Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to the lunch Break podcast. This is Ricky
Speaker 1: coming at you here on the front end. We're excited
Speaker 1: about this episode. It has been far too long since
Speaker 1: something's been released. But I just wanted to give you
Speaker 1: a heads up here before you get too deep into
Speaker 1: this that this particular episode format with us taste testing
Speaker 1: and ranking root bears with a blindfold on, may not
Speaker 1: be the best listening experience, but it's a pretty decent
Speaker 1: visual experience. So with that said, you can click the
Speaker 1: YouTube link in the description and not only hear us
Speaker 1: test these roop ears, but actually get to see it happen. Also,
Speaker 1: full disclosure, I didn't use a single real microphone in
Speaker 1: this entire thing, so you're getting all cell phone audio,
Speaker 1: which I think is a little more forgivable on YouTube
Speaker 1: as opposed to in your audio feed, So keep that
Speaker 1: in mind as well. But if you're going to continue
Speaker 1: listening on, thank you, We're glad you're here, and let's
Speaker 1: roll the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, what's up, everybody.
Speaker 3: It's us, we're here.
Speaker 4: We're let's we'll go easy on.
Speaker 3: The back, because every time we say.
Speaker 5: We're back, we then go away for a long, extended.
Speaker 1: Growing But today in the office, we were discussing various
Speaker 1: routiers and we decided what did we do.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do a Rutier taste test. It's going to
Speaker 3: be us too. It's also going to be new guy,
Speaker 3: pastor Caleb, and.
Speaker 1: He's going to uh test from Rupier too, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna see which of these guys.
Speaker 5: Comes out on top.
Speaker 3: So we got Crisp pairing the goods.
Speaker 5: And uh so we went with what I would call
Speaker 5: the big three.
Speaker 3: We got Barks, which.
Speaker 1: Has of course bite bite, Yeah, I bite you. We
Speaker 1: got a W, we got mug and then we threw
Speaker 1: in a local Stewart's Shops Roupier, upstate New York, local.
Speaker 3: Type of ruper. So it's gonna be a blind test.
Speaker 3: And Chris's parents barks, what are that? Poor?
Speaker 4: Can't teach that.
Speaker 5: I can't teach that.
Speaker 3: It's very foamy. A W got a got a good
Speaker 3: head just like Chris. Look at that. It's a good head.
Speaker 3: Good head for a bald head. All right.
Speaker 1: So this is introducing for the first time and lunch
Speaker 1: break history.
Speaker 3: Caleb, Hello, na buyer, it's me all right.
Speaker 1: Only, so how this is going to work is when
Speaker 1: you taste the root beer, which you will consume blindfolded. Okay,
Speaker 1: you'll then rank it on a scale of one to four,
Speaker 1: where we'll we'll place the cup one being the best
Speaker 1: for being the worst. But my first question is what
Speaker 1: what do you predict just from knowing these root beers
Speaker 1: and maybe not knowing Stuarts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know Stewarts.
Speaker 6: If I'm looking at this just based on my ranking,
Speaker 6: Barks would be number one.
Speaker 3: I'm a Bars fan, probably.
Speaker 6: A w second, and then it'll be between Mug and
Speaker 6: Stewart for.
Speaker 3: For the worst.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, for the worst for the worst.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm excited for for this adventure.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get him blindfolded. Go ahead, there we go.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna get the nose on it first, make.
Speaker 7: Sure the whole palace is involved.
Speaker 4: I had some some Angel's pizza as well to help.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 8: Interesting, interesting, How would you How.
Speaker 6: Would it felt a little uh not as carbonated as
Speaker 6: I would have expected.
Speaker 3: From the hard poor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it feels a little more surpy than then
Speaker 6: Maybe I was expecting.
Speaker 3: Guess of brand. Mmm mmmmm, I'm I'm going with ah.
Speaker 3: I think it's Stewards. That's what I'm going. All right,
Speaker 3: where do you go? Where do you place it?
Speaker 1: And you can move them after, But where's your initial
Speaker 1: placement of this?
Speaker 4: Well, it's the best one I've had so far, so right.
Speaker 3: Now it's raining best and worst.
Speaker 9: Chris administer number two the next there you go, take
Speaker 9: take that into your Yeah, goll it, Oh my goodness, this.
Speaker 3: Is harder than we thought it would be.
Speaker 10: Okay, now, how is it? How does it compare to
Speaker 10: the last one? When it comes to the carbonation factor?
Speaker 6: There's more carbonation, O there is. It is a little
Speaker 6: foam here, which which to me seems like mud.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, So would you rank it higher or lower?
Speaker 3: I would rank it higher than the one I just had. Okay,
Speaker 3: then let's move the other one to two. This one
Speaker 3: is now the reigning Champa, and let's go with this
Speaker 3: one next.
Speaker 7: There you go, sir, you partake at your convenience.
Speaker 6: It smells a little fruity, actually really yeah, I don't
Speaker 6: kind of I don't have a good nose.
Speaker 7: What kind of notes are you getting from that?
Speaker 3: I don't know, like what kind of bouquet? Whoa mm hmm?
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, all right, yes, so strong I can
Speaker 4: tell you have some strong I do it? Does it
Speaker 4: does have like some more earthy maybe more earthy tone?
Speaker 3: Okay, you feel with dirt?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's real roots.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm actually gonna switch from my first one.
Speaker 3: I think this one is the Stewards. Do you think
Speaker 3: it's the Stewarts?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I actually I like this? And you place this at
Speaker 3: number one spot? I think so right?
Speaker 4: Currently, and so.
Speaker 3: Everything just cants move down one. You think you can
Speaker 3: do that? Okay, al right, here.
Speaker 7: Here's your your final I'm curious on the number one one.
Speaker 4: You can't smell anything on this one.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. This is A and W.
Speaker 1: That means the first one was If you guys are
Speaker 1: on laughing this, we can't say it that way.
Speaker 5: You can't respond, all right, yeah, we can't.
Speaker 3: We can't confirm or deny.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: One feels like an W. Where are we sticking to
Speaker 3: A and W?
Speaker 10: Now, So, knowing it's A and W in your mind,
Speaker 10: confidence you place it.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking number two, placing it for number two?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I think number two.
Speaker 3: There's no rush, all right, I think number two. So
Speaker 3: everything is pushed down from number two downwards.
Speaker 7: Yes, we're saying okay, all right, so this is your alright, your.
Speaker 3: Final do you want to change that?
Speaker 1: I want the first one, the first first one, which
Speaker 1: I think is currently just pushed down to the bottom.
Speaker 3: Is it at the bottom? I think it is that one.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's it's not as fuzzy as I was expecting
Speaker 8: that still, ye, because that was the first one. He
Speaker 8: said it was not very physy, and you said, yeah,
Speaker 8: a little bit more servey.
Speaker 4: Okay, I think I think I'm gonna move this into
Speaker 4: three though.
Speaker 6: The three okay, well that's where I'm at.
Speaker 10: So are you confident and where everything lies the most
Speaker 10: confident as that can be?
Speaker 1: Okay, we can take the blindfold off that that will
Speaker 1: reveal much it is.
Speaker 3: I don't know that, all right, So we'll start at
Speaker 3: number four.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so why don't you before, why don't you drink
Speaker 9: the rest of them?
Speaker 10: Just down a real quick and then look on the
Speaker 10: bottom and it will tell you where you rank.
Speaker 3: It is an S S, which stands for Stewart Stewart.
Speaker 10: Yet we're here number four, okay, so that came in
Speaker 10: last place, the local, the local.
Speaker 3: I did not get that one, right. I don't know
Speaker 3: which one I thought so this is this is this
Speaker 3: is months that's mug which was the number one that
Speaker 3: you said, that was the one that was the first
Speaker 3: one tried.
Speaker 4: It was between these two that was yes, all right,
Speaker 4: what do we get for number two?
Speaker 3: Number you called it and called it called that one
Speaker 3: when you said what it was, Yes, it has.
Speaker 1: To bear the bite, which means wow, wow, your preferences
Speaker 1: are consistent even with the blindfold. That all right, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna blindfold Chris and we're gonna put him through it.
Speaker 5: All right now officially in the hot seat.
Speaker 3: You look cray right now.
Speaker 4: In front of your nose.
Speaker 3: The is that gonna mess with your flip it up
Speaker 3: there you go. I want to get to that is
Speaker 3: the award winnings. All right, this is the first one. This
Speaker 3: is this is it? Chris? Tell me, Chris had a
Speaker 3: lot of real beer before this. It's the fumes from
Speaker 3: I'll try to do what you did.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna take give it versus Okay, that one in it.
Speaker 3: No, it's quite quite strong.
Speaker 10: Okay, strong, okay, but it's it's smooth.
Speaker 3: It's pretty smooth. Not bourbon.
Speaker 12: My guess is that My guess is that this one
Speaker 12: is an w all right, okay, and where where would
Speaker 12: you rank that? Will that be the best that you've
Speaker 12: had to this point thus far?
Speaker 3: Okay? That should go to number one.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, you finished the whole thing, so there's
Speaker 1: no second taste, No second taste the number two.
Speaker 3: Okay, number two?
Speaker 7: Right, less of a smell?
Speaker 3: Still there? Odor free?
Speaker 7: Okay, this one I think.
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 1: Okay, what are you getting one of the flavor?
Speaker 3: What's in your head?
Speaker 10: This one is less surupy, it's got more fizz in
Speaker 10: the tongue.
Speaker 3: What about fizz elsewhere in the nose? All right, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say I'm gonna go with put this as number two.
Speaker 10: Okay, I don't have I don't really have a good guess.
Speaker 3: One and four. Chance you already guessed the other one
Speaker 3: was A and W.
Speaker 6: So all right, here's the here's the third one.
Speaker 3: What do you get? What do you get there?
Speaker 7: That's got a strong scent to it?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 10: Okay, this one is a little creamier, okay, and sweeter.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna put this one at number two.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just bump the other one down, Yeah, bump
Speaker 1: number two down to two.
Speaker 3: Three? Okay, Now, what do you think that one was
Speaker 3: what do you got a guess? All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: guess that one was mug okay, okay, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: Now here's the last last one. It's a mystery one.
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: What are the notes? Okay? That one? This one smells
Speaker 3: more processed. That makes sense.
Speaker 4: The other ones are far more natural all natural sugar.
Speaker 10: Oh wait, okay, wow, all right, that one's got a
Speaker 10: little more kicked to it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna guess that one's barks. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: my guy.
Speaker 4: So where where would you put it in the pantheon?
Speaker 10: I would put this one at number put this one
Speaker 10: at number three and.
Speaker 3: Number three down?
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, okay, I mean he downed the one that
Speaker 8: he had, and number one and the rest of the.
Speaker 3: Rest he hasn't finished.
Speaker 1: I try the number one again, all yeah, give him
Speaker 1: something from the other cup.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, just pour some in.
Speaker 7: He can't see, yeah, I can't see.
Speaker 3: This guy's blind down bohm. But you think I like
Speaker 3: number one? It was a little on the sweeter side.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, go ahead, this is number one.
Speaker 4: It's number one again. It's it's hard going.
Speaker 7: Back, it is, Can I try number No, no, this
Speaker 7: is good.
Speaker 3: This is literally number one for you. Number one. Can
Speaker 3: I just have the bottle?
Speaker 10: Number one, number two are very close as far as
Speaker 10: like what I like. Okay, so so yeah, I'll keep
Speaker 10: that at number one.
Speaker 3: All right, very good. Do you think you want to
Speaker 3: change the order of any of the others.
Speaker 7: I think I think I'm gonna sit where they let
Speaker 7: him sit where.
Speaker 9: They are, okay, all right, well then let's keep the
Speaker 9: blindfold on, all right, and all right, so we'll start
Speaker 9: number four.
Speaker 3: Let's start with four.
Speaker 1: All right? What was your least favorite is probably the
Speaker 1: better way to phrase it.
Speaker 3: Stuart's Stuarts. That's two fours for Stuart's. Okay, all right,
Speaker 3: Number three. You were right on this one.
Speaker 1: Barks barks, Okay, you said, I kick you didn't commit
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 3: That wasn't sure.
Speaker 10: So this comes down now to a w which I believed.
Speaker 3: Oh we didn't ask you for your pre rankings.
Speaker 13: But yeah, my, my, my, my pre rankings was I
Speaker 13: was thinking that either one of and I wasn't even
Speaker 13: able to commit commit. Even from the beginning, I thought
Speaker 13: it's gonna be one of these tours gonna be my favorite,
Speaker 13: which is it's true.
Speaker 3: One of those two are gonna be my favorite.
Speaker 4: This one you thought was a W.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the one you identify.
Speaker 3: Let's se who's runner up? N w W number one.
Speaker 3: Mug is my number two. Yeah, Mug is my number two.
Speaker 3: There you go, well done.
Speaker 4: Now I know for sure that now that maybe had
Speaker 4: the cameras.
Speaker 3: It's my second favorite. I got to go.
Speaker 1: You know what, this show is a real trust in
Speaker 1: each other because the opportunity.
Speaker 3: To mess you put your hat back on too. Okay,
Speaker 3: you have a.
Speaker 1: Cup of coffee, I look up, take a big sip
Speaker 1: of this one.
Speaker 3: Just drink it. All right, So here we go. What
Speaker 3: are your pre ranks?
Speaker 10: Yeah, what are your what are your thoughts? Right from
Speaker 10: the beginning pre ranking?
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have Barks at number one. That's
Speaker 1: a favorite rup year of mine. And then so we
Speaker 1: got Barks, I think it will go Mug and W
Speaker 1: and I'm just assuming Stewart's at the end. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do that because that's insulting the area.
Speaker 3: But well, your tastes are your taste. You can't do
Speaker 3: anything about that. You are you can't your taste? So
Speaker 3: is gonna give them the first one to try. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what are the nose? What's the nose you're getting? I
Speaker 3: think you started me with Stewarts, so my nose is.
Speaker 7: Telling me, okay, all right, you're snows.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You know I was expecting more flavor and it wasn't there.
Speaker 1: I'm actually thinking this might actually be mug.
Speaker 3: Harry go finishing it, defeating it. I'm gonna I.
Speaker 1: Know, I could just put this at number one, but
Speaker 1: I'm already gonna put this at number four.
Speaker 4: Okay, And you're thinking that's Stewart's I got Okay, that's
Speaker 4: what I'm here for.
Speaker 3: You're thinking that's Stewarts. Okay, I'm actually you went to mud.
Speaker 3: Actually we think Stuarts.
Speaker 1: But I first on sniff, I thought it was Stewart's
Speaker 1: on taste, I felt like it was mug. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens for right now. That was number number four.
Speaker 1: Number two, Here you go, number two, Oh barks getting
Speaker 1: some nose.
Speaker 4: From the barks, sniff at barking.
Speaker 3: If this is Stuart's, though, that's gonna be hard. How
Speaker 3: well do you do you know your nose?
Speaker 5: Because I flip flopped on just these first too. I've
Speaker 5: named all four no I haven't named A and W
Speaker 5: with that that, what are.
Speaker 3: The flavor notes you get in here?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: What do you like about it? You don't like about it?
Speaker 1: I'm smelling it far more than I'm tasting it, so
Speaker 1: as soon as you drink it, the taste kind of
Speaker 1: goes out.
Speaker 5: But you know, it was a really strong scent, but
Speaker 5: a fairly mellow taste.
Speaker 3: I don't think it has a bite. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with this. This one's Stewarts. The other one was mug. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: and you're ranking leaning towards Stewarts. I'm gonna put that
Speaker 3: at three. I'm gonna put that at three.
Speaker 5: I think I enjoyed that more than than the mug,
Speaker 5: and I'm committing to the mug.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think I enjoyed it more than
Speaker 3: the first one. All right, what I should say? Here's
Speaker 3: number three?
Speaker 5: See did some nose on it? Ry A and W
Speaker 5: squ I believe a mellow taste. Not bad.
Speaker 3: None of them. I shouldn't. None of them are bad.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that these are top four for a reason, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the reason being.
Speaker 3: That's what I could find. All right? Where we where
Speaker 3: we playing? This guy I'm gonna bump number three to
Speaker 3: number two and put this at number three. Interesting, and
Speaker 3: which one do you think that was?
Speaker 1: I do think that was a way hoping that I
Speaker 1: can identify barks or if I was all right?
Speaker 3: Last one one? Man, here's where it really gets down
Speaker 3: to it. I don't know myself. I don't trust myself.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like you're flying blind.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's almost like you're you're blind grief.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, this is something to your your ranking systems.
Speaker 1: Something just it didn't convince me it was barks, which
Speaker 1: that's what you're expecting it to be.
Speaker 3: This has them an w smell.
Speaker 11: Mmm.
Speaker 3: I think now he's in a conundrum. He's in a conundrum.
Speaker 3: Her No, that, but he's in a pickle. What's so?
Speaker 5: What's interesting is that you want I want so badly
Speaker 5: to be right and what I predicted. But I don't
Speaker 5: think I've named any of these correctly at this point.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna move. Okay, this is interesting. Can wait
Speaker 3: to see what you do with this.
Speaker 1: I move?
Speaker 5: Did I move anything from the number four spot?
Speaker 3: No? So you've got number three and four right now
Speaker 3: to number two right? Correct? So I'm gonna move number
Speaker 3: two to number one. All right, Okay, I'm gonna move
Speaker 3: number three. Just move three and four up and put
Speaker 3: this last laste, all right?
Speaker 7: And you don't want to you don't want any secondary
Speaker 7: tastes or anything you're.
Speaker 3: I think they would all have to be report because
Speaker 3: I finished them all. I know what you do that
Speaker 3: if you I'm a big.
Speaker 5: Gulper, and I think these are maybe smaller shots.
Speaker 7: They are pretty small repass.
Speaker 5: But I think I'm gonna stick with my gut, go
Speaker 5: with how it's ranked, and just find out.
Speaker 3: So can I take the blank?
Speaker 10: You are?
Speaker 3: You are ready, You're ready. We're ready for you to
Speaker 3: find out exactly what you found it.
Speaker 4: Number four they're away, This is this is Number four
Speaker 4: is Stewart.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 4: Facts.
Speaker 3: We love these Stuarts. Number three and w so so
Speaker 3: far my naming has been way. Number two is Barks.
Speaker 3: I'm a mug man.
Speaker 7: You're a mug guy man.
Speaker 3: Was our number one? Different for all of them?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, it was aw for Chris, Barks for me, mug
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 3: I guess now all I can buy is mug. Wait,
Speaker 3: and you said that you thought Mark's gonna come out
Speaker 3: on top. You did you say Barks gonna come on
Speaker 3: top as well.
Speaker 5: And I thought Mug was going to be the last, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know here.
Speaker 1: They are our favorites, all of our number ones are
Speaker 1: number ones, and none of us Just I know you're
Speaker 1: wonderingly us.
Speaker 5: Were paid to promote any of these room views, but
Speaker 5: if they wanted to.
Speaker 11: We're open, right, it was always open bottom up. Yet,
Speaker 11: thanks for going on that journey with us, and we
Speaker 11: hope this was was fun.
Speaker 3: And do you gotta do Rigine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, h