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S5 Ep. 3 - The Opening Crack: Clyde's Caramel Cream Ale · Bards and Barrels

• 0:17
  Ross: There's the opening crack.
• 0:19
  Ross: It's time for the opening crack, the sideshow to the D&D show we normally do, where we rank and where we taste and rank.
• 0:25
  Ross: It's been a while since we've done that.
• 0:26
  Damen: The ranking then would be
• 0:27
  Phil: funny to rank it first and then go back at the end and see if you were right.
• 0:30
  Phil: Blind rank.
• 0:32
  Phil: Yeah.
• 0:32
  Phil: Blind rank.
• 0:33
  Ross: Wow.
• 0:34
  Ross: Well, stay tuned to the next episode of the opening crack where we where we rank them.
• 0:37
  Ross: Yeah, blind rank it.
• 0:38
  Ross: Do you want to start that tonight?
• 0:42
  Ross: That really wasn't the plan, but we can.
• 0:43
  Damen: Oh no, it's too late now.
• 0:44
  Damen: Well, maybe it's not.
• 0:47
  Damen: I don't know.
• 0:49
  Phil: We could rate it on Clyde.
• 0:51
  Ross: We could.
• 0:52
  Ross: You want to do a blind rating?
• 0:53
  Ross: Next time.
• 0:54
  Ross: Everybody listening to the screen.
• 0:55
  Ross: We've already tasted it.
• 0:56
  Ross: Come back next time you see the.
• 0:58
  Ross: Everybody listening to this is so confused right now.
• 1:01
  Ross: I mean, like, what else is new for the opening crack?
• 1:04
  Damen: Uh, Phil, what are we drinking tonight?
• 1:05
  Phil: We are drinking Clyde's caramel cream.
• 1:08
  Phil: It's a caramel and vanilla ale brewed by Burr Oak Brewing Company out of Columbia, Missouri.
• 1:15
  Ross: Shout out to all you Mizzou fans out there.
• 1:19
  Ross: Crickets.
• 1:20
  Ross: Yeah, you can hear them.
• 1:20
  Ross: Crickets.
• 1:21
  Ross: Crickets.
• 1:21
  Ross: Crickets.
• 1:22
  Ross: Crickets.
• 1:22
  Ross: Okay.
• 1:23
  Damen: I heard them.
• 1:24
  Damen: The crickets?
• 1:25
  Damen: So we're here.
• 1:27
  Damen: I love, I mean, I hope they are here.
• 1:29
  Damen: We love cats.
• 1:31
  Damen: Big cats, little cats.
• 1:33
  Damen: You know?
• 1:34
  Damen: Sure.
• 1:35
  Phil: Cats with monocles.
• 1:36
  Damen: Yeah.
• 1:36
  Damen: I love it.
• 1:37
  Damen: Aren't they the tigers?
• 1:38
  Damen: Isn't that their deal?
• 1:39
  Phil: Yeah.
• 1:39
  Ross: They are the tigers.
• 1:40
  Ross: I did.
• 1:42
  Ross: You did, obviously, yes.
• 1:44
  Ross: Well, well done, Damon.
• 1:45
  Ross: Uh, go ahead and take a sip.
• 1:47
  Ross: Uh, while you're doing that, I will uh read the description for this one from Burr Oak Marine.
• 1:51
  Ross: Clyde's caramel cream ale is a silky cream ale.
• 1:54
  Ross: Clyde is named after our famous rescue cat who keeps a watchful eye on grain intruders.
• 2:00
  Ross: Mildly sweet with notes of caramel and vanilla, this cream ale has a luxurious mouthfeel and a smooth, creamy finish.
• 2:07
  Ross: What are your initial thoughts?
• 2:08
  Ross: Brett.
• 2:09
  Ross: That's too bad.
• 2:11
  Ross: He's like savory.
• 2:12
  Ross: Did you see that?
• 2:13
  Ross: Wait, should I come to you?
• 2:15
  Ross: Is this a missed opportunity?
• 2:17
  Damen: I was just gonna say, I don't think that that cat is as famous as they think it is.
• 2:21
  Brett: I think you should come back to me.
• 2:23
  Brett: Uh oh.
• 2:23
  Brett: Brett has to go.
• 2:25
  Damen: Okay.
• 2:26
  Ross: Pause.
• 2:26
  Ross: Before you go back.
• 2:26
  Ross: Yes, he does, because notoriously on this show, Brett loaves cream males.
• 2:34
  Ross: I don't know.
• 2:34
  Ross: Maybe that's too.
• 2:35
  Brett: I was trying to think of what Damon's saying is when we try pickle beers.
• 2:39
  Brett: Something like uh I appreciate its quality for the style that it is.
• 2:44
  Brett: Or something like that.
• 2:45
  Brett: Okay.
• 2:46
  Damen: I'm sure it's a good representation of the style.
• 2:48
  Brett: That's that's the line.
• 2:49
  Ross: Model that up.
• 2:50
  Ross: We'll come back to you.
• 2:51
  Ross: I want you to stew on that for another minute.
• 2:52
  Ross: Phil, go ahead.
• 2:54
  Damen: So actually, uh what I appreciated the most about your description of this beer was luxurious because it does feel like like as it goes across the tongue, it's a full mouthfeel.
• 3:04
  Damen: Like it's an experience in a delicious way.
• 3:07
  Damen: I don't know.
• 3:09
  Ross: I don't disagree.
• 3:10
  Damen: I really enjoyed this.
• 3:11
  Ross: It's uh heavy vanilla flavor.
• 3:13
  Ross: The nose on this feels like it's it's like cream soda.
• 3:17
  Ross: That vanilla coming through nice and some shit wrong.
• 3:19
  Ross: I I love that.
• 3:20
  Ross: I like cream sodas.
• 3:22
  Damen: I feel as though we're gonna have a 2v2 situation here.
• 3:25
  Damen: Uh oh.
• 3:26
  Damen: Because I don't really care for this beer very much.
• 3:28
  Damen: Oh man.
• 3:29
  Damen: Oh no.
• 3:30
  Damen: Oh no.
• 3:31
  Damen: I think it's uh I think that the we I think there should be another category of beers, and it should be novelty beers.
• 3:42
  Brett: Wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 3:42
  Brett: Are you putting pickles in this?
• 3:43
  Brett: Yes, yes.
• 3:45
  Damen: Yes, any stupid beer that somebody comes up with.
• 3:48
  Brett: Are they like habanero beers like that?
• 3:51
  Damen: Yes, those are all novelty beers.
• 3:53
  Brett: The super hot one.
• 3:54
  Brett: Like the yeah.
• 3:55
  Ross: So so do you feel this because like the like this is not like a traditional beer flavor, so it's like that's why it should be grouped in this?
• 4:01
  Ross: Or I just want a beer.
• 4:03
  Ross: Sure.
• 4:04
  Ross: Okay, fair.
• 4:05
  Damen: This hit this tastes like root beer.
• 4:07
  Ross: I do, I get I do it.
• 4:08
  Ross: Or a sassy out of it, yeah.
• 4:10
  Damen: Or something along those lines.
• 4:13
  Damen: Remember a few years ago when uh who was that?
• 4:15
  Damen: There was like hard root beer was all the phrase.
• 4:18
  Damen: Uh yes, I do remember what that was like a one hard ripped beer.
• 4:22
  Damen: Not your grandfather's or something like that.
• 4:24
  Ross: Yeah, that's not your grandpa's hard root beer.
• 4:26
  Damen: And then everybody thought, oh boy, we should make a hard ripped beer.
• 4:28
  Damen: Yeah.
• 4:29
  Damen: Like, well, no, like there's a like a reason that nobody had really been making hard root beers before.
• 4:34
  Damen: Fair.
• 4:35
  Ross: And they I mean, but they're not going for hard root beer here.
• 4:39
  Damen: Caramel cream.
• 4:40
  Damen: So I don't know if that's what they're going for or not, but that's kind of where they ended up.
• 4:49
  Brett: It's kind of like they put one of those masks on that had like the big glasses and the big nose.
• 4:53
  Brett: Like, I'm not a root beer.
• 4:55
  Brett: Do you try to see that?
• 4:57
  Brett: There's some very harsh opinions in this room right now.
• 5:00
  Damen: It's got a trench coat on it.
• 5:01
  Damen: I don't know that we've ever rated one, but I know we've had like a vanilla bean ale.
• 5:04
  Damen: Is it that drastically different, you think, than like a vanilla bean ale?
• 5:08
  Damen: I don't really care for those either.
• 5:10
  Damen: Okay.
• 5:10
  Ross: Because like that is style.
• 5:13
  Ross: That gave Brett pause.
• 5:15
  Ross: I know.
• 5:16
  Damen: Because it's not that dissimilar to that.
• 5:18
  Brett: I would agree with that.
• 5:19
  Brett: This has a lot more of the smoothness with the caramel in there that wasn't necessarily there with like the vanilla bean ales.
• 5:29
  Ross: Yeah.
• 5:30
  Ross: Fair.
• 5:31
  Ross: Sure.
• 5:32
  Ross: So you do you not and like comparing to other cream ales?
• 5:38
  Ross: Like, is it down there with them or is this one above it?
• 5:42
  Ross: I guess I'm not sure.
• 5:43
  Brett: This one is far above.
• 5:45
  Brett: Oh, uh, do you remember the chonk?
• 5:47
  Brett: The creamy chonk one.
• 5:48
  Ross: Oh god, those were good.
• 5:49
  Ross: Yes, so good.
• 5:51
  Damen: Uh that was the ones that are kind of like more like they're kind of more like a smoothie.
• 5:56
  Brett: Yeah.
• 5:56
  Brett: I like this more than that.
• 5:59
  Phil: Okay.
• 6:00
  Brett: Uh, because this is closer to like I put caramel macchiato syrup in my coffee.
• 6:07
  Brett: This is more like that.
• 6:09
  Damen: Okay.
• 6:10
  Brett: Compared to just like a scoop of ice cream.
• 6:12
  Brett: Sure.
• 6:14
  Brett: Uh give us a facts on this beer, yeah.
• 6:17
  Ross: Yeah, what is what are we even?
• 6:18
  Ross: What are the facts?
• 6:19
  Ross: I mean, we've been talking about what beer.
• 6:21
  Ross: Uh it's a 5.7 on the ABBs.
• 6:24
  Ross: Uh IB used for this one 15, which makes sense.
• 6:27
  Ross: Like, I don't I don't get any bitterness.
• 6:29
  Ross: Like, they they crack like they even admit that it's more of a dessert beer, which I feel like that fits really well.
• 6:34
  Ross: Oh, yeah.
• 6:35
  Ross: I almost wonder if that should be the the group that these are in.
• 6:39
  Ross: Because there's several other beers that could that could go in that group.
• 6:42
  Ross: I think the cream ale side of it lends itself really well to the dessert y part of it.
• 6:47
  Ross: I'm not a fan of cream ale's either, so I'm kind of in Brett's bow, but it there's something back.
• 6:54
  Damen: I think it's the vanilla.
• 6:55
  Damen: That's what?
• 6:56
  Damen: That m makes it feel more like a dessert.
• 6:58
  Damen: Because it's like ice cream.
• 7:00
  Damen: More like vanilla ice cream.
• 7:01
  Brett: Like this would go good with apple pie.
• 7:03
  Damen: Like like I make a cream ale that has no lactose or any cream in it at all.
• 7:08
  Damen: Like the style cream ale doesn't necessarily have anything to do with dairy.
• 7:14
  Damen: Yeah, sure.
• 7:15
  Damen: Like with cream.
• 7:16
  Damen: Um it's just a light style of beer.
• 7:22
  Damen: Um yeah, but I yeah, I think that that the vanilla that's in there.
• 7:27
  Damen: I don't I don't know if you guys taste caramel in it, really, or not.
• 7:31
  Ross: No, it's to me it's all vanilla.
• 7:33
  Damen: Yeah, I don't notice that it's caramel, I guess.
• 7:36
  Damen: Over the vanilla.
• 7:37
  Brett: Unless it's that I get the same smoothness with the caramel.
• 7:40
  Brett: That's what I wondered.
• 7:41
  Damen: If that is that just a trick.
• 7:43
  Damen: Is it a trick of the minds?
• 7:46
  Ross: I wonder if that's where we're getting like the root beer vibe from it.
• 7:49
  Ross: Because you get the vanilla, which is obviously a very forward part of root beer, but then that caramel adds like that brown sugary kind of toastiness, very light toastiness.
• 7:58
  Ross: Like next week neighbors to each other, yeah.
• 8:00
  Ross: Yeah, that's yeah, that's a great way.
• 8:01
  Ross: They're like caramel and brown sugar, like and and not like neighbors like no normal neighbors, not like a mile and a quarter away neighbor, but like the neighbor where like you live in a subdivision where they built the houses too close, like you can open a window and like shake hands with your neighbor.
• 8:14
  Ross: Yes.
• 8:14
  Ross: That that can I have a cup of sugar.
• 8:16
  Ross: Yes.
• 8:16
  Ross: Do you have any gray coupon?
• 8:18
  Damen: Like you can reach into their window from your window.
• 8:21
  Ross: Correct.
• 8:21
  Ross: Think like a la, you know, Denver, any big city.
• 8:25
  Ross: That's kind of what I'm thinking.
• 8:27
  Ross: Like neighbors.
• 8:27
  Ross: Sorry, that was a little off.
• 8:29
  Brett: Out of everywhere in the world that you could have picked for an example of that, you go Denver?
• 8:34
  Damen: Yeah, Denver, Iowa.
• 8:35
  Brett: But not Denver, Iowa.
• 8:36
  Brett: Not like probably not that's a micro.
• 8:38
  Damen: Anywhere on the East Coast.
• 8:39
  Damen: But we met Matt Dinnaman in Denver.
• 8:42
  Ross: I go to Denver a lot.
• 8:43
  Ross: So Denver pops up in my brain a lot.
• 8:44
  Ross: Okay.
• 8:45
  Ross: But like I don't I don't venture too often.
• 8:47
  Ross: Row house?
• 8:48
  Ross: I don't venture too often to Jersey.
• 8:50
  Ross: Yeah.
• 8:51
  Ross: I don't either, but to Brooklyn.
• 8:53
  Damen: In Baltimore, we should go to Brooklyn, Iowa.
• 8:55
  Damen: I don't go to Brooklyn, Iowa either.
• 8:57
  Damen: I could knock my neighbors into the wall in Baltimore, my row home.
• 9:01
  Brett: Is there a version of every town in Iowa?
• 9:04
  Ross: I mean that's because Iowa couldn't come up with any other better names.
• 9:07
  Ross: Because like all town names are named after people.
• 9:10
  Ross: So is there a Nebraska, Iowa?
• 9:12
  Brett: Probably.
• 9:13
  Damen: Wouldn't surprise me.
• 9:14
  Damen: Probably Nebraska City.
• 9:16
  Brett: You should.
• 9:17
  Brett: I wish you guys could have seen Damon's face.
• 9:19
  Brett: He was like going through a map of Iowa in his head.
• 9:21
  Ross: He's like, wait, maybe.
• 9:23
  Damen: I'm not aware of one, but I mean, there's an Atlanta, Nebraska.
• 9:28
  Damen: There is.
• 9:28
  Damen: That's true.
• 9:29
  Damen: And I think maybe also Springfield, Nebraska.
• 9:32
  Damen: There is a Springfield, Nebraska, yeah.
• 9:34
  Damen: So I mean, I'm just saying, you know.
• 9:35
  Brett: Oh, yeah.
• 9:36
  Brett: It's not a people have.
• 9:37
  Brett: They're basically the same state.
• 9:39
  Damen: True.
• 9:39
  Damen: It's so true.
• 9:40
  Ross: Yes, you're exactly right.
• 9:41
  Ross: Don't tell Iowa fans that.
• 9:43
  Ross: Sorry, Demon.
• 9:44
  Phil: Yeah.
• 9:45
  Ross: Before we get too far off the beam path here, Phil, can you describe the can for us?
• 9:49
  Phil: Oh, that's there's a beer.
• 9:51
  Ross: But I can help with this.
• 9:52
  Damen: It's cylindrical and metallic.
• 9:55
  Damen: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:56
  Damen: That's the word I was looking at.
• 9:57
  Damen: It's a label on it.
• 10:00
  Damen: And on the label is printed Clyde.
• 10:02
  Damen: In all of I'm making an assumption here, his glory, with a uh black top hat and a monocle over his right eye, as he is, what did it say?
• 10:14
  Damen: Keeping the critters out of the grain.
• 10:16
  Phil: Yes.
• 10:17
  Damen: Uh I actually really like this can.
• 10:18
  Damen: I think that it's like kind of a classy look.
• 10:20
  Damen: It would get me to pick the can up off the shelf.
• 10:24
  Ross: I agree.
• 10:24
  Ross: And then I would put it down when it said caramel cream ale.
• 10:27
  Ross: But you like it.
• 10:29
  Ross: I don't mind it.
• 10:30
  Ross: I would not buy it for myself, though.
• 10:32
  Ross: It's not one I would pick up, probably.
• 10:34
  Damen: I would.
• 10:34
  Damen: I can tell you it stood out amongst the sea of IPAs and double IPAs and hazy IPAs.
• 10:41
  Damen: All the neon colors, all the labels.
• 10:43
  Damen: Yeah.
• 10:43
  Brett: Yes.
• 10:44
  Brett: Like it's it's definitely a more subdued can in the world of can design these days.
• 10:49
  Brett: True.
• 10:50
  Brett: It feels like old fashioned.
• 10:52
  Brett: Yes.
• 10:52
  Brett: But like in a in a like old fashioned but in a unmodern way.
• 10:58
  Damen: This cat looks as though he would fit in with that um uh the Victorian era candelabra?
• 11:08
  Damen: The one candela.
• 11:10
  Phil: Oh, candelab's.
• 11:11
  Phil: Yes, he would fit in candelabs.
• 11:14
  Damen: Candelabra.
• 11:15
  Phil: Yeah.
• 11:16
  Damen: He looks like a character out of there.
• 11:20
  Ross: Yes, I I don't disagree with that.
• 11:22
  Ross: I like that.
• 11:23
  Ross: I think the Clydes uh font makes me think of uh um cheers.
• 11:29
  Damen: Oh yeah, a little bit it's a little more motorcycle than that.
• 11:33
  Damen: Sure.
• 11:33
  Damen: What do you mean by motorcycle?
• 11:35
  Damen: It looks like a motorcycle font.
• 11:38
  Damen: I don't know.
• 11:38
  Ross: Oh, because like slanty or what?
• 11:42
  Damen: Yeah, it's like it's got these weird little angly bits in the L and the Y.
• 11:47
  Ross: I've never heard a font described as motorcycle, but I I I'm talking about I appreciate what you're saying.
• 11:52
  Ross: Yeah, you're right.
• 11:53
  Brett: That's just that's new to me.
• 11:55
  Brett: Or the the angly bits.
• 11:57
  Brett: I love the angly bits.
• 12:00
  Damen: Sometimes you wanna go where needless to say, this cat does not look like the cat on the chonk cans.
• 12:06
  Ross: No, definitely not really.
• 12:08
  Ross: That's a very like donut style cat, like flat faced.
• 12:12
  Damen: Although this hat.
• 12:14
  Ross: True.
• 12:14
  Ross: True.
• 12:15
  Ross: Okay, so let's bring some D&D into this because we're gonna we could venture off on the or we could bring some candela obscura.
• 12:22
  Ross: Yeah, we just didn't.
• 12:23
  Ross: Yeah, let's say let's do it.
• 12:24
  Ross: Let's bring some candela obscura into this.
• 12:26
  Ross: Uh let's come up with a a pub name and a little story around Clyde's caramel cream ale.
• 12:33
  Damen: And uh shout out to Matt.
• 12:35
  Damen: This uh pub has to be in London.
• 12:38
  Ross: Lawn.
• 12:39
  Ross: I'm pretty sure in my notes for the next session, like the first opening sentence is now the group has left Lawn L-O-N-D-O-N.
• 12:50
  Damen: Yes, L-A-W-N.
• 12:52
  Damen: D-A-W-N.
• 12:55
  Ross: We're in this place called London.
• 12:58
  Damen: We're going to the Lawn Don Festival.
• 13:02
  Ross: Okay, pub name.
• 13:03
  Ross: What do we think here, gentlemen?
• 13:07
  Damen: Uh this is at um Mitsi's place.
• 13:11
  Damen: Mitzi's place.
• 13:12
  Damen: Okay.
• 13:13
  Damen: More importantly, there's a murder.
• 13:16
  Ross: There's a murder at Mitsi's place.
• 13:18
  Ross: Yes! Name of the pub, murder at Mitzy's.
• 13:20
  Damen: Oh yeah.
• 13:21
  Damen: And it's in it's got angly bits in the font.
• 13:24
  Ross: It's it's uh it's uh like one of those murder theater places.
• 13:27
  Ross: Ooh, but there's a real murder.
• 13:29
  Ross: But yeah, somebody actually got murdered, like when the dude got stabbed.
• 13:32
  Ross: Actually got stabbed.
• 13:34
  Ross: And there's an investigator.
• 13:36
  Brett: Name Clyde?
• 13:37
  Brett: But the investigator is actually a cat.
• 13:40
  Brett: That wears a top hat and a monocle.
• 13:47
  Damen: He's the theater department's cat.
• 13:51
  Damen: Yes, keeps the mice out of the back.
• 13:53
  Ross: Yes.
• 13:53
  Ross: Yeah.
• 13:54
  Damen: And he's able to he's able to use all of his senses to investigate, you know, heightened sense of smell and other, you know, things.
• 14:04
  Damen: It seems like cats notice things that like don't really seem to be there.
• 14:08
  Damen: They have like a sixth sense anyway.
• 14:09
  Brett: That's their bleed detector.
• 14:11
  Brett: Ooh.
• 14:12
  Brett: Yeah.
• 14:13
  Brett: It's their nose, like then the sniff-siff sniff.
• 14:17
  Brett: That's their bleed detector in candelabs.
• 14:20
  Ross: Or their what phenomenon.
• 14:22
  Ross: Never mind, I'm not gonna go there.
• 14:24
  Ross: That's that's for another time.
• 14:26
  Ross: Uh I really don't want to talk about Bat's penis.
• 14:31
  Ross: So you have to look at it.
• 14:34
  Ross: That's that's an acronym for something.
• 14:37
  Ross: It's fine.
• 14:38
  Ross: It's fine.
• 14:39
  Ross: Don't worry about it.
• 14:40
  Ross: Okay, so murder at Mysties.
• 14:43
  Ross: Misty the proprietor.
• 14:45
  Ross: Did we come up with that?
• 14:46
  Ross: I don't know.
• 14:47
  Ross: Should she be behind the bar?
• 14:48
  Ross: Oh yeah, she's behind the bar.
• 14:49
  Damen: She's gotta be the proprietor.
• 14:50
  Ross: She likes to wear one of those like long flowing red dresses.
• 14:53
  Ross: Big hat.
• 14:54
  Ross: Yep.
• 14:54
  Ross: Very flamboyant type lady.
• 14:58
  Damen: Out outgoing.
• 14:59
  Damen: Do you mean flowing or do you mean roughly?
• 15:01
  Ross: Definitely roughly.
• 15:02
  Ross: Okay, flowing.
• 15:03
  Ross: Flowing is B.
• 15:04
  Ross: Yeah, no, no, no.
• 15:06
  Brett: A lot of layers to that thing.
• 15:08
  Brett: Correct, yes.
• 15:10
  Brett: No, yeah.
• 15:10
  Brett: So she's behind the bar and there was a murder upstairs.
• 15:13
  Brett: I thought the murder was on the stage.
• 15:15
  Brett: Oh, yeah, actor's got it.
• 15:17
  Ross: Yes, that's right.
• 15:18
  Damen: It's like a reverse theater.
• 15:20
  Damen: The stage is up here and the crowd's all down here.
• 15:22
  Damen: It's really hard to see.
• 15:24
  Ross: That's and the cat saw the whole thing because it was up in the rafters the whole time.
• 15:28
  Ross: There's some guy in the back.
• 15:30
  Ross: Get down here, you damn cat.
• 15:33
  Damen: All the seats are half off because they're obscured view.
• 15:38
  Damen: Maybe the stage is the ceiling and they hang from like acrobats?
• 15:43
  Ross: Yes.
• 15:44
  Damen: Ooh.
• 15:44
  Damen: Wow.
• 15:46
  Damen: And the murder was that someone like cut a string.
• 15:50
  Damen: That's why, that's why the cat was up there to play with the string.
• 15:53
  Damen: Who was the cat going for?
• 15:54
  Damen: The investigator is the murderer.
• 15:58
  Brett: And when Clyde, how convenient.
• 16:01
  Brett: And when Clyde, the investigator, went up to the bar, Clyde asked for a beer.
• 16:06
  Brett: And this is what he got.
• 16:08
  Brett: And this is the beer that he got.
• 16:09
  Brett: I love it.
• 16:10
  Damen: And cats like cream?
• 16:12
  Brett: Sure.
• 16:13
  Damen: I love it.
• 16:13
  Damen: I think that fits really well.
• 16:14
  Damen: Wow.
• 16:15
  Damen: Done.
• 16:16
  Damen: A plus.
• 16:17
  Brett: You know, right out of the game.
• 16:18
  Damen: I don't know.
• 16:19
  Ross: I mean, it's kind of like C plus.
• 16:21
  Brett: It's kind of like a red beer or an orange beer where you had like the tomato juice or the orange juice.
• 16:26
  Brett: Cream ale for kits.
• 16:28
  Brett: Kiddies.
• 16:29
  Brett: Kitties for kids.
• 16:30
  Brett: Kitties.
• 16:31
  Brett: Cream ale's for kids I was like, I'm going kittens, and then I'm going kitties.
• 16:35
  Ross: Kits.
• 16:35
  Ross: Linda in the middle.
• 16:36
  Ross: It's the South London accent.
• 16:39
  Ross: Cream ale for the kids.
• 16:43
  Ross: Oh, God.
• 16:46
  Ross: Okay.
• 16:47
  Ross: I love it.
• 16:48
  Ross: I think that was a solid C Boss effort for to open the seasons.
• 16:51
  Ross: Great job, guys.
• 16:52
  Ross: Okay, let's come back to the beer.
• 16:54
  Ross: Uh let's there's a beer?
• 16:56
  Ross: Yeah, you know.
• 16:57
  Ross: Funny thing, isn't it?
• 16:59
  Ross: It's available in London.
• 17:00
  Ross: Let's uh let's rate this on a uh our challenge rating scale, one to 20, uh, one being cream males, domestics, and the like, whereas uh a 20 is gonna be like double, triple IPAs, uh Imperial Stouts, and things toward that end.
• 17:16
  Ross: Um, I really don't know where to start because I do think Damon's Riot, this is 50-50.
• 17:21
  Ross: Um bread.
• 17:23
  Damen: I think it I would just say like I think it's 50-50 in terms of whether or not we like it.
• 17:30
  unknown: Sure.
• 17:30
  Ross: Or enjoy it.
• 17:31
  Damen: Like that I don't think that that's necessarily the same.
• 17:33
  Damen: I don't think that that necessarily correlates to a challenge rating.
• 17:38
  Ross: Fair.
• 17:39
  Ross: Okay.
• 17:39
  Ross: Let's start with you, Damon.
• 17:42
  Damen: Uh I'd like a three, maybe.
• 17:43
  Damen: I don't Okay.
• 17:44
  Damen: Yeah.
• 17:45
  Damen: I don't think it's hard to drink.
• 17:46
  Damen: No.
• 17:47
  Damen: By really any stretch of the imagination.
• 17:50
  Damen: I think it's kind of weird to drink.
• 17:53
  Damen: Fair.
• 17:54
  Damen: But I don't think it's hard to drink.
• 17:57
  Damen: Okay, I feel like I found the acronym.
• 17:59
  Damen: It's the Phenomenon Emitter Notification Instrument System.
• 18:04
  Damen: And I would say I agree.
• 18:07
  Damen: I like a three.
• 18:09
  Brett: Yeah.
• 18:09
  Brett: That's the characters.
• 18:11
  Brett: Yes.
• 18:13
  Brett: For the record.
• 18:14
  Brett: Brad?
• 18:17
  Brett: I'm gonna go a one.
• 18:19
  Brett: Really?
• 18:20
  Brett: Okay.
• 18:21
  Brett: Uh Damon, you make a cream ale, but I think this is easier to drink than even yours.
• 18:26
  Brett: Yeah, probably.
• 18:27
  Brett: Because it's not a big beer.
• 18:30
  Brett: Really.
• 18:30
  Brett: Like, I mean, it is a beer.
• 18:32
  Brett: It's not you could forget it's a beer.
• 18:36
  Damen: Yeah, it tastes like it tastes like sassy like cream ale.
• 18:39
  Damen: It's a soda, yeah.
• 18:43
  Brett: I think this is a very easy approachable beer.
• 18:46
  Ross: Okay.
• 18:46
  Ross: Uh, I'm gonna go with a five, actually.
• 18:49
  Ross: What?
• 18:50
  Ross: Because it's not that it's hard to drink, and for me personally, this is uh less than a one, but a five because of those exact reasons that you just said.
• 19:00
  Ross: It's like somebody somebody who wants a beer is not gonna like this.
• 19:04
  Ross: No, no, no, it's hard for some people to like a beer.
• 19:07
  Ross: If it's not beery enough, like is that what they wanted in the first place?
• 19:14
  Ross: So if you like Core's lice, you're not gonna like this.
• 19:19
  Damen: That's actually probably true.
• 19:20
  Ross: And you're probably not even gonna pick it up off the shelf.
• 19:22
  Ross: So that ticks it up two notches in my book.
• 19:24
  Ross: I think the three is appropriate, but those two things alone uh kick it up a notch.
• 19:29
  Damen: Yeah, but I would still say that like is different than difficulty.
• 19:34
  Ross: Sure, but we've had the like we've had that conversation.
• 19:38
  Ross: We need to define this a little better.
• 19:40
  Damen: This is the this is this is like the uh No, this many seasons in it's too late for definition.
• 19:44
  Damen: We're just winging it.
• 19:46
  Ross: So wing and a prayer.
• 19:48
  Ross: This is like the Council of Nicaea in Christianity.
• 19:51
  Ross: You know, we have to take a moment and like reconvene Noah very, very loosely.
• 19:55
  Ross: And by loose, I mean like non-existent.
• 19:59
  Damen: This is like our library advisory board meeting earlier.
• 20:02
  Ross: This is like using a blowtorch to take a nut off of a bolt.
• 20:07
  Ross: Kind of loose.
• 20:13
  Brett: I was really worried where you were going.
• 20:15
  Brett: I don't really know where it went.
• 20:18
  Brett: I'm lost now.
• 20:20
  Brett: I don't even know what's going on.
• 20:21
  Brett: I believe we were discussing the difference between like and so would we would we buy this one again?
• 20:30
  Brett: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:31
  Brett: Great question.
• 20:32
  Brett: Yay or nay.
• 20:34
  Damen: Uh for the record, yay or nay is would you drink it again if it was put in front of you?
• 20:38
  Damen: Oh, yeah.
• 20:38
  Damen: We have outline.
• 20:42
  Ross: That one is defined.
• 20:43
  Ross: Uh it's a yay for me.
• 20:44
  Ross: Same, yes.
• 20:45
  Ross: What?
• 20:46
  Brett: He would drink it again if someone put it in front of him.
• 20:48
  Brett: Yeah.
• 20:48
  Brett: Oh, that's why he wouldn't buy it.
• 20:50
  Brett: We just defined it.
• 20:51
  Brett: I know, but earlier we were like, I wouldn't buy this again.
• 20:54
  Ross: No, I wouldn't buy it again, but I would drink it if somebody put it in front of me.
• 20:57
  Ross: And there's no other options?
• 20:59
  Ross: Currently.
• 21:00
  Damen: There's never any other option.
• 21:01
  Damen: Oh, okay.
• 21:01
  Damen: It's always like if they gave you a beer and said here, and that was like all they handed you, would you drink it or say no thank you?
• 21:08
  Damen: Yeah, I'd drink it.
• 21:10
  Damen: Begrudgingly.
• 21:12
  Damen: Yeah.
• 21:13
  Damen: Slowly.
• 21:14
  Damen: If I have to.
• 21:15
  Damen: With food.
• 21:17
  Damen: Give me some ice cream in if there's pie.
• 21:22
  Brett: If there's pie, yes.
• 21:23
  Brett: If not, I'm probably passing it to the left.
• 21:27
  Damen: That's a fun game.
• 21:29
  Brett: Pass to the left.
• 21:31
  Damen: We should we should have a green crack where we try four different beers.
• 21:35
  Damen: Blind.
• 21:36
  Damen: And we like pass it around and end up reading all four.
• 21:39
  Damen: Yeah.
• 21:40
  Ross: That's not you thought this is the end of this episode was confusing.
• 21:43
  Ross: Holy crap.
• 21:44
  Ross: Oh, buckle up.
• 21:45
  Ross: Buckle up.
• 21:46
  Ross: Absolutely.
• 21:47
  Ross: Okay.
• 21:47
  Ross: All right, let's get out of here.
• 21:49
  Ross: Uh, that's gonna do it for this episode.
• 21:51
  Ross: Stay tuned for more beer reviews in the future.
• 21:53
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• 21:56
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• 22:00
  Ross: Until next time.
• 22:01
  Ross: May your dice be hot and your beer be cold.