Hey, folks, and welcome to Drinking Alone with Friends, a podcast where three friends drink alone together. My name's Chris. What up? It's Todd. And I'm Obert. That's right. We're getting the party started over here. That's it. Just like back in the days that we would pre-game or pre-game the pre-game of our pre-game. Not to be confused with our patron exclusive show, the pre-game. We're starting this week off reviewing Flying Embers Hard Cambucha, the cherry hibiscus lime flavor, which weighs in at a 7.2% ABV. This is the hard Cambucha I was talking about a couple weeks ago. 7.2? I have a different one. Oh, what? Oh, no. I have Flying Embers Cherry Hibiscus Lime, 6% ABV. Well, what the fuck? Interesting. You got the baby one. Very interesting. Hold on. Is it hard Cambucha and everything? Yeah, it's all this. Everything else has got the same, except mine just says 6%. What is happening? I have the same. I know, right? What's the trademark on your, what's the trademark date in your can? Let's see. Is it still 140 calories? It's best by date is January 24, 2025, so. Mine is 9, 6, 2024. Where do I see that? Bottom. Mine was on the bottom of the can. Oh. I have 125 calories. 10, 24, 2024. Mine's 140 calories. Mine's also 140 calories, so we don't. This is what the people tuned in for, by the way. Right. They're like, we don't want any of that preamble. Just tell us how many calories are there. Supposedly identical beverage. Well, they're supposed to be identical, but apparently your state sucks and you can't get the 7.2% ABV version. Maybe. That's so funny. I think I also have the newest, newest version. Yeah, maybe they misscalculated their ABV calculation and they had to adjust it on their next can print. That's also possible. Maybe. We'll never know. Well, this, this all started when Todd randomly had a kombucha can and then I quickly realized that I had the same kombucha can without even knowing it. So, Oberth hunted down its little brother and. Quote, unquote, the same kombucha. The same kombucha, which is, yeah, it's funny that it's not, but, but yeah, we're going to, we're, this is going to be a drunk episode. We're going to be pound in 7.2 or 6% kombucha. Yeah. Slightly less drunk episode for me, I guess. Yeah. You have to make it up on the second round though. That's what it has to be. Uh-huh. Right. Extra 1.2%. I do have one more question because this has baffled me about this can or about the nutritional facts of this can. Does yours still have zero sugar? Well, mine, I just read it somewhere that has, it says, hmm, delicious and only one gram of sugar. How? No tricks, just real juice and the art of fermentation. Scan to learn more. Does that under my nutrition label? See, mine does not say that at all. Mine says zero sugars and it's got a little sign that says zero grams of sugar. So does mine. It's right by his finger. The plot thickens. I wonder if they got, because I, it made no sense to me how they can make a hard camp, make an alcoholic beverage that had no sugar that, that makes no sense from a brewing perspective. Well, I guess what if you fermented out all of the sugar? Then it would be boot. Then it would be vodka. Well, that's what it is. They fermented all of ours out 7.2. They left one gram. That's where I get 6%. They put it in mine. Yeah. I'm calling. I'm, my guess is that they got caught and they were like, oh shit, we actually have one gram of sugar and it's 6% ABV, not 7.2%. They had an intern calculating everything. Well, we'll have to, we'll have to, we'll have to reach out. Flying embers. We need to know. I did scan to learn more, brings me to this FAQ. And one of the, the, the cues that's, that's FAID is how do flying embers of products have only one gram of sugar and carb if sugar is used as part of the fermentation process? I think it's from, from listener Todd, from, from Picker Todd, we have this question. They say we dry ferment, which means the yeast eats the sugars and turns it into alcohol. Our champagne yeast consumes the majority of the sugar, leaving only one gram left from all the natural fruit juice we add for flavor. All of our ingredients are part of the dry fermentation process so that we infuse the flavor but ferment out the residual sugar. Does yours bring you to a landing page for your flavor of hard kombucha? No, it does not. So when I scan mine, it brings me to the flavor of orange peach passion kombucha. Chris, does yours lead you to the same page? Wait, so yours has a scan to learn more to? It just has a QR code. It doesn't say anything about. It doesn't say I should scan to learn more. It just says scan me. Or it doesn't even say that. It just has a QR code. Mine also brings me to the orange peach passion. Well, this is some bullshit. So that, that at least explains how they were able to get one gram of sugar in there. True. So you spent a lot of time drinking or talking about these things. Maybe we should, maybe we should do the whole thing where we drink it. Take sipsies? Yeah, sure. Yeah, that sounds good. Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. Well, I would say taste as promised. I get cherry, I get hibiscus, and I get lime. I feel like me, I feel like me and Tut are in the same, same boat. I think I get orange peach passion. No, no, I don't think so. No, no, no, no, no. Not me. I don't think mine tastes like cherry hibiscus lime. No, mine. Well, let's see it. Let's do the T-Rex, the T-Rex test here. Does it look like you're drinking a, mine looks like a, the Jolly Rancher, a pink Jolly Rancher. Exactly. Yeah. No, I definitely, I definitely get the cherry and the lime on the back. I'm not gonna lie. To me, it tastes a little bit like Robotussin, but I mean, I guess that's kind of, I don't know. Maybe that's the thing. I don't want to dissuade anybody. It does not taste. I don't love it. It does not taste like cherry hibiscus lime to me. I will tell you that. It tastes. Yeah. It tastes not like cherry hibiscus lime. Well, Chris said it tastes like cherry and lime and then cherry flavored Robotussin. So. Okay. Let me, uh, hang on one second. Let me, uh. Do you get the hibiscus? Let me warm it up a little bit. Starting a fire. Oh no. I get the cherry now. It is a little warmer. Mine was very cold. Too cold in that deep, deep in the beer fridge. It was, I had to find it. I had to figure out what fridge it was in and then hope that my wife didn't drink it. It was, oh, gotta go to the kombucha fridge. The fridge. No, I get the, I get the Robotussin cherry flavor a little bit. I think that's what I was blending as orange and peach. Yeah. I don't know. I think, like I said, I get all three of those flavors. It does. Obviously it's a little thin being like a kombucha. It's also, I don't get a ton of that, that vinegary bite you sometimes get with a kombucha. You know what I mean? And I would think you would have more of that bite with lime. Existing too. I mean, yeah, we have. I don't know. Like it's been a long time since I've had an actual butch, but like it's got a little bit of bite on the end. I'm not saying there's, it's definitely not nothing. I think the hibiscus hides it well. I get a little bit, I just, that's just a bunch of tart fruits that are really masking the kombucha bite in my, in my opinion. But again, I'm drinking it. We've decided I'm drinking a different beer than you are doing kombucha. What is, what is, what is hibiscus or what is hibiscus or whatever? Isn't it a flower or something? It is a flower and it's most commonly used in tea, hibiscus tea. It's like super bright red tea or pink, reddish pink. Is that what's causing this color? You think? I think so. Yeah. It's supposedly it's good for digestion. I first had it when I went to Egypt, they have, they drink it over there on my hot, hot summer days. They have hot tea. I'm like, you guys are nuts. That is interesting. But it's good. I like, I like hibiscus tea, but two, if you drink too much, I think it gives you the runs. So don't drink too much hibiscus. I will say that I did drink about half of this pack in one sitting and I did not have the runs. That's good. Were you like, I know that you said this on your last hibiscus or sorry, your last kombucha, hard kombucha review, which I think was on the pregame. But I remember you saying that it hid the alcohol well. And that's how I feel about this one. Yeah, agreed. I think the last one I reviewed, by the way, was 5% ABV. This one is either 6% or 7.2%. I do think this hides the 7.2% Yeah, I do think this one hides the 7.2% very well if it is that. If it's 6%, it also hides that very well. I did like the other flavors within this Flying Embers variety pack that I got, like the mango tango was really good. There was an orange passion fruit one, which I liked. So I probably would go back and buy the variety pack again from Whole Foods. And next time I do, I will report back and let you guys know if they've updated the cans, if they're all 6% now instead of, you know, because some of them were 6%, some of them were 7.2%, some of them were 8%. And I was like, holy shit, I'm going to get fucking wasted on kombucha. And then I drank four of them and I was like, this was right after I had given up drinking for like a month. And I was like, I don't feel shit. So maybe I'm an alcoholic or maybe the ABV is wrong. Never know. That's impossible to tell. The true test is going to be if there's two different ABVs un-untapped. Right. Then do we have to, do we grade it on different scales? Right? Would it be if my guess is further off of yours? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. So I guess let's, what about our ratings? Let's swing there. Yeah. This is a tough one for me because this is the first ever hard kombucha I've had. So rating a whole new genre of beverage for me is tough. I'm going through their website. Sorry. Not a single one of these things except for the pineapple sunset is above 6% ABV anymore. Not any of them. Yeah. They must revamp their formula. So maybe we'll get an out of production un-untapped. Maybe. So I'll start because I'm not in love with it. Cherry is very, very hit or miss for me in like most things. Tough. Yeah. Like I said earlier, Robotusny flavor, I just wanted to get it over with. So mine's empty now. Mine's empty now. That sounds not good. Yeah. Bad rating. Yeah. So for me personally, now, and keep in mind, I do like, like GTs, like those kind of kombuchas, like I do like those. I'm going to go pretty low on this. I'm going to give it like, I'm going to give it a two because I just, I don't like it. It's not that good for me. And I was like, I was going to give it like a two and a half and I was like, no, but that's like where I put like, you know, Bud Light and all that stuff. And I was like, I like that. That's fine. That's fine with me. So I'm going to give it a two. I'll never search this out again. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, flying numbers. I hate to say it, but had to be said, I am the hard ass on the pod. We all know this. We do. First is famous for it. Yeah. When we think of you, it's hard ass on the pod. That's right. Um, well, I'll go next cause I want to cause Ted is the variety pack here. So I want to hear it in context with the others. To me, um, I have a hard time figuring out where this would be in my drinking portfolio. It would be like if I wanted a hard seltzer, but with a little bit of fruit juice, but I don't really drink hard seltzers. I've, I had bought some and they lived to my fridge forever. So it's going to be a three, two, five for me, a lot better than Chris. I don't mind the flavor at all, but I just don't see myself going back for these too often. And I think that this is, like I said, this is my favorite of the two brands that I've had. Um, I will say this flavor is probably my least favorite out of the flavors that I've had out of the pack. Okay. Um, so this is the fourth of four. Yes. Um, and if I could, they don't even have my variety pack on their website anymore. So like I said, I think they've, I think they've redone the entire thing, which is crazy. Uh, it only, I only bought this like a month ago. So since then they've revamped everything. Um, this is probably my least favorite. I think a lot of the other ones I had, like I said, the, the, the, um, the mango tango was delicious. I thought it was incredible. I liked the orange one that was in my pack, which I think it was like an orange starboard orange something burst. It was really good. It tasted like I was drinking or maybe an orange mimosa. It was, that's probably what it was. Um, there was like drinking an orange. It was, it was incredible. I was like, holy shit. I found like a good thing. Uh, so those were all probably like three, seven, five was like, I was like, oh, I would drink these again for sure and be perfectly happy with them. Um, this one, I guess if I had to drink them, cause I got four on a variety pack, I'd be okay with it. I'm going to say three and a half, which makes me the highest rating out of both of you. But I think I'm also, I'm thinking I'm also jaded because I liked the other three flavors. Hmm. Yeah. I know I was leaning, I was thinking about three and a half and then I was like, I wouldn't buy, I wouldn't really go out of my way to have this again. Like it doesn't pass the, if it's on tap, would I get it? It's true. And I, I, I agree with you. Like this would be my least favorite to see on, on tap, but I would buy the box again for the other three flavors. That sounds like three and a half to me then. Yeah. And I would begrudgingly drink this cause it's the lowest out of the three, right? This is like, you know, you're drinking with your friends and you filled up a cooler with whatever random stuff you had. So you've already had like, I don't know, four or five. This is one of the last things left. So like, here you go. That's what it is for me. Right. Yeah. If I pull this as the first flavor out of the box, I'm putting it right back in the box and flipping the box over this needs to be beer number seven, not beer number one. That's for sure. I agree with this. At the same time though, if this was beer number seven for me, it's going to go down fast because again, it doesn't taste like alcohol whatsoever. That's very true. Like, oh, nice. Well, refreshing juice. Yeah. Okay. So now we got to come up with an untapped guess. I guess we're going to all shout it out at the same time. Oh, okay. Podcast gold. Yeah. Well, I will, I normally edit it so that they're a little bit off of each other. So you can hear what everybody says, but that's the, the audio. Magic. But what we're going to hear is a shouting over each other. Um, okay. I think I know what I want to guess. Me too. I think, yeah. Ah, maybe I don't know. Hang on. Before we reveal, is this for a tally? I think it's got to be. We got to set the stakes. No. Good question to ask before. That's even higher states. Yeah. Even higher states. I think this is a two tally night. Two tallies. Oh my goodness. Well, no, we got this one for now and then one for later. No, I know. I know. All right. Yeah. I think I'm like a couple in a row at least. Then you got to be feeling good about this. Shit. Okay. I'm changing my guess then. I'm even mad if I'm wrong. I think I was letting my, my heart do some talking in my head. One, two, three, go. 3.69. 319. 3.53. Okay. What is this? This is not, this, he's not Ray Mysterio. Who me? 619. It's my birthday. Um, I don't know. I feel like, I feel like the, we're all going to untap right now. Yeah. Jerry. I don't know how to spell hibiscus. We had a way to look it up. Oh, I think it's Todd. Oh. It is Todd. Let's go. With it. 3.56 compared to Todd's 3.53. Right? Yeah. 3.53. And 0.03 off. Yeah. Damn. I get, well, you mean you, you are the, the boot, the booch themed of the pods. I am the booch fan. I am interested in the fact that it's called hard cambooch a slash June. I don't know what June is. I think that's just alcoholic kombucha. Interesting. But let's go. Yeah. It's been a while since I've gotten a point on the board. I was going to say. Tally mark for Todd. Here we go. I've been on a roll. I'll let you in that one. I'm pretty happy. I needed a point in the worst way. You're catching, you're getting a little too close. I didn't like it. Well, too close for comfort. We're catching up the Todd. But now I got a, now I have a chance to gain two tonight. Put another, put another step behind us. I was almost, I was almost at 40 and still win. I think as Victor, the first point, Todd, you get to decide the drinking order for the rest of the episode. Oh, perfect. Generally speaking, I always pick on Chris. So I'm going to pick on Oberd. So I get it. I have to drink next. I get to drink next. You get to drink next. Lucky you. Well, I, I will grab my beer. Okay. Well, I have a, um, repeat brewery. It was the only thing that looked interesting at the, uh, the old packy. Great notion. They are great. Uh, in my notion, I don't know, this is dune from them. It has a cool sand dune. It looks like the planet dune art motif. I would say this, I would say this tree looks a little tree housey. Would you agree? A little bit. Yeah. Slightly for sure. It says on here canned 3 11 24. And then in the, the label printer, they wrote, don't wake the worms to confirm that this is a dune theme to beer. Did you guys see that movie? I've seen them both. No. What'd you think? I thought the second one was better than the first one. Um, too much sand. I mean, that happens to you. Professional opinion. I think this, I do think the second one was definitely better. It kind of tied in a lot of the first one. I don't, I don't really, I don't know the story of dune. I know it's a book series. I've never read it, but I do know it was a, the second one definitely tied a lot of the story together. How about you? Did you see both of them? Yeah. I saw the second one and I think opening weekend in theaters. I really liked them both. Uh, I do know that the books get wild though, the more you read. Um, but I think the first and second book are excellent from what I've heard. I only read the first one and that was probably like 15 years ago. Um, it smells kind of like a tree house beer, super, super heady. Um, it's in a, it's in a tree house glass. It is in a tree house glass. So yeah, you can see the compare the tree, the tree house tree with the great notion tree. They are very similar. But, um, it smells like a delicious juicy New England style IPA. They call it hazy. So we'll say 7.2% for real this time made up for it. Made for it. This one unfortunately doesn't tell me the calories. So this means it's Chris and I have to go through our beer fridges and find 6% ABV beers to drink on. I think so. I think that's what it means. If, uh, if nothing on this podcast, we stick for rigid conformment, rigidly conforming to a theme. So, so with that, yeah, take a sip. It's beer 30 and I'm thirsty. I've been working like a dog all week long. So maybe something cold won't hurt me because it's beer 30 and it's time to party. Yeah, baby. I thought I liked beer, but it's time to put time to party. So I don't know. It might happen when you're first, you have to go with the quintessential beginning. It might just be the orange sand dunes and the not quite tree house tree on here, but I'm getting serious Julius notes in this beer. Um, I don't know if it's my mind playing tricks on me and that's what I want to bring out of it. But, um, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a Julius clone that great notion pulled off and I think they did a pretty good job. I mean, I think you could say this is not the greatest beer in the world, but it is a tribute. Um, it's pretty close. I really like it. Oh, it's really good, especially after that super tart kombucha. It's like a just super luscious and pillowy and just that sweet, sweet, delicious, hoppy goodness on the tongue. Um, just super, super smooth. Oh, I wish I could take a bath in this beer. Um, although that would be gross because I would be drinking that. That'd be weird. Take a shower in this beer. There you go. Yeah. Then you don't have to, then you don't have to sit in it. You know, it just. They take up all the beer. You're literally pouring down the drain. That's very fair. I wonder if you can send it through like a filtration, just. Yeah, I was going to say get a filtration system attached until it's empty. I feel like if we lived in the Star Trek universe and had a holodeck, this is things that like you could achieve in a world where there's like a replicator. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, this is the future we all aspire to is showering and beer. Science. What are you even doing right now? What are you doing? You could also, you could also like get like a keg and just solve the whole problem and then just pour yourself as much as you want to drink. You're misunderstanding. I think you're not understanding what I'm getting at here. Yeah. I want this beer all around my body inside and out. I want to be covered and surrounded by this beer, both in my stomach and on my skin. I want it in my nose, my mouth, all over the place. That's how good this beer is. So I think I guess I have to give it a five. It's like a four point three. I'm the new on tapped, which we don't do on this podcast. We're the poor people. We don't have, we don't have new ones up. Remind me from roughly 244 episodes ago. What is the hashtag on chat? Let's get on this for it's to get the 10th ratings system. Yeah. They listen to us. It was also supposed to be at a 10. It was supposed to be a 10 scale, but I guess they kind of did that by giving us the 10th scale, if that makes sense. Keep it quarter points because zero to 10. Yeah. Yeah. So they did listen to us and we, we refused to play by their new rules. Correct. That one's for our day ones for our OGs for those no longer on the internet episodes of the podcast. I think they're up there again. Oh, they are. I got to go deep in the feed. Try and find out. Yeah. Only because of how good it would be to shower in it. I have to round up to four and a half. Okay. That's a generous roundup. That's a big roundup. It is. It is a big roundup. It is generous, but is it too generous? It would be funny to look at like if I checked in Julius and I gave it a four and a quarter. I mean, we can, we can fact check after this. Right. But there are 2,107 other people that have checked in this beer. What do you think they rated it? I think 2107 will be the year that we have beer showers with the filtration that Chris is envisioning. Unfortunately, you're off by 2,100 and somewhat. Minus multiple points. Minus many, many points. You'll have to start bowing from Todd. No. Do I think 2,100 people have rated this beer? I think they like it. I think it's in like generic good IPA from Great Notion Territory. I'm going to say they gave it a 4.420. I respect that guess. Unfortunately, they didn't like it quite as much as you did. It is a 4.07. So respectable. So you're gone for a six months that area code. That's assuming wrong. Never, never lead you wrong. You'd have so many more points if you just guessed that every single time. My new strategy, I'm going to guess the same thing every episode until I get it perfectly correct. I will say I went back and checked your Julius rating and you gave Julius a four and a half as well. There you go. I guess the checks out then. Does it say anywhere in the untapped description anything that would lead you to believe this is a Julius clone? It says, follow the riff to the haze filled lands with Dune, a mysterious IPA hopped with Strada, Simcoe and Nectaron hops, which I don't think is Julius. I definitely get the Nectaron in terms of if it's supposed to taste like a nectarine. I get that for sure. Julius doesn't tell you what hops they use, but I believe it's Citrus or I believe it's Citra and I think that's about it. Yeah. Okay. This was a good beer. I'm going to continue to enjoy it. Who's going next, Todd? Chris. Chris will go next. All right. So this past weekend, we took the kids to see a show in Durham and while we were there, it's about two hour drive from us. So we decided to make a mini weekend out of it and like got a hotel room and all that stuff. Well, the next day we went to a couple breweries as is tradition. The first one I went to, it was more like a restaurant slash brewery. It was way fancier than we thought we were going to bring our kids to. I got a flight and three of the four beers were really solid. And the fourth beer was one of the worst beers I've ever had in my life. It was terrible. Oh no. Yeah. It was bad. You got to drink that one first. I'm annoyed because I thought it was the one. I was most excited about that beer. That's what makes it so bad. Oh no. That's the worst. It was awful. I almost like, I didn't want to be rude, but I was almost like, you should not serve that to another patron. Wow. So what was the style of beer? I feel like I need more info. So it was a mango, no, a peach wheat beer. It was a peach wheat beer, which I was excited for. I was like, ooh, I've had one recently. That was pretty good. So I was like, oh, I'm really excited for this. And it, I mean, it tasted like it turned. And I was just like, listen, there's no way, in my mind, there's no way the brewer had a sip of that and was like, ooh, we're going to serve this to people. Yeah. It was that bad. Bummer. Like I literally, because I paid for it, I'm like, I'm chugging this thing. The lady was very nice. If I would have complained, she probably would have gotten me another beer, but I'm not like that. I'm not that kind of person. No. So I downed it like a true champion. Chris was thinking, if he could drink a Clamato, he could drink this. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to lie though. No, it wasn't quite that bad, but it was 0.5 on the tap. Yikes. Yeah, very bad. So I'm assuming that's the beer you're reviewing today. I bought a case. I got the barrel-aged version of that. I bought the barrel. It was for a song. No. So there was another one that was like more highly rated brewery called the Glass Jug Beer Lab. And I went there much more my vibe. You know, it was like kind of like a nice open area. It was raining, of course, so we couldn't sit outside, but they had like a foosball table, which the kids played with for like an hour or so. But it was much more my vibe. And the beer I had there was very good. So as I was walking out, I was looking at their cases, and this one jumped out at me. It was the last one, and I just knew I had to grab it. It's always something special when you can get that last one. I know, I know. And it wasn't on tap. So it was like, you know, this was the only way I was going to try this beer. So I was like, plus the name, the name sold me as well. So it's a GOSA style sour ale, and it's called Raspberry Pi, and that's PI with, you know, the number. Or if you're not familiar, it's a like small build your own kind of computer system thingy. So anyways, I'm excited. I'm hoping this is very good because the rest of the beers were incredibly, they were like, I think their average on a tap is like a 393 or 396, which is solid. Beretta. Glass jug. No, what's the name of the brewery? The Glass Jug Beer Lab. Oh, you were typing in Raspberry Pi. I was like, where did you get Beretta from? Yeah. Yeah, I wonder if it's on on tap. Okay, I got it. I got it. I got it. But I feel like we skipped over something here on your way to talk about this bad, terrible beer and this good beer. Yes. How was that Wild Crab show? You know what, it was better than I thought it was going to be. It was, okay. So first off, it was different than what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be like a, like a Jack Hanna back in the day, like bringing, you know, leopards out on stage and shit and whatever. And like, you know, not that at all. It was literally like watching the Wild Crats TV show, which I've seen many in episodes. And, but they would like dress as animals and they would like, you know, they went on like a mission and all this stuff. And the kids loved it. Like CJ was like hooked the entire time, just like, be like, I cannot believe we're seeing the Wild Crats live. And I was like, yeah, I know, buddy, it's crazy. But like, it was, it was obviously made for kids, but you know, I'm an adult adult man and I enjoyed it as well. Learned a lot about a bunch of the stuff that they were like hermit crabs and what else they dress up as a snake, some snake, scary snake. But it was, it was, it was pretty funny. So, but the kids loved it. So I don't know much about what a Wild Crat is. I'm assuming it's a spin off of Rugrats. No, it's, yeah. I would be wrong. No, it's not that. Not that. No, it's, do you, does anybody remember Zaboumifu when we were kids? It was like an animal show. Nope. Unlike PBS? Yeah, probably. Anyways, when we were, when we were younger, maybe right around, there was the Crat Brothers, Chris and Martin did Zaboumifu and basically for the last 35 years, they've been doing just kids TV shows and Wild Crats is their most recent endeavor. And my boys love it because they learn a lot about animals. I mean, they're all like, I mean, I've learned a lot about animals. Just, just watching them. So, but anyway. I think you got to start incorporating more animal facts into your beer reviews. I'm going to have to try. Yeah. See if I can remember any. That's a big thing. But here it is. No head. Head is minimal. I'm not going to lie. You guys, it doesn't come across very well, but it is, it is a beautiful looking beer of vibrant. It looks slightly darker than the kombucha we just drank, but like similar in color. It's kind of thick. I mean, shit. Yeah. Thicker than I thought it was going to be. There's no T-Rex. Yeah, the T-Rex isn't finding you. You ain't getting found in this thing. So, but I'm excited. Raspberry. I like more than cherry. So there you go. Step in the right direction and hold on. Is it six percent? Five percent. I'd have to try to find a one percent something or other. Find a one percent beer. You get to drink like one, like 30 second of a shot of vodka. Yeah. There we go. So here we go. Let's see. It smells incredibly good. I'm very excited. Here we go. Raspberry Pi by the Glass Jug Beer Lab. I like beer. It makes me a jolly good fellow. I like beer. It helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow. Makes me feel mellow. Oh, yeah. Just for you, Ober. Thank you. Yeah. Even though it's for Chris. This is very good. This is very good. You get like punched up front. Number one, light. It's got a little bit of thickness to it, but like overall, just a light drinker. Five percent hacked with flavor. You get so much raspberry up front. It's crazy. And then it does kind of mellow out like the raspberry carries its way through, but it does mellow out. You get a little bit of that like saltier after taste. You get with GOSA sometimes, you know, like, but yeah, it's like a, like a raspberry bomb. A little bit of leave some, some tartness on your, on your tongue, you know, you know, not overly. I don't think I don't want to miss speak. Yeah. Cause like, I think we talked about this a couple of weeks ago where there's no lactose in it. It's still a little on the thick side, but there's no lactose, which is kind of nice cause like it's, it is like just like more light, more refreshing, not overly sweet. You do get that tartness and it is like very, it's just very good, very good. Crisp, easy drinking and refreshingly tart, GOSA style sour ale brewed with raspberry to create a brilliantly colorful beer with a fruit forward sweetness that is balanced by acidity to provide a tart effervescent finish. And yes, I agree. So yeah, this is another really good offering from these guys. If you're ever in Durham, North Carolina, you might as well stop by cause it's a, it's a really solid spot. So I'm, I really like this beer and maybe it's coming up the flying embers, which I wasn't a fan of, but it does seem like this is just like, whatever the opposite of watered down is watered up, dried up, a dried up version of the flying embers. Yeah. Just like a super, super version of the raspberry, you know, versus the, the just cherry hibiscus. We guess tea that's been permitted, you know, I think it may, if maybe if it was raspberry hibiscus lime, it wouldn't, wouldn't have been as bad, you know? Cherry's normally not a, not a go-to flavor for me, but raspberry is hit or miss with me, but right now it's hitting. I'm going to give this a four and a quarter. It's very, very good. You know, for a brewery I'd never heard of before we searched breweries near me. But yeah. Yeah. Can you find their stuff anywhere by you or did you got to go to Durham to get this beer? I've never found their stuff, but I also have not looked hard. Um, but now this is going to be one of those labels that like, if I see it, I'll be like, Oh, I know that place. Yeah. So, um, yeah, very, very delicious. Very good. Raspberry Pi. Love it. I lost it. So there are 337 check-ins of this beer. I don't tapped. That's not that many. Um, you know, I was, I was looking at Durham's area code, but it's like nine one something and I was like, well, that's not going to work. Yeah. Let's get on this. I know it could be. It could be just guess whatever the nine one something would be if it was on a scale of five instead of on a scale of 10. Oh yeah. Well, I think there's still be like, what would that be? 4.6. Yeah. 4.5 something. Um, I'm not going to, I'm not going to guess that. Um, I, I want it to be good. I want it to be good. Um, I mean, it is good. If it helps the lowest rating on untapped is a two, but the highest ratings of five. Yeah. I'm not, yeah. I'm not surprised. I mean, I feel like that's all right. I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I don't think it's going to be as high as me. I think I'm going to be way, I don't want to say way above, but I'll be above the average. It deserves to be a four. Um, I'm going to guess a 4.0 404. I think you're low. So you are high. Fuck. Really? 3.95. Damn it. On the board though. On the board though. That's true. Yeah. Oh wow. Okay. I'm glad I didn't go with my other answer then because I was going to just guess the Montana area code, but when in doubt, I mean, when in doubt, 406. It was close. It was close anyway. Okay. It deserves to be higher than that. I'm just going to tell you, I'm going to tell you right now untapped deserves to be. We don't know what Todd is drinking tonight, but we know that it's rated a 4.06. Yeah. 100%. I mean, it could be. It could be. Let's find out. I was scoured by one of my beer fridges. I went to the beer fridge with the most beer in it and I said, I will find a beer that is 6% ABV. Okay. I knew it. I had a feeling. Can you go find one that's, can you go find one that's 7% so you can make up for me? Is it Budweiser 6.0? You don't have a Budweiser in your house? I do not. I think Budweiser is 5.0. You're right. It is 5.0. Budweiser is like 4.2 or something. So Chris, I think I'm going to make up for both of us. So unfortunately, I don't have a 6% ABV beer, but I do have a beer that's 6.9%. Nice. And I figured that was the next best thing. I had many that were seven, but only one that I saw that was 6.9. We collectively 0 over 0.1. Correct. All right. I guess that makes sense. But I feel like this makes up for it over at 6.9% is a good number. It is. 4.69. I'm my Hibiscus guess and I was wrong, but. So I do unfortunately do not believe this will be a 4.06 on the untapped scale already without drinking it. And I will tell you why. This is Ripped Lip by Tacklebox Brewing Company. So it was given to me by a friend of the podcast, Lady Amber Venom. This is an IPA with jalapenos. Ooh. Ooh. Spicy. I feel like I'm not giving it its due day in court because I can't imagine an IPA that's brewed with jalapenos is going to be above a four. Well, what's the federal orange cat? That's not an IPA. That's jalapeno jack. That's just a. That's jalapeno jack. That's just an ale. Mm-hmm. Just a just regular ale with jalapeno. Yeah. Okay. Something tells me. That's the only jalapeno beer that I know. And that's that one was well regarded. Yeah. I mean, there's also Fire Coral by Tox that we've had on this podcast before as well. But I just can't imagine like a Julius with a jalapeno in it is going to be very good. Um, right. However, this is why we drink the beers. This is why we drink the beer. Not to get drunk, but to try something new. So the can is a guy that I don't see that his rip, his lip is ripped, but while he has a fish hook. Oh, shit. Yeah. You noticed that way through the camera. Huh? There is a fish hook through his to the side of his mouth. That's pretty good. I get it now. A big lure or two tackle box brewing company, um, out of Marlboro mass. I do not see a date that this was brewed by. However, I do know that this was from last year at some point. So even more reason I don't think my rating is going to be a 4.06, but I think it's going to influence my own tap rating. Now I'm really starting to lean towards guessing a 4.06 for the hell of it. Okay. It gets a 6.04. Good. No one's stopping you. We encourage it. Actually. Yeah. It would be a rope. It would be a first ever on this podcast. We would be just jaw dropped. I am. I am all for being the first of doing things. Uh-huh. Um, it poured kind of hazy, but not like, I would say Oberts beer earlier was hazier than this beer. Um, you know, lights up like a light bulb. Oh my goodness. I am telling you that, you know, yeah, Oberts is definitely more, uh, uh, anti-luminous. On the highest scale. Yeah. So lit up right now, this, this thing here could be a label. Yeah. Listeners, if you stared at this long enough, it is as lit up as a light bulb. I will tell you this. The T-rex is not finding you in this because the T-rex is blinded, but it is. You've harnessed the power of a thousand suns to illuminate this beer picture. Picture if you stared directly at a light bulb and that's exactly what this beer looks like. Um, I don't think I've ever seen a beer like that. That was pretty cool. I haven't either. It's the jalapenos. The head, the head stuck around. It's got a nice little lacing on the top. Um, on the nose, it does smell kind of like an old IPA. It's kind of the downfall of waiting a year to drink something. I don't get any jalapenos on the nose. I don't get any spiciness on the nose, which is going to be good or bad. Um, now I'm kind of hoping that the jalapenos mask a little bit of how old this beer is. But, uh, this is why we drink. Cheers. Cheers. I drink the beer from the glass, but that's boring. That's good. Oh yeah, that's more likely to be boring. I have the German accent and so of course I love beer. But how much can this good hold? And it's my drive. And it's my drive here. That's good. So, it's not bad. Um, it's very much a West Coast style IPA. The can does not specify whether it's supposed to be West Coast or whether it's not. But it's very West Coast-y. It's got a lot of earthy tones to it, more so than a juice bomb, which is good, because I don't think that the jalapenos would go very well inside of an orange. Um, you know, and it does play on that jalapeno very well. You do taste kind of that peppery, earthy flavor on the front end and on the back there is a little bit of spice. It sits kind of on the back, the backside of your tongue. Pretty well balanced though. It's not as spicy as a jalapeno jack. It's not as spicy as a fire coral. It's very mild. Like if you taste, if you tasted this, you're eating like guacamole, you'd be like, oh, I caught a little bit of heat, but not bad. Even somebody like Chris who doesn't like heat, this is not, this, this would be tolerable for you. Um, I have to ask, does it taste more like a bell pepper than a chili pepper? Yes, definitely. And that's why I think it blends very well with the, with the West Coast style IPA. It's very dry. It's actually a halfway decent combination. Never would have thought of it. 6.04 lock it in. It's got a little bit, I'm trying not to, to knock it too much for a little bit of like that aged IPA flavor because I think that's my fault. Um, however, I do kind of wonder if that's kind of part of the, the part of this beer because it is brewed with a jalapeno. Um, where some of that old IPA flavor is just kind of naturally going to be there because you're going to get that bell pepper flavor. Um, no, but pretty good. Um, wish it was actually kind of a little spicier. I wish it had a little bit more of a kick and maybe as it warms up at will, but for the time being it is fresh out of the fridge and into my glass. I'm going to give it a three and a 3.75 with a last risk there or what? Yeah. I think that it's still would be, I think this is, I'm rating it, I'm trying to rate it as much as it should be rated if it was a fresh beer. Okay. Um, 375. I can respect that. Yeah. So, you know, I'm going to have to sue you for libel slander. Which one's the talking one? Is it slander? Is that the one? I don't know. Um, because I'm coming around to hot stuff. Okay. Just saying. Throwing it out there. Well, I mean, you did move to the south. I would hope that would eventually grow on you. Yeah. Like, I like jalapenos on stuff a lot now. So, you know, I'm, I'm working with barbecue. Chris and his flavors. Yeah. I'm doing great. Um, and actually I don't remember, I was trying to think of where I had something but I've had another beer that was an IPA and a hot pepper and it had a kick. It definitely had a kick to it, but it was pretty solid from, you know, that I, I, I got in a brewery and I can't remember for the life of me, which one or what pepper, but it was, it was pretty good though. I was, I was pleasantly surprised. So maybe they're making a comeback. Well, last, last, last year. Mystery pepper from, I don't know, bro. Last year. Last year and this year. Yeah. Um, so. That's good though. I'm, I'm happy that you're growing. Yeah. Congratulations. I appreciate that. I, well, okay. Let's get through this bureau. You. So 375. Check-ins. Oh, right in my area. Wow. 4.06. 6.04. No. I think it's going to be around me three, seven, four. Well, it looks like it's a double point night for Todd over here. Bastard. 3.80 average. Oh, wow. Just sweet. What was, what was Chris? 0.09. 0.09. Oh. You're 0.06. Damn. Not close at all though. That's not, that's a poor showing by both of us. Yeah. You know what? No point. 0.06 is pretty good. No, Todd doesn't want it. No point. Still point worthy. Still point worthy. We all agreed. Uh, yeah. That's a, that's a. I wonder what the, I, I do want to try this beer fresh though. I feel like I have to go find it now. Yeah. If you liked it that much, worth trying again. I would like to know what it tastes like, like if it was like applying to the elder with, with jalapenos in it. Right. How would that come out? Or main lunch with, with jalapenos in it? Not for me, but maybe it's good. I don't know. We're all over the board. We have from hibiscus and cherries to clementino hops and raspberry pies with, and it with a jalapeno. Yeah. So. Very a lot, a lot of different, a lot, a lot of different flavor combinations coming out tonight. They're probably all berries. Probably. Probably all berries. Except. Good thing we are. Except for the raspberry. Except for the, yeah. That what we know is technically not a berry. Good thing we all drank that kombucha to help with like the digestion, digestion of all this beer. Very true. Exactly. Yeah. Well, Todd, Hawk, Hawk, Hawk, Hawk, Hawk, Hawk. Double, double. Keep on going. Hawk, Hawk, Hawk, Hawk, Hawk. You are the, the victor tonight. You earned it twice, even playing field. Well, it would be even except for all of the, for all of the, for all of the, for all of the other flying embers kombuchas that you had had. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Where are we? But pretty even playing field. We are forced, we're forced to take away a point. Points still count. Points still count. Jordan, theme song creator of all time. Take it away. Test your handle. Test your handle. Test your handle. Test your handle. Mug of wisdom. Freak. Mug of wisdom. Finish up the motto. Chris, Todd, Overt, Popcorn and other animals. Mug of wisdom. 47 points for Todd on the board. 47. Getting there. I don't even get to 50 before episode 250. I don't know if it's mathematically possible. Who knows? It will do it for beer review next episode. But again, honk to the people. Honk to the people. Who's going first? Who's filling up this frosty mug of wisdom and life advice and hacks and TV shows and games and stuff? Well, since I made you guys go first, I will go first for the handle. Okay. My handle this week, I think many, many, many moons ago, I had brought the bone conducting headphones to the podcast as one of my handles. Well, the company that makes them called, uh, they were originally called aftershocks and then they changed their, they dropped the after and just went with shocks. So they released with a K and a Z with a K and a Z S H O K Z. They created this new thing that's, um, it's not, it doesn't go under temple, but it's it's open ear headphones. So they, they loop around the backside of your ears, like, you know, like those types of headphones, except for that they, they don't insert into your ear. They kind of hang out on the outside and they project the sound in and supposedly their technology, um, makes it so you don't, so you can still hear the, your surroundings, but you can also hear it like, like you have stuff in your ear. So I bought them. Um, and it comes in this little charging case and the charging case is very similar to that of AirPods where you stick them in there and they recharge the, the headphones. Um, but they are pretty small. As you guys can see, uh, they just loop around and they kind of sit right over your ear. And I have to say the sound is incredible. Um, really good for being outside, for taking a walk, uh, for running, for biking, um, for hiking. So you can still hear if like a grizzly bear sneaking up behind you over, um, really good still allowing you to hear everything around your surroundings, but also not losing any sound quality. Uh, these things are awesome. They're called open fit shocks. Open fit, I believe is what they're called to hang on one second. Let me just give you the proper name. Yep. They're called shocks, open fit, open ear, true wireless Bluetooth headphones with microphone, earbuds with ear hooks, sweat resistant, fast charging, uh, 28 hours of playtime and compatible with both the iPhone and Android. These, uh, things I bought them on sale for 150 bucks. Generally they retail for 200. So check these out, especially if you're looking for new headphones, especially if you're trying to sleep with headphones in. These are pretty good too. Um, because they're, they loop around your ear so they won't fall out and they don't have a touch button on them. They, so you're not going to accidentally hit it while you're sleeping and turn them off. I kind of like that. Honestly, uh, as somebody who's been rocking the wireless earbuds for probably two years now, um, those are some good features that I would like in my earbuds. So I will, uh, seriously look into these. I might buy a pair. Yeah. Yeah. I, uh, do you have a handle? Well, no, but, but I just wanted to jump on, uh, that bandwagon. I've been using headphones, not, not this same brand, but you know, different brand, but same idea. I've been using them for a while now and I love them. So good handle, good handle, Todd. Plus one thumbs up. Perfect. Well, let's listen to that listeners. It's not very often we get, we get our, uh, all three co-hosts to jump in on. But that's a, if I can get both of you guys to buy these and we can walk around. Um, I will say for people who work the, the microphone on these things is fantastic. I was walking around the city of San Diego last week talking on the phone. Nobody could hear the car noise around me. Nobody could hear the bums and the sidewalk smoke and crack. Um, they, it, it does for whatever reason, focus in on the voice of the, the sound closest to it. So perfect for that too. Um, and really good if you're sitting in the office. I actually just have to, uh, return to office. So I'm, I'm in the market. I have to go back to work in the office five days a week now. Boo. Can we get a boo? Uh, from the sound board. Sound board says. Boo. So yeah, maybe this, we'll make going back to the office suck a little bit less. So I'm going to hand off the mug to Obert. Sure. Um, I've been playing risk of rain too lately. Too good game. Uh, I played the original risk of rain when it came out probably in like the early 2010s. There's a side scrolling rogue like shooter where the kind of the gimmick was you had to, uh, uh, beat bosses to advance the game. And the longer you played each run, the harder it got. So you kind of, it was each one was kind of a speed run mentality, but you would also find different items that had unique, uh, ways to enhance your build. And then you could, you could build around. It was a fun game. And I recently started playing risk green two, which has a nice co-op function. I'm always looking for a good co-op games to play on steam. Uh, I think it's like a 20, $25 game probably. Well worth it. And, um, if you like rogue like games and you also like shooters, just one worth checking out the trailer for. It's on sale right now for 1249. Really? I bought it at full price. I'm such a sucker. Uh, but by the time it was, this is not on sale anymore. Add to the wish list cause it goes on sale all the time. I just had to pay full price, you know, now it goes. And if you want to buy normal risk of rain in case you're curious, it's also on sale for $1.99. That's a fun game. They're both good. They're both good games. What's better? Um, I don't have enough hours into risk of rain two yet to say how it compares. But, um, as far as I can tell, they've only improved upon the original formula. So risk of rain two. Cause I was just going to think a $1.99 is basically free. Yeah. You might as well get it for the two bucks. I think if you're looking for a steam deck game, Todd, risk of rain one. Yeah. Uh, right now. I also have ratchet rank. I have ratchet and clink in my car. And I'm like, am I going to pull the trigger on that for $35 or risk of rain for $1.99. I was going to say which ratchet and clink. Rift apart. Is that a new, new game? I have no idea. But for 35 bucks, I mean, no, thanks. Basically free. Get the dollar out of that and risk of rain one. Okay. Chris, what, uh, what way do you listen to music? Do you have for us this week? Um, I don't know. Uh, it's going to be a surprise for everybody. No, I think cause I was, I was just thinking to myself was like the only thing I really watch right now is dropout, you know, cause we, cause just what I do now. Um, and I, I haven't really bought anything. So like, I'm going to put over a YouTube channel. Cause I don't believe I've put in this guy over before. I know I've, I know I've messaged you both about him separately, but, um, or through text messages, but I've been watching him for a few years now. And he's pretty funny. And he does food reviews in Connecticut, which, um, I think is kind of, uh, kind of, I mean, obviously niche for us cause we're all from Connecticut. So, um, but his, uh, his channel name is Dame drops, D A Y M drops. And, uh, he does a bunch of, uh, he does a lot of, I mean, Connecticut based, um, food reviews, he'll go to like, he has a couple of series, like the best and worst in Connecticut. So he'll go to like the best burger joint in Connecticut and then like the worst rated one on, on Yelp. And he goes through the whole experience. Um, and he does like fast food Fridays where he'll just do like random fast food, you know, new, new stuff. Um, but he's like, he's, he's, he's, he's fun. He's, uh, you know, he's very personable. He just seems like he would be really cool to go to McDonald's with, I guess, but I really enjoy his videos. Um, I kind of go in and out, like depending on how long of a shower I have and stuff, but, um, I kind of go in and out on whether or not I keep up with his videos, but more recently I've been back into, uh, checking out his stuff. So, um, if you want, if you like food reviews and you want something entertaining, especially if you're in Connecticut, like you should check it out. I keep sending it to Todd and Obert seeing like with them. I want them to be like, Oh, I've been there. Like, you know, um, because us being, well, most of our lives Eastern part of the state people, he does go to the Western part of the state a lot of the time. So, um, but any who, if you want to check him out, Dame drops on YouTube, uh, check him out. I enjoy putting his stuff on and I think he's, he's pretty funny. So check him out. Yeah. Let's look at another plus one from me because I, uh, he sent me a couple of videos and he seems like he has all of the personality that you would want or need to be a YouTube food reviewer. Yeah. He's got the, he definitely has the right, uh, personality and temperament for it. So, especially if you're a 203 person, I think you should double check him out. Yeah. He never really. My side of the river. No. Most of, most of the stuff he does is like new Britain, like, you know, New Haven, like that side all the way, the rich people side. It doesn't go. I mean, New Britain's not rich. I would not call new Britain. He doesn't go to green onion. Okay. Any of this sort, but so maybe there's some things in there I haven't noticed from new Britain. I'll have to. Yeah. Yeah. You should, you should check out some, I'll try to send you guys some stuff, but, um, awesome. So with that, we'd like to thank you for listening. Uh, but thank the breweries that provide the taste beers. We will all together collectively thank flying embers flying embers. Yeah. Yeah. We don't, we don't need to yell to the microphone all together now. Um, but you did tell us to all think of them simultaneously. So I did not say simultaneously. Um, but we're all thanking on the counter of three. I will think, I will also think, uh, tackle box brewing company for, uh, ripped lip and lady Amber venom for providing it to me. I would like to thank the glass jug beer lab for their raspberry pie. And the wild crass. And the wild crass. Shut up. Represent. All that great notion for Dune. Please make sure you head over to social media and follow us everywhere at DAWF podcast. Also make sure you hashtag file the email at DAWF podcast at gmail.com. 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Free beer. Well, no, I paid to get into the beer fest. I know. But it's like you, you had to have, you should have at least sent a picture of you giving a thumbs down to guy Fieri or something. I assume he was. Yeah. Put that in the discord. That's true. You guys should have told me that beforehand. I didn't do that either. We weren't there. We didn't know. We didn't see the frost of tips. Oh man. What a missed opportunity. There was kind of a missed opportunity with that. Bye guys. Bye. All right. Bye listeners.