Hey everyone, just a quick thing before we get to the show. We're very, very thankful for all of your donations that we received to help us to get to the Great American Beer Festival in October. Now, we're not quite at our goal yet, but we would still like to give a little bit back to our listeners who have donated, and maybe this will sweeten the deal for folks who have yet to donate. We've put together two very special gift packs that we'll be giving away, one each to two lucky donators. We're going to draw names out of a hat to pick the two people these things go to. The first one is a basic gift pack for donators of any amount up to $49.99 total. Now, if that's you, your name's going to be put into a hat with a bunch of other people who have done the same thing. And here's what you might get. One person's going to get a five-beer sampler picked specifically for you by us. We're going to select beers based on your particular taste preferences from breweries that maybe you won't be able to get easily in your area. We're also going to throw in a beerist's taster glass for you to drink them out of. Sound pretty cool, right? Well, here's the elite gift pack. Now, these are for people who donated $50 and above total. By total, I mean, if you've sent three or four donations and the equal to over $50, you're going to be in the running for this special gift pack. This is going to include a six-beer sampler, not a five, like the other one. You're also going to get two beerist's taster glasses, not just one, but you'll get two of them. And you'll get three special beers from our sellers. And we haven't decided which ones they are, but they'll be good, trust me. There's also one other beer that we're putting into this box, and that's a Westvleitron 12, which is one of the rarest and most highly sought-after beers in the world. Now, this isn't the one that they released in the small package that they sent to the US for distribution. There was a very small amount that they sent over here to sell. This is one of the ones that you'd have to go up to the monastery in Belgium to get. It's a very, very cool beer. It's delicious. It's one of the highest rated beers in the world, and we're giving one to one lucky person. Now, to be eligible for this, you'll have to a have donated by September 22, 2013. Yes, if you've donated before, you're already in the running. You also have to live in the continental United States. I'm sorry to everybody else. That's the best I can do. Also, be at least 21 years old. There's only going to be one entry per person. Names are going to be picked out of a hat, like I said, and there'll only be two recipients, one for each of the gift packs. And here is how you donate. Go to thebearest.com. On the left hand side of the page, there's a PayPal donate link. Click it. Donate whatever you can afford with PayPal or your credit card. Good luck, and we really, really appreciate it. Let's get on with the show. Episode 70 of the Beerist's podcast recorded on July 25, 2013. More beers from Jonathan Murphy. [MUSIC] Guys. Yeah. What? We did it. What do we do? What do we do? GABF fucked up. And they let us have not one, not two. Okay, but two. Two of us. We got two press passes. That's crazy. Hey, congratulations to the Beerists. Thank you. You know, we still haven't met our goal yet for donations, but at least we know that two of us can get it if we go. And if you guys give us more monies, maybe more than two can go. Yeah, that'd be amazing. So who's getting them? Do you know what Thunderdome is? Yeah. Okay. It's kind of like Thunderdome. I'm John Rubio. This is so disappointing. And I'm Mike Lambert. Oh, there's Mike Lambert. Yeah, me. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. Awesome. You look good. Thanks. You're welcome. And I'm the humongous. Grant Davis. Good Davis, you are humongous. Thank you. In my eyes and my mouth. No, wait. It happened. You said it. Okay. Oh, guys, guys. What? Harvey's back. Harvey. Hey, I'm back. What up, Harvey? Hey, listeners. How you doing? Oh, geez. And hey, guys here. How you all doing? Good. How are you, man? Great, actually. Awesome. You ready to not talk over people? Yeah. My goal tonight is to try to not talk over people. Okay, don't do it. Don't worry. It won't affect me. Oh, you just interrupted. Fuck. It didn't take. Fuck. I know. Well, it was natural flow of conversation. It's going to happen. That's a good point. At least we're not trying to do a clean show again. Right. Oh, man. That was really difficult. You guys actually tried that? Yeah, we made it like 10 seconds. Yeah. And then, yeah, it was bad. Today, we're doing some beers from Jonathan Murphy. If you remember last episode, we did some beer from Joe Money and then Jonathan Murphy toward the end of the show. This time, this is some of the rest of the beers that Jonathan Murphy sent us in that giant box of beer. If I recall correctly, those were all stellar fresh beers. No, some of them some of them weren't. But I think we have less to worry about with these because three of these are triples. And everything that he gave us, or at least that we're having tonight, is pretty well suited for aging at least these next three. Yeah, I don't know about you guys. I'm actually really excited to try some of these beers. I haven't had any of these beers, actually. Yeah, I've only had two of these, but the other three I have not. All I've had is the pretty things. This is going to be great. I'm hoping so. But before we get to that, I want to get to an email for us. We got a little housekeeping that we do in the beginning of the show. And this email says, "Dear the beerists." That's a good way to start. I have to say that out of all of the podcasts that I listen to every week, you guys are certainly in the top five. I only listen to five of them. He also says, "Alright, we're done with this guy. Next email." But seriously, I'm a whiskey drinker and never really thought to appreciate beer in the same way that I would drink a scotch. After listening to you guys, I learned a lot and all of that has changed. Hope you get the donation and the iTunes 5 star review I did. Now, get your asses to JABF. You guys are doing a great job. One newbie question, how do I get my hands on some of the stuff you guys are drinking? Is there a website I could buy some of these beers from? I live on the East Coast and I can't get stuff like Jester King, DC Brow, or Sweetwater. Bottoms up Andrew from Jersey. And he's got a PS that's almost as long as his email. That says, "This was a very PG-rated email. So fuck shit asshole motherfucker. Please wear your explicit rating on iTunes with pride and play something like fuck the police from NWA or just something else to follow up the smell your dick single you played in a previous episode." Thank you so much, Andrew. We appreciate it. And to answer your question, a lot of people get beers that they don't normally get in their area several different ways. One way is to order something from a website. There's a lot of websites actually that ship beer. I heard recently you can get cante on. Yeah, well, there's some places that ship overseas. You got to pay out your ass to get it. But yeah, you can make that happen. Okay. Yeah, Etragormae does it in Belgium and Belgium in a box, I believe, does that sort of thing too. As far as US beer things, I really don't know that many just because in Texas, it's illegal to buy beer over the internet. Right. Unfortunately. But laws are different from state to state and your state might have a law that allows you to do that. So just do a Google search for beer stores that ship and look at the shipping policies. Have any of you guys done that? I would say that's probably one of the least used methods. Oh man, I used to do that all the time back in the day. Liquid solutions? Oh yeah. Liquid solutions, liquor max. There was a number of different places. South Bay drugs. South Bay drugs is one. Yeah. But TABC sent most of them cease and desist orders. TABC is the Texas alcohol beverage commission. Yeah. Bureau of concept. Whatever. Yeah. Bureau of concept. And sadly, just to note, liquid solutions closed, that was a very sad day. Yeah, it was. They had good age stuff and rare stuff too. I think that you could also make buddies with certain stores that are able to get certain distribution and you might be able to convince them to occasionally order something through their store if you're going to buy directly through them because they have different deals that us normies don't. Yeah. I mean, sometimes you could do that or also might be a little bit more complex. Join beer advocate and get on the trading forums. There's a number of websites that do beer trading. It's a very robust community. Beer advocate, I would say, is probably the most used one that I know for very serious trading. The beer spot. I know that's what I was going to suggest. There's a subreddit for that. Our beer trade, I believe. Yeah. And there's a bunch of ways you could do that. I would just like to throw out too. If you travel, it's a great opportunity. You try beers, throw a couple in your suitcase, pack them well and have a hard suitcase. That's how I got most of my beers. There's a really great resource called seekabrew.com. Seekabrew.com will show you a US map and you can click on any state and see their distribution, what beers they get, and you can also in a fly down menu pick your state and see what the differences are. So if you know a friend who's going to Florida, you could pull up Florida and see what they get that you don't and give them a shopping list. That's really fucking cool. Yeah, it's super cool. I didn't know that existed. And they keep it up to date pretty well. So it's a really good resource. Nice. Yeah. So thank you, Andrew. We appreciate the email. So if you want to send us an email, send it to info@theberests.com. I can't promise you that we'll get to it on the show. But if it's a good question, we'll read it out and we'll discuss it. I want to give a few iTunes shout outs. These people, what they do is they help the show out by leaving five star ratings and writing reviews on iTunes. Seriously, it only takes a second. All of you guys listening who have not rated us yet on iTunes, please go over there. Give us a rating. It helps push us to the front, get us even more listeners and deliver even better content. That's absolutely true. And if you write a review, I can see your name and I'll thank you for it on the show. Like these people, the first iTunes shout out I'm giving is from Little Fat Farmer. Nice. That's probably one of my favorite username so far. And he says that he started listening three weeks ago and it's improved his palette already. So that's very cool. Nice. Thank you, Little Fat Farmer. Farming works out for you. Little Fat Farmer versus Unitard Fan. Unitard Fan was really good. Yeah, there's also the something fairy fairy dust man or whatever. Yeah, that was great. Wolfgang and company, he said a lot of things. I usually just get the gist of what they write in their little reviews, but I'm going to read this whole one out. Wolfgang and company says, no doubt about it. These tards are entertaining and know what they're talking about. If you haven't tried them yet, listen to at least one. And if you don't like it, then there's something obviously wrong with you or you're from Canada. Not saying that Canadians don't like the show. I'm just saying that statistics show that Canadians have a terrible sense of humor. So science has proven that this show is hilarious. I'm not sure what that means, but I love it. It's scientific. It is absolutely. Thank you, Wolfgang and company. Thank you so much. Who's the company? Wolfgang goes out and wraps on stage. They're the guys who just stand behind him and go, you, you better name Wolf and the gang. Yeah, Wolf and the gang. Yeah. His posse. His buddy's Bach and Beethoven. Wow. We also got a donation. As everybody listening, probably already knows, we're trying to get to the JBF and we're asking for money to help us get there. It's in Colorado in October and we need to raise donations. We need to raise some money so that we can all go out there and, you know, hopefully record some stuff over there. Please send us money. It'd be nice if we also don't have to sleep in the alleys. No, yeah. It might be that we'll end up passing out in ditches anyway right during the festival. Hey, there's a really good area in Denver, five points. You should stay there. Okay, I'll look it up. I don't know what that means. Well, you should go there and tell me. Okay, I'll look it up. So if you guys want to help us out with some donations, go to thebearest.com and on the left hand side of the page there's a PayPal donate button. Click it and send us some money. $1,000, that is $1,000. Any amount really works. That'd be awesome. But, arubio, just sending donations. What do they get in return aside from us going to GABF? Okay, so everybody who's donated is in the running to get one of two of these gift boxes we're putting together and they're really, really cool. We're going to pick several beers specifically for you, stuff that is probably hard for you to get in your area. We're actually going to coordinate with the people who we draw out of a hat, the two people we draw out of a hat to get these boxes. Probably going to use Seikabrew. Probably. Yeah. And there's Seikabrew and a magic eight ball and some name generator that we find online. Or just a regular eight ball. Yeah, there's two different gift packs that we were putting together. One of them is for anybody who's donated up to $49.99 and then another elite one for somebody who's donated over $50. If the total amount of money that you've donated is over $50, then you qualify for the drawing for the elite one. What if it's over $1,000? If it's over $1,000, then I'll send you... I think you ought to go out there and really take care of them if you know what I mean. Are you talking about murder? I'm pretty sure you're just thinking something a lot more enjoyable. Talking about murder. But if that's what you're into. I'm not going to come unless somebody gets murdered. I know how that is. Speaking of which, Andrew Messina sent us a donation this week. And it was a really good one. And we really appreciate it. Fuck yeah, Andrew. Yeah, super awesome. He's qualifying for the elite one. Nice. Yeah, he's great. Thank you so much, Andrew. We really appreciate it. And yet elite package, one of the beers that's in that box. What do they get? The West Flights in '12. Nice. Whoa. Which is not the American release, that small release that happened in America, but it's someone they have to go to the monastery in Belgium to get. Nice. So that's pretty cool. Who was there? How'd you get this? I've got my ways. We really appreciate the donations. Please, please, please help us get to the JBF. He's Westy 12. Yeah. Looks like I'm donating shit. Members of the beer podcast are intelligible. What? Wait, what? Okay, you're eligible. No, you're not. No, I would feel bad. I would give it to a listener. You can still donate though. It's cool. Yeah. Let's move on to our beers. Let's do it. I'm really thirsty. The first beer that we're doing tonight is Slumbrue Trekker Triple. And this is a Belgian-style triple made by Somerville Brewing Company. That's who Slumbrue's brand is brewed by. But they're actually brewing at Mercury Brewing Company in Ipswich, Massachusetts. This is 9.5% ABV, 36 IBUs, and it's a rotating release available in bottles and on draft. And it's hopped with Chinook, Matuika. Matuika? Is that right? I don't even know. I've never heard of that hop. No, whatever. And the grains in it are Belgian Pilsen and caramel malts. And they are also using some dried jasmine flowers in there. Ooh. And for the folks listening, this was bottled on, it looks to be March 11th of this year. Oh, nice. Okay. I was going to mention it's interesting dried jasmine flower. You don't see many people using flowers. I've always in my homebrew recipes when I make a wit beer. I always had chamomile. Nice. I think little flowers just really perk up the Belgian yeast, so I'm excited to try this. Yeah, me too. This is a very pretty orange golden color. Not much here. Yeah, it is pretty clear, and there isn't too much. Pilsen or malt usually leaves a lot of head as well, which is one of the reasons you've added. Normally, triples are pretty carbonated. Yeah. I don't know. It's because I've been smelling terrible beers lately, but this one smells really nice. It does smell pretty good. Real perfuming. Yeah, it's the flower. Really nice and caramel-y. Honey? Yeah. I just get so much Belgian out of the nose. It smells to me like a regular triple with just some nuances of the flower and the honey and stuff. Yeah, a little bit of bubblegum, a little bit of clove, white pepper, stuff like that. Yeah, clove and white pepper I get. A little banana-y. Yeah, very slightly. That smells great. The front is weird. I think I need to let this warm up just a little bit more. It's kind of crackery, the taste. Honey crackery makes me think graham crackery. Or like honey grams or something. Honey grams, yeah. There was a strange musty note on the initial taste that I had. It's starting to wash out after the second sip, but yeah, that was weird. Yeah, I get that too. The musty. It's like grape must. But there is a lot of like ginger snappy thing going on that I don't usually associate with triples. I mean, that's not the biggest flavor that I'm getting. Mainly, I'm getting that honey-like graham crackery. There's a floral quality to it and a lot of really interesting spices, but I want to dig more into what those things are. Wine. I was thinking mead and a little bit finuous, like a white wine mead type of subtle flavor. Normally, I don't get this much caramel out of triples. Right. Normally, there's more of those fruity esters going on. This is all right. It is. I mean, it's a tasty beer. I think as a beer, it's really good. I don't think it's really that close to a triple. Yeah, it's an all right American interpretation of a triple. Yeah, it's all right. Honeycomb cereal. That's what it really reminds me of actually. That makes a lot of sense. Anyway, the little honey flavoring on it and pepperiness. Yeah, there's quite a bit of pepper spice there. And like you mentioned earlier, clove, there's quite a bit of that too. The floral quality, I mean, there's a touch of, and it's not even just jasmine, which they actually put into the beer. I really can't nail down what type of flour I'm tasting, but it's not clearly jasmine to me. This doesn't hold a candle to alli-gash triple. No, that to me is probably the best American interpretation of a triple. Well, it's missing a lot of that fullness. It's missing a lot of that body. The carbonation's off. Really? I mean, I can't. For the style. Yeah, I like the level that it's at right now. It's smooth and easily drinkable, but yeah, something is lacking in this. It's almost too watery. Yeah, if I'm judging this as a triple, I would consider this a failure, but just as a beer that I can drink and enjoy, I mean, it's not bad. It's a pretty good tasting beer. Yeah, it's just not really what I'm looking for in a triple. It's not a total failure on the triple, but yeah, you're right. It doesn't hit the mark. Maybe kind of close. It's just, it's interesting. I think the flowery notes and the vineous character, the mead like, I'm kind of actually liking. Yeah, I like it too. Like I said, I'm really happy with the beer by itself as just a beer, but yeah, I mean, it's got the Belgian qualities I want in something that's Belgian-inspired, but it's not really screaming triple with me. It's missing that fruit. It's missing the bigger fruitiesters and the fullness of body and absolutely the carbonation. You know, triples are usually way more highly carbonated, never vested in this. Yeah, the body and the carbonation is where it's off for me. I wish that the jasmine was punched up in the flavor as well. I do too. And I think that that's one of the things that I was most looking forward to in this beer was tasting that jasmine to see how it played with the profile of the triple. You get it lightly in the nose, but yeah, it's not that much in the flavor. I mean, it's more rosy or something. Yeah, something rose-hippy, or rose-headle or something, not really jasmine. The one thing that it's actually doing kind of well is it's 9.5% alcohol. I'm drinking this pretty easy. Yeah, it hides it pretty well. I do get a little bit of burn coming out of my nose when I breathe out, but it's not too much. It doesn't drink like a 9.5%. That's common with triples, I think, are usually a bit boozy, kind of expected in the style. Yeah. Yeah, I don't feel or taste it, but I get the tightening tingling sensation in the bridge of my nose. That's exactly where I get it. That's my Peter Parker sense saying, there's alcohol in this grant. The only way I know that there's alcohol in this is because Mike is also drinking wine. Usually a dead giveaway. Alcohol is his water. Also his medicine. It's got water in it. Mike's never heard the word water. That was, like I said, pretty good beer. I enjoyed it, but yeah, not that great for a triple. Water, Mike, is a beer adjunct. We're going to move on to our next beer. That, like I said, was slumbrue trekker triple. This next one is pretty things white fluffy rabbits. Like the last one, this is a triple, but they actually describe it as some sort of triple. That's what they call it. And this is made by pretty things beer and ale project, and they brew out of Buzzard's Bay brewing in Westport Mass. This is 8.5% ABV, 50 IBUs, and it's a spring seasonal available in bottles and on draft. And it's topped with Amarillo, SaaS, and Styrian Golding. And the grains in the beer are pills and malted wheat. Right away, you can see it's got a significantly improved head. Oh yeah, and it's more cloudy too. This is a cloudy golden. Yeah, the head is just really nice, small bubbles. It looks like it's got a lot more carbonation. And whereas I think the last one was more orange, this is a nice golden color, like what I would expect from a triple. And this smells great. I really didn't see very much sediment at the bottom of the very first one. This one's definitely got yeast in suspension. Whoa, that smells fantastic. Oh, it's gone now. When I first put it to my nose, I got like baby diaper or something. Really? It's like, what the fuck? And then I put it back to my nose and it's gone. I got none of that kind of cardboardy. I thought I smelled something really funky. And now I it's reminiscent, but it's totally gone. That's so weird. Yeah, I'm getting like in the nose, I'm getting a lot of like peach skins, like the outside of a peach. It smells like old macerated fruit. Yeah, but it's kind of creaminess to it and a honey quality, but there's a cereal quality to it. There's a wheat note as well. It doesn't smell like great to me. Really? I'm not getting it. I'm like, what are you smelling over there? I also don't really care for the smell. I don't get the Belgian yeast that I'm expecting. Okay, let's switch glasses. Let's see if it's just your glasses. I was thinking papery cardboardy initially. I mean, I kind of get a very light hint of what you're talking about, but for all, I'm just kind of. Yeah, I switch glasses with Harvey and his smells less strong than mine does, it seems. I was going to say your smells less strong. Really? Weird. They probably just smell exactly the same. Yeah, they probably do. We just flooded our noses with it. Yeah, I could be off or something. Sometimes I find that I need to take a sip or two, though, to wash that other taste off my palate and go back and smell it. I've got a really good tip for listeners, and this is something I picked up studying for BJCP. I should have thought of it and tried this when I first got the off scent. When you get some kind of scent overload and your scent starts to be diminished, smell your shirt. It's not great or anything, but it has a smell and it has a different smell, and it will kind of clear your nose out and just put your arm up, smell your shirt, and then go back to smelling your beer, and it's like a first impression all over again. That's a really good tip. I mean, I'll do that sometimes, too. It's not so good when you're pit-reak, though. Yeah, I was about to say, my shirt smells terrible. Well, you were swimming all day. I get a hint of chlorine. Got that before I'm going swimming. So, have you had a sip of this? This comes off as actually more floral than the last one. And far more hoppy. Yeah, far more hoppy wide a bit. I think it clashes. The hoppiness is definitely out of character, and it really lingers for quite a while. It's just very sharp. One that Amarillo is what I'm getting, I think, like this. Is it the Amarillo that's dragging out? I think it's the Amarillo that's clashing. The sauce is what's hanging on for me. I just want to say real quick that I fucking love what I'm tasting. Sorry. But I really like that big, hoppy hit that I'm getting with this Belgian triple, just because, I mean, this is kind of what I want in a hoppy Belgian beer. It's hitting everything that I want for a Belgian-style triple, for the most part, and hopping the shit out of it. And I'm really digging this quite a lot. I guess it does say some sort of triple, so they're clearly telling us they weren't shooting for the style. Yeah. It's just some sort of kind of close something or other. I'm actually really parcel to the front end of the flavor. The way that it carries with the hoppiness, it's not what I want when I'm going for a triple. But I do like this beer quite a bit. This is a really tasty beer. Yeah. The first hit that I get are the hops. Like, that's the first thing I taste, and it floods my mouth with lots of citrus notes, and there's a grassy and floral quality to those hops as well. That kind of peels back a little bit and turns into like a peach apricot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All those really kind of sweet, creamy stone fruits, like peaches and apricots and stuff like that, nectarines. It has a little bit of that undercurrent of graham cracker. I don't know. I mean, I'm really excited about how much floral quality there is. Now, the end of it is a bit busier than the last beer that we had. Yeah. It's less alcoholic, too. It's 8.5. Yeah, I know, but there's a sharp alcohol at the end, and I think that might be exacerbated by the hops. I don't know. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. And usually, that's also a byproduct of the way it was fermented. You know, if it was right on temperature, typically Belgians are fermented a little hotter, so they tend to be more boozy. Right. So this one might have just been fermented a little hotter. Whatever it is, I'm really liking it. It's pretty dry as well, pretty nice carbonation, good full mouth feel. I dig this. I would say I don't like it, but I will give it respect because topping and highly hopping Belgians is tough. Is it usually clashes and tastes like asshole? This does taste good. It's just not for me. Sure. But I respect it. It's pretty good beer. I would agree with you. I'm not digging this. I'm listening to everything you're saying, and I want to be like, "Yeah, I want to try that beer." It's not necessarily delivering on what you're saying to me. I think that I was already off put by the smell. I thought it smells a little funky. Papery and otherwise bland. It doesn't have that fruity punch that I was kind of hoping for. The hoppiness, I wasn't noticing initially, actually, any sort of brightness to the hoppiness, I guess, in the front. Instead, I kind of get this sad, bitter wash at the end. There is a lot of bitterness. And there's this kind of mix of... Mike ended up saying, "NASA rated fruit." Yeah, it's like rotten fruit, but in a way, I don't want to drink it. I'm just a little thrown off by it. It's not the worst thing in the world, but when you guys are describing it, I want whatever you guys are describing more than what I'm drinking. Well, but here's also the thing is that as I keep drinking it, I'm getting a weird oniony quality from some of the hops you see. Yeah, that's what I was smelling, I think. Now, I'm getting it more. A little bit like when you're drinking a, what is that fucking gin drink, like a martini, but with the onion in it. Gibson, is he a Gibson? What the fuck is it called? I don't remember what it's called. It's like a martini with gin, vermouth, and an onion, as a garnish. Yeah, something like that, oniony. What would that indicate? Resident? Just let J's... I might do something coming from the hops. B.J. guys, I know it's called it. Yeah, the B.J. guy, something. Yeah, I like to get him. You're so awesome. You can call me that. I like to get him. Your lips are so nice. Oniony, I would say maybe aged hops. It could potentially be maybe a strange phenolic. Sphenolics take a wide range of stuff, and they're very common in Belgian beers, so I don't really know. There's certain hops that come off a little oniony. Yeah, the first time I ever got that was from the governor from Oscar Blues. Oh, yeah, we could totally see that. Yeah, that one to me comes off pretty oniony, and it's something with the hops they're using. I'm not sure exactly which hop that is, but something about those hops remind me of onions, and it's almost like a slightly off rotting onion, and I'm getting some of that here, but it's not putting me off. It's just weird. That's the part that's clashing to me. But really, when I think back on some of the episodes that we've done, this is almost what I wanted that Durankier IPA, that Belgian IPA from Durankier Dakota. Oh, the triple X-bito? Yeah, something like that. Yeah. I kind of wanted more of something like this out of that beer, but instead, I got just a bunch of abrasive hops. I mean, this has some of those abrasive hops, because yeah, they're building in a big way, but they're interesting because they're backed up by this triple that I'm really enjoying. Yeah, I totally agree. I think I was just thrown off because it's just some sort of triple, and it's really not. Like you said, it's more like just a hopped Belgian. They just said an experimental hoppy Belgian might probably be going, "This is pretty good." Yeah. Hey, real quick, did you guys notice the chill haze? Yeah. This was like cloudy as fuck when it was poured, and now it's it's clear enough. Yeah. Mine just has a bunch of yeast. It took a last pour. How does that smell compared? You know, yours is a little bit more chalky or something. Probably the beginning or the ending pour or something. Yeah, that reminds me more of mine. Okay. Well, I like that. That's that's a divisive beer, it seems. I dug it. I had this one before. I went on a trip to Boston, and this was when we just started The Bearest, and I was all excited about buying different beers, and I saw the one with a label, and I was like, "Ooh, yeah, I'm getting that." I got this and another beer that we're actually going to drink later in the show. I remember having this, I think I brought it to a tasting a couple months ago, and I think it didn't go over well with anyone. It was like, "It's okay." And then we're like, "Eh, next beer." Yeah. I mean, I dug it. But that was pretty things, white fluffy rabbits, and this next beer is CBC's Triple Threat. It's a Belgian-style triple again by Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Mass. It's 10% ABV, and it's a winter seasonal available in bottles and on draft. And by the way, the last three beers have all been 22 ounce bombers. Fuck, 9.5, 8.5, and now at 10%. Yeah. You're killing me, Smalls. And I'm going to just read the write up. It says CBC was the first American brewery to create and produce a Belgian-style beer, and that was actually according to Michael Jackson, the beer hunter. Oh, wow. I was going to say that's hard to believe, but Michael Jackson, yeah, you got to go with him. He's real good. And it says, "Our triple went on to win our first ever gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 1991 before there was even a category for Belgian Ailes. Triple Threat is fermented with our proprietary Belgian yeast strain, and brewed used imported continental malts, hopped with spault and goldings, and very lightly spiced with freshly toasted and ground coriander. Proceeds from the sale of Triple Threat will benefit research for a cure for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease." Holy shit. What a write-up. I know. I am like fucking stoked to try this. Like, it sounds perfect. They described Triple. It's got Michael Jackson's blessing. It's got a gold medal. It fucking cures cancer or whatever ALS or whatever it is. That's my say. ALS is a cancer. Lou Gehrig's disease is what Lou Gehrig had. Whatever. Weird that they were named the same thing. They wish they had cancer. This is another really golden, almost RNG golden. Completely transparent. Yeah, totally clear. Light head. Very light head. And the beautiful nose. I really like this one. And I just checked the SRM. I'm going to give it a nine. Okay. Fucking BJCP judges with their fucking phone SRM skills. It gives people an idea. They can now look it up and know what color it is. It's true. I get a lot of peach and red apples. I'm not really big on this nose. And booze. I get booze too. There was booze, yes. There was like an ammonia, almost cat pee-like smell. Really? I like the smell. I get the cat pee. But do you guys get a little bit of Band-Aid? Yeah. A little bit, yeah. Or something medicinal. That's definite description of a phenolic. And it's actually acceptable in the Stylabear. I also was thinking lemon tootsie roll a little bit. I can see that slash something laughy taffy and I couldn't exactly figure out what it is. But it really reminds me of a certain laughy taffy I see as a kid and I can't pinpoint it. And we're saying all these things, but the nose is pretty thin for me. There's very little of it, but the stuff that you do smell are just light whisking. I was wanting to just say that. I get such a bigger nose on this than I did at all with the pretty little things. White fluffy rabbits, whatever. Booze is burning the back of my nostrils. Yeah. I get more sense on this one, but I think it's what it's supposed to be. I get Belgian yeast. It smells like a triple, I think. Yeah. And there's still some of those spices. I mean, those are cloves and peppers. They're all subtle. They're all subtle. Yeah. Clothes, spicy, banana. Creamy fruits. I would encourage anybody out there. If you haven't had a good triple, the two best ones, hands down, are St. Bernard's triple and Vestmal. Vestmal is fucking great. Without a doubt. Definitely. Afflegium. New Belgium's triple is really solid and it's easy. It's easy for most of the listeners to get. Allegash triple. Allegash makes a great one. It is a world-class triple. Allegash is incredible. Absolutely. Unibrow. Unibrow. This nose. Unibrow. Oh, well, Lefin Dumond is often considered a triple. The nose on this, though, doesn't stand up like those do. But I haven't tasted it yet. It is a thin nose. It's a thin mouthfeel, too, and a thin flavor. That's really boozy. Wow. It's almost like an Irish whiskey. You know, it's with orange. Yeah. I like it, though. No, it tastes good. I like what it tastes like. I mean, I'm totally in your camp army. We're synced up, Crayon. I'm liking this a lot. I like what it tastes like. No, the flavors are good, but the mouthfeel doesn't feel like triple to me at all. I absolutely agree with you. It is very thin. I'm still digging it, though. I think the mouth feels right on with a triple. You really have this next to a vest mall. Yeah. Well, or a synchronize. Yeah. This is- But no. I don't know. It's maybe a bit thin, but- I got to disagree. I spent the first part of my beer career drinking triples. That was my favorite style. This, to me, is just like, oh, it's- The flavor's okay. It's totally not nailing it on the mouthfeel at all. Like hugely boozy. It should be lush. It should be more than medium-bodied. Yeah, actually, for a triple, this is kind of failing more than the trekker for me, but I'm enjoying it more because it has more flavors of that line. The flavors are way better. The flavors are great. Yeah, I got to agree. The more I'm drinking it, it is really boozy, and it's like I'm drinking some aquanette right here. It's just hairspray riding on now. I didn't notice that at first because I got a lot of the more creamy, fruity aspects, and it felt really rounded to me despite the thinness of the body, but now I'm kind of finding that that's being drowned out by this hairspray alcohol. Yeah, but- But the flavors for me are, like I said, if you get like an Irish whiskey, like a bushmills or something, and you soak a bunch of red delicious apples and some peaches into it, muddle it around with some honey. Yeah, okay. There's more cracker than that in the mix, but that's kind of the flavor profile I'm getting. And there's also a lot of floral qualities too, which are pretty interesting to me. I couldn't tell you what kind of flavors right now. Man, I mean, I think I was really taken by the nose and my first sip, but I'm getting to a point where I want to shit on this more than the last one. No, man. Like two seconds ago, you're like, ah, this is so good. No, no, I was totally in your camp and now I'm drinking. I'm like, oh, this is just off-putting the booziness. I'm starting to sweat alcohol. Yeah, apart from the body, like the body's too thin for what I'm about to say, but it's almost drinking like a 13% beer. It's got a lot more booze than 10% leaves you to believe, but it doesn't have the same body that that sort of beer would have, a 13% beer would have. The booze is disproportionate. Yeah, absolutely. What did we have? The prairie bomb a few weeks ago, that to me drinks easier for what it is than what this is drinking. Oh, yeah, prairie bomb's great. And it's like 14% alcohol. Well, that's also got coffee and sugar and chocolate and delicious, very, very, well, I'm just saying just as a drinking experience, I don't perceive the alcohol as much in that beer as I'm perceiving it in this one. How do you feel about prairie? Do you like those guys? Yeah, to me, I just think that the prairie bomb, you perceive the alcohol less in that beer for what it is as compared to this, where it's completely apparent and very upfront. I totally agree with you, but I also drink a lot of whiskey. There's that part of me too. And that's not, and that's not saying that this is right in this beer. That's just giving me a reason to be okay with it, I guess. But at the same time, the flavors are delicious. This is really a pleasurable, at least in terms of flavors, drinking experience. Yeah. I'd like to say that I decided to go back to the pretty things and I let it warm up, and I thought maybe it was a little hard on it. Oh, no. You're my favorite little heart on Grant. Oh, my God. Yeah, warm hops never a good thing. No, we should take a break. You guys ready for a break? Yes. Yes. Okay. Three triples in a row. Three big triples in a row. Triple triples. Everyone take note of how clear sounding we are right now, because when we come back, I don't know. I've still got, they're so boozy. I've got like half glasses full in front. I'm actually going to leave the rest of this triple threat here for when I come back. I'm going to go downstairs. We'll have a break beer. We'll smoke some cigarettes, pee, whatever. I'm not going to smoke because it dulls your senses. Okay. I'm going to do some push-ups with you on my back. What? Let's take a break. Why? Turn it on. Turn it on. I'm ready to go. We're ahead and I don't know. But I like you. And my role is a song. I have to call. But this time I'm not alone. I'm just like you. And with my role, and I don't think so. And with my role, I don't think so. Let's do this. We're ready to fucking drink more. Are you ready to drink more? I'm ready. Let's do it. I'm ready to drink more, definitely. I am too. We drank some beers during the break before we're not going to talk about because they're super secret beers that we're going to drink next week. Super secret beer. They were good. So tune in next week. Super secret indeed. Yeah. Yeah. Super secret. Super cereal. Is that where you're going now? Are you going to know? Okay, good. I think that's a isn't that in South Park or something? It was. I'm super cereal. I don't know what super cereal is. I'm getting a raging. But I want some with milk. I like milk. We're going to do our next beer. This is CBC Heather ale. And this is by Cambridge Brewing Company again from Cambridge, Massachusetts. 5% ABV and it's a summer seasonal available in bottles and on draft. And this is multiple floor, malted barley. And it also includes fresh harvested Heather flowers, sweet gale, lavender and yarrow. Interesting. That's almost grout like. I don't know what yarrow is. You know, no, right, right. And I'm going to read the description here. From out of the darkness of pre-recorded history, Heather ale is an altogether unique brew, originally crafted by the inhabitants of coastal northern Europe, Scandinavia and the northern British Isles. Fresh Heather flowers and other herbs were used to balance and flavor the rustic yet sweet toasted character of the malted barley. Its brewing tradition existed long before the advent of hopped beers and has continued sporadically in small rural communities for millennia. I've got a fun fact. Heather grown around the world does not have this property, but Heather grown in northern Scotland has a specific type of bacteria that grows on it that is a mild hallucinogen. Nice. And actually more of a stimulant almost, but it just kind of adds to the reputation of grout being a hallucinogen. Right. Back in the day, that's style because they used to throw in all kinds of crazy herbs, but Scottish Heather beers had their own specific extra awesomeness to them. Nice. On the website, it says for pregnant or nursing mothers to avoid this beer because of some of the medicinal values of some of the flowers that are in here. Interesting. Oh, it's very similar to sweet, gale, and yarrow are traditional ingredients in grout. I know we've mentioned that now a couple times. It was a historical ale in Europe that was said to have all kinds of medicinal slash hallucinogenic properties and it came from throwing in every herb they could find very similar to absent. Yeah, nice. Interesting. So this is a murky, almost bronze color. Nice. And it's a little bit hazy. I don't know if it's chill haze or not, but it's holding it's headroom. I love the nose on this. That is really floral. That's crazy smelling. It smells like a bed bath and beyond nightmare. Hark there, sir Rubio. This here beer smells like it hails from a Renfaire. Yarrr. It really does. Yarrr. That's my worst Renfaire. Harvey really wasn't kidding about the head retention. I'm looking at his glass. There's lacing that's going on. I'm looking across the table at Grant's glass. There's a ton of lacing. Oh, we're looking buddy. Yeah. And it smells like, I don't know, you added a bunch of flowers to a sprite or a 7-up, you know, something like that. Flowers and peaches and some pepperiness. All right. I got one more flower story for you guys. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. I get a lot more lavender out of this than I did from that other triple that I have in there. No, the triple that Jasmine. Sorry Jasmine, right? But I'm getting a ton of lavender out of there. Lavender. It's like I've gorded lady lotion into it. Exactly. I hate, I haven't tried the beer yet, so I don't know. But lavender, I brewed a summer, we're quotes, summer beer out of Zimergy magazine a couple years ago with lavender. And I was on this fresh ingredients kick. So I went and got lavender from like an herb shop way stronger apparently than what they were brewing with. And my beer came out tasting like fucking soap. It was disgusting. Wow. Now I pick up lavender in the smallest traces and I can't help but think of that. And every beer gave him diarrhea. Well, I just tasted this and it's not a small trace of lavender. There's a lot of lavender in this. Whoa. Yeah. I like it. I like this too. I actually don't get a lot of lavender in the flavor. I smell it, but I don't get in the flavor. The flavor is like a lemon tart. It's like lavender in a sprite or a 7-up. Yeah. Like there's that lemon lime soda quality going, oh no, I get a lot of lavender on the top. Everything that I can taste across the top of my mouth is lavender. Yeah, especially. Ooh, I get it now. In the head I think. And there's a ton of like wildflower honey toward the end. Just a lot of that toward the finish. I think grand is totally onto something where the carbonation meets the roof of my mouth is where all of the lavender is happening. Mm-hmm. Man, I can't believe the amount of honey I'm getting out of this. It's crazy. That's really interesting. Is there honey in it? It's so rich in honey. No, I don't see honey. No, but it's in there. And honey, I mean, honey is something that ferments all the way out for the most part anytime you put it into a beer. So you don't get a lot of honey flavors. It just kind of increases the alcohol a little bit and dries out the beer. This, I'm tasting the very distinct wildflower honey. It tastes like the honey that we had at the last tasting that we had over here where it was just a ton of honeycomb. The honeycomb? Yeah, yeah. Usually when I have tastings, I have a cheese spread and part of that cheese spread is usually honeycomb. Mm-hmm. There's a really good like cotton candy kind of cool flavor. Okay. Okay. This is a really fucking neat beer. I like it. It is. And there's something almost like grape bubblegum? Yeah. Like how did grape hubba baba or something? That's interesting. So Yarrow, Mike looked it up a second ago, is a flower. Mm-hmm. What the fuck is Sweet Gale? I don't know. I don't know either. Quick. It's like cell phones. It's got a name of a prison roommate, I think. You got a magic phone that tells me all the things. Yo, Sweet Gale. Get on this day. Look at me over the smoke, Sweet Gale. I'll make it with you while. Sweet Gale? Suck on this spoon. Let me get a loosey. Suck on this spoon. Let me get a loosey. This spoon has pudding on it, Sweet Gale. I'm getting on there. Okay. Watch all this. So Mirica Gale is a species of flowering plant in the blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, you just told us a lot. Yep. Totally did. It's another flower. Okay. There's just a ton of flowers in here. Ah, it typically grows in acidic peat bogs. Oh, cool. So there might be something that's tied to that flavor. You know, I'm really impressed by the amount of carbonation on here. There's a lot of it. It's one of those beers that just fills your mouth full of carbonation every time you take a sip, but unlike a lot of other beers, it doesn't seem like it gets in the way of me tasting it. Okay. You guys will totally pick this out once I explain what it is. Are we still talking about Sweet Gale? It is. Yeah. So the foliage has a sweet resonance scent and is a traditional insect repellent used by campers to keep biting insects out of tents. It's also used as a traditional ingredient in royal wedding bouquets and is used variously in perfumery and as a condiment. Okay, cool. I drink deep like all the time. So we know what you're saying. Deep beer. This is a really cool beer. I would actually get this again. I totally drink this again. It's just it's so different than everything else. I'm really sold on the mouth feel on this one. This one's really, it's ever a vessel and it's lively. It just keeps me interested in every single time I go in for another drink. It just reinvigorates my mouth. I'm not used to having such a floral ale that really makes me feel like I'm drinking in the botanical gardens. Yeah, because it's so nice. Most of the times that we have floral beers on this show, it's because of the hops that the those floral qualities are coming out. So there are impressions of flowers, impressions of flowers. And it's a side flavor. I mean, this is straight up. This is straight up flowers. This is flower beer right here. Yeah, the hippiest beer we've had. Now, is it me or would this beer be amazing with like a cochini da bivial? Oh, what did you say? Cochini da bivial is a yucatan style in English. Yes, sir. It's a yucatan style roast pork. It's a slow roast pork with a bunch of citrus and this really earthy spice called anato. I think this beer would go really well with that because you serve it on with some pickled onions. Yeah, some pickled onions like pickled by them. I pickled poblano's today. They were good. Oh, fuck yeah. I don't want to eat something. This is cool. Do you have any cheese? Oh, wait, I do. Yes. Yes. I do. Shit. I'm not going to bring it up though. What? No, we already talked about this. Like the reason we're not eating on the microphone anymore is because it's like, Hey, what do you think of beer? No, no, no, no, because of lip smack and Lambert. No, it's all of us. Did you ruin it for everybody, Lambert? Oh, God. He did. That's what he does. Your lips smacking. That guy has a third lip. Yeah. It's just so many lips. Just like, ever since he was an altar boy when he was eight years old, he got sex with that nun and sex with that nun and it ruined the church for her. I heard it. I heard it was a priest. No. He were there two in one hand. Either way, it was a guy. It was cool. It totally shaped the person that I am now. I don't look like an anger, you know. This beer is a nice orange color. It's still fucking Godhead. Yeah, it really does. The head is not going ahead. That's impressive. This beer is really cool. Just taking a sip of just the head, swish it around your mouth. Yeah, it is just even more brightly floral. I feel like I'm just chewing on petals. This is an exciting beer. Yeah, it works, man. I'm really glad after those last three shitty beers, Jonathan Murphy made us drink. I like those too. Dandelion greens. They sounded interesting. Yes. That's another thing I'm pulling out of this. Oh, yeah. I get it. I don't normally even like flower bears. I already told you the story about the garbage thing I made, but just flowers in general just don't appeal to me. I guess I'm a guy, but this beer is awesome. Yeah, and there's a really light spice to it, something peppery that's underlying everything, but it's just an impression of that. There isn't a bunch of it or anything. It's just a little hint that adds a little bit of interest to the rest of the stuff. And it's slightly drying. Yeah, there's a little bit of a dry note of the very tail end of all of this. I feel like every time I have a beer that we're leaning toward describing more floral, there's always a peppery note. So I feel like those must go hand in hand. Yeah, sometimes, either way, it's working really well with this beer. Yeah, that was the Heather ale from Cambridge Brewing Company. Jonathan Murphy, you totally redeemed yourself. Oh man, that was great. I mean, I thought he redeemed himself with that white fluffy rabbits, but he's still a lot of beer. Yeah, no shit. He didn't have to redeem himself. Like most of the beers that he sent were pretty fucking good. Yeah, Jonathan Murphy, I think you're cool. I did. Yeah. Yes. And we're gonna move on to our next one. Like I said, that was Heather ale from Cambridge Brewing Company. The next one is slumbrew my better half. And that's our last beer for the evening. And this is another slumbrew beer. And this is an imperial cream ale, which sounds really weird to me. I've never had an imperial cream ale. I've had a bunch of creamails, but never an imperial one. And again, this is brewed by Somerville Brewing Company at Mercury Brewing Company in Ipswich, Massachusetts. It's 7.2% ABV, 25 IBUs, and it's a limited seasonal available in bottles and on draft. And it's hopped with cascade, mount hood, and saws. The grain in the beer is two-row pills near caramel, honey molds, and cereal grains. I just watched Harvey pour a bunch of water on his lap. His rinsing his cup in more water is going on to his lap than ever did. We did have three triples and then three break beers. Harvey's also acting out like you. I am not. I would not act. I would not act out. I would never do such a thing. That's a beautiful thing. This beer is completely transparent. Orange highlights, orange amber. Yeah, it's a little bit more copper. I really like copper. So I really like when you tip the glass, how much carbonation chases that edge up. Yeah, that's really cool. It's ready. Smells like huge caramel burnt sugary. So this is an imperial cream ale. How long do you guys say you should generally store this before drinking it? You should drink this one. Not long. Yeah, it's really. Usually people say that about, yeah, hops IPA. Certain other styles definitely too. Even though this is more higher alcohol, it should be more tolerant to age. You still probably want to drink it pretty quick. The bottled-on date for this beer is the first of February of this year. Okay. So it's about five or six months old. Yeah, it's fine. Guys, I can perfectly name what this smells like. What? Kibbles and bits. What? It smells like dog food. Exactly like dog food. I used to open up and feed my dog every day. I think this smells like a wee heavy or something. It smells like a wee heavy. There's a breakfast bread note to this. Yes. The bready note just smells like dog food. Bready. I don't get dog food at all. It's a little bit nutty, but then there's something creamy there, of course. Yeah, I mean, I mainly get stuff like a breakfast bed, like a sweet breakfast bed, or a scone, or something like that. I would like to clarify that when I say dog food, beer is catchphrase, but not in a bad way. Exactly. It smells like a cinnamon. There's a distant cinnamon note. Yeah, I'm getting something that's almost like a pancake. You know, like pancakes with just a touch of like maple or something or maple lasses or something like that. Maple, totally. It's not like a big note, but there's something in there that reminds me of that. There's a sweetness, a huge sweetness to this. Yeah, it smells really good. Marshmallow. You nailed it on that, especially in the flavor. Holy shit. What? Marshmallow? Huge marshmallow. Take a drink, man. I just did. Yeah. It's almost like roast marshmallows or something. Yeah. And some brown sugar. I immediately think yams kind of as well. Yes. Oh, man. Dude. Whoa. Fucking perfect. What? Dude. Yeah. It's like Thanksgiving sweet potatoes with brown sugar and the marshmallows. And I wonder if it's OK, I guess it's not just because we're getting those other flavors. I immediately think that you guys are also tasting yams as well. Yeah. No, I think you're a yam. Good one. I hope that makes it onto the podcast. Reveal, edit it. No, I'll leave that one in. But I do get what you're saying. Absolutely. This would be an amazing base beer for a pumpkin ale. It would, because it already has some of those notes. And some of those spice notes, too, which is interesting to me. It's almost starchy. Yeah. And nutmeg. Nutmeg. Totally. Yeah. Absolutely. And I wouldn't say the other mulling spices. I mean, specifically nutmeg. Yeah. Nice. Good call. Nice. And hazelnut. Catch that. I was going to mention something nutty, but I couldn't put my finger on it, but I think you got it. I think you're on mine. What? Nothing. What? Hey, this is a good beer to end with. For those of you ladies who are out there who need a man, Joe Harvey, $5 a day. Dude, he will clean clean your tubes. I'm not that expensive. Okay. Yeah, he gets paid scale. That's because your pimp takes a cut, dude. Apparently that's rude. Do you not know how the system works? I'm talking to like 12,000 people right now. You guys. Hey, he grows out a great mustache, dude. Wait, they look hard. You don't have a mustache right now, but you can grow it out. You'll be good. I know it's good, right? No, you look good. You look like Archie. It's fine. Check out the picture, ladies and gentlemen, on the website. I'll be in it. Now you will. Yes. This is a good beer, man. I really do like that nuttiness that I'm getting and that hazelnut is there, but there's something peanutty or something also or like peanut buttery almost that's making it less hazel nutty. And I don't know if that's actually peanutty or because I usually do it on like a wheat bread in the toaster. No, I totally get peanut buttery and that's at the end. It's interesting, man. Like, especially when I'm breathing out, I'm like, okay, it's got this peanut buttery breath wash. That's a really interesting beer for me. I have another one of these sitting at home and it's old and when Mike said, oh, you should drink this immediately. I go, shit. I'm really digging this, man. This is really tasty. I'm really enjoying this. Yeah, usually when I have a cream ale, this isn't what I'm expecting. Like, this is an imperial cream ale, so it's pumping up a lot of the flavors that you'd normally get out of a cream ale and making them so much more fucking apparent and aggressive and I'm digging this. So it's 7.2% alcohol. Is anybody really getting alcohol? Is that a byproduct of earlier tonight or just this beer? I might be getting it a little bit, but it's coming off more in the body and I don't know if the alcohol that I'm tasting is more just the little bit of alcohol with the amount of hops it has because it is pretty hoppy. The hops that I'm getting are for a cream ale. Yeah, citrus and grapefruit pith, orange pith, that sort of thing, skins of citruses, but the way it's all working together, I'm really enjoying. I'm really enjoying the hell out of this beer. It's perfect for the end. It really is. It's sweet, interesting, and nothing off, nothing bad. It's just a really nice dessert beer. Yeah, it's better than I thought a imperial cream ale would be. Yeah, because I've never heard of anybody doing an imperial cream ale. Like, I've never either been in a place where somebody says, "Hey, imperial cream ale is happening," or I don't know, there's a style that is maybe just made up for this beer. You know, it was really funny. It's an instrument. It's an high alcohol cream ale. Cream ale, right, right. You were saying like, "Oh, hey, check it out. We've got this imperial cream ale." And the first thought of my mind was, "So fucking what?" Exactly. And this is actually really good. It's very good. Do you guys want to rank? Yes. Yes. I'm in it. Okay, Mike, go for it. I'm doing it. My number one hands down, really interesting, great mouth feel, the Heather ale. I thought that this was a really neat beer and really kind of out of left field for me. I think a lot of people touched on it. There's a lot of beers that give flour-like impressions. This is straight up a flour beer. They really kept it interesting with the mouth feel. Really, really on point. Yeah. My number two is the beer that we're drinking right now, my better half. I thought that this was really interesting. Really kept my interest there, just especially as a imperial cream ale. I'm really enjoying this again as a last beer. My number three was the CBC triple threat. I thought that this one really had the flavor on point, as opposed to the other two triples. That said, the mouth feel to me, still wasn't quite there, but it really redeemed itself in the flavor. My number four was the pretty things, fluffy white rabbits. This was neat. I liked the macerated fruit, and I really liked that musty old fruit flavor thing that it had going on. I could see how it wouldn't be other, you know, somebody else's thing. I thought that that was good. The only detractor that it had was the really bitter wash at the end. Sure. Number five was the slum brew, trekker triple. It's not triple. Wow. I love when descriptions turn into just some weird on amount of heat. This one right along. Hey, guys, so the fruit, man. And then last one, I couldn't tell you how many conversations I've had with Mike that were that. Hey, Mike, how's it going? It's like talking to R2D too. And yeah, somehow you still understand them. You're like, "Oh, okay. Shit, what'd you do about that?" Yeah, no, I'm definitely a Han Solo and Chewbacca. Yeah, his C3 peel, absolutely. Yeah, that's all I know. No, dude, thanks, Mike. I'll go next. I really loved that Heather ale. My number one is that CBC Heather ale. Such a different beer than I'm used to drinking. The floral qualities of that. We're just insane. I mean, they dumped a bunch of flowers into it, but every single one of those, it seemed like you can get. And that base that was really similar to a sprite or seven up, like, I thought, what's so fucking well with that beer? Just a touch of pepper, loved it, loved it, loved it. I would drink that beer, like I said, with a Kochinita PVU. I'd have two more tonight if I had the opportunity. No shit, man. And you could, because it's like 5%. That's a great beer. I just figured out what you were saying. Kochinita PVU. Kochinita PVU. It's on the menu at Taco deli. Yeah, and that's a good one too. Taco deli for all you out there is this awesome place in Austin. Really good tacos. Yeah. You're saying it so fast, I had no idea that was the same thing. Well, because John Harvey, for every one of you that's out there, is a white person, and he barely... You just called me Archie a minute ago. Yeah, but if you went to my hometown, people would be like, "Is that the Messiah?" Like, that's how white you are. My number two... Is my guy out by now? My number two... Sorry for interrupting. No, that's fine. Is slumbrue my better half was my number two? And I've never had an imperial cream meal before. That was badass. Like, I really dug that beer quite a lot. It came off, like I said, almost like a wee heavy in the nose, but then it really opened up into this really great, nutty, amazing thing. I dug the hell out of it. Number three, pretty things, quite fluffy rabbits. I loved how hoppy that was. Yeah, granted I had that weird, unanything going on. But damn, if I didn't like that beer, it was almost like a perfect synthesis of a Belgian IPA and a triple. And I really appreciated that about that beer. Number four, CBC triple threat. I really like the flavors. Yeah, I'm with you, man. The flavors going on in that beer were great. The body was lacking the bit and it was really boozy. And like I said, yeah, there was something that was kind of like an Irish whiskey in that. And it was weird, but I still dug it. Number five, slumbrue trekker triple. I barely remember a thing about it. And that's a problem. It was missing a lot of things that I wanted in the triple. I mean, the flavors were still all right. But I don't know, after having all these other beers, it is really drowned out by the rest of the noise. So that's where I'm at. Harvey, do you want to go next? Yeah, sweet, go. I actually have a tie for number one. Yeah, for number one, because well, I really thought the Heather ale was super fucking impressive. Yeah, blew me out of the water. That beer was amazing. I actually liked the slumbrue, my better half, the cream ale. I liked that beer better. And I just might have a sweet tooth. I thought it was carmaline dessert, like marshmallow and yeah, exactly. That yam note that fucking vamp poured out on me. Like that was great. Wait, what? That was nice, Grant. Yeah, so good. All over you. Anyway, yes, I thought that beer was delicious and a perfect ending to the night. And I really enjoyed the sweetness and different than the rest of the beers. And I really enjoyed it. So those two are tie. They were tied for one. But if I had to pick, I'm putting the cream ale first. Okay, so my number two would then be the Heather ale because that beer was just pretty fucking impressive, man. The use of spices, the balance, the way that everything came off. It was really well done and super interesting. And even though I hate flowers, it wasn't too much for me. So that's my number two. Sweet. My number three, the CBC triple threat. I just thought it had a really good triple flavor. Yeah, it might have been a little bit thin. It might have been a bit boozy. I get that, but it tasted like a triple and it had a good flavor. So, you know, I liked it. It was yum. I thought it was yum. So I did four as the slum brew trekker triple. I know it probably wasn't a very good triple. I kind of enjoyed the mixing up with a little bit of flour in there. You know, it kind of added a honey note and it was kind of neat. Number five, pretty things white fluffy rabbit quote unquote some sort of triple. I don't know. It was nice. It was good, I guess, but the hops just threw me off. They were citrus, a little clashing with the Belgian, whatever. I mean, it was good, but I just think the other beers were on point. And this one was just a little too experimental. So I got to put it last. It wasn't bad. Just last. Yeah, suck it, pretty things. Grant awesome. No, I actually really like that. Grant, you ready? Fuck. Yes, iron. Okay. I feel it would be doing a disservice to this Jonathan Murphy for me to rank these one to five. So I'm going to rank them five to one so that you end on a good note, buddy. Wait, I think it's kind of an underhanded insult. Is that what that was? Because I was because our first half of this show, I was going to say, what the fuck are you doing to us? Number five. Okay. Okay. Number five goes to the triple threat from Cambridge Brewing Company. This reminded me of some college jello shots. That's not a good thing, buddy, because I thought I was eating hairspray. In fact, I just actually let this warm up and I took a sniff of it. It smells like fresh diapers and that's coming from a guy who just had a baby and has to smell diapers every fucking day. It smells like diapers. It's not good. Sometimes we're like, oh, but in a good way. Not this time. Just with just two boozy had some band-aid qualities. I thought very initially that there were some good qualities to it. Otherwise, those all dissipated. As soon as I hit the boos, I was like, gross. No, thank you. Number four goes to pretty things white fluffy rabbits from the pre three whatever the fuck it's place. Okay. This one I described as a magic eyes poster because everyone else is somehow seeing something I'm not seeing because they're all describing, oh, this beer is actually like really complex. It has some great fruity flavors. And meanwhile, I'm drinking this shit. I'm thinking, why does it smell all papery cardboardy gross in the nose? It's kind of bland. It's got this like bitter wash at the end and it's like rotten fruit. I wasn't digging it. Yeah, no, we all saw a schooner and all you could see is all the yellow. Yeah. No, all you could see was all that weird mishmash pattern of misery. I was going to say that we all saw like a schooner and all grand can see it was all that weird black shit on Morgan Freeman's face. Wait, here's a question. Here's a question. Sorry, speaking of Morgan Freeman's face, God, is do you think that all the stuff that's on Morgan Freeman's face is all the same stuff that's missing from seal space? They fit together like Lego bricks. Okay, go. It found it found a better voice and it jumped at you. Sorry, sorry, go. All right. Number three is the slumbrue trekker triple. Imagine that you're promised dry jasmine flowers. Yes. And this is what you're expecting in the flavor for this beer. Oh, yeah. And then what you get is a pile of shit. Actually, I thought he's still gone. I still thought this one can't taste like some honeycomb cereal, which is a okay with me because with shit, I look, I take back the shit. I was just being dramatic. Okay, but you like number three? Okay. I thought it was all right. Okay. I thought that it's noses promising things that it's mouthless and delivering. And I've dated so many of those girls. Anything I would follow up that was terrible kids. Yeah, it's just a little bit disappointing. Number two, I went with a slumbrue, my better half. Boom. And I still have to maintain this. Smells like kibbles and bets. Anyone who has a dog buy kibbles and bets for your dog, smell that and smell this beer. It smells just like what are you talking about? Not in a bad way. No, yeah, I need to say that it wasn't in a bad way. But seriously, I would like to say right now, I don't know what the fuck that is even about it. No kibbles and bets. I mean, you're in the dog house. You'll find out. This is Grant's review. So yeah, great proceed. I figured out the food that wouldn't be the same thing as drinking this beer. Take some peanut butter crackers, marshmallow and yam and put it in between. And that is what this beer is. It tastes like a liquid form of that. It's like Thanksgiving pre-game. That sounds actually good. That just sounds delicious. It's pretty good. Nice. Yeah, cinnamon. I actually drank that all the way down. I didn't pour it out like the other three. Number one, of course, goes to the Heather Ale, also from Cambridge Brewing Company. Seriously, it was just walking through flowers. I felt like I was eating drinking rather a Flemish painting or something. Yeah. Everything was so vibrantly richly floral and botanical gardens. Everything punched me in the nose and in the mouth. And it was just magically wonderful. It was such a good beer. And this one is the one I'll walk away from saying, that's the reason I do this show. That and the wonderful comments from you guys calling me a badger or whatever else you're going to say. Badger. When you look at my pictures and you look on it, it was a different one. Yeah, fuck you Reddit. No, you guys on Reddit, dicks. The best thing is like, fuck you Reddit and all of us are Redditors. I'm a huge Redditor. Honestly, what I'd like to end on is thanks again, Jonathan Murphy, because you sent us a bunch of beers to try and you must have known you sent it to people who are going to bitch and complain occasionally and also throw you under the bus. Yeah, not all of it. Overall, overall, we love you. We really do appreciate you sending us taking the time to send us beer, spending your money on us. And we're very undeserving and very gracious about it. Here here, here here to Jonathan Murphy. Jonathan Murphy, thank you so much. This was, I had a bunch of beers that you sent me that I've never had before, never heard of that I loved. So you did a great job. Thank you so fucking much. And thank all of you for being here. Mike Lambert. Hey, it's me. Yes. It is you. I'm self-actualized and drunk. Oh my god. He's here in the flesh, everybody. He's Skynet that just became self-aware. With beer. With drunk Skynet, Will Sleepon, drunk Robocouch. Yeah, the moment might become self-aware. Everybody needs to just lock their mouth. Everybody should go indoors. Yeah, really. Grant, thank you. Hey, thanks for having me. Fuck yeah, anytime. I mean, because you're a part of the show. Oh, okay. I'm going to show up next week, then. Good. Sweet. Give a massive hug, buddy. Can I come back? Yeah. Yeah, you too. Yeah, yeah. You guys are all part of the show. Yeah, I don't know about you, Harvey. Thank you so much for being here and not talking over everybody. I tried. No, you did a great job. You know, let's give a round of applause. Hey, it quite happened, but you know, there's conversational ability, et cetera, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. I had a great time. Thanks for having me, and you guys are the best. Thank you. I wish everybody could know you in real life, because you're all such great people. I love you, too, man. I love you, man. We get together all the time. We drank together, and it's what the fuck? What the fuck? Sappy juice. Did you get? Hey, because I said Sappy juice. It's called alcohol. Have you ever tried it? It's called alcohol. I'm pretty sure he's tried a lot of it. Look at him. He looks like a fan Morris on a bad day. Oh, my God. I'm in no control of my emotions. Thank everybody for listening. You guys have been great, super supportive. Please remember to keep donating to us so you can help us go to GABF, even if you just got $10 from your grandmother and a birthday card. Send that our way. We'll make better use of it than you guys probably will. You're just going to spend it on listening to shitty podcasts, and please remember to rate us on iTunes. Yes. Rate us on our terms. 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