Shall we get sexy? Yeah, ready to get sex all over the place.
Let's sex to it. We're going to be high-fiving during sex over here.
Is there any other way to have sex? Great sex, bro. This is the tone we're setting.
Cully's not over here. I'm just hoping somehow that makes it into the beginning of the show.
Welcome in, everybody. Welcome to the Craft Beer Republic. I am Greg.
I am being joined by everyone's daddy, and that's Daddy Flexy over there. What's up, big fella?
Hello, much man. Finally seeing straight. What were you seeing before? We had a little bout of vertigo over here, so it was like getting drunk and having the
spins without the fun part of getting drunk first. It's horrible. Just the shitty part. You just put down a bottle of vodka without putting down a bottle of vodka.
Yeah, and none of the fun that happened before that. Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah, it was terrible.
That was the time of my life. And then straight off the fucking brewing line, we're being joined by everyone's favorite
brewer over at Made West. Spencer, what's up, buddy? Good evening, guys. How are we doing? Can you can you smell the grain?
Yeah, I thought you're about to ask if I could smell what Spencer was cooking. I can.
Both of those. Both of those are yes. I did. I did change before I came here, though. Had to be a little presentable. Yeah, I would say that's my favorite walking into a brewery and just smelling like a fresh
brew grain in the air. We're double brewing most every day. We got triple brews coming up this week.
So it'll be a busy week, busy week. Been working on a toast down collab for a new short lived and yeah, short lived the
rotating collab IPA series you guys are doing. Correct. Every quarter we do a quarter. Awesome.
A collab with a new brewery. Yeah. Now, how long how long of a day is a triple brew day?
Triple brew day. So we'll start at six a.m. and then I'll be finished by about seven thirty eight.
OK, you can tag out. It's not horrible. Yeah. So I come in about eleven o'clock.
So I get the relatively sleep in or go play some disc golf beforehand. Nice.
And then hit the ground running. Damn. Yeah. A lot of beer making going on over there. Yes, sir.
That's exciting. Looking forward to the next short lived. All right. We got a lot to get to today. I've done a lot of beer research over the last few days, holiday weekend and all.
Got some booze news to talk about and so much more. But Spencer and I over here are feeling a little, I don't know, sober.
You guys look like you need to hydrate. Can you see it in my skin? Like it looks semi healthy. I do.
You look agitated almost. I'm ready to kick this big. Yeah. Let's let's fix this situation.
Today Spence and I are drinking and I don't even know if I'm allowed to have this on the show yet.
From Malibu Brewing, we're drinking Tower 17 Hazy Double IPA 8.2 percent. Nothing on untapped yet.
Does escape the mundane waves of guava, mandarin, orange and pineapple amplified with New Zealand phantasm feels phantasm.
The new fun toy that everyone's using with the IPA reconstituted a semi en blanc grape skins.
It's a nice it's aromatics, dialized boosters, man, and then especially the yeast. What an explosion.
I've had nothing with the files. Nothing, nothing. It's it's all the rage out here. Like everyone's having fun with these.
You're missing out. I'm sure someone's up there. Yeah, I've seen a couple released. I just haven't been able to make my way out.
I haven't been healthy enough. Fair enough. Yeah, I say, yeah, you're vertigo definitely lay down.
Maybe it's because you need some files in your life on this on the sniffer on the schnauz lot of tropical with I'm getting some citrus, like some orange or maybe a little grapefruit
in their lovely orange flavor profile that mandarin definitely. Yeah, a lot of orange coming through on the tongue job or with maybe like some pineapple
backbone to it. Little effervescent. Yeah, as well. Not a lot of it.
Fish is fairly dry, not too dank. No, it's a good one.
It's that that juice bomb, man. Yeah, it's very juice. Those are the fucking files. This one word to say, I'm drinking files.
Sounds science and shit over here. It really does. Yeah, it's like a vitamin or something.
You take your files today. Yes, I down on my files. Yeah, exactly.
So anyways, this is just being released this week. I don't think they've made it.
I picked this up from Albuquerque last week. Ryan over there and Chaz hooked it up. They're like, you got to try our fresh drop.
And I am trying it. And as we're recording this, I don't think it's been officially released in the tap room. So I hope I didn't do anything wrong.
I guess I could have asked for permission first. But if you're in the Southern California region, head on over to Malibu and try our 17, the
new double IPA. How about they just get psyched up for the release? How about that? You're just promoting a release.
We're building. Let's fucking go. Yeah, this all started because they did a collab with Kasa and I text them.
I was like, how do I get this fucking collab with Kasa Agria? And he goes, stop on by. We got some cans left.
And when I stopped on by, I also got some cans of this hazy double and a couple other things. Oh, OK.
OK. Imagine when people are nice. Isn't it? Yeah. I got a story about nice people, right?
I was laid up last Monday, so I couldn't head out to my favorite Joan Eagle Park. And I think my wife kind of knew I was had a hankering, you know, because Jones and semi
alcoholic, but, you know, that's my problem, not theirs. Soon to be there. The kids had off on Friday, the Friday, this past Friday.
And my wife said, hey, so we'll go out to lunch and everybody come up with two places that you want to go to lunch and then we'll pick one of those places.
Everybody had a choice of Eagle Park. Me, my two kids and my wife. It was everybody's. Yeah, it was like everybody's first or second choice.
Perfect. So I went out there, met up with my mother in law because she loves the food there and
the beer. So it's super nice. Like, I'm just turning everybody out of this place. It's so funny. So, of course, just so happened my favorite bartender was there.
So go to the bar or to the beer, order all the food for the table, head back to the table. And then I see a server sitting by the bar.
Bartender hands her a half pour. And I don't think anything of it. And so she starts walking my way and I'm like, what, what the hell's going on here?
She goes, hey, Sam just said to deliver this to your table. So, well, what is it?
Well, it was their new the recently released that day for the members. It was the barely their new barrel aged stout that was conditioned on strawberries and cocoa
nibs. Oh, interesting. It's called Berry Nib. I've I've always been afraid of berries and stouts because the sweetness from the berry
and, you know, the bitterness of like the coffee or the, you know, if it was fresh strawberries or like dehydrated strawberries.
All I know is that it said it was conditioned on strawberries. Fair enough. But it was probably like a top five stout I've ever had.
And the sweetness of the berries came through so nicely. And it was like it's like 12 or 14 percent.
So he sent that over the table and then we have our food, you know, whatever. Go back and get the check.
Not only does he not charge me for the half pour that he delivered, but he also took my single full pour off the receipt.
Oh, you know what a man. And it's like, is it a huge deal? No, but it's like the little things in life.
It speeds volumes. Just nice people out there doing, you know, those small things.
And now you'll talk about how nice he is and how much you like going there. Yeah. Now I already got we're heading out there. Support.
Yeah. We're heading out there next Monday. And I got like five or six or seven people all going up there, too.
So we're just going to give them money and he's there and we're going to, you know, hopefully get him a hell of a lot of tips then just because that's what people, you know, he builds
that reputation with the reputation and what he does and the relationships. And it's just great.
I fucking love nice people. When it's smart to give you the, you know, a little bit of a hookup because you're an
influencer. Well, you'll talk about it and you'll influence. I don't influence too much anymore on the gram.
National influencer. But yeah, well, you know, international man of influence.
We are pretty big in Finland. That's true. And Slovakia. Don't forget Slovakia.
That's right. I'll never forget that. They're number one. Finland number one, Slovakia number two.
Crap Republic number one new show. They speak a Boston accent.
They're like this. They're trying to learn English. It's just us with our Boston accent.
That's really New York most of the time. But they just speak it like this. Yeah.
Only like this, right? That's like Italian Brooklyn, Boston.
And they throw in a few bibbidi bobbidi's in there. Slovak speaks in Italian.
He's so smart. They're basically a European.
Which country? We don't know. They're kind of all of them. Little amalgamation of both.
Of everything. Yeah, why pick one? Hell yeah. They're the best European countries. All right. A lot of things happened over the last couple of few days.
First of all, Spencer and I were at Emo Night over at Naughty Pine. How fun is that?
Seriously. It was freaking amazing. Yeah, it's such a blast. She's always putting on a good show.
30 seconds to romance. I always want to call it 30 romances to fall out or something.
That's what you always call it. I'm pretty sure it's 30 seconds to romance.
They always do a great... They're a cover emo band. They always do a great job. We just fucking rocked out.
Had a good time. We had a whole fucking group there. We were rocking out. We had a, I want to say almost like an A-top?
Yeah, it was us, the wife, Coley, her husband, our friends. 30 fallouts to romance.
Yeah. There it is. Did you look it up? Yes, I did. I got to give them full credit. 30 fallouts to romance.
Yeah, so. They deserve it. Yeah, they always do a good job. So that was fun. I saw Michael, listener Michael, and he pulls me aside.
He goes, I need you to ask Flex a question for me. Is this the same guy that went to Disney too?
I don't think so. Okay. I think that was an Andrew then. Oh yeah, that was probably Andrew. Okay. Did they go to the same hotel?
We did. Dick Hotel. He's like, I need you to ask Flex a question for me.
Has Flex ever had Schlitz? Six Schlitzes. Or whatever's free.
That's a dumb question. Of course I've had a Schlitz. Okay. He's like, it's the beer that made Milwaukee famous. I just looked at it.
I had no clue what he was talking about. I mean, really? I mean, I've heard of Schlitz. I didn't know the slogan was the beer that makes Milwaukee famous.
So I will take Schlitz over PBR any day of the week. How dare you?
And you could take that to the bank. Yeah. I just, I don't know. PBR.
We don't make it anymore, right? Or somebody bought it and makes it or something. I think that happens. Yes.
Okay. I'll say just to throw in, I had Yeenling for the first time when I was out in Tennessee. What did you think?
Back for Christmas. It was actually really good. It's good. I really did enjoy it. Yeah. And I also had the Hershey Porter too.
I haven't tried that one. And how was that? Cause I've heard a lot of people request that for trades.
I had a lot in one week. I had a couple six packs.
But it was good. Oh, absolutely. Okay. And it's super crushable. It's like five and a half percent.
Okay. So literally it's like chocolate milk, dude. Yeah. I'm building Lados and having a great time with a nephew.
I built Legos too. You get your chocolate milk. I'll get mine. Lados and tech decks, man.
Yeah. Great time. Tech decks, that's a thing. That's crazy. And I'm drinking chocolate milk technically. So hanging out with the nephew.
He's having his own chocolate milk. Perfect. Yeah. I've not had the Hershey one, but I have had Yeenling.
Went to DC. I mean, I haven't been in, I don't know, at least five or six years now, but every time I go, I'm like, yeah, let's get some Yeenling.
I got some friends out in DC and we always get a bunch of Yeenling. It's worth it. I mean, it's just a solid lager.
Correct. Yeah, it's solid. I'm not expecting a lot out of it. I go, cool. This is what I want.
Yeah. Tastes like nothing pretty much. Yeah. It's kind of what you want the macros to taste like. Absolutely.
Which is a little cleaner. Touch macros with a 10 foot ball, but man, Yeenling. I'll just be like, I know what I'm getting.
Cool. I'll take it. I just have some friends, once they get east of Indiana, they just start freaking out.
They're just like, oh my God. We can get Yeenling. Like, it's crazy. It's not, I don't know.
I guess I don't see it as such a big thing because my friends hyped it up so much. Sure.
And it's just. But did you try it? Have you had it? Yeah. I mean, it's fine. Yeah.
I've had it. It's fine. It's nothing special. Oh, come on, man. What is? You know how to throw that in there.
I almost had a new Glarus on here just for you two. That would have been funny. Yeah.
I was going to get their fat squirrel, but I can't call it that anymore. It's got to be enormous squirrel. It's not PC.
That's funny. Oh, what else has happened? Oh, over the weekend did some research.
Bellringer new brewery in Ventura, California. Bellringer had the grand opening on Saturday. Phenomenal.
The wife and I went on Saturday. It was a bit of a shit show because it was a grand opening. True. And the line was like out to the street.
We only had two beers, but you went the night before, right? Correct. I went for industry soft opening and I mean, food was phenomenal.
Oh, good. The beers were good. Overall, they also have guest taps as well. Yeah, that was kind of cool. Half the board was guest and half was their own stuff, which made sense when they're trying
to drive a little more business. Yeah. Well, especially where they're located. They're located like in a downtown area where at certain times of the night, you're just
getting people stumbling and want to drink. Not necessarily to be a craft beer. Yeah, they're not looking for a fancy beer, they're just like, just give me something.
You got lightest one on tap, I'll take four of those. But yeah, we enjoyed it. We had a good time, good beer.
But their house lager was super phenomenal. So that's why if they need something like that, it'll work. Yeah.
I had their breweries that can do great lagers. That's kind of the benchmark. Well, that's Enneagrin.
That's our local lager house. Yeah, if we're going lager, we're going to Enneagrin for sure.
They crush it. Yeah, every time. But yeah, it was good stuff. And then we made our way over to Fluid State, which is, you know, beer bar and great food.
That charcuterie board, man. That's what we ordered. So fucking good. So amazing.
It's like the best charcuterie board. No, cheese are good. The meats are good. Yeah.
Like pickled veggies. I love pickled veggies. And see, I'm going to have to... I could eat that thing all day. We're going to have to talk about this in like two months, right?
Because you know I'm going on this Disney trip. Right, dick hotel. Dick hotel, Disney trip, dick trip.
So my wife keeps asking me, we're going to spend... We're going to head down to like downtown Disney or Disney Springs, whatever it's called
now. And she's like, pick some restaurant to go eat. Well, she found this bar restaurant down there where they build a charcuterie board inside
of a giant pretzel. Penis. Oh, I know. You were really hoping for it.
But I was. I'm thinking that that probably might be the best charcuterie board.
Known to man. Built inside of a pretzel. Built inside of a giant pretzel. Like a giant soft pretzel.
Yeah, Eric, are you listening? She's probably hard right now. I was going to go with beer cheese too, but yes, I approve of that. Yeah, that does sound good.
Yeah, it comes with either a cheese or a mustard. I don't know. One of those. Both are good.
They have their places. But yeah. Tune in in about two months and I'll let you know. Can't wait.
Can not wait. But yeah, that Fluid State charcuterie board is so good. Had a couple of beverages. Made our way over to Bright Spark, which is a new brewery in Ventura.
Haven't been there yet. Had some of their beers. Had a good time. Met some friends there.
We were going to go to Made West next and then we ended up closing down the place. That's fair.
Yeah, they're like, hey, do you want to close out now? We're like, oh no, we're good. And I looked at my watch. I was like, oh, you're closing, aren't you?
Oh, it's past time. Yeah, she's like, yeah, we are. But it's okay. I was like, no, no, no. Stop being nice. Tell us to get the fuck out.
We have been here a long time, apparently. Had to try all of them. Nothing wrong with that. It's research. There's nothing wrong with it.
Yeah. Putting in the hard work so you don't have to. I'm proud of you. Yeah, thanks. That's all you've got to do it. Yeah.
And I'll be that guy. And then finally, happy birthday to Deb. Happy birthday, Deb. Happy birthday, Deb.
Hope you got all the dicks you could want. So many dicks.
How many hits has that website gotten now? You know what? I haven't put a tracker on that yet. I need to.
We saw Deb intern Brian over the weekend and I forget what brought it up. She said something about someone being a dick and I just went, you mean a dick?
She goes, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. And she tells everyone at her little shindig, she goes, everyone has to go to DebsDicks.com
right now. Bitchin'. Yeah. There it is. And her friend's like, go to what now? And she's like, DebsDicks.com.
Don't ask. Just go right now. And everyone's like, what is, who are these people? It was the WhiteHouse.com before WhiteHouse.
I totally forgot about that. That's so funny. Going to WhiteHouse.com in high school. Holy shit. That is just, that is nostalgic as hell, man.
I have not thought of that in years. Oh my God. That is so funny. WhiteHouse.com. Anybody under the age of like 30 something is like, the fuck? WhiteHouse.com.
It's a White House's website. Not that it wasn't. Nope. Nope. I wonder what it is now. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I wonder what it is now. It must be for the White House. I'm sure they bought that domain now for sure.
Let's see. Maybe they would have like WhiteHouse.org or something. All right.
It's kind of a nothing site right now. Semi politically related. Definitely not what it used to be.
I wonder if there's like an article out there somewhere about some guy who bought that domain and turned it into a porn site just to be funny.
Oh, absolutely. He did. There's got to be like some article on that.
There has to be. Somewhere. Yeah. Somebody find it for us. Because even back then there was one of my mom's friends, she was doing like a computer
class and like Tess and she typed that in thinking she was going to the actual WhiteHouse.gov and turns out not so much.
Yeah, not so much. She was like, I'm going to go to your parents and that was back in a time where things were okay I guess.
Right. Like school computers didn't have filters on them. Absolutely did not. No URL filters at all.
That is free range. Well, I remember even when they started putting filters. Free range porn. I remember even when they started putting like the blockers on our school computers,
like that one didn't get blocked because it's White House. Correct. Yeah. They're looking for those keywords.
Right. I remember I had my own website in high school because I was a nerd and it got blocked, but
I found a way to get around. If I Google searched around it and Google searched the about page, I could then get
to it. It wasn't Google then, it was Yahoo. It was Yahoo. It was like us. Yeah, come on.
What was it? Alta Vista. Oh, bring it all the way back. Yeah, that was my OG search engine.
I don't remember that. Mine was Yahoo. It always crashed though. That's what I always use.
Oh really? Yeah. Oh, that's some shit. Always crashed in our computer labs at least.
Craft computer nerd republic now. Different time. Yeah. Thanks for-
How we've grown up. You guys want to play some Oregon Trail while we're at it? Absolutely. We did javanoid.com.
It was like a brick breaker. Oh. Cool. I don't remember that. But it was so much cooler than that.
Did you guys ever do a Homestar Runner? Absolutely. Yeah, Strong Bad? Flex?
No? I don't think so. No Strong Bad? Oh, Strong Bad was the best. I'm going to say it's a California thing.
Maybe. Teen Girl Squad? No. What was his name? What was the dragon? Oh, Trogdor.
Trogdor. I had a Trogdor shirt. Oh, okay. Trogdor, come and then- The techno episode was actually-
Yeah. Was that off eBaum's World? No, the website was homestarrunner.com and the main dude was Strong Bad.
At least the most popular dude was Strong Bad. I don't think he was meant to be the most popular one. I remember going to eBaum's a lot and they had all those different games you could play
and there was Pimp Guru. These were mainly videos.
There weren't so much games. They did end up making a game out of the Trogdor episode. Oh, that's cool.
On the web. I spent so much time in high school playing Trogdor in my video production class.
We'd all try to get the high score, but yeah, I had the t-shirt. They put out an album. Remember the fake band? Oh, the metal?
Oh, yeah. The metal. Limo-zine. Somewhere I have a Limo-zine CD. Oh, jeez. Z-E-E-N.
Limo-zine. To the one person who knows what I'm talking about, you're welcome. I still have CDs I have back from high school and everything.
Man, those are cherishable memories. Yeah, I got a bunch of posters. With the scratches too. Oh yeah. Even better.
I have a bunch of coasters too. All right, before we get any further into this, I think it's time we answer the most
important question of the night. 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 Flax drinking. I get a stroke. Yeah, I had one.
I don't know where to go. All right, so thank you to intern Brian
for finally paying up on his World Cup bet. Oh, it only took like two and a half months.
But like twenty twenty one or something. Yeah, it felt like so long ago.
For anybody out there who doesn't know, Brian and I had a bet on the World Cup. I said if Argentina won, he would send me a six pack of beer.
And he said if France won that, I would send him a six pack of beer. Well, Argentina won and Brian sent me a four pack.
So no hard feelings or, you know, nobody really remembers what the the other two got lost. Details are the better.
Yeah, I'm sure UPS took them out of the box and then that did happen to me. Yeah, I know. That's why I said that.
Really? Yeah. They took out a nighthawk. I just got a nighthawk.
They actually put it. What is it in the email or on like the on the tracking thing? It said it was being returned because a beer explode.
Like they actually wrote like beer exploded. It's been returned to sender. And then like two weeks later, it showed up to the person who I had sent it to.
And by the way, it was only going to San Diego. It wasn't going very far. And it showed up at their house two weeks later.
And it was missing a nighthawk, which they said it exploded. But there was no I mean, if that exploded, you would know it's a beer.
It would have messed up the box. And I had stickers in there. The stickers were perfect. Like they just took it out and drank it. Yeah. Sorry, Flex.
No, it's cool. And I think the jokes on me with this beer. I'm drinking four flowers by Casa Agria.
It is a seven point eight percent double IPA. But this fucking description of the spirit.
Good Lord. I think we need a glass of water for this one. It says to help celebrate our fourth anniversary.
We made the special double IPA with an incredible bouquet. There is an exclamation point.
Flowers, linens and appliances and all are all traditional gifts for fourth wedding anniversaries. I guess.
So we thought we would use some of our favorite flowers for this beer. For flowers was brewed with malted and flaked wheat and oats for a full body.
Hopped in the kettle with Citra before an extra large dry hopping of some of our favorite flowers. Nelson Enigma, which is a super underrated hop in my opinion.
Citra and mosaic saturated with the sticky tropical aromas that accompany dank white grape herbal blueberry and creamy orange. We love the balanced orange pithy bitterness and intense peach flavors that complement the soft round mouthfeel of the celebratory anniversary ale.
Carry on. Keep going. Holy shit. That was nuts. You need an ale after that? I think I do.
Sounds very delicious though. It is. Just under a thousand check-ins it has a 4.18 on untapped, which untapped check-ins don't mean anything nowadays.
But that's pretty gnarly. It's a good body of information though. It really is.
On the nose, really that peach and that orange that they said really comes through. Big stone fruit on that peach.
I love that. We get the old tongue jobber warmed up. Here it goes. That's really fucking good.
You really worked that one out. Kind of like Spencer said with your IPA, this has definitely got that ever-vescent, that carbonation.
It's still soft. It's not medium body, but it's kind of soft and pillowy.
Florally for sure, I can't really get any one note out of there. It's got super low-end bitterness.
Let me dive in real quick again. Yeah, go back for more research. A little bit of white grape. A little bit of that white grape, but otherwise it's florally, it's earthy, it's hoppy.
It's really good. It's got really nice color on it. Leaves a little bit of that lacing there. It's pretty.
Yeah, I'm really glad they sent this. And Deb wrote in the card that Brian really spent some time wanting to send something he knew I was going to like.
He knows you're a Hayes boy. He sent me, they sent me a double Hayes, and then they did send me a West Coast.
Okay. So I, you know. Well, you and Mel have been on that West Coast train recently. And that's true. I really haven't boughten too many boughten.
I'm an idiot. I will still say clear beer for life. Yeah. But I'm going to say this Malibu Brewing Beer is pretty solid.
It's pretty good. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, I haven't bought too many Hayesies this year, actually, if I'm being honest. It's a lot of West Coast.
Times are changing. It's only been about two months in the year, but still. You're still young.
But anyway, Deb, Brian, thank you for the beer. Thank you for paying up on the bet.
You're no longer in the Wiley realm. And that's really what's most important.
Yeah. I mean, it wasn't hard to get out of that realm, but you had to follow through. That's all. Yeah.
You literally had less than 12 months to get out of that realm. Right. I think that's what it was about a year.
I think it was slightly over a year, wasn't it? Was it like 13 months or something? Oh my God. I don't know.
It was ridiculous. Good times. Good times. Yeah. Cheers, guys. Yeah.
Cheers. All right. Some breaking news. I don't know if you guys have heard about this, but Drake's Brewing up in NorCal has acquired Bear Republic Brewing this week, or actually last week.
Big news in the craft beer world. Very surprising about that. Didn't see that coming. Apparently, they're only purchasing the intellectual property of Bear Republic.
So they're not purchasing the brewery or any of their equipment. Sounds like they're not keeping most of their people.
No. And they were going to start brewing a lot more out of the San Leandro location for more of the distro.
I think they'd be taking just more of a tap room, I want to say, in Healdsburg. I want to say that's where they're up from.
Sounds right-ish. Near Sebastopol. That kind of weird. Yeah.
You convinced me. But yeah, so I guess, for the most part, their IP is Racer 5.
Correct. So they're just going to be producing Racer 5 now at Drake's. Which is their bread and butter, man. Oh, yeah.
I bet. Well, I read an article, what, that was like 80% of their revenue was Racer 5?
I thought it was like 90-something. Oh, maybe. It could have been that much, but yeah. Definitely over 80%. Still boo-hoo.
Yeah. It was an insane amount was Racer 5. I mean, that thing is kind of like, you know, back in the day, like a Stone IPA or a Steering
and Matter, it's just everywhere. Correct. Any bar, even a bar that doesn't have good craft options, has Racer 5 on tap.
Which is kind of a bummer, because when you've had it fresh, you're like, oh yeah, then you have it and you're just like, oh. Yeah.
That's why. Good Racer 5 is good. Shitty bar Racer 5, where we haven't cleaned the lines in six years.
That's a really bad IPA. Yeah, it's not a good day. So, interesting to see where this goes. It's funny, I was just telling someone, I don't know, a week or two ago, haven't heard
a lot about Drake's recently, because someone says something about Drake's and then they go and pull this move. No. Yeah, that's surprising, because not a lot of tap rooms down here don't have Drake's
anymore. Yeah. And we haven't seen it anywhere. I mean, Denogonizer is always phenomenal when it comes out.
You're looking for an old school IPA, want to rip the enamel off your teeth. But I think the IB wars are going to come back.
You think so? I think people have been missing that. Dick measuring contest with hops? Even though IBUs are relative, you know, per person.
Well, now it don't matter. I know. So, is that what you're saying is in 2023 is going to happen, or do you think it's still
a ways away? I think it'll start creeping back into it, where people like Hazy's is still doing their
run, like, you know, Violife stuff, like this, still evolving. But people are really kind of missing, I think, those kind of bitter, you know, old school,
you know, late thousands beers. It's been a minute for those. And I think there's going to be a calling soon.
What I think there's plenty of room for is, like, the clear beer that takes some of the juicy notes from a Hazy, with, like, the clear, dank backbone of a West Coast.
That'd be cool. You know, like, a little more dry hopping, a little less bitter hop, but a clear beer. I think that's where there's room, because I don't always want something that'll rip
the enamel off my teeth, but I also don't always want a Hazy IPA. Well, then, have a little bit of each.
Just cuvee? Yes. Cuvee them together? There we go. Oh, West Coast, a little Hazy, yeah.
Yeah. See what it makes. Yeah, here we go. What they call a modern West Coast, right? Right, exactly. Dude, that's a new style, let's go.
Unfiltered West Coast is a whole other thing than Stanton been coming out of it now, so it's been... I blame that one on Stone.
For sure. They forgot to filter one of their beers and now it's a thing. Stuck all their labels.
Yeah. Draft beer volume was up 4.1% during Super Bowl weekend over last year, so people did
their drinking. Nice. People getting out, right? That's what that means. People are getting out. I know last year COVID was a little more of a thing than it was this year around the
Super Bowl, so people got out, people did some more drinking, and thanks for doing your part, people. Yeah, I feel like...
Busy at bottle and pint, I'll tell you that much. Yeah. It feels like it's just getting more normal. Now that it's 2023, almost three years out, it's almost like life is completely back to
normal. It's getting there. It's getting there. I bet by you, it's never happened now, but for us it's still...
No, that's not true. It was pretty crazy everywhere for a while, but yeah, I would say here it lightened up
a lot sooner than by you. LA County is still a little twitchy on certain things. Yeah.
LA County is always the... And we're not in LA County, but it's always the last one. It's always the most conservative when it comes to...
Correct. Not politics, but health. The least conservative when it comes to politics, but most conservative when it comes to health.
So they're always closing up shop and mandating masks where other counties are not... Wait, still to this day?
No, no. So one of the funniest things they did was early in the pandemic, the first time they dropped the mask mandate, they're like, we're going to reinstitute it because numbers are
going up. And it's like, okay, sure, that part of it makes sense, but all the surrounding counties,
including Ventura County, they were like, we're not. And so then everybody in LA County was like, well, we're going everywhere else to hang
out because we don't want to deal with it. Ventura and Orange County got flooded. Yeah. Similar thing happened here. They did that in the city of Milwaukee where they were like, hey, masks are going to be
mandated again. But all the suburbs around there were just like, oh, well, no, we're fine.
My biggest thing is mask, no mask, I don't give a shit, but make up your mind and do it the same everywhere.
So when I cross some city line, I don't have to ask what I'm supposed to do. Yeah. Then you're like, oh, I think I have one in the car.
Yeah. Now I have like a hundred in the car, but they're all in my glove compartment. But yeah, it's like, I don't know what I'm supposed to do here.
My thought process is just stop being a disgusting fucking human being. Right.
Like, don't sneeze in your hand. That's one way to start. Don't sneeze in your hand. Yeah. Don't.
Why would you sneeze in your elbow? Oh, you know what I'm saying? Oh, elbow for the win. Just unprotected? Like, what are we talking here? Yeah.
Like, one of my funnier stories, like in the height of the pandemic, like we're talking like a few weeks into it.
Yeah. I had a customer come into my store. Dude was masked up and gloved up, but he proceeded to sneeze into his gloved hand and then proceeded
to touch all the fruit in my store. Yeah. So helpful.
So what? I feel like it's even worse. Exactly. What is that glove doing? You're still spreading germs, whether it's on, yeah, whether they're on your glove or
your fucking hand, you idiot. Well, and the glove thing is so dumb. People first of all, when people wear gloves, they have some false sense of security that
correct. But I worked at McDonald's all through high school and into college and stuff. We didn't have to wear gloves then.
But after I quit, California Institute of thing like you have to wear gloves for prepping food and stuff. And I was like, that's the dumbest thing ever, because now people just won't wash their hand.
Well, not only that, but whatever you touch with your hands, it's the same thing that you're touching when you have the gloves on.
Well, and the gloves are porous, actually sticks to the gloves more than your hands. So if you're sneezing into your glove or wiping your face with your glove, you're not going
to go wash your hand because you got a glove on. It's actually less sanitary than not having gloves and just washing your hands every 30
minutes or whatever. You feel like you're getting on your hands like, oh, I need to go take care of this versus on the glove.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Willy nilly. Exactly. Like, oh, I just touched raw meat. I need to go wash my hands. It's on me.
But if you have gloves on, you're just going to go do whatever the fuck you want. This is the first time in the last 30 years somebody said, willy nilly.
You hear to hear first. Bring it back.
Bring it back. Bring it back to the old school because we're old fools. We're so cool.
All right. On to beard stuff again. Yeah, let's get to beer. Data from Kirin reveals that China is dominating the global beer consumption.
Does that make sense though? Like China should be dominating every market in the world because their population is so
correct. Yeah. I'm not too surprised. The US took second spot with 24.2 billion liters.
Let's go. And Brazil came in third with 14.5 billion liters.
My goodness. Yeah. Hey US, we got some making up to do. Oh, we'll do it. Yeah.
If you're not drinking right now, please start drinking. Please start. Oh, and China's by the way, was 38.1 billion liters.
So we've got some catching up to do. It's a lot of liters. Yeah. 38 from a 24.
We got our work cut out, but I believe in us, America. We got this. I believe in us.
Believe in the little guys. Yeah, exactly. I realized today I need to come up with an intro for Florida stories because they're
just- They're prevalent. They're too prevalent. Yeah. They're just, they're not backing off because dumb people and Florida.
You need to watch the Alabama man commercial on loop just to get the creative juices flowing. Yeah.
Not the Ambulance, not the Black Betty. Florida.
Alabama and Florida are two. I was like, Florida man. Alabama man. Yeah. Alabama man. I thought I told you to shut up.
We're going to work this. We'll figure it out. Yeah. Sorry, listeners. We'll do this off the air. Yes.
Yes. Anyways, Florida. A man was being investigated for DUI on a Florida road and then he cracked open a beer. As per police report obtained by the Miami Herald, when their car approached Gleason
Parkway, something caught their eye. It was a black 2018 Mercedes Benz C300 sedan parked in the right-hand lane facing southbound.
There was no traffic at the time. The vehicle had its lights on, blocking all traffic in that side of the road.
The vehicle was just sitting there, reads the report. Inside, 40 year old Michael Serrata was sitting alone in the front passenger seat.
The offender was not observed in operation of the vehicle, nor was he involved in a traffic collision.
That's the complaint. Serrata, who refused to give a breath sample, had the odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating
from his facial area, as well as bloodshot watery eyes and slurred, delayed, repetitive speech pattern.
Multiple open alcoholic containers were observed between Serrata's legs and in the front cup holders.
The suspect was unable to speak based on his level of intoxication. Officers from the Cape Corral Police Department were called to assist.
While waiting for backup, a deputy observed Serrata reach between his legs and grab an unopened beer.
He then cracked the tab. The deputy attempted to grab the can from Serrata when he began to resist and pull away.
Once the individual was out of the car, standardized field sobriety evaluations could not be completed due to the suspect being unable to support his own weight and continuously actively resisting
deputies. Savage. After a brief investigation, the deputy found probable cause to arrest the man.
You don't say. Charges include driving under the influence and resisting an officer without violence.
While struggling with deputies trying to put restraints on him, Serrata received a minor abrasion to his left eyebrow, right knuckle, and right elbow.
He was taken to a hospital as a disorderly subject and required the assistance of security guards and a wheelchair.
Hospital staff medically cleared him. He was then transported to the Lee County Jail in apparent good health and without further
incident. What an idiot. Yeah, that's pretty dumb. Yeah, all that and he was released on $2,500 bond.
Was he parked in a regular lane or was he opposite traffic? Opposite traffic.
Oh, that's not good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It kind of gives it away. It's even worse, yeah. That's probably the... Luckily there's no accident though, that could have been catastrophic.
I was gonna say, that's the scariest thing is when you have somebody coming opposite way.
Oh, yeah. In the lane. Devin, my wife, a few weeks ago, this morning, it was some old idiot.
He had turned left out of a shopping center and crossed the median, the cement median. Oh, Jesus.
I had no idea he was on the wrong side of the road. She's coming towards him and she gets over a lane and starts honking at him and he throws
up his hands at her like, what the fuck's your problem? I was like, you were on the wrong side of the road, dude.
She's pointing at the other side of the road. Finally someone else did the same thing and he looked and then he snuck around the median
and got in the proper lane. He was a fucking idiot. Maybe you shouldn't be driving. That happened to me 10 years ago, somebody was coming at me in the opposite direction.
I just pulled off into the shoulder, just stopped my car because I didn't want anything to fucking happen. Oh, yeah, that's the safest thing to do.
I was waiting for Flex to be like, so I just fucking got in his lane and we went full chicken. No, I'm not that cool.
Someone did that to me a couple of weeks ago. Over the freeway, there's a suicide lane and that suicide lane turns into a left again
on the freeway. They thought that was the normal lane and then got into the suicide lane, which is me
oncoming traffic, flashing lights, getting over, and I'm dead over lane. Besides going over the bridge off the bridge and they're just like, oh crap, my bad.
Everyone's like, that's a little more than my bad. Stupid people. Yeah, this is a one o'clock in the afternoon.
You must have had some lunch beers with Flex. Hey, come on. We drink responsibly.
That's responsibly. How do we drink? Case in point.
Nailed it. Oh my. We'll end it with this one.
Jalen Watson, rookie from the Chiefs, got so drunk at the Super Bowl parade
that he had to leave in a wheelchair. Yeah. I read the circle.
He was drinking Hennessy up on the float. By the end of it, he had to be escorted off said float
and put in a wheelchair to make it to the plane. I don't want to be on that plane either. No.
That's a short trip. My favorite tweet was the Henny thing is possible.
I guess Henny thing is impossible. Yeah. It's a podcast,
so there's no point in talking about it. But there are pictures of him being wheeled out in a wheelchair. He's a rookie,
which basically means he's still a college kid. Right. He'll learn from this, hopefully.
Yeah, he just started too quick. Yeah. He'll learn his limits eventually.
There was no pace. If anything, just drink some Miller Lite or Bud Light or
whatever the fuck they're going to give you on the bus. There's more Henny. I was going to say, multiple bottles of Henny sounds like a horrible idea.
Sounds so bad. Did you guys see the clip of Mahomes, though? He had the WWE championship
belt on and he's pounding a Coors Light or something. I saw something about him chugging.
He looked very proud in that picture. With his goggles on too and everything. I love all the athletes now.
We don't want to get booze in our eyes. Let's wear these goggles. Stone Cold never wore goggles.
He never, ever. He fucking laughed at your goggles. He did waste a lot of beer, though.
So much beer. He's got a lot of money in his lap. He can just waste his own money.
I always laugh. Last year at WrestleMania, he was pounding the Broken Skull IPAs and stuff.
I'm just like, you know, there's a beer that I don't want to pound. No, he was doing the American Lager or whatever they came out with.
It was lager that he was promoting at WrestleMania. I have seen him on Raw pound some Broken Skull IPAs.
I'm just like, man, that is a hard one to pound. Yeah, and then three of those on top of that real quick. He's like, you sure about that, buddy?
A couple of 7.5%ers. You're going to have a headache real quick. Better brush your teeth after that.
Anywho, alright, that's it for us. I'm going to hit some music. I'm going to say hi to Vanessa.
Oh, hi, Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Oh, a couple of creeps.
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Built-in workout. I believe that's everything. I hope everyone is staying very well hydrated.
And on that note, good night, everybody. Cheers.