On this episode of ABR LIVE!, we are celebrating everyone's favorite pre-funk for Earth Day - 4/20. We get off to a blazing start with Hoosier Brewing Company's Purple (Kush) Punch fruited sour and lament not having any more peanut butter stout to go with it. After a little NASCAR break, we get a little Giggle Juice in our systems from The Unknown Brewing Company.
Hoosier Brewing Company
Purple Punch (Roll the Fruit Series) Fruited Sour
16 oz - Tavour Crate
5.5% ABV
The Unknown Brewing Company
Giggle Juice Hazy IPA
16 oz - via Bevana
5.4% ABV
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On this episode of ABR LIVE!, we are celebrating everyone's favorite pre-funk for Earth Day - 4/20. We get off to a blazing start with Hoosier Brewing Company's Purple (Kush) Punch fruited sour and lament not having any more peanut butter stout to go with it. After a little NASCAR break, we get a little Giggle Juice in our systems from The Unknown Brewing Company.
Hoosier Brewing Company
Purple Punch (Roll the Fruit Series) Fruited Sour
16 oz - Tavour Crate
5.5% ABV
The Unknown Brewing Company
Giggle Juice Hazy IPA
16 oz - via Bevana
5.4% ABV
If you'd like to reach out to the American Beer Review LIVE! crew to give us a beer suggestion or to tell us we suck, you can reach us on any of our socials (in order of how often we check it).
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I thought it said Scoop Dog. When I am no longer rapping, I want to open an ice cream parlor and call it Scoop Dog.
Speaker 2:Or Scoop.
Speaker 1:Dog.
Speaker 2:Hmm, welcome to another episode of the American Beer Review.
Speaker 1:Podcast Good times with good friends requires good beer. Lucky for us, we know how to pick all three.
Speaker 3:We're a group of friends who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, giving us a jumpstart on our craft beer journey.
Speaker 4:Join us today. While, brian, I pride myself on not getting to know other people, so do not put that on me.
Speaker 3:Alec. So the bananas up until like the 60s were an entirely different species of banana and Chad.
Speaker 4:It hit me like a back in bar review some beer, talk about beer topics and whatever else comes up. We invite you to pour yourself a drink yeah, and that's a muser.
Speaker 1:That is the.
Speaker 3:Hoosier.
Speaker 1:Hoosier.
Speaker 2:I'm starting the episode. We already started already and I missed it. It's a 420 episode.
Speaker 3:Fuck it dude Bluey tie, white tie, fucking nerd.
Speaker 1:You want to tell us what we're drinking today. So today, in honor of 420, at the aforementioned from Hoosier Brewing, we've got Purple Punch Roll, the Fruit they were rolling up.
Speaker 2:Roll the.
Speaker 1:Fruit Named after aforementioned push Yep In addition from the Unknown Brewing Company from Parts.
Speaker 4:Unknown, probably out of North Carolina Giggle Juice.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're starting with Roll the Fruit. We're going to start with Roll the Fruit. All right, so we're starting with a roll of the fruit. We're going to start with a roll of the fruit. The Giggle Juice came in on a I feel bad saying it. She went on to war, but she went on to war. Well, they stopped funding our ads.
Speaker 3:It happens. So that's what happens. It happened what I don't know. If I stopped, I mean they never started. It's like no, no, no. I mean they never started. No, no, no.
Speaker 1:We saw some NASCAR-themed beer. I found some NASCAR-themed beer, oh my my. And it was through these folks. And then I saw some other beverages that were drank In addition my backup here today from Wise man Brewing Soup Dog Golden Ale. Have we had a Hoosier beer?
Speaker 3:before.
Speaker 2:We just did, yep.
Speaker 3:Two weeks ago Yep. We were amazed that Hoosier Brewing was still available when they found it in like 2015.
Speaker 1:It was the green pistachio. Okay, that's what I thought. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4:Yes. I thought, I was like losing it here. Yeah, we just did, okay, nope just a little high yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, this um All the untapped descriptions of this Purple Punch.
Speaker 4:So what do you want? So Roll of Fruit is a series.
Speaker 3:Yes, All of them are based off of weed strains, popular cannabis strains. Sorry, cannabis, I'm the square one. I'm supposed to be calling it cannabis.
Speaker 4:The marijuana.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the marijuana this strain isown to have super Great. Super great flavor, so we cranked out the red grape puree In this batch, paired with a heap of Blueberries and finished with a splash of Mexican.
Speaker 4:Vanilla, okay, I. The can has not been faced me at all.
Speaker 2:I just saw a picture of it yeah.
Speaker 3:Did you say percentage? I didn't know. I just closed the 5.5. Perfect. Thank you, Thor, for keeping it lighter for us today.
Speaker 1:Thoughts, I know.
Speaker 4:It is so how long until we're just the like American smoothie beer.
Speaker 3:How.
Speaker 4:How.
Speaker 1:I hate that here, right, how Ugh I hate the this side.
Speaker 3:My phone's over there.
Speaker 1:It's recording us. I wanted to see if I had. I had one of those narrow gauges left, the peanut butter one, and you have that. A little bit of this, a little peanut butter jelly action. Ooh, do you want me to open the fridge?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because you can mix one. There's nothing here. You can do a half-half. I don't know.
Speaker 1:You guys talk about the taste here, let me go look. Hey, just don't do that thing where you make yourself stay there in the room and it trips me up for like 20 minutes.
Speaker 3:I got it. Where did he go? We literally had a conversation and he wasn't there. He's sitting right, there Is this what they call a third of the sour. It does say to roll it. It says roll me gently, and I rolled aggressively because we learned that gently means. The last one, I rolled aggressively and it still came out. It still split pretty quickly.
Speaker 4:This is nowhere near as big. No, no, no, no. I mean it's thicker than you would expect, yes, but it's not like leaving all the sides and doing that. I mean you're definitely not seeing through it, but like this is. This is one of the ones.
Speaker 3:We're advertising gateway beers is what we're doing Like that's the.
Speaker 4:Okay, yes, yes, ed, you've got to do something different to get the youngs drinking the beer. They come in, they buy some of these, the legal drinking age youngs. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah the.
Speaker 3:LDA youngs.
Speaker 1:No no.
Speaker 3:Drink it all? Oh, no, I got cute.
Speaker 1:That was one of the ones. I only bought one of.
Speaker 4:Oh no, you bought. No, he probably only bought one that was like a ten and a half.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was a onesie. Next time, next time.
Speaker 4:This is a legal drinking age entry beer. This is the thing that like and put it in a good way If you go. So, if you are, I'm going to create a scenario. If you're 24, you are very much into beer, yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, You're into craft beer something.
Speaker 4:Maybe you know you got taken to breweries as a child and you just got into beer culture and stuff. I know what jerks and your friends are like not that into beer, okay. But you know that you want to go to a place like Peaks and Pints and you want to go and hang out for the night and you're trying to do something different than a bar like bar thing. You go to Peaks and Pints. Well, they think they don't have anything to drink there. Oh, you're going to drink there. Oh, you know what I mean? They're not going to know number one, that they're drinking beer but they're going to enjoy it and there's other different, like there's tons of different variations. They're probably going to be a little annoyed if they see that can and think there's not weed in. It Could be.
Speaker 3:The blueberry on the finish is tasty.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, call me crazy Okay.
Speaker 2:This speaks for itself.
Speaker 1:But does that blueberry on the back end somehow give you like a little bit of like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich finish?
Speaker 3:Oh, 100%, okay, okay, okay, no, that's what I'm saying, that blueberry.
Speaker 1:Like I thought it was taking crazy pills.
Speaker 4:No, like it feels like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Okay, so there are. Does that sound silly? There's these little snacks. They're called Bobos. Yep, they're like a little round. They're actually gluten-free, but it looks like Nothing but gluten. So on the outside, inside is like a peanut butter and jelly. They have strawberry, they have grape.
Speaker 1:Well aware, this friggin' tastes like the grape one.
Speaker 4:Like the only thing you're missing is just that like texture of the outside, of like the bar, yeah, oh that's so good.
Speaker 1:Like so my show prep everyone on Untappd went grape Jollylly rancher, I get it, I get in there, but there's a little bit more depth with the blueberry. That kind of gives you that um you word, man.
Speaker 4:I don't know the last time I had a grape jolly rancher, but you years, years are correct in that that does kind of taste like that. Um, I did get the initial. I don't is the smell or taste.
Speaker 1:A little time tap okay, like big class, yes class.
Speaker 4:And before they change the recipe, now kind of like just thinking of like stuff that I like blend with this or do different things like so I never the narrow gauge peanut butter and stout, but I'm having a schooner of each side by side.
Speaker 1:I'm not mixing the two beers together. You want to do a black?
Speaker 4:and tan with it. I want to do a third glass. I want to do, I want the options, I want to try a little mixer, so like Sig Brewing has kind of started doing some blends of beers that you can like literally order.
Speaker 1:Oh, like all, of Top Down, top Down.
Speaker 4:But Top Down does it. They make their beers with more of an intent.
Speaker 4:That's been their entire thing, whereas Sig, I think the bartender just was kind of like ah, fuck it, what if I portion these out? I also kind of like thought this would like a little champagne, add some bubbles to it. Yeah, not that it isn't like carbonated, well, but like just get that little more or a little bit of soap water if you're an outside shop, it almost sounds like. Make it a little more like grape soda, like that little kick more yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you had a CO2 gun at your house sounds like it makes it a little more like Greg Soda, like that little kick more. Yeah, I mean, if you had a CO2 gun at your house you could. I don't know, but we've got to talk about that, oh, excuse me.
Speaker 4:Sorry, 420 episode. I don't know that I would have bought this Like on my own. I would this Like on my own. I would not have bought this on my own you 100% would have, you wouldn't buy 90% of the stuff that we have on your own. This is true.
Speaker 1:This is what happens when you get high and buy beer, this is entirely what happens.
Speaker 3:If Purple Kush tasted like this, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:If we tasted like this, I'd be in big trouble.
Speaker 4:Dude, yes, you're talking to the guy that was trying to ask who stepped in dog poop for a long time Because I didn't know what that smell was.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that's days in the past.
Speaker 2:It's a brand great world now.
Speaker 1:By the way, this scoop dog is fantastic.
Speaker 4:I'm wondering if this is what we're Mexican vanilla, Maybe that's. Is that what's kind of adding that little bit different to some of these? What makes it Mexican vanilla? I don't know why I was going to.
Speaker 1:It's probably cultivated in Mexico. I believe. When I read it, though, what it made me think of and I was a little worried is the time where I was like, oh yeah, I'll get the Mexican stout.
Speaker 4:And then I drank it and I was like, ooh, it kind of burns my mouth.
Speaker 2:I don't really enjoy this.
Speaker 4:That's what I thought of, but this is not that.
Speaker 1:That's a little taste. That's a little taste, that's a little taste.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I kind of want to like it really makes me want to do some different things, Try different stuff with it.
Speaker 3:It's just really freaking good. It's tasty. I don't know how many I would have, though. Yeah, we've said it about a million times.
Speaker 1:Give me a fly roll of fruit.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all the versions, all the versions, whatever you got, I still want to go somewhere that has these beers on tap. I've never yeah. I've never the closest You're not going to the Italian restaurant it took me a long time to figure out why I was saying Sherwin-Williams, paint, you put a little stink on it. That's what you said when I put in their address for the place that we looked at. That doesn't have a location last week?
Speaker 3:yeah, thank you that. We looked at that. Doesn't have a location Last week. No, I meant three weeks ago.
Speaker 4:Yeah, thank you. What was I saying? I'm sure we'll end up playing Before that. Oh, I've never been to a place that has smoothie beers on tap. The closest to me would be Great Notion.
Speaker 4:They have some that are a little thicker, but to me it's not a full-on that they have some that are a little thicker and like, but to me it's not like a full on like cause, even this is borderline Like. This is probably more like the great notions of like that type where, yeah, you should probably roll the beer, but I'm thinking more like a full trucker, the smoochie, the chalk, like those ones Like I've never been somewhere to see, like, Well, do that We've talked about that too.
Speaker 3:How do you have it on tap If I have to roll the can, are you?
Speaker 4:agitating the keg the entire time. Do you have like the little thingy?
Speaker 1:inside? Is it in the slush machine?
Speaker 4:Yeah, See, this is what I. And then also do you just replace the lines every time you switch beers? Oh, you'd have to. I don't know that you can just clean that out.
Speaker 1:I almost feel like these are just canned pours, but that also feels like.
Speaker 4:You can't have a flight if it's canned pours. That feels like a waste.
Speaker 1:You just wait until four people order a flight with it and go okay, we got four.
Speaker 2:That feels like a waste.
Speaker 4:You just wait until four people order a flight with it and go okay, we have a four-flight schedule.
Speaker 1:There is zero chance. Didn't we talk about four? No, no, no, no, no, no. You do the, we'll bring one more. You do what I do and you crack the beer and then you pour it, and then you put the Saran Wrap in the rubber band. Boom, until the next one. At at $10 a can. Yes, you are taking extra steps. No, at retail $10 a can. But if you're serving at your taproom at the can, your cost per pour is the flights also are not you read.
Speaker 4:I mean, it's been a couple months now that we read the article about ways to piss off your bartender, or something that they hate doing.
Speaker 3:It was the flights. The flights are like a common one. But go buy beers. This is our controversial 2024 campaign statement Drink draft, drink draft, drink draft.
Speaker 4:I don't disagree with that. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 3:We are 100% behind.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that is our single political statement Drink Draft 2024.
Speaker 3:Support your local brewery. Right here behind.
Speaker 1:Alec at some point today, Ironically we.
Speaker 3:I dressed up for it. I'm running under the Drink Draft 2024 platform.
Speaker 4:Ironically, we mostly don't drink draft on here.
Speaker 1:I've got the gallon keg system here. If we wanted to, I could pour the 16 ounces in. We don't want to do that.
Speaker 3:Too much production. Throw the invite out and we will drink draft. We will drink draft.
Speaker 1:At your facility. We'll take pretty photos of it too.
Speaker 3:We will Even record a video. Thanks, iron Horse. All right, we're ready for the next beer. Yeah, you want to talk about the Unknown Brewing Company Chad, because when I looked it up, they went out of business in 2021.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, from what I could gather, the Unknown Brewing Company please reach out to us, or somebody more knowledgeable than us, but there was only so much Google food I could do. These folks, like a lot of breweries during COVID, had to figure out a way to shift the way they do business. So they partnered up with Bavana, shut down their taproom and whatnot. Like we said, please correct us if we're wrong. If this reaches you, we usually don't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the Unknown Brewing Company, but Alec is doing a beautiful pour Terrible pours, because I'm doing them one-handed, I know. Oh, that one turned out pretty well. Oh, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whips side is weird, yeah, so that's why I was just kind of trailing off here into the sunset. I believe this is a hazy IPA.
Speaker 3:I'm going would top the ledger's lid off.
Speaker 1:I saw milk sugar, which to me says lactose. There might be some lactose in this this is the 420 episode and I might have been high when I read that the address goes to a different brewing company name.
Speaker 4:It just says used to be unknown brewery.
Speaker 3:All right, so they're calling it the Hazy IPA. Haze is the name of the game these days for IPAs, and Giggle Juice sets the bar with a shotgun blast of juicy aromas and tropical. Bright, packed with taste, but never heavy. It is the perfect beer having we're having a laugh after all, life's too serious. Try some giggle juice instead. And they got a budo looking dude on the can. Show that off, yeah that so after you have your. Oh.
Speaker 4:So yeah, how we've had this one for a while, right, so after you have, yeah, so so this was so this was brewed and packaged by new Sarum Brewing, Salisbury, North Carolina, Fort Bovona partners.
Speaker 1:So it seems like yeah, so essentially, these folks are being ghost brewed on behalf of Fort Bovona, who does kind of just an aggregation, like to go or, hey, buy a bunch of beers. There's some other beers that I did order. Are you feeling that off?
Speaker 1:sorry, just like because it's a sticker I can pull off this it does say milk sugar, which to me reads as lactose, which to me reads as lactose. Lactose is a fermentable sugar, right? Yeah, milk, that's what I'm going with, but it's the unknown baroon company You're going to make stuff up.
Speaker 3:What's that?
Speaker 2:smell 5.7%.
Speaker 3:Did we get to that part? Did I skip it? Yeah, 5.7%. You've been killing it with babies lately. Oh, much, much better than last month.
Speaker 1:Oh no, no shit, that was a rough day.
Speaker 4:That was a rough day you have been killing it with missing the ABVs oh yeah, but it's not in the description.
Speaker 3:I didn't read it. I also didn't prep that much for today, so Bro, you're literally wearing a tie. Well, I prepped that. I came straight from work. You guys were smoking weed getting ready for 420. You enjoy your random drug testing a week and a half. Oh no, your boss is going to be pissed. My boss is so fucking pissed.
Speaker 4:What is that? Right, because all it says on tap is guava and milk sugar.
Speaker 3:And they call it on the can. Is it hazing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the pink stripe on the side.
Speaker 4:I mean, are we really calling this hazy?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's hazy in color.
Speaker 3:It's cloudy, yeah, cloudy. I don't know that it would be a full hazy.
Speaker 1:It's a different flavor. Yeah, it's a little. I'm getting a little dank.
Speaker 4:Or are you just imagining the dank?
Speaker 1:Maybe grassy.
Speaker 3:You're just saying that. I'm just saying words. Now I could catch up to that. It's not juicy. No, it's not juicy at all.
Speaker 1:I don't want to call it bunk but there's a flavor that Not an off flavor, but there's just a flavor there that is different than we've had, that we've experienced.
Speaker 3:Well, if they were not a business in 2021, then this is.
Speaker 4:How about?
Speaker 3:Get Stop. Oh hold on, mate. Or Best Buy 12, 15, 23, which I'm assuming is their canned on date.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was canned four months ago.
Speaker 4:That's actually how it's branded.
Speaker 3:No, so it was canned four months ago, that's actually not as bad as I thought it would be, considering it's been in the fridge for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it got here a month ago.
Speaker 4:That's actually a lot better than I thought it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it got in the fridge a month ago. Now I just have so much questions about this whole.
Speaker 4:I mean it's just got to be contract brewing, especially if they got picked up with this.
Speaker 1:Yes, and this is I'm getting confused on.
Speaker 4:So we have You're calling it. What's the place you got this from?
Speaker 1:So Bovada. So, right here on the label.
Speaker 3:Can.
Speaker 2:I see it please B-E-E-A-N-A so you go there.
Speaker 4:I just keep hearing like.
Speaker 1:Bovada, you got it from the gambling site.
Speaker 4:What is going on? What allegedly a gambling site? Guys, definitely definitely not. Let's just associate this up here.
Speaker 1:Legal as I'm going to Los Angeles with my children In a week. I just left the beautiful state of Arizona, where you can bet on anything from anywhere.
Speaker 4:Okay, now I'm going to be Chad.
Speaker 1:Get the sticker off.
Speaker 4:Chad's the asshole. What are you doing? Taking the?
Speaker 1:sticker off.
Speaker 3:The sticker had all of the information that we were just reading. My guess is, what they're doing is they have sold the unknown brewing company. They shut this down to focus on the unknown ginger ale company. Yes, no, I'm not joking, that's a true statement. He has like four or five companies that are all like the unknown blank company and he narrowed down a few of them during COVID, post-COVID to focus on the ones that were making the most money. My guess is Giggle Juice had enough brand following. He could sell or license the brand to Bavonna and then they contract brew. And I don't know anything about this. This is me purely making it up. At this point, Bavonna could be just acquiring hey, you have all good beer but your brewery's failing. We'll buy licensing rights to your good beer that sells, and then we'll find somebody else to make it out and then we'll collect them all and we'll sell you four packs at a fantastic price, and that's exactly the same idea that I got off of what I saw.
Speaker 1:I got the Scoop Dog from Wise man, Very North Carolina based. We might have a future beer when we're at our Portland NASCAR race from a two-time Daytona-winning NASCAR driver in his brewery.
Speaker 4:Michael Waldrop. He had five different. Please don't.
Speaker 3:Don't what but but Mikey.
Speaker 4:Oh God, I forgot you had him. Did you actually meet him? You ran him down. I ran him down. Isn't that how you do it? Did you actually need it? You?
Speaker 1:ran it down.
Speaker 4:I ran it down, isn't that how?
Speaker 1:you do it. We're going to put a photo of it. Yeah, that's fine, I can watch it right here.
Speaker 4:So was that the belt challenge? Yes, yes, at the Clash.
Speaker 3:Yes, it was. I had the belt. It was and you didn't get it. I did not go to the Clash. Is the belt here? The belt is here. Can we get the belt on the video? Okay?
Speaker 1:I did not get to go to the Clash, so RIP Dam House. Yeah. So what we would do at the Dam House.
Speaker 4:I feel like whoever had the belt lost it recently, because it's been over six months since it was last put up for account.
Speaker 3:Ah, they put it up for New Year's Day because whatever. So that's why we're out here. You guys can fight over it. Well, here champ.
Speaker 2:Voice it over.
Speaker 4:You do sound like you're part of some random tag team You're going to like clip on tie and it's going to like come off.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately not a clip on tie it, which basically came down to beer pong. And darts, Yep darts, and we were younger water skiing around a little AP course. Somebody might have been full throttle, hit some mud, went ass over team.
Speaker 4:Oh you could put the belt on anything, yeah, anything, but the originator was the Twice a year. Those games.
Speaker 2:And it has to be put up at least twice, a year.
Speaker 3:Thursday, wednesday and then sometime over the summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my favorite was winning it in Vegas and then I had to Wear it home. Wear it home on the flight home from Vegas. Sir, can you remove your belt to go through the metal detector? Well, I won it on a weekend where there were probably a handful of title fights. People in the airport thought I was some overweight, out-of-shape boxer a la What's-His-Nuts who won it like the heavyweight dude who won it like a few years later.
Speaker 2:He had the belly on him.
Speaker 3:What sport.
Speaker 1:Boxing the heavyweight boxing guy who was like he has a little overweight, a little pudgy, I literally do not know. We're going to cut all this shit out.
Speaker 4:Going back to the original thing, I was out there, put the belt on the line and it became who could get a picture with a NASCAR driver?
Speaker 3:Also, I was the only one who tried. I took pictures of NASCAR drivers on the track from hundreds of feet away that weren't anywhere near me who got close-ish to Jeff Gordon, my brother, okay.
Speaker 2:He took a picture to Jeff Gordon, my brother. Okay, he took a picture of.
Speaker 3:Jeff Gordon. He didn't even selfie himself with Jeff Gordon in the background. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:But he chased down Michael Waltrip. He saw him.
Speaker 3:I asked him hey, Mikey, he took a picture. He said sure, and kept walking at full speed. So I did you gotta catch me Full clip? Took a selfie with him. Winner, winner. Retained the belt for the.
Speaker 1:And that was at the Coliseum. Yes, it was the inaugural Coliseum, so. But anyways, this isn't a NASCAR podcast. No, I was going to go back to the brewing.
Speaker 4:So I looked it up. Unknown Brewing was actually five businesses.
Speaker 2:Yes, I told you that the facility was?
Speaker 4:great.
Speaker 2:And so whoever I saw Pop Flyer, somebody moved into it.
Speaker 4:Probably a great thing. The guy went from Brewery, taproom distillery and ginger ale company and food truck To just the ginger ale company.
Speaker 3:I told you. I wasn't lying.
Speaker 4:It's just so interesting. So I mean I don't so obviously somebody bought, like maybe he sold off the Giggle Juice name to this new Sauron or whatever. So it's interesting, I don't know, Um, Um.
Speaker 1:We're gonna fridge this shit yo.
Speaker 4:What are we?
Speaker 3:starting with Roll the fruit man. We got so many of these that it gets tough.
Speaker 4:And we talked about this. Do we get on its own compared to?
Speaker 1:Compared to other fruited sours. Where does this rest that we've done On the pantheon of fruited sours? Where does this rest that we've done On the pantheon of fruited sours?
Speaker 4:Even though you had to roll it. Are you counting it with the smoothie sours or just the fruited sours? Because, see, that's what? Because I'm thinking like are you really comparing this one to your cucumber sour, which is a fruited sour? I didn't have to roll it.
Speaker 3:But that's the thing I rolled this one, but I don't know that I had to. It says gently roll. The last one said gently roll and it came out as a sour. So as a straight-up fruited sour, it's not top five in either category.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because you would buy a lot of the cucumber sour and drink it all the time. You would not buy a lot of these and drink it all the time. No, chad would buy some of these and drink it occasionally. What are you?
Speaker 3:going to drink this over Mango marshmallow Chalk. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's not top five in either category.
Speaker 4:But it's its own five in either category it, but it's it's its own phenomenal. Like we talked about all the stuff of it. It's a it is a little bit too of a um specialty category, like it kind of like pigeonholed itself a little bit and it's just that like I don't need that grape flavor all the time, but I would. If it were seasonal, I'd buy it a can each season.
Speaker 3:This would be one. I don't think. I don't think you types of people that have random beers in their fridge. When I go over there they'll have Coors Light or Corona. But if I was going over to a brother-in-law's house and it's hey, you want a beer? Yes, I would like a beer.
Speaker 4:And they hand you this.
Speaker 3:No, and they were like this is what I have. I have this Fruited Sour, or I have a Corona, but yeah, fruited Sour. I will take the roll of fruit.
Speaker 4:See and this is where I actually struggle In real life with my beer fridge I don't buy A four pack of every weird thing that I get. So when I do have family come over, I have to explain to them here are the beers you can have. You cannot have these ones Because I bought One of them.
Speaker 3:It cost me $8.50.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like no, you don't get to drink it. Um, yeah, it's really good, it just is not. It's not a top fiver.
Speaker 3:No, but it's the second one from Hoosier. Yeah, both really good, this is one. Ah, they're both. That's where we've been trending and that's spending the money to have it shipped in. You're spending the money. We're not shipping in for the most part IPAs or pale ales and things like that. So it's coming to us from a Hoosier brewing. It's gonna be something funky because it's weird and it makes better content.
Speaker 4:What type of beer is the other beer we got today? It's an.
Speaker 3:IPA.
Speaker 4:Where did it come from? North Carolina? Wherever, just checking.
Speaker 3:Hoosier Brewing. If I'm out there and we've said that a million times I like the stuff that you've made It'd be a safe bet if I'm on a bar in the Midwest and we have Hoosier Brewing, I'll try. I will try, jeff Thoughts.
Speaker 1:I just had a wild-ass thought Uh-oh Shrunk.
Speaker 3:What about the phone you can smell?
Speaker 1:through. I think somebody patented that already. You can smell through. I think somebody patented that already. But you guys kind of talking about we don't get. We live in the Northwest, we're the SEC of beer. Everything has to be by the book. We don't get weird shit like People to be by the book.
Speaker 4:We don't get weird shit like people the port, can I wantI?
Speaker 1:want to disagree with you the breweries that you're going to, you're getting what you get an IPA you're starting ocean but.
Speaker 1:If you had to give me a percentage of breweries in the Pacific Northwest that you would find a roll, the fruit purple punch plus the 5% but yeah, this is what Tabor and Bavana, the tastemakers, we're bringing. We're a Northwest base, we get all this tasty beer locally. I kind Northwest based, we get all this tasty beer locally. We kind of feel bad bringing all this. I kind of feel bad bringing all this nationwide beer, but we're American beer review not just Washington. We're trying to see what there is. I'm a little sad that locally we're not seeing a Purple Punch or a Fruited Sour.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that Obviously the palate of the Northwest beer drinker isn't asking for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4:I'm a little sad. Well, we're just getting enough shipped in. It's not enough of like a need to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's probably also the exact reason why, which is like samples actually yeah, but I got confused.
Speaker 4:54, 40, just don't make these types of beers. I was thinking of 450 north I don't know if any I can think of, like one nice that makes like ish, like that time of day, like, but great notion makes some of these variations that like I've had a pb and j yeah like a beer.
Speaker 4:I don't, I don't know. I don't know any others off the top of my head and they're technically out of portland but have a sponsor. I don't know of any in washington oregon that are doing smoothie beers. Doing those structures does like one a week, one other, they do some, but there's not a lot that are just shipping in, shipping out so there's probably a reason why we're not seeing it locally.
Speaker 1:I wish I could roll into a tap room somewhere and be like oh hey, here's this wild, crazy fruited sour we have, but it's not an everyday drink, it's in my beer fridge. Not an everyday taste, but shit once a year. Fantastic, fantastic flavor to have.
Speaker 3:Well constructed.
Speaker 1:I like it. The pistachio beer was well put together, I like the pistachio was shockingly good. I like the roll of fruit so much better giggle juice if it was, if somebody threw it in the fridge at a party, I'd drink it. There's some flavors I'm not jiving with. It's fun.
Speaker 3:That's kind of where my wisdom giggle just came from. It's not quite a hazy. I mean, they call it a hazy, it's not quite a hazy. I'm upset. How many times have we said I'm not mad about it, it's fun, I'm not going around in my way to get it.
Speaker 1:It's a serviceable IPA. I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 3:I think if I saw it on tap I'd go. I've had it. I'm not getting it compared to it was a tap versus Hoosier. I've never had their IPA.
Speaker 2:Hoosier IPA. I'll give it a shot. I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 3:I'll give it a shot. Yeah, Yule Juice. Yeah, I've tried it before. I've checked it in. I don't need to see it again. You haven't, but yes, I did All right well today.
Speaker 2:Have you not checked my own tab? I did.
Speaker 3:I looked at it the other day. I've been keeping up. Today I check in every single beer I drink.
Speaker 4:I may have this week put alerts on for both of you, so when you check stuff in now and now, Then you will see what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:My ass ain't checking shit in. No, you have not in, quite one. Nope, I gotta keep that. I gotta keep my uh Streak intact, my, yeah, my only check in being the beer, the uh, oh, they have both testicles, yeah, both testicles.
Speaker 4:You've only checked in one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we talked about that with the weird Rocky.
Speaker 1:Mountain.
Speaker 3:Oyster beer Mic drop. Where are you going to go from there?
Speaker 4:You know, that's a solid point, yeah, solid point. It's like Dr Pepper only followed 23 accounts.
Speaker 1:Exactly KFC only following.
Speaker 2:They followed a certain number of spices, and then one dude named.
Speaker 1:Herb following. They followed certain number of spices and then one dude named Herb because it's yeah alright, our glasses are empty.
Speaker 3:These guys are going to go burn one down, scooped up. So catch you next time Time.
Speaker 4:Perfect 45 minutes. We put a lot of news articles in that we never actually talk about it goes, it goes.
Speaker 3:That's the entire reason.
Speaker 1:That's the entire reason they're there.
Speaker 3:Unless it flows or there's one that fits directly.
Speaker 4:No, that's what.
Speaker 3:I'm saying Unless it fits Like hey, we're drinking some weird-ass beers. Fun fact, we have a news article.
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