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Samuel Adams Harvest Helles Craft Beer Review 2026 · Strikeout Beer

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  Speaker 1: What is going on everyone welcome to strikeout beer quick
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  Speaker 1: beer reviews with your pals down in rapid ave i'm alan.
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  Speaker 2: Marty man what up not much how you doing brother
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  Speaker 2: pretty good man yeah yeah hold on.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a little sam adams uh fall legends
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  Speaker 1: we're drinking a little harvest hills uh i.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know you keep pushing that thing out there it's
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  Speaker 2: like right yeah because i gotta go back then i
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  Speaker 2: don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I need you not to yell. Let's bring it on down.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't bringing nothing down. Don't bring it on down.
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  Speaker 1: This is new to last year. This is the second
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  Speaker 1: year of this one. It's a seasonal German-inspired golden lager
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  Speaker 1: that debuted in the brewery's 2025 Fall Legends Variety Pack
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  Speaker 1: and returned for 2026. Unlike Samuel Adams Oktoberfest, which is
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  Speaker 1: much richer, amber-colored Mars and Harvest Hills is designed to
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  Speaker 1: be lighter, crisper, and more refreshing. It's coming in at 5.4%
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  Speaker 1: alcohol by volume, 15 IBUs and the styles of hells.
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  Speaker 1: Your aroma is going to be light citrus, subtle floral notes,
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  Speaker 1: and fresh green. The flavor is going to be biscuit-like malt, cereal,
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  Speaker 1: hints of stone fruit, and mild sweetness. Your body is
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  Speaker 1: light to medium, smooth and refreshing, and the finish is
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  Speaker 1: crisp clean with restrained bitterness.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the bangers out of this pack for sure.
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  Speaker 2: When it came out last year, loved it. I immediately
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  Speaker 2: fell in love with it. I like Hell of Spears anyways.
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  Speaker 2: That type of lager is like right up my alley.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you get one, you just yell at everyone to
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  Speaker 1: shut up about the sun.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up about the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up about the sun. Yeah. Shut up about the sun.
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  Speaker 2: So this pack, you got four beers, three each, Hellas Lager,
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  Speaker 2: or the Harvest Lager, Oktoberfest, Jacko, and the Apple Spice Ale.
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  Speaker 3: Cheers, buddy. Cheers.
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  Speaker 1: Mazel mazel, good things. It looks good. It looks good.
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  Speaker 3: Cheers.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty tasty.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, hells means bright or light in German.
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  Speaker 3: Does it? Yeah. I don't speak German.
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  Speaker 1: It refers to the pale golden lager style.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's super pale. Look how light that is looking.
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  Speaker 1: It does. It does.
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  Speaker 2: It uses.
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  Speaker 3: Not even straw color. It's just.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice golden color.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Golden.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's a.
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  Speaker 1: Waking up first thing in the morning, dehydrated, a yellow
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  Speaker 1: urine color to it.
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  Speaker 3: How dehydrated are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you seem to always know about that. You always
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  Speaker 2: talk about that. When I wake up, it's like damn
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  Speaker 2: near crystal clear.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 3: But it's probably because of all the beer I had
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  Speaker 3: the night before.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the beer will dehydrate you some.
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  Speaker 3: It don't work all night on me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. You knock back at least one, if
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  Speaker 1: not two, liquid IVs before you go to bed.
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  Speaker 3: I generally have one. I didn't have one last night, though.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I woke up this morning sore, dude, from like
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  Speaker 3: right here. I think I have a sports hernia. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, here we go to the office.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be sore this morning,
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  Speaker 1: but I wasn't. I did have a little.
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  Speaker 3: What would you do? You didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: I played softball yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Did you run or anything?
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I did. Did you run a lot?
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  Speaker 1: A decent amount.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Yeah. I went first to home, baby. Second home? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: first to home. I went first to home.
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  Speaker 1: Did you go first to home?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you damn right I did.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound right.
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  Speaker 3: I was hauling ass. I think I was on your hit.
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  Speaker 1: I think you went from second. You went from second. No,
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  Speaker 1: because it was you boner than me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't hit me in from out there. I mean, out.
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  Speaker 1: I was two for four with three RBIs last night.
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  Speaker 1: I can't complain.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't get it done in the last inning, though.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't need to. We need to tack on more runs.
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  Speaker 1: But also, it was like, we need to get into
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  Speaker 1: the parking lot and start drinking.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get this inning over. Let's get this game over.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, that was like me last week, or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was like two innings in a row. I was
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  Speaker 2: up to bat, and I go like this. Just knock
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  Speaker 2: it back to the pitcher, go ahead and turn right
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  Speaker 2: back to the dome. I should have just stepped on
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  Speaker 2: the plate and swung.
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  Speaker 1: That pitch was inside, and so I should have just
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  Speaker 1: left it. But I I thought it was trouble. Second
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  Speaker 1: baseman made a really good play on that one. He
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  Speaker 1: was falling backwards as he kind of reached up to
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  Speaker 1: catch that one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, was it in the air? Yeah. Oh, that was
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  Speaker 3: a slow dribbler.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. I didn't have any slow dribblers. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was just one of those where I walked up
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  Speaker 1: to the plate.
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  Speaker 3: I looked at the up.
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  Speaker 1: I go, base is loaded. Sounds like I'm choking here. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's usually the way. He goes, no, man, you've been
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  Speaker 1: poking at the right field all day today. I go,
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  Speaker 1: not now, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do it now. When they need me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: nowhere to be found. Just like Homer. Just slip back
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  Speaker 2: in the bushes. I'm good when there ain't no pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I ain't got to do nothing. Yeah. Gee.
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  Speaker 2: I've had to do it to me. That's... So I'm
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  Speaker 2: down in the lineup. That's where I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: just put me down there.
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  Speaker 3: You know? And yeah, we'll talk about that later. Anyways,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about some beer. Let's talk about some beer.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty good. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Smooth
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  Speaker 3: Hell's Lagers, balanced malty flavor. You ever do that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Floral hot maroma. Yeah. Hey, you know what it's perfect for?
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  Speaker 3: Did you tell me that? I did not. I would
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  Speaker 3: say drinking. Sitting around a bonfire. Drinking. Hiking. You don't
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  Speaker 3: like hiking. You don't walk anywhere. Do you go for walks? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I do about three hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that much.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for men to get out of the house
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  Speaker 2: and just take a stroll. Just go for a walk.
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  Speaker 2: And also, one of our favorite things to do before
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  Speaker 2: sporting events.
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  Speaker 1: Tailgate.
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  Speaker 3: I had to make sure I put it. I was going.
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  Speaker 1: To say pork pitches. Like one of our favorite things
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  Speaker 1: to do. Pork pitches?
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  Speaker 3: Porking. I mean, they don't call me BFK for nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, God, this is worthless. We just had a Mad
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  Speaker 2: Dog 2020, so we're all feeling good.
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  Speaker 3: We're a little goosey.
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  Speaker 1: My face is red.
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  Speaker 3: I can feel this red as shit, too.
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  Speaker 1: It is a little red.
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  Speaker 3: It is. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: This is pretty damn tasty.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, this is it goes toe to toe
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  Speaker 2: with this pack. You know, I I've also we just
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  Speaker 2: had the Oktoberfest. I really enjoyed it this year. Hellas
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  Speaker 2: is right there with it.
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  Speaker 1: Got to have the Jacko still.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have the Jacko next week. That's our week.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to wait.
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  Speaker 3: Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Right. I think. Oh, no, we have two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: So I got a bunch of shipyard beers.
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  Speaker 1: I got some other next week is the week before Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. OK, so we got to knock it out.
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  Speaker 2: So the Jacko's all the pumpkin beers we're doing next week.
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  Speaker 2: I want to knock them out between like, we got
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  Speaker 2: to save a handful for the, well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we, we drink them now. You just don't
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  Speaker 1: release them till then.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's fine. But I like to have them there too,
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  Speaker 3: but I got a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: These are live spoiler alert. This is live.
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  Speaker 3: And I got like maybe four or five more. So
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  Speaker 3: we got like six. We got to break them up
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  Speaker 3: between the next two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, but yeah, no, uh, this one banged good.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had a Jacko from this year and we
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  Speaker 2: were just, we just had the apple spice, which you
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  Speaker 2: go check it out because, uh, we didn't really, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't love it, but want to see if anybody else
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  Speaker 2: didn't hate it, didn't hate it. But, uh, I did
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the Oktoberfest this year.
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  Speaker 1: You did?
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  Speaker 3: I did. That Marzen was so damn good. This one's good, too.
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  Speaker 3: What's the average score, Alan?
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  Speaker 1: My average score on this bad boy is 3.56 out
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  Speaker 1: of 5 out of 8,590 ratings.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of where I'm at. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: It didn't knock my socks off this year, but I
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  Speaker 2: like it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you this. Oktoberfest is better.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with that. I'll agree with that this year.
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  Speaker 1: So earlier, you lied when you said the Hell's was
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  Speaker 1: the best beer in this pack.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 1: And I told you to pump the brakes. You're like, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I already know.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, no, you don't. It's like, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know shit. But also, there's still time for the Oktoberfest
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  Speaker 1: to be dethroned because we have to have the Jacko first.
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  Speaker 3: It depends how many beers we have before we have
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  Speaker 3: the Jacko.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I say we have it here in like
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  Speaker 1: a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask me. You know what?
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  Speaker 3: We might as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go. All right.
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  Speaker 1: But have you guys had the Harvest Hells yet this year?
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  Speaker 1: Tell us what you think about it. And also, just
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  Speaker 1: tell us all your hopes and dreams in the comments.
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  Speaker 3: We want to know. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: As always, guys, I'm Alan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm BFK.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to you later.
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  Speaker 3: Deuces. Oh, wait. 3,000.