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in Front and it's coming up now. Welcome to the April twenty sixth edition
of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's Allatorus and Beer in Front
is a proud member of the Oddpods media network. This week, I'm going
to have a few beers from Japan Karen and Sapporo is the Beer in Front.
I'll also have a fantastic sour from Prairie called Rainbow Sherbet. The YouTube
experiment last week I think went well. The episode had better numbers there than
the audio version did, so I think in the future, from time to
time, i'll do more of the video podcasts with a complimentary audio version up
on your usual podcast listening devices. I'm recording this on the weekend of April
twenty second. I'm supposed to have jury duty on this Tuesday, so I
don't know what my schedule is going to be like for the next week or
so. If I wind up on some lengthy trial, I might have to
take next week off, but I'll let you know over on social media.
Speaking of jury duty here in Cook County, Illinois, I've been summoned I
think five times now. Earlier in my twenties, when I lived in the
city, I had to go to Skokie. When I lived in Glenview,
which is right next door to Skokie, I had to go to the city
or Rolling Meadows. Now that I'm back in the city, I have to
go to Rolling Meadows, which isn't convenient. Can there be some algorithm make
it easier for folks to go to a courthouse closer to where they actually live
between construction and rush hour traffic. I'm going to be listening to a lot
of podcasts this week. I'm keeping my fingers crossed the next few weeks.
I have some upcoming shows that I think are going to be really good.
I'm working on a local hard kombucha company to come on and talk about their
product and get this. I still don't leave this. A representative of a
Baseball Hall of Fame player emailed me asking if I'd like him to come on
Beer in Front to chat. Yeah. I hope our schedules line up and
that could come out soon. I want to thank all the folks that support
the show over on Patreon, and I want to thank you for listening or
watching every week. The fact that you take time out of your schedule to
catch this show means a lot, So thank you very much. In Beer
News this week, major League Baseball instituted new rules this season, which is
cut off about thirty minutes of dead time each and every game. Most teams
prior to twenty twenty three had a cutoff of the seventh inning so you could
purchase your overpriced beer, so you had until the seventh to make your beer
purchases. Some teams have now stretched that to the eighth inning to further line
their pockets. I've seen some articles saying that teams will lose between four hundred
and eight hundred thousand dollars this year if they don't do this. I'm sorry,
I'm calling bullshit. There's not one team that's going to lose money on
beer sales because beer prices are so inflated at stadiums anyway. At Wrigley Field,
which is the closest ballpark to me, prices are on average, I
think eleven bucks a beer. I could buy a six pack of tall Boy
Macrobers retail for about five bucks. Teams aren't paying retail, so charging sixty
six dollars for a six pack makes them a tremendous profit. Don't insult my
intelligence by saying the teams are losing money. Cher for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Matt Strahan, he makes a good point. Now, this is a quote
from him. The reason we stopped at the seventh before was to give our
fans time to sober up and drive home safe. Correct. He said this
on a Baseball Is Boring podcast. So, now, with a faster paced
game and me being a man of common sense, if the game that's gonna
finish quicker, would we not move the beer sales back to the sixth inning
to give our fans time to sober up and drive home. Instead, we're
going to the eighth and now you're putting our fans and our family at risk
driving home with people who have just drank beers twenty two minutes ago. Mister
Straham, I think that's a good point. Coca Cola and Mulson Coors,
they're coming out with an alcoholic version of Peace iced tea. Look for that.
In September, the Washington Commander's football team is being sold. The owner,
Dan Snyder, who has been called the worst owner ever an old Ox
brewery out of Virginia, released a beer called by Dan. It sold out
in seventy five minutes. Aldi came out with eleven new private label alcoholic beverages
last week for the summer season. They'll have a new hard iced tea and
a pineapple colch, So look for those that you're Aldi. The colch is
going to have a price point of seven ninety nine a six pack. France
is not fucking around when it comes to Champagne. The trade body asked for
the destruction of over two thousand cans on the grounds that the century old motto
used by Miller Highlife the Champagne of beers it infringes on Champagne's designation. This
beer was intercepted in Antwerp. It sounds like a James Bond movie. The
beer was intercepted in Antwerp. If you're being intercepted in Antwerp, nothing good
is going to happen. But this beer was intercepted in February and was destroyed
France. I think you made your point, but I'm still going to have
a Miller High Life and it's the Champagne of beers. Sierra Nevada is releasing
its Summertime Lagger, which should be available as we speak. That was always
a good beer. I haven't seen that in a while, so I'm looking
forward to trying Summertime again from Sierra Nevada. Finally, in Chicago, on
May twentieth, Maplewood, Ravinia and Metropolitan they're having a Brewer's Triangle block party.
That should be good, so look for that in the city of Chicago.
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here in the five hundred section lounge, we are three dads who host a
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the five hundred section lounge. The beer in front of me this week is
Kiran Ichiban. This is their premium beer. It's a Japanese lager. According
to them, they are the only company or only major brewery that use is
the first press of the malt. According to the can, they use only
the most flavorful portion of the finest ingredients. Karen's been around for a long
time. I don't know if I've ever had this, to be honest with
you, but I saw this. I'm like, well, let's have a
Karen I purchased in a twenty five ounce can. So this is a big
boy here. In Looking at the can, I'm confused. They are not
owned by them, But I was expecting this to be a Japanese beer.
But according to the can, this is brewed under Karen's strict supervision by ann
Heiser Busch in la or Williamsburg, Virginia. So this is not brewed in
Japan. This is brewed in the United States, but let's check it out.
Karen has a nice golden color, a little darker than most Macro's,
nice carbonation, good foam here, smells very clean. I get a very
faint hop aroma here, but it has a really nice a roma. It's
nice, crisp, clean smelling. It's an interesting taste. I get a
lot of sweetness here, but I'm not sure if it's all from the malt.
Karen doesn't use adjuncts. This is one hundred percent malt beer. But
it's an interesting sweetness that I'm getting from this, nice clean aftertaste, very
subtle hop flavor. They use German Noble hops in Karen. It's not a
bad beer at all. Yeah, it has a nice clean fin I don't
think you would get bloated drinking a lot of the ease like you would with
other Macro beers. You kind of get that bloated feeling. This has a
good, clean finish to it. It's a pretty solid, mass produced Macro
type beer that you could find everywhere. So if you see Karen around you,
I would definitely put it in the carts, give it a try.
It's a solid beer. Pick up a Kieren the beer that I'm going to
have right now is Sapporo Premium beer. This is in the big twenty two
ounce can. Now, this is made in Vietnam. Sapporo has five breweries
in Japan, they have one in Canada, and they also do a lot
of brewing over in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. It's city brewing. But the twenty
two ounce can that I'm going to have was actually brewed in Vietnam. Like
Karen, it's a big name when you think of Japanese beer as you think
of Sapporo and Karen. So I'm going to crack open the Supporto Premium right
now. Sapporo has a really nice light gold color, a lot of foam,
good carbonation, I'd say a good three fingers of like eggshell white foam.
I'm not really digging the aroma here. I get some like metallic like
almost like the metal from the canon the aroma. So I'm not digging this
right now, but let's try it. No, I don't get that in
the taste at all. Actually, it's got how kind of a weird taste?
Like how old is this? It doesn't say how old the can is.
I can't say I'm a big fan of Sapporo right now. It's very
light. Yeah, it's got a weird taste and a weird aftertaste of this.
I cannot say I'm a fan of Sapporo, and I actually think I'm
going to be dumping this between the off aroma and the taste that I'm just
not digging now. It just could be me. I could have had a
bad can. There's no date on this, so who knows how long it's
been sitting in the grocery store. It could be old as well. But
let me just try one more sit before I chuck this. Yeah, no,
I can't say I'm a fan of this at all. You know,
if you like Sapporo and you think I'm missing something, or maybe I should
try one of the ones that was brewed in Wisconsin, maybe it'd be a
little fresher. Like if I buy just a twelve ounce bottle as opposed to
this twenty two ounces can, maybe that tastes a little bit better. But
this one that's brute in Vietnam six hundred and fifty million leader can, I'd
have to take a pass on. This will not be put back in my
cart, all right. The beer in front of me right now is from
Prairie Artists and Ales. This is Rainbow Sherbet. I've had this before.
I loved it, and I picked this up. I saw it this afternoon
over at Bottles and Cans on Lincoln Avenue, so I had to pick this
up. Everything that I've had from Prairie has been outstanding. I've had this
before a couple others, and actually they were kind enough to send over a
few beers a couple of months ago, and I really really enjoyed them.
So I wanted to have Rainbow sherbet again. This is in the big ass
nineteen point two ounce can, and I remember it being delicious, so I'm
looking forward to having it again. Really looks nice, good carbonation here,
good foam. Yeah, that smells like you just went to the grocery store
back in the seventies radies and bought you that big tub of rainbow sherbet.
That's what I get from this aroma. That's really good. Wow. I
get all the flavors there, like what is rainbow? It's the line the
orange. I don't know, I'm getting like a cherry, but it's a
big fruit explosion in your mouth with a nice tartness there. So it's well
balanced. I really like this one a lot. Everything from Prairies top shelf.
If you see Rainbow Sherbet by all means, put it in the cart.
I can get this here in Chicago. I know they are based.
I'm not sure what their distribution footprint is, but I think you could get
them at many places around the country. So if you see this or anything
from Prairie artisan Ales, throw it in the cart. I think you're going
to enjoy it. If you like sours, then you like Rainbow Sherbert in
late Breaking News. I don't have jury duty, so I'm good to go.
I will see everyone next week here on Beer in Front. 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 need to get a
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I hope everyone has a great week. I'll let you know on Instagram or
something if I have jury duty and can't make the show next week, but
have a great week everyone. I'll see you hopefully next week. And remember,
sometimes the Beer in Front of You is the best one yet