Welcome in everybody to the Craft Beer Republic!
Thanks for drinking,
thanks for joining.
I am Greg,
and I'm being joined by Mr.
Good Day himself,
and that's Flexy.
What's up buddy?
Nothing much,
just having a real good day.
I'm so glad to hear that.
I hear things started well,
and they're continuing to go,
and that's amazing.
It started so good.
Love it.
Love to hear that.
Can't go down from there,
you know?
It's not what I heard,
but...
And then joining us...
Sorry,
everybody.
Joining us from the saltiest of seas,
it's the shady sailor herself,
Erika.
What's crackin'?
Hey friends,
good to see ya.
Yeah,
a whole lot's been crackin',
but it's good to be here.
Yeah,
it's good to have you back.
It's been a salty minute since we've hung out with ya.
Sure.
Apparently life on the farm is not laid back.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah,
I haven't even talked about that today,
but...
Damn you,
John Denver!
Damn,
farmers work their asses off.
What a lying ass bitch.
John Denver was full of shit.
That's the first concert I ever went to,
John Denver.
That's kind of fun.
It was at the state fair,
so it was free,
and my parents were poor,
so we got to listen to John Denver from the nosebleeds.
Just spout lies.
Yeah.
It's not even sunny out,
goddamnit.
Right?
And I do not feel Rocky Mountain high right now.
But we can fix that.
All right,
lots to get to tonight.
We've got some beer research to talk about.
We've got some breaking news out of San Francisco.
The homie Chew Your Beer called in.
Hey,
Chew.
Wow.
Chew's back.
And he's got a message for Flex.
Uh-oh.
He's not even angry.
And so much more.
But before we get too far into things,
let's kick it off with a little hydration over here.
Oh,
yeah.
Erica did some road tripping recently and was nice enough to give me a beer from said trip.
I'll let her introduce what we're drinking tonight.
Yeah,
and it's hard to get a hold of,
at least up here.
So Radiant Beer Co.
is near Disneyland.
We just took a big trip down there and popped on over and had some beers with the family.
It was a really great evening.
And you just really can't go wrong with what they have to offer at their brewery.
It's pretty incredible.
They had slushy alcoholic beverages for the 22-year-olds that are in our group.
So it was perfect.
Anyways,
I grabbed a few cans.
The Woo Girls?
Yeah,
exactly.
They were being the Woo Girls.
It was kind of embarrassing.
I'm like,
man up,
have a beer.
Have a West Coast.
Have a West Coast or something.
I got to teach you something.
You're learning nothing here.
So,
yeah,
Radiant Brewing,
I actually was able to bring the cans home.
Sorry,
Greg,
but I'm still hurting from hearing that story about leaving them at the airport.
Oh,
my gosh.
Hurts my soul.
I know.
I'm sorry I had to bring it up.
It's still -- this is Procedural Motion,
which is a hazy IPA,
hazy pale ale.
And one of the two beers I was able to bring back.
It's got a 3.96 on untapped.
There's only 70 check-ins.
Seems like Radiant would have more,
but maybe this is pretty new and fresh.
It's 5.6 ADVs.
And it says,
"Council,
we'd like to file a procedural motion.
Respectfully expedite the delivery of your hazy pales.
Immediately organize your finest citra strata mosaic and Simcoe hops for a juicy deliberation.
We request a pineapple-hued beverage upon arrival of any tropical aromas,
preferably in the passion fruit and melon variety." It's still going,
guys.
"See further flavor notes for additional guava and passion fruit from the aforementioned clients.
For clarification,
please consume via fresh draft or cans." Sounds like intern Brian wrote this for us.
Yeah,
this is very legal-sounding.
But yeah,
cool.
It actually does.
I was looking at them.
It looks very pineapple-y.
It is hazy.
It's hazy,
but it's a very pineapple color.
And I was thinking lemony when I drank it.
So maybe,
I don't know.
What do you think,
Greg?
Yeah,
on the schnauz.
Real light,
real light aroma on the schnauz Aruni as I dig in with the old tongue jabber.
Here we go.
I do feel like I'm getting definitely citrus.
I feel like I'm getting pineapple.
I got a little bit of that tongue-piercing pineapple up front.
A little bit of citrus.
It's very soft for a pale.
A lot of times,
pales don't achieve that soft mouth feel that a full IPA can achieve.
I think just because they're lighter.
Lighter melt bill and all that stuff.
But this is real soft on the tongue.
Denses,
if you will.
Real easy to drink.
What did we say this was?
5.6%?
5.6,
so yeah.
Higher end for a pale,
ABV-wise.
But boy,
could I chug like three of these in a row without any issue.
I totally could,
too.
And I remember drinking,
I think,
two of them at the brewery.
And it does have a little bit of that hot bitterness,
just to add some character.
But it's so smooth and tasty.
I love it.
So out of all the ones-- and they have a lot of great pales and hazies.
And I mean,
that's like their jam.
And this one stood out to me.
And they also had it in cans,
obviously.
So here we are,
sharing some procedural motion.
It's pretty good.
Well,
cheers.
Thank you.
Cheers,
yeah.
Radiant's a pretty cool spot.
So I'm glad we made it.
It is a nice little oasis in not the best neighborhood.
It is tucked in around-- yeah,
you would not expect.
They have all these beautiful colors.
And they make it all sunny.
And it's almost like they needed that in that neighborhood.
Because it's drab and a little sketch.
Yeah,
they did a great job setting that place up.
Cambria was their original designer/marketer.
She did a really good job.
I was right.
It was less than 10 minutes from Disneyland,
right?
Oh,
yeah.
It was very close.
It was like,
you exit Disneyland.
It's right there.
Yeah.
And we hit it up before we went to medieval times.
Nice.
Yeah,
it's perfect.
Those are still around?
They are.
That's wild.
You know,
the one down here has been there since forever.
I still,
as a Southern California native,
have never actually been to medieval times.
What?
Yeah.
You just think of Cable Guy every time,
right?
Oh,
sure.
That's what I do,
too.
Yeah.
I never actually realized it's a real place.
You go right to Cable Guy.
That's so true.
I've driven by it.
Because I've been to Knott's Berry Farm a bajillion times.
And you have to pass it on your way to Knott's.
But I've never been inside.
So one of these days.
The wife said it's fun.
And I'm like,
I don't know.
I bet it's fun for kids.
Is it adult fun?
It actually is adult fun if you're up for the silliness of it all.
You have to kind of get into that.
And we didn't realize showing up early is pretty cool.
Because of this huge room that you can kind of go into.
And the bartenders are waving their flags trying to get you to come over.
And shaking the boobies or whatever.
What's that?
So that's pretty neat.
Yeah.
It's fun.
And then they have the horses you can walk by.
And then the king or her majesty and whatever.
His majesty,
highness,
whatever.
They're all there.
It's kind of fun.
If you're in the mood to be ridiculous.
You got to get there.
Right.
And eat with your hands and all that stuff.
Yeah.
It's pretty gross.
I wouldn't do it.
I didn't want to pick apart a little chicken.
Right.
They put it down.
They're like,
here's your baby dragon.
I was like,
no.
Baby dragon.
I just.
Anyways.
It's silly.
It's fun.
Worth a try.
Well,
you went to.
I mean,
you did a whole little family trip to Disneyland a couple weeks ago.
Including radios.
Yeah.
Big family.
20 people in my family.
Or.
Pass.
Hard pass.
Yeah.
Well,
you can't do everything together.
So it's actually really cool because it'd be like,
all right.
One night just Sterling and I and my sister-in-law.
My sister and brother-in-law just hooked up and drank beers and wrote all the rides until they shut down.
Okay.
I mean,
you can just kind of do whatever.
But if you.
If you go with 20 people thinking you're all going to hang out.
No.
That's going to be misery.
Yeah.
Screw that.
So.
I think the biggest trip I ever took was 12 people.
And even that was like,
this is stupid.
Let's all do whatever the fuck we want.
Like,
Hey guys,
this is what I'm doing today.
Whoever wants to do it with me is more than welcome.
Otherwise do what the fuck you want.
I don't care.
Yeah.
That's the way to do it.
Yeah.
That's what I learned on that trip.
Cause we tried to do the whole,
let's all do the same thing at the same time.
And all it did was cause fights.
And no,
I want to go to Gatorland.
Looks like we have a family.
You know,
we're friends with this family and they always talk about going to a Disney trip with us because they enjoy going.
Our family likes going.
They also like dick hotels.
They love dick hotels.
Who doesn't?
Yeah.
Match made in heaven.
Best kind of hotel if you ask me.
But yeah,
they're like on a completely opposite schedule as we are.
Like we're super early risers.
We're at the park 30 minutes before you can get there cause we stay on Disney property.
And they're like sleep until nine or 10.
Not get to parks till afternoon.
And it's like,
it's,
it would just never fucking work.
It sounds great to go with like friends and hang out with other like adults and kids the same age for our kids.
I would never fucking do it though.
The wife and I have not been to Disney world together yet.
And I feel like part of the reason is because she's the one that wants to wake up at nine and stroll her way over to the parks where I'm like,
if I'm at Disney world,
I'm going to be,
I may not be normally someone who wakes up early,
but I will be there when the park opens.
Otherwise.
That's what you do.
Exactly.
You can put so much in.
And that first couple of hours we got,
we got through pretty much every single good ride at Disneyland by 1 PM because we got there,
rope drop and cranked it out and then becomes miserable.
Right?
Full of people.
Forget it.
Then that's when you start drinking.
Yes,
exactly.
That's exactly what we did.
We were on the patio drinking.
So that led me to my next question.
How is the beer situation at Disneyland?
The last time I was there was just before COVID and obviously they had some craft beers at California adventures.
I know their big staple of like craft at the time was brother Thelonious.
But now since COVID and they've opened star Wars and all that stuff,
I know you can drink in Disneyland proper.
I haven't done that yet.
How's the beer situation?
So we kind of lucked out.
So like when I said on a patio by one or two is like we were,
there's a,
that bell terrace or something.
And I,
I just like Googled where do you get a beer at Disneyland while we were there and it said river bell terrace.
I was like,
click,
went to it on the map and there was no one out on the terrace and I,
the beer selection,
no bueno.
I mean it's like the,
the regular just like total,
yeah,
Corona light or whatever.
But then they did have something like a Sam Adams on tap.
I was like,
okay,
I can,
I can do that.
And so my,
my husband and I were sitting there,
we were hungry and there was nothing really great on the menu.
They had cake.
So we ordered cake,
gave it to the kids,
sat there and drank beer and my sister and brother in law walked by and he's a,
like,
I'm going to have a beer whenever anyone else is having a beer kind of guys like,
Hey,
you guys up there.
I was like,
yeah,
they have beer here.
He's like that beer here.
We've been walking around looking for beer.
I'm like,
come on up.
So we just sat up there and drank beers and it was,
it was great.
And then just went and hit the rides when it kind of chilled out a little more.
So yeah.
We're like,
Hey,
shut the fuck up.
I don't want everyone else to hear the beer up here.
We're sitting on an empty terrace.
Yeah,
yeah,
exactly.
Shut the fuck up guys.
It's like a brunch place.
So I don't think people expect it to have beer because it was like even at two in the afternoon they were serving pancakes and I was like,
I don't want pancakes,
but I'll take your beer.
That's cool.
So you live in an adventure land,
right?
Yeah.
I think I know which place I haven't been there in five years.
I know which place you're talking about.
Yeah.
Like eight hours from my house.
How far do you live from Disneyland?
Two hours on a good day.
Yeah.
Traffic seven.
That's cool.
That's LA.
Anyways,
it was such a fun trip and I did my first real roller coaster because I've done all the like Disneyland roller coasters back.
I don't know when I was 18,
but now they have a real roller coaster.
So I did the Incredicoaster.
Oh,
the one at California Adventures.
Yeah.
And then that.
You've never actually been on like a real roller coaster before?
No.
Not one that goes upside down.
Interesting.
Oh.
So that was thrilling and cool.
And then,
you know,
it was like the Tower of Terror,
but they have it,
I don't know,
it goes up and down now.
It's so crazy.
Oh yeah.
Now it's that movie with Chris Pratt.
I know.
I can't think of it.
Guardians of the Galaxy?
Yeah.
Guardians.
Thank you.
Hilarious and so fun.
Oh my gosh.
I haven't been on it since Guardians.
It's amazing.
I hear it's really good.
I hear they did a good job.
When they first switched it over,
I hadn't seen Guardians yet,
so I didn't go on it.
And now I need to go on it because I've seen Guardians.
Yeah.
They'll show like a scene from the movie and you'll be like totally engaged and
then you'll just like drop and then you'll go see a scene from the movie and
all of a sudden like shoot up and you'll think you're going to drop again.
It's crazy.
I just gave it away.
But you figure it out anyway.
Spoiler alert everybody.
Sounds fun.
Yeah.
That's funny.
Yeah.
Well,
you got it.
We got to get you down here.
If you want to do some roller coasters.
Look,
I haven't been to this place in years either because Disneyland is like the nicest,
cleanest,
you know,
park you can go to.
There's a place down here called Magic Mountain where it's not that.
Oh,
I've heard it's trash.
Yeah.
But the rides are fucking amazing.
Are they?
So every few years we got to go get our roller coaster fix.
Like skippity hop over some syringes and jump on the roller coaster.
It's cool.
Yeah.
Sometimes you find a half full one.
You just shoot up yourself.
Right on.
Yeah.
Keep on.
Keep it on.
Yeah.
We have us.
We have a Six Flags Great America like 45 minutes away.
So are those trashy?
Are they good?
Six Flags?
It's whatever.
It's so so.
I mean,
Magic Mountain is also Six Flags.
Oh,
it is.
Oh,
OK.
Gotcha.
Probably similar.
Yeah.
It's pretty similar.
Well,
good.
I'm jealous.
I need it.
It's time.
I need a trip to Disneyland.
It's been,
like I said,
since COVID.
We had passes and we gave them up,
not because of COVID,
but because Star Wars land was opening and we just don't care about Star Wars and everything we had heard was,
oh,
it's going to be a shit show for,
like,
two years while people really get their Star Wars fixings,
right?
Oh,
we'll just let our passes expire.
Then we'll re up in two years.
And that was,
like,
November of 2019.
It's still a shit show,
so yeah,
just go anyways.
Yeah.
But then it was a good thing because,
you know,
those passes became obsolete,
like two months later.
Good times.
The galaxy's edge is such a cool area to just walk around in because it is legitimately like you are in a completely different world.
Yeah.
So well done.
Yeah.
Just,
like,
looking at everything that they've built and designed.
It's fucking magical.
That's cool.
You know,
Nick,
Big Dick Nick,
he was actually a part of building some of the sets over there.
Oh,
cool.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
I think he built some of the ad ads,
something like that.
What a fun thing to do.
Crazy.
Yeah.
And he didn't show me pictures while he was working on them because he signed NDAs.
Some contracts.
Yeah.
Wasn't allowed to take pictures and stuff.
Not worth it.
Let me tell you,
definitely did not show me pictures.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Don't want to mess with Disney.
Yeah.
Good job.
Underline not.
Sorry about the tweak in my eye there.
Anyways.
All right.
That's awesome.
I'm jealous.
I need to get out there.
And,
you know,
check out some beer while I'm there,
too.
On a patio.
Or not a patio,
but on a balcony where no one's there.
Paris.
Yeah.
All right.
Nice.
Before we find out what flexi boy is drinking over there.
Let's check in with Chu because he's got something for flex.
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Yo,
what's up,
Crappy Republic?
It's True Beer.
Quick little thing,
homies.
It's LA Beer Week,
homes.
So starting kicking it off the right way,
correct way,
homes,
June 15th at the Independent Beer Festival in Long Beach,
hosted by the L.A.
Brewers Guild is happening this Saturday,
homies.
If you need tickets,
follow my link on Instagram at OJ_ and buy your tickets,
homes.
I have no promo code,
no nothing,
but I am helping the guild bringing people,
homies.
I have the Chu crew coming up.
I got Marvelous Marvin,
Vivian,
my boy,
Ants,
and Robin.
My son's coming with me,
my wifey Chu will be there with me and some other people are pulling up.
So be there,
L.A.
Brewers Guild Festival,
Independent Beer Festival,
that's the name of it.
It's happening,
homie.
L.A.
Beer Week is happening this whole week,
starting the 14th through the 23rd,
I think it is.
So pull up,
show up,
and let's pound up,
homies.
Hope I get to see you there,
Greg and Shannon.
That would be pretty cool.
Also would love to wish Flex Daddy a happy Father's Day.
Feliz Dia de los Padres,
homie.
You are an amazing father.
Don't let nobody else tell you,
homie.
You're doing awesome.
You're doing great.
From one father to another,
I got a 22 and a 17 year old,
and you know,
we know we're great dads,
homes,
but from one father to another,
homie,
you're doing great,
ese.
You're doing an amazing job and keep it up,
keep doing it.
Just wake up and go to work and provide for your fucking kids because at the end of the day,
you want them to go to college so they can get an education and then they can move out of your fucking house and you don't have to deal with them anymore.
You don't have to worry that they are not financially stable.
So that's your job as a father is to teach them how to do an oil change,
how to take care of moms.
Well,
not your mom and not their mom,
but their wives,
homie.
You know,
make sure that they're on track and they know how to change a tire.
And if it's a boy or a girl that they know how to do everything and not get scanned by these fucking idiots out there in the world.
Sometimes you got to be rough because the world isn't nice.
So then you got to teach them that there's a lot of assholes out there.
All right,
homies,
it's true,
your beer.
It's L.A.
Beer Week.
It's Father's Day weekend.
Go balls to the wall,
homie,
from the windows to the wall with the sweat drawn down my balls.
You know how it goes.
All right.
This true beer.
Yet to watch.
Peace out.
Oh,
wow.
Well,
thanks.
True.
Happy Father's Day to you as well.
Oh,
chew and flex.
And what do you mean over there doing the Lord's work?
Happy Father's Day.
Raising the children's.
Yeah.
And making sure they don't get scammed by the assholes.
A lot of assholes out there,
a lot of assholes.
And I will not be at L.A.
craft beer or whatever thing he was promoting.
That makes me think of Nelly on Country Grammar when he's like L.A.
I don't know,
I just think it's a fun hand gesture to do it is I'm going to see you know about the L.A.
O Club.
No,
what is that?
No,
I don't.
You have to draw it out.
It's like the L.A.
symbol like flex is doing with an O at the end of the A and then you you turn it upside down.
It looks like a good dude masturbating.
Yeah,
good for that guy.
Yeah.
Good for it.
Erica just did it.
What'd you expect me to do?
I got a pencil.
I got paper.
Yeah.
She's now shredding her paper.
It's pornographic.
Yeah.
Oh,
God.
Kids might walk in here.
Anyway,
805-538-beer.
Thanks for calling in.
Shoot.
If you guys want to call and leave a voice bill,
go ahead and give us a call.
Yeah.
I will not be at the beer festival.
Apologies.
That is way too far of a drive to get drunk and drive home.
Good hour and some change.
So,
yeah,
not happening.
But yeah,
just Uber that.
It's like a hundred and fifty dollar Uber each way.
That's a problem.
Get your money's worth.
Yeah,
right.
Oh,
I will.
At that point,
I would not remember anything past the 12 minute mark.
You have to like set it up with your Uber the morning of be like,
look,
I need you to come lift me up off the ground.
Right.
8 p.m.
This is where I'm going to pass out.
Do you have a carjack?
I may need it later.
Possibly a furniture dolly.
Yeah.
That's the problem with a lot of beer festivals these days is the Uber ride there and back is more expensive than the festival ticket.
Oh,
yeah.
And then waiting in that Uber line,
like,
because everyone else is doing it.
Oh,
you're leaving.
Yeah.
Like if you go to Loggerville and we stay the entire weekend like Loggerville tickets like 50 bucks.
But,
you know,
we stayed a whole week and how much does that cost?
Oh,
yeah.
You know,
it's kind of silly.
But,
you know,
it's all for the greater good.
Really?
I mean,
beer festivals are important,
you know,
American pastime,
really.
That's true.
Yeah.
Our founding fathers were setting up pop up tents and what they did right there.
Yeah.
And just ye olde kegerators.
Yeah.
What's now known as the Capitol Mall was like or not the Capitol Mall.
Yeah.
That's where they were set up there.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
They'd bring out their horse and buggy to drag out ye olde kegs and all that stuff back in the day.
Merca right there.
Yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
All right.
Let's get a little news going before we head on up out of here.
Big breaking news.
I think it was a week or two ago Flex and I were talking about Anchor was supposed to make a decision by the end of May as to who would be buying Anchor.
And this stuff's been going on since,
what,
like January?
Oh,
forever.
I mean,
yeah.
January.
Like,
we're going to make an announcement this month.
And so we kind of didn't believe them.
They finally made said announcement.
So it was a pretty cool announcement.
It was.
And like they announced or they dropped a really cool video with the new owner on their gram.
So go check that out.
If you haven't seen it.
Very inspiring.
It was very like made me want to go out and win an NBA championship.
You know,
maybe they show it to the trailblazers.
Who knows?
It's been a while.
So anyways,
Anchor Brewing's future was revealed with the announcement that and I'm so sorry.
Hamdi Lekhia.
Yep.
A hundred percent.
Okay.
Who is the billionaire founder and CEO of the yogurt and dairy
brand Chobani has acquired the craft brewery and it's 2.17
acre property in San Francisco's Patero Hill neighborhood.
His investment from Shepard future and developer Presidio Bay Ventures are
in the process of resuming operations at the brewery with the sale report
reportedly including the production facility and a nearby tap room.
The sale price was not disclosed,
but the real estate had been listed for around $40 million just by itself.
Oh yeah.
He is attempting to assemble as much of the old crew as possible to get things up and going and should make a movie out of that,
you know,
and then do like a montage.
You getting like the gang back together,
motherfucking montage,
have like some sick ass 80s track in the background.
That would be good.
Uh,
yeah.
I mean,
honestly they should do a documentary about it.
It's old,
one of the oldest breweries in America and it's been through all these ownership changes and has died a few times and been resurrected and,
um,
I think it'd be a cool documentary.
Good.
Hopefully now it sounds like they won't have to be resurrected anytime soon again.
Hopefully so.
And they will once again be craft.
So yay.
Yay.
Let's get it.
And here's to hoping they bring back their,
uh,
Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year beer.
Right.
Oh,
so Flex's kids can do the artwork on the label.
I totally forgot about that.
Yes.
Uh,
never forget.
Yeah.
Oh,
that was so good.
We need some,
some Flex's kid artwork for that.
Oh,
that was great.
You should just preemptively have them design some,
some right bottle labels and have it.
Yeah.
Hey,
you all got to pay that guy a shit ton of money,
10 bucks and a case of beer.
Right.
Don't even throw me any cash.
Send my kids a thank you card and give me a six pack.
Yeah.
I'm doing this for a thumbs up and a six or what do you say?
That'd be so good.
Ex cigar city brewer acquires up country brewing and is launching new brewery.
Uh,
go back to batch one 56.
I interviewed the former owner now of up country brewing.
He's also the former co-founder of Terrapin brewing.
So he's definitely got a,
a beer pedigree,
but on one 56,
I got to talk to him.
His name is John.
Go check that out.
A former cigar city brew master flex is going to remember this name,
Wayne Wambles.
He's a whambling man born away.
Yeah.
That guy is definitely a superhero in his like night,
his night shift.
Oh,
he's gotta be,
uh,
he has finalized an agreement to purchase the up country brewing space in downtown brewing.
Um,
yeah.
Up country and downtown.
Yeah.
They're competing breweries.
Interesting.
I've never,
never knew that.
Yeah.
Totally,
totally accurate information.
Wambles will maintain the up country portfolio while simultaneously launching his own brewery brand Griffin and Sphinx,
which is named for his dogs.
He plans to run the four barrel brewery as well as distribution of its offerings.
Additionally,
Wambles will brew up country beers for the Asheville based up country location,
which was purchased last year by longtime employee,
Michaela Lemon from brewery founder,
John Cochran.
Of course,
John's the one we talked to earlier this year,
Wambles was laid off by monster brewing and in his ending,
his 16 year tenure as brew master of the Tampa,
Florida based craft brewery,
almost 17 years,
almost missed it by that much.
But luckily it was more than 15 barely,
you know,
just barely.
That's when it starts to matter.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Come out with a beer called like the Royal Wamble.
I was thinking like,
um,
we said,
what's the opposite of up country?
Downtown.
So like the guy who like is the founder of that is Shane shambles or like,
I was trying to think of.
Shane shambles of downtown brewing.
Downtown.
Yeah.
Wayne Wambles of up country.
You're sitting there like cussing each other out.
Like fuck you,
Shane shambles.
No,
I said,
fuck you,
Wayne Wambles,
you can't talk to me like that,
Shane shambles.
So good.
Uh,
Hey Wayne,
call us.
Let's work on this idea.
Yeah.
Please.
Yeah.
He's got nothing but time.
He put in his 16 years.
They're almost 17.
Don't feel insulted by any of this at all.
Oh dear.
Um,
monster is speaking of monster and Wayne Wambles.
Now what monster is going to be closing deep Ellum's tap room and shift their production to other facilities.
A monster brewing spokesperson shared the following statement today.
After over 12 years of brewing and serving deep Ellen beers at the Dallas facility,
we've made the decision to close the tap room and move production of the beer to other facilities that are networked.
Deep Ellen beers will continue to be produced and distributed to our wholesale partners.
And there will be no reduction in supply or availability.
The deep Ellen brand family will continue to be an important part of the Texas beer community or community.
We're committed to maintaining the,
we're committed to maintaining the beers quality and brands unique identity while navigating a rapidly changing landscape.
Basically a monster is fucking up ever since their purchase of cannery.
They're closing.
Yeah.
That's right.
Who would have seen that coming?
Their energy drinks are terrible.
Talk about heartburn.
Ugh.
Talk about shit in a can.
Yeah.
Well like Wambles was laid off from,
from monster brewing,
wasn't he?
So I mean he wasn't cutting it.
Maybe Shane Chambles.
Yeah.
Maybe Shane Chambles works at monster.
Right?
That's where the feud began.
We're talking about Shane Chambles like he's a real guy.
He probably exists to be honest.
Google it.
Yeah.
He does exist.
Did you guys hear the drama with Suntory and Sam Adams and all this stuff?
Yes.
No.
Just recently.
I don't get out much.
I haven't gotten out to the internet.
I rely on you for all my news,
Greg.
Yeah.
That's why we're here.
Yeah.
What am I doing here?
Do your job,
Greg.
Apologies.
Allow me to inform.
Suntory denies acquisition talks with Boston Beer following a report by the Wall Street Journal.
Suntory Holdings has denied a Wall Street Journal report that Boston Beer was in talks to sell to the global spirits giant.
In a statement shared with Brewbound,
a Suntory spokesman wrote,
"There is no fact that we are in any negotiations with Boston Beer." The
journal citing people familiar with the matter reported that Boston Beer and
Suntory are in early talks with the caveat that a deal may not materialize.
The report set Boston Beer stock soaring,
jumped $57 to around $313 by the close of trading last Friday.
The stock was still well below their 52-week high of $395,
but up from the 52-week low of $254.
After initially declining a request for comment,
Boston Beer issued the following statement,
"The Boston Beer Company is aware of today's Wall Street Journal article on company sales speculation.
We do not comment on rumors.
We are fully focused on our business as an independent company and our return to growth." They then sent a letter to employees from the founder,
Jim Koch,
Coach,
Koch,
Koch.
Yeah.
Oh,
there you got it.
Koshay.
"We will not be commenting beyond our public statement as we do not respond to rumors because that,
because they are exactly that,
rumors.
This has happened many times throughout the history of Boston Beer.
And I ask that you do not let it distract you from what matters most,
making and selling great beer and beyond beer products." So it sounds like those statements were not real convincing.
Yeah.
It's really sad if that's true though,
right?
I've always been impressed with how Boston Beer has gotten so large,
but they've stayed very small minded in so many ways with the philanthropic programs that they have.
And they seem to just be doing more and more helping small breweries open up and like small businesses.
They even had me part of one of their entrepreneur programs for a year and coached me and almost flew me out,
no joke,
for pretzel day to Boston.
Oh,
that would have been awesome.
Yeah.
It's just,
that would be so sad if they'd kind of lost that mindset and sold out.
Yeah.
And they've stayed craft this whole time.
And I think they're the largest craft brewery in,
well,
Yngling might be now.
Anyways,
they forced the craft brewer's association to change the definition of what a craft brewery is.
Did they?
They were making so much beer,
but everything else still qualified as craft.
Yeah.
The way that they run their operating system,
yeah.
They years ago had to change the barrel count as to what qualifies as craft.
Yeah.
That is interesting.
So we'll see.
Their statements don't fill me with confidence that they're not trying to sell.
No one said no.
They're just like,
we are focused on making beer.
But are you selling?
We are making beer.
What an Oktoberfest though.
Love it.
That is a good one.
So good.
Pretty,
pretty good.
We'll end it with this one,
Florida man allegedly steals school bus while drunk.
Florida man was arrested after police officers caught him driving a stolen bus.
According to the report,
30 year old Daniel Saez was charged with grand theft auto after police stopped him in Sarasota.
He reportedly told authorities that he was on his way back to Tampa from Miami to return the stolen bus.
He admitted to being both drunk and high when he stole the bus on Saturday and then drove the vehicle for four hours from Tampa to Miami.
The Florida Highway Patrol confirmed that the school bus belonged to Hillsborough County Public Schools.
He was arrested and placed in county jail.
The incident remains under investigation.
So he drove the bus back.
Yeah.
He got super drunk and high,
stole it and then was like,
oh shit,
I probably shouldn't done this.
Wow.
There's gotta be like some kind of like credit they give him there.
Yeah.
Thanks for not turning into a tiny home and did something so fucking stupid.
And then unlike any other Floridian,
you acknowledge what you did and tried to like write the wrong.
That's pretty impressive.
Yeah.
Just for that.
We are not revoking your Gator and grenade area of anything like that gets them like frontline to be the next governor.
Seriously.
I think so.
That shows way more intelligence than their current governor.
Well,
that's my point.
Yeah.
And he didn't say anything about him turning into like a party bus for the ride back and charging people.
You know,
he put in a pole.
He got a DJ system.
That would've been fantastic.
That would be amazing.
That would've been so good.
And yeah,
we don't have to charge you for turning this into a whore bus.
We're so glad.
It does a lot of money.
So way to go,
Florida.
Keep it classy down there.
Only places still have school buses.
What they do.
Do you have school buses,
Flex?
Do your kids ride a school bus?
Sometimes they take it home.
So it's available to them.
Yeah.
Right.
Yes.
Very in your area,
Greg.
Do they do school buses?
Do you see them very often?
I don't see him very often.
I see him every now and then I did hear,
I think on like next door or one of those garbage ass apps that like,
if you want to take the school bus,
you got to pay for it.
Yeah.
It's not free anymore.
It's like you,
you pay.
So it's like we have one school bus for our K through eight school.
So yeah.
In California school buses.
Yeah.
There's more party buses than there are school buses in California.
Easily.
I had no idea.
The more you know,
Flex.
Yeah.
I know in high school,
like school buses were still a thing because I knew friends who took the bus every day.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Maybe it depends on where you live.
Like if you're,
I imagine if you're X amount away from a school,
they have to like provide the option or something.
I imagine that too.
There's so many schools in California that you're usually within walking distance.
Yeah.
You guys must be pretty far from a school.
Oh no.
It's less than two miles.
It's a five minute drive.
Yeah.
Oh,
okay.
Well,
nevermind.
Super cool.
California stuff.
Just thought that was interesting.
Good job,
Florida.
You still have school buses and you have one honorable man that makes you think that kids are still going to school there.
Oh,
good point.
Are they though?
They were still waiting for someone to sign up.
I said it gives you hope,
Greg.
Yeah.
We'll see.
Hopefully there's something with the younger generation or something like that.
All right.
Let's do a little music.
Speaking of Florida,
I'll just review my beer next week.
Oh,
God damn it.
I did it again.
Wow.
I was just looking at the clock.
I was like,
Oh,
this show is going a little light.
I even said before we,
before we find out about Flex's beer,
let's do this voicemail from junior beer.
And here we are.
And I was excited about this one because your kids picked it out.
I was waiting the last 10 minutes for some sort of signal.
Like,
yeah.
Like smoke signal or he's like,
he's got to forget.
I'm so fucking tired.
Well,
here we go.
Because I do want to hear about this beer and I'm honestly hoping it's slightly garbage.
Let's let's answer the most important question of the night in a world where craft beer is king,
a world where muscles are bigger than growlers,
only one tongue can guide us.
One man,
one guy over here,
one B.B.
tongue jobber in this world,
we must find out what is Flex drinking.
All right.
So the funny story about this beer is I didn't even want to buy it.
I'm hoping it's garbage.
My kids say,
you know,
is the first day off for summer break.
So I said,
hey,
I got to stop,
pick up a beer for the show tonight.
They saw this beer and like they wouldn't not let me get it.
I only wanted to get two four packs,
you know,
because I'm on my cutback stage and I couldn't put down the other two because I really wanted those.
And they one of one of my kids was carrying this and they would not let me put it back.
It's called Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows.
All right.
The can I see why they wanted Pink Fluffy Unicorn Dancing on Rainbows.
So they loved it.
I thought it was great that they loved it.
Mike,
who runs my local shop,
got a kick out of it,
too.
So this is,
like I said,
Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows from Half Brothers Brewing Company out of Grand Forks,
North Dakota.
Never heard of them.
Never heard of Grand Forks,
North Dakota.
I think they're one of two breweries,
aside from Drecker in North Dakota.
Prove me wrong.
And it is a sour ale brewed with lemons,
blueberries and lactose.
Untap 3.9.
And it has a real small description,
unlike Erica's beer,
this fruited lemonade sour ale.
We took lemonade,
blueberries and a small amount of lactose to round this unique brew.
Enjoy.
Oh,
sweet.
So on the old schnauz,
it's that real classic sour,
like a little bit of breadiness to it.
Just real classic sour style.
No real citrus note too much off the nose,
maybe a little bit of like lemon peel.
No blueberries to be found.
And then on the old tongue jobber.
Oh,
here we go.
So it's very low in carbonation.
It does taste like lemonade and there's a little sweetness behind it.
And it's where it,
yeah,
like it's like where the blueberries and the lactose play in.
Okay.
But it's all around.
It's a enjoyable beer,
like super good summer crusher.
Damn it.
I know.
I wish it would have sucked too.
I actually have a beer for next week that I'm hoping sucks too.
Yeah.
At 6%.
I mean,
this is perfect for like a 85 degree day on the patio,
just kicking back.
Nice refreshing brew.
And the unicorns are totally like appropriate on there.
There's nothing weird or funky,
looks like a cute little unicorn.
I just thinking how like,
you know,
it is weird how it like,
you know,
something so cute brings kids in.
So I bought this card game for my niece,
who's like 12 and it had cute little unicorns on it.
And it was pornographic.
I had no idea.
My mother brought it.
We was like,
we're talking about.
Yeah,
I had no idea.
Like he's like,
Hey,
you know,
that game you bought,
I don't know,
it just made me think of how unicorns aren't always so innocent.
It looked like a cute little kid card game.
Okay.
All right.
Don't let Erica buy my kid shit.
Thank God it was like my family member because like,
you know,
they have all kinds of funny card games,
like not parent approved,
but it's actually like a card kid card game.
So I was like,
Oh,
this unicorn thing.
And first thing was like about a stripper and I don't know,
I was just like,
Oh,
thank God it was my brother.
Wow.
Anyways,
your cute little unicorn made me think of it because it looked a lot like that.
It was just some cute little fluffy unicorn with clouds and rainbows.
And yeah,
no,
I mean,
aside from there being like alcohol in the can,
there's no,
yeah,
nothing.
It's pretty cute.
And I did check.
There is no unicorn penis on here.
No,
no little penis on there.
So we're good.
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's version two.
The dip up.
Oh,
it's double.
All right.
Some stats for you.
Thanks to the Brewers Association as of 2023,
North Dakota is home to 20 craft breweries.
Oh,
wow.
That is way more than I thought.
There you go.
That's more than everyone thought.
18 more than I thought,
actually.
Touche.
It's a numbers game.
It's yeah,
they're definitely playing the numbers game over there in North Dakota.
220.
Yeah.
Oh,
Greg's a dumbass.
All right.
Well,
hello,
Vanessa.
Yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
Hi,
Vanessa.
Hey,
girl.
Have fun with this one.
What's scaring this one,
dude?
And it's going to be,
and it is going to be fantastic on this.
We know how your morning did not go.