Welcome, everyone, to the DCB Show. We are @DCBeer across
social media. Mike Stein, what's in your Stein this evening?
Well, hey, Jake. I'm having, Marlene,
original Berlinerweisser by Schneeeule,
Berlin's famous brewery. Very excited to
see them again at Snallygaster this year,
broadening our beer perspective all the way up to North Germany in
Berlin. Brandy, what what are you having?
Hi, mister Stein and Jake, my fave fellas.
I drank a Born Bohemian, which, as
you know, is one of Denizens' flagship beers. It's,
it's, Pilsner, lager Pilsner with
za' tops. It's very refreshing, very lovely. And
then I was so happy to learn as
I was going through my shrunk or shrank German
word, full of beer that I had a couple of cans of
Dynasty's 838 Stout hiding back there.
So that is what I just finished.
Yes. Love this stout. Love you, Fabio. Love you, Dynasty.
So that's that's what I drink tonight. Jake, what's up? I've got
here, one of the hypiest craft lagers from west of
Mississippi. It is a Montucky Cold Snack.
People in the beer biz have been, big upping this
brand for quite some time now. I would say it's got
kinda that, like, banana bubble gum, coarse
yeast, but it's a little bit moreish than Coors Banquet.
Would I illegally transport it across many states like
Smokey and the Bandit? I don't know. But, like, could you drink
3 of them? Yeah. You absolutely could even on a
weekday when we podcast. Alright.
Before we get into our action packed super cool guest,
I believe it's Streetcar 82's 6th anniversary coming up this
weekend, and we've got a beer share
at City State where they'll be pouring their take on 3
Stars Peppercorn Saison on Sunday, 8th. You
should be there. RSVP, you know where. What else is happening
at that beer share, guys? It's a big one. Fill us in,
Brandy. So to be honest, it was kind of random
and kind of exciting. So the representative from
Lions Gate Films reached out to DC Beer and asked if
they could come to our beer share. And I'm like, oh, you guys like beer?
I love that. But, they're coming to promote
their new movie, "The Killer's Game," and, they're coming
giving out swag, movie tickets, and I think
everyone's getting really jazzed about it. So
that's kinda cool. It's gonna be, a very unique
beer share, but we're gonna have the most amazing fun and get some cool
movie swag from it. So I'm jazzed about it, and we get
Peppercorn Saison, which is crazy. Who thought that was gonna
come back? Not me. But here we are, and I'm kind of
excited about it. And by kind of, I mean very, because I probably still have
this original 3 Stars poster of Peppercorn Saison hanging
in my basement. I did not have Peppercorn
Saison returns in 2024 on
my 2024 DC Beer bingo card, but here we are.
Speaking of brewery swag, a good place to go and
get brewery swag is a festival on Pennsylvania
Avenue where there are over 170
breweries pouring. That festival is Snallygaster,
and we've got Greg Engert of Neighborhood Restaurant Group and,
of course, Churchkey, Bluejacket, The Sovereign, and many others on
the show. Welcome back to the show, NRG managing
partner and beverage director, Greg Engert.
Greg, what are you drinking this evening? It's funny you
should ask. I'm actually drinking, Hill House, which is
our annual Oktoberfest style beer that we make at
Bluejacket. It's not even on the shelves yet, but I was able to grab
a pre release can, station grade. Very nice, very nice.
Are we gonna see any gravity kegs of that around Bluejacket?
Perhaps at the Oktoberfest coming up? Yeah, exactly. At Oktoberfest,
I think we're gonna have, like, like, 8 or 10 different gravity
kegs of different German style beers. So Hill
House, Pattern Sky, Self Portrait, for
the company. Yeah, we we typically try to get
everything into gravity keg for our Oktoberfest
event, which is awesome. And not to jump any additional
questions you may have, but this is also the year that we're gonna finally
see the return of some Franconian gravity kegs from Franconia,
obviously, showing up. So, not for
Oktoberfest, but for Snallygaster and other appearances. That should be
pretty fun. That is excellent news. I know that we talked about this
last year, and much discussion was focused on, the
pandemic and supply chains and the
like. Is that getting somewhat better? It's clearing up? I wish I
could say yes. I I mean, it probably is. But, honestly, what
happened was Sebastian Sauer, who I think all of y'all
know very well from Freigeist, he is one
of my best friends, and he's a mover and shaker in the
German beer industry. So he actually he brings in a ton of beer
from, like, Belgium and you know, he's, like, kind of an importer
over there, and he moves a lot of beer around. So he knows all the
major players in Franconia, and he was basically like,
I can just make this happen for you. And so he
did via Line Ventures, which, you know, they kinda took over for Shelton
Brothers and started to help us get the
the kinks on the water. And they're on the water now. They're coming over. We're
getting beers from Ichorn, Will
or Ville, and, and and most excitingly, I
think for me, Knobloch, which is, one of my favorite
Franconian lager producers. So and we've never had their beers in
gravity kegs before, so very exciting. I think we're gonna pour
some at a fit maybe in a bet before Snally, but then we're gonna save
some personality as well. So, yes, that is all back for
you this year, Jake. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. The people love to see it.
And by people, I mean, me walking around drinking
sub 5.5%, you know, just like 11 Plato,
Central European lager is, you know, for that Snallygaster, it's
like hot dogs and mustard. It just goes goes well together. I'm looking forward to
the swag this year. I'm wearing my Snallygaster hoodie,
one of my Snallygaster hoodies. So I'm all all about the
color, and I see that the there's been so many colors,
incorporated to this year's theme. And last year's very eighties,
nineties vibes. So I'm curious to see the swag this year
because I'll probably, Abhi, get a a snally thing. You
know what, Brandy? I'm so glad you brought that up. It's funny. Like, that's something
that we don't talk a lot about, and yet
we spend a disproportionate amount of time
on. All the swag that we do at Snally is, like, it
takes us months, like, back and forth, even just to your point, like, coming up
with, like, the theme for the year. You know, this year
was very, like, early 80s. I think I went to them, and I was like,
Let's do, like MTV
1984,
and our our design team is incredible. Chris Mullins and
Tony LaFalce, they were like, yep, got it. And as you
know, like, when you work with, like, marketing teams and designers,
if you can come up with something that they're interested in, it's gonna be amazing.
And I think that that's kind of what we're always looking for every year. It's
like, we have a lot of cool ideas, but if you can find something that
they're pumped about like this, they just jump all
in. And so we have some really cool swag coming
out, and and these guys put in so much work. It it's
really cool every year, to see it happen. I can't
wait to see it. Are there gonna be a Snally themed umbrellas?
Because, you know How dare you say that? Hey. You know what?
Wait. No. We're going to talk about this. This is a sourced object.
But It is. What what do the Snally gods have
in store for us? Because, Greg, let me tell you. I I've been going to
Snally since the days of Union Market parking lot. Yeah. Alright?
There have been many, many, many, many rainy days, Snallies. There have been
many sunny, beautiful Snally days. Honestly, it hasn't
affected my happiness at Snally. I had
a happy Snally time no matter what the weather.
But I'm just curious, like, if people are, like, betting. You're like,
this would be the thing to bet on. This would be the beer nerd thing
to gamble on. I could tell you what, you know, it's it's so
funny you you bring this up. And I I think it's really something interesting to
talk about. So we we just sold out, VIP
today, actually, which is a little later than
last year, but it's right on target for the previous
year. Right? So I think to your point, Brandy,
like, we we didn't obviously host Snally in
2020. In 2021, we came back with a
bang. It was amazing. Beautiful weather. 2022,
beautiful weather. Yes. 23, ticket sales were
nuts because of those 2 years of beautiful weather. And
now it slowed a bit because I think people are waiting, which
totally makes sense to me. And but, you know, it's funny.
Even, like, yesterday, when the weather cooled
a little bit, and and kids are back to school, summer seems to be
over, we're moving into fall, post Labor Day, our
tickets sales just start skyrocketing. So
if it remains looking good and 2 weeks out we have a nice weather
forecast, it's going to be bananas. If not, we'll see what
happens, but but also to your point, it's fun either
way. You know what I mean? It is. I'll tell you, this is a really
cool, statistic. We track all of the
entrances. And last year, we were like, it's
raining. We sold out, you know, 8,000 people. And it was
like, I wonder how many people are gonna come. I think
we had a 98.3
percent entrance rate, which was actually
higher than 2022 even though
it rained. So that's the cool thing about Snally. It's like, when people, like, they
buy their tickets ahead of time, like, they come. Yeah. They're coming either way. You
know what I mean? So I think one of the things that folks like to
talk about a lot is some of the changes in
terms of the breweries that happen year in, year out at Snally, and then,
you know, we had this conversation last year about how do you keep this fresh
and keep it moving. Who are some of the the new
breweries this year, even if they took, like, a year or 2 off, who
you're excited to have or have back? Typically, we
we we like to rotate in
about 15 10 to 15%, I think, at this point of new brewers,
just to, like I said, like, to keep it fresh. And and honestly, like, a
bunch of brewers can't make it, or decline for other
reasons. We could talk about that as well. So, you know, this year, I think
we're excited. We have, a lot of brewers returning, but
we're really excited to have Peter Allen on hand, and actually
coming to town, which is very cool. CLAG
out of Sandusky, Ohio. It's a really fun
brewery that's that's gonna be great. Messoram from,
Montreal. They're awesome and coming. And,
you know, some breweries like Blaugies from, Hainaut province,
Belgium right on smack on the border, they're sending beer, but
they're also coming. So Pierre-Alex is coming, which is
really cool as well. So those are some of the ones that, obviously, I already
mentioned, like those German brewers that we're gonna have, in gravity
tag, which is super cool. So there's a bunch of really cool new
ones. I'm super excited to see
Lisa Allen or, whomever from here, Allen. Yes. Just tell you, I
think. That's incredible. And it's a great opportunity to
showcase, hometown talent for DC Brewers. Obviously,
you know, Ro Gunzel's work at at Bluejacket is is worth
showcasing as well as some other locals. I'm wondering
who said they were unable to come, and if
you don't wanna name names, who would be a dream
get for you? Yeah. Well, yeah, I think, you know,
GABF, as long as that's going to continue to go on, I don't know. It's
like seems like it's changing every year, so it's hard to know,
exactly how it's going to continue to be. But,
they're they're back on this weekend, like, every year now. It's
just 2 years in a row. I thought they were the 1st weekend before,
but now they're on this weekend. So, you know, beer shot is sending
beer, but they're not coming. You know, whereas they would have absolutely
come in the past. We're not getting cohesion this
year or, like, cerebral based on that. So
that's unfortunate. So I I can say that, you know, that's one that's one part
of that. And then some other ones, like, I think probably one of the most
notable ones that that geeks will notice is that Floodland is not coming after
coming for, like, 3 or 4 years in a row. You know, I think they're
just, like, clamping down on travel. They're
a small brewery, you know, so, unfortunately, they're not gonna be
around this year. But I'll and I'll say in general, you know, Tim Lu,
our beer director, and Bruno Simoes, our assistant beer director,
they they do a lot more, traveling
and and appearances at Fest than than I do at this
point, And they really can take credit for Snallygaster
more than I can at this point. I mean, they're absolutely incredible
humans and phenomenal people to work with. And they have
an engine that I've not seen. They just crush it every
year. You know, I think as they've been going around to other fasts, they've
noticed that not as many people are traveling,
which not to be, you know, to dwell
on the issues or just I wouldn't even say issues, but
craft beer is just kinda getting back to where it once was.
You know, a lot a lot of people talk about, like, craft beer is, like,
it's dead or it's, you know, it's hurting. It's still a
lot better than it was when I got started 20 years ago, I'll tell you
that. So, you know, I mean, it's it's slowed down. It's probably slowing down to,
like, a a reasonable pace. But what
reasonable means is that, like, yeah, a lot of these brewers can't travel to
festivals like they used to. So I think because of that, we're
seeing a little bit of a slowdown. All that said,
we're seeing more international brewers. I mean, I mentioned Blaugie is like, Yeah, we'll
come. And, the guys from Track out of Manchester
are coming. You know, so it's like it's it's it's a weird time
in craft. I mean, I we can't say that enough on, you know, in general,
when we see each other, but on this podcast too. It's like it's strange, right?
Some of these domestic brewers might not travel, but the international
brewers are looking for reasons to travel, so we're kind of
making up for one with the other, and, it always seems to come
together and be amazing no matter what, which is cool. So
Yeah. It's really weird living in the future. And
and what and what I mean by that is, not too long ago,
Sebastian Sauer was at was at Shelter at in the Roost and
doing Kölsch service. And I was like, oh, I can't make it Sunday. Can I,
you know, are you gone? You'll probably be gone by the time I can free
up on Monday. He said, no I'm here, so we went and hung out, we
had some beers, but it was wonderful to see him just be like,
yeah we did Kölsch service on a Sunday, it was wonderful, this is as it
should be. And I was like, oh cool, are you gonna go do that? And
he was gonna hit some more American cities, but it was funny to hear
him get some inside baseball talk about, like, oh, we
should do Kölsch service now, and then next month, September, October, November,
And he was like, you don't need a reason. We just do Kölsch service. Anytime
I'm in Cologne in Köln, we just do Kölsch service. That's what happens, and it
was so wonderful to see his tall,
beautiful German self in DC and just having a
great time and drinking in the beer Kölsch service. And I I remember, like, 10
years ago meeting him at Churchkey on a random I don't know if it was
a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, but the same concept. And and to echo your
point, Greg, massive massive congrats to you, Bruno,
Tim, the team for having incredible yeah. You
know, one Sunday you're doing it at Freigeist, yeah, another Sunday
it's Halfway Crooks, and another Sunday it's Bierstadt Lagerhaus, like,
the continual churn of quality events is
amazing. It's wild. I think it's like, 10 years ago. I think that
so what you're getting at is that, like, when Sebastian came to town, he wasn't
doing Kölsch service. Like, he was, like, popping out
historic German beer styles, you know, like, been crazy weird
beers that, like, people were flocking to then and nobody would drink now. It's like
living in the future, living in the past, what is past is
prologue. It's so cool to see this all evolve. And when
people try to talk about, like, the death of craft beer and
stuff, it's like, it's so clearly not because things are still in motion,
you know, and and that's what's and like, we were talking about, like, Jake was
saying, we have gravity kegs coming back to Snally for the first time
since pre-pandemic. That sounds good to me. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think
nature is healing. That's that's what we wanna hear. Yeah. By the
way, I take great I take great offense to obscure the obscure German beer
styles dig because I had a Lyttkenhiner in Baltimore
last month. So You were the first the first and
last person to have that beer probably there. Yes. And it was it was not
even a Sebastian Sauer beer. It was a Mike Earl beer. Shout
out to Mike Earl over at Silver Branch who's got a Rauch beer on at
Diamondback right now. If we're going
to live in the present but
reminisce about the past, what about our Brewers Brunch?
Because that used to be my favorite.
Mallard, are we doing a Brewers Brunch at Mallard? So
here's the thing. For me to ask, we mentioned Bruno and Tim, but, I
mean, so many other people to kind of, like, buck
up on Sunday after this whole all these shenanigans is,
like, pretty difficult. That's why we've held off from doing it in the
past. I mean, you know, most brewers start to come to town on Thursday. We
do some fun stuff all week, and then Thursday it starts, Friday
it's big, Saturday it's big, Saturday after party. You guys have all been there.
Sunday, everybody kind of, like, dies for the day, you
know. So I can pretty much say
that there's no way we'll do over as much. However, however,
2 weeks after Snally, we have,
Churchkey's 15th anniversary event. So I think
that's gonna be on the 26th. We haven't announced
it yet, but we're gonna be showcasing a bunch of really cool 15th
anniversary beers that people have been brewing for us and with us, chilling,
Sierra Nevada, Oxbow, The Veil, Monkish,
all that stuff is coming out, and we're gonna have a big party, a blow
out at church camp on the 26th. So maybe I
should be talking to these guys about, some kind of
brunch for that if the brewers are in town. So Yeah. That's a good
idea. So you mentioned brewers getting in for Snally on
Thursday. Are any of them going to go at to
Bluejacket and perhaps do any collaboration beers
with Bluejacket at Bluejacket? I can say
yes, but we're still trying to figure that out. It's hard because
it's a balance of schedules, and Ro
Gunzel, you mentioned before, our director of brewing ops, his team,
Colin and Tim, like, it's crazy busy. Like, we're
kind of coming into fall, so we're hit taking off. We're
packaging a bunch of beer for Bluejacket or for for Snally.
But, we typically do do at least 1 to 2
collabs, and we're working on those now. So we're we are I
can't say definitively what we're doing, but we are we're trying to, like, pin it
down. And, we always brew, you know, 2 collabs.
Like, Thursday, Friday, like you said, we'll do 2 2 beers that
will come out after. You mentioned Blaugies, and then you also
mentioned track. I noticed a few more
Brits coming this year, not just Track, but also Cloudwater,
more. And the return of I mean,
you know, we're all OG beer geeks here. Ridgeway, who
I mean, I've been drinking Ridgeway since, like, the,
I don't know, mid to late nineties.
Santa's Butt, all of the Very Bad Elf series,
do you think they'll be bringing any real ale? Will we see some casks, some
firkins? Yeah. That's it's we're talking about that right now. I
mean, I think, possibly. I'm so glad that y'all
noticed that. Like, we that's something personality. I think sometimes
when we have to pour less of the
hundreds of local brewers that there are, obviously, we only do
175 brewers, so not everybody can be involved. A lot of times
we're making way for international brewers, right? Because
we we believe, rightfully, that they do things
differently, and they can show us things that we can't get from
brewers locally. Not that they're better or worse, but it's just fun to have
different perspectives, different flavors, things like that. So, yeah, Ridgeway,
Cloudwater, more beer, Justin, Hawk, really close
buddy of mine will be in town for this. But all that said,
I'm not sure if we're gonna do ferkins just because we all
know that an hour or 2 in, even with, like, a blanket
on it, it's not necessarily the best way to
showcase their beers. And so if they're coming all the way over from the
UK, we're probably gonna serve stuff in, you know, a container
and key keg. That said, most of these guys are putting the
beers in the kegs, naturally
carbonated like they're filling Firkins anyways. So, like, you know,
unfiltered, unpasteurized, naturally carbonated.
So it's close enough, but the pop and circumstance, probably not as
much. When we do the gravity kegs from Germany, it's just those things
are light. They're they're airtight. Those they make a lot more sense for a
fast, and they tend to be smaller. We don't typically get
pins from the UK. So when we get 13 gallons of
Firkin beer, it's like the first 5 gallons are gonna be amazing.
The rest because you guys remember, we used to do that at Snellie all the
time. And it it it by the end, it wasn't the best
way to showcase the beer. So I mean, suggestion here,
you can do Firkin' Friday as the Friday pre
Snally event with all of the orders and stuff. We do that
every Friday, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
at Shelter Churchkey, and Bluejacket it anyways. I mean,
that's what I'll say is like, if you don't get firkins of Ridgeway, IPA,
ESP at Snally, we'll have it at Churchkey that
weekend. You know what I mean? So, like, that's that's that's cool at least. I
was gonna say real quick, thank you for acknowledging the local
brewers because, you know, we are on the receiving end of a lot
of comments. And we always say, you know,
Snally Greg is has the opportunity because of
his connections and his long time in in the industry to bring in
all of these breweries that we don't tend to get to have.
And, you know, it's I do appreciate you
acknowledging the local breweries who may feel left out. I don't think it's anything
personal. Oh, it's absolutely not anything personal. It's it's a
horrible position to be in. Can you imagine? Like like, that's it's
hard. We do rotate. Like I you know what I mean? Like like Silver Branch
is back this year after not being in last year. You know what I mean?
Like, so like we do our best to like try to to to
help out our friends. But at the same time,
Snallygaster is not a local beer fest, and never
is gonna be, never should be. And if it comes down to making
room for beers like from Franconia you've never had
before, we have to do that. I I I just that that's that's the
nature of our fast, and I think most people understand. And I and
I appreciate you guys are really good yeomans, for
us and and great, like, people who can spread the word on that.
But, you know, it's hard. It never feels good. But
I do think it's cool because we're trying to, like, rotate people back through. Like
I said, like, Silver Branch is back this year. We love that brewery. We love
those guys. They make amazing beers. So,
yeah, we're we're always thinking of it. I think that's the beauty of Snally.
We we often forget that, you know, it's a fundraiser for
Arcadia Farms, and that is fundamentally doing good. Because
outside of that, the beer world is so broad that you have to
have Franconian gravity fed
beer, and you have to have Mancusian
or Manchesterian or beers from
Ridgeway. I had 2 Ridgeway beers today, and it just reminded me how
broad the world of beer is. And to your point, Greg, I would much rather
have the 2 beers that I had at a bottle, the imperial stout and the
export stout, than I would gallons 6 to
13 out of a cask. Knowing how good gallons 1
through 5 are, it just doesn't make sense. Right? And so you have to do
the logical thing. And I would also add, Brandy,
not to ever have you be, you know, the the
punching bag for local brewers or have DCB or us take the blame,
but anytime we go back to those brewers and go, but have you
had, the Georgian broil, or have you had a
Ridgeway export Stout, or have you had and if it's in good faith,
it's always, yeah. You're right. I would love an an export stout
from Ridgeway. I would love a Keller beer from Boudinheim. The other
thing I would say, guys, which I think is, like, really important is
and I've written about this for craft beer brewing. It's like, where
are people getting inspiration these days? You know, or
or just learning how to make a beer correctly. You know what I mean? I
think that it's harder and harder to find imported beer
anywhere, but when I think of like, you know, I was just talking
to, Kelly Young from Velocity Girl because we're actually we're gonna
brew a beer with him. We're just talking about, you know, if you
wanna make a Dunkle, what's that based on? You know, like if you just go
to a random brewery and say like, what what's this Dunkle based on? I mean,
Internet, technology probably, you know, just like finding stuff, but like, isn't
drinking Iager Alt Virus Stenkel or Andex? You know what I mean?
Like, this is the these are the things I wonder about, or when people, like,
start brewing rock beer. Have you had
Shlenkerla? Have you had it recently? Because and again, I'm only sharing this
because I know for a fact it's harder and harder to find any of these
beers today. So it's like, I I think Snally
is also a great opportunity for people to taste a bunch of stuff
that they can't necessarily get all the time. And when you think of like, oh,
like, I love making lager. Well, if you come to Snally and you drink some
of these Franconia lagers, it might, like, blow your mind and
and make you think like, oh, wow. Like, you know, as a brewer or a
home brewer or like just like a festival goer, like, wow. How do I do
that? You know? And and that used to be easier to do when there was
more imports, but there's not as much now. So, like, I think that that's cool.
And, also, you go to Snally, whether you're pouring or not, the
opportunity to meet and hang out with so many brewers and and and just,
like, interact and talk through ideas
for, you know, beer making but or just process
or or ingredient sourcing is is incredible.
I mean, it's just like so if we get 250 brewers in DC
for a weekend, that's everybody's win, you know, beyond
just Arcadia, NRG, Snally. It's it's
a it's an amazing time for everybody to take advantage of. It's only
everybody's win if you actually listen to what Blaugees does
and do a proper step mash. Right.
I will say, in addition to what Greg just said, last year on
the Snellie stage, I was geeking out the whole time I
was on stage because we had a star studded
series of panels. And I was on stage, and I was
like, geek be are geeking out, because, like, I'm
so happy that I get to talk to these people, and and not only do
the brewers get to geek out, but it's it's, like, non
brewers and beer geeks overall just to get to, like, beyond
in the same area as them. Like, how cool is that? And, like, shoot the
shit or drink a beer together. And I I just that that honestly was the
highlight of my entire snalley last year. Not even just the stage,
but just having the opportunity to be interviewing
these people that I admire and look up to in the beer industry.
It's incredible. So And we're and we're gonna do that again.
I mean, DC Beer is definitely gonna be back running the podcast each. We're not
gonna have it as close to a music stage
as last time, so you can hear it. We're gonna figure it out. But, yeah,
I mean, it's like it's so cool. And, like, we have some other, you know,
Steal This Beer podcast. They just reached out to me today. They're like, can we
come down and work with DC Beer and be on the stage? I'm like, hell
yeah. Like, we can come up with so many ways to do this and
keep interviewing amazing people. And then you guys kept, you know,
releasing these awesome episodes afterwards. I mean, it's cool. I feel like we're
we're really taking advantage of having all these, cool
personalities in in the same place. So thank you for that, and
we can't wait to do that again. Yeah. Thank you so much, Greg. And you
listeners, take advantage of it too. General mission tickets still available.
Again, this is for a good cause. Arcadia
Farms. Greg, as always, thank you so so much.
Yes, guys. It's great to see you. And thank you, Tim and Bruno. We
know everyone is out there working hard. We can all sleep with the windows open.
We can drink marasins and fest beers and even
pumpkin beers, I guess, if that's your thing. It's not for me. But
you enjoying it, doesn't hurt me in any way, so fine, I
guess. What else do you all got going on? English stout,
Jacob. English stout. I got not one, but 2 export
styles from JP at Hop Cask and Barrel. Shout out to JP, manager
of Hop Cask and Barrel, for bringing in the Ridgeway
goodies. Brandy, what's on your
agenda? Beer wise or event wise? Because,
you know, my women's brew Kölschure club, we're doing trivia at, other half,
the middle the middle Indus of the month, but come back on that one.
I am looking forward to the return of brown
ales. I will say someone just
gifted me a lovely box of Cigar City's
brown ale. Out of nowhere, I was very
excited because they know they knew my favorite type of beer was brown ale, and
they couldn't find any because this is the world that I live in. So
they went out and bought out, bought a box of cigarsity
brown ale, so I'm thoroughly enjoying those. So, guys,
if and women and theys and thems and wes and us,
make more brown ales for Brandy. Thank you. I'll
see you at Snally. Hashtag brown ales for Brandy.
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