Beers: Pickled Santa, Goliath, Stouterik, Noel des Geants, Kerstmutske Christmas Nightcap, Saison Voisin, Bell’s Christmas Ale
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Show Notes
sickpuppy and father spoon started celebrating early | Pickled Santa | Beer Safari Christmas Video | Goliath | Mr. Baconpants | Wrestling Mayhem Show’s Mayhemmys | Stouterik | Announcing the spawn of Spoon | Noel des Geants | Penn Brewing update | Kerstmutske Christmas Nightcap | Saison Voisin | Batshit crazy Raymond F. Haluska from Latrobe and his triple the Allegheny County Drink Tax letter | 3 Sons Christmas Sampling Spectacular! | Bell’s Christmas Ale | CONTEST TIME!!!
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3 Sons Dogs and Suds | Shelton Brothers | Bricks & Boxes | Beer Safari Christmas Video | Goliath | Mr.Baconpants | Wrestling Mayhem Show | Stouterik | Noel des Geants | Penn Brewing Post Gazette article | Kerstmutske Christmas Nightcap | Saison Voisin | Triple the Drink Tax Post Gazette letter by Raymond F. Haluska | Bell’s Christmas Ale | Contest Time | Photos from this episode
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You slurring bastards! What a show – Blowout is right. Lots of interesting beers (Belgians are my favorite), and a nice hardcore rant from Spoon. I could be wrong, but you sounded pissed.
Regarding the Belgian Stout that didn’t sit well — I’ve seen them before, but have never actually tasted one. I recently purchased Allagash Belgian Stout for a gift for a friend of mine. Not sure if he’s had it yet, but it will be interesting to hear what he thought. I brewed an experimental beer recently that didn’t come out quite like I wanted. It was a Bavarian Hefeweizen recipe with the addition of chocolate and black patent malt. I think I probably could have left it there, but I decided to hop it with Amarillo and then dry hop it as well. Too hoppy, way too dry, and definitely not what I was going for. This is why I don’t experiment.
Not sure about a bacon beer for this reason. Bacon is good. Beer is good. Maybe some things should just be left how they are.
Happy Holidays, dudes!
hahaha thanks Phil! I’m usually good for 1 or 2 rants a year. They usually build up and eventually have to come out. I wasn’t sure what to expect with a lot of these and was pleasantly surprised. I’m not into anything sweet or fruity at all, which is why I tend to stay away from belgians, but thanks to this show I’ve really changed my view on that style.
cheers buddy!
Yo, Dudes!
Interesting show as always.
Fr. Spoon is going to have a son? I guess Jackson will have to be an Altar Boy. Now Father,
treat your little altar boy nice! (hey, I was an altar boy!).
More sad news about Penn Brewing. After your last show, I emailed my condolences to
Penn Brewing, and it was put up on the company bulletin board. I got a email back from
Len Caric (CEO, I think) thanking me for my support. I sure hope that they can regroup.
I was talking with Pete Siriani (Chris’ dad) and we were both wondering where in the hell
Penn Brewing is going to store all it’s hardware .. fermentors, mash tuns, brew kettles, etc.
How are they going to get them out of the old building? It boggles the mind.
Speaking of Chris Siriani (BrewErie), when I was up there for the International BrewFest
which you guys wimped out on, I mentioned that all of us agreed that Chris needed to
*up* his BrewErie internet profile. He said he’s working on it, and it’s a “New Year’s
resolution thing” that he’s going to attend to. With all the colleges in the area, I told
him he could get some college IT students to do the work cheap.
Both “ya’s” were doing a fine imitation of a PMS rant on the beer tax. Helps to have a
few in ya to get you cranked up.
Oh, while at the aforementioned BrewErie International, I met up with their head brewer
and the head brewer from Main Street Bar & Brewery Co. (Garretsville, OH). I told them
I was going to bring samples of my homebrew ESB and Porter … but forgot in my haste
to get out the door. Virgil (head brewer at Main Street) said they are having their very
first brewfest/tasting sessions 1/31/09. Check out the beer calendar on BA for info. I
will be there with a bunch of buddies, and maybe a couple of my nephews ( I broke them
in right and took them to their 1st brewfests when they hit 21 .. what an uncle I am!).
Still not HUGE on the Belgian style, and certainly not Saisons or Farmhouse ales. However,
there’s a relatively new beer bar in Willoughby, OH. called Ballantine, and a BA bud and
myself have checked it out. They have 29 taps of craft and Belgian brews on tap. Had my
first Chimay White on tap .. freakin’ awesome. They also have Gulden Draak and Piraat
on tap, as well as offerings from Southern Tier, Great Lakes, Bells, DFH, etc. Good place
to hit up if your ever in the area (about 25 miles East of Cleveland).
Well, Merry Christmas to both ya’s. The company I work for just laid off 9 office types, and
will be laying off 20 temps on the 23rd. There might be another 15-20 lay-offs in January,
so maybe I’ll be in the same boat as yoos! (hope not). At any rate, I’ve got lots of home
brew, Penn St. Nick Bock, SA Impy Pils, Victory Hop Wallop, Victory Old Horizontal, and
a variety of Stone bombers to tide me over the holidays. Remember, life’s too short to
drink shitty beer … even when you’re unemployed! (you can always brew good shit!)
Cheers .. hope to catch up with ya’s at a brew fest soon.
Madison Bill
Madison Bill has the right attitude! You go, Bill! Thanks for the update on Penn Brewing. I find it incredibly sad myself. It sucks to lose good breweries.
OK, it took me three days to completely listen to the show, which was a great slurring success! Spoon two Mike Foxtrot bombs haha! Sick Puppy “fat people are hard to kidnap”…priceless! Assholes for the drink tax have no worries about christianity, it’s about power over others guys. If you want to worry about second hand smoke and health ban the internal combustion engine…yeah right. Fuck the Drink Tax, the Parking Tax, the fuck the people tax…anyway almost ranted there. Ebenshire Hop Gangster or Hoppin Gotti (didn’t decide on the name yet) went into the bottle recently and after the pre-carbonation taste I think you will like the two bottles reserved for my beer mentors. One of yinz has to get hold of me I have the Military Special fifth for your Grey Kangarooness. My filtration video will be available soon See Ya
I listened to this show today at work! Thanks for the shout out, we need to do bacon and beer show next year sometime. Also I am going to Bacon Fest in Iowa Feb 28th and they have the Iowa Home Brewers make all kinds of smoked and bacon beers. Last year I was so drunk I don’t even know how I got back to my hotel room. Haha.
And its sad about Penn Brewing… I hope they find a place in Pittsburgh. Oktoberfest will not be the same with out them.
Bill – I was a server also for my church back in Erie. In fact if I would have stayed I would have become an usher just like that dad was. Ahhh the days. Now I only make it on Christmas and Easter. We try to make an effort to go but the politics in joining a parish in Pittsburgh are absurd. Still gotta do it for the little guy. If I lived in Erie I would love to take on his site. I have a ton of ideas but execution is tough when you’re 2 hours away to keep content up to date. Then again my employment ends in Feb so who knows.
hutch – We really try to keep shows at the most 1hr but we figured since it’s Christmas, wtf, why not. Onorato is a joke. You can bet that if he runs for governor of this state you’re gonna see the end of existence because his head would explode from being all pumped up. At some point we need to stop jagoffs like him from making it higher in the political food chain.
Jason, that sounds like the greatest festival of all time!
Spoon,
It is and you guys should come with me! You would love it.
Are you guys hiring?