Oh, honey, I was married at 22.
I was definitely getting it in that you can put on the blue.
Yeah.
Not that kind of show.
After dark. I thought that.
I thought this is mine.
This is in my interview.
This is my audition.
Yeah. This is the pilot episode.
Our interim music is just a zipper, followed by some seventies porn.
About to go.
Yeah.
Oh, zip.
Yeah.
So everybody.
In the set of the beer can cracking.
Music. It's going to be zip.
Yeah.
Maybe followed by a yo, yo.
Yo, yo, yo, yo.
That's perfect. Oh, we are classy.
All right.
Here comes some not porn music.
Welcome in, everybody.
It's a craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking and thanks for joining.
I joined by
the Buffs over there on the Midwest.
And that's that's that flex you guy.
How's it going?
Yeah, it's going pretty well over here.
Or not there or there. Yeah, yeah.
Over there.
Yeah.
Over here. Over there.
Nailed it. And.
And here to tell us how bad all of our accents
are from the East Coast, which is the Beast Coast.
I don't fucking know. It's been. Girl.
What up? What up?
Yeah.
You're not the best now.
They're awful for lighting is fantastic.
Tonight she's got this whole Rembrandt thing going.
All the filmmakers out there, like, oh, really?
Everyone else is like, What the fuck is Rembrandt lighting?
It's like a model. Shoot that.
That's what it's like.
Yeah, it's like one side's got a little more darkness.
The other side. It's it's what you want when you're.
When you're shooting interviews and movies and whatnot.
Anyways, I'll get off of that and I'll say.
Check us out.
Another social's at beer girl underscore Melissa Flex me a beer
underscore is in between and the easiest one
because there are no underscores craft beer republic everybody
and don't forget promo code unfiltered if you're on the old tavor
oh we got a lot to get to today We have a voicemail from the homie
chew your beer classic Yeah always
and we got some booze news to talk about, including some weird fucked up.
I don't know what the hell is going on.
A brewery closed, then opened and closed and open.
And I'm so confused
and some Thanksgiving fallout.
So anyways, let's get on to some hydration and answer
the most important question
of the night.
Without further ado,
the suspense tonight flex's drinking only in Wisconsin.
New Glarus Brewing Raspberry Tart New.
Glarus.
New Glarus Yeah. Try and get it.
I dare you. Just kidding. You can get it from trades,
but I know I've talked to.
Others working on it right now.
Yeah, that frickin guy wanted to love that guy.
I know.
I've talked about this beer on the show before pretty highly.
Just because a while how good it is it's
seasonal beer they do here
on untapped get this Gregg
48,900 ratings.
And it's got four points.
No point to say I've used it I was about to die and be like
come on scale even go up that.
There there are no IVs. Anymore.
That's a way to go for flex.
Just under 49,000 reviews and there's a 4.2 overall rating
that's that's obnoxious. Yeah.
It's got a Stone esque description.
Can we say that anymore? Can we say that.
It was annoying whether they're craft or not?
Okay, fair enough. Yeah. So.
So strap in, everybody. Yeah, strap in this.
It's four 4% lambic from Bois.
Is that is that correct. From what.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm talking I say. I'm not even French.
Checked that yet.
So ladies and gentlemen,
treat yourself to a rare delight.
The voluminous raspberry bouquet will greet you long
before your lips touch your glass Serve this Wisconsin from Bois
very cold in a champagne flute Then hold your glass to a light
and enjoy the jewel like sparkle of a very special ale.
Oregon.
Oregon, whatever proudly shares their harvest of mouth
watering berries, which we ferment spontaneously in large oak vats.
Then we employ Wisconsin farmed wheat and year old howler
Tull hops to round out this extravaganza of flavor.
Woo Done.
I mean, I can't breathe after that description, I was like, Thank you.
Or you while you spoke.
And I'm really excited to hear what is well-written.
Well written, but I think you've earned yourself that.
Be Yeah. Well, I'm thirsty. Yeah.
I love a good Lambic.
Can I just tell you this real quick?
So when I was like 16, 17 years of age, I had some family members
who would bring some lambics to Christmas and whatnot,
and then just kind of everybody would, you know, dabble in try them out.
Peach Lambic cherry raspberry, so on and so forth.
And it was actually a brand.
Yeah, I think that's exactly what it was.
And that so that was actually like one of the first beers
fruited beers, whatever I've ever had.
And you know, they're delicious.
So on the schnoz here, tons of raspberry.
Do you ever smell a beer?
And you just go, wow, that that smells sour?
Like, I don't know if there's, like, a scientific description to what that is.
But sure, we call it funky, right?
Like when you get like a really good sour, like a farmhouse ale, it's funky.
When I think funk,
I think like that farmhouse, like sweats, kind of like really mature.
Like, yeah.
Hey, festering.
Fruits that have been fermenting.
Because. I was like, well, like. Sometimes.
A sweaty sock.
That's what the fuck, you.
Know, this is then. This is not funky male.
There's no sweat, there's no socks, there's no hair.
It just smells like.
Like sour tart.
Yeah.
Sometimes you just stick your nose in something,
and the only descriptors like it smells, like, sour to me that makes total sense.
Yeah, it's.
It's like, you know, super light raspberry and then, like, sour.
So then as we warm up the old tongue jobber. Oh.
Excellent. More for.
Luck. We've just got to make sure.
Everybody out there driving your cars.
I hope you pulled over first. If.
Someone's driving with the boner.
So I'll be super, super heavy on red.
The raspberry flavor.
It's sweet.
And then on the back end, you definitely get a little bit of a tartness,
but it's not overbearing like a like a sour ale or anything like that.
It's like
probably the most well-balanced beer I've ever had in my entire life
when it comes to, like, the fruit flavor to the sweetness
and you know, then into tartness is phenomenal.
One more sip here.
Well-deserving of that. Yeah.
Point and or.
Yeah, it's a 4.2.
It's a little bit carbonated and not too much
super light bodied
finishes.
Not extremely dry, but definitely a little bit dry.
A little bit. Just came back up on the gas.
I think I.
Heard that through the month though with my body just do that.
And I had no idea.
I didn't. Even.
Know that I.
Thought it was me.
It came through the and flex.
Maybe it felt the smell.
I hope you can smell it.
Geez, maybe we can edit that out.
No, I think it's a selling point of this podcast.
This is a 100% phenomenal beer.
There should be five, five out of five a cumulative rating on wow, 100%.
This is stellar.
I love to describe a lambic or in my opinion, because obviously I'm
very immature and I know we never want to say smooth.
And that's not what I was going to say here in this case.
But like it always has such
a creamy kind of mouthfeel and it's very like tangy almost.
That's kind of what I loved about the Lambics
that it's champagne, but it's also rich and luxurious,
and it makes me feel like I'm drinking something expensive.
That's not beer. I feel you on that.
Yeah. Do you think.
Do you think tangy and tart or kind of one in the same, or do you think.
That there's. A difference in that?
I think for me, the tanginess includes that creamy kind of mouthfeel.
I think for me, that's what tangy is.
It's got the tart, plus that velvety flavor and texture, fun fact.
That's how I got Diana to try beer for the first time.
My friend is a wine drinker and I'm like,
You should do this segment for Beer World.
And I'd get her to try stuff and be like, Will you like this?
All right. And it's beer. And that was the first one.
And we kind of piloted our tastings together on that.
I've done that also,
like when I have a one of my good friends, his wife does not or did not drink beer.
And in order to bring her over to the dark side, we start with sours
and we especially like the barrel fermented ones that really have
that sour fruitiness
not like the bullshit, you know, popsicle sours or whatever, like.
Real.
Fruity real sours, but not not too crazy tart.
But we've, we've brought her over and now, you know, we can share a lot of sours
and Berliners and goes is we love stuff like that that's exciting.
Dig in you know the IPAs and that's that for the most part.
But I think sours are a good gateway.
Absolutely. I agree. 100%.
IPAs are not going anywhere, but they're also not
really what beer is 100%, even though we love them a lot.
Well, as you said, just because we love them.
Doesn't mean everybody does.
They are not for everybody. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Took my wife a long time to come around on the IPA.
Now she's starting to drink mine. And I wish you'd go back to
Dick to your lager than your sours.
Leave my boys alone, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're all his boys.
Everyone like, within or outside of a hundred mile
radius of Wisconsin is very, very jealous right now. So.
Yeah, we actually have so funny story.
I hooked up with the couple of Illinois folk earlier this summer from the gram.
Major to our.
Sunny sipping and the beer brewing Newark her husband
and they live they live like northern Illinois.
They were up here in Wisconsin for a wedding or something like that.
They actually drive up across the border,
hit a grocery store in southern Wisconsin
and just load up on the new glarus spotted cow and whatnot.
Yeah.
And then because of that conversation, I also found out that there's
this one store in southern Wisconsin and they're the number one
sales
point for New Glarus brewing in the entire state.
Because of that reason alone, that everybody just jumps
the border, buys the beer, Smokey and the Bandit back to Illinois.
Yeah. That's funny. That's.
Yeah, it makes sense, though. All very good.
So, guys enjoying the world capital a.
Little bit here and there?
You know, I am.
I've watched about 48 seconds of it and that was 49 seconds too much.
Oh, you're killing me.
Can't stand it.
I don't care.
And boy, am I laughing my ass off at all
the idiots that went to the World Cup and are sober as fuck right now.
Didn't they have high end tickets,
though, that you could drink if you spent like $20,000?
Well, so here.
Here is what I was under the impression.
Okay, so you can't drink in the country of Qatar.
Is that what it is?
You can sort there's very.
Few. Places you can drink.
You can you can't be drunk.
And that's what I was under the impression of, is they were going to have
certain sections in the stadiums where you were going to be able to drink.
And then if you got drunk,
you weren't allowed to leave the stadium until you were quote unquote, sober.
And then it was about two days
before the tournament actually started and they said, you know what?
Yeah, we're not we're not going to we're not going to do anything.
You can't drink here.
Yeah, we all heard that.
Yes, that's the. Story I.
I did hear that there's one,
like Budweiser tent, like just outside the stadium,
only one for the entire stadium that holds something like 90,000 people.
And if you want real beer, you have to line up.
And I hear the the line is hours long.
Otherwise, inside the stadium, all you can get is the Budweiser and a beer.
So I don't I haven't confirmed that there's that 110.
But someone told me that who knows?
But yeah, such bullshit and Budweiser is pissed.
They want money back from FIFA.
They were huge sponsor.
Yeah.
Promised to have their beer everywhere and. Yeah.
And their sponsors,
their sponsorships are still all around like the stadiums and whatnot.
But it's not the same.
It's not like
when people aren't drinking your product and you're right, like the logo.
But great.
So you know, as much as we harp on Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser
and all of their garbage that they produce,
did you hear what they're doing with all the unsold beer
that was supposed to go country? Gets it.
Yeah, I think that's actually pretty fucking cool.
Yeah. So they whatever.
Whatever. Yeah.
Whatever country wins, the World Cup is going to get all the unsold beer
that was supposed to go to Qatar for the World Cup.
Yeah, they're actually asking for almost 47 and a half million dollars
back of their 112 million original sponsorship.
And then whoever wins gets this giant like warehouse full of beer.
It's the
I mean, fair enough.
Wrong celebration. Go nuts.
I saw a headline today also about people
that were wearing Rainbow were not allowed to either enter.
I don't know if they got it. I don't think anybody got arrested.
There's a big to do about that today.
So I think somebody just sat there during the Portugal Uruguay match up today.
There is a streaking not a streaking fan because they weren't naked,
but they ran onto the field and across a field with a pride flag.
So I don't. Know.
That was obviously a protest.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
I was like in Qatar. I don't know how that holds up.
So hopefully it's not done by, like, country law.
Yeah, yeah.
What a shit show.
What a.
We don't need to spend time on this but know corrupt fucked up I.
I couldn't agree more.
FIFA needs to be disbanded but fuck soccer and fuck FIFA.
So I mean, we're American, we call it soccer.
We're the only country.
So hey, we've got football.
We were like soccer.
Football is so bad, we're going to invent a completely different sport
and give it the same fucking name.
It is so fucking boring.
By golly, we did it. We turned it around.
We are the best country in the world.
So clearly that's the truth.
Right? Mercredi your first Mirka.
Mirka and Budweiser.
You're right, my trop.
Enjoy your 45. Yeah.
Good night, everybody.
What else we've got?
Oh, next week, guys, make sure you tune in.
I have my interview with Ryan and Chaz of Malibu
Brewing, which I'm very excited to finally released everybody.
In fact, right now I'm drinking their October,
which I guess is like technically a month to late,
but I'm drinking the October 1st, which is a fast beer,
not a marathon like the, you know, as typical, but it's so good super light.
It's like five and a half a million.
Again, your 5.9% drinks like it's fucking for you.
A little toffee, little honey. Just a hint of sweetness.
But I like that it's not too sweet.
Just. It's just real easy. Drinking hot day.
Cold day doesn't fucking matter. Beer.
You know, I love when those best beers hit almost at 6%.
Mark And it feels like you're just drinking like a everyday lager.
That's. You know what I mean?
It's yeah.
It's like, can you please stop making such delicious beer?
Exactly. But please. This a little worse next. Year.
It's really causing a problem in his house.
Drinkable and feeling nice.
No, thanks. Yeah.
One or the other can never be both. Yeah.
Oh, and next week, families in the area, they're doing their
I forget exactly what they're calling it.
It's basically a brewmasters dinner where the
they're pairing beers with the food from the chef
and they're doing like a whole, you know, guided dinner tasting.
And I'm trying to go to it.
But work has been a real son of a bitch.
So we'll see if I get to make that. But I'm down super good.
Their food is so good.
So if you're in the area.
Just tell work about it and have it be like a meeting there.
Right?
Are you coming down with a little something?
It sounds like you have a little bit of a tickle in your throat
and I don't know if you know, but everybody in America is sick right now
except for the three of us.
No, you know what I'm going down with?
I'm coming down with being an idiot for eating dinner right before we recorded it.
So it's more of a little need to make, but I don't want to make everyone
listen to that.
I get that, too.
Is that is that like an old timey thing now?
Like, am I getting old? Is that what that means?
I know is the weather turns like the last week it's been cold here.
By cold I mean like, you know, high fifties, sixties.
As the weather turns, my vote, my allergies,
you know, do a little song and dance.
And so I do a little extra.
And see.
I always used to make the excuse that I just need something spicy.
And then when I would eat something that wasn't spicy,
I would still just sit there like.
Oh. Yeah, can the nurse tell us that?
That's complete bullshit?
I mean, not necessarily because I've been doing it the entire time.
What's my excuse?
So we're just getting fucking old, I guess.
Or not.
Been right since 2019.
The end of that year, everything's been fucked.
So for me, it's like anything like greasy.
Like I had some taco. Oh, yeah.
Your acid reflux. You didn't know? It makes you have a dry cough.
That's actually true.
No, no.
Well, I have tons of acid reflux, but this is such a great show.
It's just in my throat.
It's going to be look, it's not like the acid.
It's different.
It's just like I had grease sitting around in my in my teeth.
Just feel like it's stuck in your throat.
But that is called acid reflux. Just right here we.
Got to do a Christmas song.
But instead of, like, singing or music, we just got to do, like the throat
clearing grunts.
I mean, I've been told
that it's a little gravelly and a little sexy,
so I'm just going to try to capitalize off of this.
No know.
Yeah, you. Take it or. Run with that.
That's going to be my retirement job.
Get yourself a 900 number, girl.
Yeah.
Mel's going to, like, find the Dusty's room in the house and put her little phone
headset on.
Thank you for calling. One 800 hot Italians.
To speak to.
Mel. I mean, not my real name.
But shit, not Mel.
How can I make you happy tonight? Hey, baby.
So you got anything spicy?
You got a meatball bomber?
How big is your hero?
I like my men.
How I like my bread hard.
Got to be a little crispy.
Your bread is not crispy. You're doing it wrong.
Nice looking loaf.
Well, there's medication for that. Luckily.
Oh, what else we got? Great.
Yeah, let's move on. This.
This has quickly.
Turned into CBR After Dark, which they debut in soon.
I think Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving happened the most embarrassing of of our holidays
where we celebrate how we killed a bunch of people.
But at least, you know, you get to hang around with people
sometimes, like the night before or excuse me, the night after we went
to Knotty Pine because Lindsay Frey, who's like our favorite local artist,
was performing and ran into listener Michael, who.
I think.
It was like 7:00 our time, which meant is 9:00 flex's time.
You're really going to put me on blast, aren't you?
He goes, Hey, you think Flex's elbow was like, Doubt it.
He goes, Well, find out and ask him when he's drinking.
He won't respond.
And it like like, hey, are you up and what are you drinking?
And I got to respond to it like three in the morning.
Three in the morning. Yeah. You did do it, though.
I was going to say I would never even try.
Yeah, they sent me a message.
He said, Hey, what are you drinking, Michael?
Listener Michael wants to know.
I told him you probably wouldn't be up and I said, Nope, I wasn't up.
You know, so predictable.
Didn't sleep in at 8 p.m.. Oh.
That's late for him. That's. Yeah.
I think last week I wasn't, I didn't see past 730.
Any night of the week.
I just can't do that. But, but yeah.
So, you know, Thanksgiving happened.
We made I told I told the parents who it's always at the parents house.
I usually end up doing most of the cooking.
And I said, Hey, tell the turkey to go fuck itself this year.
I'm tired of eating dry ass turkey.
Let's get some fucking steaks going.
So I convinced them to do tried tips.
So ice
stuck him in the SUV for like 4 hours,
finished him for, like, 10 minutes on the grill. Hmm.
They probably came out so good. So good.
It's like my favorite Thanksgiving meal.
I like that interpretation to a Thanksgiving.
I like. Yeah, it was. It was a nice change, you know?
No, no more dry ass turkey.
So what about you guys? Mel, how was your.
Oh, we we did the New York thing.
We actually brought the kids down.
We went to the parade.
So that was so much fun.
We had a blast there and not being sarcastic.
It was really, really nice.
It's like 60 degrees and not windy at all.
So it's never happen again in our lifetime.
But the balloons were writing perfect.
People were so happy.
New York was in full swing.
And then we went down to some of my husband's family in Long Island.
I didn't eat turkey.
I didn't eat any turkey,
but only because I thought it was the pasta course portion.
And it turned out it was just a free for all.
So I'm like, So we always do like a pasta course.
All the Italians, you can hear me, right?
So it's as you're looking at me like, yeah.
I just don't what pasta coarsely.
I mean like a.
His every word like if you're Italian you always do a pasta course multiple.
Courses at Thanksgiving dinner. That's nuts.
Yeah. Okay let's.
Let's these. Are let's pre-game a turkey feast with. Pasta.
Yes. With pasta and bread.
And that. Doesn't that doesn't.
Translate to the or. Yeah.
At what point do you get that crispy bread.
Oh, that's that's all day long.
The bread actually was phenomenal.
They really have some great Italian markets right where you live in on.
The rest is.
Just going to.
You know, it's not it's just going to sound stupid on my part.
So I'm like, you know, you always have to bring something.
So of course you bring wine.
We bring some of his grandmother's favorite cherries
that reminded her of her son.
And that was the whole reason why we
we were there, because she's getting a little bit older.
But anyway, I digress.
So I'm like, Oh, Uncle Joe, let me help with the tortellini.
So I'm like, watching the water boil and watching a boil.
I'm watching it boil. Like, when's it going to boil? Where am I going?
But he's like, What do you do? And just put it in?
So I put it in, made a lovely sauce.
We're eating, we cleaned up.
I'm kind of watching like everybody mill around and just like
go full force at all of these other chafing dishes that are around.
There's probably like 35 different
not thinking much of it because they still have appetizers out
and then they're like, all right, dessert's ready.
Let's put it all on. Like having a dinner.
They're like, where have you been?
Did you drink all of the wine that you ordered?
Yeah.
I mean, I really kind of wasn't I was trying to be on my best behavior,
but I mean, maybe, I don't know, I just got lost in the sauce,
I guess, and missed out on the turkey.
Dreaming about that crispy bread.
Yeah, but overall, it was really nice.
It was a really good time with some of the family we don't see very often.
So that's good.
That's neat.
Flex How about you guys?
Oh, man, I worked. On Thanksgiving Day.
Yeah, like 4 a.m. to noon.
I got in a pretty sweet lift
because I'm a workout turkey,
and then we just usually cruise over to the in-laws.
We had three turkey breasts this year.
Two were smoked, one was oven roasted, one was like dry rubbed
with Cajun seasoning and it was actually like super, super
fucking phenomenal and is probably my favorite.
And then there is like another lemon butter
injected turkey breast and that was also very good.
But also the highlight of the night was at my father in law.
So story of dinners at my in-laws is I usually bring my own beer, right?
They'll carry coolers like the Michelob Ultra.
They have the little the little shorty bottles of Miller High Life,
you know, which are which are adorable. And I'll drink. But
I walk into my
in-laws house and I'm already kind of at my limit.
I'm just kind of I mean, I need to drink at this point.
Yeah.
And I open up the fridge to put my beers in
and I see there's already a couple craft beers in there.
My God, that's kind of weird.
I wonder if somebody just brought these over for some other dinner and left them.
So I took one because I didn't think anybody else would drink them.
And as I'm sitting down just shooting this shit with my father
and he goes, Hey, you, you're getting the beers I brought you.
And I was like, Wow, that's the coolest fucking thing
that my father in law is the one who purposely brought beer for me.
That's nice, you know?
You know, because he know, he knows. He knows.
I don't like like the domestic crap and I'll try and get him
like some nice craft lagers because that's what he likes to drink.
So if I ever find,
you know, just any good brewery around here putting out like a nice
Czech Pils or German Pils or
Helus Lager, you know, I'll pick it up and drop it off for him.
So I just thought that was like a super cool thing to kind of reciprocate the, uh,
the old like, it's like a bond, you know?
Yeah, right.
That's that.
That to me is like, yeah, that's like, what, Thanksgiving was all about for me.
That totally made by night.
You really get along with your in-laws, though, right?
Yeah, they're great.
They give you a really nice the lifting the squat thing last year for Christmas.
Yeah. I got yeah.
My jokes got bar for Christmas.
So it sounds really stupid that every fuckin person listening right now.
But people that know that.
But yes I'd say not everybody shreds got a total boner right out.
I just think it's the thoughtfulness.
Like they're really thinking about what you like,
what you care about, and they care about you.
So I think that yeah.
They fucking care 110%.
And yeah, I really lucked out in the in-law department.
You need to blow his mind and, like, hook them up with, like, a Czech dark lager.
Yeah. Be like, hey, this is a lager.
And then pour that shit and like, try it.
Well, see, and I thought about that.
I just picked up that Schwartz beer from Eagle Park
that I was talking to you about a couple of days ago.
And I actually thought about that.
I was like, I wonder if this is okay for him,
you know, because you do get it's pretty heavy on like the chocolaty, like,
you know, dark roasted notes, but it's still so light
bodied that it just I don't know, it blows my mind.
It doesn't make sense to me how something can be so flavorful,
but still be like, so light and drinkable.
So maybe
I'll have to pour that out for him one day and let you know what he thinks.
I'm excited to find out.
The beer nerd in me is like I wonder if he like it.
Oh daddy know that I love picking out
beer for people that don't drink craft beer
just based on their preferences in life and see if I nail it or not.
That's I love nailing it.
Like like I know some at earlier who we converted on some sours.
So we're like all the same person.
Yeah. If you get it, it's pretty good.
If you get it, it's pretty good from anybody.
You have nailed it. Okay.
Because they don't drink craft beer.
So pretty good to them means that they would drink it a second time.
And for me, that's a win.
Yeah, that's enough.
Yeah. Yeah. My barometer is always.
Would you go buy it?
Oh, never even.
Oh, I'm going to have to ask that question. Yeah, yeah.
Because like, oh yeah, that's pretty good.
Like would you go buy it or.
No, I'm getting yeah.
Know it's like okay so it's not as good as you say.
Yeah. Anyhow, all right.
Before we get to the homie, choose voicemail, let's make a call to pen.
Find out what Mel's drinking over there.
As you guys know.
Well, maybe they don't know, Greg, but let me just enlighten your listeners
that nothing ever goes right between Greg and myself.
It always goes wrong.
And some people call that Murphy's Law.
So I thought, why not go ahead and grab the district 96?
This is Murphy's Law.
And if you don't know about New Jersey
Breweries, learn about them because fuck the governor.
Yes. Murphy were talking about you.
There's a whole series of
collaborative brews that the 96 is doing with New Jersey Breweries
to kind of bring to light what's going on in New Jersey
and this happens to be their first collab, which is with Goshawk.
It's a dipa it's 8%.
It is almost gone because it's just so delicious.
Juicy. Nice finish.
Looks really.
Is it?
You know what?
It's really kind of like for a 96 beer.
They're a lot thicker usually, and you always get a lot of snake fruit,
which is like their go to flavor snakes.
Snake fruit. Look it up.
The fuck is that?
Snake fruits.
It's like, do you?
96 is a fruit that they created to make their beer.
Just the best fucking beer on the planet.
But this doesn't have that.
So I'm assuming it's more of a goshawk kind of flavor,
and I really probably should describe it a little bit more,
but it's just too damn good.
I'm just going to drink another sip of it.
No problem.
I'll tell the people that apparently snake fruit is a species of palm
tree is in Java and Sumatra and Indonesia.
Shocked me if I'm looking up the right thing here.
This is really citrusy.
It's really, really nice and hazy.
There's not a lot of bitterness to it at all.
Did you just get grossed out? I just cut him off.
I was like, Stop describing that grossness because.
You just said it looks disgusting.
So. GROSS What if you just you can't even it's like a sweet
that would be like, well, Johnny definitely knows what he's doing.
He's done really well with all of his beer, but.
Oh. I've had a few. There is, it's, it's always spot on.
Yeah, it's, it's really, really delicious.
I wish I had more of this,
but. Yeah.
So, Governor Murphy, if you could please reverse the legislation
and let breweries do what they need to do, stop comparing them to restaurants.
Take this hard, crispy loaf, and.
You guys have gone over it in the podcast.
I don't need to hit that again, but nothing's changed.
New Jersey. Sucks. Yeah, it sucks.
So bad.
By the way, I'm a New Yorker and people think I'm from Jersey.
I am not.
I'm a fantastic driver. I speak very well
and so.
It's like the Wisconsin Illinois thing that's funny as.
Shit.
I'm a New York Italian.
We're different
people from Illinois.
I don't know how to drive.
So that's really. People from Jersey don't know how to drive.
And it's only because they are not allowed to make left hand turns.
And I'll get a lot of flack from this if people from Jersey are listening,
but they have jug handle, so you can only make right hand turns.
They don't know how to make a left,
so they travel in the left lane like it's the right lane, you know what I mean?
Because they don't make turns left hand it like left.
Left is a passing lane.
Everyone knows that across the country. They're not allowed to make.
Know. They're not allowed to. They've got jug handles.
They have to make right hand turns in Jersey.
It's just stupid. It's the state.
It's not the people.
Well, they just learn how to drive there.
And that's not a very good place to learn how to drive.
We hope it's not the people because they're like almost right up there
with Alabama right now.
They're again, they're. In New Jersey like.
Oh, I'm
going to get hammered by all my Jersey friends
if they and good thing I don't tell them on this podcast.
The you should I'm going to tell them. Now.
Maybe they'll listen to this in the car.
Hopefully don't get in a car accident.
All right.
So let's just let's check in with the homie to your beer.
He's bringing up something I was going to bring up,
but I figure to let him bring it up instead.
Well, do you really know?
No way.
I don't know if he needs it.
So maybe we should get him out with our super sexy, raspy voice to record.
The jingle for.
That was keeping it short. I love this. Guy.
I mean, I just don't even know what to say.
How do you follow that up? Yeah.
There's really well, you followed up by saying thanks to you
for letting us know that 32 ounces is almost 40.
Thanks for the math lesson, but.
Closer to 40 than it is to zero.
So he's going to get a B for that one.
Yeah.
And I was going to say, that's how you get your 48 minutes of airtime.
Greg, do.
Your 35 and the rest.
Is. Up to you.
We'll do 42 and you bring us around to an hour and a half.
It'll be everyone's dream come true.
Dream come true.
Oh, that's another good one.
I like what you did there.
You must be in television. Yeah.
Something like that.
And back to what he was saying originally.
Attribute a beer co in Colorado Springs.
I'm sure everyone's heard about the horrible tragedy
that happened in Colorado Springs, but yes,
the guy who took down the shooter was co-owner of a brewery with his wife.
It's the first Latina owned and head brewer
and also female owned and female head brewed brewery in Colorado.
If I remember correctly, they've won a bunch of awards.
I never even heard of them before. I looked him up.
They won a bunch of awards.
If you guys want to find them, it's a t r
e vida beer co dot com.
I just said go buy some of their shit, support them.
That guy.
I heard, I heard they had sold out of everything.
They did and I looked early because I saw Greg post it and I clicked on it.
I'm like, they are out of everything.
Which was, yeah, I think I.
Figured I would wait like a month and then maybe go on there. Yeah, yeah.
Something that way to kind of spread it out a little bit.
The other great thing was I think his name is Richer.
I think Chou was right.
They interviewed him about it and dudes are fucking.
He's just a good deal.
Yeah.
So what, what was, you know, like, what was going through your head?
And he's like, I didn't even care of anybody else.
I just want to protect it.
Protect my family. Yeah.
So I jumped on the shooter, and he goes, like,
I just thought, I have to kill him before he kills me.
And I just started beating the shit out of him.
I was like, Fuck, yeah, I agree that yeah, that evil beat the shit out of somebody
for doing stuff like that though.
And then I found out that apparently while he was holding down the shooter,
one of the drag queens came over and beat the fuck out of him with her heel.
I about that.
I was like, Fuck, yeah, that's the ultimate.
That guy's shooting up an LGBT club.
Then he should fucking get stomped on by drag queens.
Yeah, that was the ultimate.
So the only bad news is they took him to the hospital afterwards, and.
That's what sucks about it.
But let's get inside somebody's brain and figure out why
the fuck you're intolerant of other people at this point.
Like, just
why. I just don't understand.
Yeah, I saw that interview with his dad, and I'm like,
of all the things you're worried about him at a gay
bar being gay, not the fact that he's a murderer.
He didn't care about that. Just that he might be gay.
It's like, Yeah, I was so nervous that he was gay.
Just unreal. It's insane.
Well, I think that his parents need to be more open to
life, you know?
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
Maybe parents go get him.
He'll be a little more accepting and not so harsh on your own belief.
Yeah.
But I think that's what it comes down to.
Yeah, it's, it's horrible.
And we go on forever.
Yeah. And cry about it.
But yeah I got dusty when I was watching a few of the guys interviews.
It's like, Jesus Christ, this guy's awesome. So,
all right, bring it back around to the beer stuff.
080 553 A beer is number two.
Go bring it around to the beer stuff again.
MacLeod brewing out here.
MacLeod Ale is really out here
in California, Southern California, in the San Fernando Valley.
We had them on the show, I believe was batch 79.
They've been around for quite a while.
They're one of the OGs.
Like a week or so ago on the gram they posted basically
like we're shutting down.
They just opened a second location.
We're shutting down the second location, first locations, shutting down
super weird.
And then they sent a letter to the Brewers Guild that was like, We've laid
everybody off, we're out of money, we can't do it anymore.
And then there was a post that was talking about,
Well, we're going to sell the rest of our beer
so that we can make some of the money back.
And then I'll send a couple of days later
there's a post like, Come on in for pizza tonight.
It was like, What the fuck?
Right, what's going on?
And then somebody even commented on one of those and was like, Oh,
you're promoting pizza, but you just laid me off three days ago
and then they promptly deleted it.
But I've heard so many weird things about what's going on.
Their Instagram is a clusterfuck
of we're closing down and come in for pizza and darts and beer.
I don't know what's happening over there, but it sounds like a shit show.
Obviously you never want to see a brewery closed, but what the fuck?
How very California of you McLoud.
I'm on, I'm on, I'm on.
Team just closed down and sell me a dartboard.
Yeah.
Well, here's the crazy thing they posted the other day.
They said, like, we have too much, like, food ingredients.
We're selling butter and heavy cream.
What do you eat a day before Thanksgiving?
Like if you need any Thanksgiving supplies, come buy it from us.
Do they own the space or are they renting it.
Their second location?
I don't know the first location I believe they're renting.
Okay.
But it's it's not a landlord thing.
It's a weird we're out of money thing.
Is it a drug thing? Like, are you guys on drugs?
It feels like it.
Feels like a drug.
You need me to spot you a hundred?
I look through with a bench, you know, if you.
Will just shut the fuck.
Up like it's so. Weird.
Yeah. I don't know what's happening.
No one knows what's happening.
I. I've heard rumors
of some shady business practices, but it's all rumors and hearsay aids.
It is so fucking weird if anybody on the inside
knows anything about what's going on over there, please let us know.
Because it is so weird and.
And it's been around forever and it sounds like they're all on meth.
And it's also so hipster of them to it's a Brooklyn thing and a California thing.
I'm just going to put it out there.
Californians and Brooklynites, you're all the same.
You know what they're from. Either or.
They're probably they're probably closing down so they can have pop ups.
Well, and a lot of people do that now because the overhead is so much cheaper.
But I have seen an Instagram post from business owners that are like come
upstate, they want to get out of the city, they want to have a restaurant in Denver
and they're like close because we need a mental health day.
Sorry, we're only open three days out of the week anyway.
Now we're going to be closed for this one.
Like we just don't feel like going into work today.
We're closed.
Yeah, I. Remember.
My boss be like, I need a mental health day today.
I hope that's all right.
Yeah, right.
And the answer is no, it's not okay.
Especially when your business owner just get there and then
cry yourself to sleep like the rest of us do.
Well, because our lives suck.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Come on, now.
Life's great.
Okay.
Hey. That's not why I'm your produce manager.
It's the best thing I.
I like it. Uh.
I'm going to sell those shitty snake fruit.
Rotten strawberry.
Bullshit.
Which I looked up, and it.
You peel it like garlic.
Yeah.
And it looks like a rotten strawberry with, like, gross garlic.
And yeah, then you peel it
and it's like garlic cloves of garlic that allegedly have apple texture.
Oh. It's so weird. It's like.
A little bit sweet, though.
Apparently makes a hell of a beer.
I'll say that.
I believe. You.
Very good on beer.
Oh, I'll take your word for it.
Cellar maker up in San Francisco has acquired the rare barrel
which out here in California is a pretty well-known sour
beer.
Beer? Wow. Sour brewery.
They're going to move all the production to the rare barrel facility,
close up cellar maker's shops and transfer anything over.
It's interesting.
Dang did is that bad hoppy urban diversion that's his favorite brewery.
I met him there in San Francisco
when I was there in April and they make some fantastic beer.
They're going to be making the same stuff.
Yeah, apparently they're going to make both brands just just in.
The different location.
Facility and they'll they'll rebrand the spot and that kind of thing.
Okay, cool. I'm fine with that.
Yeah, we'll see what happens. Very strange.
Last week talked about the cop who got arrested on scene for being drunk.
Like he pulled up to a yes, he was drunk.
Well, Vanessa was like, apparently this happens all the time, by the way.
Hi, Vanessa.
Haven, even.
As a. Oh, less than half creepy.
I mean, she sent me this article.
I mean, how many did?
Well, a Miami-Dade a police officer was in his marked car
when he's arrested on DUI charges in Hollywood, according to officials.
Leopold Lewis, 42, was arrested
Sunday on charges including DUI and DUI with property damage.
Luis had appeared in court on Monday where a judge granted him a $1,000 bond
that seems friendly he later bonded out of jail and didn't speak to reporters.
This officer placed the public in danger
in the same vehicle that the community has entrusted as a symbol of protection.
I will not tolerate any representative
of the Miami Dade Police Department to jeopardize the community's trust.
First of all,
they may look at a police car in Miami and think, I trust you.
I don't know.
I think when you wake up every day knowing your name's Leopold,
isn't that enough to be drunk at work like.
It's a hall pass?
That's a.
Cold, hard fact right there. Right? Yeah.
They should raise his his allowable limit from, like, oh 8 to 16 at that point.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. You can walk around it. Okay. You deserve it.
I mean, he's a cop anyway.
It's not like they follow the law.
They specifically do not.
When you're born, Leopold, they give you two options.
They're like, Would you want to be, like stoned to death?
Or would you rather just be drunk every day of your life?
And it's like, I think he just took the drunk every day of his life.
Yeah, well, I would, too. He made the right decision
over in Chaska.
Where Chaska?
That's not a real place.
Chaska where? Minnesota to.
Think. Oh, over there. Don't you. Know.
Over there
some.
Hoser.
Chaska police responded shortly after 2 a.m.
on Black Friday after a crash that well crash at a gas station
where they say the driver hit a light pole when the police asked to do a field
sobriety test, the woman responded, What's the point?
I'm drunk.
What? Nailed it. Day.
Laying it all on the line.
Yeah. Save some. I'm hammered.
She ended up blowing at point two, three, one.
That's pretty high.
Yeah, just slightly under three times.
No one was injured in not good.
Yeah.
Over there in Chaska
we did the breathalyzer and I don't know where I'm going with this.
He said do that and go over there and and then do this.
So we went to the dang.
And then went to the biggest bullet line
that's in Minnesota.
It shouldn't exist.
Died £21,140 of string.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Is that accurate?
That's in the Weird Al Yankovic song.
No, I fucking heard.
My brother and his girlfriend loved to stop at those roadside attractions.
All that.
Like they make trips to go see those kinds of things.
Your brother, the rapper.
The rapper. Scientist. Yes.
Yes, it. Was it.
Kind of just does a.
Lot of really interesting.
The most interesting man in America.
We have in Wisconsin, we have like the world's largest muskie fish.
I don't know.
That's like like a it's a fish.
I think we have the world's largest penny, if I'm not mistaken.
But yeah, I've googled some of this shit before just to see what?
You know, what? World's largest shit. Yeah.
You know what we had where I live?
The Empire State. Back in 1969.
Real shit to talk about Flex. Wow.
Yeah. It's like.
Feet of snow last week to.
We had nothing. I don't live in Buffalo.
That was insane. No 60 degrees here.
I don't.
I don't know where shit is.
Like New York's all the same bunch of people who are as.
The buffalo is.
Like Wisconsin, Minnesota like it's basically Canada.
Some real assholes.
Mainly just when you say you're upstate from my neck of the woods,
which is where I live upstate.
I'm an hour outside of the city.
Buffalo is 5 hours for me.
They are upstate.
They get offended that you call me an upstate person like she's from the city.
We call that up north.
Yeah.
There's also but western also there's like a long strip of western New York
that nobody really talks about, ever don't even know what's there.
Isn't that called New Jersey?
I know that's.
I think that's called Canada number three.
It would be number two.
Western New York is Canada number three.
And the rest of it is all a blur. Who knows?
So wait, you you mentioned Buffalo and you said it's 5 hours north.
Yeah.
When you talk about places, do you say that's ex miles away or ex?
I just say, why the fuck would I ever go there unless I was planning a trip there?
Well, just the Niagara Falls.
It's eat any wings? No, I would say 5 hours.
I wouldn't say the mileage now I'd say hours.
And it's funny, I in a car would go to it would be how many hours away is it.
Cause I don't care the mileage.
I just want to know, am I getting on a plane instead of driving?
So this makes me overjoyed because the Califor
in's the shit on Saturday Night Live
makes fun of actual Californians because we don't tell anybody.
Miles Yeah. Oh, how far? Something away you go.
Oh, it's about an hour and a half like. Yeah, yeah.
How far?
Like I just fucking told you and then.
Have people
try and say that the Midwest thing and I don't think that's a midwest thing.
I think it's like.
Most most people just want to know how long is it going to take me?
It's a normal fucking person thing. Yeah. Yeah.
Who's weird and wants to know the mileage.
Oh it's 83 miles to get here. No.
Because if you hit traffic it's not, it's still the highest.
It's going to take it 3 hours.
I've had out of towners. That's.
Oh how far is that. Oh it's an hour and a half.
Yeah, but how far is it? I just fucking told you. What do you mean?
How far is like. No, miles. Like what?
Are you, a geography enthusiast? Shut the fuck up.
I just thought every place.
The airport.
Yeah, it's. And a half hours from where you live.
Like no matter where it.
It's three and a half hours.
Yeah. I go to the grocery store. 3 hours.
Yeah.
I just basically get the fuck out of California.
It's a worst place for traffic. Hell, it takes me an hour.
Just go downstairs and take a shit. So.
Yeah.
Everything. Just hours and hours sleep.
I really need somebody to just.
If you could put this little segment in as the preview on Instagram comment below
and let us know are you the weirdo that wants to know about mileage?
No one cares about mileage.
It's all about nobody. Does this is it? Yeah.
Night is money.
Yep. Time is money.
Nothing will promote a craft beer podcast on the craft beer
Instagram page like asking people how they describe distance.
I can't wait to see who the weirdo is.
And then I'm going to be like Chicago.
Chicago from Milwaukee is something it's only like 80 miles.
Like it's not very far.
It might be a little.
But what is it?
How long does it take you? I don't that does about 2 hours.
About two.
Hours. Okay.
Because the traffic traffic gets so bad.
We're 89 miles to Manhattan.
But it really literally depends on what time of you're going.
It could take you an hour and a half to you.
4 hours to do the same amount.
Yeah. Tomorrow I have to go downtown L.A..
It's about 35 minute or 35 mile drive
and take me about an hour and 15 hour and a half.
And that's all that matters.
And you know what we said to everybody, we called all of our families and friends
while we were going to Long Island from Manhattan.
They're like, Oh, what do you do?
We're like, Yeah, you know, we're going in Long Island.
They're like, Oh, you'll be in traffic all day.
That was the mileage traffic all day.
Could you. Imagine?
Like getting ready to leave for somewhere.
So it's like, Oh, well, why are you leaving so early?
Oh, I got about I got to had 35 miles, you know.
Like homework.
What the fuck does. That make sense?
That wouldn't work out here in California because like, why you leave it's are like
I got about eight miles to.
Go to take you very well.
Well, that's what I mean. It's just like.
It just. Doesn't make sense.
It doesn't translate to
that. People are dumb, right? Yeah.
If anybody if anybody does tell distance by that that they're dumb.
If you heard it from your for me.
You flex doesn't fuck around your dumb.
Word.
You you're handling to go fuck yourself underscore is in between.
What's funny is that fuck tonight you're the same person,
but he's just a hotter, younger male version of me
who's like the more positive about life.
But we're very similar in our thoughts self I agree.
Fuck people, you're dumb.
You heard it here first, but you positive assholes.
Who knew this would be such a touchy subject?
Yeah.
Everyone's getting angry over here.
New York. Well, I hope.
Yeah, I hope this podcast was good for your eight mile commute.
What are your 13?
You fuck and 80 mile? I don't know.
Either way is around an hour. So
all this
is going to be so excited that it went over 42 minutes.
Well, I'm going to be staring at my computer, editing the single God dammit.
Shoes creaming in his pants over. There.
Oh, my God.
Well, half of this is thanks to his.
Voicemail and.
Podcasts are always longer when Mel's involved.
Because I don't shut the fuck up.
You're well, that's true. I was going to say it.
I was. Looking forward.
To completely hanging out with Mel tonight, just basically
shooting the breeze because it's so easy with her.
Yeah, it's very easy like that flex.
I don't know if you know about that about.
She is a she's she's a wonderful, uh, yeah wonderful addition to the trio.
That is true. That sort of.
It's Sunday morning.
So there you go.
I'm going to easily like Sunday morning.
No, that was good. Yeah.
I thought you were just going to like transition out from that.
That was what I.
Should of anybody with any comedic chops whatsoever would have just been like,
keep going.
That makes it funnier.
And I was like, No one reacted.
Come on, fuckers.
I'm sitting over here with my jaw in my lap.
Wow, that was.
Good, huh? Wow.
Wow, wow.
I've been doing that for, like, two weeks.
I can't stop doing it.
Well,
my kid, my kids say something to me, and I'm just like, wow.
Like, fuck off, Dad.
Well.
You sound like the guy from Marley and me.
Let's
hear the. Music.
And then I'm just like, Wow.
Here comes the pain.
Thank you all for listening, for sticking through.
And we appreciate you finding that crafty Republican find mallet beer
girl underscore Melissa thanks for hanging out with us
by flex on the Graham at flex me a beer underscores
in between I believe that 080553a beer don't forget to call us
I hope everyone out there stays very well hydrated.
And on that note, goodnight, everybody, especially Vanessa.