All right, I'm gonna let the show start. Yeah. Let's go with you guys. Oh, Flex, what are you drinking? Oh, I'm drinking this Zozo Gun Gun by Elephant Brewing. Is it tasty? No. Oh, okay. It's a hazy triple IPA. Oh, fun can. Yeah, super fun can.

Mmm. Welcome in, everybody, the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining.

I am being joined by the guy that is straight off the dickiest trip you've ever taken. Flex, what's up, bud? So many dicks. Oh, so many big, hard, huge pool dicks. We'll talk about that.

Great dick air, but I'm doing all right. Glad to hear it. Glad you're back. Glad you made it back. And then joining us from the East Coast is everyone's favorite... I was gonna make a hair joke, but I'm not. I got nothing. She can't take it too personally.

Well, and I got nothing. I got nothing chambered. It's Beer Girl Melissa. I'm just here for the dicks. You and Deb. Deb? Are you there? Don't forget, debzdicks.com. Yes, bookmark it, make it your homepage. In fact, if you're in college or something, make it all the homepages on the library of

computers. Debzdicks.com. Do us a favor, and that'd be great. So crappyrepublic.com, flex me a beer, underscore is in between on the gram, at crappyrepublic. Mel, what's your fucking handle nowadays? Oh my gosh, it's so hard to even say what it is. It's beergirl underscore Mel.

We made it a little less... Like it changed like four times. Is that less underscory? You know what? I really wanted it to be BGM, and it wouldn't allow me to, and then I changed it so much I got halted. So everybody thought that I was hacked, but I wasn't. You know when you change your handle too many times or try to, you get halted.

I didn't know that. Oh yeah, because they think somebody's hacking your profile, but not the case. It is beergirl underscore Mel. Drop the issa. Just easier? Yeah. Well, and everybody calls you beergirl Mel, so it works out.

I'm a Mel, and I think I just had like an existential crisis, so we're trying to figure ourselves out on the gram. But here we are. So it would be like beergirl Melissa is the drunk version of beergirl Mel. I think beergirl Melissa is the business oriented one, and Mel is the drunk for certain.

Okay, so Melissa's the one that gets shit done, and Mel's the crazy bitch. Correct. Okay, I like it. Yeah, that's a deal. I can remember that. Yeah, who are we hanging out with right now? I'm still Melissa right now. Okay, give it time. We'll see how it progresses. Give it time. We're drinking a triple tonight, so we'll see how that goes.

Yeehaw. Before we get into what we're drinking, top listening city of last week, shout out to Ventura, California. Local to me out here. Oh, no kidding. Thanks Ventura. Yeah, I feel like it makes sense, because that's where the live show was, and so probably got a few extra listeners off that.

Thanks for drinking and joining, and I hope you tag along. And I was just going to say, so Shannon did actually tune in on last week's episode when she probably shouldn't have. So that's why you had the number one in Ventura, correct? Oh God, I hope she didn't tune in. When we were talking about all the dicks, you mean? Yeah, I think so.

The dick weather, the dick air, and the dick hotel. Yeah, the proper dick air. Don't forget I am a listener, guys. This is why I am on the podcast, because I am an avid listener to the podcast. You know, I forget I say all this dumb shit the next morning.

I wake up and I'm just like, wow, that was a fun show last night. It was another one of those, this is what we talked about, I think two weeks ago on the show when we were talking about all these dicks, was like, sometimes I'll be editing the show on the couch with my AirPods in and I'll start giggling at the show. And then, you know, Shannon, the wife, reaches over like, what's so funny?

And I, you know, stuff. And so this time it was like, just a lot of DebsDicks.com stuff, you know, so many dicks. We did find out that like some of her family's like neighbors were listening to the show at one point. Like, I forget, I think one of her parents or one of her aunts or something like told

their much younger neighbors about the show. And they were like, oh yeah, my son-in-law does a podcast because they mentioned, you know, like drinking a Bud Light once in their life. And so like, oh, my son-in-law does a beer podcast. And I was like, wow, this is gonna get real awkward if we ever have to meet them or something. Hi, neighbors.

Or they're gonna want to be your best friend. Maybe they've already bookmarked DebsDicks.com. Who knows? One can only hope. My money's on that. Yeah, mine too. All right. Let's see if we can turn Beer Girl Melissa into Beer Girl Mel. Oh, thanks to Melissa soon to be Mel.

We are drinking the same beer tonight. We are drinking to collab from Tin Barn Brewing and Harlem Hops. I've never heard of Harlem Hops. They have come out with Harlem Queen. It is a triple IPA.

9.2% has a 415 on untapped. Nice and respectable there. They say, together in honor of Black History Month, we brewed up this hazy triple New England IPA celebrating one of the first bad girls of Harlem. We thought it fitting to lay some extra dankness on this beer and triple dry hopped it with

tons of Galaxy, Strata, and Ariana for dank green grapefruit and passion fruit pop. I've never heard of Ariana Hops before. No, I was going to say that too. Yeah, that's a new one in my vocab over here. So interesting. I'm interested to try this.

It's also got some sweet can art. I always love colorful cans. Who doesn't? It's pink and gray. I love that color scheme too of pink and gray. Yeah. On the can is Stephanie St. Clair, who they talk about. There's a whole description on the can.

She is the godmother of Harlem. And it goes on to say there's a lot about her. It's a whole biography. But it goes on to say that she was the first woman, and probably black woman, I would say, that repelled the mafia in Harlem.

So she fought the mob. I guess the ENF would never really think that was a thing. And she won. I would never know. Yeah, who knew? No. I love this beer so much because it's a little piece of history. And it's so important for us to kind of educate ourselves. Yeah. And good news on top of it being an important part of history.

It's fucking tasty too. Oh, you took a sip. I didn't. I didn't yet, but I have had this. No, I haven't had it. That's a Gordon Four, by the way. Since I first got it. So I'm excited to see how it's aged. Yeah. So on the schnauz, I didn't get a whole lot. I got mostly dankness and a little bit of warmth from the booze. On the Old Tongue Jobber, I definitely got some boozy warmth because this bad boy is pushing

up on 10 percent. And I also got some of that grapefruit they were talking about and some of the pith from the grapefruit that added like some bitterness to it. And of course, as I make little with my hand, I don't know, it's my hand thinking for me

because I'm having a hard time with words. I'm not drunk enough. And then it finishes real nice and dank with a little bit of warmth on the correct. Yes. And this this has not aged very differently than when I tried it the first time I've actually

had it out open and breathing. It's extremely grapefruit. It's extremely bitter in a great way. I don't mean that in a bad way. And you get all of the notes of grapefruit and the dankness and the hop on the back end. But it doesn't finish so bitter that you're like, oh, you really want to just kind of

sip this and enjoy it. It's coming back for more. Yeah. I mean, yes, that. But also it's a little bit different. I want to say that this is more of the Harlem hops side of the spectrum of this collaboration.

It is not a very tin barn tasting kind of beer. And I don't mean that in a bad way, but I think we all know that, you know, certain well, I mean, I guess I would say probably most of your craft breweries, you you get

a taste for them. And you know exactly what their specific trademark taste is. Absolutely. And this is not a barn. So I love the fact that Harlem hops is kind of outshined and really done a fantastic job. This is really nice.

I don't I mean, I guess the style is New England and it's hazy, but it almost doesn't taste hazy. It doesn't feel like a New England. It doesn't feel it doesn't finish like sweet. Like I like that it finishes dank. I like that it's bitter. I really think this is one of the top beers that I've had in a long time.

Whoa, dude, dang. Yeah. To me, the finish is like you said, it's super dank. There's a little warmth from the booze and you even get just like a flex likes this, like a tinge of hot burn on it. Oh, that's my favorite. Like almost peppery, you know, like a little bit of pepper kind of sticks on the tongue a little bit.

Yeah. Big fan of that, along with like a little bit of sweetness and my triples. And it does. It does have the citrus in the grapefruit, but it's not like a sweet. Not at all. You know what I mean? There's nothing sweet about this. Sometimes people can get too sweet in my book because they're trying to really up that ABV and they did not do that on this one.

Right. Or they'll add like marshmallow or lactose or whatever that kind of finishes really soft. But yeah, this is you people over there would say is soft. Wow. You saw you people. You think it's soft? Wow. I'm like flex.

It's a little soft on the mouth. So you like it? I do like it. Yes, sir. I'll take another. Yeah. Yeah. And thanks for the beer shipment. Oh, I owed you for like over a year and a half. I've been trying to get beer from Mel since she did that IPA with.

Who'd you do that with? I'm sorry. You know what? I still have two four packs in Lou's office. You know what? Those taste good. Yes, I do. And we recently had beer friends come and visit and I was tempted to give one, but I just don't know. It's two years old.

Yeah. I did find a. You want me to just send you a can? I'll just chug it. I'll try it. I mean, I'll try it. I just found a six pack like three weeks ago. I found an extra six six pack of the collaborative 14 cannons, the morning watch, the coffee coach. I tried. I was like, hey, still good.

And I got someone out to Zack because I think he's like the only one that's on the show that hasn't tried it yet. Oh, no. Yeah. It was a good beer. It was pretty tasty. So you tried my beer. You just never told me about it. Did you like it? Yeah, it was really good. It was super dangerous. Yeah. It was one of the beers that I put on a put on a pedestal and like it took me.

Yeah, it took me really long to drink it. Yeah. And then he was embarrassed. It took him so long. So he never told me. I didn't want to feel like I was insulting. Right. But it was more of a compliment than anything. Yeah. I have this problem where the wife and I have been trying to drink a little less these days.

Same. And on top of that, we've been doing mostly outside drinking. So I go into breweries or wineries, whatever. And so like Mel sent me some beers. Brian from Tidal Town sent me some beers. And like he hit me up. He's like, hey, how was this beer and this beer? I was like, I got to be honest, man, I haven't I haven't drank.

Like I've been not drinking beers at home, which now I've got like a stockpile of beers in my fridge. I'm going to have to have a night where like friends come over and we just sample all the beers and stuff. And I don't want to get too old. I said the same thing. I have so much trade beer right now. I have had I've been blessed to have so many people send me beer and I've been sending

out as well. But I just have so much. And Lou is back on the dry and dry. He's not drinking at all. And I've been trying to like kind of lighten up on the beer. So I need to have like a bottle chair. Yeah. Same.

That's my favorite Lou, by the way. He'll go out sober one. He'll run like 11 miles and then like 26. And then he won't have had a beer in like three months. And he'll come home and he'll just chug like a triple IPA.

Yeah. And like, yeah, his chugs are nuts. Like probably like the fastest. Yeah, he's the fastest chugger I've ever seen. That's funny. I concur. Yeah. Yeah. Same.

I am not. I am like the slowest chugger you'll ever see. No, we all know. We all know Wendy's the slowest. OK, that's true. But we love you. But it's a fight for the bottom. It's a fight for the bottom. I am garbage. Also, shout out to Wendy. She is walking tomorrow.

She has graduated college. That's tomorrow. Yeah. Tomorrow she's walking. Or if you hear this, it would have already happened. But that's awesome. Yeah. Congrats to Wendy. We're so proud of you, Wendy. Congrats. Super proud. And good luck. Yeah.

Hope you get hammered that night. Oh, we know she's going to. Yeah. Who are we kidding? Or on the weekend because she actually has a job. Yeah. I hate those big girl jobs. I couldn't handle that kind of like. All right. A couple of things. Real quick. First upcoming live show, 818 Brewing, May 13th. This is the show with the homie. Chew your beer. So you guys are in the SoCal region.

Come on out. 818 Brewing, Canoga Park, May 13th, 2 o'clock. Definitely looking forward to listening to that one. Yeah. I hope they put that in cans so I can send it to you guys. Yeah. I can't wait to even find out what it is. Yeah. It's it's going to be a doozy. No choco Tasso, but it's going to be the follow up. You've been talking about this for a while. I'm going to be a little bit of a fan of yours. I'm going to be a little bit of a fan of yours. I'm excited, too, because I heard the name and then the style or at least the flavors

he was going for. And I had a very specific assumption about it. I think I even said it on the show with Zach that I said it's going to be full of adjuncts. And then when I talked to you about it, he goes, no adjuncts. I was like, what? How are you getting these flavors? So anyways, I'm excited to try it. I think it's going to be tasty. So anyways, May 13th, 818 Brewing, Canoga Park, 2 o'clock.

Come on out. And of course, there would be other beers to have a flight with us, hang out crack wise, all that good stuff. And then real quickly, I want to mention a couple of weeks ago when Nicole was on, we were talking about Loggerville and I was like, hey, there is this tent that we tried that was like one of the best ones there is called Logger Nerds and nobody had ever heard of

it. And so I was telling someone about this and I'm like, yeah, I've never heard of Logger Nerds either. So we started Googling Logger Nerds, couldn't find it, doesn't exist. But I found a logo that looked just like the logo that was on the tent that was there. Turns out it was Game Craft Brewing.

So Game Craft Brewing, I'm so sorry for fucking up your name entirely. But you had a great beer at Loggerville. So did they have a beer called Beer Nerds? Or what? Like, what was it? Maybe. I don't know. Because like you guys were hammered at that, correct?

Yeah. Full disclosure, we were shittered. That was the best that Wiley showed up at your campsite before. Yeah. Yeah. That was acclimating myself. Yeah. But I wasn't I don't think I was hammered when I tried that beer. I think I was just a little buzzy.

But their signs, I remember reading their signs that were on the table and it was like Beer Nerds, Agoura, California and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I never heard of Beer Nerds from Agoura, California. That's so weird. But I looked it up and I was like, that logo fucking matches. It must be Game Craft. Sorry.

Okay. So I need to know and Flex, I'm really sorry that I can't include you in this because you've been to zero beer fest. You finally went to one. Oh man. Zing! It's okay. Yeah. I'm going to an anniversary party, not like a fest though.

I mean, are you really paying attention to every single beer that you like? There's probably 30 to 40 breweries minimally at every fest that you go to. Are you actually paying attention or are you trying and saying, I really like this, I really like that.

And then you remember the brewery and you like a beer. But are you rating it? Do you have like a checklist? No, no, no. There's definitely a cut off. I have some friends that do. I have some friends that do. I was going to say, I'm going to chime in and say that this is a thing because I've been to a bottle share before where every single bottle somebody tries, they immediately

look it up on Untappd and they immediately rate. But for every single beer. Yeah, I've seen that at bottle shares. But for festivals, no. There's definitely a cut off point where Greg is shittered and just drinking to stay drunk at this point. Correct.

Okay. Just making sure. Yeah. But like the first hour, especially when it's all lagers, it's lighter. The first hour, I think I'm pretty with it and can rate beers accordingly. I remember them sticking out in my head as surprisingly good. It was like the number one surprise because I never heard of them and blah, blah, blah.

And I was like, God damn, this West Coast Pills is so good. I want to drink it all fucking day. Right. Or if you get an option to go back and have a second pour of it, which is kind of unheard of in New York. Oh, really? Well, festivals just get really, really busy.

And they're blown up a lot. And I feel like a lot of the really advertised fest, you have to get the VIP and you have to get there early. Yeah, I believe it. Right. You guys spoke about that. So that happens in New York too. And you have to get there early enough that you can try those sought after beers.

And if you don't, there's still so much good stuff, but people get kind of bummed out. Yeah. They're like, I didn't get to try this. And of course, they're only bringing what they bring. Right. They sound like there's backup. They can't go to the trunk for more. But yeah, we've hit that age where we're like VIP all the way.

Because like after two, three hours anyways, it turns into a shit show. You're toasted, you're wasted, you need to leave. It's time to go. It doesn't take long. Yeah, I don't need five hours. No, it's like an hour or less. Yeah, I don't need five hours of a beer fest. Like two, three hours, I'm toasty, I'm fucked up and I'm tired of people.

I'm ready to go back to wherever we're staying and get shittered. The nice thing about Loggerville is like no one lives around there. Everyone had to come up. So like there was no, it wasn't super crowded. Like it wasn't over packed. Everybody got what they wanted. Like I hit a couple at the end of the day who were out, but like I hit up Alvarado Street

Brewing and it was their brewer Biggie who was super nice. And I was like, hey, I can't believe I haven't made it over here yet. Like it's in the day he goes, I'm all out of loggers. He goes, but I have a secret four pack of IPAs back here. You want to try it? Yes, I do.

They're also like light, like lower AVV, like not a problem. Yep. You know, you go to Pastry Town and you need to eat a pizza before you enter. Yeah, it's bad. That's like the fire station. They didn't do it this year. Oh, really? They did not do pastry.

Other half did not do pastry town. They released their pastry town stouts for the year at the New York Brewers Guild, I think. And they have Green City, but it's smaller. So I don't know.

Is anyone going? It's June 23rd and 24th, I believe. If you're going, like drop a comment. Maybe I'll show up. Slide in those DMs. Yeah. Let's see if I could even get a ticket. Super exclusive. Yeah, but that's like Firestone. Like Firestone's in June in Paso Robles, which is notoriously hot, like 100 degrees in June.

And for some reason, every brewery that shows up is like, hey, we wanted to showcase our 14% pastry stout today. It's like, you know what the fuck I don't want today when it's 100 degrees? That. Give me your goddamn lager. Give me your shittiest, like lightest, not even shitty, but give me your lightest, crispest

lager. Crisp, cold, refreshing. Yeah. I want no flavor, no ABV. Yeah, exactly. If you got the champagne of beers back there, I wouldn't even be mad. I want it. Yeah. Give me some of that. It's better than a pastry stout at 105 degrees, let me tell you. Yeah.

So Firestone was fun, but we've only been once so far. We never get tickets. It was fun. But yeah, I wish they'd fucking spread around their beers a little bit more. I don't know why everybody thinks it's our time to get the pastry stouts. Like the brewery always shows up and like every hour they put on a different pastry stout, like a different variant of Black Tuesday or whatever.

It's like, oh, this is what I need at a beer festival. A 19 percenter. Yeah. Great idea. Let's give everybody 19% taste from the brewery. I go for that. I'm like 90%. That's what I want. I'm like, I'm going to get that. And then I'm like, it's bad news. I would try to stay away from that. Yeah.

I want to remember the day. Exactly. The one we had, I don't even remember what it was because like they put on a different Black Tuesday every hour and we had one of them and it was like something bacon and smoky and it was so bad. It was a dream port for me.

It was no for me, dog. So anyway, I like the smoky. I do not. I do not. Yeah. You know, if anybody does go integrin, get that big meat. It's like liquid bacon. That big. Yeah. The big meat. Oh, see, they're gonna went to a frillings fest last week.

They had their two weeks ago. One of those other frillings fest and had some delicious beverages. They just released their right. Heitzke about which is a collaboration. This every year is a different club this year is with Firestone, which was kind of a big deal. That's huge. Yeah. It's really good, really light, really crisp.

Exactly what I want to drink when it's one hundred fucking degrees out. Yeah. Yeah. Good times. Enough for me. Flex, we got to hear about the dictation. So not as many dicks as you'd expect. OK, so I mean, they didn't get rid of dicks, right? Like, they're still all over.

Oh, no, they're just ginormous. But not a ton of pool time. Oh, the familia de flex. See, did I get that right? You see, you see, but no. So everything was pretty great except we got caught in rain just about every single day

down there and like real like downpour. Like, well, people say like, you know, Florida rain is like, oh, yeah, it'll rain for, you know, ten minutes and then it goes away. It's warm. It's fine. But we picked the one week to go down to Florida where it actually rained like any regular

Midwestern rain. Yeah, it was it was kind of rough. A few mornings having to like blow like hair dry the stroller dry. Yeah, it was it was kind of rough. But I had that mindset where I don't care.

I'm on vacation. Yeah, just going to have fun either way. Yeah. So I actually drank quite a lot at Epcot here, which I was super psyched about. This man of hell. Yeah, I got like nine, nine or ten beers. But, you know, a parish, there's a shit ton of parish brewing around Epcot.

I don't know if it was just for their flower and garden festival or what. But I got to try. Let me whip this out real quick. Oh, yeah. Did you see that? Whip this out. So they had it out. Even this orange octane imperial sour.

So it is basically what you what you hear is an orange flavored imperial sour. And it was fucking ripping like seven percent. Super awesome. And that 88 degree Florida sun. Yeah. Super wild there.

I got to try all the beers in Germany, which are actually pretty decent. They were hot weather beers. Right. So you had the Bitburger pills, you know, classic classic. The Flensburger Dunkel, which was actually quite refreshing. And they had this raspberry Radler.

The last time we went, it was a grapefruit one. And I don't really like grapefruit very much. This raspberry Radler was probably one of the best beers I had while being down there, especially in the heat. It was so God dang refreshing.

I was going to say it sounds really refreshing. Oh, yeah. And it was like, you know, Radler's are what, like three percent. They're not much. It's like a wine cooler. But this was the best Radler I've ever had. I've had mangoes and lemons and, you know, grapefruits and, you know, any fruit under the sun.

But the raspberries top notch. I got to try Ghost in the Machine for the very first time. It was on Peace Daily Resonance. Yeah, it was on tap in the United States of America. Oh, I guess that makes sense. It's from the U.S. Well, yeah.

I mean, there are other beers were around in other places. But then we went to Canada and Canada always does a beer flight. La Bat Blue. No, I'm trying to. La Bat Blue Light. I actually did take a picture of the.

Actually, I did. Hold on. Now I got to whip this out. Oh, I took a picture of the Canada flight. Yeah, it was the Collective Arts Brewing Honey Lager, which was a little sweet for my liking. Yeah, maybe too much honey.

Then there was the Glutenberg Blonde Ale, which was just kind of like a regular run of the mill blonde. But 881 Bay Brewing Apricot with Maple Syrup. I don't know if it was a lager or what, but it was actually really fucking delicious.

Do you just get a taster of each of these or do you have a full pour? Well, no. So I got the flight of this. So you get three, four ounce pours as opposed to like the 12 ounce pours if you get it full. But this was like not super apricotty and it wasn't.

You're dumb. And it wasn't overly maple syrup either. It was like the perfect balance between the two and it wasn't overly sweet. It was just really, really good. And my youngest daughter, she's six.

She loved it. She loves smelling all the beers. And she could not get enough of the aroma of the apricot maple syrup beer. So good for them. Good for 881 Bay Brewing or 81 Bay. I don't know what it is.

81 Bay, let us know. Where are you based out of? Are you just in Florida and can we get your beer to try it? Also, I want to know, did any of your Instagram best friends send you to your room, Highline, without you asking?

Did you get yourself into any trouble from one of your Instagram friends this year? Not this time. You prepped. I did prep a little bit. So wait, you sent him beer to his room? You didn't hear the story? No.

We've never talked about this story? No. Loud? Okay, so we went to Disney the last time. The last time. No, we went to Disney in October of 2021. Right, the first time you went to the Dick Hotel. Correct. And we did an Amazon Fresh order the first day we got there.

Yeah, and I remember you were saying you were sorry you didn't have beer sent. Yes, and I didn't order beer on the order. And then going out to the parks, at that time, the only park that had alcohol was Epcot. Sure. Because Animal Kingdom, just everything being COVID-y, I don't even think Animal Kingdom

was selling their beers. So I was messaging Mel in a group chat one night, and she was joking around about sending me beer, because I said I didn't have any. So I sent her the room number, and that was early in the evening.

And then I said, okay, I'm going to bed. I'm putting my phone down, I'm going to bed. And like an hour and a half later, my wife is just abruptly shaking me to wake up. And she's like, oh my God, there's a large guy outside our door, knocking on our door.

And I'm just like, oh my God, what are you talking about? Finally, the stripper I ordered is here. And then I look out the people, and I'm like, oh, holy shit, there's this big-ass dude knocking on our door. I have no idea what's going on. And so I open the door, and I'm like, hey, can I help you?

And he's like, are you Flex? And I was like, uh, yeah. He's like, I need your ID, because Lou bought you beer. I was like, what the fuck? And sure as shit, there was like two 12-packs of beer in the guy's hand.

That's amazing. And he just had to check my ID. So of course I get it, and I go in the room laughing, and my wife is just like, just freaking out, completely upset. What time of night is this? It was like 10.30. It was probably like 10 o'clock.

Yeah, it was like 10.30. I think I ordered it at 8.30 when you said you were going to bed. I ordered it while you were complaining about beer, and then it was like 30 minutes later you were going to bed, and I'm like, oh shit, we ordered this beer already. Like, Ali's going to be so mad.

I'm like, wait a second. She was so mad. I'm like, call the front desk. Call the front desk. I'm like, Lou, I did not send this beer. You sent it. Call the front desk right now and see if they can receive the beer, and then he can get it in the morning, and nobody will be disrupted. And he was on the phone with them for about an hour and a half, and they would not do

it, and they went up to the room. That's crazy is that they actually came up to the room, because this time we ordered, you know, I got beer through Amazon Fresh, and they made us meet the employee outside the resort. Otherwise, they wouldn't give us our order.

Weird. I was okay with them canceling it and just taking the money hit, because I was like, oh gosh, she's going to bed. I thought it was the best idea I could ever come up with. That was a great idea. Meanwhile, it was me trying to be a good friend, but ultimately, I see how it didn't translate

well. Well, it's hard when the target of the beer goes to bed earlier than most senior citizens. Right. And his wife also doesn't like beer, which I understand, but I kind of thought the front desk would head it off. I didn't think it would make it up to his room.

The fact that they let this guy in the resort and through the lobby. That was crazy. At Disney hotels, it's easy to get to the rooms without even going past the front desk. Well, that's true. Yeah. But anytime there's like, because when we did the Amazon order for our food and whatnot,

they just dropped it off at the bell service. Correct. And even the alcohol, but they needed an ID, so I understand that. But any place that I've been, I always Uber Eats alcohol and food when we go and stay

somewhere because it's just easier than trying to drive around. Yeah. And you might have to meet them at the desk, but if you have a conversation with the front desk person, they usually are willing to show their own ID and then they just leave it. But that guy was not willing.

So sorry. A year and a half later. That's so funny. So sorry. It's a funny story to this day. It's part of our history. That is amazing. I love that. I laughed really hard. Yeah. My wife did not laugh really hard. I know. No, I know. You forget about that, Seth. So good.

So good. All right. So overall, good trip. Sounds like you did some good research. I'm glad you finally got Ghost in the Machine. Me too. Tasty. Tasty beer. One thing I will say about Disney, right? So I absolutely love it, right? Magical place. It's great. But people suck.

The employees or the guests? No, all the guests. They all suck. They're fucking horrible. Because not one single person has any kind of situational awareness. None. And it's like they just are like gawking and awing and oohing at everything.

And people, you know, like families walk like six wide down the fucking, you know, park roads. Just have a little bit more decency. I don't know. I was there one time and we went to City Hall to ask a question. And the person in front of us was complaining.

It's also where you go to complain. Was complaining and she was like, well, my daughter only wanted to see Princess Jasmine and she couldn't see her. All we want is Princess Jasmine. And the poor, poor girl behind the desk was like, ma'am, I'm so sorry. Princess Jasmine isn't out today.

You know, we can't guarantee which princesses will be out. She goes, we've already. So apparently they brought out like four other princesses of ours. She's like, we've already brought out like Sleeping Beauty and Belle. And she started listing off all these things. We already brought these out just for your daughter. It's her birthday. And this went on and she's screaming at her that her daughter didn't get to see Princess Jasmine.

I was like, you fucking bitch. Like, this is awful. You're the scourge of society. Yeah, that's basically what I'm saying. Yeah. Plan Disney better, people. Plan it better. It's a planned event. It is not an easy trip, especially if you have kids.

Planning goes a long way. And like everybody's excited to be there. Right. You know, so it's like, but just understand that you're there, but there's also 150,000 other people around you.

And they want the same experience. Everybody wants the same experience there. And if you're walking six wide and slow as fuck, maybe you should walk two wide and continue to walk slow as fuck so everybody else can get around you.

Yeah. You know what I do, Flex? I make my squad walk single file in that case. And I'll be like, move it. Let's go. We're moving past these people. We're like, Vannie, that's like, you know, dodging and weaving and getting around people.

Your kids are a little bit younger than mine, but yeah, that's what we do. I'm like, come on, keep up. Yeah, I look like Ellen Everson when I'm there. I'm like doing spin moves around people. I'm like, I gotta get to the next slide. My Fast Pass is about to expire. Oh, I like that. Lou's always like, no, chill. I'm like, no, past these people.

We have rides to ride, god damn it. Not only just in general, just in New York minutes. We don't have time. Splash Mountain ain't going to ride itself. Single file over here. Everybody hook a hand. Let's go. Splash Mountain is closed, Greg. Oh, yeah, now it's going to be Princess Tiana's something adventure. Wait, what do you mean?

Wait, stop, stop. They're changing it to be Princess Tiana's like, yeah, they're re-theming it. It's same ride, but different characters. Yeah, I do love Tiana's my favorite princess. It's going to be Princess Tiana, both parts, Princess Tiana, because, you know, Splash Mountain was kind of super racist. Yeah, that's what I heard.

I'm fine with them getting, but the actual ride of it on. No, no, no. Same ride. The track will be the same. Yeah. Like from the like 40s, 50s era where it's dangerous and you might die. Yeah, I mean, the Viking ride in Norway got turned into like the Frozen ride.

Oh, did it? Yeah, I like the Viking ride. It's cool how like turns and goes backwards. Well, yeah, so it's the same thing, but it's all Frozen theme. Oh, OK. And it's actually really it's probably one of my favorite rides at the parks just based on how well done it was. Yeah, it's cool, right? So I got to tell you this story, right?

Last Disney story. Not that anybody fucking cares. Oh, we've lost everybody by now. So we didn't ride the Peter Pan ride the last time we went. It's super classic, I guess, like built in 1971. Well, the one out here was super old. Yeah, so that's even older.

So my wife really wanted to ride the Peter Pan ride. I said, fine. We got to the park a couple hours into it. It was like a 55 minute wait time. Such a long wait for Peter Pan. So it said, right, what's 55 plus 55, Greg?

110. That's how many minutes we fucking waited in line. That's not worth it. That's how long you're going to wait for Peter Pan. It's worth it. It was fucking terrible. It's not a great ride.

And it was the running joke for the rest of the trip because no matter how bad anything was, at least it wasn't the Peter Pan line. That's true. It was horrid. It was. That's how I feel about like the seven dwarfs.

Seven dwarfs to me, not worth it. Peter Pan, absolutely worth it. No, that one's too new for me. We don't go on that because the wait is always like 90 minutes. Oh, are you talking about the Snow White ride? Not the seven dwarfs mountain coaster? Snow White, who cares about her? Oh, you're talking about the new coaster.

Wait, there's no Snow White thing anymore. They got rid of it? Pretty sure. You're ruining my life. Just stop. Let's move on from Disney. All right. So we're moving on from Disney then. We have a new segment that I want to introduce and I want listener feedback on this.

So a lot of times we talk about, not a lot of times, every fucking show, we talk about news stories, we talk about them, they're funny, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes there are news stories we want to get to that maybe don't lend themselves to funny, snarky, flex wit. So I leave them, exactly, I leave them off the rundown.

I had a thought, maybe we do a quick, coming up with a name here, news flight or shots of news or something like that, where we just run down these headlines and not a lot of commentary on them and just to inform you. And then, don't worry, we'll get to the regular news after that or as Flex so geniusly came up with, the full pour.

So I think it's pretty good. That might be the name of another podcast. I hope we don't get sued. Yeah. But in case we're not going to get sued, it's called the full pour. That's so good. But anyways, so we'll start off real quickly with the news flight.

And for those youngsters out there, that's a typewriter, that clicking noise is a typewriter. It's what we had before we had Microsoft Word. You know, and when the volume is really low, it sounds like scissors cutting something. I'm just going to say, for the record. Turn it up then, turn it up. I'm still just not sure about the flatline at the end because that means somebody's heart is stopped.

It is very, it's like breaking news alert. Yeah, it's like a breaking news thing. Maybe I can find one of that on our monitor or whatever. Anyways, all right. So news flight. Legislative update from Kentucky. They are phasing out their barrel tax over the next 20 years. This was for distilled spirits.

They had a barrel tax on that. And basically all the distilleries in Kentucky were like, yeah, I think we're going to leave Kentucky because it's real expensive here. And so they're starting to phase that out. Mel, are you a Mets fan? Of course. Citi Field is going to open up two new spots with Montauk Brewing.

Montauk Brewing. Holla. Citi Field. So look forward to that in your next baseball game. Bad news for the brewery fans. They're going to be closing up their Washington, D.C. shop. But they say they're looking at opening up a satellite tap room somewhere else. Cape May Brewing is going to acquire Flying Fish Brewing, making that the largest and oldest craft breweries all under one company in New Jersey.

Smart. Massachusetts is extending their cocktails to go through March of 2024. There are some good things that came out of the pandemic, let me tell you. Boston Beer and Beam JV discontinue Sousa Agave cocktails one year after launch because they made like $3 the entire time.

Yikes. Yeah. If you're in Montana and you want to be able to buy booze on Sundays, a new bill has been introduced and moved forward to allow Sunday spirit sales. So get ready to get drunk with the Lord.

Leave it. Leave it, Mel, with the one liners. I love it. She's going to be on for every newsflight we do. JetBlue is going to start serving athletic brewings non-alcoholic beer on flights, which I'm switching to United after that one. Mel, let me let me take this one.

Duh. San Juan Seltzer launches doubles, which will be an 8.4 percent ABV Seltzer, which I say it's about fucking time there was a point to drinking Seltzers. Amen. Yeah.

And finally, and couldn't happen to a nicer brewery, Founders is closing their Detroit brew pub. They announced it last week on the gram. What a shame. Oh, no. Wah wah. Everyone's real sad that we're losing a brew pub with a bunch of raisins beer.

That's that's newsflight. So everybody at home, let us know what you thought. I know I need a new song for the full board. We need like two different new songs. You just need me to do all of the sound bites for all of it. I should have just like a Mel soundboard.

Yeah. And it's like, wah wah. OK. Hallelujah. Be so good. Dumb. Yeah. Dumb. Smart. Jeff, you just lost a customer. The Lost Abbey. We talked about this when we had Brandon from San Diego Beer News on the show a few weeks ago. The Lost Abbey was looking for a new home. They found their new home, and that is at Mother Earth Brewing down in San Diego. There's a ton of room down there.

They have a huge production facility. And Mother Earth also allowed them to bring in their big ass furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders.

Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. Furders. It sounds like people who like to eat food. It's food. It's fooders. It's fooders. Yeah.

It's one of those things. I appreciate that. Thank you, Mother Earth, for providing us beer that also breathes everything that you've given us. Right. Exactly. And fooders. And food. Mother fooders.

You mother fooder. Two Anheuser-Busch marketing execs were placed on leave, and this is after the whole Bud Light drama. Bud Light package sales and share losses have accelerated since the boycott.

Off-premise dollar sales of Bud Light declined 17% for the week ending April 15th, but both Coors Light and Miller Light off-premise dollar sales increased 17.6%, slightly outpacing Bud Light's decline. That's fucking crazy.

It is fucking crazy. Like, that's absolutely obnoxious. Yeah. Like, seriously. And it's too bad that, like, the decrease led to increases in other shitty beer and not just like, maybe we'll go find better beer now and support that, but...

We're on next. Because as Flex would say, first off, all of the beer is shit. And B, Coors Light and Miller Light have been supporting LGBTQ+. Forever.

Since the 70s. Since the 70s, yeah. And also, America, wake up and also support it. You guys are all dumb. Yeah, I agree. That's it. But it's a B comment. It's a B comment. I love that. Yeah, so whatever. I think it'll all turn back around eventually. And Roman numeral three. And I, I, I. This is a good one. In a case of Karen against the law, she's a good one. She's a good one.

She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. She's a good one. This is a good one. In a case of Karen against the judge, plaintiff Kari Warren was suing.

Karen Warren? Yeah. Molson Coors Topo Chico over their margarita hard seltzer because there was no tequila in the product. Judge threw it out because nowhere on the can does it say there's tequila. Case closed. That's pretty easy. It feels kind of easy.

Yeah. Did I ever tell you I had the prickly pear Topo Chico margarita? And you liked it? It was last summer and it was really fucking pretty tasty. Told you. Really fucking pretty tasty. Yeah.

And it hits with the ABV too. It was like 7% or something like that. Oh wow. Is it better than the Bud Light holiday pack or whatever it was? As the kids say these days, hunt it, hunt it, hunt it, hunt it. Is that what the kids say?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what they say. All right. Belgian Customs destroys Miller High Life for masquerading as champagne. Crazy, right? I read this article. I read this article.

Did you see the videos of it? They're smashing bottles. Yeah. Insanity. Dumping out all the cans and there's this huge heaping pile of empty cans. Amazing. According to a joint statement from French champagne trade organization, Les Comités

Intraprofessionnels de Vendée Champagne. Holy shit, that was good. Thanks. I'm hard. Or CIVC and the General Administration of Belgian Customs, 2,352 cans of Miller High Life were destroyed earlier, two weeks ago, because of the champagne of beers thing.

Shipment of Miller High Life was sent through Belgium on its way to Germany, but custom workers looked at the packaging and decided that the champagne on the label was in violation of France's protected designation of champagne. Because of that PDO, as they're calling that, Protected Destination of Origin.

Ah, PDO. Because of that PDO, the Comité Champagne was alerted about the Miller High Life label and it ordered the Belgian authorities to destroy all 2,352 cans of beer. The beer was demolished in Belgium earlier this week.

Y-P-R-E-S. With the utmost respect for environmental concerns by ensuring that the entire batch, both contents and container, was recycled in an environmentally responsible manner. The German company that was expecting the delivery was informed of the beer's fate and

did not try to contest the Comité Champagne's decision. Okay, so I can actually speak to this. Oh. Because I know that the air, like, champagne is very specific, sorry. Right. Excuse me.

Champagne region. It's a very specific grape. It's a very specific region. So even if it's bubbly and we're like, oh, grab some champagne. You might be grabbing Champanois or Prosecco or sparkling wine. Or as Wayne Campbell says, sparkling white wine.

Or sparkling white wine. But people that know they're bubbly know that champagne only comes from one origin. So I can see how they would think it would encroach on their territory. But also, it's America, it's beer, and there's just no comparison to beer versus actual champagne.

Agreed. Yeah. From that region in France. I love it. So you guys, come on, lighten up. I know you hate us, but. Yeah, do you think they're just doing it because they hate us or they hate our shitty beer? No, I think they're very serious about their grapes and how they make their champagne.

Oh, I know Francis. I mean, it's legit. But this went to Belgium. Well, I think that it's the European Union, you know? Maybe. Yeah, maybe they're home. Hanging fucking around. They're like, America, we hate you. Yeah. And you're talking to my French neighbor, you know, because he's from France.

Oui, oui. Like a Conhead. And we're from France, Greg? Come on. Conheads? Dude, I haven't seen that since like the 80s. Wow. I had like three. Culture yourself. Yeah, I should. So he invited me over last night. And we were talking and then he's like, start talking to me about wine and, you know, they

like drinking wine. And I was like, oh, yeah, you probably you probably had a lot of champagne, you know, being in France. And he's like, is that just like so much better than like any other wine? And like, he just kind of looked at me like I was a fucking idiot.

And he was like, uh, yeah. I was like, OK, like, I'm just trying to make conversation. Right. You don't have to be condescending to me. That's funny. Well, she does have to be condescending.

Yeah, kind of. Yeah. I guess we will end it on this one. An American Airlines passenger allegedly I love the allegedly as if everyone on the plane didn't see it urinates on another passenger mid flight. You know, I was really hoping to not have a urination story today.

Oh, you're not in the R. Kelly mood. Well, I was just thinking I was laughing her ass off. I actually thought you were going to bring up me pissing in Disney Springs because that one story we had of the guy who was like, oh, he's like a tagging police.

Did you? No, I did not. OK, well, instead, we have this guy in American Airlines that are gone. That passenger on board American Airlines flight two nine two from JFK en route for Delhi got into an argument with another passenger and then allegedly proceeded to urinate on

them. According to the flight crew, the urinator was inebriated. Jacking the incident was reported to authorities prior to arrival and both passengers were turned over to local police and allegedly inebriated passenger relieved himself on another passenger said a senior official.

American Airlines has recorded the statements of both passengers and handed over the passengers to law enforcement agencies. An F.A.R. has been lodged. The urinate incident follows a similar outpour from last month in which a different passenger on a New York to Delhi trip peed on someone.

What is going on with New York to Delhi flights? Here's my question. Does the urany just sit there and take it? That's what I said. Uriner urinator is like finished. Yeah. Are you done, bud?

You're done over here. And then he has like a qualm and he's like, hey, look, I have an issue with this. Or does he stop him like mid flow? And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, bud. Did he turn Alaskan? I was and I have an issue. Yeah, I'd be punching him right in the dick.

Well, then you're going to spray it everywhere. Yeah, I know it's a long flight, but can we all show respect for one another? Like, and they have bathrooms. Extreme. It seems extreme. Like, let me ask you a question. What would it take for you to be like, you know what?

Fuck it. I'm going to piss on this guy. You know, I don't know, because it's really not my first thought when I want to beat somebody up or a man. Right. And also not on a plane, but on a beach. If somebody was stung by a jellyfish, I would absolutely. Yeah.

Oh, 100 percent. Yeah. I love people. I hate people. I love my people. Yeah. I would never do that to someone unless they asked me to do it. Well, yeah, that's a plane. What goes through somebody's mind where they're just like, fuck it, I'm going to piss on you. Yeah, that's it feels real weird.

It's not even that bad of a fuck you to someone. I don't know. They got they're covered in pee. Yeah. But also it's like sterile. They can do much more. You could drink it if you wanted to. Oh, I mean, it smells really bad. The point. Yeah.

Getting the point across. It's a weird, like angry flex to pee on someone. Yeah. It's like it's like spitting on someone. Yeah. I mean, from a germ standpoint, germs, you know, whatever. But it's like a little bit of spit. It's like, hey, you know, spit on it for me.

Jesus Christ. She's too far. That's what she said. It's like three seconds too late because I think she was laughing on the inside and then said it. She had to catch up with the rest.

Laughing is real today, people. So anyways, hold it in if you're on a flight to Delhi. That's that's all I got to say. Just stop peeing on people. Yeah. Unless it's unless it's asked for. Who knew there was a public service announcement to just stop pissing on people?

Hey, Flex, would you call that a P.S.A.? I'd say you nailed that one. I think that's where we drop the mic and get the fuck out of here. It's not getting any better than that one. No. Don't worry.

I'll review my beer on the next show. Oh, shit. You're a. Stop. You did all the Disney stuff that wasn't. I feel like such a dick. I was so into your Disney beers that I totally forgot about your current beer. I thought.

Hey, Flex, would you like to talk about your beer? Not anymore. I feel like a dick. Oh, you need me to come back for part two. Oh, I know.

It's choosing to fucking love this episode. Oh, this is Mel's fault. It's almost 10 percent. It's a triple APA. Flex, would you like to talk about your beer? No, I'm totally cool with not talking. I'm a beer.

You want to give a shout out to what you're drinking? No. Or should we just say, hey, Vanessa, five minutes. It's such a weird thing to do. He's drinking off and brewing everybody.

And I'm sure it's delicious. It's got some really good. It's like nice lacing on it. It's packed with like guava and papaya. It's a triple APA. It's super good. But don't worry about it. We'll talk about it later. I feel like such an asshole. Back to being an asshole over here. Oh, see if I can dig myself out.

Hi, Vanessa. As Mel said a second ago. Hey, Vanessa, I'll tell you about my beer. Call him. He'll tell you about it. Fucking dick I am. Craftbeerofhoax.com at beergirl underscore Mel, not the full name, who cannot compose

herself. Flex, maybe your underscore is in between. Mel, thanks for hanging with us this week. Thanks for having me, Greg. Absolutely. Jesus Christ, my dick. I hope everyone's staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night, everybody.