Busy Week, Milk Stout Treat

In the weeks filled with miles ran and hiked, with two challenges finished, it's only appropriate to kick back with a tasty dessert beer and talk about recent drives and activities. Jason and Bri talk movies and visits to Eli Fish and Windy Brew in Batavia. We remember the career of the incredible James Earl Jones and get ready for Rails and Rails as well as the Tap & Craft Festival.  Happy Fall Ya'll!

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The Buffalo Brews podcast. First question. How's your fantasy team doing? I don't have one and I actually wanted to get onto a fantasy team, but you wouldn't let me because I only wanted to pick people by their names. I have no idea how they play football. I don't even know what team they play for, but the fun part would be is if they have a cool name. Now what happens? Now let's just say this. What happens if I pick all the cool names and I win? I think one of the names you would have picked was to attack of Ioloa. I would have. Who is probably going to be done for the season. Okay, fine. I wouldn't win this year's fantasy. I feel like we're on the wrong. Let me get my paper here. I feel like we're on the wrong podcast though. There we go. I know that I know the one thing you said about a football team, which was funny was that you were like, oh, that team looks all Halloween and I'm like, that's the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, dude. They were like orange or black. Wait, are we recording right now? Yeah. Sometimes we practice for him to see where we are on sound. So I wasn't sure. Right. The levels were already checked. So it's a matter of just hitting the bull's eye. I thought it was really cool. They looked like they were celebrating Halloween early. Oh, that team looks Halloweeny. That's the Cincinnati Bengals. Listen. They look that way every day. Well, I don't know that because I don't watch football every day or even once a week. I watched the opening Bills game. Yeah, you did. Maybe I'll catch one more before the season's over. Maybe. Who knows? That's right. Depends. Maybe if it's a Sunday game. The 2-0 Buffalo. I'm really not into that whole nighttime game stuff. You know. Yeah, but I'm not a football watcher. So when I stress out at work all day, I don't want to come home and watch football. Yeah. All right. OK. What would you like to talk about? Well, I think we should jump right into what we're drinking here because you brought home this these beers that you came over to show me and there's one left from the pack. Oh, yeah. But they were. So Friday after work, I go to the grocery store. Let me just back it up a little fun fact. Story time with Sabrina. Story time with Sabrina. So on Friday after a long day of work and a hellish week, I decide I'm going to go to the store. She said with much sarcasm. Two things. Later, I leave with a cart full of pumpkin everything, she exclaimed, and a six pack of beer because when I went to the pick a pack at Wegmans, there was all of these super fun fall ones. So the last one that we had left was left hand brewing peanut butter, milk stout, peanut butter, milk stout. I pulled up this because I always like a little stats on a beer. So you're talking milk stout that's brewed with peanuts, six point two ABV with twenty five IBUs. This is done with two row crystal chocolate Munich rolled oats, flaked barley, rolled barley, and then it has says hops and U.S. Golding's hops. So this is going to I think this is going to be really nice lactose peanuts, natural peanut butter flavor. All right. Let's take a sip and see. And then I made and I actually made a perfect pour out of it, which I was pretty excited about. Very, very good. Very peanut butter on the nose. Is that a word? Peanut buttery? It is now. It is now. Yeah. So people who wonder about left hand brewing didn't like the idea of bland beer. So with options at home, they were building up rich flavors discovered through through Europe. And then this is actually a veteran owned business because they are Air Force brothers. Oh, I love that. Eric and Dick, who embarked on a mission to craft the kind of beer they crave themselves, a hobby that quickly spiraled into an obsession. Wasn't long before left hand brewing was born in Longmont, Colorado in September of 1993. I was stationed at Griffis Air Force Base. I was in high school. Actually, that's the year I moved to Buffalo in 1993. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. All right. So left hand brewing out of Colorado. You're going to love it. Yeah. Yeah. Chocolate. So for me, first was the chocolate. It was chocolate on the nose right away. Oh, that's a nice chocolate flavor, too. Yeah. And then there's the peanut butter. Peanut butter smooths out on the back. Mm hmm. Yeah, this is nice. It's real good. Broke out the tap and craft glasses because the tap and craft festival is coming up here in a few weeks in Niagara Falls. So starting to make the plans for that. And then the tap list came out. Which I am so sad I am missing. There are so many exciting breweries going to be there and distilleries. I was so excited. Should I give a rundown of the ones that are going to be? I don't know. I mean, I read it to you the other day when it came out. It was amazing. I'm sad. I mean, I'll be in the woods camping, drinking for sure. Just not trying all of these great brews. So the tap and craft festival, Saturday, October the 5th at the Niagara Falls Convention Center. That's going to be. It's my favorite. It's the fall beer festival of festivals because it's even in just three years, it's grown into this jogger. I know. Which was why I was so excited. And I love that we get to put our stamp on this thing every year. It's great. Mortalis, Other Half, Trillium, Alchemy Bubble Bar. That's the wine place down in Hamburg. Frequentum, Grow, who we love, we love Grow, Imprint, Beer Kind, who just actually just released their Kindtoberfest beer today. So they've got that going on. Brewery Ardenne, which we're going to be traveling with them in 2026. Beer Tree, Heavy Reel, Prison City, Breyer Brothers, the new elite of Buffalo. I know. Brickyard, Black Button, Distilling, Weyland, Wild East, Blood Brothers out of Toronto, Lake Hour, Americann, Stronghold, Meadery, Vini Estates, Eli Fish, Mystic Hills, Treehugger, Hard Cider, Big Ditch, Resurgence, Flying Bison, Schulze Vineyards, Thin Man, Community Beer Works, Cellar and Folly Whiskey, Shepherdess Cellars, Southern Tear, Hopshire Farm. I think they were the ones that were down by Ithaca, right? Maybe. Springbrook Hollow Farm Distillery, Tulum Brewing, Three Bear Meadery, that's in Castile, Sad Boys, Blackbird, Wagner, who we're excited about, Wagner Vineyards as well, Woodbury Vineyards and Winery, Woodlawn Distilling and Northridge Distilling. That's awesome. So it's quite the best line up yet. Right. Yeah. And I'm sorry you have to miss that this year. Me too. Yeah. I hope he schedules it later in October next year. Yeah. Just for me. And it's not like we can even fall back on Canandaigua because Canandaigua is our Friendsgiving weekend and we'll be in the figure eights. Yeah, we might have to go back to Ithaca in January or was it January? February I think it was. Yeah, it was President's Day weekend, which was why we made a long weekend out of it and did hiking. Yeah. And then we got an opportunity to do some winter hiking there. And speaking of hiking. Yeah. Yeah. So the high fives. We've already had the congratulatory beverages for you people who speak the Espanolish. Yeah. We had some bullet single barrel bourbon to celebrate finishing both the Western New York and the Finger Lakes hiking challenges. So it was a fun weekend. Got out to Genesee County Forest, which is one of my top five. I love it there. Yeah. It's beautiful. And then it was so funny because Jay said, oh, we get a couple of extra points if we stop into the nature center. So I was like, oh, let's stop in there. We had only been in there one other time anyways. And we went up this path that we thought would lead us there, which actually it does eventually circle around and lead you there instead of going up the road. And we ran into like, what is that goldenrod you said it was called? That's goldenrod. And we could hear all these bees just buzzing everywhere. We took a couple of pictures, videos, whatever. You know, obviously bees, people freak out about it, but they're not going to harm you if you don't try to get at them. So we were pretty up close taking pictures and videos and they didn't care because we weren't touching them, swatting at them, anything. But it was really, really neat to smell the goldenrod, walk through the path and like hear them doing everything. So we go into the nature center. We meet Mike, who is real cool. He was the guy that was working there, or the volunteer really. And he told us a quick story about himself that he stressed out a lot about work. He just came, he would go to Genesee to sit in the woods to decompress. And then the people who worked there were like, hey, we see you here a lot. Maybe you would like to volunteer. A lot of random benches in the woods at Genesee. Which is cool though. And so anyways, he was really excited to show us around because we were the only two people in there and we were talking about the bees. And he said, oh, we have a beehive or a honey. What are those called? What is that thing called that he named it something? Well, they're called aviaries. Oh, aviaries. Really? I feel like that's a bird thing. Aviary? Maybe you should Google that. I'm going to Google that. But anyways, so he brings us over to this thing. And so he shows us, he takes these two big like plates off and it's to keep them in the dark because they like to be in the dark and they can swarm in from the outside, bringing in all the pollen from the goldenrod into this like huge thing that they then produce honeycombs in. And then they come and like harvest the honey and then they'll just keep on working to do it again. And then we found out a super fun fact that in the winter, all of the males will get killed, leaving only the queen and the females. How crazy is that? They're like, hey, dudes, thanks for doing a great job. Y'all die. We'll make more. So but they're just like busy doing their thing. And I had never seen anything like it. And the noise that it makes is just like incredible. But they're all in there like busy doing their job. And I just thought it was the neatest thing. And he said, oh, the kids are really enamored by this whole situation. And I said, well, I'm an adult and I'm enamored by this whole situation. I've never seen anything like this. So it was really cool. And then we walked around the rest of the place. We met Rosie. Was it Rosie the Turtle? Rosie the Turtle. Yeah, we met Rosie the Turtle, which if anybody didn't know, turtles have nails. So I found that to be fascinating. Back to an adult and I was feeling like a child. They have a whole bunch of pelts from different animals. So if you're ever like, oh, I'm curious to know what this animal feels like. I want to touch it. And you shouldn't because it's a wild animal. You can touch it there. So I found out that a fox is incredibly soft. It was the softest pelt of all of them. I had no idea. So I thought everybody would be kind of on the rough side because they have to protect themselves from the elements and they sleep on the ground and, you know, all that kind of stuff. Nope, not the fox. The fox is so, so soft. It was amazing. It was like soft as a puppy. Yeah. So I was I was really I was I was fascinated by this stuff. So anyways, and then we saw a whole bunch of stuffed animals or what taxidermy animals and which is cool because I've never seen an owl and you could see tons of owls because they're all taxidermied. I think you said the only time you saw a live owl was when we went to that place out near Syracuse, right? Yeah. And then I feel like owls are places that I may hear them, which I'm going to when I go to Lushworth coming up, I'm going to use my special bird recording thing to see if maybe something comes up and there's owls near me, but I just don't know. So that that app is called Merlin and that is put out by the folks at Cornell University. It is so cool. You literally just press record and it will listen to all of the sounds around you and tell you what birds there are. Department of Ornithology. That's so cool. Cornell University. So I have used it on several occasions and I'm pretty excited. So I have my binoculars ready. I have my book ready and I have my app ready. Tiff to Nature Preserve, I think we we had a lot of fun with. Yeah. So I'm pretty excited. And actually, when I was away in Ohio, I had a blast in the morning. We stayed and you would never think this with all the birds. We stayed literally across the street from the Air Force Base. Mike Patterson. Yeah. And there were so many birds. You remember that? I like recorded it. You can save the recording if you want to or just delete it. And I saved it because there were so many birds. I couldn't even print screen them all to send them to you. And I was just sitting on the porch having coffee. So then it was incredible. When you send the file, it has the list of birds. And then when you're playing the file in because it transports it into the the app and the ones that you can hear prominent in the audio light up yellow. Yeah. So you can tell which one is which. Yeah, it was. Oh, my gosh, it's so neat. So anyways, did you find out our bee situation? So the bee situation, this is where I got it. I said, you know, the individual ones we know are hives, but they refer to everything as honey, their bee farms. Oh, OK. So it's just like a farm. But I know when we were at Myers Creek farming the honey. Yeah, but I guess so. But colonies of bees, bees live in a hive. But what are a group of hives called? But they're talking about the act of it is called farming. I know when we were at Myers Creek that they had their own bee. Yeah. And if I'm using the wrong word, you know, aviary or whatever, they're that group of hives that they had down the hill. But I know they used a word and I can't remember what that word is. And I couldn't find it because everything was colony hive. And it's an apiary. Ape. I was close. I was off by a letter. I a or yeah, a p i a r y apiary. So I think you're right, though. Aviary is aviary birds, apiary, logical aviary bird. Yeah. Then, OK, apiary, apiary bee. OK, there we go. Well, we just learned some fun fact. There you go, guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So them. So, yeah, after Genesee, after talking to Mike, after seeing an active beehive, which was amazing to see and just to be able to smell the honey coming out of the vent ports and to see all the activity that's going on. And you look out the window and you can see them just coming in and out of whatever hole they had on the side of the building. I just love learning. I love learning, even though I'm an adult. And these things maybe you should have learned when you were younger. And I didn't. It's super fun to learn later. Then we finished our Finger Lakes Hiking Challenge at Carlton Hill multi-use area, which is only about five minutes south of Genesee County Forest. And each time we've gone there, the ghost, FBI truck number eight or the one that followed us from Rolling Hills Asylum. It was a ghost truck from Rolling Hills Asylum because here's the thing, it's a gravel road and it was there on the hill. And then we were waiting for it to pull in the parking lot and it didn't. And so we looked and it was gone. And guys, you can't turn around up there. You kind of have to come down into the little parking lot and turn around. I mean, I guess you could take a 50 point turn and turn around. But why? When you could go like a hundred yards to the parking lot and turn around. In a big old circle. The car was gone. Yep. Maybe that was what we heard in the woods when we were coming up through the I'm just saying, the Decipherous, Coniferous line. That was a bear, Jason. That was a bear. You think the bears were playing? Yes, that was definitely a bear. And it may not have been close. It may have echoed and we heard it. Maybe a ghost bear. Maybe a ghost bear. I don't know, but it was definitely a bear. I said, did you hear that? And Jay said, yes. And I said, let's walk faster. I mean, it's probably just a black bear and they're not going to come after you. But I think like he saw he possibly if he did see us and they weren't playing on the other side of the hill. Rule of thumb, if it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. Yeah, well, brown, black bears, that's the one you want to make all the noise. Right. That's what's at Letchworth. You're too noisy. I'm getting the hell out of here. That was when I was hearing some stuff. I was I was hiking by myself in Letchworth on this like trail that clearly nobody had hiked in like a long time. I think it was like was that number 15 or whatever I did. Yeah. And I'm walking down this path that's like not really walked on. And I hear like some heavier footsteps and I don't have my poles with me. And I'm thinking, well, that's either a bear or a coyote. I'm going to pick up a stick. There you go. So we were at Carleton with our poles. So I was I felt fine if it was a black bear. I got my pole. It's like, what should I do? Walk up to it sternly and smack it on the snoot. Oh, my God. Just flail your sticks, your poles. They'll just they'll they're scared. Hilarious. They're scared. I just want to see you doing that. It's just like, ah, yeah, they'll run away. Get out of here, bear. I know. Yeah, I've seen some at Letchworth. But I mean, like the one that I did see, we kind of made a little eye contact and that it was like, nope, and turn around and left. And I didn't even move yet. And it would already left. I couldn't even get my phone out of my pack to like take a picture fast enough. It was already galloping away. All's I would have gotten was his butt. Bear butt, bear butt. But anyway, so, yeah, we finished up high fives all around. Yeah, we did a new portion of Carlton. Yeah, we won. So we kind of wandered around on that. What do you want to call that? Like the east side of Carlton? I would say that was the east. Yeah. Yeah. I'd have to look at the map again. But it was cool because it's big and you could definitely do a ton of different trails there. So we headed to our photo point to do our final thing, our final like. Yeah, because we always have to take a picture as our validation for that trail. And it was super close to where we were. And then we kind of like did, I don't know, like three because we've already done that three miles. I feel like we kind of went up and around and then back a different way. We we we we missed a turn off, which gave us some more views. That's weird. So that trail wasn't there. Like it's on the map. Yeah, but that's OK. I mean, that's what's fun is you just wander around. You find cool stuff. And yeah, you know, maybe it's just not a well-used trail. But yeah, yeah, that was it was fun. It was hot. My shins were exploding, but we did it. Yeah, it was definitely a workout week. I mean, everything that was going on, you know, you were doing your your spin, your independent spin class while the Y is doing their stuff. We had Tunnel the Towers the, you know, the weekend before. So we did our 5K and then I did the 10K at the Moving Tribute for Team RWB for the 9-11. Yeah. And then yeah, then we put in a lot of miles, a lot of miles this past week between last weekend and this past weekend. That's good. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. And then so after hikes, of course, we hike for our beer and then we drove into Batavia. We hit Windy Brew. That was the first time we ever did the Batavia one. Yeah, yeah. I think the last time we tried to go, it was closed. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. So that was cool. We had good beers there. I was a little bummed they didn't have the pumpkin out yet. I'm like, you know, I'm really into like now pumpkin is out. Now I want I want them. Right. And not everybody has them yet. And I'm like, but when? So what did I have? I had a was it like a farmer? Do you remember what it was called for? It was the I think it was the farmers. It was good. So I went in thinking I was going to have a sour and he gave me a taste of that. And it was good. But then he gave me a taste of this IPA and that I was like, I will have that. It was it was super, super good. Did you find that? I'm there. I yeah, we had it. We had the let's see, the wind power sour. I think that was the one I tried. The one you try. It was good. But then he poured me the IPA and then I said, oh, I will definitely have that. And I want to say was something like a farmer. Oh, farmer's juice. Farmer's juice. Yeah. Which I've had before. That was good. I really liked that a lot. And then what did you have this one? I had a sold out session because I wanted something kind of. And yours was much lighter. And then yeah, what did we share? We shared that that imperial. Imperial of the farmers. OK. Yeah. Yeah. So they also did an imperial of that, which I don't think they have listed because he only. I don't think that's very updated because it says that the monster mash is available, but they did not have them. Well, they could be updating faster than what's happening. Probably. I don't know what I did. But but yeah. So we did the imperial version of that and we shared that and that was really good, too. Then we got the inside word from Jake on loaded baked potato dip. Oh, gosh. So Jay makes this loaded baked potato salad, which is just like potato salad. But instead of making it traditionally, he does like sour cream, bacon, cheese, chives into a cold like potato salad situation. And it's good. So they had a. Baked potato dip there and it essentially was the same thing. And we named all the ingredients except for one special ingredient, which he brought us out a packet to play with that, though. I think I'm going to say and we're going to see if we can master what we had. So it was pretty cool that we were like naming this stuff and he's like, you're almost there. So that was neat. And then I'm getting good at that, even with beers. So when we start sipping on things, I'm like, oh, good, our palate is actually really fun. And then then we went up to Eli Fish because they were doing their Oktoberfest. Yeah. And we had some fun dinner. Dinlin. Linden. What are you calling it? Liner. Liner. A liner. Kind of like brunch. Right. But we're doing liner because we were starving and it's like late lunch, early dinner because we're not going to eat dinner. So you had like an Oktoberfest burger that was cool with pretzel bun. Yeah. German potato salad. Yeah. German potato salad was on the burger, which I thought was really cool. And and then I had the schnitzel and some. Oh, and the cabbage. I mean, I know if you guys are know this German thing, they do the sweet and sour cabbage. I was like over the moon excited about that. And then it came with German potato salad. And also I had a side of their broccoli salad that they make. And if you like that kind of thing, that's probably the best broccoli salad I've ever had. Nice. Yeah. Really impressed. I feel like every time I go to Eli Fish, I'm going to have a side of the broccoli salad. So you're like, would you like a bite of this? I would not. I know. I tease him because he hates it. He hates vegetables in general. Like, I don't know. I was like the picky kid. And here I am the picky 51 year old. Correct. It's ridiculous. Have a salad. But no, thank you. So, yeah, it was good. And then we had like four different beers. So that was cool. You you did try that one that was like the collective. What was that one? There was like so many open bags. Yeah, there was like a whole bunch of people who participate. So we had that and then we had a few other ones. Yeah, they do that every year. Yeah, it was good. I mean, there's definitely a you know, it's the Jaeger Meister of sour beers and it's you know, oh, just put all this stuff in there and they just mix it up into this, you know, mishmash jungle juice. Yeah. I mean, for me, it's at all these ingredients. But I only tasted banana and I tried it a second time after I had a sip of my beer and I still only tasted banana. And I was like, forget it. Papaya stood out really, really well for me, especially in the second sip. I wish it did for me. But the problem is I hate banana. And so that's all I if there's banana taste, that's all I'm going to taste. It's just kind of like you who you hate vegetables. Yeah, but guess what's never going to be in a beer? Vegetable? Listen, other half just other half. No, they put jalapenos in a beer and that's fine. I don't have a problem. But so listen, the other half might have broccolini beer, but it's an IPA and there's no broccoli in it. No broccoli was harmed in the making of this beer. Well, thank God for you. I would have a broccolini IPA. Yeah. But yeah, we finished up in Batavia and well, they actually get back out there this weekend because. Golf at Terry Hills. And we're going to check out a new restaurant. Alex's. Was that what it was called? Alex's. I look at you like, do you remember? Anastasia's. Anastasia's. Now you're just making up a names. It was an a name. It was definitely. No, it's not that. Ariel's. Oh, my God. That's that's a mermaid. That's a little mermaid. I'll stay away from the fish platter. Oh, my. There are there's lots of cool seafood. I was looking at them. And then also we have this weekend coming up is Rails and Ales. Oh, yeah. Going out to Rochester and hopping aboard a train to try try a whole bunch of beers that include breweries we've never been to before, including Birdhouse and Relative Risk, which we keep meaning to get out there when we're out Seneca Lake. It's called Alex's Place. Alex's Place. Yeah. You always find these fun things to do and you're like, hey, you want to go on a train and drink beer? And I was like, hell, yeah, I want to get on a train and drink beer. Why not? Yeah. And then what else have we done in the last couple of weeks here? We took we took in a few movies. We finally saw A Quiet Place, too. Yes. And there were so many things you could point out. And in Western New York, it was neat. But it was funny because if you live in Western New York and you watch it, you can say the same, almost like the same scene, they'll be running from one area to like another in this one scene. And you can say, oh, my gosh, that is North Tonawanda and that is not. And all they were supposed to be doing was running around the corner. So it's kind of fun to be local and watch it and see how they did it. So that was really neat. I did enjoy that. And then Friday the 13th was this past Friday. 2009 reboot that they did. So, yes, we watched Friday the 13th for Friday the 13th. That's correct. And I was pretty excited because when we turned it on to my surprise, Jared Padalecki was in there. Yes. For you supernatural fans. Right. Walker, Texas Ranger. Oh, my gosh. But it was awesome. Yeah. If you go back in our archives all the way back to episode 10. Now, this will be episode, I think, 121 or 122. OK, go back to number 10. What are we looking at? Came out on May 18th of 2021. A Quiet Natural Podcast 2. OK. So it was talking about movies made famous in Buffalo, including A Quiet Place 2, The Natural, which was shot here many moons ago. Sharknado. Yeah, I think we talked about a little bit of everything on that episode, if I remember right. I know we focused a lot on The Quiet Place 2 because it was coming out that weekend. Oh, OK. So finally getting to see it. And then literally you can see scenes in there from Dunkirk, Barcelona Beach. It's cool. Yeah. The Lackawanna, Bethlehem Steel site. The Grand Island Bridge was in the movie. So and then the baseball field, the baseball field in North Tonawanda, most of the kids playing in that game I coached in football. Yeah. And it's just it's cool to just see like the neighborhoods where you're like, oh, I know where that is. And to just think like this is a movie where people all over are watching and you're like, but that's my backyard. I mean, not really, but you know, it kind of is. Because Western New York is like the biggest small town. Yeah. And then Akron, Main Street in Akron was the other one because they shoot, they go between the baseball scenes when they come through the alley. The baseball scenes are in North Tonawanda.