¶ Intro / Opening
>> Speaker A: Saught to you almost live from the dude in the basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. It sips suds in the smokes with your smoke and host the good old boys suds. It's time for more suds. >> Speaker B: Welcome, everyone, to this suds, uh, segment just going off the script. All right, I'm, uh, one of your hosts, good old gal Juliana. And joining me today at the table is good old boy Kendall. >> Speaker C: It's a pleasure to be here.
>> Speaker B: Yay. And good old boy Dave. >> Speaker D: I love it when you do alliteration. >> Speaker B: Recently, we started a new series, and we call it Beer club. >> Speaker D: Beer club. >> Speaker B: Beer club. Think of a book club, but with. >> Speaker D: Records and beer, so it's not really a book. >> Speaker C: Oh, it's beer club, not beer club. Okay. That's a different thing. >> Speaker D: That's a much different.
>> Speaker B: I don't think our fans are ready for that. >> Speaker D: Uh, no, I don't think I'm ready for that. Someone picks an album, we all listen to it, then we each pick a beer we think pairs well with it. Then we'll sit around, and each of us will share our beer and talk about why we think it pairs well with the album. And we'll also talk a little bit about the album and what our favorite tracks and how it made us cry or didn't make us cry or know we'll do stuff.
>> Speaker C: Good old gal Juliana. Since you picked the album, why don't you tell us about it? >> Speaker B: Well, today I thought of a cool compilation. Um, being a child that was born in the, uh, very early 70s, um, when I became a teenager, John Hughes films were the rage. >> Speaker C: They were so good. >> Speaker B: They were right. >> Speaker D: Except this one wasn't. >> Speaker C: It's not top five.
>> Speaker B: For the men that are sitting here in the room with me, they may not enjoy this one as much as some others. Ferris Bueller day off. I'm sure you guys would rank in your top five breakfast club, but, um, the one that I wanted to talk about today is pretty in pink. And maybe it's because of the whole Barbie theme that's going on now. And this is. I can't get behind Barbie, but maybe I can get behind this kind of thing anyways.
>> Speaker D: Well, you are a Barbie girl living in a Barbie world. >> Speaker B: No, I am. Um, not at all. But I enjoyed the soundtrack, I think, even more than the movie, because for the time, it had all of these great bands. And this is back when soundtracks, for the most part, were just as good as the movie, sometimes even better. Now I'd be hard pressed to find some really, like, a lot of soundtracks that are actually more than just one or two
songs. You know what I mean? But back then, it was a great thing. So what I'm talking about, of course, is pretty in pink. Um, it came out in 1986. >> Speaker C: It's a great year, right? >> Speaker B: Yeah. Good year for you, right? >> Speaker D: Yes. >> Speaker C: Year. I graduated high school. >> Speaker D: I had just become a man at age 13. >> Speaker B: Oh, how sweet. Okay. They had a series of, um,
hits that came out of there. And if you look at the list of bands that played on this record, it's kind of cool. Um, you have Omd, uh, which had, if you leave, which was very popular. >> Speaker D: No one under the age of 40 knows what OMD stands for. >> Speaker B: Orchestral maneuvers in the dark. >> Speaker D: Thank you. >> Speaker C: There you go. >> Speaker B: Sorry. Then, um, another song was left of center, which is by Suzanne Vega and
Joe Jackson. What a great combination that, um. Um, Jussie Johnson did a song, um, in excess did a song. The psychedelic furs did a song, new order bluey Sum. Um, Danny Hutton, hitters, echo and the Bunny men, the Smiths. I mean, there was. >> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker C: Especially when you start throwing out in excess psychedelic. Uh,
first the Smiths and echo and the bunny men. That's some classic 80s kind of alternate eighty s. A lot of them didn't have a lot of big top 40 hits, but they were really well known. >> Speaker B: Yeah, they were, um. They certainly did the circuit. So this was like a nice little greatest hits, if you will, of stuff, um, which I thought was pretty cool. >> Speaker D: A lot of early members of the MTV club getting some of those videos.
>> Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good way, um, of looking at that. So that's the record that we're going to discuss with today. All right, good old boy. Dave, why don't you give us the suds ratings and then we will be on our way. >> Speaker C: Sure. >> Speaker D: We'll be discussing and rating these beers while we discuss pretty and pink with these suds ratings. And we'll be rating them with our signature belching sounds. Here are those ratings now. One,
that sucks. Give me anything but a bud. Two. Was that a belch? Three. >> Speaker B: Ah. >> Speaker D: Uh, what a relief. Four, a body should really not make that sound. And five, listen to that hang time. Give me another. >> Speaker B: Okay, let's get to it. So the beer that I brought to go along, and I'm using that term loosely, beer, because it's actually a side beer that I brought, um, to go along with the
pretty and pink soundtrack. Sticking with a pink theme, if you will, is from
¶ Good ol' Gal Julieanna's pick: 1911 Black Cherry Hard Cider - 6.9% ABV Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards. Lafayette, NY SUDS-4
beak and skiff apple orchards in Lafayette, New York. Or it could be Lafayette, New York. I'm not sure. It's the 1911 black cherry hard cider. This is 6.9% ABV, and it's electrifyingly crisp and slightly tart with the flavor of black cherries in their cider. Um, I wanted to have something that kind of went along with this whole pretty and pink thing. And also something I would think would go with all the major characters that played. >> Speaker C: So which character does this go with?
>> Speaker B: Probably the main Andy. >> Speaker C: No, I'm thinking it's got ducky all over it. >> Speaker D: Ducky? Ah, yeah. Ducky looks like a cider drinker. >> Speaker B: You think so? >> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker B: See, I would think that Andy would like this because it's pink. It's not quite champagne. Like, she couldn't afford pink champagne, but she could go with pink cider.
>> Speaker D: She was a tough girl from the wrong side of the broken home. >> Speaker B: Okay. >> Speaker D: You know, she got time for no pink cider. >> Speaker B: And for those of you that don't know this movie, John Hughes was a great director in the sense that he wrote all these coming of age, um, very relatable, almost characters. Um, for the teenage and early 20s something group, there always was a love theme, um, that would permeate through each of these movies
in particular. So there was this girl named Andy, and she was from the wrong side of the tracks, uh, played by Molly Ringwald. And, um, she had a thing for this guy named Blaine, um, who was played by Andrew McCarthy. Well, he was a rich kid, and rich kids and non rich kids don't go along well. >> Speaker D: John Hughes in high school movies were always very good about breaking out the social hierarchy in high school.
>> Speaker C: Yeah, and this is almost completely opposite of the character she plays in Breakfast club, where she was the rich kid. >> Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Um, but it was something that resonated to me because those clicks were there in school. I'm sure they still are to this. They're universal to a degree. Um, yeah. So this, know, you wanted to root for the girl? Well, I wanted to root for the girl because you always know, right. To prevail.
>> Speaker D: I always rooted for the drunk rich. >> Speaker B: So you were a fan of Slater? >> Speaker C: Yeah. Played by the legendary James Spader. He plays the same character in the 80s till today. >> Speaker D: Yeah, exactly. >> Speaker C: He plays the jerk better than anybody. >> Speaker B: Sure. >> Speaker D: He's got that look. >> Speaker B: So shady. So shady. And it centers around prom and the whole angst of prom and all that stuff,
too. But, um, I wanted to get something that was pink and this was that. And I thought this was. >> Speaker D: How do you like it? >> Speaker B: I like it a lot. But I'm a big fan of cherries anyways, and I think that it's not super sweet. You can taste the cherries coming through. It's very pleasant. >> Speaker D: Yeah. What do you think, Kendall? >> Speaker C: It's not a bad cider. I'm not the biggest cider fan, but I like
what the cherries do for this. You do get that sweetness in the middle, but then it starts drying out in the aftertaste. You get that dryness and, um, that kind of cherry flavor. But it's not, like, fake cherry flavor, like cough syrup or cough drops. >> Speaker D: It's real. >> Speaker C: It's real, and it's really good. >> Speaker B: Yeah. >> Speaker D: Um, I think if good old boy Sparky was here, he would remind us that he is a cherry whore.
Um, and he would really like this. I like it, too. And honestly, I would encourage anyone who steers towards hard seltzers. Try this kind of thing instead, because you're getting a lot of flavor. It's probably got a few more calories, but at least it's a real drink. But I couldn't tell you if you just poured this in a cup. I don't know that I could pick out any apple to call it a cider, but I think the cherry flavor on it is tremendous. And I really like it, too.
>> Speaker B: Yeah. Uh, I'm not really getting a lot of apple either, but that's okay. I'm not going in with it, like, wanting a straight cider. >> Speaker D: It could just be a cherry beverage. >> Speaker B: It could be, but it's in the best way. >> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker B: And I'm a fan of 1911. Anyways, I think they do a nice variety of ciders. Um, like, across the board. They also have an interesting array of fruits that are added in to their base line
of the cider. Um, so I thought, yeah, this was a good idea. Well, what shall we rate? This? Yeah. Okay. The 1911 black cherry. We are going to rate a four. Oh, and I got to talk about the favorite song on this. >> Speaker D: Yeah. What's your favorite song? >> Speaker B: And that was really hard. >> Speaker D: I know it was hard to find a good song on there, but. >> Speaker B: Excuse you. No. Um, because I have seen a good amount of these bands in concert.
Like, I've seen in excess live only once. The furs in new order. I've seen a few times. Echo. I saw once. And the. Oh, Smith's ah are my mean. So, so much my jam. But I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say, wouldn't it be good? And please, please, because of Smith's. And I love Morrissey so much for his crazy shenanigans as being androgynous. >> Speaker D: He's such a happy. >> Speaker B: Oh, happy, happy, happy. Yeah. Um, him and Mr. Smith from the
cure. Those two are the happiest people I've ever. >> Speaker C: Oh, yeah, they are. >> Speaker B: On stage and otherwise. Which makes me wonder what they were behind closed doors. I'm sure they showed a little bit of emotion at some point in their. Know. >> Speaker D: I don't know. Morrissey's British, right? I don't think they have. >> Speaker B: Brit. They do have a couple emotions. >> Speaker D: Stiff upper lip, buddy.
>> Speaker B: I think they only come out twice a year, but I think they do have. >> Speaker D: No, no, they have to give those, uh. >> Speaker B: Fine, fine. Well, yeah, I'm going to say that those are, um. >> Speaker D: So just like with every other special thing, you can't pick one favorite. >> Speaker B: I can't? No, because this soundtrack just means so much to me, and I played it.
>> Speaker D: It doesn't matter what it is. You cannot pick one favorite thing. >> Speaker B: I like all my children. What can I say? All right, we'll be back with more musings of pretty and pink with, um, some nicely colored beverages in just a minute.
>> Speaker E: Destination the whole elation riding down this lover avenue as slow as a willow blows uh, or as fast as the world wind grows we glide beneath the stars and cobalt blue look to the left, to the right keep your eyes on the road, my darling wondering if we're only passing through open roads and open windows my hand is yours forever, sweet love our eyes ahead on these back roads with a view. >> Speaker B: Welcome back, everyone. Today is yet another episode of Beer.
>> Speaker C: Club, Beer Club, beer Club. >> Speaker B: And today we're talking about the pretty and pink soundtrack. Not necessarily for the movie, though. The movie was cool. And we're talking about the music that made up the soundtrack, as well as some very pretty colored beverages in front of us. So I just finished my take. Now let's move on to go to boy Kendall. What did you bring today? >> Speaker C: Well, since this is John Yuse's most girly movie ever made.
Truth. I went with a girly beer. Also a pink beer. I went into the liquor store, and it's like, what is the pinkest beer I can find that I still want to drink? So, not to disparage the movie, I just watched it again last week. It's a cute, um. Just nothing will ever stand up to Ferris Bueller's day off. >> Speaker D: It's fair. Even Matthew Broderick was like, I am basically Ferris Bueller for eternity at this.
>> Speaker C: I went. But I still picked a good beer. This is from our friends at
¶ Good ol' Boy Kendall's pick: Strawberry Short's Cake- golden ale with strawberries and milk sugar added. 4.3% ABV Short's Brewing Company Elk Rapids, MI SUDS-4
Schwartz brewing out of Michigan that we love very much. We know they make great beers. And this is actually, it's a golden ale brewed with strawberries and milk sugar, and they call it strawberry shorts cake. So we've got a little strawberry ale here. Little, uh, strawberry lactose, and it is a very pink can. And, um, I don't want to disparage it because it's a delicious beer, even though it looks a little girly. >> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker B: Oh, it's fine.
>> Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, once a little strawberry lactose. >> Speaker C: Yeah. So we're going from cherry to strawberry. But it does have kind of that strawberry shortcake flavor to. >> Speaker D: It does. Strawberry is an interesting flavor to put in a beer. You almost have to use, like, overripe strawberries to really get the right kind of flavor. >> Speaker C: And the strawberry really comes through on this. I think they balanced it out
nicely. You still know you're drinking a beer. It's not overly fruity. Um, got a nice finish on it. >> Speaker D: Golden nail is a nice palate to lift. >> Speaker B: It's a nice base. Yeah. >> Speaker C: The beer is not the star of the show here. The strawberries really stand out, and that milk sugar gives it a nice creaminess, too. >> Speaker D: It's not overdone. >> Speaker B: No. >> Speaker D: What do you think, buddy?
>> Speaker B: And it so could go off the rails. Like, I'm sure we've had a beer or two in our life recently that. >> Speaker D: It'S like, did you have to use the whole bag of lactose? >> Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Oh, I think this is nice. So it's sort of trendy in the sense of having the milk sugar in there, but it's not overly trendy. And I think, as a summer refresher, it's perfect. I, um, could see this in Michigan.
>> Speaker C: Guess which character I think would really enjoy this beer. >> Speaker B: Tell me which character. >> Speaker C: I forget her name in the movie. Um, but our favorite. Annie Potts. >> Speaker D: I love Annie Potts. Oh, is that. Ah. >> Speaker C: She'S great. She's been around forever. She's still acting regularly. I think she got famous on designing, uh, designing women. >> Speaker D: And then Ghostbusters.
>> Speaker C: Yeah, and Ghostbusters. And now she's playing Sheldon, uh, Cooper's grandma and young Sheldon. But, yeah, she's really young in, uh, pretty and pink. >> Speaker B: And she does such a great 360 because in the beginning, you see your character as this punky, black, vinyly, pleathery, angsty, almost person. And then she does a complete one. A. >> Speaker C: She's fun, I think the most fun one in the movie. I loved her character.
>> Speaker B: Yeah, she's really cool. Really cool. >> Speaker D: Nice. >> Speaker B: Yeah. Well, is there. Okay. So I'm not expecting much out of you two in terms of this movie, it being like a big fave. >> Speaker D: Which song made you cry the most? >> Speaker B: Candle. >> Speaker C: There's only one song on this list that I'm going to go with. Class of 86. I think probably 95% of the high schools in
America chose this as their senior class song. And that is if you leave by OMD. >> Speaker D: Sure. Um, how much royalties did they get off proms in the 80s? >> Speaker B: Right? >> Speaker C: Yes. Uh, this song was everywhere. It was our classes. Don't you forget about me. Class of 85 really screwed us over. They got breakfast club and don't you forget about me. We got pretty and pink and, uh, if you
leave. But still, it's a great song. And I feel like OMD didn't do much after this. They kind of peaked with this one, I think. >> Speaker D: So. I think that's. >> Speaker C: It's a really good song. It's still catchy. You still hear it on kind of the pop oldies. Um, I was walking through the grocery store the other day and it was on really? >> Speaker D: Oh, wow.
>> Speaker C: But, yeah, this was, ah, my senior class song. And, uh, yeah, I definitely played it at prom and all that good stuff. But it's a fun one. >> Speaker D: Fun song. Fun beer. >> Speaker B: Wow, that's cool. And, um. Yeah, looking at this, they really did not do much. >> Speaker C: Yeah, I feel like 83, 84 was some of their bigger hits. And then they hit this one in 86, and then they were like, hey, faded away.
>> Speaker B: Yeah, they had a record in 86 and then didn't do another one until 91. Um, interesting, though, they are going to release a record this year in 2023. >> Speaker C: Really? >> Speaker B: Yeah. Um, their last record was in 2017. It was called the punishment of luxury. But I believe that they're. >> Speaker D: Are they all still original? There's like, literally no way. It's all the original people. >> Speaker B: I don't think so.
>> Speaker D: They're doing like a care, uh, assisted living facility tour. >> Speaker B: Stop it. Stop it. No, their, um, past members, they've got like, eight. So there's been a change, if you. >> Speaker D: Will, to do one song. Okay. >> Speaker B: Yeah. So, um, they were active from 78. That's when they started. Like, that blows my mind because I don't remember. Well, not that I would remember much. >> Speaker C: When they first started.
>> Speaker D: They probably took them a while. >> Speaker C: I feel like 83, 84 was like the high point of the dancy pop of the. Can't remember any of the songs, but if I heard them, it's like, oh, yeah, that's omd sure. >> Speaker B: So from 78 to 96, and then they took, um, ten years off and started back up in six. Yeah, well, I'm glad they're back. No, I mean, that's a good song to go with. >> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker B: Um, pretty cool.
>> Speaker D: What do you want to rate the shorts? >> Speaker B: Um, the strawberry shorts, I think, is a good, solid four. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Good old boy. Dave, what did you bring to the party? >> Speaker D: Well, I went anti pink, um, but I wanted to do something that was trendy, and I was like, well, what's trendy in beer right now? And it's like, well, cold IPA is like the
latest sort of trend. And so I was like, well, then I've never had one, so I'm going to go with that. So, uh, this is polar, uh, bears and
¶ Good ol' Boy Dave's pick: Polar Bears and Penguins Cold IPA - 7% ABV Jackalope Brewing Company, Nashville, TN SUDS-4
penguins. It's a 7% cold IPA from Jackalo brewing company here in Nashville, Tennessee. And I've never tried it, so let's try it. >> Speaker B: Okay. Okay. Kendall, what in God's name is a cold IPA? >> Speaker C: It's funny, I've been reading, uh, up on a lot of this, because what they're saying is, it's not an IPL. IPls are traditional. They've got almost that carameli note. They're the traditional sea hops. They're just lager versions of the classic kind of
pacific northwest IPA. Brood IPA used enzymes to get it super dry. What cold IPA is, is very much like an american macro lager. As far as, um, the grain bill goes. A lot of them, I'm reading, are using corn and rice to really get it crisp and dry. It's mostly fermented with lager yeast. I think you can do ale yeast cold on these, but the main thing is that grain bill, a lot of them are using pilsner malt and corn, or pilsner malt and rice.
>> Speaker D: Wow. >> Speaker C: Um, and then they should be crystal clear, crisp, easy drinking. Um, but they're really a beer that showcases the hops in some ways. They're like a know. They're not that different, I would say, from an italian pilsner, where they really showcase the hops, but they're using a lot of american and new world, like, New Zealand australian hops. >> Speaker B: Yeah, because I'm getting.
>> Speaker C: It really is. There's so many subsets of IPA now, it's hard to keep up. And I know a lot of people dismiss, uh, the cold IPA, but after reading even the creator of the style, and he was saying, no, this is really meant to be different. And then when he explained it, it's like, oh, yeah, it kind of makes sense. Sure. I think how we're slicing it up is really interesting because there are all these now lager style ipas out there.
>> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker C: Um, but generally, I'm a fan of this style, if it's done well, because all it is is a crisp, easy drinking, hot forward beer. And who doesn't love that? >> Speaker D: No, and I like what you said about kind of comparing it to. Because we've even liked the italian pilsner, or even how some breweries use Pilsner, uh, for their single hop beers to kind of showcase a specific
hop. And I think that kind of seems like kind of what they're doing here, because this beer is super light body, very clear, easy to drink, and, yeah, it's like you're not focusing on anything other than the hops in this beer. >> Speaker B: Yeah. >> Speaker C: When I was in San Diego for homebrew con, I got to hit a few breweries that were doing this style, and they were all really great because, yeah, I'm always going to love an easy drinking
hop forward. Just absolutely. I don't care what you call it. >> Speaker B: Yeah, no, I mean, that makes sense. And having a pilsner, there are so many new hops that have landed on the market, and then I can't keep up. Exactly. I'm kind of confused. I almost need to have a family tree in front of me to figure out where some of these are coming from. But as a home brewer, it's making me want to make a lot of pilsners with just one and try new hops to get that on my palate and to say, oh,
well, this. Yeah, now I know when I see this, um, in the listing of ingredients to know what it's going to taste like, because a lot of them just get so muddled. Like, to me, um, when you're talking about New England iPAs or just big old IPAs where you're using, like, six, seven different types that just get lost in each other. >> Speaker D: Hop salad. >> Speaker B: Okay, so is 7%. You said this was 7%. Is 7% Abv wheelhouse. >> Speaker D: Okay.
>> Speaker B: Got you. I mean, this is lovely. >> Speaker D: Yeah, I think this is a nice little beer. >> Speaker C: I'd like to taste it ICE cold right out of the fridge, because, uh, these beers are meant to be drank. >> Speaker D: Uh, well, we can do that right after the show. >> Speaker C: Yeah, it's nice. >> Speaker B: So which character would be drinking this beer? Dave? >> Speaker D: None of them. They're all, well.
>> Speaker C: Oh, I don't know. I think Steph would. He seems like an IPA, bro. >> Speaker D: Maybe one of those. I was going to say maybe one of the rich kids. One of the rich kids pounding it because his parents could afford to buy it and keep in the fridge and. >> Speaker C: Keep him out of jail when he wrecked the car for driving after drinking and driving. >> Speaker D: Yeah. I think Ducky would be like, oh God, I hate. >> Speaker C: Absolutely.
>> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker B: And what's your favorite song? >> Speaker D: Um, uh, well, I was going to say, um, please let me have what I want, uh, by the Smiths because I too am a Morrissey fan. But since you already took that one, is one of your top twelve out of the eleven song. >> Speaker C: That wasn't her number one, though, so you can go with that.
>> Speaker D: Yeah, I think I'm going to stick with that one. I also like bring on the dancing horses because I like echoing the bunny man. Um, but yeah, I'm a big Morrissey and Smith fan. I like sadness, uh, melancholy, bitching about not getting what you want. So yeah, that's me. >> Speaker C: None of us picked the psychedelic first song. >> Speaker D: It's up there. >> Speaker C: It's a good one. It's my number two. >> Speaker B: Yeah, it's in my top.
>> Speaker C: It's in my top, like twelve songs on the album. >> Speaker B: Well, it's. Sorry, that's the way it goes. Um, okay, so what shall we rate? >> Speaker D: Polar bears and penguins. >> Speaker B: Penguins. >> Speaker D: Yeah. >> Speaker B: Solid. >> Speaker D: Four for jackalo. >> Speaker B: Well, I think this was a good. Yeah, yeah, this was pretty cool. Well, that's going to do it for another
episode of Beer club. Good of white Kendall, thanks for being here. >> Speaker C: It was a lot of fun. >> Speaker B: Cool. Please tell us about your blog. >> Speaker C: My beautiful wife and I blog about good news of goodbeer at beermakes three.com and follow us at BM m three beer as we travel around all the breweries in Tennessee in 23. >> Speaker B: Cool. Good old boy Dave, gag me with a spoon. Of course this is good old guy
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