Speaker 1: This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods
Media Network and the Beer Media Group. Sometimes the beer
in front of you is the best one yet. I'll
talk to people around the beer world and get their
stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front, and it's
coming up now. Welcome to episode two hundred and twenty
two 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
Quick Show. This week, I'm gonna have a couple of beers.
I'm going to have the Haunted House from alig ash
and locally here in Illinois, I'm going to do an
Octoberfest from Spice People. Both of those were really good.
I'll also have the rest of the beer news from
around the world, and I call someone a jag off.
It's been a while since I've called someone a jag
off on the show, but I'm gonna do it today,
so stay tuned. If you follow me on social media,
you might have noticed that last week I had a
post I'm now an ambassador for Go Brewing, and I've
had Joe On and some other folks from Go Brewing
on the show a couple times last year. I've talked
about them. I love their non alcoholic beer, so this
is cool. I'm going to do some posts periodically about
different beers that they have, so I'll have those out
on social media. But also they gave me a link
where if you want to try it for yourself, so
check the show notes. I'm going to include like a
code that you can use to get fifteen percent off
to try it out for yourself. I think you're gonna
like it. I love their na beers. They have a
wide variety of styles, so you're not just drinking hail
fizzy water. They have IPA's stouts, sours, you name it,
they do it. And I've liked all of the ones.
I haven't had all of them, but the ones that
I've had, I've really enjoyed. So make sure to check
out the show notes for the code that you can
use to get fifteen percent off. You may have noticed
if you don't fast forward through the intro that I
mentioned I'm a charter member of the Beer Media Group,
and you're saying, Dave, what is the Beer Media Group?
Something I came up with a couple months ago for
like minded people like. We're not influencers, We're not like that.
We're enthusiasts. We love craft beer, we love talking about it.
So I want to get a group of people, whether
they do podcasts like this, or they do more visual
work on YouTube or TikTok and even writers to join
this group. We're going to have a website coming out
in a few weeks where we'll have bios of everyone.
So if you're looking for another show that you could watch,
or if you're a representative in the industry and you
want some people to talk about your brewery or beers,
were the place to go to. So that's what the
Beer Media Group is. There's going to be more stuff
coming out soon. Website, there's a Instagram page that doesn't
have a lot on it right now. Still need to
get some bios from other people that say they want
to join so we can get stuff up and running soon.
But if you're looking to plug some beer stuff, you
got to check out the Beer Media Group. In Beer
and Beverage News, Sierra Nevada outlined their plans at a
wholesalers meeting last week and said that their top focus
for twenty twenty five will be the little Thing line
their trail pass non alcoholic beer and revitalizing the iconic
pale Ale. The hazy little Thing leads the growth at Sierra,
and they plan on riding that horse, and I can't
say I blame them. One nugget I read over on
Brewbound was that they're considering having one of their trail
pass non alcoholic beers in those single stove pipe nineteen
point two ounce cans, which I think is a good idea.
I know for Sion, not just non alcoholic beers, but
other beers. It's nice to be able to try something
without committing to a six or a twelve pack. So
if you want to try some of the trail paths
from Sierra, I've had two of them, which I've enjoyed
a lot. But you could look for that, hopefully in
the next year, in a single nineteen point two ounce can.
By the time you listen to this, Great Lakes will
be releasing No Sparatu. This is a double red ipa.
It's been around for you maybe twenty years. I know
I've been drinking this for at least fifteen. It's one
of my favorite autumnal beers. So check out that from
Great Lakes that's coming out this Monday. The nineteenth New
Belgium eliminated the jobs of seven people is part of restructuring.
Despite an almost fourteen percent increase in sales jadofs Tilray
Brand has agreed to acquire Hop Valley, Terrapin, Revolver, and
ant Water from the Moulsen Cores company. So chill Ray's
just buying up all the craft beers that the big
conglomerates bought ten years ago and are dumping out. I
also talk about Goofy soda pops. There's gonna be a
new Coca Cola product out soon, only for a limited time,
and I think you can only get it at seven
eleven's and McDonald's. Oh, it's going to be a Coca
Cola flavored with oreos. That just sounds so disgusting. I'm
one of like the twelve people in the world who
don't like oreo cookies, so I will not be trying this.
But if you're a fan of oreos in Coca Cola,
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Speaker 1: All Right, the beer that's in front of me now
is from Allagash. This is their Haunted House, hoppy dark Yale.
This time of beer, all the Octoberfest beers are out,
but this is one of my favorites and this is
definitely not in that style of Octoberfest. This is excellent.
They use crystal nugget, Cascade and Northern Brewer hops six
point six percent alcohol. I'm a huge fan of this.
It's out this time of year. You could pick it
up all over. I grab it at my Jewel food stores,
so you could get it anywhere. So let's crack open
the Haunted House from allig Ash. Haunted House is a
really nice dark color. It's not like a stout. It's
not pitch black so you could kind of see through it.
It's a nice brown color. Good two fingers of khaki
pant colored foam. Really smells nice. I get more of
like the roasted malts from the aroma than I do
the hops, but it just gives you that nice, warm
malt aroma. It smells phenomenal. Oh yeah, that's just so good.
It's not like a black ipa that were huge ten
years ago. It's just delicious. You get all the malts,
you get the nice hot flavor there. Doesn't list the
IBus on this, but it's not like an ipa. It's
not extremely bitter. You do get some bitterness there, but
you also get some bitterness from the dark malt, so
I think it's really balanced. Has a good mouthfeel. Yeah,
it finishes like very creamy like, but it's not like
a stout or a milk stout. It's just one of
my favorite autumnal beers. Even though this is the middle
of August and it's just hot as blazes out there.
But you could pick this up like I mentioned all
over a grocery stores, liquor stores, bottle shopped. It's in
a nice purple can with neon yellow font. It's really
good if you like hoppy beers and Aligash. Everything Aligash
puts out as good. No one's ever said this Allagash sucks.
It's a great beer. So if you're looking for something different,
definitely pick up Haunted House from Alligash. Put it in
the carts, all right. The beer from Illinois I'm gonna
drink this week is an Octoberfest from Spiteful Brewing in Chicago.
This is a mars and style five point five percent.
I love this can. It has like the diamond pattern,
two different shades of blue, has a nice brought worst
on there with like the fields of grain. It's a
beautiful looking can. This can screams Octoberfest. The cant says caramel,
biscuits and prost. So what's not to like. Let's crack
open the Octoberfest from Spiteful. Beautiful color here. I get
all the malts right up front. I don't even have
to put this to my nose. I get it as
I'm pouring it. Good foam on this smells phenomenal. I
love Octoberfest beers. I just don't like him in August.
But you want to get them when they's somewhat fresh.
And everything's coming out now in late July early August,
so you almost have to drink the Octoberfest now when
it's eighty five degrees out in seventy percent humidity in Chicago.
But no, this Spiteful looks great. Wow, that's good, huge,
huge malt flavors that hit you right up front. A
lot of sweetness in this with the malt. I think
this is great. Very little bitterness here, but you're not
expecting that from a mars In and Octoberfest. This is excellent,
Like I would put. I bought a single. I went
it was over at Bottle and Cans and wanted to
grab some different stuff for the show, so I grabbed
a single of this. But I need to be hitting
up Spiteful. I need to make a run over there
and grab some more of this or have this on tap,
because I think it's that good. I'm mean to have
some more of this. Yeah, there's I can't find a
thing wrong with this. There's nothing I would change. I
think this is excellent. If you're looking for a good Octoberfest,
a good Mars in style, and you're here in the
Chicago Land area, definitely head over to Spiteful pick up
their Octoberfest. It's a way in or put it in
the cart. That's gonna wrap things up for this edition
of Beer in Front. I thank you very much for listening.
If you want to get a hold of me, you
could email me Dave at beerinfront dot com or find
me on all the social media channels at Beer in Front.
Have a great week everyone, Remember sometimes that beer in
front of you is the best one yet.