Beer of the Day Podcast - Seattle Show - November 18th, 2016 - Beer of the Day

This is the Beer of the Day Podcast. From beer the day world headquarters in Elk Grove California and the satellite offices in Pasadena. This is the beer of the day cash. Jeff recently came back from a trip up to Seattle the great Pacific Northwest and he shipped down a bunch of beers that were going to try tonight from the Seattle area and we have a wide range of styles tonight a couple of imperial stouts and also a strange brew. Joining me tonight, Steve Williamson and Kiera Hopkin. And from Pasadena. Jeff Miller, Lance Burks and Hugo Pedilla. Everyone who ate beers to try this is looking good. This is a great list of beers here I like this mixture. Yeah it is a lot of different variety and we're going to start with the one that we don't do a whole lot of this is Ruben's brews goes from Rubin's brews in Seattle Washington will be seeing you have a lot of these are Seattle area. Most are in Seattle but the rest are very close by Seattle right now. Did you go to Reuben's bruisers as when you just found at the stores around there. I did not actually go to the brewery. This is one that is as readily available around Seattle and I got this at a bottle shop in Seattle. OK I'm looking at an incredibly clear beer

here and there is tiny little champagne bubbles coming up. It's a very pale yellow color pale straw color like a champagne color. Exactly. If you saw this I don't know white wine glass you just you know champagne for sure. I mean it and the very thin

head with just tiny little molecular bubbles and has a champagne. It does it taste it smells like a pear wine sparkling wine or if you're on the right podcast. Very like you are. I mean this is a good beer to start out the show with it's low alcohol four point three percent. Like you said it's a style we don't do very often it's a little bit sour I mean this is a style that is sort of up and coming. We're seeing more and more of these on the shelves. It is. You know I keep comparing things to Syria that is which is supposedly Goza. But it's a lot sweeter and. Different than this is a little more dry and has a more wine like qualities to it yet. The first thing I thought I'm right there with you. I was really craving some more sweetness in the mouth feel or the you know the flavor after the initial sour hit you get. And it just kind of flattens out real quick and it's kind of keeps that. Sour dry undertone. I like that it's not overly sour and I think Jeff was actually pointing out to me earlier that it does taste a little salty at the end I kind of enjoyed that little saltiness with the sour mixed in. I just had the exact same thought when he said that it does have a little of that salt is which I think is kind of common for the for the style but just the the mouthfeel I mean has a little carbonation but if I were to say this was a wind it's not a we are easily. It's not sweet. It is. Is more dry it like a shard me a carbonated Chardonnay sour and I think this has a good amount of fruit to it like the Sierra Nevada vase. I think it's cactus and maybe something else in it with this one I taste a little bit more like a pair or an apple. And it's a little fruity here and I enjoy that. Yeah it is quite crisp and you know doesn't the after taste doesn't linger. I didn't tell you guys this ahead of time but the reason I picked this up is this beer actually won the gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival for the style for the go so if it goes to style. So I mean I don't know if it's the best one I've ever had but this one gold medal last month in Colorado. I think people who enjoy the style I think would be high on their list. I'm not a huge Gosa fan. I can barely stomach the travails personally but you know I

think people who like the style I think it's a pretty high quality beer. You can taste the quality and I'm not typically a fan of sour beers but this. I actually found to be quite enjoyable. I think I could drink a few of the a lot of the Yeah Yeah. All right well before we get into the next beard. Anyone have any interesting beers this week they wanted to mention Yeah I did I actually had a great experience at a brewery in Ontario which is thirty miles east of Los Angeles Kings Brewing Company and I had heard about this from a couple of the people that I trade with on the East Coast. They mention Kings brewing. In the same breath as they do. Monkish. We've talked about monkeys being really big for the East Coast. Trading partners and when they say they want monkish Kings brewing kind of follows that. So I got a chance to try it and they really mean their own. With putting out the Northeast style of. So when I went there got to try something called the juice bomb it was definitely the year. Hey Z.. Juicy mouthfeel with that great body the only thing that I feel that they kind of were lacking a little bit was I've come to think of these beers to be very fruit forward and it seems like they weren't going for that with this style so no fault on them. It's just what they are trying to do and they put out a really good beer is a great environment very friendly. Can't say enough about it was a really good experience. Sounds good. You buy you need to bring home. We actually try to

corral or. It's not going to help me at all. I say it sounds good. Because I had it earlier. All right well let's get into the next beer. This is from machine house brewery. This is the golden ale. Another light one four point five percent. So while you guys are part of this. Let me tell you about this place because this is a prairie that I did go to it is in this really cool like. I guess it's a machine house it's like this old factory looking like a smokestack building almost So it's aptly named It is absolutely. And they you know it's an English style parade they only make English shall be yours. Every single beer is a cask beer. So they don't have anything like on C O two and everything is very low alcohol which I think is pretty fitting for you know like a typical British type of brewery so everything's very session a bowl and we had a couple beers while way that we were there but this is one that I did not have so they bottle this one. I thought I would bring this back to share

with you guys and never had it before so I'm looking forward to this. So in short contrast to the last one. This is more of a golden color but it is quite cloudy. You can't see through it at all and if you have I could see through it. I think there's no bubbles up in there. Yeah. And I mean at the styles of gold and they all I would say that if I had misread the color is gold. I mean there's that's a gold the color. You know we've got two fingers of head on here and it's really thick sticky sticks

to the side of the glass. It doesn't look like it dissipates very much at all. You know this is not a style that we're used to think this has all English hops and we predominantly drink beer that has you know us hops mostly from Washington. But it's it's cool that this is a Seattle prairie that uses English hops you know to ship them a lot farther than Yakima and it smells British to me as anyone else does that makes sense but it does. Well it's that's a style. So I mean it's going to be like a lot of the the British beers that you've had before. At the pub. So I'm not familiar with this style is it supposed to be more on the better side. I think it's more of the Belgian side. OK. I mean I guess in the east in this for sure. It's a little

better. I mean a lot of English beers tend to be better. I mean you think of like a English style better. I mean they specialize in in English out better beers right. And I do get a little bit of that but you're right there is a little bit of Belgian

characteristics to this cloudiness and. But I do don't get a lot of sweetness. I mean it is it's a little bit bitter on the tongue seems to be the opposite of the trend that I notice with the North East very juicy. Very fruity flavors in that in those types of this is more little bit tart very dry. Yes quite dry little metallic to me I get like the multi mist seems to give me kind of a metallic characteristic like copper or something. Yeah I think so but I mean isn't this appear that you can see yourself drinking at a pub and in England. I mean this is you can drink this all night long. I don't think so. I didn't like it. I mean our beers are very cold today but I like it even a little warmer. It's kind of bring out some more that it's almost like a like a black T. characteristic to it I get I get that too. Jeffrey did you have any stories that from Seattle you want to tell. Well I would just say that Seattle has a really cool beer scene and you know I've been going up there about once a year for the last couple years and every time I go to a couple of new breweries. And so a lot of these breweries I've been to some of them. I haven't. It's really you know we see a lot of the growth in California and the beer scene and it's definitely in Seattle area as well probably not to the same extreme but every time I'm there. There's a couple new breweries and you know this is a show where the beers. When we get into I.P.A.. I think they have a very distinct flavor. Lots of pine that we come to expect from like the the Northwest style I.P.A. but you know if anybody ever gets a chance to go to Seattle. There's there's great breweries there on previous shows we've had beers from the pike which everybody I think remembers. Elysian is

there which is a very big brewery in the area Fremont which will have later but there's a lot of very solid breweries in the Seattle area and close by. So if you're ever up there. We had a great we had a great time we go quite often one brewery that we don't have tonight is called Georgetown and I wish I could have brought some back but they don't bottle or can anything but it's a really excellent brewery. They also had a couple beers that won medals that Great American Beer Festival and like one of theirs is called Manny's pale ale which is. It's a decent beer it's nothing. You know extraordinary but Manny's Pale Ale is available all over Seattle every single bar you go to it. It feels like has man he's pale ale. But if you go to Seattle great great beer scene. So I would highly recommend doing that. Did you. When you went to bars. Did you notice that it skewed very local like you know we're mostly Seattle based breweries in bars and restaurants. Yeah that's that's a good question.

I'm glad you brought that up because it is very local. I mean I think of Seattle as being a city that focuses on local and you know now that I think about it. There were very few beers that were not local Seattle beers and then you see that you know some of the the mainstream ones that you can get anywhere in the country but but absolutely. Most breweries I'm sorry most bars have predominantly local beer which I like I appreciate that. I think that's what Marcia do you know and it is good to be able to go to a place in then try a bunch of beers or from around the area. So you can kind of get a couple different breweries in one place without having to actually go to the place. All right well let's go to the next beer. This is from Fremont brewing. Called interurban I.P.A.. It's a six point two percent. And this is probably the most well known prairie in Seattle. I would say I mean it's it's probably the largest. Maybe the most popular from you know not living there. It's just seems like it's the most popular and they make a lot of really good beers and every time I'm there I have some free my beer so this is their flagship I.P.A. All right. Well right off the bat. It is a darker straw darker straw or darker golden color a slightly hazy not a lot of bubbles floating up but quite a bit of thick foamy white head and this is actually named after a statue. That's in Seattle and in a park. You're wonder where the name came from. It's called the interurban the interurban and like in

the logo on the can because beer matters. Looks like a syrian of a can we said. That too big time. Steve passed it up like three times I don't think we have his beer and it's because it blended in with the other ones. I think there's a lot of pine on this on the taste. I mean this is what I expect from a Northwest style the euro. It's like some it's like sweet hop you know a lot of a sugar on the aroma. Yeah on that on the nose there's no mistaking this for anything but a Northwest I.P.A. I mean you immediately go to that I have to say like House for that is it's just a really drink a bowl I.B.A. Yeah there's very little bitterness in this previous beer was definitely more bitter than this one it's it's definitely hockey. But it's the type of hops that doesn't leave the bitterness on your tongue. There's a little that pairs it with enough sweetness that. It makes it pretty enjoyable. You know I thought this was Piney at first. But I get a little bit more citrus hops here. And which is surprising because we get that in a lot of California I.P.A.. But I get a little bit of pine and some some citrus but I think what makes a spear really tasty is that it's it's well balanced it's like a solid pale malt backbone and I think that really balances out flavor. Jeff you want to get the hops no idea. I don't think is I think the centennial I don't get citrus I mean I definitely got the pine in the in the grass kind of yes Centennial just and Amarillo. So I got one right. You know that one when I was three you're a baseball player you'd be doing well but there is a sort of mild bitterness in the aftertaste which I like it's not too bitter. So some beers. It's so better where you like like you know it's sort of lingers too much but

this has like a very nice bitterness that. Think is is enjoyable it delicate lingering I do think it's a little cumulative to like I was a noticing it. The first sip. But now that I have multiple sips it's kind of adding on and and becoming a little bit more bitter as the as I continue to drink it. I mean the golden ale before this was a pretty bitter summit. If I took that down a notch. But yeah I mean this this beer isn't lacking any bitterness for the I.P.A. fans they're looking for that it has those bitter hop qualities that someone is looking for in the style you know I know that Andy has been to this prairie I wish he was on the show tonight because he's been here and he you know I remember when he was there he sent us pictures and he really enjoyed this prairie and you know I just I wish he could. I'm sure he's had this there but I wish he was here tonight to try this. Yeah. Where is that guy with the our let's get into the beer news of the day. Thank you. A Boulevard fan and he will enable her fans here who we have got a big one right here. Well. Some bad news for you out and oh so in September. They released their barrel aged trilogy sample pack featuring one bottle seven hundred fifty millimeter bottle of each of their bourbon barrel quad their Riaan rye and their Imperial Stout following a recent staff tasting they have determined that the bottles of the imps two thousand and sixteen Imperial Stout are exhibiting off flavors indicative of the presence of Lactobacillus a lactic acid producing bacteria. So while it's not harmful. It makes it funky and taste bad. So they have recalled the two thousand. Sixteen Imperial Stout. And you have to ship that back to them and get a new bottle. You know it filthy Phil would say loveliness cleanliness cleanliness he does like to say that. So I don't know if that applies to anybody. I hadn't bought it yet so I was OK but just be aware that what if you've already consumed it and you still get a replacement. If you bottle your urine and send it back they'll give you a full refund. Firestone ever heard of them they are retiring Willkie Jack double jack and Opal I like double jack. I definitely like double jack that. I mean we did the double A.P.A. showed it was a contender. Absolutely. Ople can go away but double jack is delicious. It's a bittersweet occasion said David Walker each of these beers was forward thinking and representative of some of our best brewing efforts but they are now stepping aside to make room for the next generation. It's a hard decision made for the sake of innovation. These beers were born of that ideal and now they are yielding to it. So I mean that's that's something the you know taken a couple of your very Your most I don't know. They're not their most popular but their most acclaimed I just looked it up. I mean the the double jack. We've had it on that park acidulous mentioned and I rated it a four point five on the website which I like to go on the website and rate payers and then I can keep track of what I like and what I don't like and I mean if I write a bare four point five and now they're retiring it. That's a sad day. What's that website beer of the day dot com Thank you. In other news. Dogfish Head is now coming in Cannes. So you're going to get the sixty minute I.P.A. right away. And they're going to come out with the flesh and blood I.P.A.. Which I think is like Orange Blood Orange type of I.P.A. So look for that in a store near you. Coming soon. Makes it easy to trade. Yeah it is but a lot easier to ship aluminum it's going to the next beer. This is from two beers Brewing Company two beers are better than one. And three are better than two I've had this beer in the past but it's been over a year. I'm looking forward to this because the last trip I didn't have this but I brought it back just so you could try it. This is called Wonderland trail I.P.A. it op at seven point one percent. I mean that's pretty high for a I.P.A. and it pours a pretty and a darker color but like a light copper color pretty good head. It's definitely darker than most of the I.P.A. is that we drink. Yep and still slightly cloudy the head is just off white. It's not quite tan. Smells very sweet smelling altie yet multi

sweetness but it's most a lot like that previous beer. Honestly. I think it's a pretty different smell than the previous beer. I get a lot more sugar and in this one you can definitely taste that multi flavor in this very Carmelita. Yes I like this

in the after taste the Carmel really does comes out. I like the hot flavors here. There's. Again more citrus than I expected. I think I get some like Tangerine citrus flavors. But still some pine I mean I expect pine from the spears but there's more citrus than I anticipated that caramel or Carmel. No winners on the tongue towards the end it does that is what is prevalent in the aftertaste for sure. Seven point one percent isn't doesn't like that seven point one percent. I think it's going to be more multi because they have to to bump up the malts there to get higher alcohol additional sugar. They don't have to. Makes it easier. It's recommended last week they had no problem doing that. I like this a lot. This is a real nice blend I mean it's we'll be keeping it sweet evidence that it's sweet but it's not it's definitely not overpowering. It's very well balanced I mean the predominant flavors it's more sweet and you know than anything else than bitter but I mean it's real smooth and easy to drink though I could have a couple of these that says a lot from a guy who doesn't like IP ace. Yeah I mean I'm not getting any like real overpowering hot bitterness at all. I mean it's if there's hops in there. I miss it. All right. It's definitely not overload. It's more of a multiplayer than a hobby. I've had a few sips now three or four and I think it has transformed a little bit like at first I got some citrus flavors. But now like in the finish. I mean there's always the malt but in the finish. I get a little bit more tropical fruit and I don't know about anybody else but it seems to be a different hop taste as you have additional steps. I agree it does in the course of the transition the interurban was on the lighter side of

the hop spectrum this is more on the darker side or the mall spectrum so you kind of and they're very different hops that they're using here. Is anyone getting like a slight taste of pineapple on the yeah I can see that I think and that's what kind of

jets going with that kind of fruity. Pineapple It's almost like a pineapple juice. I think that's probably a pretty good descriptor like a baked pineapple you know I. Remember over the summer I really liked from green flash looking at Jeff's shirt there the Pacific gem and if you told me that was the hot those in here I mean it was a very mellow hop and I really liked a lot of the first males I really liked and I think that this kind of comparable here. I think this is really drink of all seven point one percent might scare some people but I mean this this is a it's called Wonderland trail which I think is like a trail for hiking in the Washington state and this is a bear that you could take in and enjoy at the top of your hike but it's it's very drink. You know and it's it's high alcohol but I could drink. Several of these and not you know be fazed by it. How would you describe the body of this beer Jeff. I think it's medium body it's not too heavy. Would you describe it as its body is a wonderland. I would not use that John Mayer. Yeah. No I think it's pretty reminiscent of like autumn or almost a winter beer I don't know that I could drink this on a warm summer day I on a cool. Ike I think I would enjoy this very much. But

definitely not on a summer day it is to me it was little bit heavier I know you describe it as medium body but I thought it was a little bit thick. I agree with that I would I would think almost more than heavier body. I think it maybe has a little creamy texture to it which is kind of maybe getting kind of that thickness in there that absolutely. It's a little sort of be. I'm really enjoying the lingering flavors of the beer. I usually applaud beers that have the clean crisp finish but I'm really loving the flavors going around. Yep it's different but I think it's a good one. Alexa asked beer geek to tell me a beer fact here's. You're there fact silica phobias the fear of an empty glass and I don't know. I think I have that I were halfway through when we come back we have four more beers to try from the Seattle area including our strange brew called heart of stone. I think there's going to be a little apricot and plum action going on there. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back. This is the beer the day projects that are if you enjoy this podcast and would like to help us out and we would appreciate you doing so you can do so by reading and reviewing us on i Tunes. If you listen to this podcast through subscription to i Tunes. Then

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you're right this is a golden orange ish light orange color quite cloudy and it poured with a tonne of off white and I'm going to smells like a ghost even as I go so I mean they call it sour you know but it smells like a go. So it does very sour. I mean these beers. Probably not my my go to style but it has a very distinct aroma. Yeah maybe a little Belgian east a little bit of the tartness but there's not very funky. On their own at least the kick in the Muller's a little in a little atomic warhead on the in the back of the mouth. Well. Oh yeah well at this hour it's good but it is as if I were had now sometimes of the sour you for the first sip is very sour and you can't really make much of it. Besides the sour and you have to apply. Andy's third separable and that way you can kind of cut through the sour innocency woods. What flavors are under there. I'm getting the sorry even on my lips. It just feels like a weird tingly sensation. I mean it's so sour it's hard to even get the fruit

flavors like when they put apricot and plum on the label. I don't get a lot of that I mean it's hard to really pick up on those fruit flavors. It's definitely overshadowed by the tortoise. I get more of a cherry sorry cherry plum our neighbor. I agree care. I don't know I've had more sour I think it didn't hit me quite like I think it everybody else. I mean it's it's definitely sour. But I can do I can pick fruit out of it now. Well I'm is an interesting one because there's a lot of parts of

plums can be very sweet when they can also be kind of sour around the edges you know near the peel and definitely I do get that part of it definitely get that an right plum very very tart sour just very pronounced of the two that's the one that I taste the most I don't I don't get much apricot. But that plum I think that does come through. I think I had a really good point about that the skin of the plum is usually that sour note in the break into it into the meat of the actual fruit which become

sweet so it's it's a balance but it's like the only pulled out the skin to me this is a really good sour I mean I don't like my sours that get real sweet. After that initial taste because I mean I think when I'm having a sour beer I want to sour beer I don't want to see. Wheat beer and I think this doesn't nice job with that it stays crisp. And it stays tart the entire. You know experience of drinking it. And I I think I really appreciate that a lot. One of the things that I think when I get a low quality sour that I try it gets kind of gritty in your mouth and I don't get a lot of that with this one a bit that tends to happen a lot and this one is staying pretty smooth throughout. I do appreciate the fact that it's not very funky a lot of sour beers had that Bret funkiness as just goes right along with it. And this doesn't really have that it's mostly like sour flavor and then you get a little bit a sweet fruit in the sweetness at the end. And the more I drink it the less hour it is

you know you kind of adjust to it. Yeah. Now I'm starting to pick up more on the notes but I'm still not getting the apricot but in general I'm kind of getting that sweet or more. Cherry I guess maybe sour apple taste. So you guys think this is a strange Brewer is this just how sour beers are our taste in I think it's house our beers are taste I don't think this is that strange. I mean it might be strange for Seattle. I don't know what their sour sing is up there. It's got to be the strangest brew of the show. Maybe the goes it was pretty strange to be in so why it will whine like it's good that it's got a refreshing sour flavor and and you're right it gets the sour Inus becomes a little bit more mild as you drink more you get used to it. I

think it's a really nice beer. Agreed incoming transmission. You've got mail. Comments this week. Today we're recording this on Friday the eleventh of November. And today the New England part to show came out our Vermont beers bridge. Oh Buckeye nut commented on part one of the main show New Zealand. I. Don't speak the language as always I enjoyed listening to the back and forth on descriptions of the beers. It's like I'm at the table with you and I can taste. Each one although I'm not sure I'd want to taste the one that with the it has the odor of vomit looking forward to Part two of this adventure and the upcoming I.P.A. days. Thanks Rich killa pills from Voodoo brewing company needs will Pennsylvania was the beer of the day and it was one that we had on Episode fifty eight which was about a month ago you had me at dark beer commented. What a wonderful option in our fair city and hopefully it will be served at brew with the Museum of beer planned for Pittsburgh and she leaves the U.R.L. there. I assume this is Debbie Stuber who emailed me she's the director of community relations at brew the Museum of beer and they had a crowd sourcing campaign to get this thing off the ground. It looks pretty cool. So I will share the link in the Links section of the podcast page came break we're just post to that one. It's from Louisiana beer of the day recently. John Janes three one two four stars good beer but a little more feeling than I like I don't know it's not a very positive review for four stars. But there and he liked it and for a week ale. Yeah those are all comments on the website we thank you for leaving comments there on Facebook. We're at Facebook dot com slash the beer of the day. Tim so tacky post the beers that he has up there and he had the Vanilla Bean Stout from the last Abbey. He says Wow A very nice barrel aged out of it. Drinks very easy for ten point eight percent. Tim I have that in my fridge right now. So that's going to be coming up on upcoming podcasts. So look out for that I want to be there for that one on Instagram. We're on Instagram at Pier they site and Jeff posted up the photo of venture from foundation that was one of the ones we had on our New England trip. I Jessie just the five Green says thumbs up to two thumbs up and children brewery best one out there big fan there. Just post on Instagram every day all the photos that he takes of all these beers. So be sure to follow us on Instagram at beer the day site and on Twitter. We're at near the day we posted and another one another main beer. Posted that on Twitter and Bill New York Billy D. says at near the day at Maine beer company can never go wrong with that one. Cheers another one. Yeah that was a solid I.P.A. so yeah. Be

sure to send us your comments and we will read them on the next program. All right let's get into the next beer. This is from Bale breaker Brewing Company in Moxie Washington. This is the bottom cutter. It's a double I.P.A. on a show we had a Northwestern beers show maybe about a year ago and we had Top Cutter on that one and I that was one of my favorites from that show. So I'm looking forward to trying bottom cutter and as Dallas mentioned this is from Moxie which is outside of Seattle. This is actually in the Yakima Valley where what eighty percent of the hops used in the U.S. are grown. I think seventy eight percent almost all of them. And this is right in like the epicenter of where ops are grown. Well you know that all that head on the

pour. It's true like. I like a sentiment. You know it's got that Northwest smell to it. I mean you're not going to you're not going to be mistaken. That's right thing but a. Oppy I.P.A. when you bring it up your nose. Agreed. This is a very tasty very crisp very Piney Carmel E. just I don't know how to describe it. This is very enjoyable we're like this a lot that Carmel really comes through and. Yes So let's start with the malls the Carmel mall. That's prevalent there's a little bit of like Riker touristic in there too though it's a little bit darker than your standard caramel malt which I enjoy. And then the hops on top of that are a little pong and a little tropical not getting a lot of citrus on it right. But pretty strong hop body on top of a pronounced malt base. I think what stands out to me is the mouth feel and I've said this before about a few other beers like the Claremont single dude I.P.A. it's got a very like creamy mouth feel. And I don't know how else to describe this but it's got a very unique creaminess in that mouth feel that I really enjoy and beers when I find it and this is no exception. This has something in it that I get personally and I think it's what a little bit is off putting to me with the I.P.A. is that I think when you get a real strong malty and a real strong hop. They kind of clash to me a little bit and they kind of be in this like like when you walk in and someone has used hairspray in a room and you kind of get that in your mouth. It's kind of like a little burning sensation on my tongue that I really don't like but with saying that I really like the flavor of the beer and the flavor profiles good. It just isn't that balance to me. Yeah but. It's just a very bold beer huge amount of

flavor in just kicks you in the teeth with the you know everything. It's back and. I don't know where you hang out. Steve where you walk into rooms in this piece. Hair spray. When I come to visit you. It's definitely not me. But I like this. I mean this is eight point two percent. It's not a light beer by any means. I mean this is a this is a bold I double I.P.A. like you said but I think it's pretty packed of flavor I mean when I look for a double I.P.A. this is pretty much hits it spot on with what I'm looking for. Yeah I'm really enjoying the contrast of the big bold flavors I do like that Big Piney hop the flavor against the karma Lemole flavor is just kind of a bittersweet flavor to me and I think it's one of the more enjoyable beers of the night for me. Yeah it's like Hop soup and this is very fresh. I mean we all of these are fresh I mean I'm looking at this. Can it was packaged if I can read this correctly October sixth. So it's M. and it's it's a month old that's pretty fresh and I think I think you get that in the flavor. So Jeff mentioned. Yakima where they grow a huge amount of the hops and he's right about that recently Kiran and I went to the single fresh wet and wild hop harvest festival in Chico searing about a puts it on every other year and we when we got there we got in an hour early and they had this discussion about hops and they had Ken Grossman the owner of searing of out of there they had Julia shrug Oh Beechwood barbecue and brewing and they had a bunch of seared about us like Hop experts that guides do the hop selection. They had some hot farmers from Yakima there and it was pretty interesting. I learned quite a bit. Hops are grown mainly between the forty fifth in fiftieth parallel and this is

like the perfect sweet spot for them. They need long days. And if you go too far north the season is too short and if you go too far south the the days are not long enough so that's really the perfect spot to grow hops. They also grow them in the southern hemisphere but in the southern hemisphere between forty five and fifty degrees is mainly water. So there's only some a couple places in New Zealand in Australia that they grow them but really the north end here in the is perfect for hops. So it's pretty interesting. And they only harvest them. One time a year and all the hop harvest it happens during a six week period of the year and then they're done for it with hops for the year so they got into that they got into a lot of the selection process they go through to try and pick hops a lot of the trends and hops were some became popular and then some went away and then they came up with Mosaic and everyone use was a can in that when it has tapered off and and all kinds of demand like. A two thousand and three there was no Simcoe at all and then plenty came out and now there is thousands of tonnes of Simcoe that are harvested every year. So there's all kinds of huge trends in hop growing and that all takes place in and Yakima serious about it grows a ton of hops on their own there and there's play all kinds of farms that. It's like the hop capital of the world really. Certainly this country. Pressure will say let me drink my beer get a full beer they poured all their beer and then I'm not a fan you guys didn't like it. It was an L.S.T. better for me. Now it's just gross. I can't just take that as an answer. I'll try bottom cutter another time but that was our address you know you won't like it. Maybe you want to grow to Manly beer think that's why you and Steve don't like it. It's definitely I don't like it and I will concur with that statement. Alexa asked beer geek to tell me a beer fact here's your bare fact the first professional brewers were all women called boosters Punky Brewster not a joke. It's true the men folk had more important things to do than brewing beer. That's right. The Speaking of which Britain just liked our photo on Instagram. She even commented as such a slap in the face she since right now

are a little bit to the next beer. We're going to change it up here and headed to the dark side. This is an Imperial Stout from Skookum brewery in Arlington Washington which is kind of a suburb of Seattle north of Seattle. It's called murder of crows

it's just a point eight percent increase from the previous one and this is one that again. I didn't go to the prairie but I went to this really cool bottle shop in Georgetown right by Georgetown brewery and they guy recommended several beers and that's what I picked up and this was one of them. There's a lot ahead on this at least like three or four figures for it. So this pours credibly dark color. It's pretty much like motor oil little to red around it but little red around the edges but very dark and has a real dark tan almost brown head very thin had almost no head. Oh yeah we have three think Ayers. So this is for you. It's from Skookum Berry nine percent. It was Mel's boozy The aroma is a lot stronger than the actual flavors and I like the flavor I thought I wasn't going to like it because of the strong smells from it but very very easy drinking beer for me I get a little smoke. I get a little molasses. I get a little coffee maybe it. Yeah a little at a coffee. Little coffee

little toffee on the aroma. You know I have to say for a nine percent A.B.V. on this. It's actually really drink a bowl. No burn on it. Well not at all and you say that would you get a little of that like the chili and show chili. Yeah yeah there is

really just a slight bit of that heat to me that true. Maybe it's I'm trying to write out about it and yeah I mean it's complex. I mean there's smoke there's molasses there's toffee there's coffee there's chili. I mean it's all over the place this is what stout should be the label gives us nothing. There's no information on here. This is going to sound weird but you get like a bacon flavor in this. I mean maybe it's a smoker but it tastes like just like barbecue. You know what it's all just. Yes And my last this kind of the smoky molasses. I don't get a bacon flavor as much as I get like like it's a little greasy somehow like it seems a little like maybe just kind of thin but it seems a little greasy to me. I don't think it's then I mean the mouthfeel on this is it's pretty solid I think it's medium bodied it's not heavy like some of these imperial star nine percent. It's not heavy. It's very drink of all. I think it's got a lot of flavor it's complex. It's it's flavorful it be hard to

drink a lot of these but I enjoy the flavor. It's funny to me that for how big the smell is and how flavorful the beer is I have. A real hard time picking out any specifics of it. It's kind of just like you know like a blob to me it's put together very well I mean I think it's very smoky whoever said that it's a smoky beer is that burnt is it burnt molasses burnt. Yeah. Burton glasses smoky like we've had smoked beers before which are incredibly smoky but this is not that but there is a smoky quality to it but I do think do get the charred burnt either burnt chocolate or burnt molasses and then there's the touch of that little bit of chili in the chocolate. I mean this is one of those piers where like the moths they use a key to this recipe or whatever malt they use they're very like heavily burnt like charred almost and I like it. I mean that's that's what you're going for in this type of beer. It's aged seasoned oak. I don't know if anybody gets an oak flavors. But it's you know I don't think that means it's barrel aged but it has a little bit of oak like kind of Woody flavor to it. And I think that adds to the flavor of this agreed. I would have to say that if I had to pick out a descriptor for this it's going to sound totally crazy but if you took like the burnt ends on the tri tip and liquified them and that's what I'm going with there's some type of MIDI characteristic of this that if it's the bacon if it's tried to put There's something about this that a little grease

you know that's something something to meet about this. I think you guys are right on point. It's almost like the burnt. And so on. On a tri tip or ribs rib tips. That's that's I think that's where the river or the midi flavors kind of chocolate I think this beer is not for vegetarians know this beer is for cigar smokers. Yeah. It's interesting this could've been the strange brew you know possibly Let's move into the next one final beer of the night we have the bourbon barrel. Jai. Ain't made of shadows. This is a Belgian strong ale nine point nine percent smells a bit boozy smell from Silver City brewery in Bremerton Washington Bremerton is just across the Puget Sound It's a little west of Seattle but it's it's basically right there next to Seattle. You can take the ferry. Smells like lighter fluid. I think this is the one that was most excited about where we go forward we're awake. It's the most expensive one. Well I know that's what it's going to look smells like bourbon. It's not

like this and this is very well aged so I want to have you guys just the one that this is the two thousand and fifteen version which it just came out within the last couple months so there are two thousand and fifteen. Version they the age this. They release it in two thousand and sixteen man. I mean I don't know if I've ever smelled a beer like that literally were afraid to take a sip of and says bourbon bearable I smell more rum in this. Yeah I would be the sweetness of the beer that smelled even

with the boozy newness of the Jack Daniels. But I got a plug when. So I cut. I want to throw this out there and I might be completely off base but I actually get some like Apple like Apple. I was going to set it up from Apple. And yeah that the smell the smell. Oh yeah taste the road. You know if you have you know I mean it taste like. You. You go up into the hills like yeah. Apple country where there is apple cider and I mean I had a taste of it smells like apple cider and that it was a name into like it's like heated up with cinnamon sticks and I mean the flavor of the beer like couldn't be any more opposite of that initial smell you get so smooth and it's not hard. It's it's quite amazing that whole that app. Without taking a sip of it.

Yeah yeah because I do get a lot of Apple waste you know when you said Apple I was that was the first time I tasted it and I haven't I could not have described it any better. I mean it's one of the most intense aromas I've ever picked up on a beer and we have some like really dank happy I.P.A. Zz and we have some crazy stuff where you smell it before you even poured into the bottle but this is like an intense aroma. I love it and I still haven't had a sip and I'm hoping to enjoy this expand on it's more of like like a Granny Smith apple almost like green. I don't want to say tart because that's not where I'm going but that Granny Smith apple and that's what I get but for how dark and how boozy I mean to see it smells it doesn't taste that

boozy to me it is kind of tart that I mean there's a slight tartness to it. There's a little cinnamon spice in there. Yeah definitely. And then there's some Carmel horrible apple cinnamon spice and then you know the blues. I think the aroma really

throws you because once you take a sip. It's not what you expect it's not as aggressive of a flavor profile as you don't expect definitely a lot more mellow on your taste buds than it is on the aroma it's a lot stronger when you're smelling it but you

did get a lot. I feel like almost like apple pie with all the spices. That's wrong pronounced apple flavor. I think I just put together everything you guys said. And I think I nailed it right here it is the caramel covered Apple. Yeah yeah I agree

with that. I mean it's that unlike Dell said the kind of you know you know clover the cinema any little bit of hints to it too but also I get that boozing is in the after taste like I'm drinking a White Russian you know like there's like a little vodka

or type of boozing is where there's a kick in the end you feel. In the back your throat a burns a little bit since your little one shot of vodka poured in every bottle. But it's so good. I mean this is a beer that I wish I got four bottles of and

said it's too because this is good. I mean when I shipped all these bears back I didn't really tell a story but I you know when I was up in Seattle. I went to all these different breweries and bottle shops and I shipped back one box for Dallas and one box for me same beers in each one and I you know it's the company to be named unnamed does a really good job but I went into the store it was the same company. I did on last show I mean no different is the better one. They want to deny me were we

were in the parking lot of yeah OK but but you know in Washington weed is legal and I'm pretty sure when I went to the store. Oh yeah THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW HOW TO Yeah the guy was pretty stone. I mean when you're shipping something like beer and you walk

into a U.P.S. store. You're hoping for a guy that just does not give a shit about what you're shipping and I got the perfect guy who was like he asked one question and I said I'm I'm shipping. Collectibles he says works for me and you know so I did

it big boxes of beer one for Dallas one for me were no questions asked and it was a perfect scenario two days later the beer show up and we get back home and Man I wish I would have got more of this because this is a really tasty beer. I wish they could tone the nose down a bit. I mean it is a little off putting. You know I'm reading a label here it does say if it has coffee notes anybody get any of that I do I do get coffee. I'm missing it. But a lot of it. That's why I was thinking like when I

said White Russian It's like a little that coffee look Couper type of thing that I get from this. And that's just the sweetness of it and this is a beer that were. Age really well to I mean this is one year old it would do well after a couple years is a seven hundred fifty million are smaller than that but I would probably be more than happy to share this with like four friends and it's a beer that like you don't need a whole lot of but it got a nice flavor. Yeah I've hundred milliliters All right well that concludes the beers for the night. Jeff you want to take us through the beers we had in recap for us. Absolutely. So again this is our Seattle area show and we had eight beers and so first we started out with the Rubens brews. GOSA. Next we had the machine house brewery English style Golden Ale and then we had from Fremont brewing the interurban I.P.A. and just before the break we had the two beers bring company Wonderland trail I.P.A. after the break we had our strange brew with

the heart of stone from urban family brewing and then the bottom cutter double I.P.A. from bail breaker. And we wrapped up with the two strong ones. First we had from Skookum brewery murder of crows and we finished with the Silver City brewery. The

two thousand and fifteen bourbon barrel aged giant made of shadows. All right well unfortunately the wheel broke this week. So we're going to it this way. Jeff your number one you go to Lance three or four. Steve five. I'll be number six Alexa pick a random number between one and six your random number between one and six is two you go I just want to reiterate how much I really like that bottom covered double I.P.A. I sense a but coming. But I guess it if there is a but. The only thing that I wish is that Jeff had told me how much he enjoyed top cutter so that that leaves me wanting to try that as well I think that was a fantastic beer probably my favorite of the night. Oh all right. Lance. So I was looking at my notes and it was a toss up between bottom cutter and Wonderland trail. And what really came down to the deciding factor for me was the drinkability and the Wonderland trail kind of ran out. They both had the the mall backbone the caravel the great coding complex bodies but the Wonderland trail seemed to me the beer that I could probably crush like three or four of them and that's that's big with me so I'm going to go with Wonderland trails my brother their peer. I'm also going to agree. I had to go with the under one

Wonderland trail I.P.A. I really fell in love with the Northwest I just kind of us drink bull beer in general for me. It wasn't too thick. But I like that kind of creamy or texture to it so that would be my pick for STEVE Oh yeah. Mark me down for that as

well. The Wonderland trail. Hands down was for me. I totally agree with Lance is that drink ability of it. Between the bottom cutters eight point two M. The Wonderland trail seven point one percent and I mean it couldn't be any one point one percent difference in A.B.V. huge difference in great ability to me and that one day in trail so well balanced and smooth nice. It's really between two for me but I'm going to choose the bottom cutter as well I I like those big bold beers where you got tons of hops and tons of malt and just a little sweetness to pull it all together. Plenty of booze to keep you happy but by. Adam cutter my dear of the day. All right so I get to bring up the rear here. First let me say I love the diversity of the show. I mean we have so many styles we had to go. So we had a go all the nail we had to I.P.A. Zwi sour ale double I.P.A. Imperial Stout bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout So I love all the different styles for me the number one though is the last one the

giant made of shadows. I just loved the flavor of that that texture it was silky smooth Apple amazingly rum flavors from a bourbon barrel aged beer all beers tonight were good but that was hands down the beer I'm going to seek out next time I go to

Seattle. Excellent. I will that will close out our Seattle show. We thank everyone for tuning in and remind you to check out our website and leave us some comments. We'd love to hear from you. Let us know what you think of this thing that we do here drinking beer and recording it. We'll be back in two weeks with the brand new program and we thank you for tuning in we will see you then for Jeff Miller, Lance Burks, Hugo Padilla, Kiera Hopkin, Steve Williamson, I'm Dallas Heliker. You've been listening to the beer of the day podcast the giant returns to the shadows and towards the end each release a portion of the season's final match and verdict to a year long slumber in some. Cities barrel aging room. The complexity of a beer like the giant provides a unique opportunity determining which type of Barrow would be would best accentuate the fluid within this isn't a rock as there are many remarkable options and so the two thousand and fifteen giant made of Shadows was selected for a gene in single use Kentucky bourbon barrels provided a rich Bonilla and smoky charcoal element to the monstrous brew unable to be contained by Steve who the giant explodes with richness and complexity the two thousand and sixteen giant mean of Shadows what chart new territory plans are unfolding that will see the current year's Bachche agent port wine barrels for release in two thousand and seventeen. As such. This will be the final opportunity to acquire Berman parallage giant before it returns to the

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