[Music] Hey everybody, John Rubio here. Before we get started with this episode, I just wanted to remind you that Anastasia and I will be in San Diego, California from April 24th through the 27th. We have a bunch of breweries that we're going to hit and we're so excited about that and while we're out there, we want to meet a bunch of our listeners. And the way you can keep track of where we're going to be is to check out our Facebook page. We're going to be updating that thing as we go. We're going to post a bunch of information about where we're going to be and when we're going to be there. Facebook.com/thebears. That's where you go. Also, Friday night, April 25th, will be at Tiger Tiger. I know that for sure. I know in this episode I say that we're going to be at Live Wire. No, no, no, that's wrong. We're not going to be at Live Wire. We're going to be at Tiger Tiger at 730 Friday, April 25th. We're a listener meetup, so that's a place for you for sure to be able to meet up with us. And I'll be bringing a bunch of yummy Texas beer to share with the group. So come on out, San Diegoans and everybody else who's in that area. Make a trip. Hang out with us Friday night in San Diego at Tiger Tiger. It's going to be a blast. Alright, everybody on with the show. Episode 107 of the Furious podcast recorded April 10, 2014. Oh, a hoppy day. Four pounds. Yup, what the fuck are you going to do with four pounds of pot honey? I'm going to get diabetes while I'm getting high. No, no, but high abedies. Okay, just walk me through how you're going to do the pot honey. Is it going to be mixed in green tea? Is it going to cook with it? I'll put it on whatever the hell I want that goes good with honey whenever I feel like getting high. Okay, so pretty much your non-answer means you're just going to be spooning the honey in your mouth. That's exactly what's going to happen. Winning the poo, just sitting there, digging in there. He gets stuck in that one round window, but he doesn't care. As long as he's got his honey pot. Oh, shit. As long as he can call for a pizza. My whole fist is going to get stuck in there. Oh, God. Oh, God. It's not the first time you said that. Oh, God. Is this how we're going to start? Is this how we're going to do it? Yeah, this is how this all starts. You know, sometimes things just don't work out the way you think they're going to work out. Yeah, no, that's very fucking true. Okay, I'm John Rubio. And with me today, I have Grant Davis, Mike Pot, Honey Lambert, and Anastasia Flabbergasted that Mike just gave himself a nickname, Kelly. I was going to say it actually should be honey pot. That's what we call you. Honey pot. Oh, I'm candy. What? I'm candy gusher, and this here is honey pot. Just call me Christopher Robin. Oh, God. Oh, God. Christopher Robin just scooting down the street, holding that one balloon, spreading a rainbow like neon cat. All right, so we're the bearers. And we talk about beer in a bunch of other dumb shit. And today, this episode that we're doing is called Oh Hoppy Day, hopefully. Oh, God. Oh, whatever. I love it. Yeah, I think you would. I think that is hopful. We have five of what I think are all going to be hoppy beers. I'm hoping they're all hoppy beers, otherwise I'm going to have to change the fucking name on this bitch. But before we get to those beers, I need to read a couple of emails. Email. We've got three of them. That was my attempt at a homestar runner, I guess. Email. Email. Homestar runner. Jeff Younger writes. Hey, bearers. I have two questions. That's so good. It's the worst. No, that's actually. I recently had a bottle of 11 month old or vault bottled on 3/28/13 and got all asphalt and black rubber tires and the taste. That's terrible. It's actually solid, man. Even though it's small. I'm just going to start again. Hey, bearers. I have two questions. I recently had a bottle of 11 month old or vault bottled on 3/28/13 and got all asphalt and black rubber tires in the taste, even though it smelled wonderfully bready. It was my first time being disappointed by the monks at our vault and have since had better versions and continued to love those damn monks. I cannot rule out bad handling by distributors or store owners, but I was wondering, have you ever had a go-to beer let you down? And let's just answer that before we get to the rest of the question. Of course. Yeah. Yes. Yes. We've all had go-to beers let us down, I think. Never. What? Just kidding. Okay. I'm trying to be hopeful for a second. Wow. Anytime you deal with an agricultural product that has to go through that next step of being fermented and sometimes bottle conditioned, and sometimes things can go wrong. There's always room for air. Yeah. Mike, you've mentioned a bunch of times when one of my favorite pails. I haven't really tasted very much of that, but I have noticed a couple of that, like Dale's Pale Ale, having DNS. Yeah. And I've maybe had once or twice when it's done that. I ask it all primarily. Okay. Okay. And that's kind of a go-to beer for me for the most part. Yeah. I mean, it's disappointing when it happens. I think anything go-to can always let you down. No, at one point. I mean, we're your go-to people on the beer. We're always letting you down. Not all the time. No, no, no. You guys are doing better than I thought you would. Thanks. You're welcome. You're welcome. I've had all sorts of things let me down. All right. Let's move on. Second, tonight I opened a bottle of ood goo's boon or bone, actually has to pronounce it, I think. Yes. Thank you. From the 2009 brewing season, it was one of the goosas that caught me by surprise and became one of my top goosas. It was a 750 milliliter bottle and I drank it all to myself gladly, but wished someone was around to experience its greatness. Have you ever popped the bottle and instantly wished you could share its greatness with your friends? No. No? Oh, I thought we were answering the question. Most of the time I just covered everything. Well, I mean, me, I always opened up special bottles with other people. I never drink them by myself. Yeah. I always, every time, wait till I'm around friends to open something cool. I've done it quite frequently. What? Opened up stuff and go. I can't wish I opened this with you guys. I mean, you guys wouldn't care, but I'd like being like, "Oh, yeah, hey, check the side." And you have a big, "I don't know. Grant brought more shit." That's the thing. But for me, it came to a point after doing that over and over again. I just said, "I'm just going to stop opening stuff up by myself and just do it around my friends because otherwise I'm going to miss out on that interaction." Otherwise, you're going to die of liver failure. That's going to happen. How about you and a station? I hate sharing and I really don't like most of you. Good point. Jeff Younger also writes this at the very end. He goes, "Eat that we shouldn't worry about including this in the podcast." But he says, "Throughout my Stan Brussels, I kept saying out loud, son of a bitch Brussels is a shithole. Thanks, Mike." Dude, it fucking is. Well, I didn't know that. You ruined Brussels for this guy. Oh, man. Yeah, it's just terrible. All that really awesome beer in a horrible shithole town. Did you know that Jean Claude Van Dam played the predator? Is he from Brussels? Yeah. Yeah, he's the muscles from Brussels. He was the first guy who was in the predator costume, wasn't he? Yeah. Yeah, that's terrifying. It was one of his first roles. That's crazy. Anyway, thank you so much, Jeff Younger. You're awesome. Jeff the younger. I think we should jump. Yeah, thank you, Jeff the younger. We appreciate the email. Aaron Porman writes, Aaron the poor man. You motherfucker. Hey, guys, I'm new to the show, but love it after a month or so of listening. I appreciate the balance of knowledge and banter. I've only been seriously interested in the craft beer scene for a little less than a year. This being the case, I haven't had time to try near as much as I would like, and your podcast has been a great resource for me already. A few months back, I was drinking new Belgium's accumulation and had what I took to be a mild allergic reaction. And after only a beer and a half, my skin became alarmingly red. It wasn't itchy or anything that caused me discomfort. Still, I gave up on drinking the rest of the six-pack. I'm curious as to what may have caused the reaction because I drink fairly often and haven't experienced anything like it since. I've been avoiding the hops listed on the bottle as a precaution. I'm alone mosaic, even though I haven't heard of an allergy to a specific variety of hops. Am I being crazy? Is it possible that it was one contaminated bottle? Thank you for any information that you can provide. Keep up the great work. I'm just going to go out and say that four people that drink so much that they have a show shouldn't be the people that you ask about a medical thing. Grant's a doctor. Is he? I'm a licensed doctor. Yes, that's true. What kind of doctor? Who? You're a doctor. Who? Yes. I mean, I'm a Hovian, actually. He gave me a physical after the last episode, so his sonic screwdriver? Oh, yeah. Actually, yes. Oh, God. You're retarded. We went back in time being a while. Wow. I was too good to pass up. What's it? Shut up. I even though this guy back and I told him that you should ask his doctor. He shouldn't ask us because we would probably not give good advice. So what I do when something like that happens to me is I eat a bunch of antihistamines, wash them down with beer, and pretend like everything's okay, even though my eyes twice it's normal size. Hey, hey, hey. And then you proceed to give them advice like that. No, no, no. I'm just saying what I do. I'm not giving him advice. I'm just telling him what I do. Okay, good. What I do is I take the thing that I think is giving me the reaction, and I just eat a ton of it to see if I could build up an immunity at a very short amount of time. No. So no, my advice is to stock up on Amarillo and Mosaicops. No. Just eat them by the fistful. Just rub them on your skin. Okay, so it could be an allergic reaction. I told the guy it could be an allergic reaction. It could be some rosacea or something weird that happens with your body once in a while. It could be a fluke if he was on medicine at the same time, something could have just had a weird reaction. You never know. You never know. Just better ask your doctor to see whether or not he'd tell you to have a doctor. Talk to the doctor. I'm actually looking at WebMD right now. No, you're not. Yeah, no. No, he's got fucking cancer. Sorry, Aaron, for him. I can't forget him that you were in that Google glass. You have typhoid, I think. Typhoid. Typhoid. Typhoid, Aaron. Thanks, Aaron. Cameron Purvis says, "Hey, Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and April, I'll let you decide who is who. And Grant is April." No, I'm glad. What are these? Are these artists? Uh, they're Ninja Turtles. First off, I want to thank you for all the time and effort you spend each week putting on such an enjoyable, knowledgeable, and straight-up kick-ass show. Secondly, thank you for representing St. Louis so well in your two recent shows. Being a Missouri native, it was nice to see my state get a little recognition. Now for the meat. I live in a college town of around 100,000 people and an up-and-coming beer community. We currently have two brewery pub-style restaurants, one brewery who's been open for a couple of years and just expanded their facilities so they can start canning and two new breweries opening up this year who both have the goal of canning as well. Oh, and we have a bottle shop opening this year soon. As an avid lover of beer in my community, I want to support both but don't know how to do it outside of drinking excessively. Apart from continuing on my path towards liver failure, what are some ways that I can be an active participant, proponent, and promoter of the scene and spread the good word? I haven't been able to find a way to do that without separating myself from drinking like a fish. Well, tell everybody you know about the Beerus podcast. There's a bunch of stuff you can do. That's a good idea to everybody you know about the Beerus. I was going to say, Mike, you could actually really give him advice because you run a monthly beer tasting. That is true. I mean, you don't have to drink necessarily to host an event like that and get other people involved in tasting things. That's true. Especially if you're the moderator, it kind of helps for you to be a little bit more sober than Mike does because he's terrible. Oh, absolutely. You can also take a bunch of friends with you to brewery events. You can see what you can do, volunteer at these events. They always need people to pour. I mean, pretty often, I guess. By local, anytime you go out and bring beer to a party or a cookout, only bring beer that's made in your city. True. You can write about it. You can blog about it. You can do your own reviews from there and send your beer to places like the Beerus and we could test these things out, review them and help these people get a little bit more recognition. That is the best advice I've heard all damn day. Thank you. He is a fucking doctor. He's one of those future travel doctors. Thank you so much Cameron, we appreciate the email and we appreciate all of these emails. If you have an email, you want to send us to it at info@thebearest.com. I want to know which Power Ranger I am. What Power Ranger? No, this is not Power Rangers. It was Ninja Turtles and you are Raphael. Okay. Yeah. I like him. Raphael is kind of like the most badass. Yeah. So sweet. You're the most ornery. I guess Mike would be Raphael. You would be Donatello. No, he's April. You're Michelangelo. Oh yeah, you're April. Please say Michelangelo. You run the computer, so I guess you're Donatello. I guess I'm Donatello. God damn it. I'm sorry. Donatello is the party dude. Yeah, but Donatello is voiced by Corey Feldman in two of the three Ninja Turtles movies. How do I know that? I don't know. That's good knowledge. Good trivial knowledge. 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Sweet. Yeah. A really cool way to help the show the best way possible to help the show more than anything is to kick us a little bit of money. We do this show completely self funded and listener funded. Like those are the only two sources of money that we get to do this show. Kind of like NPR, except for without like government money. And to food and drink awards. Yeah. That's hilarious. We're like them, but more prestigious. Yeah. Yes. And we also have Mike Lambert here. Do we do? They don't. We were racking about things. Oh, shit. Okay. Sorry. Like I said, donations are really, really helpful with the donations that we get. It's still not enough for us to put on the show. So a lot of this money comes out of my pocket. The donations that we got for March, the whole month of March didn't even cover the episode that we did for Jester King, but you know, it's okay. It's fine. We're still going to keep doing shows, but really it helps to get five bucks, 10 bucks, anything from our listeners. And I just want to thank four people that sent this donations last week, Jason Potter, Anson White and Jose Rodriguez all sent reoccurring donations. They signed up for reoccurring donations. That is awesome. Yeah. And the way you do that. One of the great donations is if you go to thebearest.com on the left-hand side of the page, there's a PayPal donate link. When you click on that, you can send us five bucks, 10 bucks. It's a PayPal thing. You can send us money from your PayPal account or a credit card or whatever. And when you click that little reoccurring button, it'll send us the amount that you've donated to us once a month without you having to do anything else. It's super easy, super cool. Shannon Vincent also sent us a donation, a one-time donation, and it was 50 bucks. That's really fucking awesome. It's really cool. But, Shannon, could you have just given us $5 a month for 10 months reoccurring? You know what, that way, I don't feel like PayPal gets a little bit more money. You're a mother. Okay. I don't want to just switch Shannon from doing the good that you did. She's kidding. Thank you. Thank you so much, Shannon. Thanks, everybody, for giving you donations and sending us emails and writing your reviews. It's super, super helpful. Let's get to the beers. The beers. Yay. Oh, Molly's favorite part. Why? You have a job in beer. It's her favorite part. It is her favorite part. The first beer that we're drinking is Loose Leaf. It's an American session ale from Odell Brewing Company, Fort Collins, Colorado. This is 4.5% ABV. It's available year-round in bottles and on draft. We have two beers this time around from Odell. The second one will be on the second half. And I want to point out that Odell just made it to Austin. Yeah, I know. I'm so excited about that. So good. I know. And the description for this beer says, "You know those epic days that start with an idea? Turn into a dare and end with a great story to tell?" Just skip this description. Mike just made four pounds of pot honey. Oh, that's how this all started. Your move, listeners. It's actually printed right there on the bottle, baby. Well, this is a beer for those days. Crispin refreshing like any respectable session ale, but a bit more hot, Ford and flavorful than some. Perfect for going with the flow. You know what they say, Rubio. What? Loose leaf sink sheafs. I don't think nobody has ever said that without a speech impediment. Right now, I'm included. So I'm checking the look at this beer. It's a very light, strong color. Clear. Yeah, beautifully transparent. Yeah. It's like sunlight. Mm-hmm. Hey, beer. Hey. Very nice little bit ahead. Just can't excuse myself from this show. Just because I didn't laugh doesn't mean I didn't hear it. It wasn't me. I heard it. I'm shamed. You should have just blamed it on somebody else. Nobody could see you. Mike, that's a terrible joke. Yeah. Just blame it on me. You know how Mike roller-bladed here? And you can blame it on the alcohol. You can blame it on the alcohol. Really? Really? You just made fun of Grant's joke and that's how you roll it in on it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Garbage show. So getting back to this loose leaf American sessional from Odell, that smells nice and funky. What? Funky? Well, it's a little, I don't know, like noble hoppy, funky with a kind of a minerality to it. Kind of. It's not funky like an American Wildale. Okay. You threw me off when you said funky. I was thinking Pillsbury, stale, a must be kind of weirdness that's kind of what I mean. It's got a grassy dank quality to it. Jim Socky. A little bit, yeah. There's something that's the smell of a beach, you know, that sandy salt water. I was just going to say the sun. Something about it just reminds me of that. Sun kissed the water. Yeah. He smells the sun. What is that? No, just what I would associate with like being outside. There's like, there's just something about that. Sure. And I have anesthesia from Ali acid. I didn't call it. Don't you guys remember that about mine? Yeah. Well, that smells pretty good. I mean, the first couple of whiffs that I took were a little bit weird, like something wasn't right. But I think it was just my brain adjusting to the smell of this beer. Mint? And once it aired out, I think it doesn't smell as strong. Right. You said mint? Yeah, I did. I get cucumber a little more. Yes. Holy shit. I totally get like cucumber skins. Yeah. The answer of cucumber. I get cucumber mint. I can kind of see that actually. You mean smell that? Yeah. Maybe a little bit of lemon peel. Yeah. Are we just trying too hard at this point? No, no, no, no. It's a delicate aroma because there's a bunch of stuff happening in very small amounts and it's really hard to nail anything down. Does it make sense that it smells kind of like lotion, like a cucumber mint lotion or something like that? Yeah, sure. It reminds me of eucalyptus a little, but I don't really get a whole lot of eucalyptus. Okay. It's associated those smells together. Yeah. It's somewhere in there with the mint and the cucumber and one of those weird people from bed and bath and body works. That store is fucking crazy. That store doesn't know what it wants to be. Does it want to sell me a bedspread? I think it wants to sell you a letteration. Buy your bedspread and your loofah foam at the same place. So I just tasted this. It's tasty. It is quite a bit more hop forward than I imagined it would be. I get a lot of pilsnery, crackery, malts right up front. Mm-hmm. Noble hops too. A little bit of a pine and a resiny quality there too. This is really light. Mm-hmm. Really refreshing. I really like this trend that we're seeing now with session ails. They seem to be a lot more prevalent within the last year or so than they had been in all the years previous that I've been drinking. Oh yeah. What ABV do they have to be below to be considered session? Most of the ones that I've had hover around like four, four and a half, but typically under five. I've heard people call five and a half percent beer session ails and I don't know. But this is really flavorful. There's a lot of hot bitterness. It's not of heavy beer. Like it doesn't feel like a regular IPA, like it doesn't have a lot of body or anything, but it's kind of light and refreshing. It feels like a colch in the mouth feel. Yes. Mm-hmm. Yes. That is very, very good. Like light, a little silky, not too big of a malt backbone to weigh it down. Not hugely bitter either. Right. You said silky, which kind of reminds me of corn silk. Okay. It's like, I can't get a little bit of that in the taste. Interesting. Another thing that I get is like sandstone or I don't know. There's something that... Rocky? Yeah. It comes off kind of like rock or limestone or something like the smell of those things or the feel that I get of those things. What are you drinking? Minerals. Provea. That's just a couple of rocks. Sorry. There's a cross in the mouth feel as well. There's a minerality to it, I guess, or like for people that are in San Antonio, I always feel like San Antonio kind of has like a limestoney taste to their water. Right. I kind of get a little bit of that here. Maybe not the same mineral, but something similar. Right. Okay. I can see that. I've drank way too much of the San Antonio water. Mm-hmm. That totally makes sense to me too. Does this kind of taste like an asteroid to you guys? Kind of, but with a little bit more bitterness. College Me says, "Yeah." What does it mean? Guys, turn down the sun, it smells too loud. You know, I'm really digging this loose leaf, and I think if I want something really refreshing for the summertime that also has a nice bitter kick from the hops, I'd go for something like this. Absolutely. It's not all aromatics, like it's not hitting that trend that we've been seeing with all the newer hops and all the late kettle additions with all the aroma and flavor hops. This is a little bit more grassy and bitter and somewhat colchy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I could easily put away a six pack of this and not regret not sharing it with friends. Right. I did the other night. Did you? Yeah. I bought a six pack of this and just plowed through it. Nice. I hadn't had this before. It would be the one to say, "I wish it was canned." Yeah. I really do. This beer makes sense to be in cans. Because especially in awesome the surrounding areas where you can't even have bottles on half the rivers and public swimming holes that we go to, so it kind of automatically limits your choices to canned beers, and this one is so good, it would be so perfect for sitting in the sun floating in the river. Does Odell can? Any of their beers? No. They transfer this into like a pouch, like one of those beer bellies and go float in the river with it. I already have a beer belly. Yeah. I mean one of those like transportable ones. I mean my pretty transportable because it's got legs on the bottom of it. She tasted everywhere. Just put a tap on Mike's belly and there's one there. Nope. It's like a human decanter. It's just pot of honey and sadness. I would die. You got to hear that story about those people that would fill up someone's black, they'd like empty people's bladders and clean them out and then fill them up with wine and then have these guys piss out wine into your glass, will you at these fancy like rich parties? No. This isn't real. It didn't happen. I don't know if it's real. I read about that. I heard about that somewhere. On the internet? Yeah. Of course. I think it's legit. It was on the internet. We're going to have to look that up because I don't know. Let's get to our next beer. Sure. Because we're talking about piss wine right now. Can I serve it the way that Grant just talks about? No. No. No. Let's be our human decanter. He already has the port built into his belly. Okay. This is Lee from American Sashnail from Odell and I thought it was quite delicious. And this next beer is called Go To IPA, spelled G-O-T-O-I-P-A. And this is from Stone Brewing Company, Escondido, California. This is 4.5% ABV, 65 IBUs, wow, that's a lot of IBUs, available year round in bottles and on draft. Do you expect anything different from stone? No, not at all. I'm not going to read this in the style of Grant, give me a style. Um... Cheerio! Say it's day one, we've abundantly fought- wait, wait, no, I'll do Michael Caine British. Michael Caine. Yeah, please. Oh my god, please let me give me a towel first though. Master Wayne, since day one. We've got to commit, man, we've been abundantly fought right and fully transparent about our lustful hopes. It's, it's the worst. This is amazing. It's good. It's just going to take a year for you. Yeah, it's led us to craft many an IPA, most of them imperial. Some intends for their time and their timelessness and their intensity. Does that mean they read that all wrong? But so did Michael Caine's one. For Stone Go To IPA, we are embracing our harp obsession in a new way, funneling an abundance of lupulin-born bitterness into a session IPA, delivering the fruity, piney character of a much bigger IPA that killed your parents. To accomplish this, we employed hot bursting, a new technique wherein an irrational amount of hops killed your family. During the final phase, when I promised to protect you from the brewing process to coax out extreme flavors and aromas while also imparting a burst of desirably pleasant bitterness. The result isn't, I can't even do this. This hurts to do. How does Michael Caine have a job? The result is an alpha acid rich beer that fans can enjoy more without missing out of the assertive hop character you like us crave. So sit back and go to with your new everyday go round IPA and bask with us in the glory of the almighty hop. Some people just want to watch the world beer. How long were you waiting to say that? About halfway through his thing. It took a long time for him to read it. I will never again do a Michael Caine impersonation. That was rough. Okay. So go to IPA from Stone. It looks awesome. Yeah, it's a little bit darker than the last beer that we were having. Yes, it seems brighter too. Still everybody's transparent. It looks like molten gold, like it's gorgeous. It doesn't look so lazy. And really nice head too. Holy buckets. That smells gorgeous. Oh, it smells like weed and pineapple and weed pineappleing a little bit again. Pine and P. Yeah. What do you say? Do you think it smells bad? I had taken a sniff when I felt the urge to burp and then I thought I might vomit. Oh, but farted in her glass is what it looked like. It smells like a full blown IPA. It's just pine and dank pot. I've had other IPAs that don't smell nearly as hoppy. No, it smells wonderful. This is awesome. Can we get this here right now? A little bit caramel. Yes, we can. It comes in six packs too. I don't know. There's like a caramel pineapple thing going on. Maybe like a roasted pineapple thing going on. It's a lot like pineapple upside down cake or the pineapple that you'd have that's candied on like the sides of like ham. Yeah, a little bit, right? But also pine needles and spruce needles and stuff. That's wonderful. It smells awesome. Yeah, you said pot five times. Does it smell like four pounds of pot honey? Pretty damn close, actually. A honey pot? I just got that Joko God. God, okay. I'm going to taste this. I don't know how many other people out there get this, but I get, I taste a lot of cat pee. I've been meaning to have an intervention with you about this. Why do you know so much about what cat pee tastes like? Okay, okay. I just took a sip and you're right. Guys, what cat pee drinking conventions, you guys, who's the weirdest picnics that we ever had? Yeah. Long story. You had filled up these cats with wine and their platters. We would have to launch a whole other podcast to talk about it. Right. But you're right. It's kind of heavy on that Chinook cat pee ammonia-like hop. It's not ammonia, but there's something in there that tastes a little bit like cat pee. But there's also a lot of pine, a lot of resanny-like pot. A lot of bitter, kind of like grapefruit skins or grapefruit pith, I think, is what we offer. Absolutely. They didn't skimp on the bitterness at all. No. In fact, there was a sweetness in the aroma that I'm finding is absent and the actual flavor. It's completely dry. Yeah. That whole caramel aspect that you get in the nose of that honey aspect is almost completely lost in the flavor. You just look so sad over there in a staja. This spirit. You can't even talk. It's like a joke. What do you mean? It's called go-to IPA and it-- so, you know, they're trying to term it as a session quote unquote IPA. So in my hand, I'm imagining like, yeah, I'm gonna go to drink this whole six-pack. And three sips in, my tongue feels like it's been sand-papered. But it's a go-to IPA for people who, like Michael Caine said earlier, an irrational amount of pop. Sure. I mean, that's what I mean by the joke. And for people whose parents have been killed. So yeah. It's too way too aggressive for me. And I can drink the stone IPA as I can drink through the nation. I can do all of this, but this is just-- I wish you guys could see the face I'm making right now. We-- no you don't. They can hear it just as good. But I mean, following up on what you're saying, Michael Caine was also in the cider house rules. And wasn't he also taking care of a bunch of orphans there, too? Yeah. He was. Holy shit. Was it just take care of orphans all the time? He's just like a superhero factory. Yeah. Or maybe he's a serial killer that only kills parents that have the old kid and then takes their kids. Holy shit. And he just lucked out with the one that became Batman. It's like the pipe-piper. Yeah. Or another character does that to kids. I don't know if you've ever read the pipe-piper, something with rats, I guess. Yeah, there was rats involved. There's no pies? Nope. So anyway, next beer. Wait. No, no, no. Listen to that. Okay, so-- I mean, you should nug. What else can you say about it? I really like this. I do, too. I mean, I like very hoppy beers. And this is doing everything that I get but with like 3% less alcohol. And of course, you're missing a lot of the malt backbone to balance those hops out. But I like this quite a bit. Chinook is like licking an armpit. This just tastes like someone went into a locker room and just wrung out a bunch of sweaty dudes armpits right into a bottle. And they're saying, "Hey, drink this, Grant." And I'm like, "Okay." But it's not all Chinook. Like Chinook is one of the hops in here. It's probably some cascade, a little bit of-- Sure, yeah, sure. Centennial, maybe, or Columbus and Chinook. I don't understand like the deep-seated reservation that you have with this one. Like I really think that this is damn tasty. Well, it's obviously those hops just don't jive with her palate. I suppose. I think it's kind of a stink taste, but I like it. Me, too. Tastes like metal, like, nickels. I don't get that at all. There's some beers that I get metallic from very viscerally, but I don't get metal here. I get it a little bit and I get a little bit of kind of like the stale coffee taste. Like the acritity of a stale coffee or? The acritity, yeah. Okay. I can see that. You can see that, too. But like I said, I still find this quite pleasurable and a satomasticous type of way. I guess. I don't know. I'm finding it gross, but liking at the same time. It's a little bit. It's funny how much more the hops attack your palate at 65 IBUs when you don't have all that extra malt in there to balance it out. The other beer that comes to mind when I'm having this, and the one that I think is a little bit better is the daytime IPA from Lagunitas. You had that already. Oh, I love that beer. You're so good. Yeah, that beer is really, really good in terms of just a session IPA that's just low alcohol, huge, hot flavor. I think that this one is a little bit more rough, but I still appreciate it and I'm going to drink the hell out of the rest of this glass. Yeah, I don't think I've had daytime IPA. It's not in Austin. Shame. It's the sewer king from Batman who was the villain that he would carry a stick and had an army of runaway children that he used as pickpockets. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Well, thanks for the follow-up. A little bit of pod-piper-ish of him. Next up on the Batman podcast, we're going to try another beer. How's that? What's the last out of this one in? Everybody's just turning off the podcast. I don't think we're just nailing it. No. There's something, there's something, but it's not good. Rubio to a cross. We're not nailing good to anything. Why? Is it Easter already? I don't know. Okay, so I'm going to do that to you just to see if you come back to life. You know what? Go to IPA. That was Go to IPA from Stonebury and Company. That was yummy, I thought. I mean, you seem pretty divided on that three to one. That's not very well-divided. Is it? No. I mean, I drew a sad tumor ghost. Okay. Is that a tumor on set? Yeah. I killed the ghost. Go to IPA was the last beer. The next beer is Lasso IPA from Great Divide Denver, Colorado. It's 5% ABV, and this is available year-round in bottles and on draft. Lasso's the new frontier of India Payalale. Brewed with a robust roundup of Columbus, Centennial, and Cascade hops, its sessionable simplicity proves bigger isn't always better, but make no mistake, the Wild West hasn't gone mild. Wow. Nipsey Russell wrote it. I mean, Grant Davis? Yeah. We came on Tamed IPA's Spirit Thrives, and we reckon this will go down mighty fine. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Lasso looks. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, girls, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. I guess that is what I was saying. Don't, don't, don't, don't. Looking at it darker than the last one, this is kind of going in a copper. Yeah. We just kind of going in order of a darkness here? Yeah. It seems like. This looks very much like a great divide beer. Feel that he has like four pounds of it? Four pounds. Wow. Wow. Holy shit. Okay. This is also got a gorgeous head. And it's sticking around for quite a while. Yeah. And when you swirl the glass, make sure your glass is upright and not tilted, otherwise you'll spill beer all over your leg. Wet lap. That's a tip from the beerists. Okay. Let's smell this. Can we do a coin toss to see who gets to suck the beer out of your shorts? I don't think anybody's-- Damn, you win. You just get a toss, a quarter to me, and you're sucking the beer out of my shorts. I'm just going to throw a quarter, is that you? What the fuck was that? What is happening? It's like Anastasia's imploding. Are you okay? The air's just trying to kill me. Okay. Okay. Well, let's get back to smelling this beer. That was spectacular, by the way, the whole-- everything that happened with your face. Thank you. So I get orange pith. Initially, there's something a little bit unpleasant that was getting from the nose, and my first thought went to asparagus. I totally see that, like sulfur-y a little bit. Yeah. But that kind of drifted away, and now I'm getting something that's like this really nice, sweet, and yet slightly sour, citrusy fruit smell. Yeah, I get somewhere along the lines of orange rind or orange pith. Almost candied, but not quite. Right. Again, I get just the teeniest hint of mint. Mm, totally. I actually get like orange juice, a little bit caramelly malt also. Yes. It's nice, and there's a somewhat of a like a wheat bread quality there, or wheat bread crust or something that's not like this beer has wheat in it, but just the quality of how some of those breads taste. I got to say, we're digging really hard for the aroma on this beer. I mean, Grant over there has got his hand over his glass. This is definitely not as aromatic as the last two beers that we've had by a long shot. No, actually it smells a little bit like a we-heavy or something, you know? Yeah. Not really a we-heavy, but something like a, yeah, like one of the shilling beers maybe or something. One of the things that I'm picking up, and this is going to sound weird, I guess, it's a very similar quality that I get from a wheat wine, just that sponge sugar kind of thing. Spun sugar. Cotton candy. Wow. Is that another name for it? Yeah. You've never heard of sponge sugar. It's melted sponge sugar. Oh, spun sugar. Yeah. They said sponge. No, a different thing. Which made me kind of think of like angel food cake, sponge cake, which I think, oh, yeah, I can't smell something like that. A little bit of like a sweet bread. I just took a sip of this. And what do you think, Mr. Rubio? Ugh. Ugh. Oh, no. Copper. That's the first thing. Copper? Copper is like the first thing in my mouth. Big time. Like blood. Yeah. Blood pennies. Blood pennies are kind of like blood diamonds. I never saw that movie. Yeah. That's a very unpleasant taste right out the bat. Oh, this is gross. Let's see if it improves after a couple of steps. Yeah. Yeah, let's go in for that. Lots of copper. Lots of medley pennies. What'd you say? Like blood and dirty pennies? It's like, oh, I'm going to vomit. I mean, that's not all I taste. It's as if you have blood and pennies on a grapefruit. It's. So it's like I'm drinking an IPA after I bit the inside of my mouth and I'm just like bleeding. Kind of. Yeah. No. But not as pleasant. Right. Yeah. When Rubio bites the inside of your mouth, it's pretty darn pleasant. Well, we can pour that one out. Wow. It's so overpowering and it's so hard to try to dig through that sludge. Oh, I'm sorry to use the word sludge. Well, but to try to dig through that, to get another kind of flavor. No, you're absolutely on point there. This is 5% alcohol. It's got a very thick body for it being 5%. Yeah. Initially, all I'm getting is just, I really can't come up with a better description than blood pennies. And then it just washes into like this out of balance bitterness. Yeah. And it's like aggressive grapefruit beal oil or something. Exactly. Yeah. Do you guys think there's something off about this? Like, could this be a product of some off there? This doesn't taste like any off flavors. It tastes like a shittily executed beer. Yeah. This seems like what they intended. Like, bad recipe. Do you think that maybe in Denver, Colorado, they like having blood pennies? Maybe they ate like four pounds of honey, honey pods. It thought it was a good idea. You know, they could compare this to the Wild West during a time when they didn't have good things. Right. But luckily, they also had tuberculosis. Yeah. So this kind of melded will let you're already tasting from your consumption. Yeah. This tastes like tuberculosis. Mmm. This is really not good. I don't like this at all. I don't know. It's, again, it doesn't taste like it's got off flavors. It's just, well, I don't mean metallic isn't off flavor, I guess. But I don't know where that's coming from. That's coming from the kettle it was in. Or, I mean, it's really the interplay of the malt and the hops on this one for me. I don't know if that's necessarily an off flavor. Again, it's really just tastes like shitty execution. And I'm one of the few that I know that actually likes great divide. Oh, I really like great divide. I like great divide. Yeah. I think they put out some really good stuff and I really like their standard IPA and their Hercules. Agreed. This is not good. No. What a comment the other day on one of our posts I was on Reddit where a critic of our show was saying that when we review things, there's going to be a hive mentality, a little bit of when one person says something, everyone else is going to be like, oh, yeah, and everyone's just going to glom onto that. And I believe you saw this as well, Ruby, because you replied to the guy and one, one sense, it makes me wonder if having already said blood pennies, you can't go back from descriptions. It's like, there may be something else that also kind of has those flavors. And we could have said that. It's like, oh, no, this is more like a honey suckle lamb chop or something weird and be like, oh, that's really delicious. Why would a honey suckle lamb chop be? I don't know. But to be fair, you know, the comment that we got was that we don't do that. No, no, no. This was a guy that was saying he doesn't like what we do. Oh, no. Okay. Okay. Okay. You're doing that and you disagreed and you're like, you can't ever have a beer in a social setting without, of course, that being a product of it. I recently got another email or comment somewhere online that said that he likes our show because we don't do that because a lot of other shows will do something similar to that where people just agree on whatever the first person says. But we at times, we're very, very, very steeply disagree with each other. Yeah. Yeah. The initial guy I was talking about was wrong and what he said, but it's just, that's what this beer tastes like. And I do understand that mentioning a flavor when you're tasting something will influence what you're tasting. Yeah. I got that. Yeah. And we do tend to agree with some things. Like if one person says this, everyone's like, yeah, yeah, I get that. But we can still talk about why we like it. It's going to be totally different than why the other person likes it. Right. Well, you just heard it with a go to IPA. Oh, absolutely. We're going to disagree on a lot of stuff. I mean, we disagree on the last stuff all the time. Agreed. No, I mean, I disagree. Fuck you. You know, how about that? You know, but that beer, I don't know. It's hard to escape those flavor descriptions because that's before you started talking what I was tasting. I was trying to, I was trying to put it in a way that was less than positive. Yeah. I mean, a little less mean than fucking blood pennies, but you're right. It tastes like blood pennies. I mean, it tastes like the iron that you find in blood. Yeah. Okay, I'll try something a little different then. Okay. So it starts off with this malt presence that tastes almost like it didn't finish. Kind of. Like, like, accurate in irony. Yeah. But it's weird because it's completely dry. I mean, usually. Well, you know, but this is how it starts. And then it finishes with a kind of hemoglobin bitterness that doesn't match. Like the hot bitterness doesn't match that malt pool among us has earned their red wings. God damn it. Is it break time? Yeah. Holy shit. Have any more of that point? No, we're good. Let's just shut it down. Okay. Fuck, Mike. You know, you did say it was, you know, biting the inside. Your cheek when you're drinking beer, and that you just had to go down on a period, girl. In case anyone didn't know what red wings are, Rubio, one ends also spelled it out for everyone. I'm sorry. You ate those boots. Oh, I did it. Some other guy do that too. Yeah. Let's take a break. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I can still taste the hops of the last deer in my mouth. I can still taste the disappointment. I thought there was more to that. Well, I thought so too, but I'm not going to say what I stole taste. The bitterness of your failed marriage. Wow. Perfect. Exactly. Hey, speaking of failed marriages, we have two more beers. That doesn't mean a thing. Like, I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. Thanks for saving a fall. Yeah, no problem. And the next fear we're drinking is Blacker from Real Ale Brewing Company, Blanco, Texas. This is an imperial black IPA and it's a collaboration with Cerli and three Floyd's. It's 9% ABV, 90 IBUs, and it's a one-time release available in bottles, cans, and on draft, depending on who the brewery is. Right, exactly. Yeah. These Floyd's is bombers, Cerli's 16-ounce founders in Real Ale's... 12-ounce cans. 12-ounce cans. Yeah, it's about the width though, not the length. Right. Blacker, Imperial, Blacker. Should I do this in a... Metal voice, yes. I think you should. I don't have a metal voice. Kevin, do it in the softest, girliest voice ever. Wait, what if I do it in '80s hair metal voice? Do it. Yeah, yeah! Blacker, Imperial Black Ale is a spark of the long-awaited collaboration between Sony. That sounds like Nipsey Russell. Yeah, he's trying to do like a black woman voice. No, I'm not trying to do... Go deep. Go deep. Oh my God. Is this in your whitest voice? Yeah. You do blacker in your whitest voice? Okay. Okay. Blacker, Imperial Black Ale is a spawn of a long-awaited collaboration between Cerli's 3-Foys and Real Ale Bruin Company. Nice. Bounded by their love of Bruin and love of Metal, and its own whole extremity of Bruin has unleashed a crushing, blackest, night double lap of J, held a mighty blacker. Vote me mayor. You shouldn't have done that voice doing this. I don't know, it feels wrong. Yeah, it was totally wrong. Because you essentially just said, "Hail the mighty black." Blackers and beer. Blacker though, they did research on trying to come up with a name for the beer, and one of the guys ended up finding like an old term that meant black, which is blacker. Oh, sweet. In like the Dutch language or something like that. But the three guys, like the three brewers from these three different breweries are all like big metalheads. Yes. And the long hair and the crazy black shirts and the jeans and stuff, and they got together because they met at, I don't know, maybe at a GABF a few years ago, they've been working on doing this for like three years. Oh, it's been three years? Yeah. Something like that. Okay. And they're all super in the metal, and you could tell by looking at them. Yeah, definitely. Have you seen Eric Augerschach? Eric is badass. Yeah, he's a fucking badass. He's like my metal dad. He's a Real Ale dude. Yes. He's my metal dad, Eric Augerschach. I gotta say, every single, we actually got to try every single iteration of this beer at the tasting over the weekend. We did. Let's talk about that after we taste this beer. Yes. I was just going to say that they were all very, very tasty. We'll see. Well, checking this beer out, it is, well, it's a very, very dark brown. Black and white, black out. Oh my God, you just sounded like the Domino's tracker. Whoa. Oh my God. That was weird. You didn't eat tracker? That was a tracker. You ever track your pizza? Yeah. There's a metal option. Oh, is there? Yeah, it's great. Is it that awkward? Yeah, your pizza's ready. I'm being delivered. Wow. Metal. Your pizza. If you want it, sir. We're going to say it. It's going to let, like, we're going to trap it. Oh, but, you know, we're going to have someone send it, but wait, you said pick up, so I guess we'll see you here. I wish we had you do Sam Kinnison, but I was like, those little sound garden. That was a, and a lot of fail. If you hold up the failure to the light, no, this isn't really. This is blacker. Are you sure it's a browner? I'm holding on to the light. I'm thinking this might be browner. It is very brown, but it's darker and more thick than something like root beer. I mean, there's quite a bit of body, it seems, here, and a really nice amount of head. Mmm, it smells nice, too. Oh, my God. Yeah. A lot of dark molds, but like a lot of black patent molds. Chocolate grapefruit is a good way to put it, I think. Chocolate grapefruit. I get a little hint of coffee, but it's very light. Yeah. A little hint of cola, also, maybe. I was going to say in a strange way, maybe not so directly, asphalt and rubber. I really don't get that. Yeah, there's something in there for me that borderlines those two things. Maybe dirty rocks. Yeah, there's something earthy, if that makes any sense. Root beer. Root beer, I mentioned earlier, and I get root of like root beer. Yeah, I mean, there's something root beer cola somewhere in there for me. Yeah, it's not touching on the same note that I thought it was. Through your mouth. I know that it's super metal to drink beer through your nose, but let's try to do it through your mouth. It just snorted the beer accidentally. Again. Happens a lot. So my strange scent of this beer, it's not cherries, but it's something that has that same kind of lingering cherry-like almond, jurgens but baked kind of scent, and I'm hoping that someone else is getting it so they can tell me what fruit it actually is. I get almonds, but the fruit that I get is all grapefruit, grapefruit peel and orange peels. And orange peels that are a little overripe. Yeah. This tastes great. It's like hot coffee, but not in like that dayman sense. Right. Because it's not like super coffee and super hop, a little bit more mellow balance. Yeah, a little bit of chocolate and coffee. Coffee I think is more than the chocolate that's going on here, but again, like eating orange peels. The accredity of the coffee melds with the hoppy bite really nicely in this. Very. I'm getting rubber. Are you? I don't get that at all. I mean, I still like this beer, but it's a flavor note that I'm definitely picking up. Crazy. Maybe you guys have different tastes in different cans. I can see a little bit where burning rubber might be coming from, but it's almost like it's in the inhale. It's the interplay between the malts and the hops for me is where that's intersecting. Weird. I still think that this is really tasty. Yeah. To me, this tastes a lot like juicy orange peels that are a little overripe, coffee, a little bit of chocolate. There's something in there that's kind of black tea like to me, like an Earl Grey. In terms of Imperial black IPAs, this is hands down one of the best ones that I've tried in recent memory. This was neat. I can't remember necessarily the differences between the other ones that we tried. I remember. I think that the three Floyd's, was that the one that was hoppier? There was one that was like incredibly smooth. So the three Floyd's version of this beer that we had like they all smelled almost identical. Right. The three Floyd's was a lot more bitter. Okay. It had a bigger bitterness and quite a bit more body. The surly one to me had a little bit less body and more flavor in aromatic hops and less bitterness than this. One of them was a lot sweeter, if I remember correctly. I know you don't mean like sweetness, but comparatively, I want to say maybe the surly one, because that had the most malt presence. Sure. It had the least amount of body too for me. I don't know. Really? Yeah. Having them all side by side to me, that one had the lightest body. And it was still firmly medium bodied, I mean, because this is kind of medium full and the three Floyd's one was full body, I thought. My own tastes, I guess, surly by a very narrow margin. I liked the best of the three. This one, I like second of the three Floyd's, I like the least. And that's by very narrow margins. They were all very good. Yeah. I really liked the spear. They did a really good job. Really, really great collaboration. Oh, yeah. This one tastes drunker. Yeah. It is 9%. Yeah. It's quite a shift. I know. We're going straight from like a four and a half to five to nine. Dan, I'm feeling it. Did all of them have the same alcohol percentage? I don't remember. I can't remember. It was kind of hard to find the ABV on any of them. I mean, I heard a lot of different figures, even at the release party. Somebody had said that it was like seven at one point. Somebody said it was nine. Yeah. I'm assuming it's nine. It tastes like nine. It said it was nine. I think on the website, it said it was nine. Okay. But I really like the amount of bitterness here. It's not overboard. It's not crazy. And when we first had this at the release party, Mike, you had mentioned the hops in this tasting very three Floyd's influence. And I agree with you on that. It's a really good beer. Yeah. I think the hops are very present and bitter, but it has that maltiness to lift it up and support it. Yeah. And they're those darker patent malts are to kind of give it that extra bit of mouthful. Yeah, sure. I'm really digging this beer. Mm hmm. I think it's wonderful. I don't come across a lot of black IPAs that I like and this is one of the best that I've had. Cool. You guys ready to move on? It'll be here for the evening. Actually, that was blacker Imperial black IPA from real old brewing company. And the last one is tree shaker Imperial peach IPA from Odell. This is that second Odell beer that I said, we're going to have for Collins Colorado. This is 9.7% ABV. And it's a seasonal release available in bottles and on draft Colorado. We really love your peaches. Want to shake your tree. Yeah. Yeah. That's not that that's not that song at all. That's no answer peaches we want to shake your trees. That's the joker from fucking Steve Miller band. We'll see. What? What are you talking about? No, that is. We'll see about two songs in the distant past. All right. Time will tell. No, no, it fucking is. Time already told both of those bands that they suck. Tree shaker Imperial IPA was brewed with 3,000 pounds of pureed Colorado peaches. The bright citrus hop character and salt fruity sweetness will get your feet tapping and your taste buds dancing. Thanks Odell. We love you Odell. We really do. I'm a big Odell fan. I'm so happy that they're here. Sorry, yours got some floaties. What? You don't say. My glass looks like a fucking snow globe that has piss in it instead of water. Mine's nice and clear. Remember what we talked about with the with the bladder beer earlier? You're welcome. Yeah. I'm welcome. You're fired. I've got floaties, too. I'm a little bit clearer. I got. I got promoted to listener, you guys. Yeah. Mine's really hazy golden color. Yeah. It's like a desaturated gold. And I think, yeah, mine is like the milkiest hazyest of all you guys. I wonder if it's just like a bunch of peach particulate matter. It could be. I may have lucked out. Peach-ticulate matter. Right. Wow. Oh, god. I'm sorry. Good amount of white head, too. Fluffy. Okay. Let's talk about the smell because it smells. It smells so good. Oh. It smells like millions of peaches. For me. Wow. Millions of peaches shake your treats. That would have been just a modicum better if you did it with any enthusiasm. Me? Yeah. Have you met me? Yeah. We met you. All of a sudden. Holy shit. I think I just heard her roll her eyes. Okay. This smells awesome. I really like how peachy bitter it is. That's a little bit creamy. Yeah. I like peaches and cream. Yeah, but there's a green something in there in the middle of the peaches in the middle. Maybe mint. I was just going to say the same thing. There's a dichotomy for me between rich, fresh peach and under ripened peach. Yeah. And I think that's where the green kind of thing is coming for me where there's definitely an under ripened peach character that melds with the hot note that's here. Peach for roll up, a little bit of peaches, gummy candy. Fruit roll up. That's a great one. Wow. It's a little mint again, but this is a little different. It's coming off a little different. I was joking. It was like a total jam. I was about to say, Anastasia, you have a bit of mint hanging from your nostril because that's what it was all about. I mean, you know how people listen to this show to hear, you know, our flavor descriptions and you just throw out things that aren't real? Wait. People don't listen to our flavor descriptions. See that, really? They do. I thought this was just killing time until we tell more jokes than they appreciate it. No, no. I was going to say to how people listen for jokes. Yeah. Good luck with that. Yeah. But there is something green in there and I'm not sure. Last time. No, it's not Lysol. Stop doing that. No. Hold on. I'm really getting some. You're lying. Like lemon piney, pledge? Yeah, it's lemon piney, but there's some other herbal or dandelion green. Maybe? Do you get a hint of snipes in there? Like Wesley snipes? Yeah. There's some tax evasion that's going on in here. Wow. That went in completely different direction. I was playing off a passage of making up fictional smells like a snipe hunt. Wesley snipes exist. Oh, God. I was making a joke. You guys suck. I was piggybacking off your joke to your method. There's definitely a boozy note that borderlines unfusely. Okay. So there's something that's coming off a little bit like star fruit. Okay. Also, you guys just keep sniffing that because I'm going to drink this and maybe a little passion fruit too in the nose. Definitely pureed peaches. Yeah. That's definitely a scent in there. But I'm getting guava and star fruit in the nose too or something like that. Sure. Put it in your mouth. Okay. Okay. Because this tastes like- You haven't tried this yet, have you? Peach heaven. No, I've never had this. Oh my God. This is so good. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. This is fucking so good. We had this as a break beer last time. That's right. Yeah. Peach puree. Peach explosion. Nima mouth. It's quite a bit of alcohol but it feels right at home. Like it feels like it belongs there. I know that this is a double IPA. The hot note doesn't really come through nearly as big as you would necessarily expect it to or at least for me it's so melded with the peach note that it's hard to differentiate it. What adds like a leafy citrus or citrus tree or something like a apple tree and that apple tree, orange tree. There's a little bit of a green bitterness that comes through at the very tail end of everything but it's really nicely melded. If you had just said this is just a peach beer I wouldn't necessarily have been like oh it's got an IPA base. Right. It's like a citrusy earthy hot bitterness to it. Yes. And like Mike said it all just works really well together and the malts are nondescript malts but they give it a really nice backbone and mouth feel to carry this creation through your mouth. Totally. Sweet peach tea. I was gonna say tea. I was gonna say sweet peach tea or something like peach tea that's been sweetened with honey. I wonder if that's because we're from Texas. Possibly. You ever think that like clearly we must describe stuff in a little bit more of a Texan way? Yeah. Yeah. This beer tastes like Mexican day laborers. Is that what you mean? No I didn't mean that at all. Oh. This beer tastes like seceding from the Union. Is that what you mean? Yeah. It's like a Rangers baseball and casual racism or just serious racism if you want to talk about Texas. Is there anything casual about racism? I mean if you're wearing suede pajamas, not suede, what is that really luxurious pajama material? Silk. Silk pajamas? I have silk pajamas. Then if you're racist and those silk pajamas you would be very casually racist. Wow. That is so Mitch Hedberg of you. That's not a very casual outfit though, if it was, everybody would have silk pajamas. Are there buckles and straps on it or can you just slip them on? Y'all are casual jeans and t-shirts. You know in my experience, Filipinos are all right. No, no I could dig on a pineapple. So that was casual racism right there. Boom. You got it. I could dig on a pineapple, maybe a little bit more blatant. I mean, no matter what, that was still pretty damn racist. Super cash though. It was really casual. Is it because he was leaning back and you know like chilling out and his chill out? I was relaxed. Hair? No, it was just chillax racism. As everyone can see on the video version of this podcast. Yup. Hey, don't flip out. Yes. Yes. Yes. Only the Filipino got it. Yes. Flip. Flip. Are you a flip? It's a derogatory term for Filipinos. Oh shit. Okay. Sorry Charlie. Wait, that's just regular. This beer is so good. You guys are crackering me up. This is like heaven in a glass. I want to drink it all the time. I think my favorite racial slur for white people is Nilla's. I love the peach in it and I can't tell if it's because we just had the really bitter blacker but this one isn't quite as bitter as I may be thought it would be considering it is a double IPA. We need to be racist all the time if it makes an extension professional out here. That's the key. You just wanted to be the contrast. That's really nice. It's amazing. No, I just wanted you guys to stop talking about racist. Oh my God. Let's keep going. Cracker. If Mike was eating a ritz, that would be cannibalism. Oh shit. I agreed with everything you said on the stage. This is delicious. It's not overly bitter. It's all just so. Get your own ideas. Don't repeat what I just said. I don't know that just a little bit. It's also evenly done even though the alcohol tastes like 9.7% and you can taste quite a bit of hops. I mean, it's not overboard at all. I love how the peach comes through and acts as like an equalizer, like this meaty fruity equalizer and takes any edge away from everything else. Like I love this. I'll tell you what, the burps on this are quite pleasant. Oh, it's just as good as the second time around tastes. You are spicking my language. And that's Spanish. Sorry. So this tree shaker from Odell, I fucking, I love it. Does it shake your tree? It does. It does. Like it boobs. Okay. Wait. Is there really a song that goes? We really love your peaches. Want to shake your tree? There is. It's a Steve Miller band. People talk about me, baby. Say, I'm doing you wrong, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But don't you worry, baby. Don't worry. Cause I'm right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. At home. Wait, it's another fucking part. You're the cutest thing that I ever did see. I really love your peaches. Want to shake your tree. Wait. What does that mean? What does that mean? He loves her boobs. He wants to get in her vagina. Yeah. And shake them. It's a metaphor. It's a metaphor. What do you mean? Why is that? Why do I even ask questions anymore? Have you ever... Why are you grossed out by that? Cause it's all the thing. He sounds like a creepy farmer. Come on, Cherry Gusher. Get with it. Cherry Gusher. Why? You fucking love that. Let's not just rank these. Yay. I'm done. I'm ready to go home. We're done with music. I'll go. Mike, are you ready? Yeah. I'm ready to do this. Hey, I think Mike's ready. Sweet. Lasso IPA. Number five, blood pennies. That was the worst beer that we've had tonight. My number four, go to IPA. Wow. I like this IPA. It's a good beer. I just don't think that it has very much balance to it. Sure. This is known for doing out-of-whack beers and even their session IPA is a little out there. Definitely not nearly as balanced as number three, which was the loose leaf. This to me was the epitome of a session ale. Balance between the malt and the hops. Definitely a significant hop flavor to it, but I feel like this is just something that you could just pound and pound and pound all day long, which I did with that six-pack that I had just a few days ago. My number two was the blacker. Even though I got some rubbery kind of asphalty notes out of it, this is still one of the better imperial black IPAs that I've had in a considerable amount of time. I think that this collaboration was fantastic. And really it highlighted what each of these three breweries is capable of. My number one was the tree shaker. What a great beer. Full-on peach flavor. I didn't get necessarily very much IPA out of it, but I don't give a shit about that. So much peach. So delicious. Number one. Beautiful. Thanks, Mike. Yep. I'm going to go next. Okay. If you guys don't mind. We mind, but you can go anywhere. All right, all right, all right. Sure. Number five for me. Lasso IPA. Yeah, that was blood pennies. I mean, that's perfect. Blood pennies. It had a couple of other things going on, a little citrusy, but still I couldn't get over that part of it. Number four, loose leaf, American session ale. I like that beer, it was maybe a little bit light for the amount of grassy bitterness that it had, but it was still delicious and I could still throw that beer back really easily in the summer. Number three for me. Go to IPA from stone. I love that beer. I thought it was yummy and me as a hop head like it hit all the buttons that I liked hit when I go for a really hoppy IPA, but with, you know, the third less of the alcohol. Number two, blacker from real ale. God damn it. That was delicious. And when a beer that is a black IPA, which is a style that I'm not really into, who wows me that much, it's worth me mentioning and buying. I've bought like three, four packs of this and I've enjoyed most of the ones that I've had. I really dig that. Number one for me, tree shaker from Odell. I think this is the best peach, hoppy beer I've ever had. I think it's better. I mean, a peach or apricot, I kind of lumped those two things in the same thing. I think it's better than the dogfish head apricot IPA. Well, I think, and this isn't something that's necessarily known, a lot of times an old brewer's trick is that when they say that they're doing something peach flavored, they'll actually use apricots. Well, because the flavors are so similar. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, this is the best IPA or hoppy peach beer or apricot beer that I've ever had. I think it's wonderful, it's super even, very well balanced, it tastes lush and it makes you feel like a lush because of all the liquor in it. I'm slurring right now and I blame tree shaker mainly. You're going to be alcohol? I do. I do. Is that what you call a callback? Yeah. That's exactly how fucking nailed it. Nailed it to that peach tree. Yeah. Anyway, I finished my rankings. Do you want to go next? Oh, is it because I made the joke? Yeah. You're really good. You're riding high right now. Yeah. Go. Do it. Go. Yeah. Number five is a tie. What? Oh. Yeah. For last place. Oh, yeah. You can tie for last place in my heart, which is probably the only thing that you can tie for. Besides, you know, my ropes, right? So it was a tie between no surprise here, the lasso, which was whatever these guys all just said before me and the go-to IPA, which made me make disgusting face. Ouch. You made the worst faces. Like the worst faces. I couldn't even have done that. Pretty girls, ugly faces, like before and after photo thing that you do when you just take your pretty face and put weird angles with the camera. I don't know what that is. It's a thing on the internet. Weird. Don't even look it up. I've never seen that with you, though. I'm flipping Michael off. No. Great. No. 3 was the blacker. And that's me trying to be a metal, but I'm not very metal guy. That was more P.W. Herman angry. Biker! We're on the day. I mean, who's more metal than P.W.A. Horma? Haha. I don't know what that is. 99% of the population. Wow. Fucking off in a movie theater. Not more metal. I mean, he's more metal than me. Yeah. I still have some blacker in my glass and it smells very coffee now. Does it smell like P.W.A. Horma? Horma? Horma. Horma. Horma. Wow. Does it smell like P.W.A. Horma? No. It smells like coffee now. It's great. Well, that's lame. No. Number two. What's true shaker? I love it. Love it. Love it. I want you to fuck me. I guess is what Steve Miller has been watching me to say. I want you to love my peaches and have sex with me. I like this. I guess. But number one was better and that was a loose leaf because I'm loose, I guess, because I want you to fuck my peaches. Yup. I don't know. I don't understand. Sorry back to the clapping. I don't understand anything about this episode. How old is Steve Miller and will he handle that? I like the loose leaf a lot because it was really drinkable and I like the cool sheep pilsner-y styles and I liked that light, hot character that was in it like it still tastes hot but it wasn't very bitter and made me want to run away from this peach tree fucker. Wait, but do you know how sexy Steve Miller is now? He's old but this guy has been around a lot of blocks and by blocks I mean, both of these. I mean, I like older dudes. Yeah, but he's like, what, 70? Yeah, he's like a sex degenerian or however you say 70, 80 year old slash sexy. No, I like the sex degenerian that my pussy is just drying up right now. Hey, how about Greg? How are you doing? Mine's drying up. No, no, no. His is flowing. Yeah, it's just a lush. I'm ready to rock. It's a babbling brook. No, I'm ready to rock. No, I'm ready to rock. Wait, what was that word? Lasso. Oh, okay. So I could barely. This beer is a dud because it tastes like pennies and blood. Yes. Oh, God. And now we go to the number four. This beer was weak, loose leafs as the beer of which I speak. It's like Jesus Christ superstar number three. I think you can bet I'm talking about the go-to IPA that tasted like sweat. And then number two, number two, I got a preach because number two was fucking delicious. It tasted like peach. This is terrible. Oh, we love you, good on it. But all the backup uncles are really selling it, I think. Oh, yeah. Because now we got to go to number one. Come on, everybody join in, make this one because number one is a black a beer. Tastes fucking awesome. You can hear this beer. So good. If this rhyme I got to land. In fact, my description of this beer was just a fucking rocket's hand. When did metal turn into meatloaf? Metal was born out of meatloaf. Oh, my God. And that's my ranking. That was amazing. Thank you, Grant. I'm really glad we did this show. I guess this may be a feel for Grant again. I'm kidding. Like this, anything to draw that attention away from me. Right. Yeah. This was actually a really good lineup. I dug the beers on this show with the exception of Lasso and Anastasia's hand-in-meher blacker. Because I just want to drink tree shaker. Fair enough. Fair enough. Tree shaker was delicious. Seriously, Lasso, blood pennies gross. That was bad. Yeah. Lasso was the only dub band. Can we... What? Can we write a porno called blood pennies? No! No! Everything happens around a peach tree. Yes. It lost me in blood pennies. Yes. Because it's like blood diamonds? Does it still have sex here? No! Does it have sex? And at the end of the book, someone brings their red wings. Okay. Okay. Wait, wait. I'm on board for this film. I will happily be a financial error for this. Like Jesus, why is it a film? It's a film and a book. Okay. It's a nice book. That's a book. Mike has already promoted it to a film and optioned the right. No, no, no. It's a film that was then made into a book. Whoa. It's pictures. Oh my God. Okay. Great book. Wait. Before we keep going on that trail, I just want to talk about our San Diego trip that's coming up. I'm going to be in San Diego the 24th. We are so excited through 27th of this month. Well, it's just me and Anastasia. Okay. I'm less excited. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. I can't go. Yeah, let's both of them are Mr. I Can't Go. You'll be happy to know that I already bought a PS4 with my own money. So all of the donation money can go right back into this right back into this trip. You don't remember this being on the show. I barely remember being on this show. I can tell. Anyway, like I was saying before Mike had to be held masterpertory by the PS4. It's a callback. Anastasia. Yeah, it's a call. It was like to Narnia two episodes ago. Nobody remembers two episodes ago. I just want to talk about how excited I am to go to San Diego with Anastasia. Anastasia and I are going to San Diego will be there from April 24th to April 27th. We land April 24th and we're going to start out by going to what do you want you. We're all really happy that you're going to San Diego. You son of a bitch. Yeah, we'll fuck you. I'm kind of excited. I think it sounds cool. Yeah, I mean, it would have it would have been cooler if you guys could join us, but you guys couldn't, whatever, it's going to be Anastasia and I, and we're going to meet up with a bunch of listeners and we're going to hang out with Steve Gonzalez and we're going to go to fucking Ailesmith, modern times, you guys get on board a bunch of stuff. We're going to hopefully report a bunch of interviews, society. You didn't tell me that I was going to have to talk to people and meet listeners. You'll be fine. This is a little bit financed by our listeners. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to go to Alpine also. We're going to go to Stone. We're going to go to fucking all these awesome breweries that I've always wanted to visit and we're going to have a meet up on Friday night, Friday, the 25th in San Diego at Livewire. I think it's called Livewire. Am I invited? Yeah. I think we get an email. Yeah, 7 p.m. at Livewire will be there, but we're also going to be posting every place we're going to be with a, you know, a couple of hours notice on our Facebook page. So if you're in San Diego or in LA or in Orange County or anywhere around those areas, Escondido, whatever, check out our Facebook page. We're going to keep it up to date as to where we're going to be and you could join us at any of those fucking places. I'm most excited for you guys to see Steve Gonzalez again. Me too, man. He's a fucking shit. Yeah. He's super cool. He actually offered us a place to stay. So we're staying with him at his house. That's awesome. Yeah. Super cool guy. He's going to give us a tour of stone and he's also and he's also going to let us record an episode of this house. Wow. That's fantastic. You know, as excited as Mike is for that aspect, he's least excited about you potentially running into the craft anonymous people that we're actually going to hang out with a craft beer anonymous people. Have I been missing all the emails because I know none of this. Well, this is all still kind of working. We're still developing plans, but you'll know all of that. Yeah. I hear that those shit talking assholes are talking more shit. They're always talking shit. Yeah. Eloquine has effort, Mike. Yep. Why would they ever talk shit about us? Because they love us. We're so nice. You know how love works? They hit you and hit you and hit you and then they lock you up in a cellar for a lot. They build you up and then they drop you. It's, you know, it's awesome. Okay. So San Diego, April 24th through the 27th, when we release this episode a week from then we'll be in San Diego. So if you're in and around the area, fucking send me an email, check out our Facebook page. Join us. Like I said, we're going to be at Live Wire on Friday at 7 p.m. I think that's the name of the place. If not, either way, check the Facebook page. I'll update it with an itinerary of where we're going to be and when. Fuck. Yeah. Yeah, dude. I'm super excited about this. So thank you everybody for listening. You guys have been awesome. Thank you. Awesome. For the donations. Oh, God. Yes. Thanks, Shannon. Thanks, Shannon. For the emails that they send in, info@thebearers.com. info@thebearers.com. And by the way, so you know, emails info@thebearers.com donations, thebearers.com left hand side PayPal link. Reoccurring donations like Jose Anson and Jason. Thank you guys so much. 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She was smelling her pants. Anastasia. Thank you for being here. I could have been taking a shower. I was kidding. Yo, what a crazy world that would be. Yeah. Honey pot. Yeah. Honey pot and candy gusher at your cervix. Oh, yeah. Coming at ya. Whoa. So. Bottoms up and down. No, he said on. He said on. He said on. Yeah. He said on. He said on. He said on. He said on. Yeah. Yeah. Bottoms up everybody. You guys are awesome. Yes. Bottoms down y'all. So if he had a honey party. Like fly honeys? No, no, no. No, no, no. I like the pot part. Like my birthday. Oh, God. That's happening. Yeah. That's also the same day as Rioel's birthday. Fuck them. Smooth move. They're releasing their gold. Oh, man. I should not be born around times with other things that are happening. Yeah. You should work on that. Yeah. You should work on that. Yeah. You should work on that. Yeah. You should work on that. Yeah, you should work on that. Yeah. Because I wasn't real. I thought I could have taken a bus to Rioel so I don't have to ride. Oh, my God. I don't want to go. You guys are dicks. I'm driving there. I don't want you either. Hey, we could still, we're going to come to your party wasted. Dude. Okay. If you... The next day. If you put a goes in one hand and pot honey in the other, I'll go for the goes anytime. I would go for the goes. Goes for the goes. That's fine. And you're about as valid to me as Rioel is. Right. Which means I like you both, but they make beer and you just make pot honey. And you just have bladder beer. And sadness. You make lots. I make lots of people sad. This is such a bad episode, guys. Oh, the episode tasted great. Well, part of it tasted great. Well, not the blood and pennies. That's a good point. I mean, it's bad to listen to. It's so off our game. But it's like everything is discordant. It's weird. I don't know what you're saying. I feel fake. Wonderful. Hey, we don't know what kind of editing job Rubio is going to have on this. Hey, Magic. He could pull it all together. It could be wonderful. Like whatever song I'm playing right now could be like a blissful journey into. It's probably going to be Steve Miller tree fucker song. No, right. It'll never be Steve Miller, fuck Steve Miller, Steve Miller sucks ass. He does. What's wrong with that? Like for money. More information on the Bearest's podcast, including show notes and pictures, visit thebearest.com, email us your feedback, comments, questions and suggestions at info@thebearest.com. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/thebearest's and follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/thebearest's. I'm John Rubio. Thanks again for listening. We love you. Bye bye. [BLANK_AUDIO]
