April 12, 2024 • 21 mins
On this American Beer Review LIVE! review, we are tapping into some nostalgia of our younger beer drinking days. As expected from the beer experts at the The Mens Room and Black Raven Brewing - Mens Room IPA is a classic easy drinking (dare we say crushable?) IPA that will hit perfectly when it's 5 o'clock somewhere. We don't forget to raise a glass to the charitable side of this beer, which supports local Fisher Houses.
Black Raven Brewing Co.
Mens Room IPA
12 oz 6-Pack - Grocery Store, Would Look Good in a Tavour Crate?
5.8% ABV
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, put your ears in Yep.
No turning on, here we go, soanother episode.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to another episode of the American Beer
Review Podcast.
Good times with good friendsrequires good beer.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Lucky for us, we know how to pick all three.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're a group of friends who grew up in the
Pacific Northwest, giving us ajump start on our craft beer
journey.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Join us today.
While, brian, I pride myself onnot getting to know other
people, so do not put that on me.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Alec.
So the bananas up until the 60swere an entirely different
species of banana and Chad.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It hit me like a beck and bob Review some beer talk
about beer topics and whateverelse comes up.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We invite you to pour yourself a drink and hang out
with us.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We're going to back local this time around.
I was telling Chad before I gothere, telling him before you
got here Before you got here,before you got here, I was going
to say I guess Chad can tell uswhat beer we're drinking?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
kick it off and then I'll tell my little story.
Caw-caw bitches, we're drinkingthe Men's Room IPA from Black
Raven Brewing.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So a new what is old is new again.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What is old is new again.
What is old is new again, sortof technically, we were young
men when we first encounteredthe men's room, and now we're
old men re-encountering themen's room.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The first one's a.
That's going to sound reallyweird for people who don't know
what the men's room is.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This isn't for the national audience.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We're getting hyper-local.
We're not talking about abathroom.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're doing no explaining, we're just going to
rip it, rip it, rip it, noexplaining.
So the first men's room, whichis a afternoon drive time radio
show on KSW In Seattle and thensyndicated in that, yeah, and
they're doing kind of a podcast,but when we were brand new
(02:10):
drinkers- I'm trying to think,yeah, it's been close, maybe not
quite, but close to 20 years,but growing up hitting the drive
time and it was the RockStation.
And what was there was the rockstation and what was it?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
every day they did a toast 5 o'clock toast,
celebrating their commitmentwe've met them many times I was
going to say several timesdifferent forms and spent time
with them that we will not gointo.
You're welcome, ted.
When we have the patron we cando those stories on that I can
(02:51):
subscribe.
I have a men's room drinkingteam.
Oh sure that I have not seen inat least 10 years, and drew my
wife crazy this morning as I'mdigging through it Trying to
find it.
I think I may know where it isnow.
It wouldn't fit at this point,so I'm in my throwback jersey.
(03:11):
Oh, that hurts to say too what,that it's a throwback, that
this is a throwback jersey, dude, I mean, that's almost.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Don't tell them how old it is.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I mean, I was in college when we went to that
Super Bowl, but anyways, so tothe men's room.
They had a beer.
Still had them, right?
I'm assuming it's gone nowbecause of this change.
That's my assumption, becauseotherwise, why?
The other brewery did differentversions.
(03:44):
So my assumption Becauseotherwise, why?
Because the other brewery diddifferent versions.
So my assumption is it is nolonger in existence, that this
became the replacement.
So for whatever reason, I don'tknow, because the other one was
men's room red.
Yes, and this is men's room IPA.
Yes, and they've had differentmen's room styles.
They've done like a blonde orthey've done a different thing.
(04:04):
They've different men's roomstyles.
They've done like a blonde orthey've done a different thing.
They've done men's room black.
They've had different versions.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Okay, you've had things you wanted to say for a
while.
I was just going to recoup theflavors that went into this one.
Okay, please do.
New approach to classic style.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
This is a hot variety Idaho 7 and Bravo, which pack a
bunch of flavors such as mango,pineapple, tangerine and juicy
fruit.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
If you need 5.8% ABV and tempered bitterness profile,
this baby is ready to rock, anda portion of all proceeds from
this beer go to local fisherhouses, and that's something
they've always done with thisbeer.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And I remember listening to him and hearing.
So if we hadn't have done that,uh, we'd be retired now.
Oh, if the money had gone tothem instead of to the fisher
house.
Yep, instead of the charitythey're like well of to the
Fisher House.
Instead of charity, they'relike well, we're doing a good
thing trying to help out thecommunity, and they obviously
still are.
But if we just kept that money,we would not be here.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, you know what?
I am shocked that gentlemen whomade their lifestyle drinking
beer helped create a craft.
I don't know how much betweenthem and Black Raven it was but
this is very tasty beer.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I highly doubt that the men of the men's room went
on and were like so we'rethinking this many pounds of
grain, we're thinking at thispoint, we're going to add in
some hops and we're going to doa whirlpool the flame out.
I really doubt that.
What I can imagine is hey, wewant to make it an IPA, okay,
(05:54):
we'll make it.
They're also not like IPAdrinkers necessarily, so they
are realizing IPA is the flavorand the style that's going to
maybe sell, maybe get even moredonations, but they're going to
go in and say here's what wewant in an IPA.
I can tell you number one thatprobably the alcohol level is a
(06:18):
thing that they were probably onis saying, hey, let's rein it
in a little bit and not have a 7point something IPA, but
bringing it down to a 5.8, solid.
Even just from opening it youcan smell a little more
fruitiness.
This is not going to be, fromwhat I can tell.
From just the aroma, this isnot your piney west coast IPA.
(06:43):
You're thinking otherwise Fromthis pour.
You may be able to justify this.
I haven't tasted it.
The smell you could call thisprobably West Coast.
Well, and it's from Black Raven.
Yeah, right, it doesn't meanevery IPA they're going to make
is full on West Coast.
No, no, no.
So my guess would be BlackRaven came up with a flight.
(07:04):
Yeah, you're right, it's not apiney, though it's more like a
dank, also kind of Vince theMentor.
They probably came up with aflight.
Hey, you're looking at beers.
Do a tasting.
Which one do you like?
We'll lean in with that one.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But yes, they're not crap.
Feel free to correct us MenRoom if we're talking out of our
ass here.
Oh, if We'll lean in with thatone.
But yes, there are crap rumors.
Feel free to correct us men inthe room if we're talking out of
our ass here.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, if the Ted Smith came up with the recipe in his
apartment.
He should have been saying it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ted Smith came up with this recipe in a cave with
a box of scraps.
It's an Iron man reference, nota Dune reference.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I might have actually known that one, but not until
you said it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I love the way it pours.
It looks like it's clear If itjust said beer on the can or
this.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This looks like there was a bar that I used to go to
that had tapped and just saidbeer.
And there I still, to this day,I have no, I don't know what it
was.
I don't know if I'm it might'vebeen only, but it was just like
the tap down, it was just beer.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's still not as good as.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The tap handle wasn't wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, there has been Men's Room Original Red.
Men's Room Black, which was anImperial Red Ale.
Men's Room Gold.
Men's Room Original Single Hop.
Golden Ale Original Ale.
Single Hop.
Comet A Pumpkin Ale oh, theygot into the pumpkin game.
(08:44):
Men's Room, original ale.
And then, yeah so, and thenobviously this one.
I've had the black, I've hadthe gold, I've had the red, but
I did not check in the black,but I know kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, this could get away with the West Coast.
Disagree, it's too fruity, youthink so yeah, yeah, there was a
look if there was a little morepine in it, but in the finish,
but for an every so as a moreeveryday drinking ipa this, yeah
, as an everyday.
Get home from work five o'clock, crack a can down the hole.
(09:26):
A bitchola Love it, it's right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I think you get enough of the other stuff.
But yeah, it's not overly piney, it's not like earthy.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm not overwhelmed by it Like I.
I got after it Just to see Likea multiplicative lot of
syllables.
A lot happened in there.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm not mad about it.
I it's so close to related to afridge.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Let's see, we got a little time, let it breathe.
This is so close to a gold, toa fridge.
Let's see, we've got a littletime, let it breathe.
This is so close to a cold nowfor me, without some of the
resin and dankness I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I guess I get more.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's like what you're saying.
It's like an everyday IPA, butI'm getting more everyday
drinkability out of it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying, and not that you
can't drink like a Northwest IPAthat way, but this has more
viability for the every person.
Well, yeah, and the flavor-wisetoo, though.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The conjunction of that is we just had beers a lot
higher ABV, that went down a lotsmoother.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
True Beers and air floats.
Grassy, that's the descriptionthey put on here, but it's not
one that I think of.
But that's it, that's what itis.
That's what it is.
We call it almost a dankness,but it is a grassy.
Earthy grass yeah the grass isthe specific.
(11:04):
I like it.
I think it's a good one.
I think it's pretty solid.
It would be interesting to seeas more people as it comes
around.
The red ale was very popular,sold well, not well liked by
(11:27):
actual like beer drinkers, likepeople I know, like in
distribution or just are beernerds like weren't big fans of
it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That was a it was an odd the style.
I love what they do.
That was a.
It was an odd Like the style.
Yeah, not to Like, I love whatthey do, but that was a weird
style to have, for I didn't Kindof the tempo of the show like
ziggy-zaggy, like I alwaysthought if I didn't ever do
Pilsner, yeah I think, orsomething that you're crushing.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
right, that's what the gold was supposed to be, I
think.
But the the amber is.
I think the idea of it beinglike that blend, of being the
lighter beer, like an amber, isto me like a gateway to craft
beer beer where you're verylight in some flavor, you're
adding a little maltiness,you're not overdoing it with the
(12:27):
hops and you're getting thatlittle bit different.
That can kind of ease somebodyin and it's also like a it's not
just a crusher, like it's notjust an American light lager
doing that sort of thing.
Yes, and not to disparage theoriginal red.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
This is far superior.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I checked it in one time in 2015 and never
again.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't I'm sure I've had it other times, but like,
but this is one.
This is one that I see.
I know I saw the red back inthe day on tap, oh yeah, but I
could see more universalacceptance of this on tap.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I would probably, depending on where I would order
this on tap.
I don't think I've ever orderedthe original.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, no Original or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well how much is that to our friends at Black Raven
for consistently producingexcellent beer?
Not that the old brewery didanything wrong, but it just fits
.
We did a full flight of BlackRaven, unintended.
None of them were bad.
(13:44):
I haven't had a bad Black Ravenbeer.
Oh, I had their.
Don't talk shit about them now.
No, I'm sorry.
No, it's just, that's not whatI meant.
I had the Dimensions,watermelon Mint, the weird stuff
.
Yeah, I had that one.
Did you like it?
It was interesting, but youknow what you're doing.
(14:08):
It's the reason why I didn't buya full four pack ever.
So what happened?
So?
Alternate Dimensions, somethinglike that.
Tacoma Boys Yep, really greatcraft beer section.
They should get ten pots whileyou're at Tacoma Boys For one
surprisingly really good beerselection, and they have their
own cans like individualssleeper beer selection yes and
(14:32):
it's one of those that like it'sjust a little bit of a pain to
get to from my house but it'ssuper actually close.
it's just because the costcotraffic and like some other
stuff like going by the mall butlike and actually the problem
is getting out of there, there'sno easy way to get back to my
direction.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I got to like yeah exactly, it's quicker to go the
one Tacoma off Highway 16 thanto go to that one.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, so they owe me money.
The one in Tacoma, no, but theyhad a mystery box.
Okay, they have multiple boxessitting outside of the beer
cooler and it just says $25 fora box.
We used to do that and it was,like you know, $30 to $40 value
(15:17):
and I was like there areliterally tons of great beers,
tons that I'm looking at here.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And I just kept looking at the dang box.
There could be anything in thatbox.
And I just kept looking at thedang box.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah there could be anything in that box, and so I
bought a box.
I bought like a can ofsomething I wanted to think, and
then I bought a box and so thealternate dimensions was in
there.
So it was damn.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's very tasty.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I think I will King.
Citrus Crown was made out ofalternate dimensions watermelon
and sour.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I the timing of what I drank it.
I think I had it like actuallynot bad, like with tacos or
something for dinner, but likeit really should have been like
a post lawn mowing or like ait's a good a late brunch.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I like that late brunch.
It's also a weekend lunch Aftera sandwich.
It's a little.
It's also poolside.
That's a poolside crush.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, yeah, that's not a winter beer, no, it's like
the inside beer.
A couple weeks ago, a coupleweeks ago, it's either been 70
degrees or 40 degrees in.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Right now, washington's still deciding what
it wants to do right now,that's fine.
Don't come here on vacation.
That's terrible, it's miserable.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
No, come here on vacation, spend your money, keep
our.
Oh, there you go, then go home,we will tell you.
We will tell you whichbreweries to go to, depending on
where you're at.
Oh, like For sure, there was Aguy I know Was visiting from
Montana and he came for aCracking game and he was like
hey, what's the breweries?
(16:59):
And I was like Totally not.
And I was like Tell me more,like which one?
What'd you do?
Oh, did you go to this oneuptown or did you go to this one
by the water?
Like what you like?
I think it kind of like.
I don't know, man, if we wentto the one right next to the
stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, I went to one.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I had some Coors Light, yeah, not what you did
alright, uh, bridget, or do wehave something else going on
first?
I don't think so.
First, I don't think so.
I'm just a reviewer.
The way he paused like that, Iwasn't sure he's stunned into
silence and had almost no stroke.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This is staying in my fridge Three cans you have left
, yeah, and I'll probably gograb another six pack.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I want to be able to grab a can of this.
I think this is one.
I've kind of done it now morewith like some pale ales, with
my cutting back on IPAs, butlike always having something
with a little like hoppiness,because the problem is, like
cutting back on IPAs, what's themost common thing you're going
(18:01):
to get otherwise, like stoutsand dark beers, and there's only
so much that I can do of that.
I love the dark beers, but likeat only so much that I can do
of that.
I don't know, I love the darkbeers, but like at some point
you need that little bit of hopsjust to clean the palate yeah,
and so this actually seems likea pretty solid like of having
that always around like it is,and it's one that you can, I
(18:25):
think, give to just aboutanybody, unless they are very,
very, very into IPA.
But like, even like a summerday, sitting outside, this will
be kind of nice.
You can have a 5.8.
Like I don't know if that will,but you could at least have a
few.
You're getting a little bitbetter at that and it's not a
(18:47):
flavor that's gonna there'snothing that's gonna burn you
out.
No, like maybe after three orfour, but like it's not like
some of those ips where you'relike that I just like.
Well, how many beers roasted mypalate.
Where you go like I'll have apint of this, yeah, and this is
one that, yeah, it's not.
Yeah, I will go back for asecond yeah, yeah, easily.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So I'm not going to house it like a light beer, but
I could definitely.
If you're in the mood or youjust get home in your mood, I'll
have two or three, but I'm notgoing to have that like I.
I purposely have been crushingthis one and I'm not giving that
overwhelming copness.
(19:34):
I think I've kind of talkedabout the past.
Where there's that additiveeffect, it goes away.
I really fucking like it.
Yeah, no, this would be a goodeasy IPA go-to type of a fridge.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It's like a grab-to-go to somewhere Go to a
summer barbecue or somethinglike that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This is a perfect grab-a-six-pack and just roll,
knowing that you're probablyonly going to have one or two
because you can take some out ofyours, you can be stealing some
of theirs.
It's good with care.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I like the blend of the logos.
Yeah, the Black Raven and theMen's Storm logo so Cool.
Any other thoughts on theseones guys?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Brian, you got to go bottoms up on that.
Yeah, should we do the classicsign out?
I forgot what the beginningpart of it was.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I have not a clue.
I listened to the text podcast,but I have not listened to the
radio.
Sorry guys, how about this Downthe hole of itchola?
How about we end it, our?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
glasses are empty.
Almost I'll get drinking Downthe hole of itchola.
Catch you next time.
See your thunder, go for it.
Our glasses are empty.
Almost I'll get tricking welldown the hola itchola.
Catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
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(21:30):
Feel free to send us any beersuggestions that we can make
Chad go buy off of Savor.
All right, put your ears in Yep.
No turning on, here we go, soanother episode.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to another episode of the American Beer
Review Podcast.
Good times with good friendsrequires good beer.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Lucky for us, we know how to pick all three.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're a group of friends who grew up in the
Pacific Northwest, giving us ajump start on our craft beer
journey.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Join us today.
While, brian, I pride myself onnot getting to know other
people, so do not put that on me.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Alec.
So the bananas up until the 60swere an entirely different
species of banana and Chad.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It hit me like a beck and bob Review some beer talk
about beer topics and whateverelse comes up.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
We invite you to pour yourself a drink and hang out
with us.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We're going to back local this time around.
I was telling Chad before I gothere, telling him before you
got here Before you got here,before you got here, I was going
to say I guess Chad can tell uswhat beer we're drinking?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
kick it off and then I'll tell my little story.
Caw-caw bitches, we're drinkingthe Men's Room IPA from Black
Raven Brewing.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So a new what is old is new again.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What is old is new again.
What is old is new again, sortof technically, we were young
men when we first encounteredthe men's room, and now we're
old men re-encountering themen's room.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The first one's a.
That's going to sound reallyweird for people who don't know
what the men's room is.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
This isn't for the national audience.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
We're getting hyper-local.
We're not talking about abathroom.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We're doing no explaining, we're just going to
rip it, rip it, rip it, noexplaining.
So the first men's room, whichis a afternoon drive time radio
show on KSW In Seattle and thensyndicated in that, yeah, and
they're doing kind of a podcast,but when we were brand new
(02:10):
drinkers- I'm trying to think,yeah, it's been close, maybe not
quite, but close to 20 years,but growing up hitting the drive
time and it was the RockStation.
And what was there was the rockstation and what was it?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
every day they did a toast 5 o'clock toast,
celebrating their commitmentwe've met them many times I was
going to say several timesdifferent forms and spent time
with them that we will not gointo.
You're welcome, ted.
When we have the patron we cando those stories on that I can
(02:51):
subscribe.
I have a men's room drinkingteam.
Oh sure that I have not seen inat least 10 years, and drew my
wife crazy this morning as I'mdigging through it Trying to
find it.
I think I may know where it isnow.
It wouldn't fit at this point,so I'm in my throwback jersey.
(03:11):
Oh, that hurts to say too what,that it's a throwback, that
this is a throwback jersey, dude, I mean, that's almost.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Don't tell them how old it is.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I mean, I was in college when we went to that
Super Bowl, but anyways, so tothe men's room.
They had a beer.
Still had them, right?
I'm assuming it's gone nowbecause of this change.
That's my assumption, becauseotherwise, why?
The other brewery did differentversions.
(03:44):
So my assumption Becauseotherwise, why?
Because the other brewery diddifferent versions.
So my assumption is it is nolonger in existence, that this
became the replacement.
So for whatever reason, I don'tknow, because the other one was
men's room red.
Yes, and this is men's room IPA.
Yes, and they've had differentmen's room styles.
They've done like a blonde orthey've done a different thing.
(04:04):
They've different men's roomstyles.
They've done like a blonde orthey've done a different thing.
They've done men's room black.
They've had different versions.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Okay, you've had things you wanted to say for a
while.
I was just going to recoup theflavors that went into this one.
Okay, please do.
New approach to classic style.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
This is a hot variety Idaho 7 and Bravo, which pack a
bunch of flavors such as mango,pineapple, tangerine and juicy
fruit.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
If you need 5.8% ABV and tempered bitterness profile,
this baby is ready to rock, anda portion of all proceeds from
this beer go to local fisherhouses, and that's something
they've always done with thisbeer.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And I remember listening to him and hearing.
So if we hadn't have done that,uh, we'd be retired now.
Oh, if the money had gone tothem instead of to the fisher
house.
Yep, instead of the charitythey're like well of to the
Fisher House.
Instead of charity, they'relike well, we're doing a good
thing trying to help out thecommunity, and they obviously
still are.
But if we just kept that money,we would not be here.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, you know what?
I am shocked that gentlemen whomade their lifestyle drinking
beer helped create a craft.
I don't know how much betweenthem and Black Raven it was but
this is very tasty beer.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I highly doubt that the men of the men's room went
on and were like so we'rethinking this many pounds of
grain, we're thinking at thispoint, we're going to add in
some hops and we're going to doa whirlpool the flame out.
I really doubt that.
What I can imagine is hey, wewant to make it an IPA, okay,
(05:54):
we'll make it.
They're also not like IPAdrinkers necessarily, so they
are realizing IPA is the flavorand the style that's going to
maybe sell, maybe get even moredonations, but they're going to
go in and say here's what wewant in an IPA.
I can tell you number one thatprobably the alcohol level is a
(06:18):
thing that they were probably onis saying, hey, let's rein it
in a little bit and not have a 7point something IPA, but
bringing it down to a 5.8, solid.
Even just from opening it youcan smell a little more
fruitiness.
This is not going to be, fromwhat I can tell.
From just the aroma, this isnot your piney west coast IPA.
(06:43):
You're thinking otherwise Fromthis pour.
You may be able to justify this.
I haven't tasted it.
The smell you could call thisprobably West Coast.
Well, and it's from Black Raven.
Yeah, right, it doesn't meanevery IPA they're going to make
is full on West Coast.
No, no, no.
So my guess would be BlackRaven came up with a flight.
(07:04):
Yeah, you're right, it's not apiney, though it's more like a
dank, also kind of Vince theMentor.
They probably came up with aflight.
Hey, you're looking at beers.
Do a tasting.
Which one do you like?
We'll lean in with that one.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
But yes, they're not crap.
Feel free to correct us MenRoom if we're talking out of our
ass here.
Oh, if We'll lean in with thatone.
But yes, there are crap rumors.
Feel free to correct us men inthe room if we're talking out of
our ass here.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh, if the Ted Smith came up with the recipe in his
apartment.
He should have been saying it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ted Smith came up with this recipe in a cave with
a box of scraps.
It's an Iron man reference, nota Dune reference.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I might have actually known that one, but not until
you said it.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I love the way it pours.
It looks like it's clear If itjust said beer on the can or
this.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This looks like there was a bar that I used to go to
that had tapped and just saidbeer.
And there I still, to this day,I have no, I don't know what it
was.
I don't know if I'm it might'vebeen only, but it was just like
the tap down, it was just beer.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's still not as good as.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The tap handle wasn't wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, there has been Men's Room Original Red.
Men's Room Black, which was anImperial Red Ale.
Men's Room Gold.
Men's Room Original Single Hop.
Golden Ale Original Ale.
Single Hop.
Comet A Pumpkin Ale oh, theygot into the pumpkin game.
(08:44):
Men's Room, original ale.
And then, yeah so, and thenobviously this one.
I've had the black, I've hadthe gold, I've had the red, but
I did not check in the black,but I know kind of.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, this could get away with the West Coast.
Disagree, it's too fruity, youthink so yeah, yeah, there was a
look if there was a little morepine in it, but in the finish,
but for an every so as a moreeveryday drinking ipa this, yeah
, as an everyday.
Get home from work five o'clock, crack a can down the hole.
(09:26):
A bitchola Love it, it's right.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I think you get enough of the other stuff.
But yeah, it's not overly piney, it's not like earthy.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm not overwhelmed by it Like I.
I got after it Just to see Likea multiplicative lot of
syllables.
A lot happened in there.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm not mad about it.
I it's so close to related to afridge.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Let's see, we got a little time, let it breathe.
This is so close to a gold, toa fridge.
Let's see, we've got a littletime, let it breathe.
This is so close to a cold nowfor me, without some of the
resin and dankness I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I guess I get more.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's like what you're saying.
It's like an everyday IPA, butI'm getting more everyday
drinkability out of it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, and that's what I'm saying, and not that you
can't drink like a Northwest IPAthat way, but this has more
viability for the every person.
Well, yeah, and the flavor-wisetoo, though.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
The conjunction of that is we just had beers a lot
higher ABV, that went down a lotsmoother.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
True Beers and air floats.
Grassy, that's the descriptionthey put on here, but it's not
one that I think of.
But that's it, that's what itis.
That's what it is.
We call it almost a dankness,but it is a grassy.
Earthy grass yeah the grass isthe specific.
(11:04):
I like it.
I think it's a good one.
I think it's pretty solid.
It would be interesting to seeas more people as it comes
around.
The red ale was very popular,sold well, not well liked by
(11:27):
actual like beer drinkers, likepeople I know, like in
distribution or just are beernerds like weren't big fans of
it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That was a it was an odd the style.
I love what they do.
That was a.
It was an odd Like the style.
Yeah, not to Like, I love whatthey do, but that was a weird
style to have, for I didn't Kindof the tempo of the show like
ziggy-zaggy, like I alwaysthought if I didn't ever do
Pilsner, yeah I think, orsomething that you're crushing.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
right, that's what the gold was supposed to be, I
think.
But the the amber is.
I think the idea of it beinglike that blend, of being the
lighter beer, like an amber, isto me like a gateway to craft
beer beer where you're verylight in some flavor, you're
adding a little maltiness,you're not overdoing it with the
(12:27):
hops and you're getting thatlittle bit different.
That can kind of ease somebodyin and it's also like a it's not
just a crusher, like it's notjust an American light lager
doing that sort of thing.
Yes, and not to disparage theoriginal red.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
This is far superior.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I checked it in one time in 2015 and never
again.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't I'm sure I've had it other times, but like,
but this is one.
This is one that I see.
I know I saw the red back inthe day on tap, oh yeah, but I
could see more universalacceptance of this on tap.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I would probably, depending on where I would order
this on tap.
I don't think I've ever orderedthe original.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, no Original or whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Well how much is that to our friends at Black Raven
for consistently producingexcellent beer?
Not that the old brewery didanything wrong, but it just fits
.
We did a full flight of BlackRaven, unintended.
None of them were bad.
(13:44):
I haven't had a bad Black Ravenbeer.
Oh, I had their.
Don't talk shit about them now.
No, I'm sorry.
No, it's just, that's not whatI meant.
I had the Dimensions,watermelon Mint, the weird stuff
.
Yeah, I had that one.
Did you like it?
It was interesting, but youknow what you're doing.
(14:08):
It's the reason why I didn't buya full four pack ever.
So what happened?
So?
Alternate Dimensions, somethinglike that.
Tacoma Boys Yep, really greatcraft beer section.
They should get ten pots whileyou're at Tacoma Boys For one
surprisingly really good beerselection, and they have their
own cans like individualssleeper beer selection yes and
(14:32):
it's one of those that like it'sjust a little bit of a pain to
get to from my house but it'ssuper actually close.
it's just because the costcotraffic and like some other
stuff like going by the mall butlike and actually the problem
is getting out of there, there'sno easy way to get back to my
direction.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I got to like yeah exactly, it's quicker to go the
one Tacoma off Highway 16 thanto go to that one.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, so they owe me money.
The one in Tacoma, no, but theyhad a mystery box.
Okay, they have multiple boxessitting outside of the beer
cooler and it just says $25 fora box.
We used to do that and it was,like you know, $30 to $40 value
(15:17):
and I was like there areliterally tons of great beers,
tons that I'm looking at here.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
And I just kept looking at the dang box.
There could be anything in thatbox.
And I just kept looking at thedang box.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah there could be anything in that box, and so I
bought a box.
I bought like a can ofsomething I wanted to think, and
then I bought a box and so thealternate dimensions was in
there.
So it was damn.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's very tasty.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I think I will King.
Citrus Crown was made out ofalternate dimensions watermelon
and sour.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I the timing of what I drank it.
I think I had it like actuallynot bad, like with tacos or
something for dinner, but likeit really should have been like
a post lawn mowing or like ait's a good a late brunch.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
I like that late brunch.
It's also a weekend lunch Aftera sandwich.
It's a little.
It's also poolside.
That's a poolside crush.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Well, yeah, that's not a winter beer, no, it's like
the inside beer.
A couple weeks ago, a coupleweeks ago, it's either been 70
degrees or 40 degrees in.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Right now, washington's still deciding what
it wants to do right now,that's fine.
Don't come here on vacation.
That's terrible, it's miserable.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
No, come here on vacation, spend your money, keep
our.
Oh, there you go, then go home,we will tell you.
We will tell you whichbreweries to go to, depending on
where you're at.
Oh, like For sure, there was Aguy I know Was visiting from
Montana and he came for aCracking game and he was like
hey, what's the breweries?
(16:59):
And I was like Totally not.
And I was like Tell me more,like which one?
What'd you do?
Oh, did you go to this oneuptown or did you go to this one
by the water?
Like what you like?
I think it kind of like.
I don't know, man, if we wentto the one right next to the
stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, I went to one.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I had some Coors Light, yeah, not what you did
alright, uh, bridget, or do wehave something else going on
first?
I don't think so.
First, I don't think so.
I'm just a reviewer.
The way he paused like that, Iwasn't sure he's stunned into
silence and had almost no stroke.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This is staying in my fridge Three cans you have left
, yeah, and I'll probably gograb another six pack.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I want to be able to grab a can of this.
I think this is one.
I've kind of done it now morewith like some pale ales, with
my cutting back on IPAs, butlike always having something
with a little like hoppiness,because the problem is, like
cutting back on IPAs, what's themost common thing you're going
(18:01):
to get otherwise, like stoutsand dark beers, and there's only
so much that I can do of that.
I love the dark beers, but likeat only so much that I can do
of that.
I don't know, I love the darkbeers, but like at some point
you need that little bit of hopsjust to clean the palate yeah,
and so this actually seems likea pretty solid like of having
that always around like it is,and it's one that you can, I
(18:25):
think, give to just aboutanybody, unless they are very,
very, very into IPA.
But like, even like a summerday, sitting outside, this will
be kind of nice.
You can have a 5.8.
Like I don't know if that will,but you could at least have a
few.
You're getting a little bitbetter at that and it's not a
(18:47):
flavor that's gonna there'snothing that's gonna burn you
out.
No, like maybe after three orfour, but like it's not like
some of those ips where you'relike that I just like.
Well, how many beers roasted mypalate.
Where you go like I'll have apint of this, yeah, and this is
one that, yeah, it's not.
Yeah, I will go back for asecond yeah, yeah, easily.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
So I'm not going to house it like a light beer, but
I could definitely.
If you're in the mood or youjust get home in your mood, I'll
have two or three, but I'm notgoing to have that like I.
I purposely have been crushingthis one and I'm not giving that
overwhelming copness.
(19:34):
I think I've kind of talkedabout the past.
Where there's that additiveeffect, it goes away.
I really fucking like it.
Yeah, no, this would be a goodeasy IPA go-to type of a fridge.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It's like a grab-to-go to somewhere Go to a
summer barbecue or somethinglike that.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
This is a perfect grab-a-six-pack and just roll,
knowing that you're probablyonly going to have one or two
because you can take some out ofyours, you can be stealing some
of theirs.
It's good with care.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I like the blend of the logos.
Yeah, the Black Raven and theMen's Storm logo so Cool.
Any other thoughts on theseones guys?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Brian, you got to go bottoms up on that.
Yeah, should we do the classicsign out?
I forgot what the beginningpart of it was.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I have not a clue.
I listened to the text podcast,but I have not listened to the
radio.
Sorry guys, how about this Downthe hole of itchola?
How about we end it, our?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
glasses are empty.
Almost I'll get drinking Downthe hole of itchola.
Catch you next time.
See your thunder, go for it.
Our glasses are empty.
Almost I'll get tricking welldown the hola itchola.
Catch you next time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Nice, you got some gems in there If you've enjoyed
what you just heard.
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(21:30):
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