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Samuel Adams Jack-O Pumpkin Ale 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 alan and rapid dave i'm
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  Speaker 1: alan i'm rd man what's up not much how you
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  Speaker 1: doing brother i'm good yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Finishing off the samuel's fall legends that's right adams why
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  Speaker 2: can't i say samuel adams sam adams.
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  Speaker 3: Sam adams yeah samuel adams let's get official we got.
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  Speaker 2: A jacko here This is the last. We've already gone
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  Speaker 2: through the other ones. We went Octoberfest, Harvest Hellos. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: we did the Apple Spice Ale and then Harvest Hellos.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're having Jacko. Jacko.
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  Speaker 4: I love this pack.
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  Speaker 3: It's a seasonal pumpkin ale designed to taste like pumpkin
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  Speaker 3: pie in a glass. It's one of the sweeter, more
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  Speaker 3: spiced Ford beers in Sam Adams Fall Legends Variety Pack. Unlike.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just had a little burp action going and
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  Speaker 3: just containing it. Unlike Oktoberfest or Harvest Hells, Jacko is
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  Speaker 3: all about pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and fall flavors. Coming in
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  Speaker 3: at 4.4% alcohol by volume, eight IBUs, and the style
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  Speaker 3: is a pumpkin ale, medium amber.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weed ale brewed with natural flavors with pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: and natural flavors added.
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  Speaker 3: A weed ale? It says weed ale on there?
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  Speaker 4: That's what it says.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Cheers.
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  Speaker 3: Mazel mazel.
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  Speaker 4: Good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Cheers.
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  Speaker 4: You a pumpkin pie guy?
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  Speaker 2: Not really.
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  Speaker 4: I don't ever have it. I think I've only had
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  Speaker 4: it like twice in my life.
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  Speaker 3: That's not bad.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack O' Cinnamon Nutmeg. We almost recall memories of
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  Speaker 2: freshly baked pumpkin pie. It has the ideal balance of
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  Speaker 2: seasonal spice with a crisp, refreshing finish.
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  Speaker 4: What did you say? Was it 4.4? Yeah, 4.4.
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  Speaker 2: Eight IBUs.
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  Speaker 4: Bing, bang, boom.
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  Speaker 3: It's brewed with real pumpkin, not just pumpkin spice flavoring.
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  Speaker 4: It tastes quite pumpkin-y. It really does.
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  Speaker 3: It does. It's actually pretty good. It's brewed with a
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  Speaker 3: wheat malt. There you go.
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  Speaker 4: It's a wheat ale.
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  Speaker 2: Who knew?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know that. Yeah, great pack to have here.
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  Speaker 2: We've already gone through them all, and we'll do some
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  Speaker 2: other randos, and we'll have maybe a couple more for
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  Speaker 2: the stream tonight.
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  Speaker 4: But, yeah, no, it's good beers.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: They've all been good, except we did have one exception
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  Speaker 2: with the apple spice ale. We wanted just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit more. A little bit more flavor, a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more taste. Not a great beer, but not
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  Speaker 3: an awful beer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't awful.
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  Speaker 3: It was just kind of there.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't scorebomb it or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: This is the lowest ABV of the Mixed Pack. You
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  Speaker 3: got the Oktoberfest coming in at 5.3. The Harvest Hell
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  Speaker 3: is coming in at 5.4. Apple Spice at 5. And
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  Speaker 3: the Jacko at 4.4. Nice. Real nice.
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  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it. I don't drink a lot of pumpkin beers.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only month I do it. I knock
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  Speaker 2: them all out in the last two weeks, essentially, of October.
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  Speaker 2: right and you know it just i have my fill
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  Speaker 2: and we move on yeah you know it is what
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  Speaker 2: it is we do have some really good uh some
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  Speaker 2: other ones as well uh coming in from like shipyard
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  Speaker 2: and uh great divide and whatnot uh have those coming
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  Speaker 2: up in a couple weeks so oh bada bing bada
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  Speaker 2: boom get them all done for halloween so we have
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  Speaker 2: we just we got tonight's stream next week and then
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  Speaker 2: we will have the halloween stream on a couple days
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  Speaker 2: before halloween actually it'd be fun yeah be fun looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to it so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, this isn't bad at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: I would say it's a pumpkin. It tastes like a
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  Speaker 4: pumpkin pie in a can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I would say so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to have some pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to have some pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 4: And that's what people do?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the thing. Come on, Apple Pie.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to buy the pumpkin pie, or are
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  Speaker 3: you going to have it made by? You can tell
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  Speaker 3: the missus, like, hey, make me a pumpkin pie.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think we'll just buy it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we'll buy it. And don't people just
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  Speaker 2: go over the top with Cool Whip? They want the
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  Speaker 2: Cool Whip, right? Right, right.
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  Speaker 3: The pumpkin pie is a delivery system for the Cool Whip.
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  Speaker 4: A vessel, if you will.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. It's the spoon they use, but it's an edible spoon.
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  Speaker 3: So they just kind of, you know, just a nip
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  Speaker 3: of the pumpkin pie and then a ton of the
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  Speaker 3: Cool Whip. Well, you've got your slice, but the amount
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  Speaker 3: of Cool Whip you put on it is probably double
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  Speaker 3: in thickness as your pumpkin pie slice. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll work.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I might try it.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: I had a pecan pie or pecan pie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't too bad. Real sweet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Real sweet. I'm more of an apple cherry guy, like
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  Speaker 4: I said. It's my jam.
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  Speaker 3: Give me some apple pie, but give me a little
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  Speaker 3: a la mode with a little vanilla ice cream on that.
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  Speaker 3: Always a scoop.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Always a scoop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, make sure the apple pie's warm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Warm it up in the microwave. Yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 3: and slap that ice cream on there and just.
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  Speaker 4: It's coming out of the oven, buddy. It's coming out
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  Speaker 4: of the oven.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to. Well, sometimes you bake it like. For Thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 3: we'll bake the pies before, and then you're not eating
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  Speaker 3: it until after dinner. You know? No? Okay. You bake
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  Speaker 3: the pies after you're done eating dinner. We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you do it live. She's in there yelling the
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  Speaker 4: whole time. F it, I'll do it live!
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  Speaker 3: You'll do it live!
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is good.
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  Speaker 2: Some people complain about some of the pumpkin just being
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  Speaker 2: too pumpkin-y, or it's not whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But I think it's a great balance.
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  Speaker 3: I like a pumpkin pie, not a pumpkin pie, a
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  Speaker 3: pumpkin beer end of October.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And that's it. That's it for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to have it any other time of
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  Speaker 3: the year. I'm going to have.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we're two weeks away now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm essentially going to have like three because
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to have six, but I'm going to have
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  Speaker 3: half of each one. Yeah. Cause I share them with you. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, three last week, three a week after that.
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  Speaker 3: Right. And that's, and that's essentially it, you know, now
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  Speaker 3: I will, I will always have a full one of
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  Speaker 3: the Jacko. just because we buy the mix pack and
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  Speaker 3: we share one and then we have one that we
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  Speaker 3: do jacko tomorrow yeah i might i might wake up
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  Speaker 3: and crack one open at 7 a.m tomorrow how about that.
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  Speaker 2: You know we'll save that for the friday before halloween
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  Speaker 2: okay how about that yeah i'm down yeah we'll save
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  Speaker 2: it for that okay yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was awesome or we'll wake up early on halloween
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  Speaker 3: and crack open a beer 7 AM live stream with Jacko.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm down to do it. Cause I've got
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  Speaker 2: like the perfect, like Halloween day. Like it was like
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  Speaker 2: someone sent out a thing about it and it's like
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  Speaker 2: a sleep in and then get up, carve pumpkins, screw.
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  Speaker 4: Around, you know, whatever, all this kind of shit. And
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  Speaker 4: so it's like, everything takes like two hours ago. Then
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  Speaker 4: about two or three o'clock, start getting ready. Have yourself
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  Speaker 4: a beer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're just by the sun goes down.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready though.
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  Speaker 4: You're trick or treaters.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're just chilling at the house this year.
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  Speaker 3: I asked the kiddo. I was like, cause she had
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  Speaker 3: been talking about wanting to go to a friend's house.
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  Speaker 3: it's like hey you still going to your friend's house
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  Speaker 3: she's like i don't think so like because she wants
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  Speaker 3: to do they want to do like a group costume
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  Speaker 3: and her friends really sit on them all dressing as
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  Speaker 3: monster high dolls and she's like i just don't want
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  Speaker 3: to do that so i think i'm just going to
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  Speaker 3: stay at home and watch scary movies and i'm like
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  Speaker 3: that's a halloween for you i'm not actually i'm not
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  Speaker 3: angry with that you know i'll sit home and watch
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  Speaker 3: scary movies all night let's have some fun we'll make
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  Speaker 3: the whole day of it yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know I mean, Halloween's on immediately in the morning,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a whole marathon. You know, they'll have them all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So, cheers. Mazel mazel, good things. Cheers, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: That was good. It was quite tasty. Quite tasty.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty good, and I can go ahead and say Oktoberfest.
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  Speaker 4: Go with your gut.
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  Speaker 2: Hells.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: Jacko. Apple spice. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the same exactly the same that october fest this
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  Speaker 2: year was a banger it was so it was really
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  Speaker 2: good uh jacko's delicious you know obviously you're we're still
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  Speaker 2: giving that number three spot but just put the other
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  Speaker 2: two beers with that much better um really good fall
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah fall legends pack here from samuel adams we
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  Speaker 2: have it every year every year they put it out
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  Speaker 2: and uh Four different beers. You get three each. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great pack to share. It's a great pack. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to just keep them to yourself, keep them
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  Speaker 2: to yourself. But that's a great variety of different beers.
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  Speaker 2: Something for everybody. It's really tasty. So the pack itself
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  Speaker 2: gets a double thumbs up. This beer gets a thumbs
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  Speaker 2: up for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Love Jacko. Every time we have it, I just want
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  Speaker 4: it once a year.
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  Speaker 3: That's it, though.
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  Speaker 4: I drink it once a year.
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  Speaker 3: So let me go ahead and throw this out. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just going to throw something out here. Okay. So the
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  Speaker 3: Harvest Hells we had, good beer. Yeah. The average score
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  Speaker 3: on that one on Untapped was 3.56. Yes. The average
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  Speaker 3: score of the Apple Spice was 3.14.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The Oktoberfest was 3.78. Okay. And the Jacko, 3.57. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Came in. 01 ahead of the Harvest Hellas. Unbelievable. That's fine, though.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like a 3.25 on this.
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  Speaker 4: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'll give it a 3.5.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm fine with that this year. 3.5 for Jacko.
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  Speaker 2: There was nothing to really take away from it negatively.
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  Speaker 2: It was poured great, tastes great, smells great. It checked
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  Speaker 2: boxes all the way through, and it was a good
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  Speaker 2: solid beer all the way through. Not overly pumpkin-y. Just
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  Speaker 2: easy drinking. I give this pack, this pack really is
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  Speaker 2: a 4 out of 5. The whole pack as a collective.
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  Speaker 2: All the selection, all the different beers you get, and
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  Speaker 2: the tastiness. Yeah, this year, it's kind of a miss.
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  Speaker 2: We had the flannel fest last year.
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  Speaker 3: Flannel fest was last year.
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  Speaker 4: And that was good. Dude, ain't nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Better than a dunkle. A little dunkle action.
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  Speaker 2: So they just wanted to mix it up a little
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 4: It's a slight miss.
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  Speaker 3: That's all it was.
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  Speaker 4: But overall.
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  Speaker 3: If it had a little bit more flavor, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been better. A little bit more apple, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more cinnamon flavor. But hey, Jacko was a hit.
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  Speaker 3: I like it. I enjoy it. I think it's good.
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  Speaker 3: And it's good for you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the doctor's in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Boom.
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  Speaker 3: How about that? What do you guys think about this beer,
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  Speaker 3: and what's your favorite Billy Joel song, and why is it?
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  Speaker 3: Tell her about it. As always, I'm Alan. of rd
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk to you guys later deuces