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MicroBrew-10: On the Road with a Raspberry Sour · Brew Tox with Scott & Scott

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  Welcome to another microbrew segment of our Brew Talks
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  podcast. On the Thursdays where we don't
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  have a full episode dropping, we like to share a shorter segment
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  that focuses on a single beer and a single topic.
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  A bit of a short taster if you. Will exactly.
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  Here it is. Hey, Bill.
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  You know, I know you're driving at all, and we're just heading
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  into Penticton here, but do you want a beer?
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  Absolutely. I want a beer at least two hours
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  since our last. One exactly.
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  So here I've got a few options for you.
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  OK, I've got here, I've got a like a German beer here I've got
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  a an IP hazy IPA that I got in Victoria.
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  And then I've got 2 here from sober Carpenter, ones a white
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  and then one is a Raspberry sour.
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  I know you don't really like sours.
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  So I haven't been the biggest sour fan, but we are venturing
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  into new territory as we do this podcast.
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  So why don't we try the Raspberry sour?
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  Ohhhhh. I like how you're being
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  adventurous here, OK? And I have, surprise surprise, a
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  couple frosty mugs aren't going to call them bugs, even though
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  they're actually little travel cup things.
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  OK, all that matters is that they're frosted.
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  They are frosty. They were in with all the ice
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  there. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna crack
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  this open. The sober, this is sobered
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  Carpenter from what? Oh, that's a French sober
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  Carpenter. Raspberry sour on alcoholic
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  sober carpenters from from Montreal.
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  Montreal, yeah. We've we've tried a few of
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  these. I don't know if you and I've
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  reviewed one. I know I've done one with Liam.
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  So, but I'll let's try this crack this one open.
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  Ah OK, I love that sound. That sounds good.
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  It sounds good. Pour this in here and try to do
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  this without spilling while we're driving here.
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  Dr. Smoothly so you don't spill. Can see it a little bit as it's
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  pouring out. Ohhhhh yeah, little pinkish.
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  Pinkish, yeah. OK, I'm gonna.
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  Certainly doesn't look like a beer from that vantage.
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  Point but that one there without it falling over.
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  I'm getting like beer in your car.
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  Here OHS better not tell my wife.
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  OK. I'm going to hold that one
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  there. OK.
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  And you can have that one. Alright, I've got a beer in my
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  hand. A beer in your hand?
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  While I'm driving. While you're driving, hey.
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  Cheers. OK, so like I said, kind of
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  pinkish colour, which no big surprise being that it's
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  Raspberry. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
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  It is it really? Smells.
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  I don't have to get very close to this to smell the Raspberry,
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  that's for sure. Yeah, it's very Raspberry
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  smelling. So is that?
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  Hmm. Wow.
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  Oh, it's quite, it's quite sour, right?
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  Yeah, I was going to say that it's not as sour as I expected
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  it to be. I wonder if that's because of
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  the Raspberry offsetting it a. Bit maybe, yeah, because, yeah,
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  that's right. Cause Raspberry, Yeah.
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  Interesting. Although Raspberry isn't of
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  course the sweetest fruit. No.
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  I mean, I know when I'm given a choice between strawberries and
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  raspberries, I often will take take strawberries because
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  raspberries to me just typically don't have that same level of
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  sweetness. But here I I wonder if it's kind
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  of cut out a bit of the of the sour.
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  It's quite good. It's funny, I was, I was
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  expecting it. I don't know.
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  I was, I was expecting it to be more like a rattler.
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  I guess I was kind of, that was my expectation of it.
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  Even though I think I've tried this one before.
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  I'm trying to remember if I've had this particular Raspberry
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  sour. I may have had a different one.
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  The Alcoholics hours that you really like, Like especially the
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  fruit and fused ones, Yeah. You know what, a little more a
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  bit more watered down. OK, a little bit.
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  I think it's it's Tamer that knows like I've had, you know,
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  there's certain yeah, certain sours.
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  Dead Frog Brewery and Langley, they make a lot of sours and
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  they're really quite good. They're they're quite good with
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  their sours and those sours are very sour and very strong
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  flavored beer again, sours. So it almost, I guess he's not.
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  Going Yeah, he is. Yeah, we're just stopping here,
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  truck line to get in in front of us here.
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  So a sour. Yeah.
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  Often I find a sour not tasting much like a beer.
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  This honestly doesn't taste a whole bunch of.
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  I don't catch a lot of happiness or anything in here.
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  No, it's more of a just, it's kind of a drink.
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  It's almost like a cider. Definitely, and and that might
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  be why it's more appealing to me as well.
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  I mean, I sometimes, as you know, I have difficulty getting
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  my head wrapped around sour and beer in the same sentence.
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  And and this one certainly is more sour, I think than it is
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  beer. So you know, I mean, I would, I
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  would definitely, I would definitely will finish drinking
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  this one for sure. Go ahead.
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  How how how does it compared to, I mean you haven't had as many
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  sours, you wouldn't order a sour normally but you have had sours
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  before. Like what do you think?
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  Or do you not have enough of experience having?
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  Well, I like. This one, while we're stopped
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  here, I'll put a little. Bit more because.
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  I'm getting low in the truck in front of vessel.
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  See what's this guy doing pouring beer into this?
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  The drivers. Well, you know what?
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  I think this particular can is pretty well described.
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  The Yeah, not described. Camouflaged, if you will,
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  because Tank isn't exactly a beer.
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  Not look at this thing and all those guys are.
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  It's not like it's a Molson Canadian.
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  Yeah, here. Yeah, it's for sure.
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  Looks like it's an energy drink actually.
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  Yeah, that, that's probably a good description of it.
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  You know, I do think that relative to the Alcoholics hours
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  I've had that normally I would, you know, this would be kind of
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  like if it was an alcoholic cider.
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  It's on our scale of, you know, I'd be afraid to throw it in the
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  planter because I don't want to kill my plants.
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  That's normally me and sour. But this one definitely is one
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  that will finish, as evidenced by the fact that you had to pour
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  me some more. There you go.
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  You know, So definitely, I think it's probably between a three
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  and a four on our scale for me. So somewhere between I'll finish
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  it and I'd go out and buy it. I probably would let you go out
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  and buy it for me. I'm not 100% sure I'd buy it for
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  myself, but you know, I do. I do find it to be quite
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  refreshing and I would and I will definitely finish it.
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  So for, for you, for coming from someone that does not like
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  sours, you know, for you to rate it that much, that's yeah, I
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  would probably, yeah. It's in a four range if I saw it
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  on the I buy it. In fact, I again, I'm trying to
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  remember if I've had this before.
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  I don't know and can't remember. But yeah, I would.
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  I buy this again if I saw it. It's kind of a nice refreshing
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  drink. It it's one of those that I
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  think Dorothy would like this one, but it doesn't.
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  It doesn't have a beer. Yeah, you know, which she's not
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  fond of, so she might. It's more like I said, it's more
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  like a cider. That'll be interesting to try
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  out because I I do wonder if Cindy would be a a fan of this
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  one. And again, for the same reason,
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  you know, I think although she tends to like beer more than
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  than Dorothy does. I mean, it's it's certainly not
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  her go to drink to have beer and and I think this one she might
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  enjoy so. It does have the sour lingering
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  that any of the beer sours have now thinking back to our way
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  back when on that Vancouver brewery tour that we did early
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  on and we were trying those sours.
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  What was that bill 15 years ago at least?
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  And those like compared to those ones since like far and away?
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  Right, absolutely. I mean, those ones were
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  undrinkable. They would have been a 0 on our
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  scale. We don't have 0.
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  No, we don't have 0. Yeah, So you know, yeah, No, I,
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  I, I absolutely agree with you. This is definitely drinkable.
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  And yeah, you know, I think that if you end up buying some more,
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  I will definitely be willing to have.
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  One, OK, looking forward to looking forward to this weekend
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  and trying and trying a bunch of different beers.
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  Now we're going to be like we said, we were still drinking
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  alcohol beers every once in a while, not nearly like as often
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  as you know, we, if we had a beer before, it was always an
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  alcohol beer before we started drinking non-alcoholic ones.
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  But you know, this weekend there's not that many offerings,
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  no at the beer festival we're going to here in Penticton.
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  So we are going to try a few different beers and you know,
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  I'm looking forward to trying, trying some of the sours and
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  trying some of the other other ones.
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  Well, that's definitely research, right?
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  We have to do some research for. Podcasts, we do have to do
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  research because we still like to do the comparison things.
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  So, you know, yeah. So this is all this.
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  This trip is all about research. Exactly.
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  That that at least that's our. That's our cell of it.
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  Yes, and being able to drink. And go straight through.
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  Here. Alright, I'm gonna go straight
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  through, alright. Anyway, cheers.
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  We'll finish these off and we're just arriving in in the
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  beautiful city of Penticton, home of the Okanagan Festival
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  that we're going. To until next.
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  Time until next time. Beer was of course sobered.
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  Carpenters Raspberry Sour brewed in Montreal, QC.
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  Bruton's original theme music composed by Zach Wong.
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  Original graphics designed by Shelby Smithson.
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