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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 old school beers that maybe you've
forgotten about, some new beers that have

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the potential to be a classic.
I'll also talk to various people around the

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

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it's coming up now. Welcome to
the January twenty second edition, episode one

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hundred and ninety four of Beer in
Front. I'm your host, Dave z

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Alatoris, and Beer in Front is
a proud Odpods Media Network member. Along

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with some big beer news, I'll
have some new non alcoholic offerings from Alsmith

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out of San Diego on the show. Both of those were fantastic. In

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the near future, I'll be talking
with Rock Solid Brewing out of Georgia and

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Momentum Brewing out of New York.
In addition to that, shows on the

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Birmingham Area, Chicago, Tavernweek,
Kombucha and others are in the works.

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In beverage news, New Jersey has
finally passed a law that will make things

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a lot easier for breweries in the
state to operate. Breweries will now be

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able to host unlimited events in the
tap room, have food trucks, and

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have na beverages. Also, they
can now brew up to three hundred thousand

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barrels annually, up from ten thousand, so that's big news for breweries in

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the state of New Jersey. The
alcohol delivery service Drizzly will cease operations in

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March. Uber purchased the company in
twenty twenty one for one point one billion

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dollars and will now focus on Uber
Eats. If you could afford a billion

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dollars, you could pay your drivers
more. Last Tuesday, the IP assets

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for Metropolitan Brewing went on auction and
it was sold for one hundred and twelve

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thousand dollars, which includes the branding
and recipes. There's no word yet on

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the buyer, but hopefully Metro Beers
will live again. Saturday, March second,

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Samuel Adams is having a festival celebrating
their fortieth anniversary and will bring back

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some throwback beers. I'm hoping they
bring back Boston Ale. I was a

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huge Boston Ale fan when that came
out. If you ever found it on

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tap, it was the even better. So hopefully Boston Ale makes a comeback.

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Of all the Seltzer products that are
out there, the Simply Lemonade line

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has been my favorite. This is
put out by Molson Cores and they just

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released a new limeade version that should
be out everywhere. They have a cherry

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limeade, a bunch of different flavors, so I'm really looking forward to that

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big Lime Maid fan, and I'll
have a review up of that sometime next

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month. Mortal Kombucha, based in
Boulder, Colorado, is releasing its products

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now in sixteen ounce resealable aluminum bottles. They are the first kombucha company to

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do so. I'm hoping to have
the founder of Mortal on the show soon

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and we're gonna talk kombucha Finally.
Airis Brewery and Cider House on Irving Park

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in Chicago. They're celebrating their sixth
birthday on Friday, February second. They'll

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have things going on between noon and
eleven pm. They're gonna have a birthday

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Kate a special release sider, So
head over to Aris's website to find out

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details on their sixth birthday. I'm
Richie aka Midnight Agent Raw. I'm Devin

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Wherever you listen to podcasts. All
right, the beer that's in front of

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me now is from Alesmith. This
is their non alcoholic Speedwaytout. I grab

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this a week or so ago at
my bottle shop and I'm like, oh,

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okay, I like speedway, so
let's try the NA version since I'm

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doing dry January. And oh my
god, this is absolutely fantastic, so

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I made sure I saved a couple
more cans. I wanted to talk about

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it online. They also have an
IPA which I did not see, so

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I'm gonna have to look for that
as well. But no joke, This

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Speedway Stout is excellent, so let's
crack it open. The non alcoholic Speedway

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Stout is a really beautiful foam nice
head on here good maybe three fingers of

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Foam's great. You get the malt, you get like coffee notes in there,

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chocolate notes. It just smells fantastic
and it's so good. You get

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all of those flavors, the malt, the chocolate, the coffee in here.

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It all tastes great, nice mouthfeel. It doesn't taste then at all.

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It tastes like a regular stout.
Now this is non alcoholic, so

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there is less than zero point five
ABV. I just think this is fantastic,

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Like, this is something come February. I know there's a lot of

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them from Go Brewing that I liked
that I talked about before. There's a

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few others like the Sierra Devad I
would probably grab now and then. But

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every time I see this from Alesmith, I'm definitely putting this one in the

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cart. If you want to cut
back on your alcohol, or if you

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just want a nice tasting beverage that
doesn't have any booze in it, if

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you're looking for a stout, this
is fantastic. So if you see the

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Speedway non alcoholic craft beer, I
would definitely put this one in the carts.

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It is fantastic, all right.
I enjoyed the Speedway so much.

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From Ailsmith, I went out and
found the non alcoholic IPA, so I'm

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gonna have that one right now.
It doesn't list the hops that they use,

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but according to the website, it
has a nice citrusy overtone to this.

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So what's not the light seventy five
calories? Let's crack open the Alesmith

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non alcoholic IPA. Their IPA looks
good, nice, clear, lot of

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hazy. It's definitely more West Coast
looking good foam on. It smells good.

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I do get that tangerine out of
the aroma. No, it spells

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really good, not bad. I
like it. No, it has a

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nice like multi notes to it too, before the hops hit you, So

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I mean I think it tastes good. It's got that nice like breadlike malt

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like notes, and then the hops
hit you at the end. So I

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think this is pretty good, got
a nice mouthfeel to it. It doesn't

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taste it at all. I'm a
big fan, so I've always liked the

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stuff from al Smith. When I've
been to San Diego a couple times,

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I made sure I had to stop
there, So I do enjoy their stuff.

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But if you're looking for some non
alcoholic options out there, the IPA

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fantastic. The speedway stout absolutely killer, so you got to put both of

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those in your cart. I'm still
going strong with dry January. Ruby has

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noticed that I'm hardly snoring, if
at all. Now. I'm having a

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beer on February first, and i'll
post that video. If you have any

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suggestions on what I should have,
let me know. After a month off,

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I should probably go light and not
have some barrel aged behemoth. The

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back is not getting any better.
The problem is the L four in the

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L five discs, which is where
the majority of my daily pain is.

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I see the pain specialist on Wednesday
and we'll see if I'm going to need

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another epidural injection or surgery. Been
going to physical therapy since September, and

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while I think the world of my
therapists, the progress has been minimal,

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so I don't know what's going to
happen with that. But I've been living

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on tail and all and advil with
shots of pepto for my stomach. But

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this shit's got to end soon.
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Have a great week. I'll talk
up to you next Monday. And remember,

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sometimes the beer in front of you
is the best one yet