Let me adjust my old man lower.

Back pillow and my lumbar pillow and my memory foam couch cushion.

Welcome in, everybody, to the craft beer republic.

Thanks for drinking.

Thanks for joining.

I am Greg, and I'm being joined by the best looking guy just outside of Milwaukee.

And that's flex.

What's.

My gosh, I needed that today.

You are looking fucking on it.

Like the hairs, like the sexy indifference kind of waviness.

This is a head hair today.

No, this is like I didn't try, but secretly I tried.

That's crazy.

I literally took my head off.

That's what I did.

And I always have a thing for librarian glasses, so.

Oh, bone er.

Well, now I'm on cloud nine, cloud.

69, cloud from six to midnight.

But hey, not a boner show.

Not yet.

It usually becomes one.

Anyways, sorry everybody that hasn't turned this off yet.

Thanks again for drinking and joining.

Find us on the socials at craft beer poke.

And of course, flex me a beer underscores in between all that good stuff.

We have a lot to get to today.

We got a voicemail from the homie beer girl, Melissa.

Oh, I was.

I was really gonna say chew.

I thought you would.

I checked out a new brewery, we got some booze, news to get to and so much more.

So if you guys don't mind, I'm gonna crack into some beverage over here.

Out of my beer.

Out of my bear, out of my beer.

Oh, yes, I think I talked about this a couple weeks ago.

Hung out with Andrew, aka Ventura county.

Beer underscores on the gram, and he hooked up with a few beers for me from around the

area.

And this is another one of them.

This one, instead of for made west, gave me two made west and two Casa agrias.

So I am drinking thanks to Andrew, Citra traveler from Casa Agria.

This is a west coast pilsner, of course, has tons of citra in it.

It is 5.5% no listed ibus and has a 398 untapped.

The can says Citra traveler is our all Citra west coast Pilsner.

And it's all about expressing one of the most beautiful hops ever that packs a big mango

guava pineapple punch with hints of dank berry.

Hook up the trailer, fill up the ice chest, and hit the road with citra traveler.

Let me sniff in here.

Yeah.

What do we got on the aromatics?

Mostly that dankness.

A lot of pine coming, a little bit of berry.

I get a little berry, maybe like raspberry in there.

Mostly dank and the fact that I can pick anything out is good.

I don't have the best sniffer in the world, but here's the important part.

Ye olde tongue jumper.

Get it?

All right.

I love a good west coast Pilsner, and this is a good west coast Pilsner.

I don't get tons of mango or guava, for that matter.

I'm getting more pineapple and more of that berry.

Again, very fruit.

Fruity but not juicy.

You know, like a hazy or like the New Zealand hop for anything.

But you get a lot of that fruit, a lot of dank on the finish.

And it is ever so pilsnery, clear as it should be.

That is very nice looking and very clean and very light and very fucking chuggable.

Like, this is not going to last long, you know.

Can I tell you those.

You can.

Fruity notes.

When they hit on pilsners, they hit so much different.

Yeah, they really do.

I just had an italian pilsner the other day, and I was like, oh, this is, you know, it's

classic.

It's italian pills.

Nothing special, nothing wrong.

It's good.

It's exactly what it's supposed to be, right handed over to the wife.

And I was like, what do you think?

She's like, it's too hoppy.

They are, yes.

Like, what?

I did not find it hoppy, but, you know.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I'm also a hop whore, so maybe I'm desensitized.

I find with the italian pilsners that they are a more hot rate.

They are a hopier Pilsner.

Well, she would tell you it was, and I would disagree.

But like I said, hop whore, so my tongue is probably just shot to shit, so who knows?

But this is good.

I taste it all in here.

This is crushable and light.

A little fruity.

The right amount of dank you would expect from Citra.

I mean, we've had so many classic ipas with Citro, I think we pretty much know what it

tastes like at this point.

I have a very good idea.

Yeah.

But very good.

I love casa.

We all know that I'm a bit of a whore for Casa Agris.

And, I mean, I've had some of their stuff, and they're really good.

I haven't had a single thing from there that I was like, yeah, that was all right, right?

Yeah, everything's good.

Their stuff is really good.

And you love west coast prisoners.

I do.

And it's so fucking hot here in southern California right now.

My phone keeps telling me there's weather advisories.

Yeah, I just saw somebody post something about the weather in California and you're looking

at a couple hundred degree days in a row.

Yeah, I mean, like hundred degrees in certain parts of the area.

Not a big deal.

It's normal.

But like right where I'm at, you know, that's, that's pretty fucking hot.

So I'd say that's hot anywhere you are.

I don't care if you.

California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Massachusetts.

When you move to the desert, like, you got to know it's coming.

Well, yeah, but 100 degrees is 100 degrees no matter where you are.

Fucking balls out here.

So hot as well.

This is quenching the thirst, thanks to Andrew.

Once again, Andrew was going to hang with us, but some Covid things came up so that didn't

get to happen.

I mean, we'll work something out where he can hang out with us.

Excuse me, hang out with us and share some beers and all that good shit.

He's a good guy.

So he likes good beer, obviously.

So there you go.

Remember a couple of weeks ago we were talking about taco guys and you're like, hey, does

everybody in California, just.

Every taco guy you?

Well, listener Andrew hit us up and he said, hey, I'm currently listening to the podcast.

Pretty sure I'm going to become the taco guy in my neighborhood.

He moved out to the midwest as well, so, you know, he's, he's the only guy out there from

California that knows what's up.

And so pretty sure I'm going to become the taco guy in my neighborhood.

And it was also the show we talked about expensive beers.

And he goes, or excuse me, cheaper beers at airports.

I guess it was expensive beers.

So that beer prices.

Yeah, it was expensive beers at airports.

Yeah, that's what it was.

Because he goes, I believe your list.

I spent $15 on a Gordon Biersch hef at the Detroit airport.

I was like, yikes.

So anyways, thanks to Andrew for writing in there.

Also, I tried a new brewery last weekend.

I like my, my research at new breweries has been lacking as of late.

First of all, I mean, I've had everything in the area.

Nothing new is popping up.

But we were back up in Paso as per usual, doing the old wakeboarding thing.

And there's brewing and wine.

Yeah.

This time though, had some beers.

Okay.

Paso Robles Brewing company, I think they opened last year.

We just hadn't made it over there.

Honestly, like, from the looks of things, it looked like a hometown BJ's, you know, you

guys have BJ's out there, right?

Actually, we just recently got one.

Okay.

And we went like a month ago.

And did you like, uh, finish your story?

I don't want to ruin your story with a bad BJ.

No one wants to ruin anything with a bad BJ.

So, uh, you know, we sort of just were not in a huge hurry to try it out, but we, we

finally were like, you know what?

In fact, we were going to go to a different brewery and we had Marty the brew pub with us

and we showed up and like, oh, yeah, no dogs allowed.

I was like, at a fucking brewery?

What is wrong with you?

So we were like, fuck you, we're leaving.

So we went here and they have food at Passover and they're like, oh, yeah, dogs.

No, no problem, come on in.

So had a few other beers.

In fact, we had like half of their, more than half their menu.

We just got two flights, which was like eight of ten of their beers.

And pretty like, their lager was real good.

I liked their hazy.

What else did I like?

There was a few in there that were like, really good.

And I was pleasantly surprised.

I ended up getting a pint at the hazy afterwards.

Like, I was like, this is actually really solid hazy.

The wife really liked the lager.

The pilsner was good.

So, yeah, pleasantly surprised.

It was good time.

So if you're, you know, you really.

Like a beer when you get a full pour after the flight, right?

Yeah.

Because I talked, you know, a few weeks ago about that place we went to.

I didn't even finish the flight, let alone order a beer afterwards, which is crazy.

Yeah, we won't mention names, but.

So anyways, this time I ordered a beer afterwards and I quite enjoyed it.

So cheers to Paso Robles Brewing company.

Yeah.

How was the food?

Did you.

We had some snacks.

We had, what did they call them?

Like pork or rib, something like rib tots or had some cutesy names.

Basically it was like ribs, but like they'd cut most of the bone off.

So it was like a little snack size ribby thing.

Okay.

It was good.

It was exactly what we expected it to be.

My sister got, hey, you know, my sister got married.

What?

Yeah, she was.

That's crazy.

She got like a salad or something and so anyways, yeah, yeah, it was good.

We didn't have a ton, but, you know, it's good what we had.

Cool.

Well, it's good.

Yeah.

Because even decent food at a brewery is gonna bring me back.

True.

You know, especially if the beer is good.

Yeah.

So you wanna hear about sloppy BJ?

I mean, truthfully, not a horrible time.

My wife had heard about this place and they go, she always tries to reel me in by like,

like, oh, hey, there's beer here.

Or it's brewhouse, or a brew pub.

And it's kind of like when people were trying to get me to watch Game of Thrones and they

were like, boobs.

Boobs?

Yeah.

Like, yeah, I got the Internet, fucker.

Yeah, that's crazy, right?

Yeah, boobs, that's all.

So I was like, yeah, we're like, we'll go, we'll try it out.

I have no problem trying out a new place.

I, we pulled up, I assumed it's franchise, just the way everything's set up.

Cause they're everywhere out here.

Never heard of them.

So you get in there and they're promoting all their beer everywhere.

Like BJ's everything.

There's like twelve of them.

And get seated at our table right away, and right on the placard on the table, it said,

like, try our collab with lagunitas.

And then red flag.

They didn't have it on the menu, but I immediately thought, is that a real collab or does

lagunitas just brew their beer?

And then they put the BJ's label on it.

So I start thinking.

So I googled it.

Uh, it said, apparently BJ's does own six breweries throughout the country.

They brew their own beer.

Some of the restaurants have their own, uh, brewing equipment when the ones out here

actually brews their own beer to sustain themselves.

So I found that, uh, to be true.

Right, so that's great.

I ordered their pail to start out just a real classic malty hoppy piney, you know,

everything you'd expect from a classic pale ale.

Mm hmm.

Though I deleted the picture.

I was going to send it to you.

The lacing on the glass was like top notch.

Oh, sexual.

Like, it was like a centerfold worthy lacing on the glass.

It was nice.

It was great.

Like, the beer wasn't special.

Right?

Like I said, it was classic.

I did get their pilsner after that, and it wasn't great.

So I was kind of bummed out on that.

You know, just wasn't like overly crisp and refreshing and, you know, no breadiness.

It was still kind of like malty, and I wasn't here for it.

Sure.

The wings, on the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed their wings.

All right, I think I got a hot honey sauce and can't remember the other one.

The hot honey sauce wasn't very hot, honey.

Or.

Or hot or anything.

Oh, no, I'm sorry.

It was a Nashville sauce.

That one sucked.

Oh, and then whatever.

I love hot and Nashville hot sauce.

I know.

I love Nashville hot.

It's the best.

But this one was just not great.

You didn't by any chance have the Jeremiah red, did you?

The beer?

No, I did not.

Okay.

I haven't been to BJ's in many a year, but from what I remember, Jeremiah Red was pretty

good.

Here, I can look this up real quick.

Well, while you look, I'll tell you two fun BJ's facts that kind of connect to our friends.

Uh, one Monica of petals and pints, used to manage a BJ's restaurant.

Okay.

And then chaz the head brewer, Malibu Brewing, got his start brewing out of BJ's under this

guy Dave, who's the head brewer now at ladyface, which is the brewery that Malibu brewing

is buying to make their second location.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

Small world.

Oh, yeah.

The piranhas pale ale.

That was okay.

Yeah, I remember that name.

That was.

That.

That was the good pale ale.

And maybe I did get the light switch lager or lighthouse logger, whatever the fuck it was

called, but that one wasn't great.

Mm.

Yeah.

I find their beers to be pretty meh for the most part.

Well, yeah.

And especially when you drink, you know, decent enough stuff every day, every weekend,

every time you drink beer.

Like, you know, we kind of do, and.

But, yeah.

Like, I wasn't thoroughly disappointed with it.

Sure.

Which is good.

Our service could have been better.

They served us.

They served my daughter frozen corn dogs.

So that was, like, the worst part about it.

Like, they were still frozen.

They were, like, cold.

Yeah.

Like frozen y cold on the inside.

They were, like, warm on the outside, but then cold.

The frozen on the inside.

So then they just had to go fry some more up.

But they didn't even take it off the receipt, which I thought was bizarre.

Oh, that is a little shitty.

Right?

Like, the guy even felt the inside of the mini corndog.

Yeah.

And was like, oh, yeah, that is cold.

So it's like, you usually take that off and you're like, oh, I'm so sorry about that.

Right.

Or here's a, you know, free dessert instead, or something.

Right.

Or just something to.

Not that you're looking for free shit, necessarily, but.

Correct.

Which is usually how it goes down.

Hey, we're.

So you're not looking to go out and get something served to you that's unedible.

Right?

You know, hey, like, please, like just a little.

Little something, bud.

Yeah.

Weird.

Not even.

Not even like a wink.

No.

Half.

Half a beer for daddy something.

Right.

But no.

So, yeah, I mean, BJ's was fine.

I just, you know, was skeptical and.

Yeah, it's Cheney, but very Cheney.

Yeah.

If you're looking to get fat kid status, you get a pazuki, you know, warm cookie, cold ice

cream.

It's delicious.

I did read that one on the menu.

We did not get one.

I was pretty full from the wings.

Uh, they were pretty large.

Yeah, they were not very, you know, like, you want to get wings and they're, like, super

chewy.

These were not those wings.

These were pretty solid.

Oh, good.

So that's the best.

Yeah, I would say there's, like, solid six out of ten.

Yeah.

Nice.

Oh, before I forget, shout out to Bellevue, Washington, our top listening city of last

week.

Weird.

That's because you said Fremont on the episode.

Maybe.

So I wonder how.

Guarantee.

Yeah, so, no, no, that was Fremont, California that we were talking about.

Well, yeah, but then we started talking about Fremont.

Could have sort of started talking about.

Yeah, maybe we did.

You know, I did a couple weeks ago.

I have a madewest Fremont collab.

Maybe that's what gave me.

Yep.

Can't believe I just remembered that.

So, um, anywho.

Yeah, good times.

What else is going on?

Any, uh, any other research?

Anything going on with you over there?

Um, so it's fall to me because it's September.

Still hot as balls over here.

Still.

It's still pretty hot here.

But we went and did some apple orchard picking today.

Every year we did like a summer thing or a fall thing we try and do every year fall,

because I said it's fall.

And the way the kids school is working out now, the next two months, and we got Disney

coming up and, you know, I work every weekend, and it's just not right to take a day off

just to go apple picking.

So Labor Day.

Happy Labor Day.

Happy Labor Day.

Drove out to this place, peck and bushel.

We've been going there three or four years now.

Really, really nice facility.

And I.

So out there.

And we picked some apples.

Pick some.

Some river bells and some Williams pride and some sansas and what is.

Zestars were terrible.

They were rotting on trees.

I'm assuming there was like, last of the crop.

So they're like, your ability to name apples is impressive.

Well, I just went today, so I remembered them.

Right.

And you're a produce guy, so.

Well, I used to be former.

Yeah, former artists.

Formerly known as yes.

So, yeah, it was a good time.

The cool thing was, so they had this new building in the back because they have, like, this

main building.

It's where you buy your bag to fill the apples.

Okay.

They have all, like, the apple cider donuts in there.

You can get all these apple desserts and pastries, deconstructed caramel apples, some

shopping stuff, whatever.

So then on the backside where they have the orchards, they built this huge building.

And it has, like, lunchy stuff and sandwiches and sodas and beer.

Okay, now I'm in.

So that was neat.

I actually always said every year we went there.

I always thought.

I didn't say.

I did think.

The one thing missing is beer.

It's hot as balls.

Mm hmm.

You're outside, not a cloud in the sky.

Yeah.

70 degree sun with not a cloud in the skyd.

It's hot.

Yeah.

And it's just bacon on you.

It's terrible.

That beer hit so good.

So good.

But yeah.

So we were talking a little before the show because I'm very old.

Right.

We're both close to canes and walkers.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm getting up there in age.

I had to fix my lower back pillow before we recorded.

Yes.

Lumbar support.

Yes.

I got the bad lumbar.

Doctor says I need a bachiotomy.

Right.

You know, I said that line to somebody like, three weeks ago, and they didn't get it, and

it made me really sad.

Oh, sorry about that.

So then getting old.

So, you know when you.

You sleep really bad and you get like, that kink in your neck, right?

Oh, yeah.

Well, I didn't sleep bad.

I actually slept really well.

And then I went downstairs and I continued to feel well.

And then I said, oh, hey, it's Monday.

Let's work out.

Because we work out on Mondays.

That's what we do.

And my workout was great.

And guess what?

Still felt pretty good.

Okay.

Then I went upstairs to shower before we got ready to go apple picking.

And I don't.

I don't even know what happened.

Can't turn my neck to the right.

I am doing a.

The full body turn at the waist just to look to the right.

So we're driving, like, not even driving yet.

I'm pulling out of my driveway, backing out, and I'm trying to turn just to look, you know,

just make sure nobody's there.

And my hands are on the wheel, and I'm just completely turning my entire body sideways to

check.

And.

And then we hit the freeway.

Greg, I've never felt so unsafe in my life on my own doing.

Just trying to check my own blind spot.

Yeah.

You know, nothing like going 75 on the freeway.

Make sure nobody's in your blind spot, and you are completely looking backwards.

You know?

Who knows what's going on in front of me?

I think my hands are in the same place on the wheel.

I don't.

Sweetie, daddy wants to play a little game.

Yeah, let's play the do you see any cars to my right?

Game.

Tell me when you see a cardinal, please.

For my life, and especially yours, please tell me if you see a car.

Whenever I picture you turning without being able to move your head, I hear doctor Eva

going, tuck a.

Tuck a duck.

Yeah.

I feel like if you do the robot.

Yeah, that's what I feel like.

But, yeah, it's terrible.

It's terrible, man.

Getting old.

Yeah.

I'm sore for no reason.

Uh.

My knee is so fucked up right now.

Like, that's what kills me, is I.

I don't even know what I did.

Like, I was having a super solid morning.

Yeah.

And my.

You're like, I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm just getting old.

I've always had knee pains, like, my entire life, I've had knee issues.

And the other day, I said to my wife, I was like, this knee thing that I'm experiencing

right now, I said, I'm a little worried.

It's not, like, knee issues I've ever had before.

She goes, we're gonna go to the doctor.

I was like, fuck no.

Yeah.

Why would you say that?

We got a wakeboarding trip next week to go to.

Hey, lady, I just need you to sit here and hear me complain about this.

Just listen to me, bitch.

Just listen.

Yeah.

What do you think?

I want to do something about it.

Ow.

I said, we got wakeboarding coming up.

What am I gonna do?

Go the doctor?

And he's gonna say, hey, no activity.

Like, okay, I'm not going wakeboarding this weekend or anything.

Yeah.

Oh, thanks.

Thanks for ruining my weekend, doctor.

Right?

Yeah.

It's like, that's just a waste of money.

Cause I'm going wakeboarding, and then in a few weeks, we're going out of the country on a

little trippy poo, and it's like, what am I going to do, walk around with crutches?

No.

I might as well just wait till Christmas to get this looked at.

Well, but then you're going to buy presents during Christmas, so you might as well wait

till after Christmas.

Yeah.

Let's make it February yeah, you don't.

Want to waste that money.

Yeah.

And by February, maybe it'll be better.

Who knows?

Well, February, you're going to be wanting to buy a bunch of tri tips for Valentine's Day,

so.

Right.

You're going to want to put that off then, so.

Yeah, you can't work on your knee while you're buying bunch of tri tips for Valentine's

Day.

Yeah.

So then maybe put it off for next summer.

But then you're going to be wakeboarding all next summer.

Right.

I'll figure it out.

Yeah, just.

Yeah, just complain about it.

Yeah, we'll get to it.

It's almost like that's like medicine, complaining about it.

Yeah, yeah, it makes it feel better.

Yeah.

I figure, like, I'll get my old knee brace out.

Haven't needed that in a long time.

I'll wear it while I'm wakeboarding.

It'll be very stone cold Steve Austin of you.

Yeah.

Should I get the metal knees out?

Yes.

Start cracking more beers out on the wakeboard.

It'd be good stuff.

So.

All right, enough about us being not an old person.

Not an old person.

Rapidly becoming one every second.

I'm getting older, man.

Yeah.

Let me tell you, the joints don't work like they used to, but we did get a voicemail, like

I said, from our homie beer girl, Mel.

Let's see what she's calling about.

Hello, no one is available to take your call.

Please leave a message after the tone.

Hey, Greg.

Hey, flag.

It's your beer girl, Melissa, and I am actually on my way up to my university to do some

skill checks, but I'm listening to the current podcast that just came out today.

It is Wednesday, 821, and I just.

Want to let you guys know that you have a taco guy, but I have a guy literally for

everything.

So I think it's hilarious.

Like, it is an italian thing all the way and obviously probably hispanic thing as well.

Joey's got a guy for everything you need.

You need something for breakfast?

We got a guy.

You need a tire change?

We got a guy.

You need somebody off, you might have a guy depend, you know, you gotta.

Actually, that's a different story.

But of course he's gonna do whatever you need because that's his business.

The business is he's the guy that.

Does everything he needs.

Anyway, I hope you guys are having a great week.

I miss you can't be on the podcast again.

And I'm gonna go back to listening to the current podcast.

I literally stopped it just saving.

Bye, smooches.

Mal.

Love you.

Okay, so two things.

First, sounds like someone's farting in the background.

Oh, I love how italian she sounds when she starts talking like that.

Yeah.

I will not fuck with her.

Number two, the I got a guy thing, right?

My.

My father in law, he's, like, 100% polish.

Just like an enormous pollock.

When I met my wife, I started thinking, this guy is like, the head of the polish mafia,

because he may still be.

He has got a guy for everything.

You need new tires on your car, he's got a guyenne your toilets clogged.

He's got a guy.

You need to install the ceiling fan, and you're mechanically inclined.

He's got a guy, just got a guy.

You need your house painted.

Guess what?

He's got a guy for that, too.

So it's, uh.

It was a running joke for quite some years that he was maybe is the leader of the polish

mafia.

Most likely, yeah.

I wouldn't put it past them.

You haven't been jumped in, though, yet, right?

I, uh.

No, I'm really hoping not to.

Like, uh.

You ever see Mickey blue eyes?

I'm trying to stay, like, out of that.

Got it.

So just nice and easy.

Yeah.

I don't want to get involved.

That makes sense, too.

Pretty.

Yeah, you are real pretty.

Oh, my gosh.

Don't want to fuck that up.

Uh, all right, well, I got a guy who needs to drink a beer.

Let's make that happen for him.

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.

It's fall, y'all.

Ish.

I'm not gonna stop about that.

I've been in full mode for about three weeks now.

Pumpkin spice?

Not yet, but I've been on the Oktoberfest kick, right?

Oh, yeah.

So I've officially had eight Oktoberfests now.

Okay.

Doing the lord's work.

So let's see.

Previously.

Two weeks ago.

A week ago.

A week ago, I had line of kugels, I had Sam Adams, I had new glaris, I had third space, and

I had one other.

It'll come to me.

So, upon that, I've had raised grain, which is a local brewery in a county away from me.

Okay.

I've had MKE brewings, and today on the show, I'm drinking eagle parks because I stopped

there, and I picked it up because I needed it.

MC Hammerschlagen.

That's pretty good.

October fest style lager.

And yes, it does have an eagle and parachute pants.

Fantastic looking.

Like it is doing the MC hammer.

That's a great can art.

Their can art is always phenomenal.

It says it is a fess beer lagerd for over 30 days.

Because Budweiser is not the only one that does that.

Is it Beechwood age?

Yeah, it's not Beachwood age, but lager for 30 days with a deep gold color and subtle

maltiness with a crisp finished.

A great pairing.

To changing seasons here in Wisconsin.

Because it's an Oktoberfest.

Untapped has it rated at a 377, which we all know it's trash.

All imported german malt, german hops and german yeast strain.

Doesn't say specifics on any of those, but they went as german as possible to make the most

german as possible beer.

Makes sense.

Yeah.

So, yeah, on the old sniffer, it is a wicked caramelly, like, super duper sweet caramelly.

Quite lovely, actually.

Gold color also on it.

It's very, very appropriate.

Gold and a little bit of caramel in there.

Yeah, it's.

It's almost like what I would call a caramel colored beer, Greg.

Mm hmm.

Yeah.

So on the old tongue jobber here.

By the way, I looked up tongue jobber in German, it's zungen jobber.

All right.

Well, on the old Zungan jobber is fantastic.

So it's low in carbonation.

I would call it light to medium bodied here.

What I like about it, and this could be an unpopular opinion, it is not overly roasty or

toasty.

Oh.

Which is the fast beer should be pretty clean.

Right.

Um, but like, sometimes you get those oktoberfests and they are really punching, uh,

punching you in the palate with those overly roasted malts.

And, um, this, you just get a lot of that caramel flavor.

And because of that low carbonation on it, it goes down rather smoothly.

It's terrific.

So if I was ranking these, which I had been, and linen kugels was at my top, which it goes

way back for me.

Right.

This has to take the number one spot.

Oh, and the rays grain I had had recently as well.

I think I had that last weekend that actually got to the number two spot because I couldn't

believe how good that was.

Knocked down to number three.

But, well, no, no.

So it was number one.

Oh, now it's number two.

Got it.

Now it's number two.

Who does number two work for?

Bite your lip and give it hell.

We're going to get through this.

So here's.

Here's the question for you.

In all your Oktoberfest research, this is probably the first fest beer you've come across

that's labeled an oktoberfest.

Right?

Well, so see, here's the deal.

On the can.

On the front of the can, it says Oktoberfest style beer or lager.

I'm sorry.

And then it calls itself a fest beer in the description.

Hmm.

So I don't know.

I don't know specifications here.

Cause I looked it up just to make sure I was correct.

And I was.

A Marzin is a little darker, a little richer, a little heavier, and has a little more

alcohol.

So fespir is, you know, the cleaner chug.

Well, this one hits it five nine.

Yeah.

It's just under the appropriate 6% of a Martin Martin, which goes five one to 6%.

Yeah.

So anyways, nerd shit.

So maybe it's not, you know, maybe it is just a classic Oktoberfest style.

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe so.

And this is for everyone out there wanting to know how to say Zungen Jobber.

Tsungen Jobber.

There you have it.

That's what Google Translate.

Song.

And Jabba, so hard.

So hard right now, let me tell you.

Hopefully, everybody busts out their Zungan jobbers.

In the next couple weeks and sprays their fest beer everywhere.

Yeah, get out.

Get on those October fests if they're Zungan jobber.

That's right.

Before we move on to news one.

Man, one Zoogen jobber.

Or was it un noon?

Unz?

What's one in german eyes vine tri is zungen Jobber.

Maybe we should have a Google translate, do the whole thing for us.

An all german show in all Germany.

Yeah.

Very robotic.

Before we get on to news, I want to make sure and give a shout out to Jeff over at

Wondercorn.

Jeff hit me up on the gram the other day.

Was like, hey, I like your shit.

You guys obviously are into beer.

We are making.

We're this new company that's making snacks to be had with beer.

Can I send you some?

I'm like, I mean, pope shit in the woods.

Like wonder corn.

Wonder corn on the gram.

Wonder underscore and corn.

Wonder corn snacks.com.

anyways, it's corn shocking.

That has, like, flavors on it.

And instead of being like a corn nut where it's, you know, like, crunchy all the way

through, whatever he does, like, he just, like, fry flash fries it or some shit.

It's crunchy on the outside.

It is soft on the inside.

It's.

I've never had anything like.

It's interesting.

Erica, I'm not cheating on you.

Neck nosh is still the best beer snack due to its portability and accessory fashion

accessoriness, but a huge shout out.

And thank you to Jeff for sending over some of that wonder corn and their local, their

Ventura county company, which I was like, yeah, man, let's.

Let's support locals.

So send them on.

Would you say it's Wunderkorn?

That's exactly what I.

We haven't had all of them yet.

So far.

Of the ones we've had, sea salt and vinegar.

Is the jam okay?

I do like salt.

Yeah, it's.

It's pretty good.

So, uh, so thanks to Jeff Wondercorn.

Go, go check him out on the gram or wondercorn snacks.com.

i swear, they're not sponsored.

He just hooked it up, and I told him, I was like, hey, man, if it's good, I'll mention on

the show.

And it was good.

So here I am mentioning on the show.

So thanks for.

Thanks for the hookup, wunderkorn, with their Zungen jobber.

This is gonna go all of Oktoberfest.

Not gonna stop all of Oktoberfest nine.

Maybe even to Halloween.

Does Halloween for no reason.

All right, a little news before we get on out.

Get on up out of here.

Those are hard words to say.

Thanks to Scott for sending this story over.

Thank you, Scott.

You're the hero that we waited for, Scott.

We won't ever forget.

A woman was taken to a hospital and needed several stitches after being struck with a

flying beer can during a promotional event for Hulk Hogan's new beer brand.

Amazing, the incident.

I mean, I'm sorry, lady, but this is so fucking great.

Cause Hulk is such an ass clown these days.

He really is.

Really is.

They also, I watched.

I looked this up further to get, like, more information on it, and I found a news story, a

local news story, and it was like the video from the newscast.

And apparently, before the incident happened, he was up on stage and dropped a couple of

racial references again.

I was like, oh, God, hulk, just.

Just get out while you can, dude.

Any hoosal.

The incident happened a couple weeks ago while former wrestling star was on a tour of

northeast Ohio promoting his real american beer brand.

According to a Medina Township Police Department incident report, officer officers were

called to the thirsty cowboy on Medina Road just before 05:30 p.m.

humor, Ohio.

Come on down to the thirsty cowboy.

We're immediately notified by the victim's daughter that her 50 year old mother had been

hit in the head with a beer thrown from the stage and that she was bleeding.

Officers made contact with the 50 year old.

Why do they keep reiterating that she's 50?

And found her holding her head with a towel pressed to the wound.

The woman told police she turned her head and dropped to the floor when the beer hit her.

According to the police report, witnesses first told police that the beer that hit the

woman was thrown by Hogan himself, but other witnesses later told them it was a different

crew member who was throwing beers from the stage like a baseball pitch, in quotes, instead

of tossing.

Wow.

Just fucking beaming them into the crowd, blasting them.

Yeah.

Due to conflicting information from numerous patrons, it is unclear who threw the beer that

injured the woman, the report reads.

Police said there was an excessive amount of people at the bar.

The woman's husband applied pressure and iced the wound until paramedics arrived and her

husband drove her to a Medina hospital for treatment.

The woman's daughter told police that her mother received nine stitches in her head near

her hairline and that the family was watching for concussion symptoms.

Wait, wait.

Near her hairline?

Mm hmm.

I'm.

No, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

I know where you're going.

Sounds like she bladed herself.

It does sound like she pulled the old, dusty roads.

She also clarified that they were still unsure of who threw the beer that injured her

mother, but they reached out to a lawyer in hopes of obtaining close circuit television

footage that could shed more light on the incident.

Why are we still caught a closed circuit television?

It's fucking security cameras, people.

But, yeah.

Like, they actually had a cameraman there.

Like, so weird.

That's such an eighties term, but yeah.

Brother, maybe you should watch where you're fucking throwing those cans.

Yeah.

Or tell your crew not to toss them like jig offs.

It's ridiculous.

Yeah.

Doing their best fucking pitcher impression out there.

An idiot.

Uh, haven't they ever watched stone cold drink beers in the ring?

No one fucking beams them to stone cold.

They toss them high.

Yeah, you're lobbing them in the air.

Lobbing them.

Idiots.

Uh, good news for New York residents.

New York governor passes direct to consumer shipping for hard cider and spirits.

Governor Kathy signed Senate Bill Cess two, HIV a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah into law

allowing direct to consumer shipping from in and out of state manufacturers.

The new law will go into effect 90 days after signature, just in time for the upcoming

holiday season.

The New York Cider association said in a press release.

Saturn spirits producers were temporarily allowed to ship DTC during the Covid-19 pandemic,

but those allowances ended when pandemic related executive orders expired.

Wine producers have been able to ship DTC to New York residents since 2005.

Beer.

DTC shipping is nothing permitted.

How can you send cider but not beer?

Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

I call horseshit.

But also, any baby step forward is.

A.

Yeah, baby steps to overturn these archaic Budweiser post prohibition laws.

Anything we can do.

And New York is one of those shitty states, too, because I know Mel with the whole beer

world thing, right.

She said they're one of the worst states to bring in or take out of.

Oh, I could see that.

So that, you know, like I said, any.

Any step moving forward and laying, you know, letting go of these laws, it's super solid.

Yeah.

California is surprisingly good about that kind of stuff and allowing it to happen.

Good.

Yeah.

For all.

For all of the complaints that people have about California.

We're pretty alcohol friendly out here, so come on over and get hammered with us.

A new Belgium finds a buyer for Magnolia brewing.

The San Francisco based Magnolia brewing is changing hands once again.

Kieran owned little.

Excuse me?

Kieran owned Lion.

Little World beverages acquired the brewery as part of the 2019 acquisition of New Belgium.

The terrible name.

I know.

In 2017, New Belgium had partnered with Dick Cantwell and the Great Beer dig.

Yeah, that's totally a poor name.

To acquire the brewery for 2.7 million as part of a 2017 bank process.

Kieran's us operations, now known as New Belgium Brewing.

How creative.

Began planning a divestment of magnolia in February.

The company secured a buyer on August 13.

The new ownership group includes Brandon Phillips of 21st amendment, neighborhood bar owner

Kevin Kinoke, and Brian Rickau from consulting firm the specialistas who helped guide the

brewery through its bankruptcy.

Um, so, yeah, there you go.

You need a guy in on the streets.

That was great.

They got a guy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You just get the guy on the street.

He'll.

He'll get you places.

Yeah, he knows.

He knows what's going on.

That's true.

You just always need a guy for something.

That's what we've learned.

The local bar manager.

Yeah, it's so good.

It's so good.

It's so nondescript.

Neighborhood bar owner.

Yeah, Kevin.

It feels very like, hey, guys, I got, like, $300 in savings.

Who wants to go in on this?

Right?

Like, they just.

They needed somebody else, like a man of the people.

Yeah.

We got to make this think like, it was like a.

Like the little guy won kind of thing, right?

Well, it's like when Magic Johnson bought the Dodgers.

I think he's like the lowest percentage stakeholder of the Dodgers, but, you know, he's the

face they put out there because La loves magic, right?

They do.

So it's.

You know, it's all.

It's all about the optics.

All right, we'll end with this one.

Sapporo slash stone.

I guess they're just Sapporo stone now, aren't they?

Workers start a union drive in Virginia.

Sapporo stone workers in Virginia have begun a union drive.

Workers at a Sapporo stone Richmond facility are seeking higher pay, more consistent

scheduling and better working conditions.

Per the report, last Monday afternoon, an organizer with the International Brotherhood of

Teamsters Local 322 delivered a request for recognition to Joel Pippman, Sapporo Stone VP

of brewing operations.

The proposed bargaining unit includes 90 working workers, including brewery workers,

maintenance, warehouse and hospitality workers.

A Sapporo Stone spokesperson.

Easy for me to say.

Share the following statement with brewbound today we are approached by the Teamsters

regarding potential unionization of our RVA team.

We respect the right of our team members to choose or not to choose how to get that in

there, whether they want to be represented by a union.

We agree with our team members desire for the best possible workplace and we believe this

is the best, and we believe this is best accomplished without a union.

Taking care of our team is our number one priority.

Yeah, it's.

Yeah, they're probably just like.

Well, we need 90 new workers.

Wonder if Kevin, the local bar owner, hasn't.

He's a real stand up guy.

Hey, he knows some guys.

He's got a guy for everything.

Oh, fuck.

Guys.

Gotta have a guy get.

Need one.

Yeah, you just need guys.

So, anywho, that's it.

Let's.

Let's wrap things up over here.

I'm gonna say hi to Vanessa.

Hi, Vanessa.

Hello.

Hello.

Follow us on the socials at Crafty Republic at Flex me a beer.

Underscores in between.

Shout out again to Jeff from Wonder corn as well as Andrew from Ventura county.

Beer.

Thanks, everybody.

Crappier public.com mail@craftyrepublic.com 80553.

Beer.

It's 2337.

I think that's everything.

Hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated.

And on that note, good night, everybody.