July 25, 2025 • 50 mins
When the mercury rises, beer lovers face a dilemma: how to enjoy craft beer without the heaviness that comes with many beloved brews. In this refreshing summer episode, Mike and Jim dive into the world of lighter, more sessionable options perfect for hot weather drinking.
The journey begins with fruit-forward offerings from Hop and Barrel Brewing—Cherry Breaker and Lime Breaker—both crafted with real fruit and designed for easy drinking at just 3.7% ABV. While the cherry variant delivers subtle fruit notes, the lime version provides a more pronounced citrus kick that both hosts agree makes it the superior choice for summer refreshment.
Between sips, the podcast uncovers fascinating beer history, including the origin of the radler (German for "cyclist"). This beer-lemonade combination was born in 1922 when innkeeper Franz Xavier Kugler faced 13,000 thirsty cyclists and not enough beer to go around. His improvised solution—mixing beer with lemonade—created a summer staple that continues to delight drinkers a century later.
The highlight of the tasting comes with Sam Adams' summer variety pack, featuring four distinct brews that demonstrate craft beer's versatility. Their Porch Rocker Lemon Radler and new Blueberry Lager emerge as standout favorites, both delivering authentic fruit flavors without artificial sweetness. This variety pack proves to be a perfect introduction for newcomers to craft beer, offering approachable options that don't sacrifice flavor.
Whether you're looking for something to enjoy after mowing the lawn, while relaxing lakeside, or during a backyard barbecue, this episode provides valuable insights into the lighter side of craft brewing. The hosts' enthusiasm for these summer-friendly options reminds us that good beer isn't defined by high ABV or intense flavors—sometimes, the perfect beer is simply the one that refreshes you on a hot summer day.
Grab something cold from your cooler and join Mike and Jim as they discover that in the craft beer world, there truly is something for everyone, especially when the temperature climbs.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Grab a beer and pull up a chair.
Welcome to the Northwoods BeerGuy Podcast.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen,welcome back to the Northwoods
Beer Guy Podcast.
This is Mike, the NorthwoodsBeer Guy, and as usual, I am
joined by Jim.
Hey, buddy, how you doing?
Doing well.
How about yourself?
Not too bad, enjoying thesummertime weather.
There you go, I'd say it'sdefinitely a little warmer, a
(00:45):
little more humid.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The grass is growing more, which I'm not a big fan of
.
But hey, what do you?
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
whatever, it is definitely the summertime.
Yeah, it's summertime weather.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, and because of that you came up with the idea
that let's do a.
We're just going to call itsummertime beers.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Kind of easier drinking.
Yes, Maybe even some lawnmowerbeers.
Probably some lawnmower beersin this group, I would guess.
So, yeah, we're going to givethose a whirl and just see what.
You know what happens.
What happens Because sometimesyou just got to have something a
little lighter.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
A little easier this one.
I don't think we're going toget blown away by any ABV on
these, no to get blown away byany abv on these.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, no, no, that's.
Uh, I think, would you say.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
They start at 3.7 7 and goes all the way up to 5.5,
5.5, okay yeah, so we've hadpodcasts we start way over that,
almost double that, yeah, soit'll be an interesting one.
Oh yeah, that's for sure.
But it should be a good flavorone.
I mean, hopefully these aren'ttoo sweet, right?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
hopefully you get more flavor yep, I'm thinking
some of these are gonna be.
We didn't want to do like yourbig mass-produced beer companies
, right?
So these are all craft beers,but they're yeah, there's kind
of a variety.
I guess you would say you know,so yeah, we might as well break
into it, let's do it, start offso what's the first one?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
the?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
first one that we have is by hoprel, and we've had
a number of their beers.
This is their Cherry Breakerand it's a shandy slash rattler
is how it was described.
Okay, and it looks like it mustuse Door County cherries
because on the back they've gota map of Door County.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yep, I got a little bit on the write-up from that
too.
Okay, where it said, nestledbetween Green Bay and Lake
Michigan, there lies the CherryMecca of Door County.
The scenic landscapes and thegreat people inspired us to make
the juiciest cherry shandy inall of the land.
Oh, in all of the landy, okay,of the land.
(02:49):
Oh, and all of the landy okay.
Check out our cherry map tolead you to one of our cherry
beer destinations or the cherryorchard of your pick.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, it is.
They got like all the cherryorchards and nice such on there.
That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's a neat deal, yeah all right, well, oh, and it
said, yeah, 3.7 abv.
I did not see anything on ivu.
Okay, I'm sure it's going to be.
If there are hops, it's notmuch, is what I would sure guess
I think the highest hop orhighest ivu we're going to have
today is a 15.
(03:21):
Okay, not, not problem we canhandle that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Those are going to be pretty light, I think.
Well, this definitely lookslike a normal beer.
I was expecting maybe a littlered tinge or something, but it
doesn't look like it.
It's weird that so many bubblesare in it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, a lot of bubbles in it.
That's kind of wild.
Not a whole lot of aroma.
No, I was hoping there'd be alittle cherry aroma.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, there's a little bit of a cherry flavor to
it.
It's not bad.
No, it's not overly sweet, it'snot.
I mean this is okay.
Yeah, I was gonna say I don't.
Uh, it's not like the jollyrancher cherry no strong flavor
like that.
But it's uh, it's pretty good.
I don't, I don't mind it.
I think ice cold would be right.
I mean, what's?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
hard, I guess, is we don't know what they mixed.
Oh right, yeah, is it justlemonade?
Because I know that is.
We don't know what they mixed.
Oh right.
Is it just lemonade, because Iknow that's the main one, or if
they mixed it with a soda?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, it doesn't say anywhere what the cherries were
mixed with Nothing on the caneither.
That says anything about that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's not bad.
I mean, I definitely wouldn'tbe scared of it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, I definitely think it's closer to a Shandy
than a Rattler, right, you know,just from the taste, because
not that we've had a huge amount, we've had, you know, four or
five Rattlers and theydefinitely have more of a,
either a lemonade or whateverkind of a flavor as well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I mean, there's no real lingering aftertaste.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean you can taste a little bit of cherry on the
finish, but nothing drastic,yeah, and like you said, it's
definitely.
I was kind of worried with allthe bubbles that it's going to
be like too overcharged orsomething, but it's really not,
it's just kind of carbonatedRight.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know it's not bad , and I don't know either if
this is their first season oftrying to do shandies or
Rattlers.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, If they've done it in the past, that's a good
point, because this is the firsttime that I've really seen a
hop and barrel shandy that I canremember.
So I don't know.
Score, wise boy.
I'm thinking, I'm trying tothink of how do I rate this?
I'm not a huge shandy fantypically.
I mean this one's not bad.
Uh flavor, wise.
(05:22):
You know it's not like some ofthem we've had where they're
really that stronger.
Uh, fruit flavor kind of dealthis one.
I'm gonna go like a.
I'll go two and a half, just agood starting point, right in
the middle.
Yeah, it's not bad, I don'tmind it.
I could.
I could drink a can of it, butI don't know if I'd want more
than one.
Right, just a little differentflavor, I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But yeah, I don't, I don't mind it.
I think I'm right in it withyou.
I mean it's, I think, for methe only thing that I'd
recommend maybe a little bitmore cherry flavor.
Yeah, you know, that's I mean.
Other than, I mean it's not bad, but it doesn't if you want to,
if you're going to buy the canbecause4,.
(06:02):
Just one little tick below,just for you know, I was really
looking forward because I mean,we've had some pretty good
cherry beers.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I was just going to say you nailed it there.
I should have thought of thattoo.
But yeah, we've had some goodones where it's got it's not the
fake cherry flavor, it's areally good cherry and this one
cherry is the, you know, againthe big call-out Right and it's
kind of not Not really there,yeah, like I think we'd hoped
for, yeah, so yeah, I'll leavemine at a two and a half, but I
(06:31):
totally, you can always comeback, I can always change it if
I have to, because youdefinitely nailed that one,
because if it's on the can, itshould be in the can.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It is in the can, but it's pretty mellow, right?
Oh, and I don't know if you cansee this yeah, yeah, I got a
whole page.
Wow, I was doing some real deep, deep dive into stuff.
Yep, all right, so some ofthese are might be easy.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Some of these might be hard for you you say that
every week and then I doterrible so we're kind of in the
spirit of drinking rattlers,kind Kind of-ish.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I know every one of them may not be a Rattler, but I
did find some interesting stuff.
I don't know if we've talkedabout some of these things
before, but my very firstquestion for you who invented
the Rattler?
No idea.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Joe Smith.
Joe Smith, do you mean thebrewery or the person?
The person, yeah.
I have no idea.
You don't All right, no.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Franz Xavier Kugler Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I wouldn't know, you didn't.
No, no, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So that's only minus 100 then.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, I was honest right up front.
I had no clue.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So I think we haven't got time for one more question,
since we're doing good here.
Okay, yeah yeah, so why didFranz invent the Rattler?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Hmm, that's a good question.
I'm probably for the hot daysand he wanted just something
light and refreshing and noticedpeople like little bit of
fruity flavors, already had waytoo much lemonade to try and get
rid of it.
(08:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So you're probably close.
I'll give you a half a point.
Okay, so Franz was an innkeeperin Germany and he he was
actually, his inn was on a biketrail.
So he Back in this.
I won't tell the year.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's going to be another question.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
He had 13,000 cyclists that were going to be
going by his inn and stoppingand he didn't have enough beer,
but he had lemonade, so tostretch it out, he mixed them
together to stretch out for15,000 people Wow.
Yeah, I was just joking that hehad too much lemonade.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's wild.
But you think about 13,000bicyclists going.
Yeah, I was just joking that hehad too much lemonade.
That's wild.
But you think about 13,000bicyclists going by?
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It was.
Then there's a couple otherquestions, but I'll save those.
Okay, dealing with Franz.
All right, well, not to pumpyou up, Not Hans and Franz but
okay.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So the next one that we have is also by Hoppin Barrel
.
Okay, but this is their limebreaker, because I've seen they
had a lemon breaker too.
Oh, do they?
Yeah, okay.
So I got these at the beer shopand they just had these two,
the cherry and the lime.
So it looks like it's got alime on the label that's inside,
like the steering wheel, if youwant to call it that of a ship.
(09:28):
Yep and oh, another ship on theback.
Okay, like a pirate ship, butthe skull is lime colored.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Ah, so All right, and what I found was say ahoy to
the newest brew in our Breakerseries Lime Breaker, a bright,
tart lime soda blended with ourbeer for a refreshingly
Sessionable SessionableSessionable, not seasonable
Sessionable 3.7% ABV.
(09:56):
It's crisp, zesty and pirateapproved.
Oh, I don't know who the piratewould be, but yeah, I don't
know?
Okay, perfect for hot days.
Slow sips and smooth sailing.
We keep it traditional Realsoda, real craft beer, and this
one's got bite Now pouring.
(10:17):
Come aboard, huh, hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, nice write-up.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So this is lime soda mixed with beer.
Yes, so at least this one, theygave us a little more detail.
Yes, just a touch Still lookspretty much the same color, as a
touch Still looks the same.
Pretty much the same color asthe cherry, as the first one.
Oh, I can smell lime.
Yeah, there's this one, I cansmell it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, ooh.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's not bad.
That's not too bad.
I almost like that better thanthe cherry.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, man, I hate to say it, it's got a little more
flavor, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
More flavor.
Yep, yep.
I agree with you.
I'm not sure on the wholepirate approved thing.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I didn't think they drank a lot of lime stuff, but
maybe they did, I don't know.
I thought they were more theIPA guys.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Or rum.
There you go, you know, yep.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
They were after your own heart.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yes, and I can't remember if I mentioned this is
3.7 as well.
Yep, yep, right in the same ABVas the first one.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Pretty low, but I mean, yeah, this is not bad.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, if this was super ice cold sitting outside
it'd be great, it'd be reallygood.
I think I'll pull it right outof the ice full of cooler, you
know?
Right, yeah, I like this onebetter.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I'm right in there with you.
Since you got that, what do youwant to go for a score?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, I like it better, but I'm going to go like
a 2.6.
So you know a notch up.
It still has more flavor and,like right off the bat, I got
the aroma of lime where I didn'ton the cherry, one Right and
this one.
As soon as I tasted it, I gotthe lime right up front where
the cherry was.
Like you said, on theaftertaste, when you're just
kind of looking for it Right.
(11:51):
Then it showed up.
So yeah, again, both of theseare good.
I probably wouldn't like buyall sorts of it and drink it all
the time, but yeah it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, I was going to say I mean the exact same thing.
I'm going to go with 2.6 aswell.
It's not bad.
I mean, like you said, if itwas cold super ice cold you're
sitting outside, I think youcould sit in the shade, you
could drink a couple of these.
Oh yeah, without any problem.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah and it's not like heartburn type stuff.
You know what I mean.
So I do enjoy that Right, much,much better.
Yep, because, like I said, someof the hard lemonades and
things like that, I just I don'tknow what it is, but I can
usually have one and then I'llget heartburn.
And then we did remember we hadthat one.
Oh, I can't remember the nameof it.
I know when BK and I had onelast week that as soon as we
(12:37):
tasted it it was like instantheartburn.
Ooh, and it was like, yeah, I'mnot a big, that's not good.
He liked it and I'm like mm.
I beg to differ, Ah yeah, yeah,it was something so awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, that's good, so all right.
Well, let's go back to Franz.
All right, Franz.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
The innkeeper.
Yes, with the bicycle problem.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yes, so where I kind of gave you part of the answer,
the term Rattler originates witha drink called the Rattle Moss.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What does that word stand for?
Rattle Moss the rattle moss.
Okay, what does that word standfor?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
rattle moss something to do with lemonade?
Uh, kind of uh, because I knowit's beer mixed with lemonade or
whatever.
I I'm just gonna, I don't know,kind of a, I don't know.
I I'm not even gonna guessbecause I'm it's not going to be
the right one.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So really, the word Radler in German means cyclist,
okay, and the Maas is leader, soit was the cyclist leader of
the Radler.
That's how they came up with it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's pretty wild, so wrapped it all together and
then the final well, maybe notthe final question, but where
did Franz live?
In Germany, okay, what city?
Oh, more specifically, or eventhe city that was close by.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well, I'm trying to think why would there be 13,000
bicyclists, right?
So it's got to be a bigger city.
Yep, I'd love to say Munich,but I'm going to go Frankfurt.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
All right, so Franz lived in the small town of
Dysonhoven, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
That's where the vacuums are from, right, right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Almost, almost, just outside of Munich.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Ah, so you were right .
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I was right.
And then I, yeah, that's minusfive, dang it.
I should have went with my gut.
You had it.
Yeah, all right, so you didn'teven flinch.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I thought, maybe you went ooh, and I just saw it, but
nope, so you're getting close.
I was getting closer.
Yes, Interesting.
So did it say what was going on, that they had that many
cyclists?
Was it like some kind ofbicycle race or a tour or
anything?
Did it give anything?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It just said Kugler almost ran out of beer when some
13,000 cyclists came by thatday, ran out of beer when some
13,000 cyclists came by that day.
To avoid running out of beer,it dawned on him that he could
combine clear lemon soda fromhis cellar with beer at a 50-50
ratio.
The day was saved and everybodyloved Franz's refreshing new
creation.
That is wild.
(15:06):
So that's how that came about.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That is crazy.
Can you imagine way back,whenever this took place?
All of a sudden hello and youlook outside and there's
thousands of bicyclists standingthere waiting to get in.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It'd be like, oh yeah , because it wasn't at this time
, there wasn't even telephones.
Yeah, so wild, yes, dang, allright.
So what do we got next?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
all right.
Well, the next one that we have.
It's kind of an interestingdeal.
It's some local guys heretowards us.
They came up with aquote-unquote brewery okay, uh,
and they've had.
The first thing they did isthey came out with merch they
came out with like can koozies,then they went into like
(15:46):
t-shirts and sweatshirts and nowthey actually came out with
their first beer.
Oh nice, when I looked on thecan, I realized they're not
brewing it themselves.
Another established brewery isactually brewing it and canning
it, and all that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
When I give you the name, you'll understand why they
probably started with themerchandise first.
This is by Wet Beaver BrewingCompany.
Say that beaver brewing company, what beaver?
And the beer is wet beaver andthis is 3.9.
(16:23):
I'm trying to see well on thecan.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'll read what it says on the can because I
couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, because I like I said, this is.
I just saw this came outearlier this week.
These cans did Wow.
So it says at Wet BeaverBrewing, we produce beer for the
folks that like to have a goodtime and maybe get a little bit
feisty.
Conceptualized in small town,norwalk, wisconsin, we're all
about the hardworking,tractor-pulling, campfire-having
(16:50):
, beer-crushing people whosesense of humor is a little bit
naughty.
A happy life involves a wetbeaver.
Oh, all right.
Well, so there you go, thereyou go.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I did find it said 11 IBUs Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And yeah, it's like I said, I give them credit.
Typically, you would thinkyou'd come up with a beer first
and then go to the merch Right,but you knew darn well that they
were trying to capitalize.
They're going to catch yourattention with that name Right,
and so here we go.
So this one, if I remember,it's a Pale Lager, pale Lager.
Yeah, so we went from a coupleof shandies, now we're getting
(17:28):
into a pale lager.
All right, let's keep ourfingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, very light.
Yeah Well, yeah, it's barelyyellow.
I was going to say that To me,it's almost clear.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, just looking at it, I'm thinking they're going
to be trying to kind of competewith some of the big name beers
and such, Because this isdefinitely very, very light
colored.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I mean big white head on it.
I mean it's got aroma, Right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I can smell, you can smell that lager kind of smell.
Oh, not the wet beaver.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, no, this ice cold would be a lawnmower beer.
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
My opinion.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean there's no bad aftertaste.
It goes down pretty smooth yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
There's not a whole lot to it.
I didn't mention that it'sHillsboro Brewing who is?
Doing the brewing and canningfor them, and they've been
around for a while and they'vegot some pretty good beers
themselves, for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I mean it's not bad.
This beer was just made fordrinking, not really savoring,
Correct?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know, at 3.9, you could drink a number of these,
right you know?
That's why I think they're kindof competing or trying to go
head-to-head somewhat with someof the big beers, right, you
know trying to, because I mean,this does have.
It's got decent flavor.
Yeah, I mean, it's not likeit's not going to scare you away
.
No, oh no, I think anybody thatdrinks those other beers like
(18:50):
that, they could easily drinkthis.
Right, because it's not overthe top, it's not like a flavor
where you're going whoa what isthat.
You know what I mean.
Right, Definitely you can tellit's not a Pilsner.
It's got a little differentflavor than that.
But it's not bad, it's notoffensive at all.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, I mean, I guess you're not going to get flavor
with this.
This is not.
I think these next couple arein that same category.
We're, oh sure, yeah, well,where it's gonna be more?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
all right, I'm ready to drink right, roll up your
sleeves and get for those daysthat you just want to pound the
cans, you know sit in, the sitby the beach or sit with your
feet in the water under a shadetree.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
This is what this beer was made.
Yep, exactly.
So what do you think?
I mean, I think I'm just gonnakeep it simple, I'm gonna go
with 2.5 right in the middle.
I don't have it.
There's nothing good.
I mean nothing super good,nothing super bad.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Right, it's just right down the middle yep, I'm
gonna go a 2.4 for the samereason.
To be honest with you, it doeshave a little little more flavor
than what I was expecting, butit still is not like a huge
amount of flavor, right, youknow, but it's definitely not
anything that's going to offendanybody.
Oh, and I honestly could seepeople.
(20:00):
Well, first off, people aregoing to try it just because of
the name, right, they're goingto be like oh, I got to just say
you know that I've had that.
And then I think, especially thepeople that go into a you know
that, go into a brewery or abottle shop and say, hey, what
do you got?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
that's like this, this would be a good one to say,
hey, this is kind of like that,right, so you don't want to
have this on tap, then is whatyou're saying?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Probably not, it's got to be in a can or bottle.
Right there you go.
That's just my opinion.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All right, let's see if I got anything else here
about Rattlers, not aboutradlers, um not, oh wait, here I
got one more in germany they domake a half and half mix of
pilsner and a soft drink.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay, what is that called pilsner and a soft drink?
Hmm, so radler is lemonade, yep, and beer, and they also have a
pilsner and a soft drink.
Yep, well, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The only other one I know is shandy, so I don't know
so it's the ulster, which isshort for ulster, which is
german for water from the ulster, that's so.
It's what's the ulster?
I don't know.
So that must be the combination, oh it could be so it.
So instead of a Rattler, it'san Ulster.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Huh, so we've got to find those.
Yeah, I have not seen none ofthose yet.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, that sounds like it could be good too.
That should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah, we'll have to do some research, see if we can
find one of those.
Anybody out there that'slistening, if you ever have seen
them?
Let us know.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Where's that?
The question on the Rattlers iswhen did Franz make up the
Rattler?
I got the month and the year.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh geez, I got to do the month and the year.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I'll give you a hint the year starts with the
one.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
With the one I figured as much.
If it's a bicycle thing, it'sgot to be spring, summer or fall
.
I would think I'm just deducingthis.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yep, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And let's see.
So I'm going to say you don'tneed the day, right?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Just the month, okay.
It just says one day Okay Inthis, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I'm going to say June of 1904.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Ooh, you were close.
You were so close June of 19.
22.
Oh gosh, darn it.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You're like wait a minute Minus 1,000.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I got a point for June, though.
Right, you got a point for Juneand minus 1,001 for the year.
I was close, though, see, I waslike oh he might get it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He's like how in the world did he come up with June?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was like when he started going well, it can't be
in the winter.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
So summertime is probably Usually.
You got to be early and itwouldn't be in.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
October for Munich?
No, heck, no.
Or September, because that'swhen you already got something
going on.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, they had some little thing going on then I
don't know if that's still goingor not.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh yeah, so what beer is next?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, you remember a few episodes ago, when we had
those Seagram things that werein collaboration with the WWE.
Now this is not the same as that, but this is another Rasslin'
kind of thing.
All right, and this is HulkHogan and the Real American Beer
, the Real American Beer.
(23:09):
And does it say on here, oh man, they got this so little.
Does it say 4.2%, yep, and thenthere is some right.
But look at this.
Why would you put your writing?
I know so the can is like it'slike a light color, you know in
(23:30):
the white.
And then they got the lettersare like in the same color, like
chrome or you know, like theraw can color through white, so
you can't hardly read it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So I'm going to try to pick it apart, okay, so,
cause on the website there wasnothing.
Okay, I couldn't find anything.
So this is about all we got.
America's at its best whenunited, and if there's one thing
we can all agree on, it's thesimple pleasure of sharing a
beer.
That's why we started RealAmerican Beer to bring people
(24:01):
together, one beer at a time.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, and it's red, white and blue.
Can Yep has Hulk Hogan's imageon it with the flag and such?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
So it says brewed and bottled by the real American,
la Crosse, wisconsin, and underspecial agreement Chicago
Illinois, stevens Point, st Paul, clearwater.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Dang.
I wonder who part of.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Heilman.
Heilman, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Because I tried to find what the brewery name was
and I couldn't find that either.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Huh, so they just must be brewing it for them then
.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, interesting, well, well, we'll find.
It just says light beer Light,so I'm guessing it's a Pilsner.
Yes, I'm going to go out on alimb and say that I was going to
say you know, and it's funnybecause after we did our 4th of
July show, I thought we shouldhave had this Boy.
There's a lot of head on thatYou're going to probably want to
.
I didn't do a very good job,all right, so it looks light.
(24:55):
Let that.
Let's see if I can get a littlemore in there.
So there you go.
You can see through the glass.
Yeah, it definitely looks likea pilsner.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
They kind of wave the yellow color.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
It's barely yellow Yep exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
There's not a whole lot of aroma.
There's not much flavor there,if it was cold, it would be a
lawnmower beer.
Yeah, I mean you could almostecho everything we said for the
wet beaver.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, I think the wet beaver had a little bit more
flavor than this one, yep.
But yeah, it's just they'recompeting with the Miller Lights
.
Bud Lights you know that kindof stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, this is a beer you're going to just be pounding
.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're not really you're not there for the flavor
no, no and 4.2, you could drinka number of them.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I mean it's not bad, I mean it's like one step above
drinking water.
I think I was going to say it'snot bad, but there's just not.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's hard to grade it because there's really not much
flavor to it at all.
Right, it's kind of like, again, people that love all the big
beers they could drink thisRight Without a doubt.
I'm sure some of them wouldstill be like oh, but it's like
it tastes the same as just stuffyou're drinking.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, you can't really get offended by this.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
There's nothing in here to get offended by.
Yeah, well, we should have saidladies and gentlemen, these are
all in 12-ounce cans too by theway, hands too, by the way, so
so you can have them outside,have them outside.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
If you drop it, it's not gonna break exactly.
Yeah, that's definitely not bad.
No it again.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's just yeah, there's not a lot there, though
no, exactly, I guess.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Score wise.
Yeah, what are you thinking?
I'm gonna go with 2.3 justbecause, again, it's I hate to
say that, because it's honestlyit's pretty average, you know.
But I do think that the thelast one had a little bit more
flavor, right, you know so.
And so knocking it down it'skind of unfair, but it's still.
(26:43):
I guess, if you're going forthe flavor, I would look at the
other ones first yeah, I think Iwas gonna hit the same exact
score.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean it's just, it's not offensive, but there's.
There's nothing there.
I mean they're not telling uswhat's in it, but they don't
have to hide anything, right.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Exactly.
There's nothing really there.
No, no, that's for sure.
It'll be interesting to see ifthe Hulkster comes out with
another one or not.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Didn't Stone Cold come out with one too?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, he had a couple of them.
He had an IPA, and then I thinkit was a was it a pilsner or
something?
He had two of them that theyhad right, at least licensed,
you know so, so yeah, oh well,that's not a bad one, so we're
good there.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So I got another good question for you.
So we just finished the fourthof july, right?
Yep?
What national day did we forgetto observe on July 7th?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
On July 7th.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
What national day?
It's probably like NationalPilsner Day.
No, oh, it's an actual.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's an actual day, though, oh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't, I'm not sure , I must not know because I
forgot National.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Dive Bar Day.
Ah Well, that's a bummer, yeah.
So I even got a couple more.
I got one more question to gowith that after the next beer.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Okay, national Dive Bar Day.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Huh, see we did, but our significant others did stop
by a couple of dive bars ontheir way.
On their way up, north To thehinterlands.
Yeah, and one of them wasdefinitely a dive bar.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, well, there's a couple of them that you almost
need a tetanus shot.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, you know what you're going to when you get the
animals eating food off the bar.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, and you're not talking like just the patrons,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That was a little sketchy.
Oh yes, All right All right, sowhat do we got?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
now.
Well, we have four more to go,so we're halfway through, and
the last four are all by SamAdams, yes, yes.
So now you picked these up andso they had like a 12 pack, a
variety pack of best ofsummertime beers.
That's the summertime beers,and that's kind of where you got
the idea for this.
So all right, well, the firstone we have is their sam adams
(28:45):
american light, easy drinking.
It says 4.2 percent in sevenibus.
That's down there that's downthere.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's down there, so it says a distinctly American.
This light craft lager featurespleasant floral hop notes
balanced by a light sweetnessfor the perfect combo of flavor
and easy drinking.
Clean, refreshing and made withall American ingredients.
This beer is ready fortailgates, beach days, backyard
(29:14):
barbecues and every day inbetween.
An American classic so smoothyou'll want to crap open another
one.
Well, that's a lot of talkthere.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
A lot of talk, so we'll see, you know.
The one thing I think that iscool is this episode is kind of
showing people that you know, oh, because you get those people
that, oh, I don't like craftbeer, there's a style of craft
beer for everybody, you know,and this is definitely along
those lines.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And this one.
I think a lot of people arestarting to realize that it's
out there because it's gettingharder and harder to find a
12-pack now, yeah, because Ithink so.
Hopefully these taste decent.
I mean, this looks very lightin color.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's clear, though almost clear.
Oh yeah, very clear.
It's definitely filtered forsure it's.
You can kind of get a littlebit of a lager aroma, but not
much not much, I mean it's thelast.
It's right, in line with thelast two, the last two here,
they're all right in the samesame ballpark yeah, I mean it's
not bad.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I think it's a little .
I mean you, really, if you werea blind taste test of these
three, you wouldn't be able totell the difference.
Very, very tough yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know, yeah, I just I mean this.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean it's not bad.
I mean you could definitely sitif you're on a boat.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You could have a couple of these sitting in the
flavor Right For 100%, at leastyou and I.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, I mean it's, but like you said, I mean you
could have a couple of thesesitting out in the sun, sitting
in a chair, oh yeah, Under ashade tree, and be totally fine.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Right, ruin your appetite.
It's not, it's.
The finish is smooth, I mean,everything is good with it.
Yep, and the fact I meanamerican light.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They're they're telling you what they're going
after.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know they're spot on.
So yeah, if you guys out therelistening, if you do like that
style of beer, you know, try andfind this, because right, I
think you'll like it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't think I have not seen it in individual 12
packs.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It comes in the four pack in that variety 12 pack,
yep, so you get three of eachone right Yep.
Okay, Score-wise.
What do you think of the SamAdams American Light?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, I think I'm going to actually give it a 2.7.
Okay, I'm just trying to comeup with a good adjective.
I mean, it's in line with theones you've had so far.
But for me it actually doestastes a little bit cleaner.
Crisper all the way throughokay, not, not by like leaps and
bounds, just a tad bit like ahair better okay, so nothing,
(31:40):
nothing off the charts right.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Personally, I'm gonna go with 2.2, just because it
had just a little less flavorthan the last two and it's hard
for me to put it above that.
But I I agree with what yousaid, but I do think the other
two had just a tinge more flavorto it.
But again, and like I said, itkind of sucks because it makes
it sound like it's bad and it'snot bad.
It's just that there's not alot to it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I didn't know what you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh yeah, this is going to be a tough category.
Yeah, because we don't want andthere's a lot we could have had
every one of them, the samescore so far.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right.
So now back to our nationaldive bar on July 7th, right?
Yes?
So who founded that day?
Who said we're going to do thison this day?
And it was a company.
Oh, it was a company Yep, not aperson.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
And it's going to surprise you.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's going to surprise me.
So was it a beer company or no?
No, who would be from want topromote dive bars?
Uh, I don't know.
I I was gonna guess just one ofthe big beer companies, but you
said it's not so so what monthis july?
This is what do you mean?
What month is this?
What number?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
seven seven eleven no , and you want to do it on the
seventh day of July.
So what say that together?
Seven, seven, seven seven seven, and seven is made by Seagram's
.
Really, seagram's did it Wellthat's weird Right.
So yes, the whiskey.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So it was still an alcohol company, but it wasn't
beer.
Huh.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
The beer holiday in July celebrates the dive bar and
to recognize them for thehistoric icons they are.
In addition to be lucky seven,it's also a reference to the
seven and seven drink.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I would have never guessed that Because when you
said no to a beer company, Iokay.
Is it going to be some foodcompany now or some weird light?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
bulb company, or you know what I mean.
Right see, and it's like this.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I didn't even think of a hard alcohol right uh
company huh, that's wild, allright.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Are we still trying to teach you things?
I know we are.
Educate and entertain.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's what we try and do so what do we got now?
All right, so now we are on tothe sam adams.
Oh well, this is interesting,jim.
This is their porch rockerlemon radler all right but and
this is a four, well for aradler, this is a higher abv
right, four and a half percenteight ibus.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
We stepped it up a notch yeah not much, man.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I hope this isn't the opposite of like when we have
those big ipas in it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're right so I got a little bit here.
It said bright, tangy andundeniably refreshing.
Porch rocker is our take on theclassic german radler.
Yeah, a crisp golden helles log, blended with just the right
amount of real lemon for a freshsqueezed citrus kick Inspired
by German cyclist.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
See that's what I wanted.
I was trying to get thosequestions, trying to get those
in before we got here, becauseit gave it away, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Who mixed beer with lemonade to beat the summer heat
.
This easy drinking brewdelivers a perfectly balanced
blend of sweetness and tartnesswith a clean, thirst quenching
finish.
See, so it's all tying togetherall the questions that is wild.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I still can't.
I'd love to know what was goingon.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know that there's that many cyclists, yeah, so a
hellas and lemonade looks verysimilar to the last one similar
to the, a little darker than thelast one, but Similar to the
last one, a little darker thanthe last one, but Ooh, you can
smell a little bit there.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Oh wow, you can get that lemon.
Yeah, the lemon aroma.
I'm kind of looking forward tothis.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
All right, wow, that's not bad, that's pretty
good.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I'll say right now that's the best one we've had so
far today.
Yeah, that's wow.
That is Porch Rocker, lemonRadler, that's good and like I
said, the other Radlers we'vehad have all been 2.
Something, yep.
So this is way up there For aRadler, for a Radler, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Wow, that is.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's got some good flavor, yeah, very good, very
smooth finish and it's still notlike heartburn-y.
No, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I mean really, I don't know if I could tell that
this was a Rattler.
Yeah no, I mean other than bysomebody telling me yeah yeah,
and then you'd taste it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
You would get that lemon flavor, but that doesn't
necessarily mean that's what Imean.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
But this is a really good combination.
This is a good one Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I do like that.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And I still think a new person could for sure drink
this.
There's no question.
You can never say you don'tlike this one, right?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
There's no way, because you know when we've been
at some festivals and you see,you know a lot of times they
have like the carbless or thewhite claws those kind of things
they could drink.
This.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh, easy, yes.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You know, because it doesn't taste like beer.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Right, unfortunately, too, this does not come by
itself.
You have to buy the 12-pack ofthe other beers.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Maybe it'll start to change who knows Right.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
So if you know Sam, Adams, let them know.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, let them know that you want to and maybe they
do.
Maybe you could get this.
I guess I've never reallylooked.
I'll have to keep an eye out.
Right, yeah, maybe, like yousaid, it could just be that
these in that special 12-packeach summer, that's all it is
that's what it is, but we got toat least join one of them.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, boy, that's easily the best one we've had so
far today.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
are you thinking I'm going to go like a 2.9.
I do like that.
That's really good flavor Icecold that would be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
That must be dangerous.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
It might be so good, exactly.
So, yeah, good job on that onethere, sam Adams, because that's
a lot of flavor.
Still no heartburn, perfect.
You get that lemon and, like Isaid I just think, ice cold that
would be a nice way to beat theheat.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yep, and I think the only thing to add Echo.
I mean, sometimes you're alittle bit scared of the lemon,
but they even said it was goingto be tart.
I don't even taste any tartness.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Nope, I was worried that it was going to be one of
those that taste like LemonPledge.
You know what I mean and ittotally isn't that?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
No, it's not a medicinal lemon flavor.
It's really good If you seethis out there.
I would definitely recommendgetting that 12-pack just for
this one beer.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I agree Because it's really, really good.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I I'm actually going to bump it up one.
I'm going to go with 3.0.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Oh nice, first one of the day, there you go.
Yeah, that's a good job.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
All right.
So we're running out ofquestions, but I do still have a
couple more.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Okay, that's good, We've got two beers left too.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
What beer drinking day is on July 18th.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
So it's like National .
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Lager Day Close.
You're very close.
Saint Arnoldus Day.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, that's the same thing.
It's close right.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, so apparently Saint Arnold was the Arnold of
the Saisons was a soldier.
He spent several years as ahermit at a monastery, then,
after being promoted and runningaway and being forced to return
by a wolf, oh well, there yougo, and from over the inn he
(38:31):
retired and founded an abbey inOudenburg where he brewed beer
and spoke of its gift of health.
He wasn't wrong.
Due to the water, boilingprocess for brewing, beer became
safer to drink than sometainted water sources.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Okay, I've heard that before that they drank beer
because it was healthier, so tospeak than some of the bad water
.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
So, according to stories, when members of a
church were ill, arnold gavethem drinks of his brews and
they recovered, surviving theplague.
Well, there you go.
Regardless of which stories youbelieve, st Arnold of Saison
was an interesting guy.
Celebrate him and hislife-saving concoction on this
July holiday.
Well, we will definitely dothat.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
We have to write that down, so we remember it for
next year.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
All right, so what do ?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
we got now.
So the next one that we have isthe Sam Adams Summer Ale Summer
Ale and this is a citrus wheatale.
Ooh, I'm not a big wheat guy.
It'll be interesting to see ifit's got that wheat flavor up
front.
The wheat-ish 5.3% ABV and 8IBUs.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
All right, and it says this refreshing American
wheat ale is the summer beerthat started it all.
A bright blend of orange, limeand lemon peels, balanced with a
subtle spice from grains ofparadise, gives it a zesty,
refreshing taste.
Light-bodied and easy-drinkingSummer Ale is the perfect
(39:51):
companion for sunny days andwarm nights, because summer
starts with Sam.
Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, this was a little more easier than the
first two.
Yep for sure.
I was going to say that was thething I noticed right away it
was you can't see through it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, you can't see through it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
But it's yellow-ish, yellow-ish, very much a lot of
head on it.
I thought, well, I must havepoured gems wrong again.
Nope, mine's the same.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
There is a faint aroma.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You kind of get a little bit of the citrus, the
wheat smell too.
Yeah, let's hope it's not overthe top.
It's not bad.
I mean, I don't definitelydon't really get that
prototypical wheat right tastefor me that's a bonus, right I
say, which is not a bad thingbut there's not a lot of citrus.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
There's some citrus flavor, but not, yeah, not
nearly what.
That the rattler was right,it's got flavor.
It's got flavor, it's not overthe top, I mean no if you've
never had a wheat beer, this isprobably the one you want to
start with, probably yeah, Idon't.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The good thing is I don't get like that, that when
it was, when you were sayingthat it had something about the
like zest right sometimes thoseget real bitter, right, you know
, and this one really isn't thatbitter, so that's good, because
sometimes you're just like, uh,yeah, you know, if that they
didn't have that lemon zest inthere it'd have been better.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
But yeah, I mean this one.
I think you could still have acouple of these sitting outside,
maybe not as many as the firsttwo that we've had right, but
right it's not bad.
I don't have a bad.
The finish is smooth.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
There's not a bad aftertaste yep, I agree with you
100.
Like I said, it's uh, you doget a little bit of a citrusy
taste, but not over the top byany means.
And again I think a new personcould drink one of these, you
know, because again you don'tget that the usual, uh, wheat
flavor and, like I said, that'snot a bad thing, typically
either right, some of them areinstant.
You taste it, you know it's awheat beer.
(41:32):
Yes, where this one?
You really you don't get that.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
So this is not bad again.
I mean, sam did another goodjob.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I think, yeah, they've done all three of these
have been really good, so reallydecent.
So so what are you thinking?
Um, I'm gonna go with 2.7.
I think I don't like it as muchas the radler, but it does have
a pretty good, pretty decentflavor to it.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
So yeah, I was gonna say in that same ballpark I
think I'm gonna go with 2.8.
Not bad, and especially for methat I don't like wheat beers.
I'm not a big fan of them, butthis one has got the flavor.
I think the flavors are justabout right.
I mean for for a bigger brewery.
I think they did a really goodjob with this.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah, exactly Like I said, hopefully the last can
kind of shows up, the same asthese other ones.
It's one of those where this isnot a bad variety pack at all.
Right, you know really.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I mean, they did it so far.
They did a good job?
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
So it looks like you've got all the questions
wrong, except for the one whereJune, june, you get the half
point, yep, and the lemonade hehad too much lemonade, oh yep,
so I got it one point total.
Yeah, I didn't add that, though.
That didn't count.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Oh, okay, so you only lost, I think, minus 10,000
points.
That's not bad so you're doingokay, yeah, I'm fine.
So what's our last one?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Well, we're on the last, and this is a new one.
It says Uh-oh that's good sothis is, I'm sure, only
available in this 12-pack.
All right, and this is theirBlueberry Lager Lager Yep, and
this is 5.5% ABV and 15 IBUs.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
We're stepping way up there now.
Way up there, all right.
So it says big flavor.
Built for summer, new for 2025,blueberry lager delivers a bold
, juicy burst of blueberry in acrisp, easy drinking brew.
Perfect for cooling down aftera bike ride, for a rattler.
Yep, here we go, celebrating aweekend well spent or adding a
(43:23):
little extra flavor to yoursummer hang your summer.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
What hang hang?
Speaker 2 (43:28):
okay, okay only available in the beers of summer
variety pack.
Oh, this one is okay, don'tmiss it.
Bursting with blueberry aroma,this refreshing lager is your
perfect cooler companion forevery summer adventure.
Huh, well, that's a bigwrite-up.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
It's going to be interesting.
I wonder if there's going to bea blue tinge to it.
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Or not.
It kind of gives it away then.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Boy, I just opened it and I smell blueberry.
Oh yeah, so there's an aromathere.
There's an aroma.
Color-wise it looks pretty muchthe same as the other ones.
And once again, when I pour itin your glass, it gets this huge
head on it.
I'm not exactly sure why.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Well, I can smell it all the way over here.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Yeah, you definitely get blueberry.
I mean, that is for sure.
Wow, yeah, you can smell it.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah, you know that it's Well let's just hope it's
not overpowering in the flavor,right, but that is a good aroma,
isn't it?
It's clear.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
You know beer colored .
Speaker 2 (44:23):
But that aroma is really, that's the most aroma
we've had on any of them.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Wow, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
That's pretty good, isn't it?
Wow?
And usually, boy, we haven'thad a very good blueberry, have
we Not, in a long time.
This really hits the head.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
The closest ones I think we've ever.
We've had a couple Kind of likesuper sweet yeah, like that
real fakey blueberry.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
This is pretty good.
Wow, I think Sam Adams actuallyreally got a good.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
They got something going here now this variety pack
.
Yeah, that's wild dude, that'sreally good.
Yeah, I don't mind that.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
And all four of Sam's beers I mean, are very distinct
flavors too.
Yeah, None of them areoverlapping in their flavor man
flavors too yeah, they're not.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
None of them are overlapping in their flavor.
Man, that's crazy.
Who would have thought the twobest beers in this were going to
be a lemon rattler and ablueberry right?
You know what I mean honestly,that's really surprising.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I mean that's.
And third is probably probablythe lime right, you know yeah,
this is really good beer andit's five and a half percent.
Yep, oh, maybe it's the 15 ibus.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Oh, that's it, they jacked it up.
So now the flavors are up there.
So they're trying to mask it.
There you go, man.
This is good, that's prettygood.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
What are you thinking ?
And you?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
can only get it.
That's the downfall, you onlycan get it in that variety pack,
yep.
So, if you do see it, though,I'd definitely good.
They're all refreshing.
Yeah, nothing, nothing wrongwith anything.
Man, do I go above the?
The porch rocker?
Oh, choices, choice.
I know it's because which onedo I like better?
Um, I'll go a 3.0 on this one.
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I guess either one of those two, I would say hands down, were
the best.
This one I.
It's got a really goodblueberry flavor.
It's not like the.
I always call it that the fakejolly rancher yeah flavor.
Yep, and I mean it.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
It's good, that's all I can say is.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
it's good you could drink it.
A couple of them ice cold, Ithink out on a hot day would be
really good yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I think I'm going to go with 3.1.
I really like that one too.
I just wish they would get itso you could buy a 12-pack of it
alone.
But I mean, if you buy a12-pack of these four, I don
pack of these four, I don'tthink you got a stinker in the
group, no, you got a good oneall the way.
Anything you pull it, you couldbe a blind taste test to reach
out.
You're gonna get a good beereven with the american light.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
And, like I said, I know I rated that as my lowest,
but it was just because, rightat the time, the other ones had
a little more flavor.
Yep, but boy, yeah, all ofthose.
Honestly a new person that'snot into craft beer you could
buy this 12-pack and enjoy allfour of them.
Yep, without a doubt, handsdown.
I have no doubt about it.
Sam did a really good job.
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Yeah, very much so.
I mean again.
I already kind of gave mywrap-up that the top two were
both Sam Adams, yep, I guess wasthere a surprise.
Well, both of those actuallywere surprising as well.
The Summer Ale was very good,the other ones really.
The Lime Shandy was a surprise,I thought that was good.
The Cherry, I'm in agreementwith you, I wish it had more
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flavor, right, and then the WetBeaver being their first beer,
it was okay.
Right, it's definitely notoffensive as far as the flavor
goes and if you're in the thisarea in wisconsin you know check
it out.
I'm not exactly sure how bigtheir distribution is.
If if it's going to the sameplaces that hillsborough does
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their beers or not, I don't knowright, but around us we've seen
a couple places that have itand, um, it's worth trying it,
even if it's just to say, ohyeah, I had one of those right,
yep, yep, yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
So I mean that's.
I think I'm on the same pagethere.
You could, I think the youcan't go wrong if you bought one
12 pack of the sam adamsvariety pack.
No, if that was your one choice.
I think you couldn't go wrongand you're gonna get four decent
beers.
We I think we both were reallyin agreement on those.
I think the only other one,like you said, was either the
cherry or the lime from hop andbarrel, because the the real
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american and the wet beaver.
They're not there for flavorright.
So if you're, I think if youwant the flavor hop barrel,
there's be okay to try those.
If you just want pound beers,the wet beaver and a real
american are going to be therefor that, stop giggling.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah, yeah, so but kudos to Sam Adams.
Oh, very much so Great job, andthis was called the.
What was the name of the?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Let's see here If I can make sure I get the right
words here again.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Beers of Summer Variety Pack.
Okay, the beers.
So keep an eye out there forthe Sam Adams Beers of Summer
Variety Pack.
Like I said, they're all reallygood and, honestly, that that
blueberry was really a surpriseand it's a brand new one.
Yes, so hopefully people youknow they get really good
response and hopefully they keepcoming out with it each year
because it's it's definitely agood beer.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yes, no doubt.
Well, yeah, I think we reallylearned something about these
summertime beers.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, they're all been good yep, and like, like I
said early on, that's what wewere kind of trying to show
people, that you know, yes,maybe you like a light beer or
whatever.
Well, there's light beers inthe craft beer world too, yep,
you know.
So you can definitely look forthem, get them, try them, and a
lot of times they still havebetter flavor.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yep, you know no doubt.
So there's no doubt about that,yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
So awesome, yeah, that I'm glad we did this and,
yeah, I guess we'll just keepplugging away and see what we
come up with.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Keep looking for more summer beers.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Exactly, Since it's summer.
You know, I'm sure there'll besome more.
We'll find out there somewhere.
So awesome.
Well, hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for coming along with
us on this beers of summer tour,so to speak.
There you go.
If you're ever in an area or ifyou ever have 13,000 bicyclists
show, show up at your house.
Remember, mix lemonade withyour beer to stretch it out.
There you go.
The 50-50 ratio, yes, words tolive by Yep.
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Anyway, thanks a lot and, likewe always say, we hope your
campfire is always warm.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
And your beers are always cold.
See ya, see ya.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
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your beer is cold.
Grab a beer and pull up a chair.
Welcome to the Northwoods BeerGuy Podcast.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen,welcome back to the Northwoods
Beer Guy Podcast.
This is Mike, the NorthwoodsBeer Guy, and as usual, I am
joined by Jim.
Hey, buddy, how you doing?
Doing well.
How about yourself?
Not too bad, enjoying thesummertime weather.
There you go, I'd say it'sdefinitely a little warmer, a
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little more humid.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The grass is growing more, which I'm not a big fan of
.
But hey, what do you?
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
whatever, it is definitely the summertime.
Yeah, it's summertime weather.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yes, and because of that you came up with the idea
that let's do a.
We're just going to call itsummertime beers.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Kind of easier drinking.
Yes, Maybe even some lawnmowerbeers.
Probably some lawnmower beersin this group, I would guess.
So, yeah, we're going to givethose a whirl and just see what.
You know what happens.
What happens Because sometimesyou just got to have something a
little lighter.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
A little easier this one.
I don't think we're going toget blown away by any ABV on
these, no to get blown away byany abv on these.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No, no, no, that's.
Uh, I think, would you say.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
They start at 3.7 7 and goes all the way up to 5.5,
5.5, okay yeah, so we've hadpodcasts we start way over that,
almost double that, yeah, soit'll be an interesting one.
Oh yeah, that's for sure.
But it should be a good flavorone.
I mean, hopefully these aren'ttoo sweet, right?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
hopefully you get more flavor yep, I'm thinking
some of these are gonna be.
We didn't want to do like yourbig mass-produced beer companies
, right?
So these are all craft beers,but they're yeah, there's kind
of a variety.
I guess you would say you know,so yeah, we might as well break
into it, let's do it, start offso what's the first one?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
the?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
first one that we have is by hoprel, and we've had
a number of their beers.
This is their Cherry Breakerand it's a shandy slash rattler
is how it was described.
Okay, and it looks like it mustuse Door County cherries
because on the back they've gota map of Door County.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yep, I got a little bit on the write-up from that
too.
Okay, where it said, nestledbetween Green Bay and Lake
Michigan, there lies the CherryMecca of Door County.
The scenic landscapes and thegreat people inspired us to make
the juiciest cherry shandy inall of the land.
Oh, in all of the landy, okay,of the land.
(02:49):
Oh, and all of the landy okay.
Check out our cherry map tolead you to one of our cherry
beer destinations or the cherryorchard of your pick.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, it is.
They got like all the cherryorchards and nice such on there.
That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's a neat deal, yeah all right, well, oh, and it
said, yeah, 3.7 abv.
I did not see anything on ivu.
Okay, I'm sure it's going to be.
If there are hops, it's notmuch, is what I would sure guess
I think the highest hop orhighest ivu we're going to have
today is a 15.
(03:21):
Okay, not, not problem we canhandle that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Those are going to be pretty light, I think.
Well, this definitely lookslike a normal beer.
I was expecting maybe a littlered tinge or something, but it
doesn't look like it.
It's weird that so many bubblesare in it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, a lot of bubbles in it.
That's kind of wild.
Not a whole lot of aroma.
No, I was hoping there'd be alittle cherry aroma.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, there's a little bit of a cherry flavor to
it.
It's not bad.
No, it's not overly sweet, it'snot.
I mean this is okay.
Yeah, I was gonna say I don't.
Uh, it's not like the jollyrancher cherry no strong flavor
like that.
But it's uh, it's pretty good.
I don't, I don't mind it.
I think ice cold would be right.
I mean, what's?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
hard, I guess, is we don't know what they mixed.
Oh right, yeah, is it justlemonade?
Because I know that is.
We don't know what they mixed.
Oh right.
Is it just lemonade, because Iknow that's the main one, or if
they mixed it with a soda?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, it doesn't say anywhere what the cherries were
mixed with Nothing on the caneither.
That says anything about that.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's not bad.
I mean, I definitely wouldn'tbe scared of it.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, I definitely think it's closer to a Shandy
than a Rattler, right, you know,just from the taste, because
not that we've had a huge amount, we've had, you know, four or
five Rattlers and theydefinitely have more of a,
either a lemonade or whateverkind of a flavor as well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I mean, there's no real lingering aftertaste.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I mean you can taste a little bit of cherry on the
finish, but nothing drastic,yeah, and like you said, it's
definitely.
I was kind of worried with allthe bubbles that it's going to
be like too overcharged orsomething, but it's really not,
it's just kind of carbonatedRight.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know it's not bad , and I don't know either if
this is their first season oftrying to do shandies or
Rattlers.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, If they've done it in the past, that's a good
point, because this is the firsttime that I've really seen a
hop and barrel shandy that I canremember.
So I don't know.
Score, wise boy.
I'm thinking, I'm trying tothink of how do I rate this?
I'm not a huge shandy fantypically.
I mean this one's not bad.
Uh flavor, wise.
(05:22):
You know it's not like some ofthem we've had where they're
really that stronger.
Uh, fruit flavor kind of dealthis one.
I'm gonna go like a.
I'll go two and a half, just agood starting point, right in
the middle.
Yeah, it's not bad, I don'tmind it.
I could.
I could drink a can of it, butI don't know if I'd want more
than one.
Right, just a little differentflavor, I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
But yeah, I don't, I don't mind it.
I think I'm right in it withyou.
I mean it's, I think, for methe only thing that I'd
recommend maybe a little bitmore cherry flavor.
Yeah, you know, that's I mean.
Other than, I mean it's not bad, but it doesn't if you want to,
if you're going to buy the canbecause4,.
(06:02):
Just one little tick below,just for you know, I was really
looking forward because I mean,we've had some pretty good
cherry beers.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I was just going to say you nailed it there.
I should have thought of thattoo.
But yeah, we've had some goodones where it's got it's not the
fake cherry flavor, it's areally good cherry and this one
cherry is the, you know, againthe big call-out Right and it's
kind of not Not really there,yeah, like I think we'd hoped
for, yeah, so yeah, I'll leavemine at a two and a half, but I
(06:31):
totally, you can always comeback, I can always change it if
I have to, because youdefinitely nailed that one,
because if it's on the can, itshould be in the can.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It is in the can, but it's pretty mellow, right?
Oh, and I don't know if you cansee this yeah, yeah, I got a
whole page.
Wow, I was doing some real deep, deep dive into stuff.
Yep, all right, so some ofthese are might be easy.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Some of these might be hard for you you say that
every week and then I doterrible so we're kind of in the
spirit of drinking rattlers,kind Kind of-ish.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I know every one of them may not be a Rattler, but I
did find some interesting stuff.
I don't know if we've talkedabout some of these things
before, but my very firstquestion for you who invented
the Rattler?
No idea.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Joe Smith.
Joe Smith, do you mean thebrewery or the person?
The person, yeah.
I have no idea.
You don't All right, no.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Franz Xavier Kugler Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I wouldn't know, you didn't.
No, no, all right.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So that's only minus 100 then.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, I was honest right up front.
I had no clue.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So I think we haven't got time for one more question,
since we're doing good here.
Okay, yeah yeah, so why didFranz invent the Rattler?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Hmm, that's a good question.
I'm probably for the hot daysand he wanted just something
light and refreshing and noticedpeople like little bit of
fruity flavors, already had waytoo much lemonade to try and get
rid of it.
(08:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So you're probably close.
I'll give you a half a point.
Okay, so Franz was an innkeeperin Germany and he he was
actually, his inn was on a biketrail.
So he Back in this.
I won't tell the year.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's going to be another question.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
He had 13,000 cyclists that were going to be
going by his inn and stoppingand he didn't have enough beer,
but he had lemonade, so tostretch it out, he mixed them
together to stretch out for15,000 people Wow.
Yeah, I was just joking that hehad too much lemonade.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
That's wild.
But you think about 13,000bicyclists going.
Yeah, I was just joking that hehad too much lemonade.
That's wild.
But you think about 13,000bicyclists going by?
That's a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It was.
Then there's a couple otherquestions, but I'll save those.
Okay, dealing with Franz.
All right, well, not to pumpyou up, Not Hans and Franz but
okay.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So the next one that we have is also by Hoppin Barrel
.
Okay, but this is their limebreaker, because I've seen they
had a lemon breaker too.
Oh, do they?
Yeah, okay.
So I got these at the beer shopand they just had these two,
the cherry and the lime.
So it looks like it's got alime on the label that's inside,
like the steering wheel, if youwant to call it that of a ship.
(09:28):
Yep and oh, another ship on theback.
Okay, like a pirate ship, butthe skull is lime colored.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Ah, so All right, and what I found was say ahoy to
the newest brew in our Breakerseries Lime Breaker, a bright,
tart lime soda blended with ourbeer for a refreshingly
Sessionable SessionableSessionable, not seasonable
Sessionable 3.7% ABV.
(09:56):
It's crisp, zesty and pirateapproved.
Oh, I don't know who the piratewould be, but yeah, I don't
know?
Okay, perfect for hot days.
Slow sips and smooth sailing.
We keep it traditional Realsoda, real craft beer, and this
one's got bite Now pouring.
(10:17):
Come aboard, huh, hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, nice write-up.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
So this is lime soda mixed with beer.
Yes, so at least this one, theygave us a little more detail.
Yes, just a touch Still lookspretty much the same color, as a
touch Still looks the same.
Pretty much the same color asthe cherry, as the first one.
Oh, I can smell lime.
Yeah, there's this one, I cansmell it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, ooh.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's not bad.
That's not too bad.
I almost like that better thanthe cherry.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, man, I hate to say it, it's got a little more
flavor, I think.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
More flavor.
Yep, yep.
I agree with you.
I'm not sure on the wholepirate approved thing.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I didn't think they drank a lot of lime stuff, but
maybe they did, I don't know.
I thought they were more theIPA guys.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Or rum.
There you go, you know, yep.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
They were after your own heart.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yes, and I can't remember if I mentioned this is
3.7 as well.
Yep, yep, right in the same ABVas the first one.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Pretty low, but I mean, yeah, this is not bad.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, if this was super ice cold sitting outside
it'd be great, it'd be reallygood.
I think I'll pull it right outof the ice full of cooler, you
know?
Right, yeah, I like this onebetter.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I'm right in there with you.
Since you got that, what do youwant to go for a score?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, I like it better, but I'm going to go like
a 2.6.
So you know a notch up.
It still has more flavor and,like right off the bat, I got
the aroma of lime where I didn'ton the cherry, one Right and
this one.
As soon as I tasted it, I gotthe lime right up front where
the cherry was.
Like you said, on theaftertaste, when you're just
kind of looking for it Right.
(11:51):
Then it showed up.
So yeah, again, both of theseare good.
I probably wouldn't like buyall sorts of it and drink it all
the time, but yeah it's not bad.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, I was going to say I mean the exact same thing.
I'm going to go with 2.6 aswell.
It's not bad.
I mean, like you said, if itwas cold super ice cold you're
sitting outside, I think youcould sit in the shade, you
could drink a couple of these.
Oh yeah, without any problem.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah and it's not like heartburn type stuff.
You know what I mean.
So I do enjoy that Right, much,much better.
Yep, because, like I said, someof the hard lemonades and
things like that, I just I don'tknow what it is, but I can
usually have one and then I'llget heartburn.
And then we did remember we hadthat one.
Oh, I can't remember the nameof it.
I know when BK and I had onelast week that as soon as we
(12:37):
tasted it it was like instantheartburn.
Ooh, and it was like, yeah, I'mnot a big, that's not good.
He liked it and I'm like mm.
I beg to differ, Ah yeah, yeah,it was something so awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, that's good, so all right.
Well, let's go back to Franz.
All right, Franz.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
The innkeeper.
Yes, with the bicycle problem.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yes, so where I kind of gave you part of the answer,
the term Rattler originates witha drink called the Rattle Moss.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
What does that word stand for?
Rattle Moss the rattle moss.
Okay, what does that word standfor?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
rattle moss something to do with lemonade?
Uh, kind of uh, because I knowit's beer mixed with lemonade or
whatever.
I I'm just gonna, I don't know,kind of a, I don't know.
I I'm not even gonna guessbecause I'm it's not going to be
the right one.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
So really, the word Radler in German means cyclist,
okay, and the Maas is leader, soit was the cyclist leader of
the Radler.
That's how they came up with it.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's pretty wild, so wrapped it all together and
then the final well, maybe notthe final question, but where
did Franz live?
In Germany, okay, what city?
Oh, more specifically, or eventhe city that was close by.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well, I'm trying to think why would there be 13,000
bicyclists, right?
So it's got to be a bigger city.
Yep, I'd love to say Munich,but I'm going to go Frankfurt.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
All right, so Franz lived in the small town of
Dysonhoven, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
That's where the vacuums are from, right, right.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Almost, almost, just outside of Munich.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Ah, so you were right .
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I was right.
And then I, yeah, that's minusfive, dang it.
I should have went with my gut.
You had it.
Yeah, all right, so you didn'teven flinch.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I thought, maybe you went ooh, and I just saw it, but
nope, so you're getting close.
I was getting closer.
Yes, Interesting.
So did it say what was going on, that they had that many
cyclists?
Was it like some kind ofbicycle race or a tour or
anything?
Did it give anything?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It just said Kugler almost ran out of beer when some
13,000 cyclists came by thatday, ran out of beer when some
13,000 cyclists came by that day.
To avoid running out of beer,it dawned on him that he could
combine clear lemon soda fromhis cellar with beer at a 50-50
ratio.
The day was saved and everybodyloved Franz's refreshing new
creation.
That is wild.
(15:06):
So that's how that came about.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
That is crazy.
Can you imagine way back,whenever this took place?
All of a sudden hello and youlook outside and there's
thousands of bicyclists standingthere waiting to get in.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It'd be like, oh yeah , because it wasn't at this time
, there wasn't even telephones.
Yeah, so wild, yes, dang, allright.
So what do we got next?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
all right.
Well, the next one that we have.
It's kind of an interestingdeal.
It's some local guys heretowards us.
They came up with aquote-unquote brewery okay, uh,
and they've had.
The first thing they did isthey came out with merch they
came out with like can koozies,then they went into like
(15:46):
t-shirts and sweatshirts and nowthey actually came out with
their first beer.
Oh nice, when I looked on thecan, I realized they're not
brewing it themselves.
Another established brewery isactually brewing it and canning
it, and all that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
When I give you the name, you'll understand why they
probably started with themerchandise first.
This is by Wet Beaver BrewingCompany.
Say that beaver brewing company, what beaver?
And the beer is wet beaver andthis is 3.9.
(16:23):
I'm trying to see well on thecan.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'll read what it says on the can because I
couldn't find it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, because I like I said, this is.
I just saw this came outearlier this week.
These cans did Wow.
So it says at Wet BeaverBrewing, we produce beer for the
folks that like to have a goodtime and maybe get a little bit
feisty.
Conceptualized in small town,norwalk, wisconsin, we're all
about the hardworking,tractor-pulling, campfire-having
(16:50):
, beer-crushing people whosesense of humor is a little bit
naughty.
A happy life involves a wetbeaver.
Oh, all right.
Well, so there you go, thereyou go.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I did find it said 11 IBUs Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And yeah, it's like I said, I give them credit.
Typically, you would thinkyou'd come up with a beer first
and then go to the merch Right,but you knew darn well that they
were trying to capitalize.
They're going to catch yourattention with that name Right,
and so here we go.
So this one, if I remember,it's a Pale Lager, pale Lager.
Yeah, so we went from a coupleof shandies, now we're getting
(17:28):
into a pale lager.
All right, let's keep ourfingers crossed.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, very light.
Yeah Well, yeah, it's barelyyellow.
I was going to say that To me,it's almost clear.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, just looking at it, I'm thinking they're going
to be trying to kind of competewith some of the big name beers
and such, Because this isdefinitely very, very light
colored.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I mean big white head on it.
I mean it's got aroma, Right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I can smell, you can smell that lager kind of smell.
Oh, not the wet beaver.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, no, this ice cold would be a lawnmower beer.
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
My opinion.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean there's no bad aftertaste.
It goes down pretty smooth yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
There's not a whole lot to it.
I didn't mention that it'sHillsboro Brewing who is?
Doing the brewing and canningfor them, and they've been
around for a while and they'vegot some pretty good beers
themselves, for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I mean it's not bad.
This beer was just made fordrinking, not really savoring,
Correct?
Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know, at 3.9, you could drink a number of these,
right you know?
That's why I think they're kindof competing or trying to go
head-to-head somewhat with someof the big beers, right, you
know trying to, because I mean,this does have.
It's got decent flavor.
Yeah, I mean, it's not likeit's not going to scare you away
.
No, oh no, I think anybody thatdrinks those other beers like
(18:50):
that, they could easily drinkthis.
Right, because it's not overthe top, it's not like a flavor
where you're going whoa what isthat.
You know what I mean.
Right, Definitely you can tellit's not a Pilsner.
It's got a little differentflavor than that.
But it's not bad, it's notoffensive at all.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, I mean, I guess you're not going to get flavor
with this.
This is not.
I think these next couple arein that same category.
We're, oh sure, yeah, well,where it's gonna be more?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
all right, I'm ready to drink right, roll up your
sleeves and get for those daysthat you just want to pound the
cans, you know sit in, the sitby the beach or sit with your
feet in the water under a shadetree.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
This is what this beer was made.
Yep, exactly.
So what do you think?
I mean, I think I'm just gonnakeep it simple, I'm gonna go
with 2.5 right in the middle.
I don't have it.
There's nothing good.
I mean nothing super good,nothing super bad.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Right, it's just right down the middle yep, I'm
gonna go a 2.4 for the samereason.
To be honest with you, it doeshave a little little more flavor
than what I was expecting, butit still is not like a huge
amount of flavor, right, youknow, but it's definitely not
anything that's going to offendanybody.
Oh, and I honestly could seepeople.
(20:00):
Well, first off, people aregoing to try it just because of
the name, right, they're goingto be like oh, I got to just say
you know that I've had that.
And then I think, especially thepeople that go into a you know
that, go into a brewery or abottle shop and say, hey, what
do you got?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
that's like this, this would be a good one to say,
hey, this is kind of like that,right, so you don't want to
have this on tap, then is whatyou're saying?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Probably not, it's got to be in a can or bottle.
Right there you go.
That's just my opinion.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
All right, let's see if I got anything else here
about Rattlers, not aboutradlers, um not, oh wait, here I
got one more in germany they domake a half and half mix of
pilsner and a soft drink.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay, what is that called pilsner and a soft drink?
Hmm, so radler is lemonade, yep, and beer, and they also have a
pilsner and a soft drink.
Yep, well, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The only other one I know is shandy, so I don't know
so it's the ulster, which isshort for ulster, which is
german for water from the ulster, that's so.
It's what's the ulster?
I don't know.
So that must be the combination, oh it could be so it.
So instead of a Rattler, it'san Ulster.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Huh, so we've got to find those.
Yeah, I have not seen none ofthose yet.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
No, that sounds like it could be good too.
That should be interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah, we'll have to do some research, see if we can
find one of those.
Anybody out there that'slistening, if you ever have seen
them?
Let us know.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Where's that?
The question on the Rattlers iswhen did Franz make up the
Rattler?
I got the month and the year.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh geez, I got to do the month and the year.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And I'll give you a hint the year starts with the
one.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
With the one I figured as much.
If it's a bicycle thing, it'sgot to be spring, summer or fall
.
I would think I'm just deducingthis.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yep, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And let's see.
So I'm going to say you don'tneed the day, right?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Just the month, okay.
It just says one day Okay Inthis, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I'm going to say June of 1904.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Ooh, you were close.
You were so close June of 19.
22.
Oh gosh, darn it.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
You're like wait a minute Minus 1,000.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I got a point for June, though.
Right, you got a point for Juneand minus 1,001 for the year.
I was close, though, see, I waslike oh he might get it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
He's like how in the world did he come up with June?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I was like when he started going well, it can't be
in the winter.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
So summertime is probably Usually.
You got to be early and itwouldn't be in.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
October for Munich?
No, heck, no.
Or September, because that'swhen you already got something
going on.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, they had some little thing going on then I
don't know if that's still goingor not.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh yeah, so what beer is next?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Well, you remember a few episodes ago, when we had
those Seagram things that werein collaboration with the WWE.
Now this is not the same as that, but this is another Rasslin'
kind of thing.
All right, and this is HulkHogan and the Real American Beer
, the Real American Beer.
(23:09):
And does it say on here, oh man, they got this so little.
Does it say 4.2%, yep, and thenthere is some right.
But look at this.
Why would you put your writing?
I know so the can is like it'slike a light color, you know in
(23:30):
the white.
And then they got the lettersare like in the same color, like
chrome or you know, like theraw can color through white, so
you can't hardly read it.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So I'm going to try to pick it apart, okay, so,
cause on the website there wasnothing.
Okay, I couldn't find anything.
So this is about all we got.
America's at its best whenunited, and if there's one thing
we can all agree on, it's thesimple pleasure of sharing a
beer.
That's why we started RealAmerican Beer to bring people
(24:01):
together, one beer at a time.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Okay, and it's red, white and blue.
Can Yep has Hulk Hogan's imageon it with the flag and such?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
So it says brewed and bottled by the real American,
la Crosse, wisconsin, and underspecial agreement Chicago
Illinois, stevens Point, st Paul, clearwater.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Dang.
I wonder who part of.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Heilman.
Heilman, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Because I tried to find what the brewery name was
and I couldn't find that either.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Huh, so they just must be brewing it for them then
.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, interesting, well, well, we'll find.
It just says light beer Light,so I'm guessing it's a Pilsner.
Yes, I'm going to go out on alimb and say that I was going to
say you know, and it's funnybecause after we did our 4th of
July show, I thought we shouldhave had this Boy.
There's a lot of head on thatYou're going to probably want to
.
I didn't do a very good job,all right, so it looks light.
(24:55):
Let that.
Let's see if I can get a littlemore in there.
So there you go.
You can see through the glass.
Yeah, it definitely looks likea pilsner.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
They kind of wave the yellow color.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
It's barely yellow Yep exactly.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
There's not a whole lot of aroma.
There's not much flavor there,if it was cold, it would be a
lawnmower beer.
Yeah, I mean you could almostecho everything we said for the
wet beaver.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, I think the wet beaver had a little bit more
flavor than this one, yep.
But yeah, it's just they'recompeting with the Miller Lights
.
Bud Lights you know that kindof stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, this is a beer you're going to just be pounding
.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
You're not really you're not there for the flavor
no, no and 4.2, you could drinka number of them.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I mean it's not bad, I mean it's like one step above
drinking water.
I think I was going to say it'snot bad, but there's just not.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's hard to grade it because there's really not much
flavor to it at all.
Right, it's kind of like, again, people that love all the big
beers they could drink thisRight Without a doubt.
I'm sure some of them wouldstill be like oh, but it's like
it tastes the same as just stuffyou're drinking.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, you can't really get offended by this.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
No, not at all.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
There's nothing in here to get offended by.
Yeah, well, we should have saidladies and gentlemen, these are
all in 12-ounce cans too by theway, hands too, by the way, so
so you can have them outside,have them outside.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
If you drop it, it's not gonna break exactly.
Yeah, that's definitely not bad.
No it again.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's just yeah, there's not a lot there, though
no, exactly, I guess.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Score wise.
Yeah, what are you thinking?
I'm gonna go with 2.3 justbecause, again, it's I hate to
say that, because it's honestlyit's pretty average, you know.
But I do think that the thelast one had a little bit more
flavor, right, you know so.
And so knocking it down it'skind of unfair, but it's still.
(26:43):
I guess, if you're going forthe flavor, I would look at the
other ones first yeah, I think Iwas gonna hit the same exact
score.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I mean it's just, it's not offensive, but there's.
There's nothing there.
I mean they're not telling uswhat's in it, but they don't
have to hide anything, right.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Exactly.
There's nothing really there.
No, no, that's for sure.
It'll be interesting to see ifthe Hulkster comes out with
another one or not.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Didn't Stone Cold come out with one too?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, he had a couple of them.
He had an IPA, and then I thinkit was a was it a pilsner or
something?
He had two of them that theyhad right, at least licensed,
you know so, so yeah, oh well,that's not a bad one, so we're
good there.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
So I got another good question for you.
So we just finished the fourthof july, right?
Yep?
What national day did we forgetto observe on July 7th?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
On July 7th.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
What national day?
It's probably like NationalPilsner Day.
No, oh, it's an actual.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's an actual day, though, oh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't, I'm not sure , I must not know because I
forgot National.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Dive Bar Day.
Ah Well, that's a bummer, yeah.
So I even got a couple more.
I got one more question to gowith that after the next beer.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Okay, national Dive Bar Day.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Huh, see we did, but our significant others did stop
by a couple of dive bars ontheir way.
On their way up, north To thehinterlands.
Yeah, and one of them wasdefinitely a dive bar.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah, well, there's a couple of them that you almost
need a tetanus shot.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, you know what you're going to when you get the
animals eating food off the bar.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, and you're not talking like just the patrons,
yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That was a little sketchy.
Oh yes, All right All right, sowhat do we got?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
now.
Well, we have four more to go,so we're halfway through, and
the last four are all by SamAdams, yes, yes.
So now you picked these up andso they had like a 12 pack, a
variety pack of best ofsummertime beers.
That's the summertime beers,and that's kind of where you got
the idea for this.
So all right, well, the firstone we have is their sam adams
(28:45):
american light, easy drinking.
It says 4.2 percent in sevenibus.
That's down there that's downthere.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's down there, so it says a distinctly American.
This light craft lager featurespleasant floral hop notes
balanced by a light sweetnessfor the perfect combo of flavor
and easy drinking.
Clean, refreshing and made withall American ingredients.
This beer is ready fortailgates, beach days, backyard
(29:14):
barbecues and every day inbetween.
An American classic so smoothyou'll want to crap open another
one.
Well, that's a lot of talkthere.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
A lot of talk, so we'll see, you know.
The one thing I think that iscool is this episode is kind of
showing people that you know, oh, because you get those people
that, oh, I don't like craftbeer, there's a style of craft
beer for everybody, you know,and this is definitely along
those lines.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And this one.
I think a lot of people arestarting to realize that it's
out there because it's gettingharder and harder to find a
12-pack now, yeah, because Ithink so.
Hopefully these taste decent.
I mean, this looks very lightin color.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's clear, though almost clear.
Oh yeah, very clear.
It's definitely filtered forsure it's.
You can kind of get a littlebit of a lager aroma, but not
much not much, I mean it's thelast.
It's right, in line with thelast two, the last two here,
they're all right in the samesame ballpark yeah, I mean it's
not bad.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I think it's a little .
I mean you, really, if you werea blind taste test of these
three, you wouldn't be able totell the difference.
Very, very tough yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know, yeah, I just I mean this.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I mean it's not bad.
I mean you could definitely sitif you're on a boat.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
You could have a couple of these sitting in the
flavor Right For 100%, at leastyou and I.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, I mean it's, but like you said, I mean you
could have a couple of thesesitting out in the sun, sitting
in a chair, oh yeah, Under ashade tree, and be totally fine.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Right, ruin your appetite.
It's not, it's.
The finish is smooth, I mean,everything is good with it.
Yep, and the fact I meanamerican light.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They're they're telling you what they're going
after.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know they're spot on.
So yeah, if you guys out therelistening, if you do like that
style of beer, you know, try andfind this, because right, I
think you'll like it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't think I have not seen it in individual 12
packs.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It comes in the four pack in that variety 12 pack,
yep, so you get three of eachone right Yep.
Okay, Score-wise.
What do you think of the SamAdams American Light?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Well, I think I'm going to actually give it a 2.7.
Okay, I'm just trying to comeup with a good adjective.
I mean, it's in line with theones you've had so far.
But for me it actually doestastes a little bit cleaner.
Crisper all the way throughokay, not, not by like leaps and
bounds, just a tad bit like ahair better okay, so nothing,
(31:40):
nothing off the charts right.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Personally, I'm gonna go with 2.2, just because it
had just a little less flavorthan the last two and it's hard
for me to put it above that.
But I I agree with what yousaid, but I do think the other
two had just a tinge more flavorto it.
But again, and like I said, itkind of sucks because it makes
it sound like it's bad and it'snot bad.
It's just that there's not alot to it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I didn't know what you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Oh yeah, this is going to be a tough category.
Yeah, because we don't want andthere's a lot we could have had
every one of them, the samescore so far.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
All right.
So now back to our nationaldive bar on July 7th, right?
Yes?
So who founded that day?
Who said we're going to do thison this day?
And it was a company.
Oh, it was a company Yep, not aperson.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
And it's going to surprise you.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
It's going to surprise me.
So was it a beer company or no?
No, who would be from want topromote dive bars?
Uh, I don't know.
I I was gonna guess just one ofthe big beer companies, but you
said it's not so so what monthis july?
This is what do you mean?
What month is this?
What number?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
seven seven eleven no , and you want to do it on the
seventh day of July.
So what say that together?
Seven, seven, seven seven seven, and seven is made by Seagram's
.
Really, seagram's did it Wellthat's weird Right.
So yes, the whiskey.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So it was still an alcohol company, but it wasn't
beer.
Huh.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
The beer holiday in July celebrates the dive bar and
to recognize them for thehistoric icons they are.
In addition to be lucky seven,it's also a reference to the
seven and seven drink.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I would have never guessed that Because when you
said no to a beer company, Iokay.
Is it going to be some foodcompany now or some weird light?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
bulb company, or you know what I mean.
Right see, and it's like this.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
I didn't even think of a hard alcohol right uh
company huh, that's wild, allright.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Are we still trying to teach you things?
I know we are.
Educate and entertain.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
That's what we try and do so what do we got now?
All right, so now we are on tothe sam adams.
Oh well, this is interesting,jim.
This is their porch rockerlemon radler all right but and
this is a four, well for aradler, this is a higher abv
right, four and a half percenteight ibus.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
We stepped it up a notch yeah not much, man.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I hope this isn't the opposite of like when we have
those big ipas in it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're right so I got a little bit here.
It said bright, tangy andundeniably refreshing.
Porch rocker is our take on theclassic german radler.
Yeah, a crisp golden helles log, blended with just the right
amount of real lemon for a freshsqueezed citrus kick Inspired
by German cyclist.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
See that's what I wanted.
I was trying to get thosequestions, trying to get those
in before we got here, becauseit gave it away, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Who mixed beer with lemonade to beat the summer heat
.
This easy drinking brewdelivers a perfectly balanced
blend of sweetness and tartnesswith a clean, thirst quenching
finish.
See, so it's all tying togetherall the questions that is wild.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I still can't.
I'd love to know what was goingon.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know that there's that many cyclists, yeah, so a
hellas and lemonade looks verysimilar to the last one similar
to the, a little darker than thelast one, but Similar to the
last one, a little darker thanthe last one, but Ooh, you can
smell a little bit there.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Oh wow, you can get that lemon.
Yeah, the lemon aroma.
I'm kind of looking forward tothis.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
All right, wow, that's not bad, that's pretty
good.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I'll say right now that's the best one we've had so
far today.
Yeah, that's wow.
That is Porch Rocker, lemonRadler, that's good and like I
said, the other Radlers we'vehad have all been 2.
Something, yep.
So this is way up there For aRadler, for a Radler, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Wow, that is.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's got some good flavor, yeah, very good, very
smooth finish and it's still notlike heartburn-y.
No, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I mean really, I don't know if I could tell that
this was a Rattler.
Yeah no, I mean other than bysomebody telling me yeah yeah,
and then you'd taste it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
You would get that lemon flavor, but that doesn't
necessarily mean that's what Imean.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
But this is a really good combination.
This is a good one Wow.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
I do like that.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And I still think a new person could for sure drink
this.
There's no question.
You can never say you don'tlike this one, right?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
There's no way, because you know when we've been
at some festivals and you see,you know a lot of times they
have like the carbless or thewhite claws those kind of things
they could drink.
This.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh, easy, yes.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You know, because it doesn't taste like beer.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Right, unfortunately, too, this does not come by
itself.
You have to buy the 12-pack ofthe other beers.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Maybe it'll start to change who knows Right.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
So if you know Sam, Adams, let them know.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, let them know that you want to and maybe they
do.
Maybe you could get this.
I guess I've never reallylooked.
I'll have to keep an eye out.
Right, yeah, maybe, like yousaid, it could just be that
these in that special 12-packeach summer, that's all it is
that's what it is, but we got toat least join one of them.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah, boy, that's easily the best one we've had so
far today.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
What?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
are you thinking I'm going to go like a 2.9.
I do like that.
That's really good flavor Icecold that would be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
That must be dangerous.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
It might be so good, exactly.
So, yeah, good job on that onethere, sam Adams, because that's
a lot of flavor.
Still no heartburn, perfect.
You get that lemon and, like Isaid I just think, ice cold that
would be a nice way to beat theheat.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yep, and I think the only thing to add Echo.
I mean, sometimes you're alittle bit scared of the lemon,
but they even said it was goingto be tart.
I don't even taste any tartness.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Nope, I was worried that it was going to be one of
those that taste like LemonPledge.
You know what I mean and ittotally isn't that?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
No, it's not a medicinal lemon flavor.
It's really good If you seethis out there.
I would definitely recommendgetting that 12-pack just for
this one beer.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I agree Because it's really, really good.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I I'm actually going to bump it up one.
I'm going to go with 3.0.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Oh nice, first one of the day, there you go.
Yeah, that's a good job.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
All right.
So we're running out ofquestions, but I do still have a
couple more.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Okay, that's good, We've got two beers left too.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
What beer drinking day is on July 18th.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
So it's like National .
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Lager Day Close.
You're very close.
Saint Arnoldus Day.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, that's the same thing.
It's close right.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, so apparently Saint Arnold was the Arnold of
the Saisons was a soldier.
He spent several years as ahermit at a monastery, then,
after being promoted and runningaway and being forced to return
by a wolf, oh well, there yougo, and from over the inn he
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retired and founded an abbey inOudenburg where he brewed beer
and spoke of its gift of health.
He wasn't wrong.
Due to the water, boilingprocess for brewing, beer became
safer to drink than sometainted water sources.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Okay, I've heard that before that they drank beer
because it was healthier, so tospeak than some of the bad water
.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
So, according to stories, when members of a
church were ill, arnold gavethem drinks of his brews and
they recovered, surviving theplague.
Well, there you go.
Regardless of which stories youbelieve, st Arnold of Saison
was an interesting guy.
Celebrate him and hislife-saving concoction on this
July holiday.
Well, we will definitely dothat.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
We have to write that down, so we remember it for
next year.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
All right, so what do ?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
we got now.
So the next one that we have isthe Sam Adams Summer Ale Summer
Ale and this is a citrus wheatale.
Ooh, I'm not a big wheat guy.
It'll be interesting to see ifit's got that wheat flavor up
front.
The wheat-ish 5.3% ABV and 8IBUs.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
All right, and it says this refreshing American
wheat ale is the summer beerthat started it all.
A bright blend of orange, limeand lemon peels, balanced with a
subtle spice from grains ofparadise, gives it a zesty,
refreshing taste.
Light-bodied and easy-drinkingSummer Ale is the perfect
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companion for sunny days andwarm nights, because summer
starts with Sam.
Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, this was a little more easier than the
first two.
Yep for sure.
I was going to say that was thething I noticed right away it
was you can't see through it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, you can't see through it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
But it's yellow-ish, yellow-ish, very much a lot of
head on it.
I thought, well, I must havepoured gems wrong again.
Nope, mine's the same.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
There is a faint aroma.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You kind of get a little bit of the citrus, the
wheat smell too.
Yeah, let's hope it's not overthe top.
It's not bad.
I mean, I don't definitelydon't really get that
prototypical wheat right tastefor me that's a bonus, right I
say, which is not a bad thingbut there's not a lot of citrus.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
There's some citrus flavor, but not, yeah, not
nearly what.
That the rattler was right,it's got flavor.
It's got flavor, it's not overthe top, I mean no if you've
never had a wheat beer, this isprobably the one you want to
start with, probably yeah, Idon't.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The good thing is I don't get like that, that when
it was, when you were sayingthat it had something about the
like zest right sometimes thoseget real bitter, right, you know
, and this one really isn't thatbitter, so that's good, because
sometimes you're just like, uh,yeah, you know, if that they
didn't have that lemon zest inthere it'd have been better.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
But yeah, I mean this one.
I think you could still have acouple of these sitting outside,
maybe not as many as the firsttwo that we've had right, but
right it's not bad.
I don't have a bad.
The finish is smooth.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
There's not a bad aftertaste yep, I agree with you
100.
Like I said, it's uh, you doget a little bit of a citrusy
taste, but not over the top byany means.
And again I think a new personcould drink one of these, you
know, because again you don'tget that the usual, uh, wheat
flavor and, like I said, that'snot a bad thing, typically
either right, some of them areinstant.
You taste it, you know it's awheat beer.
(41:32):
Yes, where this one?
You really you don't get that.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
So this is not bad again.
I mean, sam did another goodjob.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I think, yeah, they've done all three of these
have been really good, so reallydecent.
So so what are you thinking?
Um, I'm gonna go with 2.7.
I think I don't like it as muchas the radler, but it does have
a pretty good, pretty decentflavor to it.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
So yeah, I was gonna say in that same ballpark I
think I'm gonna go with 2.8.
Not bad, and especially for methat I don't like wheat beers.
I'm not a big fan of them, butthis one has got the flavor.
I think the flavors are justabout right.
I mean for for a bigger brewery.
I think they did a really goodjob with this.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah, exactly Like I said, hopefully the last can
kind of shows up, the same asthese other ones.
It's one of those where this isnot a bad variety pack at all.
Right, you know really.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I mean, they did it so far.
They did a good job?
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
So it looks like you've got all the questions
wrong, except for the one whereJune, june, you get the half
point, yep, and the lemonade hehad too much lemonade, oh yep,
so I got it one point total.
Yeah, I didn't add that, though.
That didn't count.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Oh, okay, so you only lost, I think, minus 10,000
points.
That's not bad so you're doingokay, yeah, I'm fine.
So what's our last one?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Well, we're on the last, and this is a new one.
It says Uh-oh that's good sothis is, I'm sure, only
available in this 12-pack.
All right, and this is theirBlueberry Lager Lager Yep, and
this is 5.5% ABV and 15 IBUs.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
We're stepping way up there now.
Way up there, all right.
So it says big flavor.
Built for summer, new for 2025,blueberry lager delivers a bold
, juicy burst of blueberry in acrisp, easy drinking brew.
Perfect for cooling down aftera bike ride, for a rattler.
Yep, here we go, celebrating aweekend well spent or adding a
(43:23):
little extra flavor to yoursummer hang your summer.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
What hang hang?
Speaker 2 (43:28):
okay, okay only available in the beers of summer
variety pack.
Oh, this one is okay, don'tmiss it.
Bursting with blueberry aroma,this refreshing lager is your
perfect cooler companion forevery summer adventure.
Huh, well, that's a bigwrite-up.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
It's going to be interesting.
I wonder if there's going to bea blue tinge to it.
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Or not.
It kind of gives it away then.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
Boy, I just opened it and I smell blueberry.
Oh yeah, so there's an aromathere.
There's an aroma.
Color-wise it looks pretty muchthe same as the other ones.
And once again, when I pour itin your glass, it gets this huge
head on it.
I'm not exactly sure why.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Well, I can smell it all the way over here.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Yeah, you definitely get blueberry.
I mean, that is for sure.
Wow, yeah, you can smell it.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah, you know that it's Well let's just hope it's
not overpowering in the flavor,right, but that is a good aroma,
isn't it?
It's clear.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
You know beer colored .
Speaker 2 (44:23):
But that aroma is really, that's the most aroma
we've had on any of them.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Wow, that's not bad.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
That's pretty good, isn't it?
Wow?
And usually, boy, we haven'thad a very good blueberry, have
we Not, in a long time.
This really hits the head.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
The closest ones I think we've ever.
We've had a couple Kind of likesuper sweet yeah, like that
real fakey blueberry.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
This is pretty good.
Wow, I think Sam Adams actuallyreally got a good.
Speaker 1 (44:57):
They got something going here now this variety pack
.
Yeah, that's wild dude, that'sreally good.
Yeah, I don't mind that.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
And all four of Sam's beers I mean, are very distinct
flavors too.
Yeah, None of them areoverlapping in their flavor man
flavors too yeah, they're not.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
None of them are overlapping in their flavor.
Man, that's crazy.
Who would have thought the twobest beers in this were going to
be a lemon rattler and ablueberry right?
You know what I mean honestly,that's really surprising.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
I mean that's.
And third is probably probablythe lime right, you know yeah,
this is really good beer andit's five and a half percent.
Yep, oh, maybe it's the 15 ibus.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Oh, that's it, they jacked it up.
So now the flavors are up there.
So they're trying to mask it.
There you go, man.
This is good, that's prettygood.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
What are you thinking ?
And you?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
can only get it.
That's the downfall, you onlycan get it in that variety pack,
yep.
So, if you do see it, though,I'd definitely good.
They're all refreshing.
Yeah, nothing, nothing wrongwith anything.
Man, do I go above the?
The porch rocker?
Oh, choices, choice.
I know it's because which onedo I like better?
Um, I'll go a 3.0 on this one.
(45:59):
I guess either one of those two, I would say hands down, were
the best.
This one I.
It's got a really goodblueberry flavor.
It's not like the.
I always call it that the fakejolly rancher yeah flavor.
Yep, and I mean it.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
It's good, that's all I can say is.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
it's good you could drink it.
A couple of them ice cold, Ithink out on a hot day would be
really good yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
I think I'm going to go with 3.1.
I really like that one too.
I just wish they would get itso you could buy a 12-pack of it
alone.
But I mean, if you buy a12-pack of these four, I don
pack of these four, I don'tthink you got a stinker in the
group, no, you got a good oneall the way.
Anything you pull it, you couldbe a blind taste test to reach
out.
You're gonna get a good beereven with the american light.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
And, like I said, I know I rated that as my lowest,
but it was just because, rightat the time, the other ones had
a little more flavor.
Yep, but boy, yeah, all ofthose.
Honestly a new person that'snot into craft beer you could
buy this 12-pack and enjoy allfour of them.
Yep, without a doubt, handsdown.
I have no doubt about it.
Sam did a really good job.
(46:59):
Yeah, very much so.
I mean again.
I already kind of gave mywrap-up that the top two were
both Sam Adams, yep, I guess wasthere a surprise.
Well, both of those actuallywere surprising as well.
The Summer Ale was very good,the other ones really.
The Lime Shandy was a surprise,I thought that was good.
The Cherry, I'm in agreementwith you, I wish it had more
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flavor, right, and then the WetBeaver being their first beer,
it was okay.
Right, it's definitely notoffensive as far as the flavor
goes and if you're in the thisarea in wisconsin you know check
it out.
I'm not exactly sure how bigtheir distribution is.
If if it's going to the sameplaces that hillsborough does
(47:42):
their beers or not, I don't knowright, but around us we've seen
a couple places that have itand, um, it's worth trying it,
even if it's just to say, ohyeah, I had one of those right,
yep, yep, yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
So I mean that's.
I think I'm on the same pagethere.
You could, I think the youcan't go wrong if you bought one
12 pack of the sam adamsvariety pack.
No, if that was your one choice.
I think you couldn't go wrongand you're gonna get four decent
beers.
We I think we both were reallyin agreement on those.
I think the only other one,like you said, was either the
cherry or the lime from hop andbarrel, because the the real
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american and the wet beaver.
They're not there for flavorright.
So if you're, I think if youwant the flavor hop barrel,
there's be okay to try those.
If you just want pound beers,the wet beaver and a real
american are going to be therefor that, stop giggling.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yeah, yeah, so but kudos to Sam Adams.
Oh, very much so Great job, andthis was called the.
What was the name of the?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Let's see here If I can make sure I get the right
words here again.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
Beers of Summer Variety Pack.
Okay, the beers.
So keep an eye out there forthe Sam Adams Beers of Summer
Variety Pack.
Like I said, they're all reallygood and, honestly, that that
blueberry was really a surpriseand it's a brand new one.
Yes, so hopefully people youknow they get really good
response and hopefully they keepcoming out with it each year
because it's it's definitely agood beer.
I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yes, no doubt.
Well, yeah, I think we reallylearned something about these
summertime beers.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, they're all been good yep, and like, like I
said early on, that's what wewere kind of trying to show
people, that you know, yes,maybe you like a light beer or
whatever.
Well, there's light beers inthe craft beer world too, yep,
you know.
So you can definitely look forthem, get them, try them, and a
lot of times they still havebetter flavor.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yep, you know no doubt.
So there's no doubt about that,yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:25):
So awesome, yeah, that I'm glad we did this and,
yeah, I guess we'll just keepplugging away and see what we
come up with.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Keep looking for more summer beers.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Exactly, Since it's summer.
You know, I'm sure there'll besome more.
We'll find out there somewhere.
So awesome.
Well, hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for coming along with
us on this beers of summer tour,so to speak.
There you go.
If you're ever in an area or ifyou ever have 13,000 bicyclists
show, show up at your house.
Remember, mix lemonade withyour beer to stretch it out.
There you go.
The 50-50 ratio, yes, words tolive by Yep.
(49:55):
Anyway, thanks a lot and, likewe always say, we hope your
campfire is always warm.
Speaker 2 (50:01):
And your beers are always cold.
See ya, see ya.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
Thank you for listening to the Northwoods Beer
Guy podcast.
If you have a question, acomment or a beer you'd like us
to review, please feel free tosend us a message at
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(50:24):
your beer is cold.
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