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In a few weeks, I'm going to be on their show and we're
going to talk the great Smitheren's eleven album. I want to thank everyone that
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to podcasts. Today. I'm honored to have on Abigail and Barry Hummel.
They're the hosts of Pops on Hops, which covers two of my favorite topics,
music and beer. They're based out of Florida, and I'll be having
a beer that they sent over. Abigail Berry, thanks for coming on,
Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. Dave great to be here.
Thanks. Now. The show came out in March of twenty twenty one,
that's correct, that's when we started. What can you tell folks about
the show, Well, we'd like to describe it as an exploration of beer,
music and family. It kind of came out of the pandemic when we
were looking for something to fill some time and we couldn't decide whether we wanted
to do a music podcast or a beer podcast, and at some point one
of us thought of the old Doctor Seuss book Hop on pop Yeah, And
as soon as that came up, it was like, oh, that's it.
We have to do both. And so that's why we merge the two
things together. And so the conceit is that because we're a father daughter with
different musical tastes, different aid brackets, that we share albums back and forth
that maybe the others not familiar with, or maybe it's a way to introduce
each other to new even if it's old music. And so that's the format.
We trade albums back and forth. The other one gets to pick a
brewery that kind of maybe ties in thematically some way, and then we just
have a conversation and we take ever turn it takes. If we talk about
old family stories, how we discovered music, politics comes up because the lyrics
suggest that we go there. It's a very kind of free form show.
I love the artwork that you put out for each episode based on the album.
Who's the art director of the show? That would now Barry. I
could just imagine, like you're sitting there like texting Abigail, Okay, I
need you to like squawk down like Tory Amos and Little Earthquakes. Is that
how this goes? That's exactly how it goes. We have to do it
remotely so many times. Sometimes we're together and we know we have something coming
up. Sometimes we get an album. I gave Abigail the Talking Heads album
Little Creatures, and I painted myself into a corner because that album is so
complicated. I'm like, oh my god, what am I gonna do?
And I actually painted elements of that cover to try to get the thing to
match. So sometimes the fun is a challenge for me to figure out how
I'm going to replicate some piece of art. I don't choose the albums based
on the covers, so sometimes I really I do get boxed in. Yeah,
before we get going on a little farther. I'm gonna have one of
the beers that you sent over. This is special age. It's a juicy
cult. I like the artwork on this can. You should do a podcast
cover with this artwork. I'd like to see you photoshop your face onto this.
I don't know if this is a pigeon or what this is, but
this looks really good. I could do that. I'm already looking at it
trying to figure out how to do that day. The interesting thing is this
comes from Invasive Species down in Fort Lauderdale, and that's where we recorded the
David. I'm sorry the talking heads out I just mentioned, okay, and
so we were down there little creatures, invasive Species. That was kind of
the weird tie in, and it's one of my favorite brewers in Fort Lauderdale,
been around for about ten years. I think, okay, well,
I'm interested. I'm interested in trying it, so let me crack it open.
Ooh, that was a beautiful can. Crack. Yeah. I was
waiting for that sound. So when you know it's podcasting time, it looks
really nice. It's good caller, good foam here, kind of like a
hazy I pa just looking at it where it's murky, it was a little
hazy. Oh no, the smell is really good. I liked the roma
on here. That's the other conceit of our show. Just so you know,
Davis, I have no sense of smell and so comes up quite frequently
because I don't. I don't get any aroma from any of the beers.
It was that. Is that something you've always had or was this a COVID
thing? I know it was a I recall having it in high school,
and at some point between high school and college, I just lost my sense
of smell and I haven't had it probably in forty years. And for the
most part I get by, you know. But I do take some very
gentle ribbing from a Gail in almost every episode because I don't get the full
effect of the beer. Now I have a Gail that's not hereditary, is
it you? Your sense of smell is good? Well, I think over
the past few years it has gotten noticeably worse. So I think maybe the
genetics are catching up to me. And I have a younger brother as well,
and he has been convinced that his sense of smell has been going for
years, So I think it might be hereditary. Yes, well no,
this beer is really good. Yeah, this beer is really good for like
a coal, It's kind of like the best of both worlds, where you
get it's crisp and clean like a Coalsh, while you get the good fruity
flavor of the New England ipa hops. It's really good, that's delicious.
It is. I'm not, as a rule, a huge Colch fan because
I like big flavors, and this has a flavor, you know, more
than a typical cold food. So yeah, this is really really good beer.
Yeah, you get that like Citra's tropical flavors on here. I was
just trying to look on the can real quick to see if it had a
five point eight percent ABV, so it's not like super heavy. It does
describe on the can a dry hopped, hazy colch, and I definitely get
the hops in there. It's way happier than what a normal culch I would
expect. Yeah, then your typical one, and it's it's delicious. I
really love it, just that like subtle little kick of hops in there,
but it's still so light and drinkable. And I didn't know what to expect,
Dave, because they usually do. They're big on fruited sours and big
flavors down there, and when I went down there, my intent was to
get something in that category. This was the only thing that had to cooler
the day I went down Okay, I was all right, this is what
we're having. That was a good choice. You picked. Well. I
like this, yes, Dad. The albums you've covered a lot of the
albums that I love. I've seen on past episodes Darkness on the Edge of
Town. I think the first one I listened to was the Hindu Love God's
episode. I'm like, oh, I need to listen to this. Shake
your money Maker belly button. Now you said this is like a joint effort.
I'm assuming with those late eighties early nineties, those come from you Berry.
That's correct. Yeah, everything you just listed as sort of in in
my album collection, and I kind of pick them based on whether they had
some important meaning to me, and then also how I discovered them, because
part of the story I'm telling as I go through, and I've been doing
it somewhat chronologically, is how did I find these songs? How did I
find these albums? Because that's changed, as you know, Dave, over
the years, erratically, you know, from listening to try to catch songs
on AM radio to you know, streaming services and Napster, and I've listened
to things on eight track as a kid, right, so I've had it
in every variety and so I like to share that part of the story.
I like to share why did I discover this. I've had friends recommend albums
that's things, so minds somewhat chronological. And you know, our audience does
skew a little bit older if you look at the statistics and that, but
it's not it doesn't reflect what episodes do the best. Because many of Abigail's
albums, Florence and the Machine, Pink, Brett Dennon's up there, Brett
Dennon. Yeah, surprisingly Brett Dennon, those episodes performed very very well.
So despite the audience that tends to skew a little bit older, it's really
a mixed bag which albums, which episodes do the best. Yeah, I
mean it could also be the popularity of the artist and whatever. Like I
loved Jellyfish. I thought that band was going to explode and be like the
next big thing. But I think with them, their timing was bad.
They came out like a year or two before grunge, so that power pop
sounded Jellyfish had two years later, no one was listening to anymore. You're
absolutely right. I felt the exact same thing. I don't know. I'm
a huge Beatles fan, Dave, and I thought, Oh, I finally
found somebody who is that magical. This is that magical, And the fact
that there were two albums and done just really broke my heart. They were
fabulous and the cool thing about that. So I shared that album with Abigail.
She's never she maybe heard it, maybe I played around the house.
She had a wonderful experience really diving into that album and taking it track by
track and really, you know, getting the full spectrum of what that album
was about, and that's half the fun. Yeah, Abigail, are there
albums that your dad is suggested and you're like, Dad, what were you
thinking? Oh man, I think the only one that I really had a
shock with processing my dad liking that album was the Tory Amos album Little Earthquakes,
Because the day he explained how he found the album was he was at
dinner with my mom and the restaurant was playing this album all the way through
and even after breaking down the album, getting to know the tracks, getting
to love some of the tracks. I could not picture my dad's sitting in
a restaurant hearing that on the speakers and instantly thinking that's an album I've got
to buy, because it's an album you really do need to sit with for
a little bit. And so his discovery of it, how sudden it was,
that really really surprised me. Yeah, and that was that was a
time you couldn't hold your phone up with Shazam or whatever. Like what song
is this? Yeah, they asked the waitress. Absolutely, I noticed that.
Hopefully it's both of you. But Barry, you're a huge RIM fan,
and a lot of your episodes, like I think was it the first
one or maybe it was the second one that was collapsed into now and you
also have one of my favorite albums of all time, Life's rich pageant down
there. What's your favorite RIM album? Mine is? There's actually a whole
episode where I think we talked about our top five r M albums, and
I am a huge fan of the document is in the top five. I
have to go back and look at the list, and then Adventure New Adventures
in High Fi. Yeah, is up. It's probably one of the top
two. Those are my favorites. I listened to a ton of RM I
was in I was living in North Carolina in the late eighties and kind of
discovered them there. I had some friends in North Carolina who know Don Dixon
have worked with Don Dixon, who produced their first two albums, and really
discovered them there and really got into them a lot in North Carolina, and
I played that stuff to death, So Abigail really became a huge fan,
like that is one of her top two favorite bands, and that's by default,
that's just osmosis of listening to it for the years. The collapse into
the collapse into the catalog thing. That was our test when we were talking
about should we do this, we prepped that. What we did was we
took the songs from that album and we tried to place it because it was
kind of a stylistically a retrospective of their entire career musically. So our exercise
was, can we place these songs in the first twelve albums somewhere? Where
would we put these songs in their spectrum of music? And it was really
fun and challenging. It's pretty dance, it's not a great place to start
our show. You're really be an RM fan to love that or enjoy that.
But that, to me was a great, great exercise. And I
think what that proved to us was because it was pretty you know, nerdy
if I could be so, I'll say geeky, because that's cooler than being
nerdy. I think the thing that that proved to me was we knew enough
about music. We're not musicians, you know, we're just fans. Yeah,
but it proved that we knew enough about it to really have a somewhat
educated conversation about the music. And after we did that, I was like,
Oh, I'm all in on this. I think this is going to
be great. So but I was the RM first m fan, first,
no doubt, Abigail, which albums are your favorite? So I actually took
delivered of going and looking at our lists because when we did when we recorded
our top five RM Albums episode we chose, we each chose a representative song
from each of our top five albums and those are compiled in a playlist on
Spotify. So both of our canonical favorites are New Adventures in Hi Fi.
But Reveal is my second favorite and was my favorite for a very very long
time until we did the collapse into the catalog project, and during that the
research and everything leading up to that, New Adventures in Hi Fi kind of
rose to the top. A lot of people kind of pooh pooh the more
recent rim stuff. I think it was good now wasn't as popular as they're
mid eighties stuff, But a lot of tracks, even on their last two
albums were extremely strong. Living Wells the best Revenge I can go on.
But the very last few L albums, I think we're maybe not as good,
but they weren't bad at all. Like some people think about their more
recent work, I would say Around the Sun is the only one that I
don't really go out of my way to listen too much. Everything else in
their catalog, I'm all in. I don't have I really I think those
last two albums hold up really, really well. Yeah, and obviously I'm
disappointed that they that aren't continuing to work together. Maybe they will someday.
Abigail and I just got tickets Dave to see Mike Mills is doing a thing
with a concerto performance over in Fort Myers area. Okay, he's playing bass
with the concerto, and then the concerto is going to do RIM songs.
Now he's not playing on the RM stuff they're doing. They're doing concerto versions
of RM songs, and then he's going to play bass on concerto songs.
Really interesting thing to see, you know. But I actually pinged him.
I put it up on Twitter that I was seeing this, and he goes,
you realize, I'm not planning RM songs. I said, listen,
my daughter nine to see you play anything live anywhere. This is totally fine
because she didn't get to see you guys as a unit. You know.
Yeah, I think, and I've mentioned it a couple of times. I
think I've pinned him as well. I think the world would be better if
Mike Mills was just singing harmony on whatever, Like he could do harmony on
our podcast, like this is a good beer and you would hear Mike in
the background. This beer is good. Mike Mills doing harmony would be perfect
on anything. My wedding. I'm like, I need Mike Mills in the
background to seeing harmony to my wedding. Vows so underrated. You are so
right on on that, and I have not seen that. He does that
Baseball Project stuff. Yeah, and so does Peter Buck And I don't know
if they ever do it together, but they have this kind of rotating cast
at Characters Characters that does only songs about baseball, And I'd like to see
that at some point too, because that's a really interesting project to me.
And I agree we need more Mike Mills. I wish he was always floating.
He was doing a solo album and I don't know what happened to that.
Love that guy, Love that guy, you know. And one of
the more interesting things that I found out about Mike Mills was like the piano
from Layla was the piano that he played on for Night Swimming, and there
was some benefit concert where he used the guitar from Layla as well. I'm
like, you're probably the only person that's used the same piano and guitar on
one of the more classic rock songs of all time, Laila. He's like,
yeah, I'm blessed. Wow, probably one of the few people that
could get away with it too, right, Like he's at this point,
he's rock and roll royalty, right, So oh yeah, if he says,
hey, i'd like to use this, I'm sure nobody's saying no,
I Mike An take a hard pass on that. He just seems like a
magically nice guy that anybody would do anything for. Yeah, do you have
any albums or episodes coming up that you want to tell people about. We
have a couple of good ones coming up that we already recorded that we haven't
edited yet. We have I like I Got four is coming up from Blues
Traveler okay, which we've already recorded, and um, we are I think
our next one coming up is, um, help me out again, what's
the next one? Well after Morant depends when this episode's coming out. Um,
yes, my next one, that's right. But there's also we just
recorded a jukebox episode. So one of the things we have implemented is our
virtual jukebox because we had so many people coming up to us and saying,
oh, you should do this album and this album, and we needed a
way to kind of standardize that because the heart of the show is our favorite
albums that we're trading back and forth. Yeah, So every five episodes or
so, we draw randomly from our virtual jukebox, and anyone can submit an
album of their choice the brewery. They would pair that with or you know,
if they wanted to go off the rails, do no beer or you
know, do heart cider. We're open to that as well. And then
we randomly draw an album every five episodes or so, and we try our
very best to record with the person who suggested the album. Doesn't always work
out, but most recent time we just recorded MGMTS or Oracular Spectacular and we
didn't have the suggestor of the album on the show, but we still had
an awesome time discussing an album that neither of us were super familiar with before.
How would people suggest an album to you? Do you have like a
website or how would somebody that's listening to this say, oh, I would
like to hear them talk about blah blah blah. If you go to our
website, which is pops on hopspod dot com, there is a tab this
is virtual Jukebox, and there's a little formia complete and you can answer all
our questions. Like Abigail said, you can say I just want to introduce
the album. I don't want to participate at all. I'm in for trying
to arrange the beer. I don't care. You can fill out all those
questions and at the beginning and then we put that in and like when we
draw it's full right now. So when we draw one out, we put
the next, you know, we add we have a list of not a
waiting list, it's not that many names on it, but we have thirty
six albums in there. And we just do it as a grid. You
know. We pull a usually a scrabble tile from C, D, E
and F and a playing card from one through nine, and it lands on
whatever it lands on, and that's that's the next one. And then when
somebody comes in then we hold like for about a year. We keep no
repeats because some people have more than one in the in the jukebox. Yeah.
What I was looking for, though, Dave what's more important than me
is I was thinking, well, we need to do a crossover episode,
So how can I get Dave involved in the pops on hops world? And
so I would like to throw it out there to you that if you had
an album, I'll let you skip ahead of the line, is what I'm
saying. I get to Every once in a while we do a thing where
we kind of phone a friend. So I've done it with my wife and
Abigail's done it with our with her brother, our son, and so I
am going to turn over one of my episodes to you if you'd like to
do that. And if that were the case, what album do you think
you'd suggest? Hm, Well, you said you had cards one through nine.
I wish there was a deck that had cards one through eleven because I
would pick one of my favorite bands of all time, the Smithereens and their
classic album eleven. Well, before we wrap things up here, you mentioned
that you like this brewery a lot. What other breweries in like your area
if somebody were coming down there, would you recommend people to go to?
Well, in Fort Lauderdale, there's several good ones. My two favorites are
Invasive Species and Three Sons. Three Sons is down near the Fort Lauderdale International
Airport in Dania Beach, just a little south of Fort Lauderdale. And then
the other one's fairly famous, right, it's Funky Buddha, which was like
probably what put South Florida on the beer map originally. I mean it was
one of the original places. Got bought out or maybe it was just an
investment from Constellation, which was a distributor, and about four weeks six weeks
ago they bought their rights back, so Funky Boot and bought the rights back
from Constellation. That is a wonderful tap house, a lot of a wide
variety of great experimental type beers, which has never changed, by the way,
when Constellation bought them, that never went away. The tap house remained
just as cool as it had always been. If you want to go a
little further south into Miami, the Winwood District in Miami, which is this
really great neighborhood. It's an older neighborhood, It's had a renaissance. There's
a lot of straight art on the buildings. There's a couple down that are
fabulous. Jay Wakefield's probably my favorite. In fact, I think he has
a show on Sirius where he talks about the business of beer, which he
records at that brewery. And then Windwood Brewing is also fabulous in that neighborhood.
And then a little bit west more towards the airport. Gotta love the
airports. Right at the airport, tie in right day out by Miami International
air poor more in the draw area, I guess, but it's out that
way. There's a couple of great ones. Lincoln's beard is one of my
favorites, and also Tripping Animals. Two very cool spaces down in Miami.
They're probably my favorites that in my range. Go up to Palm Beach County.
We had a great one there called Due South. It was the biggest
one in Palm Beach County, and they didn't really survive the pandemic. We
actually recorded an episode there and like six or eight months after that they had
they had to close their doors. They just I don't know what happened.
So Palm Beach County probably my favorite places. Civil Society which does a lot
of New England IPA's and that's based that's closer to Jupiter, but it's in
Palm Beach County. They're the big ones down near us. But there's fabulous
stuff all over the state. There's a list I pulled a list up that
maybe I'll send you the link if you want it. For the show notes.
It's called hop Culture. Put an article together of the eighteen best breweries
in South Florida. They actually kind of included Tampa Saint Pete area in the
South Flow. It's almost like it drew a line across the state and everything
south of that, and so they mentioned some great breweries in the Tampa Saint
Petere area too. That's a great beer community over there, as you can
imagine, Cigars City being the most famous one. Obviously also now acquired by
Anaheuser Bush many years ago, but they still have a very cool tap room.
Like a lot of these guys maintain the charm of their original place as
part of their arrangement, and so you can still go to the old Cigar
City tap room and have a great experience, even though we know Anaheuser Bush
bought them at and they're still making a smaller batch, more creative kind of
stuff still, even though I'm you know, they're bigger labels and everything are
distributed nationwide, they're still making stuff that is only available in their tap house
locally. Yeah, that's cool. I know, like when Annaheuser Busch InBev
bought out Goose Island here, their original tap room still puts out some of
the beers that have been discontinued that you could only get in you know,
that tap room, So that part's kind of cool. I'm not a big
fan of the man by little businesses out, but you know, if like
if Constellation wanted to buy my podcast here you go, you could have it,
it's all you know, so well, I don't like it. I'm
the same way, Dave. I'm like, get your money right. But
also the man, oh gosh, capitalism, it's a it's a tough walk.
It's a tough line that we walk. I know what, Constellation paid
what a billion for ballast Point and then sold it for like next to nothing
five years later. You know, I can't blame the ballast Point people.
I mean, who's going to turn down that big of a check. No
one. It's hard to refuse that, obviously. But abe'as lives up in
Gainesville, Dave, so not in South Florida, Abigail, do you have
anything up your way you want to share with Dave? Anything in the Gainesville,
North Florida? Are you? We have some great breweries up here.
Alashua County now has a sort of an ale trail that they've created called the
Sippin seven seven breweries in and around Gainesville. I have been to six of
them, so I am very familiar with the beer scene up here. My
favorite is swamp Head Brewery. They've been around the longest in Gainesville, and
they are very close to where I live, so It is a snap to
get over there. They were producing all kinds of really fun stuff during the
pandemic, and I spent a lot of money there during the pandemic because they
had a drive through operational setup and they were releasing new stuff every week.
And what they did, which was very smart because they got completionists like me
hooked, was they would do several series and they release one a week for
a month or two months, and so I always had to try everything in
the series. So I was there a lot during the pandemic. Yeah.
The other big one in town is First Magnitude, and they also have terrific,
terrific beer and a really great outdoor seating area their venue. I think
it's probably the coolest in town. Yeah, I'll have the I know,
I'm not sure. I think the first one you mentioned, like a couple
of years ago, Lauren from beard Al set me some beers from North Florida,
so I think I had. I'll have to go back through my untapped
check ins, but I think I had something from that first brewery you mentioned.
It would surprise me. It's a really power place and there's a Jacksonville
scene is exploding. There are so many good breweries in Jacksonville too, And
Jackson was like og in that sense they had I think it might have been
bold city. They hadn't one that opened up like it's a legacy. It's
been there so long before this really starting to explode. Now you can go
over there and there's probably there's got to be thirty breweries in the Jazz Brewery,
if not more, and wide variety, and everything's fun, everything's good.
But we don't get up there often enough. We like we'd have to.
We need more time in Jackson very getting. You could drive so much,
do we do it? I give you a buddy continue. Yeah,
yeah, I could give me a buddy pass if you want to catch a
puddle jumper from Miami up to Jacksonville for me. Well, drinking of the
East coast of Florida. Well, Abigail Berry, I appreciate you coming on.
This was a lot of fun. I think I don't know who does
the Twitter. Who is it Berry or Abigail? Who's in charge? I
spend more time on Twitter than Abigail does. I think. Yeah, because
I take pick I'll take a lot of because I do some of the artwork.
I do a lot of the pictures and so I think I've spent more
time because I don't know. I think I was first introduced to your show.
I think we followed each other on Twitter, but I remember I was
like waiting in an urgent care center for like a three hour wait to get
looked at, and I'm just like, put something on there, all right,
Somebody give me some podcast suggestions because I'm gonna be here a while.
And I know I'm not sure who did it, but they're like, you
should check ours out. So I'm like, then I found the Hindu Love
Goods and Hindu love Gods, and that's when I fell in love with this
show. Where can people find the show? We are on all social media,
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, We're even on YouTube. Pops on hops
pod is what you would search on any of those things to find us.
On YouTube. It's really fun we will put together. We have podcasts like
research playlists, so every every video that's mentioned in a podcast episode goes into
that playlist. So lots of deep dives available on our YouTube. And then
my dad mentioned earlier our website Pops on hopspot dot com. We put our
show notes there so if there's ever anything you're looking for the link too.
That'll be on the website and that's where we have our virtual jukebox as well.
Awesome. Well, Abigail Barry, thank you so much for coming on.
I appreciate it and I'm sure we'll speak very soon. All right.
The beer in front of me this week is from Roaring Table. They're based
out of Lake Zurich, Illinois. This is called Bar and Grill. It's
a California style double IPA. They use Citra and El Dorado hops here.
Really awesome label. The label looks it's got this nice retro font. Really
cool looking label. That's what sold me on the beer. And then I
saw it was from Roaring Table, so I'm like, put it in the
cart. Let's crack open Bar and Grill. Bar and Grill is a really
nice light color and say it's on more on the heasy side. Good foam,
the roma just slaps your right in the nose. Smells really good.
Oh yeah, the taste is great. When I said California style, I
was kind of thinking it was going to be more of a West Coast IPA.
But this is definitely on the New England hazy side. It's really good.
This checks in at eight point two percent, so maybe one and done
with this, but it's a delicious beer. I'm going to try this again
now, very flavorful, get a lot of fruit flavors upfront from the hops.
I think this is excellent. I would definitely buy this again if I
see it. I picked it up at a local bottle shop. But everything
that I've had so far from Roaring Table has been excellent. If you see
Barring Grill in your travels, by all means, put it in the cart.
All right. That's going to wrap things up for this week's edition of
Beer in Front. I want to think once again Barry and Abigail from the
Great Pops on Hops podcast. Check them out listen for me. I'm gonna
be on their show in a few weeks, so please check them out.
And thank you again to Abigail and Barry for coming on sending me some great
Florida beers. I enjoyed those. Love talking to those folks, some of
my favorite people, so please check them out. In a couple of days,
there is going to be a bonus episode. I'm gonna talk too Matthew
over at Old Irving and we're going to discuss the new project that Old Irving
has with Omega Yeast the Brew Lab Series. Head over to YouTube. I
did a quick side by side comparison of Beezer and the new Brewlab Series Volume
one. Check that out. I'm a big fan of Old Irving, so
that's going to come out later this week. All right, everyone, have
a great couple of days, and I'll talk to you in a few days
on Beer in Front.