Welcome in everybody. It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg. I'm being joined by the yellow hat wearing. I was trying to turn this
into like a Ric Flair thing, like limousine riding, jet flying, yellow hat wearing, Packers, Terrence. I don't know. Whatever. Here he is. It's Flexy and he's hot. That was quite an effort.
Yeah. Sorry. Anybody who is wondering Greg's radio voice is actually his real voice. Like he doesn't try to sound like this. Hello everybody. Welcome to KWZE. Woohoo. KDZE.
All the time. Oh, I love it. That'd be so good. Well, thank you for letting people know this is really how I talk. Yeah. Well, you just have such a great voice. And I just want everybody to know that it's just your regular voice. My favorite is I listen to
the Smart List Podcast and Will Arnett's on that and talk about great voices. And sometimes he'll just break into some of his voiceover work, like his Reese's commercials or whatever. Like mid
podcast, he'll be like, not sorry. I just, I laugh every time. I love that guy's got a great voice. Somebody has a crush. Yeah. I'd hit it. You're hotter, but I'd still, you know, I'll take
either one. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's going to be one of those kinds of shows. Everybody strap in. We got some stuffs to talk about, some beers to drink about and a whole lot more. I I'm going to
start off real quickly and say that we were supposed to be joined by one of my favorite people and that's Brittany Brewer from Naughty Pine Brewing. But she's having a show down at the brewery right now. So things are in pieces and it's not going to happen or it's not going to
work out. So she's gluing things back together just in time for Emo Fest this weekend. But I'm going to talk about that in just a couple of years. It's not that she's just nervous to be on the show. No, I'm sure they didn't help. No one's more of an introvert than Brit, but I thought I'd
finally convinced her. I was like, come on the show. Come on. I mean, she did the live show and had to get drunk first, but she did it. This would be a piece of cake then. Yeah. And I told her, I was like, look, there's no audience. You come over, you drink some beer with us. Maybe Flex
takes his shirt off. Sometimes that happens quite often. Not enough though. And so she was in for it. I think it was the shirt that really sold her. Definitely not the beer part, but
the things fell apart down at the brewery. She'd probably be bringing her own beer. Yeah. Thanks for having me on my show. Here's my own beer I brought. It'd just be her and I trading beer. She brings her beer. I'll give her some of my home brew.
Obviously there'd be a clear winner there and it wouldn't be me. So, all right. Speaking of beer, let me, before we talk about emo fest. I love my beer. I love my beer. I love my beer. I love my beer.
Well, there's going to be a theme to today's drinking and that is beers from friends. I'm drinking Gnosis Brewing Fritz. It's a German pilsner and it comes to me from our good buddy,
Zach. Hi Zach. I miss Zach. I miss Zach too. If I had had a little more warning that Brit wasn't going to be able to make it, I would try to get Zach in here, but we'll work on something. Untapped has it at a 4.01. It's 5.4% has 37 IBUs and nice description. German pilsner lager with
hollertal mittelfruh noble hops. Nice and easy. German pilsner at a 4.01? It's pretty respectable. Are you sure you're looking at Untapped? I am. Oh, this is friendly Untapped, not regular Untapped. I have the friendly filter on. No wonder.
Yeah. It was hot as balls out here today. Like the heat wave is just kicking in. It's going to be like 120 in the desert out here this week. Wow. That's way too hot. Yeah. So I was like, you know what I need? Goddamn crispy boy. That's what I need. So
let me snick, snick, let me snick my tongue in here. Not sure what that is, but I think you could figure it out. So not a ton on the old schnauz, but you don't expect a ton from a pilsner anyways.
Absolutely not. Clear as fuck as it should be. That is great looking. Not a ton of leucine, but so it is a little lower on the carb, but overall it is so crispy and delightful and very light flavor. It says 37 IBUs, man.
That doesn't really feel like that much. It's so well balanced and so crushable. I'm having to hold myself back from just slamming this one down the nine. I love how clean it looks. It's so clean. That's something I absolutely love about like a really good pilsner is seeing how
clean the beer is. Yes. So good. It's so fresh and so clean, clean. It's the perfect. Now I'm a little sad. I didn't like take this to the Lake with me. This is a really good Lake beer. I'll be there this coming
weekend. So, Oh no, you just have to pack up some other pilsners and just dream about this one as you're soaking in the rays, man. Yeah. I have to wet dream about this one. Um, so anyways, thank you Zach for this delicious,
delicious beer. This is out of Merrillville, Indiana. Oh, indeed. Doing something good. Yeah. Just kidding, Zach. We love you. Glad it doesn't smell bad. That's just Gary.
And at least, uh, it's not Canada. Eh, I just thought about dildo brewing. Cause we, we need to go so bad. We always send each other to the dildo brewing page posts or whatever.
I mean that shit fucking writes itself. It's called dildo brewing. Yeah. If you guys haven't seen dildo brewing is a brewery in a place called dildo. It's in Canada. I think it's dildo Bay or dildo Harbor or something like that.
Yeah. Something like that. But it's got the word dildo in it. So if you're a child, like we are, uh, follow him on the gram dildo brewing. And it's on like dildo lane, like one, two, three dildo lane or something like that.
Completely absurd. Like one time they posted, like, we're having a party. I was like, how great is this? A dildo party. It just, everything writes itself. So, uh, go check out dildo brewing. They gotta be raking it in or something in.
Yeah. Sticking it in. Come on. Too easy. Uh, anyways. Oh, so emo fest, let me, uh, get this out of the way. Britt was going to come talk about emo fest. Obviously she can't make it, but
I was there last year for the first one. This is the second one. Uh, lots of bands lined up, including not a phase, which is a band that was there last year under a different name. There was some weird shit and they had to like, I think they
kicked someone out and changed their name. But anyways, best emo cover band I've ever seen. Like they fucking kill it. And they put on a great show. Um, a bunch of vendors. I was a vendor there for CBR last year and, uh, we're giving out some pretzel necklaces from Erica and all that stuff.
It's, it's a good time. So Saturday, July 15th, it starts at noon goes till 10 PM. Uh, she's also releasing her, uh, my check romance check pills, or excuse me,
check dark lager, which is one of my favorite beers that she makes. So, um, you guys are in, uh, you know, Conejo Valley, Ventura County, Southern California, whatever. Go check out emo fest on Saturday. Yeah. And even if you're not into the music or the scene,
let's go for the beer, right? Go, go for the beer release that, uh, check pill or why do I keep calling check pill check lager? Cause you're drinking the pills. It must be, uh, on the mind, but it is delicious. So I highly, highly recommend.
All right. Let's get to some important business here. First of all, flex, yo, 4th of July. How was it? Um, you know, like most holidays I work,
so I worked. Okay. And then we always celebrate my birthday with my in-laws on the 4th of July because you got the 4th, you have my birthday, then you have my father-in-law's birthday. And
just a lot of shit going on in July. Yeah. So to prevent early July too. Yeah. So to prevent like multiple, like everybody's weekends being booked, just put it into like one day, roll it all in a
ball and just kind of chill out. So, um, it was relaxing. We just cooked out, had some burgers, some brats, some hot dogs, uh, some good beers, you know, as usual, very important. Uh, didn't
get any swimming in, but just, uh, more just importantly, some R and R for me, the holidays are always really busy and stressful. So as long as I got, uh, you know, a patio, some beer,
you know, good company, good family. And then, uh, you know, the fireworks are actually, we, so I gotta tell you every year we usually watch the fireworks from afar. Okay. Cause we're kind
of the lazy people who don't want to get stuck in crowds. Yeah. The parking situation. Yeah. Everywhere. Yeah. So this year we decided, you know what, we're going to go full fledged right
up to where they do the fireworks. Such a better time. Oh, I thought you were gonna say such a bad idea. No, it was, I saw the B for me in your mouth. I was like, he's going to say bad time. No,
cause every year, you know, we watch them from, uh, like down the road. You could see everything except for the ground show. And every year we would watch them. Cause also we used to live
right down the street from where we would sit. So we would walk like three minutes down, watch a show and then just talk about how bad it was on the walk back up. Uh, so every year we would
talk about how shitty the fireworks were and, uh, going down to actually see them from where they like light them off. It was just so much better. Interesting. Yeah. So it's like a, gonna probably
be going to be like a new tradition now to head down there. But you're able to walk, you like, you didn't have to go and park and all that shit. Right? Uh, no, we did have to drive. Uh, I mean, it's not very far. Like the whole parking. Like last time I went to a firework event,
like drove to it, the whole parking and getting out of their thing. Okay. So you got to think you're in like a, what, in a suburb of LA. I'm in a suburb of Milwaukee. Our city's 14,000 people.
Uh, I think ours is like a hundred and something. Yeah. See, so that's like a little bit of a Yeah. So if you're going to check fireworks out there or going into a crowd of a city with a hundred thousand people plus surrounding cities and people who know people, that's going to be a
mess. Yeah. It's a lot of people. Um, I also have this other issue where, you know, for, for so many years and we happen to give it up at the end of 19, not knowing that a pandemic was coming,
but for so many years we were pass holders at Disneyland and no one puts on a fucking better firework show than Disneyland does. 100% accurate. Yeah. And so it's like any fucking city ran firework show. It's just not as good. I'll go back to Disneyland and watch theirs.
Yep. Yep. You know what else is weird about the 4th of July? I almost feel like it doesn't matter what city you live in the U S I mean maybe Alabama side, cause you know, who knows, but you can take
beers, drinks anywhere you want to go throughout the city, like all day long. It's like the one day. And then they shoot the fireworks in our town, um,
from the baseball field at the high school and people are just rolling in with coolers and just open, uh, what was it? Open intoxicants. Is that, was that what? Open containers.
Open containers. Yeah. And just like having a great time in the high school parking lot, like the high school fields. And I just think it's so fucking bizarre. And you guys have to
sneak this in high school. Exactly. And you can't like, you have to know the cops know what's going on. Right. They're just outnumbered. Right. So it's like, what are they going to do? Arrest everyone? Do they not ticket everybody? Because then they'd have to, or they don't take it
somebody cause they'd have to ticket everybody or yeah. Or do they not arrest one person because they'd have to arrest everybody. I bet it depends like how blatant you are about it. You're probably right too. As long as you're like cool with, you know, like not being belligerent.
Yeah. Be cool. Keep it down. Uh, put it in a red solo cup. You know, I am not drunk. Uh, you know, put it in a red solo cup. So there's like some plausible deniability there.
Yeah. That's what I learned when I got my, my drinking in public ticket outside angel stadium, which was absolutely, yeah. He was like, if you'd have that in a red solo cup, I, I could pretend I didn't know what was in there. So it's all about the plausible deniability.
Yeah. Or maybe they just allow it to be like, you know, it's the most American day of the year. Just like allow you to do the most American thing that you can do. Go do America. Just drink in
public. Yeah. Everybody deserves it. It's, it's my favorite thing about Vegas drinking in public, man. There's nothing better. No, it's pretty like, everything's pretty fine there too. Right?
In Vegas? Yeah. Like, because you can drink in public, it's not like people are too crazy. Like you don't get too many, like you get Florida stories. You don't get drunk Vegas stories. I think cause I don't know, like people are fucking weird on the strip. Like they're not,
you know, uh, grabbing an alligator out of an aquarium and like running down the street, trying to get it to bite people's heads off. They're like in the corner doing cocaine dressed up as Spider-Man. Well, when you say it like that, it makes sense.
I mean, there's some weirdos, like you walk down the street, there's some fucking weirdos. It's just like in Hollywood. Like just the strip in Vegas is longer than in Hollywood. Well, that was like when we went the last time there were these, uh, we were getting some tacos at
Margaritaville and there were these two girls. Boy, you're a tentacle. Yeah. Very, the most, uh, the most authentic. The mucho is to see. Uh, but there are these two girls, you know,
they were okay looking, you know, they were like stars, but they had like the handprints painted on their boobies. Oh, sure. Yeah. But you would have to go pay to get a picture with them.
Right. I'm going to tell you what, right. You cannot get me to pay you money for something like that. Right. Especially if they're covered, they're covered. Why am I paid to be next to them?
Right. You just stand next to somebody wearing a shirt. It's the same goddamn thing. Right. Well, that's like if you find Spider-Man walking on the strip and you take a picture, he'll want five bucks. Yeah. And the funny thing is too, is he's in like the, he's not even in like
the high end Spider-Man costume. He's in like the target cheapo $20 costume, elastic, like rubber band around the mask. Stapled on. Yeah. Like the Nike tennis shoes showing through the feet.
Not even blue Nike's just like white, dirty as fuck Nike's. Exactly. Yeah. I took a picture once in Hollywood. Same thing in Hollywood. If you go down to like Hollywood, there's people
in costume. They want money if you take a picture with them. And like, I took a picture of one spider. I have to do this. This was like 15 years ago. Dude was legit wearing a diaper. Like you could see the fucking puff. Oh, that's underwear region. So, you know, he's just standing out
there all day pissing himself. So he doesn't have to like lose his spot on Hollywood Boulevard. So yeah, you know what I don't want to do? Pay $5 to sit next to you. To smell it. Yeah.
Piss butt. People are fucking weird, man. Piss butt man. Piss butt man does whatever a piss butt can. Is he wet? Definitely is. And no, it's not the, oh, sorry.
Look out. Here comes the piss butt man. Piss butt man. So good. That's so stupid. People like that come out here for the first time, haven't been to California before like,
yeah, we're going to go to Hollywood. And like, what do you, what do you suggest we do? Every goddamn time I'm like, do your best to not go to Hollywood. Like Hollywood is absolute trash. It's, there's nothing there to do. There's like a block and a half of cool.
And it's what I just described. And then there's, I can literally want to go see piss butt man. Yeah. I'm not going to lie to you. That does not sound that cool. Yeah. Stay out of fucking Hollywood, man. Go, go cool places. Go to the beach. Go to like
Santa Monica, San Diego, Santa Barbara, LA sucks. Brought to you by the tourism board of Los Angeles. Visit LA. So, well, that was, oh, I was going to say, uh, fire going back to the fireworks. Yes.
Disneyland fireworks are better. Blah, blah, blah. Uh, can all the assholes who are importing illegal fireworks from Mexico, like not sort of illegal ones. Cause it's not legal to shoot off anything here. Like you came and have a sparkler because everything's so dry and
burn. Yeah, that's right. But like the, I don't care about those. The assholes who have the ones that like look like a legit firework from a firework show that are shooting them off at two in the morning, uh, causing my dog to freak out. Can you all just take a long walk off a short
cliff and maybe like visit dildo brewing and show one up your ass as you go. Like, fuck you. I agree to this only because I don't understand the excessive blowing off of firework.
Look, when I was a kid, like we'd get those, like, I don't know what they call them, but like safe in quotes fireworks that like were sort of legal in some cities around us, not the city we lived in, but like you could go buy them from like a pop-up stand. And that was fun. And that's
fine. You want to do that shit with like sparklers and little like Roman candles and that kind of shit. Go for it. But like the stuff you're importing from other countries enough, like somebody sounded like they set it off, like right outside our house. Like it echoed through the
little alleyway that's behind her house. I legit throw my shoes and ran out there. I was ready to beat some ass. I'm like, what the fuck? First of all, too close to my car. Yeah. I will murder. And also my dog is in here freaking out. So in it, and they do it for like a week leading up,
it's like, get a fucking life. Isn't that annoying. And like, also that shit isn't cheap. Well, maybe if you're importing them from Mexico, you're stealing them from Mexico. Yeah. But I mean, like if you've ever gone to a firework stand or a store, it's expensive. Yeah. It's like buy
one, get three free, but you are still paying for all four of them. You know, free. No, there's absolutely nothing. Yeah. So I know I sound like fucking old man Greg over here. Get off my lawn,
but fucking get a life. And it's so stupid. You didn't even, you're not even celebrating the 4th of July. You're just blowing shit up. Cause you can for exactly fuck off anyways, onto happier
topics. I had this prepared for you. Oh, you have something prepared. Yes. You sort of brought it up. So I hope it didn't ruin anything, but it was your birthday last week. It was
so loungy. I love it. I do. It's very feel good. Yeah, exactly. So I hope you had a good birthday. It was solid. We would you like to hear about my birthday? Sure. You did some fun shit. Let's hear
about it. It was pretty decently fun. It woke up, went and hiked this really neat spot. It's about 40 minutes North of us. It's right along Lake Michigan. It's my favorite place. I'm not a big
hiker, but it's my favorite place to go get a hike in. And the kids love it. Once we get down to the lake front and it's great. And then on the way home, the wife is like, Hey, are there any breweries
around here that you want to go to? I can find one. I'm like, Oh, gee shucks. You know, I already knew of one and she actually Googled it, you know, and she found another one, although it wasn't open
until 3 p.m. and we were there early, but I was able to stop at Foxtown Brewing for the first time. I had a flight of some of their stuff. Did a Hellis, a Hazy, Classic Flex. There was a Baja
Blast themed seltzer. Oh, is that that blue beer I saw on the ground? Yeah, that one. That looked disgusting. So it was way more blue raspberry than it was Baja Blast. Okay. But it was still
pretty good. Okay, that's good. And my wife saw it and she holds up her phone. She goes, What the fuck is Flex drinking? Oh, I love blue shit. Like, I was like, since I was a kid, I don't care what it is, man. That's funny. Pour me a glass of Windex. I might drink it.
All right. The amazing Jonathan over here. So then they had a fruited sour that I didn't really care for. So I drank it really fast. But the red one. Yes. Okay. Correct. I can't believe I remember
this. No, I can. It's pink, pink. But yeah, so it was a pretty solid beer. I wish I could have stayed there a little bit longer to explore a little bit more, but super solid stop. And then
we went to the brewery game at the end of the night. So I got to finish it off there at Ampham Field. And I made it on the Jumbotron three times. Oh, shit. Yeah. Drunk. There's a bludgering guy
over there. We sat 11 rows behind the dugout. And there just so happened to be a cameraman in the section. Nice. However many times and every time he was, we made it on the Jumbotron.
That's hilarious. We've been to like a million Dodger games, never made it on the Jumbotron. But one year, this is before I was with my wife, I went to a taping of the reboot of American
Gladiators. Cool. Do you remember this when they brought it back? Yeah. Yeah. Like 15 years ago, whatever it was. And my girlfriend at the time got tickets. They were free because it's a taping.
But she found a way to get tickets and we invited a couple of their friends. We happened to be sitting in the section where all the families of the competitors were. So every time there was an interview with the wife and kids of like, how do you think daddy did?
We were right there. And because they only wanted to light one scene instead of the entire section, all they did was just swap them out. So we didn't move seats. But every time they had a different
competitor, they swapped the family in and out. And so every time they go to interview, we're like, you know, on TV, it's like staring up at our crotch basically. So it was kind of funny.
Yeah. Good times though. Nice crotch. Yeah. Thanks. It's famous. So my birthday was, it was a super solid day. Nice. I'm glad to hear that. Very enjoyable. That's the way it should be. Absolutely. All right. Oh, one last thing as this drops,
GABF tickets are officially on sale. So hopefully, hopefully I got some, hopefully I didn't get like, you know, pushed out of line. Hopefully Vanessa's going to go. We were talking about it this week, even. Erica, excuse me, is definitely going and somehow we convinced Flex to go. That'd be great.
Oh, I will try. Want me to write a note to your wife? Would that help? Maybe like, like a doctor's excuse? Yeah, exactly. Dear Mrs. Flex, please do that. I'll give you the address and you can like even address it out to her. Not even me.
Oh yeah. No, no. Like I'll make it look like you had nothing to do with this. I love it. Yeah. Dear Mrs. Flex, please excuse Mr. Flex on the dates of September 20th through the 24th as his presence is requested in Denver, Colorado. That sounds super legit. Like very
professional. Yeah. I'll have chat GPT write it. So it sounds smart. That's brilliant, man. Because it will sound professional. Exactly. I had someone text me something super awkward the
other day and I just, I put the text message into chat GPT and said, how should I respond? And it came up with a response for me. Nah. Yeah. It was great. It's like somebody was, you know, it got a little like serious, but like didn't need to happen. And I was like, I don't know how to
fucking respond to this. So AI for the win. What a brilliant thing to do. Yeah. I highly recommend it. Cause I am, you know, I'm not an emotional guy. I was like, I don't know how to
respond to this. Cool. Thanks man. You know, so thanks chat GPT. He put the text in the chat GPT and the response is, Hey, cool, man. Wow. It's really learning my personality. Hey, cool man.
It knows me. That'd be amazing. And then like tries to sell me beer. Oh man. Yeah. So, all right. Before we get into any news, I think it's time that we answer probably the most important question
of the evening in a world where craft beer is King 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. Well, to carry on the theme of the show, um, beers from friends, beer girl, Mel, Melissa, our friend, whatever her name is today. Yeah.
What is it? Is it beer girl? Mel? I think. Yeah. Yeah. She'll yell at us. Oh yeah. So, uh, district 96, uh, serpent herders, not hurters, but herders. Right. Sounds super Midwest of me.
Herders. Herder. The can says age it in a further, they did not age it in a fooder. Damn it. Uh, it is a Northeast triple IPA, 10 and a half percent ABV. And, uh, I don't think
there's a description on the can, but I'm untapped. It says, uh, brew this gotta be because their English is horrible brew with our friends at auto did act to brewing brewery,
not even brewery brewing. Um, easy drinking 10 and a half triple. Uh, they're not wrong. And if this is a real, uh, beer, that's got a 4.3, which is super respectable. Yeah. So we're going to get
into it. I mean, we've already been into it, but we're going to get into it some more like, Oh, like really into it. Third round or something like that. Yeah. So on the schnaz, this really caught me by surprise. It just sounds like, uh, sounds smells like nothing, but like mango.
It is like 100% soaked in mango. Like you're sniffing mango juice. It smells fucking delicious. And I know you're going to say, but Hey flex, I thought you don't like mangoes. Hey flex,
I thought you don't like mangoes. I don't like mangoes, but I like mango flavored shit. Yeah. I'm the same way. Love the flavoring. It's fucking great. Put a mango in my mouth. I'm going to spit it back at you. Yeah. Mango flavored. Anything is delicious. So we'll get the old
tongue jobber in there. It's got a great haze to it. A little bit of lacing too. Yeah. The color on it's phenomenal. Minimal. Ah, I would say that's not minimal lacing. I'd say medium lacing,
medium lacing. You know, a lot of times those triples get a little too dark because they had to add like too much grain in there to get the ABV up, but that's a nice fluffy looking hazy. Yeah. It's a, the mouthfeel is great. It's very soft. Um, it's not as sweet as I like my triples
to be. I'm a big fan of the, uh, overly sweet triples, but this one, the mango follows through on the palate, but it's not as powerful as a, as the aroma, which is kind of a bummer,
but it's still wicked easy drinking. There's zero, uh, zero sign of that 10 and a half percent ABV. Like you would think this was probably a single IPA, not even kidding you.
Dangeroso. There is some malt backbone to it, which again, I'm not personally a fan of, uh, especially in like a hazy, but it's not overpowering and it doesn't, uh, doesn't rub you
the wrong way, kind of malty. So all in all, this is a super solid brew and, uh, I would definitely district 96 again. Yeah. I've had a few of those and, uh, good stuff. Yeah, it really is. I don't,
what is this? New York, New York. Yeah. Oh, new city, New York. Oh, yeah. Good. I hate the old city. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck the old city. Fuck the old city. New city is the way to go. Dead jokes for
days. Now we got to look up to see if there is an old city, New York. There's gotta be right. I mean, is there an old, is there an old York and a new, okay. I'll stop. Um, it's so stupid. I want to give a shout out to a Colorado Springs for being our top listening
city last week. Wow. Yeah. I hope this isn't like a, I got a bunch of family out there, so I hope it's not, you know, just like family trying to be nice or something. Does your family listen to the show? I don't think so. Like maybe one of them does,
but overall, let's be honest. Like nobody I know wants to listen to me talk. Your sister listens. Yeah. She's like a good six months behind. So I said like, Hey, fuck you in six months. And we had text message like, Hey, that was really
mean. All right. I don't know what you're talking about. Six months ago. Well, it's like an experiment now. Yeah. We'll find out. I'm going to get a text message. I'm going to have no idea what she's talking about. Uh, speaking of fuck you, the New Jersey. Oh, you'll yeah. New Jersey
legislature approves a bill that would roll back restrictions against breweries in the state, but Dick bag, governor Phil Murphy won't sign it. Oh, come on. He keeps saying he wants more
reform done before he signs anything. I don't understand this. I don't understand him. Fuck off. What is the idea of punishing these establishments? I went to his gram the other day and he had just posted this thing about like, Oh,
we're creating all these green jobs and blah, blah, blah. It was all about job creation. And I, I made some shitty comment about like, if you were so concerned about jobs, maybe you wouldn't fuck over the brewery so much because it's costing jobs. Well, yeah, 100%. So whatever
the ABC alcohol beverage company, that's not right. That's not right. Said they're going to stop enforcing at least temporarily stop enforcing those restrictions against the brewery. So
he knew Jersey brewery is just fucking party it up out there. Show as many football games as you want. Yeah, dude, it's cute. You should have like a marathon of just events, right? Like every,
every night trivia, karaoke, trivia, karaoke, ladies night trivia. What else can't, Oh, they can't like sell snacks. Right, dude. I wasn't something like that. I think
it was like, they couldn't sell snacks. So just tons of beef jerky. I just assume they can't do anything. That's true. You can hardly drink beer. I mean, it's, it's really sad. It is glad I'm not in New Jersey. Fuck you, Phil Gunner, Phil Gov. No, fuck you. Gov. No. Father's day was the most
valuable Sunday for beer so far this year on premise cells were up 8% compared to last year's father's day and on prem cells velocity increased 80% that day versus an average Sunday this year.
So a lot of money was made by beer on father's day on father's day, Sunday, June 18th. That's crazy. Did your kids take you out on father's day for beer? We went out the day after.
Oh, that's right. I took my dad out for a beer on father's day. I mean, I guess that's a pretty normal thing to do. Yeah. What else are we going to do? I don't know. I guess what I'm thinking of is like, take like going to the liquor store and buying beer. Well, this was on premise. Oh,
on premise. You didn't say that. On prem. Yeah. So this is not liquor stores. This is breweries, restaurants, that kind of stuff. Bar sense. Yeah. Hopefully not at all related to father's day. Have you heard of saucy, the alcohol delivery platform? Uh, no. Okay. Well it's like drizzly.
Drizzly. I was going to say, we know about the drizzly one. Yeah. Same type of thing. It's called saucy. And now in addition to your beverage needs, they would also like to deliver your sexual
wellness products. I was going to ask that. This is not a joke. Their campaign says saucy will come before you do. That's so good. So good. It says we're thrilled to be expanding saucy's
brand beyond an alcohol delivery platform to an exclusive vice delivery platform. This is Chris Vaughn, their CEO and founder. We want saucy to be seen as the tool belt for adults and the first
delivery platform. Who's excuse me, platform those over the age of 21 think of when they need quick and easy delivery of their favorite products. Okay. So I can understand. Uh huh. Uh huh. First
I can understand like the needs of alcohol, right? Favorite alcohol, beverage, whatever. But like B G favorite sex pleasure, condoms, lubes. Okay. I guess that's the problem though. Don't you order
your beer and then need the condoms? Well, that's the thing. It's like, who's going to order it on like one platter. Like here's, here's one bladder. Here's your case of beer with a side of condoms.
Like that's just your magnums buddy. You know, like nobody, you don't like take a girl on a date and then it's like the waiter comes and serves the food and his like, Oh sir. And here are the
condoms you've requested. Like, no, I said dessert, not me. But it's like that shit is you're like 99% of the time it should be prepared and it should be ready for wherever you are.
When that happens. Yeah. Well like I remember my dating days, I came prepared. I don't need to. And then you came prepared. Um, exactly. Commas are important. Uh, that's just weird to me. Yeah.
It's funny. It's where I think, so the time limit on this, the whole, like we come before you do is 60 minutes. And I, I just, I love their fucking hutzpah to, to make their slogan. We'll come
before you do. Well, that is really, I love that. But like, imagine this. So I'm sure it's all like online or like app right now. But could you call, could you imagine like calling this place? Right.
And just be like, yeah, we'll take a six pack, a eight Oh five. And, uh, you guys got some good bourbon. Yeah. Just pick up some good bourbon. Hey, Hey babe, you want a vibrator with the shake?
Yeah. Yeah. We'll take a vibrator with that side of vibrator. Like that's fucking weird to me. Well, it'd be funnier as they get into like the weirder stuff. It's like, what? Oh, the last, uh, butt plug was too small. Okay. You guys have a bigger,
can you look at my order? Do you have a bigger one? Like a, a larger gauge, but plug like earrings, their gauges. Yeah. It's bizarre to me. It's funny. And the slogan is probably top
one slogan I've ever heard in my life. Yeah. It's a fantastic slogan. I'm top here for it, but, uh, yeah. Good times. But yeah, good job on the slogan, but weird overall weird. Yeah. I feel like 50 shades of gray was so like seven years ago. Yeah. Should, should have made this one.
Yeah. This is a 50 IB use of gray. All right. Beer on night. Unfortunately, I'll end it with a list. See if we can piss off flex before we wrap things up.
I love lists. I know this, this is actually multiple lists, the best beer cities in the U S and this is according to realestate, which.com and here's their criteria breweries per capita,
average price of beer, affordability of domestic beer, affordability of imported beer, average Yelp rating of breweries, average Yelp rating of bars, bars per capita. And finally,
beer passion, which is scored on Google trends data. It's that one I don't get. It's a lot of info. It is. So here's the top 10 real quick. Number 10, Minneapolis, Minnesota. They do good beer. They do some good beer out there. Really good beer. I've had some,
uh, Charlotte, North Carolina. I've had some from there too. Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville does some really good beer too. You know, firsthand, uh, number seven, Indianapolis, Indiana. Wow.
Is that flying out of his seat right now? Yeah. Flying out of his hat. Uh, number six, Louisville, Kentucky. Number five, not a huge surprise. Denver, Colorado. No. Number four,
Nowlands. That's weird. Yeah. I don't think of New Orleans as a beer city, but I've never been. So I don't, I don't know. Well, I guess we should go. Okay. Research. Uh, number three,
Milwaukee. Hey, yeah. Look at you guys. Pretty solid. Yeah, that is really solid. Uh, number two, Cincinnati, Ohio. And number one, let me guess. San Diego, California. No, they're not
even in the top 20. They're 21. It's probably because of price. Probably. Uh, it's our good friend, shred out there. Pittsburgh PA. Oh, wow. They do some solid beer. Apparently he even made
one. Uh, he clapped with one the other day. So yeah, that was pretty wild. Yeah. So way to go. Didn't see that coming. Uh, they broke it down also into best, uh, like categories, like best
IPA cities, best half cities. So I'm not going to give you the list of each one. I'll just give the number one best IPA city. I have a huge beef with this one. Baston. I don't know. I'm not down.
So San Diego is number two. I think you can suck. Uh, best half city. I don't care. Portland, Oregon, best ale cities. This feels way too broad. Everything that's not a lager is an ale,
but, uh, Orlando, Florida, best say Zahn city, Richmond, Virginia. So weird. I mean, it makes, I know like the East coast is more say Zahn than the West coast is seems like, but hard pass for
me. I don't, whenever you can describe a beer as wet socks, wet hay, I'm out. I'm out. Uh, best Pilsner city. Number one, Portland, Oregon, best South stout cities. Uh, Pittsburgh PA number
one, again, best pale ale cities. Number one, Seattle and best lager cities. Number one, Cincinnati, Ohio. Interesting. Yeah. Not, uh, not what I would have expected.
I would like a little more information because that list makes me a little upset. Okay. That's what I want to hear. I want to, I want to hear it reflects. And then the final list from all these lists of lists is the opposite. The 10 worst beer cities. Number 10.
I feel like your slogan should be, you're going to come before I do with all these lists. Too late. Number 10, Virginia, Virginia beach, Virginia. Number nine, road tide,
Birmingham, Alabama. I'm sorry. What is this for? I got too excited. 10 worst, worst beer cities. Oh yeah. Okay. Right on. Bam. Yeah. Real tight. Yeah. It makes sense. Number eight,
Washington DC. Number seven, Atlanta, Georgia. Number six, Sacramento, California. Sacramento is like the worst. Everything's is it really? Oh, I've been there once. It was sorry, Erica.
It was outside of Sacramento. Uh, Sacramento is a show. Like there is, there's either nothing to do or run from homeless people like that's, and it's one of those business cities. Cause it's,
it's where the capital is. So it's very government E. So like weekends, nothing was happening. Week days after five 30, nothing was happening. And it's, it's catering to the business and government.
You talk to somebody outside of California and you say, what's the first thing that crosses your mind when you hear Sacramento, you say, Chris Weber. Yeah. Best thing to come out of Sacramento. Oh, that Sacramento sucks. Uh, number five, Memphis, Tennessee. Number four,
Phoenix, Arizona. Number three. That's a shocker to me. Phoenix. I've heard some good things about the beer scene in Phoenix though. All right. Coley keeps going to Arizona for some reason to party.
Uh, number three, Tampa, Florida. Number two, beer week. Yeah. Number two, Riverside, California, which Riverside is, it's where a breaking bad was supposed to take place,
but they didn't want to pay California taxes. Oh, okay. So they went to New Mexico. No, no joke. They were going to shoot it in Riverside. And then they're like, ah, taxes are cheaper in New Mexico. We're going to New Mexico. Well, when you've, when you said Riverside, you've said it
all. Yeah. Uh, by the way, no rivers, no rivers out there. Uh, and then number one, Los Angeles, California. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Have I told you I had to purposely get myself to stop saying while
you have to like, think about it now. I do. Yeah. Cause I'm like, I, I overplayed it. And then it just became like what I said. Right. So when anybody would say anything somewhat arousing,
I'd be like, wow. Hey flex. I'll come before you do. Wow. Wow. And if anyone's wondering, uh, the, the brewery of the month at total wine,
Oh, it's like you need us. Wait, the brewery of the month at total wine in Milwaukee area. Yeah. I got an email today and it made me think of you. Oh, thanks. Cause it's not even craft beer. Yeah.
So Heineken is your brewery of the year or brewery of the week. Yeah. I just, I can't support Heineken in their business practice. Nobody can. Yeah. Wow. That's a good, uh,
something to chew on. Maybe we'll have some Loganese on the show next week. Yeah. What's that one that I actually liked from them? Can't think of it. Okay. What the
something, something, something was pretty decent. I was thinking of a pale ale. I don't remember. I'm going to stop trying cause whatever. Lagunitas. I'm going to say hi to Vanessa. Speaking
of Florida, Tampa, Florida. Hey, I have Vanessa. She's my aunt. She's I know. Let's say not that she's Tampa. I just needed some minor connection in order to segue segue into I Vanessa. So, uh,
I have Vanessa. Hope you got your GABF tickets. See in Denver with flex and Erica. Yeah. Dear Mrs. Flex. I'll video, I'll record her reading the letter reaction vid, uh,
find us on the socials at flex me a beer underscores in between. And of course, craft beer public craft beer, public.com. 805-538-beer. And don't forget emo fest this weekend at naughty pine, Saturday the 15th go a headbang and get drunk and all that good stuff.
So, uh, I do think that's everything. I hope everyone is staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night, everybody.