#10 - Pints, Bites and Dark Revolution

Lots of stories this week, Ash gets bitten by a dog, Pete and Sharon go to Belgium, they taste some Powder Keg Brewing cans and reminisce their Dark Revolution brewery tour.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:03

Good evening everybody. Good evening, everybody. I'm Peter, and I'm the landlord of the Etsum Arms in Summerton. Summerton's Premier Real Our Bar. And I'm joined here by my good friends Ash and Max. Hello Peter. Hello, everybody. The Etsum Cascad. I should have joined in then, but yeah. We should have had some muscle had some music on now, shouldn't we?

SPEAKER_06 0:32

Maybe. Yeah, it'll be on. Can you not hear it? There it is. That's it. So we're on the fly.

SPEAKER_04 0:43

We've got a full bar, although people are just leaving, but you know. Oh yeah. Um and it's a Thursday night, and summer's here. We've all got shorts on. We haven't done it. Cut your legs up. Is this the first one we've done since the clocks went forward? Uh when did the clocks go forward?

unknown 1:05

It was in March.

SPEAKER_04 1:07

26th of March was the last one. That's brilliant news.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

And why we have the last one you did was in the 26th of March.

SPEAKER_04 1:16

Nice. And why we have the delightful Sharon, who is the co-owner of the Etsom Arms, who will be serving us drinks this evening. Hello. What we got on the menu today, Sharon?

SPEAKER_00 1:27

You have we have um a new brewer.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

Oh Devon.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

Powder keg, uh the lovely Sam came and dropped off some cans.

SPEAKER_04 1:38

Cheers, Sam. Can I tell him about the other surprise, which we'll more of later? Go on.

SPEAKER_03 1:44

He dropped off a pin of beer. Okay, like a bag and box. Well, no, and actually.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

No, that was a different brewer.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:54

We'll save that for next week.

SPEAKER_06 1:56

Fact-checking. There's a little that's even as a spoiler. What's a pin? It's half a cask.

SPEAKER_04 2:02

Oh yeah. Oh. Where are we gonna put it though? It won't fit on our mantle. Exactly. No, we'll I will I will craft something for you. Really? Yeah. Out of what? Oh, I don't know. It'll be at your birthday party. Potentially. There you go. Potentially. There's all sorts of There's not a party happening. There's not. Oh you know. I don't want I don't want the lists to come into it.

SPEAKER_03 2:22

Yeah, but you're not gonna tell them when it is or where it is.

SPEAKER_04 2:25

They'll find it nowhere here.

SPEAKER_03 2:27

It's just me, Pete and Ash.

SPEAKER_04 2:28

Yeah. And Sharon. I've been every night's a party in the XMR, isn't that?

SPEAKER_06 2:33

All I know is I'm getting paid and I'm happy.

SPEAKER_04 2:38

Anyway. Anyway, so we've got those from this.

SPEAKER_06 2:42

So is it are all these beers from the same brewer?

SPEAKER_04 2:46

No, they're all from different brewers.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Oh okay. We've got um we've got two from powder keg.

SPEAKER_06 2:52

Powder keg.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

One from Arbor Alex.

SPEAKER_06 2:55

Yeah. Well hey, we love that.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

And one from Tiny Rebel.

SPEAKER_06 3:01

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

And then another one from Delirium.

SPEAKER_04 3:05

Sweet. We've got Belgium. Since we've last been together, Sharon and I have been on a weekend in Brussels. Wow. And uh we drank a lot of beer. A lot of beer.

SPEAKER_06 3:18

Have you got any any stories from that that we can delve into later on? Or can you say them on a that are safe for work, so to speak?

SPEAKER_04 3:26

Yeah, no, I think I can I can tell.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

I can. I don't think a lot of we say is safe for work. Well, this is work. It's got an explicit tag on it.

SPEAKER_06 3:34

Yeah, I mean, it's edgy. E for edgy. You'd be disappointed if the AI fucking pissed off.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Well, yeah, we guaranteed that. No, I I put it on, it's not the AI. Oh, really? Yeah. Why'd you do that? Because it says you have to it's like accepting terms and conditions before you publish it. It says Oh, so you're just declaring it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. Does this content?

SPEAKER_06 3:58

So are we also have you also mentioned that we will be sampling a couple of the cask beers this evening? As we are. Yeah, some cask cast. Yeah. I feel like we've um we've had many weeks where we've just canned the shit out of it, so to speak. So we canned all that. Yeah, we. Although we are we have some cans. Well, I think as I always said, we're a broad church. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:20

Double double business at this point. We like cans, we like casks, we like kegs now. Oh, kegs are on now. A couple of kegs.

SPEAKER_06 4:31

A keg's the same size as a cask in terms of pintering.

SPEAKER_04 4:34

88 pints in a keg. How many's in a cask? 72. Ooh. Yeah. Interesting.

unknown 4:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:42

So the Why is that then?

SPEAKER_06 4:43

Who made that rule?

SPEAKER_04 4:45

I don't know. It's probably to do with a metric system.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Yeah. Casks are in gallons.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

Casks are an old English imperial. Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_06 4:55

So how many litres is a keg?

SPEAKER_04 4:58

So I've got all the crafts. 50 litres, I think. 50? Yeah. That's a lot of litres. I could I could have gotten a few more. How much is that in diesel then? It's fifteen litres of diesel, you know. What's heavier? What's heavier? A ton of coal or a ton of feathers?

SPEAKER_06 5:15

Depends who's lifting it.

SPEAKER_04 5:17

That makes no sense whatsoever. Anyway, anyway. I'm sure the listeners are fascinated by this scientific discussion.

SPEAKER_06 5:24

And for philosophical.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

What are we drinking? What are we drinking? That was what I was going to ask, actually.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

That was a great segue, man. I just wanted to make sure you didn't think it's a little bit more. I don't know, sorry.

SPEAKER_06 5:34

No, like dear, don't be able to do it. If you want to say it, Pete, and I can cover my.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

So, gentlemen. As we freshen our palates, looking forward to the delightful range of beers that Sharon told us about. What are we drinking?

SPEAKER_06 5:47

Ash. So I'm actually on my second point. So we got it a bit early. Is it because it I think it's the lighter evenings? Yeah, it's nice. I had a day off today. It's been um uneventfully eventful. We'll get on to that. Have I got a story for you? I'm already shaking after you said that. That's horrible. Anyway, all will become clear. Just like my um immune system now. Yeah. So you're on.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

What about your shit sandwich today?

SPEAKER_06 6:17

My shit sandwich.

SPEAKER_04 6:19

Oh no, that's that's a whole segment in itself, which we'll come into.

SPEAKER_06 6:22

We'll tease that. Stay listening. So my my first piece is Dog calling someone. Onto the drinks. Yeah, stop. He's got that dog in him tonight. My first drink this evening was a pint of uh Petey's pick of the week, which this week is uh an IPA called Sinbin from Tiny Rebel Brewing Company.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

We will be tasting that for the listeners later on.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

Why they're and they're in Newport. Newport in Wales. I thought they were I thought they were in Cardiff. Do you get any other Welsh Welsh in? Do you get any other one? I don't think we have had any other Welsh. Are you part Welsh? I am part Welsh. Well, I was born in Wales. Hang on. I'm a bullshit.

SPEAKER_04 7:09

Is there one nation in the nation? Yeah, Scotland.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Commonwealth that you're not a part of. How do you get some Scotland in you? I haven't got. I know a guy. Yeah, yeah. There you go. I've got Welsh in me. Did you play your cards right? I've got Irish in me. Yeah. So wait, so you were born in Wales? Yeah, I was born in Wales. So I don't have any Welsh ancestry, but could you play football?

SPEAKER_06 7:34

I was born there. Like Gareth Bale. Is he Welsh? Yeah, he was probably Welsh. Do you know any other Welsh footballers?

SPEAKER_04 7:40

Uh Aaron Ramsey.

SPEAKER_06 7:42

Oh yeah. Did he play for Arsenal?

SPEAKER_04 7:44

Not anymore. Or did he? Not anymore. No. Football school. He played, he went to school with my cousin. Did he? And my second cousin?

SPEAKER_05 7:53

All the same?

SPEAKER_04 7:54

Yeah. Same, but over different actions. Especially around here. She brother's uncle.

SPEAKER_06 7:59

So yeah, so I had a pint of that, and that was lovely. And I'm sure I'll give you my actual review when we give it another taste later on. But it went down very well. It's only a 4.1%, very refreshing. Um and then I had some this morning.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

Yeah, I was um I was You got caught, didn't you? I didn't get caught. I was I wasn't like hiding it.

SPEAKER_04 8:19

You I I was in uh that there London this morning, so Max tapped the beers. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I could tell you about my little night out with my son in London. Just go for it. Will we do that right away? No, well, I'll save that for a bit. It wasn't I mean it's not really dramatic, but we drank some great beers. I'll tell you about the beers we had. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 8:40

So anyway, so the second beer I'm on now, which now I've got there, is um a nice pallet cleanser. Obviously, it's the Bristol beer factory, gravity, the lager we all know and love. On keg, nice and cold summer today. Yeah. Moving on to you, Max. How are you doing? That's disgusting. Have you had a nice week?

SPEAKER_03 9:00

Yeah, it's been alright. Yeah, we've had a good time. We went to uh we went on a little travels. I don't know if we've got that story. We're gonna be talking about it. We've got a lot of stories tonight.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Tell you what, this show's gonna be jam-packed full of stories. I'm worried it's gonna be too jam-packed. Yeah, but we're gonna be here for two and a half hours. Imagine being the silly bastard who has to edit this.

SPEAKER_04 9:21

You watch it worth about 46 grand a year? I reckon. I reckon this will cost you more, Pete.

SPEAKER_03 9:27

I'm just worried whether when I'm gonna be able to get it done. I might have to do it tonight and tomorrow afternoon.

SPEAKER_06 9:32

Well, anyway, that's not for the that's not the listeners' quarrels to hear about.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Our problem.

SPEAKER_06 9:37

Your problem? Not my problem.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

We're just a telling. What are you drinking, Max? I'm drinking uh Bristol Beer Factory Gravity. Shout out the second point as well. Yeah, because it's I like to have something neutral, but it's not neutral. I guess we always refer to it as a platelet cleanser.

SPEAKER_06 9:52

I think it's neutral in here.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Yeah. It's not like bombastically bombastic. Bombastic. Yeah. It's not ketcastically. Castastic. We put that in in the edit.

SPEAKER_05 10:04

I'm Mr. Lauba Lauba.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

Only five seconds of it.

SPEAKER_03 10:13

I don't know the rest of the words. He's Jamaican, isn't he? I don't know. That might be really butly. And on to you, Pete. Anyway, yeah, thanks for all that. He's Jamaican American.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

Uh okay. What are you drinking, Pete? I'm drinking the Arba Massive Azak. Nice. Which is uh strong one, actually. Yeah, five points four. Um hazy pale. Taste the strength. Taste the strength. But beautiful, beautiful beer.

SPEAKER_06 10:42

He's gone for a half of that. In his signature half handle.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

Landlord. You know, there's like a little in the there's like a little like shield on it. You could put like a picture of your face on it. Yeah, or a crest.

SPEAKER_06 10:59

You could do, yeah. Well, we got a few of those. Just put the skull bit on it. Cut it out. I don't think that'll survive the dishwasher. It won't. I doubt it.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

Yeah, so we went to Dark Revolution on Monday.

SPEAKER_04 11:11

Yeah, should we talk about that after we've had our first beer?

SPEAKER_03 11:14

We're pushing it all back. Yeah. When are we going to talk about any more?

SPEAKER_04 11:19

After our first beer. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

We had some edge cats. Yeah, let's have our first cats. Uh first beer. We are ready.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

So this is a tropical session IPA called Hops and Dreams. This is like hopes and I was on in the umil beer festival that's been on recently. So one of our regulars had this at said festival.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

Oh, shout out Terry. Terry the Bus. One of my favourite regulars. Terry the Bus? He always comes on the bus.

SPEAKER_06 11:58

No. No.

SPEAKER_03 12:00

Terry would never do such a thing.

SPEAKER_05 12:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

He's a very good thing. He recommended that they get in contact and they did.

SPEAKER_04 12:09

Why is he called the bus? Because he always travels by bus. Oh. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

To be fair, I've never called him Terry the Bus.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

No, I just called him Terry the Bus. He's a lovely lovely bus. He does come on the bus. He's a lovely man.

SPEAKER_03 12:22

I've never come on a bus. Do you have a bus on a bus? Who wants a can? Oh, look.

SPEAKER_06 12:30

You did a first can, Pete. Oh, I can't read. In any small text, I'll I'll got you covered.

SPEAKER_04 12:35

This is full of juicy possibilities. Oh, I got that. It's just been ripped. Thank you, Sherry.

SPEAKER_06 12:42

Oh wait, this one's full of juicy possibilities. I think I said that. You did. This beer is just like sipping on sweet sunshine.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

Sweet, sweet sunshine. Sunshine I ever have. No, it sounds kind of fatal. To be fair, with the weather we're having, we could all try it, couldn't we?

SPEAKER_03 12:58

Oh we could, yeah. Just cool. I might be sipping on pure Standing outside with your mouth open wine. What is it?

SPEAKER_02 13:03

Like uh open filter.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Sun You got that vitamin D in your mouth.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:10

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Taking it taking all that D.

SPEAKER_06 13:14

Yep those rays. Big Ray. Get that big D in your mouth. Ray J. Each in peace, Ray J.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Is he dead? No, but he's dying, I think.

SPEAKER_06 13:26

Oh. He's got like a terminal illness. Fuck. We'll come on to that later. Yeah, we'll come on to the last later. Anyway. Each totally tropical mouth feel, mouth full, makes the future seem that little bit brighter. That's quite nice. Wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

I'm uh and if we did a if we no, that drinking that one.

SPEAKER_06 13:46

I thought you were wowing the bit.

SPEAKER_04 13:48

If we did a check-in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:50

Should we do a check-in before?

SPEAKER_04 13:52

Sharon, do you want to run it? Sharon, this is your kind of beer. This is so positive. Do you want to run a little check-in and then we'll drink the beer and see if we're better? Yeah, is this what they're promising? This says we'll be better after. Wow.

SPEAKER_06 14:09

Azanka. Tell Sharon what it says. Sharon, do you want to read that out? I feel like this is your blurb. Give it another read.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Full of juicy possibilities. This beer is just like a like sipping on sweet sunshine. Each I can't read that. What's that say? Totally tropical mouthful makes the future seem that little bit brighter.

SPEAKER_04 14:38

Well, there you go.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Yeah, I'm doing I'm doing a new prescription, aren't I? Glasses. That's why I can't read that.

SPEAKER_03 14:45

Should have gone to Spec Savers.

SPEAKER_00 14:46

I have been. Other opticians are available sponsored by. I've been, just haven't got them yet.

SPEAKER_06 14:53

But it smells like. Are we sniffing? It smells like a dog's mouth.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

You should know that, shouldn't you, listeners? We'll we'll we'll go into that in a minute. Yeah, that's what we're making out with dogs all day.

SPEAKER_06 15:04

Do you not think it smells like you know like the a water bottle out of it or a dog's drink out of it? No. No.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

I don't think it smells particularly pleasant, though.

unknown 15:15

I'm not getting it on that.

SPEAKER_06 15:16

No sunshine. No sunshine on my nose.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

Yeah, you know, golden rays. Anyway.

SPEAKER_06 15:22

Let's clink and drink. First one of the night. Clink a dee clink.

SPEAKER_03 15:26

Don't know if you could hear that.

SPEAKER_04 15:28

I think we could.

SPEAKER_06 15:32

You can do that now, that's yours.

SPEAKER_04 15:34

Whoa, that's infused me with possibilities. That's quite juicy.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

That is not what I was expecting. I wasn't expecting that. It's very clear. It's dark though as well.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

It's 3.4. Okay. That's the point.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

Yeah. Oh, well. And it comes in a 330mm can. What they call powder monkey.

SPEAKER_06 15:55

That's mad.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Oh shit. There were exactly a brewery called powder monkey.

SPEAKER_06 16:03

Gluten-free vegan. All that good stuff. Independent craft microbrewery found in 2014.

SPEAKER_04 16:09

That's quite old, really, isn't it?

SPEAKER_06 16:11

We are talented Indiegate making a drinking beer and dreaming about the revolution.

SPEAKER_04 16:16

Oh shit. Whoa. Fucking article straight away. To be fair, those boys in the donuts ears will prop up, pick up when they hear this podcast.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

They should do a collab with Anarchy Brewer.

SPEAKER_06 16:27

There's a fucking quote on here as well. It doesn't stop with all the Do you know anyone called Harriet Tubman?

SPEAKER_03 16:33

Yes, you don't know Harriet Tubman.

SPEAKER_06 16:35

Obviously not. Okay. Who's that then before I read the quote?

SPEAKER_03 16:38

She's a very famous civil rights.

SPEAKER_06 16:42

So it says every great dream begins with a dreamer. Yeah. You heard that one before?

SPEAKER_03 16:46

Uh no, but it sounds like something Harriet Tubman would have said. Yeah, no, she did, apparently. It's written on the can. It says it on the can. To be fair, I like the vibe. She was an al abolitionist. In the abolitionist of the slave trade in America. Well that's that's that's a brilliant thing to be.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

So, did you say they're based in Yovel?

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Devil, I know, no, Terry was at the Yovel Beer Festival and he had Where are they where? Oh, I didn't know that was still going.

SPEAKER_04 17:14

Salteton.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

Who's the main at the Yovel Beer Festival though, was he? He was at Spoons. And they have all a load of casks on once a year, don't they?

SPEAKER_06 17:23

Oh. Now who's the main because Yoval Ales used to be the main thing for the Yovel Beer Festival, obviously. But they all shut down, aren't they? Yeah, they weren't. So who's running the show there now? We played a few gigs there back in the day.

SPEAKER_04 17:35

Yeah, but it used to be at Westlands, didn't it?

SPEAKER_06 17:37

Yeah, it was quite big. Yovel Ales went in 2022. It was not that long ago. Twenty-four years. Well, four years. What's happening in four years? We're old now, mate.

SPEAKER_03 17:47

Could have had a four-year-old kid in four years. That's like a I can't deny that.

SPEAKER_06 17:52

A seventh of our lives.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

Yeah, I'm not gonna work that out. Yeah, I just agree with you. You could be wrong.

SPEAKER_04 18:01

I might say eight point two five of mine.

SPEAKER_06 18:05

Wait, really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:09

Well, if I was 40, it'd be ten.

SPEAKER_06 18:11

No, I said four years though.

SPEAKER_04 18:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:14

How old are you now?

SPEAKER_03 18:15

I'm 59.

SPEAKER_06 18:17

Oh yeah, because you're gonna be 60 this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

And he's having a birthday party on the Yeah. And it is, isn't it in um You're all invited.

SPEAKER_06 18:33

If you email in, you can get an invite. To be fair, less people listen to this than there is a podcast right now. And we'll send you the location.

SPEAKER_04 18:39

What's it having a rave?

SPEAKER_03 18:41

Secret game, yeah. It's a free party.

SPEAKER_04 18:44

Yeah. Meet at the um meet at the Eso garage at Wirral Park. Where's Wirral Park? Glastonbury.

SPEAKER_06 18:52

Oh, okay. Near the KFC. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

I knew that, but I I only know it because of KFC.

SPEAKER_06 18:58

Well, is that on the address?

SPEAKER_04 19:00

I don't think it's an Eso garage anymore either.

SPEAKER_03 19:01

No, it's changed to something.

SPEAKER_04 19:03

I don't know. God cares, bro. Don't get me started on diesel. Diesel.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

Seen the price of diesel. Price of bloody diesel. $120 quid for a barrel of oil. A barrel of oil today. $120.

SPEAKER_06 19:14

Oh, sorry. Quid dollars, anything. Yeah, well. It's not affecting the price of beer yet. I can't afford any of these beers. When will it affect the price of beer? Do they put do they pass much beer through the Strait of Hormuz?

SPEAKER_03 19:28

No, but um Little to none, I would expect Strait of Horboo's.

SPEAKER_04 19:32

Beer making is very energy intensive. Yeah. That's where it'll get you.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

Yeah, that's where it will get them. Yeah. That's hilarious, actually. I'm thinking of just like a crab beer. Crab brewery in Iran. They can't get his beer out.

SPEAKER_06 19:46

That's next week.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

You should see the shelf in the office, don't you? Not from round here. Do they have are they allowed beer in Iran? Is there any alcohol in Iran?

SPEAKER_04 19:59

I wouldn't have thought so.

SPEAKER_06 20:00

That's why they keep sending it out.

SPEAKER_04 20:03

I'm Googling it.

SPEAKER_03 20:05

Are there any micro brewer in Iran? Um Alcohol is strictly illegal in Iran for all Muslim citizens and tourists. There are no public bars, liquor stores, or nightclubs. Wait, it's illegal. Yeah. Yes. It's an Islamic Republic, isn't it?

SPEAKER_06 20:23

I didn't know that. Well, you can't drink in Iran. No. No. What do they do for fun? Welcome to politics tonight. If you're a Muslim. No wonder they're so fucking angry. Anyway, we'll leave it there. Imagine them on booze. Yeah. Damn.

SPEAKER_04 20:44

So um what are we going to talk about? We were going to talk about um free. I went to London, didn't I? Yeah, oh yeah. How was that? It was good. It was good. I drank bass, proper bass, draft bass. Okay. Isn't that like a fish?

SPEAKER_03 21:00

3.4% or something.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

It's a bit more than that. I think it's about 4.1. Right, like cask bass. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Because they have it on keg, don't they, sometimes? No, I'm thinking of like whenever I go up north, there's like Stones and John Smith's and Tetley's and all that kind of thing. Rubbish. So what is bass?

SPEAKER_04 21:20

It's like uh it's like a brown brown beer. Traditional bass. But a very traditional brown beer. No, it's better than that. But you know, we agreed to differ actually. But I did my favourite bit.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

It doesn't taste like Nukey B either, though.

SPEAKER_06 21:33

No, but what does it taste like a John Smith's? Yeah, it's very much like Langport bitter. Oh yeah. Do we get some of that on or no? We're not having that. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

Um, and then I went to um quite a fancy bar and I had a pint of Deia magazine cover.

SPEAKER_03 21:50

Oh yeah, that's nice. Have we had that in cans before? Whoa.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

It was beautiful. But how much do you think you'd pay for two pints? Fancy bar just off Smithfield.

SPEAKER_03 22:01

I reckon more. Do you? I reckon I reckon. Seven pounds I've seven pounds round.

SPEAKER_04 22:09

Fifteen pounds and eighty pence. Shit. So what's that? £7.90. Fortunately, I was drinking with my son and it was his round. Whee! Shower George. Yeah. Yeah. And then we went to this lovely pub and um they had Harvey's uh best bitter, Sussex bitter on cask. Yeah. Which is the best traditional English bitter available in this country. You are good. Wow. I'm gonna put it out there. Nice. If anyone disagrees with it, email in. Yeah. When did you get that opinion? Oh, I've had that for quite a long time. Last night. After my seventh party. Yeah, because it was only four pounds fifty a pint.

SPEAKER_06 22:54

So how much would something like that be? And how much was the best?

SPEAKER_04 22:56

That was um that was about 13 quid we were paying for that.

SPEAKER_06 23:00

For two pints, obviously. Yeah, but still London prices. Six pounds fifty. Well, London prices, man. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

But still.

SPEAKER_04 23:07

And every and the other thing was like so different around here. Every pub was heaved. I know you're in the centre of the capital, but what time did you go? Uh met George about seven and came on at last orders.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Yeah, but the weird thing about London is it gets really busy, but it's not very late, so for pubs.

SPEAKER_06 23:26

No, no, I mean we were They all just go on the way home from work, don't they? We were kicked out. Suit it up.

SPEAKER_03 23:31

Well, yeah, so there's so many pubs in London that are shut by eleven. Yeah. Like when we played there.

SPEAKER_06 23:37

Because that's when they're all club it.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

Yeah, but if you don't want to if you just want to have a drink. Like even down here, spoons is open till two. Yeah, because it's fuck all elves open. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:46

If they're just capitalising on the on being the only ones that will.

SPEAKER_03 23:50

When we played a gig in London, we finished at like what? Max is in a band. 11th. Follow EMS band at EMS Band. Play one of the unreleased songs. No. Um and we went out at like midnight and like there was just nothing open. We just we had it was either a gay club or we and we found one bar that we had to walk like 25 minutes for.

SPEAKER_04 24:14

That's no good, is it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

Did you walk 25 minutes for it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

Well that how would they have found it if they hadn't walked 25 minutes? Yeah, exactly. Well, I don't know if you just like Google Maps it and thought, fuck that.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

You type I typed in on Google Maps, but pub's open now.

SPEAKER_06 24:27

Yeah, and it worked. Yeah. Cool, modern technology.

SPEAKER_03 24:30

Anyway, on to the next beer? Yeah, I think so. I think it's a bit busy though. Yeah, we'll let Sharon. Let's have a story. I just feel like we're waffling a bit. We need we've got one story that we can have now. Alright. Are we not going to have another beer and then have that story? That's what I mean. I don't know why it has to be so rigidly structured, especially if Sharon's busy. Just tell a story.

SPEAKER_04 24:51

What story we tell me? Well, go on then.

SPEAKER_03 24:54

If you fucking want to tell me, we went to Dark Revolution on Monday. Oh, that's gonna take a long time.

SPEAKER_06 24:58

Yeah, I don't know if I'm drunk enough for that one yet.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

God, what are we gonna talk about then?

SPEAKER_06 25:02

My one? No, but not yet. Yeah, go on. Okay. It's quiz now and there's pressure on me. Yeah. So I so today I've had a day off today, a nice Thursday off. Exactly. Had a lovely morning, went to the gym. Had a nice uh I had a massage, which was lovely. Whoa. Yeah, beautiful. A nice relaxing day. What was that noise? Was that noisy? Oh, that was you. That's you having a massage. Yeah. Happy ending? No. No, very professional. I'm an athlete, Pete. Alright? You're not talking to Max, you're talking to me. I'm not I'm not a traveller seeking a good time. I'm an athlete in recovery. Okay. So add that, you know, and I thought, oh, I could have gone straight home because I was feeling kind of like Zen, as you would. Yeah, um, could have gone straight home by thought, nah, I'm gonna go get a coffee. I love my coffee. Yeah. Gonna go to a cafe. I'd never been heard um good things about um olive in Mar Marto. Okay. It's like a sort of cafe in a tent, and I was like, okay, I'll go there. Um turned up, it was a really lovely day. Went in there, ordered, ordered my food, ordered a coffee. What food did you have? I had a uh flaffel and halloumi wrap. Okay, it was like bougie. Like, you know how they like dribble shit on the plate? Yeah. Yeah, it was like that. Like the the the jus.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Bet that cost you London prices.

SPEAKER_06 26:30

Uh I think that and a coffee was like £19. Whoa! For a wrap and a coffee. I could get two pints of magazine cover in central London for that. Exactly, that'll fill you up. But anyway, so I all I put I sat down, placed my order, I thought, ah, go to the toilet. Went to the toilet, came back from the toilet, I thought, oh, they got a little stand here from like a bakery that they use. I think it's Lovito, which I don't know where they're based on. That's Lovington. Oh, is it? Yeah, okay. Okay. So they had some breadfakes cakes. Shout-out Cobbs. Yeah, they had bread on there, they had they had some really nice looking cakes, had a little walk around there, and um, yeah, there was a um a lady paying for her meal, I assume, at the till area. Yeah. And I just walked past and um this little yappy fucking Yeah little yappy dog was was stood there, walked past it, and it sort of jumped at me. And I famously don't like dogs. Yeah. But I really it's not that I kind of like hate them. I just kind of like I've always let them be if they let me be. Yeah. Which I thought was respectful. I thought I was quite I wouldn't I wouldn't go if they're more take a dog, can I?

SPEAKER_04 27:40

If there are more people in the world like you, the bail world would be at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_06 27:43

Maybe, but in that but then I've also got like a slight like hint of like I don't think we should really fucking I'm saying this quietly because there's people in it with dogs and on the butt like part of me thinks we maybe we shouldn't be fucking just like tying up dogs and walking around town. But anyway, yeah I'll save my those sorts of views for another day. Well we get hate emails. But they're getting they're getting worse now, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

I disagree with you.

SPEAKER_06 28:09

Anyway, we But I like tying up all sorts. Yeah, but that's often consensual, no? Well, my trouble is I think it's I don't like that. My reason I've never done it. My you should try it. We're going off topic here.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

I tie up all my funds in this place.

unknown 28:26

Are you ready for your next beer?

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Not quite. Not quite. Ash is just telling his story.

SPEAKER_06 28:30

My reason, right? Is often because it's like a seemingly a non-con consensual relationship because if I have a it's like a language barrier. If I can't go, do you like where you are, mate? Are you alright if I straight your head? Yeah. Like if they if I can't get like an audible yes or no, then I'm yeah, I'll just leave it. Anyway, so I was walking past, minding my own business, looking at these cakes, and this dog sort of jumped up at me a bit like excitedly, and like, you know, dogs do that all the time, whatever. And I often just ignore them. I don't even look him in the eye, I don't like to. Um because once you look them in the eye, then they get attacked. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe I'm just a bit scared, I don't know. Um so then I just continued walking on, and then as I walked past him after he jumped up at me, he just then just sort of went for me. I think I don't know if it's because I didn't give it attention or what, but and then it bit me. Oh, I got bit by a dog today. I got bit. And it was like, you know, when you you hear a dog fighting like that. Yeah, and there you go. And it was probably and it and initially I thought it was just sort of scatting out, like just freaking out, and I didn't really know what to do. And I went and I kind of like was near my seat by this point anyway, and I sat down and like its owner came over, and she was a bit like, Oh, did my did my dog get you? And I was just like, I don't know. And I sort of looked down at my leg and like I felt it had hurt, but I didn't know if he'd just sort of like scratched me or whatever. I didn't realise he'd fully fucking sunk his teeth into me. Yeah, he draw back blood, yeah man, yeah ma'am. Ripped a hole in my sock. So I looked down, I didn't know it drew blood until like after though. Ripped a fucking hole in my sock. Yeah, yeah, we'll get there. Ripped a hole in my sock, and and I was just like, well, my whole my sock's ripped. My sock's ripped, but I don't know if it's that bad. And she was like, Oh, okay, she was like, Can I give you anything for my sock? And in the moment I was like in shock, and I was just like, nah nah, it's fine, because I'm that I'm a nice guy. But I wish I'd been like fucking yeah, what have you got? Like, at least give me a give me a tenner for my truck. You know, cotton prices are through the roof.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

All stuck in the straight hills. Exactly, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:37

Yeah. There's a boat full of Pomeranians.

SPEAKER_06 30:39

So then when when she she then Yeah, good, it's fucking best place for them. How did they get it by a bomb?

SPEAKER_03 30:50

Did it have to Disclaimer?

SPEAKER_06 30:52

This podcast loves dogs.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

I was thinking about uh I don't know, carry on. Finish the story and then I'll get it.

SPEAKER_06 30:57

So so then people around me kind of like cotton onto what happened and they were like, Are you okay? Like, did it did it? But then I pulled my sock down and I could see that it was bleeding, and and they it fucking fully bit me. But it didn't really hurt much. Maybe I'm just well art, but Yeah, I reckon so. Um so I saw that muscle. So then they gave me like a an antiseptic wipe, like they first aided me, which was nice, and all that stuff. I ate my wrap, drank my coffee. What breed was the dog? Fuck no, it was like a little yappy thing, like a not a Pomeranian, but like a it wasn't a shih tzu, but I don't fucking know, mate. It was like little and it was sort of fluffy and it was white and a Pomeranian, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:35

It was Iranian. Must be with that attitude. No, you can't.

SPEAKER_06 31:42

I don't know. But I wish I got his name because we'll come on to that. We'll come on to that. This is a quite a long convoluted story, but should we have our next beer?

SPEAKER_04 31:50

Because one assumes you you're just eating you're eating the wrap at the moment. I'm eating my wrap.

SPEAKER_06 31:54

The emergency dog have not been called. I didn't use the plaster because I didn't really want to cover it up because I wanted to keep looking at it. But anyway, on to the next beer. You're you're a masochist. What? Yeah, I like the look of it, yeah. Silver spray. Available at Cobbs. I thought that was the stuff you used to stop your radiator leaking in your car. I thought that was what you used to stop vampires. Anyway, on to the next beer. This is gonna be a long one. Wait, I think Harry on with a story. Oh. Oh, we've got there's another customer now. I like you.

SPEAKER_04 32:28

No, we'll just wait. Charon's just gonna deliver the next beer. Okay, right. This is another one. Oh, it's already poured out now.

SPEAKER_06 32:34

Oh, we're back on the cask cast.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

Oh my lord. The Pete's pick of the week.

SPEAKER_06 32:39

When was the last time we tried a cask beer? Ages ago. Probably like four weeks ago? Four or two.

SPEAKER_04 32:46

Sinbin from Tiny Rebel.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

And number three slot is gonna become my guest slot, so of which Tiny Rebel is my first guest.

SPEAKER_03 32:53

Where are they from, Sharon? Wales. Newport. Newport. Land of your fathers. Newport. I couldn't do a lot of things. Smells great. That was terrible.

SPEAKER_06 33:01

And one of the first things I said after I had a couple sips of this earlier on when Sharon poured me a lovely pint on entry. You probably know. Um I said it was in great condition. And it looked really nice in a pint glass, the lacing on the glass. I was turning into a bit of a beer snob.

unknown 33:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:18

Sharon called me out on. Tiny Rebel have a good reputation.

SPEAKER_04 33:21

Well, when you're when you're being served by as good a sellerman as us and Sharon, maybe. I expect nothing less these days, to be fair.

SPEAKER_03 33:28

I reckon it's down to who tapped them.

SPEAKER_06 33:30

Who tapped him? Who tapped him? Me. Yeah. And was good enough to have a half a pint at eleven o'clock this morning as well. Did you have a full pint earlier?

SPEAKER_03 33:39

No, I had like less like a half of a half glass because I just pulled it out. Oh right. And then you just filling up when I was filling up the uh colour, colour graders.

SPEAKER_06 33:50

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:51

I thought this one's a bit lively. I better better pull some more off. Better pull some more off. Yeah, I was pulling one off. Pull the other one. Right. Should we have a sniff? Yeah. This is Simbim from Tiny Rebel.

SPEAKER_06 34:04

Yeah. It smells um 4.1%. It smells uh like a perfume.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Yeah, it doesn't smell um ridiculous.

SPEAKER_06 34:12

Should we get the blurb?

SPEAKER_03 34:13

We've got oh we've got the blurb on the beer list.

SPEAKER_06 34:16

Yeah, blurb me up. Blurb on tap. Can we get the blurb? Do you want me to grab it? Can we get the blurb? Can we get the blurb?

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Please can we get the blurb, Sharon?

SPEAKER_04 34:27

Right. Um it's bright. Citrus on the nose, a juicy tropical break down the wing, and a clean, crisp finish. Wow. Down the wing. I think these are all rugby references, aren't they? Yeah, because of Simbin. Ah. Well, that's Welsh for you. Welsh love that rugby.

SPEAKER_03 34:46

That's Indian. Wait, try again. Was it D Pac Jones? I'm trying to do my Welsh accent. That's not bad. That was a good one. In Wales. Yeah. They love rugby. I can't do it. It goes into Indian. They love the rugby. You can't use that. We can't do this. They're like rugby and India as well.

SPEAKER_06 35:10

Two years. Four.

SPEAKER_03 35:11

Oh, it was four. You couldn't tell. I was born in Abogavani. Abagavani. Abigail. And then I lived in Usk for four years. Yeah, then. And then I came here.

SPEAKER_06 35:22

Where's it? Summerton. Home of the XM Arms. Home of the XM Arms. The premium. Yeah. Premium pub. And and I was going to call it something else, but. Real Alan Mind Bar. Real Alan. That's the worst one.

SPEAKER_03 35:34

Real Alon strip club. Yeah. No, it's not really a strip club.

SPEAKER_05 35:40

Poarhouse. Oh my god, it's really nice, actually. There's nothing.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

There's actually no wrongdoing going on here. No. No. I reckon we could do a bit more wrongdoing.

SPEAKER_06 35:49

Yeah, we could do a bit more, like, you know.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

I've never even I don't even think any of the either. So we like this.

SPEAKER_04 35:57

We like this on the nose. I'm not getting tropics on the nose.

SPEAKER_06 36:00

I'm getting like Yeah, like I said, it's more per perfumey than fruity. Like it's definitely like Mike's out the stand. Whoa. Bro, you're gonna go do run around the pub and get uh get interviews.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

Let's clink and drink.

SPEAKER_06 36:14

Let's clink and drink.

SPEAKER_03 36:17

Wow. Problem is it's gonna go pfft when I put it. It's not too bad.

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Oh, love that. That's nice.

SPEAKER_03 36:27

Oh yeah, great. That is nice. That is a great bit.

SPEAKER_04 36:29

See why I made that pick of the week. Yeah, that is a nice one.

SPEAKER_06 36:31

I think if you you know when you compare that to the last uh tropical infused IPA infused I that's the wrong word, but you know what I mean. We've just tasted that can of that hops and dreams. Granted, this is only 3.4 and that is a 4.1, but I just feel like this is ahead. Yeah. It could be the um you know it could be the cas quality coming through. Yeah, there's definitely the cas quality there. I feel like there's something to be said that we we m probably haven't spoken about much because we're always drinking from cans. Well, you know, there's something about a cask beer that's unique. It's unique in the world, I think.

SPEAKER_04 37:07

It is, yes, yeah absolutely. And they're trying to make it a sort of like uh British heritage heritage thing, aren't they? That you it's gonna become a protected thing.

SPEAKER_06 37:17

Sorry? It's a protected thing. Will you get like a government subsidy for having cask ale?

SPEAKER_04 37:22

No, so what they're saying is you can't you can't because a lot of breweries now are top loading, putting gas into cask to make it long, and they're they're talking about having a defined standard that unless it meets that standard, it ain't cask. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 37:38

So I thought that was already sort of like governed by camera.

SPEAKER_03 37:41

Yeah, but camera's not an official government. Yeah, no, this would be legal. It's just like a group of old men.

SPEAKER_06 37:47

Imagine being the governor for cask ale.

SPEAKER_03 37:51

The cast alezar. I think this could be my career in politics. Yeah. That I won't get because I've said all so much shit on this podcast.

SPEAKER_06 37:59

Yeah, they'll pull it up. Yeah, yeah. And all those dodgy texts you've been sending as well. Like, eh. Well, it's fine. Apparently, anyone can get a job in fucking government anyway, no matter what the voting process is.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

Hey, oh my god, as with a relevant political reference. I'm very impressed.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

I'm very impressed.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

Max would be the Peter Mendelssohn of the cascade.

SPEAKER_06 38:22

Right, so I finished my rap and my coffee. Oh yeah, okay. Oh, yeah, we're back to that. And I'm straight on Google, like like manyone in this this world is. Yeah. You know, what happens when you get bit by a dog? I'm shitting myself. I'm like, am I gonna get reasonable? Is that one of the symptoms? What shit? What's that?

SPEAKER_03 38:39

I wasn't physically shitting. That was the Halume. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 38:47

So there I was like thinking, you know, oh, and then it's like, oh, when was your last tetanus shot? And I was like, I don't fucking remember getting a tetanus shot. And then and then it's just like, you know, what's that dog been having in its mouth? Oh. And I was just a bit scared. Yeah. So I um I took a trip to the uh the ER to play the music, mate. I don't have an ER, man. No, okay. I thought you were lying. Anyway, I took a trip to um well the the minor injuries clinic in Glastonbury.

SPEAKER_04 39:14

That's not exactly the ER, is it?

SPEAKER_06 39:16

Because actually, uh we'll just I I think um well, I don't I say You don't get George Clooney, guys. I actually West Mended Hospital. As the as the young adult that I that I'm still trying to be, the first person I rang was my mum. Oh. Yeah, that'll do. I I wasn't blues and twos off. But I actually rang my mum and she was. Did you get the airbo, right? Yeah, yeah. They pulled up, they pulled up outside and stretched me in. Um they didn't. No, they didn't. But I tried to um go to the Buttercross to just, you know, see if they could maybe just give me a tetanus shot or whatever, and they had no appointments available. Classic Buttercross. I don't know if anyone listening's ever experienced that round here. Yeah. Where's the what Buttercross? The Buttercross Health Centre. Next to Tummerton. Anyway, I won't I won't shit talk them, but so I and I I ended up going to Glastonbury to the I think they call it the minor injuries, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, basically like an A and E. Yeah. Oh, this is nice. Well then they checked it over. Like the actual wound itself wasn't too bad, because you know, only a small dog. Yeah. But they um did my blood pressure, took my pulse. How'd you be P, mate? Yeah. I don't know, they didn't tell me. I guess it was bad, they would have told me. Yeah. So I assume it's good. I'm a healthy.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

Yeah yeah, every morning, mate. Do they do like well they might have done blood pressure?

SPEAKER_06 40:48

Oh no, no. I thought you meant just like testing my athleticism and snapping.

SPEAKER_03 40:52

Your blood blood pressure must have been through the roof because you were so um freaked out.

SPEAKER_06 40:57

Yeah, all that halloomy. And coffee. Um no, I was kind of freaked out in a way, because I've never been bit by a dog properly, I don't think. No.

SPEAKER_03 41:07

Um you literally had that dog in you.

SPEAKER_06 41:10

Yeah, I think I just spiraled a bit. So um so did you cry? I didn't cry. I didn't cry, no. But they looked at it, they dressed it, they cleaned it, all that good stuff, and they were like, we're not gonna give you antibiotics just yet, because it is probably fine. Um keep an eye on it, keep it see if it's infected. Um, and we will update your your tetan shot. So now I've had a boost of the tetanus thing, so I'm good for a wait, so you had you had it there? Yeah, they gave me the shot. Yeah. Why do they give the shot? They still don't have the arse. No, I asked for that and they said no. Can you not just put a finger in it? I said, please. No, they just it was just in the um the muscle, like the tricep area.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

I said the dog must have been homophobic.

SPEAKER_06 41:54

And I yeah, I'm not gonna say why I didn't.

SPEAKER_04 42:00

Well, I'm glad you're still with us. Yeah, me to be honest. You know, but also Yeah, the clothes call that one.

SPEAKER_06 42:06

The funny thing is, I was in I was in the um in the hospital, right? And the lady goes, Did you report the dog? And I was just like, sorry, what? And she goes, You know, you can report the dog to the police if you had its details. And I was like, What fucking details was I gonna get wasn't gonna be like a driving license.

SPEAKER_03 42:22

To be fair, in that cafe, that dog probably has its own Instagram. Maybe. It's one of them bougie dogs that has its own Instagram, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:29

But like, but in the moment they can't show Instagram, can they?

SPEAKER_04 42:31

Because they haven't got opposable thumbs.

SPEAKER_06 42:33

That's why he's been trying to lose his teeth. That's why he's so angry at me, because I was on my phone. Um But no, I I in the moment I was so shocked, like the the lady was like, Can I give you anything for your son? Do you know the dog's name? No, because I in the moment I was like, uh I may as well have said, Is the dog's teeth alright? I was that like Do you know what I mean? I'm a nice guy. I don't know, I was just a bit like ah, it's fine, whatever. But then in hindsight, I wish I'd been like fucking Was the lady fit? Shut that motherfucker down. No. Ah. See, I would have. She was old. Not not say that. You would have what? But um, I don't know. She seemed concerned enough, but not really concerned enough. Oh, so it didn't like um And also then I overheard other customers uh saying that that dog had like been having a go at something else earlier on in the the day or the hour. But it just it's just like how how you how you walking around with your dog that's just biting people like that. It's funny. That's not right, isn't it? But I think but I don't agree with any dog, even if it done bite me, so anyway. I'll leave it there. That's my story. I hope we'll be able to do that.

SPEAKER_04 43:39

You could have probably stamped its skull I got a little um and names will have to be changed to protect the innocent. Yeah. But I had a story which was um told to me yesterday about someone who woke up and their foot had swolled swelled to about twice their the size. Right. And they described It to me as having like this freaking um like logfoot. Yeah, logfoot. Well that lugger foot. Um so they went to the pharmacy straight away. Yeah, yeah. And the pharmacist goes, um oh it's This is a joke. No, this is a true story, this is. Um it's sinicitis or whatever, yeah. And it's like an an it's a viral infection. Yeah. You'll need antibiotics or you might lose your leg.

SPEAKER_05 44:25

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:26

Literally, just like you'll lose your leg. And this is the final thing.

SPEAKER_06 44:29

Well, that's the best way to deal with it these days, isn't it? So so these days, no.

SPEAKER_04 44:35

The person in question just phoned the GP, like, shitting themselves now because they're gonna lose and live. Is that another symptom? And um got an emergency doctor's appointment, and then they walked in, and the doctor goes, I've read through your notes. Can I just assure you we will not be amputating any part of your body today? Wow, yeah. That's what I was gonna do. And he said, like this pharmacist is just wrong. Yeah. He said all they had to do was like give you antibiotics and it starts to go down, and by the what caused it? Okay. And the and by this morning it had gone down by about 40% because the antibiotics had kicked in. Nice. But the person went back to see this pharmacist and the pharmacist said uh was basically, oh, it's a good job. I I prescribed that and what? He thought he goes, you you you know, you can trust me because I think he thought he was a doctor.

SPEAKER_06 45:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:39

Wow, you can't trust pharmacists.

SPEAKER_06 45:41

Well, I think you can, but I I it's like breaking news.

SPEAKER_04 45:45

I don't we don't want to put anyone off from if they have an ailment and the closest point of medical help is to pharmacy. Please do go see him. I do um I will couple of bad apples don't ruin the pot, do they?

SPEAKER_06 45:56

Is that the right expression?

SPEAKER_03 45:58

Get your ailments out.

SPEAKER_06 46:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

What ails you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 46:02

Anyway, on that topic though, I do get that. Well, this was a what ails you section. Yeah, yeah, here this is our first one. I should have emailed in. I should have answered my email email. Well, my on that topic though, I would like to mention, like, I had this initial, like, I don't know if anyone else gets it. I don't really go to I would say unless I'm really like ill, I don't really go to the the doctors and stuff much. Luckily I've had not had much wrong with me in my life. Yeah. Apart from the obvious. You're a young man now. Yeah, of course. But like I I I had this like sort of like guilt of wasting time. Not wasting wasting time, resources, money, like although like I've fucking paid enough tax into the system to to have my fair share of NHS. Yeah. But I do I do get this like this weird guilt of like, oh, is it not bad enough? But I think I urge everyone because I feel so much better now that I've been there, they've checked me over, I've got a little jab, I know that I'm not gonna get in any because initially I was just like, it was only a fucking little dog bite, should I just leave it? But I don't think you should, and I'm glad I didn't.

SPEAKER_04 47:02

The thing is though And that's the message I'll send to our listeners. If um I don't know what the cost of resources that were employed on you. No, but they're bound to be a fair few quid, aren't they? Yeah. And if this woman had just kept her dog under control, none of this would have had to happen. Yeah. And on that note, we'll move on. Yeah. And just just as a disclaimer, the Etsom Arms welcomes well-behaved dogs.

SPEAKER_06 47:26

Yeah, only have you ever had a dog bite anyone in here though?

SPEAKER_04 47:30

No. Don't think so.

SPEAKER_06 47:30

No, it doesn't happen often. Well, I work in a cafe, I've never had a dog bite anyway. When you told me it happened, I thought I thought you were gonna tell you.

SPEAKER_03 47:37

Well When you said it happened, I thought you were gonna say it was like an exile bully or something.

SPEAKER_06 47:41

But it's so but it's annoying because I actually I'm someone who like generally, like I said, leaves dogs alone. Like I don't fucking they c they felt the off vibes. Yeah, fuck 'em. Not literally.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

Okay, we're the third one. Yeah, we're ready.

SPEAKER_06 48:17

So we're back to a can now, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen. Over the age of 18. Oh, there was a little chish. Drinker is at the ready. I've got one, I've got one, I've got one. You needed more of a crack at the start. Ready? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:41

It's almost like you look round and Sharon was actually pouring the beer.

SPEAKER_06 48:44

Yeah, it was like a it was like a Japanese dubbed mit movie.

SPEAKER_04 48:49

This is powder cake speak easy pale. It's a gluten-free, vegan, and 4.3%. Have you undone another button?

SPEAKER_06 48:58

No, I've always had this one I've done. Is it a bit much?

SPEAKER_03 49:03

Yeah, I think so. I think one more button would be better.

SPEAKER_06 49:06

One more button undone. No, one more button done up. Right, um I'm just showing off my um my chest.

SPEAKER_04 49:12

This um we've got my other Ash's atar really doesn't work on podcasts, does it? What do you mean? We could talk about what I'm wearing if you want.

SPEAKER_03 49:21

He's wearing pale pink shorts and a white shirt. He looks like he's like gonna go on a yacht.

SPEAKER_06 49:27

Yeah, yacht yacht man.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

Um this is flavour-packed, perfectly balanced, pale, with robust malt and lush fruitiness.

SPEAKER_02 49:40

Robust.

SPEAKER_04 49:40

For schemas and rubbing rapids.

SPEAKER_06 49:45

Rubbing rapids.

SPEAKER_04 49:47

Oh, we could be having some of that on um Saturday.

SPEAKER_06 49:51

Oh yeah, we could we could have another story we could talk about.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

Oh my god, it's gonna be three hours long.

SPEAKER_06 49:57

Well, that could be next time. Yeah, but we I think we ought to tease it.

SPEAKER_04 50:01

Yeah, we'll tease the end. Speakeasy, loosen your tongue and free your mind. These lodges can't fucking conform, can they? So the hop, the hops in here. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what. Should we have a sniff? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:22

Yeah. Oh, that's bittery.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

Wow, it smells like revolution.

SPEAKER_06 50:25

Again, it's got that it's got um a funky smell. Should we clink and drink? Yes. But it smells better than the last. I'm gonna ask. What do you think about these small, small cans?

SPEAKER_04 50:34

I I am not. They're good for trains.

SPEAKER_06 50:38

Yeah, that's a bit good for flights. Can you take that on a flight? Yeah. No, you don't.

SPEAKER_03 50:44

You could. No, it's a hundred mil. No, it's not. They've they've taken them away now. Really? Yeah. How much can you take on a flight now then? Uh a litre, I think.

SPEAKER_06 50:52

Yeah, as long as it's not bomb fluid.

SPEAKER_03 50:55

Yeah. That was the whole point. Let's see if this bombs.

SPEAKER_04 51:02

Can anyone tell me the hops?

SPEAKER_06 51:04

Do you want me to read it or I can read it?

SPEAKER_03 51:06

Oh crack and smack.

SPEAKER_06 51:08

Wait, hold on.

SPEAKER_03 51:13

I have no idea. They're quite they're bitter. They're fugged.

SPEAKER_06 51:16

Hold on, they're bitter hops. Are they is it like a um mosaic?

SPEAKER_04 51:21

We grow them.

SPEAKER_06 51:22

Who does?

SPEAKER_04 51:23

We do.

SPEAKER_06 51:24

I don't know. Exactly. Shit, what hops do you grow?

SPEAKER_04 51:28

Hops out the back.

SPEAKER_06 51:29

No, I meant like I don't know. Are they the same as what you've always grown? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know why. I don't think I ever learnt this knowledge. They're not Foggles, are they?

SPEAKER_04 51:38

No. Foggles, very traditional English one.

SPEAKER_03 51:41

Yeah, that's why I said it.

SPEAKER_04 51:41

It's a North American hop. Well, I mean, obviously it's English because you can grow it here, but.

SPEAKER_06 51:47

It's English now. It's ours. Nice. No, I I'm I'm up.

SPEAKER_04 51:57

Chinook.

SPEAKER_06 51:59

Oh yeah. Shit, we spoke about this the other day. Azaka. Azaka and Citra. So I got none of them. I almost said Azaka because it was in the last one. But the can on this is beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 52:18

It looks the same as the other one though.

SPEAKER_06 52:19

No, it's got it's got more on it. No, but it does look very similar. Yeah, of course it looks similar.

SPEAKER_03 52:25

Yeah, but like very similar.

SPEAKER_06 52:26

I don't know where the other one's gone. Sharon. Sharon? It's got a microphone, it's got music shit on it. It's got a quill. It's very artsy, this one. Mmm. Wow, yeah, fucking liberal.

SPEAKER_04 52:38

Speakeasy. What's the speakeasy again? Well, it was a thing in the um Prohibition. Do what you want.

SPEAKER_06 52:48

Then there was it was unlawful.

SPEAKER_04 52:50

We need sort of Charleston music now.

SPEAKER_06 52:52

What the fuck do you fucking want? What's the Speakeasy Motel? Is that from The Simpsons or something?

SPEAKER_07 52:59

Hey, uh alcohol's illegal, I so I I'll sell you some. Oh, okay. You can say what the fuck you like, you motherfucker.

SPEAKER_06 53:09

That was the best Welsh accent of the night. The schemers and the dreamers. Wow. Loosen your tongue and free your mind.

SPEAKER_04 53:19

Yeah, like I like my. Oh, I quite like this.

SPEAKER_06 53:22

I told that.

SPEAKER_03 53:23

It doesn't blow my nuts off, though.

SPEAKER_06 53:27

Well it won't, it's 4.3%. But it is good. And also, speaking of these small cans, although I think I agree they're a bit like lackluster and I'd want a bit more, I there's nothing like a little pocket rocket. Like a little like but yeah, take it round your mate's house. But placement call of duty.

SPEAKER_04 53:52

Oh no. Well, I've never played Call of Duty. I have played Call of Duty in my life. But I need to have I'd need to have a fucking pint can, I think. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:04

Oh you're that guy. But I think that's that's that's nice. It's um it's um pint can or castrel. It's kind of classy.

SPEAKER_04 54:13

Yeah, but you guys did sort of like Call of Duty in physical education at school, didn't you? Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 54:18

I pretended I was playing it.

SPEAKER_06 54:20

Yeah. All the time. But anyway, no, I quite like that. That was much better than the last. I don't know about that. What the last can or the simbin? No, the the Simbin was better than this, but the last can.

SPEAKER_03 54:31

Yeah, the Simbin was way better than that. And the and the last can I don't think is that much better than the colour.

SPEAKER_06 54:36

So are we saying are we saying that powder keg's not not giving us the big old bang?

SPEAKER_03 54:41

It's not blowing my nuts off. It's not blowing his nuts off.

SPEAKER_06 54:43

Would it blow up Parliament?

SPEAKER_03 54:44

They'll probably yeah, they probably will, yeah. Yeah. They'll probably I'm probably more likely to get hit by one of their car bombs than I am, but their flavours. Is this just a cover-up for their uh Yeah, it's a revolution, baby. Yeah. They're gonna use the M they haven't I rate it. They don't use bottles because they're using all their bottles for Molotov contact.

SPEAKER_06 55:05

Fucking hell. I quite like a revolutionary.

SPEAKER_03 55:07

I quite like um someone who's uh we get we're revolutionaries in this pub. Are we? Yeah, we're the only ones who knows how a laptop works and how to record something.

SPEAKER_06 55:21

Well, only you know that. Yeah, I was about to say, I think I might have lost my touch over the years.

SPEAKER_03 55:27

Shall we talk about Dark Revolution? Yeah, let's do it. So on Monday we went on a great little trip. A voyage. A voyage, an adventure. Yeah. All the way to Salisbury. We got picked up at approximately 12.03 pm. It wasn't that early. No, I can't I don't know. 1230. We went to we went to Salisbury. And then we went to uh Dart Revolution Brewery. Yeah. Nice, nice people.

SPEAKER_06 55:57

Very incredibly nice reception. Yeah, very, very one of the the well, they've all been lovely. Like like I said, compared to like when we've been to Left Handed Giant, they've been really fucking lovely to us as well. Um yeah, it was great. It was I think that's what it's a nice community, the uh the the beer scene. Yeah, if that's what you want to call it. Wow, yeah, it's good. So we turned up, we had we had our name tags written.

SPEAKER_03 56:19

Yeah, we had name tags on the city. That was cool. They were nice, they were high quality.

SPEAKER_06 56:22

We had a free beer on entry as well.

SPEAKER_04 56:24

Free beer on entry, but did you have I had the so your first free beer was? Uh it was the um keg one. The son-in-law. They were all keg.

SPEAKER_06 56:36

Um mine was the DJ Goose. That was my first one. 4.8 pale. You had the fog to start, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:45

I had a I had a clear clay.

SPEAKER_06 56:47

Double dry hop to that one, the fog. That's their secret release thing, which we have got a can of today. So we could be um trying that's dribbled on by Sharon, which says we could just crack that now whilst we're talking about it.

SPEAKER_03 57:01

Yeah, let's crack a fog now.

SPEAKER_04 57:02

Do you want to do a fog now? Should we just talk to Sharon?

SPEAKER_06 57:07

Sharon.

unknown 57:09

Yeah, yeah. Hello.

SPEAKER_06 57:11

Could we crack the fog now? Yeah. So anyway, so the speaking of revolutionary.

SPEAKER_03 57:20

Not only should we use that segue from the last one.

SPEAKER_06 57:22

Oh yeah, we should have. Yeah, the real revolution's happening in Salisbury. The fog It's all it's all safe now, don't worry.

SPEAKER_00 57:28

It's a hazy double dry hopped pail at 5.4.

SPEAKER_04 57:32

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 57:33

It got released on St. George's Day, the 23rd of April.

SPEAKER_04 57:36

Our wedding anniversary. I knew Sharon would have the facts as well.

SPEAKER_00 57:39

And um it's only going to be released once a year, or just maybe this might be the only time it was released.

SPEAKER_06 57:45

It could be something different, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:47

I can't remember what Phil said. Phil was the brewer.

SPEAKER_06 57:50

Yeah, you were saying it could be. Should we just put it into um what have we got?

SPEAKER_00 57:53

Oh I've got clean glasses.

SPEAKER_06 57:54

No, you don't have to clean them, that's alright. No, you're alright. Um so anyway, so we got there, we got our name tags, we got our first free beer, then we were we were shown into the venue. Beautiful, like, what would you call it? A tap room? Yeah, tap room. Free pool. Adjacent, yeah, it was free pool on that day. Sandwiches. Sandwiches.

SPEAKER_03 58:12

Yeah, from MS, no less.

SPEAKER_06 58:14

Were they MS? They were, they were fancy sandwiches. Fanwages. Fancy fancy. Fanwages. Doesn't go unnoticed, you know. No, really, the hospitality was fucking amazing. So a huge.

SPEAKER_01 58:28

They got gold on the top of their can.

SPEAKER_03 58:29

Although I did see I did see one of the other groups that were there for the trade day take four packets of crisps. What and just pocket them? There were none left. Whoa! Do you remember who they were?

SPEAKER_04 58:40

Did they eat them there or take them out? I have no idea where they are.

SPEAKER_06 58:42

I didn't know how manis there. I think there was about three sandwiches by the time we got there. Um well we held off the eating. So I want to say a big shout out to to Chris and Rich. Yeah, and Elliot at the butt on the bar. Elliot on the bar. Then in the brewery there was Phil. And then was this Ross? Ross was the can man. Yeah. Yeah. So they we also had a brewery tour, which is that their brewery is just round the corner from their tap room. And they answered all our questions, showed us showed us all their vats, all of their um fermentation tanks, yeah, all of their mash tubs, their tons. Sorry, tons. Mash ton. Yeah. Mash tun tun mash tun tun. Tun tun Rose Kirk. And they had a can in line, which which they and they had a fancy fancy gadget that measured the oxygen levels, the oxygen fucking what do they call it? The oxygen measuring thing. Yeah, but it measured like how much it was affected by oxygen. So that any dodge. Yeah, so we learnt a lot about oxygen by the way. It was brilliant. And um and they had that is very simple. We're drinking it again, sorry. We're drinking. We can clink. Should we clink? Cheers, guys. Cheers, dark revolution as well. Also, we'll probably maybe have to say hashtag hashtag sponsor because we got we're having a can of the fog because I think that's the one. Yeah, we're drinking the fog now. Um they um they did give us a lot of food.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:12

So the fog is a is a rare bear. They've only done uh April the twenty-third release. Yeah, so that it's not a a a a staple beer. It was a one-time release.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:24

Their artwork is immense as well as it tastes really nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:27

All their branding is really good.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:28

It's got that like hazy yellow colour that like you know when you get like a those the the double IPAs that are like they often look like that. Yeah. The a lot of left-handed giant colour, I think I've referenced back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:43

Well, it's very nice, and they have a lot of good stuff, and their branding is fantastic, they were very hospitable, and they gave us a goodie bag.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:53

I'll tell you what, I almost like I feel like I wanna I've got quite a lot to say about them. Should we play the tape?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:59

But um yeah, we do have a tape.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:03

I could we could have done a whole segment on them, and maybe we will in the future. Yeah. Because I reckon it would be cool to sample a lot of those. I'd like to go back and do the podcast live. Yeah, I think they got a good venue. I think they'd let us.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:13

Do you think they'd do that, Sharon? Do you reckon we could do a live? Do you think we could do a live podcast from the tap room?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:20

Of Dark Revolution, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:24

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:25

I don't think they'd mind.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:27

Wow. No, I think they'd like it. And we had a serious good conversation with it. Chris was a listener, so he he he liked it. Shout out Chris.

unknown 1:01:36

Listen to it.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:36

And they were giving us paddle, like it's so much. Where do you think he'd jam in?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:40

He listens to it when he's out on his dray rounds, doesn't he? So he's the delivery. He could be going down the A303, watch out for the speed cameras, mate. A303 I'm speeding.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:49

Yeah, watch out.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:50

But we were we were given all these testers as well as like the that free can and that free beer, um, and uh like a talking from talking to him. It sounds like we were getting told off. But um discussing these different things, we had three different stouts we tried, three different pails we tried. Yeah, and then there was um and everything was very good. What was that rubble rouser, which was like an 8.6% double IPA or something? That was amazing. Everything was we got pretty fucked up.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:16

There was nothing bad. There was nothing bad.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:21

Yeah, we were drinking the back of the car.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:23

And also, I was like, I vaped in a car. Oh, no one likes that.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:27

It's not necessary, is it?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:28

On the way out, I was begging for a t-shirt saying please give me it, please give me a t-shirt.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:33

I did offer to buy actually, and he said he'd send me one, which is we're um we we just repeat our thanks to the good people at Dark Revolution. It was a top, top afternoon.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:43

Oh, yeah, thank you very, very much.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:45

Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:46

And also one day I want to do like a full lineup of their beers tasting because they got some massive outlets. Yeah, but we could have a we could have a like four or five and we could do a proper Dark Revolution special, can we?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:59

Yeah, we could do it from there.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:00

Let's hook it up. Let's do it. We could do a Dark Revolution special from there because I don't think we've given enough credit in this one, but we have to move on because we've got shit to go.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:09

We have been recording for time.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:10

So onto the next beer.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:12

Onto the next beer. Have we got a stout? Next week will be shit. Wait, we've got a stout. He got breakfast stout.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:20

Oh, okay. This is the one where you don't walk home. I've got a history with this one. Can we go into it? No.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:29

Oh, is this where you like lay on the floor?

SPEAKER_06 1:03:31

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you did more than that. This was the the own one and the only times where Max has had to walk me home. I think.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:38

You implied that.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:39

You effectively became Anne.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:41

You've had to walk me home.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:42

No, as in like you we often just part our ways and give a have a hug and say goodbye. Oh, right, okay. Whereas this time you actually came to my house.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:51

Yeah, because you couldn't walk. Yeah, and this was because of this. I didn't just take you home, I had to lift you home essentially.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:58

Is this when you burnt the pizza as well? No.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:00

No, no, no, that was the other night. But I made it home, I just almost set fire to the fucking place. Never mind them, dog. Right, so so we are drinking now an arbor. This is the cask beer. Back on the cask. Yeah. Arbor else, breakfast out. Go on, give us give us the number, Pete. It's 7.4%. Whoa! So I had like five pints of this, I think, that night when I can go.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

Everybody's got a dar um a breakfast out story, falling over story. Yeah. Of which you have one and um your stunning.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:39

I'll drink to that. We're not clinking. We're just we ain't got time for that.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:42

Oh, it smells fucking brilliant already. It does smell like Christmas. It reminds me of Christmas very much. I've not had it. But it's so drinkable. I've never had it outside of December.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:54

No?

SPEAKER_04 1:04:54

This is the last start of the season, and you're gonna miss out on because I bet they'll have it on they'll they're it's its big brother is Ramadingy Rapids. Yeah. And they have that, they'll have that on draft on cake tomorrow. On Saturday.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:09

So we are going on the East Bristol Brewery Trail on Saturday. So two days' time. Max is busy.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:17

Should we do a proper, proper, not like record it nicely, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:23

Yeah, don't worry. Have we got a mic we could take? Uh not to record straight into iPhone.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:30

No.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:31

But we could do it with an iPhone um plug-in. Sorry. Plug-in, headphone, microphone would be better, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:37

Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:38

Yeah. I'll bring one of those. I got you. But this is this is a beautiful. This is probably the best out. I I said this back along, no wonder why I drank so much of it. Um, because I don't often come into this bar and I drink just stout.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:54

No, but it's a good stout. This is a good stout.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:56

I'll have it as an ender, whereas this one I was just like I had one pint and I was like, Well I have another one. We'll have another one and like obviously the booziness of it makes you want a bit more and you just keep going for it. It's deceptively strong. I know. It doesn't taste that it's so easy to drink, it is so like Moorish.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:12

Massive shout out to our Burals. Yeah. Great, great brewery. I don't know how they've done it. And we will we will bring it probably in another episode with our our feedback, well, Ash and Mai's feedback from the East Bristol Brewery Trail. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:25

I think it's a shame when we tried a lot so many stouts at like six percent, and we had we had that whole stout episode. And something like this, obviously, we didn't even mention. That's warming. But there's something different about it. It's not too sickly, it's not too sweet, it's not too complicated for a big for a big thing. Like I just think they've done it right, and although it's super strong and it's kind of like who's gonna buy that, which is something as a business you worry about, but I think it's good enough to do it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:52

Well, I know someone who would have bought it.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:55

Yeah who is now yeah, we we do need to do a little bit of that, yeah. Yeah, sadly, just um we lost one of our regulars here um who passed away the other week, and it's very sad. We didn't really know uh um about it. Um but Ian, who um used to love the strong beers we sold here, yeah, um sadly passed away. So um peace Ian. This one's for you, this one is for Ian. This is one. Big rest of peace.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:23

He'll be sorely missed.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:24

He was on he was on the uh the podcast.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:27

You can hear him in the background in one of the early episodes. Yeah. From every and a very infectious laugh. Yeah. From every opinion, every bit of knowledge, every just mad remark, like he's a character that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Yeah. Just from like being like a a patr a fellow patron in here.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:46

So it's like that's really nice.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:50

And he had a good life from from the sounds of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:52

Yeah, he did a lot of stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:54

So rest in peace. Rest in peace. Rest in peace here. So close today.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:59

The climax. We're about to climax. Oh my god. So Pete and Sean went to Brussels in Belgium.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:07

All we brought you back was a great big bottle of beer.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:10

Yes. That's all I had wanted, Sharon. That's all I would ever want. Right, this got cork in it. Oh my god, are we gonna put it?

SPEAKER_06 1:08:18

Is this the most special thing we've ever done on the podcast? I think so.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:21

I think it's probably the most expensive thing we've had. Yeah. I don't know. I hazard to ask. Pop it right up to the mic, Sharon.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:28

Yeah, sorry?

unknown 1:08:31

Pop it to the mic.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:33

If you can, yeah. I can't even get hold of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:36

It's the wrong side. It'll be alright. I don't know. You've got a long headphone cord now. Oh yeah. Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:50

I hope that picked up as good as it sounded in the room.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:53

It looked like it did.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:54

So this is Delirium Tremond's brewery. Delirium Tremonds. It's strong blonde beer. 8.5%. Oi! And we've got 750 mils of this bag. That's what you're gonna say.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:12

We've got 750 bottles of this coming in. Imported. And we've got a big ball. We've got a little presentation case.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:21

The tube is is remarkable. The pube? The tube. It either looks like Pringles or tennis balls. It does.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:28

It's a remarkable tube.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:28

It looks more bougie than it. I thought it was a tennis ball tube. Do we want a blurb? We'll give a bit of a blurb. Go on, Max.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:35

Take it away. Are you ready? Um right. Alright. Well, this is a very bold statement. Also, I'm gonna have to move it around because it's cylindrical. Yeah. The best beer in the world. That's such a fucking bold statement. According to Stuart A. Callan in the 50 Greatest Beers in the World, 1997. That's when I was aboard. Delirium Tremens is a superb Belgian beer. It's full of flavour, lightly hopped, and surprisingly malty with the fruity aftertaste. That sounds like every beer description ever. Um the colour is the best beer in the world, mate.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:16

I don't think it's the best beer in the world, but thank you for it. Wow, it looks lovely.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:21

Wait, you don't think it's the best beer in the world?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:22

No, it's brilliant, but I don't think it's the best beer in the world. The colour is golden.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:27

The head creamy. Oh yeah. Yeah, but I don't know. Everyone likes a creamy head. That's awful. Um awfully. Well, not all beers have very creamy head. So only sometimes. Continue. Alcoholic content is 8.5% by volume. The label depicts different phases of the delirium tremens. Do you know what delirium tremens is? Yeah, it's not. It sounds like a disease. It's alcohol withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal. Oh shit.

unknown 1:10:56

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:57

Um, what the hell? First you see pink elephants. First you see pink elephant. No, I've never had a day off. First you see pink elephant. There's nothing to withdraw from, is there? Then green crocodiles and dragons appear, and lastly, you see the monstrous bird creatures invade your mind. Yeah. Allah Alfred Hitchcock. I know a couple of those. Yeah. Delirium Trimans has a big body. I know a couple of those. A rich mouthfeel. A rich mouth feel. Yeah. A long sweet aftertaste, and it's triple fermented. Wow. Brewed by brewery. Hugo.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:36

So is it brewed in Belgium? Yeah. Whereabouts, do you know? Hugh Mel.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:43

You're pronouncing it. In Mel. Mella. But in Brussels, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:47

Brussels, Simon Veg. In Brussels there's like the Delirium village. Which is their main part. 50 kilometers. Incredible place.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:55

They have a whole village. Yeah. 50 kilometres from Brussels is where it's brewed.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:00

So it's a very clean brew. It's a very traditional beer. Same beer. I haven't no, I just sniffed it.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:06

Clink and drink.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:07

Yeah, let's get it down at the terrible.

unknown 1:12:14

That's better.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:15

That was better. That was better. Cheers, boys. Thank you very much to uh Sharon and Pete for bringing this in. Bowser's. Oh yes. Good enough. That's nice. It's got a weird it's got a what kind of taste is that? That reminds me of being again. That reminds me of being 16.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:36

When you first tasted that amber, sweet amber nickel.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:39

Yeah. He's unlike anything else. I remember being in Belgium. We didn't get delirium tremendous, but we did get uh left.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:49

Um's that where's that elected?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:54

Well, is delirium is it is it brewed by Is it brewed by monks? Where are you going, Pete? You're a host on this podcast. I'm just gonna go and get something.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:05

Can I just be a bit like a picture of I don't know if it's super like that great.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:14

I think it's really nice. There's that there's that burn that Belgian beers do nothing then nothing else comes close.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:21

Maybe it's like I think it's it's it's uh incredibly impressive for the ABV to taste that drinkable and nice. Yeah. Because like you get like some of like even like a duvel or whatever. Yeah, we had the duvel. We love the duvel. No, we love the duvel, but that's only like six percent.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:38

I think duvel's seven and a half. Is it? I can't remember.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:41

No, but I mean like you can really really uh get the seven and a half here, or six percent, whatever I was referencing.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:47

It doesn't taste like eight and a half.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:48

No, that's what I'm saying. It does when you start breathing out though.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:52

Yeah, you can you can taste it alcohol. I feel like I've been on it all night.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:55

Yeah. I don't that's what I say. I don't think it's the best beer in the world. Um I think it's lovely, but it's not you know, it's uh it's a brilliant beer.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:06

Is it good enough to put in a tube? I don't think it needs a tube.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:08

Yeah, but it did help on the Eurostar thing. Yeah, it's special.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:13

I do like the cork though. I feel like more beers should have a a uh around the cork. So we went um around the cork.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:19

We went out for dinner with because it was eight of us, we went out for dinner on the um and for no other reason than you could have a beer with a cork. Yeah, we had two bottles of beer with cork, yeah. So you could pop them.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:31

Yeah. Pop 'em like champagne. Wow. But this tastes better than champagne.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:35

Pop them well, it does taste way, but I'd rather drink a bottle of this than champagne.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:38

To be fair, you could compare it to a champagne. Yeah, but it's got a better flavour. It's not far off the fucking ABV of a champagne.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:50

It's funny you see here, it they've got some awards on here. So they claim to be the best beer in the world because of this book that was written in 1997. But they've actually got a silver award. I like how they're still fucking. They've got a silver award from 2017.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:02

Yeah, that's a bottle of gold.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:04

Oh yeah. They've got a gold award. That's an even bigger bottle. They've got a gold award from 2017. They've got a silver award from 2017, and they've got a bronze award from 2017. This doesn't translate to podcast, Pete. You can't show photos.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:18

He's just showing me pictures of his fucking holiday now. There's Sharon in the delirium bar drinking green beer.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:25

Green beer? What's the elephant about then?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:28

They said that because it's the first thing you see when you get delirium.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:31

Oh. Oh, I see. The other thing was the one of the best beers I had out there was Dupla. Dupila. Yeah. Yeah. And then we went to the Jupila. No, I think it's Jupila. Jupila. And then we went to the football, and they have the Dupla ball that goes around and serves you beer.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:49

The more a drink, the more phenomenal I think it is. That's very European. Pizza's can you put that picture in?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:59

Pizza.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:00

Yeah, that can be the pizza, show me a picture of a ball mascot. What do you mean put it in? That was a joke.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:07

Well, we are going to we did talk about, didn't we? We are going to have our own socials. So we can't.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:13

Yeah, yeah, we could do that, but we haven't done it yet, so we can't promote it.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:16

Yeah, but we can tell the listeners what we think of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:18

I don't know. By the time this goes out, by the time you've edited it, follow us at some cascast.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:23

If we can get it, someone might already get it. Exactly. Might cost us 900 euros. That's probably what this cost. Wait, yeah, how much was it?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:35

What this? Yeah. Ah, it was only uh 19 euros. No, 19 euros? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:41

Only? I don't know. I can't remember. We appreciate it very much, thank you. Is that in the offie? No. It was only 10 in Belgium. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:53

Yeah, when are you getting that in the office then? Have you got any Belgian beers? We have had Belgian beers in the Bible. We've got Belgian beers in the office. Oh, you do?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:00

I don't know if we've got them now, but we have had them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:03

Nice. That was a bane of my fucking existence. People come in and yeah, but have you got any Belgian beers? I'd be like, no, we haven't. Import's very expensive, but all of this stuff is really lovely. No, I just like Belgian beers. This is the best beer in the world. I think that you remember when we had that monk beer from here, the Trappist beer that we had. Yeah, Tin Jones. I think as good as some of the pretty good so far. Yeah, for sure, yeah. I thought that was amazing.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:32

They just have that label associated with them because what I love about the Belgian stuff, right? A lot of like the stronger beers that you get.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:42

Belgium's not even a real country. Oh, controversial.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:46

Right, let me make my point and then you can get into that. What I was gonna say is like a lot of the Belgian beers. Is that the thing in QR that flashes? Yeah. They're like 8% or so, but like anything like all like the double IPAs that you get, like, round here, and all the things that we associate with high percentage, they're all like very hop-heavy. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas this is literally like a beer beer. What I've done in what I'm trying to say. You know, like a kind of brewed beer with great flavour, but it's just strong. Yeah. Um, and it's not like they're adding fucking vodka to it, but like it's from the brew still, but it's not like that really hop-heavy, kind of like in your face, creamy, I think I think. Which is also is something I I love. I love a fucking double IPA, don't get me wrong. Yeah. I love a triple IPA. Yeah. But Ash loves a triple.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:39

Yeah. Oh. A triple tiple. A threesome. Never been there. No, neither. No. Well, you didn't see that. Any listeners? Uh E T S O M E I C L.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:58

To be fair, there's more chance of that than well, there's as much chance of that than a normal fucking email at this rate. Even the fucking even if it puts anyone's mind at rest.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:10

I'm not part of this pack here. He's married.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:14

We should make a fucking We could make a like a hinge profile that's just like the Etson Cas cars. It's like you can match like the group cards saying. Yeah, let's do it. This is all getting cut. Um but anyway, yeah, it's really good. It's really clean. I I think it's impressive how they make this so clean, so strong. That's what's sort of my point. And it is.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:42

Oh my god. That's like us, eh? Yeah, because everyone's pissed. Or everyone's like fiended on their produce. Do they fund the town?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:49

No, I I mean it's they've got this whole the their main bar is just ridiculous. It's just what do they serve? They've got about 200 different beers. 200? You got room for that in here, Pete? Yeah, genuinely. I don't know if Sharon's got a picture. Have you got a picture of um delirium? Put the picture up, Max.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:10

Yeah, I'm gonna put it up. Yeah, put it up. You see that, guys? See that picture?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:16

All the taps don't come from the bar, they come from the ceiling.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:19

What the hell? So is it all upstairs? They got an upstairs cellar.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:24

No, they they've just got cast and kegs everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:28

Yeah. It's like springs, but without the upstairs seating, just kegs.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:33

Well, it no, it's better than spoons, right? It's a lot more expensive than spoons though. It was expensive in Belgium to buy beers. Yeah, most beers were sort of six euros.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:45

That's like five pounds thirty. Yeah, but they're so. Yeah, but it's a capital city. It's not as expensive as London. For £3.30s.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:56

Yeah, but how much is a London mayor in London? Are they still charge the shit out of it if they brewed there? Probably actually. Yes. Yeah, fucking hell. Shout out capitalism. Oh my god. That's a big old board. Yeah, this trying to see that really well. Put that up. Put that out, Max. Yeah. Yeah, I see that. Oh wow, that looks great.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:19

Someone described that. Well, they're sort of hanging down like stalictites almost. Yeah, stalictights go down. Yeah. Mites go up, tights go down.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:28

Wait, tight tight trousers? What's the tight lederhosen? No, what's the what's the thing to know if they are up or down?

SPEAKER_04 1:21:36

Tights come down, mights go up.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:39

What? I don't know if I is that right? Well, I thought there was like a thing to remove. I don't know. Should we ask the retired vet? My trousers might fall down if they're up or down. There we go. Tights go up. Tights come down. Oh yeah, they do if I'm around. What? What are you even talking about? Stalictites or stalak mites?

SPEAKER_05 1:22:02

Women!

SPEAKER_03 1:22:06

Rocks! Right, okay. What's the next uh thing? Well that's that's we tested all the beers.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:15

We haven't got a fine. We haven't got a stack. So, yeah, we are reaching time at the bar, thank you! Time at the bar That's time at the bar, everybody. We've had a we've had a great time, haven't we? It's been a bit disjointed. I think it's been one of the podcast data ones. Our podcast technician looks a bit stressed if I'm honest. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:42

Well, I'm going away. Where?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:45

What to prison?

SPEAKER_03 1:22:46

Yeah. Okay. We're doing a two-year switch. This will come out in two years.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:55

Can you can you get it? Yeah, but for real, I'm actually away all next week. Can we can drone in a mobile telephone and you could join the podcast from the from your cell? We'll drone it in. After lights out.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:06

I'm going to I'm I'm rehearsing. So I've got tonight and tomorrow afternoon, and then I'm rehearsing tomorrow evening, and I'm gigging Saturday from like 2 pm all night. Then on Sunday I'm going to Barnsley until Thursday, and then I get it back. And then no, and then I'm going to Belfast. You go to Belfast? Yeah. Can we test my Irish accent out? Oh yeah? How's that working for you? Well, it turned out the uh the accent that I was doing on the show was a northern Irish accent. Who said that?

SPEAKER_06 1:23:41

So I should fit in really well. Who said who said it was that? My mum. Oh, she listened. Yeah. Okay, shout out.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:48

So we've got to thank today the good people from Powdercake. We want to do another one.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:52

We've got two of these back to back. We've got loads of thanking. One day we should do a back to back. Anyway, we're thanking people. Shut the fuck up. Some Cas Cas unhinged. Fucking back to back. Drunk edition.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:06

So we've never done one of them before, have we?

SPEAKER_06 1:24:08

I've I'm I've never been drunk in my whole life.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:11

Um so big shout out to Powder Keg Brewery for their cans. Um and to um the arms and Sharon. Thank you, Sharon. Oh, thank you, Sharon.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:25

Thank you, Sharon.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:26

Um, because we've had Sinbin and um Breakfast Out. Wow. Um beautiful beer here. Um thank you to the good people at Delirium. I don't think they need our sponsorship.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:41

No, you don't have to thank them. You bought that.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:43

They didn't give it to us. Yeah, fuck them. Okay. Yeah, no, but they're still doing some good stuff in the the great country of Belgium. It's very nice.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:50

Is there any left?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:51

Is there any left on the bar? No, it's not left, it's delirium. But our biggest thank you is to the good people at Dark Revolution. We had an absolute blast this year. This year, this week.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:07

Well, no, you're just saying we're gonna come back next year. Well, which hopefully they'll invite us again.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:12

Um we'll be there next week. So thank you very much. I won't.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:16

Whether you like it or thank you all for listening.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:20

Yeah, thank you, thank you so much to the listeners. Please send us an email to the listeners. Come on.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:25

Tell us anything. We should have a what's the email what's the email address? Should we do it? Yeah.com. Just email us.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:37

Please. It's in the description on whatever. Yeah, look in the description. Or wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:45

You know what you're doing. Yeah. And um follow follow the new um Edsum Edsom Gascard page on the social. It doesn't exist yet. Yeah, don't fucking get in S but get in there before us either, you bastards.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:58

Yeah, someone no, it's not gonna be out before we make it.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:04

We'll get it, we'll get it done. Do that now. Yeah, we'll do it in a minute. Anyway. Um, we'll wrap this up. Thank you so much. Pick it pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:12

And we'll um we will see you at the next time. This is episode ten, isn't it? It is. Oh, we didn't even celebrate that. Yeah. So we'll celebrate the 11th.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:20

Ten years. Ten years of this that we've been doing it. Ten years. And they said it wouldn't last. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they said we wouldn't even do two. Look at that now. This has been Max. Hello. This has been Ash. Goodbye. Sharon's been helping us with the drinks. Thank you, Sharon.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:39

Thank you, Sharon. Thank you lot.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:42

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:43

And I've been Peter, the host and owner of the Etsom Arms. Well done, Pete. And we'll see you again very soon on the Castcast. Thank you. Good night. Bye. Bye. Cascout.