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 episode one hundred and seventy five, the
August twenty ninth edition of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's alatoris
and Beer in Front is a proud member of the Odd Pods Media Network.
Not a solo show. This week and I'll be having a shower beer.
This one is from pipe Works called Shiny math Rocks. I'll also have another
I'll talk about when you don't hear the water running in the background. I
mentioned a few weeks ago that my back was hurting, and last week it
went out again, so I'm on a mini vacation, stuck at home while
I heal up. The doc says, luckily it's just muscular, so they
did X rays and everything. I should be good to go sometime later on
this week. I'll have a follow up on thirtieth, so hopefully she'll sign
off on this and I'll be backlifting your heavy bags again at the airport.
Muscle relaxers are fun, and I should do a review of Cyclo Benzerprene.
They're small and pink with no aroma and taste. There's been a lot of
new listeners in the past seven to ten days, and actually I don't look
at my numbers all the time, but I just happen to look, and
more people have listened in the last ten days than I usually get in a
month, So I think, who's ever out there catching up on all the
past shows. I don't see this in the current episode, so those that
are listening are grabbing a bunch of different shows to listen to those. So
if you're new to listening to this podcast, I appreciate you checking me out
and hopefully you'll stick around. I used to homebrew, and I did it
for many years, starting out solo and then graduating to All Green brewing with
my best friend Benny. We haven't brewed in over five years, but the
first week in October, I'm going to do a small one gallon batch for
the show. I'll have Julia Herzon from the American Homebrewers Association to chat.
I'll follow up with the following week with a video showing the brewing process as
I'm doing it, and then when the beer is ready, hopefully we could
chat about the beer that I made. I already have a name for it
in the cart. I'm leaning towards something simple and basic since it's been a
while since I brewed. It's probably been five years since I brewed with Benny,
so I'm not going to do anything elaborate, but hopefully if this works
out, what I'd like to do is on future shows, I could brew
a beer that is no longer with us, like like a Pete's Wicked Ale
or anchor Steam, where I could do a whole show on that beer of
the past. If you have any ideas on a long lost beer or any
show suggestions, you could find me on all the social media channels at beer
in Front or you could email me Dave at beer infront dot com. Big
thank you to you and everyone that listens to this show or streams it over
on YouTube and those that support the show over on Patreon. If you'd like,
you could head over it to Patreon dot com slash Beer in Front.
For more info, I mentioned on the show last week that if you'd like
to buy a Beer in Front T shirt, get a hold of me.
I have the stuff here. I have a couple of extra large as left,
so I have one in red and one's in a darker caller I forget,
but the shirt will have three details on there. There's going to be
the Beer in Front logo in front with the plank glass. On the backs
is going to be the Chicago flag with my little logo in the middle of
it. And on the sleeve is going to be a cart because you could
put it in the cart. So if you're interested in a Beer in Front
T shirt, I've also made for myself, if you watched over on YouTube
a couple of brewer shirts where I purchased some blank red cap workers shirts and
those have come out really nice as well. So that would be a little
bit more because the shirts are more expensive, but you know, we could
work something out. So if you're interested, please get a hold of me
and I could set you up with a Beer in Front shirt. And finally,
I entered a contest from Sierra, Nevada. I was hoping to win
one of those nice YETI coolers. I instead won a bigger prize and I
now have a paddle board. It's like nine feet long with the Sierra Nevada
Hazy Little Things logo on there. Did I mention I can't swim if there
isn't a show next week? If you're looking next Tuesday, Oh, I
want to listen to beer in front and you don't see one, You better
go out and drain the Chicago River and look for my fat ass floating somewhere.
Choose Chicago announced the launch of the Chicago Brew Pass. This is a
new way to promote Chicago's award winning craft breweries. Through the Brewpass, you
could check in at breweries across the city earned points that could be redeemed for
prizes like a two night hotel stay downtown and others. You could use the
Brewpass to explore over twenty participating breweries at your own pace. You don't have
to do this all like now. You have until like January to do it,
so you could check in once you get to these and you could start
earning points. Head over to Choose Chicago dot com and I'll include the link
in the show notes where you could sign up The final Friday Night Flights event
of twenty twenty three, will be held in conjunction with the Taste of Chicago
in Grant Park on Friday, September eighth, from four to nine. I
was at the first one of the summer at Wrigley Field. This was a
lot of fun, a lot of great breweries. You could sample beer from
over twenty five local breweries while taking advantage of more than thirty five of Chicago's
favorite food vendors in food trucks at the Taste of Chicago. This event's going
to feature free live music. They got the Masters of the Mic. This
is going to be a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop. They're
gonna have Dougie Fresh, KRS one, and Slick Rick. So check that
out over on brew Buzz. They had news of the Anchor Workers Union.
They're collaborating with Foxtail and Enterprise on a Solidarity ale, which is a California
common that's going to benefit the union's quest to buy the brewery from Sapporo.
If you like pumpkin spice, Bush is coming out with a pumpkin spice beer
for dogs. Moirorose LIFs pumpkin, so I'm probably gonna have to grab one
for her. And this isn't beer related, but who knew that Motorhead had
a bourbon? I mentioned Lemmy on the show a couple of weeks ago,
and now there's another Motorhead reference. They have a bourbon called Ace of Spades.
It's a ninety proof bourbon. And last week the Green Lady in Chicago
who's featuring Manhattan's with this for ten bucks. Hey, this is Russ,
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network. I mentioned last year and I'll say it again. Nothing beats a
shower beer. And before you pooh pooh this, many of you drink a
glass of wine in the tub, so a shower beer is no different.
I've been taking longer showers than usual with my back issues, and the shower
beer is the best couple of beer in front. Safety tips for all you
youngsters out there, and what I mean youngsters twenty one and over, drink
out of the can. Think about this. It's wet, you're in the
shower, it's wet, and you're soapy. Don't risk injury while having a
shower beer. And also choose a beer for your typical length of shower.
If you're taking a quick shower, don't pound down something high in alcohol.
Have a nice, easy drinking macro beer. Are you enjoying your shower beer.
Take a family friendly pick of you and your beer and post it with
the hashtag beer in front shower beer. Welcome to another beer in front shower
beer for twenty twenty three. This week, I'm having shiny knap Rocks.
This is from Pipe Works. This is an IPA and I'm looking forward to
it. I love shower beers. Shower beers are the best. You work
hard all day, you want to take a shower, What better thing to
do in the shower than have the beer go pouring in the glass because I'm
wet and I'm going to drop it and cut myself. So just out of
the can. That's really good. It's refreshing, it's got a nice flavor
to it. Really get the big hot flavors here. I'm a big fan
of this showy math Rocks. This is an ipa with galaxy and cryo mosaic
cops. If you see it, put it in the cart. And I
know some people didn't appreciate the shower beer last year, some people went and
did it, and I'm hoping you do it again this year because shower beers
are the best. So I'm gonna leave you alone now because I got to
wash my hair. But if you see shiny math Rocks from Pipe Works,
by all means, put it in the cart. The second beer in front
this week is Big Wave from Knakna is donating a portion of sales to the
relief efforts in Maui, so I had to have it for the show.
Here comes my Molly story fifteen years years ago, and it was right around
this time. My wife at the time and I were in Maui for vacation.
The last night we were there, we went to a traditional Hawaiian lu
out. When we got back to the resort, Gail wasn't feeling well,
didn't sleep at all, sick to her stomach. So I pushed the flight
home back a day, kept the resort and rental car for another day as
well. I wanted her to see a doctor and was able to get an
appointment for the next afternoon. Now I was up most of the night with
her. She told me to go grab something to eat for breakfast, since
I hadn't had anything to eat since the lu out. I'm driving to the
grab something, you know, jack in a box or something to get something
for breakfast. She texts me that she calls nine to one one. Here
I go, making a big u turn, rush back to the resort and
the ambulance was there already. They say we got to go to the hospital,
and I'm like, well, I'm going to go in the ambulance with
her. The driver says, dude, you don't want to know what a
cab is going to cost you coming back. It's about an hour drive.
There's only one hospital in Maui, and the guy was like, throw your
blinkers on and just follow me. So there I was chasing the ambulance,
which was a lot of fun. I mean, I don't know if I
would have had more fun playing with the siren, but speeding through Maui chasing
the ambulance was a lot of fun. We get to the hospital, it's
forever. You're in the yard's forever. So they finally get her in for
tests. They have to run more tests. It's late, so I'm hungry.
I order a pizza. Everybody it's in the waiting room was like,
oh man, this is gonna be a long day if this dude's ordering a
pizza. So finally, when the pizza comes, they take her to a
room. Nurse comes back and says that it's her appendix and she needs surgery.
So we're like, all right, you know, we'll have this done
once we get back to Chicago, and the nurse is like, oh no,
the surgeon is on her way. Now you're having it. Now.
It's after midnight, so now I'm pacing back and forth while she's in having
surgery. Finally, everything's done, checked into a regular room. It's two
o'clock in the morning. So now I've got to drive back to the resort
that we were staying at, take a disco nap. Now I've got to
find a cheaper hotel, a car. Everything. It was just chaos and
I'm only on about two hours to sleep. So a friend of mine.
I texted a friend of mine who was a flight attendant. She gave me
the name of the crew hotel, which is a lot closer to the hospital
in the airport, and it was a lot cheaper than the resort. And
this is fifteen years ago, and I still remember it. Even with an
airline rate and all that, it was still like ninety five bucks a night.
Had to give up the nice Mustang convertible grabbed me as subaru, get
settled, and then running back and forth to the hospital. A couple of
days go by, they release her. We're gonna fly home the next day.
Middle of the night, she's sick again. There I am driving back
to Maui Memorial Hospital. She had an infection, and then she wound up
being in the hospital another ten days or so. So I kept the room,
cancel the flights work, lets me borrow vacation time. So while we're
there on Maui, some income is coming in. And one day, as
I'm driving to the hospital, I lost the front tooth. Not the same
tooth that I was having issues with a couple of weeks ago, a different
front tooth. So there I am on Maui, my wife's in the hospital,
and I have no front tooth. Ladies, how you do it?
I swallowed the tooth, so I'm not going to fish it. Oh no,
this is just going to have to wait till I get back to Chicago.
Almost three weeks after we've arrived, we finally make it back to Chicago,
and I must say, the people in Mali were some of the best
people I've met. A place next to the hotel I was at was called
the Botto Being. I gotta stop, I gotta run into the Botto Being,
and it was like an Italian style bar, pizzeria, Italian restaurant.
So I'm in there having dinner. I meet a guy who claims, and
I don't know if he was bullshitting me or not, but he claims to
have been Sinatra's nephew. But he was a nice guy, so I talked
to him but the people there were so nice. They were like, you're
spending a ton of money on Mali. You know it's not cheap. So
every day they took care of me. They gave me like happy hour prices
things like that, so that part was cool. I drank a ton of
ConA Brewing products while I was there, because I went in Rome and this
case went on Molly drink ConA Brewing, so Firebrock was might probably go to
beer. I even have their logo tattooed, So my heart goes out to
the great people of Mali. I know they're going to rebound and hopefully Sinatra
and nephews. Okay, Now, the ConA brewing that we get here on
the mainland is owned by ab in Vev and it's not even brewed in Hawaii
anymore, so I'm guessing this is different than the stuff you get over there.
This is Big Wave. It checks in at four point four percent alcohol
and it has sixteen IBus. Big Wave has a nice golden color, good
carbonation, smells very It smells very sunny and bright. It has a nice
aroma to it. It's not a bad beer. I get some fruitiness from
the hops, very light, very subtle. It's not a bad beer,
but I don't know if this is anything better than nondescript. I mean,
it's okay, it's not bad. I'm not dumping it. I would admit
tasted a lot better in Maui. But you know, it's not a bad
beer. Since it's part of the abn Bed family, you could get it,
you know, fairly reasonably priced. I grabbed a six pack of this
for ten bucks, so, I mean, it's not super cheap, but
it's not super expensive either. It's a decent beer. Really nice bottles that
they have here. They're custom bottles that have liquid a loha on the bottle
itself. So if you're homebrewing, these are good bottles. I'm probably going
to have to keep these for when I brew coming up soon. But if
you see ConA big wave and you want to help the people in Maui out
this month and next month in September, proceeds for their purchases are going to
go help the people in Maui. So put it in the cart, all
right. That's gonna wrap things up for this edition of Beer in Front.
I thank you very much for listening. If you need to get a hold
of me. You can email me Dave at beer infront dot com, where
you could find me on all the social media channels at beer in Front.
I don't know if I'm going to get to this paddleboard while I'm having back
issues, but if I ever skip a show and don't give you warning,
you got to look for me in the Chicago River. All right, There's
been a lot of fun this week. I will talk to you next week
on the show. And remember sometimes the beer in front of you is the
best one yet. You have a good week everyone. I will talk to
you next week.