May 16, 2025 • 51 mins
The new Alabama
@goatislandbrewing @mainchannelbeer @commonbondbrewers @DruidCityBrewingCompany @redclaybrew @braidedriverbrewing #beer #beerreview #AlabamaBeer #WarEagle #RollTide #podcast #radioshow Co hosts : Good ol Boy Dave, Good ol Boy Drew, Good ol Boy Kendall, and Good ol Gal Julieanna SUDS Episode – We embark on a flavorful journey through the heart of Alabama's craft beer scene! In this episode of Sips, Suds, & Smokes, our hosts dive into a delightful lineup featuring beers from Alabama. Yes, but why? With ratings, lively banter, and a few unexpected twists, this episode is packed with insights and laughs. Tune in as we explore what makes each brew unique and share their take on Alabama's evolving craft beer landscape. Don't miss out on this sudsy adventure! We taste and rate the following beer from 1-5:
8:06 Goatopia New England Style IPA- 6.2% ABV. Goat Island Brewing Cullman, AL SUDS-4
14:32 Dunkelweisse – 5.8% ABV. Main Channel Brewing Guntersville, AL SUDS-4
21:01 Ramber Red Amber Ale – brewed with rye grain and Williamette hops. 5.2% ABV Common Bond Brewers Montgomery, AL SUDS-4
34:40 Neon Moon- Berliner Weisse with raspberry and mango. 4.9% ABV Druid City Brewing Company Tuscaloosa, AL SUDS-2
36:18 Miura Dutch Courage Pilsner- brewed with Juniper Berries, Lemon Peel, Star Anise, Orange Peel, Coriander, Cardamom, and Black Pepper. 5% ABV. Red Clay Brewing Company Opelika, AL SUDS-3
39:20 RCB “Southern Style” IPA- brewed with Amarillo, Simcoe and Citra hop. 7% ABV. Red Clay Brewing Company Opelika, AL SUDS-3
44:31 Boom Boom Pale Ale – 5.3% ABV. Braided River Brewing Mobile AL. SUDS-4
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>> Announcer (00:00):
On the next episode of Sips, Suds and
Smokes.
The Alabama craft beer we'll be tasting and
discussing today are from Goat Island Brewing
in Coleman, Alabama, the Gotopia Hazy
IPA from Main Channel Brewing Company in
Guntersville, Alabama. I'm assuming
Guntersville Dunkelweisse. From Common Bond
brewers in Montgomery, Alabama, the Ramber Red
(00:23):
Amber Ale. From Druid City Brewing Company in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Raspberry
Mango Berliner Weisse. That sounds very
Tuscaloosa.
>> Dave (00:31):
Neon Moon. Sorry, I left that out. Sorry.
Neon Moon, Raspberry Mango.
>> Announcer (00:36):
This makes the pot thickens.
>> Dave (00:38):
Yes.
>> Announcer (00:39):
From Red Clay Brewing Company in Opelika,
Alabama, the Murra Dutch Courage Pilsner. And
the RCB Southern Style
IPA from Braided River Brewing in Mobile,
Alabama, the Boom Boom American Pale Ale.
We'll be right back after this break.
(01:17):
Brought to you almost live from the dude in the
Basement studios. Why? Because that's where the
good stuff is. It sips suds and
smokes with your smoke and host the good old
boys.
>> Dave (01:49):
Suds.
>> Kendall (01:50):
Suds.
>> Announcer (01:51):
Suds. Uh, it's time for more
suds.
>> Julianna (01:56):
Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone, to
another suds segment where we all believe.
Believe that all people are created
equal. But all beer,
no, not so much. I gotta draw the line there. I don't know
about you guys. Well, I'm one of your hosts
today, Juliana, and joining me at the
(02:17):
table is good old boy Kendall.
>> Kendall (02:19):
It's a pleasure to be here. I'm looking forward to today.
>> Julianna (02:22):
Nice to see you, good old boy
Drew. Hello.
>> Announcer (02:26):
Hello. How are you today?
>> Julianna (02:28):
I'm, um, good. How are you?
>> Announcer (02:31):
I'm slightly apprehensive after that intro
about, you know, not all beer is created equal.
But, you know, we'll. We'll see what we get
to fair.
>> Julianna (02:40):
Fair. Good boy Dave.
>> Dave (02:43):
God almighty.
>> Julianna (02:44):
I'm not part of this. Oh,
yes, you are.
How are you?
>> Dave (02:51):
I'm good. I'm getting ready to use this button a
lot.
>> Announcer (02:54):
Banned. Once again.
>> Dave (02:58):
Even though Mike's not here.
>> Julianna (03:00):
Um. Is that the shape of things to come?
>> Dave (03:01):
I think so.
>> Julianna (03:02):
We shall see. So recently,
good ol boy Dave and I took a trip to
Pennsylvania.
>> Announcer (03:10):
No.
>> Julianna (03:10):
No. I know what you're thinking, and no,
we actually went somewhere instead of
Pennsylvania.
>> Dave (03:18):
I didn't know there were places other than Pennsylvania that our car
could drive to.
>> Julianna (03:24):
Who said it was our car?
>> Dave (03:25):
All roads lead to Pennsylvania.
>> Julianna (03:27):
All roads in my heart. Yes. Lead to pa.
Well, we went in the opposite direction and
did a little beer shopping in. Wait for
it, Alabama.
>> Kendall (03:39):
Uh, Roll Tide.
>> Announcer (03:40):
Oh, God, what was
that?
>> Julianna (03:48):
No, Are you trying to lose the fine people at
our table?
>> Kendall (03:52):
Roll Tide.
>> Julianna (03:53):
That's just wrong.
>> Announcer (03:54):
I don't know what's worse, what he's saying or that it's a,
uh, electronic like robot voice. You.
>> Julianna (03:59):
I know it sounds like freaking AI.
>> Dave (04:02):
Little known fact, abused Stephen Hawking was
a, uh, Bama fan. Crimson
Tide. Yeah, there
you go.
>> Julianna (04:12):
Now, as long time fans of the
show will know, and we know there's a couple of you
here, good old boy Mike has been banned from
stepping foot into Alabama for several years now. Oh, uh,
it was a whole big thing. I won't go into all the details,
but apparently there's an actual limit on how many
jokes you can make about dating your sister there.
(04:32):
And he exceeded that
in spades.
So. Good ol boy Dave is, well,
half Alabamian on my father's
side. Yeah. We decided to see what's
happening there recently. And craft beer.
>> Dave (04:49):
That's why I've got those summer teeth, you know, some are
missing, some are crooked.
>> Julianna (04:57):
Wow.
>> Announcer (04:57):
Okay, brother. Daddy pop you the train.
>> Dave (04:59):
Yep.
>> Julianna (05:00):
Okay.
>> Dave (05:00):
Coat.
>> Julianna (05:01):
Avoid brew. Why don't you give us today's lineup?
>> Announcer (05:03):
The Alabama craft beer we'll be tasting and
discussing today are
from Goat Island Brewing in Coleman, Alabama, the
Goatopia Hazy ipa. From Main
Channel Brewing Company in Guntersville,
Alabama. I'm assuming Guntersville
Dunkelweisser. Uh, from Common Bond brewers
in Montgomery, Alabama, the Rambur Red Amber
(05:25):
Ale. From Druid City Brewing Company
in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Rain
Raspberry Mango. Berliner Visa. That sounds
very Tuscaloosa.
>> Dave (05:35):
It's Neon Moon. Sorry, I'm, uh, sorry.
Neon Raspberry Mango.
>> Announcer (05:40):
This makes. This makes the pot thickens.
>> Dave (05:43):
Yes.
>> Announcer (05:43):
From Red Clay Brewing Company in Opelika,
Alabama, the Murray Dutch Courage Pilsner and
the RCB Southern Style
ipa.
>> Dave (05:52):
Southern Style.
>> Announcer (05:53):
And then from Braided River Brewing in Mobile, Alabama,
the Boom Boom American Pale Ale Boom
Boom.
>> Dave (06:00):
Not to be convinced. With the Boom Boom.
>> Announcer (06:05):
I want you in my room so we can
go boom boom, boom boom.
Brother. Daddy.
>> Dave (06:12):
This show just took a very dark turn.
>> Kendall (06:15):
It usually does about this one.
>> Julianna (06:17):
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't take long.
>> Dave (06:19):
Kind of surprised it took that long. Yeah.
>> Julianna (06:21):
Thank you. That was, wow, extraordinary.
>> Dave (06:23):
Well done.
>> Julianna (06:24):
Yes, well done. And that accent, boy,
it's m m.
>> Kendall (06:27):
Close in a lot of places.
>> Announcer (06:29):
I do, I do what I can. You know, just Southern
born. Mean no harm.
>> Julianna (06:33):
Yeah. Great. Um,
why don't you give us the Suds ratings for today?
>> Kendall (06:39):
Okay.
>> Julianna (06:39):
And you can use a Southern accent too, if you want.
>> Kendall (06:41):
I can't Do Alabama. I'll just do my
Tennessee accent.
>> Dave (06:45):
Just play it straight.
>> Kendall (06:47):
All right, uh, we'll be discussing and rating these Alabama
beers with these suds. Ratings, plus our signature
belching sounds. Here are those ratings now. One,
that sucks. Give me anything but an Uncle
Daddy.
Two, Was that a belch or the Auburn fight
song, War Eagle?
>> Julianna (07:08):
Ah.
>> Kendall (07:08):
Uh, or I should say first. Three.
Ah. What, Uh, a relief. We can't possibly be
any more banned in Alabama than we already
are.
And four, a body should really not make that
sound after ingesting some of that white barbecue
sauce. Uh,
(07:30):
and five, listen to that hang time. Give me
another roll
time.
>> Announcer (07:39):
Something you can say in the bedroom, man.
>> Kendall (07:41):
No.
>> Julianna (07:41):
Rude.
>> Dave (07:44):
Okay, well, we're playing to the audience.
>> Julianna (07:47):
Oh, we're. I guess we're playing to something.
Playing.
>> Dave (07:50):
I'm just trying to irritate Mike as much as possible.
>> Julianna (07:53):
Okay, well, that's. That's fair. All
right, let's get into it. So the first
beer of the day is the Gotopia
Juicy IPA. 6.2%
ABV. Uh, this is a tropical. This
tropical IPA is hazy fruit,
forward full bodied, little
creamy, low bitterness,
(08:15):
juicy peach, passion fruit,
and all sorts of a
utopian world of beer bliss.
>> Announcer (08:24):
That's a lot of adjectives in that.
>> Julianna (08:26):
Yeah, and that's not even the full thing.
>> Announcer (08:30):
Um, they know that many words in Alabama.
>> Julianna (08:33):
Apparently.
>> Announcer (08:37):
Banned once again.
>> Julianna (08:39):
So. Okay, as far as
juicy IPAs go.
>> Kendall (08:47):
I mean, this is a beer I could drink a couple of, which I
don't say about a lot of hazies. It's a very light haze even
when you look at it.
>> Julianna (08:54):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (08:54):
You know, it. There's a little bit of haziness there, but it's not
opaque like, you know, something you see from
northeast breweries. And it's just kind of. I think
it's overall pretty drinkable beer.
>> Julianna (09:05):
Would, uh, you. Would you classify this, though, as a
juicy. As a hazy. Juicy. Juicy. Hazy.
>> Dave (09:10):
I don't find it that juicy.
>> Announcer (09:12):
Yeah, agreed.
>> Kendall (09:12):
Not so much. It's kind of like a hazy, juicy light.
>> Dave (09:15):
It's got a little dryness to it. Yeah,
that. That, like, if you're trying to go juicy,
you. You went the wrong way.
>> Announcer (09:22):
You got more crispy with me.
>> Kendall (09:24):
Yeah, yeah. But I think that dryness actually works. That's why
I want more than one of these.
So many of them are too sweet and filling, and it's like I had
one. That's enough, I think.
>> Dave (09:34):
Call it. I think the way they described it, they misrepresent
it. And so, like, if you're trying, like, if you
think you're gonna go get a Julius or
something, this isn't going.
>> Kendall (09:44):
To be like, what's the ABV on this? Because it
feels really 6.2. Okay. So it's pretty even low for an
IPA, right? It's almost. It's almost. I
mean, I get it. IPA sells, but this is really more
of a pale ale.
>> Julianna (09:56):
I was going to say this is pale ale territory.
>> Dave (09:58):
Basically. Very crushable beer.
>> Announcer (10:00):
Very.
>> Kendall (10:01):
Which is not something you see a lot in hazy IPAs
or Alabama.
>> Announcer (10:05):
I could drink this on the water in Alabama, and there's a lot of water and
it's very hot.
>> Kendall (10:08):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (10:09):
And this would be refreshing.
>> Julianna (10:10):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (10:10):
Overall, good beer. And Goat island is actually. It's
crazy how many new breweries are in Alabama that I haven't heard of,
because they're the only ones on our list today that I'm, um, aware
of that actually distribute here in Nashville.
>> Dave (10:21):
There were a few that we. We saw that, like,
we couldn't get everything that was new that we
hadn't heard about. It's like every small town in
north Alabama has their own brewery now, which is.
>> Kendall (10:33):
Yeah, that's kind. That's come a long way from years
ago. If you remember, Alabama and Mississippi were the last
two states to allow home brewing, and you needed home
brewers to get your first professional brewers.
>> Dave (10:43):
I was going to say. I think Alabama has done a lot of work
on the law, the legal side, as far as
their taxes and the. And
also, Alabama does still have quite a few dry
counties. M. But I think they've even cut back.
>> Kendall (10:57):
Yeah, they've. They've done a good job. I mean, compared. If you
compare those two states, which were beer deserts 20 years
ago, Alabama is almost caught up to the rest,
and Mississippi is still where beer goes to die
fair.
>> Julianna (11:09):
And that's just crazy to think about
that.
>> Dave (11:12):
You know, if you've ever been to Mississippi, you want to drink as
much.
>> Kendall (11:15):
As possible while you're there.
>> Julianna (11:19):
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that there's still
dry counties.
>> Announcer (11:24):
There's dry counties here in Tennessee.
>> Julianna (11:26):
Yeah, I know.
>> Dave (11:27):
I mean, honestly, I think the
county where Jack Daniels is made is still.
>> Kendall (11:33):
Yeah, that's a marketing gimmick at this point. Uh, they could
easily go wet. They're never gone. Going to go.
>> Announcer (11:39):
I drive and visit my, uh, mother in law in. In
Arkansas, and about half the state I go through is dry county. So
I got to remember where I can stop to get beer on the.
>> Julianna (11:47):
Way, because Arkansas, too. Okay. I. I Mean,
I'm sorry. I guess I'm just naive and just thinking that
everywhere.
>> Announcer (11:53):
Welcome to the rusty buckle of the Bible Belt.
>> Dave (11:55):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (11:56):
Holy.
>> Dave (11:57):
There are no dry counties in Pennsylvania.
>> Julianna (11:59):
No.
>> Dave (12:00):
What about where the Amish.
>> Announcer (12:01):
Oh, it's Pennsylvania.
>> Dave (12:03):
Well, the Amish don't. Amish don't drink.
>> Julianna (12:05):
Well, just because they don't drink doesn't mean the rest
of the people living there.
>> Announcer (12:10):
They're also not enforcing their beliefs on people that are
not Amish, you know, so they're not voting to prevent
it.
>> Dave (12:16):
Don't see a lot of drunk DUI
buggies, I guess.
>> Julianna (12:20):
Oh, you can go to Lancaster and have, like, plenty of
speakeasies and breweries and
beer and, you know, uh, all sorts of things.
>> Kendall (12:29):
No.
>> Julianna (12:29):
Uh, no.
>> Dave (12:29):
How do we end up back in Pennsylvania?
>> Kendall (12:31):
We always.
>> Julianna (12:34):
Yes.
>> Kendall (12:35):
Yeah. I like this beer.
>> Dave (12:37):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (12:37):
Okay. And what. Shall we rate
it right out of the
gate? Goat Island Brewing in Common Alabama is
going to get a four for their
Gotopia Hazy ipa.
>> Dave (12:50):
Taste the goat.
>> Announcer (12:51):
Is there an island? Are there goats?
>> Dave (12:55):
There are goats.
>> Announcer (12:56):
Are there goats on an island?
>> Kendall (12:58):
I have no idea.
>> Julianna (12:59):
Uh, I don't know.
>> Announcer (13:01):
Is it perhaps an island in the shape of a goat?
>> Dave (13:03):
I have been.
>> Julianna (13:04):
Oh, that would.
>> Dave (13:05):
I've been to Coleman many times.
>> Announcer (13:07):
There's a river.
>> Julianna (13:08):
There's no.
>> Dave (13:09):
There's no go. Uh, there's no island. Maybe there
is. I don't know.
>> Julianna (13:13):
You said you've been there any times.
>> Dave (13:15):
There's a lake. Well, I was a kid. I wasn't
drinking beer then.
>> Julianna (13:19):
Oh, they probably weren't brewing beer then, to be honest.
Where the familia come from? All right, to be continued
in just a minute.
>> Dave (13:27):
I think the people of Coleman have appropriated an
island that may not belong to them.
>> Julianna (13:33):
Welcome, um, back, everyone.
>> Announcer (13:34):
M. Graphical appropriations.
>> Julianna (13:36):
So, right before the break, we were talking
about the Gotopia Juicy ipa.
And that is from Goat Island Brewing Company in Coleman,
Alabama. And we
discovered that there really was.
>> Kendall (13:50):
Or is there's an island in Lake
Martin called Goat island, which is more in central Alabama,
not far from Coleman, but probably an hour or so. But maybe that's
the Goat Island. I don't know. Next time I run into the folks at a beer
fest, I'll ask them.
>> Dave (14:02):
Yeah, they need. They have some explaining to do.
>> Announcer (14:05):
There's nothing on their website about it, so, you know, I would figure
at least nothing I could find.
>> Dave (14:11):
Okay, that really gets my goat.
>> Julianna (14:14):
Does it now?
>> Dave (14:15):
Yes.
>> Julianna (14:16):
Okay. All right, well, we're going to
move on. We're going to go to the next
beer and the Next beer is
from Main Channel Brewing Company in.
Did we say Guntersville? Guntersville.
>> Kendall (14:30):
I'm going with Guntersville.
>> Announcer (14:32):
There's your Alabama.
>> Julianna (14:34):
And this is a Matias salad.
>> Dave (14:36):
Gunnersville.
>> Julianna (14:37):
Okay.
>> Kendall (14:37):
Probably.
>> Julianna (14:38):
This is a Dunkle Weiss.
And honestly, that's kind of impressive for
me.
>> Announcer (14:44):
Is there a large German population in Alabama?
>> Julianna (14:47):
Well, I'm wondering. Um,
so looking on the website for this brewery, they
do have, like, an assortment of, like,
Amber Dunkle Kolsch,
um, American wheat,
Dry Irish stout, you know, so, like, they
don't seem too far off the beaten path
(15:08):
when it comes to, like, beer styles, but good for them.
Um, but they have a Chardonnay and
a red Zinfandel, too, from
Alabama Wine Country, I guess. Is that
a. Is that a thing?
>> Dave (15:21):
Sure.
>> Julianna (15:22):
So, anyways, this dunkle is
5.8% ABV,
um, dark German wheat Ale. That's perfect for
any occasion.
>> Dave (15:32):
I like this beer.
>> Kendall (15:34):
Wow.
>> Dave (15:35):
Roast beer a lot.
>> Kendall (15:36):
Yeah. I mean, so many Dunklevice are like, can
be banana bombs, and that's the way I've described a lot of them.
Yeah, you get that banana like you do in a hefights, and. But,
um, I described this as a, like, kind of liquid banana
bread. But this is really subtle
in those notes from the yeast.
>> Julianna (15:52):
Okay. And for the uneducated that don't know what
a Dunkleweiss is,
it's similar to.
>> Kendall (15:59):
Hefeweizen, but you're putting in a little dark grains
to give it a little more roasty flavor, a little more, um,
just color and overall complexity.
So very similar flavors, but, you
know.
>> Dave (16:10):
A little bit darker, more chocolatey.
>> Kendall (16:12):
More chocolatey, more darker.
>> Julianna (16:14):
And for those that aren't fans of Weeders, this is a
nice graduated version,
if you will, of it.
>> Dave (16:21):
Um, there's nothing like, to
Kendall's point, this is a very subtly
flavored beer, you know?
>> Kendall (16:28):
Yeah. It's really drinkable.
>> Julianna (16:30):
It's got a nice creaminess to it, too, you
know? Yeah. This is a good flavor, and the color is
nice. I mean. Okay, we didn't really say
what to go with that last beer, but, I mean, in the grand scheme
of things, a Juicy IPA is a Juicy ipa. I mean, we know all
day what to do with that. What would you pair with
this?
>> Kendall (16:49):
I think this would go great with a burger. I mean,
and I love darker beers with grilled meat.
Grilled, you know, red meat.
>> Announcer (16:57):
I said give me a brat, give me a sausage,
Anything like that.
>> Dave (17:00):
Uh, fatty. Yeah.
>> Announcer (17:01):
I'm saying maybe even boil the broad in it afterwards.
>> Julianna (17:04):
Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Totally, totally.
>> Dave (17:10):
Just a very pleasant. Like. I'm not a huge fan of wheat
beers for the most part, but
the German styles, usually they handle the
wheat pretty well. But this is.
>> Kendall (17:20):
I'm just generally not a fan of the dunkleweiss. It's a weird style
that I don't think, you know, a lot of people in America drink regularly.
Yeah, this is a good one. A lot of them are kind of over the
top in those yeast derived clove and
banana flavors. But this one is, like I said, it's. It's
very. Those are gentle in here and it's just really, really
drinkable.
>> Announcer (17:39):
I always feel like most of the dunkles that I get are just a
bunch of dark extract poured in and
syrupy sweetness left over at the end. This
is decidedly not that.
>> Julianna (17:50):
And honestly, I. I just don't see a lot of jungles,
like to even.
>> Dave (17:54):
Yeah. Uh, because m. A lot of people don't want to drink it.
>> Julianna (17:56):
Yeah. I mean, even to like try it and say, okay, I'm
gonna go with something today that I don't, you know, normally
gravitate towards, but for the sake
of being a lover of beer and going to, you know.
>> Dave (18:08):
So this is.
>> Julianna (18:08):
Yeah.
>> Dave (18:09):
I mean, you go to some of those German,
like, uh, true German, like beer
hall breweries that are around,
but you get it. But then, um,
a lot of times if you want to go to this, the beer store or something,
you have to get one that's from Germany. And then they're
usually old, very old, sitting there for
(18:29):
freaking ever because nobody likes them. And then when you taste
it, it tastes like crap. And that's why, you know,
so, yeah, share.
>> Julianna (18:36):
And. And then you're like, ah, I'm never gonna do it again.
Okay, so what do we think of this
beer then?
>> Dave (18:44):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (18:45):
Yeah. Hey, look at that. Okay,
strong start, Alabama. Yeah. So the Dunkleweiss from
Main Channel Brewing in Guntersville, Alabama, we
are going to rate a four.
>> Dave (18:56):
Uh,
the best part about this so far to me is that
Mike always emails the breweries
to let them know that they're product man on the show. So now he's going to
send very nice emails to all
these Alabama breweries
to tell them how happy is that
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their product was featured on our show.
>> Julianna (19:18):
Yeah. Okay.
>> Dave (19:20):
Shake my hips just a little bit more.
>> Kendall (19:25):
Wow.
>> Julianna (19:26):
Yeah. Wow. Okay, next
up. And this I'm gonna say before
anything, I do like the website on this. I
do like what the guys are doing and I know
websites don't necessarily mean anything, but I can
appreciate a good Website
where they really give you some good
details about their beer rotation that they
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have.
>> Dave (19:49):
Okay. You want to just knock stuff around.
>> Julianna (19:51):
I do knock it around. Okay. So this is from Common
Bond brewers in Montgomery, Alabama.
>> Dave (19:56):
Okay.
>> Julianna (19:57):
And this is a Ramber Red
Amber ale. Say that 10 times fast. Roll
Tide or not.
5.2% ABV.
Full flavored yet highly
sessionable. It's a rye grain
Amber ale. Has a multi backbone with
a hint of sweetness, balanced with a clean hop profile. And
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look at this. It pairs well with pizza,
barbecue chicken and garlic bread.
>> Kendall (20:24):
This we can see that.
>> Announcer (20:26):
Is that an Alabama M staple like that, that meal goes
together.
>> Dave (20:30):
I'm pretty sure garlic bread was either invented in
Italy or Alabama or the
other fair. The two. Yeah. When I first
tasted this, I swear I thought it tasted like sweet
tea.
>> Announcer (20:43):
I was thinking something similar. Like there
was a tea like. Yeah, taste there. That
really strange.
>> Dave (20:49):
It's not a bad thing.
>> Kendall (20:50):
A little. Yeah. It's almost like a little herbal
tannic flavor.
>> Dave (20:54):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (20:54):
And it's like. Yeah, that is interesting. And it's. I'm uh,
starting to really dig it.
>> Dave (20:58):
And because it has that sweetness on the
backside when it's. It's like not
Milo's.
>> Announcer (21:05):
Is that the rye?
>> Julianna (21:07):
Well, that's what I was wondering because you know,
normally when one drinks a red
ale, you're not getting
a huge amount of spice.
>> Kendall (21:16):
Mhm.
>> Julianna (21:17):
I mean rye is not the main
component. When I think of a red. Right, right.
>> Kendall (21:23):
At all.
>> Announcer (21:24):
And most reds that I've had with rye I hate
just for this is not that.
>> Julianna (21:29):
Yeah, yeah.
>> Kendall (21:30):
And it's that it's got an earthiness. I wonder. Um, I'm.
What I. You know, I'm just wild guess here. But I'm wondering if
they use something. Some kind of English hops too. Because it's
not hopped like it's got an American hops in it.
>> Julianna (21:41):
No, they are using Willamette.
>> Kendall (21:43):
Okay. So American hops with
an English background. Yeah, they were derived from. So
yeah, Willamettes. Yeah, that makes sense.
>> Dave (21:53):
I uh. Yeah. I don't know.
>> Announcer (21:56):
I mean it tastes good.
>> Dave (21:57):
It is. It is very good. Yeah.
>> Kendall (21:59):
Really good.
>> Dave (22:00):
Strange.
>> Kendall (22:01):
The most interesting amber I've had because.
>> Dave (22:03):
Like some of these, you. They'll
have like a little bit of roastiness sometimes,
you know, but like this is not that either. This
is just a tea beer. Yeah.
>> Kendall (22:14):
Yeah. And there's a little sweetness on the finish, but it works. And
it's not overly sweet. It's just it, it is,
it's just there. And like you said, it it is almost like a
sweet tea.
>> Julianna (22:24):
And what I. Another thing that I really
like about this brewery
is they're not doing anything
crazy. Like, I mean, their. Their
seasonal offerings are like a wheat, a
shady and a, uh, Mexican lager.
Okay, fine. Yep. For. For Alabama, like for
that weather. Sure. Those are like perfect summer
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offerings. Right. But for their year
round offerings, it's the
amber, the stout, the blonde, the pale
ale, um, in a session IPA
and like a. And they have
tastes good. Do
you think so? Wow. And then they have
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like a. A little bit more of, um, a.
They have a different ipa. So like, they're
not experimenting and going hog wild, you know,
like, they're not in Southern grist territory when it comes to
beer. Um, but this is.
This is another one that's kind of surprised me.
>> Dave (23:24):
I. I feel like things are going too well.
>> Announcer (23:27):
Same.
>> Kendall (23:28):
We've got to take a turn here because.
>> Announcer (23:30):
Yeah.
>> Dave (23:30):
Yeah, this is almost like that.
>> Kendall (23:33):
Although I will say most breweries encountered
in Alabama make pretty solid beer.
>> Dave (23:38):
Yeah, I think, I think Alabama.
>> Kendall (23:41):
They generally do a good job.
>> Dave (23:42):
I think there's a good brewing culture in
Alabama and maybe that's because it took longer
for it to develop. But then also
I think they have pretty good water there too.
So I'm.
>> Announcer (23:55):
Well, there's certainly a lot of it.
>> Dave (23:56):
Sure.
>> Announcer (23:57):
A lot of limestone and everything else.
>> Dave (24:00):
At some point, pretty soon, the next
couple beers, either Kendall or Drew, and
you guys can fight it out. Who should. One of
you is gonna have to channel your inner mic
and hate. And hate on a beer.
>> Julianna (24:14):
And hate on a beer.
>> Announcer (24:15):
I was ready for it to be this one with the name.
>> Julianna (24:17):
Sure.
>> Announcer (24:17):
Rainbow Red Amber Ale.
>> Dave (24:19):
Yeah. Which.
>> Kendall (24:20):
Yeah, it's a good one.
>> Julianna (24:22):
There's. I mean, there's a lot that rolls off the tongue there. Yeah.
But, um, this is really.
>> Dave (24:28):
I. I mean, it's another winner.
>> Julianna (24:31):
It really, it really is. And for a
Red, like, that's even blowing me away
even more because I don't know about you guys,
but to me a Red is a misfit toy out
of a lot of the beer styles that we have.
>> Dave (24:44):
You know, we rarely cover them because people
rarely make them.
>> Julianna (24:48):
You know, or if they do make them, they're just
so bad.
>> Dave (24:53):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (24:54):
You know, it's like they weren't even trying. But
I mean, cheers to these guys. This is.
Wow.
>> Dave (25:00):
Like they bought up some extra
caramel malt or something. They're like crap now. What are we gonna
do?
>> Julianna (25:07):
But, but still. But this is. I mean, this is
great. Okay, so what shall we
rate this. Oh, my gosh. We
are three for three, folks. So from
Common Bond brewers in Montgomery, the
Ramber Red Amber
Ale cannot say that fast. We are going
to rate a four.
>> Dave (25:28):
Well, it's Alabama. You're not supposed to say it fast.
>> Announcer (25:30):
I said you got to get down into the draw. Get it out.
>> Dave (25:33):
Rambur.
>> Julianna (25:38):
I'm sorry.
>> Announcer (25:39):
To Pennsylvania.
>> Dave (25:40):
I can't. All right, we're gonna story
time.
>> Julianna (25:43):
Yes, I think it's time for story time.
>> Dave (25:45):
Who's got story time?
>> Julianna (25:48):
So Drew's got story time.
Sweet. Tell us m a story from the.
>> Announcer (25:53):
BBC news and Anna Fagi
as I'm.
>> Dave (25:57):
Going to pronounce good old Anna Fagi.
>> Announcer (25:59):
Earrings worth $769,500
recovered by Florida police after alleged thief
swallows them.
>> Dave (26:06):
Um, Talk about a crappy job.
>> Announcer (26:11):
Jason Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co.
Diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26
February. Police said Mr. Gilbert was monitored
by detectives at an Orlando hospital for
more than a dozen days before the earrings were
expelled from his system. According to the
Orlando PD, Mr. Gilder faces charges of
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robbery with a mask and grand theft in the first degree.
Tiffany's has since cleaned the
earrings.
>> Dave (26:37):
I. Do you have to. Do they have
to sell those on a discount? Because that's
like, you know, if you buy a house that someone was
murdered in it, you know, like, okay,
these earrings were
pooped by Mr. By a.
>> Announcer (26:54):
32 year old man who posed as an assistant
to an NBA player so he could be shown very high end
jewelry in a VIP room at a Tiffany &
Co. Store in Orlando.
>> Dave (27:04):
Hey, I work for Steph Curry. And, uh, he's thinking
about some new earrings. And, uh, you
know, what do you got? What do you got to show me? I'd like something
less than a million over
500k, you know?
>> Announcer (27:19):
Supposedly, Mr. Glider distracted the store employees and then
ran from the store with two pairs of earrings. He apparently also dropped
a diamond ring valued at
$587,000.
>> Julianna (27:28):
What?
>> Announcer (27:29):
As he fled.
>> Dave (27:30):
How do they not. How did they not have people
with guns pointed at anyone, like
anyone who is going to have, especially in
Florida, couple million dollars of jewelry, just. Oh,
yeah, yeah, that's fine.
>> Announcer (27:43):
When officers caught up with him later that day, they saw him swallowing
several objects believed to be the stolen earrings.
Officials transporting him to the jail allegedly heard him say, I should have
thrown them out the window. At the
jail, the perpetrator allegedly asked the
staff, am I going to be charged with what's in my
stomach
showing? Once again, uh, what else was in
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there?
>> Julianna (28:07):
Yeah, right.
>> Announcer (28:08):
Florida has the smartest criminals.
>> Dave (28:10):
Yes. Yes. Am I
gonna be charged with what's in my stomach?
>> Announcer (28:16):
Wow. Plausible deniability out the window there.
>> Dave (28:19):
And I like how the story
included, uh,
um, an image of the actual.
>> Announcer (28:26):
The X ray.
>> Dave (28:27):
The X ray where the earrings were inside that young
man.
>> Announcer (28:31):
Indeed. Um, his alleged criminal history
shows a 2022 robbery at a Tiffany & Co. Store in
Texas. So he's done this before?
>> Dave (28:38):
It worked then. Well. Well, I guess it didn't work then. If
he got arrested then.
>> Announcer (28:42):
And there are 48 separate warrants out for his arrest in
Colorado.
>> Dave (28:45):
48.
>> Julianna (28:47):
Wow.
>> Kendall (28:48):
Interesting. This is a special person.
>> Announcer (28:50):
Indeed.
>> Dave (28:51):
What do you have to do to get warrants in Colorado? I mean, they
pretty much allow anything. It's wild west out
there. Literally.
>> Julianna (28:59):
Uh, wow. That's.
>> Dave (29:02):
I mean, weeds, legal. You know,
you kind of do whatever you want in Colorado.
>> Julianna (29:08):
I mean, I. I guess.
I don't know. That's.
>> Announcer (29:14):
You know, crime doesn't pay.
>> Julianna (29:18):
Um, That's. That's. Yeah.
>> Dave (29:20):
You are what you eat.
>> Announcer (29:22):
I don't know.
>> Julianna (29:24):
That's.
>> Dave (29:25):
Hey, he's a shiny diamond.
>> Announcer (29:29):
Maybe a crazy diamond.
>> Kendall (29:31):
Yeah.
>> Dave (29:31):
Shine on, you crazy diamond. Yeah, I like that. Well
played. I don't know, man.
Like, what's, uh, the weirdest thing you
guys. Oh, wait, Juliana, you work at an or.
Oh, what's the weirdest stuff? You've ever had to
wait for somebody.
>> Announcer (29:46):
To, uh, evacuate, Monitor
their.
>> Dave (29:50):
Have you had to monitor, uh, someone's
evacuations over a period of days?
>> Julianna (29:55):
Well, I think I told you
the story.
Um, okay, this is many years ago.
It's like when I first started, when I first moved down here.
>> Dave (30:07):
One time at band camp.
>> Julianna (30:08):
Yeah, one time at band camp. Um, so
in the beginning, I used to work second shift. And second
shift was great because, you know, usually people would
come home from work and then look at. You know,
like, I'd look at you funny and then, you know, start a
little fight with you. Or I. I'd
be sitting on the back porch or the front
(30:29):
porch, reading the Bible, you know, contemplating
the day and
praising the fact that I live through the day. And then,
you know, start a fight or somebody hit me or something like that.
But this particular evening,
which was a weekend, I believe there was
a drug deal that was going down with crack.
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And so dealer
met the guy. There was an exchange,
but there was a fight over money. And,
um, somebody called the cops.
And then people fled.
Well, the dealer must
have given the sample
to said buyer. Like, hey, you gotta try
(31:12):
this. This is great. You know, and there was a
discrepancy as to how good the
stuff crack is.
>> Dave (31:19):
Subpar, sir.
>> Julianna (31:20):
Right. Well, anyways, the dealer
wanted to protect his position. I mean, his earnings.
Right. So what does one person do?
Well, as he was fleeing, he
decided somehow that he was going to
store the pipe
and. Bless you. Um,
(31:41):
and some more of his stuff, his stash, somewhere
within him. Okay. Well, in the
meantime, the police wanted to
stop him, so they, you know,
they hit him.
>> Announcer (31:53):
Um, this pipe was glass, I presume?
>> Julianna (31:56):
Yes, it was glass. Yes, it was glass. Um,
so they shot at him and, you know, got him in the
leg and got him in the belly. Nothing too bad. But anyways,
he came to the hospital and, you know, we
worked on him. At the end of the case, we
needed to do an X ray on him. And,
um, that's where you found. There was
something on the X ray that didn't look
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normal.
So I'm gonna finish this after the
break. Welcome
back, everyone. Today is
a road tripping episode where good old boy Dave and I
went to Alabama to do some beer shopping.
And right before the break, we were having
a little story time and an extended story time, and
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I was talking about what I encountered one
night at work at a fine hospital
in the fine city that I live in currently.
So the X ray. Yeah.
So the X ray was done and there was something there that shouldn't
have been there. And the surgeon asked his resident
to pull it out, to
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take extract, to feel,
uh, for something and do a
examination.
>> Dave (33:09):
Whoa.
>> Julianna (33:09):
In the southern regions like
Alabama.
And when that resident did,
um.
>> Dave (33:18):
Did the resident have very small hands?
>> Julianna (33:21):
Uh, anyways,
when they were reaching.
Extracting and extracting, they
extracted a pipe.
>> Kendall (33:32):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (33:33):
That apparently was still lit at the time
of insertion.
>> Kendall (33:37):
Oh, wow.
>> Julianna (33:38):
As well as two bags of.
>> Dave (33:40):
That's another way to smoke crack.
>> Julianna (33:42):
So, yes, I've heard of boofing
before. That person then had
to. I mean, when that happened,
that person ended up getting another procedure
because of things that were
adhering that shouldn't have been adhering.
>> Dave (33:58):
Oh, it was hot and it stuck to them.
>> Julianna (33:59):
Exactly.
>> Dave (34:00):
Okay, okay, okay.
>> Announcer (34:01):
Let's get back to the beer.
>> Kendall (34:03):
Yeah, I can't.
>> Dave (34:03):
No, yeah, you. You took way too much, uh,
of have our live.
>> Announcer (34:08):
That's an interesting segue for Tuscaloosa.
>> Julianna (34:12):
Yeah. Okay.
>> Kendall (34:13):
Roll Tide.
>> Julianna (34:14):
So let's go on to our next beer. This is from Druid City
Brewing in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it's called Neon
moon. It is 4.9 ABV.
It is a Berliner Weiss with raspberry and
mango.
>> Dave (34:27):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (34:28):
Cease and desist scent. M. Or I think this is the
one.
>> Dave (34:31):
This is the one.
>> Kendall (34:32):
It's not. Yeah, it's. I wouldn't want much of
this. The raspberry tastes like they just put a little
raspberry extract in there. Tastes a little fake. Syrupy
almost.
>> Dave (34:41):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (34:42):
But.
>> Announcer (34:42):
Yep.
>> Kendall (34:43):
Yeah, I bet this. Honestly, I bet they sell a lot of
it, but I. Yeah, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't want.
>> Dave (34:49):
We're saving a can of this for Mike.
>> Julianna (34:51):
Would you think that maybe this is a little bit of a
girly beer if I have to like, you know what I mean?
>> Kendall (34:57):
I hate to say that, but. Yeah, that's what I mean. It kind of
college sells well. Yeah. That the people who don't like
beer drink this.
>> Dave (35:03):
Right. This would go well with the seltzer
crowd.
>> Kendall (35:08):
It's so light, it almost tastes like one. It's a
super light beer. The Berliner Vice is weird because,
uh, a name. Because it's not really that tart.
And, um.
>> Julianna (35:18):
And on a Berliner, you would expect.
>> Kendall (35:20):
A little more tartness. Might make this better, actually.
>> Julianna (35:22):
Right. I mean, don't you expect there to be tartness
and then you add a syrup to.
>> Announcer (35:27):
But then again, we were saying this is probably a beer for people who
don't like beer and they don't know what to expect.
>> Julianna (35:33):
Okay. I mean, that's.
>> Dave (35:34):
Yeah, I think they were looking.
>> Announcer (35:36):
Of the neon moon.
>> Dave (35:36):
I think they were looking for a light, fruity style to
appeal to the, you know, cheerleaders.
So I don't know. What do you guys think about this?
Uh, yeah. Yeah.
>> Julianna (35:47):
Yeah. Okay. I am sorry, Tuscaloosa,
but the Druid City Brewing Companies,
Raspberry Mango, Berliner Weiss, we are
going to rate a 2.
>> Dave (35:58):
I'm sure their other beers are lovely.
>> Julianna (36:01):
Yeah, Yeah.
>> Dave (36:02):
I. I mean, just make them available in Huntsville.
Where are we going to buy beer?
>> Julianna (36:07):
Yeah. Okay, Moving on
then. Let's go to Red Clay
Brewing in
Opelika.
>> Dave (36:16):
Opelika.
>> Julianna (36:17):
Opelika.
>> Announcer (36:17):
Opelika.
>> Dave (36:18):
Okay. Alabama.
>> Julianna (36:20):
Okay. Thank you. So this is the
Mira Dutch Courage
Pilsner.
>> Announcer (36:26):
This is almost a Florida in Alabama, isn't it?
Yeah, Stream Southern, pretty much.
>> Dave (36:33):
This is an odd, uh, tasting beer.
>> Kendall (36:35):
There's something weird on the
kind of the malt finish on this. Yeah, it's
like, very grainy or bready.
>> Announcer (36:45):
There's. There's a medicinal ish kind of note
to it as well. That is, um, almost like an
underberg. Like, I was on the front end or like. Or
Maybe that's herbal.
>> Kendall (36:55):
You know, that could be. And it could be from the German
hops, that little. Those notes. But still, it's just
like it feels out of balance.
>> Dave (37:03):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (37:04):
What makes it Dutch courage? Like, is it
gin? You know, so that's what I keep wondering. Like,
I, uh, believe that was a saying that came up and say you. You drink a bunch
of gin in. In old England, and it gave you Dutch
courage.
>> Julianna (37:17):
Well, this beer, which is 5%
ABV, it's a pilsner with juniper
berries, lemon peel, star anise, orange
peel, coriander, uh, cardamom,
and black pepper.
>> Kendall (37:30):
Wow. Okay, so now, considering all that's in
it. Yeah, I see what they're doing with it.
>> Julianna (37:34):
The term Dutch courage
originated in the 17th century when Dutch
sailors were given Genevieve, the ancestor to
Jin, to bolster their courage in
preparation for battle. This
pilsner is red clay's tribute to
that wonderful spirit and made with juniper
berries and other botanicals.
>> Dave (37:56):
Okay, that makes a lot more sense.
>> Kendall (37:57):
Um, now. Yeah. Like, if you
know the story behind it, then. Then. Then the beer is.
>> Announcer (38:03):
They've achieved it.
>> Kendall (38:04):
Yeah, they nailed it. Um, so I like
what they're doing with it.
>> Dave (38:08):
It does bring to mind, Jennifer, if.
>> Kendall (38:10):
This was just a pilsner, I'd go this. There's something weird. There's something wrong with
this. But, yeah, you put all that in, it's like, oh, okay.
>> Dave (38:15):
Until you hear the story of Dutch courage.
>> Kendall (38:18):
Right.
>> Dave (38:18):
This beer is infected. But now that
it's, you know, it's actually pretty
well crafted beer, and I do enjoy the
flavor.
>> Announcer (38:28):
Kudos for, um, you know, going out on a
limb.
>> Dave (38:31):
Kudos for having some Dutch courage, getting out there, making something.
>> Announcer (38:34):
How drunk were you when you came up with this idea?
>> Kendall (38:36):
I also don't know if I drink a lot of these same. I could drink a
pint. It's. Yeah, it's interesting beer.
>> Dave (38:41):
Would you pair this with something like food?
>> Julianna (38:43):
Yeah. What would you pair?
>> Kendall (38:44):
And it would be hard with those notes.
>> Announcer (38:47):
Um, give me a cheese board, you know, maybe
some, um. Just maybe some charcuterie, you know.
>> Kendall (38:52):
Yeah.
>> Dave (38:53):
Just to kind of. Kind of balance it out and.
>> Announcer (38:55):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (38:55):
Nice. And what you think? Yeah.
Okay. Well, we are going
to rate Mira.
>> Dave (39:04):
Dutch courage pilsner
from Regley.
I don't have a good Dutch accent.
>> Julianna (39:13):
We are going to rate this A3.
>> Announcer (39:15):
I don't think you're wearing enough orange when you're not tall enough.
>> Dave (39:18):
Fair.
>> Julianna (39:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
>> Dave (39:21):
Only two kinds of people. I don't.
>> Julianna (39:23):
So the next one is gonna be
Interesting. Again, this is from Red Clay Brewing
Company, and I'm gonna
say a little piece here for a second about this website.
>> Dave (39:36):
Say your piece.
>> Julianna (39:37):
Their website is painful.
>> Dave (39:39):
Doo doo.
>> Julianna (39:40):
Um, yeah, because it doesn't give a list
of beer that they have on tap or, like, rotational
or anything like that. And it's constantly. It would
constantly ask me for if I'm 21 or not.
Like, you would click the 21 and then it would, like, a minute
later refresh and ask me again and ask me again. And I finally
just, like, gave up.
>> Announcer (39:58):
I'm like, sure,
yeah.
>> Julianna (40:01):
Okay. I am in spades.
So this is 7% ABV. This is
their Southern take on an American IPA.
The IPA is hop forward with notes of pine and
citrus. The light multi flavor
accentuates the Amarillo Citra and Simcoe
hops, making it an IPA lover's
dream.
(40:23):
Okay, so Amarillo Citra
Simco, a
fairly classic. Yeah, but
isn't this. But when I hear those
things, doesn't it lean a little bit
more towards the west?
>> Kendall (40:40):
Yeah, it's a. It's. It's in the style of the West Coast. I don't know
if there is a Southern style ipa. I've been thinking about that. If.
If I was going to say there is a standard for
a Southern ipa, it's got to be Sweetwater
ipa.
>> Dave (40:52):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (40:52):
It's just such a good beer. But even that is very west.
>> Dave (40:55):
It's kind of West Coast.
>> Kendall (40:56):
Yeah, it's still West Coasty.
>> Announcer (40:59):
I think we actually talked about on this show before whether or not there
was. Should be called a Southern style ipa.
>> Kendall (41:04):
Um, but it's
okay. I feel like it needs a little more
malt and body to stand up to the. The hops we've
got. It feels a little. A little thin to me.
And it's. It's an okay beer, but what's the.
>> Dave (41:18):
ABV on this one?
>> Julianna (41:19):
Uh, seven.
>> Dave (41:21):
Yeah. It doesn't come up.
>> Julianna (41:23):
Doesn't taste like I was gonna say, does it taste 7?
>> Kendall (41:26):
It needs a little more. It needs, you
know.
>> Dave (41:29):
Yeah, there's a reason. I mean, it's,
It's.
>> Kendall (41:32):
We used to put more caramel, uh,
malts in our IPAs.
>> Dave (41:36):
Give it a little more.
>> Kendall (41:37):
Give it a little more.
>> Dave (41:38):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (41:38):
Um, well, sure.
>> Julianna (41:39):
Because if you're adding all of those hops in, I
mean, and if you get a lot of alpha
E, you know, sharpness, you want a
good strong.
>> Dave (41:49):
I don't even get.
>> Julianna (41:49):
But do you get. Do you even get the
sharpness of the hops?
>> Dave (41:53):
I don't Even get a lot of the. I don't get a lot of
anything. Yeah.
>> Kendall (41:57):
Um, it's.
>> Dave (41:59):
This almost reminds me of like a
session if. When somebody makes a session version of
their.
>> Kendall (42:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It kind of does have that.
>> Dave (42:08):
Like this drinks like a 4.2%.
>> Kendall (42:11):
Yeah. It needs a little work. It's not a
terrible beer, but it needs. It needs some tweaking.
>> Announcer (42:16):
It needs to warm up a little bit too.
>> Julianna (42:19):
Okay, fair.
>> Announcer (42:20):
I'm getting a little. I'm getting a little more of the hops. Now that
I've.
>> Dave (42:24):
Yeah, now that you've cuddled
it.
>> Julianna (42:28):
No,
um.
>> Dave (42:32):
Hey, good old boy Drew's a cuddler.
>> Kendall (42:34):
It's pretty drinkable, though, which
I guess.
>> Announcer (42:37):
If you're trying to sell a lot of it is kind of the goal.
>> Kendall (42:39):
Right, Right.
>> Julianna (42:40):
So if you didn't.
>> Dave (42:42):
I guess if you want to drink a lot of a 6 or
7% beer that tastes like a 4% beer and
just get hammered.
>> Announcer (42:48):
Have you been in Alabama? Oh, that's right.
No.
>> Dave (42:53):
Alabama's in me.
>> Julianna (42:55):
Wow. Okay, that's.
Thanks.
Well, I mean, in the. In the. In the grand scheme of
things, what would you.
I. I guess if I didn't
classify it, you know what I mean? If I just grabbed it and said,
hey, this is an ipa, I'd be okay.
>> Dave (43:17):
Is there a style that. It is.
>> Kendall (43:18):
It's more of a pale ale. Yeah, it really does remind me
more of a pale ale.
>> Julianna (43:23):
Yeah, that's. That's fair.
>> Announcer (43:24):
I think it probably is a victim of
marketing, you know, say, hey, what IPAs do you have?
>> Dave (43:30):
I'd say it's a small mid coast. Or was it
third coast ipa? I don't
even think. I don't think it's even fully, uh,
west coast.
>> Announcer (43:39):
To me, it doesn't remind me of the. What I would call the quote
unquote, third coast IPAs. Like two hearted, you know,
if you will. Like, you know, there's no centennial in this.
>> Dave (43:48):
Don't get like, any. A whole bunch of pine or.
No, no.
>> Julianna (43:52):
And that's what they're saying in part of the description.
>> Dave (43:55):
Right? So, like. Yeah.
>> Julianna (43:56):
Where is it?
>> Dave (43:57):
Where'd you put it?
>> Julianna (43:57):
Yeah, it's hiding.
>> Dave (43:59):
Uh, yeah, it's in the sixth can of
each six pack.
>> Announcer (44:03):
It's that. It's that Alabama Yellow Pie.
>> Dave (44:06):
Five. Okay. Beers. You get that sixth one,
man, it.
>> Julianna (44:09):
Comes out kapow in spades.
>> Dave (44:12):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (44:13):
Yeah. Okay. All right, Fair. So
not terrible, though. What shall we rate the
Southern style ipa? Yep. Okay.
We are going to go with a three from Red
clay.
>> Dave (44:26):
They're lucky good old boy Mike's not on this show.
>> Julianna (44:29):
Okay, well, last but certainly not
least, we're going to Braided River Brewing in
Mobile, Alabama. And this is their
Boom Boom Pale ale.
>> Kendall (44:41):
M. I like this one.
>> Julianna (44:43):
So this is your day drinking Marty
Gro Companion.
>> Kendall (44:47):
This is.
>> Dave (44:48):
Wow.
>> Kendall (44:48):
It's just a pale alum. You know, this is. When
I said the last one was a pale ale, I was wanting more like
this, this one's got a little.
>> Dave (44:56):
This one has more flavor.
>> Kendall (44:58):
It does the last one. Yeah.
>> Julianna (45:00):
Okay, so this is 5.3% ABV.
>> Dave (45:03):
Tastes like more like almost
2% less alcohol, but
tastes like it has more. Way more, uh, flavor. Yeah. And this
is, and it's got some body to it.
>> Kendall (45:13):
This, this is a pale ale that's a homage
to Sierra Nevadas, like everybody else's pale
ale. This is a classic American pale ale. And they didn't
try to lighten it up or. I mean, that color is like
almost, you know, a little bit orange.
>> Julianna (45:27):
Mhm.
>> Kendall (45:27):
This is a very standard old school American
pale.
>> Dave (45:31):
Alex, that comes through to you. Like, how
would you describe the aroma?
There's a certain part of the aroma.
I, I can't name it, but
it.
>> Kendall (45:49):
It'S a little bit of pininess. I mean, little bit of.
That's, uh, what it is, but it's not. You don't get that dankness you
get out of a lot of the big west hops, but a little bit of
pininess overall, maybe that's what
I'm.
>> Julianna (46:01):
Do you get any piss?
>> Kendall (46:03):
No piss.
>> Dave (46:04):
No piss.
>> Kendall (46:05):
I'm getting a little more malt off the aroma than even.
>> Announcer (46:08):
Yes.
>> Kendall (46:08):
Hops.
>> Julianna (46:09):
It's okay.
>> Kendall (46:10):
You're getting that, uh, little, this
is definitely slightly grainy sweetiness you do
from caramel.
>> Dave (46:17):
Yeah, I think that's what I'm picking. Is that caramel.
>> Julianna (46:20):
Okay, well, the reason why I'm asking about pithiness is
so in their description, they say
immobilization folly rules.
Only here does folly ever beat death. And this pale
ale is an ode to the revelry and fun of Mardi
Gras. This day drinker balances a creamy malt
base with hop flavors of grapefruit, oak
and coconut. Our town was born to
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celebrate. And when the parade starts rolling, it's time to take me
to the Boom Boom.
>> Announcer (46:46):
I get the grapefruit.
>> Kendall (46:47):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (46:47):
100.
>> Kendall (46:48):
Yeah. Which is pretty standard.
>> Announcer (46:50):
Yeah.
>> Dave (46:51):
I think what, what hops did they say they use?
>> Julianna (46:54):
Doesn't.
>> Dave (46:55):
Because there's, you know, there's a couple of Hops that are where you can
get a little coconut out of it. But I don't know that
I'm.
>> Kendall (47:02):
Yeah, there's one that starts with an S. I can't remember now.
I bought. I bought a bunch of it. Strata. Is it Strata? That
has a very coconut flavor.
>> Julianna (47:10):
I thought Strata was the strawberry.
>> Dave (47:11):
No, no, uh, Velma.
>> Julianna (47:14):
Velma is strawberry. Okay.
>> Dave (47:15):
Something like that.
>> Julianna (47:16):
Okay, gotcha.
>> Announcer (47:16):
I think you might be right. Uh, I think it might be Strato.
>> Kendall (47:19):
But I've brewed
beers with only strata, and I don't get a lot of
coconut out of it. But people tell me you're getting a
lot of coconut, and I just didn't. Yeah, I'm not getting a lot of coconut
out of this, but this is. I don't expect coconut in an
American Pale Ale. You know, you want pine and grapefruit
and caramel. That's it. That's what this beer has.
>> Dave (47:39):
Dag Nabbit. So enjoy
being good.
>> Announcer (47:43):
Boom Boom boom.
>> Kendall (47:44):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (47:45):
Boom boom. Um, okay.
>> Dave (47:47):
Kendall likes you. That's enough.
>> Announcer (47:48):
He wants you in his room.
>> Dave (47:51):
Whoa.
>> Julianna (47:53):
I do like the camera.
>> Kendall (47:55):
It is cool.
>> Julianna (47:56):
I mean, it's got a very Mardi Gras, uh, E
themed thing going on. Yeah.
>> Kendall (48:01):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (48:02):
So what are we thinking about the
boom boom?
>> Dave (48:06):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (48:06):
Yeah, yeah. Huh.
Okay, so from Braided River Brewing in
Mobile, Alabama, we are gonna go with
the A. Uh, four.
>> Dave (48:17):
Uh, sorry, I pulled the trailer.
>> Julianna (48:18):
I know you did this fine for the boom boom American Pale
Ale.
>> Dave (48:21):
What are you guys thinking overall of the, uh, the
flight in general?
>> Kendall (48:25):
It was a good flight. I mean, we had more force than I thought. I
mean, the majority of the beers were four, so. Good job,
Alabama.
>> Announcer (48:31):
I'm considering going to Alabama. And not just through
it. Like. Like, I might actually make a beer
trip, you know, around Alabama.
>> Dave (48:39):
Nice.
>> Julianna (48:40):
Like, wow.
>> Dave (48:41):
Wow.
>> Julianna (48:42):
I mean, crazy, right? Uh, okay, well,
that is gonna do it for today.
Go to by Kendall. Thanks so much for being on
this journey.
>> Kendall (48:51):
It was great. It was nice to sample a lot of new Alabama
beer.
>> Dave (48:54):
Cool.
>> Julianna (48:55):
Please tell us about your blog.
>> Kendall (48:56):
My wife and I blog about the good news of good
beer@beermakes3.com.
>> Julianna (48:59):
Hi, Juice. Good old boy,
Drew. Thanks so much for being here.
>> Announcer (49:05):
It was a pleasure. Uh, unexpectedly. Would you
like the company?
>> Dave (49:08):
But.
>> Announcer (49:09):
No, no, I'm good.
>> Dave (49:10):
I'm, um.
>> Julianna (49:10):
Good. Good old boy, Dave.
>> Announcer (49:13):
Moist M. Moist
M. Perhaps I should plug
Dave's mouth.
>> Julianna (49:20):
Right. This is good.
>> Dave (49:21):
Okay, that'll be done after you leave.
>> Julianna (49:23):
Keep on chuggling and we'll catch you next time.
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>> Dave (50:37):
Um.
>> Announcer (50:59):
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host, the good old boys. We'll see you all next time.
On the next episode of Sips, Suds and
Smokes.
The Alabama craft beer we'll be tasting and
discussing today are from Goat Island Brewing
in Coleman, Alabama, the Gotopia Hazy
IPA from Main Channel Brewing Company in
Guntersville, Alabama. I'm assuming
Guntersville Dunkelweisse. From Common Bond
brewers in Montgomery, Alabama, the Ramber Red
(00:23):
Amber Ale. From Druid City Brewing Company in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Raspberry
Mango Berliner Weisse. That sounds very
Tuscaloosa.
>> Dave (00:31):
Neon Moon. Sorry, I left that out. Sorry.
Neon Moon, Raspberry Mango.
>> Announcer (00:36):
This makes the pot thickens.
>> Dave (00:38):
Yes.
>> Announcer (00:39):
From Red Clay Brewing Company in Opelika,
Alabama, the Murra Dutch Courage Pilsner. And
the RCB Southern Style
IPA from Braided River Brewing in Mobile,
Alabama, the Boom Boom American Pale Ale.
We'll be right back after this break.
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Brought to you almost live from the dude in the
Basement studios. Why? Because that's where the
good stuff is. It sips suds and
smokes with your smoke and host the good old
boys.
>> Dave (01:49):
Suds.
>> Kendall (01:50):
Suds.
>> Announcer (01:51):
Suds. Uh, it's time for more
suds.
>> Julianna (01:56):
Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone, to
another suds segment where we all believe.
Believe that all people are created
equal. But all beer,
no, not so much. I gotta draw the line there. I don't know
about you guys. Well, I'm one of your hosts
today, Juliana, and joining me at the
(02:17):
table is good old boy Kendall.
>> Kendall (02:19):
It's a pleasure to be here. I'm looking forward to today.
>> Julianna (02:22):
Nice to see you, good old boy
Drew. Hello.
>> Announcer (02:26):
Hello. How are you today?
>> Julianna (02:28):
I'm, um, good. How are you?
>> Announcer (02:31):
I'm slightly apprehensive after that intro
about, you know, not all beer is created equal.
But, you know, we'll. We'll see what we get
to fair.
>> Julianna (02:40):
Fair. Good boy Dave.
>> Dave (02:43):
God almighty.
>> Julianna (02:44):
I'm not part of this. Oh,
yes, you are.
How are you?
>> Dave (02:51):
I'm good. I'm getting ready to use this button a
lot.
>> Announcer (02:54):
Banned. Once again.
>> Dave (02:58):
Even though Mike's not here.
>> Julianna (03:00):
Um. Is that the shape of things to come?
>> Dave (03:01):
I think so.
>> Julianna (03:02):
We shall see. So recently,
good ol boy Dave and I took a trip to
Pennsylvania.
>> Announcer (03:10):
No.
>> Julianna (03:10):
No. I know what you're thinking, and no,
we actually went somewhere instead of
Pennsylvania.
>> Dave (03:18):
I didn't know there were places other than Pennsylvania that our car
could drive to.
>> Julianna (03:24):
Who said it was our car?
>> Dave (03:25):
All roads lead to Pennsylvania.
>> Julianna (03:27):
All roads in my heart. Yes. Lead to pa.
Well, we went in the opposite direction and
did a little beer shopping in. Wait for
it, Alabama.
>> Kendall (03:39):
Uh, Roll Tide.
>> Announcer (03:40):
Oh, God, what was
that?
>> Julianna (03:48):
No, Are you trying to lose the fine people at
our table?
>> Kendall (03:52):
Roll Tide.
>> Julianna (03:53):
That's just wrong.
>> Announcer (03:54):
I don't know what's worse, what he's saying or that it's a,
uh, electronic like robot voice. You.
>> Julianna (03:59):
I know it sounds like freaking AI.
>> Dave (04:02):
Little known fact, abused Stephen Hawking was
a, uh, Bama fan. Crimson
Tide. Yeah, there
you go.
>> Julianna (04:12):
Now, as long time fans of the
show will know, and we know there's a couple of you
here, good old boy Mike has been banned from
stepping foot into Alabama for several years now. Oh, uh,
it was a whole big thing. I won't go into all the details,
but apparently there's an actual limit on how many
jokes you can make about dating your sister there.
(04:32):
And he exceeded that
in spades.
So. Good ol boy Dave is, well,
half Alabamian on my father's
side. Yeah. We decided to see what's
happening there recently. And craft beer.
>> Dave (04:49):
That's why I've got those summer teeth, you know, some are
missing, some are crooked.
>> Julianna (04:57):
Wow.
>> Announcer (04:57):
Okay, brother. Daddy pop you the train.
>> Dave (04:59):
Yep.
>> Julianna (05:00):
Okay.
>> Dave (05:00):
Coat.
>> Julianna (05:01):
Avoid brew. Why don't you give us today's lineup?
>> Announcer (05:03):
The Alabama craft beer we'll be tasting and
discussing today are
from Goat Island Brewing in Coleman, Alabama, the
Goatopia Hazy ipa. From Main
Channel Brewing Company in Guntersville,
Alabama. I'm assuming Guntersville
Dunkelweisser. Uh, from Common Bond brewers
in Montgomery, Alabama, the Rambur Red Amber
(05:25):
Ale. From Druid City Brewing Company
in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Rain
Raspberry Mango. Berliner Visa. That sounds
very Tuscaloosa.
>> Dave (05:35):
It's Neon Moon. Sorry, I'm, uh, sorry.
Neon Raspberry Mango.
>> Announcer (05:40):
This makes. This makes the pot thickens.
>> Dave (05:43):
Yes.
>> Announcer (05:43):
From Red Clay Brewing Company in Opelika,
Alabama, the Murray Dutch Courage Pilsner and
the RCB Southern Style
ipa.
>> Dave (05:52):
Southern Style.
>> Announcer (05:53):
And then from Braided River Brewing in Mobile, Alabama,
the Boom Boom American Pale Ale Boom
Boom.
>> Dave (06:00):
Not to be convinced. With the Boom Boom.
>> Announcer (06:05):
I want you in my room so we can
go boom boom, boom boom.
Brother. Daddy.
>> Dave (06:12):
This show just took a very dark turn.
>> Kendall (06:15):
It usually does about this one.
>> Julianna (06:17):
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't take long.
>> Dave (06:19):
Kind of surprised it took that long. Yeah.
>> Julianna (06:21):
Thank you. That was, wow, extraordinary.
>> Dave (06:23):
Well done.
>> Julianna (06:24):
Yes, well done. And that accent, boy,
it's m m.
>> Kendall (06:27):
Close in a lot of places.
>> Announcer (06:29):
I do, I do what I can. You know, just Southern
born. Mean no harm.
>> Julianna (06:33):
Yeah. Great. Um,
why don't you give us the Suds ratings for today?
>> Kendall (06:39):
Okay.
>> Julianna (06:39):
And you can use a Southern accent too, if you want.
>> Kendall (06:41):
I can't Do Alabama. I'll just do my
Tennessee accent.
>> Dave (06:45):
Just play it straight.
>> Kendall (06:47):
All right, uh, we'll be discussing and rating these Alabama
beers with these suds. Ratings, plus our signature
belching sounds. Here are those ratings now. One,
that sucks. Give me anything but an Uncle
Daddy.
Two, Was that a belch or the Auburn fight
song, War Eagle?
>> Julianna (07:08):
Ah.
>> Kendall (07:08):
Uh, or I should say first. Three.
Ah. What, Uh, a relief. We can't possibly be
any more banned in Alabama than we already
are.
And four, a body should really not make that
sound after ingesting some of that white barbecue
sauce. Uh,
(07:30):
and five, listen to that hang time. Give me
another roll
time.
>> Announcer (07:39):
Something you can say in the bedroom, man.
>> Kendall (07:41):
No.
>> Julianna (07:41):
Rude.
>> Dave (07:44):
Okay, well, we're playing to the audience.
>> Julianna (07:47):
Oh, we're. I guess we're playing to something.
Playing.
>> Dave (07:50):
I'm just trying to irritate Mike as much as possible.
>> Julianna (07:53):
Okay, well, that's. That's fair. All
right, let's get into it. So the first
beer of the day is the Gotopia
Juicy IPA. 6.2%
ABV. Uh, this is a tropical. This
tropical IPA is hazy fruit,
forward full bodied, little
creamy, low bitterness,
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juicy peach, passion fruit,
and all sorts of a
utopian world of beer bliss.
>> Announcer (08:24):
That's a lot of adjectives in that.
>> Julianna (08:26):
Yeah, and that's not even the full thing.
>> Announcer (08:30):
Um, they know that many words in Alabama.
>> Julianna (08:33):
Apparently.
>> Announcer (08:37):
Banned once again.
>> Julianna (08:39):
So. Okay, as far as
juicy IPAs go.
>> Kendall (08:47):
I mean, this is a beer I could drink a couple of, which I
don't say about a lot of hazies. It's a very light haze even
when you look at it.
>> Julianna (08:54):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (08:54):
You know, it. There's a little bit of haziness there, but it's not
opaque like, you know, something you see from
northeast breweries. And it's just kind of. I think
it's overall pretty drinkable beer.
>> Julianna (09:05):
Would, uh, you. Would you classify this, though, as a
juicy. As a hazy. Juicy. Juicy. Hazy.
>> Dave (09:10):
I don't find it that juicy.
>> Announcer (09:12):
Yeah, agreed.
>> Kendall (09:12):
Not so much. It's kind of like a hazy, juicy light.
>> Dave (09:15):
It's got a little dryness to it. Yeah,
that. That, like, if you're trying to go juicy,
you. You went the wrong way.
>> Announcer (09:22):
You got more crispy with me.
>> Kendall (09:24):
Yeah, yeah. But I think that dryness actually works. That's why
I want more than one of these.
So many of them are too sweet and filling, and it's like I had
one. That's enough, I think.
>> Dave (09:34):
Call it. I think the way they described it, they misrepresent
it. And so, like, if you're trying, like, if you
think you're gonna go get a Julius or
something, this isn't going.
>> Kendall (09:44):
To be like, what's the ABV on this? Because it
feels really 6.2. Okay. So it's pretty even low for an
IPA, right? It's almost. It's almost. I
mean, I get it. IPA sells, but this is really more
of a pale ale.
>> Julianna (09:56):
I was going to say this is pale ale territory.
>> Dave (09:58):
Basically. Very crushable beer.
>> Announcer (10:00):
Very.
>> Kendall (10:01):
Which is not something you see a lot in hazy IPAs
or Alabama.
>> Announcer (10:05):
I could drink this on the water in Alabama, and there's a lot of water and
it's very hot.
>> Kendall (10:08):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (10:09):
And this would be refreshing.
>> Julianna (10:10):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (10:10):
Overall, good beer. And Goat island is actually. It's
crazy how many new breweries are in Alabama that I haven't heard of,
because they're the only ones on our list today that I'm, um, aware
of that actually distribute here in Nashville.
>> Dave (10:21):
There were a few that we. We saw that, like,
we couldn't get everything that was new that we
hadn't heard about. It's like every small town in
north Alabama has their own brewery now, which is.
>> Kendall (10:33):
Yeah, that's kind. That's come a long way from years
ago. If you remember, Alabama and Mississippi were the last
two states to allow home brewing, and you needed home
brewers to get your first professional brewers.
>> Dave (10:43):
I was going to say. I think Alabama has done a lot of work
on the law, the legal side, as far as
their taxes and the. And
also, Alabama does still have quite a few dry
counties. M. But I think they've even cut back.
>> Kendall (10:57):
Yeah, they've. They've done a good job. I mean, compared. If you
compare those two states, which were beer deserts 20 years
ago, Alabama is almost caught up to the rest,
and Mississippi is still where beer goes to die
fair.
>> Julianna (11:09):
And that's just crazy to think about
that.
>> Dave (11:12):
You know, if you've ever been to Mississippi, you want to drink as
much.
>> Kendall (11:15):
As possible while you're there.
>> Julianna (11:19):
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that there's still
dry counties.
>> Announcer (11:24):
There's dry counties here in Tennessee.
>> Julianna (11:26):
Yeah, I know.
>> Dave (11:27):
I mean, honestly, I think the
county where Jack Daniels is made is still.
>> Kendall (11:33):
Yeah, that's a marketing gimmick at this point. Uh, they could
easily go wet. They're never gone. Going to go.
>> Announcer (11:39):
I drive and visit my, uh, mother in law in. In
Arkansas, and about half the state I go through is dry county. So
I got to remember where I can stop to get beer on the.
>> Julianna (11:47):
Way, because Arkansas, too. Okay. I. I Mean,
I'm sorry. I guess I'm just naive and just thinking that
everywhere.
>> Announcer (11:53):
Welcome to the rusty buckle of the Bible Belt.
>> Dave (11:55):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (11:56):
Holy.
>> Dave (11:57):
There are no dry counties in Pennsylvania.
>> Julianna (11:59):
No.
>> Dave (12:00):
What about where the Amish.
>> Announcer (12:01):
Oh, it's Pennsylvania.
>> Dave (12:03):
Well, the Amish don't. Amish don't drink.
>> Julianna (12:05):
Well, just because they don't drink doesn't mean the rest
of the people living there.
>> Announcer (12:10):
They're also not enforcing their beliefs on people that are
not Amish, you know, so they're not voting to prevent
it.
>> Dave (12:16):
Don't see a lot of drunk DUI
buggies, I guess.
>> Julianna (12:20):
Oh, you can go to Lancaster and have, like, plenty of
speakeasies and breweries and
beer and, you know, uh, all sorts of things.
>> Kendall (12:29):
No.
>> Julianna (12:29):
Uh, no.
>> Dave (12:29):
How do we end up back in Pennsylvania?
>> Kendall (12:31):
We always.
>> Julianna (12:34):
Yes.
>> Kendall (12:35):
Yeah. I like this beer.
>> Dave (12:37):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (12:37):
Okay. And what. Shall we rate
it right out of the
gate? Goat Island Brewing in Common Alabama is
going to get a four for their
Gotopia Hazy ipa.
>> Dave (12:50):
Taste the goat.
>> Announcer (12:51):
Is there an island? Are there goats?
>> Dave (12:55):
There are goats.
>> Announcer (12:56):
Are there goats on an island?
>> Kendall (12:58):
I have no idea.
>> Julianna (12:59):
Uh, I don't know.
>> Announcer (13:01):
Is it perhaps an island in the shape of a goat?
>> Dave (13:03):
I have been.
>> Julianna (13:04):
Oh, that would.
>> Dave (13:05):
I've been to Coleman many times.
>> Announcer (13:07):
There's a river.
>> Julianna (13:08):
There's no.
>> Dave (13:09):
There's no go. Uh, there's no island. Maybe there
is. I don't know.
>> Julianna (13:13):
You said you've been there any times.
>> Dave (13:15):
There's a lake. Well, I was a kid. I wasn't
drinking beer then.
>> Julianna (13:19):
Oh, they probably weren't brewing beer then, to be honest.
Where the familia come from? All right, to be continued
in just a minute.
>> Dave (13:27):
I think the people of Coleman have appropriated an
island that may not belong to them.
>> Julianna (13:33):
Welcome, um, back, everyone.
>> Announcer (13:34):
M. Graphical appropriations.
>> Julianna (13:36):
So, right before the break, we were talking
about the Gotopia Juicy ipa.
And that is from Goat Island Brewing Company in Coleman,
Alabama. And we
discovered that there really was.
>> Kendall (13:50):
Or is there's an island in Lake
Martin called Goat island, which is more in central Alabama,
not far from Coleman, but probably an hour or so. But maybe that's
the Goat Island. I don't know. Next time I run into the folks at a beer
fest, I'll ask them.
>> Dave (14:02):
Yeah, they need. They have some explaining to do.
>> Announcer (14:05):
There's nothing on their website about it, so, you know, I would figure
at least nothing I could find.
>> Dave (14:11):
Okay, that really gets my goat.
>> Julianna (14:14):
Does it now?
>> Dave (14:15):
Yes.
>> Julianna (14:16):
Okay. All right, well, we're going to
move on. We're going to go to the next
beer and the Next beer is
from Main Channel Brewing Company in.
Did we say Guntersville? Guntersville.
>> Kendall (14:30):
I'm going with Guntersville.
>> Announcer (14:32):
There's your Alabama.
>> Julianna (14:34):
And this is a Matias salad.
>> Dave (14:36):
Gunnersville.
>> Julianna (14:37):
Okay.
>> Kendall (14:37):
Probably.
>> Julianna (14:38):
This is a Dunkle Weiss.
And honestly, that's kind of impressive for
me.
>> Announcer (14:44):
Is there a large German population in Alabama?
>> Julianna (14:47):
Well, I'm wondering. Um,
so looking on the website for this brewery, they
do have, like, an assortment of, like,
Amber Dunkle Kolsch,
um, American wheat,
Dry Irish stout, you know, so, like, they
don't seem too far off the beaten path
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when it comes to, like, beer styles, but good for them.
Um, but they have a Chardonnay and
a red Zinfandel, too, from
Alabama Wine Country, I guess. Is that
a. Is that a thing?
>> Dave (15:21):
Sure.
>> Julianna (15:22):
So, anyways, this dunkle is
5.8% ABV,
um, dark German wheat Ale. That's perfect for
any occasion.
>> Dave (15:32):
I like this beer.
>> Kendall (15:34):
Wow.
>> Dave (15:35):
Roast beer a lot.
>> Kendall (15:36):
Yeah. I mean, so many Dunklevice are like, can
be banana bombs, and that's the way I've described a lot of them.
Yeah, you get that banana like you do in a hefights, and. But,
um, I described this as a, like, kind of liquid banana
bread. But this is really subtle
in those notes from the yeast.
>> Julianna (15:52):
Okay. And for the uneducated that don't know what
a Dunkleweiss is,
it's similar to.
>> Kendall (15:59):
Hefeweizen, but you're putting in a little dark grains
to give it a little more roasty flavor, a little more, um,
just color and overall complexity.
So very similar flavors, but, you
know.
>> Dave (16:10):
A little bit darker, more chocolatey.
>> Kendall (16:12):
More chocolatey, more darker.
>> Julianna (16:14):
And for those that aren't fans of Weeders, this is a
nice graduated version,
if you will, of it.
>> Dave (16:21):
Um, there's nothing like, to
Kendall's point, this is a very subtly
flavored beer, you know?
>> Kendall (16:28):
Yeah. It's really drinkable.
>> Julianna (16:30):
It's got a nice creaminess to it, too, you
know? Yeah. This is a good flavor, and the color is
nice. I mean. Okay, we didn't really say
what to go with that last beer, but, I mean, in the grand scheme
of things, a Juicy IPA is a Juicy ipa. I mean, we know all
day what to do with that. What would you pair with
this?
>> Kendall (16:49):
I think this would go great with a burger. I mean,
and I love darker beers with grilled meat.
Grilled, you know, red meat.
>> Announcer (16:57):
I said give me a brat, give me a sausage,
Anything like that.
>> Dave (17:00):
Uh, fatty. Yeah.
>> Announcer (17:01):
I'm saying maybe even boil the broad in it afterwards.
>> Julianna (17:04):
Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Totally, totally.
>> Dave (17:10):
Just a very pleasant. Like. I'm not a huge fan of wheat
beers for the most part, but
the German styles, usually they handle the
wheat pretty well. But this is.
>> Kendall (17:20):
I'm just generally not a fan of the dunkleweiss. It's a weird style
that I don't think, you know, a lot of people in America drink regularly.
Yeah, this is a good one. A lot of them are kind of over the
top in those yeast derived clove and
banana flavors. But this one is, like I said, it's. It's
very. Those are gentle in here and it's just really, really
drinkable.
>> Announcer (17:39):
I always feel like most of the dunkles that I get are just a
bunch of dark extract poured in and
syrupy sweetness left over at the end. This
is decidedly not that.
>> Julianna (17:50):
And honestly, I. I just don't see a lot of jungles,
like to even.
>> Dave (17:54):
Yeah. Uh, because m. A lot of people don't want to drink it.
>> Julianna (17:56):
Yeah. I mean, even to like try it and say, okay, I'm
gonna go with something today that I don't, you know, normally
gravitate towards, but for the sake
of being a lover of beer and going to, you know.
>> Dave (18:08):
So this is.
>> Julianna (18:08):
Yeah.
>> Dave (18:09):
I mean, you go to some of those German,
like, uh, true German, like beer
hall breweries that are around,
but you get it. But then, um,
a lot of times if you want to go to this, the beer store or something,
you have to get one that's from Germany. And then they're
usually old, very old, sitting there for
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freaking ever because nobody likes them. And then when you taste
it, it tastes like crap. And that's why, you know,
so, yeah, share.
>> Julianna (18:36):
And. And then you're like, ah, I'm never gonna do it again.
Okay, so what do we think of this
beer then?
>> Dave (18:44):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (18:45):
Yeah. Hey, look at that. Okay,
strong start, Alabama. Yeah. So the Dunkleweiss from
Main Channel Brewing in Guntersville, Alabama, we
are going to rate a four.
>> Dave (18:56):
Uh,
the best part about this so far to me is that
Mike always emails the breweries
to let them know that they're product man on the show. So now he's going to
send very nice emails to all
these Alabama breweries
to tell them how happy is that
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their product was featured on our show.
>> Julianna (19:18):
Yeah. Okay.
>> Dave (19:20):
Shake my hips just a little bit more.
>> Kendall (19:25):
Wow.
>> Julianna (19:26):
Yeah. Wow. Okay, next
up. And this I'm gonna say before
anything, I do like the website on this. I
do like what the guys are doing and I know
websites don't necessarily mean anything, but I can
appreciate a good Website
where they really give you some good
details about their beer rotation that they
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have.
>> Dave (19:49):
Okay. You want to just knock stuff around.
>> Julianna (19:51):
I do knock it around. Okay. So this is from Common
Bond brewers in Montgomery, Alabama.
>> Dave (19:56):
Okay.
>> Julianna (19:57):
And this is a Ramber Red
Amber ale. Say that 10 times fast. Roll
Tide or not.
5.2% ABV.
Full flavored yet highly
sessionable. It's a rye grain
Amber ale. Has a multi backbone with
a hint of sweetness, balanced with a clean hop profile. And
(20:18):
look at this. It pairs well with pizza,
barbecue chicken and garlic bread.
>> Kendall (20:24):
This we can see that.
>> Announcer (20:26):
Is that an Alabama M staple like that, that meal goes
together.
>> Dave (20:30):
I'm pretty sure garlic bread was either invented in
Italy or Alabama or the
other fair. The two. Yeah. When I first
tasted this, I swear I thought it tasted like sweet
tea.
>> Announcer (20:43):
I was thinking something similar. Like there
was a tea like. Yeah, taste there. That
really strange.
>> Dave (20:49):
It's not a bad thing.
>> Kendall (20:50):
A little. Yeah. It's almost like a little herbal
tannic flavor.
>> Dave (20:54):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (20:54):
And it's like. Yeah, that is interesting. And it's. I'm uh,
starting to really dig it.
>> Dave (20:58):
And because it has that sweetness on the
backside when it's. It's like not
Milo's.
>> Announcer (21:05):
Is that the rye?
>> Julianna (21:07):
Well, that's what I was wondering because you know,
normally when one drinks a red
ale, you're not getting
a huge amount of spice.
>> Kendall (21:16):
Mhm.
>> Julianna (21:17):
I mean rye is not the main
component. When I think of a red. Right, right.
>> Kendall (21:23):
At all.
>> Announcer (21:24):
And most reds that I've had with rye I hate
just for this is not that.
>> Julianna (21:29):
Yeah, yeah.
>> Kendall (21:30):
And it's that it's got an earthiness. I wonder. Um, I'm.
What I. You know, I'm just wild guess here. But I'm wondering if
they use something. Some kind of English hops too. Because it's
not hopped like it's got an American hops in it.
>> Julianna (21:41):
No, they are using Willamette.
>> Kendall (21:43):
Okay. So American hops with
an English background. Yeah, they were derived from. So
yeah, Willamettes. Yeah, that makes sense.
>> Dave (21:53):
I uh. Yeah. I don't know.
>> Announcer (21:56):
I mean it tastes good.
>> Dave (21:57):
It is. It is very good. Yeah.
>> Kendall (21:59):
Really good.
>> Dave (22:00):
Strange.
>> Kendall (22:01):
The most interesting amber I've had because.
>> Dave (22:03):
Like some of these, you. They'll
have like a little bit of roastiness sometimes,
you know, but like this is not that either. This
is just a tea beer. Yeah.
>> Kendall (22:14):
Yeah. And there's a little sweetness on the finish, but it works. And
it's not overly sweet. It's just it, it is,
it's just there. And like you said, it it is almost like a
sweet tea.
>> Julianna (22:24):
And what I. Another thing that I really
like about this brewery
is they're not doing anything
crazy. Like, I mean, their. Their
seasonal offerings are like a wheat, a
shady and a, uh, Mexican lager.
Okay, fine. Yep. For. For Alabama, like for
that weather. Sure. Those are like perfect summer
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offerings. Right. But for their year
round offerings, it's the
amber, the stout, the blonde, the pale
ale, um, in a session IPA
and like a. And they have
tastes good. Do
you think so? Wow. And then they have
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like a. A little bit more of, um, a.
They have a different ipa. So like, they're
not experimenting and going hog wild, you know,
like, they're not in Southern grist territory when it comes to
beer. Um, but this is.
This is another one that's kind of surprised me.
>> Dave (23:24):
I. I feel like things are going too well.
>> Announcer (23:27):
Same.
>> Kendall (23:28):
We've got to take a turn here because.
>> Announcer (23:30):
Yeah.
>> Dave (23:30):
Yeah, this is almost like that.
>> Kendall (23:33):
Although I will say most breweries encountered
in Alabama make pretty solid beer.
>> Dave (23:38):
Yeah, I think, I think Alabama.
>> Kendall (23:41):
They generally do a good job.
>> Dave (23:42):
I think there's a good brewing culture in
Alabama and maybe that's because it took longer
for it to develop. But then also
I think they have pretty good water there too.
So I'm.
>> Announcer (23:55):
Well, there's certainly a lot of it.
>> Dave (23:56):
Sure.
>> Announcer (23:57):
A lot of limestone and everything else.
>> Dave (24:00):
At some point, pretty soon, the next
couple beers, either Kendall or Drew, and
you guys can fight it out. Who should. One of
you is gonna have to channel your inner mic
and hate. And hate on a beer.
>> Julianna (24:14):
And hate on a beer.
>> Announcer (24:15):
I was ready for it to be this one with the name.
>> Julianna (24:17):
Sure.
>> Announcer (24:17):
Rainbow Red Amber Ale.
>> Dave (24:19):
Yeah. Which.
>> Kendall (24:20):
Yeah, it's a good one.
>> Julianna (24:22):
There's. I mean, there's a lot that rolls off the tongue there. Yeah.
But, um, this is really.
>> Dave (24:28):
I. I mean, it's another winner.
>> Julianna (24:31):
It really, it really is. And for a
Red, like, that's even blowing me away
even more because I don't know about you guys,
but to me a Red is a misfit toy out
of a lot of the beer styles that we have.
>> Dave (24:44):
You know, we rarely cover them because people
rarely make them.
>> Julianna (24:48):
You know, or if they do make them, they're just
so bad.
>> Dave (24:53):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (24:54):
You know, it's like they weren't even trying. But
I mean, cheers to these guys. This is.
Wow.
>> Dave (25:00):
Like they bought up some extra
caramel malt or something. They're like crap now. What are we gonna
do?
>> Julianna (25:07):
But, but still. But this is. I mean, this is
great. Okay, so what shall we
rate this. Oh, my gosh. We
are three for three, folks. So from
Common Bond brewers in Montgomery, the
Ramber Red Amber
Ale cannot say that fast. We are going
to rate a four.
>> Dave (25:28):
Well, it's Alabama. You're not supposed to say it fast.
>> Announcer (25:30):
I said you got to get down into the draw. Get it out.
>> Dave (25:33):
Rambur.
>> Julianna (25:38):
I'm sorry.
>> Announcer (25:39):
To Pennsylvania.
>> Dave (25:40):
I can't. All right, we're gonna story
time.
>> Julianna (25:43):
Yes, I think it's time for story time.
>> Dave (25:45):
Who's got story time?
>> Julianna (25:48):
So Drew's got story time.
Sweet. Tell us m a story from the.
>> Announcer (25:53):
BBC news and Anna Fagi
as I'm.
>> Dave (25:57):
Going to pronounce good old Anna Fagi.
>> Announcer (25:59):
Earrings worth $769,500
recovered by Florida police after alleged thief
swallows them.
>> Dave (26:06):
Um, Talk about a crappy job.
>> Announcer (26:11):
Jason Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co.
Diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26
February. Police said Mr. Gilbert was monitored
by detectives at an Orlando hospital for
more than a dozen days before the earrings were
expelled from his system. According to the
Orlando PD, Mr. Gilder faces charges of
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robbery with a mask and grand theft in the first degree.
Tiffany's has since cleaned the
earrings.
>> Dave (26:37):
I. Do you have to. Do they have
to sell those on a discount? Because that's
like, you know, if you buy a house that someone was
murdered in it, you know, like, okay,
these earrings were
pooped by Mr. By a.
>> Announcer (26:54):
32 year old man who posed as an assistant
to an NBA player so he could be shown very high end
jewelry in a VIP room at a Tiffany &
Co. Store in Orlando.
>> Dave (27:04):
Hey, I work for Steph Curry. And, uh, he's thinking
about some new earrings. And, uh, you
know, what do you got? What do you got to show me? I'd like something
less than a million over
500k, you know?
>> Announcer (27:19):
Supposedly, Mr. Glider distracted the store employees and then
ran from the store with two pairs of earrings. He apparently also dropped
a diamond ring valued at
$587,000.
>> Julianna (27:28):
What?
>> Announcer (27:29):
As he fled.
>> Dave (27:30):
How do they not. How did they not have people
with guns pointed at anyone, like
anyone who is going to have, especially in
Florida, couple million dollars of jewelry, just. Oh,
yeah, yeah, that's fine.
>> Announcer (27:43):
When officers caught up with him later that day, they saw him swallowing
several objects believed to be the stolen earrings.
Officials transporting him to the jail allegedly heard him say, I should have
thrown them out the window. At the
jail, the perpetrator allegedly asked the
staff, am I going to be charged with what's in my
stomach
showing? Once again, uh, what else was in
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there?
>> Julianna (28:07):
Yeah, right.
>> Announcer (28:08):
Florida has the smartest criminals.
>> Dave (28:10):
Yes. Yes. Am I
gonna be charged with what's in my stomach?
>> Announcer (28:16):
Wow. Plausible deniability out the window there.
>> Dave (28:19):
And I like how the story
included, uh,
um, an image of the actual.
>> Announcer (28:26):
The X ray.
>> Dave (28:27):
The X ray where the earrings were inside that young
man.
>> Announcer (28:31):
Indeed. Um, his alleged criminal history
shows a 2022 robbery at a Tiffany & Co. Store in
Texas. So he's done this before?
>> Dave (28:38):
It worked then. Well. Well, I guess it didn't work then. If
he got arrested then.
>> Announcer (28:42):
And there are 48 separate warrants out for his arrest in
Colorado.
>> Dave (28:45):
48.
>> Julianna (28:47):
Wow.
>> Kendall (28:48):
Interesting. This is a special person.
>> Announcer (28:50):
Indeed.
>> Dave (28:51):
What do you have to do to get warrants in Colorado? I mean, they
pretty much allow anything. It's wild west out
there. Literally.
>> Julianna (28:59):
Uh, wow. That's.
>> Dave (29:02):
I mean, weeds, legal. You know,
you kind of do whatever you want in Colorado.
>> Julianna (29:08):
I mean, I. I guess.
I don't know. That's.
>> Announcer (29:14):
You know, crime doesn't pay.
>> Julianna (29:18):
Um, That's. That's. Yeah.
>> Dave (29:20):
You are what you eat.
>> Announcer (29:22):
I don't know.
>> Julianna (29:24):
That's.
>> Dave (29:25):
Hey, he's a shiny diamond.
>> Announcer (29:29):
Maybe a crazy diamond.
>> Kendall (29:31):
Yeah.
>> Dave (29:31):
Shine on, you crazy diamond. Yeah, I like that. Well
played. I don't know, man.
Like, what's, uh, the weirdest thing you
guys. Oh, wait, Juliana, you work at an or.
Oh, what's the weirdest stuff? You've ever had to
wait for somebody.
>> Announcer (29:46):
To, uh, evacuate, Monitor
their.
>> Dave (29:50):
Have you had to monitor, uh, someone's
evacuations over a period of days?
>> Julianna (29:55):
Well, I think I told you
the story.
Um, okay, this is many years ago.
It's like when I first started, when I first moved down here.
>> Dave (30:07):
One time at band camp.
>> Julianna (30:08):
Yeah, one time at band camp. Um, so
in the beginning, I used to work second shift. And second
shift was great because, you know, usually people would
come home from work and then look at. You know,
like, I'd look at you funny and then, you know, start a
little fight with you. Or I. I'd
be sitting on the back porch or the front
(30:29):
porch, reading the Bible, you know, contemplating
the day and
praising the fact that I live through the day. And then,
you know, start a fight or somebody hit me or something like that.
But this particular evening,
which was a weekend, I believe there was
a drug deal that was going down with crack.
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And so dealer
met the guy. There was an exchange,
but there was a fight over money. And,
um, somebody called the cops.
And then people fled.
Well, the dealer must
have given the sample
to said buyer. Like, hey, you gotta try
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this. This is great. You know, and there was a
discrepancy as to how good the
stuff crack is.
>> Dave (31:19):
Subpar, sir.
>> Julianna (31:20):
Right. Well, anyways, the dealer
wanted to protect his position. I mean, his earnings.
Right. So what does one person do?
Well, as he was fleeing, he
decided somehow that he was going to
store the pipe
and. Bless you. Um,
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and some more of his stuff, his stash, somewhere
within him. Okay. Well, in the
meantime, the police wanted to
stop him, so they, you know,
they hit him.
>> Announcer (31:53):
Um, this pipe was glass, I presume?
>> Julianna (31:56):
Yes, it was glass. Yes, it was glass. Um,
so they shot at him and, you know, got him in the
leg and got him in the belly. Nothing too bad. But anyways,
he came to the hospital and, you know, we
worked on him. At the end of the case, we
needed to do an X ray on him. And,
um, that's where you found. There was
something on the X ray that didn't look
(32:18):
normal.
So I'm gonna finish this after the
break. Welcome
back, everyone. Today is
a road tripping episode where good old boy Dave and I
went to Alabama to do some beer shopping.
And right before the break, we were having
a little story time and an extended story time, and
(32:41):
I was talking about what I encountered one
night at work at a fine hospital
in the fine city that I live in currently.
So the X ray. Yeah.
So the X ray was done and there was something there that shouldn't
have been there. And the surgeon asked his resident
to pull it out, to
(33:02):
take extract, to feel,
uh, for something and do a
examination.
>> Dave (33:09):
Whoa.
>> Julianna (33:09):
In the southern regions like
Alabama.
And when that resident did,
um.
>> Dave (33:18):
Did the resident have very small hands?
>> Julianna (33:21):
Uh, anyways,
when they were reaching.
Extracting and extracting, they
extracted a pipe.
>> Kendall (33:32):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (33:33):
That apparently was still lit at the time
of insertion.
>> Kendall (33:37):
Oh, wow.
>> Julianna (33:38):
As well as two bags of.
>> Dave (33:40):
That's another way to smoke crack.
>> Julianna (33:42):
So, yes, I've heard of boofing
before. That person then had
to. I mean, when that happened,
that person ended up getting another procedure
because of things that were
adhering that shouldn't have been adhering.
>> Dave (33:58):
Oh, it was hot and it stuck to them.
>> Julianna (33:59):
Exactly.
>> Dave (34:00):
Okay, okay, okay.
>> Announcer (34:01):
Let's get back to the beer.
>> Kendall (34:03):
Yeah, I can't.
>> Dave (34:03):
No, yeah, you. You took way too much, uh,
of have our live.
>> Announcer (34:08):
That's an interesting segue for Tuscaloosa.
>> Julianna (34:12):
Yeah. Okay.
>> Kendall (34:13):
Roll Tide.
>> Julianna (34:14):
So let's go on to our next beer. This is from Druid City
Brewing in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it's called Neon
moon. It is 4.9 ABV.
It is a Berliner Weiss with raspberry and
mango.
>> Dave (34:27):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (34:28):
Cease and desist scent. M. Or I think this is the
one.
>> Dave (34:31):
This is the one.
>> Kendall (34:32):
It's not. Yeah, it's. I wouldn't want much of
this. The raspberry tastes like they just put a little
raspberry extract in there. Tastes a little fake. Syrupy
almost.
>> Dave (34:41):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (34:42):
But.
>> Announcer (34:42):
Yep.
>> Kendall (34:43):
Yeah, I bet this. Honestly, I bet they sell a lot of
it, but I. Yeah, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't want.
>> Dave (34:49):
We're saving a can of this for Mike.
>> Julianna (34:51):
Would you think that maybe this is a little bit of a
girly beer if I have to like, you know what I mean?
>> Kendall (34:57):
I hate to say that, but. Yeah, that's what I mean. It kind of
college sells well. Yeah. That the people who don't like
beer drink this.
>> Dave (35:03):
Right. This would go well with the seltzer
crowd.
>> Kendall (35:08):
It's so light, it almost tastes like one. It's a
super light beer. The Berliner Vice is weird because,
uh, a name. Because it's not really that tart.
And, um.
>> Julianna (35:18):
And on a Berliner, you would expect.
>> Kendall (35:20):
A little more tartness. Might make this better, actually.
>> Julianna (35:22):
Right. I mean, don't you expect there to be tartness
and then you add a syrup to.
>> Announcer (35:27):
But then again, we were saying this is probably a beer for people who
don't like beer and they don't know what to expect.
>> Julianna (35:33):
Okay. I mean, that's.
>> Dave (35:34):
Yeah, I think they were looking.
>> Announcer (35:36):
Of the neon moon.
>> Dave (35:36):
I think they were looking for a light, fruity style to
appeal to the, you know, cheerleaders.
So I don't know. What do you guys think about this?
Uh, yeah. Yeah.
>> Julianna (35:47):
Yeah. Okay. I am sorry, Tuscaloosa,
but the Druid City Brewing Companies,
Raspberry Mango, Berliner Weiss, we are
going to rate a 2.
>> Dave (35:58):
I'm sure their other beers are lovely.
>> Julianna (36:01):
Yeah, Yeah.
>> Dave (36:02):
I. I mean, just make them available in Huntsville.
Where are we going to buy beer?
>> Julianna (36:07):
Yeah. Okay, Moving on
then. Let's go to Red Clay
Brewing in
Opelika.
>> Dave (36:16):
Opelika.
>> Julianna (36:17):
Opelika.
>> Announcer (36:17):
Opelika.
>> Dave (36:18):
Okay. Alabama.
>> Julianna (36:20):
Okay. Thank you. So this is the
Mira Dutch Courage
Pilsner.
>> Announcer (36:26):
This is almost a Florida in Alabama, isn't it?
Yeah, Stream Southern, pretty much.
>> Dave (36:33):
This is an odd, uh, tasting beer.
>> Kendall (36:35):
There's something weird on the
kind of the malt finish on this. Yeah, it's
like, very grainy or bready.
>> Announcer (36:45):
There's. There's a medicinal ish kind of note
to it as well. That is, um, almost like an
underberg. Like, I was on the front end or like. Or
Maybe that's herbal.
>> Kendall (36:55):
You know, that could be. And it could be from the German
hops, that little. Those notes. But still, it's just
like it feels out of balance.
>> Dave (37:03):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (37:04):
What makes it Dutch courage? Like, is it
gin? You know, so that's what I keep wondering. Like,
I, uh, believe that was a saying that came up and say you. You drink a bunch
of gin in. In old England, and it gave you Dutch
courage.
>> Julianna (37:17):
Well, this beer, which is 5%
ABV, it's a pilsner with juniper
berries, lemon peel, star anise, orange
peel, coriander, uh, cardamom,
and black pepper.
>> Kendall (37:30):
Wow. Okay, so now, considering all that's in
it. Yeah, I see what they're doing with it.
>> Julianna (37:34):
The term Dutch courage
originated in the 17th century when Dutch
sailors were given Genevieve, the ancestor to
Jin, to bolster their courage in
preparation for battle. This
pilsner is red clay's tribute to
that wonderful spirit and made with juniper
berries and other botanicals.
>> Dave (37:56):
Okay, that makes a lot more sense.
>> Kendall (37:57):
Um, now. Yeah. Like, if you
know the story behind it, then. Then. Then the beer is.
>> Announcer (38:03):
They've achieved it.
>> Kendall (38:04):
Yeah, they nailed it. Um, so I like
what they're doing with it.
>> Dave (38:08):
It does bring to mind, Jennifer, if.
>> Kendall (38:10):
This was just a pilsner, I'd go this. There's something weird. There's something wrong with
this. But, yeah, you put all that in, it's like, oh, okay.
>> Dave (38:15):
Until you hear the story of Dutch courage.
>> Kendall (38:18):
Right.
>> Dave (38:18):
This beer is infected. But now that
it's, you know, it's actually pretty
well crafted beer, and I do enjoy the
flavor.
>> Announcer (38:28):
Kudos for, um, you know, going out on a
limb.
>> Dave (38:31):
Kudos for having some Dutch courage, getting out there, making something.
>> Announcer (38:34):
How drunk were you when you came up with this idea?
>> Kendall (38:36):
I also don't know if I drink a lot of these same. I could drink a
pint. It's. Yeah, it's interesting beer.
>> Dave (38:41):
Would you pair this with something like food?
>> Julianna (38:43):
Yeah. What would you pair?
>> Kendall (38:44):
And it would be hard with those notes.
>> Announcer (38:47):
Um, give me a cheese board, you know, maybe
some, um. Just maybe some charcuterie, you know.
>> Kendall (38:52):
Yeah.
>> Dave (38:53):
Just to kind of. Kind of balance it out and.
>> Announcer (38:55):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (38:55):
Nice. And what you think? Yeah.
Okay. Well, we are going
to rate Mira.
>> Dave (39:04):
Dutch courage pilsner
from Regley.
I don't have a good Dutch accent.
>> Julianna (39:13):
We are going to rate this A3.
>> Announcer (39:15):
I don't think you're wearing enough orange when you're not tall enough.
>> Dave (39:18):
Fair.
>> Julianna (39:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
>> Dave (39:21):
Only two kinds of people. I don't.
>> Julianna (39:23):
So the next one is gonna be
Interesting. Again, this is from Red Clay Brewing
Company, and I'm gonna
say a little piece here for a second about this website.
>> Dave (39:36):
Say your piece.
>> Julianna (39:37):
Their website is painful.
>> Dave (39:39):
Doo doo.
>> Julianna (39:40):
Um, yeah, because it doesn't give a list
of beer that they have on tap or, like, rotational
or anything like that. And it's constantly. It would
constantly ask me for if I'm 21 or not.
Like, you would click the 21 and then it would, like, a minute
later refresh and ask me again and ask me again. And I finally
just, like, gave up.
>> Announcer (39:58):
I'm like, sure,
yeah.
>> Julianna (40:01):
Okay. I am in spades.
So this is 7% ABV. This is
their Southern take on an American IPA.
The IPA is hop forward with notes of pine and
citrus. The light multi flavor
accentuates the Amarillo Citra and Simcoe
hops, making it an IPA lover's
dream.
(40:23):
Okay, so Amarillo Citra
Simco, a
fairly classic. Yeah, but
isn't this. But when I hear those
things, doesn't it lean a little bit
more towards the west?
>> Kendall (40:40):
Yeah, it's a. It's. It's in the style of the West Coast. I don't know
if there is a Southern style ipa. I've been thinking about that. If.
If I was going to say there is a standard for
a Southern ipa, it's got to be Sweetwater
ipa.
>> Dave (40:52):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (40:52):
It's just such a good beer. But even that is very west.
>> Dave (40:55):
It's kind of West Coast.
>> Kendall (40:56):
Yeah, it's still West Coasty.
>> Announcer (40:59):
I think we actually talked about on this show before whether or not there
was. Should be called a Southern style ipa.
>> Kendall (41:04):
Um, but it's
okay. I feel like it needs a little more
malt and body to stand up to the. The hops we've
got. It feels a little. A little thin to me.
And it's. It's an okay beer, but what's the.
>> Dave (41:18):
ABV on this one?
>> Julianna (41:19):
Uh, seven.
>> Dave (41:21):
Yeah. It doesn't come up.
>> Julianna (41:23):
Doesn't taste like I was gonna say, does it taste 7?
>> Kendall (41:26):
It needs a little more. It needs, you
know.
>> Dave (41:29):
Yeah, there's a reason. I mean, it's,
It's.
>> Kendall (41:32):
We used to put more caramel, uh,
malts in our IPAs.
>> Dave (41:36):
Give it a little more.
>> Kendall (41:37):
Give it a little more.
>> Dave (41:38):
Yeah.
>> Kendall (41:38):
Um, well, sure.
>> Julianna (41:39):
Because if you're adding all of those hops in, I
mean, and if you get a lot of alpha
E, you know, sharpness, you want a
good strong.
>> Dave (41:49):
I don't even get.
>> Julianna (41:49):
But do you get. Do you even get the
sharpness of the hops?
>> Dave (41:53):
I don't Even get a lot of the. I don't get a lot of
anything. Yeah.
>> Kendall (41:57):
Um, it's.
>> Dave (41:59):
This almost reminds me of like a
session if. When somebody makes a session version of
their.
>> Kendall (42:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It kind of does have that.
>> Dave (42:08):
Like this drinks like a 4.2%.
>> Kendall (42:11):
Yeah. It needs a little work. It's not a
terrible beer, but it needs. It needs some tweaking.
>> Announcer (42:16):
It needs to warm up a little bit too.
>> Julianna (42:19):
Okay, fair.
>> Announcer (42:20):
I'm getting a little. I'm getting a little more of the hops. Now that
I've.
>> Dave (42:24):
Yeah, now that you've cuddled
it.
>> Julianna (42:28):
No,
um.
>> Dave (42:32):
Hey, good old boy Drew's a cuddler.
>> Kendall (42:34):
It's pretty drinkable, though, which
I guess.
>> Announcer (42:37):
If you're trying to sell a lot of it is kind of the goal.
>> Kendall (42:39):
Right, Right.
>> Julianna (42:40):
So if you didn't.
>> Dave (42:42):
I guess if you want to drink a lot of a 6 or
7% beer that tastes like a 4% beer and
just get hammered.
>> Announcer (42:48):
Have you been in Alabama? Oh, that's right.
No.
>> Dave (42:53):
Alabama's in me.
>> Julianna (42:55):
Wow. Okay, that's.
Thanks.
Well, I mean, in the. In the. In the grand scheme of
things, what would you.
I. I guess if I didn't
classify it, you know what I mean? If I just grabbed it and said,
hey, this is an ipa, I'd be okay.
>> Dave (43:17):
Is there a style that. It is.
>> Kendall (43:18):
It's more of a pale ale. Yeah, it really does remind me
more of a pale ale.
>> Julianna (43:23):
Yeah, that's. That's fair.
>> Announcer (43:24):
I think it probably is a victim of
marketing, you know, say, hey, what IPAs do you have?
>> Dave (43:30):
I'd say it's a small mid coast. Or was it
third coast ipa? I don't
even think. I don't think it's even fully, uh,
west coast.
>> Announcer (43:39):
To me, it doesn't remind me of the. What I would call the quote
unquote, third coast IPAs. Like two hearted, you know,
if you will. Like, you know, there's no centennial in this.
>> Dave (43:48):
Don't get like, any. A whole bunch of pine or.
No, no.
>> Julianna (43:52):
And that's what they're saying in part of the description.
>> Dave (43:55):
Right? So, like. Yeah.
>> Julianna (43:56):
Where is it?
>> Dave (43:57):
Where'd you put it?
>> Julianna (43:57):
Yeah, it's hiding.
>> Dave (43:59):
Uh, yeah, it's in the sixth can of
each six pack.
>> Announcer (44:03):
It's that. It's that Alabama Yellow Pie.
>> Dave (44:06):
Five. Okay. Beers. You get that sixth one,
man, it.
>> Julianna (44:09):
Comes out kapow in spades.
>> Dave (44:12):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (44:13):
Yeah. Okay. All right, Fair. So
not terrible, though. What shall we rate the
Southern style ipa? Yep. Okay.
We are going to go with a three from Red
clay.
>> Dave (44:26):
They're lucky good old boy Mike's not on this show.
>> Julianna (44:29):
Okay, well, last but certainly not
least, we're going to Braided River Brewing in
Mobile, Alabama. And this is their
Boom Boom Pale ale.
>> Kendall (44:41):
M. I like this one.
>> Julianna (44:43):
So this is your day drinking Marty
Gro Companion.
>> Kendall (44:47):
This is.
>> Dave (44:48):
Wow.
>> Kendall (44:48):
It's just a pale alum. You know, this is. When
I said the last one was a pale ale, I was wanting more like
this, this one's got a little.
>> Dave (44:56):
This one has more flavor.
>> Kendall (44:58):
It does the last one. Yeah.
>> Julianna (45:00):
Okay, so this is 5.3% ABV.
>> Dave (45:03):
Tastes like more like almost
2% less alcohol, but
tastes like it has more. Way more, uh, flavor. Yeah. And this
is, and it's got some body to it.
>> Kendall (45:13):
This, this is a pale ale that's a homage
to Sierra Nevadas, like everybody else's pale
ale. This is a classic American pale ale. And they didn't
try to lighten it up or. I mean, that color is like
almost, you know, a little bit orange.
>> Julianna (45:27):
Mhm.
>> Kendall (45:27):
This is a very standard old school American
pale.
>> Dave (45:31):
Alex, that comes through to you. Like, how
would you describe the aroma?
There's a certain part of the aroma.
I, I can't name it, but
it.
>> Kendall (45:49):
It'S a little bit of pininess. I mean, little bit of.
That's, uh, what it is, but it's not. You don't get that dankness you
get out of a lot of the big west hops, but a little bit of
pininess overall, maybe that's what
I'm.
>> Julianna (46:01):
Do you get any piss?
>> Kendall (46:03):
No piss.
>> Dave (46:04):
No piss.
>> Kendall (46:05):
I'm getting a little more malt off the aroma than even.
>> Announcer (46:08):
Yes.
>> Kendall (46:08):
Hops.
>> Julianna (46:09):
It's okay.
>> Kendall (46:10):
You're getting that, uh, little, this
is definitely slightly grainy sweetiness you do
from caramel.
>> Dave (46:17):
Yeah, I think that's what I'm picking. Is that caramel.
>> Julianna (46:20):
Okay, well, the reason why I'm asking about pithiness is
so in their description, they say
immobilization folly rules.
Only here does folly ever beat death. And this pale
ale is an ode to the revelry and fun of Mardi
Gras. This day drinker balances a creamy malt
base with hop flavors of grapefruit, oak
and coconut. Our town was born to
(46:41):
celebrate. And when the parade starts rolling, it's time to take me
to the Boom Boom.
>> Announcer (46:46):
I get the grapefruit.
>> Kendall (46:47):
Yeah.
>> Announcer (46:47):
100.
>> Kendall (46:48):
Yeah. Which is pretty standard.
>> Announcer (46:50):
Yeah.
>> Dave (46:51):
I think what, what hops did they say they use?
>> Julianna (46:54):
Doesn't.
>> Dave (46:55):
Because there's, you know, there's a couple of Hops that are where you can
get a little coconut out of it. But I don't know that
I'm.
>> Kendall (47:02):
Yeah, there's one that starts with an S. I can't remember now.
I bought. I bought a bunch of it. Strata. Is it Strata? That
has a very coconut flavor.
>> Julianna (47:10):
I thought Strata was the strawberry.
>> Dave (47:11):
No, no, uh, Velma.
>> Julianna (47:14):
Velma is strawberry. Okay.
>> Dave (47:15):
Something like that.
>> Julianna (47:16):
Okay, gotcha.
>> Announcer (47:16):
I think you might be right. Uh, I think it might be Strato.
>> Kendall (47:19):
But I've brewed
beers with only strata, and I don't get a lot of
coconut out of it. But people tell me you're getting a
lot of coconut, and I just didn't. Yeah, I'm not getting a lot of coconut
out of this, but this is. I don't expect coconut in an
American Pale Ale. You know, you want pine and grapefruit
and caramel. That's it. That's what this beer has.
>> Dave (47:39):
Dag Nabbit. So enjoy
being good.
>> Announcer (47:43):
Boom Boom boom.
>> Kendall (47:44):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (47:45):
Boom boom. Um, okay.
>> Dave (47:47):
Kendall likes you. That's enough.
>> Announcer (47:48):
He wants you in his room.
>> Dave (47:51):
Whoa.
>> Julianna (47:53):
I do like the camera.
>> Kendall (47:55):
It is cool.
>> Julianna (47:56):
I mean, it's got a very Mardi Gras, uh, E
themed thing going on. Yeah.
>> Kendall (48:01):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (48:02):
So what are we thinking about the
boom boom?
>> Dave (48:06):
Yeah.
>> Julianna (48:06):
Yeah, yeah. Huh.
Okay, so from Braided River Brewing in
Mobile, Alabama, we are gonna go with
the A. Uh, four.
>> Dave (48:17):
Uh, sorry, I pulled the trailer.
>> Julianna (48:18):
I know you did this fine for the boom boom American Pale
Ale.
>> Dave (48:21):
What are you guys thinking overall of the, uh, the
flight in general?
>> Kendall (48:25):
It was a good flight. I mean, we had more force than I thought. I
mean, the majority of the beers were four, so. Good job,
Alabama.
>> Announcer (48:31):
I'm considering going to Alabama. And not just through
it. Like. Like, I might actually make a beer
trip, you know, around Alabama.
>> Dave (48:39):
Nice.
>> Julianna (48:40):
Like, wow.
>> Dave (48:41):
Wow.
>> Julianna (48:42):
I mean, crazy, right? Uh, okay, well,
that is gonna do it for today.
Go to by Kendall. Thanks so much for being on
this journey.
>> Kendall (48:51):
It was great. It was nice to sample a lot of new Alabama
beer.
>> Dave (48:54):
Cool.
>> Julianna (48:55):
Please tell us about your blog.
>> Kendall (48:56):
My wife and I blog about the good news of good
beer@beermakes3.com.
>> Julianna (48:59):
Hi, Juice. Good old boy,
Drew. Thanks so much for being here.
>> Announcer (49:05):
It was a pleasure. Uh, unexpectedly. Would you
like the company?
>> Dave (49:08):
But.
>> Announcer (49:09):
No, no, I'm good.
>> Dave (49:10):
I'm, um.
>> Julianna (49:10):
Good. Good old boy, Dave.
>> Announcer (49:13):
Moist M. Moist
M. Perhaps I should plug
Dave's mouth.
>> Julianna (49:20):
Right. This is good.
>> Dave (49:21):
Okay, that'll be done after you leave.
>> Julianna (49:23):
Keep on chuggling and we'll catch you next time.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.