[music] Episode 75 of the Pierist's podcast recorded on August 29th, 2013. Welcome back, Ryan Mesh. [music] What's that pleasant smell? That's mic not being here. Ah, it smells great. I know, it's so nice, isn't it? I can't believe he hasn't been here in the last three weeks. I mean, I can because he's stuffed in a cooler in my face. Shut up! I miss mic. I know too. I don't. Yeah, I was looking forward to seeing him tonight. What the fuck is that? What? I've never sat in mic seat before. It's a good perspective on things. Is it? You look much better from this angle. Those drugs look really good on you. Those drugs? I have a drug. Yeah, I've been working on it. The drugs work too. As you can tell, Ryan's back. Yay! Hello, everyone. One person clapping. One person clapping. One person clapping and he's in this room. I appreciate it. I'm going to make this into a thing. I'm going to slow clap until everyone's down. His own girlfriend didn't clap for him. It's Beyonce. Beyonce. Yeah, it's fucking awesome, isn't it? Yeah. I'm so glad you guys are getting married. I'm Jonnar Rubio. And with me today. Grant Davis. What's up, Grant? What's happening, buddy? Well, this. Oh, yeah, the podcast? Yeah. I'm glad to have you. I better put my game face on, all right. I know. And we also have with us. Anastasia, I didn't kill Mike Kelly. I'm really glad you didn't kill Mike. Me, too. There's only so dirty. Hey, I've seen what happens at Women's Jail and it's hot. I'm kind of gangster. I have Netflix in order to do that, too. I have Netflix, too. And returning. Ryan Mesh. Good to be back, guys. It's been a long time. Well, other than the fact that this room is really hot and sweaty. Are you going to take off your shirt? I know that it's probably feeling good to you guys because everyone goes, ah, now the weather's awesome here. But Austin, late August, still not awesome weather. I feel like I need to shower four times a day. It's tough. You're not supposed to go outside during the day. We hide in little air-conditioned cubbyholes in our caves, like vampire dwellers during the day. We only venture out at night to drink copious amounts of alcohol. That's true. We do that. And we also do that during the day, too, sometimes and at that point, Sunshine doesn't really bother us so much. But it's really nice to be back on the episode because now I can drink, I can hear everything you have to say about the beers. I don't have to fucking listen to you guys right now. That's a worst, right? I was telling these guys. I didn't really listen to the show as much as I should have prior to my leaving. But listening to it over the summer because I missed them all was really, really wonderful. And it's actually quite remarkable how well their personalities come through. And if you find them as a friendly, familiar voice every week, well, that's exactly who they are. So come visit us. [laughter] What's really funny is people see me at work and they don't recognize me by my beautiful, glorious breasts. [laughter] But only recognize me because of this amazing, lovely voice I have. And by the fact that I'm yelling cock and balls across the bar. That happens a lot. It does. And they're like, "Oh, I think I know you." And I'm all, "No, you haven't seen that video. I know you haven't." And they're like, "No, you do that podcast, right?" And they're like, "Well, it got me there." Wow. Well, today we're doing some beers. Ryan brought some beers back from Ohio where he spent his summer in a much better fucking climate. Yeah. Four of the beers we're having today and two of them were supplied to us by a distributor. Well, we're going to start out with an email first. And I've got one from Timothy D. Birx that says, "Sup, beerists? I'm pretty sure you bastard to somehow influencing my palate to become more aligned with yours. Lately, I've been craving nothing but sours and subtly overly racist sexual anyone. [laughter] Many times I've been convinced to seek out beers, which you all have given high marks, and will generally agree with your assessment. In the last episode you reviewed, the Woot Stout, one of the first times I had tried a beer before you'd reviewed it. I was a little excited to find out that your assessment was almost identical to mine. Apparently some kind of proof that I'm not playing some kind of drunken internet follow the leader. Which bling's... Ah, which bling... Bling. Bling's me to my questions. Which brings me to my questions. Do you think the Woot Stout would improve with age? I have a feeling that it might, but I don't have much intuition when it comes to aging. My seller's been growing, but it tends to have a high turnover rate. How do you know when to pull a beer and when to sit on it? Cheers, Timothy D. Burks. I don't know how that would do with age, and the reason I don't know is because I haven't tried it. Most of the time when I talk about aging beers, it's usually because it's a style that I'm very familiar with or something that I've actually tried to age in the past. Based on how dark and multi and how alcoholic it is, I'm pretty sure I'll do a right with some age. It's boozy and hoppy. Yeah. Both of those are going to fade a little bit. It might find a sweet spot in maybe six months. Yeah, I would put it down for six months to a year just to see what it does. But to get a really good idea of how long you should age it, I would buy another three bottles of it. Try one in six months, try one in a year and try the last one later on if you think it needs more time. Okay. Yeah. I only had it on tap and when I was listening to this podcast, I didn't agree with your assessment at all. Okay. Because the one I had wasn't hoppy. It was really smooth and mellow and the barrel aging kind of gave it a more rustic tone. But I didn't pick up on the 65 IBUs and if I had a guess, I would have guessed maybe 15, 20 IBUs. Wow. So when I heard you guys all mention that, plus the IBUs, because I didn't know when I had it. I didn't on tap and in a summer. Didn't taste pretty boozy. Oh, so you had it on draft and not from bottle. Correct. Yeah. Different serving type. Right. Thanks a difference. It does. But I didn't pick up on that at all. So it's really interesting hearing you guys be like, "Ah, it's so bitter and hoppy." Because bitter, hoppy and really boozy. Boozy. Boozy. Boozy. I like boozy in the right context and that one worked for me. That's all I could really say, Timothy. I hope that helps. Yeah. And Timothy, I have one bottle and I plan on sitting on it for about six to nine months. Cool. With my taste, I don't necessarily know if it'll get better after that. But I think it'll get a change in that amount of time, which would be kind of fun. Yeah, definitely. Well, thank you so much, Timothy. And if any of you want to send us an email, do it at info@thebearests.com. And I've got one iTunes shout out to give. He feels K for you and he says, "Boom, triple threat." And I guess, yeah, he sent in a donation and he sent us an email a couple of weeks ago. So yeah, that's what he's coming to you now. And hit the trifecta. Yeah, I know. And that's not really a review of Ben Fields. It's real. That's just you fucking looking for props. That's props to himself. Right. Had on his own back. You gave him props because he read it out loud. I did. I did. And you know what? It does its job, which on the iTunes music store, when somebody leaves us a five star rating and writes a review for us, it helps us out pretty hugely in the rankings on the iTunes store. I actually thought that he got the triple threat a couple of weeks ago. Did he? Did this make him making a second account just to announce that he got the triple threat? Motherfucker. I don't know. Did he? Goddamn it. Props. Yeah. I could be wrong. Let's not make that a fucking thing. But yeah, like I said, it really helps us out on the iTunes music store. It gets more eyes on our podcast because it bumps us up in the rankings and it gets us to the front page of the iTunes music store. And for you guys to do that is super, super helpful. We really appreciate it. Big time, big time. So get on iTunes, get on the music store, do a search for the bearers, leave a five star rating and write a review for us. Thank you so much. We also got some donations last week. Sweet. Yeah. As you know, we're trying to get to the great American beer festival and we need your help to do it. Please. Get closer to the finish line. Yeah, we are. Please send us donations on thebearers.com. There's a PayPal donate link on the left hand side of the page. And kick us a little bit of money, whatever you can afford. It could be just a little bit or it could be a lot and we prefer a lot. We will take anything. Yeah. Not anything. I don't want the anthrax. That's true. But that anthrax isn't money. Five dollars, ten dollars, a can of cream corn, whatever. Don't listen to the great though. Money would be great. We really appreciate it. And three people did it last week. Mavina Limo. What? You know who Mavina is? Uh huh. I don't know who Mavina is. Who's that? Don't worry about it. Apparently, they shared some special time at camp. Thomas Visley, Vasily Vasily Vasily Vasily. Vasily. Thomas Vasily. I don't know how to pronounce your name. Thomas Vasily. Sorry. Thank you. There's a meatball in there. Yeah. Thank you, Thomas. We appreciate it. Nicholas J. Garcia also made a donation. Thank you so much. Guys, thank you. We really do appreciate it. It's huge. By donating to us, they've entered themselves into a potential raffle. Isn't that correct? Yeah. There's two gift packs. One is for people who have donated up to $49.99 and the other ones for somebody who's donated $50 and above. And we're only giving two of these away and we're going to pick names out of a hat. So two people are going to walk away with one of these. Amazing beer. Even beer customized to the particular person. Oh, yeah. That's an amazing gift. Yeah, it's fucking cool. Shit. It doesn't cost you a thing except for money. You donate to us. Yeah, and I think the deadline to enter is like September 24th or something like that. There's a date. I don't remember what the fuck it is. Yeah. It's on the site though. Yeah, it is on the site. But thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Let's get into our beers. And like I said, Ryan brought back four of these beers and this is one of the ones that he brought back. This is Berliner Vice by White Birch Brewing Company. White Birch is out of hook set. What is that? New Hampshire. Okay. I was like, North Carolina. And White Birch is out of hook set and White Birch is out of hook set New Hampshire 5.5% ABV, this Berliner Vice is, and it's available in bottles and on draft and available from June to September. And I'm going to read the description here. Napoleon's troops referred to Berliner Vice as the champagne of the north due to its lively and elegant character. Today, this style is described by some as the most refreshing beer in the world. I would probably agree with some of that. Our approach was to brew this beer with lack of basilis for refreshing and authentic interpretation of a classic summer refresher. Mm. That's a very nice description. Some people just go, ah, and we wrote a thing and we think it's good. Yeah. And they didn't load it up with tasting notes. They just kind of talked about a little bit of history. Yeah, it's good. This is golden. Yeah, it's a very saturated golden color. I wasn't expecting it to be this golden. No hat either. Yeah. That also makes a lot of sounds. Especially when you hit against your head. Yeah. Sometimes you forget that you have some big giant cans on your ears. So when Ryan first started pouring this beer, I got the briefest faintest scent of a bourbon soda water. Oh, nice. Yeah. And now that I smell it, I don't really get as much bourbon, but I still do get a kind of spirit aroma, if that makes any sense? Yeah. Something barely you write something like bourbon. I mean, very similar to... Yeah, but maybe like a cherry or a cherry wood bourbon or something, not like a classic Kentucky bourbon. And that makes a lot of sense. I also get a lot of lemon and apricot in the nose. I mean, that's usually how I drink my bourbon soda. Yeah, absolutely. That's really interesting because at first I was just smelling kind of yogurt and then you mentioned it. Yeah. And then I can't get over. It does smell like water with a bit of bourbon and a lot of vermouth that's on the cherry smell. Yeah. That's really interesting. Like a cocktail. Yeah. Like it smells like a craft cocktail. Sort of like an old-fashioned. Yeah. Kind of. Not sweet enough, I don't think. Or not orangy and cherry enough. Yeah, because it does have a slight mineraly quality in the nose. There's also that yogurt-y tartness from that lactic acid. Initially, I thought I was smelling green apple, which I was like, ooh, and not so much anymore. I don't get that at all. I mean, I can see how you might get that, but... Okay. I just took a sip. It had really nice and light. It's creamy. Kind of. Very creamy. With over the towing mouth. Yeah. I don't know. It tastes kind of pillowy. A little... I don't know. Like canned caramel popcorn. Canned caramel popcorn on the back end? Yeah. I can kind of get a little of that. It's sort of this slippery quality to it. Stalky popcorn. I get a little bit of a corny, grainy thing toward the end, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's, oh man, caramel popcorn or anything weird like that. I do get some tartness there that's really, really nice. Yeah. It's a little bit lightly tart, and there is a somewhat caramel-y bowl and just a little bit. Maple. It's more maple than caramel. Okay. I can see that. But I'm also getting like apricots and cherries, that sort of thing. And that's all really light next to that tartness that it's got up front. Yeah. I'm getting sweet, dried apricots. Mm-hmm. And sort of like cherry syrup. Yeah. Yeah. Like a touch of maraschino juice or something. Yeah. Exactly. I'm thrown off by this maple note. I can see why you would be. It is a little bit uncharacteristic of the style. I've never had a Berliner vice like this. It's really different. You know, the only one that I had that exhibited a little bit of that maple-y character was that year old Chuck Goza, and it wasn't a Berliner vice, but it's kind of similar. Yeah. And that one was weird. I think it was starting to oxidize or something, and it brought out this really odd caramel-y note. It's similar to that here, but I don't think this is oxidized. Yeah. It's got a nice tart, bright burst at the end, but there is that quality where it rounds out at the end. I'd say at the end twice. Yes. At the beginning. Sorry. Beginning, it seems to have this really bright tart quality, and then at the end, it seems to round out with, I guess maybe kind of a maple-y note, and thinking kind of pecan reminds me of cherry pecan. That makes sense too. That makes sense too. Yeah. That makes sense too. Yeah. I think I get pecan more than maple. I'm just not picking up the maple for say. It's weird though that- It's some kind of dark sugar syrup, right? I mean, it's not maybe necessarily exactly maple or molasses or something like that, but there's a dark, rich, sugary syrup quality to it that is in common with one of those things, I guess. Maybe like caramelized fruit when you're always saying apricots. Maybe when you cook or grill apricots, and they get that really brown, sugary- When they caramelize. When they caramelize. Exactly. When the sugars and the juices caramelize. Maybe that's it. It's not that fruity to me though. Yeah. It's more on the exhale. Now that you put the word in my mind, it kind of reminds me of corn pops a little. Ooh, yeah. There's the sweetness to it, but maybe a light hint of corn. When you set that, for some reason, I thought of sugar smacks. Okay. Yeah. It's similar to that, right? It's similar to one of those sugary cereals because- And we'll know for sure if it's sugar smacks after we go pee, because that's the main- What? Really? What's your pee smell? No. They didn't put sugar smacks in it, but- It's- I think it's a honey quality or something. Are those the asparagus? Are those the asparagus? Yeah, but asparagus. Yeah, yeah. That's good. If beer had any sort of carbonation to it, it'd be significantly better. Yeah, this is very little carbonation, isn't there? Yeah, and I think it wouldn't lay so flat on the palate, and maybe some of those caramelized flavors wouldn't be as overwhelming if it just kind of was a bit more bubbly and frizzy as I kind of expect from a brilliant advice, like I'm expecting a light, wheat, tart beer. Mm-hmm. I'm not getting it. It's close, and it's a unique interpretation, but it's just not quite there. But where's effervescence? Yeah. It's not the champagne of the north. Yeah. Right. Lidin' up. It's definitely flat. Yeah. And I've heard a lot of good things about this beer in the past, and I don't think it's a bad beer. Like, it's not a bad beer. The flavors are really good, but it is lacking that carbonation. So maybe we got a bottle that let some of the carbonation go. Maybe it is a little oxidized. I don't know. Summer 2013, man. I don't know. Yeah. Who knows? I mean, maybe there was not a good seal on the bottle, and there was a little oxygen exchange and the CO2 came out of it. I don't know. Yeah, absolutely. Overall, I still really like this. I do too. Yeah. I think this is a great beer. I'll be drinking this here in Texas in the summer. It'd be perfect for this. Yeah. That's why I saved until I brought it back. It's because the Berliner vice is just not quite what I quenched when it was 70 degrees out in Ohio. Mm-hmm. But I was like, "I will want this one." Frankly, that's a 110. Yeah. Now we're talking. That's a good idea. Let's move on to the next beer. Our next beer is Sensory Series Version 1 Lower Dens, or V.1, I guess that's Version 1. Lower Dens, and that's from Stillwater Artisanal Ales in Baltimore, Maryland. 6% ABV brewed once available in bottles and on draft, and it's ale brewed with hibiscus. And it says it's named after a four-piece group from Baltimore, Maryland. The most recent album, New Tropics, N-O-O-T-R-O-P-I-C-S, was released in May of 2012 on ribbon music. Ryan's observation in parentheses is that they look like the nihilists from the Big Lebowski. [LAUGHTER] This Stillwater Sensory Series is a collaboration between Stillwater Artisanal and singular musical artists. And in this first collaboration, Stillwater works with Lower Dens to make an ale based on an interpretation of their song, and the end is the beginning. On the bottle itself, a QR code will link to an exclusive Lower Dens performance of the song. Ultimately, that is a true artistic collaboration that aims to create a full sensory experience. Sound, sight, smell, touch, and taste. I thought only metal bands got to collaborate with beer. That's what it's been for the most. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dead jazz and metal. Like three Floyds, dogfish head in here in Austin, Relayo, Robinson out of England. They just an Iron Maiden beer. I've seen that. Yeah. I get it. Brian Strumpke. You. Whoa. You actually said his name properly. He tastes in sound. I get it. [LAUGHTER] That's amazing. Oh, this is beautiful. Yeah. This is a really pretty beer. It looks almost like a mimosa. It's orange, cloudy, and it's got a nice packed pillowy head up on the top. Some of the bubbles are big. Oh, it smells so fucking good. It smells like I want to put it in my mouth. Lemon zesty. Like lemon peel. Yes. A little yeasty. Somewhat floral, and it's got a really nice fruity nose, doesn't it? Yeah. Fruit and flowers. It smells like springtime. Yeah. Like wild fruit, wild flowers. Honey suckle. Well, yeah. It's very floral, just a little bit grassy. Ooh. I just love the way this smells. Nice. That is so good. That is great. Ooh. There's a lot of spice there. White pepper, black pepper, that sort of stuff. And then there's a bubble gummy quality that kind of sneaks in just a little bit. And then it turns to like hay and flowers. Flowers. And it's balanced. It is. Oh, wow. This one has the right combination. I love the mouth feel. It's a little bit minerally. It just flows over the tongue and blankets everything. And then as the bubble just like pop in your mouth, it releases even more flavor into the mouth. And there's something that's similar to like guava or something in there. Absolutely. Like some kind of tart fruit. Mmm. Definitely has a tropical mineral fleshy, bitter, sharp bite to it. Yeah. Passion fruit. I want to warn everybody that I'm super critical today because I hate everything. That's fine. That's okay. I mean, I've met you before. Sweet. She's like that every other day. Yeah. It looks like someone's got a case of the Anastasia's, right? Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. That wasn't annoying at all. Oh, I know, Grant, sometimes it's going to be very annoying. I don't really get a lot of hibiscus. See, yeah. That's what I'm missing also. So pro tip, bruise. If you can't taste it, don't put it on your label. But I think we're getting it a bit more in the nose. I get it in the nose and I get it at the end of the beer, I think. See, I get something that's more similar to a very watered down, tamarind quality. I don't know. I kind of get honeysuckle a little bit more. Yeah, I get more of that, more of the stuff that's not really in there that's caused by the yeast. Yeah, I don't think it's a problem. Just because the flavor doesn't come out, I mean, you have things that the yeast are playing off the malt along with the minerality of the water and the flowers and every, like, the residual sweetness in this beer that's kind of playing at the end, like, it's a masterful beer. It is fucking fantastic. The fact that the beginning to the end of this beer, it goes in waves and it changes. It's exactly like this band that I was listening to the other day. Would you say the end is the beginning? Wow. I don't know if I would say that. I don't know if I would say that. This is really good. It fucking is. And maybe the high best is transformed more into a honeysuckle flavor when I hit the malt and, like, the yeast and the nesters that were produced. It's this beautiful beer. I know. And you know what I'm tasting more of, like, toward the end of the beer is turning the beginning? The beginning? No. It's actually turning more into, like, a melony, creamy fruit, papaya, maybe melon, maybe mango, like something in there somewhere. Creamy. Yeah, mango fruit. Okay. Can you get that? Yeah. Creamy, like, a banana, sweet and flavorful, like a mango. It's kind of like a dream school at the end. But it would feel like mango. Yes. Yes. Mango, Jamesy. Do you find that, like, when you're finished with a sip, you want to take another one immediately. In a way, like, the end is the beginning of another sip. This is insufferable. We've made that joke, like, seven times. None of them were funny. They're getting there. No. I think you're getting close. No. No. He's getting close to being sent out. Maybe because I was talking earlier, how much I like this year in Nevada, Saison with the mandarin and the peppercorns, the ovila. And everyone around me kind of squinted and I was like, "Oh, that was terrible." I was like, "Oh, fuck." I haven't tried it. This lower tends that I bought. I drank a couple times a summer and I really loved it. And that's kind of why I wanted to bring it on the show and maybe I just, I don't have a palate anymore. I don't know. Oh, no. Everyone on the beer hates me and my palate. They do. It's okay. I don't know how to drink beer. I think it's palate. It's great. You really don't know how to drink beer, buddy. Yeah, because you're not using a straw. We'll get to that story later. That's a great one. And this is a great beer. Oh, yeah. Digging the hell out of it. It's very poundable. One of the nice things about this beer too is that still water does collaborations all over the world. Sometimes they're made in Italy and they come in 12 ounce bottles and they have to get made there. They got it imported. They have to go through a bajillion distributors and by the time it gets to a shelf, a 12 ounce bottle cost eight bucks. Yeah. Wherever this one made, it got to the shelves in Kentucky where I picked it up for $3.50 and it's about. Holy shit. That's awesome. Bruting bottled by 12% in Westminster, Maryland. Wow. Yeah. So this was one of the cheapest still water beers and I tried all of them and still water if you're familiar with them can be all over the place and it depends on where it was stored, where it was handled, how long it's been around. And this was consistently great and I kept checking the price of my 350s. How is that possible? This is fantastic for that. So I just kept buying. I mean considering two of them would be at $7.50 and you're talking $7 like that's per ounce one of the best beers that I've bought in a long time and I'm sad I don't have any more but I can't stop drinking it. Thanks for sharing this with us. Yeah. This is fantastic. But find it. It's definitely available on stores. I saw it in Michigan. I saw it in Kentucky. I saw it in Ohio. I mean I know it's still all over the place. While you're on tour with your band. Yeah. Whatever. My band being my fiance. Yeah. That was not cheesy at all. And it's a sad. It's a sad thing. It's a really sad set. Another one bites the dust. I'm just glad that your new wife is going to be a citizen now. You got to send me a copy of that catalog you got her from. Let's move on to the next one. It's that question. Where did you meet versus where did you get her from? Yeah. Where did you get her from? Thanks. Do you send her dick pics man? Did you say that? Why? Because I told Bill that I met her on okay cup and he goes, how the fuck do you do that? He's in the pictures you junk and I was like, and Bill that's why online dating doesn't work for you. There's that. That was sensory series version one or V one, lower dens from still water artisanal ales. And the next beer is tandem from Pike Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington. This is a Belgian style double, it's 7.5% ABV, 25 IBUs. And this is a year round beer available in bottles and on draft. And it's hopped with Northern Brewer and Mount Hood. And the malts are pale, crystal, Munich, wheat, and roasted malt. And the description doesn't really mean a damn thing to me. Monks originally marked double ales with two crosses. Our double is named for Finkles Bicycle. What does that mean? Four is the Finkles Bicycle. What is the Finkles? The Finkles are the people that originally, that's the last name of the people that originally started Pike Brewing. Oh, the Finkles and Iron Horns, they were our tribals. There was this one girl who I was dating and we got really wasted and I did the Finkles Bicycle on Twitch. You left me the next day. Yeah. That's a stupid girl. It tore her from stem to stern. Whatever. And no, we're never doing the Finkles Bicycle again. Some girls like that. I don't know what to say to that. Okay, so this tandem, let's take a look at this. It's a dark brown murky beer. It's like a Tootsie Roll. It is. It's got a little bit of head on the top. No, you're right. It looks like really watered down coffee. It's kind of a dull brown. Yeah, it looks like really dull French press coffee that gets that little foam on top. Yeah. Smells like molasses and if you let a can of Coke and a glass evaporate for too long, you got to smell what it tastes like when it's just still super viscous, but it's super dry. Yeah. It smells kind of like that. It also smells oxidized. It's very oxidized. Smells like deep chocolate, not really dark chocolate, but just if anybody's ever worked in a shop that has hot chocolate, like hot fudge, when you let it sit or you let it get too low in the bottom, chocolate's all thick and a little burnt, that's kind of what this smells like. It's like a thick reduction is what it smells like. Yeah, like an induced chocolate. And it's very sherry-like, which is why I'm thinking about it being oxidized and there's a really interesting fruit quality there, but I can't really put my finger on it. It's like a smoked fruit almost. Right. Like smoked plums or something. Yeah, something like that. But smoked in the way that it might be oxidized. And dark cherry, I was thinking. And it's not. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Dark cherries. It's not unappealing to me. I'm actually enjoying what I'm smelling here, even though with the amount of oxidation I'm smelling, I know that I shouldn't. Get a touch of cinnamon. Okay. It smells like a campfire beer. Yes. Like a beer that you would have by the campfire when it's not quite that cold out. And there's a sharpness to it. Yeah. Like there's a sharpness to the aroma. I finally got the reference to tandem being the name of the bike in Fink's Bicycle because it really seems super random for so long. Not even drunk. Fuck. You will be soon. I just had a taste of this. Tastes like candy. It does. Like that orange hot candy that Kelly made. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My friend Kelly made this candy with an IPA reduction and sugar, right? It was like hard cracked sugar with this IPA. And yeah, you're right. It has some of those qualities because it wasn't super, super bitter, but you got a little bit of hot essence and a lot of caramel-y sugar. Yeah, you got caramel sugar and a little bit of orange and citrus. And that's exactly what I'm tasting in the beginning. Like when this beer first hits your tongue and your palate, it's very orange and a little sugary sweet. A little clovey also. Mm-hmm. A touch of spice. And then it kind of washes over your tongue and it presents more of a roast and a deeper kind of Belgian candy sugar and more, not really mulling spices per se, but kind of like clovey and mega cinnamon spices. I'm glad you said all that because I'm starting to pull out those flavors more. Tastes like spinach water. If you've boiled spinach and drank the water, I don't get that at all. I get like this weird thinnest to it where there's kind of this- No, it is. It's sort of chlorophyll-y sort of flavor along with the thinnest of it. See, I don't get that at all, but I do get that it is obvious. Very thin. It's oxidized in its thin. Yeah. To me, doubles should be thick and creamy. It'll all party. Yeah. Maybe not as big as a quad or something, but it still should be a big frothy beer. That's a double to me. And this isn't quite that. The flavors for the most part are there. Similar. Yeah. I think that doubles end up having more of this sugary, brown sugary impression without being really that sweet and a little bit less acrid than this. This has got a bit of an acridity to it, and yeah, that oxidation isn't really helping it. No. I'm liking it. I actually don't mind this. You get this beer. Yeah. I wish I had a bigger body, and I'd be 5% more okay with that. I'm right there with you. Yeah. The mouth feels throwing me off. Yeah, I'm getting like a little bit more clove and cinnamon along with those darker fruits. Yeah, a little bit more racy. The more I drink it, the more I like it. Yeah, raisins. Me too. Me too. The more I drink it, the more it's coming around to me. The first sip I almost wanted to spit it out. It just completely threw me off balance. I didn't have that reaction. Like I didn't taste that boiled spinach that you were tasting, and I still don't. And I don't taste it now. Okay. I drink it, I really actually enjoy it, but at first it's like, oh, wow. Sometimes when you first pour a beer, there'll be an off flavor, some kind of weird volatile in there that'll tank your first or second sip of it, and then it'll kind of evaporate. Sometimes that works with skunkiness, like if a beer is slightly skunked, you could probably let it breathe for a bit, and it'll air out that skunk, and you won't taste it as much after a couple of minutes. Maybe that's what happened here. Maybe you've got a little weirdness in there and it just evaporated. It just reminds me of goobers. Yeah. Like the chocolate raisins just liquefied a little bit. I'm getting some of that too. The raisin equality is growing every time I take a sip. Yeah, but it's not bad. Could be better in perhaps, you know, the oxidation problem, eliminate that, it might be fine. The oxidation is involving me that much anymore. Each time I take a sip of the spear, I like it a little bit more, and now I'm not even thinking about the oxidation. I think as it gets warmer, it's getting a lot better. I agree. So what ended up happening to me was I was so taken aback by this description that you read. That I missed the entire first half of what you guys were describing when you were tasting the beer because I started laughing so much again about it because it just comes across as two non-sequiturs. Because it tastes like the fickle's basically. I was just like, I just kept laughing about it and then I'm like, oh shit, I don't know what you guys just described that you tasted. So I can't say anything because I might just repeat what you just said and you guys are going to be like, were you even fucking listening? Yeah. And the answer's no. So I was just very quiet and it's like, shit, what are they saying? Hey Ryan, how's your mom after I did the finkles bicycle on it? I mean, on the label, there are two... Oh, my father listens to this. You'll enjoy that. You'll do the finkles bicycle in there too. Hey, Mr. Mesh. You just finkled bicycle meat. Just until I see you at the table. It's really just a high five, guys. No, it's a high five. Thanks a lot, dirty. It's really just a double high five. It's when I ride you dirty over rims. Sorry. What are you going to say? On the label, there are two people riding one bicycle, which I believe is called a tandem bicycle. Yes, it's a tandem bicycle. There are two seats. That's the finkles bicycle. That's what you... You ride a bicycle tandem. So finkles must be the head brewer at this place, right? Did you really miss it? I miss everything. But I think that means that we have to double Team Ryan's dad now. You mean tandem? Tandem. Tandem finkles. It's like the Eiffel Tower, but reversed. I'm not sure how that works. Let's take a break. No one in that trio is that athletic. Hey, I'm surprised with that guy. We're going to test it out downstairs. Yeah. Break. Well, I don't know why I gave you tonight, I got the feeling of something right. I'm so scared of you, 'cause I fall off my chair, and I'm wondering how I'll get downstairs. And we're back. K. Billy Super sounds at the 70s. That was Steeler's Wheel. We are going to continue to drink some more of Ryan's beer. Yeah, John Harvey. What's going on over here? Wow! Oh, I love John Harvey a lot. And the rivalry continues. But listening to him on this podcast, I thought he was good on the podcast, don't say anything. I mean, you keep having me on every week, so I think your definition of good, it's a little skewed. That's a good point. Yeah, I think that's the next one. A point. Let's get to our beer. This is another one that Ryan brought, and this is Jack DeOr, and this is from Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project out of Westport, Massachusetts, Maine, MA. What's MA? Massachusetts. Okay. Male in Montana. I've not cut it. State. California. And this is an American Cezanne 6 North Air Alina. Yes. And this is an American Cezanne 6.5% ABV, 57 IBUs, it's a pretty hoppy Cezanne. It's a beer round, availability in bottles and undraft, and it's hopped with Nugget, Styrian, Goliens, Columbus, and Palisade. And the malts are pills, Vienna. It's got weed in it, oats and rye. No spices or sugar added. Which is strange for a Cezanne. Yeah, totally. And I'm going to read the description. Jack DeOr is a simple table beer or Cezanne American, as we're referring to it. Yeah, you can buy it at your local shopping. We're not trying to coin a beer style, we're just having fun. The Jack DeOr pronounced Jack Doar, okay, Jack Doar, is at the very center of pretty things and nearly three years on, we're still pleased as punch that he joined us. Jack Doar is the kind of beer, Martha, and Dan like to drink before, after, and during a great meal. I was going to say sex. That's a meal. Heck, we'll drink this sort of beer anytime validated. I feel like if they wanted to pronounce Jack Doar, they should have just spelled it Jack Doar. That's what I'm saying. I feel like people should eat out more. We're just talking about sex and I'll just leave that there. This is a pretty beer. Yeah. They're all pretty clear. Yeah. This might be filtered. I don't know. Yeah, it looks like it's filtered. This looks like sunshine. It does. It actually kind of does. Like golden, golden rays of sunshine. Yeah, there's almost no yeast at the end of the bottle. And every time I tip the glass, so much carbonation chases that edge up. I see little star dust flakes of sunshine. Yeah, this is gorgeous. Hey. Sunshine flakes of sunshine. I love that sunshine flakes of sunshine. That's why we keep you around because your eloquent is fuck. Dracias. I'm smelling a lot of like grassy floral stuff. It's not that thick smelling. It's kind of light aroma. I get a little bit of alcohol in it. I do too. Okay. I get something a little wet. Ha ha. I know it's beer and it's liquid. It's like a wet itself. A stewed observation. No, it smells like wet something wet. It's like heavy water, you know. I'm sitting in my seat. I was just trying to keep it up. Maybe it smells like wet hay. Yeah. It smells like wet hay. I think you're right. And I'm dank. And that one guy, that guy thought I was a thing and the staff and the thing. All right. He comes back and immediately he just starts taking pot shots and everybody else has been on. That's because Harvey's been edging up on him as the most frequent guest. He's got it. He's got to take him down him. Yeah, my rivalry. I know this is strange, but I get a little like the tiniest, tiniest, little bit of candy sugar. Yeah. It's somewhere like a spicy juicy fruit bubblegum. It's got a little bit of that juicy fruit nose and it's a spicy kind of coriander quality there too. Yeah. But no spices or sugar are added, which is impressive. I mean, you expect that from some of the deceased. I mean, you expect some of those spicy phenolics. Very delicate. Pepery, maybe slightly cinnamon, yeah, a little bit. This label is, I don't think I put this in the description, but this label is this little Jack door guy and I think he's supposed to be like a barley sprout or something. And he's in this tub of water with hops and yeast, supposedly making beer, but he's in this nice forest with all these birch looking trees and I, that's what this beer smells like. It smells like a forest or a meadow with a creepy looking dude with a moustacheo making beer. I'll say this. I really like the logo pretty things has. The label of this. The shield. The emblem. Yeah. The shield emblem that they have this heraldic shield that has this weird Dr. Seuss like tree, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm tasting a bit of like, or I'm smelling a bit of honey in it. Yeah. I got that too. It's really it's a subtle nose for a Cezanne. I just had a taste and this is not a traditional Cezanne. Like there's a lot of fucking hops in this. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's really bitter. And they get some of that honey in the flavor also. A lot of pills. No more. Yeah. A ton of pills. No more. That's the primary thing next to the hops that I'm getting. There's also some of that cane sugar. And I get like Anastasia was saying something woodsy pencil shavings, kind of what I think. Really? Like the edge of where the wood meets the meadow where part of it is kind of bright and sunny and that's really soft, flowy grass. And then the other part like the back end gets a little darker, a little. Piney. Yeah. Piney, a little danker, a little more mysterious and rapey. Yeah. For the yikes. Worthy. The big bad wolf comes out and gives you the what for don't go hiking there guys. So from the aroma in the nose of this Jack door, I expected something that was going to be a little more delicate and effervescent on my tongue and I'm not getting that. I'm getting that bitterness and a little bit of that candy sugar. I don't know. It's doing that weird meadow wood thing in my mouth. I think the hops throw it all off balance to me. I agree. It needed something more delicate to go with the nose and the malt profile and the hops are just like bam. And it hits you in a weird part of the flavor profile where it's like 40% in and all of a sudden it's like, oh, I can taste this kind of like this bitterness. It's like middle back. Yeah. It's like the mid. It's not quite the finish. It's like the end of the mid finish to the actual finish. This tastes a lot like that other pretty things beer that we had that fluffy white rattles. Yeah. They're a hoppy triple. The hoppy triple. And so it was like, I mean, I like that beer quite a bit. I like that beer too. But it was more balanced out than this was. I mean, it was just as fucking hoppy. Yeah. There's a ton of hops in that thing for a triple and there's a ton of hops here for a Cezanne, but that triple had a little bit more sweetness, a little bit more malt to back that hoppiness up with. And this is a very dry and very bitter hoppy beer and I'm not sure how it's working out for me. Do you think they're missing something in their labeling or defining of their beer? Like, had it not been called an American Cezanne? There wouldn't be such a weird disconnect? I don't know. I mean, American Cezanne kind of fits for this because it is American Cezanne. American Cezanne. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Cezanne kind of makes sense for this because, yeah, I mean, it's got a Cezanne base and it's certainly dry enough for that and spicy enough for that and floral as well. And it's got a bunch of those American hops, like the big, tiny hops. But I don't know. It's not balanced very well. Some of the back story for me buying this beer is I went to a beer shop in Northern Kentucky that sells literally thousands of different beers. And the beer buyer there was saying that they did a blind taste test of all of their Cezanne's and they have Fantone Cezanne there, they have all the still water, they have the milk like they have all the prairie, they have a very wide selection of great American and Belgian Cezanne's. Mm-hmm. And this is the one that won their blind taste test. Wow. And I'm sort of shocked. I'm not. Because, A, it's completely off style points and, B, I just don't think it's very good. It's not bad, but it's like... It's not a bad beer at all. Compared to all the other Cezanne's that I know that they sell in that shop, this doesn't come anywhere near that same level of excellence. I'll tell you why I think it... Because it tastes like an IPA. Because it's off style. Yeah. And their palettes were so blown by every single other Cezanne that either fell into this kind of strict Belgium funky Fantone kind of category or that fell into this really citrusy, spicy American category. Yeah. This is close. It's completely different. Doesn't even taste like a Cezanne to me. If this was served to me, I don't know if I would say, oh yeah, this Cezanne's used to it. It's just like when they had the stout competition in the IPA one. Wait, what? No, this is a great... Like if you're drinking a bunch of Cezanne's, this is almost a great palette cleanser because it gives that bitterness on your palette that a lot of Cezanne's don't. It tastes like an old Hoppy Blondale to me. Yes, that's exactly right. It's either old Hoppy Blondale or some kind of Belgo IPA. Yeah. You know, that's kind of what my brain is going to remind me a little bit of Duranki, you know. Yeah. Which is so elegant. Clear bottles that get shipped all over the place and funky. Yeah. It's not a bad beer. It's just not what I was expecting. And I'm getting a little bit more apple note in there. Not a green apple, a sweet aldehyde sort of thing, but it's more of an apple orchard. Yeah, something like that. And it's a nicely flavored beer. It's just so unbalanced to me. I need to change my expectations for it too. Agreed. So I came into it thinking, best Cezanne out of thousands, like this is going to be really Cezanne-like. Oh dude, fuck that. Sophie in tank seven. I don't give no shit. It's all I ever need. Throw it down. So I have a question about this table beer term because my understanding, and it's probably wrong actually, was that a table beer means a low ABV sessionable beer. Usually it does. And we're looking at a 6.5. That's not low. Yeah. So it really makes sense for them to call it a table beer. Okay. I am right. A table beer should be really easy to drink beer. Still water actually makes a really awesome table beer called Table Beer. Yes. I think that we have that. Great. Off my camera. Brouserid DuPont. So the people that produce this on DuPont, they make this really awesome beer called A Real. And I believe it's a little bit on the high and it might be between three and five. But that's one of their, well, what they consider a table beer. A Real is fantastic. Oh, fucking good. Chester King also makes love to be friends. Yeah. So do you think this is a bit of a misnomer in two regards? That they're also trying to like label this one a table beer? Well, the expectation that I have reading American Cezanne and table beer are very different from what I'm tasting. The bitterness to me as I keep drinking it is kind of falling by the wayside. It's not as intensely bitter as I first thought it was. I feel like more like my palate's acclimating to it and then I'm noticing it. That's what I think it is too because I'm not getting that big oppressive bitterness that I was getting in the beginning. It's more like a bitter hum that kind of stays behind and that's fine. But it's still neither a table beer or something I would consider a Cezanne. A table beer can't be this bitter. And then just by definition, this would override any delicate flavor that you would have in a good meal. I think that could be an American table beer though and not with a hamburger. Yeah, with something like gigantic. Well, no. Okay. The thing is it, I think, you know, obviously it's just my opinion, but it's bitter, but it's bitter in a cleansing way. I don't get a lot of one particular hop style bitterness. It's just kind of this pop in your mouth and it kind of stains because it's really bitter and then it just kind of goes away. So anything else that I put in my mouth after it, it's going to be a little affected but it's not going to be that much. I wouldn't have it with really, really delicate things. But it is the haps don't go away immediately. I don't. But America likes to redefine and fucking take styles, which is why I would call it an American table beer. That's a good point. So is the American part of the tagline just goes, sorta? Is that what American tagline is? Fuck you. We do whatever we want. Yeah. It gives them the license to pop the shoot out of it. Pretty much. Yeah. That's what they did. That is essentially really hoppy. Yeah. Or it's not really that style but we're going to say it is anyway. Yeah. Okay. Usually when people tag American to whatever style designation that decide to put on their beer usually means, yeah, we took this and we made it crazy being either hot or a lapse about the whole or some shit. I'll say that I American like this beer then, I guess. I mean, do you like to wear whatever the fuck that means? I mean, I don't think it's a bad beer. I think it's pretty good. It's just not what I was expecting. Sure. Do you like this? I did actually like the beer. Okay. Sweet. I would call it a hoppy table beer, too. I wouldn't call it a fish song. I couldn't call it a table beer either. I could just because it's kind of unoffensive. The most offensive thing about it is its bitterness. It starts. The way it starts out is a lot bigger than it ends up being by the time you're done with your glass. Yeah. Well, that's when you're waiting for your food to come out. So you're salivating because of these sugars that aren't there, that are there from other things. I'm sure. I'm probably all debate about this beer quite a bit more, but we need to move on because we have a show to do. And that was like as a jacked door from Pretty Things Beer and Ale project. And the next beer is Funky Galaxy from Prairie Artisan Ailes from Crabs, Oklahoma, 7% ABV available in bottles and draft, and it's got a rotating release schedule. And this is a galaxy-hopped black farmhouse ale. I'm excited to try this. I've seen it on the shelves for a long time, but I haven't quite. I heard that it was here in Texas. I was like, "Well, I'll wait then." And you know what? Chase Healy from Prairie was supposed to be in Austin and on this show this week, actually. Oh, really? And we have to settle for Ryan? I sent him a message to verify and he never sent me a message back. So maybe he got busy. I know he was in Chicago for a while. Yeah. He's in Chicago, but so Ryan, when I say, "And we have to settle for Ryan," other people are supposed to laugh, so it doesn't seem so dickish. No. It's way too late now. No, because you're right. We do have to settle for that. True fact. But I'm almost as interested. But while Chase was in Chicago, I saw that he was on a friend of ours show, Chris Quinn's show with a beer temple. And... Who I met briefly. Yo, do you met Chris? I mean, if you can call drunk and like say, "Hey, I'm going to get Kuma's. Bye!" I don't know if that means at all. Kuma's corner of burgers. Okay. If you can call that meeting someone, yeah, I did that. I'm glad you got to meet Chris. I've been wanting to meet him for a while. Hopefully, we'll get to see about the Great American Beer Festival if we get to go. Yeah. So if you want to see a really cool interview tasting thing, I don't know if Chris is released yet. He released some pictures of it. But Chris puts on a really good show at the beer temple, craftbeertemple.com. Really great stuff. Check it out. And he's got a great fucking beer store in Chicago. Oh, man. His pictures of his store. It looks beautiful. It's fantastic. Anyway, getting to this funky galaxy, this is a dark beer. There's a highlight around the edge, kind of cola colored. It looks like root beer if you hold it up to the light. It does. A little room here. Yeah, exactly right. There is something in the bottom of my glass. Drink it. You may have gotten a little used. Okay. Can we all sniff this together? Okay. All right. Jumped ahead. The head is really nice. The head is really nice and pillowy, kind of off-white. And lasts a very long time. It does. Oh, it smells like maybe poo. No, it smells delicious. What's wrong with this? It smells like magic. What are you smelling? Okay. It smells like lemongrass and hay, and there's some funky barnyard smells and bright citrus bursts in it. I saw wet grass band-aid. No. Like a plastic band-aid. Plastic wet grass band-aid. I'm somewhere between these two polar opposites. Weird. I'm not certain if I like it, but I'm going to keep kind of smelling it anyways. It's kind of like if you're kind of checking out something underneath your armpit and you kind of like, I don't know if I like that, but let me take one more. Do I like the smell of my body odor? Yeah. That's where I'm at with the smell of this beer. It smells like IKEA. No, no, I'm- Oh, sterile. I'm getting- No. Not American. I get citra, and I also get some plasticiness. Really? It should just be galaxy. Okay. So I get a really nice citric hop, right, and it's dark and caramelized though. Like a fresh orange juice quality there. And it tastes just about to puke. What's wrong? Yeah, I handed it to my fiance, too, and she has a face that's very similar to Anastasia, so it's not- Maybe it's like a very good body. It's a very good body. Are you guys pregnant right now? What's going on? Yeah. Yeah. I might be. I've got Satan's child inside of me. They're both Asian, so this doesn't smell like dogs, so that's not very appealing in the flavor for them. It doesn't smell like hot dogs, so grand doesn't like your body. It's like the actually real full-blown dogs is what I'm going to say. It does have a hot dog on the label. It does. Actually, two fingers pointing to a hot dog. It's the, what is it called, the invisible hot dog when you have a two fingers? Yeah. Yeah. And I can't help but think when Rubio told us about the two penises going together to make an invisible pen. Wait, what? Oh, the space talking. No, it's a different thing. So we're talking, yes. I know. I know. You'll probably cut it. I mean, funky galaxy label takes place in space. Oh, sorry. I really want to point out that, you know, it's obviously a galaxy, and the outlines are people playing basketball. Okay. So I think this beer smells really good. Like I get a somewhat smoky, phenolic RNG. There's something else in there that's fruity as well. It smells like brand new plastic. This is so weird. Usually I'm the person on the end that goes, "Ugh, I don't like the smell of this. It smells terrible." I'm making it. It smells like more. I'm talking that you bought at an Asian market where they use plastic from China. And it's just like... I'm going to try this. It's just like off-putting lots of... I love that description, but you need to tack on the necessary barris, but in a good way, at the end. In a good... So, okay. I've had this on draft. I've bought this for my bar before, and I've never had it from the bottle. Okay. I'm going to try to pick out things that don't taste like brand new plastic. I tasted it. Hot pellets. Yeah. It tastes like pellets that has hops. Which isn't necessarily a good thing. I don't mind that so much. I mean, I just tasted it, and there's a lot of spice there. I'm still getting some of that citrusy, dark thing. There's a roast over the fire citrus quality to it. Yeah. I think taking a sip really actually changes the nose a lot, too. I don't smell a lot of the same things. It's like if you took an orange marshmallow and roasted it with some spices on top. Like orange marmalade sort of flavor. Both of those things are accurate to me. But there's also a lot of spiciness there, and it's kind of like a rye spiciness. Yes. Rye. And there's a little licorice there, which is really weird for this type of beer. I don't usually get licorice in this kind of beer. There's bittering notes that kind of remind me of like bitter chocolate, bitter cocoa powder, rather. Yeah. It's like if you had just a roast over the fire orange with bitter cocoa butter. I was about to say, it kind of reminds me of if I brushed my teeth and then drank some orange juice a little bit. Okay. It's like, okay. It tastes where I'm like, ooh, that's a little off-putting. That makes some sense to me. It's so bitter. Yeah. You're making bad faces. Yeah. It's too bitter. Yeah. Between the noses, it's kind of freaking me out. And then there's the overwhelming bitterness of the flavor. Maybe this will warm up and transform and I'll keep trying. I'm really liking this. I'm struggling with this. This is hitting me at the right time, too. I can understand, I guess, why you might be struggling with it. Maybe it comes as a weird combination following up our last beer. It is bitter. It is bitter and is very, very citric orange peel. Yeah. Great fruit peel. Yeah. It's not appealing in that way. So, over the top. I don't think so. It tastes like an overwhelming Christmas candy or something. Yeah. It has that stuff in there, too. Honestly, on draft, it was nowhere near this bitter and... Okay. You know what it reminds me of? So, it kind of reminds me of, like, Horehound Tea. I don't know if you know what that is, but it's spelled H-O-R-E-H-O-N-D. Not like... Not A-N-A-S-T-A-C-I-A. Exactly. There's a tea. I'm slow at spelling. It's too messy. It's a type of additive to a tea to make your throat feel better. I don't know why horrors make your throat feel better. Usually see all the way around. Usually the horse throat makes my dick feel better. But there's something in here that reminds me of that. Like a Ricola. Yeah. Like a Ricola. This is really hitting me the right way. Why? I love the bitter build-up. I love how it lingers on the palate. I like the bursts of citrus and, like, grapefruit peel on there. I mean, earthiness is really good, too. Good toothiness. There are browns at the end, and I just want to keep drinking it. I don't know. It's weird that two of us are really, like, missing any heart. This is not the first time I've had this beer. I've had this beer by myself and drank the whole bottle and loved it. But you're not right in the head. I know. It might be just one of those weird, off flavors that, for some reason, you and I cling to, and other people don't. That could be the case. I kind of get a soapy quality to this as well, which I think is really weird that I would like that. But I like it. It's a fresh, ginger-y kind of soapy, right? Yeah. It's less soapy. Well, I mean, it doesn't have such a ginger bite, I don't think so. No, no, no, no. But, like, fresh ginger, that weird soapy-ness, that sort of thing carries. Anastasia and Ryan look utterly defeated and sad. No kidding. I'm like, "Yeah, they're just not even going to talk anymore because we're going to beat them down." No, I'm kidding. You like this. I want to keep drinking because I want to try to be fair, and I want to try to get past these first tastes that I've had, but it's really, really orange. She smells like she's going to cry. Don't cry. Now, it smells like one of those chocolate orange balls. The plastic-y orange note that I was getting in the beginning has definitely aired out. As it's warmed up and breathed a bit, it's gone. The nose smells much better to me, and I don't want to be that guy that sits in and rips on something. No, you can rip on something. Please rip on it. It's too bitter, and it doesn't feel balanced to me. I don't have too much to say about it. I'm trying to be bitter and trying to be funky, and it's just two things that compete. Yeah, they're clashing for me. Well, they're clashing way too much for me. It needs to be one or the other. Should we move on to the next one? Please. Okay, I got it. Is it called bourbon? No, no. It's actually another funky galaxy we're going to do. Yeah. Funky galaxy. No. That last beer that we had was funky galaxy. This last beer for the evening is alpha king from three Floyd's and Munster, Indiana. It's an American pale ale at 6.66% ABV. They really like their Satan's there. 68 IBUs, and the year round offering available in balls. Wow. Available in balls. Available in bottles and on draft. I'm kind of drunk right now. Oh, my God. I want the beer that's available in balls. That's a rocky mountain. I have to suck it out. Right? Yeah, you have to suck that beer out. Yes. It's half the centennial cascade in warrior, and I'm going to read the description. It says three Floyd's flagship beer alpha kings, a big American pale ale that pours a deep amber with a creamy head. This ails brewed with centennial cascade in warrior, giving it an intense citrus aroma and flavor nose. And this is straight up copper. Hey, can you help on a second? I don't have a glass. Oh, sorry. But I'm already describing shit. It's a hazy copper color. Dark. Sorry, but I'm not. Obviously. Yeah. And it's got a nice fluffy head on the top. Very fluffy. That's funny. This is a gorgeous looking beer. Yeah. This is a great color. I hope that please just let this one that I put in my mouth better than the last one. I can't even form sentences. Anastasia, just smell that it will clear up your talking palette. That nose is awesome. I'm pretty sure cutting out my tongue will clear up my talking palette. So I'm getting a lot of like orange peel and there's a spice there too. I'm not. And that multi sweetness really backs up that knows to just whatever use they use in their houses just goes so well with American hops. It's mind boggling. It's those orange candy gummy snacks in this. Yeah. Sweetness is a lot like if you mixed honey with a little bit of soy sauce and you reduce that down in a pan like there's a interesting honey like quality to it with a little bit of umami in the nose. Smells like wort or like the first boil beer being brewed. Oh absolutely right. Mmm. I can handle that. Smells like the first hop edition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Damn it. I love the way it smells. Mmm. So yeah these are brand spanking new freshly and I picked them up last week. I drove in and directed often. Man, I just took a sip of this. That is awesome. There is a Satan and he fucking loves me. What's sad though is that we didn't have a full pint of this beer. Yeah. Because unless you have a full pint this beer can't actually speak to you. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on. Let me just talk about my first sip and then you can get to that because it's like getting a navel orange that is a little bit old and then biting right through the skin into the fruit. Mmm. Just this delicious sweet navel orange that's so descriptive and something I've never done. Well, I mean I've had an orange that's a little bit too old to be eaten. Yeah. But you don't know what when you're you're you think it might be okay so you open it anyway. No, I just I love that description of something I probably never did. And it's so clean. Like it's so clean at the end like that sort of description makes it feel like it's going to be weird and off. And it's really not. Like it's all of those flavors in a very, very good way. And then it ends so clean. Absolutely. It ends kind of abruptly too, which I know the paleo aspect of it, but it doesn't leave you being like, Oh, where the hell did that beer go? Because there's kind of a residual sweetness to it. Yeah. Oh my God. It's really clean. This is perfect. Hold on real quick. I want to get back to you for one second. Good. So when Rubio talks about an orange that might be too old, that's the one that doesn't make sense to you as opposed to when I talk about like a flax and haired maiden in the meta with wildflowers. Did you experience that more often than a maybe old orange? Let me clarify. I never know what you're talking about. Is it because I'm a woman? No. No, you're like solving for dolly tripping acid because you have Velcro's shoes, Anastasia. How the fuck are you ever saying Velcro's shoes and three gold stars on your helmet? Whatever. It's a Dolce and Cabana helmet. Fuck yourselves. I don't know when I've ever bit through an orange ride, a rotten orange ride into an orange. It's not a rotten orange ride. It's just I'm a manimal. I don't know if you've met a manimal before. It smells like dreams and when you wake up with a little bit of delicious drool on your pillow. Yeah. When this Mexican wants an orange, there's no such thing as appeal that's going to get in this way. It's going to chew through that fucking thing. I'm just surprised you would eat it rather than sell it at a corner of an intersection. I sold all the good ones. I sold all the good oranges. I'm left over with all the fucking chaff. This tastes like I want a chugget. This is so good. You can absolutely sit through a six pack of this and just bam. I'm wondering if I could chug five ounces of beer. I don't think I could. No, I don't think five ounces is enough for you to get the spirit or the soul of the beer. That beer cannot speak to you. It's up to me. Okay. Let's let Ryan tell this story because he's dying too and I'm dying here again. Yeah, I know. So how are you supposed to drink this beer? Do you think you can appreciate the spirit, Ryan? Not at this point in time, no. Why so? I'm a very good 10 ounces away from perfectly enjoying this beer. Okay. Okay. Back up. Back up. Give people context. Give us a story for the beginning. Please tell us. So my fiance, Lee, and I are getting married on Saturday and we had vacation time. Congratulations. By the time you listen to me, it will have happened or maybe not. Yeah, I'm saying congratulations on the thing because I'm trying to be nice. Yeah, I've been telling him, don't fucking do it. I've been married before it ends fucking horribly. That's exactly his advice, which is probably either way, I have fun raising my baby. Hey, I have a baby, six baby and a wife. It's wonderful. No, but we were doing our little report. I mean, does a baby come from your wife? Sorry. Go. We were doing our little reverse honeymoon, but it was a little vacation before we got back to Austin and had a wedding with all of our friends that know us as a couple. So we found ourselves at three floys towards the end of our trip and they had seven or eight of their beers on tap that I hadn't necessarily had before and we asked for two samples. Oh, man, I would love to go there and the guy said, no, we don't do that here. Samples? They have sample glasses. I see them at the bar. They have tons of them because we don't do that here and I was like, oh, I was like, well, there's a number of the beers do you guys have on tap that I'm not familiar with and because yeah, I know a lot of places do flights and samples, but we don't do that here because we feel you need to have a full pint to allow the beer to fully speak to you. Wow. What? When you drink beer, you need to listen. Yeah, they have a beer called zombie dust and I was just like, Andy, you're in trouble. And then he followed up with my dumbfounded look with, I'm a ciscerone if that matters to you. Oh, I said nothing. And honestly, I was telling the story earlier, I was a ciscerone to Ruby on Graham. They're like, you must have been sober if you didn't say that. I've seen you get fucking ordinary, yes, pretentious motherfucker myself. You're a man. You've met one of the most pretentious assholes I've ever known once and do. I was just so dumbfounded by the situation that I just looked down. You don't get to call yourself pretentious if you know what you're talking about. And all I was, I was like, I'll just get a pint of zombie dust. I almost want to fly over there and ask him for samples so that the whole thing could replay with me as the guy who slams. It needs to be that scene from the end of Jay and Silent Bob's whatever excellent adventure where they find out about internet trolls and we fly over there and we punch them in the face. Oh, we see a flying punch on the face. And we'll be right back after this situation, I was like, I don't know how to drink beer. Oh, yeah. Maybe you don't know how to taste beer. I mean, if there wasn't a straw and if there wasn't an umbrella, you're doing it wrong. No, but you know, the great thing about that is that you said the most golden thing earlier when he said that he was a sister owned. You had a little aside to me that goes, Oh, great, you've got a fucking degree in serving beer. Oh, it's just great. I mean, that's a fucking slag on sister runs because a lot of those people are way more knowledgeable than I'll ever be. Very true. Yeah. It's also just beer. We look him up. It's just beer. We don't need to do that. No, we don't need to do that. Everybody listening. I'm a huge beer fan. I love beer. It is also still just fucking beer. Beer's great, but it's just beer. You don't have to get your panties in a twist. I do. About so do I. But fuck you, if you're going to run your bar like that, if someone wants to try something to appreciate it in one way or the other, even if they're like, Hey, I only want to drink it out of my own hand, let them because they're still going to try and appreciate your own product. Yeah. Maybe that's their fucking thing. Yeah. You don't get to dictate if that means anything to you. No, all it means about sister runs is that, Oh, are sister runs all assholes? No, no, no, no, they're not all assholes. I know a lot of really bad asses are wrong. Exactly. It was just such a great situation. Yeah. Right. For now, we'll call them Sergeant Dickhole. Yeah. So Sergeant Dickhole cheers. Alpha King is delicious. Alpha King is awesome. Yeah. And really outside of a hilarious situation that would have been forgettable otherwise, we had a wonderful time at three points. Yeah. Wow. Tasted some of the best beer of our trip and was able to bring home ultra fresh alpha king. Three floyds is a fantastic, this beer is so fucking good. It is. And there's really not very much more beyond what we're talking about, like what we said it is. Yeah. Kind of citrusy, kind of like a orange that went off a little bit biting through the peel into the fruit. Slightly fermented orange. And there's a little bit of the spice there, maybe all spicy, but that's pretty much it. So that's all it has to be. Yasty bread with a very pith heavy orange marmalade. Yeah. Absolutely. And I want to put it all over my body. What do you guys think of the name? Alpha King. It just implies to me. Do you feel like it should be like alpha king, trust me on the sis around. Did that be the name? The name kind of implies that they're using hops with really high alpha acids that are supposed to be extremely bitter. So yeah, maybe, maybe, I mean, this has been one of their mainstays for years. I mean, this predates zombie dust. It's their flagship. Yeah. It's their original flagship. Yeah. And it's great. It's a great original flagship. It's still fantastic. That's kind of what I love about three floyds though, is they're kind of dickwalls and they kind of don't give a shit because for the most part, they make really fucking amazing beer. Absolutely right. Except for Dark Lord. Yeah. I would like to correct you on that. The people who created this beer at three floys, they weren't being the dicks. That's a good point. Some lackey they hired that's a swooster road looking at dickhole. I know like in the beer community, some people feel that free floyds as a whole, they're not trying to single out individuals. A lot of people give them so much shit because they try to limit what people can buy and they don't want their beer on eBay and they don't want people just like. And rightly so. That's fine. Yeah, exactly. They don't want people buying their beer and fucking selling them for hundreds of dollars on eBay. So they try to limit what people can get. Some people think that's a huge dick move. I say make the fucking beer you're going to make and I'm going to chug it and drink it and do terrible things for it. I agree with that. I mean, they make fantastic beer except for Dark Lord. Except for Dark Lord. Dark Lord's a hunk of shit. But the rest of their beers are top fucking notch and delicious and amazing. And I would gladly go back to free floyds to have a bunch of new beers. Absolutely. I just feel like if anyone's ever been a dick to Ryan, I'm not going to drink their beer anymore. I mean. I got your back buddy. Thanks man. I could totally say thank you Phil to free floyds for being super awesome when I went up to Chicago. Honestly, we had a great time there. It's good. All their beer is so good. Their food is good. It was wonderful. The food floyds is definitely just a little I recommend pretty hilarious little story that I had to share. Good story bro. I'm ready to give my rankings. Me too. I'm fucking ready to live my range. We're done with these beers and rankings are going to happen so yeah let's like Ryan go first. Coming in on number six, funky galaxy. Really? Oh yeah. It's the only beer that I couldn't finish. I still have at least four ounces most of the poor. Very much struggling through this and it was tough to me at some points because some of the aspects of funky galaxy I really liked. I like that bright orange bitter note. It was the funky part that threw me off. Tandem on the other hand which is comes in at number five. I generally don't think I would ever buy this beer. It's completely outside of my range of beers that I enjoy. Doubles. A in general I don't really like and this doesn't even fit a good double profile which makes it even sort of more outside of my profile. I had that weird start to it but I enjoyed the dark cherry notes and there's a bit of cinnamon and clove in there. It warmed up to me. I kind of liked it. Cool. For the white birch Berliner vice maybe if we had a better bottle, more carbonation. That beer could have been really great. The one that we had today put it just behind the Jack door which I enjoyed and again kind of threw me off balance and it took me a little out of a lot of these beers. There's a common theme. I just wasn't ready for them. Yeah. They're off style. They're just kind of crazy. They're a little off the walls. It was an interesting night. It's an interesting combination. Yeah. I mean who brought us these beers? No way. That was you. I'm going to hate that guy. The guy's the worst. He's almost as bad as that one bartender at three flights. No, he's worse. Aw. I was going to put you right there with AIDS but go ahead. AIDS isn't that bad. The Jack door was, I was expecting Cezanne and it said table bearing. It wasn't either and it was tough. It's not a bad beer. It was good. It just felt a little off-balanced. I would buy it again and if it was on tap and there's just paps next to it. I would definitely order that. High praise. Super high praise. Number two goes to Alpha King. Everything John said about it. Everything we just said about it. Wonderful beer. And then number one without a doubt, I thought this was leagues beyond everything else tonight. Was the still water lower dens? This is one of the better Cezanne's that I've had ever. It goes into that upper echelon of, I can't really say you're worse than anything else because there's a start, a distinct part to the middle and a finish to this beer that we're all completely unique and it was extremely well balanced, exceptional. When you're talking about Hill Farmstead, you're talking about your greater Belgian Cezanne's, you're talking about your better American Cezanne's. This is up there with it. I couldn't say that this is any better or worse than the best of the best. Period. I mean, just really wonderful. I loved it. Yeah. Fucking great beer. Thank you so much Ryan. Glad they have you back. Yeah, it was fun to be back. You're a beautiful person. I'm going to go next and I really enjoyed most of the beers that I had tonight. I mean, I guess I enjoyed all of them at different levels and my top two are kind of interchangeable. I'm going to start at the very bottom with my number six beer and that was tandem from Pike Brewing, the Belgian style double. I thought it was a pretty decent beer. It was a little bit weird for a Belgian style double. I wouldn't call it a Belgian style double and maybe it was because we got an old bottle after we got an oxidation problem there, but some of the flavors that I was getting improved as I drank it and I really enjoyed it toward the end. Number five for me was Jack Dior from Pretty Things and that was an interesting beer. I liked what I was tasting, but I would not call this a fucking Saison and I would not fucking call this a table beer. It is way too big for both of those things. Even if you call it an American Saison, it should have some kind of semblance to a Saison. And a six and a half percent table beer? Yeah, take seven to me is an American Saison. It's a Saison with some American hops and it's fucking great as a Saison, but it hasn't American influence. This to me came off like a Belgian IPA. Still liked it, not what I was prepared for. Number four funky galaxy. I really liked that beer and I'm sorry that two of us didn't. I liked the spiciness of that yeast character and I really liked the citric quality of the flavor. I dug that beer quite a bit. And like I said, I've had that beer before and I drank a whole fucking bottle myself and enjoyed the fucking shit out of it. Number three, the Berliner vice from White Birch. I thought was great tasting. I wish the mouth fuel was up there with other Berliner vices that I had. It needed more carbonation, but those flavors that I was getting were fucking great and I've said fucking so many times because I'm drunk. Number two. So you can say fucking and I can't say dicks? No, you can say that. Dicks, dicks, dicks, dicks. Number two. Sensory series version one, Lord Denz. Goddamn. That beer is amazing. And like I said, my number two and number one are mostly tied. That Lord Denz, like Ryan said, I agree with him is one of the best seissons. I would buy that beer any opportunity that I get. My number one though, Alpha King, that is one of those beers that the first time I had it all those years ago when it first came out was just as good as having it now. Like it's not suffered from, you know, something like ruination, which was like, oh, you know, the first time you have ruination is like crazy fucking hoppy. And as your pallet shifts, it becomes less than it was. Alpha King is just as amazing as it was the first time I had it. I think I like zombie dust a little bit more as a bill. I do too. Yeah, you're right. Alpha King is amazing and it's got to be my number one. And that's a really tough decision between that and that Lord Denz. But just because Alpha King is stuck around that way, I got to give it the number one spot. That's a very good reasoning behind that. That's awesome. Thanks. Who's going to go next? Set a stage. I beg you. Pass. No, you're on all your necks. Are you ready for this? I'm ready. So ready. I was born ready. Number six. Alpha King. Wait. What? Oh, wait. Wait. What? Alpha King. No. He won't stop. Yes. Number four. Alpha King. This is not even one. Oh, shit. Number three. Are you going to do rankings for real? No. I can't. I have like the top three beers and that's it. Really? For real. Okay. Why don't you give us your top three and we'll tie them. I have to bet what they're going to be. Okay. Okay. Why don't you go? Why don't you tell us your bottom three first? I have no order for them. That's fine. We'll call them tied. I mean, my bottom three and no particular order are everything Ryan brought. Just kidding. No, no. What? What are those? You've got four of them. The White Break for Linervise, Pike Tandem, Prairie Funky Galaxy. Okay. Whatever. I would like to say I only brought one of those. So fuck you. You should let her do her a full ranking with just the rule. It's a good one. No, no, no. Give us. Give us your three to win one. All right. Everybody is the still water, lower dens, but I don't know. I think I have the same problem that Ryan did where everything kind of took me by surprise. Nothing was exactly what it said it was and everything was maybe trying just a little bit too hard. Yeah. I thought that when I was expecting more had biscuits. All of the beers we had today, I think we're trying too hard to maybe be something they weren't or just trying too hard in general. Number two is the Jack Doar, I pick that one over the lower dens just because this is going to be a very strange way to describe it. It's a very anonymous beer. Okay. I drank it. I'm like, okay, beer. Anonymous like a table beer? Sort of. Yeah. Like this really strange American hoppy table beer, like I would totally drink this with food. My number one is Alpha King till death do his part. It spoke to me and it told me to kill all of you. That's fair. I'll probably told you that you don't know how to taste beer like that Cicero net three flights. For sure. For sure. And I mean, they don't pay me money to like taste beer or anything. So it's cool. Yeah. I'm paid to be pretty. I mean, so it's cool. So I'm failing on that level, too. Wasting their money. I think you were paid to do some of the, yeah, you're definitely paid to do that. But thank you for your rankings. No, don't. Don't. I mean, you have a top three of the bottom three year old type. I was forced. There was a gun to my head. Help. I'm scared. Don't send help or whatever she said. Thank you. Anastasia. Grant. You're not welcome because I know you don't really mean to. Man. Grant. I feel like I need to like hype music before I do this. Say this. No, whatever. We look like Ryan up. Ryan. Wait, wait. Do you really want to hype music? Hell yeah. Wow. He's really enthusiastic about it. Music. Okay. Here we go. Six goes to the tandem. Let me read you this description one more time because this fucking cracks me up. This beer is amongst originally, okay, wait, hold on. Go. Go. Go. I get something. Go. Mugs originally marked double aisles with two crosses. Our double is named for the pickles bicycle. No. My favorite sex. What? I don't know what that means. Okay. I thought this beer was pretty good and that's a good mark of the rest of these beers because I already liked this one. I ranked it the lowest. I thought this was like liquid goobers from the theater when you go to. That's the only place I ever see goobers or at a movie theater. What? You know, if you want to go drink a movie theater beer, I guess whatever the fuck, tandem. Number five goes to the Bert Linterweis from White Birch Brewing Company. Seriously, I thought this beer was bright, tart, quenching and it had a sweet note at the end. However, I did note as you guys did that it needed some more carbonation in it and I thought that had Napoleon's army actually been drinking this, they wouldn't have conquered as much as they did. That's so great. Number four goes to the Jack D'Or. If you're going to put an apostrophe in there, I'm going to say it as D'Or. Fuck you for your pronunciation guide. I think the only downfall was its labels. If they're going to claim that it's in American Cezanne, I expect Cezanne taste. If they're going to say it's a table beer, I expect a low ABV sessionable beer and it wasn't. I really liked the taste, but it wasn't. It wasn't what they're claiming and that's confusing marketing. And I think it does you a disservice. Number three goes to the fucking galaxy. I just figured that's how it should be sung every time. Okay. Fucking galaxy. I mean, we all suck at something. Damn it. Okay. So I think there's certain flavors that are just like an acquired taste. Some people don't like iced tea without it having a bunch of sugar in it. Some people take a long time to acclimate to certain beers. It's just an acquired taste. It's weird to have this combination of this funkiness and this hoppiness, but for me, it was harmony. I just loved it. I thought it's got this weird, delicious cow pattiness. That's this bitter note funkiness that just mixes with it. I dug it. I dug it a lot. Number two goes to the sensory series version one, hyphen lower, then still water arsenal ale from Baltimore, Maryland. Get the fuck too long of a label, give me a nice, short, simple name, Brian Stromke. Okay. It's a good beer. I don't know why I'm a bit too much about it. Yeah. He's going to fight you at the great event. First of all, if we go, I'm going to give that guy a big hug. I'm just joking. I'm getting a lot of mileage out of him. I thought that this was great as peppery as lemony. I thought it had these nice honey and floral notes overall. This was going to be my number one beer. I thought it was amazing. I loved every part of it. I love the pour of it. I love the look of it. I love the smell of it. I love the nose of it. That's the same thing as a smell because I'm drunk and I also love the taste in it and the reactions from everyone else. It was just a fun beer in every single permutation, I guess. I don't know what the fuck I'm saying, but it was not as good as number one. And number one goes to alpha king. You don't name a beer alpha king unless you know it is because this beer was the tits. It was amazing. It's smooth. It's balanced. It lives up to the net. Awesome. That's what I have to say about that. Boom goes the dynamite. Fuck this show. I'm sorry. I love you, right? Fuck this show. Good, David. Hey, Sage and I are out. Wait, why are you fucking this show? Why is she fucking me? I don't know what you're saying. I mean, it's your basketball party. You're about to be married. You should be fucking things right now. I've not made it a beer taste thing. Sorry to hot sweaty room. Sorry fiance girl, but you know, he needs to be out banging girls. You're ruining it. I think she wants to bang girls too. Okay. I want this karaoke strip club. I don't think those things exist. You don't know. Exists? They have to exist. No. They don't have to. Who would do that? Asian? Like why is that Japanese would you? I'm Korean. No, I know you're Korean. I could pray if I had to look on your face. Oh, no, I'm not Korean. I'm Chinese. I can see them by the look on your face at your Korean. Why would there be a karaoke strip club when you could throw dollars at a horse? You told me we were going to. I told you we were going to go either to karaoke or to a strip club. I may or may not strip for you while we do karaoke or I may or may not sing to you while we do strip club. And one of those things might happen. It doesn't mean that they're both like fucking like pieces of peanut butter. I really thought we were going to karaoke strip club. That's about it. I told them. Did you? Yeah, when she went that night. Do you really not? No. She's like Rubio's taking me to a karaoke strip club and I was like, okay, I have to do that. She was so convinced that we were going to a strip club that had karaoke. That's the only reason she went. No, that night was we're either going to karaoke or to a strip club. Which is why she thought it was karaoke strip club. That's why I don't understand. I'm so glad you're good at math. So instead, you got to hang out with a bunch of girls that smell like karaoke. Yeah, that's the official scent of horse. Fuck that. Thank you guys for being here. I'm just done. I'm done with your things. No, you do proper. Thank you. Grant. Thank you. Oh, thank you for having me. Thank you so much. And thank you to Ryan for bringing all these wonderful beers. Yes, Ryan. Thank you so much for bringing these beers. That's fun being back. Thanks guys. Such a tender, fun. No, no, thank you guys. I'm like, knock, knock, knock. It says here on this piece of paper, thank you, Ryan. That's for bringing these beers. No, I'm really actually very glad that you're back in town. We're all very glad. Ryan, I love you and I miss you and but fuck this show beers. You know, an decision. Thank you for being here, even though that you hated these show beers. I hate everything. I hate everything. Everything you had romance is so cute present, as Mike would say. She just challenged you for a second time. We love you, Mike. Mike, we miss you. I hope you're back next week and not dead in my basement, like I said earlier. And I didn't kill you. Cops. Listen to that. You guys listening are beautiful. I am so glad that you're so supportive and wonderful and speaking of them being supportive, once again, please donate to us to help us get to the GABF. We can go to our website and click on the paypal link and donate some money to us. Yes. Because, you know, listening for free is great and all, but also donating and like, you know, helping us out is great. Yeah. Another way to help us is to rate us on iTunes. Go to iTunes and give us some ratings. Yes. It's five star ratings. And you can donate at thebearest.com, T-H-E-B-E-E-R-I-S-T-S.com. You can look for us at the iTunes music store, do a search for the beerists and give us five star review and write a review so we can see your name and thank you for it on the show. Send us emails at info@thebearest.com and you guys are beautiful. Thank you, Zalbaj. And Ryan, you can bring back more beers from Columbus or wherever the fucking Ohio anytime you want. You want the fuck to see us? You know, the Boris and the Dora, the Hoppin' Frog. He's going to bring them on Sunday. We're going to have a fucking Labor Sunday, Tuesday. Can I say something real quick? What? I'm so sorry to all you listeners that made it through this episode. Wait, why are you bringing people down? I know. It's just... Why do you got to ruin things? That's all I do. I know. Oh my God. I don't know if it came across in the episode, but Ryan died half way through the episode and we're all kind of down, but we decided to put on a game phase. We need to reanimate him so he can just send us money so we can put his parts back together. So since Ryan's dead and Mike is dead, I didn't kill Mike, I didn't kill Mike. We're going to have... Shh. Shh. Shh. No, who cares who killed Mike? I'm going to miss you, RIP. Ryan died of marriage and... Hey, don't say that. Shh. Shut up. Don't say that. You're not supposed to... You can't talk right now, you're supposed to be subservient today. So Ryan died of marriage, and we're also said about that. And Mike died of a pot overdose, or a strange patchouli accident. Too much THC, I think. Good night, sweet prince. It's not funny, he's dead. They're both dead. Ryan's dead and Michael's dead. The bottom stand, bitches! No, why are you gonna... Shh. Shh. Oh, shh. This is getting away from you. It smells like feet in here. Ryan, you're dead! Alright, peace, sweet prince. Get back, Mike, and Ryan. You know I never knew you and all you had the grace to hope yourself. But those around you crawl. And crawl out of the woodwork. And they're drained. But you know I never knew you and all you had the grace to hope yourself. But those around you crawl. And crawl out of the woodwork. And they're drained. But you know I never knew you and all you had the grace to hope yourself. But those around you crawl. And crawl out of the woodwork. And they're drained. And they're drained. And crawl out of the woodwork. And they're drained. All of your beer. You set you on the treadmill. And I know you fucking hated treadmills. And it seems to me you live your life like a candle in the wind. And I never know who to drink with when the rain set in. Now I wouldn't like to have found you. But I was drunk as shit. You can't have burned out long before my boner ever did. [music] Podcasting was tough. The toughest role you ever played. Internet created a superstar. And drunk was the price you paid. And even when you die. Oh the press still hounded you. Oh and all the papers had to say. Was Mike and Ryan was found in the new. And it seems to me you live your life like a candle in the wind. And I never know who to drink with when the rain set in. Now I wouldn't like to have found you. But I was drunk as shit. You can't have burned out long before my boner ever did. [music] Goodbye Mike and Ryan. Although I never knew you at all. You had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled. Goodbye Mike and Ryan. From the young man in John Rubio. Who sees you as something as more than sexual. More than mouths and man-ish holes. And it seems to me you live your life like a candle in the wind. Never know who to drink with when the rain set in. And I wouldn't like to have found you. But I was drunk as shit. You can't have burned out long before my boner, my boner ever did. You can't have burned out long before my boner ever did. Oh Mike and Ryan are dead. [laughter] For more information on the Beerists Podcast, including show notes and pictures, visit thebeerists.com. Email us your feedback, comments, questions, and suggestions at info@thebeerists.com. Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/thebeerists and follow us on Twitter at Twitter.com/thebeerists. Intro music was provided by Ian Butcher in his band Deflated Balom. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/Ian_Butcher93. I'm John Rubio. Thanks again for listening. [music] [music] [ Silence ]
