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Speaker 1: This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods

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Media Network and the Beer Media Group. Sometimes the Beer

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in front of you is the best one yet. I'll

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talk to people around the beer world and get their

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stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front and it's

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coming up now. Welcome to episode two hundred and twenty

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five of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's Alatoris

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and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media

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Network member and charter member of the Beer Media Group. Today,

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I'm going to do something a little different. This is

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going to be another non alcoholic beer show. I sat

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down with Tyler for a Reduca holic. He has a

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great website if you're looking to find breweries that have

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NA options out there. We talked about the NA industry.

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I also made a mocktail and I did a video

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of it and I put it out the other day,

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so I'm going to put the audio portion of that

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on here. I made a mocktail using stuff from Go

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Brewing and also later in the show, Hop Butcher here

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in Chicago, they just released a brand new Hopwater. It

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came out on Wednesday, the eleventh. I'm having it now.

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So this episode, that's why it's out a little late.

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I wanted to have this new one from Hop Butcher

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as I had Tyler on so it all fit in nicely.

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So stay tuned for all of that in Beer and

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beverage news. This Friday the thirteenth to ten o'clock in

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the morning Central Time. You can get tickets. It's to Paebab.

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Go to fobab dot com for more information. It's gonna

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be November twenty second and twenty third here in Chicago.

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I went last year. It was amazing. There's over three

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hundred different barrel aged beers out there, ciders, meads, Perry's,

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you name it, they have it. It's all phenomenal. They're

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gonna have bourbon samples from Bardstown. They're gonna have different

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spaces with like lighter loggers and non alcoholic options if

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you're into that. But definitely check out fau Bab. Get

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your tickets this Friday the thirteenth. Also coming up in November,

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you need to book your tickets to Chicago. The Chicago

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Cider Cup is happening November seventh and eighth at Aris

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Brewery and Cider House in Chicago, right on Irving Park,

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about a block away from the Expressway. This looks really cool.

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I'm excited about this, so you gotta check this out

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the Chicago Cider Cup. Hopefully I'm gonna talk to these

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people before the Cider Cup learn a little bit more

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about this. But if you listen to the show for

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a long time, you know I'm a big fan of

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ciders as well. So if you're in the city, you

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can check out Chicagosidercup dot com if you're in the

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New York City area. Sunday, September twenty ninth, Third Place

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Bar and Alphabet City Beer Company they're hosting the inaugural

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Octoberfest AF It's going to be between two and five

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at Alphabet City Beer Company in the East Village. This

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looks really cool. They're gonna have a selection of at

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least ten non alcoholic craft beers featuring different like Octoberfest

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and autumnal beer options. If you're new to the NAC

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or you're a season na beer person, there's gonna be

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something there for everyone. They're gonna have sausage and pretzels

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from Sigmund's Pretzels. So this looks really cool. Tickets are

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thirty bucks. You get two drinks, a gift bag, full

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of swag and goodies and then I guess there is

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a private area to mingle. So this looks really cool

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getting ready for sober October. So I wish I was

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in New York City on September twenty ninth. But if

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you're in New York, definitely check out Alphabet City Beer

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Company in Third Place Bar for their Octoberfest. Af all right,

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welcome back. Reduce a Holic is the website to check

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out if you're looking to find a non alcoholic brewery

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in the United States. Founder Tyler set this up and

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it's got everything on there. I should have stayed in school.

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I could have done something like this, but Tyler took

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care of it. It's a great website. Tyler, thanks so

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much for coming on tonight, sir.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Dave. I'm happy to be here. I've enjoyed a

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lot of your podcasts lately. Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: What got you started with Reduce a Holic the website?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I've been into na beer for a

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little while up until recently, I drank. I just actually

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hit one year without drinking. Okay, cool, but it was

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about two two and a half of years ago. I

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was kind of sitting there like, I kind of wish

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and a few others did, so they started kind of

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just tracking the industry, you know, like I think, was

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it twenty twenty one, Bootstrap Brewing in Colorado had an NA,

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Tommy Knocker Brewing in Colorado had an NA. And then

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tons of breweries. So I kind of thought, you know,

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kind of just started listing them down in my head,

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and one they had turned into a spreadsheet and then

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turned into a Google doc and turned into a map.

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different ways to make beer and on and on, and

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Speaker 1: How many breweries currently have their own non alcoholic beer

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like if a brewery has multiple tap rooms, they're in

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my all the tap rooms that serve the n air

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in my list, all right, So it's a little hard

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to track, but I think I was approaching three hundred

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plus last time. There's some to delete and given them multiples.

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Speaker 1: And then Yeah, I mean that's awesome because I know

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here we have go brewing. I know we've talked on

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Instagram chat about them before. So it's nice to see

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that many, you know out there. I mean, you think

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of athletics like the Big Dog that you could get

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that everywhere in a couple other national brand you can

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, exploring, that's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: In like Geary area, you're from the Denver area. How

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many any breweries are around there?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, disappointingly very few. Okay, I've heard there's a lot

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of hot Water. I personally have not been to many.

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introduced one, caled Arms has one Loane Tree, a couple others.

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hop Lark if you ever had that. They're out older

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and they're so good, but brewer wise, it's limited. I

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think footstraps stopped for whatever reasons. Tommy Knocker, I would

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have called them almost a pioneer in the industry. They've

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one point to add multiple on draft, and they're one

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of the earliest users of I think Bruvo, which is

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has rolled out their technology. Groovey has been at least

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one of Grooviy's is promoted, and Rationale have been talking

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in the industry. I don't know. Oscar Blues has had

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one often on their main brewery, but they don't promote it,

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and I think they're just piloting it.

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dip their toes in the water with the hop water,

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if you will, but nothing as far as like in

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any beer. And I remember, I don't know if you've

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talked to them too, but the Gentleman at momentum and

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they were saying, like they have a project that you know,

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probably be cheaper than have an existing brewery, you know,

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start their own NA line. So yeah, you would think

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there'd be more, especially in the robust Denver area coming

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a one in Central Colorado and Buena Vista

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well known. They're launching a pilot at Great American Beer Festival,

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John's two's delved into how he wants to help other

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birds because it might not be as daunting a process

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as a lot of people think it is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know, going to Go, you know, I

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went there last year and you know, saw like their

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setup and everything where you know, I don't know, if

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on something like that. So something from Lars and Momentum

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that might be more cost effective to at least give

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it a try and have one handle if you will

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for an Ana Ber.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think you've touched on that. I mean

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about Athletic too, actually is they brew on standard equipment,

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but I'm not gonna guess because if I guess right,

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you trade for prietary. But basically there's a lot of

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things you can manipulate yeast temperature, grain bills, grain types,

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et cetera. And they do that on existing equipment. The

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differences in both Go and Athletic you have gigantic tunnel.

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Bastardizer's right, and I think Joe was on somebody's podcast

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saying those things like a million dollars. I mean they're

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obviously going national, international and through the three tier distribution system, right,

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and uh, I think momentum is is too. But I

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that they can replicate that whole process and then keep

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point two for sure, and then refrigerate it, keep the

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cold chain, and keep a separate, very clean draft line,

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which to be honest, these brewers should be doing anyway. Yeah,

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and they can have an on premise NA without that

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much complexity. They have to be a little bit more

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diligent and change the method. And I know some people

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doing that right now. It's when you get in which

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when you lose control of the distribution, then it becomes

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Speaker 1: Right Yeah, you know, And I don't know, like for

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a smaller, independent, you know, mom and pop brewery, if

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you will, I don't know if the you know, they'd

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be able to can and distribute, but yeah, at least

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like one tap handle and you could rotate that, you know,

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throughout the year, have an October Fest, have an ipa,

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go to, you know, a brewery if they're not drinking

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for whatever reason. So offering an option you could then

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that's the part that's missing, and I think it's going

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to come. I mean, I don't like, you know, the

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Bruce Association put out a lot of safety stuff on it,

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but it kind of focused on the bigger breweries, the

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three tier distributed stuff and the little ones they can.

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like they were on the us NA podcast a couple

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of weeks ago, and I've talked to them a lot,

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and they use all their normal equipment. They have a

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kind of an innovative way of pasteurizing because they're using

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a specially yeast. But they've had real big success because

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they actively promote it. And you look at the breweries

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in Minnesota that actively promote it, they're doing well. It

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varies by method, you know, like if you're in Minnesota,

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you can just send your beer to ABB Technology. They'll

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remove the alcohol and send it back to you. But

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like a tiny brewer in Seattle, Figurehead Brewing, they've been

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making their own anem A beer. He's blogged the whole

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discovery process on his website. It's a really interesting story

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an old roop kit to small scale brewer equipment to

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one on draft. At pretty much any given time, you've.

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Speaker 1: Had a lot more any beers than I have. Do

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go to that's always in your fridge.

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real beer, like alcoholic beer, you always have like a

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New Belgium or Sierra Nevada. Especially when I started drinking,

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always there. I've loved Athletic. They're the ones who I've

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first sipped and said wow. Go. Brewing is similar. I

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have a couple of layers in my fridge and I

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always almost always do Groovy. I really appreciate their golden,

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so I'm looking for a solid, crisp golden. It's there,

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but I like to explore. So I'm drinking the new

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mass Gang uh Sera Bacita, which I think is brewed

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with bendescill and bottle stop in Chicago. Okay, I know

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she had some inputs into that. I love mask Gang stuff.

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I got to visit Pilot in Chicago years out of

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Chicago is also pretty good if you haven't had them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Other words, I just I kinda I try new

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things and then I try to you know, since I

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completely quit drinking, the budgets a little bigger to you know,

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buy the five dollars all boys, since I'm not buying

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seven dollars pints at the brewers anymore?

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Speaker 1: Do you see And like some of the people that

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I talked to, like outside of the podcast, I don't

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know if it's a stigma, and maybe you could explain more,

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but I think and it's not just with the any

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beers with that, any whiskeys or so if you will.

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The mindset is it is cost the same as the

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regular version. If I'm going to spend ten dollars, I'm

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a six pack. If you will, I want something with

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liqu with booze, or if I'm going to spend thirty

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dollars on a bottle of bourbon, I want the alcohol.

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Do you see that in your travels?

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Speaker 2: All the time? All the time. I still get it.

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I still get it from friends, I still get it

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from people. I talk to people who are like, oh,

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we drink Athletic because of you, or we drink Go

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because of you. A lot of them still ask me

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why is at the same price and it's going to

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sell better if it drops and I go first thing,

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you go, No, that doesn't make any sense, Like why

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would you take a product that is literally the same

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and more? You know, I wrote a blog on my

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website a while back about why it's expensive, and I

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went through each type of process that Anna Beer has

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made and added it's the same thing. The only thing

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you might save on is grains if you're lowering the

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grain bill, but that's going to be well offset by

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pasteurization and you know other things. And not to mention

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a completely different set of labor that than your brewers

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are used to. The fermentation process might be seven days

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instead of fourteen. That's goodd right, but you might have

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to do three different things in that seven days, so

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your standard operator seizu're completely flipped on its head.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and everything else is the same, the labor

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to put it out, the cost of the cans or

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bottles if it's the whiskey, if you will, the distribution,

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everything is the same as regular. So yeah, it kind

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of makes sense that it should be the same price.

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But yeah, I still hear people like, now, you know,

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if I'm going to spend ten dollars, I want something

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with liquor in it or booze in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the only way would lower and price

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would be the lag with alcohol a tax, right, Yeah,

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but that's offset by the extra safety costs.

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Speaker 1: Are you big into like the non alcoholic wines and

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whiskeys and other things like the cocktail. I know I

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had the Phone Grony not that long ago, and I

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thought that was spectacular.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, what is the same, Saintstiser, I believe, so, yeah,

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that one's that one's really good. I don't as much

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as I should, Okay, I really like Thompson and Scott's

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Naughty dark Red or it's a little all expensive. I

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usually get some of that or some of the Groovy

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Soungria or dry red Blend Groovy. One thing I legitimately

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appreciate about Groovy is they engage with customers and they

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take feedback. Right. So when they when I first drank Groovy,

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I wasn't super impressed. I thought they're pale. It was great,

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but I thought their IPA was missing everything. Now their

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juicy I p A and the red can is it's good. Okay,

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it has a QR code on it you can scan

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go back. So they also have a dry red wine,

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which is my go to because it's in small can,

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single serve can. You don't have to worry about refrigerating

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after and they're on a version five of that, so

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it's my go to. I don't have the same palette whiskeys.

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The only one is what NKD. I do like them naked,

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they're they're solid whiskey, but I like the ones that

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don't try to be whiskeys, but they kind of taste

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like it. So like wilderdon Earthen. Some people disagree with me.

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Tennyson and Pathfinder. So Pathfinders like a hemp paste, okay, yeah,

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and Tennyson is a black ginger. I can drink either

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of those on the rocks or one of my my

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favorite things. And somebody else kind of coined the coined

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the name before me. It's a tendy finder. You mix

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one shot Tennis and one shot Pathfinder, put it on

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the rocks and yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. It

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was a yeah, third place bar in New York. I

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think she's the one coined that one. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I had one of the whiskeys and I don't remember

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the name of it. And I was actually at a

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grocery store and they were, you know, doing sample So

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I'm like, oh, perfect, I'd like to try this, and

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she's like, well, I have to give you a mixer.

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I'm like, no, can I just it's not alcoholic, So

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can I just taste it on its own? She's like, no,

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I have to pour it in ginger ale. So she

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gave me like a little shot glass, so you didn't

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get much. But that didn't do a lot for me.

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So I'm like, we'll pass and do some research on

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my own.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the thing is with these nonalcoholic ones, the

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ones that stand on their own are the ones that

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don't try to imitate. Outside of some of the tequilas,

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I think Naked apparently seems to be on something. I'm

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not out there, jan and I've I've heard good things,

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But what I appreciate is the non alcoholic cocktail scene.

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I mean, you have these non alcoholic bars or even

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just really good menus at some of these higher end

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bars where real mixologists make drinks, and some of those

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are absolutely incredible, and I feel if you took that

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spirit mimic out of it to be an incredible cocktail

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with that spirit does add value in it. Cocktail they do,

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but straight on the rocks spirits not so much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And normally, like if I have bourbon, I'm just

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on the rocks guy. So that's why I wanted to

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just to try it. On its own, just to kind

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of get a, you know, feel for what this tastes like.

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But yeah, so I don't know, I'll I'll do some

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research and maybe pick something up down the road.

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Speaker 2: Try try naked. Okay, it's not perfect, it's not there,

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it's not completely there. I don't know if you'll ever

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get there, but it's it's very good. Uh. And sometimes

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I add a little bit of all the bitters to it.

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I don't know if you've seen those. They're amazing alcohol

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free bitters. Okay, completely alcohol free bitters, and you just

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add a few drops of that. Yeah, I went through

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that bottle of that quite fast to mix it with anything. Actually.

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Speaker 1: So, now have you seen in your travels? I mean,

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we're recording this at the end of August, where it's

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ninety something here in Chicago, but we're getting close to fall.

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Are there any like October fests? Have you seen in

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the NA world or any like fall? Do they have

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any like? I mean it's cider, but you know, do

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they have like the good carbonated cider in an NA version?

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Speaker 2: Yes? All both of those. Okay, so ciders just north

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of you, Milk and Honeysider out of Minnesota, not Gonna

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Wear in Minnesota. They partner with AAV Technology and they

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have an alcohol removed version of it, and I've heard

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very good things. Unfortunately, last time I was there, I

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couldn't get my hands on it. And then Two Town

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Cider out of the Oregon they have two now okay,

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if not three, and they are really good and it's

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not some sider alternative. It's a sider without Paul removed.

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And then Beagle Puss Brewing they have done a dry

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hopped sider. It's a little different than an alcohol remove sider,

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but it's also a lot different than a juice sider,

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and I really like it. So those are my three siders. Uh.

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I've heard of one or two others, but the names

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can't I can't remember. On October Fest go, of course,

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there's already out Athletic. It's not online yet, but it's

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pretty much every Whole Foods and all those cross country.

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I already got my one of my six backs. I'm

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sure i'll get more. I know Athletic does a pumpkin

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based one. Two Bravus has an october Fest that I

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don't think I've tried, but I've heard good things and

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I would trust Bravos on the darker side of beers

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for sure. I don't know anybody. Oh Atmos Atmos out

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of Idaho, Okay. They have a mars In as well,

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and they know what they're doing. I mean a Sawtooth

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Brewings and a line and uh really genuine, the genuine guys.

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I've met Hat Beer with Paul the founder, and they

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know doing them. They were also one of the earliest.

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They launched in late twenty twenty. I think on the

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brand Ethos and then switch to app most not long later.

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Speaker 1: Looking at like the website and down the road, do

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you envision like an app with this where do you

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see reduce soholic? Say in five years?

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Speaker 2: A couple of things. I would love to be working

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hands on with breweries, using the data, using the insights

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I get both from the map and from just following

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breweries on social media and seeing which ones do well

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with their NAS, which ones they don't. So I'd love

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to convince more breweries to make an NA. I mean,

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you cannot imagine how many brewers I've talked to a

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go oh you need like two million dollars alcohol removal

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machine or I've had so many tellme athletic uses reverse

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osmosis or distillation to create their beer. I'm like, that's

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the number one athletics things that they don't since very clear,

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the lack of information, And I'd love to play a

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role in that part, you know, I kind of I

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kind of in the United States, where we hit the

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European ten percent, maybe more, maybe a little less. I mean,

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we know, politics, you know, whatever around. I mean, we're

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shooting a bud light cans last year, you know, yeah,

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you never know, something might stop us from getting that ten.

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But you know where it's like it still mimics the

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craft beer scene where the small towns in Colorado have

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their craft burris and a couple of them make their

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own nas and then they all sell each other's nas

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for the ones who don't. And I would love help

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facilitate that and at the same time educate the customers

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to support the brands, learn about it, and be able

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to also kind of say, oh, I rank this beer

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is really good. Oh it's produced by vacuum distillation. That's good.

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Oh it's perversd by membrane filtration. Oh it's you know,

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reduced just without any form of removal at all. And yeah,

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so kind of just an educational site and a resource,

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a little consulting. I've been playing with ideas. I mean

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I obviously started with other ideas and those didn't pan out, but.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, and it's I think it's cool too,

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because you know, everybody is so hyper local when it

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comes to beer. So I think your website is a

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great resource if somebody's traveling, Okay, hey I'm going to

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you know such and such place, let me check and

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see what's here. If there's a great local option, I

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think people would rather go do that than just go

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to wherever and picked up an athletic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's same. And I don't get me wrong. I mean,

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I love athletics just like I love New Belgium, and

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I'm happy to see him at restaurants. But if I'm

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going to a place, even though I'm going out to

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my local breweries, they all have athletic or groovy or whatever,

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and it makes me happy if I have to go

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there for some other thing, but I want to go

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there to drink their beer. Yeah, and I know a

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lot of people to do. I mean, I know one

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guy out of Utah would use my app every time

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he takes a road trip. I told remember I mentioned

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Imagination Brewing, and all of a sudden I get a

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message and he goes, oh, I'm slightly changing my northern

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road trips summer. Next thing I know, he's posting about

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Imagination Brewing and same with Figurehead and Seattle too, and

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you know, yeah, I mean we just we can't lose

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that what we have in the US. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean I still think of like the non

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alcoholic beer scene. It's almost still in its infancy where

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I'm hoping, like you mentioned earlier, like we get to

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this ten percent like you see in Germany and other

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parts of Europe. I think it's gonna get there. It's

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probably not gonna happen overnight. It's gonna take a while.

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I mean, I think the younger generation. I'm fifty seven.

469
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:44,759
The younger generation is, you know, they think differently about alcohol.

470
00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:47,240
So I think more and more people they want to

471
00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:49,559
go out and have a good time. They don't want

472
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,400
to drink. They don't want to be a fan ass

473
00:26:53,559 --> 00:26:55,640
like I am and have the beer belly and all

474
00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:00,599
of that. So I do see this growing. I just

475
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,839
hope it's you know, it doesn't take a generation for

476
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,559
it to happen.

477
00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, same. I mean, the acceleration in the past three

478
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,160
four years has been amazing and I hope it continues.

479
00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:13,640
And I think the way for it can you continue,

480
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,200
will be educating the smaller breweries and giving them resources

481
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,519
and making sure they're doing it right. And I think, yeah,

482
00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:24,960
I'd like to play a role in that. Yeah, I know,

483
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,319
I know, like Lars is out there already, and I

484
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:32,119
don't know if you know Kevin Barnes as well, formerly

485
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,200
with Two Roots. Okay, there are very few Two Roots

486
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,359
cans hanging around. I still have a couple. I found

487
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,440
a couple more in the back of my brother's fridge.

488
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,240
But he's also Beagle Plus Brewing as well, all right, so,

489
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,559
and then he was with another one that shut down,

490
00:27:47,599 --> 00:27:54,039
but that was for different reasons. He's also providing consulting services,

491
00:27:54,079 --> 00:27:56,519
so he's another person for breweries to reach out to

492
00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:00,680
work with. And I know he's also launched a low

493
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,519
alcohol one, like a three percent one. So I know

494
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,200
there's Dad Strength Brewing, which was on the USFNA podcast recently,

495
00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:12,799
is called Starts an A and it's out of Aurora.

496
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,240
I'll have to get back to you. In the name

497
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,640
of reason it just slipped my mind. But I also

498
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,559
think that three percent of beers have a role to play.

499
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:20,920
Not as the old style you would go to the

500
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:22,759
grocery store and get a three point two because it's

501
00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:24,720
the only thing that's sold it and tasted like water

502
00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:27,160
down beer, but beer.

503
00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:29,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I mean, one of my favorite styles, and

504
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,319
hardly anyone makes it as an English mild where it

505
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,160
is in that range. You could have one at lunch

506
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:37,160
and be fine.

507
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. And that's the other thing about ana is

508
00:28:40,039 --> 00:28:42,400
you can have one and lunch and be fine. Yeah.

509
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,599
Speaker 1: I put one in my lunch bag to work about

510
00:28:44,599 --> 00:28:47,119
a year ago, and everyone's kind of looking at me.

511
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,920
I'm like, it's not alcoholic. I'm good.

512
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,839
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean even if you have one beer lunch,

513
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,319
you come back and you just don't work the same

514
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,440
for the next two hours and defending up that work.

515
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:56,759
Speaker 1: Yeah.

516
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's another benefit for sure.

517
00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: Well, once again, you guys have to check out reduce

518
00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:05,519
aholic dot com. I'll include the link in the show notes.

519
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,119
Anywhere in the country you are, you can find a

520
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:13,160
spot that's making great non alcoholic beer. Hopefully we keep

521
00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:18,079
adding more as we talk and the market grows for this.

522
00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:23,119
I see a lot like out west, like California looks

523
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,680
really good. The Midwest and east, the middle of the country.

524
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,200
We still need to work on a bit here.

525
00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:33,759
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, yeah, the Midwest is doing really well. Yeah,

526
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,400
Indiana is doing well in New York.

527
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,799
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, well, Tyler, thanks again for coming on.

528
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,079
I appreciate it. Once again, you have to check out

529
00:29:44,279 --> 00:29:47,640
reduce aholic dot com. Tyler, I will talk to you

530
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,640
down the road, sir, sounds good. Take care all right.

531
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 3: If you like fun, then you're gonna I love the

532
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535
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540
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Speaker 1: Usually when I do these kind of reviews, I do

541
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,119
that on beer. But today I'm gonna try something different.

542
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:43,359
I'm gonna make a cocktail, actually a mocktail, if you will,

543
00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:47,680
because I'm using all non alcoholic ingredients. Now, there's a

544
00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:52,160
beer cocktail that will be found and it's called the Monocle.

545
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:55,160
And then I was doing some research and there's actually

546
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,079
two versions of this. There's a French version and then

547
00:30:59,119 --> 00:31:02,920
a Mexican mini conversion. What I'm doing here is kind

548
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,680
of best of the boat. So let's see how this works.

549
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,720
I'm using non alcoholic beer and hop water from Go Brewing,

550
00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:16,200
and then grenadine, which is what the recipe calls for.

551
00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:21,160
When you get the grenadine, get the good stuff. Don't

552
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,799
buy the stuff that you see it the jewel that's

553
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,000
usually all loaded with high fruititose corn syrup. I picked

554
00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,519
up one that has actual pomegranate and juice in there,

555
00:31:32,839 --> 00:31:35,519
so I think that's gonna be good. Now, some of

556
00:31:35,559 --> 00:31:40,119
the recipes call for lemonade or club soda. I'm gonna

557
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,440
use the hop water from Go straight out of alcohol.

558
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,759
What I like about Goes is they use citric acid

559
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:50,240
in the hop water, so I figure that will give

560
00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:53,240
me some tart miss as well as from the actual

561
00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:59,200
pomegran So let's give it a world. Now, the recipe

562
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,359
called for a splash of pomegranate or grenadine, if you will.

563
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,680
I'm gonna add a little more than a splat because

564
00:32:08,759 --> 00:32:17,920
I like it. Some recipes call for four ounces of

565
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000
beer four ounces of the other liquid. I've seen some

566
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,680
they call for six and two. So I'm gonna go

567
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,599
six ounces of beer with two ounces of the hop

568
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,519
water and then the grenadine.

569
00:32:31,599 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 2: So let's pour this out. It didn't safe. You should

570
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,359
add for a foam or not, I don't know. But

571
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:39,920
the swirl.

572
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: Now, I'm gonna add a couple ounces of the hop

573
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,200
water straight out of alcohol.

574
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 2: You could tell it looks good.

575
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: It's got a nice color to it. Kind of get

576
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:01,720
a little swirl here. Smells good. I get the hops

577
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:05,079
from the hop water, and I also get the pomegranate

578
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,960
from the grenadine, So I think the smell's really good.

579
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:19,240
I like it. That's very tasty. You do get everything there,

580
00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:22,720
so it's all kind of blending together. The pomegranate, you

581
00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:25,599
have the citrus from the hop water, and the nice

582
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,960
clean taste of the pills there. I'm using suspended the

583
00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:33,160
some being pills here from go grewing. So this is

584
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:38,039
all non alcoholic, So sober October's coming up soon. You

585
00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:41,680
can maybe make a mocktail with this, or you could

586
00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:46,440
use you know, whatever you want to use. The cocktail

587
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,480
was called the monocle, but since I'm using this year,

588
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:57,839
I'm calling this the monoc go Genius. Genius, I say,

589
00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:05,880
let's try the monog again. I really like that the

590
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,239
extra little kick with the pomegranate juice. The grenadine really

591
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:16,119
tastes good, makes everything blend together nicely. I think if

592
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:18,679
I were to make one change with this, I would

593
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,400
use like a twist of lemon and add it to

594
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,360
here as well. So I think the next time I

595
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:26,400
make this, I'm gonna grab some lemons and put a

596
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,199
twist of lemon in here to give a little more

597
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,519
citric acid, a little more acidity to this. I think

598
00:34:33,599 --> 00:34:38,360
that would be total winner right there. So if you

599
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,840
want to try this at home, use a couple splashes

600
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,159
of grenadine. Remember, get the good stuff six ounces of

601
00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,960
a regular like pilsner, or like a logger if you will.

602
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:53,159
So the goes is really good. You could pick their up,

603
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,039
get it all over the place.

604
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:57,039
Speaker 2: It's good. Their pills there is really good.

605
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 1: And then I use the hot water. Buy the hop

606
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,679
water that has citric acid. I think that's going to

607
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,360
make this a better drink. Goes does there straight out

608
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:12,360
of alcohol that use citric acid as well, so it

609
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,159
gives it that little tartness from here. And I think

610
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,039
citric acid in hop water kind of mellows out the

611
00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:21,960
raw hop taste that you can get with some. So

612
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:24,079
when I'm looking for a hop water, I always look

613
00:35:24,119 --> 00:35:28,159
for some to have the citric acid night for my taste.

614
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,679
That's a winner. So you could pick up this. You

615
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,320
could pick up this. You can get them all over

616
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,559
the city. You could order it through Amazon if you will,

617
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,239
or you can go on Gold Brewing's website. I'll include

618
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,199
a late on the bottom if you want to check

619
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,719
it out and pick up some good grenadine and enjoy

620
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:55,320
the mono. Go all right. My apologies for getting this

621
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,519
episode out a couple of days late. But I saw

622
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,719
Friday that Hop Butcher is going to have a new

623
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,039
hop water coming out, and I figured, well, let's put

624
00:36:07,079 --> 00:36:10,679
it in with this episode with produce Aholics. It would

625
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,360
be a nice tie in. So that's why the episodes

626
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,599
out a little late. It's one forty five in the

627
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:22,639
afternoon on Wednesday. This was canned. This morning. I stopped

628
00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:25,800
over at Hop Butcher about a half hour ago and

629
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,559
they're like, well, we have it in the back. We

630
00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:29,800
haven't even put it on the shelves yet, but I'll

631
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,199
get you some. So I haven't my can. The first

632
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,239
can of this released to the public, I said it

633
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:41,840
was canned this morning. Looks really cool, good artwork on here.

634
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,920
This is called Hop Water for the World. This is

635
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,320
Citra Mosaic and El Dorado hopped. I'm looking forward to

636
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,920
this the way Hop Butcher is with their beers. I'm

637
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,679
expecting a lot from this. So let's crack open Hop

638
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:14,079
Water for the World. I don't need to tell you

639
00:37:14,159 --> 00:37:18,639
what it looks like. It's water. You do get that

640
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:24,480
big hop aroma from this. It smells phenomenal. That's really good.

641
00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:29,079
All of those hops work well together with the water.

642
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,280
It think it blends well. This is really nice. And

643
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,679
I mentioned before, like I like a little citric acid

644
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,559
in my hop water. They do not use it, but

645
00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:43,199
they don't need it with this. It tastes phenomenal on

646
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,960
its own. So if you see it, then you're like, oh,

647
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,639
Dave said, you know, they should use citric acid. Hop

648
00:37:50,639 --> 00:37:56,719
Butcher does not. This is fantastic. Yeah, that's just really good.

649
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,159
This could be the best hop water I've had yet

650
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,360
outside of the stuff I make on my own. But no,

651
00:38:04,519 --> 00:38:07,599
this is really good. I don't know if it's going

652
00:38:07,639 --> 00:38:10,920
to be around all the time, but I would definitely

653
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,639
go pick it up. It is available at the Lincoln

654
00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:17,719
Avenue location there, so definitely pick it up. Hopefully it's

655
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,480
distributed more around the Chicago Land area. But I think

656
00:38:22,519 --> 00:38:25,079
this is really good. The price was good. It was

657
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:29,440
for twelve ounce cans and it was like six bucks.

658
00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:32,840
I was like six sixty something with tex, so a

659
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,920
nice price point on this as well. So if you're

660
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:40,039
looking for a good hop water, Hop Butchers Hop Water

661
00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:42,320
for the World is one you need to put in

662
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:54,199
the cart. All right. That's going to wrap things up

663
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,920
for this edition of Beer in Front. I thank you

664
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,400
so much for listening. Once again, I want to thank

665
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,440
Tyler from Reducaholic for coming on talking about his great

666
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:08,199
website and talking about the non alcoholic beer industry. Check

667
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,559
the website out, really cool stuff.

668
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: There.

669
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: Have a great week everyone. I'll talk to you on

670
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,480
my usual Monday time next week. So I have a

671
00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:22,000
great couple of days. And remember sometimes the beer in

672
00:39:22,039 --> 00:39:25,440
front of you or non alcoholic beer in front of

673
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,320
you is the best one yet