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Episode: 4473
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Title: HPR4473: HPR Beer Garden 2 - Session IPA
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4473/hpr4473.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 01:03:59
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4473 for Wednesday 24 September 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, HBR Beer Garden 2 Session IPA.
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It is part of the series' beverages.
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It is the 30th show of Kevin and is about 29 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, Kevin and Dave talk about Session IPA beers and review a couple for themselves.
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Hello and welcome to the HPR Beer Garden Episode 2.
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We've made it to our second one.
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Yeah, this is a huge, huge milestone.
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It is. I mean, I could tell when I was speaking to Ken, but he thought,
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yeah, you're talking about this and it's never going to see Episode 1.
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But we've closed it and we made Episode 2.
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So, actually, at the time of recording, Episode 1 has just come out for those you're not on the future feed.
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So, I'm not saying we're going to get this released on the same day,
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but as of today, I'm recording, it's just come out.
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So, same as last time, I'm Kevin and joined by Dave, aka the Lovebug.
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How are you tonight, Dave?
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I am really well, thank you.
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It's been a very, very busy day for me today.
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I started work at 7 o'clock this morning and I finished work at about half past 7 this evening.
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So, I'm looking forward to that.
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Yes, so you're thoughtless in need of lubrication.
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You have earned that lovely beer for tonight.
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I think I have.
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Yes.
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I really do think I have.
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No, it's, although we haven't actually had any comments yet.
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I don't feel enough.
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It is only today.
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We have actually had a few people talking to us, but we'll get that later in the show about giving us a wee bit of feedback about.
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But we have a very, very different beer.
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If you missed the last episode, we did dessert stouts.
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This time, what do we got, Dave?
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We have got session IPA.
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So, if you think dessert stout, think the complete opposite.
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Totally, total, complete polar opposite.
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It wasn't until I was actually going through and researching and choosing the beers.
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It occurred to me that session IPA is not actually a beer style.
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This is episode two and already I've completely messed up the entire purpose of this show.
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But I don't care.
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I'm going to push forward purely because it may not be a style in its own right.
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But it is classified as a sub style of IPA.
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I'm not going to go into too much detail about IPA, purely because at some point in the future,
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we are going to be reviewing other IPAs.
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And I think that's more appropriate for those shows.
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But just to, I suppose, round off what an IPA is.
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It is a hoppy beer.
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And that's its main characterisation.
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It is much more hoppy than you would find on other kinds of pale ale.
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The purpose of the creation of the IPA.
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It was actually created here in the United Kingdom, but designed to be shipped to India.
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Hence, Indian IPA or India pale, sorry.
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And what makes it different is that because it's hoppy than a normal pale,
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it acts as like a preservative to the brew, which means it can travel further.
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And that's pretty much the reason why it was created. Go Brit.
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So, the point of the session IPA,
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because I have to admit, when I first discovered session IPA,
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I fell in love with it straight away because I misunderstood what it was for.
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I tried a session IPA and I thought, oh my goodness, this tastes amazing.
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The flavour is so good, it's very robust, it's nice and rounded.
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But then I realised that wasn't the session element of the IPA at all.
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What session actually means is sessionable.
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As in, it's a beer that you can drink over a long period of time in a single session.
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As a result of this, session IPAs typically have a lower ABV than a normal pale ale or a normal IPA.
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IPAs tend to be typically 5% or above give or take.
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You'll see different numbers in different places, but just as a guideline,
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it's roughly 5% or above.
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Session IPAs, and again, they're very much varies, depending on where you ask,
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can be anywhere between 3 or possibly even lower, and 5% ish as well.
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Now, personally, I would view a session IPA as equal or less than 4%.
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How do you feel about that as a number, Kirby?
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Yeah, actually, I would agree.
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I can even remember when I first started going out,
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you saw the guys who would take likes off.
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I mean, you're not going up stupid high.
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But you know, like, guys who would have things extra like, say, 3 or 5%.
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You could see them fading a heck more or quicker.
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Yes, you know, I mean, if you're on a...
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Well, certainly if you're on a mad, if you are out for a long night,
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you would not drink a dessert stout.
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Or anything like it.
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But even that, like I said, that wee bit.
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So I would actually agree with you.
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That was probably one of the reasons why in the early days, if I was on a big night,
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I stopped drinking McHughan's export,
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which was originally called McHughan's export IPA,
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was because it was 4 and a half.
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And I was noticing that half, actually, over the night,
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I was, yeah, it was hitting me a bit by the end of the night.
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I mean, that was after too many.
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I was going to say, when you get to about 10, it really does add up.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Now, what was interesting is that, please don't kick me out after episode two.
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But in our kitchen, we do actually have a creator, Karlsburg.
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Now, it was a gift, which we haven't consumed.
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Caroline is actually on the search for some willing volunteer
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that's taken off us at her work.
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But these cans of Karlsburg, they're 3.4%.
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This Karlsburg goal was that low?
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I thought Karlsburg was 4 and a half.
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The standard Pilsner one.
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Maybe a bit of a triflation.
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They produced the ABV.
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I don't know, I don't know.
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Okay, that is used to me.
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Put it this way, I can honestly tell you,
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the last time I had a pint of Karlsburg.
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Right enough, this was on the mainland Europe.
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And it was 4.6.
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Right, so I have it in my sticky minutes,
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a can of Karlsburg.
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It says Danish Pilsner, I don't know whether that's a different...
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No, that's exactly the same beer font as it came out of.
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And that's a 3.4%.
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So it shows you the variation.
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I mean, I'm assuming the one I had wasn't genuine
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from Denmark, Karlsburg.
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So I always thought that something like Karlsburg export
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would have been in the fives.
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Or Karlsburg export is definitely a bit...
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I know Karlsburg do a few likes of Karlsburg do...
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In the UK, if you ask for Karlsburg,
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you're either going to get that lag or you're going to hand
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or you're going to hand, or Karlsburg special brewery.
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That is a standard.
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Which used to be 9, now it's 7.5.
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But they also do...
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What's that one? Is it trubor or something?
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Something like that, it's called a...
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I think it's classed us there kind of more,
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that expensive version.
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It's got a funny name.
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It's something like trubor or something like that.
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But again, it is a lagger.
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Do you mean Truborg?
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Truborg, yeah, that's it.
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Yes.
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But you've also got ones that Karlsburg also do...
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Limited release ones like elephant.
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They're about 7.5%.
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They're quite high, maybe.
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So anyway, this actually isn't a lagger review so one.
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It isn't.
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Actually, it might be interesting.
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There we go, that's something we could maybe use.
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This is for future.
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So we could maybe actually do a lagger one.
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Because not all laggers are in this inherently evil.
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Just...
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Most of them don't taste of anything.
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It might actually be good if we got like a nice craft lagger
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or a European lagger or something.
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And actually compared it to the mass produced stuff.
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Well, interestingly, I had a beer,
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52 bucks, arrived the other day.
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And it was full of northern monk cans.
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And it had a lager.
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And it had a pilsner as well.
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So I'm actually looking forward to those
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because I know they'll be at least something special.
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But anyway, let's get back to session APUs.
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I suppose my point was that you could argue
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that this kind of Karlsburg is also a session of oil.
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I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
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But technically, and by definition,
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it would be classified as sessionable.
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The point of a session IPA or sessionable IPA
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is that you can...
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And again, like you said last time,
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we're not encouraging people to drink large quantities of oil.
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But if you were going to do that,
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then you could last a bit longer
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over a longer period of time by having a lower ABV.
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Wholeheartedly.
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Anything you want to add to that?
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No, not particularly.
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I mean, I did actually have a wee look around when...
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I mean, I didn't want to put in too much research
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for this one because I knew this was your style.
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So I kind of just had a wee brief look around.
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And actually, the first time session IPA was actually used
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wasn't the early 2000s.
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So roughly about the same time as pastry stouts
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were still coming into being.
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Oh, that's...
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I didn't realize it was such a new term.
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Very new.
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It was...
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Just for IPAs or for...
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Just for the term session IPA, the term session IPA.
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Right.
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The word session, not necessarily the...
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Right.
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They were called low or lower or...
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Actually, if you actually look at the history things,
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they're the books.
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It's funny.
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They actually call it like pure...
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They're referenced to money, purer.
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There's like a purer man's being.
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The kind of middle and upper classes
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that have had their more expensive, stronger ails.
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Whereas the working man's beard was always the much lower one.
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Because obviously, it was watered down a lot more.
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It was lighted out.
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It was not as robust, let's see,
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as it's more expensive cousin or brother.
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Right.
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Well, we've had a beard podcast and I'm getting thirsty now.
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We're now about 10 minutes in at least.
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So I think we need to go open these.
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Yes.
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We should crack these open.
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Before we do, given that this is a session IPA episode,
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which is one of my favorites, but one of your least.
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Next time, the tables are turned.
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Absolutely.
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Yes.
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But we'll reveal all.
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We'll reveal it.
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Yes.
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Something to look forward to.
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That's it.
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So on you go, you lead the way you...
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Can I open your beard?
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You describe what it's like.
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I'm writing home.
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So this is Espiga, which I wish I put my glasses on there,
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is a Spanish session IPA at 4.5%.
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So by my own definition, not a session IPA.
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But again, this is comparatively speaking in terms of IPAs in general,
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which tend to have a higher ABV anyway.
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So four and a half is still lower than typical.
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So it's got a lovely can.
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We'll put a picture of it in the show notes, the HPR website.
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The beard itself is called crystalline waters.
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And it's like a hand drawn picture of a boating lake on the front,
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which is rather rather nice.
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And let's see, we can get a nice sound effect on this.
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Kind of.
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So the poor is not too lively.
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There's a tiny amount of head on the table.
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It's actually not too late at all.
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It's quite pale and just a little bit hazy.
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Yeah, a little bit of hazy.
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Yeah.
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And this is what we're saying before about session not being a style.
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This is a hazy up what seems like a hazy IPA.
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But again, not particularly hazy, to be honest.
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And I'm drinking it out of a Northern Monk glass,
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which is interesting.
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So I'm not the microlyram.
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So here it goes.
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So it's a little bit citrusy.
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I don't know if it'll tell me what the hops are on the can.
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Some do, some don't.
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Oh, here we go.
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El Dorado, Simco, and HBC 630 hops.
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No idea what an HBC 630 hop is.
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But what, they're not party or regular shopping list, no?
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No, they're not.
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Right, that is really nice.
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So it's a little bit on the watery side.
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So it's not quite as.
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Sure.
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A session.
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A session is on the water side.
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Yeah.
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It's not quite as robust as other session IPAs I've had before you jump down.
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I've had before you jump down my throat.
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But it does have that bit of hoppiness to it, which is very nice indeed.
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It's quite clean.
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It doesn't leave too much behind.
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But there is that typical IPA aftertaste that kind of leaves behind
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that you would normally just tend to expect from an IPA.
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That is very pleasant indeed, actually.
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I was a little bit off put by the pale colour,
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thinking that it might be a little bit more weedian watery than I was expecting.
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But no, very nice indeed.
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I would recommend that.
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Espiga crystalline waters, 4.5%.
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Right, so while you've done this,
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this is when I may well cut and go,
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this is a disaster if we have any accidents.
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But I will try and pop this right in front of my microphone so you can hear this.
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Ooh, nice bit of steam coming off that.
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I don't know how much you're going to see that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And drinking an American-specific designed IPA glass.
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So...
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Whoa, this one's quite the opposite, actually.
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It's a bit lively.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So just for reference, that's about what a whole thing is,
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but a third head right now.
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I've never seen all that.
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Check poor.
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I did not do an aggressive poor.
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Quite, actually, don't even see the bubbles.
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They're quite lively.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I love the golden colour.
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That does look quite fizzy as well.
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Yes, it does.
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So this one is Island Life Session IPA from the Orkney Brewery.
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Now, the Orkney Brewery do lovely multi-beers,
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like red magrega,
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they do have a nominally good wee heavy called the skull splitter.
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And here I am drinking Island Life Session IPA.
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It's not fair.
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Right.
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Saying here, Island Life is a special beer,
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much like life on our islands.
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Orkney has been regularly recognized
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as one of the finest places to live in the British Isles,
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clearly next to Lewis.
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Yeah.
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So, like the easygoing enjoyment of a personal island retreat,
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take time, relax and indulge.
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Island Life is a pale golden ale
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with citrus fluted rumours,
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mouth-watering flavours of grapefruit peaches,
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lead to a crisp and zesty finish
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to be enjoyed time and time again.
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Oh, this is interesting.
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Pairishwell with oak smoked seafood,
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pasta and light snacks.
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Specifically oak smoked.
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Well, that's a standard thing for the islands.
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We all have our own smoked salmon,
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so they're just plugging the local economy there.
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Now, complete opposite of what yours.
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Ingredients.
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Water.
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Malted barley,
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which is the usual of a Scottish beer.
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We tend to use more malted barley.
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Malted wheat,
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hops, the fourth and greenest hops,
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and yeast.
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That's it. That's all it is.
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There's no more details.
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No more types of wheat,
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types of hops or anything.
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It's just hops.
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So, interesting about having the wheat in the brew.
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This one doesn't.
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It's water barley malt hops in the east.
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But I did read that
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the lower ABAs,
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not the APIs as you said in last weeks.
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Or as I said.
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Yeah, you said it.
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Yeah.
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They do sometimes use wheat
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or oats to
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bring a little bit more substance
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to the feel of it, the mouth feel a bit.
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Well, just smelling normally pick up from normal IPAs.
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There's this one definitely has
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sweeter north than I was expecting.
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It's got quite a fruity nose.
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It's peachy.
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There's definitely peachy.
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And there's a bit of citrusy in that.
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Can I actually get a wee bit of the wheat as well in the nose?
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Does it have much of the malted barley?
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Well, the hops are.
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No, that's what I was saying.
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It keeps it as black as possible ingredients.
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So, cheers.
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Yes, cheers, absolutely.
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That's nicer than I was expecting.
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But all of that fruit is in the nose.
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There's next to none.
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Right, it's okay.
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No, it's not actually bad at all.
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Because I am getting
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malted barley and wheat.
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Biscuitiness like a digestive biscuit coming through this.
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Yes.
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There's a bitterness of the hops that lingers.
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That's actually quite pleasant.
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Yep, I'm getting that.
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That's not.
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I'm slightly disappointed just because of how fruity it is on the nose.
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That there's no fruit at all in the taste.
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Hmm.
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None that I'm getting.
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The style of hops that's used in it.
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Yeah.
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So, I'm not sure where the flavors actually come from.
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Yeah, I must admit actually this.
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I've had a certainly had an awful lot of worse session IPA's on this.
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I don't know. I think maybe the wheat, like you said.
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I think that's maybe why I'm liking it a bit more.
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I'm not feeling like I'm just drinking alternative to lager.
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It's got some body to it.
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Yeah.
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I'm actually pleasantly surprised by that.
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Is it going to become a regular no?
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Half two.
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I would drink that.
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Oh, excellent.
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No, I'm really pleased to hear that.
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IPA is definitely one of my my go-to styles.
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The session IPA's, I'll be honest.
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Caroline tends to have those because she's not a fan of the high right ABVs.
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I'll go for the eight plus where she'll go for the four or less.
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But I think she might have had this and she might have actually enjoyed it.
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Speaking of Northern Monk, I have a Northern Monk session IPA here.
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I actually took that in case I couldn't stand this because I have had this.
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I had a recent pod girl.
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I didn't think I had any left.
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There was one eternal.
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And this one is just eternal session IPA.
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Oh, no. Did I say how much this one was?
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3.7.
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So I'd actually as a proper to me session IPA.
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This Northern Monk one is 4.1.
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Okay.
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And the one thing that I would say is it tastes more like a description of that one.
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This one has got a blast of hopes.
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And it's got a real lovely mix of fruit with it.
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So to be honest, that one I'll give Northern Monk.
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I love some of their beers.
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I find some of their beers a bit meh.
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I mean, I prefer to be honest.
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They're not always winners for me.
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I tend to find Northern Monk seem to have a very, in my opinion, a very creative brewer.
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Let's put it that way.
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And some of the times, those really wild and wacky ones.
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Those ice cream classic ones.
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I found them awful.
|
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They were like, what was it?
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I had one when I was away.
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And it was something like a watermelon explosion or something.
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And it was horrible.
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It even looked horrible.
|
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He poured it in. It was like a pink beer.
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And I was like, no, this isn't nice.
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But when they actually do an IPA, a pale ale,
|
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and don't try and make it too fancy, they do it really well.
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Generally phenomenal. They're really good.
|
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This is the thing that I've noticed with stronger ale,
|
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not stronger as in strength, stronger as in flavor,
|
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is that you are very often get the promise of something
|
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well above and beyond what you would normally expect,
|
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whether that's chocolate or fruit or a sour or coconut,
|
||||
stuff like that.
|
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And it's the exception when they actually deliver on the promise
|
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that's written on the can.
|
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Yeah, I agree with that.
|
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Now, an obvious exception to that was the birthday you had last time,
|
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because I've had that and it is gorgeous.
|
||||
It's absolutely wonderful.
|
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I will say that actually it's funny.
|
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It's dependent on style, especially with that complex northern monk.
|
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Like they have got a strawberry ice cream stout.
|
||||
Phenomenon, peanut butter and jam stout.
|
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Phenomenon.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
But then they've got like a twister.
|
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You know, like they're lice lolly.
|
||||
We had that.
|
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The twister pale ale, I didn't enjoy that.
|
||||
I think I dropped halfway through it.
|
||||
I was like, nah, I'm not enjoying it.
|
||||
It was too sour for me actually.
|
||||
It was actually a sweet sour.
|
||||
So I tend to find out a lot of the time when they try and do too much.
|
||||
It doesn't work.
|
||||
Are you talking about the one with the five colors?
|
||||
No, no, no, no, that was there.
|
||||
Oh, okay.
|
||||
No, this, you're not like a twister.
|
||||
It's like a green and light green.
|
||||
The can actually look like a twister lolly.
|
||||
Got it, got it.
|
||||
Uh-huh.
|
||||
Well, they didn't call it twister.
|
||||
They didn't want to get sued, obviously.
|
||||
Of course, no.
|
||||
Well, they also did one that was based on the fruit pastel lolly, which obviously was not
|
||||
called down.
|
||||
I didn't like that.
|
||||
I didn't like that.
|
||||
I didn't like that.
|
||||
I didn't like that.
|
||||
I actually thought it was better the second can't.
|
||||
Well, I had four of them, which I had to bat on my way through.
|
||||
But I expected to be smacked around the head with a bunch of fruit, the size of Buckingham Palace.
|
||||
And it just did not deliver.
|
||||
If you've ever had one of these fruit past lollies before, they are divine.
|
||||
Following on from the success of Bertha, expecting that in a can, I was expecting so much more
|
||||
and it really, really disappointed.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
I do.
|
||||
I totally get that.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
So I've got one other one here.
|
||||
To be honest, I just got to just, I don't actually know why they pick this up.
|
||||
I don't mind it.
|
||||
Neck oil.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
I don't mind it.
|
||||
But I just don't think it's worth it to pay for it.
|
||||
It's very expensive up here.
|
||||
It, I think it's very expensive everywhere you have it.
|
||||
Because if you get it up here and up up, it's nine pound of paint.
|
||||
Right.
|
||||
It's stupidly expensive.
|
||||
Neck oil tends to be the beer that most pubs will have when they're pretending to do craft beers.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
I would totally agree.
|
||||
I think someone told me that Beaver Town is now owned by Heineken, I think.
|
||||
I was going to say one of the big companies bought beer tickets.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Royal is definitely one of their good ones.
|
||||
It's a staple that you can get in quite a lot of places.
|
||||
If all they've got is that and madry, then I will go for the neck oil all day long.
|
||||
Oh, yeah.
|
||||
I would be the same.
|
||||
That is definitely sessionable.
|
||||
No question.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
So that was the ones that I picked up just for tonight.
|
||||
I mean, I didn't actually expect to get through all three, but that way.
|
||||
Now, when we finish this recording, are you just going to go and throw them straight out in the bin?
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
That's it.
|
||||
I'll throw them right at the bin after I've emptied them into this glass here.
|
||||
Oh, so you are going to have them.
|
||||
Well, I don't want them taking up space in the cupboard.
|
||||
Understood.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yeah, completely understand.
|
||||
But, um, so what would you score Europeaners?
|
||||
We were going out of ten, weren't we?
|
||||
So I would probably have rated this one about a seven and a half out of ten.
|
||||
Seven and a half, fair enough.
|
||||
What would I rate this one now?
|
||||
Well, actually, because it doesn't really taste of a session at P.A.
|
||||
I'm probably going to rate it a bit higher.
|
||||
It's certainly not going to replace my regular thing.
|
||||
But, um, I do like the fact that it's...
|
||||
Actually, no.
|
||||
No.
|
||||
I think I'll stick with you rather than ringed higher.
|
||||
It's not worth an eight out of ten.
|
||||
It's like seven and a half, seven and three quarters.
|
||||
It's in that kind of region.
|
||||
But it's not going down eight out of ten.
|
||||
No.
|
||||
I have to ask, um, given your affiliation with the brewery versus your prejudice, I'm going to say...
|
||||
Against session IPAs in general.
|
||||
To the two counts leaps are the routes.
|
||||
So that seven and a half, seven and three quarters is actually your genuine score.
|
||||
Or are you bouncing up or slightly down a bit because of one or either of the two things I mentioned?
|
||||
No, neither.
|
||||
I don't know.
|
||||
I mean, at the end of the day, I've rated my favorite brewery's beer, some of them as terrible.
|
||||
You know, and I've also rated my least...
|
||||
Some of my least favorite brewery beers just mean, you know, quite a bit better, some of them.
|
||||
Yeah.
|
||||
I mean, it depends.
|
||||
I have limits.
|
||||
You know what I mean?
|
||||
I think I would struggle to have any tenets, but really be able to do anything above four or ten.
|
||||
That's genuine, generous.
|
||||
No, not the lag.
|
||||
I'd say the other beers.
|
||||
Oh, okay.
|
||||
You know, no way the lag doesn't get anywhere near what?
|
||||
Tenets do other beers?
|
||||
Yes, they do, believe it or not.
|
||||
Actually, I'll give them the two.
|
||||
Ten special is drinkable.
|
||||
It's not fantastic is drinkable.
|
||||
I would probably give that a five at a tin.
|
||||
Oh, okay.
|
||||
They're interesting.
|
||||
It's a Scottish 70-shelling style meal.
|
||||
Right.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yeah, so, okay, then.
|
||||
So you've put me through session IPAs.
|
||||
As you might guess, from my tone, they're not my favorite style of beer.
|
||||
Well, to be honest, the reason why they're not my favorite style is because so often they
|
||||
have this mild flavor of hopes.
|
||||
And that's about it.
|
||||
They're pretty generic.
|
||||
They're just kind of bland.
|
||||
I mean, that's why I'm not a huge fan of beaverton.
|
||||
They don't have a beaverton.
|
||||
What is it?
|
||||
It's not snake oil.
|
||||
Neck oil.
|
||||
Neck oil.
|
||||
You know, I mean, it's okay.
|
||||
It's all right.
|
||||
It'll do.
|
||||
It's one of those 10 beers.
|
||||
But certainly it's not going to be in my top 10.
|
||||
And when, you know, when I'm going into a place here and I'm paying £9 a pint, I really
|
||||
want to enjoy it.
|
||||
Not cool.
|
||||
That's all right.
|
||||
So to be honest, the price of neck oil puts its rating down a bit for me.
|
||||
Even though, well, even the kind I bought that can, I think it was in Tesco.
|
||||
And it was a bit £3.90, which I thought was a bit expensive for us.
|
||||
That seems quite high.
|
||||
Yeah, that's what I thought.
|
||||
Because I was like, oh, I'm sure we can get £4 for less than £10.
|
||||
Whether they didn't have it, they didn't have any multi packs.
|
||||
I'm not going to buy a multi pack of that.
|
||||
That grew up to myself.
|
||||
Well, you can always send it down here if you do.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
That's what will be happening, yes.
|
||||
So just to confirm then, Kevin, that the your opinions that you've expressed today are
|
||||
specifically relating to session IPAs.
|
||||
Do you have no general problem with IPAs?
|
||||
No, I can no general problem with IPAs, just the session IPAs.
|
||||
I'll discuss my issues with IPAs when we actually do IPAs.
|
||||
Yeah, okay.
|
||||
Point taken.
|
||||
No, that's it.
|
||||
So, yeah, so hopefully you've enjoyed doing this.
|
||||
And hopefully listeners have continued to enjoy this.
|
||||
We did actually, we did get some feedback and I'm going to show you today.
|
||||
Now, if you want to contact us directly, you can do and ask what I'll did.
|
||||
So you can either leave a comment on the HPR show notes, show page, sorry.
|
||||
Or you could actually talk to us as I'll did.
|
||||
We were just on some telegram and actually what he said worried me slightly.
|
||||
Because listening to this made me want to start drinking again.
|
||||
Oh, yes.
|
||||
Yes, I wish to point out that really we are not aiming to cause those
|
||||
are quick drinking to start drinking again.
|
||||
But I'll did actually send us another email that city enjoyed it.
|
||||
But he also said, sent one message to us recently that he has actually
|
||||
picked up one from the garden brewery.
|
||||
And this is very much a dessert stout.
|
||||
It's the Tama Imperial salted caramel and chocolate biscuit stout.
|
||||
And I was saying to him, let us know what he thinks about it.
|
||||
And he also did point out that he would like to try this new type of beer called apis,
|
||||
which apis.
|
||||
As slip of the tongue, you want to keep this geeky.
|
||||
That's what we'll see.
|
||||
I'm going to keep this geeky.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Yeah, well, certainly with an api, that is the key.
|
||||
Absolutely.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
Right.
|
||||
And so, yes.
|
||||
So we've got as far as coming up goes, we've got we're going to have a new
|
||||
style for you on the next one.
|
||||
We're also doing, I've read, I think I was saying that's the day before the
|
||||
recording started.
|
||||
I'm now on book number four of beers.
|
||||
So I actually do want to do a couple of book reviews because if I start to read
|
||||
many more, I'm worried they're going to start a malcom meeting into one.
|
||||
Another one was in which books said that and which books it is.
|
||||
So we will do a couple of book reviews, I think as well.
|
||||
Whether we both do it or whether it's just me, it's rated.
|
||||
It doesn't really matter.
|
||||
You can ask questions if nothing else.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
So I do believe is that a set a wrap?
|
||||
I believe so.
|
||||
Yes.
|
||||
So do join us once again tomorrow for another episode of Hacker Public Radio.
|
||||
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