Burn it down. BURN IT DOWN Good entrance music. It's so good. So is this. Okay. Yeah, I'm kai. I'm kai. I'm kai.
I'm kai. I'm kai. Pretty good. Welcome to everybody's the crap favorite I'm kai. I'm kai. Thank you all for drinking. Thanks for joining.
I am still that asshole Greg. Be enjoyed. I'm kai. Flex over there. Yeah, I'm just. I'm doing pretty okay. I'm kai. I'm kai. You're sounding more like the seagulls from Nemo at this point. That's what you do.
The faster you say it, you just start sounding like that. Yeah, it's true. And then in sounding much more intelligent by not talking is buddy Zach over there in Indiana. What's up? What's happening everybody? I love the shirtless jacket
situation. We're getting just like a little cleavage. Just a little bit. Yeah, I wish. It's a little hot in here. I need a little draft, you know. Yeah, we can see the chest tattoo like a good portion of it, but it's still a little teasing at the same time. A little
spin it around town. Yeah. Who's the lady on your chest? Actually, this is like an old 1920s absinthe ad now a beer tattoo. Oh nice. Wow. Just went full nipples. Yeah, we saw that. I wish people, I wish this was a video
podcast. I wish people could see it. Check out our OnlyFans. That'll cost you $29.99 a month. That what people charge. Totally fucking worth it. Or just talk to Flex. He has a really good
ability of like finding OnlyFan leaks. Hey, no, that's, you know, maybe. If you had Indiana Trash Jesus, OnlyFans, like, come on. OnlyFans.com slash indianatrash Elvis.
That's Zach's new name, by the way. Yeah, we decided that due to his nice attire. Indiana Trash Jesus. Elvis. Yeah, not Jesus. Elvis Jesus. Why do we have to limit ourselves? Sky's the limit.
All right. Enough of that. We're so sorry, everybody. Follow us on the socials. CrappyRepublic, of course, FlexMeBeer, underscores in between, and OGBeerDude, underscores in between. If you want to like leave us any voicemails or anything, you know, 805-538-BEER. All that good stuff. Lots to talk about
tonight. Some booze news. Mel is sending us, she sent us a video because we talked about some things and she has opinions about it. We talked about some things. We did some stuff. Yeah, ate some dry roast. All that good shit. Some booze news. We got a list. At least
one list to get to tonight. A love list. Just to see if we can piss Lex off. But before we get any further, I'm feeling much more sober than I ever intended. So if you don't mind, I'm going to talk about a beer. Please do. I'm just a boy
with a beer. I love my beer. I love my beer. I love my beer. I love my beer. Sorry, we're just deep throating beers.
Tonight, we did a little, you know, I should have talked about this last week on the show. I'll talk about it super quickly. We did a nice little like Ventura Brewery Hop last week. Sounds nice. Yeah, we hit up VCBC. It's where we talked to Jerry from Daughters about the upcoming
live show. Then we went over to Transmission Brewing who has this amazing rooftop deck that is 21 and over. No kids allowed. And you get a nice little ocean view while you're there where you're drinking your beer and eating your wangs.
And then... Eating your what? What was it? Your chicken wangs. Oh, 21 and over. It's fine. Exactly. Wang eating allowed. I was ready to fly out immediately. You get to do what?
Come on out, dude. I'll take you. You can have the lower seat. And then from there on our way home, we stopped at what I'm drinking tonight. We stopped at Casa Agria, one of my faves. So good. And so for that, I am drinking...
Look at the can art. I am drinking Strata Stunts. I like that. It's an IPA, double IPA technically. It is 8%. Has a 404 ununtapped. And they say dropping in from over 10,000 feet is this double dry hopped hazy double
IPA maxed out with maximum hop oils. Our first leap of Columbus Cryo, then the Motueka Sup Zero Keef from Freestyle Hops was added. I don't even know what that was. I've never even heard of that. Yeah. Later we pulled the Citra
Cryo and the Strata CGX. And finally we had to deploy more reserve Strata on the stage for Downwinder. This is so good. Let me get my schnoz in there. Sounds like a whole lot of daddy in that can. So much daddy.
Like all the daddy. It's very tropical. I'm getting like some pineapple and some citrus on the schnoz. Here's where we warm things up. Oh, there it is. Oh God, that was dirty. That was super dirty. God, we need a
video of this. Oh, this is so good. First of all, Flex approved. Very soft mouthfeel. Outstanding. It is cloudy. There's some nice lacing left on my glass. I see that. That's very nice. All that tropical
goodness, some pineapple, some orange. I'm getting, I don't know, maybe that's like a papaya type of flavor coming in there. And just an bit of dink on the finish to clean things up and make you want more.
I'm going to have to do some digging. I had a beer about a year ago. Me too. I couldn't remember the hop they used in it. They said it was some Michigan grown hop. They said like one of the strong prominent notes on it was papaya.
And I was like, that's preposterous. Preposterous papaya? A hop that, like the biggest note is papaya. And I took one sip of the beer and I was like, holy shit, this is like drinking papaya juice. And I was completely blown away. Nice. So good. I'll do some
research and let you know. It was funny. We had done like a whole day of hanging out and drinking and we were about to pass Casa Agria. The wife was like, do you think we want to stop for some Casa? And she's like, well, we've had enough beer. I was like, we'll just have one. We'll just have one beer and then I'll get a
four pack. And that's exactly what we did. But whenever I'm like, I just have one, then she usually lets me stop. What I like to do is if I'm at Casa just having one or there does not exist or something like that, I always have the one that I know they have in cans. I'm like, is it a good one? Oh, it's a good one. I'm getting
cans of it. That's smart. Yeah. I'm no dummy. I am no dummy. Not just a hat rack. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, man. So much has happened over the last week or so. Uh, first I gotta brag a little bit. We
went out to Trivia. The wife and I went out to Trivia at Naughty Pine and we teamed up with the likes of Devin, Deb and Brian Deb, of course, on the show. Um, was it a theme trivia? No, just like, you know, brewery trivia. It's the first time we've ever done it, though. We've never like officially gone to a breviary. Wow.
A brevia? Ah, brewery trivia. I like that. Come out for brevia. Ha ha ha ha ha. It also sounds like a coffee from Starbucks, but uh, I'll take a grande brevia, please. Ha ha ha ha ha. Uh, so we, the four of us went out. We teamed up. First time
ever. We got second place. Nice. Dude. Yeah. So we got a $10 gift card to Naughty Pine that's like a beer and a half, you know. That's it. Come on Naughty Pine. It was really, it was just the pride. We wanted to tell everyone to go fuck themselves. And we got to tell everybody but one team to go
fuck themselves. You can still tell that one team to go fuck themselves. Who cares? You may have. Yeah, we kind of did. Yeah. Bunch of nerds. Well, they had six people. We only had four. We were like three points away. I was so pissed. They got this bonus question that we did not get and that was the difference. That's stupid. We went out for
yeah. We went out for trivia once. Uh, me and my friends this, um, bar uh, advertiser doing It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia trivia. And we were like the biggest It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans that we knew. And uh, but again
we got second place because we tied and we lost the sudden death question. Ah, horseshit. Yeah. It was like which uh, they want to know which year they won like some kind of an Emmy. They won an Emmy for something or something or another. It was towards the end, wasn't it? And it was like
closest answer wins. Yeah. We didn't get it. Sons of bitches. Fuckers. Well, I hope Yeah. I hope you guys approve of our name. Um, we're having a hard time coming up with one and I came up with this one. I was really proud of myself. Prestige Worldwide. That's pretty good. Ah, boats
and hoes. Classic. Classic. Yeah. Prestige Worldwide. It was great to hear the reality. Wide. Wide. I just hope you did that every time they said it. And Prestige Worldwide. Yeah. Wide. Wide. Wide. Well, when we were trying to come up with the names, my first name of course was Deez Nuts and I was like how great would it be? They're like
alright on the scoreboard we have Deez Nuts in first place and I was like come on guys and the wife was a little shy about it so we went with Prestige Worldwide. God, Shannon, open up a little bit. Come on. I know. She's not as horrible as a person as I am, you know. I'm working on it.
We've, you know, gone up on close to ten years of horribleness and I've made a dent. Are you trying to get better or are you trying to drag her down? No, I'm trying to drag her down. Oh, so you're like, okay, alright, cool. Yeah. That's always the goal. Who the fuck wants to get better? I want her
to get on my level to where she can hear a fucking trivia guy yell out Deez Nuts in front of children. Come on. There were children. There was this one weird kid who kept coming over to our space and like stepping over our beers and stuff. There was a fireplace there
and we had our beers in the fireplace. And finally, the third time he came, I was like, hey, bud, do you think maybe you could just go around next time? We've got beers and food and the dog was there and he looked at me like I had just smacked him across the face. I was like, okay, that's not gonna happen. Well, that's just a kid whose parents
don't tell him no. Oh. He's a feral child. Exactly. I feel like Zach would be good at doing trivia. He's got his own doggy door at home. We like trivia, I guess. We didn't sign up for it. I mean hosting. I feel like you'd be
the perfect trivia host. Do we need to... So we'll do a quick little In college, I worked at an Applebee's. I hosted trivia under the name MC Muffin Buns. That was a thing. That's awesome. Did you have enough pieces of flair? Yeah.
I actually don't remember how many pieces of flair. We did have to wear flair. It was terrible. I want to let the people know that I had no idea that he had done trivia. I just feel like you're the perfect trivia host. I should try to do a trivia night. Just crazy
off the wall shit that nobody would ever know. Stupidest shit ever. Super bizarre questions. Like throw in some crazy shit. Like, hey, what was the beer that Greg drank on batch 146? Oh, you don't know that? You're disqualified. Get the fuck out. Yeah. Just buy or rate them.
You're stupid. You don't get a $10 gift card. You owe us $20. Get the hell out of here. You owe me money for being here doing this. First place winner gets to buy me a beer. See you next week.
Yeah. What would you even call that? Like backwards trivia? No, we would just stick to the name you have now crowned upon my mulleted head. It would just be Trash Elvis. It would just be Trash Elvis trivia. I like that.
That's pretty good. We're going to go. We're going to Ted, man. Yeah. Tet night. Trash Elvis trivia. I like it. I'd sign up for that shit in a heartbeat. Just like you never know what's going to come at you. Yeah. I might try to do that.
You should. And like have some weird bonus where like if you don't wear a shirt, you get bonus points or... That's actually a brilliant idea. This is actually... I'm not kidding. This started as a joke. This is actually a really good idea. 100%. This is a really good idea. Flex, we have to go to Gary Adjacent and play
Trash Elvis trivia. It's not even kidding. It's like a two-hour drive for me to go there. I know. It sucks. I had to reschedule on Flex, too. We were so stoked to come up there and we had to reschedule. I was bummed. How dare you? I was all planned for it. I heard Flex went through lots of Kleenex that day.
I wasn't crying. I went and waxed everything. You were bleached. I'll take you as you are, Zach. It was for the drive. It's aerodynamics. It's science. Yeah. It's all about that gas mileage. Gas is so expensive these days.
I know. Oh, God. All right. What else? Zach, what are you drinking over there? I am trying out some of these new non-alcoholics I keep hearing so much about. I got to see what it's all about. I am drinking mash gang out of the UK.
The beer is called Chug. These guys are doing some cool stuff because it's a beer that doesn't taste like shit. Most non-alcoholics are not the greatest. They're getting better, but these actually taste like beer. Yeah. I can attest to the not the greatest
part. I can't attest to it, but I have a friend who's gone sober and he's been getting into some NA's and he brought one over the other day and he said, Hey, this one tastes kind of okay. Do you want some? I said, No, thanks. Hard pass.
He only brought one, so I didn't want to take a sip out of his only one beer, but I said, Is it good? He said, Eh, kind of. Yeah. That's pretty much what it's been. It's kind of a bummer. I can't really partake right now,
which is no big deal, but this one's good. They're out of the UK. I don't know where they sell them. I've got a guy close to who sells them. It's a double dry hopped hazy IPA and it tastes like a double dry hopped hazy IPA. It's pretty crazy how good this beer
actually is, to be honest. I like that you have a guy for UK NA beers. Yeah. This is a new thing, a new relationship. We're still in the first part of it. Sure. Still in the honeymoon phase. Zach was telling me before we got on air that he actually cracked it open
for some family members and some brewers even, and they were completely shocked that it wasn't an actual beer that it was NA. It was this morning, actually. We had a meeting with the local brewery that I actually currently work for. Dear friends, we
cracked it open, didn't tell them what it was and they were just like, man, this is so good. What is this? I'm like, oh, it's non-alcoholic. The owner and head brewer just looks at me and he's like, get the fuck out of here. I'm like, no, it's a non-alcoholic beer, man. So they're doing some cool stuff, Mash Gang, out of the UK.
Mash Gang, alright. We'll be on the lookout. I've tried a couple out here. I won't say any names because they weren't anything to report. Fair. Yeah, that's good. I mean, I know it's the new popular thing. I keep seeing like athletic brewing popping up. I haven't had any of their shit yet. Well, that was one of the
beers that was kind of good. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't have huge faith. They're not terrible. They're not terrible, okay. They're not great, they're not terrible, and weirdly enough, the Heineken Double Zero, and it pains me to say this, it pains me to say this, it's actually pretty good. You're like the fifth person to say
that to me. It's a good beer. For what it is, it's decent. Well, I guess here's the real question. Do you like regular Heineken? No. Good God, no. No one actually likes actual Heineken. Because to me, the Heineken Double Zero just tasted like a light beer without alcohol in it.
Were you drinking beforehand? No, no, it was my first beer of the day. Oh, well, shit. My wife got a sample in like one of those FabFitFun boxes, and it sat in her fridge for a couple months. I was like, I'm just going to fucking try this. And I tried it, and I was like, this tastes like
Heineken, but worse. Oh, that makes me feel even worse now, because I think Heineken is trash. Dude, Heineken is trash. It is such trash. But maybe, I mean, this was like two years ago, maybe they've worked on a recipe? I don't know. I don't know. Somebody else told me they like the Heineken Double Zero, and I was
shocked and amazed, because they work in the beer industry as well. Yeah. I just like, I couldn't. My buddy who's gone sober, I was telling you, the one who said the athletic was iffy, he said he loves the Heineken Zeroes. Yeah. Weird.
It's, I mean, like I said, for what it is, it's I think it's, I'll, I will go as far to say it's a good beer, honestly. Maybe my tongue's broken or something. I don't know. Or maybe they reformulated or some shit. I don't know. The only way I'll try it is if he brings it over to me and says, hey,
do you want to try this? And you'll go, hmm. Nah, I'm good. Does our friendship rest upon me trying this? Nah, it's cool. Hey, you know I got beer, right? Like, I'll be alright.
And we have actual beer here. He was even saying, because he's like, I'm not gonna not drink forever. He's like, I'm eventually gonna start drinking again. Sure. He's like, but if we go out, like, or if he goes out disc golfing, he said, I have no problem doing, like, half Heineken
zeros and, like, half regular beer and just, like, mixing them in together and, like, having, like, in-betweeners. Like, that's the craziest shit I've ever heard. It's crazy, too, like, how many people in the industry that I know that are making that switch.
Calories, carbs, alcohol intake, the whole kit and caboodle. And they're, I mean, they're really just, companies are starting to make some cool shit that's non-alcoholic. Yeah. I'd say disc golfing is, like, the one place where I would drink shit beer. Regular golf is my shit beer time. Oh, I can't golf or shit. But I can
do either, guys. It generally shocks people because the way I look, I'm an actual I'm an avid, I love golfing. You better drill to the course looking like that. Yeah. No, we were at the simulator Saturday morning, like, bright and early. Do you have to have, like, customized clubs? Because you're like 6'6".
6'6", no, I use standard clubs. Generally, women's or children's clubs. Break them a lot. No, I should have regular clubs. I just don't want to spend the money, so I just use standard clubs. Okay. I'm a cheapie. I'm a cheap dude. I feel that.
Yeah, I appreciate that. Daddy like, daddy very cheap. Just for you two. Ooh, alright, we're gonna end this one early. Good night, everybody. And we're out. Alright, we're off the air, right? Okay. I'm Mr. Cheap, that's why I have an algorithm. That's right.
But yeah, I like getting some, like, some shitty beers, like some Tallboy Saporos or something, hit the disc golf range. I do like Saporos. Yeah, it's funny. I used to stop, I used to play with my buddy, this guy I used to work with, we used to play all the time, and the liquor
store I'd pass on the way to the course, like, they always had Tallboy three packs of Saporo, and I was like, perfect. A three pack? Three pack. Three pack of Tallboys. And so I just buy a three pack, and I'm like, and so I just buy a three pack, and my disc golf bag also doubles as
a beer bag, so I just roam in there and we hit the course. Interesting. Yeah. And aren't those the cans that are made out of, like, basically an entire car wheel? It's about 15 inches thick, and weighs 12 pounds, the can does? No, not this one. This is just like a regular Tallboy.
Reformulated, I swear. Yeah. Now, now improved to give you cancer as well. But like, Saporo, when they bottle, too, they do like 16 ounce bottles, and they do 22 ounce bottles as well. Is that what they do? Because when you go to our local
sushi joint over here, if you order a Saporo, they'll ask you if you want, like, a small or a large. Yeah. And then when you get, like, the 22 ounce, the bottle is just so stupid looking at the fucking table. You know what's funny? When we get sushi, we always get Kirin.
There's a few places around here that have that, but mostly it's Saporo. Oh. I think I'll go Kirin over Saporo when I'm at the sushi joint, and wife just drinks whatever I drink. I'm going to have to take that into consideration. Give it a shot. And keep my eyes peeled the next time I'm out, Grant. Yeah, yeah, give it a
shot. Please. Hot Sake and Kirin, that's our jam. Ah, Hot Sake, yeah. You know? Not a big fan. Cold Sake guy. Yes, cold Sake. Like, when you go to the Hibachi restaurant, and the guy tries to squirt it in your mouth from 13 feet away. What about the Sake? And
out of context, I'm sorry. If you're just joining, we're talking about Sake. Sake. Sake. Sake. Right in your mouth. Yeah. But yeah, that shit's awesome. Well, I love Hot Sake, but it's probably because I am uncultured and don't actually
like Sake. Otherwise, I would then like Cold Sake. I feel like if it's hot, you get way more, like, flavor compounds. I feel like you're tasting way more than when it's cold, I feel like. I agree. Really? Because when it's hot, I'm like, oh, that just goes down like nothing. When it's cold, it's like, oh, I tasted that. See, maybe you're the cultured one. Maybe we're the uncultured swine.
No, because that's what they teach you on, like, distillery tours and stuff. That, like, drinking anything at, like, room temperature, you get, like, more of the flavor of whatever you're drinking. But I've read, so if anybody knows, please check me. Oh, we got a reader in here.
Sorry. Words and shit. I had Siri read to me. There it is. Oh, Siri's now trying to talk to me. I read that hot sake is usually the lower quality sake, and that's why they heat it up. Oh. So, I don't know. If
any sake experts out there, please let us know. When it's coming out of a red plastic bottle from 13 feet away, I don't think it makes that big of a difference. Agreed. But, Greg, you totally missed the opportunity to say sake it to me. Sorry about that. Opportunity missed. I may be drinking
a little bit. All right, where were we on this rundown that's in front of me? I don't know. Are we even recording? I don't know. Oh, shit. We're not, you guys. Hold on. Welcome in, everybody. A couple things to get to before we talk about some news. I did want to run
down real quickly that the wife and I went up to Paso Robles over the weekend. I had the world's shittiest week at work last week. Allow myself to introduce myself. His name is Hov. It was one of those weeks
where I was working 12-hour days every day and then we had a trip planned up to Paso for some sort of important stuff and then we were also going to do some wine tasting while we were up there and then the boss was like, you might have to cancel your trip. I was like, oh, geez.
We've got to return the TV. Yeah, exactly. We've got to return the bodies in the U-Haul van that I rented. Luckily, last minute, we were able to keep the trip. The shitty thing was, Friday night, we didn't leave town till like 8.30 so we got up there at like 12. He's so fucking tired. That blows. Yeah, but Saturday morning,
we had to take care of some shit and then after that, we had some wine tasting to do. We did a lot of wine tasting and I'm sure people listening to the show don't care about wine tasting, but two things they might care about. One, we went to our very first Michelin restaurant
and it's called In Bloom and it was a delicious. We fucking fatted out. And then the next day on the way home, we stopped at There Does Not Exist. You love stopping there. Yeah, it's so good. I can't not. I know it's a little hype in California
right now. It's a hype brewery, but God, they fucking earned it. It is so good. They have, and the great thing is whenever we stop, we're always like on a Sunday leaving Paso coming back home and Sundays, they do what they call So-A-Sunday. Their kolsch is called So-A-Sun and they do a half off their kolsch
on Sundays and their kolsch is delicious. We'll get one of those. We'll get a hazy. We'll get some cans. So I'm sure I'll have one on an upcoming show or something, but good. I think you should. You deserve it. I'll take that into consideration. A couple weeks ago,
this has been going on for a while now. I think it started with Vanessa. The corkage, no, actually it started with the Lister submitted thing. I think it was in like Minda, Massachusetts. Minnesota. About recorking
wine on your way out of like a restaurant and stuff. Remember like, we're like, what? You can do that. You can just like have it. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. Flex, you and I were both like, does fuck like you can just pop a cork in. You think you buy the bottle, you got to finish it. Exactly.
Then it's like not finishing your dinner. It's not like you you're like, I'm going to finish it. You're like, I'm going to finish it. You're like, I'm going to finish it. It's like not finishing your dinner. It's not like you you know, yeah, I don't I don't want a doggy bag for my wine. So Zach, what is it in Indiana? Can you
like buy a bottle at dinner and then put a cork in it and take the rest home or do you got a drink on the spot? I need to see if it was updated at one point. You could actually really know if you could actually get wine, drink it, recork it, put it in a bag and take it out. That was actually one law that we did have. Yeah, and it was one of those
things. It was if you wanted to buy a bottle because as you guys know, you get a glass of wine, it pays for the entire bottle. If you're listening and don't know that, you know, buy a fucking bottle everybody. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, you can recork and walk out as long as the bag and receipt were with you,
you're good to go. Okay, here in California, that was mind blowing and Flex same thing. So and apparently in some states you can do it with hard alcohol as well. You can do a liquor. So anyways, Beer Girl Melissa, I'd like to say she called him, but she sent me a video that nobody could see.
Here's here's her talking about that. Apparently they do it in New York too. Well, hello, Craft Beer Republic currently listening to the podcast right now. I stopped for gas. I figured I would just address this very quickly and say that the drinking lawyer who is amazing and awesome
and you should follow him is completely correct in the assumption and not only in Rhode Island, but New York as well. We call it a recorking fee so you can buy a bottle of wine and if they offer a recorking fee, they jam that
cork way back down in there. Yeah, it's allowed. I do think that there's like something they use where you have to like reuse a corkscrew to open it. So it's a little bit safer to drive with. But yeah, we're gutted and gangsta out here.
With her silly little smile before she says we're gangster. Yeah. So hey, California, I'd like to institute this please. You guys don't have that in California really? I don't think I mean I maybe I just need to not drink all my wine see what happens.
But to the best of my knowledge, it's not a thing. Now with COVID we were able to get like cocktails to go and sure that sort of thing. But yeah, I don't think that we can just recork our wine and peace out or even weirder would be to like
recork our liquor or something and walk out. Yeah, I've never heard of that. I don't know. People with like knowledge lawyers interim Brian somebody please. Yeah, intern Brian do your job. Yeah, I got fucking internal right this is why we don't pay you.
Exactly. That's why we don't pay him. The hard liquor thing like can you imagine getting bottle service? Like, you know, I dropped like two gram. I'll take the rest home guys. I only drink a third of this goose. I'm gonna need to take the rest home. Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks. Can you back up my
Petron? Yeah, it pack up that cranberry juice while you're at it, too. I swear like every bottle service I've ever been to it's been gray goose in a giant bottle for like two thousand dollars and then like a carafe of cranberry juice. Yeah, and
about every time to two to four Red Bulls. It's plenty. Yeah, exactly. It's like you guys does nobody drink whiskey in the clubs like what the fuck is going on? Vodka is way cheaper. I guess you can make it out of anything. Potatoes.
Potatoes. Potatoes. You'd think it'd be an Irish drink, but you know. All right. I think it's time that we find out the answer to the most important question of the night. In a world where craft beer is king.
A world where muscles are bigger than growlers. Soap only one tongue can guide us. One man. One tongue. One tongue jobber. In this world, we must find out what
is Flex drinking? Well, everybody today Flex is drinking a pretty cool collab beer out of Eagle Park. It is called Sweet 207 and it is a West Coast style IPA and
there's four breweries that started in this one spot and they kind of all got together to do this little nice IPA here. It's Enlightened Brewing Company, Eagle Park Component Brewing Company and then Torzala Brewing Company
who is currently in the Sweet 207 right now. Oh cool. And I got a new phone. I have no idea what my untapped password is, so I cannot do any more untapped reviews, descriptions, whatever until I get
you know, unlazy, which isn't a word, and just do a new untapped account. I can tell you that 6% and has a 387 on untapped. Damn, nailed it. I could tell you that it is brewed with Chinook
Mosaic Brew 1 and HBC 586 Ops which should finally just get its own goddamn name already. Please, everyone loves the 586. Yeah, nobody wants to keep saying HBC 586. Yeah, what the fuck is Brew 1? I've never heard of that. You've never heard of Brew 1? Like
BRU? I'm looking at it right now. No, I have not. That's crazy. I feel like it's like a semi not common, but not never heard of. Well, I'm semi. Oh, well, Greg, the can here reads
God damn it. Apologies. Straight face, game face. To celebrate the unique story of Sweet 207 in the Lincoln Warehouse and how it has served as the birthplace of four Milwaukee breweries, we wanted to pay tribute
to the shared success of each brewery. Each brewery picked out a hop to showcase in this beer, blending together the unique profiles of the hops to create a well-rounded flavor profile. Oy, that's kind of long for my taste. What she said?
Yeah, maybe. Stretch. We'll take it. That's what she said. So on the nose here, it's a little bit pineapple-y with like some citrus undertones to it. Nothing too super
strong, but it definitely smelled the West Coast coming from it. Without further ado, we'll warm up the old tongue jobber. We're going to dive right in. I'm going to get closer to my screen. Good Lord.
Hey, diver. Look at those jowls. They're pretty ripped jowls, actually. I appreciate that. I've been chewing gum since I was like six. Don't want to brag. So this
beer is kind of nuts because everything you smell on the aroma literally flips right to the taste. It's absolutely insane. You are drinking exactly what you're smelling. Super crisp, super clean. If there's one thing I really love
about a good West Coast IPA, it's when it's not super malted on the back end and it's just really clean, really crisp, almost like a summer crusher kind of beer.
You don't want to give me the shits with all that malt. Yeah, exactly. It's like you really want to enjoy it and just leave you Cheers.
That's cool. I like the concept of that beer a lot. That is pretty cool. Is that one of those developing spaces that you start there and the goal is to build your own brewery? Correct. That's awesome. Epic Brewing down in San Diego. They started a space and then
after they left, Seek Brewing opened up a spot there and they're blowing up right now. The funny thing about this Lincoln Warehouse area, it has that starter spot, that developmental spot and there's actually two
other breweries in the same building on the first level. There's two breweries there, then the one in suite 207, then there's a distilling company right there as well
and then two blocks a walk away from the warehouse is 1840 which is some of the absolute best beer in the entire state. I've heard all about them. I've never had anything from them. Yes.
It's like the beer area of the hipster side of Milwaukee I guess. Nice. I dig it. Alright, a little booze news before we head on out of here. Firestone, this is weird to me. I love Firestone.
They're California born and bred. A few years ago, they were going nationwide, Mr. Worldwide with their 805 beer. Wide, wide, wide. They were going to Utah. They made a special version of 805 for Utah that was under 5%.
They were trying to drop it in every state they could and then all of a sudden they were like, we're going to pull back on 805. Let's bring it back and they kind of overextended themselves a little bit it seems like. Anyways, now Firestone Walker is going to take 805 to both Kansas and Missouri.
Look, great news Kansas and Missouri. Missouri. 805 is delicious. Out here in California, we call it the Bud Light of craft beer because it's light, it's easy to drink, you can find it everywhere. We love it. But 805 is
also the area code of where we live. So I don't know how much that will resonate in other states. Maybe they're hoping people just see that it's Firestone. Maybe. And they don't buy it off the 805? Find out. That's all I got. I have no idea.
I kind of felt like that's why it didn't do so well when they pushed it the first time was because it's 805 and nobody knows what 805 means outside of California. Yeah. Drizzly. Have you guys ever ordered from Drizzly? Not once, not ever. Neither.
Perfect segue. I've never even done Doordash or Grubhub or Uber Eats. I've never done any of that shit. I only recently did that for the first time like, I think, six months ago was the first time I'd ever had that happen. But I've definitely never ordered from Drizzly. I'm not against it, I just
I've never had a need for it. But anyways, they're cutting a hundred jobs. They're laying off a ton of people. I guess Drizzly, now that the pandemic is not on lockdown and has not been on lockdown for quite some time, they're not needed so much. I believe that.
Who likes a good Jack and Coke? Not me. That's my Vegas drink. I actually hate Jack Daniels. Oh really? Yeah, not a fan. 21st birthday, it was the only shot I gagged at. Really?
Yes, and I had like cement mixers, like Three Wise Men, like I think Jack's in Three Wise Men, but yeah, fucking gross. Three Wise Men or Four Horsemen, yeah. Jim, Jack, Johnny, Jose, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Four Horsemen, Rick Flair, Arne Anderson. Oh, wrong thing?
Keep going, guys. Which era are we talking about? Crispin Wah? That's a good era. Yeah, I love that. Crispin Wah. And Dean Malenko being the fourth. Oh, was Dean Malenko a Four Horseman? I couldn't remember that. Yeah, it was Rick, Arne,
Dean, and Crispin Wah. I thought there was some weird... Okay. That was like right before Crisp... That was like prime WCW. It was. It was right before Chris Dean and Chris Jericho went to WWE. Best moves of their careers. Yeah. So, sorry everybody.
Wrestling stuff. Anyways, Jack and Coke. I have a good Jack and Coke diet when I'm at the tables in Vegas. That's about the only time I drink Jack. I don't drink it straight. It's disgusting. They are hitting the shelves with a Jack and Coke RTD nationwide. That's fucking gross.
Yeah. That's fucking gross. I'll do my own mixing, thank you. Blech. Yeah. Like, you know they're not using like Coke... Like, anybody who makes a Jack and Coke, you're using Coca-Cola. Right? Right. It's just a different kind of cola beverage. They're not using Coca-Cola in this
RTD, right? Well, they say they are. Like, Jack and Coke have teamed up. Yeah, no, it's licensed. It's legit licensed as Jack and Coke. Yeah, it's the real thing. Well, I guess... That sounds terrible, but you cannot tell me if they did a Jagerbomb RTD right now
that everybody would win. You're right. Fucking Jagerbombs. I absolutely would. HGH. You need a haircut. Mom! So good. Flex is looking at us like crazy. I know-ish
what you're talking about. Anybody here a White Claw fan? Anybody? Greg, they're my absolute favorite. I knew it. Well, just in time for summer, they're coming out with White Claw Vodka.
That's gross. Isn't that already- Isn't that not already out? It's out now, or soon. They're coming out with regular mango, black cherry, pineapple, and bad regrets. One of those might be made out of actual-
They should have bad regrets. You know what? I wonder if you dig into a little bit of this and find out, like, who's distilling if they're actually distilling their own product, or if they're third-partying it. Doubtful. They're probably third-partying it.
So then you kind of got to wonder who's doing it and maybe find out if it's worthwhile? That's the same people doing Sunny D's shelters. Thank you. It's totally not worthwhile. Which I've heard people have tried and they think it's absolutely disgusting,
by the way. You know what? The Sunny D's? Yes. I have a friend out in Vegas who just tried it. I should ask her how it was. She's all about that trash. Need a full review. We'll end it with this one, Flex, just for you. 20 best breweries in the US.
Ranked. Ranked? Is this like, who did this list? This comes from tastingtable.com. Okay. I'm curious on this. Okay. I'm gonna start doing bird calls.
Hooray! Mine? Mine? Mine? Number 20, St. Darius? Anybody? Not me. Where's it from? Does it say where it's from? No, it does not say where it's from.
Son of a bitch. Next. Number 19. I can get behind this one. Firestone Locker. Yeah. True. We're talking like world breweries. Are we talking US? Number 18, Ballast Point.
I don't know what's going on in my mouth. Me either. Give me some pineapple sculpin, baby. The worst beer I've ever had in my life? Habanero sculpin. Followed up with some grapefruit sculpin. I met the person, the brewer,
who developed the recipe for pineapple sculpin. And he was forced to develop that recipe for, you know, right after they got bought out as a corporate thing. He's like, look, I made it. It was pretty drinkable. Because I turned it over to corporate and they totally shit on it.
I'm like, yeah, I'm not surprised by that. Number 17, Alpine Beer Company. Once upon a time, they were amazing. Then they got bought out by Green Flash. Number 16. Founders Brewing Company. Oh, gross. If you love racism, they're a great brewery.
Anytime I see somebody drinking founders, that's the only thing I can think of. Number 15, Omegang Brewing. I mean, crap. Number 14, Side Project Brewing. I had one of their stouts recently. One of their stouts and
one of their saisons. And they were both really, really fucking good beers. Yeah, they're good. Yeah. Number 13, Bottle Logic. And I had one of their stouts as well. Look at you go. Really good. Yeah, they put out
some good beers. Number 12, Dogfish Head Brewing Company. Okay, that's pretty classy. Yeah. It's just classic. It's boring, but it's classic. Yeah. Yeah. It's boring, but it's my life. Number 11, Toppling Goliath. I really like Toppling Goliath.
Yeah. And I had one of their stouts recently too. Zach, let's hear this. I love Toppling so much, but every god damn beer is the same beer. It's a double dry hopped hazy. Don't tell me they're making 7.8% every single time.
Every single time. It drives me crazy. But that's how hot butcher is too. That's true. I've actually never paid attention to much of their ABVs to be honest. Is it the same? It's like every single hot butcher IPA is 7.5. I've had like two or three. They're all the same.
They switch up the hops, but it's always 7.5. But I do love Toppling. Here's the funny thing. For the Toppling Goliath picture, they posted a stout. At one point out of the top 10 stouts in the world, they had seven of the top 10. Wow, that's pretty good. SR-71, Assassin, Bermacat,
all that stuff. Number 10 on the list, Hill Farmstead Brewing Company. Number nine, come on guys, Funky Buddha Brewing Company. Funky Buddha? Number eight, Bell's Brewing Company. Clearly not a craft
focus here. Number seven, Trillium Brewing Company. That's super popular. Number six, Cigar City. Look, I like some Cigar City beers. Wait, that's over Trillium? But putting them at number six? That's over a lot of people?
Trillium, that's insane. By the way, I still refuse to pay Trillium prices. We've been getting Trillium on the shelf here. 6% pale ale for $25.99. For a four pack? Yeah, I'm sorry. I refuse to
pay for your hype. Hype. Number five, Allagash Brewing Company. I'd like that one. Number four, Treehouse Brewing. Waiting for that. Number three, Russian River.
I was a little surprised to see this this high up, but number two, Three Floyds Brewing Company. Congrats guys. They are still just super popular. It wasn't like I'm surprised because their beer is shit. I'm just surprised because
I didn't think they were that popular. Just had a conversation about them today actually. Was that with Shred? No, with a couple guys at the brewery actually. Just about how big Three Floyds used to be.
They were like Midwest kings of craft for the longest time. And then now they're just kind of there, but they're still super popular. Number two feels high. Yeah. I have a very sour spot for
Three Floyds. Zach looks like he has emotions. I do. I have very personal emotions, but I will leave them there because it is not a brewery where I live that you can really shit on that much. Hey, Robert the Bruce is a really good beer though. It used to
be incredible. Dreadnought, Apocalypse Cow. That's a wormhole. I'm not getting into it. Good for you Three Floyds. Good for you. Laser Snakes. Was that one of them? That was really good. Alright, so number one comes out of California. In fact, it comes out
of San Diego, the Whale's Vagina. Modern times. No, I very much like number one, but to have them as the number one brewery in the country was surprising to me. It's not modern times. It's
not stone. Sierra Nevada. They're not out of San Diego. I don't know where California is. Get your California together, fool. I have no idea what my California geography is. I hardly even know Wisconsin. I know. I'm trying to think of what's out of San Diego that could be number one. Yeah, they distribute for sure.
They're not as big as stone, obviously. I mean I was going to say Green Flash, but is that San Diego? It is San Diego. Is that number one? It is not number one. Thank God, because they're not even Green Flash anymore. That's true. Sweetwater. God.
Yep. I'm on pins and needles. I said I'm on pins and needles. Yeah, here we go. Number one out of San Diego, California. I like them a lot, but I'm a little surprised. Alesmith Brewing Company. Oh, wow. That is really surprising. Yeah.
Look, have you guys had Speedway Stout? No, but I have it at my local bottle shop. Have it. It's delicious. It's good stuff. That's fucking crazy. Number one delicious? No, not number one delicious. That needs to be a beer name.
It should be a beer name. Number one delicious, but a question mark at the end. Number one delicious? Number one delicious. Yeah. That's how good they are. They're number one delicious. I love Alesmith. Brewed with actual motor oil.
Speedway Stout is good. Look, pro tip to anybody who goes to the Alesmith Brewery. They have a little speakeasy off to the side that is actually hidden. The walls blend in with the door and you have to know about it. There's a password you have to get
from the bar top. There's a picture frame with a password. When you get into that speakeasy, it's all the barrel aged shit. They'll do barrel aged beers. They'll do beer cocktails basically where they mix different beers together. I guess that's a couve. I don't fucking know. Anyways, it's
amazing. It's worth the trip to Alesmith just to get into that speakeasy. It's so good. I dig that actually. I like that. It's a fun time. Anyways, alright, that's it. Flex? Angry? Not
angry. Just a bit taken back I guess. Confused? Confused feels more like it. Number one delicious? I think you summed it up right there. Alright, I'm going to add some music over here. I'm going to say hello to Vanessa. What up Vanessa?
Drink it with a straw. That's right. Indeed. Find us all on the Grams. Craft Beer Report. FlexMeBeer, underscores. OGBeerDude, underscores. Zach, two weeks in a row and your internet did not shit out on us.
Thank you so much. So excited. So excited. We got some chest action. We got internet that held up. I am hard as can be. It's like the best time ever really. It really was. Super excited. Let's do it again. Yeah, this is great. So everybody go find us.
Go search for us. 805-538-Beer. If you want to leave us a voicemail, call us, text us, send us nudes, whatever you want. I think that's everything. I hope everyone stays very well hydrated. And on that note, goodnight everybody. Goodnight everybody.
Goodnight.