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the beer in front of you is the best one yet. I'll talk about
some old school beers that maybe you've forgotten about, some new beers that have
potential to be a classic. I'll also talk to people in the beer world
and get their stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front and it's coming
up now. Welcome to the November thirteenth edition, episode one hundred and eighty
six of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave Zalatorus, and Beer
in Front is a proud Odd Pods Media Network member. Today I'm gonna try
something a little different. I'm gonna have a Tipache that's a fermented pineapple beverage.
I'm also gonna have something from Ravinia, and there was big beer news
involving Revenia Brewing Company, So I'm going to have all that coming up soon.
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only is this show good, I've got a couple good shows lined up soon.
I'm going to talk to the people over at Garage Beer and talk about
them. They're really taking the Midwest area by storm. David expanded to Chicago
and I'm gonna talk to them in the next couple of weeks. And I
also think I'm gonna do one on some different holiday ciders. So there's some
good Beer in Front episodes that are becoming up soon. But let's stop talking
and let's get on with this show. The big beer news this week was
the Revennea Music Festival suing the Revennea Brewing Company, alleging that the brewery violated
their trademark. Here's my Revenia story. About twelve years ago, I went
to go see the B fifty two's and the Go Gos over at the festival.
They have a seating area where you could view the stage and this big
lawn area where you could bring a pick. You can't see the show from
the lawn area, but you could hear it and have a picnic. When
I say picnic, it's so bougie. There's you're not just bringing a picnic.
It's not just your normal picnic stuff. These people have chairs and tables
with fine linen. My friends and I we bring some sandwiches from Alpine and
some beer. You would have thought we were the Blues Brothers pulling into shape.
Paul, how much for your little girl? Your children? I want
to buy your children the looks that we had from these people. Now,
I'm going to tell you right now, a sandwich from Alpine in Elmwood Park
was far better than these Highland park people. That's whatever they were serving,
So don't look down on an Alpine sandwich idiots. Also, before I get
going here, the festival. It's a nonprofit, but their director makes over
seven hundred thousand dollars a year, so somebody's profiting off of this. And
these are all my opinions. They're just my opinions. In case the Festival's
Giuliani type lawyers want to come after me, these are just my opinions.
I'm not stating this as fact. I'm just the clown. So these are
my opinions only. The festival claims that the brewery violated the twenty eighteen agreement
that the festival actually rescinded to limit the use of sharing the name of the
community that they all serve. I'm not an attorney, but that would be
like the Chicago Cubs suing the Chicago Bulls or Missus O'Leary's cow suing the Chicago
Fire soccer team for misrepresenting the name in twenty eighteen. According to the Chicago
Tribune, the festival wanted royalties on beer sales. Now, their communications director
say that this isn't about money, But then why do you ask for money?
Area residents wanted a brewery, and they actually had a meeting I guess
at the festival just a day or so ago, and area residents of the
Ravinia area where I guess kind of upset at the Revenea Festival for going through
this. So good for the residents of the Highland Park Revenea area for standing
up for the brewery. You know this is publicist speak. When the festival
talks about its diverse all star lineup, and that there was actual confusion in
the marketplace when the brewery started having some guy played the guitar on Thursday.
I don't know how that could cause confusion, but according to the festival,
there's actual confusion going on about this. Now, the brewery claims they had
not had the guitar player perform in a couple of years, so I don't
know what the festival's talking about. The thing that gets me is that the
festiful claims that the brewery and I got to read this because it's a quote
unquote, they were brazenly promoting itself. Now, the owner's wife, on
her own personal social media feed took a picture of them having a Ravinia beer
while they were at like a counting crow show. So it wasn't the brewery
social media feed. It was the owner's wife on her own per personal feed.
But this is brazenly you such idiots, I mean, your clowns.
Now, the Ravenia name was used before the festival. It was the name
of the community. It was annexed into Highland Park one hundred and some years
ago. The name itself is not only used by the festival in the brewery,
but there's a plumbing company, a barber shop. There's been barring grill
restaurants, other things that use the Ravenia name. I don't know if the
festival's going after that, but they're going after the Ravenea Brewing Company personally.
You know me, I'm a jag off. If I were to brewery,
I'd countersue for the removal of any beverage sales at the festival for diluting the
Revenea Brewing Company's name. Have Highland Park Helen go after the festival when they
can't have beer or beverages during jeth Row Tull next year. To me and
once again, these are just my opinions. This seems like a bullying tactic
from a large nonprofit organization going after a small, independent business person. They
have a successful brewery in the neighborhood of the festival. They have another one
that's closer to me in the Logan Square area. I reached out to the
brewery on social media. I'm sure their hands are tied with litigation going on
and they really can't talk about it. I didn't reach out to the festival
because they didn't even like me with my sandwiches, so they're not going to
want to talk to me. But if anyone from the festival wants to come
on and talk about this, I'm easily found, So you could hunt me
down. But once again, these are my opinions. Don't sue me.
I'm a delicate flower, like I can't do prison time, so don't sue
me for having an opinion because I can't do time. I'm just I'm delicate.
Okay, So once again, and that's the cliff notes version of it.
A lot of this information I picked up from the Chicago Tribune and sister
newspapers, and I know there was a little blurb from the brewing company about
this, So do some research on your own. To me, this seems
like it's a bullshit lawsuit. But you know, on said, if the
festival thinks it's not a bullshit lawsuit and they want to tell their side of
the story, I'm easily found. Dave Atbeerinfront dot com. Craft Beer in
Brewing is one of my favorite magazines. They came out with the best of
twenty twenty three edition earlier this week, and I'm thinking my postal carrier is
a beer person because I haven't received that in the mail yet. So if
you're my postal carrier, please deliver the latest edition of the top twenty five
beers on the reader poll. Sierra Nevada's Pale Ale topped the charts at number
one. This was followed by Pliny the Elder and Two Hearted from Bells.
Some great beers and they are locally Goose Islands, Bourbon County brand stouts and
New Glarius's Spotted Cow made the list. On the list of top breweries,
Green Creek out of Orange, California, they topped a small brewery list,
with Highland Park coming in at number two. Now I hope the Ravinia Festival
doesn't sue Highland Park for using their name. Jagoffs Goldfinger in Phase three were
the local breweries that were on that list as well. On the small regional
category, hop Butcher number one, well deserved. A couple other local area
ones that are within a stone's throw of hop Butcher you had. Dovetail was
on the list, Maplewood was on there as well. Now the mid size
regional you had Russian River that was number one, and Revolution and half Acre
they made the list. And of the big giant breweries that are out there,
Sierra Nevada was the top of the large breweries and well deserved. Everyone
that won is well deserved. They put out some great beers. So head
to your local newsstand and you could pick up the latest craft beer in Brewing
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media network. All right, the beer in front is from Ravinia. This
is Taco Fest. This is a Mexican style lagger four and a half percent
alcohol. They use sas hops on this. I am a big fan.
I have had this before and I do enjoy it. So let's bust open.
The Taco Fest is. You could tell it has a really nice light
color, good foam on. This smells really good. It just smells like
a classic lagger, a light lagger that you could drink more than one of.
Really good, very clean, very crisp, refreshing. I think it
tastes great. I get those little bit of size hops at the end.
It's really just a great crushable beer that you should have more of. Whether
you're gonna have one of these on a patch of grass somewhere or just in
your own the comforts of your own home. Say you want to listen to
some Tony Bennett or classical music. I think this would be the perfect beer
that you could have for those type of situations. But no, you definitely
when you see Taco Fest, you got to put it in the cart.
It's a great beer from Ravinia. Please support them right now. I think
it's a great Chicago Land brewery. They have two locations, one in Highland
Park, one in Chicago and the Logan Square area, But no Taco Fest.
You know, I've been kidding around a lot this episode, but in
all seriousness, it's a really solid beer. All of the beers that I've
had from Ravinia have been really great. So if you see it, you
got to put it in the cart, all right. I'm not gonna try
a beer right now. I'm gonna have this to Pace Sasson Now. To
Pace is a Mexican as tech for men to drink. This is pineapple.
Now this has alcohol in it. It's seven percent. But I've had this
before in Mexico City and I really enjoyed it. You can make this yourself,
which now I'm thinking I might have to try. But for now,
I just bought this bottle, picked it up at my Binnies, so I
wanted to give it a try. Let's crack it open for the show.
Oh, this depace has a really good color. If you can see on
the video here, it's a nice color. Really smells good. I get
that nice fresh pineapple aroma. I think it smells delicious. That's really good.
You get the sweetness and a little tartness from the pineapple. The pineapple
doesn't taste fake at all. It has that nice natural pineapple flavoring. No,
that's really good. Like I would definitely drink this again. And now,
like I said, I might just have to try to make this myself.
That I have my homebrewing equipment, I might have to just go go
to Costco and buy a ton of pineapples and ferment this, but I think
it's really delicious. If you want to try something different, a little change
of pace, I would definitely go pick up this tipatcha. Try to put
it on the camera. Here, this depatcha says on it's really good.
Put it in the cart. That's gonna wrap things up for this edition of
Beer in Front. I thank you for listening once again. If you need
to get a hold of me, feel free to email me Dave atbeerinfront dot
com or find me on all the social media channels at Beer in Front.
Have a great week. I'll talk to you next week, and remember sometimes
the beer in front of you is the best one yet. All right,
I'll talk to you all next week on Beer in Front.