Today we've got another beer horror story, new judging categories,

an obscure beer term, and our top 50 Na beers. Let's do this.

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic.

Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining.

I am Greg and my funky buff brother over there. That is Flex.

What's up, big fella? Man, just feeling this music.

I don't know if anybody else is loving it,

but I just can't get enough of it. I am digging it so fucking hard.

No one's complained and I'm here for it. No news is good news.

I think it just keeps me going. Yeah. Keeps me rocked.

I mean, keeps me. Yeah. If I could wake up every day and

this music just starts playing. Ooh. Boy, that's a life. Let me tell you.

Good. Like alarm music or something. Just good life music.

Bam bam bam bam. Follow us on the socials.

Just like that. Yeah. Uh, now, if anybody ever wakes up

to this, they're gonna be like, bam, bam. Follow us on the social.

Sorry. Uh @CraftBeerRepublic. And of course, crappy mail,

crappy Great Divide Phase Three, blah blah blah. All right.

So much stuff to get to. First of all,

shout out Newbury Park, California. That's our fucking neighbors.

Thanks for listening. See you in the week. Let's go.

Neighbors. Let's go. Neighbors. Get em!

All right, before we get any further, Flex is looking mighty. Over there.

Let's find out what he's drinking. It's my fancy sound.

Where craft beer is king. A world where comes with its own

sound effects. Only one time. One man, one tongue.

One Tongue-jobber. In this world, we must find out

what is Flex drinking? Uh,

Flex is over here drinking another beer picked out by my lovely kids.

Oh. Love it. Um, it was actually. We walked into the shop and my

youngest daughter within, I don't know, two seconds, saw this beer,

reached for it and said, uh, quote unquote, this is yours.

And I said with. Utter certainty. Yeah, I thought that'd be a cool,

quick, fun story to tell. And she got it for me because,

well, it is a, uh, disco ball. Black and white disco ball.

That's kind of cool looking. Yeah. It's like, you know,

a little silvery grays. Can't really, like,

see it too much here, but white can. Black and white disco ball.

Some darkness on the bottom there. Some darkness. You know.

Lo and behold, the beer is called Disco Party.

Uh, it is from our friends Evil Twin Brewing in New York City

who really aren't our friends. I don't have a single friend there,

but I. Do know those guys. I do drink their beer.

Okay, more often than not, this is 8% a B and a Double India Pale Ale

with Sauvignon Blanc grape juice. And they used two of my favorite all

time hops, all time favorite hops. Not favorite all time Citra and

Nelson. Mhm. That you know she handed me the

beer and I was like cool with it. And then I read the description

and then I was like you know what. I would have probably picked this

beer up myself daddy. Like yeah. So uh, I would say my daughter

knows what daddy likes, but that just sounds like a different path.

Yeah, we're not gonna say that out loud. We're not gonna say that.

Um, so I would tell you all the untapped shit,

but it it says the same thing. But again, freshy fresh cans at my

shop, 278 check ins on this beer. 391 let's fucking dig the nose

buds in. Bam bam bam bam. Better do better. I like it.

I like how this is going. You're just, you know,

you're hyped like you're listening to the music or something.

Uh, a lot of, like, white wine. Oh. Really?

On the on the schnauzer here, mixed in with a little citrus.

It almost smells like a mimosa. Ooh. That's almost what it smells like.

This is kind of wild. I'm. I'm hoping it kind of looks like a

mimosa. Yeah, it's very juicy. Like. Yeah, it is super juicy looking.

Glass of OJ with some lacing. I'm super nervous to try this

because I don't want it to be like. You know. Like, well.

It looks good. It smells good. But on those trunks, it's time

to dive in. As a solid rating. You know what they say. Greg.

What do they say? Tongue-jobber. He's got a jobbie. Yes.

Everyone's saying it. Let's go. Oh, no more ado. Oh, no. Oh, no.

I inhaled something. You weren't supposed to mainline it.

Let's try this one more time. All right.

Without further ado, take two. And that is very wonderful.

Oh, good. Yes, it is delicious. Anytime I have, uh, like,

a double IPA. I'm always nervous on the maltiness.

Right. It's something we hate. That's super breadiness coming

through on something that doesn't need it, you know, or shouldn't

have it. And this is nice. The super light bodied.

You would never guess this would be 8% beer.

The white wine, like the sovereign notes the white grape.

It doesn't punch you in the face, nor does the citrus coming

through from the Citra. But it's like it's enough.

Like just enough flavor. Right. This isn't like a banging beer

at all. Um, not by any means. Um, but this is this is a good beer.

So you got the four pack. So I got the single can on this one.

I was the single. I did this was a single can for

49 for a can, you know, probably looking at a 24 pack. Yeah.

Would I spend the money on the four pack? 8% might be worth it.

Yeah, but that 8%. I mean, that kind of brings your

algorithm up a little bit, right? That's why, like, maybe the $20, you

know, I, I would spend on it. Yeah. And I tell you what I wouldn't hate

drinking all four of these. Yeah. You know, it sounds delicious.

Like this is not an it's not outstanding.

But this is this is a good beer. Yeah.

What was the rating on it again? Uh, 391. Like just over 200 chickens.

How do you feel about 391? I say it's right on par. Okay.

Yeah, that's a solid rating. That's a if I see A391,

I'm not mad about it. I'd say anywhere between like a

3.75 and A39 for this one would be, you know, totally fine, totally,

totally doable. And, you know,

I'll take one more sip of this and try not to inhale it. Yeah.

Trying to make sure it goes down the right hole this time.

Yeah, I mean that's a great beer. Like carbonation, super low.

It just flows right down the gullet, man. This is this is good I like it.

Good, good. All right. A few weeks ago.

Remember we talked about that dad. Strength beer. It's like three.

2.3% or something. Yeah, it's like two point.

It's 2.9%, you know, kind of under three.

Basically, you could have a few not catch a buzz, that sort of thing.

Our friend Andrew hit us up and was like, hey, didn't you and Flex

talk about this beer on the show? I said, yeah, we mentioned it a

while ago, haven't tried it yet. He goes, I just got some.

I'll report back. No shit. Like the good man that he is.

He hit me back a few hours later. Not bad.

Definitely a session IPA with a lot of hop character would be good

for a really hot pool or boat day. And the picture he sent me was the

six pack sitting on the shelf. Six pack of 12 ounce cans.

Ten bucks, 9.99. So I asked him,

is it worth ten bucks? And he said ten bucks for a six pack.

I would definitely get it again. Huh? I said.

And then he said, I need to try their hazy.

It's good to know we're gonna talk about on the show. Interesting.

Here we are talking about on the show. Where did he find it? He's in.

I believe it's Michigan, so. Oh, he. He is in Michigan. Yeah.

Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Somewhere closer to you than me.

I forget exactly where. That shit is. Everywhere in Michigan.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Michigan. Sorry, Andrew, if I got that wrong,

but, uh. Yeah. So, uh, you know, it might be a good,

like, Super Bowl type option. You know, you could have a sixer of

those and not be fucked up by by the time, uh, Bad Bunny comes on.

Yeah. Not a bad bunny fan. I don't know, I've never

listened to this stuff. Uh oh. Did you see him in, uh, Happy Gilmore

to use? Very funny. In happy. I thought he was fucking hilarious.

He was good on Saturday Night Live to.

The fact that he kept asking everybody if they needed breadsticks.

Absolutely killed me every time. Rory McIlroy gets busted with a

baseball in the forehead and collapses in the batting cage,

and he goes to check on him and asks him if he would like any breadsticks.

Awesome. Awesome character. He was so good.

Him and Marcello Hernandez as his cousin. So good. Oh yes.

As he's running and dodging the balls. Yeah. Yes, that was fantastic.

Like, those two were the best part of the movie.

I thought Bad Bunny actually was the best part. Yeah, and aside.

From MJF, who was Happy Gilmore's oldest son, the professional.

Wrestler. Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Yes, and Becky Lynch.

Not looking too shabby, let me tell you. Oh, yeah.

She was one of, like, the new golfers. The bad guys.

Yeah. Yes yes, yes. Yeah. Like me a redhead anyways. Woo!

Guilty pleasures. Guilty pleasures. Speaking of all of them,

I just watched Marcello Hernandez's stand up on Netflix. It was good.

I enjoyed it. I Recommend it. Uh, all right,

we got a we got a listener email. I thought we'd broken free from

this topic. Turns out we have not. Hey, CBR fam, I thought we were

past the poop beer phase. Oh, boy. But after hearing those other

horror stories, I figured I should finally share mine.

It's not full on poop, but it's definitely poop adjacent.

I love that term. We're gonna have to use that.

Uh, a few years ago, I had a bottle of condition. Oh. Excuse me.

I had a bottle conditioned saison from a small brewery in Colorado.

I won't name names because they were trying to be experimental.

It had Brett wine, barrel aging and something called sounds awful.

Forest floor aromatics. I should have known mud, right?

Shit. It smelled like a barn. Tasted like moldy grapes and mildew

and left this weird aftertaste that I can only describe as wet dog

who rolled in compost. Oh, geez. I gave it three sips before I

had to tap out. My girlfriend at the time said

it tasted like a forest crime scene and she wasn't wrong.

Anyways, thank you for the trauma dump therapy session.

You didn't know you were hosting? Uh, Jordan in Boulder. Wow.

Thanks for chiming in, Jordan. Yeah, thanks.

Thanks for your, um, horrible. What was the new term we're

gonna adopt now? Poop. Adjacent. Adjacent? Yes.

Thank you for your poop adjacent email.

Yeah, I try to think the worst beer I've ever had. I know mine.

It was this oatmeal stout that a buddy of mine left here, and it

was moved in this house in 2019, so probably it might have been 2019,

maybe early 2020. He stopped at the at the local, uh,

rummage sale of beers at Total Wine. Would you call it a month or so ago,

like the Salvation Army of beers? It's like the goodwill of beers.

Yeah, the goodwill of beer. It's just terrible.

And he left this oatmeal stout, and it was. I've looked it up.

It was like the picture. Like this old lady grandma on it.

And I was like, oh, like, you know, I could drink stouts, you know?

That's what I was trying to get back into him.

And I just bought like a big bad Baptist, and that's why he came

over and we had it. And I was like, oh,

this was all right. And I poured out this oatmeal stout,

and it was just like. It was like if you had like,

a chocolate chip cookie, but instead of the chocolate chips,

it was like iron and. You're, You know, like you're

drinking this stuff and you're like, oh, this. Is very. Normal.

This tastes like metal, you know? And, uh, it was actually enough

to make me gag to where I, I eventually just had to pour it out.

It was god awful. Oof! Yeah. No, thanks. Yeah.

So not poop, but, you know. Yeah. I've said it many a time on here. My.

The worst beer that I've ever had is the Firestone. Dark and stormy.

Oh, I love that story. Oh. So gross. And then I just looked it up.

Overall has a 38 and untapped with 8000 ratings. Not bad.

The fuck is wrong with you people? When we tried it the night we tried

it, I tried it. The wife tried it. We both. First of all, it's.

It's when I knew I needed to marry her because instead of dumping it,

she fucking pounded it to get rid of it. And I was like, okay, game on.

We immediately texted Deb and Brian were like, you guys tried yours.

Yet? Because this is disgusting. We were vindicated.

But my favorite thing of all was that night.

I looked it up on Untappd and one of the ratings was.

It was like four and a half. Whatever. Oh, gross.

And it said, I don't know what's wrong with all these LA pussies,

but this is a great beer. I guess I'm an LA pussy.

It's probably the head brewer. Yeah. Fucking Matt. Oh, God.

It's like, consider me an LA pussy, because this is disgusting.

So easily the worst beer I ever put in my fucking piehole. Uh. What else?

Oh, I need to dance around this a little lightly, because I do not

want people to find out the brewery that spurred on this conversation.

I also don't want that brewery to find out that I'm talking about them.

But let me ask you, in general, how do you feel about brewery

memberships, mug clubs, that sort of thing.

So I've been thinking about this, actually.

Every time I get an email from a brewery that I had maybe signed up

for at one point in time, I'm just like, what are the benefits anymore,

right? That's what I think. I'm like, there's no way this is

actually worth it. So that's kind of how I feel is

if you're spending 100, 100, $125 a year, I know that that's

what some of them are here. Like roughly. That's what they are.

What are you getting right? A mug club member.

You get a 16 ounce pour of everything. Okay. Uh. Who cares?

Right? You know, or, you know,

you get a dollar off a beer. I'm getting two beers.

You know what? Uh, what's the point? Although the Eagle Park does do

a lifetime membership, and it's, you know, No decent amount of money,

I would say. Okay. It's like 1200 bucks. Okay.

Lifetime membership. And you get man. I think it's.

All the fries you can. Eat. I think it's half off all draft beers

and it's half off merch and it's, you know, like, there's some

real nice perks to it to. Whereas I know some guys who've

gotten it a bunch of the guys that part of the like the Monday

Club at Eagle Park and uh, my buddy Tim actually has like,

this running notepad in his phone about all the beers that he's bought,

and he's waiting to tally it up to see how quick he can, you know,

quote unquote, pay off. Sure. Is it worth. It? The membership.

So I guess we'll find out. Yeah. But yeah, it's it's I mean,

it's a good amount of money to just kind of. Yeah.

Say, hey, we're gonna put out there. Yeah.

I've never joined one like I know, um. Coley. She.

I don't think she does anymore. Maybe she does.

She belonged to, um, Fig Mountain's mug club, and I never understood why.

Because her beer's garbage. Um, you know, Energreen has one,

and we almost joined it, but they're just not quite close enough to

our house to make it worth it. We weren't going enough because

they're not close enough anyways, with being as vague as possible.

Because I really do not hate on this brewery at all.

They've decided to announce a mug club type of membership and

part of it you get a t shirt and a customized mug.

So after that I gave those, each $25 worth of value. Being nice.

So after that it's $270. You have $225 left.

The other perks are a quarterly get together.

Now, I don't know what that includes because there's no details.

Could be free food, free beer. It could just be.

Let's all hang out and jerk each other off. Who knows?

beyond the quarterly hangouts. You get 15% off your pints on a

specific night. Oh, no. Only one night a week. No.

And I'm not saying the night because I'm trying to stay as vague as

possible. So I did the math on that. If it's an $8 pint, 15% is one $1.20,

which would take you 209 pints to make up the other $225 after your

shirt and mug. That's a lot of pints. A lot of pints.

If you divide that by the weeks, that's over 4.4 pints per week.

But it's not just like you can come every day of the week.

It's only one day a week, so you got to go and have at least

four pints every week on that day. So I understand the selfishness right

of the of these membership fees. Like, hey, what am I what am I

going to get out of this? How am I going to get this money

back? Right? But I also a part of me is like it's

about supporting the establishment. Sure. You know the brewery.

Like, hey, maybe this is a way of them to try to market to, you know,

bring in more income to, you know, maybe maybe they're low on sales.

You know, their numbers aren't where they were last year or,

you know, hey, maybe, you know, four years after pandemic, who knows?

Oskar Blues say it's somewhere you've been going constantly or

consistently for, you know, two years, three years and you're

like, oh, I can do this. Sure. It's not like you're scraping by

the $275. You're like, oh, what? How am I going to get by this year

without this $275? Right. Right. I mean, we're let's be real.

We're adults. Uh, so, I mean, I could see

either side. Yeah, and I get it. And and I would have.

I wouldn't do as much math if I could get that 15% discount every,

every, every night of the week. Yes. Or at least every week.

Okay, fine. Your weekends are busy. Cut off the weekends.

Just weekdays. Fine, I get that. But one specific night per week.

That means I gotta go have 4 or 5 beers. You have to plan around it.

Right. Which isn't cool if you went. Say they did it every night.

You know, they'd give you the 15% off every time you were in.

It'd be like, oh. It'd be more worth it. You know?

It's like, hey, bartender's giving me a dollar off a beer.

Well, now your tip is doubled, you know?

So instead of giving you a dollar beer, now you're getting $2 every

time I get a beer, you know? So now it's better for the worker,

the server, you know, and they're benefiting.

So I think it then it helps everybody if it's just every night thing.

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I just I look I really like this

brewery and I will continue to go drink their beer, but, um, it's not

a, it's just not a club for me. And here's the other thing a

customized mug. Do you know what I hate drinking

out of the most besides plastic? I hate mugs. I fucking hate mugs.

They're horrible. They're not good drinking vessels.

I do not want to customize. Mug. Please save the 20 whatever dollars

you're gonna spend on that mug and just give me a better discount.

Wait, is it a customized mug that you take home, or is it a customized

mug that you just drink from there? Unknown. I assumed it stays there.

Okay, either way, I you know, I don't. I don't need it.

I don't wanna drink out of a mug I hate. I hate drinking out of mugs.

Not a good drinking vessel. And also, when you're a snob,

proper glassware when you're in said destinations that.

It's weird that they'd go mug. They don't even have mugs as

their regular glassware. People feel cool with the mug.

It's like a stein, you know? It's like, hey.

I guess I look, I say all this because I want to

know other people's opinions. I want to know your opinion.

And also I want to be somewhat helpful if by chance they're

listening. I do not hate on this brewery at all.

I very much like the people who run it, and I like the beer that

gets poured from it. So I hope you will consider maybe

making it a little more worth it, or changing your price,

because I would like to buy into it, but there's just nothing there for

me. I won't drink on that night. I don't need a t shirt and I

sure as fuck don't want a mug. In fact, if you poured in a mug,

I'd ask you for a different glass. Jeez, you just keep my mug up there.

But give me, like, two beers per mug. Yeah, just like, put a fucking check

mark on my mug that I was here. That's all I need.

Anyways, I'll get off the get off my high horse here.

Obscure beer term obscure. Is a tongue twister, everybody.

It's fucking. You know how many times I

practiced that for the intro? Obscure beer term. Uh. This one.

I like this one. Buttload 126 gallons.

You fucking nerd. The term buttload, now commonly used

as slang, actually comes from a real historical unit of measurement

in medieval England and Europe a, but referred to a large and wooden

cask used for storing wine, ale or other liquids.

Officially one, but equalled two hogsheads or 126 gallons in total.

So I knew that from, uh, one of those Andre the Giant stories.

Oh, the ultimate drinker. Yes, yes. Uh, this made the but one of the

standard measures of transporting and trading alcohol

across long distances. The enormous barrels were widely

used in taverns, trade routes and ships cargo holds, making the but

an essential part of commerce. While the unit has faded from

modern measurement systems, the phrase a buttload has lived on

in everyday language, humorously preserving its origins in Old

English trade and maritime history. It's a reminder of how

historical practices continue to shape modern expressions.

Yeah, I, uh, that's one of the fun facts that I use around people like,

oh, hey, do you know this is a real term of measurement?

And it's a So 126 gallons. So when people are just, like,

telling stories around you and they're like, oh, there's a buttload

of whatever, do you just go, hey, 126 gallons? I do not.

It's funny if you did it funny. Sometimes they'll be like, well,

did you know that that's actually a unit of measurement? You know.

And they're like, shut up, nerd. And I say, it's your mom. Oh.

Cause she is a buttload. Uh, 126 gallons. Hey. Oh, hey.

I heard that. Oh, I could use a beer after that.

Yeah. Please just do something to get out

of this. Yes. Quick transition. Drink a buttload, drink a buttload.

To the bullpen for beer. Uh, I am drinking.

I was excited for this one. I haven't had this brewer in

quite some time. Fall brewing out of San Diego.

San Diego. It is Culture Vulture Hazy IPA

7.2% a 3.87 only 106 ratings. OO. Citra, Dyna, Boost Classic, Citra,

and Dank Strada a hop combo that drops bold hits of orange zest,

key lime, and ripe mango. Cloudy, electric and rad a

typical fall brewing cannot. Nothing out of the ordinary for them.

Oh that's neat. Pretty cloudy looking beer.

Nice lacing on there. Murky. It's hazy. Yeah, on the nose buds.

I'm gonna give you a hint. Don't inhale that beer. Is that.

Yeah. You'll cough for like, three minutes.

I, I am getting the orange zest. I'm not getting so much key lime

or ripe mango on the schnoz, but I'm definitely getting the

orange zest. Wait. Let me let me tag in is what I

almost did. Let me stick in the old

Tongue-jobber. There we go. Because Tongue-jobber got a jobbie.

All right. Definitely orangey. Definitely citrusy.

I'm still not getting the key lime. Maybe a hint of ripe mango.

Some tropical notes on there. Pretty decent mouthfeel.

I'm getting a little hot burn in there. The hops.

I feel like I feel like the hop burn is bringing it down a little bit.

Okay. It's a really smooth drinking

experience. Minus the hop burn. And if that was toned down,

I think it'd be a really, really nice drinking experience.

This is what's keeping it a 3.7 and not bumping it up to a four plus.

Okay. In my opinion. I like that opinion.

I bought a single. I think I stick with a single.

Okay. You know, maybe. If somebody if somebody gave you

that beer, would you drink it? Yeah. Look, I'm not mad about it.

I'm enjoying it. It's good. It's not great.

And I wouldn't not drink it again. But I also wouldn't like. Oh my God.

Seek it out. Right, right, right. I like a little more smooth, fluffy,

cloudy drinking experiences with my hazy. Sure, I understand that.

You know what's kind of crazy though, is how these shows these beers

are completely unplanned. Right? Very rarely do we coordinate our

beers. And it almost just seems like they

coordinate so well as of late. You and I will have a great beer

each. And then, you know,

we'll have kind of like a mid beer. And some days we'll have really

bad beers together. It's just it's comical to me.

It is weird how that works out. And I don't know about you,

but I saved this beer for this show as opposed to the last show.

And I was more I was more excited for this beer,

but I liked the last beer better. Well, the previous show,

because it was a lower ABV. I said, you know,

I don't like starting with the higher ABV now, because by the

second show then I'm very, uh, like marbles in my mouth and, uh,

yeah, a little stuttery. And. Yeah. Both by beers were seven plus

percent. What an idiot. Yeah. That's, uh, not mine. Yeah.

Good news. I didn't choke on it, though,

so. I got that going for me. One zero Greg to Flex. All right.

I gotta get the winds where I can. Uh, a little news before we get

on here. This one's for you. Flexy Leinenkugel’s.

President Tony Brewer is stepping down from the role after three years,

and his cousin, Katie Leinenkugel’s is taking the mantle.

Okay, he took over for his uncle, for his uncle, Dick Leinenkugel’s,

when he retired at the end of 2022. Weren't you just saying that Summer

Shandy is kind of on your shit list now? No, we're talking about.

What was that we were talking about, like beers. That we just.

Don't do it for you anymore. Yeah, or like, they're overrated

or something like that. Yeah. And that one, like,

the thought of it is wonderful. It's like, oh, like a lemonade beer.

Like in the summer. But every time I drink it,

I'm just like, ah. And it's a year round beer as well.

It used to be like a seasonal release.

So it's just like, ah, I'm over it. Do you think if they dropped it

seasonally, you'd be more into it? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

I think that's important for for breweries to know.

Like, it's kind of like back in the day when you couldn't find a fucking,

uh, Nintendo Wii. You had, like, chase them down.

Half the reason they're so popular is because you can't get one. Right.

And when I used to work in, like, a grocery store,

I would be able to see, like, firsthand when everything came in.

So it was like Summer Shandy was usually around, like springtime,

right? Opening day for baseball and

spring shandy. Next thing you know,

it was like March. And then it was. It was February.

And you're like, oh, hey, I'm getting Summer Shandy before Groundhog

Day and. It's snowing outside. And now it is just in coolers.

12 months a year Christmas shandy. It's definitely lost its luster in my

opinion. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. But they're Oktoberfest still is

wonderful. Very wonderful. Though. Kicks very wonderful.

Uh Pikes Peak monument has been rebranded go patch brewing has

rebranded Pikes Peak Brewing's Monument Colorado taproom and

brewery as Goat Patch Monument, the company announced last week.

The change comes just one year after Goat Patch acquired the assets of

Pikes Peak in December of 2024. Since the acquisition, Goat Patch has

heavily invested in the location, including upgrading equipment,

modernizing the brewing system, and restoring the foundation for

the future. The company also operates two Goat

Patch branded spaces in Colorado Springs, the Goat Patch co-owner

Kate Bush. Said in the release. Moving forward as Goat Patch

Monument allows us to focus all resources on one unified brand with

consistent standards and vision. I brought this up because I saw

this and I went, oh, go, patch, we've been there.

They're based out of Colorado Springs.

Their original location is an old elementary school. Okay.

It's a really cool location. Um, other businesses have other,

like, classrooms and stuff, and, like, you can go into the gymnasium

and it's a like, I don't want to say daycare, but it's like a

kids activity center and stuff. Like, kids can just, like,

fuck around. And, uh, we went there a couple years

ago, one of our trips to Colorado, and it was actually my cousin's

elementary school. He's like, it's weird to come

drink at my elementary school. Now, that is weird.

Because I've definitely been to principal's office a few times.

But I brought this up to the wife because I was like, hey,

we had gopatch. I don't remember it being that great.

Every time you say Gopatch, it just makes me hate it even more.

I don't like that. Like the animal goat patch. Sorry.

Yeah. Goat. Okay, now I get it. Now. Goat patch.

She thought I was saying gold patch. So clearly I just say it wrong

or something. But anyways, I remember their

beer being like, fine. Like, I remember being like,

one that's like, yeah, I'd drink this again.

The rest were just like, yeah, they're fine.

And so I asked her, I was like, is that your memory of it?

She goes, yeah, she goes, I remember you liking it more than I did, but

you really only liked 1 or 2 of them. And it was kind of like a home

brew sort of quality. And I was like,

that's kind of what I remember. So look, hopefully they've improved.

It's been a couple of years since we had them.

Um, it's kind of weird to be expanding so rapidly.

We had a goat brewery buy us years ago before the kids were born.

It was a horny goat brewing. I like the name.

And, uh, the beer. Super mid. Mhm. Uh, that's what the kids say

nowadays, by the way, is mid. Oh, is that a thing? Yes.

Everything is, you know, nothing's average anymore or just.

Okay it's mid. So beer was super mid but they

had the spot right on the river and it was awesome in the summer.

And they had the best fucking nachos. And they had this burger that

had uh pulled pork on top of it. and it was phenomenal. I'm in.

And then they just, uh, they did this huge renovation

where they put in this. It was like an indoor outdoor

sand volleyball courts. And they had like 12 of them,

like in this almost field, open field, house esque type dealy.

And, uh, then just out of nowhere, they shut down. Oh, weird.

Like, they sold off and they shut down and and then they were gone.

It was like, bye bye. Yeah. And, uh, like they said,

the beer was okay. Like it was enough to get you there,

but the food was hell. Oh, really? Yeah.

I mean, I'm telling you, my wife, she's she's she's a big Nacho fan.

Oh, you know, we're always. No wonder you married her.

Mexican food ING around. And when our favorite place, uh,

favorite happy hour place stopped doing the happy hour for an hour

Mexican restaurant. We were. This was years ago again.

Before kids. We were going everywhere around town

trying to figure out like a new spot. So they had the best nachos there,

and she's like a nacho connoisseur. So for her to say that it was

something. Yeah, that's funny. You bring that up because the

wife goes, oh yeah. And I remember we, uh, got sushi

from the truck that was outside. I was like, that was two and a half

years ago. How do you remember? We had sushi there, but yeah.

Sushi out of a truck. Is that okay? Apparently it was good because

you remember that being better than the beer.

Can I speaking of nachos, can I say there's a Mexican place around us?

They've been open for maybe like a year or so. It's called Plata.

Okay. Plate. Uh, plate. I've not had their nachos,

but they have late night happy hour. Anything after 8 p.m. is late

night happy hour. If you sit at the bar, we will

go and get a couple of marquees, some fucking chips and dips and

some tacos. Like 815, 830. They're open till ten.

It's chef's kiss. So the place by us before, uh,

the owners were found to be. Like extortionists and embezzlers.

Whoops. Yes. They had, like, all these.

Offshore accounts and stuff. And they were paying their employees

and, like, gold and silver. It was really shady shit.

And fucking monopoly money. Right. And but they had this late night

happy hour where it was, I believe it was 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.,

which was funny because the regular happy hour was 230 to 6.

So they had an hour. So there's one hour where it

wasn't happy hour. But I mean,

the late night was technically only like Sundays and Thursdays,

but it was 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and it was $1 for a hard shell chicken taco.

And they they came in two. So it was $2 for two hard shell

chicken tacos. Okay. And half off margaritas. Mhm.

So you would go in and get 2 to 3 margaritas, two tacos like $12 later

you're just fucking flying high. Yeah. And it was the best.

It's not quite that cheap, but it's you know, it's like ten

bucks a marg I think on happy hour. And but their big punch bowl

margaritas there. I told you preemptively why it was so

cheap. Because they were. Right. But, uh, it was, like,

the best thing around town. And we would go every Sunday.

Thursday night. Nice way to do it. If you're there at like 555,

you order like three margaritas to get you through to seven.

Sometimes I do two. If we are like the 550 to 6:00,

I'm like, can we just get. Can we throw a couple on there?

Just give me a half pitcher. Yeah. And then come back around like 705.

We'll be good. Uh, where were we? Oh, the BA adds rice lager to

the latest style guidelines. I like that. Yeah.

One new beer style was added to the Brewers Association 2026

beer style guidelines. Uh, rice lager color pale straw

to gold. Clarity. Appearance should be clear.

Chill haze should not be present. Uh, perceived aroma and flavor A

subtle, malty, sweet aroma and flavor may be present at low levels.

Very mild fusel or ester derived sweetness from the use of rice

may be present. Rice character may range from clean

and, uh, excuse me, clean and neutral to expressive, including nutty,

savory, or aromatic notes, depending on variety of rice used.

Uh hops low to medium and in harmony with malt profile.

Hops should not dominate. Perceived bitterness should be low to

medium fermentation characteristics. Characteristics.

Clean neutral fermentation profile. Very low fruity esters may be

present. Uh. Body low to medium. Additional notes.

These beers are brewed with 15% or more rice.

Rice expression may be in the beer from neutral to very expressive, and

may exhibit flavor and aroma profiles of the specific rice varietal used,

as well as a clean, dry finish. Hops should be integrated and

not pronounced. Beers featuring a dominant hop or

dry hop profile are classified into the other hoppy lager categories.

Are you a rice lager fan? I don't mind them.

I'm not a huge rice lagering fan. I've had, uh, a couple Japanese

rice lagers in my life, and they're wonderful. Yeah.

You know, it's like, good for sushi, not Japanese.

I'm sorry. Jasmine rice lagers. Oh, Jasmine rice lager. Yes.

Like, specifically jasmine rice lagers. Yeah.

I'm usually not a huge fan of rice lagers, but, you know, I'm

willing to be changed. I like them. Yeah, good. They're good with sushi.

That kind of stuff. Yeah. Maybe it was Japanese rice.

This 8%. It's getting to you. It's you. It's only 7.1.

Uh, Iowa City man alleged of drunk driving found with cut Lime in

car Iowa City, Iowa the Johnson County Sheriff's Office says a man

arrested and charged with an OWI. Sunday evening, Juan Garza Gomez,

35, was pulled over for speeding around 11:30 p.m. on US six.

An officer says there were several open modelo cans and a cut Lime in

the center console. I have a story. The sheriff's office says he

failed a field sobriety test, had a blood alcohol content of not

very much 0.12. It's modelo's. I, I have a funny story about this.

I'm excited. Please tell me how this can

relate to limes in the soul. I have a friend named Luke.

I know he listens to the show. Yeah,

I think we talked about Luke before. Great guy. Good friend of mine.

And when we first started working together.

You know, he's into similar stuff. Me, the Marvel, the Star Wars, this

and that, blah blah blah blah blah. So there was a new porn movie,

a marvel movie, and I was like, hey, Marvel porn movie.

I was like, hey, we should go see this movie together.

He's like, do you have some parking lot beers before we go in?

He's like, yes, I would, I would love to tailgate a fucking movie.

Like, what a genius idea. Um. So we went to a later showing,

like, like eight, 9:00, something like that.

So parking lot is pretty empty on a weeknight, and he parking like a

very open area of the parking lot. And he meets me over there,

and I go in his car and he's got a six pack modelos and a Tupperware

container with a cut up, cut up. Lime just dude just had it down.

He's not fucking. Around. If I'm gonna have a modelo,

there's gonna be a lime in it. Cause they taste like shit.

And I had such respect for it. That's funny. You got it.

It tastes like ass. You gotta have lime, right?

So, needless to say, we crushed the six modelos,

and I probably pissed like, seven times during the movie.

Was it six each or six total? No. See, you got a six pack, you know,

so crushed like three each. And got it, got it.

Then it went into the theater, bought a beer in the theater.

And which I love the beer at movie theaters.

I think it's a wonderful idea. I have a problem with drinking

at movie theaters because, like, if I just have a beer or two.

You gotta pee. No, I fall asleep. Oh, you fall asleep? Yeah.

Like if I have a beer and then I don't drink anything else.

Like I gotta continuously drink. Otherwise I fall asleep. No.

So here's me. So I'm so excited to be drinking

the beer. Mhm. That I stay up because I'm

drinking the beer. Oh okay. And then once I'm done with the

beer then I have to pee. So then I hold my pee in which

keeps me awake. Okay, until I can't and I have to run

to the bathroom, which then by the time running to the bathroom and back

to the theater, my heart rate is so high that I won't fall asleep.

There's no way you can fall asleep. Yeah. It's foolproof. Genius.

Yeah, it doesn't work for me. One beer. I'm not peeing yet.

I need, like, three beers before, you know, forces it down.

You do the big one. You do like, you're like, oh,

would you like the smaller, the large and you always get the

large. It's like 22oz, though. I can handle 22oz. My bladder cannot.

Oh little bladder, it's terrible. I need the bigger beer to have

that work for me here. Bladder, uh, matches shoe size,

so that makes sense. Yeah, it's fucking giant.

I'm like a goddamn camel. Yeah. We're not gonna talk about my

shoe size. Uh. We're not gonna talk about mine

either, buddy. All right, wrap it up with this one.

A drunk driver threatens cop with dead snake.

Okay, let's actually kind of terrifying.

The traffic police officers stopped the driver after suspecting him

of being under the influence of alcohol in the old cities.

Oh, sorry. This was in Hyderabad. This is in India. Oh, the old city's.

Area should. Had you read this? A breathalyzer tested.

The driver confirmed their suspicion with a reading of 150, which is 0.15.

Uh, well above the legal limit. A case was registered against

him and his three Wheeler. He was on a three Wheeler was

seized as soon as the police asked the driver to take out his

belongings from the vehicle, he suddenly took out the dead

snake and tried to threaten them, demanding not to register a case

and release his auto. In the video, he is seen approaching

a traffic police officer uncoiling the snake from his wrist and waving

it in front of the officer's face. So he's got it wrapped around

his arm. Yeah. Startled, the officer shoved him

away and the driver returned to the road, wrapping the snake

around his wrist once again. Amid the chaos at the checkpoint,

voices in the background could be heard asking, is it real?

To avoid any risk of harm, officers prioritize crowd control,

during which the driver managed to flee the spot along with his

auto and the snake. So he got away. What the fuck?

Let that be a lesson to you all. Travel with a dead snake.

But coiled around your arm. That's weird. Yeah.

Like how dead was it to. To to recoil it around your arm.

Right. Well, it's gotta look real. It's not if it's just dangling there,

it doesn't look very real. It's like, what do you got a hey,

cool bracelet, man. Thanks. It's real snake. Yeah.

You know, like, what the fuck? That's bad rattle sound.

Yeah, that was bad. That was bad. Okay, who does that?

Yeah, this guy did. I don't even know what to say.

Yeah, there's nothing to say about this. Not really. Genius.

Genius move. Real man of genius. To get out of a ticket, just get

worked. Dead snakes around with you. Not only did they not impound

his fucking tricycle, but he also got away.

I think they already had his license. You would think they got all the

information they needed. They got to get him.

All right, we're gonna get some music. Gonna head out of here.

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