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
six of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's Alatorus
and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media
Network member and charter member of the Beer Media Group.
Solo show. Today, I'm cleaning out the beer fridge. I
have some stuff that friends have sent me from Grandpa
Beer Brian over at three to one poor, so I'm
having some of that. I've got some other ones that
I'm looking through. I'm like, I forgot I had this.
So I'm cleaning the beer fridge out. Today's gonna be
a lot of beer reviews. I'll have news a little
bit later in the show, so stay tuned for all
of that. If you missed last week, because I put
it out later, I didn't come out on my usual
Monday time. Check that out. I talked to Tyler from
Reduce a halic that was really good. We talked about
the any beer industry. So if you were wondering what
happened last Monday, it's out there. It came out I
think Wednesday night, so you can go back and check
that out. Starting in a couple of weeks, I'm going
to be on a new schedule at work where I'm
going to be off now in the middle of the week,
so that might change the release date of the podcast
that might come out. Now I think Thursday, but I'm
kind of see how everything plays out with the work schedule.
But next month, I think the date's going to change
it to come out. It's still going to come out
for the most part every week, but you know, the
date may change. It might not be on Mondays anymore.
I keep mentioning the beer media group websites up there.
Right now, I've got a few people that are on there.
I'm waiting for others to send me details. What this
is kind of your go to place if you're looking
for somebody that does work in beer. And we're all
individual people. We're not you know, company people, but like myself,
I have a podcast. Rod Jay is on there. You've
heard him on the show a couple times. He has
a weekly live stream. I want to get people that
are writers, people that are bloggers, people that just do
video or photography. So I want to make a clearing
house for everyone. If you are if this interests you,
I know I have people that are beer geeks like me.
If you think this is for you, send me an email.
I'll definitely add you to the site. Or if you
are you know somebody that works in beer and you
want to talk to somebody, or you want to have
somebody help get the word out on your product, Beermediagroup
dot com is the place to go. As soon as
people start sending me their details, I'm going to update.
Everyone will have their own individual page. So right now
it's still in its infancy, but it's up. If you
want to check out Beermediagroup dot com. In Beer and
Beverage News. If you're a fan of Voodoo Ranger, you
can vote to select the next ipa flavor over at
Voodoo Ranger dot com. There will be choices in a
variety pack that's available now for you to pick your winner.
Mar's Brewing in Chicago is celebrating its tenth birthday on
September twenty eighth. They'll have food, music, and guest taps.
Check out Marsbrewing dot com for more details. And that's
Mars with the Z. Great Lakes is updating the look
of their iconic dortmunder Gold. I saw some pictures of
the new design and it looks sharp. There were more
people out watching Week one of the NFL season at bars,
draft beer volumes were up over eight percent from opening
week twenty twenty three. Do you have close to eight
million dollars in your checking account? You can buy craft
beer pioneer Anderson Valley Brewing Company out of Mendocino, California.
The original owner is retiring, so you got eight mil.
You could buy the facility and the twenty nine acre
of land it sits on Modern Times in San Diego.
They're going to be shifting their production over to Alesmith now.
Maui Brewing acquired Modern Times a couple of years back.
Both tap rooms for Modern Times are going to remain open,
and they're both great. I've been to both and I
love both of their tap rooms. However, with their production
facility shutting down, there's going to be fifty seven jobs lost,
so that's not cool. Firestone Walker is coming out with
a non alcoholic version of their eight oh five Blonde
Ale look for eight zero five that's going to be
out West soon and hopefully it gets a wider release
if everything goes well with it. Stone Brewing is celebrating
their twenty eighth birthday with an anniversary double IPA that
should be out soon wherever you pick up Stone's beer.
Life Now, this is a non alcoholic ready to drink
cocktail that I guess is number one out in Australia.
They're gonna partner with Molsen Cores to bring Naked Life
to the States starting next year in twenty twenty five.
Some of the pictures I saw they have a non
alcoholic gin and tonic, a margarita, and a negroni, amongst others.
So I'm looking forward to giving this a whirl when
it comes out next year to Shoots and Patagonia. Now,
they're teaming up for a couple new beers. One is
called Kernsa Lagger, and then they're gonna have a non
alcoholic it's a Golden Brew. So I'm not sure if
this is gonna be an ale or what have you,
but they're gonna have the non alcoholic Kernza Golden Brew.
So if you're out about you're an outdoorsy person, check
out the new collaboration between Patagonia and to Shoots. And finally,
here in Chicago, if you're around this Saturday, September twenty first,
Hot Butcher is having Chicago Fest. They're gonna have beer, sausage,
sour kraut, Fretzel, Chicago Sauce from Big Fork, guest beers
from Goldfinger, Maplewood Pipeworks in Old Irving. So if you're
in the neighborhood this Saturday, you got to check it
out at Hot Butcher for the World on Lincoln Avenue.
In late breaking beer news, Weathered Souls out of San Antonio.
They've announced they're going to shut down on the twenty
second of September. According to somebody from Weathered Souls, they
said that the financial pressure just became too difficult. They
cited rising costs of the ingredients, a noticeable decline and
consumption of alcohol. So that's too bad. Weather Souls did
a lot of good stuff. They were the brewery behind
Black Is Beautiful and twenty So it's really sad to
see whether Souls close down. All Right, I'm gonna have
another beer that Bill brought over from Las Vegas when
he was in town a few weeks ago with his
wife Sharon. This is another one from craft House Brewery
in Las Vegas. This is called Hop Vegas. It's a
West Coast IBA that seventy eight IBus. I'm liking this already.
I haven't even opened it up. Great look in artwork
on the can. I love the design here they use
on this one. Cascade, Continental, Columbus and Mosaic hops. So
I'm liking this already. I should just say it's good
and not open the can because it has everything I like.
But let's try Hop Vegas from craft House. Looks good,
nice light color, a lot of foam here on this.
But man, is that smell good. Wow? All those hop
notes hit you right up front. Just smells outstanding. Oh yeah,
that's really good, well balanced. You get a lot of
malt in here, a lot of sweetness from the malt,
but then all those hops hit you in the middle
and then you get that good bitterness at the back.
This is a really good, old school hoppy West Coast IPA.
I think this is really good. Yeah, that's just terrific.
Seven percent alcohol on this really good. It almost tastes
a little heavier than a seven percent, But I'm just
digging it. It's been a while since I've had something
with this many IBus. I'm going back in the day.
I mean, I'm liking this one a lot. Now. This
is really good. Once again, thank you to Bill and
Sharon for dropping off a couple of great beers from
Las Vegas. If you're in that area and you want
to try a good brewery, definitely hit up craft House
and get Hop Vegas. Put it in the cart. I'm
going to add one. It's not a beer, it's a cider. Now.
This is from Mojave Brewing. They're out of Henderson, Nevada.
This is punk lemonade. This is a hard sider, gluten
free eight percent. I'm looking forward to this. I'm a
big fan of cider. I've talked about cider before on
the show. I do enjoy a nice hardsider, so I'm
looking forward to this punk lemonade. Nice pinkish color here
looks really good. Good foam smells excellent like you do
get like you get some apple. But the predominant like
notes that I'm getting out of the aroma is like
pink lemonade. So it smells really awesome. Oh, Yeah, that's
really good. Like it does taste like like a pink lemonade,
but you know, the apple notes are in the back,
but you do get like the lemon and I'm trying
to look at the can and see if they what
they put in here. I'm assuming it's like a strawberry
or something like that to give it this pinkish hue.
But I think it tastes phenomenal. Yeah, that's good eight percent.
I don't know if i'd kill a lot of these
in one sitting, but definitely for a change of pace,
I think this is great. It's got a lot of
good flavors going on here. It's X so. I know
Bill before is giving me some stuff from Mohave. I
think they're really good. All the stuff I've had from them,
which you know it's not a lot, but the stuff
that I've had from Bill has been great. So if
you're in the Vegas area, you're in Henderson, you're looking
for a spot to go to it, definitely head over
to Mohave. Try yourself the punk lemonade. I think they're
gonna like it all right. The beer that's in front
of me now is from New Belgium. This is part
of their Voodoo Ranger series. And this can go south
in a hurry. This is atomic pumpkin. I've heard from
other people that they enjoy this. I'm not a big
pumpkin beer person. When they came out twenty some years ago, yes,
I was all in. I think the first one I
had it might have been Blue Moon, of all things.
But after a couple of years everyone had a pumpkin
beer and I got off the pumpkin beer train. But
people talk about this, so I grabbed that. Now I'm
looking at the can and it's spicy atomic pumpkin. So
according to the can, it's brewed with pumpkin, cinnamon and chilis.
Like I said, this could go south in a hurry,
But let's crack the coping. The atomic pumpkin spicy. I
mean it looks a little darker than your typical ale.
It's clear. I do get the cinnamon a lot in
the aroma. All right, here goes nothing sweet. I'm kind
of waiting for the spice to hit me. At No,
there it is. Hello there, not super spicy. It's not
like you're eating the hot one's wing. But it's definitely
there's a little bit there at the end, which I
don't know if it's needed. It might be a little
too much. But let's try this again. Yeah, upfront, you
get all like the cinnamon and the pumpkin flavors that
hit you up front, and then it just like has
this chili pepper linger. It's lingering on the back of
my tongue and throat. I don't know if I'm a fan.
I picked up the wrong cant. But if you like
pumpkin beers and you like something a little spicy, I
think maybe give it a try. It's not my thing,
but you know, if it's yours, enjoy it. You could
pick it up all over. You know, Voodoo Rangers available everywhere,
so wherever you pick up your Voodoo Ranger, if you
want to try something for the autumnal season, you could
pick up the Atomic Pumpkin Spicy Release. All right. The
beer that's in front of me now is a classic
from Victory Brewing. They've been around since nineteen ninety six.
This is their sour Monkey. This is tart nine and
a half percent. They use Pilsner malt and tetanang hops.
Victory has got a lot of monkeys in their series.
They have their golden. They're berry. They had another one,
but I know I'm not sure, but this is the
sour Monkey. This is in a nineteen ounce can, and
I don't think I've had a victory in a while,
So let's crack it open. Look's really good. It's a
nice crisp, clear beer. Good foam on here. Yeah, you smell,
or at least I do. I get like the tartness
out of the aroma, and I'm also getting like the
Belgian yeast that they use out of this, So I
think the smell is really good. Yeah, that is really good.
Like the tartness overwhelms the Belgian yeast where that like
for me, you kind of get that kind of at
the back, but it's there. But the first thing that
hits me is the tartness from this. I think this
is really good. Yeah, it's almost like a citrus lemon
tartness to it. I think this is outstanding. This is excellent.
I would pick this up again. And you know, I
say it a million times on ear when I have
like an older beer than I have in ad in
a while, it's like, I don't know why I stop
drinking this, But this one's really good. So you could
pick it up everywhere, I believe. I saw this one
actually at my Jewel grocery store, so it's available all around.
But the Sour Monkey from Victory definitely about that one
of the carts. I think this is excellent if you
like hartness, if you like sour beers, I think this
one will be right up your alley. All right, I'm
going to have one now from Shortleaf Brewing. They're out
of Missouri. Brian over at three to one Poor sent
over some beers from the Saint Louis area in the
last week, and I want to have a couple of those,
so I want to do one right now from shortlyaf.
This is a goza with line, beautiful artwork on the can.
I love the artwork here. Shortleaf is based in Camden Town, Missouri,
so I love gozas. What's not to like. Let's open
this one up. One of these days I'm gonna have
to clean my windscreen over the mic because this has
because I open the beer right next to the microphone,
so it's covered with like beer. So one of these
days I should clean it. But this from Shortly looks
really good, nice foam, good color to this. I really
get that lime aroma here. It smells fantastic. Wow, that's phenomenal.
Really big lime flavor like that hits you right up
front and almost like you know, like when you have
something really tart, like a lemonhead or something like that
really just makes your mouth pucker really tart. In addition
to like the goza style with the salt man, this
is just fantastic. That's outstanding. Only four point one percent.
You could crush these. This is absolutely spectacular. I mean,
some of the other ones that I've had that Brian
sent over from Second Shift and other breweries there have
just been but I need to change my thing to
drink Missouri beer. But holy shit, this is absolutely outstanding.
One of the best goeses I've had in a long time.
I love the fresh wine flavor that you get from this.
Sometimes with line flavored stuff you get like that fake
taste or like a key line. This is just fresh
line flavor that I'm getting here. I think this is
just spectacular. I need to thank Brian once again from
three to one poor in Saint Louis for sending this
my way. I need to find more stuff from Short
Leaf because if if what else they put out is
as good as this, It's gonna be great. But if
you're you're in the Saint Louis area and you see
mexicale a Goza with line, you definitely need to put
this one in the cart, grab all of it. Just
put cases of this shit in the cart. It's that good.
If you like gozas, you're gonna really love this one.
This one is just spectacular. Thank you again to Brian,
and thank you to Short Leaf Brewing for putting this
one out. All right, I'm gonna have one in my
Drink Illinois Beer series from Mill Pond Brewing. They're in Milstad, Illinois.
They are close to Saint Louis on the Illinois side
of the border. So I need to thank my friend
Brian three to one pour for hooking me up with
this and some other ones from the Saint the Greater
Saint Louis area. So thank you, Brian. This is Old
Millstead Light Lagger. This is four point five percent alcohol.
I love the artwork on the can. This just screams
old school, great looking artwork on the can. I'm looking
forward to this. So let's crack open the Old Millstad. Oh,
it's a nice, beautiful color, nice golden color, good foam here,
smells good, just smells like a classic lagger that we
grew up drinking. It smells fantastic. That's really good. I
like it a lot. There's some sweetness there. I don't
know if they use any adjunction here. I don't think so.
This tastes like malt to me, all malt. It doesn't
taste like there's any corn, but I could be wrong.
It doesn't say so on the can. But I love
the flavor here. I love the malt sweetness that I'm
getting from this great crushable beer. Good tasting. Like I mentioned,
it's four point five percent alcohol, so you could have
a couple of these really good flavor on this. Brian,
thank you again for hooking me up with old Millstad.
I'm gonna have to find my way down to Millpond
Brewing and check out what other stuff they had because
this is really good. 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.
That's Beerinfront dot com. If you'd like to support the show,
you could head over to patreon dot com slash beer
in front and you could help out there. Once again,
I want to thank Brian and Bill for sending me
some great beer from the Saint Louis and the Vegas area.
Always nice getting beer mail and trying beers from other
parts that I can't get here, So thank you to
those fine gentlemen. Have a great everyone. I will talk
to you in a week, and remember sometimes the beer
in front of you is the best one yet.