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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
episode one hundred and ninety six of Beer

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in Front. I'm your host,
Dave's Alatoris and Beer in Front is a

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proud Odd Pods Media Network member.
On today's show, I talked to Carmine

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and Thomas from the Rock Solid Brewing
Company. They're located in Ballground, Georgia,

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right outside of Atlanta. Good time
talking to those gentlemen. I was

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going to have a beer from Rock
Solid, but the shipping company damage the

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box, so unfortunately I'm not able
to have one. But I'm sure I'll

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get one down the road and I'll
have it on a later episode. But

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everything about that brewery looks great,
sounds great, so stay tuned for that.

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As you know, I took last
week off had some family matters to

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attend to in San Diego, so
I'm back better than ever. Shows will

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be out on a more regular basis. Now. I did pick up one

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beer in San Diego from Harland Brewing
Company. I'll have that a little later

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on in the show. On next
week's show, I'm going to have some

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kombucha, so I'm going to have
a different fermented beverage, so look out

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for that. That'll come out next
Monday, so stay tuned for that.

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of me rambling, Let's get on
with the show. The latest on my

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back. So my back's been out
since August and going to the doctor.

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I've had epidural injections, going through
physical therapy, doing everything I'm supposed to

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continue with physical therapy and get this
thing called dry needling gune. I get

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a phone call on Monday from my
physical therapist saying then it hasn't been approved

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from Workmen's comm and she doesn't want
me to get billed for sessions that aren't

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approved, which I appreciate. So
I contact my attorney and he gets back

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to me and the clowns that workmens
come say that I've had enough physical therapy

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and they're not going to approve anymore. So you're now this gonna have me

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sit here and stay in paint.
So I don't know my attorney's working on

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the problem. I have a follow
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in a couple of weeks, and
we'll go from there and hopefully they can

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appeal this and authorize more stuff for
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the sit, it hurts to stand, it hurts to walk, it hurts

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to sleep. So I'm constantly moving
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spot where I could like do something
for more than a few minutes without like

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feeling it in my back. So
hopefully that will be resolved soon. I

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mentioned in the intro that on next
week's show, I'm talking kombucha. But

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in two weeks it's my fourth anniversary, so I'll have to come up with

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something for the fourth anniversary show.
I don't know what it's going to be

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because it's been a little hectic here
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up with something for the fourth anniversary. I don't know. I timed this

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wrong with my episode, so this
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have worked it out where the fourth
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same. So maybe I'll do something
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ninety nine or whatever will be the
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Lauren is so great. Rock Solid Brewing

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Company just celebrated their third anniversary in
December. They are located in Ballground,

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Georgia, which is about a forty
five minute drive north of Atlanta. Joining

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me now is founder Carmine Parisi and
head brewer Thomas Muse. Gentlemen, thanks

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for taking time out to day,
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Thank you very nice, Carmen.
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a brewery. We are three owners, three partners, and we started to

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be honest, like a sidekick in
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to do weekends, you know,
Sunday here in Georgia the winter. Sometimes

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it's school, sometimes it's weird.
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sometimes things happen, and you know, year after year, that's what

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happened. And it's just that you
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Yes, tell me a little bit
about your background. So I was

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born in Italy, and I was
born in Naples, South and I working,

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you know, when I was in
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I worked with my uncle restaurants.
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and then after that I went to
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I was in Kosovo. They wore
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the paratrooper. And after that we
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It was February twenty seven, two
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months and then I was done with
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went to live in Florence. So
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in Florence and I met my wife
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October. Okay, so we stayed
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New York. So we stayed in
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then we moved in Georgia that year. And then we started to play around

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with beers. Reality, it was
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you know, just to play around
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create something weird. But yeah,
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a brewery, you know, in
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I was looking at the website and
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tap there. How did you get
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my start in beer when I realized
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to five office job. So when
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I was on the I was on
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doing AmeriCorps for a couple of years. Had a had a project that I

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was like, you know, essentially
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like it. I just kind of
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pencil jockey and just you know,
kind of answering emails and it just never

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really felt like any like what I
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then my grant funding ran out and
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was like, oh, what do
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oh, I can do anything.
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you know the world was kind of
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spent some time just kind of bouncing
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kitchens, you know, working you
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a job at a group hub in
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And while I was there, I
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Nate. I said, Hey,
I think I want to do this brewing

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thing for a living. You know, if you ever need any help with

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anything, you know, you need
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clean floors or whatever, like I'm
your guy. And he said, he

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said, you know, let me
let me take some time kind of figure

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out how all this works for myself, and then you know, we'll see.

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So a couple of months later,
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says, hey, I'm doing some
work back in the brewery if you're interested.

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And I was there about twenty minutes
later and he he was like,

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Okay, this is how you clean
a tank, this is these are the

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parts you need, this is how
you look everything up. And then it

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started from there, and shortly after
that I became his assistant and I was

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there for nine months, and after
that my way in Baltimore working at Heavy

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Seas Brewing out in Baltimore, Maryland. Did that for a couple of years,

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and then relocated to Georgia to work
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and then I took the job here. After that, all right,

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just kind of been, you know, applying my trade ever since. I

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mean, I don't want to tell
you how to do your job, Thomas,

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But how do you not have an
Italian pills nerve on the lineup?

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You know, that's a good question
right now. The only the only good

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answer I have for that is we've
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space and laggers being as popular as
they are, you know, unfortunately to

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to really do you know an Italian
bills nerd justice it needs, you know

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that that long like laggering fermenting time. Yeah, and you know as quickly

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as there as their drank here.
It's just, uh, it's it's hard

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to like give it the proper amount
of time to really like make sure it

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gets what it needs. Do you
have like what you would consider to be

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like a flagship beer there at rock
Solid? So we have a couple our

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two most popular beers. The first
one is it is called Beskney's all right,

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it's a honey blondale and that's far
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then the second best seller is it's
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like a German like Hellas style figer. And then after that, I mean,

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really any hazy ipa that we have
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third best seller. So really,
light beers and IPAs are what our customers

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really like to drink here. Yeah, it's I'm assuming it's the same everywhere,

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but like here, it seems like
the hazy IPAs that keeps the lights

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on for most breweries. Yeah,
I mean, our hazy ipa is compared

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to like other styles that we do, whether it's like West Coast or doubles

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or cold IPAs whatever you know,
what have you? I mean, hazes

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outsell those two or three to one. Yeah, Carmine, what can people

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expect when they go to the tamp
room. It rocks out quality, all

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right. First thing, and we
have a great selection of beer. We

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go for dark beer to heavy beer
to light beer, so honey blocked out

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to hazy at Pierre Longer. We
have a big variety of beer. We

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have ten taps okay, and our
Taperal members they are really great to sit

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been knowledgeball. Uh yeah, it's
it's it's a big every time we have

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a client, it's always like a
big deal for us to iron them.

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It looks like really cool. And
you have like events like game nights and

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other stuff like that. That's correct. We have a game night like there,

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we have a Thursday, we have
a Bengal Wednesday, we have trev

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Tuessday. We have a corn hole
and then once a month every Wednesa the

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third ones of the month for every
month, we have a comedy and then

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every Saturday we have music and then
Sunday we have a some kind of charity

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event just to help bow Ground.
You know. Okay, cool yep,

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Now, with your background in food, do you have a restaurant there or

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food trucks? No? I love
food, but we don't have any food

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on the facility, but we have
a lot of food trucks coming. You

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know. We like to give our
client a variety of different kind of food,

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Okay, Yeah, from tacos to
German, to barbecue, to Japanese

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to fish. You know. So
it's like I'd like to have a variety

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for a client. Do you ever
see yourself like down the road introducing a

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kitchen or are you just happy with
the way it is now with the food

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trucks. I'm happy the way this
Okay, yeah, maybe if maybe one

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day for a second occasion maybe okay, right now we could yeah, all

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right, cool. Now. I
was looking on the website then, you

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know, I saw that you just
had your third anniversary. You were lead

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a stout that was barrel Age for
three years. You were playing a long

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game right from the start. How
did they have three year beer turn out?

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I mean the three year beerd turned
out really? I mean it was

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really awesome, deeply, you know, deeply complex. There was a lot

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of I mean, you got a
lot of character, like from the barrel

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itself that came through. You know, you really tasted the oak and the

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jar, and then in addition to
that, you know, it had a

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really deep kind of like stone fruit
like rais any notes, you know,

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a lot of that dark chocolate,
and even like there was a slight element

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of like a yeah, like you
burn the sugar on top of like a

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crumber layer. It was kind of
like a little bit of like a pert

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sugar element to it as well,
and so it was like it really kind

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of all melded together into this like
really really like deeply complex like but at

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the same time, like really really
drinkable stout. Did you have a lot

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of that or was that just like
a one off, just a one barrel,

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just one barrel of it? So
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that we have here, because our
system is only a seven barrel system,

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typically what we'll do is we'll we'll
find a fresh barrel from like a local

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supplier, and then we'll really only
fill like one barrel at a time,

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and really that kind of just allows
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nice variety of things. So like
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we filled a maple barrel with some
Baltic porter that wow, and then

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coming up here really soon. There's
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that makes really really good stuff.
I'm a big fan of their program that

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they have there. But they recently
did an Irish whiskey, and in years

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past we've done a beer called Dolores
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This year we're gonna switch it up
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an Irish red instead of an Irish
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got one of those barrels, one
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when we when the Irish red is
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with Irish red. So Irish whiskey, Irish red really kind of just kind

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of like compounding those those elements together, which I think will make something,

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you know, really fun. All
right, Yeah, that sounds really good.

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Like I know, I'm just trying
to think, because I usually when

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I make my corn beef for Saint
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red. I don't know about Irish
whiskey aged Irish red, but it's a

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thought. I mean, it can't
hurt to try it, right, I

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mean, who knows it it might
it might become a new favorite. Yeah,

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Carmig, when we were emailing last
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you said that you have a beer
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Maker's Mark barrel. Yes, Fembrurary, I think February second. Correct,

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We're going to release a new barrel
age stout. I mean that sounds really

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good. I know I is here
many beers, if any, that are

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like barrel Agent Makers Mark Barrels.
How did that come about? Well,

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well, we have a friend,
so it's part of Atlanta Bourbon Society.

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Okay, so tundingly we had the
first people to get what they added.

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Oh awesome, So which I always
to get the best barrel you know.

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Yeah, no, that sounds really
good. Yeah, and it's like,

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you know, kudos to you guys, because yeah, you never see makers

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like you're always finding like here in
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lot of Bookers and you get a
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but I've never seen Makers Mark.
So yeah, big kudos to you guys

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for that. That's coming out next
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along the way, how's it taste
them? So far? It's really nice

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as a as a very distinct a
very distinct like sorghum note to it,

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which I found really interesting. I
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were tasting it. But it started
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called Happy Camper, which is a
smoked a smokes'mores stout put into the Maker's

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Mark barrel. So it kind of
really has that that really nice combination of

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like you still get like that element
of smoke, like specifically like in the

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aroma, not so much in the
flavor. It's kind of like, you

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know, that element's kind of mellowed
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Maker's Mark, you know, you're
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sweetness to it as well, and
it really all comes together in a

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way that just like you know,
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Oh yeah, that sounds really good. Is there a style, Thomas that

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you haven't had a chance to brew
yet that you're just chopping at the bids

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to try? You know, I
really since I've been here, I've had

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a chance to work a little bit
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farmhouse, specifically the horn it All
strain of kvike Yeast, and we first

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used that this past year when we
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did kind of like a kind of
like a Belgian farmhouse style that we dry

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hops with the with the Pink Boots
blend of hops, and that was the

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first time that I had ever gotten
a chance to use like the k mike

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strain, and just like the quick
the combination of like that quick turnover time

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and just that really really like powerful
like aromatic like you know, fruit note

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that it gives beers is something that
is just like really it's really interesting to

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kind of like play with and like
see what you can come up with,

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like in terms of a recipe to
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I also really want to try and
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I think I think English styles tend
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at least like generally speaking, like
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specifically too, like with our water
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have a little bit of like a
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with, which really lends itself to
more like malt forward. Yeah, kind

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of like that multi like complexity,
which is you know, when I hear

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multi coomplexity, the first thing I
think of is like English style. Yeah,

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and so I think if we can
really you know, if we can

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really find an audience for that here, uh, you know, with our

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with our regular customers, I would
I would really love to kind of explore

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like more of those like traditional like
classic you know, English styles. Yeah,

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I mean I wish like here,
I wish more people would do something

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like a mild or another like a
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Yeah, I just think there's only
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So yeah, I wish more people
would appreciate it that. Yeah,

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you could have a couple of these
not get messed up. It's just a

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solid, easy drinking everyday beer.
Oh definitely. Yeahah. Now this was

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for both of you and I know, like Carmine we talked a little bit

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before or but was there a beer
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wine or whiskey. Well, what
was it that you had in your early

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years that made you really decide you
want to get into beer or the beverage

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industry. Well. Being from Italy. I love wine. I really love

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wine, like wine from Tustany multiple
channel Gante It's one of the I think

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it's one of the best wine.
And when I came in United States,

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I start, especially in the South, I start to taste bourbon and I

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really like it. Like but see
my style of bit it's very dark beer,

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stout water or easy at beer,
but very like rings like heavy beer

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because of the background. That's that's
that's what I like. I like.

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I like being a drink beer,
but they need to be heavy, okay,

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because I like I love a late
start and the program that we have

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it's it's amazing and it's something else
cool. Tom. What about you?

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So I personally am a big fan
of I really just like light beers.

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I like light loggers. I like
something that you know, you can crack

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open a can of in the middle
of the afternoon and you know, just

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especially like on a nice day,
like there's there's nothing better than like sitting

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out in the sunshine a crack open
a culture or a light logger and just

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kind of you know, like see
where the day takes you. As far

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as like the type of beer that
really kind of got me to like be

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a fan of craft beer in general. Really it started when I graduated from

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college and I moved to Wisconsin.
And when I was in Wisconsin, I

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was introduced to you know, New
Glaris, which is of course the kind

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of the the granddaddy of all of
all Wisconsin beer and you know, drinking

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at the time, when I had
tried Spotted Cow for the first time,

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and Spotty Cow kind of really kind
of comes with its own, like you

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know, legendary status, right,
And I remember at the time kind of

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thinking to myself, like why do
people love this so much? Like I

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don't really get it. It just
kind of feels like very basic like on

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it on its surface. And to
be honest, I still kind of believe

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that the other stuff that du Glaris
makes is better. Oh yeah, I

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think that Squirrel is great, Two
Women is great, moon Man Men is

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one of my favorites. But since
I've been away from Wisconsin, like I've

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I've grown to appreciate Spotted Cow,
like especially from like a cultural standpoint and

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kind of like the the sort of
gravity that it has like on the brewing

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community in Wisconsin. I've learned to
appreciate that more like as time has gone

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on. But yeah, that's that's
really kind of where where I got my

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start with being a fan of craft
beer. And that's another question for both

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of you. What inspires you outside
of the brewery. What is your passions

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or what are your passions and how
does that make your jobs better at the

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brewery itself. I love people,
okay, love with you know, be

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in the industry for more than twenty
years now, and I love dealing with

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people. I like to create an
atmosphere with people. They feel comfortable,

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they feel welcome, and they feel
appreciated. That's that's a great thing for

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me. That's why we always treating
the tap especially. We have a great

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beer, but I want to hand
people to have a great time, and

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we always train our beer tender to
work with clients properly. Okay, The

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reality is we don't know what kind
of state mind they come inside the brewery,

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but we want to make sure that
when they live, they live in

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a great stutlement, They live happy, satisfied, they believe that somebody tears

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about them. Yeah, we're there
for them. That's my enathy. Yeah,

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and after a couple of beers.
Everybody's feeling happy when they leave Thomas.

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For me, I mean really,
travel for me is one of my

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you know, one of my passions
outside of you know, working in the

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brewery. And even and even while
I'm traveling, whether it's domestically or whether

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it's internationally, I still very much
enjoy going to other breweries, going to

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beer bars, going to you know, just well renowned like drinking establishments,

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and you know, meeting the people
that are there, seeing what people are

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drinking, and really kind of like
taking taking those things that I see in

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those things that I that I taste
and experience and trying to find a way

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to you know, work that into
what we do here at Rock Solid.

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Do you have anything coming up down
the road, like any new I mean

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we talked about the Maker's Mark,
berrill Age beerya coming up, but are

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there any other like new beers that
you're working on, like coming out for

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the spring and summer or anything you
want people to know about. Yeah,

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so right now, it's actually it's
actually in our bright tank right now.

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We did a Baltic quarter that I'm
really excited for it to hit our taplines.

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I think it. I think it
turned out really nice as a super

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clean, like you know, non
roasty like profile to it. I'm really

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excited for people to try that one. It's the same one that we put

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into a maple barrel a little bit
ago as well. Other than that,

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we're kind of I'm in the process
of developing a couple of recipes. I'm

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working on a vites and bach recipe. I'm working on kind of a ride

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based like Amber ale as well.
We got a couple of couple of collabs

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you know, with other breweries like
in and around Atlanta kind of in the

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works as well. Right now,
I'm talking to Andrew over at Steady Hand

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Brewing, which is in kind of
West Midtown Bland Town in Atlanta, and

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we're gonna do kind of like a
breakfast like Oat Brown now. So I'm

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pretty excited for that brewdet And you
know, really the focus, the focus

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for me and what we're trying to
do here in this year is really to

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just kind of like you know,
kind of hone in on the things that

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we know that we do well.
And you know, my my biggest thing

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is I tend to be the kind
of person where I start with like I

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start with one thing, or I
start with one idea, but then I'm

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never really like willing to just kind
of like move on to the next thing

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right away. I kind of want
to figure out it's like, Okay,

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that turned out pretty good, but
like what can I do to make it

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like a little bit better? And
so I've kind of taken like a couple

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of the recipes that you know,
that we've developed since I've been here,

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the coulsh being kind of the first
thing that comes to mind where it's like,

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all right, every subsequent batch of
colsh that I've done, there's always

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been some sort of like tweak to
it, some sort of like whether I'm

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changing like one of the specialty malts
we use, whether I'm playing around with

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the water chemistry. Yeah, just
any number of things, because it's like,

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at the end of the day,
it's like I'm just trying to make

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like everything we do like just a
little bit better than what we did the

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first time. Have you hit the
nail on the head on the first trying

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ever? I guess the the argument
for that would be, uh, Midnight

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Trucker, which uh which which took
come the the gold medal at GABF This

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past year, Oh awesome cool in
the International dark Logger category, which is

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something that one, I mean obviously
never expected that it would go as far

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as it did. I mean,
my really, the the biggest goal submitting,

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especially to like those big competitions is
like I'm really just like looking at

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the feedback sheets that I get,
yeah, because I really want to see

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like what people who are experts,
like in the you know, sensory profile

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beers, Like what do they think
of like the things that I am submitting

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to them? And so when I
submitted Midnight Trucker amongst you know, a

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couple of other things that we sent, I never would have dreamed that it

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would have, you know, won
a gold medal. And I remember somebody

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had asked me that question before,
like you know, how many how many

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iterations of that recipe, like did
you do well? It was the first

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one. It was the first time
that we had ever that we had ever

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made that beer, and so it
really kind of it felt like capturing like

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lightning in a bottle, you know
what I mean. And so it's something

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that you know, obviously I'm I'm
super proud of. It's something that you

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know, we've we've made another batch
of his since then, and you know

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it might be a little biased,
but I think this second batch is even

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better than the first one. So
you know that that's kind of another one

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of those things where it's like,
you know, yeah, the first one,

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yeah one goal to GBF, like
cool, but like maybe it could

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even be better. Yeah, you
know, do you guys is do you

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distribute around the Atlantic area or is
it just pretty much champ broom and crawlers.

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It's just it's just tapram okay for
us. And there's like there's good

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and bad. I mean, there's
pros and cons with you know, not

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being in distribution. What we've seen
here specifically, like in Georgia, is

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that a lot of breweries have kind
of been getting burned by distribution as far

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as like their distributors are coming to
them and saying, hey, we're cutting

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you know, X amount of percentage
of like what we normally order from you.

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And with the way that the laws
have been written here for the last

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you know, several years or so, distribution was seen as sort of the

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primary like revenue generator. So if
a distributor comes to you one day and

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says, hey, we're cutting what
we order from you by thirty forty percent

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or more than that. I mean
that's a I mean that could be,

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you know, potentially a real killer
for for a brewery. And you know,

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fortunately that's something that we don't have
to worry about. I mean we

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know that, you know, we're
we're making you know, as much as

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much as we count on our product, like just selling it at our front

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door. Okay, do you like
do you can for consumers to take out

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or just cos? Yeah? So, so back in October of this last

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year, we officially launched like our
you know, r canning a right here?

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Yeah all right? Cool. Well, before I let you guys go

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one, I want to thank you
both for coming on. I need to

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give a shout out to my cousin
Brian, who Brian texted me about Carmi

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and you know, in Carmine,
you could attested this too. I don't

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know what it is about Italian people, because my mother does it too.

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They when they're discussing somebody, oh
you'll like him, he's Italian, like

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my mother could be talking about an
axe murderer. He's okay, he's Italian.

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So Brian, thank you for setting
this up. And I'm glad you're

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not an X murderer, Carmine,
so we're good. Well, gentlemen,

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thank you again. If you're in
the greater Atlanta area, you need to

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check out Rock Solid Brewing Company.
They're located at three forty five gilmur Ferry

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Road in the town of Ballground,
Georgia. Quick forty five minute drive from

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Atlanta. You go trafficing Atlanta at
all, you'll be there in forty five

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minutes. So you guys got to
check out Rock Solid if you're driving against

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traffic, if you're coming from Atlanta, as long as there's not a wreck,

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you'll be fine. All right,
gentlemen, thank you so much again.

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It's been great meeting you, great
talking to both of you. Thank

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you for having us man, I
appreciate it, all right, thank you,

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thank you. All right. Hey, the beer I'm gonna have right

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now is from Harland to Brewing Company. They're out of San Diego. This

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is a Japanese lagger. This is
five percent alcohol. They use pilsnermalt,

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puffed jasmine rice, and toe hosted
rice flakes. So I had something before

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from Harland and I really liked it, so I wanted to try this.

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We were there for family matter.
So we didn't have a chance to hit

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a lot of spots. But there
was one grocery store I went to and

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they had this in a single can, so I picked it up. So

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let's crack open the Japanese lagger from
Harland Brewing Company. Look's really good.

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It's nice and light, a lot
of foam here, smells very nice.

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I really like the aroma that i'm
getting here. That's really good. Like

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I'm trying to put my finger on
the flavor profile that i'm getting, but

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it's very clean. That's just really
good. It's like super refreshing, nice

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and light. I'm trying to,
you know, because it says I use

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this, they use puffed jasmine rice. I'm trying to see if I get

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that jasmine rice feel to this.
I'm not quite sure I do, but

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I'm gonna have some more of this. But I think this is excellent.

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No, that's really really good.
I'm trying to remember what I had from

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Harland before, maybe a year or
so ago, but I remember liking that

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a lot. This one I do
like. So if you're in the San

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Diego area, or if you're in
an area where you could pick up some

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Harlan Brewing. I would definitely try
this Japanese Lagger. It's really good.

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Like here, I picked it up
in the stove pipe can, the nineteen

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ounce can. So I'm assuming you
could get this and you know, like

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six packs or a four pack.
But it's really good. It's refreshing,

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it's light, it's crisp. So
if you're a fan of laggers, you

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want to try something a little different, I would pick up the Japanese lager

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from Harland Brewing. All right,
that's gonna wrap things up for this week's

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edition of Beer in Front. I
thank you for listening. I think Carmine

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and Parisi and Thomas Muse from Rock
Solid Brewing Company for coming on talking about

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their great brewery in Georgia. If
you're in the Atlanta area, check them

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out at three forty five Gilmer Ferry
Road. They're in Ballgrown, Georgia,

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quick drive from Atlanta, so check
them out. I'll talk to you next

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week on Beer in Front, and
remember, sometimes the beer in front of

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you is the best one yet.
