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@MaximumRD It's been a while since your Captivator Doppelbock video from 2010, is Tree Brewing Company still around and do you still visit there at all?

@MaximumRD Thank you Rob! No contribution required! It's all about a fun discussion among friends 🍻 Hah that's all that matters! Exactly! Just hanging out having a good time talking with friends in the forums. You already have 12 years worth of Beer Tasting videos, I think it would be fun to revisit them in the club. Thanks Rob! I love this stuff and feel fortunate that we get to do this

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@MaximumRD @RickR I've set up our Beer Tasting Club and invited you to join! I hope you'll check it out and enjoy contributing from time to time:

Here's a little bonus story for you about Rob's video above, and the inception of Atari I/O: This video was made in what I've come to think of as "The Golden Age of the YouTube Classic Gaming Community". This was a 5-year span between 2006-2011 where people like Rob and I were really some of the first people exploring classic gaming on YouTube - and incidentally as it were - forming a community. In those days, AVGN existed (we only knew him as "The Angry Nintendo Nerd") and some of the larger names like Gamester81 were just starting to make their first videos. But the YouTube Classic Gaming Community was still relatively small back then, and we all seemed to know each others channels, particularly those of us interested in "pre-NES 8-bit gaming". Before "Google+" came along as a challenger to Facebook, and took away our ability to PM eachother within YouTube, it was much more open and much easier for YouTubers to reach out and become friends. I was known as "Devious Television", Rob of course was and still is MaximumRD, and we made friends with and enjoyed the channels of great retrogamers like @LactobacillusPrime and @Atarileaf. It really was like a small community or a local pub "where everybody knows your name. Because we had that "community" feeling, we tended to venture into "off topic" interests and broadcast small bits of our lives with eachother, which is what Rob did here by creating his first beer tasting video. Our experience in that gaming community served as one of the greatest inspirations for me to create Atari I/O, and you can see these "off topic" interests reflected in some of what we do today in the forums, like this new Beer Tasting Club! If you haven't seen @MaximumRD's channel, it focuses primarily on classic gaming and computing - but features a nice blend of beer tasting, arcade walkthroughs, gameplay videos, travel/exploration, "slice of life" and personal vlogs. And of course if you enjoy MaximumRD's content I'm sure he'd appreciate your subscribing to his YouTube channel. And I hope this topic will serve as somewhat of an example or a template for our Beer Tasting posts and other ideas to come 🙂🍺

Hey guys! I thought we'd get things started in our new I/O Beer Tasting Club with Rob aka @MaximumRD's "First Beer Tasting Video" which he made all the way back in the Summer of 2010! As Rob says in the video, "This is a great one to start off with". In Rob's video below, he tastes a limited edition beer called "Captivator Doppelbock" by Tree Brewing Co. which is brewed right in Rob's town of Kelowna, British Columbia. It comes in a huge bottle and contains 8% alcohol. Tree Brewing Co. describes Captivator Doppelbock as "A sweet aroma with hints of toffee, light caramel and hazelnut, a deep brown reddish hue with a clean smooth finish." Rob describes the beer as very bold, rich, and not bad overall with quite an interesting blend of flavors. "Thumbs up, check it out." For you gentlemen and connoisseurs of fine craft beers, I think you'll find much to enjoy in Rob's Beer Tasting Videos. He tends to sample beers that are largely unknown, so you're likely to discover something new and different that you may not have heard of. I think that approach will contribute greatly to the spirit of the I/O Beer Tasting Club. PS - As a side note, I hope you all enjoy this new format and idea for a club. Enjoy! You can read more about Tree Brewing Co. Captivator Doppelbock on these websites: https://eatmagazine.ca/tree-brewing-captivator-doppelbock/ http://www.treebeer.com/captivator-doppelbock Here's more about Tree Brewing Co. Captivator Doppelbock from their website: Style: Bock Body: Full Alcohol: 8% IBU: 37 Hops: Tettnang, Irish Moss Malt: ESB, Crystal, Chocolate, M-90 Notes: Sweet aroma with subtle hints of caramel and nut Food Pairing: Roast Pork, Ham, Duck, Black Forest Cake Experimenting Size(s): 650ml bottles Doppelbock, which literally means “double bock”, is known to be one of Germany’s biggest beers because of its higher alcohol content, ranging between 7-13% and is exceptionally malty with very little bitterness. Our Captivator DoppelBock is 8% alc./vol. Doppelbock emerged in the late eighteenth century as a powerful lager variant of the old monastic strong beer, the monks' "liquid bread," which they traditionally brewed for the Lenten season. The monks would be forced to fast several times a year with the longest being during Lent, 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Where did Bock get it's name? The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers in the town of Einbeck. The style was later adopted by Munich brewers in the 17th century and adapted to the new lager style of brewing. Due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced "Einbeck" as "ein Bock" ("a billy goat"), and thus the beer became known as "bock". To this day, as a visual pun, a goat often appears on bock labels.

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Have you seen the new Berzerk homebrew for the ColecoVision from Electric Adventures? This looks and sounds AWESOME! Exactly what Berzerk should look and sound like on ColecoVision. The ColecoVision homebrew scene is worth envying if you're an Atari fan, there have been tons of really cool stuff coming out over the past few years, including the Super Game Module from OpCode and the CollectorVision Phoenix, and Electric Adventures is doing some wild things with the ColecoVision! I'm really looking forward to Berzerk being released. All the more reason for me to get my hands on a CollectorVision Phoenix.

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