Today we've got Florida Husband of the year, some hot dog flavored beer,

booze related bribery and the legalities of snow blowing

before 4 a.m.. Let's go.

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic.

Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining.

I am Greg and I'm being joined straight from LAX. That's Flex.

What's up, big fella. Yeah, it says it on my shirt.

Don't look at the shirt. It's it's just a shirt. Just. Yeah.

Don't look at people's shirts. Sorry, sorry.

I just I really pick up on the lax thing because I'm in LA and so, you

know. Yeah, I thought about that too. I'm like, I really hope it's not

distracting for Greg because he's actually in Los Angeles.

Not as distracting if you took your shirt off.

Yeah, it's just it's just a shirt. I bought it,

it's like my Monday shirt. It's like, yeah,

it's a really comfy shirt. It's fine. I'm not hating on it. Yeah. Okay.

I mean, I hate LAX, but I'm not hating on your shirt.

I know you don't like the airport. I do know that. The airport can suck.

It. Yeah, there's a lot of. There's a lot of other airport

names on the back of the shirt. Oh, okay. Yeah. Just so you know.

Hopefully Burbank's on there. I don't know, it's from Old Navy.

I don't know is that. Can I say that? Is that lame that I admit that I

shop at Old Navy. I think that's is that maybe.

Did you get any performance fleece while you were there?

Uh, none. Okay. Too bad. That's that's a commercial that

young people won't understand. Or commercial reference.

Anyway, they used to be good commercials.

Wow. Oh, I couldn't stand old. Not an Old Navy show, but. Yeah.

Okay. Old Navy performance fleece

hated those top listening city of last week. Moving on.

Oh, Phoenix, Arizona. The city that rises from the ashes.

Yeah. Why did they name it? Phoenix? Yeah, I don't know,

maybe because it's like, I don't know, ashy and dry.

I don't know. It is pretty dry. It's pretty hot. Hot. And yeah.

I have no interest in going. I don't know.

I know it's like if I go somewhere hot.

I'm like, hey, I really want water around, you know?

Which is why if I vacation to a warm place, it's usually beachy.

Beachy. Correct. Yeah, that makes total sense.

You know, Arizona is not. Yeah. And if you don't believe that.

I've got some beachside property in Arizona. I'd like to tell you.

That is lucrative. Telling me. All right, if you don't mind.

I want to crack this bad boy open. Please do.

I'm excited for this one. Me, too.

I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.

Well, for the second week in a row, I'm drinking.

Compliments of our friend listener Andrew. What a nice guy.

What a good guy. He came out here from, uh,

his new home of Michigan and was like, I brought you some beer.

And here is the second beer he brought me.

It is Old Nation Brewing's MI, MI, MI 10.08% ABV.

Oh, the news is gonna be a doozy. 50 IBUs has A 4.21 on Untappd with

over 5600 ratings. It's good. They say, my my my an extraordinarily

drinkable triple any IPA. It's loaded with sweet pineapple

and mango aromas, which carry throughout peach,

orange, mimosa and a piney hop bitterness with fresh bread notes

on the solid malt backbone, even on the description,

says limit two at the Brew pub. Yeah. You don't need any more.

On the nose buds. Just straight deliciousness.

I know it is. Just smells like fucking fruit punch.

Oh, it's so good. Tons of mango and peach coming

through. A little pineapple, maybe. Here's the moment Flex has been

waiting for. Just digging please. Digging. Oh my God.

I have to be honest, I'm not a huge triple IPA fan.

You know those double digits I usually I, you know,

I know I usually don't like tasting the alcohol gets a little hot and

it just doesn't do it for me. Also usually rides a little on the

sweet side when they get that boozy. This is so not that.

This is like drinking liquid peach rings. It's so fucking good.

A hint of pineapple juice. This is so fucking good.

And I'm not just saying that because I know Andrew's listening and he gave

it to me, I would say it was garbage if it was garbage. This is so good.

I didn't know it was a big deal. Flex was sort of filling me in

that like, this is a special release they do once a year.

Like Andrew was like, yeah, it's kind of a big deal out

there and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, oh, okay, cool.

Thanks. I didn't realize how big of a

deal it was. And like, they only do it once a

year and they limit the sales. And now I'm even more grateful

to Andrew for dropping this off because I know how special it is.

And god damn, is it delicious? Yeah. So I've been lucky enough to

have this beer. We get a little bit of old

nation distribution, uh, by me. And I discovered this one.

I want to say it was like 3 or 4 years ago.

And I had this local grocery store, uh, where I would stop into

after work on my way home. And I had discovered this beer

and it was kind of a Flex algorithm purchase.

It was 10.99 for a four pack of 10% triple IPA, which anywhere you go,

I mean, that is ten out of ten. That's a steal. That's a steal.

So I was like, okay, I didn't really have high hopes for this beer,

but I took it home and I cracked it and I said the same thing you did.

I said, oh my God. Yeah. And I went back to that same

grocery store the next day and I bought out the shelf.

Smart because it was so fucking good. This is legit. So good.

And how often do I say that? Like, I'll have an East coast or

whatever. Uh, hazy. And I'm like, ah, it's just not as

good as the West hazy that we write. You say that all the time.

They always have that certain flavor to it. Yeah.

There's just something this doesn't have that. This is fucking delicious.

It's a perfect triple hazy IPA. This motherfucker. What did I say?

It has an untapped, like 4421421. That's not enough.

That is not high enough. It is so good.

Find me a better example of a triple hazy IPA. Good luck.

Agreed. This is fantastic. I will co-sign the hell out of that.

That. That beer is absolutely phenomenal.

So so good. I'm very jealous. I'm very grateful Andrew was

able to snag this for you and actually present it to you.

This was wonderful. It's wonderful news. Yeah.

Now that I've tried it, I'm even more grateful.

Like, I didn't realize what he had dropped off.

And I probably should have been a little more appreciative to

him in person, but, uh, thank you very much. This is amazing.

Yeah. I'm so happy. Yeah. And I get to live vicariously

through you, right? You want to watch me take another

sip? Yeah. Please. Can you. Here you go. Nice and slow.

I'm gonna stick my tongue out. Mhm. Oh, the tongue came out.

Oh, it came out. Oh, man, that looks so good. Oh, wow.

Apologies in advance for the rest of the reading of this show.

Uh, all right, before we get to our obscure beer term, we got another

beer listener email. Saw this. I'm very excited for this subject.

I think I drank hot dog water. Hey guys.

After hearing the poop beer saga and the ketchup session,

I realized I've been sitting on my own beer trauma for years.

This happened at a small brewery in Illinois around 2018.

I ordered what was supposed to be a simple pilsner.

Nothing fancy, just something crisp and easy.

First sip immediately threw me off. It had the salty, slightly smoky

flavor that I couldn't place. Took another sip and it finally

hit me. It tasted exactly like hot dog water.

Like the water left in the pot after you boil hot dogs. Why?

Do you know what that tastes like? Somebody got curious, I guess.

So I honestly thought maybe this glass was dirty or something,

but the bartender insisted that this was just the minerality of

their water profile. Oh. I finished about half out of

stubbornness. It feels like something you would do.

You'd just, out of stubbornness, drown it. Absolutely.

Before giving up and switching to a pail.

To this day, every time I grill hot dogs,

I get flashbacks. Love the show. Keep the horror stories coming.

Eric in Chicago. Oh, man. Yeah. That, uh, see,

for me when I was a kid, I don't think like the boiled hot dog water.

When I was a kid, we used to sneak into the fridge and munch on cold,

hot dogs. Oh, yeah. I used to do that when I was, like,

4 or 5. I loved it for some reason. So that's the flavor I think of

with that is like that real salty. Yeah. Like briny. Yeah.

So for that. Low quality meat. Hey, it's Oscar Mayer.

I stand by what I said. The Wienermobile though. That's true.

But yeah, that's the flavor I think of when he's talking about this.

And it is. Yeah. Not for me. Yeah. No more. Not what I want to drink.

I will tell you that. Uh, can we talk about boiled hot

dogs for a second? Sure. Boy, is that something I'm not into?

Really? I think it's the best way to cook

them if you're not grilling. Oh, no, I'm just saying they

have to go on the grill. Oh, no, they don't have to.

I mean, food safety wise, you're right. They don't have to.

But to go into my mouth, they have to know.

Have you ever boiled a hot dog? I mean, Dodger Stadium used to

exclusively only have boiled Dodger dogs. Oh, I think they're great.

I not for me. I don't want a boiled dog.

Like, sometimes we do. Uh, we'll have,

like an easy dinner night. My wife will just boil some hot

dogs because the kids eat them, we eat them.

And I low key get like super jacked. Like just like mom used to make,

you know. Get rocked over some boiled hot dogs.

Oh, yeah. Man, it's so good. It's like, funny.

Two minutes in the boiling water and you got yourself a nice piping hot,

fresh dog. I wonder if that's a Midwestern thing

because Eric's from what? Chicago. He's talking about boiled hot dog.

I wonder if that's a a Midwestern thing.

I don't know, but what my wife does, which I've never done this growing

up, but she takes two pieces of American cheese, folds them in half

so they break apart, and then she lines each side of the hot dog bun

with said halves of American cheese. Sure. And then puts the dog on it.

And then the ketchup. You lost me ketchup. Ah.

You know how I feel. Ah, yeah. Mustard. You know how I feel.

So I squirt the ketchup on the dog. And then I scored a pile of

ketchup on my plate. I was gonna say right into your

mouth. So then I can dip the hot dog

into the ketchup with the ketchup already on the hot dog.

So I'm getting double the ketchup. Double the fun.

Most importantly, double the flavor. My hot dog mustard.

Preferably brown onions. That's it, that's it. Okay.

I mean, if you want it like crazy, you know, give me a chili dog.

You could get crazy with it. Yeah. Yeah.

I love a good chili dog or a bacon wrapped dog or anything like that.

I don't love, uh, like pickle relish. Like the texture. Mhm.

But I do put like, uh, I've had been known to shmear pickles all

over my hot dog. I'll accept that. Yeah, the relish for me is a little

too sweet for my liking. Right? But I'm cool with the pickle. Yeah.

Big fan, big fan. Yeah. Uh, thanks. Erikmail @CraftBeerRepublic. Com.

If you guys want to send us your hot dog flavored beer stories or

or whatever else. Poop. Poop. Beer. Gate. Poop beer gate.

By far my favorite was the ongoing topic that we've had on this show.

Yeah. Boy, did I not think we'd be

here like six months later. Still talking about this? No.

It's fun. Yeah, I'm glad we could be everyone's

beer trauma outlet, though. Yeah, it's like people holding on to

this shit for years. Just let it out. Yeah, just. You'll feel better.

You'll feel so much better. Tell us about that.

Beer therapy or some shit. Yeah. Beer. Yeah.

It's got kind of a ring to it. Yeah,

maybe we call it the beer segment. It only took us six months to

try and come up with a name. Yeah, and look at us right on

the show, trying. Look at us go. Like we're doing work. Yeah.

Clocking in. Uh, all right,

before we get some news, do you have any obscure beer term over there?

Yeah, I got one that sounds mildly inappropriate.

It's pretty, uh, yeah, pretty obscure in my eyes.

I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it properly, but, uh, today's obscure

beer term is t o y. Yeah. Nip, nip. Yeah, I'm gonna go with nip.

I think that that's that's what I. And I really just wanted to say it

all of those times. It is. Damn it. Greg is an archaic, playful term

for a particularly particular. Not even drinking in words are hard.

Redo. In archaic playful term for a

particularly strong or good ale. Oh well, this works out perfectly.

You think so? Yes, because I would argue that

I am drinking a nip. Oh, God damn it, it looks so nip y.

It is particularly strong and good nip status. It's.

Yes, I should edit the untapped description with repetitious

triple IPA. We're just fucking doing it today.

Yeah, we are on fire. Hell yeah! Go us. Yeah!

Cool us down, I dare you. Can't do. It. Nope. See you later.

Doot doot doot doot. My favorite part of last week's show.

Uh, please use Nikpa in a sentence. Leave us a voicemail or something.

80553. Be here. Yeah. Aw. I like Nikpa status.

I think it actually rolls off the tongue a little bit better.

Yeah, this nikpa r-pa is really hitting the spot thanks to

listener Andrew. Yeah. You're kidding. Nailed it. Yeah.

Fucking nailed it right there. Just killing it. Uh.

All right, we got some news to get through.

Former SG employees indicted for bribery scheme in California

grocery chains. This one really piqued my interest

in interested in your take with your grocery background?

A federal grand jury has indicted four former senior executives at

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, along with a salesman from a major

Napa Valley wine company, on charges stemming from an alleged an alleged

bribery scheme that prosecutors say ran for nearly a decade and

earned favors from California's largest grocery retail chains.

The indictment, filed in federal court in Oakland on March 4th,

alleges that the scheme operated from at least 2016 through 2024,

during which time the distributor's employees allegedly funneled bribes

to grocery store alcohol buyers in exchange for preferential product

placement and increased purchase orders, all while concealing the

payments from federal regulators. While not formally named in the

indictment, Albertsons and its Southern California subsidiary Vons

have been identified by the San Francisco Chronicle as the retail

chain involved, a spokesperson for the retailer stated that the

alleged conduct was wholly inconsistent with our policies.

Do you ever take any bribes at the store? So funny you should ask.

Uh, this is a real old school move. Um.

So I got into the grocery biz back in 2008, and they were still on the

latter latter parts of the old, old school days.

I guess if you want to put it that way. Okay.

And we didn't have set sales plans. I started it as a frozen foods

manager and they didn't send out actual sales plans.

So you would get your print out of all the items that were going

to be on AD for that week. And you would have these vendors

mostly, uh, in Wisconsin for frozen foods. It's frozen frozen pizza.

Like that's where the number one market in the country for frozen

pizzas. Oh that's right. We've talked about. That. Yeah.

So you have like 7 or 8 of these pizza company vendors coming in and

they're trying to, you know, kiss your ass or trying to butter you up.

They're trying to do anything that they can get some pepperoni.

In your pocket. Right. So I had this one local company who

gave me a whole stack of coupons for one free pizza of their,

you know, for their company. Been funny if is their competitor.

No. And I was and he was like, hey,

you know, what do you think about this? If you give us this spot?

And I was like, uh, yeah, it's. Yours. You know, like you're like.

22 at the time. Like, goddamn it. Yeah. Free pizza for life, you know.

Coupon expires in two weeks. Right? So, I mean, that was a real thing.

Uh, you know, same company that did that for me.

They gave me some, uh, VIP tickets to like Italian fest

that we have downtown. Oh. So I was able to do, like, all you

can eat, all you can drink for that. I've heard stories of this never

happened to me because I wasn't that big companies, you know,

handing out football tickets or baseball tickets or, you know,

hey, can we get this spot? Here's some tickets to this game.

So yeah, it happens. Sure. It used to happen a lot more than

it does now, but when you're in like a corporate setting, like,

uh, you know, working for like a big chain, they do have rules

and it goes against it's, you know, highly frowned upon.

So I get what's going on here. But at the same time, it's like,

hey, you know. Not surprised. Yeah. You know, nothing wrong with a

little bit extra. Now,

yours involved some free product, a trip to the Italian fest, that

sort of thing. This involved cash. Yeah, that's a little different.

I feel like this is kind of a step up. Yeah, I'd say that's.

And it's illegality. It's a little crooked. Right?

Exactly. Crooked. But that is funny. You know, I think about, like,

beer and like, you know, Budweiser's always jockeying for shelf space,

but I don't think about, like, big frozen pizza coming in and

be like, hey, little Flexy guy, how about some, uh, coupons?

And it kind of blew my mind because I had never, I never

worked the grocery retail before. So like starting out in it

immediately. And these guys, you know,

coming in trying to kiss my ass like, you know, you kind of don't know

what's going on because you're like, I'm just like a frozen food guy.

Like what is happening? And it's like, no,

all these guys are just really working their ass off to try to

get their product on display now. Would you ever have somebody

come in and be like, hey, I say, I see you gave DiGiorno the

primo spot over here. How do we kick them out of there?

Uh, so that used to be Kraft, who used to own like the Jack's,

the DiGiorno, and then they got bought out by Nestlé.

So now Nestlé controls all the Jack's DiGiorno tombstone, etc.,

but they are like the number one. So if I ever had space for somebody

else or gave another company, you know, a display spot, these

dudes would be like very upset. Oh. And they would like vocally let

me know how upset they were. And then they would run all their

numbers down my throat and tell me how they're the number one and you

know, how they should have this. And they can't believe this company

is getting this. Oh, shit. Yeah. Like the the competition was fucking

real, dude. It's like Pizza mafia. Yeah, it was like cutthroat.

That's nuts. Was it a little scary at times?

Like, did they ever threaten you or. No, it was never weird like that

because in my mind, I was just like, what the fuck is this guy gonna do?

Right? It was. Like. Hit me with a frozen pizza. Right?

You fucking stocks pizzas, like. Right. And he's no boss.

He's just a sales rep or a merchandiser.

And you know, he's coming in to do his job.

But yeah, I never felt threatened or intimidated.

And, you know, I was just kind of be like, okay, man, you know, like.

You have a great day. Right, right. You know, I got stuff to do.

So, you know, go cry to somebody else, right?

I gotta stock this other guy in front, so go fuck yourself.

I ain't no bitch. I ain't no pizza bitch. Yeah.

No bitch. That's crazy. Yeah. Something you would never, ever in

your wildest dreams think about. But yeah, that used to happen. I.

Yeah, I would never expect, you know, but why not frozen, I mean, anything.

Probably in the grocery store. I would never expect frozen pizza

to be such a cutthroat market. Me neither man.

Funny thing though, on the ice. I did get karma though for taking

that packet of free pizzas. That stack of coupons.

Because that's when I was, you know, a 20 year old young whippersnapper.

And we used to throw parties every weekend.

Somebody we invited to a party once. I have no idea who it was.

Obviously, if I did, I'd give them back. But somebody stole the coupons.

No. Yes. Yes. So how many did you get to use

before they jacked him? A good amount. Oh, okay.

It wasn't like you got two and then they disappeared. Yeah.

It's not like it happened right away. Like.

No, we used them multiple times. But still. Very, very multiple times.

Many multiple times. Very multiple times. Yeah.

That's nuts. Yeah. And they were for any of them,

like you could get the cheap rounds in the plastic wrap or you could

get like the nice boxed ones. So we'd always do the obviously

like the nice big box ones. Yeah. Why would you fuck around?

Why would, why would you fuck around? Yeah. Not worth. It. Yeah.

That's how you find out. That's what I hear.

Yeah, that's what I hear. So you've been told. Yeah.

That's crazy. Uh, crazy mountain beer is a new

in a beer brand. George Clooney, Randy Gerber,

and Mike Meldman officially announced that they're n a beer brand.

Crazy mountain will roll out across select US markets this year.

Uh, not a lot of detail, but Crazy Mountain.

We'll start with two Na lagers, original and Lime. No thank you.

Each 12 ounce can contains around 65 calories.

Crazy mountain is former New Belgium CEO Steve. Becker. Uh. Great name.

Nailed it. His teased Project zero. Uh, his LinkedIn lists him as

Crazy Mountain CEO, former Whole Foods market senior

category merchant for beer. Justin Ray also announced on LinkedIn

that he has joined the brand as the Northeast Key Account Manager.

Crazy mountain is now available direct to consumer at a $27.98

price point for two six packs. Don't know why we can't call

that a 12 pack. Maybe they're gonna get the Lime and

the regular. Sure, I don't know. Why can't we call that a multi

12 pack? Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, you're not wrong.

So we got there at, uh, 225 per per beer. Yeah, I would say so.

N a yeah. No thanks. Yeah. You can get water for like a

dollar a bottle, right? You can get a Coke Zero for about

a dollar. I do like a Coke Zero. Love me a Coke Zero.

I have been on the Diet Coke train for the last couple of months, but I

do love me a Coke Zero. Yes I do. I will say I meant I was supposed

to mention this last show. Erica sent me a video of her making

and trying a dirty soda. Yeah. And, Your Honor,

because you talked about it. Yeah. Oh, I was just saying. I'll post it.

I'll post it on our socials. Oh, yeah, you go right ahead.

She gives full review and everything, so I posted, if I haven't already.

Why? They're amazing. Mhm. AM I gonna have to do this?

I don't see why you wouldn't. It just sounds fucking weird.

I also don't have vanilla creamer. I just have regular heavy cream.

I don't know if I do the regular heavy cream.

Probably not heavy cream. Yeah, I gotta find some with some

vanilla creamer, I guess. And. Yeah. Hey, can I borrow this.

Or just go to, like, a diner and steal a couple of

cups on the table? Man. Smart. Like, hey, give me all the

vanilla creamer you got right? Or just go in for, like, a coffee.

And then when they look away, like pocket the creamers, right?

Like some good coffee. Oh. So some teenager Denny's stealing

creamers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh, Phusion projects weighs sale

of Four Loko, which they say is valued at around $400 million.

Phusion projects is reportedly exploring a sale of its infamous

Four Loko brand, which could carry 400 million value.

Uh, Phusion projects is working with investment bank JP Morgan to explore

a sale of the high ABV fermented malt beverage brand, the outlet

reported, citing three anonymous people familiar with the matter.

Phusion gauging interest in Four Loko sale comes as another Chicago

based company, Molson Coors, pulls potential bolt on acquisitions

to fill white space in its portfolio, most notably with an RTD canned

cocktail brand. Company leaders say they could spend

upwards of $350 million on scalable brands. That's all you had? Oh, yeah.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna dive right into this. Let's do it.

If anybody buys this brand, the number one thing to do Is figure

out how to make it taste good. Yeah. Tastes like ass.

It tastes like absolute. It's like if you took like a.

Remember those containers Tang used to come in? Um. Four Loko.

Is like if you had a whole container tang in it and then put that in

a can. It is grossly sweet. Um. There's no good. It smells delicious.

Don't get me wrong, it smells delicious. It smells like juice.

But you pour it out and it is like nothing but sugar and trash and piss.

And we got a couple samples in at work.

One of the liquor guys is like, hey, try these out,

maybe start carrying them. And they were the big like

25 ounce cans. They're humongous. So when, you know, every couple

Sundays at work, be like, all right, we're gonna try this one.

So we crack it and pour it out into cups.

And oh, man, not one single person would finish their little sip

that they got poured in the cup. And I don't know who buys this

garbage. Yeah. Each can got drained, poured,

and they are absolute garbage. Yeah. I don't know who's into those

like some of the other ones while gross and sugary at least

like kind of taste good, right? While the gross and sugar like

these tastes and to be fair, I've not had a Four Loko since

it was like the banned formula. I had the OG Four Loko.

That was the caffeine in the booze. Yeah, boy, did that fuck me up.

I never had. Them. Yeah. Only heard stories. Yeah.

In fact, I had it with my friend, uh, my, my best friend Deanna.

We were going, she's like, come with me to my sister's.

I forget, like soccer game. That was high school soccer player.

We were obviously not in high school. And she's like, I brought Four Loko.

So we each had a Four Loko at the game.

Then we went out for pizza and shared a pitcher of beer.

Still feeling great. Then we went out to a bar and had

a couple more pitchers of beer. Still feeling great, like not

hammered or even barely buzzed. And we go to drive.

I was like, all right, I'll take you home.

And then, you know, I'll go home. Whatever.

As I'm dropping her off at her house, it fucking hits me.

And I remember to this day, and this was, I mean, at least 15 years ago,

I remember thinking like, oh, no, how am I going to get the rest of the

way home? Which was like a mile? Geez. I don't remember getting home.

This was back when I used to work early morning news shift.

Not only do I not remember getting home, I don't remember that I

apparently set my coffee maker, set my alarm like did all the normal

nighttime stuff that I did because I had to wake up at like 330 in

the morning and like my alarm went off at 330. I am fully clothed.

And I was just like, what the fuck happened?

Then I had to remember like what we did the night before.

My memory still stops at leaving her house. Oh that's it?

Yeah, I know, that's the only thing I know about the old school

Four Loko is you would just. You would drink one and you

would black out. Yeah, it was a guaranteed blackout.

That was pretty much what happened. And if you had two of them, you,

like, ended up in the hospital. Mhm. I'm glad I didn't have to.

Yeah. Good thing. Yeah. Very, very good thing.

Good times. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know who's

going to buy that brand, but if you do it maybe. Yeah.

Make it not taste like fucking garbage. Yeah. It's bad.

It's like, yeah, I can't harp on it anymore.

I'm done. We say what we said. Tilray brands to acquire brewdog's US

assets in Ohio and Las Vegas brands will acquire several assets from

Brewdog's US business, including its Ohio production facility and

remaining pubs, the company announced this morning as part of

its regional dual craft strategy. The Canadian cannabis beverage

wellness firm will receive Brewdog's production facility.

Pub and hotel in Columbus, Ohio. Pubs in Albany and Cleveland, Ohio.

A licensed BrewDog space at the Columbus Airport Brewdog's Las

Vegas pub and a franchised location in Denver, Colorado.

The transaction is expected to close in quarter four, pending

regulatory approval. Good for them. Yes. I have seen that hotel before.

I've seen some people stay there. Oh. Have you? Yeah.

Like, uh, via like social media and stuff.

Oh, like some some influencers. Yeah. It looks cool.

Oh, there's like a beer fridge in the shower of the room.

Like it's cool. Oh. But the fact that it was always

BrewDog, right? Makes it made it like way less cool.

And you would see people, you know, try to influence it and

you'd be like, yeah, but still. BrewDog. Uh. Yeah. Exactly.

There's a reason you're staying there for free right now.

Because they can't get people to pay for it. Correct? Yeah.

Well, we'll end it on this one. Florida man. Hi, Vanessa.

Benn while hi, Vanessa. Florida man gets DUI after

driving a golf cart drunk. According to FLA, the incident

happened in North Port, Florida. Florida man was accused of DUI

after his wife fell off their golf cart while heading home

from a night of clubbing. She did sustain a head injury

and was. Oh God, she was airlifted to the

hospital. When her. Where her condition is currently

unknown. Oh. Oops. That's the less funny part.

The Florida man, identified as James Prunty,

admitted to officers that him and his wife were partying at the club since

noon and were on their way home. Officers reportedly could smell

alcohol on him and he was arrested at the scene.

He has since been released on bond. First of all,

what club opens at noon? Yeah, maybe it was like a celebration

or something. I don't know. Celebration, bitches. Uh.

Also, did this guy just keep driving after

his wife fell off the golf cart? Oh, that's how John Elway killed

his best friend. Really? Yeah. They were driving on his golf cart

on their way home from a party. And I guess they either live in,

like, the same rich area or something like that.

And the dude was acting a fool on the golf cart like they did,

like a whole investigation in L.A. was found not guilty.

And, you know, of everything. And, uh.

But, yeah, dude was acting a fool on the back

of the golf cart and fell off, cracked his head and fucking died.

Wow. I just this was April 2025. This was less than a year ago.

I don't think I've ever heard this. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

No, it was like major news. Wow. Somehow I missed this.

It was like his agent slash best friend. Oh. Let's see.

Excellent. Death in April 25th. His longtime friend and agent,

Jeff Sperbeck, fell from a golf cart. L.wei was driving.

Authorities in Riverside County, California, found no evidence of

criminal activity or negligence ruling the incident. An accident?

Of course, it was in Riverside. Fucking shithole.

The Florida of California. Oh, okay. Okay. I guess that makes sense.

It's where all the meth comes from. Oh, good to know.

If I ever need meth. If you're ever on the lookout,

need a little pick me up. Oh, I ever tell you about the story?

The kid I worked with to, uh, asked my assistant manager if he

knew where to get shrooms. I don't think. So. Said it was acid.

That's what it was. So I had this kid work for me.

Uh, dumbest kid I ever had. By the way, his name was Connor.

And, uh, Connor, he talked. He talked like this, uh,

real like high pitched, like. Cut his balls hadn't dropped yet.

So he went to my lead and he said, uh, hey, do you know, uh,

we're like, I could get some acid. And he's like, it's not for it's not

for me. It's for my friends. Sure. And my buddy just looked at me and

was like, dude, I'm your superior. Like, you don't ask me stuff like

this, right? So the kid was real. Like, you know, just kind of like

waved it off like, oh, yeah. All right. You know, You're like.

It would've been great if he sold him a fake acid.

No, that would have been funny, actually.

So anyway, he comes into work, like four days later.

He had called in, like, the day before this.

So I'm off of work, and then I come back in the next day and I find

this out from my, my lead, my, my right hand man. And he said, yeah.

So apparently Connor and his friends got Ahold of some acid and they

all took it and he got caught. And I said, oh, well,

how did he get caught? Well, he thought he was stabbed

in his stomach and that he was bleeding out when he was just

fine in his bedroom. So then he came clean to his

parents about what was happening. Yeah. What an embarrassing fail.

What a dumbass. Super dumbass. Same kid that quit in the summer

because he said he got, uh, a job with his dad doing snow removal.

No. Yes. In August. Shut up. No. Yeah. Put in his two week notice.

I said, hey, man. Yeah, like, what do you got going on?

Where are you going? He said, oh, yeah, me and my.

I'm gonna do a snow plowing with my dad. That's my name.

I'm Mr. Plow. I said, oh, okay. Like, good luck with that in August.

I need a couple months to practice. Like, what's, uh, what's going on

here? Yeah. A real bizarre kid. Wow, this guy's going places.

Yeah. Dumbest. I'm telling you right now,

dumbest kid I ever had work for me. I love it. Yeah. We should.

We should find him and have him on the show.

Ah, it might be entertaining. It might be.

Or I might want to murder him. Probably the latter. Yeah.

Probably so. Yes. I also like they sound like Mickey.

Did he ever find Pluto? I don't think so.

I don't know, it was almost more like Mr. Bill,

like. Oh, no, You know, like. Recently I had to explain to

someone who Mr. Bill was. I was like, come on, that's sad.

Google it people. All right, we're gonna wrap

things up. Music, music. Thank you all for hanging out with

us. Follow us on the socials. @CraftBeerRepublic. Of course.

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805538. Beerfest 2337. I think that's about everything.

I hope everyone out there is staying a very well hydrated.

And on that note. Good night everybody.

Oh yeah. Do you know where my me and my

friends could get some acid? Well, I mean, it's not for me.

It's just for my friends.