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about beer. That's Beer in Front, and it's coming up now. Welcome
to episode two hundred and fourteen, the June eleventh edition of Beer in Front.
I'm your host Dave Zalatorus and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods
Media Network member and charter member of the Beer Media Group. I'm doing something
a little different today. I'm gonna talk beer, but they're not your usual
beer. I'm gonna have a chilada and I'm also going to have a pickle
beer as the beers in Front, if you will, so I'm a little
worried one the chilata is from Modello, so that could go either way.
And pickle beers, I'm not usually team pickle like I don't put pickles on
my sandwiches, so I'm a little leery about both, but we'll find out
soon enough. Hope everyone had a good week. If you missed it,
I had two shows out last week, the regular Beer Show and then I
had a special edition music show with the folks at pop Culture Yearbook and we
talked about our em So if you only heard the Beer Show, go back
and check out the special episode that came out later in the week. That
was a lot of fun. A good couple shows coming up in the near
future. I talk to the folks over at Midwest Coast Brewing. They're opening
their new retractable rooftop that's going to open up next week. The soft opens
in a few days, so I'm going to go to that, and then
next week I'm gonna have that episode. It'll be all about Midwest Coast Brewing.
And also I'm going to talk to Fits. You may know him online
is Fits Eats, and he does a lot of food stuff in Chicago,
and we're ironing out details to do an appearance. So I'd like to talk
to him because if you see me on other social media channels, I do
discuss food and Fits is a guy look up to. He does a lot
of good stuff, so it'll be fun to talk to him. That'll hopefully
happen in the next couple of weeks. Last Friday was Friday Night Flights over
at Gallagher Way next to Wrigley Field. That was a ton of fun,
really good festival. They do a few others throughout the city over the course
of the summer, and that's a festival. I highly recommend a lot of
great breweries, good times. The price is good for the quality of the
beer that you get there. I had a couple that were absolutely phenomenal.
I had one one of the best beers I've had in a long time Illinois
brewery. This is Obscurity Brewing. They're in Elburn, Illinois. They put
out a Mexican lagger, Poko Manchici. Wow, one of the best Mexican
laggers I've had. This was phenomenal. They also had like a cherry cider
that was good, but this Mexican lager, Poco Manchici, was absolutely fantastic.
Now I had one that was a little weird. I had one sketch
book. It was called Death Before Ketchup. It's a smoked polish wheat ale
with sport peppers. I appreciate the effort, however, this was not for
me. So if you're more adventurous than I am and your near sketchbook,
check out Death Before Ketchup. But Friday Night Flights was a ton of fun,
definitely check out the future ones that they're gonna have on various Friday nights
all around the city. So check out Friday night flights in beer and beverage
news. Perhaps Blue Ribbon. Get this. They've come out out with a
one hundred and eighty pack to celebrate their one hundred and eightieth birthday. I
saw this behemoth at Bennie's the other day. Oh it's big. Now they're
selling it for just under one hundred bucks, So I guess if you're having
a big party, it can't go wrong for one hundred and eighty cans of
beer for one hundred bucks. Put it in the cart. It's got to
be a big cart, but put it in the cart. Suntertery. Now
they've denied all allegations that they're in talks to purchase Boston Beer Company Bounders of
Samuel Adams Oscar Blues. They're coming out with a new non alcoholic pilsner.
This is called Designated Dales and I'll be sure to check that out once it
hits the shelves. Finally, sweet Water, they're coming out with a new
ipa called Rowdy Peach. This looks pretty good. It's in collaboration I guess
it's supporting it Land to United Soccer Club, so check for that. I
don't know if it's going to be around Niche and Wi or just in the
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The first thing that I'm going to have on my Something Different episode is
at Chirada. This is from Modello. This is Mango in Chile. I
don't know what I'm gonna think of this now More puts one out. It's
a sour I believe with mango and Chile, which I absolutely love. This
is from Modello, mass produced I'm not sure, but I saw it Panta
throw in the cart. It's in the giant twenty four ounce can. You
could pick these up all over gas stations, liquor stores, grocery store,
you name it. You could find this big ass can of modello chilada has
a nice like orange color. I haven't even put it up to my nose
yet, and I do get a mango. I get mango notes out of
the aroma. So so, so far it's promising. I'm trying to see
on the can what the ABV is on this, and I don't really see
it, but I can't imagine it's super high. No, the mango notes
out of the aroma are good. I like it. I like the aroma
and the color. So far, I'm not sure. I actually think it's
pretty decent. I'm kind of waiting for the the Chile to come hit me
on here kind of has a little saltiness, if you will. Like the
Chile is like very faint, like almost like ta Heene. Where for me,
that's not very spicy. And I'm I'm Caucasian. I am a delicate
flower, so certain spicy things are a no go. But this I think
is very drinkable, Like I'm actually liking this. Yeah, it's refreshing.
I think you could, you know, crush these on a warm day.
I don't know if like you could buy this outside of this big ass can,
but it's good. Now they hang up other varieties, so this is
the only one I bought. I didn't buy any others. I'm like,
let me just try this one and we'll see. But I will say I
am pleasantly surprised by this from Modelo. So if you like mango, I
would give it a try. I mean, we've all had worse, So
this is no. This is actually really good. Put it in the cart.
If you see this chiata from Modelo the Mango Chile. After I was
done recording this, I was chastised by my wife for mispronouncing Chile, so
I apologize. I have learned my lesson, all right. The next one
I'm gonna have is Donna's pickle Beer. This is Brood right here in the
city of Chicago at Pilot Project. Beautiful artwork on the can. According to
the can, you'll relish every sip. Now, this isn't the first pickle
beer that I had. I remember about three years ago I had talked to
Kelly Meyer and he sent over some pickle fucker, and I think he might
have been the first one to do pickle beers, but now you see more
of them. I remember even at Fobab they had a barrel aged pickle beer
that was interesting. In fairness to Donna and her pickle beer. I'm usually
not on team pickle. I don't have them on my sandwiches or whatever,
but I don't poo pooh the pickle beer. So I'm gonna bust open this
Donna's pickle beer. It's four point four percent alcohol, and let's crack it
open. Donna's pickle beer is a nice light color, a lot of foam
here. I was expecting a stronger pickle aroma. It's there, but it's
not as strong as thy thought. So let's have a taste of this.
That's really good. Some of the other pickle ones I've had have been a
lot stronger, where this is very refreshing. You do get to pickle,
So if you hate pickles, this is not for you. But it's not
overbearing. It's not something that's kind of like bucker You're now or something like
that. I like this. This is good. Let me just shut up
and have some more. No, that's really good. You do definitely get
the pickles there. I don't get a lot, maybe get a little malt.
I don't know what the IBus are on this, but I think it's
good. So it's the finest brine. Donna's pickle beer. It's a logger
with pickle juice. I'm a fan. I'm gonna buy more. See like,
I went and saw this in like you build your own mixed pack.
So I had commitment issues and I didn't know if I could commit to a
lot. So I only bought one of these for the show. But I
will buy more and the next time I'm at pilot project, I might have
this on draft. I think it's really good. So if you see Donna's
Pickle Beer, you need to put it in the cart. I was only
gonna do two beers, but I'm going through the editing process and I'm like,
boy, this episode short, so I'm gonna do one other beer.
This is something a little different as well. This is a off color.
This is strawberry beer for Tagos. This is a Goza style beer. It
has lime juice, strawberry juice, and salt. I had this it came
out like a week and a half ago. It's excellent, and I figure,
well, I'm doing some different stuff this week with the pickles and the
janata, so I figure, well, I'll do a strawberry beer for tacos.
This is only four point five percent alcohol. They use Pilsdr malt,
flaked wheat, wheat flaked oats, and dexotron with nugget. So let's bust
this one open. Now, that's a good sound. The color is very
nice and pink. Good foam on this smells really good. The strawberry is
pretty faint, but you pick it up there. I don't get like the
lime juiced or the coriander. I just get like the malt, little strawberry,
and maybe the salt. I don't know if salt smells, but smell
salty. That's outstanding. Nice goes a finish there, so you do get
the salt, it's tart, but then the sweetness from the strawberrier there.
It's excellent. I get the coriander on the back of this as well.
I'm just a huge fan of this. I mean, everything from off color
is outstanding. This one's really no exception. It's that good. I don't
like. When I went there to pick it up the day it came out,
I asked Ben, who was working there. I'm like, is this
going to get the distribution? He's like, you know, he wasn't sure.
It depends on how many people picked it up over at Off Color,
So I don't even know if it's going to be out for you to find,
but you might be able to grab some at Off Color. So if
you see this one, you definitely have to put it in the cart.
It's that good. If you're a fan of gozas or you're a fan of
like fruit type beers, I think you're really gonna like this one. It's
that good strawberry beer for tacos from Off Color. Put it in the cart.
All right. That's going to wrap things up for this edition of Beer
in Front. I thank you very much for listening. If you want to
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you a recap of the new retractable rooftop that's opening over at Midwest Coast in
Chicago. So I'll see you next week, and remember sometimes the beer in
front of you is the best one yet. All right, have a great
week. I'll talk to you next Monday.