Hi. I'm so sorry.
I'm such an idiot.
Welcome in, everybody.
It's a craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.
And that was a lot easier to say than it was last week.
I am being joined by the most responsible life insurance
holder in the whole Midwest.
And that is sexy. Lexi. What's up, buddy?
That's not true.
But also happy New Year, Greg.
Happy New Year, bud.
We made. It.
Yeah.
Let's fill the year with lots of new beer.
Yes, I am. I'm on board with that.
It is just us today.
I figure. What the hell? Let's get romantic. Just. Yeah, it's nice.
To bang one out, you know, dual style.
Yeah. It's being one out there when recorded show.
It'll be great. Thing they called it a Dutch rudder.
Double Dutch.
You have.
So yeah so happy new year.
Lots to get to today to talk about.
In our first show of 2023,
I made a purchase that I hope everyone will be excited about.
As I promised last week.
We'll talk about solar palooza.
Don't forget our live show Can up on January 13th and some boos news.
But most importantly, because the end of year brings tons of lists.
We got multiple lists.
I love Rick's lists.
We know we're just 11 up on.
The T-shirt made.
I love lists.
I mean, you already have one T-shirt.
I do a list. On it.
But checked off list.
Yeah, two do check though. So
anyways, don't forget if you're out there on the show, socials go after
and of course flex me a beer.
Underscores in between.
All right, enough talk.
Let's get to some hydration.
I want to tell you guys what I'm sipping on over here.
Oh, I
haven't.
Nothing like having your wireless mouse die. Right?
Is it going to click on something?
I wouldn't know what that's like. Is it? Oh, okay.
Let me tell you, it's annoying.
Superbad. Yeah. Luckily, I have shortcuts anyways.
Nerd stuff I am drinking, pure project brewing
along with birds and beer company collab home for the holidays.
Hey, there you go.
8.8% nice and light has a 4.16 on taps.
Very respectable,
they say, are annually murky and well dirty.
It's already our annual murky double IPA
release with our friends at Virgin Beer Home for the Holidays.
Holidays is back. Pay.
The bat.
This festive brew features a bouquet of our favorite
hops of the year Citra Citra Criollo Roca and strata
aromas of passionfruit jam ripe strawberry and dried mango grace the nose
while flavors of lemon sorbet, guava and orange zest dance upon the palate,
packing a lofty ABV and juicy mouthfeel home for the holidays
mixed in with the beer lover in your life
or just a nice, nice treat for yourself.
And this, of course, is just a nice treat for myself on the sniffer
light sniff, but some tropical fruits
deal tongue java though let me tell you.
Wow your face. Wow.
It came alive like I haven't had this before tonight.
This is my first cannabis one and blue
is tropical lots of passionfruit let's say
like a mango guava vibe going on
and a little just a hint of alcohol at the end.
It's very well in this 8.8%.
I'm sure by the end of this episode it won't be so well-hidden.
But I'm trying to read the list later.
You won't even know the countdown.
Number 910.
Shit.
So anyways, another good murky.
From that sounds like a banger.
Yeah. The homies over at Pure it's bangin. All right.
I really do
wish that people could have seen your face when you took that first sip.
You watch somebody feed Phil on Netflix?
No, I don't watch shows.
Oh, Phil Rosenthal is the creator of Everyone Loves Raymond.
Okay.
He he loves food and he travels weekly.
Did you like the show, Everybody Loves Raymond?
I never got into it.
I was little, young.
I never watched the reruns.
I just wanted to make sure you didn't like it. That's all.
Oh, I just. It was whatever.
I never really got.
Into it, cause, like, then we might have had, like,
a contract dispute for, like, the rest of his podcast.
I didn't want to have to do that.
Now we're safe.
But Phil Rosenthal, the producer, the creator and all that, he's funny.
And he goes all these locations, just the food.
And every time he finds something good, which is every time.
Because I think they cut it out.
If it's not a shocker,
like that's his face, it's always like he and he gets really excited.
So that's a very visual thing that nobody listening can see.
It's super great though.
Like listeners I know like the first time they drink like certain beers, like,
you know, you've never had before and you take that step and your eyes
just kind of like wide and you're like, holy balls.
Like, Yeah, whatever this is is fucking delicious.
It's a great hop combo.
Like, I had this a couple of years ago and it was good.
But this from my memories is even better.
Outstanding. I love it.
I'm a Hasbro. I love it for you.
I love that on it.
And my hazy heart, it beats for you
bum bum.
Bum, bum. Sorry,
I made a bit of a purchase over the last week or so.
All right. You told me I was going to like this.
I think you.
So I am extremely intrigued by this.
My heart's pumping it.
If you recall, a few weeks ago, a couple of weeks ago,
we had our friend Deb on the show and we. Yep.
And do you remember what we were talking about?
Purchasing
Deb's dig stucco?
I bought it this.
How are. You going to do. Anything with it?
It was ten bucks, so I had to.
Currently, if you go it just automatically read.
It redirects you to the CBR website.
But I am working on a very like crude
website where just pictures of famous people named Dick.
Okay, you know, I got a few.
I got like, you know, Richard Nixon and Andy Dick and then.
Yeah, like we talked about.
Yeah, exactly. So that's fucking. Andy Dick.
And to Deb, I will happily hand this over
and gift you the ownership of this if you'd like to do anything with it.
But until then, I'm going to have some dicks up.
Dude, you're making my you're making.
My face too early tonight.
I want to get a picture of Deb, like, doing the thumbs up
Jesus pose from Dogma, you know, like how that be
at the top of the page and then underneath just all of Deb's dicks.
Although it would be great if, like, her
thumbs had, like, tiny faces of dicks on them.
Or just actual dicks or.
You know, that crossed my mind.
But since you're doing famous dicks, that's true.
I didn't want to bring, like, actual dicks into the scenario.
Like a like a Nixon.
Yeah, yeah.
Or imagine like a kid doing a book report on dicks,
you know, and he goes to this website for all these famous dicks
and like, he just sees these two thumb penises, you know.
That's the other him.
I should really like load the echo on the page.
So I give a kids doing a book
report on Richard gear like it loads Deb's dicks stuck.
Maybe.
Do good.
This might be a better idea than we actually thought of, you know, like.
It might be.
I'm excited for it.
So anyways, Deb Zacks.com, you can officially go there now.
Congratulations on your investment.
Thank you. Thank you.
And like I said, Deb, if you want it, I'm happy to the sign over the right.
However that works, please don't send your lawyer, boy or husband after me.
I don't need that lawsuit. Where's my beer?
No, I'm kidding.
Exactly.
So, Deb's Dexcom also.
I mentioned it last week just briefly, but I wanted to spend it.
Deserved more time.
We had Pacioli Palooza at Chu's house a couple of weeks ago
and we had a blast before I get into it.
It looked like an absolute blast, by the way.
I don't know if I said that.
It was so much fun. It was. Wonderful.
They really know what to expect.
You know, we never went to Choose House before, and it was
it was more people than I thought there would be.
It was it was a lot of like friends and family of his or what.
You know, some friends I knew a couple of them.
I'd met them at a beer festival.
He also invited the guys from A1,
a brewing Derek and Brian, who have been on the show.
And so like I hadn't seen them in a couple of years basically since the pandemic.
A couple of
his, you know, like family, friends, whatever, his sister was there.
This is a good time.
And we all shared some good beers and I stayed relatively sober.
I did brew with Monika the next morning,
so I don't want to get fucking shit heard because I was at a drive for you.
DAY Yeah, it was, you know, 45 minutes away, so it's a bit of a drive.
And we'd had this issue lately with Uber's not being reliable
like we can Uber somewhere, but getting a ride home at the in
the night has become nearly impossible ever since COVID.
Then long.
Yeah.
I mean, like during, like the, you know, the heat of COVID can go anywhere.
But even now, it's like you can get somewhere.
But coming home is a real pain in the ass.
Wow, that sucks.
Best case scenario, they charge you like $800 to get home.
So like we we did a surf and suds back in September and we uber all the way there.
And then Wiley and the Bully brought us halfway back to a brewery
where we had a couple more beers because we totally needed those.
And then we tried to Uber back from that brewery, which was,
I don't know, 15, 20 minutes from our house.
And at first we couldn't find an Uber and then when we did it was like $150.
You know, we, we learned that in Chicago
taxi before Uber or Lyft.
Oh, we don't do taxis.
They don't exist.
Oh, they don't. Yeah, there's no taxis.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah.
I mean, like, if you go to the airport, like you go to LAX or something, like,
yeah, sure, there's taxis at the airport, but it's not there's not taxis there.
Well, yeah.
I mean, we learned when we were like actually staying in the city of Chicago,
but like the cab rides are like a quarter.
The price of anything Uber or Lyft was charged.
Yeah, I know.
For a long time the taxis were like, We're getting beat up by Uber.
So I bet they lowered their prices.
Yeah, because we were talking to one of the
bellhops there and we're like, hey, like, how can we get to, like, downtown?
And cause I was like, Yeah,
all these Ubers and lifts are asking like 50 or 60 bucks,
and it was like an eight minute drive into the city. Yeah.
And he was like, Oh, he looked at us these extra.
He's like, do not do that.
He's like, If you're gonna do anything, he goes, Take the $2 train into town.
He goes, or take a taxi and mean there's a train.
I'll always take the train.
It was like it was like a $6 cab ride from our hotel into the city.
So I was. Done.
Yeah. Out here, we don't have taxis, really.
We just have Uber and Lyft, but like.
Like the night before, Pacioli, palooza, the wife had her Christmas
party is at her boss's house, which is a nice house, like out
in the middle of nowhere, kind of like in the mountains.
And the boss was like, Please, Uber here.
And then, you know, I'll reimburse all your Uber costs
because can't park all the cars at her house and then be, you know,
we're all drinking and she hired a bartender is actually a fairly fun party.
You know, the wife's old job is.
Is a new. Boss.
Yeah. She had this job for about a year and a half.
Okay, so, like, the old job had the fucking worst.
I know. I've told the story of, like,
setting the zoom to break mid zoom Christmas party.
Classic story.
But this is actually pretty good. She hired caterers.
She hired bartenders.
It was a good time, but we couldn't leave it in the night.
We couldn't get a ride home.
We tried, and it wasn't even like a matter of
costing too much because she was paying for it.
So who cares? It was just we could not get a ride home.
And finally, one of the directors of something walked by.
I was like, Hey, you guys, guys live not too far from me, right?
Like, yeah, I don't think so.
Like, come with us, like, oh, thank God.
Like, I hope everyone else gets somebody who doesn't live too far from them
because it was it was impossible.
So the night of Pacific Blues, I was like, look, I'm just going to drive
because I got to wake up early the next day after brewing.
And it's I don't know if we'll be able to get a ride home.
So I drove and I didn't get here, but I tried all the beers there really.
At least a little bit that they're born. Oh yeah.
Before I say anymore, Chu did
mid-priced only blues, a record, a voicemail
with multiple members of the party involved, including myself,
because it was like, that's what everybody needs.
Everybody needs to hear my voice in a voicemail
after they just got done hearing more.
Greg I'm great show yeah give it to me, baby.
It's disgusting here.
So no one is available to take your call.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Is to be here.
Crab Republic where celebra stadium
for solar palooza 2022 and next year we're going to hole through everything
I just carry on me but hey they they're down.
I'm down.
All right. So I'm going to pass my former homies.
He was trying to convince Brian and Derrick
the entire night to have next year's Purcell palooza shut down the brewery.
They have. A brewery.
And we're going to just fucking leave a little voicemail for you guys.
You get a surprise, who's honest and who's not.
But this is to your beer and a middle
finger to flex for not being here.
Why leave for not being here, Sandra?
For not being here.
One hot mess for now.
Being here. Marika.
I'm sorry, homie.
I fell in love with your costume, but you give me the middle finger this.
Well,
I don't know.
People might bring you up, so watch out here because they want
Kelly from Booth lying here, also pointing my finger at.
No, she's from crab, everybody. Oh, sorry.
That's a paperwork.
I got it.
So I'm on file to record with them. But
Sandra and Wylie didn't didn't make it, didn't call, didn't show.
So I didn't even show to my friends.
Before you go, there's bad. Yeah. No.
Possibly passing the phone.
Hello?
Hello. Hi.
I'm sorry. He's a senior citizen. This is Brian for me.
When I have holidays, everybody.
I don't know.
Whoever had better goes
next.
What's going on? Is Derek for me.
When they're brewing, just
happy holidays.
Happy, poor soul.
They lose a poor, solid palooza.
So we were dropping to pay for Sundays.
Because if you're not here, you're a loser. Oh.
Yeah.
Happy holidays from all of us here.
And yeah, if you're not here.
Hey. Yeah, I wish
you a beer going now.
Cheers and passing apologies.
I feel like everyone's tired of my voice already, but
thank you to whoever show up and I can't wait for the puzzle.
Even harder for us all a palooza.
Well, there's one more person you ask.
What's is that was Nick big Nick.
Dig, dig, dig, dig.
I guess that but I know.
Yeah, I didn't finish because you guys are good thinking.
That's all right.
This you to your beer palooza you ain't here you are loser and we outs.
I have to explain my comment.
That last line by the way I'm sorry.
So we'd been there for like 2 hours. We're.
We're all drinking. Have a good time.
But we're starting a little hungry as.
Like when some fucking Poseidon passed out, you know?
And so he does his voice.
And so I was like a rabbit, a fun time, basically. Brazil, is it?
Just wait for the puzzle.
Are you part of puzzle, a palooza?
And then shortly thereafter, we ate those good times.
That's awesome. Good, good puzzle.
Oh, my God.
It was so good.
I don't know how you talk about your persona.
Yeah, it was so good.
And on top of it, his mom also surprised us and made some tamales, too.
Oh, no kidding.
Homemade tamales, man.
Jesus Christ.
So good. That's awesome.
Yeah, we took some home, had some for breakfast.
It was delicious.
Sounds like a good hangover cure. Yeah.
So it was a good time to alienate guys.
Brought multiple of their barely aged.
What's it called? Varela.
It's barely a beer that like different barrels.
They put different adjuncts in to like there's a vanilla one, a coco or coco one.
I forgot.
The other one was but really fun, really good stuff.
Chu had a bunch of beers.
I Oh, we made the parsley beer
and I bottled it for the event and brought it down and it was surprise.
Really not bad.
I, I think I talked about it on near like I had low expectations for it
because it had peppers in it and I hate spicy beers, but
surprisingly not bad.
It basically just tastes like a mexican lager.
Pretty, pretty crisp, pretty solid.
Even they when it goes like this is not a bad beer, I definitely drink it.
I was.
Like, Dang, dude, that's looking at you.
Right now.
High praise beer.
Yeah. Come into the night right there.
Love that shit.
So that was fun. Like I said, good food and.
You didn't even need a ride home.
You could have just fucking flew home on that high.
Yeah, you're right.
Everybody jump on. Get you.
Yeah. Who needs Red Bull?
And he got compliments.
My my ego feeds on compliments.
I mean, really, is there anything better than brewing a home?
I got home brew beer and then having. Seriously.
Brewers be like, hey, this isn't that I would drink this.
No, somehow, like as soon as that was said, like my dick start hit my kneecaps is
all over.
Good for. You.
Yeah, it was.
It was pretty good, so I would definitely brew that again.
I honestly, I'd even put just slightly more pepper because you got it.
Just the slightest hint of pepper at the very end.
Like as it started to warm up on your tongue.
Are you hearing yourself talk right now?
I don't want the spice.
I just wanted the flavor.
Heat is one of the flavor and I just wanted a hint of flavor.
And I just.
I wish you could taste it just slightly ever so slightly stronger.
Like, I don't
I don't remember the exact numbers, but let's say we put four peppers in.
I wish you would have put five.
You know, something like that.
Like, just a just a hint more maybe.
So, you know, it's is good time and and killed the keg on that like
I kicked it carved it and then bottled it and brought almost all the bottles.
I saved one for
Monica and James because they can be there have also saved one for them.
Brian And then of course the keg was empty.
So I brewed another beer last week
and brewed a brown ale, which I haven't brewed in a long time.
In fact, I haven't brewed in so long.
I the local brew shop, if you send them your recipe
like they'll get it ready for you.
You just come pick it up.
And he's like, Yeah, we haven't had those hops in a long time.
Wow. Oh, I was like, I have brewed this beard a long time.
He's like, Yeah, we don't have that yeast either.
I was like, I'll do this instead and this instead.
So brewed my. My. Brownell Brown Ale.
It was like
that was one style of beer that took me a really long time to finally enjoy.
Oh, really? Yes, I love it.
I hated brown ales.
That's that's one of the few styles that I liked early in my craft beer experience.
And I still like because like early in my craft beer
experience, I really liked Chef License and I can't fucking drink him anymore.
That's shocking.
But brown ales and like, I liked him then.
I like him now and not enough people make them see.
And that's me with Amber.
It was something with the brown ales, like the roasty and the malty.
Like it just didn't agree with me.
And then it was to to trick or treat to go to hell means you go like a dad.
I know. I got kids
we brought up.
I think my sister in law's husband bought the new Glarus
sampler pack or Variety Pack, and it had the fat squirrel in it.
And that's the brown ale.
And I was like, You know what?
I'm going to back in practice and I'm going to try it out.
And it was really fucking enjoyable.
And I was like, Well, I guess after, you know,
13 years of drinking beer, I finally like brown ale.
I look, they're, they're easy to make, but for some reason, not
everybody makes them well, like you can,
you can get a bad brown ale and that that totally turns you off.
I could go to and like one of my favorites
is from Mammoth brilliant they're double that brown
and while the name sounds a little homo erotic, I.
Feel like I feel like a lot of breweries have, like, a nut.
BROWN Mm.
I call mine these nuts.
Brown I. Like it. Yeah.
So they'll be ready in a few weeks, so can't wait for that.
And then lastly, I will say, don't forget live show
January 13th petals and pints for the guava goes.
You got a name for this beer?
No. In fact, you know, it's funny.
I'm glad you mentioned that I need help with
and I've decided, like, I'll put together, like, a small little swag
pack or something if the name we choose is your name.
Yeah, I got stickers and keychains and that kind of shit.
I'll put a little something together for you and
help us name it.
Mail Craft Republicans and it's in your name submissions.
It's it goes with guava. So guava goes to.
Guava or pink guava is.
There a non pink guava?
And I get like a green guava in that work or.
No, no, but I don't know.
But the brewery, like I said, petals and pints.
So, you know, if you keep it on theme with that,
I'm sure they'd like it even better, but not necessary.
Or if it's somehow on theme with craft beer republic, you know.
Yeah, you know, what you could do is just do guava, but change that
A to an E like in gosa.
So it looks like guava,
but it's really just a guava.
So it's stupid.
Do not send me a swag back.
You know, not to worry about. That.
We are not using that name.
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
It's been a long night, huh?
Yeah, you're welcome for that.
You know, goal is somebody just laughed
right there and I'm going to take that one of my grave some.
I just laughed at you, not with you. Hey, whatever.
They laughed, Greg.
Laugh is a laugh.
You're welcome. Person
you've been entertaining.
Are you not entertained?
They're like. Maybe.
Oh, yeah, well, let's
let's break up the entertainment with an important question.
Well, actually, not an important question, but like a follow up
to getting cheap on beer.
And on a budget we can buy.
That is like, you know, there's booze
in your beer or whatever it is.
So we, we also beer.
So flower camp, you know,
this boozy Hudson malts
oh my stay quote guess it wasn't on a budget.
I am so glad flex chose this beer because I haven't played that song in so long.
Well, there's a funny story about this beer, a couple of funny stories,
but it's a full circle thing.
So sometimes
my wife is cool and that came out wrong.
So sometimes
my wife enables like my my beer thingy, right?
My beer dress.
So we went to Trader Joe's a couple of weeks ago
and she's always like, you know, I was going to start looking at the beer
and she's like, Hey, I just want to look through here and here.
We can come back around and look at this.
So I was like, Okay, that's pretty sweet.
Like, I'm going to look at beer and she's totally cool with it.
So they had all these
Bomber Stouts, right?
And the top shelf, top shelf stuff meant that
they were 398 for, you know, a 22 ounce bomber.
And it was like a box lava or
Bob Bob Baklava stout and
a tiramisu
stout and a 12 month barrel aged up.
And the baklava and the tiramisu sell through like $3.98 a bottle.
And all I did was find the ABV on the bottle.
It was 8%.
I'm thinking 398 four 8%, 20.
That's stupid, right?
That's like that's a fucking algorithm. Right?
And this I picked up this tiramisu because I figured
I like the adjuncts in it because I'm a douche bag like that.
And you're an adjunct. Yeah.
It's like a cartoon episode.
Tiramisu, and it's definitely algorithm worthy, right?
Yeah, baby.
The price, the bottle art, I guess here.
So I bought it and I just kind of like kept it aside.
Bike didn't really have plans on drinking it anytime soon.
Figured it's a beer.
I got a Trader Joe's and it was 398.
So then Greg said, Hey,
what beer you drinking on the show tonight?
And I said, You know what?
I said this.
I might be drinking this Trader Joe's tiramisu STOUT And I looked it up
on Untapped to find out that Greg actually rated
this beer two years ago.
And I said, you know what, three years ago was it?
I thought it was Jan 2020.
Oh, my gosh.
So almost three years ago. And I said, You know what?
I got to fucking drink this beer.
So that is the full circle story of this.
And I believe it's a camp analogy.
Am I saying that right?
Yeah. Camp analogy brewing.
Apparently wanted Wisconsin.
Is that accurate?
I mean, it's not a bottle.
It is.
It's a contract brewing situation.
Correct. That's I did a bunch of research three years ago.
I did a bunch of research and. Well.
I kind of find the actual brewery.
So I'm assuming what went on is they signed a contract with Untitled Art,
who does a lot of contract brewing.
I don't think it was until I forget who was.
I did. Octopi.
Yes, yes.
They're like, oh, it's like they're all in cahoots.
Okay. Like octopi and untitled art.
And I think there's one more
because I know they do
brewing for like a humble forager
and they do brewing for collective arts every now and then.
So now that all makes sense.
So anyway, Greg raided this apiary for
4.00 and out of over 4000 ratings, it's got a38.
So it's, it's not bad.
Yeah.
For a beer you find on a shelf at Trader Joe's for $3.98 everybody.
But when I got it, I think it was under $2.
And that's insane.
Yeah. So it's. Inflation.
It's pretty simple.
It is a style brewed with vanilla and chocolate
says this is dessert in a bottle.
Pour over vanilla ice cream or pair with cannoli or a slice of tiramisu.
I'm doing none of that and I'm just drinking it.
I love tiramisu as a dessert.
It's it's not my top dessert.
It's probably more towards the bottom.
I'm like a big cheesecake guy. Okay.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's just what I do.
But smell in this beer,
it is a lot of chocolate and vanilla, just like they say on the bottle.
It's actually almost more fudgy than it is chocolate,
but that's just like the pretentious asshole of me.
So now we will dove right in.
So this is a lot more carbonated for a stout than I would usually like.
It's quite effervescent.
Mm hmm.
But the chocolate notes are humongous on it.
It is a bit roasty.
You get the vanilla towards the back end and
not one single bit of that 8% abv.
So if you were to pour this for me,
add a bottle share and then say, what would you think about this beer?
I would never think,
hey, it's a $4 bomber at Trader Joe's.
Sure.
You know, this is definitely like a
more than mediocre beer.
It's a very enjoyable stout.
I'm actually almost finished with that.
But 22 ounces and we're you know, who knows how long into the show.
But yeah, I would say this is a pretty a pretty decent drinking beer.
And if you do see it out there, I would suggest
Roxanne grabbing a bottle because you can't go wrong.
I remember enjoying it, so I looked it up.
We had it on batch 184 in January.
January 21st. Was a lot of batches ago.
A lot of batches ago.
I think it was called something else at that point.
We won't get into that.
And at the time I found the original untapped stats that I pulled it.
That time it had a383, an untapped
and and a 92 on beer advocate. So.
Wow. Yeah. That's impressive.
The beer advocate.
That's yeah.
So it sounds like it stayed around the same 8%, still 8%. So
yeah, I got to go fight.
I know they still haven't had a had since then.
I should, I should go find one. Yeah. I suggest you do that.
I been a while, you know, and.
I'm not a big stout guy, you know?
Anybody who listens to the show knows that.
Yeah, cause you're a newsboy.
I am. And I'm proud of it.
But this beer is very, very enjoyable.
I remember it being pretty fucking good, so I just.
Honestly, I just wish it was a little less carbonated.
That's. That's about it. Yeah.
That could be a little bit of a turnoff, especially with a dessert beer.
Uh huh.
Kind of like that slicker, smoother silkier mouthfeel to it.
But, uh, yeah, I'll.
I'll take this one and run man.
Camp analogy does some good.
I mean look I haven't had them probably since I have that tiramisu on,
but like I've had a few other beers, they're all boozy on a budget
and they put out some good stuff and maybe it's like you said, maybe it's untitled
art, people making it.
So it would make sense at that point.
Yeah, yeah.
But not not shabby.
If you see any camp analogy at Trader Joe's, give it a shot.
Yeah, obviously do another one.
It's like homework for anybody.
Like if you are in Trader Joe's. Yeah.
You know, pull out the Abraham Lincoln and just try it out.
The babe
or him.
Oh, very nice. All right.
We'll get a couple of new stories before we get to these lists.
Uh, there is a serial drug dealer in New Zealand.
His name is Gregory.
What an asshole. Shocker. Yeah.
He appeared and the. Oh, God.
Oamaru District Court this week following an incident on November six
when he called, I guess there 911 is 111, which makes sense.
It's much easier to do. Yeah, it really is.
Yeah. Fucking New Zealanders.
Oh yeah.
He called 112, one, three, four people brawling at his home
arriving within one minute of the call and expecting to break up a fight.
Police found Gregory alone and asleep at the time
the defendant was too in talks kid to provide police with an explanation.
He was arrested and taken to the
Oamaru police station to
sober up upon checking his details, police confirmed
that the fictitious report had originated from his phone.
Judge Jim Large That's a poor name
if I've ever heard
address the defendant saying clearly
alcohol is one of the driving factors of your offending.
The defendant had 13 convict sessions
of making malicious calls to emergency services.
The court heard the court is running out of options. Mr.
GEER will come.
GREGORY You were told if you ever did it again, you'd go to jail.
The defendant had recently experienced hard times with his mother
dying earlier in the year,
leaving him with nowhere to go and no emotional support.
He admitted he shouldn't have done it and said alcohol was partly to blame.
This kind of offending wasted everybody's time and put people who needed
police attention at risk. The judge said.
You don't know what situation you're pulling them away from.
Gregory was shown leniency and sentenced to two years
of intensive supervision,
and he and the judge assured him that this would be his final warning.
So don't get drunk and down 911.
So he's calling the cops
basically 14 times 42.
I tell you what, three years ago when I got my new iPhone.
Yeah they had that the emergency call when you triple triple clicked the hold.
Yeah.
Did you do it.
Accidentally at three in the morning when I was trying to snooze my alarm
and my phone, you know, the alert sound was like one
when I started going off and I no idea what the fuck was going on.
So I turn off my phone and to find out that I called 911.
Sure.
And then they. Probably called you. Back, right?
They did.
I actually went to the bathroom and I turned the shower onyx.
I was trying early for work and I let the shower run and I
was standing outside waiting to see if they were going to call back.
And sure enough they did.
And they're like, hey, you know, did you just call us?
How can we help you?
Like, What's wrong?
And I was just like, I'm such an idiot.
I just got a new. Phone.
And I tried turning my alarm off and I called you guys instead,
and I'm like, I'm so sorry.
I feel like such an idiot in there.
Just it was just like, immediately, like, hang up.
There is no, like, that's okay.
Or like, I understand.
And it's just like, nope, just like click like they got better shit to do that.
Like, fuck you, Mr. Abir. Yeah, never again.
They're just like, what a stupid, stupid feature on a phone.
Well, I had a similar situation happen to me.
Do you have an Apple Watch?
Yes. Okay. Have you updated it recently?
Whatever the last update was, I don't know.
So like back in.
So if anybody has an Apple Watch, there's two buttons on the side, ones
like the main crown, as they call it.
And then there's a button that's like flush with the watch
and back in the day, in order to turn off or restart
your watch, you could push the one that's flush with your watch,
and they would come up with a little slider
to power it off and you would slide it off.
Well, there is an update released in September, October, where now
if you hold down that flush button, you get an S.O.S.
slider.
And I did not know it went out at first.
Flex's doing it right now. Wow.
So I didn't know this.
So I needed to restart Baywatch.
I hit the button and I just saw the slider pop up.
I wasn't paying attention and I swiped it.
And then all of a sudden it said calling S.O.S.
and I was like, Oh, God, oh, fuck.
So, like, I hang up immediately too late.
They call me back, and I freaked out and hung up and they call me back again.
I was like, I got to answer. Those are going to send cops out. Yeah.
So I answered
and the like high number one did you cause and I basically do what you did.
I was like, hi, I'm so sorry.
I'm such an idiot.
I accidentally did the S.O.S.
thing from my watch.
Everything is okay, and she's like, All right, thank you.
Click. Yep. Yep.
And I was like, Fuck, they're probably still
going to send somebody out because it's like, maybe it was, you know,
my wife that was calling as I was and she's been abused by me or something.
No one else.
Luckily, no one. No. My lab, my wife.
Yeah. So no one showed up.
I was like, oh, my God.
So now I'm very careful.
And every step of my yeah.
I tag. I'm glad you told me that.
I did not know that.
Yeah, I, I found out the hard way.
So don't do what I did, everybody, because I'm dumb, stupid apple.
Yeah.
I mean, but you know what?
I'm sure that's probably saved a few people, right?
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad it's a feature,
and I'm glad it's so easy to dial 911 if you're in a predicament.
But we were so set on how we did one thing that to then make that the S.O.S..
Yeah yeah.
Maybe something different could have been done
because now when you press it, you see the S.O.S.
but at the very top of the screen is your small.
Power icon.
Yeah, yeah.
I was not paying attention and I just updated my watch.
So I also hope this helps somebody who's trying to turn their watch off.
Don't be dumb like me.
I wish I could tell you I was hammered. I was sober.
It is could be is like ten in the morning when I did it.
And it's an honest mistake.
It was, I swear.
All right. A couple of lists for you.
First is the top ten craft breweries
with the most five star check ins of 2022.
Is it camp analogy.
Number one, Kevin?
This, of course, comes from Untappd.
We'll start with number ten, Dogfish Head.
Okay.
I assume their minute IPA is there.
Yeah, the 120, if you're looking to get fucked up is an easy way.
What do they do? 60, 91, 20. Yeah.
120 is like it varies from year to year, but it's between 16 and 20%.
Okay.
I have I have a 26 my friend.
Hey, you come on out here.
I'll crack up. Crack it. Sheath.
Yeah.
Number nine, Yingling Brewery.
Yeah. Oh, I give it a five star.
I just don't get it.
Yeah. Number eight, Sierra Nevada.
I don't get that either.
I mean, looks you're very pale.
Ale is a fucking classic.
Yes, that's it, though, right? Yeah.
I mean, look, I like hazy little thing.
My wife likes the sour little thing, but five stars.
But five stars.
Yeah, like, that's like, don't get me wrong, she's a pale ale hazel thing if.
Yeah, I'll grab that in a pinch. No problem.
But I just got a little hazy and.
And this Barolo thing is great for the lake.
It's a great floating beer, but five star seems a little much love.
Eastern Nevada, though. Series number
Sam Adams even more.
Get the fuck out here Nevada unless these are all like October fest
five star rating yeah.
It is a bunch of people from Bastion Oh we love that fucking Sam Adams.
They're giving it Boston Lager.
The Bad Doozies.
Love those. Sam Adams.
Hey, Tom.
Tom, I just read another five star.
Way to go, Billy.
I don't know why. Billy Bob.
Number six.
Here we go. Toppling Goliath. That's legit.
Mm hmm. I do.
I actually.
I would say I love toppling Goliath.
I really like some toppling Goliath.
Beer number five, the alchemist. Okay.
I get it.
Hey, Topper Vogel Banger.
Eddie Topper M Classic.
Number four other half brewing.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
Super hype number three, Russian River Brewing.
You think that's hype, too? I mean. Yeah.
I mean, people think. Like other half an hour.
They both do good stuff,
but I've never anything from either that like,
you know you know like you with the beer earlier,
you know, you took a sip of it and your eyes just popped open
that that's never happened to me with either of those breweries.
So maybe I'm just not drinking the right stuff. I don't know.
Yeah, maybe. So
I just read other half Russian River.
Russian River.
I mean, 8.8%. Everybody,
I will say this about Russian River.
I fucking love their sours.
Their sour program is chef's kiss.
And that's something you never hear about.
Yeah, you don't?
Well, they don't distribute as much with the sours,
and they're not like hype fruited 450 North Slushies, you know,
they're like legit barrel aged sours and they're just at the bee's knees.
Here's, here's what I don't get and they're not craft anymore.
Number two, Bell's Brewery.
The only thing I could think of again is the October.
Well, they had a two hearted ale which passed.
Pliny is like the best beer in the nation a couple years ago.
I don't understand, because it's it's it's.
I think it's fine.
But there's again, there's nothing. You.
You can't tell me.
You get like ten random people lined up and you give them all a glass of 200
ale and they're going to be like, Wow, this is the best beer I've ever had
in my life. Look, I'm with you.
I've had two hard it ale many a time. It's good.
Is that right? I would say
five, five out of ten.
Rough, but it's it's serviceable.
It's it's a it's a yeah, it's an average average beer.
It's just a good beer. It's not a great beer.
Here we go.
Number one and Flex's new favorite brew last week.
Tree house brewing.
That's pretty legit. I mean talk about hype.
They they own the hype.
They own the hype.
But I mean. Make some good beers.
She's a pizza man.
They they really do it.
I was lucky early on in this show.
We used to have it's the beer girl from Instagram on the show
and she lived out near
she was in Massachusetts, so she would send me some tree houses.
Good stuff, man.
I got a two or three from her.
Never a bad day when those popped up in the mail.
Oh, no, I'm happy.
I'm happy to say I've finally tried the hype.
That's basically you know, that's the thing
with hype breweries across the nation that, like, aren't local to you.
Yeah.
And all you ever do is, like, here,
these beers are so good at this brewery, so good hype.
I hope I have hype, you know?
But is it really? Yeah.
You know. Just puts up some great. Beers.
I can't say anything about. I got I got nothing.
Nothing bad to. Say.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the trials I've had. So.
All right.
And then this final list also from untapped, the top ten craft beers
with the most five star check ins of 2022.
These aren't all craft number ten, Duval Buck.
It's a solid beer.
It's like the standard 3796
five star chicken number nine Hop Slam ale.
Bell's beer ballsbridge.
Yeah.
Number eight Vocal Banger Classic Delicious.
Number seven, Trappist West Village from.
Sort of unknown. Yeah from.
Brewery days since sugar verger gets.
That You fucking nailed it.
Nailed it so good number six King.
Julius.
4574 five star chickens.
Number five,
Zombie Dust.
It's fine.
I don't get it.
Yeah.
It's not five stars. It's not.
It's fine, it's good.
It's serviceable, but it's a it's a serviceable malted.
Pale ale. Yeah.
It's like a little bit,
I don't know, multi year then.
Alpha King. Yeah.
I don't know if I'm an Alpha king. Okay.
But yeah, it's just I had the zombie this one two years ago
and it just it was fine is good.
It wasn't travel across the country good.
If I ever told you the story about
when I stopped at a liquor store and I had seen it and six back
then, it was 1999, a six pack had bottles
and there was a sign the the cooler door that said
must purchase three other three Floyds products
with zombie dust.
And I. Do not know
I. Took one six pack of the Alpha King,
which is another pale ale of theirs, and I took it to the counter
and there is this hipster motherfucker work in the register.
And I said, Hey, that sign in the door is pretty funny.
And he just looks at me with this bold
frame glasses of the straight face, and he's like, Why is it funny?
I said, Oh, you are,
you are a by the the other stuff to get the stuff.
Half the.
Fridge and he goes yeah that's so we keep it in stock.
Okay. It's not funny man.
Jesus Christ. Right. Also, I love that whole thing. Really.
We need to keep it in stock or they don't. You just want to fucking sell it, don't.
You, Joe?
In 1999, a six pack.
Yeah, that's obnoxious.
Yeah, seriously?
So that was number five at the 4999 five star chickens.
Number four, two hearted owl from Bell's Brewery.
Oh, man. Tell me what you think of this one.
A number three traditional lager from Yuengling Brewery.
I don't get. It.
Look, I like it.
I like it a lot, but. I got a lot of friends. Also.
Not crafty, who.
Anytime they see Yingling, they, like freak out.
Look, I'm on the East Coast.
I'll order the shit out of it because you don't get it out here.
It just does nothing for me.
If I had seen it on the menu lager,
I think it was on a menu when I was in Nashville.
Mm. I bet it was.
And I passed the fuck up on that.
Yeah I have,
I have a friend that lives in Washington DC,
I haven't seen her for years, but back in the day
we'd go out there every couple of years and visitor and,
and she'd always have Yingling in the fridge
and I drink the shit out of it, but it's, it's just a good lager.
There's nothing to write home about. Five stars.
Bright stars.
Number two, heady topper. Okay.
9994, five stars, five star check. And
he gets the number one.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
Now notice key number one with 10,635
five star chicken's Pliny the Elder.
Oh, wow. How does that make you feel? Local.
I think The Alchemist is better.
Heady topper. Well, I wouldn't know.
I think any tapas is better. I think focal being is better.
If you like a Russian River, I think blind pig is better.
I think all of their sours are better.
Pliny the younger is better.
They're blasphemous.
You've heard it here, folks. You've had Pliny, right?
Have you had Pliny?
I've had the.
Elder. No, no.
Hoppy something.
Happy hops?
Yep. That's a good one.
Oh. That was really good.
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Yeah. Yeah, that was the only Russian River ever had.
Oh, one of these days I'll send you some, Pliny, just so you can say you've had it.
So it's fine.
It's good. It's a good beer.
Look, I'm not talking shit about it.
No, nobody's saying you are.
Nobody's accusing you.
It's just the amount of hype it gets to me.
Like, have you guys tried Blind Pig?
The good lord, blind pig is delicious.
I think that's the sad thing.
That's what I would say grinds my gears most about hype beer is that it?
It shies everybody away from actual good beer.
You know, and it's just like and then these five star ratings,
they get posted mostly due to the hype.
Right, exactly.
You know, so it's like, oh, yeah, everybody
I've heard this beer is really good.
And then they drink it and then you're like, Wow.
Yeah, that's good.
Right?
Five stars. Yeah, I agree.
Five stars all these hours. Yeah, it's good.
I mean, four stars, you know, like whatever, whatever.
They're really good beer. It's a solid example of that style.
You know what I try and think when I write a beer,
if I'm being honest right on taps on a five star scale,
I try and think of what I would rate it out of a scale ten, right?
Because even a beer that you would rate seven out of ten,
that's a three and a half I'd untapped.
Yeah.
Which in hindsight that's not that a horrible rating.
Right.
So you had to start thinking outside the box.
Well the booze league likes to give me a lot of shit
because they give a lot of 375375 is actually a good rating.
So she like you said, if you do it out of ten.
Yeah.
Well that's my that's usually my thought process on it.
Although I don't write often anymore, I feel like I know a lot of people
nowadays. I'm almost never on on tap.
Like I haven't checked something in forever, just my drink and enjoy it,
you know,
maybe take a picture for the gram because I'm a whore to the gram.
Well, and. I'm trying to become a whore again.
Let me help you
dedicate.
All right.
Well, with those.
Lists, we're really banging this one out.
Rough and fast.
I think I'll hit some music over here.
We will say hi to Vanessa.
Hi, Vanessa.
Who starting off the new year. Creepy.
You got to bring it back.
I'll tell you what.
And check us out at Craft Beer Republic and at Flex me
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And don't forget Deb's dick Scott.
Mistakes go visible.
Now I will get something up there just cause.
How could you not?
You know what they said, Greg? A famous dick.
Any famous dick?
You know, Sam, Greg faces faces.
Famous dick faces.
Please not not famous tactics like
please I'd ever get January 13th petals and pints.
But I do believe that's just about everything.
Oh, male crap Republicans send us your your beer name is for the guava goes.
We need help lots of help.
So all right.
I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated.
And on that note.
Goodnight, everybody.