like that before that was like oof.
Speaker 1:It was like you were drinking just maple syrup out of the jug, you know, but boy, yeah, but boy, this is not bad, and it's a milk stout, so of course that gives it kind of that little bit of a creamier feel and such. I like it. Yeah, that is. That's the best one we've had so far. I would agree we might as well just go right into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what are you thinking, man?
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what I uh, I'm surprised. I really like that. The fact that, like I said, that you can taste all the flavors and all that I like it. I'm going, uh, I'm gonna do like a 3.2 is where I'm going. Like I said, I I still think people could. If you haven't had a milk stout, you should try them first of all because they're they're a lot, typically a lot mellower than your normal stouts and things like that, or barrel aged, stuffaged stuff, of course.
Speaker 2:Oh, absolutely. But it seems to me like whenever I've had the stouts they're always flavor, oh yeah, they're always packed with something, some good flavor. Most of them have been positive. I've liked most of them that I've had, but I mean the creaminess side of it.
Speaker 1:you know the texturing type you you know, and typically your stouts, your stout, especially your barrel age stuff, you want to have it a little bit warmer. Where this one, I think? When it warms up, because it's it's getting pretty close to where I think the temperature should be. Uh, and if it warms, up just a little more, it might have a little bit more flavor that'll pop out, but but it's good, well, I'm, I'm, I'm right with you.
Speaker 2:I mean, actually I like it. You know, I it even a little bit better, I mean if it didn't have that little bit of hoppiness at the end. But yeah, I'm 3.5. I really like it, yeah, nice.
Speaker 1:Overall, like I said, I'm surprised. I really like it. I'm impressed with it.
Speaker 2:And that was only 5%. 5% Dang Tastes better than that? Yeah, five percent Dang, so you could drink Tastes better than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does. I mean you could drink a few of them and not get messed up. Now again, this one is in a pint can as well. Yeah, so you know, it's definitely take you a little bit longer to drink it, but I think it's good. I do too. I like that.
Speaker 2:Surprise, surprise, yeah, you were, took back a bit on them and you were. You were just thinking, maple, all the way.
Speaker 1:that's what I was thinking, I was thinking it was going to be totally maple and that's all you're going to taste and it, uh, it's not that at all. I like it. That's good, and the artwork you got to give them bonus points for the artwork.
Speaker 2:I mean that's almost better than the yeah too hot for chancellor, but I'd say not.
Speaker 1:I yeah no the the story on that one makes up for it, I guess.
Speaker 2:It's good, though. I like it. I really do that's good, yep.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll take that, rinse that out just a little bit.
Speaker 2:I like the milk stout. I do, yep, yeah, they're usually really good Dude. I'm still thinking about that sour the fruit, sour one, and how loaded.
Speaker 1:That thing was Yep. How good it was. For sure that was an interesting one.
Speaker 2:Yep. This by far, though.
Speaker 1:Oh, so far this one, I think, is definitely above the other ones so far. 608, utter punk.
Speaker 2:Yep Maple walnut note stout. All right, I think there's an extra teat on there. It could be.
Speaker 1:Well, there's a lot of stuff on there that you're like okay.
Speaker 2:That's good.
Speaker 1:All right, Well, hey, so we got two beers left Right on the next one. This one I actually picked up in Missouri and brought back. So this one you've never seen before because they don't have it up here at all at all not available. So this one is from burr oak brewing company and this is their hop and da's mochaccino milkshake porter well, the hop and da's got me a little worried, but then the rest of that, I'm like hmm, well, there, maybe the under the lower, the little print says that this is actually a cocoa coffee porter.
Speaker 1:Oh, I gotta like that. So you drink coffee so yeah, the only time I drink coffee is when it's in a beer so their, uh, their description on untapped is mochaccino is the second beer released in our hoppin daz d-a-z, so it could be hoppin days. I don't know how they say milkshake series. It's daz daz, that's what I think. It is a milkshake porter coming in at six percent abv with lakota coffee, ethiopian cold brew, oh, cacao and lactose. So this should have all sorts of coffee for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess Ethiopian what.
Speaker 1:Ethiopian cold brew.
Speaker 2:Cold brew, I mean that sounds good just by itself cold brew. See, exactly. Oh yeah, that's a dark one.
Speaker 1:It's not as dark as the 608, but, it's still because this is a porter and porters are kind of like the cousin of the stout. They're not as heavy. Typically it looks great.
Speaker 2:I mean it looks like coffee. I mean it looks just like when I was pouring it.
Speaker 1:it had more of a brown color, but then when you get your Because we're doing our taster glasses and you can't see through it.
Speaker 2:I mean it's dark. No, you can't. You smell the coffee. You can smell the coffee. This is under 6%. This is 6%, Yep.
Speaker 1:Hmm, I can taste the coffee. Yep, yep, yep, that's for sure. And it's always funny because you know one thing to my brother, Brian, when it says milkshake, what's the difference? On that, you know, cause that's always been something. You see milkshake IPAs. You see milkshake pourer milkshake, oh yeah. And I don't know if it's well, I'm sure it's because it has lactose in. It is probably the biggest thing, is what I'm guessing, but like I said, Brian, if I'm wrong, text me let me know.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure on how that would be tagged. Well, tagged to the last. I get that part of it Right, but that's good, that's good.
Speaker 1:It's good. It's got a little bit of a. To me it's a little bit of a strange finish. There's kind of the. I don't know what that flavor is. You know it's a little bit of a. It could be the coffee. You know having those two different coffees in there as well. I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's the Ethiopian cold brew. I like it. I'm starting to think I like it better than the 608. Really, wow, I'm not 100% yet.
Speaker 1:That doesn't surprise me, because I know you like you're kind of a gourmet when it comes to coffee. Yeah, yeah, you know, and it's always kind of funny because when we go on vacation or wherever, we're always okay.
Speaker 2:We've got to find coffee for Brian. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1:Yep and we brought back stuff from all over the place, like in the Caribbean and then Hawaii.
Speaker 2:I'm getting down there again. Oh, okay, well. You can see my stash over there is getting lower and lower. Yeah, not quite, not quite.
Speaker 1:But yeah, and that's just funny because, like I said, I love the smell of coffee, but to drink coffee itself, I'm like, oh, it tastes terrible Really, but Better to you, I mean what is it? Yeah, I don't know. I guess it's probably just that it's a little bitter.
Speaker 2:But in a beer I'll drink it. Hey, coffee is getting like beer though the descriptions on these bags. Let me grab one. Here's that Organic, organic and fair trade Peace coffee. This is the stuff that you guys brought back Holiday cheer medium roast, sweet and celebratory. But then it goes into you. You know a mixture of this, a little bit of caramel in there, and you're like this is coffee.
Speaker 1:This is coffee, I mean it's not quite the reward isn't quite the same yeah, I mean I can drink this and I'll get wired, but I'm not uh oh man, there was that death coffee you brought back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was pretty good. I went through that one first. Yeah, there's been some interesting ones we always try to find from wherever we're at.
Speaker 1:Let's find something that's from there, you know, Yep, and yeah, it's just kind of funny.
Speaker 2:This batch was a great batch actually.
Speaker 1:Okay, good, I appreciate it Well good, I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, like that yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2:I like this. I this is edging 608 for me sure, so what uh?
Speaker 1:I guess, well, I gotta go, just a little bit more, maybe three, six, three, seven. Okay, I don't, I could push four, oh with it, but then I'd say you were probably drunk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah well, we haven't gotten to the 11 yeah, we haven't got to the 11th percenter yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we haven't gotten to the 11th percenter, yet We'll hold that for that.
Speaker 2:No, I like this. If you're a coffee person at all, this would be definitely one to check out, Absolutely man yeah, and the fact that it's a porter is different.
Speaker 1:Most of the time, I think when we have coffee beers they're a stout. Is that right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, just naturally yeah.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of times the coffee flavor. When they put it in there it's probably stronger. So they try and probably cover it up a little bit with more alcohol and kind of that stoutness when a porter's not quite as strong as that, Right Right. So I don't know this one.
Speaker 2:I don't mind it as that you know, right right so I don't know this one.
Speaker 1:I don't mind it. Um, you know it's a lot of coffee for you, well, no, not so much that it's it just for me. It has kind of that little bit of a whatever that on the end, remember what I was saying, that is yeah, yeah it's not really bitter, but it's just got a little different flavor to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I think and this is going to be our biggest uh discrepancy but I'm gonna go like a 2.9, is that right? Yeah, I still say it's better than average, but I just I don't know, there's whatever that finished part is I'm just a little bit I gotcha. So burr oak brewing company, burr oak, yep and milkshake. They're out of columbia, missouri.
Speaker 2:Hoppendoz. I like the artwork Too purple.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's got kind of that ice creamy look to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, you know. On the back.
Speaker 1:It's got the milkshake.
Speaker 2:So I give him credit. I like it. I give him credit. That's my favorite one, all right.
Speaker 1:For sure. Well, that's because you know, like you said, you combine coffee with beer. What can go wrong.
Speaker 2:I know it's kind of like man, what a good idea. Yeah, I wish I'd have thought of that. Yeah, I mean it's kind of like peanut butter and jelly, yeah.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:I like it I like it.
Speaker 1:Well, we're on to our last beer.
Speaker 2:This one sounds good, this one sounds good.
Speaker 1:This one will be interesting. Yeah, it looks like it could be. I don't think it's where it's going to be terrible or anything like that. Like I said, just going into it first off, I've never been a huge honey beer fan, except for meads. Meads are honey beer and meads are one of the oldest styles of beer there is. But there's always kind of a different process Really. You know how they do it so I don't mind that. But like, like I said earlier, your honey Weiss, your honey whatever. I've never really cared for it. And this is a honey Bach. And this is by Lakefront Brewing, which is out of Milwaukee. And this is by Lakefront Brewing, which is out of Milwaukee, milly Wawkay. For the layperson it's a honeybock, a lager with honey, but the saving grace is it's barrel-aged.
Speaker 2:I saw that. That's when you're like, oh, I saw that and it says I don't mind bourbon-aged, but dang bro, that stuff can really. It'll get you if you're not careful and a lager is heavier, typically right A lager or no?
Speaker 1:No, lagers are a little smoother than an ale. It's kind of a different process. Typically, these are kind of your lower, you know you can get them from 4%, 5%, 6%, but this is 11.
Speaker 2:Most beers domestic people drink are Poggers right.
Speaker 1:Well, most of those are Pilsners. Pilsners, yeah, gotcha, so they're kind of distant cousins. Yeah, yeah, but this one is a German-inspired Honey Bock and it was aged in bourbon barrels, and what could be wrong with that? As you know, Jim and I have rated a lot of bourbon barrel beers. You've had a number of them.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And this is in a normal-sized can, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It'll be in there and I like them. I mean, I can't deny that I like them.
Speaker 1:You just got to be careful, because they can get you before you know, it Not real dark. No, it definitely has almost like a honey color to it, doesn't it? It does, absolutely, I'm sure some of it is from the barrel and some of it's from the honey, but it's definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's almost got a glow, it's got that dark honey.
Speaker 1:It almost looks like honey. Yeah, literally you can smell the barrel you haven't had this.
Speaker 2:You don't believe. I don't think so. You can smell the barrel. Ooh, that's different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty rich. I can taste the bourbon barrel. But I do get that honey Right away too. Right away he goes honey bourbon, right yeah.
Speaker 2:Kind of honey. Yeah, you're right, it does, it actually does.
Speaker 1:I mean it's not bad, it's definitely different.
Speaker 2:I mean my first reaction to it was this is going to be really rich. And then it peters out a little bit on the richness. I thought it was going to carry out Boy Sy, carry out syrupy feel, but that's different.
Speaker 1:That honey kind of mellows out the bourbon a little bit. It's not like a real and I wish they would have said what. Let me look on Untapped. If it says what bourbon barrels they used, here's the description on Untapped. It says Honeybach, a German-inspired strong lager, gets brewed with copious amounts of honey. Is that a plethora? It's like a plethora. Yes, vienna, munich and caramel malt. After resting in bourbon barrels, this malty, rich, nutty and toasty brew picks up notes of vanilla, oak almonds and pipe tobacco. It's there, man. Yeah, I should have read that before because it definitely. Well, it's funny that you said about rich.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really rich. But I thought it was going to be rich, like syrupy rich, oh sure, and it almost like a dry martini, it kind of dried out as it was going. You know what I mean? Yeah, I was expecting it to be syrupy, right, it didn't. It didn't do that.
Speaker 1:No, I've got a lot going on, dude. I would say it sure to me and I know I say this a lot and people are probably like, oh yeah because you drank it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, but it doesn't taste like 11.2%.
Speaker 1:I was expecting it to be a much stronger boozy flavor, you know.
Speaker 2:But it does. You get kind of that, excuse me that dryness at the end.
Speaker 1:That gives you a little of that boozy feel you do get some, but it definitely seems to me like it's a little more mellow.
Speaker 2:And I don't know if it's because of the honey if the honey knocks it down a little bit.
Speaker 1:I agree with that I agree with that, but still it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 2:It is not bad, and you're not a honey guy anyway, no, but you can definitely taste it.
Speaker 1:But in this instance it's not a detriment to me. It's a good combo with it. Yeah, it seems like it pairs really well, right, right, so that's good.
Speaker 2:Read that description one more time. Okay, because it was the tobacco pipe. Tobacco, yeah, it said.
Speaker 1:Honeybach, a German-inspired strong lager, gets brewed with copious amounts of honey Vienna, munich and caramel malt, after resting in bourbon barrels. This malty, rich, nutty and toasty brew picks up notes of vanilla, oak, almonds and pipe tobacco. I like it, Jeez man. You see, Look what you've been missing, ferg. No, I've been missing out, yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I've been secretly drinking that behind your back.
Speaker 1:I'm really upset now. That's good dude, that is good that is good, that is good. It's one of those you wouldn't want to have a six pack of it right sitting watching a game because you probably stand up and almost fall over, but but it's, it's definitely good. Like I said, I've had you remember um lexington brewing. They have like the kentucky bourbon barrel age.
Speaker 1:What they got all the everything almost everything they do, I think, is like barrel age right. And and all the everything, almost everything they do, I think, is like barrel age Right. And a few years ago they had a honey barrel and I thought it was horrible. It just tasted I don't know. It was not good to me. Jim loved it. I thought it was terrible. Well, jim, loved it because you thought it was terrible. Because I thought it yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, huh, I never thought of that. You've got to reverse psychology with it.
Speaker 1:Exactly, If I hate it, then I've got to say I like it. He's going to say this is terrible, and I'm going to be like gotcha, we could do an experiment. Yes, we could.
Speaker 2:Yes, we could the placebo you. Yeah right, just do a little experiment there you go, but this one is definitely my.
Speaker 1:Whole point of that story was this one has better flavor than that one did. Is that right? Yeah, you know, I like it. It surprises me.
Speaker 2:That it's. You know, when you're looking at different styles of beer and different combinations of flavors, and you know, I mean I love the stout, milk stout and everything, and I do. I have liked, you know, the barrel aged stuff. There's been a lot of great ones that I've had Right, and this, this one, this is just beyond a beginner beer. You know what I mean. Yep, if you're not into the craft beer thing, this won't. It's a little bit more, but it still isn't gonna.
Speaker 1:I would say if somebody came to me and said, hey, I've never had a honey beer or I've never had a barrel-aged beer or something like that, would you recommend this or a 10%?
Speaker 2:or something Right.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure, just because of the 11% Right, because to me and I think, to you, I mean, like you said, you can taste kind of the bourbon but it's not overpowering or anything like that.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 1:But I think and I definitely know we've had some other ones before that you can't even taste the bourbon, and I think that would be more of a way to dip your toe in.
Speaker 1:Where this one, I think if you don't mind the flavor of bourbon, I would recommend it. You are right. But if you're totally like oh, I can't stand that, then I probably wouldn't recommend it. But for us, I mean, I think it's good and it's definitely a different animal, so to speak. It is, you know, it's not your normal, just hammer your home stout, kind of thing. It's a good change of pace, yeah. I like it, I agree. So what are you thinking on a score?
Speaker 2:I, I gotta be. It's kind of two different beers. I love the coffee side, the one that we just did, yep the burrow, the burrow, yeah, the hop, and does part of it, um, but it's, it's a three, three, five, three five, yeah, all right I think the coffee thing might have edged me. Sure, a little bit, but for 11% it doesn't totally give you that alcohol taste. Oh my God, I just did a shot, it's not like that at all, it's a good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, personally I'm going to go like a 3.3. Like I said, I do think that it's a really nice change of pace to like a higher ABV barrel-aged beer. It's definitely like I said. It sure doesn't look like your normal barrel-aged beer, right, you know, and it had that honey color to it. You do get that flavor which, like I said, normally I'm not a big fan of. But boy, it works. In this one it sure did.
Speaker 2:And yeah, I'm surprised because you were skeptical to start out with the honey side of it, and even you know, admit it, I'm not a honey guy no, so that it surprised me.
Speaker 1:It's good. So, boy, I guess you know Brian there's our six beers. I'm going to put a little more in my glass. Yeah, go for it. We got some left there.
Speaker 2:There, you know, brian, there's our six beers I'm going to put a little more in my glass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go for it. We got some left there. Might be another shot. So overall, I would say the two that I would say were definitely the best, I'd say the Honeybach and the Utter Punk. I think for me those are my top two. Sure, I think all of them were good. The most surprising one to me and I know I scored it kind of down a little bit lower was probably the sour honestly, I totally agree with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that blew me away. Yeah, expecting it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally yeah, and, like I said, I think pretty much any of these. If you're new to craft beer, anybody could try them. Yeah, like I said, the only one again is maybe that the Honey Bock might be a little high ABV for somebody that has never got into that.
Speaker 2:I mean it does have the percentage of the alcohol, but the taste of it, especially on a barrel-age scenario, really doesn't kick your butt that way, Right? Yep, I agree 100%. It does have the alcohol, there's no doubt. Yeah, it's a great color. I mean, it looks beautiful man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really does. It looks like honey. Yep, it's a good color. You know that color, I mean it's good. Honey, Yep, it's a good. You know that color, I mean it's good, Yep.
Speaker 2:So yeah, shoot man. I was a little disappointed in the Tail Wager.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would agree, you know that. And even the Kana, I mean the Kana was not, I shouldn't say, disappointed, but that's Right, we refer to it as a lawnmower beer, where, if it's ice cold on a hot day, day you could you could drink it a couple of them, yeah easy.
Speaker 1:Yep, you know, and like I said in in the sour, it surprised me. I I don't think I would drink more than one because I'd get heartburn yeah from it, but yeah, but yeah overall, that one blew me away, yeah yeah we gotta, we gotta bring that one back for jim.
Speaker 2:We gotta make him.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure that the uh, the beer shop still has some, so I could get another can of it. Yeah, you should.
Speaker 2:So it's yeah. I think he might even say something positive about that.
Speaker 1:He might. Yeah, Jimbo Gannon.
Speaker 2:You never know the Jimbo, like I said it is, it's coming right for us.
Speaker 1:It's quite the story. So, yeah, so awesome man, well, well, hey, thank you so much for bringing me back, man yeah and, like I said, we're definitely going to have you back more because, uh, yeah, it's been a while, yeah, and we're gonna. We're gonna, like we said before, ladies and gentlemen, let us know if you'd be kind of interested in hearing the documentary talk and and trying some beers, because at times I think Jim loves to do trivia. He's very mean to me when it comes to the trivia stuff.
Speaker 2:How did you not know that?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and his judges which is him are very picky. But I do think it'd be kind of an interesting little change of pace to kind of talk about some of these things.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, what's trending? You know everybody's watching it. Yep or even if you guys, you know somebody told us hey, check this out, yeah yeah, if you know one, and then BS about it down the road. Yep, it was something. If you know a good documentary, know email us, text us, whatever. Well, we're always. Hey man, did you watch this?
Speaker 1:oh yeah yeah, but I will, I will. Yeah, either you're texting me or I'm texting you're going dude, check this one out, you know.
Speaker 2:But I don't have hulu, wait a minute. Yes, I do wait a second.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I think it'd be a good time and, like I said, maybe we'll, uh, we'll do. You know, every so often we'll do one. It's not going to be the whole show every week by any means, but we'll, we'll do one. Every so often We'll do one. It's not going to be the whole show every week by any means but we'll do it every so often and see how it goes. Sounds good man, well, awesome man. So hey, thanks Like.
Speaker 2:I said again thanks for having your schedule open to try some of these.
Speaker 1:Next time, hopefully, I'll be a little more prepared and have an actual category where we can compare the same style.
Speaker 2:I like this Hodge. I did man, it was, it was a good actually, they all kind of. As it progressed, it all came together pretty nicely, yep, and ending with the honey on the end. It did come, it was nice, it was not, it was real good man, real good, good, awesome Utter pun.
Speaker 1:There you go. Well, hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for listening and, like we always say, we hope your campfire is always warm.
Speaker 2:And your beer is always cold.
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