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
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
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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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why not?
Hey, I'm here for it
Yeah
I dig it
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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