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This is Beer in Front, part
of the Oddpods media Network. Every week

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I'll have a beer that maybe we've
forgotten along the way while we're chasing those

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check ins and badges. Some weeks
i'll talk about a new beer that has

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potential to be a classic. Being
the Chicago beer guy, I'll also talk

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about great craft beer, craft beer
news in the city of Chicago. And

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remember sometimes the beer in front of
you is the best one yet. That's

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Beer in Front and it's coming up
now. Welcome to the May tenth edition

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of Beer in Front. This is
episode one hundred and fifty nine. I'm

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your host, Dave's allatorus and Beer
in Front is a proud member of the

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Odd Pods Media Network. This week
have dortmunder Gold from Great Lakes, and

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locally, I'm going to have Son
of Juice from Maplewood as the Beer in

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Front. Over the weekend, I
hit up some spots with my friend Benny.

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We went to Hop Butcher, Dovetail, Beguile, Spiteful, and half

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Acre. Had a great time catching
up and supporting local businesses. All of

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those breweries are great, had a
lot of great stuff from them. Definitely,

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if you're in the Lincoln Square,
North Center part of Chicago. All

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five of those spots I would definitely
hit up great beers. We had a

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collab at Dovetail. They did a
collaboration with Revolution. This is their Hopfin

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Lager, which is a traditional Dovetail
lager used with some experimental hops from Revolution.

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That was really good. So if
you're around Chicago, if you're near

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Dovetail or Revolution, you could pick
up Hopfinlager. That was great. Everything

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else we had from Halfache or Spiteful
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So it was really cool catching up
with old friend of mine, one of

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my best friends, if not my
best friend ever, So that was really

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cool. Coming up soon, I
have some interviews lined up with Crooked Hammock

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Brewing Company. I have one out
of Kansas, Walnut River, if you've

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seen the YouTube channel. I have
a couple of quick reviews up of some

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great beers from Walnut River. And
I also have someone lined up from Great

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Lakes to come on the show and
we're going to talk the fabulous Great Lakes

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Brewery. I've heard nothing back from
the Baseball Hall of Famer, so I

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don't know if I was ghosted or
if they looked at my numbers and said,

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you're just a local clown out of
Chicago. You're not big enough for

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me. But I don't know.
I'm still hoping they're the ones that initially

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contacted me. I wasn't fishing for
anything, so maybe they'll get back to

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me. But we'll see. But
I'm still waiting to hear if Wade Bogs,

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the Baseball Hall of Famer, is
going to get back to Beer in

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Front, and hopefully I could have
him on soon and we're gonna talk baseball

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and Wade Bogs. If you'd like
to support the show, you could head

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over to patreon dot com slash Beer
in Front. You could subscribe for as

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little as a dollar a month helps
the show out. I do appreciate everyone

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that supports the show, and if
you can't do a Patreon, I totally

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get it. I still appreciate you
for listening to go into the YouTube or

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TikTok. I appreciate you as well. If you get a chance, give

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the show a like or a five
star. Whatever helps the show out a

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lot and get some more people tuning
into the show. But I do appreciate

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everyone that helps out the show,
whether it's monetarily or just listens, and

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I appreciate y'all. My birthday is
at the end of the month. And

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Ruby found where we both found but
Ruby put it in her cart. I've

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been looking for a Schlitz glass and
Ruby found this one, so she picked

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it up an old school Schlitz glass
for me. This thing weighs about five

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pounds. The thing is weighs a
ton. I'm really happy about that.

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I'm going to take a week off
of the podcast, probably at the end

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of the month. We're going out
of town to the Los Angeles area,

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so I'm going to take a week
off of the podcast there. But I'm

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sure I'll bring the tripod and microphone
out and I'll find a local brewery there

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and see if I could talk to
someone there or if not, just sitting

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day drink all day. So look
for that coming up at the end of

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the month. In beer news this
week, if you're in the Vancouver area,

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you might have seen a ton of
cans laying out upside down against some

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curb. They were being drained into
the sewer. I guess these cans expired

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and the brewery just had a couple
of jamoks pick up these cans and dump

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them so they could get the tent
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The owner of the East Vancouver Brewing
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the empties in exchange for loading a
truck that would take these cans to be

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emptied at a brewery, but the
guys took manners to their own hands.

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He just started dumping it and lining
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The police were involved, no one
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dumping beer into a sewer is not
the proper way to dispose of an expired

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product. So if you saw a
bunch of cans in Vancouver, everything's still

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good. I've talked about before on
the show non traditional alcohol companies starting to

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make seltzers and everything. But the
newest one is from Ocean Spray. They're

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teaming up with Absolute Vodka and they're
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or ready to drink cocktail line coming
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a fan of Absolute and Ocean Spray, you could get an Absolute vodka and

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Cranberry. There's a brewery in Birmingham, Alabama now The brewery is called Avondale

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Brewing and they were going to schedule
a concert on July eighteenth from Ted Nugent.

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Whatever you think about Ted Nugent,
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fan of the guy, never really
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whatever. But after it was announced
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people in Alabama went into an uproar
and the brewery canceled the concerts because they

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didn't want to deal with all the
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So you know, never judge a
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to the people in Alabama for saying, no, we do not want Ted

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Nugent to play here. And I
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not a fan of Ted Nugent.
I'm not a fan of his beliefs or

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whatever. But someone that I know, and I was there, encountered him

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at the airport and could not have
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genuinely good guy in person. So
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an act, but in fairness to
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and the person I talked to that
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been a nicer man ALS or the
Louke Garry's disease is horrible. If you'd

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like to support and donate money,
you could participate in Ales for Als.

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Since two thousand and thirteen, they've
raised over five million dollars for research into

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ALS. There's a couple breweries in
Illinois that participate, Brother Ship in Mokena

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and Noon Whistle in Lombard. You
could buy beer from them and support Ales

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for ALS, or you could go
to their website A four at als dot

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net. And finally, coming up
is Illinois Craft Beer Week. It's between

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May nineteenth and the twenty sixth.
Plenty of things to do around the great

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state of Illinois to support craft beer
in the state. You could pick up

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a passport and you could document your
craft beer adventures, so pick one of

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those up. There's a Day of
Giving, which is a beer and Bourbon

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festival, Small Brewery Sunday, which
will be Sunday, May twenty first.

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There's a fundraiser on Monday the twenty
second for Pint Day. There's a Patio

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Party Day, Day of Action,
and finally, to close out the week,

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Beer Underglass is returning to Union Station
this year. A and I'm gonna

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be out of town. I'm gonna
miss beer under glass, but you shouldn't.

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Head over to Illinois Beer dot org
and you could learn more about the

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great Illinois craft Brewers Guild Illinois craft
Beer Week. You could find out how

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to get the glass for this year, which looks spectacular. I'll be picking

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one of those up, but definitely
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right. The old school beer I
want to talk about is from Great lakeside

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of Cleveland, Ohio. This is
their Dortmunder Gold Lager. This clocks in

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at five point eight percent alcohol thirty
IBus according to the Can. It's a

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classic, award winning balance of sweet
malt and dry hop flavors. This has

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been around, according to the Can, since nineteen eighty eight. It's old

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school, it's a classic. Coming
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someone on from Great Lake out in
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If you've listened to the show the
past three years, you know I

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love Great Lakes. I love their
Edmund Fitzgerald. They're Burning River, Commodore

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Perry, everything Great Lakes puts out. I've always been a big fan of

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So someone's coming on in a few
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but we're gonna talk about some of
their newer beers that are hitting the

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shelves. I wanted to do one
of the older ones, little preview of

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what's coming up in the next few
weeks. Dort Mundergold. I haven't had

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this in a while, but I've
always loved it, so let's crack it

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open. Dort Mundergold is a really
nice color, nice amber reddish tones to

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it. Good foam good, one
solid finger of foam here. Smells great.

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Really get I get a little of
the hops. I get more of

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the malt, sweetness out of the
aroma. But the aroma I think is

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terrific. No, that's really good. A lot of sweetness here from the

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malt. Very little of the hops
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This only has thirty ibu, so
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a hoppy beer. But this is
an excellent beer, great tasting, such

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a good beer. All their old
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why they've been around since forever,
because they put out great product time after

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time. If you see this,
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a chain grocery store here in Chicago. They had this in there build your

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own six pack section, But you
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in any of the other great beers
at Great Lakes puts out. If you

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see it, put it in the
cart dortmunder Gold blogger is a winner.

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Okay, the next bear I want
to talk about I don't think I've talked

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about on the show. I've had
other beers from Maplewood, but I don't

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think I've had Son of Juice.
This is an IPA that is six point

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three percent alcohol. They use Mosaic
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of Juice. This has been around
for a long time. It's no Johnny

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Come Lately, and I've always enjoyed
it. So I picked this up in

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a mixed pack the other day,
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Son of Juice has a very nice
light color, good foam, good carbonation

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here, nicer role. It's not
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Nonetheless, big fan of that.
I get getting some light melan notes

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with the hops here. Very nice. No, that's a rock solid beer.

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If you're in Chicagoland area, by
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or you could pick up Son of
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picked this up in a mixed path. I believe I grabbed this at Mariano's,

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which is a grocery store here,
so you could pick up maplewood products

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all over the city of Chicago and
suburbs. I think Son of Juice is

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a winner. If you see it, you know what to do. Put

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this one in the carts. Maybe
about a month ago, I was talking

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with Brian Colburn. We were talking
via direct messages over on Twitter. You

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remember Brian from The Pizza Show and
also he's the whole of my weekly mixtape

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and also playlist Wars. But we
were talking and I was mentioning to Brian

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that part of me wants to branch
out and maybe start something new and just

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kicking around the idea of nothing really
came of it. And then yesterday on

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social media, Lauren from beard All
is going to start another podcast, and

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that got the wheels turning. I
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and here's why one one's enough.
I don't think you want to hear

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more of fifteen twenty minutes a week
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to do. If I'm going to
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be another weekly thing. It might
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and I'm not sure of the format
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that when I've done special edition shows
like the Pizza episodes and the ones music,

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they've done extremely well, far better
than this little beer show. The

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Stax Record Show still ranks amongst my
top shows of the month outside of you

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know, the current ones that I
put out. I don't know what format,

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what topic, if it's just going
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know that listening to some shows that
shows that try to be all things to

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everyone winds up being nothing, and
I don't want that to happen. But

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kicking around a few ideas, I've
got a little cover art that I've already

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created just in case I do it. But I want to know what you

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think. If you think, Dave, I need more than fifteen or twenty

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minutes a week of you, you
should do something, or Dave, that's

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enough. Please either way let me
know. You could email me Dave at

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beer Infront dot com. If I
do it, it's not going to be

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quick, it's not going to be
in the next couple weeks. But it's

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something that's floating around in the back
of my head. All right. That's

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going to wrap things up for this
week's edition of Beer in Front. I

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thank you very much for listening.
If you want to get a hold of

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me, you can email me day
at beer infront dot com. You can

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find me on all the social media
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everyone has a great week. I'll
see you next week on the show.

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And remember, sometimes the beer in
front of you is the best one yet