Speaker 1: This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods
Media Network and Beer Media Group. Sometimes the beer in
front of you is the best one yet. I'll talk
to different 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 thirty
two of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's Alataurus
and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media
Network member and charter member of the Beer Media Group.
This is going to be a quick solo show today.
I have a couple of good beers I'm going to
talk about, talk about the news of the week, everything
like that. A couple really good beers. I'm gonna have
one I don't think I've talked about on the show,
but it is an old school beer Pacifico. Then I'm
gonna have a couple local ones as well, so stay
tuned for that. If you've been following the show for
a while, you know I have videos up on YouTube
and Instagram. Please follow me Beer in Front over there
most big influencers, if you will. They get twenty five
thousand views in one video. But on my YouTube channel,
I just hit the twenty five thousand views mark, which
is really good for just some small jamoke out of
Chicago who drinks beer. So if you watch the videos,
thank you very much. I appreciate it. I got twenty
five thousand views on YouTube. Who would have thought it?
And I don't get the algorithms that they use for
YouTube or Instagram TikTok because I've been putting out videos
for a while and it's odd, like some videos will
blow up. I had one on Instagram and it was
a local Chicago beer, so it's hyper local that he
had like fifteen hundred people watch it or fourteen hundred
and ninety nine bots, and my mom watched it. But
other ones will get twelve or it's just odd. Even
on TikTok, I have on average about maybe seven hundred
views for each video I put out. I think the
more you put them out, the more people will watch.
So I put out four last week and I went
from like six hundred down to twenty seven. So if
you know how to rig the algorithm on video sites,
get a hold of me. This could be the last
solo show for a while. I have a couple of
good ones lined up for the next month or so
so stay tuned for I can't really divulge everything right now,
but I have a couple good guests that are lined up,
and I'm also going to have my Faux Bab preview
show coming out on the twenty first in November, so
stay tuned for that. But all right, that's enough rambling.
Let's get on with the rest of the show. In
beer and beverage news, the American Craft Beer Hall of
Fame has announced the inaugural list of nominees for twenty
twenty four. There's some big names on the list, even
one who has been on this podcast. Check out American
craft Beer Hall of Fame dot com for more details.
The Canadian Craft Brewers Association held the Canada Beer Cup
last week. For a list of all the winners, head
over to Canadabeer Cup dot com. Irestone Walker and the
legendary guitar string company Ernie Ball, they've teamed up for
Electric Eagle. This is going to be a West Coast
IPA and it's going to be available only at Firestone
Walker and some retailers in California. So if you listen
out in California, you gotta check out Electric Eagle from
Firestone Walker in Ernie Ball. This news is a bit old,
but I just read it. Texas Brewery Martin House they
made a beer to go along with the corn dogs
that are served at the Texas State Fair and it's
a mustard beer. I don't know. I like beer. I
like mustard. Maybe I would like this, but I'm not sure.
Pipeworks in Chicago is coming out with l you and
a corneo. This is going to be a wood aged torchata.
It's has vanilla, cinnamon, rice and lactose. Dave doesn't dance
at lactose, So if you have this, let me know
what you think. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson he called
an audible in their win against the Jets last week.
The name of the play was cors Light. Coors Light.
Cors is now going to come out with the special
cam for this called Coors Light. Coors Light in the
Pittsburgh market. New Holland Brewing and Hasbro they're teaming up
for a couple Dungeons and Dragons version of Dragon's Milk.
Look for that in November. That looked pretty cool. And
finally Monster they own Oscar Blues. They're gonna come out
with the non alcoholic pilsner under the dale's pale ale name.
So check that out if you like non alcoholic beers.
All right, the beard it's in front of me now
is pacific O Flara. This is born in Maztlne in
nineteen hundred three brewers from Germany started making Pacifico all
of a sudden from Sinaloa up the Baja coastline. Pacifico
was a favorite in the seventies. As legend has it,
surfers from California went down to Mexico found Pacifico, and
now this is a big beer in the surfing community.
Haven't had it in a while. I mean, I've always
liked Pacifico. It's good for what it is, easy drinking,
just rushable lagger. So let's crack open the Pacifico Klara.
Really nice, pale, golden color, good foam, looks like it's
highly carbonated. Yeah good, Just smells like a good classic
Mac beer. I might get a little more of hops
out of the EurOMA, but I mean I really like it. It
smells good. Yeah, that's the killer. I mean, you can't
go wrong with a Pacifico. Hot day you want to
crush some beer, I mean, this is perfect, good taste,
nice walt flavors here, a little bit of the hops.
I don't get as much out of the flavor than
I did out of the EurOMA, but I mean I
think it's good. I mean it's not hoppy, regardless, it's
you know, a pills ner, but I get more of
the walt from the flavor. But it tastes good. Yeah,
drink this all day long. Refreshing, it's light, it's crisp.
If you see it, I'm sure you could get it
at a good price point. Always seems to be on
sale around here. So if you're looking for a nice, crushable,
easy drinking lagger, you gotta put Pacifico in the carts,
all right. The local beer I'm gonna have right now
is a collaboration effort between Hot Butcher and Crushed by Giants.
This is live from Chicago. Great looking artwork. You've got
a nice concert crowd there. You've got the hand with
the nice Ronnie James do O salute on the front.
Love this. This is a West Coast ipa that features
simcos Citra, Galaxy and to loose hops. So I'm excited
about this. Let's bust open Live from Chicago. All Live
from Chicago is a nice leader West Coast beer. Really
good color here, nice bom on this. Yeah, those that
hopp or roll just hits you right up front. It
smells great. Yeah, that's really good. Doesn't list the IBus
on this, but it is six point seventy five percent
and alcohol tastes great. There was big hop flavors here.
You get a little bit of bitterness in the back,
not like the old you know, palette wrecker IPA days,
but you definitely know it's a West Coast style. I
think this tastes really good. Yeah, that's a winner. If
you see this one at Hopwitcher or crushed by Giants,
you definitely need to throw this one in the cart.
Once again, This is live from Chicago. It's a definite
great West Coast IPA.
Speaker 2: I would grab it if I were you.
Speaker 1: All right. The beer from Illinois that I'm gonna have
this week comes from Old Irving. This is White chap Hal.
This is a red ale brewed in collaboration with the
metal band White Chapel. So this looks really good. I
happen to go there last week to pick something up
and this just came out. So I'm excited to try this.
I know they're red ale. Everything Old Evring puts out
is great, but they're red ales. I know they're one
that they put out in your Saint Patrick's Day is
really good. I forget the name of it off the
top of my head, so I do like bear red Hale.
So let's crack this open. This is five and a
half percent alcohol. Beautiful look and artwork on the can.
This has a wonderful color, beautiful, nice reddish amber color. Good,
couple fingers of boone here, show out to my friends.
It pops on hops for the couple fingers of foam,
but looks great, smells fantastic. You get a wonderful malt
notes here with the aroma. It smells phenomenal. Oh yeah,
that's just like autumn and a glass right there. It's
like hearty. You get the wonderful malt flavors, not a
lot of bitterness here. It just tastes phenomenal, like this
is something on a nice cool autumn night. Although the
day I'm drinking this, it's nice out in Chicago, But
I could see having this on a nice autumn night,
sitting outside drink these all night long. This tastes phenomenal. Yeah,
that's so good. It tastes hearty. It doesn't taste like
a five and a half percenter. It's a very rich
tasting beer. You get like the sweet notes from the malt,
like almost like a like a Hoffey maybe, but like
a sweetness there. That's really good. I think you're gonna
like this. If you're in the Chicago Land area, I
would definitely pick up White chap Hal put it in
the cart. It's a winner, like everything else from Old Irving,
And I just love going to work and parking across
the street, and then when I get off of work,
I'm right there. I can stop in and grab a
more pack. So but now pick up some Old Irving.
The White chap Hao is phenomenal. It's been a long
time since I did one, but right now here is
your jag off of the week. I'm at the Jewels
the other day picking up some stuff. I'm at the
grocery store. On the music system, they start playing Mister
Brightside from The Killers. I'm the only one in the
store lip syncing the song to mister Brightside because if
mister Brightside comes out, I don't care where you are,
what you're doing. You either sing or you lip sync,
and I was the only one at the Jewels that
was doing this, so shame on all of you, and
you're all a bunch of jagoffs. That's gonna wrap things
up for this edition of Beer in Front. I thank
you very much for listening. If you'd like to get
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great week everyone, I will talk to you soon, and remember,
sometimes the beer in front of you is the best
one yet.