This podcast marks our one year anniversary of recording! And further shows that not only we can’t count our episodes, we can’t even be bothered to release them in the right order. Of course that one year anniversary came and went three months ago, and we’re just now getting this recording up. Still something is better then nothing, right? Of course it took a guest appearance on The Game’s The Thing, an RPG Podcast I recorded for that other site I do, to kick Brian into editing. It didn’t help that Jules “Liger” Ius was pestering us to get it up as well. Apparently since her husband showed up in Episode 7: Fosters, It’s Not Australian For Beer there has been a bit of one-upsmanship to show him she could drink beer better then he could. On a side note everyone should check out KnittedSteel.net which is Jule’s chain mail craft site. She actually sells this stuff, and itsawesome. Tell her the Snooty Drunks sent you, and its our understanding that she will at least nod approvingly.
The Snooty Drunks Ep 22 [51:59]
Beers Tasted:
Deschutes – Red Chair Northwest Pale Ale
Highly regarded as one of the best primers we’ve had on the show. This stuff was pretty fantastic. We had nothing left to taste on the show. So we couldn’t taste anything on air, which is pretty high praise coming from us. GET SOME.
Red Hook – Eisenbach 28
When we browned bag this our first instincts is that we’d had this before. When it was revealed that it was a Red Hook beer we finally understand why, most Red Hooks taste similar. In a way its a step away from the northwest taste and actually reminds us of Schamltz’s an east coast beer. Its malty flavor was quite interesting and we thought it was a great experimental brew for them. We ended up being glad this was brown bagged as we probably would have said, “this is really good, for a Red Hook.” Instead we found a beer we rather enjoyed and definitely found clink worthy.
Hopworks – Secession
Its dark as night, and smells like weed and hops. A smokey taste, which reminded us of burnt marshmallows, with almost no hop flavor. We also can’t agree what temperature this needs to be served at, but agree before we saw the bottle that we generally liked it. As soon as it was undressed though, Brian started changing his tune. He then started blasting them for not having enough hops. Tyson would be willing to try it again if he could sip it over a long period of time and let it get warm to try to find the right temperature for it. Also, who cares if its organic? We certainly don’t.
However, because its from Portland we did manage to spend much of our review laughing at it. Noting we could probably e-mail them and get this history of the hops in the beer, as well as a bottle with a bird on it. So even if our review is a bit whishey washy, we get some firm jokes at the expense of organic hipsters. In the end, no clink.
Deschutes – Abyss 2009
Pours like motor oil, and the head is the color of espresso with a strong alcoholic smell. The taste is coffee, bitter dark bakers chocolate, and was so thick. Tyson dubbed it “Joy in a bottle.” This beer got aged for one year before making it to our mouths, it was well worth the wait. This beer was mind blowing good. I think Jules wins on selection and patience for waiting to present us that beer. It was clinked so hard that we broke glasses.
Mississippi Mud
Smells a dark pilsner, and not in a good way. This black and tan in a bottle is a total waste of shelf space, and we honestly wonder why in God’s name does anyone actually drink it. Taste like a pislner, smells like a pislner and isn’t even remotely interesting.
Iron Horse Brewery – DOUBLE RAINBOW
This beer is unfiltered joy in a bottle, or at least that is what the label implies. A lighter color beer that is actually an explosion of light tasty ale. This would be a heavy summer ale, but would be great BBQ beer, especially around the spring. Tyson is willing to go travel to Ellensburg to get more, but Brian pans it because he thinks its all hype from the label.
Show Notes:
Outro Song: RJD2 – All For You
If you can get a brewer from Portland to draw a bird on their beer and send it to us (e-mail show@snootydrunks.com for a mailing address) we will feature it on our next podcast.
Brian mentioned that “we don’t do Vodka” on this show. He’s a liar.
Again Jules Ius does KnitedSteel.net which features Chain Mail.
For reference the Four Loko Bonus Episode was an unmitigated drunken disaster. Experience the lols.
We’ve Been Drinking:
Brian went to Beverage Place Pub which hosts the Barley Wine Bachanal where he had a ton of Barley Wine. He then proceeded to bore the shit out of us by listing off every beer he had while there. While I typically try to link to the beers they are to much of a one off to find most of them.
Port Townsend Barley Wine 2010
Stone Brewery – Old Guardian 2010
Hopworks Urban – Noggin Flogging Barley Wine
Victory – Old Horizontal 2010
Boundary Bale Bounder
Left Hand – Oak Widershin
Fish Brewery – 10 Squared 2010
Naked City – Cluster Cuss 2010
Lost Abby – Angel Share 2010
Stone – Belgo Old Guardian
Anacordes Brewery – Old Bastes 2008
Full Sail – Old Borehead 2008
Speak Easy Old Godfather 2009
Alaskan Brewery – Barley Wine 08
