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What's on Tap high five? This is What's on Tap Radio beer and
the culture that flows with it. Keears Beer Guru James Simpson and Beer Logics
Chad Pilbeam. And you remember record players? Do you remember record players?
I mean it's not like a uh do I remember record player? We just
up Yeah, we just upgraded studio as with a record player. Oh that's
right, Yeah, what was I thinking? We get we can also afford.
We can afford Uh, what is it the forty five now or the
thirty threes? I heard next year we might get some CD players. What
no way, oh man, welcome to the show. We're in at cheerful
mood. We are, I guess is a this is a happy day.
We got some we got some appearances between beer, people, stories, things
happening. We're back together. I feel like the gangs here, you know,
like we're back on the air. I feel like the bands back together.
I'll explain why. Because Chad is a special studio guest. Well,
let's just be honest. Okay, he's on beer liver is what he is.
Okay, I mean he adds color, commentary, he adds a little
flavor, Yeah, adds a little so little seasoning to the show. And
uh, you know he brings beer. And of course, you know what,
I can't drink it all myself. Well we'll get to that in a
moment. But welcome to what's on tap Radio where for the next two hours,
James is gonna sit there, back there and in some tunes. Records.
I got a whole bunch of records, A whole bunch of records over
here, and I was gonna say it in some of the goal of the
show today, we're going to talk about music from the forties and how it
influenced the fifties rock generation. Elvis Presley, this is this is your song
just came out last week. The kids you're listening to anyways, welcome to
the show. This is what's on tap Radio. I'm Brego James Sipson.
That's for Logic him self, mister chap He'll be joined by say Hello,
Bill, Hello, everyone, there's Bill. All right, So, uh,
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I'm ready to drink some beer. This first segment brought to the table.
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Hey, they've catered that. They catered the Super Bowl winning New England
Patriots whenever they won in Houston. Oh, nice true story. I remember
that. I remember that, all right. Uh, I'm thirsty. Chad
let's bring let's let's crack a beer. Who's going first? Brought to the
table Odds Well, Vegas, Vegas. I have a brewer in my studio,
so we're going first. That's how it is. There's two of us,
one of you, and if you want to start any static, I'll
step up. Man, here we go. I'm gonna crack this one open.
I'm not gonna tell you what it is. I'm just gonna pour.
Meanwhile, Bill, do your job. Tell everybody with us is Vegas was
gonna choose who's gonna go? But all right, since Chad n the ring,
Well, I brought our traditional German Marsan style October Fest expire October fired.
It's expired. Bill, it's old. It's gonna blow up, it's
gonna it's gonna give us some sort of carson. This is this year's brand
new. It's past October thirty. First, you can't drink that anymore.
You can't drink this. This is, this is probably this might kill us.
James, if we go down on the bar stool, you gotta do
the rest of the show by yourself. I want to go ahead and describe
this thing absolutely brilliantly clear, uh, beautiful color, nice amber, slightly
light copper, white, pillowy head, nose, big nose on this a
little fruity on the nose too, rocks. Actually it's very fruity. I'm
wow. No one, Scott, nobody, nobody got my Steve Martin reference
there. Wow, there's a mult complexity. Dry hop dryness right there on
the finish doesn't really hang around. It leaves you. He leaves your tongue
nexs and dry. You want their sip, all right? It makes you
feel like you want another drink. Yeah, I'll keep drinking, all right.
So that's what we have. ABV Bill on Tradition Day comes in right
around point two. Tradition Day mars in Octoberfest Harbor Light Brewery located where Bell
tell them where where'd they find you? South Haven, Michigan, right downtown.
All right, that's what we brought to the table. James, we're
drinking october Fest beers in November. I can't believe I'm not doing that,
even though I have a few in my cooler here studios. I am not
bringing a Octoberfest to this show because I looked at the calendar and it's stealth
season. It's steuth season according to November, isn't that time for the springtime
beers? Chad's like stealth season starts in May, it's right, But I'm
going to a traditional stout, probably brilli, not very many people heard of.
But that's okay. Uh, this is a brewery Guinness. I guess
that's what's called get us Draft? Heard of it? Oh, get us
Draft? I've heard of that beer? Igu you know it's stouth season.
I'm gonna go ahead and port this in my Guinness class. Yeah. Nice,
that's from that new brewery in Chicago, right, Yeah, they're selling
it. By the way, if you're looking for a buy a brewery in
Chicago, Guinness is for sale. But there you go. I am going
to pour my Guinness into this glass nitro right there. Look at those nice
little bubbles. Let me go and take a little swig of this. Yeah,
the old classic Guinness roastiness right there. Mm hmm. I'm not gonna
get dive into deep into this one because we're almost out of time, but
definitely what it is. I mean, it's Guinness. Nobody knows this,
Chad. Oh yeah, that's right, it's brand new beer. I forgot
it's a brand new beer. It's only been around, you know, for
a little bit. No, I'll sell it when we come back from break.
But that's what I'm bringing the table, the Guinness Draft Stout and I'll
talk a little more about this. But Chad decided, do you know it?
After rules, we're drinking October Fest after October thirty first with the Harvard
Lbrerary Tradition Day. Thanks Bill, and that has brought to the That is
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Right, Oh guys, you're up to that again, huh yep.
Every now and then we gotta pull some old tricks out of the bag.
You know, you know what I like is. When we went to break,
we told everybody this show has everything everything. We we have so much
coming up. This thing. We've got washers dryer, We're giving haircuts,
chicken wings, Big screet TV, Mister Toast did hair did get a dozen
donuts? All on What's on Tap Radio? We got it all. We
got it all, man. I mean, so much happening in the beer
world we're gonna be talking about. We're gonna be talking about. I mean,
I don't even know where to start on the one sheet. I have
no idea where to start. I mean, do we talk about mistakes you're
making when you're visiting a brewery or washing your hair with beer, or I
was fans, I was State fans raising money. I mean, I don't
even know where to start on this. So I'm coming up here. I
just decided to go. You know what, We're just gonna do it all.
We're just gonna do it. It's gonna hit everything, yeah, everything,
but yep, and then next week we hope something else happens, because
otherwise we're not gonna have anything to talk about because we just did it all.
Because the Chad and I will roll up to this, you know,
to the production meeting, thinking, man, there's really not a lot going
on, and the next thing, you know, we get this one sheet
that looks like a CVS receipt and they we're like, man, I don't
know how I want to get to it. Just say all of it.
Well, let's say we're gonna get to all of it. Hey, you
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James, we didn't even talk about who's gonna be here. I just said
I've got a brewer in studio, Harbor Light Bill. I assume we said
Bill and everybody knew, right. I guess we have some new listeners.
So Bill is back. He's a yeah, he's he's a stunt beer liver
in brewer at Harbor Light Burn Company. And he brought us tradition day traditional
German mars and style beer. And that's how we kick things off, because
we are once again tempting fate, trying to defy death by drinking october Fest
beer in November. Well, to be fair, I brewed it earlier and
haven't been on the show for a while, so I was saving it for
you. I appreciate that, all right. I'm just I'm just glad he
wasn't last time he was on the show, wasn't like three Christmases ago.
Who knows what we'd be drinking then I was saving this chat. I'm like,
okay, well, it tastes like what cardboard, but I was saving
it for you. Hey, Chad, what do you think? Say something
nice? Let me talk a little bit about the beer I brought to the
table, Guinness Draft. I was just kidding. People are like, what
is he talking about Guinness Draft? Everybody's had a Guinness Draft. I know,
I know, but I still want to talk about it. I just
say, there's nothing on this planet like a pint of the black stuff.
Right, so let me go ahead tell you what the aromas. When I
smell definitely hints of roasted coffee and chocolate, let me go ahead and take
a swig of this smoothly balanced with a bitter sweet roasted notes on there,
I'm looking at the appearance's dark ruby red with a creamy head on it.
And on the bottle, I'm looking it has everything on there from the serving
size, how many calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, everything, but
the alcohol by volume. It's got everything. But yeah, the ABV on
there and it says it's gonna be you can get some five cents back,
but it does not have the ABV. Yeah it's gonna be low. It's
probably gonna be four right around four percent, Yeah, four to two or
something like that. So that's what I brought to the table. All right.
Now that we enlightened everybody what we're consuming, and I told you a
little bit about the aroma and taste, I think it's time to do this
now, the official What's on TEP Radio fun Fact of the Week, brought
to you by Who's ever checked Clear this week. I see you guys doing
that air drums over there, I see you. Oh yeah, yes,
yes, yes, all right, we're gonna kick things off with a little
bit of fun here, a little little dash in the time machine. One
of my favorite shows that was on television for a long time, The Goldbergs.
That's a good show. Oh it's funny, hilarious, absolutely, and
wait it's still all right, well, no, it's I think it's all
done. So it just so happens that the subject that I'm going to be
talking about involves the reason the show is over. I mean, it did
have a really good run. I think it went for a for a decade.
But the father, Murray Goldberg, was written out of the show.
I think they said he had a heart attack or something and spoilerhops, yeah,
we let that one out. But apparently the guy, the actor who
played Murray said something on social media that some folks in California didn't like,
and he didn't apologize, and well, the show got canceled. But one
of my favorite things about that show is gonna sound a little weird, but
if you remember the show, what did Murray do when he got home from
work? Same thing I do when I got home from work, which is
on that lazy boy and turned on the TV. Yep, he did that.
But right before he did that, he kicked off his shoes, and
he took off his pants, stripped down to his underwear, and dropped into
that lazy boy and sat back in the chair, kicked his feet up.
And occasionally he'd sit there and he'd have beer and he'd watch television. But
he'd sit there in his underwear with beer, watching TV, doing his thing.
And you made me wondering, Chad, is that really what you remember?
Some old, out of shape white dude just taking his pants off,
down to his tidy whities and sitting down and drinking beer. Is that really
what you want to remember? And I said, well, whenever I can
turn that into the fun fact of the week, you're damn right. We're
gonna go ahead and do that it just so happens that Murray was practicing the
old Finnish tradition of calsary. Connie, I'm sorry, and I know what
you're thinking. What Kazoon tight right, calsary Kenny restaurant. Yeah, exactly
right. Well, well it would be a finish restaurant from Finland. This
was one of the coolest things I discovered. I was today years old whenever,
well, actually the other day, whenever I was doing the research on
this, uh days old or years old, whenever I discovered that in Finland
they put a premium on being comfortable, especially after a long day's work or
on a day that you're just going to take off altogether. And so a
lot of the finished people, in order to rest and relax, they will
kick off their shoes, they will take off their socks, they will take
off anything at all that is uncomfortable, because it is all about being comfortable.
And the Finnish people they like to drink beer, just like the rest
of us. And in order to enjoy that beer, while you don't want
anything inhibiting you, you don't want anything on that's uncomfortable, and so they
strip down to their underwear, PLoP down on the couch and get hammer drunk
because they're not going anywhere all day long. And the act of getting drunk
on your couch in your underwear in Finland is called cal sorry Khan, and
that ladies and gentlemen, is a tradition I could get behind. I am.
I am on board with this. Remember, Jay, comfort is king.
Comfort is king. But make sure you have drapes on the windows,
because the neighbors don't want to see this. So your official What's on Tap
Radio Fun fact of the week is Murray Goldberg, whether he knew it or
not, was participating in a Finish or Finland tradition of being comfortable, which
has a name. I was shocked if this has a name. Sitting on
the couch getting drunk in your underwear going nowhere all day long is called col
sorry Conney, And that is your official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of
the week, which is pretty much what I'm doing in studio right now.
Hey, that one guy who came in studio with no pants on. I
don't want to relive those days. We did the show. We did the
show without pants on once. Oh, we done some fun bits on this
show one time, one time, only. That's right, all right,
that's your official what's on tap Redo Fun Factory week. You're gonna learn something,
all right. We gotta take a break, but coming up, I
want you to get a pen and paper out because I'm gonna tell you the
ingredients you need to brew your own Guinness draft. I know it's very simple
and you can do it at home. This is what's on tap radio.
Will be right back. Yeah, we drink water, but it has to
be filtered through a brewery first. You've got what's on tap radio. Hi,
welcome, this is what's on tap radio. Now. I know this
is radio and you can't see us. I'm James, says Chad, and
we've got Bill. Well, we're all wearing aprons. And why are we
wearing aprons? Because this is our cooking segments, right yeah, I mean
right now the backyard grills like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, wait a minute, we're about to bake. Why didn't we get
this segment? We're about to do some baking on this show. So I
teased it. I teased it, going in to break that. If you
want to brew your own guinness, it's very simple. The ingredients are very
simple. That's what I brought to the table thanks to our friends over at
the backyard Grill. And by the way, I did find the ABV and
we were correct four point two percent, so very low. Wow. Hold
on to your hat there, kid, No watch out, watch out whoaa.
But it's got one hundred and twenty five calories, nine point four grams
of carbs, zero point grams zero point zero grams of fat. But what
I did find out it's fast. The ingredient I know it is tough.
Free the ingredients to brew your own guinness. So write this down. All
you need is water, all right, water, checked, malted barley,
malted bar got it. Barley, Oh just regular regular barley, roasted barley
roast. Oh wow, that's three kinds of barley. Yeah. Hops,
hops just any old hops, just hops, just just hops, just hops.
Just throw some hops in. This might be a little difficult, but
you can get your hands on it. Nitrogen, oh yeah, dude,
oh yeah, and yeast, okay, yeast, all right? Can I
use a nitress from my My, My, my sports car, you know
the hit the nos baby. So with those six simple ingredients, that's seven
James, seven simple ingredients, bath, you can brew yourself a delicious pint
of guinness. And that's what I'm telling right now, all right, So
I believe what you do now it it assumes you know how to cook.
And uh so my understanding is. And we we're in studio here with Harbor
Light Bill who's a brewer, and I think Bill makes all of his barriers.
By the way, we're gonna crack open another one here. I'm just
gonna crack it open right now, and we'll talk about that in just a
second. But I'll let Bill do the pouring. When you cook with beer,
it's basically just like brewing beer. So James has the seven ingredients to
make guinness. I think if you're like Bill, you just throw them all
in a cast iron pan, put it on the stove and just keep stern
stern sterring and then until you have beer. Yeah. I mean it's like
Witches brew, you know. You just pour it all in a pot and
chop some carrots and some celery, just like oh yeah, just like the
old Bugs Bunny cartoons that's peeled potatoes until it's ready. Baby. I don't
know, I don't know, man, I like it is like this is
this is what it has. It has multi barley, barley, roasted barley,
hops, water, yeast, nitrogen. Go. Yeah, I mean
that's it. That's all you need. All right. Follow us for more
cooking tips, or stay tuned because James, by the way, before you
get into the next recipe, I gotta take a sip of this beer because
Bill just worded out, Bill, what are we drinking? Real quick raspberry
sour goes to style raspberry sour. In order to make it, get yourself
some raspberries, get wheat, mall water, barley, malted, barley,
yeast, put it, put it in a crock pot, put it in
on it simmer for eight hours. Wow, that's delicious. You want to
reduce the amount of time, just put in a pressure cooker. Oh,
there you go, it's the pot all right. So James and I we
were talking about this. I like to cook with beer my wife. My
wife does too, But okay, this would probably drive Jen nuts. That's
a super fan number two, because my wife has a title super fan number
one. She'll yeah anyway, Actually Jen's super fan number one. But don't
don't tell Christine. And uh, i've i've I have a theory about cooking
with beer, and so I want you to hear this. This is an
article I found and I shared it with James. James is going to talk
about it. I'm not a big dessert guy. I'm not either, but
I mean it sounds okay, okay, so go ahead, all right,
let me tighten up my apron. Here, my apron. I don't want
to get any mess on it. I don't want to secondent brought to you
by Betty Crocker. That's right. I don't want to get any flour or
anything on here. But have you ever tried infusing your chocolate cookies with booze?
Well, if you haven't, today it might be the day. Because
not just any type of alcohol will produce tasty results, but stout beer,
like I'm drinking right now, this Guinness draft can give your desserts a rich
flavor upgrade that you've been craving. So stout beer, if you don't know,
it's a dark brown, deeply complex variety with flavors of sweet, roasted
malts, a little bitterness oft the notes of coffee, chocolate, and hazel
nut. That's what I'm getting. Yeah, you're getting hazel nut from your
Guinness shot. You may even find a little umami flavor from the yeast,
which is slightly balances out the sweetness. But stouts are ideal for mixing into
chocolate cookie dough since the beer slight bitterness can help balance out the over arching
sweetness in these baked goods. This is that makes interesting, Chad, This
is so interesting. Besides adding all those complex flavor notes, stouts can also
turn your cookies into a heartier dessert. Will work perfectly with any mix ins
you may decide to add, And because the drinks tend to have a thick,
creamy texture, they may even result the cookies chewier. Wow Is that
right? No? Say so? If I want something to balance the intense
sweetness of a chocolate cookie and that compliments all the mix ins like different chips
or nuts or anything else, and I want it to be a little more
chewy and a little more chewier consistency, Yeah, yeah, but almost.
It's not like it's not gonna be like jerky. It's gonna be spun like
spongy, if you will, Like when you bite into it, it doesn't
crumble. It's like biting into a cloud. Almost any stout can enhance the
flavor of your chocolate cookies, But a few varieties to choose from them,
but the most famous brand maybe Guinness. Just like I'm drinking right here.
The dry stout largely sweet, creamy, and bitter with notes of fruitiness.
A splash of this beer would work well with some added fruits in your cookies,
such as dried cranberries, raisins, and cherries. So this Friday season,
spice up your chocolate cookies by inserting booze Guinness, preferably right. And
here's the thing that I like about this recipe. First of all, I'm
not a big dessert guy, but a dumb article. No, no,
no, it's not because let's say you suck at making dessert, which I
do, okay, but you love beer. I do, and so you
can say I'm gonna try and I'm gonna put beer in here because it was
recommended. Now, they don't tell you how much beer to put in the
cookies or you you can always blame it if the cookies don't come out right,
you can always blame it on the alcohol. Blame on the alcohol,
and you can say, hey, I was making beer chocolate chip cookies the
way Charles Dickens intended for the holiday season. And what the first Pilgrims had
at the first Thanksgiving with the Native Americans, and which was beer infused chocolate
chip cookies. As we know, it went with the turkey and the yams.
But somebody had to bring dessert. And if it doesn't turn out,
you can just say, well, you know, it's because I was drinking,
and that doesn't work. But I have another theory on this, all
right, because we're gonna jump over from the dessert side to because it's getting
cold outside, baby, and people like to cuddle up with a nice bowl
of chowder or soup or chili and soup there. I cook with beer all
the time in my chili, I cook with it, my soups, my
white showders her Broughts. Oh yeah, her beer brought in mac and cheese.
Yes, it's great because anytime you're putting it with cheese, it's gonna
add some complexity to it. And the beauty is is beer has a ton
of complexity and it's not just anyone's style. You can play around this,
and this is something I've done. I've simmered brats in different beer just to
see how they taste different. I've added beer to different cheese chowders to see
how they taste different. And here's the thing, there really is no rule.
They give you some guidelines and like, do this, do that if
you want this and you want that. But if you do not follow those
rules and you decide to do whatever the heck you want, it's going to
come out. Mark my words. Oh maybe we should have ran the disclaimer.
Sorry, we didn't check with the attorneys, but I just wanted to
say that it's my opinion, based on all my vast experience of making everything,
that if it's calls for an ipa and you put in an amber all,
it's gonna be just fine. If it calls for a pilsner and you
drop in American light logger, it's gonna be fine. But some things to
keep in mind. If you want some of that rich mouthfeel and depth and
flavor and heartiness to your soups, there's a few things that you can add.
For example, will add a nut brown ale to some of your chowders.
If you're looking to sharpen up that beer cheddar soup, maybe put in
a hoppy pillsner or use an American style pilsner or light pilsner to a French
onion soup to give a little bitterness to that sweet caramelized onion flavor. And
of course, anytime you're doing chili or any stew deep with meats and lamb
and mushrooms, porters, dark brown ales, stouts all that. And for
your chicken tortilla soup, try something a little bit lighter, maybe even a
wheat ale. But if you don't have those beers on hand and you're making
those soups, do whatever the hell you want, and by the way,
measure anyway you because it's still gonna be absolutely delicious. I wouldn't pour I
wouldn't pour a keg into a five quart pot because you'll have a mess.
But if you took a bottle of beer and added it to, you know,
five quarts of beer cheddar soup, I think you'll be just fine.
But have some fun. That's our invitation to you to give beer and cooking
a little bit of a try. This segment been brought to you by my
wife's Facebook page, The Tasty Table. Check that out all her cooking recipes
all on Facebook, where she incorporates a lot of beer into the food.
All right, we're gonna take a break, so to com everything everything we're
gonna talk about. We'll be right back on average, humans walk nine hundred
miles per year, entering twenty two gallons of beer, which means the average
human gets forty one miles per gallon. Not Ben, What's on Tap Radio
continues. All right, welcome back to What's on Tap Radio. Last segment,
we got into the cooking with beer and I didn't realize this. We
had a little bit of an intervention at a moment here because of an incident
that took place Harbor Light Brewing. Bill is in studio with us and James.
I forgot to tell you we were supposed to cut that segment. We
were not supposed to do it over the weekend. Last week, Bill was
involved in a cooking incident. Somebody dropped a grill on his head, on
his head, and he's got sick. Yeah, I'm looking right at his
forehead right now. He's got stitches. Those stitches just a big gash.
Big Where was your harsh Where was his hard hat? Yeah? Why don't
you wear a hard hat when you grow That's not, you know, standard
issue. But I'd like to thank my son for it. He's the one
that actually closed the lid on my head. Yes, the old family members,
don't you. Don't you let you know. It's like, Dad,
I love you so much. Hey, stick your head in the grill for
a second. Wham. It's like when you're trying to change the spark plugs
and somebody just comes and shuts the hood on you. Yeah, thanks a
lot, But that'll teach me for trying to tell him when to flip a
steak. Oh geez, yeah, just stand back. You never know when
the kid's gonna drop the lid on your head anyway. So sorry, a
little bit of a PTSD moment there for Bill. He's like cooking, What
do you mean cooking? Cooking? Where's the girl? Get it away from
me? We're baking. We're baking cookies, and you know it. I
started thinking about it. I said it was kind of a dumb story.
But as I started reading it, I was like, you know what,
this isn't so bad. I'm gonna joye myself some chocolate cookies over the holiday
break with the guinness. That's what I'm bringing drinking right now, brought to
the table. But uh, Chad's on never on beer number four or five.
I can't. Yeah, I think this is this is three four thanks
three three three. But I've got a stunt beer liver in studio with me,
and we're gonna slow things down a little bit here. I want to
thank a good friend of the show. Some when we met on the road
down in Galveston, Texas Brewmasters Craft Beer Festival, Wordy Thompson. Now Wordy
and Sarah were on my bus and we took a beer to around. I
was a host of a beer bus during the Broomaster's Craft Beer Festival, and
I don't know how many years ago that was, but Wordy's working for a
beer distributor now. And I saw him when I was last in town in
Houston, and he came over and had lunch with me. He heard I
was having lunch at a local craft beer bar and restaurant and they don't sponsor
a show, so I'm not gonna plug him. But it's a really good
place and you'll find me there all the time. But we were there and
he said, hey, I got a beer for you. I want you
to bring it to the show. And so here I am. I'm drinking
from nine oh three Brewery. This is the Barley King and has Bill so
eloquently said. He said, let's see, it's a strong ale aged on
black rum, soaked in coffee beans and vanilla sugar. He's like, what
else can we throw in there? Well, at twelve point nine percent and
a sixteen ounce can, well, not much else will fit. I like
this, says pairs well with here. Way for this, it pairs well
with pumpkin pie with extra whipped cream, cult classic movies and Jack and Sally.
Who the hell are Jack and Sally? I don't know, but anyway,
it pairs with them. So there's a question. They're super cool,
super cool, like like Wordy and Sarah. So thank you Wordy. Uh,
there's a name drop for you, Wordy. So check out some nine
to three brewery if you have it in your market, and just remember Wordy.
Uh. Give him what's on tap radio high five if you see him
out there bills asking the question about a beer this strong and a sixty ounce
can. Yeah, I kind of don't understand that, because if you're going
to drink one, you better have a friend available, Bill who Sometimes you
just took a sip Bill. Sometimes you just don't need to understand things.
And the fact that it probably does come to six pack two? What yeah,
why is this not available in a nineteen point two ounce stovepipe? What
the did you? Did you taste? Oh my dude, Okay, this
no joke, would you. It's it's the perfect amount of that alcoholic taste,
but alcohol balanced fairly nicely with the malt and balanced well with the vanilla
and sugars. So remember Bill got hitting the head with a grill lids,
So no, this it's it's over hairs grown out of his head. Now,
dude, this is boozy. And I'm I mean, I honestly I
feel I'm sure there are tons of people that love, love, love,
love something this sweet. But oh my gosh, the booze and the sweetness,
I like, Oh that's that's I mean, Oh wow, that wordy.
I love you. But man, I'm gonna I'm I don't know if
I can do much more than about about three ounces of this. Who apparently
I would not want to drink sixteen ounces. Oh that's high, Chad,
Wrong, Chad, You're really let me down. I remember back in the
day, man, you want a shotgun? That thing? You're funny?
Uh? Anyway, well, you know, maybe you know back in the
day, though, I would have shot gunned it if I would have gotten
paid for it. And you know what, you know what they don't offer
us in the radio business they us I know, well, I know support
if we want, if we want an NIL deal, we got to go
get our own deal. Nobody's helping us out there. And if you don't
know what NIL deal is, I don't know what that is. It's it's
name, image and likeness and it's what college athletes are using today as a
way of getting around the we're not going to pay players. So basically,
these athletes who play for college sports, they get so popular and they generate
so much money based on their name and their image and their likeness that they
raise so much money for the university that they say, hey, look we
need a cut of this. And some people say it's ruining sports or college
sports, but it's in. It's out there right now. In the NIL
the name, image and likeness money typically goes to a conglomerate or a council
if you will, at the university, and that money gets paid out the
players based on how they manage their social media, what they do to represent
the university. Well, at Iowa State University in Ames Iowa fans. They
had a very they had a very mission oriented goal, like we got something
we want to see here happen. They blew out BYU. And after the
big blowout of BYU in the college football game a few weeks back, a
bunch of key donors got together and they said, you know what we want
to see. We want to see something happen here. We want to see
if we can get the executive director here at Iowa State part of that NIL
collective. We'll see if we can get them to shotgun a beer. Please
tell me he's a t totller. Please tell me he's a te totller.
He's like, no, absolutely not. It's like, come on, guys,
do you really want to do that. He's like, you know what
if you want to do that, if you want me to shotgun a beer,
I'll tell you what. He's put some ridiculous number out there. He's
like, Okay, if you can raise thirty two hundred dollars for the NIL
funds that we can pay some of our players. Yeah, I guess I'll
shot gun a beer. And well, the executive director he agreed, as
long as those fans could raise thirty two hundred bucks and well, by the
time they got the Venmo account set up, there was five five hundred and
seventy three dollars and thirty four cents in there. Boom, Well he took
the opportunity to chug the beer and raise the toast to the Big twelve conference,
to Ames, Ames Lagger and those Iowa state cyclone fans saying, you
guys just put extra five thousand dollars in there as an opportunity to support our
athlete. Cheers to you. You know, I watched the video. It's
very impressive. You would think that, like you know, he would just
bomb at it, but no, he was killed it. So good for
you man, raising money. Yeah, he's not a teetotaler. Yeah,
I know, but I thought that would be a nice twist of the story,
and it would have been. But now it turns out that he was
not. All right, Uh man, we got a lot to get to
next hour. I'm looking at the one sheet and they're trying to figure out
if we can get to all of it. But I uh, I'm looking
at it right now. Let's see hold my beer and watch this. The
highest rated stout in every state. Speaking of stouts, you know what we
didn't have time for was genetically modified beer. What's going on with genetically modified
beer? Yeah, let's just throw that out there. I mean this right
here, this is nine oh three, this bar king, which is way
too sweet for me. I wordy, I love you, but I can't
do it. But genetically modified beer right now, there's a lot of countries
that have way more restrictions on GMO beers and GMO ingredients, and they're not
gonna let brewers go into uh, you know, adding these ingredients into their
beer. But there's new yeast out there that is now adding flavors so that
you don't have to put fruit in. Why it's genetically modified. Yeah,
don't have to add fruit, just use the genetically modified yeast. And yeah
there you go. All right, wow, all right, coming up next
hour, Well not going on, we'll be right back. We like to
have at least five practice beers before we have our actual beer. Well you
need now, there's lots of practice. What's on tap Radio continues, Yeah,
yeah, you know how we do it? Side west side, All
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for you and Bill. No, it's not beer number eight but the last
one that we got from again Wordy nine oh three. Wordy's a friend of
the show. Nine oh three. I'm sorry that was a Boozehound. It
was sweet. I didn't even finish three ounces of it, and I'm now
a Type two diabetic. I mean it is. That was wow. And
so we gotta slow things way down. We're gonna go back rustic, old
school experimental. By the way, again, I'm not knocking the beer.
I'm just saying it's not for me. This year, we're gonna go a
different direction. Harbor Light Bill in studio, Stunt Beer Liver. That's why
we're opening so many of these. This comes from a brewery just down the
street from where Bill lives in Fennville, Michigan Way Post Brewing Company. James
and I. We've been there, Hannah Lee, friend of the show.
She's been on before. Award winning brewer with gold medal winnings, say Son
at the Great American Beer Festival and Bill says, hey, Chad, have
you ever had a field beer? And I said, absolutely I have.
I mean you go up and down the style at the beer Ale and it's
like, dude, I'm just trying to find an ipa and all I see
are field beers everywhere. I Mean, I can't find a good ipa anywhere
because all the shells are just packed with field beer. In case you're wondering
what a field beer is, Basically, it's any beer incorporating vegetables or you
know, it's really fruits vegetables. It's a wheat based beer, but the
vegetables are used as a carbohydrate adjunct that basically add to the mouthfield to the
body, but also to the sugars which are fermented off. And this particular
field beer from Wavepost is a cheerful wheat beer accented with lemon grass. I
don't even know how to say this one agreement. I never get this one.
Is it? Is it chamma meal, That's what I said? And
ginger, bright, tangy and floral, yet grounded with a bit of earthy
spice. I like this so feel beer. We're gonna ahead and give us
a taste here from Waypost Brewing a five percent beer. How is it?
And wow? That is fricking delicious. Wow that is it's it's it's lemon
zesty, citrusy, even a little bit. It's very much a lemon ginger,
yes, but very light, not overpowering. That is that delicious,
refreshing. Whoa, We're back, We're back, okay, all right man,
we're taking our taste buds on a fantastic voyage like Coolio all over the
place. Uh. Speaking of going all over the place, Uh, James,
I'm betting we're going to Nebraska this week. Close hold my beer and
watch this. Brought to you by the Ring Malda ten Hacen Insurance Group where
they'll cover you for just about everything except this. The last few weeks we've
given Florida the week off, not this week, bringing it right back to
the Sunshine State. All right, So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna
spot like a spot like a drunk criminal from Florida. I know it's hard
to imagine, but also known as a Florida man. We're gonna give it
a shot. So, speaking of no pants, we were talking about that
earlier in the show, Florida man was taken to jail for portly exposing himself
to deputies and it was all caught on body camera video. So police arrested
forty year old Sean Madden on charge of exposure of sexual organs, assaults on
an officer this early intoxication that's of alcohol, and resisting an officer without violence
following a confrontation one Sunday in a local neighborhood. Nice Sunday afternoon, kids
are probably playing and here comes this drunken idiot in a nice neighborhood. So
deputies were called out after receiving a report of a man acting belligerent and arguing
with a woman in the road. When they arrived, they found a shirtless
man later identified as Madden, acting in an aggressive manner, screaming and threatening
to fight deputies. Officials said, how much have you had to drink?
A deputy asked, can you hear saying that on the body cam? What's
going on, Bud? Can we talk about it? The deputy asked.
Madden replies, talk about what what the did I do? Madden continued,
and Madden guy little upset because officers were reaching their arms around the back and
he thought they were about to pull a weapon out on him, and he
was trying to explain to the officers that he didn't have a weapon on him.
All he was wearing is a pair of jim shorts, no shirts,
and he had some shoes. And to prove that he didn't have a weapon
on him, he pulled his pants completely to the ground, exposing himself to
the officers, drop it, give me the address. Four four four cop
cars. Come on, howbout you had to drink this, let's go.
I'm swinging on everybody. Where's my weapon? Where's my weapon? Where's my
weapon? And there goes his pants straight to the ground. So shortly after
he was arrested, and uh, he actually surrendered to the deputies and he
was taken to jail and later released after posting a two thousand dollars bond.
So, a Florida man was taken to jail for exposing himself to deputies trying
to prove he did not have a weapon. Not a place to do that
guy right there in the neighborhood where the kids can see. Nope, he
was taken to jail for exposing himself to deputies. And that's your hold my
beer and watch this this week. Drunk man exposes himself to prove that he
did not have a weapon. I feel like there's somebody in this who's gonna
pick this up, the story up, and they be like, you know
what, make belts for a living? We could we could spawn this is
this is a sponsorship opportunity. We could do that. Where's my weapon?
Where's my weapon? Pants to the ground to prove that he didn't have a
weapon. Yeah, well they'll they'll cover you for just about everything, but
not this bringing all the Tenaching insurance group. I mean they don't they don't
uh cover Florida man, not this. They don't cover they don't cover Wardobe
malfunctions intentional or otherwise. No. Uh, the p s A from this
bit drink responsibly, ladies and gentlemen. That's your PSA from your humble narrators.
Here, what's on tap radio? I can't make this stuff. Story
left out was what was he drinking? Though? You know what it never
says Bill, It never says we'll do a deep dive and more. What's
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gonna talk about everything, believe in something, they say we believe. We'll
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What's on Tap Radio. So Chad's got to hanging out with Bill and studio
Harbor Light Brewery and they're having all this fun with the October Fest. I
was like, I want to play to you guys, guys, because I
had this Guinness draft that I kicked off. It's stout season. It's stout
season, and I wanted to do it rights by bringing a Guinness draft to
this show. And then we got into the baking segment where you can infuse
guinness into those chocolate chewy cookies. And then uh, Chad got into maybe
cooking, making soup with chili, soup, stew, chowder, all of
it. But anyways, going back to the Harbor Light. They kicked off
the show, brought the table sponsored by the Backyard Grill with the Harbor Light,
and I was thinking, I was like, you know, I want
to play. I want to play, And so I went to my my
fridge here in studio s and I pulled out a Harbor Light Brewery and this
is the this is the Oh shut up, dude, this is the well.
I don't know what it is because it doesn't say what it is on
the labol. So James is gonna play a game. Hey, he's gonna
open up. Maybe it's an october Fest. Maybe it's chili. Who knows,
it could be anything, pretty blind beers that we used to play on
this show years ago. But I'm gonna go ahead and fill this whole cup
up. You're just gonna commit you know what I might You know how much
I love october Fest. Yeah, no, man, I sure hope it's
drinkable, because you know, the guy who made it is sitting in studio
with me. So all right, all right, now I don't have the
My palate's kind of blown since I kicked it off with the stout, so
I won't be able to give you those tasting notes and those aromas that I
normally give you that and it's not written on the can. Shut up,
Chad, shut up. It's a bit. Shut up, Chad quick giving
away all our secrets. Oh man, that's good stuff, all right,
Well, that's tasty, that's really whatever the hell it is it's good.
It sure is goodf a mars It's definitely a Marsin. And uh, Bill,
can you reset this beer for me? Since uh you're you're available to
too. So yeah. The october Fest beer, a German Marsian style,
comes in a little higher than Octoberfest normally does, around six six Brood in
April of this year sat in our cooler all summer long. Oh I love
that. Put it on tap here in September. And because it's not written
on the can tell everybody what the name of that beer is. The name
of the beer is Tradition day. Tradition Day. That's a good neigh for
a beer. Well. I used to work for a concrete company, Poorn
Concrete, and the first day of snow he would always declare, tradition day,
we take lunch and go drink beer. I like that. Wait a
minute, you worked so the first day of snow, you wouldn't you,
Like, everybody, stop what you're doing. We're gonna go get lunch,
We're gonna drink beer, and then you're gonna go mess with power tools and
heavy equipment. Oh no, we went never went back to work. Okay,
okay, God bail the question is how much powder did it take?
Did it take one snow flick? Guys, Tradition day? We're going or
or was it like coming down? Then you call it? When do they
call it tradition day? If the ground was white? It's tradition day?
Okay, because I know over here like it rains like one sprinkle, guys,
right out right out, we're out. You can't do that. It's
one drop of rain. We're calling it, guys, for calling let's go
drink beer. We can't work, guys, the conditions are too wet.
Oh, but that's good. I like it. I like it, Bill,
I'm a fan the Harbor Light Tradition Day in my glass here at studios
on the West Side. No, it is it, definitely is it.
It's definitely a Mars And I can tell thank you very much. I'm a
fan. Now. If you weren't here with us, I would still say
I like it. Yeah. How did that end up down there? Yeah?
When I make those frequent periodic trips down to Houston, I try to
bring beer for James. I'm appreciate it. Yet I do have some Tantrik
beer here in the studio. S Here is cooler, I know, Chad,
you don't want to get to the story, but I'm gonna do it
anyways. Oh that's good, because guess what, I've got a story that
you don't want to do. Perfect. So earlier the show, we were
talking about things you can do with beer, make cookies, make soup.
How about trying this? Now I'm picturing someone doing this and then getting pulled
over and saying, no, officer, I haven't been drinking. So there's
this article that's making the rounds right now that claims you should be washing your
hair with beer, and Chad quickly shakes his head. The claim is the
claim is malt, hops and iron. It can make your hair softer,
shinier, and healthier overall. But does it really work? The site dot
com No, I sponsor the show, so I'm not gonna say there's no
scientific evidence to back it up. But one writer on thrill Us actually tried
it and said it did make a difference. So the experts say it doesn't,
but one guy on social media says, yep, it makes a difference.
In now our ones like, hey, guys, we gotta try this.
That's how it works these days. Some experts say it might end up
damaging your hair instead because the alcohol could strip away the natural oils. And
for that reason some people say non alcoholic beer would work best. But if
you do want to try it, this is how you want to do it.
First, you want to open the beer and let it go flat.
So I would recommend probably grabbing a beer out of the crisper drawer. Don't
bring one of those nice beers that you've been saving enough to drink, but
let it go flat. You don't want any carbon dioxide in the bubbles.
It creates hard water, which isn't good for your hair washing condition your hair
like normal. The beer is just like extra step. Misage it into the
scalp and leave it in for a few minutes. No one talks about for
how long. But you know, like I said earlier, how much beer
do you add for the recipe? It's up to you, but anywhere from
three to fifteen minutes. How long are they showering for? And then rent
it out? Mom, I'm just waiting for the water to get warm.
It's always it for so long. What is he doing in there? I'm
a growing boy, Mom, I'm getting bigger washing there's more of me to
wash once Silence had a different approach. They said that just fill a spray
bottle up with flat beer, sprints your hair with it, and don't wash
it out. They claim it's better as leaving in it like the conditioner.
But the downsize is you'll smell like a frat party and then have to explain
to the officer when you get pulled over. No offer, I wasn't drinking.
I was just trying to shine up my hair with beer. I hate
this story so much for so many reasons, not because I'm bald, but
because this is the dumbest thing. But first of all, somebody out there
is saying, oh, non alcoholic beer. Oh, finally they found a
use for it. Because I'm not gonna I know somebody's gonna be pissed about
that, but but I don't it. After everything you describe, first thing
you do is you make sure you pick the correct beer, and then make
sure you remove all the carbonation and then a flat bottle and then you put
it. Yeah, right, because I tell you this sounds so convenient.
I mean as opposed to just take your regular shampoo, popping the cap,
putting on your hands, right, Burt. Plus, now, since James
went ahead and did a story that I despise. I'm gonna do one I've
been I've been trying to get this on the books and get this out there.
But I'm reminded of a line from the movie As Good as It Gets,
which ties into shampoo right here. It's absolutely perfect. I love this
story and it ties in perfectly. And Jack Nicholson says, people who talk
in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. Well, speaking of your nether regions,
Caitlin Siragusa, also known on Twitch and with their OnlyFans account by a morianth
is teamed up with none other than the Order of the Yoni. Now,
if you don't know what the Order of the Yonie is, it is a
Polish brewery. And this Polish brewery is making that general yeast beer. That's
right. They are getting their yeast from ladies who have an only Fans page.
And this Caitlin Sarragusa, twenty nine years old, who resides in Houston,
Texas, has six point four million followers. She was once paid two
million dollars to let people watch her sleep and was paid eight thousand dollars to
get on the phone and call somebody and say you're a loser. And now
she is going to work with her gynecologist to have her pap smear cultivated into
a yeast, which then goes into a beer which will likely sell for one
thousand dollars a bottle. And this story discussed James on so many levels and
he hates it. And we talked about this one word anyway, So if
you got an extra thousand dollars around and well, you're a fan of this
twitch sensation, maybe this is a beer you'll put in yours your collection.
Hard pass for me. All right, I need to take a break and
reset this show. We have gotten this show off the rails, all right,
So coming up, we're gonna we're gonna bring it back and put it
back on the tracks. This is What's on Tap Radio. Hang with us,
we'll be right back. Gross After reading about the evils of drinking,
we made up our mind. We're gonna stop reading. What's on Tap Radio
continues with James Simpson and Chad Pilbeam, My Yellow Roads and Texas. What
happens when your playlist goes on shuffle. It's called What's on tab Radio.
It's a brand new song, It's I just bought the record I told you
when we started this show, I got a brand new record player. We
upgraded in the studio, and it used to be we used to have a
whole band in studio. But now you get the band members the day off
play records. Now it's really nice. Technology is lovely. Yeah, I
don't love it all right, sign for another beer because you know I got
a stunt beer. Liver Bill's in the studio, chat Bill. This Harbor
Light Brewery tradition day Octoberfest is really tasty. I'm loving it. Thank you.
Well, see, I want to crack open a beer right now that
James says tastes different depending on where you are. And well, I said,
I brought beer to James. I brought him some Harbor Light. I
brought him some Tan Brewing Company beer. And well, James says, well,
you know what, you brought this really tasty craft beer all the way
thirteen hundred miles to me. Why don't I send you home with a can
of Lone Star beer. I'm like, wow, man, you really know
how to treat a friend. Thanks for a supergeon, buddy. So I'm
gonna crack open this Lone Star and see, uh if it tastes any different
in Michigan. I don't know if it tastes different, it just hits different.
Well, the thing is, I'm pouring it into the Sam Adams Boston
Logger glass, so immediately, you know, immediately it's gonna go up.
Okay, let's see brilliantly clear. And when I say brilliant, I mean
yeah, I mean seriously. I can see Bill's fingerprints through it. Okay,
I mean that's what we're talking about, like on his hand. I
mean it's crystal clear. Let's see. Oh yeah, that's beer. That's
beer. It's it's a beer. It's it. I mean, tastes like
beer. It's there's really not that's other than to say it's better. The
thing, I always order Lone Star beer when I'm in Texas when I go
to a barbecue joint or what's the name of that place that we stop at.
It was called the Eagle. Oh my, oh, the place out
when you're leaving Brass Valley Brewing Company. It's halfway. It's about halfway between
Houston and Austin. It's it's this little place. It's also like a little
antique shop as well. Oh my goodness, the Iron Eagle, the iron
Eagle, Iron Eagle, the iron garden, and the beer garden is like
some plank wood thrown down on some barrels. And he's got two giant fish
coolers, ones filled with uh michelob Ultra Miller Lite and the other ones filled
with premium beer, which is Lone Star and do s Eki's and and that's
that's it. And it's cash only. And if you want a pizza,
he does have a pizza oven. It's also known as I think a microwave,
but he has one, and and he will he will prepare the pizza
right before your eyes. He opens the chest freezer, he takes the Walmart
pizza right out of the box, the flips the plastic off, throws it
in. No, it's actually it's a toaster oven. He throws it in
the toaster oven, and in ten minutes you have a piping hot, delicious
pizza. Meanwhile, while you're waiting for that pizza, you're sucking back Lone
Star beers and you're having one of the most interesting conversations with one of the
most interesting bartenders in the entire world. Just remember, bring cash. We
talk about BUCkies having the best bathrooms. I think they probably have a better
bathroom. It's a urdal on their tree in the back. Oh no,
no, it is. It is. It is a urinal that is screwed
into a tree. So you we don't want to Hey, we're civilized.
We're not gonna pee on the tree. By the way, the urinal has
a hose that goes right down to the tree. Yeah. It's funny because
back in nineteen eighty five, I believe I visited the Lone Star Brewery.
Dang, that's San Antonio, San Antonio. Yeah, yeah, oh wow.
No, I like a Lone Star every now and then. Man it
no, this is good. There's nothing wrong with it. One doesn't.
So anyway, that's what I said. I was going to save this and
share it with some whichever person was unlucky. It's cold, it's cold and
wet. I know. I say, you didn't share it with the filmmaker,
You just well, I didn't know him that well. Yeah, make
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This sounds like a set up for a joke, but it's not. I
mean, it was kind of a prank that worked a little too well.
But what happens when you get a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officer,
a detective, and a Border Patrol agent responding to a call of a human
remains located in a cave. I sure hope there's beer involved with this story,
because I'm like, wait a minute, human remains in the cave,
and we got Parks and Recreation Sheriff, FBI, everybody else. They're all
there. So Squad fifty one respond three William fifty six on route. We
got a body. Okay, let's hear this. The reporting party reported finding
the remains while paddle boarding inside of a cave near the Canadian border. So
officers took the jet skis to the cave entrance and swim inside to investigate.
Please tell me there's some chips music like Paunch and John Yeah, good day.
This sounds really morbid because it's a morbid story and here we are,
well yeah, they're recording to apparently they're a call of human remains. The
crazy thing is is we know the punchline, so stay with us folks.
But what appeared to be a skull could be seen from the bottom of the
inside of the cave, so the officer dove in to get a closer look
using goggles some kind boaters head loaned to the officers. So it turns out
it was not any human remains, which is good news. What was it,
you asked? Uh? And the remains ended up being a plastic skull
beer bong. And so when apparently stuffed full of rocks to sink to the
bottom to prank people a little, they know, the trick worked a little
too well. So yeah, what officers thought was going to be human remains
turned out to be a plastic skull beer bong stuff with rocks. I can
imagine they weren't pleased with that, but I mean they were pleased that it
weren't human remains. But I need this in my life. Have you seen
this school beer bong? I think I used to have one in college.
I did. I just did a beer logic show in Atlanta, Georgia,
and this group hired me. I want to thank them again. We got
a bunch of new listeners now too in Atlanta. I want to thank you
guys, But when I was there, we were talking about the difference between
an invention and innovation, and an invention is something that's new. An innovation
is something that's new, whether it's an improvement on something that's already been invented,
which in and of itself, if you develop a new purpose, is
an invention, but it adds a benefit. And I made the comment I
said, I said, if you don't think that all or if you think
invention, all inventions are innovations, I give you the plastic baseball hat with
a two beer beer cans on top, which was an invention, but nobody's
life was made better by drinking from it, so therefore it's not really an
innovations. Well, it's actually pretty good chadow. And they got that.
They got that. That's beer logic applied beer logic conferences and events. But
anyway, all right, well we got we gotta go to break here in
a few minutes. But I thought, maybe we got a couple of minutes
to talk really quickly about the top stouts, the most popular and highest rated
scouts from every single state. So in the next minute, I'm gonna read
all fifty states. No I'm not, but this comes to us from Beer
Advocate, which I know a lot of people use the old untapped app,
but Beer Advocate's been out there. They were one of the pioneers. I
know some people like to GI yeah, but BA has been out there a
really long time. They good stuff. So I thought we just hit some
of the popular ones. A couple of names that I like, Fundamental observation.
I mean, that's just I don't know why you'd put those two words
together, but I like it. That comes out of California A thirteen percent,
the most popular stout out of California. Out of Colorado, Oh yeah,
sure, thanks. Weld Works Brewing Company, a beer that I can't
pronounce. It's Mediana midianoce coconut. Yeah that's right, Okay, cool A
fourteen point one percent. Geez everybody, Yeah, everybody wants to know about
Delaware. Well Utopia's barrel Age Worldwide stout because Dogfish is there. Let's go
to Florida, Florida Man drinks Hounapoo's Imperial double barrel age stout. Georgia.
We were just yeah, oh yeah, Georgia. We were just talking about
them. Wake and Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial stout from Tarrap and brewery that is
the most popular stout there. Let's jump to Iowa, Iowa Toppling Goliath Brewing
Company a twelve percent, the Kentucky Brunch brand stout. By the way,
if they get their hands on that, I'd like to try that. Please.
This one here name from Indiana from three Floyd's the Russian Imperial Stout of
fifteen percent. I'm not sure we can say this, but I'm gonna say
it anyway and we can get centered later. Marshmallow hanjy ok. I'm not
yeah, I'm not sure what the hand what a handy is, but I'm
just gonna move on. We're just gonna keep going. Out of Louisiana rev
the Coffee Stout from Parish Brewing Company. And yes, let's see what Michigan
big shocker here CBS Canadian Breakfast Stout from Founders Brewing Company eleven point three and
you know what, let's just tackle Texas here right now. Let's make sure
we get them because Bourbon Barrel Temptress Lakewood Brewing Company eleven point three percent sweet
stout from Lakewood Brewery Bourbon Barrel Temptress. And these are the most popular stouts
in every state. We will post a link to our social media so if
your state wasn't mentioned, you can go and find out what state what stout
you should be drinking according to beer advocates. All right, we're going to
take you a last break. Coming up in the last segment, let's talk
about some rules that you should be following when you're visiting a brewery. All
this is so much more coming up in the last segment. We'll be right
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You got all that segment. We've done all of it, Chad,
we did all. Yeah, we're about to We've got one segment left.
Oh yes, right, we left something for the end if we were done,
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more tantic Brewery dot com. Right, so I want to get to the
story about mistakes you're making when you visit a brewery. Now. I don't
like the headline your mistakes You're making when you visit brewery because years and years
and years ago, we kind of did a story similar to this, and
we had a listener email reach out to us what's on tap we do at
gmail dot com and said, I don't want to have to go to a
brewery and have to follow rules. I don't I want to just go back
there and pour my own beer. I don't want to have to follow all
these rules. Why do I have to have rules? I mean, I
get okay, I can't go behind the bar, but why the It's like
swimming at a public pool of no lifeguard? All right, Look, so
how about this? How about ways to get a better experience when you go
to a brewery. I guess the headline should read, well, that might
be a good idea. I mean, uh, I don't want to I
don't want to say what brewery I saw this at, but some of this
was posted on social media recently, and and they're friends of ours. We
saw it and there were like eight or nine kids and they were they were
running around and this is a brewer that had a big outdoor play area for
the kids, like playground equipment, swings and everything. Were the kids there,
Nope? Were they over by the storage locker with a metal door where
all the brewery, you know, the like some of their brewery promotion stuff,
their storage. Yeah, storage closet, big old pull down metal door
where they over there, running as fast as they could and crashing into it
and kicking it and throwing rocks at it. Yep. And it was like
this public service announcement reminding you what your damn kids. There's like tad kids
pounding on the door, just wh like, yeah, well, she's a
strong I think the capture was something like she's a strong door. But I
don't know how much worse she could take. I mean, look, I
have I have small children, but I can certainly understand why there's people out
there that go you know what, I don't like going to breweries where there
are children because of this, where kids are just so there's it's not like
three or four kids, there's like twelve of them parenting fail and you know
it's just like you know, like the parents are you know, having a
good time talking with their friends, and you know the kids are off playing.
Meanwhile, they're not watching their kids throwing rocks into the street. Now
I don't know if they were doing that, but you know, the kids
aren't being supervised right now. These are things that you can't control as a
patron and because somebody else's kids. But the list we're going to give you
are things that you can control and things you can do to enhance your experience.
Yeah, just make it a better experience. And I like the first
one. It's just doing your research beforehand. And I'm not talking about like
knowing the history of the brewery and when they open and who the owners are.
No, just going there knowing like, okay, what styles of beer
they have, so you don't have to go there, and especially when there's
long lines of people trying to get beer and you're like, well, what
do you have? I'm this kind of drinker. What do you got with
that? Like that? Maybe look at the menu and see some beers that
okay, I want to try that. Also, a good rule of hand
when you're learning about research is whether it's kid or pet friendly. Maybe you
don't want to go to a brewery where there's thousands of kids running around beating
on storage lockers, So just do a little research before you go. Yeah.
So, yeah, there's other breweries that, you know, mistakes that
have been made. They show up and they're like, cool, can I
get a food menu? We don't have a kitchen. Oh well maybe you
should. You know, I mean that happens there's a there's another brewery out
there. It's like, oh wait, yeah, what kind of stouts do
you have? Oh well, we're an IPA brewery. Sorry we do.
Like it's like, well, sorry, can't do that. All right?
How about this one? This is this is one of my favorite ones.
When you dress inappropriately and it's your and I say this like it's kind of
your own fault. No crop tops in spaghetti strap, no short shorts.
Well it's one of those things, particularly in the South, whenever you think
Oh, it's really hot outside. I'm gonna go ahead and dress really comfortable.
But then you realize that there's no outdoor seating and it's all indoors and
it's all air conditioning, and then you go side and you freeze, or
or the other way around. It's late in the year, basically it's getting
a little cooler out and you think, oh, I'm gonna go inside where
it's gonna be warm and heated, and it's like, no, you better
bundle up because you gotta go outside. And it's like, well, I
didn't know we were gonna be sitting outside. Hey, see rule one,
do your research. So I thought, when you remember closed toad shoes on
the tour, I thought when he said dressing inappropriately, not to wear any
sea through clothes, I thought, that's what you're angled. No, you're
talking about, like, you know, don't wear open toad shoes because you
know it's a construction site and there's heavy equipment around that could fall on your
feet when you're doing these tours. Well, you can wear sea through clothes.
Just make sure you do your research and check ahead of time and see
if the brewery has an only fans page. Right now, we're just discussing
ways to have a better experience when you go to breweries. This is the
one that it should be obvious, but I see this happening all the time.
Do not touch the brewing equipment or ingredients. I know it's tempting,
but brew are very, very, you know, cautious of contamination. I
guess I was trying to say. So, think about like it being like
a giant lab or a hospital where you just don't touch the things. And
one thing I really noticed that I've seen people do. They'll have the stacks
of cans and people will start going poking the cans and dinning the cans.
Yeah, they ruin the cans, and then that messes up the canning line.
And when you get one dent and ding in a can and you start
filling out a canning line, it usually ruins about ten and it's not good.
And the other thing that you don't realize is it's a working brewery.
You have no idea what's hot and what's not. Don't touch anything more than
that there's chemicals. Those are the things you don't want to be sticking your
fingers into and then playing around with. Right, And Plus it's all about
sanitizing and think about it. It's a food production and have a sense of
hygiene, so don't go around touching it with your dirty hands. All right,
I want to go ahead and add this to the list of enhancing your
experience. This one goes out to you, Fire Marshall. Matt by the
way, I used your bottle open er to open this beer. Thank you
very much for that. Not trying a wide range of beers. When you
go into a brewery and you say, I hate ip as, but it's
a brewery known for making really good I pas, get your brown ale,
get your ambryal, get your stout, get your porter on a flight,
but be willing to try something different. That's how my palette evolves. That's
how everybody's palatee evolves. Be willing to try something different. So try if
you are at a brewery where they make the beer and you're not willing to
try a wide range of beers. And on the flip side, don't over
indulge in the samples because then you ruin your palette and now you can't really
appreciate the beer. And plus those beers catch up with you really quick.
Some of those higher ABV beers. So when you're over indulging in the samples,
sometimes those beers will catch up to you real quick, and real real
quick before we get out of here the brewery. After you leave, throw
something on social maybe some pictures of the beers that you drink or the food
that you got. Just give them a little love, especially if you had
a good time. Maybe write a review on Yelp or trip Advisor. So
just tips on how to enhance your experience when you go out to a brewery.
So there's some tips from your friends here at What's on Tap Radio.
But Chad, we have got to say goodbye. I cannot believe. Well
it's because we talked about everything. Yeah, I guess, so we're done,
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