Speaker 1: This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods
Speaker 1: Media Network and the Beer Media Group. Sometimes the Beer
Speaker 1: in front of you is the best one yet. I'll
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Speaker 1: coming up now. Welcome to episode two hundred and nineteen
Speaker 1: of Beer in Front. I'm your host, Dave's alatoris and
Speaker 1: Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media Network
Speaker 1: member and charter member of the Beer Media Group. I'm
Speaker 1: back to work. I'm back. Who would have funk it?
Speaker 1: I'm finally back. So that's why there wasn't a show
Speaker 1: last week. Everything is allegedly settled for now. So I
Speaker 1: return to work from my back injury on Monday. So
Speaker 1: been in training. I got some more training to do
Speaker 1: because I've been gone so long, and we'll see what happened.
Speaker 1: My back is still not good. It's the same as
Speaker 1: it's been. But one Jimoke says you're clear for full duty.
Speaker 1: The other doctor says, let's have another MRI. So I'm
Speaker 1: getting the MRI on my own on Tuesday. So the
Speaker 1: day after this episode drops, I'm gonna have another MRI
Speaker 1: and have that doctor go over it and see because
Speaker 1: it's still not right. Was it Thursday, I'm taking it.
Speaker 1: I take public transportation to work, so I'm on the
Speaker 1: train and the train was this dude was flooring and
Speaker 1: this was like a roller coaster. So I was banging around.
Speaker 1: That did not feel good, and my back was shot
Speaker 1: all day Thursday. So we'll see. Something tells me they're
Speaker 1: gonna find something something in this. On my eye, it's
Speaker 1: going to say no, you need more work done on it.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. Everything is still up in the air.
Speaker 1: But I'm back to work getting a paycheck thankfully, so
Speaker 1: we'll keep our fingers crossed that this could be fixed.
Speaker 1: I don't have to go off payroll or whatever. Find
Speaker 1: something for me to do that I don't have to
Speaker 1: lift seventy pounds all the time and really mess this up.
Speaker 1: Quick show this week. Got a couple good beers I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about. There's some good beer news, so
Speaker 1: no interviews. But next week I'm going to have an
Speaker 1: interview with someone from the Brewers Association, so stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. But this will be just a quick, little
Speaker 1: in and out episode of Beer in Front. In Beer
Speaker 1: and Beverage News, Cigar City they've updated the look of
Speaker 1: their classic Highlight ipa. Although, and I'll get into this
Speaker 1: in a minute, I'm not a fan of some of
Speaker 1: the more recent revamps. This one from Highlight is sharp.
Speaker 1: I like it. The cans are green and orange. They've
Speaker 1: got a bigger font. It's Boulder still the same Highlight font.
Speaker 1: Look for that to hit the show soon. That one's
Speaker 1: really good. Now, speaking of revamps that I didn't like,
Speaker 1: Laganitas they're gonna update the look again on a Little
Speaker 1: Something Something. This is closer to the original look that
Speaker 1: they had for the beer before they updated the line
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. So I know they changed
Speaker 1: the IPA back to something more of the classic line.
Speaker 1: They're doing that with Little Something Something as well. So
Speaker 1: I don't know you guys gonna hired me. I could
Speaker 1: have just told you a couple of years ago, no,
Speaker 1: leave it alone and saved you a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Laganitas is going back to something close to
Speaker 1: the original on Little Something Something. Sierra Nevada's coming out
Speaker 1: with an oatmeal cookie stout. Now this has lactoseed it,
Speaker 1: So someone tell me if it's good. But I think
Speaker 1: I would like that. I love oatmeal, cookies, stouts, but yeah,
Speaker 1: lactose and me, that's a no no. Dogfish Head. They're
Speaker 1: going to have a limited release black ipa coming out now.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this. They're calling it Midnight Cascade
Speaker 1: and it's going to be available in twelve ounce cans.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan of West Coast IPAs and even
Speaker 1: some pails. There's a shortage of the classic Centennial hop
Speaker 1: abstracts hops. They're claiming this is due to weather conditions
Speaker 1: in the United States hop growing regions. Boston Beer had
Speaker 1: a disappointing second quarter, with only Twisted Tea and their
Speaker 1: sun Cruiser vodka based iced tea showing growth. This kind
Speaker 1: of boggled my mind. But you know, Boston Beer, Sam
Speaker 1: Adams Beer was only eighteen percent of their shipped volume
Speaker 1: last year. So everything else you've got, you know, the
Speaker 1: Twisted Tea, you've got this sun Cruiser, the truly Seltzer line.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just saw that. I thought it was
Speaker 1: kind of weird. Only eighteen percent of what they shipped
Speaker 1: out last year from Boston Beer was beer. Goose Islands
Speaker 1: announced the lineup for the twenty twenty four Bourbon County
Speaker 1: brand release They're going to have the original of Vanilla
Speaker 1: Rai a macaroon, which sounds really good. They're also going
Speaker 1: to have a barley wine that will only be available
Speaker 1: in the Chicago market and a Bardstown cask finished out.
Speaker 1: Those usually come out right around Thanksgiving, so look for
Speaker 1: that from Goose Island.
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Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna try something a little different. I
Speaker 1: saw this at World Market. This is a Chinese beer,
Speaker 1: nan Jing Black Beer. This is from the Master Gal
Speaker 1: Brewing Company in China. It's a beautiful can. It's a
Speaker 1: very simplistic design and artwork, but it's phenomenal. It's a
Speaker 1: white and dark blue. You have hops, you have Chinese symbols.
Speaker 1: There's like flurt to lease. There's a lot going on here.
Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful looking can. It's brood in China.
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's no date code on this, so
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this. I tried going to
Speaker 1: the website and it was like a dead end. So
Speaker 1: I know nothing about this beer. But let's give it
Speaker 1: a crack. Let's open up Nanjing black beer. It's a
Speaker 1: good sound. I'll give it that. This isn't an eleven
Speaker 1: point two ounce can five point two percent alcohol. So
Speaker 1: let's pour it and see beautiful color, beautiful foam here.
Speaker 1: Almost smells like a stout. I get a really nice
Speaker 1: aroma here, good like roasted malts. It smells excellent, like
Speaker 1: I'm getting some chocolate in here. I mean, the smell
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I like, I haven't even tried it yet,
Speaker 1: and I like this already. It's interesting. It's very sweet,
Speaker 1: very like coffee, toffee chocolatey that I'm getting in the
Speaker 1: first like initial part of the taste here feels very
Speaker 1: like thick for something that's that low an alcohol at
Speaker 1: five point two percent. Yeah, there's a lot of sweetness here,
Speaker 1: and there's like some bitterness, and it's almost not like
Speaker 1: hot bitterness, almost like sometimes you get like coffee from
Speaker 1: Starbucks and it's over roasted and it kind of has
Speaker 1: a bitterness there. That's kind of the bitterness that I'm
Speaker 1: getting from here where I think that kind of overtakes
Speaker 1: the rest of this. That's really good. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a good beer. That little ending bitterness parts kind of
Speaker 1: like getting to me. But I like it overall. I
Speaker 1: think the labor is phenomenal, like for something that's five
Speaker 1: point two percent, like, I mean, there's so much labor
Speaker 1: here that it's really good. It's just that final lingering,
Speaker 1: you know, aftertaste that I'm getting that I'm not a
Speaker 1: huge fan of, so I guess just keep drinking it
Speaker 1: then stop talking. But I mean it's not a bad
Speaker 1: beer at all. I would probably I picked it up
Speaker 1: in like a single can at World Market, so I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you could get it there in six packs. But
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's good. I would drink it again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's good. Don't get me wrong. It's good
Speaker 1: if you see it, if you're at World Market and
Speaker 1: you're buying all sorts of World Market shit. If you're
Speaker 1: out there buying, you know, furniture or exotic me beers,
Speaker 1: and you go into beer aisle. You got to pick
Speaker 1: up Nanjing black beer because it's good. That aftertaste is
Speaker 1: still kind of like I can't put my finger on it.
Speaker 1: If you see it, put it in the basket. If
Speaker 1: you're a world market and you got a full cart,
Speaker 1: you got issues, so just get a basket. There's nothing
Speaker 1: there you need in a full cart, so put it
Speaker 1: in the basket. Get your nice little soaps and everything else.
Speaker 1: You don't need a full cart there, trust me, don't
Speaker 1: get the full cart. Put it in the basket. But no,
Speaker 1: the Nanjing black beer from master Gal Brewing, I think
Speaker 1: it's good. It could be it could be a phenomenal beer,
Speaker 1: but wasn't for that bitter aftertaste. But it's still a
Speaker 1: solid beer worth putting in the basket, all right. The
Speaker 1: beer from Illinois I'm going to have this week is
Speaker 1: from ten Park. This is Sound Growler Brewing Company, Learn
Speaker 1: to Howl. It's a red Mexican style lagger checks in
Speaker 1: at five percent alcohol. I've heard a lot of good
Speaker 1: things about Sound Growler, and I'm not certain if I've
Speaker 1: had them, so I'm looking forward to this one year
Speaker 1: or so. Let's crack open Learn to Howl. It's definitely red,
Speaker 1: has that good vienna lagger color to it looks nice
Speaker 1: good foam. I like be Aroma. It's it little sweetness
Speaker 1: there from the malt to nice sweet aroma. I do
Speaker 1: like this. Yeah, it's really good. I would say this
Speaker 1: is more of a vienna lagger than anything, but I
Speaker 1: mean I like it a lot. It has a really
Speaker 1: good flavor to this little spiciness there, like not hot spicy,
Speaker 1: but it's very flavorful. It's a good balance between the malt, sweetness,
Speaker 1: the hops. I like this. I'm a fan, and you
Speaker 1: know me, I like Vana Logger, so actually some simpiness.
Speaker 1: It's got a little little bitterness at the end, which
Speaker 1: I'm kind of digging too. So I'm a fan. I'd
Speaker 1: have to say I'd mean to start drinking more. Sound Growler.
Speaker 1: Find that there, go to Tinley Park and pick them up.
Speaker 1: But I'm a fan. So if you see Learn to
Speaker 1: Howl from Sound Growler Brewing out of Tinley Park, Illinois,
Speaker 1: definitely put it in the cart. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy it, all right. That's gonna wrap things up for
Speaker 1: this edition of Beer in Front. I thank you very
Speaker 1: much for listening. If you want to get a hold
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Speaker 1: Next week, I'll be talking to someone from the Brewers
Speaker 1: Association all about the second quarter numbers and the business
Speaker 1: of beer, so that'll be out next week. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: just remember sometimes the beer in front of you is
Speaker 1: the best one yet