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 a special edition of beer ian Front.
I'm your host, Dave's Alatorus and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods
Media Network member. On the show. A couple of days ago, I
had Arturo Wargas over from Alheimador and there was a ton of beer news Illinois
Crap Beer Weeks coming up, so I didn't want to like flood that episode
with a ton of beer stuff. So this is all about beer. But
definitely check that one out because I'm a big fan of the stuff that they're
putting out from Helheimador. Their spiked Baby dust line is really good, so
have to listen to that one. But this episode here is all about beer
and it's Illinois Craft Beer Week. It's coming up, It's right around the
corner. This Friday is Beer under Glass. I think there might still be
a couple tickets available, so head over to illinoisbeer dot org. Check that
out. On the show today, I'm gonna have a couple different beers from
Illinois breweries. But Beer under Glass they released the brewery list, and I'm
not going to read them off here because one, it's a lot. I
mean, it's a lot of breweries. So if you haven't you know,
if you're on the fence and you haven't bought a ticket yet, you got
to check it out. But there's breweries all over the state of Illinois.
You're going to to be at Union Station on Friday. You could sample their
wares. Breweries from top to bottom, from the most northern part of the
state down to the southern. You're gonna find something at Beer Underglass. There's
breweries here. I'm looking at the list here as I'm talking. There are
breweries I've never heard of before, so I'm looking forward to trying beers from
them, seeing what they're all about. But I've been to the festival before.
It's a great time and you should definitely pick up tickets. On the
show. A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Raced Out from the
Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, and you know, he was mentioning that you're not
going to find all these breweries at like your neighborhood festivals that are out there.
And the price for this fifty bucks for the regular ticket sixty for the
VIP is not that much more than what you're paying for your local neighborhood festival,
and you're getting so much more here, So you definitely got to check
it out. If you go and you see my fat ass, say hello,
I'm gonna have a shirt that says drink Illinois Beer on the back,
so you'll be able to find me. But I'm really stoked about Illinois Craft
Beer Week, so head over to Beer Underglass. Check that out on Friday,
say hi to me, Say hi to all these great breweries. I'm
gonna take next week off of the podcast. I'll still have some videos out
and you know, videos from Beer Underglass. But you know I mentioned on
the show last week if you caught that, I'm gonna have a couple back
things done, a couple doctor visits right in the middle of Craft Beer Week,
knuckleheads. So I'm gonna take the podcast off next week, so I'll
be back in a couple weeks. Check out the videos over on YouTube,
Instagram, TikTok if it's still around and I don't know, like and it
could be me. It's quite possible it could be me. But all of
a sudden on TikTok, I had a lot of views. It's not big.
I don't tork, I don't do any shit like that. But for
a guy that's in his mid fifties talking about beer, I was doing okay.
I would have eight hundred views of a video here and there, all
of a sudden it goes down to ten. So I don't know what changed
with the algorithm. Maybe I do need to tork or you know, do
videos in my Italian speedo. So I'll try that. But please watch a
video on TikTok, you know, boost my spirits and beer beverage news.
It was a huge week with stuff that's happening. In addition to Illinois Craft
Beer Week, which is starting Friday, the American Homebrewers Associations their big brew
is this Saturday, May fourth. It's National Homebrew Day. It's May fourth,
so this year it's inspired by Star Wars. So check out the American
Homebrewers Association. You could pick up that recipe. It's also starting May thirteenth,
American Craft Beer Week. All around you could find stuff to do.
You could check out the Brewers Association for more info on American Craft Beer Week.
Sometimes the algorithms on social media work for a change, usually not,
I usually get all sorts of weird shit. But last week on threads I
saw a post from Mindy's Beer Gear. She makes cool stuff from cycled beer
products. I checked out her Etsy shop. She had this wallet made from
a Metropolitan like six pack container. I say she had. She doesn't have
it anymore because I bought it for myself. It's real and it's spectacular.
She said she had another Metro package she hasn't made anything with yet. So
check out Mindy's beer Gear on social media and Etsy. I'll include the link
in the show notes. She makes all sorts of merch like dog collars,
hoop bag holders, if you will, so, if you're in a market,
check her out. Next week, on the tenth, I signed up
for a workshop hosted by radcraft Beer on social media marketing for recurring brewery events.
This will encompass boosting attendance, messaging decisions, automated social media workflow.
Now I don't know if this is really going to pertain to what I do
on my life level, but it's always interesting to learn more. I'm sure
i'll virtually meet some new people and I'll pick up some tricks along the way.
Plus I've had projects with Emily from Radcraft before. She's fantastic, so
I know this is gonna be worthwhile. Later this year, they also have
some other workshops, so check out radcraftbeer dot com for more information. Last
week, the twenty twenty four World Beer Cup was held. Winners from Illinois
were Golden Fox, Tonality, Crystal Lake, Double Clutch, Sound Growler,
Old Irving, Sturdy, Shelter, Sundial, and Brother Chimp. You could
check out the complete list of winners at Worldbeer Cup dot Org. The Juicy
or HAZYIPA category they had the most entries with three hundred and twenty six beers.
Bees are from Old Irving. They took home to Gold, which also
one at the twenty nineteen Great American Beer Festival. Later on in the show,
I'm gonna have a Beezer, it's a great beer. The Assets of
Foulberg you might remember them as Dixie Brewing, which obviously they change a name
that's gonna be sold in an auction sometime in June. I remember Black and
Voodoo. That was a favorite of mine, like in the early days of
praft beer early to mid nineties, So I'm hoping whoever buys the assets to
Faulberg will bring that one back. Prairie Artists in Ales is releasing a new
sour called Tropicals. This will be eight percent and feature mango, kara kara,
oranges, grapefruit, passion fruit, and coconut cream flavors. Kings and
Convicts is closing the ballast Point Mira Mayer facility, which they purchased from Saint
Archer in twenty twenty two. I've said it before, I need to do
a whole show on Kings and Convicts. It still has to be the strangest
beer story ever. Three Floyds is coming out with a gumball Head Variety mixed
pack. This will include the classic a Hazy Ipa, a double ipa,
and a blood Orange and Lemon pale Ale. Harpoon and Llban are collaborating on
a new Harvest lagger. This is going to be an amber lagger with malt
grown in the state of Maine. Sierra Nevada is expanding their non alcoholic Trail
Pass Line with two new beers in a mixed pack in addition to the IPA
and Golden, which I had and they're really good. They're also going to
come out with the Hazy and a new blonde Aale with limes, so check
that out. And finally, Goose Island is going to open its new location
at the Salt Shed this Friday. Made the third so definitely I'll have to
check that out. I went to the Fulton Facility a couple of days ars
ago. I wanted to pick something up and I had the Honkers and I
need to grab like a growler of that and bring it home and talk about
it on the show. But that like Honkers, al's the og for Chicago
craft beer. A Goose Island that's still a phenomenal beer. But yeah,
check out the new Goose Islands location at the Saltshed starting this Friday. All
right. One of the beers I'm going to have now is Chicago's very own
Daisy Cutter from the Great half Acre Brewing. This has been around, they
just celebrated its fifteenth birthday, so Happy birthday to Daisy. Cutter. Came
out in two thousand and nine, before there was a brewery on every corner.
This was, according to them, one of the first beers they brewed
over at the Lincoln Avenue facility, which is now Hot Butcher. But Daisy
Cutter is such a great pal ale. Chicago makes some great ones. You
have ride or die from. Hope, Well, Revolution has their I keep
wanting to call it iron Fist for Revolution, but that was the first palely
did. Now it's just fist city. So many great pale ales all around,
but I wanted to have Daisy Cutter on its birthday. Great way to
pre game, if you will, for Illinois Craft Beer Week. This is
a five point two percent payo ale. You could find it everywhere, twelve
bounce cans, sixteen ounce cans, your stove pipe cans, and on draft
and find facilities all around. They say this is a blended pine, citrus,
papaya, and mango flavors to this, So let's bust open Daisy Cutter.
Beautiful color on Daisy Cutter. Nice phone here good. It's more of
an amber looking beer than like you're really pale pale ales. Smells great.
I do get that citrusy pine fruitness to the aroma. It smells great.
Yeah, that's just a great pale ale. You get some nice walt notes
to this as well. It's not just the hops. It's just a well
balanced, great pale ale. Yeah, it's just it's perfect. And at
five point two percent, you could have more than a couple of these.
It's a really good beer. I mentioned earlier. You could pick it up
all around Chicago or in the state of Illinois for that manner. So if
you haven't had Daisy Cutter in a while, and sometimes you forget about it
because there's so many great beers out and so many great beers from half Acre,
you kind of overlook it because you've had it a million times. But
it's still a great beer. If you see Daisy Cutter, you have to
put it in the cart, all right. The next one I'm gonna have
is from Old Irving. This is Beezer. I mentioned on the news segment
that this took home the gold medal for the hazy IPA category last week at
the World Beer Cup. This also won the inaugural hazy IPA category at the
twenty and nineteen Great American Beer Festival. Citra and Mosaic cop six point nine
percent alcohol. It's really a good beer. I've talked about it on the
show a couple times. I know, I think it was last year.
The year before that, they did this with a newer yeast from Omega East,
so they had a clear version of this. But I'm just a huge
Beezer fan. I know they also do like double Beezers, and I think
they even did a triple Beezer. But this is just the original hazy ipa
at six point nine percent alcohol. Let's crack open Beezer. Really good color
here, nice foam. Yeah, it's a nicer role my almost and maybe
it's me. I'm almost getting late pine apple with this, but it smells
really good. Yeah, that's I mean, there's a reason why I went
to work. No listen to me. I mean, people far more qualified
than me. They've given us gold medals. It's excellent. It's well balanced,
you get all of those fruit flavors from the hops. Nice mouthfeel almost,
it's like a creamy mouthfeel taste to it. I think it's just a
great version of the style. When it came out, I wasn't a fan.
I was, you know, I'm old school. I'm old so I
always liked the West Coast, so I never was a big fan of Hazies
when they started to come out, but then I had this and I'm like,
oh wait no, there these are really good. So all around Chicago
you could pick it up at your grocery stores, even I think my jewel
sells bees, but you could get it at bottle shops, Binnie's or better
yet, just go to Old Irving right off the Montrose Blue Line and go
pick you some up right there. So if you see Beezer, put it
in the cart. Another great beer from the state of Illinois. All right,
that's gonna wrap things up for this special edition of Beer in Front.
I thank you from listening. If you'd like to support the show, head
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there. If you need to email me. If there's a brewery you want
me to hit up, email me Dave. That's Beerinfront dot com. I'm
taking next week off, so I'll see you in a couple of weeks.
Enjoy Illinois Craft Beer Week. It's a great It's the best time of the
year, so add some great Illinois beer and remember where sometimes the beer in
front of you is the best one yet. M