This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods Media Network. Sometimes
the beer in front of you is the best one yet. I'll talk about
some great beer, and I'll also talk to various people in and around the
beer industry to get their stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front and
it's coming up now. Welcome to episode two hundred and ten of Beer in
Front. I'm your host, Dave Xalatoris, and Beer in Front is a
proud Odd Pods Media Network member. I'm also a member of the Beer Media
Group. Two thousand and seven was the last time we had cicadas here.
I'm waiting. The show was a couple days late. I was waiting for
the cicadas to come out, and you could hear the of the cicadas in
the background. But they haven't reached the North Center neighborhood yet, so any
day now. But I am going to have another episode out in a couple
of days. I talked with John Over at Nation Beer. He's a non
alcoholic brewery Officionado has a website as a podcast, So that'll come out in
a couple of days. Hopefully by then the cicadas will be here. The
last time they were here two thousand and seven. I'm going to talk about
some beers that were popular back then. Some of them are no longer with
us. Unfortunately, a lot of things have happened in seventeen years. You
couldn't have listened to this on your iPhone because it wasn't around yet. It
didn't come out until later in two thousand and seven, so if you were
to take a picture of a cicada on your cell phone, you were whipping
out your motorola razor to take a picture of the cicadas. But stay tuned
for I'm going to talk more about two thousand and seven and have an Illinois
beer that was around back then. All coming up next on Beer in Front
in a couple of days, I'm going to have a special, an extra,
a bonus podcast, if you will. I'm going to talk to John
Over at Nation Beer about the non alcoholic market. He has a national website
and podcast, so check out Nation Beer. I'm gonna be on his show
that'll come out probably next week, so you could get a double dose of
Dave and John from Nation Beer. Also last week I spoke to the great
guys over at Pop Culture Yearbook. We did a two part podcast about my
favorite band, Ram so on their podcast, which will come out a couple
days before mine, we talked about the earlier days of ram up into the
Out of Time record, and on my show we did everything from out of
Time on. So both shows are great. It was a lot of fun
talking about Arim talking to those gentlemen, meeting them so you know, we
did it virtually via zoom and Skype, So look for that coming up in
a couple of weeks. But that was a lot of fun. If you
like Arim, I think you'll enjoy listening to both of those shows if you're
around in the city of Chicago. On Friday, June seventh, that's the
first of the Chicago Friday Night Flights. That's a great beer festival. They're
going to have them all over the city throughout the summer, but it's going
to kick off in Wrigleyville at Gallagher Way, right outside of Wrigley Field.
I went to the one last year. It was a lot of fun.
You get over thirty local area breweries. The price is great. It's better
than what you're going to spend for most, you know, neighborhood festivals.
Neighborhood beer festivals. I mean so, but no, if you're around check
out Friday night flights. I will be there. Look for me. Say
hello, but Friday night flight to something that I highly recommend. The beer
world was a lot different back in two thousand and seven. Going over some
of the medal winners at the Great American Beer Festival, there were winners from
breweries that aren't even around anymore. Like Mikelobe won an award for a mars
in. I'm like, when was the last time you saw a Michelob outside
of the Michelob Ultra. But even beers like Hams and Old Style and Mickey's
Big Mouth took home medals that year for you know their offerings. Some local
beers that won piece out of Chicago, they took home three medals. And
you know, Peace is a great spot, so I know they still make
one of the beers at one. So if you're around Peace, you could
check out a seventeen year old medal winner when you go there. Two Brothers
medaled back then. Emmetts from the Suburbs took home of medal three Floyd's and
New Glaris medaled from our greater airy here. But it's just weird looking at
you know some of these beers that took home Sculpin, which was a great
beer. I guess it still is if you could ever find it, that
took home a medal back then, but that was in a pro amateur competition,
so I guess they weren't even full blown brewery at that point. Other
great winners from two thousand and seven Edmund Fitzgerald one that I've talked about many
times from Great Lakes that took home as silver in the robust porder category.
You could go to the Great American Beer Festival's website and you could filter the
winners per year. So every now and then I go down a rabbit hole
to see, like what was popular at a certain time. But it was
just weird looking at some of these beers. There was a beer from a
place called the Chicago Brewing Company. I'm like, well, I never heard
of them, but they're in Vegas, of all places, so I don't
want to count them in my Drink Illinois Beer series. The RAM, they
were big here and all over their Indianapolis location took home of metal. I
remember going to the Ram a lot that was a great spot back in the
day before you could get a beer on every corner. It's weird because going
through the list, like now we're pushing ten thousand breweries in the United States.
Back then it was under two thousand. So a lot has changed in
the last seventeen years, some for the better, some for the worse.
But if you have some time to kill, go to Great American Beer Festival
dot com and check out all of the winners from two thousand and seven.
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check them out. Always a great show. In beer and beverage news,
the Museum of Beer and Brewing, they had a soft open last week in
Milwaukee. You could visit now to check it out ahead of its official grand
opening later on in the summer. But that looks really cool. I'm going
to need to do a road trip and you know, maybe hit the broad
stop along the way to check out the Museum of Beer and Brewing. Wine
producer Gallo. They're investing in Montucky Cold Snacks. This will probably help with
more of a nationwide distribution for them. Wisconsin Brewing, they're collaborating with Hartley
Davidson to make road King. This will be a non alcoholic pilsner and it's
going to be available in Wisconsin for now and they have plans to expand in
the future. But if you're in Wisconsin, check out road King. Bell's
Oberon is expanding their brand with a new mixed pack of Shandy's. They're going
to have a lemon, a tropical and cherry limade. And finally, I
talked about it a couple of weeks ago, but Daisy Cutter from half Acre
it turned fifteen. They released a collaboration double Daisy Cutter with Sierra Nevada.
It's available now at the tap room at half Acre. I think it's going
to be distributed around the city or Chicagoland area next week. I picked it
up and I'll have a review of that later. But how do you go
wrong with Sierra Nevada and half Acre team it up? All right? The
beer that's in front of me right now is from Two Brothers Brewing. They're
an Illinois brewery. This is Prairie Path. It's a Golden Ale and it's
crafted to remove gluten. Now, I know this beer has been around a
while, and I don't recall if it was ever brewed this way. I
always thought it was a regular beer, but maybe I'm mistaken. Two Brothers
been around since the late nineties. They won a Great American Beer Festival Award
back in two thousand and seven for Domain du Page, which I was going
to pick up, but you can't find that anymore. So this was the
only two brothers offering they had at my grocery store. I checked the couple
out, So we're gonna have the prairie path here. They've been around for
a long time. They have a couple locations now. They they opened up.
They took over the Roundhouse in Aurora that used to be owned by the
late Great Walter Peyton. That was really good. I've been there a couple
times years ago. I thought that was good. You don't see a lot
of their beers anymore. From two brothers. I know they're into coffee and
distilling, So I mean the beers are out there according to their website,
but you just don't see them as much out in the wild as you used
to seventeen years ago. But let's crack open this prairie path. This is
a golden Ale. They use traditional European hops like Golding and sas. It
has five point one percent alcohol. So let's bust open this prairie path.
Looks really good, nice color, good foam here, good couple fingers at
foam. I mean to be honest, I get nothing from the Aroma.
I get like nothing here it's like I'm sniffing air. Pretty decent. I
mean, it's got twenty five ivus. You get that nice European hops there
that has a good flavor to it. To be honest, like I would
not know that this was crafted to remove gluten. Some beers that are made
like this, to be frank, I just don't care for them. This
one is not that bad. I had to look on the can because,
like I mentioned, you know, you can't find this stuff anywhere. But
this was actually can just like two weeks ago. So this is really fresh.
I wish you were I wish I can get more out of the roma,
like there's really it's like one of the few beers like I get nothing
out of this, but the taste is decent. I get trying to think
the aftertaste that I'm getting here, A little bit of sweetness, not a
lot. I'm getting a lot of that, like the hop characteristics out of
the taste and the aftertaste. Almost the aftertaste is kind of odd. U
Maybe it's because there's hardly any gluten in there. It's not a bad beer.
I mean, I wouldn't say this one is my favorite, Like I
know, like they had canan Abel, which was a red rye. I
don't know if they still make that anymore. That was always my favorite,
and I remember, you know, seventeen years ago you would find that and
back then it was like fifteen bucks a six pack, but you bought it
because it was that good. And I even remember like they would carry Two
Brothers at the local costcos and when that came out, it was like a
variety mixed pack. People would bust open the cases to take out the Cane
and Abel and then leave everybody with domain to page. So but no,
the can and Abel's really good. I haven't seen that one in forever either,
but that was always a good beer. This wouldn't be like the first
one I have, but I don't think it's a bad beer. Especially if
you have dietary issues where you have issues with the gluten, then I would
give this one a try because it's not a bad beer. It just wouldn't
be my go to. But if you see Two Brothers Prairie Path, you
can pick it up fresh over at Mariano's. All right, daed, it's
gonna wrap things up for this edition of Beer in Front. I thank you
very much for listening. If you need to get a hold of me,
you can email me day that's Beerinfront dot com. I'm gonna have another episode
out in a couple days with John Over at Nation Beer, so be on
the lookout for that. I'm taken next week off. It's the holiday week,
it's my birthday week, so there won't be a podcast until first couple
days of June. So have a great week, have a great holiday weekend
everyone, and remember sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one yet