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 old school beers that maybe you've forgotten about, some new beers that have
the potential to be a classic. I'll also talk to various people around the
beer world and get their stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front and
it's coming up now. Welcome to episode one hundred and ninety three, the
January sixteenth edition of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave Zlatoris,
and the Beer in Front is a proud Odd Pods Media Network member. If
you are new to the show, welcome. If you're a long time listener,
welcome back. No guests this week, no jagofs. It's a quick
solo show for your commute. Tennis and Sierra Nevada have newer non alcoholic beers.
I'm going to review those later in the show. I'm still master of
my domain in dry January. As I'm recording this, I'm at the two
week point and I'm down five pounds. I've noticed it in my face and
people have commented on the YouTube videos that they noticed it as well. My
goal for this year is to drop sixty pounds. I'm still ahead of that
pace right now, and i know from the past that I'm going to hit
a plak hole for a while, but I'll do it. I'll hit the
sixty. I'm feeling better throughout the day without the alcohol, especially in the
morning when I wake up. The back still is shot. I don't know
what's going on with this. I had those pain injections a couple weeks ago,
and they're not helping. Talk to the doctor, I'm like, I
need some different meds. Whatever like he gave me kind of makes the area.
It's my lower back, and the meds he gave me are kind of
like some nerve blocker things, and those seem to help like the lower back,
but it just clears everything else in my entire back if I take these
pills is shot. So I'm like I had to stop that. I'm like,
I'd rather just deal with the lower back pain than my entire back.
So the doctor's offered a couple new prescriptions to try, and like one of
them, I'm reading this like the side effects and everything, and one of
them was like for herpes. I'm like, dude, it's my back.
So I don't know, give me something else. I don't want herpees drug
for my fucking back. So we'll see what happens with there. But it's
very frustrating and I'm kind of at the end of my rope with this thing
because it's still like sitting or standing for any period of time is messed up.
I can't do it. So I'm always like moving around because if I
sit for a while, I'm screwed. If I stand for a while,
I'm screwed. If you know, I lay down for a certain while,
I mean there's certain you know, positions I could be in and it's okay
for a bit. Then I'm constantly moving, tossing and turning, so the
back is a hot mess. In case you were wondering, you could check
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Bells is coming out with a new variety twelve pack of their Hearted series.
This will include a cold IPA and an experimental black IPA, so keep an
eye out for that. When I was on hiatus last month, Empirical Spirits
Company and Dorito's teamed up for a Notchowed Cheese spirit. This checks in at
eighty four proof and is supposed to taste like nacho cheese Doritos. This sold
out bastard and you could say, what the hell, But don't worry,
They're making more of it. Over on Instagram, Samuel Adams is running a
contest for those that are pregnant or their partner. If the partner gives up
drinking in solidarity, you could win a forty week supply of their non alcoholic
IPA. Check out Samuel Adams on Instagram for more details. I read on
Brewbound that the East Village of Brewing Company out of San Diego is making beer
with recycled water from the airport. They're purifying the condensation from the air conditioning
units on the jet bridges for brewing. I've been around jet Bridge air conditioning
units for over thirty years. They smell like feet, so I'm glad it's
being purified. You could pick this beer up in terminal too at the San
Diego Airport or at the East Village Brewing Company. All Right, the next
one I'm gonna have is Guinness zero. This is a non alcoholic draft contains
less than zero point five percent alcohol. According to their website. This is
made the exact same way, but it's cold filtered to remove the alcohol.
I've heard really good things about this, so let's crack it open. It
looks good. It does have the widget in here, but the foam in
the head is not quite as thick and rich as you would get from the
normal Guinness. Smells good, though it smells like a Guinness. It's not
bad. It's a lot thinner, But I mean, there's no alcohol in
this, so kind of expecting that it's just weird. You're expecting this rich,
creamy stout and it's not there. But just drinking this on its own
without comparing it to the original Guinness, I think it's pretty good. It's
tasty. You do get the nice walt notes here. It's that nice roasted
barley that they use. I think it tastes pretty good. I'm still trying
to get out of my head that I'm comparing this to a regular guinness,
and it's not fair to this on its own. This on its own?
Would I drink this again? Yes, let me have another sip here.
Yeah, it's a little thinner than your regular guinness. But if you're doing
dry January or you're cutting back on your alcohol and you want something like a
stout, I think this is good. So if you see the guinness as
zero, put it in the cart. It's good. I grabbed a four
pack at my grocery store. They had it on sale, I think for
eight bucks, So absolutely in the cart. Now the gain is zero to
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Odd Pods media network. All Right, the first of the Sierra Nevada non
alcoholics. I'm gonna have is their Train Pass Golden. This is a golden
Hail with Bravo, Cascade and Centennial Hops. Has ninety five calories and fifteen
IBus. They have two of them. They have this in the IPA.
I'm gonna have the IPA in a couple of minutes, but figured i'd try
the non alcoholic Trail Pass Golden. The Trail Pass Golden is a beautiful golden
color. Nice foam on here, really good, like good two fingers of
foam. Smells pretty good. The hop aroma is faintier, but you get
it, and I think it smells really good. Stop bad. I think
my refrigerator might be a tick too cold, so I'm gonna let this warm
up a second. The aftertaste is good. I get nice multi flavors here.
I think the taste is really good. Yeah, that's a good beer.
I mean the flavors there, you get a little of the Hops or
fifteen IBus. It's not overpowering. It's not going to blow you out of
the water like an IPA or a double IPA. But for what this is,
which is a non alcoholic beer, I think the taste is really good.
Like I would definitely pick this up again. Yeah, that's good.
I mean I would probably. I think I will probably enjoy the IPA a
little bit more, just based on my taste buds, but this is really
good as well, Like I would definitely buy this one again from Sierra Nevada.
And let's face it, I mean, Zierra Nevada doesn't put out bad
beer. Everything they put out for forty fifty years has been phenomenal, so
I wasn't expecting anything less than a high quality beverage from Sierra Nevada. This
one's good. If you see the Trail Pass golden by all means you got
to check that one out. Put it in the carts, all right.
The next one from Sierra Nevada is their Trail Pass IPA. This one has
Amarillo and CTZ hops in there has thirty five IBus nice looking can remind you
of the regular Sierra Nevada payalil as that nice green color to it. I've
had this before. When it came out a couple of weeks ago, I
thought it was really good, and I thought I had some left to do
this segment, and I wound up drinking all six of them. So I
bought it again. I do like this, so let's crack it open.
The Trail pass Ipa nice light color, really good phone here on this.
Some of the nas that I've had it looked a little thin when pouring it,
but not this. This has a nice big on. It does smell
good. I like the aroma. That's a good hoper roma here I get
the I don't know if it's pine maybe yeah, it's a little pine,
a little citrus, but roma's really good. That just gets a really good
beer. I like this non alcoholic beer. I don't know if you'd really
know the difference, it's I think it's that good. So if you're looking
for different NA beers, Sierra Nevada is a well known name. You could
probably get it everywhere along with the Golden I think this is really good.
So if you see this, I would definitely put the Trail pass Ipa in
the cart. All right, that's gonna wrap things up for this edition of
Beer in Front. I thank you very much for listening. If you want
to get a hold of me, email me at Dave atbeerinfront dot com,
where you could find me on all the social media channels at beer in Front
next week I'm going to have probably the best NA beer I'd had yet,
so listen for that next week. Have a great week everyone, and remember
sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one yet