Let's get into it. Yeah, let's want to do the first review.
Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
I knew you.
Oh, yeah.
Or like the Cooley guy.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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Two in.
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They're pretty symmetrical.
They are.
They are fairly symmetrical.
And they're real.
They are also. Real.
And speaking of nipples, it's such a bad transition.
Or real boobs.
Speaking of real boobs.
And they're dense.
We've discussed in the past, according to your doctor. Oh.
We are being. I'm so sorry. Well.
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People are looking at their phones right now, wondering if this is.
Indeed the craft beer bottle.
Ben says to you.
That very nice lady from the live show it peddles
and pints is like, what have I gotten into?
Sorry, sorry.
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And they're all natural.
Yeah.
Biology is.
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We got some booze news, we got some stuff to talk about.
But first, let's start answering some questions.
In a world where craft.
Beer is key and long held, where muscles are bigger than ground,
there's only one time Jim Guinness, one man,
one tongue, one tongue jabber.
In this world, we must find out
what is blacks drinking?
You know, I still can't believe you made that.
It's been, like, almost a year, probably.
Yeah, it's not a year. It's still commented on it tonight.
He's like, I just that song that gets me every time it's.
Oh, it's so good. Yeah.
Every time it comes out, I like fan girl over myself.
Somebody asked me if that was my voice.
Once I was like, No, I am not that good.
Sorry, you're. Good. But you're not that good.
Not that good. One.
Man one I got a real twangy one Mike on.
Now my mama, my new.
Sorry beer.
You'll.
Yes today we salute you.
All right.
Well, I am drinking tonight sex and candy by playground.
Uh, it's actually a cover by 18th Street brewery.
Okay, but it is a seven and a half percent ABV.
It was an IPA classic flex, but it is more on
the classic West Coast and so not classic flex.
26,000 check ins out on tap.
03.76.
That might be right on the dot after I've already had one of these.
But the description says the enticing
smell of Chinook and Cascade hops
waft forth from this IPA,
benefiting both you and your special friend.
The fruity and faintly sweet sex and candy is simply a dream.
So we'll.
Dig it.
Get a little, little waft of the aroma here in the old schnoz.
Mm hmm.
Superclass ec.
Grapefruit, piney.
Definitely a powerful malt backbone on this, and I feel like that
kinda has to be the answer for the 3.76 rating. Not.
Not a lot of people big on the malt backbone nowadays.
Yeah, it's kind of old school. Some people don't like that.
So I like tongue jobber that actually follows exactly
from the schnoz to the tongue job.
It's grapefruit and pie and 100% malt backbone
classic, 100% West Coast here.
Just I mean the hops in it to the Chinook and Cascade it
hardly gets more classic than that, that's for sure.
Maybe add in some centennial.
Yeah. If you got summer lying around. But
all in all, you know, this is from Zach's neck of the woods, too.
Oh, Indiana.
No bad.
You know, it's it's.
And Hammond not Gary. Okay.
But still in Indiana,
definitely a super solid beer.
Great color to this one.
Oh, yeah. Again, like that classic West Coast.
Look, this one's a lot more clear than the the one I had last week, but yeah.
Great lacing on this super good flavor.
Not lingering, not super bitter.
That Flex gives us two biceps up, man
I like.
Okay, we got to compliment that last.
Bit, too, Bicep.
Sorry, guys.
I just made that up.
Oh, I know, but we got to. We got to keep that going.
His next one's going to be two nips up.
Well, now it's a the name of the spirit, sex and candy.
So now that brings us to a few questions, right?
One. Oh, God, my favorite candy.
Okay.
To Who's your celebrity bang.
Oh, mom.
I may want to go first.
That's a tough, tough question.
I so. Okay, are we.
I have like categories, right?
There's like sour gummy candy.
Oh, I love, like, sour patch kids or like Sour Punch.
Those are like anything sour and gummy.
Those are probably still my favorite favorite.
But if we go to like chocolates, I love Almond Joy and Twix.
Okay, so here's my thought process on the thought process on this.
When I was growing up and, you know, going through grade school every day
for lunch, my mom would give me a fruit roll up or a fruit by the foot or.
Gushers, right? Yeah.
Every day I had that in my lunch.
My best friend to this day, my best friend,
his mom would pack him a caramel to explore.
I would trade my fruit snacks for that Twix bar
every goddamn day of my elementary school life.
Twix is like the best Twix.
I would as much as I love, like, peach rings and shit like that.
Twix is like the all time Lex Candy.
I can get behind that because that's definitely number one.
Yeah.
As a kid, I think number one, candy was was probably Snickers is kind of like
a type of Snickers and Reese's as an older
gentleman of a distinguished taste.
Like an unfiltered one.
And mildly filtered.
I really go towards the dark chocolates any like really nice dark chocolate.
I'm all for it.
Add some almonds in there.
And for if we're thinking like things that people can relate to, find
the Trader Joe's dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
Oh, God.
Or fucking to me, those are incredible.
I will keep my eyes peeled.
Yeah, they're so they come in a tub, a dangerously sized stuff.
If you get, like, stoned or something, you do some damage.
Well, let's see.
Now, I would say the older I get, the more I appreciate, like, Boogie Nights,
but yeah. Sea salt caramels.
Oh, yeah.
And just sea salt on anything like on chocolate on caramel.
Yeah. And I will.
I will, I will fucks with the milk or the dark.
I don't care.
I'm not a milk fan anymore.
Very rarely am I cool with the milk.
I'm mostly fucking dark these days.
Hey, yo. Yeah, right, right up.
Well, what's your favorite like fruit candy?
I do like me some sour patch back in the day, man.
I got down on some fucking war, dude.
I knew you were going to say warheads.
And your hands as well.
I mean. Oh, yeah, yeah.
But would you ever shake the head so, like, you were,
like, shrunk in the package?
Of course it made it easier to open. Yeah.
And then you just like one bite.
Yeah, exactly. Definitely did that.
Yeah, I don't these days I don't really fucks with the fruit candy as much
if I did.
Yeah, probably like the Sour Patch Kids because.
They're so good. Yeah.
Laffy Taffy.
Something never like it was fine.
Oh, I loved Laffy Taffy.
I loved Pink Starburst as a kid.
Which specific like if I.
Now you can buy all one color as a kid,
only one was the pink one and it's like you get one
per fucking package because they knew was the best.
That was like runs to
you always tried to save the strawberries for the like the last.
Was it like oh celebrity.
Yeah. Somebody buying. Yeah I don't know.
I feel like I'm stuck in the 2000s.
Oh, because that's when I was, you know, at my my peak.
Bankability. They. Peak.
No peak uncontrolled this maybe not been banged enough
back then.
My my go to answer was always Eva Longoria.
Okay. Yeah.
Nowadays I'm like, I don't know who's famous.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense because it's like, is she even around anymore?
I don't know.
She's with What's this face? Ryan Gosling.
Is she the one together?
They read about it.
They've been together for a very long time. They have kids.
They're they're not public about their relationship.
They never show their kid.
Because I wanted to kill Tony Parker when he cheated on.
Just kidding.
I'm thinking of Eva mendez. Oh, wrong. Eva.
Yeah.
Oh, dang.
The entire time I was thinking of Eva mendez when you were saying Eva Longoria.
Oh, she's good looking, too. She is. Oh, wow. Yeah.
I wouldn't say no to that either. No, no, no.
Sorry. Eva Longoria. You're right.
She may. Basketball player. Yeah.
What I saw when I started seeing my wife, we did the whole I don't remember
who hers was, but I thought like I thought realistically, right?
Like what?
What could if I seen this celebrity,
could I possibly have like a shot with.
Right.
And I chose Snooki.
I'm not even going to.
Like.
Stop it right now.
It's possible in that GTL gym, tan laundry.
Yeah, right.
Just, you know, certain. Yeah.
She was baked in the oven.
B really short look like you're like a basted turkey
and have some curves check.
Yeah. And it's like triple j.
It be like Thanksgiving every day.
Yeah.
Throw a trucker hat on that.
Maybe a bump in your fucking get the bill.
Damn. Yeah.
So I mean, that was, you know, I was thinking realistically.
Flex you could pull in much better than Snooki. Look at this.
I don't know about I've.
Seen those nipples they are. Perfect and those biceps.
Yeah I bad.
I would believe in yourself.
I would say current day, you know ever.
So I'm a big marvel nerd y'all know that.
And ever since Scarlett Johansson was Black Widow.
Oh, yeah.
She's got.
Yeah.
Scarjo and leather don't get me started Yeah.
I got I got to go yeah.
Daddy like
well, speaking about being stuck in the twins,
probably one of my favorite movies to this day is Van Wilder. So.
Yeah, and Ryan Reynolds looks just as good.
20 something years later.
I might even say better.
Oh, my God.
God, he's so hard.
I don't even want kids. And I would totally have his baby.
I would put him on my celebrity fuck list, too. Right.
He's just.
I would I would eat babies if he wanted.
Me to. But we all.
Were, too.
I know he's daddy's hungry.
So. GROSS.
This just got really weird.
Once again to the lady that was that peddles and.
I promise four different them.
I really.
Do. This is rare.
This is just not. Yeah, this isn't who we are.
We're better than this.
Ryan Reynolds, go all the way. Meow.
Ryan Reynolds is definitely why.
We don't. Call. He went.
Oh for sure that is Hunt Hondo P as the kids say.
Oh, is that what they say? I don't know. I heard that on a trivia show.
Oh, I thought that was I thought that was something else.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's what the kids say on it.
You're the only one here. The kids.
So you would know that's true.
Yeah, but my kids don't say on it.
They're not cool like that now.
Well, they're like Jenny. Jen, I
was. Like, set myself up for failure on that one.
Is Jenny a thing?
Well, because Jenny, do.
We do we revert back to the beginning of the alphabet? Yeah.
Oh, okay.
Interesting. Really, that's the thing.
Yeah, I think like,
like elementary school level kids right now are like going to their Jenny Oh.
I guess another event, more letters.
I'm pretty sure I. Didn't know that.
Well, apparently, it's like hurting her hurricanes, right?
Naming hurricanes. Oh, yeah.
You guys hear about that tropical storm last year
and that turned into a hurricane.
It was Hurricane Nicole or whatever. It was getting serious.
I was really excited about that whole thing.
Hurricane to go. Blown.
Upgraded like so hard for you but.
You tell me Hurricane Nicole blows.
I think that's what she's saying.
And it sucks, too.
And you're in the path of me.
I'm sorry. Lady in the front row. Really?
Just damn it. I just can't get my mind out of the gutter.
We need to give her a name.
I think that would make it easier.
Margaret. Esther.
Esther. Mad Maggie.
Mad. Maggie was trying to think of something.
Maggie got row.
Maggie in the front row. We apologize.
Oh, well, speaking of Celebrity Hall passes,
Callie became someone Celebrity Hall pass last week on the ground.
Oh, I did it, you guys. You made it. I made it. Yeah.
It only took 920 followers, bottom of the barrel,
and somebody made a spoof account, added an extra ian beer.
So it was ice underscore call, underscore BTR.
Beer.
And it was, you know, for daily content on only fans and it wasn't me.
Oh, I know you went and got that Don Perignon after that.
It's just.
Great poppin bottles.
Cashing those checks.
Yeah, I didn't want anyone to know, but yeah, the found me out.
The best part is though, these fuckers block you, right?
They steal your pictures and they block you.
So you can't report them.
And I was like, What the fuck?
Like, I had all these people in my inbox.
Like, you got a new Instagram.
One guy's like, I didn't know you got a new Instagram.
I'm like, I didn't. I'm so confused.
He said to me, I'm like, I can't see it.
And that's when I said something.
You guys brought you brought it up?
Yeah. He said, I made it. I'm famous.
I love that guys were hitting you up asking if you had a new Instagram.
They weren't saying like so you opened an only fans page.
They're like, You're on new Instagram.
I can't wait to subscribe.
Posting that daily content.
Daddy, daddy. Daddy, like mommy.
Come to the.
Welcome to the big. Show.
Your mommy.
Wow wow.
Cool is on the.
Prowl. My puma.
Speaking of Puma, saw the best mug.
It said I'm a puma pants and had a boom on it.
Oh my god, that's pretty great.
It's so stupid.
But I laughed like an idiot because I am who I am.
And I'll be when I'll be a big announcement.
Everybody, if you haven't noticed yet.
Debs Dix dot com is now an actual website.
Ooh, yes.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah, there are pictures of Dix. Yes.
So many. Dix. Yeah.
And why and why?
Greg Because. Dix Because. It's.
Because Dix.
Yeah. So good. Check out Debs. Dix Sorry.
Maggie is a hurricane.
This is not getting better.
We talk about beards or.
Dix or.
Yeah, fuck.
We should rename this show, by the way.
There's a lot of Dix. There are no penises.
It's a celebrity. Dix. Yes, we.
Yeah. Dix only please.
Yeah.
I did look up only cans dotcom to see if that was available
and apparently it's a porn chat site thing.
So nice. That meant funny, but. Only Dix.
You know, that's why I take it, too.
I'd rather not find out.
I mean, maybe. Cool.
I can do some homework for us.
I'm good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
If you get bored,
then we sort of hinted at it last week, but recently in addition to Finland,
we have been charting like crazy in Slovakia.
So shout out to the Slovaks.
I don't. Know.
Yeah. What up, guys?
They like it dirty, apparently.
Yeah.
We lost them after this show.
So either that or they're just drooling, wanting more.
Yeah. Okay.
Oh, we want to see Flex's nipples.
Kraft being republic of their.
Craft being removable.
It's just getting.
Out this show now.
Sorry again, Maggie.
Maybe she's listening from the beginning.
Maybe she likes. It.
So I hope.
She maybe she'll never make it to this point.
Fingers crossed. For her sake,
she'll be so disappointed.
It's just.
It's only when I come around. I'm sorry. Yeah.
How dare you? Yeah, I know.
You and Deb.
Deb Dicks and colleagues.
Yes. It's
colleagues cans.
That's not a website.
We got to give the alliteration.
Go out here, colleagues. Can we.
Show you my colleagues cans and you have a bunch of beer cans on.
There? Oh, my God. Yes.
I don't have time for this webinar.
This is great.
Oh, it's getting dirty fast.
So anyways, sorry and thanks for listening in Slovakia
before calling, I talk about what we're drinking over here.
The Fontana.
Jim called and left a voicemail
and sorry Jim, our schedule is running a little bit off.
What, is. He angry again?
Is he ever not angry? Oh, I love it.
Yeah.
So here we go. Here is Fontana. Jim. Hello.
No one is available to take your call.
Please leave a message after the tone
and our craft beer public.
Lisa, instead of Jim calling in, I want her to come with what I'm thankful
for rolling into this new year of 2023.
I'm not a first person thankful.
I don't have to see anybody's fucking stories about their stupid ass
and the beer calendar anymore.
Greg can tell you how atrocious the Costco line was. Yes.
Now, listen, I understand maybe you want to do a beer calendar.
You want to do a beer advent calendar?
I would never do anything like that because what I love, what
I want to limit myself to one serious day for 12 days seems like a diet plan.
Look, if you want to do one of these advent
calendars, replace it just for next year.
Go ahead.
And somewhere at the end of the summer, get yourself some pretty good.
It will crinkle 12.
The Pringles again. Yeah.
A perfectly empty container for a bottle or a kiss
and then mosey down to a total one or a thermo.
Bring a kit or, you know, one of your neighborhood kids.
If you don't have any kids, just look around for someone to fucking break.
Take those empty six pack things and have them come ahead of his randomly.
Pick you up 12 fucking beers to give you a 12 pack calendar for next year.
All right.
And at least it won't be a year and a half of European beer, maybe.
I mean, I guess you could go to the foreign country
section of total wine and have someone pick out beers for you there.
You probably my recommendation is no IPA.
Yeah.
Some of those might have seen a birthday.
Anyway, it's been a little while too for not getting that invitation of
oh say a loser. Oh, thanks, pal.
Thought we were a boy.
Anyways, that's it for now.
Looking forward to a fantastic 2023.
They're all in.
Here the best, as he called it, Posey Blues.
It's a placeholder.
Can I can I just say a few things here? Yes.
So if you first of all,
people who were posting that Costco Advent calendar this year.
Oh, so.
GROSS If you haven't learned from the last two years of anybody else
drinking those or knowing anybody else, why are you buying them?
Yeah, please don't post about them.
They're not great.
Oh. I had one two years ago.
My mother in law bought it for me.
You know, she.
Great idea. I appreciate it.
Every beer tastes the same super
metallic tasting because it was in there forever.
Just stop posting the Costco Advent calendars.
Second, if you go to a total wine and you go to the European section
to buy beer, it's probably going to be as old as what's in the Roscoe.
That's what I have encountered.
So third of all, I love how angry Fontana Jim gets.
Holy crap.
I love the anger.
Yeah, I, I laugh every time.
Like nowadays when people are still posting the,
the Costco one and they're posting positive things about it.
No, it's not good stuff.
Lying. Yeah. Stop lying.
Stop lying.
We know. We know, we know.
I feel like your post would be better.
Funnier and more genuine
if you just talked about how fucking disgusting it was.
Do so.
Yeah.
Enough with the three year old Ellis Lager that I think
literally took a boat to get here and jump inside and add bean counter.
It's disgusting.
Yeah, I actually think the boat. Sank and then they actually
had to send in a team to to resurface everything.
And I'm here drinking the Marianas Trench Lager,
a little pressurized and a little metallic and sea salt taste to it.
That's gusting.
Yeah, it's pretty bad.
GROSS So bad, like, oh, this is a hell is longer now.
Okay. Hell is disgusting.
This is an IPA.
Oh, that IPA tasted just like that hellish lager.
Yeah. Oh, here's a blond ale. Wow.
It tastes strikingly like the IPA that tasted like the hell.
Well, it looks like you said about your your mother in law about it.
Right. So you said, yeah, yeah, it was my sister in law that bought it.
And look, the thought was there. Greg likes beer.
This is an advent calendar of beer.
What's going on? Right.
If you don't know, you're this is a great time.
Yeah, but I had already had a heads up because I know Allie
and Carly had it the year before I did, and she talked about it on the show.
Great.
She didn't. She drive over you know?
Yeah. One got hit by her son's baseball bat.
He was taking batting.
I mean, did some funny stuff with it, but I remember it being so gross.
You talk about on the show and then the next year, the sister thinks I'm horrible.
It surprises. First of all, I don't like surprises.
I'm not I'm not a good reactor.
I'm horrible at reacting. Yeah.
And so thank God the sister in law told my wife about it
and my wife was like, look, act surprised.
Act like you want to if you want to just not drink.
Like, just pretend, just be grateful and act like you're happy for her.
I was like, Oh, okay, they got you warn me because otherwise I've been like,
The fuck is this terrible?
Your stories that year where some of my favorite ever.
Was at 20 and in 2020 or into 2021.
22, 21 is like, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, disaster.
Okay, yeah. Or you know, just over a year. Yeah, yeah.
So anyways, Jim, thanks for calling in and being angry.
805538 Beer 2337 If you guys want to call in
and let us know your advent calendar was.
As my friend says, if you have hate in your heart, let it out.
And he really does. Yes, he does.
Wonder if would you charge him for therapy sessions?
I feel like we're very cathartic for him.
Maybe. Yeah.
I love his. Anger.
I don't know.
He shot some fire at you.
I want to see what you has to say about that.
I now hope we don't start a valley Fontana War over here.
Could you imagine how angry in Fontana Jim will be
at the next Piazzolla palooza?
He better get the invite on that one ish.
Yeah.
So, all right, before we get any further, Colleen, I have a beer to drink.
Let's talk about it.
All calls to the bullpen for beer
for me.
Like a brown paper bag.
What's going on? Higher ups, batteries.
Breathe through it.
Thanks to Coley for snatching this one off the old table.
Oh, you're welcome, friend. Yeah. Promo code unfiltered.
Have you ever done any shopping there before?
This is Shell Shock from Martin House Brewing
Company, the Imperial Stout. 10%.
Yowza.
As a 4.11 with over 1400 ratings.
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right?
Absolutely.
And they say it's Imperial Stout with pecans, fudge, caramel
and vanilla inspired by the delicious turtle sundae.
And it has some amazing man hour of I believe this looks like Leonardo
looks mostly blue though he's holding the the size that Raph hold
so I'm a little confused.
But anyways, the artwork is amazing.
Ninja Turtle themed. It's, like, very artsy.
It's not cartoony.
It's something I might consider converted into, like, a tattoo.
I've been trying to, like, the Ninja Turtle Tattoos.
I wanted to do Turtle Tattoo, but I want it to be, like, kind of artsy.
I don't want it to be, like, super cartoony. It's like my goldfish.
When you don't have any tattoos, right?
I have zero tattoos, so I want that.
And I want some.
Wow. Wow.
I need a tramp stamp too, but
not really.
Anyways, so this is.
This is May. Sorry, I went real here with that one.
They're cool.
Smells on the show. Good.
It just smells like shrimp desserts.
Like pecan pie or pecan pie.
Uh huh.
Apricot, apricot pie.
Pecan
peak pecan pie.
Well, let's assume. They say pecan pie.
What do you say?
Pecan it depends the context.
When I say pie, I say pecan pie.
Yes, I think I see pecan pie. Yeah.
But if I'm talking about a handful of nuts, it's pecans.
I'm eating pecans or meeting pecan pie.
Weird.
Yeah, that's really fucked up.
Yeah, I can't explain it, but.
I guess.
I like saying pecan, but like pecan like.
Right. Kind of making fun of it.
Yeah, pecan pie.
Yeah, exactly.
Though on the old tongue job you're getting getting back.
Schnoz is very sweet, very pecan
pie, lots of vanilla towards the finish that tongue jabber.
What do you get.
And I get a little banana in there little manner. Mm.
Yeah you do.
It's, it's almost like, you know, like therapy, like it has legs.
It's, it's,
it's delicious, it's warm,
it has just enough sweetness, but it's not like a pastry.
STOUT Yeah.
It's not like a traditional one where it's like, oh, buddy.
It does get better as it warms up. It does.
I like it.
It gets a little warmer.
It's been sitting here for like 15, 20 minutes.
Oh, I guess 30 minutes.
Yeah. You get some pecans.
I really I'm getting some coffee notes that I know aren't
in the description, but I'm it's just the roasty ness of it.
Maybe you're like the bitter from the dark chocolate.
Maybe. Yeah, I, I'm getting sweet.
Like, I'm not picking out individual fudge and caramel
would have been like this sweetness that it gives off.
And this is just a real nice sipper at the end of the night there.
I'm going to have to look for another one.
It would be really fun if they did a whole series because the cancer is.
It's pretty bad as.
A magazine.
When Nick sat on the counter, he was like, What the fuck is that?
That's the coolest cameo ever seen.
What beers this then. Then he fell asleep.
Probably and I. Dick Yeah.
Oh, Maggie, I'm sorry.
Here we. Go again.
You go back to Dick. Sorry, Maggie, but hey.
Oh. Deb. Yeah
we you know we need on
Deb's Dexcom is a picture of Nick with a dick drawing on.
I've got probably hundreds.
Oh, I'm. Sure you do. I got to scroll through the old phone.
That could be like the highlight of the website.
It could be it's Nick.
So Nick gets famous, Nick.
Because.
It's about time he's.
He's earned his fame. So.
Well, thank you for this.
Oh, of course. Delicious. Yes.
All right. Some booze news.
Get to the number of brewers notices issued by the US Department
of the Treasury, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Bureau.
That's a mouthful.
Well, increased by 732 in 2022,
which is the smallest increase since 2013.
Basically, it's a long way of saying not
as many breweries are applying to open for 23.
In fact, it's the lowest amount since 2013.
Feel like that makes sense.
So we'll look at the financial climate we're kind of headed into next year.
Is that right?
So the breweries are closing, not a lot of opening with it.
It might be a little bit of a of a reckoning of the craft brew,
craft beer world.
A plateau, maybe not a reckoning.
So much more of a plateau.
No, I think I've had a lot closures like phantom carriage and torrent.
I feel like you guys have so much still.
Are still open. Just they don't have a location. They're still brewing.
I saw on the ground. Where the hell are they brewing?
I don't know. But they don't have a physical taproom.
They're just doing online sales right now. So it's really glad to see that.
Oh, me too. There. Oh, my God. There.
I feel you guys have so many breweries.
Like, way too many that.
Yeah, we have a lot out here.
It's almost like a like a tournament, like a Mortal Kombat
who's going to stay alive, you know, and Mortal Kombat.
Yeah, yeah. Well, and now you just have to be good.
That's the bottom line.
It's. There's no longer.
Can you say we have beer, you know. Yeah.
And that's what I
honestly I think that's what I like, like Milwaukee prides itself on basically
is all the breweries that are around, they make really good beer.
Yeah.
You know, and I think that's yeah.
That's why they're staying around. Yeah.
Some good news because fuck dry January
the number of dry January January participants.
Yeah you will.
Be easy for me to say dropped this year
from 19% of drinkers last year to 15% of drinkers.
So 4% are not participating.
I think Noubar was one of those.
He's moist January.
Moist January. So oh Christ.
This turned into an ism.
Our podcast.
Some people find it cringe.
Some people find a way to.
Say what I'm getting way more ripped
drinking beer this year than I ever have before.
I'm making up for all the idiot to do dry January.
I got to keep these breweries going one year at a time.
We do our part. Yeah, yeah.
You got to drink the charity.
You know, trying to do my part of.
Trying to keep people in business, right?
Yeah. I don't want these good ones to go out of business.
I'm just trying to help idiots. Yeah.
Here's how much alcohol your government says you should drink.
And this is per country. This is.
This is classified, negative based.
The the standard drink is
my the standard drink
is a 12 ounce 5% beer, an
eight ounce 7% malt liquor, a five ounce 12% wine
or a one and a half pounds, 40% spirits, basically a shot.
They get you that and dare if you ever if you've ever taken a dare class.
That's they they teach you that. Exactly.
So so that's the standard.
So in the U.S., the standard is two drinks
for males, one drink for females per day.
That is discriminatory and garbage.
Sexist. That's bullshit.
But is Chile coming in hot?
Five for males, four for females.
I do.
Here it is hot in Chile.
This is a weird one.
Spain for four males, two and a half for females.
Oh, shit, Walter. Right.
The Netherlands.
Kind of boring over there. One each, at least.
That's fucking. Equal. That's true.
What else do we have?
Belgium.
This is very not equal for male two for female How dare you?
South Korea.
Five for males. One for females.
Yeah, two and a half not far.
Why don't they just do, like, fractions, like 2 to 1?
Yeah, that's two countries in a row.
Yeah. Two, two, one. Exactly.
And I think the most equitable country on this list, there's more.
But these are the fun ones Australia for each.
Get ripped.
Equality. Yeah.
Yeah let's go. Yeah.
Get a.
Maybe. Yeah.
All all our Australian friends. Yeah. Yeah.
Wasn't it a shitty word. A word.
That was so. Shitty dude.
You were Shannon.
That was like it was me.
I was like, it's never a real. Word, so.
I just want to say I'm on like 125 word streak right now.
I don't want to brag because I don't know if that's good.
I don't know.
I forget every now and then.
What does this streak mean?
Like how many days in a row you got the word, right?
Yeah.
Oh, Matty was stupid.
I was like, Who's ever said Matty without? Yeah.
I wonder if it's because I just haven't, like, played certain days as I'm
because I haven't gotten any.
What's your streaks.
Says 28 but we play almost every day.
Maybe you forgot a day 29 days ago because I forgot one a few days ago.
Two of mine says my current six four.
Oh, okay, that makes sense. All right, fair enough.
Yeah, we play almost every day. We do. I'm a loser.
I wake up and I just can't wait to play.
Same I. Usually am.
I can't do when I first wake up.
I'm way too fucking tired for that. But I'm usually excited.
I just sometimes I get busy and I forget and then they go, Oh, it's Midnight Park.
Well, you're a big deal.
I, I'm kind of a big deal.
Well, anyway, with this one, we, I don't think we've had a list yet in 2023.
So for Flex, here's a list.
The love list. Me two.
The 15 best triple New England style hit slash hazy opus of. 22.
I feel like I can tell you the top five breweries that are going to be out here.
Wasn't the last one of the last list that you had.
So I was listening to the one of the last shows
for the new year, right after right of at the New Year.
Beer girl Melissa was on. Oh, yes.
And the top style was like a triple IPA.
That's right.
So this is interesting.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel like tree house, evil twin
like that.
Well, I've done my best to not look other than the.
Yeah, those are my guesses though.
Let's see, it's a number of 15 other half brewing all year.
Out to JFK in the clouds that has a 4.53 number.
14 other half brewing more Citra than all.
Citra or Epiphany
number 13. This is a funny one.
I think Nicole will appreciate this cloud what her brew co troubles chance.
Oh, my God, that's the best I got.
Can anyone please send that to me, please?
Nick and I call each other shovel.
That is 10% nice.
10% 4.47.
I knew you were four.
.47. Shovel. Wow.
Okay.
Well, that is my favorite Taylor song, isn't it?
Anytime I hear the real song, I think you guys troubles.
Yeah. Favorite Taylor song is style 100%.
Okay.
Number 12 other half brewing fourth anniversary
resurrected eighth anniversary edition to the Met.
All right.
I number 11 enter the fog dug by monkish brewing company
number ten parish brewing company Holy Ghost Number nine, monkish brewing.
No sleep means insomnia. Hmm.
Number eight, root and branch brewing.
The theory and practice of oligarchy.
I've heard like, really good chapter 11.
Really good things about those guys. Root and branch.
I have not had anything from them.
Nor have I.
Yeah. Number seven. Oh, good God.
Fighting's Brewing Company and M
four and M four and M the letters.
And I don't, I'm mad at you for making that the name of your beer
number six root and branch again with drawing the line.
Number five, monkish brewing with
I guess it must be like fog it's effects guy.
Okay that's. Hot.
Daddy number four other half brewing.
Oh, adios ghost number three monkish
with a do do number two
fighting's brewing company again with triple Jasper.
What did you say would be all over the list?
Which I. Apparently, I was wrong.
No. What were you. Saying?
I said tree house and a trio and one evil twin.
Right.
And they are evil to it now. I'm surprised there's no evil.
Yeah, because they're usually all on these lists.
New York, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
And so, number one,
Biden's brewing company once again with triple Jasper with Nelson.
So they were one, two and two.
Yeah, it was kind of number two is triple Jasper.
Number one, it's triple Jasper with Nelson. It's like, All right, guys.
Well, that's because of Nelson's awesome.
It's the full Nelson. Full Nelson. Yes.
I tell you, the first time I ever had Nelson in a beer
was this beer called Nelson the Greeter.
This is my favorite story ever, garbage.
And I was like, I'm Nelson.
Officers must be disgusting.
And I avoided them for a long time.
And then I had a beer with Nelson and I was like, Oh, this is really good.
Maybe it was just that beer that was garbage.
And it turns out it was just that beer that was.
No, that's great.
And that's crazy and sucks. Are you?
Because the first beer I ever had Nelson in it, like, blew my mind,
like, make us make this hop in every beer.
Yeah, it's a really good hop.
But thanks to Nelson, the greeter, I had no idea for years.
So good.
So that list, you know, didn't make me so mad, except
for the fact that there were three breweries.
Felt like three.
I think it was three.
Yeah, not. Not Fontana. Jim, Matt.
I'm too tired and relax.
All of. Us, to be.
A. Mad right now.
I don't have it in me. It's been a day.
Yeah, but in.
What was that.
We're going to some music and we're also going to say, hi, Vanessa.
I just.
I'm not ready for the creepiness. But.
I'm also.
Keeping it nice and normal.
Thanks for having me again, guys.
Thanks for having I know you guys.
Thanks for letting us have you write.
Ooh, oh, meow, meow.
Oh, okay. Creepy.
And apologies again to Maggie for this show.
It definitely took if she's.
Listening. Maybe she's into it. I don't know.
I might I might be banned.
Greg might read my contract.
Tonight is why we can't have Deb and Cole in the same.
Room together.
Oh, yeah?
Well, role of a new Instagram follower next week.
Maggie. Maggie does beer.
Yeah, ice cold beer. So
if you.
Freaks me a beer, please, please.
Any who flex me a beer underscore is in between ice cold
beer to ease on that beer.
Then discord is after each word, of course.
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Felix in an email it's male aircraft beer hokum I think that's everything.
Happy February.
Go get romantic or whatever for Valentine's Day.
Well.
Yeah, yeah.
But most importantly, stay hydrated.
And on that note.
Goodnight everybody.
Know delicious.