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about beer. That's Beer in Front, and it's coming up now. Welcome
to episode two hundred and twelve of Beer in Front. I'm your host,
Dave's alatorus and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media Network member and
also a charter member of the Beer Media Group. Summer's here, and the
time is right for dancing, racing, fighting in the streets. If there
is nice. It's after Memorial Day. You could wear your white capris if
you want. I'm waiting for mine. I had to get the big boy
size. But it's after Memorial Day. The weather's nice. Thankfully, we
still in my neighborhood. I haven't heard a single cicada. I went out
a couple days ago. A friend of mine had a retirement party and I
was able to hear them. But I'm kind of disappointed. I was expecting
cicadas in here and they let me down. Good show today. I have
some great collaborations and actually both involved half Acre. The first one is from
Firestone Walker. They collaborated with half Acre on a pilsner for the Firestone Walker
Invitational that they had last weekend in California, and I'm also going to have
one for Daisy cutters fifteenth birthday here. They collaborated with Sierra Nevada, so
I'm going to have both of those beers coming up shortly. I hope everyone
had a great week. I did. It was my birthday last week.
Thank you to everyone that with me a happy birthday. I had a great
birthday here. Ruby and I went out for dinner to Smoke Steak. I
talked about them before. If you're around the Chicago area and you know Smoke
Barbecue, they have a steakhouse and it's excellent. They souvied their steaks to
whichever degree of done this you like, and then see it it's also smoked,
so you get that nice smoky taste to it. The steaks were phenomenal,
the service second to none. Everything about it was great. I had
the steak Freets, which was absolutely killer. The chimmy churry. I love
chimmy churry. You could inject that in my veins. That was some of
the best chimmy churry I had. We had some great desserts they gave me
for my birthday. Instead of cake, they gave me this sorbet that was
a pair in Reestling sorbet that was so good. And then we also had
like this butter scotch kind of like a krem Oh my god. If you're
in the Chicago area, it won't break the bank. The prices are really
good for a high end steakhouse. You're not going to go out of there
poor. I definitely recommend Smoke Steak. Good things coming up this week night
beer flight starts this Friday, and the first one is going to be a
Gallagher Way right outside Wrigley Field. I will be there, so if you're
there, look for me. Look for the guy in a Drink Illinois beer
shirt. You'll fight and he's hobbling around because my back is still not fixed.
I'm not going to go into it because I'm kind of aggravated. But
if you see a hobbling guy walking around like Fred Sandford in a Drink Illinois
beer shirt, that will be me. Also coming up in a couple of
weeks Midwest Coast, they're opening their new rooftop location. I'm going to go
to the soft Open and check that out. But I'm really looking forward to
that. Midwest Coast puts out some great beers here in Illinois, so you
need to check that out when it opens, and I'll have a full review
of that in a couple weeks. Also, finally, I did a two
part podcast on the great music of Ram with my friends over at pop Culture
Yearbook. There's gonna be an episode on the early years of the band coming
out on pop Culture Yearbook, which I'll include links to, and then I'm
also covering with the Gentleman at PCY. We're gonna talk about the later years.
We're gonna kind of do a fantasy draft of songs from each era.
That was a lot of fun, so I'll include links to that, but
that'll be coming out in the near future on both pop Culture Yearbook and right
here is a special edition of Beer in Front in Beer and Beverage News,
Monster the energy Drink. They own some breweries now and they're gonna shut down
the Deep Elum the tap room and production from its Dallas location to the company's
other breweries. This is not very cool to me. I was at Deep
Elum a few years ago with Ruby. We really enjoyed it. They put
out some really good beers, and they're going to consolidate. I know a
couple of months ago Monster was transitioning Cigar City's production to somewhere else, which
was losing jobs. So I don't know. I mean, they're still really
good beers, but to me, this isn't very cool. It's a Great
American Beer Festival. It's going to have some changes for this year where brewers
or not brewers for that matter, they have the ability to pour ready to
drink cocktails in any other product. In past years you had to be able
to serve at least one beer. That's not going to be the case for
twenty twenty four. They're also eliminating the Saturday evening session. So some changes
with the Great American Beer Festival. Some really great news dropped on Thursday out
of San Francisco. The billionaire who's behind the Chobanni yogurt Empire. He acquired
Anchor Brewing Company all of its assets and locations that closed down last year.
I'm going to butcher the name I know it, but his name is Humdi
Ulakaya. He's the founder and CEO of Chobani that they've acquired all of the
assets, so that's really cool. According to the article I'm reading in the
San Francisco Chronicle, he didn't know anything about Anchor until he read something I
think it was in Forbes when they close down, but he wants to keep
everything there in San Francisco. Schobani was like a closed down yogurt place in
New York. He revived that, so hopefully lightning will strike twice and he
could revive the great Anchor brand. Really good articles over on the San Francisco
Chronicle. You could read about it on all the beer news websites and everything,
but this is really cool. The guy seems to really like want to
do everything right, get everything back into San Francisco, and even said he's
hoping they can get the Christmas beer out by the end of the year.
So I'm really excited about that. Excited to be able to have another Anchor
Steam. If news breaks late on a Friday, something's weird to call it
the Friday news dump. But late Friday Boston beer makers of sam Adams,
they announced that they're in talks to sell to the gym Beam owner Sentry now
chairs of sam Adams, Like I think It went up like twenty five percent
late Friday over talks of this. So there's nothing official, but Boston Beer
is they might be sold to Suntory. I'm not sure how I feel about
this, but you know, we'll see what happens. Some cool news out
of Chicago that Maplewood they're celebrating their tenth anniversary that's coming up, that's coming
up on Saturday, the fifteenth of June. Looks like they're gonna do it
right. They're gonna shut down the side street where they're located, and they're
gonna have some throwback beers, some barely age be your tenth anniversary merchandise,
and much much more so. If you're in the Chicago area on the fifteenth
of June, you need to check out Maplewood's tenth anniversary party. I'm Richie
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proud members of the Odd Pods media Network. All Right, the first collaboration
beer I'm gonna have comes from Firestone Walker. Over the weekend they had their
invitational beer festival and the beer that they had was a collaboration with half Acre.
So of course when I see this, you know it goes in the
cart. But this is a pills ner. Now. They say it's Italian
inspired, so I love Italian pill They use hers Brooker and hollertowl Mittel Fru
hops and they also use an Austrian barley variety that's over one hundred years old
now I remember. I think it was two or three years ago. I
had a beer from Dovetail that used malt. I think the malt place was
called Sugar Creek, and they rescued this malt that hasn't been used since before
World War Two in Austria. I'm not sure if this is the same malt.
It doesn't list where they purchased it from, but I have to assume
that's one hundred year old Austrian malt. I'm assuming it's the same thing,
and I remember that as being really good, so I'm looking forward to this.
It's a five percent pilsner. They call this one Trailing West. I
picked it up at Bennie's. I think it's pretty limited in distribution, so
probably out in California and a couple places here in Illinois. But how do
you go wrong with firestone, walker and half acre on a pilsner. So
at the crack it open? Well, beautiful, nice light color, excellent
foam. Two fingers of foam here. Yeah, this might be an Italian
pillster. I get a lot of the Hoppa romas here. It smells absolutely
fantastic, looks like it maybe a little more carbonated than your traditional pilsters.
It seemed very highly carbonated and effervescent. Oh my god, that is absolutely
phenomenal. Man, big hot flavors. I get a little bitterness even at
the back, not like but I mean you definitely get some good bitterness here,
good flavors from the hops. Let me get some more of this.
Yeah, the malt is really good for me. I think the hops kind
of overtake it. But you get the walt, you get the nice sweetness
there. It's very crisp, refreshing, clean tasting beer. Five percent.
It not gonna knock you out. This is absolutely phenomenal. Yeah, I
think I might need to go to Bennie's and grab a couple more six packs
and hold on to this one. This is absolutely phenomenal. If you're in
the distribution area for Firestone Walker half Acre, you have to put this one
in the cart. It's a limited release, so it's not gonna be around
long, so don't sleep on it. Grab it. It's that good beer
fest. The Trailing West Pills from Firestone Walker and half Acre is an absolute
winner. Don't just put it in the cart, put them all in the
car when you see it. The next collaboration I'm going to have is from
half Acre. They teamed up on Daisy cutters fifteenth birthday with Sierra Nevada to
release Daisy Cutter Select. This is a double IPA checks in at eight percent
alcohol. According to the release that they had over on the Insta. They
use fresh harvested Centennial hops here, so you're going to get that big citrusy
notes here. I'm really looking forward to this. So you can't go wrong
with Sierra Nevada. You can't go wrong with half Bacre. So I'm expecting
a lot from this. So let's bust open. Daisy Cutters Select all really
nice. You get the good caramel colors here, good foam on this.
It looks really good, smells great. You get all the notes from the
centennial, you get the pine, you get the citrus. It's all right
here. It smells excellent. Oh god, that is so good. You
get everything right there. It's an eight percent or so. You get the
big heaviness, the sweetness from the malt, and then all of those hot
flavors are right there with some good bitterness at the end. West Coast style.
It's not hazy. This is just phenomenon. Yeah, it's sweet.
It's hard with the citrus. I mean, everything's right here. This is
just an excellent beer. It's only for a limited time. You could pick
it up at half Acre, which is what where I grabbed it. At
it they say it's very limited distribution. So I mean, if you see
this in the Chicago Land area, I would definitely grab it, and don't
you know, wait around, because I don't think this is going to be
around a while. It's in a nice green can half acres in small print.
Towards the top, you've got the Sierra Nevada logo. Then you've got
the combination with the artwork or the daisies from Daisy Cutter and it looks like
the mountains on the back. This is just really really good. You forget
these legacy hops how good they are because everyone's using the newer hops and it's
the haziness. So when you get a classic IPA with something like centennial like
this is, it just reminds you of how great beers were back then,
and luckily for us, they're still being produced. So if you see this
from half Acre in Sierra Nevada, once again, it's called Daisycutter Select.
It's a double I pa only available for a limited time. You definitely have
to grab it and put it in the cart. It's that good, all
right. That's gonna wrap things up for this edition of Beer in Front.
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If you're out and about Friday near Wrigley Field, be sure to check out
Friday Night Flight. I'll be there the Great Beer Festival, so hopefully I
will see you there. Have a great week everyone, and remember sometimes the
beer in front of you is the best one yet