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MicroBrew-12: Family Citrus Sipping · Brew Tox with Scott & Scott

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  Welcome to another microbrew segment of our Brew Tox podcast.
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  On the Thursdays when we don't have a full episode dropping, we
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  like to share a shorter segment that focuses on a single beer
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  and a single topic. Short taster, if you will.
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  Exactly here it is. Well, welcome to a very special
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  edition of Microbrew on Brew Tox.
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  I am sitting at the counter with my family, my wife Cindy, my
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  daughter Keely and her boyfriend Zach.
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  And Zach is the one who designed, composed the Brew Tox
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  theme music, just so you know. So thank you for that.
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  Alright, so we have a couple of beers that we're going to try.
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  Alcohol free beers of course, because after all this is
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  brutal. And the first one is Easy Lime.
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  And Easy Lime comes from Wild Eyed Brewing in North Vancouver.
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  And so let's crack it and pour it and see what everybody thinks
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  of it. Here we go.
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  Very clean. Comes from Sox hometown.
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  He comes from Zack's hometown. Exactly.
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  I mean, I do fancy a wild eye from time.
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  To time the small town in North Vancouver.
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  OK, So what are you noticing about it when you see it come
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  out of the can and get a first taste of it, the first sniff of
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  it in your nostrils? It's a good amber.
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  It's very citrusy. Very citrusy.
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  On the nose. Ohe yeah.
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  Yeah, very citrusy. Definitely.
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  Quickly, yeah. That's definitely got a vibrant
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  yellow colour to it. Hmm, OHS.
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  Very clear, yeah. And I really do like the line in
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  this, it's really quite nice. Yeah, most beers that I've had
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  with lime, honestly, just I find that the taste, the lime, the
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  flavor isn't there. This So far this stands out
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  really well. This isn't just Yeah.
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  Yeah. So you guys often have beer when
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  you're out, not necessarily alcohol free version.
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  How does this measure up to to a a regular beer?
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  Honestly, this one in particular tastes a lot more like an
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  alcoholic beer than any alcohol free beers that I've tried in
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  the past. Hmm.
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  Indeed, and I've definitely tried some thanks to my dad.
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  And and Cindy, you like beers with lime in them?
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  What do you think of this? One I do, I like it a lot and I
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  would agree that it does not taste like an alcohol free beer.
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  It has a lot of substance. She likes it because it doesn't
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  have any hops. Yeah, there's that too.
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  For sure. Not a very happy person.
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  Like citrus? Yeah, no, I think Wild Eyes got
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  a hit on their hands with this one.
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  I would agree. I think they would.
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  Cheers, everyone. Cheers.
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  All right. We're going to come back and try
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  another one in a moment and we're back.
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  And this time we have a dry good goods, citrus burst pilsner and
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  dry goods was recently, as I understand it, bought out.
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  And now Fieldhouse Brewing in Abbotsford seems to have all of
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  their stock. So this one is a 16 ounce can
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  and it's a .5 alcohol free beer and it's 100 calories for a 16
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  ounce can. So it's actually less than the
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  last one we had, which was about 84 the lineman.
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  So here we go with the big crack again.
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  Alright, so where I've been a theme citrus for the first one,
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  the Easy Line and now the Citrus Burst Pilsner.
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  Very similar colour. Very similar colour, yeah.
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  I think we might even have a bit more in this can than we did the
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  last one. So here.
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  We go little on the cloudier side, definitely.
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  Cloudier that's. True, yeah.
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  Alright, this little more you can.
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  Smell orange. It smells very different, yeah.
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  For sure. OK.
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  It won't be a direct comparison. No, but it is citrus, so.
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  Yeah, it almost tastes dry hopped to me, but like not super
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  hoppy. Yeah, that's an interesting one.
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  Hmm, I'm not usually a big fan of pilsners.
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  I like. This like this one too.
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  You know what we didn't do? I have to go backwards a little
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  bit because when we did the easy line, we're supposed to rate it.
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  So here we go. I'll tell you the rating scale.
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  So 1 is that is so bad that I'm afraid to throw it in my planter
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  because it would kill the plants. 2 is 2000s old duels,
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  which is not a good thing. A very, very bad beer.
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  I listened to this story on the 1st episode.
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  There you go, you're a loyal. Listener, I was on that camping
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  trip. Yes, I know you were exactly 3
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  is you know, that's a pretty good beer.
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  It's OK, but I wouldn't run out and buy one on my own.
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  I'll finish it, but I'm not really interested in getting
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  more of it. 4 is that's a really good alcohol free beer.
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  Where can I buy it? And five is Hall of Fame beer,
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  like one of the best I've had. So how about if we do a kind of
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  like a 123 and everybody put up fingers?
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  OK, 123 Holy smokes, we have Cindy at 4, Zach at four, Bill
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  at 4 and kill you at 5 for the line.
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  Don't think anything's gonna talk that it was really good for
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  alcohol free. Alright.
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  Put it up there with some of my slightly lower ranked alcoholic
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  beers. So would you, would you actually
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  choose to have that easy line then?
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  Sure. If I'm going to a party and I'm
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  driving, yeah, yeah. Why not?
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  That's becoming more of a thing for younger people, isn't it?
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  D. Yeah, making sure that you have
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  something that you can enjoy that's not necessarily a bubbly
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  or a pop. Well, yeah, if I don't have a
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  beverage, what am I going to do all night other than talk to
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  people? Exactly.
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  You wouldn't want to be talking to people at a party.
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  Why would you do that? All right, with any anymore
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  thoughts on this one, the Citrus Burst Pilsner?
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  The oranges gets giving kombucha to me a little bit in a way that
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  I wouldn't personally choose. OK, It feels like something that
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  you should drink it precisely 11:45 when you're transitioning
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  from breakfast to gut health at lunchtime.
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  That's really specific, yeah. It's more of an essence of
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  orange zest in a way. Oht cared to maybe using like an
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  orange, like a little bit of orange juice in there.
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  Yeah. Like, I mean, orange juice
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  naturally being sweeter, of course, compared to like a lime
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  or something, Yeah. With the hazy Ipas are, you
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  know, kind of have a very orangey kind of flavor to them
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  and and I don't find this. The same.
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  I wouldn't call this sweet though either.
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  Yeah, yeah. What do you think, Cindy?
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  What do you? Think of this like it.
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  I no, I don't know what else I'd say about it.
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  I like it. I would drink it again.
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  OK, alright, well, how about if we rate this one as well?
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  We'll do the same thing. Here we go, 123.
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  OK, wow. We're unanimous.
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  No, no, we're not. OK, we've got, we've got, we've
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  got Cindy, Zach and myself at 3 and Keely with the 2.
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  Alright, well I want to thank my family for being part of this
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  microbrew and till next time. The two beers featured on the
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  citrus themed microbrew were Easy line from Wild Eye Brewing
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  in North Van and Dry Good Citrus Lime Porter.
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  Original Bruto X theme composed by me.
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  Zach Wong. Original graphics designed by
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  Shelby Smithson. Britax is produced and edited by
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  Scott and Scott. Original music composed by Zach
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  Wong. Original graphics by Shelby
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  Smithson. Britax is produced and edited by
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  Scott and Scott.