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MicroBrew-9: Blue Moon at Manning Park · Brew Tox with Scott & Scott

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  Oh. Welcome to a special microbrew
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  segment that kicks off a month of Bruto X episodes centred on
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  our experiences and conversations at the festival in
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  Penticton, BC. This particular tasting took
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  place before we even got to Penticton.
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  Here it is. Hey, Scott, It's really great to
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  get out of the car. I'm kind of feeling a little
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  achy. And you know what?
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  What, Even though we're driving up to Penticton?
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  Forecast avail. For the festive ale and
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  beautiful Manning Park here on Sunshine.
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  I really think I need a beer. Do you have any with?
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  You. I do.
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  Oh, you shouldn't be drinking and driving though, Bill.
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  Yeah, probably. That's a good idea.
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  We've talked about that before. But I know that you probably
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  have alcohol free beers. You're just fooling around with
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  me, right? Now we'll call free beers and
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  I've got a cooler full if you can hear this.
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  Alright, I've got I've got 6 beer in here.
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  There's two of the same ones and then there's a one of a
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  different variety. OK.
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  So you could either share two of these same that I know that you
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  have been wanting to have perhaps?
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  One of. Those or we could share one of
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  those other ones. What?
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  Do you feel like I think we should try that one that you
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  just pulled? Out so I just pulled out the
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  blue moon non alcoholic Belgian white and it's actually in a
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  nice frosty can so we might not even pour this into.
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  Frosty must. Have frosty mugs.
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  We can have it in the frosty can and we each have one here.
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  Excellent. So I've been, I had these blue
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  moon or I've had, I had blue moon as you know, Bill, when I
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  was down in the States earlier this year, yeah, in Palm Desert
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  and I found the blue moon. No, no, call this like, oh, this
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  is awesome because you and I have talked about blue moon
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  forever. You've you've said how blue the
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  blue moon in the States is better than the blue moon in
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  Canada generally. Yeah, absolutely.
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  And then I did break one up. Have you had that one that I
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  brought back? The the one, the mango one.
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  Right. Yeah, No, no, was not the mango
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  one. It was it was a non alcoholic
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  no. I haven't had the non alcoholic
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  before. This is a. 1st for me, OK.
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  Yeah, that's why I've been thrilled to try this one.
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  I really do wanna give it a go. OK, I notice this is the one
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  that's brewed in Canada because the Blue Moon Coors has a
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  relationship with. Is it Molson?
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  I guess it's Molson. They have their relationship.
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  With OK, I'm just as you're talking.
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  I'm trying to find it and. See if it is, and I'm pretty
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  sure it's Molson and. Coors, Molson.
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  Canadian. Because the regulations or
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  whatever the American blue moon is not available to us here and
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  I'm interested in finding out from you because you had the
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  American version. Yes, whether you see a
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  difference between the non alcoholic alcohol free blue moon
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  from the states versus the one we have in front of us which is
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  a Canadian bred 1. OK, well, it's nice and frosty.
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  Alright, let's give it a crack. And here goes the simplex.
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  Smells good. Hmm OK.
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  Taste like a typical blue moon with a hint of orange.
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  There's a little orange thing graphic on it.
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  And it's a .5 as well. It actually, I mean, it's very.
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  Very good. It's good.
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  Do you remember any differences between it and the American 1
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  you had? No, I don't think so.
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  I, I, I remember thinking when I had that American, when I was
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  like, wow, this is a really good beer.
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  Not necessarily just a really good non alcoholic beer.
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  It was a good beer and I quite liked it.
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  Now that was early, early in our earlier in our journey of
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  testing on alcoholic beers. I've now had many, many
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  different kinds. So now I can kind of compare
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  this to others I've had and wow, this is really good.
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  It is. I mean it's outstanding
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  actually. I mean, to be fair, haven't had
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  an opportunity to try to any wheat alcohol free.
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  Yeah. And so it's really nice to be
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  able to get a chance to have this one.
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  Says non alcoholic Belgian white Belgian style wheat ale.
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  So just like the regular Blue Moon, right?
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  Right. And brewed with Valencia Orange.
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  Peel. Well, there you go.
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  Well, the one thing I noticed though is that it's a little
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  higher in the calorie content and and typically the ones that
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  we've been drinking have been closer to 50.
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  So you know, that probably has some impact on the positive
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  taste. So you're not going to get quite
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  the lower calorie kind of piece to the blue moon than some of
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  the other beers we reviewed on this show.
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  But man, it's good, It's tasty. It really.
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  Is good. There's definitely a correlation
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  between the calories and the taste.
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  There's just more to it. Higher the calories, the more to
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  it. I think so, and yet I mean there
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  are some exceptions. There are, yeah.
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  For sure. You know, we've come across a
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  few. I mean, especially for me
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  anyway. The European ones, like the
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  European ones, seem to have mastered the real craft behind
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  brewing alcohol free beer. Like that ice bomb that we've
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  had. And I got a Ibom rattler
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  actually the other day. I haven't, I haven't tried it
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  yet. It was an Icom lemon radler.
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  I'm anxious to try because we did try the yeah, the Berry one,
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  yeah. And it was heavy Berry flavor.
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  So I'd be interested to see if the lemon one is similar in that
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  regard. But it would still be quite good
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  because we had any of the ones I've had or are really.
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  Quite good. Yeah.
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  No, I found that to be one of the better ones as well.
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  I think that the key is the amount of time that the various
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  Brewers have had relative to brewing alcohol free beer.
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  And the interesting thing is, is that I was talking to my
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  brother-in-law who's from Germany, and he was telling me
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  that he remembers alcohol free beers when he was a kid growing
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  up in Germany and having them when he was like 12 years old,
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  that that was just an ordinary thing to do.
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  Now he's, he's in his 70s at this point.
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  So, I mean, this is 60 years ago he's talking.
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  About that alcohol free back then, yeah Wow, have no idea.
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  Actually, well, it makes sense because I remember the material
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  you brought up previously about how alcohol free beer started
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  off as a breakfast drink. Right.
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  Yeah, that's true. So, you know, yeah, of course it
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  has been around then, isn't it? Yeah, the earliest stages, but
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  in terms of the deliberateness, you know, it's really kind of
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  interesting that the Germans and other European.
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  Acted here at work. We're sitting.
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  Sorry, Bill, we're sitting outside, as we said, at Manning
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  Park, and I've got this ginormous bumblebee that's
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  really interested in this Belgian blue moon here.
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  Just don't fly inside there buddy.
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  No, no kidding. Think he did.
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  He just was interested in my phone, the beer, the cooler,
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  everything. He's kind of gone now so.
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  Anyway, I'm glad he was on your side because I'm allergic to
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  those guys. Anyway, you know, I do think it
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  was kind of a absolutely great beer to pull out of your cooler.
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  And the beauty of it is that when we finish lunch, we're
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  going to get back in the car and we're going to start driving
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  again. And it doesn't matter.
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  It doesn't matter. We could even have one while
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  we're driving. You know, we should maybe try
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  that. Perhaps we'll even do a little
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  bit of a podcast on the. Road literally on the road.
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  Well, we're drinking. So we're testing that thing that
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  we've said. Does it count as drinking and
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  driving? I'm pretty sure it does, and I
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  have looked up yeah some jurisdictions.
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  Apparently though you could get in trouble for it because of the
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  there is .5 out, but I'm pretty sure you'd be hard pressed to
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  get in trouble for having an 0.5% beer.
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  We may have to talk to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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  about that one and see what they have to say.
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  Exactly. Well, anyway, cheers once again.
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  Yeah, how pretty fun to sit out here.
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  And I don't know if that I've ever always.
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  We know you and I have travelled this stretch from the Lower
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  Mainland to Penticton and back many, many, many times, having
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  been Penticton Knights ourselves.
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  And I think this is probably the first time I've ever stopped in
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  the many times I've stopped at Manning Park.
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  First time I've had a beer sitting here in Manning.
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  Park, absolutely. It's a whole new thing.
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  It is perhaps a new tradition. Wait, cheers.
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  Cheers. Have our lunch.
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  Until next time. Till next time while we're.
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  Back We just finished listening to the Blue Moon Manny Park
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  episode on our way back from Penticton and we realized we
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  didn't give it an official rating and it deserves to have
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  an official rating. I think we would agree a bill.
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  I definitely think we would agree because in my opinion this
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  is a watershed moment for the podcast.
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  This is the first alcohol free beer that I am going to rate as
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  a 5, which is a Hall of Fame beer from my perspective.
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  Nice and I would agree. I too would rate it a 5A Hall of
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  Fame beer. The blue moon alcohol free
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  Belgian white, I think it's called is fantastic.
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  So listeners, if you can find this beer out there, I've only
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  found it in one liquor store that I came across in in Langley
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  and I saw it the only place I've seen it.
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  So hopefully it will show up in a few more places.
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  But if you can find this Belgian moon beer and you want to a
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  fantastic alcohol free beer, it is great evil.
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  Absolutely highly recommended and definitely for those of you
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  who know the blue moon alcohol version, I think you're going to
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  have a tough time telling the difference here.
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  Yeah. For sure.
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  Well, until next time. Until next time, this is Scott
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  and Scott. See you later.
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