Rocket Rankings - "IPAs Part 1, The Number S and Broccoli"

Get ready for a lot of IPAs!  Andy, Chris, and Siobhan join Matt to kick off our 2 part "Rocket Rankings" series of IPA tasting. We taste our way through Sierra Nevada - Celebration, Sherman St. - Hop Next, Beer Tree - Citra Grove, Adroit Theory - Death.net, Dogfish Head - 90 Minute IPA, Other Half - Broccoli, Lost Tavern - Life's a Trip Vol. 10, and Oliver - First Class.

As we journey through a galaxy of IPAs, we review everything from label art to the intriguing aromas that each unique brew presents. You'll hear our candid takes on the dryness and flavor profiles of brews like Sherman Street's offerings and discover why Beer Tree's Citra Grove New England IPA got our attention big time. Our tasting session is filled with colorful anecdotes and brewery backstories, making each sip not just a tasting experience but a trip through the craft beer cosmos.

Personal stories from a bachelor party at the Dogfish Head brewery add a touch of humor and nostalgia, especially as we discuss their wild creations like the Pennsylvania Tuxedo and even a lobster beer. We wrap up this episode by ranking our favorite IPAs, debating their qualities, and highlighting why beer, much like music, is a deeply personal adventure. Tune in and taste the universe with us!

Transcript

Intro and Introduction

Matt 1:01

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We have liftoff. Welcome to Matt and Friends. Drink the Universe. Drink the Universe. Welcome back to Matt and Friends. Drink the Universe. The theme for today is Rocket Rankings. That's one small sip for man, one giant taste for mankind. We're the Rankings. Yeah, that's still one of my favorites man, that guy who hit the high note.

Siobhan 1:51

He sounds like a turkey.

Andy 1:53

That's totally what it sounded like.

Matt 1:56

For the Thanksgiving special yeah right.

Matt 2:03

So for rocket rankings today, like NASA, we changed our style of rocket launch and hope things fly up in the air every once in a while. So what we're doing today, we have some slips of paper here and we are going to not do this one blind. We're going to drink, we're going to lay our pieces of paper out in the order that we enjoy the beer, move things around and then, in the end, we will establish our rankings. You will not be able to see any of that, which makes it it less enjoyable for you, but you get to hear all of us talk for about an hour.

Siobhan 2:25

We will tell you about it.

Chris 2:26

We promise I'm not going to not tell them what my rankings are.

Matt 2:29

I did think of one potential disaster in the making. Nobody sneeze yeah.

Siobhan 2:34

We'll figure it out.

Chris 2:35

We're not going to Ann Wheaton the table for those geek and sundry.

Siobhan 2:38

deep cuts, yeah, ticket to ride ruined.

Chris 2:42

No, I think this is going to be easier.

Siobhan 2:44

Saturday Night Live last night.

Chris 2:45

Because it's going to force us to compare them as we're going and be able to, in the moment, Be like I. Like this better than the last one and the others before it.

Siobhan 2:56

I think it's just going to get tough at the end, but I'm ready.

Matt 3:00

Shout out to Andy's rife. Rachel for the idea.

Siobhan 3:03

My rife, rachel, shout out to Andy's wife Rachel for the idea.

Chris 3:05

My wife Rachel, your wife Rachel, shout out, it already started.

Matt 3:09

Nice.

Andy 3:11

I'm so wrong?

Siobhan 3:12

No, Shout out to Rachel.

Matt 3:16

Yes, there we go.

Siobhan 3:17

Shout out to.

Matt 3:18

Andy's wife Rachel, for the idea. Here I can speak. I swear to God it is a thing I can do?

Siobhan 3:23

I don't believe you.

Matt 3:27

So we'll dive in here a minute. But first and foremost, I'm glad we all survived the traumatic event on friday. Little earthquake, yeah, for anyone listening.

Sierra Nevada - Celebration

Siobhan 3:35

I had no idea chris thought it was because he was wrestling with the dog and I walked into his office and I go. What happened? He's like oh no, I was just wrestling with the dog. For anyone that doesn't know, we have a 45 pound dog. We do not have a large dog.

Andy 3:49

He does wrestle, not to shake the house though Just saying he went super, saying yes, yes, puppers, saying I thought my furnace was malfunctioning, which was really frustrating because it literally was serviced on black friday, so it was quite funny friday, good friday, wrong, wrong friday wrong friday, good friday, the closer friday is kind of far away oh my god no good friday we do have the chat thread, with all of the matt and friends cast members in it and it was very funny because there was an even split of people going.

Siobhan 4:20

It was my furnace, it was my water heater yeah, I thought it was the water heater, one of those two things people thought life I was furnished because the furnace is under this room and this is also where I work from, so I was thoroughly convinced it was coming through the floor. It was up two floors for us, so I don't know what we thought.

Matt 4:36

Well, chris didn't think anything yeah, so here we are yep, totally oblivious I know many people who didn't feel it at all but we're all here, so let's rate these beers all right, so we're going to start with number one on the list. Here is the sierra nevada celebration. Oh yeah, siobhan has used a bottle opener on a can bro, I pay a lot for these nails.

Siobhan 5:00

Okay, I didn't see the nails. Yeah, that's also what bartenders use. They don't rip their nails apart.

Matt 5:05

I have stubs where the end of my finger should be.

Siobhan 5:08

Give me your cups, oh yeah here.

Andy 5:10

I'll pass that around.

Siobhan 5:11

That's good Pour whatever you would like. So Celebration fresh hop IPA. I love this beer.

Chris 5:18

From Sierra Nevada. I don't think it's like the best IPA in the world, but it's always so good every year and it slightly changes year to year, and I think this year's is a really good one. I don't know if I've ever had this one. This is a really good hoppy beer Hoppy, hoppy hoppy, hoppy, hoppy, joy, joy.

Matt 5:37

It's not overly hoppy, though it's not overly like piney or anything like that either.

Chris 5:41

Nope, nope it's just like hop flavored beer, you know got the malt still in it, so you don't lose that.

Siobhan 5:48

Yeah, that's not. That's why it's not my favorite. But yeah, that's okay, it's still delicious.

Andy 5:52

I will say it's more malty than I was expecting.

Siobhan 5:54

Yep.

Matt 5:54

That will probably make it more enjoyable for me, because I like that malt flavor.

Chris 6:02

Right. This one's in first right now, but yeah, yeah, it's also in last yes Oof, it's a tough spot to be in.

Sherman Street - Hop Next

Siobhan 6:10

Yep, yeah, it's fine, decent, yeah, made in Chico, california, and Mills River, north Carolina.

Chris 6:16

California knows how to make their beers.

Siobhan 6:18

Apparently. Yeah, they do.

Andy 6:19

We'll say, I would say, ipas always have that lingering hoppiness on the back end of it.

Chris 6:25

I'm not loving the amount of it in this one, the sustain of it, yeah, yeah, the sustain.

Andy 6:31

It's not great for me. Yeah, I can feel that, so I'm currently putting this in last.

Chris 6:36

Fair.

Andy 6:36

All right.

Siobhan 6:37

Last of one Exactly.

Chris 6:38

Grab a red cup so we can have a A pour out. Yeah, it's like I poured myself an aggressive amount. Yeah, so did Matt Like. Look at this man.

Siobhan 6:48

This is the King Cup. For anyone that's ever played Kings.

Chris 6:51

Gross.

Siobhan 6:52

Brought me back. Oh, our pass.

Matt 6:54

I used to play that with a round of asshole immediately after Mm-hmm.

Chris 6:59

Yeah.

Matt 7:00

That was amazing at asshole.

Siobhan 7:02

All right, I spent a lot of time with a case of beer in my head. I'm not sure what to say about that Take it as you will. I'm also not going to respond to that, all right.

Chris 7:11

Number two what was it again?

Siobhan 7:12

Number two. What is number two? I already forgot.

Matt 7:14

Okay, we need to have a small timeout here for a second. Is this indeed?

Chris 7:26

I'm going later right, correct, it has a line on it.

Siobhan 7:27

It has a line on the wrong part several lines. Put a line on the other side. If you want, I just what in the world? No, it's. Then we can't make fun of it.

Matt 7:31

That's why we're here to make fun of it so, chris, if you couldn't tell by the defensive posturing, is the one who wrote the numbers for us here and siobhan and I are having a general disagreement, or with him about, uh, the efficacy of the two Again.

Chris 7:46

I don't care that you're making fun of it, because I have terrible handwriting and I copped that real easy. Oh, me too. This is the sustained surprise that I keep getting of what is this?

Siobhan 7:56

Well, wait, you do when I've now explained it 32 times. No, it's not. What is it? I know what it is.

Chris 8:01

Okay.

Siobhan 8:02

But it doesn't make sense.

Matt 8:06

All it.

Chris 8:06

I know what it is okay, but it doesn't make sense, all right. Well, okay, and you're right. You have explained it 30 z times. That was actually a good one.

Andy 8:12

I think you did a great job thank you oh listen, we all know it's a two.

Siobhan 8:18

Now I don't know if chris does, but we'll be fine, because I don't know if he knows what a two is. But we'll be all right, we got it, we're gonna make it work.

Matt 8:25

I'm pretty sure as a drummer he can can count to four, as can I.

Siobhan 8:28

Yes, he doesn't have to write it though.

Matt 8:29

Anything beyond four gets super sketchy.

Chris 8:31

And I can spell to G. There, you go Music jokes oh.

Siobhan 8:36

Let's drink more beer, please.

Matt 8:46

All right list matt hop next. That is the sherman street hop next.

Siobhan 8:47

Right, let's get this one going. I see what you did there. We go right. This will be interesting because this is a west coast yeah, so we're going to go from that west multi-piney celebration ipa.

Chris 8:55

Oh, save my nail on that one going for the nails it's okay, we'll be all right you know, there's three other people that could be opening them, just so you're right, but none of you are trying.

Siobhan 9:04

so here we are, Good job boys.

Andy 9:06

It's already open now.

Chris 9:07

Great job.

Siobhan 9:09

You guys can have the ones that are closer to you.

Chris 9:11

By the way, we should post a picture of this, can art?

Siobhan 9:14

because it's adorable.

Chris 9:15

It's fun. It's got like a little rabbit in space.

Andy 9:18

Ooh smelly. I got to say that's one of the things with especially IPAs local brew IPAs they always have great label art.

Siobhan 9:25

Yeah, the label art on one of these is really cool. Spoiler alert on that.

Matt 9:30

You might want to I don't know lighten up on the dumbbell curls or something. Your pores are like insane.

Siobhan 9:36

It's fine.

Andy 9:37

You're not going to drink all that. It's a Sunday. We've got nothing better to do, chris is sampling professionally.

Chris 9:42

Does it have like a little coffee smell to it?

Siobhan 9:44

No, I don't think you're crazy, but I can. I'm not getting that much smell from it. Yeah, that's why I'm like I get smell.

Chris 9:49

You know how coffee kind of like just erases some smell.

Matt 9:53

Sometimes it's been it's like, like I smell no hoppiness Sitting in the carafe.

Siobhan 9:58

Oh, absolutely, that's a face.

Andy 9:59

Siobhan Vaughn's not a fan.

Siobhan 10:01

Letter Z is last for me here.

Chris 10:06

It's kind of bland.

Siobhan 10:07

I'm not a big West Coast IPA fan, but this is not my jam, that's surprising.

Matt 10:13

There's not a lot.

Chris 10:15

When was this canned? It's pretty fresh yeah.

Andy 10:20

I was over at Sherman Street. Love that place, it's right there, I was surprised. I've now been over Street. Love that place. It's right there. I was surprised I've now been over there twice. Yikes, I've now been over there twice, and the first time it was absolutely packed, and this time there was like nobody there, and both times it was a Friday. So I don't know, I don't get it.

Siobhan 10:39

I don't think enough people know about it.

Andy 10:42

Well, it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. It is enough people know about it. Well, it's kind of in the middle of no, like it's. Yeah, it's in a very random part of allentown for sure, yeah, I love it there.

Chris 10:48

It's great they still do food, though, right I don't know.

Beer Tree - Citra Grove

Siobhan 10:51

I went there because paranormal pizza oh yeah, I had a pot there, maybe that's what I'm remembering is that they have pop-ups.

Andy 10:59

Shout out to paranormal pizza freaking delicious. Can't wait for them to get their brick and mortar back up and running.

Matt 11:05

We talked about the back end of the last one. The back end of this one, to me, is arguably worse.

Siobhan 11:10

There's not much there and what is there is very strange. For sure, this is probably going to be my least favorite.

Chris 11:15

It's like drying to your mouth. It sucks kind of the moisture out.

Matt 11:19

It feels like there's a sponge in my mouth or something like that, like there's something that's stuck in the moisture.

Andy 11:24

I didn't have this. I just honestly, I bought it because the label is great, but oh, I yeah, and it's a West coast IPA.

Chris 11:30

I mean it's and this is a beer that I could drink easily. It's not like I don't like it. I don't think it's has a bad flavor to it.

Andy 11:38

Yeah that's a solid description Unimpressive. I'm not blown away.

Siobhan 11:44

All right. So far, that was one and two.

Andy 11:46

I think we all have One and Z, yeah, the Sierra in the lead.

Siobhan 11:50

I don't know, I guess Sherman in the back right, yeah, sherman in the back All right, numero three-oh. This would be the beer tree Citra Grove that Chris is going to open. Thank you, Thank you for redeeming our species around the table here. I'm the same species as you.

Matt 12:10

Well redeeming our gender Fair enough.

Siobhan 12:12

Okay, this one I'm excited about.

Chris 12:15

You know what makes the best cracks? Liquid death, and it's not even a beer.

Siobhan 12:20

They do a good job.

Chris 12:21

I like a completely new color. Now, here we go.

Siobhan 12:25

This will be much more Ooh. I like a completely new color now.

Matt 12:27

Yeah, we've got this, here we go.

Siobhan 12:28

This will be much more my speed, I think A little hazier. Yeah, love a. Hazy, love a citrus.

Chris 12:31

Okay, this is going to sound funny, can't wait. But some beers have this like slightly flatulence smell to it.

Siobhan 12:39

And this has that, oh, a little bit.

Matt 12:41

A little farty.

Siobhan 12:42

It is a little funky.

Matt 12:44

This would be yeast fart.

Siobhan 12:45

Yeah, totally New England IPA.

Andy 12:50

Where is beer tree?

Siobhan 12:51

I'm not familiar with beer tree.

Matt 12:55

Beer grows on trees. Sign me up.

Siobhan 12:56

Yeah, this is a funky.

Matt 12:57

I wish it did. Johnson City New.

Chris 13:00

York.

Matt 13:01

There you go.

Siobhan 13:02

Nice Little New York beer we're moving back to the east coast, well, it is a new england ipa for those that don't know this is nice.

Chris 13:09

Yeah, it's nice.

Matt 13:10

I like it a lot I like it a lot that one's gonna go out front for me.

Andy 13:15

Yep, for sure oh, it's really light it is yeah this is good yeah this is a good uh summer evening around the campfire beer.

Chris 13:23

Yeah, it doesn't have that super crispiness that a citrus beer can have.

Andy 13:28

Yeah.

Chris 13:29

It's much more smooth, which is a New England style thing.

Siobhan 13:32

Yeah.

Matt 13:34

This would be a good one on a hot day too, this is one. You could sit in the back porch and have a barbecue beer 6.7%, so that's pretty good.

Siobhan 13:42

It's a little higher than your cider.

Chris 13:46

I don't know.

Siobhan 13:47

We should be kind of looking through some of that You're not crushing these, but yeah. Well, 6.8 for the Celebration.

Adroit Theory - Death.Net

Chris 13:53

And the next was yeah, all of them have been kind of heavy.

Matt 13:56

16 fluid ounces. Hold on, it's been a can.

Siobhan 13:58

It was insane maybe, I don't believe it does.

Matt 14:07

It is not required. No, apparently not. I do like the can art though the bunny rabbits. Yeah, it's adorable.

Andy 14:09

See what untapped says they might know.

Matt 14:12

Somebody from untapped probably took it out and measured it, so why andy's doing that? I will say that right now. For me the beer tree is in first place, sierra nevada is in second and the Sherman Street Hop Next is in.

Siobhan 14:25

Z.

Chris 14:26

Mom in the same boat.

Andy 14:27

We all are the Hop. Next is a 7%. Okay, so all around the same, that's good.

Siobhan 14:35

It doesn't seem like any of us brought really heavy ones.

Matt 14:38

We had a hazy Imperial but we didn't bring it on purpose.

Siobhan 14:41

We don't want to kill anybody. Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot about the 90.

Matt 14:46

You're welcome. We didn't bring it on purpose. We don't want to kill anybody. Oh yeah, that's right, we will have those, you're welcome.

Andy 14:50

No, this is good. I'm a fan Very drinkable.

Chris 14:53

What is numero four-o Okay?

Siobhan 14:55

I gotta stop doing that.

Chris 14:57

Quatro what is number four?

Matt 15:01

How does one pronounce this? Starts with an, a, oh a droid theory. A droid. Okay, so it is Like Android, but without the A I was like is there some sort of French twist on this that I'm going to butcher.

Chris 15:11

This is sick.

Siobhan 15:12

So there's a droid theory from deathnet.

Matt 15:14

Deathnet.

Siobhan 15:17

Well, it's a droid theory, is the brewery and it's called deathnet.

Matt 15:25

Another West Coast, another west coast. So this is deathnet from right. There, that's some.

Siobhan 15:27

Now I would have thought that death would have been like aorg super metal.

Andy 15:29

Yeah, that would be aorg everybody does everybody remember the heavy metal 2000 movie? I guess it's a branch off of heavy metal movie, but it was like this very metal animated movie.

Chris 15:40

I'm getting those vibes here all I can think of right now is um, what was the cartoon about? The metal band? And they like, oh my.

Andy 15:48

God like apocalypse Jeez. It was something with apocalypse, Apocalyptia or something like that.

Matt 15:56

Josie oh my.

Andy 15:56

God, it was so good oh it was they used to do like a, like a guitar, over the cursing yeah, oh my God, the cocaine clown.

Chris 16:07

What I do, cocaine, I don't.

Siobhan 16:09

didn't remember that until just this time. I have no idea what you guys are talking about?

Andy 16:12

Yeah, I don't either. It was on Cartoon Network. It was on Cartoon Network, oh really, yeah, oh, it was so good.

Chris 16:19

It was right before, or I love that show.

Matt 16:21

It's a late nighter, it's like the later.

Chris 16:22

Chicken. This is another that, like it's so odorless.

Siobhan 16:26

Yeah, it really doesn't have much going on. The last one did, and it was so much lighter. I haven't tried this yet though.

Matt 16:33

If we get through all of these and we can't smell them, we're all doing a COVID test together.

Siobhan 16:36

Right, well, I smelled the last one, that's good.

Andy 16:39

This is that's really good.

Siobhan 16:41

Yo, I like this.

Andy 16:43

Okay.

Chris 16:44

You like a West Coast? Yeah, but is this like really that West Coast-y, oh yeah absolutely.

Matt 16:49

Oh, good Well yes.

Chris 16:50

I do like a.

Siobhan 16:50

West Coast, then, ha ha, I'm winning.

Chris 16:53

I don't know, it's very light, and that's why I think we all like it, because it's not like slapping you in the face with hops.

Siobhan 17:06

We've had beer from this brewery before and it's like very good this one's from virginia, yeah, and it's also expensive from what I remember, yes.

Chris 17:10

So okay, I will say I like this a lot.

Siobhan 17:12

I don't quite like it as much as it's definitely not as drinkable as the beer tree on top yeah but this is really nice because I could slam this.

Chris 17:22

It's so light and easy to.

Matt 17:23

Yeah, there's a flavor and I can't pin it.

Siobhan 17:26

I like it, though it is this specific thing I'm tasting.

Matt 17:29

that puts it in second and I'm going to take another sip and see if I can.

Siobhan 17:31

There's still the resin-y part to it.

Andy 17:33

This is hardcore and, first for me, nice. If I had the button, I'd hit that stellar sip on this.

Siobhan 17:40

Oh, do it.

Andy 17:40

That first taste, all of us, our eyes lit up. That's really good, stellar Sips.

Matt 17:47

You can call Stellar.

Chris 17:47

Sips 7.5.

Andy 17:50

That does not taste like a 7.5, so that's a dangerous beer. Oh man, you guys. No, that does not taste like a 7.5.

Chris 17:57

That might kill you.

Andy 17:58

I would have guessed that was more of a 6.

Matt 18:01

The deathnet is now making more sense. Careful there.

Chris 18:12

That should be like aorg or maybe aedu, like something to avoid. No, no, I just don't like thexxx. Are you trying?

Siobhan 18:15

to make it a porn site. No, oh okay, probably is one a death porn site.

Chris 18:17

Horrifying short, short exists short tech story my company went out of its way to pay lots and lots of money to reserve all the dot xxx domains that we owned because they were afraid someone would register them and make porn sites out of them, and they are like 10 times the registration cost of regular domains wow, I didn't know that.

Siobhan 18:40

Why is that?

Dogfish Head - 90 Minute IPA

Matt 18:41

it's like 40 a year to register those, whereas like on GoDaddy, you can register itcom for like five bucks and yeah, yeah, matt and Friends Drink the Universe is like $5 for the year or something like that, so we paid. It's not expensive.

Chris 18:54

I think there was at least 15 domains we registered, so it was a lot of money. And then after several years the marketing department was like why are we spending? Hundreds of dollars a year on this. I was like I have no idea. You told me to do it, so I did it yep did the marketing guy go wait a minute. We have an opportunity here it was just like cut the expense. Nope, all right, moving on.

Matt 19:16

Uh, num, number, five, number, five, number five, such a uno dos cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis. There we go.

Siobhan 19:26

Great Offspring, I did listen to some Offspring this morning. Did you?

Chris 19:30

I had an Instagram that someone was playing.

Andy 19:33

Nice, I love the Offspring, not good live oh really.

Siobhan 19:38

Oh, I think I heard that Maybe from you.

Andy 19:40

It might have been for me To be fair. I was very let down.

Matt 19:44

Okay, Sorry. What's number five? This would be the Dogfish Head 90 Minute oh snap, oh buddy, okay, here we go. This is a classic.

Siobhan 19:51

Get ready.

Andy 19:52

This is a standard.

Chris 19:53

I'm a little concerned, not concerned, I'm a little interested because this says 90 Minute Imperial IPA.

Siobhan 19:59

That's what they are Is.

Chris 20:00

They are. Is it always an Imperial? Am I crazy, I mean.

Siobhan 20:03

I could be crazy. That's cool, I think it's always that way.

Matt 20:09

This is the.

Chris 20:10

If you go to a random bar and you want an IPA, you can almost always get this. It's.

Matt 20:19

I've seen 60 more than 90.

Chris 20:20

No 90 is the 90.

Siobhan 20:23

No, you're not crazy, they're both there. You're not going to find 120.

Andy 20:28

You're good with either one, we've been to Dogfish Head.

Matt 20:32

I have I was gone. You were not. Oh, I do. You were physically in Robich.

Siobhan 20:41

Beach, but you weren't there. But you remember going there Like I was in Wizard of Oz.

Andy 20:46

Wizard of Oz, I gotta say that is what I expect an IPA to smell like.

Chris 20:53

She hoppy. It's definitely listed as an imperial on tap. Yeah, I think I'm mixing 60 and 90 minute for some dumb reason. Yeah, because 90 is definitely heftier 90 is the more rare, Like it goes 60 to 90 to 120.

Siobhan 21:07

I just I can't guys.

Matt 21:09

If you were, listening and thinking there's got to be a story as to why Chris does not remember what Dogfish Head looks like. That would be because that was his bachelor party.

Siobhan 21:17

Correct. You're welcome. I was not there, because that's how that works.

Chris 21:19

When you go to the brewery you get I think it was two tokens like for free beer you get two tokens. Well, everybody decided to give their second free beer token to Chris. Yes, so Chris drank about seven beers at the brewery and that was the beginning of the day.

Matt 21:37

Well, they also had the. Is it the Palo Santo?

Chris 21:40

Sean at that point wasn't drinking, so I got both of his.

Matt 21:44

Well, they had the Palo Santo there as well. It was the Santa Palo. You know what I'm trying to say, man that beer is so good.

Chris 21:49

Yeah, shout out to Dogfish. It's still one of my OG favorite breweries. We still have.

Siobhan 21:53

Burton Batten in our fridge, I think.

Chris 21:55

It's aging. It's almost 10 years. Can't wait for it to age even more. I enjoy this beer. This is fantastic.

Andy 22:08

Yeah, this is good. I'm not sure if I'm putting it above the Android there.

Siobhan 22:14

Android theory.

Andy 22:15

yeah, I agree, I really love that Android theory.

Chris 22:19

I'm putting this right in the middle because this is like the IPA, so you're not ever disappointed by it, but you're never like I've got to drink this. If it's on the tap list, I have to have it like. That's not what this is I still.

Siobhan 22:34

I just the 60 is so much easier to drink in my opinion I agree.

Chris 22:39

This is a nine percent beer like this is not something. You're picking up a six-pack and drinking the whole six-pack.

Siobhan 22:44

This makes me think that I would not like a 120.

Andy 22:48

I do not like the 120.

Chris 22:50

It is.

Matt 22:51

It's an experience. It is an experience. That's a great way to play. I would try it.

Siobhan 22:55

I just don't think I would. I would do a mini. I know you only get a little bit.

Chris 23:01

I think when we were down there it was Graven at like 15 and a half. That's the one that sticks out. For me, they were like oh, it ranges between like 12 and 18%, and I was like oh, my Lord, 18%.

Siobhan 23:12

And then Chris chugged one at the brew pub. It was heavy I did.

Matt 23:16

Everything went downhill. I also remember the peanut butter, so we went to the restaurant later and they had the peanut butter infused vodka, which was outstanding yeah, that because I drank that. It's one of the few times in my life I drank vodka with nothing else involved.

Siobhan 23:30

It's just straight, and it was yeah, dogfish does have a distillery, so his parents like getting this is number s yeah, we're gonna post these numbers letters. To be fair, mine does look more like a five thank you okay you're welcome, all welcome. I'm going to put this one actually second place. Welcome to my world. Thank you very much. It's why we like making fun of you.

Matt 23:53

I get bludgeoned on this show all the time.

Chris 23:56

It's true, you do Rightfully so.

Matt 23:57

Nice to have somebody else in the hot seat.

Andy 24:00

Yeah, no, this is.

Siobhan 24:02

I mean, it's a great beer, it's standard. This is what I think an IPA should taste like this is smack in the middle for me as well.

Matt 24:08

There's a reason that Dogfish Head has staying power. There's a reason they've been around as long as they are and everybody knows who they are.

Siobhan 24:13

They do a great job, 100%, and they don't have to mess with stuff, right, because they always do weird stuff too, like the lobster beer.

Andy 24:21

Yeah, hard pass.

Chris 24:22

No.

Andy 24:23

It's good.

Chris 24:25

It's real good.

Andy 24:25

I mean, don't get me wrong.

Chris 24:26

I try it, but it doesn't sound good to me.

Andy 24:29

Yeah, I'm going for it. However, as we mentioned before, the podcast, the Pennsylvania Tuxedo.

Other Half - Broccoli

Siobhan 24:34

Yeah, what a great beer. I don't know that that would be my fave. Shocks you, yeah.

Chris 24:37

Stuff like that shocks you when you're. I wouldn't expect this.

Andy 24:42

Nothing on the description sounds like something I would like.

Siobhan 24:45

I really want to get down there, that's also Flying Dogs Pearl Necklace. Yeah, the oyster style. I don't think that's what it's called anymore, but it might be called something Like the saltiness.

Chris 24:56

Yes, it is.

Siobhan 24:58

It's called that because of all the stupid laughing that I'm hearing Wonderful.

Matt 25:04

No, I was going to gonna say I'm going for a dogfish head if you would love to have matt and friends drink the universe live would love that we would be more than absolutely amen, I'll load up my minivan and and come visit you.

Andy 25:13

That's all my. That's all my to-do list anyhow. So I will absolutely take that road trip we're great house guests.

Chris 25:19

We drink a lot, but we are we're a lot of as you don't need anyone to write any numerals or say album, we're all set. Alright, alright, alright.

Siobhan 25:30

What's number six.

Andy 25:30

What do we got? What are we doing next? Numero Okay.

Chris 25:34

Number six, I was gonna do Adora, but I'm not gonna.

Matt 25:37

This is other half broccoli.

Andy 25:39

What's in the beer pack.

Matt 25:41

If this tastes anything like broccoli the beer pack, if this tastes anything like broccoli.

Siobhan 25:43

I'm going to vomit on this table. It does not taste like broccoli, we promise I would be excited.

Chris 25:48

I think I'm not going to be preconceived. Okay, just open it up, chris. Oh my God stop giving people.

Matt 25:56

Regardless of how you feel about the man, that wasn't a great crack. I'm disappointed by that A lot of people don't realize that the first George Bush, Herbert Walker, banned broccoli from the White House. Yeah, he did. In my opinion, that is the greatest political decision that has ever been made in the history of our country.

Siobhan 26:11

And that's why we don't talk about politics on this podcast.

Matt 26:14

I hate vehemently hate it. Anybody bring broccoli and kill them. Yep, that's a quality decision.

Chris 26:20

I'm all for it, love it this is other half, and they have several varieties of this, iterations of broccoli. This is just the regular broccoli, they also have cream of broccoli and cheddar broccoli.

Siobhan 26:31

They also have lettuce and cabbage. Lettuce and cabbage they have a lot of grape. Other half is one of my faves, which makes us annoying.

Chris 26:37

Nothing about the name of the beer speaks to what it tastes like no, it's very good beer.

Siobhan 26:45

See, this is where doing this blind would be advantageous, because just because it's cold, no, just drink it, for goodness sake, smell it and you're instantly going to be like oh my gosh, this is nothing like broccoli.

Matt 26:52

Okay, it does not smell like broccoli, correct, we would not do that to you.

Siobhan 26:55

I mean, we would do that to you, but we didn't. This time.

Matt 26:58

As a man who possesses a psychology degree and understands biases, this is a 7.9. There's one form.

Siobhan 27:05

They also do a baked potato series, and that's one of my favorites as well.

Matt 27:09

They do a twice baked potato, double baked potato. It doesn't taste like potatoes at all. No, it's all just themed Calm down.

Chris 27:15

It invokes feelings of warmth and happiness. It does not include broccoli Right out of Brooklyn.

Siobhan 27:21

There's one in Philly now.

Andy 27:24

It's where Goose Island you see, oh, I love Goose Island. I love Goose Island. Goose Island's brown is so good. I love brown ales, but they weren't hipster enough for that location.

Chris 27:33

Their location is beautiful, yeah. And now other half is like that's saying something, hold my Brooklyn, they had that whole lawn area by the time we hit that lawn. No, no, no, we were all good. Still, it was the next brewery before the.

Matt 27:47

I'm speaking personally here because at that lawn I had the barrel aged.

Chris 27:52

Yeah, I was going to say I'm saying while we were there we were fine. It was the next brewery where that barrel age hit you Funky.

Matt 27:59

We went to a garage. The place was called the garage.

Chris 28:02

Yeah, that was first then it was a goose okay I know we ended up at a garage is great. Anyone who's been to philly go to. It's called garage oh garage is wonderful and they have my cousin and I went the one time.

Matt 28:13

So much beer that's in kensington yeah, it's catty corner town, it's catty corner to that place that we're talking about. That used to be goose can we take the fish?

Siobhan 28:23

to fish town yeah, fish would love fish town fish. You're going to fish town, get ready fish. Oh, I don't love this. That sounds like always sunny episode by the way the fish visits fish town all right. Well, andy has things to say. No, I don't hate it.

Chris 28:38

I'm okay with someone hating this because it's not a style for everybody. For me it's just so drinkable it's definitely drinkable.

Andy 28:45

Like I definitely don't dislike it, I might put it second.

Matt 28:48

I don't love it yeah alright, that Citra Grove to me is still you know what I'm busting biases over here, because I'm putting this one up top. I did it listen, it's good.

Chris 29:01

It is well sort of like broccoli yeah, you did it.

Siobhan 29:05

Oh, do you get a stellar sip for that? I think you do. Is Matt going to be sad? He has to press it.

Matt 29:10

Look if it's real broccoli and the option's that or the firing squad. I'm taking the firing squad, oh my God, stellar sip.

Andy 29:18

Have you not had, from a good Chinese restaurant, some good beef and broccoli? Oh yes, Like it's not good for you but it's delicious.

Siobhan 29:25

It's not Listen who cares what's good for you? There's way worse things for you.

Chris 29:28

I feel like we are not a healthy lifestyle podcast.

Siobhan 29:31

Listen, we're drinking beers on a Sunday morning.

Matt 29:34

If you wonder why we get more chatty as the tasting goes on. There's a reason for that.

Andy 29:38

Telling stories.

Chris 29:46

What is it that's putting it so ahead for you? Because to me it's just like okay, yeah, it's the way that what we're calling like the lasting flavor, at the end it sits exactly how it tastes, it sits on your tongue like yes, yeah, I can drink this.

Matt 29:56

I'm watching tv at night and I drink this and I taste the beer the entire time okay, so I don't have to slam it to keep tasting good flavor yeah, it just stays as good flavor in my mouth and to that point I took a sip when chris started talking and I'm still getting, yeah, yeah, like it's really nice to not have it sour out or something like that on the back end.

Andy 30:16

So, yeah, that's, if I remember correctly, with the sierra nevada. Like that's exactly what I said, like I didn't like the, yeah, the lingering, yeah it.

Matt 30:25

Like you, like, you're right, this does linger nice, nicely.

Andy 30:28

Yeah, interesting, and you have to let it linger nice I really love an ipa from other half.

Siobhan 30:34

They did one because a wegmans was opened opened in aster yep, oh, and it was up and uh in aster place in new york city I was not prepared for that other half was, uh, commissioned I think, or whatever decided to brew a specific beer just for the aster place opening of wegmans and we I found like a four pack of it in our wegmans not in new york and just like grifted it because I don't know if it was supposed to be there. One of the best, yeah, it was so good, like just Shout out to Other Half.

Chris 31:10

I know we're big fans.

Siobhan 31:12

They're killing it.

Chris 31:13

Every time A lot of people make fun of.

Lost Tavern Brewing - Life's a Trip Volume 10

Siobhan 31:16

Neutral. Well, okay, I wasn't going to name them Because it kind of is like that Breweries that do a hazy ipa and then they just give it a new name.

Chris 31:26

And yeah, your marketing department's great. Yeah, but like you're doing about the same beer and they're not bad, it's tough to like slam a brewery because you're making the same beer over and over that are good.

Andy 31:37

Yeah, and just renaming it um speaking of slamming, this is a 7.9 yeah, that's another one.

Matt 31:44

That's another one, that's legal.

Chris 31:47

I drank one the other night a little too fast and was like it's time for bed.

Siobhan 31:54

That's how you know you're getting old right Not like it's time for another one, but it's time for bed.

Chris 32:00

Watched some college basketball Shout out. It's March Madness right now. And I was like I need to watch the end of this game and I'm struggling all right.

Siobhan 32:09

What is we're married folks?

Matt 32:12

marriage we have lordy marriage number yes, thank you, andy, for arriving there with me. That was great. What is?

Chris 32:23

number seven.

Matt 32:25

My name is Lost Tavern's Life's a Trip, volume 10. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Andy 32:30

Alright. So yeah, I bought this one from Lost Tavern. Love Lost Tavern.

Siobhan 32:36

Love Lost Tavern Top three breweries in the Lehigh Valley 100%.

Andy 32:41

I don't think I had Life's a Trip, volume 10. I don't think I had had Life's a Trip, Volume 10. I don't think I've had 10. So I was like let's go for it. I had 7.

Matt 32:46

I thought 7 was a life-changing beer.

Siobhan 32:49

That was one of my favorite beers that I've ever had.

Matt 32:51

Yeah, yeah. So I didn't realize that was an iterative thing either, until Gino was on the podcast and was talking about it.

Chris 32:58

It's got that farty smell we're here for you, Gene.

Siobhan 33:02

We love your cocktail choices as well.

Chris 33:03

I think that's the canning thing sometimes, Because I don't remember if I've had 10 at the brewery but none of them really had that farty smell. So I'm just curious. Ooh I like that oh.

Matt 33:18

What's the finish, though? Ooh, it's got something on the finish. Creamy, yeah, and that was the noise I made.

Andy 33:23

That was the noise I made.

Matt 33:24

Creamy is a good word for it, the finish Lost Tavern. I'm sorry, I don't think the finish is where it was for volume seven.

Chris 33:30

I think it's a little bit more of a back end. I don't think they'll ever hit number seven again.

Matt 33:38

Let's be honest.

Siobhan 33:39

If they do, the finish is not ideal, but it doesn't stay.

Chris 33:42

But what is it? What is it? What's the finish? I don't know.

Matt 33:44

You can't tell that kind of A treat, aftertaste cream soda, but flat no.

Siobhan 33:49

No, no, okay, I don't disagree with that, though.

Chris 33:51

Number one drink of all time, a treat cream soda A treat cream red.

Matt 33:55

Red oh.

Chris 34:04

Oh, treat cocktails. Ooh, I like this idea. Can we do a drinkables like force, the blue raspberry Worst soda on the planet.

Siobhan 34:08

What are you making? All right, rob you're not here.

Matt 34:09

You get blue raspberries. There you go.

Siobhan 34:11

It's going to take over everything.

Andy 34:13

I think I'm putting this on the bottom. Whoa the bottom.

Matt 34:17

That seems a little aggressive, damn.

Siobhan 34:20

Beyond the one what sucked Number Z? Beyond the one what sucked number Z?

Chris 34:24

This is going to be a respectable seven.

Siobhan 34:27

No, I mean he's saying it's below.

Matt 34:29

Oh, the number Z.

Andy 34:30

Number Z. Yeah, what was number Z? Again?

Matt 34:32

That would be the dogfish head 90 minute.

Andy 34:35

No, no, no, number two, number two.

Matt 34:37

Oh, I'm sorry, You're right, the number S is five, correct.

Siobhan 34:41

He can't tell the difference because the five and the two I don't know.

Matt 34:44

I'm trying to make fun of you.

Chris 34:45

I'm done. No, there's so much good beer on it, I'll cry. I will cry. It's the drunkenness in this room, not me. I didn't do it.

Matt 34:56

So the number two was the Sherman Street hop next.

Oliver Brewing - First Class

Siobhan 34:59

Yeah, you think this is worse than that. I mean listen, I'm not judging you, I'm just saying that's a good point, yep.

Andy 35:06

I think I'm putting it above the Sherman Street. Damn though that's pretty low.

Chris 35:11

But still below Celebration.

Andy 35:13

I would rather drink the Sierra Nevada than this Okay.

Chris 35:16

They're tied for me. Can I do a tie?

IPA Tasting and Rankings Discussion

Siobhan 35:18

Yeah, you can, why not I?

Matt 35:20

slid that one into three, it's our podcast.

Andy 35:23

Do it on the one.

Matt 35:24

So as we go into the last one, I'm going to try to translate. This ought to be fun. So I have the other half broccoli out front. I got the beer tree, citra Grove. In second, I have the Lost Tavern. In third Fourth place is the Dogfish Head 90 Minute Damn it, this is confusing. In fifth place is number four, the Deathnet. Damn it, this is confusing. In fifth place is number four, the Deathnet. And then we got the Celebration and the Sherman Street Hop, next bringing up the rear.

Siobhan 35:51

Nice, we have to all go around and do this.

Matt 35:53

I feel like I was unlocking the division after tasting beer. Thank you, I'll attempt what Matt just attempted. I will tell you.

Chris 36:01

This is Oliver Brewing first class.

Andy 36:07

Ooh Oliver, oliver, this is Oliver Brewing, first Class Oliver, oliver, that was a good one.

Siobhan 36:10

Please, sir, can I have some more? Somebody named him Oliver.

Chris 36:17

Yep.

Siobhan 36:17

Oh yeah.

Chris 36:18

Love that show. This smells a little bit sour to me.

Siobhan 36:21

Oh yeah.

Chris 36:22

That's the citrus.

Andy 36:23

Oh sheesh, that's like I like it, though. Also. Why is this so much?

Siobhan 36:24

colder, a little bit sour to me. Oh yeah, that's the citrus. Ooh, sheesh.

Andy 36:26

That's like I like it, though. Also, why is this so much colder than the others, when it's been sitting on the table for literally?

Siobhan 36:31

the exact same amount of time. Oh, I do not like this. What is this?

Chris 36:34

No, is this what you brought? Mm-hmm Meaning as in you. I meant Matt. Yes, interesting, it's very sharp. I do not like this.

Matt 36:44

No.

Chris 36:45

Interesting. I mean I don't hate it, but I don't like it.

Rankings Discussion

Siobhan 36:49

It's got like it's got great hops in it, which I was really. I actually put this last because I'm the one that made the list, kind of Very not scientifically, but it has great cryo hops in it and stuff too, and I was like oh yeah, but it's like it's like flavor is not good.

Siobhan 37:08

Yeah, not my fave you guys it's that sour grapes feel oh yeah, but I don't even hate a sour, but it's like that musty boots situation that I always refer to with crummy sours right, I didn't think it was gonna happen, but this is going on the bottom.

Matt 37:23

Yeah, oh yeah guys I'm still putting the the sherman street underneath it. Like I would drink this. Like if this was an option, I would drink it chris and siobhan aren't even finishing the pour there we're clearly here for the broth I mean I'm gonna, I'm gonna

Siobhan 37:37

finish like it has to drink yeah, sticks around I'm also so confused right now by matt's organization that I'm sitting next to you, because it's completely backwards from what so is andy's, to be fair no, it's not best to worst, left to right yeah, see, correct what mine's.

Chris 37:58

Worst on the left, best on the right yeah, are you guys nuts? Number one would be on the left side, okay so so you and I are correct. Andy, oh my.

Matt 38:07

Best of both, and this side of the table I understand both sides.

Chris 38:10

How do you feel being?

Siobhan 38:11

connected to the 2Z thing of it all.

Matt 38:19

I will not. This is how I feel. We just sampled eight IPAs in under an hour. That is how I feel we just sampled eight IPAs in under an hour.

Siobhan 38:23

That is how I feel that's a legit feeling Okay.

Matt 38:27

So where does everybody have Sierra Nevada the celebration Celebrate? My brain is like there's a DJ playing all the time. It's not ADHD, I just have a guy that won't stop spinning records Mine's in sixth place.

Chris 38:42

Same Fifth place.

Andy 38:44

Sixth as well.

Siobhan 38:46

So we're all around the same-ish area.

Matt 38:48

Where's the Sherman Street hop next?

Andy 38:50

Getting last bro, second to last, seventh place Last.

Siobhan 38:55

Last yep, yep, yep.

Matt 38:57

Wasn't feeling it Okay. The beer trees, the Citra Grove. Second, place.

Siobhan 39:02

Oh, first place. Third place, still first for me.

Matt 39:05

okay, the second for me second still first yep, the android theory from, or deathnet, I'm sorry from android theory first place.

Siobhan 39:12

That was my favorite. Third, third, third. I have that in fifth wow okay, I love that you like that, andy, you can have the rest of it yeah I mean not that you have to dogfish 90 minute.

Andy 39:27

Five fourth place, fourth place fifth for me second place, fourth place, really yeah andy hot, I really enjoy the the 90 minute. You know, like I said, that's just when I drink an ipa.

Siobhan 39:40

That's what I kind of expect sure that's fair, that's it is a good flagship.

Chris 39:44

I like that, as you're standing for. What a traditional IPA.

Andy 39:48

Yep.

Matt 39:50

I had that one in fourth also. I feel like that is the beer and we talked about it already, but if you were to line up a bunch of different styles and make that the IPA, you'd be able to pick that out.

Siobhan 39:58

I think it's a solid middle ground for me.

Matt 40:00

Yeah, Then we have the other half Broccoli.

Siobhan 40:03

Number two.

Chris 40:05

Four my bias number one.

Matt 40:07

I also have it in first place. Wow, it remained in first place.

Siobhan 40:10

Broccoli in first place for Matt. Let it be known.

Matt 40:13

Yeah, Lost Tavern. Life's a Trip, volume 10. I had this in fifth, right in the middle, pretty much Sixth for me. I pat it in. Third, if it was the volume seven, it would have blazed in first place. I wouldn't have had a problem with that.

Siobhan 40:27

I had it in fourth.

Chris 40:30

It was the middle of the pack.

Andy 40:32

I drink it again. Yeah.

Matt 40:34

And then the Oliver first class was the one that we had there.

Siobhan 40:39

Yeah, that's seventh.

Matt 40:40

That's eighth for me.

Siobhan 40:44

I really did not like that.

Matt 40:45

No.

Siobhan 40:46

West.

Chris 40:46

Coast from Sherman. It was grating.

Matt 40:48

You know it was like, ooh yeah, no, it's not good.

Siobhan 40:50

That's funny. I literally read the label and thought it was going to be so good.

Andy 40:53

I would say that was the only one that I was like. I would not drink this again.

Siobhan 40:57

Yeah, correct, I would not drink that west coast from sherman again.

Andy 41:02

I would, yeah and I will, because I have three others at home and I love sherman street don't get me wrong.

Siobhan 41:07

It's just not my style, that's it yeah, I've.

Andy 41:10

I've had a couple others from sherman street I had. They have a smoky lager which is really interesting. I really enjoyed that nice um and they had a scotch ale love that of course, love the dark ales yeah word um. So uh, yeah'd drink it again, but number eight's the only one that I'm like hard pass.

Matt 41:27

Don't want to drink it. I will say also everything on the table today. There's not anything here that I wouldn't drink again, like if I was at an event or something and that was what was being served. There's none that I would say.

Andy 41:40

I'm switching to liquor or I'm going to drink water. There's none that hit that. That last one was the only one that I would. I would rather drink something.

Chris 41:48

That's what I said before we started recording I said I bet there's one in here yeah, I don't think there's gonna be more than one, but I think there's gonna be one in here. I don't know what it is that I'm like. No, I'm not gonna do that ever again on the other.

Outro and Podcast Info

Andy 42:02

there was definitely stuff in that that I could see people with different yeah, oh, of course, yeah, yeah, it's just not for me, right Same, he sees beer people everywhere.

Matt 42:13

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Andy 42:30

We love you guys very much so we are currently like thinking like this is 10 year anniversary for us. Congratulations thank you, thank you and we're currently thinking maybe a trip up to the finger lakes ah, ah, nice. So maybe we'll have to reach out and see what they recommend. Yeah.

Matt 42:47

I'm sure they have recommendations to make.

Siobhan 42:50

And that will about round us.

Matt 42:51

We did. We made it to the end. Congratulations to all of us.

Siobhan 42:55

Thanks for the good IPAs friends.

Chris 42:57

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Matt 43:16

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