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I am Greg and I am being joined by the honeydew to my Bunsen.
That's Flex. What's up, big fella? Um. Unpopular opinion.
Honeydew is an amazing melon. And also one of my favorite Muppets.
Well, see, and I'm a big, uh, Beaker fan. Okay? I like them both.
I think they're so funny and so underrated.
Um, the Muppets, 12 Days of Christmas. Uh.
The Beaker verse is amazing. I don't think I saw that.
Well, you hear it. It's a song. Oh, it's a song.
Yeah, it's the 12 days of Christmas. Like the partridge in a pear tree.
Yeah. When he gets to Beaker, he just.
Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep
meep meep meep meep meep. Dude. It's great. It's amazing.
They're great. I love them. I love them at the Disneyland thing
that's no longer there and all that good shit, they're the best.
Them and the Swedish chef. I like all like the.
Swedish chef. Is. He might be the best Muppet of all
time. Yeah. You're dirty. Dude. Uh, shout out to our top nine city
of last week. Smooth transition. Uh, North Bergen, new Jersey.
Sounds like something the Swedish chef said. North Bergen.
North Bergen, Jersey, Jersey. Thanks for listening to Joisey.
Yeah, turn off if you want. Yeah, that's actually all night.
Yeah. Don't, don't. It's only getting better and
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@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer underscores in between all that
good shit, so much to get to, we have a voicemail From Geico bear.
Whoa! It's been a minute. We'll get to Psycho Bear.
He finally got reception. Yeah. You know what?
I won't spoil anything. This is the best sounding from
an audio quality standpoint. Voicemail he's ever left.
And I was like, I could actually understand most
of what he's saying. Okay. I'm excited. Yeah, we'll get to it.
I did some dabbling that I want to tell you about. Okay.
Uh, had to do some family shit that I'll complain about. Uh, yeah.
And some booze news, of course. So if you don't mind, I'm gonna
crack right into it. Drink up. So thirsty. Quaggy. So, Steve.
Where do you want drinking? Out of my head. I Love My Beer. Mm.
I am drinking Hop Butcher for the world Galaxy traveling scientists.
Look at the color. Look at the lacing on this Wonderful.
You're drinking from my parts. This has been poured for, like,
ten minutes. Still all that? Lacey? Yeah. It's good. Their stuff is.
Gorgeous. Uh, this is 5.75% for one. For one for untapped,
with almost 2500 ratings. It says galaxy hopped American
pale ale infused with arcane distilled hop oils. Okay, whatever.
You know, that means. All right on the nose buds.
I bet it's like a company that does hop sales.
Yeah, but distilled hop oils. That's interesting.
We get a lot of dankness on the schnoz. Classic galaxy. Yeah, just.
I mean, dank is really filling the the nose holes there.
Maybe a little pine, but, I mean, it's almost kind of kind of weed,
like. Okay. Um. Tongue-jobber. Ooh. Tons of citrus and pith like.
The bitterness comes from like a citrusy ness, not so much like a
pine tree ness up front. Okay. Then the end is a little more piney,
but not so much. As you can see. It's quite hazy.
Lives up to the juiciness that it looks like.
Um, for being an American pale, it's actually got quite the
mouthfeel to it. So this is, uh, this is quite nice.
I'm telling those guys, like, I have to try not to buy their stuff every
week. They do really good stuff. Yeah, I'm trying to go through
people's reviews here on Untappd just to see what other people are saying.
But yeah, tons of citrus, uh, bitter hop oils at finish.
I guess it's just it's dank to me. I guess that could be the hop oils.
Uh, yeah, I like this. I didn't know what to expect
when I hear American Pale Ale. I don't know what you think.
I think like classic pale ale. Not hazy. Right?
Like a little malty and. Yeah, uh,
like pale 31 from Firestone or, uh, you know, Sierra Nevada pale ale,
that kind of thing. So was surprised when I poured
it and it was hazy. It's not what I was expecting.
Yeah, they're pretty well known for their haze business. Oh for sure.
I mean, it's not my first Hop Butcher, but definitely my first of
the series, The Traveling Scientist. You had one, I think,
about two months ago. Yeah, I totally forgot until you
showed me the can. Yeah, it has the the.
Say it, say it, say it and tell everybody I told you.
Amber. Was it Emory something? Erlenmeyer flask. Erlenmeyer.
That's what it. Was. I was like Emeryville.
No, it's a city. Shit. Yeah. You sometimes.
You know, I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday,
but I'll always remember, uh, sophomore year. Chemistry.
That's so funny. Junior year for me. And I hardly got through it. Wow.
It's too much math. Not a matther. Really? In chemistry. Yeah.
I don't think I had a good teacher. It was all math equations.
Like, I already got a math class. I don't I don't need this shit.
I was not a fan because I like chemistry,
like mixing liquids and making. Sure you have to, like,
balance the formulas. It wasn't like super mathy,
but it was. Oh, mine was super mathy. Mildly. Mildly mathy. Oh.
Lucky you. I did not do well. We also got to roast marshmallows.
Oh, like every week on the Bunsen burners.
Which I don't know if it was safe. Eating gas. Roasted marshmallows.
But, uh, our teacher was fucking awesome.
Dude was nuts. That's cool. Yeah. Teacher I had was not fucking
awesome. Well, we would do experiments.
He was one of the only classrooms that had, like,
a TV with a DVD player. So he had a whole shitload of CDs.
Or he could bring in a CD and the first person to the DVD
player to put a CD in. You would listen to that the whole
fucking class during the experiment. It was awesome. That's cool.
Were there any limits, like, you know, no cussing or anything
like that? Yeah. You know, so it had to be like
reasonable, right? Like no explicit content type shit,
but sure. Yeah, we put on some gnarly shit.
No Doctor Dre back in those days. Well, if it was, uh, censored.
Absolutely. Oh, sure. Yeah. Radio edits. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I remember I got a kid in trouble once.
Uh, I was in video production, and my teacher fucking loved me.
And, I mean, it makes sense. I obviously went on to be a
video professional. But who doesn't love you? That's who.
But he loved me because I was actually the only good one in class.
And so sometimes kids would be like, hey, can you, you know,
help me edit my project or whatever. And so they wanted to use an Eminem
song one time, I forget which one. And we did it and we watched it
afterwards. And he's like, man,
there's a lot of cussing in here. Do you think I'm gonna get in
trouble? I was like, I don't know, man.
You just tell them that it was my fault.
So sure enough, the next day he shows the project in class and he was
telling me I wasn't in that class. He was telling me about it.
And teacher was like, you know, I can't accept this.
This was, you know, way too explicit. I can't, but this is my impression of
my. Is that what he sounded like? This is absolutely what he
sounded like. And so after he gets done telling him
why he can't accept this project, he goes, oh, well, Greg helped
me edit it. He chose the song. He goes, all right,
I guess it'll be all right. I was like, see,
I fucking told you. Damn it, dude. That's amazing. I don't know why.
I don't know why it works so well. Like I got away with murder in
that class. Crazy. You were banging your teacher.
That's wild. Yeah. He had to use so much Viagra to
keep it hard, man. Dude was old. Dude was old.
I love that he loved you, though. That's awesome. Yeah. Good times.
Uh, all right, back to the beer stuff. Oh, I read this.
I didn't want to do, like, a whole story about it, because I just
thought it was interesting, though. But apparently, 20 something year
olds are not opening tabs anymore. Oh. Yeah. Like, kids are just going.
Kids are just going up in pain, you know?
Drink at a time with their credit cards.
And I guess not only is it a huge hassle for bartenders and slowing
service down, but it's also causing all like these bars to pay more in
credit card fees because they're transacting more transactions.
Yeah. Yeah. So, uh. Hey, kids, open a tab, you weirdos.
Speaking of kids, um, I felt really old today. Oh.
I was, uh, getting ready to cut the grass.
And when I say getting ready to cut the grass, it means, like,
I have to, like, stretch. Really get myself mentally
prepared to do something I really don't want to do.
And my neighbor across the street, they had a couple kids,
ones away at college. Their son had his first year at
college, so now he's back for the summer.
One of his friends had a table in the back of his car as he was backing up
into his driveway today. And I'm at. I'm that old that now the
neighbor kids are bringing tables for drinking games. Oh damn it.
And I just really have never felt like there's a lot of shit
that happens in life that makes me feel old.
Working with kids that say they weren't born yet when I graduated.
I get it. Um, but this one,
this took the cake for sure. Especially because they brought a
table for a game that we used to play about 15 years ago that nobody
else had ever played that we knew. And it kind of made me happy
that the game still alive. Um. But it also made me just feel like
a grandpa. What game is this? It was called, uh, beer.
Dice or beer? Die. Beer die. I don't think I've ever seen this.
So what we did, they actually had, like, a whole four leg table for
this one. Like a rectangle table. We would play on a piece of plywood,
like a three by three piece of plywood, and you would put a
piece of tape in the middle like centre court type for basketball.
And then you would tape off four corners of the table.
So two people would be on each side, and you would be on the same side as
your teammate, and you'd sit in a chair at a corner while your cup was
in the corner corner of the table, and you'd throw a die up in the air.
Your hand couldn't go above the table on the throw, and the die had to go
above everybody's head at the table. Oh, and then, you know,
because dice have all like the one, two, four corner, eight corners,
eight corners. So when it hits a table,
you know it rolls. It's what it does. It's what it's supposed to do.
So you're supposed to try to throw it as high as you could.
It would bounce and roll off the table.
And then it was on the other team to catch it as it rolled off the table.
Uh, you know, how it does so mysteriously and unpredictably
is the word I was looking for. And if you didn't catch it,
it hit the ground. That would be a point for the
other team. A point for the rollers of the right.
The point for the throwers. Yeah. Throwers.
And then if you hit somebody's cup with the the dies,
it was on the table. It would. You'd have to take a drink.
You could throw the die in the person's cup.
And then that whole team would have to drink or chug their cup.
And if the die stayed on the table, depending on the number that it
stayed, the thrower would have to drink that many drinks.
I kind of like this. Oh,
it was a it was a really fun game. It was, you know, it's athleticism.
It's, um, there's a lot of fun. So to see these kids fucking
playing this game. Yeah. It was nostalgic, but also it
just made me feel like I said, like a fucking grandpa.
Well, I'm old as dirt, and now I want to learn how to play this game.
It's it's not hard to learn. It's pretty much as simple as I laid
it out. You know what we need to do? You need to come out for, uh,
Nick's birthday. Always has a big birthday party.
Teach us how to play. What is that? Uh, end of August.
Yeah. It's hot. There It is hot. They got a pool. They got a. Pool.
I do like pools. Yeah. It's, uh. You know, what do they call it?
A white trash pool. It's above ground.
Oh, that's a normal pool. Yeah. So it's a common folk pool.
Common folk? Yeah. Yes. But if you need me to have I write
another letter to your wife, let me know. I'll let you know.
I'm sure it'll go over well. Just like the last one did.
Yeah, it always does. Yeah. I'm sure she totally saw it, too.
Yeah, she was a voodoo doll of you. That's why my dick hurts right now.
Damn, it makes sense. Oh. Uh, well, speaking of kids,
you know, we've talked about all the kids these days.
How they're drinking less alcohol and doing more of the weed, man.
And you know what I heard on the radio? They're hooking up less.
What? Yeah. Tinder. Never been on, first off,
but they had more. Of a Grindr guy. Yeah. Love me some dudes.
Uh, but I just, uh, had heard on the radio that Tinder had to do,
like, a rebranding or like a remarketing. Oh, no. Shit.
Because the new generation is hooking up less.
So it has to be more like a it's like a hangout app or something like that.
To where? Like, fuck that. Yeah. It's super bizarre. You know what's.
When I was 18, 19 years old, all I wanted to fucking do was
hook up. Yeah. Fuck. When I was 30 years old,
all I wanted to do was hook up. Well,
I was already married with kids, but. Yeah, I mean,
28 is when I met my wife. So when I was 28 years old,
all I wanted to do was. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
Definitely not a 30 when we were already together and well
established in a relationship. I love you, honey. Uh, but. Yeah.
So they're hooking up less, and they're drinking less.
Like, what is happening? Fuck. All right.
Slight detour off the story I was going to talk about, but, uh,
I won't I won't say who this was because I don't want to call out this
person's kid and have people know. But somebody was telling me over
the weekend that their daughter has just started dating.
She's 16 or 17, I forget. And they told her like, oh,
you can't date until you're a junior in high school.
And so now she's just started dating. She's a junior.
I was like, yeah, my first girlfriend couldn't date
until she was a junior either. He goes, oh, so how old were you
when you started dating? I said freshman like, there's no
way she's fucking listening to no dating until you're a junior.
Everybody I knew that had those rules dated the entire time. Yeah.
And and then he's telling me that, like, they don't go out and he didn't
say hook up, but you could see he was implying that, like, they don't
just try and find a dark spot and make out in the corner all the time.
You know, he was like, yeah, they just hang out and like,
that's dating now is like hanging out and talking and just going out.
I was like, what the fuck is wrong with the youth of today?
That's weird. I remember, like, when you would,
like, meet, like you're not. Not meet a girl because you'd be
in high school. But, like, you start liking a
chick and she likes you, and, like, we never.
I didn't have a basement growing up. And in California, you probably
don't have. Basement basements. But you meet a girl who had a
basement. That was that. Was it? Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Like that?
Yeah. It was the best. Yeah. We had you would hang out,
but then things would hang out and it was. Yeah. Nailed it. Um.
That was the best. Yeah, it had to do a lot of PDA,
a lot of public displays of affection. Okay. Yeah. No basements.
Uh, everyone's parents were always home. Yeah, that kind of stuff.
I do. Sucks. Yeah. I probably shouldn't tell this on the
show, but one time I had a girl over at my mom's house in high school,
and we were driving by this point, and I was certain that the house
was going to be empty until a certain time.
So we went over after school, you know, nothing major, but,
you know, we're doing more than just hanging out.
And all of a sudden my stepdad gets home and we're in my room,
and I was like, oh, fuck. And there's only I mean,
there's no way this person can leave without being seen.
Like, if she goes through the door, everyone's gonna see her.
I was like, fuck, what do we do? I was not expecting people home
until at least, like, 4 or 5:00. And luckily, he had a loaner car
from the dealership because he'd taken his car in for service.
Okay. Did you prank call him? No, I played the I'm totally into
cars, which I am, I love cars. And so he goes, hey, I got a loaner.
I was like, oh, cool. I said, what'd you get?
He goes, whatever. Top of the line, such and such.
And I was like, fuck, can we go for a ride? No.
And he goes, yeah, you want to take a spin around the block?
I said, yeah, that sounds awesome. And he goes, yeah.
And I was like, yeah, let me go back to the room and get some shoes on.
So I go back in the room. I was like,
here's what's gonna happen. Wait till you hear me squeal out of
the fucking driveway. Oh my God. And her car was, like,
in front of the neighbor's house. It wasn't super well hidden or
anything because we once again didn't expect anybody.
So like, yeah, let's go for a drive. So we go for a drive.
As soon as we squealed out, like she runs out the door and
jumps in her car and drives off. That's amazing.
Oh, the good old days. What a fun story to tell.
Yeah, I love that. She was one of my favorite
girlfriends. She was fun. Uh, anyways, I was getting
somewhere with all this. Yeah. Kids these days talk. They're barely.
But I'll get back on track. So kids these days,
they're drinking less. But, uh, pot usage has increased.
And anyways, I got an email because of some of the groups
I'm in for the show and, like, news gathering and all that stuff.
I got an email from this group who was like, hey, do you want
to try our latest THC drink. And I was like, yeah, sure.
Like for free, you know. That's right.
I remember you telling me about this. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, sure.
That sounds that sounds awesome. Like, happy to try it.
You know, I dabble, so I'm happy to give it a shot.
Uh, the company's called Oasis. I swear to God,
they're not sponsoring. I just told the guys like you
send it to me. I will give my real experience on the
show, good or bad. And he goes fair. And so the company's called Oasis,
and he sent me two things. One, they call a social tonic.
It's basically a seltzer, no alcohol, but it has ten milligrams of THC in
it. And so the wife and I split that. It tasted. Good.
Split, by the way. Yeah, yeah. Because ten is a little much,
especially just for a regular night. So it was mango.
Something like Mango Bliss was the flavor.
The flavor was first of all, it was not a bad flavor.
It just didn't scream mango to me. Like I enjoyed it.
It was it was easy to drink. No problem.
Some of those those weed drinks you get taste like utter asshole.
And this was not one of them. It tasted pretty decent.
And then the other thing I liked even better was it's this.
It looks like a pen or like a wite-out pen, and it drops and it has
zero flavor, zero calories, sugar. You just add it to your drinks.
By the way, whiteout. I know when you said whiteout pen,
not even just whiteout whiteout pen. Kept the trend.
Hey, whiteout pens were like new technology in high school.
Oh, so you were in high school in, like, 2002 to 2004? Cool.
Shut your face. Yeah. I was totally still in high school in
2004. I didn't graduate in oh three. I said 2002 to 2004.
So anyways, you get this pen and you just like, squeeze a couple drops
in there and then you get like, I think a couple of drops or
something like three milligrams or something like that.
No flavor, no calories, no sugars. You know, I'm all about like no
carbs. It's fucking fantastic. That's awesome. Yeah.
So I told the guy I'd give him an honest review on the show.
Here's my honest review I enjoyed it. It is not a sleepy time.
Sort of high. It's more of a head high,
you know, like, a lot of times we'll take gummies to go to bed.
Did not make us tired at all. Okay. Did make us high, though.
So mission accomplished. Mission. Yeah, I did some dabbling.
It was great. So what was the company called?
It was called Oasis. Oasis? Yeah. Herbal. Excuse me. Herbal. Oasis.
Um, social tonic is the drink. And then the THC drink mixer is
the little drops. Um, yeah, I enjoyed it. So, uh, I.
Love the idea of the drops. Me too. And I told him when he hit me up,
I was like, honestly, like, I'll try the.
The tonic sounds interesting, but I honestly don't care. I'm.
I'm in it for the drops. This sounds amazing.
I mean, just think of, like, the everyday, uh, you know,
people that you know, not I don't want to say need to
do it every day, but. But the. Everyday users say your morning
coffee, a couple drops, you know, get you started for the day or,
you know, you get home from work and you're just not feeling that
that beer or that that drink. Hey, have a Chelsea.
Have a Diet Coke. Yeah. Guess what. We gonna soup it up a little bit.
We gonna? Yeah, we're gonna hit the turbo.
Oh, yeah. Which leads me perfectly into my next
story. Um, the someone in the family. Once again,
I'll stop naming names here. Someone in the family graduated over
the weekend and the wife's family, and they decided it would be a
dry party because there's going to be teenagers there.
They're like, we just don't want to deal with it.
And I said, this motherfucker wants to deal with it.
Don't you at least have, like, a cooler for, like, the adults that.
I mean, look, my best friend Deanna lives in Vegas.
Uh, her family, her family's out near me.
They have the best fucking parties. It's always full of food and
delicious booze. And that's what they do.
They have the cooler that anybody can go to, and they have
the cooler with the booze in it. And if any adult sees any of the
children going to the cooler on the right, they fucking launch a
beer can at their head like you just the kids know.
Stay the fuck out of this cooler because people are around.
This is normal. Growing up. That's just normal. Growing up.
Well, this person is weird about alcohol.
It's like we're not gonna have any alcohol here, so I.
I did sneak over some seltzers, but I also snuck over the little
wite-out pen full of full of weed. It was like drip, drip, drip.
Oh, this is better. Slightly more tolerable.
Still love that. You call it a whiteout pen.
I can't, not now. I bet the guy who sent it to me
is like the the whiteout pen. Probably like 26.
I was just gonna say probably 23. Yeah. Damn it. So, uh. Yeah.
I'm so glad you're with me on the whole dry graduation party thing.
Like that's what you do. You have two coolers.
You have the cooler of everything and the cooler of beer.
Yeah, well, so growing up here, there is usually a cooler of water.
Like bottled water, right? Then there was a cooler of
variety of sodas or pops or whatever you want to call them.
No sodas because I'm not a fucking pop weirdo.
Yeah, we're soda out here. Good. And then, uh,
then there is a cooler of beer. Yeah, that's exactly what the
party had. Had three coolers. And it's just how it should be.
Yeah, but the three coolers were one water,
two bubbly waters and three sodas. It's like, no,
you have your water, you have your mixed flavored beverages. Yep.
And then you have your fucking beer cooler.
Then you have your beer cooler. And I even said. You know what?
This person, this person needs to grow up.
Yes. And this person is older. Just just grow up. Yeah. Get over it.
Uh, well, here's the thing I said. I said if I was going to this party.
So there's no, like, official invite, like, hey,
come to my graduation party. You know, at this time,
it's just like, hey, anybody wants to come over?
They had, like, tacos and stuff. They didn't.
We tried to get them to call my taco guy.
I was just gonna ask, did they have a taco guy or did
they make their own taco mad? They went to a Mexican restaurant
and, like, got all the ingredients and spent a ton of money and then had
people, like, make their own tacos. Oh, and I was like,
for a basically the same price, you could add our taco guy making
it for everybody, and it's hot and fresh and delicious and the
fucking best. Can't win em all. So I guess everyone in California
is doesn't have a taco guy. You know what I do?
And that's what counts. Oh, well, you're the only thing
that counts in my world, so. So anyways,
I was saying that because there was no official invite for this party.
If I were a guest who was like, you know, tangentially invited. Hey.
Come over. It's my graduation party. I would have shown up with, like,
a 12 pack of beer as a thank you for inviting me to and feeding me.
I have brought libations. Like that's how I show up to parties.
That's a pretty classy move, right? You invited me. Any party? Yeah.
So the fact that there was, like, zero alcohol to me was so weird.
Luckily, uh, the graduate's older cousin, who is in his 30s.
We were talking. He's a funny dude. We were talking a little bit, and I
said, yeah, we yeah, we got some Celtics in the back of the trunk.
And he goes, oh, I got some in the back of the trunk too.
He goes, do you have an ice chest? I said, yeah we do.
He goes, can I throw them in your ice chest? They're just sitting warm.
And I keep having to go for ice. I was like, yeah man,
fucking throw them in ice chest. What a stud you are. Yeah.
So we, uh, we we, we cross streams a little bit and shared Kelsey's
and he had the ashland's, we had the high noon's.
It was we had a much better time. I don't know what an Ashland is,
but I still haven't dabbled in the high noon's. Oh, yeah.
Here's the thing about the high noon's.
Um, we switched to them because my wife is allergic to 1 or 2 of
the flavors in the Kirkland pack. Oh. Yeah.
Like, I still like the Kirkland pack, but she. I think it's the mango.
Makes her, like, break out. She gets all red. So, like.
All right, no more Kirkland's. And so we got the high noon's
and flavor wise, like, she's not allergic to anything.
Uh, works out well, except to me. They're a little strong.
Like, the flavor is too strong for me. A little too sweet.
So in the ultimate alcoholic move, I tried mixing it with, uh, champagne.
Basically made like a seltzer. Seltzer? Mozza. Jesus Christ, Greg.
Fucking delicious. Sounds like a bad morning.
Fucking delicious. 1 to 1 baby seltzer mozza.
It was perfect because they're just a little too strong and sweet for me.
This really just made it perfect. Noon. Mozza. Noon. Mozza. Hi, mozza.
I thought about hi mozza. But it makes it sound like weed.
Yeah, I. Have had the watermelon high
noon and it was terrible. Yeah, you know what's funny?
I hated it initially. Like, spit it out.
Couldn't even finish the can. I'll tolerate it now. Interesting.
I cannot do the pineapple, though. Get that shit out of my face.
That is disgusting. I'm gonna check this out now.
Yeah. Peach, though. Hand me a peach and I'll be a
happy as a peach. Interesting. Yeah, I like the peach. So.
Okay. Good to know. Yeah. Oh, what a fucking drunk I am.
All right. Before the sell samosas. I mean, that's gotta put you in
a AA class. Come on. That's top notch right there.
I don't know, man. That's pretty wild.
I don't do it all the time, you know? But, uh, sometimes it's too much
flavor. A little a little champagne. It's like the margaritas with
the bottle of corona that's stuck upside down in it. That's.
I mean, that's it's fun looking, but that's a lot.
Have you ever tried one of those? Are your years ago, like, ten?
No, my kid's ten. Um, 13 years ago. Okay, I have not,
because it sounds fucking disgusting. It's like,
why would you ruin this perfectly good margarita with a corona in it?
I mean, it really just, like all the tequila and sugar.
Like, just. You don't even taste it. It just keeps going and going.
Oof, that's the other thing. I don't like real margaritas.
I like they call them skinny margaritas.
And instead of the simple syrup, they put like sparkling water in it.
And you are a bitch. It's so good. It's so refreshing when it's hot out.
Cause I love margaritas. See, I don't like sugary.
Now, there is one place down here. It's in Santa Monica.
They make their own simple syrup. They make their own, um, what they
call it. Like the lemon lime mixture. Whatever stuff there.
I will take them as they come. Those margaritas are fantastic,
but generally they're just too sweet for me. I don't like the sweetness.
Like a 24 ounce margarita. The other day it was mango and it was
wonderful. Sounds way too sugary. Mango margarita. So good.
Just over there. Getting diabetes. Getting with a burrito the size of my
head. It was. Oof. Just top notch. I'm here for the burrito side of it.
Love burritos. Oh, I bet you do. All right, before we find out or
before we find out. Before we check in with Psycho Bear,
let's find out what Flex is drinking over there.
In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger
than growlers, only one tongue can guide us.
One man, one tongue, one Tongue-jobber.
In this world we must find out what is Flex drinking.
How you do that to your eyebrows? What's rasam?
But they're like extra and like they they go off like it's almost
rock like and very cartoony. I like because I got a huge forehead,
plenty of room for the eyebrows to go.
I do too, but my eyebrows don't go that high.
I don't know, I got really stretchy skin.
Maybe it has to do with my stretchy skin.
I don't want to talk about stretchy skin on the air. Okay.
Well you asked and I will answer. Sir, uh, today Flex is drinking
mosaic cutting tiles from Trillium Brewing Company. Oh. Trillium.
And I know what you're thinking. You're so fancy.
Flex always talks shit about the price of Trillium. That too.
Um, so I thought about it today because I haven't been, you know,
partaking a lot and going out, and, you know, I've been real.
I like to call myself a good boy now. Mhm. Being a pretty good boy.
He's a good. Boy. So when, when a single can is 575
for you. That doesn't sound bad. I was like that sounds great.
Especially for Trillium. Great. And I actually thought to I was like,
oh it's not like eight bucks. And I'm thinking this is what a beer
would be if I went to a brewery. It would be even more, you know,
for like a 16 ounce pour. Yeah. So I was able to, you know,
think it through. And I was like, you know what?
I'm going to fucking try this and see what it's like.
So this is mosaic cutting tiles. It is a double IPA with raw
wildflower honey. I know off air. You said you haven't liked a
single beer with honey. I find that to be true.
I enjoy just about every single beer I've ever had with honey.
I think it brings a really nice, like, just a nice clean.
Not a cleanse to the palate. Just like a shock to the palate.
Like, what is this weird sweetness coming through like this?
Natural sugar. I think it's great. So this one's. It's an 8.5% ABV.
Uh, untapped is wild here. It's over 25,000 check ins at a
4.35 collective rating. Holy shit. That's fucking high, dude.
It's like. Numbers. It's like 20 drops from the
whiteout pen. Hi. Um. Very relevant. Drop there.
And this is like a stone esque description I got. Oh, Good.
Let me clear my throat. Aha, aha! Cutting tiles is an exploratory
series of double IPAs featuring a range of aromatic single hop
varietals brewed with raw, local wildflower honey.
This version is dosed with 100% mosaic in all kettle, whirlpool
and a massive dry hop addition. The honey keeps the body light
and drinkable, but provides an earthy backbone, juicy candied
peach and nectarine up front, backed with a nuanced white wine on
the nose that continues straight through in the flavor profile.
Pillowy soft mouthfeel with a restrained bitterness on the
finish four hours later. Yeah. So, uh, the old nose buds here, very,
uh, hoppy herbaceous Just Botanical, maybe like some unripe stone fruit.
Mhm. I was always a big fan of that by the
way when I worked in the industry. Still good. It smells nice.
It smells like a very good beer. So without further ado, ado,
we'll check out the old Tongue-jobber and see what it says.
I will say the one thing that's been nice about Stone selling out is
not having to read those goddamn descriptions. Okay, so this was fun.
So when I originally poured it out before the show started,
I couldn't get anything out of this. You were not overly enthused.
I wasn't, and I was worried about maybe I had
something else on my tongue now, and I was freaking out because the
beer I had a couple weeks ago, I thought it was shitty.
And then it turns out I just ate something and so I was freaking out.
Really bad. Not really bad. That's an exaggeration, I lied.
I was kind of worried. You were in tears.
What are you talking about? So the description says As candied
peach and nectarine up front. Couldn't find that when I first
poured it out. It's there. Oh, like as this beer opens up,
it warms up. Uh,
we'll we'll dive in one more time. Yeah. It's there. That's wonderful.
My idea of this beer, my thought of this beer is totally changed in the
matter of 25 minutes. 30 minutes? Um, it's definitely got, like,
a very dry finish, so I see what they get with that.
As they said, nuanced white wine. Mhm, mhm. Um. Super dry.
Uh, that really does go all the way through to the finish.
Very restrained bitterness like they said.
I'm gonna say uh is it's fantastic. It's worth the money.
Do you agree with the rating. Ah. For three five. That's high.
Um it's a solid four. Okay. Not that far.
I mean, you know, it's getting the Trillium bump.
So 4.35 probably really means like a 3.85. Yeah.
If it wasn't, maybe if it wasn't so dry hopped because what the
less I've been drinking, right? My my palate is kind of clearing up.
The less I've been drinking, the more I've been disliking
those overly hopped IPAs. Sure. Like the dry hops and the double
dry hops are really fucking with my palate. Your palates finally reset.
Yeah, that must be what it is. Um, so.
You fucked it so hard with hops for so many years?
Man, that's a lot of years. Yeah, a lot of hop raping.
So if maybe I was used to that again. Or maybe it wasn't such a huge
dry hop, like I said, uh, and there wouldn't be like that
lingering hoppiness because there is a little bit, um,
it would probably be a amazing, like, maybe ten out of ten. Beer. Wow.
Maybe if it didn't have the lingering. Yeah. Uh, still big words.
Very good. But I do. I love this dry finish, though.
That's what I. I don't know about you.
I very much enjoy that. Yeah, that's I mean, I prefer it,
first of all, it's the smartest thing you can do in beer making is
finish it dry, because then you want to take another drink. I do.
That's actually all I've been thinking about right now. Right.
You take more drinks, you buy more beer. It's. It's how you make money.
Do you think there's a scientific way that they know that happens,
or it just works that way? I would imagine with certain styles,
it's a little easier to nail that. Um, certain yeasts are more
prone to drier beers. Um, I'm sure sometimes it just
happens. Probably a little of both. Okay. Yeah.
I'm not a science guy, so that's why I'm asking.
Well, you know about the. I can't remember his name again.
Erlenmeyer flask. Erlenmeyer. Damn it.
I was like, the everywhere flask. No. He's rolling in his grave right now.
He can't remember his goddamn name. Sorry, Erlenmeyer.
You have a long ass name. Shorten that up.
Could you just call you Earl? The Earl flask?
Very Florida sounding. Uh. All right. I teased it earlier.
Because it sounds trashy. Yeah, 100%. I teased it earlier.
Let's, uh, let's check in with Psycho Bear. Hello?
No one is available to take your call.
Please leave a message after the tone. Oh, I certainly will.
I'll hear it on the show. @CraftBeerRepublic Dragon Flexy,
this is Psycho Bear. That's right. I know it's been a while.
Anyways, let's have a little drink right now. Gentlemen. Here we go.
Me too. Oh, damn. That's good. What I'm having here, gentlemen,
is Adobe Creek six year anniversary. It is stellar.
But why am I here at Adobe Creek on a. What day is it, Bob?
Wednesday. Wednesday afternoon. That's because I, for the first
time in over a decade, am on the road bike in Marin with NorCal.
And this is our third brewery on the tour. Where do we stop?
Oh, beer craft. And I have a tasty shit.
I can't remember because it's my third brewery, but in any case,
stopped at Beer Craft Bottle Shop. Then we went to a little spot in
Novato, Indian Valley Brewing, and had a grumpy, which hopefully
I'll be, but maybe I'm too old to become a grumpy Scotch Ale, which
was very good, and their shut down. Scotch ales. Takes them over.
Now we're at. Forever. Anyways, it has been a while.
Uh, I don't even know what last podcast I listen to,
but in any case, I see that Flexy is into the game of horse.
Well, I'm no pro, and I'm a little older than you fellas, and I'd
gladly challenge Flexy to a game of horse and probably take him out.
That's right. A game. Of what? Bear says horse and darts.
So let's just. Let's just keep that real.
Also, by the way, I will be back down in the good life.
Agoura Hills, July 11th through the 13th.
And now I found out on the latest podcast that you, Greg,
are a fellow Leo brother. Let's get together at Tarantula
Hill Brewing July 12th. I'm not on any other kind of
format of Instagram. What's the one with the bird?
Tweet? Twitter? I don't know, but, uh,
I'll be there July 12th, probably around 2 to 3 in the afternoon. With.
Your friends. Greg, come join us. Come join Saco Bear and Friends.
Anyways, let me finish enjoying this beer.
And bring your buddy Flexy out so I can take him down in darts or horse.
Thank you very much. Anyways, in my final.
Oh, and we got to celebrate Chew Your Beer beers. What is he.
100? He got cut off. There's a there's a three minute
limit on messages. He got cut off, but, uh.
Uh, yeah. Psycho bear 853. Beer. If you like to call and leave a
message. Uh, I should clarify. He was saying horse, not horse.
First. But at first I was like. He's saying he wants to play you
in horse. I don't know if he could beat me
in those. Uh. We'll see. Only one way to find out.
Let me tell you. Well,
you can meet him at Tarantula Hill. That would be amazing. On July 12th.
July 12th, I will be driving home from, uh,
Louisville, Kentucky, July 12th. We got a road trip planned that week,
heading to Cincinnati for a couple days and then gonna cruise
into Kentucky, which it's not. Florida. Well, nothing is.
But I think you have to as you cross the border, you got to hit
your spouse or something. Oh, okay. I think that's a rule.
No sleeves on your shirt. Yeah, and maybe I might come
back with a barbed wire tattoo. That might be another rule.
Like the alligator and the grenade. I think that's the Kentucky rule.
Yeah. Hit your spouse and get a barbed
wire armband tattoo. Yeah. What a juxtaposition.
By the way, Kentucky, uh, home of, like, the Derby. Yeah.
And then also trashy as fuck. Yeah. It's it's, you know,
and they have their own grass, which is crazy, right?
You know, it's like, uh, I don't know, it's weird.
It's Kentucky, it's Kentucky. Never been. I've driven.
I've driven through. Okay. On a trip to Florida,
like a 24 hour bus ride to Florida. Sounds awful. It was all right.
It was high school. Oh, okay. Sounds awful. Zoolander. Chicks.
Okay. Coach. Bus. It was fine. Yeah. Mad chicks. Yeah. Um. Yeah.
So, Psycho Bear, I will actually be wakeboarding that weekend.
So let me know. Maybe if you're here an extra day or
two on either side of the weekend, and maybe we can meet up for a beer.
I also will need some guarantees that, um, you'll be more like
Non-Murderer John and less like. Definitely murderer psycho bear.
Damn it. Just, you know,
safety with a name like Psycho Bear. I have to take precautions.
That might be the funniest shit I've ever heard. Sorry.
I mean, technically, you took a chance on John. True.
Like you took a chance. And it paid off. And it did, right.
So maybe Psycho Bear is like that guy that you meet on, like,
Muscle Beach who's name is tiny. You know, he's not really tiny,
right? You know, he's he's a big, buff dude,
right? He's like little John, right? So maybe Psycho Bear is like, uh,
maybe he's like a cuddly teddy bear guy. Okay, not so psycho.
Mostly bear. Yeah, but, like fluffy bear.
Okay, look, I'm just saying, I'm one for one on not being murdered
by being invited out by listeners. I'd like to keep it.
Like to keep my batting average very high. Like, especially with like.
A thousand, right? Like like perfect when it comes
to not dying. Yeah. I'd like to keep it, like,
as high as possible. If we could go, like, 1010,
that'd be even better. Just saying. Uh, so, Psycho Bear, let me know if
you're gonna be here a little longer. Batting averages work.
It can be. Your 1000 or not. We already talked about math not
being my thing. Uh, so, anyways, let me know if
you're gonna be here any longer than just that, uh, that weekend.
And maybe we can arrange a very public meetup.
Treat it like a Craigslist transaction.
Will meet you at the parking lot of the police station.
I already told the story about my buddy. Who he was.
He a friend of mine, Kevin. Maybe he still listens to the show.
I don't know. You fucking better. He was, uh.
This was back in 2000, and let's say between 2010 and 2012. Okay.
There was one year where Kevin purposely held 13 different jobs
because he was trying to have more like the most jobs in a
year that he could have. Okay. And then for a while, he was just
doing ads on Craigslist to get money, and he found this one guy who was
starting to become a hairstylist or a barber. I think he's.
In his 70s. This one. Yeah. And the guy's ad was like,
meet me at a motel six. I'll pay you $20 if I can cut
your hair. Did he get a haircut? Kevin met him by himself.
He had two buddies who were cops at the time, and he was like,
maybe I should have had, like, a cop friend come with me. Sure.
But he didn't. And he got. His, like, shared his location or.
Something, and he got a really shitty haircut, but he got 20
bucks out of it. Yeah. Worth it. So worth it. That reminds me.
I was on the plane to Florida last month.
I watched that it's Florida man show. Oh, wow. Yeah.
And one of the episodes was some dude was looking for cash,
and he put it on Craigslist. Like, you know,
willing to do whatever. Meaning, like, you know, you need
help moving or mowing or whatever. Willing to do whatever it takes.
Well, that was Craigslist. So somebody hit him up and was like,
yeah, I want you to chop off my toes and eat them.
Please tell me he did not do that. He went over to the dude's house and
was going to go through with it, and the guy backed out. Come on.
Yeah. I mean, spoiler alert. Sorry if you haven't watched
that show yet. But the way that show was not nearly
as funny as I thought it would be. But, um, it did make me think of
that. Interesting. Yeah. So, hey, how about a little news
before we close things out? I think I like the sound of that.
Yeah. Uh, Tilray closes Red Hook's
brew lab in Seattle. Tilray brands cost cutting measures
continue with the closure of Red Hook Brew Lab in Seattle's
Capitol Hill neighborhood. chief corporate Affairs Officer
Barron Nauta told The news that. Barron. B b e r r I n Baron.
Baron Barron. Yeah. Uh, Brew lab is now closed as we
look for new location. Tilray just really fucking things up.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought was again. Right?
Another one. They're really going down that
monster track. Uh, Scott Brewing has been sold
to two families. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones brewing.
You never had to knock on wood. I was like, what's the.
What's the song? I can think of that one.
That's the only song I know. I think that's the only song
anybody knows. Uh,
Durango headquartered Scott Brewing. Oh, I'll be in Colorado next month.
Uh, give me give me your suggestions. Everybody who's in Colorado was
acquired in May by two families with ties to distribution.
Uh, a sale price to the Arellano and West families was not disclosed.
However, the sale reportedly wiped out all of Bruins debt.
Uh, Scott co-founder and president Dave Thibodeau told The Denver
Post that Scott had taken on $5 million in debt for expansion,
but those plans never came to fruition and even 500 or $5 million
to do nothing with. All right. Uh, he told the Herald that
there's no personnel changes. There's no culture changes.
This isn't private equity. This isn't some outside company.
It's not cause rumors of the sale of 30 year old craft brewery
began circulating in February. That same month,
Arnall took over distribution of Scott Beer following the sale.
Thibodeau will remain with Scott, along with Steve Breasley.
What a great name. Breasley, who will be promoted
to chief operating officer? Oh. Excuse me.
From chief operating officer to CEO. What a gig. What a gig.
Uh, we'll end it on this one. Drunk United business class passenger
leaves flight before takeoff. A drunk UA business class passenger
voluntarily deplaned a flight from Denver to London after being
denied immediate alcohol service. Denver to London. What a trip.
That's a long flight. A visibly intoxicated business class
passenger reportedly demanded alcohol before departure, ranting about
his loyalty status and claiming others had already begun drinking.
He also made it known that he was the 2.5 million miler club.
Fellow passengers noted the man loudly berated the crew, insisted
he would not fly with an airline that denied his drink request.
Despite escalating tensions, the situation did not result in
a forced removal. Instead, the man loudly gathered
his belongings and exited the aircraft voluntarily. Interesting.
I hope as he stepped off, he turned around and said, I said, good day.
I just feel like Denver to London. It's a long flight.
What are we like, 14 hours? 15 hours? Well, probably not quite,
because L or excuse me, San Francisco to Portugal was
about 12 hours. Oh, that was it. Yeah, it was like 12.5. Oh.
So, you know, probably less than that.
But my point is, it's a long flight, though. Very long flight.
A lot of time to drink alcohol. So much time. Why do you need it now?
You had to keep that buzz going, I guess.
It's like I've been working on this in the lounge. We will not lose it.
Oh, man. Yeah, yeah. Uh, I you know, I've never ordered a
drink on an airplane. Never once. No. Oh, I definitely have.
On our honeymoon, I think it was our honeymoon.
Maybe it was my 30th to Vegas. Oh, Nashville. It was something.
My wife. My wife, my life. Uh, got me a couple shooters of
maker's Mark. Okay. And I took it on the plane,
and I didn't know you weren't supposed to. Oh. Yeah.
Uh, well, I did it anyway, and nobody saw.
As long as you don't get caught. Yeah. So, uh. Score. Yeah.
When my wife was cool. That one time. It was like a couple years.
She was cool. But, yeah, I've never I've never
actually ordered a drink. Oh, I know someone who sort of
did that. They took their. They ordered, like a Coke or Diet
Coke or whatever, took it into the bathroom and then poured their their
jack or whatever into it. Yeah. No, I just did it right in my seat.
Oh, well, as they came out, the flight attendant was standing
right there and was like, sir, we know why you brought your
drink into the bathroom. We're gonna have to take that
from you. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know until, like,
a year later. Two years later. I wasn't supposed to do that.
Some airlines are so much more strict, like southwest.
It's part of their announcements that you can't open your own.
That's what it was, was a southwest. That's like all we fly is southwest.
Oh, southwest. I used to be a huge southwest fan.
Their stupid new bag policies can suck it.
Don't they do the Seeding shit to where it's not assigned seating.
They haven't. It's still not assigned seating.
They still haven't changed that part, but. Oh they haven't okay.
You know, they've changed everything and now it's more expensive.
And if you want to bring bags, it's even more expensive.
I was like, I don't need to fly southwest ever again. Fuck.
You guys clearly haven't flown in a while. Yeah.
So, uh, but alas, not a flight show. Not.
It's, shockingly enough, not shockingly. Yeah.
So let's wrap things up. I'm going to say hi to Vanessa.
Hi, Vanessa. And to encourage you all to
follow us. @CraftBeerRepublic
@Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between 805538 beer 2337I think
that's just about everything. Hope everyone out there is staying
not murdered and very well hydrated. And on that note.
Good night everybody.