Previously on the Beerus podcast What's up, bro? Name's Rubio and you in town. Yeah, name's Mike. Everyone here has been really nice. I don't trust that Mike guy Grant, I'm carrying Mike's baby So basically you just inject it right into your bed. Ah dude. Can you leave me alone? What are you drawing? Are those bomb schematics? Can I talk to you real quick? Yeah wait at first. I think Grant's making a bomb Do you even trust Mike? No, but not for nothing his lips are really I've really think he's trying to move in on the podcast Your piece of shit. I don't even know you. I'm carrying your baby. What I've never met you I have a ball. Fuck it. Your sweet ass is out of here. I can diffuse bombs Episode 95 of the Beerus podcast recorded January 16th 2013 the lost Abbey special thanks to craft beer anonymous podcast I gotta apologize what to Joel to Joel. Yeah, nobody in listening knows Joel. No, but I Joel doesn't even listen to the show. Well fucking then I'm glad I purposefully threw his beer on the ground and the weapon you didn't do it on purpose. No, I didn't you dropped it It was a fucking rare old beer and you dropped it all over everything and it was like the And now I feel like a dick It was like the one time I didn't wear black pants and I got fucking wine and dark beer like all over my fucking soul Did you get period it on? Was there period in the bottle? I don't understand. Did you do you guys not no one seen super bad? No Okay, so then everybody but you gets the reference and by me. She means John Rubio and with me today Grand Davis smooth way to smooth move that in hi guys No, no, I mean like the introductions never mind that was the dulcet tones of Anastasia one the one time I get a reference John doesn't Kelly. I don't get your references Because they're all fucking crazy Crazion references. Are you calling me red? No, cuz you know, what's that? Crazion crazy crazy. I was like Caucasian, but why is there an are in cock? Crazing the caucasian in the fourth chair Mike black beautiful fingers Lambert's black beautiful fingers. Yeah, it was black butter fingers I got it. I totally understood that I mentioned him being right and he said black beautiful I just got shot down from a high-five for Mike. Oh, I feel like really low in the totem pole right now Hey, you're the support. We appreciate your support I used to be a cheerleader. Hey, you were a cheerleader. No. Hey, we're doing a lost Abby show. Oh Yes lost Abby, we better be careful with these bottles. They might fucking explode. No wait Everybody just goes road Everybody suddenly the host We're doing like I said, we're doing the lost Abby show and these beers were all sent to us by the guys from the craft beer anonymous Podcast and we met the two hosts from craft beer anonymous over at the great American beer festival Dave and Nick They were really fucking cool really good dudes. Yeah, really good dudes And I've been listening to their show for a while which I really enjoy It's one of the few craft beer shows that I actually like because they have similar senses of humor to us I think if they were in Austin, they would blend right in with the group that we hang out with Yeah, two really cool guys and Nick had got us a bunch of Lost Abby beers, but had sat on them for fucking ever before Dave actually went in and stole them from Nick and sent them to us I think that that's what's happened. Thanks, Dave. Yeah, wait. Can I set the show out? Why? So that when you all die of poisoning from our competition, I'll I'll be able to continue on your memory. No last episode You're convinced that one of our listeners Sean Grogan who sent this all the beers for that show was gonna poison us and now you're Thinking I feel a little funny. What can I say? We haven't even touched these beers yet? Yeah, yeah She's having preemptive fucking poisoning. Mm-hmm. I don't know just how that works So I'd like to just thank those guys hugely for that. Thank you really fucking cool for them to send this to me But before we get to those beers, I want to read a couple of emails Three of them actually and the first one says in the words of Mike. I'm that fucking guy that you know I had a question for you all. What's your favorite shower beer? Keep on keeping on Juan de Luna? Oh, one. Oh, yeah, that is the guy that we fucking know right not not Juan Lopez No, that's a different guy, but we know like eight Juan Lopez is yeah, they're all related to me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah Furbin shower beer favorite shower beer. Sorry. I jumped the gun bourbon That's not your favorite shower beer like this is a legit question and you're just saying something else So shower beers. It's a concept that's relatively know-ish for me like within this past year And I haven't done too many other than pearl snap right and then three beans from six point Right, so pearl snap is from Austin beer works and it's their pills right right and three beans from six point Right the one time that I had the three beans I was I was pretty hungover and I really needed something to hit me in the face coffee and high alcohol beer that worked But normally I prefer to have something a little bit more light and brighter I guess just a contrast with the shower so shower beer for you guys who don't know is a cute turn of phrase for a beer That you drink in the shower. In fact, it's not really a turn of phrase at all. No, it's just pretty straightforward It's literal. Yeah, and for me. It's whatever is in the fridge right before I go to the shower Yep, I'm really not too picky about how many of you guys actually drink beers in the shower. Yeah, I drink bourbon in the shower That's why I answered the question honestly, okay. It's not super frequently. Sometimes I get it It's like hey beer. I've done it maybe four times in the last like four years probably once a year Yeah, I got an annual tradition. I mean I do it fairly often It's like grants. I just whatever I have in the fridge that I if I'm in a hurry Just whatever slowly be view that I can slam if I'm not in a hurry I usually drink it in a shower and then continue to drink it while I get ready Yeah, I find that showers are a good escape for me from taking care of the baby So I go in there with a couple beers and like a sandwich six pack I just make a whole like day of it when I can yeah, it makes a little grad. They was still a picnic Some of the listeners here might know what I drink in the water What do you mean when we did that Google hang out when I was on the bath? Oh, that's true We didn't do that. I was drinking the beers. Yeah, I always have to turn it to sex anyway Mike's one that just had a shower a year ago Luna we appreciate the question the next email says hey, John Congratulations on your second win you absolutely deserve it and your influential knowledge of beer may help me land a job in the future That's crazy. What this guy's just sucking your dick, man. Oh totally Keep it in your pants lately. I've been really enjoying how anastasia can make really good food pairings with beer But I've been really curious if you have a favorite culinary recipe where you use beer as a primary ingredient Personally, I think that Belgian Whit beers such as port cities optimal wit makes for a fantastic base with a Spatch cocked Cocked beer brine chicken. Yeah, okay. Spatch cock beer brine chicken I don't know what that means, but I'm in another fun route. It's got cock in it That was made Another fun recipe I tried was that I made a beer syrup out of founders rebas to sweeten my iced tea which gave the sweet fruity malt kick That's what's cool. I'd love to know what you guys like to do Especially since you guys are very smart about food pairings and you like to experiment the kitchen yourselves from your fan Scott PJ P.S. I'll send you the recipe and ratios for that beer brine chicken if you want I bet it's fantastic with live oak hefivison sweet. Yeah, I'd like to see that So spatch cock is basically It's essentially like cutting the chicken down the middle, so like you're just kind of flattening it out So why can't you just call it butterfly because spatch cock Don't make everything about sex. Yeah, dude Might take a shower Sorry, I do Yeah, I don't know what I don't really cook that much I mean when I make chili I put beer into it I put something really dark and rich and multi I'm gonna make bratwurst I like to put half of ice in there and cook it with that and caramelize onions in it and do all that stuff I guess muscles I've done with a gooza before but you know I don't really do a lot of beer cooking So one of the things that I do with beer is whenever I'm making bracho beans I'll use some type of multi IPA of some kind that goes really well with it The other thing is like you had mentioned doing like a wit or like a goos with Muscles, right and then the other thing that that inspired me and in this email Making the the beer syrup the other night. I went to Whistlers with Sarah from the from the bitch beer ladies they made a beer syrup over there out of Roars winter warmer. Oh cool and the bartender made her sort of a modified old-fashioned and instead of using Simple syrup. He used that beer syrup instead. It was fucking phenomenal. That sounds cool. It's really good cupcakes beer cheese brats Toffee your cupcakes are out of this world. Yes. What's your favorite one cupcakes cupcakes standard stout cupcakes I think when I met you you had some live Oak or some have a vice in cupcakes Yes, yeah, I came at the first tasting. I don't generally cook too much But occasionally I'll take like a jack-in-the-box taco and I'll take a bite of it and mush it up in my mouth And then take a sip of like Lone Star and kind of swish it and it kind of makes this like nice Shake it's kind of good to just like whither down my throat. That's really interesting and then lead us to our next question What's your favorite shower taco? It's kind of more of a shower taco shake See my previous question. Okay. Yeah, no, that's not actually our next question, but thank you Scott PJ Our final email is creepy as fuck You know, I tend to do that. I'm gonna read this up. Hey I'm trying to get a friend from Colorado to send me beer What should I get so I can bring when I head down to get punched in the face Anastasia love J.R. from Dallas Yes, Anastasia, what's up? P.P.S. I can't grow a real beer either grant And is I love Stephen Wright's comedy and on his inside P.P.S. I don't get along with my mother And do you see why I'm so paranoid about being poisoned and trying to get killed this fucking guy this Terrifying, but once I killed my mother and skinned her. Thanks J.R. from Dallas. I don't know. I don't think I thank you that much He asked about Colorado beers. No. Oh, did he? Oh, oh God. Okay. Well, sorry Well, let's just get to his question. So he's trying to figure out what beer to get from Colorado What I would say is get crooked save. I'm a good stave for sure crooked save is awesome If you guys don't get great divide great divides a great brewery on Colorado Funkworks is fantastic. I don't know where this guy is. Oh, Dell. I don't think he's actually in Dallas I think that was just him responding to grants or somebody's saying J.R. Is he from Dallas? Ha ha like the show. So I think he's just rolling with that. I really don't know where this guy's from. Come on Ruby I'm just that's up already Why would I ask this question? Oh Dell is a great idea. Yes, a three we get a very that silly Avery But I don't like is it I don't know if this guy gets Avery. We're about to get Odell - I don't know if this guy's from here New Belgium. Yes is another one if you don't get it. Who makes 10-fitty? It's a Oscar Blues. Yeah Oscar Blues is great Left hand not so much I'm sorry. They're milks out. It's fantastic. They're milks out and then a few things on the fade to black series everything else can suck it Especially poll star pills fuck that beautiful. What about Trinity they make some really great stuff I love all of their sours and they make all these beers with they're using names inspired by office space that movie really really good stuff Well, anyway, hopefully that that'll get you started and thank you for sending your emails to be fucking creepy Thank everybody for sending emails. 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I think that's how you pronounce that I have no idea says your reviews are an excellent resource and a lot of fun, too You managed to squeeze in a lot of beer knowledge into each episode without ever getting too dry or academic. Yeah, no shit Yeah, your descriptions are sufficiently detailed that I get a good sense of each beer you cover Which helps me decide which ones I'll search out and which ones to skip of course now I'm spending way too much on beer, and that's the price for knowledge. I suppose thanks I want of us one of us. Yeah Better than hookers, so yeah, you're definitely welcome Donations I Want to thank some people for these donations We run our show on donations like that's the only way we get money We don't have advertisers. We don't have sponsors. 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You know what What's the funniest, you know who sees those before I do? Yeah, just Info at the beers I don't like any of you. I don't like any of you at all. Okay, so let's get on with our beers The lost abby and port brewing are both brands of port brewing company They're american and west coast alberes wipe out all viscosity shark attack, etc Are packaged in 22 ounce bottles and released under the port brewing label They're Belgian inspired stuff and premium beers like avant-garde and judgement day and most of their barrel releases are packaged in 375 milliliter or 150 milliliter corked bottles and released under the lost abby label Two of the founders vince and jina mars hugley. Yeah, we're so clear. Okay Probably have my turn mars hugley out are the owners of the pizza port empire and the third port brewing founder tommy arthur Used to be head brewer at pizza port, which is now a separate company This is all really confusing But tommy arthur is the guy who's leading up lost abby and the brewery is stone breweries old brewery Their previous brewery before they moved out and these guys took it over scabs came in took it over Yeah in 2006 these scabs took it over What about all that research I did and that cool motto that I included what the motto like we pledge not to use any carbonation for beers No, I just took it out because it's just too much You know as beer berry in it is my duty to uphold the knowledge of stuff I appreciate your knowledge of holdings. Do we want to talk about that fact at all or just the controversy? No, no, no, we can talk about it in a while. Okay, maybe Sometimes they don't let's get to the beer drinking. Okay. Okay. Okay. You bet the longest intro ever I know the first beer that we're gonna get to is carnival. Is that how you say it? Carnival carnival. Okay carnival. It's a dry hop saison. It's 6.5 ABV. It's a winter release available in bottles and on draft and it's hopped with amorillo and simco Bruton celebration of lint and easter season carnival is a light-bodied saison using patana mayis He's along with amorillo and simco hops to generate flavor and death carnival's complexity grows with time Blah blah blah flavor notes. So what's that about no carbonation? Yeah, no shit, right? This has a ton of coronation mics pouring it and the head is going all the way to the top. Oh jeez. Yes I mean my words there. You mean you're drinking your words. Just wait until we get to something special and then it'll really disappoint us Wow. Oh god. That's so depressing. So take a look at this beer It is a hazy golden color in a huge smattering of head. Oh my god. The head is gigantic The biggest of the heads. Yeah, I've got two fingers ahead. Mike's probably got four fingers of head I want to put my head on Mike's head Like a head pillow head pillow. This smells delicious Smells like Brett. It does smell like Brett. It smells a little bit like sweet tarts orange sweet tarts There's a citrus quality there. Yeah, a bit of clove Pepper somewhat funky, but really the funk is coming off more like a creamy fruit and smarty sugar or vol esque Yeah, really yeah grass grassy lion greens peaches The nose just kind of warms up more and more just blooms. It's amazing. It's very floral pretty fruity dry It smells pretty. It really smells like it would be pretty and maybe a little lacy. Does it taste like disappointment? It tastes Really good. Sorry. I just skipped right to the flavor because I was smelling that and I just couldn't not do that It is delicious. Like this is the best bottle of this that I've ever had. I agree Oh, wow You get those peach a little bit of apricot extremely dry grassy Definitely get that Brett note. That's huge here the Brett. Yeah, it's delicious in the flavor It's pretty big, but it's well developed. Absolutely I've had earlier bottles of this and the Brett notes come off a little band 80. Right. That's completely absent here Really dry nice pepper notes. Yeah, the pepper note is pretty big too. I think they use a little bit too much carbonation in this one Yeah, there's quite a bit of carbonation, but you know you can swirl that out a little bit, but it's no It's not it's not actually too bad. It's um, well I mean when I took my first sip fullness expanded in my mouth and it gave me a hard time tasting anything I couldn't get my nose into it A little bit of hay. Oh, yeah, some orange zest. It's so pillowy fluffy. Yeah, the mouthfeel is just crazy It's like having a jar of marshmallow fluff. It's a pretty girl standing in a barn Yeah, it is. It's like a maiden. Oh my gosh. Are you channeling anesthesia? I did. Yeah, I looked at her. I looked at her. Yeah, I just touched it out the word maiden. Go on. She's back off bitch She's his maid. She's mine. Huh. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's she's yours Mike and Nolan's is Michael For this fake girl you've already lost I don't know. This is a really good food beer If the level of carbonation is like this with every bottle which you know, you can't guarantee but if it is It's great because the bubbles will scrub away every single bite you take. Oh, yeah, fatty fish would be so good with this I don't think anybody's mentioned. There's a sweetness to this that's reminiscent of honey or caramel That's underneath everything. I think it's closer to honey. Yeah, it's more of an implied sweetness I mean I taste honey or something that comes off my honey, but it's not really sweet No, it's buried under all that dryness. Yeah, right. It reminds me of like a mead a little bit Yeah, like an orange blossom honey. Just that sweet note and orange is very specific and accurate here I think even something close to like baby aspirin orangey There's a there's an orange E that i'm getting in here. That's not quite real, but it's not in a bad way It's not something that's ruining the beer experience for me and grant his bleeding foam from his mouth. What happened? I think he was trying to touch the foam in his mouth. Why are you doing that? I ended up switching it around in my mouth and it did explode like you were saying And then it was too much and I couldn't swallow it So I was trying to I opened my mouth and wipe the side of my nose with some oil to try and make the It was pretty gross. I'm sorry I'm so glad I got to witness that. Oh, man. We should change this. I was trying to do it on the slide, but We should watch that like change the name of the show to the short beer bus Like the short spit bus the short bus just the way you said it Uh, this is delicious. I really like this beer a lot and again I don't remember it being this well done last time I had it duck fat fries. Oh, oh god Truffle fries. Yeah, anything with truffle risotto like a truffle risotto You know it came in mind for me like when you mentioned it earlier muscles I would love to boil some muscles with this or just drink it on the side with some muscles I think I'd rather drink it on the side. I'd still think it would be really great brazing liquid though Damn. I really like this. This is delicious And as I keep drinking it, I'm getting more of a amarillo hop in my mouth It's a little hoppier also than I remember it being too. This is a good party start and beer It's like a carnival in my mouth It's like the name they named it And it's dangerous with the research and development arm of lost having Are you okay? She's done This happens once in a while when anastasia breaks wide open And then you can't save her from herself Okay, uh, this is it's contagious. Can we uh, are we done talking about this weirdie guys? I think we're just done talking It's just bottoms up. I roll in Oh, wow, are we gonna move on to the next one? Yeah, we should move on to the next one. This was delicious Thank you so much guys, david nick and by the way, they're so like I said, it's really fucking cool and right now they're doing this thing where they are doing east versus west for IPAs so they're drinking a bunch of east coast IPAs a bunch of west coast IPAs on different episodes And then doing like bracket style tournament thing. Oh cool. That's what we're gonna end up doing in march We're gonna do something like that march something like that. We're gonna steal their idea in march No We've been talking about doing something like that for a while far march but listening to them do it has been really cool You've been taking notes for us to crib. I'm not gonna crib things from them. Okay I just want a wink. I just want to point out that they broke me. So I really do think they're trying to poison us This is not I drank the beer and then I broke but you're fine now. You fixed yourself. Well, that's to be determined keep fixing yourself Also, mike. We don't say the winks. You're really terrible about that terrible at waiting Uh, so that last beer was carnival And this next one is called saints devotion and it's a belgian blonde ale 6.6 a bv and it's a seasonal release again available in bottles and on draft And this is hopless co2 extracts german northern brewer and german tetenang A breadth-finished version of our devotion ale saints devotion is bottle conditioned with patenna minuses To deepen the layers of flavor on our most hop forward beer from the lost abby lineup. It's funny. It's six six six Oh, maybe the on the label. Oh, yeah, I forgot a six. Sorry guys. So okay. Yeah, so this is like devotion, but bottle condition with Brett Look at that head. It screams Brett infection. Oh, yeah Rocky uneven head. Yeah uneven when when we say rocky had it just means uneven like cliffs that you would jump Some bubbles are just gigantic and that happens with a bread infection. Yeah, that's a that's a pretty classic sign of Brett infection Yeah, in this case, it's a controlled infection. So it's yeah, this is Okay, yeah, this is purposeful. Yeah, really nice looking head and it's again It looks like a hazy golden color depending on where your poor was mics crystal clear. Yeah, mine's pretty clear too Yeah, it's just yours cut. There's it. Well, I went anastasia me grant and then you so I mean that's the evolution there dirty blonde Yeah, that's a golden hay. Yeah golden. Hey, I can meet in in a barn There was a pretty decent amount of head when I first started pouring this but it's since gone down to about half a finger I want to say. Yeah, still rocky and uneven. It's another one. That smells great. Reduced peaches initially Kick my ass. It really punched my nose. Yeah, it was it was really pungent So lots of pretend of my is funkiness anastasia said reduced peaches Peaches cooked in liquid with a little bit of brown. Yeah, I totally agree with that There's a little bit of strawberry there all the nose to a little bit of mint and basil I was just going to say that there's some type of herbaceous in this. It's there But I wasn't necessarily thinking mint and basil but I could totally get that but I was thinking more like time Or sage. Okay. Oh interesting. It smells like bubble gum to me There's a bit of that that got like bubble gum and sort of something toothpastey coriander also I like that one tricolor toothpaste, right? Yeah, like aquifers. Yeah, a little bit of pink peppercorn Yeah, there's a lot going on here a little bit of lemon zest too. Sorry. I said, I said, I tried to do a past tense of set You sapped? I sapped What is this? Uh, what is a tusk leak? Like a little bit of a limeade or like lime leaf In the nose? Yeah, in the nose. Yeah, totally I haven't skipped a head like some of us. Solly I think it takes great. I love this one. Oh, wow, that's really delicate That aroma is quite a bit stronger than the actual flavor But I love where this beer is at. This is incredibly smooth Very well incorporated. A lot of those aromas are present in the flavor, but it's not as pronounced Oh, that's really good. Yeah, what Mike said, it's really delicate Wow, it starts out with a big Brett funkiness That's the first thing that I get and it's somewhere between woody and hay and barn, right? There's something also musty like b-o or something going on in the flavor, but then there's a bunch of fruits Yeah, I get like this dusty hay quality and then a bunch of flowers Oh, like chewing on like potpourri, you know, but like not like an aggressive one or uh, what's that rose water kind of thing in there? I definitely get a hot presence in the tail end of everything. It's slight I mean they say it's their most hot forward beer, but at least in this Format it's there, but it's not being overwhelmed by anything Well, if you want to talk about floral and grassiness There's a lot of that here and there is a little bit of bitterness at the end But you are pretty much being bulled over by floral grassy and some muddled fruits at the end And by floral, I'm thinking sunflower and rose and rose for sure Yeah, there's there's other white flower that I remember smelling with a little yellow A lily of the valley like a daisy I really don't know what it is, but it's slowly of the valley is the poisonous. Oh plant front. Oh, sweet. Yeah, that's bad when I smell Yeah, I don't watch tv But yeah, there's a lot of floral things going on and then it kind of resolves into some peaches A little bit of lemon and lime. I don't know something else maybe melony or Sweet tea maybe yeah, I'm gonna drink sweet tea like a sweet sun tea That's made out in the rustic barn where the maiden and her sister Where are their maidens in every one of these beers because that's how delicate they are It's that one that left me. I'm just saying he should buy at the source Have you never listened to me describe things there's always a maiden in a meadow or you've got a lumberjack in A cabin in the woods or a maiden in the cabin in the woods or a maiden in the lumberjack Or a lumberjack in a maiden. It's probably that way in a woody cabin. Yeah, unless she's pegging. You know what? So I just finished this beer this saints devotion and it's awesome. Like I couldn't stop drinking this thing It goes down so quickly. It's moving. Oh, yeah, and I still have so this kind of all left over It's just a devil's juice. Mm-hmm and going back to that car and evolve There's so much more going on in that saints devotion to me. It's so much more layered and interesting So with the saints devotion, you said that one of the hops it had a co2 extracts. Do you guys know what that is? Oh, that's consult. Sorry. I'm a terrible beer burying You could do that while we move on to our next beer That was saints devotion and that was a delicious town And the final beer before we take a break is serpent stout and I love this beer This is one of my favorites from lost abbey Serpent stout is a Belgian sweet stout or a double stout and it's 11 percent abv It's a winter release available in bottles and on draft Mike is just oh my god. It just erupted with aroma soon like okay, and it's bottle hopped with centennial and cascade And the description says the history of the bible and religion is indeed the struggle of good versus evil So star wars our serpent stout recognizes the evil of the dark side. Anyway star wars You mean biblical right that we all struggle with The history of the bible and religion is indeed the struggle of good versus evil That sounds like the same shit that I just read Part of this beer was also barrel fermented and used bourbon barrel I really love you have the same sentence or twice Maybe they did too because copy and paces Maybe they did too I'm just gonna read from the bottle. I'm gonna read from the bottle. It says From the beginning of time it was so decreed from this tree of knowledge You shall not eat this fruit soon enough this serpent slither through the garden convincing eve to taste the nectar from this forbidden Once bitten and shamed She then tempted adam together their actions brought originals in upon the world and much great sex was had What that's not on the ball Just content to rest on his laurels the serpent continued his cunning ways Bringing forth more temptations like blow jobs and Sorry He foisted upon the world his own serpent stout a liquid so dark and whiskers that mike lambard Sounds like That all who tasted not just mike lamb, but soon fell victim to his evil Inconate some tongue to false prophets seeking advice. Sorry. I turned the channel to another binge podcast None of okay. I'm already bored. Let's just get to this fucking beer. That's why I didn't include that. Holy shit I don't blame you So was eve bitten and then shamed or was the apple bitten and then shamed? I'm not sure it was all bitten and shamed This is really dark. Yes. There's barely any highlights. I was trying to get a highlight I can't that foam is super dark too. Yeah In my glass You do six six six Mark of the biggest holy shit iron maidens in here This smells delicious. It smells incredible. Oh, yeah, it smells like a sweet stout chocolate coffee Fruits reasons chocolate reason chocolate reason. She just finally had her first chocolate reason today. She says and uh, yeah It's almost raisin or cherry skin. Yeah, and a little very slight on the raisin I'm just drawing a straw. No, you're you're Jerry I get cherry and a little bit of soy sauce or soy sauce. Yeah, that sort of umami savoriness Cocoa powder, but you're fucking with me Soy sauce with that. How are you talking about? No, I definitely picked that up as well smell and think kickleman Like it's in there somewhere. Wow. Okay. It's kind of right there next to the booze And what's that right in there next to all the other smells? You know when you go to a Vietnamese place like a full place and they've got the you know, they've got all those squeezy bottles full of sriracha Yeah, the hoisin soy sauce. Yeah, oyster the hoisin sauce. Mm-hmm that dark brown one It's almost like a barbecue sauce like an Asian barbecue. Yeah. Yeah, I get a little bit of that here too I totally picked that up as well For some reason the alcohol is just kind of making my eyes feel funny and my head feel dizzy There's quite a bit of alcohol on the nose. Yeah, it's a lot to sniff for a long time Yeah, but it smells delicious. They used to put the year on the bottles Please think like hide it. Are somewhere in the label itself. I'm not seeing anything this time. I'm sorry. I just drank this Is it disgusting? I love this shit. Mm-hmm. This is really good. Oh, man For a sweet stout or a export stout double stout. It is very dry Like there is some sweetness there. Absolutely, but it's dry for that style of beer. It's so chocolaty And I think frequently we've compared chocolatey Stouts to like tootsie rolls something like that. This tastes like a rich expensive chocolate Like a dark chocolate not tootsie roll like 75% dark chocolate. Yeah I think Anastasia in her description of the reason candies. I think that that totally pops here in the flavor Uh, there's something very dark caramel almost toffee It's like fudge almost or like some type of chocolate syrup There's like I go even further than toffee and and those sugars and say something like blackstrap molasses Yeah, and what you said about all that other stuff. I agree with it I get truffle like a chocolate truffle with that dusting of that baker's Oh, yeah, the baker's chocolate on like a creamy truffle with a bittersweet powder Dryness. Yeah, cherries and baked pear. Absolutely. Okay, this is a little weird But like sweet corn dust a little bit like if you match up captain crunch interesting Yeah, I get that a little bit of that as well in fact a better reference for it That's a local one for us if you if you ever gone to Uchiko and get there corn dessert That's immediately the first thing I thought of when you when you said that that's more of what I wanted to say But you know, that's that's very local. Yeah, I'm gonna throw this out a one sauce Yeah, there's definitely that worst to sure But even further than that like yes we eater than that and more fruity than that and deeper and just more depth Now I get that I'm not kidding though. It's it's interesting. I do get that and I don't like you saying that It's one of those things where it's I'd love the experience of like describing beers with people like this And then all of a sudden you'll say something and I'm like, oh man I can totally taste that and I want to just go back to tasting that delicious reasons and dark chocolate And now I'm thinking I'm drinking Worcestershire sauce juice. I mean it has that there I mean, it is there you would be really funny is to go back with all of the descriptors It's just like get a reason candy with some a one sauce and some voice in Anastasia said that she wasn't getting that though. Like I don't like you don't get like a savory component I tried not tried I don't I've actually that's all I kind of stopped talking I've been trying to pick out how my taste buds are interpreting it Um, I haven't nailed the flavor, but it's making me think of a really buttery Almost doughy kind of crust and that's as far as I got. Okay. I can see that there And the crust thing is getting closer to the caramelized sugar to the savory part You know the caramelized proteins that make umami. Yeah, you know, so you're getting a little bit closer to where I am with the extreme Example of something like that, which is like Worcestershire sauce, which is soy sauce You're just drinking a bottle. Like I get a little more like a pumpernickel bread I was like a really really light touch of Mesquite smoke or something Okay, where I find it hits my palate is if you run your tongue on the top the roof of your mouth And you hit that soft spot all of a sudden in the back right where it's soft when I take a sip The wash of the beer right there is where all of a sudden it really tastes like Worcestershire sauce like he said yeah, one of the things that you mentioned earlier in instasia that that jumped out at me when you started talking about buttery crust It made me think of pie crust that's made with like graham crackers or something like that I started to get a graham crackery kind of note out of this sure I don't know if anybody else is picking that up And I've actually had pie crusts made of graham cracker and oreo at the same time And it's similar to that sort of thing too. Okay I was thinking more of a crust for like a pop pie or a shepherd's pie On that's doughy and flaky at the same time that just uses a large amount of butter and flour No, sure but My brain doesn't work poison. I'm being poisoned There's no poison. I was eating oreos earlier today. I don't know if this would be I know I could tell I love lamp I'm supposed to be the one to say that This might be too rich, but I actually do kind of want a Like a meat pie with this or a cornish pasty Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, like it might be a little too much like that kind of rich saviness of the Yeah, that's the only thing that might clash for me I think that would just be decadent deliciousness. I mean, I would do this with a foghra also I mean, just something wow and buttery I just want like a turkey leg from the fair actually like a Would probably that would be amazing. Ooh like a smoked turkey and some kind of softish cheese on rye Really good. That would be great, but I'm gonna stick with my foghra and actually seared pork belly also Get out of my head. Yeah No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm back now. I kind of blacked out when you said foghra Went to a special place one of his trigger words. Yeah, manuring in Canada here It's like the worst manuring candidate No, but we should make the remake of the venturing candidate Oh, it's a movie not a sex. Yeah. No. Yeah, we should reboot the manuring in candidate We need to take a break. Just really let's just take a break the limb chain in candidate Yeah, what's forced mic to actually take a bath? I couldn't even smell half the smell of me. Oh fuck. I mean really. What the fuck, dude? You haven't taken a bath in ten years. Seriously it takes ten Cats are such dicks. I only made that reference because you said you just discovered shower beer mister bottom of the bottle And we figure since you drink beard every other point in your life That's kind of what yeah, thank you Sorry break Yeah intermission Ah Ah I'm so glad we all went to mass and prayed for our sins and our souls because you know, what's coming next a hangover Is that right judgment day? Judgment day is the next year, but I gotta say that I still taste that last beer the serpent stout in my mouth And we forgot the beers I got one second this drunk people work. Hold on. We'll be right back Okay, we got the beer now What the fuck we're a beer show. We're not gonna get beer and bring it up with us Hey, so as long as you know, we're remorseful and we go to confession all sins will be forgiven We will get to heaven. This is like a Catholic beer show Have you not seen the Celtic cross? Yeah, there's a Celtic cross is their logo. I get it and it's on abbey Yes, but are they actually in some way? Religiously tell me no, I do want to say the cool thing about their Celtic cross label is it's barley hops water And he's like those little designs in each little segment of the cross. Yeah, that is cool. Oh, you know what they should do. What? They should sue Moylins We're using a Celtic cross. They did that Yeah, they should totally should do the Celtics The basketball team. Yeah, because they're Celtics. So the next beer is Judgment Day and this is a Belgian style quad It's 10 and a half percent adv It's a year-round offering available in bottles on a draft and it's up with German magnum And they're also using raisins and dextros in this and it says did you want to read the description of this? Yes, okay go Do you believe there will be a judgment day? Have you ever thought about what you'll be doing when the four horsemen arrive? Perhaps we'll be drinking this Belgian style dark quaddo when they appear However, since we have no idea when our time will expire or when we'll be forced to cash in our tickets We offer this simple advice live an inspired life Find opportunities and everything to make a difference Seek out new and spontaneous adventures And when you find them embrace them as if they were the devil's song for an increasing for an interesting life Is this brought to us by the church a Latter-day Saints? For an interesting life is worth living Challenge yourself to embrace patheon persistence and a motivated way of Passy way. I like how you throw just every so often there's a random word that's pronounced French like this piggy does So when that judgment day approaches from nowhere You'll go out knowing you've lived your life on your terms and they can't take that away from you damn it Oh my gosh, I mean, here's real. Can I point out that she was cradling a beer in her tits? She was doing that and I didn't break character. Nope. Hollywood. Here I come. We're all being moved by her forwards and like look at it Thanks, Anastasia for that. Yeah anytime taking a look at his beer. It's a very dense beer I can't see through it, but it's dark reddish brown. Yeah, I got like some Paul ready highlights Oh Kind of like a little bit clay Maro You know, it sounds a banner. Why don't we just uh describe the beer because I was trying to say ready. It looks ready Yeah It's a really rich brown color. You can't see through it. It's very dark But there's a brown reddish brown highlight around the edge nice tan head. Yeah, it smells like uh tootsie roll pops Yeah, actually you're right. I definitely get the fruit notes fermented fruits. Yeah Raisins and barley sugar. It's gonna say a little apple There's a touch of chocolate to this Remember when you talked about those whiskey chocolates that I never had Yes, and then you gave me some and then the ones that you gave me to keep the whiskey inside the chocolate They've got that sugar Wall. Yeah, the sugar shell like that. Sweet. Yeah. Yeah, I totally get that like like a sugar shell And just because you said sugar wall I know that your name is Wolford Brimley. It's cool. I know your secret I mean, that's slang for pussy. Yeah. Oh god. That's sexy. Yeah step inside my sugar walls. Ooh Okay, so there's a song called sugar walls from the 80s. Oh, I think it's Lisa Lisa in the cult jam Can you just sing it to me real quick? I think it's Lisa Lisa in the clam jam Something about diving into a honey pot. Hey. Hey, so this beer it smells delicious I mean it smells it almost smells like a quad. I don't know No, it doesn't I was gonna say it doesn't smell like any quad that I really ever smelled It's more chocolatey. It's got a little Less of the fruity esters that I would expect from a belgian yeast I mean, I do smell that belgian yeast influence. I mean it is definitely a belgian kind of beer But yeah, you're right. I think there's more chocolate to this than there is raisins and figs and all those other fruits that you associate with a belgian It smells fucking amazing. It does smell great I think the difference is that it actually smells like fruit as opposed to fruit esters derived from yeast Right. Yeah, right and I was gonna say that those fruit aromas are still there They're just a little bit different than normal and more muted by the chocolate smelling this makes me think of figgy pudding What is figgy pudding? Mashed figs thickened with bread creme boiled. That's a bread pudding Yeah, it's like a weird bread pudding and sometimes they will they'll soak it with brandy and flambated Oh god. I'm sorry. Yes. This tastes delicious. I'm sorry. I've been tasting this It's really good. I just can't get over that. No, that smells so good Oh my god. I'm just looking at the rest of this list 10 and a half percent 12 and a half percent 12 and a half percent We're gonna be wasted good thing. We're not drunk already, right? Yeah Hydrated dried strawberry fruit leathers in the nest. Oh wow nailed it There's some of that real fruit leather some of that in the flavor too I totally agree with you milk chocolate the flavor and I was gonna say that it tastes like a quad a little bit more spicy and milky Like it tastes creamed like a creamed quad. That's great I seriously can't take a sip because every time I go to take a sip I smell it and I just get ecstasy take a sip because like I said, it tastes like you've put some whipping cream into a delicious spicy quad Yeah, I just wish I would have smelled it. What do you mean? You don't like the way? No, I do. I do It's like strawberries and cream. There's a lot more going on there though I mean in the flavor you get a lot of rich sugars and there's like molasses he thinks going on and Some chocolate stuff some of these some fruit leather Raisin soaked in some kind of alcohol just rum raisin some rye bread also. Yeah, this is delicious This is one of the better bottles of this that I've had in a really long time I'm gonna say that about every single one of the beers that we've had so far so far has been fantastic Like this show has completely turned me around on last abby. Yeah me too I was just gonna say the same thing so we haven't really touched on the controversy in the past That last abby was known for having some qc issues involving a lot of times Completely still beers and completely flat or completely over carbonated. Yeah, it will infected Yeah, gushing like bottle gushers. Oh, is that motto thing a joke? Yes. Yeah See it And when you say such a thing, I think oh, they actually don't carbonate their beers or some weird I mean they're supposed to bottle condition their beers, but a lot of times it just didn't fully work Like in the craft community they've been kind of known as oh flat abby Yes, at least in the circle that we hang out in. Yeah, I'm not sure if it's like that They should portmanteau that to just being flabby flabby Flabbity yeah, that's a deep flabby. I don't know but So yeah, there've been a lot of times where we've had bad experiences with those beers Well, and it kept me from drinking their beers or searching them out considerable amount of time because almost every time we had a lost abby bottle that wasn't like red poppy Yeah, it was bad, you know It was it was either like the Brett was just super phenolic or there was no carbonation It was all just fucked up and then all the bottles are fucking expensive super expensive So it was just not worth it like when they were putting out beers like that for the price point But now this is great. This is great. These are all 2013 bottles. Okay. Yeah, so that's one thing Maybe the bottles that we had previous have been older or just you know Maybe they've shaken their QC issues out recently and everything's fucking great and running perfectly now This has been fantastic. I mean this judgment day is a very very good beer I mean, it's flavor pretty on for a quad. I mean, I really taste a quad here with more Chocolate and fresh fruit rather than esters. Oh, man. Didn't so this is reminiscent of a beer Different styles, but uh, didn't uh, new glares do like a chocolate bock or like a chocolate abby or something like chocolate abby It's reminiscent in a sense Just with the milk chocolate notes that i'm getting out of this one in the in the fruit Yeah, I totally get that well done. Tommy arthur. You son of a bitch He was really nice though. Like when we met him at the great american beer festival Was he nice when you guys met him? Yeah, because I just gave him shit like the whole time Wow, he was a really lightened up. He was a nice guy. I meet this guy No, no, I just gave him shit for like a few seconds And that was just mean to tommy arthur for no good reason cut this he was a son of a bitch when I met him the first time Now he was not gonna cut that he was super nice. I'm not cutting that No, it was super nice when I met him He was a pompous fuckwad when you know what sometimes people have their off days when you met me out was a pompous fuckwad I mean, I still am I guess for some people. It's called light. We'll have our off five or six years uh This is delicious. Yeah, I'm kind of liking that this Doesn't harken back too much to a typical belgian quad me too. Yeah, I like those chocolate and actual Fruit fruit flavors not fruit ester flavors. I'm super digging on it It's really great because it is still definitely a quad but it's like they put their own spin on it And it works fucking well I mean, it's it's just a very good interpretation of a quad that has some uniqueness to it I think it's a pretty solid for it to style overall. I don't think like I'm as big into the belgian Quads right otherwise, you know, it's it's solid for what it is. I think it's really great This is just a really well done well executed beer. I want more of this. I mean I do too I was just thinking the same thing I'd love to pick up some more bottles because these age amazingly well I haven't mentioned that on the show yet lost abby when they have good bottles They age extremely well Serpent stout is one of those ones that I used to have a three or four-year vertical of and then I drank them all Because awesome, you know, I can't get over how creamy this beer is also I mean, there's such a creamy texture and flavor to this thing It tastes like it has cream in it great beer. This is delicious Like the food pairing is in the back of my brain and I can't pull it out. I'm thinking pot roast I'm thinking stuffing for like a Thanksgiving dinner. I want blue cheese blue cheese sounds cool I want this beer to shine so I want something that's gonna be a little more Restrained and that's I think maybe that's why I'm having a hard time It's a lot of fun. Look at your fucking hot dogs and middle-earth Jesus well, I was actually kind of thinking risotto or some kind from metal earth. That sounds good I like some stew with this. Asabuco. What's that? Sabuco. Oh, yeah, how do you know what that is? I don't know what that is. I've had it in Italy. Oh, shit. Yeah, it's a veal shanks braced with vegetables red wine broth It's like slow cooked forever. Basically yum when I had it It was kind of like a pot roast but like rolled up like a strumball way. That sounds awesome Yeah, it was it was like a really fancy one I don't think they always do it that that way I keep going back to roast and to stew and to meaty rich fatty things something hardy to go with this like yes I want something that's going to be a little bit lighter to kind of balance out how hardy because you know The more I drink this the more that it lingers It does my mouth and it builds just a little bit so I want something that's going to maybe You saw some cucumber sandwiches that just like rinse your mouth No, maybe some some yokey Noki sounds very good. Some ermed gnocchi with like a crumbly blue cheese. Like a pumpkin gnocchi Oh, yeah, it's like a sweet potato something. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I really don't know I I think I want this beer with something that competes with it just a bit I know where you're coming from when you say that you want something a little bit light to make this beer shine But I want something like lamb. I want something like lamb. I want something like duck I want something that's fatty and rich. I want and delicious. I want something with blood that'll Yeah, something that'll harmonize with this in a way that almost competes with it because this thing As I'm drinking it it is building and it is really laying on my tongue and the alcohol is showing More as it warms up, which is all great. Like this is all working really well for me But I want something that is toe-to-toe with it and it's challenging it a little bit I agree with you to me. This doesn't really have any similarities with it at all But to me this almost feels like a red wine Substitute no way though. Yeah, like or like I could substitute this beer in or sub this in for something else like a Just having like a nice piece of steak rare something bloody I just want something minimally an irony with it if that makes any sense pork buns Ooh show pal. We call it in the philippines. Okay, it's like meat in a Fun that's a kind of sweet little sticky like a yeah, like a scene the white steam buns Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about when you said blood I was trying to think of there's this dish like this philippino dish that I used to love when I was really hung over for some reason Um, it's called denu gone and it's it's like a blood stew almost It's just like black dish with chunks of food and they they put blood in it. Ew It's like it's like a blood. Yeah, it's a blood stew essentially. Okay. I'll be I'll be the lone duck here that goes Blood's delicious in the right context. I agreed No joke. I can go. Let's not even hey, let's move up next year. That was judgment day delicious belgistale quad really loved that beer Sorry lamb chops and a mint jelly. Oh god. Yeah nailed it. Yes god took long enough Um, so angel shares are next beer and it's a barrel aged english style barley wine It's 12.5 percent abv and it's hopped with german magnum And this is one that we've had previously that hasn't been carbonated Okay, this is I've had angel sure several times. I'll tell you about on the show. No. No. No. I've had it a bunch of times They're finished in different barrels. Some of them are bourbon barrel aged some of our brandy barrel aged I'm not sure what this is. This is bourbon from 2013. Okay, it's actually Stamped on the bottle. Cool. It says down in kentucky and across the pond in scotland distillers who aged their whiskies for many years Refer to the evaporation of the spirits from their barrels as the angel share Oh That was a satisfying pop. Yeah We couldn't agree more. Each time a barrels fill the measure of liquid seeps into the oak and is lost for good This striking strong ale is brewed with copious amounts of caramel Multi-emphasized vanilla and oak flavors found in freshly emptied bourbon or brandy barrels The beer spends a year in oak before it's packaged for release and that has a beautiful head We're We're five for five five for five dude lost abby hell fucking yeah, I was curious what angel share meant And i'm glad it explained it right there We're being poisoned So the bit of spirits or in this case beer that gets soaked into the barrel and sublimates out Is the share this the angel sublimates. Yeah, there's the angel take that. It's sort of a transubstantiation of yes It's like a term for whiskey and bourbon right? It smells so good. It smells really good But let's let's look at this beer first. It's a dense brown color a little bit of a brown highlight looks murky Yeah, ruby ish gold more garnet Highlights. Yeah, good finger ahead. That's now dissipated to about a half finger I have dropped pretty quick. I have never seen this good ahead on this beer I haven't seen this beer So nicely carbonated in years and i've had this beer probably 10 times Yeah, the very first bottle that I ever had Was from walt powell and he had a bottle of 2004 or 2005 oh yeah At the very first tasting that we had and it was perfectly carbonated and it was amazing Was that back in 2005? It was 2007 And then every single one of them that I had after that was either infected and totally gushed Or it was entirely flat. Yeah, and I had pretty much given up all hope on this beer All four or five bottles I had paid for in the past of this beer brandy and bourbon aged world flat And uh funny story actually there was a few of us jonathan lures Can switch to name a few We all decided to pull our bottles together and force carbonate them using some home brew equipment and It was actually it worked and it was fucking awesome We poured lost abbey Angel share into a canada dry an empty canada dry fucking Yeah, it was just it felt so sacrilegious during this $25 beer Okay, you need to stop talking because I keep smelling this fucking angel share and it smells amazing We were all thinking shut the fuck up. It's just Bourbon and brown sugar and fucking deliciousness A brownie batter raisin toffee. Yes. Oh, there's something kind of stanky about it too Like a sticky spanky dank like something's gone bad gone wrong I mean good way. Yeah, it's making my nose high overall. It smells great It's just there's this weirdness about something that either like this ancient evil almond or macadamia or brazil nuts I think it's almond cyanide. No, I'm not saying it It's strict nine. I think it's almond like I smell something like that. There's a nuttiness I think it's like an almond milk or cashew something creamy. Sure, right? Isn't sweet almond a sign of cyanide poisoning, you know, this is not poisoned. Are you sure they've all been really carbonated? I'm just saying hello. Mike is making god. I would just say no take a sip Oh my god. Oh, man. It's like every wonderful decadent dessert. I'll distill into one That is so incredible. That is very good This is one of the best bottles of this that I've had in a really really really really long time. That's so so bourbony Yeah, that's bourbon. There's a crème brulee quality to it. Yes, bourbon crème brulee vanilla a bunch of like Figs and dates and raisins and yeah dark chocolate and milk chocolate and Haba. Haba. Haba. Haba. So this is apparently how this beer should taste, huh? Yes, this is this is the right kind of bourbon barrel aging this beer should have this butter scotch This is about as close to perfection as that bottle that Walt had brought all those years ago I've not had this beer that good since then, you know, you say butter scotch I get a little bit of that, but it's more close to caramel of a like a word. There's original. No, so say I've got some purse candy Yeah, yeah, I've got purse candy like literally candy in my purse and it's like the chocolate butter scotch worth Perfect. It's butter scotch without the diastole I really I kind of get a hint of butteriness There probably is a little bit of diastole for us to be tasting that But it's not out of place for this beer and it's not a lot. It's not unwelcome That is adding that little tiny little bit of diastole there is appropriate. It's fine I'm also super happy that I'm only getting Approximately four ounces of this because it is giving me cavities You're right But really this beer is so good. I don't like very sweet beers all that much But This I could probably drink twice this much. I could drink an eight ounce pour of this I'd love an eight ounce pour of this. Yeah, this is definitely a dessert beer for me This with a fresh fruit and maybe a few cheeses. It's so bourbony in such a great way This is incredible. I really want some fresh strawberries And some kind of over ripened raspberries with this. Oh god raspberries would be so good I want something kind of tart because I I like sweet things I have such a big sweet tooth But like it's so thick in my mouth that I need something to kind of break it up a little bit I can totally agree with you there. I agree with you there, but it's not like cloying to me It's not overbearing with its sweetness. It's just close to that I guess I feel like if I drank this entire bottle I would totally hit that threshold that anastasia's talking about where I would want something Just slightly tart to contrast sure you'd have diabetes. Yes Just clear that up. You'd have the diabetes if you drink all bottle. Oh god. This is such this is incredible I think it's interesting my initial reaction versus as I I continue drinking it because that diastral note Does seem to build a little bit more for me. Right? I liked it at first because it quickly melted with everything else the carmeline notes and it remind me a butter scotch But I'm kind of I wish that was little bit less pronounced. You know, I don't mind it. No And I don't mean to like you know shit on y'all. No, but it's fine. That's fine We all have our own flavor preferences, but for me This is exactly the right amount of diastral for this type of beer. It is very little It is very very little for me And the sweetness is also completely tolerable and completely welcome Because that alcohol is there cutting all of that so fucking well Yeah, and I love the chocolate and the caramel bourbon and vanilla which are huge like the bourbon The bourbon vanilla notes are beautiful. They're gigantic and wonderful. It's like I could breathe fire Yeah And the bourbon is a good quality bourbon barrel You can usually tell when they're using shit bourbon barrels because it tastes a little bit like shitty bourbon But whatever kind of bourbon barrels are using here is some pretty damn good quality bourbon Don't get me wrong. I really really like this one. I didn't mean to poop on it. No, it's fine Did you really just finish all of that me? Yeah, no, but I will right now Done, it's delicious. That was awesome. So yeah, I'm definitely gonna hold by my statement smelling it a little while ago I got the tiniest smallest hint of mustard seed So that definitely made my brain go like oh my god This is one that you want to have when you're eating a cheese plate for dessert Oh god So you have you've got the cheese plate. You've got the fresh fruit. You've got some mustard You've got like fresh baked bread. You've got some fruit preserves as well. Maybe some almonds I want to go to there Get into my brain and you'll be there. This one the cheese plate would be epic This one the fucking cigar would be epic. I want this beer with a cigar I could totally see that being amazing I mean between that and bourbon county stout The level of bourbon is about equivalent it really is It's not the same mouth feel necessarily, but man that level of bourbon is just so awesome And it's like you mentioned before it's a really high quality bourbon. It's wonderful. It's almost like strand of hands You know how those strand of hands has that buttery quality. Yeah. Oh, it's kind of like that Mm-hmm. Love it. Anyway, that was angel's share The final beer for the evening is deliverance ale and deliverance is a barrel aged blended american strong ale It's 12.5 A bb just like the last one and it's a winter release available in bottles A blend of bourbon barrel aged serpents stout and brandy barrel aged angel's share. Oh my god Deliverance is the epic battle being waged between heaven and hell for the souls of mortal man and your enjoyment in a glass Wow like the perfect way to end this episode. It really does because and it's carbonated and it's carbonated Oh god. It's I mean it's slight, but it still has some gas. I'm disappointed about the lack of head But I guess I can't be surprised after I've been drinking this much. I'm fine with that amount of head There's very little but it's enough to show me that there's some bubbles in here and it's dark as hell Barely any highlights. Yes slightest bit of highlight around the edge Looks like a cherry coke or something that you left out and it got flat very wispy head I mean there was just a little bit when I was pouring it just enough to bubble up and let you know that there was still some life to it Yeah, but it's pretty much dissipated by now. Yeah, mahogany back tones. Oh my god. It smells so good Vanilla chocolate hint of coffee, cherries coffee brandy. Yeah, there's a bit of Yeah chocolate cherry cordials. Yeah. Well the thing about the brandy is that for some reason it is closer in the nose to brandy Then it is to bourbon. There's some bourbon there. I smell bourbon, but there's brandy also. I don't know. It's weird I don't get much bourbon. I mean I get bourbon. I totally get better I get more brandy and I get more vanilla from the bourbon than I so it's not necessarily registering as bourbon It's just vanilla right a little graham crackery note as well. Mm-hmm. I get lots of toffee Caramel lots of alcohol Chocolate yeah chocolate a touch of umami Some nuttiness just a bit pretty decent amount of bourbon and a load of brandy. I kind of get reasons again There's so much booze in this one. Oh, oh my goodness. What did you taste it? Yeah, tell me about it. Oh, it's boozy It's good. I wish it wasn't so flat, but it's just this viscous beautiful chocolateiness Bourbon soaked fudge. Oh, that's yeah. Yeah, it fudge. Yeah, you can chew on it man ranking these are going to be hard Well, don't talk about ranking. Yeah, let's describe this beer. It's like a liquefied fudge batter It's like you take fudge batter. Yes And you you know you whisk it and fold it just enough so that you don't get weirdness when you bake it And then you put it in the magic bullet and you're fucking bullet the shit out of it so it becomes liquid Oh, yeah, it's a thinner boozier Fudge and county stout like yeah true and it's fudgy as well in a way that angel share isn't right It feels like angel share with way more alcohol, which it doesn't have angel share has 12 and a half percent This has 12 and a half percent. This feels like it's almost twice as alcoholic as angel share and it isn't as Caramelly or bourbony as angel share and the only reason i'm comparing it is because it's got it in it And it's the same a bv and i'm really drunk. Yes It's a good beer, but it's not really balanced. No, it's not very alcohol I don't think it's supposed to be balanced though I I really dig this but I think the angel share that we just had was probably one of the best bottles of angel share that i'd had in years But it just felt more incorporated it felt more like a cohesive piece But the reason i'm bringing that that up the reason I said all of what I just said is because This is a blend of angel share and serpent stout and this tastes More alcoholic than both of those. Yeah combined alcohol synergy It is so alcoholic and that's not to say it's not good Because it still is but it's going to lose a lot of points because it's become so off balance Like the other two beers that we just had the serpent stout and the angel share Weren't those beers were still very balanced for what they were Yeah, this isn't the boosest. This is the beer is you're right? Uh, are you sure? Yeah, it also is the boosest Oh, well, I guess you guys keep comparing it to angel share So so how I see it is angel share is that after dinner beer Like it's still a beer and this deliverance is more of a port or a sherry It is where it's got that chewy kind of viscous Syrupy almost yeah, it's the high alcohol Wine or or barley thing that's turning into a spirit right not just if yeah I just need to not highly carbonated. No prickly mouth feel just kind of Washes and lays and it's all French and it's like hey I'm in my mouth and I am going to be at the just deep You know the very sexy French accent It's messy He's gonna paint you like one of his french girls. Uh, we either way. I'm really enjoying this beer Have we even talked about the beer on its own? I feel like we've just been comparing it Let's just talk about the beer on its own. Yeah, let's just try to describe this beer See I do get a little more of the umami in this one in the nose anyway That's coming from the serpent stout. I feel like it is and it's the same sort of umami that I was getting the serpent I do get that. It's not as pronounced as as in the serpent not nearly I get the little bit of mesquite smoke like really really far back there is where that smoke lives for me But I remember getting that in the serpent stout right it tastes to me more like angel's share But it seems like angel's share has been cut with a little bit of serpent stout and a lot of alcohol I don't know there's so much brandy in this when the flavor right right and when it came down to it at least with angel shares I always preferred the bourbon barrel age as opposed to the brandy barrel every time brandy barrel age beers to me Don't impart nearly as much flavor as bourbon barrel age. It's kind of like a rum barrel age beer, right? I feel like yeah brandy barrel age anything doesn't yeah affects the carbonation somehow it affects the mouth feel entirely And uh, that's what's going on here. I think that this is a really tasty beer I think it's just what anastasia said though. I think that this is really like the after dinner Digestive if I had my choice between deliverance and angel's share as a digestive I would go for angel share every time. I agree every single fucker as a digestive. Yes. Yes. Yeah. It's an after dinner Sipping drink. Ah, okay, sissy. Like the more I learn it's usually either very sweet or very high alcohol or both like a port Or uh, even a gigger mister is a digestive I'm going this one as well. I'm sorry. Not so much. Yeah, I'll get the diastole in this Oh, man. This just tastes like butter and it tastes like alcohol really and vanilla and wood to me I get less diacetyl out of this than the previous one right in the previous one I mean, maybe there's some uh lasting effect on my palate But I also get diacetyl out of this one and so I do get less diacetyl in this as well But there's also less of that caramel balancing note. Yeah, I mean, there's less of that that multi caramel-y base It's like that beer that caramel-y part was cut with alcohol It's like it was just replaced by more alcohol, which makes it thinner I feel fairly confident that when we get to the rankings on this we're gonna be kind of all over the board Probably before we do that. I had tried this and I know I've been having a hard time perceiving umami and savvy flavors tonight I think I just my palate is allergy and whatever but taking a sip from it for some reason my brain pulls up sweet pork sausage Like that's the flavor. It's giving off like a smoked sweet pork sausage. That's really interesting I agree with you. Um, like some chinese sausage sort of Okay, whatever. I don't even know what you said. I'm so drunk It's like like a chinese Not quite that sweet A little more savory with I know what you're talking about too, but not as sweet as that I'm gonna go home and make some something more of uh, should be delicious. Yeah We should do ranking. I forget what I was saying. Hey, did you eat today? Yes, I did and I'm gonna go first because I can That's a good reason. I don't know if I have enough sobriety left to fucking do rankings after one other person and then our 20 minute outter Right. So my first okay, I'm gonna go should I go down? Okay, my Start from the very beginning. Fuck. Okay. My number six I'm gonna give it to deliverance this beer that we just had because it was so out of balance It replaced all the things that were yummy about the serpent stout and the angel's share Which you combined to make this beer Uh, it replaced that with alcohol and some thinness because of that, but they're also different It was like the brandy angel share not the bourbon. It was different. No sure. Yeah, it is It's a brandy barrel aged version of the angel's share But I still tasted a little bit of bourbon in it for some reason. I don't know. I think it's the vanilla that was making me taste that Yeah, I don't know that deliverance and that's not such a big fan. Number five for me was carnival because that was awesome And I just have to say that all of these beers were great. We didn't have a bad one at all tonight No, all these beers. I really really liked I would love to have any of these Deliverance and maybe a little bit less than all these but really fuck these beers were fantastic Thank you so much dave and nick carnival was great. I loved that Peachy bready or vollies sort of quality to that beer dug the hell out of it number four for me was serpent stout And that was a surprise to me because i'm a big fan of serpent stout and every time i've had it I've been like fuck. Yeah, serpent stout But having it next to all these other beers made it a little bit less for me But in context with all these beers that doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot less Because that is a fucking wonderful beer and I still loved it. Love the chocolateiness the umami A lot more than I like the umami and something like darkness from surly Which just goes overboard. That was I think infected or not right. No, I don't know. I don't know But this does it well number three for me judgment day that belch style quad I really like judgment day and I really like there's spin on a quad It's a very fresh fruity chocolatey quad. I could drink that fucking anytime and I want something meaty with it I still maintain that number two saints devotion Gets really close to my idea of a perfect Britannica beer. I don't have very much to say about it other than fuck Yeah, get that beer like it's great number one for me angel share I've never had that fucking beer that good. I've never Really seen what other people see in that beer until today when I had a great bottle of it Not a good bottle but a great bottle of it perfectly carbonated creme brulee I love that. Oh My god, you went to a place you have no idea how much I love that beer that was in my top 10 of the year Like that was great. So you're just started. No. Well, okay. Good counting I'm counting a year from today. Like that's in my previous the previous year. That's top 10 365 days. Yes. That's the best one. Exactly. No, it's in my top 10 I knew that was gonna be your top one. You have a firm erection right now That was delicious. I predicted your top two actually and I was right both sweet I just want to say thank you so much to nick and dave if any of our listeners need another beer podcast to listen to I would say the two that I listened to the most are This is totally honest craft beer anonymous is one of them and the beer temple chris quinn's pumpkin This is like hey, I want to also promote this one Also, I'm sorry because chris quinn is doing some cool shit and i was just reminded of Of that this way and went back and listened to a bunch of christmas Maybe just rerecord that Sorry, no, that's fine Craft beer anonymous is a really good show to listen to and chris quinn's podcast also I love the beer temple and he's got a great store in chicago. Oh my god. Stop. Sorry. I love chris quinn He's my man crush. Fuck you craft beer anonymous Fuck you beer temple. You know what? Michael go ahead. I'm next gonna. I'm just fucking real Okay, cool to echo rubia sentiments. We did not have a shitty beer all night. Every single one of these beers was absolutely delicious Really, i'm going just in order of my flavor preference My number six was deliverance ale. I don't think that there's anything necessarily wrong with this beer at all It was a little bit more muddled than the other ones Still delicious. I would still happily drink this again. I've got a bottle in my cellar I'm very happily awaiting the day that I drink it. My number five was the carnival I loved how dry that was. I think anastasia mentioned it earlier how or vol like it was That was awesome. Oh so good right up my alley. My number four was judgment day I really enjoyed this beer as well. This was probably the best bottle of this beer that i've had Deliciously Fruity but as i mentioned before it's actual fruit flavors not fruity esters And I love when we have shows where like number five and number four like oh my god Yeah, this is great. That was an awesome beer. My number three was the saint's devotion I'd had devotion before I can't remember the last time that i've had the saint's devotion This was so wonderfully subtle and complex And restrained. I loved that about this beer. My number two is a serpent stout. I love this beer all day every day It's an amazing stout. You should buy up bottles and sit on them and age them. They get so much better with time Uh for this being a 2013 bottle. It was in a fucking amazing place. I I would love to see where this goes My number one. It's the best bottle of this beer that i've had in probably about six or seven years That's angel share. This bourbon barrel aged angel share was So right up my alley It was balanced. It had all the flavors that I liked. It was actually fucking carbonated for once It was great. It was amazing. I always say carbonated for once But I personally haven't had a bottle of this in like two years. Okay. It was remarkable Can't say enough about it. That's me. Sweet grant. You want to go next? Fuck yeah, dude. Oh, man So, I'm gonna quote you guys. Okay, that's saying we haven't had a bad Slash shitty one tonight. Yes. Thanks. I'm gonna disagree Because number six deliverance ale. I don't think I really like this beer I think there's something wrong about this beer. I think it's too boozy Okay, maybe i'm alone on this, but I think there's a buttery note diacetyl note that I don't appreciate I think it's trying too hard to be something and I didn't think it delivered and I don't want to finish the rest of it Okay, so deliverance ale. I didn't think it delivered I wrote that down Number five Goes to judgment day and oh, yes judgment day. It's your day for judgment I thought this beer was It was okay. Here's the thing. I think that maybe my palate is just not too into the Belgian style quads anytime. There's a quad you rate it really low. I think that's it I think that they all taste very much like candied sugars And I don't really like candied sugars. I love it I think it just tastes like artificial bullshit. I think it tastes like stupid. It bugs me So as far as their effort, I think they did a good job Not my cup of tea. Okay, number four goes to Carnaval because of the name I wrote this was a party in my mouth. Wow. Hey, you like that one? I got a lot. I got three more So I thought this was had some great bread and floral notes is very dry Really enjoyed it for the most part, but you know, it wasn't the best Which moves us to number three? I think you guys both put this as your number one Angel's share. Yeah, I was blown away with my first few sips And then I started to fall out of love with it because that Diosatile note I was getting kept building and that's just something I couldn't really get rid of It was just eating a bunch of stale popcorn. It reminded me of when I used to work at a movie theater Oh, and I wrote they may have kept their angel share, but the human share wasn't too shabby Wow, I haven't tried out all this material on you guys. That's amazing But did you like the beer? Yeah, I thought it's I thought it was good. I write down my number three. Wait, that was a joke I think that was just something a guy said. Did data station write that? Yeah Yeah, she's my ghost writer. Don't insult me. All right. The serpent sat was wicked good Wow, tough crap I wear a tie so I can adjust it. You need to do way more open mics So I thought the rich darkness of it that chocolatey note Anastasia mentioned reasons because she's just tried them thought it was a great description of it Ruby had tried to ruin it with that the a one in the Worcestershire sauce But uh, I still thought it was such a delicious beer as far as the four dark beers that we had This was my favorite and then number one goes to the saints devotion Oh Holy moly holy moly that beer is good enough to where it deserves at least being number one once Yeah, I love how you just breezed over his joke again. That was great. He said holy moly twice. I don't care. Go Is this really good beer? I love you guys so much Oh god Thank you very much to the craft beer anonymous calm dudes. They're also on twitter craft beer and non David nick you guys are they are saints. Oh such great people You guys belong in the church of boss epic. Fuck. I don't know. Just wait that part greatly Thank you for your thanks Rankings yeah in a sasia. You want to close us out? I feel like this is a great show to pull this stunt on Okay, what? I know that i'm i'm kind of a hater of the rankings and this that and the other but This episode was very very very very very very very very very difficult for me to rank right? So I have number one and number six And then everything else i'm just gonna kind of like because you know, I know i'm such a proponent Of well base your rankings on what you personally like, right? Uh, we just happened to touch on Some of my top categories Sure, which makes it really really hard for me and i'm just like who are you to cast the first stone? Oh, wow, i'm a goddamn motherfucking princess. Okay, but jebadiah But you know, this is the first time you've had five number ones No, no, I mean, I know in the past i've like done some dickish ranking Jokes, but but so we know this isn't beyond you that you're saying i've done those jokes But then i've given you real rankings. I will show you my paper for the audience I'm holding up my paper to john and I literally only have number one and number six mark I watched her do it. Yeah, she honestly did it. Yes. It's a song. I even went to the can thinking it would help me think sure Okay, ready go. I feel the pressure No, i'm not obviously by that tirade that I just gave i'm not ready number six deliverance because i'm not going to be delivered Okay, heaven pregatory. Hey, my jokes weren't so bad. Where are they? No But yes, deliverance was just like everybody said all the beers were good Thank you, david nick for trying to poison me slowly. You didn't um get poisoned That you know of yet, jesus christ some poison take a long time to work for your system Anyway, this beer like 60 years was was big and sweet and I liked it But it was too big and too sweet and it makes me want to go to sleep too boo-coo What nothing And what's your other one? I'm hoping that the pressure is going to make me decide Uh, not just jump number one. Fuck it. Yeah, just do number one Totally plug everybody out of the water carny vale You guys all ranked this fairly low. I'm talking like five and four So you didn't have you didn't have a bunch of ties. It was just number six number one And fuck all the other ones no no because fuck them You tell me to rank on what I like but that always depends on my mood and for this show my mood was everything You know, it's it's all honest. So all the other ones are number one. No all the other ones are like oh god These are all really really good and I can't pick one like this is good for a quad This is really good. So not not all of them are number one It's just number one of number six and all of them are number like two. Yeah, those other ones exist Okay, that's a really cheapening the experience and you're really I'm just trying to You're like totally cheapening how difficult this has been for me. I get I'm trying to get it You don't get it. You don't get it for fucks sake. I'm trying to understand It was a difficult one for me to rank as well. I mean there was a clear But you were able to do it. I was not able to do it. No. Yeah, because we're all dedicated to the thing No No, I mean when it came to my ranking like I had a clothems down Bottoms up guys I'm trying to agree with her here, but like I had a very clear like I picked deliverance is number six Yeah, and then I had a very clear winner and then all of the other ones I mean like we're just kind of like a This is according to my taste. Yeah, it was very quick like all very difficult It was either think about it for fucking ever or just very just knee jerk reactionary I actually has a little uh soft puppet. He pulls out and says you tell me what you would rank in and then he's like Number two You guys are able to do those things. I wasn't well. It's okay. It's fine. I mean No, he's driving you. It's a for review. That's a for you. What the fuck are you talking about? Rubio and Brad. Okay. Okay. Give us. I'm being assaulted. What's your number one? It was good and pithy and it was a maiden in my mouth. Yeah, so good I love that beer. It was dry hops. I saw which is say sounds probably my favorite So when I'm going through my rankings a little behind the scenes I assign a star number to the very first one Which is usually like a two three or four just for what I thought of it And then accordingly I go to each of the subsequent ones and rank them higher or lower as I go Like oh, I actually like this one a little bit more And then I go I like that one a little less so and then sometimes I have to do minuses Right, let's do a quick star system on all of them. You know, you're trying to cheapen my experience I I'm just trying to cheapen your experience I've had past tense. I've had Rubio rip me and you won so many times about rankings I mean developed a system that I have But I have a way to go because you hated it when I was like I just have a system that that works for me I have a system and it failed me Hey, some people get A's and B's and classes. Some people get stars in you Mom Hey, David Nick, you see what you've done. You've made us fight poison you poisoned me with your lost abbeys So no one listened to craft beer anonymous Everybody listened to craft beer temple. That was craft beer anonymous dot com craft beer anonymous dot com I would listen to it. It's a good show. No one was trying to disagree with you, but you're No, you're right. He's the wrong and you should feel bad I'm trying to disagree with me. You're just implying that I don't have a system for ranking Hey, not for nothing, but I agree with my Not for nothing earlier. You said bought his lips and I'm looking at them and oh Hey, why are you bringing up old shit? Hey, thank you everybody for listening to this podcast. Oh, we're not done It's not festival city more. Thank you so much for listening to this show. You guys have been wonderful Thank you everyone and thank you guys for being here. Grant. You've been beautiful as always Hey, thank you and I I would like to extend that thank you again to the listeners I'm especially these people have been giving us donations Yeah, no shit You guys can also give donations to us to keep our show going if you go to the beer.com and go to the paypal link on the Left hand side, I believe yeah, let's head set of the page Yeah Just click on that and kick us a couple bucks will read your name on the show give you thanks And you'll be donating to something that obviously you fucking love yes, we're hilarious Yes, and we're trying to keep ads out of the show So if you can find it within your hearts and i'm pretty sure you guys have hearts We should put a countdown talk Tell me like have to have ads on our show right? Yeah, we'll just send us five bucks send us five bucks as often as you can You guys have a month and a half you have less than that You guys have to save me from listener poisoning you've not been poisoned and the more you say that the more fucking Likely it'll be for you to be poisoned Wow, it sounds like we have a threat on the air. Yeah, so dale cooper are you listening? And station thank you for being here. Yeah, you don't think that just keep on talking about poison You're terrible human being mike. Thank you for being here. Thanks I'm glad to be here and drinking sweet I'm glad that you're here as well and i'm glad like I said to have all these great listeners And thanks dave and nick again. Holy shit. What a great lineup of beers. Yeah, fuck Yeah, dave and nick craft beer anonymous check them out. They're really good Hey, can we make eagle sounds behind their names because they're so majestic and amazing. I mean we can try it. Hold on dave Nick Craft beer anonymous You guys that good? Yeah, that's really good. That's nice. Sweet. What do we Oh, this is a letter that dave wrote to me Oh, are they kisses and excess? He wrote a handwritten fucking thing on like college line to pay the hell Are we in the 1990s? Is that an email buddy? It looks like Kurt Cobain the suicide letter. Are you gonna spend the next 15 minutes trying to read it? I could try to read it. Yeah, it's trying to read it. No, okay Shush, I'm gonna do this John first off what a pleasure to have met you in denver exclamation point You're not wait. You're as cool and funny a person as you are on air Oh, thanks dave We really appreciated the opportunity to hang out and talk shop hype not hyphen slash max slash shit I didn't shit with him. I think Then he's thankful for the opportunity to talk shop and to talk shit Yeah, I didn't shit with it. Why you sound like you're smiling so much while you're eating this It's on so disingenuous So I finally just robbed nick of this box that has been sitting in his place for fucking ever Hyphens in between for fucking it ever So we could get you a really nice sampling of lots of heavy beers Hope the selection still excites you guys. It does nick I mean dave dave wrote this it does definitely i was gonna say it does nicholas, but it does davellus I'll work on an alpine show for you ellipses, but to be honest unless I drive out to bumblefuck I'll be hard to it'll be hard to get any and that I'll be hard Are you sure bubblefuck is a great place to get fresh Also, just let me know if there's any other breweries and beers you need I'll handle this shit for you dave you're a genius an angel And he likes to use like weird punctuation dave is an angel face angel. Are you as drunk as I hear Yes, keep up the awesome work and can't wait to get you out to the west side buddy dave So i've been actually thinking about going to san diego the next few months What where's my invite? I mean, you can go to hey i'm going to california in april Okay, but i'm thinking about going to san diego probably A couple months maybe and you can go for a couple months. No in a couple of months. I'll go for a week Okay, I was like, what are we doing this right? But i'll look for i need to find a place to stay in san diego So many of you guys have a place for me to stay in san diego. Is this guy in san diego? Yes, they can just stay in dave's place. Okay, i'll stay in dave's place Thanks there if you guys can get a place for me to stay in san diego I wouldn't love to go visit for the weekend. We should i tried to end it like 30 minutes ago body's down you fucking asshole. See guys this is i need to go My i can't even feel your face My gosh he's a pickled human He's not even real i'm just this husk of alcoholism More information on the bearest podcast including show notes and pictures Visit thebearests.com Email us your feedback comments questions and suggestions at info@thebearests.com Like us on facebook at facebook.com/thebearests and follow us on twitter at twitter.com/thebearests Intro music was provided by Ian butcher in his band Deflated Ballet. I'm john rubio Thanks again for listening you [BLANK_AUDIO]
