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Samuel Adams Oktober Fest 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 bgd what up how much how you doing brother.
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  Speaker 2: Another day another beer there we go man today we're
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  Speaker 2: having samuel adams october no i'm just kidding you sound
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  Speaker 2: so today we're having samuel adams october fest this is
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  Speaker 2: from the uh sam adams uh sam adams fall legends
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  Speaker 2: variety pack we get this every year yes uh they they.
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  Speaker 3: They They swap out like two, I think, every year,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe just add one.
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  Speaker 1: Just the one.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this year, the new one is Apple Spice because
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  Speaker 3: we had that last year.
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  Speaker 1: We have that every year, and we have that every year.
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  Speaker 1: And Apple Spice, that's new.
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  Speaker 3: Cool thing about it, you got 5%, 4%, 5%, whatever beer.
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  Speaker 2: So you can kind of have fun with these.
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  Speaker 3: And there's four different beers in this pack, three of
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  Speaker 3: each beer. I like that. Big fan. There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Get more variety.
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  Speaker 1: This one's 5.3% alcohol by volume, 16 IBUs. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a Marzian style. So Marzan style.
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  Speaker 3: Marzan.
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  Speaker 1: Marzan.
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  Speaker 3: Marzan.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be more of your more bready,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, I don't want to say like heavier, but.
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  Speaker 3: Hearty and smooth.
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  Speaker 1: Toasted bread, caramel malt, and light nuttiness is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the aroma.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to be around.
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  Speaker 1: The taste is going to be rich caramel, toasted malt,
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  Speaker 1: light toffee, and subtle sweetness. Okay. The body's going to
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  Speaker 1: be medium bodied, smooth, and slightly fuller than a typical
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  Speaker 1: light lager. And the finish is going to be clean
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  Speaker 1: and malty with very little hot bitterness.
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  Speaker 3: All right, then. Cheers. So bready, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Mazel mazel, good things.
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  Speaker 3: Bready with some sweetness. And it smells.
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  Speaker 1: Good, I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 3: It does. It's got a hell of a head on it, too.
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  Speaker 3: But you can float a cap on that thing.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that. It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Color's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: Beers like this, a little bit darker, more bready, maltiness.
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  Speaker 3: Red hue to it.
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  Speaker 1: It, i smell it and i taste it and i
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  Speaker 1: think it's sitting outside by a.
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  Speaker 2: Fire yes fire beer this is where it's a little
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  Speaker 2: nip in the air it's like 50 degrees 55 outside
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  Speaker 2: just a little chill just enough to where you get
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  Speaker 2: a fire going right yeah just enjoying yourself kicking back after.
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  Speaker 3: A long day doing i don't know what but uh
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  Speaker 3: you know a little saturday little friday night action um.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how long sam adams has been making
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  Speaker 1: their october fest.
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  Speaker 3: 74 years.
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  Speaker 1: Not quite that 185 years no it's like 34 years
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  Speaker 1: since 1989 it's like 35 years yeah yeah i'll take
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  Speaker 1: that yeah i was okay with my last guess.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah 35 or 34 yeah i was almost there yeah
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  Speaker 2: your first couple were a little ridiculous 187 years 422
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  Speaker 2: years how old is america fucking eight years before that i.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: I can give you comparisons on this one versus the
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  Speaker 1: Sierra Nevada that we just had because it gave me that.
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  Speaker 1: So this one's the Marzen versus the Fest. 5.3% versus 6%.
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  Speaker 1: This one's going to be the reddish-amber color versus the golden.
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  Speaker 3: 16 IBUs, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty light. Caramel slash toast will be your flavor
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  Speaker 1: versus the bread and the floral hops of the other.
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  Speaker 3: In this one for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And then the characters will be malty and smooth versus
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  Speaker 1: the crisp hop forward.
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  Speaker 3: It was super hot forward.
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  Speaker 2: I was telling you about that stuff too. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: one I was like, it was just hoppy for a lager.
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  Speaker 2: It was hoppy for a fest beer.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, man, this is wild. But anyways, this one,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, they knock it out of the
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  Speaker 3: park every year. Every year. We've had these last three
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  Speaker 3: beers here. I love the Hellas too. The Hellas for
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  Speaker 3: me out of this pack, The Hellas is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you don't know because you never had an Apple
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  Speaker 1: Spice Ale.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you right now, Hellas is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see. I'm not saying it's a bad beer.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying I like the Hellas better.
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  Speaker 1: I will choose to reserve my judgment until after I've
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  Speaker 1: had it.
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  Speaker 3: You don't even like the Hellas more than any of
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  Speaker 3: the other ones. You like the Oktoberfest ones best.
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  Speaker 1: I do love Oktoberfest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That's your favorite out of the pack.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say it's my favorite because I
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  Speaker 1: haven't had the Apple Spice Ale.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be delicious.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't judge a book by its cover.
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  Speaker 3: I do. Big time. And then I judge it again
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  Speaker 3: on its content.
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  Speaker 1: Well, as you should.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I hear apple spice, I'm like, you need
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  Speaker 2: an apple pie or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think of the Spice Girls. Which one?
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  Speaker 1: The seventh one or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Seventh one? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Apple spice. Apple spice.
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  Speaker 3: You're so dumb.
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  Speaker 1: This has got an average score on untapped. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you two different scores.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to give you this year's vintage.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Versus their overall. Okay. Score of all of theirs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This year's vintage, it's got 867 ratings. It's got an
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  Speaker 1: average score of 3.78 out of 5. Overall, 3.61 out
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  Speaker 1: of 5 out of 439,858 ratings. I mean, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is a good iteration of this. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: they changed anything. It tastes, from what I remember last year,
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  Speaker 2: tastes about the same. But yeah, I mean, you could
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  Speaker 2: see how that rating could be a little bit lower,
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  Speaker 2: especially throughout the year. Someone might try this, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: don't like Fest or Oktoberfest beers, or I don't like Marzins.
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  Speaker 2: And so then they're like, you know, it goes down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, but I mean, this beer right here.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go ahead and finish it, and I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you a little... Cheers, Miles and Miles of Good Things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like a 4-0 on this one. That's how
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  Speaker 2: much I like this beer. And everything about it, it
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  Speaker 2: checks boxes. It tastes friggin' delicious. It's easy drinking. It's
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  Speaker 2: not too sweet. I love the biscuity, the bread taste,
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  Speaker 2: and the hint, a little bit of sweetness.
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  Speaker 3: I love this. It's a banger. Banger.
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  Speaker 1: Surprisingly, it's more of an easy drinker than the Fest
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  Speaker 1: beer we just had.
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  Speaker 2: Because the other one was hot forward. It's a Fest beer.
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  Speaker 2: It's their take on a Fest beer, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: collab with a brewery out there. You said from 2010,
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  Speaker 2: that's in the... The brewery opened in 2010.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever, that's their take. Hopper Hour. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Hopper Hour.
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  Speaker 2: That's their spin on it this year, which is fine,
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  Speaker 2: but it was just a little too hoppy for a
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  Speaker 2: Fest beer for me.
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  Speaker 1: You want your lagers crisp, clean, and refreshing.
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  Speaker 3: But this thing, this is delicious.
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  Speaker 1: She bangs, she bangs. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go with a four on this one as well. I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this. I thought it was good. And I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure it's good for me.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. I'll give it a thumbs up.
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  Speaker 1: Thumbs up. Definitely thumbs up here. Have you guys had
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  Speaker 1: this year's Oktoberfest? Let us know what you think. What
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  Speaker 1: are you looking for there, Chief? Just looking? All right.
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  Speaker 1: As always, guys, I'm Alan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm BGD.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to you guys later. Deuces.
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  Speaker 3: BF3000 or whatever. BFK.
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  Speaker 2: BFK3000.
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  Speaker 3: Cheers. Later.