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<v Jeff>Welcome to Craft Beer Radio, I am Jeff Behr.

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<v Shannon>I'm Shannon Behr.

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<v Greg>I'm Greg Weiss.

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<v Jeff>And we're back again this week. is almost like old school old style show because

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<v Jeff>we're kind of focusing on Oktoberfest.

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<v Jeff>It's the literally Oktoberfest right now.

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<v Greg>We should mention that that was Iron Lung by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

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<v Greg>who was recommended to us in our Discord by Marinus.

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<v Jeff>Yes. And then kind of why I went and had Shannon, Shannon was out,

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<v Jeff>so I'm like, can you stop and get some Oktoberfest? It's because one of our

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<v Jeff>listeners on our Discord, Greg, was showing pictures of himself today at Oktoberfest.

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<v Shannon>So, so before I made the purchase, I did stop at Starbucks and get the famous pumpkin spice latte.

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<v Jeff>Yes.

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<v Shannon>The first one for the season.

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<v Jeff>These Oktoberfests are all in cans. They're all, three of them are local and

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<v Jeff>one is Sierra Nevada, which is the one we're going to start with.

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<v Jeff>So, no German Oktoberfest in the show, unfortunately.

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<v Greg>Let me ask about the pumpkin spice latte. Could you get the same experience

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<v Greg>just by putting some nutmeg and cinnamon and stuff into a regular latte?

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<v Greg>Or was there something like distinctive about the pumpkin spiciness of it that

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<v Greg>was better than like say you can make at home just by pouring in some...

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<v Shannon>Well, first off, I don't make lattes here at home. So...

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<v Greg>Okay, but...

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<v Shannon>I couldn't really give you a good answer to that.

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<v Greg>Fair enough.

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<v Jeff>The McRib is back.

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<v Greg>Oh, gross. Alright, so which one is it?

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<v Jeff>You said Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada's Oktoberfest.

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<v Greg>Alright, so this is a collaboration with Curve Rider.

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<v Greg>I assume that W is a V. That's just an assumption.

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<v Greg>their mutual passions fused fesbeer. Now, I would say this is...

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<v Greg>Very golden. So there's a...

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<v Shannon>It's that copperish golden.

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<v Greg>I was looking into this because there is the Martzen style and there's fesbeer,

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<v Greg>which is kind of a lighter Martzen.

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<v Greg>And this looks more like fesbeer.

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<v Jeff>Yeah, this one's like a straight up gold color.

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<v Jeff>Very clear. Thinking of those pictures that Greg posted today of Polliner Oktoberfest

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<v Jeff>right it was way paler than like what I tend to think of as Oktoberfest which

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<v Jeff>is more of an amber kind of has ruby highlight kind of color to it.

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<v Greg>Yeah close to like a Vienna lager in terms of the look and ingredients. It needs to warm up.

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<v Jeff>Well it's a lager though so you can't warm them up but normally you know they're

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<v Jeff>drink at a cooler temperature.

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<v Greg>Yeah you want these to be pretty cold. So this is 6% dirty IBUs and yeah,

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<v Greg>warming up a lager is not always the best choice.

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<v Greg>It just, they, it's not that they're necessarily bad, it's just that they're,

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<v Greg>the crispness goes away and so you lose some of that factor that makes lagers.

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<v Jeff>No, I get what you're saying. Every other beer we drink, we warm them up before

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<v Jeff>we eat. Yeah. Or drink them, so it's a habit, totally.

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<v Jeff>But you know, taste this one and whatnot. For the aroma, what I'm getting on

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<v Jeff>this is this kind of sweet, chewy, like quick bread kind of like.

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<v Greg>Yeah, there's honey in there to me.

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<v Shannon>Apricot.

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<v Greg>I can see that. Yeah, it's, have you tasted it yet? No. The taste is very bready.

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<v Greg>So fruitiness is not something, but I can see that the sweetness of apricots there.

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<v Greg>Like there's a dried fruit sweetness in this. There's a lot of.

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<v Jeff>Yeah, the sweetness, it is kind of fruity or floral, like there's a floral sweetness

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<v Jeff>to it, like a nectar or something like that.

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<v Greg>Very bready though, like it's got very yeasty.

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<v Shannon>Oh yeah, now that I've tasted it, very bread.

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<v Jeff>It doesn't mean the smell of apricots is wrong.

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<v Shannon>No, no, I definitely smell apricots, but it's definitely bready. I like it.

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<v Jeff>Pretty yummy.

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<v Greg>It's sweet and the coldness prevents it from being cloying. I think that if

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<v Greg>this were to warm up, it would get cloying.

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<v Jeff>Yeah, we want it to stay a little bit crisp, you know, and because it has more

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<v Jeff>of a malt backbone to it, it could kind of get exactly what you're saying,

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<v Jeff>sweeten up and be a little too much, little too thick, too. Enjoy!

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<v Greg>They say a punchy blend of German and American hops. I mean,

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<v Greg>the hopness is there, but it was not on my mind until I even read that.

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<v Greg>Because it's the bread, it's the yeast, and there's a bit of spice to kind of

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<v Greg>lower, I mean, to add some bitterness to lower the sweetness a bit.

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<v Jeff>Yeah, Shannon and I had the, oh, sorry, go ahead.

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<v Shannon>No, there's, the spice isn't overpowering though, which is nice.

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<v Shannon>Mm-hmm. I like the, there's a nice balance there, yeah. Okay.

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<v Jeff>Shannon and I were at Hitchhiker this week, surprise, and had their Oktoberfest,

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<v Jeff>and it was too damn hoppy.

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<v Jeff>Like, it was loud, like it was turned up to 11 or 12,

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<v Jeff>and it was a fine beer,

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<v Jeff>but it wasn't, Like when I'm getting an Oktoberfest,

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<v Jeff>I'm kind of looking for this kind of comfort memory, this thing,

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<v Jeff>this, something doesn't always have to be the exact same Oktoberfest,

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<v Jeff>but it should be typical for the style, right?

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<v Jeff>And theirs was just so loud that I, like I didn't really think it made sense

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<v Jeff>to buy a four pack of it to put on the show.

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<v Jeff>We got a fruit fly buzzing around, trying to get in our beer.

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<v Jeff>And I'm trying to think, did you have opinions on the Hitchhiker? Do you remember?

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<v Shannon>I liked it, but not for an Oktoberfest beer. I liked it in general.

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<v Shannon>But if I was looking for a real Oktoberfest beer,

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<v Shannon>It's not, I mean, it would definitely, if that's what you were in search for,

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<v Shannon>or in search of, I can't talk tonight, then I think you would be disappointed.

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<v Jeff>Another brewery that Shannon ordered it, it was one of those ones where I had

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<v Jeff>blinders from back in the day.

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<v Jeff>We were at a bar, there's several around Pittsburgh called Dive Bar,

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<v Jeff>and we were there, and on tap there was Peak Organic Pilsner.

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<v Jeff>And Peak Organic is a brewery that was making beer the first day Craft Beer

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<v Jeff>Radio started back in 2005.

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<v Jeff>They were widely available in Pittsburgh back in those heady days of where you

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<v Jeff>could get, you know, 30, 40 different breweries at the bottle shop.

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<v Jeff>And it always left Greg and I, Greg, you might remember this,

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<v Jeff>you might not, but it always left me disappointed.

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<v Jeff>Like it always felt like it left something on the table. And we weren't sure

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<v Jeff>if it was the brewery or if it was because of organic ingredients.

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<v Jeff>And that sounds kind of counter today in 2023 when organics been around for

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<v Jeff>so long and usually means high quality ingredients, you know,

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<v Jeff>maybe not, but you know, at least that's what marketing leads most people to think, right?

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<v Jeff>And I can't remember ever really liking a Peak Organic, and Shannon ordered

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<v Jeff>the Pilsner, and I didn't even really notice it. I didn't give it,

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<v Jeff>you know, any kind of consideration on the draft list because it was just,

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<v Jeff>oh, it's just old Pink Organic, but it was fantastic.

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<v Jeff>It was. It was really, really good. So I don't know if better brewer,

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<v Jeff>brewery's trying harder, ingredients are better, I don't know.

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<v Jeff>But I wanted to spend some time and just kind of, A, everyone listening who

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<v Jeff>maybe doesn't pay attention to peak organic, because they used to be ho-hum,

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<v Jeff>try the Pilsner, and there are other things, because it was really, really good.

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<v Shannon>It was, and you were even shocked at the fact that I ordered it in the first place.

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<v Jeff>I was surprised that you ordered a Pilsner.

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<v Shannon>I mean, you know, it's- not something I would typically order.

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<v Jeff>You're not in the habit of going to the loggers. I'm barely in the habit of

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<v Jeff>going to the loggers. I wouldn't even call it a habit for me.

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<v Greg>So it's definitely been my go-to in the past year or so. It's been loggers.

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<v Greg>When I see them, I react very favorably towards a Kraft logger.

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<v Greg>Peak Organic is out of Maine, for those who are wondering.

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<v Jeff>So maybe that's why you like it so much.

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<v Shannon>That's why I like it. Shocker.

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<v Jeff>Where in Maine are they? Portland.

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<v Shannon>Of course they are.

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<v Jeff>Well, shit. How come we didn't even notice them when we were in Portland?

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<v Shannon>When we go back.

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<v Jeff>Apparently they have a farm.

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<v Shannon>Next month. Then next month. Yeah. You know, we're already going to be halfway there.

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<v Jeff>She keeps, she's like tentatively scheduling our next trip. Like,

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<v Jeff>oh, don't you know, we're going to Maine in three weeks.

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<v Greg>I mean, if you think Pittsburgh gets cold, Maine gets, Maine is near like the Arctic.

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<v Shannon>Yeah, I'm fine with that because it's not bipolar. Once it's cold,

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<v Shannon>it's cold. It stays that way.

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<v Shannon>Your body has time to adjust to it, here.

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<v Shannon>The weather's bipolar. Yeah, it's 21 day and it's 45 the next and then it's

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<v Shannon>36 and raining every day except for four days in the winter where it drops back down into the teens.

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<v Greg>Yeah.

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<v Shannon>And then it's back up.

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<v Greg>And occasionally every, I don't know, seven or eight years there's a blizzard.

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<v Shannon>Yeah, yeah.

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<v Jeff>There we go. I just raised your gain a little bit Shannon. I think you're coming

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<v Jeff>a little bit It's stronger now, so. Cool.

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<v Jeff>Just do what you're comfortable with. Don't get on the mic, because now you'll be too loud. Oh, okay.

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<v Greg>So you guys mentioned fruit flies, and that brings me to a subject that I want

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<v Greg>to talk about, which is I recently started growing herbs in an aero garden.

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<v Jeff>Okay. So I don't know, have you seen these?

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<v Shannon>Either of you? No, I don't think so.

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<v Jeff>The hydroponic thing?

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<v Shannon>Oh, okay.

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<v Greg>Yeah, so it's a tabletop hydroponic, about the size of a bread box.

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<v Greg>Um, and right now I am growing six herbs in it.

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<v Jeff>It'll be hard to pay, play 20 questions with it. If it's about the size of a bread box.

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<v Greg>Uh, and it's got a little light on it. And the thing is that it's hydroponics.

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<v Greg>There's no soil to deal with. You're just water, a tank of water,

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<v Greg>uh, and a pump that pumps it. You give it food at once every two weeks.

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<v Greg>There's a little thing of food that comes with it.

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<v Greg>And the light is on for 15 hours a day.

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<v Greg>And it's working so well. I'm just I'm so excited because this is a product

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<v Greg>that does what it says it will do on the on the tin.

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<v Greg>After three weeks, everything was sprouting. Everything was coming in.

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<v Greg>It's been six weeks, six and a half weeks. I have bountiful herbs.

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<v Greg>Nice. With the exception of one that the partially is slow, but I think that's

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<v Greg>just the partially is slow.

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<v Greg>Here is a, here's my current herb garden and you can see how that's,

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<v Greg>you know, it's impressive.

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<v Greg>And this is, I'm someone with a brown thumb. I can't grow anything.

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<v Shannon>We should start one.

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<v Greg>And this is what it started with.

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<v Greg>This was about two weeks in, two and a half.

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<v Shannon>We should start one. Okay.

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<v Greg>Okay. So what happened was I got it, and so this was, yeah, this was like three

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<v Greg>weeks in. And so you can see the growth.

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<v Greg>that happens. Cool.

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<v Jeff>So these are for people who can't see the pictures. It's about the size of a

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<v Jeff>bread box. And then the plants, the seeds come in almost like K cup sized things

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<v Jeff>that I guess sit down in the water.

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<v Greg>Yes. So there's like a, there's stuff, it's sort of a cone shape thing that goes into the water.

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<v Greg>And so you keep adding water to it cause it, you know, these plants,

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<v Greg>especially as they're growing, they're going to drink up the water.

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<v Greg>Every two weeks you add food, like I said, and in four weeks you dump out the

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<v Greg>water and put new water in.

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<v Greg>But that's the extent of anything that needs to be done.

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<v Greg>I got some pruning shears that were like $8 on Amazon so I could do this unnecessary

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<v Greg>pruning because otherwise it just kind of grows out of bounds and you do want

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<v Greg>to prune it because that encourages it to drink, to grow properly.

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<v Greg>But you just let it go and it does what it needs to do. So the thing that I

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<v Greg>would say is not a drawback, but it is something that you have to be aware of

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<v Greg>is that if you have a lot of plants like that growing in your house,

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<v Greg>you're going to get bugs. Yeah.

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<v Greg>So I had a little bit of a flea problem or not flea, a little bit of a gnat problem.

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<v Greg>And the way I've gotten around it, the way I figured out how to get through

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<v Greg>it is because I had a problem.

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<v Greg>We had like, if I opened a beer or something, there would be lots of flies going

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<v Greg>for it. Everywhere. Because I thought, okay, think like a pitcher plant.

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<v Greg>I got a little ramekin and put in water and like two tablespoons of sugar and

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<v Greg>just mix it up until the sugar was completely dissolved.

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<v Greg>So that's going to attract these bugs. And then I put one or two drops of dishwashing fluid in it.

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<v Shannon>Yep.

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<v Jeff>That's exactly what he does. That's what we make too. And the soap breaks the

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<v Jeff>surface tension. So the bugs get sucked right in and drowned. So.

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<v Greg>It's perfect, and it worked so well. Yeah. It's just, yeah. Let the magic of

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<v Greg>surfactants do their work.

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<v Shannon>Mm-hmm.

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<v Jeff>Yep. I, uh, we had ants, and I bought, you know, those tarot trap things,

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<v Jeff>and it wasn't getting rid of the ants.

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<v Jeff>So then I looked online. I was like, oh, I gotta buy something else.

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<v Jeff>And I'm like, let's Google for DIY.

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<v Jeff>And if you just mix, um, I think it's 50% by weight sugar and borax and make a paste.

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<v Jeff>It, I made it once and it like wiped out the ends.

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<v Shannon>So they're the little tiny ones.

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<v Greg>Oh, those are the worst. Yeah. That reminds me that my parents are telling me

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<v Greg>that they read online, cause they had a problem with deer is hanging out and

00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:14.663
<v Greg>eating their stuff. And then what they read online was Irish spring.

00:15:14.663 --> 00:15:16.763
<v Greg>They hate the scent of Irish spring.

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<v Jeff>I've heard that, yeah.

00:15:17.963 --> 00:15:18.863
<v Greg>It's true, apparently.

00:15:19.818 --> 00:15:23.680
<v Jeff>We should buy some and hang it in the trees all around the-

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<v Jeff>I remember when I was in elementary school, I think, it was one of those things,

00:15:29.004 --> 00:15:32.206
<v Jeff>you can probably relate, right, where you're supposed to tell your parents to

00:15:32.206 --> 00:15:35.789
<v Jeff>prep and bring something in, you know, and you don't do it till the very last day.

00:15:36.189 --> 00:15:38.651
<v Jeff>And we were doing soap carving in our class or something like that.

00:15:40.012 --> 00:15:43.955
<v Jeff>And so I asked my mom for a bar of soap the very last time and we were an Irish Spring household.

00:15:44.295 --> 00:15:48.398
<v Jeff>And she was a-mad that she had these, the good Irish Spring you could have bought

00:15:48.398 --> 00:15:49.839
<v Jeff>a bar of Dove or something.

00:15:50.900 --> 00:15:55.343
<v Jeff>And then everyone else had white soap and I was the only one with green soap.

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<v Jeff>I felt like such a dingus, you know, like, you know, just all the stupid elementary

00:15:59.256 --> 00:16:03.620
<v Jeff>school things, right? Where you're the oddball and you just feel like, you hate it so much.

00:16:03.620 --> 00:16:07.032
<v Shannon>But the room smelled fresher because of you, right?

00:16:07.773 --> 00:16:13.498
<v Jeff>And then when I, I didn't get the concept of carving, I guess,

00:16:13.498 --> 00:16:19.963
<v Jeff>because what I, I carved like an eagle, but like a cookie cutter version of an Eagle, right?

00:16:19.963 --> 00:16:24.606
<v Jeff>Just so just like straight down, like no three dimensionality or nothing.

00:16:24.606 --> 00:16:27.809
<v Jeff>Oh, well, elementary school, right? I know.

00:16:28.950 --> 00:16:35.155
<v Greg>But so my parents, admittedly, what they say is that it's all anecdotal,

00:16:35.155 --> 00:16:39.138
<v Greg>but because they're not like they have cameras on there, but they used to notice

00:16:39.138 --> 00:16:43.761
<v Greg>deer and stuff hanging out. What's the matter?

00:16:43.761 --> 00:16:48.044
<v Shannon>We haven't even introduced the spear and we're still having this conversation and he's smelling it.

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<v Greg>I don't care. No, there's no protocol.

00:16:53.709 --> 00:16:58.662
<v Greg>Um, my parents are so that, yeah, they say that they, they used to notice deer

00:16:58.662 --> 00:17:04.616
<v Greg>just hanging out all the time. And now it's very rare that they even see a deer in there, uh, around.

00:17:05.237 --> 00:17:11.842
<v Greg>Um, and so again, it's not like they're checking, but my theory is the Irish

00:17:11.842 --> 00:17:15.815
<v Greg>spring doesn't necessarily like completely repel them, but it makes their place

00:17:15.815 --> 00:17:18.007
<v Greg>a lot less comfortable to be in than other places around.

00:17:18.007 --> 00:17:22.290
<v Jeff>Yeah. We'll have to give it a try.

00:17:22.290 --> 00:17:25.011
<v Shannon>Yeah, because it's always tick season here.

00:17:25.272 --> 00:17:31.897
<v Jeff>No, not like we've noticed catching any, but we could try putting some around

00:17:31.897 --> 00:17:34.239
<v Jeff>the flowers in the spring when they bloom and see if they don't get eaten.

00:17:34.239 --> 00:17:37.140
<v Shannon>Oh, my tulips. Yeah, it'd be really nice.

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<v Jeff>All right. So this next beer is Helltown Brewing Company here in the Pittsburgh area.

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<v Greg>Now, this is a Martsen. You can tell the color right away, the color difference. It's much more amber.

00:17:51.145 --> 00:17:53.206
<v Shannon>It's got I have floaties.

00:17:53.667 --> 00:17:54.467
<v Greg>Yeah floaties, huh?

00:17:54.467 --> 00:17:54.767
<v Jeff>Yeah,

00:17:57.139 --> 00:18:01.012
<v Jeff>it was a little chunky at the bottom of the can I tried to distribute them but

00:18:01.012 --> 00:18:03.744
<v Jeff>you missed out on the floaties They're an export.

00:18:04.575 --> 00:18:09.418
<v Jeff>They have a couple different tap rooms. They've one right downtown Didn't I

00:18:09.418 --> 00:18:10.499
<v Jeff>just open one in the strip?

00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:13.141
<v Jeff>Well, that's what I meant. Oh by downtown.

00:18:13.141 --> 00:18:19.085
<v Greg>Oh, okay and it's not technically downtown, but yeah, that's walking distance

00:18:19.085 --> 00:18:23.949
<v Greg>of here So all I got on this, because the Helltown Brewery doesn't have anything

00:18:23.949 --> 00:18:27.311
<v Greg>on it, so I went to untap. This is 6%. 6%. I'll call my volume.

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<v Jeff>The aroma on this one is more sequestered than the last one.

00:18:34.197 --> 00:18:38.980
<v Jeff>It is bready. It's more like that white bread crust type of aroma,

00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:44.525
<v Jeff>where the last one was more like quick bread, you know, cake kind of flavorings. Yeah.

00:18:46.226 --> 00:18:52.951
<v Shannon>I haven't tasted it yet, but... It doesn't smell as inviting as the last one.

00:18:53.391 --> 00:18:56.934
<v Greg>It is a little bit of a deeper thing, a little bit spicier in the hop,

00:18:56.934 --> 00:19:02.268
<v Greg>but not like super like hoppy, but more like rye bread in terms of like,

00:19:02.268 --> 00:19:05.380
<v Greg>maybe there's a deeper like molasses in there.

00:19:05.841 --> 00:19:10.184
<v Jeff>It's nice that it has that kind of spice to it, as opposed to just tasting like

00:19:10.184 --> 00:19:12.565
<v Jeff>bread crust, like plain bread crust.

00:19:13.927 --> 00:19:18.490
<v Jeff>The spiciness is, yeah, it's kind of bordering on rye. I think that's probably

00:19:18.490 --> 00:19:21.152
<v Jeff>from like Noble Hops giving it the spiciness.

00:19:21.152 --> 00:19:24.274
<v Greg>I don't think this is that, because I think you'd taste the rye if it was here,

00:19:24.274 --> 00:19:27.116
<v Greg>but I'm just thinking of like darker bread.

00:19:28.277 --> 00:19:32.730
<v Jeff>Yeah, it's pretty dry. Like compared to the last one, this one has a lot drier

00:19:32.730 --> 00:19:35.481
<v Jeff>mid palate to it and finish. What do you think?

00:19:35.481 --> 00:19:35.781
<v Greg>Huh?

00:19:44.313 --> 00:19:50.098
<v Shannon>It's definitely drier. Um, more what I.

00:19:50.098 --> 00:20:00.885
<v Shannon>Yeah, it's kind of like a, you said the rye bread, that the crust off of a rye

00:20:00.885 --> 00:20:04.448
<v Shannon>bread would be a good way to describe it, I think.

00:20:04.869 --> 00:20:08.651
<v Greg>Or if you went like really deep and dark with a regular white bread,

00:20:08.651 --> 00:20:10.593
<v Greg>you might be able to get a crust that was sort of like this.

00:20:11.573 --> 00:20:13.235
<v Greg>A lot of caramelization going on.

00:20:13.615 --> 00:20:15.376
<v Jeff>Their marketing speaks spot on though.

00:20:18.779 --> 00:20:22.881
<v Jeff>This lager with a celebratory history is brewed with German tradition hops to

00:20:22.881 --> 00:20:24.843
<v Jeff>create subtle notes of herbs and spice.

00:20:24.843 --> 00:20:32.929
<v Jeff>A rich, bready aroma leads to a slightly sweet and malt-forward flavor followed

00:20:32.929 --> 00:20:35.070
<v Jeff>by a finish that is crisp and semi-dry.

00:20:36.291 --> 00:20:39.673
<v Greg>This isn't as yeasty as the other one. The other one had a lot of like a big

00:20:39.673 --> 00:20:41.014
<v Greg>yeasty bread type thing.

00:20:43.596 --> 00:20:47.549
<v Shannon>I like this. It's just very different from the last one.

00:20:49.101 --> 00:20:54.744
<v Greg>I kind of think I like this version more. I think I, not that the Sierra Nevada

00:20:54.744 --> 00:20:59.528
<v Greg>was bad at all, but I think that I, especially if I were to drink something more often than.

00:20:59.988 --> 00:21:05.992
<v Jeff>Yeah, I mean, we only had four ounces, right? So that one, having the sweeter

00:21:05.992 --> 00:21:10.737
<v Jeff>representation of it for a four-round sample kind of like hits you quick and

00:21:10.737 --> 00:21:11.598
<v Jeff>gets you like acclimated.

00:21:13.661 --> 00:21:17.104
<v Jeff>Think about drinking a liter of an Oktoberfest, right? Like,

00:21:17.104 --> 00:21:18.546
<v Jeff>cause they traditionally come in liter mugs.

00:21:20.649 --> 00:21:25.694
<v Jeff>This one might be better suited for the session. you know, that kind of thing.

00:21:26.978 --> 00:21:34.923
<v Greg>Well, I think another comparison might be this thing that we have sort of in

00:21:34.923 --> 00:21:36.764
<v Greg>waiting, threatening us.

00:21:38.836 --> 00:21:42.128
<v Shannon>Let's wait on that. I don't want to mess up my taste buds.

00:21:43.809 --> 00:21:45.330
<v Greg>It will all be revealed soon.

00:21:48.292 --> 00:21:50.653
<v Jeff>We should, I think we, I'll talk about later.

00:21:52.935 --> 00:21:58.128
<v Jeff>Um, One thing that I put in our like kind of ideas for conversation topics is

00:21:58.128 --> 00:22:02.080
<v Jeff>kind of history repeating itself, like ales preceding lagers, right?

00:22:02.961 --> 00:22:09.085
<v Jeff>In antiquity, right? Beers were ales for millennia until,

00:22:09.085 --> 00:22:16.820
<v Jeff>you know, like the 14th century or so when in Europe lager use was isolated

00:22:16.820 --> 00:22:18.891
<v Jeff>and lager started being a thing.

00:22:18.891 --> 00:22:29.438
<v Greg>Right. We don't know when Pistorius, the breed of yeast that is used in loggers, came about.

00:22:29.438 --> 00:22:33.721
<v Greg>It could have come about as early as that, or it could have been around in nature

00:22:33.721 --> 00:22:35.983
<v Greg>for a long time. It could have been just a mutation.

00:22:35.983 --> 00:22:39.666
<v Jeff>Well, I mean, I think about it, it's probably, I mean, I would assume that it

00:22:39.666 --> 00:22:49.513
<v Jeff>is in nature, but is out-competed, unless you isolate it and put it in the right conditions, right?

00:22:49.513 --> 00:22:54.437
<v Jeff>So if you just have a beer that you're fermenting at ale temperatures,

00:22:54.437 --> 00:22:59.824
<v Jeff>and there's some fraction of lager yeast in there, it's going to be out competing, right?

00:23:03.811 --> 00:23:09.819
<v Jeff>So when they started, you know, the evolution of lagering beer was ...

00:23:12.247 --> 00:23:16.550
<v Jeff>Probably not a single specific thing, but you know, they were conditioning beer

00:23:16.550 --> 00:23:21.674
<v Jeff>in caves and it was colder temperature Different yeast was propagating at those temperatures, right?

00:23:21.674 --> 00:23:28.318
<v Jeff>And then it was isolated and refined and whatnot It's more technology then,

00:23:28.318 --> 00:23:35.403
<v Jeff>you know just making ale because You can make ale Just with spontaneous fermentation

00:23:35.403 --> 00:23:38.706
<v Jeff>and all kinds of things I guess the question then is if you were making ale

00:23:38.706 --> 00:23:46.181
<v Jeff>like in Siberia would you have found that it would tend to be more lagerish?

00:23:47.703 --> 00:23:49.294
<v Jeff>That's a curious question.

00:23:53.877 --> 00:23:58.741
<v Jeff>It's a very interesting question. I probably would think that if you weren't,

00:23:58.741 --> 00:24:03.864
<v Jeff>I don't know, like there's intentionality and then accident, right?

00:24:03.864 --> 00:24:09.008
<v Jeff>And like, if it's not intentional, then you have this longer to produce more

00:24:09.008 --> 00:24:13.271
<v Jeff>materials intensive, you know, time intensive process.

00:24:13.271 --> 00:24:17.119
<v Jeff>Um, but you know,

00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:22.178
<v Jeff>a, a scenario where it's the only way you get beer, you know,

00:24:22.178 --> 00:24:25.600
<v Jeff>would be curious to, if we could, like, if a historian had that,

00:24:25.600 --> 00:24:29.403
<v Jeff>um, you know, maybe in the Alps, you know, or something like that.

00:24:29.403 --> 00:24:33.185
<v Greg>I mean, it, it, it's, it's pretty apparent that people who would have been brewing

00:24:33.185 --> 00:24:37.243
<v Greg>in Tiberia probably didn't keep good enough records for us to know. So...

00:24:37.243 --> 00:24:41.540
<v Jeff>I would presume that brewing happened in the summertime and they made kvass.

00:24:41.540 --> 00:24:42.281
<v Greg>Yeah.

00:24:42.281 --> 00:24:47.110
<v Jeff>Things like that. But like so that was in antiquity and then,

00:24:48.643 --> 00:24:54.347
<v Jeff>you know, there's like in early colonial times, right. It was all ales.

00:24:54.347 --> 00:25:00.051
<v Jeff>And then loggers took over at, you know, kind of post pro post prohibition.

00:25:00.051 --> 00:25:07.957
<v Greg>Once refrigeration became easier. I think that both for early like 1890s,

00:25:07.957 --> 00:25:13.621
<v Greg>like there was more refrigeration in terms of you were able to get a supply

00:25:13.621 --> 00:25:15.563
<v Greg>chain for ice and stuff like that to where you were. Yeah.

00:25:17.745 --> 00:25:24.350
<v Jeff>Or the infrastructure to dig caves, things like that, where in the 1700s and

00:25:24.350 --> 00:25:26.752
<v Jeff>whatnot, American beer was ales.

00:25:27.713 --> 00:25:31.835
<v Jeff>German beers were lagers, but America didn't have the infrastructure to make lagers.

00:25:32.156 --> 00:25:39.201
<v Greg>America's lower than Germany is for most of it in terms of where it is on the

00:25:39.201 --> 00:25:41.463
<v Greg>world, so you'd expect it's going to be more humid and more ...

00:25:41.463 --> 00:25:46.366
<v Jeff>Right. So ales preceded lagers a second time. And then in craft beer,

00:25:46.366 --> 00:25:47.907
<v Jeff>it's a different reason.

00:25:48.468 --> 00:25:51.369
<v Jeff>Ales, I think there's several reasons that ales preceded lagers.

00:25:51.369 --> 00:25:55.052
<v Jeff>Like ales turned faster and were less resource intensive to make.

00:25:55.052 --> 00:25:59.394
<v Jeff>So, and then I think a big part of it for you and I specifically,

00:25:59.394 --> 00:26:04.257
<v Jeff>and probably a lot of people in our generation, is ooh, new flavors that's not

00:26:04.257 --> 00:26:12.443
<v Jeff>in my dad's beer, you know, and so we all gravitated towards ales and I remember not liking lagers.

00:26:12.443 --> 00:26:15.450
<v Jeff>I thought they tasted tinny or penny-like or something like that.

00:26:17.649 --> 00:26:21.392
<v Jeff>And then, you know, we finally learned to taste and enjoy lagers.

00:26:21.392 --> 00:26:26.296
<v Jeff>The first lager I enjoyed was Great Lakes L8NS, which was a Vienna lager, kind of like Sam Adams.

00:26:26.857 --> 00:26:30.539
<v Jeff>And, you know, shortly after that, I learned that Sam Adams is a good one, too.

00:26:32.281 --> 00:26:36.103
<v Jeff>But it wasn't very popular in craft beer. And now, like, the past couple of

00:26:36.103 --> 00:26:38.725
<v Jeff>years, right, it's crazy. It's like the thing.

00:26:39.887 --> 00:26:41.507
<v Jeff>So that's like three times.

00:26:41.507 --> 00:26:43.349
<v Greg>It's not the thing. The thing is Hazy's.

00:26:43.369 --> 00:26:44.550
<v Jeff>Well, OK, so.

00:26:45.811 --> 00:26:50.715
<v Greg>Like, if you go to your average craft beer place, it's going to be hard.

00:26:50.715 --> 00:26:54.858
<v Greg>You're not, you're going to have 10 hazes on tap, maybe a lager.

00:26:54.858 --> 00:26:56.780
<v Jeff>But lagers are surging right now.

00:26:56.780 --> 00:26:57.760
<v Greg>Good.

00:26:57.760 --> 00:27:00.883
<v Shannon>Yeah. Definitely have noticed more lagers.

00:27:00.883 --> 00:27:02.364
<v Jeff>They're surging. And...

00:27:02.364 --> 00:27:06.087
<v Greg>I mean, one thing to think about though, is that this is the time of year where lagers surge.

00:27:06.087 --> 00:27:09.770
<v Jeff>No, I mean, over the past like year and a half, they've started the surge.

00:27:10.170 --> 00:27:11.131
<v Greg>I haven't noticed it.

00:27:11.131 --> 00:27:17.495
<v Jeff>Okay. Well, we went to 42 breweries in the past.

00:27:17.495 --> 00:27:22.478
<v Greg>You have a, you have more of a- 17 days. You definitely have a larger sample than I do.

00:27:22.659 --> 00:27:29.103
<v Jeff>So like the thing that got me thinking about this is like, is there some kind

00:27:29.103 --> 00:27:36.489
<v Jeff>of like, what is it that it takes time, but it drives drinkers to prefer lagers? Like, I don't know.

00:27:36.549 --> 00:27:39.671
<v Jeff>That's a little premature to say craft beer drinkers are going to prefer lagers,

00:27:39.671 --> 00:27:45.075
<v Jeff>But like it's already happened twice before you know like in history like is

00:27:45.075 --> 00:27:46.216
<v Jeff>it going to happen again?

00:27:48.218 --> 00:27:53.822
<v Greg>Well All right, so there's a lot of factors here, so I don't know How to answer

00:27:53.822 --> 00:27:57.945
<v Greg>that or how to begin to try to answer it right because I mean first of all I

00:27:57.945 --> 00:28:01.228
<v Greg>think okay Well, it's just a pendulum swing back and forth right then that's part of it,

00:28:02.549 --> 00:28:12.108
<v Greg>also a big part of the big part of the So how big loggers got was the industrialization

00:28:12.108 --> 00:28:16.186
<v Greg>of the loggering process by people like Anheuser-Busch.

00:28:20.174 --> 00:28:23.175
<v Greg>and understand and making that into a commodity product.

00:28:26.178 --> 00:28:32.462
<v Greg>Doing that large scale, I don't know whether it's cheap or necessarily do it for lagers,

00:28:32.462 --> 00:28:41.178
<v Greg>but it's certainly what they landed on and what a lot of, you know,

00:28:41.178 --> 00:28:45.151
<v Greg>the huge scale commodity beers,

00:28:46.372 --> 00:28:48.193
<v Greg>I can't think of one that's an ale.

00:28:49.755 --> 00:28:56.419
<v Jeff>Oh, yeah, no, it's lager. So there's something about, if you take a wide enough

00:28:56.419 --> 00:28:59.401
<v Jeff>drinking audience, they prefer lager flavors.

00:29:00.402 --> 00:29:04.824
<v Jeff>And that hasn't, if you take all of beer drinkers for the last 30 years,

00:29:04.824 --> 00:29:09.307
<v Jeff>it really hasn't changed at all, right? I mean, Bud Light, Budweiser sells so

00:29:09.307 --> 00:29:12.269
<v Jeff>much beer, but like used to sell a lot of beer.

00:29:15.252 --> 00:29:16.532
<v Jeff>It was more of just like...

00:29:16.532 --> 00:29:17.893
<v Greg>Because they went woke. Yep.

00:29:17.893 --> 00:29:20.996
<v Jeff>It was more of, this whole thing was more of just this ponderous thought of

00:29:20.996 --> 00:29:26.080
<v Jeff>like, like almost like, you know, things want to get to their lowest energy state kind of thing.

00:29:26.481 --> 00:29:30.183
<v Jeff>Like, like thinking of that, like there's some kind of trend towards lagers

00:29:30.183 --> 00:29:35.407
<v Jeff>and there's this pendulum and it, you know, goes back and forth and there's

00:29:35.407 --> 00:29:39.070
<v Jeff>revolution and this and that, but it, it seems that maybe it's more,

00:29:39.070 --> 00:29:40.811
<v Jeff>maybe pendulum is a better way to think of it.

00:29:40.811 --> 00:29:46.015
<v Jeff>But it's like, you know, over history, it's at least three times where loggers have like taken on.

00:29:46.015 --> 00:29:49.338
<v Greg>I mean, the principle of least action should come into play.

00:29:49.338 --> 00:29:56.764
<v Greg>It's a universal principle, so it should manifest itself all over the place. So. All right.

00:29:56.764 --> 00:29:58.405
<v Jeff>So now we have fat heads.

00:29:59.926 --> 00:30:01.947
<v Greg>Back to a thesphere. Yes.

00:30:01.947 --> 00:30:05.751
<v Jeff>It is. Yes.

00:30:05.751 --> 00:30:08.092
<v Greg>So, pale, straw color. Mm-hm.

00:30:14.126 --> 00:30:14.957
<v Greg>Let's see, this one...

00:30:14.957 --> 00:30:18.059
<v Shannon>Not as bready on the nose at all.

00:30:18.220 --> 00:30:22.642
<v Jeff>Yeah, this one has a little bit more of... It's similar, it's more similar to

00:30:22.642 --> 00:30:28.967
<v Jeff>the first one, where it has a touch of like honey bread versus wonder bread

00:30:28.967 --> 00:30:30.428
<v Jeff>crust, you know, that kind of thing.

00:30:30.829 --> 00:30:33.811
<v Jeff>And the colors kind of corroborate that as well.

00:30:34.311 --> 00:30:40.195
<v Greg>This one is 5% alcohol by volume, 25 IBU, and they call it a Fesbier.

00:30:40.756 --> 00:30:42.077
<v Greg>They say it's Bavarian style.

00:30:42.157 --> 00:30:47.421
<v Shannon>The Varian style, yes. The Varian style sauerkraut.

00:30:49.923 --> 00:30:51.804
<v Greg>As you said that, I was smelling it for some reason.

00:30:51.804 --> 00:31:02.132
<v Jeff>Yeah. It has, um, it's intensity of aroma is tighter than the very first beer.

00:31:02.473 --> 00:31:06.435
<v Jeff>Um, but it does have that kind of sweet honey, kind of honey bread type thing.

00:31:07.036 --> 00:31:11.940
<v Greg>Okay. So just took a taste. In comparison to the other beers,

00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:14.341
<v Greg>It tastes almost sour. Really?

00:31:14.341 --> 00:31:15.562
<v Shannon>I haven't tasted it yet.

00:31:15.562 --> 00:31:22.928
<v Jeff>It has, it doesn't have the bready body to it. It has more of a cremal type

00:31:22.928 --> 00:31:26.871
<v Jeff>flavor, like a corn type thing. Thinner body, lower attenuation.

00:31:27.191 --> 00:31:30.934
<v Greg>It's probably a little bit of DMS on this, speaking of something else that we can talk about.

00:31:30.934 --> 00:31:32.495
<v Jeff>Corn type? What do you got?

00:31:33.756 --> 00:31:41.643
<v Shannon>I have not tasted it yet. Just on the nose, it's reminding me of the ones that

00:31:41.643 --> 00:31:45.866
<v Shannon>we did a month ago or whatever from Hill Farmstead.

00:31:47.108 --> 00:31:55.033
<v Jeff>Okay Like a saison or something like yes You know, I mean because it's so thin

00:31:55.033 --> 00:31:57.735
<v Jeff>and dry and has a tartness to it.

00:31:58.195 --> 00:32:02.798
<v Greg>I could see where this is It has a tartness to because of what it's missing

00:32:02.798 --> 00:32:07.021
<v Greg>not because of what what's in it. It's missing a malt backbone What's there

00:32:07.021 --> 00:32:08.762
<v Greg>is like a saltine cracker.

00:32:09.262 --> 00:32:11.263
<v Greg>It's got nothing else.

00:32:12.725 --> 00:32:17.347
<v Greg>So So the hops become noticeable and it tends towards almost a sourness.

00:32:17.347 --> 00:32:24.492
<v Jeff>Yeah. Thinking about other lagers, this kind of has a bit of like Italian lager

00:32:24.492 --> 00:32:26.114
<v Jeff>type flavor with a body or

00:32:26.244 --> 00:32:34.700
<v Jeff>a feel, like with a thinner body, the kind of light malt, maybe not,

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:36.461
<v Jeff>maybe, maybe not like that corn.

00:32:36.461 --> 00:32:42.005
<v Jeff>I keep saying it has this corn thing, but it reminds me of kind of like Italian

00:32:42.005 --> 00:32:45.568
<v Jeff>lager or something like that. It really doesn't taste like an Oktoberfest.

00:32:45.809 --> 00:32:47.950
<v Greg>Yeah, I don't think the corn thing is wrong. I do think like,

00:32:47.950 --> 00:32:51.933
<v Greg>I would say this is very drinkable. If you had this at a bar, you'd down it quick.

00:32:52.334 --> 00:32:56.777
<v Greg>But if you're- It's only 5%, so. If you're comparing it to these other beers

00:32:56.777 --> 00:32:59.439
<v Greg>we've had, it's noticeably less than.

00:33:01.441 --> 00:33:07.225
<v Jeff>I do like the tanginess though. It's kind of like, um, a thirst quencher,

00:33:07.225 --> 00:33:15.011
<v Jeff>you know, the like, if I'm drinking for the session at an Oktoberfest or something

00:33:15.011 --> 00:33:16.392
<v Jeff>like that, it fatheads Oktoberfest.

00:33:16.853 --> 00:33:22.477
<v Jeff>Um, especially if it's a warm, sunny day, that kind of tangy thing is pretty

00:33:22.477 --> 00:33:24.939
<v Jeff>thirst quenching. I could see it having its place.

00:33:24.939 --> 00:33:30.724
<v Greg>Yeah, no, again, I don't want to overly insult the beer. Cause it's not like there's bad flavors.

00:33:30.724 --> 00:33:33.906
<v Jeff>Do you think like a lavender thing or something like that, like this,

00:33:33.906 --> 00:33:35.407
<v Jeff>like it's in the late aftertaste?

00:33:35.407 --> 00:33:36.668
<v Greg>I think it has the hops, I think.

00:33:36.828 --> 00:33:38.269
<v Jeff>Yeah, but it has this kind of floral...

00:33:39.250 --> 00:33:39.770
<v Shannon>It does.

00:33:40.791 --> 00:33:45.374
<v Jeff>Polony thing. Mm-hmm.

00:33:45.374 --> 00:33:46.514
<v Greg>Yeah, a little bit.

00:33:50.637 --> 00:33:55.360
<v Greg>I guess when my expectations are primed by the big sweetness when I get this,

00:33:55.360 --> 00:34:04.808
<v Greg>it feels, uh, so different that I'm, my, I'm having trouble adapting to it.

00:34:05.148 --> 00:34:10.792
<v Shannon>It's because you're expecting an October 1st and it really doesn't resemble an October 1st.

00:34:10.792 --> 00:34:11.933
<v Greg>No, it really doesn't.

00:34:11.933 --> 00:34:16.157
<v Jeff>If I had this at, you know, a brew pub, I would think it's getting infected.

00:34:16.657 --> 00:34:19.999
<v Jeff>And I thought didn't cross my mind until just now now.

00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:24.103
<v Jeff>I'm not sure Mm-hmm, but like if I had this on tap at a brew pub,

00:34:24.103 --> 00:34:31.148
<v Jeff>I'd be like dude your beers infected, you know Low low attenuation that tanginess

00:34:31.148 --> 00:34:37.313
<v Jeff>it it does have all the hallmarks of like a dirty tap line infected Draft beer.

00:34:39.194 --> 00:34:42.977
<v Jeff>Yeah Yeah, fine, but we do have a second can of this Yeah,

00:34:42.977 --> 00:34:46.200
<v Jeff>you think it's worth trying a different can to see if it has a different they

00:34:46.200 --> 00:34:47.581
<v Jeff>come from the same place Yeah,

00:34:47.581 --> 00:34:55.947
<v Jeff>then I don't think so Yeah, probably from the same case so So only if there

00:34:55.947 --> 00:35:00.490
<v Jeff>was a packaging with this can but I mean the seams not popped or anything so Yeah,

00:35:00.490 --> 00:35:14.021
<v Jeff>this what's the date on this guy July 17, it's crazy July, they're canning.

00:35:14.021 --> 00:35:17.323
<v Greg>I mean, that's when you have to have it out for. You gotta have it prepared.

00:35:17.323 --> 00:35:21.426
<v Greg>You can't just, if you do it two weeks before and then there's a mess up in

00:35:21.426 --> 00:35:25.429
<v Greg>your supply for whatever reason, all of a sudden you don't have a beer to sell.

00:35:26.049 --> 00:35:31.473
<v Greg>So I get it, you gotta prepare, but especially if you have a lot of distribution to do.

00:35:32.694 --> 00:35:37.878
<v Jeff>So just kinda, I only posted this in because it's funny, but there's this article

00:35:37.878 --> 00:35:42.641
<v Jeff>about the James Webb a space telescope that they found tantalizing signs of

00:35:42.641 --> 00:35:45.063
<v Jeff>possible life on a faraway world.

00:35:46.825 --> 00:35:52.309
<v Jeff>And the spectroscope found DMS, dimethyl sulfide, which is that kind of green

00:35:52.309 --> 00:35:53.710
<v Jeff>bean flavor you get in beer.

00:35:55.351 --> 00:35:59.234
<v Jeff>Usually, main culprit is if you don't chill your wort fast enough after you're done boiling.

00:36:00.195 --> 00:36:05.759
<v Jeff>Rolling Rock, made here in Pennsylvania, was famous for having tons of DMS because

00:36:05.759 --> 00:36:09.002
<v Jeff>their brewery couldn't chill the wort very fast.

00:36:09.722 --> 00:36:13.485
<v Jeff>So I posted this in the show, I should have posted it just in the general chat

00:36:13.485 --> 00:36:14.886
<v Jeff>so people could have laughed about it.

00:36:15.227 --> 00:36:18.649
<v Jeff>But I posted this in the show notes and then my commentary was they need the

00:36:18.649 --> 00:36:22.973
<v Jeff>chill the wort faster. Yeah. Got a whole planet of people that are making beer

00:36:22.973 --> 00:36:24.434
<v Jeff>that aren't chilling the wort.

00:36:24.434 --> 00:36:27.616
<v Greg>For those who are wondering, I mean, this is the kind of stuff that I do,

00:36:27.616 --> 00:36:29.116
<v Greg>look into when it happens.

00:36:33.695 --> 00:36:36.316
<v Greg>The, the detection was at a pretty low Sigma. It was like 2.3,

00:36:36.316 --> 00:36:41.880
<v Greg>even lower than that. It was like, well, so that's like a one in 66 chance that it's just a fluke.

00:36:42.301 --> 00:36:44.602
<v Greg>And that's, that's too big a chance.

00:36:45.063 --> 00:36:49.986
<v Greg>Uh, and in addition, there's kind of, it's only it's data that's not released yet.

00:36:49.986 --> 00:36:53.849
<v Greg>Cause, cause the James Webb Space Telescope, the data, this team had access

00:36:53.849 --> 00:36:56.310
<v Greg>to it, but the data takes a year for it to get fully public.

00:36:56.310 --> 00:37:03.416
<v Greg>I mean, so no one else did the analysis and it was only analysis through, I think one, one band.

00:37:04.437 --> 00:37:14.684
<v Greg>So I, and, and it was a degenerate analysis in the sense that you,

00:37:14.684 --> 00:37:17.527
<v Greg>other things could be, could be making this signal.

00:37:18.488 --> 00:37:23.392
<v Greg>It's not exclusively DMS that can make this signal. Okay.

00:37:23.392 --> 00:37:30.637
<v Greg>So there's a lot of reasons to think that this is not like It would be a huge

00:37:30.637 --> 00:37:36.421
<v Greg>story were it true But still not necessarily saying that life is there just

00:37:36.421 --> 00:37:40.985
<v Greg>the DMS is there but It is not at all.

00:37:40.985 --> 00:37:44.848
<v Jeff>I think the point where you can say yes, there's DMS in the atmosphere of this

00:37:44.848 --> 00:37:50.482
<v Jeff>planet All right Triggs our last Oktoberfest not our last beverage this evening,

00:37:50.482 --> 00:37:54.015
<v Jeff>but our last Oktoberfest is from trugs and and 6.1%.

00:37:54.015 --> 00:37:54.615
<v Shannon>APB.

00:37:54.615 --> 00:38:00.479
<v Jeff>Awesome. Had this beer on draft yesterday and it was fantastic.

00:38:02.301 --> 00:38:04.742
<v Jeff>So that's part of the whole thing that inspired.

00:38:05.983 --> 00:38:09.405
<v Greg>We went Fassbier Marz and Fassbier Marz because this is Marz. Yes, it is, yes.

00:38:12.087 --> 00:38:18.271
<v Jeff>Yeah, super duper clear. This one has a more brownish tint to the gold compared

00:38:18.271 --> 00:38:24.515
<v Jeff>to, uh, oh, I guess that was the first one. Yeah. It was like, um, yeah.

00:38:26.497 --> 00:38:31.020
<v Jeff>So we went from gold to Amber to gold to dark gold.

00:38:34.743 --> 00:38:36.104
<v Jeff>This is more dark gold to me.

00:38:38.016 --> 00:38:44.510
<v Greg>I, I think that I see what you're saying. Okay. I see what you're saying.

00:38:44.732 --> 00:38:48.254
<v Greg>I'm not going to fight over it. I'm not dying on this hill. It's more Marzini.

00:38:48.254 --> 00:38:50.115
<v Jeff>Okay.

00:38:50.115 --> 00:38:55.339
<v Greg>This is Hillertal Tradition and Pilsner Munich Malts. As Shannon said,

00:38:55.339 --> 00:38:56.920
<v Greg>it's 6.1% alcohol by volume. Smell on this guy.

00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:58.282
<v Jeff>Beautiful. Very bready.

00:39:00.964 --> 00:39:05.527
<v Jeff>You get the breadiness. There's a little bit of that Wonder Bread crust flavor,

00:39:05.527 --> 00:39:06.848
<v Jeff>but there's more malt character.

00:39:08.249 --> 00:39:14.014
<v Greg>Yeah, as opposed to the closed off aroma from, Uh, was it the Helltown or was it?

00:39:14.254 --> 00:39:17.101
<v Jeff>Helltown was pretty closed off and so was the fat heads.

00:39:17.101 --> 00:39:17.361
<v Greg>Yeah.

00:39:20.389 --> 00:39:22.734
<v Greg>This one's very open. and it's got a lot of breadiness to it.

00:39:27.908 --> 00:39:34.533
<v Jeff>I mean, this is kind of right smack dab in the middle, what I'm looking for in Oktoberfest, right?

00:39:35.915 --> 00:39:40.157
<v Jeff>There's a moderately full body. There's sweet, bready flavor up through it.

00:39:40.157 --> 00:39:44.080
<v Jeff>It does dry off at the end, but it doesn't dry prematurely. So you can enjoy

00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:50.225
<v Jeff>that kind of Vienna malt and Munich malt in there. And...

00:39:50.225 --> 00:39:52.897
<v Greg>Another factor we didn't mention though, just want to put in here,

00:39:52.897 --> 00:39:55.809
<v Greg>is this has been sitting around the longest and so it means it's warmed up the most.

00:39:58.672 --> 00:40:01.594
<v Greg>So that may be why the rum is more open, for example.

00:40:01.594 --> 00:40:02.174
<v Shannon>Maybe.

00:40:02.795 --> 00:40:08.099
<v Jeff>It could be. I mean, it was also delicious beer, the two drafts that I had yesterday, so.

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:09.460
<v Shannon>And I had one too.

00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:10.240
<v Jeff>Did you?

00:40:10.240 --> 00:40:12.762
<v Shannon>I think so. Cool. Okay, I ordered one.

00:40:13.073 --> 00:40:15.264
<v Greg>But this nails that, like you were saying.

00:40:15.264 --> 00:40:16.906
<v Shannon>I ordered a lot of shit.

00:40:16.906 --> 00:40:25.475
<v Greg>That bit of sweet, but not too sweet, bready but not overly yeasty.

00:40:30.941 --> 00:40:36.047
<v Greg>Enough hoppiness to get down but not to at all really influence the palate.

00:40:36.047 --> 00:40:36.587
<v Shannon>No. Yeah.

00:40:40.128 --> 00:40:43.030
<v Jeff>It's this is the trogues Oktoberfest if you are in

00:40:43.030 --> 00:40:46.432
<v Jeff>the trogues market and can get this Get this

00:40:46.432 --> 00:40:49.234
<v Jeff>definitely the best Oktoberfest I've had so

00:40:49.234 --> 00:41:02.704
<v Jeff>far this year and it is are we driving Past there on our way no to me We are

00:41:02.704 --> 00:41:07.007
<v Jeff>going to the Catskill Mountain Maker Camp next week,

00:41:07.007 --> 00:41:09.789
<v Jeff>I know No, we can't, like, drive through Hershey to...

00:41:09.789 --> 00:41:14.072
<v Jeff>Well, I want to talk about that and not your delusional dream that we're going

00:41:14.072 --> 00:41:14.912
<v Jeff>to move to Maine next week.

00:41:14.912 --> 00:41:19.776
<v Shannon>No, no, no. To hit, drive through Hershey to get there. I mean, I know it's...

00:41:19.776 --> 00:41:23.759
<v Jeff>Do you want the trip to take longer than it has to? There's breweries on the

00:41:23.759 --> 00:41:26.940
<v Jeff>way. I got them mapped out. Don't worry. Of course you do. Of course you do.

00:41:27.661 --> 00:41:35.667
<v Jeff>So, yeah, so we are, a couple of big developments, I guess, since the last show.

00:41:35.748 --> 00:41:37.588
<v Jeff>We've talked about Protohaven a lot.

00:41:38.590 --> 00:41:41.251
<v Jeff>Currently Shannon and I are no longer involved with Protohaven.

00:41:42.352 --> 00:41:43.833
<v Shannon>I resigned from the board.

00:41:44.334 --> 00:41:45.294
<v Jeff>Politics and things.

00:41:48.017 --> 00:41:51.459
<v Jeff>So there's that. I was doing a lot of woodturning, you know,

00:41:51.459 --> 00:41:53.120
<v Jeff>bowls and stuff. You got that awesome bowl.

00:41:54.041 --> 00:41:56.762
<v Greg>You want it back because now you need it in order to...

00:41:57.043 --> 00:42:01.967
<v Jeff>No, no, I don't need it back. No, keep it. It's still like the best bowl that I've made.

00:42:02.047 --> 00:42:05.349
<v Shannon>That's why I'm like, maybe you want it back.

00:42:05.910 --> 00:42:09.753
<v Jeff>No. No way. from you, I'll just have to make hundreds more until I can make another one that good.

00:42:12.096 --> 00:42:17.599
<v Jeff>I bought a lathe on Facebook Marketplace. It's a smaller one than the one at

00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:21.943
<v Jeff>Proto Haven, but it's the biggest one that can run 120 volts.

00:42:22.684 --> 00:42:26.747
<v Jeff>I'm happy with it so far. I've spent almost all day today out there messing

00:42:26.747 --> 00:42:27.927
<v Jeff>around with it. Just today.

00:42:29.310 --> 00:42:29.950
<v Shannon>Just today?

00:42:30.291 --> 00:42:31.991
<v Jeff>I've done some other stuff, but all day today.

00:42:35.835 --> 00:42:40.078
<v Jeff>Then got, then I'm like, oh, okay, now I need a bandsaw so I can make bowl blanks.

00:42:40.078 --> 00:42:45.721
<v Jeff>So got this great deal on a— Been a slippery slope. But it was such a good deal.

00:42:46.202 --> 00:42:49.524
<v Jeff>A $60 bandsaw. Yeah. And then I had to put $40 of parts in it,

00:42:49.524 --> 00:42:51.426
<v Jeff>and now I have good bandsaw.

00:42:51.426 --> 00:42:56.730
<v Shannon>I don't know. I came home the other day and there were six Amazon packages sitting

00:42:56.730 --> 00:43:00.893
<v Shannon>there piled up on the porch, but there's been deliveries every day this week.

00:43:02.374 --> 00:43:08.338
<v Jeff>Most of them are cheap, but so been, you know, got my own kind of shed cleaned

00:43:08.338 --> 00:43:10.719
<v Jeff>up and my own woodshop, which is our woodshop.

00:43:11.761 --> 00:43:19.246
<v Jeff>Kind of nice not having, it's kind of like, you know, I was in a significant

00:43:19.246 --> 00:43:24.170
<v Jeff>leadership role of like volunteer organization at Protohaven and it's been nice

00:43:24.170 --> 00:43:26.171
<v Jeff>not having to put that time in.

00:43:27.582 --> 00:43:37.089
<v Jeff>So anyway, there's all of that. And then we met back up with the guy that we did our rings with,

00:43:37.089 --> 00:43:43.283
<v Jeff>Craig, and he kind of reminded us about the Catskill Mountain Maker Camp.

00:43:43.283 --> 00:43:47.746
<v Jeff>So this is up in upstate New York, in the Catskills. He goes every year.

00:43:48.707 --> 00:43:52.449
<v Jeff>So we're going to go camping next week up there, and they have like,

00:43:52.449 --> 00:43:54.970
<v Jeff>on the weekend they And they have these...

00:43:55.794 --> 00:44:00.578
<v Jeff>Like when you buy your ticket you can go and like learn how to weld or Wood

00:44:00.578 --> 00:44:04.050
<v Jeff>turn or all this other stuff. Yeah, it sounds like it'll be pretty pretty cool

00:44:04.050 --> 00:44:09.934
<v Jeff>And then you hang out after the sun goes down seven thousand people going Bring your mushrooms.

00:44:09.934 --> 00:44:14.037
<v Shannon>I'm pretty sure that's what he said something around somewhere around seven

00:44:14.037 --> 00:44:19.041
<v Shannon>thousand Yeah, it's an insane amount and well, it's in new york, right?

00:44:19.041 --> 00:44:20.842
<v Greg>So all the weed is good.

00:44:20.842 --> 00:44:26.407
<v Jeff>Yeah. No, no, he was talking about how um There's like, you know,

00:44:26.407 --> 00:44:27.668
<v Jeff>weed farmers and you're there.

00:44:29.289 --> 00:44:33.232
<v Jeff>You know how like the serving size for stuff you can get like in Maine or whatnot,

00:44:33.232 --> 00:44:34.993
<v Jeff>it's like 10 milligrams or whatever.

00:44:36.194 --> 00:44:43.840
<v Jeff>He had a candy bar, it was a 420 bar. So it was 10 squares. Each one was 42.

00:44:44.180 --> 00:44:49.944
<v Greg>That was like the one that I had, which was 35 each square.

00:44:49.944 --> 00:44:58.350
<v Jeff>So 42 each square Insane that's the medical marijuana any time for like 10 bucks.

00:44:58.350 --> 00:45:10.178
<v Shannon>Mm-hmm the whole bar not a square That's the story so yeah, we might be looking

00:45:10.178 --> 00:45:11.579
<v Shannon>for the farmers up there.

00:45:11.579 --> 00:45:19.504
<v Jeff>I don't know we'll see So that'll be fun and I don't know is there anything

00:45:19.504 --> 00:45:20.214
<v Jeff>else we want to talk about?

00:45:20.214 --> 00:45:23.582
<v Greg>I did want to talk about, so last time I was here we did karaoke which was a

00:45:23.582 --> 00:45:25.088
<v Greg>blast, it was so much fun.

00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:30.432
<v Greg>But I wanted to talk about the game that you sort of discovered and we ended

00:45:30.432 --> 00:45:31.833
<v Greg>up playing near the end which was awesome.

00:45:32.214 --> 00:45:35.096
<v Greg>Do you remember? No.

00:45:35.096 --> 00:45:38.879
<v Shannon>I was three sheets to the wind by the time. It was what? Three o'clock in the

00:45:38.879 --> 00:45:41.821
<v Shannon>morning by the time we finished up that night? Celebrating your birthday?

00:45:41.821 --> 00:45:45.024
<v Shannon>It was a late night. It was a late night.

00:45:45.024 --> 00:45:45.324
<v Greg>But,

00:45:47.749 --> 00:45:52.633
<v Greg>Normally you get tired and sort of lose a little bit, but oh, I remember the game.

00:45:53.313 --> 00:45:58.130
<v Greg>Yeah, I Chose what you had to sing and we went around the room kind of doing

00:45:58.130 --> 00:46:01.619
<v Greg>that What you do is you pick somebody that that's an artist that you know The

00:46:01.619 --> 00:46:07.143
<v Greg>other person's gonna like but is also has lots of songs So they're not necessarily

00:46:07.143 --> 00:46:08.674
<v Greg>gonna want to sing the most popular song,

00:46:08.674 --> 00:46:12.627
<v Greg>but they can choose from the list So they then get to choose.

00:46:12.627 --> 00:46:18.462
<v Greg>What's the song that I'm I'm, I'm going to nail, like, I'm going to love to sing this song.

00:46:18.462 --> 00:46:25.817
<v Greg>So the idea is to sort of give somebody a, a, a challenge in the sense of here,

00:46:25.817 --> 00:46:28.779
<v Greg>this is the artist, find something.

00:46:29.120 --> 00:46:32.182
<v Greg>And, and if they don't find something, you give them another artist because

00:46:32.182 --> 00:46:39.567
<v Greg>you want them, the goal is you want them to have fun trying something that is not common. Yeah.

00:46:40.528 --> 00:46:44.971
<v Greg>And it was, It worked out because every one of us then just was like going up

00:46:44.971 --> 00:46:48.493
<v Greg>and pushing our limits. Yeah, going for it.

00:46:48.493 --> 00:46:49.753
<v Jeff>I wore out my voice that night.

00:46:50.954 --> 00:46:51.935
<v Shannon>Our poor neighbors.

00:46:51.935 --> 00:46:52.775
<v Jeff>I sing hard.

00:46:54.837 --> 00:46:56.937
<v Greg>They're far enough away. they're probably getting here. Yeah.

00:46:58.161 --> 00:47:03.606
<v Greg>We're just paying them off. It was a great game. I told my sister about it because

00:47:03.606 --> 00:47:04.506
<v Greg>she thought it was great too.

00:47:04.506 --> 00:47:07.428
<v Greg>So I think it was a great game to play.

00:47:07.428 --> 00:47:12.472
<v Greg>So if any of you like doing karaoke, try this.

00:47:12.472 --> 00:47:15.975
<v Greg>It's a great method to just be like, to bring out,

00:47:15.975 --> 00:47:18.757
<v Greg>especially if, you know,

00:47:18.757 --> 00:47:23.607
<v Greg>everyone's a little tired or something like that, this will bring out the excitement

00:47:23.607 --> 00:47:28.564
<v Greg>of doing the karaoke and the fun of it because you get people to do a song they

00:47:28.564 --> 00:47:32.147
<v Greg>really want to do not just not the song that everyone's heard before.

00:47:32.147 --> 00:47:37.331
<v Jeff>All right. So our next beverage is nitro Pepsi.

00:47:37.772 --> 00:47:38.632
<v Greg>Nitro Pepsi.

00:47:39.893 --> 00:47:40.834
<v Shannon>Non-alcoholic, I might say.

00:47:41.735 --> 00:47:42.335
<v Jeff>Listen to that.

00:47:42.335 --> 00:47:42.795
<v Shannon>Yes.

00:47:42.795 --> 00:47:43.636
<v Jeff>Fizz and fuzz.

00:47:44.117 --> 00:47:45.217
<v Greg>So this is a...

00:47:45.217 --> 00:47:48.099
<v Shannon>I think I need to rinse my glass for this because...

00:47:48.099 --> 00:47:48.800
<v Jeff>I don't know.

00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:50.461
<v Shannon>Well, no, I really don't.

00:47:50.461 --> 00:47:55.946
<v Jeff>It's like Guinness, except it's Pepsi with a little nitro widget, so it should be creamy.

00:47:56.867 --> 00:47:57.527
<v Shannon>It's Pepsi.

00:47:57.527 --> 00:47:58.247
<v Jeff>I don't know.

00:47:59.208 --> 00:48:00.169
<v Greg>I mean, so...

00:48:00.169 --> 00:48:02.791
<v Shannon>All right. No, it's the Discord. Okay, so everyone needs to know...

00:48:02.791 --> 00:48:04.873
<v Shannon>First of all, no, no, let me talk, let me talk.

00:48:05.493 --> 00:48:10.957
<v Shannon>I need everybody who's listening and is on our Discord, Pepsi or Coke.

00:48:11.718 --> 00:48:13.379
<v Shannon>Just let's vote. Pepsi or Coke.

00:48:13.379 --> 00:48:14.360
<v Jeff>We should do the Pepsi challenge.

00:48:15.862 --> 00:48:19.224
<v Greg>The Pepsi challenge only... I want to know. I believe the Pepsi challenge only

00:48:19.224 --> 00:48:22.547
<v Greg>works because you're tying a little bit and when you're tying a little bit,

00:48:22.547 --> 00:48:23.828
<v Greg>the sweeter things will tend to win.

00:48:24.188 --> 00:48:29.952
<v Greg>But over a whole drink, I think you're going to much more appreciate...

00:48:30.093 --> 00:48:30.993
<v Jeff>Is Pepsi sweeter?

00:48:30.993 --> 00:48:31.514
<v Greg>Yes.

00:48:31.514 --> 00:48:32.314
<v Jeff>Okay.

00:48:32.314 --> 00:48:32.795
<v Greg>A lot.

00:48:32.795 --> 00:48:34.216
<v Shannon>It is straight up sugar water. It's disgusting.

00:48:34.216 --> 00:48:38.319
<v Greg>I mean, both of them were straight up sugar water, but at least Coke has like

00:48:38.319 --> 00:48:39.819
<v Greg>nutmeg and things like that.

00:48:41.601 --> 00:48:42.943
<v Shannon>So you're a Coke person.

00:48:44.084 --> 00:48:45.264
<v Greg>If I had to choose...

00:48:45.264 --> 00:48:48.346
<v Shannon>Yeah, me too. I won't even drink Pepsi.

00:48:48.346 --> 00:48:49.147
<v Greg>I don't know why I'm smelling it.

00:48:49.147 --> 00:48:51.109
<v Shannon>Well, I don't drink soda that often.

00:48:51.109 --> 00:48:52.310
<v Jeff>No, it's all about the mouthfeel.

00:48:54.692 --> 00:48:56.613
<v Shannon>It tastes like flat Pepsi. Why am I smelling it?

00:48:56.723 --> 00:48:58.354
<v Jeff>It does taste like flat Pepsi.

00:48:58.354 --> 00:48:59.495
<v Greg>Why do I want that?

00:48:59.835 --> 00:49:00.596
<v Jeff>I don't know.

00:49:00.596 --> 00:49:01.917
<v Shannon>It's making me burp on there.

00:49:03.018 --> 00:49:05.399
<v Jeff>All right, so Nitro Pepsi tastes like flat Pepsi.

00:49:07.962 --> 00:49:08.962
<v Greg>That's just gross.

00:49:12.785 --> 00:49:13.946
<v Greg>That's just sugar water.

00:49:13.946 --> 00:49:16.128
<v Jeff>All right, Shannon, can you go dump those in our insu-glasses?

00:49:16.769 --> 00:49:17.849
<v Shannon>You bought that shit.

00:49:17.849 --> 00:49:20.151
<v Jeff>I'm stuck here. I'll make- Oh, are you?

00:49:20.151 --> 00:49:20.832
<v Greg>Oh, come on.

00:49:21.132 --> 00:49:24.074
<v Shannon>Fine, I'll squeeze out, but if I make a bunch of noise- I even tasted it.

00:49:24.074 --> 00:49:27.137
<v Shannon>I didn't want it. I didn't want it.

00:49:27.137 --> 00:49:30.099
<v Greg>Wire it.

00:49:30.099 --> 00:49:31.760
<v Shannon>I tasted it for you. It's foul.

00:49:33.242 --> 00:49:39.538
<v Greg>I don't... Like, I get the idea of Draft Cola in the sense that...

00:49:40.725 --> 00:49:45.809
<v Greg>You know you sometimes the fountain tastes better than than I can to some people

00:49:45.809 --> 00:49:53.195
<v Greg>it does but yeah, that's not nitrous That's still carbon dioxide. Yeah I don't know.

00:49:53.195 --> 00:50:00.980
<v Jeff>I saw it and i'm like well, that's a kill That's no, I don't think that That

00:50:00.980 --> 00:50:02.481
<v Jeff>doesn't count. It don't count.

00:50:02.481 --> 00:50:04.503
<v Shannon>Oh, we're not gonna put that on the kill list.

00:50:04.503 --> 00:50:07.165
<v Greg>It's not no Oh, cause it's too easy.

00:50:07.585 --> 00:50:09.286
<v Jeff>All right. So we have our next beer.

00:50:09.286 --> 00:50:10.808
<v Shannon>Well, I'm writing F.

00:50:11.248 --> 00:50:15.792
<v Jeff>Perhaps our last beer. Uh, this is when we picked up on the Sellers Tour at

00:50:15.792 --> 00:50:18.354
<v Jeff>Allagash. This is Allagash Interlude from 2014. What?

00:50:18.354 --> 00:50:23.518
<v Shannon>We're opening that? We should wait until 2024. So it's an entire.

00:50:23.518 --> 00:50:28.321
<v Shannon>Eh. Eh. Come. Eh. Cat. Page is cracking.

00:50:28.321 --> 00:50:29.042
<v Jeff>Page is already off.

00:50:29.042 --> 00:50:32.745
<v Shannon>I'm crying. My soul is being crushed. There it goes.

00:50:34.727 --> 00:50:36.047
<v Jeff>See, I feel. A few months away.

00:50:37.969 --> 00:50:40.829
<v Greg>There it's gone. It's only a few months away from 2024.

00:50:51.977 --> 00:51:01.984
<v Greg>This can't be the only soul-crushing thing that happened to you this week.

00:51:02.564 --> 00:51:05.506
<v Greg>Oh, no. So, here, This is a type of bacteria.

00:51:05.506 --> 00:51:08.987
<v Shannon>That bacteria that they're, wasn't that the one that they?

00:51:08.987 --> 00:51:09.789
<v Jeff>It's a yeast.

00:51:09.789 --> 00:51:11.871
<v Greg>Oh, it's a yeast. That's right, it is a yeast.

00:51:11.871 --> 00:51:16.194
<v Shannon>But wasn't it the one that they actually discovered? No.

00:51:16.194 --> 00:51:18.376
<v Greg>Oh. No, it's a yeast that they discovered.

00:51:18.376 --> 00:51:24.040
<v Jeff>No, they do have a yeast that they discovered. It's called, it's a Portlandia

00:51:24.040 --> 00:51:26.582
<v Jeff>or Portlandias or something. I can't, I have to look it up.

00:51:26.582 --> 00:51:27.302
<v Shannon>I can't remember.

00:51:28.023 --> 00:51:33.057
<v Greg>Bread is what you don't want if you're making wine. Bread is like the killer

00:51:33.057 --> 00:51:34.886
<v Greg>for wine. I don't know necessarily why.

00:51:35.979 --> 00:51:39.782
<v Jeff>Um, that being said, there's a Spanish wine that we've been getting at the liquor

00:51:39.782 --> 00:51:45.766
<v Jeff>store that is fantastic and it has bread in it Which one that spanish tamper neo with the red?

00:51:48.088 --> 00:51:50.790
<v Greg>So this also has a saison yeast in it, are you okay over there?

00:51:51.150 --> 00:51:55.874
<v Shannon>No, it's a freaking pepsi is it Oh took one sip caramel.

00:51:55.874 --> 00:51:59.757
<v Greg>I'm so dying. Yeah, I can still taste it caramel malt red wheat pilsner malt

00:51:59.757 --> 00:52:02.818
<v Greg>It's hops are with nugget and stressful spalt Stressel spalt.

00:52:04.961 --> 00:52:07.642
<v Shannon>What's a stressel spalt? Somebody tell me.

00:52:07.642 --> 00:52:09.023
<v Jeff>It's a German hop. Okay.

00:52:09.174 --> 00:52:10.384
<v Shannon>I've never heard of it.

00:52:10.384 --> 00:52:11.845
<v Greg>I think it's a noble hop.

00:52:11.845 --> 00:52:18.190
<v Jeff>Yeah. It's one of those ones that you see in German lagers that are kind of

00:52:18.190 --> 00:52:19.511
<v Jeff>non-distinct in their flavor.

00:52:20.412 --> 00:52:24.194
<v Greg>Sort of spiciness, not really much of this. But nuggets are strong ones and

00:52:24.194 --> 00:52:25.535
<v Greg>nuggets an interesting one to have in here.

00:52:26.716 --> 00:52:31.920
<v Greg>It also has, we said the yeast is saison and babeniases and the spices and other

00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:36.343
<v Greg>has turbinado sugar in it, which is just to give it probably just a little bit

00:52:36.343 --> 00:52:41.647
<v Greg>extra body, and small portion of 20-month-old interlude.

00:52:43.368 --> 00:52:44.929
<v Shannon>It smells like a really sour...

00:52:44.929 --> 00:52:53.951
<v Jeff>Yes. So 20 months, so that 20-month-old interlude's already more than 10 years old, so... Yeah.

00:52:53.951 --> 00:52:57.938
<v Shannon>Wish... still should have waited until...

00:52:59.560 --> 00:53:05.144
<v Jeff>Oh, it's it's it's not only it's October 2014. Huh. I didn't realize I had a month on it.

00:53:05.144 --> 00:53:08.367
<v Shannon>Oh, so see. Yeah, I should have. A whole nother year.

00:53:09.488 --> 00:53:15.272
<v Greg>Nine and ten aren't all that different from each other. Eleven would be more

00:53:15.272 --> 00:53:16.253
<v Greg>interesting because it's prime.

00:53:18.735 --> 00:53:24.018
<v Jeff>All right, the aroma on this one is a little bit of that funky brett aromas coming out.

00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:27.523
<v Jeff>that there's kind of this oaky wine barrel thing, too?

00:53:29.446 --> 00:53:30.588
<v Shannon>There's a fruit that's...

00:53:36.901 --> 00:53:40.493
<v Shannon>Strawberry, okay You guys getting a hint of strawberry because I'm getting a

00:53:40.493 --> 00:53:49.439
<v Shannon>hint of strawberry hint of something More grape strawberry I'm tasting or I'm

00:53:49.439 --> 00:53:50.980
<v Shannon>not tasting I haven't tasted it yet.

00:53:50.980 --> 00:53:54.342
<v Jeff>Actually when you move on to the flavor It's kind of like underwriting strawberry.

00:53:55.183 --> 00:54:00.147
<v Jeff>Is it? Yeah, really? All right. It's a mix between tart strawberry underwrite

00:54:00.147 --> 00:54:06.591
<v Jeff>and like strawberry lollipop Yeah, so or starburst like strawberry starburst.

00:54:06.591 --> 00:54:07.532
<v Jeff>There's totally in there.

00:54:07.532 --> 00:54:14.476
<v Shannon>It reminds me of Back in the band

00:54:14.476 --> 00:54:22.062
<v Shannon>high school band days and We at the strawberry festival in Plant City,

00:54:22.062 --> 00:54:27.365
<v Shannon>Florida when I worked in the band booth and we made strawberry shortcake Day

00:54:27.365 --> 00:54:30.307
<v Shannon>in and day out for everybody. That's what I'm smelling.

00:54:30.307 --> 00:54:34.950
<v Jeff>That's why I smell the strawberry Yeah, it's definitely tastes like those pink

00:54:34.950 --> 00:54:39.574
<v Jeff>little chews from Starburst. Oh, yeah It's not the only thing it tastes like

00:54:39.574 --> 00:54:40.635
<v Jeff>but it's in there for sure.

00:54:40.635 --> 00:54:41.235
<v Shannon>Oh, it is. Mm-hmm.

00:54:42.756 --> 00:54:52.883
<v Greg>My favorite ones, too Oh, I like this But then it goes a different way Because

00:54:52.883 --> 00:55:02.049
<v Greg>it's it's more tangy than it is sour first of all So,

00:55:02.049 --> 00:55:08.810
<v Greg>um, the Brett is noticeable, but not like overwhelming, but it's giving it the,

00:55:08.810 --> 00:55:12.851
<v Greg>that uh, tip of the tongue kind of thing.

00:55:12.851 --> 00:55:17.112
<v Greg>I don't know how else to describe it, but it's a little bit,

00:55:17.112 --> 00:55:19.573
<v Greg>it takes away the deeper notes.

00:55:19.573 --> 00:55:26.495
<v Shannon>It's very, it's, I taste a lot of tannins at the end.

00:55:29.053 --> 00:55:33.756
<v Greg>Yeah, that's the red wine barrels, I bet. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

00:55:34.557 --> 00:55:40.441
<v Greg>There's oaky and red wine notes that are all being kind of forced into submission

00:55:40.441 --> 00:55:46.725
<v Greg>by the brett, so you don't get the deeper notes of those. You just get sort of the top notes.

00:55:47.145 --> 00:55:51.708
<v Jeff>I'm getting baking spices too. Like this is running a bit of like a mold cider

00:55:51.708 --> 00:56:00.014
<v Jeff>or something something like that with cardamom and allspice and anise and stuff like that.

00:56:00.014 --> 00:56:03.016
<v Jeff>I'm getting like a, almost like the flavors from like a calculator.

00:56:04.478 --> 00:56:07.940
<v Greg>Well, it's got that turbinado sugar in it, right? So it's got warm molasses. Yeah, okay.

00:56:07.940 --> 00:56:11.443
<v Jeff>This is yummy.

00:56:11.923 --> 00:56:12.423
<v Shannon>It is.

00:56:12.423 --> 00:56:16.987
<v Jeff>I likey. Greg, have you ever heard of earthquake lights?

00:56:17.407 --> 00:56:19.489
<v Greg>Yes, yes I have. What?

00:56:19.489 --> 00:56:23.571
<v Jeff>I had just heard about these for the first time after the earthquake in Peru, right?

00:56:24.813 --> 00:56:26.314
<v Greg>No, not Peru. Morocco?

00:56:26.314 --> 00:56:27.535
<v Jeff>Morocco, yes.

00:56:30.097 --> 00:56:34.060
<v Jeff>So for people who don't know, there's this phenomenon that's not well understood,

00:56:34.060 --> 00:56:38.683
<v Jeff>at least as far as I know, maybe Greg knows more, that like preceding an earthquake

00:56:38.683 --> 00:56:44.548
<v Jeff>or during an earthquake, like you'll get these like lights and it's almost like

00:56:44.548 --> 00:56:48.230
<v Jeff>you would think maybe they're transformers exploding or something like that, but they're not.

00:56:48.230 --> 00:56:50.532
<v Jeff>I guess they're kind of like ball lightning sometimes.

00:56:51.253 --> 00:56:53.794
<v Shannon>I think it's very important to know whether it's preceding.

00:56:54.615 --> 00:56:55.495
<v Jeff>It is preceding.

00:56:55.495 --> 00:56:56.136
<v Shannon>It is preceding.

00:56:56.476 --> 00:56:59.178
<v Greg>It's preceding, but just barely. Not any time that you can...

00:57:00.139 --> 00:57:01.299
<v Shannon>Because of, I mean, if it was...

00:57:01.720 --> 00:57:02.680
<v Jeff>Like, no, seconds.

00:57:03.921 --> 00:57:07.563
<v Greg>Oh, that's a shame. So, and also not visible during the day. Oh, yeah.

00:57:08.264 --> 00:57:14.288
<v Greg>One of the reasons why it was hard to confirm is nighttime earthquakes.

00:57:15.299 --> 00:57:20.852
<v Greg>It's not like there's the kind of surveillance before that there is now.

00:57:20.852 --> 00:57:25.652
<v Greg>And that's what I think is important. And I think that's what we need to do.

00:57:24.084 --> 00:57:29.088
<v Greg>a, you might tend to forget if there's lights and a big earthquake happens,

00:57:29.088 --> 00:57:34.712
<v Greg>you might tend to be more have more important things to do than remember.

00:57:34.712 --> 00:57:36.073
<v Greg>Oh, there were some weird lights in the sky.

00:57:37.234 --> 00:57:40.717
<v Greg>But my guess is this is just a guess.

00:57:40.717 --> 00:57:43.419
<v Greg>This is not anything like that.

00:57:43.419 --> 00:57:47.582
<v Greg>You should take into consideration is like a real thing, but there's pizzo electric

00:57:47.582 --> 00:57:51.478
<v Greg>properties of the ground as it's being compressed,

00:57:51.478 --> 00:57:55.628
<v Greg>compressed, which is going to cause currents and it's going to therefore cause

00:57:55.628 --> 00:58:00.451
<v Greg>releases of plasma, probably like lightning going up as opposed to going down.

00:58:01.052 --> 00:58:03.473
<v Greg>Even though most lighting does sort of go up, but...

00:58:04.914 --> 00:58:08.317
<v Jeff>No, the piezoelectric effect was something I was thinking about too.

00:58:08.317 --> 00:58:12.580
<v Jeff>So for people who don't know, the little sparker in a lighter,

00:58:12.580 --> 00:58:16.903
<v Jeff>like a grill lighter, like the one, either the one you press on the grill or

00:58:16.903 --> 00:58:20.365
<v Jeff>the ones that are kind of wand shaped and you pull the trigger and it goes snap.

00:58:20.365 --> 00:58:24.168
<v Jeff>Oh, that's a hammer hitting a crystal.

00:58:25.710 --> 00:58:28.972
<v Jeff>And that impact on the crystal makes an electric current.

00:58:30.253 --> 00:58:32.594
<v Greg>Briefly, but enough to give that little spark.

00:58:32.594 --> 00:58:36.297
<v Jeff>It's not, I used to think that there was some kind of transformer in there,

00:58:36.297 --> 00:58:40.760
<v Jeff>some kind of, some kind of magnet moving through a coil. Like that's what,

00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:42.342
<v Jeff>how I thought the spark was made.

00:58:43.363 --> 00:58:48.607
<v Jeff>And, um, no, it's, it's a, it's a hammer hitting a crystal.

00:58:48.607 --> 00:58:52.331
<v Greg>You're putting a crystal under stress, and that stress causes the electronic

00:58:52.331 --> 00:58:57.076
<v Greg>configuration to change enough, on a large enough scale, that you're creating

00:58:57.076 --> 00:59:00.980
<v Greg>a temporary voltage difference, which then gives you a burst.

00:59:04.644 --> 00:59:10.378
<v Jeff>So I was wondering and the article I read really didn't get into that part of

00:59:10.378 --> 00:59:15.201
<v Jeff>it But it seemed like that you that's your guess. That was kind of my gut too

00:59:15.201 --> 00:59:17.913
<v Jeff>Mm-hmm is that it's what you don't see it all the time.

00:59:17.913 --> 00:59:22.647
<v Greg>The geology has to be right for it to happen You know and you need to have a

00:59:22.647 --> 00:59:25.568
<v Greg>large amount of stress to have a noticeable things.

00:59:26.590 --> 00:59:31.733
<v Greg>You need an earthquake. You need that kind of stress on the rock to make something

00:59:31.733 --> 00:59:34.095
<v Greg>visible to a large number of people.

00:59:35.677 --> 00:59:39.179
<v Jeff>Speaking of voltage differential, I was watching some Alpha Phoenix on YouTube.

00:59:39.179 --> 00:59:47.405
<v Jeff>Okay. And he did a really neat one about, he used water to kind of as an analog

00:59:47.405 --> 00:59:51.128
<v Jeff>for voltage and amperage and things like that.

00:59:51.128 --> 00:59:57.383
<v Jeff>Yep. But there was one part he didn't cover, like, that I thought he could have,

00:59:57.383 --> 01:00:02.397
<v Jeff>you know, he had so much material, but he made this little water trough with, you know, gates.

01:00:02.397 --> 01:00:07.641
<v Jeff>And when the gate is small, it's a resistor and voltage is shown by kind of

01:00:07.641 --> 01:00:12.084
<v Jeff>the slope of water as it goes through the channel. And the channel should be careful.

01:00:12.084 --> 01:00:13.365
<v Greg>It's water plus gravity.

01:00:14.446 --> 01:00:17.788
<v Jeff>Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yes. But the channel is narrow enough that the

01:00:17.788 --> 01:00:21.591
<v Jeff>surface of water keeps it from equalizing right away.

01:00:22.172 --> 01:00:25.334
<v Jeff>So it helps analog that, but you know, he was showing resistance.

01:00:25.694 --> 01:00:30.538
<v Jeff>He also could have shown capacitance by having a deeper channel,

01:00:30.538 --> 01:00:37.082
<v Jeff>like in certain places, because that would have fit the same way with all the

01:00:37.082 --> 01:00:39.184
<v Jeff>other analogies that he did in that thing.

01:00:40.145 --> 01:00:44.307
<v Jeff>But it was really cool. It gave, I thought I had a pretty good understanding

01:00:44.307 --> 01:00:48.110
<v Jeff>of the electricity stuff.

01:00:49.361 --> 01:00:54.295
<v Jeff>Voltage is the kind of the term that everybody knows. It's the weirdest part

01:00:54.295 --> 01:00:55.306
<v Jeff>of the whole thing though.

01:00:57.038 --> 01:01:00.041
<v Greg>It's the most universal part of it because it's the potential.

01:01:00.622 --> 01:01:04.486
<v Greg>So it is the thing that crosses domains, if you will.

01:01:04.486 --> 01:01:07.089
<v Jeff>But it's also the part that is like.

01:01:09.546 --> 01:01:10.747
<v Jeff>not as straightforwardly explainable.

01:01:13.370 --> 01:01:16.972
<v Greg>Yeah, because it's not, because it requires gravity, first of all,

01:01:16.972 --> 01:01:19.894
<v Greg>for it to manifest in water.

01:01:19.894 --> 01:01:24.998
<v Jeff>Yeah. But having voltage, like explaining how voltage is made and stuff,

01:01:24.998 --> 01:01:30.042
<v Jeff>like a voltage drop over a resistor and things like that, you know,

01:01:30.042 --> 01:01:34.626
<v Jeff>just in electricity is like the other concepts that he covered amperage and

01:01:34.626 --> 01:01:36.377
<v Jeff>whatnot were pretty straightforward.

01:01:36.377 --> 01:01:40.710
<v Jeff>And then like, okay, now voltage. And like, he didn't make it difficult on purpose.

01:01:40.710 --> 01:01:45.373
<v Jeff>It's, it's a more complicated concept, which I thought was real quick.

01:01:45.373 --> 01:01:50.797
<v Jeff>I just thought it was curious because if you went on family feud and said,

01:01:50.797 --> 01:01:54.559
<v Jeff>name an electricity term, voltage is going to be the top one,

01:01:54.559 --> 01:02:03.656
<v Jeff>but it's kind of the weirdest phenomenon of electricity of the core basic stuff.

01:02:03.706 --> 01:02:08.329
<v Greg>I mean, I guess I don't see it as weird, but that's cause I'm,

01:02:08.329 --> 01:02:11.691
<v Greg>I'm more trained in thinking of potentials in different ways.

01:02:11.691 --> 01:02:15.661
<v Greg>But because you have a dipolar potential in electricity, it's harder to imagine

01:02:15.661 --> 01:02:19.356
<v Greg>than gravitational potential where it's just a hill, right? I mean,

01:02:19.356 --> 01:02:20.997
<v Greg>that is relatively easy.

01:02:22.499 --> 01:02:32.095
<v Greg>But to understand that there are two different potentials, and so I mean,

01:02:32.095 --> 01:02:34.146
<v Greg>it gets complicated real, real quick.

01:02:35.227 --> 01:02:40.371
<v Greg>I would not say that I'm at all like good at making circuits or anything like that.

01:02:40.371 --> 01:02:45.554
<v Greg>I know, I know the principles behind it, but you know, my learning has gone

01:02:45.554 --> 01:02:50.377
<v Greg>in a different direction. So I'm not good at necessarily, I can explain things

01:02:50.377 --> 01:02:53.620
<v Greg>like potentials and use some of the analogies, but probably that.

01:02:53.620 --> 01:02:57.602
<v Jeff>Well, like one of the experiments he did was he had some resistive wire,

01:02:57.602 --> 01:03:02.666
<v Jeff>like the stuff that's in a toaster and he sampled the voltage potential to ground

01:03:02.666 --> 01:03:05.267
<v Jeff>to ground at different points along the wire. And it was linear,

01:03:05.267 --> 01:03:07.609
<v Jeff>right? So halfway around the coil was half the voltage.

01:03:08.189 --> 01:03:12.372
<v Jeff>And he took the same wire and he put a resistor, a small resistor,

01:03:12.372 --> 01:03:15.314
<v Jeff>but a resistor at the beginning or the end, wherever he put it.

01:03:16.255 --> 01:03:22.278
<v Jeff>And it's like a dam in a river. It keeps the voltage high on the front side

01:03:22.278 --> 01:03:25.260
<v Jeff>of the resistor and super low on the backside of the resistor,

01:03:25.260 --> 01:03:27.321
<v Jeff>just like a dam in the river. and,

01:03:30.031 --> 01:03:34.534
<v Jeff>I was aware of voltage drop across resistors and stuff like that, but I never saw it.

01:03:36.676 --> 01:03:41.299
<v Jeff>Well, I never saw an experiment with resistive wire. All the wires that you

01:03:41.299 --> 01:03:43.780
<v Jeff>use in normal stuff is very low resistance.

01:03:44.601 --> 01:03:46.903
<v Greg>And when you're diagramming, you usually assume zero.

01:03:46.903 --> 01:03:51.466
<v Jeff>Yeah, because you're only using several inches of wire and the resistance over

01:03:51.466 --> 01:03:53.547
<v Jeff>that copper wire or aluminum wire is negligible.

01:03:55.569 --> 01:03:58.751
<v Jeff>But using the resistive wire and just throwing a tiny little resistor in there

01:03:58.751 --> 01:04:05.635
<v Jeff>it uh it was a damn like it was full voltage like if you were one-third of the

01:04:05.635 --> 01:04:08.957
<v Jeff>way through and you'd expect to lose one-third of the voltage with a resistor

01:04:08.957 --> 01:04:13.120
<v Jeff>beyond it you have full voltage even though the wire is still resistive.

01:04:13.120 --> 01:04:15.261
<v Greg>You should mention here Shannon fully checked out.

01:04:17.003 --> 01:04:27.529
<v Shannon>I'm sorry I have it's I'm taking care of something for both of us actually right now. Sorry. All right.

01:04:27.529 --> 01:04:29.470
<v Greg>So as long as we're doing a sciencey thing.

01:04:30.031 --> 01:04:32.231
<v Shannon>I mean, it's the perfect time, right?

01:04:32.231 --> 01:04:33.132
<v Greg>Yeah.

01:04:33.132 --> 01:04:36.995
<v Jeff>We could, um, we could do the wrap the show and go to the post show and do the

01:04:36.995 --> 01:04:38.796
<v Jeff>sciencey thing. If you think that might be better.

01:04:38.796 --> 01:04:39.237
<v Shannon>Yeah.

01:04:39.237 --> 01:04:40.958
<v Greg>There's more stuff I have to talk about, but.

01:04:42.659 --> 01:04:43.419
<v Shannon>Are we done?

01:04:43.961 --> 01:04:45.341
<v Jeff>That's all the beers I brought up.

01:04:46.242 --> 01:04:47.343
<v Greg>You want another beer?

01:04:47.343 --> 01:04:52.106
<v Jeff>We can do the post show. Then we'll actually keep the show at like an hour.

01:04:52.527 --> 01:04:56.549
<v Shannon>Yeah, well, we probably don't have anything going on now tomorrow.

01:04:56.549 --> 01:04:59.552
<v Shannon>So I'm taking care of that right now.

01:04:59.552 --> 01:05:01.373
<v Jeff>Oh, the, the photo shoots canceled?

01:05:01.934 --> 01:05:05.696
<v Shannon>Probably due to the weather. Forecast is not looking good for us.

01:05:06.797 --> 01:05:08.859
<v Shannon>So I'm letting everybody know.

01:05:08.859 --> 01:05:10.280
<v Greg>Let's do the shtick. All right.

01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:11.000
<v Jeff>All right.

01:05:19.387 --> 01:05:21.248
<v Greg>Well, sure. This does throw this away.

01:05:21.248 --> 01:05:30.355
<v Jeff>Okay. Did not qualify. No. Oh, I wanted to, you can rank it.

01:05:31.516 --> 01:05:34.518
<v Jeff>You can rank it if you want to. You can do whatever you want.

01:05:34.518 --> 01:05:38.201
<v Jeff>There's no rules. The only rule is there is no rules and you have to rank.

01:05:44.196 --> 01:05:52.178
<v Greg>Of course, there are rules. All right. Sure. Right, like that. Kinda.

01:06:06.309 --> 01:06:22.340
<v Shannon>I'm trying to decide if this is my order or not And so first of all Do we Before we start ranking.

01:06:22.340 --> 01:06:29.806
<v Shannon>I really want to know like It's really hard to put this one in there.

01:06:30.326 --> 01:06:33.249
<v Greg>Yeah, I feel like We shouldn't be,

01:06:43.139 --> 01:06:46.439
<v Greg>ranking this alligash against the Oktoberfests because then don't just like

01:06:46.439 --> 01:06:50.082
<v Greg>you're not ranking the nitro you can or you are ranking the nitro you can you

01:06:50.082 --> 01:06:56.907
<v Greg>can decide to not rank the alligash I mean I would say that the alligash has

01:06:56.907 --> 01:07:00.610
<v Greg>an unfair Advantage over the others because well,

01:07:00.610 --> 01:07:03.612
<v Greg>that's that that's not how I would look at it.

01:07:03.612 --> 01:07:03.852
<v Shannon>Okay.

01:07:06.634 --> 01:07:12.178
<v Shannon>All right Well, right come on, but you got to put Pepsi in there The suspense is killing.

01:07:12.178 --> 01:07:13.298
<v Jeff>Where do you write the Pepsi Greg?

01:07:13.298 --> 01:07:13.859
<v Shannon>Okay.

01:07:13.859 --> 01:07:17.641
<v Greg>All right I'll write the Pepsi, but it will not be a part of my fuck Mary kill

01:07:17.641 --> 01:07:19.683
<v Greg>That's that's the compromise.

01:07:20.443 --> 01:07:25.066
<v Greg>Oh, I'm killing that thing It's too easy to kill the Pepsi. I mean the Pepsi

01:07:25.066 --> 01:07:29.131
<v Greg>just sort of dies by association It's it's already dead.

01:07:29.772 --> 01:07:37.781
<v Greg>You can't you can't kill anymore Yeah, okay, so the Pepsi gets in last place of course in,

01:07:44.593 --> 01:07:49.617
<v Greg>Right behind it, right in front of it, just by order, is the Fat Heads Oktoberfest.

01:07:51.118 --> 01:07:54.781
<v Greg>Because it was just kind of a cracker.

01:07:54.781 --> 01:07:57.530
<v Jeff>Potentially spoiled.

01:07:57.530 --> 01:08:04.348
<v Greg>Potentially. And it just didn't have so much of what the other stuff had, all the other beers had.

01:08:04.348 --> 01:08:07.350
<v Shannon>It was very disappointing because I expected more out of Fat Heads.

01:08:07.611 --> 01:08:10.153
<v Greg>Still drinkable. Still, if you had it in a bar, you'd be fine with it.

01:08:10.233 --> 01:08:14.236
<v Shannon>Oh, yeah. Yeah, especially if it was happy hour and it was half price.

01:08:14.717 --> 01:08:18.499
<v Greg>I think to me it's interesting that the two Fests beers rank pretty close to each other.

01:08:18.499 --> 01:08:21.341
<v Greg>I think the Sierra Nevada was the first one we had. It was, it was,

01:08:21.341 --> 01:08:25.544
<v Greg>I enjoyed it, but it was a little too sweet.

01:08:25.544 --> 01:08:29.947
<v Greg>I think it was, uh, just compared to the other stuff, I'm, I'm more,

01:08:29.947 --> 01:08:31.949
<v Greg>uh, a straight Martinson guy.

01:08:31.949 --> 01:08:36.792
<v Greg>So I think that the Martinsons were going to win out for me either way.

01:08:37.133 --> 01:08:44.318
<v Greg>I'm going to put the Allagash in third place. I think it's, I mean, it's good.

01:08:45.579 --> 01:08:48.761
<v Greg>How much did you, do you know how much this one cost you?

01:08:50.423 --> 01:08:51.183
<v Jeff>No, we bought.

01:08:51.183 --> 01:08:54.105
<v Shannon>Too much.

01:08:54.105 --> 01:08:55.937
<v Jeff>I think it was like $180 worth of beer from Elegash.

01:08:56.288 --> 01:09:00.050
<v Greg>It's what, a 750 milliliter? Was that all it was?

01:09:00.050 --> 01:09:03.953
<v Greg>It's a 750 milliliter bottle, and I'd say based on the content,

01:09:03.953 --> 01:09:05.254
<v Greg>it's worth, you know, about 20, 25 bucks.

01:09:05.254 --> 01:09:11.839
<v Greg>You know, probably paid somewhere. Yeah. It's a, it's a decent,

01:09:11.839 --> 01:09:16.963
<v Greg>you get the bang for your buck. I think, I think I was expecting more.

01:09:17.464 --> 01:09:22.407
<v Greg>I was expecting something with more pizzazz with more character.

01:09:23.688 --> 01:09:28.792
<v Greg>This sort of felt, uh, muted in a sense.

01:09:29.613 --> 01:09:33.596
<v Greg>I think that Brett can do that, but you work with Brett. I mean, that's the point you,

01:09:33.596 --> 01:09:36.958
<v Greg>you, if you're going to use Brett, you really,

01:09:36.958 --> 01:09:42.723
<v Greg>should understand Brett so I

01:09:42.723 --> 01:09:46.225
<v Greg>mean I'm missing out on like the red wine barrel stuff I think that you

01:09:46.225 --> 01:09:54.571
<v Greg>kind of miss it um then I'm gonna go with the helltown as the second and the

01:09:54.571 --> 01:09:57.534
<v Greg>trogues in first place the fruit drugs was friggin delicious but the helltown

01:09:57.534 --> 01:10:04.637
<v Greg>was really good too like those that like dark kind of rye-like note was so good, so.

01:10:07.807 --> 01:10:11.410
<v Greg>In essence, that's what I have. And fuck, marry, kill comes later after everybody

01:10:11.410 --> 01:10:14.512
<v Greg>else. So, you know, your turn, Sean, my turn.

01:10:14.512 --> 01:10:16.373
<v Shannon>I can go if you want. Yeah, go ahead.

01:10:16.373 --> 01:10:18.115
<v Jeff>All right. Uh, pepsi last place.

01:10:18.115 --> 01:10:18.795
<v Shannon>It's hard to find.

01:10:18.795 --> 01:10:22.558
<v Jeff>Second to last place is the fat heads. Um, same reason Greg said, right?

01:10:22.558 --> 01:10:26.932
<v Shannon>Take a picture. Wait, stop. Hold on. You gotta gotta get the picture before we start.

01:10:26.932 --> 01:10:29.944
<v Jeff>The picture does help me when I do the shortcuts. So, all right.

01:10:30.715 --> 01:10:35.829
<v Shannon>But I can still talk while you take a picture. Trying to get all the shitty mess in the background.

01:10:35.829 --> 01:10:37.189
<v Jeff>I don't post the picture, I just look at it.

01:10:39.611 --> 01:10:42.013
<v Shannon>Oh, pictures are posted. No, no.

01:10:42.013 --> 01:10:44.615
<v Greg>Some of them are. No, only on our channel. Oh. I haven't paid attention.

01:10:45.796 --> 01:10:48.457
<v Greg>Yeah, there are secret channels in Discord just for us.

01:10:49.538 --> 01:10:52.801
<v Jeff>All right, Fat Heads is in the last beer spot.

01:10:53.882 --> 01:10:58.284
<v Jeff>It had this, well I thought it could be this refreshing hot weather thing.

01:10:59.786 --> 01:11:02.808
<v Jeff>It just didn't really fit what I was looking for in Oktoberfest.

01:11:03.628 --> 01:11:08.552
<v Jeff>It might have been going spoiled. I don't know. And then I'm going to put in

01:11:08.552 --> 01:11:10.663
<v Jeff>fourth place the Helltown.

01:11:12.685 --> 01:11:17.017
<v Jeff>It was a little bit drier than I'm looking for in Oktoberfest.

01:11:18.038 --> 01:11:21.261
<v Jeff>I think that's the main reason compared to like the next place beer.

01:11:21.261 --> 01:11:27.265
<v Jeff>A little bit drier. I wanted a little bit more cracker and bread and stuff like that.

01:11:28.166 --> 01:11:36.112
<v Jeff>And it seemed like it was missing it a bit. it. I am going to put the Sierra Nevada in third place.

01:11:37.653 --> 01:11:40.395
<v Jeff>These are the beers I enjoyed quite a bit.

01:11:42.537 --> 01:11:48.681
<v Jeff>Definitely would want to drink more of that. It had that kind of honey bread type flavor. Dug it.

01:11:49.321 --> 01:11:55.246
<v Jeff>I am going to put the Allagash in second place. Really liked it.

01:11:56.987 --> 01:12:00.189
<v Jeff>Greg mentioned that it was muted or subdued. I think it brought it.

01:12:00.189 --> 01:12:04.653
<v Jeff>I think, you know, you're getting, got that strawberry early on.

01:12:04.653 --> 01:12:06.334
<v Jeff>Now I'm getting kind of tart cherries.

01:12:06.334 --> 01:12:08.696
<v Greg>It did bring it enough, to be clear. It did bring enough to be worth like,

01:12:08.696 --> 01:12:10.317
<v Greg>you know, Yeah, you said like 25 bucks.

01:12:11.398 --> 01:12:17.363
<v Jeff>So, I mean, that's a decent price point. I enjoyed it. Shannon might want the

01:12:17.363 --> 01:12:19.584
<v Jeff>rest of that. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

01:12:20.745 --> 01:12:24.848
<v Jeff>I think because it's an Octoberfest show and also because Troves is so damn

01:12:24.848 --> 01:12:26.530
<v Jeff>good it wins the first place.

01:12:27.591 --> 01:12:31.774
<v Jeff>Would it win it if it wasn't an Oktoberfest show? I think it would.

01:12:31.774 --> 01:12:37.358
<v Jeff>I really, it's dead center in what I want in an Oktoberfest. I really enjoy it.

01:12:37.839 --> 01:12:42.442
<v Jeff>Go trogues. All right.

01:12:42.442 --> 01:12:44.283
<v Greg>Now, Shannon, you have nothing else.

01:12:45.224 --> 01:12:46.525
<v Jeff>And you can put your Pepsi in first place.

01:12:46.525 --> 01:12:52.470
<v Shannon>I can? All right. Did you want to take a picture? Oh, yes. You should probably do that.

01:12:52.470 --> 01:12:56.093
<v Jeff>Please, I don't think my phone's.

01:12:56.093 --> 01:12:57.554
<v Shannon>I was, it's right there.

01:12:57.554 --> 01:12:57.994
<v Jeff>Oh, here it is.

01:12:57.994 --> 01:13:02.938
<v Shannon>I was writing while you were talking, but I think we might be the same.

01:13:03.829 --> 01:13:05.520
<v Jeff>I'm not allowed. Change your order.

01:13:14.819 --> 01:13:22.294
<v Shannon>All right, so in last place, if I'm not going to, okay, I'll keep the Pepsi

01:13:22.294 --> 01:13:23.875
<v Shannon>in there, so Pepsi's last.

01:13:25.136 --> 01:13:32.902
<v Shannon>And then next we're going to go with the fatheads. It just, it's not an Oktoberfest.

01:13:34.363 --> 01:13:37.586
<v Shannon>It wasn't malty. Didn't have enough body.

01:13:37.586 --> 01:13:42.769
<v Shannon>it's I don't know it's just I mean like we talked about it,

01:13:44.100 --> 01:13:48.152
<v Shannon>it would be fine at a bar I would

01:13:48.152 --> 01:13:57.699
<v Shannon>enjoy it but I yeah it's it's not what I would expect in Octoberfest so and

01:13:57.699 --> 01:14:06.765
<v Shannon>then I would go with Helltown again I don't know do I have to give you all the

01:14:06.765 --> 01:14:07.886
<v Shannon>reasons I wrote them down,

01:14:07.886 --> 01:14:11.048
<v Shannon>but if you want to, if you don't, don't.

01:14:11.048 --> 01:14:13.550
<v Greg>Um, and then it'd be mysterious.

01:14:13.550 --> 01:14:19.755
<v Shannon>Okay. It is. Cause I, I, I, I liked it.

01:14:20.415 --> 01:14:25.439
<v Shannon>I actually, we didn't bring this up and we, I thought about it,

01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:29.722
<v Shannon>but we were onto something else, so I wrote it down, but I did get a hint of

01:14:29.722 --> 01:14:33.585
<v Shannon>caramel in there that we didn't talk about.

01:14:35.947 --> 01:14:42.192
<v Shannon>I really did like it, but it's up against some good ones. So anyways,

01:14:42.192 --> 01:14:48.016
<v Shannon>next we're going with the Sierra Nevada, which I love.

01:14:48.957 --> 01:14:55.191
<v Shannon>I really did. I really enjoyed it. I love that sweetness, the bready.

01:14:55.191 --> 01:15:01.126
<v Shannon>Yeastiness too. Yeastiness, yeah. It's just very balanced.

01:15:04.049 --> 01:15:08.091
<v Jeff>The top of the can says, family owned, operated, and argued over.

01:15:08.812 --> 01:15:15.477
<v Shannon>Argued over. I wonder what that means. Your family. Yeah. So if I have to keep

01:15:15.477 --> 01:15:19.940
<v Shannon>Alligash in with the Oktoberfest, then I'm gonna bring that one up to the second place.

01:15:22.122 --> 01:15:25.884
<v Shannon>And that's just because the trogues.

01:15:26.665 --> 01:15:30.908
<v Shannon>Telling you guys, if you can get your hands on it, You should definitely do

01:15:30.908 --> 01:15:37.433
<v Shannon>it because that is what I am looking for in an Oktoberfest.

01:15:38.034 --> 01:15:39.255
<v Greg>Make sure you take a picture.

01:15:39.255 --> 01:15:39.795
<v Shannon>Absolutely.

01:15:40.676 --> 01:15:44.769
<v Jeff>They just high five in case it doesn't really match, you know, the bearers match.

01:15:44.769 --> 01:15:46.391
<v Shannon>Wow.

01:15:46.391 --> 01:15:49.503
<v Greg>In case it doesn't, in case the AI takes it out, they just high fived.

01:15:50.063 --> 01:15:50.624
<v Shannon>We did.

01:15:51.485 --> 01:15:53.326
<v Greg>We did. Take a picture. So we have it.

01:15:53.326 --> 01:15:57.689
<v Shannon>And although it's the same, but, you know, yeah, got to have it, got to have it.

01:15:58.610 --> 01:16:04.054
<v Greg>So fuck, marry, kill, relatively easy as far as I'm concerned. The trogues is...

01:16:07.053 --> 01:16:10.056
<v Greg>Marry because it's it's wonderful.

01:16:10.277 --> 01:16:13.258
<v Shannon>You never want to get tired of it. So you do want to marry it.

01:16:13.258 --> 01:16:22.465
<v Greg>Yeah Yeah, yeah Fuck I honestly would say the hell town because those caramel

01:16:22.465 --> 01:16:28.710
<v Greg>notes you're talking about and kill it's going to be well what I'm gonna do is I'm going to you know,

01:16:28.710 --> 01:16:35.355
<v Greg>come on to both the Pepsi and the Fat heads have them fight in the gladiatorial

01:16:35.355 --> 01:16:42.281
<v Greg>fight where clearly the fat heads will kill The nitro Pepsi and then I'll just

01:16:42.281 --> 01:16:44.042
<v Greg>have you release the lion killed.

01:16:44.042 --> 01:16:50.427
<v Greg>You'll have it makes it real easy Yeah, I like it All right for me.

01:16:50.427 --> 01:16:58.893
<v Jeff>I'm going to marry the trogues I'm gonna fuck the alagash And I'm gonna kill the fat heads Awesome.

01:16:58.893 --> 01:17:05.680
<v Shannon>Well, we're- Well, it's yeah- We're the same.

01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:07.420
<v Greg>Well, it's yeah- We're the same.

01:17:07.420 --> 01:17:10.842
<v Shannon>Okay. I mean, I'm marrying Trogs. We're gonna have a menage a trois instead of allagash.

01:17:10.842 --> 01:17:12.623
<v Jeff>I'm fucking the shit out of allagash. In this house, polygamy works.

01:17:12.623 --> 01:17:14.245
<v Greg>I'm killing fat heads but I'm really, really, really, really killing that Pepsi Nitro.

01:17:14.245 --> 01:17:18.148
<v Shannon>We're gonna have a menage a trois Fucking a shit out of our gash in this house

01:17:18.148 --> 01:17:23.271
<v Shannon>polygamy works I'm Killing fat heads,

01:17:23.271 --> 01:17:30.196
<v Shannon>but I'm really really really Killing that Pepsi Nitro Because that shouldn't

01:17:30.196 --> 01:17:36.901
<v Shannon>even be on a shelf anywhere for sale All right, that was episode 513 of craft beer radio.

01:17:38.162 --> 01:17:41.965
<v Jeff>Thank you everyone for listening to the show If you're not on our discord go

01:17:41.965 --> 01:17:45.948
<v Jeff>to craft beer radio calm and look for the link to join our discord Cuz that

01:17:45.948 --> 01:17:50.871
<v Jeff>is the fun place where we have all our fun people and we do fun things with them You know,

01:17:50.871 --> 01:17:53.393
<v Jeff>we miss out and being in the fun place. Do you know?

01:17:53.793 --> 01:17:57.556
<v Shannon>It's the fun zone. Yeah Fans on fun.

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<v Jeff>Yeah, that's going on right the home zone the zombie hot dog beer hot,

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<v Jeff>wait just did a episode on Greg's hot

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<v Jeff>dog beer when he was in town for the world beer

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<v Jeff>cup and uh Chicago style

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<v Jeff>hot dog beer yeah so they're chatting about that right now on our discord I

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<v Jeff>thought it would be a beer made with hot dog water like you get in the well

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<v Jeff>maybe you could make Chicago hot dog beer even better with hot dog water yeah

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<v Jeff>And we got a king gizzard the lizard wizard here on the radio.

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<v Jeff>Thank you Who was it it was Marinus yes Thank you all.

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<v Greg>Bye bye.

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<v Shannon>See you next time.

