Welcome in, everybody, to the craft beer Republic.
Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.
I am not as buff as flex, but I am Greg.
And joining me from the east coast is still not as buff as flex, but it's flex, me, and
Mel.
What's happening?
What's going on, Greg?
Looks like the two of us have some big, short shorts to fill tonight without flex.
Here with us, the biggest little shorts you've ever seen.
Literally the smallest, largest shorts ever.
Right?
So little fabric, but such big legs to cover flex for, I think the first time since he
joined the show back in 2021, unavailable tonight due to dying.
He is currently dying right now, and we wish him a speedy recovery.
But don't worry, the two of us make up one buff person, so we'll do what we can.
We work out, but we definitely drink beer.
Yeah, I totally work out so hard.
Like, super hard.
The hardest you've ever worked out before.
Anyways, follow us on the socials at craft beer Republic and at Beer Girl, underscore Mel.
And if you feel bad for flex, go ahead.
Go give him a follow as well.
Flex me or beer underscores in between.
Lots to get to tonight, of course, we've got some booze news, some recaps.
We have a voicemail from the homie chewyour beer.
But I don't know about you, Mel.
This is the episode I've been waiting for for weeks since we joked about it on the show.
This is our dinosaur episode.
We are gonna drink some garbage ass beers from the back of the fridge.
Or maybe not garbage, but they've definitely been sitting on ice, and not in a friendly
cellared kind of way.
Yeah, that's right.
We are gonna put some beer to the test and see if these hazies age as well as we do.
Yeah, I'm even literally cracking mine right now.
We'll see how.
And I do.
Just smells okay.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, good.
Yeah, my.
Mine actually poured up pretty nice.
Pretty excited.
I think I I went the safe route.
And for the viewers at home who aren't here with us, before we get to recording, I had
another beer that I opened, and the smell was so nauseating, I had to have Lou remove it
from the house.
It was.
And I was thinking to myself too, like, if I do drink this beer, how long can I make it
before I have to run to the bathroom, like, mid show?
Right?
But I think that would have just been.
I would have probably been hospitalized.
So I'm glad that your reaction was priceless.
It made me wish this was, like, a video podcast.
I know I could have waited.
I should have waited to crack it, but I'm also glad that I didn't.
Yeah, it was pretty great.
All right, well, in honor of our dinosaur beers, let's conduct a little science.
From a bottle, from a can.
Why don't people understand my inebriation beer science?
That faded out quickly.
All right, I am drinking, and this is great.
Not only is it a dinosaur, but now this.
Two breweries are sort of on the naughty list.
It's a collab between Stone brewing.
Heard of those fucks?
And modern time?
I guess modern times is technically off the naughty list because they sold or whatever, but
stone is, of course, big beer now anyways.
Collab with them.
It's called wizards and gargoyles.
It's a hazy coffee ipa.
According to the back of the bottom of the can, it was canned on August 4 of 2020.
Nothing says smart like saving a hazy for almost four years.
You know, it's like they just slip away from you and then, you know, like we were saying,
you might want to take a picture with it or somebody sent it to you in the mail.
I mean, no, they didn't because that's illegal.
But, yeah, we don't do that.
You really want to savor it, and then before you know it, it's gone way too long and it's
no longer saving it.
You're just actually lost your chance.
We've talked about this before.
I think Flex is probably the king of this, where you get a beer in the mail from someone,
and you're like, I need to put this on a pedestal because I need to take the world's best
instagram photo, and I'm going to enjoy it and savor it and tell them how great it was.
And here we are, four years later.
No one drank it.
Opportunity missed.
It would have been better just to drink it and not photograph it.
So real quick, 7% 51 ibus ended up with a three seven on untapped.
The last check in.
Wow.
Somebody checked it in a couple weeks ago, actually.
I don't know why.
I don't know where they got it from.
There's a super long description from stone.
As per usual, not going to fucking read at all.
I will tell you, the hops in here are citra cashmere, centennial, HBC 682 and HBC 692.
I remember really enjoying this beer.
It was a weird combo of, like, hazy and coffee.
Two things I enjoy separately.
Didn't think I would enjoy together.
Yeah.
But it was surprisingly not bad.
Now, smell is pretty muted.
It's a little hoppy.
It's a little more coffee than hoppy on the nose.
On ye olde tongue jubber.
It's a little.
Tastes like somebody left coffee out for a few weeks and then added it to, like, a stale
beer.
Like, it's still surprisingly carbonated.
Like, carbonation never dropped, but the hop profile obviously fell the fuck out.
And the coffee just tastes stale.
As you can see, it's still hazy.
So it didn't color drop itself down or anything like that.
I mean, not the worst beer I've ever put in my mouth.
Would I purposely finish the rest of this?
I don't think so.
Okay.
Yeah, I brought me a backup beer.
I brought me a inegran a lager.
Cause sounds delicious.
And it's hot out.
So there you have it, folks.
Yeah, I'm gonna drink a pills from innogrand.
What are you pulling out of the fucking grave over there?
All right, so I have been holding onto this beer for probably about a year and a half.
It is a babe brew.
It's a hazy ipa.
I'm gonna butcher the name.
Saint Hublon.
It's one of the French, is it?
Okay, cool.
It's one of the french breweries that did the charity beer for the beer babes family.
And everything is in French on the can, so I cannot read you a description.
However, it is 7.4%.
And like yours, Greg, mine did have a really nice amount of carbonation.
Still, if you look at the color, though, you can see like, it's kind of oxidized.
Yeah, a little lackluster.
Really.
Nothing on the nose whatsoever.
Let's give it a taste.
Very bitter.
That face says it all.
The hops have completely fallen off on this one.
You do get a little bit of the hop burn on the back end, but I'm getting, like, a lot of
malts.
Oh, yeah.
And then it's kind of like that repeating, sort of.
You gotta brush your teeth after this one.
Less of a hazy, more of a west coast taste.
Not the worst thing either.
I'm not gonna say that it's really lost.
Its not lackluster.
I wouldn't say that, but, yeah, I'm with you.
I think this is more.
I think what we learned from this quick science experiment of two sibs is that hazies have
to be drank a little bit sooner so you don't lose the hop flavor and profile that you wanna
have in that kind of a beer.
So every brewer ever listening right now is like, no shit.
We have been screaming this for years.
Please drink your beers fresh.
What are you doing hanging onto them for years?
We did not need science to figure this out.
Exactly.
Sorry.
Yeah, sorry, brewers, but, uh, we're stubborn.
What can we say?
Yeah, I feel like we also amp this up a little bit.
Like, that's it.
The dinosaur portion's over.
Flex, where are you?
Where's your flex?
We're extended.
I will.
I will say when I had this episode in mind, there was a beer that I thought was still in my
fridge that I even consulted with the wife tonight was like, hey, remember this beer?
And that is.
I think it was called pancakes.
Either pancakes or pancakes.
Something to do with pancakes.
Oh, is it.
Was it by Hubbard's cave?
No, it was from Renegade Brewing.
And we did an interview with Renegade brewing back in.
Geez, I think it was 2018.
And we had a few beers on the episode as we were doing the interview, and then afterwards,
all we did was open cans.
And he goes, hey, here's all the rest of the four and six packs we broke into, if you'd
like to take them.
I was like, oh, and we were in Colorado at the time.
Gates out of Denver.
I was like, oh, beer for the rest of our trip and some to smuggle home.
Absolutely right.
So, anyways, we took it home with us, and that's what I just looked it up.
It's from September of 2018.
That's when we did the interview.
So, uh, I swear we still had it.
The wife says she thinks we threw it out.
I if we did, I would have at least tried it, just for science reasons.
So, uh, I don't think I ever just truly throw a beer out without at least cracking it.
Yeah.
Not that last one.
And by the way, just so you guys all know, it had, like, caramel and vanilla ice cream and
some other lactose stuff, so it really was not safe, and it was, like, almost two years
old, so.
Yeah.
And a special shout out to renegade with that pancakes one, because they just announced
that they're closing, and I'm very sad to see that happen.
They're a great brewery in Denver.
Sounded like it was some landlord issues, and possibly they'll pop back up.
I really hope so.
Great beer.
Great guy Brian over there.
If they.
I think you got a couple weeks left, so go get some renegade while they're still open.
And, hey, vogue, drink your beer fresh.
Yes.
That's what we've learned tonight.
Yeah, absolutely.
Unless it's meant to be aged and then have it at the appropriate temperature.
Right.
And I feel like, best case scenario, I drank a beer that was from stone, which, you know, a
large brewery.
You know, they're canning things, right?
Like this could have been a bajillion times worse.
Yeah.
The preservative methods are there, but as.
You can hear, I'm going with my backup.
Hello, Pilsner.
And my.
My backup didn't make it to me.
I might have to drink this, or I might have to run it to my refrigerator.
Backup boy, where are you?
Oh, he heard me, and he woke up.
He's coming over with the backup beer in one hand and street meats in the other.
He actually is that.
There's one thing that Louis.
It is reliable.
Yeah.
Not all angels count on him for making sure things get done the way they need to.
Right in the nick of time.
Just in time.
So.
All right, let us know, guys, do you have any Dino beers you're waiting to try?
I'd love to hear, hear about it, do a little review, send us a voicemail or something.
805538 beer or you know where to find us on the socials.
Um, all right.
Mother's Day just happened.
You guys do anything good?
I know you got chill ins and all that stuff.
We.
We have the children.
Um, it went pretty well.
We went to my sister's house.
Uh, my parents were there.
My sisters were there.
All the kids were running around.
We.
We put.
We had a good old time in a very short amount of time, I think.
Was there a pasta course?
No, this isn't that side of the family.
Oh, okay.
We just did, like, brunch.
So it was, like, bagels.
Like, good bagels.
Like, we're from the bagel capital of New York, if anybody ever comes to visit.
But we just had, like, a brunch spread and maybe, like, three or four magnums of prosecco.
Nice.
So a good time was had by all.
And actually, my pasta course came in the evening, and I just finished it when I got home
from dinner tonight.
Fantastic.
Zupa de mar.
I think one of my favorite leftover things is not just pasta, but lasagna.
Leftover lasagna.
Like, it sits there and the flavors meld.
Yeah.
Oh, so good.
Almost better leftover than fresh.
100%.
Like, day one or day two.
Even after it's, like, so good, all those flavors really settle in, and sauce gets all
soaked up into the noodles.
Oh, now I'm getting.
Just thinking about it.
The last time I made lasagna, I had to make it for, like, 20 people.
And I even made it a day and a half out.
I was like, you know what?
This is going to save me so much time.
Day of.
Plus, I think it's going to make it better.
And it did.
I made it a couple days or day and a half out, and then as we kneaded it, I just heated it
up in the oven nice and slow.
Absolutely.
That's the best way to do it.
I've told flex, though, and I don't know if I've told you, but the only time I make lasagna
is for funerals.
It's a funeral food.
Oh, is it?
Yeah.
So we don't.
Not everybody's like that, but for me, the only time we do lasagna is when somebody's dead.
Otherwise it's big zd.
We'll do like a big ziti or something like that.
So anytime I see a picture of lasagna on the gram, I'll wish my condolences to you.
Someone died?
Yeah.
Chandan, what did we have?
Oh, I made it for Thanksgiving.
That's what I made it for.
People do that?
Yeah.
Thanksgiving, Christmas.
Yeah.
I'm not even italian.
I'm just tired of turkey.
And so I've been for the last few years trying to do different shit on Thanksgiving.
For a couple years, I used to feed some tri tips, and this year, or most recently, I did
some lasagna.
And I'm not mad about it.
I'm tired.
People's dry ass turkey.
I love turkey.
I'm the opposite.
Like, give me.
Give me those legs.
I'm gonna fight over it with someone.
I love a good smoked turkey.
I don't have a smoker.
I don't have room for it.
But I'm down with, like, a good smoked turkey or if someone actually knows what they're
doing.
But overall, it's too dry.
But anyways, mother.
Oh, mother's day.
We convinced my mom to, I don't have kids, which is, you know, I can do whatever the fuck I
want.
Basically, I can sleep in.
But instead convinced my mom to go up to my sister's house.
She lives now where we go wakeboarding every year.
We had our first wakeboarding trip that you were like, hey, let's make it a mother's day
trip, aka it's the first warm weekend, and we really wanted to go wakeboarding.
So if we rope you into it, we won't feel as guilty about it while we wakeboard.
Absolutely.
Hey, Greg, did your sister just get married?
Is that right?
Did you hear?
Did you hear about that?
Have I heard about it for, like, four years.
It wasn't finally happened.
Uh, her.
Her now husband posted something on the gram over the weekend about, like, got to get
married and blah, blah, blah, flex commented, y'all got married.
Amazing.
I was like, oh, my hero.
He is so great.
If you're out there listening, no shade at all.
I just listened to the.
I'm a podcast listener, so I've been following along throughout the years.
Yeah, first time, long time.
So, yeah, so it was good.
We did a bunch of wine tasting after wakeboarding, got nice and buzzy, and.
There'S nothing better than that.
Really?
Yeah.
And we went home, made dinner for the mom, so it seemed like we were doing something for
her and woke up on Mother's Day and did more wakeboarding and like, hey, this is for you,
mom.
You get to watch your adult children go wakeboarding.
And so there you go.
Good times.
She probably loves being on the boat.
No, mom, not at all.
No.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, no.
The moms are like.
They're like, where's the cooler at?
Where's the music?
And then they just like, sit back and chill.
They're like, this water is great.
Very soothing for the soul.
They love it.
She's not an outdoorsy person, you know, she put up with it when we were kids.
Cause, like, we were kids.
Yeah, you have to.
You have to.
Plus, they weren't gonna pay to take us somewhere real, so that was our vacation every
year.
I love it now I'll be too.
Now.
It's like she hasn't been up there in like, five years.
And hey, you wanna do a mother's day trip?
And we'll package it as it's for you.
She bought it.
So good for us.
Woohoo.
We took her out wine tasting.
She loves wine, so that works out.
One of our memberships, we, Austin hope family wines.
We're going to the lady who's pouring her wines and she.
My mom doesn't drink red.
And she's like, all right, and for you?
And she goes, you know, I really don't drink red.
Can you do anything else for me?
She's like, oh, I got you.
She was so nice.
She went, like, digging into the back of the fridge.
Fucking dinosaur wines or whatever.
She pulled out some whites no one had seen in like three years.
And wow.
Yeah, it was good times.
So now.
Now what makes it different when it's wine?
That it ages better?
I don't know, science.
Grape juice ages better.
I'm sure the alcohol percentage has something to do with it.
Oh, that's true.
That in and of itself, like, preserves everything.
Yeah, barrel aged stouts last forever, but loggers don't, you know?
So I guess that sort of makes sense.
But anyways, you know, good times.
I have to say, this is my first beer in, like, over a week.
It's fucking hitting the lips.
Oh, God.
I lied.
Actually.
On Saturday, part of our Mother's Day excursion was with my family of runners.
Was I ran a half marathon with the fam and.
Oh, no big deal.
Half marathon, no big deal.
Hadn't run since January when we did all the Disney stuff.
But they're like, you want to go run a half marathon on fresh legs?
I'm like, yeah, sucks.
Yeah, I'll fuck around and get a triple double.
It's no big deal.
But then afterwards, I did get to hit up a bunch of local breweries.
Lou schlepped me around.
I went to Tin barn.
I went to drownlands.
We stopped at Aspire after that.
So I did get my fix of beer this weekend, but it has been a long time for me as well.
Yeah.
Getting older.
Oh, man.
If anybody's listening to or had listened to the last episode, they heard flex and I talk
about how we're trying to shed a few lbs.
Oh.
Especially when you're drinking beer.
I've noticed, you know, the.
The wine is a little bit easier.
The red wine.
Cause, you know, less cows, way less carbs than beer, way less filling.
So did a lot of red wine.
Even better is the seltzer and I talked about last show.
I'm gonna.
I'm gonna attempt the Seltzer diet.
I just haven't been back to Costco since we recorded.
I need to get, like, a fresh, you know, Costco sized box of seltzers to try this out with.
For sure.
Last me at least three days.
Well, I'm like, the problem with seltzers is that they just go down so smooth.
You end up drinking like, eight or ten and, like, you still feel pretty good.
You know, you're not too wasted.
Cause they're low abv.
But twelve pack does not last in this house.
That's why we gotta go.
You gotta go to Costco?
Yeah, we need the fucking army sized seltzers.
Otherwise, just.
Just doesn't get the job done.
Aspire actually started brewing seltzers?
Well, they have been since their inception, but they have some pretty good ones, and they
have real fruit juice in them, so they're not as low calorie.
They're about 150 calories per can.
But they taste amazing.
Like, it almost tastes like more of, like, a sour than a seltzer.
See, that would make it so much easier to swap out for the beer.
Exactly.
But not like a fruited sour.
Not heavily fruited.
Like, it's light, it's clear.
Like more like a Berliner type of.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, that's my jam right there, Evan.
Oh, great.
Evan.
I've been doing some light research into making my own.
The hard part is that flavor part.
Cause, like, if you put in your fruit puree, that was hard for me to say.
Um, you get the cows, you get the carbs and that kind of stuff.
I'm trying to figure out how to flavor it up without adding all kinds of shit to it.
So a lot of them use dextrose now.
Like, dextrose or as flavoring?
I.
Or, like, that's how they get the alcohol to be there.
Yeah, I mean, it's just sugar water.
Yeah, sugar water and champagne yeast.
The champagne yeast eats up all the sugar, leaves you with, like, no, almost no sugar and a
little bit of alcohol.
And then you gotta flavor it somehow.
But, uh, I gotta do some more research.
I realized Nick, formerly a 14 cannons, he works for a flavor company.
So I need to hit him up and be like, hey, what can I.
What can I add to my seltzers to make it not taste like a dirty butt?
So.
Well, you know, I am your seltzer girl.
That is how this all started.
Yeah, that's Bud light Seltzers anonymous, so I'll gladly try your homebrew seltzer.
Yeah, this all started because you made flex drink some shitty bud light seltzers after you
lost.
Was it losing fantasy football?
Yes, that was.
I don't know if he lost it.
I think I threatened him, or I think that's what I made him chug.
He lost against me in, like, one week, and we were doing these chugs.
Whoever lost, and I was like, you have to chug one of these seltzers, and I'm going to send
them to you.
And I spent that shipping on a cruddy seltzer to just make sure that he held up his end of
the bargain.
I love that you had to pay to, like, you probably sending him four seltzers probably cost
the same as, like, the twelve pack of the Seltzers, if not more, just so he would have to
live up to a bet.
I mean, don't get it twisted.
I sent him a lot of really good beer in there, too.
You'd be surprised at how many cans you can actually fit into one of those boxes.
But really, I lost my dignity when I drank them with him because they tasted like shit.
So there's that.
Yeah, if you guys.
I should have looked up what episode that was.
Cause that was fucking hilarious when he described it, how horrible those were.
Those were really, really not good.
And I'm surprised that some people liked them.
It tasted like drinking a yankee candle.
It really did.
That's good.
The flavor was.
I think they got the flavor from yankee candle.
It's so good.
I think it's batch 327.
I did a quick search.
The fact that you could search that so quickly, did you type in my name to find it?
I typed in Bud light Seltzer.
Oh, and I'm on the one after episode, right.
If you go to our website, click on archive.
We got all the old shows that you can search for things.
Good to know.
Type in Bud light seltzer.
Popped right up.
So episode 327, if you guys want to hear Flex's description of having to chug these fucking
Yankee candle bullshits.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
So anywho, all right, before we get to news, like I said, the homie chew your beer called
in.
Haven't heard from him in a while.
Let's see what's going on.
Hello?
No one is available to take your call.
Please leave a message after the tone.
Yo, what's up, crappy republic?
True, your beer has been a long time since I've called in.
So here you go.
Quick little recap.
Couple weeks ago, I got really sick.
I was shitting out of my face and pissing out on my ass for about five days after I got
better.
Haven't had a beer for like 13 days.
So we decided to go to creature comfort in downtown LA.
Pulled up, pulled out, homie couldn't find a spot to park.
And if I did, I wasn't going to walk my wife down a block of fucking zombies, homie.
It's like an apocalypse out there.
Crackheads, homeless people everywhere.
Didn't feel safe taking her through all that, so we headed over to Glendale Tap.
Luckily, they had a highland park and everywhere beer takeover.
Phenomenal.
Had everything.
Delicious.
Everything was great.
After that, I hit my 3000 unique untaply on Untap.
Yay to me.
Congratulations to myself.
So, yeah, that's it.
All right, homies, is chew your beer.
Yeah.
Nos.
Watcho.
Peace out, eh?
There's a couple breweries like that around here.
Like, McLeod is one of them, where if you roll up, man, you better carry some pepper spray
or a side gun or something.
Isn't that downtown La?
Isn't that like the total of downtown LA is.
Aren't they all there, right?
Downtown LA is pretty rough.
I've heard that.
So, Flex, are you shitting out of your mouth?
Did you meet up with chew your beer or what?
We need to know about shit out of your mouth.
Mystery illness that you have.
Yeah, maybe they were making out or something.
I'm sure that he would meet up with Chew your beer before he would meet up with us in real
life.
I know he's a dick like that.
Yeah, a little bit.
But he's.
He's my favorite dick, so, you know.
Right.
You gotta just be cool with it.
He's a real thick, throbbing dick.
Sorry, flex.
Oh, my gosh.
I've not been to creature comforts, chew.
I probably won't now, thanks to you.
I don't even think I've had any of their beer, to be honest.
You know, that's so far out of the realm of what I understand being an east coaster and
all, but I will say that we were in New York two weekends ago, and the vibe is just not the
same as what it used to be, for sure.
Like, the streets are definitely not the same.
It's like giving eighties, which was very dangerous in New York.
You guys don't know that.
Is this trip two weeks ago, the trip where you guys had brunch and then street meats
decided to fucking hit up the farmer's market and keep eating.
Did you see the food was outrageous at that?
Like, Lou was like, I wish we would have just seen this and gone to this instead, because
the food was outrageous.
Like, if you could just picture every culture of New York all on one street, that's what
was there.
And it was good, too.
The food was awesome.
But, you know, like.
Like, Lou, for example, right now he's in the kitchen over here eating.
So it's just a nonstop.
He's just.
It goes in, it comes out, and he just repeats.
I don't know how he stops.
Literally never stops.
As soon as he's done chewing, it just goes right out.
Right on out.
And now our big joke, too, is that we have to send it to you every time.
I'm like, oh, we've got to show Greg that you're eating again.
And I crack up every fucking time.
It's hilarious.
It is great.
For those who haven't listened in the past, Mel's husband, Lou, we call him street meats,
because anytime there's meat on the streets, he will fucking buy, whether it's a gyro, as
he calls them, burritos.
Calzones, man.
He fucking blows a load for Calzone.
Oh, yeah.
We got some soup dumplings the other day.
He had some elote in his hand at the same time.
Love the crossing of cultures there.
Some kebabs were.
Were happening.
Like, it was a whole.
It was a lot.
And then they had, like, desserts of some sort.
I don't know if they did churros or what, but I was like, I actually need to go to the
bathroom just watching you guys eat it.
Wilds.
That's so.
I wish I had his metabolism.
That guy is a fucking beast.
Crazy.
He's wild.
Yeah, he is.
All right, 8553 beer 2337 is our number.
All right, let's get into a little bit of news.
Flight over here.
Get the paddles.
Wisconsin brewing launches a Harley Davidson branded, non alcoholic beer, which I was going
to, you know, give flex a hard time with.
It's Wisconsin.
Yeah.
Have you ever had a good, like, I mean, legitimately good n a beer?
I don't know that I would be willing to waste my calories on an na beer.
That might sound terrible.
That really might sound terrible, but I'm like, for that, I'll just drink water.
I'm right there with you.
I don't give me, like, a bubbly water or something.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, I'll just have a seltzer or pellegrino or something like that.
Or regular water than an na beer.
So, no, I can't say that I have same.
I mean, the.
The calories, the carbs, they're all the same as regular beer.
Exactly.
Like, what?
Without the sense I'm gonna have those calories, I need to get, like, a little funny
feeling, something.
Yeah, exactly.
If.
If you could get me an na beer that had, like, the calorie and carb stats of a Michelob
ultra but tasted like a good beer, I'd be okay with that.
That could be like your in betweener.
So you didn't get enamored, right?
Spread it out a little bit.
Cause for now, my in betweeners are just seltzer 5%.
Yeah, exactly.
So, uh, yeah, I haven't either.
I've tried a couple, and I'm just like, I don't need all these calories and no buzz.
It sounds like horseshit.
Same.
Yeah.
Speaking of na beers, firestone Walker is getting into the game.
They're releasing 80 five, their big, famous spears 805.
That's our area code out.
Yep, yep.
Now it's 80 five is their na beer of choice.
It's modeled after 08:05 it's a.
It's a blond ale, but once again, no alcohol and all the carb.
Carbs and calories.
No thanks.
I will speak to.
It's great for the designated drivers that want to act like they are still having a great
time.
So.
Sure.
Cheers to everybody being a little more responsible.
I am just not the person for it.
Yeah.
And I'll say half of my drinking, like, if I'm in a social situation, is just wanting
something in my hand.
And so if I needed to be add or slow it down because I was going to drive later or
something.
Not the worst thing to put that in my hand instead of getting DUI or.
Exactly.
Yeah, but still.
And then finally, Massachusetts governor passes permanent cocktails to go.
Congratulations.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy included the allowance in a supplemental budget bill
signed last Tuesday.
Temporary measures allowing cocktails.
Cocktails to go had expired on April 1.
27 states and Washington, DC have now passed cocktails to go laws permanently.
So not all horrible things came out.
Of COVID You know, I don't think that cocktails to go are legal anymore in New York, but I
still always do try to get one to go.
Some places will let you, others will not.
But like, no, it's like a thing.
Yeah, maybe it's like a perk county thing.
I don't know.
I'd have to look into the.
Probably not.
New York state is pretty tough.
Okay.
California is still on a temporary basis.
Hopefully they make it a permanent thing because, I mean, why the fuck not?
It's better for businesses and, you know, silly.
Anything else?
Exactly.
All right, a little bit of news.
Some booze news.
The founder of Lead Dog Brewing has bought back his brewery.
Lead Dog Brewing founder and original brewmaster Ryan G.
Has bought back his Reno, Nevada based brewery three years after selling the company to
California based mammoth Brewing company, joining him in the buyback revision brewery
brewing CEO Jeremy Warren and brewmaster jib Taylor adding lead dog to the Nevada Beverage
Alliance, a strategic alliance formed by revision and great basin brewing last summer.
Uh, basically, he's going to close down his operations from brewing.
He's going to contract Brew, but keep one of his tap rooms open.
And, uh, yeah, good for him.
Does he make more money by contract brewing like consultants do?
Uh, he might.
You know, it's.
It's hard to say.
Obviously, you have to pay more than say if you're doing it yourself.
But, you know, being a bigger brewery, they get cheaper ingredients and you don't have to
waste your time brewing.
You can spend your time managing or whatever.
So, you know, there's a couple of breweries in San Diego that have done that, like, second
chance brewing.
Yeah, um, they had a couple locations and now they have no locations and they're completely
contract brewing.
Um, it seems to be working out for them at least somewhat.
Ever since they started contracting, they've popped up in total wines and bevmos.
So maybe they were able to, you know, dedicate time to sales and see.
They don't have the overhead of keeping, like, the building up and running.
That makes sense.
I was thinking more of, like, they were, like, consulting for these other brands.
Now I get it.
It makes more sense to me now.
I think grim was like that too.
Do you know grim?
Grim artisanals?
Yeah, I think they were like that when they initially started because they were kind of
like gypsy brewers and they'd hop around.
Oh, oh, yeah, there's a few breweries that'll do that.
Like, yeah, they'll go from spot to spot making stuff and doing, like, all collabs and
stuff.
Like, isn't that what, um, is it beer zombies or whatever?
Isn't that what they do?
No.
Aren't they in Las Vegas beer zombies?
They used to not have a location, maybe.
Yeah.
Now they have a Vegas tap room.
I think they used to, like, hop around between Vegas and La making beer.
Wow, that makes sense.
I'm like, I didn't really know them up until maybe, you know, after COVID.
Speak to it, somebody will tell me how wrong I am.
I'm sure of it.
James Watt steps down as Brew Dog's CEO and assumes a.
If this doesn't make you sound like a douche, I don't know what does assumes a captain
roll.
What does that even mean?
I don't know.
This guy's such a dick bag.
When you said that there was.
The breweries were bad, I thought it was going to be Brew dog and McKellar together.
I was like, what?
What a collaboration we've got there, or founders or something.
Yeah, the three of them.
What can you hold?
That would make.
Yeah, no, no, no.
But, yeah, this time, fucking brew dog.
I mean, those guys are complete assholes.
But, yeah, James Watt has stepped down.
There's details around it.
Basically, he's keeping his 20% shares in Brew dog, and he has, like, an advisory role on
the board now.
But he's the captain because you can't.
Do quietly into that night.
You must rage, rage, rage, rage.
Yeah.
So weird.
No.
Life brewing files a lawsuit against Tilray over their use of big juicy Tilray is the brand
that bought all those craft brands from Bud light or from, excuse me, ab in Bev, a
Washington based Nolai brewhouse has filed a lawsuit against till Ray brands alleging that
the beer and cannabis platform has infringed on its trademark for big juicy, according to
Law 360.
At issue is till Ray's use of big juicy in the name for Red hooks big juicy Ballard IPA,
which no lie alleges has infringed on its mark for big juicy.
Take a shot every time I say big juicy.
According to the lawsuit filed last Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern
District of Washington, no lie filed an application for the big juicy trademark with the US
Trademark Office in December of 2015, and a nose notice of allowance was granted to no lie
in January of 2017.
The trademark registration is for the words only, meaning that others cannot change the
font or add decorative design elements to claim distinction from the registration.
Per the lawsuit, defendants use of an identical and such confusingly similar mark to the
nolai big juicy mark.
It connects with the sale offering for sale, distribution, advertising or product services
is likely to cause and has caused confusion, mistake and deception as to the original to
the origin of defendants products.
It's kind of like stone versus Miller with the whole key stone thing.
Right, right.
Here's the thing.
Uh, they should have never given this trademark, in my opinion.
I.
I guess in 2015, no one knew how big hazy's would be, but, yeah, how can you trademark big
juicy?
I think that's what companies do, though.
They go out and look for different potentially important phrases and they just start buying
them up.
Like, Lou, back in the day when websites used to be a big thing, he just started buying
website names.
Like any, any business you could think of, he would just be like, yeah, it's like $1.99 at
whatever company.
I don't even remember what the website.
Yeah, godaddy.
And he would buy up all of these names and he'd be like, should I give it to them?
But they have a lot of those problems with, with all of the new businesses up and coming.
It's hard to get those trademarks and copyrights and the actual, you know, Instagram handle
without like a two or a dash or whatever.
So I get it from a business standpoint, but, yeah, that's weird.
Yeah.
But at what point, like, are we.
We're going to run out of beer names pretty soon if everybody just keeps cop or
trademarking their names for beers?
Yeah, I feel like who cares?
Who cares about a one single beer name?
It's not even a competitive role, really.
They just have a lot of money.
Yeah.
So they can.
And just so everybody knows, I looked it up.
Streetmeats.com is taken.
Not.
I just want to know what the content of that website is, though, actually.
Is it food or is it something else that we should not be talking about on this podcast?
Let's go.
I just looked on Godaddy, streams.com.
Oh, they've just parked it.
You can buy it now for $2,800.
Oh, well, let's get on it.
Yeah.
They want Lou to buy it.
Clear.
It's like devstix.com.
I can't believe that was available.
It's not anymore, but for only $12 for the first year, you can have street meats.
Cool.
Drop the soldier.
Yeah, we should.
We should start one just for onlyfans.
See how much meat he can tolerate in one sitting with before he starts sweating.
How much meat can he jam in his mouth?
Hey.
Oh.
Michelo Moltra is the top seller in grocery stores right now.
Modelo especial number one in convenience stores.
That's a little surprising to me.
Modelo in a convenience, like a gas station.
Yeah.
So, I mean, they've been climbing ever since the whole bud light debacle.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Funny.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
Mikolo Boltra.
Which I'm like, hey, you guys know there's way better beer that actually tastes like beer,
right?
It's actually the worst.
That's probably one of the worst beers known to man.
And my sister drinks it.
That's what she drinks.
So if we go on the boat with her, like, if you run out of beer, you.
She will let you drink the McUltra because she will bring an entire case every day.
She will let you.
Oh, what a sweetheart.
You can have a Mc ultra, but don't expect anything else besides that.
It's literally all she drinks.
Oh, it's so gross.
Before pre COVID 2019, we went to a wedding out on the east coast.
I'll do my best to leave names out of it because, boy, was I disappointed.
The bride is a friend of my wife's from college.
Nobody had met the groom yet.
And we found out he did some distributing for craft breweries, and he was going to help me
get an interview, which never happened.
We're out there.
I got my own.
It worked out all right.
But he was also, hey, we're gonna have so much beer at the wedding, right?
Fuck, yeah.
He's got the hookups.
It's gonna be fantastic.
Because of the wedding, they had two little kegs, little sixties, from a local craft brew,
which, by the way, fantastic.
I try to remember the name of the brewery.
It was so, so good.
And we did some damage to those.
And all he had after that were McUltras.
That was his jam.
He loves them.
And it's like, come on, man, some real beer.
If you had to choose out of all of the big box brands, right, the ones that we all make fun
of, which one would it be for you?
Like all the macro.
Like, if it was going to be like a Budweiser or a Bud light or a Nick ultra corona or
Heineken or.
I don't model.
Oh, yes.
Okay.
But which one would you choose?
Coors light.
Like, probably a banquet.
A Coors banquet, right?
Yeah, probably.
So I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Either.
Coors banquet or a Miller high life.
Yeah, I could do.
I could get down with a Miller high life.
I don't mind them.
Yeah, no, I can't do bud lights anymore.
That used to be my, like, go to Vegas beer.
And the last time I did that, like, we were going to see a show and all they had was
Budweiser products.
Yeah.
And I was like, oh, I'll get a bud light.
Give me the fucking biggest one you got, which was like 40oz or something.
Halfway through the show, my beer was warm, and I started tasting bud light.
And I was like, oh, yeah, I gotta pound this ASaP.
Yeah, that's.
That's a chuck so bad.
We were huge bud light fans growing up in our twenties.
First it was Corona, and, oh, I never did Corona.
I really liked Corona, like, a lot, and I don't understand why.
I think we used to put Bacardi in it and do, like, a corona limone.
You know, like Bacardi Limone.
So I think that's where it was.
Okay.
But then we realized that we were spending too much money on Corona, so we had to downsize
the bud light.
But, man, you had to cut the budget.
Once I.
Once I found out what real beer was, it's hard to go back.
But I did tell Lou, I was like, hmm.
I'm like, maybe I should order, like, a pitcher of Bud light one day.
He's like, you would never drink it.
I'm like, I will drink it now.
I feel like I have to.
Maybe I'll bring a bud light the next time I come here.
It's a theme every time I come.
Like, the next one will be like, shitty macros because it only takes up about five minutes
of our time or less on the show, we took, like, three sips, and we're like, this is shit.
Never mind.
Moving on.
Yeah.
It wasn't shit to begin with, but it's shit now that it's years later.
Right?
I.
You know, if you did a picture of bud light and it was ice cold, I bet you get, like, you
know, a pint of your way through, and then as it started to warm up and you could actually
taste it.
So, yeah, hard pass.
Hard fucking pass.
Yeah.
And there's too much craft beer everywhere now that there's no reason.
There's no reason to drink it.
You know, I will say I've been threatening for years, and I don't know how we do this if
we're remote, but I've been threatened this back since the day when we were all in person.
And I think it'd be fun to do get, like, three, like, the biggest three macros and blind
taste them.
Like, have the wife hand them to me in paper bags or something.
And blind, we would just have to have the significant other speak to each other, and they
would hand them out to us.
Or they would be like, do the reveal, Zachary.
I think I could tell.
I think I could tell the difference between them.
Yeah.
And I don't know.
That's the thing.
Like, I don't know.
Pick three lights and three not lights.
Yeah, go for it and see what happens.
And, yeah, that could be fun.
It could be sciency.
I would do it.
I'm always about a good theme.
All right, we should work on this next time around.
Let's do.
Let's do a shit beer off.
I'm down.
Why do we only drink bad beers when Mel's on the show?
Because it's the only time you ask me on, Greg, I am the only one that is willing to do
this kind of shit.
Zachary, to be fair, after we talked about it last time about the Dino beers, you hit me up
like, I will be on that show.
I said, I 100% will do that show with you.
I actually have a wide selection.
I have some cascade sours, and I don't know why we still have these.
They are from 2016, but we have.
Some barrel aged doubts from 2015 and 16.
Yeah, yeah, that's okay.
The stout is.
That doesn't count.
Yeah, it doesn't count.
It's got to be.
We have to have, like, a criteria also.
It has to be this type of beer.
And now we know that smoothie sours are definitely out.
As with any milk product, yeah, not safe.
You will be hospitalized.
So we're gonna work on this audience.
We're gonna get better at this kind of thing for you.
Yeah.
Let's see what we can do about this.
Do some blind shit beer tasting.
Yeah, I'm totally down.
We're so gross.
All right, we're going to end it on this story.
A drunk middle school teaching assistant was arrested after a student drank her vodka,
thinking it was Mountain Dew.
Oh, shit.
Georgia Middle school teaching assistant was arrested and fired after student drinker
bottle of vodka, thinking was Mountain Dew, with her blood alcohol level sitting at three
times the legal limit.
Police said Alexandra Lambert, 39, was fired from the Morgan County Middle school after a
student took a sip out of a bottle that allegedly belonged to her, believing it was just
soda.
Instead, the student threw out the drink and alerted another teacher, who brought the
matter to the principal's office on Thursday afternoon.
Lambert allegedly admitted that the bottle was full of vodka, but claimed she brought it to
school accidentally.
Oregon county sheriffs were called in around 115 pm.
Gave Lambert a breathalyzer test, which registered her blood alcohol level at 259.
So that's a big no.
You were drinking.
You were not only drinking that bottle you had.
That was your second bottle.
That was a backup bottle of vodka.
What's the deal with the teachers?
I know kids are really hard, and that's exactly why I'm not a teacher.
Okay, maybe I answered my own question.
Yeah, but y'all come on with the drinking in the middle of the day during school.
Knock it off.
Here's my biggest question from this story, specifically.
Why was a student drinking out of the teacher's bottle, no matter what was in it?
Do you know kids?
They do not care.
I have seen both of my kids drink out of random, and I'm like, is that your drink?
And they're like, uh.
Like, brain dead.
But they'll do that to their teacher.
I don't.
I would hope not.
I would hope I taught them well, but I really can't be sure.
To tell you the truth.
I really don't know my kid.
I could never imagine drinking out of my teachers anything.
I would be grossed out by that.
I don't know what kind of teachers they have over there, but my teachers were old and
smoked cigarettes and, like, no, no.
Yeah, I didn't have any of these, like, young, hot teachers that people talk about.
I'm like, no, nobody was under the age of 62 at my school.
I mean, well, I guess this student didn't know that the bottle was full of alcohol, but
maybe another student knew and dared this student to try it.
Cause they knew it was that she was boozing.
Maybe.
I have to assume, like, she probably dumped out half a mountain dew and filled it back up
with vodka, right?
Yeah.
Why else would there be a mistake, right?
That's not a mistake.
You don't.
Nobody stores alcohol in a water bottle.
Unless you were sneaking booze in the middle of the day at school.
Yeah, one of my favorite trips to Disneyland, I went with this girl, and she got a bunch of
coke bottles.
Mm hmm.
And was able to take off the lids without breaking the seal.
Yeah.
Dumped half out, filled up with, captain, we had booze all day long.
Honestly, are they really checking anything when you go in to Disney and all that?
Disneyland in California.
I mean, I haven't been since.
COVID is my.
My caveat here, but they are so strict.
They check everything.
You can bring in bottles that are not sealed.
Oh, okay.
Because at universal, I definitely had, like, a wine that Lou bought.
He was like, why not?
It's vacation.
Poured it into, like, an iced coffee or a hot coffee container and just walked right
through.
Had, like, huge thing of wine.
Yeah, maybe they don't care.
They're like, please drink.
I don't know.
Like, I was kind of like, oh, are these dogs gonna sniff alcohol?
But they're probably.
That's small potatoes, right?
They got bigger shit to worry about.
And I always kind of figure, like, worst case scenario, they sniff it out.
Or whatever and then you just have to dump it.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
I'm like, this is gas station wine.
Like, why would you even buy this?
But I was pretty happy that he did, because then I was like, well, look at that.
I've got a nice buzz, and it's 930 in the morning.
All right, Mel's over here in line.
You will not take my franzia.
Hold on, I need my coffee.
Let me chug it down.
Why is your coffee red, ma'am?
Don't mind me.
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