The new Alabama

>> Announcer: On the next episode of Sips, Suds and Smokes. >> Announcer: The Alabama craft beer we'll be tasting and discussing today are from Goat Island Brewing in Coleman, Alabama, the Gotopia Hazy IPA from Main Channel Brewing Company in Guntersville, Alabama. I'm assuming Guntersville Dunkelweisse. From Common Bond brewers in Montgomery, Alabama, the Ramber Red Amber Ale. From Druid City Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Raspberry

Mango Berliner Weisse. That sounds very Tuscaloosa. >> Dave: Neon Moon. Sorry, I left that out. Sorry. Neon Moon, Raspberry Mango. >> Announcer: This makes the pot thickens. >> Dave: Yes. >> Announcer: From Red Clay Brewing Company in Opelika, Alabama, the Murra Dutch Courage Pilsner. And the RCB Southern Style IPA from Braided River Brewing in Mobile, Alabama, the Boom Boom American Pale Ale. >> Announcer: We'll be right back after this break.

Brought to you almost live from the dude in the Basement studios. Why? Because that's where the good stuff is. It sips suds and smokes with your smoke and host the good old boys. >> Dave: Suds. >> Kendall: Suds. >> Announcer: Suds. Uh, it's time for more suds. >> Julianna: Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone, to another suds segment where we all believe. Believe that all people are created equal. But all beer, no, not so much. I gotta draw the line there. I don't know

about you guys. Well, I'm one of your hosts today, Juliana, and joining me at the table is good old boy Kendall. >> Kendall: It's a pleasure to be here. I'm looking forward to today. >> Julianna: Nice to see you, good old boy Drew. Hello. >> Announcer: Hello. How are you today? >> Julianna: I'm, um, good. How are you? >> Announcer: I'm slightly apprehensive after that intro about, you know, not all beer is created equal.

But, you know, we'll. We'll see what we get to fair. >> Julianna: Fair. Good boy Dave. >> Dave: God almighty. >> Julianna: I'm not part of this. Oh, yes, you are. How are you? >> Dave: I'm good. I'm getting ready to use this button a lot. >> Announcer: Banned. Once again. >> Dave: Even though Mike's not here. >> Julianna: Um. Is that the shape of things to come? >> Dave: I think so.

>> Julianna: We shall see. So recently, good ol boy Dave and I took a trip to Pennsylvania. >> Announcer: No. >> Julianna: No. I know what you're thinking, and no, we actually went somewhere instead of Pennsylvania. >> Dave: I didn't know there were places other than Pennsylvania that our car could drive to. >> Julianna: Who said it was our car? >> Dave: All roads lead to Pennsylvania. >> Julianna: All roads in my heart. Yes. Lead to pa.

Well, we went in the opposite direction and did a little beer shopping in. Wait for it, Alabama. >> Kendall: Uh, Roll Tide. >> Announcer: Oh, God, what was that? >> Julianna: No, Are you trying to lose the fine people at our table? >> Kendall: Roll Tide. >> Julianna: That's just wrong. >> Announcer: I don't know what's worse, what he's saying or that it's a, uh, electronic like robot voice. You. >> Julianna: I know it sounds like freaking AI.

>> Dave: Little known fact, abused Stephen Hawking was a, uh, Bama fan. Crimson Tide. Yeah, there you go. >> Julianna: Now, as long time fans of the show will know, and we know there's a couple of you here, good old boy Mike has been banned from stepping foot into Alabama for several years now. Oh, uh, it was a whole big thing. I won't go into all the details, but apparently there's an actual limit on how many jokes you can make about dating your sister there.

And he exceeded that in spades. So. Good ol boy Dave is, well, half Alabamian on my father's side. Yeah. We decided to see what's happening there recently. And craft beer. >> Dave: That's why I've got those summer teeth, you know, some are missing, some are crooked. >> Julianna: Wow. >> Announcer: Okay, brother. Daddy pop you the train. >> Dave: Yep. >> Julianna: Okay. >> Dave: Coat. >> Julianna: Avoid brew. Why don't you give us today's lineup?

>> Announcer: The Alabama craft beer we'll be tasting and discussing today are from Goat Island Brewing in Coleman, Alabama, the Goatopia Hazy ipa. From Main Channel Brewing Company in Guntersville, Alabama. I'm assuming Guntersville Dunkelweisser. Uh, from Common Bond brewers in Montgomery, Alabama, the Rambur Red Amber Ale. From Druid City Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the Rain Raspberry Mango. Berliner Visa. That sounds very Tuscaloosa.

>> Dave: It's Neon Moon. Sorry, I'm, uh, sorry. Neon Raspberry Mango. >> Announcer: This makes. This makes the pot thickens. >> Dave: Yes. >> Announcer: From Red Clay Brewing Company in Opelika, Alabama, the Murray Dutch Courage Pilsner and the RCB Southern Style ipa. >> Dave: Southern Style. >> Announcer: And then from Braided River Brewing in Mobile, Alabama, the Boom Boom American Pale Ale Boom Boom. >> Dave: Not to be convinced. With the Boom Boom.

>> Announcer: I want you in my room so we can go boom boom, boom boom. Brother. Daddy. >> Dave: This show just took a very dark turn. >> Kendall: It usually does about this one. >> Julianna: Yeah. I mean, it doesn't take long. >> Dave: Kind of surprised it took that long. Yeah. >> Julianna: Thank you. That was, wow, extraordinary. >> Dave: Well done.

>> Julianna: Yes, well done. And that accent, boy, it's m m. >> Kendall: Close in a lot of places. >> Announcer: I do, I do what I can. You know, just Southern born. Mean no harm. >> Julianna: Yeah. Great. Um, why don't you give us the Suds ratings for today? >> Kendall: Okay. >> Julianna: And you can use a Southern accent too, if you want. >> Kendall: I can't Do Alabama. I'll just do my Tennessee accent. >> Dave: Just play it straight.

>> Kendall: All right, uh, we'll be discussing and rating these Alabama beers with these suds. Ratings, plus our signature belching sounds. Here are those ratings now. One, that sucks. Give me anything but an Uncle Daddy. Two, Was that a belch or the Auburn fight song, War Eagle? >> Julianna: Ah. >> Kendall: Uh, or I should say first. Three. Ah. What, Uh, a relief. We can't possibly be any more banned in Alabama than we already are.

And four, a body should really not make that sound after ingesting some of that white barbecue sauce. Uh, and five, listen to that hang time. Give me another roll time. >> Announcer: Something you can say in the bedroom, man. >> Kendall: No. >> Julianna: Rude. >> Dave: Okay, well, we're playing to the audience. >> Julianna: Oh, we're. I guess we're playing to something. Playing. >> Dave: I'm just trying to irritate Mike as much as possible.

>> Julianna: Okay, well, that's. That's fair. All right, let's get into it. So the first beer of the day is the Gotopia Juicy IPA. 6.2% ABV. Uh, this is a tropical. This tropical IPA is hazy fruit, forward full bodied, little creamy, low bitterness, juicy peach, passion fruit, and all sorts of a utopian world of beer bliss. >> Announcer: That's a lot of adjectives in that. >> Julianna: Yeah, and that's not even the full thing.

>> Announcer: Um, they know that many words in Alabama. >> Julianna: Apparently. >> Announcer: Banned once again. >> Julianna: So. Okay, as far as juicy IPAs go. >> Kendall: I mean, this is a beer I could drink a couple of, which I don't say about a lot of hazies. It's a very light haze even when you look at it. >> Julianna: Yeah. >> Kendall: You know, it. There's a little bit of haziness there, but it's not opaque like, you know, something you see from

northeast breweries. And it's just kind of. I think it's overall pretty drinkable beer. >> Julianna: Would, uh, you. Would you classify this, though, as a juicy. As a hazy. Juicy. Juicy. Hazy. >> Dave: I don't find it that juicy. >> Announcer: Yeah, agreed. >> Kendall: Not so much. It's kind of like a hazy, juicy light. >> Dave: It's got a little dryness to it. Yeah, that. That, like, if you're trying to go juicy, you. You went the wrong way.

>> Announcer: You got more crispy with me. >> Kendall: Yeah, yeah. But I think that dryness actually works. That's why I want more than one of these. So many of them are too sweet and filling, and it's like I had one. That's enough, I think. >> Dave: Call it. I think the way they described it, they misrepresent it. And so, like, if you're trying, like, if you think you're gonna go get a Julius or something, this isn't going.

>> Kendall: To be like, what's the ABV on this? Because it feels really 6.2. Okay. So it's pretty even low for an IPA, right? It's almost. It's almost. I mean, I get it. IPA sells, but this is really more of a pale ale. >> Julianna: I was going to say this is pale ale territory. >> Dave: Basically. Very crushable beer. >> Announcer: Very. >> Kendall: Which is not something you see a lot in hazy IPAs or Alabama.

>> Announcer: I could drink this on the water in Alabama, and there's a lot of water and it's very hot. >> Kendall: Yeah. >> Announcer: And this would be refreshing. >> Julianna: Yeah. >> Kendall: Overall, good beer. And Goat island is actually. It's crazy how many new breweries are in Alabama that I haven't heard of, because they're the only ones on our list today that I'm, um, aware of that actually distribute here in Nashville.

>> Dave: There were a few that we. We saw that, like, we couldn't get everything that was new that we hadn't heard about. It's like every small town in north Alabama has their own brewery now, which is. >> Kendall: Yeah, that's kind. That's come a long way from years ago. If you remember, Alabama and Mississippi were the last two states to allow home brewing, and you needed home brewers to get your first professional brewers.

>> Dave: I was going to say. I think Alabama has done a lot of work on the law, the legal side, as far as their taxes and the. And also, Alabama does still have quite a few dry counties. M. But I think they've even cut back. >> Kendall: Yeah, they've. They've done a good job. I mean, compared. If you compare those two states, which were beer deserts 20 years

ago, Alabama is almost caught up to the rest, and Mississippi is still where beer goes to die fair. >> Julianna: And that's just crazy to think about that. >> Dave: You know, if you've ever been to Mississippi, you want to drink as much. >> Kendall: As possible while you're there. >> Julianna: I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that there's still dry counties. >> Announcer: There's dry counties here in Tennessee. >> Julianna: Yeah, I know.

>> Dave: I mean, honestly, I think the county where Jack Daniels is made is still. >> Kendall: Yeah, that's a marketing gimmick at this point. Uh, they could easily go wet. They're never gone. Going to go. >> Announcer: I drive and visit my, uh, mother in law in. In Arkansas, and about half the state I go through is dry county. So I got to remember where I can stop to get beer on the. >> Julianna: Way, because Arkansas, too. Okay. I. I Mean,

I'm sorry. I guess I'm just naive and just thinking that everywhere. >> Announcer: Welcome to the rusty buckle of the Bible Belt. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Julianna: Holy. >> Dave: There are no dry counties in Pennsylvania. >> Julianna: No. >> Dave: What about where the Amish. >> Announcer: Oh, it's Pennsylvania. >> Dave: Well, the Amish don't. Amish don't drink.

>> Julianna: Well, just because they don't drink doesn't mean the rest of the people living there. >> Announcer: They're also not enforcing their beliefs on people that are not Amish, you know, so they're not voting to prevent it. >> Dave: Don't see a lot of drunk DUI buggies, I guess. >> Julianna: Oh, you can go to Lancaster and have, like, plenty of speakeasies and breweries and beer and, you know, uh, all sorts of things.

>> Kendall: No. >> Julianna: Uh, no. >> Dave: How do we end up back in Pennsylvania? >> Kendall: We always. >> Julianna: Yes. >> Kendall: Yeah. I like this beer. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Julianna: Okay. And what. Shall we rate it right out of the gate? Goat Island Brewing in Common Alabama is going to get a four for their Gotopia Hazy ipa. >> Dave: Taste the goat. >> Announcer: Is there an island? Are there goats?

>> Dave: There are goats. >> Announcer: Are there goats on an island? >> Kendall: I have no idea. >> Julianna: Uh, I don't know. >> Announcer: Is it perhaps an island in the shape of a goat? >> Dave: I have been. >> Julianna: Oh, that would. >> Dave: I've been to Coleman many times. >> Announcer: There's a river. >> Julianna: There's no. >> Dave: There's no go. Uh, there's no island. Maybe there is. I don't know.

>> Julianna: You said you've been there any times. >> Dave: There's a lake. Well, I was a kid. I wasn't drinking beer then. >> Julianna: Oh, they probably weren't brewing beer then, to be honest. Where the familia come from? All right, to be continued in just a minute. >> Dave: I think the people of Coleman have appropriated an island that may not belong to them. >> Julianna: Welcome, um, back, everyone. >> Announcer: M. Graphical appropriations.

>> Julianna: So, right before the break, we were talking about the Gotopia Juicy ipa. And that is from Goat Island Brewing Company in Coleman, Alabama. And we discovered that there really was. >> Kendall: Or is there's an island in Lake Martin called Goat island, which is more in central Alabama, not far from Coleman, but probably an hour or so. But maybe that's the Goat Island. I don't know. Next time I run into the folks at a beer fest, I'll ask them.

>> Dave: Yeah, they need. They have some explaining to do. >> Announcer: There's nothing on their website about it, so, you know, I would figure at least nothing I could find. >> Dave: Okay, that really gets my goat. >> Julianna: Does it now? >> Dave: Yes. >> Julianna: Okay. All right, well, we're going to move on. We're going to go to the next beer and the Next beer is from Main Channel Brewing Company in. Did we say Guntersville? Guntersville.

>> Kendall: I'm going with Guntersville. >> Announcer: There's your Alabama. >> Julianna: And this is a Matias salad. >> Dave: Gunnersville. >> Julianna: Okay. >> Kendall: Probably. >> Julianna: This is a Dunkle Weiss. And honestly, that's kind of impressive for me. >> Announcer: Is there a large German population in Alabama?

>> Julianna: Well, I'm wondering. Um, so looking on the website for this brewery, they do have, like, an assortment of, like, Amber Dunkle Kolsch, um, American wheat, Dry Irish stout, you know, so, like, they don't seem too far off the beaten path when it comes to, like, beer styles, but good for them. Um, but they have a Chardonnay and a red Zinfandel, too, from Alabama Wine Country, I guess. Is that a. Is that a thing?

>> Dave: Sure. >> Julianna: So, anyways, this dunkle is 5.8% ABV, um, dark German wheat Ale. That's perfect for any occasion. >> Dave: I like this beer. >> Kendall: Wow. >> Dave: Roast beer a lot. >> Kendall: Yeah. I mean, so many Dunklevice are like, can be banana bombs, and that's the way I've described a lot of them. Yeah, you get that banana like you do in a hefights, and. But, um, I described this as a, like, kind of liquid banana

bread. But this is really subtle in those notes from the yeast. >> Julianna: Okay. And for the uneducated that don't know what a Dunkleweiss is, it's similar to. >> Kendall: Hefeweizen, but you're putting in a little dark grains to give it a little more roasty flavor, a little more, um, just color and overall complexity. So very similar flavors, but, you know. >> Dave: A little bit darker, more chocolatey. >> Kendall: More chocolatey, more darker.

>> Julianna: And for those that aren't fans of Weeders, this is a nice graduated version, if you will, of it. >> Dave: Um, there's nothing like, to Kendall's point, this is a very subtly flavored beer, you know? >> Kendall: Yeah. It's really drinkable. >> Julianna: It's got a nice creaminess to it, too, you know? Yeah. This is a good flavor, and the color is nice. I mean. Okay, we didn't really say what to go with that last beer, but, I mean, in the grand scheme

of things, a Juicy IPA is a Juicy ipa. I mean, we know all day what to do with that. What would you pair with this? >> Kendall: I think this would go great with a burger. I mean, and I love darker beers with grilled meat. Grilled, you know, red meat. >> Announcer: I said give me a brat, give me a sausage, Anything like that. >> Dave: Uh, fatty. Yeah. >> Announcer: I'm saying maybe even boil the broad in it afterwards. >> Julianna: Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah. Totally, totally. >> Dave: Just a very pleasant. Like. I'm not a huge fan of wheat beers for the most part, but the German styles, usually they handle the wheat pretty well. But this is. >> Kendall: I'm just generally not a fan of the dunkleweiss. It's a weird style that I don't think, you know, a lot of people in America drink regularly. Yeah, this is a good one. A lot of them are kind of over the top in those yeast derived clove and

banana flavors. But this one is, like I said, it's. It's very. Those are gentle in here and it's just really, really drinkable. >> Announcer: I always feel like most of the dunkles that I get are just a bunch of dark extract poured in and syrupy sweetness left over at the end. This is decidedly not that. >> Julianna: And honestly, I. I just don't see a lot of jungles, like to even. >> Dave: Yeah. Uh, because m. A lot of people don't want to drink it.

>> Julianna: Yeah. I mean, even to like try it and say, okay, I'm gonna go with something today that I don't, you know, normally gravitate towards, but for the sake of being a lover of beer and going to, you know. >> Dave: So this is. >> Julianna: Yeah. >> Dave: I mean, you go to some of those German, like, uh, true German, like beer hall breweries that are around, but you get it. But then, um, a lot of times if you want to go to this, the beer store or something,

you have to get one that's from Germany. And then they're usually old, very old, sitting there for freaking ever because nobody likes them. And then when you taste it, it tastes like crap. And that's why, you know, so, yeah, share. >> Julianna: And. And then you're like, ah, I'm never gonna do it again. Okay, so what do we think of this beer then? >> Dave: Yeah. >> Julianna: Yeah. Hey, look at that. Okay,

strong start, Alabama. Yeah. So the Dunkleweiss from Main Channel Brewing in Guntersville, Alabama, we are going to rate a four. >> Dave: Uh, the best part about this so far to me is that Mike always emails the breweries to let them know that they're product man on the show. So now he's going to send very nice emails to all these Alabama breweries to tell them how happy is that their product was featured on our show.

>> Julianna: Yeah. Okay. >> Dave: Shake my hips just a little bit more. >> Kendall: Wow. >> Julianna: Yeah. Wow. Okay, next up. And this I'm gonna say before anything, I do like the website on this. I do like what the guys are doing and I know websites don't necessarily mean anything, but I can appreciate a good Website where they really give you some good details about their beer rotation that they have. >> Dave: Okay. You want to just knock stuff around.

>> Julianna: I do knock it around. Okay. So this is from Common Bond brewers in Montgomery, Alabama. >> Dave: Okay. >> Julianna: And this is a Ramber Red Amber ale. Say that 10 times fast. Roll Tide or not. 5.2% ABV. Full flavored yet highly sessionable. It's a rye grain Amber ale. Has a multi backbone with a hint of sweetness, balanced with a clean hop profile. And look at this. It pairs well with pizza, barbecue chicken and garlic bread.

>> Kendall: This we can see that. >> Announcer: Is that an Alabama M staple like that, that meal goes together. >> Dave: I'm pretty sure garlic bread was either invented in Italy or Alabama or the other fair. The two. Yeah. When I first tasted this, I swear I thought it tasted like sweet tea. >> Announcer: I was thinking something similar. Like there was a tea like. Yeah, taste there. That really strange. >> Dave: It's not a bad thing.

>> Kendall: A little. Yeah. It's almost like a little herbal tannic flavor. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Kendall: And it's like. Yeah, that is interesting. And it's. I'm uh, starting to really dig it. >> Dave: And because it has that sweetness on the backside when it's. It's like not Milo's. >> Announcer: Is that the rye? >> Julianna: Well, that's what I was wondering because you know, normally when one drinks a red ale, you're not getting a huge amount of spice.

>> Kendall: Mhm. >> Julianna: I mean rye is not the main component. When I think of a red. Right, right. >> Kendall: At all. >> Announcer: And most reds that I've had with rye I hate just for this is not that. >> Julianna: Yeah, yeah. >> Kendall: And it's that it's got an earthiness. I wonder. Um, I'm. What I. You know, I'm just wild guess here. But I'm wondering if

they use something. Some kind of English hops too. Because it's not hopped like it's got an American hops in it. >> Julianna: No, they are using Willamette. >> Kendall: Okay. So American hops with an English background. Yeah, they were derived from. So yeah, Willamettes. Yeah, that makes sense. >> Dave: I uh. Yeah. I don't know. >> Announcer: I mean it tastes good. >> Dave: It is. It is very good. Yeah. >> Kendall: Really good. >> Dave: Strange.

>> Kendall: The most interesting amber I've had because. >> Dave: Like some of these, you. They'll have like a little bit of roastiness sometimes,

you know, but like this is not that either. This is just a tea beer. Yeah. >> Kendall: Yeah. And there's a little sweetness on the finish, but it works. And it's not overly sweet. It's just it, it is, it's just there. And like you said, it it is almost like a sweet tea. >> Julianna: And what I. Another thing that I really like about this brewery is they're not doing anything crazy. Like, I mean, their. Their seasonal offerings are like a wheat, a shady and a, uh, Mexican lager.

Okay, fine. Yep. For. For Alabama, like for that weather. Sure. Those are like perfect summer offerings. Right. But for their year round offerings, it's the amber, the stout, the blonde, the pale ale, um, in a session IPA and like a. And they have tastes good. Do you think so? Wow. And then they have like a. A little bit more of, um, a. They have a different ipa. So like, they're not experimenting and going hog wild, you know, like, they're not in Southern grist territory when it comes to

beer. Um, but this is. This is another one that's kind of surprised me. >> Dave: I. I feel like things are going too well. >> Announcer: Same. >> Kendall: We've got to take a turn here because. >> Announcer: Yeah. >> Dave: Yeah, this is almost like that. >> Kendall: Although I will say most breweries encountered in Alabama make pretty solid beer. >> Dave: Yeah, I think, I think Alabama. >> Kendall: They generally do a good job.

>> Dave: I think there's a good brewing culture in Alabama and maybe that's because it took longer for it to develop. But then also I think they have pretty good water there too. So I'm. >> Announcer: Well, there's certainly a lot of it. >> Dave: Sure. >> Announcer: A lot of limestone and everything else. >> Dave: At some point, pretty soon, the next couple beers, either Kendall or Drew, and

you guys can fight it out. Who should. One of you is gonna have to channel your inner mic and hate. And hate on a beer. >> Julianna: And hate on a beer. >> Announcer: I was ready for it to be this one with the name. >> Julianna: Sure. >> Announcer: Rainbow Red Amber Ale. >> Dave: Yeah. Which. >> Kendall: Yeah, it's a good one. >> Julianna: There's. I mean, there's a lot that rolls off the tongue there. Yeah. But, um, this is really.

>> Dave: I. I mean, it's another winner. >> Julianna: It really, it really is. And for a Red, like, that's even blowing me away even more because I don't know about you guys, but to me a Red is a misfit toy out of a lot of the beer styles that we have. >> Dave: You know, we rarely cover them because people rarely make them. >> Julianna: You know, or if they do make them, they're just so bad. >> Dave: Yeah.

>> Julianna: You know, it's like they weren't even trying. But I mean, cheers to these guys. This is. Wow. >> Dave: Like they bought up some extra caramel malt or something. They're like crap now. What are we gonna do? >> Julianna: But, but still. But this is. I mean, this is great. Okay, so what shall we rate this. Oh, my gosh. We are three for three, folks. So from Common Bond brewers in Montgomery, the Ramber Red Amber Ale cannot say that fast. We are going to rate a four.

>> Dave: Well, it's Alabama. You're not supposed to say it fast. >> Announcer: I said you got to get down into the draw. Get it out. >> Dave: Rambur. >> Julianna: I'm sorry. >> Announcer: To Pennsylvania. >> Dave: I can't. All right, we're gonna story time. >> Julianna: Yes, I think it's time for story time. >> Dave: Who's got story time? >> Julianna: So Drew's got story time. Sweet. Tell us m a story from the.

>> Announcer: BBC news and Anna Fagi as I'm. >> Dave: Going to pronounce good old Anna Fagi. >> Announcer: Earrings worth $769,500 recovered by Florida police after alleged thief swallows them. >> Dave: Um, Talk about a crappy job. >> Announcer: Jason Gilder, 32, swallowed the Tiffany & Co. Diamond earrings around the time he was taken into custody on 26

February. Police said Mr. Gilbert was monitored by detectives at an Orlando hospital for more than a dozen days before the earrings were expelled from his system. According to the Orlando PD, Mr. Gilder faces charges of robbery with a mask and grand theft in the first degree. Tiffany's has since cleaned the earrings. >> Dave: I. Do you have to. Do they have

to sell those on a discount? Because that's like, you know, if you buy a house that someone was murdered in it, you know, like, okay, these earrings were pooped by Mr. By a. >> Announcer: 32 year old man who posed as an assistant to an NBA player so he could be shown very high end jewelry in a VIP room at a Tiffany & Co. Store in Orlando. >> Dave: Hey, I work for Steph Curry. And, uh, he's thinking about some new earrings. And, uh, you

know, what do you got? What do you got to show me? I'd like something less than a million over 500k, you know? >> Announcer: Supposedly, Mr. Glider distracted the store employees and then ran from the store with two pairs of earrings. He apparently also dropped a diamond ring valued at $587,000. >> Julianna: What? >> Announcer: As he fled. >> Dave: How do they not. How did they not have people with guns pointed at anyone, like anyone who is going to have, especially in

Florida, couple million dollars of jewelry, just. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's fine. >> Announcer: When officers caught up with him later that day, they saw him swallowing several objects believed to be the stolen earrings. Officials transporting him to the jail allegedly heard him say, I should have thrown them out the window. At the jail, the perpetrator allegedly asked the staff, am I going to be charged with what's in my stomach showing? Once again, uh, what else was in there?

>> Julianna: Yeah, right. >> Announcer: Florida has the smartest criminals. >> Dave: Yes. Yes. Am I gonna be charged with what's in my stomach? >> Announcer: Wow. Plausible deniability out the window there. >> Dave: And I like how the story included, uh, um, an image of the actual. >> Announcer: The X ray. >> Dave: The X ray where the earrings were inside that young man.

>> Announcer: Indeed. Um, his alleged criminal history shows a 2022 robbery at a Tiffany & Co. Store in Texas. So he's done this before? >> Dave: It worked then. Well. Well, I guess it didn't work then. If he got arrested then. >> Announcer: And there are 48 separate warrants out for his arrest in Colorado. >> Dave: 48. >> Julianna: Wow. >> Kendall: Interesting. This is a special person. >> Announcer: Indeed.

>> Dave: What do you have to do to get warrants in Colorado? I mean, they pretty much allow anything. It's wild west out there. Literally. >> Julianna: Uh, wow. That's. >> Dave: I mean, weeds, legal. You know, you kind of do whatever you want in Colorado. >> Julianna: I mean, I. I guess. I don't know. That's. >> Announcer: You know, crime doesn't pay. >> Julianna: Um, That's. That's. Yeah. >> Dave: You are what you eat. >> Announcer: I don't know.

>> Julianna: That's. >> Dave: Hey, he's a shiny diamond. >> Announcer: Maybe a crazy diamond. >> Kendall: Yeah. >> Dave: Shine on, you crazy diamond. Yeah, I like that. Well played. I don't know, man. Like, what's, uh, the weirdest thing you guys. Oh, wait, Juliana, you work at an or. Oh, what's the weirdest stuff? You've ever had to wait for somebody. >> Announcer: To, uh, evacuate, Monitor their.

>> Dave: Have you had to monitor, uh, someone's evacuations over a period of days? >> Julianna: Well, I think I told you the story. Um, okay, this is many years ago. It's like when I first started, when I first moved down here. >> Dave: One time at band camp. >> Julianna: Yeah, one time at band camp. Um, so in the beginning, I used to work second shift. And second shift was great because, you know, usually people would

come home from work and then look at. You know, like, I'd look at you funny and then, you know, start a little fight with you. Or I. I'd be sitting on the back porch or the front porch, reading the Bible, you know, contemplating the day and praising the fact that I live through the day. And then, you know, start a fight or somebody hit me or something like that. But this particular evening, which was a weekend, I believe there was a drug deal that was going down with crack. And so dealer

met the guy. There was an exchange, but there was a fight over money. And, um, somebody called the cops. And then people fled. Well, the dealer must have given the sample to said buyer. Like, hey, you gotta try this. This is great. You know, and there was a discrepancy as to how good the stuff crack is. >> Dave: Subpar, sir. >> Julianna: Right. Well, anyways, the dealer wanted to protect his position. I mean, his earnings. Right. So what does one person do?

Well, as he was fleeing, he decided somehow that he was going to store the pipe and. Bless you. Um, and some more of his stuff, his stash, somewhere within him. Okay. Well, in the meantime, the police wanted to stop him, so they, you know, they hit him. >> Announcer: Um, this pipe was glass, I presume? >> Julianna: Yes, it was glass. Yes, it was glass. Um, so they shot at him and, you know, got him in the

leg and got him in the belly. Nothing too bad. But anyways, he came to the hospital and, you know, we worked on him. At the end of the case, we needed to do an X ray on him. And, um, that's where you found. There was something on the X ray that didn't look normal. So I'm gonna finish this after the break. Welcome back, everyone. Today is a road tripping episode where good old boy Dave and I went to Alabama to do some beer shopping.

And right before the break, we were having a little story time and an extended story time, and I was talking about what I encountered one night at work at a fine hospital in the fine city that I live in currently. So the X ray. Yeah. So the X ray was done and there was something there that shouldn't have been there. And the surgeon asked his resident to pull it out, to take extract, to feel, uh, for something and do a examination.

>> Dave: Whoa. >> Julianna: In the southern regions like Alabama. And when that resident did, um. >> Dave: Did the resident have very small hands? >> Julianna: Uh, anyways, when they were reaching. Extracting and extracting, they extracted a pipe. >> Kendall: Yeah. >> Julianna: That apparently was still lit at the time of insertion. >> Kendall: Oh, wow. >> Julianna: As well as two bags of. >> Dave: That's another way to smoke crack.

>> Julianna: So, yes, I've heard of boofing before. That person then had to. I mean, when that happened, that person ended up getting another procedure because of things that were adhering that shouldn't have been adhering. >> Dave: Oh, it was hot and it stuck to them. >> Julianna: Exactly. >> Dave: Okay, okay, okay. >> Announcer: Let's get back to the beer. >> Kendall: Yeah, I can't. >> Dave: No, yeah, you. You took way too much, uh, of have our live.

>> Announcer: That's an interesting segue for Tuscaloosa. >> Julianna: Yeah. Okay. >> Kendall: Roll Tide. >> Julianna: So let's go on to our next beer. This is from Druid City Brewing in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it's called Neon moon. It is 4.9 ABV. It is a Berliner Weiss with raspberry and mango. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Announcer: Cease and desist scent. M. Or I think this is the one. >> Dave: This is the one.

>> Kendall: It's not. Yeah, it's. I wouldn't want much of this. The raspberry tastes like they just put a little raspberry extract in there. Tastes a little fake. Syrupy

almost. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Kendall: But. >> Announcer: Yep. >> Kendall: Yeah, I bet this. Honestly, I bet they sell a lot of it, but I. Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't want. >> Dave: We're saving a can of this for Mike. >> Julianna: Would you think that maybe this is a little bit of a girly beer if I have to like, you know what I mean? >> Kendall: I hate to say that, but. Yeah, that's what I mean. It kind of

college sells well. Yeah. That the people who don't like beer drink this. >> Dave: Right. This would go well with the seltzer crowd. >> Kendall: It's so light, it almost tastes like one. It's a super light beer. The Berliner Vice is weird because, uh, a name. Because it's not really that tart. And, um. >> Julianna: And on a Berliner, you would expect. >> Kendall: A little more tartness. Might make this better, actually.

>> Julianna: Right. I mean, don't you expect there to be tartness and then you add a syrup to. >> Announcer: But then again, we were saying this is probably a beer for people who don't like beer and they don't know what to expect. >> Julianna: Okay. I mean, that's. >> Dave: Yeah, I think they were looking. >> Announcer: Of the neon moon. >> Dave: I think they were looking for a light, fruity style to appeal to the, you know, cheerleaders.

So I don't know. What do you guys think about this? Uh, yeah. Yeah. >> Julianna: Yeah. Okay. I am sorry, Tuscaloosa, but the Druid City Brewing Companies, Raspberry Mango, Berliner Weiss, we are going to rate a 2. >> Dave: I'm sure their other beers are lovely. >> Julianna: Yeah, Yeah. >> Dave: I. I mean, just make them available in Huntsville. Where are we going to buy beer? >> Julianna: Yeah. Okay, Moving on then. Let's go to Red Clay Brewing in Opelika.

>> Dave: Opelika. >> Julianna: Opelika. >> Announcer: Opelika.

>> Dave: Okay. Alabama. >> Julianna: Okay. Thank you. So this is the Mira Dutch Courage Pilsner. >> Announcer: This is almost a Florida in Alabama, isn't it? Yeah, Stream Southern, pretty much. >> Dave: This is an odd, uh, tasting beer. >> Kendall: There's something weird on the kind of the malt finish on this. Yeah, it's like, very grainy or bready. >> Announcer: There's. There's a medicinal ish kind of note to it as well. That is, um, almost like an

underberg. Like, I was on the front end or like. Or Maybe that's herbal. >> Kendall: You know, that could be. And it could be from the German hops, that little. Those notes. But still, it's just like it feels out of balance. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Announcer: What makes it Dutch courage? Like, is it gin? You know, so that's what I keep wondering. Like, I, uh, believe that was a saying that came up and say you. You drink a bunch

of gin in. In old England, and it gave you Dutch courage. >> Julianna: Well, this beer, which is 5% ABV, it's a pilsner with juniper berries, lemon peel, star anise, orange peel, coriander, uh, cardamom, and black pepper. >> Kendall: Wow. Okay, so now, considering all that's in it. Yeah, I see what they're doing with it. >> Julianna: The term Dutch courage originated in the 17th century when Dutch sailors were given Genevieve, the ancestor to Jin, to bolster their courage in

preparation for battle. This pilsner is red clay's tribute to that wonderful spirit and made with juniper berries and other botanicals. >> Dave: Okay, that makes a lot more sense. >> Kendall: Um, now. Yeah. Like, if you know the story behind it, then. Then. Then the beer is. >> Announcer: They've achieved it. >> Kendall: Yeah, they nailed it. Um, so I like what they're doing with it. >> Dave: It does bring to mind, Jennifer, if.

>> Kendall: This was just a pilsner, I'd go this. There's something weird. There's something wrong with this. But, yeah, you put all that in, it's like, oh, okay. >> Dave: Until you hear the story of Dutch courage. >> Kendall: Right. >> Dave: This beer is infected. But now that it's, you know, it's actually pretty well crafted beer, and I do enjoy the flavor. >> Announcer: Kudos for, um, you know, going out on a limb.

>> Dave: Kudos for having some Dutch courage, getting out there, making something. >> Announcer: How drunk were you when you came up with this idea? >> Kendall: I also don't know if I drink a lot of these same. I could drink a pint. It's. Yeah, it's interesting beer. >> Dave: Would you pair this with something like food? >> Julianna: Yeah. What would you pair? >> Kendall: And it would be hard with those notes.

>> Announcer: Um, give me a cheese board, you know, maybe some, um. Just maybe some charcuterie, you know. >> Kendall: Yeah. >> Dave: Just to kind of. Kind of balance it out and. >> Announcer: Yeah. >> Julianna: Nice. And what you think? Yeah. Okay. Well, we are going to rate Mira. >> Dave: Dutch courage pilsner from Regley. I don't have a good Dutch accent. >> Julianna: We are going to rate this A3.

>> Announcer: I don't think you're wearing enough orange when you're not tall enough. >> Dave: Fair.

>> Julianna: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. >> Dave: Only two kinds of people. I don't. >> Julianna: So the next one is gonna be Interesting. Again, this is from Red Clay Brewing Company, and I'm gonna say a little piece here for a second about this website. >> Dave: Say your piece. >> Julianna: Their website is painful. >> Dave: Doo doo. >> Julianna: Um, yeah, because it doesn't give a list of beer that they have on tap or, like, rotational

or anything like that. And it's constantly. It would constantly ask me for if I'm 21 or not. Like, you would click the 21 and then it would, like, a minute later refresh and ask me again and ask me again. And I finally just, like, gave up. >> Announcer: I'm like, sure, yeah. >> Julianna: Okay. I am in spades. So this is 7% ABV. This is their Southern take on an American IPA. The IPA is hop forward with notes of pine and

citrus. The light multi flavor accentuates the Amarillo Citra and Simcoe hops, making it an IPA lover's dream. Okay, so Amarillo Citra Simco, a fairly classic. Yeah, but isn't this. But when I hear those things, doesn't it lean a little bit more towards the west? >> Kendall: Yeah, it's a. It's. It's in the style of the West Coast. I don't know

if there is a Southern style ipa. I've been thinking about that. If. If I was going to say there is a standard for a Southern ipa, it's got to be Sweetwater ipa. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Kendall: It's just such a good beer. But even that is very west. >> Dave: It's kind of West Coast. >> Kendall: Yeah, it's still West Coasty. >> Announcer: I think we actually talked about on this show before whether or not there was. Should be called a Southern style ipa.

>> Kendall: Um, but it's okay. I feel like it needs a little more malt and body to stand up to the. The hops we've got. It feels a little. A little thin to me. And it's. It's an okay beer, but what's the. >> Dave: ABV on this one? >> Julianna: Uh, seven. >> Dave: Yeah. It doesn't come up. >> Julianna: Doesn't taste like I was gonna say, does it taste 7? >> Kendall: It needs a little more. It needs, you know.

>> Dave: Yeah, there's a reason. I mean, it's, It's. >> Kendall: We used to put more caramel, uh, malts in our IPAs. >> Dave: Give it a little more. >> Kendall: Give it a little more. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Kendall: Um, well, sure. >> Julianna: Because if you're adding all of those hops in, I mean, and if you get a lot of alpha E, you know, sharpness, you want a good strong. >> Dave: I don't even get.

>> Julianna: But do you get. Do you even get the sharpness of the hops? >> Dave: I don't Even get a lot of the. I don't get a lot of anything. Yeah. >> Kendall: Um, it's. >> Dave: This almost reminds me of like a session if. When somebody makes a session version of their. >> Kendall: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It kind of does have that. >> Dave: Like this drinks like a 4.2%. >> Kendall: Yeah. It needs a little work. It's not a

terrible beer, but it needs. It needs some tweaking. >> Announcer: It needs to warm up a little bit too. >> Julianna: Okay, fair. >> Announcer: I'm getting a little. I'm getting a little more of the hops. Now that I've. >> Dave: Yeah, now that you've cuddled it. >> Julianna: No, um. >> Dave: Hey, good old boy Drew's a cuddler. >> Kendall: It's pretty drinkable, though, which I guess.

>> Announcer: If you're trying to sell a lot of it is kind of the goal. >> Kendall: Right, Right. >> Julianna: So if you didn't. >> Dave: I guess if you want to drink a lot of a 6 or 7% beer that tastes like a 4% beer and just get hammered. >> Announcer: Have you been in Alabama? Oh, that's right. No. >> Dave: Alabama's in me. >> Julianna: Wow. Okay, that's. Thanks. Well, I mean, in the. In the. In the grand scheme of things, what would you.

I. I guess if I didn't classify it, you know what I mean? If I just grabbed it and said, hey, this is an ipa, I'd be okay. >> Dave: Is there a style that. It is. >> Kendall: It's more of a pale ale. Yeah, it really does remind me more of a pale ale. >> Julianna: Yeah, that's. That's fair. >> Announcer: I think it probably is a victim of marketing, you know, say, hey, what IPAs do you have? >> Dave: I'd say it's a small mid coast. Or was it third coast ipa? I don't

even think. I don't think it's even fully, uh, west coast. >> Announcer: To me, it doesn't remind me of the. What I would call the quote unquote, third coast IPAs. Like two hearted, you know, if you will. Like, you know, there's no centennial in this. >> Dave: Don't get like, any. A whole bunch of pine or. No, no. >> Julianna: And that's what they're saying in part of the description. >> Dave: Right? So, like. Yeah. >> Julianna: Where is it?

>> Dave: Where'd you put it? >> Julianna: Yeah, it's hiding. >> Dave: Uh, yeah, it's in the sixth can of each six pack. >> Announcer: It's that. It's that Alabama Yellow Pie. >> Dave: Five. Okay. Beers. You get that sixth one, man, it. >> Julianna: Comes out kapow in spades. >> Dave: Yeah. >> Julianna: Yeah. Okay. All right, Fair. So not terrible, though. What shall we rate the

Southern style ipa? Yep. Okay. We are going to go with a three from Red clay. >> Dave: They're lucky good old boy Mike's not on this show. >> Julianna: Okay, well, last but certainly not

least, we're going to Braided River Brewing in Mobile, Alabama. And this is their Boom Boom Pale ale. >> Kendall: M. I like this one. >> Julianna: So this is your day drinking Marty Gro Companion. >> Kendall: This is. >> Dave: Wow. >> Kendall: It's just a pale alum. You know, this is. When I said the last one was a pale ale, I was wanting more like this, this one's got a little. >> Dave: This one has more flavor. >> Kendall: It does the last one. Yeah.

>> Julianna: Okay, so this is 5.3% ABV. >> Dave: Tastes like more like almost 2% less alcohol, but tastes like it has more. Way more, uh, flavor. Yeah. And this is, and it's got some body to it. >> Kendall: This, this is a pale ale that's a homage to Sierra Nevadas, like everybody else's pale ale. This is a classic American pale ale. And they didn't try to lighten it up or. I mean, that color is like almost, you know, a little bit orange.

>> Julianna: Mhm. >> Kendall: This is a very standard old school American pale. >> Dave: Alex, that comes through to you. Like, how would you describe the aroma? There's a certain part of the aroma. I, I can't name it, but it. >> Kendall: It'S a little bit of pininess. I mean, little bit of. That's, uh, what it is, but it's not. You don't get that dankness you get out of a lot of the big west hops, but a little bit of pininess overall, maybe that's what I'm.

>> Julianna: Do you get any piss? >> Kendall: No piss. >> Dave: No piss. >> Kendall: I'm getting a little more malt off the aroma than even. >> Announcer: Yes. >> Kendall: Hops. >> Julianna: It's okay. >> Kendall: You're getting that, uh, little, this is definitely slightly grainy sweetiness you do from caramel. >> Dave: Yeah, I think that's what I'm picking. Is that caramel.

>> Julianna: Okay, well, the reason why I'm asking about pithiness is so in their description, they say immobilization folly rules. Only here does folly ever beat death. And this pale ale is an ode to the revelry and fun of Mardi Gras. This day drinker balances a creamy malt base with hop flavors of grapefruit, oak and coconut. Our town was born to celebrate. And when the parade starts rolling, it's time to take me to the Boom Boom. >> Announcer: I get the grapefruit.

>> Kendall: Yeah. >> Announcer: 100. >> Kendall: Yeah. Which is pretty standard. >> Announcer: Yeah. >> Dave: I think what, what hops did they say they use? >> Julianna: Doesn't. >> Dave: Because there's, you know, there's a couple of Hops that are where you can get a little coconut out of it. But I don't know that I'm. >> Kendall: Yeah, there's one that starts with an S. I can't remember now.

I bought. I bought a bunch of it. Strata. Is it Strata? That has a very coconut flavor. >> Julianna: I thought Strata was the strawberry. >> Dave: No, no, uh, Velma. >> Julianna: Velma is strawberry. Okay. >> Dave: Something like that. >> Julianna: Okay, gotcha. >> Announcer: I think you might be right. Uh, I think it might be Strato. >> Kendall: But I've brewed beers with only strata, and I don't get a lot of

coconut out of it. But people tell me you're getting a lot of coconut, and I just didn't. Yeah, I'm not getting a lot of coconut out of this, but this is. I don't expect coconut in an American Pale Ale. You know, you want pine and grapefruit and caramel. That's it. That's what this beer has. >> Dave: Dag Nabbit. So enjoy being good. >> Announcer: Boom Boom boom. >> Kendall: Yeah. >> Julianna: Boom boom. Um, okay. >> Dave: Kendall likes you. That's enough.

>> Announcer: He wants you in his room. >> Dave: Whoa. >> Julianna: I do like the camera. >> Kendall: It is cool. >> Julianna: I mean, it's got a very Mardi Gras, uh, E themed thing going on. Yeah. >> Kendall: Yeah. >> Julianna: So what are we thinking about the boom boom? >> Dave: Yeah. >> Julianna: Yeah, yeah. Huh. Okay, so from Braided River Brewing in Mobile, Alabama, we are gonna go with the A. Uh, four.

>> Dave: Uh, sorry, I pulled the trailer. >> Julianna: I know you did this fine for the boom boom American Pale Ale. >> Dave: What are you guys thinking overall of the, uh, the flight in general? >> Kendall: It was a good flight. I mean, we had more force than I thought. I mean, the majority of the beers were four, so. Good job, Alabama. >> Announcer: I'm considering going to Alabama. And not just through

it. Like. Like, I might actually make a beer trip, you know, around Alabama. >> Dave: Nice. >> Julianna: Like, wow. >> Dave: Wow. >> Julianna: I mean, crazy, right? Uh, okay, well, that is gonna do it for today. Go to by Kendall. Thanks so much for being on this journey. >> Kendall: It was great. It was nice to sample a lot of new Alabama beer. >> Dave: Cool. >> Julianna: Please tell us about your blog.

>> Kendall: My wife and I blog about the good news of good beer@beermakes3.com. >> Julianna: Hi, Juice. Good old boy, Drew. Thanks so much for being here. >> Announcer: It was a pleasure. Uh, unexpectedly. Would you like the company? >> Dave: But. >> Announcer: No, no, I'm good. >> Dave: I'm, um. >> Julianna: Good. Good old boy, Dave. >> Announcer: Moist M. Moist M. Perhaps I should plug Dave's mouth. >> Julianna: Right. This is good.

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