Look!  We got Sophie in a picture afterall!

Brian Smith, Uli Bennewitz, Sophie Bennewitz and John Jansen

Beers in the Flight:

1. Radler – A Radler is a mixture of lemonade and beer. Weeping Radish uses Real Lemonade sweetened with the Stevia plant and Weeping Radish Kolsch beer. ABV? Low. Perfect for a hot day.
2. Corolla Gold – A German lager style. If you are a lager drinker, this is a must try… Light (but not a “lite” beer) and not filling. I’m feeling a session coming on! ABV – 5.0
3. Weitzen – German wheat style beer… Brewed with 100% German wheat, banana on the nose and taste. Very drinkable weitzen! ABV – 4.7%
4. Black Radish – This spectacular German Schwartzbier is listed as “One of the 50 Beers before you die!” This one was slipped into the show by Uli and we’re so glad he did! ABV – 4.6%
5. Christmas Bier – And the crowd goes wild!! The seasonal Dopplebock Christmas Bier was certainly the reason for the season this year. What an amazing beer… Dopplebocks are definately one of Brian’s favorites. They won’t say how many Christmas Bier’s they brought back from North Carolina or how many lasted through the weekend! ABV – 8.2%

You MUST visit the Weeping Radish Farm Brewery when you can:

6810 Caratoke Hwy
Jarvisburg, NC 27947
(252) 491-5205
Located on 24 acres in Jarvisburg, NC on Highway 168/158 between Norfolk, Virginia & Outer Banks, NC

Take advantage of the beer (of course) and the fantastic local meets prepared by a German Master Butcher. Or, order some beer from their website http://www.WeepingRadish.com unless, of course, you’re in Texas in which case you’ll have better luck getting an uzi. <grin>

Weeping Radish Fire Truck

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Cheers!
Brian and John

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The Oskar factor:

First off, we’d like to point out that there was a couple “pauses” in the show…  Ahhh!  The magic of ad-lib!  So, if you haven’t heard us say this before, we’ll simply say now that we love beer…  and the beer drinking culture.  You probably won’t hear many negative comments from us about any beer other than it may not be something we drink on a normal basis.  We try to concentrate on sharing craft beers / micro brews because we feel like these are the beers some of the beer drinking community may be missing out on.  Although we have Macro beers and Macro Micro beers from time to time, you probably won’t see us covering too many of them on our shows..  but that certainly doesn’t mean we have anything bad to say about any beer.

Now…  here are some additional facts about the beers we chose to share with Sekshun8.

Oskar Blues – The Little Brewery that Cans!  (We think that’s funny!)
The Brewery is located at:
1800 Pike Road, Unit B
Longmont, Colorado  80501

Oskar Blues brewery opened in 1997 and, lucky for us, also opened a brewpub in 1999 which is located in Lyons, Colorado.  They opened their canning operation in the fall of 2002 with a hand-canning line in the 60-year-old barn next door to the pub.  Now for some stats on the beers you saw (or will see)!

Dale’s Pale Ale – Somewhere between an American Pale Ale and India Pale Ale, 6.5% ABV, 65 IBU
Gordon – Somewhere between an Imperial Red and a Double IPA, 8.7% ABV, 85 IBU
Mama’s Little Yella Pils – Czechoslovakian style Pilsner, 5.3% ABV, 35 IBU
Old Chub – Scottish strong ale, 8% ABV and both an AbsOfBeerTV and Sekshun 8 favorite

…and what Sekshun 8 shared with us!

Shipyard Brewing
Located at:
86 Newbury St.
Portland, Maine  04101

We tasted the Pumpkinhead Ale – 4.5% ABV..  Great pumpkin and holiday spice flavors, smooth, very drinkable ale.  They kept some aside for almost 3 weeks before we could get together.  Thank you for saving us some Sekshun 8!

And oh, by the way….  Check out more Sekshun 8 music by picking up their latest CD Black Wing Butterfly and/or listen to some streaming tracks online from their myspace page:  http://www.myspace.com/Sekshun

Finally, since this show was edited on this Veterans Day, all of us here at AbsOfBeerTV would like to thank everyone in our Arms Forces for your services!

Cheers,
Brian and John

The Stone Factor: Here are a few extra things regarding this episode.  First, a correction from our previous episode which featured Stone Brewing Company beers.  We said Stone was located in San Marcos, CA. but they have actually moved to Escondido, CA.  Thank you Matt Steirnagle for helping us get the facts straight!

A few extra words about the Weeping Radish Farm and Brewery.  The Weeping Radish is proud to introduce its “Farmer to Fork” food concept, also known as “Reinheitsgebot” food.  The US food chain has consistently expanded and by now the average food travels over 2000 miles between the farm and your plate.  A large amount of our food is even imported from other countries with little oversight and control.  Every perishable commodity (which includes most food we eat) requires additives, chemicals and preservatives in order to “survive” this processing and distribution system.

For this reason they have built thier Eco Farm, Butchery and Smoke House in Jarvisburg, North Carolina. This allows them to purchase hormone-free beef and free-range pork from local farms, and supervise the butchering and smoking process. They are also a member of the Eastern Carolina Organics Co-op, and bring organic vegetables directly to their farm.

The Juxtaposition Black Pilsner!  We were so involved with drinking and eating the only thing we could say was WOW to about everything that day… So some justice to the Black (Imperial) Pilsner – dark brown color with some nice deep amber highlights – GREAT HEAD – Stone Hoppy, roasted/coffee, malty, nice carbonation and  nice ABV… Let’s give a big round of applause for 10%…

Cheers!
Brian and John

The Guinness Factor:

OK…  Here’s a couple of additions and corrections.

Yes!  That’s Steve Jones having a beer with John back in the early days…  Make sure you check the Photo-Album to get a better look at that motley crew! (or crue?  <grin>).

Also…  When Brian was telling his epic story about the drinking-and-driving taxi driver in the Bahamas, he called the fine beverage outlet “The Old Pond Liquor Store”  when it was clearly the “The New Pond Liquor Store.”  Don’t worry…  We’ve spoken to Mr. Od (Trip, the camera guy) about this teleprompter mistake!

Now go grab a Guinness!  To Arthur!!

As with any true professional, both Brian and John take their work seriously… and that means… well… drinking a lot of beer!  With that being said, AOBTV is introducing this new section:

The Cervezas factor

This new section will include omissions and additions.  Let’s face it, we’d been drinking! <grin> so let’s get it right:

Dos Equis Amber Lager: is not brewed with Chocolate and Orange but has some Chocolate/Orange undertones.  Hey! we liked it with our burritos!

Bohemia Pilsner: a Pale Lager…. This is modeled after an English style Pilsner

Negra Modelo: is brewed as a Munich Dunkel Lager however in a style of a Vienna Lager?????  We liked this one a lot!

Patron: Need we say more???

Cheers!  Thanks again to everyone for all your support!

In this show, John and Brian compare a 2009 Aventinus to a 2003…  It was hard to believe what a little bit of beer aging can do!

You’ll notice our new intro in this episode!  We were rocking to some (national recording artist) Sekshun 8 and thought it would be perfect intro music!  We hope to do a show with the guys from Sekshun 8 when we explore what beer rock stars drink!