This can't be real. What?
George Lopez Brewing Company? Deleting my history and smashing my computer.
Yeah, it's more embarrassing than getting caught with porn. Welcome in everybody, it's the Craft Beer Republic.
Thanks for drinking, thanks for joining. I am Greg, aka that asshole who forgot Flex's beer last week. That's true. And that is, and sitting across from me is that guy whose beer got forgotten.
Yeah, that was me.
Yeah. But let's forget about that. Please. And let's say happy National Craft Beer Week.
Yes. Right? 15th through the 21st of May. Yeah, American Craft Beer Week. Hope everyone's enjoying and celebrating appropriately.
As if we needed another excuse to sit down and have a beer.
I'll take any excuse you'll give me. Right? Yeah. I'm right there with you, man. Yeah, so cheers to the craft beer drinkers, makers, lovers, sexers.
Everything that goes into it.
Every craft beer related thing. So it's just Flex and I today. We thought we'd get a little sexy and a little romantic. So here we are doing that for you. We got a lot to get to today. I am fresh off of a live show. We'll talk about that. I have something to rant about.
Ooh, you ranting? We'll see if I mention the brewery's name or not. I'm already hot and bothered over here. Yeah. A couple of headlines from the news flight, some booze news, and so much more, including the most expensive beer in baseball.
Now that baseball season is well underway. If you listened to last week's show, you know it ended on a sour note because I'm a dickhead and I forgot to give Flex's beer review. It was a long show. I'll give it to you. It was a long show.
Everybody talked a lot. We all had a lot to say. I get it.
I still feel like a jerk. So in response to that, A, we're going to find out what Flex is drinking first. But B, Flex got a remix. In a world where craft beer is king.
In a world where muscles are bigger than growlers.
Only one tongue can guide us. One man. One tongue.
One tongue. One tongue jobber.
In this world, we must find out.
What is Flex drinking?
So stupidly long. The anticipation was killing me. It's like 42 seconds. Longer than your beer review.
I don't know why you would do that, but I accept your apology.
All right. Love you.
All right. So today I am drinking Drippin' So Much Sauce by Microphone Brewing out of, what do we say, Elk Grove, Illinois? I believe that's what we said.
Sure, it's like a suburb of Chicago. I don't know. I'm not from there. But this is an 8%. They call it a double New England on here. I don't know. I think it just says double IPA in the can. So it's 8%, 3.9 thousand ratings.
It's got a 4.16. That's pretty solid.
Pretty good.
No real description here. It's a dry hopped double IPA with citra, sabro, and Eldorado hops. And what really drew me in here was the sabro, or sabro, however, people say it, potato, potato, apricot, apricot. Apricot, yeah.
Yeah, whatever. You're wrong. But anyway, so I'm actually, I'm not going to say I've been spurned by this brewery before. But I've gotten a couple of beers from them and excited to try, and they just kind of like fall short. Oh.
But I saw this can. I showed you the canner before. It's gorgeous. Yeah, pretty sweet. The price, the ABV, the can art, it was a 1-1-1 flex ratio. Oh. A 1-1-1. So I had to get it. And let me tell you, this baby does not disappoint.
Oh, good. I mean. I thought you were building up to some bullshit.
Oh, no, no. I would not build up to any bullshit on this. I really don't like harshing on people too much. You don't want to harsh the male. Yeah. So, I mean, the color on this, it's real nice, pale, like golden yellow. That is the definition of hazy right there. Supes hazy. A little citrusy, a little pineapple-y on the schnaz.
Actually, a lot more pineapple than citrus. It actually kind of smells like, I don't know, you cut fresh pineapple, Greg? You ever cut fresh pineapple? I have, yeah. That's kind of exactly what it smells like.
Nice. I did, in Hawaii, I made sure to get as much fresh pine. And I just like every meal I cooked with it. It was the best.
That's awesome. So, without further ado, we'll rear up the old tongue jobber. Give the people what they want. Emphasis on the rear. Rear tongue jobber. All right. So, it's like spritzy carbonation. It's Supes light-bodied.
You would never think this was a double IPA. Real hop-forward, hop-driven. Mild notes of that pineapple. Not too much on, like, the fruity notes. But all in all, it's a super solid beer. Nice. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
And actually, the first can I cracked open of this earlier this week, I was like, I'm
and I actually said, wow, this is the best microphone brewing beer I've ever had. Mighty big words. Yeah. I mean, that's got to start somewhere. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's awesome. So, cheers to them. Cheers to this good beer. And hope to snag another good one from them soon.
Hell, yeah. Good job, Microphone Brewing. Cheers. Worth a K. All right. Let's get to some things. Over the weekend, we did a live show with Chew over at 818 Brewing for the release of Flantastico. Had a lot of fun. Those of you that know Derek and Brian from 818, it was Chew Your Beer. Of course, it was me. We sampled Flantastico on the show.
We also had... I was like, you guys want to do a full flight and talk about it? Because they've been on the show before. And like, yeah, let's do a full... I think we ended up having like six or seven beers on this show. That's a lot of beers, man. Yeah, it was more than a full flight. But it was great. We had their barrel aged Vor... I always fuck this up.
Vorhala or Vorhala. And it was aged on vanilla beans. Sat in a barrel for like nine months or something like that. That was good. Had their Valley Girl, Matador, which is one of my favorites over there. So good stuff. So that'll be dropping next week. If you weren't able to come out, you can hear the whole thing next week
as that releases as a podcast. Is that what we do as a podcast? I guess. That's what people tell me. I can't figure out why I can't get it on my radio.
I was confused what this was for a second.
Yeah, I don't know what channel we're on still. It's been like 10 years, but I can't figure out the channel.
It's at 88.5 that you're supposed to tune in your auxiliary.
88.5 on the dial. With Handsome Dan. Sorry. Oh, I love it. We alluded to earlier, but it is Craft Beer Week, May 15th through the 21st. So get out there and celebrate. A lot of breweries are doing some special brews for the week
and some special pricing and all that good stuff. So check with your local spot, see who's doing what, and go fucking drink some beers.
Drink some beers and support the local breweries.
Exactly. Here comes my rant.
Ooh, this came out abruptly, actually. I wasn't ready for this.
Do you need a little more warm-up? Do I need to lube you up first?
Yeah, I was expecting a sound drop or another made-up song. I don't know.
I don't know what's going on in my mouth.
That'll do.
Okay. That was sort of a negative-ish sound drop.
Yeah, I'll take it. Okay, so what is bothering you, Greg?
Hours. Hey, breweries, update your fucking hours on your gram, on your web page, on your Google page, on your Yelp page. I know it's a lot, but fucking update them. Recently, we tried to go, for now I'll leave out the name,
to a new brewery in our area.
Maybe you should not leave out the name. I think they need to know. Oh, they know.
Oh, Danny. I got all Karen on their ass. All right, go on. Went to a brewery that is not within my city limits, had to do a little bit of traveling, we'll say 30 to 40 minutes of traveling to stop by.
Let's say 30 minutes. I'll tell you what, if I drove 30 to 40 minutes to a brewery, they better reopen.
Yes. We checked the gram. Gram stated they'd be open until 10 that day. We checked Google. Google was different, but they were still supposed to be open. Nothing on their website. We thought, well, either way, whether it's Google or gram,
whichever one is right, they're open. Let's go. It was the opening weekend, it was their grand opening weekend. How could they not be open? It's their grand opening weekend.
It sounds like if they're going to be open any weekend, it's going to be this weekend.
It feels appropriate with the name grand opening. Yeesh. We show up fucking dark. Not a soul, not an employee, not even a light on.
We're talking on a Saturday. This is a Sunday.
Oh, a Sunday. Sunday. Yeah. We're walking around. We're like, is someone playing a joke? Am I getting punked or something? What the fuck is going on? We walk around, we don't see anything. Now we're looking for either signs of people inside or an actual sign
that says, sorry, our shitter's exploded, we had to close up. Something of that nature where they're like an emergency and they had to close up. No signs, no nothing. So I went on the gram. Nothing on the gram says we're closed today.
And their hours say Sunday, I think whatever, like noon to 10 or something like that. And this is like four o'clock when we're there. And Google said until six. So either way, we should have been good. They should have been open, yeah. And so I read their latest post, and it's just like promoting their new hamburger or whatever.
And everyone was lighting them up like, hey, we tried to stop by in your clothes. And what's going on? I thought you were open. So luckily it wasn't just us. It's not like everyone got the memo except for me or something. I was glad about that. So we just all, like I commented too.
I said, hey, we came from out of town to come check out the new spot, and you're closed. Would love for you to update your hours or something like that. And to make it even more interesting, they went through. Oh, and the wife DMed before I said anything.
She DMed and was like, are you guys open today? Like while we're still standing there just to see if anybody was around. Yeah. And so the weird thing was they DMed, they responded to my wife and they said, hey, so sorry, there was a mix up. Here's a $10 gift certificate. And everyone that commented on the post for their cheeseburger saying like, are you guys
open today? They responded and they said, hey, we're so sorry. We're going to send you something in your DMs. I assume the same $10 off your next thing. But to me, and by me, I mean the shows, the crappy Republic account. They just said, we're so sorry. And I was like, oh, okay.
I'm not cool enough to get slid into the DMs and get like your $10 coupon like everyone else's. I see how it goes. And look, I don't want free shit. I don't expect free shit. It was just a weird way to handle it. Oh, it's fairness. Right? Yeah.
I didn't say anything shitty. I just was some to the extent like we came from out of town. Uh, your hours said you're open, you know, like what's, what, what are your actual hours or something like that? That's so stupid. Yeah. So update your goddamn hours, especially on the gram, because I know Google has an approval
process. It's not instant, but the grams is instant. It's just your profile update your shit.
Well, and this may be, before he said they were new, I was going to say a big thing that fucked up that on the old Google machine was the pandemic. Right? Right. So breweries still had their regular hours on the Google machine before the pandemic.
And then through that, it all fucked up with the hours, but they never changed. They actually open. Cause we, you know, yeah, we were downtown on a few days in Milwaukee or day off. It's like, Oh, Hey, 11 o'clock, like places should be open now for lunch. So it stopped and get a beer and a quick meal.
And every place you would Google said it was open and then you would drive by it and sure shit, man, just dead locked lights off. Nobody's around. So yeah, I can really get behind the updating the hours.
Yeah. And I get that during the lockdown, like things were weird and nobody knew what was going on. And I would call if it was some, if it was a brewery that I didn't know, you know, 14 cannons, I'm pretty aware of what's going on over there or which also congratulations
to them for winning another metal. Yeah. They took home some hardware from world beer cup.
Hell yeah. Yeah. You know, I considered going down the winners on the show, but it would just been so long. So just Google the winners, but congrats to 14 cannons. They took home some gold. So that's awesome. Way to go, Nick. Yeah. Um, but yeah, so, uh, update your shit. It made me laugh cause I think about all the brewers that I've talked to recently.
They're like, I am so tired of people calling to ask us our hours. It's on Google. Everything's up to date. Please stop calling us. And then we get this. It's like, now we're going to fucking call if we ever want to go try that brewery again. Cause they're idiots and they can't update their hours. Yeah.
I couldn't tell you the last time I called a place to see if they were calls places. Honest to goodness. My first thought is like, Oh, I better check Instagram to see if they're open today.
Yeah. I'll check Instagram and see if they're open. I'll check it to see like what food trucks they're doing. All that good stuff. Yeah. But you're right.
I mean, that is the fastest way to just put information out there. You know, you said to brewery, look for their latest posts. Like, Hey, sorry. Unfortunately we're closed today. Sure. Whether it's a private event, whether it's, you know, an unfortunate incident. Just, yeah.
You don't even have to make a post. Just make a story. You know, it's only up there for the day that you're closed and anything just throw it up
there and it's instantaneous.
And so little effort.
That too. Blank background text. We are closed today.
Sorry. I'm sure you have somebody who does that for the company, right? Yeah.
If not, I'll do it. I'll, you can pay me in beer. I'll be your grand person. You hear that unknown brewery. Yeah. This is flexes away. I'm trying to get me to say the brewery name.
I haven't decided. I'll pay for your hours or pay Greg to do it. Unknown brewery.
I haven't decided if I want to call him out yet. Cause you know, maybe their beer is really good, but if it's not, then I'm definitely no, just kidding. I hear their food's amazing. Wow. Anybody local has already figured out. I guess the jury's out. On a happier note, today's Monday as we record, I've got to imagine flex had some lunch beers.
I had some lunch beers today.
Yeah. How'd it go? Pretty solid. So first of all, I was super productive today. Can I just brag about how productive I was today? Okay. Let's hear it. I mean, we're talking like dishes, laundry, garbages. We're talking about cleaning bathrooms.
We're talking about making beds, tidying, just trying to get tidying the house. We're talking to cutting the grass. Like good God, we did all this shit by like noon and by weekend is a hell of a drug. Um, you know, so then say, you know what, I just, I just, there's some, some lunch beers
after the shower. Right. So I went out and met my buddy, Tim. What's up, Tim? He's a new listener. Hey Tim. But, uh, he's, he's my Monday, uh, I'd call him a date would be weird. He's like my Monday buddy now. Who's, uh, he was an acquaintance become friend and now, uh, your lunch alcoholic friend.
Yeah. So now we only have a couple of Mondays left before summer starts. You know, he has kids. I have kids, which makes the Monday trip a little more difficult. So it's like, yeah, it's going to be like when you're in a school, right. And you'll have all these school friends and then the summer hits and you're like, oh,
wow, I only hang out with this talk, you know, this guy at school and I only talked to this guy at school and now I'm going to go three months without seeing him. Yeah. It's going to be weird. So that's how it's going to feel. But anyway, so I met Tim up there.
I bet kids don't deal with that anymore because now they just like DM each other and all that shit.
And you're probably right because it was so different with, you know, yeah, no social media. Hey best friend, I haven't seen you in three months. Yeah. Yeah. If you didn't live three minutes away from him, like you couldn't ride your bike. Yeah. You're not going to see him. Exactly. So super weird. But so anyway, we had, uh, we went up there, um, Eagle Park did this, uh, joint fest.
It was like the first time they did it in the sounds like a stoner event. It was, it's a four 20 themed event. Oh, all right. Um, you know, and they collab with a bunch of different breweries and they put all these beers on tap now after the event, which was really cool. So we're talking like they collabed with black stack and hot butcher and toppling Goliath
and, uh, a couple of distilleries, a couple more local breweries like lion's tail and whatnot. So heavy hitters in there. Yeah. So I went in there today, snagged their joint fest collab with toppling Goliath. It was a triple IPA.
Couldn't tell you what's in it. I can just tell you it's fucking phenomenal. Next up they, uh, released their big bottoms, which is their like double milkshake IPA. It's like a classic from them. So it's like orange and vanilla and lactose and whatnot.
It essentially tastes like you're drinking a creamsicle and I'm not even, I'm not even just saying that. It just, it, it honestly tastes like orange vanilla goodness. Sounds like a dream come true for Zach. Oh yeah. Do the adjuncts. He would actually fucking love it. You're right. And then we went, uh, then when we go from there, we went with a strawberry, a barrel
aged out condition on strawberries. That was a 12%. So he went 10%, 8%, 12%. Then the bartender is having a rough day. So he poured us a shot of bourbon.
Oh, so then we had,
Your homie bartender. This is the homie bartender. So we had a shot of bourbon and then I said, uh, okay, I need something light. Right. I got to get out of here. I got to close out, need something light. So remember we had the cold IPA from title town.
Yeah. Blizzard Bay or Blizzard something.
Uh, yeah. And we were saying, wow, what would make a cold IPA so much better is like the thylized yeast. Right. So Eagle Park joint fest collab with lion's tail brewing right, right here in Wisconsin. They did a cold IPA with thylized yeast.
It is obnoxious, like super obnoxious in the best way possible, but it's a 7%, you know? So he said, hit me with something light. He wasn't wrong. That's, that's my wheelhouse. Right. Um, so no, it just turned out to be like a really solid day.
It sounds like in just a nice, uh, easy Monday.
Well, yeah, before all the, or I should say the beers are pretty easy before everything else was kind of, well, that's true. Yeah. It was not hectic, but it was like, uh, you know, I'm team get shit done. Right. Sounds like you were team in trouble getting all that shit done. No, it's not like that at all.
I try and get it done. Cause then I looked through like the rest of the week and I'm like, now I don't have to worry about this fair or caught up on this. And then I was able to watch the, uh, do you watch any TV, Greg? Like any shows that you're big on?
Oh yeah. Um, I mean mostly streaming stuff. Like we don't have cable anymore.
Yeah. Well that's, yeah. So like, um, you ever hear the show Barry?
Oh yeah. You know, we started it and then we lost HBO and we just got HBO again. So we're going to, we're going to revisit that.
So those episodes release Sunday night on HBO and then they stream on HBO max the next day. Yeah. And this show has me so ridden with anxiety that I usually push, I usually push the most recent episode off till the next week when another episode has released.
So then I just get riddled with like twice the anxiety and I can't handle it. Yeah. So I actually had a little bit of extra time from all the shit I got done already that I watched the latest episode of Barry and, and then it just gave me a lot of anxiety.
My wife likes it. She likes to wait and then stack them and then watch like four at a time.
And this show is easy if you do that because it's only like 30 minute episodes and eight episode seasons. So you can't go wrong with it.
Yeah. When we started, we only got like three episodes in. So we basically got the entire series in front of us at this point. So yeah. Uh, looking forward to it. I love, love, uh, what's his name? Bill Hader. Bill Hader. I wanted to call him Will Arnaz. Like I know it's not Will Arnaz. But yeah, so, uh, nice.
Well way to be fucking productive and all adulty and shit. Hey, thanks man.
Yeah. Good job. Um, it's a nice reward, you know?
Yeah. Get, get drunk is your reward. Exactly. With your, uh, new date. Um, all right, before we, I know I'm not supposed to call him date. Before we, uh, talk about what I'm drinking, we have, we have two quick stories in the news flight. Spanning the globe wide and far.
You gotta get a stack of papers. Just shuffling them, shuffling them and then just straightening them out on your desk.
Right. And in today's news, perfect. There we go. It's real fully going on over here. Uh, real quick, just wanted to mention that a Anheuser-Busch in quarter one saw a revenue increase of 13.2%.
We'll see what happens in quarter two after the whole marketing thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then two, that was for Flex and Mel. I was waiting for it. Stone was ordered to pay back all of their back rent to their closed tap room up in Napa.
If you recall a couple of years ago, they, they basically got evicted and they blamed the pandemic on not paying their rent and everything that led up to it. And in their clause, they have like a, you know, force majeure cause where they don't have to pay rent. And they're saying because of COVID it was, that clause was enacted and the owners are
saying no. Well, it went to court and the judge says, yeah, owe some money. Is there a public number on what they owe? There is not. Let me quickly scan it one more time. But they did say the rent was $40,000 a month. Oh wow.
So you know, it's at least that much. Wow. Yeah. Uh, not a little bit of, Oh, dude, Napa is the worst. Like we're horrible down here in the LA area, but fucking Napa is just insane when it comes to the cost of living up there and all that good stuff.
It's no bueno. So there you go. Okay. That was a newsflight. Uh, if anybody, hold on, hold on. Let's see. That was the newsflight. Nailed it. So smooth too.
So smooth. Uh, I think it's time we make a call to the pen. He calls to the bullpen for beer. Yeah, he does. You know, you mentioned, what do you drink?
I'm here. You mentioned title town brew and just a second ago, thanks to Brian over at title town brewing. Whoa. I am. I love this can too. That's a wild can.
I love that color scheme.
I am drinking Tundra tropics, hazy IPA 5.4% nice and sessionable. 44 IBUs has a three seven seven on tapped. They say made with American two row wheat and oats hopped with Eldorado Citra and strata
hops looks like a setting sun on a hazy day. Tastes like sipping on a tropical drink under a palm tree, escape the Tundra and enjoy this vacation in a can on the old sniffer. Big words right there. Big words. I will say not the world's haziest beer, not the world's haziest, a little see-through,
but not, you know, totally clear. I'm having a hard time. Is that like peach or something? I'm having a hard time on the, on the sniffer. Man, my sniffer is broken. God, I wish I could help you out. Me too.
You have a good sniffer. That's all right. Sniffer.
This is interesting. The, the flavor very much follows the nose. I still can't tell you what fucking flavors. I think it's like, honestly, it's kind of like peach ringy. Ooh, like the candy. Like I'm getting like that, like that, that sugary peach taste.
Not like real peach. You know what I mean?
I like that. We've gotten that from like the Saburo hops before.
Yeah. This has what Eldorado Citra and strata. Yeah. I'm really picking up on a lot of peach ring. It is very light. It is the perfect amount of carbonation. It sits on your tongue very lightly. I really enjoy this. Actually, this is a very crushable, very light 5.4% beer. If I had to give it one piece of criticism, it's just called a juicy IPA because it's
not all that hazy. That's it. Breweries. I know they set out to make hazies and they really stick with those names and sometimes they don't come out hazy and I'm not faulting you. The flavors will still be there. Just the visuals. The flavor is still there. The visuals not. So call it a juicy if it's not feeling so hazy. But the flavors are great.
I would definitely drink a few of these and at 5.4% that wouldn't be a problem. So shout out to title town. You know, I've had a few now thanks to Brian and they're putting out some good beers over there.
They really do. They have this sour series and I guess they put one on tap at the brewery. They did. And I can't remember if he said they distributed it around like the distributed did. Mm hmm. Whatever. That's easy for you to say.
Hard work. Around like the Green Bay area where they're from. But they're releasing a blueberry one and they actually canned it. And I'm very hopeful to get a couple packs of that. And then he said they are, uh, may or may not be doing another one that's guava oriented.
You had me at guava. I know you love guava, but he said he doesn't think they are canning that one. God damn it. Brian, we're not friends anymore. Big things happening up at title town. Yeah. And honestly, that's a super happy for them.
You know, putting out the beer that they're putting out. It's really good stuff.
It's really good stuff. And I might have to immediately correct myself on the whole hazy thing. I poured the rest of the can and it's so much hazier now. Oh hey, look at that.
Somebody didn't roll the can.
I did not roll the can. I thought walking upstairs was enough, but, uh, I retract my previous statement about the haze. Sorry guys. Either way, tasty beer. What a dick. What a dick. He's like, I'm not sending you any beer anymore. That's not what he sounds like.
That was. No, he actually sounds nothing like that. Yeah. You've met him. So yeah, you would know.
And he messages me at like the worst times. He's always like, I'm not going to send you any beer.
Well, he's out working, you know, right. Working in big quotes. And he's like, Hey, what are you doing right now? And I said, Hey, I'm at work. Why? Oh, I'm at this place and I'm trying to kick this keg. Do you want to come drink some beers with me?
Oh shit, man. I can't because I'm actually working.
Right. My, my job does not involve alcohol. Yeah.
So we, we quickly discovered that our jobs are two different things and work. Yeah.
It's two different things between us. That is funny. Yeah. I, I picture him saying like, Hey, I need to kick this keg. And then like the cartoon, like running sound, you know, like the scattering. Yeah, exactly. It's just flex running out the door. His clothes are still in the store, but he's not.
I still wish man.
Yeah. You're telling me. Of course he texts me like 10 minutes later and he's like, Oh, sorry. Just kicked it. Nevermind.
She's like, thanks for saving me some dick. Right. All right. A little news to get through founders. We talked last week how they closed their tap room in Detroit. Yeah. Well, like the day after we recorded, it came out why they closed their tap or at least
one of the reasons. Big quotes. Yeah. They were hit with another lawsuit for being racist. Get right out of town. Who would have seen that coming?
A racist brewery founders again, getting called out for more racist shit. Yeah. No.
A former employee filed a lawsuit against company claiming that tap rooms work environment was so objectively racially hostile that she had no choice but to resign. I'm so sorry I'm going to mess up your name. Plaintiff Naima, Naima Dillard filed a lawsuit in us district court in the Eastern district
of Michigan on May 1st. On her behalf, attorney Jack Schultz detailed months of discrimination, unfair treatment and retaliation against Dillard. Dillard resigned April 23rd and filed racial discrimination and retaliation charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 24th in which she alleged founders
violated title seven. I had to add up my new, my Roman numerals there. Title seven of the civil rights act of 1964. Her complaint is the second high profile lawsuit against founders in which a black employee alleged that they were discriminated against at the Detroit tap room because of their race.
House and Miguel owned founders settled with Tracy Evans in his 2019 racial discrimination lawsuit and closed the tap room for several months so it could handle some challenges. Throughout Ms. Dillard's time as a manager at founders Detroit tap room, she was utilized
merely for the optics of having a black manager while being treated completely differently than her white counterparts. Schultz wrote in a statement, Dillard, a black woman was promoted to part-time tap room manager in July of 22 after joining the tap room staff as a tap room server in June of 21. She's one of several managers, the rest whom were white and was treated much differently
than her Caucasian counterparts from the start. She's the only tap room manager without a dedicated focus area, extra responsibilities assigned to each manager such as handling training, scheduling tap room, sprout room and the mug club. So basically they were just giving her the title, kind of, you know, token title.
Jeez. Yeah. Typical founders. Just unreal. I'm trying to pull up a message that I received the other day. I won't call this person out because he didn't want his friends to know, but we have a friend of the show who plays softball. Here we go. He sent me this message. That awkward moment when after your softball game, a friend hands you a beer and it's founders
and no one knows what happened to them.
Jeez.
I said, yeah, it might be weird to yell out, hey man, thanks for the super racist beer. He said, yeah, I did sort of say that. So, um, yeah.
Well, let's say when you see people drink their stuff, it's like the first thing that crosses my mind is, ah, do you know? They must not. And then they must not because at least that's the hope. I hope they don't. Well, yeah, I guess. Cause you could say they're good people drinking the beer, but I guess anybody could be anybody.
Right. Yeah. Safe founders suck it. Yeah. Get the hell out of here. Close all your tap rooms, piece of shit.
Exactly. And some happy news, Russian rivers, 19th annual plenty of the younger release every year. They, they figure out how much it contributes to the local economy this year, $6.3 million to the local economy. Holy shit. One fucking beer release six, three, $6.3 million.
That's that's, that's crazy. Over $200,000 more than last year's record breaking release. Wow. A combined 24,603 consumers visited Russian rivers, Santa Rosa and Windsor, California tap rooms from March 24th to April 6th for the 19th annual release of the brewery's
specialty triple IPA. Each visitor spent an average of $290 at the tap room alone. Do they do food too? Or is it just beer? You know, I've not been to their new location, but I'm fairly certain they do food there.
And does that include like to go beer?
Probably would be my guess. It does not specify. It does say that an average of $366 was spent by visitors on airfare into the Sonoma County airport with an average of $656 spent on lodging. According to the EDV, the majority of money spent by survey respondents, which is 80%
went towards lodging or food services with the other 20% spent on transportation, retail or other activities such as the local casino, dancing, golf, movies, and outdoor recreation.
Beer's making the world go round. Yeah, that's, that's insane, man.
Yeah. So, uh, good job. But also you guys know you're flying for one beer, right? I don't know. It's the hype, man. Am I jaded? Like I just, I've had it. I've had a couple of them. Well, that's why. I know that most of the people in that line have had it.
My favorite story about Pliny is when you said how you have people message you, you're like, Hey, could you, could I get some Pliny? I'll trade you. And in your head you're thinking, Oh yeah, it's in the shop around the corner. I'll get it.
Well, that's, that's elder. Elder is easy to get. Oh, is that what that is? Okay. Yeah. So they have two. It's confusing if you're not from California, they're playing the elder, which is like their year round release. That is now much easier if you're in California to get used to be very hard to get. You'd have to know like what craft beer, uh, like bottle shop is getting it on what days
I go, we're getting them on Tuesdays. And there's always like a two bottle limit per person. Cause they would just fly. And then a couple of years ago when they opened the bigger production facility, they just started popping up everywhere. So when, when people ask me for elder, I'm like, yeah, that's so hard. Let me go get some, which I shouldn't talk to my shit.
Cause like Brian was like, can you give me some elder? But to be fair, I was like, I'm going to send you more than elder because they make better beer. So I also sent him a blind pig, but I'm younger once a year, it's like $20 for a bomber or a seven 50, whatever it is. But it's also like 14%.
Um, look, it's a really good triple IPA. I'm not spending a thousand dollars flying to NorCal to get it. I'm definitely not.
It does not fit the ratio there that you can bagel to, uh, and yeah, I just use the word finagle. Um, yeah, there's nothing you could do to get me there for that.
No, I just, I mean, if I happen to be in the area, cause like the wife's family, it isn't too far from that area. Okay. Yeah. We'll, we'll go over away and get some whatever, but I'm not, I'm not flying up there just for some plan of the younger. Sorry. I do like Russian river.
In fact, I love all their other stuff that people don't talk about more than anything. Blind pig is great. Uh, their sour program. Good God. You want some good.
You say that every time we bring them up.
Yeah.
Their sour program. It's like real barrel aged. They're probably do it in for burgers. Fooders. That was, that was for flex.
I do like when you say furders.
I sound like the rednecks from South Park. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Would you age these beers in? Furders. We age them in furders.
All right. Most expensive beer in major league baseball. Any guesses what team has the most expensive beer?
We're talking all 30 teams, right? There's 30, right?
Well, they, they left out two teams because they would not respond to the survey. And those two teams are the Cubs and the Tampa Bay Rays. They're represented by this group called Levy restaurants and they would not give the information. So 28 teams, 28 major league baseball teams responded.
That's bizarre. Um, I guess, I mean, I know California is pretty high priced. And when I talk about beers at the park formerly known as Miller Park, you always say, wow, that's cheap. So it's definitely not the Brewer's Stadium.
I would probably say Dodger Stadium is up there. Minute Maid Park, maybe. And then maybe Seattle for some odd reason.
Okay. For most expensive. Yes. All right. You got one of those. You nailed one of those. The most expensive, they did this by ounce. Most expensive beer in baseball is the Dodgers at 99 cents per ounce. Wow. Yeah. Wow.
Wow.
The Brewers. I try not to do the Owen Wilson thing too much, but wow.
The Brewers were actually pretty far at the top of expense at 69 cents per ounce. Interesting. Yeah. Much more than a lot of the other parks. So the top five most expensive, starting at number one, Dodgers, Orioles, White Sox, Reds, and then Tigers.
The Orioles, White Sox, Reds, Tigers, they all tied at 69 cents per ounce. I was surprised to not see AT&T Park, the Giants, San Francisco Giants, because San Francisco is so fucking expensive just as a city. So I was surprised they weren't at the top. But they're at 64 cents an ounce.
The Brewers are also at 69 cents an ounce. That's crazy. Yeah, they're up there. The cheapest beers, five cheapest beers in baseball. Any guesses on a cheap one?
Let's see here. You said Orioles are expensive.
Yeah, White Sox, Reds, Tigers.
Yeah, okay. Let's see here. I'm trying to hone in on a team that I think would be like cheap beer.
There's a Midwestern team. There's a Canadian team.
The Braves maybe? I don't know.
There you go. All right. So at number, I guess, five, the most expensive of the cheapest five beers, 47 cents per ounce, the Blue Jays. And at 42 cents per ounce, the Giants.
42 cents per ounce. The Braves. Okay. There we go.
Hop, skip, and a jump away from you, 42 cents per ounce. The Twins. Okay. And then the Marlins. And this was surprising, the cheapest in all of baseball, 33 cents per ounce. The Oakland A's. Soon to be Vegas, by the way.
I know. I've been keeping tabs. The wife is so pissed. She's an A's fan. 33 cents per ounce. Seattle Mariners. Interesting. I didn't see that coming. Me neither. Yeah. Because Seattle's not super cheap. I've been there a couple of times.
No. I mean, and Starbucks basically owns the state. So you think they're just trying to take in as much as they can.
Yeah. Have you ever been to Seattle? Never. Oh, there's just naked mermaids everywhere. Okay. No, I guess I'll go. Starbucks logo. I'm joking. All right. They also did cheapest and most expensive hot dogs. The cheapest hot dogs. Here's where the brewers come into play. Number five, $4 a hot dog at whatever family stadium you guys call it these days.
Yeah. Is that the cheapest? No, no. Most, the number five of the bottom five. Milwaukee Brewers, $4.
Okay, we'll take it.
Then the Mariners, the Braves, the Twins, and the cheapest hot dog in all of baseball. $3 a dog. Miami Marlins.
So basically just go to games at the Marlins stadium. Seems that way. Yeah. Cheapest beer or top five cheapest beer, top five cheapest dog. Yeah.
Number two cheapest beer and the number one cheapest dog. So I think when you're comparing and contrasting your charts, it's the way to go.
I would say if I was judging on beer and hot dog prices and you made an algorithm for that, it'd be like the best game to go to. That'd be pretty good, yeah. But I also know, what, for like the last 20 years, the Marlins have been like begging people to go to their games.
And it's like seats are like super, like you can get behind home plate for like 30 bucks at one point. I wonder if it's still that way. I wonder, but it sounds like you're with the beer and the hot dog prices.
Vanessa, let us know. Hi, Vanessa. Yeah. Hi, Vanessa. But now here's my other question. So the Seattle Mariners have the most expensive beer, yet they have top five cheapest hot dog?
No, they have the cheapest beer.
Oh, the cheapest beer. I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking.
Number four cheapest hot dog.
Okay, so they're another one to go to.
Yeah, they're pretty cheap to go to also. I think the Braves, yes, the Braves have the number four cheapest beer and the number three cheapest hot dog. So Braves are pretty well on that list too.
I hate the Braves though. I know Wendy loves them. She does? Why? She's a Braves fan. I don't know. Ask her. I don't know. Wendy, why?
It's like the only baseball team in the area. I guess. It's not in her state. She could go anywhere at that point.
Oh yeah, maybe just go closest or whatever's broadcasted. I'm sure they're broadcasted.
I bet that has a lot to do with it. Maybe she could tell us. Yeah. Wendy, let us know. And then, okay, most expensive hot dogs. Number five, the Cardinals at $7.75 a wiener. Fuck the Cardinals. I agree. Followed by the Giants, the Padres, who have some of the best beer.
The Oakland Athletics. I'm like, what? Nobody's going to the Athletics games.
Well, that's how they're paying for the stadium.
I guess so. At $7.79 a dog. Oh my gosh. Number one, not the Dodgers. Number one hot dog, not the Dodgers. They were not in the top five. This one surprised me. Baltimore Orioles.
What is going on in Baltimore?
Yeah, number two beer, number one hot dog in terms of expense.
What is so good about Baltimore beer and hot dogs?
I don't know, man. They must have some good wieners over there. The best wieners.
The best wieners. You got to think these ballparks, they just have you use the same shit, right?
I mean, for the most part, yeah. I know the Dodgers actually contract their Dodger ... They have Dodger dogs. Okay. And they actually contract with a company to make Dodger dogs. It's not just like MLB's hot dogs.
Well, I guess, and the brewers run all their sausages and stuff through Clements. Yeah. You're probably right.
Same type of thing. Yeah. Baltimore has the best sausages.
At least the most expensive ones. Yeah, for years, it was Farmer John for Dodgers. And Vin Scully's like, all right, get your Farmer John's Dodger dog. And now it's some other company. Nobody knows who the fuck they are, but there you go.
Yeah. Well, you know. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly. We'll leave it there. Police. Wieners. Das Wiener? I'm just going to lead out with this. This did not happen in Florida. It happened in Denver. And I was about to tell you the headline and I'm not because the headline really gives
it away. And I want to skip the headline in the first sentence.
Should this be like, guess the headline? Maybe read the story and guess the headline.
I'll read the story. Then we'll come back to the headline. Police said the incident started around 1130 PM near 7th and Main Street in Springfield, which is in the far Southeast part of the state when a driver was allegedly caught speeding at 52 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone. All right. So 22 hours. That's reckless driving.
Yeah. When police stopped the driver and approached, the officer said that they watched the driver try to switch places with his dog who was in the passenger seat. Brilliant. Police said the man got out of the passenger side of the vehicle and claimed he was not driving. That's brilliant.
The officer said the man showed clear signs of intoxication and when they asked him about how much alcohol he consumed, the man ran from the officer. Jesus. The officer, the man was apprehended less than 20 yards away, so not a quick runner. During the investigation, police learned the man...
Can we get some documents on this guy? Yeah.
How fast can you do the 440? During the investigation, police learned the man was driving from Los Animas to Pueblo and got lost in Springfield. The Baca County Sheriff's office was called to help with the investigation. The man had two active warrants for his arrest out of Pueblo. Once he was medically cleared, the police said he was booked into Baca County Jail.
He was also charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and or drugs, driving while ability impaired. That's a weird charge. What do you call that? Isn't that just a DUI? Yeah. And then driving under suspension, speeding 20 to 24 miles per hour over the limit and
resisting arrest.
So I'm assuming the headline is Florida man claims dog was driving car.
What was Colorado? So Colorado man, but...
Well you said it's in Colorado, but I assumed it was just a Florida man in Colorado. Oh yeah.
Police say suspected drunk driver tried to switch places with dog. I just... I lost my shit when I saw that. That's wild. Yeah. I think he should be charged with animal cruelty as well. Right? At least like animal endangerment. Endangerment, yeah. Yeah. Because he put his dog in danger beyond the whole switching seats thing.
Semi-brilliant. Semi-brilliant. But also fucking stupid.
So stupid. So stupid. Hey, Marty, get in the driver's seat. Marty, who's like 26 pounds, can't even see where the wheel... Marty, get over here.
Don't scratch my leather. Hey, if you put a vest on him, it might be legit.
Yeah, he's my therapy driving dog. Nailed it. Yeah. Got it. We'll end on this one. It's Mother's Day over the weekend. Happy late Mother's Day to all the drunk moms out there.
Yeah, look at that. Happy late Mother's Day. I like that.
Grandson takes his grandma to her first Detroit Tigers game. I'm sorry to hear that. I am too. But grandma had a ball and had a few drinks. He posted it on TikTok. Here's the audio of Graham Graham.
Hey, drink responsibly. How are we doing? Hey, is anybody as drunk as I am? Hey, how we doing?
Hey, I am so hammered.
I am so hammered. Oh my God. Drink responsibly. Fuck that. Well, that's a Detroit Tigers fan for you. Right. I just love the end. I am so hammered.
Yeah, the hammered is a big thing around here. Is it? Yes. Midwest, when I say around here. Yeah. It's like when you put... I want to... I want to...
When you went out and you got fucked up, the next day you were telling all your friends, you're like, oh man, I got so fucking hammered last night.
I want to get hammered with grandma. She sounds like a fucking blast.
She does. I just assumed her like holding a beer bong the entire time.
Oh, that'd be so good. Way to go, Graham Graham.
Yeah. Congratulations, I guess, on your first Tigers game.
Yeah.
Sorry it was Tigers and not something better. I think they won like seven games so far. That many, huh? Something like that.
All right. Well, good for them. Good for the Tigers. It's almost eight. You are right. Your math skills are phenomenal.
I don't want to brag, but I went to school.
This is a product of the Milwaukee public school system right here. Something like that. Good job. Yeah. Or Milwaukee area. I don't know what it's called. Somewhere in Wisconsin. Milwaukee Unified? I don't know. Don't care. I'm going to get some music. Oh, God.
I'm going to thank everyone for listening, for hanging out. I hope everyone... I was going to say, where is Hill Hind right here, but I kind of said it at the end, so I don't want to repeat it. That would be stupid.
Thanks for joining.
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