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That's Beer in Front and it's coming up. Naw. Welcome to the April
twelfth 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 is
going to be a quick show this week. I've been trying to stay non
political for about a year now, but I'm wound up over this phony outrage
over a promotional can of bud Light that's not available for the public. One
chuckle nuts with plastic surgery and another who has excessive use of a hair straightener.
They're trying to make the news about this, trying to make themselves trend.
That's not the way God made you now, is it? In addition
to bud Light, I'm gonna have dreadnought from three Floyd's on the show.
In the last month, I've had people that have listened to this show from
Iceland and the Maldives. Thank you. Last week I put out some videos
over on YouTube. You could check those out if you have some time.
Speaking of YouTube, I post the podcast there because there's a few of you
that listen to podcasts on YouTube. Usually I don't get that many people,
but last week I had more people that listen to the show on YouTube than
the usual audio channels like you know, Apple podcasts, Good Pods, etc.
So I'm kind of kicking around the idea should I do a video podcast
from time to time? Let me know what you think. You could email
me Dave at beer infront dot com if you'd be interested in at format.
Like to give a big shout out to those that support the show over on
Patreon, you could head over to Patreon dot com slash beer in front for
more details. In beer news, this week, April twenty second is Beer
Clean Glass Day. Now. You may think your beer glass is clean,
but is it beer clean? A beer that looks good in a beer clean
glass will always taste better. Head over to Cicerone dot org for more details.
Jennifer Lopez is coming out with a ready to drink cocktail line later this
year called the Lola. Prices will be twenty three bucks for a seven hundred
and fifty milliliter bottle and about twelve dollars for three hundred and seventy five.
April twenty ninth is Alagash Sezon Day, and here in Chicago, Off Color
will be hosting the best in Sayson's and Farmhouse ales Hop. Culture magazine had
a feature on best breweries near Major League Baseball stadiums, and Dovetail and Mars
were chosen as the best near Wrigley and guaranteed rate here in Chicago. I
read over at Porch Drinking that Sarah Flora is starting Flora Brewing over at Pilot
Project later this month, and I'm really looking forward to trying that. The
new issue of Craft Beer and Brewing arrived in my mailbox this week and is
always a great reed. This month it's all about IPAs and it's worth your
time if you enjoy IPAs. The beer in front of me today his bud
light. Let me say this right now. I have never in fifty five
years of existence, I've never purchased a bud Light before today. However,
I did have one of the original cans when it came out in nineteen eighty
two. Friend of mine at the time worked for Budweiser as a truck driver
and they were given cans that were completely sealed. But it was from the
first day of pressing and I had I held on to that can for eight
or nine years, and somehow during a move it got punctured. So I
don't even know what it would be worth today. I wish I still had
it, but I've never purchased a bud Light before today. Now. Last
week, a social media influencer, Dylan mulvaney, she posted on Instagram bud
Light Center a commemorative can. This can's not for sale. It's a can
that they gave her with her picture on it, celebrating three hundred and sixty
five days of her transition. Everyone's in an uproar. Travis Tritt is this
is the best part. Travis trittz all upset, and he's saying that he
will not allow any Anheuser Busch products to be in his tour writer. Okay,
Travis, So you're saying you're not going to accept free beer. You're
an idiot. You dress in Robin's egg blue leather jumpsuits with fringe, and
you're pissed at Dylan mulvaney. The other ass clown, Robert Ritchie, he's
sitting out there buying, well, he's not buying. I'm sure one of
his lackeys is buying him cases of bud Light so he could go shoot it.
You're asking yourself who's Robert Ritchie. He's a fifty two year old guy
with the hair straightener that wants to be known as kid rock. So that's
okay. You could be known as something that you aren't born with, but
God forbid. Dylan mulvaney is happy. So you're all a bunch of fucking
jagoffs, and you've made me purchase something I've never purchased before, and today
I'm gonna have a bud Light as the beer in front. Bud Light has
a really nice clear color, very light, golden, good foam, good
carbonation on your just smells like an old school macro. Smells good. Not
my thing, but it's not horrible. It's not a drain pourt. It's
just I'm not personally a big fan of light beers. I like something with
a little more body to them, a little more oomph. I would prefer
regular Budweiser than this, But it's not horrible. Now bud Light uses barley
hops and rice in here trying to look at the canna see what the ABV
is. It can't be high. It doesn't say on here, but it
can't be high. It's bud Light. Let me have another sip of this.
Yeah, definitely not my thing, but you know, don't let that
stop you from buying it. It's one of the top probably five beers sold
in the country, so anyone that wants to pu it would love to have
the revenue that comes in from bud Light every year. So go get you
a bud Light. Congratulations to Dylan mulvaney on one year of transitioning and go
grab you a bud Light. Fuck you kid. Rocket. This didn't score
well and the Beer in Front judging scale I only gave it a four point
nine on the one to ten scale, but still I wasn't expecting much out
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Always a great show. The craft beer in front that I'm going to have
this week comes from Three Floyds. This is their Dreadnaught. This is an
Imperial IPA. And actually I found this at my cost Go. They were
selling four packs of this there, so this clocks in at nine point four
percent according to the can This is an Imperial India pale Ale with an intense
citrus hop aroma, a huge malt body, and a crisp finish. They
sold me, so let's crack it open. Dreadnaught has a really nice almost
Vienna lager like color. It's really amber. Looks fantastic. I get a
lot going on with the aroma here. I get huge pine from the hops.
I get some malt here in the aroma, but the aroma is really
solid. Wow, that's really good. Kind of just like a good old
school Imperial ipa which three Floyd's excels at. This is really good good foam
on this as well. It has a nice like creamy finish to it.
You get some good hot bitterness at the back end of the tongue. This
is definitely an old school Imperial IPA. Now I'm a big fan of this.
If you're around, if you're in the Midwest and you see it at
Costco, I would definitely pick it up and put it in the cart along
with your toilet paper and everything else you're getting at Costco. But now three
Floyd's Dreadnought Imperial IPA is a winner. Highly recommended. I scored this really
high on the Beer in Front scale. On a one to ten scale,
this checked in at nine point one five. And I've been lax in recording
my beers, so I'm trying to do better. But I've been logging every
new beer that I have. I have a little excel sheet at home and
I've been doing it now for a couple of weeks. So I'm trying to
be better at recording and scoring beers to talk about on the show. But
this was a nine point one five excellent beer. Once again, if you
see Dreadnought, pick it up the rabbit hole I went down for the earworm.
This week was started by the last episode of ted Lasso. The show
closed with a cover of Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice. That's one of my
favorite songs of his. Don't Think Twice was released sixty one years ago and
was the b side of Blowing in the Wind. Don't Think Twice has been
featured in countless films and TV shows. It's been covered by artists. Is
Diverse is Peter, Paul and Mary all the way to Kesha, Lana del
Rey, and Post Malone. The version I want to talk about is from
Mike Ness's solo record from nineteen ninety nine called Cheating Its Solitaire. Ness is
the leader of Social Distortion, and his solo records had more of a gruff
like a country rockabilly junkie guitar player vibe. Going on that really, in
my opinion, brought extra life to old classics and new material as well.
Both Cheating Its Solitaire and Under the Influences are great records if you like that
style. If you're a fan of social d put those two records in your
queue to play next. He has a great cover of Don't Thing Twice that's
on the wonderful record Cheating Its Solitaire. Check that out. It's great,
great cover. That's gonna wrap things up for this week's episode of Beer in
Front. I thank you very much for listening. If you need to get
hold of me, you can email me day that Beer infront dot com.
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Beer in Front. Have a great week. I'll see you next week on
the podcast. Then remember sometimes the beer in front of you is the best
one yet. All Right, everyone, take care. We will talk to
you next week.