We Pregamed the Podcast… Then Talked Bone Haus Brewing and Our 65-Mile Drive

Episode 8 - We pre-gamed it on this episode which shows especially at the end of this episode.  Haha.  Great times!!

In this episode of The Adam and Dedra Show, we take a very worthwhile road trip across the Valley to visit Bone Haus Brewing in Fountain Hills, Arizona... a brewery packed with killer beers, amazing views, spooky pirate-skeleton vibes, and one dangerously competitive scavenger hunt.

We talk through our favorite beers from the visit, including hazies, West Coast IPAs, stouts, prickly pear ales, and the standout Octavo Año collaboration with Wren House. Plus, we kick things off with an “Old Fashioned Friday on a Thursday,” debate whether a chocolate peanut butter stout pairs with bourbon, and share why Bone Haus is absolutely worth the drive from Buckeye.

Cheers to great beer, great people, veterans, bone dogs, and breweries that feel like a full-on experience.

Transcript

Adam 0:02

Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Adam and Deedra show. And we are so happy they're with you with us today because we went to one of my favorite breweries. Is it one of yours? Or I don't know.

Dedra 0:17

It is. Okay. It is.

Adam 0:19

Went to one of our favorite breweries. Let me rephrase that in Arizona. And it was called Bonehouse. And when it comes to beer, they do an amazing job.

Dedra 0:33

Absolutely.

Adam 0:34

Oh my gosh.

Dedra 0:35

It's it's a newer place for us. Uh they've been around a while, but yes.

Adam 0:40

Right. That's what I mean.

Dedra 0:42

Like it's it's a newer place for us because it's so far on the east side of town. It's it's ridiculously far.

Adam 0:48

65-mile drive just uh in town to take.

Dedra 0:52

But you know what? It was worth every mile. Had a blast. So if we can drive all the way from Buckeye out to Scottsdale in what is it? Uh Fountain Hills. Yeah. You wherever you live, you can drive out to Fountain Hills.

Adam 1:08

And you live in uh Massachusetts, you live in Florida, and drive to Bonehouse. It's worth it.

Dedra 1:15

Yeah. So actually, this is a little bit different of an episode for us. Uh typically we release on Thursdays. Um, but today it's a very special edition.

Adam 1:28

It'll still release on Thursday, but we're doing a special edition old fashioned day today. And uh what the way we do it is old fashioned Friday. So cheers to those who has a Thursday Friday.

Dedra 1:45

To old fashioned Friday.

Adam 1:47

To an old fashioned Friday on Thursday.

Dedra 1:50

Um, and I have to admit that Adam makes uh all of the ice cubes homemade, and the ice cubes that he makes are they're they're crystal clear. And I I hate to give him them this much credit because he tends to get very big headed.

Adam 2:08

So I'm maybe not always credit where credit is due, as Bugs Bunny always says.

Dedra 2:16

So he he makes amazing ice cubes, actually, and the old fashions. I'm I'm rather picky about my old fashions because I don't want them super sweet. And sometimes they tend to have, for me, I feel like they have a uh like a cinnamon flavor to it. And I cannot pinpoint exactly what it is that gives it that cinnamon flavor.

Adam 2:40

Um and then of course, it's it's the cherry, it's the cherry that you use in the old fashioned the Amarina Luxario has to be one of those Italian marascino cherries, I think that that really does the trick.

Dedra 2:56

Right. And I hate to admit this, but I get to pay for an old fashioned that rivals one of Adam's old fashions.

Adam 3:05

Yes.

Dedra 3:08

Oh, yes, that makes my heart happy. As much as that pains me to say, it's true. It is true. And everywhere that we go, if they have an old fashioned, that's typically something that we, you know, kind of set the bar for the place that we're going to. Are they gonna have good cocktails? Are they gonna have good beer? And one way that we find out is if, okay, what are their old fashions taste like? Are they overly sweet? Are they garbage? What does their ice look like? If their ice looks like garbage for me, I'm already kind of like out.

Adam 3:44

Nothing like a cloudy ice cube, right? When you're getting at a cocktail bar, like the whole is this?

Dedra 3:49

Because it's like, okay, I can go to Circle Care QT and get cloudy ice.

Adam 3:54

But cheers, everybody. Uh, to the old fashioned. Um I mean, we're enjoying the heck out of this. And uh for sure. Just a good day today.

Dedra 4:04

I mean, like I said, tell them the bourbon you put inside this old fashioned.

Adam 4:08

I used Eagle Rare. I ended up finding some bottles. If anybody knows how difficult it is to find a bottle of Eagle Rare, it's a big deal.

Dedra 4:17

Did you just see how much of my my old fashioned I just just had?

Adam 4:22

But we're not just doing we're not just doing old fashions. This is a beer show because craft beer is who we are. We also are bringing a uh beer from the Great Divide, the Yeti, and that's an Imperial Stout from the Great Divide. And this particular version is their chocolate peanut butter um Yeti. Forgot the word next word because it was like it. I'm like, I just read that. It's a 9.5% Imperial Stout, and I love it. I've had this quite a few times over the past few months, and I can't get over it. I I like it a lot. And one of the bars that we go to has some cans in the fridge, and that's where we got this one. Um, and if you're outside of Colorado, I mean it's not an easy thing to find, I don't think. I mean, I don't see it in any regular store, and this this uh bottle shop actually had it, and I'm like, oh, yep, getting another can of this. And it was only a 12 ounce, so it was like, okay, 12 ounce beer, usually we're having a 16, we'll have an old-fashioned with this.

Dedra 5:29

Yeah, why not? Uh so yes, for us, it's uh it's an old-fashioned Friday.

Adam 5:35

Yep.

Dedra 5:36

And we're having a peanut butter stout that's at a 12%. So chocolate.

Adam 5:41

Peanut butter, and it was 9.5.

Dedra 5:43

Okay. Oh, geez.

Adam 5:44

It had some of those words in it.

Dedra 5:47

So a chocolate peanut butter stout at 90%. Yes, what it what I mean, can you name a better weekend?

Adam 5:56

We're starting our weekends on Thursday, is what it is, right? So this uh peanut butter chocolate stout, if you've uh never had the Yeti from Great Divide, it's thick, it has the deep chocolate flavor in there. You get the peanut butter notes in there. Great stout. And pairs well, I would say, with this uh old-fashioned. I think they go really well together.

Dedra 6:21

Let me let me give you my opinion.

Adam 6:23

I can't wait to hear it. I love those stouts. I'm like, my mouth's kind of watering a little bit. I'm like, which one do I go for next? I mean, this is a good, this is really good stuff.

Dedra 6:32

Well, I'm gonna do an old-fashioned and then I'm gonna follow it up with uh a style.

Adam 6:37

I can't wait to hear about it. Now, uh, two weeks in a row, I had to actually get another list because we had a lot of beers there again. Deidra actually did some tasters, and we she ended up getting two flights. I got two flights, plus a couple extra tasters and some pints there. We had a great time while we were there.

Dedra 7:00

Yes, I am definitely on the flight train, the late flight train. Yes. Because again, I was I don't know why, I was always under the misconception of it needs to be a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and all these different styles. But once I saw like the menu, and I was just like, hey, why can't I just have all of your hazy on the menu as a flight? And I wasn't told no. I was like, well, shit, there we go. There we go. That's that's it. That's that's my that's my flight. So lately, the past two places that we've been at uh where we've been to, it's it's a flight of hazy's.

Adam 7:49

Yeah, and uh you I I mean you seem to be liking them okay. So you have like four, what are they, three to five ounce pores? I think they're about five ounce pours, right? So you get basically a 20 ounce per serving, but you get to taste different things at the same time. What makes it hard is doing the show and trying to showcase a particular beer because uh when you have a whole crap load of them, it makes it difficult. But do you know what? We're doing the market research for all of you.

Dedra 8:20

So some of you might, you know, kind of feel more on the palette with me, some of you might feel more on the palette with Adam, or it just might be neither one of us. And that's okay. I get it, I understand. Okay, I gotta admit, this for some reason, this does not, I don't, I'm not getting the peanut butter.

Adam 8:41

I'm really yeah. Holy smokes, I taste fun of it.

Dedra 8:45

Hold on. Let me just go. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I don't know if it's just because if it's it's the old fashioned, but to me, this right now is sour. And for all for me, for some reason, it is it is it is not good. Oh gosh. And I and I've had a lot of stuff from Great Divide and the peanut butter. Like I love the peanut butter, the stouts, those are really good. But again, I don't know if it's just because it's the old fashioned. It's just for me, it's not mixing with the Great Divide. All right.

Adam 9:23

So do it one at a time then.

Dedra 9:25

Right.

Adam 9:27

I'm happy with it. I'm I'm good with both.

Dedra 9:29

So yes, I'm sure both of them. Well, I know your old fashions are amazing, but I have not had enough of their beers uh alone to be like, oh yes, it's definitely not them, it's you.

Adam 9:48

What nobody wants to hear. Sorry to the brewer at Great Divide. She doesn't mean it. It's really good, I promise.

Dedra 9:59

I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It it's me, but I I think truly it's the old-fashioned for me that's not mixing with with uh the stout.

Adam 10:09

And you know what? I picked a stout because I was like, if we have an old-fashioned two, we're gonna have to have something heavy.

Dedra 10:14

Okay. You know what? Let me get you here. An old-fashioned with a uh what percent is this?

Adam 10:22

9.5. Nine. Oh, so we're gonna be on the floor later. Is that what you're saying? The show with us falling off the chair.

Dedra 10:30

So this is also what makes it uh a another unique edition of what we're doing is that not only are we doing a uh old-fashioned Friday on a Thursday, um, but we've already kind of started drinking. Oh, yeah. Like we already kind of kicked off our weekend. So just bear with us. We're just we're again we're here just having fun. Yeah, and then uh we've got an old fashioned on top of it and then a stout. So yeah.

Adam 11:01

And talking about our favorite brewery in town, too, which we had a great time, too. Yes, Bonehouse.

Dedra 11:08

Love, love, love Bonehouse.

Adam 11:11

And I'm gonna I'm gonna stay with the stout here because one of the first tasters that I had was one from uh it was they actually did a collaboration with Dark Sky Brewing, which is out of Flagstaff called Beneath the Black Skies, which is an Imperial coffee stout. And that was one of the first tasters I got with uh, I think I just when I was looking at their menu and they had like 16 beers on tap. I'm like, okay, give me the first four. I'm like, I don't they all agree. I'm like, I I need to have all those. I need to. And that was one of them. And I didn't disappoint. Dark Sky is a great brewery, they make excellent beer, and for them to do a collaboration with Bonehouse.

Dedra 11:57

I was looking forward to it. Yes, absolutely. When when such great breweries like that do a collaboration, I look forward to it with Bonehouse and Dark Sky. I knew it was gonna be an automatic hit because both breweries are amazing, they do such great work, they brew great beers. How could they collaborate and not make something that's gonna be amazing? You know, and if you have something and you're like, oh, it's not that great, oh it's always okay. Okay, well, you know what you're tripping.

Adam 12:28

Yep, yep, yep. And that was one of them. And they uh actually did another collaboration with Hair of the Dog, and they made one called Dos Peras Malas. It was a double dry hopped hazy. We both had that as one of our first tasters. And uh if you guys don't speak Spanish, that means two bad bitches. Great name. And I did you like the can art too for that?

Dedra 12:55

Absolutely. I wish we had that. I wish we had that so we can showcase.

Adam 12:59

Oh, yeah. And it was like it was like two, it was like a lady skeletons, and that's the best way to describe it, because it was like uh bonehouse. Yeah, it was bonehouse, yeah. So it was a skeleton, but they had long hair, cowboy hats, and like two guns each, and there was kind of like that western feel to it. And they had two dogs, like one dog each, also, and they were like bone dogs, also. Oh, that's that'd be a cool beer. Bone dog.

Dedra 13:24

Bone dog. Oh, you're on to something.

Adam 13:29

Oh, it's almost like uh nightmare before Christmas. How are you doing, bone daddy? But it was like there were like skeleton dogs um next to him, too. But yeah, two bad bitches, those pedas manas. That was good. I liked it a lot. It was a little bit lighter uh compared to some of the other, like the thicker hazies that we've had, but really good flavor. I I mean it didn't disappoint. I liked it. Did you like it?

Dedra 13:55

Absolutely.

Adam 13:56

Actually, I think we probably did get a can. It's probably in our fridge right now with like, I don't know, 50 other things. I hope so.

Dedra 14:02

I hope so.

Adam 14:03

Oh man. Another taster that I had, this was this was out of my first tasting, um, was the Gilded Swarm Northwest Rye. So it was a rye IPA and another IPA. Can you believe it? But oh my gosh. So, like the rye IPAs you you find, I mean, everywhere. I I really like the taste of this one. And um when I was drinking it at first, and sometimes you can get a little bit of the rye taste to it. I mean, we've had enough bourbons and and stuff like that, or or or rye whiskies, I should say, and you can kind of get a little bit of the rye flavor. But the rye in the um in the IPA, it it kind of goes together, like that cardigan kind of flavor, you know, that you get with rye bread and and having that IPA with like the hops and stuff. I feel like it's a very complimentary flavor. And that particular one, I enjoyed. I like that was out of the four tasters. I mean, I said that uh the Beneath Black Skies, that's the one I talked about first, but the first beer that I actually drank out of that set was the Gilded Swarm, the rye IPA. Because I just looking at them, I had two hazies that in the dark, and I'm like, let me just try this regular IPA first, go to the two hazies and then have the stout last on that first tasting. And I was like drinking, I was like, oh my god, this is great. I'm like, should I have waited for the lap for this to be my last one? I and I can't remember if I gave you a taste of that one or if you wanted a taste of that one.

Dedra 15:36

I don't I think I refused a taste on that one.

Adam 15:38

Did you?

Dedra 15:39

Only because we were far out on the east side. We were like an hour plus drive away, and I was driving home. So I I think I kind of refused some of those small unnecessary tastes. Hey.

Adam 15:56

Hey, I you I had to try them all.

Dedra 15:58

I think I think I I just refused a little bit of some of your unnecessary tastings that didn't quite match my palate.

Adam 16:06

Yeah. No, I think you would have enjoyed that, Ryan, though. That was it was taste, it was really good. Yeah. Shoot.

Dedra 16:11

Well, now I'm disappointed. Let's go back.

Adam 16:13

All right, let's go.

Dedra 16:14

Okay, perfect. I'll see you. I'll see you guys on Saturday. If you guys make it out there, we're gonna be there.

Adam 16:19

Yes.

Dedra 16:20

I love Bonehouse. Oh my gosh. Like I've really come to love. It's it's not a huge place.

Adam 16:27

No.

Dedra 16:27

Um, it's it's not like quaint, but it's it's it's a little bit bigger, average-ish. Um, but gosh, I it's a beautiful place. Like the outside patio, it has like a almost it's like at a quarter wraparound bar.

Adam 16:46

Yeah, the hill.

Dedra 16:49

Outside. Um, and mainly outside because like where it's located, it is just beautiful. You can see just like the city, the rocks, and the mountains. Like Arizona, Arizona is such a beautiful state. Like, we're truly blessed to be living in Arizona because just the the rocks, the formation, the history, yes, the mountains, everything. And then you throw a brewery in and you get these amazing views. It's amazing. It is like Arizona, Arizona is truly beautiful, and I appreciate it.

Adam 17:24

Um and the more we travel, we see that in a lot of other places, but uh, you know, I guess everywhere you can't you call home, kind of you get that uh you get that it has that special spot in your heart, I guess, too. Right. The same time.

Dedra 17:39

So we're truly seeing a lot of that in Bonehouse when you go outside with uh the view. Like you step outside and you don't expect to see the view that you do.

Adam 17:53

One of the best views I would think of any brewery. Right. It's in town that we've been to.

Dedra 17:58

And if you don't know what we're talking about, go there and find out.

Adam 18:01

Oh, yeah.

Dedra 18:02

I encourage you.

Adam 18:03

Yeah, and if you if you if you if you come into state and you want to visit, I mean, and that I would make that a definite uh for sure stop for you, also.

Dedra 18:11

Yeah. Bonehouse, that's one of those to fuck around and find out places.

Adam 18:16

And one of the best parts about it, one of my favorite things too, is the inside, the decor there. So it's not just, I mean, it bonehouse. You think, okay, yeah, that's cool. They're talking about bones. Well, their mascot is oh my god, what the hell is his name? The the the bone guy, the bone daddy. The whole place is like decorated almost like a uh 16th century, like uh what do you call that? Like Pirates of the Caribbean almost.

Dedra 18:49

Right. Yes. So they actually you go to the bartender and you get a scavenger hunt, and that is what is the neatest part about that place is they offer a scavenger hunt and it's a checklist. And you have to go through the entire place, like not just the front area, but you got to go down the hallway, the bathroom, the entire place. Like you're tearing that place upside down, and you have to find the most minute items, and that it's gonna range from like a centimeter to a foot tall. And but it it's it's such a fun game, yeah. And it bring it brought us in, and we talked to you know, other customers, we talked to people behind the bar, and it was just such a great way to bring people together because some of us were just like, Where is this? You know, and then we're just like, just don't don't tell them, but this is where we found and then you know, like we're able to help one another out, and you turn your slip in after you find it. And yes, you do get quiz, so don't cheat. Yeah, yeah.

Adam 20:07

Do not they're gonna ask you, where's this thing?

Dedra 20:08

Don't be dishonest, don't cheat, they're gonna catch you. And it was great because yes, they'll ask you, like, okay, well, where was this? And it's just like, oh shit. So don't don't mess.

Adam 20:19

But they had like shelves of like old books, almost like behind the bar, they had like like alchemy, little alchemy bottles and uh little they had coffins on the side where it had like uh a skeleton kind of inside there, but they were dressed up kind of uh kind of neat, and then um it was all everything was like wood and wood plank. I mean, and they had artwork down the hallway that goes to the bathroom. Bathrooms were decorated. Yeah, the artwork was excellent. You can buy that stuff too, right?

Dedra 20:50

Right, you can buy the artwork down the hallway towards the bathroom. And I I don't know who does the artwork. I don't know if it's like a a team or if it's a specific person or how they get it, but I just want to say whoever does the artwork for um Bonehouse. Yes, they they do such an awesome job.

Adam 21:13

It's it's amazing, and it's like they have them for sale, and it's it's artwork from from our I'm assuming local artists. I mean, I don't know that for sure, but it's the decorations in there are excellent. You can buy the artwork. The place is probably the most decorated brewery that I've been to in Arizona with that very fun theme, and I loved it.

Dedra 21:35

I mean, it was it's so fun, it's so interesting. And and once you do that scavenger hunt, that really like makes you look at all the places inside the inside that brewery. And it's like you don't ever really think to get up and really look around, but with what they have you doing there at Bonehouse, like I I appreciate. I love that environment and that openness.

Adam 22:07

And for perspective, it's almost like going on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. I mean, that's kind of the feel, that's the feel that I get kind of going through the brewery and having that scavenger hunt. And at first you're sitting at your bar seat or your table and you're kind of looking at it. You're just like, kind of looking around, and you don't want people to know what you're actually doing. And I would say, like, probably like half an hour later, you and anybody you're at the table with is up and you're looking around places and you're like looking around people's like stuff, and like you're like, hey, move out of the way. I'm trying to see behind you at that point. Right.

Dedra 22:47

The competitive side, it like it comes out and it's yeah, it brings the best worst part out in you. And I'm not ashamed to hide that. Like I'm competitive, and it's gonna bring the worst part out in me. But you know, I I still have my good intentions. But you know what? If it comes down between you and me and who saw it first, it was me.

Adam 23:14

Oh, but this it was a lot of fun, and and uh and at the whole at the same time, you're drinking beer at the same time and enjoying great beer. So it's not just like you're just drinking beer, you're drinking beer that rivals almost anything. Uh, you know, a competition-winning beers is what you're having at the same time.

Dedra 23:30

Right, right. Yes, and bonehouse, I gotta say, I don't think there was anything there that I had that I was just like, ew, gross, I can't finish this. It was like I had I had repeats on a flight. Me being new to flights and all the hazies and the IPAs, like I I think I probably had two flights and they were repeats.

Adam 23:55

Oh, you had some, yes, you did have some, but you did try some different stuff.

Dedra 23:59

Right. I ventured out a little bit. Um, but I definitely had some repeats in there. And I know that's not, I guess, typical of you flight people, but hey, why do I feel like I'm attacked there? Hey, I'm new to flights, okay? So I can say you flight people.

Adam 24:19

Well, you did a great job at it.

Dedra 24:21

Thank you.

Adam 24:22

You got some good stuff, and we'll talk about more of you here in the yes.

Dedra 24:26

Um I was actually like the the flights that I did have, flights plural, it was really good.

Adam 24:34

Oh, so I remember the guy's name.

Dedra 24:38

Thumbs up. I don't know. I just felt eagerly hey, I remember it.

Adam 24:45

So I was like it was Hans von Biermann, that's their mascot.

Dedra 24:51

Ah, yeah.

Adam 24:52

And they have like do you remember they so they have like four pictures on one wall, and each one of them is of a different character. And I believe the characters are based off their beers on the menu, and Hans von Biermann was is like their their main character. And then they had a lady one, they had they had like four of them on the wall on that one wall was like on a wooden plank with with their picture painted on it. And it oh my gosh, the design of the place is just amazing.

Dedra 25:20

Oh, it's so fun. Love, love the design of the place, and even like like it even goes down to the bathroom, like the hallway, and then even in the bathroom, the the bathrooms even have such detail that goes into it as well. So they definitely did not skimp by any means. No, no, it's excellent and they also have uh live music there and a food truck. So it's we we showed up uh I wanted to say like mid-ish afternoon.

Adam 25:54

It was like, yeah, noon, 11:30 noon or something like they opened at 11. This was like right after they opened.

Dedra 25:59

And because it was so far for us to travel, that was really our only destination for the day. Yeah. And so we were okay spending three, four hours, five hours there. Um, because we knew that was, yeah. We've opened and closed boundaries. Man, see, like if we had a hotel and we stayed on that side of town, I would have loved to have closed down bonehouse.

Adam 26:28

And they had uh food trucks that go there. I mean, I I think they alternate like food trucks, or you can bring your own food into the place. Um, and I think we left too early for for us to try any of that. But um, I think they had a pizza place going there that day, and they have like a taco place that goes there one day's they do trivia there too. I mean, they do like every night is something fun that they they do at the brewery, and uh right.

Dedra 26:53

So I I love how involved in the community this brewery is, yeah. And I wish we lived so much closer so we could be more involved ourselves.

Adam 27:04

Absolutely, yeah. Um I'm gonna go back to the beer because I just finished my whiskeys.

Dedra 27:09

This I was gonna say, this old-fashioned though.

Adam 27:11

Oh, you're enjoying it. I'm glad.

Dedra 27:13

Yeah.

Adam 27:14

So a couple other you had two of the tastings. So you had the octavo año. Um, that did I talk about the octavo año? I don't even remember. I did not. Oh my gosh. I'm not gonna go there yet. I'm gonna say there's two other tastings that you had. Desert distortion was one of them, was another uh hazy IPA that you had on your tasting, and that particular one I feel is their flagship. So I've seen it in cans places, I've I've seen that one out and about. And excellent beer. I love that beer. That's that's great. If I ever see anything on Bonehouse anywhere, I'm getting it. I do you know what? I I rarely or I should say that I don't think I ever have seen like kegs anywhere. I can't go to a restaurant and see their beer on tap, but I have seen their cans, and whenever I see that, uh, we're getting it. Um hey, hey, hey, watch that. Oh can't be yawning.

Dedra 28:06

I'm sorry.

Adam 28:08

And you also got a West Coast IPA, which I had on my second tasting called the Six Element. Uh it was a West Coast IPA, and that was also that was brewed in collaboration with Pinnacle Brewing, which is another uh East Side brewer. I can't remember exactly which city. I think it's Tempe, but I'm I'm not uh 100% sure. But uh I had one of those too, and that West Coast was freaking amazing, also. But I am stopping it here, and I started talking about that octavo año. So they the that that is their eighth-year anniversary beer that they brewed with guess who Renhouse.

Dedra 28:47

Oh my gosh, of course, of course.

Adam 28:51

That day, that beer, I had a taste on my uh first flight, you had a taste on your first flight, and I ended up getting a pint after I finished those two flights, two other tasters, and I still got a pint of that because that was by far the best beer that we had that day. And I bought a can to go home to. And you ended up getting a 10 ounce after after your drinks. I don't even know how to describe it. It was like it was perfect. I mean, it's exactly what we wanted in a beer. And as we were there having these 12 to 15 beers, I think it was 12 of them. I think it counted.

Dedra 29:31

It was a good day. It was a good day for sure.

Adam 29:34

And I do know what I forgot to do. Um, and I'm trying to get better, but I forgot again to put it on untapped. So help me, folks. Friend us on uh untapped, please, and uh call me out, please. I need to be called out on a lot of that. I'm like looking at the beers, I'm like, we've had 25. I'm like, I've had a lot more beer than that. I'm trying, I'm trying, I promise. Um, but there's more beer that we had. So the Witch's Fate, which is another West Coast IPA, we both had that. I think you had it on your first tasting, I had it on my second. And uh both of them are good. Oh, and that second board you bought, it was um like a freedom board honor board, yes.

Dedra 30:22

Honor, the honor flight.

Adam 30:23

Yes, and that uh went to the was it the honor mission or something like that that that uh they take veterans to the east coast to do like to go to the memorials to Washington DC.

Dedra 30:36

Um, and it it is the honor flight, so yes. Um, and I'm a huge supporter, I always support our veterans. Uh they hold a huge place in my heart. Yes. I do have a lot of family members. Adam has you know, family members that are veterans as well. Yes, and a lot of friends too.

Adam 30:54

Yeah, yes, and both both of our grandparents were World War II vets, and uh for them to have this honor flight, and of course, uh we supported that.

Dedra 31:03

It was and honestly, it was just an extra five dollars on a flight, and I was just like, that's it, an extra five dollars done.

Adam 31:11

I didn't see that. It was on the menu, and I did my two flights, and then when you had your second, it was like we flipped the menu over and it was just like honor flight, you know, support the the veterans and and uh this program, and I'm like, oh man, and I wasn't about to get a third flight at that point. Alright, he was like, what, 10 tasters in? And I'm like, I think I just want to have a pint now. Uh a neat story. So uh one of the bartenders that was there that day, he came um actually after we were close to being finished. Uh his name was Sam, and he was the father of the own one of the owners of the brewery, and he was a veteran also and did that. Was it the uh the honor flight, yeah.

Dedra 31:57

The honor flight.

Adam 31:58

Yeah, so he was actually he actually did that himself, and he was telling us about it. So we we took a picture with him, and uh that was so cool. I mean, I was like just to be there, and I'm like, I'm glad we were able to support that little bit. Thank you, Bonehouse, for doing this.

Dedra 32:13

That's amazing. Huge shout out. Thank you for doing something like this.

Adam 32:17

Uh veterans, and yeah, all that. That's awesome.

Dedra 32:20

I I appreciate it.

Adam 32:22

And thank you for making great beer because uh that's what brought us in, and um, happy for the support at the same time.

Dedra 32:29

Absolutely, absolutely.

Adam 32:30

Yes, we both had a part of our flights, and I think it was both of our second flights was the Englem's elixir prickly pale pear ale. I think that was one of their more popular ones because it was that had that sweetness. The prickly pear was like a fruited ale that uh that is, I mean, it's extremely popularly for popular for the brewery. When we were looking at cans to go, I mean, that um had a lot of real estate in that fridge before. I don't know if you saw that too, but they had quite a bit. They had single cans, they had four packs to go, and I think it's one of those things that they always have on tap because it's so popular for those who like the fruited beers. I mean, even people who um are not used to crap craft beers, the prickly pear one is one that goes towards that people, those people. And uh, I've had it myself, you had it, and it was a good beer. I liked it a lot. I mean, prickly pear beers, I I mean, I've never like gone to a prickly pear to say, oh, I want to see what this tastes like, you know. But gosh, I've had a lot of beers. Gosh, oh gosh darn. Um I've had a lot of beers with prickly pear in there, whether it's be sours, it's been IPAs, and this this regular, I think it was a regular pale ale that had this flavor that actually goes really well with beer, and I I see it often, and it's an interesting flavor, and it tastes really good. I I enjoyed it. It was uh easy drinker, it wasn't something that uh I would normally go for, but I was I was intrigued by it and I had to have it. It was one of their more popular beers, so of course we're gonna try something like that. Like, okay, what is everybody else seen in this one, you know?

Dedra 34:11

Right, right.

Adam 34:12

Yeah, another uh couple that you got on your second flight was uh Coyote Thief, which was a brown ale. I had a little taste of that, had a little bit of that smoky flavor to it. Um, pretty good. And the legend of the red ghost, which I gotta just I mean, that's just a cool ass name. And uh red eles, I I do I do really enjoy, especially the hoppy ones. This wasn't one of one of the hoppy ones, but I actually really enjoyed it. Oh, look at you finished yours too. That cherry's gonna be freaking bomb.

Dedra 34:44

Yeah.

Adam 34:46

Um another two tastings that I did. They had two other stouts on the menu, and I I really wanted to have them before I left. And uh they had a dry stout and a sweet stout. Um the sweet stout was called Awaits the Dawn, which was a pastry milk stout. And oh man, I'm gonna butcher this. McClart McLarnard's Day, which was an Irish dry stout. McClarnard's? Does that sound Irish to you?

Dedra 35:18

Yeah.

Adam 35:19

Okay, good. Very much. I don't even know. I probably added like six more letters to it, but I had both of them back to back.

Dedra 35:27

Yeah, whatever.

Adam 35:28

And uh the dry stout was uh very good. I think I actually leaned towards the pastry stouts because I feel like there's almost more depth to it. It had like the creaminess. Uh maybe because uh the you know it was a milk stout, so they probably added lactose to it, and uh it just added to like the thickness to it. So I kind of enjoyed that one more. I felt like it was almost it wasn't nitro, but it it kind of drank like it was, very creamy in in the flavor for that. But I gotta be careful with those because you know, me and lactose need to get my lactate pills out and start popping them if I have any any more than like a little small taster, but it was very good. And we had all that, and then we I think we finished it out with those uh the larger pores of that octavo año. Oh my gosh, I had a great time there. I mean, I just sit in there and we had people that we're talking to the the entire time. Um, I'm gonna I'll give a shout out to uh Mike and Becky that were excellent. We're we're taking a trip to Boston here, and you guys are gonna get all the benefits of uh us talking about those breweries, but they give us a lot of good pointers. They're from Massachusetts. Right. And uh and so hold on.

Dedra 36:39

Let me let me pause you there. I I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt.

Adam 36:42

I'm gonna just start drinking while you talk.

Dedra 36:44

Bonehouse is one of those places where like the places that we enjoy, it's a place it's a small place, but not like teeny tiny place. It's a place that we enjoy because we get to talk to whoever's at the bar. And that just happened to be who was there that day, and coincidentally, they were from Massachusetts, and we had told them, you know, during the summer we were taking we're planning on taking a trip back to Boston, and they were just like, hey, check out these places. And we had a really good conversation with them, and they gave us a lot of really good recommendations to go out there, and you know, is it again it just goes to prove that when you go to a brewery, a really a good brewery, you meet really good people, and this was the prime example of you know meeting really good people. Like Mike and Becky were just like, hey, you know, go here. Yes, check this place out. What kind of beer do you like? If oh oh you're here at Bonehouse? Okay, you're good people in Boston. Go here. And we had a lot of really, really good advice. Yeah, not just beer, but food.

Adam 38:07

Food also, yeah.

Dedra 38:08

So I we cannot wait to go to Boston and then report back on the places that we went to.

Adam 38:16

So taste that stout again. You haven't been drinking that uh the old fashioned. No, no, don't be scared, don't be scared.

Dedra 38:24

Mike, I just had the cherry from the old fashioned and that. I don't like fruit and beer, but I'm still enjoying this. Right. The cherry from the old fashioned that jelly. Now I'm gonna have that a wonderful stout. Yeah, it's gonna be a wonderful stout.

Adam 38:44

Another thing I gotta say, and we talked about the military a lot, um, but um the head brewer there didn't start out as a brewer. He actually stopped with the fire department and first responders, we support them too in every chance that we get. But he left the fire department to be a brewer at Bonehouse, and I think made the beer what it is today. He was an assistant brewer for a long time, and I think he actually did it while he was even while he was working as a fireman and took over as the head brewer once the the the one brewer left and just made Bonehouse what it is, and I'll give him full, full credit for that. He he was excellent, and I'm gonna give another shout out here for our friend Greg. Um, he's with the Cold Brew Cult uh podcast, and that's cold B-R-U-E. Uh, for those of you who want to want to find it, and we'll put it in the show notes too, um, or the the episode descriptions.

Dedra 39:49

Cold brew Greg.

Adam 39:50

Yeah. He's he's an excellent dealer.

Dedra 39:54

Following or listening to him now, you're late. You're late. Yeah. Go check it out.

Adam 39:58

He's been doing it 10 years. He knows everybody in the beer scene in Arizona at least, and uh and then some, but uh it was an excellent story about him and Bonehouse too. And uh I mean it was a it was a great listen and learned a lot about the brewery uh because of that. He did an excellent job. And cheers, cheers, Carrie. I mean, I appreciate it. We've uh got to drink with him and I I appreciate that and got to meet him and uh hope to have many more beers with them. So yeah, absolutely. And uh to everybody at home, cheers. Thank you for watching another wonderful episode. We really appreciate it. And if you're on YouTube, there's a button right over there that says subscribe. And uh please subscribe to our channel, and if you're on any podcast uh podcast platform, we hope that you subscribe also. Give us a five star review because it goes a long way and we really appreciate it. Thank you for listening, everybody. And cheers.

Dedra 41:08

Cheers to Dan and Beers.

Adam 41:10

Cheers to Dan and Beers. Love it. Hey, mine's gone.

Dedra 41:13

Not mine.