1 00:00:06,879 --> 00:00:13,000 This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods Media Network and the 2 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:18,519 Beer Media Group. Sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one 3 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:24,199 yet. I'll talk to people around the beer world and get their stories all 4 00:00:24,359 --> 00:00:34,159 about beer. That's Beer in Front, and it's coming up now. Welcome 5 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:40,119 to episode two hundred and twelve of Beer in Front. I'm your host, 6 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,759 Dave's alatorus and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media Network member and 7 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,600 also a charter member of the Beer Media Group. Summer's here, and the 8 00:00:52,799 --> 00:01:00,200 time is right for dancing, racing, fighting in the streets. If there 9 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:06,359 is nice. It's after Memorial Day. You could wear your white capris if 10 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:08,879 you want. I'm waiting for mine. I had to get the big boy 11 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:15,519 size. But it's after Memorial Day. The weather's nice. Thankfully, we 12 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:22,480 still in my neighborhood. I haven't heard a single cicada. I went out 13 00:01:22,599 --> 00:01:26,840 a couple days ago. A friend of mine had a retirement party and I 14 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:32,359 was able to hear them. But I'm kind of disappointed. I was expecting 15 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:38,120 cicadas in here and they let me down. Good show today. I have 16 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:46,400 some great collaborations and actually both involved half Acre. The first one is from 17 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:53,760 Firestone Walker. They collaborated with half Acre on a pilsner for the Firestone Walker 18 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:59,200 Invitational that they had last weekend in California, and I'm also going to have 19 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:06,799 one for Daisy cutters fifteenth birthday here. They collaborated with Sierra Nevada, so 20 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:17,960 I'm going to have both of those beers coming up shortly. I hope everyone 21 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:23,680 had a great week. I did. It was my birthday last week. 22 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:29,319 Thank you to everyone that with me a happy birthday. I had a great 23 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,919 birthday here. Ruby and I went out for dinner to Smoke Steak. I 24 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:39,479 talked about them before. If you're around the Chicago area and you know Smoke 25 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:47,719 Barbecue, they have a steakhouse and it's excellent. They souvied their steaks to 26 00:02:47,879 --> 00:02:54,840 whichever degree of done this you like, and then see it it's also smoked, 27 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:00,840 so you get that nice smoky taste to it. The steaks were phenomenal, 28 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,240 the service second to none. Everything about it was great. I had 29 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:12,199 the steak Freets, which was absolutely killer. The chimmy churry. I love 30 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,360 chimmy churry. You could inject that in my veins. That was some of 31 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,919 the best chimmy churry I had. We had some great desserts they gave me 32 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:27,840 for my birthday. Instead of cake, they gave me this sorbet that was 33 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:36,719 a pair in Reestling sorbet that was so good. And then we also had 34 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:43,599 like this butter scotch kind of like a krem Oh my god. If you're 35 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:47,039 in the Chicago area, it won't break the bank. The prices are really 36 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,719 good for a high end steakhouse. You're not going to go out of there 37 00:03:52,479 --> 00:04:00,639 poor. I definitely recommend Smoke Steak. Good things coming up this week night 38 00:04:00,759 --> 00:04:04,360 beer flight starts this Friday, and the first one is going to be a 39 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:11,120 Gallagher Way right outside Wrigley Field. I will be there, so if you're 40 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:15,719 there, look for me. Look for the guy in a Drink Illinois beer 41 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:21,519 shirt. You'll fight and he's hobbling around because my back is still not fixed. 42 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:26,920 I'm not going to go into it because I'm kind of aggravated. But 43 00:04:27,519 --> 00:04:31,600 if you see a hobbling guy walking around like Fred Sandford in a Drink Illinois 44 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:36,800 beer shirt, that will be me. Also coming up in a couple of 45 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:44,600 weeks Midwest Coast, they're opening their new rooftop location. I'm going to go 46 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,040 to the soft Open and check that out. But I'm really looking forward to 47 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:55,120 that. Midwest Coast puts out some great beers here in Illinois, so you 48 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:58,759 need to check that out when it opens, and I'll have a full review 49 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,720 of that in a couple weeks. Also, finally, I did a two 50 00:05:02,759 --> 00:05:10,720 part podcast on the great music of Ram with my friends over at pop Culture 51 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:15,240 Yearbook. There's gonna be an episode on the early years of the band coming 52 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:20,480 out on pop Culture Yearbook, which I'll include links to, and then I'm 53 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:27,360 also covering with the Gentleman at PCY. We're gonna talk about the later years. 54 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:31,639 We're gonna kind of do a fantasy draft of songs from each era. 55 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,399 That was a lot of fun, so I'll include links to that, but 56 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:42,319 that'll be coming out in the near future on both pop Culture Yearbook and right 57 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:53,439 here is a special edition of Beer in Front in Beer and Beverage News, 58 00:05:53,959 --> 00:06:00,639 Monster the energy Drink. They own some breweries now and they're gonna shut down 59 00:06:00,879 --> 00:06:08,920 the Deep Elum the tap room and production from its Dallas location to the company's 60 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:14,319 other breweries. This is not very cool to me. I was at Deep 61 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,680 Elum a few years ago with Ruby. We really enjoyed it. They put 62 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:23,959 out some really good beers, and they're going to consolidate. I know a 63 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:31,759 couple of months ago Monster was transitioning Cigar City's production to somewhere else, which 64 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:38,160 was losing jobs. So I don't know. I mean, they're still really 65 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:44,519 good beers, but to me, this isn't very cool. It's a Great 66 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,920 American Beer Festival. It's going to have some changes for this year where brewers 67 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:55,360 or not brewers for that matter, they have the ability to pour ready to 68 00:06:55,439 --> 00:07:01,279 drink cocktails in any other product. In past years you had to be able 69 00:07:01,319 --> 00:07:06,519 to serve at least one beer. That's not going to be the case for 70 00:07:06,639 --> 00:07:15,240 twenty twenty four. They're also eliminating the Saturday evening session. So some changes 71 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:21,879 with the Great American Beer Festival. Some really great news dropped on Thursday out 72 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:31,160 of San Francisco. The billionaire who's behind the Chobanni yogurt Empire. He acquired 73 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:39,639 Anchor Brewing Company all of its assets and locations that closed down last year. 74 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,120 I'm going to butcher the name I know it, but his name is Humdi 75 00:07:44,279 --> 00:07:50,040 Ulakaya. He's the founder and CEO of Chobani that they've acquired all of the 76 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:57,079 assets, so that's really cool. According to the article I'm reading in the 77 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:03,399 San Francisco Chronicle, he didn't know anything about Anchor until he read something I 78 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:09,199 think it was in Forbes when they close down, but he wants to keep 79 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:16,839 everything there in San Francisco. Schobani was like a closed down yogurt place in 80 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:22,519 New York. He revived that, so hopefully lightning will strike twice and he 81 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:28,879 could revive the great Anchor brand. Really good articles over on the San Francisco 82 00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:33,960 Chronicle. You could read about it on all the beer news websites and everything, 83 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,519 but this is really cool. The guy seems to really like want to 84 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:43,559 do everything right, get everything back into San Francisco, and even said he's 85 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,759 hoping they can get the Christmas beer out by the end of the year. 86 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:52,080 So I'm really excited about that. Excited to be able to have another Anchor 87 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:58,720 Steam. If news breaks late on a Friday, something's weird to call it 88 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:05,639 the Friday news dump. But late Friday Boston beer makers of sam Adams, 89 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:13,000 they announced that they're in talks to sell to the gym Beam owner Sentry now 90 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,799 chairs of sam Adams, Like I think It went up like twenty five percent 91 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:24,360 late Friday over talks of this. So there's nothing official, but Boston Beer 92 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:31,720 is they might be sold to Suntory. I'm not sure how I feel about 93 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:35,559 this, but you know, we'll see what happens. Some cool news out 94 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:45,639 of Chicago that Maplewood they're celebrating their tenth anniversary that's coming up, that's coming 95 00:09:45,759 --> 00:09:50,519 up on Saturday, the fifteenth of June. Looks like they're gonna do it 96 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,399 right. 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Over the weekend they had their 114 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:46,919 invitational beer festival and the beer that they had was a collaboration with half Acre. 115 00:11:48,399 --> 00:11:50,879 So of course when I see this, you know it goes in the 116 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,720 cart. But this is a pills ner. Now. They say it's Italian 117 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:05,120 inspired, so I love Italian pill They use hers Brooker and hollertowl Mittel Fru 118 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:11,799 hops and they also use an Austrian barley variety that's over one hundred years old 119 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,840 now I remember. I think it was two or three years ago. I 120 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:22,039 had a beer from Dovetail that used malt. I think the malt place was 121 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:28,879 called Sugar Creek, and they rescued this malt that hasn't been used since before 122 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,799 World War Two in Austria. I'm not sure if this is the same malt. 123 00:12:33,799 --> 00:12:37,799 It doesn't list where they purchased it from, but I have to assume 124 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:41,519 that's one hundred year old Austrian malt. I'm assuming it's the same thing, 125 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:48,039 and I remember that as being really good, so I'm looking forward to this. 126 00:12:48,519 --> 00:12:52,440 It's a five percent pilsner. They call this one Trailing West. I 127 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,600 picked it up at Bennie's. I think it's pretty limited in distribution, so 128 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,679 probably out in California and a couple places here in Illinois. But how do 129 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,559 you go wrong with firestone, walker and half acre on a pilsner. So 130 00:13:07,639 --> 00:13:24,759 at the crack it open? Well, beautiful, nice light color, excellent 131 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:31,399 foam. Two fingers of foam here. Yeah, this might be an Italian 132 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:37,039 pillster. I get a lot of the Hoppa romas here. It smells absolutely 133 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,919 fantastic, looks like it maybe a little more carbonated than your traditional pilsters. 134 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:50,559 It seemed very highly carbonated and effervescent. Oh my god, that is absolutely 135 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,879 phenomenal. Man, big hot flavors. I get a little bitterness even at 136 00:13:56,919 --> 00:14:03,480 the back, not like but I mean you definitely get some good bitterness here, 137 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,919 good flavors from the hops. Let me get some more of this. 138 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,080 Yeah, the malt is really good for me. I think the hops kind 139 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,840 of overtake it. But you get the walt, you get the nice sweetness 140 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:22,919 there. It's very crisp, refreshing, clean tasting beer. Five percent. 141 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,600 It not gonna knock you out. This is absolutely phenomenal. Yeah, I 142 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,159 think I might need to go to Bennie's and grab a couple more six packs 143 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:35,240 and hold on to this one. This is absolutely phenomenal. If you're in 144 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:41,279 the distribution area for Firestone Walker half Acre, you have to put this one 145 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:43,360 in the cart. It's a limited release, so it's not gonna be around 146 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:48,159 long, so don't sleep on it. Grab it. It's that good beer 147 00:14:48,279 --> 00:14:54,960 fest. The Trailing West Pills from Firestone Walker and half Acre is an absolute 148 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,720 winner. Don't just put it in the cart, put them all in the 149 00:14:58,799 --> 00:15:09,960 car when you see it. The next collaboration I'm going to have is from 150 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:16,840 half Acre. They teamed up on Daisy cutters fifteenth birthday with Sierra Nevada to 151 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:24,360 release Daisy Cutter Select. This is a double IPA checks in at eight percent 152 00:15:24,519 --> 00:15:30,320 alcohol. According to the release that they had over on the Insta. They 153 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:37,279 use fresh harvested Centennial hops here, so you're going to get that big citrusy 154 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,240 notes here. I'm really looking forward to this. So you can't go wrong 155 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:48,159 with Sierra Nevada. You can't go wrong with half Bacre. So I'm expecting 156 00:15:48,679 --> 00:16:03,440 a lot from this. So let's bust open. Daisy Cutters Select all really 157 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:10,679 nice. You get the good caramel colors here, good foam on this. 158 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:18,240 It looks really good, smells great. You get all the notes from the 159 00:16:18,279 --> 00:16:22,720 centennial, you get the pine, you get the citrus. It's all right 160 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:27,480 here. It smells excellent. Oh god, that is so good. You 161 00:16:27,519 --> 00:16:32,399 get everything right there. It's an eight percent or so. You get the 162 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:37,039 big heaviness, the sweetness from the malt, and then all of those hot 163 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:44,039 flavors are right there with some good bitterness at the end. West Coast style. 164 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:51,000 It's not hazy. This is just phenomenon. Yeah, it's sweet. 165 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:56,519 It's hard with the citrus. I mean, everything's right here. This is 166 00:16:56,679 --> 00:17:02,279 just an excellent beer. It's only for a limited time. You could pick 167 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:06,000 it up at half Acre, which is what where I grabbed it. At 168 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,680 it they say it's very limited distribution. So I mean, if you see 169 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,640 this in the Chicago Land area, I would definitely grab it, and don't 170 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,640 you know, wait around, because I don't think this is going to be 171 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,640 around a while. It's in a nice green can half acres in small print. 172 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,920 Towards the top, you've got the Sierra Nevada logo. Then you've got 173 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:33,759 the combination with the artwork or the daisies from Daisy Cutter and it looks like 174 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:41,279 the mountains on the back. This is just really really good. You forget 175 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:48,400 these legacy hops how good they are because everyone's using the newer hops and it's 176 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:53,599 the haziness. So when you get a classic IPA with something like centennial like 177 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:59,519 this is, it just reminds you of how great beers were back then, 178 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,319 and luckily for us, they're still being produced. So if you see this 179 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:10,119 from half Acre in Sierra Nevada, once again, it's called Daisycutter Select. 180 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:14,960 It's a double I pa only available for a limited time. You definitely have 181 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:27,240 to grab it and put it in the cart. It's that good, all 182 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:32,839 right. That's gonna wrap things up for this edition of Beer in Front. 183 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,920 I thank you very much for listening. If you want to get a hold 184 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,279 of me, email me day that's Beerinfront dot com. If you'd like to 185 00:18:41,319 --> 00:18:47,960 support the show, I appreciate it, you could head over to Patreon dot 186 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:52,160 com slash beer in Front for more information. Have a great week everyone. 187 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:57,400 If you're out and about Friday near Wrigley Field, be sure to check out 188 00:18:57,839 --> 00:19:04,079 Friday Night Flight. I'll be there the Great Beer Festival, so hopefully I 189 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:10,240 will see you there. Have a great week everyone, and remember sometimes the 190 00:19:10,279 --> 00:19:12,799 beer in front of you is the best one yet