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 and one of Beer in
Front. I'm your host, Dave's alatoris and Beer in Front is a proud
odd Pods Media Network member. Pull out your hypercolor shirt and your Zuba's pants
because we're going back in time. I hope everyone had a nice and safe
Saint Patrick's Day weekend on the show today, I'm going back to the lead
eighties early nineties with Killians Red. I was planning on grabbed like a Harper
a Smittix for the week, but I saw Killians then. That brought back
a ton of memories. Craft beer wasn't a thing when this came out.
There was only a couple available nationwide, but Killians was the shit. When
you wanted to expand your palette from your usual old style bud MGD. That
was everywhere. It was one of the top specialty brands before Craft took over
to capitalize on the trend line, and Coogle came out with the Red After
that. Ann iSER Bush rolled out Red Wolf back in late ninety three ninety
four. Even Dixies Black and Voodoo had a Crimson Voodoo that was pretty good,
and I know Ice House had one called Red Dog, but I'm not
sure. I think if my memory sers correct, that was more of a
golden beer. But everyone wanted to capitalize on red. Back in the eighties,
Cores bought the rights to use the brand name George Killians Irish Red Ale
for use here in the States. Even though the name Cors used was Irish
Red Ale. Killians is a lagger. Many breweries here in the States haven't
Irish Red in their portfolio this time of year. I'd have to say probably
my favorite is the Great Lakes Conway's Irish Ale that one goes into carts every
year. But Killian's Irish Red that won two silver medals at the GABF in
the American Amber Lagger category back in ninety seven and ninety eight, and it
also took home a gold medal at the World Beer Cup in nineteen ninety eight.
The beer that I'm having this week for my Drink Illinois Beer series will
be the pilsner for Moore's Brewing. When you're finished with this episode, check
out the latest from the Gray's Taproom podcast. They invited me on their show.
That episode's coming out the same day this is. I'll include their link
in the show notes. But that is a lot of fun. We're gonna
swap some beer and I hope to have them on soon and we'll talk beer
in the Louisville area. This week I'll be interviewing people from Billy Co Top
Farm, Alheimador and some friends in the Birmingham area about their beer in city,
so be on the lookout for that. The Drink Illinois Beer series has
had some good feedback so far. I'm planning on a Rockford run soon and
I'll talk with folks at the Great Olympic Tavern there. I talked beer in
breweries a lot, but for many of us, we discover beer at bars
and taverns from great bartenders, so I want to include them in this series
as well. An Olympic is a great place to start. I'm always open
to suggestions. Please email me daveatsberanfront dot com if you have a spot or
a brewery you'd like me to hit up. In Beer and Beverage News,
Illinois craft Beer Week twenty twenty four will be from May third through the tenth.
The festivities will kick off with Beer Underglass on May third. This will
be the fourteenth annual festival. It will be held this year at Union Station
and tickets are on sale now. For all of the festivities for Illinois Craft
Beer Week, check out the Craft Beer Guild's website illinoisbeer dot org. Log
An E is coming out with Beast of Both Worlds. This will be an
eight percent ipa using hazy hops in a West Coast style beer. HR seven
five seven seven, known as that Cheers Act, is a bipartisan legislation from
Republican Darren LaHood from Illinois and Democrat Stephen Horsford from Nevada. The press release
states the Cheers Act would expand tax incentives for qualifying investments into energy efficient systems
to include keg and tap property supporting the use of draft lines and keg equipment
at restaurants and bars. Draft beer is the most sustainable way for packaging by
retailers and suppliers, and the legislation would provide immedia relief to local small businesses.
The Craft Maltster's Cup Say that ten times fast. The Craft law Maltster's
Guild's Malt Cup is the world's only malt quality competition. This was held last
month in California. Malt from eleven countries participated. I'm hoping to have someone
from the craft walt community come on soon as well. Voodoo Ranger is teaming
up with Tombstone Pizza for an eye pizza a beer I don't know so.
According to the Voodoo Ranger website, this is inspired by Tombstone Pizza. It's
a seven percent ABV beer and it has the flavors of Tombstone's crispy crust,
tangy tomato sauce, savory herbs and spices into an ice cold beer. It's
gonna finish with the pepperoni kick of heat. I don't know, you know,
I'm going to try it. I mean, I try anything, I
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of pizza beers, Paridi a lot of Saint Louis in Chicago's Hop Butcher.
They're collaborating on a beer called Cracker crust. This is going to be a
pale ale with honey with Centennial Mosaic and nectaron hops and it'll be at five
point five percent alcohol. There's no word on if they use Provel. Course
is going to come out with some retro packaging as part of their legacy collection.
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All right, well, I'm recording this on the seventeenth, so it's Saint
Patrick's Day and I went out looking to grab a beer that they have for
the show, and I figured I was gonna grab like a smimix or a
harp a nice Irish beer. But I happen to be at Binni's and they
it Kills Red. Now this is brewce here in the States. They're owned
by molsen Cores. But do you remember how big Chillians Red was in like
the late eighties early nineties. I mean, people drank a ton of this.
This was like the gateway beer to craft beer. Craft beer really wasn't
big at all. I mean there was only a few breweries like sam Adams
and Sierra and Anker. There weren't a lot of national brands or breweries on
every street corner like there is now, So this was something that wasn't pale
yellow like all the others. So yeah, this definitely was a gateway beer
for many people to get into Kraft beer. I haven't seen this in years,
and it's probably the only reason I've seen it because it's Saint Patrick's Day.
But it's out now five point two percent. It's hard to get information
from the mulsen Core's website about this. It's very generic and it says that
George Killian first brewed this beer in eighteen sixty four, So I don't know
if it's the original recipe. Outside the States, it's owned by like a
French company that's owned by Heineken, and I think there it's only like a
three point two percent beer. This is five point two percent and it's classy.
You don't need a bottle opener. You just screw this off with your
hand. So for the first time, and I don't know how long,
let's have a Chilian's red. I mean it looks really good, nice foam.
I mean, the color is beautiful on this, crystal clear. Something
with the smell, uh, I don't know, it doesn't smell like beer.
I don't know, spells off with this. Now, the taste is
still it's decent, nice and malty. I do get a little bitterness here
with this. I mean it's not a bad beer. Yeah, the taste
isn't bad. I do get like, I know that you use corn syrup
in this, and it says so on the box, so I do get
like a sweetness from that that's not Walt sweetness. So that's a little off.
But no, there's still something as I'm putting this to my mouth to
have something with the roma's off on this. Well. I have eleven more
at least drink, so I don't know, I might be taking some brock
suit and I could use this. I guess it was good for nineteen eighty
nine, nineteen ninety. It's not horrible. I mean, not gonna dump
it, but you could definitely do better. I should have bought the Smithtis
but and I'm not going to tell you to put this one in the cart
unless it's like marked down on clearance. But yeah, everyone drank a shit
ton of this back then, so I had to grab it. I remember,
God just had it me thirty five years ago, like for a fantasy
football draft night, you know, we bought like remember those party balls that
was out in the late eighties early nineties, where it was just this giant
plastic amber ball, and then you had to rent the tap handle, you
know, at the liquor store, and it was I forget how much was
in this. I mean it was smaller than a six barrel, so it
was probably maybe it was a six barrel. I'm not sure how big those
party balls were, but those are pretty popular for a while, and I
remember getting party balls of chillions bread. But if you see it, think
of me before you invest in a twelve pack because this was the only way
I could find it. They didn't have it in a mixed hack or anything
like that. So I committed to twelve of these, but killian dread.
It's still out there all right. Next up in my Drink Illinois Beer series
is one for Moore's Brewing Company. Now I'm splitting hairs here, but this
is made in Indiana, but Moore's Brewing Company is out of Illinois, so
I'm gonna count this as an Illinois beer. I'm gonna have their pills there.
Now. I haven't had the pills there yet, but they have a
couple different ones a session. I think they have a Hellis. I tried
the IPA. They also have a brown Ale and one that I didn't see.
If I saw this, I'm gonna I'm still gonna grab it because they
have an Imperial Porter at eight point three percent, so that should be good.
But I'm gonna have the pills there. This is six percent alcohol.
It's a German style pills neer and it says it's perfectly balanced with just a
pinch of anjou pear. So I'm intrigued. So let's crack open the pilsner
from More's Brewing Company. Oh the pills. There looks phenomenal, beautiful color
here. I get it nice or roma right because I'm pouring it good two
fingers of foam. This is an excellent looking and smelling beer. Yeah,
that's really good, crisp delicious. And I see what they mean about the
hint of the pair. I do get a little that at the end.
I think this is great. Yeah, that's just really good, nice refreshing
beer. You get a little bitterness at the end from the hops. I
like this a lot. So the two that I've had for Moores have been
really good. Now I gotta go get that porter. I need to go
find the porter. I pick this up at Binnie's, so I believe they're
all around the Chicago area at least. But if you're in Illinois looking for
a good beer to have for drink Illinois beer, you need to go grab
you some Moores, all right. In some personal news, I had the
injections in my ass cheek last week, and I'm a little wound up one.
You know, it's they have to put you under which you're gonna stick
needles that big in my rear end. Doc, you got to put me
under, So they call you the day before. All right, you got
to be there at eleven o'clock. The procedure will start at noon. You
can't have you have to fast, so you can't drink water, coffee,
nothing. I said, what about my medication? You know I take medication.
Nope, you can't even take medication or rush your teeth before this.
Like, all right, whatever, I'm gonna be cranky because I need my
coffee. So we get there. Ruby takes me. Ruby takes off of
work because she's got to take me because I can't drive because I'm gonna be
loopy. So we get there, do all the paperwork, blah blah blah,
get into the room, strip down to the hospital gown, you know,
the cap on my head, all this shit. So it's like twelve
o'clock. There's no doctor, and like the nurses keep coming by. All
the doctors are running a little late, you know, and then you could
hear them in the background, because it's not like you're in an isolated soundproof
booth. This isn't the beer in front podcasting studio. No, You're in
a waiting room with the curtain and they're all wondering, like where the doctor
is well, he's in his office and he comes down and I'm like,
now I'm starting to get angry because it's like twelve thirty twelve forty five.
One, get this needle done out of my ass. Get it done now,
and bring me a fucking sandwich. I'm hungry. I need coffee.
So I'm cranky. So the doctor comes down and I'm like, dude,
you got a Jimmy Jonge or something like. I'm getting upset with him,
so give me the needles. I don't know if it's kicking in or not.
It was steroids. So now I'm not even eligible for the Podcasting Hall
of Fame because I'm on performance enhancing drugs and I'm assuming I'm gonna get like
all bulky now. But so he injected the steroids in it. It's still
a little bit sore. Now. This was done Thursday. I'm recording on
Sunday. But like you know how your arm gets sore after, like you
know shots, it's my ass, So that part's still a little tender.
So hopefully the steroids will kick in and I'll be good soon. I have
a follow up with him in a few weeks. But he said, in
some cases you need to have this done a couple of times for it really
to kick in, so hopefully I won't need it a second time, and
if I do, I'm keeping his clown out of his office. Dude,
you're telling me I got to be there at noon. I want the needle
into twelve oh one. All right, that's going to wrap things up for
this week's edition of Beer in Front. I thank you very much for listening.
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