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Beer Review: Green Milk (RAR Brewing)

B. Kline — Sat, 28 May 2022 01:07:00 +0000

Green Milk by RAR Brewing (Taco Thursday)

Taco Thursday

As you can see, last night was Taco Thursday at Bender Braus Brewing (or Casa De Kline). Deciding on which Star Wars themed beer (out of so many options currently in my fridge) to have along with the meal, I decided on Green Milk – namely because I know I’ll be picking up a second tomorrow at RAR’s Star Wars Day Drop. (Along with Blue Milk coming back, as well as new beers such as “As You Wish” and “Shooting Womp Rats”.) But here at the home of The Beer Thrillers we find any reason to have a taco night, and so last night – Thursday was as good as any. And not to humble brag too much, but we make some banging tacos too.

And of course, with making tacos, and eating tacos… comes drinking some beer. And since the next day (ie. today) was going to be the release of the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, and needing to do a Star Wars review; what better than one of the Star Wars beers from RAR Brewing?

RAR’s Upcoming Star Wars Can Drop

Well, tomorrow’s Star Wars can drop to be exact. I’ve covered it pretty extensively in this article: RAR’s Star Wars Can Drop. We will be there for it, not sure what time, but we’ll be there. Planning on leaving the Carlisle area (have an early morning obligation in Carlisle) around 9:30 – 10 AM, so hopefully getting there around noon to one’ish. We might be leaving Carlisle even earlier (I was hoping to leave at 8 AM but I don’t think that will happen.)

The article covers the beers they are releasing and the time of the drop (spoiler – its 11 AM when they open). They will likely have some on tap, but not all, and maybe not even any, I’m not sure.

So I figured Thursday night would be a great time to check out the Green Milk (Batch 1) before the new release, and review it for my Star Wars day.

RAR Brewing

We’ve got several RAR Brewing’s beers here on the blog. Notably their Out of Order series – specifically for my Star Wars days (as well as just covering Star Wars beers in general on here). You can find our list of RAR Beer Reviews here:

RAR Brewing is out of Cambridge Maryland. Cambridge Maryland is near the bottom of the state, bayside.

You can find out more about RAR Brewing and the drop at their Instagram page: RAR Brewing (Instagram) and their Facebook page: RAR Brewing (Facebook).

Their Out of Order series is one of the most popular series of beers on the East Coast (up there with Burley Oak’s JREAM series, Dewey Beer’s Thrills, and Fourscores Jahmbas and Swerves). According to Untappd, there is 268 Out of Order (unique) beers.

According to Untappd, RAR Brewing is a micro brewery from Cambridge, MD. They have 672 unique beers with an exact global rating of 4 (as of 5.27.22). Their Untappd bio reads: “Based in Cambridge, MD on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay.”

Beer Review

Green Milk by RAR Brewing

Beer: Out of Order: Green Milk (Batch 1)
Brewery: RAR Brewing
Style: Sour – Fruited
ABV: 6%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Our lactose sour base conditioned on Thala-Sirens Milk.

Not often do I get to go into descriptors of “green” and “milky” for appearance. But here, today, I find myself doing just that. It looks like someone ate a bowl of Lucky Charms with only the green marshmallows, ate all the cereal, and left the milk. It poured very bubbly, very carbonated, even after having sat in my fridge for a year. I did roll it before pouring, and it poured smoothly, and left a few chunks in the can.

Aroma is sweet, has a cereal like smell to it, but also a sweet… candy, cloying, weird smell to it. Not bad weird, but just an odd smell for a beer certainly. It smells like a sweetness, like a cereal, lactose, sugary, frosty pop, kinda smell. Its a bit hard to describe, and maybe my ‘sniffer’ ain’t up to snuff on this type of stuff (its a young kid’s game anymore, there’s no country left for us old men), but its hard to quite pinpoint the aromas.

Oh boy, lets dive into this one. I grab this quote directly from my review of Blue Milk: “The texture, consistency, and overall look follows suit. It has the texture, a light grittyness, but still overall smooth of a drink still, of melted ice cream. Everything about this just has the appearance of melted ice cream, which I think is the overall attempt of it.” And think it completely applies here…. just green instead of blue. It is very sweet, it is very juicy, and no real sourness to it. This is very smooth, silky, and sweet, and drinks easily enough for how its appearance is. It can be a bit cloying, and it is possibly overly too sweet. I would highly recommend not chugging this beer, thats 100% for sure. Its a slow sipping beer, probably best for desert and a long night, rather than to have as part of a huge group of beers, or to hang out, or maybe even with tacos. It might not have been the greatest combination. All in all, its a fun beer to drink and enjoy, would make great for sharing and having people over with, a full can isn’t horrible, but starts bordering on the ‘too much’ area. Recommend at least giving it a try if nothing else but for the novelty’s sake of it.

My Untappd Rating: ****.25
Global Average Untappd Rating: 4.08 (as of 5.27.22)

Spoilers Time

Ok, we’re now up to the spoilers portion of the beer review. I’m going to discuss Episode 2 of Obi-Wan Kenobi show. So if you want to stay spoiler free, you can exit out here, or fly down to the bottom of the review.

Earlier today I covered in a beer review – Vader (Mispillion River Brewing Company) and covered Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 1. Check out the beer review to see my thoughts on Episode 1 (or Part 1) of the Obi-Wan show.

Some quick links for discussion:

I will right out say I enjoyed both episodes. Imminently, miles ahead of The Book of Boba Fett. Which I pretty much downright panned on here. And I don’t think that was just my cynical Star Wars fan, typical nerd nit-picking either. I just didn’t care for the show much at all. (I’ve expressed my thoughts on that show enough here on the blog that I don’t think I need to go into it any further.)

I will say that episode two is a bit weaker than episode one. The stuff on the streets and everything was interesting, but I feel its a bit straining to think nobody recognizes Obi-Wan, but then again, thats a bit personal bias since we know him, don’t live in a galaxy full of trillions, and its also been 9 years in the show since the end of Episode III (the movie).

The stuff with Leia was a bit overplayed and over dramatic, and forceful just to make it a full episode I think. I’m also not a fan of parkour in shows and movies when it doesn’t really outright need to be used. The shoot out scenes and stuff were fun and interesting, I enjoyed the giant crock head alien. I am a bit disappointed though that there’s not a ton of “Star Warsy” aliens. Like I said previously.

I was not a huge fan of the ending. With Reva turning, and stabbing The Grand Inquisitor, as well as the “big reveal”. I still think it was a very good episode, maybe a 7 out of 10 whereas Part I was 8.5 or 9 out of 10. I have high hopes for next week’s episode. Sad to see its only a 6 part series, but I think that will benefit it in the end. A quick, easy run time, for a straight linear story. And now we’re 1/3rd the way through already. And after next week’s episode, we’ll be 1/2 the way through.

Nerd Reviews

I know ya’ll here for the nerd reviews. So check out our other nerd reviews below:

Star Wars:

Lord of the Rings:

Rick and Morty:

Beer Review: Peace Among Worlds (Cushwa Brewing Company)

Space Balls:

Beer Review: Moon of Vega (Equilibrium Brewery)

Game of Thrones:

The Simpsons:

Back to the Future:

Beer Review: Back to Reality (Three 3s Brewing Co)

Scrooged:

Beer Review: Scrooge IPA (Iron Hill Brewing)

Groundhog Day:

A Christmas Story:

Pro Wrestling:

Phillies:

Drunk Phils Fans and Rotunda Brewing Company Collaborate Together on Jam the Batter sWheat Tart

Matrix:

Matrix Monday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Beer Review: Terpenes in Time (BAREBottle Brewing Co)

Seinfeld:

Other:

Thanks For Reading

As always everyone, thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed this second edition of Star Wars friday! Check with us next friday for the next Obi-Wan Kenobi show episode and beer review!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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Beer Review: Vader (Mispillion River Brewing Company)

B. Kline — Fri, 27 May 2022 17:53:54 +0000

Vader by Mispillion River Brewing Company

Dun Dun Di Dun… Dun Di Dun….

Thats my attempt at writing out the Imperial Theme anyway. (The above should work, its my first attempt at adding music to the blog, so hopefully I did it all right.) (After testing it – it looks to be good to go from my home.)

I figured this would be an appropriate first beer to review for our new Star Wars Fridays series. Previously we did Star Wars Wednesdays to coincide with The Book of Boba Fett episodes being released. Well this time, with the Obi-Wan Kenobi show being on Fridays, we switched it up to be Star Wars Fridays. Enjoy!

During The Book of Boba Fett season – seven episodes – we covered seven Star Wars beers. They were:

We also covered another beer review hidden in my analysis of The Book of Boba Fett show after it finished, wrapped up here:

The Book of Boba Fett (Analysis)

As for this beer, you can find me drinking it in the YouTube video me and my buddies made over on the Knights of Nostalgia page. Fair warning – there is a lot of swearing, dirty talking, drunken shenanigans, and flat out tomfoolery involved. You can find the video here: “The Book of Boba Fett – Discussion Piece.” You can find the YouTube channel here: Knights of Nostalgia (YouTube).

Obi-Wan Kenobi

So first, before jumping into the beer review, lets discuss why we’re here. And thats because its “Star Wars Fridays” here on The Beer Thrillers, and thats due to the new Obi-Wan Kenobi show.

As part of Star Wars Celebration, they announced they would be dropping the first two episodes at midnight (eastern time) rather than the usual 3AM. (Announced as being released at 9PM PT; which is where Star Wars Celebration was being held.) So that was a bonus fun treat, getting to watch Episode 1 and Episode 2 at midnight. (Ended up staying up til 3AM hyped from the show.)

This beer review is to coincide with the first episode. I will be posting later today, the second beer review to go along with the second episode. (I know, quite a few blog post drops in the past few days, between the various news related posts, and these beer reviews.)

That way I can keep each beer review / blog post detailing each episode and discuss that particular episode at the end of the the review. (The spoilers section.)

Ok, now that we’ve watched the trailer, and gotten adequately hyped on Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Star Wars, lets get on to the beer review.

Beer Review: Vader

Vader by Mispillion River Brewing Company

First, let’s take a look at Mispillion River Brewing Company on Untappd.

Mispillion River Brewing Company is listed as a micro brewery from Milford, Delaware. It has 507 unique beers and as total number of 128,908 ratings, with a global average of 3.68 (as of 5.27.22). Their Untappd bio reads: “Mispillion River Brewing was born from the love of craft brewing, art in its purest form! We at Mispillion River Brewing desire to continue this art form by brewing the finest craft beer. In 2011, Co-Founder, Eric Williams, told his wife and Co-Founder, “Megan, I am going to open a craft brewery in Milford!” After 2 years of planning, brewing (and tasting!!), traveling the country, and assembling a team of partners, we are set to open in the late Fall of 2013. We not only want to open a craft brewery but desire to open the best craft brewery. We will do this by combining the highest quality ingredients of barley, hops, water and yeast. We are targeting the entry level craft drinker, beer connoisseur, craft beer drinker, and the craft brewery enthusiast-that is our focus. Our mission statement sums it all up: Mispillion River Brewing aims to be recognized by its customers and the brewing industry for producing the highest quality craft beer. We honor craft brewing by using the highest quality ingredients, and strive for the best customer service in the industry. Craft brewing is a passion and exemplifies the love of life possessed by the MRB crew and the great community it serves.”

Beer: Vader
Brewery: Mispillion River Brewing Company
Style: IPA – Imperial / Double Black
ABV: 8.2%
IBU: 55
Untappd Description: From the darkness comes a beer that only the force will rival. This double black IPA is rich with hops and balanced with the dark side. If you are tempted by one, you will surely succumb to two!

As we normally do here on The Beer Thrillers, we start with appearance, then aroma, and then taste. And looking at this beer after its been poured, its downright dark and black. Black like Darth Vader’s suit itself (had to switch it up from my former used line of – black like Razor Ramone’s hair – RIP). It has a beautiful foamy head, and it looks downright delicious. Nice varied bubbles, good black hue for a black IPA, and a nice pour. Carbonation was on point.

Aroma has that nice dark IPA aroma to it; the malty notes come out first and foremost. You get some chocolate, earthy, bready malty notes, which then dives into the hops themselves – mainly from the mosaic you get a dankness and then citrus, almost even a sweet citrus hop note. There is a lot going on with the aroma to this in kind of a complex manner that leaves the nose hopeful for the beer itself.

This tastes like a very finely put together black IPA. One of my favorite ‘underrated’ styles. I don’t think Black IPAs get the press they deserve, let alone even actually receive, and I feel like the press they do get tends to be negative. Obviously their not the “in” beer style, like Hazy / Juicy New England IPAs are, and so right off the bat their not going to get the attention that those beers get. But having said my piece, I’m now going to focus on the beer at hand. Out of the gate, sipping this, you get notes of the roast malted, some chocolate overtones in the maltyness, and bready and earthy notes from a combination of the malts and hops I believe. This kind of segues itself into the middle of the beer which gets into the bitter, more roasted, almost porter like tastes, but never completely leans on that as its not a porter but an IPA. Which is where it finishes up at – all IPA baby. I would certainly say this is above average for most beers, and above average for its style. Its a nice surprise coming from Mispillion River Brewing Company, a brewery thats been on my list to hit next time we get into Delaware. I’ve mostly only gotten to sample from them at different brewfests and such and not had a whole lot of their stuff on tap or from the can, so this was a nice change of pace with them. And they certainly wow’ed me with it too. Its a good beer and a good piece of work from them, and the namesake for the beer works with its style and appearance perfectly.

My Untappd Rating: ****
Global Average Untappd rating: 3.84 (as of 5.27.22)

The Obi-Wan Kenobi Show

Ok, here’s where the spoilers are going to come in everyone. So if you don’t want to be spoiled, you can stop reading here, or you can zoom down to the bottom of the post where I wrap things up. Your choice on that. If you’ve seen Episode 1 (or Part I) of Obi-Wan Kenobi, then you may gladly stick around for the next few paragraphs of discussion.

Firstly, just to give some space for the spoilers, I’ll offer a few links for further discussion, if you find you want to read more about people’s thoughts on the show, you can check these out:

And here’s a fun little video to watch:

This was from last night at the Star Wars Celebration, involving Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen. Speaking of Celebration, they announced a new show called “Skeleton Crew” which will start Jude Law, and they gave a definitive date to the Andor show and showed a trailer for that as well. (I’ll probably cover that more in the next beer review, because otherwise that’ll just be too much here.) They also announced some more Star Wars books and showed some covers for existing already announced titles.

So anyway, onto my thoughts about the Obi-Wan Kenobi show – Part I.

Firstly – I absolutely loved it. This show is everything that The Book of Boba Fett wasn’t (but was supposed to be). A well thought out, a well paced, and a well written show. Ewan McGregor is such a phenomenal actor and you can tell he absolutely loves the character of Obi-Wan, that he downright feels him to the bone. The story of Part I makes good sense and I have no complaints about how they went about writing things. The opening of the Jedi Temple being attacked was strong and poignant (especially given recent USA events) but there’s no point really discussing it as its not much similarity and its still needed and necessary for the overall plot of the show (and Star Wars in general).

I enjoyed the idea of Leia being captured and that being the thrust to get Obi-Wan off planet. It makes sense that that would be the only thing that could get him to leave Luke and go off of Tatooine. Nothing outright contradicts anything previously established in the (new) canon, so far so good on that. It does border some things though that gets into a bit of a murkier territory. (Like how Anakin and Dooku dueled about 30 times in between Episode II and Episode III on The Clone Wars.) But nothing that blatant (yet).

The actress for Leia nails it and gives you that spunky attitude you expect out of Leia, and seems like a young Carrie Fisher. (Her running is weird though, but what kid doesn’t run weird.) They should have just had her immediately captured instead of having the weird awkward “kid eludes adults” while running bit. But hey, at least we got Flea in Star Wars now!

Its a much more grittier, somber, and darker story. Which is kind of what The Book of Boba Fett should have been. Tatooine is also shot better in this show, versus that of Fett too, which is a bit weird. Book of Boba Fett has kind of a glossier look to it, where as here, Tatooine is clearly grittier, dirtier, more real and lived in.

Costumes and set pieces and stuff look very impressive. Though there’s not too many “Star Wars” aliens. The aliens they do show look Star Warsy enough, but their not particular / specific aliens that we know and love from past movies and shows. (Think Twi’leks, Trandoshans, Wookies, Abyssins, Ithorians, Ishi Tibs, Chadra-Fans, Grans, Dugs, Gungans, Klatoonians, etc, etc, etc.)

But all in all, I loved it, and it left me wanting more. So I can’t wait. Later today I will be posting another beer review (Green Milk) and doing Part II discussion. Also tonight, I will be on the Knights of Nostalgia Twitch page. You can find us here: Knights of Nostalgia (Twitch).

Pop and Nerd Culture Articles

As always, here’s the segment where I showcase and list off all the nerdy articles we’ve covered here on The Beer Thrillers. Pick and choose through and find your favorites and let us know what pop culture and nerdy shows, movies, or books you like. I’d love to find more nerd beers to review, or books, etc.

Star Wars:

Lord of the Rings:

Rick and Morty:

Beer Review: Peace Among Worlds (Cushwa Brewing Company)

Space Balls:

Beer Review: Moon of Vega (Equilibrium Brewery)

Game of Thrones:

The Simpsons:

Back to the Future:

Beer Review: Back to Reality (Three 3s Brewing Co)

Scrooged:

Beer Review: Scrooge IPA (Iron Hill Brewing)

Groundhog Day:

A Christmas Story:

Pro Wrestling:

Phillies:

Drunk Phils Fans and Rotunda Brewing Company Collaborate Together on Jam the Batter sWheat Tart

Matrix:

Matrix Monday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Beer Review: Terpenes in Time (BAREBottle Brewing Co)

Seinfeld:

Other:

Thanks For Reading

Once again, I’d like to say thank you to all my readers. As I said above, tonight I’ll be posting the beer review for Green Milk by RAR Brewing, which will coincide with Episode 2 of Obi-Wan Kenobi show. Also, I will be on Twitch with Drew Scott and Josh Hoover playing PSO (Phantasy Star Online) and drinking beer. So check us out on that. And then tomorrow, me and Miss Amy will be traveling to RAR for the Star Wars drop. Check that out as well if you can.

Cheers!

-B. Kline

RAR Star Wars Drop This Saturday

B. Kline — Fri, 27 May 2022 00:31:00 +0000

As You Wish

Blue Milk

Green Milk

Shooting Womp Rats

RAR Brewing is dropping their Star Wars Out of Order series this Saturday

Star Wars Drop!

It seems its time for RAR Brewing’s annual Star Wars drop! Just like they did last year with their Out of Order series, they did again this year, and are dropping them at their brewery this Saturday – May 28th, 2022. Last year’s drop included the above Blue Milk and Green Milk. The Blue Milk had been previously released before that as well. So Saturday’s drop of the Blue Milk will be its third time.

This year’s drop includes (as you can see from the pictures above):

Out of Order: Blue Milk
Out of Order: Green Milk
Out of Order: As You Wish
Out of Order: Shooting Womp Rats

Can’t wait to get the two new ones (as well as the ones from before) to get to review for our Star Wars Fridays series coming up. We previously did “Star Wars Wednesdays” and had it lined up with each release of The Book of Boba Fett show. But now that the Obi-Wan Kenobi show is on Fridays, we’ll be moving it to Fridays. So for the next 6 episodes (2 tomorrow, and then 1 each week after that), we’ll be doing a Star Wars themed beer review.

Last Year’s Drop

Last year’s Star Wars (Out of Order) series drop included:

Out of Order: Blue Milk
Out of Order: Green Milk
Out of Order: Droid Juice
Out of Order: Tatooine Tart
Out of Order: RAWRGWAWGGRW
Out of Order: Yub Yub
Out of Order: Dark Side

You can look forward to the Green Milk review coming tomorrow for my “Star Wars Fridays” series in honor of the Obi-Wan Kenobi show.

RAR Brewing

RAR Brewing is out of Cambridge Maryland. Down at the very bottom of Maryland (well, now VERY VERY bottom, but near the bottom, especially if you’re like me and traveling from Harrisburg). (Google Maps says its currently a 2 hour and 57 minute drive from my house.)

You can find out more about RAR Brewing and the drop at their Instagram page: RAR Brewing (Instagram) and their Facebook page: RAR Brewing (Facebook).

According to Untappd, RAR Brewing is a micro brewery from Cambridge, MD. They have 672 unique beers with an exact global rating of 4 (as of 5.26.22). Their Untappd bio reads: “Based in Cambridge, MD on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay.”

See You There

We’ll be making the trip down from the Harrisburg area. Let me know in the comments section if you are coming too. I love RAR Brewing, the brewery and laboratory, and love the area in Maryland. So its always a fun trip down. Can’t wait!

Star Wars Fun?

Haven’t gotten your fill of Star Wars fun yet? Or looking for other nerdy beers, book reviews, or stories? Well then look no further, because we here at The Beer Thrillers got you covered. Check out our list below:

Star Wars:

Lord of the Rings:

Rick and Morty:

Beer Review: Peace Among Worlds (Cushwa Brewing Company)

Space Balls:

Beer Review: Moon of Vega (Equilibrium Brewery)

Game of Thrones:

The Simpsons:

Back to the Future:

Beer Review: Back to Reality (Three 3s Brewing Co)

Scrooged:

Beer Review: Scrooge IPA (Iron Hill Brewing)

Groundhog Day:

A Christmas Story:

Pro Wrestling:

Phillies:

Drunk Phils Fans and Rotunda Brewing Company Collaborate Together on Jam the Batter sWheat Tart

Matrix:

Matrix Monday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Beer Review: Terpenes in Time (BAREBottle Brewing Co)

Seinfeld:

Other:

Thanks For Reading

As always, we appreciate all of you reading! Thanks for the likes, the comments, the shares, and everything in between. Let us know your thoughts!

Are you all looking forward to the Obi-Wan Kenobi show? I know I am. Ewan McGregor is a top notch actor, and the trailers have looked incredible. So I am very optimistic for the show!

Cheers!

-B. Kline