Welcome in, everybody. It's the craft beer republic.
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I am Greg and I am being joined by my favorite buff friend in the
whole wide world. And that's flex. What's up, big fella? Hey.
Nothing much man, just, uh, hanging out.
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It's the classiest in all the interwebs.
Nothing classier than the craft beer Republic.
That's what I like to think, actually. Yeah.
When people are like, hey, what's your podcast about?
Like, I always tell them, like, picture the monopoly guy drinking
craft beer. That's our podcast. Hey, that's pretty solid.
He could be a pretty good mascot for us. We got his number.
Uh, sure. I'll call him tomorrow. Yeah. You got connections?
You're in California? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll get my monocle out, give him a call. All that good shit just.
To call him? Just to call him? Yeah. It's required.
It's the secret password. Uh, follow us on the socials.
@CraftBeerRepublic. @Flex_me_a_beer all that good shit.
853 beer is our number. So much to get to today.
Got some breaking booze news. We just had Memorial Day last week.
Figured we'd talk about that. Got a big anniversary party
coming up, but, uh. Oh, yeah, I'll be there,
so come hang out. Um, but Flex has a new beer from a
weird ass brewery that we've never heard of before in their website.
Sucks, but, uh. All accurate. All accurate.
But it looked delicious. So let's find out what Flex is
drinking over there. 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? All right.
Well, I did my homework today, and I was out and about, and I picked
up some some beer for the show as I'm good man supposed to do, allegedly.
And this really simplistic cannot kind of caught my eye, as did the
logo. So it's like this. Uh oh yeah. It's like the tree with the roots and
it's in a little circle and like, this is what the can looks like.
Like it's just real plain. And it's got the name of the beer on
the bottom and it's all just teal. It's really kind of, I don't know,
caught my eye, like I said. And then give me some.
Real pure project vibes. Yeah. Ish, I would say.
And then it's got the name of the brewery and where it was brewed.
Uh, so this is Forbidden fruit and its claims are in Columbus,
Ohio. Okay. Um, and this beer is called
talking about talking. It is a double dry hopped, hazy,
pale ale. I know how you like your hazy pales.
Mhm. And it says it is double dry hopped
with Citra, mocha and. Uh Superdelic. Have we ever had a Superdelic beer?
I don't think so. Yeah. I'm not even quite sure what that is
because I'm kind of a moron. Yeah. But this is. Cute. It's pretty light.
I like to think so. Uh, it's pretty light at a 5.4%.
Um, so I was pretty keen on that, as I'm not looking to get super
messed up for the shows. Sure. And I figured, you know what?
Never heard of them. Why not try it out?
And it was like, uh, 12.99 for this four pack.
So very, uh, solid pricing. Solid cannot.
And then I pour this beer out and it is just gorgeous.
It is extremely light yellow. Very perfect color. No head.
Not much lacing. You get a little bit of sticky bubble
on there, but it quickly dissipates. So then on the old nose buds here.
But by the way, buds. I need to mention this. Uh.
They're untapped. There's zero description.
Um, only 28 people have checked this beer in.
Uh, and, I mean, solid rating at 391, but I don't know. Is that enough?
Is that enough to decide a collective rating? That's true.
Might be a little low. It's kind of bizarre, but yeah,
absolutely no description. It just claims it's hoppy, hazy,
spicy, soft and harsh. Uh, so let's let's get those nose
buds. And I found it on Untappd. Their first check in was April 17th.
So this is this is a fresh daddy. Okay, so it is pretty new. Okay.
So extremely hoppy. Extremely happy on the schnoz here.
There's not really any notes coming through.
Maybe a little bit of, like, faint, like orangey citrus, but.
But nothing super pungent. Just a lot of hops.
Uh, it claims there a Botanical brewery, so that means it's a
little Botanical, I guess. Uh, but, I mean, Botanical it's
Botanical. It's Botanical. Uh, so we'll warm up the old
Tongue-jobber now. There we go. Dive right in.
Botanical brewery is a brewery that focuses focuses on incorporating
various plants, herbs, spices, and other botanical ingredients
into their beer making. Okay, so super duper hoppy.
Um, I would say harsh is the right word.
Almost like maybe they used too many hops. Oh. Two. Two too much hops.
It's raining hops. It is raining something.
Um, it it's not bad. Like this isn't bad. It's good. Okay.
But it almost drinks more like an IPA than it does.
Like a pale. Interesting. Uh, a little bit lingering, you know,
bitterness, but not horrible, like with the oils and the lingering ness.
It just kind of interesting more than anything. Okay. Would you buy again?
If I was at the brewery, I would get a pour.
I don't know if I would get a four pack. Got it.
Um, if it was a little less harsh, I. It would be a super solid beer.
I would say a little too much for a hazy, pale. All right. Fair.
I looked up Superdelic hops. Uh, alpha range.
Pretty high in the alpha acids, 9 to 12%. Uh, flavors.
In the beer, you get tropical fruit, sweet and stone fruit.
On the nose, you get mango, passion fruit and spice. Little spice.
Let me let me dive back in here. Yeah.
First released in 2023, this complex aromas of sweet berry fruit,
stone, fruit and spice on the rub. Dry hopping, especially in early
fermentation to add biotransformation, imparts intense,
ripe tropical fruit aromas. The spice actually definitely
comes through on the aroma. Now, now that you mention it,
very spicy there. On the nose buds. The nose buds are spiced.
All right, well, uh, you know. Yeah, definitely.
Definitely an interesting beer, I would say, if it was like, uh,
professional football team, it probably went like eight and nine,
nine and eight. All right. Right around. The. 500 mark. Yeah.
Like, maybe they made the playoffs. It was just like a bad year for
everybody else. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
One of those that you're glad we took our advice of only buying
one can the first time. Well, see,
I did get the four pack here. Oh, no. Because I so I went to my shop, man.
And I think they're getting rid of the single can shelf. Oh, fuckers.
Because there was like two of them I already had.
There was is another two that I had seen for months now.
There is like a 12% stout that I didn't want.
And, uh, then there was this Grisette beer. Um.
Which was a little interesting, I guess.
I was like, almost intrigued to get it, but I'm like,
why do I this isn't what I like. Yeah, I mean, Grisettes are like,
farmhousey Belgian beers, right? Very Belgian.
So I opted not to get it. And, uh,
I just bought a couple four packs. So I went against what I've been
doing. All right, well,
now you got some beers to chug. Yeah, I'll drink them. I'll drink.
It. Yeah, I believe in you. I'll be all right. Uh. All right.
Well, speaking of drinking, do anything fun for Memorial Day.
Uh, so, like Memorial Day of. Not really.
It was more like, just like a running around kind of day. Like a busy day.
Um, you know, the wife was off, kids were off.
So we just kind of did family shit. And, uh.
But the day before was very excited. It was my nephew's fifth
birthday party. Okay. And this is my sister,
one of my sister in law's kids. And her husband is real cool.
Dude loves himself like a solid beer. Big bourbon hunter.
Just, you know, likes having a good time. Sure.
But most importantly about this party,
we have an annual horse competition. Like horse, the basketball game.
Oh. Not the. Yeah, not like the. Okay. Got it.
And it was funny because we had brought this up during Easter and we
had brought this up mother's Day, just about how excited we were
for it. Because last year, last year we got
rained out and it was a big bummer. Oh, so we played darts instead
and it just wasn't the same. Darts are fun,
just not the same thing. So then we get to the house,
or I worked all day and I get to the house and I say my pleasantries and
hellos and it's. Me, the fridge. I coolers were outside so I
didn't have to go to the fridge. Super solid. Great setup.
It's usually me, my sister in law's husband, and then his brother in
law who play, and just three real overly competitive guys.
And it just was a blast. And I'm gonna tell you who won.
Do you want to or do you want to guess who won?
I mean, I'm always gonna go for you. Well you're right. Okay.
I kicked ass. Nice. Yes. I went three and zero.
Ain't nobody stopping Flex. And, uh, just to rub it in a little
bit when I got home, uh, my kids have some horse toys in the basement.
Like horse stable, like a American girl doll type.
Okay. You know, so big horse? Sure. So I held it up with one hand
and held up a one with the other hand and sent it to my sister in
law's husband. That's pretty good. So this is my trophy.
All you needed was like a championship belt around that horse.
That would've been great, man. I gotta look for a horse belt now.
So is there drinking involved? Are you guys sober while you do this?
Oh, no. Definitely drinking. Oh. Okay. Good. Uh, what do I have?
I have had a couple. He bought a 12 pack of Eagle Park
set list, which is their hazy. Um, what's the word?
Their staple beer. Their flagship flagship beer.
Uh huh. So that's like 6.5% or. I had a couple of those.
He had some kind of rosé sangria, which I'm not a wine guy or
sangria guy or whatever, but I definitely went in the house
and poured myself a glass because it sounded delicious. You had to try it.
Yeah. And the verdict? It was pretty all right. All right.
Yeah. Rosé is not for me. I'd go like red wine. Sangria.
I don't know what. Just hit me with the sangria.
I was like, that actually sounds kind of nice on this warm day.
Yeah. Not bad. Yeah. So, uh noshed. Some pizza. Split a triple IPA.
Um, and then the horse commenced, and it was fucking Mecca and you
destroyed. It was immaculate. Way to go, horse champ. Hey.
Thanks, man. So if anybody if anybody out there
wants to challenge me who's not a professional basketball player,
right? Anybody who's never played college
basketball wants to challenge. If you're an average individual
challenge, right. If you get out of breath running
up and down the court, challenge Flex to a game of horse.
Do you have problems getting up off the floor? Challenge me.
Do you shoot free throws like Shaq? Challenge Flex.
Can you not bend your knees? Challenge me. Oh I'm in.
Here we go, bud. I walk like a fucking stork.
They call you Wilt the stilt just because you walk like
you're on stilts. Yeah. It's not because of all the
women I've. I've bedded. It's just because of my knees.
That would be cool, though. Nice. I, um, I had a weird holiday weekend.
A weird Memorial Day weekend, but not weird. Some good, some weird.
Why was it weird? So, the Saturday of that weekend,
my wife's. Get this. My wife. My wife,
former coworker invited us to. Not her wedding, but just her
reception. So we were invited. I don't have a problem with this.
Okay? We were invited. Then coworker got fired.
This is a recent firing. Oh. And then it was like, do we go?
Well, the wife is a much nicer person than me because I would
have said you got fired. I wasn't friends with you in the
first place, so it was nice knowing you have a good life.
See, I like weddings. Okay? But it wasn't a wedding.
It was only the reception. That's the best part. True.
Ceremonies are fucking boring. So spoiler alert we went because
my wife is way too nice to say no. And it's at this country club.
It says five till I think ten, 9 or 10.
So we I told the wife, I said no matter what, we cannot.
She loves being on time. I was like,
we cannot be on time to a party. You look like a fucking dweeb.
And so we settled on like 515. Oh, okay.
I mean, that's basically on time. I know, I'm like, half hour late is
on time. It's a party. It's not. And it's not a dinner party.
It's not like, you know, it's. Not like anybody's really
expecting you to come, so you don't have to be there. Right?
Right. It's not dinner reservations. You gotta be on time for dinner
reservations. But it's a party, you know?
It's a reception. So anyways, we get there at 515,
and luckily, it was at the same time that her other current coworker,
who's still a coworker, was also walking in.
So we had somebody to talk to because the rest of the people were like
family. so we didn't know any. Was it small? It was very small.
At its peak, I would say 30 people max.
Oh, I wouldn't have went. You see. So when we walk in,
there's a sign that says, like open bar and then in small
print at 530, I was like, see, we should have gone here at 530.
Greg's right again. So you had to wait 15 minutes. Yeah.
So, uh, 15 minutes of sobriety was really watching the seconds tick by.
Like you didn't pregame it already? Yeah, no, I had to drive.
I didn't, to be fair. Um, so anyways, we do that, we're.
We are the only people, like, we tried sitting down at tables,
and every time it was four of us, the wife and I, her two other coworkers.
And every time we try to sit down, people are like, oh, this is taken.
Oh, this is taken only have two seats.
So we ended up at our because there was no assigned seat,
we ended up at our own table, just the four of us, which not the worst
because at least we all knew each other or somewhat knew each other.
Accurate and but then so, you know, typical like dinner food.
It was pretty, uh, had some drinks. The DJ was weird.
He, uh, it was a pretty small room, as you can imagine. 30 people.
I think you probably could have jammed, let's say, Max,
60 people in that room. Okay, so not a huge space.
Uh, any time. First of all, the music.
And this made me sound old. The music started out so fucking
loud, like, obnoxiously loud, I think because he did not estimate the size
of the space and just was like, I usually turn this up to seven,
so we're at a seven or whatever. And anytime somebody was not on
the dance floor, he would start sneaking up the volume as if that's
the reason we weren't dancing, had nothing to do with the fact he
was playing the YMCA or some other shitty song. That's. Yeah, I mean.
I had a hard no village people rule at my wedding. Really?
Oh, yeah. No disco. It was a hard, no disco, no village.
We had a do not playlist. Interesting.
Yeah, because we're assholes. So that was kind of weird.
And he was not great. So then around like 615,
The bride and groom have still not made their entrance.
They're 45 minutes to their late to their party.
And he, the DJ, gets her attention. He's like, all right, everybody,
it's just about time for them to make their entrance.
And first we're going to show you this video.
And then it takes another five minutes to get the video to
play. And the sound is awful because
he even says, I can't get this to hook up to my equipment,
so we just have to turn the TV up all the way. Oh my gosh.
Leaned over to the wife and I was like, I bet I could.
Should I go help him? She just laughed. So plays the video.
It is not the highlight of their wedding.
It is the entire fucking ceremony. We had to watch from start to finish.
Wait wait wait what? Yeah. Luckily it was a Vegas wedding,
so it was relatively short. It was like 15 minutes,
but it was still 15 minutes of the entire fucking ceremony.
You know, all the speeches and I do's, and, you know,
they're officiant was creepy as fuck. Is the little white chapel or
whatever everybody goes to. And the guy was creepy.
And at one point you could tell, like, the officiant got bored
because he was just walking circles around them while he was talking.
The whole thing was fucking weird. So after, like, this 15 minute
wedding ceremony that I thought we had skipped out on, then it's like,
all right, here they are. And then they come out and they do
it, and then it's like a normal reception than the rest of the night.
But leading up to that, it was just kind of weird.
Yeah, I would almost have left already.
I was trying, but was not allowed. That does not sound like a great
time. Yeah. So, uh, one out of ten would not
recommend next day. Much better. Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend.
Uh, we went out on the lake. There's a little lake out here
where my boss has a boat. You can only have, like, little,
I don't know, electric boats. They go, like, top seven miles
an hour kind of thing. Okay, but he's got a really nice one.
It fits, like 12 people. So we went out with, uh, Coley and,
uh, Devin, interim Brian. And then our friends Kevin and Patty
brought out some champagne and some charcuterie. Brian on the boat? Yeah.
Brian brought out two cubes of beer with them. Jesus. He.
He was covering everybody. He brought some fire stone and a
fucking case of cures. Just in case we had some trash
with us. Did that? Came back to the house,
did some barbecue and kept drinking. It was. It was a good day on Sunday.
That sounds like a real nice day. Yeah.
And then Monday, we did go to a concert in the park thing, and, uh,
Kevin and Patty invited us over, and we didn't know what the
drinking at this park rules were. We had never done this before.
I'm assuming people just bring their own shit.
Yeah, I was looking around like, you know, technically it's not legal,
but tons of people were not concealing it at all, so.
And, uh, we had. We live across essentially
across the road from this, uh, botanical gardens. Botanical gardens.
The botanical gardens, too. It's crazy.
And they have these free concerts throughout the summer.
Um, they're on Thursday nights. Not that that means anything to
anybody. But when we had first found out
about this, we were like, oh, hey, we'll go maybe check out a show.
So we walked over there because it's literally that close and
didn't bring anything. No chairs. I think we brought a blanket
maybe just to sit on. And we're looking around because they
have a couple food vendors and you could buy beer there and whatnot.
Oh, nice. But looking around,
everybody's got their own coolers. Everybody's got their own bags.
People pulling bottles of wines out of wine, out of bags.
Just like the whole kit and caboodle. They're like,
everybody's bringing their own shit. We're like, oh, so it's not legal.
And you're technically on, like, you know, their property.
Property? Yeah. And, uh, but nobody seems to
give a shit. Yeah. There's another city nearby that
we have gone to a bunch of theirs, and we always bring the wines
and the beers and all that. And it's one of those where, like,
they look down upon you if you're not cracking something open.
Really? Oh, yeah. It's like everyone it's it's
encouraged. Now, this one we had never been to,
so we just didn't know. And lots of people were doing it
wasn't quite to the extent of the other one.
So instead we just brought some gummies and got super stoned and
watched a journey cover band. Hell yeah.
We got real fucked up a couple years ago.
And uh, there's a huge Pink Floyd cover band that came.
Um, they're like, known around, like the Midwest, I guess.
And yeah, we got pretty fucked up, and we just danced to that all night.
Nice. It was wonderful. Yeah. The one that encourages drinking
is a city that, uh, we do work for at work.
And my boss went to this one, and my coworker and I were like,
one of the one of the times we've been a bunch of times,
one of the times we went the coworker and actually had to film some stuff,
and my boss brought just a cooler, slammed full of beer and was like,
you know, where the beer station is? Hell yeah.
So like, we go out filming a little bit,
come back like, gee, I'm parched. Glug glug glug glug glug.
You know. That's a good boss. Yeah, he's a nice guy.
Like he tried, you know, he got, like, some sort of, you know, IPA.
Multi-pack trying to be cool and craft and all that stuff.
And it was forever ago, but it was good times.
I can imagine him walking into, like, the liquor store.
Hey, what are the cool kids like? You know, like.
Hey, sonny boy, what is it that the kids are drinking these days?
One of them mentioned a ippa ippa. Am I saying it right? IPA. IPA.
Is it Greek? IPA? I feel like I should be breaking
some glass here. See? Oh. Good times. So anyways. Yeah.
Yeah, that was. That was my weekend. Sounds pretty solid.
Minus a weird awkward reception. Weird reception, but the rest of it
not too shabby. Okay, so. Right on. Uh, before I forget, shout out to
our top listing city last week. And that was Riverside, California.
Not to be confused with Riverside, the shitty podcast service we
use to record our show. We do use Riverside, don't we?
We do. We're locked into a contract. What a small, small world. Yes, very.
And, uh, again, shout out to the Netherlands.
A couple of weeks ago they were topping, not topping, but they were
showing up on the charts and once again, they're making a little chart
comeback. So, uh, interesting. Shout out Netherlands.
I don't know who's listening, but, uh, whatever.
Hello is in the Netherlands. Hello. Clearly they don't have any kind of
social media either because they. Write or much to do.
Or yeah, maybe they're internet only gets podcasts. I don't know, maybe.
They're still on DSL. It's about as much as it can handle.
We can do 50MB per beat. Remember trying to download porn
back in those days? Uh, like five minutes later?
There's one picture. It was rough. It was? Yeah.
I remember one one time was rough. Yeah, I remember one time the
parents had left and I was like, yeah, let's see what I can pull
up on the old interweb. That was before people knew how
to search history. If history even existed on the
interwebs, it's like AOL days. It had. To. And, uh, maybe.
And I remember pulling up a picture and it was like, you know,
line by line would load slowly. And it'd been a few minutes.
Yeah. It did. Yeah. And it'd been a few minutes.
I had gone to the kitchen to get some drink, and in that amount
of time the parents got home and I was like, oh, shit.
That's that's, uh, spoiler alert. That's how picture is printed too.
Yes. When you print the dot matrix,
it's just line by line. Yeah, they weren't color either,
and they had to rip off the edges. They made that noise too.
Man, that was the worst. Yeah. But yeah, I had to run back to
the computer and, like, it wasn't responding to me.
X-ing out. So I just turned off. It was back when you would actually
had a power button on the computer. If you hit it like the power
went out, you know, like old school power button.
Yeah. Everything went off. Yeah. It was like junk,
like an old tube TV. So anyways. Good times. Hi, Netherlands tube TV.
I bet they still use those in in the Netherlands.
They're like these assholes. We listen to their show now
they're talking shit about us. I bet they're like so much better
than we are on everything ever. Uh, it's like one of the happiest
places to live, I believe. I think somewhere in that area is.
Yeah. They're, uh, medical insurance is
amazing. Well, and they have it. And they, uh, they're, like,
the best, like Norway. I think it's Norway or Finland.
One of those. It's like the best looking people
in the world. Should we move? I think so, yeah.
Since we're some of the best looking people. Yeah.
And I think their weather is similar to Wisconsin,
so I'm gonna be okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. I think you're gonna have to
learn to deal with, like, cold. Uh, we'll work on it.
It's better than hot. I'll take cold over hot. Interesting.
Yeah, because you can warm up. It's hard to cool down.
I do feel you know what? I just went against my own ways.
I actually tell people that all the time that I'm very okay with
the cold. Um, because you can put multiple
layers on and multiple blankets to get warmer,
but you can only take off so much. Right? Until you get arrested.
Well, yeah. Basically. Right. We don't want to talk about that.
No, that's a different show. That's for our Patreon page.
You gotta pay to hear that one. Our OnlyFans account.
Do people still make those by the way? Patrons. No. OnlyFans.
OnlyFans. I don't know, I think so. It's like a thing still.
I think so I read something recently that they made like
$4 billion last year. Oh wow. It also said that they they take
like 20% from the creators. Wow. That's a huge chunk. Wow.
Think about that next time you're jerking off to someone on OnlyFans.
Jesus. I mean, um, connecting with your
favorite content creator. Wow. That was beautiful.
It was a beautiful way to put it. That's what I meant to say.
I'm connecting. Are connected. Yeah. You just made a lot of people feel
better about themselves. Yeah. I had someone recently asked me why.
Like, why don't you do a video podcast? I was like, I don't know.
And, uh. Oh, no. It started with, uh,
trying to take my picture. It was an in-law family in-law
member, like trying to take pictures. And I was like, no, no, no,
not right now. I had just woken up and they're like,
oh, what's wrong? I was like, yeah,
I don't have my makeup on. And they're like, oh, what about your
podcast? I was like, no video, man. We got faces for radio.
I walked away, hey. Man, I'm just kidding.
You're beautiful. Stop it. And my favorite part was about
two seconds later, it hit what I had just said.
And as I'm walking away here. Like, the faces for radio really sunk
in all of a sudden. Old people are. Weird. Some people don't get it.
Yeah. They don't. So anyways, uh, all right,
back to the beer stuff. Uh, we want beer. Yes.
Every now and then I wanted to mention on June 14th, uh,
next week, next Saturday, Topa Topa brewing out here in my
hood in Ventura, California, having their 10th anniversary,
which is fucking badass. And Cambria from Topa Topa hit me
up and was like, hey, you know, can you spread the word and any
chance you can stop by and say hi, so I'll be there, I'm going to stop
by and say hi. It's really cool. Cambria used to work for Radiant
Brewing and we would talk when they first opened,
had them on the show, and now she's moved on to work for Topa Topa.
So it's it's fun to keep it all in the same world, but.
That's awesome that she still reaches out to.
Yeah, hopefully I get to see her next Saturday.
So June 14th, come on out, say hi Topa Topa I think it starts at 12,
1230, something like that. You can find it on the website
Topa Topa. Beer. And if you want to hear our interview
with Jack, one of the co-founders of Topa Topa, that's batch 271.
Go have a listen and learn about Topa Topa before you go to the
anniversary. That's from a couple years ago.
So, uh, all right, before we do some news, I want to make a call.
To the bullpen for beer. So I'm drinking.
Other half brewing green diamonds, Eau de Imperial,
double New England Hazy IPA, 8.5% 100 IBUs. Goo in a New England.
Yeah. Interesting. I guess the Imperial kind of makes
it anyways, uh, and has A418 on untapped out of over 26,000 ratings.
Big numbers. Yeah. Uh, it says an Imperial IPA brewed
with a hand-selected blend of hops. Hops given notes of peach,
passion fruit and sweet grapefruit on the nose. On the nose buds.
Passion fruit and grapefruit. I think I like the sound of that.
Yeah, the schnoz is quite nice, actually. It's very fruit. Salady.
I'm gonna guess that's the grapefruit coming in a little higher.
Would you toss it? When wouldn't I? Daddy? So, daddy.
On the Tongue-jobber definitely some, uh, some malt in there.
This is a little old school in the maltiness, which, as we know, not
always my jam. It's a little thick. It should be nobody's jam. Mhm.
I mean, it says it's a New England, right? It's an imperial.
That's how it is. The cans is imperial untaps his
imperial slash double New England. Okay, okay, okay. Now I get it.
So we're gonna call it Imperial because it drinks more like an
Imperial. It's pretty bitter. Um, definitely getting the grapefruit
in there and those citrusy notes. A lot of pith.
Um, from the grapefruit. Bitter? Yeah, a lot of bitterness.
It does. The 100 IBUs. That makes sense, right?
It does coat the tongue. Um, I will say, uh,
you can see the color here. It's like, I don't know, not quite
copper, like a burnt orange, maybe. I would say that's a solid.
I'm looking I'm looking at a lot of these pictures of people who
have checked in untapped. Theirs are way sexier looking.
It's a lot more like bright and yellowy.
And so, um, once again, this is a Tavour beer. Drop the ball. Tavour.
I know we're going to, like, rename the show to Fuck Tavour
or something like that, but, um, I don't know if it wasn't handled
well or what, but it is not the same color that multiple.
It's not just one picture. Multiple pictures are showing this
gorgeous looking, very yellow beer. There's a couple of darkies like
mine, but overall, Jesus Christ look, that's dark.
They look, um, pretty bright and delicious.
So, uh, I don't know what the fuck happened here. Maybe it was filters.
Who knows? I'm hoping so. I'm hoping everybody except for two.
You. Filtered their photos. Damn it. Uh, would probably not buy again.
I not worth it. That's, uh, bummer to hear. Yeah.
Not a single, not a four pack. Not in a box, nor with a fox.
Yeah. Those foxes. Mhm. Well, I'm sorry to hear that
about your beer. Yeah. Me too. It's, uh. It's fine.
You know I it's not good. Not. It's whatever really,
really coats the tongue like I can. Still it doesn't sound good.
It's just fine. Best, you know when you ask somebody
how they're doing and they're not really fine, but they say fine.
It's fine. That's. That's what I just got from you.
It's fine. It's fine. And in sign language,
I'm saying send help. God, I hope he reads sign language.
Uh, a little news before we end things here. Highland brewing.
Can I bring up a story real quick? Yeah, please. You reminded me.
Oh, I meant to bring it up last week because it made me laugh.
And you said Topa Topa. Mhm. So, uh, my wife and I have been
enjoying this Topo Chico Seltzer. It's like a raspberry lemon or
something like that I don't know. Saw it at target. Bought it.
Been digging it. Nice. Well, she has this.
I think I texted you about this. Actually. You did? Yeah, I did.
So she has this, uh, what she claims. Like a trashy bar hag of a client.
Straight from Florida. My wife does, you know, hair. Yeah.
And my wife had taken one of these to drink at work,
and she had it set on her station, and this client came in,
and she's taking care of her, and she sees the Topo Chico can
on my wife's salon table, and she goes looking at it.
She said, oh, my God, they make non-alcoholic Topo Chico.
And I just thought that was the funniest shit I've ever heard.
As if people just associate that with there being alcohol. Right?
Um, yeah, I just wanted to share that. But also I did some research.
Oh, from drinking other seltzer waters.
Uh, if you ever buy the target brand of seltzer water,
it actually says on the can non-alcoholic. Oh, thanks. Target.
Which I also thought was hilarious. Right.
But because I guess people are more nowadays associating the
word seltzer. Seltzer with. Seltzer. Right, right.
But the Topo Chico can says nothing about non-alcoholic. That's funny.
But again, just, uh, you know, maybe somebody got a chuckle out
of that, I definitely did. Yeah, I bet she's sitting there like,
oh, when can I ask her for one of these Topo Chico's?
And she's like, oh fuck, it's not a real Topo Chico.
Oh, you got one of these in the fridge here? Damn.
That's so funny. No. That's like those, uh, in quotes,
dude, barbershops where it's like, come on in. Get your haircut.
Have a beer. Have you seen those are. No. Do you guys have those out there?
Yeah. I've seen those. I don't go because,
as you can see, my haircut doesn't require a barber shop or salon.
But I've been getting house haircuts for the last 15 years.
Yeah, I'm sure I've been getting haircuts as well. Yeah. No need.
Yeah. Get the razor out. Yeah, exactly.
Some sad news in the beer world. Oscar Wong, the founder of Highland
Brewing, dies at age of 84. He's known as the godfather of
craft beer. Have you had Highland Brewing
Company? Maybe. Fair enough. Uh, I've had a few of their
offerings, and, uh, you know, it's kind of kind of reminds me of,
like, your your big local craft, like your stone or your lakefront
or something like that. That's why I feel like I might
have had them. Yeah, I've seen them around.
Um, I don't know that they've ever been on Tavour or anything like that,
but I've definitely seen them around from time to time at like
Total Wine and that kind of stuff, especially pre-COVID when beer
was still popular. Yes. Not. Not much or not very popular now.
Yeah, it seems that way. It's dying out.
So anyways, R.I.P. to him and, uh, thoughts and whatever's out to the,
uh. 84 is a good life, though. It's pretty good. He died of cancer.
But, I mean, you made it to 84. That's that's pretty. Good.
Not a good way to go, but, yeah, super solid life. Um.
If I make it to, like, 64, I'm gonna be psyched.
Yeah, I kind of don't want to make it much past that. Interesting.
Yeah, the knees already suck. I'm just gonna be like, you know,
crawling around the house, figure it's not getting better.
Like, halfway there. You know. I'm just trying to be optimistic
here, man. Oh, sorry. I mean, uh, yeah, I can't wait.
I'm over here like my back, my knees, my shoulders. Yeah. I'm not gonna.
There's not gonna be much left of me by 64. That's what I'm thinking.
It's gonna be like one big spinal fusion.
And I can't even sit, uh, like, sit on the ground for like, two minutes.
And then I try to get up and my back is, like, all locked up,
and I have to walk around like an old geezer, like, bent over, like,
hunched over because it hurts so bad. Yeah, I feel that. Okay. Just.
Yeah. Just making sure. And the worst for me is the knees.
Like, getting up from the ground. You might as well ask me to call
or to climb up a skyscraper or something. That's not happening.
Are you Spider-Man? You know, like, geez.
You want to get up from the ground? Get real.
Really asking a lot over here. Grow up. Exactly.
Uh, thanks to Davis for sending this one out. Shout out to Davis.
Davis. Good guy. Yeah. Loves himself some cannibal
sandwiches. Uh, who doesn't though? Really?
Uh, hand raised right over here, to be. Fair.
Don't knock it till you try it. The problem is, I is, I don't
think I'll be trying anytime soon. My butthole would not appreciate.
Uh Great Divide. Sad news. Great Divide to shudder.
Two Denver taprooms. Bummer. Yeah. Uh, nearly two months after the
sale of its distribution business and future taproom rights,
Great Divide brewing is shuttering its Denver locations,
they wrote in an Instagram post. While we'll be raising one last
pint at our ballpark and Brighton Boulevard Taprooms at the end of
June, this isn't goodbye. It's just the beginning.
Which sounds like a weird old trope. Weird.
How is it not a goodbye or closing two locations? Yeah. Um.
Great Divide joined Wilding brands growing, uh, beverage
alcohol platform in early April, which we talked about.
However, the Denver Taprooms for satellite brew pubs in the suburbs
and Denver International Airport were carved out of the transaction.
They were not part of the sale. The sale allowed Great Divide
founder Brian Dunn to wind down his craft beer career while staying
involved with the brand's long term licensing agreements for its
locations beyond Denver proper. All for Great Divide locations
outside of Denver will remain open, he confirmed yesterday.
The additional retail locations have been really helpful as Great Divide
adapted in a changing craft industry. Wilding brands will open a new Great
Divide retail location in Denver later this year. Interesting. Weird.
Isn't a ballpark location closing down?
I don't think it's actually in the ballpark.
I think it's right next to the ballpark.
But yeah, like around like it's got to be like a busy area,
you know? Like. Oh, for sure. I've been there after games.
Although the Rockies are absolutely terrible and they've had the worst
start to a season in the modern era. Okay, I have not been there this
season, but. So maybe this has just been a bad
year. Blame it on the Rockies. Yeah, businesses are closing. Thanks.
Rockies nine and 50. Oh my God. Really? Yeah. Let me double check.
That was a couple days ago, at least, that is.
Even if you're mostly correct. That is embarrassing.
I'm pretty accurate. Uh, ten and 50. Now they are on a one game
winning streak. Oh, how dare you! Can they make it to keep that
streak alive? Well, yeah,
they're probably gonna win about 35 games this year. 36 games?
They're on par to really knock it out. Yeah. Good job. Rocky.
You know, we're gonna be in Colorado later this year.
I should get Rockies tickets because they'll probably be dirt cheap.
Dirt cheap? They will probably pay you to
come into the stadium. Yeah, like, here's a buck.
Come on in. I would take it. Yeah. I like the stadium.
I like going there. Amazing view. It looks great. I've never been.
Great views. It looks amazing. I think I recently talked about
this one of the times where they were watching the Dodgers and
out way past center field, out in the, you know, miles away.
There was a lightning storm. Yes. So I can't remember.
If this was on the show or if this was a sidebar.
I can't remember, so I'll just. We're watching the game and just
the whole fucking game. No rain. It was far enough away.
Just lightning storms straight out of center field. It was gorgeous.
It was like one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
It's awesome. And I was one. So chuck it. Rockies. They suck.
Yeah, they really do. It's so bad. The White Sox were bad last year.
Not as bad as the Rockies. Bad? Uh, a Rome woman.
Rome, Georgia, not Rome. Okay, okay, I was gonna say.
I don't think you say it like that. Yeah.
A Rome woman found driving drunk, ingesting drugs after stopped
for a broken headlight. Oh, somebody didn't want to get
caught. Yeah. Wanda Michael Nelson, 53,
of Rome, was arrested this week for driving drunk.
Michael Nelson, her middle name is Michael.
Okay, I was just double checking that.
Yeah. No, you heard me. Right. Okay. Was arrested this week for
driving drunk on multiple drugs. On multiple drugs as well.
Driving drunk and on multiple drugs while being stopped on Martha Berry
Boulevard for a broken headlight. Reports said that Nelson told
officers that she had ingested multiple narcotics before they
approached her car. Any guesses as to what her car was?
Because it's so fitting. A 92 Tercel? No, that's that's a good one.
But no, a 1970 Chevy Camaro. Interesting. It's perfect.
And I'm sure it was beat to shit. Loading up in trucking, man. Yeah.
A search also led police to find suspected meth in her pants. Oh.
An open bottle of liquor was also found underneath the driver.
I do hear that's the best place to keep your meth. Is your.
Yeah, it keeps that proper temperature and humidity.
Pants temperature. Right. Not to be confused with pants drunk.
Accurate. Yeah. So, anyways, um, she's charged
with possession of meth, a DUI, driving on a suspended license,
headlight violation, open container, and operation of
an unregistered vehicle. I love that they threw the
headlight violation in there. Well, you have to, I guess.
So we'll end it on this one. Some drunk Uber passengers were
dangerously dumped on the side of the highway. Sounds terrible.
Yeah, I want after I read this, I want you to to answer this for me.
What would you do if you were the driver? Okay.
Uh, Thames Police said the drunk pair were kicked out and left in
a refuge bay near reading in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Officers were called to the location after receiving reports
of two pedestrians on the side of the motorway.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, the Thames Valley Police issued an
appeal to Uber drivers not to quote dump passengers in such spots even
if they've been sick in their car. A spokesperson for the force
said just a polite message to taxi and Uber drivers.
If you're intoxicated, fare ends up being sick in the
back of your vehicle after a Saturday night on the town.
Please don't dump them on the side of a dark motorway.
According to LBC, the force confirmed an investigation is underway.
It's an offence to allow the public to put themselves in the position of
being a pedestrian on the motorway. In a statement sent to LBC,
Thames Valley Police spokesperson said Our roads policing officers
attended a refuge, a refuge bay. Is that a dump? It's very European.
I have no idea. Near reading on the M4 motorway
this morning, around 1:40 a.m., after reports of two pedestrians
on the side of the road. It's an offence to allow the public
to put themselves in the position of being a pedestrian on the motorway.
An investigation is ongoing. Says a refuge bay can refer to a bay
that provides shelter or sanctuary. It can also refer to a bay in
New South Wales, Australia. Oh. All right. Maybe it is Australian.
I don't know. I don't. Know. Maybe it's like a bus stop.
No, because it was. It was on a dark, lonely highway.
Oh, I don't know. But anyway, so if you were the
Uber driver and these two drunks in the back seat of your car were
throwing up, what would you do? I might dump them too.
I yeah, I mean, I'm not saying it's not a great thing to do,
but think about it. Think about it in the idea of an
Uber driver. If you're driving Uber at night
like bar clothes, you're usually not doing it for extra money.
You're usually doing it because that's what you do. You follow.
You mean it's a job, not a side hustle? Right, right.
Okay. That is your source of income. Like that is your career,
so to speak. Sure. Somebody pukes in the backseat
of your car. That completely ruins your night.
That is true. You can no longer drive anybody else.
Now, you can no longer pick anybody else up.
You got to go home or go somewhere. Because I'm assuming there's no
car wash. No vacuum station. Like, no nothing.
That's open to be like, hey, let's clean my car out quick and
get back on the road. You know. Imagine you're right. Yeah.
So, you know, I would assume, uh, I'd be pretty pissed off.
Here's the other thing, though. They've already done the throwing up.
What are you gonna do now? What do you mean?
Well, you say, and you're right. There's no open car washes and
all that kind of stuff to take care of the problem.
Yeah, but they've already done the throwing up in the back of your car.
So whether you drop them off in the middle of nowhere or take them home.
Yeah, it. Doesn't change the back of your
car status. Now. Stinks like shit. Yeah. Yeah.
Now I will absolutely kick these fuckers out of.
You know how I am about my car. Get the fuck out of my car.
Yeah, especially if it's a nice car. Yeah. Yeah. That's tough.
But how can you, you know, if you're not in the position that
this driver was in, you can't really give, like, an honest response.
I would like to be a nice guy and say, oh, you know,
I've thrown up in the back of a car, which I never have. Same.
And you like, cope with the individual like, oh yeah, you know,
it's just a stupid night. You take him home and then you
still have puke in your car because you're right, there's no
differences if you kick them out, if you take them home. Right.
Unless this guy was super close to his house and he just said, fuck
these guys. Yeah. Could be. You know. I did have a girl throw up in the
back of my car once, but I did not know it till after the fact.
I had a kid throw up in the back of my car once. That wasn't great.
Was it your own kid? Oh, absolutely. Okay.
Otherwise you would have kicked him out, right? Yeah.
Well, it's not my kid. Get the fuck out of my car.
Get the fuck out of my car! What do you.
What do you think you're doing now? Is that what the fuck?
Yeah, it's out with a couple of friends.
One night, me and two girls and we're at a club, and we were drinking,
and I didn't know. So the friend of my friend got
fucking hammered, and she starts well.
And she started talking to the DJ, and the DJ, of course,
gets free drinks. So the DJ is like getting her
all these free drinks. DJ thought he had a chance.
Little did he know, I had taken the girls with me?
So I'm not letting this girl go home with some stranger,
especially in the state she was in. What a nice. Guy.
You know, if she was coherent and she wanted to go home with this guy,
that's one thing. But she was fucking smashed.
So it was to the point where I had to help her out to my car,
like she wasn't walking. And so I told my friend,
I was like, stay here, you know, I'll come back and took her out to
the car, put her in the back seat, went back in for my friend,
who was very drunk but not nearly as physically incapacitated.
Got them both in the car, got everybody home safe.
And then the next day I was getting something out of the back seat,
and I looked down. There was like a little spot of
what appeared to be throwing up. I was like, God damn. Just a spot.
It was not like a full puke. It was just like, you know,
some baby throw up kind of thing. Huh. It was on the floor.
I was I was still pretty pissed. I was like, that's the last time
you ride in my car. Well, it sounds like she did a
really good job of holding it in, though. I guess so.
Like, if you just get like a spot. That's true.
Like where the rest of it go, right? Like did you.
So I don't even think about it, you know? I don't even think about it.
No. We're done. And, uh, let's hit some music
and never talk about that again. Hi, Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa.
Sorry to transition from PUK to Vanessa.
Uh, finest @CraftBeerRepublic. Com on the socials.
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I think that's everything. Uh, next week, I'll tell you guys
about my trip to Florida. Can't wait. Hope everyone's staying very
well hydrated. And on that note. Good night everybody.