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This week we are checking out one of our favorite types of beers, a cream ale! We've got Cream Ale by Public House Brewing and it does not disappoint. 

Based on the can's art, we decided to check out vinyl records. It was amazing to see how dominant records were through the years and the variations of size and speed the changed with the available technology. We check out the arms race of developing the dominant record and get a story about a sad Louie Armstrong during a recording. We also look into how they are made and whether or not music really sounds better on them. We end with a saga of a review with someone only responding to their own posts?

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This week on Short Pour we are checking out Hopshot from Meriwether Cider and our topic for the week is Invisible ink. We explore early uses of invisible ink. I think a lot of us have tried some basic version of this with something like lemon juice and we explore lots of other compounds used. Invisible inks played a big role in a few different major wars and you won't believe the things people used for their inks. Some messages were scratched into hard-boiled eggs, bananas, and some of the inks were a little more man-made than we would like to think! We also look at some of the convoluted steps to reading the invisible ink and how it started to turn into a several step process just to get the message written or to show up. Join us for some laughs through this journey and a short and sweet review of the cider!

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Welcome back to another week of Short Pour! This week we've got a zesty episode as we check out Meyer Lemon Drop Shandy by Left Hand Brewing. We accidentally go down a dark memory of a scene from the Sixth Sense but we get back on track with this sweet drink. 

This week we are focused on the history of Lemonade the drink, not the sixth studio album from Beyonce. We start off distinguishing between the various citrus fruits. We start our lemonade journey in ancient Egypt and rely on an early cook book for how to make it. They essentially made country time well ahead of their time! Being from Kansas City, we bring up the Lemonade, Lemonade, Lemonade - Woooo! Guy. He was the best part of the Royals in the early 2000s. Lemonade also played quite the role in some disease outbreaks like the plague and scurvy. We also discuss the first lemonade stand and the disappointment of stopping at one and we end with a review that essentially just describes lemonade.

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We have another abroad beer this week all the way from New Zealand with the Kiwi Pale Ale from the Ground Up Brewing. Weirdly, we didn't taste any of the kiwi. We initially start with why it's called New Zealand. Of course we end up going down a rabbit hole of various New cities. Well, the cities aren't necessarily new, but the name is. New York City, Newtown, New Delhi, New London, etc. A surprising amount of them are tiny cities that never matched the original. We also explore our New Zealand and Australian accents (one of us is clearly better than the other). Trying to make a new city name from scratch proves to be harder than we thought, so maybe we should cut them some slack. 

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Welcome back to another week of Short Pour! This week we check out Easy Orange by Boulevard Brewing and explore the topic of the Blood Moon. We look into what causes the reddish hue and coincidentally answer the age old question of why the sky is blue. 

We also check out some mythology around the blood moon. Weirdly enough, the Greeks had the most boring view of it. But others involved jaguar gods, shaking spears at it, proxy kings, and a headless being devouring the moon. Some other stories around it have a more wholesome idea around them with healing songs and laying feuds to rest. 

We end with a reviewer that is very excited about them blood oranges!

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Welcome back to another episode of Short Pour! This week we are excited to welcome our first guest, Shea, from the Rainy Day Rabbit Holes Podcast! We check out the beer, Batsquatch, from Rogue Ales and Spirits and open with a quick story involving a mummified toe.

Shea shares the questionable origins of the Batsquatch involving a dead truck and a potentially curfew breaking teen. Hmmm... We also talk about the Ape Canyon incident, beer fests, Missouri legends, and the geography of West Virginia. We're not from there! 

We end with some reviews, a sarcastic take on pine and an overly detailed two for one review. We also may have picked up a new tagline, thanks Shea!

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Welcome back to Short Pour and this week our episode title has a couple of meanings. We are checking out Fat Tire by New Belgium Brewing, but we have actually done this beer before. We never downloaded the files for that episode in time so unfortunately we just lost that episode. We decided to fix our mistake, and what better way to fix a mistake than Wite-Out?

Technically we focus on Liquid Paper and Presto! makes a weirdly large impact, but it's all correctional fluid anyway. We talk about its inception and how the creator made IBM look like chumps. We also check our a review from someone who tells us how much we won't like them from the start. Turns out, pretty accurate. 

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Welcome back to another week of Short Pour! This week we are checking out the most generic looking can in Blended with Lumber #6. While the can is basically blank, this beer has a ton of character!

With just a metal can, we decided to check out metal detectors. We dive into how they work, and question how to trick them. We discuss the walk-through, wands, and the ones that look like mine sweepers. We have a brief story involving James Garfield, Alexander Graham-Bell, and a couple of bullets. While these airport and concert venue main stays are pretty common today, we also look at the limits of how well they can actually work. Of course, we also get distracted with debating where people place their wallets in their pants, a tale about the alarms going off in a Target, and questioning the status of one of us being bionic.

We end with a review that starts off strong but goes off the rails with a Jurassic Park reference and shout out to Wayne Knight!

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This week we ask the question, "how did we find out we could drink milk?". The answer leads us to ancient cows, gut science, and some laughs along the way. We discuss this over a cream ale from River Bluff Brewing!

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Welcome back to Short Pour! This week we are checking out Buzzer Beater by Prairie Artisan Ales with a certain March basketball tournament right around the corner. The drink turns out to have a lot in common with Ms. Lippy's car. Good thing St. Patrick's day is coming up with this green drink!

Our topic this week comes back to one of the most iconic buzzer beaters from our chidhood as we recap the movie Space Jam. We revisit all of the antics of the Looney Tunes, Michael Jordan playing baseball, and a certain Seinfeld character becoming a pancake. Also, Bill Murray made a huge impact on one of us in this movie. 

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