Welcome in, everybody, to the craft beer republic.
Speaker:Thanks for drinking.
Speaker:Thanks for joining.
Speaker:I am Greg, and that is the hardest football fan I've ever known.
Speaker:That's Flexy.
Speaker:What's up, big fella?
Speaker:It's a big night for me.
Speaker:Big night.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:Big night.
Speaker:Long night.
Speaker:Hard night.
Speaker:Long.
Speaker:Hard and fun.
Speaker:Real good night.
Speaker:Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker:How are you, though?
Speaker:I never asked how you're doing.
Speaker:Well, thanks.
Speaker:I'm all right.
Speaker:I'm still recovering.
Speaker:Could be it makes me want to, like, pick up a coke habit every now and then, but other than
Speaker:that, doing all right.
Speaker:And let me correct myself.
Speaker:I'm sorry.
Speaker:I hate when I say you're.
Speaker:Because.
Speaker:I meant your.
Speaker:Because your isn't a word, and your is.
Speaker:And I.
Speaker:I'm not, like, a grammar snob, because I still don't understand the english language fully.
Speaker:You're sort of a grammar snob.
Speaker:But, I mean, you know, the.
Speaker:The basics.
Speaker:You have a.
Speaker:Like a.
Speaker:You.
Speaker:Your.
Speaker:Your shirt, right?
Speaker:Or something like that.
Speaker:I mean, that got ripped up.
Speaker:Mosh pit.
Speaker:So it's in the garbage.
Speaker:But I did have a.
Speaker:I did have a yore.
Speaker:Y o u re shirt.
Speaker:I like it.
Speaker:Nothing kills me more.
Speaker:Use the wrong people.
Speaker:Use the wrong.
Speaker:Your.
Speaker:The yore, the theirs.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What's the other?
Speaker:There's one more that really gets me, and I can't think of it right now.
Speaker:There's one that gets my wife.
Speaker:I can't think of.
Speaker:But I like to say when people still text and they use the letter r instead of the word r
Speaker:and the letter u instead of the word you.
Speaker:Yeah, look, we're not on the little fucking nine key keyboards anymore.
Speaker:Spell the whole world out.
Speaker:Also, learn your forms of two.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:You know who's really bad?
Speaker:It's my mom.
Speaker:Oh, man.
Speaker:I thought you were gonna say Shannon.
Speaker:Oh, no, no.
Speaker:Shannon.
Speaker:Her and I are very similar on our grammar nazi ness.
Speaker:Um, my mom is horrendous.
Speaker:I think part of it is she uses, like, the speech to text, but I'm pretty sure siri fucking
Speaker:hates her at this point.
Speaker:And I'll get these messages, and sometimes I just respond, have you been drinking?
Speaker:You just have to try and decipher them.
Speaker:Yeah, it is possible.
Speaker:When we hear in Portugal, my mom texted me a question about Portugal, asked me to find out
Speaker:what the answer was, and I just responded back with, have you been drinking?
Speaker:Because I had no idea what her question was.
Speaker:Then, like, two days later, she responded to her own message and was like, don't worry.
Speaker:I googled it.
Speaker:And found the answer.
Speaker:Like, it's a good fucking thing.
Speaker:Because I don't even know what you asked me.
Speaker:That's like, my dad, he'll do the talk to text, but it'll all come out in, like, one run on
Speaker:sentence.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then, like, he'll even say laugh out loud.
Speaker:And then it will, like, smell laugh out loud.
Speaker:Not lol.
Speaker:It's.
Speaker:It's the fucking best.
Speaker:I love when talk to text doesn't quite catch on.
Speaker:And you're reading it, and then it just says, like, spelt out exclamation point.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I don't understand how talk to text does like.
Speaker:Yeah, like the punctuation.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:I usually give it punctuation.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I'll just be like, hi, comma, what is happening tonight?
Speaker:Question mark?
Speaker:I would love to get some beers.
Speaker:Exclamation like, I'll.
Speaker:I'll sit there and sound like an idiot and say it all.
Speaker:So does it actually work like that?
Speaker:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:I mean, that's.
Speaker:That's how I do it.
Speaker:Like, I say all the proper quote in quotes.
Speaker:Proper, you know, grammar thing.
Speaker:I feel like I do that and it just says question mark.
Speaker:Oh, really?
Speaker:You know, with exclamation, there's like, exclamation point and exclamation mark.
Speaker:One's wrong.
Speaker:I think Mark is wrong.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Or point is.
Speaker:I don't remember.
Speaker:Anyways, one of them, when you say it, it spells it out and the other one, it does the
Speaker:right thing.
Speaker:Huh.
Speaker:Is it an exclamation point or an exclamation mark?
Speaker:I think it's point and it's a question mark.
Speaker:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker:Good thing it's not a grammar show.
Speaker:Thank you.
Speaker:Be me to it.
Speaker:Not a grammar show.
Speaker:So we'll move on.
Speaker:But we're not going to move on from following us on the social.
Speaker:Zach raft, beer poke and head flex me fear underscores in between.
Speaker:If you ever want to call us, it's 805538 beer 2337.
Speaker:Shout out to hot Lana for being our top listening city last week.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What up, Hotland?
Speaker:Thanks for checking this from maybe.
Speaker:Yeah, it's where the players play.
Speaker:That's what I hear.
Speaker:Yeah, that's.
Speaker:That's what Luda, also Luda, one of my, like, top five favorite rappers of all time.
Speaker:Big beats hit street, see, gangsters, Romande.
Speaker:If anybody says anything about 22, I immediately just go, I can't lose the 22s, bitch.
Speaker:That's what's up.
Speaker:I love that song.
Speaker:So good.
Speaker:All of this shit so good.
Speaker:Anywho, not a ludicrous show.
Speaker:Well, ludicrous libation.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I like that.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:We'll see.
Speaker:Anyways, let's mix things up a bit.
Speaker:We're both looking a little sober.
Speaker:Why don't we ask some questions?
Speaker:See what you're drinking over there.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:In a world where craft beer is.
Speaker:Kingdom, a world where muscles are bigger.
Speaker:Than growlers, only one tongue can guide us.
Speaker:One man.
Speaker:One tongue.
Speaker:One tongue jobber.
Speaker:In this, licking the microphone must find out what is flax drinking.
Speaker:Lick it like a lollipop.
Speaker:Alright, so tonight I'm drinking a beer from Lion's tail brewing company.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:And I went out on a limb on this one.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I like these guys.
Speaker:I do.
Speaker:I can't say I don't, because I do.
Speaker:Yeah, you've had them on the show before.
Speaker:Had them on the show before.
Speaker:I buy their stuff, you know, every now and then.
Speaker:But their ipas, most notably, they are very big on naming them juicy Daisy and not
Speaker:following suit.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So I did see them post the spear.
Speaker:I thought, wow, that looks really good.
Speaker:So I bought it, Greg.
Speaker:So this is juice shark.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:It is in the name juice, right.
Speaker:Not haze.
Speaker:It's not a Hays shark.
Speaker:It says it is a New England IPA, 6.6% AbV.
Speaker:And they're.
Speaker:They're can art.
Speaker:It's always.
Speaker:It's got their lion logo.
Speaker:Mm hmm.
Speaker:And it's always got a little bubble.
Speaker:And it works.
Speaker:What I do like about it is they have messy, for me on this backside, it's a little bit.
Speaker:It.
Speaker:It works.
Speaker:But on the backside of the can, it's similar to Drucker where it has the malts.
Speaker:They use the hops they use.
Speaker:So they use pale pilsner, wheat and oats in this.
Speaker:And then the hops are citra.
Speaker:And then.
Speaker:Get this one, Greg.
Speaker:It's like a coordinates.
Speaker:Got it.
Speaker:2480 five.
Speaker:That's a hop.
Speaker:Or maybe it's two four b.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Two four b zero five.
Speaker:But you can understand a b and an eight looking similar.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:And then they also have another line of information for inspiration.
Speaker:And it says, you're gonna need a bigger boat.
Speaker:Do they use the right your.
Speaker:They did.
Speaker:I was waiting for you to ask.
Speaker:It is y o U.
Speaker:Fosteriary.
Speaker:Glad to hear it.
Speaker:And then they have this little, uh.
Speaker:It's like this little attribute chart.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Little flavor chart.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So it shows, like, tropical, juicy, hazy, dry, dank citrus.
Speaker:So this one has hazy to the max.
Speaker:Juicy to the max.
Speaker:Tropical to almost the max.
Speaker:This shouldn't be a dry beer.
Speaker:It shouldn't be very dank, and it shouldn't be very citrusy.
Speaker:They call those spider charts.
Speaker:Is that right?
Speaker:I don't know, dude.
Speaker:You're way techie than I am.
Speaker:So untapped has this.
Speaker:So, again, this is a newer beer.
Speaker:246 check ins on untapped, a collective 3.9, which isn't terrible.
Speaker:No, that's a pretty solid rating.
Speaker:It says brewed to minimize bitterness and maximize juicy hop flavors.
Speaker:From citra and experimental 24 b, zero five hops.
Speaker:Big doses of oats and wheat deliver fluffy mouthfeel and leave a lovely haze.
Speaker:Notes of watermelon, hard candy, ripe berry, and citrus fruit.
Speaker:You're gonna need a bigger boat.
Speaker:That's what it says.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:So, on the schnoz, let's look for watermelon, berry, and citrus.
Speaker:Okay, I'm looking.
Speaker:I do get a little fresh berry mixed with citrus on the nose.
Speaker:Um, a little bit dank.
Speaker:And then now there's some watermelon coming through.
Speaker:Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:And it is like.
Speaker:Like a watermelon jelly rancher.
Speaker:That's kind of crazy.
Speaker:Obviously, the best flavor of jolly ranchers.
Speaker:I disagree, but let me get the tongue jabber warmed up.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So they were right.
Speaker:They minimize the bitterness.
Speaker:There is no bitterness.
Speaker:The juice is not maximized.
Speaker:The flavor is minimal, but it is very minimal.
Speaker:Watermelon and berry.
Speaker:That's coming through on here.
Speaker:I'm gonna get another sip.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Go back in for more research.
Speaker:I repeat, there's no bitterness.
Speaker:And the.
Speaker:The juice is not maximized.
Speaker:But those flavors are there, and it's minimal.
Speaker:But this works.
Speaker:And, like, for a 6.6% ipa, it is hazy.
Speaker:I will show you this, too, as well.
Speaker:Can confirm it is a hazy beer.
Speaker:A 3.9.
Speaker:This is solid.
Speaker:I would not turn this down.
Speaker:I would order this at a brewery.
Speaker:I would drink it if somebody bought it for me.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:But the maximize of the juice, I wouldn't put that on there on the label.
Speaker:My biggest.
Speaker:So here's my biggest beef with these guys.
Speaker:I'm going to put this out here.
Speaker:Let's hear it.
Speaker:All of their ipas that they usually come out with are, like, super duper malt forward.
Speaker:So you have to understand, like, real old school.
Speaker:I am on.
Speaker:Well, even when they're, like, juicy, hazy New England, they claim they're just always very
Speaker:multi.
Speaker:I am beside myself right now drinking this.
Speaker:That is a flavorful, an actual New England IPA, as it says.
Speaker:And do you miss the dank at all?
Speaker:The bitterness?
Speaker:I should say.
Speaker:Not on this.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Not when they say that they minimized it.
Speaker:Like, that's what I'm expecting.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So if I got some and they said they minimized it, I would say, well, this is.
Speaker:You probably figure out what you're doing and then fix it.
Speaker:But this is.
Speaker:I mean, this one is.
Speaker:It is a solid, nice offering.
Speaker:It's not exquisite.
Speaker:It's not phenomenal.
Speaker:It's not great, but is.
Speaker:It is a solid offering.
Speaker:Would drink again, 100%.
Speaker:Would drink again.
Speaker:Maybe.
Speaker:Maybe like a three, seven, five on untapped.
Speaker:Maybe I'd give it.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Which is, again, not terrible.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But, you know, four is pretty high marks.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:Yeah, I definitely wouldn't give this a four.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:That's fair.
Speaker:Not.
Speaker:Not to be that guy who talks about his vacation for, like, the next six months or anything
Speaker:like that.
Speaker:You went on vacation?
Speaker:My sister got married.
Speaker:Did.
Speaker:Did you know your sister's pregnant?
Speaker:I'm sorry, what now?
Speaker:I didn't know she was married.
Speaker:And then she's gonna have some.
Speaker:Some bastard kid.
Speaker:She's not even married.
Speaker:What is, like, the big show is she gonna give birth to?
Speaker:Not a wrestling show.
Speaker:Well, okay.
Speaker:Yeah, I heard.
Speaker:Turns out she's pregnant or something, apparently.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Slut.
Speaker:Yeah, one at a time.
Speaker:What was it?
Speaker:Oh, not.
Speaker:Not to be the vacation guy for the rest of my life or anything, but I had that issue with
Speaker:most the ipas I had in Portugal.
Speaker:Real malty real, like, you know, here's your loaf of bread with your ipa kind of thing.
Speaker:And not very great, just not for me.
Speaker:They.
Speaker:They really were a little bit weird on all the, like, the loggers and pilsners I had over
Speaker:there, for the most part, had, like, a real, like, funk to it.
Speaker:Sort of like a farmhouse funk.
Speaker:Interesting.
Speaker:And it's like the logger.
Speaker:It's like this just says lager.
Speaker:You know, give me a nice, clean.
Speaker:You know, I'm thinking german style lager.
Speaker:I wonder why that is, like, what's going on with the brewing process.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:It's like, I don't need your fucking sweat socks in my lager.
Speaker:Unless it's just not very clean.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Yeah, maybe their water is not the best or something.
Speaker:Water is a big deal when it comes to brewing.
Speaker:I did.
Speaker:This is gonna make me sound so american.
Speaker:I did Google, like, can Americans drink the water in Portugal?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You don't.
Speaker:You go to Mexico.
Speaker:You don't drink the water.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:That's well known.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So I just wanted to confirm.
Speaker:And first of all, for anybody wondering, you totally can.
Speaker:It's safe, meets all the standards of some european something.
Speaker:But they did say, like, scientific, right?
Speaker:Yeah, it's got a ph level of your mom.
Speaker:Um, they did say that it's not the tastiest water and it tasted whatever.
Speaker:It didn't taste bad.
Speaker:Local water out here tastes like shit.
Speaker:So I was like, compared to at home, this isn't that bad.
Speaker:But that being said, that might be why their beers have a funk to them or something.
Speaker:There's Santa Monica or Santa Clara that has the best tap water rated in the world, by the
Speaker:way.
Speaker:Really?
Speaker:In California?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Huh.
Speaker:I've some of my favorite California tap water.
Speaker:Google it right now is.
Speaker:I'm gonna do it is mammoth.
Speaker:Mammoth has great tap water.
Speaker:Comes, you know, fucking snow runoff.
Speaker:Sounds delicious.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This is not a tap water show, but.
Speaker:Oh, this is an article.
Speaker:Apparently San Francisco gets their water from yosemite, so it tastes really good.
Speaker:Uh oh, here's from this year, Santa Ana tap water named world's best with third gold medal
Speaker:at Berkeley Springs International water tasting.
Speaker:I work.
Speaker:I have a location in Santa Monica or Santa Ana, so I should drink the water next time I'm
Speaker:down there.
Speaker:Apparently I was close.
Speaker:It was a Santa.
Speaker:Yeah, one of the.
Speaker:There's half the cities in California are Santa's, so you.
Speaker:It gets confusing.
Speaker:There's a Santa.
Speaker:Santa Claus, Indiana, or something like that.
Speaker:Or Santa, Indiana.
Speaker:I don't know, Zach.
Speaker:It's like a whole.
Speaker:No, it's like a whole Christmas themed town.
Speaker:Like, I'm telling you, like, they have it.
Speaker:Not unlike Dildo Canada.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, yeah.
Speaker:It's like, if dildo was Christmas, like.
Speaker:That'S how great would it be if the light posts and everything in dildo Canada were valid
Speaker:dildos?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Just fake dicks with light bulbs.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I was telling somebody at work about that place and they're like, that's not real.
Speaker:I said, no, it's a real place.
Speaker:And I google mapped Dildo Canada and it fucking came up.
Speaker:You could show them dildo brewing.
Speaker:I mean.
Speaker:Well, that's what I was.
Speaker:So that's how the conversation started.
Speaker:Telling them all about the dildo stout or stout Dildo and all the other obnoxious names
Speaker:that they come out with that they just play off of.
Speaker:And I wish they'd take it like, a step further to where, like, you know, the stout.
Speaker:The Dildo stout would be like, you know, come get a big dark dildo.
Speaker:Something like that, you know, too far maybe.
Speaker:It's kind of Vince McMahon.
Speaker:Ooh, that's gross.
Speaker:I'll see myself out.
Speaker:Not a Vince McMahon.
Speaker:Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker:I am surprised Deb hasn't moved to Dildo Canada yet, though.
Speaker:Ah, she's more about the real dicks.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:Fake dick.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:So, all right, this was like a good point to move on.
Speaker:Stop talking about Dick's real or fake.
Speaker:Hey, can I complain about some beer, please?
Speaker:Okay, went to.
Speaker:What kind of beer is it?
Speaker:Gross beer.
Speaker:Went to lazy dog.
Speaker:You guys have lazy dog restaurants out there?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:It's kind of like a BJ's type of place.
Speaker:Sign me up.
Speaker:The restaurant, not the, nevermind, not the 38 seconds of pleasure food and beer.
Speaker:And they have a craft beer club and they have forget who it is nowadays.
Speaker:Melvin Brewing, I think does their beer club beers or something like that.
Speaker:And they also will bring in other breweries to do special one offs.
Speaker:A few months ago, Monica over at Petalse did a collaboration with lazy dog.
Speaker:It was in all their restaurants.
Speaker:And anyways, so that part of it's cool.
Speaker:They cater to people with dogs.
Speaker:They have like a dog menu.
Speaker:If you have dogs, you can sit outside.
Speaker:That didn't even cross my mind.
Speaker:I'm gonna tell you, first of all, we never buy marty.
Speaker:It's like, I'm not paying $10 for a fucking chicken breast and rice, asshole.
Speaker:Enjoy your kibble.
Speaker:Also, he can't eat that shit.
Speaker:It'll make him sick.
Speaker:But, um, God dang it, his food, so goddamn, I wish it was like $10.
Speaker:Anyways, went there, had a little dinner, had some beverages.
Speaker:One of their core beers is an IPA.
Speaker:It's called huckleberry Hayes.
Speaker:And that's all it said.
Speaker:Okay, and it was an IPA.
Speaker:And you know, the ABV.
Speaker:All right, I will take a huckleberry haze.
Speaker:I thought it was just a cute alliteration, a little play on words.
Speaker:All right, well, apparently it's fruited.
Speaker:Did not say it was a fruited IPA.
Speaker:And it tastes like a fucking flintstone vitamin.
Speaker:Ooh, what color?
Speaker:The gross red raspberry one.
Speaker:Oh, I was a big fan of the orange and the purple.
Speaker:All right, well, whatever the worst Flintstone vitamin is is exactly what it tastes like.
Speaker:Man.
Speaker:Sometimes I would eat two Flintstone vitamins in the morning.
Speaker:I love the vulgar thing.
Speaker:Maybe I need a huckleberry IPA.
Speaker:Maybe you do, because I got that thing and I smelt it I was like, oh, this isn't promising.
Speaker:And then I tasted it, and I was like.
Speaker:I plugged.
Speaker:I fucking plugged and chugged.
Speaker:It was so great.
Speaker:I handed it to Shannon.
Speaker:I said, hey, correct me if I'm wrong, is this a Flintstone vitamin?
Speaker:And she agreed with me.
Speaker:And then I plugged in chugged because it was so gross.
Speaker:Yeah, no joke.
Speaker:I sometimes used to sneak a Flintstone vitamin before my mom would get downstairs, and then
Speaker:she would come downstairs and give us all vitamins so that I would get two.
Speaker:And I love them so much.
Speaker:And I love the way they taste.
Speaker:I love everything about them.
Speaker:By the way, that story was from a week ago.
Speaker:It's not from when he was a kid.
Speaker:Oh, dear.
Speaker:That's pretty accurate.
Speaker:But anyway, so all this to say, fuck you, lazy dog.
Speaker:If you're gonna have a fruited ipa, put next to it that it's, like, fruited or supposed to
Speaker:taste like huckleberry or something.
Speaker:I'll agree to that because it was fucking disgusting.
Speaker:The other thing, and this is not lazy dog, this is a brewery.
Speaker:They put world famous next to one of their beers.
Speaker:I can confirm with you it's not world famous.
Speaker:You can't just put world famous next to.
Speaker:Should we start calling ourselves the world famous craft beer republic and just see if it
Speaker:catches on, you know, what's world famous like?
Speaker:Like Budweiser.
Speaker:I would say that's pretty world famous.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, we are popular in Finland.
Speaker:John Travolta.
Speaker:I'd say that's pretty world famous.
Speaker:Yeah, I can agree with that.
Speaker:Lazy dog beer.
Speaker:I haven't heard of him.
Speaker:In Wisconsin.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Not world famous.
Speaker:No, apparently not even us famous, but that's my point.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Can't go world if you can't complete the whole us.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:So anyways, this is not lazy dog, but is that a brew?
Speaker:He's like, they're world famous.
Speaker:Blah blah, blah iPa.
Speaker:I was like, what?
Speaker:Wait, it was just at a random brewery?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Oh, that's even more obnoxious.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:It was world famous.
Speaker:And it was one of their beers.
Speaker:I was like, no, that works, homeboy.
Speaker:You don't just slap world famous on there.
Speaker:And so it becomes.
Speaker:Right, like, it's gotta be pretty renown.
Speaker:Yeah, worldly renown.
Speaker:World renowned.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:And if it's not, then you're a liar.
Speaker:Yeah, I wouldn't even say it's local famous.
Speaker:So anyways, stop putting world famous next to shit.
Speaker:Doesn't mean it's world famous.
Speaker:Unless we're the world famous craft beer republic.
Speaker:Finnish famous.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:What about South Korea?
Speaker:European famous.
Speaker:Yeah, barely.
Speaker:Like a small section of Europe.
Speaker:Romania.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Start calling it the world famous tongue jobber.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, I don't see why that can't play out.
Speaker:Sure.
Speaker:We should make a shirt just as world famous tongue jobber.
Speaker:Nothing else.
Speaker:I wonder how that would do about.
Speaker:As well as all of our other shirts.
Speaker:And then get another shirt that says zungen jobber.
Speaker:Translate world famous into German.
Speaker:World famous.
Speaker:Zungenjammer.
Speaker:Just put a v instead of a.
Speaker:W.
Speaker:Didn't that just make it german?
Speaker:I'm pretty positive, yeah, we've offended all two german listeners.
Speaker:So change the w to a v and the o, two u, and it works out of.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Put like an umlat somewhere.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, we'll be good.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:It's the only german word I know.
Speaker:Umlaut.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Guten tag.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I know how to say beer in German.
Speaker:Beer.
Speaker:Beer.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Got that far.
Speaker:Beer.
Speaker:Beer.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:All right, let's move on to some things.
Speaker:You know what?
Speaker:I'm feeling a little thirsty over here.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Are you thirsty?
Speaker:I am quite thirsty.
Speaker:You look thirsty.
Speaker:You sound thirsty.
Speaker:I can hear it in my voice.
Speaker:It's a little scratchy.
Speaker:It's a little vacationy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Let's make a call.
Speaker:He calls to the bullpen for beer.
Speaker:Yes, he does.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:I am drinking Highland park breweries.
Speaker:Wowee.
Speaker:Hazy ipa.
Speaker:Wowee woweed.
Speaker:What a can, right?
Speaker:A lot of.
Speaker:Lot of colors and things happening.
Speaker:7.3%.
Speaker:A four oh six on a random.
Speaker:Ass abv, by the way.
Speaker:7.3.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:With over 1300 ratings, it says hazy ipa hopped with 100%.
Speaker:Nelson Sovin hops.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:I knew you'd get hard over that one hazy beer that bursts with aromas of gooseberries.
Speaker:Smell the gooseberries.
Speaker:I was just going to say the gooseberries taste like gooseberries, tropical fruits.
Speaker:And the white wine and the white grape or whatever.
Speaker:Oh, man.
Speaker:Nelson.
Speaker:Good thing you got that fresh box of Kleenex with you.
Speaker:Give me all the Nelson.
Speaker:The schnoz.
Speaker:I'm really picking up the grip.
Speaker:It's a very light smell altogether.
Speaker:But what I do get is that grape, that white wine grape smell.
Speaker:Heck, yeah.
Speaker:Anzi zungan jabba.
Speaker:I can tell you what.
Speaker:When you taste something and you're not sure what it is, that is the gooseberry.
Speaker:Then I'm getting a little bit of gooseberry, more of that.
Speaker:That grape, that white wine grape.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And pretty soft mouth feel.
Speaker:Certainly does not drink like it's over 7%.
Speaker:Feels real light.
Speaker:Little effervescence in there.
Speaker:I will say.
Speaker:Not always a fan of the Highland park beers.
Speaker:I've had a few.
Speaker:They've been, you know, probably 50 50 hit and miss.
Speaker:But this one I'm actually enjoying.
Speaker:I believe this one came to me from not murderer John.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I hear he hasn't murdered anybody at this point.
Speaker:Still holds up to the name.
Speaker:It's unreal.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which I'm one streak, you know.
Speaker:He'S really put one together there for still.
Speaker:Out there, not murdering people.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Shit's good on him.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Good, autumn.
Speaker:So, yeah.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:Keep it up.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Keep that streak alive, please.
Speaker:For me, especially.
Speaker:Right, exactly.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:All right, let's get a little news going before we get out of here.
Speaker:The brewers association reports that the Midwest area has recorded production declines
Speaker:across all classes of beer.
Speaker:Overall, craft volume declined 1% in 2023, the first year output was down other than 2020.
Speaker:Can I interrupt you for a second?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:You just reminded me of something.
Speaker:When you said the Midwest, and I meant to.
Speaker:I meant to get on this after my St.
Speaker:Louis trip back in July.
Speaker:My memory is just so bad.
Speaker:I feel that St.
Speaker:Louis is considered a Midwest state.
Speaker:Let me just put this out here.
Speaker:Well, the whole city is considered a state.
Speaker:Or Missouri.
Speaker:I'm sorry?
Speaker:Missouri is considered a Midwest state.
Speaker:You got me.
Speaker:Two out of every three people has, like, a southern accent.
Speaker:How was that a Midwest state?
Speaker:That is weird.
Speaker:It doesn't make sense.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If everyone's walking around with southern accents.
Speaker:Kills me.
Speaker:Yeah, it's like the most non midwest Midwest state.
Speaker:And it's, you know, it's middle.
Speaker:Low middle.
Speaker:Let me pull up a map here.
Speaker:I mean, it's pretty middle.
Speaker:It's like the shirt of the soldier, you know, that runs down the middle of the country.
Speaker:It's like, minnesota, Iowa, Missouri.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What is it?
Speaker:What is.
Speaker:What's under.
Speaker:Is it Arkansas, Arkansas, and then Louisiana?
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, like, it is a state above Arkansas.
Speaker:Yeah, it's pretty midwest in location.
Speaker:Well, it's pretty mid.
Speaker:Mid.
Speaker:Yeah, well, that's the other thing.
Speaker:First of all, the Midwest thing is so dumb.
Speaker:I don't even know how it got that name.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Because, look, we're the west.
Speaker:It's California west.
Speaker:You know, I'd say west.
Speaker:You could stretch into, like, Utah kind of thing.
Speaker:Maybe you can color around.
Speaker:I was thinking Colorado.
Speaker:All right?
Speaker:I mean, Colorado's fairly middle of the country, but.
Speaker:All right, we'll give it Colorado.
Speaker:Then you have the midwest after that.
Speaker:Why isn't that the mid.
Speaker:Why is it the midwest?
Speaker:You don't have a mideast.
Speaker:I don't know where that drive from.
Speaker:I really don't.
Speaker:It's fucking dumb.
Speaker:But I tell you what, we really own it here in Wisconsin.
Speaker:Oh, I know.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:And I'm not mad at the Midwest Persona or lifestyle or whatever.
Speaker:It's just the name is really dumb.
Speaker:Definitely a lifestyle.
Speaker:Thank you for that.
Speaker:Yeah, it really is.
Speaker:But it should just be the mid.
Speaker:Not the midwest.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Or, like the north.
Speaker:Like, we should at least be like the north.
Speaker:Mid north.
Speaker:Mid north.
Speaker:That would make more sense.
Speaker:It would make so much more sense.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Maybe it should be left to right, so mid, and then up and down.
Speaker:North.
Speaker:South, whatever.
Speaker:So, like, we would be southwest in California.
Speaker:Why is New Mexico the southwest?
Speaker:Yeah, it's barely west.
Speaker:It's pretty middle, isn't it?
Speaker:Like bottom.
Speaker:Bottom of the.
Speaker:Yeah, it's south.
Speaker:Correct.
Speaker:It should be like South Midlandhouse, but it's pretty blast.
Speaker:Yeah, I'll disagree with you on that one.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Or mid.
Speaker:Mid south.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:You know.
Speaker:Still sucks, though.
Speaker:What's that?
Speaker:Alabama?
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:Roll, Ted.
Speaker:Hey, you know what?
Speaker:Not a.
Speaker:Not a map show.
Speaker:Not.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Anyways, you know, we put it out there.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We gotta learn you something.
Speaker:So, Midwest, do you say.
Speaker:Do you say pop?
Speaker:Oh, soda.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:What do you.
Speaker:You say pop, right?
Speaker:No, we're.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Wisconsin says soda.
Speaker:All the surrounding Midwest states are like, pop.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:I had never even heard pop until I was, like, a teenager.
Speaker:I was like, wait, somebody said pop.
Speaker:I was like, what is that?
Speaker:Like, pop rocks.
Speaker:It blows my mind, you know, like a coke.
Speaker:I was like, soda.
Speaker:Do you say drink?
Speaker:Do you say drinking fountain versus water fountain?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:Oh, I kind of.
Speaker:I think they're a little interchangeable.
Speaker:Well, trick question.
Speaker:Could we call them bubblers here?
Speaker:Oh, okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So that a bubbler is a device for smoking weed?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Nope.
Speaker:It's what you drink out of.
Speaker:No, it's what I.
Speaker:What I smoke weed out of.
Speaker:I've never heard of that.
Speaker:It's like a bong and a pipe mixed together.
Speaker:It's like a small, tiny little bong.
Speaker:It's got a little bit of water in it.
Speaker:It's kind of cool.
Speaker:I haven't used one since high school, but, yeah.
Speaker:I mean, I've never used one.
Speaker:Not a bubbler show, right?
Speaker:Oh, here we go.
Speaker:In the story of what and why June shine adds what?
Speaker:Non June shine kombucha.
Speaker:Hard kombucha.
Speaker:Gross.
Speaker:That's why.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Well, hard kombucha brand adds a line of non alcoholic kombucha to their profile.
Speaker:Doesn't that just make it kombucha?
Speaker:That just makes it kombucha.
Speaker:You're right.
Speaker:Which usually, if I'm not mistaken, on the label, always has a less than 1% alcohol.
Speaker:Oh, really?
Speaker:On the label, I believe there's some amount of fermentation that, like, it has to have
Speaker:that.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:Makes a little bit of sense, but na kombucha sure doesn't.
Speaker:That's just fucking kombucha.
Speaker:Dumb as fuck.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard of.
Speaker:Molson Coors is gonna launch a trio of 8%.
Speaker:Hey, I bought some non alcoholic milk at the store today.
Speaker:Oh, just get regular milk.
Speaker:No, this is not alcoholic milk.
Speaker:It was na.
Speaker:Hey, I picked up some na.
Speaker:Pop.
Speaker:Gross.
Speaker:Long as I'm na.
Speaker:Dasani water.
Speaker:Gross.
Speaker:Don't say pop.
Speaker:I felt weird saying it, I'll be honest.
Speaker:Might be the first time it felt gross.
Speaker:It made me throw up.
Speaker:Na soda, mostly.
Speaker:Curious to launch a trio of 8% abv singles for convenience stores, the company availed a
Speaker:trio of 8% abv brands, playing off of the brand equity of its flavor, of its craft and
Speaker:flavored alcoholic beverages.
Speaker:Blue moon extra, simply spiked, bold and topo chico.
Speaker:Max.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Had you with that one, huh?
Speaker:I do like the top of margs.
Speaker:Yeah, that's it.
Speaker:Vanessa got fucked on those.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:She believe she said she passed out in her pool.
Speaker:Yeah, something like that.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Good times.
Speaker:Haven't been drunk like that in a long time.
Speaker:Same USP's they have reintroduced a shipping equity act, and they're basically.
Speaker:They're trying to change the law so we can ship beer.
Speaker:They did this, like, a year ago.
Speaker:We talked about it, and it just never went anywhere.
Speaker:They tried it a couple years before that, and it got turned down in Congress, so it's being
Speaker:brought back to legislation.
Speaker:Let's fucking do it.
Speaker:Guys, I know I've talked about this a couple of years ago.
Speaker:So when you send beer, I don't know what you ever send beer through?
Speaker:Is it post office or USP's or, I'm sorry, Ups or.
Speaker:I don't send beer, but if I were to, it would probably be ups.
Speaker:Okay, so when you take a package to the USP's and you got the whole little screen thing and
Speaker:you're checking off everything.
Speaker:It's not.
Speaker:Oh, kiosk.
Speaker:Yeah, right.
Speaker:That's the word I was looking for.
Speaker:They're like, are you aware you can't ship alcohol and this and that?
Speaker:And perfume?
Speaker:Which blew my mind that you can't.
Speaker:Ship perfume even because it's flammable.
Speaker:And then they say mercury comes up there, like, no shit.
Speaker:Thermometership.
Speaker:Mercury.
Speaker:I just thought to myself, what about Uranus?
Speaker:Damn it.
Speaker:Oh, did I steal your joke?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I'm just thinking myself.
Speaker:I just pissed because I was good.
Speaker:Who the fuck doesn't know that they can't ship mercury, right?
Speaker:Like, it must be a thermometer thing.
Speaker:Like, people were shipping thermometers with mercury in them.
Speaker:But why?
Speaker:Like, I don't know.
Speaker:Who needs that many thermometers?
Speaker:Need to know each room of the house.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:It just blew my mind that they're like, hey, dumb shit, I hope you're not shipping mercury.
Speaker:I might be like, it's a pretty volatile element, so.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, anyways, this law has been around since prohibition, and they're looking to repeal
Speaker:it, and it's about goddamn time.
Speaker:What if it passed?
Speaker:It should pass.
Speaker:Well, I.
Speaker:Well, I'm.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:I'm just saying, what if it did?
Speaker:Then people can chip booze.
Speaker:Legally?
Speaker:Legally.
Speaker:Now, it's not really geared at individuals.
Speaker:Well, may or may not send beer to each other, but.
Speaker:But it is geared towards, you know, like, breweries being allowed to ship their own beer
Speaker:and that stuff.
Speaker:But it would still be make it legal, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It doesn't mention idiots like us sending beers.
Speaker:Like, I would probably ship beer way more often.
Speaker:No, you wouldn't have.
Speaker:Yeah, I would.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's more of, like, a freak legality thing for me.
Speaker:Illegal, I guess.
Speaker:Not that I'd ship any beer, but if I did, I would use a UpS because there's no legal
Speaker:ramifications.
Speaker:They just steal your beer.
Speaker:They just steal your beer, throw it away.
Speaker:So they have stolen my beer before.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:That's why I said that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And kept it.
Speaker:And then apparently they just wanted the anagran.
Speaker:They sent the rest.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:So weird.
Speaker:I'll never forget that.
Speaker:They know they took an Enneagram nighthawk, and they wrote on there.
Speaker:They even wrote that not only did it explode, but they wrote which beer exploded on, like,
Speaker:the reason for delaying or whatever.
Speaker:Finally sent it on its way.
Speaker:And when the person received it, there was no evidence of a very dark beer exploding in the
Speaker:box.
Speaker:Maybe they repackaged it, maybe, and cleaned it all up.
Speaker:Here's the thing.
Speaker:I put everything.
Speaker:I put all the beers in a Ziploc.
Speaker:Not that I ship beers, but if I did, I put them all in.
Speaker:I only hear this story, like, every 14 months.
Speaker:Yeah, you get like once a year or so.
Speaker:And then inside of a.
Speaker:Or outside of the ziploc, I put all the ziplocs wrapped in a trash bag.
Speaker:It's like the chances of a beer exploding, and then you put it all.
Speaker:In a trash bag.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So ziplocs, then trash Baghdad.
Speaker:That's.
Speaker:That's pretty genius.
Speaker:I mean, not that I should be, but if I were to.
Speaker:So the chance of it exploding and then leaking to the outside are like, zero to zero, zero
Speaker:to 1%.
Speaker:There's no way that fucking nighthawk from here to San Diego, like, I could walk it there
Speaker:in a day.
Speaker:The three hour drive, there's no way in that amount of time it exploded.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I worked at FedEx for ten months and tell you, people don't handle packages as carefully as
Speaker:they should.
Speaker:Oh, I'm fully aware that everything's being thrown at all times, but I.
Speaker:Of all the beer packages, that's the one.
Speaker:Thrown is the right word.
Speaker:Despite skipped.
Speaker:Skip rocks on a.
Speaker:On a lake or something?
Speaker:That's kind of like that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:It makes sense.
Speaker:All right, let's end it on this one.
Speaker:Not all the crazy people have to live in Florida.
Speaker:A handcuffed Long island man steals a patrol car after a drunk driving arrest.
Speaker:A 37 year old man was pulled over by state troopers around 05:30 a.m.
Speaker:last Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Speaker:After failing a sobriety test, he was arrested, handcuffed, and put in the back of a police
Speaker:vehicle.
Speaker:While officers weren't looking, the man managed to slip his handcuffs to the front and free
Speaker:himself from the seatbelt.
Speaker:He climbed into the front seat of the patrol car and drove off from the scene.
Speaker:The car was later found about 3 miles away, while the man was then located in a nearby
Speaker:cemetery.
Speaker:He pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that included grand larceny, criminal possession
Speaker:of stolen property, unauthorized use of a vehicle, use of a vehicle, and driving while
Speaker:intoxicated, and other charges.
Speaker:How do you plead?
Speaker:Not guilty.
Speaker:That shit, I'm sure it's on their.
Speaker:On their dash cam.
Speaker:I don't wait.
Speaker:Like, waiting in the cemetery.
Speaker:Being found in the cemetery.
Speaker:That's weird.
Speaker:And some undertaker shit, like, maybe he's.
Speaker:Just waiting to die.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:Took a turn.
Speaker:No, super turn.
Speaker:Like you cranked that wheel all the way.
Speaker:All the way to the left.
Speaker:So anyways, fucking weird supes.
Speaker:Supes weird.
Speaker:All right, let's, uh.
Speaker:Let's wrap things up.
Speaker:Let's.
Speaker:Let's do it.
Speaker:You know better.
Speaker:I'm gonna hit some music.
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Speaker:And on that note, good night, everybody.