Sometimes it's nice to have just a little bit of a break, you know.

Welcome. And everybody. It's the craft beer republic.

Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining.

I'm Greg and I'm being joined by my wife. Oh, wait. My other wife.

That's Flexy. What's up, big fella? My wife. Ha! We're back baby.

People always say like they have their work wives and then their

real wives. But you might be my favorite wife.

Oh. I've never heard that before. My wife hasn't even called me

her favorite wife, so. Oh, well. She is missing out. Zing!

Well, I'm excited you're back. I'm pumped to have some beers

with you, big fella. Yeah, I had fun at the Brewer game.

That's why I couldn't, you know, join us for a couple of weeks, you know.

And when your wife sends you a message and says she got $12

tickets to the baseball game, you get your ass to the baseball

game. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, first of all, $12 tickets.

I can't even park at Dodger Stadium for $12.

Yeah, left field bleacher tickets. Man, it was awesome.

Five rows back. It was awesome. Nice. Did you catch any balls? No.

My kids really want to catch a ball. When we went to Cincinnati, we had,

uh, we only stayed like five innings there because the game was delayed.

Um, weather delay. I don't know what that's like.

We got the the roof and everything. Uh, but there was, like,

13 foul balls, and we. Don't have weather here, so I don't

know what that's like either. That's accurate, but 13 foul balls

that flew back behind home plate. And we were sitting behind home

plate when we were in Cincinnati. And, uh, not one of them came by us,

but they really want to get a foul ball.

So much that I know it was 13 foul balls because my oldest daughter

was counting. Oh, I love it. Yeah, that was that was me as a

little kid, too. Like, all I wanted was to catch

a ball or to have, like, between innings after they're done

warming up, have them tossed. I just wanted one of those balls.

And for a while, my dad, when I was a kid, had some like friend or hookup

or acquaintance or sex partner. I don't know what where like he

could buy his season tickets off of him at Dodger Stadium and they

were right next to I mean, I was touching there's front row right next

to the left far left field foul pole. And I thought like,

this is my chance, you know, like they'd come near, but they never,

never got right there. Right. Yeah. That's I mean, we were sitting

in the same spot that they'll, you know, they'll throw it up to

the bleachers. Yeah. Um, on our side or to the left of us,

or they'll throw it down like third base line or some shit.

But yeah, we got two balls thrown in the area, but they were,

you know, still away from us. I couldn't get it.

What, am I going to ruin a kid's day by jumping in front of him and

catch a ball? Abso fucking lutely. You are. I'm Flex. God damn it!

Yeah, I got kids. I gotta. Gotta get them the ball.

That's right. I my biggest one of my biggest

disappointments in life was right for the game.

We'd get there early and get autographs.

I got some pretty decent autographs back in the day.

Oh, that's pretty cool. And I was next in line to get Tommy

Lasorda. And I was like, here we go. He's like, all right guys,

I gotta run. I was like, motherfucker or waddle.

I don't think he really. Yeah, you're right.

I got a waddle buffet just open. But either way. R.I.P. Tommy.

R.I.P. great guy. If you guys ever want a good laugh,

just look up some of his, like, old school interviews and press

conferences and stuff. That motherfucker had no problem

saying what he felt. Yeah, he was a goofy dude, man.

Yeah, 100%. I'm gonna totally butcher it.

But there was one where, like, he had apparently told one of his

pitchers to get a little retaliation. And afterwards he goes, what do

you think I fucking told that? I didn't fucking tell him that.

If I told him to beam him, he'd fucking know he got beamed.

Wow. Oh. So good. Well, we got we got the manager

over here who just takes, uh, pancakes out of his pocket and

just starts gnawing on them. What is he, the fucking new day?

You have not heard of this? No. Oh, man.

They started selling, uh, on Sunday home games. They have.

They're called, like, uh, pocket waffles or pocket pancakes.

Sound sexual? Yeah, but it's not. It's just cause.

Because he legit takes pancakes out of his. Pocket during an interview.

He took a pancake out of his pocket, folded it up and started

chomping on it. And the lady interviewing him was so

taken back, and he offered her a bite of the pancake, and she took one.

Oh my God, this is the new day. Yeah, it's.

Great throwing pancakes out into the audience there.

And then, uh, they were talking about it on one of the broadcasts

one day about how he just. Oh,

he's always got snacks in his pocket. And they confirmed that the on field

reporter and one of the players during spring training witnessed him

pull a eggroll out of his pocket and just started chomping on an egg roll.

It's like fucking Napoleon Dynamite. Let me have some of your tots.

Get your own. Oh. Gosh. That's hilarious. I had no idea.

That's so it made, like, headline news and everything. It was awesome.

That's funny. Jesus Christ. Well, he's got a carb load before

the big game. Something like that. Something like that.

He's got a, I don't know, win manager of the year two years in a row.

It's not a this isn't a baseball show, guys. But alas, not a baseball.

Brewers best in the MLB. Come on. First of first.

Hey, can't can't win them all. But, uh, if I can just get one

World Series in my lifetime, that's all I want.

I don't think the Dodgers will give you any trouble this year,

I'll tell you. That. I mean,

we swept them in the regular season. Um, no offense, but that doesn't

really correlate to the playoffs. No, but their record isn't oh so

great either. So. Yeah, but you know, they play when

they need to play. We'll see. Hopefully they don't put Kershaw

in during the postseason. But yeah I know you.

Like like you said baseball. Change the fucking record Greg.

Not a baseball show. Hey real quickly.

Uh @CraftBeerRepublic. 805538 beer. All that good.

Stuff. In case you. Forgot. Yeah. Uh, top listing city last week

was Tulsa, Oklahoma. I think that might be a first.

Weird. Yeah. Very weird. Hey, Tulsa. I know they had beer in Oklahoma.

Um, what else are you gonna do if you're in Oklahoma?

I don't know, rope, cattle or something. Okay.

I don't I feel like that's what they do in Oklahoma.

I can't think of anything better, so I'm gonna go with it. Yeah.

Uh, so much to get to today. Uh, first of all, Flex is back,

so I'm excited. As you can see,

we're just talking about baseball and not about show things.

Uh, we have a listener email, which I'm hoping maybe stirs up

some reaction. Okay. Lots of booze news to get some

real breaking booze news. So we'll get there first.

It's been a while, so let's check in with what the

big man's drinking over there. In a world where craft beer is king,

a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only one ton can guide us.

One man, one ton, one Tongue-jobber. In this world, we must find out

what is Flex drinking. All right. Uh, today Flex is back and he is

drinking watermelon wavelength from Moore Brewing Company.

They're out of Huntley, Illinois, which, uh, I don't know.

I assume everything in Illinois is just Chicago, which I hate,

but I don't hate these guys. This on untapped, I should tell you.

First of all, it is a fruited gosa. Oh, yes.

You know how I love my gozo's watermelon goses are actually my

favorite. And I know that sounds really

specific, but I've had like three of them in my lifetime and they're

just phenomenal every time. So this one weighs in at 4.5%.

Not huge. Only 171 check ins. I gotta keep shouting out my

local spot. They always get in pretty fresh

recent releases, and I think the last, I don't know,

12 beers I've had on the show. They've, uh,

been check ins under 1000, under 500. So I just think that's really fun.

And really, alas, this one 171 check ins, only a three, five, seven.

Oh. And this really pisses me off. Really pisses me off.

Let's hear it and I will explain to you why I bought this beer two weeks

ago for the show I missed. Okay. I drank it a day later because I

said, you know, I really want to try it. The Goza watermelon, I love it.

This shit blew me away. I'm gonna ruin the review right now.

Spoiler alert. This beer completely blew me

away and it was so good. I fucking went back and I bought

another one just so I could have it on the show tonight and let everybody

know how fucking good it is. So untapped here.

It reads tart and refreshing wheat. I'm sorry.

Wheat ale with the sour character of a goza and the juicy,

summery sweetness of watermelon. Let's start with the can art.

First of all, because I don't think I really have been putting

can art out there lately. Mm. It's, uh, kind of shiny,

plain black label with some shiny red and green watermelon wavelengths.

It's got the wave sciency things. It's like audio waves. Yeah.

Or wavelengths, I guess. Really? Yeah.

And everything is just shiny red and green. Just really, really fun.

Really simple. Really sexy actually. So which brings us to the beer,

which it is a fruited goza. Rugosa. So it's not going to be clear.

Or that kind of golden ale color. Very juicy looking. It is very juicy.

It almost looks like pureed watermelon juice.

And the old nose buds here, it's like tart watermelon.

Like not super out there. Watermelon, but like a little faint.

But it's got that, you know, that sour sense to it that that

we always tell people and we make ourselves feel like we're idiots

because. What does it smell like? It smells like sour.

Maybe nobody actually knows what we're talking about.

But without further ado, the old Tongue-jobber. We'll wait for weeks.

This thing is amazing. It is zippy with carbonation.

Just the perfect amount really leaves you dry on the end.

So much tart watermelon flavor. It's like the perfect end to summer.

And it was 75 degrees here. Nothing but sun today in Wisconsin.

And this is just the best kiss goodbye to Summer, and I wish I

would have known about this before. They only had single cans.

There was no four packs left of this. I would have bought a case.

This beer top notch. Can we go through and beat up

everybody who gave it a 3.751 by one? Um, yes.

You know how I feel about goses this. You would fucking die over this.

You would get rocked up, put your dick in it and then

drink it. It is that good. I don't even know if I'm allowed

to say that. Get rocked up. And then put your dick in it.

No, I don't want to get accused of sexual harassment of beers.

Yeah, I mean, it's not a dick show, but God damn, I love this.

Wait till Deb comes back around. That's always fun. Yeah. So. Yeah.

Cheers to More Brewing here. I just want to shout them out

one more time. Sounds amazing. Everything they ever put out,

they really do a superb job. It sounds amazing.

It's been hot as motherfucking balls around here for a few weeks now,

and this sounds like the perfect ball quencher in the bowels of summer.

Oh, your balls will be quenched. It's almost as good as having good

dick weather. Yeah, it's a guarantee. Yeah. I like you.

And you know how much we love good dick weather.

Nothing better than good dick weather. Not a single thing.

For any new listeners that are still listening after the last

five minutes. Flex and I do have a weather

rating of good dick weather, and it's when you're you're outside

and it's warm enough to where you know it's hanging out, but not so hot

and not so balmy to where, you know, sticks to things or stickiness.

Yeah, it's it's that perfect. Makes you look like you're

packing a little bit of heat. Weather. Nashville.

By far my favorite dick weather By far. Love me some. Nashville.

Nashville. Dick. Weather. Now I gotta go to Nashville. Orlando.

It's a close second. Cincinnati. Dick weather was not very good.

I'm gonna put that out there. And Louisville was a little bit

better than Cincinnati. But yeah, Cincinnati was trash.

I tell you, San Diego in the summer because

it's close to the beach and it's just always like in the 70s summer.

San Diego is chef's kiss dick weather.

Prime Chef kiss dick weather. I need to get me some of that.

You do? I'll meet you in San Diego for some

dick weather. Daddy. Yeah. Oh, dear. All right, well, uh, we'll move

on from that before we get. Before we take a turn, before.

We get to rocked up, I guess, uh, I got a listener email here

I want to read before I do. Uh, while we're still semi on

the sports theme here. I heard you got some good

Thursday plans. Ah, yes. I am popping my Packer game cherry.

I've lived in Wisconsin for 37 years and I've never been to a Packer game.

I can't believe you've never gone before.

Yeah, apparently it's like a pretty regular thing that people do. Uh.

Apparently so. Oh, I guess so. It's like 80,000 capacity at

Lambeau Field. And apparently they have games

every year. And, uh. What? Yeah, I know it's crazy, right?

But, like, somewhere around eight of them.

Yeah, usually a couple more, if we're lucky and. Right. Yeah.

I just, you know, I'm not very ambitious when it comes

to things like, just like, hey, I'm gonna buy tickets to this and go.

I usually wait for somebody else to say, hey, I got this.

I need someone to go or, hey, I got this. Let's go. Mhm.

My sister in law's husband, he goes to, I don't know, two,

three, four, five games a year. He's a huge Packers fan ever since

he was a kid going to games. And he really wanted to see Jayden

Daniels in the uh I know they're the commanders, but I just

always call them the Redskins. And uh, he wants to go see Jayden

Daniels and the commanders. And I said, yeah,

I'll go with you. So sure. He bought tickets the next day.

He made all the hotel reservations, the shuttle reservations from the

hotel to the stadium and. Wow. The company he works for has a

party house to around Lambeau. I don't know if you're familiar with

all the houses around Lambeau Field. Not at. All. Like the neighborhood.

There's a lot of houses that were redone and built up for big

parties before Packer games. Okay. His company has one, and it's going

to be all you can eat and all you can drink before the game. Good lord.

So these people don't actually live. Nobody lives in these houses.

They're just for partying. They're almost like Airbnbs,

I guess. Uh, but for partying. But for partying, for Packer games.

Interesting. Yeah. I've never heard of that before.

That's awesome. Yeah, they're they're insane.

Looking to like, how redone they are. Like people they'll like, tear down.

Like the people like sunrooms or like rec rooms in the back of their house.

They'll tear out the walls, they'll install those garage doors.

And like, the whole back of the yard, is like the garage doors.

And they have, like, a real nice setup in the backyard and a built

in bar underneath. That's awesome. Where the garage doors are and yeah,

it's really, really sick. I dig it. Yeah, I'll take a bunch of

pictures when I'm up there and I'll send them to you. Please do.

I can never remember the name of the commanders.

It's not that I do or don't like that they've changed their name.

I just go the Washington. Yeah. Yeah, I just I can't remember.

Cleveland. Same thing. I can't remember what.

They've changed it to Cleveland. They've always been the Browns.

No, no, no baseball for the Indians. Oh, what am I thinking?

What are they, the Chiefs? I don't know what the.

The Guardians. Guardians? Yeah. See, I it's not even that I do

or don't like it. I just cannot fucking remember it for

the life of me. I think for me too. With with Washington, I've just.

We grew up right. And they were the Redskins.

Yeah. Ever. And then they were. The football team for 1 or 2 years.

I still remember the Washington Bullets. They had a cool logo.

Mhm. Yeah. Super cool logo. But yeah the commanders thing,

it just doesn't catch at all. Cool thing though is that the

tribe and the family of the, the guy who was on the helmet of

the Redskins. Uh. They want everything to be

changed back. Really? Because they think it's like,

great for their their dad or their grandpa or whoever it was

that was on the helmet. And good for the family and Native

Americans and everything like that. So.

Look, I feel like there's probably a way to honor the Native Americans

without calling them the commanders, maybe not calling them the

Redskins either. You know. Right. Maybe just a better name all around.

Yeah. We vote for better name. Yeah. Something.

Something that people might remember anyway.

Not bring back something better. Not a football show. Not a political.

Show. Yeah. We just. This is what happens when we

don't talk for a couple of weeks. We get rocked up just looking at

each other. So much to say. Yeah, so much to Boeing.

Uh, all right. For this gets worse. Like I said,

got an email from a listener. I want not only Flex reaction, but I

want everybody's reaction from this. He says, hey, guys,

my friend and I were talking about awful beers the other day and

was reminded of this awful story that I thought you might like.

In the wonderful year of 2019, I visited a brewery in Petaluma

that's in Northern California by the name of Dempsey's.

Now, I've had some of their beers before this experience,

and I've had some since, and they always leave me satisfied.

But on this particular visit, I had one of the strangest beer

experiences of my life. I ordered a beer called

Undercover Malicious Thinking. It was some kind of spin off of

their malicious IPA, which I'm already a fan of.

The beer came and it was much darker than I was expecting.

The flavors were tobacco, leather, and a very specific earthy note.

After a few more sips, I came to realize that earthy

note was poop. Come on. Like not in your face,

sewage or anything. Just the subtle but unmistakable,

unmistakable note that made me question my life choices.

I tried to push through. I drank about a quarter of the glass,

partly because I was trying to figure out what the hell I was tasting.

It was shit. Yeah. Spoiler alert. I was also trying to explore the

leathery tobacco flavors I was getting, but the earthy qualities

proved too much and I was forced to abstain from any more beer.

Eventually, the waiter came over and explained that the beer was

actually a messed up batch of malicious that they tried to salvage.

So yeah, that explained the toilet tones.

That was actually going to be my guess on what it was,

was a fucked up batch of beer that they just tried to put on tap anyway.

To their credit, the waiter was super cool about it and didn't charge me.

And honestly, the rest of the visit was great.

And a killer burger and fries and the first beer ordered

wasn't nearly as traumatizing. But I always remember that beer.

The poop beer anyways. Figured y'all would appreciate

the legacy of the poop beer. Keep doing what you do. Gabe.

Well, thanks, Gabe. Yeah. Thanks, Gabe. For the poop beer.

Honestly, super hilarious that he had to go through this.

I'm glad it wasn't me. Right. That's why it's funny.

Yeah, exactly. Um, but. But also a whole quarter of the

glass. Yeah, but for a brewery to even

put that out there, like it would be different if it

was like, uh, they actually had, like, a joke description,

like on the menu, like, hey, this one didn't turn out as well as

we thought it would. Give it a try. And then honestly put like $0

next to the. Beer or call it King's Cup or some

shit like that. Right, right. And just do something like kind of

fun, like off kilter like that. Yeah, but don't actually put it on

the menu and charge people for shit. Right. Or do charge.

But if they complain, immediately take it off or something,

I don't know. Because you're putting it out there.

And if first timers come in, they're gonna be like, oh,

this place sucks. Right? Yeah. Nobody is going to enjoy it at all.

Right. Unless you eat shit. Have you ever sent back a beer?

I'm glad you were gonna ask me if I've ever eaten shit. That would.

I eat pieces of shit for breakfast? Uh, okay. So I sent a beer back.

We went out to this kind of nice restaurant.

It's like, you know, it's not casual, but it's not super fancy, and,

uh, it's in, like, a nicer city in a suburb, like,

20 minutes away from us. Okay. And they had Eagle Park beer on tap,

and I was like, yo, sit on the dock of the bay. This beer fucking slaps.

They got it on the menu. I will take it.

And the waitress brings back my see through Double Hazy IPA.

And excuse me, miss I. When she put it on the table,

I immediately said, uh, what beer did you get me?

And she said, oh, the Eagle Park tap. She's like, we only have,

you know, one Eagle Park tap here. And I was like, oh, okay.

And what is. It? She walked away and I took a sip

and you could really get like the off flavors. Like.

And it was not very good and it was like tangy almost. Mhm.

And I told my wife I should give a lot of credit to my wife.

I told her that it wasn't what the beer should look like,

and that either it was old or they need to move the keg around a bit.

Dirty lines. Dirty lines or something.

I took a couple more sips and she could see the look on my face

and she said, just send it back. So the waitress, sure enough,

came back and I said, yeah. I said, this isn't how this beer is

supposed to be. I'm really sorry. Can I get something else?

And they were happy to do it. Happy to oblige.

But yes, I've done it before. I don't do it in, like,

a mean way. No, no. Sure. I'm the last person to send

something, you know. I worked in a restaurant,

you know, the first six years of my working career.

And I'm like, you know, petrified to send something back.

It's got to be real fucked up. But I can think of top of my head.

I can think of three times I've ever sent a beer back.

And two of them involved 14 canons, not at the brewery,

but at restaurants. One of them were at a dining

establishment. That sounds similar to what you

were at. The wife ordered, uh,

their patient Pilsner. And of course, this is before

they turned into A-holes, back when we liked 14 canons.

But she ordered the patient Pilsner. It showed up and we know that

beer very well. It was flat. It tasted like soap.

I mean, clearly these lines had not seen any cleaning solution

in quite some time, right? It was absolutely garbage.

So this kid comes back. I say kid because he was like 18, 19.

There's no way he was of legal drinking age.

He goes, hey, everything okay? And I said, I, I hate to do this.

This makes me cringe and say, I gotta send this back.

I said, we know this specific beer very well.

We're at the brewery all the time. I said, I'm pretty sure there's

something wrong with either the keg itself or your lines,

and you should have somebody have a look at it. And he goes, oh, okay.

Well, you want a different. He goes, do you want another one?

And I said, sure, let's get another beer.

He goes, do you want the same thing? And I said, do you have a

different keg? He goes, no, why? I said, then I don't want it

took everything I had. I don't want the same thing.

Angry No. I think we'll get something else

stupid. The other time I can think of.

Or the other two times at the same restaurant.

This is at one of the lazy dogs is Lazy Dog out here.

And first time was with another 14 canons beer.

Almost the same exact story. It was their Marzen which the

wife loves. Drinks you loved,

used to drink all the time. Orders. The Marzen shows up.

It's flat. Tastes like soap. It tastes like just like dirty lines.

They come out and she's like, this is garbage.

So she ended up getting some wine instead,

but I had to send one back once. It was institution, which is a local

brewery. It was an IPA, a pale ale. It was a mosaic pale ale.

It's one of the I don't love all their beers at institution,

but it's one of the ones that if I see it on a menu,

I will order so I know it pretty well and shows up once again.

It was flat. It just tasted. Didn't even taste soapy or anything.

It just tasted way off. And I said, hey, you know, like this,

I hate to do this, blah blah blah. Like, okay, once again, this person

goes, well, you want another one? I said, is it gonna be different?

Oh, I guess not. Can I get something else then?

You know, and that's probably just them being their waiter selves.

I know, I just. I don't expect you to know about

beer like we know about beer. But if it's bad,

if I've told you it's bad. And especially if I've told you

the reasons why it's right. Why would I want another of the same

beer? Right. It's not like I said. Hey, this is warm.

Then you go, hey, do you want. Do you want another one?

Yes, I would like one that's cold. Yeah,

but that's not the problem here. I've had like what I the story I

explained, I've had that a couple times and I just fucking eat it

and I just drink it because, uh, one of them was a fantasy football

draft a couple years ago. And that just this little corner bar,

they're known more for their food than their beers.

And, uh, they had Eagle Park on tap. And the same thing happened

where it was a it's supposed to be their demon haze and or.

No, their goon juice, which is a fucking flagship of.

There's a hazy IPA and again it pours and it's clear.

And I was like, okay, that's kind of weird.

And you get these really off flavors. And I just drank it.

And I didn't order any more of those because, you know,

I was like, I knew by that point. But yeah, I just didn't feel

like sending it back. And the local movie theater by us,

that does, you know, they have a bar and you can drink

beer in the theater and stuff. They clearly don't do anything

with their lines. No cleaning, because I've gotten

two beers, 2 or 3 beers within the last two years there, you know,

just grab one, go see a flick, and each time it's like I just get

lagers because, you know, whatever. And it tastes like artificial

coconut as I'm drinking the beer. And it's very off and very gross.

So yeah. And I end up finishing it like I

got a modelo. The last time I was there,

I was like, oh, you can't fuck up a modelo like modelo with a Lime.

Let's fucking go. Right? And, uh. Yeah.

No, they just like modelo with the lime and the coconut. Lime.

Not what I was looking for. Yeah. Put the lime in the coconut.

Yeah, it was fucking gross. Yeah. So that is gross.

I wouldn't recommend it. No, I think I've told this one

on the show. I was at a, uh. I think it was at, like,

yardhouse or something, and I ordered a hazy little thing

and it showed up clear as fuck. And I was like, uh, like, nope,

that's it, I said, but you recognize the name is.

Yeah. And this is clear, right? Like, no, that's Hazel thing.

I was like, okay, be gone. So anyways, if you guys have any

fun stories like that, please let us know. Mail @CraftBeerRepublic.

Com or you can leave a voicemail 85538 beer or or DM us on the

socials. Whatever it takes. We want to hear your shit.

Beer stories. Yeah, maybe not literally shit,

but yes, well. But if they happen to be,

we don't mind those too. As long as we're not the ones

drinking them. Yeah, just don't drink shit and

email us. That's right. That's all I'm asking. Yeah.

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast. All right, let's make a call.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. Yeah. He does.

I was walking around total wine the other day because I had to pick up

some. Did you have. A gift card? No, I was not going for beer.

I was going for something else. I was going for some champagnes,

and, uh, I took a cruise down the beer aisle just because I was there.

See what they had. And I have never heard of this

brewery, and it's local ish. So I thought, well,

I'll give him a shot. So I'm drinking all season brewing.

They're out of Los Angeles. Never fucking heard of them before.

I'm sure I'm gonna get shit from everybody now.

It's called Cloud Racer Hazy IPA 6.5% 55 zero IBUs. Nice little canard.

It's like colorful shapes that are a mountain. I do like that.

I like the super like, say, with my can, like the super

black background. Yeah. And then just those hints of

color like that. That's gorgeous. Yeah, I like it.

It makes the color pop. It's. It's cool in the cloud.

It's hard to see, but there is a car. So cloud racer.

Uh, a 3.82 on untapped with a 941 ratings.

So not overly rated, though I did see that Fontana

Jim rated this beer on untapped. Gave it four and a half.

He must like it. Yeah. Uh, on the schnoz. On the taste?

Nope. On the nose buds there. The taste buds on the nose buds.

I get, like, a sweet orange smell. Ooh, I like the smell of that.

I don't know, like a candied orange. Does that make sense? Yeah.

Candied oranges are wonderful. Okay. Yeah. So sweet.

Sort of candied orange. Here goes. Yield. Tongue-jobber.

Candied orange is a thing. You know what I mean?

Oh, by the way, no. No description on tap.

It's my favorite beer ever. Oh, I love it.

It looks like straight up juice from what I can see. Yeah.

Perfect color for a hazy little. A little hot on the front.

a little alcohol hotness on the front, which is surprising at 6.5%.

Oh, six and a half okay. The back end is surprisingly bitter

for a hazy got got some real big pine notes, a little citrus,

a little orange in the middle, maybe some grapefruit pith as well.

Adding to that bitterness, um, it's surprisingly bitter for a

hazy good or bad. It's it's surprisingly bitter,

if that's what you're looking for. If you kind of want more of a an in

between West Coast and hazy kind of thing, this might be your jam.

I don't hate it. I don't love it. I bought one and I'm probably

glad I did. I don't think I need three more

of these. Okay. Yeah, okay. It's respectable.

I would try more from this brewery. They're local.

This is the first one I've had. I'd see what else they got.

Plus, you know, it's been given the total wine shelf treatment, so.

So which is never a good thing. Yeah. I tell you what, though, with the,

with those in-between hazes where it's, you know, it's like

juicy and a little bitter. Mhm. I enjoy those but it's got to be

like a really hot day and I have to drink it outside. Yeah.

There's definitely a place for him. I just this one leans more

bitter than juicy and. Okay. Just not what I'm looking for

when I'm drinking a hazy. Right. I feel that that's all.

You're preaching to the choir on that one.

If I buy a hazy and it says it's a hazy, it better be a hazy.

Yeah, I mean, it looks hazy. They definitely nailed the the

visuals on it. It could use some more carbonation,

a little more head to like when I. When it poured,

there was almost no head on it. I'm sure that doesn't help.

So anyways. Not horrible. Uh, but probably would not not,

definitely would not go back for the four pack.

But Fontana Jim gave it four and a half. So maybe I'm in the wrong here.

Maybe he got a fresher can than I did. Who knows.

Maybe he got it from the brewery, I don't know. Yeah. 000.

I just looked at the bottom of the can I, I legit did not do this in the

store and I don't know why because it was total wine and I should have,

but I guess the package date. Uh. Is it further than six months out?

Yes it is. Oh, boy. Uh, wait. What month is it now? September.

I'm gonna say December. Fucking nailed it.

December 17th of 24. Yeah,

I'm sure that doesn't help anything. Yeah, I would say especially a,

uh, hazy. Yeah. Wow. Way to go. Total one.

Yeah, that's what they do. Yeah. I tell you, back in the day, uh,

when craft beer was a little more new and Trader Joe's was just kind of

jumping on the craft beer bandwagon. They used to do this thing where

when beers would start to go out of code, they would do, like,

mystery bags, and they'd just put six beers in a bag for,

I forget what it was, call it six bucks and you could not open it.

They'd staple it closed and you just you got what you got.

And usually it was like a couple of good ones and a couple of not

so good ones, you know, like a couple of the Trader Joe's

brands and a couple of good ones. And it was a fun thing to do.

And honestly, what a smart way to get rid of beer that's expiring.

Oh, yeah. It's genius. There's a huge grocery store

where we live. I don't know if they do it anymore,

because I used to work really close to it, and I would always stop there,

you know, for my beer. Either to work or from work. Mhm.

And when they would get out of cold beer, they would just take

the four pack and they would put like $2.50 and they'd put it in

a shopping cart and they would have this whole shopping cart

full of close dated beers. That would be $2.50 for the whole

four pack. Yeah. Smart. I mean. Yeah. And I definitely bought from

there multiple times. Yeah. You know, get back what you spent

on it so you don't lose money, but, you know, discount it.

So maybe it flies off the shelf a little.

Which have you ever looked at? Uh, total wines, discount rack.

I don't think they have one where we are. Oh.

The one we have, there's, like, a little four foot section of,

like, the single cans. Ah. And they'll have, like,

clearanced out beers, but they're like two bucks off a four pack

or some shit. Like it's kind of. Yeah, it's super lame.

Yeah, it's a total win for you. Slightly better than bevmo.

But, uh, they still treat their stuff like shit.

All right, a little news, big breaking news, 21st amendment

to wind down operations and close their taprooms. Wow.

Big name in the craft beer world. 21st amendment brewery ceasing

operation after 25 years is founder Sean O'Sullivan and Nico

Freccia seek a buyer for the legacy craft beer brand.

Over the next 60 days, 21st amendment will wind down operations at its

San Leandro production facility, with a target date during the

first week of November. The company plans to maintain its

taproom at the facility and Second Street in San Francisco as long as

possible, depending on staffing. The news is a reversal of a plan

announced last week. So this is weird.

So last week this was dropped that they're going to close down

the week before, they posted on social media that the founders were

stepping away from daily operations and transitioning the roles to a

new CEO who had taken over with the goal of building a platform.

So I was like, oh, okay. News. And then a week later,

big news said, this is all very new. A week ago, we were moving in

different direction, and we were excited about a potential path

forward with building a platform, but it just wasn't tenable.

So a pivot had to be made. Those plans had been in the works

since early July, but changed relatively suddenly last week.

Frechette explained a financial lender that 21st amendment was

working with to grow the business ultimately decided against moving

forward with the transition due to the industry's mounting challenges

and no clear path forward. He said the lenders aren't

necessarily craft beer people. They're money people,

and they can see the challenges ahead at a certain point.

I think somebody decided we better step back before we get in too deep.

He and O'Sullivan are still open to exploring a sale of the 21st

amendment brand. Our hope is that the brand will

live on and that there will be opportunities coming down the line.

21st Amendment's workforce was informed of the plans last Wednesday.

Huh. It's big news in the craft world.

That's wild. Yeah. I was very surprised to see that.

Yeah. Shit's getting tough for craft

breweries. No, I think there's been like,

4 or 5 in Milwaukee alone that had shut down this past summer.

Yeah. And it seems like, uh. And some good ones, too. Yeah.

And it's just harder to have that big craft beer brand, um,

be financially attainable. Yeah. Which makes you think, like, the

ones that are succeeding and still doing it. Mhm. Good for them. Yeah.

Honestly, these days it almost seems like the way to go is to just

have that taproom footprint with maybe some small local distro and,

you know, not have plans of taking over the world. Right.

I think that's you get too overzealous, you know, and uh,

you get, you know, peak popularity and you think that's

just because you have so much success in one spot that you're like,

oh, hey, now we can expand and have success here and there,

and it's just not how it works. Yeah, it just doesn't seem to be

the way anymore. When you go to the polls this

coming election, make sure you vote for beer.

Maine Beer Co responsible for such beers as lunch, which is delicious.

Founder Dan Kleban is launching a US Senate run.

Maine Beer co-founder Dan Kleban has entered the Maine race to unseat

longtime Senator Susan Collins, Kleban said in a video.

I'm running for US Senate because politicians in Washington.

They're making it harder to do what's right for Maine.

They're trampling on the values of Mainers. I guess that's a thing.

And tearing this country apart. Kleban was laid off from a law firm

in 2008, and opened Maine Beer with his brother one year later,

channeling his frustration with the corporations whose actions

led to the Great Recession into building a people centric company.

He said, my brother and I were set out to

prove you could run a successful business by doing what's right.

We promised ourselves that anybody we hired would get a living wage,

employee health care, fully paid profit sharing and

retirement plan. Well. Hear, hear. I can't vote in Maine, but,

you know, you got my vote. Yeah, well, let's get this guy

in office. Yeah, let's do it. Let's vote for beer. Oh, yeah.

If he really wants to get elected, he's like one free beer for

every man, woman and child. Or a free beer per vote,

I don't know. There you go. No, it's super illegal.

But, hey, it's worth a shot. That would be awesome. Yeah.

Uh, an Ohio cop allegedly shows up drunk to a 911 call. Walbridge, Ohio.

Michael Irvin was removed from duty following an August 23rd incident,

which Michael Irvin. The receiver. Probably.

Might be receiving in jail. Oh, boy. In which he responded to a late

night call from residents who were concerned about a possibly

open vehicle in a potential break in at their home.

When Ervin arrived, the couple suspected he was impaired

and contacted police dispatch. Additional officers from Wallbridge

Wallbridge, along with units from nearby departments and emergency

services were sent to the scene. Wallbridge Police Chief Ken Campbell

and Sergeant Bob Miller is just the whitest Ohio names ever gave

Ervin a portable breath test, which showed a blood alcohol level

of 0.27. Oh, no, I wish. No, no. Just barely over. 1168. Okay.

Ervin was immediately taken off duty and officially terminated

two days later. The mayor of Walbridge,

Edward Kolenko, said the village took fast action to address the situation

and launch an internal investigation. Ervin was surprisingly not wearing

his body camera at the time of the incident. Shocker. Yeah.

Uh, no charges have been filed yet, but authorities say the case

remains under investigation. And potential charges could

include operating a vehicle while intoxicated and handling a

firearm while under the influence. I bet it accidentally fell off

the body cam. Yeah, that's probably what happened.

Yeah. Sounds reasonable. It's amazing.

Should we end this with a trip to Florida? Yes, please. Okay.

Florida man arrested after driving lawnmower on busy toll road. Okay.

I feel like this happens every day in Florida.

This is just a Tuesday in Florida. I'm just throwing it out there.

Yeah, this could be, like, Vanessa or something. Hi, Vanessa. Vanessa.

Just going to work listening to craft beer on her lawn mower.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers arrested a man Friday morning

after witnesses reported a slow moving hazard on Suncoast Parkway.

It was a riding lawnmower just after 8:30 a.m., multiple cars

reported a man operating the mower erratically along the southbound

lanes of the toll road near the Citrus and Hernando County line.

Well, that's how you get cops to show up. Tell me. Blew through a toll.

Traffic cameras confirmed the unusual vehicle heading south,

and troopers caught up to it just past the US 98 exit.

The driver, identified as 38 year old Christopher Spain.

That's a poor name if I've ever heard one. Christopher. What?

Spain. Like the country? Oh. Oh, okay. That's. Yeah. All right.

He was pulled over without incident. Troopers say he showed multiple

signs of impairment, including small pupils, flushed skin, dry mouth,

which I want to know how they figured that out. And nasal irritation.

They also noted he had a small blue straw in his back pocket,

and was frequently clearing his throat, sniffing and spitting

during the stop. I'm sure the straw had something

to do with the nasal irritation. I have a feeling you may be correct.

Uh, Spain refused to perform field sobriety tests and was arrested

for driving under the influence. He was taken to Hernando County Jail

and released later that day on only $500 bond. Yeah, there you have.

It. Sounds about right. Yeah, he was only one gator

short of a full bingo card. What a story. What a story.

What a man. All right, that's it. Flex. That's it. All right.

Good to see you, buddy. Yeah, it's good to be seen.

Yeah, it's been way too long. Tell you what.

I'm gonna hit some music, gonna head up on out of here,

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