This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods Media Network. Every
week i'll talk about a beer that maybe we've forgotten along the way while we
get those check ins and badges. Some weeks, i'll talk about a new
beer that has potential to be a classic. Being the Chicago beer guy,
I'll also talk about great craft beer and craft beer news in the city of
Chicago. Remember, sometimes the beer in front of you is the best one
yet. That's Beer in Front, and it's coming up. Now. Welcome
to a special bonus episode of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's
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With all the interview shows I've had the last month or so, I've
been itching to do just a regular, normal fifteen minute Beer in Front episode,
So I'm doing that for you today. This will just be the typical
beer news, the beer I'm drinking, just stuff like that. So next
week will be a regular interview show. I'm going to be over at Second
City Metery talking about some great meads over there. But I mentioned I just
wanted to do a regular show. I asked some free time this week,
So here it is. Also, don't forget there was a show that came
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All right, let's just kick this show off and I will see you
in a minute. In beer news this week, Iowa State is coming out
with the new beer called clone Fest, and this is going to support the
NIL licenses for student athletes that participate in the big sports like basketball, football,
women's basketball. So if you're in the Iowa area, you could look
for clone Fest and really Cool News Funkytown. They're out of Chicago. They
won contest from Boston Beer Company, and Boston Beer Company is going to get
behind Funkytown and they're going to do partnerships they're giving them. As you could
hear Moira in the background, they're going to give Funkytown a lot of money
which is going to go help expand their brewery. This is really cool.
I've actually been in touch with Funkytown. We're doing some emailing back and forth,
and I hope to have them on the show in the next month or
so. I know they've been kind of busy and this announcement is going to
make them a lot busier. But hopefully I could have the guys from Funkytown
on and we could talk about their great brewery. Stone is coming out with
the Imperial Notorious Pog that's passion fruit, guava and orange. I had to
look down. See I'm not used to looking at the camera while I have
my notes, but look for this from Stone. This is supposed to be
an Imperial version. This looks pretty good as well. Anheuser Busch is teaming
up with a tequila company called Low Sundays and they're going to have a tequila
based seltzer that's going to be branded under the Sunday's name, so look for
that if you're into Seltzers. And finally, in late breaking beer news,
Anchor has shut its doors or supporo that owns Anchor. They shut the iconic
brewery down after one hundred and twenty seven years. Now the assets are going
to be up for sale, so someone in theory could buy the assets,
the name, the branding, and relaunch it in the future, which I
think will probably happen. Maybe not to the extent of a national brewery anymore,
but they could keep it local because let's face it, California is a
huge market, and even if they just focused on California, I think whoever
would buy the assets would probably make out. And since they shut it down,
you could probably buy it on the cheap. So, but it is
sad. I've talked about Anchor on the show many times. It's an iconic
beer. Their Liberty Ale was one of the first, if not the first
IPA out there. The Christmas Ale is always phenomenal, So it really is
sad. But I mean, let's face it, when was the last time
you went out and bought an Anchor steam. It's been forever. You can't
find it anywhere outside of like here, locally in Chicago and Minny's and who
knows how old it is when you get it. So it's sad, but
you know, Anchor Steam is finally going away after one hundred and twenty seven
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well. All Right. The bear that's in front of me right now is
Trumor Pills. Trumer Pills has been around since seventeen seventy five over in Austria.
In nineteen ninety four, they opened a sister brewery in Berkeley, California.
They've been brewing it there for the US market since that. I've heard
great things about this. It's one a ton of metals. I don't think
I've ever had it, so we're gonna have right now. Trumer Pills.
That's an award winning can't open sound right there. If you're watching this on
video, you could see that Truemer Pills has a really nice pale color,
good foam, good carbonation. Here. I really get the noble hops in
the aroma. I think it really smells fantastic. That's very crisp, clean,
refreshing, get a lot of I get more malt and the taste than
I do from the hops. The malt hits me up front. I think
it's delicious. I think it's more carbonated than a lot of other beers.
I wasn't quite expecting that. Very good carbonation here. I get a lot
of the hops at the end. I think this is a killer pillsner.
I would drink this more often now. I pick this up at a bottle
shop here in Chicago. I'm sure you could get it at your chain liquor
stores like Binny's here and others. I don't believe I've seen this in like
grocery stores or any places like that, but this is a really good beer
not high in alcohol. According to the Can, it's four point nine percent.
I think this is good. If you're looking for a pilsner, pick
it up. It's fresh. According to the Can, it's best buy September
twenty ninth of this year, so it's good to go. I'd pick one
up, put it in the cart, give it a try. I bought
this in the stove Pipe Can, but on their website they have it in
your traditional six pack formats truer pills. Is really good. I'd put it
in the cart all right. The next beer in front of me I talked
about on the show a couple of weeks ago. Rob from the Internet Talks
Beer heard my please for help and sent me from Canada the Ferguson Jenkins beer.
This beer, if you're watching on video, has great artwork. Looks
like a seventies baseball card. Now, this is brewed by Sons of Kent.
They are in Chatham, which is in Canada. This beer is only
available in Canada, so let's crack it open. That's a hall of fame
can open right there. Because you could see, well, if you're listening,
you can't see, but if you're watching, you could see there's good
carbonation here on the Ferguson Jenkins beer. Nice golden color, good three fingers
of foam on. This just smells like a classic lagger, something you would
have at a ballpark. Get the nice malt notes to it. Very sweet.
I get sweetness from the malt here, but it's very It's very refreshing.
This is a good beer. Yeah, that's really good. This clocks
in at five percent alcohol. You could have a couple at a ballgame and
not get hammered. I really like this. I don't know a lot about
Sons of Kent, but if the rest of the beers they put out they
are as good as the Fergie Jenkins, that's the place you want to go
to. So once again, I want to thank Rob from the Internet Talks
Beer for sending me this Ferguson Jenkins beer. This is a can I'll be
saving and I appreciate it. I've talked before Fergie Jenkins was my favorite player
growing up, so it means a lot that Rob found this and got it
on its way out to me. So thanks again, Rob, and thank
you Fergie. Before I close this out, I want to thank people in
the following countries who have listened to this show. In the last month,
I've had people from Nepal, Panama, Barbados, Georgia, and ljer are
you listen to the Why is someone in Algeria listening to Beer in Front?
But I thank you if you're if you're watching this or listening to this now,
I thank you for listening. It just strikes me as eye like who
in Algeria is like I want to listen to this ass clown in Chicago talk
about beer? But I thank you. If you'd like to win a T
shirt, listen to the last episode that I had with Ryan over at Soundtrack
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black extra large shirt. If you're small, drink some beer and grow into
it, so it's a black extra large shirt. You will win that.
I will mail it out to you next week. 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 need to get a hold of me,
you could email me Dave at Beer in Front, or you could find me
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see you next week. I Am going to have an interview with Second City
Metery, so be on the lookout for that next week. And remember sometimes
the beer in front of you is the best one yet. All right,
I'll see you next week on Beer in Front