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An Afternoon with Rush, Paddington Bear, Gene Simmons, and Lemmy · Sips, Suds, & Smokes

• 0:00
  > Speaker A>On the next episode of Sips, suds.
• 0:03
  > Speaker B>And smokes go to boy Dave and I were up in northeastern Pa. We happened to go to a place where the store owner told us about a dinner party that he had recently featuring some beer celebrating the band rush. I mean, a rush dinner party. How cool is that?
• 0:22
  > Speaker B>Well, of course, we had to buy some and bring it back to share on the show.
• 0:26
  > Speaker C>The rush beers from Henderson's brewing company. We'll be tasting and discussing today are the rush Canadian Golden Ale Signals a, uh, 2022 limited edition Belgian Golden Strong. Also from 2022, moving pictures. Another belgian strong ale. This one's a dark version.
• 0:47
  > Speaker C>And finally, Xana Brew, a belgian strong golden ale. If we have time, we might have a bonus beer.
• 0:53
  > Speaker A>We'll be right back after this breakup.
• 1:03
  > Speaker B>M.
• 1:17
  > Speaker A>Brought to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. It sits suds and smokes with your smoke and host, the good old boy.
• 1:49
  > Speaker B>Suds.
• 1:50
  > Speaker C>Uh, suds.
• 1:51
  > Speaker B>Suds.
• 1:52
  > Speaker A>Uh, it's time for more suds.
• 1:56
  > Speaker B>Welcome, everyone. Here we are for another suds segment where you can choose your own beer or listen to the good old boys and go. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
• 2:13
  > Speaker B>Who writes this stuff?
• 2:16
  > Speaker D>It's like William Shakespeare.
• 2:22
  > Speaker D>Yeah, that's right.
• 2:24
  > Speaker B>All right. We're already banned somewhere.
• 2:26
  > Speaker B>Um, well, anyways, I'm one of your hosts, good old gadgeta. Joining me at the table today is good old boy Kendall.
• 2:34
  > Speaker C>I'm glad I chose to be here today.
• 2:37
  > Speaker C>Exercise my free will.
• 2:39
  > Speaker B>No. Ding. No.
• 2:41
  > Speaker D>He gets a.
• 2:42
  > Speaker B>Okay. Okay. Good. A boy Carl, welcome back.
• 2:47
  > Speaker E>It's like time has stood still since we've last been together.
• 2:52
  > Speaker B>Oh, I love m. That. That's so ding.
• 2:56
  > Speaker D>You know, you're cheapening the ding if everybody just gets a ding for everything they say.
• 3:00
  > Speaker B>But they're great.
• 3:03
  > Speaker F>I can't. I can't.
• 3:05
  > Speaker E>You should.
• 3:06
  > Speaker F>No.
• 3:06
  > Speaker B>Good old boy Paddington. I mean, Sparky, how are you?
• 3:09
  > Speaker F>I have elbow patches, and I can't follow those two.
• 3:12
  > Speaker F>That was awesome.
• 3:14
  > Speaker B>We are so proud, though. You look great. Thank you.
• 3:16
  > Speaker D>He does.
• 3:16
  > Speaker B>Yes. That's always.
• 3:22
  > Speaker D>Good to have Sparky back.
• 3:24
  > Speaker B>Then there's good old Boy Dave.
• 3:26
  > Speaker D>Yes. My nipples are always hard.
• 3:30
  > Speaker D>I didn't have a rush joke.
• 3:34
  > Speaker B>Okay. Wow. Speaking of rush. So, a couple months ago, go to boy Dave and I were up in northeastern Pa.
• 3:44
  > Speaker D>It's all.
• 3:45
  > Speaker B>No, no, it's very divisive visiting, um, family. And while we were know, as always, we shopped for beer, which we do every time.
• 3:56
  > Speaker B>So we happened to go to a place where the store owner told us about a dinner party that he had recently featuring some beer celebrating the band Rush. I mean, a rush dinner party? How cool is that?
• 4:11
  > Speaker B>Well, of course, we had to buy some and bring it back to share on the show.
• 4:17
  > Speaker D>In 2021, after learning that iron Maiden had started making their own beer, the guys in Rush decided they couldn't let those little british biatches be the only game in town. So Rush partnered with Henderson Brewing company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which I'm pretty sure is right down the road from Toronto.
• 4:39
  > Speaker D>Rush canadian golden ale. Building off that success, Rush and Hendersons have expanded their collaboration to several new beers, including the ones we will be tasting today.
• 4:50
  > Speaker B>Oh, wow. Okay, good old boy.
• 4:52
  > Speaker B>Kendall, would you please give us today's lineup?
• 4:55
  > Speaker D>And don't rush through it. Just take your time.
• 4:57
  > Speaker E>Um, you got it.
• 4:59
  > Speaker C>The rush beers from Henderson's brewing company we'll be tasting and discussing today are the Rush Canadian Golden Ale signals a, ah, 2022 limited edition Belgian Golden Strong.
• 5:14
  > Speaker C>Also from 2022. Moving pictures. Another belgian strong ale. This one's a dark version. And finally, Xana Brew, a belgian strong golden ale. If we have time, we might have a bonus beer.
• 5:27
  > Speaker D>Xana Brew. I figured that'd be one they'd make with Olivia Newton John.
• 5:31
  > Speaker B>Right?
• 5:31
  > Speaker C>Right.
• 5:32
  > Speaker E>Ah, the rush song came first.
• 5:34
  > Speaker D>Okay, fair.
• 5:34
  > Speaker B>Yeah, that's fair. Yes. Okay, go to boy, Sparky. Why don't you give us the suds ratings and please go ahead. Go hardcore. Go strange brew. Okay, go whatever you want. As canadian as can be.
• 5:49
  > Speaker F>All right, you hosers. We'll be discussing and rating these beers in these suds ratings. Plus their signature belching sounds. Hear those ratings now?
• 5:58
  > Speaker F>Oh, that sucks. Give me anything but a labatz.
• 6:04
  > Speaker F>Was that a belch? Eh, you hoser.
• 6:08
  > Speaker E>Ah.
• 6:09
  > Speaker F>Uh, what a relief. I'm sorry about that. The dry cleaner got all the gravy stains out of my canadian tuxedo.
• 6:17
  > Speaker F>That's what I should have worn today as a canadian tuxedo. Four oh body really should not make that sound, even after four servings of poutine.
• 6:28
  > Speaker F>Uh, and five. Listen to that hang time. Give me another Canada dry and rye.
• 6:43
  > Speaker D>Canadians make good rye whiskey, dude. Well, I don't know, m. And I like Canada dry.
• 6:48
  > Speaker E>Good.
• 6:49
  > Speaker F>At least you didn't have any references to canadian bacon, because that's a sore subject.
• 6:54
  > Speaker D>It's not bacon. It's not even ham.
• 6:58
  > Speaker B>See, I go back to the days of Molson triple xxx.
• 7:01
  > Speaker B>That's my jam. Wow.
• 7:02
  > Speaker D>Hear about your dubious lifestyle choices.
• 7:06
  > Speaker B>Hey, anyways, okay, well, let's get into it.
• 7:11
  > Speaker B>So the first beer that we're going to go into is, um, nice little can. Here.
• 7:16
  > Speaker B>It is, the canadian golden ale.
• 7:24
  > Speaker B>And it's a rye golden ale, 5.5% abv. Pours a gorgeous old gold color as opposed to a new gold color.
• 7:34
  > Speaker F>A tarnished gold.
• 7:35
  > Speaker D>Yeah.
• 7:35
  > Speaker E>I mean, gold is the new black.
• 7:37
  > Speaker B>It is. Okay. Fair. Um, yeah.
• 7:45
  > Speaker E>It smells weird.
• 7:46
  > Speaker F>It does smell weird.
• 7:47
  > Speaker E>Yeah. It smells like homebrew. Do you know what I mean? You know what I mean?
• 7:53
  > Speaker F>Right.
• 7:54
  > Speaker B>Yes. There's not familiar in that regard.
• 7:58
  > Speaker E>Right.
• 7:58
  > Speaker D>Like it's sort of maybe marginal sanitary conditions or.
• 8:02
  > Speaker C>No, I'm picking up anything really off. It's just I know what you're saying. Maybe like a fermentation character.
• 8:07
  > Speaker D>Yeah.
• 8:07
  > Speaker E>It's got that sort of back end, yeasty smell that I think oftentimes, oftentimes homebrew. You're talking about something that has not been filtered or pasteurized. So it's been moved from the fermenter directly to a bottle or directly to a keg.
• 8:21
  > Speaker E>And so I think a lot of times you get that kind of yeasty characteristic also, I didn't realize it was rye until, uh, you just said it, Juliana. So I think that rye carries a very specific aroma, too, I think on, um, non hop forward beers.
• 8:38
  > Speaker B>Yeah. And it's like heavy rye, too.
• 8:42
  > Speaker F>Yeah, it's right there.
• 8:43
  > Speaker E>Yeah.
• 8:44
  > Speaker C>Really good. And it stays on the m palate. You get that spiciness. It just kind of lingers, really. It's light, but it's there.
• 8:50
  > Speaker F>And it just stays on your back palate for forever.
• 8:54
  > Speaker D>This is five and a half.
• 8:56
  > Speaker C>Five and a half flows into the bitterness. Nice piney bitterness. Little foresty.
• 9:00
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 9:02
  > Speaker C>It drinks well. Uh, I think it tastes good.
• 9:05
  > Speaker E>Yeah. I didn't think the smell lined up with the taste.
• 9:07
  > Speaker E>When I smelled it, I thought, I'm not going to like this. And then I tasted it. I was like, oh, yeah, all right. I get this. I like it.
• 9:12
  > Speaker B>Sure. Yeah. I could see myself cracking a few, like, around Thunder bay.
• 9:17
  > Speaker D>Kendall, what would you pair this with?
• 9:20
  > Speaker C>Don't say poutine about that.
• 9:22
  > Speaker E>Don't say poutine.
• 9:24
  > Speaker C>Canadian bacon.
• 9:26
  > Speaker F>Nice.
• 9:27
  > Speaker C>Something that would pair well with the spice and the bitterness.
• 9:30
  > Speaker C>And, um, if I'm trying to stick canadian, I'm really having a hard time finding it.
• 9:35
  > Speaker D>You can go south.
• 9:36
  > Speaker C>Yeah. I'm guessing some kind of a meat, like a grilled meat or something this would go well with, but, yeah. Venison. That would probably work. As long as they're not too fatty. I think that might clash, but that could be good.
• 9:51
  > Speaker E>I mean, is Canada specifically known for their cuisine?
• 9:54
  > Speaker E>You know what?
• 9:56
  > Speaker B>Like, more so mean, they did give us.
• 10:00
  > Speaker F>So, like, that's. That's a gift that keeps on giving.
• 10:03
  > Speaker D>Yeah.
• 10:03
  > Speaker B>Maddie.
• 10:04
  > Speaker F>Madison.
• 10:04
  > Speaker D>But he left, right?
• 10:05
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 10:06
  > Speaker F>I mean, anybody would.
• 10:07
  > Speaker E>Sure.
• 10:07
  > Speaker F>I mean, why would you stay?
• 10:09
  > Speaker D>Yeah. Um, sorry.
• 10:11
  > Speaker F>Canada. Did we just get banned in Canada?
• 10:13
  > Speaker D>Because probably.
• 10:14
  > Speaker C>Okay, I thought we were already banned.
• 10:15
  > Speaker E>In Canada once again.
• 10:16
  > Speaker F>Yeah, well, we just got rebanned. They were very polite and were like, we're probably maybe kind of going to have to ban you if you do that.
• 10:26
  > Speaker D>We are polite.
• 10:27
  > Speaker B>We are Canadians. Um, I guess.
• 10:31
  > Speaker B>Yeah. This could go with seafood, too. I mean, this is probably an all encompassing kind of beer, like, with anything. You know what I mean?
• 10:40
  > Speaker C>I would watch what I said on the meat with some of the excess fattiness. Same thing with, uh, some seafood. It gets really oily. You get a really oily seafood that's going to really go. But if you can find a nice, mild seafood.
• 10:51
  > Speaker C>Yeah, I agree. That would work.
• 10:52
  > Speaker D>Well, it's probably a good hockey, uh, game.
• 10:59
  > Speaker B>And it.
• 11:00
  > Speaker C>Juliana didn't do justice to the can.
• 11:02
  > Speaker E>Just saying.
• 11:04
  > Speaker C>It is a beautiful can.
• 11:05
  > Speaker B>Okay, I'm sorry.
• 11:06
  > Speaker C>Why don't you describe it?
• 11:07
  > Speaker F>Yeah, what do you got going on there?
• 11:08
  > Speaker D>Describe it.
• 11:10
  > Speaker B>You tell me.
• 11:13
  > Speaker E>It's star man. For those of you listening at home, it's star man from the 20, 112 record. It's a golden can.
• 11:20
  > Speaker G>It's very.
• 11:21
  > Speaker E>With a big star and a naked man standing in front of it saying, oh, no, naked butt. Don't land on me. Star.
• 11:29
  > Speaker B>Yes.
• 11:30
  > Speaker E>Um, because we have assumed control.
• 11:33
  > Speaker B>Sure. Very good.
• 11:35
  > Speaker D>Wow. All right.
• 11:37
  > Speaker B>See? True rush fan. Just do.
• 11:40
  > Speaker D>There you go.
• 11:40
  > Speaker B>He knows his stuff. No, I mean, it is a nice can. It's very tasteful.
• 11:46
  > Speaker B>I guess I've seen some rock cans that are just before. Anyways. Okay, so what shall we rate? The golden ale?
• 11:59
  > Speaker E>Yeah, um, m. I'm with Kendall. I'm a four, too.
• 12:02
  > Speaker B>We're going to go with four.
• 12:03
  > Speaker D>All right.
• 12:06
  > Speaker B>All right. Kendall, is it safe to say that you are a rush fan?
• 12:11
  > Speaker C>Probably not as big as Carl, but I love the band. I've seen him live, and moving pictures came out when I was 13 years old, so that's easily my favorite record. Even though I'd argue it. I probably have others that I enjoy just as much.
• 12:25
  > Speaker C>But it's that impact of just the time in my life when it hit. Can you imagine when Tom Sawyer comes on the radio. When you're 13 and it's the first time you hear it, you're like, this is amazing.
• 12:34
  > Speaker B>Yeah. Mind is blown.
• 12:38
  > Speaker C>Always love that album. Like some of the newer stuff, too, but I'm just a fan in general. Neil Peart was a motorcyclist, uh, did some amazing adventure riding, and I'm just a big fan of that, too. I didn't know that.
• 12:50
  > Speaker E>Have you read his books, the ghost Rider?
• 12:52
  > Speaker C>I have not, but I've seen the motorcycle. It was on display at the hall of fame in a motorcycle hall of fame in Ohio.
• 12:58
  > Speaker B>Wait, there's a motorcycle hall of fame?
• 13:00
  > Speaker C>I don't know if his motorcycle is still there, but they had it featured at one time. It was cool.
• 13:05
  > Speaker D>So are all of the halls of fame in Ohio. Except for baseball. I have.
• 13:10
  > Speaker E>No, no, the boxing hall of fame is in New York.
• 13:14
  > Speaker B>Oh, yes.
• 13:15
  > Speaker E>For what that's worth, all of you get out there to Canastota precisely in the dead center of nowhere.
• 13:23
  > Speaker B>We'll be back with more in just a minute.
• 13:28
  > Speaker B>Welcome back, everyone. Today is a rush tribute, if you will. Sure. Or rush day. I don't know.
• 13:37
  > Speaker D>Well, let's hurry up and get to.
• 13:38
  > Speaker B>Oh.
• 13:42
  > Speaker D>Yeah, that's right.
• 13:44
  > Speaker B>Oh, fine.
• 13:45
  > Speaker B>Okay, so right before the break, we were talking to Kendall about his, um. How do I want to say it? Like, what rush means to him. Now, Carl, what does rush mean to you?
• 13:57
  > Speaker E>I've got a lot to say on this matter.
• 13:58
  > Speaker F>I'm sure he does an entire segment.
• 14:03
  > Speaker E>Well, I'm going to start with this. So, when my youngest two were in elementary school, uh, we got involved in a carpool, uh, with some folks who lived around the corner, uh, and their son is the same age as my youngest daughter, so they were kindergarten through fourth grade together.
• 14:22
  > Speaker E>And so every morning I would drive over there and pick him up and then drive to school, and then they would drive the kids home, which worked out great.
• 14:31
  > Speaker E>It's easier in the beer business for me. It's easier to do drop off and whatnot in the morning. I oftentimes have stuff going on in the afternoons. That's when people are out drinking. Anyway, so, um, come to find out that, uh, both the parents grew up in Toronto, uh, I was like, oh, how cool. And of course, the first thing I say is, well, you must love rush. This little snot had never heard rush before.
• 15:00
  > Speaker B>What?
• 15:01
  > Speaker E>So I was like, are you, like, really?
• 15:03
  > Speaker E>You are going to have to turn in your citizenship cards, both of you. You're not allowed to be canadian.
• 15:09
  > Speaker F>It doesn't seem possible.
• 15:10
  > Speaker E>So every morning we would listen to rush in the car. Nothing but rush.
• 15:16
  > Speaker E>And we don't drive carpool with them anymore. And this is continued. So this has been going on for probably seven years. All we listen to is rush every morning on the way to school.
• 15:26
  > Speaker B>That's cool.
• 15:26
  > Speaker E>Nice. So I probably, just by virtue of this, probably listen to more rush than any other band that I listen to currently.
• 15:33
  > Speaker B>Just because every morning, that's every day.
• 15:35
  > Speaker F>That's a fall ride music.
• 15:36
  > Speaker E>Yes, exactly.
• 15:37
  > Speaker C>We did.
• 15:38
  > Speaker E>And it's always Shuffle, so. Shuffles up.
• 15:41
  > Speaker E>Yyz. Well, maybe I get one track on the way in.
• 15:43
  > Speaker B>Okay.
• 15:44
  > Speaker E>Um, but I'm thinking two or three rush songs a day is kind of.
• 15:47
  > Speaker C>My general interest, I think you mean.
• 15:54
  > Speaker E>So I've got this sort of long, ongoing relationship with Rush, um, that I've been able to involve my kids in as well, which is great. I think that they, um, have grown to love them in the way that I do. Um, and so I think that what really draws you in, at least what draws you in is the music, but what keeps you is how quirky and strange they, uh, you know, the more you read about these three know, Getty and Alex lifeson grew up together.
• 16:24
  > Speaker E>They were friends in elementary school, uh, and are just these two goofball guys. Very strange sense of humor. Um, almost british in their, uh, approach to humor. Very dry. Um, and then you have this savant drummer, Neil, who comes in after the first record, and then they say, you know what? We're never going to break up. Like, they were together for 40 years, these three guys, which is genuinely sort of that era of music is gone. Once the stones hang it up. That's it.
• 17:02
  > Speaker E>That's it.
• 17:03
  > Speaker C>Uh, that's never happening.
• 17:05
  > Speaker D>No.
• 17:05
  > Speaker C>Keith Richards will live forever.
• 17:08
  > Speaker E>It's basically pickled.
• 17:11
  > Speaker B>What? Yeah, he's very well preserved.
• 17:13
  > Speaker D>Sparky, uh, you do a lot of the carpool duty, right?
• 17:17
  > Speaker F>I do, man. And it's sad because.
• 17:21
  > Speaker F>Duty. Yeah, it's sad because we used to have a no cell phone policy, and everybody would submit their songs, and we build these playlists and I'd sneak in my songs and get the dad music in there going on. But, uh, now it sucks. They're all on their earbuds looking into phones, and they're automatic islands. It's sad. They won't even let me listen to NPR, so I'm just, like, trying to start conversations.
• 17:47
  > Speaker F>So how about the weekend, guys? Nobody?
• 17:50
  > Speaker F>No takers? Okay. Uh, I'm going to shut up and drive you to school now. Goodbye.
• 17:56
  > Speaker F>But uh, I have a weird relationship with rush because when I was in college, I lived with three percussion majors.
• 18:04
  > Speaker D>Oh, wow.
• 18:04
  > Speaker B>Uh, no way.
• 18:05
  > Speaker F>Yes. And I was a music major for a minute, too, and two of them were really good, and they had a shrine to Neil Pert in our apartment.
• 18:17
  > Speaker F>However, one of our roommates, Ryan, was basically the gimp of the group. I don't know if his parents had raised him in a shell or something like that.
• 18:28
  > Speaker F>Um, and he really had no cultural knowledge whatsoever.
• 18:35
  > Speaker F>And so we were always just ruthlessly punishing him because, like, Ryan, you idiot, how do you not know who Neil Pert is?
• 18:43
  > Speaker F>You're a drummer. How can you have a drum set?
• 18:46
  > Speaker F>And so it was just. We were constantly abusing him, but that was always one of my great joys, was, um, just abusing Ryan for not knowing who Neil Pert was. Um, and then ten years ago, when rock band. Do you guys remember that whole music game set up thing? Dude, I had this huge set up, the wireless mics, guitars, like, 300 r drums and all this other stuff. And every nightly party, like, we'd have dinner parties would always devolve into hours worth of rock band, which would always. There was always somebody that would just rush, rush, rush, rush all the time, because it's a lot of fun to play.
• 19:20
  > Speaker F>Um, pretend not for sure.
• 19:25
  > Speaker B>Neil was a beast. I mean, a beast. And his kit.
• 19:30
  > Speaker F>Good lord.
• 19:31
  > Speaker B>Oh, my.
• 19:33
  > Speaker E>Sorry.
• 19:33
  > Speaker B>Like, the time machine tour.
• 19:36
  > Speaker B>I don't know how many of you saw that tour, but the kit was like steampunk. It was beautiful.
• 19:45
  > Speaker B>Sorry. Okay. Anyway, all right, I'll get to me later.
• 19:49
  > Speaker B>Um, let's get into another beer. Shall we do it? Okay. So let's go to the Signals 2022 limited edition Belgian Strong golden Ale. Only 11.9% abv, in case you're wondering. So this was their third in their series of premium belgian inspired beers. Signals is the classic belgian blonde with Riesling, must and cold.
• 20:17
  > Speaker F>Thank you.
• 20:19
  > Speaker D>I was like, there's something.
• 20:21
  > Speaker F>Thank you for saying that.
• 20:22
  > Speaker B>You are so welcome. Okay.
• 20:24
  > Speaker F>Thank you.
• 20:24
  > Speaker B>So it's giving you aromas of stone fruit, peach, maybe mild spice.
• 20:29
  > Speaker F>There we go.
• 20:31
  > Speaker B>And this release is all the more special for them at the brewery because the fire hydrant that adorns the album cover was manufactured almost a century ago, just 100 or so meters away from the brewery.
• 20:46
  > Speaker C>That's Cool.
• 20:47
  > Speaker B>So there's that.
• 20:48
  > Speaker D>Meters.
• 20:49
  > Speaker F>I'm really glad that you said there was grape must in there, because you.
• 20:54
  > Speaker B>Were like, what is this?
• 20:55
  > Speaker D>I don't know if I want to talk about this.
• 20:57
  > Speaker F>But, yeah, I had the turnt, uh, thing, like, well, some of that tastes like a Belgian.
• 21:04
  > Speaker E>Started out as a Belgian. Acetyl aldehyde, apple.
• 21:07
  > Speaker C>Getting the apple. And even almost a little tartness like, not sour.
• 21:10
  > Speaker C>But there's something going on here.
• 21:12
  > Speaker F>Uh-huh.
• 21:13
  > Speaker C>Now it makes sense.
• 21:14
  > Speaker E>Yeah.
• 21:14
  > Speaker B>It's beautiful. It is, right? And it's interesting because when I first thought, okay, golden. Let me get my head wrapped around and then tasted it, I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Certainly this isn't, like, bad packaging.
• 21:31
  > Speaker B>And I was thinking, oh, crap, maybe this is a bad beer. But, no, it is not. Even though it's not exactly what it.
• 21:38
  > Speaker C>Should be doing with those.
• 21:38
  > Speaker D>If this was a straight belgian, uh, golden ale, then, yes, it would be turned.
• 21:43
  > Speaker E>But it's very wine forward, I would say, for sure. I mean, Getty's a big wine guy, big collector, and wine consumer, so that track really shouldn't surprise us, I guess.
• 21:56
  > Speaker F>I like this.
• 22:02
  > Speaker F>Well, yeah, I was picking up some raspberry. Weren't you.
• 22:08
  > Speaker B>All? Mike hates raspberries.
• 22:10
  > Speaker E>But anyway, I mean, who doesn't?
• 22:14
  > Speaker E>I've been doing this January thing. I don't know if you were following along at, uh, I'm part of a little group of people, and we each kick in three bottles of gin, and we do dry January. So I try a different gin every day of the month during January.
• 22:31
  > Speaker B>Wow. Why weren't we a part of it?
• 22:35
  > Speaker E>We're taking applications for splinter cells now.
• 22:38
  > Speaker E>Um, but anyway, so last night's gin, some, uh, of the botanicals were peach and raspberry, and it was really not for me. I'm a London dry guy.
• 22:48
  > Speaker F>I'm a London dry guy, too.
• 22:50
  > Speaker E>Yeah.
• 22:50
  > Speaker F>Matter of fact, some of the american style stuff just really?
• 22:54
  > Speaker E>Yeah. And, I mean, I'm open to trying.
• 22:57
  > Speaker E>I'm interested to try different stuff. And this one was just really.
• 23:00
  > Speaker E>I mean, it's very subtle in its application of raspberry, but I let the kids smell it before I taste it. Of course, I'm not letting the children drink it, but I'm like, hey, what do you smell when you smell this?
• 23:10
  > Speaker D>Well, they need to grow up learning what good gin smells like.
• 23:13
  > Speaker E>Yeah. And they were both like, this smells like raspberries. Is there, like, bubble gum or something in it? I'm like, no. Anyway.
• 23:19
  > Speaker E>But, yeah, I'm not a big raspberry consumer.
• 23:21
  > Speaker B>What country did that come from?
• 23:23
  > Speaker E>Uh, I don't know. I'm going to have to look it up.
• 23:25
  > Speaker B>Okay. Wow.
• 23:27
  > Speaker E>I think it's Holland. I'm pretty sure it was.
• 23:31
  > Speaker F>That's flashing me back to the gin episode where Mike made us taste 100 gins. Like, no, don't hold your heart.
• 23:39
  > Speaker B>But it introduced me to spanish gin.
• 23:42
  > Speaker F>That's true. That was worth it. Uh, that was worth the cost of admission right there.
• 23:46
  > Speaker B>I'm, like, forever in love with spanish gin.
• 23:48
  > Speaker F>And there's so many great tapas style places now that are popping up around town that really kind of focus on that.
• 23:55
  > Speaker B>No. Which is great. And now that we can actually get some spanish gin in town, um, it's the alchemist. So good. So good.
• 24:03
  > Speaker B>Okay.
• 24:04
  > Speaker D>Um, anyway, it's not a gin show.
• 24:05
  > Speaker B>Sorry.
• 24:08
  > Speaker E>On our late night sips episode, side quest.
• 24:12
  > Speaker B>Um, good boy day. What do you think of the beer?
• 24:15
  > Speaker D>Now that I know what it is, I really like it. Yeah, it makes sense. A lot of those, the peach notes come out really well. So, yeah, I can wrap my head around this beer a lot.
• 24:26
  > Speaker D>11.9%. Probably wouldn't drink a lot, but, yeah.
• 24:30
  > Speaker F>I can't feel my molars anymore.
• 24:31
  > Speaker D>Oh, uh, you don't need those.
• 24:33
  > Speaker B>You won't.
• 24:33
  > Speaker F>Nah, you don't need those molars.
• 24:37
  > Speaker B>Yeah. This is beautiful. And this is a thinking man's beer, if you will, to go along with that thinking man's band. I think it's really nice, if that makes any sense. Um, beer.
• 24:52
  > Speaker E>Yeah.
• 24:52
  > Speaker B>All right. We're going to rate it a four.
• 24:57
  > Speaker D>Is that like a five in Canada, maybe, yeah.
• 25:01
  > Speaker C>What's the conversion, uh, rate there?
• 25:03
  > Speaker E>Mischief rate?
• 25:06
  > Speaker B>It might be, like, almost even right now.
• 25:09
  > Speaker F>How many loonies were each one of these cans?
• 25:13
  > Speaker B>Um, goodle boy Dave, what is your, um, exposure to?
• 25:17
  > Speaker D>Oh, I don't care for, uh.
• 25:20
  > Speaker E>Um.
• 25:22
  > Speaker D>So, uh, we were talking about it earlier, Carl. Uh, it sounds like Carl and I kind of came in to rush right about the same time. Um, roll the bones was the only time I've actually seen them alive. And that was one of the first albums that I really got into. Great show, great live band. Then, um, I went know and kind of listened to their older catalog and stuff, their newer music, uh, before Neil passed. And then they kind of dissolved everything. I didn't really keep up with it, so I'm more like early catalog. Up into early ninety s is where I kind of flow.
• 26:07
  > Speaker E>Yeah, it's funny. Unlike Iron Maiden, where Bruce left, and then Bruce came back, and that segment of records where he had just come back, uh, I had kind of poo pooed and then came back around to it and was like, all right. These records actually rip rush. I think their catalog gets dropped for me, into buckets where it's two or three or four records that have a very similar feel. And then it's a change.
• 26:32
  > Speaker E>Um, and the change that happened after echo, like, test for echo is sort of the beginning of the final bucket. It was test for echo. Snakes and arrows, clockwork. Um, angels. Um, they're tuned. They're just like we talked with Iron Maiden. It's a reflection of the time. Uh, so they feel heavier.
• 26:58
  > Speaker E>Um, the tuning is lower. Of course. Getty can't hit a lot of that screamy, shrieky led Zeppelin stuff that he was doing in the kind of lost me a little bit, too. I appreciate them for what they are, um, but I'm just a slut for a pop hook. And, uh, that era of. That sort of, uh, after permanent waves, like you roll into grace under pressure through counterparts, um, has much more pop approachability, I think.
• 27:33
  > Speaker B>Um, yeah. Like almost a mainstreamness in the scheme of things.
• 27:37
  > Speaker D>Well, I think even well established bands, they still feel the pressure to follow, kind of like what's going on.
• 27:46
  > Speaker D>And that doesn't always really fit their strengths.
• 27:50
  > Speaker C>Plus, you have to change to stay relevant. I mean, two of my favorite bands, both from the early 80s, Metallica and YouTube, I mean, they've had so many different sounds. Metallica, not so much, but they've definitely gone through a few.
• 28:01
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 28:02
  > Speaker D>Yeah.
• 28:02
  > Speaker B>Oh, God, yeah. Like when the black album came out, so different end, had, I mean, sell out.
• 28:11
  > Speaker D>Well, I think people want to evolve as artists know, to a degree, but.
• 28:16
  > Speaker F>Not a lot of people can do that successfully, too. I mean, there's a handful of groups that can really stay relevant and make those transitions.
• 28:25
  > Speaker B>Yeah. And those are the bands that are.
• 28:27
  > Speaker D>Still around for, like, 40 years. Or for the Stones, like, was it 107 years they've been playing.
• 28:34
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 28:34
  > Speaker C>Since 1873.
• 28:36
  > Speaker D>Yeah, it's hard.
• 28:38
  > Speaker D>And the Stones actually have a pretty new song out now, and it's new album.
• 28:46
  > Speaker C>Album.
• 28:47
  > Speaker B>Yeah, we listened to that record and I was like, okay, I guess I'm trying to wrap my head around this and they're wanting to be current, but I don't feel it.
• 28:57
  > Speaker D>Just go back and play street fighting, man, right now.
• 29:02
  > Speaker B>Yeah. And just be done with it.
• 29:05
  > Speaker E>Um, anyways, sorry, I stopped passing the bottle.
• 29:10
  > Speaker B>That's okay.
• 29:12
  > Speaker B>So the next beer that we are going to talk about is moving pictures. Or moving pictures. Um, it's a 2022 limited edition belgian strong dark ale, allegedly.
• 29:26
  > Speaker D>Um, so getting weird stuff in it that we should know about just so.
• 29:31
  > Speaker F>We can have that first sip and be like, oh, no. It's always in my brain. I'm always like, oh, no, this was not what it was supposed to be.
• 29:38
  > Speaker B>You're funny. You're really funny. I like you.
• 29:47
  > Speaker B>Well, I think this the one.
• 29:50
  > Speaker E>This is the least dark belgian, dark, strong.
• 29:54
  > Speaker E>That's what I'm.
• 29:54
  > Speaker C>I'm looking at it and I saw the bottle.
• 29:57
  > Speaker C>We got the right bottle, and, um. It tastes good.
• 30:00
  > Speaker D>It says it right.
• 30:01
  > Speaker F>It says, I can smell some.
• 30:08
  > Speaker C>It's good. It's really good.
• 30:10
  > Speaker D>Just ain't very dark.
• 30:11
  > Speaker C>It's not dark.
• 30:12
  > Speaker F>What's the abv on this sucker?
• 30:14
  > Speaker D>Yeah, 27. Yeah, 14.
• 30:18
  > Speaker E>Which is funny. For belgian dark strong, I expect raisins, right?
• 30:23
  > Speaker D>Yeah. Candy, sugar raisins.
• 30:25
  > Speaker E>Yes. I'm waiting for that special b.
• 30:28
  > Speaker E>Um, there's a specific malt that you would use in a belgian dark strong called special b, that contributes that sort of raisiny, um, candy sweetness. Um, and gives a nice dark color, which. This beer is definitely darker in color than the last one, but I wouldn't call it dark. Um, but it's interesting. I think water is such an important characteristic of beer. And when a lot of people say, oh, well, all of their. You know, when they're talking about a specific brewery, all their stuff tastes the same or all their stuff tastes similar. Well, of course it does, because the water coming from that brewery, it's the same water in all those beers. So there's going to be a degree of consistency across somebody's brand, because the primary ingredient in that is water.
• 31:16
  > Speaker D>So, wait, this one's supposed to have the riesling must in it, too?
• 31:19
  > Speaker B>Well, yeah, that's what I'm wondering. I'm trying to figure out on the notes here if this is with freeze dried honeydew melon.
• 31:28
  > Speaker F>What?
• 31:29
  > Speaker B>And Niagara Riesling juice when they dined on honeydew.
• 31:34
  > Speaker B>Uh, yeah, I don't know.
• 31:37
  > Speaker F>I have questions.
• 31:39
  > Speaker B>Yeah, right.
• 31:40
  > Speaker D>Uh, you may have to investigate further.
• 31:43
  > Speaker B>Yeah, it's just not as dark as I was expecting it to be.
• 31:47
  > Speaker F>No. And you can't really tell because the bottle is pretty darn.
• 31:50
  > Speaker D>And this one m tastes more like a straight belgian ale, for sure.
• 31:56
  > Speaker E>I think the.
• 31:56
  > Speaker F>Yeah, there's nothing agile.
• 31:57
  > Speaker E>The fire hydrant beer was much more the wine.
• 32:00
  > Speaker E>Wine forward.
• 32:01
  > Speaker B>Um.
• 32:01
  > Speaker E>Uh, whereas this. I get more belgian character out of it.
• 32:05
  > Speaker D>I think those Canadians are trying to trick us.
• 32:08
  > Speaker E>Crafty, crafty Canadians.
• 32:10
  > Speaker F>Or maybe this is the canadian version of a belgian dark.
• 32:17
  > Speaker E>Shouldn't it say belgian style, dark, strong.
• 32:20
  > Speaker B>Well, we'll be back with more here in just a minute.
• 32:24
  > Speaker B>Welcome back, everyone. Today is an episode that is an ode to rush, essentially. And right before the break, we started talking about the moving pitchers beer, which was. It's a 2022 limited edition beer. Um, this came out about the time of the 40th anniversary of the record moving pictures, and it says on here that this is a canadian golden ale and not a dark.
• 32:59
  > Speaker E>All right, well, that makes sense.
• 33:00
  > Speaker B>So that would make more sense, because before the break, we were talking about how this is not dark.
• 33:05
  > Speaker D>So is there another moving pitchers beer that is a dark belgian?
• 33:09
  > Speaker C>Did they do two versions?
• 33:12
  > Speaker B>I don't see that here.
• 33:14
  > Speaker D>Well, let's go on the.
• 33:15
  > Speaker B>Yeah, because now I'm looking at the rush website, which is talking about this beer that was released in March of 2022, and they are saying that it is an 11.9% abv strong ale with fruity notes of berries and grapes with a spice and floral bouquet around it out. Um, also, aromas of maple syrup add complexity, while tannins help balance out the sweetness.
• 33:46
  > Speaker E>Why do Canadians have to put maple syrup in everything?
• 33:48
  > Speaker B>Because that is their version of butter.
• 33:52
  > Speaker F>M they actually have that instead of blood, you just cut a canadian. I have. There's a little bit of maple syrup that leaks out before the blood.
• 33:59
  > Speaker D>Those boys get the syrup in them. They get all antsy in the pansy.
• 34:04
  > Speaker E>Well, I don't get any.
• 34:06
  > Speaker D>I don't get any maple syrup in this.
• 34:07
  > Speaker E>I don't get any maple syrup. Yeah.
• 34:09
  > Speaker C>To me, this is not as good as the last one.
• 34:11
  > Speaker C>Um, good flavors. It's a good beer. I'm enjoying it. I mean, I would definitely drink more.
• 34:16
  > Speaker D>Than one, but I guess in the context of a canadian golden ale, 12% beer, not bad.
• 34:25
  > Speaker E>Yeah.
• 34:25
  > Speaker D>And again, now that we're not expecting it to be dark.
• 34:28
  > Speaker F>Yeah.
• 34:31
  > Speaker E>And I think it's held up well, too. Right. Uh, as a beer that came out.
• 34:34
  > Speaker B>In 2022 for two years.
• 34:37
  > Speaker B>Yeah. But isn't it safe to say that a lot of belgian style beers can last a bit?
• 34:44
  > Speaker E>Yeah.
• 34:45
  > Speaker F>Enough booze. Everything sticks around for a second.
• 34:47
  > Speaker E>Yeah. Like, your natural preservatives in beer are hop oil and, uh, alcohol. So typically the belgian stuff, you wouldn't expect them to be super hoppy. Um, but if they're super strong, that also helps.
• 35:01
  > Speaker D>Uh, maybe all the maple syrup fermented out in the bottle. Yeah, that's what I'm going to say.
• 35:08
  > Speaker E>So, uh, this is really interesting.
• 35:12
  > Speaker E>At the black abbey tap room, periodically we bring in guest taps. And given our direction of european influenced american craft, when we bring in a guest tap, we try to draw a line in the sand and say, we really want this to be some sort of euro beer. Right? I feel like that's important. And so we brought in Unibrew's, uh, 30th anniversary stout, which, uh, was brewed with maple syrup. And when we first tapped it, like, standard us coupler tapped it, pulled it through the line, went to pour the first pint, and it just spat at an extremely high velocity.
• 35:55
  > Speaker B>Oh, wow.
• 35:56
  > Speaker F>Oh, because it had reformed to get out.
• 35:59
  > Speaker E>Yeah. Because there was so much maple syrup in it. I'm guessing that it wasn't pasteurized. Right? Maybe it was.
• 36:05
  > Speaker E>Um, but we thought it was really.
• 36:08
  > Speaker E>We're like, what is this? Do we not have our pressure set right on the draft system? What's going on? And then we gassed it off a little bit, and then it poured great. And I think a lot of times when you start playing with these raw sugars, especially in the, uh, unfiltered stuff.
• 36:23
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 36:24
  > Speaker E>You can get a little refurbishment.
• 36:26
  > Speaker C>Or exploding cans.
• 36:28
  > Speaker E>Or exploding cans.
• 36:30
  > Speaker D>Boy. You go to the store and you see some of those cans that are kind of misshapen and kind of bulging out.
• 36:37
  > Speaker F>I used to, uh, go through the warehouse and just see stuff that.
• 36:43
  > Speaker F>There's nothing like that. Have an entire pallet of cans start to all. You're just sitting there like, what's the next one that's going to go? That was a good time.
• 36:55
  > Speaker D>So what do we want to rate the, uh. Uh, I already forgot what it's called, so moving things.
• 37:02
  > Speaker E>Sure.
• 37:02
  > Speaker B>Pictures.
• 37:03
  > Speaker E>Pictures.
• 37:03
  > Speaker B>We're going to rate it a three.
• 37:05
  > Speaker D>All right.
• 37:06
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 37:06
  > Speaker D>Can I get a picture of my pictures next time? More syrup, people.
• 37:12
  > Speaker B>Okay.
• 37:13
  > Speaker B>All right, let's talk about Xana Brew.
• 37:16
  > Speaker D>Um, no, it's yours. Okay.
• 37:19
  > Speaker E>High marks for the pun.
• 37:20
  > Speaker B>Yeah. Right. Um. Okay, so belgian style ale and 10.5% abv.
• 37:28
  > Speaker D>I'm sorry, I cannot get that Olivia Newton John song out of my head.
• 37:32
  > Speaker C>Now, but this thing is very pale. Yeah, and by comparison, the last one was much darker. This is a very light. Almost looks like a pilsner. Um, for a belgian. Belgian ale. Um, is it a belgian strong ale? Belgian golden.
• 37:49
  > Speaker B>It says belgian style ale.
• 37:54
  > Speaker D>Okay, that's all they're going to give us.
• 37:57
  > Speaker C>It looks great.
• 37:59
  > Speaker B>Yeah. And on the back of this, it's Kubla Khan standing at the bar in the pleasure dome.
• 38:05
  > Speaker D>Wait, what?
• 38:05
  > Speaker B>Uh, yeah. Said to his followers, geez, after all that pillaging and stuff, I could use a nice cold one. Eh?
• 38:14
  > Speaker B>It would be great if one day, beer geniuses invented a Delicious belgian style brew we could have on tap.
• 38:22
  > Speaker B>It only took 807 years for Kublican's dream to come true.
• 38:28
  > Speaker D>All right, like I said, there you go.
• 38:30
  > Speaker E>What a bunch of quirky, weird dudes.
• 38:33
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 38:34
  > Speaker D>Cool.
• 38:35
  > Speaker D>Well, while we taste this, I like Juliana. Why don't you tell us about how you first exposed yourself to rush?
• 38:41
  > Speaker D>Or, I mean.
• 38:44
  > Speaker B>Huh, funny. Okay, well, I'm kind of late to the game because granted, growing up, you would hear some rush songs and I'd be like, yeah, that's cool, that's cool. But I really wasn't exposed to it till I moved to Buffalo in 95. And counterparts was the first record that I actually listened to and was drawn into.
• 39:11
  > Speaker B>Um, and then I subsequently went and found the back catalog and started listening to that and then going to shows, because back in the day, it was easy to cross the border and you could see Rush play in Canada all the time. And it was so easy. Like, you just get on the Qew drive for ten minutes and you're there in Toronto.
• 39:34
  > Speaker B>Toronto?
• 39:36
  > Speaker D>Is that near Toronto?
• 39:38
  > Speaker F>It's a suburb of.
• 39:40
  > Speaker B>It's a burb. Yes, it's a burb. Yeah.
• 39:43
  > Speaker B>So if I wasn't seeing musicals there, I'd be seeing.
• 39:49
  > Speaker B>I just. I fell in love with them because I was also getting into Prague rock at the time.
• 39:55
  > Speaker B>Stop it. And there were similarities. And then I listened to hemispheres, and to this day, it's still my favorite record.
• 40:09
  > Speaker D>Four songs each. One of them is like an hour and a half.
• 40:12
  > Speaker B>Okay, but this is what records were like back then.
• 40:18
  > Speaker B>Now everybody smokes a single and you get a bunch of singles that are sort of, like, puked onto a record and that's the end of it.
• 40:28
  > Speaker D>Is that how they're made? Yes.
• 40:30
  > Speaker B>No, but it feels that way. There were themes. There was a lot of thought that went into the a side and the B side of a record and all of that. And I just really appreciate them and have always loved them. Um, and I haven't seen them as many times as Iron Maiden. Um, but still, they're up there in my top ten bands of all time.
• 40:55
  > Speaker D>I guess I never thought of Rush as Prague Rock because I don't remember any of the albums where someone was banging trash can lids together or any old british ladies screaming, top of their lungs.
• 41:06
  > Speaker B>You're not sticking the dagger into the left side of my.
• 41:08
  > Speaker C>They're more of a working man's band.
• 41:11
  > Speaker B>They are, yeah.
• 41:13
  > Speaker D>Modern day warriors.
• 41:17
  > Speaker D>Fair.
• 41:18
  > Speaker E>I mean, they are modern day warriors.
• 41:19
  > Speaker C>Good for them.
• 41:20
  > Speaker B>Yeah, they are. But they are. And they're a thinking man's blue collar band, if you will, if that makes any sense. And for three band members to make such a like, that's really impressive. And as a pseudo bass player, mean Getty Lee can just do no freaking know.
• 41:45
  > Speaker D>I don't know if it's true, but Gene Simmons claims he taught Getty Lee.
• 41:49
  > Speaker E>How to play bass. That's ridiculous. Gene Simmons should teach himself how to play bass.
• 41:54
  > Speaker B>Okay. Gene Simmons should just teach himself any instrument.
• 41:58
  > Speaker E>It is really funny that you bring up Gene Simmons because I was actually about to bring up Gene Simmons.
• 42:02
  > Speaker E>Uh.
• 42:05
  > Speaker B>Do tell us about Gene Simmons.
• 42:07
  > Speaker E>Well, uh, if you haven't seen, uh, the rush biopic, time, uh, stands still. You should see it, uh, because it documents the final tour, their last tour. And in the beginning of that, um, well, for the last couple of records, Rush was on rounder records, which is based here in Nashville. And so the guy who did our website for a while and does Yazoo's website and whatever, um, also worked at rounder.
• 42:35
  > Speaker E>And so he really got to know those guys. Uh, and so in the beginning of that time, standstill biopic, uh, there's a bunch of different interviews, one of them with Gene Simmons, talking about the early days of Rush, and they were on tour with kiss.
• 42:53
  > Speaker B>And some of which is so bizarre how all that.
• 42:55
  > Speaker E>Yeah, that's right. So strange. And it was during that time when they were all wearing bathrobes and that pre 20 112 era where it was just really trippy and, uh, Sci-Fi prague rock. One time, the guys in kiss, uh, they stapled slippers, uh, to the floor on the stage in front of their microphones, in front of Alex and Getty's microphones because they would come out in these ridiculous kimono robes and they were like, oh, you forgot your slippers. And they.
• 43:29
  > Speaker E>On the floor. But Gene Simmons, one of the things that he said was like, the first show that they did with kiss, he said, I come out and I see what this drum kit this yahoo's got set up out here and all these toms and gongs and symbols.
• 43:43
  > Speaker E>And he's like, this is ridiculous. This guy's over the top. And then within the first three minutes of the first song, he's literally touched every item on the drum set.
• 43:53
  > Speaker E>Well, all right.
• 43:56
  > Speaker E>Yeah, I guess he's here for all this stuff. And if you haven't seen time since still, I would highly recommend it because it was a fascinating, um, view into rush at the end. Right.
• 44:12
  > Speaker E>Um, how the guys got along together, how they did or didn't want to go on the road anymore. Uh, it was a really interesting take. I went with my son, who was. I mean, he must have been twelve maybe at the time when we went and saw that movie.
• 44:26
  > Speaker E>And it was right at the beginning of his interest in rush. And then almost immediately afterwards, Neil died. And so it was like his interest in the band was just beginning and then he would never get to see, uh, then. But for me, of course, it's like at the end, right? Because I had seen him multiple times and had known and loved them for a long time. And so it was a really weird space for me to be in watching that movie with him. Um, and he and I still talk about it years and years later.
• 44:58
  > Speaker E>So if you have the chance to watch that film, I think you really should.
• 45:01
  > Speaker B>No. Good call. Good call. Yeah.
• 45:06
  > Speaker B>They're still such an amazing band. And now Getty Lee has this little miniseries going on.
• 45:12
  > Speaker D>Yeah, our bass player is human, too. Like, it's on Amazon. I don't know if you guys watched it.
• 45:17
  > Speaker C>It's weird that that is the name of it, because I've always felt that Getty Lee is an alien. There's no way that man, there's no way he's human the way play a bass, the way he does and sing and sing in that range. He's not fully human of this earth.
• 45:32
  > Speaker B>Well, but the guy from Primus is his brother, then, because, oh, he's definitely an alien.
• 45:39
  > Speaker D>Les Claypool.
• 45:39
  > Speaker B>Yes, Les. In fact, there's an episode with Les and, um.
• 45:45
  > Speaker B>Amazing.
• 45:47
  > Speaker B>Yeah, it's just perfect.
• 45:50
  > Speaker E>I feel the same way about primus that I feel about sour beer. Respect for it, really.
• 45:55
  > Speaker B>No, not your jam. Okay. God, Jerry was a race car driver.
• 46:00
  > Speaker B>Sorry. Um.
• 46:02
  > Speaker B>Okay, so what do you guys think of this beer?
• 46:06
  > Speaker D>Xenobrew.
• 46:08
  > Speaker F>I finished mine a while ago.
• 46:13
  > Speaker F>I was kind of nice to not see any adjuncts or anything. It was just like, straight to the point. Nice, clean finish, a little bit of grain at the end.
• 46:20
  > Speaker C>Um, yeah, this is the most belgian of the belgian ales we've had. That belgian character you think you're going to get.
• 46:28
  > Speaker C>Uh, it's almost subtle, but it's a really well drinking beer.
• 46:31
  > Speaker D>Yeah.
• 46:32
  > Speaker E>This is my favorite of all of them.
• 46:33
  > Speaker B>Oh, yeah, I think so, too, because this is like, truest to style, if you will.
• 46:38
  > Speaker B>Um, straight to the point.
• 46:40
  > Speaker D>I think they keep making this one, too. So, I mean, it's going to be.
• 46:43
  > Speaker C>It's hard to make a belgian beer this good. They can go sideways, even for Belgians.
• 46:49
  > Speaker B>Uh, okay, well, we are going to rate the Xana brew, which I believe is the most recent release anyways.
• 46:58
  > Speaker B>Um, a five. Yeah, I'd like to pick up some more.
• 47:04
  > Speaker B>Okay, so it looks like we may.
• 47:07
  > Speaker D>Have got a little extra time.
• 47:09
  > Speaker B>Yeah, we do.
• 47:09
  > Speaker B>So let's get into a bonus beer.
• 47:13
  > Speaker D>A bonus beer from another, uh, power trio fronted by a singing bass player, uh, who, coincidentally, are no longer together.
• 47:26
  > Speaker B>Yeah.
• 47:27
  > Speaker E>Which is, sadly, no longer alive.
• 47:30
  > Speaker E>Also true there.
• 47:31
  > Speaker B>Somewhat. Yeah.
• 47:33
  > Speaker D>Thanks, Kendall. Thanks for bringing it down.
• 47:35
  > Speaker C>Wow, man, I miss Lemmy.
• 47:38
  > Speaker B>So, for those of you that are just now listening, we are talking about motorhead's iron Fist. It's a loud and hazy India pale ale, six, um, percent abv. And it is brewed by lift bridge brewery in Stillwater, Minnesota.
• 47:58
  > Speaker D>M Minnesota.
• 48:00
  > Speaker B>Yeah. So, again, 2022 is the 40th anniversary of Iron Fist, which was released in 82. God, I'm getting old.
• 48:08
  > Speaker B>Um, it is Motorhead's fifth studio album and the last to feature the three amigos of Lemmy and Phil and fast, uh, Eddie Clark. So, okay, quick thoughts about this.
• 48:23
  > Speaker C>It's a, uh, hazy ipa. You're getting what you think you're going to get.
• 48:26
  > Speaker C>Seems, uh, pretty well made. Uh, I would drink, too.
• 48:28
  > Speaker B>I mean, it's solid, right? Like, for what it is. It's not too fussy.
• 48:31
  > Speaker E>Makes me want to play video poker and drink Jack Daniels.
• 48:35
  > Speaker D>That's freaking awesome.
• 48:37
  > Speaker B>So pretty.
• 48:38
  > Speaker D>How about you?
• 48:39
  > Speaker F>It checks the box.
• 48:40
  > Speaker B>All right, we're going to rate it. Ah, a three.
• 48:43
  > Speaker B>And that is going to do it for today.
• 48:46
  > Speaker B>This was a really cool episode. Um, I think so. Well, thanks, everyone, for being here for a rush tribute. Good old boy, Kendall, thank you so much for being here.
• 48:56
  > Speaker C>It was a pleasure.
• 48:57
  > Speaker B>Please tell us about your blog.
• 48:59
  > Speaker C>You can find me and my wife at BM three beer. Check out what we did last year when we hit every brewery in the state of Tennessee.
• 49:05
  > Speaker B>Woohoo. Goodo boy. Carl, thanks so much for being here today.
• 49:08
  > Speaker E>Glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
• 49:10
  > Speaker B>And how can we find you on socials?
• 49:12
  > Speaker E>Uh, you can reach me on, um, Instagram is the best way at blackabbeycarl.
• 49:17
  > Speaker B>Perfect. Goodo boy, Sparky.
• 49:19
  > Speaker F>Thank you for helping me to fulfill the terms of my work release program.
• 49:23
  > Speaker B>As always, we are here to help you. Paddington.
• 49:26
  > Speaker B>Goodle boy dave.
• 49:27
  > Speaker D>Bye.
• 49:29
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