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 great beer, and I'll also talk to various people in and around the
beer industry to get their stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front,
and it's coming up. Now. Welcome to episode two hundred of Beer in
Front. I'm your host, Dave Zalatorus, and Beer in Front is a
proud odd Pods Media Network member. I mentioned on the anniversary show that came
out last Monday that I want to talk more about beer from the state of
Illinois. Well, on Tuesday, I decided to go all in. I'm
calling it Drink Illinois Beer. I came up with a logo design. I
put that out social media. I posted the first video with a beer from
Beguile as well. I went to the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild website. I
added all the breweries I could find there to an excel file. I added
some that I didn't see listed there. I even bought the domain to drink
illinoisbeer dot com for future plants. Now there's over two hundred breweries all over
the state. From the giant breweries in Chicago to some in towns I've never
heard of, like Assumption. I don't want to assume anything, but I'm
going to assume that Assumption is a good town. It's smacked abb in the
middle of the state, and it's home to nineteen oh five Brewing Company in
Cyprus Grove, and I'm going to get to YouTube down the road. I'm
not going to put a timeframe on this to be completed. Breweries open and
close all the time, so the list is always going to be changing.
Beers that are distributed are obviously going to be easier for me to purchase and
talk about. Some breweries are nano breweries and they only serve beer in their
tap room or a growler. I've already had one friend offered a help with
beers from the Illinois side of Saint Louis, and I have a few other
people in mind that I'm going to hit up in the next couple of weeks.
If you if you know of a great brewery in the state and I'm
unable to get their beer myself, maybe we could do a swap, or
if you'd like to do a quick audio or video about that brewery for drink
Illinois Beer by all means let me know. Send me an email, Dave.
That'sberinfront dot com. The format of this podcast, it's not gonna change
that. I'm not gonna forget everything else just to talk about beer from Illinois.
But I am going to try to have one on the show every week
in addition of videos. But consider it an added bonus for those interested in
beer from the Prairie state. In the next couple of weeks, I'll be
speaking with Billy go Top Farm and also the senior brand manager from Elhimidor and
I have more things to follow, so the show's not changing. I'm just
gonna feature Illinois beers a little more often. The hop water I made with
Magnum hops steepedon vodka came out pretty good now. To be fair, I
think I liked the batch I made with the citric acid and the gypsum,
but this is still good. I have a batch going on right now that
I'm making with Cascade hoops. Once that's done, I'll do a side by
side video of them both. I talked last week about Pinter while the package
is delivered. I guess I'm an influencer. I can't influence my dog but
I guess I'm an influencer, so I'm brewing beer right now. It's pretty
easy. Actually, the proof is going to be how it tastes. Obviously,
that should be in another couple of weeks. I'm doing a long form
video about that, so you could follow me on YouTube or TikTok if you
want to check that out. In Beer and Beverage News, the Governor of
Wyoming, Mark Gordon, signed SF zero zero seven to nine into law.
This will allow breweries that produced less than twenty five thousand bear per year in
Wyoming or who do business there, they they're now going to be able to
terminate their distributor contract without cause. This will remove long drawn litigation and after
forty five days, if the brewery and distributor can't come to an agreement,
it's going to be decided by binding arbitration. I think this is good.
I feel for the small breweries there. It's good now. Sam DeWitt,
who is the state Government Affairs director of the Brewers Association, and he said
that bills like SF seventy nine will help level the playing field and give small
brewers a voice in how their beer is bought and sold. Speaking of bills.
There is a bill in Wisconsin, HB four nine four five. This
is called the Drink Wisconsin Ble Law that it's going to lower, if passed,
the drinking age in Wisconsin from twenty twenty one to eighteen. If you're
accompanied by a parent, they're legal guardian. Do you remember Jones Soda years
ago? They made some goofy flavored soda pops like Brussels sprouts. I remembered,
and I think they had one. It was like turkey and stuffing flavored
for Thanksgiving. Well, guess what they're coming out with a hard line of
craft soda. They're gonna have a mixed twelve pack that will be eight point
four percent alcohol, or also you could get single stovepipe nineteen point two ounce
cans it's six point nine percent alcohol. Sapporo in Stone is discontinuing their hard
Seltzer and Margherita line while amping up its production of Ciporo at the California and
Virginia facilities. Victory Brewing out of Pennsylvania is coming out with a Fretzel beer.
This is going to be part of a small bench series and it's a
toasted ale with sea salt alm intreat in time for March Madness. Prairie artisan
Ales is coming out with Buzzer Beater. This is going to be a sour
with electrolytes, and everything I've had from Prairie has been good, so if
I see that, I gotta have it. Chicago's famous malt Row is going
to have a new edition Hamp the end of this month. Demo Brewing Company
will open the weekend of March twenty ninth. They're going to be located at
seventeen sixty three West Bertso Avenue on the corner of Ravenswood. If you're familiar
with Dove Tailor and Beguile, walk about a block north and you'll be there
at Demo Right now. On their website, they're showing nine different beers,
two selters that's going to be available, as well as wine and some guest
non alcoholic offerings. Block Club had a nice piece on them last week,
so check out block Club for more info. I'm playing and on walking over
there opening weekend and I'll let you know more. Inter up this program to
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Odd Pods media network. The Illinois Beer Front is from Off Color. This
is their crispy beer for Pizza. They make so many great beers in the
beer for line that beer for pizza is good, but the crispy Beer for
Pizza is an Italian style lagger. They use pills in Munich, Bault select
in chinook hops, whole cone hops they use here. I'm not gonna lie.
I had this before I picked them up when it came out, and
it's really really good. The artwork, like everything else that Off Color does,
is spectacular. It has the pizza oven on there, it has the
mice making the nice Chicago style crispy tavern pizza. It's great. So let's
crack open crispy beer for pizza. It is a beautiful, nice color,
good foam on this. Oh yeah, it just smells so good. I
mean, you get the nice hops hare, Oh, it just smells fantastic.
That's phenomenal. You know, I've said a million times how much I
love Italian PILs Nerves, one of my favorite styles. Off Color just knock
this one right out of the park. It is absolutely fantastic, got everything
going on there. You get the malt right up front, The hops are
great. Little bitterness on the end, not a lot, but you definitely
know it's there. It's just a fantastic beer. If you like Laggers,
then you definitely have to get you crispy beer for pizza from Off Color.
And don't forget to drink Illinois beer. The last beer I want to talk
about is actually the last beer I have in my cabinet for Metropolitan. You've
heard they closed in December. Before they closed, I picked up a couple
six packs. I sent some stuff out to some friends of mine, and
I kept a couple around. So figure as I'm talking about drink Illinois beer,
I should have one from the late great Metropolitan Brewery. The generator Dappelebach
was a great beer, huge fan of this, So let's crack this open.
I'm a little weepy right now, But let's crack open the generator.
Dappeleboch, this smells really good. You really get the nice malt or roll
me here. It looks great, a nice ruby red colored dark brown tinges
of red in their looks and smells phenomenal good. Poam good. Two fingers
of foam here. Wow. Wow, that was such a great beer.
And you know I've talked about it before on the show. I'm sure you've
all read and seen it about Metropolitan. It's really a shame, but hopefully
somewhere down the line their recipes can continue because their beers were just so flipping
good. And I can't tell you to put it in the cart right now
because there's nothing to get. This is my last one, so Metropolitan,
you were surely missed in the great state of Illinois. That's going to wrap
things up for a episode two hundred of Beer in Front. I thank you
very much for listening. If you get a chance, please do me a
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to this. If you need to get a hold of me or If you
have any ideas about drink Illinois beer, you can email me Dave antberinfront dot
com. I'll talk to you next week. And remember sometimes the beer in
front of you is the best one yet. All right, take care,
we'll talk to you next week.