Welcome in, everybody It's the Craft Beer Republic Thanks for drinking

Thanks for

joining I am Greg, and I am being joined by the freshest of all the fresh

coasts, and

that is Flex What's happening, big fella?

Not much, man Doing well I think you're supposed to say, "It's not a boner

show"

Is that what this 20 seconds thing was?

Yeah, you were supposed to remember that it's definitely not a boner show

Definitely not a boner show, in case anyone is wondering

Yeah, we will refrain from all boner talk

Bang

Yeah, exactly

And then, joining us live and in person, the new head brewer at Pedals & Pints,

Boris

What's happening?

Hello

Hello

How's it hanging?

It's, you know, a little to the left, but it is

It's not every day you meet a guy named Boris

That is true, especially not being, like, a super Russian, like, evil villain

or something

Yeah, the last Boris I knew was the guy who played Frankenstein's monster

Oh, yeah

Boris Karloff

I didn't know you knew him personally

Yeah

Oh, yeah

That's new

Yeah

We go way back

Like, really far back

Yeah, it's, like, super

Like, didn't he die before you were born, kind of, back?

Oh, yeah

Yeah

It was a nice night of shrooms and all that stuff, so

Anyways, Boris is here to get nerdy with us and all that

We'll get to his plugs in a couple of seconds

Don't forget, follow us all on the socials @CraftBeerRepublic, @flex_me_a_beer,

underscores

in between

Are you on the

You're on the 'gram, right?

I am

What's your 'gram?

Unless it's private

It's @BorrieTheBlade

@BorrieTheBlade

That's right

No numbers or anything

Come on, Greg

Thank you

No numbers, no underscores

Oh, I love it

I love it

That's the kind of guy

Eat a dick, Greg

Eat a dick

Hey, not a boner show

How dare you?

So much to get to today

We're going to talk to Boris about what's happening over at the brewery, what's

being

brewed

We're going to talk about some booze news

We got a call from the homie

Chew your beer

Can't wait

Yeah

He's actually not mad at me this time

He's sympathizing

So, we'll get to that

But quickly, I need to get into this beverage

I'm drinking this beer because of a story I'll tell here in a couple of few,

but we're

having psychedelic vibes from Shred Beer Company

Shred with one D 6% and has a 406 on untapped

It says massive amounts of citra, Eldorado, and mosaic hops get packed into

this low gravity

crusher to create trippy flavors and aromas of peach sorbet, orange starburst,

melon,

and white, excuse me, white gummies

Why am I saying what way?

On the schnoz, this is, dare I say, delightful?

Is it peachy?

Because I really love when that peach shines through

A little peach, a little orange

I do smell the aforementioned starburst

It smells a little starbursty

No shit

Horse is like, "You're a fucking idiot

I don't smell shit"

I'm trying to get into my schnoz right now

Unyield tongue grabber

It's orange citrus

Yeah

It's so orangey and effervescent on the nose

Flavor I'd say mostly follows suit, a lot of that orange

I don't get a ton of peach, maybe a little melon

It's my favorite

It's a hazy pale ale, so it's light in body

It's definitely checking the hazy box

It is so clean, well, not clean, but so easy to drink

I could fucking chug these all night long

Love that

This is super drinkable for six

It is quite crushable

It's a little dangerous at six

That's the best thing about these hazy pales is how, so they look great, right?

The appearance is great

The notes are great

The body is astoundingly light and you can just throw them down

They dangerous

Yeah

Yes, they are

Yeah

At 6%, this is an easy one to cozy up to and cozy up to three more of its

friends

All right

Quickly, before we get into some business, top listening city of last week, Los

Angeles,

California

What do you know?

Keeping it local

It's nice

Yeah

It's cause we mentioned the Dodgers or something

That's probably what happened

Probably

It was losers

Yeah

Just kidding

How dare you?

How dare you?

Surrounded by Dodgers fans

Well spoken from a fresh coaster

Sorry

How did those brewers do in the play?

Oh, that's right

Yeah

We made it

Yeah

We made it

To the wild card?

We were there

To the stands?

Yeah

Yeah

We got like a $50 million payroll

We do what we can do

Christian Yelich is the ball boy for the world series right now

He was a ball boy for us for the last three months, but alas, not a Christian Y

elich show

or baseball for that matter

So anyways, shout out to LA

Also happy birth as the week that this drops a happy birthday to both Erica and

Scott

Oh, thank you, Scott

Yes indeed

Happy birthday to them

Also got to plug the fact that I was on the tap room podcast with Mike

Mike was on the show with us, right?

Yeah

I remember

Yeah

You're in some change ago

August 23

Real nice guy

Real nice guy

Yeah

A lot of fun beer nerd

And so he had me on and now it's released so you can go to the tap room podcast

All one word on the gram

We're also posting links on our gram, all that good stuff

So go check it out

Sneak peek

How'd it go?

Um, it was good

It was fun

We, we got nerdy

Uh, the clip he posted was like, he was asking me about local Ventura County

beer

So I started naming off breweries

It's not, it was really unfair

He's like, what's your favorite local beer?

And I'm like, how much fucking time do you have?

I'm like, what do you want?

You want a sour slash hazy

You go to Casa

You want just all around great beer

You go to made West

You want a fucking lager

You go to Integra and I just started rattling off everything I could think of

And um, I think that ended up taking up way too much time and boy, was he sorry

that he

asked me at that point

But uh, you asked, don't nerd out if you don't want to nerd out

Yeah

So then we started talking about like podcast stuff for a little bit and got a

little nerdy

on that

And uh, Chu got brought up at one point cause we sort of met because of Chu and

all that

good stuff

So yeah

Fun times

Go check it out

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Um, that's pretty much it for the announcements

I think

And a license plate six, four, seven, two

Your headlights are on last over the weekend, got to hang out with Erica and

McDreamy

Heck yeah

I sold the pictures

That's right

Yeah

Uh, we had to go up to the Sacramento area for some wife's family stuff and I

was able

to sneak in a few hours of Erica and McDreamy time

We went to high hand brewing

Anybody heard of high hand?

I just know it's not to be confused with low hand or very different or left

hand

True

So yeah

Yeah

Uh, never heard of it myself

Really cool spot

The beers were, they're the hit and miss that a couple actually really enjoyed

But overall they're just sort of average, average beers, uh, nothing wrong with

them

The spot was really cool

It was like an old train depot or something that they had converted into like a

brewery

slash restaurant

Yeah

Those are the best

Yeah

It was, it was really cool

They did a really good job

They had a great, um, stage and like life music space

It was huge

So it's awesome

I love that

I love when old real estate that should not get destroyed gets repurposed and

it's even

better when it's a brewery

Right

Right

So something like completely different and like obscure

Yeah

It's like we have a church or a brewery here that put together in an old church

So they have like all the classic stained glass windows that used to be in it

and, um,

man, I'd go there all the time just for the, just for the vibe

It is a, you know, it's like 45 minutes for me, two counties over, but, uh,

well, yeah,

it's a really cool place

Nice

It used to be a tire, big brand tire out here and it's no longer there

It's in Camarillo and back East there's a few breweries that have repurposed

like car

garages

Oh yeah

So you have the garage doors as like patio doors

That is neat

And then they put tables on the other side

So you just roll it up when it's nice out and you close it when it's hot or

cold, vice

versa

And it's long

Right

So it's, it's a tire shop

You have a whole bunch of bays that do their thing

And then you have an office in the front and I'm like, man, that would be a

sick place

for a brewery

Like you can take the front half of the office, turn that into the tap room

only

And then the back half becomes all of production with an L shaped dining room,

we'll say, that

overlooks all of the brewery

Kind of like you've been in society in San Diego

Kind of like their spot, their original spot

It's just like a long tap room, but then you're looking at the entire brewery

right there,

right on the other side of the table

Like kind of that concept, but with garage doors

Yeah

I think one of the coolest locations around here for a brewery is Leashless

Ah, right, cause that tire shop, emphasis on locations

Emphasis on location, but really cool historic, I think it was like built in

the thirties

or something like that

It looks like it

Now, so for a brewery like that, they should come out with a beer that says

like, this

used to be a tire shop, right?

Like tire shop stout

Yeah

Just something like, didn't pedals have one at one point that was a nod to, it

used to

be a red lobster

Our Micheladas is called dead lobster

That's right

I like that

I like the little throwback

Yeah

I never knew that

Oh really?

Yeah

It was like six months in and they're like, yeah, that's, you know, that's why

we call

our Michi dead lobster

I was like, nope

Didn't even click

Do now

I've been wondering why people have been asking where the cheddar biscuits are

Next beer, Cheddar Bay Biscuits or whatever

That would be brilliant

Maybe they're really good or really disgusting

It would be amazing

And then it would not

It's just like, Oh, this is grow

No, it's not

Oh no

Obscure beer names

Like they have nothing to do with the beer

Actually

Oh, right

It's so right

Yeah

That would be funny

Oh, you can eat shrimp

It'd be good

I once ate 120 shrimp before

Did you really?

Yeah

Hey George

Wow

The ocean called

They said they're running out of shrimp

Yeah

Oh yeah

So every time they'd bring me two skewers, I would already order my next two

skewers

and I just kept the cycle going and they had some, some kind of grilled teriy

aki shrimp

on special

So I was just mowing them down 10 and a half

And now we know why Red Lobster figured it out

There used to be a Hooters out here in, in our area and my sister's at the time

boyfriend

won some sort of like football bet at the restaurant and he got an all you

could eat

wings party for up to like six people or eight people or something like that

So I was on the invite list

Luckily we did some fucking damage to their chicken supply that night

Hell yeah

And those poor waitresses, I mean they got their steps in like they'd walk or

anything

else

Oh yeah

Another round

You should just bring bigger plates cause you're going to do a lot of walking

tonight

That was good times

And so smart on them

We spent hundreds of dollars in beer so we could eat free wings

So good times

Oh, so train station

Yes

Great, great place for a brewery

Not an all you can eat show

Not an all you can eat show

Be kind of nice if it was

And then after that we went down the street to Shred Beer who, or which was

opened by

one of the partners in it slash head brewers, Amy, who used to be at Arrow L

odge Brewing

out here, sort of followed her move up there because we loved Arrow Lodge so

much and her

beers down here

So finally got to go check it out

A great little spot

They have, I think it's a permanent barbecue pop up outside

His trailer was sort of there and didn't look like it moved very much

So I'm guessing it's permanent or semi-permanent

So I had some barbecue, had some beers with Erica McDreamy again and everything

we had

was just fucking phenomenal

She is, is killing it over there

It's so good

Everything I had from what Erica sent me was great

So love me some Shred Beer

They keep winning at GABF and I think it's not a surprise why

And we wrapped up the night by heading over to track seven brewing in the

middle of Sacramento

and it was fine

It just, it was exactly what I kind of expected it to be, but you know, it got

the job done

It was kind of funny because they were, you know, Sacramento, the Kings Lakers

game was

on and so we were watching it amongst the Kings fans, which apparently they do

exist

and the Lakers won that night

So just kind of funny

Harry, everyone's react

Everyone's cheering along

I'm like, Oh, here we go

Then LeBron finally woke up

I was like, I'm going to hit a couple of three pointers and everyone shut up

real fast and

good times though

It was interesting

The Dodger games though, the first, you know, world series we watched out there

and I started

talking to people at the brewery

I was like, Oh, you guys, Dodger fans like, no, but we hate the Yankees

I was like, all right, that's fair

You know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend cause you know, there's a lot of

giants fans

up there and A's fans don't count because it's the Hayes and hope my wife doesn

't listen

to the show, but those are basically Vegas anyway already

So the Sacramento A's at this point, I was going to play for the next couple of

years

I'm in the same boat

I'm not a Dodger fan, but I hate, I despise the Yankees

I'm an Orioles fan

I hate the East coaster, but I feel like if you hate the Yankees, you have to

hate the

Dodgers

Oh no

I do

But my team's gone

So it's like, I, if it's I'm picking the lesser of the two evils, the Dodgers

are the lesser

in this point in this match, if you're not a Dodgers fan and you're not a Yanke

es fan,

you just, you don't care about this world series

I truly don't, but I would love seeing the Yankees lose

Yeah

That's kind of work

I would also love to see the Yankees lose

I don't think that's how it works

It's not soccer

It's an infinity series

Right

Nobody will ever win

Make them earn that second and third highest paychecks

Right

They should play infinitely for the amount of money they have

But it was interesting to see what everyone's opinion out there was

So, uh, you know, we, we all became friends about hating the Yankees

So, so good times for a trip

I'm happy for you

That's great

That is great

Yeah

Thank you

I was, I was so excited when I get to go to shred and now I'm enjoying the shit

out of

this beer

So I think I've had a triple West coast from there courtesy of our salty friend

, Erica

Oh yeah

Yeah

I've had, I think there was a double APA

I think there was some big boozy stout somewhere and yeah

I think I told the story on the show when, when we met Amy at, uh, Loggerville,

the wife

was like, Oh, is that Amy from shred slash air lodge?

Like, yeah, that looks like her

Okay

It runs out

She's a little drunk at this point

Runs up and like, Hey, are you aiming?

She's like, yeah, like it's totally like in synced out

It was like, I love your beer so much and it's so awesome that you know, you're

a female

and you're starting your own brew

And she, at first there was a little like, is this person going to murder me in

her eyes?

And then she's like, Oh, we're safe

Like it's, it's fine

It's drunk

A little bit

You know, it is not murderer Shannon

Not to be confused with murderer Shannon, which she is not right now yet

At least

Yes

I piss her off

Oh, can't wait for that

I was just kidding

How dare you?

I love you

That's hilarious

Yeah

I love that Shannon was fangirling over it

That's my favorite part

It was a little hot

I'm not going to lie

And then, uh, this one's for flex

Of course, while we were gone, we also got one wine tasting in cause we're

classy

You are the, honestly, you're the classiest guy I know

No fucking classy

I don't know a lot of classy people, but you are top tier class

Of course

I don't know if you've known, but, uh, I own own, I belong to multiple wine

club memberships

So I've heard

Yeah

So I've heard

Kind of a big deal

I'm in the presence of class right now

I don't know

I don't know how I feel about that

Yeah

Greg's like that

1980s fine China that you only bring out for Christmas dinner, like that, that

is his

level of class

Yeah

It's been passed down from great grandma and all that stuff

Right

Used once every three years, maybe

Yeah

Like, honestly, it's real ugly

Everyone hates it, but like we all revere it

Yep

It does

It doesn't get washed

It just gets wiped because nobody wants to break it over the sink

Right

It's like it's got like a pattern of cats chasing yarn, you know, and just all

the way

around it

Like who would ever buy that?

But I don't know

It was a thousand dollars

So it's gotta be good

Also still has like a strain of E coli from the great depression

Well, yeah

Cause you don't want to put it in the dishwasher

Right?

Well, we can't wash it

Oh, fuck

Good times

Anyways

Good

A good, good research trip

It was nice

It was nice to bring

I brought back a couple of other things

But this is the one I wanted to have tonight

So yay for hazy pales and the world's longest story

Sorry, everybody

We're here for it

A lot of tangents

That's what I'm here for is tangents

You know what?

This is definitely a tangent show

I'll allow it

Yeah

Yeah

I'm going to show

Hell yeah

Yeah

So, uh, mr

Fucking head brewer over here

Who me?

Yeah

Congratulations on the, on the gig

Thank you

Is this your first professional beer job?

Yes

Yes

I put in question marks

Correct

Okay

What's your, what's your, your background before?

A professional drinker since 2006, but I homebrewed, yeah, I homebrewed for

almost 10 years, but

the last time I homebrewed was about now almost eight when my daughter was born

I tried to do a, an IPA when we were living in Germany and became a pale ale

because I

couldn't focus

I was worried about my less than one year old walking around

So, um, I just kind of was like, yeah, I'll just wait until she gets older

And then we moved here and on the move over half of my homebrewery got

destroyed in the

move

So I was like, all right, well, how do we balance living in California military

, you

know, uh, salary

And then the pandemic happened

It was like, well, I'm definitely not buying homebrew equipment because that's

like on

the, at the bottom of the list, the paper was at the top, the paper was at the

top Costco

became a membership and it's still, you know, a membership I pay, but yeah, so

my wife,

it pays for itself

It does

It literally does

Um, but no, it was, yeah, I just haven't homebrewed in seven years, but luckily

like beer still

being made in the same way

Um, the hops, hops have changed, yeast have changed

Um, there's yeast strains that I'd never thought would exist

Uh, there are hops that have no names like anchovy

Like you wouldn't, we just talked about a couple of weeks ago, like why on

earth would

you name it that, but Hey, more power to you that you did

So, um, but yeah, it was, this is my first, when I started over a little over a

year ago,

um, as a, as our Sellerman, yeah, it was my first job

Um, I knew my way around a brewery, just like the processes, um, and helped a

lot leading

into that job because I did a, Oh man, three month apprenticeship program with

the Brewers

Association that I got in on, um, it was free

It was absolutely amazing

I was a aspiring professional

So all of my mentors were ones that kind of gave me insight on how to get in

And then once you do get in what to do, um, but also like showing me the sides

of the

industry that most may not know that are looking from the outside in

So that helped a lot

Um, but a lot of it, the, the kind of common sense stuff I knew, like, um,

there's no money

in brewing, by the way, it's not a glamorous job

Um, you do it for passion

You don't do it for to make money, which is fine

Um, I'm, I knew that going in and even taking, you know, getting this head

brewer position,

I knew what, you know, what it was and that's fine

Cause like I did 20 years in the military, like we, we make nothing, you know

what I'm

saying?

Like used to it

So it's like, okay, cool

I get to do what I would love for the rest of my life as a second career and

still make

no money

Yeah

And still make no money

Got it

At least I liked the first part of it

Yeah

So, um, but yeah, no, I love it

I still love it even after becoming the head brewer and having more

responsibilities, um,

it wasn't exactly the way I would have dreamt it clearly, but I mean, I'm

extremely grateful

that Monica felt I was ready for it

Yeah

That was kind of like the biggest thing was like, she felt I was ready even

after just

a year of essentially working part time in the brewery and then part time as

this, as

our sales rep

It's nice being noticed like that

Yes

Yeah

You know, um, certain times in my military career I was noticed or recognized,

but the

majority of it, you know, it was like a kind of like a good handshake, pat on

the back

You didn't kill anybody today

Way to not fuck up

And you didn't break anything

Nice job

You're not fired

Not that I could legally get fired, but, um, yeah

So that was, that was really nice

I'm extremely grateful and I will forever be grateful for that

Um, cause the day she told me, like it was a, it was a sales day for me and she

tells

me this, that she's, her intent is to go and she wants me to become the head

brewer

And I like for about 10 minutes during our conversation, I had to fight back

tears

Not because of like the opportunity

It was like that she's had, she's leaving

Oh yeah

It was that

So it really was like an extremely hard day and this was at the beginning of my

day

So it was like, awesome

Now I got to go try to peddle our beer while knowing in the back of my mind,

like I may

not be your sales rep in about three to four weeks

Right

Also, I may not get that job

This beer could suck in a month

So yeah, no, it was, um, it was a rough day, but we got over it

She trained me extremely well leading up to like her last day

And I think I felt better that it just was like kind of a Band-Aid because then

it's

like, all right, well drop me on my feet

Like a newborn

Here you go

You got to walk

Go learn how to poo and pee and all that shit as I don't cuss and then cuss

Um, but yeah, no, it was, it, it was awesome

Like it's still awesome

I'm starting to get into my groove

Like today was like, I had so much to do and I still all did it on my own

I was like, hell yeah

I was like, all right

Fridays are getting a little easier

So now I got to work on Fridays, making those like what we used to have like 12

, 1230 one

o'clock days

A lot of times, um, we would go to a brewery and like hang out with the brew

crews at those

breweries

If they had food, we'd have lunch, kind of make it like a little, like a team

building

and a little research sesh, little research sesh

Once we got ahead from Monday through Thursday

So I'm working on that

We did hire for my former position

So we have a, Tyler's our newest seller men

So he's only been, he's worked for, he's had one official day with us

Um, he's mostly a beer drinker, hasn't had experience in the beer industry

either or

brewing industry

However, he is like still very knowledgeable on beer

So now he's seen what a brewery of our size does

So it's like, Oh wow, there's way more

I'm like, there's way more, but it's not just like the package good and what's

on tap or

what have you

So he's like, cool

And he kind of, he's got a mechanical background just like I did

So his brain works like mine, which helped a lot

Yeah

Easy to communicate

Yeah

Very easy

Yeah

So it's worked out so far

Even if it's just one day, it's so far, it's been really good

Nice

Any of the beers on tap right now, yours start to finish?

No

Um, my first one we brew Wednesday or Thursday, hold on a second, Wednesday

Okay

Uh, it's a, an American stout

We're just calling it in-house holiday stout

It's going to be made with chocolate for a holiday market that is coming to our

parking

lot

We're at the mall over here in thousand Oaks, I guess it's a holiday market

that travels

throughout thousand Oaks every year

Last year was at the lakes

This year it's in front of our place and we're pouring at it

So prior to Monica going, we discussed creating like a, like a holiday stout

The initial intent was it to make like a s'mores style stout

Oh sure

Um, however, I couldn't come up with the flavor combination that I wanted

without having

like a base stout to work with and then adding in flavors to make it taste like

a s'more

I was like, uh, I don't want to, I don't want to throw all this stuff in

And then at the end of the day, it's like quite awful and cloyingly sweet

It doesn't taste like a stout at all

And a s'more

And I was like, you know what?

Chocolate's a safer bet

No one's ever met a chocolate

And I know our clientele, like, yes, it's for a holiday market, but at the same

time,

we still have to sell it in the taproom and I know our customers

So it's like, I think a chocolate stout is a safer way

It's going to be ready first week of December and it's going to hang around for

probably

a month and a half to two months

And then we're going to slowly roll into our anniversary month

So, so we don't, I still have to worry about our anniversary beer, getting that

into barrels,

letting it age

So it's like, I don't kind of want a stout that may or may not be good to

linger for

our anniversary because we, we have last year's, we always save a keg from the

previous year

for the new year

So we have a keg to put on for that

And then we have the new beer

So it's kind of like a little, that it's kind of why I'm making it a half batch

And then after the stout, the veterans blend, which was last year's blade, that

'll be this

year

That'll be the next batch we brew

That'll be on right now, tentatively on Veterans Day that Monday, I'm going to

reach out to

the base Port Hueneme and see if there's a couple of guys that are, they should

be off

It's Veterans Day

You would hope so

You would hope so

And if they want to come out, whether it's Navy, Air Force, like separate, like

ones

that separate or retire, whatever, whoever wants to come out

Last year we had two guys from my previous military shop

They came out and helped us brew it

So, so we'll be doing that again this year with the hop blend from Yakima Chief

Last year's blend was insane, was unbelievable

So I'm ridiculously excited for this year's

Nice

Yeah

Is it like a fresh hop thing because of the time of the year?

No, unfortunately it's not

That would be sick, but that would require like them to ship it to us within 24

hours

And then the day I get it, we would have to brew that day

Oh, you can't sit on it at all

No

Ideally like 48 hours is really the max

Wow

Yeah

So breweries that are not within the Northwest that make fresh hop ales, they

either get

it from a local farm

So we have a couple, we have a few hop farms that are within hours drive of us

in this

County, but if they get it from the Northwest, they are paying a pretty penny

for those fresh

hops to be at their facility within 48 hours, getting overnighted and

everything

Yep

So, I mean, that's great

I'm a fresh hop guy

Oh, so I love all you, dude, I'm waiting for Costco to get their massive pack

that I buy

every year

Yeah

God, I love that beer

It's not Christmas

If you haven't had a celebration

Yep

It used to be Anchor Christmas and celebration

Now it's just celebration

Anchor making a comeback?

Possibly

Supposedly

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

He's the CEO of Chobani

He's trying to get the original, the last brew staff to come back cause he

bought the

actual standing

Right

He bought everything

Everything

So technically everything is still there

So I don't know

We'll see

I would love for them to start re-releasing their killer beers that they had

Yeah

That Christmas one was one of my favorites

Yeah

I love that

It was always, you know, a few years ago, up to a few years ago, Christmas was

the Anchor

shop celebration

And then Stone, Choco Vesa, those were my three Christmas

It's Christmas season when I've had all three of those beers and now I'm just

down to celebration

Yeah

Yeah

When we lived in New Mexico, it was Celebration, Anchor, and then Deschutes Jub

ilee

Love that beer

It's a good one

I used to do, cause it came out right before Thanksgiving

I would brine my turkey in it

I'd get a 12 pack and all 12 bottles would brine the turkey over the course of

three

days

Yeah

I'm a turkey briner guy

I don't fry it

I don't smoke it

However, I do enjoy smoked and fried turkey

The way I make it is brine and then I just traditional roast

I've overcooked turkey that's been brined and it's still moist

Like 190 degrees

I'm like, Ooh, this is leather

And I'm like, Whoa, Whoa

How is this possible?

This should be awful

And it's still delicious

It's thanks to the beer

Yeah

Yeah

I swear by it, man

Well, very nice

Well, glad to have you at the helm of making some tasty beers

Thank you

I hope so

Yeah

Excited to try them out

And all that good stuff

So, all right

Speaking of beers, Flex

Hi

Oh, hold on

No, just kidding

You're looking thirsty over there

I'm a little parched

Yeah

Let's see where you're drinking

In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than grow

lers, only

one tongue can guide us, one man, one tongue, one Tongue Jobber

In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking

Hello, everybody

Tonight, I'm drinking Frisbee from Eagle Park Brewing

I picked it up like a week ago

I haven't

I've had two kids with pneumonia, so I haven't got out much

Oh, fun

Yeah

Let me just put that out there

Yeah

Yeah

Life is real

But I have this in the house and it's great

It is a New England style IPA, heaps of mosaic hops, says the can, 85% ABV

And I love these guys' descriptions on untapped

Can I just say?

You can say

It says it's a New England style IPA with heaps of mosaic hops

Oh

It's exactly what's on the can

It's brilliant

I didn't see that coming

Yes

But it's got a 413 collective, 22 thousand ratings, which is, yeah, it's a

respectable

rating

Mosaic hops

Who don't love them?

Can art

It's fun

Can art

Oh, yeah

Sandbags and a camper and a guy hiding behind sandbags while camping in a UFO

I don't understand it, but it's fun

On the old schnauzer here, like, like orange juice mixed with marshmallows like

it's got

a kind of orange Julius kind of

Yeah

Like, definitely smoothie ask

OK

Trying to figure out what that was

I'm pretty sure it's like marshmallow

It's delicious

You know, here we go

Warm up the old tongue job here

Whenever I hear Frisbee, I always think of Back to the Future, like two

I think it is

He's got the pie tin and he's like, oh, Frisbee, and then throws it at the guy

That's because I'm a nerd

But orange Julius

Aroma goes right into the palate

And obviously it's it's fucking delicious

Yeah

One of those in forever

I love this beer

This is actually the first time I had this beer was crawled, crawled, crawled,

crawled,

crawled

Oh, no

It's crowd from now on

Yeah

Yeah

Kind of like that

And it was fantastic

And they hadn't brewed it in like

Two to three years since then, and now it's become an annual brew and it's it's

just wonderful

every time they do it

Nice

And I expect to hear that lingo around the brewery, by the way

Hey, you guys crowd that beer for someone

I know

I think it's great

That can't be crawler

It's not a real word

Right

Crowder

I mean, crawler is not even a real word

Right

So then you can make up words

Growl it

Yeah

Growl it

Growl it

Growl it

Why not?

Hey, I'm here for it

Yeah

I dig it

Yeah

Yeah

Super solid beer

What else is new?

Dig it

Right

And sweet can art, too

Oh, it really is

And eight point five percent

Come on

It's right in there

It's stupid

Come on

How much per can?

It's like I think this one was sixteen ninety nine

So the four pack

Yeah

Oh, man

That's high on the algorithm

Four and a quarter per can

But eight point five percent

That's pretty solid

Yeah

No, that's high

That's that's going to be up there on the algorithm

That's a great price for a four pack of eight point five percent

Yeah

Oh, that's what we do here

Yeah

Yes

Although as soon as you leave the state, as soon as we leave California, it's

like, oh,

look, reasonably priced products

The best new prices I've found so far, though, have been in Missouri because

nobody wants

to be there

Mm hmm

Well, I mean, it was St Louis, so it's like the only place of Missouri anybody

wants to

be

Right

Right

Right

True

Right

Because it's like St Louis on the east side and then nothing, nothing, nothing

, nothing,

nothing throughout

And then you get to the other end before you get out

And it's like, oh, hey, Kansas City, I mean, that's Missouri in a nutshell

There it is

That's all you need to know

That's like even on the train when I was in Portugal on the fucking train where

you expect

beer to be like twenty dollars a can or whatever, beer was like a dollar fifty,

but euro fifty

for a beer

I was like, God damn, I'm going to get hammered

I hope you did

Yeah

Beer was cheap when we lived in Germany

And this was before the pandemic

It was cheaper than it was cheaper than soda and water

Wow

Just think about that for a second

That's insane

Like a Bitburger third liter serving was a dollar eighty euro, a half liter of

Coca-Cola,

which is Mexican style Coke with real sugar over there and which is sixteen

point nine

ounces

Yep

And that was three fifty euro bottle beer

It is

That's why I have no idea what it is now

I haven't talked to friends that are still over in Europe

I can't imagine it being that much more expensive to be like we basically

invented beer

So it's like it it's got to be like in the cheaper than laws that it has to be

cheaper

than water

Yeah

Yep

Yeah

Most likely it's part of Reinhardt's cabot or whatever

Beer has to be cheaper than water

Any who

Not a water show

I don't know

Like I said earlier, the homie chew your beer called in

Let's check in

See what's up with him

Hello

No one is available to take your call

Please leave a message after the tone

Yo, what's up, homies?

Craft Beer Republic

It's your boy

Your friendly neighborhood cholo

Chew your beer

How you got those doing?

And lady, I think we have a lady in the house today

How are you?

This is true

Your beer

You probably heard of me

We'll talk later

Anyways, homies

Check it out

I just left

I went to a brewery

Yeah

You've been seen

I rebrewed Flantastico

This time, we made 720 gallons of Flantastico

We already put the vanilla

So they had me come over to try it out and see what I think and if I needed to

add any

more stuff

So I requested more vanilla

I felt like the vanilla was a little light, but also the beers on carbonated

So the flavors are expensive there as much

And then we're going to steep it with some green coffee for a couple hours

before crashing

it

So this beer should be ready by or before Halloween

So it would be a perfect treat for you adults to come out here and have a

couple of pints

of Flantastico before you go out and go get smashed with your partner

Yeah

Also, Greg, I'm sorry, homie

You got the shits from Stout Burger

I wish you would have called me

I could have warned you

While I had the shit

I was going to say, what was he going to get sick?

Because I didn't eat there, but my sister and her husband, man, they were

fucking shitting

out of their face and pissing on their ass from Stout Burger

Never ever, ever go there

It doesn't even matter what location you go to

You're all the same

You're going to get fucking butt poisoning, homie

My sister ate at the Studio City one and they said like within 45 minutes, man,

they were

fucking fighting for the toilet like bridesmaids, homie

So stay away from Stout Burger and yeah, man, just fucking go to In-N-Out or

Carl's Jr,

man

I will now

Fuck that shit

I could just see you fighting for a fucking toilet or a sink

All right, Holmes

This is true

Your beer and wash your rear

Peace out

He's laughing at his own voice

Now

I mean, it's true

What else do you expect?

Do you think he's like writes those out and practices them like a speech for

school?

Probably

I mean, otherwise, is he just that good?

Like maybe just on his feet on the fly

Yeah

If anybody doesn't remember a couple of weeks ago, I talked about going to the

concert

We went to Stout Burger down in Hollywood and some light food poisoning did

occur

So, but so not only did Shue's sister and Shue get food poisoning from the same

place,

the wife talked to her best friend who had been there before

She apparently got food poisoning

I was like, it's like a fucking epidemic

Don't go to Stout Burger, which is funny that Shue says that Stout Burger is

awful and everyone's

had awful experiences

The friends that were stationed in Vegas at the Nellis Air Force Base, there's

a Stout

Burger in Vegas

They all loved it and they were supposed to open one in Ventura downtown for

like three

years

Google had coming soon or whatever

And now it's permanently closed

They never even open

Oh, I think it did open for like three months

Did they actually open it?

And then they shut down

Was that the one, like the containers stacked in the back?

Like that was, yeah, they did open briefly

Very briefly

So I was excited and I never got to go because now they're permanently closed

So it's like, dang, like I'm kind of glad I didn't go

But at the same time, I'm like a bullet dodged

Yeah

Because I had like 24 taps all rotating

They had quite a few

I mean, look, the beer is great

Even the food tasted good, but I could see that the meat was pretty red

Oh, my

Yeah

And like I talked about, like I even ate around the middle of it because I was

like, we're

going to a concert

I don't need to be getting the shits at a concert

I might eat around the middle

It's a little safer on the edges

Oh, my

OK

Still didn't work, but I got it less than the wife did

She did not eat around the middle

She was puking in the middle of the night

That's still crazy when something hits you in the middle of the night like that

Yeah

That has never once happened to me in my life

Oh, really?

Really?

Rare for me

Like once or twice kind of thing

But yeah

Yeah

It's either going to happen before I go to bed or when I wake up

Sleep

Sleep is sleep or your pants, one or the other

All right

Before we move on to a little bit of news, Boris brought a beer over here as

well

I did

Let's let's make a call

The pen

He calls to the bullpen for beer

Yeah, he did

Sure did

All right

Well, I went

Home County, we'll say home county here in Ventura County, Enneagram Brewing

their autumn

lager called Foilage

It is

And I did my homework because I listened to the show

This is a three point eight three on untapped

Loggers always get fucked on tapped

Yes

Does not

It could be like the greatest lager ever made

Three seven

Three seven

Yeah, exactly

Everyone's like

I'm like, OK, whatever

This is a American amber and it says here on untapped Foilage is a hoppy amber

lager

based off our old Foilage pale ale recipe using cascade and Chinook hops

The lager version is smoother and crisper than the ale with a poppy citrus and

pine

kick

This beer is dry and crisp with pronounced maltiness alongside the piney

cascade and

Chinook hops

It's like jumping into a pile of crunchy fallen leaves

And this is one of my actually seasonal favorites from theirs ever since we

moved here

We moved here in August of 19

Basically every fall I've bought at least like a four pack, sometimes a flats

worth

It's just that good

I think it's due to it's got that malty body and then they toss in the cascade

and Chinook

hops, which just like it's that perfect balance of malty and old school C hops

that have been

around for like 30 plus years

And when done right, it's just beautiful

And then it's what?

Five point

Oh, no, I'm sorry

It's six percent

Oh, so that's big ABV for Integra

That's huge for a lager

It's at the top end

It is at the top end, with the exception of like their big box or doppel box

It is at the top end of seasonals

Their IPL is six percent

Their single hop Pilsner's are five to five and a half, and then everything

else is below

five or four

And I believe Mertens top out at six

Yes, they do

I know a thing or two

What kind of beer was that again?

Mertens

Oh

One of those Mertens

It's dumber every time you are you are you summoning Randy Macho Man every time

I feel like there's a part of my everyday life where there's somewhere in that

24 hour

span where I try to summon him

How could you once a day?

Yeah

Well, yeah

Whether I like I do it subconsciously or like I actively try to do it

Yeah

It's like the day of the dead's coming up, too

So it's like I'm a really off

Right

I mean, extra hard

Yeah

But not an extra hard show

So we discussed that at the beginning

Yeah

Yeah

Geez

All right

A little news before we get up out of here

Maui, the parent company of Kraft, Ohana has announced that they're spinning

modern times

off in strategic partnerships

Oh, so first they closed the brewery and now they're just like, hey, we done

Interesting

Yeah

So unfortunate

It's so weird

So he was Kraft Ohana announced a pair of strategic partnerships for the future

of the

modern times beer brand and hospitality business that will see the Hawaii

headquarters headquartered

company words step back from the daily operations to focus and double down on

growing Maui Brewing

Well, Kraft Ohana will retain an interest in modern times

The company will not be directly involved

Wings and Arrow will oversee the modern times beer business

Moving forward, the CEO of that, Josh Landon founded St Archer back in the day

in San

Diego and later created the Ashland Heart Seltzer and Harlan Brewing Brands, a

group

led by San Diego businessman Duncan Ward has acquired the modern times coffee

brand and

hospitality business boards, LinkedIn page lists him as the executive chairman

of Victoria

corporate strategists described as corporate strategy and turnaround

specialists with

expertise in restaurant bars and coffee shops

Transition is expected to take place over the next month

It goes into a little more detail and how it's going to break down

But anyways, my brew is like, Hey, modern times boy, was that a bad purchase?

Man that sucks

I'm over here

I'm trying to think, is there any Hawaii brewing company with like an original

name with an

original name?

Yeah

It's like, like a, like a clever, like a fun brewery name

It's like Maui Ohana

Oh, instead of a Hawaii related is, I guarantee there's like an Aloha brewing

I'm sure

You know, that'd be a fun brewing

Mahalo

Hey, good one

I've never been to Hawaii

Yeah

Me neither

But it's gotta be like I was legally able to drink

I'm drawing a blank on Britney's venture out that they had out there

Starts with a K It does collide, but it is still, it is still like tied to

Hawaii state

in one way or another

Right

So, and they recently reopened after all the fire stuff

That's awesome

That they were able to reopen

Yeah

Cause they got, they got destroyed

Completely

A year and a half ago

Yeah

Yeah

That was rough

And then speaking of modern times, if anybody's looking to start their own

brewery, yeah,

Boris, maybe start your own brewery

They are selling all the old equipment at auction

Oh man

Yeah

You have until November 7th when it wraps up

So a super weird yikes in a case of who the fuck asked for this, Al Smith is

adding a

hard cider to the year round lineup

Hell yeah

Hell yeah

Huh?

That's on genuine

And cut, uh, Al Smith brewing company has added its first hard cider to its

year round

portfolio

The San Diego based craft brewery has launched traditional dry apple cider, a 6

% ABV made

with fresh pressed West coast apples

I feel like the West coast do good apples

Like, you know, the North West does Washington's well known for their apples

Yeah

I don't know

I don't know

Fuck if I know

Does California grow apples?

I don't think so

I mean, in short, we grow everything

Are they known for apples?

No

Yeah

It's not what we're known for

No

They can't be that good

I mean, we, we kind of grow everything good cause we've got like every climate

you could

ask for at some point or another, but um, yeah, it's not what, what we're known

maybe,

but West coast could also mean like Oregon or Washington

I guess you're right

I, when I, I hear West coast, I just think California immediately

Yeah, I do too

But it could technically mean up

I would ignore it

Yeah

I would venture to guess

Northern California probably makes great apples because, yeah, oh yeah, that's

right

Northern California is just Southern Washington

I forgot about that

Yeah

Uh, here's the thing though

I've seen this whole cider thing popping up a bunch lately, but I don't see

people drinking

ciders

Like RTDs and seltzers are still the thing

And these breweries are like, Hey, ciders are things, but no one's drinking

them yet

I tell you when I liked, when I liked ciders, I was 16 years old and my cousin

who was going

into college, she drank those woodchuck brand ciders, right, right

And I thought that was delicious as a 16 year old just trying it

I think this is even with a brewery, like at the size of Alesmith, that it's

their attempt

at getting creative because just beer sales as a whole are down

It's been down for almost two years now

So what do you do?

Like you either invest in a way to make NA

So you either buy the equipment to de-alcoholize something or you invest in RTD

s or you make

a bazillion seltzers

Like, I don't, what do you, what do you do?

Like as a brewery, what do you do?

So I think this is Alesmith's way of getting creative to combat the lack of

beer sales

by making another product that they still make in house, but isn't a beer and

they can

still capitalize on the sales

Yeah

I get it

It just feels weird

It feels like it is very weird

No one's asking for it

Yeah

Um, I never realized how big Alesmith was

I went up to, I went down to San Diego in February and went there for lunch and

I was,

I walked in

I was like, Oh yeah, it's giant

Whoa

Did you do the tour?

I did not

What was going on?

There was a, one of the big distributors down there for the state of California

They had like their employee day

So there was like a hundred people that just took over Alesmith and I caught

the very end

of it luckily

Um, but it sounded like, like the people that would normally do a tour were

like already

done for the day

Oh yeah

Cause they had to cater to a hundred people

I mean, which the facility can cater to a hundred, but I think they broke them

up into

groups just to be safe

Cause I, when I got there, I was like, they just had opened the doors

So I think they had a private like pre open type of tour cause they're the

distributor

that who probably distributes for Alesmith

Right

Yeah

But, um, yeah, that's weird

Yeah

It's weird

If you're ever down there, the tour is really good

It's, you know, whatever, like eight bucks or something for the tour and they

just go,

all right, what beer do you want?

And they hand you a beer and you could just walk through with beer and hell

yeah, I miss

brewery tours, man

Yeah

It's good times

And it's big enough to where you actually have to do a tour

It's not just like, here's everything

Now turn around

There's the rest of everything

So, uh, it's good times

The wife had a work thing one time and, uh, you, we, they split us up into two

groups

and it was like half got to go do Alesmith and half got to go do ballast point

And it was luck of the draw

And we got lucky

We got the Alesmith tour

Nice

Yeah

I was like, please don't give us ballast point

Please don't get in

Oh, you're going to tell us how you make pineapples sculpt pins

I'm sorry

How do you ruin beer?

Perfect

God

I mean, hell yeah

Yeah

Yay

So I will say when we went to ballast point, the half of the people went on the

tour and

then the other half, us sat out in like the taste room, they handed us like

little beers

the whole time

And at one point the lady comes out and she's got a tray of beers like, all

right, who,

you know, who wants one?

And the wife reaches for it and she like picks up the smell of, of pineapple,

pineapple,

sculpin

And she goes, what beer is this?

And the lady's, oh, it's pineapple scope

And she goes, no, I'm good

Thanks

And we were the, we were the two snobs that turned it away

It actually worked out really well

Cause lady goes, what do you like?

And she goes, well, I can't stand any of that fruited garbage

You guys have, she goes, do you like German beers?

Like, yeah

She goes, here's a couple of drink tickets

Go hit the bar

We got some good German beers on tap right now

And they did

Like four or five different German beers that have never seen the light of day

outside

the room

And it was, it was surprisingly good

That's great

Yeah

But anyways, I think that's everything

I think we've exhausted our time here

I'm going to hit some music

I'm going to say hi to Vanessa

Hello, Vanessa

Hello, Vanessa

Question

Mark

That's the wrong song too

You just joined in the fun

It's a, it's a thing

Yeah

It's totally a thing

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