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American Beer Review LIVE! Episode 47 - May Flowers ft. Mortalis Brewing Company & Humble Forager Brewing Co
On today's episode of American Beer Review LIVE!, we are celebrating the true return of spring with a couple of beers with loads of fruit flavors. First off we revisit pistachios with Mortalis Brewing Company's Hydra, a fruited smoothie (always read the whole can) with Lemon, Strawberry, and Pistachios. We round out the episode with Humble Forager's Coastal Sunshine v4 a fruited sour with Mango, Passion Fruit, and Pink Guava.
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On today's episode of American Beer Review LIVE!, we are celebrating the true return of spring with a couple of beers with loads of fruit flavors. First off we revisit pistachios with Mortalis Brewing Company's Hydra, a fruited smoothie (always read the whole can) with Lemon, Strawberry, and Pistachios. We round out the episode with Humble Forager's Coastal Sunshine v4 a fruited sour with Mango, Passion Fruit, and Pink Guava.
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Speaker 2:Oh, we've got some beers to drink today, chad. What do we got? This is I'm looking forward.
Speaker 1:So we're going to run it back.
Speaker 3:Welcome to another episode of the American Beer Review Podcast.
Speaker 1:Good times with good friends requires good beer.
Speaker 2:Lucky for us, we know how to pick all three we're a group of friends who grew up in the pacific northwest, giving us a jump start on our craft beer journey join us today, while, brian, I pride myself on not getting to know other people, so do not put that on me alec. So the bananas, up until like the 60s, were an entirely different species of banana and chad hit me like a beck and bob Review some beer, talk about beer topics and whatever else comes up.
Speaker 3:We invite you to pour yourself a drink and hang out with us.
Speaker 1:You guys talked about this quite a few episodes ago. You guys yeah, no, you two were lamenting that we Don't blame me, you guys were talking about your last journey with Humble Forager Like oh man, that was so good Because we were talking about mimosa beers and whatnot. So we're running it back From Humble Forager Coastal Sunshine Fruited Sour. That looks like a little can, it is. They moved to the petite cans. Yes, skinny, yeah, it is. What is? It's 12. It's walking the runway.
Speaker 4:It's a model can um. It's probably a 12 ouncer, feels like it but yeah so so as I said coastal sunshine.
Speaker 1:coastal sunshine version four fruit sour with mango, passion fruit and pink guava coming in at 6%. You guys are getting a little what I don't know, are you doing all right there? We're going to cut that out. No, the crushing that Talladega Light.
Speaker 4:Went to your head a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was not good. So then next up from Mortalis Brewing Company, hydra, a sour ale with strawberry, lemon and pistachio coming in at 7%. Okay, you had me until the end there.
Speaker 2:We're good Pistachio, but it's not pistachio ice cream. Yeah Well, didn't?
Speaker 4:we have that. Wasn't that the green beer? Yeah, that was the green beer. Wasn't that the green beer? Yeah, that was the green beer.
Speaker 1:It actually wasn't that bad, because if I remember correctly, you guys kind of mentioned pistachio. Wasn't a flavor I'm not mad about, I didn't say it doesn't mean I want more.
Speaker 3:Whoops.
Speaker 1:So anyways, we're going to be running it back on pistachio and humble forager. There we go, which?
Speaker 2:one. Do you guys want to start with?
Speaker 4:Let's get pistachio and humble forager. There we go. Which one do you guys want to?
Speaker 2:start with, let's get pistachio out of the way. Okay, nice, strawberry, lemon and pistachio.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's an interesting combo there. That's the hydro one, right Yep.
Speaker 1:I felt like I wanted something sour to offset the earthiness of that pistachio. It was just something in my head.
Speaker 2:So when I saw oh man, did I mess this one up? Were you supposed to roll it? It's just the sour ale. It doesn't say anything about a smoothie. It doesn't say anything about rolling. It's fine, it's just the head. That's what she said.
Speaker 4:So they got a few different versions of this hydra yeah, that's clear, yeah so this one let's do. I see a blueberry tangerine mango. Couldn't get that one, could you? The universe threw pistachio in my way passion fruit, mango peach would have been delicious. Ooh okay, Blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, peanut butter marshmallow.
Speaker 2:It's like a peanut butter sandwich with marshmallows.
Speaker 1:I'd quit fantasizing about the other flavors. I think I'd just get into this.
Speaker 4:Key lime, raspberry, sweet cherry. Alright, this is Dude. They have a lot of these. Hydra has a lot, yeah, and you got one in front of you. Dude, what's with the bubbles? These? Hydra has a lot, yeah, and you got one in front of you. Dude, what's with the bubbles? Look at this, look at this.
Speaker 1:Get it up in the can. Why is it doing that? It's very effervescent.
Speaker 3:Oh my God, why does it look like that?
Speaker 2:Oh what is that?
Speaker 4:So I have two, what is that smell? Yep, I should have rolled this. Oh dude, yours looks completely different than mine.
Speaker 2:I'll send you the can. It doesn't say it on the can. Yours is pink and mine is brown. Well, here take I don't know Because you should have the top then, because Hydra Fruit Smoothie Sours they're both Fruit Smoothie Sours and then the Monster Series, so they have a Hydra Series and a Monster Series.
Speaker 4:I don't know what the difference is it's still very brown.
Speaker 2:It's fine.
Speaker 4:It's fine. It's fine, it is what it is. No you're a waste of glass.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I can run it back to the sink and do it.
Speaker 4:See, still looks brown. Why is yours so pink?
Speaker 2:That's weird.
Speaker 4:Drink the beer. That's very different.
Speaker 1:Yours is going to be very earthy.
Speaker 2:Mine had less pistachio. Are you catching pistachio?
Speaker 4:I don't think so. It's more like a sherbet.
Speaker 1:Yes, yep, yep, yep, like it's very ice creamy.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's Even on your what appears to be pistachio heavy end the back one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I'm going to try that part in a second here.
Speaker 3:I cannot find.
Speaker 4:I get a little bit of it. I'm not finding this one.
Speaker 2:I forgot what color you have the can.
Speaker 1:I forgot what color this one was, but I'm getting like that. If you took a red and a yellow starburst kind of up front, most of the fruit comes up front, but then that pistachio wave comes in.
Speaker 2:And I think that's what's softening that tartness from the strawberry or lemon.
Speaker 4:Sicilian lemon, milk, sugar and pistachios. Oh yeah, Some of these are. There's no way, that's the same beer that looks more like it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Huh, yeah, maybe when it's on tap or something, some of them are really coming out like, but I wonder how much of the color difference is just. Oh, this is the pistachio bits, or just sit in a can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but your tasting notes didn't sound too different from ours. I don't think it affected the results.
Speaker 4:That's just sherbet ice cream.
Speaker 1:That's the smoothie ish that was a much more delightful pistachio based beer experience than the last one.
Speaker 4:I didn't mind the last one, it was just a little shucking off-putting.
Speaker 1:I like the just a little Shocking Off-putting I like the Next time I try some new tree nut. Is a pistachio a tree nut If there's ground up?
Speaker 2:I thought it's a legume. No it's not because it's got a shell.
Speaker 4:Anyways, if there's some. You didn't do research on that. Mr Banana, what a pistachio is?
Speaker 1:But anyways, next time there's some ground-up whatever tree or ground nut is in a beer, I'm probably going to make sure there are flavors that accompany it that are more sour or fruit based than what was what was on the the hoosier. It was um, just pistachio and a little bit and a little bit, a lot, I think it was a little bit of lime and then but there wasn't I know, I think the thing it yeah, it was supposed to be ice cream, so there just wasn't enough to bite through that earthiness of the pistachio.
Speaker 1:I think I'm rambling.
Speaker 2:Grows in a tree related to cashews, so it is a tree nut. So it is a tree nut, so next time I have a tree nut based beer.
Speaker 1:I want bright, effervescent flavors to go along with it. I mean, it doesn't just spell right to say right there.
Speaker 4:It's. It's interesting, it's very ice creamy. It like it's a little sweet Mm-hmm, but also like, Maybe like a hint of tart or something, I'm not really.
Speaker 2:It's a little bit from like the lemon.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, because I'm getting a lot more tartness, but it could be just the layers within the cans.
Speaker 4:Oh, now I'm getting like a lot of funk on the. It's from that like the. The foam on this is very different. It is like bubbly.
Speaker 1:it's holding a like a no, no, I see it like it's milky maybe, or something here. Let's just uh, get that right up in the camera but it's like I don't see get that down.
Speaker 4:No, oh yeah, there we go yeah oh yeah it's kind of weird, yeah, okay, so look at that, that's strange, look at that technology, baby. Yeah, you get a little shimmy there we go, that's good enough yeah I mean it's interesting, we're gonna sip on this while we talk about some beer news.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do that sure we're going to sip on this while we talk about some beer news.
Speaker 4:Yeah, let's do that. Sure, Are we doing top 50?
Speaker 3:There you go, let me find the list.
Speaker 1:Let me go get something else to sip on if we're doing top 50.
Speaker 4:We're not doing all 50.
Speaker 2:Okay. We're going to hit the highlights.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so the top 50, how do they phrase it? Well, how do they phrase it? The top 50 craft beer producers in the country. Okay, so it is based on barrels and you have to be so. Then the other thing and this is the big kind of key part, and the other thing, and this is the big kind of key part is you have to be a craft brewery as categorized by the Craft Brewers Association.
Speaker 2:Oh God he found the pistachio. But again, it's top 50 in volume, not in rankings.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah it's not like a ranking, but so the thing is. Because of the BA's categorization, you have a few usually known craft breweries that are no longer on the list. Chad was not here for this, so let's see if he can guess Is this the top 50 craft brew?
Speaker 1:Yeah, did you read the article? Yeah, you linked it to number one.
Speaker 3:Yes, but there's key ones that fell out.
Speaker 2:Boston Beer, yes, but there's key ones that fell out.
Speaker 3:Keep going, keep going Chad.
Speaker 2:Go, go, go Go to Mind Palace.
Speaker 4:Okay, I like the map where you just see the amount of states that have nothing.
Speaker 1:So Boston Beer number three Sierra Nevada. Yes, Four.
Speaker 4:There's no way you get this one.
Speaker 2:I've never heard of them.
Speaker 4:I have, I've heard of the city.
Speaker 2:That has to be the company name, and they're branded under something else.
Speaker 1:Is it on the East Coast?
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 2:Nope.
Speaker 4:No, technically Is it in Colorado.
Speaker 2:Oh so it's, they do have it's not. Oh so it's, they do have.
Speaker 4:it's not in colorado, but yeah so, but what you'll notice is by the locations. It's what the breweries are underneath that. So number three is duvel morgat. So yeah, totally uh, let's uh. So you're seeing it in Paso Robles, so that is uh, I think Russian River. Kansas City is going to be I think Boulevard, oh geez. And then Cooperstown is Brooklyn Brewing maybe, but so that's the thing is.
Speaker 4:So you're getting a bunch of these is no Brooklyn's on its own. So the key thing is that you have a few breweries that have dropped off because they're now not considered craft. You have to be under 6 million barrels and you have to have less than 25% stake of one of the big breweries breweries so stone no longer on the list because they're now owned by yes, thank you, soporo um. But you have some of these other ones that are lower on the list and will be coming in higher because they got bought, like tilray is on here, but Tilray is a cannabis company from Canada, so they're not considered being like a macro beer owner. But they own a ton of breweries now, but they made that purchase partway through last year, so they're only counting the barrels from that time of purchase. So, like, was it red hook or something that was in there, that's local, but they're only going to count the red hook beers from, say like may on for this year for this number.
Speaker 4:So next year they're going to jump even higher because tillray has a bunch more that aren't going to show up for that total amount. So I mean and that's where I struggle with this, because you're going to get a bunch of these like artisanal brewing ventures and again the listing that I'm seeing they're not putting it by what the breweries are, it's by the overall company, and so you're just kind of having to guess, based on the names of where they are, for what breweries are in that, unless there's other writing for it.
Speaker 4:So number nine monster right yeah, because they bought a few and it's not I don't even know how much of it is the actual monster brand, it's just the other breweries they own branded, I think, canarchy yes, is what they bought and was called.
Speaker 2:But since technically they're not a alcohol brand, yeah they're. Yeah, it's allowed. Yeah, weird yeah.
Speaker 4:So the ones that you really think about is like to me, the big deal is the ones that are the solos that are still pretty high up on the list yingling. Obviously, boston beer is no longer solo because they even have Dogfish Head, sierra Nevada, though number three being on their own is pretty solid, but even Gambrinus, that's Shiner and something else, I think, scofflaw Brewing.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:But then Athletic Brewing, number 10. New Glarus is on its own, but number 12 is your first. Um stand alone Pacific Northwest, and that is Deschutes Matt Brewing Company, which actually, I think, has a couple of things too. Now. I can't believe Gordon Beersh is still around.
Speaker 4:I haven't been one in years no, that one in Seattle is the only one I'd ever been to and it was never that great um. But then you have georgetown coming in number 16, which is pretty solid, considering they do a decent amount of um canning in production now. But I feel like they're like a mostly draft, like I feel like they no, I, I take it back. They've gotten more because you're getting Johnny Utah, you're getting Bodie.
Speaker 2:One of the bigger crafts in the Canadian space.
Speaker 1:And I've felt like there's been a big push. I've seen a lot more on social and whatnot. Somebody's finally putting some effort behind it, because it's really good beer, Even locally. Like I never see it advertised and all of a sudden I start seeing it advertised online to me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so the other one that pops up on here that I thought was kind of surprising number 40. One of the captain's favorites, Montucky.
Speaker 3:Cold Snacks Rolling solo at number 40.
Speaker 4:So that's pretty impressive. Rogue out of Oregon. 44. Shipyard Brewing. I have never heard of that. Number 46. And I don't know if they. Oh, I didn't scroll all the way over Portland Maine, oh wrong.
Speaker 1:Portland.
Speaker 3:Made a lot more sense there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So I don't know. It's a tough one for me when you're looking at those and you're seeing it like oh, this is the top, whatever brewery, and it's like that is seven breweries.
Speaker 1:Right that you're now kind of combining, yeah, so.
Speaker 4:How that you're now combining. I had a beer that wasn't on that list Humble Forager. Humble Forager, my guess is very, not on that list. Did you bring him an extra glass, since you doubled up here?
Speaker 1:Well, I brought you guys two glasses for the other pistachio beer.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:It was in the fridge. I saw it and I was like let's run it back.
Speaker 4:Pour me a little taste. Oh no God. Oh see, this is what I'm talking about here.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4:Oh well, this is why we probably shouldn't watch racing while we podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if anybody's been wondering why I'm making all sorts of horrible faces, we just had a pretty nice wreck at the end.
Speaker 4:The one you just poured looks delightful. Okay, well let's.
Speaker 1:You want me to take yours too?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:We'll hold them together in front of your camera. Because why do we have to hold them together? Production value oh my gosh, they look entirely different, but not on camera. You think so?
Speaker 4:Yeah, Looking at them on camera. Go this way.
Speaker 1:Go towards the light, Brian.
Speaker 4:Maybe not.
Speaker 1:Mine is notice a little thicker A little bit thicker, looks thicker, more towards an orange Julius. Was this the?
Speaker 4:original mimosa beer that we discussed. Yes, this is the one that both of us put Like the very first you guys, put it in your crate.
Speaker 2:Yes, but we have also Not this beer, but the Humble Forager Right, right, right.
Speaker 4:But we've categorized a handful of beers as mimosa beers? That's what I'm wondering. Was this the original one? So their?
Speaker 2:fruited sours have, because I could have swore it was Coastal Sunrise, the last one we have. So this is Coastal Sunshine.
Speaker 1:Oh, so a different.
Speaker 2:Coastal series Coastal Sunset and then Mysterious Ravine.
Speaker 4:So there's four series. What's with the ravine? This is our second one.
Speaker 1:Sour. Ipa series, I think that's the newest of the series.
Speaker 2:Coastal Sunsets Dessert-y. There's a lot of versions of these Coastal Sunrise is a breakfast-y style, some more of a pastry-ish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because that was a pastry sour.
Speaker 4:By the versions. This is four. Right, but is that?
Speaker 1:I assume there's vintage, but there's also like no, there's up to 11 already. So that's what I'm wondering. But it's like whatever. It's like, if I remember right last time, it's like whatever um seat. It's like, if I remember right right last time, it's like whatever's in season. So that's the version of it. So whatever.
Speaker 4:So every year the same, so we're not getting a really old one, though.
Speaker 1:No, okay, no, you're just getting a version four just has these flavors, which are mango, passion fruit and pink guava.
Speaker 2:I have, you have an ABV on this Because it's not on the can 6%.
Speaker 1:I'll take it.
Speaker 4:I kind of am tempted to just finish this thing, though, because I feel like I don't want to go back to this when I get to the you also don't have to drink it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was hidden by the thingy. Nobody had to know.
Speaker 2:Ooh, that is an interesting smell. Is that mango Mango?
Speaker 1:Yeah, very earthy on the nose but very sharp.
Speaker 4:I don't like that I don't love that.
Speaker 2:That aroma is? I think it's the mango, it's passion fruit. It's a little too earthy. Oh guava, eh, guava doesn't smell like that, yeah it's just a.
Speaker 1:It's not yeah. Yeah, it's very Way earthier If it was a little brighter on the nose, I think the overall I think if you're like holding a fruit and doing it you're not going to be as weirded out by it. I think the fact that it is beer is like what's making it, because beer is usually or like on fruit and sours and whatnot everything is very bright on the nose. They try to get all the flavors on the nose, but all you're getting here is just some. It's like you're about to this.
Speaker 2:If this was a fruit juice, I would be into it. Yeah, it's the mango. It's got that weird the passion fruit yeah, passion fruit at the front. It's got that weird the passion fruit yeah, passion fruit at the front and then a little bit of the guava. But it's that mango backbone to it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because that mango is there the entire time, like it's very sharp up front and then it's just kind of riding it out.
Speaker 4:It's a bummer. I don't love it. I do not like this yeah part of it is. I'm basing it on the last one we had which is my favorite beer of 2023, so I yeah, I can't get over the smell and the just. There is something to be said about the fact that they seem to be. There is a very much. It's hitting the fruitiness. It's more of a natural fruity.
Speaker 1:It's doing that. There's not an artificialness.
Speaker 4:I want the fake fruit. I want the. It's like a blended fruit juice.
Speaker 2:If you were drinking, this and somebody said it's mango guava fake fruit. I want the. It's like a blended fruit juice. If you were drinking this and somebody said, yeah, it's mango guava passion fruit, it's healthy, I'd go, okay, cool, makes sense, I'm drinking it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, if I'm getting this from a Jamba Juice where you're like yeah, it's not quite my favorite, but like yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the thing that's so hit or miss with their versions, like, yeah, well, that's the thing that's so hit or miss with their versions is some of them that's a bummer. I mean, each one of them is completely different.
Speaker 4:One of the other ones, though it also has like a marshmallow cream in it and I'm wondering if, like, if there was like a vanilla or a little something added like a vanilla bean in this, just to get a little like creaminess, to kind of like.
Speaker 2:I think they leaned more into the passion fruit, a little bit more tart. Oh, if you're out of your race car, that's bad yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it is a bummer. That is a bummer, it's just okay to me. Eh it's. I would like to try another version. Ooh, I'm getting Humble Forager.
Speaker 3:But that's the brewery.
Speaker 4:I'm willing to try another of the Coastal Sunshine before. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, I just don't want version four. Yeah, before I write off, Like, at least I'm going to go to a different like series, Like, because what did you say last time? Before I write off, like, at least I'm going to go to a different like series, Like, because what did you say last time?
Speaker 2:we had Coastal Sun, sunrise, which was so far, and we were on point, because that's their breakfast style. Is that what they?
Speaker 4:actually said yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this is the breakfast style, and then I'm going to try to get the sunset next, and that's for dinner and that's more their dessert. This is during the day this is their initial one, so yeah, and I assume the fourth series is when you're up to the shenanigans at mysterious goblin hours.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't, that's a bummer. Yeah, I'll pass. I think so too. Yeah, that's, I'll pass. I think so too yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:I'll be the dissenting voice. I liked it dare to go. Burn this if this wasn't a legitimately, if this wasn't a one can. There was enough sugar in there still. I think if that was a little drier I think you guys would have been on board with it, but it was very thick and sweet, very fruit juicy. I like the. I'm a fan of the flavors that were in there independently Mango you go after mango a lot. Who doesn't like the mango?
Speaker 4:I've never had it that aggressively.
Speaker 1:No, Did you try peeling a mango?
Speaker 2:Did you try peeling a mango?
Speaker 4:No.
Speaker 1:No, I'm a soft human. I buy it prepared from the store.
Speaker 2:It's a fruit that God doesn't want you to eat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why I pay someone else to prepare.
Speaker 2:They put it next to the papaya Because they both sort of smell like farts.
Speaker 3:I can't believe. I say this.
Speaker 4:Why don't you give me some pistachio over here, just a splash?
Speaker 1:You give yourself a splash. Give me a cup.
Speaker 4:No, you did not. I thought I poured you one already. No, I asked you to and you didn't do it. Yeah, you can record it. You can look back, watch the tape.
Speaker 2:I stole the other one.
Speaker 4:No, but I told him already. No you're just coming up with excuses. Now I'm having one right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:This is a bad idea.
Speaker 1:The smell on this one. It's the smell on this one. No, it's not. It's not the smell on this one is also not great.
Speaker 2:It took you 20 minutes to decide that it wasn't terrible the last time you had it. The smell fits the look of that guy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, ignore the smell, taste it. Let me know how it is. You're?
Speaker 1:drinking swamp water. Yeah, give it a shot.
Speaker 4:The taste is not as bad. It's not. It's still not.
Speaker 1:After doing the first one today, keep cold drinks soon. Yeah, it's been in the fridge.
Speaker 4:Do not let this last.
Speaker 2:Alright, where was Michael Walker's beers? I'm talking about a palate cleanser. Let's get something back in the realm of normality here. There you go, a little light.
Speaker 1:Hey, guess what? I got something that's going to straighten you right out next episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm hoping it tastes better than it sounds.
Speaker 1:Okay, foreshadowing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you got? This didn't go well.
Speaker 4:No, I had good. I had high hopes for these. The pistachio in that one threw me off. What's that? The Mortales? The color threw you off. The color then threw me off. You didn't want to drink brown beer.
Speaker 2:No, brown smoothie beer.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the color threw you off the color then threw me off and one drink brown beer. No, brown smoothie beer. Yeah, it just was weird. Honestly, it was the bubbles. The bubbles also made it kind of weird, so I'm wondering not every beer you buy is a winner.
Speaker 1:But I but like especially when we're buying mystery beers from far off corners of the country.
Speaker 4:Here's the thing. I think there are people who will be into that. Mortalis. What, what is it, hydra? Hydra there also again were many other versions of the hydra it's it is highly rated.
Speaker 1:That's how it got the other to bore is enough people went.
Speaker 4:Hey, this is pretty tasty I would like to check out the other Hydras.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I am on a. I got a Hydra watch. It just was unexpected, so like I didn't expect as smoothie-ish from that one and the bubbles and then, but it was fine. I then kind of almost expected a little more Effervescence Of a yeah, creamy or something lighter mouthfeel with the, the fruit one, this I mean. I also don't notice that I get a lot of sour from it, it's just more natural fruit flavor period. Yeah, um, this is probably about the closest beer I've had to like, like natural fruit juice.
Speaker 2:Well, because it's actually using real fruit.
Speaker 4:Yes, in the process. Yeah, for better or worse. Um, yeah, you put that. When you mix that with some champagne, though, would it actually be better? Would that bubbly like kind of cut it a little?
Speaker 1:no, you get a little funk in there to offset the. I think they're throwing good ideas after bad. I think what's going to settle it is we're going to get the sunset.
Speaker 4:We shall see what was the. I want the, the weird name one. You said Mysterious Ravine. Yeah, I also want to try one of those. A sour IPA yes, I want to try one. It makes me think of Jester King, because they're the ones that are very sour-y and we randomly have an IPA also, not Jester King, but Jester King adjacent, there might be, uh, some Barrique brewing offerings back in the fridge.
Speaker 1:Oof.
Speaker 4:TBD. I think I saw that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there might be three of them.
Speaker 2:Oof that was pretty solid. That hurts the wallet a little bit.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Uh, it was very economically priced for for barrique yes man, how about that, though?
Speaker 4:I mean, you just think of that, like the different um things. That has exposed us to the fact that, like, uh, barrique, I know I can picture the inside of it. Oh yeah, just from the, from the pictures we looked up, yep, thinking of, like where it is in nashville, is it's natural, right, um, that type of thing.
Speaker 1:But that also doesn't remind me broadway into broadway, right at the end I thought it was across.
Speaker 2:It was across the river, whatever in a warehouse you could walk there from broadway, but you can walk there from you could. You could walk there from Broadway.
Speaker 1:You could yeah, you gotta go over by the stadium and then go and you're gonna be in a beautiful building with barrels, but it does make me think.
Speaker 4:So Humble Forger, we've had a couple times Yep, yep. What state is that from again, don't remember Exactly Wisconsin, really.
Speaker 1:Concert in Minnesota, minnesota, rochester Okay, right next to our friends at Drekker Brewing.
Speaker 4:Oh dude, no Sunrise. I think so far I'm a Sunrise guy. Oh yeah for sure. Because this one says blueberry, maple syrup, vanilla and cinnamon.
Speaker 3:Yep, yep. Okay, I do. I want to try one more. Sunshine, start drinking early in the morning, yep.
Speaker 4:Yep, okay, I do. I want to try one more sunshine. Start drinking early in the morning. I get it this one apricot, mango peach passion fruit.
Speaker 1:Oh, look at that.
Speaker 4:Okay, I want to try one. They only For all the different types they have. They only have 89 beers On untapped, but when we're talking, there's already 14 sunshines. Yeah, like.
Speaker 1:I think I think it's just.
Speaker 4:Everything they make Is under one of these Categories.
Speaker 3:Four main yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so, and then an Imperial Double Coffee Stout, so Alright.
Speaker 2:I think we've exhausted it. Any other thoughts?
Speaker 4:on the beers they also have an Enchanted Island beer. All right, we'll take that too, at 9%, 9%, fruited sour, get that boozy one.
Speaker 2:We did just talk about that a couple episodes ago, yeah, so that's what I'm saying Imperial sour, let's go.
Speaker 1:Oh look, Are my glasses empty. Oh look, Are my glasses empty.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, Chad's glasses are empty. Chad is so, hopefully, if you weren't drinking this, yours are too.
Speaker 3:I feel bad, but this one just didn't hit.
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 4:Somebody's probably going to love it. Oh yeah, For sure there's a customer report.
Speaker 1:Go out and try it, see if you like it.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 3:Catch you next time. If you want to see what we're drinking when we're not on the pod, you can follow us on social media at A Beer Review. Feel free to send us any beer suggestions that we can make. Chad, go buy off of Tavor.