This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods media network. Every
week, i'll talk about a beer that maybe we've forgotten along the way while
we get those check ins and badgers. 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 and craft beer news in the city
of Chicago. Remember, sometimes the beer in front of you is the best
one. Yes, that's Beer in Front and it's coming up now. Hey
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Welcome to the April nineteenth edition of Beer in Front. I'm your host,
Dave's Allatorus and Beer in Front is a proud member of the Odd Pods
media Network. This week, I'm going to have the classic Mexican lager Victoria
is the Beer in Front, and I'll also have Hot Butcher's Pickle Spear.
I want to give a big thank you to those that support the show over
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week. If you're watching this over on YouTube, I have an audio version
of the podcast and you could listen to one hundred and fifty five prior shows
over there. You could head over to your favorite podcast apparatus search for Beer
in Front. I mentioned on last week show that the one before when I
had the Trevor over from South O'brewing, had a ton of people that at
caught the show over on YouTube. Now last week's show, and it could
just be because the title was trendy with bud Light, I had over four
hundred people that either listened, watched, or what have you in three days,
So I figure I'm gonna give this a try. I'm not going to
do this every week because it's a lot more work, but I'm going to
see how this works out. If it seems to be successful, then I'll
do I'll still have the audio show, but i'll have video up on YouTube
for these solo shows. I don't think I'm gonna do this for the interview
shows, but I'll have these out from time to time. If it's successful,
the next time I do this, hopefully there won't be the giant ZiT
on my forehead. I'm fifty five years old and the week I wanted to
do a video podcast. I get this, what the fuck, but I'm
going through it any I'm a trooper. This is what I do for the
beer in front viewers. If this is your first time here, welcome.
My name is Dave. I'm just a regular guy, as Chicago beer guy.
I started the podcast about three years ago because frankly, I was just
getting tired of myself and other people that were just chasing new beers every week,
whether it was the latest barrelage stout, they're the latest hazy IPA,
and I forgot people forget that there's great beers out there that have stood the
test of time. Whether they're Macros or craft, they're still great beers.
They were great beers twenty thirty fourty years ago, they're still great now.
So what I've tried to do with this podcast is reintroduced myself and to you
some older beers that, as you heard from the intro, maybe we've forgotten
along the way. Blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm just a regular
guy. I don't work for any brewery, I don't work for any bar
or tavern. I'm just a regular Chicago beer guy, and I like talking
about beer and hopefully you enjoy listening to me talk about it. So welcome.
I'm glad you're tuned in, and let's kick this show off, shall
we. In beer news this week, residents of and I'm gonna read this,
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington will soon be able
to get Bells Beer. You could get that now since they've merged with New
Belgium part of their distribution, So residents of those states you could look for
Bells Amber and all great Bells Beer. Coming up soon, Heineken is coming
out with a new canned cocktail line that's rum based and they're going to use
the Red Stripe beer line to introduce this, So hello RTD Cocktails. And
finally, last week, if you watched or listen to the show, you
heard me talk about bud Light. That's been all the news in beer.
Conservative people are up just in an uproar over bud Light and some jamoke I
don't know who he's from, but he wants to call himself some ultra maga
guy and he wants to come up with one hundred percent woke free beer.
And it's like ultra maga or whatever you want to call it. There's a
lot of things that are wrong with this. There's one now according to his
YouTube video and website, and one on the YouTube video, he's trying to
be macho man playing baseball. He's not good. His pitching motion is horrible,
and he has to tee up a can. If dude, if you
could play ball, you don't need to put a can of beer on a
tea have someone pitch it to you. So I don't think you're quite the
ultra mega man that you think you are. But now he says that this
beer is going to be brewed in northern Illinois. So there's a few places
that people are talking about. I don't know for sure, but if you
heard the show a few weeks ago, we don't have laws that you could
distribute beer from the great state of Illinois yet. So how is this person
going to get this beer to the grifters that are spending and get this twenty
dollars on a six pack of golden Ale? That's four percent. I'm sorry,
but I take a leak stronger than four percent after I record this show.
That beer doesn't cost a lot to make. It's four percent, So
he's grifting, can't distribute the beer to people yet, Also, on the
can that he has put out, this can has not been approved by any
agencies yet it has the word Ultra on there. You know who else makes
a beer called ultra? Let me think about it, it's an Heiser Bush.
You think they're gonna let this ass clown put out a beer with ultra
on the can? I don't think so. So if you're giving this dude
twenty bucks plus fifteen dollars to ship you this beer thirty five dollars for a
six pack of four percent urine, If you're going to spend that money to
this dude, give me somebody. Go to patreon dot com slash beer in
front, and I will give you better beer than this clown. But this
guy's just a douche canoe, and watch out for him. He's a scammer.
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beer in front of me today is the oldest beer in Mexico. This is
Victoria. Victoria has been around since eighteen sixty five. This qualifies as an
old school classic. This is a v Ennis styleaguer, which if you've listened
to the show, you know I love Vienna styleaguers. This clocks in at
four percent. Let's crack it open. Victoria is a really good color,
as you could see, good carbonation here. I really like the color of
this. I like the aroma. I'm getting a lot of malt here,
almost some like biscuity type notes to this. Really nice aroma here. That's
really good. Only four percent, so it's not a strong beer at all,
but you get a lot of flavor here. I get a lot of
the malt. It's not it's a Vienna style lager, so it's definitely not
as strong as your traditional Vienna laggers. It's a lot lighter. But there's
a lot of flavor here in this four percent. It's just really good.
Now. Their website says, oh, you get notes of tangy apple butter
and star fruit. No, if you do, let me know. I
don't get tangy apple butter with this. I just get a really good beer.
I could definitely see knocking over a few of these. Hot summer day,
you're sitting outside, you're on the grill, you're having some people over
four percent, So you're not gonna get hammered on this. You want to
drink something that's refreshing and delicious. I think this checks all the boxes for
a four percent beer. This is really good. I haven't had Victoria and
I couldn't tell you the last time, but I won't make that mistake again.
This is going to be a regular in the beer in front cabinet that's
right over there. You could pick this up in regular twelve ounce bottles like
I have here. You could grab it in big thirty two wounds bottles at
some of your grocery stores or liquor stores. I think Victoria is a good
one of the better mass produced macro beers I've had in a while. So
if you haven't had Victoria, or you haven't had it in a while,
please pick yourself up of Victoria. I don't think you're going to be disappointed
with this one, all right. The beer in front of me is going
to be from Hot Butcher. This is Pickle Spear. This is an American
pale ale brewed with Simco hops six percent alcohol. This was only canned a
couple of weeks ago, so this is fresh. So let's crack open the
pickle spear. Trying to get this. In between the camera and the microphone,
you could see pickle spear as a really nice color in the Hot Butcher
glass, really nice solid aroma. Here. I get a lot of like
grapefruit and pine. Simco says if you look at the hop description that it
has like mixed berries. Pretty much everything that I've had with Simco, I
get a lot of citrus and pine. That's what I get from the aroma
here. That's really really good. Hot Butcher is known for their New England
hazy IPAs, but everything that I've had from them that is not whether it's
a palaa like this, some of their stouts, other collabs they've done with
Revolution, everything they've put out has been great. This is no exception.
Pickle Spear is really good. Yeah, I get a lot, I'm getting
more pine and then some grapefruit here with the taste, but it's really good,
nice bitterness at the back end of your tongue. Good flavor here.
I'm a big fan of pickle Spear. If you see it in the Chicago
area, it's fresh. Like I said, it was canned on the twenty
ninth of March, so it's fresh. So it's around. It's your bottle
shops, your binnies, or you could just go to Hot Butcher on Lincoln
Avenue and pick them up. But if you see it, put it in
the cart, grab you some pickle Spear. If you're new to the podcast
or the video stream, I talk about beer once a week every now and
then I'll put out a special edition show. I've had shows on music on
nineteen seventy one on Pizza on Stax Records, but generally I talk about beer.
I do have an award show. If you look under YouTube, if
you go under the live setting, you'll see I had a show out in
December for the Beer in Front Awards, celebrating the best in old school craft
beer and macro beer. I'm going to do it again this year. I'll
have it out in December, and I'm going to start getting the word out
in the next couple of weeks with the beers that are going to be judged.
If you think you would like to judge, please get a hold of
me at Dave Act Beer in Front. I'd love to have you on,
or just even if you just want to score it. I'll send you a
scoreesheet you could rate all these different beers. I'm going to do this year
beer that's older than twenty one years old, and I'm also going to have
best imported beers. So I talked about Victoria today that will be on the
list, as well as other great imported beers to the United States that have
been around for longer than twenty one years, so please check those out.
I thank you for watching this episode. That's going to wrap things up for
this week's edition of Beer in Front. I thank you for listening and watching.
If you need to get a hold of me, you can email me
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the pod inbox dot com voicemail system. Head over to pot inbox dot com
slash beer in Front for more details. We'll see how this goes. We'll
see how many viewers and listeners I get. I might continue to do these
video podcasts if the numbers warrant it. I'll probably just do it for the
solo shows, not for the interview ones, but you never know. We'll
see how things happen, So take care of yourself. Thanks for watching and
listening, and I'll talk to you next week on Beer in Front.