- What's up, guys?
Mack and Gary back with
another brew review.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, this time
we're drinking Give
Thanks by Alvarado Street.
Looks very tasty.
This one is a cornucopia
of a bunch of different ingredients.
We're talking nine different grains,
11 different hops,
- Shit!
- three different yeast strains,
- Oh man!
- all packed into one little can.
- Crazy.
- So I'm excited
to jump into this one.
- Yes, and how apropos for Thanksgiving,
right?
- Absolutely.
I guess we'll take this opportunity
to give thanks ourselves, right?
- Yeah, there's a lot
to be thankful for in
the LA beer scene here.
I mean, first off, all the breweries
that are putting out really good beer.
The quality level in LA has
just exploded over the years
and it's gotten really
hard to not find good beer.
So some of the breweries that we had
to trek out to a few years back,
we unfortunately don't
visit as often anymore
because there's so much
good stuff around us.
So it's a cornucopia of riches.
- Yes and very thankful
for the bottle shops
that stock beers like Alvarado Street,
such as The Bottle Shoppe out in Sylmar,
that's one of our favorites.
- But all of 'em, yeah.
- But all of 'em as well, so.
- Very cool.
- Look at that, pouring out nice and hazy.
- It smells so good, dude.
- When you're talking
about 11 different hops,
you're talking about a
lot of different flavors.
- I'm a little worried about all that, but
on the nose it's just amazing.
Let's give it a whirl.
- Crowbars up.
(glasses clinking)
- Wow.
- Ooh.
- Got a little heat to it, right?
- Little bit of heat at eight percent,
got a little bit of heat to it.
- You can taste it, you
can definitely taste it.
- But pretty standard otherwise
in terms of that creamy, creamy body.
- Super creamy, yep.
Juicy, yep.
- Very juicy.
- You got a lot of that
tropical juice component.
This isn't like a home run, knock it out
of the park north feast style IPA.
- I like that.
- But it is delicious.
It kinda just hangs in there
with that kind of like mid to
upper tier of hazy, double IPA
that, you know, you see made
on the West Coast these days.
Very, very solid, don't
get me wrong there.
But, yeah, I mean this just
something that makes you think,
you take a sip and you give thanks
that, damn, we can drink this beer now.
- Yeah, give thanks to really good beer.
- Yeah, thank you to Alvarado
Street for making this beer,
putting it out, everyone who brought
it into Southern California.
Tell me, give it a rating.
- Ooh.
- What do you think?
- If I'm gonna put a rating on this one,
I guess I'd give it, hmm...
Maybe a 7.1.
- Dude, I was thinking
that exact, same score.
- Really?
- Yeah, 7.1 it is.
Yep, Alvarado Street, Give Thanks,
great beer, great stuff, Thanksgiving.
That's your review.
- That's your review.
(chill music)
