This is Beer in Front, part of the Oddpods media Network. Every week
I'll have a beer that maybe we've forgotten along the way while we're chasing those
check ins and badges. Some weeks i'll talk about a new beer that has
potential to be a classic. Being the Chicago beer guy, I'll also talk
about great craft beer, craft beer news in the city of Chicago. And
remember sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one yet. That's
Beer in Front and it's coming up now. Welcome to the May tenth edition
of Beer in Front. This is episode one hundred and fifty nine. I'm
your host, Dave's allatorus and Beer in Front is a proud member of the
Odd Pods Media Network. This week have dortmunder Gold from Great Lakes, and
locally, I'm going to have Son of Juice from Maplewood as the Beer in
Front. Over the weekend, I hit up some spots with my friend Benny.
We went to Hop Butcher, Dovetail, Beguile, Spiteful, and half
Acre. Had a great time catching up and supporting local businesses. All of
those breweries are great, had a lot of great stuff from them. Definitely,
if you're in the Lincoln Square, North Center part of Chicago. All
five of those spots I would definitely hit up great beers. We had a
collab at Dovetail. They did a collaboration with Revolution. This is their Hopfin
Lager, which is a traditional Dovetail lager used with some experimental hops from Revolution.
That was really good. So if you're around Chicago, if you're near
Dovetail or Revolution, you could pick up Hopfinlager. That was great. Everything
else we had from Halfache or Spiteful Hop Butcher, all top shelves stuff.
So it was really cool catching up with old friend of mine, one of
my best friends, if not my best friend ever, So that was really
cool. Coming up soon, I have some interviews lined up with Crooked Hammock
Brewing Company. I have one out of Kansas, Walnut River, if you've
seen the YouTube channel. I have a couple of quick reviews up of some
great beers from Walnut River. And I also have someone lined up from Great
Lakes to come on the show and we're going to talk the fabulous Great Lakes
Brewery. I've heard nothing back from the Baseball Hall of Famer, so I
don't know if I was ghosted or if they looked at my numbers and said,
you're just a local clown out of Chicago. You're not big enough for
me. But I don't know. I'm still hoping they're the ones that initially
contacted me. I wasn't fishing for anything, so maybe they'll get back to
me. But we'll see. But I'm still waiting to hear if Wade Bogs,
the Baseball Hall of Famer, is going to get back to Beer in
Front, and hopefully I could have him on soon and we're gonna talk baseball
and Wade Bogs. If you'd like to support the show, you could head
over to patreon dot com slash Beer in Front. You could subscribe for as
little as a dollar a month helps the show out. I do appreciate everyone
that supports the show, and if you can't do a Patreon, I totally
get it. I still appreciate you for listening to go into the YouTube or
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the show a like or a five star. Whatever helps the show out a
lot and get some more people tuning into the show. But I do appreciate
everyone that helps out the show, whether it's monetarily or just listens, and
I appreciate y'all. My birthday is at the end of the month. And
Ruby found where we both found but Ruby put it in her cart. I've
been looking for a Schlitz glass and Ruby found this one, so she picked
it up an old school Schlitz glass for me. This thing weighs about five
pounds. The thing is weighs a ton. I'm really happy about that.
I'm going to take a week off of the podcast, probably at the end
of the month. We're going out of town to the Los Angeles area,
so I'm going to take a week off of the podcast there. But I'm
sure I'll bring the tripod and microphone out and I'll find a local brewery there
and see if I could talk to someone there or if not, just sitting
day drink all day. So look for that coming up at the end of
the month. In beer news this week, if you're in the Vancouver area,
you might have seen a ton of cans laying out upside down against some
curb. They were being drained into the sewer. I guess these cans expired
and the brewery just had a couple of jamoks pick up these cans and dump
them so they could get the tent cent recycling fee for the aluminum cans.
The owner of the East Vancouver Brewing Company said that the men had been promised
the empties in exchange for loading a truck that would take these cans to be
emptied at a brewery, but the guys took manners to their own hands.
He just started dumping it and lining up these empty cans into a sewer.
The police were involved, no one got arrested, but they were told that
dumping beer into a sewer is not the proper way to dispose of an expired
product. So if you saw a bunch of cans in Vancouver, everything's still
good. I've talked about before on the show non traditional alcohol companies starting to
make seltzers and everything. But the newest one is from Ocean Spray. They're
teaming up with Absolute Vodka and they're coming out with a vodka Cranberry seltzer like
or ready to drink cocktail line coming out early next year. So if you're
a fan of Absolute and Ocean Spray, you could get an Absolute vodka and
Cranberry. There's a brewery in Birmingham, Alabama now The brewery is called Avondale
Brewing and they were going to schedule a concert on July eighteenth from Ted Nugent.
Whatever you think about Ted Nugent, that's on you. I'm not a
fan of the guy, never really been a fan of the music, but
whatever. But after it was announced that Ted Nugent was going to play,
people in Alabama went into an uproar and the brewery canceled the concerts because they
didn't want to deal with all the negative reaction that their customers were giving them.
So you know, never judge a book by its cover. Big ups
to the people in Alabama for saying, no, we do not want Ted
Nugent to play here. And I will say this. I said, I'm
not a fan of Ted Nugent. I'm not a fan of his beliefs or
whatever. But someone that I know, and I was there, encountered him
at the airport and could not have been a nicer human being, respectful,
genuinely good guy in person. So I don't know if everything else is just
an act, but in fairness to mister Nugent, when I did see him,
and the person I talked to that helped him said he could not have
been a nicer man ALS or the Louke Garry's disease is horrible. If you'd
like to support and donate money, you could participate in Ales for Als.
Since two thousand and thirteen, they've raised over five million dollars for research into
ALS. There's a couple breweries in Illinois that participate, Brother Ship in Mokena
and Noon Whistle in Lombard. You could buy beer from them and support Ales
for ALS, or you could go to their website A four at als dot
net. And finally, coming up is Illinois Craft Beer Week. It's between
May nineteenth and the twenty sixth. Plenty of things to do around the great
state of Illinois to support craft beer in the state. You could pick up
a passport and you could document your craft beer adventures, so pick one of
those up. There's a Day of Giving, which is a beer and Bourbon
festival, Small Brewery Sunday, which will be Sunday, May twenty first.
There's a fundraiser on Monday the twenty second for Pint Day. There's a Patio
Party Day, Day of Action, and finally, to close out the week,
Beer Underglass is returning to Union Station this year. A and I'm gonna
be out of town. I'm gonna miss beer under glass, but you shouldn't.
Head over to Illinois Beer dot org and you could learn more about the
great Illinois craft Brewers Guild Illinois craft Beer Week. You could find out how
to get the glass for this year, which looks spectacular. I'll be picking
one of those up, but definitely head over to the Illinois craft Brewers Guild
to find out more on craft Beer Week. Hey, this is Grabbing Brisket
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grab the Brisket dot com for podcast info, viral social media post, and
so much more. All the weather's getting warmer, so you should definitely head
over to grab them in the brisket and get you some barbecue tips. All
right. The old school beer I want to talk about is from Great lakeside
of Cleveland, Ohio. This is their Dortmunder Gold Lager. This clocks in
at five point eight percent alcohol thirty IBus according to the Can. It's a
classic, award winning balance of sweet malt and dry hop flavors. This has
been around, according to the Can, since nineteen eighty eight. It's old
school, it's a classic. Coming up soon, I am going to have
someone on from Great Lake out in Cleveland. I reached out to the brewery.
If you've listened to the show the past three years, you know I
love Great Lakes. I love their Edmund Fitzgerald. They're Burning River, Commodore
Perry, everything Great Lakes puts out. I've always been a big fan of
So someone's coming on in a few weeks. We're gonna talk about Great Lakes,
but we're gonna talk about some of their newer beers that are hitting the
shelves. I wanted to do one of the older ones, little preview of
what's coming up in the next few weeks. Dort Mundergold. I haven't had
this in a while, but I've always loved it, so let's crack it
open. Dort Mundergold is a really nice color, nice amber reddish tones to
it. Good foam good, one solid finger of foam here. Smells great.
Really get I get a little of the hops. I get more of
the malt, sweetness out of the aroma. But the aroma I think is
terrific. No, that's really good. A lot of sweetness here from the
malt. Very little of the hops I get. I don't get a lot.
This only has thirty ibu, so it's it's a Dortmunder. It's not
a hoppy beer. But this is an excellent beer, great tasting, such
a good beer. All their old school beers are great, and that's probably
why they've been around since forever, because they put out great product time after
time. If you see this, I grab this at Mariano's, which is
a chain grocery store here in Chicago. They had this in there build your
own six pack section, But you could definitely pick up six packs of this
in any of the other great beers at Great Lakes puts out. If you
see it, put it in the cart dortmunder Gold blogger is a winner.
Okay, the next bear I want to talk about I don't think I've talked
about on the show. I've had other beers from Maplewood, but I don't
think I've had Son of Juice. This is an IPA that is six point
three percent alcohol. They use Mosaic Simco and Nugget hops here Maplewood and Son
of Juice. This has been around for a long time. It's no Johnny
Come Lately, and I've always enjoyed it. So I picked this up in
a mixed pack the other day, So let's crack open Son of Juice.
Son of Juice has a very nice light color, good foam, good carbonation
here, nicer role. It's not overpowering, but the aroma is very good.
Nonetheless, big fan of that. I get getting some light melan notes
with the hops here. Very nice. No, that's a rock solid beer.
If you're in Chicagoland area, by all means, head over to Maplewood,
or you could pick up Son of Juice everywhere. I mentioned that I
picked this up in a mixed path. I believe I grabbed this at Mariano's,
which is a grocery store here, so you could pick up maplewood products
all over the city of Chicago and suburbs. I think Son of Juice is
a winner. If you see it, you know what to do. Put
this one in the carts. Maybe about a month ago, I was talking
with Brian Colburn. We were talking via direct messages over on Twitter. You
remember Brian from The Pizza Show and also he's the whole of my weekly mixtape
and also playlist Wars. But we were talking and I was mentioning to Brian
that part of me wants to branch out and maybe start something new and just
kicking around the idea of nothing really came of it. And then yesterday on
social media, Lauren from beard All is going to start another podcast, and
that got the wheels turning. I don't know if I'm going to do it,
and here's why one one's enough. I don't think you want to hear
more of fifteen twenty minutes a week of me, but it also takes time
to do. If I'm going to do it, it's definitely not going to
be another weekly thing. It might be a one off maybe once a month,
and I'm not sure of the format and the topics. I do know
that when I've done special edition shows like the Pizza episodes and the ones music,
they've done extremely well, far better than this little beer show. The
Stax Record Show still ranks amongst my top shows of the month outside of you
know, the current ones that I put out. I don't know what format,
what topic, if it's just going to be something various. I do
know that listening to some shows that shows that try to be all things to
everyone winds up being nothing, and I don't want that to happen. But
kicking around a few ideas, I've got a little cover art that I've already
created just in case I do it. But I want to know what you
think. If you think, Dave, I need more than fifteen or twenty
minutes a week of you, you should do something, or Dave, that's
enough. Please either way let me know. You could email me Dave at
beer Infront dot com. If I do it, it's not going to be
quick, it's not going to be in the next couple weeks. But it's
something that's floating around in the back of my head. All right. That's
going to wrap things up for this week's edition of Beer in Front. I
thank you very much for listening. If you want to get a hold of
me, you can email me day at beer infront dot com. You can
find me on all the social media platforms at beer in Front. I hope
everyone has a great week. I'll see you next week on the show.
And remember, sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one yet