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Brewing Magic with Mini Unicorns, Pipeworks Brewing
Grab a glass and settle in as we explore the unconventional path taken by Chicago's own Pipeworks Brewing. In an industry where the taproom reigns supreme, these brewers have flipped the script, opting for an off-premise tasting and shopping extravaganza. We'll navigate the impact of this choice on their brand in the bustling craft beer market, all while keeping the conversation as bubbly as the beers we adore. And to those not yet of legal sip-age, fear not, for there's plenty of frothy knowledge to soak up that requires no ID.
Ever wondered if a unicorn could be your drinking buddy? We'll whisk you away to a place where the line between myth and ale blurs. Our journey with Pipeworks Brewing isn't just about the liquid gold in our glasses; it's a romp through the whimsy of their beer names, the nostalgia-evoking can designs, and a brewery ethos steeped in community and creativity. We'll even detour through the fantastical, from unicorn lore to the unique traditions of Lake Superior State University's unicorn questing. By the end of our chat, you might just believe in the magical connection between storytelling, brewing, and the occasional sparkle.
We wrap up our session with a toast to the quirky and the quaint, from the snowman burning ritual bidding winter adieu to the refreshing burst of Mini Unicorn Pale Ale that chases away our thirst. Pipeworks Brewing demonstrates that the craft beer experience is more than what's poured into a pint glass—it's a tapestry woven with innovation, tradition, and a sprinkle of the extraordinary. So join us on this offbeat expedition through the sudsy realms of craft beer, where every sip tells a story and every story is worth the pour. Cheers to the journey!
All right, well, welcome in folks once again. Folks, because you know we're super hip and old.
Speaker 2:We're hip and old or something folks.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, adults of all ages of drinking age, and I suppose, if you're younger, maybe you're just learning the ropes of a beer for future reference.
Speaker 2:Well, what is drinking age? It depends on the country and for all these listeners out in other countries. Some of them drink at 16, 15 years old.
Speaker 1:If you're in a far off land, a different country like Wisconsin, they let you drink at pretty much any age if your parent says okay.
Speaker 2:They do, and we've tried that before and it didn't go over so well with what we were trying to do.
Speaker 1:Well, fair enough.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:remember, do I remember the Clarks? We were trying to get the Clarks to drink, remember? Yeah, that's right, we couldn't quite get.
Speaker 2:Julian on board, but whatever.
Speaker 1:Well, we'll have to work on that next time. That was so many beers ago I mean years ago.
Speaker 2:That was a lot of beers ago, right Plus years.
Speaker 1:Beers plus years. But yeah, I don't know. I suppose I could say it's not a 21 plus listening viewing event.
Speaker 2:No, we don't have restrictions on it, we're not discriminatory?
Speaker 1:No, no, we're not even 18 plus, I guess to a certain extent.
Speaker 2:You know, I mean.
Speaker 1:I could. No, we're going to keep that zipped up.
Speaker 2:It's fine, you know we'll be all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're not going to get into that. That's going to be on our other page. That's a whole different. Only fans Andy's got an only fans it. There you go Should.
Speaker 2:I get out some ones right now.
Speaker 1:I like it. I like it as long as we're not going to get the twos going on, you're going to make it rain all over your chest. That doesn't sound good, no it sounds kind of you know. So today on the podcast, Back to the beer Pipeworks.
Speaker 2:That doesn't sound good either does it.
Speaker 1:We were not even a couple minutes minutes in and we've already just gone right off the rails here. So welcome into the two guys and beer podcast studio talking about brewing beer and the breweries that do that. That is it. Nothing else, just straight professionalism here in the wonderful studios of two guys in a beer podcast. So glad you could join us for yet another episode. Uh, I don't even know what episode we're on, to be perfectly honest. Uh, 24, 25, it might be less than that, to be honest. You know, I think we're probably maybe 23 ish if this?
Speaker 2:if yeah, if this episode comes out in any specific order, which we don't really do necessarily, this one would be episode 23. There we go, we're moving right along.
Speaker 1:I was kind of close, you were, I was ballparking it. It's a nice ballpark it is, and if you get to the right section of said ballpark you can have what we featured on. One of our other episodes was Beer for Baseball.
Speaker 2:Right, which isn't far from this one that we're going to feature on this episode.
Speaker 1:Exactly that was from Off Color Brewing, which is about I think I looked it up a little bit ago about four and a half miles away from this one. So if you're in the Chicago area or I guess, if you're not, and you're just going through there, or you just have a hankering for some good beer, pipeworks Brewing, pipeworks Brewing, pipeworks Brewing out of Chicago, illinois, is our deed today. That's what we're going to be drinking and talking about a little bit. They are 3912 West McLean Avenue in Chicago. One unique thing I will say about this go ahead and stop by there.
Speaker 1:Go ahead and get yourself some Pipeworks Brewing, but first and foremost, they don't have a taproom man. There's not a lot of places that do that. But first and foremost, they don't have a tap room man. There's not a lot of places that do that. But they just distribute. They do sell on site. Essentially, it's kind of like their own personal liquor store. You go in there, you can taste some of the beers they have the beers available for tasting and then you just buy like a four-pack similar to the one that we have today. You know, and every beer that they sell is for off premise. They do not do an on-prem type of situation at all.
Speaker 2:It's definitely a little different than what your typical craft brewery or small brewery is. I'm not quite sure how big this brewery is, but that's definitely a different way of going about it. For sure it's going there, maybe take a and then you got to buy what you want to buy and you're out of there.
Speaker 1:And if you can get yourself built up enough, in a way you kind of save a little bit on the infrastructure. You don't have to have the tap room and the staff to be able to do that. And you know not that glassware is super expensive, but you know glassware and washing and there's a lot of steps involved in doing that Different licensees, I'm sure, and you know, like your experience with owning a bar, you're required to serve food.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know what Chicago's regulations are, but maybe breweries are required to have some sort of food or something there. You know, you save all that overhead on all those sorts of things.
Speaker 1:And if you're going to have something like this I mean I'm not making a comparison because obviously size is much different but you don't see like a Coors Light or Miller Light having a tap room. I think maybe you might be able to taste some some of them in Milwaukee, I guess I'm not 100% sure but you don't see that like they're not a microbrewery kind of deal, you know, it's more of a. They're already well known and established. You can get it at any liquor store anywhere. They don't feel the need to have just the Coors Light Ballroom or something like that right.
Speaker 2:I wonder if Miller has a tap room. We took that tour out there at one time did and I remember at the end we got to sample at the end, but I think I don't think you can go there to drink. I think it's after the tour. You drank part of the tour you can hang out for a minute and drink a few different, few different of their offerings. But I don't think you can go there to drink. I could be wrong. That was again many beers ago, many years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if we have to do it again, we'll put it on the road trip map. Don't twist my arm, exactly. So, yeah, so Pipeworks is what we're talking about today. Some of the other things that they do a little bit uniquely to a certain extent. They also they distribute, but they self distribute. I mean they will to like other states, they will like go through like a distributor and do that, but otherwise generally they just have a group of people that they like All right, well, we got this keg and Manny's down the road needs a new keg of Ninja versus Unicorn or whatever it is that they have Put it in your van and bring it down there Interesting. So they do that, you know, which is good, you know, if you have the ability to do that and the people to do that. But usually I'm sure that there's some sort of something involved. But that's another thing about, like breweries, that typically if they want to sell, especially in the state of Minnesota, they have to go through a distributor, right, it's like a distributor Right, it's like a requirement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's they. They can sometimes like bring it there directly, but they still like invoicing still has to go through because the distributor has to get their cut of the body you know which sometimes actually ends up making.
Speaker 1:That's that's part of honestly, that's that's what I've heard in the past is why a lot of liquor stores don't carry kegs really anymore. It used to be where you could go like, all right, well, we're going to have just a rager at the old farm and we're going to just post up a keg in the wash tub with a bunch of ice and $85 or $100, and maybe another $20 for the tap handle or something like that, and we're just going to have a little kegger on our own a little bit. And now you go there and it's like almost $200 to be able to do something like that. Well, what had happened was they were selling the keg to the liquor stores at minimal cost whatever. It was $30 or something like that, based on what they got from the actual brewery and the liquor store was then selling it for like a hundred bucks or something to be able to make their money on it. Because it takes up some space.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you know this or not, but kegs are a little bit big. They're a little bit bulky to move around. They're kind of a pain in the ass to deal with, so they were charging a little bit more for it. Well then, distributors like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you 50 bucks on this, we're going to make it, we're going to. So now they're selling it to them for $95 and then naturally they had to kind of adjust up beyond there. Well now, even for bars, the cost of kegs has to be the same. They can't just change it for a liquor store. And so now a keg of Coors Light is $70, $80 because that's just moved up across the board. So instead of being able to get that's part of why beer prices have expanded, even for cheap beer, I guess the light beers that don't cost hardly much to make, the distributors are getting the money.
Speaker 1:Beer greed, man, beer greed. It's terrible. That's why you got to stay small. Stay local. Drink local. Was that up? Yep, drink local, there we go. And it makes you end Local, was that up? Yep? Drink Local, there we go.
Speaker 2:Perfect, had to make sure I ended up right there.
Speaker 1:Play some pipe with Pipeworks. So Pipeworks established Chicago in 2012. 2012 is what it is, as I mentioned, four and a half miles away from Off Color Brewing. We did that one, that one. It was so much fun. I really like it.
Speaker 2:We got to go check out both.
Speaker 1:Of these really. I feel like I have had Pipeworks once upon a time in my life the Ninja versus Unicorn. They always got fun names for all their beers.
Speaker 2:They have a lot of interesting names, and it's quite the list too.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you have it pulled up there or if you looked at it. But they have a long list of beer Trying to look through it a little bit, but I haven't seen all of them just yet but the ones that I mean. The Unicorn is what we're doing today, which is a single IPA. The Ninja versus Unicorn is a double IPA and I'm always in for a diaper, maybe even a tripod, although that gets a little bit heavy, a little bit aggressive sometimes, but nonetheless, the Mini Unicorn is what we have IPA. You know the Mini Unicorn is what we have IPA standard, regular, normal size. Well, tall boy, but he was a tall boy. You know the regular IPA. Today. That's what we're doing. But Pipeworks has mentioned 2012, by friends that shared a dream of crafting quality and creative beers.
Speaker 1:Well, they definitely have creative in there with a name like Mini Unicorn, that's for sure they say that they've garnered accolades for the distinctive beers and the original artworks, which, if you see the artworks, I encourage you to go online and look it up. Look at their instagram, facebook, their social media. A lot of these, uh, the wraps that they have are quite fantastic and they are interesting.
Speaker 2:I'll describe everybody here the Mini Unicorn. When I first brought up to Andrew and we were talking about this, if you look at the can those of you that are watching you can see the can, those of you that are listening it reminds me of a Trapper Keeper from the mid-'90s. The hot pinks, the hot blues, fluorescent green, fluorescent blue, fluorescent yellow that's the color of the can, those 90s hot pink, fluorescent color cans. It's a silver can with the major colors blue, but the unicorns are all different colors fruit stripe gum, if you will. There y'all, yep, that's no, that's kind of what the can looks like. So the artwork on the can is pretty cool and, to be honest with you, that's what drew me to this four pack when I bought it. When I was browsing the liquor store, I saw the can and I'm like, oh, wow, I'm going to take a look at that. So here we are, right here in the Two Guys and Beer studio, just because of the color.
Speaker 1:Love it, absolutely love it. They do have on their website, if you go to their website I think we talked a little bit about that through the areas of Chicago, milwaukee and Chicagoland area, but otherwise they do have a whole list of different distributors that they go through. They don't have a specific map as far as what bars have it, because when you go through the distributor it kind of makes it a little bit goofy there. But they do have a list there of the states that they go to and Minnesota. They go through Clear River Beverage, which is not one that I'm familiar with personally, but that's fine. I don't own a bar anymore so I don't have to worry about things like that so much anymore.
Speaker 1:But they do distribute what appears to be between 15 and 20 states, so they do have a pretty good reach all the way out to Utah, alabama, colorado, so it's not just Indiana and Illinois. They do actually have a pretty good reach out beyond that. So kind of an interesting, fun little deal. As you mentioned before, they do not have a tap room. They have the to-go shop called the Dojo. All beers are for off-premises Wednesday through Friday noon to 7, saturday 11 to 5.
Speaker 2:Perfect. I wonder if that cuts down on your bar insurance, because you're not really insuring that whole aspect.
Speaker 1:If you're not selling on sale. You don't have to have that type of. At least I wouldn't think. Maybe it's different in Indiana or Chicago. Just come, pick up your beer and get to have that type of. At least I wouldn't think.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe it's different in Indiana or Chicago. But yeah, just come pick up your beer and get the hell out. Basically, yeah, then it's just like a liquor store essentially, you know you're just doing an off sale.
Speaker 1:Yep, let's see here. They do self-distribution for new releases on Mondays they have an email if you have a bar, restaurant, store, something you're looking to be able to get into, they have just a sales at pipeworksbrewingcom. So it's not super complicated, just an easy way to get that in there and be able to bring it in there. They do say that it might take a little bit, but they have a small but talented team. So passionate people doing beer. That's what we like to hear. That's the way it goes. They do not give tours as of yet, but they do try to get as much information out there. As I mentioned, they have the Facebook, they got the Instagram. They do have a lot of places to be able to kind of see what they're doing there. They do not ship beer as well. Technically, I don't think you're really supposed to do that, even though people do, generally through the mail.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know that's. You know Neither here or there. Know that's, you know Neither here or there. Yeah, that's a whole different thing, but they do sometimes. Potentially you can email them if you have questions about potentially being involved in a fundraiser. So maybe they would donate some beer for a fundraiser. I would like to have a fundraiser for my thirst.
Speaker 2:That is a great fundraiser. That is fantastic.
Speaker 1:It was a great fundraiser. That is fantastic. So, yeah, that's a lot of the info that they have out there on their site. At least Try to look at some of the other information they have online, but it's kind of a little bit of a different deal, so we should probably have some of this.
Speaker 2:I've been talking for about 10 minutes here.
Speaker 1:We haven't even gotten to the best part of the episode.
Speaker 2:We should probably get into it and try it out. Absolutely, we should get a hold of them and see if they would want to be on the show. We say this every time, but this is a completely different type of thing Having not having a tap room and stuff just buy it and go. So it'd be interesting to hear their story, why they chose to do that and how that all came about See kind of what the mindset is and what the thought process, absolutely.
Speaker 2:But in the meantime, shall we, we probably shall we should try some mini unicorn.
Speaker 1:Thank you, sir. Oh, you bet it does have. It's almost like all the stickers that you would get on the old, like the books Scratch and sniff, yeah, like all sorts of things like that. I'm not going to try that just yet.
Speaker 2:You don't want to scratch and sniff?
Speaker 1:Nope yeah it's an India pale ale, citra, simcoe Mosaic and Amarillo hops 5%, here we go, all right, here we are. Oh yeah, I love it Every time. Love it. Oh yeah, oh, I love it Every time. Love it. Yeah, it's a fun. Can you know? Stuff all over the place. I mean, it looks like just like it's a very fun can.
Speaker 1:Like you get that sticker book for your kids and they put it all over the dang place and whatever. Yeah, now I don't have kids, you know. But I've heard, I've heard tell, you know, my dogs don't put a whole lot of stickers all over, so all right.
Speaker 2:First, uh, first steps here um, it's definitely fruity, yep it's citrusy.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say it's real heavy on hops but it's like you get a fair amount, like I feel like I get a fair amount like right away, but then it kind of drifts off into like kind of the fruity tastes after that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do get the bitterness right away, for sure it does get to the fruity tastes after that, yeah, you do get the bitterness right away, for sure it does get to the fruity taste, the citrusy, almost kind of like a grapefruit taste.
Speaker 1:Maybe there at the end kind of smooths it out I guess in a way it's kind of dry, I think it's kind of a dry but light, light body type, and then the finish is maybe somewhat bitter, but more, more citrusy, I think, at the finish I think that, uh, the lawnmower scale, maybe one while doing it, maybe one afterwards, but I don't know that I'd have like a six pack of them or anything throughout the coast of the afternoon. I mean it's very good. I don't want to say it's not good, it is very good. But just from the way that it tastes it, you know it, it's got some heaviness to it a little bit. It's got some hops to it. It's got some good flavor to it. Yeah, it definitely has some.
Speaker 2:It does have good flavor. I don't know if I would drink a lot of this mowing lawn, but this is not my style for that type of drinking. But for a pale ale it's super light. You know, I think of a pale ale is typically more hoppy than this. One is more of a darker beer, more of a heavy beer. This one's kind of like a light, crisp citrus pale ale essentially. So you could pound for if this is your style of beer.
Speaker 1:Yep, you know, absolutely, absolutely yeah, yeah, and I guess that's kind of why I say I could probably do one or two instead of just one. You get like a dragon smell because I'm not even mowing on when I'm going to have one of those. That's just going to be that, that's going to be the end of it. But, yeah, this is something you could definitely have a couple.
Speaker 2:This is definitely different how it's got the hops to the citrus and the fruity. I think that's really cool about this beer. Actually Like the beginning, middle and end of your taste, it really changes from one, two and three. It's almost like yeah.
Speaker 1:You can feel where it goes through because, like I said, mentally I was going to say, well, it's definitely an IPA, but by the time I swallowed it and was going to start talking, it's completely different. I was like, oh well, it's not quite, uh it's almost like that candy licor made.
Speaker 2:You know, you have those white chalky candy sticks and you dip it in the powder. You eat it. Well, they had the different did you ever the flavor? I just no, you just eat the stick. Yeah, the stick is better than a powder, but they had the, the flavor changing powder, powder if you remember.
Speaker 2:You'd put it on your tongue it would taste great, but by the time you swallowed it it was cherry. This beer reminds me of that a lot. It starts with a bitter hoppiness, but not very bitter, kind of a light bitter, and then it gets sweet and grapefruity at the end. I can see that yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like it, I, I like it. You know, it does have that transition, is a very interesting transition and I mean it gets into like how you brew it and what you're using, obviously. But it is kind of interesting to have that kind of different change within the same sip. You know, sometimes it's the first, you know, third, of the bureau tastes a certain way, but then your mouth feel kind of changes a little bit. But this one is just right from sip one is like bam, but then settles in right away. So it's, yeah, it's very interesting, I like it. Pipeworks hats off to you. Maybe I'll come to the dojo and you know, or go to a liquor store here, but it'd be fun to go down there, you know, like you know. Or go to a liquor store here, but it'd be fun to go down there, you know. Like you said, try to connect with them, see if we can't kind of get their mindset on that Any road trips worth it in the spirit of the man.
Speaker 2:If we're going to Chicago tomorrow to dojo it up at Pipeworks, then I guess we're going to Chicago tomorrow. You know, we got to do what we got to do. Really, we actually have to work tomorrow, but I don't know next weekend, the weekend after, but you're gone, yeah that's true, we can figure something out, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll figure it out. Absolutely I'll skip baseball or something I don't know. Sorry guys can't be there. I've got to go.
Speaker 2:I'm going to a brewery in Chicago.
Speaker 1:It's like oh, what are you doing in Chicago? Going to the brewery.
Speaker 2:I just told you I'm going to the brewery, going to lay pipe. That doesn't sound too good either, but no. Well, mini unicorn, that's quite the interesting name. I'd sure like to know how I came up with that name. Unicorn beer I don't typically associate like a unicorn with beer or the colors of the can. I wonder if they're trying to attract a younger audience with the colors. Maybe Could be the underage variety.
Speaker 1:It's working for me because I'm quite young.
Speaker 2:Well, it keeps you staring at the can. You are getting young, Andy. You are becoming young. I think you're regressing. You hit your peak Now. You're going back down.
Speaker 1:Next year 38, 37. Right, that's just my height at this point.
Speaker 2:that's all that's going south right now, shrinking down yeah, I would like to know why they come up with the unicorn name. That's half the fun of some of these micro breweries and small breweries, it's just the different names that they come up with.
Speaker 1:It's pretty cool yeah, absolutely, and I'm sure that they probably have an. It's pretty cool. Yeah, absolutely, and I'm sure that they probably have an idea of you know where they're coming up with the ideas or why, or whatever, but that's something you know. Like you said, we'll have to try to see if we can get them on the podcast, be able to talk about it a little bit and see you know what they have to say about it, where their inspiration comes from.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would be interesting. Well, I got a few things about unicorns. I actually had to do some research about this because I thought it would be interesting to find some facts or tales, or whatever you want to call them, about unicorns. There we go.
Speaker 1:I like it.
Speaker 2:I don't know anything about unicorns. I know I think I've seen them on TV. They're like a narwhal horse exactly a narwhal, which of course would be a whale but they got the horn.
Speaker 1:You know, it's kind of the same, you know which actually a lot of things.
Speaker 2:When I was reading about unicorns on the internet to present, share with all of you a lot of like the the old writings of them, people thought they would see a narwhal or a rhinoceros or something. They would equate that with unicorns and their descriptions of them. I didn't bring any of those interesting tidbits with me, but that you brought up narwhal a lot of the old bc medieval type times, kings and queens. That's what they would equate with unicorns is those particular animals and norwal and rhinoceros and things like anything with one horn interesting and since we're talking about medieval, we'll continue on with that.
Speaker 2:So one of the big myths and uh things about unicorns it's widely believed is the horns had magical powers. Not necessarily that they're magical powers, but they would cure things like disease and poison and this and that. So if you were full of disease, andy, I'd stick you with my horn and you would be cured, and you would be cured.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm glad that. I'm glad that I'm healthy, I'm glad.
Speaker 2:I'm doing okay. Well, we're laying pipe in Chicago. I'm sticking Andy with my horn. He is becoming disease free. I think it's the other way around. I think you get disease.
Speaker 1:I was going to say.
Speaker 2:I don't think that that's usually how that works. So but for unicorn purposes back in medieval times and even the unicorn lore, if you stuck somebody with a unicorn horn it would cure disease, rid your body of poisons, and things like that. So King James back in those times I don't know which one, 1, 2, or 3, 10, 20, I don't know One of the King Jameses once poisoned one of his servants just to see if the horn that he was given was an authentic unicorn horn.
Speaker 1:I'm guessing it wasn't.
Speaker 2:It was not. Oh man. The servant died, and then King James found out his horn was not an authentic it's a good thing he found out before he, you know, did something serious unicorn horn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like taking somebody's life I wonder what the first clue was. Was it made out of wood?
Speaker 2:who knows? It was probably a norwalk horse, oh there it could have been yep so that's, that was kind of interesting. Like, oh okay, we're just gonna poison people and stick them with horns and see if they survive.
Speaker 1:You know, people have done a lot of weird things for a lot of weird reasons over the course of uh of over the course of time yes, they sure have, especially back then, a Pegasi.
Speaker 2:That's a unicorn with wings. You know the horses that supposedly fly around, there we go. Hey, that movie, the NeverEnding Story. Was there a unicorn in that, that white? Horse I think that there was.
Speaker 1:That white horse, the one way to bring up trauma there, the white horse that gets you know like sucked in the mud, yeah, was not a unicorn.
Speaker 2:Okay, nope. And horse that gets you know like sucked in the mud Was not a unicorn? Okay, nope. And who was the damn dragon that flew around Falcor, falcor?
Speaker 1:The luck dragon, right right, falcor the luck dragon, which I have some sunglasses that are. It's called the. They're Gooders, so Gooders if you've ever had Gooders they're kind of nice sunglasses and they're like 30 bucks a piece and so you know they're fine, but they all have like interesting, crazy names to it or whatever. So it's a pair of blue sunglasses that are Falcor's fever dreams, and so I got those and everybody I'm like, oh, look at it, cool name. And they're like the hell's Falcor, what I'm like. How do you not know the luck?
Speaker 2:dragon.
Speaker 1:What, what.
Speaker 2:He was a friendly fella.
Speaker 1:I have to explain it to them, like, oh, I didn't realize he had a name. You've got to be kidding me right now. Come on, of course he had a name. Yeah, his name is Falcor.
Speaker 2:Right, oh, so there's no Pegasi in that movie. I thought there was a unicorn in that movie. I remember the white horse getting stuck in the mud, but apparently it wasn't a unicorn.
Speaker 1:I don't think it was a unicorn. It didn't even have wings, did it? I could try to research, no, I haven't watched that one. It definitely did not have wings, all right, but I don't think that it was a unicorn. I think it was just his trusty steed.
Speaker 2:Sure, it wasn't so trusty in the mud, nope. So we know what a Pegasus is A horse, but it's not a unicorn so no horn, pegasus, just wings. I think they're on a lot of things. Pegasus, yep, a baby unicorn, it's called sparkle is that kind of like a mini unicorn?
Speaker 1:am I drinking a sparkle? Is that what's happening right now? Is that what you're trying to tell me?
Speaker 2:you could be drinking a sparkle. A mini unicorn could be considered a baby. Fair enough. I mean it could be you never know it's kind of confusing.
Speaker 1:Either that or we're just judging Because they have mini horses. I know that those are real and exist. They do have mini horses. They do. I think we both know some people that deal with those At least I do, maybe you do, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Know, we'll figure that out later, I don't know. Carry on. So we're drinking the sparkle here. Well, a group of unicorns is called a blessing. Obviously it is right. You mean, you just see those prancing around all over the place. You know they're park in montana, that I can't think of the name right now.
Speaker 1:Blessing Montana Right.
Speaker 2:Blessings of them all over the place, blessings of unicorns so like a group or a gathering of baby unicorns.
Speaker 1:Would that be a sparkle blessing or a blessing sparkle?
Speaker 2:I like blessing, sparkle, blessing of sparkles.
Speaker 1:Can you bless a sparkle? Well, if you have, enough of them.
Speaker 2:I don't like sparkles a whole lot. Sparkles remind me of glitter, and glitter gets all over everything.
Speaker 1:That's true. It just gets on your face. It's like that song from Pink. Have you ever thrown a fistful of glitter in the air? No, because I have to clean that up later. It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 2:It's so bad, what else? So, according to a legend, a unicorn holds power of defiant truth and will pierce a liar's heart with its horn. So it's another power of this unicorn horn.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's another thing that probably was tested in medieval times, but it was probably kind of like witch trials, you know, like stab him in the heart and he dies. He's like well.
Speaker 2:I guess. But it was probably kind of like witch trials, you know, like stab him in the heart and he dies. He's like, well, I guess he was telling the truth and see what happens. I'm thinking we need a few of these, uh, divine unicorns in washington dc. We would nail them liars, real fucking quick. They'd probably melt before they got there right, there would be nothing left. Yeah, then I can take over and rule with an iron fist.
Speaker 1:There you go go there, you go, I like it. So let me ask you something what is more realistic here? Because there's real animals and fake animals. You talk about different animals, like even a rhinoceros. It really seems like that should actually be just a dinosaur that shouldn't even really be around, to be honest. But you look at a giraffe. That's a real thing. That's a goofy looking thing. They're big and tall, but yet a unicorn doesn't actually exist.
Speaker 1:Like what's more believable and I'm kind of stealing from the internet a little bit here so like whatever Reddit or Facebook post or whatever's out there or whatever. But what's more believable? A horse with a horn? Or a leopard, moose, camel with a 40 foot neck? I mean, come on, let's be, we're getting to the hard truths here tonight, folks. That's like it. Just that's a super hard. If you were to try to describe a giraffe to somebody that hadn't seen one, would they think that that's like a believable thing? So here's this gigantic thing. It's a 40 foot neck. It looks kind of like a leopard slower now. Actually, I think they're kind of fast.
Speaker 1:They are pretty fast but that's because they got legs that are like 35 feet long.
Speaker 2:They have a really good kick too, yeah, so but it just doesn't seem.
Speaker 1:You know they can't they to drink water. They gotta like work their way down because they can't really bend the neck.
Speaker 2:No, that is true. Yeah, I've seen that before on like a nature show or something, at some point in time when I watched one. Yeah, that they do. They put their feet out pretty far wide and get down, yeah but yeah, unicorns not a thing.
Speaker 1:Well, they're not. I don't know, maybe we're just thing. Well, I don't know, maybe we're just being told that lie, I don't know, maybe they are being held in some government warehouse or something.
Speaker 2:Well, I got a little tidbit for you. They're in the Australian outback. We'll talk a little bit about hunting unicorns. Oh, I got some good information on that. The plot thing you can get licensed to hunt unicorns and everything. I almost thought about trying that today, but I just ran out of time. You're going to get licensed for it.
Speaker 2:I was going to get licensed. We'll talk about that in a little bit. But did you know Asian acorns? They gallop so smoothly maybe like this giraffe you're talking about that they don't even crush a blade of grass. That's the Asian ones. That's the Asian unicorns.
Speaker 1:That's why you can't track their hoof prints.
Speaker 2:You cannot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they don't leave prints.
Speaker 2:They do not. You don't know. If they have hooves, they'd be great, that's true.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they may have paddles or something, no idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't even know, it's all lore. Yeah, paddles or something, it's all lore. The national animal of Scotland, great country of Scotland, great Scott, a unicorn, that is their national animal.
Speaker 1:It's got to be somebody's. It's got to be somebody's.
Speaker 2:Oh, alright, so here we go. I've got to get my notes here, my bullet points, so I don't forget stuff. But hunting unicorns you ever thought about even hunting a unicorn?
Speaker 1:Mm-mm, I have not. Nope, that has not crossed my mind.
Speaker 2:It never came about, nope.
Speaker 1:Nope, it has not been.
Speaker 2:As you drink in a sparkle. Yeah, I mean somebody else did that, so it's fine well, to be honest, I guess I never thought about uh hunting a unicorn either, but I bet you have no idea where to begin is that where?
Speaker 1:why is mini unicorn? Because they popped the horn off and just poured it out. That's why there's so many horses. They just that's. They're taking the horns off when they're young. So they they stripped them of their being and they had to squeeze it out like an orange into this, ferment it for a little while, and now we have Mediunicorn Sparkle IPA. That is a good theory. We've talked about this before that when you get a good, solid beer or two in, that's when the best ideas start flowing for us the myths and the legends and the lore just come up.
Speaker 2:Well, where would you look for a unicorn if you're in an enchanted forest?
Speaker 1:There aren't a lot of those around here. No, no, minnesota doesn't have a lot of those yeah, they have a lot of forests.
Speaker 2:I don't know if they're enchanted.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if they're enchanted. Yeah, I don't know where you would find that. I feel like it'd be in the hills of Austria or something.
Speaker 2:It might be prettier over there there's a mountain backdrop Right Could be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I feel like it'd be somewhere there. I don't feel like it'd be in the Midwest. Well, go to the Cenex in Ames, Iowa Looking.
Speaker 2:Well, Go to the Cenex in Ames.
Speaker 1:Iowa Looking for an enchanted forest. You got one.
Speaker 2:I'm willing to drive a little bit.
Speaker 1:Looking to hunt some unicorns. Maybe a mini unicorn or two Before I take off, though. Have you seen Sasquatch.
Speaker 2:lately, which actually is funny, you bring that up Going Squatchy Because another beer that I have in my fridge for another podcast has got a Sasquatch on it.
Speaker 1:Oh, here we go.
Speaker 2:And that's got out of Washington, the state of Washington. So that'll be on a future episode at some point.
Speaker 1:There we go, part of the national tour. Right, I picked it up.
Speaker 2:When I saw the unicorn, I thought what goes better with a unicorn than a Sasquatch. Right For lore, love it, lore love it. Mythology, whatever you want to call it. Well, if you're not looking in an enchanted forest or somewhere on earth that you have to be looking. Well, what do you need when you hunt? You have to have a license.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true, because the government wants their money.
Speaker 2:You don't want to otherwise they're poaching yeah, you don't want to do that with unicorns. They're majestic, I don't even know what unicorn season is.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's in the fall it's pretty much all year oh yeah, yeah fair.
Speaker 2:I suppose you can find one right, and that's part of the problem, but you can only bag one unicorn a month, according to the rules of hunting unicorns sounds legit and it has to be a male.
Speaker 1:You can't bag females, because females have yet to be found apparently I you can't bag females because females have yet to be found. I can't generally bag females anyway, so that's the math that's up there.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think your wife would like that. I don't fuck with a lot, but I'll poke you with my horn if you need an adventure.
Speaker 1:I don't think that that's the line that you should go with.
Speaker 2:I'm here for you. I'm here as a buddy, pipeworks, mini unicorn.
Speaker 1:Great bear.
Speaker 2:So you need a license to hunt stuff because you know the government likes to steal our money. Take our taxes, taxes eight times. Take more money. Well, lake Superior State University in Salt St Marie in Michigan I was going to say I feel like that's in Duluth Well Lake Superior is over there.
Speaker 2:That that's true, it's a big lake. I was kind of half right. But they will issue you a quest permit to go hunt unicorns. They don't call them hunting unicorns anymore because we don't want to call it that, so now it's called questing a quest for you. So you go on a quest. Who doesn't want to go on? A grand quest, but they'll grant you a unicorn quest permit, and thus your adventure begins I'm going on an adventure, so this is instructor at this college that came up with this.
Speaker 2:His name was is bill rabe. He had a couple other english professors with him there that founded this whole ordeal the department of natural unicorns, of the unicorn hunters, now called the unicorn questers. This was actually founded in a college lake superior state university in salt saint marie. Around the early 1970s is when this whole thing kicked off.
Speaker 1:So I'm all for, especially from like. I feel like educational locations, colleges, universities, things of that, like throwing a little bit of extra money at certain things, Cause you can create like a little division of whatever to like we're going to look at something that people haven't researched ever and now we have come up with. You're probably throwing away a lot of the money, but at the same time you come up with like oh, we have now cured polio or something. I don't know if that was a thing for there, but you know what I'm saying. Like you, you research development and you know things like that. Instead of doing like big business, you do it educational, wise, like maybe it's a little cheaper or something, I don't know, but I like the idea of that. But when you start drifting off, into mythological animals At a university.
Speaker 1:That's when you start. I mean, even from that standpoint, I guess to a certain extent you can get like a degree in Roman or not Roman mythology, greek mythologyreek mythology. Sure you know what I mean. It's mythol mythology, mythology, mythology. So it's mythological, not real, right, greek gods. So in theory, I guess you know it's kind of the same kind of bit.
Speaker 2:So well, I guess, if you're interested in that stuff, if you want to spend 20 grand a year learning it, I mean, that's really.
Speaker 1:That's really what it is. You know the fine arts degrees, you know a lot of them don't tend to go a lot, a lot of places right, except for if you get to be really good at it, then you end up being a professor and you make a lot of money, you sure do. That's really the true trick that people have been able to pull off it sure is probably just like well, this unicorn organization that they founded.
Speaker 2:the organization does make it clear that they don't condone violence or killing of the unicorns because they are mythical beasts, so they don't condone it. But they founded an organization to do that quest.
Speaker 1:I don't know to do that quest, I don't know kind of a. So they, do they have conservation efforts or a repopulation? Do they have ways to preserve?
Speaker 2:not that I'm aware of nothing I could read on their website. If you go to the this college's website, you can find all the information on it there. There's rules, there's words. You can say. Words's words you can say. Words you can't say.
Speaker 1:Words you can't say Yep, I mean, I'm always in for words. You can't say they're banned.
Speaker 2:the unicorn hunting words they change every year.
Speaker 1:I didn't have any of them here Wait. You can't say them while you're hunting, or you can't say them generally and get a license. While you're questing, while you're questing.
Speaker 2:Oh, questing, that's right, we're not hunting unicorns, we're questing unicorns. They do advise that all the questers bring a pair of pinking shears and a flask of cognac. You might need a few flasks of cognac if you're going to go around, that's true I'm not really sure what pinking shears are, but uh, cognac I'm familiar with.
Speaker 1:I know that surprises you really this.
Speaker 2:Just two guys, a beer podcast have learned well, like I said earlier, they've been been giving permits since the early 70s. But the license, though, when you get a license to go quest for unicorns, they don't actually allow you the use of any weapons, except for rubber-tipped arrows during October's annual Bow and Arrow Week. So no weapons, no violence. I don't know how you're supposed to bag these, your one male unicorn, a but you wrestle them down, you stab them with their own horn.
Speaker 1:Which would that?
Speaker 2:even work, because that would heal them. How would you like turn their? You'd snap their neck. When you do that, can they bring themselves back to life well, if you stab them with a horn, that's restorative but if they're dead, does their horn have power?
Speaker 1:that's a great point. We're going to have to research this.
Speaker 2:I wonder if the Unicorn Society of America what's real interesting is, originally the licenses had to be physically mailed to the applicants, which is interesting enough. The guy, the bill, the guy that founded this with those English professors he used his kids during summer vacation to stuff them send out these licenses.
Speaker 1:Dad, what are? We doing Making money son Making money. Fooling silly Americans.
Speaker 2:So one of his sons, I think, if I remember correctly his son's name was James he said every time his dad was in any sort of media the newspaper, a local television, local radio or something they would get hundreds of requests a week to get these unicorn licenses sent out. So those kids that were spending summer break in school stuffing envelopes full of unicorn licenses.
Speaker 1:So it's bad enough that now you're like spending your summer break stuffing envelopes. You're like spending your summer break stuffing envelopes, but can you imagine being the kid of the guy that's like this is what his thing is like? You now have to get on the bus like, trust me, I've ridden a bus in my day. I'm guessing you've ridden a bus or two in your day as a wee lad. And the brutal, the brutality that can happen from some of the kids that and I know that you know we can get into the whole like bullying and all of the stuff. Now you know that. You know like when we were younger, you know it was just oh, they're just teasing you and whatever I get it, I don't need all the hate mail. I understand, I totally understand. It was called some pretty brutal things. We'll talk about that on another podcast. But if your dad is the unicorn guy, what'd you do this summer?
Speaker 2:I stuffed unicorn license letters and nailed them around the world.
Speaker 1:Do you just? Did you now overcorrect so far that the bullies just don't have to like just go sit over there? They don't even know what to do. Give me your lunch, or something I don't even know to do. Give me your lunch, or something I don't even know. Like it's, I feel like you would just have nowhere to go with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. That's crazy. That would be an interesting childhood growing up. But luckily they don't have to mail them to you in the mail anymore. You can just simply go to the website and print off the PDF Convenient.
Speaker 1:How convenient. Print off the PDF file Convenient. How convenient. I don't want to have to try to wait seven to ten days for the postal service to bring me. If I got one trotting along my street out here, right, I mean Boom.
Speaker 2:Download the PDF. Fill out your information. You're good to go Nearby.
Speaker 1:here there is a rainbow street.
Speaker 2:Oh, it matches the can.
Speaker 1:Maybe this can be used as bait. This might be, you know when you start talking about mythological areas and enchanted forests. Maybe I was wrong to think that the Midwest didn't have that. Maybe, Maybe we just didn't see it with our own mortal eyes. That's what's happening here, this unicorn, dust or the sprinkles have opened my mind's eye.
Speaker 2:And the blessings. There could be a blessing on Rainbow Street Exactly. We might need a couple four-packs for the blessing. Throw it out there. So when you fill out your form, your PDF form you can download at your convenience on your PC.
Speaker 1:Which is super convenient really.
Speaker 2:Your smartphone. You sign your name on it. You email a copy of that with your photo of yourself holding the license to marketing at issuedu.
Speaker 1:So a picture of yourself holding a license like proof of life?
Speaker 2:Well, they like to use your photo on their social media.
Speaker 1:I'm sure that you do I feel like this is you're just setting yourself up for ransomware. That's what's happening right now. That's it like five years from now.
Speaker 2:So so you can do this and you'll be posted on their social media for you. Unicorn hunting don't tell my boss I might be doing this tomorrow at work and when you email on that, that basically is just giving you, like your release, permission to be posted on their social, their social media, essentially do you get like some sort of certificate because I might just do this and then like hang it on the outside of my office? There is a certificate.
Speaker 1:There we go, it's all coming together.
Speaker 2:In fact, Google up there on the computer, Lake Superior State University, and you will find the permit that you can fill out. It's actually pretty enchanting if you look at it, enchanting it is. Maybe we ought to get our own permits so we can hold it up on the next episode and be like we're certified unicorn hunters. Who else in the state of Minnesota is a certified unicorn hunter?
Speaker 1:What other podcast, ladies and gentlemen, will tell you how to be able to get yourself a permit to quest a unicorn?
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You haven't pulled it up yet. I got the unicorn questing regulations.
Speaker 2:Is it not enchanted? Right there, it's the.
Speaker 1:Department of Natural Unicorns, of the Unicorn Hunters at Lake Superior State University.
Speaker 2:They enforce the following edicts yeah, there's lots of rules there.
Speaker 1:Questing kit bag limits questing hours, day or night, except when the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus are around. There might be only so much magic available at one time Right?
Speaker 2:yeah, you can't hunt during those times. Questing runs all season, except for those exceptions.
Speaker 1:Questing season all days of the year except for Valentine's Day. Questing season all days of the year except for Valentine's Day. No unicorn can be pursued during the 24 consecutive hours of love.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I mean, it all makes sense.
Speaker 2:It sure does. I mean, once you have your completed application, you're free to chase unicorns, as long as you abide by all the rules. Mm-hmm, there's quite a few rules there.
Speaker 1:It is pretty liberal, though it does allow you to quest in imagination. You sure can. That is part of the license. It is available within that, so it is kind of all-encompassing really If you want to have a questing kit which is good. Yeah, read what's in the kit, because preparation, my friends, is the key to success in really anything.
Speaker 2:Unicorn hunting. Unicorn hunting 101.
Speaker 1:This is the suggested kit. You can add and subtract to your liking, customize it for your own ability, but this is what the Department of Natural Unicorns suggests for your questing kit. Here we go. They don't recommend you actually quest because they don't want to kill the unicorns. Suggests for your questing kit. Here we go. They don't recommend you actually quest because they don't want to kill the unicorns. But if you were going to do so, you want to bring the following supplies Serious intent.
Speaker 2:I'm all about that General levity, I can do that too. Check Really no really I can't. I've got quite too. Check Really no really I can't. I've got quite the vertical leap.
Speaker 1:There we go.
Speaker 2:I can levitate for a good 3.2 seconds Sweet talk. I don't have that.
Speaker 1:We might need to find some friends Refreshing beverages, A flask of cognac for adults, juice box for the children or a bottle of medieval potion for unicorns.
Speaker 2:Well, how about mini unicorn pale ale? That seems like a refreshment.
Speaker 1:Okay. So then you need a curry comb, pinking shears, nail clipper with file, hoof and horn trimmer hoof and horn polish ribbons. It sounds like we're giving this unicorn a mani-pedi. It feels like that's where we're going. Well, we're not hunting, we're questing it, you're questing it.
Speaker 2:You grew up on a farm. What if it's just like clipping a horse's hoof or a cow's? They shave them down and pull the rocks out. That's true, you know. We throw them on a you know a little tip up. It puts iodine on there. Yeah, put a little tip up thing and salicylic acid and wrap the hoof up, get a grinder and. Right, yeah, horn goes flying. There we go, get some of your teeth.
Speaker 1:Exactly, yeah, you could also bring authorian legend books and or works by Chaucer.
Speaker 2:I don't know who that is, but I believe Jeffrey Chaucer is.
Speaker 1:I'll double check here. Jeffrey Chaucer spelled. That's not the right one, I clicked on the wrong one. Chaucer is a Jeffrey Chaucer with a G, one of those G-E-O-F-F. He was a poet that died in 1400. Oh, perfect. And he was also the what do you call it? The talking guy in A Knight's Tale. You know the movie A Knight's Tale.
Speaker 2:With Heath Ledger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, with Heath Ledger. He was the guy that they found on the side of the road that was walking naked. That was a poet that could make them Got it. Got Ledger. He was the guy that they found on the side of the road that was walking naked. That was a poet that could make them he called himself Jeffrey Chaucer. So he was Jeffrey Chaucer in that one. We got works and legend books. Exactly we're getting right there. And then optional, they say you can bring iambic pentameter.
Speaker 2:Where do I get one of those? Is that next to the flux capacitor down at the tool rental shop?
Speaker 1:For those that don't know, and I don't know exactly what it means, I just I've heard the phrase before because of the West Wing. They talked about it on there at one point in time. But it is a type of metric line used in English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm meter, established words in each line and the way that it's. It's a free way phrases are built. It's so. It's a structure of a poem, perfect.
Speaker 2:So my least knowledgeable structure of a poem, perfect, so my least knowledgeable subject of all life, because I hated English so I had no clue of any of that. So I can't go buy that down at the tool rental shop then.
Speaker 1:As lines in iambic pentameter usually contain ten syllables, it is considered a form of deca-syllabic verse. Perfect, easy for you to say Yep, yeah, so, yeah, that's you know. I mean, what they were describing in the show that I was watching in the West Wing, you know, was definitely like it was hard to track what she was saying. So I was like what in the world, why is she talking like that? So like I kind of get you know the bit that it did, that it's a thing. But uh, yeah, no, it's uh definitely kind of beyond me. I could read a poem here if you really would like me to, but uh, it's uh well, all the English majors at Westlake Superior College there should know all about that stuff.
Speaker 1:Yep, they probably got some iambic pentameter workshops for that.
Speaker 2:I bet they do.
Speaker 1:Some benefits, though, that I'm reading here. Anyone and everyone prepared to join the quest will be issued a unicorn license, as long as potential members follow these rules.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Follow the above, which, I'm assuming, is all of these other things here, the questing kit and whatnot.
Speaker 2:Pay no dues, but it's free, so you don't have to pay. If you want to be a unicorn quester you do not have to pay. Exactly. Well, actually, if you don't email them, you can send it to them and you will have to pay for postage, no purchase necessary sort of. No COD. For you, young people, that means cash on delivery, it's true.
Speaker 1:Attend no meetings oh perfect.
Speaker 2:I'm very good at that.
Speaker 1:I'm so good at that Are nice to people and unicorns alike. So nobody that has gone into a retail establishment in the last 20 years is allowed to be a part of this. Then dwindling unicorn herds. We changed the word from to hunt to quest on the license, while retaining the original title of the organization, because we thought that was fair oh, perfect, but isn't a group of them called a blessing that we learned it is?
Speaker 2:they need to update their page. That's true. I have verified these facts on the interweb.
Speaker 1:Everything you read is fact on the interweb I mean, you wouldn't put it on there if it wasn't exactly a thing yeah, this is uh. Yeah, you can uh hunting regulations, a hunting license. There's a whole section on the hunting history. It's super in-depth.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you. This isn't just you're running the mill, print off a license and you have a unicorn license like. The license itself is super enchanted, it's colorful, there's a bunch of stuff on there. It really is.
Speaker 1:This is a whole thing. It's great stuff. Oh my God, you can also on this page. I don't know if you scrolled all the way to the bottom but you can also get a permit for a snowman burning Snowman.
Speaker 2:I read a little bit about that and it's like paper snowmen that they light up on fire in the middle of winter. So, it's not a real snowman that's burning, but whatever.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like this. We talked about the banished words thing before. This is just the banished words for 2024 for misuse, overuse or uselessness. There's a lot of uselessness. We have tumbled off the rails here.
Speaker 2:I think we tumbled off the rails at the beginning of this episode because we picked out a beer that's mini unicorn.
Speaker 1:That's probably true. We're way off the rails. So the words that are on this list ironically, for the most part I kind of agree with Hack, because everything's a hack now, everything's a hack Impact. I could go either way on that one. At the end of the day, it's an easy enough catchphrase.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's getting kind of sickening so, yeah, I can go with that one.
Speaker 1:Riz.
Speaker 2:That needs to go like five years ago, slay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, iconic.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I haven't really heard that one used anywhere Cringeworthy.
Speaker 1:That can go.
Speaker 2:Everything's so cringe.
Speaker 1:Obsessed Side hustle and wait for it. Those are your top 10 2024 banished words list from Lake Superior State University For unicorn questing.
Speaker 1:Perfect. Yeah, there's a whole explanation in all of these things. While perfectly acceptable in specific contexts, slay has transcended its original meaning and infiltrated situations where its usage no longer aligns with its intended significance. Its transition from a specialized term denoting exceptional accomplishment to a commonplace expression for any achievement prompts scrutiny into its misapplication, particularly because that's the word that I'm going to get tripped up on. Have another unicorn In the characterization or routine of mundane actions? Now it's sprinkled everywhere, from wearing a stylish outfit to tackling the art of parallel parking. Okay, that is their explanation on why slay. I don't think this is even connected to unicorns. I think this is just generally what Lake Superior University has decided. These words gotta go.
Speaker 2:Well, if anybody goes to that college, please reach us out at twoguysandbeergmailcom and let us know what that's all about.
Speaker 1:Interested about the snowman burning too. Oh, apparently they hold their annual snowman burning in March by banishing old man winter, that's what they do. They build a giant snowman and they literally burn that guy down.
Speaker 2:That's a real thing, though that's yeah, that's what they do, yeah, huh.
Speaker 1:From introduction to conclusion, the entire ceremony lasts approximately 15 minutes.
Speaker 2:That is the right type of thing for me folks, and this is what you're spending your money for in college up there at lake superior state university this is unicorn questing and snowman burning.
Speaker 1:I support that I I'm with you on that one.
Speaker 2:I'll support that before you go up there, stop by in chicago. Pick up some uh, unicorn, mini unicorn, pale ale from Pipeworks Brewery.
Speaker 1:Absolutely when they lay pipe. Very well too. Mini unicorn, india pale ale, the episode today, and yeah, very good stuff though Very tasty and, like we said, like gets it, and then it just kind of smooths out right away.
Speaker 2:It is very good beer. Yeah, it's got different flavors at different times when you drink it. I do recommend it. It's good. I would drink it again. We've made a lot of fun, a lot of jokes about unicorns and the flavor and stuff. But Piper's Brewing in Chicago if any of their other beers are like this they definitely know what they're doing, doing something a little different, a real good beer, and I hope to. When we reach out to them, I hope to hear back from them at some point in time. Absolutely, we can talk to them. Yeah, mini Unicorn Pale Ale Cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers.
