A 30 barrel brewhouse out thousand gallons at a time.
So we have
only a thousand now.
Only 1000 at a time. Yeah.
And when we do a triple turn.
So we're doing three of those a day.
Wow, that's a lot of beer. Wow.
Greg, that's 3000 gallons a day.
I don't know if you caught that. Oh, yes. Yeah.
I think it's that quick. That I was I was still.
Trying to catch up.
Welcome in, everybody.
It's the Craft Beer Republic.
Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.
I am Greg.
I'm being joined by the cover of his jacket.
Makes him look a little bit like the Gordon's fisherman.
That's Fleksy over there.
I wasn't one for fisherman, man. Today, it's.
It's all scary stuff, right? Whoo!
Happy Halloween.
I am petrified now.
Thank you so much.
We are just for everyone's knowledge.
We are recording this the day of all.
So any Halloween references that come up the rest of the show, there is
there's a reason for it. Don't be scared.
You don't be scared.
Ain't afraid. No ghost.
And then that voice over there joining us.
Well, joining me in person
and joining us, he's one of the Kellermann over at Midwest.
And one of my favorite beer nerds.
Spencer, how's it going? What's going on? Does.
Thanks for hanging out. Of course.
Thanks for the summit you happy to enjoy Halloween and nice to meet you
Fletch for officially Birch making it happen I guess.
Virtually.
Been to some of their screen.
Yeah. Hey. It's a modern narrative, right?
At some point you'll see Fleck stripping in the shed that you're going to happen.
Yeah, I already took my sweatshirt off.
I was already had a yeah.
First the jacket will come off, shirt may come off.
At some point he'll probably stand up and you'll see the world shortage. Sure.
That that's definitely going to happen. There's no. Maybe.
Yeah, that's just how this goes.
I don't like I brought my short, short game.
So we'll see how they do respect.
Agent Ethan Green on Greenland night.
Oh, man.
All right.
We got a lot to get to today.
As we said, as we record, it's Halloween.
Even this is coming out a couple of days later,
Spencer brought a tasty beer for us to share that.
I'm sure everyone, especially Erica, is going to laugh at me for.
We've got some beer research to talk about.
Flex was on a trip to see if he drank any good.
But I went. Somewhere.
You went somewhere besides work? Uh.
Got a couple of.
Such a loser, you. Know.
Got a couple of voicemails to get to, some booze news and so much more.
Let's kick things off for a little bit of hydration, though.
Let's get all the laughter at me out of the way.
And, uh, check out this beer that Spencer bring bring brought buck.
They'll be bringing it.
It's been br rotten
he brought to share
bottle logic Bruins basic math and this is from last year 2021
it is a barley wine they say pumpkins or as Nick would say barley wine
pumpkin spice latte inspired barley wine
fresh barley when brewed with pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove and ginger,
then conditioned on onyx coffee's geometry, blend of coffee
beans and a final treatment of Vietnamese cinnamon.
It is 10% 35 reviews and has a solid for on untapped.
Now this is a big deal for you.
This is a yes.
This is a little bit of a surprise for me.
It tastes like a delicious slice of pumpkin pie, though, man
as great from re calendars.
Let me say Costco.
Costco has the best pumpkin pies.
I do, but I do second that.
Yeah. So good.
And they're like $0.17.
It's sliced right.
The world's biggest pie.
And you can eat that cheaper than make your own.
Yeah.
As has been well documented on the show, I am a huge shit
talker of pumpkin beers and he's like, You want to try this?
I was like, You know what?
We'll try it.
Erica will laugh at me and we'll see how it is. So
what's the what's your little schnauzer?
Tell you?
The little Chanel? Now.
My little schnauzer is picking up.
It's like a mix between a pumpkin pie and like a straight up PSL pumpkin spice.
They like it's got that sweetness from the
for like the nutmeg and the cinnamon that you get in the pie,
which I guess is probably on the lighter.
I don't drink that stuff.
Here we go. Everybody hungover time.
But a little.
All right.
Those like drinking boozy uncooked
pumpkin pie like the filling the pumpkin pie.
You get a little bit of warmth.
Not a lot, though, for being 10% like it really hides itself well.
Correct.
I think the thing I pick out the most is the cinnamon.
It finishes very cinnamon, which I appreciate.
It's not like super sweet.
No, it's not heavy on the nutmeg either, which can be very in your face.
Yeah, yeah, it can be.
It's very thick. It's very true.
Like to.
Your. It's not that bad.
No. And it's a low carb so it gives you that nice.
Yeah. Mouthfeel to it.
It's not bubbling away and.
It feels like you're drinking a dessert, correct.
Yeah. No, it's not.
Not carby and dry or anything like that.
Like the, the, the sirup on flan.
This would just be on the pumpkin that.
That's right.
It's like pumpkin spice, blond sirup.
There we go. Nice.
That's why you're the smart one that. Makes the beer.
I drink it again.
Absolutely. Yeah. I don't know.
Unfortunately, it's my last hand, but I've.
Been. Sitting on that bad boy for a year.
Yeah, but.
And at 10%, man, you know, you're not going to turn that down regardless.
No. Right.
I mean, I have been around Scott too much.
I know better than to turn down ten.
No one. Turn that down.
So it was. Well, thanks for sharing. Of course.
Of course.
For bringing over some of your cellar there.
All right.
Let's to let's talk about I figured I'll kick things off for quick.
Last week, the homie chew your beer came over to the house
and we brewed a, um.
Well, I guess you call it a mexican lager.
We're doing pacioli palooza as we've talked about.
Ness and chopping up a bunch of stuff and just putting it into the kettle.
Yeah. So we. Would you drop in that bad boy.
Some stuff I'm not too excited about?
Yeah, I tell you.
Right now, because although I wasn't Menudo hopefully will be. Okay.
I'm going. I love this only because.
It's like menudo without a gross. Picture and.
Yeah, absolutely.
So we did how many how many peppers that's.
Like we we. Did a mexican lager.
We took out the corn and we swapped it with harmony.
So basically it gives me basically the same thing.
And then peppers, we put not very,
very few, a couple of pepper, two different types ones Ohio.
And the other one is escaping me.
They're both red ones, very small ones, larger, and we toasted them first briefly
and then put them in the last 10 minutes of the boy.
Oh, we also deseeded them because.
You don't want those spices. Yeah, yeah.
I love spicy heat, spicy beer.
So toasted those put them in the last 10 minutes of the boil
and let them sitting there even through like whirlpool
and cooling down and all that stuff and took them out when we transferred.
So they're probably in there for a total of like an hour and a half,
but only, only 10 minutes of the actual boil.
Well, then they're too steep and then they're on top of it.
So yeah, hopefully just getting the color true.
Really wanted it to be like a red beard to match the perso.
That's very well though.
But what he owes aren't too spicy though.
No, no.
It's the little ones. I can't remember the name of.
Those are the spicy ones. So we went light on those.
I think it was like two of each or something like that.
So yeah, we'll see how it goes.
We, we,
we did sample the wart
before I dumped it all into the fermenter and of course this week
because it was on ferment to work but you know,
there's just like a hint of pepper, which is hopefully how it stays.
There, but hopefully it lawyers out and oh does well.
About the whole lager thing.
So I'm out of fridge space and I don't have time to properly
lager this because we're doing this in a few weeks.
And so I went to the home brew shop. I told the guy exactly what we're doing.
I was like,
So you got like an alias
you can recommend cause I'm not sticking this in the fridge out space.
And I said, you know, we got to do this quick.
And he's like, Oh, just use the lottery's mixing logs.
I was like, Are we sure about this?
Like, we're talking 70 degrees the whole time.
He's like, Yeah, yeah, you'll be good. Don't worry about it.
So, I don't know. Spencer is probably.
Cringing, but, uh.
Hope you got this guy's name.
Yeah, well.
Hopefully it doesn't. It doesn't get too much acetone.
There should be. Yeah.
If I sell.
Free, if I kill the keg that's in the K greater in time,
I could always, like let it rest in the fridge.
I do like the logging process like a week or something.
I don't know if it'll matter at that point since I've fermented at 70, but.
Yeah, usually you want to start it off a little slower and then ramp it
and then crashing to the end. But yeah, it.
It was a little bit backwards.
It took off it right it out.
Yeah, it finished in like three and a half day.
Which.
I mean. Lauder Some still do that under cold temps.
Sure, sure. But boy did that thing.
That thing was like throwing half the beer through the blow off to.
Say I did it frozen over a little bit, which I usually loggers are not known.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. That's why blow. Right.
I did
have to dump the bucket a couple of times because so much shit was coming out.
It kept. Wedding.
Um, so we'll see what happens.
Hey, that's part of home burned in. Yeah.
You know, I can say with certainty because I've taken measurements.
There is alcohol in it.
It looked like that, uh, attenuate it out yet fully attenuated.
I think it's about 5.1% right now.
So with full certainty, I can say it has alcohol.
So, uh.
Yeah, good for us.
Good or bad, at least you can get drunk off of it.
Absolutely right.
That's it. Hydrated. Right? Drink enough.
We'll get drunk off of it.
So, anyways, that was fun.
Um, what about you flex?
You were in Nashville.
Yeah. So I actually took a trip
to Nashville with the
family, so it wasn't like a super hardcore beer research.
Trip with that attitude? Not no.
I mean, I'd hear about this because my brother moved to Knoxville, so.
Oh, that's okay. So I got to Nashville.
Oh, I just got to drink some a bunch of Yazoo brews.
I'm a big fan of Yazoo brewing down there.
Brown had their pale ale, their dark
Mexican lager, their hop perfect IPA, like all that stuff was on our resort.
So that was really nice to just have it on hand whenever he needed it.
Just head down to any bar or restaurant you can get a bottle or.
A. Bottle or tap of it.
So that was pretty neat.
You caught bearded Iris anywhere I could see.
I had a couple of cans of their Homestyle IPA, which is a pretty solid banger,
had their collab beer that they did
with Hattie B's, which is a huge Nashville.
How how did
how do you say this Nashville hot chicken or is it hot Nashville chicken.
Nashville hot chicken. Nashville hot chicken. Yeah.
So, yeah,
that's a big spot down on Broadway, down in like the downtown Nashville area.
And we actually did the wait in line for like 30, 35 minutes.
Oh, I've done that downtown L.A. for.
About one. Race.
We've all been in those lines before. Yeah.
I wasn't.
You know, we've never been there.
You only heard about it and see it through social media and stuff like that.
So we had the check in, we waited for it.
It was fucking delicious.
The best chicken I've ever had.
How they get the the breading on the tenders to not taste
like straight up grease like I don't know if it was like
flash fried or what, but it was just phenomenal,
phenomenal hot chicken and they got to have the collard beer.
Chicken.
That they did for a bearded iris, did it with Hattie
B's for their 10th anniversary this year, and it was a fruited pale ale.
With me was tangerine and brown sugar, if I'm not mistaken.
So it's supposed to be like a sweet to the heart for the chicken?
Yeah. It seems like they would balance it out for sure. Yeah, and it did.
It was actually really delicious.
It was a great concept and I enjoyed that one.
I caught
a can of new grist teal hazy IPA
at a hotel that my wife's cousin worked at down in Nashville.
So even like the hotels down there, like to try and bring
in some craft beer, some local stuff, which is nice.
And then on the last day we spent there, I was finally able
to make it to Southern Grist.
So that was kind of cool to check out.
That Taproom
had four of their sours and what was really nice
about their taproom or just their sours is that the stuff.
It's not like overly done.
It's like not over fruited, it's not like smoothie.
It's that traditional, you know, fruit flavored, but
still that original kind of sour light.
Yeah.
You're not super patron or like to like a warhead.
You're just like, Yeah, this is.
A nice.
Tartness, nice acidity, solid balance, but not like you're sipping on a smoothie
or just like sucking on a a raspberry or something.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It was I mean, there's stuff was really good.
I had a double IPA.
There's, I can't remember what it was called off the top of my head.
It was like mutant ape or something like that.
I don't know. But that one was delicious.
And then on the way home, I got to stop at Tailgate Brewing,
which is in the Nashville airport, and I had their there.
Yeah, I had their newest hazy IPA classic Lex Haze Boy over here.
Well. I'm
telling you, that's some really good beer to have in an airport.
Let me tell you. Mm hmm.
I bet so.
Things are things I've learned in Nashville, though, all right?
I've never heard of a
my mother in law was telling me about this.
Apparently, everything's slower in the South.
That's like a.
Yeah. Apparently. Like a well known fact.
You mean, like, life style? Just everything.
Everything way of life sort of operation.
Just, you know, the term sun driver.
Yes, that is. Daisy. Monday.
That is Tuesday.
That is Wednesday and Thursday and Friday.
People in Tennessee don't know how to drive.
And if anybody listens and is in Tennessee, try and prove me wrong.
But I've done that.
I've been there and I've done that now.
So, yeah, I was I was really astounded by that.
The does rolling down the road no deer in the world.
Where. They're taking their time no matter.
If you are right lane middle lane left lane.
It was the speed limit was 55.
So that meant to go like 48.
Oh, that would kill me.
That drives me bonkers. Oh.
My wife especially would not do well. You.
Know, just.
Gradually pace in the car and that's them just being like, I'm going to have
your mind exploding.
You just being like, Come on, can we just slide just a little bit more, please?
And that's how that's how I felt.
And I was a fuckin tourist, for God's sake, man.
You know, like schools.
Or traffic today? No, no, just.
Yeah, I'm the one not knowing where the hell I'm going.
One do it.
Driving this horrible Dodge
Durango, which I don't know how anybody drives a Dodge Durango.
It's like driving a fuckin school bus around.
All those inter.
Boats.
That turn radius was atrocious.
Like the windshield wiper Austin.
Powers your way out of a parking ticket?
Yeah.
And the windshield wipers and the directional are on the same knob.
So, you
know how most cars have, like, one side, the directional,
and then the other side you have the windshield wiper knob. Yep.
Nope.
Same one we were trying to figure out for three fucking days.
That's, that's really different.
Being owned by Fiat.
Yeah.
Fiat speaking as you know, it's going to be good.
Yeah.
So it also made me think, you know, somebody living in Wisconsin,
just how everybody drove poorly in Tennessee, when it does snow down
there, these people really got to freak the fuck out.
I would.
It's like well, it's like
when people when it rains in California, it is catastrophic.
People have no idea what they're doing.
Yeah, it's really, really sad.
Did you, by any chance, head on over to Knox County and visit Mayor Kane?
Oh, no, it didn't even cross my mind.
Could have could have met Glenn Jacobs.
Yeah. No, it's Kane. How dare you?
I'm sorry.
Spencer. Any chance you were a nineties wrestling fan?
The only person that
I remember playing from my super niece was Sting.
Okay. So that was NWA.
Oh, that was a Nintendo 64.
I mean, I know.
But the thing was, my biggest thing was my day.
It was it like the normal sting or the black and white sting.
World tour but you know. Could have been.
But that they had the King Diamond face paint for sure.
Mm mm. Right.
Um, well, love. It.
For those of you that are nerdy like Lex in.
Pain, the mayor of.
Knox, whatever county or. Something.
So, yeah, my trip was awesome.
I wish I could have hit up some more spot, like some more breweries and whatnot,
but oh, we did boom, get this shit.
So we went through this pizza place.
It was supposed to be like a craft pizza place.
Craft tap, whatever.
They had like 40 some odd taps and yeah, some of them were good.
A lot of them were. Uh, and.
What did you have, all 40 taps?
Yeah, so much.
But I think one suicide, please.
Yeah.
The cool thing about it is they had a fenced in playground
now for the kids to go nuts at.
And they.
Just sat there and eat pizza and just drink.
Beer. Draw it out and do what you want.
Yeah, just go. Nah, I. Approve of that.
I thought it was, like, probably the most rad idea I've ever heard,
and I'm trying to figure out why that's not a thing elsewhere.
Do you guys have Dave and Busters out there?
Well, yeah.
It's same kind of thing.
Just probably worse food.
Well, kind of, I guess. Yeah.
Most importantly, though, did you smuggle any beers home?
I did not smuggle any beers home.
I failed on that route.
But, you know, in my defense, we do get some bearded iris up here,
but we also do get Southern Grist every now and then.
And being those were the only two places I really stopped
that I wasn't doing that good, soft, bearded iris.
But yeah, I wasn't going to, you know, and I had my wife and the two kids and,
you know, so all the shit that they bought still had to fit in the suitcase.
You're like
going into the airport, like, honey,
daddy's going to need you to put this in your suitcase.
Now, I need you to tuck
it between your clothes because it needs some padding.
Yeah. You know, let's get you a plastic bag for this.
This is going to be great.
All right. Right next to your princess.
We're going to put this can of beer.
Thank you.
Your says nice and cool so she doesn't get hot on the airplane.
I can see it on there.
Yeah. All four of us shared one suitcase.
Oh, my God.
So that was idle. Yeah.
So that's where it's tough to bring stuff back.
Then you had to sacrifice your space in the bad for your carry on.
Yeah, and I should.
I should have just packed, like, one shirt and one pair of pants.
For the red carpet for dinner week.
But all my underwear in my carry on. And then it's like.
Lexi's talking to his wife.
Do you really need this pair of jeans?
Could fit a four pack. Uh.
That sounds fun.
I've not been to Nashville.
And now,
based on your story, I won't be going unless I don't have to drive anywhere.
In public parking again with the driving thing.
Quite a few restaurants we went to.
If you wanted to park in their lot, you had to pay.
There's like really city.
Yeah, there's like this city app that you have to download
and a lot of the public parking downtown was like it too.
So you scan the QR code, you put in your license plate
and everything like that, and then it charges you by the hour.
Yeah. Does it matter where you are?
I thought it was nuts.
So everywhere you go, the street parking is completely full
and lots are empty because nobody wants to fucking pay for the park for an hour.
I get that.
Reminds me, like downtown Victoria.
So I was like, yeah, you got to I remember.
Seeing it like that anywhere else.
So it was kind of astounding to me.
It's fairly common in downtown areas down to have been tourist
got a lot of it San Diego's got a bunch of. It for sure.
So yeah,
that's why Uber can get hammered and not pay for parking.
Absolutely.
Spencer I wanted to get a little nerdy with you
since you work at one of my favorite local breweries.
What's up?
Well, we talked about this before the show,
but I thought, like, this could be a good nerdy piece on the show.
Flex had the great question.
What is it, Solomon?
And you had a good answer. Uh, so. Solomon
glorified janitor.
Is that, you know.
That is very true. Brewing is 90% clean.
Absolutely.
Master in the. Custodial?
Yes. No.
Solomon being
like obviously cleaning tanks,
dry hopping, dumping yeast harvesting, uh, being,
you know, working on the canning line to finishing knocked out too.
If you've been there long enough in progress to start
brewing beer on top of that.
So it is the the backbone, I would say,
of production brewing in general.
Kellogg, a fancy name for assistant. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
If you've worked as we pretty much you can do everything in the brewhouse.
So I would I would, I would agree with that.
You're doing a lot of the brewing, though, right?
Definitely getting up there in these days.
So the the way the upper heads can focus on doing recipes, taking care
of, you know, grain ordering and all the other shenanigans
that I don't want to deal with right now in life
math.
But yes, but give me a recipe and I will make that happen from start to finish.
Nice.
Do you have any sort of like basic background, like educational background
from brewing or.
No, nothing officially tied.
No. Humber experience.
My buddy Tom down in Long Beach shout out to Rose Park Brewing
learned a lot from him and had an opportunity.
I was building
custom wine cellars
so I was familiar with wine and taking care of that end and working
at a taproom bottle and pioneer in town for the last four years.
So I was familiar with craft beer and wanted to had an opportunity made.
West had a calling and knocked on the door and they said, Come on in.
I wish I could say I didn't frequently see you.
Come on, I cannot tell.
You this clearly.
I have a brother.
Sociologically, right?
I mean, every now we keep a.
Quarter of them, we try not to get overzealous with it.
But that's cool, though.
So you're doing a lot of the hands on brewing and making things work.
And yeah, I, I, well, I, I touch every batch of beer one way or another.
That's awesome.
That's not and.
A lot of quality control. Very much.
Very much. To make sure it's on point or.
Absolutely as it's, you know, attenuating along to
saying you like new hot varietals.
We got a new a collab with field work coming out so much of New Zealand
hops want to see how it was working out does the hops overall
we were questionable on but now when you dry hop
it got straight like cotton candy oh what the dry hop addition
and then over time just got this nice muddled Rossini You know,
pineapple, super light, crushable, dry, nice, very excited with all this beer.
Do you have a favorite hop to work with? Uh.
Overall, no, I'm just a fan of.
Of all hops because everything brings a different,
you know, aroma profile to it.
You know, everything interacts differently.
But when you can meld them together to build this amalgamation.
Absolutely.
But overall, I mean, Mosaic is always, you know, a fan favorite for modern.
But there's different you know,
people say Mosaic, but people want like Dank Resonate
or some people want this green onion chive kind of flavor profile to it.
Um, Idaho Seven's a really kind of unsung hero for a hop
that I really do light a little sweeter.
Um, but super, super delicious.
Um, like fresh hop strata has been pretty big recently.
Um, I'm still not fully sold on strata,
but like the fresh hop stuff is always phenomenal.
And I mean, we used, we use a fair amount of it, so
we're doing something right with it.
And you guys are.
Getting fresh hops in there.
Now with the strata.
But I've had some from other breweries artifacts.
I had a fair shot from them a couple of weeks ago.
That was phenomenal when I was down in San Clemente.
So what what beer you guys making the most of.
Overall hazy as our bread and butter for sure.
My favorite runner up, I would say, would be pale.
Then our IPA, blond or standard, and then maybe even our light kind of.
They kind of battle out between the two. Yeah.
And then every time we do a short lived our collab that is hands down,
so sells out the quickest. I mean you guys,
it seems like you're doing almost monthly the short lived collab.
It's every quarter okay this one is when we do it.
So there's always a new one dropping, which is not a bad thing.
No, it's not.
And we do like limited in-house like releases.
So that way we kind of keep things fresh and up to date.
But when I then stagnant with,
you know, beers left out anywhere so right
we did some cool stuff house that doesn't hit the shelves, but
I mean, we still packaged it for cans, but you got to come visit the brewery.
So that's how.
Were you had you started before they got the stone distro?
No, that was pretty much kind of from the get go.
It was pretty early.
Yes, very, very early.
So that's why it like you see Midwest here.
So in California pretty much all over the place.
Which is I mean, you see that Costco, which is yep.
Which is sweet.
And those variety packs are a whole nightmare within themselves for packaging.
So for, for many years
those were all hand done and yes.
And now.
Are not an automated way to like do multiple.
Well now we've set up with
some other local vendors to get that situated nice,
but it's still a nightmare to get that all situated.
You can curse me time and time again.
But they're there
all day long, like, oh,
people say, like your stuff's like, do like your stuff in Costco.
And I was like, Yep, my parents got it up in Apple Valley every now and then.
Wow, it's pretty cool. And I was like, Really?
That's surprising. It's the perfect party pack.
It's got something that everyone loves. Absolutely.
I love Hazy.
I also love Pale Blacks. No, I love pallets.
I definitely know you love pale.
Yeah.
Pale is the so good is my bread and butter.
It's it's like the best pale.
I mean, I tell everybody, hazy is by far the best,
uh, regularly produced IPA in Ventura County. Yep.
Consistent, like, shelf stable.
It's, you know what you're getting every time you're right.
Like, sure, Cassandra, drop some fucking bangers, but they're one off,
correct?
You want like a really produce that you know you can get any time
Midwest hazy and that Midwest pale is like the best pale ale out there.
So that's that's that mosaic coming through this.
Okay so fucking good.
The sexual flavor flavors.
Well.
That I want to take its.
Flavor a sexual flavor.
Would be something just tasting notes.
Let me tell you
no better.
Oh, yeah.
I don't ever want no banana in there.
Well, that's awesome.
I can bug you at the brewery when these days.
Absolutely just go no you love on the the public stops and and ask you questions
when you're working.
Oh it's so much fun on the bird act and it is that I feel like I'm in a
a goldfish tank, just people staring at, I mean, like, like sweating your ass.
I'm like, don't mind me, I smell like shit and I'm working.
But sure. Answers, stupid. Questions.
Tapping on the window.
There's not even a window.
No, it's literally.
Oh, my. God.
The bar sitting wraps around and the staircase runs down
and we just look right into the tasting room.
And I assume there'd be some kind of close up.
So I'm hope it's always nice. Does we?
That's where we start.
Hands up front.
Mm hmm. So sometimes in front of the.
They stacked over in front of the whirlpool
because we have a three vessel system.
Okay, so every now and then, that's
where you can just like lean over and step away for 30 seconds
and not feel like you're being stared at by some artwork child
or people walking in the door or anything.
Daddy likes what you made out there.
Well, especially me.
Come barreling down the staircase with my stiletto boots,
rain boots on and everything, and the shorts the people are.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Better to Berlin. Bison coming down.
Everybody look up.
What's normal? Brooding, like.
Wow, how long?
When do you start?
Uh, brew day.
We usually do double brews every day.
Jesus.
So we start a 630 bear
brew day, you know, hot water going in 630 and then finishing.
Out there at 630.
No, that means you got to be there about 615 luck.
So I like to be there.
How do you make that seem?
Like it's so early? Greg So that's.
I'm really.
Flexible. Like I sleep. In the vacation.
I mean. Fucking weird.
But it's like, well, especially if, like I don't have,
I mean I've got like a 25 minute commute, which isn't too bad, but it's nice.
Like if I just roll out
and go into the brewhouse, but it's nice to kind of wake up.
I show up and get the day rolling, get to my monster energy or little.
So we have a modern times nitro
cold brew, coffee size, but those things are.
You got jacked up on those bad boys.
Yeah, they're.
Crawling out of your skin real quick. Right.
But I don't know.
I starts about 630 and then total
overall for two brews.
And what we can do within that, we're done by four 430 marathon obviously.
Yep. Full day and then obviously no hiccups along the way
whether the boilers going down to a pump going down
and just little, little knickknack things that happen over time,
you just never know what's going to happen.
And most importantly, like, what time is your first shift here?
Oh, always at the end of the day.
Sure. He's winking a lot, everybody.
I don't know why he.
It's what I call for the the pilsner power hour.
It's which we we got a goal GBV
for a waxing and waning in oh Teller's recall category ice so little little.
Tons of local places got a.
Little tip of the hat for that one a lot.
Of metal in Ventura County this. Year. Yeah, buddy.
Toby told us so.
I'm very happy.
Yeah, that's all. Graduations. Thanks, dude.
It's all credit to, uh, to band for that.
That was his. That was his baby.
And he deserves every respect for it, so.
Well. You had to sweat making it so.
Someone had to.
Someone. That's very cool.
Well, uh, I'm stoked that, uh,
I'm going to come in and bug you while you brew some day.
I won't be offended.
It should be mildly.
I'll just ignore you. Yeah.
So this.
But you do the follow up.
Worse than the kids that stare at me.
Hey, Spencer. Hey, Spencer. It's me, right?
Yeah. I just give you ten.
Will you shut up?
Maybe you more than one can, but. Yes.
Yeah, no.
Just empty cans.
That usually works out for the kids, to be honest.
You're like.
Oh, I like. I like, like the black and the standard here.
You know, they're like, Thank you. I was like, Have a great day.
They go, Thank you. And they just walk off and I go,
Thank you, thank you.
All right.
$0.09. Well, and. Empty.
But then who knew. And who knew? But they're intrigued.
So it's nice that they're. Yeah.
Try to see what's going on. It started.
Nice little, little trophy for them. Yeah, that's cool.
Well, that's awesome.
All right, before I.
My boner gets too big over here, let's let's move on to.
Some some other things.
Just keep asking questions about Mid West all day.
Like I said, top of the show, we have two voicemails,
one from one of our favorite angry people, the Fontana Gym.
And the second one I have no fucking idea. So here we go.
Fontana Jim's got some advice for us.
Lucky
Sounds like bad
news.
Pretzel necklaces.
Easy to find.
Yeah.
That's valid advice.
It's true.
Yeah, I approve.
Oh, no.
Well, thank you, Jim.
Oh, buddy.
I hope not.
Cheers.
I don't know who that second guy was, but I don't think he should be driving.
No, no.
Did he say he was driving while eating pizza and having a couple of beers?
Yeah. With Fontana. Jim Multitasker
one Fontana.
It's legal.
And his probably.
Did like Riverside County. Man Yeah.
Do whatever you want out there.
Thanks, everybody, for calling at 80553 beer.
That is 2337.
I will say Jim brings up a great point.
You do not want to have to drop that diesel when you're at the beer fest.
Ooh, that's the worst time ever.
Yeah, there's nothing worse than beer fest.
Porta potties.
And they only turn already explosive.
Oh, so bad.
And the only time you can use those is like the first 30 minutes.
Yeah. You what?
You want to be the first one to break his virginity?
You, the.
Wife, will.
Not go past like 30 minutes in the first.
She's like, I'm not set on that.
She's like, I'm. Going to go right now.
We walk in the doors, I'm going to go in 30 minutes
and I'm holding it till the end.
Yeah, that's why I work in beer festival. What?
Nice to decrease and have them be like, cool, we're done.
Yeah, you're.
You're there. Early to be the first.
One in yeah so words to live by and yeah take it.
Slow.
I don't need to repeat that. No.
We're going to ease on out of that one.
Oh, gosh. Well, thank you both for calling in.
Fontana, Jim and, uh, apparently Fontana Jim Slash choose friend.
Like I said, it's five five, three eight beer.
That is two, three, three, seven. All right.
Flex has been sober long enough.
Let's answer the most important question
of the night. But
well-well.
Well,
today, Lexi's drinking title tone
brewing's red rum.
Isn't that fun?
It's like Halloween, except technically, now it's November.
So, yeah, it.
Doesn't look murderous in glass.
Yes. I mean, there's.
Like some drippy blood in the can.
I don't know. How you know, my school.
So it's a rum soaked imperial red,
so not a style I'm uber familiar with,
but I got hooked up with the sales manager for the Milwaukee, Madison
and lacrosse areas, which mean absolutely nothing to either of you when it comes.
To the. Geographical map of Wisconsin.
We went out together, had a couple beers.
He kind of gave me the rundown on Titletown right now
and how they kind of almost during COVID and then they sold
and this new owner came in and he's very, very positive
and he's very much involved in the process that's going on now.
So they relabeled all their beers.
They're trying to become more modern.
He's making the brewing
staff now brew a different beer single month
upon like all the flagships and whatnot that they they do now.
And that's I believe he said this was one of those beers, right?
Oh so it is a the can reads as does untapped
a deep blood red this imperial
ale it was aged on splinters of rum soaked oak a maze of hops
come drink with us forever and ever and ever
It's 9% abv untapped has it at a 3.75
not horrible.
But on the old schnauzers
old little little schnauzer.
Little Schnauzer, little Charles. Right.
Switching it up tonight.
It's a very faint rum.
There's not a lot of aroma to the beer.
It's like a faint rum, a little bit of sweetness in there.
And then, without further ado, the tongue jabber.
Oh, warm it up. The
feels.
Warm.
So real low carbonation on this one.
Super light bodied,
usually red ales.
You know, they're a real malt forward, real malt bombs.
This is a real balanced out.
I don't know if it was the aging or what, but it's not an in-your-face
kind of malt bomb.
I bet the barrel kind of helped out that.
See, and I figured you would know.
Definitely get some oak characteristics and then like the rum on the back end
and four 9% abv.
I can't find the alcohol anywhere in this thing.
Perfect. That's. That's what you want. Yeah.
Especially in something like that.
This is a really well-done beer in my eyes.
I mean, I'm not familiar with the style, but if you just
handed this to me to drink, I would think this is like a,
I don't know, five and a half, 6%.
Boom and nice red. Ale. So
here's the title.
It's All. Your Hammer. Yeah, exactly.
You had a little bit of dryness from it, from from from the barrel or anything or
we're not really. Diving one more time.
Before you take proper notes.
No, not super dry.
Okay. Right.
No, not, not, not.
Too much residual sugars then look.
No, it seems like hopefully that's a good thing.
I don't no. Notice. Notice.
Yeah.
No it's yeah. It's not dry at all actually.
Now you know
like 12 seconds later, like my tongue is just naturally starting to dry.
So I mean, I mean, do you need more?
Yeah.
Cheers to Brian, who hooked me up with this one.
Appreciate the
what do they call that when somebody just kind of gives you something?
The assist the assist sized.
Greg with the assist and the slide yeah so cheers to Brian and you know
Titletown the the right right up in Green Bay like not too far from Lambeau Field.
So if anybody's ever up there, check them out.
They have a the pilsner that won a gold medal in 2010 at Georgia.
And, you know, like I said, this new owner is really trying
to get them back out there and said, hey, why haven't you guys resubmitted this?
You know? Yeah.
Broken new ones.
Yeah.
2010 and and that's what he kind of was getting at.
And so they're hoping for a camera.
What beer festival?
Some beer festival next year they're going to start getting into.
So yeah, hopefully they start getting the word back out on.
Well cheers to Brian and Brian I'll DM you my address as well so yeah.
Share the wealth.
Yeah exactly.
Very nice as it is Halloween I came across the story literally lit.
Wow. Literally.
That's when I start over with it.
Here we go. I'll take another.
Today from this website called Candy Store.
They ranked the worst candy of 2022.
Is that true?
I just started November ten and worked my way down.
To porn candy because, man, that's my number one. Which one?
Porn candy. Oh, you like that candy corn?
I do not. That's number one. It's my worst.
Oh, you're number one. Was my heroin worst?
It's up there when I ran.
All right, well, audit will cross that bridge number.
The worst.
Number ten. Good and plenty.
That are the worst.
That is the top of the list.
That could be number one.
I'm just gonna say now I completely agree with number one.
Number nine, number nine, black licorice.
The same thing about. You.
Should be number one. Brother, have pennies.
Yeah.
Number eight Tootsie Rolls. Want them white?
Black, just chocolate Tootsie Rolls or flavored ones or what.
The ones are fine.
No, I like the flavored ones.
The oh I. Can't. Do that.
But is the like the lemon, the cherry.
No thanks.
Hard pass.
Everybody passes on those vanilla ones that were. No.
Yeah those are those are no different.
No, no, definitely not in the vanilla ones that.
I. Don't even know what
number seven is just as Mary Jane, I know that it's something very different.
But not that I'm familiar with at least.
I mean.
Is that like that's like one of those.
Gummies, like Mary Jane Gummies?
No, it's like a juju.
It's like a honey on a stick, isn't it? I have no idea.
It's like rock hard honey on a stick.
It was it's lucky that, but terrible.
Well, we don't get that out here at least.
So it's. Been one.
Number six.
And this is all my favorites as a kid, smarties.
All those.
Why it works. That's crazy.
Yeah, I would still eat those.
Oh, trick or treating. Absolutely.
Number five, the wax little Coca-Cola bottles.
Oh, that's dumb.
But the wax ones are the dummy like horrible wax.
Then the dummy ones are good.
Gummy ones are. Yeah, are one of my tops.
But the wax ones are weird.
Yeah.
You have to like anything. Bite the cap off. Yeah.
And try and get out. So weird.
Oh yeah. Absorbed by the wax.
It's like I'll just have a Coke. Thank you. Right.
Yeah.
Number four, Necco Wafers.
Yeah.
Girls number three, peanut butter kisses.
I didn't know they had peanut butter. Really?
And it sounds delicious. Never heard of those.
I mean, number two, candy corn.
Nope.
There it is.
And number one, and by far the absolute
worst candy World Circus. That's all.
This is the.
Worst list. So accurate.
Other than those Smarties, this.
Is the most accurate.
List we've ever had.
The black licorice, simply.
Good and. Funny, hit ten and.
I got mine.
Maybe they should be like three and four, but circus
peanuts are definitely the worst.
I can't believe people hate them.
I can't believe you eat them.
You don't.
Of two was.
Maybe it was West Coast boys.
We don't understand. Them.
Yeah.
I mean, I had after the last episode, intern Brian was texting me like.
Yes, absolutely the worst candy ever.
Like people were coming up to me in the streets.
Not really.
But yeah, I bet you know who I bet.
Like circus peanuts.
Live in the streets. Finland.
All the spins.
Yeah.
They also love black licorice, though, too, right?
That is
not helping monkeys.
Nope.
Brewdog everyone's favorite. Oh, geez. Yeah.
They're launching a vodka line called Bad Beer.
Vodka, which I guess could be made with any other beers.
Brewdog is launching Bad Beer Vodka, a range of flavor forward spirits made
from any batch of beer that doesn't make the Brewers
fastidious standards searches.
Instead of leaving the brewery, beer is transported
across the street to Brewdog Distilling Company's State of the Art New.
Here, it's run through the largest column still in Europe
to create an exceptionally smooth and superbly silky vodka.
The 13 flavors are coming out with our original vanilla
and toasted marshmallow and tropical guava.
I want to know what Spencer thinks of this.
I'm going to say a hard no.
That's a hard no.
Yeah, well, vodka is like my least favorite hard alcohol on top of it.
So, yeah, tequila and vodka at the bottom for me, I think make me sick. But
there's
potentially something going on with distilling some pale ale
from a place up in Ojai through winter spirits. Hmm.
So kind of familiar with what was going on right now, but I.
Yeah, I know.
I'm going to have to wait, uh, two years to find out.
Oh, well, we'll see. I mean. Honestly, it's a great.
Way to, like,
if you have any leftover beer that past the expiration date or whatever.
No, this was, uh, post fermentation pre dry up,
so fully attenuated to 5.6%
and then put into two some mid plastic totes and sent off
to vintage spirits to be distilled nice and then fresh out barrels up, you know.
So we'll see how that turns out.
We'll find out in a couple of years.
And excited cited for it.
I'll drink that before I drink the brewdog one, that's for sure.
Absolutely
it will.
We'll ended on this one. A drunk.
I don't know why they're called master, but a drunk master
was arrested for a container ship running aground in Denmark.
A 33 year old German captain has been charged with being drunk
in control of a container ship that grounded out of Denmark.
The 508
Renee.
Now released.
Oh, Italy, got it built in 1998.
Got stuck on sand early in the early hours of Friday,
having just left Frederick de Gea,
German police in Union Man
started doing European stories, received a report
about the box ship at about 210 in the morning from the Maritime
Assistance Service that had suspected drunk sailing.
The sailing pattern from harbor to Sandy bottom was apparently so unusual
that the union police were called, were alerted and called,
according to police officer Kenneth.
Here's another one. Ten quizzed.
A team went out to the Ragnar to investigate.
It turns out that Captain the ship was heavily under the influence of spirits.
It was arrested and charged with suspicion of drunken sailing,
after which he sailed to shore in the company of officers.
So what do we do with the sail there?
It's perfect.
Apparently arrested?
Yep. That's the modern era. We don't promo.
We're
no. Planks.
Joke, handcuffs.
Wow. No fun.
Denmark. Who? Yeah.
Say, aren't you supposed to get drunk and do that?
It's in a blocked canal.
It's like pirates and.
Completely shut down international.
Travel over for a week.
Yeah.
Oh, God, that was awful.
Well, he was trying.
He didn't quite make it there. So.
Good effort. Good effort. Yeah.
They always picture it.
Moving the boat like 13 feet, you know.
Start of it.
Yeah.
He's made an abrupt U-turn. Doing.
Yeah, I want to picture him trying to get out of it
Austin Powers style just like.
I got it.
Hold on, hold on. All the.
Uh. Well, that's all we got for today.
I'm going to hit some music.
We're going to say hi to Vanessa. Okay?
That's not music. No. Hi, Vanessa.
This is.
Slippery fingers.
Spencer, thank you for putting course. Of course.
I mean. I mean, hang. Out in there 10% or over here.
Yeah.
Thanks for coming and thanks for sharing beer to the men if you're.
Drinking and thanks for joining.
Yeah, I may I have some, uh, some more goodies for next time.
All right, let's let's see what we got.
Find us at Craft Beer Republic and craft beer Republicans, of course, flex
me a beer underscores in between and Spencer's on the gram
at scary sports 20 but it's s underscore Kerry underscore sport 20.
That's a c r y. Yes.
Short and easiest way to spell Kerry. Yes.
Anyway, so follow him.
Don't make me repeat it. Simply underscore.
Your underscores. And your weirdness.
Uh, I think that's every oh five, five, three beer.
I hope everyone stays very well hydrated.
And on that note.
Good night, everybody.
Cheers.