Hey, what do you want to drink?
Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic.
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I am Greg, and if he can still hear me over there, that's Flex.
Yeah, I came in hot man. Sorry about that. Yowza.
Just excited. Excited to drink a beer with my
my main homie Flex. It's been a couple weeks.
It has been a couple weeks and I needed a beer in me. So here we are.
It's not the only thing you needed in you.
You're not wrong there, my friend. But not a penetration. So.
But we are penetrating your ears and you can penetrate our social medias.
@Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between.
And of course, craft beer Republic. All one word.
Uh, lots to get to, I definitely did some beer research.
I feel like my research has been lacking. I got some research in.
Correction. My research is lacking. You are a stud.
Well, I'm back to stud status. I did a little traveling, a little
research, so we'll get to that also. Of course. Did some wine drinking.
We'll talk about that. Classy motherfucker.
Iced some people, and, uh, we got some booze news.
Oh, and a voicemail from our homie Pablo.
So we'll get to all that shit in a couple of few.
But if you don't mind, I'm going to crack open a little
hydration over here.
Out of my damn. Out of my beer. Out of my bed. Out of my. All right.
I am drinking Mountains Walking Mountains Walking brewery.
Grazing Clouds. The hazy IPA 7% 20 IBUs has a 403 and
untapped with over 10,000 ratings. Wow. Pretty.
Pretty respectable, they say. Solid, hazy New England style
IPA brewed with Montana grown oats from Gallatin Valley.
Malt dry hopped with absurd amounts of.
Citra. Mocha and Galaxy. Think. Mingo. Mingo. Think. Mango.
Pineapple. Tropical juice bomb. Here we go on the schnoz.
I definitely am picking up some pineapple on on my nose buds there.
Oh. Nose buds. I like. Nose buds. Pineapple and fruity. Yeah.
Let's dig in the old jabroni. Jabber it up, my man.
So I am picking up mango. I am picking up pineapple.
I am getting the tropical fruit bomb. Or juice bomb.
It's actually really nice when you let it sit there on the tongue.
You pick up all these hoppy, fruity flavors.
Here's the one thing I'll say about this.
And I don't think this is Mountains Walking Mountains.
I keep fucking it up. You keep fucking that up.
Mountains Walking breweries fault. Uh, out of Bozeman, Montana.
Remember the last few weeks when I've had some Tavour beers?
I've talked about this, like East Coast flavor that I can't a certain
flavor. And the East Coast beers. Yeah. I can't really explain it.
It kind of presents itself as maybe, like a little bit of burn or warmth,
uh, or maltiness. And I'm having a really hard
time putting my finger on it. Uh, this one, I can taste all
the things I should taste, but I still get a little bit of
that on the back end. And this is clearly not from the East
Coast. It's from Bozeman, Montana. So I don't think it's an East
Coast thing. I'm pretty sure this is a Tavour
thing. I've heard that they don't treat
their beers with the greatest of respect.
I'm thinking that's got to be the case,
and I wish I could get it. Like. This is where you're getting all
of them from, right? Yeah. A lot of these beers I've had
recently, any of the ones that are basically not from California
have come from Tavour. And I think, I don't know if they're
running them through a fucking furnace or what, but I think they're
they're getting damaged a little bit. The can on date is, uh, five
months ago it was December of 24. You know,
it's one of those things where, like, is the freshest beer in the world?
No. Should it have a funny taste? Absolutely. No. No.
Worst case scenario, you lose a little bit of that.
Hoppiness. But but I'm thinking this. This has to be a Tavour issue.
Not so much a water issue or a East Coast issue, right?
Just a regional issue issue as an entirety.
Unless I just hate all water. Not from California or something,
I don't know. Half our water is not even from
the state anyway. Could be. I feel like you hate a good amount
of things. I hate lots of things. Water. Not from California.
I mean, fuck you. Just put it on the list, man.
Right. You just made the list. That's a drop we need.
You beat me to it. We need that drop. Yeah. So I don't know what it is.
I wish I could get, like, the same beer direct from the source
so I could do some science with it. Um, I'm gonna have to see if
maybe I can find. Because I still have a few Tavour
beers, see if I can find, like, their counterparts in a in a bevmo
or a total wine or something. How fun would that be?
Yeah, just to see, like. All right. Is this Tavour? Is it the beer?
What is it? What's going on here? Because, you know,
we talked about this before. Total wine puts everything on a
shelf. Yep. And is not refrigerated. But I don't have this issue with
everything I get from Total Wine. Do they have a certain, uh,
area in total wines by you that have, like, local refrigerated beers?
So there is a fridge and there will be a certain amount you've got,
like your regular tallboy shit beers. Okay.
Your Bud Lights and all that stuff. And then you will have a certain
selection of locals, especially like local, local, you know,
from within the county because they probably brought them over in a
refrigerated truck or something, you know, and they keep them cold.
So yes, there are some cold ones. Okay. Just making sure.
All the Pliny stays cold. They have it in the back of the
fridge. Wow. Brilliant. Yeah. All the all the Russian river stuff.
So I was we were in there getting some, some supplies the other day,
and I looked to see what Russian rivers they had.
Of course, they had Pliny and they also had some of the sour and stuff.
And those tricky bastards put a price tag on.
Pliny was like seven bucks or whatever it was, but all the
sour bottles, no price tag. And I was like, I know some of
these are in the double digits, and if you're not going to put a
price tag on it, I'm not going to roll the dice.
Whoa. There you have it. Total wine. I, on the other hand,
would probably if I'm just getting like one, you know,
one bottle of each, I'll pay it. If I was in the mood for one,
if I'm like, oh, I really want that sanctification.
Yes, I would pay it because I know it's not going to be crazy marked up.
I'm within the state and all that stuff.
But to just randomly buy one when I wasn't really thinking
about it not going to happen. Not if you don't price it.
Oh, I like your stern attitude, I really do. Very firm with. My.
That is some respect right there. So, anyways, uh,
get your shit together. Total wine. Uh, but this beer, I like it.
Other than that little weird flavor I get, which I'm attributing to
total or total to a Tavour, not to total one. So we'll see.
Like I said, did some beer research last week.
Yeah. Had to travel for work. I was up north in San Francisco
proper this time. Usually on like all around San
Francisco, this time in San Francisco.
Uh, a big shout out and fuck you to San Francisco Brewing Company. Okay.
So they're the they're the ones a few months ago when.
It's getting hot in here. I'll. I'll redeem it in a second.
But a few months ago, they're the ones that we did that cruise out
in the bay, and it happened to be like Beer Week in San Francisco,
and we smuggled all those cans back. And I had. One.
So the guy gave you the cans and. Yeah, exactly.
Um, I decided to go check out the actual brewery because it's in
the historic Ghirardelli Square. It's the old Ghirardelli
chocolate factory, which they've. It's super old buildings, brick.
It's gorgeous. I love it, and they've turned it
into a bunch of business. You know,
there's a couple restaurants, there's San Francisco Brewing
Company and a couple other things. So, uh, I figured I'd go over there,
I'd check it out and, uh, get some dinner and all that stuff.
And I took the cable car. It was such a San Francisco
experience. Took the cable car all the way
over from my hotel, walked into the brewery, and they were closed
for a private event. Oh, that. Yeah. That's not their fault.
Well, it is because I checked their gram before I went over to
make sure they were open. Oh, you posted about it? Yeah.
You should post. Like, hey, we're closed today
for a private event. Yeah, yeah. So then I got dinner elsewhere
down there. And not this part. Not their fault.
I ended up having to, like, walk all the way back to my
hotel because the transit system went down in San Francisco.
What a time to be alive. I know, I was like,
I could have the wife's like, why didn't you just Uber?
I was like, well, I kept expecting the streetcar
to show up, and it never did. Found out the next morning that
the whole system went down. So then the next night, here's
where they redeemed themselves. The next night, slightly,
I went back and I called first, and, uh, they were definitely open.
I had some beer, I had a flight. One of the beers I had was a sour,
and they gave it a nerds. Like the candy nerds, uh, rim job.
It was really good, actually. Cool. Kind of interesting.
I've never heard of that with the beer, but.
Yeah, it was a sour, fruity, sour thing, so it worked out well.
I had some food. The food honestly,
was not that great. I had a chicken Caesar salad and it
had like a piece of chicken on it, but the beer was good.
I enjoyed the beer. So anyways, they slightly
redeemed redeem themselves. Did you get any to go?
Beer to go? No. Yeah. No. I think I still have a can from when
I stole it a couple of months ago. I then went to the Buena Vista
and got myself an Irish coffee, and it was delicious.
And then try to do our first wakeboarding trip of the season.
Tried to. Tried to. So what was not successful? Yeah.
What was the Achilles heel here? Uh, I don't know if this is just a
California thing. I think it is. You have to have your boat
inspected for muscles like. You know,
I needed some flex on the boat. Yeah, yeah. No. For aquatic muscles.
Uh, because I guess. Or. Yeah, well, some lakes have them and
some don't, and they don't want them. And so if you've come from a
lake that has them, um, they don't let you in their water
if your boat's not completely dry and has been dry for 30 days. Oh.
And we were taking in a different boat this time.
Uh, we we had a little upgrade in our boat situation over the winter.
And the last place that the boat was was test driven on, unknown to us,
a lake that was infested. And when we got up to the gate to
be inspected, they searched it on their computer like, oh yeah,
your boat was on Lake Castaic 28 days ago. You have to wait 30 days.
We're like, we didn't know it was on that body of water.
And we didn't know that body of water was infected.
Like, well, sucks for you. You're two days short.
That sucks. Motherfuckers. So, like, can't you spray it
with something? Jeez, that. Was why I was like, yeah, spray it.
Or I mean, it's completely dry. If there was an aquatic animal in it,
it's dead because the boat has been completely dry for 30 or for 28 days.
You assholes. Wild. Oh, it's so. They were really shitty about it,
too. I would have went home and started
researching, like how long mussels live out of water and.
Then bring them the report. Right? They only last for 22 days.
Bitch could have just died. That shit right there.
You know how much you love your I. Yeah, there's no reception there.
I'd have been fucked. Uh, but anyways,
the good news about that is, since we have all those wine
memberships up there, we're in Paso. Uh, we got to do some wine tasting,
so we got classy. I did my my beer research,
and then I went and got classy with some some wine research. Hell yeah.
That was good. And I got to meet. I don't know if, you know,
my sister got married. Did you hear about this?
Uh, this is news to me. I thought so. I know you'd be disappointed and.
Didn't even know you had a sister. Uh, so this is. This is wild.
Yeah, I didn't know either. Uh, she finally popped out her kid
a couple months ago, and, uh, got to meet him. But most importantly.
He's the one that came out wearing a cowboy hat, right? Yes.
That is exactly on on March 16th. So he is dubbed stone cold, right?
My wife likes to make diaper cakes for for baby shower gifts.
Okay. What a nice thing to do. Diapers are expensive.
Diapers are expensive, and she makes it look really nice and it's fancy.
And then within the diapers that are inside the cake,
she hides outfits that, you know, toys and that kind of stuff.
And then you have to take it apart and find all these goodies
and diapers. Well, she texted me about the day
before we went up there and was like, hey, um, do you think it'd be mean to
slip some ices in the diaper cake? What a genius.
Oh my God, I got so hard. I was like, you need to.
Well, she said nice. I said, slip two in there.
They can't be sharing this shit. Mom and dad need an ice.
So, uh, got him to. Finally found it. She found a way to do it.
Yeah, she took out a couple diapers, replaced it with a couple of ices.
We brought it up there. I'm so proud of Shannon.
Oh, I was so turned on. It was so funny because she.
My sister kept not opening the cake and like, hey,
you should open your cake. You know, like,
try not to be too pushy, like. Right, right. Right. Alert her.
So finally we got my mom to, like, get in on.
I was like, mom, you gotta tell Valdo. And she didn't know why.
I was like, you gotta tell her to open up the cake.
She's not opening the cake. We want to.
We want to see what's inside. And she goes, oh, yeah.
Hey, go open up your cake. Oh, okay. Fine.
So it's like, layered, like three layers of cake.
She takes the first one off and she's going through it.
And on the second layer you can kind of see the bottle cap poking through.
She gets the second layer, she's like, oh fuck. That's so great.
It's like, call your husband. That might be.
The most unexpected ice job ever. Yeah, especially from Shannon,
because she is a nice person, unlike me. And it was 100% her idea.
Did you tell your sister whom? I just found out about?
That it was Shannon's idea. I don't remember.
Honestly, I should just. So she knows not to get me back, but
to get Shannon back twice as hard. Oh, I feel like she couldn't get
you back because you're just gonna expect it anytime they're around.
Yeah, like the last time, uh, Jack tried, her husband tried to get me.
He put it in my boat bag, but I saw it.
I was like, you saw it there. Do it. Well,
I saw him fucking with the bag. Oh. And I went, I'm gonna open this,
and there's gonna be an ice right here. Uh oh. There is an ice.
Who knew that one doesn't count. Fucker! So that doesn't count.
No, I knew it was there. Oh, in that sense. Yeah.
I saw him do it. I can't watch you do it and have
that count. That's true. You gotta. It's gotta be sneaky. Sneaky.
Unexpected. Okay. Fair enough. I'll allow it. Terrible job. Yeah.
So, anyways, uh, it was good times. Some some wine tasting.
Fortunately, no wakeboarding and lots of icing. What an amazing weekend.
Yeah. How about you? Any, uh, get drunk lately or
anything? Any research? I, I did a little beer fridge
cleanout, and that was only because I had, like, three beers left.
Sure, you wanted to clean out the fridge, and.
You know, I've been cutting back, lowering the consumption of my
alcohol intake. Yeah, and I just wanted these
beers out of my fridge. Just been staring at them,
and it was two, 7.8%. And then top it off the cherry
on top. It was a 12%, uh,
barely edged out. Nice. And let me tell you,
I woke up the next morning. Oh, this is all the same day.
Oh, yes. Yes, it was all in the same day.
Um, mind you, while I've been cutting back. Right. And a bit. Of a.
Lightweight quickly reminded me, uh, why I am dialing it back.
It was, uh, how was that? Next morning?
It was a no workout morning. Okay. And, uh, I could have used some,
but, uh, just real groggy morning till about, I don't know, 1:00.
Just nice, you know, that lingering headache and. Oh, I know it.
Well, uh, my stomach was good, stomach was good. So that was.
Yeah, I was happy about that. But, man, that headache just
kind of stuck around. And yeah. I don't know about you.
The older I get, the more it is a headache situation
and less of a stomach situation. I think I've been learning the
same thing. Yeah, I'll wake up and just like,
oh fuck my life, my head is spinning and blah blah blah, but there is no
throw up on the horizon whatsoever. But you also can't throw up away
a headache. No, it makes it worse, right?
You could throw up away a stomachache. Exactly.
But not that headache, man. It's just gonna sit there.
I mean, there's been plenty of nights where I was throwing up
away a little bit of drunkenness and then just kept going.
Well, we've all been there. We've all had those boot and rally
nights. That's what your 20s are for. I co-sign that 100%. Yeah.
If you are not, if you're not puking and rallying in your 20s, what are
you doing with your life? Yeah. You're not even doing it, right.
No, no, we don't. We don't want to. Know.
You should probably get new friends. Yeah.
Or your friends should get new friends for that. Yeah.
They shouldn't hang out with you, you loser. Yeah.
Somebody has reached an impasse and right.
Needs a change of lifestyle. Exactly. Uh, all right,
before we get to voicemail action, let's find out what's going to
give Flex a hangover tomorrow. In a world where craft beer is king.
A world where muscles are bigger than growlers.
Only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue.
One Tongue-jobber. In this world, we must find out
what is Flex drinking? I can see it's pretty. Yeah.
It's wonderful. Um. So I did my homework.
You know, I went out and I bought some beers. Mhm. I had no sick kids.
I had nothing holding me back. And I went golfing.
So it was easy to pick up on the way home from golfing. Yeah. Digging it.
So I got some beer brewing here. Oh, out of Fargo, North Dakota,
the old Nodak. And honestly,
I got this one purely for the name. Uh, it's called muscle for rank.
I can understand why. I have muscles. It doesn't have any muscles on the
can, but it's still it's got all these monster guys and looks like
they're competing for rank, you know, or. Camera time. Or camera time.
You know, in one of his a sign, it says, uh,
Mr. Drecker puts the E in stupid. I don't know, maybe that's maybe
that's like an inside joke. Yeah, I don't know, a little ghost
guy giving the middle finger. That's actually fucking awesome.
Oh, yeah. Up at the top. Yeah. That's amazing.
I do like my day. So this one. I love their cans, by the way.
Not only the can art, but they have the kind of malt they use, the hops,
the yeast. It's amazing. It is fun. Pale two row flaked wheat and,
uh chit chit chit chit chit chit chit chit chit. Yeah. Bullshit.
Then they used mosaic. Mosaic Galaxy and El Dorado.
And then their house IPA yeast. So 7% beer. Relatively new.
It's got under a thousand check ins. 3.9 on the old untappd through.
And it reads, uh, bursting with mosaic, Creole mosaic galaxy and El
Dorado hops muscle for rank is a brand new IPA that hits you with
a tidal wave of juicy mango and passion fruit with a citrusy punch,
but the real treasure is a strong candy peach flavor, a sweet reward
that lingers after each sip. Mm. A lot of talk there. Beautiful.
Gorgeous. Uh, bright yellow. Hazy. It says it's an American IPA on the,
uh, untapped brew. I don't know, it just looks like
a hazy. Maybe that's American. Uh, Yeah, baby.
Yeah, but that lacing too. It's just super sticky on the glass.
You can't even see through the glass because the lacing is so sticky.
No, it's perfect color. Dip the old nose buds.
You're welcome for that. So here's the fun thing.
I've been experimenting with this beer a little bit because I opened
it a little bit before the show. If you kind of take a little short
sniffs of it. Tons of mango. You take like, this big,
deep whiff in with your nose and you really, really get the
passion fruit on the back end. So they nailed the aroma here.
It smells wonderful. Definitely a little hoppy.
And you can almost smell like that hot burn coming from it.
But everybody knows by this point of the show I love that. Yes.
So without further ado, warm up the old Tongue-jobber and dive right in.
That's what everybody is. Tuned in for. Shockingly light body.
Super shocking. I like the carbonation here.
It's like effervescent almost. And with that light body, I think
that works really, really well. If you get this carved up thick beer,
it just kind of seems unbalanced. So I think that's wonderful.
Not too much passion fruit and mango on the Tongue-jobber it
hits you with that citrus punch and then you get this.
Uh, it's not as rewarding as I would have liked, but that that peach candy
flavor that they said. Oh, yeah. That's your favorite. It's faint.
I love it, I really do, but it's faint towards the back end.
I just wish it was as pungent as they said it was in the description.
But either way, I'm going to take it. Super solid beer.
A little bit lingering bitterness. All in all, I'd say three nine.
Super solid. Super duper solid. Collective score. Nice.
Sounds like a delight. Yeah. I'm excited. I'm sad.
I only got a single can of this, though. Oh, this one.
I would have enjoyed an entire four pack.
But you and I were talking about how if you're not getting a local
beer that you are familiar with, we said about 60 to 75% of the
time you go with something new and it just it doesn't hit.
Yeah, the risk is too high. And then you got three more cans that
you kind of just gotta choke down, right? Yeah.
This is an off air conversation, right?
It was an off air conversation. Yeah, but. It bears being told again.
I mean, it's so true. Especially now. Nowadays, I feel like, oh, hey,
look, I've heard of this brewery, and I want to check them out.
I've heard good things. I'll just get the four pack and
dive right in. And then you get that four pack and
dive right in, and, uh, big mistake. You got three beers,
you got choke down. Or you get it from Tavour and
it's got some weird funk to it. There's that too weird, I don't know.
Went through a fucking kiln or something. Or.
We're not saying don't try new breweries.
Um, just try them one at a time. Yeah. Don't don't, uh.
We're such craft beer advocates. Don't buy a four pack.
Stop spending your money, people. Uh. That's terrible.
Fire us now. You're right. This is officially, like the big
Beer Republic now, right? Yeah, I know, little do they
know MillerCoors has been paying us for a year now to slowly tell
you to stop drinking crap. How funny would that be?
That would be, like, diabolical. Just build everybody up and then
just crash him down. Joke's on them. I only worked on Finland.
Yeah, we've been drinking high life this whole time. Yeah.
That's why we don't get drunk. Yeah, just drink water, basically.
Speaking of Finland, though, uh, I forgot to do our top listening city
of the week. Fremont, California. I thought you were gonna say Finland.
California. Finland. California. Oh, Fremont. Thanks.
I think that's up where Psycho Bear is. Okay. So, Summer, Somewhere.
He's up there in the inn in the north. In the mountains?
No, not at all. In the mountains. Oh, okay.
Very much in the Bay area is at least Fremont is.
You sing bear and mountains, I don't know. Oh, yeah.
Like, it goes really well together. It works.
I see where you would go with that. And a special shout out to the
Netherlands. We had a ton of listens in the
Netherlands last week. It wouldn't break it down by city
like it does for the US stats, but it just did Netherlands and
we had a huge chunk of listens. So I. Netherlands. Yeah.
Uh, I don't know why. Hi. Yeah. I don't know how you say hi in
Netherlands. Uh. Yeah. Hi. It's about. Yeah.
So that's all I got for the Netherlands? Yeah.
I guess I could have looked that up first. Really?
Uh, really, really nice land you got over there.
Yeah. It's, uh, it's pretty nether. Yeah. And Landy. Yeah, exactly.
We know so much. Uh. All right, let's listen to
somebody else talk for a minute. Here's your voicemail from our
friend Pablo. Hello. No one is available to take your
call. Please leave a message after the
tone. Hey, @CraftBeerRepublic,
this is Pablo. You know me on Instagram at
Pablo H-34. It is 543 in the morning,
and I just listen to you guys on the way to work.
And I have to say, um, I'm very impressed by Flex
knowledge of Cinco de Mayo. History. That was pretty rad.
Um, as a Mexican American, I appreciate that he knew that.
But, uh, here's a random, uh, information about that.
I believe in Greg. You can fact check me on this.
I believe the reason Cinco de Mayo is celebrated a little more here in
the US than in Mexico is because in that little battle there where
the Mexicans defeated the French, they actually prohibited the
French from assisting the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Now, I mean, imagine if they would have helped
the Confederacy where we'd be now. Actually,
I think we're living it now. Anyway, just thought I'd give you
guys that random information. Thanks for all the funny.
You guys are great. Listen to you guys every week.
Bye. Damn, Pablo just made my day. Yeah. Mine too. Thanks, Pablo.
I've told the story before. Years ago.
The reason I looked up Cinco de Mayo is because my wife and I
got married May 3rd, 2013. And we literally left for our
honeymoon the morning, like, 5 a.m. May 5th,
and we went to Playa del Carmen. We were going to Mexico on Cinco de
Mayo, and we were in the cab from the airport, going to the resort.
And the driver, you know, he's real nice talking to us.
Um, asking us why we're down there, what we're doing, and, uh, of course,
we told him, you know, we just got married, spending our honeymoon,
and then we were like, yeah, we're just really excited. You know?
We're really excited to be down here, you know, for Cinco de Mayo.
And it was just like you could hear a pin drop in that fucking car.
He's like, fucking. Like,
this guy just didn't care at all. He paid no mind to us saying
Cinco de Mayo. And we're just kind of like, oh,
that was kind of fucking weird. So then it stuck with me for,
you know, until we got back home from the trip and I did a little
research and looked into it, and I was like, oh yeah,
why would why would anybody want to fucking tout that and celebrate it?
Like that was, oh, it felt like such an asshole.
Well, and I applaud you for not being the typical American who
would be like, yeah, that's weird. And then brush it off.
You actually did your research and figured out why you looked
like an asshat. Well, I'm a keen observer of human
behavior. Yeah. Um, I'm. I'm. You know, I'm not a smart man.
I'm really not. But I'm knowledgeable, right?
So if I don't know something, or if I question something,
I'll look it up, and then I'll absorb it like a sponge and. You retain it.
That's the most impressive part. I retain ish, you know, like,
I don't remember. If it's a movie. Quote, you'll remember it.
Well, that's accurate, but you and Dan, um, I just try to,
uh, you know, enlighten myself. You know, it's like the whole,
uh, it's like my my, uh, ignorant Juneteenth story. I have a friend.
His birthday is June 19th. Okay. And he would always call it
Juneteenth Day. And I thought he was just being
an idiot and, like, making up his own day.
And then I actually looked up Juneteenth day and found out what
it was, and I was like, oh, damn, that's like a that's a fucking day,
man. That is a real, real day. Yeah. It's not just your friend's fake
birthday. Right. So then that's again something that,
you know, not a lot of people, it's been brought into light,
I would say like the last four years. Five years? Yeah. Really?
I think it was Covid when it really started popping up. Right, right.
So, uh, I felt good knowing that I knew what it was before it
started becoming like, you know, they really started throwing it out.
And I don't want to say media, but, you know, just putting putting
it out there and it's like, oh, yeah, it made me feel good about
myself that I, you know, again, keen observer, curious person,
you know, figured it out. So yeah. I appreciate that about you.
That's a good it's a good quality to have. Hey. Thanks, man. Yeah.
And, uh, just to follow up on what Pablo was saying, um, the whole
by them defeating the French. The French were not able to help
with the Confederacy. And that's why the Americans
celebrate a little bit harder. I found some evidence in my
research that that is true. As far as by them defeating the
French, the French weren't able to immediately come up and help
the Confederacy, which they had some financial interests in,
the Confederates winning because they got all their cotton from the US,
or a lot of their cotton from the US. And so initially they were going
to help the Confederacy by losing down there in Mexico.
That set them back a bit. And then by the time they were able
to like regroup and send troops, the Union was was pretty on top
of things. And they're like, well, we're not
going to fuck up that relationship. And so they just never did.
As far as that being why we celebrate,
I found no connections to that. Everything I found was just because
American companies like to jump on any holiday and, you know,
make it a hallmark holiday, basically. Yeah. Right. Right, right.
So, um, but yeah, so there is apparently some truth to that.
It was. I had not heard that part before.
Cool. Thanks for the edumacation. Yeah, I had no idea about that.
Yeah. So 853 beer. If you guys want to smarten us
up to something, go ahead and leave us a voicemail.
Doesn't have to be beer related, as you can tell. Yeah. No, it's, uh.
You'll make my day. Yeah. We love the. We love the facts.
So, uh, speaking of facts, let's do a little booze news. Ooh.
I saw this as I was compiling news for the show, and I thought
I'd just read it for any of the brewery owners or operators of a
brewery that are listening. You know, like,
I know Ryan over at Malibu Brewing listens and all that stuff.
Um, I hear they have really great food.
They they do have some great food. You're not wrong about that.
The TTB, the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, has opened its tax
simplification pilot program to brewers who file taxes semi-monthly,
quarterly, or annually. The new process combines excise tax
filing and operational reporting, which were previously separate forms.
If you want to participate, you must apply on the TBS
website and then get accepted. The TTP expects to run the pilot,
which launched April 30th, for at least a year before
starting the rulemaking process, to make it permanent.
So this sounds like an easier way to report all your shit.
Um, so if you're interested, go to the TTP website and sign up for it.
And you have to be approved to to get into it.
So you probably have to like, you know, pay all your taxes and shit.
So if you don't if you don't do that, maybe don't report.
Maybe go hide in a hole somewhere. So there's my there's my PSA for
the day. Here's an app. No one has asked for.
Instacart has launched fizz. Ah, sounds like Drizly,
but with a new name. You are not wrong, my friend.
A secondary app that coordinates e-commerce.
Delivery of snacks and drinks. Both beverage both alcohol
beverages and non-alcohol for legal drinking age users who can
create and pay for group orders together for a flat $5 delivery fee.
It's tailor made for groups and includes the option to split payments
based on who adds what to the virtual cart. Okay, that's kind of cool.
Yeah, and apparently you can, like, give someone access to your cart.
So be like, hey, I added my 12 pack of PBR. Did you want to add anything?
Okay, that's pretty neat, I guess. Don't hate that idea.
But you could also just Venmo your homie ten bucks after the
beer shows up. Wow. That's true too. But I want app.
Okay, but then at least like the one person isn't responsible for like,
oh, all right, what do you want? All right. What do you want?
And then like, he's, you know, scrolling or searching or
however you go about this stuff. I get on board with that part. Yeah.
So it's like around the party. Hey, what do you want to drink?
Right. It's not like, you know,
it's like you have a cookout and you're just like the one man man
in the grill. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's like
you don't get to have any fun because you're just sitting there.
You know, if you like cooking, you're having fun, I get it.
But, you know, you don't get to mingle.
So the bad thing for me is like, once I see there's a $5 delivery fee,
no matter how much you order, I'm like, well, we gotta order a
shit ton so we can get our $5 worth. Yeah, well, $5 delivery fee.
Not that bad. Not the worst. Even convenience fees, like buying
movie tickets like that shit gets you. I know that's. Bullshit.
That's what really bothers me. Just cause I grind your gears.
Yeah, it's like just cause I buy ahead on an app, I have to.
I get a convenience charge. Like, I'm already paying a phone
bill, you know, like I'm paying for the fucking movie.
Like, it seems backwards. Like, don't they want you to do
it ahead of time so they can prepare for how many people are
gonna be there. Versus. You showing up at movie time buying a
ticket? Yeah, yeah, I don't get it. And then they have to staff less
people because you're buying it online and not the the counter. Yeah.
And I mean the fucking like even McDonald's if you download the
McDonald's app. They give you perks for having
the McDonald's app. You accumulate points for ordering
stuff on the McDonald's app. Okay. Which I don't have, but was having a
discussion with somebody about this. Well, this kid was telling me,
you get 50% off any McFlurry if you order like a $6 meal.
You know, so there's like there's good in the app, right?
They want you to use it. Why the fuck am I paying a $10
convenience fee to buy movie tickets? Right.
I'll just show up and have to talk to a human being that you have to pay
instead. Yeah. It's dumb. It's dumb. That's why the movie industry is
not doing well. Yeah,
because they dumb as hell idiots. Uh, and speaking of things no one
asked for, constellation brands has launched Corona Sun Brew o.
The 4.5% citrusy line extension is brewed with.
I've seen this somewhere. Brewed with orange and lime,
orange and lime juice and peels, available in six and 12 pack bottles,
as well as single serve cans. In addition to some brews.
Roll out constellation is releasing Lime friendly 12 and 16 ounce cans
for summer across all Corona Family pack sizes, so you can fit your
line in Lime in the can hole is what that is because they're beer.
So shit, you have to add Lime you. Have to. Order to stomach it.
It is gross. It is so gross. But on a related note, I guess to,
uh, Mexican lagers, um, uh, the modelo, they have that, uh,
Modelo Oro where it's like that lighter, like modelo is like 4.5%,
something like that. Okay, sure. This this, uh, Modelo Oro is 4%,
and it's only got like three grams of carbs or some shit like that.
I've not heard of this. Uh, they they only had it in cans.
So this is the big thing. They only had it in cans,
like last year. I think he came out and I went
over to my in-laws for a mother's day and birthday dinner.
My mother in law had it in bottles because we were doing like a taco
thing. Yeah, it was fucking solid. Huh? I just found it.
Three grams of carbs, 90 calories. Yeah, and it was pretty tasty.
Like, it tasted like modelo. 4% ABV. Yeah. So it not bad.
Like, if you're gonna sit around and have, like, a, you know,
it's not a domestic cause it's an import, but, you know, like a.
Like a Mexican lager. Like a light. Yeah, like a Mexican lager.
Better than a fucking MC ultra, I would imagine.
Oh, much tastier and much more enjoyable. Yeah.
I mean, that's not a not a high bar, but yeah. That's accurate as well.
But but yeah, I love my modelo's or my modelo for Chew.
I gotta say it like you much appreciate it. You're welcome.
It was really solid and I enjoyed it. And I just want everybody to know,
you know, so if you see it, you know, don't feel like you can't try it.
If I can find a single somewhere because we don't buy packs. Yeah.
Don't, don't don't buy whole packs. I will buy one and try it.
Oh that. You could buy it. Just buy it and then buy.
It's not. Craft. And then buy another craft four pack.
For every craft beer that I buy, I have to buy a four pack,
right? Craft. There you. Go. Monster. Yeah, exactly.
Monster is continuing to ruin the alcohol category.
Weak alcohol sales dragged on. Monster beverages quarter one part of
confluence of factors that saw net sales drop 2.3% during the quarter.
Net changes in foreign currency exchange rates cost monster over
$57 million in quarter one. Wow. But the company's sliding
alcohol brand segment is likely to draw more attention.
The division reported a $34.7 million in net sales during the quarter,
a 38.1% decline year over year, which the company attributed largely
to the launch of Nasty Beast hard T. What? Well, who wants to buy that?
Why would you? Why would I buy something called
nasty? Bad? Bad marketing? Yeah. It goes on to talk about all the
breweries that they've shuttered over the last few years, including
including Wasatch that Steph was complaining about over in Utah.
So speaking of, uh, ruining alcohol industry, I forgot to mention
this a couple of weeks ago. Okay. One of our, uh, beer vendors came in,
and they give us free samples every now and then. Quality control.
So I've never had one before. A beer? No. Just listen. They brought in.
They gave us four 25 ounce cans of four lokos. Oh.
And they were all different flavors, and they sat in the back cooler for
like, I don't know, three weeks. And then I believe it was the
day before Easter. Yeah, it had to be the Saturday
before Easter. You know,
you had a huge week and busy week. So, you know, our post work
beers that we like to have. One of the guys was like, hey,
we gotta try one of these today. And he cracked one open.
Wish I could remember what flavor it was, but it doesn't matter because
it's fucking terrible, right? And every there was like seven
guys that tried it and everybody just thought it was the absolute
worst thing you could drink. Why do people drink them?
That's what I want to know. They are absolutely disgusting
garbage. They're astringent. They're like,
just oversugared trash. They're. Yeah, I've, I've,
I think I've tried one since they're, you know, in 20 ish, they got,
like taken down. Yeah. And they had to like reformulate
because the whole caffeine thing. You can't even thing.
Can't have caffeine and alcohol drinks anymore.
Now the old Four Loko is also garbage,
but they'd fuck your shit up. Like, at least there was a goal
when you drank those. Well, I mean,
these things were still like 12%. So yeah, you drink this and you
are going to get fucked. But why? I was trying to figure out after one
sip, why would anybody drink this? This is fucking trash.
Yeah, it is trash. I so I had one back in the old
days I had I pounded somebody brought one to an event I was at,
pounded a Four Loko and then, like, had, uh, a pitcher of beer and all
within, like, a few hours, like, not, you know, not right away.
And some dinners had, like, pizza or something.
And I still I still remember this day I'm driving home,
I'm driving my friend home. I feel perfectly fine, maybe like,
you know, a little buzz. Nothing. Nothing that I can't drive with.
Drop my friend off as I'm driving from her house to my house.
All of a sudden it's like a light switch went off and it fucking hits.
And I was like, oh no, I need to get home immediately. I. I am down.
Luckily it was like a mile and a half, but I was like,
I am downgrading rapidly. I don't know what's happening to me.
I passed out like fully clothed, all that shit.
And this is back when I was working the morning shift.
So I had to be up at like four in the morning.
I don't remember any of this, but I set up my coffee maker to
go off at the right time and all that shit and did my stuff,
but I don't remember any of it. That sounds about right.
Yeah, but that's the old Four Loko now.
It just tastes like garbage for no reason. Yeah.
And it, I don't know, fucking gross. Yeah, pretty fucking gross.
I feel like it's for the people that still like juice from concentrate.
Don't don't want to add the water. Yeah, that's exactly what it
tasted like to me. That makes sense. Oh, yeah.
This is. Yeah. This is shit. Yeah. Oh, you like diabetes?
Pour me another. Well, apparently you live to be,
like, 88, like Wilford Brimley. That's true. God damn. Diabetes.
Uh, we'll end it with this one. With a trip to Florida.
Hi, Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa. Drunk Florida man leads cops on
30 mile ATV pursuit on the evening of April 20th, 420. Bro.
Now I need to know if the cops were in cars or if they were on ATVs.
Oh, cops were in cars. Oh, interesting.
44 year old Damien Scott Stafford decided it would be a good idea
to mix alcohol threats, a knife and a red Yamaha ATV
into one unforgettable mess. Police were originally called out
for disturbance involving weapons, but by the time they got there,
Stafford had already dipped, tearing off into the night on his
quad, shirtless and ready for war. That's the best. It's so Florida.
Officers spotted him soon enough. The chase that followed sounds
like it came straight from a Grand Theft Auto mission. No headlights.
Speeds topping 80mph. I didn't know they could go that
fast. I didn't either. This is why I was so amazed by the
story and weaving through residential neighborhoods for nearly 30 miles.
Also no helmet with no shirt doing 80 on an ATV.
Also, for the record, I'm just picturing I haven't seen
him but a barbed wire tattoo around his arm. There's gotta.
Be. The video was not that clear. Maybe even on both his arms at
this point. And I bet there's a name on his
chest. There's gotta be. And a year above his belly button.
Yeah. Yep. Okay. Nailed it. At one point, Stafford even made
finger guns at the cops, flipped them off, and then pulled the knife out
of his pocket before dropping it. Mid-ride like a bad magic.
Sounds like some Kenny Powers shit. It really does. I'm fucking in.
You're fucking out. The slow motion finger guns to
the cops. It all finally ended when he tried
to take a turn a little too hot and crashed into an embankment.
Even after wrecking, Stafford didn't go down easily.
In fact, a K-9 unit had to persuade him to turn himself over.
Turns out he was very drunk with the blood, and I was expecting drunker
with a blood alcohol level of 0.17.2. Okay, like drunk, but not fucking
gone drunk. I don't know. I feel like 0.2 is pretty drunk.
But drunk enough to hop on an ATV and do 80 as you run away from the
cops with a knife in your hand. Yeah, but it's Florida.
It is Florida. Yeah, that could be a point two,
.12. That's like a Tuesday night. You're right. That's a sober Tuesday.
Uh, he now faces a laundry list of charges, including assault
with a deadly weapon and DUI. Welcome to Florida.
Giving finger guns to the damn cops. That'll be me next week.
I'll be in Florida fucking riding my ATVs. Fuck you, copper.
Here's my grenade. And my gator. Ah, well, I'm gonna hit some music.
Let's wrap things. Why don't you do that? Let's do it.
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