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I am Greg.
Over there is the Biggest Further in the Midwest and that is Flex.
Hey,
happy Thanksgiving.
Oh yeah,
that's this week,
huh?
Holy smokes.
You forgot.
Holy smokes.
I often do and I often try to.
Well,
you better give thanks you son of a bitch.
I'm thankful for you Flex.
Oh my gosh,
I'm thankful for you too.
Alright,
goodnight everybody.
You know who else I'm thankful for?
Who?
Zach!
Kirk Ferguson?
I'm just thankful for both of you.
I can't believe the season's here.
I don't like this.
It's too soon.
I love you both.
Oh,
can we all just make out already?
Right now?
Not on the show.
Oh,
okay.
Got it.
It's not an ASMR podcast.
But it can be.
Oh,
barf.
Alright,
thanks for joining.
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or Underscores in between,
and a Cro-G Beer dude.
Underscores.
And also Flex in between,
yes.
Flex Me Beer always in between.
It's a Flex sandwich everybody.
Yeah,
he's got a nice pinot if you catch my drift.
It's an average pinot.
There's a couple grapes there.
Got a nice bunch.
I'll take that.
I will take that and I will run with it.
That was a little hangin' fruit,
boys.
Hey!
Oh,
it's only getting worse from here,
everybody.
It's ripe.
It's strappin'.
Alright,
lots to get to.
We've got some beers to review.
Zach has a very special beer to review.
We will get to that.
Some booze.
Do we have to get to that?
Yeah.
We'll see how that goes.
Ludacris Libation Law and so much more.
But first,
let's start off by answering a very important and very long question.
Let me guess.
Yep.
In a world where craft beer is king.
It's as long as your pinot.
In a world where muscles are bigger than growlers.
Only one tongue can guide us.
It's clobberin' time.
One time.
One Tongue Jobber.
In this world,
we must find out.
So bad.
- So bad.
(laughing)
What is Flax drinking?
What is he drinking?
Now that the suspense is built up and everyone's on the edge of their seats.
Um,
I am drinking lion's tail brewing companies,
apple pie,
Imperial fruit,
sour in lieu of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Right.
I think last year I did,
uh,
energy cities,
pumpkin pie,
something or another.
That was two years ago.
I can't remember.
So I thought I'd be festive today.
Um,
you know,
give things or something.
Oh yeah.
And,
uh,
I'll give your welcomes.
Oh,
thank you so much.
Here we go.
Lion's tail brewing apple pie,
Imperial sour,
everybody.
Um,
bigger and ABV and flavor this Imperial apple pie was brewed with a real graham cracker and apple cider and moderately kettled sour.
Duh.
We then finished it with the real vanilla and baking spices,
turning it into a liquid dessert does not contain lactose.
When do you hear that now?
And why are you drinking that too?
It was just one single solo graham cracker.
Just one graham cracker for the entire batch.
Just one graham cracker.
Frank threw it in there.
It's fine.
Yeah.
It was an accident.
All right.
So on the nose,
the apple aroma is very light,
which I was expecting a little bit more like in my face apple.
I was actually hesitant on buying this cause I don't even like apple pie.
Go ahead and hate me.
And that's right.
We talked about that.
I don't like fruit.
Two weeks ago.
Yeah.
I don't like fruit pies.
Whatever.
Psycho.
Definitely get that,
that sour scent to it and the faint apple.
Um,
we'll dig in warm,
warm up the old tongue.
joer [snorting]
That a backfire?
Well,
that can never warm it up enough.
True.
Um,
facts.
I poured this out about,
I don't know,
10 minutes ago.
Took a couple sips.
Didn't get too much out of it.
Now that it's actually like warmed up and opened up a bit.
Have you ever had like that apple pie moonshine?
Yeah.
Where it's like that with the ever clear and the apple cider.
That's what this shit tastes like.
Oh.
Like this is a pretty phenomenal dealing from Lion's Tale here.
And what was the ABV on it?
8%.
All right.
Okay.
I'm actually like pretty blown away by this now.
Yeah.
Um,
it legit tastes like,
like mildly spiced up apple cider and it's freaking phenomenal.
Yeah.
I'm going to say phenomenal.
Take it.
There you go.
So you'd rather have that than a real pie?
100%.
Yeah.
And this only has a 3.70 on untapped.
And I think people are stupid.
I'm going to say it right now.
People are stupid.
They're dummies.
Yeah.
Because this is a phenomenal beer.
You heard it here first folks.
And it's,
the thing that gets me too is it says it's a Imperial fruited sour.
It does not look heavy fruited.
No,
it's not over fruited.
It's,
it looks like a regular,
you can see my thumb through the glass.
Pretty clear.
Big thumb.
It's a big thumb too.
Huge thumb.
Juicy.
What are you going to do with that thumb?
Um,
I had to buy this in a four pack too,
cause they didn't single can it.
I'm very glad I bought this in a four pack now.
So what's a four pack go for nowadays with those?
This one was,
I can't remember.
It's on the plastic doohickey.
With some 20?
It was like 15.99,
16.99.
Oh,
it's a great price.
Yeah,
it is.
8%.
Yeah.
Like 120 bucks,
8% and fruit added.
That's the...
Your California ratio is different.
I was like 34 bucks in California.
At least.
Yeah.
Before tax and tip.
Yeah.
I'm super thankful now.
I'm thankful for wine.
I've seen sales.
I'm thankful for apple pie beers.
This is...
Now you're ready.
Now you're primed.
Long story short,
or not a long story short,
but a little tangent here.
So Linen Kugel's back in the day,
they used to release this apple beer for Christmas and it legit tasted like apple juice and it was phenomenal.
And they stopped making it circa 2008 and this is just what it kind of reminds me of.
I mean,
apple juice is usually an off flavor in beer,
but you know.
But it was like an apple pie beer.
I see.
Yeah.
Not like Jesus Christ.
Off to a great start,
everybody.
There we go.
Yeah.
I need that drop of Will Ferrell from Jeopardy.
The show has hit an all time low.
No.
All right.
Well,
lots to get to,
but let's carry on.
Flex,
I have a question for you.
A few weeks- I have an answer.
Oh,
I can't wait.
A few weeks ago,
you went drunk or treating and you got the hookup from your homie over at Eagle Park.
Yes.
Did you drink the weed beer?
Oh,
geez.
I can't believe I forgot about this.
I was planning on telling you about this all week long.
So a couple of Mondays back now,
I went out for some classic lunch beers.
Had a few too many because Sam behind the bar was kind of hooking us up with some shit.
As he's apt to do.
He's the best.
Sam's the best.
And went home,
got the kids from school.
I was fine to get ...
Let me not mistake you.
I was fine to get my kids,
right?
So then wife gets home,
she goes to dinner with a friend.
I'm thinking,
"If I don't try one of these now,
I'm never going to try it." So I had one and I felt a little funky.
Like I- Did you drink the whole thing?
Yeah.
So like,
you know,
they're three milligrams.
Like you said,
that's not a lot for you.
You do like 10 milligram gummies.
Five.
Five?
Yep.
So I did the three and I was like,
"I feel kind of funky." But it felt good,
you know?
And I was afraid I was going to get really paranoid.
I was afraid I was maybe going to feel nauseous.
I didn't know because I'm a square.
Right.
You don't dabble.
So then- Right.
So then the next day when the kids got home from school,
we didn't have like taekwondo or dance or any of this extracurricular shit.
It was like a free night.
I said,
"You know what daddy's going to do?" Who daddy?
"Daddy going to have two." Here we go.
It might be better than beer.
Oh.
That's a bold statement.
New fan.
New dabbler.
So I had one,
right?
Yeah.
I had no beer before it.
Okay.
Before like- When Ink's over.
Other than like the,
I'm sorry,
different from the day before where I had a couple of lunch beers.
I was feeling a little buzz.
Had one,
felt pretty good.
Yeah.
So I drank the one.
I was like,
"All right.
I feel like,
I feel all right." Like a little loose.
And then about two or three drinks into the next can,
I was like,
"Whoa." I was like super chill,
mellow,
relaxed.
By the time I finished the can,
I was in the bathroom- Puking.
No.
I was taking a piss and then I got done and my wife has these glittery snowflakes hanging from the curtain of the window.
Okay.
And I just found myself just like staring at them.
That's a true story.
What does mine say?
"Dude,
what does mine say?
Sweet." Sweet.
Yeah.
That shit was wild.
So then I actually sent Max,
who runs Eagle Park,
and I sent him a text and I said,
"Hey," I said,
"I don't dabble in this stuff by any means." I said- But do now.
I said,
"These are amazing.
These seltzers are absolutely amazing." So- Well,
congratulations.
Happy flex.
Yeah.
I'm going to be purchasing more.
I like that.
And so they're three milligrams?
Three milligrams.
Yeah.
That's a great number.
It's a great number to get you where you,
like you were talking about where you are,
but not be completely fucked up and out of your mind.
That's a solid,
solid thing.
Yeah.
I've only ever indulged three other times in my life,
and all of them were different.
First time was a blunt.
Second time was a bong.
Third time was a pipe.
So all different ways of doing it.
Didn't really enjoy any of them.
Some were worse than others.
Some were better,
but never enjoyed anything to the fullest.
And this,
this wins.
Yeah.
That's been the coolest part.
Like,
it's like when you're doing those,
you have no idea like what you're actually ingesting as far as strength wise.
Where this,
it's like,
you know it's three milligrams,
you know it's controlled,
and it's,
I feel like it would make it just a much more pleasurable experience.
As you've said it is.
That was the one thing that made me feel comfortable about it.
Sure.
Is that also talking to Greg here,
who knows a little bit.
I do a little dabbling.
Sure.
Yeah.
He dabbles a little.
He's a dabber.
He dabbles a dibble.
Dabbers a dibble.
Yeah.
So yeah,
no,
but yeah,
it was fantastic.
Well congratulations.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Zach,
are you a dabbler?
Was,
yeah.
It's,
I am the unfortunate person that it makes me,
I was a daily partaker.
I appreciate the benefits of cannabis.
I am a very huge supporter of it.
Fuck pharmaceuticals,
but I get paranoid.
Really?
I am that guy.
Did it come with age?
No,
no.
Like the,
I mean,
I think I kind of forced it,
um,
not to like fit in or anything.
Like I just,
I really enjoyed,
uh,
just a good old pre-rolled joint.
It's like my favorite way to partake.
But after a few hits,
man,
I just,
I would get paranoid.
It was very uncomfortable.
It was just never really my,
my thing.
Yeah.
I,
I enjoy the benefits for a lot of other people,
but for me it's just not my thing.
Yeah.
That was my biggest fear was becoming paranoid.
It's so uncomfortable.
Yeah.
I,
you know,
I did early,
like in high school I did like once or twice and obviously back then it was smoking.
There wasn't such thing as edibles cause I'm old as fuck.
And like the first time I,
we're literally the same age.
I'm like two years older than you.
Same age.
Okay.
But I remember like smoking in high school,
like the first time or two I did get paranoid,
but I never,
never had that on an edible.
Like on an edible,
it's always very controlled and you know,
you have a five or three or whatever it is and you're like,
all right,
I feel good or I need a little bit more.
So I'll have another one or you know,
whatever.
I love it.
It's,
you know,
good stuff.
Yeah.
I have friends that are like,
I'll do a five milligram and I'm just on like on Pluto and I have friends that are like,
oh yeah,
we're on 50 milligrams.
You want to go get some cheeseburgers?
Like what the fuck is wrong?
What?
No.
Aren't they fast?
Five sounds perfect.
Yeah.
Like we talked about this a couple of weeks ago and
Flex was talking about getting this beer like 10 for
me is like I'm glued to the couch and bye bye world.
I'm just going out of my mind where sometimes I go in these weed shops to get our edibles and like the bud tenders,
best name ever.
I was like,
Hey,
what do you recommend?
And like last time I was there,
I was like,
Hey,
anything new?
Cause I had picked out what we normally get.
Is there anything new you recommend?
He goes,
well,
not really in like your range.
I'm on a,
like a hundred milligrams a day.
I was like,
what?
A hundred a day.
How do you fucking get out of your house on a hundred a day?
Yeah,
dude.
That's insanity.
That's,
it's so much.
Yeah.
He was just like basically laughing,
like without laughing at me,
he was laughing at me.
He was like,
yeah,
enjoy your five milligrams,
bitch boy.
Yeah.
It's so much.
Thanks.
Never felt more bullied in your life.
Right?
Yeah.
But you know what?
I could drink them under the table.
So they're right.
Piece of shit.
Yeah.
Whatever.
All right.
We'll get to,
not a weed show.
Not a weed show.
They were seltzers.
I'm joking.
No,
it's good.
It's awesome.
I said it last time when we were talking about it,
like I had the,
the high five hops from a log and eat it.
And that's a 10,
that's a bottle in the tent.
So the wife and I split it and that was good.
And I had another one.
Uh,
somebody hooked it up for free when I went and bought some edibles.
Like,
Hey,
here,
try this one.
It was like Snoop dogs,
whatever drink.
And um,
that one was not so good.
It tasted like ass,
but you know,
this one tasted like a fruit punch,
like Kool-Aid fruit punch.
Dude,
that's cool.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah.
the a hundred milligrams a guy,
a day guy was like,
Hey,
you should try these ones.
These are really good.
And they're like these,
uh,
chocolate covered espresso things.
And they're like five milligrams each.
The problem is like,
they're so good.
You want more cheese,
a little black,
like matte black tin.
Yeah.
A little circular tin.
Yeah.
Okay.
Those are literally my favorite things.
So good.
So it's,
it is literally a little,
it looks like a black matte black,
like Altoid can with like a Brown ribbon on top of the white writing.
Yeah.
But they are circular,
right?
And he,
yes.
And he's a hundred percent correct.
Like the first time we got them,
I brought them back chocolate covered,
espresso beans.
One of my favorite things of all time.
Yes,
I agree to that.
They're so good.
Right.
So I popped one and I'm just like,
they're five milligrams.
That's my maximum limit.
And then I was like,
I'm going to die tonight.
I want to eat all of these.
They're so good.
Yeah.
So I was like,
I was like,
I'm going to die tonight.
I had a gummy and then I was a little stony and a little munchy.
And I was like,
Ooh,
those are special.
Sounds good.
Like,
don't do it.
Great.
Don't do it.
He's completely correct on this.
I know exactly the brand he's talking about.
They are so good.
Yeah.
We should do a stone show.
Just like one episode where hammer or a high as fuck on four 20 or something.
I almost thought,
I almost thought about drinking one of those tonight,
but I didn't.
I mean,
I'm game.
If you guys are game,
I know I just said I'll be paranoid,
but that would be a great episode.
Alex and I are joking in Zach's in the corner.
Like I hear the sirens,
man.
Who's there?
Did you guys hear knocking?
I heard knocking.
The hats moving.
Did the Lego DeLorean just move itself?
It's really back to the future.
I've had people tell me for years,
you should do a stoned episode.
You should do this.
And I'm always like,
do you want to hear me in slow mo?
Like that sounds like a horrible idea,
but I don't know.
It sounds like a great idea.
We'll see.
It's just us like,
Hey man,
staring at the microphone the whole time.
Are we recording?
My microphone's green.
Your microphone is green.
It is green.
The pen is royal blue.
We got to make this happen.
All right,
let's do it.
Four 20 episode.
Done.
Yeah.
Tweet or not tweet.
I don't use that shit anymore.
A gram or whatever.
Let us know if you want us to do it.
Mail us at copyrepublic.com.
Yeah,
sure.
That's like five months from now,
six months.
We got time to prep.
Yeah.
We got time to prep.
Yeah.
We got time to prep.
Yeah.
We got time to prep.
Yeah.
We got time to prep.
Yeah.
I got my tolerance up.
Is it legal out there in Indiana?
No,
we are the last state.
It is illegal as fuck here.
It's not even a medical here too.
So I'm confused.
No.
Yeah.
It's not Wisconsin either.
I looked it up.
Yeah.
It's weird.
Really?
You guys don't have like medical or anything?
No,
no medical.
I looked there because Flex said it was not legal.
There's a bill being pushed through,
I think currently.
Yeah.
But just for medical.
Oh,
so with the stuff you were talking about,
it's like a Delta nine type of thing.
Is that what it is?
I read the ingredient label because you can even go online.
Okay.
And it says it's cannabis.
So in Indiana we have like Delta nine,
Delta 10.
It's like a weird gray area loophole.
And let me tell you,
some of them shits will fuck you up something fierce.
Like,
"Oh,
it's Delta nine.
We can totally sell it." And you go home and you smoke a pre-roll joint and you're just like,
"This is not Delta nine.
This is straight from Chicago.
This is good God,
rip your head off." What is Delta nine?
What is that?
So there's different variants.
Like synthetic?
Yeah,
no,
no.
It's all natural.
So it's literally just what comes from cannabis and just pure THC,
essentially.
And for the nerds listening,
I'm not being technical,
so don't judge me,
please.
But there's different versions of THCs.
So there's Delta eight,
nine,
10,
and 11.
And then certain states pass certain laws to be able to allow Delta eight,
Delta nine,
Delta 10.
All right.
And some of them still just get you super stoned,
but it's a loophole to be able to sell it.
Like in Indiana,
we have Delta nine is pretty big.
Interesting.
All right.
I did not know that.
All right.
So we're going to do a 420 show where we talk about all those weird facts like that while we're high as fuck.
Perfect.
I'm in.
It's so good.
Fine.
Yeah.
Flex doesn't seem that bad.
I'm not not going to do it.
Flex is like,
"I'm not going to ditch that show.
I promise." Act like,
yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm here.
All right.
If you guys want a preview,
just on your podcast player,
put us at half speed.
That's what it's going to fucking sound like.
Before I share what I'm drinking,
as it's Thanksgiving week and Flex is very thankful,
we're all thankful.
So thankful.
Super thankful.
Thankful for the daddies.
Jesus Christ.
I found,
thanks to Drizzly,
what's the most popular Thanksgiving booze?
What do you guys think is the most popular booze drank on Thanksgiving day?
I feel like I would say champagne.
I feel like holidays,
people just like mimosas.
Okay.
Zach?
I'm going to go Seltzers.
Interesting.
That's actually smart because when you're full as fuck,
it's easy to fill the Seltzer in versus a beer or something.
Yeah.
And you can drink them all day.
I'm going Seltzers.
But also,
wine is like a celebratory dinner bev.
True.
So maybe that.
I have no final answer.
Well,
here it is.
63% of those surveys opted for wine.
Okay.
Yeah.
19% chose beer.
10% chose spirits.
And they didn't list Seltzers.
So either that's included in beer or just not counting.
Or I'm an idiot.
Fireball.
Oh God.
That's the night before Thanksgiving.
That's true.
I didn't know this,
but the night before Thanksgiving is the biggest drinking night.
The biggest drinking night of the year.
Yeah.
Blackout Wednesday.
Yeah.
I mean,
all the local bars around here,
especially where I grew up.
I mean,
A,
it's a high school reunion,
and I fucking hate it.
But everywhere.
There is everywhere,
man.
Yeah.
We used to go to the local Legion Hall.
If you didn't get there by 6 PM,
you wouldn't have a seat.
That's the same thing here.
So we would get there early as fuck,
just kind of like post up.
And then you'd be there for fucking eight hours.
Yep.
It was wild.
I don't drink for eight hours post up.
Just make sure you had a spot,
and you'd see minimally 17 people you went to high school with.
100%.
That sounds awful.
I don't do the bars anymore because I don't like seeing all the people I grew up with.
But if I do go out on Blackout Wednesday,
which I don't do so much anymore,
just paying the ask you an Uber and all that stuff.
If I do,
though,
I usually end up at like,
Enneagran.
They always do like a Friendsgiving thing.
Nice.
And great beer.
Great,
great laggers,
which leads me to the bullpen beer.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.
Zach when you made that face,
some real Dave Grohl vibes.
Let me just tell you.
I'll take it.
Yeah.
He's a sexy boy.
Oh,
good lord.
And another Grammy nomination as of last year.
Yeah,
I didn't know that.
Oh yeah,
congrats to the Foo Fighters.
So excited.
Alright,
I am drinking El Segundo Brewing Company collab with Enneagrin Brewing Company.
Oh,
please have mercy on me for this name.
Give me,
give me shaft.
Yeah,
that sounds about right.
I'm trying to can.
I love the can.
Yeah,
but you guys see the title on there and I love against,
right?
Grab my shaft?
Grab my shaft.
Yeah.
I asked my wife,
my wife had to take German classes because she sings opera.
So she's like knows how to enunciate properly in German and Italian.
I was like,
how do you say this?
And even she struggled with it.
But give mine like the mind has a little bit of an emphasis as like a mine shaft.
Apparently,
combine is separate from shaft.
Anyways,
it means social relations between individuals.
So it's like all about getting together with friends.
Yeah.
Okay.
That makes sense.
Okay.
Yeah.
That is very Thanksgiving appropriate.
Yeah,
that's what I figured.
Thanksgiving appropriate in multiple ways.
because if I do go out,
I end up at Enneagrin and B,
it's a,
it's a collab beer and,
you know,
getting together.
Anyways,
a 386 untapped 6.2% to West Coast lager.
The hops they use are Chinook,
Centennial,
Amarillo,
and Citra.
And they say all aboard the hype train.
Next stop,
cold IPA.
Donka,
but we'll pass.
Hype.
Some people can't resist it.
They're always looking for the next big thing.
Then there are pieces of work like us in Enneagrin sticking to what we know and brewing what we love.
West Coast IPAs and classic German lagers respectively.
So when we decided to do a,
oh no,
another big word,
Zeus Salmonerbite together.
I forgot to ask my wife about this one.
Zeus and Zeus Mannerbite.
That's probably closer.
Zeus Mannerbite together brewing a hoppy West Coast lager isn't hype.
It's combining what we both love into something that is definitely not a cold IPA.
That just reminds me of Euro trip.
Oh my God,
get the water for Struvens.
And he goes into the sex workshop.
Yeah,
look at the monkey with the symbols in the corner just clapping.
They give him the safe word.
I got this free t-shirt though.
Vandersex.
You guys just recall us.
That's what a Euro trip is.
Fantastic.
That's so good.
So tell us about this beer.
Yeah.
You know,
on the old Schneider,
a real light,
real light on the nose,
not a lot of smell coming off,
but the flavor you get that lager mouthfeel real clean,
real crisp finishes dry.
When I first poured it,
when it was ice cold at the beginning of the show,
I didn't get a lot of hop.
And now that we're,
whatever we're in like,
like 28 minutes in or whatever it is.
A little touch warmed up.
I'm really picking up on some of the hop and some of the,
like,
I think some oranginess in there as well as some pine.
I'm liking what it's doing on my tongue.
If you catch my drift.
I like what it's doing to.
I do catch that drift.
Daddies.
So weird when we're all three.
I'm going to call you both daddies.
Daddy's giving.
I mean,
I think at this point people,
they know,
they know.
They don't know.
Yeah.
I don't think they're going to surprise anybody anymore.
They know what they're getting with Deb.
They know what they're getting with us with Deb.
It's dicks with us.
It's daddy's.
I don't think they know what they're getting for the finale.
We'll get to that,
but stay tuned.
Yeah.
The suspense is killing me.
Yeah.
I hope it lasts.
So she said.
So anyways,
good job,
Dale Segundo and Inogram.
A couple of fucking classics out of here.
All right.
Little Chris Libation Law.
It's from the state of Indiana.
Guess me.
Yeah.
Which since last week was election day,
I felt this was appropriate.
It is illegal to buy alcohol from restaurants,
bars and package stores on election day.
Yep.
So as you vote in those horrible people,
you got to stay sober as fuck.
Yep.
That is unfortunate.
That is crazy.
Weird.
What a weird law.
It is a very weird law,
but it's actually one that it makes sense to me.
It's so weird,
but it's one of the only laws that we have them.
It's like that actually makes kind of sense.
If you saw who we had to vote for,
it would make way more sense.
Okay.
That's pretty valid.
Yeah.
Well,
I might believe more if you were drunk as to who you had to vote for.
Oh no,
they're drunk.
The people that are voting,
they can't be drunk.
The people running for office,
they're out of their fucking minds.
Yeah.
So I did some research and apparently it's because back in the day they used saloons as poll places.
Yeah.
And so they didn't want people showing up and getting hammered while they're.
Oh,
okay.
It's one of those like prohibition laws that needs to finally be done with.
I feel like Zach could get elected as like an alderman or something if he just took a picture in front of his new van.
That's all.
All right.
Well,
That's all I need.
I don't like you could for like the vilth,
right?
You can figure something out for like voters.
I'd like to fuck or something.
I mean,
I'm down for that.
How,
like,
how would you not win?
I'd vote.
That's a good point.
I'd become an Indiana citizen just so I could vote.
Can we wake you an honorary citizen right now just to vote?
The slogan is like small dick,
big dreams.
This might now be my favorite moment in any time I've ever had with you guys.
Small dick,
big dreams.
That needs to be dude.
It's too good.
It's a winner.
You got to start positive.
Big dreams.
Small dick.
Yeah.
Start on the positive and then work your way down.
Literally.
The van's got a long wheelbase.
That Pino,
not so much.
Wow.
It's going to,
yeah.
Vote for Zach.
That's really what we're saying here.
Yes,
please.
After this,
please vote for me.
Yeah.
It's definitely going to happen now.
Especially after this.
More importantly,
buy your alcohol before election day,
Indiana.
Yes,
that's true.
Stock up,
everybody.
Yes.
Stock up.
All right.
Let's hit a little news here.
Smutty Nose Brewing,
their parent company- Smutty.
Smutty.
That's what I said.
Smutty Nose.
Smutty.
What did you think I said?
Smut is like- Yeah.
S-M-U-T-T-Y Nose.
Yeah.
Smutty Nose.
Yeah.
Smutty.
Zach knows what I'm- Smutty Nose.
Smutting eggs.
Come on.
Have you not heard of Smutty Nose Brewing?
I can't say I've ever heard of Smutty Nose Brewing.
Really?
I've actually had them before.
Yeah.
Okay.
Go on.
I thought they called Flex on high school.
Their parent company,
which this one I'm not going to say right,
Feinskine Brewing,
they're Swedish,
has now acquired five- That was my first guess.
Yeah.
They've now acquired five boroughs brewing and will move their brewing operations to Smutty Nose.
Another craft on craft merge thing.
It's strategic.
It's a strategic partnership.
Strategic.
There's strategy involved.
So much strategy.
Lots of strategy.
It's like they're playing craft beer Stratego.
Yes,
that.
Ninkasi Brewing shutters their Better Living Room location in Eugene,
Oregon.
The company said all proceeds,
and they're going to sell the location,
all proceeds from sales will be split among the staff.
The company cited increasing costs leading to challenges.
They said in making the BLR experience profitable while maintaining our commitment to local sourcing,
high standards,
and employee benefits.
So dropping a location basically.
Ecleptic Brewing has been acquired by Great Frontier Holdings,
which is the parent company for Ninkasi.
So another strategic move over here.
So much strategy,
Danny.
All the strategy.
Citing a really challenging past two years,
Ecleptic founder John Harris announced the sale on the brewery social media pages last Wednesday.
We've encountered so many issues that other small businesses have faced.
A pandemic,
raising costs of goods,
supply chain issues,
and overall economic climate.
He wrote,
"It's gotten to the point where we are no longer able to continue operations and the company has sold." It's kind of interesting.
You're sort of making these small companies into big companies by selling to other craft breweries.
Because it's strategy.
Strat-y daddies.
Daddy's.
32,000 cases of twisted tea were stolen from a Memphis warehouse.
How do you steal that much?
One at a time.
(laughing)
Approximately 32,000 cases of twisted tea worth an estimated $800,000 were stolen from a Memphis distribution center last month,
Memphis police say.
On October 25th,
the manager of Blues City Brewery in the 5100 block of
East Rains Road reported the theft from a warehouse in
the 5400 block of Descriplex Farms near the airport.
The manager...
I'm going to say I don't steal shit,
but I've seen some movies.
This sounds like an inside job.
A little bit.
Yeah,
right?
The manager...
It's going to get more insidey.
The manager told police that on September 1st,
about 17 or 18,
how do you not know,
trailer loads...
Not boxes,
but fucking trailers,
17 or 18 trailers hauled the beverages from Blues City Brewery to the distribution center.
The beverages were scanned and it was documented that they made it to the correct destination,
but the manager began receiving phone calls from clients saying they had not received their products.
The distribution center is not open to the public and only accessible to employees.
Do you think it's like real life Fast and the Furious?
Like they're just like taking down these trailers full of like twisted tea and zooming underneath like the trailers and everything.
What else could it be?
With their fucking harpoons and...
I mean,
let's be honest,
it's the only option.
I've never even had one.
Twisted tea,
I don't think I have either.
It's not that terrible.
It's not great,
but it's really not that terrible.
Well,
no,
I'm not saying it's bad because let's be real.
Have you ever had like that Firefly vodka before?
No.
What?
It was like iced tea flavored vodka or tea infused vodka.
Oh,
I remember this.
I've never had it so awful.
Yeah.
Oh,
it was so good.
We would put it in like jugs with lemonade and just like drink it all summer long with pools.
I mean,
I've had worse.
We've had Malort.
Yeah.
So it was like,
it's essentially like an Arnie Palmy.
Arnie Palmy alert.
Arnie Palmy.
Daddy.
And so I couldn't imagine the twisted teas being bad,
but to steal 17 or 18 truckloads,
that's crazy.
Speaking of Arnie Palmy,
have you ever had a John Daly?
I feel like we've talked about this.
So we all know that John Daly's the alcoholic golfer,
right?
Yes.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
John Daly is an Arnold Palmer with vodka.
No.
National hero.
Oh,
so yeah.
Fantastic.
So it's an alcoholic Arnie Palmy.
Yeah.
It's tea,
lemonade,
vodka.
Yeah.
So that's what this Firefly vodka and lemonade was.
John Daly's on a hot day,
fucking delicious.
Oh,
they slap dude.
So good.
That's what the kids say nowadays,
everybody.
Yeah.
They said that two years ago,
but sure.
Do they not say that?
I don't think they do.
What do they say?
You know how I know what the kids are saying?
Is because Deb will say something that I've not heard before and I'll go,
oh,
that must have been from last month.
Cause she's got teenagers.
Oh,
Well,
they can't drink.
They don't listen to the show.
So who cares?
Yeah.
That shit still slaps.
I'm going to say it.
Fucking slaps.
It's a bop.
So hard.
Ah,
the bops.
Wisconsin could become the first state in the country with an official cocktail.
How cool is this?
The state known to be the home of the most successive drinkers in the country is looking to have its own cocktail.
I'm sure Flex knows with Zach,
any guesses on what Wisconsin's official cocktail would be?
I don't want to think too long and hard here,
boys.
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go like traditional.
I'm just going to throw out like an old fashioned.
Fucking nailed it.
Is it?
It's a Wisconsin style old fashioned because it has the brandy old fashioned.
Yeah,
it's a brandy old fashioned.
Yeah.
Brandy.
We are the largest consumer of brandy in the world or in the nation.
I fucking dig it.
That's awesome.
I did not know that.
We did that on a show like two years ago.
The brandy thing?
That's super cool.
Wisconsin is the number one consuming state of brandy.
Oh,
okay.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And terrible at the same time.
Yeah,
you know,
we have problems.
Yeah.
I'm from Indiana.
We're good.
Hey,
Wisconsin,
you guys know they have whiskey,
right?
Yeah,
we're slowly getting into that.
Yeah.
Now I want to make a brandy old fashioned.
It sounds great,
actually.
But it's like the big one here is a brandy old fashioned sweet.
Oh,
give me the rundown.
What is this?
They add sugar or something.
So it's like the bitters and the sugar and the orange get muddled and then the brandy and then there's like a mix.
I don't know what's in the old fashioned mix.
To me,
it tastes heavy cinnamon and then it gets interesting.
With some bitters in there,
it gets topped with white soda.
Oh,
weird,
which is very.
Yeah.
Like nobody understands that.
When you say white soda,
you mean just soda water,
right?
That's what I.
No,
like a Sprite or like a 7up.
Dude,
I'm telling you,
we make the best brandy old fashions here.
You guys are fucking wild.
You make the only brandy old fashions.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's like the original.
We're going to call it the Wisconsin handjob.
I'll give you whatever you want.
Well,
down syrupy.
Down syrupy.
Nah,
you got to get here.
It's great.
It's wild stuff.
Interesting.
There's a new shot that's going to be hitting the market in December that is supposed to be a hangover remedy and will actually reduce your BAC faster than.
I don't believe this at all.
I don't either.
A new beverage claiming to reduce consumers blood alcohol content will hit the market next month.
It's called,
this is the worst name ever,
safety shot.
I was like,
shit,
you not.
They'll launch in December,
available direct to consumer through drink safety shot.com and Amazon.
The company plans to launch in stores in the first quarter of 24.
Safety shot is patent beverage that claims to be the first to help drinkers feel better faster by actually reducing blood alcohol content and boosting clarity.
The company cited a product safety test that found the safety shot reduced a person's BAC by 0.076% BAC per hour versus 0.01% BAC per hour without the shot.
I don't believe it.
Seems like scientifically just not possible in any way.
How do you flush basically a drunk person to a sober person?
I think if you drink a lot of water,
every time you pee,
you lose 0.05%.
If you're peeing,
you're almost at a safety shot amount.
Well,
there you go.
You just piss out blood.
Didn't it say it was 0.076% per hour?
But that's like being drunk,
right?
It's like 0.08.
I just think their numbers are a bit askew there,
boys.
Yeah,
I think this is a very friendly thing there.
Cash grab.
I don't believe it.
Yeah,
me either.
Show me the science.
Yes.
Beer science.
Oh,
yeah.
From a bottle from a can.
All right.
Before we wrap things up,
let's check in.
I think we are wrapping things up.
Oh,
that's later.
Spoiler.
I don't even have a song that'd be appropriate for this.
It's just not appropriate.
Yeah.
So let's find out what Beer Zack's reviewing tonight.
Well,
yeah.
So we're Thanksgiving week,
right?
So you're stuffing turkeys.
Good stuff.
Something else.
Shags.
Superbly crafted,
luscious lager.
So can you please tell us the story of where you got this?
Where you found it?
We need some background.
All right.
So we're just going to go into this.
So this is- Yeah,
we are.
I was in Louisville visiting a very dear friend of mine.
Four canals deep.
Hitting a couple breweries and stopped by Cirilla's.
Got to scope out the local scene of Cirilla's for whatever reason.
And they had these cans.
Cirilla and Cirilla.
Yeah.
And they had these cans and they are a craft beer flashlight.
It looks like a beer can.
I know you guys can't really see it.
No,
I can see it.
I know you boys can see it.
Oh,
I can actually see it.
Yeah,
we can see it.
Yeah,
there's four chambers.
It looks like a legit 16 ounce can and Zach before the show held it up.
He's like,
"Yeah,
all right.
He's drinking a beer." And if you don't read the fine print,
which it's hard to do on their little video thing here.
It is.
Just seems like a beer.
Yep.
And it turns out you just unscrew the top and there's a pleasure port,
we can call it there.
That has four chambers.
My favorite part is the very bottom has a sticker to remove and it has a pop top to create more or less suction.
Wow.
So that's a thing.
They now make craft beer flashlights for all you lovers out there.
I think beer might've jumped the shark.
I think so.
I was speechless when he initially told us about this.
Oh yeah.
Like,
there you have it everybody.
It is on news though,
right Zach?
You did say- It's never been touched.
It's never been touched.
For now.
Never been touched.
The night is still young.
I say give it time.
Thanks for giving us that,
I guess.
You're welcome.
Christmas time boys,
you'll get packages.
Zach keeps threatening to send beer flexing.
Please do not send me that.
I hope that's in there.
I hope so bad.
No,
I'm going to take the sleeve out.
I'm going to put a smear off ice.
That's how I'm going to ice you fuckers.
That would be pretty legit if you did send an ice in a package.
There you go.
I would take it.
Take it like a daddy.
A couple of daddies here.
All right,
this is a real bad transition,
but we're going to wrap things up.
And before I forget,
I just want to say hi Vanessa.
Hello Vanessa.
Hello.
Sorry Vanessa.
Post scrap beer flashlight.
Oh God.
That's weird.
We can cut that out,
right?
The part where you were very excited about it?
Yeah.
So the best part about that is I don't have to cut anything out now and people are going to be like,
"Oh my God,
there was a part where Flex was really excited about that?
Oh,
what a creep." What are we going to do?
Yeah.
Primo.
We're going to play into it all.
Oh,
we're going to play into it for sure.
Set yourself up for that one.
I can't stop.
Yeah.
Can't stop,
won't stop.
All right.
On the socials,
@CraftBeerRepublic,
@OGBeerDude,
underscores in between.
Of course,
FlexMeABeer,
underscores in between.
Zach,
thanks for fucking hanging out with us,
man.
It's been too long.
Dude.
It's been too long.
Thanks for having me back.
I love it.
Love it so much,
Zach.
Love it so much as well.
I can't wait to vote for you in the upcoming citywide elections out there.
Can't wait for our 4/20 episode.
Yeah.
4/20 episode's going to be great.
Six months from now,
let's go.
Get ready by playing us at half speed.
What else?
805-53-Beer,
2-3-3-7,
mail@CraftBeerRepublic.com.
I think that's everything.
I hope you guys are as thankful as Flex is and have a great Thanksgiving.
So thankful.
Oh,
thankful.
Thanks for all the listeners.
How about that?
Yeah.
Thanks to the few of you that are out there.
The people that actually listen.
Thank you.
Not the ones that sort of listen,
but actually listen.
Thanks for being you.
And donkashay,
daddies.
Donkashay.
Daddies.
Papas.
I think that's it.
I hope everyone out there is staying thankfully hydrated.
And on that note,
good night,
everybody.