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 old school beers that maybe you've forgotten about, some new beers that have
the potential to be a classic. I'll also talk to various people around the
beer world and get their stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front and
it's coming up now. Welcome to the January twenty second edition, episode one
hundred and ninety four of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave z
Alatoris, and Beer in Front is a proud Odpods Media Network member. Along
with some big beer news, I'll have some new non alcoholic offerings from Alsmith
out of San Diego on the show. Both of those were fantastic. In
the near future, I'll be talking with Rock Solid Brewing out of Georgia and
Momentum Brewing out of New York. In addition to that, shows on the
Birmingham Area, Chicago, Tavernweek, Kombucha and others are in the works.
In beverage news, New Jersey has finally passed a law that will make things
a lot easier for breweries in the state to operate. Breweries will now be
able to host unlimited events in the tap room, have food trucks, and
have na beverages. Also, they can now brew up to three hundred thousand
barrels annually, up from ten thousand, so that's big news for breweries in
the state of New Jersey. The alcohol delivery service Drizzly will cease operations in
March. Uber purchased the company in twenty twenty one for one point one billion
dollars and will now focus on Uber Eats. If you could afford a billion
dollars, you could pay your drivers more. Last Tuesday, the IP assets
for Metropolitan Brewing went on auction and it was sold for one hundred and twelve
thousand dollars, which includes the branding and recipes. There's no word yet on
the buyer, but hopefully Metro Beers will live again. Saturday, March second,
Samuel Adams is having a festival celebrating their fortieth anniversary and will bring back
some throwback beers. I'm hoping they bring back Boston Ale. I was a
huge Boston Ale fan when that came out. If you ever found it on
tap, it was the even better. So hopefully Boston Ale makes a comeback.
Of all the Seltzer products that are out there, the Simply Lemonade line
has been my favorite. This is put out by Molson Cores and they just
released a new limeade version that should be out everywhere. They have a cherry
limeade, a bunch of different flavors, so I'm really looking forward to that
big Lime Maid fan, and I'll have a review up of that sometime next
month. Mortal Kombucha, based in Boulder, Colorado, is releasing its products
now in sixteen ounce resealable aluminum bottles. They are the first kombucha company to
do so. I'm hoping to have the founder of Mortal on the show soon
and we're gonna talk kombucha Finally. Airis Brewery and Cider House on Irving Park
in Chicago. They're celebrating their sixth birthday on Friday, February second. They'll
have things going on between noon and eleven pm. They're gonna have a birthday
Kate a special release sider, So head over to Aris's website to find out
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
me now is from Alesmith. This is their non alcoholic Speedwaytout. I grab
this a week or so ago at my bottle shop and I'm like, oh,
okay, I like speedway, so let's try the NA version since I'm
doing dry January. And oh my god, this is absolutely fantastic, so
I made sure I saved a couple more cans. I wanted to talk about
it online. They also have an IPA which I did not see, so
I'm gonna have to look for that as well. But no joke, This
Speedway Stout is excellent, so let's crack it open. The non alcoholic Speedway
Stout is a really beautiful foam nice head on here good maybe three fingers of
Foam's great. You get the malt, you get like coffee notes in there,
chocolate notes. It just smells fantastic and it's so good. You get
all of those flavors, the malt, the chocolate, the coffee in here.
It all tastes great, nice mouthfeel. It doesn't taste then at all.
It tastes like a regular stout. Now this is non alcoholic, so
there is less than zero point five ABV. I just think this is fantastic,
Like, this is something come February. I know there's a lot of
them from Go Brewing that I liked that I talked about before. There's a
few others like the Sierra Devad I would probably grab now and then. But
every time I see this from Alesmith, I'm definitely putting this one in the
cart. If you want to cut back on your alcohol, or if you
just want a nice tasting beverage that doesn't have any booze in it, if
you're looking for a stout, this is fantastic. So if you see the
Speedway non alcoholic craft beer, I would definitely put this one in the carts.
It is fantastic, all right. I enjoyed the Speedway so much.
From Ailsmith, I went out and found the non alcoholic IPA, so I'm
gonna have that one right now. It doesn't list the hops that they use,
but according to the website, it has a nice citrusy overtone to this.
So what's not the light seventy five calories? Let's crack open the Alesmith
non alcoholic IPA. Their IPA looks good, nice, clear, lot of
hazy. It's definitely more West Coast looking good foam on. It smells good.
I do get that tangerine out of the aroma. No, it spells
really good, not bad. I like it. No, it has a
nice like multi notes to it too, before the hops hit you, So
I mean I think it tastes good. It's got that nice like breadlike malt
like notes, and then the hops hit you at the end. So I
think this is pretty good, got a nice mouthfeel to it. It doesn't
taste it at all. I'm a big fan, so I've always liked the
stuff from al Smith. When I've been to San Diego a couple times,
I made sure I had to stop there, So I do enjoy their stuff.
But if you're looking for some non alcoholic options out there, the IPA
fantastic. The speedway stout absolutely killer, so you got to put both of
those in your cart. I'm still going strong with dry January. Ruby has
noticed that I'm hardly snoring, if at all. Now. I'm having a
beer on February first, and i'll post that video. If you have any
suggestions on what I should have, let me know. After a month off,
I should probably go light and not have some barrel aged behemoth. The
back is not getting any better. The problem is the L four in the
L five discs, which is where the majority of my daily pain is.
I see the pain specialist on Wednesday and we'll see if I'm going to need
another epidural injection or surgery. Been going to physical therapy since September, and
while I think the world of my therapists, the progress has been minimal,
so I don't know what's going to happen with that. But I've been living
on tail and all and advil with shots of pepto for my stomach. But
this shit's got to end soon. I thank you for listening to Beer in
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Have a great week. I'll talk up to you next Monday. And remember,
sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one yet