3:16 Day

Give me a hell yea! What?! Give me a hell yea!! What?!

Do you know what time it is? ….or well, more importantly, what day it will be (tomorrow)? Thats right, it will be Austin 3:16 tomorrow, and do you know what that means? That means we need to open a can of whoop —- I mean, open a can of El Segundo Brewing Company’s new ‘Steve Austin’s Broken Skull American Lager’. (Ok, maybe that’s not as catchy as Stone Cold’s catch phrase, but… well, its still something anyway.)

Tomorrow is March 16th (or St. Patty’s Day Eve), and that means its Stone Cold Steve Austin’s 3:16 Day. WWE, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and El Segundo Brewing Company are all celebrating the big day in a big way.

Previously, Steve Austin has collaborated with El Segundo Brewing Company on an IPA which was called ‘Broken Skull IPA’. We have covered it previously in a review here: Beer Review: Broken Skull (Stone Cold IPA) (El Segundo Brewing Company).

Steve Austin’s American Lager

El Segundo Brewing Company’s collaboration with Stone Cold Steve Austin – the Steve Austin’s Broken Skull American Lager – will be releasing nation wide tomorrow on 3:16. No word on what areas or locations will be getting it here in the Central PA area, but most likely distributors like Breski’s Beverage, West Connection Vault, Weis’s, Giant’s, and Wegman’s will have it.

From the WWE press release on the beer:

The pro wrestling world will be celebrating Austin 3:16 Day on Wednesday of this week.

As seen in the video below, WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin has announced that his Broken Skull American Lager will be released nationwide on 3:16 Day. Austin has worked with the El Segundo Brewing Company for a few years now to release his own line of beers.

WWE will celebrate 3:16 Day on Peacock and the WWE Network with a special edition of The Best of WWE. The episode will be hosted by Stone Cold and will feature his best WWE matches and moments from over the years. Also on Wednesday, WWE’s The Bump will have Kevin Owens as a guest, and he will be there to discuss Austin accepting his invite for The KO Show at WrestleMania 38.

WWE

For more information on the release, you can check out the following news articles:

• Steve Austin and WWE Celebrate 3:16 This Week (Lords of Pain Wrestling News)
• Broken Skull American Lager Pre-Sale (El Segundo Brewing Company)
• Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Lager Goes On Sale Nation Wide on 3:16 (ComicBook.com)
• Stone Cold Steve Austin Has a New Beer Out (Dallas Observer)

WrestleMania Season

It’s WrestleMania Season and the WWE Universe is gearing up for WrestleMania 38, which is looking to be including an appearance (or possibly even a match) with Stone Cold Steve Austin himself. (He hasn’t wrestled a match since losing to The Rock at WrestleMania 19.)

From the Royal Rumble (which by the way, we also did a beer review of a beer called Royal Rumble – by Funk Brewing) til WrestleMania, the time frame is collectively known as “WrestleMania Season”, and WWE is always in pure hype mode during this time (Mid January – Early April).

Steve Austin will be doing a ‘beer’ event in Texas tomorrow on 3:16. For more details on that you can follow WWE and their social media pages, or follow Stone Cold Steve Austin and his social media pages, or follow El Segundo Brewing Company and their social media pages.

This year’s WrestleMania is being held at the AT&T Stadium (Dallas Cowboy’s home stadium) in Dallas, Texas. So this year’s ‘Mania is especially a Texas Sized Event. (And thus the even larger push with Stone Cold Steve Austin.)

You can read about the WrestleMania 38 event and the card for it here: WrestleMania 38 (Wikipedia).

The Battle of the Breweries (2022) – March Madness

As we started last year, March also means ‘March Madness’ and here on The Beer Thrillers we call it ‘The Battle of the Breweries’ and make it WWE themed. Last year we had conferences of HEELs and FACES with divisions of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Ric Flair, and Triple H.

This year, we are doing four big conferences in honor of WrestleMania 38 main events – Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, Ronda Rousey, and Charlotte Flair.

For information on the event and how you can vote, please see our main page: March Madness (2022) – The Battle of The Breweries.

Tonight end’s the second round of voting. You can see the current conferences and vote directly here:

• Brock Lesnar Conference (Round 2)
• Roman Reigns Conference (Round 2)
• Ronda Rousey Conference (Round 2)
• Charlotte Flair Conference (Round 2)

Scott Hall

I would be remiss not to mention the passing of Scott Hall yesterday. A man who fought his demons and was a friend to many, an inspiration to even more, and a joy to watch for many wrestling fans. We would like to offer our condolences to his family and friends, and say “Hey Yo” one last time and let him rest in power.

One of my favorite descriptors for dark beers on the blog here was always “Razor Ramon hair dark black” (or some version of that). I will still use the line occasionally, and will fondly think of all the great memories he has given me and many others.

As Scott Hall said at his Hall of Fame induction speech:

Hard work pays off, dreams do come true. Bad times don’t last, but BAD GUYS do.

Scott Hall

Popular Culture and Beer Collide

As always with these kind of posts, I like to give a shout out to just how much popular culture, nerd culture, and the like intersect with the craft beer community and industry. And the below is all of the various ‘nerdy’ and ‘pop culture’ beer reviews, book reviews, and other news articles we have covered here on the blog:

Star Wars:

• Beer Review: The Pandalorian (Tattered Flag)
• Beer Review: Wookie Monster (Fourscore Beer Co)
• Beer Review: Out of Order: Blue Milk (RAR Brewing)
• Beer Review: Out of Order: Tatooine Tart (RAR Brewing)
• Beer Review: Out of Order: RAWRGWAWGGR (RAR Brewing)
• Beer Review: Out of Order: Droid Juice (RAR Brewing)
• Beer Review: Wookies and Cream (Tall Tales Brewing)
• Revenge of the Fifth / Cinco de Mayo
• May the Fourth Be With You
• Beer Review: This is Nut the Fluff You’re Looking For (Fourscore Beer Co)
• Beer Review: This is the Way (Broken Goblet Brewing)
• Beer Review: This is the Whey (Bolero Snort Brewery)
• Beer Review: Java the Stout (Jackie O’s Brewery)
• Beer Review: The Mangolorian (Brewery Fire)
• Beer Review: BoBull Fett (Bolero Snort Brewery)
• Mead Review: The Meadalorian (Space Time Mead and Cider Works)
• Beer Review: Let the Haze Flow Through You (Black Flag Brewing Co)
• Book Review: The Jedi Path and The Book of the Sith (Daniel Wallace)
• Book Review: Guardians of the Whills (Greg Rucka)

Rick and Morty:

• Beer Review: Peace Among Worlds (Cushwa Brewing Company)

Mario / Super Mario:

• Beer Review: Level Up (Idiom Brewing)

Space Balls:

• Beer Review: Moon of Vega (Equilibrium Brewery)

Game of Thrones:

• Beer Review: Game of Thrones: My Watch Has Ended (Omnegang Brewery)

The Simpsons:

• Beer Review: I Voted for Kodos (Second Sin Brewing Company)
• Beer Review: I Voted for Kang (Second Sin Brewing Company)

Back to the Future:

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

Scrooged:

• Beer Review: Scrooge IPA (Iron Hill Brewing)

Groundhog Day:

• Beer Review: Prognosticator Pils (Logyard Brewing Company)

A Christmas Story:

• Beer Review: The Soft Electric Glow of Sex (RAR Brewing)
• Beer Review: You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out! (Eight and Sand Beer Co)

Pro Wrestling:

• Beer Review: Broken Skull – Stone Cold Steve Austin’s IPA (El Segundo Brewing Company)
• Beer Review: Macho Man (Couch Brewery)
• Beer Review: Royal Rumble (Funk Brewing)
• Stone Cold Steve Austin and WWE Will Be Celebrating 3:16 Day with El Segundo Brewing Company and the Release of His American Lager Nation Wide

Matrix:

• Matrix Monday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

• Beer Review: Terpenes in Time (BAREBottle Brewing Co)

Seinfeld:

• Beer Review: Jon Voight’s Car (RAR Brewing)
• Beer Review: Airing of Grievances (Black Flag Brewing Company)

Paradise Lost:

• Beer Review: Paradise Lost (Southern Prohibition)

Other:

• Beer Review: Super Villain (Urban Village Brewing Company)
• Beer Review: Pixels (Seminar Brewing)
• Beer Review: Villeinage (Elder Pine Brewing and Blending)
• Beer Review: Intergalactic Deals (Levante Brewing)
• Beer Review: Galactic Space Circus (Creature Comforts Brewing Co)

Thanks For Reading

Tomorrow morning will be busy before my 9AM work start. I will be posting the Round 2 results of our March Madness tournament, as well as posting the new voting pages for Round 3. So be on the look out for that 7-8AM.

Hopefully then after work (I get done at 5PM), I will be able to grab a four pack of the new American Lager, and give a review of it. Fingers crossed on all of that getting done nice and smoothly.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and please continue to vote in the tournament! Its been a lot of fun so far!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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Its March 14th, Pi Day, and doom and gloom, national hysteria, societal collapse, is all impending and collecting around the fringes of our collective consciousness. The end is nigh. What do you do? …Simple. Irish Car Bombs at 9AM awaiting Kegs and Eggs.

Now, obviously, this is not a “traditional” Irish Car Bomb. BUT…. it is called Irish Car Bomb (Nitro Stout) and it is better than a Guinness at being the same thing. You could easily do the ‘real’ Irish Car Bomb with this beer, and it’d be better than using a Guinness (also a lot more filling, richer, and probably lead to even more car bombs than the traditional Guinness approach).

For those not in the know, an Irish Car Bomb is a drink / shot. You have a full pint (or for some a half-pint) of Guinness. You then drop a shot of either half and half of Bailey’s and Jameson or straight up Jameson into the pint, and chug all (both pint and shot) as one. Its delicious, its tradition, and its pretty much the only way I do shots anymore unless harassed and harangued into doing some by co-workers when out and about at dive bars with them. (See Tuesday night / Wednesday morning for proof of that.)

But, this could easily replace the Guinness in those shots, and would be much better. Its smoother, tastier, creamier, more delicious, all around better than a Guinness while being pretty much the same thing.

Comparison sake:
Guinness Draught:
Style: Stout – Irish Dry
ABV: 4.2%
IBU: 45
Untappd Description:

Swirling clouds tumble as the storm begins to calm. Settle. Breathe in the moment, then break through the smooth, light head to the bittersweet reward.

Unmistakeably GUINNESS, from the first velvet sip to the last, lingering drop. And every deep-dark satisfying mouthful in between.

Pure beauty. Pure GUINNESS.

Guinness Draught is sold in kegs, widget cans, and bottles. The ABV varies from 4.1 to 4.3%. Guinness Extra Cold is the exact same beer only served through a super cooler at 3.5 °C
Global Untappd Rating: 3.79 (as of 3.16.20)

Rotunda Brewing Company’s Irish Car Bomb Nitro Stout:
Style: Stout – Irish Dry
ABV: 5.5%
IBU: No IBU
Untappd Description: (Blank)
Global Untappd Rating: 4.31 (as of 3.16.20)

So stat wise; you go from a 4.2% to a 5.5% ABV. No mention of IBU in the second so can’t really compare. And also no description, so if your looking for information on the beer going in, your getting a blank. But I can tell you… which one is better. So thats just what I’ll do.

So lets run this beer down and drink up for St. Patty’s Day and for The End of Times. So cheers to the end of all things and for the doom of society!

Beer: Irish Car Bomb (Nitro Stout)
Brewery: Rotunda Brewing Company
Style: Stout – Irish Dry
ABV: 5.5%
IBU: None Listed
Untappd Description: (blank)

First off, you can tell this is creamy. Just look at that picture! Nitro is one of the best things that has ever happened to beer, and this proves why. It provides a wonderful robust creamyness to this already good looking beer. It is dark, Razor Ramon hair black, midnight black, your ex’s soul black. It has a super rich, creamy head to it. The whole appearance of this looks frothy, rich, creamy, decadent. (Don’t worry, it lives up to it.)

Aroma is malty, rich, and creamy. You are going to see the word ‘creamy’ a lot in this review. Maybe I should have led off about that getting people to do a drinking game everytime they see the word creamy in the review. An Irish Car Bomb (shot included) everytime they read the word creamy in this review? ….Ah you poor schmucks would be dead by the end of the review then! Anyway, back to the aroma….. this has a deep malt smell, roasted malt, with vanilla, the nitro brings out that and the deep roasted malts and also highlights the caramel malts a bit as well. All around this smells as delicious as it looks… and it certainly does…. look….. creamy.

Creamy. Creamy. Creamy. Creamy. This. Is. Creamy. Oh… did I mention; that its creamy? You guys still alive out there doing the drinking game? Because if so…. its creamy. Despite its 5.5% ABV, this is a strong, dark, deep, rich, full, and filling beer. Its basically brewed on the same premise as a Guinness draught. To be filling, full, and a damn good stout. The ABV doesn’t matter because the beer itself is so full and rich. And with the nitro, it makes it so creamy, and even more rich and full. This is both a beer you could drink TOO many of and also not be able to drink TOO many of. Depending on time of day, mood, food, stomach, etc. You get the dark, roasted malts, the caramel malts, the roast and darkness of this brew really kick into ultra-drive as you drink it down. The richness from the nitro lending a strong sweetness to it is very nice. It does differ from Guinness where there’s not really a lot of bitterness to this. It might be more malty, and it might be more high ABV, (4.2% to 5.5%) but its certainly a lot sweeter. Not in a bad way, but for a traditional Irish Dry Stout some might prefer some level of bitterness to this, where here its pretty more nonexistent. This is a full, and delicious beer, as it warms you get even more essence out of it, and it just broadens and opens up more, offering the fullness of its vast flavors and ingredients. This is a wonderful beer at 9AM to start your day with breakfast, and even better to be the kick-off lead-in beer before doing a Kegs and Eggs mini-brewfest! (It certainly helped stave off the gloom and doom anyway!)

My Untappd Rating: ****.50
Global Untappd Rating: 4.31 (as of 3.16.20)

Like I said, March 14th (Saturday), was the Kegs and Eggs (2020) brewfest and event at The Batdorf and Rotunda Brewing Company in Annville, Pennsylvania. I am working on the write-up of the event as we speak, and it might get posted tomorrow, or Wednesday. Currently, my job is still open (the only Casino in the state to still be open despite the pandemic going on), so I am still working. I don’t know when I’ll be shut down, if I’ll be shut down, or whats going on. There’s a lot of uncertainty at my job right now, especially since we’re the only ones still open. Ohio Casinos are shut down, Maryland casinos are shut down, the other PA casinos have voluntarily closed…. but we are still open. Financially, health, ethically, there is so much uncertainty at our job right now. Getting to work on the blog is providing a nice escape and stress release for me.

So you can look forward to seeing a Kegs and Eggs (2020) event write-up by myself. I hung out with J. Doncevic, D. Scott, and we caroused our way through sampling from a myriad of breweries in a confined space. Also hanging out with guys from Rotunda Brewing like Kevin, Bryan, and hanging out with Bart from Hop Headz and so many more great people.

I have talked to Karl Larson recently, and he has expressed interest in writing for the blog. So he might start writing soon… or he might not. Either way, no pressure on him. He does have a fantastic Wee Heavy for me to try and review for the blog, that he’s won a National Award for, so I can’t wait for that.

I think I will also be trying to wrap-up my Coronavirus / COVID-19 article. And give ways to help out local breweries. As they are going to be hurting the most from all of this. So please, if you are able to support your small time local breweries (like Boneshire Brew Works, Moo-Duck Brewery, Rotunda Brewing Company, ZeroDay Brewing, etc.), please find ways to help them out where you can. We all need to stick together to get through this.

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Thank you for reading, cheers, and Happy Stone Cold Steve Austin Day!

-B. Kline