Any minute now. It is kind of an awkward pause you're putting in here. Can you start the music? I'm feeling super awkward. Welcome in everybody.
It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg. I am being joined by the fucking buffest mosh pitter around and that's Flex.
What's up big sexy? Hey, that's me. I haven't moshed in a while. Oh, that's very Mario-esque. It's like, it's a me, Mario. Oh man, I didn't even try that. It's a me, Mario. Let's go.
I can't do it. Cut that out. You're good at it. Cut. You know, it's really embarrassing how good I am with the high pitch things like Mario and Mickey. It's something I shouldn't be proud of. I can do a Mickey impression pretty good.
Can you? But I'm not gonna do it right now. Oh, come on. You can't even sing it like that. Oh, dang. Come on Pluto. Dude, that's super good. It's embarrassing. That was pretty good too.
All right. Well, let's end on that note. I feel so inadequate. Good night, everybody. And the princess peach to our Wario, and also quite the mosh pitter and the salty sailor
is Erica. What's happening? Hey guys. Hi. I'm just so impressed by you two. I just could sit here and be in awe of your just... Of our high pitchedness? Yes, it's amazing.
I will play that on repeat for sure. Any impressions from your side of things? Stimpy, you idiot. All right. All right. Yeah, okay. You know, I have a real funny thought process
when it goes into the whole fake idea of how Mickey Mouse became to be the center of Disney, you know? Like, think about them all as real people.
Then these Disney producers are like, oh yeah, we're gonna get all you guys together and we're gonna make a show. And Mickey's just like this super self-absorbed, conceited asshole, right? So he's like, oh yeah, that's a real good idea.
Yeah, let's do it. And then, so he's like, you know, he wants to get everybody out together to talk about this show. And it's just like, he turns evil, right?
So he starts like drugging people and he starts like knocking people off. And you know, cause he's like, oh, like let's meet at this place at this time.
Ha ha, let's all get to Starbucks. Yeah, you know, it's almost like a scary movie, you know, and then he just like knocks people off one by one. And of course, Goofy is like, cause he's so stupid,
he like somehow dodges everything and he still meets at like the one place that everybody was supposed to meet to discuss this new show. And he's just like, oh Goofy, you shouldn't have come here.
You really shouldn't have come here, Goofy. You know, and he's like pulling a bat out from behind his back and he just like beats Goofy's brains out, you know? So the next day when Disney has this like meeting
for the show and Mickey's the only one who shows up and he's like, well, I guess we just call it the Mickey Mouse show. I'm the only one here, so.
Originally it was gonna be the Goofy Dog House, but they changed it to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Yeah, you know, so it's like, that's just like a fun little, I feel like somebody should do like a Just off the cuff, just an idea. Yeah, no big deal.
That you have that flex. But doesn't it sound funny? Actually, I like that flex because I don't get Disney people and like the whole, ooh, Mickey Mouse, but like I like your dark story.
Cause everything is Mickey Mouse, right? So only somebody that self-absorbed would want their name and face and likeness everywhere.
And he was so narcissistic, he changed his name from Mortimer to Mickey. Yeah. And that's the thing, he's like the narcissist of narcissists.
He flipped everyone a Mickey, I get it. I like this. Eric, if you ever have questions, the wife and I are Disney people, so we can. Oh, whoops. The dark Disney, right? The story flexes.
We are now, this is great. This is great. Honestly, we haven't been to Disneyland since COVID. We let our, we had passes our entire relationship and then right before COVID, Star Wars land was opening
and we just don't care about Star Wars. We don't hate it. Oh, you guys are crazy. We just don't care. And we heard it was going to be like insane long lines. So we let our passes expire and then COVID happened. We're like, hey, that was a happy accident. That worked out? Yeah.
You saved somebody. Yeah, we absolutely did. So, but yeah. The reason I started doing a Mickey impression was at Disney World many, many years ago before I was with my wife, we had this,
they called it Pal Mickey and it was a doll who had like receivers in his nose. And as you walked by certain things, it would send signals and he would talk to you.
And creepy. I don't like that. When you hear about it, it's kind of creepy. Kids loved it. My, the person I was with at the time needed to have one. And it would tell you like, sometimes you'd be walking by it.
Sounds like a narcissist. Right, exactly. A fucking mortar for that asshole. We'd walk by something, it would tell you a fact or other times we'd just be sitting there like in line for something. It'd be like, ha ha, hiya pal.
That's how it always started. It'd be like, the line over at whatever ride. It was real short right now. So it would like tell you to go get in the line for something else because it's shorter. It was like having an app with ride,
you know, with wait times before they had smartphones and apps. So that's the thing to remember. Well, that's kind of okay. Pre-smartphone. I get it. Entertaining. But then when you're back in the hotel, you know, doing the business and you hear him go,
good job pal. Ha ha, keep it up pal. Ha ha, high five. Good job Pluto. Three minutes, that's it. The line over here is shorter.
Not a long wait time for this one. The hospital wants a fast pass. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Oh, this is not what the show is about, but. Oh, is anybody still listening? Hey, listener. Beer? Singular. Beer, beer, beer for me. Just listening to our own episode.
If you're still there, hey, at craftbeerrepublic, at necknosh LLC underscore. No, don't, just don't associate X that. Keep going. Oh, at Erica's Mickey obsession,
and at flexmebeer underscores in between. Let's get off the Mickey train here in more ways than one. If you don't mind, I'm just going to real quickly disclose
what I'm drinking over here. I'm at a silent disco and everybody's going nuts.
Even Mortimer. I am drinking Flatland Brewing Company, which is out of Erica's hood. That's upgrove. That's right near me, yeah. It's your area.
I'm drinking Cognitive Dissonance. Someone gave this to me for my birthday and I forget exactly who it was, so my apologies. But thanks for bringing it over.
I forgot this was in the back of the fridge. This is Cognitive Dissonance. It's a West Coast double IPA, 8.3%, 65 IBUs and a 412 on untapped.
Wow. Not too shabby, right? That's impressive. Picture, if you will, letting your mind wander into the vast world of all iterations for everything loopy-lin.
We're doing it. Our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes are evolving every day with the ever-changing terrain of hops. The latest result of our cerebral conception is,
it's cognitive, I'm laughing at Flex, just sticking his face in the camera. It's the cutest thing I've ever seen. It's Cognitive Dissonance, an 8.3% ABV West Coast style double IPA with strata, citra, and mosaic.
Savor the whiff as aromas of passion fruit, mango, and fresh strawberry sift through your scent sensation. The taste and flavor persist into a palate commotion
of bright grapefruit, lemon-lime, and tropical fruit. Don't overthink it, just drink it. That was a mouthful. That's a cheesy. On the schnoz, I am getting-
Does not get old. Yeah, sorry. The schnoz, I get that passion fruit and the citrus. That comes in real, real strong. So while you're drinking, Flatland won, I think it was a gold medal at GABF last year.
I need to look it up, but they're pretty legit. So whoever hooked you up knew what they were doing. Okay, I think this is my friend Ian, who knows I love IPAs and does his best
to find me things he thinks I haven't had before. And I have not had this before. He did a good job on this one. So you hasn't had it. I hasn't had it, let me tell you. This is really good. Here I am.
I get so much of the passion fruit and some of that mango, fresh strawberry. I don't know about strawberry, but definitely passion fruit and mango, citrus. It finishes nice and West Coast-y with some dry dankness
to really sort of clean things up and leave you wanting more. This is really good. So if you guys see this from Flatland Brewing, who I'd never heard of before you brought this can over. That's impressive.
Really, really good. I was gonna guess it was from Illinois because- Because Flat. We call Illinois, yeah, Illinois people are known as Flatlanders. Yeah, I don't know why. So they did win a gold medal
for their Juicy or Hazy India Pale Ale category. Last year? Yep. Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. I wonder, does it say which beer it was?
Not on this list that I'm reading. Fair enough. Oh, Anheuser-Kush? That's a great name. Okay. I think that's what it was. All right. So there you go. I feel like there's some legality.
Potentially. In there. But they pulled it off, so good for them. All right, well, that's pretty good. All right, so a few things to get to. First of all, Chew left a voicemail.
Chew is gonna be so mad at when we finally played this voicemail. Schedule's been off with JBF and all that stuff. He hates that. Yeah, this one he's gonna be especially mad at. Sorry about that, pal.
Some booze news to get to. Some more trip talk. Let's get right into it. First of all, gonna hear you do that all night. Let me just tell my next story. No, just kidding. I'm not gonna torture people like that.
I did have an ex-girlfriend who had me call her various nieces and nephews on their birthdays as Mickey and wish them a happy birthday. That's kind of adorable. Apparently, they fucking made their day. So, all right, whatever.
Huh, you getting drunk over there? Aw. Yeah, happy 21st. They're like six-year-olds. Fucking Mickey called me, man.
Yeah. Wish me a 21st birthday. Yeah, yeah, he was 26. I don't know why he was so into it. Oh, good times.
I'll try and cut out the Mickey stuff. All right, so a few things to get to. First of all, Oktoberfest, it's fucking Oktoberfest season and I'm beer for it. Went to Enneagrin's Oktoberfest last weekend.
Here's the thing, and you guys tell me what you think. I've realized I've hit this age where the shit show of Oktoberfest no longer appeals to me. No.
Like Enneagrin. I agree. Yeah, Enneagrin out here, it's huge. It's getting bigger and bigger every year. Their Oktoberfest is a fucking blast and we decided we were gonna get there early
to avoid the crazy long crowd. So we got there at like one in the afternoon because back in the day it was like, around five or six is when it turned into a crazy shit show. Oh my God, it was people.
We had to wait in line for beer, in line for tickets, in line for people. We were fighting our way through crowds. I mean, it was fucking insane
and this is not to talk negatively to Enneagrin. They make amazing beer and they put on a great party. I'm just realizing it's not my scene anymore as much as it used to be.
I just, I don't wanna wait in line for beer. Getting too old. I guess so, I don't know. Just crowds in general when you get old. You don't got time for it. And so there, here's the other thing.
Don't judge me, you two with kids. It's a, in quotes, family-friendly event and so half of what I was dodging were like children running amok. I was like, I feel weird getting hammered around these kids.
Okay, so I'll tell you something. I got kids. If I ever go out to where I know something is going to be heavily populated or I'm going to be drinking heavily,
I do not take my kids. Like at all costs, I avoid bringing kids up. Well, it sounds like more work for you than anything else. You gotta keep track of them. Yeah, it's just smart in every aspect. Agree.
Anything daytime, like early on, say, you hit up something when it starts or you go to a place for lunch, it's different. That's totally different. Not a lot of people are around.
But when I did go, I went to Eagle Park's anniversary earlier this summer and there were children there, which is fine. One of the owners there, he's got two kids
and they're young and I get kids are, everything's like family-oriented now. Except when I got my last beer of the night and these kids were playing volleyball in the beer tent
and nailed my beer and spilled it all over my shirt. That is not acceptable. And then, of course, I was just like, whatever, because they're kids. And then they went over and they told their parents
what they did and the parents were like, whatever about it. And they didn't even tell them to say sorry or offer to buy me another beer. And to me, that's where it crosses the line.
Yeah, it's like, if you're gonna bring your kids around and they do something like, and good for the kids for going back to their parents to say what they did, because they weren't sitting far from us.
Sure, right, it's the parents that actually that just didn't follow up. Yeah, and then for the parents to just kind of like throw it under the rug was off-putting for me. Greg, you saw it. We brought our kids and we hung out with you
and Tipsy and all that. And that's our time to take advantage of, here's some cool little books for you guys to write in. Here's your tablet. That is our time. Well, because you always, yeah, you always come prepared.
Right. Flex, I've not met your children, but I will say Erica has like the best behaved kids I've ever been around. No, she probably wins. They are insanely good.
Like here's your tablet and here's your burger and go over there and don't bug us. And that's exactly what they do. And she doesn't seem quite like that. That is, that's crazy, that's crazy. And the way you get away with that
is you don't put them on their tablet all day long, but you save it for those clutch moments when you need your time. We do plenty of hiking, family time, blah, blah, blah, blah, but like there's times when they run amok
and there's times not to. And when you're hanging out, especially at breweries that are not like set up for that, Aftershock is one that I got thrown out there. People are like, hey, do you bring your kids, blah, blah. Don't, I just want to scream,
but I know I'm gonna get so much hate. Don't bring your kids. Are you, you're putting other people in a position to watch out for your children. Well, that's a bit, yeah. It's not the environment for it.
Like, I'm sorry, just no, mm-mm, don't bring your kids. Yeah, you shouldn't have, other people shouldn't have to worry about something like that. Exactly, it's just, I'm not here to be kid-focused environment.
You got a kid in front of me, my mind shifts. Anyways, that's, I'm very opinionated about that. I love my kids, but there's a place and a time for them to be running around. Yeah, take my kids up for lunch and they're asking the bartender
what his favorite color is. You know, how long he's been working there, how old he is, that's great. I love, my kids are seven and nine and they're so, so great socially
and in like situations like that with, you know, people who I know but they don't exactly know. It's wonderful, but yeah, time and a place. A crowded event where people are getting drunk?
Like, Greg was at, mm, maybe not. That's inappropriate. Maybe not, I don't know. I would go as far to call it inappropriate. I would too. Here's, we're gonna get some hate, but I agree. Yeah, bring on the hate, please.
Here's the one thing I will say about the people who did bring their kids. It was touted as a family-friendly event to the point where like, there's a Ferris wheel and a petting zoo.
Oh, okay. So, I mean, they only knew what they knew, but you get there and there's just not enough room for, kids like to run around. They got energy, they like to do some running.
There's just not the room for it because it's jam-packed with drunk people who can hardly stand and just, it was a little rough navigating. We finished our, you know, we bought like however many beer tickets up front
and we just, we finished them and left. We're like, we love Integrin, but we're clearly too old for this. Yeah. Yeah. When it comes down to it. So, anyways, no shade on Integrin.
They are throwing insane events. People are showing up like crazy. It was so fucking crowded. And their beer is amazing. And their beer is great. So, I also wanted to mention that last week, I didn't talk about the first part
of my Colorado trip before GABF. We went to Colorado Springs where I've got some family out there. Visited with some family, but also visited with some beer. Highlight of the trip, Fossil Beer.
If you guys have not had Fossil, and look, they don't distro, so at least I don't think, I don't see it anywhere. You can only get in the tap room. We found them years ago when we went,
this must have been like six, seven years ago. They're just having their ninth anniversary. So, when we were there, it was probably like they'd been open for a year or two. And we're like, wow, this is really good beer. And no one knows about them.
And we were there. Honestly, we'd had a few breweries in the area that were just fine. Nothing was, I won't mention names. Nothing was reportable. It was just like, oh, yeah, that's beer. You made this because you had to.
A lot of breweries in that area seemed like they made a lot of styles because they sold well, not because they wanted to make them. It's like, just make what you want to make, man. That's what makes beer good, your preferences. Anyways. Yeah, do what you're good at.
So, we finally were like, why don't we go to Fossil? We really liked that. And we went over there. Goddamn, they're still good. So, if you guys are anywhere near Colorado Springs, please do yourselves a favor and check out Fossil Beer. It is so fucking good.
They're delicious. Did Davis know about them? You know, I don't know. I should have asked him if he's had Fossil. Because he's from the area now, right? He lives over there? From the Denver area. So, it's like an hour and some change away from them.
It's not like a down the street kind of thing. But yeah, goddamn, they're good. And they were not at GABF. I didn't see them there. Otherwise, I would have been handing it to everybody. Everything I had at the tap room was just really good.
We had some lagers. We had some hazies. We had a sour, even. Just fucking killing it, so. Good shit. Here's what we really need to talk about. Dicing that may or may not have happened at GABF.
Oh, I thought you were gonna say flex drinking. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah, you know, it happens to everybody. It does. I'm so ashamed. It really does.
So, if you listen to her, who's still there, has been listening for at least a few weeks, you heard all the buildup that we found out that Erica, first of all, Erica, let's spade a spade.
You were dumb enough to admit you never got diced before. Yeah, I was gonna say, that's the dumb rule number one. You just, you don't admit that. But to double her dumbness,
after finding out she had never gotten diced, Coley was dumb enough then to also admit that she'd never been diced. Yeah, Coley, that's dumb. Target number two. So, I've been promising for weeks leading up to GABF
that we would ice Erica. Did we ice Erica? I don't know, Erica, did we ice you? Okay, I knew I was gonna get iced. Like, I knew it, okay? But like, I 100% am not lying, you got me.
Like, you, like, I was so pissed because, let me break it down for you guys. So, we're hanging out in the evening and last time we hung out with Greg and Shannon,
they had extra bottles of water and they were gonna get on an airplane so they gave us the leftover. Oh, this is when we were in Tahoe, yeah. Yeah, yeah, so I was like, cool, thanks, yeah, why not? Let's not let this go to waste. Yeah, I can't fly with it.
So, I was talking about how I need to get some bottled water at the booth because we're all like a little dehydrated and whatnot. I'm like, yeah, we got some in the room. Was this Thursday night? You know, after the event,
we're all hanging out in the lounge. It was after night one, yeah. Yeah, after night one, we're just decompressing, having a drink in the hotel lobby. Yeah, they give us a bag full of some bottled waters
and some chips and stuff and tie it up and it's like, here, take this. And I'm like, cool, thank you, appreciate it. Totally made me think of last time you guys gave me water. So, I wake up in the morning and I was dehydrated
and I was gonna get a bottle of water. I know, right? Like, assholes. I was just so set up. Sterling's in the shower, I'm thirsty, I'm parched.
I open it up, my friends are awesome. I really, they're so sweet. They gave me some water, I got some water in this bag. Like, open it up and chips and water and it's like, there's a blue bottle
and I just roll that thing over like such a dumb ass and I'm like, smear it off. And I yelled to Sterling, did you know about this?
Because I just like, he had to have known about it. Like, we carried this thing around, this bag around. Yeah, I got so iced. I was so pissed.
And it was huge. It's like, could you have bought? Yeah, it was a big bomber one, yeah. Could, like, just buy the six pack, dump out. A better friend, Greg,
would have dumped out the other five bottles. I'm too cheap for that. Yeah, thanks for, and can we talk about the flavor? Can we? Can we just talk about this red, white and blue bullshit?
Yeah, it's like a bomb pop, right? Yeah, I don't, it was like taking cotton candy and liquefying it and then just that syrup that you would get from that.
It was like 24, how many ounces of that in a bottle? So disgusting. Well, so here was the other option. First of all, I was not gonna buy a six pack
because if I did, you would have gotten all six. I got a single and there was two options. There was the red, white and berry or whatever it was called. And then there was like this very cloudy looking lemonade one
and I thought that looks a little thick and chunky and hard to put down. So I went with what I thought was the best of both worlds and got the red, white and berry or red, white and blue.
It was so disgusting. It was terrible. Here was our side of it. So we get this on, I think it was Wednesday, Tuesday or Wednesday before Erica gets in and we, Colorado, you can't get alcohol,
well, you can't get anything over a certain percent from the grocery store and we forgot about that. We went to the grocery store looking for an ice and we're like, why don't they have, oh fuck, that's right, that's why they don't have. They didn't even have ice at a grocery store?
They did not. So we found a liquor store and they had, like I said, those two flavors and singles or I had to get like a six pack and once again, six pack meant you were drinking six. So you're welcome.
No, that's not how it works, Greg. I've heard about icing. You get one. Per day. Once. Oh yeah, you can get ice as many times as you want.
You just gotta be ready for it. It's not like a one and done. It's like, right. So we got it, we brought it back to our hotel room and put it in the fridge. And so Thursday was day one of GABF
and like Shannon and I were talking, how are we gonna ice her, blah, blah, blah. And I said, you know what? She's a little nervous and excited for, you know, you hadn't told yet, you didn't know what it was gonna be like.
I was like, let's not ice her before day one because I don't need her walking in there half hammered and I think she would not appreciate it. Oh, the stress, you know, you don't want to add to that.
So we were talking about like, when would it be the best time? And so we said, well, maybe after day one. She finally got it under. We can ice her, we're all relaxing. So like Erica said, we were chilling in the hotel lobby
after the party is the hotel lobby, as we all know. And during time of the waters and Shannon's like, oh, I'll get you some waters. And God damn, do I love this woman. I didn't even have to like wink at her.
She knew what to do. She went upstairs, ice on the bottom, like four or five whatever bottles of water on top. And then like a bag of chips
or a couple of bags of chips or something. So we had some extra chips up there and she brings it down. And as she brought it down, I could see the blue. And I was like, oh, here it comes. And cause it's in like a Target,
like plastic bag or whatever. So she sets it down and I'm waiting. No one's open. I was like, fuck, they're not gonna open. All right, they're gonna open the room, whatever. So we finished her beers. McDreamy picks up the bag
and kind of clings it against the table. And I was like, oh God, oh, they're gonna hear it. No one batted an eye. And then I continued to go upstairs. And then the best thing ever is I woke up
to a text message the next morning and said, are you fucking kidding me? Okay, cause Friday was like, okay, we have the rare beer, rate beer, rare beer thing
for like four hours and then four hours of the JBF, okay? So it was a big ass day. And I'm like, now I gotta drink this bullshit before we start.
Yep. And it was warm, throw it in the fridge. It should be warm. To be fair, we had left it in the fridge. Had you found it that night when we wanted you to. Yeah, we did not.
I, to Erica's credit, I told her, you only have to drink half, it's the tall boy. I don't expect you to pound all of it. And she fucking champed that thing up
and put the whole thing down. It took me like 15 minutes, but I did finish it. Wasn't quite that bad. It wasn't as good as Nick. It was no Nick. Nick was just a really hard act to follow.
And I knew there was no chance. No one puts a big one down like he does. No, he's, yeah. Daddy. Daddy does it for sure. So that was great.
And I'd enlisted the help of one of my best friends who we have a long history of icing people. And I told her, I was like, I need to ice somebody. She's fully expecting it.
What do you think? And like, we were like, kind of like Flex and I had talked off the air. Like we were fully on board with like, let's go to the front desk and like see if they'll deliver a welcome package.
And the opportunity presented itself to bring down some waters in quotes. And it was perfect. It was so perfect because you guys had given us waters before. So, I mean, I was just like, oh, my friends, they gave us waters.
They're so nice. We're the water fairies. Yeah, that worked great, but good work. Good work. It's done. It's been done. Okay. We're done. It's over.
Oh, so good. Was so good. Now, Coley's next. Coley's up. Oh, yeah. Coley, look out. It's happening. She's gonna be so pissed when it happens.
Can you just get her like the regular bottle? Not unless she wants all six of them. I mean. We'll see. If you, hold on. As someone who had to take, you know,
the whole big ass bottle, don't you want her to suffer too? No. Not like solidarity. Such a good person. Solidarity for the women. Such a good person.
No. I am. I like, you know, supporting other ladies who are amazing like Coley. Women supporting women. Yes. With ice. All right. Sorry, Coley, if I could prevent it.
People helping people. Exactly. All right, before I ask Erica this next question, let's make a call to Penn and find out what she's drinking. ♪♪♪
To the bullpen for beer. Okay, friends. This one's a little different. So I'm excited to bring it. We're still friends, by the way. Oh, friends.
I'm talking to the audience, not you. Sorry, Greg. So, okay. Nevermind that asshole in the corner. But we got. Yeah, everybody else. Just kidding. I have a Babe Brew, which is by Beer Babes family.
They brew beers for charity through different breweries throughout the country, right? And so Common Law and Dark Shadow brewed this collab. It is a musk. Okay, I've heard it said two different ways.
Maybe you guys can help me out. Muscadine and muscadine. Ale. Yep. Potato, potato. Even at a winery, because it's like a wine grape is what that is.
I was gonna say it sounds grapey. They. I would put it into Google and see how they pronounce it. That's what I would do. I might need your help. Because at the winery, they said it differently than some people at the brewery were saying. So I'm very confused.
All I know is that it's apricot. That's absolutely not true. So it's definitely an apricot, but thankfully they're not in this beer. So we have no debate there. This, I went to Nashville and hung out with Beer Babes
and I got to meet Vanessa. Oh. Hey, Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. I actually got to say hey in person. It was amazing. Unfortunately, I was limping my way in because.
Oh, that's right. Like a dumbass, I fell off a curb on broad daylight, in broad daylight, while calling an Uber. And my foot swole up to the size of like a pumpkin.
It was all purple and it was disgusting. So this is how I got to meet all the Beer Babes. It was awesome. I'm like limping in like, hi guys. Limping in easy. Limping in.
But it was awesome to meet everyone. They're all amazing. Just like I'd already met Rachel, but I got to meet Roxy. And oh yeah, I'm talking about the beer. So this beer is very unexpected.
It's so different. So you have to wrap your brain around it because it's just different. Yeah, wrap it up. Okay. So it's like a dry grape. So like a raisin?
No, like a dry white wine. Like a what, Sauvignon Blanc or something. Sure. It had some really nice, it was really nice foamy head on it. Color has a little bit of a haze to it.
It's got a bitterness, but it's like a wine grape bitterness and it's very dry. And it's like drinking a beer wine. It really is. And it's, let me get a little sip here.
And in general, are you a white wine fan? I am. I like all the wines. Would you like wine?
Yes, all of them, please. I want all the wines. So I do like- Yes. Yes, exactly. Full, that kind. So yeah, it's just unique.
It's a little effervescent to start. It's got that kind of dry grape bitterness and that kind of lingers,
just a hint of like a, I don't know what the, hold on. This is so different, you guys. I don't even know how to put it. You dig in. I found the pronunciation in Muscadine, whatever it is.
Muscadine. Muscadine? Okay, it's Muscadine. Muscadine. And it's in collaboration with the Beer Babes family, Common Law and Dark Shadow Brewing. This Muscadine ale was made with local Muscadine TN
to roe, barley, rice, and local Tennessee corn making. This brew, a hybrid beer, combining the dry hoppy character of the brute. IPA, that's kind of, yeah, definitely get that.
And subtle fruit character, like an Italian grape ale, but with Muscadine instead of grapes. It kind of continues, but, and it's got, it's 5.5% ABV,
4.02 on untapped. There's not a ton of check-ins yet because it's relatively new, but I recommend it. It's something different to try. You're not gonna drink like four glasses of this, but you're gonna like do a nice.
Not with that attitude, you're not. Come on. But it's a nice, slow drinking, just enjoy this very unique ale. Like a glass of wine.
Yeah, exactly. But just a little effervescent, a little lighter, maybe a little more bitter because of the hop character. I don't know. So it's very different. I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain
around what this is. It's unique. Sorry, it's extremely unique, so. New York, unique, New York. Unique, New York. I love Scotch. Scotchy, Scotch, Scotch. All right, well, that led me in.
My next question is, you recently, pre-GABF, went to Nashville to hang out with the Beer Babes family. You kind of talked about it a little bit, but you guys brewed, not this one, right?
So they brewed this, obviously, a few weeks prior. So I wasn't there for the brewing, and we just did the release party. Oh, it was the release party, got it. Yeah, it was a release party. Oh, damn, that sounds like a lot of fun.
It was super fun. We just all hung out and drank and. And you broke your leg. Yeah, I'm still recovering. It's so sad, but the Beer Babes are amazing, and that was a lot of fun.
Nashville is so unique. We hit up my sister-in-law. She's the hottie, hottie with a body, flex. Have you seen her photo before? Yeah, I've seen it.
Oh, you've seen it, okay. I've seen it already. She's, yeah, she and I hit up Broadway. She's wild. She is a lot of fun. She is so much fun. We hit up Broadway and went bar hopping.
It was so fun. Got kicked out of a bar. Oh, fuck. No way. Absolutely. For what? Being too drunk? No, she went into the men's bathroom, and they don't dig that in Nashville.
Oh. Because the ladies' night was so long, and we waited 20 minutes. There was someone that was obviously just like doing their thing. There was one stall for each. Yeah, exactly. There was no one in the guy's bathroom.
That was really good. That was better than the Mickey. I will take that over Mickey Mouse any day. Yeah. Oh, the combo's okay, too. Yeah, Mickey fart. It was so bizarre because, yeah,
she went in there, and apparently there was, yeah, they don't like you messing around with gender mixed in. They don't like that around them part. Which is hilarious, because my best friend
is a female, and she comes into the guy's room all the time out here. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't think that would be a kick out. Nobody gives a shit. No, they totally gave a shit. Out here, they don't, because what are they afraid of?
She's gonna be bigger than them? Exactly. Yeah, there's no competition. And there was not even a guy waiting to go, but soon as she came out, we got escorted out of the bar. Damn. You're a fugitive. Wow. Yeah, so that was something.
Somebody was probably just pissed they didn't think about that idea. I don't know. And then they're like, I'm gonna tell on her. I'm gonna tell her right now. But the funny thing is, she's like, yeah, that's happened to me before.
I'm like, okay, it's new for me, but all right. Good times, though. Yeah. Yeah. Broadway's fun. I do like Nashville a lot. Oh my gosh, Broadway's so fun. Such good music.
I've been there twice. I'd go back there a hundred times. And I'm not even a country music person, but you know. It's damn country. It's different when you're there. Oh my gosh, there was this band. Buck's so angry. It was so amazing.
God damn it, it's different when you're there. It's okay when you're there. It's excusable. It really is, though. It's like, I don't like country music either. The banjo just hits different there.
But I really enjoy live music. Yes. Touche, touche. And every place, like every bar, restaurant, whatever on the strip,
every place has a different musician playing. But once you pass that venue, you don't hear that music anymore. You just hear the next song. It's a whole new world. Like there's even places, like three, four level bars,
and each level will have its own musician, and you will not hear it from the level below or above. It's kind of bizarre. Don't you mean CBR Field Trip? Oh my gosh. There was this band that did like 90s, 2000s,
and they just kept vibing between one song to the next, and it was like hip hop and grunge. And I was hopping on my club foot for like an hour and a half just screaming,
just making sure I was well hydrated so it didn't hurt. I would go to Nashville again in a heartbeat. Oh my gosh, it was amazing. The flights there are not only like super cheap for me,
algorithm, flight algorithm. You have a flight algorithm too. But it's also like the flight time duration is like an hour and 15 minutes.
Do you fly Southwest? Yes. Do you drink all the lining kugels when you're on Southwest? No, I don't drink on planes. What? No, I don't. What? I get like weird motion.
So I got vertigo like five years ago for the first time. And ever since I got vertigo, I have like this weird motion sickness thing. So I don't drink on planes anymore.
Wow. The last two times I've drank on planes, they didn't charge me, and I was not in a free drink section. So I'm like on a roll. Is this like- That's a thing? Sometimes they just forget or they don't.
On the way to Denver, they, first of all, our flight was at five in the morning. And so- That's when we usually fly. We had to be up at 2.30, it was the fucking worst.
But the wife and I couldn't sit next to each other because United sucks. And the person next to her ordered a drink, they never charged her. And she goes, you know they never charged the guy next to me who was drinking? I was like, I wish you would have told me that.
I would have ordered a drink. It is. Right. And now we're divorced, but you know, whatever. That's why she's mad. Yeah, no wonder. Yeah. We've been fighting for three weeks.
Over a stupid drink. Yeah, all because she didn't tell me her seatmate didn't get a free drink. Hey honey, how was your day at work? Remember when he didn't tell me your seatmate didn't get charged? Yeah, so fuck you.
I guess any day's better than that day. So all I'm hearing here is, CBR field trip to Nashville. Oh yeah. Okay, well- Yeah, I would go to Nashville. Dildo, Canada, then Finland,
then Nashville though. Is that okay? A little more of a world tour. That's a world tour. Yeah, just kind of make a loop. But like in the more immediate-ness, like maybe we get everybody out to Nashville or something. I mean, it's better than I expected, actually.
That's like a hop, skip, and a jump for Vanessa. Right, yeah, Vanessa Skipper. Also- She was so amazing. Sorry, real quick. Yeah. She hadn't slept. She like showed up-
Cocaine's a hell of a drug. Oh my gosh, she's amazing. She was there all weekend, didn't sleep. She had all this going on. I don't know. So maybe because it was a quick flight, but she's pretty much a rock star.
That's all I figured out with Vanessa. She's a rock star. Yeah, we fucking partied. She was on East Coast time. It was good shit, but- Yeah, she's hardcore. Yeah. That's the best thing for me in Nashville is it stays on my head.
Oh, you lucky son of a- Well, Flex, if that's where we can get you to go, we're going to Nashville. Let's do it. I'll go to Nashville. Let's do it. Bring the whole fucking family. Oh, it's plausible. Let's do it. Let's go to Nashville.
Let's get naked. Kids love it. Wife loves it. Sister-in-law owns a condo there. Uh-huh. Oh, wow. Come on, Flex. Leave the kids at home. Wow. Cool. That's a good build up.
Wow. All right. Anything else we need to know about Nashville? Smells like leather. What happens in Nashville stays in Nashville.
Is that where Kane is the mayor? Oh, yeah. There's a city, not Nashville, but there's a city in Tennessee that he's the mayor of. There you go, wrestling fans. So maybe we'll go meet Kane, too.
I am a Rudy Poo. Favorite Kane. Before we get to the ludicrous libation law and choose weird voicemail, let's find out what Flex is drinking.
In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue, one Tongue Jobber.
In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking. Hello there. Good evening.
I couldn't, not without laughing. So today I picked up a beer from a brewery who I like purchasing from because I never know if I'm gonna like it or not.
Sometimes I'm like, wow, this was a big letdown. And other times I'm like, wow, this really, really tasted good, wow. And so I picked up some Microphone Brewing.
Oh, Microphone. Microphone, and they're from Elk Grove Village, Illinois. So nearby, probably about an hour and a half trip for me. Too far away. Anyway, it's called Microphone Check 1-2.
And if that doesn't make you think of Wayne's World 2 or the Limp Bizkit song, Nookie, I just, I don't wanna be your friend. It's a double dry hopped, double IPA with all citra hops.
And it has over 14,000 check-ins on tap. So it's legit. And it has a 4.23 overall rating, which I thought was mind-blowing.
Yeah, I mean, I cracked the can. It smelled terrific. Oh, yeah. Erica was witnessing me just sniffing. Just like inhaling it. It's mesmerizing.
It is dank and it's like super herbaceous, like pure hops spilling out of the can. It's phenomenal. So this is 8% ABV.
And again, a short description. I love short descriptions. Double dry hopped, double IPA with citra hops. Boom. Tell me more. Nailed it. As if I didn't already tell you what it was.
So we'll start out with the old can jobber. Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink. You know, it's got a microphone in there, right? I like it for podcast reasons. Pretty nifty, kind of podcast-oriented, you know?
And it just tells you what it is on the can. It is at 8%. That is super flex wheelhouse. Like, I'm gonna hit a home run with that 8%. He's up to bat. The schnoz in the glass,
that herbaceousness kind of fades away. And it's very limey. It's grapefruity. It is, it's melon, like cantaloupe,
like slicing up a fresh cantaloupe. It is wonderful. The color, I mean, I'm almost done with this. It's that pale, hazy. It's wonderful.
It's my favorite color of a hazy. And then, without further ado. The tongue chopper. Oh. For this alone, we should start a video podcast.
Oh my goodness. This is a phenomenal beer. It's absolutely phenomenal. All of the aromatics carry over to the palate,
the lime, the grapefruit, the melon. You got a little gooseberry, schnozberry? No, gooseberry. It is a phenomenal beer. This is my favorite beer Microphone has ever done.
Oh man. Wow. I've had quite a few. And. Those are big words. That's. I know. Huge claim. It's crazy. It really is. Because I've had, honestly, I've bought a few
that I was really underwhelmed by. Whether it was reading descriptions, seeing hops they used, appearance of beers, and some of them have fallen flat.
And this one is like, through the roof. God damn. I couldn't be happier about this beer. This purchase. Well I am jealous. That sounds der-licious. Der-licious? Der-licious.
Oh. Okay. Der-link. You can der-link my balls, Captain. That's what I was thinking. No, der-wienerschnitzel. Der-licious. Sorry.
All right. While you enjoy that gorgeous and delicious beer. Exactly. This is a voiceover from Chu. Hell yeah. Did you guys ever listen to Loveline back in the day,
or? Mm-hmm. The Dr. Drew one? Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla. Or even like. He was on. Do you remember the show Singled Out? Can I just ask you that? Oh yeah, absolutely. What a great show.
Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy, followed by Carmen Electra. That what? Yeah, Jenny McCarthy. Yeah. Wow. Before she was nuts. Before she was bananas.
Is she crazy now? You know what? This is the time right now. It's not, but yes. But, or like your local radio station where you call in,
like, I just want to let my girl know that like, you know, I love her and stuff. You know, like that kind of shit. Is this a sensual voice? Here's the thing. I want everybody to know that we are not that kind of show.
Just let me dim the lights real quick. Yeah, turn it up. What is going on? Get the lotion. And I've only let this through because Chew is a friend of the show and I almost didn't.
Can you just play it? We are not that kind of show. The suspense is like so killing us. Here you go. Put it in your pants. Hello, no one is available to take your call.
Please leave a message after the tone. Yo, what's up? Crappy Republic Chew, your B here. GABF just ended. Can't wait to hear all the amazing stories from Greg and Shannon and with the neck and all the mishaps
and the icing that hopefully she got iced. And I'd like to tell my hyena, my Ruka, my mamacita, my everything, happy anniversary.
20 years of being together as a team. Best, best teammate I've ever wanted in my life. For Gloria, I love you. Can't wait to hang out with you again and have a beer
and come home from work and just hang out with you and just sit next to you and just smile because that's what you put in my face. I'm kidding guys, I'm not crying, but yes I am. Deep down inside of my heart, I'm crying, homie.
Let me suck in those tears back in. Anyway, so happy anniversary to my hyena, GABF. I'm looking forward to all the stories and it would have been awesome if Flex made it
there in the flesh, but he was there in 2D. So still awesome. All right, this is true, you beer. Happy anniversary, mija. Love you. Peace, honey. That was far less weird than you made it seem.
No, he kept it short. That was weird. Come on, Greg. That was weird. He's such a sweetie. He loves his wife. We are not that show. He loves her. This is not where you call for shout outs
to try and get you laid in high school. He wants the world to know that he loves her. The world knows. There you have it.
Congratulations on 20 years, bud. Yeah. Way to go. Congrats. We're not that show. Yeah. There you have it. Asshole.
Yeah. Is that what that means? That's not what that means, is it? What? No, call Greg an asshole. No, I'm the asshole. Oh, yeah. How did you miss that? Clearly I'm not the romantic type.
It's not that type of show, Chew. Actually, more importantly, everyone else. I don't need your fucking 20-year union voicemails. I'm calling in in two weeks, right?
Totally. But you gotta call us alvatos. I can't do that. And mija. Talk about your mija. I said, Chew messaged me once and he,
how did he say something? And I responded back saying Holmes, like Sherlock Holmes. And he set me straight pretty quick. Wrong Holmes?
Yeah. Yeah, wrong Holmes. All right, let's real quickly run through some news here. The National Museum of American History has collected- Where is that?
In Tejas. Oh. Has collected a bunch of anchor brewing artifacts. We've covered greatly, Heather. Like what, though?
Like artifacts are like 300 years old. All right, tools from the brew house, lab and hop storage, a barrel that was transported, or excuse me, that transported steam beer
to the 19th century taverns, books from Fritz Maytag's library, archival materials, thousands of photos, brew charts, correspondence, labels.
Okay, artifacts, I get it, got it. Want me to keep going? Please, actually, if you want to, please. I'd rather not, I've been drinking. It's not my oxygen you're wasting. J.J. Watt has signed a multi-year sponsorship deal
with Miller Lite. He's from Wisconsin, they're from Wisconsin. Just be happy for him. He's from Wisconsin? I didn't know that. Yeah, he's from Wisconsin. No, but that tracks. He's like the whitest person ever.
First of all, yeah. I was waiting. Yeah, he's signed a multi-year partnership with Miller Lite. They've already had a commercial out with his wife
that makes a cameo at the end. He's got a wife? Yeah, she's pro soccer star, Kelia Watt. I think I, hope I said that right. Oh, okay, you're right,
and their kids' names are similar to her name. Oh, I did not know that. But they're just, they're unique names. They're children's names. Children's names are unique. New York? New York. Unique.
New York. Unique. New York. Can't. We'll cap things off with this one. An Ingham man, Ingham?
A what? This is from Australia. That across the pond? Okay. Yeah, lots of ponds. Across the hemisphere. Yeah, was charged with riding a lawnmower through town while drunk. A North Queensland man has been charged
with driving with a blood alcohol level almost four times legal limit after he was spotted by police on a ride-on mower at 1 a.m. Wait, did you, how many times legal limit? Almost four times. Okay, that's what I thought you said.
I was hoping you were wrong, but. No, I was not. Police footage shows the man driving the ride-on mower in the wrong direction on Herbert Street, Herbert, in Ingham just before 1 a.m. last Sunday.
A highway patrol officer pulled over the mower, which he described as a 17 horsepower red beast. And asked the man what he was doing.
That's fucking awesome. The footage shows the man saying, I thought I'd just ride this old girl over to mow my daughter's lawn. The officer replies, not at one o'clock in the morning
and not drunk, to which the man can be heard saying, go on then, whack it on me, which sounds very dirty. It must be an Australian.
Yeah, that's very Australian. That's very Australian. After several attempts to complete the breath test, the man says, I'm out of here, all right? He was immediately detained. Senior Sergeant Robert Nalder said the man was lucky
there was not a serious incident. If you're drinking, please don't get behind the wheel of any vehicle, he said. This might seem like a funny incident, absolutely. It's funny.
But the harsh reality is that if police hadn't been there to intervene, we could have been dealing with a serious traffic crash. Could we though? He's going like two miles an hour. The 17 horsepower beast, baby.
It is a beast. Red beast. Do you guys use the term lawnmower? Lawnmower beer, do you ever use that term? Absolutely. Yeah, so that just kind of. I don't have a rider, so I don't lawnmower beer.
But it's just like a term for a very light, like refreshing beer, right? So that just kind of. Yeah, I don't even have a lawn and I say lawnmower beer. Yeah, exactly. It's like, this is a great lawnmower beer, but that guy was obviously.
Yeah, I guess I'll just go fuck myself. Oh, sorry. Lexi poo. It's okay. Totally hit a nerve with that one. Wow.
Wow. Wow. In fact, Ennegrin actually has a beer called Ross & Marr, which is like lawn beer. Lawnmower, oh yeah. So I just, that guy hit a lot of lawnmower beers.
Yeah. Yeah, oh, that's where we're getting at. Yeah. That's where I was getting at. I mean, it's nothing about you, Flex. I mean. Just taking everything personally.
I don't even have a lawnmower. I mean. Real sensitive. Yeah, do you guys have lawnmowers in California? Is that a thing? Of course it's, I mean, I don't have a yard, so I don't have one. No, we do have a lawnmower, but we don't really have a yard.
It's being installed right now. Eventually I'll be mowing the lawn, but. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. And I'll drink lawnmower beers. I'm sorry, but. No, I mean, please, by all means.
You know who does great lawnmower beers? Is that Just A Girl On Her Hops? Sarah, she always. Yeah, she's always cutting the grass. She's cutting the grass, and that is what you guys say.
Okay, when you mow the lawn, Greg, what is it called? Mowing the lawn, right? Right. You cut the grass. They call it cutting the grass. No, it's mowing the lawn, or mowing the yard. It's mowing the lawn.
But. No, you cut the grass. It's so random. Ah, shit. That's what you do when you mow the lawn. You cut the grass today. You're cutting the grass. That's what's happening when you're mowing the lawn. I just picture like little scissors, just ch-ch-ch-ch-ch, cutting the grass.
So tedious. You cut the grass. I don't know why that is so bizarre. No, it's very straightforward. How bizarre. Cut the grass. But yeah, Sarah does great lawnmower picks if you haven't seen Just A Girl On Her Hops.
Go check her out. She's awesome, and she's got the most adorable lawnmower beer picks. There's this other guy, Mowbeer, M-O-W beer. Oh. And his backyard is, he turned it into a putting green.
Oh. So he has like three holes, and he keeps it like a fucking, he's always aerating his. The fancy shit. He's always cutting it in different patterns,
and his grass is legitimately like the length of a putting green. It's the most insane thing I've ever seen, but if you're into it, that's awesome. I bet it's very satisfying. Oh, the pictures alone are satisfying.
Like my wife likes graining out. Like whenever we do collaboration brews or like pink boots brews, she's the one that's got that fucking rake, and she's graining out. She's like, it's so satisfying to just dump
all the grains out of the mash tun. All right, enjoy the manual labor, dummy. Is that the worst part? Yeah, like the part people hate? The brewers love when she does it. How bad?
Well, they do, yeah. All right, I'm gonna hit a little music over here. We're gonna hit. Do yourself a favor, hit some music. I did it. Did myself a favor. And I'm gonna tell you to do yourselves a favor
and check us out on the socials. Oh, no, you didn't. You don't want to start an indoor pub again. At Craft Beer Republic, at Neck Nosh, LLC, underscores.
In between. And of course, Flex Me Beer underscores in between. 805-538-Beer, leave us a voicemail that does not include sexual messages to your partner. There was insects, come on.
That's so classy. Or doesn't involve anniversary messages. Maybe it involves beer or fun things. But happy anniversary. I thought he wanted to hear beer stories.
Leave him alone. I think that's everything for now. Erica, thanks for putting up with us. Always a pleasure. No, you don't. Hope everyone is staying very well hydrated.
Put them up, no? Good night, everybody.