Hey folks, just one thing before we get started on this week's episode, what you're about to hear is an episode we did as a stunt to raise money to get to the Great American Beer Festival. It involved voting for one of four horrible show topics. 1. A malt liquor show. 2. Crap we drank in our teen years. 3. Malt beverages. And 4. Mexican import beers. If you're a new listener, this is not a good representation of what our show normally is. The craft beer tasting show which features a wealth of beers from small artisanal breweries from all over the world. This episode, however, is one where we taste a bunch of bullshit on purpose for money. So if this is your first time listening, check out any one of our other fine episodes like the gooza show or the hill farms that episode that we did several months ago or our fascinating interview with the folks at Jester King or really just any other one. This one is a nightmare we'll try to forget that ever happened. With that, let's get to it. Episode 56 of the Beerists Podcast recorded on April 19th, 2013, our one year anniversary show. Fiesta Mexicana! Hey, did you guys ring the dumb bucket? My mom is not the dumb bucket anymore, that was just a high school thing, she preservied over that. Your mom's a nice lady. But seriously, where is the dumb bucket? Who has ever dumped out a fine Mexican import? The dumb bucket is called your mouth. I guess it is. We will be drinking every single ounce of beer that has poured for us tonight. Why are we doing Mexican imports on a craft beer? Because my listeners are stupid and they suck. Wait, okay, let me just introduce everybody first. We have a full house tonight. I'm John Rubio, and joining us today. Anastasia, I'm not Mexican, Kelly. We also have here with us Mike Lambert. And Steve Bueno. Yeah. And then we've got the sisters here. Yeah, the Giggle Sisters. I can't say this. Brian? Never calls the Giggle Sisters, asshole. I will not. I'll make you a record. We're the brawny, hard laughing men over here. Let's have a stout. So we're doing a Mexican import show because for our one-year anniversary show, we decided to leave it up to the listeners to dictate what we did. We had four different options that we presented our listeners to to vote for. And it was tied to a donation that helped support us getting to the JABF. So it was a ploy. It was a fundraising event, right? And the four options were, hey, do you want us to do malt liquor show number two, a Mexican import show, stuff we drank in our teen years, or malt beverages like Chilata and Forloco. And neck and neck for a long time. It was our teen years show and the Mexican import show. And at the very end, we got another donation and it pushed the Mexican import show into being what we're going to record. Since when does the Mexican beer establishment have like a lobby? Like, what the fuck, man? I'm impressed. Yeah, it's powerful. Yeah, I have no idea why so many people wanted to hear this show. But here it is. Puck you because they suck. Anastasia doesn't suck because she brought 14 Mexican beers for us to drink. And we're going to do all of them. Damn. But, you know, researching this show would have been a Herculean effort for Anastasia. So we're not, we didn't research anything. Hey, we can make up our own facts about each of these beers. Yes, we can. Grant is going to read all the labels and hopefully they're all in Spanish. I'm illiterate. Yeah, we're doing this Mexican import show, but first we're going to get to our emails because we have a few. And does it really matter which one we do first? Yes. All right. I'm out of it. Our first email says, "Dear John Grant Anastasia Mike and Ryan." Oh, I like this guy. I know. Congratulations for a year of doing your award-winning podcast. I absolutely love listening to it on relaxing weekend drives or while cooking. Every time I listen, it makes me want to go to my local beer store or crack open a bomber for my stash. So onto my question. In relation to your hopeful trip to the Great American Beer Festival, how far have you traveled to sample one incredible limited edition beer that is not so widespread? I'm thinking of taking the trip to DC on May 1st because DC Brow will be releasing their limited edition double IPA on the wings of Armageddon. I hear nothing but positives about this beer and it's only second to heady topper. So for the rarest beer, I've had that required a trip was a tear up and left hand collaboration beer called Midnight Death Charge, which was actually really good. But that only required an hour long trip to the pub. Anyway, thank you for all the shows and someday I hope to treat you all to the amazing craft beer community growing in Virginia, Scott P.J. The longest I've ever gone for a beer, I guess it was the Dark Lord Day trip. Yeah, why don't I call that incredible? Well, the beer wasn't that incredible, but the trip sure fucking was. Yes. You know, for me, I haven't really traveled so far out of the state for anything necessarily beer-related. Just I guess the New Orleans trip that we took Zwanza day. Yeah, that was a six and a half hour road trip. I've been to GABF before and they have all sorts of limited beers, but it wasn't for anything specific. Right. So I would say that the Zwanza day, when I went to San Francisco, I broke apart from my friends in order to walk, I'd say about 35 blocks, about a 45 minute walk so that I could go try playing the elder on tap. Worth it. It was. What about you Ryan? Yeah, I've never really gone anywhere specifically for beer. I found myself a number of times in San Francisco for plenty of the younger release, but they've always just been coincidental. So it's been cool. Right. And I've done GABF, which again, kind of like Mike, it's it, so maybe 45 minute drive to free tale. Yeah. Okay. That's like behind my usual programmer just for a beer. No, that's cool. And there's another one coming up real soon. So I'm fucking excited about that. Thanks, Scott. We really appreciate the email. The prof in Cleveland says, "Dear beerists, it's been great listening to you for the fast few months and learning about craft brews. I started with a nitro milk stop from left hand and got a return for once from the feds. Oh, yeah. I switched to Tugabaga Red Ale from Cigar City for the first state tax form and boom, another refund. What is happening? And then I went to the Sam Adams Alpine Spring for the other state form I have to do, damn my own, but not much. I liked hearing the accessible seasonals episode. I travel a lot and it's been great looking around for the regional stuff. But I hope you do an accessible show for every season from now on. I think that's a good idea. We should probably do that. I know you have to mix it up and one drinker's rarity is another drinker's home brew. I'll be checking out the brew kettle here in Cleveland. Thanks to you. Oh, good. The brew kettle is awesome. It's so freaking good. Yeah. All right. What the fuck? Two years ago when I went to JABF, they were the absolute standout brewery in my opinion. That white Raja is just, yeah, it's killer. The most underrated best IPA in the country. Yeah. So it says, "Next stop New York for the summer and fresh southern tier in Omegang. Bottoms up, bottoms down, drinks all around." Whoa, whoa. The prof in Cleveland. I like his sign off better than ours. I thought you were going to start rapping or something. No. Bottoms up, bottoms down, and drinks all the way out. Yeah, this is a Mexican show. I might do the, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. That thing? You already did it. Oh, shit. Okay. Well, thank you guys for the emails. Well, info@theberests.com. Send us a question. We'll gladly answer it on the show, hopefully. Up next. Donations. Money. Yes. We got some donations. A lot of them came in for this show, so I want to thank, good old Nate Bliss, man. Good bliss. Love that guy. He says he's perpetually 10 episodes behind listening to us. Dude, Nate, me too, don't worry about it. Dale Martin, Steven Gonzales from Stone sent us some money. Whoa, whoa. Can we advertise that? Money, he didn't send us money from Stone Murray. He did it for himself. He's a really nice guy. Jeremy Perry, Andy Hampton, Joe Money. That's not a real name. Boom, Joe Money. Megan LeMont, Scott Johnson, and Timothy Fries all sent us money this week. Thank you guys so, so much. You guys are awesome. What's our next fundraiser, Kennedy? Well, I'm actually going to put a little prize together. Everybody who's ever donated is going to be eligible to get a prize. And I'm going to announce what that prize is in the next couple of weeks. But it'll be awesome and delicious. So I say we do a fundraiser where everyone who donates a certain amount of money, we will chug a beard of their choosing on a video. And we'll do all of this in one day. So that's a terrible idea. Sounds good to me. 20 minute. What? 20 minute. Okay. Well, we'll consider that. But it goes chilly big. Fuck. That's a terrible idea. Thank you guys for your donations. Everybody else wants to send a donation to help get us to the Great American Beer Festival in October. Go to our website, thebearest.com, on the left hand side of the page, there's a PayPal donate link. You can use PayPal or credit cards and send us a bit of money and support the show. I cannot tell you how thankful I am for you guys. Thanks guys. We really appreciate it. Okay. So we're doing a Mexican beer show. And I think Mike is already ahead. And he poured the first beer, which was what? Uh, Victoria, does it fucking matter? Fuck. Really nice bottle is painted on there. I think by hand, probably it's not that expensive in Mexico to do that. But our first beer is Victoria from Morello actually, Cervais de Abodello. But this is brewed and bottled in Mexico City and imported by Crown Imports in Chicago. That's all the information that it's got on here. Victoria was produced for the first time in 1865. The brewery and brand were acquired by Groupo Madello in 1935 by making Victoria, Mexico's oldest beer brand. Victoria has been brewed consistently as a Vienna-style lager for 145 years and is brewed and bottled in Mexico by Groupo Madello, Mexico's largest brewery operating in seven state-of-the-art breweries throughout Mexico. Who gave Grant Lorenzo's oil? Holy shit. He just peped right up. Wow. We have to make him read the emails at the start. No shit. But checking this beer on the light, this Victoria. It's clear, dark, golden, yeah. Pretty much. Very little. Oh, it is so pretty. I got it down my boobs. I got excited. Now we're all excited. There's our dump bucket. Yeah, smelling this beer, it is a little bit serially. They don't smell anything. It's a little sugary, little corny. It's very light aroma. I almost smell no hops. There's a slight apple-y quality there to it. Taking a sip, it tastes kind of like scented water. There's really not much of a flavor to this at all. There's barely any flavor. It's just-- There's like maybe slight touch of apple. Yeah. Yeah. It's almost like an apple soda with a bit of hops in them. It's got a diacetyl. I think that would be a little bit. A little bit of buttery diacetyl. Yeah. I mean, it's not bad, but it's not good. Man. I would never imagine dumping this in a bucket though. It's a terrible life. [LAUGHTER] Oh, man. Yeah. I mean, I have a feeling this is going to be our review for all of these. Yeah, this is going to be a riveting episode. Hey, we could just cut and paste all of the rest of the episodes. I like how for the year anniversary show, the beer versus really bringing it back to styles. Last week they did goozes. This week they're like, oh, we're doing Mexican beer. Hey, Ryan, you want to come on? [LAUGHTER] If there's-- We really love to have you here, we've got to split some of these mirrors up. OK. So this beer isn't that bad, right? It's like apple juice. Yeah. It's super non-offensive. There's nothing really off about it. There's a touch of diacetyl, but eh, it's not that good. It's not that good. I think you can't leave a non-pleasant aftertaste in my mouth. It makes me just want to keep drinking, to keep washing. Well, yeah, I mean, that's where it gets you, I guess. I'd rather have this in a Budweiser. Absolutely. Whoa, geez, we went through that quick, huh? Yeah, so we're moving on to our next beer. Like we said, that one was Victoria. This next one is Indio. I know nothing about this beer. Mike is still pouring it, and he has the bottle in his hand, so I cannot read from it. Supposedly, it's labeled on beer etiquette as a Mars in slash Ocuprofestile beer, brewed by SurveySeria, Kwahetekmok. Nailed it. That's exactly what it says on the bottle. Oh, really? No. It actually doesn't say anything. Can Grant be the new beer's linguist? Yes. Thank you. But it's a pretty cool-looking bottle with a crazy Aztec warrior on it. Yeah. It does say beer on it. Yeah. It's hilarious to me. And this one is a pretty-- Oh my god, ABV. Yeah, it's a rich amber, sort of a little bit darker. Yeah. And it's another, clear filter. The transparent lager. It has a little bit of a stronger aroma. Yes. A little bit more malt-y. Yeah, the malts that I'm getting here are pretty nice, actually, in the nose. Slightly caramel-y. Oh, milk cookies. Yeah. Yeah, but maybe not as rich as that. Oh, right. There's a fruit quality there, too. Maybe, again, a little bit apple-y, but the caramel nuts that I'm getting off of this are much nicer than that. It's like an imperial Victoria. Isn't it? Yeah, I'm really glad we're having this one second to the Victoria. Probably wouldn't be able to taste the Victoria at all after this. This is so big. Oh, yeah. But you know what? I did just take a sip of this, and it's actually not bad. I actually kind of like this one. It is like an Oktoberfest. I mean, I'd be interested to have this go head to head with other Oktoberfest beers we had in our episode, because I don't know if it would do that well. I think it might do better than a couple of the ones that we had that day. That light struck one. Oh, do you guys remember Oktoberfest? That was really good. Yeah. It was called Oktoberfest. Yeah, it was better than Oktoberfest. Yeah. But not better than Oktoberfest. Yeah, I concur. Beyond the flavor, this has got a lot more malt. It almost tastes like there's a kettle caramelization that happened there. Yeah. You know, there's a really nice caramel-y quality. Mm-hmm. I mean, it does say that they use caramel malt on the bottle. Mm-hmm. But it's nice. I mean, it's not bad. It's not offensive. This doesn't have any of the off-labor that the Victoria had. It doesn't have any of the diacetyl, I don't think. So it might be trying to make a little bit more of an effort, I guess. Maybe. Hooray. In SEO. This is pretty good. I know. I can absolutely sit down and throw back three of these by watching a football game or... Easy. Sitting outside of barbecue. Yeah. I'm very surprised by this one. I've never had it before. Wow. It's all downhill from here. I know. I want to say it recently came to Texas or came back to Texas. Yeah. And this isn't one that I'm going to go out of my way to get. if somebody hands me one at a party, I'll drink it. It's not bad. I'll move in on to our next one. Here we go. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- Yeah, I think we're going to eat just like some music in the background. The whole thing is just going to have, huh? So that beer, that happened next. Oh, man. What is this next one? Well, our next beer is fucking ticote. Oh shit, guys. This beer was my bread and butter. River beer? Yeah. It's like the hipster Mexican beer. Oh no. It's like it's definitely the PBR of Mexico. See, I guess. Whatever. I don't know how to say whatever in a Spaniel. Hell, whatever. Oh, yeah. Nice. Nailed it. So this bottle of ticote on the bottle, since we didn't know research, it says Savo Arcon character. It's imported. It says bread and butter in Monterrey, Mexico. And it's imported all the way in White Plains, New York for some reason. imported by Cervaisas and Mexicanas. White Plains, New York also. See, see, New York. Yeah, these were brewed in the same place. Okay. So this is a transparent Pilsner like. It's a shade more yellow than water. Yeah. So light. It's like pastel yellow. Ticote and Ticote light, our popular pale lagers named after the city of Ticote, Baja, California, where they were first produced in 1943. Originally brewed by a local company, Ticote was acquired by Quate maktezuma. In 1955, Ticote is sold in both distinctive red aluminum cans and in twist top bottles. Ticote light was launched in 1992 by Hector Emilio Aliella, who realized the other project manager. That's really not actually that interesting. It was nice. No, it was worth the pronunciation of mister name. Yeah, really expecting you to go somewhere. And it didn't. It really didn't. Okay, so slightly grassy in the smell. Yeah. Yeah, what little smell there is. It's a little bit a uriny. Like metallic or rusty tin or something. Yeah. All of those things are true. So I said this was my bread and butter because I used to go on. Oh, man, that's really delicious. What's that? No dump bucket. There's no dump bucket. We got to choke this. Oh, I'll say what bitch. I went camping out in the desert for a study abroad program when I was in my senior year of college. Actually, look. What we drank the entire time was Ticote because it was the cheapest beer. And you can drink this shit warm and it doesn't really matter. The taste doesn't improve. It doesn't decrease. It just tastes. Can I get salt and a lime? Like no. Yeah, it's like just corn and weird tinny aftertaste. Yeah, this was not good. Yeah, I just saw Mike while Grant was talking, chug the entire glass that he had just to get through it. Like his nose. It's like crying. I'm thinking of his own bike hasn't even said a thing about this beer. Other than, oh, and then he downed it. There's a touch of acid aldehyde in there. Yeah, a little bit. Maybe more than just a touch. Yeah, there's a weird green apple quality that is seen aldehyde and there's that grassiness and it's super light. But it ends with tin and claro. Yeah. It's got corn in it. Yeah, too. The corny. Oh, that's not good. Oh, no. Oh, fuck. It's got this corn syrup quality in your mouth, but with very little of that sweetness. Why is it lingering as long as it is? I don't care. Leave our mouth. I'm going to the next one. Oh, God. All right. All right. Why do our listeners hate us? Put the next one in their place. Oh, wow. Now we're going to open up the doseki's lager especial. I'm not looking forward to this right after that fucking ticote. I'm sure this is a real special lager. I mean, anything being poured from a green bottle, you know, it's special. Oh, those equis. What you see so many people drinking here in Texas when they're trying to have an imported beer. Why are we doing this? Somebody pay this. For money. Pure prostitution. The store is still open. I'm sure we could grab some other beers before midnight. But 14. Oh, man. Yeah, we were on. I'm not even four now. Yeah. Oh, shit. Okay. So this looks exactly like the last one. It's very pale, very, very light, just a bit more head. The nose is better. Yeah. If you like egg yolks, it smells not all too dissimilar to me. Oh, this just smells like it's going to hurt. It smells like corn and sulfur and something grainy and something corny. It doesn't taste as light struck. I'll say it smells like biscuit batter or something. Oh, this is terrible. I want to don't bucket. This is bullshit. This is really offensive in a totally different way. Wait, a credit to the whippin where Anastasia bought these beers. This green bottle is not light struck at all. There's no skunk on this, which is amazing to me. So you can really taste all the other shitty quality. Exactly. It just washes over your mouth and it's like sewage water or something. It's just terrible. You usually have this beer with a lime. In fact, you usually have a lime with a little splash of this beer and that's maybe a little bit better. It's a really light beer. There's a little grassiness again there. A corn quality happens and then it's dishwater. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. It feels like it too. It feels real slick going around your mouth. Yeah, it's almost slimy and it's slimy and then it dries your mouth out after that. It's really weird. It's fucking delicious through junk. Okay, let's get through this. Open those throats. Honestly, I'll tell you guys what, knocking it back and chugging it. Not only did it have some nostalgic moment for me, but it was better in a way. It's like these beers are meant to not be tasted. They're meant to just be thrown into your body until you are shit-faced. Going off of that, we haven't talked about the controversy with, "Do you add the lime? Do you not add the lime?" Who gives a fuck? This, you need it. I really feel like that's why you do that with these beers. The dusac is? Yeah. Man, the most interesting man in the world sucks. He's interesting because he keeps drinking all this shit. Dude, why are you doing that? Why are you doing that to yourself? He won't tell me. That's so fucking interesting. Here's the bottle. So the next beer is dusac is amber. And it's in a brown bottle, by the way. It is. That's amazing. It says crafted in Mexico since 1897 to commemorate the arrival of the 20th century. Wait, is that the vintage of the last two? Okay, let's look at this beer first. I smelled it. I shouldn't have. It's an amber. Completely clear. Nice head. It's a very pretty looking beer. Goddamn, it stinks. So I shouldn't have said that the last four beers we've had have all been brewed and bottled by Chocacac-maul-maul-kiachizuma. What the fuck? You heard it. These are all owned by the same company. Right. So it is a bit more malty on the nose. But I'm still getting a little bit of that fucking sulfur. It smells like erasers. Yeah, right? Something like that. It's cardboard a little. But there is a nice malt quality there as well. I mean, it's not just all of that bad shit. This smells like it's got some decent malt in it. I'm going to come out and say that it's not terrible. Yeah, it's the least offensive of the last three. This is actually okay. I'm going to savor this for a second, I think. It's called Stockholm syndrome. It tastes like oranges. So we're hiding it. Growing to love it. It has the same sort of mouth feel as the dishwater without necessarily that flavor. Yeah, it's also got a little bit of that caramel-y quality, a little bit, something kind of burnt, lightly burnt. You know, you're getting classy, though, and you step up from like the green bottles and you get to the darker, bigger dose that case. Oh, yeah, we're about to take a nosedive in the next couple of beers. See, part of me is happy that modello especial is up next. And then the other part of me, the Torefi, is that it's in a fucking clear bottle. Oh, fuck. So it's so- It has a really nice gold tin foil over the- Oh, yeah, man, it's quality. That's really beautiful. It's almost as nice that hand-painted Victoria we saw earlier. Yeah, right. I actually always thought modello was a really fancy beer because of that. It's not? Well, when we would always have the Bud lights and Budweiser's and Budice back in high school, these were the classy fancy beers that no one bought. And it was like, if you had that, you're like, wow, look at you. Okay, before we move on to the next one, I just have another thing to say about this goseki's amber. When I got toward the end of my few ounces that I was drinking, it did really take on this corn syrup quality that is just sticking around in my mouth in a very bad way. So it started out- So like a Metalliki, too? Yeah, and it started out really nice. And that's kind of a bummer that it took that turn for me. Did anybody else smell pot when I opened up this modello? No, I smelled it. It's the skunk you came in. It's the skunk. Yeah, but you're sweating a little bit more. Okay, so the next beer that Mike opened up is the modello especiado. And he's pouring it from a crystal clear bottle. Hooray. And it smells- It's like a fine goos or something. Maybe we all get lucky and it's soured or something. Oh, God, I smelled it. You smell it. It smells exactly like weed. Yeah, okay, wait, wait, wait. Let's look at this. The beer is really- This beer is really light yellow and it's got a little bit of head. Oh, man. But it stinks like skunk and pot. It smells like swag that was probably on the truck that delivered- It smells like fresh leather and magic markers to me. What? Have you ever smelled the skunk? Yeah, I can't but then it just pops in there to get skunk this bad. Yeah, no kidding. It smells like a skunk and I reminded of running my dog with tomato juice every time you guys skunk. Oh, God, this stinks so bad. I'm so afraid of drinking this. I smell some fresh-cut grass. Anastasia, if you can open up your cleavage, I think everyone needs to pour this into the dump bucket. You know, if you hit a skunk with your car after a long day of smoking weed, but you do it in a really nice grassy field, that's kind of what this smells like. So if you have a really nice grassy field- If you shake it a bit and let it air out, it kind of goes away. It doesn't- It doesn't! All that's doing is exposing more of the liquid to the air and I smell it more. This is just awful skunk. This is gone. Guys, we all need to do this. Ready? Yeah, let's taste this. One, two, go! I couldn't do it. No one could. I can't get it. I'm out of here. No, that is no good. No, that's just like drinking pure skunk juice. So normally when I have modello, it's in a can. The modello especiata? Yeah, the modello especiata is normally when I have it in a can. Normally when this beer is not light-struck, I would say that it would be just as good as some of the better ones that we've had. And I've had it when it wasn't light-struck from a can and it's actually a pretty good beer. This, however, right now is the worst thing I've had in months. If- Why do you package in clear bottles? Why do you do that? I think that the content is worse. You guys are welcome because I'm very serious. I picked all bottles and I purposely didn't get any cans. Why? Because I wanted you to suffer. You're in like a hooch with the listeners and shit? That's fucked. Ryan is saying that he likes this more than you like the tecate. Yeah. Even as skunked as it is. I kind of like the skunky smell. It's not- Yeah, it's not off-putting to me. That is very, very off-putting to me. That is horrifying to me. It just tastes like grassy water. It's like two ounces. I got a drink of this shit. I'm just going to do it. This reminds me of years and years and years ago when I was a young kid and I used to smoke weed. You get the back from the dealer and you'd open it up and you just take a big whiff. It reminds me of my childhood. It tastes like grassy topo chico. No, you're denigrating topo chico in the worst way. This is awful. You have a brain tumor. It doesn't have the acid out of it. It doesn't have the diacetyl. No, it doesn't have any of those things. I'm just you and I are on the same page, Ryan. Mike, I don't know why I'm even doing this, but please, pour that other beer in so I can have something else in my mouth. Yeah, I know. I know. Oh, I'm still savoring mine over here. Why? To make you suffer. So our last beer for the first half? You savored that. What is it? This is Bohemia. Oh, it's a Bohemia. Okay. Bohemia, as you guys might know, is from Bohemia. Okay, so Grant knows nothing about this one. Like, like all of us. So Bohemia, Bruton bottled at Cerviseria, but it's the same place. It's the fucking same place. All these beers are for the same place, except for the Victoria. It's all the same shit with different labeling and silver foil on top. Yeah, with different levels of corn syrup and skunkiness. Apparently, in all Mexico, there's one brewery making a shit ton of nasty beer. Conspiracy. So this, again, very, very light yellow, very little head and smelling it. Smells like soap. Yeah. I think this one actually smells a little bit better. Tell me how you feel about it. There's no way that you think that this one smells worse than the one that we just fucking had. No, they're all catching up to me. Ryan and Anastasia are trolling us right now. Okay, so I am smelling a little bit of fruit, a little bit of grass. But very much soap. It's like just washing soap. Yeah, there's a lot of soap in the nose. To me, this is completely different than any of the other beers that we've had so far. Oh, I think there's a lot of fruit in here. I'm not necessarily picking up on the soap as much. There's a difference, I think, in the yeast that they're using here, because there's definitely some fruity qualities in the flavor. Yeah, this isn't bad. There's very little flavor here. It smells like lychee to me. Yes. It smells dead on lychee. You're right. You're absolutely right. But I'm getting some noble hop, a little bit of that, grassy, somewhat bitter hop. But it's very, very, very little of it there. And the fruit doesn't really carry very much into the flavor. The flavor's so fucking subdued and just grassy. Yeah, it's kind of like a little spicy noble hop. I can't believe we're trying to do all this so seriously. Why don't we just have a beer bong out? And we're just ripping all of these for a while. Well, this one's legitimately good out of the seven we've had. This one's not bad. I'm not, if they are using any adjuncts in this, I'm not really tasting very much. It's not a corn bomb like some of the other ones that we've had. I like this one. It just smells like dishwashing to drink shit to me. My body has this natural reflex to say, no, don't put that in me. Stop. I used to drink a lot of dove. I love dove chocolates. I can't drink anymore. Really? This is our last one before the break. Yeah, I know we're only halfway through. And then seven more. I know. Hey, all seven. The next seven are going to be really good. I'm pretty sure. If I know Rubio, he holds out the good stuff till the end. Oh, yeah, we've got Corona and Corona light just after the break. I know. And soul and Pacifico. Oh, no, I know. This is going to be hard. I want to go home. All of those coming clear bottles for your enjoyment. Oh, yeah. Fuck. You know, I am, though, glad that we're not doing a malt liquor show again. At least there's that. So we're lining. Wait, did you say, uh, as if you wish? Well, I don't know what's worse at this. I'll say this. When I did the malt liquor, at least I only brought six. That's a good point. We're having to go through 14 of these, 11 of these. And there was a dump bucket. Yeah, we're not bringing the dump bucket back for the second half. No, we're not. We're going to suffer. We need to do this. Goddamn it. Do you want to take a break? This is dumb. Yes. Break time. Our listeners paid for this. I know. Because they're fucking awesome. Thanks listeners. Break time. [music] Thank fucking goodness for break beers. Oh, we had a health farm set average on the break. It was a growler that got sent to me by this guy, Bob, that I've been trading with over in Vermont. And we do back and forth things. And he's really a great trader. Let's send him a box of tonight's episode. No. It's the winner of mine. Sorry, man. I mixed up my boxes at the post office. I hope it's cool. [laughter] It's all corona light. Which reminds me, our next beer is corona light. [laughter] Fuck. It comes in a very light colored bottle. We all feel so bad right now. It's so awful. We were just downstairs going, why do we feel so bad? Oh god, it smells like weed again. Okay, so corona light. I'm not even going to go into what it is or what the fuck. All you got to know is that it's in a clear bottle. If you don't know corona light, you're listening to the wrong fucking podcast. No, no, you're listening to the right one. I'm really hoping that there are some listeners who have never heard of corona light. Feel the fuck away, listener. James, please write us an email if you've never heard of corona light. This is a good warning. So, the late great Michael Jackson. I could smell it from across the table. Yeah, let that just open. I believe the late great Michael Jackson, the beer. Hunter. Connoisseur, Hunter, whatever. Always used to say that corona light was the worst beer he'd ever had. Oh man. Fuck, I got a big pour on this one. Screw you, Mike. Wow, I got very little. This is the clearest, lightest yellow I've ever seen. There's no information on this bottle. I don't think that they intend to give you any information when they serve you this beer. Yeah. This smells like swag. We're drinking these out of snifters. Oh God, damn it. It's just intensifying the shitty skunk aroma. Like it's skunky, but there's also a sweet corn thing going on. Hey, you're neglecting to mention the sulfur. Oh yeah. It's a little perfumey. Yeah, there's a touch of biscuit. Yeah, I guess some biscuit and perfume. Like biscuits and honey with some wildflowers. Yeah, but you have to dig through a pile of shit together. There's a skunk sitting on all of those things you just mentioned. I like skunks. It's slightly minty with a little bit of high biscuits. You know, you're right. It's a touch grassy. This is the most fragrant one we've spot all night. But not, oh. It's so skunky. It shakes out. It does, it totally does. It's the biggest lie you guys have ever told. It grows stronger. Yeah, I just tasted this. God damn it. So it tastes a lot like if you have water that you soak a fresh cut thing of aloe into for about a year and then you skunk it and that's it. You know, this beer I think really pairs well with Jack in the Box tacos. No, dude, this beer. You can't go wrong with Jack in the Box tacos. This beer pairs well with suicide. This beer pairs well with a trash can. This is awful. Let's just add something to it that is horrible when added to sunlight. Let's just sun age it. That's yeah. Yeah, exactly. There's almost no flavor at all to it. There is. But you do smell skunk. Oh, fuck. I'm starting to get that tinny metallic flavor in my mouth again. Yes. That's ever finally washed away. This is awful. Mike is already jumping the gun and opening the next beer, which is Corona extra. Mike, Mike thinks it's going to be better. No, which is also in a clear bottle as if you've never had Corona before. Happy birthday, Mike. Happy birth. The ads for these beers are like people sitting at a beach with Corona in their hands and everything is peaceful except for what they're tasting. Hey, maybe those have roofies in them and that's why they're all so happy. They probably do. God, I keep getting real lucky. Mike, last is always at the end, so I'm getting the least amounts. Can I notice how quickly we brushed over this Corona light? We're like, yeah, man, it sucks next. This was not a skunky. Well, this looks the same color. It looks exactly the same. Yeah. Not quite as skunky as the last one. No, but it's still skunky. Oh, god. That's not so bad. I know that we don't have a dumb bucket, but do we have a puke bucket? We should have brought lives up here. Oh, god. To make this palatable. It's like skunk and solvent. Yes. That time we were driving to New Orleans and we passed through sulfur. Yes. Yeah. It smells like that. Like when we were driving in the car. If we could liquidate that and drink it. I would just like to once again thank the donors for helping us to achieve this episode. Wait, let me just say that I still have some of the Corona light in my glass next to the Corona and tasting both of them. I really can't tell much difference. The only thing is that the Corona extra has a little bit more sweetness and body. Aside from that. Not any different. Same flavor profile. Yeah. Well done, Corona. You can't tell the difference with diet not. So that's good. I remember paying premium money to the guy who was 21 back when I was 16 so that I couldn't get Corona light rather than Miller High Life. And that was like a big Corona weekend guys. We're not drinking Miller High Life this time. I'm rather drink high life. I would say there's something to say about the marketing is done well for Corona because people do love to buy this. Yeah. And they do feel like it is a taste of the beaches of Mexico. The amount of money that you pour into your marketing campaign is completely converse to how good beer it actually is. Yeah. And for your information. Less challenging beer. For your information this does taste a lot like Mexico. Which is full of vomit and dirt and liquor. And sour and whores and broken dreams. Yeah. And poverty and human trafficking. This smells like that. And Mike is pouring the next beer. We're just going through. We're trying to get to this as fast as possible. Oh Jesus. And some soul. Yeah. I had some really great memories in high school with Corona though. That was one of the first beers that I actually started drinking. Yeah. Come a long way I think. So I listen to this. As they just take the shit away where one of the hosts is an alcoholic and he's in AA. And he talks about when he's talking to other people that are drunk. So he goes yeah man. It's like you're always trying to chase that first time. I don't really understand what he's talking about. Because even though I love drinking I'm not really an alcoholic. But man there is a point in me that I would like to chase back the feeling of when Corona tasted good. And I was just wasted reading the bottom. I was like it's your face up. Fuck yeah. Like that's super cool. Yeah. You know I wasn't that easily dazzled when I was a kid. Because Ryan we have bad news for you. Oh and the stage is cheating. She's got a dump. No she's got a dump glass. This is my rinse glass. I'm committing to the integrity by rinsing my glass after each beer. Okay so soul. Do you just polish yourself? No. No this is soul in my glass. And it's oh god. Looks exactly the same. It smells like wet cardboard. And wet dog it. It's like a sweaty wet dog. And you guys are real snobs. You guys are missing the dishwater. What the fuck? Oh I'm sorry dishwater and apples. Yeah. Appley dishwater. The ass out of high is big in this one. Yeah. I'm going to have the worst hangover. This is awful. This smells seriously like green apple cider and. But you're going to be delightful. I'm surprised by the taste. Okay look at there and have a sip. Guess who this is brewed and bottled by. Your turn to read it Ryan. Aw. This is a product of Mexico. It's an imported beer brewed and bottled by. Surveys Assyria. Kakachikumoka. Vokazuma. S-A-D-E-C-V. Thank you. Really got some of those letters wrong you. You made it a serious effort. So. You added a whole other part of the alphabet into that. I'm starting to hallucinate. Okay so this fear reminds me of when I was a team. I used to wear this leather necklace thing. Bolo. Yeah I didn't know. With a ring on it because I was an emo piece of shit. Chewing on that leather reminds me of this. Put you in a lot of leather. Far water down. This this beer sucks. My ball gag. It kind of reminds me a little bit of that. You too huh? Yeah. Half asbestos on the internet. This beer sucks so bad. I'm sweating. And it's cold in here too. I feel like I might die. Go to the next one please. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Okay. The next one is Pacifico. This is better than another guys. This is like a nightmare that I can't wake up. Why do we do the little machine? I want to give in like to make the fans for making this episode comfortable. No I appreciate the donations but I almost want to just give them back. It's a 100 time. For the next time you guys would like to fuck us over we're still accepting donations. Yes. When you said to pick up all the Mexican beer we had at work I didn't think you thought they were going to be that many. I told all of them out and I was like hmm I wonder which ones he's going to pick. And then I sent you the list of all of them. They're like sounds perfect. No no man. You see when I said that I was thinking yeah they're going to have eight. We're going to live on the edge by doing eight. And instead we have twice as many and this is the hardcore. It's like a holocaust in my mouth. Mike gave me like three drops of this. He's my best friend now. Yeah the holocaust is a generally overused term of comparison but I think you're really spot on. Godwin's law I think is appropriate. So la Cerveza de Pacifico. Glada. Yeah it's Glada. It's from Cerveza. Yeah de Pacifico. It's from Masablan Mexico. This one has the most information on the bottle. No that has about the same level as everything else. Oh okay was I just ignoring the rest of it? Why does this one say beware? What's this danger sticker on it? Okay so this beer is exactly the same. Like it looks the same as the restaurant. After I turned 21 and legally drank my best friend and I went on this road trip to California. It smells like apples. And the first thing we did was get a bucket of pacifico because that's a good idea. A bucket. A bucket. I think that what they do with these beers it's like getting ever ready batteries when you rip off the top label and it's Duracell. They're all the same beer. This smells like a green apple jolly rancher. Hey hey the past couple weeks I have been changing baby diapers and this smells just like a fucking baby diaper. Oh we got a point of comparison. It's got this sour spoiled baby diaper. It's fucking nasty. Please don't make a smell baby diapers when you go over for the smell experience. Sorry you're gonna have to. It's a good learning experience. The thing the Amistage is talking about is that we've been talking about getting a bunch of different ingredients and fruits and all this other stuff. And meeting at Grant's Place. And tasting all of these things that we don't normally get to taste so we can expand our palates and our vocabulary. Why do they spike this beer with acetyl aldehyde? I don't know dude it's like seriously green apple jolly ranchers. Yeah it's the first time the beer was so good. Yeah we didn't know what we were doing. That was luxury. You know I still have a little bit of the last beer. I'm gonna mix them. Because why the fuck am I? It tastes exactly the same. I'm gonna drink. If there are any of you listening to this that regularly drink this shit, stop listening to this show. Just unsubscribe. And then try to shove a bottle down your throat. Yeah unsubscribe from the show you are no longer welcome. This is so fucking shit. You can dispose of the bottles up your ass. I wonder about those three people who donate. They're like man I fucking love Mexican imports. I really hope they'll review those and do them justice. Oh I hope they do Pacifico. I know that's because I love Pacifico. I know that it was at least a majority of you. Timothy Scott, Megan, Joe, Andy, Jeremy, Stefan, Dale and Nathan. Half of you guys are fucking assholes. Oh fuck you know I was halfway happy that we didn't get to do any of the other shows. But really any of these shows were a death sentence. Yes I almost want to go back to high school. I would take a mad dog 2020 right now. Yeah absolutely. Absolutely. Some blue boons farm. Spare enough ice. Oh purple passion. Bring it on. My car. My car. Yeah my car. Some fucking Zima. And we used to drink it spiked with a little bit of sperm. What happens below the border? That's the only way to find that sperm. The only way you could drink Zima. Yeah I think it's a rule or a law somewhere. That's why your molester told you. Right. Can't do it. Finish it right. Finish it right. It's just Pacifico. You'll rule it. There you go. Come on man. Come on man. You got some carto blanco waiting for you. Oh sweet. Oh yeah our next beer is carto blanca. I thought we were only going to have bad beers here. Okay I'm back maybe. I think that there's 14 of the same fucking beer like. There's not that much market in the state. No no they're not. They're not exactly the same. They were skunked very differently. This one had 13 days in the sun. This one only had two. Yeah some of them were sun aged differently. Some of them had different amounts of corn. Fuck you guys. Carto blanca. I actually like carto blanca. We should do an off flavors episode where we just do this again. Okay so this beer looks exactly like the last four, five, four, six, and twelve. And what is that? Now this one's a touch darker. Carto blanca you can get in a 32 ounce and when I'm feeling trashy I like just buying that and going to a party and just like fuck it. I got my 32 ounce carto blanca. Also when I was in Mexico I went down to the corner store and could buy these for a quarter. It smells like honey and dishwater this one. But also armpits. My armpits smell better than this. There's a sour smell, not acidic sour but more like. Armpits sour you know you're right. Yeah. That's what you meant. That's like when does it stop? Mike is just bobbing over in the corner. Mike has just been in the corner dry heaving. There's not much more to this aroma. Smelling the beer through all that other crap. The beer is very light. Sweetest peppercorns. So this one didn't seem scumpt though. Cheese. There's an initial flavor that I kind of find okay. Yeah. But then it immediately washes away with that dishwatery. There's something that's a little sharp and just accurate. There's a really slight tamarind note up front. It's very far back there but it's there. Something that's more up front is kind of like a bad cheesy sort of smell. Tastes like gross water. Yeah. Shitty water. So if I go to Mexico it's this or dysentery if I drink the standard water huh? Yeah yeah this is the only water you can drink and not get sick and this one smells and tastes worse than real water. I don't know dysentery sounds kind of fun. After this yes. We're all gonna have cholera. Goddamn it. So how many more we got? You know how much quicker we've gone through the second half. I'm glad that you're not going to have to edit this at all. Mike is keeping us on face with this. He's like all right chug next. Okay we're doing our last Mexican nightmare beer. Nope. Oh no there's too far. The patch down will be okay. Oh god it's like a night brown elm street dream where it's like oh I'm dreaming of Freddy and then I wake up but I'm still in the dream and they're spreading again. Oh but this one has a nice gold foil on the top. Oh yeah that never lies. I feel lethargic. What fun is this? This is the noche bueno. I feel so bloated right now. lethargic and bloated and like I can't. It's a little bock. Okay so this is a Mexican bock beer called noche bueno which is completely the opposite of the night we're having. It's an ironic name. It's a noche bueno. I feel like Grant always gets a short pour on these. You figured out my strategy and it's totally from me. I keep burping horribleness. Oh it's terrible. My head feels really hot. Yeah me too. I'm sweating over here. Hey dad happy birthday Michael. This beer is it looks really pretty. It's a very dark brown slight ruby highlights yeah. I think these beers are anti contraceptive. I think you just go home and screw and then that induces pregnancy. I'm into like a weird depression right now because I thought this was our last. Nope. And then John pointed out that there's one hiding behind that six. I did save the supposed best for last. Okay so. But smelling this. I'm actually smelling malt again. Which is something that I haven't smelled since like 20 years ago. This doesn't smell nearly as bad as some of the other one. I'm kidding me. I think that this one is one of the worst smelling ones. Oh really? This one's rubber and burning plastic. Okay sure when you get past the vomit there's malt. The skunk is far more offensive. I can vomit at this point and you'd smell malt. I'm not that offended. Oh no I think this is really the noses off-balanced it. Does it smell like a good night? No it smells like rotting corpse. Okay wait I got some cabbage I get some DMS. Yeah it does. This is bad on a lot of levels. There's a number of things fighting to be like the worst and most offensive. And like I just can't figure out which one it is right now. Oh that tastes like shit. All right let's check it on to the next one. No we got to describe this. Oh why? I can't get past this. This is like nickels and pennies. All of these have like this dishwatery flavor. Right it's somewhere around mercaptan and DMS in a tea. This says something about people. Oh that's a quote of the night folks. On this week philosophical level it's oh fuck. Mike's neck is bright red. And I'm sweating and like and the room is like 65 degrees. I feel like my head is going to pop it so hot. Oh god fuck I need to take a shower. I'm like I need to see a therapist. Oh I got it down this still. This is terrible. I'm so glad we're only going to rank our top one. Wait we are? Yeah we're just going to say which one we liked. I mean because really this one is- Yeah one more made a good one. I'm actually really prepared to talk in depth about all 14's. Okay so our last beer is negative with that low. I think it's kind of like a Vienna style lager. It comes with gold foil top too. Which is a lying deceitful sort of bitch. But it is but it is a brown bottle too. And it looks just a dark brown. Very clear. About a half a finger head. It smells good actually. You can't form the words either. I'm not like my brain is melting. Negromodello is a 5.3 ABV Vienna lager. First brewed in Mexico by Austrian immigrants and was introduced as a draft beer in 1926. Negromodello comes in an unusually shaped wide brown bottle with a trademark gold label fancy. The full name of the beer is Cevesa Negromodello. And the word modello means model or example in Spanish. Negra means black or dark and notifies Cevesa. Thanks. So now you guys know- Black model beer? It's a Vienna lager. Okay so I'm getting some really nice caramel-like qualities in the nose. These are some nuts. This is my favorite of the evening. Yeah so without a doubt. Nutty, caramel-y, delicious nose I think. Isn't that worth just drinking a lot so fast that we're all kind of like burping and gagging a little bit? Yeah burping is gross. I'm trying to mat burp while I smell this beer because- But it's the only way I feel whole- Sucks. I think everyone is giving up except for me and Mike. Yeah this is not bad at all. This is hands down my favorite one of the- The giggle sisters over here not giving up. We were just having it inside too. Yeah we were just having it inside jokes. Yeah this whole episode sucks. I think that was the point. I want my mom. This tastes pretty good. Damn guys this is probably one of the best beers I've had on the beerists. Tastes like cigarette ash. Okay let's just describe what we're tasting. Yeah it tastes like caramel and cigarette ash. I agree with you on the caramel. You guys already passed the nose. The nose is the least offensive so far tonight. I don't think cigarette ash- There's something slightly ashy there but it's not bad. I actually get a fruity note that's kind of like pruny. Yeah. A little bit. I get a pretty light beer but a good example of Vienna style lager. I mean you've got those multi-qualities. Sliced hints of chocolate. Nice dryness it's still very light and easy to drink. Doesn't have that tinny flavor at the end. No actually don't get any any off flavors in this. I think this is a very well made beer. For the style. Yeah. If I have to choose between Mexican beers if I'm out at a Mexican restaurant of some type. This is the one that I always reach for. Oh yeah. Stop trying so hard guys just really. No I actually like this beer. I usually say give me a margarita. Yeah this is an option. Tequila on the rocks. This is a totally solid beer for me. Yeah I mean I would say that this is my number one beer of the night. Hands down without a doubt. Yeah. Let's still hold out for the rankings. That's gonna be exciting. I mean that's my ranking. Yeah that's my ranking. We're just gonna say number one. I mean I think that this is my favorite reason. Now the giggle sisters have them all written down in order over here. Do you? Yeah. Are you getting the rank? Like. My number one was the Mexican import beer. Which one? Just the one. It's all the same. Yeah it's all the same. They all taste the same. Terrible decision. This doesn't taste the same as the other one. To you. I'm in complete agreement. There's no off flavors that I'm sensing here at all. Out of the beers that we've had this one is the most well crafted. It's got a really nice mouth feel. It was stored properly. Yeah. The malts are very nice. I don't get a single hint of corn. That's a nice beer. Okay well I think we're ready to rank. Yeah we like the Negro model beer. I like how you guys did that as a committee. The right chair concurs. Number two. We went with India. We went with. We thought that it had a nice carmoly. It was carmoly better. Carmoly better is what I know it's yeah. I would agree with that. Number three is the Victoria. It was planned in watery but. Who knew starting off without being a good thing. Number four we went with Bohemia. Better is what we have. It was absolutely better. Yeah absolutely. Oh fuck. The decontae. Decontae. There's no end in there. It's not picontae's cousin. It's decontae. No Ryan's really philosophical though. So I think he's trying to say content. Decontae. Decontae. Corn barf. Corn barf. That's right. That is corn barf. Number five. Or that was number five. Number six. Goes to the brown bottle. Doseckeys or the Doseckeys especial or whatever the fuck it is. For those that amber. Amber yes. So far I agree with you guys. It was slightly less gross. And then the green Doseckeys. It was slightly more gross. We've followed that up with. Oh geez I don't even think that's right now that I look at it. We'll just say it anyway. Number eight was the modellos especial. I had to vote that one up because I kind of like that skunky flavor. Me three. Yeah I wrote skunk nast micronci. But you know fair enough if you like it you like it. Hey and then nine 10 11 12 13 14. And no specific order goes to. Corona light. Corona extra. So. Pacifico. Carton Blanca. No shape bueno boc. And all of those were disgusting. This was almost as well executed as any reading of nominees on the Oscars. Thank you. Nailed it. We practice this actually out in the hall. You know what we need a good beer to end this with. Like we just need to get a good beer out of the fridge. I'm gonna go downstairs and get a good beer. Hang on. Okay so I went downstairs and nobody's seen what I brought up. I'm hiding it from everybody. And his asshole. No it's under my shirt. Which is might as well because it stinks under there too. We need something good here review. I just wanted to do something nice. I didn't want to end our first year anniversary episode with this. All of this shit. Yeah. I mean I like the integral though. I thought it was really good for the style. But let's just celebrate a little bit. It's been one year. Oh son of a bitch. Our last drink of the evening is actually not even a beer. Nope it is if I may. Go ahead. Happy Van Winkle. 23 year old. Fuck yeah dude. Yeah. Oh yeah. And we just swapped in better glasses because we saw that shit. Happy Van Winkle is a 23 year old bourbon. Oh go fuck yourself. I am going to take a 12 ounce pour. No now just pour like an ounce ounce and a half. I'll take a half an ounce because I might vomit everywhere. Oh man. So this is probably the best bourbon in the world. I bought this bottle about a year ago and it was the second time I bought this bourbon. And it's about 250 dollars to 300 dollars a bottle. Yeah but you know we do need to do a little celebration. It's been one year of the beer. And in that time we've grown a huge audience that fucking loves us. Yes. We've won a podcast award for best food and drink category. Beating out the splendid table and we're going to rub it in their fucking faces every single time and VR and we've made a lot of good friends. We have gone out and hung out with a lot of our listeners. I feel like my face is bloating. And that's been very awesome. You look like your face is bloating. Oh I'm looking my fingers and it's like the greatest thing ever. I think your eyes even open in your hands. I don't think so. Thank you John. Oh God this is awesome. Are we describing this shit? Yes. Let's fucking describe this bourbon. It's a rare treat. This is one of those bourbon's that if you go to a bar and drink it at the bar it's about 50-60 dollars an ounce. Like I said I bought a bottle of this twice for about 250 bucks. I buy a bottle of this maybe once every two years and do it on special occasions. And this is a fucking special occasion. And you guys have been so fucking awesome to lend all of this time and effort and energy and beauty to this show. I love you guys so much. I love you man. I love you and it's been an honor to be on this show. Thank you. It's always fun even though I get stuck on this episode in the brownie hell episode. Don't ever let you forget about that. But right now you're on the one episode where we're having a pappy 23 so. Yeah man. And you had one of the best episodes that you pretty much orchestrated the cans and bottles right? That's one of my favorite episodes. Yeah mine too. I mean that was such a great fun experience and experiment. So right off the top I get obviously caramel's and vanilla. There's a slight twinge of something almost citrusy. Yeah tons of vanilla. Yeah right is tons of vanilla tons of vanilla. But it's not like a Madagascar vanilla. No it's more like a Zimbabwe. It's more like a rich Mexican vanilla bean almost. Yeah. I really love the way this smells because it's got the most pungent and rich smell of any bourbon that it tastes like sadness just washing away. Anastasia went for a potty break but I didn't get to thank you for all of your fucking work. I quit. I couldn't help. No thank you Anastasia. Anastasia for all of the you guys who are listening who don't know. She does most of the research for these shows. She tracks down a lot of the beers for us. She is tireless and wonderful and thank you so much. And you're being rewarded with pappy 23 drink up beotch. Yeah I'm an ungrateful ho so go fuck yourself. You're welcome. Man this is marvelous. As they always say beer before liquor never been sicker. Blaker before beer you're in the clear. Yeah I'm just really curious. We're going to fuck ourselves over here. Yeah I have to work tomorrow. I don't feel appreciated right now. Just so you know what's the percentage on this? 47.8 is 95.6 proof. Okay so with any liquor or any bourbon that I have that's over 80 proof. I like to cut it with just a little bit of water because that helps to open the liquor up a little bit. You can smell more of it. You can taste more of it because the alcohol isn't dulling out your palette. So I'm putting it to the Mexican beer doled out our palette. No sure. And also for the folks that care about these things it's hand bottled numbered. And the bottle number is C17729. It's really good. Very caramely. Very vanillay. Surprisingly smooth for how strong it smells. Yeah and like I said splash it with some water and it'll open up. Just swirl it around. Just a tiny little bit of a touch. No that's good that's good. So I'm going to need more liquor. When I taste it I mean you get all that barrel and then there's like a sweet quality to it. And a little bit of coconut and this vanilla is just huge. It's just amazing. What's the, remember reading it somewhere and I don't know if somebody in the room is in the know enough. I remember the amount that actually evaporates that's left over after the 23 year mark. Yeah. It's like 95% of the total amount of whiskey was left in the barrels. Yeah the angel's share pretty much evaporates from the barrels. And then whatever is absorbed into the barrels too. So this is something incredible and I totally understand the price point after you understand how much it takes to actually fill a bottle full of this stuff. Yeah. Yeah just how long you have to pay to store it. Oh yeah and I'm on the waiting list for another bottle of this whenever we get another bottle of this in this area which will probably be another year or two because I know that specs one of the biggest liquor stores that we have in town only got three bottles of this last year. Throw. I might have to wait for a few years for another bottle which is fine because by that time I'll be done with this one. Got to buy some more whiskey to pad this. Yeah. This is marvelous. Thank you. Thank you very much. No no problem. So do you guys remember that Mexican import beer? This is making everything better. I know. I know. I really wish I had the budget to buy more of this just all the time. The sweetness and that vanilla and the richness of it I think is what makes this a special special. I'm really digging the mouth feel on this. I know. It tastes like flowers. Even though it is 47 some odd percent alcohol it's as you just kind of let it sit and rest on your tongue it's almost evaporative. Yeah. It just disappears it seems. But it has this slight stinging quality that kind of envelopes your mouth. And then I look at the label and I see this dapper young pappy Mr. Winkle and he's smoking this cigar and I'm like I want a cigar. I do. I want to do that too. I want to wear a dapper suit and just be like I sit around all day drinking my own booze and smoking cigars. Yeah. This is bottled by old Rip Van Winkle distillery in Frankfurt, Kentucky and every single whiskey that I've ever had from them has been some of the best whiskey that I've ever had. It's so fucking phenomenal. The thing that's staggering to me is how different the 20 year bottle is which you can get for about 99 bucks. It's about a hundred dollars for a bottle. Yeah. Comparative to the 20, 50 which is 250 minimum. It has such a buttery creaminess at the very end. It really does. It's kind of butterscotchy. Yeah. Yeah. So much complexity in this bourbon. The bourbon that I keep around the house is Blanton's. I really, really, really love Blanton's. But this is one of those that I'll just like I said pull out for special occasions. Once in a blue fucking mood. I haven't touched this bottle in probably six months. I have about an ounce and a half maybe two ounces of Pappy 20 left. Yeah. The one bottle that I've ever bought. And then I've got about half a bottle left of the Pappy 12 year. Oh, cool. That's still a fantastic whiskey. Well, I actually, $55.60 I think for that bottle. I actually prefer the Pappy 12 year to the 20. There's something about that 12 that I think is more well rounded out than the 20. The 20 starts to get a little harsh for me for some reason. You know what I would love to do? One of these days is do all three side by side. How are you guys still functioning? What do you mean? Are you wasted right now? I just feel like complete shit. Anastasia, we had the equivalent of like a beer and a half. This is my second wind. Mike has gotten so much life in his face right now. The details are gone. It's great. Compared to me, I'm like red and sweaty and my hair is messed up. I look like a homeless person. You look terrible. I just bounce back like I'm not as sweaty. I'm still kind of sweaty. Yeah. If any of the listeners out there can harken back to the very first episode of the beers, you know, I've seen on the inner webs is the best episode of the beers. It's the worst. The first two are just so awkward and shitty. I was drinking with Josh Cole the other day and we opened up a brand new fresh Hoonapoo. And once we got down to about eight ounces. Cigar City. Cigar City Hoonapoo. Cigar City Hoonapoo. Which is their, they release once a year. It's their-- It's an imperial stat with-- Markle Zukov with a bunch of stuff in it. It's some chilies and cinnamon and a bunch of weirdness. It's phenomenal. One of my favorite stouts of all time period. Definitely. But once we got down to about eight ounces, we added Pappy Van. We called 20. We added a half ounce of that to it. Magic. That was pure magic. If you happen to get a hold of Hoonapoo and you're sitting there and enjoying it and you're down to your last six ounces, add just a half ounce to a quarter ounce of bourbon to it. And that beer opens up and it just completely changes and it's heaven. Well, there's several imperial stouts that I've done that with and it kind of helps, you know, that very last little bit that you have in your glass. Especially if you're a bourbon fan. I mean, I love all my stouts to have more bourbon. I love bourbon so much. Have any bears used an aged Pappy Van Winkle barrel? Bourbon County rare. King Henry, right? He's the same barrel. He's the same barrel. Yeah, yeah. So you had Pappy Van Winkle 23 year old barrels. They put Bourbon County stout in there and then took that out and then put King Henry in there for a year. And the Bourbon County style win got bottled as Bourbon County rare. I think the rare about two years ago was really fucking incredible. There's been a couple of other beers. I think I remember Josh bringing out a beer that was aged in Pappy Barrels. They're having that tasting that we had at Faros. Oh, yes. Fucking out you're talking about how to dark label on it. I can't remember what. I think it was a Block 15 beer? We had a couple of Block 15 beers. Pappy Dark. Pappy Dark. That was delicious. Or Pappy's Dark, something like that. Well done. Can't we've already done this. Great recall there better than mine. Look, that took a long time. Tell me what I did last week. And nothing. We need to keep her in this Mexican beer haze more often. Did you see how fucking quick she recalled that shit? That was amazing. I'm the remember of things. She's like one of those future seers from that terrible Tom Cruise movie. Yeah, I think they were called the Remembers of Things. I'm pretty sure they were called the Remembers of Things. I can probably tell you where you left your keys. So bitch, what do we have in store for this next year of beerist? Not Mexican beer. Yeah, no, I don't want to do this Mexican beer show ever again. I don't know what we're doing this coming year. I know we need to revisit the wet hop episode. Yeah, the fresh hop, wet hop episode. We need to do that again. Our regional beer episodes are also pretty fun to do. Yeah. Where we get to highlight this particular state. I'd be really down for doing a lot more of those. More brewery specific shows as soon as stuff shows up to Texas. Yeah, we're going to be doing Founders, Goose Island, Firestore Walker, Southern Tier, a bunch of new breweries to Texas that we now get in stores. And they actually have decent distribution outside of this. Yeah, that more people will get as well because some of them are expanding and blah, blah, blah. Oh, absolutely. There's a bunch of stuff I want to do. I mean, there's a ton of it. I know that we have a bunch of fun, exciting things for the fans coming up soon. I'm sure announcements will be. Yeah, we're going to have some pretty cool announcements coming. Cool stuff coming. And we should probably close this out. We've gone. Please, I just want to go to sleep. I know, Anastasia's on her last leg. She looks like dog shit. Well, this is a sad way to end up one year. I was trying to pep it up. Yeah, I guess we're all sad and this is where we all want to puke and fuck you fans for making us do this. We do have to appeal to the Twilight crowd somehow. I mean, they have a lot of money to spend. I love sparkly vampires. I'm a woman who validates my worth by a man. Hey, John, validate me. I'm on Team Greg. Guys, thank you guys so much for being here. You guys have been wonderful. Thank you, Rubio. And of course, to the fans. Yeah, the fans put us through this. But you did this to us. But we encouraged them. Yes, I know. I know. They gave us money to do this. And we super fucking appreciate this. And we're not done doing crazy, stupid tricks and stunts for money. That's the kind of dancing monkeys we are. Yes. Yep. We just really want to get to the Great American Beer Festival. By any means necessary. Not any. You've had strange cocks in your mouth before. No, they've all been perfectly formed cocks, right? And good night. The beer. No, thank everybody for listening. Forget what I just said. She doesn't got us a prison. Everybody. Except validate me. Don't tear me down. Oh god. Be sure to check us out on iTunes. Yes. Subscribe. Give us reviews. Yes, iTunes. Put a five-star rating on there. If you write the review, I can see your name. And I'll give you a thanks on the show. Are we still taking donations? Yes, we are. Oh, that's great. And what can you give for your donation? Well, like I said earlier. Okay. Thank you on the show for our stuff, right? But everybody who donates to us is going to be eligible for a price. And that price spoilers is probably going to include some beer that we kind of handpicked for you. Fuck yeah. Not just handpicked for you, but specifically for you. So it depends on what your name is, how many letters are in your first name. No, no, no, no, no, no. Right. It's all based on taste and experience. They're all like racial profiling, my plan and all that. But we're not ready to completely announce this. Like this is a thing that's going to happen later. So Nathan Bliss, look forward to your no-shape buena. We don't forget. Sorry, Nathan. Nate, don't listen to Mike. Don't listen to him. It's a terrible human being. And you're a beautiful flower with rose petals coming out of your rainbow head. Wow, okay, weird. I'm back at him. Okay guys, bottoms up. This is beautiful. Bottoms up. Bottoms up. Bottoms to hell? It is to drink all around. You're like a witz. Wilting flower. He got it in. You fit it in there. Wait, did I? That's what she said. Let's just cut it before it gets worse. Okay. Do you guys want to go drink some more? Yes, I want this. This was a nightmare. 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