The Brewery Adventure

Cheers to Fall Beers

• Courtney • Season 1 • Episode 21

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We’re hanging out at Arbeiter Brewing in Minneapolis, fresh off our adventure at Autumn Brew Review — the ultimate fall beer fest supporting the MN Craft Brewers Guild! We’re talking favorite pours, fest highlights, and Courtney’s unexpected run-in with a member of her favorite local band. Plus, Professor Dan is back with a crash course on fresh hop beers and we’ve got an exciting update on his collab brew with Josh at Heavy Rotation Brewing. 

EPISODE BEERS (from Arbeiter Brewing):
Courtney: Native Land, Hazy IPA
Dan: Tokki, Korean Rice Lager
Both: Gochu Stout, Korean Gochujang Stout

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Courtney:

Welcome to the Brewery Adventure. I'm Courtney.

Dan:

And I'm Dan. We're here to dive into the world of your local brewery.

Courtney:

It's not just about the beer, it's about the vibe, the people, and the stories behind every tap room.

Dan:

From small neighborhood spots to big bustling brew houses, we'll bring you along for the ride. So grab a pint and join us on the brewery adventure.

Courtney:

Okay, that was a really the bonk of beers was a little lacking in there.

Dan:

Bonk of beers.

Courtney:

The beer.

Dan:

Something that happens on the D train on the subway in New York City after 11 p.m.

Courtney:

I could I well I think I hit too low. It was a very low thud.

Dan:

That's right. But we nailed the open.

Courtney:

We did. Yeah. We're on a roll, Dan. We are two episodes in a row.

Dan:

If we hit a third, we'll be on fire, like in the old Super Nintendo NBA Jam when you hit three shots in a row and you're in Fuego. Yeah.

Courtney:

I love that game.

Dan:

Speaking of in Fuego, let's talk about we're recording at Arbiter Brewing. It's a Saturday, the day of the No Kings protest. Yeah. Well, if we were gonna go to Venn, you beat me there and you said it was like nuts to butts in there, no line for tables and everything.

Courtney:

The rail came in like right before I got there, and a pile of people came off the light rail carrying their signs, and they all went into Venn.

Dan:

Yeah, that's right. Nothing makes you thirsty, like protesting the fact that things are things need to change. Um, but your first drink when we got here was the go-chu stout.

Courtney:

My warmup drink.

Dan:

Your warmup drink. Yeah. Yeah, to get the get the vocal cords ready. Uh, and now I'm drinking it on nitro. The go-chu stout, it's like a Korean stout with gochu jang kind of pepper spice. Yeah. In with the stout. It's so good. It's a great beer for today. I feel like last night I hung out with some friends and then walked out to my car, and from the time I got there to the time I left, there was a definite chill in the air. So I feel like fall has arrived. It's Saturday, October 18th. This is the beer I want to be drinking right now. Yes. A dark beer. This especially has a great spice dryness to it. With there's a little bit of sweetness from like the chocolatey notes and the stout, but this is such a good seasonal that they do here at Arbiders.

Courtney:

It's not too much spice, it's just the right amount, so you know it's there, but it's not overpowering. It's not the big thing in it. It's just very good.

Dan:

Now you're drinking uh what looks like a glass of orange juice.

Courtney:

I mean, my my second beer, I haven't gotten to it yet. I'm gonna be double fisting it for a little bit.

Dan:

Yeah.

Courtney:

But my next one is gonna be Native Land, which is one of their hazies.

Dan:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh I'm gonna take a sip. Go for it.

Courtney:

Oh, that's good.

Dan:

Yeah.

Courtney:

Yeah. That's got that's got some some flavor I've been lacking the last couple days.

Dan:

Ooh, it smells like very I'm trying to like. Are there Sabro hops in this? Do you know? Did it say?

Courtney:

Did you just ask me that with a straight face?

Dan:

Okay. I will consult my barkeep.

Courtney:

Can you yell up to the bar and ask them that?

Dan:

That's very tropical and easy. Ooh, now I'm getting like it was like orange, orange, f naval orange flesh and like mango in the initial, and now I'm getting like tangerine peel.

Courtney:

It goes through a rotation of flavors in there. It's nice.

Dan:

I always forget this place brews absolutely wonderful, hazy IPAs because I always go with their lagers. The first beer, my warmup beer was the Toki Korean rice lager. And that went down very quickly. I always find the first beer of the day always cools.

Courtney:

Real fast. Real fast. Yeah. So this uh the Native Land is a collaboration with Bowen Arrow Brewing in Albuquerque.

Dan:

Oh, sure. Albuquerque, New Mexico is on my short list of beer trips to take.

Courtney:

It's listed on the website as Albuquerque MN. Maybe they've got is there an Albuquerque in Minnesota? That doesn't seem right.

Dan:

No.

Courtney:

I think they just have their letters flipped around.

Dan:

Yeah, that happens. Sometimes you get so excited when you're typing.

Courtney:

I would be excited if I was typing it.

Dan:

It's like that old uh saying, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Courtney:

Yep, okay.

Dan:

Then we're back.

Courtney:

This is how we're starting things out today.

Dan:

That's wisdom. I be believe that was Lao Tzu in his uh Art of War. That was chapter three. How to distract the enemy with a joke.

Courtney:

Distracted. Definitely distracted. Dan, we are here today to talk about a big event that we went to last weekend.

Dan:

The Autumn Brew Review. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a week ago.

Courtney:

It feels a lot longer right now, and I feel like I also got the sads after it, just like what happened with All Paints.

Dan:

Yeah, I felt this year's Autumn Brew Review was probably the best weather for a beer festival that I've had in the last five years. It was beautiful, sunny, not too hot, not too cold. There was no it hadn't rained the night before, so it wasn't like a muddy slop fest. It was just perfect.

Courtney:

This was my first one, and I heard many people talking about last year being incredibly muddy.

Dan:

Mm-hmm. Yeah, and that just makes it, you know. It's bad enough if you're tasting beer all day to try to stand, you know, when you gotta try to navigate a mud slide. It's it's a little different. But yeah, the Autumn Brewer Review was at Boom Island Park last Saturday, put on by the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild. We should thank them for giving us uh some press passes. That was really fun. Always nice to go and you know help them promote their amazing festivals. But yeah, it was kind of a perfect day.

Courtney:

It was gorgeous. And it's right, that park is right on the river. You've got the skyline of Minneapolis behind you. It was picturesque.

Dan:

It was very picturesque and picturesque if you're into drinking beer.

Courtney:

I see what you did there. It's gonna be one of those days, Dan. Normally we get squirrely like this toward the end of the episode.

Dan:

Oh, we're oh, we're squirrely. Yeah, it's uh it's gonna be it's gonna be a good show. Well, ABR, I don't know if we've talked about this before, but we can talk about it again. ABR 2010 was the first beer festival I ever went to.

Courtney:

Ever?

Dan:

Ever. And it blew my mind because I at that point I was very new to craft beer, and there wasn't a craft beer scene in Minnesota like there is now with tap rooms and ninja turtles.

Courtney:

Oh my gosh, there was a ninja turtle.

Dan:

We're gonna go to commercial now, and when I come back, we're gonna interview Michelangelo. Yeah, it just wasn't the craft beer scene in Minnesota, it was a lot smaller. There wasn't the tap room culture, it was a lot of regional brands. I can't remember exactly what year that the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild changed to making it solely Minnesota breweries with the exception of like if they do collaborations. Back in the day, it was, you know, Bells, Rogue, Odell, Stone, all those regional brands that were distributed here, Alaskan Brewing. And every year you'd see more and more local Minnesota breweries, and that was kind of fun. But somebody offered me a VIP ticket, and I'm like, what for what? They're like, it's a beer festival. If you like beer, I'm like, okay, what does this entail? What uh what am I what am I getting myself into? And they give you just, you know, if you're listening and you've not been to a beer festival, you get like a four-ounce, four or five-ounce tasting glass. Yeah. And you go around, get samples, you get about two ounces of pour.

Courtney:

Unless here's this is- I mean, sometimes you're getting more.

Dan:

Here's the problem. It's not a problem. I I strike that from the record. It's not a problem. It's a great thing because once you get to know the brewers, they don't just give you the two ounces, they just like filler up and like you know, sometimes you get four ounces. But you go around and sample and it's unlimited pours from when it starts until it finishes, and then you know, call it a day.

Courtney:

You get to try a lot of things. Yeah.

Dan:

And what I I like about the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild Festivals is a lot of the breweries do bring some special stuff. Yes. I mean, there were there were a lot of breweries pouring out of cans and stuff, and I'm like, well, I don't love that because it's a it's supposed to be like a special festival. Yeah. I would love to see every brewery at least bring a couple. If you're pouring, if you're pouring four beers, I'd like to see three of those beers be out of a keg or some special thing.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

Uh, and not just your core brands out of cans, because that's really boring. I can go to the liquor store. That's not why I'm at a beer festival. So I think and it used to be like that. I'd like to see it get back to that. But it's a great way, if you like beer, to get around and try a bunch of different beers. And if you've not had beer before or you're not sure what you like, it's a very, you know, when you think of the cost, it's a pretty low entry point as far as uh investment to like go around and see what you want. And what I always tell people is just because they give you two ounces doesn't mean you need to drink it all. You don't like it. If you take a sip, you can just like, you know, take a few steps away from the tent and pour it out discreetly. You know, this year there were, I know they had a lot of THC, they had some THC seltzers, they had a lot of non-alcoholic beers, which is nice because not everybody is into beer or uh or beer with alcohol in it. And so I think they're really trying to be more inclusive with who can come and enjoy a beer festival, and so I I thought it was fun. So as your first, so you're you're really ticking off all the big year, Dan. So you you did your first All Pints. Yep. Now you did your first ABR. What were your thoughts?

Courtney:

I had so much fun. Again, this is this is my third beer festival of the year. So winter dabbler, all pints, and now autumn brew review.

Dan:

And you've been you had been to a winter dabbler before.

Courtney:

That was my first winter dabbler this year.

Dan:

Oh wow.

Courtney:

Yeah. And that was my first beer festival. Oh, okay. So it is super fun. You get your little glass, you go around and sample all kinds of things, and sometimes you're sampling something that really appeals to you. Like the name of this beer or the style of this beer, the flavor that you've listed for this beer really sounds like something I want to drink. Sometimes you're branching out thinking, I don't really know if I like this kind of beer, but I'm gonna try it because I'm here, and if I don't like it, it's not a big deal.

Dan:

From a cost perspective, even if you pay 50, 60 bucks for a ticket, if you think about it, if you're going to a brewery, and even if you're gonna order like a half pour, it's gonna be six dollars. Yeah. So it's kind of a nice way to low pressure, try a bunch of different stuff that you may or may not like. And there used to be a bar called the Happy Gnome over in St. Paul. They have like 72 beers on tap, and I didn't like going there because I always felt really stupid asking questions when the beer tenders were really busy. You know, there were beer styles and different things. I'm like, I don't know what these are, and I'm not gonna pay at that time, you know, five, six bucks to try a beer that I don't know about.

Courtney:

Yes.

Dan:

Now, I mean, when places are selling beers for eight, nine dollars a pop, it's kind of a financial.

Courtney:

You don't want to order something you may or may not be.

Dan:

You know, like, oh, I just paid nine dollars for this beer that I thought I was gonna like, and now I don't.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

You know, that's why beer festivals are a nice way to like, okay, kind of zero in on what your flavor profiles are. And I know some people have different strategies of how to approach a beer festival. Some people like, well, I want to start with these types of beers, and once I try all those, then I'll go try all these. And some of them just go like, uh, I'm gonna go to the breweries I've never tried before. They sit there and they try all the beers at that brewery that they have on tap. And there's no real wrong way to do it as long as they're getting home safe.

Courtney:

Yes, well, and I think at these festivals too, the person pouring your beer is very likely to be one of the brewers, one of the brewery owners, or just like one of those fun people from the brewery that they can put in that situation and they will answer questions, they will help you try and figure out what beer is going to be suited to you or what you're gonna like. Like they'll they'll help you on your beer journey.

Dan:

Right. And that's one thing I really appreciate about the guild events is usually you get somebody, whereas like at some of the bigger festivals are like the same day as ABR was the Great American Beer Festival, you know, they just have volunteers who have no concept, they maybe have never even heard of your brewery. At some of the bigger festivals in Minnesota, even, like you might go and you might find the owner, you might find the brewer, or you might find just somebody who is like a volunteer or was asked maybe a friend of the brewery that and they may or may not know their stuff. And sometimes I like for me, I like to kind of converse with the people there. That's why we were talking before we pressed record. I'm like, I don't think I tried that many beers at the festival. You were doing a lot of talking, Dan. You know, I I I'm a talker, so I like to get into the conversation and I was trying to schedule some podcasts and different things and just reconnect. I always like to try to, when I do podcasts, if I go to a brewery for the first time and have a really nice time, try to reconnect with those people. Yeah. And so that's why I I probably spent at least 20 minutes at the Clacko brewing tent as an example, just talking to Andy and uh his assistant brewer, you know, trying beers and then hanging out. Yeah. You know, the other thing I really like about the beer festivals, when the the brewers are there or the people that you've met at the brewery are there, it's just really fun to interact.

Courtney:

It's beer hangout day.

Dan:

It is. And it's it's just, you know, when the weather's nice, it just makes it all so much more enjoyable. And when the weather is not nice, at least you've got friends to talk to about beer with.

Courtney:

So you can make friends very easily there because everybody wants to talk about beer. And they will tell you about a beer that they had over there that was really good and make other suggestions, and it just it's a it's a good community event.

Dan:

Well, it becomes a point of pride if you try something, you want everybody else to try it. Yes. And so you're like trying to always funnel people in uh the direction of the beers that you really enjoyed. From from a beer standpoint, what stuck out to you from the festival?

Courtney:

Oh my goodness, Dan. I had a panic moment when I was starting to think about this because I sampled a lot of different beers. At the beginning, I felt like I was being really good of taking pictures of signage so I would know what I was sampling and I'd be able to remember it. But let's be honest, Dan, you know, a couple a couple samples in that plan kind of went out the window.

Dan:

Yeah. Yeah. I think that happens. I mean, I even brought my friend Charles to help. And you know, we had grand plans about getting a lot of footage, a lot of video footage. I was trying out these new fuzzy microphones, yeah. Fuzzy microphones, which I subsequently wound up losing at the festival. Oh, yeah. Which is kind of a bummer. So I ordered a new a replacement one off of Amazon today. You know, I had grand plans of trying to do stuff, and I did a couple really fun interviews. I know we did a nice one with Jeff Ziert at Lupilin talking about their gold medal winning Oktoberfest.

Courtney:

Did a couple other fun one with Matt Holton at Wandering Leaf, and then you get talking and you're Wait, you need another interview because I recorded the one with you and Jeff at Lupalin, and Charles did the one with you at Wandering Leaf with Matt. Yep. And I know Charles was very concerned about me taking his job.

Dan:

Oh yeah. I mean, you know, Charles is really good at social media. He he taught me the art of the boomerang, which is uh, I believe is still uh under you underutilized feature of social media. But he's always he knows a lot of people. I mean, he's poured beer at at breweries, he used to be involved at Broken Clock, and then he worked at Lakes and Legends for a while. So he knows plenty of people. He's a member of Brewing Change Collaborative, so he he knows a lot of people, so he's but then there was one point where he kind of disappeared and went off on his own to live his own best life. And he apologized. I'm like, Charles, this is what beer festivals are. Yeah. It's just social time. So you never never apologize to somebody for being social. That's that's great. Find your joy. Yeah.

Courtney:

There were some, I I did, I did go back and start making a list of things that I remember that I drank that really made me happy. And when I look at my list, it's very much flavored beers. Yeah. Like if you tell me, again, if you tell me that there is cinnamon in this, I'm gonna want to drink it and taste cinnamon. And I feel like that's the stuff that I had.

Dan:

What beer had cinnamon in it?

Courtney:

The very first beer that I had of the day was Cinnesoda, and it it was uh American brown ale from Fish Dream, which isn't even open yet, but it was uh it was a brown ale that was flavored with cinnamon toast crunch. And I thought we get in early to this thing, and that was kind of like that was my breakfast beer.

Dan:

That's a way to think about it, yeah.

Courtney:

Plus, I I really like cinnamon, and if you can work cinnamon into your beer, I'm gonna want to drink it.

Dan:

Yeah, my first beer of the day was from Invergrove Brewing slash Lakeville Brewing. I think they just share a tent because it's a it's a brew pub, so they have two locations, and it was their Hanape Farms, I think I'm pronouncing that right. H-A-N-A-P-P-E Farms Fresh Hop Ale. It was really good. And they had it on CO2, and they had one that was run through a Randall. Do you know what a hop Randall is?

Courtney:

I do not.

Dan:

Yeah, well, it's a proprietary thing that was invented by Sam Calligione at Dogfish Head Brewing Out from uh Milton, Delaware. It's basically a device that you can fill with hops and run the beer through the hops, giving it just kind of an extra punch of flavor and aroma before you as it's being served.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

So if you went over there, you'd see what looked like kind of like a blender container without the blade with a bunch of hops kind of running through it, hanging out in there. Those used to be really popular at festivals. You'd see every place would have a hop randle. And so it'd be like, oh, come try this beer that we ran through a hop randle of, and sometimes it was like a really interesting new hop, like kind of on the precipice of like the hazy beer craze, and then during it, like, oh, we've got this beer that's already hazy run through a Randall of Galaxy hops, or sometimes it'd be a West Coast beer run through like really juicy hops, or vice versa. I remember I was at a festival one time down at Treasure Island, and Bent Brewstillery was there, and they R I P Vent Frustillery, but they had a a stout called Dark Father, and they ran it through like these like super spicy chilies.

Courtney:

Oh.

Dan:

And I'm like, oh god, this is not it was like instant heartburn. I'm like, why would you do that? But people like to have a flavor experience, so but yeah, so that beer run through a hop Randall with more hops that they got from this farm. You know, it's fresh hop season in Minnesota for a very short time. And fresh hop beers are beers that are brewed with hops that are picked from the hop vine and just immediately thrown in the boil. Because once you pick a hop, the shelf life is very short, which is why most of the times when you when you see brewers using hops, they're in pellet form or they're like dried, kind of scrunched down, like kind of blocks of hop matter leaves and things like that. When you throw the whole hop cone in the beer, you extract it, the essence is so much more profound. Now, this happens on the West Coast all the time. I I was talking with somebody who was out traveling for hop selection, and they're like, we ran into four, we probably ran into 40 different fresh hop beers when we were out there because it's just the nature of the beast.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

And they have access to all these hops. But in Minnesota, Minnesota's not a great place to grow hops because it's so windy.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

So there aren't that many hop farms in Minnesota, which is why you don't see that many. But the fresh hop at Northbound is I think they got their hops from the community hops farm in the neighborhood. So, like some places we'll do a fresh hop beer, but I think it's really fun because it's a neat way to showcase the beer uh and the hop kind of character in a really unique way.

Courtney:

What I'm picturing in my head is someone walking around with like a big neck strap with a cauldron of boiling water in front of them, tossing hops into it as they go through and pick them up. I mean That would be uh an ocean nightmare, but are you saying that?

Dan:

Um what so there used to be, it's actually there still is a brewery called Braw Brothers. They used to have a beer called 100 Yard Dash, and the idea was that it was like a hundred yards from their hot fields to their brew kettle. So like their fresh hot beer was called that because it was like a race to get it in there. Because the minute. So it's like imagine running like chariots of fire. Imagine a hot picker running slowly with the wind blowing in their hair, the freshest of fresh hops, exuding bitterness, resiny, piny aromas, as they run into the brew house, and the water is vigorously boiling, and they chuck the hops, and the hops seem to just levitate slowly and then land in their boiling home, releasing, isomerizing, and making the best beer style possible. So you can you can imagine that and uh wait, how did I get here? I feel like I had this crazy dream. That's essentially what it is. Yeah, the magic in your mind is exactly probably how it plays out in real life to make a fresh hot beer. So if you if you're listening to this and you're like, hey, there's a brewery that I go to that they have a fresh hot beer on tap, try it. Try it. You'll like it. So I tried it. Yeah. Do it. Fresh hot beers are are great. They had five different fresh hot beers at ABR. I think I tried, I tried at least two. I tried the Lakeville slash Invergrove one, and then I tried the Castle Danger one. And Castle Danger does their fresh hot beer every year, and it's always a little different because you know, if you use a different hop, it's gonna be different.

Courtney:

So I feel like I should have stuck to you a little bit more because I didn't know any of this stuff was happening.

Dan:

Did you read my preview article?

Courtney:

I mean, I did, but I like my brain just left.

Dan:

I mean, the one thing, like, I you when I when I first started going to beer festivals, I'd always go with a group. That's impossible. Like, you can't go to a beer festival with a group of more than like two or three people, or you're gonna get separated. And the thing is, like, if you also like know a lot of different people like we do, you get caught up talking and then you'd be like, Oh, I'll meet you here. And then once you break the seal, it's like you add in a bathroom stop. Okay, I I gotta go, you know, try to try to find different stuff. And so I always run into people there and I always feel really bad because I'm like, oh, it's good to see you, but I have to go over here and try this thing, and it's just like hard to hard to keep up with with your group. So, you know, I think people at beer festivals understand that. Yeah, they get it.

Courtney:

So you're gonna get separated. Yeah, you're gonna have a couple beers on your own, and then you're gonna maybe eventually meet your people later.

Dan:

And then you get distracted by llamas. They had llamas there. Did you pet the llamas?

Courtney:

I had two different trips over to pet the llamas. I pet them when they were first being paraded in, and then pet them later when we were just kind of walking by, and they're so cool.

Dan:

Yeah, llamas are very there. I'm always surprised at how calm they are.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

They're just so docile and just like happy to be around people.

Courtney:

There were two that seemed very mellow, and then there was one that seemed a little bit sassy and like the Spitfire llama of the group. That one was definitely posing for some pictures and just kind of like nudging at people. And I I love the llamas.

Dan:

Yeah, they're so they're so fun. I was like, their fur is so soft, yeah. I'm like, wow, how do they how do they stay comfortable when it's hot?

Courtney:

They just got to like stand around and chill all day. The other cool thing that was there that I'm not sure you ever went over and did, there was iceless curling, Dan. Yeah. It was one of the first things. So I was walking around a lot with Laura from Boom Island, who was on our last episode. I think we might have been the first people over there to try the iceless curling, and we got to talk with Jill from Curling Connections. She's got this big inflatable curling, I don't know what you call it, curling mat, curling.

Dan:

Well, it's normally like a sheet of ice.

Courtney:

Well, it's normally ice.

Dan:

Yeah. But yeah, I don't I have no idea what you call it.

Courtney:

I don't know what you you call the the pitch. Is it the curling pitch, maybe? Maybe we can call it that.

Dan:

We'll call it the curling pitch.

Courtney:

If someone wants to correct us, that's fine.

Dan:

Yeah.

Courtney:

Um, but I think we were the first people to go over there and try it out. And she gave us the whole rundown of how you do curling, curling communities, curling leagues. Like she gave us so much information. It was so cool. I could have sat there and just done that all day.

Dan:

Yeah, look, I didn't I didn't go over and do it. I saw it's a very it was very good. So you're good at finding the stuff that is good to like video because you you you did such a nice video recap of the whole thing, and that was really neat. And I the curling was featured in there, and you have you're just very good at editing it, making it real, real tight, you know, real nice. But it's a very like Instagrammable activity.

Courtney:

It's very fun. Yeah, so you just like roll the thing, you don't really need to sweep because there's no sweeping on that because there's no the the sweeping is for extra friction to kind of the rock where you want it to go. So no sweeping on that. I asked if you could do it just for fun, and she she said yes, but it wasn't like uh, yeah, you should totally do it. Yeah.

Dan:

Every time I go to a festival, somebody wants to sweep the air.

Courtney:

I I guess I've seen I've seen her advertise for doing that kind of thing at a couple of different breweries. Yeah. Which seems like that would be a fun thing to go to and just like try it out one night. But it sounds like she also does other corporate kind of events or like team building things for your your work people. Yeah. Like she'll come in and bring up that whole setup and everybody gets to try it and play or do like a little challenge thing.

Dan:

Yeah, I saw it. I mean, it's it's a good thing to ha it's a nice thing to have at a beer festival because like sometimes if you don't want to take a break or go do something, it's there.

Courtney:

It's an extra fun little thing.

Dan:

And I think at beer festivals, people's attention spans are pretty short too. So you're not gonna have to wait to try to get on there and you know, people just like walking around doing different stuff. Every year I say I'm gonna go over to the area and make a s'more. I never do.

Courtney:

I knew that there was a s'mores pit. I even knew where it was, I never went over there, and I have deep regrets.

Dan:

Yeah. What's your so I think I was 38 years old or 38 years young when I realized that a s'more did not have to just be a gram cracker and a piece of Hershey's chocolate with a melted marshmallow. I went to a party once.

Courtney:

Are you having fancy s'mores? Yeah. Oh.

Dan:

And now I'll I'll still eat a regular s'more, but if I am making s'mores, I bring different stuff. Elevated ingredients. Okay, so why why are you you're judging me? You're nonverbally, you're like, what are you?

Courtney:

No, I'm curious.

Dan:

So you can use different types of cookies, like shortbread cookies.

Courtney:

Do you know, like instead of the graham cracker?

Dan:

Yeah. And I'm glad you're sitting down because the next thing I'm gonna tell you is gonna blow your mind. You don't just have to use Hershey's chocolate. They make thin rhesus peanut butter cups that you can use. Peppermint York peppermint patties are good. Any Giardelli chocolate, the caramel ones on the inside, the dark chocolate, the white chocolate, any of those work great. You can you can do all new things. And now when you make a some more, do you use are you a one marshmallow kind of a lady or a small? No, I want two marshmallows. Yeah. Okay, you're I knew that. I knew you're gonna be smart. I don't think I could do a beer podcatch with somebody who only wanted with a one marshmallow. Single mallow, hit the road. Because you need that heat.

Courtney:

Are you what about have you done gourmet marshmallows?

Dan:

Well, you could I I was gonna say you could get all sorts of different ones. Yeah. And so you can get the real fancy kind. I I'm one of those people that everybody makes fun of me for how I roast my marshmallows, but I like find the area, and it takes me a long while because I want it golden brown, completely gooey. I look at some people and they like, shh, shh, they're ready, or they set it aflame. Are you a oh no?

Courtney:

Dan, I don't have the patience for this kind of stuff. I my marshmallow is going in. I am setting it on fire. I am letting it burn. I'm getting the outside all nice and crispy. The inside's still gonna be gooey and close circuit to the FBI.

Dan:

All those unsolved arsonists, I might have an idea who did who set the fires. That's crazy. Okay, I mean the one thing about that is like it is you do get like the maximum caramelization, but it's also too burnt.

Courtney:

No, that's not a thing. I don't I don't have time for this the slow burn marshmallow situation.

Dan:

Yelza.

Courtney:

Listen, I just had s'mores last night, and prior to getting well, I had to go get s'mores s'mores ingredients before we could do all of this at a gas station. So there's kind of limited options. It's like grab what you can. The Hershey bars, just like a single Hershey bar, was ridiculously priced at the gas station. So I was kind of looking at what if you did a peanut butter cup or did these other candy kinds of things, but then I was like, nope, people I'm with seem like very traditional s'mores people, let's not mess this up.

Dan:

I've I've got another thing for you.

Courtney:

But I could have changed it all.

Dan:

You can also use peeps. They have Halloween peeps out now. You could have a bonfire and get some Halloween peeps. And what happens is the little sugar on the outside of the peep caramelizes. It's almost like a creme brulee situation.

Courtney:

I don't generally like peeps, but now that I'm thinking about setting them on fire, they seem more appealing.

Dan:

Courtney has a look in her eye that I've not seen before. We might have a problem.

Courtney:

I'd like to burn the peeps, please.

Dan:

That's how you wind up on uh some sort of uh government watch list. Well I'm gonna stop stop talking about wanting to burn stuff.

Courtney:

I can't unsay it.

Dan:

That's right. I've never made a s'more there. One of these years I'll make a s'more at the beer festival because they have fire pits and everything.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

Um they had some good music. I couldn't tell you who the musicians were. I just like now you uh speaking of musicians.

Courtney:

Oh Dan.

Dan:

You uh Oh Dan You saw one of your favorite musicians there.

Courtney:

Listen, I've talked about this a lot on this podcast. One of my favorite bands. No, not one of my favorite band in the Twin City area is very easily grunt unplugged. I have been to many of their shows. I look at their calendar, I'm like, that's a convenient brewery. I'm going there, I'm going there. I have dragged people with me, can go see these shows. I don't know if this is my thing, but it's my thing, and you're coming with me. So this is a good thing.

Dan:

A couple weeks ago, they were at the Twin Cities Oktoberfest. Yeah, yeah. They were fantastic.

Courtney:

They did a great job. And it wasn't even the original three guys. They had they had a woman sitting in with them because one of the other guys couldn't be there, and it was still fantastic. They're just a good time. They're it's it's grunge covers, some other not necessarily grunge music from that time that they they mix in.

Dan:

Yeah, they'll do some different covers. It's not all like strictly grunge, but but it's all super fun.

Courtney:

It's uh it's acoustic, they're singing, everybody ends up singing with them, and people end up dancing, and it's it's always just a really super fun time. Yeah. So I like going to see them. Don't make eye contact with them. I will take pictures of them. I will take videos of them. I will have the best time ever listening to them. But I don't I don't engage with the band.

Dan:

You know, I mentioned earlier that you want to avoid getting on the government watch list, but uh see that can I borrow that shovel when you're done with it?

Courtney:

And I will admit, I saw I saw one of them at Autumn Brewer Review, and I got really excited. And I know I I know I nudged Laura. I'm like, that's the grunge unplugged guy. I would see him walking around occasionally. I was with you at a tent and you were talking to someone, and I saw him off in the distance, and I maybe took a picture over your shoulder, like I'm taking a picture of Dan, but really I'm taking a picture of the guy that's back there behind Dan.

Dan:

Closed circuit to Grunge Unplugged guy. You at the next concert, you gotta bring Courtney up on stage like uh Bruce Springsteen did. That concert that was actually filmed in Minnesota when he brought Courtney Cox up there for Dancing in the Dark. Now, maybe you can get I don't know if Grunge does Grunge Unplugged ever do a Bruce Springsteen song?

Courtney:

I don't know that they do. I don't know that's that's in their repertoire.

Dan:

Because I would I would I mean I have done this. People have heard the story. A big Bruce fan. I followed him around a museum once for two and a half hours. So I totally understand the admiration that one can have for a for a musician when you see them out in the wild.

Courtney:

So I I I saw him there. I knew I knew he was there. I would never go up and talk to him because that's not I can't do that. But we were all going to leave and we were gonna walk down the street to a different bar after the festival. We're kind of at the bathroom so people can pee or whatever before we leave. And I I see him, and there's eye contact made. And I don't know who said something first, but it went both directions, with me saying, Grunjum hugged, and him saying, beer lady.

Dan:

Beer lady. I like that.

Courtney:

I don't know which order it was in. I don't want to think about it, but there was recognition.

Dan:

That's good, that's good.

Courtney:

And then I ended up being just a mess of a puddle on the floor.

Dan:

That's good, beer lady.

Courtney:

I don't really know what happened after that. I know that I hugged him and the woman who was with him. Classic.

Dan:

Classic Courtney. I mean, if I ever meet Sophia Vergara in the wild, it'll be very similar to that.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

Beer beer guy, Colombian goddess lady. I'm a big fan.

Courtney:

And then I was just really excited about it for the rest of the night.

Dan:

Yeah. Were we at Grumpies when you're like, Dan, I saw the Grunge. Yeah, that's fun. Yeah. It's always good. Always good to have those moments. And they happen at beer festivals all the time.

Courtney:

And well, the beer festival was great on its own, and I can say so many wonderful things about it. That was the highlight of my day.

Dan:

And told me that time I met the Grunge Unplugged guy at the end. Oh, and there was a beer festival. There was a beer festival, by the way. Yeah. Yeah, that that's always a fun festival. I hope it uh I hope it continues. It was, you know, such a nice, such a nice venue, such a nice time of year. It's a busy time of year, I know. Some people online were commenting, like, seemed like they were expecting more people. I think they I think they would have liked to have sold more tickets, but you know, I think it was a good time. People had fun. Breweries seem to be enjoying themselves.

Courtney:

So I had a blast.

Dan:

Yeah, the the beer lady had a great time. She was, you know, ready to ready to set the city on fire after seeing the grunge unplug, folks. So that was good. Next time we're here. Make sure you buy the twine for your pretzel necklaces. That's flame retardant, just in case Courtney's around.

Courtney:

Yep, yep. Be careful.

Dan:

There were a lot of good stuff there. I want to give a couple of beers that stood out to me that I want to give some shout-outs to. One of them was the Autumn Skies Laurentian Lager from Clacko Brewing. Clacko Brewing is up in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. I ventured up there this past summer and did a whole podcast. And you can find that if you listen to a one-pint stand, it's in the queue of shows. We had a good time. So it's a Pilsner. It has a little smoke in there. Ooh. So that was really tasty. I'm not typically a fan of smoke. Yeah. Sometimes a little goes a long way, but it was just like the perfect amount.

Courtney:

I like a light smoke flavor.

Dan:

And that's exactly what it was. It almost felt like you were drinking a pilsner by campfire.

Courtney:

Oh.

Dan:

So that was really good.

Courtney:

That's a I like that's a good description. Yeah. I like that. What else did you have that really stuck out?

Dan:

I mentioned the fresh hot beer from Invergrove slash Lakeville Bering. And of course, for me, it's not a beer festival in the fall without a pumpkin beer. And Town Hall brought Petunia's pumpkin. Oh, that beer. My God. You know.

Courtney:

It's so good.

Dan:

It's so good, and it's so perfect for me. I know that not everybody loves pumpkin beers, but Charles hates pumpkin beers and he tried it. He's like, yeah, that's actually pretty good. We have video evidence.

Courtney:

We caught him.

Dan:

They do a small batch of it every year. Comes out around this time. I hope it's still on tap. Just so perfect. It has pumpkin in it. Some beers, you know, you love the pumpkin pie from Boom Island. That doesn't have any pumpkin in it. It has pumpkin spices.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

But I think it's technically an amber ale. But pumpkin beers were historically one of the first beer styles in the US in the colonies, because that's was one of the ingredients that they had brought over from England. Yeah. And they used pumpkin in the in the beer. And so I think that's it's kind of cool. It's a beer style I've always liked. It's a good fall seasonal, but it's very polarizing. If you go to Town Hall and you like pumpkin beers, make sure you get the Petunias pumpkin because it's fantastic.

Courtney:

Charles approved.

Dan:

Charles approved pumpkin beer. You don't hear that every day.

Courtney:

No, you sure don't. There were some other beers there. Heavy rotation. I saw this on their sign. Yeah. It was a German light lager infused with Mountain Dew. It's called Do the Brew. I don't like Mountain Dew. I'm not a soda drinker. Even if I were to drink a soda, it's for sure not gonna be a Mountain Dew. I don't know that that's ever been my preferred soda ever in my life. But again, you're at a beer festival. You can try whatever you want, and maybe you like it, maybe you don't. So I tried it because that seemed that seemed a little unusual.

Dan:

Yeah.

Courtney:

I tried it, it was so good.

Dan:

I mean, I could see that being good.

Courtney:

I was surprised at how much I liked it for not liking a Mountain Dew flavor.

Dan:

Well, Heavy Rotation, they do a nice job with flavors all around in their beers, in their seltzers and different things, like their purple stuff. You know, you wax poetic about that after all pines.

Courtney:

Again, not a flavor I like, but I drink that. I'm like, wait a minute.

Dan:

But if something if it's hot and it's refreshing, like sometimes that's all you need. But yeah, heavy rotation does great stuff. I really like what they have.

Courtney:

It was really good.

Dan:

I liked that one. Yeah. Did you get over to try the loose line animal style IPA? That was really good. So it's actually, I don't know if it technically qualifies as an IPA. It's more, it has the body of a pale ale because it's 5%, but it had the hot power of a full-blown IPA. And loose line does a lot of styles really well, but I think their IPAs are are really where they shine.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

And animal style, so they had a burger festival. So animal style is like in and out burger, how you're supposed to order your fries. And I got so much shit from people when I went to San Diego a couple years back, and I took a picture of my in and out burger with my fries. And they're like, what the hell? You didn't get an animal style?

Courtney:

I don't know what the h- Wait, what is animal style?

Dan:

So I think it's just like with chili and cheese. I don't even know. It's not on the menu. So how am I supposed to know you're supposed to order it a certain way? It's I don't know.

Courtney:

Is there like a guidebook to eating an in-and-out burger that I should be aware of?

Dan:

I thought I apparently some people have it, but I I did not. And I thought it was good. I like my fries regularly. Also, I I'm not gonna put anything on fries that makes them soggy. Oh no, but putting chili on them eating with the fruit. Yeah, I mean you what is that?

Courtney:

Or the poutine that we had in the floor. Yeah, the poutine fries at Northbound. So good.

Dan:

And so poutine to me is like I could take it or leave it. I like cheese curds on their own. I like fries on their own. I'm not a gravy person. Like, I don't like grape. Like it I know, it's weird. I I love a chili dog or a Coney Island. Coney Island chili dog, not the same thing. And that is the hill I I will die on. But I just I wouldn't, I probably wouldn't have liked Animal Style. Anyhow, Animal Style is the name of the beard, and I I would pour that on my fries.

Courtney:

So that doesn't seem like a good idea, Dan.

Dan:

Well, did you ever have anybody that went to Wendy's and would dip their fries in like their frosty?

Courtney:

Me. That's the only reason I would ever go to Wendy's, was so I could get a frosty and dip my fries in their frost. Yeah, so that concept of like I cared nothing else about the rest of their food.

Dan:

I like the quarter pound double stacks, is that what they're called? I like the squares. It's kind of kind of different.

Courtney:

Frosty and fries, that's all I want.

Dan:

I don't think you'll be able to find animal style at the tap room because I talked to Brent, their kind of lead salesperson, and he's like, Yeah, we're pretty much all sold out of it already. If they ever do it again, which I'm sure they will, because it was a, as the kids say, it was a real banger of a beer. And uh it definitely was uh uh an 11 on the Riz scale.

Courtney:

Oh my god, what is happening right now?

Dan:

Uh yes, I'm sure they'll brew it again sometime down the road. It was fantastic. It was just great.

Courtney:

I'm sad I missed that.

Dan:

I told Brent I was gonna go back and do a video because they also had their big, big stout that I was like, let's let's do a let's do a video later and drink it, and I I forgot.

Courtney:

Okay. So I mean, there were so that first beer that I had, the Cinnesota that was at Fish Dreams, what I wanted there was they had a collaboration with Trove that was a cherry sour. Yeah. And in my head, I'm ordering the Cinnesoda, thinking I'm coming back here later for that cherry sour. Never made it.

Dan:

Yeah, it's uh just like yeah, the the best laid plans. Sometimes it just you can't you can't do it all. Once you stop to talk to people and you start going down that rabbit hole, you know, five hours goes by real quick.

Courtney:

Was it five hours?

Dan:

Well, I mean, it was probably more. I mean, I got there before noon and it ended at five. So yeah, five plus.

Courtney:

It didn't feel that long.

Dan:

No, but that's that's the sign of a good time. It's like when the time goes by.

Courtney:

That's true.

Dan:

Conversely, you know, when you have a tax preparation appointment, that usually feels like, yeah, we squeezed every minute out of this orange. So it's just all perspective.

Courtney:

It was a really good time then because it seemed like a very short amount of time.

Dan:

Yeah, it seemed like 20 minutes.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

Next thing you know, we're headed to the yacht club, which I'd never been to before.

Courtney:

Oh yeah.

Dan:

Kind of a neat little I don't know if it qualifies as a dive bar or not. Yes, it does. Yeah. So dive bar. Yeah. I think we had uh Hams. I think we had a Hams there. Something. Then we then some of us went to Central for a Crunch Wrap Supreme, which growing up, I was never really a big Taco Bell guy. More of a McDonald's if I was doing fast food. If the Crunch Wrap Supreme at Central is really good.

Courtney:

Super good.

Dan:

Very, very crunchy. Like an elevated version of what you'd have at Taco Bell. And then after that, we went to Grumpy's. Yeah. And so it was a fun time had by all. Already got my paper chain for next year. I think it's like uh 358 days till the next ABR.

Courtney:

Oh. I need that countdown.

Dan:

I was really impressed I was able to do that math in my head on the fly.

Courtney:

That was pretty good.

Dan:

That was pretty pretty good.

Courtney:

Can't math it to tell you if you were wrong, so I'm just gonna go with it.

Dan:

Great.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

Yeah. So ABR was a really fun time. And again, thank you to the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild for giving us passes so we can go and have a really, really nice time and get around and talk to people. It's a big guild fundraiser, and I think the breweries in the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild are doing doing great things. And we also had some Minnesota Breweries win some hardware while we were there at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

We had two gold medal winners. It was Lupulin Brewing for their Oktoberfest Martin style beer. And it was Northbound Smokehouse and Brew Pub won gold for their icebox. The second year in a row that they've done that. And then Black Stack Brewing won a bronze for their Slopes French Pilsner. And Prize Brewing won a silver for their raspberry sour idol forest. I don't know exactly what the name is, but that was the beer. So not bad for Minnesota to win some awards.

Courtney:

It was actually kind of fun to be at the festival when this was happening because people would start talking about Did you hear? Did you hear?

Dan:

Yeah, that was really exciting. Yeah, it was fun to run into. Jeff was at ABR. Andy from Northbound was out in Denver. And I stopped by Northbound last or no, two days ago. What day is it? It's Saturday. I was there on Wednesday. Yeah, that's it. A couple days ago. They got this. I had to hear the story of him going up on stage and accepting the medal. So it was kind of fun. That's so exciting. It's kind of a funny story. But yeah, it was good. I'm really proud. You know, anytime Minnesota, a Minnesota brewery wins an award, it's pretty exciting and very well deserved.

Courtney:

Absolutely.

Dan:

They don't just give those things away either.

Courtney:

No.

Dan:

You have to be a really good beer. I mean, we're we're at Arbiter. They have they have a gold medal for their haha pills. They also they've also won a World Beer Cup gold for their haha pills, which is really hard to do.

Courtney:

So yeah, I love that. And I I love like I've met some of those people now. And they're just really nice, really good people, and it's fun seeing them recognized for their work.

Dan:

Yeah, and for the most part, I would say that brewers are pretty humble people. Like Aaron from here is very humble. I I brewers don't, I I said for the most part, it's always the exception. I mean, a lot of the ones that I I know, they're very, they're very humble and they're they're like, no, it's the whole team and everything. It's like, you know, you could just you could be a little braggadocious about this. This is your beer. This is your beer. And yeah, it's a group effort, obviously, but came up with the recipe and did it.

Courtney:

You made it happen.

Dan:

Good stuff.

Courtney:

Yay, Minnesota. Yeah. That's very exciting. Dan, you also had uh a yay moment earlier this week because you had a break.

Dan:

I got the wordle in two. It was amazing.

Courtney:

I've had kind of good days.

Dan:

Yeah, I so I um I brewed a beer.

Courtney:

Just say that again. Say it again.

Dan:

I brewed a beer with Josh at Heavy Rotation. It's going to be a Belgian Dark Strong. And it's uh I it's a great style. So Belgian Dark Strong, aka Belgian Quads are a Belgian style of beer, obviously. Kind of always always liked beers from Heavy Rotation, even before I kind of got to know Josh. And Josh is a he's just a great human being. Let's just start off there. On Thursday, when I was brewing the beer, he was really patient and took the time to explain kind of every step of the way. I have a rudimentary understanding of the brewing process, but every brewery is a little different. So heavy rotation is on the smaller end of the scale. There you have a three and a half barrel brewhouse. I've brewed on a couple professional-sized brew houses. I brewed a beer up at Lupe. I actually brewed two beers with Lupeelin many years ago on their 10-barrel system. And then through Brewing Change Collaborative, we brewed a beer at Modest on their mash filter system, which was really big. And then way, way, way, way, way back in the day, back when I used to write for a different beer blog that no longer really exists, although they still occupy internet space. I, with Eric, who I also brewed the beers at Lupulin with, brewed a very small batch of beer. I think it was one barrel. So 30 gallons of beer. It was an oatmeal milk stout. Ooh. Or no, it was a just a milk stout. There's no oatmeal. It was oatmeal. Why don't I keep saying that?

Courtney:

You really wanted to go.

Dan:

I got a wire cross. I'm like, maybe I had oatmeal before I went and brewed it. It was a milk stout that Eric Wentling had won awards with when he homebrewed. And we brewed it with Derek Brown at the time, who was the head brewer at Tin Whiskers, R.I.P. Tin Whiskers. I do miss that place. And we brewed it. It was a we call it a March Mole stout. So we put uh ancho chili peppers in the beer. And it turned out real nice. I want that. It was so good. It was very akin to this gochu stout. Kind of that same kind of a concept. At Lupulin, the beers we brewed, we brewed a Belgian dubal and a Belgian triple. The dubal, they actually entered in Great American Beer Festival in 2017, which is how I got to go out there with Eric.

Courtney:

Oh, that's so cool.

Dan:

They got us brewers' passes. Man, I I'm a brewer, Dan. I will. No. They I I'm good at good at pouring the grain in, good at stirring the grain. And but I don't understand. I was sitting there when giving Josh some ideas, but like he formulated the entire recipe. When I got there, he had everything all set up. All the the the beer mise and plas.

Courtney:

Yeah.

Dan:

So he got Belgian candy sugar, several different types, got Belgian candy sugar syrup, had all the all the grains ready to go. There were a bunch of different grains in there. Um and he's like, go ahead and taste the grains as you want, see what, see what they're like. And just a really fun time. Uh Mahat also came up and hung out. So the three of us just like hung out for the morning and just had a good time. And so that beer is probably gonna take four to six weeks to kind of ferment and be ready. And when it does, uh, we're gonna do a live show of a one-pint stand up at Heavy Rotation, and it'll be a beer release party. And I'm very excited about it. I I love that style. It's a style that you don't see very often. I think when people hear Belgian beers, that's very polarizing. Unfortunately, there's a lot of breweries that do Belgian beers not very well. And so I think that's also a reason why people don't seek them out uh like they used to. Um I'm pretty I'm pretty stoked. And and again, I want to thank Josh and Ken from Heavy Rotation for wanting to kind of partner up. And I think it's really it's really fun. So we'll we'll see how it turns out. I know it's gonna be good because Josh came up with a recipe and his beers are great.

Courtney:

So I really wanted to skip out on work on Thursday so I could come up and just watch all of this.

Dan:

It was a good time.

Courtney:

Instead, I was just watching the videos that you were posting on Instagram of what was happening, and you, Dan, you just had such a happy face. Like that looked, you looked like you were having an amazing time.

Dan:

Oh, yeah, it was very fun. And and so one little new thing I I learned is and so Josh learned this from Tom Berg, R.I.P. Tom Berg. Tom Berg positively affected so many people in the Minnesota brewing industry. Tom had this thing when he was brewing, a collab. He'd take some of the wort out of the kettle once it was hot and mix it with a little whiskey. So we we had uh we had a wort hot toddy with the wort from the beer that we brewed. So that was pretty gosh darn good. I think I might uh I'm I would recommend that to brewers who are listening. Give that a try. It's uh it's alright. It's yeah, we had a nice time.

Courtney:

So when am I gonna see this on the menu somewhere?

Dan:

Well, it's uh it's it'd be tough to be on the menu, but like if you're at a brew day, you have whiskey. Be like, hey, let's make a make a hot toddy here. So that was pretty fun. And neat of course Tom would come up with such a such a good idea. Uh you know, so many people, so many people miss him, myself included. So yeah, so the the the brew day was a success. It was a lot of fun.

Courtney:

I'm really excited to see, to taste, yeah, to drink what you guys came up with.

Dan:

Yeah, and there's Josh said there's a chance that that might be on tap at my holiday party. So that's also very exciting.

Courtney:

So it's all happening.

Dan:

Everything's coming up, Millhouse.

Courtney:

There we go. Yeah. Well, Dan, I think that wraps it up for us today.

Dan:

Yeah.

Courtney:

Where can people find you?

Dan:

You know, if you're looking to find me, you can search a one pintstand, and I'm on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Blue Sky, Mastodon, and TikTok. And if you want to read my written content, you can go to a1pintstand.com, find my articles, find the list of all the podcast episodes, and listen to your heart's content. That's where that's where it all is.

Courtney:

All the things I still don't know what Mastodon is.

Dan:

Yeah, you know, one of my Patreon supporters requested that I do a Mastodon thing because that's his like preferred. So I'm like, okay, well, I gotta start a what is it? It's like it's like an offshoot. Remember when like Elon Musk bought Twitter and a bunch of people left Twitter? Oh, yeah, yeah. So it's like a it's like a blue sky or just another social media platform. I don't know because I can never it's not in my rotation. I I found myself going to Blue Sky a lot because that's where a lot of the beer writers that I followed on Twitter went. Yes. So they went to Blue Sky, so but yeah.

Courtney:

I'll have to check that out.

Dan:

Where can people find you, Courtney?

Courtney:

Well they have to. Yeah, that's that's really it.

Dan:

Oh, speaking of which, Grunge Unplugged is gonna be playing up at Heavy Rotation. They're up at Heavy Rotation a lot.

Courtney:

They're gonna be up there for Halloween, and then I think they have a grunge miss that they're doing at Heavy Rotation. I mean, there's some other, there's a lot of other places they're playing in the city.

Dan:

Courtney has all the dates. She's uh taking out a five-subject notebook and it's filled to the brim. Sing uh college ruled, everything. Got the dates, the locations, the times.

Courtney:

Except now there there was eye contact made. I talked to Willard. I'm gonna go to the house. Now you're the beer lady.

Dan:

Now you are on a government watch list.

Courtney:

I'm gonna be hiding in the corner, so you're not actually gonna see me there. I will be hiding.

Dan:

Don't worry, I got a plan. Uh I told a student one time that I'm like, I one time I went to a wedding reception with my wife uh for one of her one of her co-workers, and I wasn't super duper thrilled to go, and I brought a fake mustache. Oh and so I put it on after the ceremony at the reception. I went up to the bar and put it on and came back like nothing happened. And she looked at me like she wanted to kill me. And her coworkers were looking at me, they're like, has he had a mustache the whole time? And it was a really fun social experiment. So I have a bunch of mustaches, fake mustaches. So you can. Can I borrow one? Yeah, you can just borrow that, go incognito.

Courtney:

Can I borrow one for a mustache and then like two for eyebrows? Sure. Is that a thing?

Dan:

Yeah, you could definitely do that.

Courtney:

We've got it's it's Halloween, it's a plan. It's a plan.

Dan:

Yeah, that's right.

Courtney:

Yeah, the Halloween one should be easy. I can just put a full-own mask on. Let's do the mustache thing for Grungemus.

Dan:

Yeah, that sounds good. We'll do it.

Courtney:

I like this plan. This is this is feeling a lot better.

Dan:

Yeah.

Courtney:

I like being incognito.

Dan:

Yes.

Courtney:

So you can find me on Instagram at the brewery adventure. Make sure you put the in front of Brewery Adventure. Otherwise.

Dan:

Can I ask a weird question? Yeah. What happens if you what is brewery adventure?

Courtney:

I don't know, but it's not brewery. Okay, okay. It's not us. All right. It's it's a different adventure, Danny.

Dan:

Just a couple schmoes. Doing a beer brewery adventure.

Courtney:

Maybe they want to hang out with us.

Dan:

Well.

Courtney:

I should check on that. I'm gonna check on that. Next episode, I will have checked on that.

Dan:

Let's hope they're not Dahmer like. Oh, it could be, you know. You never know.

Courtney:

Dan, you're making some anxiety kick in right now. Uh-oh. I'm not maybe this reaching out to them thing is not a great idea.

Dan:

If we do it, we'll have to be wearing our fake mustaches.

Courtney:

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Fake mustaches and fake eyebrows. Yeah.

Dan:

Or I could just shave mine to make it look like I'd naturally have two. But that's another story for another time.

Courtney:

You don't have a unibrow.

Dan:

Well, that's kind of you to say. It's because we're in low lighting. It doesn't shimmer like it. Anywho.

Courtney:

Instagram at the brewery adventure. Or you can go to the breweryadventure.com or email me, Courtney at thebreweryadventure.com. Those are all the places.

Dan:

Yes, all the places.

Courtney:

Dan, your beer's empty and we need to go get you a new one.

Dan:

Yes. Sounds good to me. Well, this has been fun.

Courtney:

This has been fun. Thank you. Thank you, Arvider, who hosted us even though they didn't realize it.

Dan:

Yeah, that's right. That's the nice thing. When you plug in, you get your mixer going, you look official.

Courtney:

Yeah, we look super official over here.

Dan:

We do. We've got head headphones on and everything.

Courtney:

I'm sure they're excited to have us here.

Dan:

Yes, all right. Good times.

Courtney:

All right, that is it for us. You can catch us next time on the Brewery Adventure. Cheers. Cheers. Still kind of a bulk link.

Dan:

And that's bad luck now.

Courtney:

Like start over now.

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