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Yeah, I know it's forty four
degrees out in Chicago, but I'm talking

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summer beers this week. This is
Beer in Front, part of the Odd

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Pods media network. Every week i'll
talk about a beer that maybe we've forgotten

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along the way while we get those
checkens and badges. Some weeks, i'll

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talk about a new beer that has
potential to be a classic and being the

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Chicago beer Guy. Also talk about
great craft beer in the city of Chicago.

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Remember, sometimes the beer in front
of you is the best one yet.

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

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third edition of Beer in Front.
I'm your host, Dave's allatorus in.

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Beer in Front is a proud member
of the Odd Pods media Network. It's

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getting warmer out there, so I'm
going to have a few beers this week

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that are for the summer season.
In addition to the usual stuff that's part

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of the podcast, be sure to
check out the Beer in Front YouTube page,

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TikTok and Instagram for videos throughout the
week on different beers, pops,

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pizza, other stuff that I review. I get some strange comments there on

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the podcast last week that was about
Japanese beer. Someone wrote in thinking that

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the show was about World War two
and prisoners of War. I did a

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review of Second Shifts Liquid Spiritual Delight, which is LSD for short, and

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someone was disappointed that it wasn't about
drugs and left me a frowny face emoji.

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If you like what I do,
please give it a like five stars

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or better yet, a smiling emoji
to make me feel good about myself.

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Nothing yet on the Baseball Hall of
Famer. I'm still playing email tag with

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his representative. But I did receive
some beer this week from Walnut River Brewing

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in Kansas. They're going to come
on in the near future and we're going

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to talk about their brewery. I
want to talk to you quickly about Jenny.

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Jenny was a great dog. She
was adopted by my ex wife and

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I back in two thousand and nine, and even though like Moira, she

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was a gangster, we loved her
and she loved us until the end when

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we separated. I tore my rotator
cuff and still lived with both for a

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bit. Jenny never played favorites.
One night she would sleep with Gail.

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The next night she would sleep with
me in the second bedroom. Without fail.

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Jenny knew where to go every night. After I moved out, we

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had an arrangement where I would come
over to play with Jenny and Walker a

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couple times a week. Life happens, people move on, and I didn't

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see Jenny for the last maybe five
or six years, but I thought of

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her daily. Last month, Gaale
told me that Jenny wasn't doing so well,

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and I went to say my goodbye
to her. Jenny passed away last

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week, but before she did,
the VET made sure to give her some

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Hershey kisses so she'd get to taste
some chocolate before she died. Jenny,

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you were a great girl. You
helped me get through a lot of shit,

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and I love you when I miss
you. I'm not sure if all

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squirrels go to Heaven two, but
if they do, go fuck one up.

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In beer News this week, Evil
Genius Beer Company they're out of Philadelphia.

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They've gone. They've had collaborations in
the past with brands like Antie Ends,

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Pretzels, White Castle in Sheets.
Now they're hooking up with I guess.

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It's a restaurant out there called Bake
in Bacon and they have a new

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ale that's called Tasty bacon. It's
a five percent alcohol beer with smoked malt

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for that bacon flavor. It's lightly
hopped, and according to the release,

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it says it has natural strawberry and
chocolate flavors coming through. But they didn't

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use bacon. So I don't know
if I see this or if somebody in

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Philadelphia finds this. I'm kind of
interested to see what this taste like.

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But if you're in the Pennsylvania area, look for tasty bacon from Evil Genius.

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I'm telling you. People like to
file lawsuits, but the federal judge

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dismissed a class action suit that was
put on the docket. People were alleging

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that Topo Chico, they have a
hard seltzer lined they call it the Margharita

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hard Seltzer. The suit alleged that
it's deceptive because it lacks tequila, but

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it clearly states on the can,
and I've seen the can that it's a

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hard seltzer, and I now I
did not know this, But the suit

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was brought to New York State,
and I guess the judge said that the

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person should have known because they purchased
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in New York, you cannot sell
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so Topo Chico margarite to hard Seltzer
you could still buy and if you were

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looking to join the class action suit, find another one. Stone Brewing and

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Mova in the Ukraine. They're teaming
up to support people that have been affected

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by the war. They're brewing an
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be available at Stone and at locations
around the world. They're using old school

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IPA hops and newer ones, and
the proceeds from this are going to go

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to help support the distribution partners in
Kiev that work with Stone. So if

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you see side by Side, pick
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reading an article on Wbez's website and
Curious City, which is a big part

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of Chicago. Now I'm reading this
article and I did not know this,

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but Chicago officially became a city at
a tavern who knew Back in eighteen thirty

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three, leaders got together at the
Saganash tavern, had a couple of whiskeys,

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and they voted to turn the village
into a township. And then a

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few years later they went back to
the same tavern and voted to turn the

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township into a city. So the
city of Chicago became a city in a

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bar that's only fitting. You know
those Funco like dolls, their miniature dolls,

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they have big heads. I always
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what do I know. They have
a new one coming out, which is

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the Voodoo Ranger from New Belgium.
So if you're looking for a Funco doll

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with the Voodoo Ranger, head over
to Funco dot com. Finally, in

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the Great State of Illinois, there's
a new bill out there, Senate Bill

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eighty five. Now this is due
for a hearing really soon, and I'm

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kind of confused, Like I read
this in Recycling Today dot com. They

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have an online magazine, and the
bill states that it According to this article,

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it says it's for bottles, where
you're going to have a refundable fee

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of ten cents for containers holding twenty
four ounces or less of beverages, and

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fifteen cents if your container holds more
than twenty one. Now, according to

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the article, it says bottles,
but it's also sponsored by the can Manufacturers

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Institute. I went to the Illinois
Senate bill website and was checking that out

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and it's kind of vague. So
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it's going to be just bottles or
if it's going to include cans, because

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according to the Illinois like the website
for this bill, it says it's a

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beverage container recycling program, So I
don't know if that's going to include cans

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or not. But if you're interested
in this and you live in the great

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state of Illinois, you could check
out Illinois Senate Bill eighty five and let

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your state senators know how you feel. If you listen to the show for

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a while, you know, I
don't talk about Founders, I don't drink

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them. I don't care about them. I feel and it's my opinion they're

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a shitty, racist company and I
just don't drink them. Well low and

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behold. On Monday, they permanently
closed the Detroit tap room, just hours

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after a worker filed a new racial
discrimination suit against the company. Of course,

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Founders has to blame it on COVID, but you know, where there's

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smoke, there's fire with them,
and it's not the first time it's happened.

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It's probably not going to be the
last, So you know, fuck

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founders. I don't care about them. If you do, you know,

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God bless you. You drank what
you want to drink. But it just

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seems to me my opinion only,
and you know, what the hell do

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I know? But they just seem
like a pretty shitty company. Hey,

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podcasts. All right, the beer
that's in front of me now is the

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summer selection from Revolution. This is
sun Crusher summer ale. This is thirty

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five IBus five point three percent alcohol
and you could only get it during the

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warm weather seasons. This is really
good. It's juicy and refreshing with radiant

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citrus notes. So I'm going to
open his can up and it's going to

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radiate. Let's check it out.
Some crusher is a really good, nice

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color to it. I like it. It's a little darker of a golden

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ale, nice foam, good carbonation
here. Oh, it's radiating. It

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is radiating a nice citrus aroma.
Really good. I like the aroma here.

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Not it's really good. I get
the citrus notes here. It's very

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light, it's refreshing. I think
this would be perfect on a warm summer

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day. Hopefully will get those here
in Chicago because the weather it's been goofy

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the past few weeks. But once
it warms up, I'm killing some suncrusher.

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This is really good. If you
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I would definitely put it in the
carts. You can get it everywhere

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your grocery stores, liquor stores,
or just head over to Revolution and get

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it there. But now I'm a
big fan of suncrusher. I think you'll

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enjoy it. So check out Suncrusher
from Revolution. All Right, the next

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of the summer beers that I'm going
to have is bells Oberon. This is

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a wheat ale only comes out in
the summertime. I like it's five point

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eight percent as a really nice it's
like the taste of summer. It's very

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bright. They just use wheat,
malt, hops, water, and their

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signature house ale yeast. It's a
bright orange color, citrusy, smooth and

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refreshing. That's according to their website. I actually picked this up at Costco.

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They had a full case of this
there. So let's crack open bells

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Oberon. Bell's Oberon is a nice
orangey color, good carbonation good. I'd

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say almost three fingers of foam here, very nice aroma. I get a

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lot of citrus here. It smell
it smells like summer. I think it

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smells great. Get a little I'm
not sure what hops they use that doesn't

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list here on the website. I
get a little almost like spiciness. I

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think it's really good. I get
a lot of like on the back end

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of it, more like orange notes, like a like an orange wedge.

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It's delicious. It's out every year. It's been around for years and years.

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It's the summer ail. So if
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put it in the carts. This
is Oberon, all right. The last

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of the summer beers is from Sierra
Nevada. This is their summer Fest.

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This is a summer lagger. This
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haven't seen this one in a while, so I'm looking forward to having this

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again. It's a pilsner according to
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says that it has spicy floral hops
and hints of lemon zest. So let's

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crack open Sierra Nevada's summer Fest.
Summer Fest has a really nice light color,

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like rays of sunshine on a hot
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It has not old school lagger smell, but I really enjoy the smell all

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of this. Yeah, that's really
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it has hints of lemons zest.
I do pick that up. In the

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taste. I think this is outstanding. Yeah, that's good, nice dry

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finish here. This is really good. I think you don't even have to

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call this summer fest. You can
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would drink this. If you see
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I don't think it was purple before, but it looks like your regular

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can of Sierra Nevada, but the
can is purple. Summer Fest. I

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would definitely put a six pack,
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It's that good, refreshing summer beer. If you like Laggers, I think

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you're going to enjoy this one,
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Oh we got a little bonus for
you on this episode of Beer in Front.

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I'm gonna do a pop review today. I'm gonna have Harritos Tamarind.

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This is I've never had. Like
I'm fifty five. It took me till

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I was fifty until I heard about
Hartos. I led a sheltered white man

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life where I never had this.
Now that I've had this, I'm hooked.

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This stuff is fantastic. They have
a ton of flavors, pineapple,

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orange, but the tamarind is my
favorite. It's kind of like a murky

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brown color. But let's crack it
open. I will say the sound effect

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on the Harritos is not good.
It smells phenomenal. It just smells like

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spicy tamarind. No, that's just
so good, really nice flavor. If

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you like tamarind, I think you'll
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this and you don't need to listen
to my show. But for those green

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goes out there who are like me
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you need to put Harritos in the
cart. This stuff is delicious. Now.

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This is used with real sugar.
There's no high fructose corn syrup here.

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The ingredients are carbonated water, sugar, natural flavor, citric acid,

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color, and all of that.
Really good. I'm a huge fan of

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Harritos. If you see it,
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you're going to enjoy it. It's
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the tamarind. Okay, that's gonna
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Beer in Front. I thank you
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for listening to this week's episode.

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Hopefully next week it'll be warm and
we could actually enjoy the summer beers I

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talked about. Have a great week. I'll talk to you next week on

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the podcast. And remember, sometimes
the beer in front of you is the

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best one yet.