Speaker 1: This is Beer in Front, part of the Odd Pods
Media Network and the Beer Media Group. Sometimes the beer
in front of you is the best one yet. I'll
talk to people around the beer world and get their
stories all about beer. That's Beer in Front and it's
coming up now. Welcome to episode two hundred and twenty
one of Beer in Front. I'm your host Dave Zalatorus,
and Beer in Front is a proud odd Pods Media
Network member and charter member of the Beer Media Group.
It's a quick show this week. Grandpa Beer and his
wife Sharon. They were at town over the weekend. We
met up at Dubtail and Hop Butcher on Saturday. They
were kind up, bring me some beer from Vegas. I'm
gonna have one from craft House. Later in the episode.
I'll also have is the Illinois beer, one from Tangled
Roots out of Ottawa, Illinois. I don't know how good
my editing is going to be, but if you hear
some ruckus in the background like that, it's Aaron water
Show weekend here in Chicago, and the Blue Angels are
flying right over the luxurious Beer in Front studios. So
if you hear the roar, it's not me it's the
Blue Angels. Quick update on my back situation. So last
week I completed my first full week back to work
and it took some getting used to forty hours. I'm
not used to that, and in the last eleven months
close to a year. Luckily they put me at a
desk that I didn't have to lift anything. I worked
a customer service desk, so that helped where there was
a stool where I could stand or sit. But still
my back's not right. So sorry, the Blue Angels are
flying over right now. I'll stand by, but yeah, it's
still not right, so we'll see what happens from there.
It just tightens up. Luckily for me, they have a
licensed physical therapist at work, so I was able to
go a few times this week for some massage and
they iced it down with that helped me get through
the day. So luckily they're available, you know, during the
days that I'm there Monday through Friday. So it's still
not right, but at least I'm back to work, getting
a paycheck and not bothering you find people to support
the show on Patrion, which is still okay. I'm not
going to argue, but at least I'm back, getting a
full paycheck and everything there is cool. This Air and
Water show, it's a mess. Everybody loves the Air and
Water Show in Chicago, except for Moira Bros.
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Speaker 1: She jumps out of her skin. The poor little girl
is scared. She's sitting as I'm recording this underneath my
desk and my feet. You know, Ruby sent me pictures
during the practice on Thursday and Friday where the poor
girl was underneath an end table. And yeah, Moyra is
not a fan of the Blue Angels and thunderbirds. So
that's over with today. I'm recording this on Sunday, August eleventh.
Today's the final day of it, thankfully, but that was
a mess. Also, I mentioned I work customer service at O'Hare.
Well on Friday during the practice. If you've ever flown
into O'Hare, you know one of the landing areas you
come over Lake Michigan from the east and you just
go straight across the city and land. Well, that's all
taken away during the Air and Water show, so you
really could only land and take off from the west,
so that creates air traffic control problems. I work the
customer service desk and have to explain people to people
why they're late or miss their flight because of the
Air and Water Show. People were not happy then, rightfully
so so Moira Rose and travelers were not happy if
the air and Water Show is here over the weekend.
In Beer and Beverage News, World of Beer is filed
for chapter eleven. They cite distress in the restaurant industry
as a whole. They have thirty four locations around the
country currently, some of which are franchisees, but at one point,
World of Beer had seventy one locations. This is cool
Molson they signed parents of some Canadian Olympic athletes to
an endorsement deal where they get money and free Molson beer.
If you live in the UK, allD is hiring an
official beer taster where you will get to try free
beer and review them for upcoming all D beer releases.
So if you're a UK listener, check out all these website.
Left Hand is updating the cans of their iconic milk stout.
I love this design. I've talked more about some designs
that didn't go well, but this one is beautiful, really
stands out. This is great artwork on the new milk
Stout from left hand for the upcoming Democratic National Convention
here in Chicago, Alter Brewing and Sketchbook Brewing. They're collaborating
with Illinois Governor JB. Pritzker on Jaber. Alters is a
Mexican style lagger and sketch Books. It's going to be
a West Coast style IPA. Both are going to be
served at Democratic National Committee hosted events at the convention.
So if you're going for the DNC, check out Jaber. Finally,
I talked before earlier in the summer about the cicadas,
and I didn't get to see any here, but Noon
Whistle suburban brewery they were serving up and they publicized
milort that was infused with dead cicadas. Well, the state
of Illinois boy gave them some fines because I guess
that didn't pass health standards. I mean, malort would kill
any infection. But so if you had secada malort over
at Noon Whistle, consider yourself lucky because they've got fined
for it.
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all right. The beer that's in front of me now
is from craft House Brewery in Las Vegas. This is
their house Vest. This is a Vest beer on Spanish cedar.
So I'm looking forward to cracking this open once again.
Thank you to Grandpa Beer and his wife Sharon. When
they came in over the weekend. They gave me some
beers and ciders from the Vegas area. But I'm looking
forward to this. I've hated the craft House before. I
think Bill brought that over one of the times he
was here, maybe a year or so ago. And I
love Octoberfest peers. I love anything with Spanish cedar, So
this sounds really appealing to me. So let's crack open
the house fest. Beautiful color here, lovely color.
Speaker 1: I like this. It's got a nice amber color to it.
Good foam, smells really nice. This is the first Octoberfest
I've had of the season. It's coming out so early now.
Some of them are out in July, but yeah, I
kind of want to wait a little bit because it's
still warm out. So this is the first october Fest
that I've had of the year. There's a blue angel
flying over me right now. But it smells really good.
Oh yeah, that's nice. You get the wonderful malts, and
then that cedar adds a beautiful touch to this. I mean,
most barrel aged beers are done in oak from bourbon barrels,
but this cedar gives it a really nice finish that's outstanding.
That's one of the best October best. I had little
bitterness there at the back, which I wasn't expecting, but
it blends well with the sweetness of the malt and
the cedar. This is an excellent beer. Trying to look
on the can if it has an ABV on this,
I don't see one on the can, but they use
one hundred percent German malts here. This is just an
excellent beer. Beautiful artwork on the can. Yeah, that's that's
an absolute winner. I love this one, So thank you
to Bill and Sharon for bringing this. If you're in
the Las Vegas area or wherever Craft House distributes, I
would definitely put this one in the cart. This is excellent.
So if you're a fan of October Fest beers, you
have to pick up house fests from Craft House in
Las Vegas. Craft House has been around since two thoy
and fourteen, wide selection of different beers. I'm on their
website now trying to remember what was the other one
that I had from them, and I don't remember if
it was Bill and Sharon who brought it over or
my friend Ray Ray when he lived in Vegas, but
I know I've had something else from Craft House before
and I've enjoyed it. It looks like on their website
the huge variety of stuff. They have a partnership with
UNLV for Rebel Spirit Golden Ale. I know the one
I've had before has been great. I just met and
they have like a wide variety. They have sours, they
have IPAs, cold IPAs. So if you're looking for a
good beer and you're in the Vegas area, I would
definitely hit up Craft House because I'm telling you right now,
this Octoberfest is one of the best I've ever had,
so put it in the cart. Next up in my
Drink Illinois Beer series, I'm gonna have one from Tangled Roots.
Ruby was out there in Ottawa a couple of weeks
ago and she stopped and picked this up. I've been
there before, we went six seven years ago. I didn't
know they had other locations. They have a location now
in Lockport, Burning Hills, and Glen View, So Tangled Roots
is all around the state of Illinois. Their beers are
really good. She asked, like, what should I get you.
I mean, here's a lot there. But they have this
series called Farm to Foam, and I guess they have
hops in Barley that's grown real close to their brewery
in Ottawa, so they use some of the hops in
barley from their own farm to the beer, which I
thought was cool. So this is kit Cupfer. This is
an amber ale four point nine percent lovely artwork. The
artwork is great as this fox with nice copper color.
And I will say Tangled Roots has one of the
best logos in the state of Illinois. Like Second City
Metery I love, I love Maplewood, Entangled Roots is like
right there, so great logo, great looking. Can I like
the idea behind this, the whole farm to Foam series.
So let's bust open this kit cup fur really nice
amber color here, good foam. Yeah, the malt really good
malt aroma here smells really nice. Oh that's good. Yeah,
good good sweetness. A little bitterness, not a lot. Doesn't
list the IBus on here, but I think it's really good.
You get the nice caramel malt taste to it. Maybe
a little hops at the end, like I'm trying to think,
like little fruity this towards the back end of this,
like maybe a stone fruit. I could be wrong, but no,
I think it's really good. Yeah, No, I'm thinking this
They also have in this series a pale ale ipa,
a wit, a golden a stout. So if you're around
any of their locations, I definitely recommend picking up something
from the Farm to Foam series. But this amber is
really good. Yeah, I like that, So if you see it,
if you're around, put it in the cart. If you're
in any of their locations, I would definitely stop by.
I know Ruby went there for dinner and said the
dinner was really good too, So thanks Ruby for hooking
me up with a four pack, and thank you Tangled
Roots for making a really good beer. Put it in
the cart when you see it. All right, that's gonna
wrap things up for this edition of Beer in Front.
I thank you very much for listening. Once again, I
want to thank Bill and Sharon for coming over to
visit and dropping off some great beers from Las Vegas.
If you want to get a hold of me, you
could email me Dave atsbeerinfront dot com, or you could
find me on all the social media channels at Beer
in Front. Have a great week everyone, and remember sometimes
the beer in front of you is the best one yet.