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This is Beer in Front, part
of the Odd Pods Media Network. Sometimes

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the beer in front of you is
the best one yet. I'll talk about

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some great beer, and I'll also
talk to various people in and around the

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beer industry to get their stories all
about beer. That's Beer in Front and

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it's coming up now, Welcome to
a special edition of beer ian Front.

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I'm your host, Dave's Alatorus and
Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods

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Media Network member. On the show. A couple of days ago, I

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had Arturo Wargas over from Alheimador and
there was a ton of beer news Illinois

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Crap Beer Weeks coming up, so
I didn't want to like flood that episode

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with a ton of beer stuff.
So this is all about beer. But

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definitely check that one out because I'm
a big fan of the stuff that they're

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putting out from Helheimador. Their spiked
Baby dust line is really good, so

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have to listen to that one.
But this episode here is all about beer

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and it's Illinois Craft Beer Week.
It's coming up, It's right around the

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corner. This Friday is Beer under
Glass. I think there might still be

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a couple tickets available, so head
over to illinoisbeer dot org. Check that

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out. On the show today,
I'm gonna have a couple different beers from

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Illinois breweries. But Beer under Glass
they released the brewery list, and I'm

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not going to read them off here
because one, it's a lot. I

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mean, it's a lot of breweries. So if you haven't you know,

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if you're on the fence and you
haven't bought a ticket yet, you got

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to check it out. But there's
breweries all over the state of Illinois.

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You're going to to be at Union
Station on Friday. You could sample their

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wares. Breweries from top to bottom, from the most northern part of the

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state down to the southern. You're
gonna find something at Beer Underglass. There's

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breweries here. I'm looking at the
list here as I'm talking. There are

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breweries I've never heard of before,
so I'm looking forward to trying beers from

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them, seeing what they're all about. But I've been to the festival before.

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It's a great time and you should
definitely pick up tickets. On the

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show. A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Raced Out from the

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Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, and you
know, he was mentioning that you're not

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going to find all these breweries at
like your neighborhood festivals that are out there.

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And the price for this fifty bucks
for the regular ticket sixty for the

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VIP is not that much more than
what you're paying for your local neighborhood festival,

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and you're getting so much more here, So you definitely got to check

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it out. If you go and
you see my fat ass, say hello,

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I'm gonna have a shirt that says
drink Illinois Beer on the back,

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so you'll be able to find me. But I'm really stoked about Illinois Craft

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Beer Week, so head over to
Beer Underglass. Check that out on Friday,

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say hi to me, Say hi
to all these great breweries. I'm

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gonna take next week off of the
podcast. I'll still have some videos out

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and you know, videos from Beer
Underglass. But you know I mentioned on

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the show last week if you caught
that, I'm gonna have a couple back

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things done, a couple doctor visits
right in the middle of Craft Beer Week,

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knuckleheads. So I'm gonna take the
podcast off next week, so I'll

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be back in a couple weeks.
Check out the videos over on YouTube,

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Instagram, TikTok if it's still around
and I don't know, like and it

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could be me. It's quite possible
it could be me. But all of

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a sudden on TikTok, I had
a lot of views. It's not big.

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I don't tork, I don't do
any shit like that. But for

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a guy that's in his mid fifties
talking about beer, I was doing okay.

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I would have eight hundred views of
a video here and there, all

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of a sudden it goes down to
ten. So I don't know what changed

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with the algorithm. Maybe I do
need to tork or you know, do

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videos in my Italian speedo. So
I'll try that. But please watch a

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video on TikTok, you know,
boost my spirits and beer beverage news.

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It was a huge week with stuff
that's happening. In addition to Illinois Craft

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Beer Week, which is starting Friday, the American Homebrewers Associations their big brew

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is this Saturday, May fourth.
It's National Homebrew Day. It's May fourth,

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so this year it's inspired by Star
Wars. So check out the American

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Homebrewers Association. You could pick up
that recipe. It's also starting May thirteenth,

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American Craft Beer Week. All around
you could find stuff to do.

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You could check out the Brewers Association
for more info on American Craft Beer Week.

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Sometimes the algorithms on social media work
for a change, usually not,

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I usually get all sorts of weird
shit. But last week on threads I

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saw a post from Mindy's Beer Gear. She makes cool stuff from cycled beer

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products. I checked out her Etsy
shop. She had this wallet made from

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a Metropolitan like six pack container.
I say she had. She doesn't have

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it anymore because I bought it for
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She said she had another Metro package
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check out Mindy's beer Gear on social
media and Etsy. I'll include the link

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in the show notes. She makes
all sorts of merch like dog collars,

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hoop bag holders, if you will, so, if you're in a market,

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check her out. Next week,
on the tenth, I signed up

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for a workshop hosted by radcraft Beer
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This will encompass boosting attendance, messaging
decisions, automated social media workflow.

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Now I don't know if this is
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on my life level, but it's
always interesting to learn more. I'm sure

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i'll virtually meet some new people and
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Plus I've had projects with Emily from
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I know this is gonna be worthwhile. Later this year, they also have

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some other workshops, so check out
radcraftbeer dot com for more information. Last

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week, the twenty twenty four World
Beer Cup was held. Winners from Illinois

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were Golden Fox, Tonality, Crystal
Lake, Double Clutch, Sound Growler,

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Old Irving, Sturdy, Shelter,
Sundial, and Brother Chimp. You could

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check out the complete list of winners
at Worldbeer Cup dot Org. The Juicy

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or HAZYIPA category they had the most
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Bees are from Old Irving. They
took home to Gold, which also

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one at the twenty nineteen Great American
Beer Festival. Later on in the show,

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I'm gonna have a Beezer, it's
a great beer. The Assets of

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Foulberg you might remember them as Dixie
Brewing, which obviously they change a name

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that's gonna be sold in an auction
sometime in June. I remember Black and

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Voodoo. That was a favorite of
mine, like in the early days of

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praft beer early to mid nineties,
So I'm hoping whoever buys the assets to

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Faulberg will bring that one back.
Prairie Artists in Ales is releasing a new

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sour called Tropicals. This will be
eight percent and feature mango, kara kara,

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oranges, grapefruit, passion fruit,
and coconut cream flavors. Kings and

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Convicts is closing the ballast Point Mira
Mayer facility, which they purchased from Saint

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Archer in twenty twenty two. I've
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a whole show on Kings and Convicts. It still has to be the strangest

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beer story ever. Three Floyds is
coming out with a gumball Head Variety mixed

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pack. This will include the classic
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and a blood Orange and Lemon pale
Ale. Harpoon and Llban are collaborating on

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a new Harvest lagger. This is
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grown in the state of Maine.
Sierra Nevada is expanding their non alcoholic Trail

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Pass Line with two new beers in
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and Golden, which I had and
they're really good. They're also going to

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come out with the Hazy and a
new blonde Aale with limes, so check

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that out. And finally, Goose
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at the Salt Shed this Friday.
Made the third so definitely I'll have to

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check that out. I went to
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ago. I wanted to pick something
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need to grab like a growler of
that and bring it home and talk about

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it on the show. But that
like Honkers, al's the og for Chicago

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craft beer. A Goose Island that's
still a phenomenal beer. But yeah,

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check out the new Goose Islands location
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right. One of the beers I'm
going to have now is Chicago's very own

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Daisy Cutter from the Great half Acre
Brewing. This has been around, they

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just celebrated its fifteenth birthday, so
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out in two thousand and nine,
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This was, according to them,
one of the first beers they brewed

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over at the Lincoln Avenue facility,
which is now Hot Butcher. But Daisy

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Cutter is such a great pal ale. Chicago makes some great ones. You

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have ride or die from. Hope, Well, Revolution has their I keep

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wanting to call it iron Fist for
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did. Now it's just fist city. So many great pale ales all around,

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but I wanted to have Daisy Cutter
on its birthday. Great way to

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pre game, if you will,
for Illinois Craft Beer Week. This is

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a five point two percent payo ale. You could find it everywhere, twelve

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bounce cans, sixteen ounce cans,
your stove pipe cans, and on draft

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and find facilities all around. They
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papaya, and mango flavors to this, So let's bust open Daisy Cutter.

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Beautiful color on Daisy Cutter. Nice
phone here good. It's more of

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an amber looking beer than like you're
really pale pale ales. Smells great.

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I do get that citrusy pine fruitness
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Yeah, that's just a great pale
ale. You get some nice walt notes

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to this as well. It's not
just the hops. It's just a well

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balanced, great pale ale. Yeah, it's just it's perfect. And at

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five point two percent, you could
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It's a really good beer. I
mentioned earlier. You could pick it up

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all around Chicago or in the state
of Illinois for that manner. So if

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you haven't had Daisy Cutter in a
while, and sometimes you forget about it

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because there's so many great beers out
and so many great beers from half Acre,

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you kind of overlook it because you've
had it a million times. But

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it's still a great beer. If
you see Daisy Cutter, you have to

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put it in the cart, all
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is from Old Irving. This is
Beezer. I mentioned on the news segment

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that this took home the gold medal
for the hazy IPA category last week at

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the World Beer Cup. This also
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twenty and nineteen Great American Beer Festival. Citra and Mosaic cop six point nine

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percent alcohol. It's really a good
beer. I've talked about it on the

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show a couple times. I know, I think it was last year.

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The year before that, they did
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so they had a clear version of
this. But I'm just a huge

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Beezer fan. I know they also
do like double Beezers, and I think

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they even did a triple Beezer.
But this is just the original hazy ipa

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at six point nine percent alcohol.
Let's crack open Beezer. Really good color

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here, nice foam. Yeah,
it's a nicer role my almost and maybe

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it's me. I'm almost getting late
pine apple with this, but it smells

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really good. Yeah, that's I
mean, there's a reason why I went

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to work. No listen to me. I mean, people far more qualified

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than me. They've given us gold
medals. It's excellent. It's well balanced,

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you get all of those fruit flavors
from the hops. Nice mouthfeel almost,

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it's like a creamy mouthfeel taste to
it. I think it's just a

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great version of the style. When
it came out, I wasn't a fan.

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I was, you know, I'm
old school. I'm old so I

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always liked the West Coast, so
I never was a big fan of Hazies

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when they started to come out,
but then I had this and I'm like,

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oh wait no, there these are
really good. So all around Chicago

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you could pick it up at your
grocery stores, even I think my jewel

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sells bees, but you could get
it at bottle shops, Binnie's or better

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yet, just go to Old Irving
right off the Montrose Blue Line and go

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pick you some up right there.
So if you see Beezer, put it

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in the cart. Another great beer
from the state of Illinois. All right,

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that's gonna wrap things up for this
special edition of Beer in Front.

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I thank you from listening. If
you'd like to support the show, head

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over to Patreon dot com slash beer
in Front. You could support the show

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there. If you need to email
me. If there's a brewery you want

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me to hit up, email me
Dave. That's Beerinfront dot com. I'm

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taking next week off, so I'll
see you in a couple of weeks.

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Enjoy Illinois Craft Beer Week. It's
a great It's the best time of the

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year, so add some great Illinois
beer and remember where sometimes the beer in

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front of you is the best one
yet. M