Do I sound like a shithead?
Well, you sound like you got.
A little bit of a linguist. Linguist? Yeah.
All right. Just.
It's kind of like hot and sexy.
You got a rasp going.
All right, cool.
Getting ready. Records and voice overs with you?
Hell, yeah.
No, I'm going to
try not to be too busy.
Maybe you could do an ad read for some Ford trucks or something,
and it would really be songs. Yeah.
Just give me some lines.
I'll snort it. Read them. I will read them.
I hear it's good for the Lingus.
This is the.
Best Aer Lingus ever.
It almost sounds like somebody has taken a piss to.
Welcome in everybody the.
Craft beer republic.
Or I swear, no one is taking a piss.
I have Greg over there.
Leak it in the mid-west.
That is flax. What's up, buddy?
I'm just saying, without the crack of the cannon,
the intro could just sound like somebody pissing if you just.
Had the crack of the cannon.
No, without the can of the crack and the needs of the poor.
Oh, I know.
It could just be any liquid going into any liquid, is what you're saying.
But also. Hello?
Is it me you're looking for?
I could see it in your eye.
And then joining me in studio is everyone's favorite dick friend, Deb.
Yes. Let's Dick down this show.
And it's already happening.
Goodnight, everybody.
Oh, we just can't get an episode in.
We can't.
Can't without escape the dicks.
No, and that's okay.
Don't, don't hate it.
I don't know. Whatever.
Let's get some business out of the way.
Jack, this crap, your republic wrap your broken
flex and flex me a beer underscore is in between and Deb is that one
hop hop mess no underscores thank you very much.
And also at dictionary sitcom.
Yes, I swear to God.
If you if you buy Dexcom.
I imagine it's owned by the sporting goods store.
Well, as I'm saying, if she bought it.
Oh yeah, that would be pretty good.
Maybe Deb's Dexcom. I bet that's available.
We'll have to look into it. You should look it up.
I think something really odd and gross tells me that Deb's
Dick's is not available. Maybe I shouldn't.
Yeah, I'm not willing to look it up, but yeah.
I'll put my phone into private mode first before I look that way.
If I die tomorrow, it's just the last thing in my Google
search history dipped Dexcom
and I'm sure they're so glad we're going to say this now promo code
unfiltered if you're on TiVo or table to get yourself a few bucks off.
They're so glad to be a part of the show now.
All right. A lot to get to.
We got a very shortened voicemail from the homie.
Chew your beer, got some things to discuss, some some breaking
booze news in the industry and so much more.
But first, let's go hydration going over here.
Devin over here are drinkin babe brew number seven
and they did that with distraction brewing company it's an oaked porter
6% has ten abuse and has a395 an untapped and they say babe brew
seven was brewed at distraction brewing and rolling in Roslindale, Massachusetts.
This bold, smooth porter has just the right amount
of sweetness to balance the chocolate and coffee flavors from the grain.
We infuse this brew with ample
amounts of toasted oak chips to give it a pleasant pop of oak.
Proceeds from the sales of this beer
will go to the Beer Babes Family Grants Program
grants will be awarded to women who currently own or in the process
of opening breweries or taprooms,
or to women pursuing education through the Cicerone program.
Beer Judge Certified location program or brewing fermentation school
or other similar opportunities in the beer industry.
That was a mouthful, but go check them out on the gram as well.
Beer babes family. The porter
will light on the schnoz.
A little chocolate.
The nose doesn't really give what it is.
But it's off as it warms up.
It will a bit more.
Yeah, the sniffers will light.
But I like it.
Super Roasty and I love that.
Absolutely love it. Definitely. Good. Wintertime beer.
It is smooth like they say, and very drinkable.
They kept the A-B abv down around
6%, which makes this actually really easy to drink.
Very easy to drink. Yeah.
Some roasting is some toasty nasty.
Definitely get the oak coming in.
If you're not a fan of oak, this might not be the one for you.
I know the the wife doesn't like it doesn't love the oak in her beer
all the time, but overall, really easy clean beer to drink.
Just nice for the winter as things start to finally cool down over here and so CO.
Could not agree more.
The other thing too is I like that
like looking at it the color it's what it's supposed to be.
Yes, I had a porter not too long ago that looked like a brown
and it lacked body and depth.
Yeah, this does not.
I don't want to build a see through my porter. Exactly.
Yeah.
This is and I don't mean that in a hazy I mean that in a color way.
This, you know, this definitely achieves that.
Very nice.
Well, thanks to the Babe Ruth well Brew Babe's family
and the crew over there and brews with Bukowski on the gram and
thanks for getting this over to us very excited to try this
is this the first one we found the show though Erika always gets the hookup.
Now what. Erica?
So, Deb, when you actually had ordered a see
through Porter before like you didn't know it was going to be see through or what?
No, not at all.
I thought it was going to be like how this is like a rich roasty, but smooth.
That sounds like a nightmare.
Like and it was like it was like a Bud Light version of a porter super light.
It reminds me of like
when you forget to switch out the K-Cup in your Keurig machine,
when you go to break up a guy to see when will you pick up your mug?
And you're like, What the why is my coffee so clear?
You're like, What's this dirty water?
Yeah, that's what a bummer.
Total bummer.
This. This does not have that problem.
This is quite delightful.
That's great. I'm just glad you could relate to the coffee.
Think.
Oh, it's the fucking worst.
Oh, it's the pits, man.
I swear. I swear. I put a new one in there.
You just let the the machine do its thing and you just get so disappointed.
Well, even worse, I always put my cream in first.
That way, like the coffee kind of mixes around.
I don't get a spoon out and stir it and that kind of thing.
And that works. Oh, absolutely.
And the problem is, I did that once and I forgot to change the K-Cups.
Then I'm like, Oh, I can waste cream.
And now I got to really brew if tofurky.
And I like the cream after because I, I only drink coffee with cream in it.
So like cools the coffee down a little bit.
So yeah, pletely scalding up.
So I mean it goes in cold and then you start that
I imagine it would have the same temperature effects.
Or I don't know, I feel like I feel like hot going into
cold is different than cold going into hot.
Do we have a thermo night dynamics guide.
How to reach out to that?
There's got to be a scientist out there.
Somebody like, yeah. Maybe.
What's his name on the Graham? I prefer craft beer or slash.
I prefer craft coffee.
Maybe he could reach out to someone, but no hero's heroes.
Coffee. That's why I buy my coffee from now.
So, uh, maybe he could let us know he's a coffee expert.
Or maybe I'll just go get a couple cups of coffee and we'll see.
I have thermometers. Maybe.
Also, we need, like, a psychiatrist.
Like, maybe it's just a mentor.
I have a feeling it's going to be exactly the same.
There's no way. No, I'm with Flex.
No, like, once you let them each sit for, like, 10 seconds, it's
going to be exactly the same.
No, I feel like.
I don't know.
I need a scientist. I also like to be like.
I like to see how much I'm pouring into the coffee.
So I see it kind of change color as Yeah.
Doesn't it look really cool when it all mixes together?
Yeah.
I mean.
See, I know how much I need when I hit the cream
at the bottom of the cup and it goes up, you know, like whatever
it is, quarter of an inch. Like, that's how much I know.
There's like that little.
Do you use the same mug every day for your coffee?
No, but we have like a set of Starbucks mugs that are all the same size.
Okay. So in that sense, yes.
So I know how far up on the cup I want it.
Every mug is different in our house.
We've got like ten in the cabinet. They're all completely different.
So it's kind of like.
So yeah.
So I don't think I could know
how much to put in each mug unless we did a science experiment for that.
We might have to do this between shows over some coffee.
I'm very intrigued on the findings on this.
Yeah.
Or maybe tomorrow morning
because I have I have like the Bluetooth thermometer has like six probes in it.
Yeah.
So I could get one in each cup and and do some testing.
That's a great idea.
I like this. This is, this is getting real science.
Beer science turned coffee science. Yeah.
And then to somehow related back to beer will dump it into beer or something.
I don't know.
Because it's roasty like a porter. Exactly.
Yeah. Nailed it.
You roast full circle. Yes.
Oh, good times.
All right. A lot to get to.
I if you guys didn't hear it last week we had the the interview
with Malibu brewing with Ryan and shares over at Malibu Brewing.
It's so funny.
I've mentioned
to a few local brewer friends here that we did the interview with Malibu
and they're like, Oh my God, isn't the beer over?
They're so good. They're so lucky.
They got jazz like everyone loves jazz and his beer over there.
So multiple brewer friends have have said that to me.
But go check out the interview. It's been an hour long.
So chew and everyone else it's over an hour.
So a joke. I never listened to it.
I hope all these brewer friends tell Chaz how good, good the beer he makes is.
Yeah.
Hopefully don't keep it a secret until, like, you're at his eulogy or something.
Yeah, like the guy should know. Right?
It's like I heard something on the radio there.
They talking about, like, yeah, I wrote a bunch of goodbye messages
in my phone for like, if I have,
if I'm going down in a plane or something, I know I'm about to die.
I can copy and paste them to all my loved ones.
I was like,
Or you could just send them now so they know you don't fucking hate them.
That's
wait.
What if those messages
are actually messages like Fuck you, I never fucking like to you piece out.
He said they were like loving messages, but that's absolutely something I would
do. There are people if if I'm going down on a plane.
Yeah. Like that and I'm going to hit the ground.
You're getting a message just like, by the way.
I don't know about you. Yeah.
You know, big ass mag.
You guys ever see the movie Mallrats?
Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
So you know what?
He's talking the story about his uncle going down in the plane
and the first thing that he thought was just to whip it out and start beating.
All right.
So and everybody else on the plane, you know, took suit and whip
theirs out and started beating their said parts.
So I think if I was going out in a down
in a plane and life was going to end, like
how do you want to live your last few moments?
I'm pretty sure that's what I'm doing.
Yeah, whip it out, you know.
And if my loved ones didn't actually know that
I loved them, then they're probably not my actual lover.
Right?
That's fair.
Right.
So who who wants to be glued to their phone
in their last minutes or seconds before their life is over?
Well, sounds like you might need your phone just for some porn.
Well, maybe.
Yeah, the glad to.
In that way, I think my glue your dick to it.
Well, glue something.
Glue something.
Yeah.
Sounds like a sticky situation either way.
Oh, to sue.
Anyways, so check out this
interview from last week if you haven't.
Sorry, Ryan and Chad. Sorry Malibu.
We've just lost untapped and Malibu as brands are not on that table.
We've just lost table in Malibu is right
and then I will say that the wife went to their beer food
pairing dinner thing that they did last week and I was not able to go
because of work. But
she said it was
amazing and rubbed it in my face every opportunity she got.
She did bring me home.
One thing, which was a little bit of leftover cinnamon roll.
Here is their biggest problem.
The portions were so big.
She's like is hard to eat. Everything is usually to a tasty meal.
It's like, Here's your Amazon, everything.
She's like, The food was so fucking good, but there's so much of everything.
I was like, I can't finish.
And you feel the pressure to eat it because they're coming out
and like looking at you while you're eating it, right?
They're asking you how it is.
It's, you know, paired with a beer specifically.
You want to be as much with that beer as you can see there.
There's some guys that like the table next to them who just demolishing it
and she's there with Colby and they're both like, we can't eat this much.
But so I did get a little this him and roll and it was
still a little bit warm when she got home and it was was chef's kiss.
Were they getting. Full.
Pours of beers with the huge portions or were they like tasters or.
You know, I don't know.
I imagine they were getting full pours or close
and they even had an appetizer round.
Like they got there, like grab a beer, have some past appetizers.
Then dinner began.
I think it was five courses on top of the appetizer.
Ramsay's.
So she said it was fucking amazing.
She's like men, like first world problems.
But it was too much so.
But I was.
I was super jealous.
I want to want to go hopefully next time.
So I'm doing on Tuesdays, guys.
So anyways, what's up with you flexing.
What's up with me?
Yeah, I can track that linguist man. Yeah. Yeah.
You sound like you're doing some voiceover work or something.
Apparently, you think I sound kind of sexy?
Hopefully the listeners think I sound kind of sexy.
I'm not feeling sexy.
Well, you're, like, sound and sexier than ever.
Oh, my gosh. That makes me feel great.
You keep talking about cunnilingus.
You know, the link is, you know, it's just like you get sick and you're like,
oh, the link is like, you know, you don't know what you got.
You're not going to go to the doctor to find out what you got.
Just, you know, it's a linguistic flex.
There's a long history of not going to the doctor to find out what he's got.
Oh, if I'm sick, I don't need to go to a doctor to tell me I'm sick.
I'm just going to be like, Hey.
Guess what? I'm sick.
Yeah. Knock, knock, loser.
You're sick. Okay, thanks.
Classic joke.
And then.
Yeah, some big news over at your your local. Yes.
This just popped out this morning.
So. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Well, come on, lady.
The news. The news. Greg, the. New guy just.
Slumped on the couch last night, last year
at the ballpark, formerly known as Miller Park.
There was a restaurant that was
it wasn't vacant with people or anything.
It was like a running restaurant, but they didn't have a name for it.
They didn't have, like a sponsor to go in there.
So it was like the restaurant without a name or something are in.
Washington football team. Yeah, exactly.
So they just announced this morning that light and Googles is putting
in a barrel room and it's going to be like a pilot brewery actually in the stadium.
So that's like a kind of a big deal.
That's pretty rad.
Like a who else can say they have like a brewery in their stadium?
It's interesting because I know they're mostly
but not completely owned by MillerCoors, right?
Yeah. The Molson Coors.
Molson Coors.
So interesting that they're setting up a pilot brewery and all that stuff.
They're still still brewing small.
Yeah.
I mean, like lightning. Cool. Still does.
I mean, they still have their brewery up in Chippewa Falls, which is,
you know, three and a half hours northwest to me.
And I think they still have their own brewery downtown as well.
So I don't know, like Molson Coors doesn't
produce their product, right?
But they do malt.
Yeah. Fund and distribute and all that other stuff.
Well, the Lightning Cool Family still involved, aren't they.
Yeah.
You know, it's interesting from what I've heard from like big beer takeovers
and stuff, Molson Coors seems to be the most supportive of the current setup.
God damn it.
What's the brewery name down in?
I think Atlanta Terrapin? Yeah. Terry. Yeah.
Same thing.
Molson Coors took two different times, injected cash,
and then ended up owning, like, over half the brewery.
And they just they don't they left them alone. They just.
And that makes a lot of sense because Terrapin,
like at all of our summer festivals and whatnot here,
their beer is everywhere.
They have their own stands up here now.
I mean, you can find their beer at almost any single
grocery store or liquor store in the state.
Yeah. I mean, this is one of the O.G.
buyouts from back in the day.
I know so much because John Cochrane,
the former CO former co-owner and founder of it.
So anyway, so he sold off his share to start up country up in Asheville.
And so that's why I know way too much about that story.
But yeah,
it seems like of all the Big Bird like Budweiser
seems to come in and be like, we are the owners now.
We're Molson Coors is like, Hey, here's some money and some distribution.
Keep doing what you do. And that's why we bought. Yeah,
yeah.
Good times.
Yeah. You know, that makes me a little bit proud, you know?
Yeah, I guess so.
Nice little tangent there.
Apologies to everyone before we answer.
Sorry to people, Greg, when it's not warranted, don't say sorry.
Okay? I'm not sorry.
Good.
Maybe I'm sorry.
Oh, Canadian. Sorry.
It means it means more when you're Canadian.
Before we find out what with the flexi voice drinking over there,
let's check in with the home to your beer, huh?
Sure. Wow.
I am not happy.
That was about 55 0 seconds.
I think a minute 30 would be the perfect time for a two year beer voicemail.
Gives them enough time to get a couple of jokes in there.
He was so spiteful, like he was purposely spiteful.
He wasn't even funny. Right?
He was so flat and just, I don't know, beaten down sound in.
It was very precise though.
It gave you the details. Yeah very to the point.
Very newsy.
Erin in a grin is awesome awesome.
Really nice. Yeah. Very, very awesome guy.
What else did he say?
What did he do? He went to Mary.
Mary Farm got.
Fucked up brewery down there.
And we know a rep for brewery ex.
All we do now don't. Really. Sure do.
All right. Yeah.
Has he been on the show?
I don't think so.
He was on another show.
Well, and then I think he lost directions to the studio.
Something like that.
Yeah, he just disappeared.
Uh, booze, like.
Anyway, just disappeared one day.
It was so weird. I.
I hope he's doing okay. I haven't heard from him since.
It's been, like, three years.
Where was it going to go with that? I don't remember calling.
Zero 553 a beer leaves some voicemails in June.
Don't be so sad. But we want one minute, 30 seconds.
Yeah, let's, let's, let's try those. Let's try the 130 voice.
So don't be sad when we throw a couple pokes.
Yeah, Hulk us. The bear. Woke me.
Well hello
my men want to wait till he doesn't have the Lynx anymore, though?
It's the Lynx.
I'm on the up and up.
I swear we'll find out. It's just lingering.
It's the lingering longest, the longest, the lingering.
I don't.
Know how much more I could tell you that it's the lynx.
Means nothing to us out here.
Such a Midwesterners thing.
But yeah.
So palooza is this week in flex.
We want to fly out.
It's all a palooza weekend.
Bad week for me. No, because you got the biggest.
I got the up and you know up and up from the Lynx and you know, had it
heading into Christmas. It's just a really rough time.
Well. Let's be real.
Invite is open I did try the beer that we made for the solar palooza.
I got it tagged about a week ago and started
hitting it with the carb and I tried it on Friday.
There have been about five days on carbonation and surprisingly not bad.
I was pleasantly surprised because I had very low hopes was well, no.
I despise spicy beers. Chili pepper beers.
Yeah, yeah. We put a couple of peppers in at the end.
Mainly he wanted to get the color
and he wanted to go with the flavor, but we were trying not to get the spice.
So like we deseeded it before we put it in there.
Smart move and we just put it in at the end of the week.
We toasted it first and then dropped it at the end of the boil
and it might have picked up a little bit of the color.
It's a little darker than your typical Mexican lager.
You said it wasn't in there for a long time.
Right now is the last 10 minutes of the boil.
Plus, whirlpool,
you know, was basically in there until I transferred to the fermenter
as a cool down.
What kind of peppers did you use? You don't?
Oh, there's two different kinds.
He's like, it's the kind my mom puts in the soup.
So it'll like match the soup.
I'm blanking apologies,
but yeah.
So you get like a little bit of the pepper flavor as it warms up, especially,
but I mean, just a hint and no spice.
So I was pleasantly surprised.
We also swapped out the corn for harmony and it kind of gave it
like a little bit of a sweeter effect.
I think that's because you don't like the corn.
No, just because it all has hominy in it.
Oh, okay. Okay.
So to make it more like the soup.
And when I went to the
I think I talked about this when I went to the home brew shop,
I told the guy there I was like, this is this is what I'm brewing,
this is what we're doing.
And I have no fridge space right now,
so give me a yeast that'll hold up to be in fermented at like 70 degrees.
Is it God. Just use a white lab.
Is Mexican lager used?
I was like, you want me to use lager yeast at warm temps?
He is like, Yeah, because nobody around these parts has a fridge.
Like very few people actually have a fridge to ferment.
And I was like, yes, they probably don't make lager because now it'll be good.
And I was like, You know what? I already have low hopes for this beer.
So what the fuck?
And it does not taste weird.
All right.
I was expecting some weird off flavors, and it's fine.
I'll get that. Yeah. What do you know?
What do you think that guy?
Hey, I even told some brewer like I was telling Monica and James about,
and they were like, well, good luck with that.
Look, banks, though, anyways.
All right.
Let's find out what lingers.
Boys drinking over there.
What is flex smoking?
Flex today is drinking
the great outdoors by black stack brewing
there up in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
I was going to say you there because I was going to say Minneapolis,
but I don't want to be a dick.
So I actually did read the can
the double IPA classic Hayes
Flex untapped 4.12 overall rating.
So not horrible but I assume that's most of their beers
because these guys do a pretty great job and it reads Birds chirping,
butterflies fluttering, creeks gurgling, deers frolicking, the leaves changing.
Or if you live in the city, more than likely some car alarms,
some sirens and maybe a rodent dragging a slice of pizza.
This can chock full of our hand-selected Idaho seven,
Idaho seven, Crail and Eldorado is meant to bring you
a little moment of bliss wherever you may find yourself.
Well, I'm in my basement right now, and this beer is a finding me.
Tons of bliss. Glad to hear.
Fantastic color on this bad boy.
It's a look at that.
Bright looking haze, pale yellow. It's hazy.
You can't see 30, can't see my pretty face through it.
Great. Look on it.
Get the old sniffer working here.
Tons of pineapple.
You can remember when I said beers smell sour.
You know what?
You just smell a beer.
It is just hopped up
like when you get the hot burn on your throat,
but you can almost smell it in your nostrils.
That's what I'm getting on this one.
Super hoppy.
And without further ado, the old tongue jobber.
Here he goes.
I'm crushing on some Idaho seven right now,
then a lot of beers, and I'm not mad about it.
It is a great hop.
This is very juicy.
Definitely hints of pineapple, not even hints.
It's it's full up pineapple.
This is jellied full of pineapple.
It's just amazing how good this beer was.
I actually poured it before the show started.
I took a sip and I was
actually worried it wasn't going to last until I was still there.
This this thing is fan frickin tastic, and it's 8.2%.
And not only would you never guess it, but Jesus, Christmas, these guys do real
good work.
How is it with the algorithm.
On the algorithm?
So black stick?
I'm going to be honest, they really get me because a lot of their double
IPAs are like 2021, 22 bucks a four pack.
Their triples start hitting like 25 bucks a four pack.
And they're I mean, their labels are just kind of iconic.
You know, they have the
the black stacks run the label and there's always the artwork behind it.
So it's kind of the same thing.
You always get the different background to it.
I would say on the algorithm scale it was like 1 to 10.
I mean they've their beers are probably fit around a seven on the algorithm, okay?
They're mostly just but they just taste so good,
you know, the artwork is fine, it's great, it's always creative,
but yeah, the price point for me, I just don't understand.
I gotcha. Hops expensive these days.
I understand. Very good.
Some booze news to get to.
If you guys had wire backer brewing?
I don't think so.
You probably know I have.
I've gotten them through Tabor a few times and, you know, good, good beer.
Nothing crazy, but they just sold to Savant Beverages,
which is led by the former president of Pittsburgh Brewing
after their second bankruptcy case was dismissed.
So, wow, she's the day that the judge said a no, no.
They closed the deal with seven beverages.
So see how that worked out for them.
They had the deal on the back burner.
I must have
I don't know, because the same day it got turned down, they they closed that.
It must have been like, hey, if this doesn't work out for us,
we'll sell our shit. Do. Yeah.
Yeah, that's. Bizarre.
Yeah, it's got a weird but we'll see what happens.
They said they plan to not let anybody off and hope to keep the entire
team on staff. So that's that's always nice. Yeah, right. On.
We have a list for flex love lists.
This was put together by the mad fermented arsonist.
You can find them at the mad fermentation intercom.
It's the best hops according to Untapped.
I won't get into the whole science of it,
but he basically went through, like all the untapped ratings
and then rated the beers with the hops and like did some weird algorithm
to get the best hops based off of untapped ratings.
Okay, I'll just read the results.
Can I just guess that Bellman is not on there?
Nailed it.
That's.
That makes me really sad.
Why? I love bellhops.
Oh, okay.
I know you're going to like you hated them or.
Oh, no, I love Bellman.
Hops is probably the most underrated hop out there.
All right, well, here is the top 12.
According to his science in coming in number 12 strata
followed by vic secret then hydra
Columbus
mosaic I'm surprised that's not.
Wow that yeah that's. Like my favorite and.
It's and it's like an everything galaxy
Simcoe Amarillo real shocker
Citra Wow And now the top three
Hasakah
Nelson Right on
And the number one hop is my most favorite one to say Moe Tweaker.
That's really shocking.
Yeah, but I almost feel like that's more so based off of
like all the New Zealand hops being used and like the last two years.
Yeah, because like, I love some New Zealand hops.
Oh yeah, they're great.
And I think Nelson at number two is phenomenal.
My opinion, it's number one.
But how is Kashmir not even fall on that list?
I know I was a little saddened by that.
Yeah, he does have his second list that is solely for IPAs and where that is
where that was all like all beers on and on the IPA and double IPA list.
Kashmir is number three.
Okay, I'll give you the top three that were in Kashmir.
Hard top blank, which was surprising. That's right.
Yeah, that's really sad then. Yeah.
And then Galaxy.
I'll agree to disagree I guess. Untapped don't lie man.
Only the smartest people check in. And I do like Nelson though.
Nelson's a good one. Yeah.
You know, the very first beer I ever had was Nelson.
The Green Beer with Nelson.
And it was Nelson, the Grieder, which was a port brewing.
And man, I like me from Port Brewing, but that was a garbage ass beer.
Yeah, it was so bad.
And it made me think that Nelson hops were garbage, and I avoided them for so long.
And then finally I had one that was, like, predominantly Nelson.
I was like, Wow, this is a really good beer.
Maybe it's not the hop.
Yeah.
Did you ever have the Alpine Nelson?
Probably.
That to me is like the best form.
If you want just. Nelson, you, that's what you want.
You want to really taste that hop. That was the best one.
I have to admit, I didn't get much Alpine before they sold to Green Flash.
Yeah, and I heard Green Flash really?
It definitely changed. Yeah.
Yeah. So. But, you know, they're opening up again.
I heard the McElhaney says McElhaney. Brewing, right.
They probably already have opened up by now.
And I think that they're still down there.
It's their original brewery.
Yeah. Alpine brewery.
So they just new name.
New phone. Who dis. Yeah.
All I'm saying is don't sleep on Velma and Enigma hops.
I don't know if they're just super rare, but them shit's got to make it come up.
Yeah, as.
You know, those are really good to. Mm.
I concur.
I'll cosign that.
Current River Brewing announces that has become an employee owned company,
not unlike New Belgium before they sold
and all that stuff. Brewdog
such a great brewery.
Great people.
Filled with great people, no longer big corp
certified after the b b lab review.
Of course.
Brewdog's What's the B does that mean? Great.
I'll tell you this because I had to Google it.
Brewdog, of course, claims that they stepped aside
from the review process and that they were focusing on
internal culture I call bullshit.
So I googled what is a certified B Corp and a certified B Corp is a company
that has voluntarily met
the highest standards for social and environmental performance.
Great
interpreter Madison, Wisconsin
based Funk Factory Goes Real.
The owner, Levi Funk, sold the brewery's taproom to former
director of operations Kyle Metz, who is the founder of Black Rose Blending.
You ever had any funk factory?
I had a couple of the mirrors, which is like they're barrel aged.
I was used to bottle them and now they're canning them, which is kind of strange.
But yeah, I've had a few of their beers.
Okay, you don't sound overly impressed, which is fine.
It was the first
oak aged sour ever had, so it was like
it was mind blowing to me and just super different on the palate.
Getting like the barrel notes with.
Was a wild fermented.
That's my favorite.
I don't remember.
Yeah you may in Southern California looking for some great wild
fermented beers
sour works.
But she looks so good.
All right, we'll end with this one.
I almost don't want to read the headline because it's so good.
I don't want to give away too much. Oh, now.
Florida man
sets police car on fire,
claims he does, quote, stupid things when he gets drunk.
A man in Florida allegedly set a sheriff's patrol
car on fire and told deputies he was intoxicated at time.
The incident happened just before 5 p.m.
on Wednesday, according to the Hernando County Sheriff's Office, which said that
Anthony Thomas Tarduno admitted to setting the patrol car on fire.
Tarduno told detectives that he was drinking at a bar
in spring Gil, Florida, and walked out shortly before 4:30 p.m..
When he was walking this,
the man saw a patrol car and quote, decided he'd set it on fire.
The sheriff's office said the man got a bag of garbage from a dumpster,
placed it under the patrol car and let the trash on fire.
After allegedly setting the patrol car on fire,
the sheriff's office said that Tarduno went back to the bar
but later returned to the crime scene to confess because he felt bad.
Deputy said that when Tarduno explained his actions, he told detectives
that he was intoxicated at the time and does stupid things when he's drunk.
Yeah.
The sheriff's office says that the trash was placed directly under the gas
tank, which caused severe damage to the car, which is lit on fire.
Officials say that Tarduno was cooperative with deputies and said
he was a professional arsonist who had been convicted of similar crimes,
but said he didn't target the patrol car
and claimed he would have set fire to any car in that location.
Tarduno was initially charged
with two counts of arson and his bond was set for 30 years.
Our boy Tony was that live, 430
in the afternoon, like on a Wednesday.
Right. First off,
some people drink like that on Mondays.
Deb, just saying anyway.
I feel that.
This guy has integrity.
Yeah, right.
I mean, I guess.
I mean, he he told the truth and the whole like he wasn't going back on anything.
You're not wrong.
And that's kind of admirable, right?
Like he's drunk and he does figure things.
Not only does he tell you he gets drunk and does stupid things,
but he will admit to the stupid things that he does.
Right. And he follows through.
He says he gets drunk and does stupid things.
Super strange shirt number two,
they're going to have to start putting that
like flammable bull content logo on garbage cans in Florida.
No, because I didn't know apparently that garbage was flammable.
So no garbage
cans got to have the flammable content like for toxins and stuff.
Well, he's a professional arsonist.
He could have made do with anything.
Well.
Well, that makes me wonder, like, who's paid this guy's certifiable.
Where did he go to school?
Did he get his education?
Fire school?
Where do you learn that?
One cheats, drugs, school?
I feel like in Florida,
if they were to put
those stickers on the trash cans, it actually attract attention.
But when you walk into the state, they hand you a grenade anyways.
A grenade in a gator.
Yeah, Drew, here's the grenade.
Here's your gator. Get on down the gator.
Come with a leash, though. That's my question.
Hopefully leave a little duct tape around the mouth or something.
And it's for bro.
No, no. No, no.
Yeah, that's a Julie grown. That's a dream.
Yeah.
I'm sure they have car seats specifically for gators in Florida.
So they just there you go and you put in the car seat.
Isn't that just like a pickup truck? But
yeah, built for.
Automatic.
Gator proof lining in all of our truck beds.
Isn't gator lining one of the truck?
Bed lining is no way.
That can't be real.
Oh, it's a rhino. It's real close to gator.
Oh, gator is the back like netting.
If you take the back of your truck, because it's not like netting.
That's gator netting.
Oh, gator, don't play.
No trick.
Anyhow.
Yeah, typical Florida. What else can I say?
All right, let's hit some music and get on up out of here.
I'll say thanks for listening and hi to Vanessa.
Hi, Vanessa.
You can find us on the socials at Craft Beer Republic.
Let's me beer underscores in between and of course one
hop miss and have a don't forget dick duck.
Dexcom.
Dexcom or I'm supposed to look that up to see if that was me.
If that if that is a real thing.
They got a lot of free marketing to it. Yeah.
You're Welcome, Debs Dix.
A lot of free plugs.
Well, yeah, that's not a problem. So.
Uh, what else about that guy?
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I hope everyone is doing very well hydrated.
And on that note, goodnight everybody.