WEBVTT 00:00:05.478 --> 00:00:10.381 Welcome to Craft Beer Radio, episode 509, take two, August 4th, 00:00:10.381 --> 00:00:12.482 2023. I'm Shannon. I'm Jeff. And I'm Greg. Hi. 00:00:12.482 --> 00:00:13.123 Hello. 00:00:13.123 --> 00:00:13.803 We are back. 00:00:20.268 --> 00:00:24.330 We did a show, but it got eaten by the computer. 00:00:24.330 --> 00:00:24.710 Yes. 00:00:24.710 --> 00:00:30.274 So we're, we have a backup recording this time, and we're both fresh back from 00:00:30.274 --> 00:00:36.798 vacations and tonight's going to be a haul of mostly hoppy stuff that we brought back from 00:00:36.818 --> 00:00:42.142 New England because we went to like the heart of hazy IPAville. 00:00:42.623 --> 00:00:48.267 Okay so that should be interesting to see then what we get back if it's all 00:00:48.267 --> 00:00:51.289 going to be IPAs or if there's going to be some mixture of some stuff. 00:00:52.090 --> 00:00:53.191 We have one mixture. 00:00:54.002 --> 00:00:55.072 One one mixture. 00:00:56.093 --> 00:00:59.676 Maybe I'll call an audible later on. Oh and we're We're using a different mic setup tonight. 00:00:59.676 --> 00:01:03.459 Yes. We're using lav mics. We're doing an attempt here. 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:09.236 And I'd be curious to see if this is any better. I mean, it sounds a little 00:01:09.236 --> 00:01:12.765 bit weirder for us, but this is before any of the audio post-processing. 00:01:13.416 --> 00:01:15.547 So we'll see. 00:01:15.908 --> 00:01:19.730 All right. So we are going to start with a brewery. 00:01:20.091 --> 00:01:25.414 I forget exactly where we ran into this one. 00:01:27.456 --> 00:01:30.358 Meredith, New Hampshire. So in the middle of our trip we spent some time in 00:01:30.358 --> 00:01:35.722 New Hampshire and this is Twin Barns Lake Cruiser Double APA. 00:01:38.584 --> 00:01:39.884 Twin Barns Lake Cruiser. 00:01:43.827 --> 00:01:46.449 Okay 7.8% alcohol by volume. 00:01:48.651 --> 00:01:56.937 They just say Imperial and don't have much else on here. So you guys were way 00:01:56.937 --> 00:01:58.898 north, right? Way north. 00:02:00.039 --> 00:02:04.041 Oh yeah. Yeah. So the label has some information here. The hops are Citro, 00:02:04.041 --> 00:02:06.542 Mosaic, Amarillo, Simcoe, and Centennial. 00:02:09.444 --> 00:02:14.827 and marketing speak talks of grapefruit, pineapple, passion fruit, things like that. 00:02:21.761 --> 00:02:25.844 Okay, so this looks like grapefruit juice, and it smells like grapefruit juice. 00:02:25.844 --> 00:02:30.548 It does. Yeah, 00:02:30.548 --> 00:02:41.256 it's an orangey, tan color, super hazy, and yeah, like grapefruit juice with all the pulp in it. 00:02:41.256 --> 00:02:44.519 But of course, it's got a head, so it ain't grapefruit juice. 00:02:44.959 --> 00:02:50.223 But when you go on to the nose, it's very cold, so I'm getting a chance to warm up here. 00:02:50.334 --> 00:02:53.566 The first thing you get is grapefruit juice. 00:02:53.566 --> 00:02:56.508 But while we're letting it warm up, we can talk about our trips a little bit. 00:02:56.508 --> 00:02:58.910 Yeah, that's what I was going to mention, because New Hampshire, 00:02:58.910 --> 00:03:03.193 you guys were north. You guys were far north. So tell me about it. What did you guys do? 00:03:03.193 --> 00:03:05.556 Everything. 00:03:05.556 --> 00:03:08.778 It was so much fun. The whole show could just be about our trip. 00:03:08.778 --> 00:03:13.662 It was the best trip. We had so much fun. So we drove and we started, 00:03:13.662 --> 00:03:17.825 we were supposed to leave Saturday morning, but we knew we wouldn't be able 00:03:17.825 --> 00:03:22.308 to sleep Friday night. So we left Friday evening. So we left around 7 p.m. 00:03:23.229 --> 00:03:27.452 Pittsburgh and we got to the main state line between Maine and New Hampshire 00:03:27.452 --> 00:03:29.544 around quarter to seven in the morning. 00:03:31.736 --> 00:03:36.359 And we decided to, from there, kind of just drive the coast up to Portland because 00:03:36.359 --> 00:03:38.561 nothing was going to be open for the next several hours. 00:03:39.942 --> 00:03:44.405 And man, we found some of the most beautiful shoreline. We stopped a whole bunch 00:03:44.405 --> 00:03:48.509 of times, took tons of photos, and it was just such a place. 00:03:48.899 --> 00:03:50.610 The photos don't do it justice. 00:03:52.772 --> 00:03:57.476 Then we went to Portland. It was kind of just like an easy day. 00:03:57.476 --> 00:04:02.980 We stopped at a couple breweries and whatnot. But the next day we had the Cellar Tour to Allagash. Wow. 00:04:02.980 --> 00:04:04.721 And that was awesome. 00:04:04.901 --> 00:04:09.544 So, you know, Allagash does cool ship beers, so they have, you know, 00:04:09.544 --> 00:04:10.744 their whole funky fermentation. 00:04:13.407 --> 00:04:16.128 It's basically the, like, back behind the big brewery is where, 00:04:16.128 --> 00:04:19.070 like, where they started out is where they do their cellar stuff. 00:04:19.711 --> 00:04:25.414 And yeah, we got to peek and look into the room with the cool ships and mountains of barrels, 00:04:25.414 --> 00:04:32.639 and we got to see the Allagash winery, which, because of state laws or maybe 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:37.342 federal The winery has to be separate from the brewery and they only have a 00:04:37.342 --> 00:04:40.104 winery so they can sell ciders, make ciders and sell ciders. 00:04:40.525 --> 00:04:45.828 So there was this little red like velvet rope around like three fermenters in 00:04:45.828 --> 00:04:48.550 like a stainless steel vessel and that was the Allagash Winery. 00:04:53.273 --> 00:04:55.715 Okay, so let's go back to this beer. It should be a little bit warm now. 00:04:56.996 --> 00:05:01.819 cruiser and we'll continue with this the vacation report as we meander through 00:05:01.819 --> 00:05:10.675 the show I wasn't picking up much of a nose on this one. And flavor-wise... 00:05:17.932 --> 00:05:19.533 I mean there's lots of grapefruit in here. 00:05:22.835 --> 00:05:26.097 I just had a candy which is kind of maybe making some of the sweetness a little 00:05:26.097 --> 00:05:32.842 bit. Okay. It's just minimizing some of the stuff in here so I may need to just 00:05:32.842 --> 00:05:34.703 get some water in here. What do you taste? 00:05:34.703 --> 00:05:37.605 Yeah I just brushed my teeth so mine's messed up too. 00:05:37.605 --> 00:05:38.606 You're all messed up. Okay. 00:05:38.606 --> 00:05:39.827 I didn't think about it. 00:05:39.827 --> 00:05:46.351 I guess I'm bleeding here. So for me, for the aroma, it is as kind of citrusy 00:05:46.351 --> 00:05:47.832 and pungent as grapefruit juice. 00:05:47.832 --> 00:05:52.095 And then onto the flavor, grapefruit juice is the big contributing the flavor. 00:05:52.095 --> 00:05:54.967 There's a little bit of an apricot thing going on in there. 00:05:55.437 --> 00:05:59.659 It's very, very juicy in the mouthfeel. It feels citric acid-y. 00:06:00.060 --> 00:06:06.643 It feels like fruit juice, just as it looks. I don't believe there's any fruit 00:06:06.643 --> 00:06:07.844 juice added to this thing, but 00:06:07.844 --> 00:06:12.386 just the way the hop acids are playing in there, sure feels juicy to me. 00:06:16.649 --> 00:06:23.173 The bitterness is coming after all the grapefruit stuff. It's kind of moderate 00:06:23.173 --> 00:06:25.975 high, but not, it's not dank. It's kind of piney. 00:06:26.736 --> 00:06:32.260 It's kind of, um, yeah, I think I'd have to go with piney for the... 00:06:33.662 --> 00:06:36.604 Yeah, I mean, if you look at the hop labels, so the hop bill, 00:06:36.604 --> 00:06:41.227 Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo, Simcoe Centennial. So nothing that is, 00:06:41.227 --> 00:06:43.609 you know, far outside of the box or anything. 00:06:46.292 --> 00:06:51.356 I think that, you know, that edge you're getting at the end is, 00:06:51.356 --> 00:06:55.359 to me, a mixture of Centennial and Simcoe, maybe with a little Amarillo in there, too. Yeah. 00:06:55.359 --> 00:06:58.321 Once again, a little onion-y versus garlic-y at the end, though, 00:06:58.321 --> 00:06:59.742 like kind of from Big Citrus. 00:06:59.742 --> 00:07:03.265 The sulfury stuff, though. I mean, Amarillo can definitely give that, 00:07:03.265 --> 00:07:11.811 you know, Amarillo. Yeah, yeah. Tasty. And yeah, Simcoe, especially if you ever 00:07:11.811 --> 00:07:14.413 do it. And then Centennial is just, you know, it's such a classic one. 00:07:15.573 --> 00:07:17.614 But that's pretty typically pine. 00:07:19.635 --> 00:07:22.355 So I'm not getting much like resiny pine. 00:07:22.355 --> 00:07:23.956 I don't taste any pine. 00:07:24.856 --> 00:07:29.518 I think it's more just there is like a very basic backbone. 00:07:34.818 --> 00:07:39.902 I'm just overall impressions. I'm enjoying the spirit feels so weird not having 00:07:39.902 --> 00:07:46.387 a mic to lead into So weird, I feel like I'm off mic Being just stretch out like this. 00:07:47.328 --> 00:07:56.114 Yeah She couches for in here Yeah, that's an enjoyable beer very juicy Kind 00:07:56.114 --> 00:07:58.816 of on the refreshing side, 00:07:58.816 --> 00:08:02.699 you know, cuz it's not kind of dank and It's super drinkable, yeah. 00:08:04.441 --> 00:08:08.404 Yeah, do either of you taste any lactose in it? 00:08:08.684 --> 00:08:09.545 I don't know. 00:08:10.126 --> 00:08:11.937 It must be from brushing my teeth. 00:08:11.937 --> 00:08:16.370 It has such a full body. I mean, it has an unusually full body, 00:08:16.370 --> 00:08:19.873 but I don't taste any kind of milk sugars or anything in there. 00:08:19.873 --> 00:08:28.400 Right, let's go. I'm trying to figure out the order here. 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:35.085 So you guys went to, you know, upper America. Yes. The lower part of what was 00:08:35.085 --> 00:08:41.429 New England. I went to kind of the, New England itself, I suppose you could say, I was in Cape Cod. 00:08:43.631 --> 00:08:49.535 So that was, for me, a very nice week, a very nice way to get away from all 00:08:49.535 --> 00:08:52.778 the stuff. I've been looking forward to this for a while. 00:08:54.820 --> 00:09:01.646 I think I saw water twice. I didn't go to any beaches. No, okay. 00:09:01.646 --> 00:09:06.048 Because my, my vacation was, okay, I get to be around all this amazing seafood 00:09:06.048 --> 00:09:10.051 and have a really good kitchen and just, I'm going to cook up a bunch of stuff 00:09:10.051 --> 00:09:14.815 and have, you know, six people to cook for. So I don't have to worry about like trying to portion it. 00:09:15.475 --> 00:09:21.300 Like I can make some, some cool, some cool shit. And that was my, that was my vacation. 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:26.264 So I spent a lot, I spent just, you know, days and days, um, 00:09:26.264 --> 00:09:30.467 I guess I didn't really spend days. you know, a couple hours in the kitchen 00:09:30.467 --> 00:09:32.268 for most nights cooking something. 00:09:33.650 --> 00:09:41.736 And every day a different dish, every day some new fish, and every day beautiful, beautiful stuff. 00:09:42.496 --> 00:09:46.099 Yeah, we had some seafood when we were up there. I think in the first three 00:09:46.099 --> 00:09:47.421 days we had four lobster rolls. 00:09:50.465 --> 00:09:54.509 And I don't even, I can't even count how many oysters. 00:09:55.951 --> 00:10:00.876 Two and a half dozen, probably, maybe three dozen. we did more than that? 00:10:00.876 --> 00:10:04.159 Let's see. Let's see, I think that in terms of the total oysters that I bought... 00:10:06.337 --> 00:10:10.000 So something like, yes, 56. 00:10:11.001 --> 00:10:13.943 Because it was 48 one day, and then there was eight the previous day. 00:10:14.824 --> 00:10:18.586 Of course, I didn't eat all those. This was, you know, but I probably ate, 00:10:18.586 --> 00:10:23.130 I probably ate 18 of those. 00:10:23.130 --> 00:10:32.237 Yeah, there's a couple places that there's just so much to talk about. 00:10:32.237 --> 00:10:33.538 We could do post-show. 00:10:33.538 --> 00:10:35.419 Yeah, I guess the post-show. 00:10:35.419 --> 00:10:38.942 Post-show is a good chance for us to read all of the, you know, 00:10:38.942 --> 00:10:40.903 all the nitty-gritty about our shows. Yep. 00:10:43.665 --> 00:10:47.007 You can find the link to the post-show in the show notes on our website. 00:10:47.668 --> 00:10:51.891 And I do know I was introduced to Google Podcasting. 00:10:52.331 --> 00:10:55.774 They have something goofed up where they aren't working with the post-show feed. 00:10:56.464 --> 00:10:59.637 Extras feed tries to work, but then it just shows the main feed. 00:10:59.997 --> 00:11:04.240 So just saying, if you have a Google Podcast, I will try to get that resolved. 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:05.912 But having those Google problems. 00:11:06.482 --> 00:11:09.223 Yeah, it's not like they give you a phone number, you know. 00:11:10.005 --> 00:11:14.328 Or you could get on our Discord and find the links to everything there. 00:11:14.328 --> 00:11:18.872 This is a first and last thing from Hill Farmstead Brewery. Okay. 00:11:18.872 --> 00:11:23.876 You want to rinse your glass since this one's gonna be pretty different from 00:11:23.876 --> 00:11:25.457 and probably more subtle then. 00:11:29.521 --> 00:11:34.705 You know, one thing that we didn't get to last time, 00:11:35.476 --> 00:11:39.288 or we did get to last time, but I don't want to bring it up, 00:11:39.288 --> 00:11:46.314 was there's sort of a difference in opinion about what is our, 00:11:46.314 --> 00:11:50.257 I think, local favorite in terms of breweries that you can get. 00:11:50.257 --> 00:11:57.423 You guys are really on the team hitchhiker, and I'm sort of on team hop farm. 00:11:57.823 --> 00:12:02.887 And I think that that's probably a yeast thing. Like looking back to it, 00:12:02.887 --> 00:12:06.009 like I think the hop farms all have a flavor to them, and I really like it, 00:12:06.009 --> 00:12:07.611 but I can totally see how you guys don't. 00:12:10.293 --> 00:12:15.016 And I also think that all of the hitchhikers have a flavor to them. 00:12:15.016 --> 00:12:16.857 And it's not that I dislike it. 00:12:17.518 --> 00:12:23.899 It's just, you know, you and I, Jeff, we see very similarly on a lot of things, 00:12:23.899 --> 00:12:28.241 even flavor-wise, but not enough that we're gonna marry you. 00:12:33.122 --> 00:12:34.562 So maybe that's part of it, right? 00:12:34.902 --> 00:12:35.563 Yeah, for sure. 00:12:35.563 --> 00:12:39.404 On even a more close level on that, so. 00:12:40.950 --> 00:12:45.214 Yeah. Yeah. And we feel the same way. We don't like hate hop farm. 00:12:45.594 --> 00:12:49.797 It's just we don't find them to the same level of deliciousness that, 00:12:49.797 --> 00:12:51.439 you know, like we find a lot of hitchhiker beers. 00:12:51.439 --> 00:12:55.662 So just one of those cool things that you can sometimes explore with your friends 00:12:55.662 --> 00:12:57.743 and breweries that are near your diversity. 00:12:57.743 --> 00:12:58.264 Yeah. 00:12:58.264 --> 00:13:01.667 All right. So this guy is a first and last things. 00:13:02.328 --> 00:13:06.090 India Pale Ale brewed with Motueka, Nelson Savine and Simcoe Hop. 00:13:06.090 --> 00:13:11.614 So finally, so we're into a slightly more than just Just a standard hop profile. 00:13:13.736 --> 00:13:17.599 Yeah, so we showed up at Hill Farmstead about 10 minutes before they opened 00:13:17.599 --> 00:13:20.531 on a Wednesday, was it? Thursday? Wednesday? 00:13:20.531 --> 00:13:22.683 Thursday? No, it doesn't matter. 00:13:22.683 --> 00:13:25.544 Yeah, it doesn't matter. And there was people waiting outside already. 00:13:25.544 --> 00:13:26.645 I think it was Friday, actually. 00:13:26.645 --> 00:13:33.370 They have this beautiful, like, front yard with picking tables and awnings and stuff. 00:13:33.450 --> 00:13:37.053 And then inside the tasting tap room, you can overlook the brewery. 00:13:37.473 --> 00:13:45.459 They had some cuckoo crazy, like, sour barrel aged beers on. 00:13:45.459 --> 00:13:49.701 Oh my goodness, it was awesome. 00:13:50.142 --> 00:13:52.494 Hill Farmstead is worth the drive. 00:13:52.494 --> 00:13:53.264 Yeah, for sure. Cuckoo. 00:14:01.191 --> 00:14:04.232 Cuckoo. And they had amazing barbecue out front. Yep. 00:14:04.232 --> 00:14:06.594 All right, so this one. 00:14:06.594 --> 00:14:07.554 It was an amazing barbecue. 00:14:09.776 --> 00:14:11.057 Like, what did they have? 00:14:11.057 --> 00:14:11.877 Did you have barbecue? 00:14:12.478 --> 00:14:16.320 Actually, we didn't even eat the barbecue. So I was wondering how you knew it 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.023 was amazing. I just got it a side, because we had already eaten earlier. 00:14:19.424 --> 00:14:21.145 I got a side of mac and cheese. 00:14:22.186 --> 00:14:26.789 But it smelled amazing. Yeah. And they were really nice people. 00:14:29.391 --> 00:14:30.472 Amazing smelling barbecue. 00:14:31.132 --> 00:14:33.894 Amazing smelling barbecue. I'm tired. I worked. 00:14:35.155 --> 00:14:40.539 Me too. I just got back yesterday. I am I'm still out of it a little bit you 00:14:40.539 --> 00:14:41.620 got back. Yeah last night, 00:14:44.244 --> 00:14:47.227 At least all my beasties were taken care of. 00:14:47.227 --> 00:14:52.190 Damien was able to come in and change the water every day, or every three days, 00:14:52.190 --> 00:14:55.173 which is all they needed. That's the beautiful thing about reptiles, 00:14:55.173 --> 00:14:59.415 you don't really need to do much. 00:15:00.337 --> 00:15:04.670 So the first and last things, this one pours a kind of whiter, 00:15:04.670 --> 00:15:10.264 cloudy, hazy, almost not quite as white as whipped beer, but similar to it. 00:15:10.645 --> 00:15:13.647 The aroma for me, I'm getting like a creamsicle kind of thing. 00:15:13.647 --> 00:15:16.889 I'm getting kind of vanilla notes. I'm getting orange notes. 00:15:17.310 --> 00:15:21.152 I'm getting like passion fruit. I'm getting more on the tropical side. 00:15:23.014 --> 00:15:26.216 Like passion fruit and maybe like a hint of guava or something like that. 00:15:26.216 --> 00:15:32.621 Guava. Mm-hmm. But I'm definitely getting the vanilla notes. 00:15:33.042 --> 00:15:35.022 And so it was Mozueka, Nelson, and... 00:15:36.464 --> 00:15:38.946 That's that Mozueka. Sometimes you can, you can hit vanilla. 00:15:38.946 --> 00:15:42.729 It's weird that a hop can do that, but it's really cool. 00:15:42.729 --> 00:15:43.249 And Simcoe. 00:15:43.249 --> 00:15:47.312 Wasn't it this trip that I realized that Motueka is one of my favorites? 00:15:48.533 --> 00:15:52.856 Uh, I don't remember. I think it's Motueka that... 00:15:53.797 --> 00:15:58.280 I wonder if that Duclos one that made Motueka into vanilla is still around because 00:15:58.280 --> 00:16:01.202 it was the first time we ever experienced that. 00:16:01.202 --> 00:16:04.744 Now we had a couple beers that were very creamsickly on the trip. 00:16:04.744 --> 00:16:06.946 This might have been one of them. I know we had this one on tap. 00:16:10.869 --> 00:16:13.471 Yeah, I think this was one of my favorites out there. 00:16:16.496 --> 00:16:20.559 This one has a nice, like, creamy, soft body to it. 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:27.624 It has that, it's not as much creamsicle in the flavor. It's a little more, 00:16:27.624 --> 00:16:34.589 um, like fruit pith, like, um, kind of. 00:16:35.529 --> 00:16:40.072 See, I'm getting, it's a little bit, bit the to me. 00:16:40.072 --> 00:16:46.871 Okay. So first is a little bit, I guess, harsher the more, more, 00:16:46.871 --> 00:16:52.501 maybe resonate, or at least maybe a bite, like more biting notes. 00:16:52.501 --> 00:16:55.183 And I don't know whether that's maybe the carbonation is a bit finer or, 00:16:55.183 --> 00:16:56.844 or, but I think it's the hops. 00:16:57.204 --> 00:16:59.155 The hops are a little bit more sharper here. 00:17:01.207 --> 00:17:06.530 They are also, Yeah, there, there is a lot of tropical stuff. 00:17:06.530 --> 00:17:13.574 It feels to me, and like the first sip, like a lot, like almost overdoing it. 00:17:15.456 --> 00:17:19.759 Whereas I felt like the Lake Cruiser was really well balanced by comparison. 00:17:24.943 --> 00:17:31.868 More I get into it, the, I'm getting kind of a little bit more trending towards 00:17:31.868 --> 00:17:34.070 dank. I think the Simcoe's popping out a little bit more. 00:17:35.452 --> 00:17:36.812 Are you getting grapefruit? 00:17:39.034 --> 00:17:41.396 I can't say I'm getting grapefruit really. Really? 00:17:41.396 --> 00:17:48.100 It's hard because the last one was so, exactly grapefruit flavors. 00:17:48.100 --> 00:17:54.904 This one's kind of, there's something there, but it's also a little overripe or a little bit. 00:17:56.045 --> 00:17:59.467 It's pithy. If there is grapefruit, it's pithy. notes from the grapefruit, 00:17:59.467 --> 00:18:03.469 more than juicy notes, I guess. Hmm. 00:18:09.899 --> 00:18:13.401 And the creamsicle stuff that we were getting in the aroma isn't really carrying through. 00:18:14.562 --> 00:18:19.966 I'm getting some like stone fruit vibes, like peach, that kind of thing. 00:18:21.828 --> 00:18:31.275 Um, but it, it's, it feels like a lot and, and like, I can totally see how if 00:18:31.275 --> 00:18:33.897 you had the bars, it's going to be great. 00:18:33.897 --> 00:18:38.721 But as a, yeah, no, on draft at the bar, this beer was bonkers good. 00:18:38.721 --> 00:18:40.602 And here in the can, it's fine, but. 00:18:41.143 --> 00:18:42.604 And when was it canned, just? 00:18:44.696 --> 00:18:47.928 I don't see a date on it, but. 00:18:47.928 --> 00:18:48.509 Yeah, 725. 00:18:50.771 --> 00:18:52.672 So not very long ago. They even put the time. 00:18:53.033 --> 00:18:54.133 What did they have? 00:18:54.133 --> 00:18:55.094 1128. Well, there you go. 00:18:56.716 --> 00:18:59.997 If only it was canned a little bit later in the afternoon, it'd still be good. 00:19:02.260 --> 00:19:06.143 No, I think that this is a perfectly fine beer. I don't think there's any, 00:19:06.143 --> 00:19:10.466 you know, there's no problem with it, but I just, you know, it suffers in comparison 00:19:10.466 --> 00:19:14.529 to the last one, which was just really drinkable, like, really. 00:19:15.550 --> 00:19:19.753 This is, I mean, I was not, like, 00:19:19.753 --> 00:19:23.176 looking forward to drinking a bunch of hazies, to be honest with you. 00:19:23.176 --> 00:19:24.437 In that Lake Cruiser, gotcha. 00:19:24.437 --> 00:19:25.818 And then this was great. 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:33.924 really like this would be if I saw this on the shelf I'd be like hell yeah because 00:19:33.924 --> 00:19:35.365 that was really really good. 00:19:35.895 --> 00:19:40.988 Yeah we stopped there there was a day in New Hampshire where we got rained out 00:19:40.988 --> 00:19:45.632 so we visited seven breweries that day. 00:19:46.052 --> 00:19:47.393 I didn't keep track. 00:19:47.753 --> 00:19:51.035 Like short little visits just like you know a couple tasters and things like 00:19:51.035 --> 00:19:55.459 that but yeah we hit up like seven breweries that day So to be honest, 00:19:55.459 --> 00:19:58.821 I can't remember exactly which one was Twin Barn. 00:20:00.223 --> 00:20:02.845 Probably could look at our pictures and figure it out, but, 00:20:06.178 --> 00:20:06.788 yeah. 00:20:06.788 --> 00:20:08.749 So did you guys do anything besides go to breweries? 00:20:08.749 --> 00:20:11.732 We went to some great restaurants and we hiked 54.27. 00:20:11.732 --> 00:20:18.377 Miles. Wow. Yes. 00:20:18.377 --> 00:20:18.897 And Acadia. 00:20:19.458 --> 00:20:22.680 Well, mostly Acadia. in Acadia. Well, mostly Acadia. 00:20:23.021 --> 00:20:26.603 Now, I should mention that I knew that, and the reason why I knew that was because 00:20:26.603 --> 00:20:31.346 of our Discord, which we never got to really properly announce nor celebrate. 00:20:32.207 --> 00:20:35.129 We did last time, but it all got wiped out by the Internet gods. 00:20:36.270 --> 00:20:41.493 Yeah, so on our website at craftyradio.com, there is a link to join our Discord server. 00:20:42.635 --> 00:20:46.337 It is the thing that I want to use to eliminate email to converse with people. 00:20:46.617 --> 00:20:51.302 It allows listeners to converse with each other. We got some long time, 00:20:51.302 --> 00:20:57.029 got three Greggs on there, We got, uh, who, who else, um. 00:20:59.493 --> 00:21:02.255 I can't think of the guy's real name. I just know it's like Handel. 00:21:03.576 --> 00:21:07.199 We got other people on there. But come and join us. 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:12.723 We want to get people on there and talk about stuff, give us ideas. 00:21:13.564 --> 00:21:16.866 We have a couple channels going there. We'll probably create more. 00:21:16.866 --> 00:21:23.421 And there'll be a forum channel for each show. And that'll have all of the transcript 00:21:23.421 --> 00:21:27.134 stuff and things like that linked in there. So if you want to get the most of 00:21:27.134 --> 00:21:30.497 the multimedia about the show, that's where you'll get it. So. 00:21:31.808 --> 00:21:35.180 All right, what's next? What's next? Do you want the palate cleanser now or 00:21:35.180 --> 00:21:37.182 do you want another IPA and then the palate cleanser? 00:21:39.764 --> 00:21:43.425 Let's do the IPA then and go with the palate cleanser and then we'll see what we have next. 00:21:45.208 --> 00:21:47.309 We're gonna do Fiddlehead Brewing Company. 00:21:49.631 --> 00:21:54.214 So some of the really big name breweries in Vermont, outside of Burlington, 00:21:54.214 --> 00:21:57.016 right, is Hill Farmstead, The Alchemist, and Fiddlehead. 00:21:58.658 --> 00:22:05.603 And we hit up Fiddlehead on the last day, and I really, really liked the place. 00:22:05.603 --> 00:22:07.424 So this is their regular IPA. 00:22:08.626 --> 00:22:12.288 We have another beer from Fiddlehead down, oh no, we have three more beers from 00:22:12.288 --> 00:22:16.805 Fiddlehead downstairs, one more IPA, a double IPA, and then two of their other 00:22:16.805 --> 00:22:21.856 things, spontaneously fermented one and a barrel-aged Imperial Porter. 00:22:21.856 --> 00:22:24.958 So this is just their standard IPA, This is their flagship? 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:31.323 I think it's their flagship because they're year-round, and it's the first one 00:22:31.323 --> 00:22:34.866 on their list. 6.2% occupied volume, 53 APU. 00:22:37.368 --> 00:22:44.354 They say it's just a hazy American IPA. It's green. The color of the can and 00:22:44.354 --> 00:22:45.354 everything around it is green. 00:22:45.855 --> 00:22:54.201 When we got this, they made sure that I was going to promise to keep it cold. 00:22:55.482 --> 00:22:59.665 They basically said, you know, it'll change if you let it warm up. It's unpasteurized. 00:23:00.486 --> 00:23:04.188 So we kept this cold. We went and got ice that night. 00:23:04.529 --> 00:23:08.031 It was the same day we got the Crusher from Alchemist, which will be our next 00:23:08.031 --> 00:23:09.032 beer after the Intramezzo. 00:23:11.938 --> 00:23:15.645 And those, you know, I'm excited for this press show. I hope you enjoy them. Okay. 00:23:15.645 --> 00:23:15.945 You, 00:23:20.339 --> 00:23:24.082 So, this being so cold, I'm going to warm it up. I haven't noticed much on the 00:23:24.082 --> 00:23:27.945 aroma yet. So, let's warm this sucker. 00:23:27.945 --> 00:23:32.969 Yeah, I'm going to sit back and let Greg explore this instead of me telling you what the taste is. 00:23:32.969 --> 00:23:36.462 Okay. 00:23:36.462 --> 00:23:39.955 Okay. 00:23:39.955 --> 00:23:44.799 So, now I'm thinking about the beers that I had, which I didn't have that many. 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:47.121 I actually put them on our disc. 00:23:47.121 --> 00:23:51.564 You had that Jay Wakefield smoked lager or something, right? 00:23:51.564 --> 00:23:55.167 That was probably my favorite. And I wanted to bring some of that down, 00:23:55.167 --> 00:23:58.349 but ain't again, it wasn't, it was going to be hard. But yeah, 00:23:58.349 --> 00:24:04.093 this was a Czech dark lager that was aged in wood footers. 00:24:04.594 --> 00:24:08.897 The next time we're in Florida, we'll have to, we've already talked about trying 00:24:08.897 --> 00:24:09.918 to get down to Jay Wakefield. 00:24:09.918 --> 00:24:14.932 So we'll try to do that and bring some stuff back. Yeah. Because they're in 00:24:14.932 --> 00:24:18.444 one of the towns on the Atlantic coast, I can't, in South. I can't remember 00:24:18.444 --> 00:24:19.785 exactly where the... I don't know. 00:24:20.586 --> 00:24:23.407 The beer was called Of Darkest Night, which is a Green Lantern reference. 00:24:25.629 --> 00:24:27.571 So for all you DC Comics heads. 00:24:27.571 --> 00:24:31.874 So was it, was it funky footer? Or was it just like... 00:24:31.874 --> 00:24:35.256 No, it was woody. It was really woody. I mean, it was really oaky. 00:24:35.256 --> 00:24:39.019 And I think that in, on the show, it probably would have been overly oaky, 00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:44.243 like just as a, uh, as in putting our microscope on it, it was kind of too oaky, 00:24:44.243 --> 00:24:50.427 but, but when you just sort of ignored that and had it with some oysters. 00:24:51.248 --> 00:24:52.429 Oh, I bet. 00:24:52.429 --> 00:24:56.472 Fantastic. Okay. So you're going to let me. 00:24:56.472 --> 00:24:59.114 Yeah. Stick your nose in there. Tell me what you smell. 00:25:00.706 --> 00:25:02.517 It smells a little, uh, dank. 00:25:06.300 --> 00:25:07.961 It's so fucking weedy. 00:25:13.215 --> 00:25:15.156 Yeah, it smells like weed. 00:25:19.419 --> 00:25:28.185 It smells kind of like, you know, what sometimes if you're walking by—I was 00:25:28.185 --> 00:25:34.790 with Nick and Aaron and they were here very briefly and went to a place, 00:25:34.790 --> 00:25:39.193 Sao Marcado, here in Pittsburgh. 00:25:40.094 --> 00:25:44.717 And as I was walking to where they were, there were some guys smoking weed in 00:25:44.717 --> 00:25:49.200 the alley that I passed by. And it was, yep, this is what it smelled like. 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:57.266 Yep. This beer, these darn fruit flies keep buzzing around. 00:25:57.266 --> 00:25:59.407 Where'd they come from? They just appeared today. 00:25:59.407 --> 00:26:07.653 Yeah, I don't know. This beer seems like it's kind of, I don't want to say modeled 00:26:07.653 --> 00:26:09.654 after, but of the same vein as Heddy Top. 00:26:09.654 --> 00:26:11.196 I was thinking the same thing, yeah. 00:26:11.196 --> 00:26:16.860 And when, like looking at some of the marketing speak for Heddy Topper, 00:26:16.860 --> 00:26:23.325 they talk about it just being made to be a dank IPA. Yeah. And this is more. 00:26:23.325 --> 00:26:24.726 This is more drinkable than Heddy Topper. 00:26:24.726 --> 00:26:32.972 It definitely is. I had Heddy Topper at the brewery on beer engine and it wasn't exciting. 00:26:32.972 --> 00:26:34.433 Beer engine, you're gonna have to explain that. 00:26:34.654 --> 00:26:38.979 A cask. Okay. Hand pull on a cask. And I thought, oh my God, 00:26:38.979 --> 00:26:43.505 if it's ever gonna be good, this is gonna be good. Disappointing. 00:26:43.505 --> 00:26:45.827 And three-day-old focal banger was just eh. 00:26:46.348 --> 00:26:49.411 But what was delicious was the crusher. 00:26:49.411 --> 00:26:50.732 We're gonna get to that, okay. But... 00:26:52.742 --> 00:26:58.206 Yeah, so I think that, you know, Heady Topper, it's, it's days are past it really, 00:26:58.206 --> 00:27:03.449 because it was exciting when it was something really new, and when it really 00:27:03.449 --> 00:27:05.539 helped redefine a whole, 00:27:05.539 --> 00:27:14.857 I mean, yeah, it, it, it redefined a whole style, and that, for that it needs 00:27:14.857 --> 00:27:20.001 to be appraised, but but in terms of how it lives up to the hype, 00:27:21.382 --> 00:27:25.805 no, these days people have figured out how to make Paisies so much better. 00:27:25.805 --> 00:27:28.667 You know what else is really weird about the Alchemist's tap room? 00:27:29.008 --> 00:27:33.591 Is it's not a tap room. They had Heddy Topper on cask. 00:27:34.712 --> 00:27:35.873 Everything else was can pours. 00:27:35.873 --> 00:27:38.995 Weird. That is weird. 00:27:40.376 --> 00:27:44.979 Okay, so this is, yeah, this feels from the same vein as Heady Topper and they 00:27:44.979 --> 00:27:49.043 have the same instructions, keep it cold, probably they would tell you to drink from the can. 00:27:51.365 --> 00:27:53.326 It's just, it's less dank than Heady Topper. 00:27:56.149 --> 00:27:57.329 It's less of a, of a... 00:27:57.329 --> 00:27:58.410 So, salt. Yeah, Heady Topper. 00:27:59.731 --> 00:28:03.034 When you get Heady Topper on cask, it kind of takes away that salt, 00:28:03.034 --> 00:28:08.178 but it kind of just, it almost makes it taste like in the middle of the road 00:28:08.178 --> 00:28:10.039 English IPA where nothing really 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:14.321 stands out. It's kind of more malty and creamy. But it, maybe it made it. 00:28:18.966 --> 00:28:22.628 more average? I don't know. I'm glad I went to the Alchemist. 00:28:22.628 --> 00:28:26.391 Some of their other beers had some saisons and stuff out of cans that were really 00:28:26.391 --> 00:28:30.153 good, but the two flagships, the reasons people go, was underwhelming. 00:28:33.195 --> 00:28:38.238 Well, you know, again, you have to keep that beer around for historical purposes or nothing else. 00:28:42.701 --> 00:28:47.404 And I think as a way to see both, 00:28:47.404 --> 00:28:51.326 okay, this is the beginnings of Hazes, 00:28:51.326 --> 00:28:54.028 and we now know what they've turned into, but also as a way to see, 00:28:54.028 --> 00:29:00.033 okay, this is the line between this sort of West Coast dominant, 00:29:00.033 --> 00:29:07.657 crazy, crazy resin hop and this wacky, bright style. 00:29:07.657 --> 00:29:14.683 Yeah. I mean, for both those reasons, it's a beer worth drinking, 00:29:14.683 --> 00:29:20.608 but it's, it is not a, it's not a crowd pleaser anymore. All right. 00:29:21.209 --> 00:29:25.812 So our next beer, this is one we got because Shannon demanded it. 00:29:25.812 --> 00:29:29.775 I did? The Days End from Allagash. 00:29:29.775 --> 00:29:38.462 So this is one of the beers from Portland With Love, which is the program that 00:29:38.462 --> 00:29:43.026 the employees get to suggest things, Days End, 00:29:43.546 --> 00:29:49.077 get to suggest things and some of those get picked up for small batches or big batches or whatnot. 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:53.988 This one is modeled to be like a Boulevardier. 00:29:56.590 --> 00:29:57.971 So, instead of an old... 00:29:57.971 --> 00:29:58.951 It's a cocktail, right? 00:29:58.951 --> 00:30:01.313 It's a cocktail. Imagine an old-fashioned, but with vermouth. 00:30:01.313 --> 00:30:09.039 Okay. Brewed this beer with a Lambrusco grape must, Angelica root. 00:30:10.281 --> 00:30:14.764 I don't even know what Angelica root is. An orange peel. Angelica root. 00:30:14.764 --> 00:30:15.211 Yeah. 00:30:15.211 --> 00:30:16.105