On this episode of ABR LIVE!, Brian is mostly alive and it's down to Alec and Chad to attempt to sound like beer aficionados. The probability of this occurring on episode 42 was 8,767,128 to 1 against, yes this is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Reference Spectacular. While Alec and Chad nerd out they enjoyed a delightful dunkel from Evil Twin Brewing and a stunning sour from Prairie Artisan Ales.
Evil Twin Brewing
Greehouse Dunkel Aged on American Oak Foudre
16 oz - Tavour Crate
5.5% ABV
Prairie Artisan Ales
Patches (Treat) Sour Ale
12 oz - Tavour Crate
5.4% ABV
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On this episode of ABR LIVE!, Brian is mostly alive and it's down to Alec and Chad to attempt to sound like beer aficionados. The probability of this occurring on episode 42 was 8,767,128 to 1 against, yes this is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Reference Spectacular. While Alec and Chad nerd out they enjoyed a delightful dunkel from Evil Twin Brewing and a stunning sour from Prairie Artisan Ales.
Evil Twin Brewing
Greehouse Dunkel Aged on American Oak Foudre
16 oz - Tavour Crate
5.5% ABV
Prairie Artisan Ales
Patches (Treat) Sour Ale
12 oz - Tavour Crate
5.4% ABV
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Welcome to another episode of the American Beer Review Podcast.
Speaker 2:Good times for good friends requires good beer. Lucky for us, we know ethnic all three.
Speaker 3:We're a group of friends who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, giving us a jump start on our craft beer journey.
Speaker 1:Join us today. While Brian that pride myself on not getting to know other people, so do not put that on me.
Speaker 3:Alec, the bananas up until like the 60s weren't entirely different species of banana.
Speaker 2:And Chad Hit me like a bacon bar.
Speaker 1:Review some beer, talk about beer topics and whatever else comes up. We invite you to pour yourself a drink and hang out with us.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh, and here we go. Rip Brian, he's dead to us, he's dead for the day, down with some kind of ailment.
Speaker 3:So we'll persevere. Is that last year's version? Did you pick up 2024?
Speaker 2:No, this is the K-thanks by 2022. The one I bought last year, so let's see if I die. Not bad, still sounds good.
Speaker 3:Yes, tastes good.
Speaker 2:So today, episode 42.
Speaker 3:Yeah, brian refused to be in such a nerdy science fiction themed review and took the day off.
Speaker 2:He gave himself food poisoning so he didn't have to listen to us talk about it. Hit checkers guys, Absolutely. In addition to, we are going to be having prayer artisanales patches part of their treat series. We had kind of audibled after we did Drucker's Sour Patch Kids a few episodes ago. We're going to give the prairie I tried to find the prairie pickle beer again.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, basically the monster beer Perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we settled for this, so you may get to have that, and then we're going to have the from Evil Twin Brewing the. It's a dunkel.
Speaker 3:What is it called Greenhouse? Greenhouse dunkel condition on American oak fooders.
Speaker 2:There we go, and that's what we'll start today. With this intrepid duo, we're going to attempt to give you an idea of how we fridge these, or no, we're not going to frit Whatever metric we choose today. Yeah, we're just going to spin the wheel. We're going to wing it.
Speaker 3:So greenhouse dunkel condition on American oak fooder 5.5%. Similar to a Schwartz beer, this traditional style has lighter body with a touch of sweetness, notes of nutty, toffee and roasted malts. That's about as much as we're going to dive into this one. We did have previously we were talking about it pre-episode another Evil Twin Brewing beer. They're based out of Queens, new York, and we had we're trying to figure out we're trying to figure out which one of theirs we had had before.
Speaker 3:it would take about a half second to review our episode list, but I only I re-listened to the Prairie one this morning.
Speaker 2:I did not grab the Evil Twin again. But sorry guys, yeah, so we don't know, but today is a new day.
Speaker 3:We obviously liked it well enough to bring in another one and then to Vore Drop all the way from New York, and we've had a string of beers from New York over the last month or so.
Speaker 2:But you got to play the Hanger Delt. Obviously there is a demand for it and you know the customer is always right in terms of taste. I think was the original. The customer wants it, they'll buy it, not they can be a dick to you, right? Oh, this is I like this. Oh, that's nice.
Speaker 3:And here's where I mean, if Brian listened to, the pod would be chewing us out for not explaining what a dunkel is and the finer notes of this. But I think this is nice. Dunkle is German for dark.
Speaker 2:This is a dark. It's probably darker than what it was supposed to. I think it's. Was it a lager? I mean typically a. A dunkles are dark, darker from what I remember. But obviously, going on those oak, uh, fooders fooders, that's still, that's not a real word. Uh, going on those fooders you're going to get a little bit. You're going to get some of those tannins from the oak, but it's kind of because it looks juicy on the nose.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, yeah, and I was going to say almost looks apple juicy in the color. Yeah, like a filtered apple juice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not a whole ton of um bubbles coming up, very thin head, but that's just a good, that's a great sip. It's a little bit of that oak comes through, get a little bit of that tannin bite, but but it's clean. Finish. I'm not getting a. Some dunkles. I've had in the past a little too much, um that sugary feel, yeah, um kind of coat your mouth. But this nice and clean it's it's just that touch of sweetness.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like that little bit of I don't even go a full toffee flavor, but just a little bit of sweetness kind of on the finish, but then not even on the finish in the body and then still kind of a crisp.
Speaker 2:I'm getting a also Brian's not here so I can go. It's got a nice, a slight ESP kind of bite at the end, a little bit of the hops at the end, a little bit, yeah. So we're just going to sit and drink beer the entire time, yeah.
Speaker 3:So it is a beer podcast, so it is technically a logger. Yeah, so it's for a logger. It's a little dark, it's pretty tasty. Five and a half percent.
Speaker 2:We also did. We also did this, do that dark beer episode, oh right, and we've been coming out a winner and everything you've had is Super dark, super dark, super heavy body. This is kind of a nice transition to spring.
Speaker 3:Hopefully it feels like fingers crossed. I didn't pay attention that groundhog see its shadow. Yes, he did. That's bad.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He did not see it, so spring's going to show up early this year. There we go, so that's why it's sunny today. Yeah, no, fingers crossed. But we've also getting shit on with rain and whatnot.
Speaker 3:It's been terrible. We've actually seen lighter than down California and the rest of the West Coast.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're watching last night's clash at the Coliseum, which was supposed to be today, but they moved it because of Eventually eight inches of rain in the Coliseum. I think they had it. Yeah, what was it? Earlier this week they were showing it rained enough that the track was basically a pool, mm-hmm, and there's. It's not designed for drainage, so they're just running the jet dryers around the track continuously, try to get Just evaporate the water instead of because it couldn't drain anymore.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we were in California, my family and I, just a couple weeks ago during like the precursor of all this storms, and there's just no, is no infrastructure for this much rain. My brother's condo, three stories down there was water coming out of the drains In the parking garage, jesus, and walking around like the sidewalks hurt flooding.
Speaker 2:So so it was like a Vogan construction fleet was coming in and coming in they're gonna take out the planet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, gotta build a international highway or an inner Interstellar highway yeah, interstellar highway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got a blow up the earth. Sorry, got to make room, but if I was gonna have a pint With my alien friend in your towel yeah, ford, perfect. A couple pints before you get a Trit. You know hitchhiker ride on a Vogan construction fleet. I would have a couple pints of this Uncle.
Speaker 3:This goes down pretty easy, this yeah.
Speaker 2:You thought that's what she said. No, this is just it's. It's like what you said. This is a Very easy Logger, but it's got some more flavor to it. Then you usually get On to bore. They did say A crushable in their description for it and it's crushable at a 5-5.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in a pint glass.
Speaker 2:I mean this would be easy knockback and I and I could probably drink, drink these all night. I Think, yeah, it feels it did that on the second taster, more of that kind of oak tannin is building, so maybe I might cap it at two pints, but I, so this would be my fallback.
Speaker 3:We've had on the pod at least one evil twin. We've had a couple yeah, on or off. So I wouldn't want it because it's not local to us. I wouldn't shoehorn myself into just this one, but I would try something different. I'll fall back to this, try something a little bit more out there and then have a fallback yeah, and they do.
Speaker 2:So this greenhouse is a series they have, okay, and there's a few more popping up, so I think I I Will grab, probably throw a few more my Tavor crate for a later date. Yeah, is that a when we get all three in here? But it's a, it's one of the nice price ones. Is it a logger series? I just I want.
Speaker 2:I didn't look that far into it. But there's, like greenhouse, aged on American or voter, like three or four Different labels. I didn't read if they're all blogger or whatever. I assume they're all aged on the oak fooders, but I don't know if it's. You know they've got a Dunkle stout right. I didn't go that far into it.
Speaker 3:No, I'm prepped in huh.
Speaker 2:No, no, I don't do show prep, I just this is my show prep.
Speaker 2:Right, this is my show prep. I make, plus all of the beers. Make sure I showered before you guys show up. Yeah, um, the Tavor sponsorship come through yet Try on our damn this, try on our damn this to vor, we love, we love your program here. Love getting. It's a nice way to get tasty beer from way outside of your normal orbit. Yes, we, we have pigs, pints and some other great, great bottle shops around us, but Sometimes when I get home from work I don't want to make a drive, make that trip, walk around, see what's there. It's just nice to be able to scroll in your phone. I'm going to put it. I know my crate, you can schedule the crate out. So I'll schedule a crate out six weeks from now and just keep putting beer as I every week put. More beer, more beer, more beer.
Speaker 3:Well, we're the first generation that shops online primarily. Yes, I'd rather shop online in the comfort of my own home and make sure everything and my wife too, she'll do online pickups. You still have to drive to the store, yeah, but you've already done all your shopping. Versus sitting in not just a bottle shop at any store and looking at price tags and sizes and everything, I'd rather just do the homework ahead of time in the comfort of my own home and then and also doing this then I can try out different breweries.
Speaker 2:So when I'm at that bottle shop I go, I'm going to go to the store. I've had evil twin before, I've had a prairie ales, I've had a drekker, I've had all these beers that do make it in here because they have a national presence. Obviously they're getting themselves on to war because to war is kind of a taste maker. They're curating, they're curating everything on there. So you know you're getting stuff that's good. Everything untapped is like everything on to war is like four stars and up, yeah, yeah. But anyways.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got a topic for the day, or are we going to move on to the next beer?
Speaker 2:I don't know, we're just kind of winging it.
Speaker 3:We had a game set up for today, but we're going to save it for when we have all three of us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you can tease it. Why not tease it? So this was episode 42. And what I did is I prepped a list of every beer we've gotten off to war since we restarted this thing, but capped it. You had $42 to spend and we're playing money beer. Obviously, brian's not here and we don't want to rip the Band-Aid off until we can all be here. So that will be probably next mainline episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got a couple.
Speaker 2:We got a few weeks from now. Yeah, we kind of scheduled all our beer out, so now I got to play, I had another to war crate show up, so there's another 10 beers in the beer fridge that I have to schedule.
Speaker 3:We may have another special episode between now and then too.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, we might have another special episode.
Speaker 3:Stay tuned, yeah, all right, yes, we'll move on.
Speaker 2:Actually, that special episode will air before people see it, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, that's true, we already had a special episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, surprise, yeah, we went to Iron Horse for Valentine's.
Speaker 3:Day.
Speaker 2:So, moving on to the prior artist's nails, we will do our new review metrics at the end on both of these we can do. While I pour this we can go through Dunkle. We'll do it at the end. That way the folks watching on YouTube, they can just go to one. Oh there they go, they have to stick around to the end, go to the end. You can go to the end and hear us give our ratings for both of these tasty beers.
Speaker 3:Tell you what. If you like and subscribe, I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 2:That's where I'll put the text. I'll put the text right there. Post production All right.
Speaker 3:So our second sour patch themed drink. This one is sour. Fans with a sweet tooth can feel like a kid again with a sour gummy candy packed concoction from Prairie, one of Thrillist's best breweries in the company. This tangy treat brims with massive sour patch kids vibes. A tart blend of lemon, lime and orange notes. Tantalizer taste buds with electric candy tones. A tropically gin tinge Pineapple nuance gives the sip an island bent, providing the gulp with a sweet finish.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's our patch, kids.
Speaker 3:All that I haven't taken a sip yet. More or less than the last one we had. I kind of like this one better. The last one was with, like trademark sour patch kids.
Speaker 2:Yes, but this one has I believe this one has yellow number five. Like the spicy pickle beer, it's on the front of the can. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 3:Certified colors and FDNC yellow, number five.
Speaker 2:I think that's the? U word for it. You got to have the proper coloring in it, but if you poured this and told me it was a logger, I'd believe you. I would Very strong. It's not like the. So the the director, looked like pureed sour patch kids, because that was a, not a smoothy.
Speaker 3:Was it a?
Speaker 2:smoothie? Yeah, it was. It was a smoothie style. So, yes, they had to be a lot, lot thicker, but it was kind of a off pink color.
Speaker 3:This is but if you stop buying of this, you would not, you will not even think sour necessarily.
Speaker 2:I appreciate this because you could have your sour patch kids beer and not look like a Child. Yes, put it in a sippy cup for you.
Speaker 3:Oh man, you know what I like, Drekker? This is, this is. I think I agree with you.
Speaker 2:This is it plays better without the thickness.
Speaker 3:That's where it was going to go and I was trying to pin down what the difference is between this one and the Drekkers Cause the director was definitely a sour patchy. This one leaves more of a sour patch kids mouth field, cause you don't have sour patch kids aren't. I mean they're chewy but chunky. Swallow it, they're gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or if you put a lot of them in and you just let them melt away in there, yeah.
Speaker 3:Are you gumming sour patch kids? Is that what's going on?
Speaker 2:If you only can have a hundred calories worth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you gotta make them last dude, it's called a coping strategy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a subtle sour. You get more of the sweet.
Speaker 2:This is just like. So this is same. Obviously not the same flavors of spicy pickle beer, but I did the re-listen and my one comment was they dialed the pickle in perfectly Cause they could have gone way over the top. And this, oh, it's spicy pickle. They could have done it with this tooth, this over the top. This is subtle.
Speaker 3:It's just like a good sour Cause, I would take more than just a flight sample of this.
Speaker 2:This would be something I'd go in order a pint, A pint or a couple eight ounces maybe in between beers. I don't know how this would stack. I'm not going to attempt that. I'm going to keep the second can for Brian when he returns. Yes, Get, he can do a little homework. They'll overview himself Cause.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure with the pickle beer any pickle is too much pickle yes For him versus this.
Speaker 2:This is more than a speed, and I think these are safer. This is a I say it a lot about a lot of sourced, but I think this is a really good gateway. Sour as well, it's kind of fun. This would be a fun take to a party. Hey, have you ever had a sour beer? Rangers, wouldn't taste like sour patch. Well, I know what sour patch kids taste like. But then you could slide somebody into a Berliner vice or some kind of other. Um, a kettle sour something. Switch them over to a raspberry sour, like that lucky envelope raspberry sour it was fantastic, we got to hide it.
Speaker 3:no-transcript Spoiler. I think it's on my $42 list.
Speaker 2:Nice, nice, I'm glad you put it on there, because I had to make some sacrifices on mine, like I did my list and it's like I feel really good about that, and then I was $20 over and I was like, oh, I don't feel really good about that, so I had to make some very tough decisions.
Speaker 3:Dude. The only caveat when we get to the list is those are Tavor beers. Yeah, so it cuts out the iron horses, the black ravens, a lot of our local guys, just because I didn't keep those receipts. Well, and it was kind of, we're putting together a box we can go and get those.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're putting together a crate of six beers.
Speaker 3:But there was some hard decisions and at one point I had like four sours on mine.
Speaker 2:Well, I gotta mix it up a little bit. Me too. Yeah, it was like I can't. I gotta make this a good representation of everything we've had. Yeah, and I'm surprised with usually how my brain works. I was shocked when I was going through these beers Like, oh yeah, I remember what it tasted like. I remember it does. Yeah, without even having to go back to the episodes.
Speaker 3:There was only a couple where it was. It was a coin flip and I was like what did I say about this one versus the other?
Speaker 2:Because somebody's gonna go through the receipts and go. Well, you said, this one was as good as that one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but for the most part, yeah. I know it was like each of them I'm going oh what, I like that one, Ooh, but I like that one, Ooh, but I like that one. And there's only six. And yeah, it does stack up quick when you're tovoring them in, but all fantastic beers. So which one of these are you gonna order first at the restaurant? At the end of the universe?
Speaker 2:If I'm at the restaurant at the end of the universe, I think I gotta go with the Prairie first. I think the Prairie fits into the universe of Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams made, I think, all their can, art and everything. I'll have the evil twin when we're on the. What's the spaceship name? A heart of.
Speaker 3:It's been a while, it's been too long If.
Speaker 2:I can look it up, or when we end up on a jungle plant or something, I'll have the greenhouse dunk hole. Okay, yeah, I think there's a spot for both of them. Also, this was the one that went to the Fable Mexico trip where I had came back with the sombrero.
Speaker 2:The sombrero and the broken foot, I came back with a broken ankle, a sombrero and this book were the only thing in my carry-ons. Heart of gold, heart of gold, you were right there. Yeah, so I'd have the dunk hole on the bridge of the heart of gold. The, the, the Henson movie version, not the British mini series, one Much sleeker in the, the one with Mostef yeah, mostef and the Hobbit guy, hobbit guy and Zoe Deschanel there you go.
Speaker 3:Yes, it was a lot tighter, I mean in part. That's just too sweet.
Speaker 2:American, but they also went and pulled bits from all the books.
Speaker 2:They condensed a lot of it and they were making a single movie and I was kind of I was sad for years that they never made a follow-up. And then last night, when I was doing the research on everything, because there was a character that had stuck in my head, like I wanted to bring it up for the podcast, but I could not find existence of said character anywhere. It was like some mob they meet some mob boss or guys serving a death, like he's in prison, but he's like oh, he's dead for a, he's doing a 30 year prison sentence, so he's dead for 30 years, and that he's just got his lackeys carrying the body, his body around until they make him.
Speaker 2:I couldn't find his name anywhere, but I specifically remembered it being restaurant in the universe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Kind of area. Second book my favorite is the I forget which machine that Zaflod goes into my Jesus center and it's supposed to just demoralize you because it shows you how insignificant you are in terms of the whole universe. And he's president of whatever the universe but because of whatever quirk that's in a sub universe where it was created for him, he goes in and he finds out that the entire universe revolves around him and comes out going perfect.
Speaker 2:This is awesome. This affirms everything.
Speaker 1:I knew about myself.
Speaker 2:Awesome. And then there was somebody like it was like somebody who wanted to see him his mind destroyed, and then he comes walking out like how do you feel? I feel great, this is fantastic, damn it. My other, the other favorite character I forget his name, but he's like a immortal being and his one task is to go around and insult every living being in the universe. Oh, one by one, yeah, and he hits Arthendet twice. That was my favorite and but it was like oh, but one. When he was like prehistoric. Whatever I mean it, it's like Dune.
Speaker 3:Oh, you can stop after a little bit.
Speaker 2:You can get through the first two books and then I mean that's kind of the problem. When you make a universe, that is it filled, most of it satire, it's totally satire. But at a certain point you went well, here's the first two books, here's all the crazy shit we did in the books. If you just keep doing the crazy shit the same as that, it goes flat. So you just have to.
Speaker 3:Well, we're gonna get weirder and weirder, and weirder, and weirder, that my one of my others was Arthur learns how to fly. Yes, because he just Forgets about gravity. Yes, and these are totally inside I. You just Forget that gravity is a thing and then you can fly around. And he spends a book where he just flies around everyone Fly around everywhere. And then I think I told you I finished, right, like the series comes full circle, oh, yeah, yeah at the end, yeah, finally makes it back to earth as it's being spoiler alert for a 40 year old book, as it's being destroyed to make room for that. Still, our highway.
Speaker 2:I, I like the way they did so. Going back to the Most step movie with the, they did the Jim Henson Muppets. Yeah, all the characters, great effects still holds up today. But I like what they did. It's all in one you hit all the, you hit all the crazy stuff. They made it just modern enough because, yeah, it is a 40 year old book and a lot of the Kind of jokes and the satire Doesn't hit the same the very timely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very niche, our favorite word here, maybe our life. I would like to touch on the beer spas.
Speaker 3:Oh, saw that, I saw that, I think I posted it.
Speaker 2:You posted it. Yes, the, but it's not I. I was set Not sad because it'd be super expensive. It was an actual full octane beer. It's just.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's hot water and we make beer tea, yeah we put barley in my which makes sense, and because you know how expensive it would be even for a light beer to fill up 40, get 40 gallons at a time. Yeah, I was like some were like full-on hot-tops, so you're talking like a hundred gallons of beer and I yeah, I was like so, are they?
Speaker 2:It's a hundred gallons of beer, are they just? Oh, we're just, it's got alcohol in it. We can just swap it out every week. It's like I don't want to go somewhere, we're and I'm not drinking it Somebody?
Speaker 3:I would drink it, I would try to drink it. Yeah, yeah, but they serve you beers.
Speaker 2:They probably started doing that. They're like Please don't drink the pool water, just drink this please.
Speaker 3:Well, how disappointed would you be to go to a beer spa? And they go. Well, there's no beer. This is a spa, you're supposed to relax and Recharge, so alcohol kind of defeats the purpose.
Speaker 2:But it's a damn it spa. That would make sense. That would make sense because, according my whoop, yes, I should not drink beer.
Speaker 3:It's a beer spa. It's literally the thing that brought me in the door. No, yeah, you're gonna take a beer shower, and so can a beer hot tub and have a couple beers and.
Speaker 2:So so a shower bear squared.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're talking here, yeah maybe a couple like lemon wedges on your eyes. Mmm, you're gonna have my son a hot tub.
Speaker 2:Yeah, why not Little good little stuff? Yeah, a little suffering is good, little controlled suffering I That'd be interesting to see. If that, I wonder if Drekker's gonna make a beer spa. Drekker, could you have a beer spa for when we get there?
Speaker 3:I mean, but I don't, I don't want to, but our brewery is gonna.
Speaker 2:Big enough, mature enough, because there's a lot of, if you've got a hotel attached. Yeah, there's a lot. Yeah, 10 pen, what not? Is that the next thing? Like you see, these breweries that have been around since the, since the original boom, who have grown and matured and like Very successful so they can span into the big, into, like the director of all hall brew, hola, mm-hmm, iron horse. They've got their new Kind of new space. Yeah, they've built out into that. We're gonna see next week. Last week, do you start seeing them getting to more hospitality, go to hotel? And then it's the Drekker beer spa.
Speaker 3:Go soak in a vat of Chunk mango marshmallow smoothie sour start getting to the amusement park type thing, where it's like an all-in-one you go to Legoland, you go to Disney, you're staying at the park, you're going to the whatever, but this? Now you're going to the breweries hotel, you're going to the brewery. What else do we have there? Well, we got a spa, and it's going to be a beer theme spa, because you're out of brewery. I'm definitely not bathing in Chunk, though maybe like just a a chunk face mask.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nice, there you go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a little bit of clay in there, oh yeah, but we're the target market because we were kind of we were already on the fence, yeah, I mean back in 2014, the kind of when this new craft boom was. We were late 20s, still kind of feeling things out. Feeling things out, don't have a lot of free money to spend, and then, if we were, it was on cheaper. Yeah, two for two for two for Coors, light Nights at the bars and whatnot.
Speaker 3:And now we're getting up there in age, we have a little bit more scratch and disposable income spending something, and if I can trick my wife into telling them that there's going to be a spa at the resort that we're staying at.
Speaker 2:You're going to smell like. You're going to smell like an IPA when we're done.
Speaker 3:Oh man, if you could do like a beer waterfall. I'm thinking like a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory style.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Do a little Gustav action. Go swim in the pool, go swim in the lake, get sucked up, get sucked up into the machinery. Yeah, no, no, no, no no, no, that is not.
Speaker 3:You've tainted the beer.
Speaker 2:Oh no, gustav, no, no, no, I like that. No, the way Jean played it and I was like, oh no, don't do that. No, oh, darn he was. He was never disappointed when a child was horribly maimed in his Chocolate Factory. No, I haven't seen the new Chameleon. I was going to say Chameleon and Ding Dong one. I haven't seen that one either. Sounds like it. I don't think it had quite the magic. But the Dune 2, part two trailer came out. Came out Nerd alert, I think it's nerd alert.
Speaker 3:Well, and it's on, I think, netflix the part one, so you can get caught back up.
Speaker 2:I've, I've been, I may have been like watching parts and pieces of it every week.
Speaker 3:I'm going to wait because I think it comes out in March. Yes, so a few weeks or so from now. If anybody does a double header, I would be more than inclined to go watch him back to back on the big screen.
Speaker 2:The early kind of inside baseball folks who have seen it Christopher Nolan, him and Bill Newborn BFFs. Okay, I think Nolan said this is his Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 3:He's going to do a third. He's going to cover Messiah in Dune 3.
Speaker 2:And then he said he's done, he doesn't want to do any of it, and it was like oh, perfect, well, because perfect, because you can't.
Speaker 3:Hitchhiker's Guide goes off the rails after Book 2 or 3, but still good. But get just weirder and weirder. Dune after Messiah goes.
Speaker 2:Absolutely bonkers. But. But in Messiah doesn't he still become the worm, does he?
Speaker 1:come.
Speaker 2:No he doesn't become the worm God in Messiah, that's his son, okay.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right, so this is anyway spoilers. But yeah, he becomes the emperor and blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, brian was here, he'd be rolling his eyes, would have rolled back of his head. It's beat a light.
Speaker 3:Paul becomes the emperor and that whole arc of Messiah. It's after that and God Emperor Dune is when Lito or whatever Lito Jr yeah Turns into.
Speaker 2:That's when it gets weird, weird yeah.
Speaker 3:He may start that transition in Messiah, but it's not the main point.
Speaker 2:Right, he could surprise everyone and kind of Just do that and do that and third out of nowhere, yeah oh, sake Worm God.
Speaker 3:What?
Speaker 2:But yes, I'm very excited because I like the way Vilnud does big it feels, yeah, everything feels. Oh it feels epic. I wonder if he'd do hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, because it's a story about it's big. Everything's about the universe. Like you know, universe is unimaginably giant.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the meaning of the life, universe and everything is revealed in the book.
Speaker 2:But it's like dude, it's just this giant universe. But you're telling this story that's very close to the best. You're just following one or two people in, but they're having these universe Spanning why? Yeah, that's the tired guy from England, Right and his pajamas.
Speaker 3:For the entire series?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it because, like the way they played it in the movie, it felt like it was just like he's been on a two day bender the entire time, the entire time the most deaf version of it. Yeah, it was like oh man, I had a rough Friday. Yeah, wake up Saturday. Well, the world's blowing up, let's go. Let's go down in the pub have a cup of pints and then go on this adventure. And then Monday morning he's got to go back to work because everything's back to normal.
Speaker 1:That's what that movie felt like oh, it felt like the way they did it.
Speaker 2:It was like, okay, yeah, because they didn't do, oh, because they rebuilt. Yeah, they rebuilt the Earth. They magically rebuilt the earth as it was. Instead of this oh no, you're back on earth, but it's prehistoric times, because we have to restart this computing process.
Speaker 3:Well, that was. They just tightened it up to fit into one movie. I think we have lost half the people by now. Probably yeah. So we're we doing ranking styles? We did one over the other. We're having it first.
Speaker 2:This kind of pick a metric that you're feeling right now. So the evil twin Junkle aged on American oak Fudders, so fooders.
Speaker 3:Evil twin is going to be more of a go to for me, Just as logger it's easier to drink. I'd give it Four, Not an everyday, but for like walking in having a pint or two without really feeling in the mood for something wild. I'd give it Four greenhouse dunkles out of five.
Speaker 2:Nice, I'm going to go Same vein as you. It's not an everyday drinker, but this is one that I can't describe it but like, sometimes you get home from work and it's like that is a flavor. I don't wanna go for an ESB where there's a lot of body there, Maybe the sun's out, maybe it's a little warmer. We had this little warm streak. That is a nice reminds me of ESB, even though it's a lager. I love what they did, put it on the oak. I can't wait to try more in this series. I am gonna go. I'm gonna go. 4.2 out of five. Arthur Dents. There you go.
Speaker 3:Then prairies patches. You gotta be in the mood for it, yeah, yeah, yeah, Very good. This is a. I think this is like a pinter in the pub Going to the bar. So if you're out in public, this is something and I would do a full pint. Just wouldn't necessarily be a flyer, but this would be something. Yeah, I'm gonna start off with something a little bit weird. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Kind of brighten the mood, brighten the day. Yeah, hey, we gotta get the night started or something.
Speaker 3:So if I'm in the mood for it, I think it's a 4.5. Okay, patches on an every, but it falls in less rotation. Yeah, yeah, I'm not having this once a week.
Speaker 2:No, no, I would have this. I would have patches Halloween.
Speaker 3:Do another one of those, like we did with the Dreckers.
Speaker 2:It'd be kind of a I could see it Halloween, obviously Candy, maybe a 4th of July or some kind of summer time party. Yeah, this is kind of a nice little instead of I don't wanna have a Coke with my barbecue at hot dog yeah. I'll just have patches, get same amount of calories, but have kind of that. I didn't even look at that. Yeah, and I don't worry about it. They don't put it on the cans.
Speaker 3:And it'd be interesting. I don't know how the sugars would hit you Would be the only other drawback.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm gonna have it didn't fill over the top sugary, it felt very clean and finished Like a fairly dry for the amount of flavor you're getting going. If it was way drier than I would have thought, if you said oh, this is a sour patch, kids beer, yeah, sour patch kids, comma beer, not a sour patch kids beer. I don't wanna get anybody in copy and register trademark issues.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm just saying it's not a kids beer. No, no, sour patch kids beer.
Speaker 2:When do people start making NA beer? No, they can never do that. We can't. They got rid of Joe Camel years ago. We can't start making NA beer from kids, but isn't that what?
Speaker 3:Mountain Dew and Monster are right now. Oh God, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna give patches four out of five, four perfects. Okay, yeah, I think it's a. If you can find it, if you see it at your local bar to shop, grab it, stash it away for a little tasty treat.
Speaker 3:Yep, anything from Prairie is worth grabbing. They got a bunch of fun beers. I mean I would drink this more often than the spicy pickle monster.
Speaker 2:Even though I like pickles and I professed it. Yes, that is a, because it's more like a everyday sour, it's more approachable.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're not throwing too much crazy at it, which they have a lot that throws crazy at it and you don't have to roll it. You do not have to roll it, which makes it easily a coolerable.
Speaker 2:And you can go. You can tell your child this to go grab it for you. They don't have to do any special prep. You're right, just grab it, grab it.
Speaker 3:It's gonna be an easy one to pick out of the fridge, so it's the one with the kid on the front getting a wedgie.
Speaker 2:You'll see it Probably saw it here somewhere in the screen earlier. Yeah post production.
Speaker 3:Yeah, child kitchen post, all right, cool, I think that's all we got, right we did it, we did it, we did it, we did it. We don't even need the guy. We didn't know what a Ah JK, we didn't even know what a dongle was.
Speaker 2:But All right, well, a few more beers. I'll be a Dongle, I'll be a drunkle.
Speaker 3:All right, our glasses are empty. Hopefully yours are too, and we will catch you next time.
Speaker 2:We out we out, we out.
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