I know, but don't you get big slabs of meat that you have to like break it down? Welcome in everybody.
It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg. I'm being joined by the sexiest meat cutter in the entire Midwest.
And that's Flex. What's up big, big meat cuts. Spilling the beans, man. Well, you know, it's a big day. It's a big day. You're going to be playing with meats. I'm going to be a professional meat beater.
Yeah, up until now, you've just been an amateur. Yeah. He's going pro everybody. I'm getting paid for that shit. Yeah, he's going pro. And already disgusted by our jokes.
Actually not really, she'll probably try now to us, is the almost sick one from the East Coast. Dear girl Mel, what's cracking? Oh, just some Aspire beer
and my laptop that did not want to agree with me. So we're calling it the Fumb Mel tonight. Fumb Mel. Yeah, like I almost didn't make it. And then, you know, I fumbled the ball,
but I didn't fumble it. I'm the one that caught it. Like the opposite team, you know. It was like a pick six Mel, because you caught the, well, nevermind. Welcome in everybody.
Reminder, this is not a sports show. Right. Find us on the socials, at craftbeerrepublic, at flexbeer underscores in between, and at beergirl underscore Mel, not Melissa.
And I have to remember that. Do you need me to change my name back? Would that be helpful for you? No, because as soon as you change it back, I'll get the new one right. Yeah. We're all going to be confused again. Yeah, so no matter what, I'm fucked, you're fucked.
There's no point. Just leave it. Speaking of being fucked, I ran this. Do tell Greg, do tell. Hold on, let me loop this up for a second.
I found this podcast, like AI grading app, where like you upload an episode and it grades the episode based on like length and audio quality and all these things. And overall it got a pretty good score,
but it did knock us down for swearing. And it shows you every instance that it picked up. And it was just this list of like, fuck, fuck, fuck, shit, fuck, fuck, piss, fuck, shit.
And it has like the timestamps of it. That's awesome. It was pretty funny. And now that I just, I say it's going to grade you down now. Now that I just said it 30 times, I want to re-grade this episode and see what comes up.
It was pretty funny, so. I like that. Yeah, anyways. All right, let's kick things off with some hydration. Mel's got a beer that we can't see, but I want to hear about it. She sent me a selfie. She's looking cute and has lots of foam in her beer.
So let's find out what's going on over there. That was my fault though. Sure it was. All right, what foamy ass beer are you drinking?
So today I have PS new brewery alert in the Hudson Valley. Well, they've been open since June. Aspire Brewing, come check us out in Middletown.
Tonight I am drinking Ambition. It's a double dry hopped hazy IPA coming at a 6.8%, but it's sneaky. So I don't believe that ABV,
even though it's tested, tried and true. And Ambition, a strong desire to achieve something. Satisfy your desire for bold citrus and tropical fruit hop flavors
and a delightfully smooth mouthfeel. Malts include Golden Promise and Pilsner, and the hops are Citra and Mosaic. This beer pours absolutely stunning,
just the way you would expect it for an hazy IPA. It's got a nice golden color. Let's give it a little sniff. Really? Yes, I can attest to the color.
It is hazy also. Yeah, it is hazy, but it's like a nice hazy. You get a lot of that Citra hops on the nose and the taste. I'm assuming you're taking a sip, but we can't see you.
Don't I sip loud? You can't hear that? I feel like I'm like the loudest person alive. It's really, really nice and juicy on the front. But right around the middle of the sip,
you kind of get that hop, that sort of take over, and it finishes like a West Coast, actually. It's got that nice West Coast hoppy, no hopper, but a nice hoppy like remanence on your tongue.
I think that this beer is executed extremely well. This is the first time I've tried it, but I know it's been a huge hit since they've come out with it. I also want to just quickly talk about the can art,
even though you guys can't see it. It looks amazing. It's an astronaut with the reflection. I think it's the earth in the reflection of his mask,
his shield. It is now. So his ambition has taken him out of this world. The listeners can't see it anyway. That was my whole reasoning behind it.
Flex and I are getting the full podcast experience. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's tough. Now you see me, now you don't. No, I've been hearing really good things about Aspire, Mel. You know what?
The beer's been amazing so far. Really consistent with the styles, true to the brewing style, each one that they do. We've got a stellar crew.
So head brewer, Rick, along with Mike, Nick, and Jackie, our female brewer, they're just consistently putting out bangers. I mean, go ahead.
I was going to say, and I know everything that the brewery has to offer, because I know you and we talk pretty frequently, but what are all of the amenities that they have here as well?
It's actually pretty astounding. It doesn't even sound like a brewery once you hear about everything they have. It's like an adult fun land, pretty much.
I don't even know the square footage. It's enormous. I think we see like 650 plus. It's crazy. They have a pour your own wall so you can get your card and swipe it
and get small pours or large pours, whatever you choose. Full service dining along with QR code ordering as well. But then for the fun of it all, we've got ax throwing.
We've got some game rooms. So if you want to do like Topgolf or like there's so many games you can choose. So you can do like soccer, golf, trivia.
You could shoot zombies if you want to. It's a private room so you can rent it out. You can hang out with your friends. It's like a golf simulator screen. Yeah, yeah. Oh, sorry.
For those of you that don't know. Not like a Topgolf. Not Topgolf. Yeah, it's a golf simulator scene. Sorry. I guess that is different, right? Because that's a driving range. Yeah, this is just a screen. Giant Jenga, of course,
because how do you not have that? Beautiful outdoor area. It's just, there's like little hanging chairs for like the Instagrammers that want to get the aesthetic pictures.
It's really just all around beautiful. It's the influencer section. It's legit. Like picture Maltese egg chair, but hanging and a bunch of them and couches to lounge on.
Yeah. Everybody on the beer gram knows exactly what you're talking about. I know, of course. And everything is shiny gold. Like everything in the place is fucking made of gold. Right, like don't spill your beer
because those tiles are probably very expensive. I have no idea, but I'm guessing. And then the bathrooms even are like, you know, a Grammar's wonderland. You know, each bathroom is different.
The tiles are different. They say different things. It's cool. Come check it out, Greg. Come to the Hudson Valley. Sure. Yeah, it's not even like a real brewery. It's like a fucking wonderland.
But the beer is just phenomenal. I mean, there's so many different styles too. I want to say there's like 16 right now. And constantly coming out with different ideas. Like if you are not a beer lover
and you're a seltzer lover, I know. Don't hate me, Greg, but not everybody is. But they do brew their own seltzers as well. And I think we just came out with a dragon fruit for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
It's got a beautiful pink color. Oh, that's right. You sent that color. That was awesome. Yeah, they like are on board with, you know, because they're also part of the beer community as well. So they're like all about charity beers and giving back.
They did brew for like Hawaii. I think it was at Maui Brewing Company. Oh yeah, Maui. Yep, so they got like the recipe and brewed like for charity.
So definitely come check it out. That was long-winded, I'm sorry, but it's really cool. Okay. All good. Sounds like a sweet place. You have to fly me out there to check it out.
I have a lot of Jet Blue Points. Does that help? Yeah. Come on down. Can't wait. What is that beer called? Kukua, the relief beer from Maui Brewing.
There we go. I had to find it. I hate saying it. I feel like an idiot whenever I say it because I'm sure I'm mispronouncing it. Now you're great. Yeah. You do words so well. Especially English words.
Got them. Like apricot, when it's clearly apricot. It's clearly apricot. No, you had it right the first time. It's apricot. But AI would tell you it's really apricot.
Not the right AI. If it's wrong, it's because it's artificial intelligence. Yeah, there you go. Great graded our podcast, fine, but it's wrong with that.
Picks up on all our swear words, but couldn't get apricot right. Earmuffs, everybody, earmuffs. Yeah, sorry about that. That's like the one time my coworker told one of our clients about a previous podcast I did,
which was way worse in the horribleness of the things we said. Oh yeah. And I was like, why did you tell me that? He's like, oh, I thought he'd enjoy it. I was like, yeah, let's keep work life away from podcast life. Right.
Let's keep these clients. Stay away. Yeah, that's a horrible idea. Well, speaking of the kukua, or close enough. Oh, you got it, yeah. It's like an old thing now.
You don't sound like an asshole when you say it. I think you're doing it. I just gotta go with the confidence and just pretend I know. Exactly. Speaking of that beer, over the weekend, Brittany over at Naughty Pine did another festival
type thing to raise money for Maui. And it was the Love for the People Fest and released her version of kukua, which was actually really good, enjoyed that. They had a bunch of, what do you call it?
Like white reggae? Oh wait, is that what? Not ska. No. Like Kyle Smith. Isn't it like jam band or something? No, that's different too. Really?
Because that's like what Multi Maiden listens to also. She follows us like pigeons playing ping pong. Yeah, it's like a stick figure and Kyle Smith and like sublime-ish kind of, I don't know what you call that.
I don't either. It's its own thing. Yeah, it's its own. Anyway, so a bunch of those type of artists and- It's like stoner music. That's kind of what I think of it as. It's pretty much stoner music, but you know, whatever.
People like what they like. Anyway, so she had that over the weekend, released the beer, went to that, was able to make the very end of it because I was working, but good times, good beer. I hope they don't get mad that I tell this story.
Coley and Big Dick Nick were already there and they were very well hydrated. And like, oh, we're gonna call an Uber. I was like, hey, if you don't mind coming with me to pick up the dog first, I'll take you home.
No need for an Uber. So we did and Nick, no surprise here, fell asleep on the ride home. But Nicole, it was starting to set in
how much she had had to drink that day. I guess they had brunched pretty hard before the event. And at one point she just passes out and wakes up. She's in the backseat of my car and just like wakes up. She's like, Nick, slow down.
Ooh. And I was like, wait, what? Ooh. And then passed back out and then woke up like a few minutes, I haven't told her this. This is how she's hearing it for the first time. Sorry, Nicole.
She's behind on episodes. Yeah, I know. I'm not gonna know for a couple of weeks. I'm gonna get a text in three weeks and be like, why did you, I don't know what you're talking about. And then she woke up a few minutes later and said something and just mumbled.
I couldn't understand it. I was like, oh, we're dealing with some hydrated people here. So got into their house and they're like, hey, she always, whenever one of us leaves or whatever, is like, hey, text me when you get home. So she was coherent enough to say like,
text me when you get home. And I did, I was like, hey, I'm home. Have a good night, whatever. And she goes, hey, I'm home too. She didn't remember it. Oh, Coley. I don't think she remembers.
Coley, you are my spirit animal, honey. Oh, it's so good. So good, I was cracking up. Go hard or go home. Yeah, man, fucking do it. She was telling me there's this new brunch place
by their house, which is like all Mexican food and lots of bottomless mimosas. That sounds amazing. Bloody Marias, perhaps? I'm not a fan. I don't do the tomato juice or the miches.
I hate tomato juice, but I love a good Bloody. I want like one Bloody Mary and then I'm swapping it. But one is good. For what? It depends on how rowdy the day is gonna be.
Are we gonna try to be classy? Because then I'll just stick with those mimosas that are like mostly orange juice. But if we're gonna be. Oh, like the healthy mimosas. Oh, those, okay. Yeah, if we're gonna be raunchy,
then I'll probably just like switch it over to vodka. Oh, gosh. Oof, vodka in the morning. We went pretty gnarly in this arcade bar in Indianapolis once. And they were, this was probably about four years ago.
Yeah, we went in there and all the arcades were free to play. Like as long as you bought drinks, it was. Done and done. It was the best. But they were running like the $6 Bloody Mary special. So we just kept ordering Bloodies from like noon to four.
Oh, gosh. The special cut off at four. So then we were just like, well, we ran out. We weren't even drinking all the vodka. We're like, might as well switch to like vodka lemonade.
But then. Cranberry vodka. So we just drank those from like four to eight. And then we just started wandering the streets of downtown Indianapolis. Oh, my gosh.
While it had already snowed like a foot the night before. And then it started snowing again that night. It was a great time. Nice. Never forget. Yeah, I can't do the Bloody Marys or the Miches or, oh.
So what would your breakfast cocktail be? Is it like, is it a beer? Love a good mimosa. Look, I've been known to have a beer at 9 a.m. or two. But like, if we're going to brunch type thing,
I'll do a mimosa. Love a good mimosa. I also love a good, what do you call them? Irish coffees. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, to start.
Oh, okay. That's usually like my end game. Like, yeah. Interesting. I would probably start with that. I don't think I could end with that. Yeah, a little whiskey in the coffee
with a little cream there. Yeah, I love a good spiked coffee to end a meal. I don't like, yeah, it's so good. I don't like the Bailey's though. I just want coffee, cream, and whiskey. No Bailey's.
Oh, yeah, okay. Okay. I know like a lot of times they put Bailey's. It just gets a little too sweet for my liking. Yeah, that's what makes it good. I guess. Mel, you've been to-
It makes it easy to drink, yeah. Mel, you've been to San Francisco. Did you happen to go to the Buena Vista where they invented those? So I was only in San Fran for about three hours. That's long enough?
Yeah, so no, actually. Okay. I'm trying to think. We went to Holy Water. Where else did we go? What was the name of it? Come on, you know the name. Good Pizza. I don't live there. Yeah, it's like right down the road.
Oh, man, Hoppy would kill me if I didn't remember it. I'm not gonna remember it right now, though I can tell you that. But no, I was only in two places in San Fran. I definitely need to go back and like spend some time there for sure.
Yeah, the Buena Vista is cool. It's where they supposedly invented the Irish coffees, and they're not cheap, but they're good, and they do a good job. I did find this place down the street from there. How can they claim that they invented Irish coffees?
They've been open since like 1850s. So I guess, you know, I don't know. A lot of Irish people came over for the gold rush. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But there is a place down there.
I don't know if it's still open. I haven't been to this area of San Francisco since COVID. Irish people came in for the gold rush. Did they? Look at leprechauns coming in. I don't know if I'm gonna get any pot of gold.
They were the gold detectors. Every time they saw a rainbow, they just ran towards the end. Is that racist towards Irish? Be stupid. If it's still open, they'll go to the gold dust. They also have Irish coffees, but super cheap.
Not quite as good, but super cheap. So have like one good one at the Buena Vista, and then they'll get hammered at the gold dust. Way to do it. Oh, where were we? Beer podcast, that's right. Tangent thing. Yeah, sorry. I'm good at that.
Love me some breakfast booze and some Irish coffees. All right, so much more to get into. We've got some booze news to talk about. Speaking of San Francisco, Sapporo is really getting rid of Anchor at this point.
Good news for Budweiser? Some drinks we don't need to ever care about? More drunk teachers? Teachers are fucking getting hammered. The teachers are getting hammered. They are. I've been listening quite, you know, I listen weekly.
It's gotta be rough being a teacher nowadays. Yeah, it's like they were getting drunk during lockdown when they were teaching from home over Zoom and just never stopped. Yeah, that's the same as the nurses. But we're not bringing it to work.
We're not bringing it to work, though. Her. You're a nurse. You're not supposed to tell people you're drinking on the job. Yeah. I would never be able to do that, honestly. Yeah, me neither. But are the teachers drinking heavily the night before
and then they're just so hungover that they're like, you know, like their blood alcohol is- I have a feeling it starts in the morning and then it continues on the way to work. Yeah, that's wild. They haven't finished whatever is like in the mug
on the way to work. They just finish in class in the morning. That's my assumption. Yeah, and one of the ones we talked about a couple of weeks ago, I mean, she was drinking red wine on the way to work.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm like, fuck. That 8 a.m. red wine is going hard. I mean, yeah. I guess make it sangria and then you can call it breakfasty. It's got fruit, so.
Right. That's not a bad idea. Yeah, I've had sangria a long time. That'd be a good breakfasty drink. Right, that's what I was thinking. It's been a long, long time. The problem with a good sangria is-
Nothing? You never wanna stop drinking it. Yeah. And then next thing you know, you're completely shittered off of wine and then you wake up the next day and you're wondering why the fuck you did what you did. Yeah, the real problem with a good sangria
is when you throw it up and it's everywhere and it looks like a murder scene. So I've been told. Yeah, I've never thrown up wine, actually. Wine drunk, am I gonna cry? Am I gonna be the life of the party?
Am I gonna murder someone? We just don't know. It's different every single time. Yeah, it's like a Russian roulette mail. Not kidding. Yeah, get her a couple of bottles of red.
Let's see what happens. It's gonna be a night. Or 13 bottles. Oh gosh. Wow, Jesus. Yeah. All right, before we find out if Lex is drinking, top listening city of last week, shout out, getting local to me over here,
Thousand Oaks, California. Hey. Thanks for joining. You just got the episode on repeat or what? Probably, I just, yeah, loop it on my computer to get those stats. And no, Mel, it's definitely not Shannon.
I can tell you for certain who's not listening to the podcast, and that is my wife, so. Does she at least listen when she emergency steps in? I don't think so.
I think she's even less likely to listen at that point. Okay. Yeah, there's no way. Should I call her over and ask her? No. You know I love a good interaction with Shannon, why not? I do love me a good Shannon, but.
No, you don't have to waste your time. Yeah. Okay, she's doing whatever Shannons do. All right, let's ask that important question. In a world where craft beer is king,
a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only one tongue can guide us, one man, one tongue, one tongue jobber.
In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking? It's a cute ass face. I don't know, what am I drinking? Sorry, I'm not gonna lie,
I was really excited about this beer. I saw it in the wild last week and I didn't purchase it. And I was afraid, cause the first time I got it three years ago when it originally released, it sold out rather quickly.
And it did it. So I'm drinking Untitled Arts Cotton Candy IPA. And the reason I was excited for this is cause when I got it back during peak COVID is when it first released,
it was a collaboration between Untitled Art and Collective Arts. I think they kind of coincide with each other. Collective Arts actually brews a lot of their beer in Wanakie, I believe that's where it is.
They're in Canada, right? Yeah, Wanakie, Wisconsin. Yeah, Collective Arts is, but they brew a lot of their stuff at like Untitled Arts facility just to- I wonder if that helps with like not having to import it or something.
I'm sure it increases production and stuff like that. So this is a 6.3%, pretty on the low side for me, but I kind of need that right now.
And it is brewed with Citra, Amarillo, Mosaic, Galaxy, Belma, and Sabro Hops. And all of those together are supposed to create this cotton candy aroma and cotton candy flavor.
And the first time I had it, it was amazing. And it was hazy. This is not hazy and nowhere on the can does it say it's hazy. Untapped says it is a New England hazy.
So that Untapped's a liar on this one. Sorry, Untapped. And there's only four check-ins on this 2023 version. So as we dig the old schnoz in there-
And I will say, it looks like on the original one you had a few years ago, send us the picture. I think it says hazy IPA on it. Yeah, so that one was a hazy. Yeah. Well, and I think the can says hazy. Okay, I don't know. It doesn't say it on the front,
because I did look at that, but it might say it on the side somewhere. Yeah, it looks like I can see a Y and then an IPA coming off the side. So I think it's a hazy. Guess it could have said juicy, who knows. But that one's like a clear beer.
Yeah, this is not at all. It's mostly clear. I would say if it was like a juicy IPA color. Yeah, like a juicy, yeah, right. Definitely not a hazy. It's not as cloudy as the other one. Almost West Coast-y looking. Yeah, yeah.
It does have- Like unfiltered. Yeah, it does have some nice lacing on it, though. So we can't leave that- Not all bad. The unknown to the audience. But when we stick the schnoz in there,
it is insane how much it smells like cotton candy. It actually baffles me how this concoction could actually be this. So then we warm up the old tongue jobber. Oh, best part.
Oh, but that was your nose. Okay, there we go. Wrong body part. Mel's a nurse, she knows. Okay, so this is super light on the carbonation.
The cotton candy flavor is there, but it is faint and it fades fast. And then it almost finishes like a mildly bitter West Coast.
So this is an interesting rendition. I don't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the original one three years ago. But like I said, this can, nowhere on it says
hazy New England anything. So I guess they did a great job with it, if that's what they were going for. Or they fucked up and renamed it Juicy. Or just Unhazy.
Just IPA, yeah. So I mean, I'll drink them. This is amazing. It's like one of the few beers that I've had that I'm like, meh, that kind of sucks.
Sucks that I spent the money on it, but. Oh, no. Sorry to hear that. It's all right. Can't win them all, right? I guess not. Did the price work out algorithm-wise at least? Oh, no.
I can see it on his face. I mean, you know, the price is to you in California and to me in Wisconsin are a little different. I know, you're like, hey, it was only $15 for a can. And I'm like, 15, that's great. Right?
Like this four pack was 18 bucks. But it's only like a 6%, 6.3% beer. So for me, that doesn't really, it doesn't do it for me. And then the fact that it fell short of the original,
it hurts a lot more after the fact. Yeah, I wonder if something fell off with their brewing this time around. And maybe that's why the color's off a little bit. I don't know.
It sort of feels that way. The crazy thing too, I haven't purchased anything from these guys in about a year and a half, two years maybe. It's hard. There's so much good beer out there now.
It's like, you know, you're always finding new things and then like local breweries are just kind of taken over, I feel like, which is a great thing. Yeah, I think that's true. Yeah.
I don't find myself really like browsing the shelves anymore the way I used to, I can tell you that. Well, and the shelves got really bad, or at least around me. Like if you didn't go to a bottle shop,
like if you went to like a Total Wine or a Bepmo, like shelves got real shitty and they've started to make a comeback. I think they realized like people weren't down for it, but yeah, I don't really either.
I still hate going into a Total Wine. Yeah, that's where I get all my champagne though. We don't. If you're buying craft beer though, it's almost like you have to treat it like a rummage sale.
It's true. It's like so true. You have to pick up every single four pack, see if it has a canned on date. Yeah. Pray for it to be this year. You can also look at the price tags underneath on the shelf
and it'll have the date that the beer was like brought in on. Okay. And that's always kind of unsettling as well. Mel, you'll appreciate this.
I was reading a story the other day or a couple of days ago, whatever, and it was the average price of beer in America has gone up at bars. And the price that it went up to was like $4.30 a pint.
I was like, not here. No. For a Coors Light, get out of here. Something like that. We're looking at eight to $10 a beer. Oh, easy. Minimum. Yeah.
Minimum. Like a domestic, you're talking? I would say, I mean- Like you go to a shit bar. I haven't bought a Bud Light or anything of that nature in a very long time. But I would say probably they're like six or seven bucks.
Yeah, I would imagine six or seven bucks for a Bud Light, Coors Light type thing. Like a- For a shit domestic. Right. I think the Legion Hall in town still does them for like two and a quarter.
Oh no. So you guys are keeping that average down. It's gotta be like a football night. You know, there's gotta be some kind of a promo going on at the place for it to be that. I don't even think it would be that cheap.
You'd probably see it for like $5 and be like, score, we're going. They'll take 20. Right. Yeah, I mean, the only- When does it end? Yeah. Order 17 more. The only recent memory of buying domestics
is either like at a baseball game or in Vegas or something like that. Like it's been so long and those prices are so inflated. I have no idea what that would cost at an actual bar. Oh my gosh, just obscenity.
It's just so crazy. We got homework to do. Yeah. You guys gotta go drink some shitty beer, everybody. My kids went- Who's coming? Went to a Yankees game over the summer with their camp and they were talking to Lou's uncle about what they,
you know, we sent them with money so they could buy something and Franco was telling Uncle Frobby about how he got his slushie and it was $22. Holy shit. And he almost fell over. He was like, for a slushie, what do you mean?
$22, get out of here. And Franco like thinks he did something wrong. I'm like, Uncle Frobby, I'm like, it's Yankee Stadium. It's like, it's what they pay. Like, it's what you pay now.
You wanted the souvenir cup. What are you gonna do? But that's, it's legitimacy. Oh, you didn't say the souvenir cup. I mean, that changes things. But that's the only option. You don't have another option. You get a souvenir cup every time. There's no excise. Oh, see, I found a Dodger Stadium, you have to tell them.
Like, they'll preemptively give you a souvenir cup and charge you $900 for it. But if you go like, you have to tell them like, hey, I want the slushie in the regular cup and then it's only $300.
Those souvenir cups are such a rip too because you get home and you put it on the top shelf in your cabinet and it just sits there for the next 30 years. Like, what the fuck do you actually do with a souvenir cup? Nothing. My wife just took the kids to see the Taylor Swift movie.
And they come home with this giant Taylor Swift themed popcorn bucket. What is going to happen with that Taylor Swift popcorn bucket? You put the popcorn in it at home. More popcorn.
Every time you make popcorn, it goes into the bucket. Yeah, come on, Flex. They do that with the Disney buckets already from Disney World. Now they've grown up. Well, now they got lots of popcorn buckets. Yeah, come on now, knock it off.
Yeah, stop, stop, stop. Flex, I knew you were trouble when you walked in. Boo. I am so sick of Taylor Swift. Boo on you. I'm sorry to everybody out there. I'm sick of her. I just don't care. Sick.
Yeah. So, I will say- Get out of my Sunday. Driving up your Jets tickets. You know, hey, by the way, 13 and one Eagles,
you're welcome. Oh, that's right. How embarrassing for the Eagles. What a wild weekend. Yeah, Niners looked like shit. Just crazy. A lot of teams looked like shit
that don't normally look like shit. The wife was flying home during the Niner game. She gets home and she's like, how'd the Niners do? I was like, not good. She goes, oh, did they kill us? I was like, no, it was actually really close,
but we lost to the Browns. That's all you need to know. They might as well have killed us. You did see that through five games of the season, the Browns have given up the fewest offensive yards since like the 19th, in the last 50 years.
Which is bizarre, because they are the Browns. Yeah, they have a great defense this year, but it's still the fucking Browns. I just, it's embarrassing. And there's PJ Walker, too, but- But this isn't a sports show. But, yeah, I'm saying-
No, sorry, sorry, guys. Look, we lost Debo and McCaffrey. We got an excuse, all right? I mean, you know, we know. Yeah, anyways, not a sports show. All right, let's tackle a little bit of news.
As I alluded to, Sapporo has placed the Anchor Brewing San Francisco real estate for sale for $40 million. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money.
It's a 2.17 acre property that includes two buildings and totals around 109,000 square feet. And as far as the brewing equipment and other stuff
inside the buildings, an investment bank has also been retained to sell the brewery's asset. Wow. Not looking good for the union who's trying to buy- Yeah, I was gonna say, I wonder how is that going,
and now it seems not so well. Yeah, I mean, they've gotta come up with 40 million plus asset money, so good luck, guys. I got the ass if they need it. Oh, yeah, for days. Which is not the 40 mil.
No, no, no, no. According to Goldman Sachs, Anheuser-Busch executives said that Bud Light's market share is now stabilized after more than six months of conservative-led boycotts
that they are focusing on the opportunity to build back brand equity, and quickly. Is that because Kid Rock started drinking him again? Yeah, maybe. He was seen at that concert drinking Bud Light's,
and he was like, all right, I guess we're cool again. If Kid Rock's doing it, I can do it. Yeah, so. All right, Alabama, man. No, it's actually because Bud Light
is the official beer of the NFL, and everybody forgot about it. Yeah, football season always brings out the alcoholics. Yeah, true that. You've seen the commercials, though. There's Bud Light commercials all over the place. Are they not out by you?
Just in New York? Oh, yeah, there's always Bud Light commercials here. They're everywhere. But also, if you're at a game, which there hasn't been football since this all started, if you're at a game and Bud Light is your only option,
then you're gonna buy Bud Light. Yeah, so I'm sure that is significantly helping Bud Light sales. Yeah, I was telling Flex this the other day, but I post little clips of the show every week
or every week-ish to YouTube, and we posted one a few weeks back or a couple months back that was the story about AB InBev selling off all their craft brands, like Chalk Top and all that stuff.
And I never really go back and look, and I've started now, because apparently we're getting comments on them. And this one was all the rednecks who were like, you go woke, you go broke. And I just wanted to reply to everybody,
be like, you're the idiots who bought beer then dumped it out. So I'm not listening to you. Yeah, what a fucking waste. Yeah, what a waste of money. And that was the other thing, I was like, clearly they didn't hear the full show
where I talked about how dumb they were for dumping out beer they've already paid for. So good job, everybody. Good job. Alabama man! I wanna be just like Alabama man!
Shut up, bitch! So good. So horrible. Molson Coors is, speaking of shit beer, Molson Coors is launching Happy Thursday,
a spiked refresher that is billed as bubble-free. So they're dropping a flat spiked seltzer. That's pretty gross.
Spiked water? I guess, yeah, there's no bubbles. That's fucking weird. I'm not here for that. Me neither, I like the carbonation, but I do know people that would probably go nuts over that
in a good way. Like what? Yeah, I need the carb. Is Thursday such a flat kind of day of the week? I guess. It's Thirsty Thursday already. I guess. It's Happy Thursday. You got happy hour, you got Thirsty Thursday.
If I was going after a day of the week with happy, I think Tuesday for me. Tuesday's my shit day. That's what I was thinking, Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. I'd be like, all right, let's turn this around. Hell yeah. See, whoever's doing their marketing, they're stupid.
Yeah, fuck them. They should hire, actually don't, I don't know. They just ruined my Thursday, though. I just want you to know that. Yeah, enjoy your flat, weird alcohol Thursday, everybody.
So bizarre. Super bizarre. You could chug that like so crazy fast, though, without the carbonation. Oh, that is true. Might be pretty easy to shotgun. Maybe we'll do some homework. Challenge accepted. Would it shotgun without the carbonation?
I don't know. Why wouldn't it? Yeah, it's just air foam. I thought the carbonation was what like shot it into your mouth, no? Okay, nevermind. Move on, Grant. There's a sound clip I'm pulling. Fuck. All right, before I finish my beer,
I should probably talk about it. Let's make a call to the pen. He calls to the bullpen for beer.
All right, I am drinking from Brewery X, Tumble Time. It's their Ninja Turtle themed beer. Hey, that's cool. Yeah. You freak turtle lover.
I think this can art was designed by Mikey from the Tap Room podcast that we had on the show. I think his brother designed it. His brother did it, yeah. Yeah, so I saw it at the local joint, local bottle shop,
and so I picked up a couple of cans, 100% because of the can art. West Coast IPA, 7% has a 379 on untapped, and I'm so happy to report absolutely zero description.
Oh, I like that. That is the best. You describe it for us. I even went to the website, no description. On the schnoz, a lot of bit, I mean, this is West Coast through and through. You guys can see the color. It's like a darker, very clear, see right through it.
On the schnoz, a lot of pine, super piney, a little floral. I mean, it's reminded me of those old school stone days as I let it caress my tongue jobber.
Oh, like how many IBUs since you're comparing it to stone? I know, it doesn't say it. You make it up. Speak from your heart. Yeah, it's a solid 62 IBUs. Something like that.
Lots of that pine dankness on the tongue, a hint of the floral, a hint of citrus, like an oranginess to it, but super, super dank. Honestly, my first couple of sips,
I wasn't really a huge fan of. It took me some getting used to. It's so bitter and so old school. And the more I drank, the more I was like, all right, this is actually not too, at first I was like, oh, this is really gonna hit me.
Yeah, it's a little harsh. But as you get a few sips in, you start to get used to it. It's actually really well done. But if you're not into old school West Coast IPAs, I wouldn't even consider it. It is old school, it is Westy, it is bitter.
It's a doozy. But most importantly, can art's awesome. That is super wild can art. Yeah, I'll have to post them. I bought two cans so I could have one on the show and take a picture of the other.
Yeah. You're such an influencer. Right? Everybody's gotta see this cans, great cans. Great cans, everybody. I'm here for it. As we alluded to, more teachers being arrested for being drunk.
Sutter County deputies arrested second grade teacher for being under the influence while teaching. Sutter County, California, and this came to us from the Real Beer Bastard. He likes to send me shit about California
because I give him shit about Florida. Because he's from Florida. Yeah, and Florida is just a never ending treasure trove of just insanity. So the once a month that he can send me a California story,
he fucking jumps on it. You can probably stay up for like 17 days straight just reading Florida stories. Most Floridians stay up for 17 days straight because they're all on meth. So it tracks. Sorry, I had to.
Don't hold back. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Oh dear. She's gonna love it.
Yeah, totally. All right, so the second grade teacher, let's get this. Yes, around 8.19 a.m., Sutter County deputies were dispatched to Nuestro Elementary School in Live Oak in reference to a reporting party
who believed a school staff member was under the influence of alcohol and or drugs. When deputies arrived, they made contact with Wendy Munson, 57, of Yuba City, actively teaching students in her second grade classroom.
After further investigation, deputies said it was determined that Wendy displayed signs and symptoms of being under the influence. She was ultimately arrested for a potential DUI. After viewing video footage of Wendy driving to school
and a failed sobriety test, Wendy was also charged with potential child endangerment due to actively teaching her second grade class while intoxicated. Deputies said it was later determined
that her blood alcohol content was two times over the legal limit nearly two hours after first making contact with her. Yeesh. So if they got there, they got the call at 8.19.
So let's say they got there at 8.30. That means at 10.30 a.m., it was still two times over the limit. Ouch. A lot of booze. A lot of booze. A lot of booze early in the morning.
I wish they would have said what she was drinking. Are the kids picking up on this? Like is one of the students like, you know, Ms. Tyson isn't looking so right.
Let's give a call to the orange. Ms. Wendy smells like my dad. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know who originally picked up on it. I hope it wasn't, I hope the kids aren't picking up on it.
But these kids are being exposed, it's crazy. I like how it said that she seemed like she was under the influence of alcohol and or drugs. And or drugs. Yeah, yeah. Because you don't know, because it wasn't like that stumbling drug. Who's making that assumption? She was just a little slurry, you know?
Could have been either or. Maybe she smoked a doobie. Licking the wall. The snallsberries taste like snallsberries. Like I feel like that'd be pretty easy for a second grader to pick up on. Yeah. Hey, Mrs. Johnson, are teachers licking the wall?
Can you come in here, please? Real big fan of Willy Wonka, what can I say? Or Super Trooper, whenever I think of snallsberries, it tastes like snallsberries. I do go to Super Troopers first, yeah. Yeah, it's so good.
Freaking out, man. You are freaking out, man. A man wakes up to a drunk driver in his living room. This comes from Gainesville, Florida. Get your hand grenades ready.
Yeah, your gators and your grenades. Lawrence Mead, come on, his last name is Alcohol, was sleeping around 4 a.m. in his home when he heard a loud screech followed by a bang.
That's when he left his bedroom to find Shakira, oh. Her hips don't lie. Shakira Wormack, 28, trying to start her car in the middle of his living room.
Come on. Mead asked the woman who was stuck in the car blocked by debris, from the house to stop starting her car in his house. Oh my gosh.
He says he's lucky that his cats were unharmed. Of course he has cats, multiple. Despite the front wall that was struck being where they usually slept. He said zero emissions only.
Like it's fine, it's a Tesla. He says he's, or sorry. According to Mead, accidents like this happen often in the area and are usually the fault of inebriated college age people. I knew exactly what was happening, he said.
It happens three or four times a year. So it's always that thing that you're waiting to hear because it's usually about that time in the morning. Screech, bang, screech, bang. But the bang wasn't coming quick enough, you know?
You know what I mean? I just heard all of the stuff getting closer and closer. Oh my God, like she was gonna run him over while he was laying in his bed. Like just run through his house completely. Coming in hot.
Property damage in total was $20,000. She was arrested, charged with DUI. And he is on the road to rebuilding and has already cleaned out most of the debris from his home.
How drunk do you have to be, do you think, to actually drive into somebody's house? Yeah, I don't know. Ridiculously drunk. Like drunk. Like stupid drunk, right? I couldn't even tell you.
I don't know. Like probably 60% alcohol, which would be a 0.6 blood alcohol level. I'm gonna go with that. She's a medical professor, I'll take it.
Yeah, she's right, I'm sure. I mean, you'd probably be dead at that point. No, you wouldn't be. You'd be surprised what people, like what their blood alcohol will actually be.
Well, Mel, color me surprised. Yeah, all right, maybe a 0.4, but even still, like that's crazy. What do we talk in hospitalization, like alcohol-wise?
When do you start needing some medical attention? When do you start needing some medical attention? Like 0.4, 0.5, where does it? I don't know about the blood alcohol level per se,
but I would say if you have been consistently drinking a load of alcohol daily for years upon years and you decide you're gonna stop,
that's when you need medical attention. I hear the comedown is actually more dangerous than heroin. It'll kill you. Yeah, it'll actually kill you. Yeah, it actually, it gives you arrhythmias, like cardiac arrhythmias.
It's the coming? Yes. So that's really the only withdrawal that you need to be hospitalized for, like acutely hospitalized for.
I did not know that. Yeah, DT, selirium tremens. Anyway. Oh, is that why they named the beer that? The more you know, yes, they have. And it's a great beer, by the way, with pink elephants on, yeah,
with pink elephants on the outside. All right, now I've learned something. That's, did not know that was the name of that. Our minds are just getting blown. Yeah, something is. Hey. All right, well, that's it over here.
Mel, thanks for hanging out with us this week. Thanks for having me. Sorry that I don't have a camera to give you a little smile on the way out. Well, we've gotten some selfies and we're glad to see you as little as we did,
but we'll get, I mean, as little as. That sounded like I was glad to not see you. What I meant was I'm glad we got at least a little peek
at Mel as opposed to no peek. That's what I meant, even with your very bubbly beer. Hey, let's do this again next week, shall we? Hey, you free next week? I think I might be. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Well, hot damn, let's hit some music and look forward to next week then. Follow us on the socials, at craftbeerrepublic, at flexme, beer underscores in between, and at beergirl underscore Mel.
I think I got it that time. 805-53-beer, 2337, and mail at craftbeerrepublic.com. I think that's everything. Hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated.
And I'm out. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. You missed that. She missed the one 10 minutes ago. You missed it. But you gotta end it that way. Ay, ay, ay, ay. I'm rusty.
You don't have me on enough. All right. We'll work on it for next week. And on that note, good night everybody.