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Samuel Adams Cherry Bomb Wheat Ale Craft Beer Review · Strikeout Beer

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: What's going on, everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Strikeout Beer, your least favorite podcast.
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  Speaker 1: With your pals Alan and R.D. I'm R.D. I'm Alan.
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  Speaker 3: How's it going, buddy?
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  Speaker 1: It's going pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Today we have a big boy, a little nice, what
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  Speaker 2: is it, 16 ounces? Oh, this is a 19.2, excuse me, 19.2.
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  Speaker 2: Samuel Adams Cherry Bomb. Now, this bad boy is a 9%er.
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  Speaker 1: Bold and bright.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wheat ale with honey, cherry juice, and vanilla,
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  Speaker 2: or no, natural flavors.
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  Speaker 1: 10 IBU, so it should be crude.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bigger, stronger version than the Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. We've had it.
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  Speaker 3: We've had it. Yeah. Okay. It's been part of like
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  Speaker 3: their summer pack.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, so again, it's coming in at 9%. Um, expect
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  Speaker 3: like ripe slash sweet cherry up front, some tart cherry character,
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  Speaker 3: light malt underneath, low bitterness, um, should smell like cherry
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  Speaker 3: candy slash juice, fruit, light grain.
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  Speaker 1: What are those chewy cherry drops or cherry drops? You
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  Speaker 1: know the candy? Those cherry balls? Oh, my God. I
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  Speaker 1: love those. What is it? Ludens. I know what that is, too.
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  Speaker 3: Cough drops.
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  Speaker 1: Those used to be the best.
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  Speaker 2: No, there's like little cherry balls or whatever you want
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  Speaker 2: to call it, but there's a candy.
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  Speaker 1: It's like that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, cherry sours? There it is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. I thought you were talking.
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  Speaker 3: About cough drops.
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  Speaker 1: It's freaking amazing. No, Ludens is absolutely just candy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this would be a surprise if you get a
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  Speaker 3: little cherry Coke or cherry cough drop character flavor coming
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  Speaker 3: from it.
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  Speaker 1: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking at a 3.42 out of 5 average score
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  Speaker 3: on untapped out of 1,840 ratings.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I like that. I like that a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Cheers. Mazel, mazel, good things. It's got a nice little
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  Speaker 3: red hue to it, kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. Low IBUs, too.
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  Speaker 2: And there's the alcohol with the cherry.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a little booziness. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The cherry is trying to help it out, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not doing, not doing its full job here. Cherry bomb
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  Speaker 2: explodes with bold, juicy black cherry flavor. The, with just
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  Speaker 2: a touch of candy sweetness, it's 9% alcohol by volume,
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  Speaker 2: but you'd never know it from the clean crisp finish.
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  Speaker 1: Big flavor yet. Refreshing, smooth with every sip. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever read that?
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you're looking at me like I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm just looking at you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. Well, look at you.
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  Speaker 1: Eyes forward, sir. That's pretty good. Yeah, it's boozy.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's going to be my only. But you
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  Speaker 2: obviously know that getting a 90% beer, right? You know
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be boozy. I do like the fruit taste, though,
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  Speaker 2: the fruit juices. Are you getting a little black cherry?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I get that. I like black cherry, too. Big fan.
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  Speaker 3: Make someone soak some cherries in a beer.
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  Speaker 1: And you're eating a cherry. I'm listening to that. I
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  Speaker 1: would do that.
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  Speaker 3: With this?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, that'd be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Make them frozen, though. Freeze the cherries.
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  Speaker 2: Like little ice cubes? It's outside beer now. And as
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  Speaker 2: they melt, there's an old body. I could be down
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's not bad. It's pretty good. It is
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  Speaker 3: a little boozy, but it's still pretty smooth. You pick
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  Speaker 3: up the booziness on the end of it. It's something
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  Speaker 3: that we're This beer can get you in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's 10 IBUs, so it's very easy drinking. But
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  Speaker 2: what keeps it in check is that booze.
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say that boozyness will kind
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  Speaker 3: of keep you in check, though, so where you don't
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  Speaker 3: get out of control with something like this, right? It's
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  Speaker 3: like some of these other ones that we've had where
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  Speaker 3: they're like 12% and you're drinking and you're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is trouble.
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  Speaker 1: This is trouble. It's usually like the six and a halfs.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? For some reason, a 6.6 beer.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most dangerous thing on earth.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it can be.
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  Speaker 1: Because, you know, I mean, it's like a nice hazy
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. And you're just like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is like amazing, you know.
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  Speaker 3: That beer I was drinking at the draft, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was a six percenter.
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  Speaker 1: Was it?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, man, this is great.
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  Speaker 1: What was it called?
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  Speaker 3: Easy drinking beer.
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  Speaker 1: Easy drinking beer. Yeah, I like that. Doc liked it, too.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I've got to try it. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: because he cracked out the founders all day. I go,
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  Speaker 1: all day IPA? He goes, yeah, it's not too hot.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay. I was like, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a session IPA. He goes, oh, that's what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It says right there in the can.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh yeah. No, this is good. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: never had a bad Sam Adams beer.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a big, uh, cherry scent. Like you definitely
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  Speaker 3: smell it. Like when you're going to put your.
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  Speaker 1: Beak in there. Yeah. That smells good. That's a good
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  Speaker 1: smelling beer.
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  Speaker 3: It is pretty tasty. I am enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I'd get a head on too. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: hard poured it. It went away. Well, you have to
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  Speaker 1: rather quick. I mean, you gotta walk out of that napkin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Goddamn napkin.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm just tired. He goes, oh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was reading this book.
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  Speaker 2: No, you just saw the damn video on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: He showed pictures from the book.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: Here's a diagram. It's a book. Was it How to
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  Speaker 1: Pour Beer or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: It's just beer. But this is how you pour it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The book's laying around here somewhere. But no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty tasty. Oh, carbonation. Here, get out of it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I hardcore these. I did tilt the
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  Speaker 2: glass to the side, but I still pumped it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that. So anyway. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, cheers. Mazel mazel.
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  Speaker 1: Good things.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty damn good. I'll give it like a 3.25
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  Speaker 3: on this. The booziness is kind of holding me back
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, but it's pretty damn tasty.
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  Speaker 1: What's the average score on Untapped again? 3.42.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go 3.5.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go above it just because I like the taste.
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  Speaker 2: I want to like the can, like the taste. The
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  Speaker 2: booziness is there, but it doesn't bother me that much.
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  Speaker 2: And I do like the cherry flavor.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good. It's pretty tasty.
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  Speaker 3: It looked good. All in all, pretty damn good. I'd
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  Speaker 3: have another one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So what, uh, what are the, the AI
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  Speaker 1: say we should be scoring this thing?
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  Speaker 3: Um, it didn't give me a score for you. Let
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  Speaker 3: me ask it real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. You just asked for yourself, huh?
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  Speaker 3: It just didn't give it to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's strange.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it said I would score it between a 3.8
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  Speaker 3: and a four.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So, uh, said you would do it about a 3.3.
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  Speaker 3: So again, it's reversed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's all you can get out of it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving a thumbs up and I don't have a.
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  Speaker 3: Thumb up for sure. It says you would say that
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  Speaker 3: where's where they go. I lost it. Tastes like someone
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  Speaker 3: dumped a bunch of cherry syrup in it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like maybe the whole thing of Marciano cherries
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  Speaker 2: with the juice, you know, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Cherry syrup.
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  Speaker 3: Huh? Cherry syrup in a beer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm in. I happen to love cherries. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Boom.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, have you guys had cherry bomb yet? Let us
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  Speaker 3: know what you think. And as always, I'm Alan. Talk
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  Speaker 3: to you later.
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  Speaker 2: Deuces.