Beer of the Day Podcast - Orange County - July 13th, 2016 - Beer of the Day

They're going to be here at the game podcast from the beer of the day bunker three hundred meters below the hills of Pasadena. This is the beer of the day we recently made a trip down to Orange County and tried a bunch of beers there and brought a bunch of beers back and we're going to those on the show tonight too. From noble Hill works in Anaheim two from system on stage Brewing Company in Santa Ana two from the brewery in Anaheim and a strange grew from bootleggers in Fullerton joining me today Jeff Bill are returning to us for his second episode cabin fever. Hey guys a good evening. How you doing. Good looking for drinking some beer tonight. It's our first show of the second season of The Beer of the day podcast

episode fifty one and we're doing this show on our new set of podcast and equipment that stays here lives at Jeff's place in Southern California. So we're working the kinks out of the equipment here but should go pretty well I think yeah and just to clarify you know we spent some time in Orange County we went to a lot of these breweries but most of these beers we have not had I think there's only one that we've had before. So these are breweries we went to but we picked up some beers that we're going to try for the first time tonight. Yeah. Welcome back. Kevin. Thank you for having me back how you feel and I'm I'm excited. You know. I've been to a lot of these areas as well but I haven't tried these. All right well let's get into the first one we have I love it. I P.A. from Noble Il works in Anaheim seven point five percent and I think this is a name for this to this called I love it but I think that's what kind of reminded me of and this is not the L.A. show we have we have been to some L.A. breweries as well and we have an L.A. show lined up so soon but these are little more farther south Orange County beers. So I don't think I like the name of the spears just weird for me to call a beer. I love it. But man the Eromanga smells really really good. It's a little bit like stones delicious I.P.A. you know I'll be the judge if I love a beer or not true. It's like hey I brought you this beer I love it. You love it. Oh great. It would no no no I've never had it before but that's just the name of it. Oh OK. Well it does have more of the copper amber color on it a little darker than most I.P.A. but it's good. Now feel very little head on. It just a thin film on the top. I get kind of a sweet caramel malt maybe some a little bit of floral hops maybe a ever so slight pine but not much it's kind of a more of a flowery hop aroma. It's got a very fresh taste I mean now that you mention the stone delicious I.P.A. It kind of reminds me of like The enjoyed by beers from Stone It's

got a very fresh Hop be a little dainty just a fresh there's some citrus a little floral I like it. It's very tasty. This reminds me of some Pacific Northwest hops where you get kind of that passion fruit flavor to the hop really fruit forward beer. You know what's a grapefruit feel to the sort of hops. I'm looking for something in this beer. I can't seem to find it I get the Great for it. There's a I think it a citrus and there's just a slight bitterness in the aftertaste that is fright that I get from citrus beers that have hops in the center slavers pretty low carbonation just a really hot forward I.P.A. I don't want to be cliche but I love it. I like it you know it's got this is solid. I'm impressed. You know noble it works. We've been there. It's in Anaheim it's really close to like where the angels play and the docks is over there called the docks. I don't like the docks I'm just getting it's close there so I've been there before a hockey game before and it is packed with fans it's really close to the stadium and they make some really really good beers but I like this one. I'm still in love with more than ninety sauce than I am with this one even though not a sausage some different the main thing there. Everyone has to try it you have not the sauce from Will works. Yes. What kind of beer is that it is a Milk Stout it is creamy has coffee feel to me coffee aroma is just delicious you if you haven't tried the mix out or that the nice sauce you have to try it it's a must try. Yeah it's I agree it's probably the best beer. I had it recently on niter and that made it even better and you know some beers do really well and I try and others don't and it was excellent and I trow this is a place I went to before where the ducks were playing the Kings and they had both factions of fans and yeah. Two probably two beer bars. Exactly. Yeah yeah pretty fun place. It was packed too. Yeah. You know even if you're in there if you're in L.A. and you can't get out the orange county city makes a similar type of the air you know they're both out and about the white knight and no not everyone's a fan of the white knight but I'm a fan of the white knight. It's a great There are well we finish this when we would have any

interesting beers this week. I had one I want to share with you guys a friend. Lance brought back. Well a friend of Lance's brought back three Floyd's the alpha King pale ale which three Floyds is a pretty well known brewery but you can't get that out in California it's from Indiana and I have never had three forwards before to my to my knowledge and I said it many years ago but this friend brought it back from Chicago and it was excellent. It was kind of like East Coast style almost like an I.P.A. lots of caramel malt brown sugar but kind of this buttery creamy mouth feel I really enjoyed it and I'm hoping to try a lot more of their beers in the future. Excellent. I had an interesting bit this week. Alpine San Diego. They make the Happy birthday the almost almost Piney I was brought me back to when I visited Mendocino you know you felt like you were in the redwood trees. Not too hot for it but you know even though there San Diego cosmos San Diego beers you know what especially when they make the I.P.S. they're very hot for it. This was pretty balance. Not too high gravity or what we say not too much high alcohol. So it was delicious. I mean it's pretty much a session I.P.A. it's only five point two five percent and on our last show actually episode fifty our first anniversary show that was the first year we did on that show it was. You know Happy happy birthday to beer of the day and so you can actually hear our little review of that on the previous episode. I want to move into the next beer. We have the bigger brother of I love it from no Will works. This is Galaxy showers double I.P.A. coming in it. Eight point eight percent. It's about the same color. I mean it's very similar in color to the I love it but a higher I'll call. I

know how this beer so I'm itching to try this. I've been looking for this beer for like the last week you know so hard to find it. No one had it so I'm really excited. Well luckily we have it here in the beer of the day bunker. Yeah we have a few connections here based on our status so we've got the hook up with this. Yeah double I.P.A. it's about the same color darker than a lot of I.P.S. But you know there tends to be some double I.P.A. is that are on the darker side. I'd say the other one was a more of a copper color this has a little bit more orange to it so Amber. Go ahead same thin had I get the same kind of a fresh top aroma it. Damn their taste like I love it with a little bit more of a body. So they figured out they could act if they just make one batch of beer and put it in two different bottles and people buy both of them they sell double. What's interesting that we're trying both of these back to back which we don't do a lot of I mean we we we tend to some shows where we'll have like six or eight beers and you know different breweries. So this is a good show that we're having to from this brewery to from another one to from another one. But yeah this taste remarkably similar I do get just a hint more alcohol but it is very similar but it's just slightly more bluesy a little bit more bold. Maybe not quite as fresh as the last one but very similar. These are both very fresh. Let me look at the bottles for a quick but yeah this was just bottled less than a month ago which you know I pay as you want to drink as fresh as possible. This was just bought on June thirteenth and the I Love It was bought on June tenth. So both you know. Less than a month old we were recording this July eighth. Yeah it kind of had that the difference in the two beers kind of resembles you know we have a should maybe have like show me why. Blue some a red you know the only real difference is is the alcohol content. This is pretty much what it has. That's a good comparison. Yeah I think it's actually a little smoother to me I just this is surprisingly. I mean either it's hard for me to drink but this is you know a lot of double I.P.A. is tend to be harder for some people to drink than this like a single I.P.A. but this is actually a very smooth lances here helping us pour the beers tonight and every time someone makes a good comment he doesn't have a microphone but he just nodded approval. So was I me say something that you get that reassurance it's actually pretty good. One of these days. We'll have him on a show he likes to produce right now. You know he's he's producing pouring tonight. Produce it in tasting to yes he's got the easy job. He just drinks and doesn't have to say anything. All right let's get into the beer news of the day. All right well I'm going to go on a show the first news article. Stone Brewing which if I recall was the beer that we had most frequently on the podcast Last year more stone beers and any other beer sixteen stone obviously from

California has opened their brewery in Richmond Virginia and today. In fact earlier tonight was the release of its first beer that they made on the premises in Richmond Virginia. So they had a you know a public event open. You know open to the public to come in and try this beer. They had the stone I.P.A. which I think everybody is probably pretty familiar with as well as the Virginia brewery prototype. Which is a test batch of stone I.P.A.. So pretty cool stone obviously is a huge brewery craft brewer the biggest in California expand into the East Coast and as of today they are brewing in Richmond Virginia. Yeah that's pretty exciting. It's a lot of series of bad as over there in Asheville North Carolina stone is in Richmond and we have these breweries that are big proponents of the West Coast Poppy beers and now they're on the East Coast and you know the East Coast beers are a little different. They're not as hot forward but we're going to start seeing a little cross homogenization here. Of west coast West migrating East. Yeah I'm really interested in knowing you know what what Stone is going to do differently because you know as you know the East Coast bears they use they have a little more balance and it's not as hot forward

and the West Coast. You know is just crazy hot for I mean if you look at east coast I.P.A. you have like the ninety minute to sixty minute. And it is a little more balance so I wonder how the people are actually going to you know to get in and then even more of a shock is is that stuff. And is opening their birth Lin brewery. I think next year. And you know that we were in Germany last year and they think American beer is Budweiser you know they don't even know a couple place we went to had green flash but they don't know what we're doing here and all of Europe is like that and now Stone's going to have a brewery in Berlin in the beer capital of the world basically and you know be able to distribute to Europe and that's going to be even more of a of a beer culture shock them stone having a brewery in Virginia. But I that's going to be interesting. I wonder if they're going to make the beers any differently in Virginia like this prototype. I don't know if they'll even ship that out here I mean stones distribution is huge but I don't know if they would bother to make a beer there and ship it to California but it would be interesting to see if the recipes exactly the same or if they alter it at all. Well I've talked to the brewer it's

here in Nevada and they spent basically two and a half years getting seared about a pale ale brewed in Asheville to be the same as the beer brewed here in the PH balance getting the hops getting everything to so that if someone who's an expert taster can't tell the difference. And they're trying to get that same beer over there to now that's their pale ale which is like their very mainstream type of approachable beer. Stone. You know I don't know that they might go different things. You know

because obviously getting the same hops in the same place is the same ingredients in the same places as difficult so they might venture off a little bit on each brewery and we'll see. We've got to make a future trip out there. All right well next story allegation is come out with a new beer made entirely of ingredients that are from main. Alec gas. Jason Perkins is the band behind this sixteen counties recipe this stuff we're getting from Maine grain this is a mail off and now you can sourcing his ingredients the malts and grains from a number of Mills and farms throughout and only in May he wanted to be very much in our gas beer. We grew only Belgian style beers here but we also wanted it to kind of showcase the malls and there and that and the grains that are in there because that's kind of what that point behind it. While Perkins had long dreamed of growing up like truly made me a beer. It actually wasn't possible until recently when mains first malt houses soap and shop or in some of

these small producers started making a small house and producing malted barley You know it just seemed like the right time for us to work with down. So this kind of caught my attention because we just booked our trip we're going to be coming to the New England area in October and we're going to fly into Boston New Hampshire Maine in a couple days in Vermont and kind of scope out the beer scene in that part of the country. We've never been there before in the last ten years or so. So we don't really have any idea about all the craft beer that's there. But obviously it's one of those booming parts of the country and so we will be at allegation on the afternoon of October sixth. And I don't know if they'll still have their sixteen counties Belgian style ale at that point time with all main ingredients but maybe they will actually have that beer this week I forgot to mention it. It's very good a friend brought it over and it's I mean it all their beers. I like I mean they're all Belgian style like he said but it was it was cool and I like the concept of doing it from all main ingredients nice. So in other news Boulevard Jeff. So they have opened a new visitor center and beer. Also Boulevard is in Kansas City and if you listen to our Kansas City and beyond show we went to Kansas City a few months ago went to Boulevard. And it. We were a little underwhelmed I would say by the facilities. I mean we like their beer but for their scope and size of their brewery the tasting room was was tiny and you know we had some good beers but it was we were very stock to how small the place was. And you know long lines to get this beer. So it's cool to see that they've opened a new visitor center and beer hall will have to go back. It's spread out over two floors. We probably saw it you know being built. While we were there and it includes an exhibit on the history of beer and Kansas City Brewing. There's a bigger gift shop tasting room you know what you would expect there's an outdoor

deck and apparently some good views of the downtown Kansas City skyline nice. So yeah if you haven't heard that we did on the boulevard episode eighteen of this program back in October of two thousand and fifteen. And we had seven of the beer Boulevard beers on there and we've done two other so nine total on this podcast so far one was on our Kansas City show because we were in Kansas City just maybe six months ago. OK And then another pretty fun article to read this week was the most expensive cities worldwide to drink a beer and this was in Forbes ranking released by Google euro. And so they gave us ten cities and how much it costs. Number one is blue sun in Switzerland on the shores of Lake Geneva the city with the highest beer prices in the world. The price for a beer seventeen dollars and sixty cents for thirty three cent to leaders which is eleven ounces of beer. It's pretty surprising to me because when we were in Europe. I thought overall beer was pretty cheap. Yeah I mean you

expected to be a little more expensive in Belgium Belgium because it's like ten percent. In Prague where it's like five or six percent very cheap but you're drinking it by the leader and you know around Europe there's a lot of different but never seventeen dollars and sixty cents. That's a little bit insane that pain seventeen dollars and sixty cents for every year and often these places. None of these countries make it bear Hong Kong to Paris last week we talked about Paris just now being up and coming with beer but obviously there you know a wine culture Zurich Milan Abu Dhabi. You know having been in the Middle East in Qatar in Doha and in Dubai. But probably about ten bucks a beer. You know I know one drinks there you know it's not a you know it's hard to find to be here in the whole country. You know there's like one bar. It's like supply and demand though if you raise the prices. Exactly. They've got to raise the prices to you know. Should I want to pay twenty dollars for a beer. I don't care at that point I was so it was dry town and that if that's the case and Las Vegas should be on this list. It should be Singapore New York. Everything's expensive New York Rome same thing. Tel Aviv. So basically these are like the most

expensive cities in the world have the most expensive beers that makes sense. It's just like the cost of living is higher. So they're very cost more if you look at this list these are the I mean it's not the exact list of the most expensive cities but overall these are expensive cities to live in definitely. All right let's get into the next beer. Jeff and I went to this brewery two weeks ago. Sis Montane Brewing Company in Santa Ana California. This is the mesa. This is an interesting. Beer I was going to make of the strange brew but we even found a stranger one so this is a beer that is what does it but it's made with Riesling it's it's like sort of part beer part wine and it's made one hundred percent with wine grape yeast it's going to be interesting. Like the color. You know we're looking at this bottle. It's it's very light in color a little cloudy. It's got a little bit purple though there's not a hue. It reminds me of that purple haze we had a couple weeks ago. You have the smell it smells skunky not like hopscotch but this gunky Yes it does but definitely on any other show this would be a strange brew I mean we've never had a beer like this. That's basically made with wine grapes. I mean we've had beer with great must like the talk fish head sixty one minute. But whether this is what a certain percentage of it is actually wine is not one hundred percent wine you know like that. Yeah but it's forty percent Riesling and sixty percent pilsner malt and then you know then they put some hops obviously but it's fermented with one hundred percent wine east as we said it's like it's supposed to be a collaboration between a wine maker and a beer maker and Riesling German varietals pilsner very German So it's kind of a German

amalgamation my palate is a bacon fees right now. And has no idea if it's tasting a beer or wine. I mean it's a little it's not really sour Batiste little bit like a ghost does it. It isn't have the the sour. Tartness No but it has the mouth feel and the yeast of a what isn't what's in Syria about it. OTOH bases it like cactus is it. No but it's a goes. Style right so you're that's what you're getting very similar. It's similar reminds me of that I didn't I would not have guessed this but this

tastes like a good like summertime refreshing. Sit out on the patio when it's one hundred degrees out and you drink this beer. It's like if you want to glass of white wine which I never really want but if you want white wine but you're a beer drinker. This could be it. Any white wine drinker that wants a beer. This is going to be good for them and it's six percent very light drink couple very low carbonation So that's what really throws me for a loop here and makes it seem like wine is because wine doesn't have carbonation and this basically doesn't either. You really get that wine taste at the very end. It's almost almost a sour taste. Like it has you know a lot of the sour beers have bettered my season it but it. It's very dry it is kind

of dry finish. It's interesting I mean I don't like it. I don't love it but I mean it's very drink a bowl. It is so Jeff and I went to this brewery two weeks ago and it is interesting place. It is next to a minor key some tire center boys Jiffy Lube one of those one of those three boys I think Pep Boys. So you drive into the parking lot and you get your car serviced and then you walk twenty yards down and to the right is a brewery it's the same building as Pep Boys and which is interesting. They

the place was packed. They had one guy working who I think is one of their Brewers also and you know he was a really cool guy. Let us try whatever we wanted very rustic It's like you're walking into a saloon in Deadwood a little bit and. Good beer. I mean we tried pretty much everybody. They had they probably had fifteen or so but I guess you get an oil change in a child's bare the same time it's perfect. You could I was really impressed I I. So we went to this before a concert. And we were

just looking up some beers before the concert and it turned out to be a really interesting brewery like Dallas said this guy's working by himself he's working his ass off. There's like ten people there later on. There's like thirty or forty and I've never seen so many work so hard and this guy's the only employee he was really cool. Everybody like the locals all like him. But it was great. They had one beer that I really enjoyed in particular they make a red double I.P.A. called Double rainbow they don't bottle it or can it. You can only get it at the brewery but it was really amazing like you know the type of I.P.A. and especially the red I.P.A. It was awesome. So if you can make it to Santa Ana to this brewery I would highly recommend getting that beer. Yeah. So they also have taco truck there and I went out there. I only had eight dollars cash and I went up to the guy and I was like you know we're hungry what can we get get for how many talkers come to get for eight dollars and he's

like doing some math and he's like fifteen why I'm like well how about eight. OK great. You must not have been good at math. Well they were great. Talk us to where they were I've been dreaming about those talk goes for since we were there but didn't he

bring us the wrong food but we didn't even know it when we a that we brought us food we devoured it and then came back litters like I think I gave you the wrong food. I don't know it was good great beer they had sixteen or so different beers. I'd highly recommend Santa Ana for this place. Let's get into the next beer which is one we actually had there. And so this is the only beer tonight that Dallas and I have had before. But we really thought highly of the spear and everybody did everybody did everyone was coming in and ordering this beer they couldn't believe how popular it was all thirty people that were getting in all the change and beer. Yeah well there's definitely some locals there who you know they know everybody by name and you know we they know where with beer of the day and we tell them who we are and they're like oh you got to try this beer and I didn't even ordered it. First I got like tasters. And yeah English Porter like OK you know now big deal. We tried the other more exotic Koreans. Yeah but. Several people came in and sat down next to us and were talking to us and said Oh you had that six in a verse or Yet you know. Oh you got to try it. So we tried it and we ended up buying it. Yeah and this is not a style I like I mean an English Porter is not a beer that I gravitate towards by any means. And that's why I didn't go for it initially but they really talked us into it. I mean they talked this up as being so good and man I was sure glad we tried it because

this is a tasty beer so it is made with blackstrap molasses. I don't know exactly what those are. But they make this beer really good. I usually do not like molasses in my beer. I've brewed a few beers of molasses and I don't like molasses. Every time I see molasses on the greens. I hate molasses. But this beer is it's it's very good. It's very dark in color dark dark brown. It's not completely black. There's a little bit a light shining through on the edges but not much a little red like some red heat some molasses on the aroma. But it's kind of some brown sugar too. It's a little bit lighter. They roam a little sweeter. Some black licorice in the aroma a little bit and he says Excuse me. This is good. This is good. I mean in English. Here's a user you know you always have that there it's very well balance a lot of a lot of American bears have been made from the English beers and we just change it by throwing a bunch of hops in to be honest but yeah it's not bad. I mean it's nine point five percent and it's a little boozy I mean you can taste you get a little alcohol kick but it's drinkable not much it's pretty smooth. There's just enough sweetness in there to balance it out but you really get those nice dark MOL roasted malts and then the sweetness on top of that does it kind of remind you of like one of the Firestone bears. Like a light version of it. Yeah I mean Firestone having Walker in the Firestone Walker. You know they do a lot of English type stuff and they do a lot of these you know the velvet Merlin and yeah that's what I think of sticky monkeys a quad you have ever built. Merlin or American or whatever. What one of them is oatmeal I don't know Jeff is going through his Firestone boxes he keeps every box he ever bought the velvet Merc stout. OK so if you are like that but it is a nice medium body there give you a little kick you know if you're watching a movie you know watching a movie when you go. Netflix and show. If you want to call it it it will set you straight. It's a super fresh air. I mean it's smooth Oh it's so smooth. I don't get much kick it's really sweet and it's just great tasting I get a kick in addition to what you would expect like the the molasses the caramel malt the toffee toffee

definitely some toffee. Also some like dark fruit. Maybe some like Cherry like Black Cherry Yeah that's very dark fruits that are not not really sweet but there's that you know slight fruitiness that balances everything out. I like it. We're going to take a break when we come back we have three more beers try this strange brew from heat liquors coffee Chipotle a stout I'm not looking forward to that and then two extremely strong beers from the brewery will be right back. You're listening to hear the Dave product at our if you enjoy this podcast and the beer of the Day website and want to know how you can support us. You can do so by shopping on Amazon through the beer of the Day website. We have a banner at the very top of the site that says support beer the day by shopping on Amazon you click that or you go to Amazon dot beer the day dot com It'll just redirect you straight to Amazon you do your regular shopping and then we get a little percentage of what you spend it does not cost you anything more the prices don't go up. It's the same old Amazon as you're used to but we get a little bit of commission and that helps us pay for everything that we use on this show and on the website. That's the Web hosting our e-mail service that we use to send out the beer the day e-mails each day are S.M.S. service where we send a text message with the bigger the date to your phone. There's all the beers that we have on the show and all the podcasting Quitman there's a ton of expenses and by shopping on Amazon through the beer the day website you help us out a lot for example just today somebody bought Hill's Science Diet and jerky dog treat bag seven point one ounces. Apparently one of. Our listeners' has a fat dog that needs diet jerky treats. As for me actually cheaper than buying regular Reve jerky. So from that purchase we receive twenty four cents and we're going to take that twenty four cents and put it towards beer on our future program. So thank you very much for that. Also you can help us by telling a friend about our show we grow by you letting your beer drinking friends know about us. So if you have a friend likes craft beer. Show them how to download the podcast on their phone or just send them the link to bere

the day podcast dot com And that's going to help us out as well we're starting our let's get back to the show. Welcome back to the beer of the day podcast. It's our Strange Brew segment by now everyone knows what this is this is where we find the

strangest brew that we can find that fits the theme and that beer tonight from Orange County is black Phoenix coffee Chipotle a stout from bootleggers brewery in Fullerton California. Any time I see that word Chipotle lay in a beer name. It's just I just don't think I'm going to like it. I'm afraid of it. I don't I don't even want to drink it. But I'll try it because there are my jack in a box to poll a sandwich. It reminds me of heartburn and heat. But Jeff said that he loved his beer. Well he had it so I'm keeping an open mind. So I realized that I lied earlier when I said I've only had one of these Piers because I realize now I've had two. So I had this a year ago. Lance and I and a few other friends went to a a beer fest in Newport Beach and I remember this being the most interesting beer that I had at the beer fest I don't remember who was the best beer but it was the most memorable. This is same brew fest we went to a two three episodes ago. Yes but the previous year. Bootleggers was there and I remember this beer. It was the most memorable. All right so this is a very dark brown beer it looks like Pepsi Cola. It's very almost almost black but some reddish brown highlights you know it's maybe just a hair lighter than the

previous beer the English Porter from Sis Montane. I get on the aroma. I'm looking for that chipotle the spice and I don't go there you know which is promising. I mean it smells like a stout I mean it. It's got the you smell the toffee and the roasted malts and roasted multiples predominantly it's what you would expect minus the Chipotle a very light priced out. I almost expected to like her malt back down and it's not smoky it is spicy though you get a little a little bit of spice at the end I think it's a little smoky I got a little smoke on that taste a little bit. Yeah this is a lighter than you would imagine. But at five point five percent that's about right. But it's American style out. So you think it's going to be heavier you prepare yourself for that but it's really kind of in the vein of like Guinness where it's kind of a lighter stout. Look at We've had a lot of beers that have peppers and they just kick you in the face this having chipotle in the name. There's a hint of it but as

it's not that that strong. It's not it's very drink of will. I'm a little bit second sippin there's sometimes a cumulus cumulative nature of pepper where it builds the more you drink it. So I'm looking for that but it's not like way over the top like you'll get with those a lot of those triple A spice beers sculpin Harben arrow. Oh my God. But no I mean don't get me wrong there are some pepper and it does build after a couple steps and you fill it like in your throat a little bit but it's not

spicy I mean it's like a beer like sculp and habanero scope and it's very difficult to drink this beer is not difficult to drink it is tolerable. I like the roasted malts with hints of pepper. It's just a hint it's like black pepper really it's like you. It's like you know you put a little extra black pepper on whatever you're eating and that's kind of what you get in the back of the throat. It's not that spicy overwhelming burning in your mouth type of feel. It's kind of like having the the green Tacos the green sauce and set of the red sauce that you talk us through what about the coffee do you guys get much. Coffee flavors in this. I forgot about the coffee until you just mentioned it. So no I mean there's a little bit but it's like the

the Chipotle A It's pretty subtle it's there when I when I tell you there's coffee in this I think you. You probably say Oh yeah I taste a little coffee. But if you didn't know there was coffee in this. I don't know if you would you know when should it. You know after four or five sips now I get a little of that pepper in the back of my throat but I don't get the coffee flavor. So I'd say it's more pepper than it is coffee. I really want to a lot more coffee elease if you don't give me coffee fully cup of coffee flavor give me the coffee aroma and release that. Yeah. Or else. Don't say coffee. I like it though. I mean it's it's a strange brew the coffee in the Chipotle a bit it's it's interesting it's drink a bowl. This is a beer. I would have again but just one. I can't sit down and have multiple of this beer. No it's not one I would seek out. I'd say with the mace. It's a toss up. Which one a stranger. I think the mesas stranger in terms of the wine. The reason grapes in the why nice to why nice. It's something we don't ever have. But this is also strange on any any given show either one of these would be a strange brew. Yeah but you know that there really were weird thing about this beer is that I think the more you drink it the more I feel like that to put a peppers like Powells up on my own my palate does you know I was thinking back to when we went to this prairie not real recently but as probably six or seven months ago really cool place in Fullerton. They have two really tasty beers I like One is the plum riot which is a Belgian double. And also the far out I.P.A. and this is an FULLERTON It's Orange County. But this is I think it up and coming brewery this is we're only having one of their beers on the show but I you know we went there and and I thought it was a cool place with really really interesting beers so another place I would recommend in this part of the northernmost part of Orange County. Yeah the plum right he mentioned. First of all the breweries very cool very laid back picnic table sunny day human sized was going on. Jeff made this the beer of the day plum riot on March second of this year and they serve it in a mason jar and this is the club. He has beer I've ever seen. It is completely opaque and bright orange it looks like a pumpkin pulp or something. If you go to our website here the day dot com look up plumber just we're going to bootleggers and you can see all their beers but look up plumber and that photo was taken at the brewery. When we were there really cool and kind of like the hipster mason jar. But really tasty but I think they're what they're probably best known for the necklace sandwich which is you know the double I.P.A. Now that one's at least when it comes up

I.P.A. that's in my top five. Is it. Yeah I've had it. I was probably produced don't remember it but he had it. I had it all right well let's get into the next beer these next two are from the brewery. Oh I'm worried about these coming in. Sixteen point four percent and nineteen point two percent when has that ever scared you scared me it's scares me. The first one is chocolate salty B.B.L.S. it's a barrel age Imperial Stout I thought that's a salty balls it pretty much sets out the balls. Sixteen point four percent south the brewery Anaheim been there. Jeff was there and he was there so we ordered the eight tasters apiece or something and they're all like sixteen point five percent and each one was tough to get down. They have so many beers they have thirty beers and well keep in mind we went there the day after we did our Claremont craft ale show at the brewery on location which was you know awesome. And we went we decided after the whole day of drinking to go to the brewery the next day. That's true. So maybe a little bit unfair to you guys going to so drinking these beers the morning after a long. Not a drinking. True. All right so let's give this a try. The morning after a long it is inking pretty much as black as night. There is pretty much zero head on it to speak of I think it's more it's pretty brown. I don't call this black. This is a very very dark brown but there are some red highlighted areas around the edges of the glass. There's no head the no head little

carbonation the smell is roasted malts and booze. Yep I mean it's barrel aged so I'm this is a barrel aged Imperial Stout hopefully it's smooth. This is been sitting in my wine fridge for six months or so it's good I like the white chocolate. I really do like the white chocolate. It's chocolatey there. There is it taste like some dark chocolate that's melted and with some bourbon added in it is strong. This is what you call a sip or very very strong very strong. So let's talk about the flavors we get though I get a lot of bourbon from the bourbon barrel that this is aged and it's an oak some some sweetness there's some I don't want to say molasses because we had molasses with the other beer but there's some brown sugar not a lot of hops I mean you don't expect to get hop flavor from a beer. That's the strong. It's called Chocolate Salty. I don't get much salty I can say that I don't either. This beer is so strong that I can barely drink it. You know I would rather drink straight bourbon than

this. It tastes a little bit like straight bourbon. It does I get chocolate. I think a lot of sweetness. I get the bourbon. I do not get. In the salt whatsoever. If there was salt in this beer. It was taken over by now but there's a lot of malts there's a lot of sweetness a lot of chocolate. It tastes like a lot of alcohol. Oh a whole lot of alcohol. It tastes like a chocolate milkshake with a lot of alcohol and melt. This is the kind of beer. You need when you're like twenty one. And you're still in college and so what about the I'm looking at the bottle and it says it's you know we know it's obviously an Imperial Stout Asian bourbon barrels. But it has been millipedes and cocoa nibs and salt. I mean I get the coke an abscess I get some

Bonilla you get a vanilla a little bit like tad bit as I don't get the salt but this is you know it's bold it's robust it's I don't think it's boozy though I mean for the title of Lucy. It's so me. I love my imperial style. I love the way. I love Goose Island. There's I love North Coast rest Putin barely dressed Putin I like us very dearly to Nora Wall these are all eleven percent beers you get in the sixteen. It's over the top on the alcohol. It's barely drink a bowl for me. We are drinking this at the perfect temperature because the bottle says to drink it to store it and cellar it and drink it at fifty five degrees which is what my wine fridge said that wine beer fridge mostly beer mostly beer. So when you're drinking this at the optimal

temperature. I mean this is one we have to drink together. I cannot on a Friday night drink this myself. No human clone don't do it. I'm glad you guys are here to share this with me. Normally at these particular as Jeff is here drinking by himself and we are up in Sacramento the five of us drinking. And so for once we can drink a sixteen percent beer and it just doesn't. I have to drink you know I mean but if you really think about it. Like most beers that have this much sweetness typically have to really you know balance it out you need something to balance out and it's just sweetness so it was just pure alcohol it is gushing through your veins. So I mean you know it might sound good but it's only because I hear a little bit of the roasted

malt and sweetness. That's all that can balance out the alcohol in this you know it's not enough one piece of news that I want to share we're full of news tonight we have so many news articles but this is from the brewery. And the brewery has a spin off called the brewery to row which is on our website. Many of you will know this you've done a few brewery tour to Rio beers on the podcast previously. Yes So the brewery that is probably more familiar to everybody is in Placentia California. Great

name. They have opened a second location this brewery Tero it's in Anaheim it's like five or ten miles away. It's not very far. But this the second location it's owned by the same company but they are going to focus on the sour or the wild wild ales the experimental stuff which I thought the brewery was really already doing but maybe this is more to the extreme and the news that I mention is that today was the grand opening of the tasting room for the brewery. Taro in Anaheim so I'm looking forward to going there in the future if you want to try some wild sour experimental stuff close by. There they make some great beers too we had a beer recently that was the beer of the day that was the blue B.B.L.S.. Probably the best beer I've had from this brewery ever it was so smooth it was another one of these like sixty. Eighteen percent I think. I like the brewery to row ones better than the actual brewery beers because the last few have had it been a little over the top for me on the Newport Beach in So Cal beers program episode forty six I mentioned a few times tonight we had the brewery Toro oday tart with cherries. I remember liking that one quite a bit. I like that I like their chocolaty caramel type ones more so than the first

ones. Except for the blueberry one was amazing. Well you know the brewery used to have a really good sour program but that the brewer that was there left for the rare barrel which is in Oakland. So if you really want to try some you know. Some sours you know what you know they probably replace it with someone who's really good but someone who's really really got a sour as you talk about World Beer cops every single year the rare peril in Oakland is amazing incoming transmission. You've got mail. Comments this week we get a lot of it's been a couple weeks since we did a show so they've been piling up and we had a few on the Fourth of July beer with that we had we had liberty ale from anger brewing in San Francisco. J.J. Miller that guy. I only read this is three. But this is still a respectable beer that paved the way for a lot of beer so we drink today. They've been making this beer for forty years so it's obviously stood up well over time that is a good point. Aker I mean so many California breweries drew inspiration from anchors I.P.A. and liberty ales the exception. I think last year we did the twenty first Amendment through free or die on Fourth of July and we switched up into Liberty ale this year new user Dubey aged tea from Coningham Pennsylvania. And he signed up just to promote Coningham and ham Brewing Company absolutely positively great craft beer you do not want to miss this company. I don't know if he's affiliated with the company or not doesn't sound like he has otherwise he'd be a little bit more of a polished comment so I think this is just a fan that one should check it out. So if you're in Pennsylvania. Check it out next time we're in Pennsylvania. We will check it out. Kent K.S. I'm in can't in Minneapolis Minnesota commented on Devil dancer from the founders' brewing in Grand Rapids Michigan your discussion of the best time to drink this was spot on. Except for the explosion of hops in your mouth. This really is more of an old ale or barley wine best enjoyed in a snifter or on a cold night in front of a fire the snifter allows the hot aroma to shine and prepare you for the upright hop overload before getting into the warming effect of the high A.B.V. and I love hearing that when we're spot on and I refuse. They can't. Thanks for all your comments. We appreciate it is very good and just reiterating what you reiterated what we said is that we really enjoy that the wrong time of year it's really more of a winter type of beer to try Peabo Hop be pills Firestone Walker Brewing Company in Paso Robles California this is from J M five sixty two had Peabo fresh on tap people is probably the best tasting American pilsner I've had at this time it's super crushable beer. It has really nice sweet bready Malta aroma and some floral for the hops just enough bite upfront and then smooth down the hatch very nice. I remember right in the description for that beer on the beer their website and in not as. The words I pretty much said the same thing very poppy drink a bowl pilsner ant and I am five six two you've been commenting on a lot of beers lately and thank you for that is much appreciated. Keep it up. We try that and it would be another beer that a podcast without a comment from our good buddy Rich. Oh Buckeye and not he commented on our first anniversary show podcast fiftieth episode of the beer the day podcast back on June twenty first and he says Poppy hot BE HOT be anniversary one year fifty EPS Congrats and I love getting a mention in be included in your milestone episode. Thanks as always for a great listen. Can't wait for the next year and more episodes Well we're almost done with one episode for you Rich. So enjoy those were all comments on the beer the day website go to beer the day dot com Create an account you can comment on any of the beers that we feature for the beer of the day on Facebook. We're at Facebook dot com slash the beer the day and we featured purple haze from a B. to brewery in Louisiana and a bunch of people commented on this. This was a beer on our in Louisiana and Florida north coast Gold Coast Gulf Coast. Yes Rick Nelson New Hampshire good New Orleans brew. That's where I had it with my bro Bruce hope. Rick and Bruce enjoyed it there. Johnny D. barber and told this is one of my favorite beers. Justin Smith in Illinois. Courtney because you like the bucks. I guess Courtney like the packaging is purple it's very attractive. Courtney in Illinois. Exactly. L.O.L.. And it worked out for me love that beer and a good buddy. Tim So tech in New Hampshire had a comment on founders ridding keyless this taste even better now that is unless. 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one more beer to try tonight and I'm really looking forward to it are nineteen point two percent from the brewery moco Wednesday. This is a nother barrel aged Imperial Stout So I am actually looking for this. I think Dallas is a little sarcastic here. This is one of their very rare hard to find beers Mocha Wednesday and we get this one. Lance acquired it. This is very dark. I would I would call this the very black the dark a spear we've had tonight but a decent had a little tan colored filmy head or head than the last one so I think this will be a little bit like the last beer but more coffee Mocha flavored is what I'm guessing. Well it's called Wednesday so you think maybe there's some local characteristics to it it's still really really boozy But I mean there's nothing wrong with cocoa and of Imperial Stout urban Barrow. I mean this is this is good as kids but is nineteen point four percent so super boozy So the last one we thought was strong at sixteen point four percent cocoa and coconut on the Oklahoma. But it's a lot more approachable beer just from the aroma than the last one but I mean at nineteen point four percent. This might be the strongest beer I've ever had. I can't name one higher most beers we drink are like six to eight percent. This is like three times alcohol of what we normally drink. We are I.P.A. fans. It depends on what you normally drink but this is no if I drink a six or seven percent alcohol beer and I pit and. Typical I.P.A. this is three times that if you drink Bud Light. I don't know if you drink Bud Light this is playtime death of you. Nobody drinks but like Darth Vader. Nobody drinks Bud Light and nineteen point four percent Mocha Wednesday the two opposite extremes this beer has a film and it has lace and it has like my glasses lace seen from top to bottom. It's there's no head but it's silky smooth there's an abundance of chocolate dark chocolate you do get coffee also live a coffee you. You kind of get molasses even though you know there's no molasses in it but it has that feeling like you know we because you when you add molasses into a beer. It's not because you want to add molasses that that feel or that taste. You pretty much add molasses just because you want more alcohol into your beer and sweetness. Yeah pretty much but I don't think they've done that here. I think the molasses flavor that you get is just a combination of the dark multi newness and the the mocha So what with the previous beer the chocolate salty. I got a lot of the bourbon taste. This one. I don't really get the bourbon taste. It's it's obviously barrel aged and bourbon and it's boozy and it's okey but I don't get so much bourbon. It's much more chocolate. It's very chocolatey even this is

four percent more I actually think it's like less alcohol kick than the previous one. But but the previous beer that was called the chocolatey or chocolate salty was talk lady but this one is more chocolate. This is like Mocha This tastes like a mocha drink with alcohol in it. Yeah the craziest part about this bear is that on the label. It says that there's a Black Tuesday. So there's a beer. That's probably a little less stronger than this one with the same cocoa and have the coffee beans favor.

Yeah. Mocha Wednesday is like the big boy compared to the Black Tuesday. This is the this is a strong one ninety one thousand point two It doesn't get I mean bigger is the strongest beer we've had on this podcast in what I say three hundred and twenty beers now it's bold. I mean this kicks you in your face. It's bolder I would call it bold. I enjoy it. It's a super you use it with friends you drink this you share it. It's enjoyable if everybody likes coffee and booze. We are sitting in Southern California and like seventy five degrees. If we were in December and it was maybe fifty it might be more enjoy. But at this time it's it's super boozy Yeah. All right well Jeff you want to take us through the beers we had tonight and then we can try

and figure out what our favorite beer of the night was. Yes So we started out with the I love it. I.P.A. from noble works. Next up we had the galaxy showers double I.P.A. from the same brewery. No but they all works. Third we had the Mesa which was a table beer with wine from Sis Montane in Santa Ana. Fourth we had the also from Sis Montane the sixth anniversary English porter with molasses. Then we had our Strange Brew the black Phoenix coffee Chipotle a stout from bootleggers and we wrapped up with two beers from the brewery first we have a chocolate salty B.B.L.S. which is a barrel aged Imperial Stout. And we finished the show with the Mocha Wednesday. Another barrel aged Imperial Stout we're going to spin the wheel and figure out who

goes first. And I thank you it's me great lot of good beers and it's actually a tough choice but I'm going to go with I love it. I.P.A. seven point five percent that's high for an I.P.A. that's really all you need you don't really need to go into the eight point eight Golden Showers arena. Even though it's a very similar beer. I love it has that fresh north western hops flavor. Lot of tropical fruit hop type of flavors. That's what I love and I.P.A. and that's my favorite beer of the night. So my favorite beer of the night was the six anniversary English porter with molasses as I said before I HATE molasses. But this beer. Thing has more backbone which I'm always looking for in a beer. I had a tough we had to smoke malt it just felt right out of all the beers we had that at the Pick it was here is between that or I love it. I.P.A. but I decided to go with the English Porter same as me. My second was six anniversary English. So good choice. That was my second also. For me it came down to beers and it's not too often the my two favorite beers come in the first half of the show. Maybe because we like drink more and they taste a little bit better in the second half. I tend to pick beers that come in the second half of the show. But tonight. My my top two are in the first half the runner up was a six anniversary English Porter from six months. Excellent beer but my winner was the noble ale works galaxy showers the one. Let me say a couple things about this beer. I rated this very highly while we were at the break our producer Lance made a comment that I completely agree with he said. If you want to trick someone into liking double I.P.A. Zz this is the beer to do it with and I could not agree more. It is a completely very drink a bowl beer double I.P.A. that is strong but tolerable for somebody who's not used to a double I.P.A. eight point eight percent very smooth right mix of malts and hops is very well balanced that was the beer that most impressed me tonight and for me the beer I'm going to go by at the store. Next time I get the opportunity. Is the noble it works galaxy showers. So we had three different beers of the day which I I think were my top three. I'm happy with our boat and when I left to close out our Orange County show pretty good mix of beers here. I think that we did a pretty good job describing a little while since her last pocket been to almost three weeks and in three weeks is the last show. So it's good to get back on the airwaves and drink a lot of beer. We've never had before. So we'll see that we have an L.A. show coming up. Obviously I mentioned we're going to be going to Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont in October and we'll have other beer cations we can talk about on the horizon. We'll see you next time for Kevin Seevers Jeff Miller. I'm Dallas Heliker. We'll see you next time right here on the beer the day podcast.