Beer of the Day Podcast - Will You Beer My Valentine? - February 14th, 2017

This is the Beer of the Day Podcast. From Beer of the Day World Headquarters in Elk Grove, California, this is the Beer of the Day Podcast. Tonight's episode: Will you BEER my valentine and we do have Valentine's Day to try to as well as a whole mess of other beers from all around the country. A couple a barrel a game and pretty much every style there is on the planet. Plus we'll be talking with Jeff Miller on the telephone. I'm Dallas Heliker, joining me tonight Joel minor and Britton Minor, what's going on? Greetings. What's new. Looking forward to these seven different states being represented in the beers today man you've got one of everything here. I like it one of everything in spread all across the different states. Let's start with the first one. This is from Boise Idaho woodland ale Kraft is the name of the brewery. This is called the Bull sourdough it must be French pouring incredibly thick head like more than half a glass is full of head and I don't think it's it's due to a poor poor. It's just really crazy. Normally the first poor is always the the most head but every single one. I've been doing is getting quite a bit. So this beer is quite cloudy. It is exactly what I would expect if it if it's a sourdough saison it's very light straw color kind of a creamy color. You can't really see through the beer except for a slight shadow and there's streams of little tiny bubbles flowing upward carbonation super fine and like thousands of nucleation

point it looks crazy. It's like a golden cream color and normally you don't get a beer this light you can't really see at least your fingers through but all you can see is just like you said the shadows are now the aroma is a little bit funky. It tastes like uncooked sourdough bread like sourdough yeast a little bit a horse blanket going on in there so I'm surprised for is how much head it has and how bubbly it is it doesn't lace that all like zero after a minute or so since we poured it about

half the head has dissipated down but I still got three solid fingers very thick. So this is like it has a very good sour taste to it. Tons of good carbonation that kind of pops in your mouth kind of like you're biting into like a sour grape. But doesn't have the sweetness but it basically really opens up your palate to all the flavors that are there but you do get that yeast and a little bit of that pear and mostly I'm getting a sour grape raven like a cherry it's not completely ripe. I am getting this is very on original. But I am getting sourdough like it is spot on. It's funky. Like Joel said it kind of like Tom. It's really opening up your palate. It's not a crisp actually but it's pretty sour to begin with. It is a little sour before I get to the taste I need to mention the lace you know this beer is interesting. It basically has no lace seam. It's like you had rubbed butter along the inside of the glass so that it actually slides down and leaves it. The glass completely clear after it. Yeah it's interesting I've never seen a beer not least at least a little bit. The other thing that's interesting about this is yes I am getting that sourdough flavor but if some way you could make a grape that tasted like sourdough bread. That's what it would be like because it doesn't have the bready buttery like sweetness that you get from like a bread or a starch. Yeah and you say a green grape but it also becomes a little bit like white wine very much though. It's a little bit dry and like maybe they have those sparkling wines that are infused with some type of fruit and that kind of reminds me of that a little bit. I was thinking like a dry start when I smelled it but definitely after taste too is to be a great summer beer. Out like on the deck. Just like enjoying it or even fall. Yeah quite good. Glad and glad we we sample this one definitely Well Jeff could not join us tonight. But I thought we'd give him a call during the interesting beers we had this week section because last week in somewhere in L.A. They had a tasting of the militant brewery which we're kind of a fan of lately and they had a tasting in L.A. So let's give. Jeff a call here. Hello Jeff beer the day podcast calling has gone going well Jeffrey. Are you quite good. We just had a sour to say saan from Woodland empire in Boise. It tasted like Florida interest like sourdough yeast a little bit of a grape and then lemon type of characteristic to it pretty good but we thought we'd call you and see if you had any interesting beers this week that you wanted to mention yeah for sure. And you know sorry I can't be on the show tonight. I wish I could be there but I actually had a kind of really great beers lately that I wanted to tell us about. So first Melvin brewing. I think most of us have had a Melbourne beer. Maybe wanted to in the last six months. I went to really really cool events last week and really like a genius marketing idea by Melbourne brewery and I mean there's a small brewery in Wyoming and they did this one day tap takeover at all these breweries around the country. I don't know how many but it was a bunch of you know selected breweries that they determined could have their beer called to buy for a day. So as last Saturday February fourth. I think they even did a couple international locations to see what they do is tap take over it always breweries on the same day maybe some of our listeners were at one of those lucky breweries and I was able to try nine beers from

Melbourne which is really cool. This is a great brewery and like I said We've had their beers but to try nine beers and Melbourne all on tap. It's pretty amazing. Yeah we played out a couple of them. So one was Hubert which is a pale ale probably one of the best Pale Ale they've ever had in my life and then another one called Sitra Dahmus which is a really nice double I.P.A. of course two by four which is they're probably best known double I.P.A. I think it was probably better. Out of the cayenne but having it on tap was was really good to him. It's still an excellent beer and they even had a thirteen percent in period stout I guess you would have liked of Britain it was it was excellent quality great flavor. So those are like the four beers that probably stood out out of the nine that I had so they have anyone from Mill there are they just sent these out to different breweries they did at this location so the co-found one of the co-founders of Melvin was there. I didn't even mention it was at Beechwood brewery in Long Beach which is pretty close to where I live and so one of the co-founders was there. I'm guessing some people from Melbourne went to some of the locations but probably not all of them but one of the co-founders was at Beechwood in Long Beach and it was you know the whole beach would staff they all had Melvin T. shirts on and you know it was very crowded because I think a lot of people were there to try the beers but it was just sort of a cool one day tap takeover of all these knob and beers. That's what I love about the brewing community. It's kind of like you don't see that in the restaurants as much. We're like a chef comes into town is hammering on my dishes the other chef is just going to sit on the

side. Why do all the porn all the cooking and it doesn't make sense but somehow it works in the brewing community. Yeah and like I said I mean this was I think a really great marketing play by Melvin I mean by. Because they're such a small grocery they probably don't have very wide distribution I mean. Joel you were able to get their beers Seattle. Like I was but to do this sort of the coordination that it probably took to have this one day tap take over across the whole country all these breweries I mean that really I think got the word out about Melvin if people didn't know about it already. Well the beer enthusiastic like you know a lot of the people who are brewers in breweries the guys who work there or trying to market their own product

third familiar with what the good beers are across the country. So I think you know Melvin did a good job of not only creating a good beer but getting little samples out to everybody so people say hey have you heard of Melvin Yeah it's great. Well

then it's pretty easy to have a tap takeover. When you've created such quality beer. Yeah absolutely. So it was great. You know they had a few other beers that were just pretty good but I just think the quality with all these now the Bears were really nice some we had killer bees in the past that wasn't us had that it was great. They didn't have that on tap. But it's like you can just tell when you drink that have you have the quality. Regardless of what style of beer. It is you know certainly and it's go weird that this. We never even had a beer from them for many for a long time and then they all the sudden this brewery out of Wyoming is kind of bursting on the scene. Maybe we should go to lambing you know from the source. I actually looked it up on a map and it looks like a pretty cool place it's not far from Yellowstone. I mean might be worth the future of your case and I'm down to do it. I was going to tell you guys about another beer that I had I like I said I've had a lot of really good beers over the last week I had one today from a brewery called indie Brewing Company which is from Boyle Heights which is a suburb of Los Angeles a kind of between downtown between downtown L.A. and East L. And I've seen their beers around I haven't had one before today they had a recent can release and it's one of these hazy I.P.A. used and you know I swear every time I turn around there's a new beer release happening somewhere. Oftentimes with a hazy I.P.A. because that's sort of all the rage right now but this one was excellent. It was I'm sort of still uncertain on the style something to be a little too sweet or or to tart or acidic. I like this one. It was just sort of the right amount of juicy fruity flavors. You know some mango papaya citrus that I think a lot of these have with also some pair of peach flavors. I think you guys would like it didn't have really any malt but I think that's sort of the norm with the style but it was just a great beer and I think just the beer scene around L.A. lately. The growth is sort of ridiculously out of control. But this is one of the new ones that just came out and really superb if you can find that indie brewing company it's called worth the squeeze seven percent IP. Yeah seven percent I.P.A. really got awesome Well it sounds like there's a lot of good beer done L.A. What are you doing next week. Well you guys are going to visit. Heck yeah a little road trip a little mini beer cation are you guys having a blind take on the show tonight. Yes we are sure to bring some of those down because I'm looking forward to that. Oh I got my shopping list from you and your friends it's in my. You know just to just to let you know how much effort I put into making sure your beer stayed at thirty four degrees you'd be proud of you Jeff. I really appreciate it all and never got I mean yeah you guys but you guys are coming down to visit happy to have you down here what's I got the breweries have some. Whatever you guys want to do but looking forward to next week and need to I'm ready. Our Jeff will see a Friday about one o'clock one thirty. All right you guys have fun on the sets and I hopefully there's some good beers the rest of the so we hope so. To see Jeff. All right. Adios is going to the next beer. We're moving into the I.P.A. section of the show. This is love and the death of damnation. The death of damnation of what I don't know but it had the word love in it in Valentine's Day is today when the show comes out

and so we have this beer and then we have the enjoyed by two fourteen seventeen later on in the show so I try not to judge a beer just by opening it and smelling it and I've even stuck my nose in the glass but right when I opened it I was like I'm

going to like this beer. It's got all of that really good to hop in. Dana flavor that I like but that's that when pine smell that I really enjoy from an I.P.A.. Yes So it's lighter than I thought it would be. It's kind of a dark stock color very slightly hazy definitely not as bubbly as the last one that we're on but very little had retention on mine. You guys still have I think a little bit more than I do yeah but less than a finger. Yeah. And then the there are very small bubbles and not many of

them just maybe one little nucleation point carbonating upward man it smells really happy and not like a fruity hop like a like a dank earthy earthy So this is the type of beer. That is not my jam but it is your jam. I could tell that you guys like it. It is quite better right up front this is a. Bitter I.B.U. bomb. I mean this thing is. It actually might be more than I enjoy. I took a sip about thirty seconds ago and I'm like tasting it like I just took it. Yeah it lingers on for a while which is the. Thought I'd like so the happiness. It is very prevalent. I'd say it's somewhere between piney and herbal and quite a lot up front the malt it has kind of a very reserved backbone behind it a little bit of like. Brady maybe even like Brady sourdough maybe that's just left over from the beard but a little bit in the background but just a great hop flavor. It is better on the aftertaste. And the bitterness does linger for a long time so I think you have to be kind of a true bitter I.P.A. fan to enjoy this beer. Yet and when I have this much bitterness in a beer. I like to add a little bit of like sweetness to it. This is not a sweet beer at all. It's very dry. It just gives me too much of a cotton mouth. But like Dallas said is not a bad tasting hop is just too dry into better for me I think you'll mix a really good point in that I couldn't figure out what it was but yeah there's no sweetness to it. Also there's nothing to really balance how bitter it is six point five percent is low on the alcohol for an I.P.A. but it packs a lot of flavor for being only six point five percent. So you tasted it and it tastes like more of a seven point five beer and it really is not that strong. It's just strong and flavor. And it looks like it has Jeff Bridges on the bottle. But it is just too good. It's just the white buffalo. All right well then let's transition to our next I.P.A. this is one. Joel brought back from the brewery. What today or yesterday yesterday it was bottled on February second. I actually happened to be in Santa Rosa and the place where I was working happened to be across the street from Russian River Brewing Company. And so you know they're famous for their plenty of the elder. But when you go into the location in you talk to the locals there a lot of them seem to like the blind pig I.P.A. as much or not more than plenty out or so I'm really looking forward to trying as I have not had it before it does come in a lower A.B.V. than plenty outdoes is I think plenty said consider a double I.P.A. this comes in at six point one percent. I don't know how to be either. I've heard a lot about it. Joe has had it before of a joint where he didn't know what he was having at the time. Sounds like a lot of our

baseball games. Right off the bat. It looks a lot more carbonated than the love in the death of damnation. Now this one is called Clear clear very clear clear Isabel tons of clarity. You can see a couple little bubbles floating up is a golden color but

it's so it's so golden and shiny that it looks like it's made of gold. Yeah I'm surprised how clear it is I think we're D'Souza seeing hazy ones this is what they used to look like. Two fingers of foamy frothy white head great lacing sticking to the

side of the glass. Now the first thing I noticed on the aroma and maybe it's just because it was so on balance on the last beer but has a sweetness that I can smell and so to me this aroma is a lot more pleasant than the last one is still. Smells Poppy. But it just seems like it's a little bit more of a floral hop with some sweetness floral hop and then you get there's more of a multi presence on this on the aroma here yeah little graham cracker Carmel malt graham cracker in. It's right on point today. I take a sip and it sends a flurry of little tiny bubbles floating up and just the initial impression is it is so smooth. It's like too smooth and I must I put these beers in the wrong order. I thought this one was as I remembered it had a little bit more of a kick to it and so I was thinking we were going to be stepping up in intensity when in reality we had the the more bitter more audacious beer first and then we were settling into something that's more subtle yet if you want a really enjoyable beer tasting experience drink the love and the death of damnation and then follow it with a blind pig I.P.A. because it makes it like taste like water but not like a refreshing water just because it's so smooth compared to the other one. What I noticed about Pig is that. It seems to be more concentrated where the other one lingered a lot more this one is a little bit crisper on the finish. And the other thing that I notice is that it has kind of like the. What I am sure to cringe when I say this but like the burned rubber diesel fuel like concentrated hop bitterness. This does. Yes I disagree but I know you're talking about. Just back to what Dallas said when it comes to like a very smooth beer. I would even say that the hop flavoring on this is very smooth. It's a floral it's got a little bit of Piney taste to it. And the flowers are like a little bit of lavender as well but it's got a nice sugary coating to it as it goes down. That is just pleasant in the mouth feels amazing. It's got a creamy sugar feel to it you compared to other pails you compared to Sierra Nevada Syria that it has kind of a more of a bite a little bit maybe of a more pepper hop and. Has a somewhat It's a mult profile that takes some getting used to and this one. Maybe it's because I've had plenty before and I think it's so highly. And I'm used to that type of flavor. But for some reason this fits my palate so well that I drink this beer and I. I can't imagine having a better Pale Ale than this. You can imagine it. I can't name a better one. I can't. It's like perfect. It is in. Like I said when I was in Russia never brewery and you know you're in standing in line getting your beers and we'll talk about that later. There is a lot of conversation that happens with the local guys who are saying like oh well I'm not here for play I'm here for the Blind Pig. Just because of how much more they enjoy it. From compared to like what the big hockey double I.P.A. is are. This is a standard beer

in Santa Rosa for people who want to taste a great paleo now by my choice if I was stuck on a desert island and I go with plenty. Just because it's a little bit more little bit more. It's a double it's a little happier a little more bold a little more to it. But if I had to pick a beer as dictator of the world that we would all drink for the rest of our lives. If this is the beer. Yeah it's good it's deep. And now this get into the beer do of the day. Well the story this week. Is going to be the same story that Jeff talked about when we talk to him on the phone and that Joel will talk about in just a second but the New York Times got a hold of this and ran it this week and about the eleven hour lines for new beers around the country and the article goes into a guy in New York that gets up at basically drives down to the other hand half brewery in the middle of the night or the night before sleeps in his car gets up brings a sleeping bag and waits eleven hours to get six beers. And the article goes on and on for two pages about all these crazy stories of people who stand in line fifteen hours for six cancer you know all over the country they're just. Well and breweries are getting smart to like some of these like breweries. It's getting crazy about these lines where they'll actually stamp your hand at what time you arrived so you can't hold a spot for all your homeys. Because they don't want to create riots where like one guy in a college dorm. You know hold spots for fifty

of his friends and they all come in and take up all the front row spots and so they're even getting creative about who can get a beer based upon the time stamp on their hand right and the other ones were they were just waiting and holding and holding off and not announcing it until like a couple hours beforehand to ensure that people weren't healing up twelve hours ahead of time camping out right or even not announcing it at all. They just put it out and then people that happen to come in get it

or even. Health concerns were it's not you know minus five degrees in their concern that they're releasing a beer. It's going to be too damn cold and people are going to get sick or get you know die from frostbite or something. You know. Yeah they're talking about in Oscar blues in Longmont Colorado it was negative fight of three four hundred people outside from the night before and it's crazy. They can only get six beers apiece and that's just that's the kind of exposure they don't want. So you have the experience joy you were in Santa Rosa. Yeah they were really seen plenty of the younger. Yeah and so I mean I go to Santa Rosa and have lunch at Russian River brewery which has amazing food and I was like hey let's go get some lunch and so I talked to my coworkers and they looked at me like no not not going to happen this week as I want to not like because plenty the younger was released a lot now we go over there so we go over there. It's seriously right across the street from the office I was working at this week and it was a four hour wait in like. The first night because my mind is oh I have I have a I have a job I have to work. I can't stand in line for four hours and then I look around I go a lot of these people can just sit

around and wait for beer for hours but it was interesting as I was talking to locals and some of the guys I work with they go there all the time and they're like really like we just don't go during this week because we have people who fly in from like New Zealand just to try this beer and so we came back at six o'clock it was a two hour wait I still wasn't willing to wait but luckily I was able to grab a bunch of bottles from the separate bottle line. So I grabbed a bunch of stuff for our friends but for hours. I wouldn't wait for hours. I would wait two hours. It's just that's too long. I mean some of these guys make a whole day out of it they pack and I. Chest and you know they're drinking beer while they wait and that's not that bad but they were just there and waiting for that long for a beer. Yeah you know I saw the weather yesterday it was in thing the rain is a disaster. Yeah yeah you nobody got time but it some breweries have tried to come up with different ways modern times and San Diego pre-sales the cans online and then provides windows of for when they can come and pick it up. Main beer company in both hearted in Ohio are selling advance tickets to limit the number of crowds. So there's a lot of different things. Ways people are doing this but this. Northeast style hazy I.P.A. is the really crazy thing that everyone is is waiting in line for so it's a crazy trend but it's I guess it's a good thing having popular craft beer. You know. Well I for me I think like how often do we have great beers on this show and luckily for us we can just go to tab or and get a bunch of different opportunities for great beers and so I always think like hey it's not worth me standing in line for four hours when I've had so many different great beers. I know that there are other fish in the sea not talk about my wife she's the only fish but beers. There are plenty beers Nessie only appears in the sea. Yeah the cold. Need to be get a cold beer as do one more before the break. This is for a move to Brewing Company in MI ville. This is why known as the big brown ale. I was looking forward to this one seven point three percent. Yeah the big brown So you know normally Brown also like six percent and I was going to put it slated into the top of the show and then I saw it was a big brown ale seven point three little more high octane. This one pours more of like a light chestnut color and it looks like it's actually fairly clear. It lets a lot of light through it does it's. It's interesting color because it's a little bit of a really dark or light brown. I mean it's lighter than the color of Coca-Cola the head is cream colored not light tan colored but pretty light for the style of beer. I suppose a little like a Mars would smell it smells great it snotty with multi caramel for sure there's a sweetness there. Yeah I think Joel hit the the Mars and characteristic where you get some of those German style malts caramel Burns eyes just lit up when he took a sip. It's

good unfiltered on the bottle but this to me for the only thing that shows that it would be like. You know it's pretty clear. It doesn't show any dirtiness or any little sediment in a drawl no flavor wise. I get quite a bit of caramel and brown sugar. You know there's a toasted bread the type of malt characteristic to it. So if you wait. Take a sip and drink it and then if you wait an extra like ten to fifteen seconds and exhale. It's got this coffee thing going on and you don't taste it. When you're drinking it. But in the after taste. It's fantastic. And it's like a coffee can be like actual coffee and here's a funny thing is if you close your eyes and drink this beer. You would think that it is a dark colored beer like something similar to a porter or a stout You would think it's a brown ale you would think that is it going to be like a. A toasted multi chocolate looking beer. You're written is actually right about the the coffee candy aftertaste it's about fifteen seconds after then that kicks in. It's a little bit like coffee look cooler to like yeah like a White Russian but a clue and cream type of flavor. I find it really pleasant. Yeah and at seven point three percent not taste of the alcohol. It's very very drivel but it's not overly sweet so it's not like they're masking anything really. It just seems pretty balanced very balanced and not heavy it's quite it maintains a lighter mouth feel but it is better. It is have that bitterness like almost like a dark chocolate bitterness to it. I don't think it's better at all but I think the bitter disk is like the coffee betterness Yeah it's more it's almost more like an acidity than I would say a bitterness but yeah I can see that. Yeah that's a solid brown or ale right there. It's a big brown brown Well that will close out the first half when we come back we have our Valentine's Day beer from Stone enjoyed by series two fourteen seventeen the day this podcast comes out. Plus three other beers to try of various styles will be right back. This is the beer that a podcast or if you enjoy beer of the day and this podcast and you want to help us out. There's a couple ways you can do that. Joe mention to war. Earlier if you go to to avoid your T.V. show you are Dot beer the day dot com sign up you can order. Many of the beers that we had in the spa cast the first one love and damnation we got from there when it was Big Brown we got from there. One two in the second half. All these beers are available on tour. You don't have to wait in line. You don't have to do nothing. They just ship them right. Your house. How convenient. It's like Amazon for beer. So too are dot here that a dot com sign up. We get ten dollars help us buy beer for future podcasts. You

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coffee I.P.A. I'm looking forward to just popping this. I don't want us. It says that this is going to want to enjoy yourself. Oh man what little head there. Unfortunately. So is going to go before you really all kind of go it doesn't really seem to have any carbonation I don't very little if anything going on. Ahead the place is actually a little bit even though it's so this is we want to because we've had a few beers like this but and I.P.A. usually is pop or word and then use of the Save the coffee and the Chocolate or more of the porters in the stouts Yeah. So this is like a merging of styles and but if you blindfolded me and had me fear. I don't I don't I would just say it's an I.P.A. like I don't pick up on any chocolate or coffee or anything and not a bit yeah it's really heavy I.P.A. I think it's because of how strong the hops usually are from like bittering hops and and I would say that it smells like it is a little bit higher in alcohol content to like it a little bit boozy not

very much. But a little bit. We've had some very So prior to this I.P.A. we had the love and death dam the death of damnation as well as the blind pig I.P.A. and this is just. Not in that same category. It's nothing that love and death of damnation is and it's nothing that blind pig is and it's missing the mark on a lot of stuff only because it's just like any standard I.P.A. I would say it's bad it's just the other two better beers we've had today been phenomenal. I don't think it's anything like think that there's something really weird to going on through the middle where I almost got like a seafood taste it got watery and then finished weird fish but I mean like charcoal filter. This is a very jerkily in the middle of this and I'm looking for chocolate and coffee but not getting much of that I'm getting weird. I do get a little bit of that I left coffee in the pot and it was on like a burner and it didn't turn to something else besides coffee. I'm getting a little bit of that that burned coffee tasted worse not even coffee more just burnt glass or something. Yeah like a burn. Almost like a burn or something. Yeah but it's it's really subtle. So it's like it's not overpowering or really really hard to pick out the fish in is

that I got the first getting now but I'm still getting this weird thing through the metal and I don't get any chocolate. I'm concerned I'm not to be able to finish it before the next tasting so I'm just trying to drink as fast as I can. It's it's really not that great. I would probably never buy this again you know as a matter of fact this show. You're listening to this either on two fourteen or after and it says enjoyed by two fourteen which. Means you've missed the window. So just leave it leave it on the shelf right and the board enjoy should be taken as well you're not you're just not going to buy two fourteen. What should be called not enjoyed by just by fourteen everyone ready to move on to the next one. I caught a fish terrible move on and I'm going to actually not think that we are going to be anywhere. I wasn't trying to do the same thing we did last year. Don't want to do that but it just worked right that I was deaf as all of that are let's get to the next pair now that one was

kind of interesting experiment this next one is what I think will be a really good Valentine's Day gift for Britain because this one is called contemplating Waterloo. It is a safe aged in Jim barrels. And you read that make sure I remember that correctly. Yeah it's a gin barrel aged Belgian style saison bottle conditioned ale and it is coming in at nine point one percent. I am agent drinker so this excites me because I like Belgians and I like them and is from Albert's brewery in Austin Texas and you like Austin Texas. I do like Austin Texas. So I do have to ask you how long you've been holding on to this for not long. Maybe a month or two. Yeah which is interesting because it was bottled a gear and three months ago which really shouldn't make much of a difference on a barrel aged Belgian but it even says that decided it do not store. Sideways make sure you Stuart up rate interesting. Well I did. Stuart up right. Probably because there's one said the Mint is one of the champagne don't

style tops here. Britain is looking at me with one eye. I'm I'm I'm bracing for impact because the things pointed to me who was very anti-climactic. So this is interesting. This is one of the first beers I've poured in a long time. That gives a little bit of a strawberry like strawberry ice tea look to it. It is darker than I thought it would be. It's kind of a yeah it's like Arnold Palmer almost word hazy kind of ORNGE and kind of brown and kind of straw colored You know Arnold Palmer because anybody else think that it almost like there's a band in the middle that the Brown in the top in the bottom or yellow is also mine looks like I think it's just the lighting. But it's pretty consistent. It is a cloudy. Very old dirty golden color Arnold Palmer Britain out it's what it looks like a list like a mix lemonade and iced tea together the head is incredibly thin. There's barely any on there. They're barely laces very much. But there's some carbonation you see some bubbles coming out from it a little bit now. It smells interesting. It doesn't smell like gin to me necessarily which is kind of what I was expecting it smells like kind of spicy build didn't. Yep but very light. I would it wouldn't I wouldn't call it a Belgian double type of aroma it's more about Belgians single like a Belgian saison which is one of its kind of smells like knowledge a kind of feels like Al gas right to me. Yeah I bit it maybe have some of the similar shame believed still favorite still loves him. Least he looks. He looks impressed. So well this is this is very unique and I use the word in a good way. Because I don't know if I've ever had a beer. That's like this when you have a ton of beers in a given year like you like Oh I've had a beer simmer This reminds me of this. This doesn't remind me of a lot. No it is not this one gives you a burst of flavor and then. It goes away it like doesn't have a huge after taste. I get a lot of flavor upfront and then you get sweet caramel at the end that's all you get and you don't get a lot of it but not a lot. It's abbreviated and the palate clears itself and makes room for the next step. I actually don't know if it really tooth like a beer. I'm trying to figure out a tooth like and I want to say that it tastes like if I put mammal lick you're into a gin and tonic. With a little bit of like it's not the not the coffee but just like the caramel is in the sweet and the cream taste to it is really to me it's really apparent. But it's also got a little bit of a floral like elderberry Yeah exactly. The Jim elderberry thing is there. There's a little lemon to it like you had a lemon in your gin and tonic. You know that abbreviated aftertaste think about all the little bit of the current malts

come in the coming through in the end. Kind of some similar characteristics of the first beer not as foreign key but it definitely is a say sawn in its qualities right mean that is I'm impressed at how many different flavors we've put out that are not similar like you'll get. You know you'll get a port of that has very similar flavors but the deflator as we've described in this beer are. Very unique and you never see all of those in that style of beer. I feel like it does have a little bit of a boozy after taste like if you were to just not take a shot of gin but if you were just to sip barrel quick like a really small sip of just actual gin. There's a little bit of like that burn towards the end and the other thing that I'm noticing is I think I wish it were a little bit more carbonated. Yep it is a little bit flat on the carbonation level. I get a little orange peel or something. Now. Yeah. Refused it. There's an orange characteristics to it. The three of us drink a lot of Jim we do so we are a little bit immune to gin after taste and I do think there are some in there and but it doesn't really affect the three of us that much. I'm actually getting the more I drink it. I feel like I understand what Joe is talking about when he said Carl mark out there is like caramel quality to it but I'm also getting like iced tea. And it's really weird because I said it looks like an Arnold Palmer and you said Lemon earlier which I get and I'm also getting like iced it. This is very complex and iced tea is not carbonated and so it kind of sits on your tongue a certain way and there's a little bit of a dryness and a little bit of just like unsweetened ice tea has a particular kind of mouth feel and this shares some of those qualities. So it's very interesting. You can just taste the quality of this beer. If you had this beer and you popped open with a group of friends and to try something different and try something a little unique. This would not disappoint. Yeah and if you pop

this beer and you poured it and you tried to have people tell you what style of beer. This is I think a lot of people would have a hard time I think they might Hillary look at pick out like Belgian I think a lot of people might say farmhouse ale. I think you would get some. That. But even for me like even after I've read it. I'm still like kind of confused by it's a very complex beer. It's it's got it's like warming my throat to the more I'm drinking it. I'm getting like oh it's seemed like a

warmer almost where and I think that that's what I was talking about earlier with like if you were to just take like a little sip of Jim. It's got that warming sensation. It does and every time I said but I get something different out of it. Yeah very

unique beer. Unlike anything I've ever had before I really would like to see more beers aged in gin barrels in the two it's rare. We've had a few of them in the past we had one from I think break side. I think it was before. And yeah at a beer

festival a couple years ago and we enjoyed that one that may have been our favorite one of that day. Are being really missed one is quite good as well. So if they worth seeking out contemplating Waterloo you think Napoleon did a little contemplating in the years after that. Probably incoming transmission. You've got mail. Comments this week last week we did a show two weeks ago it was a porter show best show ever written. Joel were here Jeff was here in person and it was a fun time a fun time was had by all de Helicarrier posted. Somehow we managed to say the word I.P.A. thirty two times at a show that did not feature a single I.P.A. impressive. I think because you'll need help. Oh Buckeye not wait a second you did a greatest porter in the world

episode it didn't call me for my participation sad face another great episode and even better by the fact that you are saying playing the best style of beer. Porter the dirty old man sounds impressive and I'll have to look about scoring some of that be local in Ohio makes getting hop in Prague quite easy and there is a fusion a coffee Porter is outstanding. Let me know if you need some bottles. I'd be happy to send them your way. Looking forward to another show in two weeks. P.S. just came back from Cannes coon and I had the Twelfth of Never by logging us on a Southwest flight. I love getting good beer on Southwest. Here's to the next vacation and the next crime on Southwest. We did a fair amount of bitching and moaning about Southwest and their crappy beer selection on this podcast over the last year they now have a decent like they have not yet they have a decent Yeah. So actually J. H. Miller posted on Twelfth of Never from lager to this just had this on a Southwest flight pretty damn good beer for airline beer. So Jeff posted up that beer. It was the beer of the day two days ago this comes out on the fourteenth on the twelfth. I'm having it. The twelfth of never be the beer the day on the twelfth so if you missed that go back and look for it a couple days ago the patsy was the beer they this is a stout and J.M. five six two says four point five as is the night show this beer is delicious and case based home comment on the same beer really love the balance on this beer. I would highly recommend for anyone that likes a smooth stout with less coffee influence. I was a beer the day today. Feb tenth as we are recording this post to be every day to social network on Instagram Advair that a site resi Casper commented on that Thai Ogust Sequoia sugar pine Porter that we had last week and they said this is. Good very good beer they site. I live in the town this is brewed so they enjoyed that one. And we had joined a lot of those porters on the show last time we were on here. So follow us on Instagram at near the de site follow us on Twitter at beer of the day and we're on Facebook facebook dot com slash the beer the day we like to hear your comments and read them on this program so if you have any comments just send them on the email to feedback at beer the day dot com or there's a comment section on the website below every single page of the day dot com. All right let's get into the next beer. Now it's only February and we're not going to see another episode of

Game of Thrones and tell probably August deeds holy animals killed police Jolo most took out the light and police either. That's me for you. Those of you who don't know. Oh boy. So every once in a while they come out with one of these Game of Thrones Piers we probably have four or five of them on this program so far so this one here is quite cloudy. I can barely see through it it had quite a bit ahead to start out with but it's dissipated down quite a bit pretty quickly. It looks like it has a lot of carbonation now. OK I'm going to tell you what it smells like and you guys are going to be like yeah that's what it smells like ready for it. Honey Nut Cheerios Belgian Honey Nut Cheerios. Yeah there is some Belgian East characteristics in there pretty mild. Maybe a little bit of like cinnamon spice or something but pretty reserved on the aroma. We had that or child of beer and it smells similar to that like when you mention a cinnamon and instantly came to the forefront of my mind. Yeah I don't get that much on the flavor though a little bit of the cinnamon. It's kind of just a mild Belgian beer a little bit of raisin fig this mild dark fruit. Like a very mild Belgian Yeah and that's a way to describe if you could like have some sort of Pilsner that's also a Belgian that's what it would be. It's got a little bit more sweetness than a pilsner would but it's very mild and I will tell you that I really enjoy this beard just because of how drink Bill it is sometimes you'll get a

Belgian style beer where it's just like it's just so overwhelming and so yeasty that you can't really enjoy it. This is something that you could just have a ton of and be happy you had it was very drunk about ninety percent. Yeah yeah absolutely and that's the thing that Dallas nailed. It's nine percent. I mean that is impressive for how drink of all this beer is it's got a little bit of a creaminess going on to where it kind of reminded me a little bit of very weeding but it was there of a banana now and later. There's always a lot of banana. You know Dick's in Belgian beers and this does have some I was getting more of the of the FIG and Razan but there is some banana in the after taste. Well there's not much more than that in what you described a little bit of banana mostly fig except for is just like I said it's very light and enjoyable. It shocks me this comes this is at nine was at nine point nine flat nine percent A.B.V. if someone said to me Oh this is six or seven percent of again that sounds about right and it doesn't have much sweetness to it either. For me. Nine percent. Now it doesn't seem to be very sweet. I think of all the game. Thrones beers I've had this may be my favorite Now it's not saying a lot because I haven't really been a big fan of The Game of Thrones beers in general but I think I like this better than Valar more Google is the last one we had Yeah. The little head if that's what this one is you know you're always supposed to say that after somebody says oh oh the nerd comes out. But better than the three I'd rave him better than the Iron Throne pretty good beer here but do you feel like when you have one of these beers and maybe I'm just speaking for myself you instantly judge it like oh it's a beer they mass produced for marketing you do you think that do you always have that like in the back you had like this is not going to be that great. Yeah I do have that worry. Yeah but I was being taken advantage of and I see it when I haven't had before and I have to buy it and. But I just get it so I can play that music. I think that with the well with the Game of Thrones brand of beer is for me it's my favorite word that her body started using it serviceable I mean it's a it's a drink of all Belgian but there are a lot of other Belgian but rather a completely agree it's fine it's a novelty. But it's serviceable I'm one of the things that Game of Thrones is the best T.V. show on television but Game of Thrones beer is not the best beer on the market. So it comes up short when you're out measuring up to that yardstick. And what you have you have and then I'm again right. No Cooperstown I'm actually not the only thing we've had a couple making beers that weren't game a throw. That I thought were really good. Yeah oh yeah. So it's a little bit disappointing that knowing the caliber of beer that they can produce is not being done here but pretty consistently out there but they're probably like well we have this great beer we can't

make that a game of thrones beer we got to make that chocolate indulgence. You know then they have one that comes up pretty good right let's slap a three hundred even on them. Yeah well it's going to the the last beer of the night and the idea what

the guest of the name of this beer is written down we Ching same thing. Never asking. I think it's Miley right let's sing a song you know you know a list of what is it better ruin it for everyone else. Maybe this one. This beer is called From No Lee brew house in Spokane Washington wrecking imperial stuff at nine point five percent. I was waiting for you to drop the beat. I split the clip so I can drop it whenever I want. Miley Thank you. So this one is interesting because I feel like I've seen this in some beers before but I've never really noted it out loud. This one. Seems so viscous that it doesn't lace the glass with head actual. The beer sticks to the beer itself sticks to the glass. Yeah but you can see through this. If you hold up the light. It's not as dark as like you would get the go real dark stout or porter it's got like a little of a brown hue to it looks like a bird or brown butter and we've had some stouts where no light at all gets through and you actually do get some dark red highlights peeking through this smells like on her mentored wart I mean those of you guys who know that smells like it is very like bready and sugary you don't get a lot of like alcohol or hops smell to it at all. So I haven't tasted Yeah but I wonder if you're just going to get a lot of sugar out of this. It smells like horse speed and I'm saying the in the most complimentary way possible. It gets smells so good now really when you ask. I mean through the oatmeal human it's yeah yeah

you're getting you're getting wart and grain but a lot of Imperial Stout smell like molasses and you get a little bit but it's not that much and sometimes you get that barbecue sauce type thing. Don't get any of that here. I really like this. The room of this it almost smells like a grainy Coca-Cola it kind of has like a cola small to it so I have not taste this yet. So my initial expectation is this can be very very sweet at nine point five percent so I'm going to whirl. You'd be surprised. Yeah

it's a lot actually more better than I thought it would be in the carbonation Yeah it's not as sweet as I thought it was going to be. I thought was going to be almost syrupy it's very carbonated. Like I'm getting a lot of I think it's flat remember much carbonation but I am getting really burnt you know roasted really dark malts like burned burned smoky Yeah really dark tones who. Not that sweet you expected to have like that brown sugar sweetness and it's very reserved. I'm definitely getting oatmeal in the flavor as well. Gamed a little bit chocolate very little very little good if it is chocolates very dark chocolate. I'm thinking that's what I'm getting the better in this from two that seems like it's like that real dark bitter chocolate the bittersweet chocolate but without the sweet. Yeah you can buy like Cocoa without like six straight cocoa that's what I taste I don't taste in the sweetness and they're not in the milky sweet chocolate taste. I will tell you I didn't I don't like this beer. I like it less than I thought I would based on the aroma zeroed was fantastic. It's just the beer is just a little too bitter and. It doesn't have a lot of complexity to it it's just bitter chocolate. I would agree with that I don't think MOLTZ I think that I would want it to be more carbonated to try and help deliver. I think a little bit more of what flavor they were going for because the description on the bottle doesn't necessarily fly with what we're tasting What's the description of the bottle so. It's intense and delightful just boxed out chocolate and roasted barley malt dominate the aroma which is true. Accepted in small chocolate with sweet and fruity flavors to fall. I don't taste anything sweet and I don't taste anything fruity Renier meticulous it. So one of these that ruined this for me is that Britain called it cola. So this tastes like a and there is something that is psychological about when someone says ending it kind of sticks in your brain does taste like a burnt Dr Pepper now to me I did see that and it's not even just the taste it's also the consistency of it. It's like someone who left a Dr Pepper in a boiling car and it kind of lost a little bit of its carbonation it's kind of what this tastes like. Now I will say that this is the last beer of the. Obviously And I think it's been sitting out for a long time. I also would have liked it a little bit colder. It's not that cold. I don't want listeners to think that it's not cold calling me if you're. Britain. I do it's cold. This beer is cold it's mine called I know but it has nothing to do with it. I mean I don't want people to think that the temperature it. It's it's pretty cold. Yeah that's a stout nine point five percent is pretty hidden. It's not that alcoholic. You could drink this and I wouldn't have said thought it was more than eight percent. But you compare it to the show we did last time which was all porters but this doesn't compare to those and I mean stout and Porter.

You're going to find a lot of similar characteristics between them. So this one falls a little short for me me to now that being said if you like the darker roasted smoky type of qualities in a beer. If you don't like sweetness. If you like a little more bitterness a little more on the darker side of the stout then this is the beer for you. Obviously everyone has a different palate. So one thing I notice looking at the bottle is that throws it's a hundred IB use and I can definitely see that it is

bitter for sure. And I think that that's my biggest complaint about it too is that there's not a sweetness there to help balance that a little bit. Right. I think if you like bitterness. Then you like bitter beers and some people do and that people like the high abuse this is be a beer for you. Similar to how love and the death of damnation was a bitter I.P.A. So if you like a little bit of that darker quality a little. More bitterness low sweetness than you know that's something to consider.

Yeah maybe some E.U. I.P.A. who don't necessarily like step that much. This might be one for you to try because that the little bit on the better side that you might be used to. Yeah. All right well let's recap the beers we've had tonight and figure

out what our favorite beer of the day is Britain already so we started off with the bull sourdough season from Woodland Empire craft. Then we moved on to the love and the death of damnation by Anchorage brewing company followed by blind pig I.P.A. by Russian River Brewing Company. Then we had wine known as Big Brown Ale from Voodoo brewing and then we have the Valentine's stone in just blew by out old Burt brewery came up next. And then we had Game of Thrones Valar Harris by a brewery I'm going

and the last one of the night was a wrecking ball Imperial by no lie brewhouse No Lee No lie. No idea who goes first. Joel. All right so everybody hates it when I do this but I'm going to give you the beer. If I was stuck on an island. This is the beer I want to be stuck with I want to be stuck with Blind Pig I.P.A. However my beer of the day is going to be contemplating Waterloo. I think one of the reasons why is it in such a complex I have not tasted that many unique flavors and descriptions in a beer in a long time and at nine point one percent. And like you're not going to drink a lot of it to have a fun nominal time and I I enjoyed every single sip and taste of that beer and I loved just the pure enjoyment of describing the beer. I enjoyed. So yeah I mean that anything from the floral to the complexity to the gin to the juniper all those tastes. I enjoyed a lot and so I'm going to go with. My beer the day is definitely contemplating Waterloo by Albert spring brewery in Austin Texas. So I agree completely with everything. Joel said contemplating Waterloo is a fantastic beer it was very unique. It was very complex. It would be a little bit hard to drink the whole bottle by myself which. That's where I kind of get hung up a little bit so I am actually going to go with why known as Big Brown Ale. That beer was fantastic. It was super balanced. That coffee candy after taste was really pleasant. It was nutty It was caramel Lee with some brown sugar. So that's my vote for beer the day why known as Big Brown Ale for Voodoo Brewing Company. It's always tough when you go third and there's three people and I could deadlock us or I could concur with somebody and so I'll say I'm going to stick to what I said about the blind pig I.P.A. being the beer that I would force on all of my minions all of the people in my empire. You know as the dictator of the world. But for this one night tonight. I'm going to go with the beer that most impressed and surprised me contemplating Waterloo expanded the mind. It was hard to get your to wrap your mind around everything that was going on with the beer there were so many different flavors so many different complex cities and definitely one I would want to have again. So. Maybe not the one to drink every day of my life but one that I was very happy. I had tonight. Did you say with me or Britain I'm just not sure contemplating Waterloo is my beer the day I weigh in. Dulles never the politician. He chose beer not you. Well I mean I would have picked cunt but of Waterloo except for I will go. Just kidding. Miley here let's do a different wrecking ball. Sounds like this one better. That's going to cause the we hope all of you have a happy and safe a Valentine's Day and hopefully

you have plenty of beer to drink to get you through the evening. Whether you have that special Valentine or maybe even better if not we will see you next time next weekend we Britton, Joel and I are going down to L.A. to visit Jeff who are the breweries we're going to live it up but have a good old time down there in the City of Angels. So then the week after that will do the podcast and we will see you then with a party of stories to tell for Joe Minor, Britton Minor, I'm Dallas Heliker, we'll see you next time right here on the Beer of the Day Podcast.