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.
The prodigal son has returned.
That's what they call.
Chris is back.
That's what they call me.
His house has electricity.
Yes.
For now.
There's juice in the wires.
For now.
For now.
Till the ant underneath this house farts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's pretty ridiculous.
The amount of non-power I have.
Non-power days.
I feel like.
It's almost like you don't live in the United States.
It's almost like you live elsewhere.
Yeah.
Like a third world country.
You know, has brownouts all the time.
Do you live in Gaza?
Like.
Last I looked, no.
But yeah, it's unreal how much I lose power or internet.
Mostly power.
But internet too.
Like it's just, I don't know, I'm just, I'm just close enough to society to be alive but
not for power.
I feel like.
Well, we're glad you're here.
Thank you.
I'm glad to be.
Did you not think to ask this question when you bought the house?
Do you even ask these questions when you buy a house?
I mean.
Did you ask when you bought your house?
I don't recall ever asking this.
Why don't you ever recall asking like, hey, do you have power?
I didn't think that was a question you had to ask in America.
Yeah.
No.
I mean, I walked through it, turned on the light switches and all the lights switched,
you know, so it's like, I don't know, outside of that, it's like how many, how many down
power days do we have over the last year?
Apparently like 30.
So it's cool.
Whatever.
But.
It's like almost like a whole 10% of the year.
Just no power.
Yeah.
But yeah, how have you been listeners?
I want to hear from you.
We'll wait.
We'll wait.
We'll cut out the silence.
Don't worry.
What about you guys?
What about you guys?
What did you guys?
I don't think has, you know, peeling, peeling back the part of the kimono.
Is that what you say?
Like has I don't think that episode's released yet.
What did you guys talk about last week?
Probably.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Surely after you record this in a couple of days, you'll have to listen in to figure
it out.
Well, that's kind of the whole.
My favorite part isn't on it.
So like, why would I even listen to the whole point of the podcast is to, to listen to it.
We, uh, yeah, we played fast money and only got half the score we needed.
Dang.
Maybe next time.
Well, for the listeners out there, if you want a good episode of Chris, why would you?
If you head over to Patreon and for a dollar a month, you can get an extra, you can get,
you know, the pregame episodes.
And this week, Chris reviewed a summer shandy that, um, you know, was from a local brewery
and I don't know if we could tell you the name.
I think you have to, I think that's something you have to pay us for.
Uh, the lawyers say I'm not allowed to tell you that.
So, um, but I could tell you that there was a review of a summer shandy on the pregame
for as little as a dollar a month, extra 20 minute episodes right over on Patreon.
If you, if you want to Venmo me $5, I will tell you the name of the brewery.
Yeah, that's interesting.
One time.
Venmo me $4.99.
That's, uh, $10 over here.
Oh, okay.
That's my fee.
Oh, it's not a sellout.
Like me.
No, no.
I have principles.
I'm fully in.
I'll sell.
I have twice as many principles as you guys do.
I've said forever.
You can buy me.
I can be bought.
Yeah.
I think that we think was like episode one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's that time of year, you know, I was saying, this is kind of like our fourth
of July episode.
Yeah, true.
It's already, already into June, you know, we're rolling up on 250 real soon.
Break out the fireworks, the Roman candles, we can, we can shoot them at each other.
I'm like not ready for episode 250.
That's so many episodes.
That's insane.
That's crazy.
It is.
So we're only three away after, no, the, yeah, after this one, they'll be in three
episodes.
250.
So Obert, start looking for your oldest beer.
I know you have a plethora of beers in your house, but you need to find them.
I don't think it'll be as hard for me to find my oldest beer as it will be for you.
Yeah.
That was more of a motivation speech for me to go on.
It's a lot of digging I have to go through.
Chris, I think has a little bit of digging, but I think I'm the one who's officially
like screwed.
What if I don't bring the oldest one?
What if I bring like the second oldest one?
That's it.
That'll be your last episode.
That's how we find a new co-host.
Yeah.
That'll give me time to go start my weather podcast.
That ancient curse that we, we, uh, unleashed when we started this podcast, I think the
terms and conditions of the curse will, uh, haunt you forever if you don't drink the
oldest one.
Pretty sure that's what happens.
We have terms and conditions.
Yeah.
That deal we signed with that weird ghost.
Oh, yes.
I remember that.
We were very drunk though.
So that wouldn't hold up in court.
I don't think.
A dust and ghost court.
Ghost court.
That's the one that matters, honestly.
So I, um, I went to a farmer's market today and I had a lobster roll, which, uh, I know
what you're thinking.
There's not a lot of water.
Yeah.
That was my first thought was a lobster roll in the middle of Montana from a farmer's
market.
How good could it be?
How good is food truck lobster roll in Montana?
Is your question?
100%.
The answer was actually pretty decent, surprisingly good.
Okay.
So I ordered it and then I immediately regretted it.
I was like, what am I doing?
I'm really just setting myself up for failure here.
There's no way this is going to meet my expectations.
I would be worried about like food poisoning.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I am not.
I wasn't until right now.
You mean you weren't affected by food poisoning right now or you weren't worried about it?
I wasn't worried about it.
Oh, uh.
My friend, I've got some news for you.
The thought didn't cross my mind until right now, but it made me miss some good connected
lobster rolls.
So how was it?
And, um, it was very good.
I was, I was impressed.
Was it hot?
Was it cold?
It was hot.
I wouldn't have ordered it if it was cold.
The proper way that it should be done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice buttery toasted bun.
Um.
Was this food truck from Connecticut?
Like cause that's like, that is a very Connecticut thing.
The warm lobster roll I've learned is like not a common thing outside of Connecticut.
Um, I'll shout it out.
It was, I think that there was the sausage queen was the truck and they normally have
hot dogs, different kinds of sausages, but today for special for $24, they had a lobster
roll.
That's actually a pretty good deal on a lobster roll too.
Yeah.
I thought it was my free.
I balked a little bit, but then I was like, they used to be $20, but that was many, many
years ago.
I think 24 is probably a fair price for a lobster roll in Montana.
I think around here, you can't get them for less than 30.
So you're making out like a bandit.
You should buy them, drive to Connecticut, sell them, boom, profit, arbitrage.
Yeah.
But better yet, buy them, you can mail them to me and I will sell them for profit.
There you go.
There's nothing wrong with this.
Yeah.
Sounds like a perfect plan.
This is better than the, uh, the Kramer, uh, can thing from Seinfeld.
Uh-huh.
But you know, I think we haven't really talked to that much about lobster on this podcast.
I don't know how you guys feel about lobster as a food.
I'm, I'm a late lobster bloomer is what I should say, because I don't think I had a
lobster until I was 26, 27, probably like from, from what I know about Chris, that
tracks, that track would be grossed out by the idea of a lobster.
I like, no, I like seafood.
I like, I've always liked seafood.
I've always liked fish.
I was like, but for some reason just because I'm poor, but lobsters seem too much close,
too close to bugs for, for what I think Chris would eat.
Oh, that's fair.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not, listen, it needs to be all like, I just want the meat, you know, like
I don't want to, I don't want to crack anything.
I don't want to dig for nothing.
I just want the meat.
Just bring me the meat.
So that was my little barbie review.
Um, lobster is too much work.
Like if I can get lazy man lobster per perfect comes down a little bowl, it's already
shook for me.
It's just getting in there with like your hands and breaking it apart and you smell
like fish, your hands smell like fish, clothes smell like fish.
Yeah.
Just painting the ass.
You know, it's a whole thing.
I mean, I, I, it is very tracks for Todd too, actually, you guys both have very on brand
answers.
I will say it is, it is delicious though.
I do like it.
I think, I think the first time I had it, Dana made it, um, in Connecticut.
Like she, she always used to do it with her family.
So, um, she went out, bought some and it was very good.
And now when we go home, we all have lobster rolls and stuff like that.
So, um, but, uh, yeah, not North Carolina as much, we get like those, we have shitty
lobster down here.
It's like the rock lobster.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've never had one of those.
It's like, you, there's no reason to, it's just like a worse version.
Yeah.
I've also heard like rock crab, stone crab, stone crab is really good, but we don't get
that up here.
So I'm sure maybe in North Carolina, you can get stone crab everywhere, but maybe there
is, there is a stone crab season.
Lobster doesn't really have a season.
Actually does the best lobsters, this is inside your tip for, for all my New England
listeners.
You get them in months to end an R is when you need to be in your lobster.
So.
Oh, so December, November, December, October, September.
Uh-huh.
Those are the ones.
Yeah.
We're by way backwards on that fucking list.
January.
I was, I was sitting there going, I was like, wait, March doesn't have an R.
It has an R in it, but it's not, it doesn't end in an R.
Shit.
I didn't know that.
That's interesting.
So I don't know how food is something I heard years ago, and I've always repeated
it to a lot of people now a whole podcast on this, so don't fact check me on it.
But once the end in R, when you should be eating lobster.
Well, lobster, September.
Oh, yeah.
That makes sense.
October lobster.
Maybe I got it wrong.
Maybe they were like, the best time to eat seafood that ends in R is in the summer
and I got messed it up.
It's possible.
It's a whole season.
You know, if only there was this like, you know, connected network of multinational
information societies that you could type something into and, you know, like, you know,
search for something.
And I like the idea of a world where the internet doesn't exist and you just said
that to somebody like, what are you talking about?
We go back to like 19, whenever the internet 1985.
But it doesn't sound like a.
So Chris just sent something into our chat and it says, next to late spring,
fall is one of the best times of you to buy good hard shell lobsters.
After Labor Day, all the tourists have gone home and the lobster landings are at
their highest lobster prices stay reasonable, rising a bit at Christmas time.
I didn't.
I mean, that also did not read the paragraph.
I just read the September at the top.
So I mean, what I noticed is late spring.
So what is that?
May and June?
Like what is late spring?
It's all lobster.
It's all lobster, baby.
The whole fucking year, essentially.
That could be, I think that could be your new catchphrase.
Lobster, baby.
Things are going good.
Hey, baby, it's all lobster to me.
It's all lobster, baby.
I'm gonna drop that shit on a t-shirt.
I'm gonna use it on a stream and only add that a drop as a drop.
I think the podcast.
Yeah, it's all lobster.
That's what we play from now on when we get correct, 100% correct guesses.
It's all lobster, baby.
I draw a little, a little poorly drawn lobster on the way forward.
There's gotta be like a, like a chat GPT out there that adds like sound and stuff
where I can take that and they can like turn it into like some like techno
bullshit where it's like, it's all lobster, baby.
Boom.
Who needs the sound effects?
You just, it sounds like you got it all right there.
Well, all right, we'll see who gets the shiny lobster this week.
I think I'm gonna kick things off if that's all right with you guys.
Do it.
You are.
I am excited to bring one of our hometown favorites on the podcast.
But I haven't bobbled like a day recently.
Second, second favorites.
And that's Fox Farm.
I, they are, they are almost as good as me.
Yeah.
Top two in Connecticut.
They recently did a, I think a new thing, I'll say, with a shipment of beers
and they had a spring box.
You couldn't really pick out what was in it.
I ordered it and I got six lovely looking bottles.
Bombers at that full of, full of spontaneous fermented beers.
And yeah, as Ted said, they're all 1.9.4 ounces.
So yeah, generous amount.
I think it's complaint.
The bottles are too heavy, which you're like, okay, Brandon, just like, man up,
do some more curls.
It's how hard is it to pour these beers?
No, that's not the problem.
The problem is you think you have one, one and a half beers left.
You tip your glass over and you get like three ounces and you're like, my day is
ruined, my disappointment is immeasurable.
Yeah, I hate it.
It's like just too much, too much glass, man.
But anyway, this is their consonants and dissonance from their Music Vale
compositions series, which I think is their new, well, first of all, they're
on Music Vale Road.
That's where the name comes from.
But I think it's their barrel aging series.
This is a spontaneous ale with Marquette grapes.
Let's, our patrons will know we like grapes on the podcast here, but I'm
going to crack it open.
Be right back.
Okay, update.
There was a cork under the bottle cap.
Kind of failed there.
Maybe get a corkscrew.
I like the fact that they put a cork in it, though.
That's, that's a good feature.
Yeah, that's, that, that just, you know, shows high class.
Also, if they're shipping it.
Yeah, it stops it from exploding when you ship it.
That's a good idea.
That is nice.
You know what?
Especially with the cap on top of it.
Cap keeps the cork in, cork keeps the beer in.
I know, I know this is, this is kind of a crazy thing to say, but
box farm might be a better brewer than Todd for the cork idea.
That's not too crazy here.
I do think I could have easily taken electrical tape and wrapped it around,
wrapped it around the top and sent it in the mail.
We do, we've done it.
I was a little worried when I popped the cap and I didn't hear like it.
It didn't pop.
I was like, Oh no, I got a flat one.
Oh, it's going to pop right in over its face.
This is going to be funny.
It's a beautiful cork too.
Music veil compositions.
I realize you open a cork different than I open a cork.
Well, I open corks on bottles of wine differently because I sometimes want to
save the cork to put back in it.
Not toad this thing.
I'm, there's no way I'm saving this.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I usually screw that sucker right in and then flip bolt the phalanges down
and then it pulls right out.
But I guess that I pull the cork.
A little, what do you call it?
The sheet music thing with the bars, but the lines.
They got one of those on the cork.
It's kind of cool.
She music.
Yeah.
Like a stand.
Compositions.
Stanza.
Nice.
Tony Stanza.
Red, red wine looking cork almost.
Do you know what I was expecting?
Do you know what the notes are on the music veil composition?
No, I do not.
Do you?
I may.
You'd have to hold it there for long enough for me to read it, but.
It's just two circles on the bottom.
Oh, they're whole notes and that's, oh, what note is that?
Probably if I had to guess, I would say FF, just throwing it out there is what it might be.
That might be, yeah, face, FAC.
Yeah, yeah, there you go.
No, all the way.
Yeah, I was holding it upside down.
That was what, I think that was the issue.
Yeah, it's FF.
It's Fox Farm.
That's, that's interesting.
That's smart Easter egg for you.
So I'll give it to them.
They are, they really are the second best brewery in the state.
They're my favorite brewery, but their second best to me.
Fair enough.
That's fair.
All right.
I actually also bought one of these boxes too, but I drove there and picked mine up
unlike having it shipped to my house.
Yeah.
Well, it's like one of those things.
Fox Farm, like lobster, is better when it's thousands of miles from home because it's special,
you know, smells like a sour, poured, oh, very dark red, actually.
Not quite wine, dark, but super red and earthy looking.
I don't know how much light's coming through.
It definitely looks like a UFO.
Yeah, it does.
It's kind of, kind of nice.
I do think you'd be kind of screwed, though.
I think a T-Rex is getting you.
I could see where that light came from.
Perfect.
Yeah, I'd still be worried about hitting a deer, though.
Yeah, well, they are very blind.
That's all the time.
Not, again, a little bit of that.
Those grape notes on the nose, but definitely some sourness.
I don't even know what a Marquette grape is, but let's find out if I like them.
Cheers, guys.
I'm going to go with the red grape, given the color of the beer.
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.
This is officially warhead on the sour scale.
Oh, OK.
Super, super tart, incredibly puckery.
Wow, it's like blowing out the rest of my taste buds without how sour this is.
Oh, this is sour than I like in a beer.
So I can tell you what a Marquette grape is.
What's a Marquette grape, Todd?
It's an interspecies hybrid red wine grape variety developed by the
University of Minnesota and released in 2006.
It has good resistance to downy mildew, powdery mildew and black rot, as well as
being cold hardy, which means it will survive a negative 37 degrees Celsius
when fully dormant.
OK, and that's grape facts.
Yeah, I'm reading in the back and it says that a consonants and dissonants
is composed to highlight the distinct harmony between wine grapes and this
unique style of beer.
Yeah, it says that these were grown by our family in South Windsor, Connecticut.
Would you look at that?
Really? Yeah.
No, it does not say South Windsor, Connecticut.
Did not make it up.
So you can probably if you look it up on on tap, it might even
show you that in the description.
I might have to go find out where where this is and walk by the place.
Maybe go eat a grape.
Yes, you have some Marquette grapes.
Unfortunately, this is it's so hard to pick up too much else other than
a really, really tart, spontaneous ale.
They're calling it just super sour farmhouse.
Maybe I think I might need to let it warm up a little bit.
How long has it been out of the fridge for?
About 24 minutes and 42 seconds.
Trying to pick up on other fruit notes.
It's a little jammy for sure.
You get maybe notes of straw or rasp.
Definitely some kind of berries in there.
I think this is going to be a full bottle.
This is a lot.
Not that my comments about how heavy the glass is aside.
This is one that I would definitely order a pour of at Fox Farm or maybe
share it with some friends on a appetizer.
Maybe you're having salad with like a raspberry vinaigrette dressing.
Give everybody like a four ounce pour of this for your dinner party.
That's when I would have this beer.
It reminds you of the raspberry framboise that I pronounced that from
the Lindermen. Yeah, yeah.
That one's really sweet, though.
But this is isn't that sweet.
Yeah. But just with how kind of that that
tuck that pucker and fruit fruit forwardness.
So this is good.
I think I'm assuming that the freckled fields is kind of the base of this.
That's Fox Farms.
I think they're go to sour wild farmhouse ale.
I think I like the freckled fields more than I like this one.
It was just it's just a lot.
It's just a lot to take in.
So this is going to get a three seven five for me.
OK, remind me again.
This is consonant and dissonance Marquette.
Correct. Correct.
All right. Well, I've got to do some math here.
So while I'm doing this math out of four check ins.
Jesus, you really got to pull out a pen and paper for this.
Well, it's probably going to be a percentage of some type.
So so they're all it's four check ins and they're all fours.
We've got to bust out the calculator.
OK, 16 out of four.
So you're going to be good old number five.
That's crazy. All right.
Yeah, I'm going to check it in as soon as I soon as I
release my rating to the podcast world here.
All right, I am ready for you to do it.
OK, four check ins or all check in.
I'm going to go 4.0.
I think, listen, I don't I don't want to sway.
I'm not swaying votes or nothing, obviously.
Well, here you already gave it.
So you can. No, right.
We might be in uncharted rating, rating territory.
Like, I mean, you think about it.
It's Fox farm for check ins.
Yeah, it could be a four seven.
I mean, shit, like, right.
Over could be losing a point right now for all we know.
I could be a perfect five.
Could be four perfect fives or perfect fives could be 2.2.
Who does like?
Anyways, I just I just wanted to get that out there.
I kind of want overt to lose a point.
I'd be kind of behooved to do my math wrong here.
Well, we can all back check, obviously.
So what is it?
So it comes in at a four point one seven.
OK, interesting.
It's actually a 4.1666666666666666666.
Repeating only three people actually checked it
and gave it a score and a sixth.
So there was a four or two or two fives and a four.
OK.
Yeah, put it out of four I round it up because I know untapped one because it's technically a 417 so all right
So point one seven off point one seven honestly not too bad two of the four people gave it what I guess they were gonna
Give it so no one of the four people you said gave it a four
Yes, okay, and the other two gave it a 4.25 correct
Gotcha, but if you log on now and you read it a 375
Oh
Yeah, then you're you're not gonna this average down. I mean might might have might end up being pretty darn close
Actually what it would be exactly?
No, no, no, it's two four two fives. Okay, so be one. It's like I'm gonna do the math just to make sure here
Well, it'd be a four point. Oh six two five. So
Four four point. Oh six telling you it's the go-to guess
Um
Over do you think you're gonna have to leave you're gonna have to give us feedback as this episode goes along if this beer
Gets better the warmer it gets because I have a feeling it's supposed to drink because because it's made with a peanut wine or a
Peano grape that it's probably supposed to be a little bit warmer. Yeah, perhaps
I think maybe it's just not my favorite style either
Possible. Yeah, I would like to have
Maybe a consonants and dissonance flight to see how the different grapes affect the taste
I think that's kind of the logic behind this beer of like, oh, we're gonna try it with different wine grapes and see how it comes out
Yeah, so they've done three other types consonants and dissonance
Aromela and consonants and dissonance carot noir
Both, you know higher rated than this one
And I'll tell you this friend of the podcast Ben has checked in both of them very cool
And he gave all right. Well, he gave them both a four seven five. So that tells you what how Ben enjoys these
I guess so. Yeah, they're just not for me. I guess
But I hope you enjoy your bottle when you have it more than I enjoyed mine, Todd. I plan on it
What do you have for us tonight?
All right found this beer in my house this week while cleaning up a little bit and I put it in the fridge
And I didn't really pay attention to it at the time, but I was like I maybe I'll drink this on the podcast
Maybe I won't so when I went over to the fridge and I pulled it out and I said, oh, yeah
This is the beer I put in here and said maybe I'll drink it. I all I knew the name was the name of the beer
I didn't know who brewed it. Um couldn't tell you how long I've had it for I could tell you when it was canned
This is quite the story. You're basically like I tripped over this beer and now you're gonna hear about it. Yes, correct
It was canned on October 8th, 2021. This is batch one. It was canned at 1048 a.m.
It's called fancy candy. It is an imperial stout brewed with chocolate hazelnut and vanilla
So those the fancy candies that they're talking about the what the Fierro Rochette Rochelle's is that the name of it?
Fierro Rochelle's Rochette. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, cuz it has that same font and gold kind of on the label
Yeah, yeah, so it is brewed hashtag always stout season hashtag always stout season
It is a little cold here and whether it's different in different places
We are down in the the mid 60s at the moment in Connecticut. Um, it's brewed by mass landing in
Collaboration with Barreled Souls, which I had I actually had no idea. I have no recollection of this beer
Cool, uh, 10% ABV and it says it was brewed and canned by mass landing
So Barreled Souls must have showed up and just you know help them brew it
But is mass landing a 12% brewery? No mass landing is a it's a main base brewery
They're based in Westbrook Westport Westport in Connecticut
Westbrook main so the relationship between mass landing and Barrelled Souls is that every year in the fall
Barrelled Souls has like a bottle member or a member party
It's free you go up there and they always rent out mass landings building don't know why but they always do
And they bring in you know all their beer they bring in all their this all this food
And you basically just eat and drink as much as you want for like four hours
It's fucking great except for the food is the food's kind of weird
The people at Barrelled Souls, you know, they make great beer, but they they've got some weird eclectic tastes
One of the sandwiches they serve is a French baguette with butter and ham
Like not like melted butter like cold butter spread on a on a sandwich
Sounds like something that they would do in Maine, you know
Yeah, it's it's kind of strange
These are the people who were like we should brew a beer with candy in it and they said what candy do you think?
They picked Ferrero Rocher, which would be like 230th on my list
Are there 230 candies there's gotta be no I mean like is it like the last candy?
Maybe I'm sure this I would like I don't know maybe like the vanilla tootsie roll would be the beer
I would make up with last
Yeah, cuz we all know like licorice for some reason works in beer as we know by the rusty does yeah
Um, but yeah, so let's let's dive into this this puppy and see what it's all about
Yeah, not bad for a floor beer that I found in my house
All right, so that thing pours darker than night, I mean, you know, you're not seeing anything through this thing a billion
Direct proof. What was it? What was it? What was the SRM? Is that the scale? Yeah billion SRM. Yeah
Um on the nose. Oh, this smells exactly like hazelnut. It's like 100% hazelnut. I smell nothing
I smell no chocolate. I smell no vanilla. Just straight hazelnut right to the right to the nose
I'm imagining it's gonna be good. Um, it is mass landing makes good beer mass landing you guys would know them
They uh, they brew Gunner's daughter. Mmm. At least Chris knew over that. Yeah. No, it's a fantastic milk. It's delicious
And you can actually get okay, you can actually get it like up and down like the like the northeast like it's widely distributed
But I'll have to look for it next time I'm back back home. Yeah
Cheers
I was like a captain's daughter when you said that and I was like what no, that's wrong. Yeah, that is the wrong beer
I drink the beer from the glass, but that's boring. That's good. Oh, yeah, that's more likely keep pouring
I have the German accent and so of course I love beer but how much can you hold and it's my drive
So I'm always surprised by barreled souls. I don't know why I am
Um, what like what do you mean? What's surprise? What are you surprised by? Well, it's it's always that they're just so
This is back when their beers were like super carbonated
So it's just so carbonated. Um, oh because it's an old one. Yeah, it's from 2021. It's before they they dialed that in
Um, so that's the first thing that hits you is that it is very mouth-pringly. Um, highly highly carbonated
I'm actually surprised that it didn't like explode. Um, but it is a hazelnut stout. I mean that I taste the hazelnut
Um smell the hazelnut. I taste the hazelnut. It is very hazelnut forward
It is a little dry. Uh, kind of like gunner's kind of like gunner's daughter chris. Um, which just kind of got that same
Mouth texture at the end. Um, but I don't taste any of the chocolate. I don't taste any of the vanilla
It is just it basically it's a it's a hazelnut stout. It's also been forever since I've had a fiero rochelle
As over said, they're not the most like approachable candies. I guess
I mean, they're so spiky. You don't just see him. Yeah, that's true
But it's I mean, it's good. It's a good hazelnut stout. I wouldn't you know, I wish I got a little bit more chocolate
On the palette. I wish I got a little bit more vanilla
But the hazelnut, you know, hazelnut's not one that people usually do. Um, and it's a good flat hazelnut stout
Like no frills. No gimmicks supposed to have frills and gimmicks, but it's no frills. No gimmick straight hazelnut
Good beer. I wish it was a little less
Pringly, but you cannot tell the fact that it's 10% ABV
Um, it does not drink like a 10% ABV beer and actually drinks lighter than it looks
It's very dare I say crushable for a 10% beer. Hmm dangerous
It is. Yes. I could easily drink another one of these cans tonight and be you know, perfectly happy
Like I wouldn't feel like it was like sitting in my stomach like a barreled souls stout sometimes does because they're just so heavy
This is a little lighter. Good though. Um, I'm gonna give it a 4.0. I think it's it's good
I wish there was more to it, but it's still a good solid stout
so
I mean considering tut found the last can in existence on this floor is no longer no longer in production it says on untapped so
um
763 chickens. All right. I'm gonna say that people are gonna be around me. Um, I'm daresay
I am leaning towards guessing a 406
You gotta do it
Proven it's the right guess. Um, but I know barreled souls has hot pipe or they have barrel
I guess and mass landing is no slouch either. They've they're they've got three locations for a reason
I mean people like mass landing. So I think it's gonna be a little you know what they say. It's all lobster
It's all lobster. It's all lobster, baby
So this is hard. I have no clue. Um, you know what screw it. Let's see 406
Not quite. It's all stone crab, baby
Oh, no
No, um, you you are close. You're close. Uh, a 4.04. So
Fuck I seem to set in my mind. I should guess 404
Well, you were gonna go higher said 4.0 first and then you know, I thought about going to 406
And then I thought higher than I thought lower
So of the 15 possible things you thought in your mind, this was one of them
It went there at least the number crossed my mind
Uh-huh. So not bad though. But hey on the board on the board. This does make it difficult for chris, which I'm happy about
Oh, yeah, and I I have an impossible task tonight. So like there's there's
Actually, I don't even know if I uh, well, we'll talk we'll chat about it. I guess
Um, well, I mean, we don't have to chat about it. You can tell us what you're gonna drink
It is it is your turn. It is my turn. Yeah, I realize that
Um, yeah, let me uh, let me grab him. All right. All right. So I'm actually bringing a double header to the podcast tonight
Oh, yeah, two heads two heads are better than one some may say but probably not
No, uh a while ago we talked about the difference between a radler and a
Shandy on the podcast
Shandy one of my uh favorite types of beer radler one that I uh, don't have very often. So, um,
You know, I decided to go out and purchase the two the two
Behemoths in the room and that is our lightning coogler summer shandy and our samuel adams porch rocker radler
So I have them both and we're gonna decide right now. Which is better. Um, and this is definitive
This is there's no there's no qualms after right after this
This is the google what is better. This is what comes gonna come up. Exactly. Thank you new listeners for coming here from google
Yes, you you are the the shandy and radler expert of the pod. I do I do enjoy myself some shandies now
Listen, I haven't had enough radlers. I remember having a porch rocker a long time ago, but it's been a while
Um, I go on record a lot saying that lining coogles is the best deal in beer
I do stand by that. It's like $18 for a 12 pack and it's delicious. So like come on. Can't get can't get better than that
Um, I will say I don't know if I've checked these into untap before
Have that queued up. I like it. Um, we're got lucky. It's one of the two
Um, so not sure if I've had if I've I if I had to guess I assume I've checked in a line in coogles
I don't know about the porch rocker, but you guys can be the judges of that
So, um, I was thinking about it. It's like I have a glass here, but like generally I drink these guys out of bottles
So I feel like I think for the fairest review. You got to go from the bottom. Okay. That's what I'm gonna do then
So let's get let's get started twist top dropped. Um, not a twist top. Okay. So there you go. There's uh one point for lining coogles
Is
I'm hoping that chris is gonna like at one point stone cold steve os and these things together
And pour them both into his mouth at the same time with shards of glass because they're glass
Now I will say this. I know that sam adams will never go
twist top because they make their bottles so you can reuse them when you're home brewing
Oh, okay. They have the best bottles for
Uh converting to bottling your own home brew because the labels come off really easy. Yeah, and um,
They're they cap really well. Is it done purposely? Is that their thing?
That's what I heard is again
This is like a month and an hour type of
But I've heard that that's that like they know and because I mean that's how they got their start
Right as they like he was a home brewer and and he was like big into supporting the home brewing community
They have that competition every year where they have like, you know home brewers submit their recipes. Yeah
He still does consider himself a a home like a he can still considers himself a a micro brewery compared to everybody else
I mean fun fact. That's how fox farm got some of their startup money was from uh a gym
Adams. Yeah
Jim cooks uh
Thing that he won the sam adams brewing contest, which is how he afforded the building. Yeah
Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, that's that's that's a true story. So yeah, I think he won like three million dollars
Just like that. Like he won like a like a significant chunk of change
Yeah, it seems like it's a look you're missing out on three million dollars every year. You don't enter. It's crazy
That is true. He's in it. He's in it for the love of the game now. He's not in for the buddy
I do it right. I do it for free
Um, all right, so I think I'm gonna start with lining cool
I've had many of these this early spring already. So
Um, I know what to expect with this one. Um, but here we go. Cheers to y'all number one going down
Um before you give us your review chris
I want you to guess when you type in summer on untapped. How far down is this beer?
Oh man, the fact you're asked asking it means it's not number one. Um, you think it's I mean, it could be number one
Well, man, there's well, there's a lot of summer ales out there, too
Well, I'll just I'll just I'll just spoil it. Well, no, no, wait. I want to guess too. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna say
seventh
I'm gonna say fourth
It is fourth. Okay, and here's here's the top four when you type in summer
At least for me. I don't know if it's the same one. I think Sam Adams summer ale is probably number one
It has to be it's number two
Number three is Oberon and you're never gonna guess number one because it's course light
It's the beer of summer the beer is summer
I'm actually like how hammered you got to be to be checking in you're like 35th course light of the night and you're like
summer
Yep, there's that's what I bet uh, yeah fucking pops up for me too summer
That's so funny. Oh, man. Brooklyn ale is number five. That's interesting
Yeah, I get a funny story about that one that I'll save for later, but I thought you'd both appreciate that
That's good. I like that's that's where it comes out. I like that. All right
Um, I mean, it's tried and true get a lot of uh lemon on the back end
Uh, it's ice cold. Shout out to my beer fridge. You a real one over there
You a real one, uh ice cold, uh, delicious easy drinking. I'm already like halfway through this bottle already. Um
Uh, you know, it does have a slight bitterness on the back end
Um, but nothing nothing too overpowering. You do get a good heft of lemon in here
I think I spoke earlier about, you know, a slight lemon. This is like this is a good heft of lemon
So, um, but I mean it's just the best deal in beer. I don't know what to tell you guys
I've been I've been preaching it. So you you keep saying that how much is a case of these a 12 packs like 18 bucks
Which is you know for the for the quality of beer and what what and sometimes you get them on sale for like
1716, you know, um, I've apparently never checked this beer in now. I'm starting to doubt if I've ever had one of these
But um, yeah, I don't know what's less likely
Um, there is some like because it is a white spear. So like the very front of it
Definitely have some uh, some of that like, you know, uh, light german
asker, uh, not belgian-esque like
lightness, um, but nothing
Overpowering it just they get hit with the lemon and it's just lemon goodness. So, um, so I'm about just below the neck of the bottle
Right right about where the label starts is where I'm at with the line in google
So we're gonna switch we're gonna switch over. I'm gonna try and do my best to wash my mouth out with water
I don't know how good that's gonna do probably not at all
nature's palette cleanser aquafino
Mine is uh, britta
So now we're gonna switch over to sam Adams. Um, I know I've had this I think I don't remember when or how or about when
So here we go
Now this is a lemon rattler. So, um, and you know, I gave him crap for the for the non twist off
But you know, I respect the game. So maybe you know what a point back
To us it's the same adam so far and believe it or not
This is the first beer that comes up when you type in porch
Legend this is it's a much different experience with these two beers
So I don't think I was expecting it to be as big of a difference as it is
So line in googles, uh, you get the beer first
Um, then you get hit with some lemon on the back end or it's a heavy amount of lemon on the back end
This is is kind of like lemon just the whole way through. Um, it says I don't know what it is about it
Something about the aftertaste on this porch rocker. I'm not vibing with much. Oh, no
It's almost like it's it's almost like it's like just like really sweet on the back end. Hold on
Is it lemon pledgey?
No, because that's like, I don't know when I think of lemon blood
I guess I haven't had but we do know a radler is made with the actual just like the like the juice
Right and that's what it says. Lemonade. Yeah, it says it's uh fresh squeezed lemon that that pairs well with something
It's not bad. Um, it's definitely sweeter. Um poor trucker sweeter than lining googles
I think that's what's kind of throwing me at the very end of it
You're left with like a kind of like a sweet aftertaste versus like, you know, you get hit it's tart up front
Um, I don't get like notes of beer like you could tell me that this is like a hard lemonade
Maybe not quite that bad, but like
But you could tell me this is like a hard lemonade and I'd be like, oh, okay
I don't get like a lot of beer out of it. It's and and something about the aftertaste
So I'm just not I'm like I said, I'm not vibing with um, I mean, they're both good in my opinion
Lining google is the way to go. Shandy. Maybe the way to go. Who knows? Maybe it's a rattler thing
Maybe I'm just not a fan of rattlers as much. Um, I do tend to get shandies when I can
Um, definitely not bad. So I think my official
Untap scores for these beers are
Porch rocker 3.5. Hi, it's it's not bad
It's now that I've had one in recent memory. I will not be turning away from my yellow friend ever again
Um, because it's good to find out honestly
It is good to find out and like I'm not saying like listen if if if you don't vibe and you know
For you listeners out there if you don't vibe with lining coogles try porch rocker because they are not the same
They don't taste the same. So, um, it's good to know. Um, but I'm gonna give lining coogles trusty tried true and cheap
I'm gonna give it. I'll give it a four. I think it deserves a four. It's uh, it's very good
It's just like it's it's always there for you, you know, it reads your stories at night. Um
It's a big jump. It is it is a big jump for me now
One thing I do want to try which we don't have to keep it in if you guys don't want but I am curious
We gotta we gotta mix them. We gotta
You might be on do the ultimate. We gotta do the mix
Shambler. Oh hang on. All right. Radley
All right ready. Boo Radley. All right. I'm gonna
Squish him around a little bit and see if I've ruined this all right. So I I did as equal parts as I could
Um, the the chandler right here. All right, here we go. Let's let's give this a shot
I bet you this is gonna be the winner. That's my gut instinct over. I don't know about you. I mean, it's pretty it's pretty damn good
Um, it kind of it kind of like
Because I think I think if I were to go beginning of the beer
I think I like poor trocker a little bit better because you get hit with that lemon
Right away ending of the beer definitely lining coogles. So like when you mix them together
they kind of like just overlap the parts that are are are lacking in each beer if you want to say that and
Um, it's really good. Like you get like just straight lemon the whole way through
It has a really a decent aftertaste like it's a pretty good aftertaste and uh, yeah
So the mix no, hold on. I don't want to say anything crazy five and a half
Man, what's the highest you can go? No
The mix is probably a strong four two five strong four two five
So, um, I mean it's they work very well together
So if you guys are fans of both these beers mix them together just try it once for me
Just get a bigger just bit get a 24 ounce glass and mix them together
They're two 12 ounce bottles bada bing bada boom. You're good to go. Oh god. Oh no, no, no, no
Ah
If you go to a bar and you order this you gotta
Call it the the chris. I think is what the official name of this one is the lobster, baby
It's all it's all lobster, baby
Um, but it's good. It's it's it's it's good. I like the mix
Uh poor tracker alone three and a half lining coogles alone four together strong four two five boom
Okay, so you have checked in both of these peers
What do you how do you want to get which one do you want to guess first?
Give me lining coogle first because that's probably if I did check one in it would have been maybe recently
You've checked this one in twice six years apart
There are just shy of 300 000 check-ins. Oh fuck. Okay. Um
299 491 if we want to be really precise about it. I don't even think we do. I don't even think I'm gonna get close
That affects the score. Oh
I I I I almost just want to just disqualify myself because there's there's zero chance. I get these. Um,
I'm gonna say it's low. I don't think it'll be super high three
three five two
three three five two is not a
Not a score. I'm up by three thousand. Oh, no, but you you lose a shit ton of points though
I know that much
So the official guess is that 3.5 to yes, that's my official guess. Okay
Well, we got some controversy brewing because it's a 3.53
It's all lobster, baby
It's all lobster from here
It's kind of bullshit. When when was did I check one in this year? No 2022 and 2016. I believe
Okay, um, do you want to I'll tell you your ratings once you once we finish up the porch rocker. Okay, don't want to sway you
Too much here. All right. So so porch rocker has much many fewer check-ins at 142,557
Basically none. Yeah, um
It's a little bit more than four
Yeah, that's true
Okay, this one
I mean, I don't even think there's hot pipe for this brewery really. I think a lot of people shit on sam Adams
Undeserving I'm not condoning their shitting but I think that's um
Yeah, I wouldn't be drinking my beer tonight if it wasn't for them. Very true. Very true. You gotta think about that
Uh, I'm gonna say porch rocker is gonna be a three point. I kind of just want to run it back
It's kind of want to run it back. Just run 352 again. Let's do it
Well
Double it's all lobster, baby, but it's a 3.51
It's all lobster, baby
When was my I mean it's when was my check in for for for porch rocker you checked this one in
on May 27th 2017
Okay, and it's your highest rating of all of them. This is a 4.0. Really? Oh, see
And out of even out of a can I don't know that makes a difference. I don't know out of a can they come in a can
Yeah, I probably back then maybe
Yeah, maybe and then you checked it. You checked the summer shandy in april 2022 you gave her 3.75
You also gave her a three and a quarter in 2016 apparently I was all I was I don't even know what I would I like back then
I was still coming into my own as a as a man
The picture is also looks like it's a it's a draft poor
Okay, too. So that might might influence it interesting
I was going to fight you on the point thing, but given the fact you were off 0.01 twice twice
I don't even I can't even fight it like
I think I think it's half point territory because he's checked him in before point for each and
Yeah, I think we could say that but like
You know
It's not it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the summer shandy and the porch rocker are going to be almost identical
I mean, you know what over has swayed me. No points points for me. I mean, I I wasn't sure about the porch rocker
I I could have guessed I I checked in live in google, but um
Well, here's my rebuttal on at least the porch rocker a bankruptcy falls off your credit report after seven years
So, I mean untapped falls off your credit report. I think that's fair
Yeah, but we're better than banks so it should be, you know lifetime. It just never falls off. We're brutal here
Yeah, um
No, like I said, I mean, I'm
Two two half points for chris on the board this week. I'll take that. It pains me. I'm not I'm not gonna lie though
Mix some guys go go mix them. It's really good
I will have to I will have to try I have to
I feel like I need to do this challenge myself
You know not on the podcast, but it's kind of like the pepsi challenge like you have to try it, right? Right. Yeah
Yeah, you got to find you got to go to a bar when it's like really slow and they have a million taps
Yeah, they have to have both. That's weird. Yeah, because you go they got a both which is weird
But you got to go and order a flight and you gotta say could I get
one line at google one summer shandy or one porch rocker and
One half and half and and see what they pour you I want to know the bar
Who's willing to waste two of their taps on
porch rocker and line and google summer shandy and be like, yeah, this is a good
This is a good business investment for us. We found out right now that there are different beers
So yeah, but I think when you're a bar you classify them in the same class
Another thing I wanted to say is that untapped has a category. That's just called shandy slash wrap
So even untapped calls them the same thing true
I thought that was noteworthy. I bet your beer distributors probably classify them the same as well
Probably they're like lemon something or other, you know lemon pledge
Um, but I would like to try and make my own rather
Um, I imagine with some like homemade lemonade. Yeah, you're pretty good. Yeah, I'm sure it would be
And you could then dial it into exactly as lemony as you wanted it, you know, yeah, yeah for sure
I would I'm surprised I haven't tried it yet to be honest. You know what I've thought about I am surprised you haven't
Yeah, um, you know what I've thought about recently
Um, you remember eons ago. We did the the french pressing beers
I was like I thought about doing like a summer shandy with like
Strawberry like that sounds like like a strawberry lemonade kind of thing. I feel like that'd be pretty damn good. So
That would be good. Maybe we'll have to do a we should we should french press again
We should summer summer summer french presses. Yeah, I think we should yeah, because I think didn't we do it
We did I remember someone did oreos. Was that me? Someone did oreos
Um, but uh, I think I did I think I did a Reese's when I did maybe yeah, maybe we'll do it
We'll summer summer french press episode 249 249 lock it up now
I gotta go buy these things gives us maybe I'll buy those
Maybe I'll buy the summer shandy from uh 12 percent from skygazer
Ooh, if you if you get a four pack like save one for me because I want to try it
It's sure you are gonna be here. Yeah within enough time that I will probably not drink them off before you know it
I'll be knocking on your door. Ask it for summer shandies
All right, well chris honk honk honk honk honk honk well deserved
Um, I gave you three honks for each beer. So yay. Good team. It's time for the frosty mug jordan hit it
Yes, you'll handle
Yes, you'll handle
Yes, you'll handle mug of wisdom
Drink
Mug of wisdom all right, thank you jordan, um, thanks again
chris
You win. I did it. You've got the big 40th point. Damn. Okay. Yeah, I gotta catch that again
I don't like it. I thought I had one. I thought I had that down chris cheated. He already knew the score of the beers
I thought you had it one too. I'm not gonna lie to you
Um, but yeah, good job. Good job chris. Maybe I would have come in closer if we had a few more dozen check-ins on uh
pox farm beer, but
We did get screwed on that too. So mug of wisdom that we like to fill up with stuff and hacks and stuff
Uh, it's ice cold too cold to even touch really. What are you pouring in there? Or who is pouring in first? I guess
Um, a dud can go first. Why not? So my handle this week is a nice tasty snack for the summer months. Um
It's frozen grapes
so
The patrons may have heard about this, but I was shocked to find out that um a oberts favorite grape is a green grape
Which is just wrong and b neither chris nor obert have tried red frozen grapes yet
And I just there's a song about those right?
Yeah, we heard it just a little bit ago, but um
no
frozen so red red grapes have a higher sugar content than green grapes so they don't freeze um as much and
The result is a nice refreshing summer snack
Like if you're like, oh, I want something cold because like it's like ice cream season, right?
But you know, I'm also a fat ass and I don't want to gain more weight
grapes
Are a good substitute for that it gets you that cold crunchy feeling because they do crunch a little bit. Um
So there's there's a satisfying like bite to it and there's there they're grapes. I mean who who goes wrong grapes?
um, so I recommend taking them and uh, you know putting them in a zip lock bag
Throw them in the freezer
They need to sit there for about 12 to 24 hours and then eat them frozen grapes
If you haven't done it you can do it
You can also I see some people who like they want like sour grapes
So they take um like like some combination of like jello seasoning and like
Like a jello packet and like some other sugar and like like they coat the grapes in it before they freeze it
And it gives it kind of like a warhead type flavor, but interesting. I don't I don't do that
I just like frozen grapes. Hmm. It seemed like it would kind of defeat the whole healthy aspect of your putting
I mean, it's definitely healthier than ice. It's still healthier than ice cream barely. Yeah
According to who big grape wants you to think that right, uh-huh. So so and maybe maybe you said this
I was zoning out. Um, do you do you take them off the the the vine or or the I do
Okay, I do I but I also package mine in like 10 ounce servings
Gotcha. So I have multiple bags of grapes in my freezer
Um, so I can eat them over the course of the day, but you could if you want to be like super lazy
Just stick them in the freezer sounds like me. Um
Okay, well, I literally have grapes in my fridge and I think I'm gonna put some in for tomorrow. So you you've sold me
I'm you'll have to try and let me know
I'll text you guys tomorrow because they are it's it's a great treat. It's always an exciting day when chris takes
a handle
I don't and does and does it doesn't have it very often. But what I do. Oh boy. They're frozen grapes. No
With green grapes over you can't do this. I'm just pre warning you. Um, what happens? They explode. No, they just they free
They they they're harder. So it's more like chewing an ice cube versus a grape. Okay. So you've tried
I have tried it just doesn't work and and let us know in the discord, by the way
Todd Todd looked at us like we were crazy when we when he told us this let us know. Have you done this? Is this a thing? Like
Yeah, I want to know frozen grapes go um
Go try them. I eat them all year round. I would assume that a lot of people would probably like them for the summer
Um, you know, I also don't like hot beverages
So to me frozen grapes are a year round snack. Nice. But check them out report back
I will as long as yes
As long as I remember
um
All right, so I they're also one one additional thing
They're also really good for you wine drinkers out there. If you ever want to keep your wine cold
Oh without watering it down without watering it down
Throw a few frozen grapes. That's probably where green grapes come in pretty well
Because like if you have in like a like a white wine, you don't want to throw red grapes in there
That might throw off the flavor
That's where green grapes may come in and they'll by the time you you finish the wine
The green grapes probably thought enough to eat nice little snack
But red grapes are probably fine too. Um, whatever you want to do
It's all grapes, baby in the words of chris with lobster
It's all lobster, baby
But it would be a good way to cool down wine too. I've seen people do that. Nice. That's a good idea. There you go pro tip
All right, don't you love it when an episode names itself?
All right, um, okay, I'm actually gonna go next because I don't I never have a handle and I actually have one
This is for you parents out there. Shout out to the parents. Yay
Um, so my boys, uh, it's hot out. It's getting hot, right? So, um, we are we went to a party the other day
And these folks had reusable water balloons. I don't know if you guys have seen these before
But they're essentially like a rubbery material with like a it's it's not it's not a magnet, but it like kind of clamps together
And they're squishy like water balloons and you just dunk them under water and you like kind of let them
Fill with water and you it folds itself
My boys my boys were having a crazy time with them
They were having so much fun and they were throwing them at me and all that stuff
So I bought some for our for us to have
They're uh, number one no cleanup easy easy peasy that no no no, you know
Broken balloons all over your yard all over your deck. Whatever it is. The kids can do it eco
The eco friendly
Yeah, water balloon. Yeah, um, the kids can do it themselves
Which if you have young children is like a huge plus if they can do anything by themselves
It's way better than having them be like, hey come fill up my water balloons for me
Be like, oh son of a biscuit. Um, and they have a ton of fun. So, uh, if you're looking for a fun summer activity
They're not too terribly expensive
If you have a couple kids like I think about a dozen for like 23 bucks or something something like that on amazon
Um, you should check them out. Um, you know, let them play
Uh, it easy cleanup. Like I said, won't really just pick them up. That's it and uh, um, keep them keep them distracted
During the during the hot months because that's all we do when school's out. So uh, check them out reusable water balloons
So like are they as good though?
Um, well, well, it's kind of funny because
Lucas cj gets it. He can throw them with enough force to make them because they they they won't for some reason
I don't I don't know what balloons are made of but, um, like
Throwing a water balloon eight times out of ten they pop these ones
There's a possibility that they don't they don't like come they don't like come open. Um, lucas
He kind of uses them as like kind of like a hand grenade. He just kind of like
Holds it in front of you and squeezes it
Nice
But he's still he still has fun. He thinks it's the funniest thing. So, um, yeah
I mean, uh
But like that that game where you like throw the water balloon to your partner and then you take a step back and see how far
You can go that's probably out of the question. You can't do it with me today. They're too
They're too sturdy. Yeah. Yeah, I think I think once they come in contact with the other person's hands
They'll they'll break up. But you know what? I haven't tried it. Um, but they're not sturdy enough
Yeah, how you see those things to pop. Yeah
These are harder or easier. Um, yeah, I don't know. It's I didn't even think about that game
I don't think you could play that game with them
But there's also times where you throw them and they'll just kind of like bounce like so, I don't know
Maybe they are perfect for it. Maybe. Yeah, they're like a russian roulette water balloon
um
But young kids young kid parents out there check them out because they're um,
My boys love them and they're pretty fun. So they like throwing them at me too. So
Very cool. Good handle. Yeah, I like it. So obert top us off
Okay, I have one this is gonna be a hard handle
But I you gotta stick with me on this one because I made what I think is the best chocolate chip cookie I ever had
Yeah, so I I know you're thinking you're like obert they sell the stuff at the store
All you gotta do is mix in like an egg and some water or even better
Go to the section that has the cubes and you break them up and you put them on a tray
I've never once thought that during this entire speech
Cookies from scratch or where it's at. Yeah, I think especially to like I'm at the age now
We're like if I'm gonna have a cookie if I'm gonna have the cat those calories in my body like I don't it's like the same thing
With beer like I don't have time for bad beer. I don't have time for bad cookies
Like I gotta commit to the quality. So I'll share the the recipe in the show notes
Let me pull pull it up right now so I can talk to you guys about it. But the key
Thing there's two keys to this recipe one is browning the butter
Um, it's it's a little tricky because it's really easy to burn
But you basically you put the butter on the stove and you stir it and you make sure you keep moving on medium heat for a couple minutes
And then after a little while it'll start to smell like a nutty aroma
And the solids will kind of come out and that's brown butter and it makes every recipe with butter amazing
Yeah, it just like kind of does this like caramelizing thing. I don't understand the chemistry behind it
But the brown butter and these chocolate cookies was amazing the number two
secret that i'm going to share with you guys is
um
When you're when I was mixing the butter and sugar together
It had a step where you did that it was it was interesting because you basically whisked it for
30 seconds and then you let it sit for three minutes
And you did that a three times total the whisking setting whisking setting
I was like I can I what is this really going to do? I was shocked at how
The consistency the creaminess that came out after doing this multi step
Um, it was just like it was amazing how much more creamy it made
That concoction that part of the ingredients and then when you mix it all together, it was really good
I know some recipes call for like making the dough the day before letting it sit in the fridge
This one didn't and it was still
Like I said, the humble chocolate cookie sometimes the simplest things perfected can be the best
It was really delicious recipe
Again, I'll put it in the show notes
But let me know if you make it because it was I got a lot of compliments on this cookie
So I've got one more piece of feedback for you and I'm not I don't know your recipe
Uh, but and I'm not a baker. I should preface this before I say this, but I do know cookies
There's one thing I know
those cookies um
When you're done baking the cookie as you pull them pull them out and put them on the the cooling rack
That's the proper turn right? Yeah, mm-hmm. You should throw some some, you know sea salt on top like a little sprinkle
I don't know if you did that, but that adds a little bit more depth. This had salt in the
Uh mixed in with the dry ingredients. No, I get that you also do it at the end on top
Yeah, yeah with like a flaky sea salt. I can see that
I think that would be a good way to try and elevate this recipe maybe cut the salt in the recipe
No, no, don't don't cut the salt these ones
I thought were on the salt side a little bit on the high end
So like this recipe I would say maybe let me see I have it right here how much this is supposed to be called for
this calls for um
Like I said, I'm not a baker though. So I don't know if cutting the salt fucks with the recipe one teaspoon of salt
No, so yeah, maybe do like half a teaspoon in the recipe and then like half of like the flaky finishing salt on top
I will let chris comment on that as the the actual baker out of the the two of the two of us who's
Handle this is not yeah
um, I mean so I make uh
I I was about to we may have to have a cookie off one of these days because um,
I make some chocolate soup cookies that are the best that I've ever had so
Okay, good. So we may have I listen I volunteer as judge
We may have to have a cookie off one of these
I am interested because I actually was just talking about making cookies
So I am interested in the recipe because I would like to try something different
But I've been making these ones for years the the recipe I use uses zero salt
So that kind of tracks and depending on what your yield like how many you end up getting out of the batch
Um, right also makes a difference obviously. So um, but yeah
It my mind does not use brown butter either. I've never done the brown butter or the weird whisking timing. So I'm I mean
I'm I was I was talking about making cookies. So maybe we'll uh, there you go. Maybe make two half batches. There you go
and uh, if it's just as simple as as browning the butter in one or
You know went letting the whisking for a little bit because it'd be interesting to compare the ratios of the ingredients
I it's probably I'm actually pulling yours up right now because I'm I am curious what my god
Of course, it's like back in my day. My grandpa used to make me this
Yeah, it's actually not that far down
But I think you should both mail them to me and I will taste them live on the podcast
Okay, so you can be the the official judge
But I will say that I you know, I think sprinkling the fresh salt on top does add a little
On the best cookies I've ever had they all seem to have that that penash to them
Maybe I'll do that with my because I normally don't but maybe I'll try and get some flaky sea salt for it for next batch
But yeah, I'm interested. I'll I'll have to uh read this and yeah, you gotta share your your recipe with me too
I'll drop it in right now. I was just looking at it. This is now
I always have this just as a forewarning because it makes a fucking a shit ton of cookies
It says like 72 servings, but I always make over a I always make over 100 cookies. Um,
It's so many cookies if I make a full if I make a full batch
But I've been making these for years and they're they're also really good. So, um, y'all six dozen
I'm telling you it's crazy. Well, it starts off with four and a half cups of flour
Like you know, you're in for some shit. The secret ingredient is halfway through which I don't know if I've ever
Yeah, I see that right there. I volged. Yeah, I don't know that that addition of beer really uh, yeah
The mixing of the shandy and the radler, um, do you ever do the last one the walnuts?
The walnuts don't add anything for me. Not that I don't like them, but I also add more chocolate chips because I like chocolate
Um, but yeah, cool. We're gonna have to have a cookie bake off then
Virtual cookie bake off. There we go. My stomach is already so angry at me for doing this, but
God damn it. You guys have twisted my my arms. I'm in
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72 cookies
Newt listen, I've never made that recipe in naga
So
I mean now I know why santa always leaves so many friends for you
Mountains mountains of cookies you have to bring some up to connecticut with you