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I am Greg and I'm being joined by my favorite puppet over there.

And that is Flex. What's up, big fella?

I was trying to think of a, like a noise a puppet made,

but I just, I fell flat. Yeah, I guess they don't really

make any noise. They just move their mouth.

Which is what you were doing. I'm a puppet.

Oh, very old timey puppet. I'm a puppet. Puppet is a puppet.

See? Makes a lot of sense. Get your hand out of my ass. You see.

That's not what you said last. Yeah, nothing. Yeah, yeah.

Not a puppet show. Sorry. Not not a hand of the butt show,

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underscores in between 80553 beer is the number to call.

Lots to get to today. I'm very, very excited.

I have some beer research to talk about. I am fresh off of a trip.

I also did an interview. I'll talk about that shortly.

Uh, some booze news. So much more. We're both excited for our beers.

I know that. I am actually very excited.

Yeah. Do you want to. You want to kick things off with a.

Oh my. God, beer action. I would be honored.

I'm excited to hear about your beer. So let's let's do this the right way.

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.

I'm really glad you, uh, actually had me start off, because I don't know

if I have any beer left to drink. Uh, by the time it was for my review.

As part of why I did it. Yeah, yeah. So I did a quick little panic shop

today, and I went to my local shop, and first thing I saw on the

shelf that was screaming my name because I was looking for a sour.

I was kind of getting sick of IPAs lately, and I saw this evil twin

brewing. It says New York City. Hopefully. I don't know if it is.

Sometimes they come out of Connecticut here.

Yeah, like this one is brewed Connecticut, but it's called,

you know, Evil Twin Brewing, New York City. Whatever.

Well, this one, this counter I'm going to show you

it's got pineapples and it's got dragon fruits and passion fruit

and marshmallows and cherries, and it's called How to train Your

marshmallow passion fruit and so many other fruits, berries and grapes.

Uh, so looking for a sour? This immediately spoke to me.

Clocks in at 5.1% ABV only 437 check ins on Untappd,

but at quite a high 4.21. And it reads exactly what I just

read to you, except that on here it says it contains milk,

sugar and. Oh, no, look at that. See? It's right there.

Marshmallow. Dragon fruit. Passion fruit, key lime,

sour cherry, pineapple, white grape. Concord grape and milk. Sugar.

So, tons of shit in here. I was. Kitchen sink. Right?

I was a little bit thrown off by that because, you know, you never know

what you're going to get, right? And the color on this guy is

wonderful. It's gorgeous. Yeah. I thought it would be kind of, like,

more that yellowy juice color, but it is like a deep red, almost

like, uh, and it's not even like a, like a maroon or a it's almost like

a foggy red wine. There you go. That's what it reminds me of.

A foggy red wine? So, uh, on the old nose buds here,

we'll dive right in. Sour. Maybe picking up some of that.

That cherry and that lime. Nice. Which is never a bad combo.

That cherry limeade. After warming up the old

Tongue-jobber here, we're gonna dive right in here.

As if I haven't already. It's totally the first time.

This is just wonderful. It's light,

super duper low carbonation on this. And imagine opening a bag of

Skittles, pouring some into your hand, and then you just chew it all

at once and you get everything. That's exactly what this tastes like.

Uh, tastes like. I would probably give this, like,

a five out of five on untapped. Holy shit.

Yeah, I wouldn't fuck around with this. Not one bit. Wow.

Is that the first five out of five we've. I mean. Thrown out.

There, maybe that I like. I'm casually throwing it out there,

which is kind of bizarre. Yeah, that's true.

But the other cool thing about this is with those grapes.

It said it had like the Concord. And the what? The other ones.

The white grape. Yeah. You get that dryness at the back

end and it is. It's delectable. It's like a a fruited sour with

marshmallow. And then you get a little bit of

like that, uh, that whininess to it at the end.

Um. This is, this is phenomenal. Like I so here's the other thing

about this. So the big, uh, the big selling

point we've been doing on the show lately is single cans, right? Right.

It, you know, don't, uh, dive balls deep if you don't know if

you like it yet, that kind of thing. Well, daddy dove balls deep.

Daddy and daddy is not unhappy. That. Thank God. Yes, I'm super psyched.

Uh, 16.99 for this four pack. Jesus. That's cheap.

Yeah, I know you always say that. Um. And I really didn't hesitate

even seeing the price. You know how I am, right?

But with Evil Twin, I've had just about everything I've

had from them was has been wonderful. So there's somebody who I can trust

and I can, you know, put my beliefs in and my faith in and, and they're

they're not going to steer me wrong. I've heard they're a little more,

let's say, trustworthy when it's the New York

when it comes out of New York, is that have you found that to be true?

I don't know, because it seems like everything that I get and I

don't know if this is just on their labeling, but it says Brewed by

Evil Twin Brewing, North Haven, Connecticut, distributed by 12%.

But the title of the brewery on the can it says evil twin New

York City right there. Sure. So I don't know if that's just like

the brewing company name Evil Twin Brewing New York City or or what,

but. Somebody smarter than us let us know.

Yeah. What is what what what is the

difference? Yeah. The reason it got brought up with

me was I had had a couple that were they were just fine and um,

big surprise, they came from Tavour and somebody told me that the New

York stuff is like, you know, the real brewery in quotes and

the not New York stuff is kind of like the, the B team, basically.

And that's what always goes to Tavour.

Now, this was multiple years ago. Things could have changed.

This person could have just been pulling this out of their ass.

Who knows? I wonder if maybe the Connecticut

stuff via laws is just easier to distribute. Could be. Yeah, because.

I've heard, uh, New York is kind of a mess to deal with.

Bringing in and sending out. Yeah, maybe they just set up shop

elsewhere for distribution rights. Right.

So they're brewing the same thing. They're just doing it there to send

out. Who knows? Yeah. Not us. Yeah. If anybody knows let us knows because

knows goes anyways. Uh, good. Junie,

we haven't hung out in a while. Do doing any research or anything.

I went down to Nashville for a day. Oh that's right. Daughter's birthday.

Daughter's birthday. Um. Happy birthday daughter.

Hey, she appreciates that. I'll let her know it was a it was a

fucking day, man. Like I would not. How you travel for work.

You do like some day trips? Sure. That's terrible. Yeah, it really is.

It is absolutely terrible and exhausting. Yes.

I was getting over a little bit of a lingus. Oh, okay.

Uh, wake up at 240. Oh. Fuck me. Why? Go to bed? To shower.

Get to the airport about 4:00 for the 5:00 flight. Ooh.

Uh, land in Nashville about 630. And it was.

We get to the hotel right away, which was nice.

And, uh, they had a breakfast buffet, which was phenomenal.

We stayed at one of the Gaylord resorts. Have you ever.

Have you ever heard of these or seen these? No, I don't think so.

Oh my God, they're fantastic. There's, I believe four,

four of them in the country. There's one in Colorado.

I think the Denver area, if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, um, there's one in Nashville. There's one in Kissimmee,

Florida, and there's one in DC. And they are like these

extravagant resorts where there's like three parts of each resort.

Each part has their own, like little village of shops and restaurants,

and there's like, water and rivers and waterfalls all throughout,

and conservatories and a connected water. It's phenomenal.

It's absolutely phenomenal. Never heard of it. That's crazy.

You look it up. Check it out. Wonderful.

So they had, uh, breakfast buffet, which was probably the best breakfast

buffet I've ever had in my life. I mean, we're talking doughnuts.

We're talking bagels. We're talking like different

pastries. We're talking omelet station.

Asian Pancake Station. We're talking eggs Benedict at

the helm. Like you just take as many eggs

Benedict as you want to take. And all the food tasted wonderful,

too. Did a little bit of shopping

stopped at the Bavarian Beer house for lunch, which was nice.

It wasn't even my idea because I really don't like you know me,

I'm not selfish. I don't like to steal the show.

Right? It's not my day. But when my my wife and my

mother in law are like, oh, hey, let's get like a big pretzel and

some shit for lunch. So I decided to get myself a

liter of Oktoberfest. Nice. Some Paulaner Oktoberfest,

20 bucks for a liter of Oktoberfest. I thought that was kind of

outrageous. That's a little high,

especially Paulaner. We got the bill. I was not psyched.

Yeah. I'm not gonna lie. Coming from Wisconsin,

you're like, the fuck is this? I was like, I thought Nashville

was cool, man. Damn. And then, oh, man,

had a little bit of nap time because that day was killing me,

you know, waking up so early. I don't think I had a beer with

dinner. Definitely did not had a

mountain dew. That's what I had. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I had to.

I haven't had one of those in. I needed the caffeine.

I needed the sugar. I'm thinking at least 15 years,

if not 20. Daddy was running on E. I guess so. Yeah. Desperation.

Daddy to cap off the night like the main gift of the trip.

I guess you would call it. We did a show at the Grand Ole Opry.

Oh, cool. So if you know anything about

the Opry, they do, like, 4 to 5 shows a week.

Um, so he's a big deal for people to get invited to play there. Mhm.

And I'm not a huge country music fan by any means,

but live country music fucking like, cranks it up like three notches.

Oh, I guess it depends on like the type of country because there's

like the real, you know, laid back. I fucked my cousin country.

And then there's, you know, like, more rocking country.

Really good mix at this show. Oh, okay.

So some cousin fucking and some rocking I like. Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's like the best of both worlds.

Um, but, uh, I did get a bearded Iris home style, which is, like,

everywhere in Tennessee. Bearded Iris, huge brewery out there.

And, uh, that beer out of the can is. It's like juice. It's wonderful.

It's delicious. And then I caught some, uh.

Man, what the hell was it? Music city Brewing company,

it's just called, like, Music City Light or something like that.

Sure. It's $14 for a 4% beer. Yeah. That'll hurt.

And I went there and it wasn't great. And I should have just got

another home style. Yep. But I just wanted to try

something else. And they already had a Tennessee

Beerworks beer that I've had there before.

It was called, uh, hippies and. cowboys and hippies.

I think it's called just a classic IPA. I've had it.

I, you know, probably should have got that too.

Instead, you want to try new things, I get it, I do the.

Right and especially with, you know, some light beers because what I'm

gravitating to more is, you know, not so heavy and sure that one

kind of, you know, it fell flat. Yeah. That'll happen. But yeah.

Got to see somebody debut at the Opry, which is always a big deal.

Okay, there's a surprise guest appearance,

which doesn't often happen, but Carly Pearce, she's like a

big country star. I'll take her. Word. For it. Sure. Yeah.

And, uh, so she got invited out with the last band.

And all in all, it was absolutely wonderful.

Really, really awesome opportunity and experience.

And I suggest anybody who goes to Nashville to try and get

tickets to a show. Nice. Even if you're not a country fan,

even. If you're not a country fan. Right? It's an experience.

I don't think there are many genres of music that I could like any less

than country are. I don't know, man. And here's what's funny about

that is I also. There's some really good country

out there and there's some really, really bad country.

But like, I'm a big Eagles fan. And if you really break it down like

Eagles country rock at its heart, like most of their shit,

especially their older stuff, is real country influence.

I could see that. Yeah. But give me like straight up

country and I, I just it's nails on a chalkboard for me now.

They started out with some some fun bluegrass and it was like a

lot of instrumental which I enjoy, like people really whipping out

a fiddle and. Yeah, any banjos? I had a banjo there. Yeah.

It was, uh. I don't hate a banjo. No. A very, uh, impressive

instrument to get the hang of. Yeah, it's a weird instrument to

get the hang of. Oh, super weird,

especially because you play it with, Like, is it all five fingers?

I don't remember, I'm not that smart. I don't know. It's crazy.

But we got to see a guy who's in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

His name is Jimmy Fortune. He was in the Statler Brothers,

and I guess they were around from, like, 81 to 2002, he said.

And, uh, he played a couple tunes, and they were good.

And then this country, uh, gospel guy came on. Okay.

And is not Jesus as I am after the previous guy.

He played, like, some downer music. We we needed a boost.

And, you know, he's saying a lot about Jesus, and.

He helped you see the light a little bit.

Yeah, it was very uplifting and cheerful. So that was nice.

Gotcha. But yeah. So yeah. Absolutely wonderful time.

Wonderful research. Great birthday. Exhausted, but totally worth it.

Good, good. Well, I can I can relate to the late

July birthdays. Just like daughter. So, we did a similar, well,

not a similar excursion. That sounds like a fucking whirlwind.

We went to Colorado last week for my birthday, a little pre-celebration,

uh, a week early. And first of all,

I'll run down the research we did. Here's here's just the breweries that

I feel like are worth mentioning. There are some that are not going

to be mentioned in this report. How many did you hit up? One.

Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven, eight is on my good list.

Plus, I can think of at least three that are on my naughty list.

Wow, what a trip. Yeah, it was a week long,

so we had some time there. Uh, first of all,

we flew first class. It's the first time I've ever been in

first class. I was just gonna ask. Okay. And honestly, it wasn't.

There was some weird thing where it wasn't that much more on the

way there. And on the way back, it was,

like, almost the same price. Like,

I don't know what glitch we ran into. And so we're like, fuck it,

we've never done this before. birthday bitches.

And so we went first class and drank mimosas the whole time on

the way there. It was fantastic. Can't be too far of a flight.

No, it's about two hours. 15 minutes. Okay. Yeah, a little over two.

So, uh, you know, daddy put down, like, five mimosas in that amount

of time. Daddy? No problem. So, uh, Colorado Springs first

went to fossil, which we've been to before, and we love them.

And so we always try to go whenever we're in the springs.

Uh, they have to be doing trivia the night we were there.

So we stopped in for some trivia. Shocker. Yeah.

One of my cousins and her husband came out. We played a little trivia.

Uh, we did not do as well as, uh, as with Deb and Brian, I will say

that. We know who carries that team. Yes. Deb does. Sorry, Brian.

Uh, and we also accidentally went into Urban Animal Brewing.

We were looking for this beer bar that the wife had found online and

was like, oh, it's right over here. We walked in, I was like, this is it.

And she goes, yeah, I said, this is really dark for like a bar.

This is very brewery esque. We walk down this long hallway

and as we get to the bar, sure enough, there's a brewery.

I was like, is this where you fucking meant to take us?

And she's like, no, I don't think so. But by then Beertender had

already caught eyes with us. I was like,

I can't just walk out now like deuces and run out the front door.

So, uh, we try to we had a flight and really enjoyed it.

So it was it was a pleasant surprise. And I like that, uh,

brewery name too. Yeah. Urban animal. They have a cool, um, cool logo too.

I posted pictures of all these. At least a beer from each of

these places on the gram, so go check it out.

@CraftBeerRepublic so good that we had a a pint after our flight,

then up to Denver, went to Full Frame Brewing, which,

uh, is Southern Beer Girls Brewery. She used to work at Jagged Mountain.

They closed her and her business partner bought the place or leased

the place or whatever it is. And now they've opened full

frame beers just as good as it ever was before.

So that was fun to go check out. Uh, went to our Mutual Friends

Brewing, Ruin, which we also did an interview with uh, or at with Jan,

the head brewer slash, uh, business partner. Look for that next week.

I was very excited. We found out about this place

last time we're in Denver. I think it was Davis that told us to

go check it out. Really enjoyed it. Really enjoyed it this time.

And, um, Jan is just he's a beer nerd, but he doesn't come from,

like, the sciency side of it. So you can have a real conversation

with him and not be left confused. It was, I mean,

that the best way possible. It was a really fun conversation.

So, um, next week, interview with Jan from our Mutual Friends brewing.

Can't wait to hear that. Yeah, uh, went across the street

to Odell, went down the street from there to Bierstadt,

of course, because can't go Denver without going to Bierstadt,

then up to Fort Collins. We did the New Belgium tour

because everyone says, you got to do the tour. So we did the tour.

And how was it? Well, we even paid. So there's the free tour, which is

like, I don't know, 30 minutes. And then there's the $15 tour,

which is 90 minutes. And so we went, you know, balls to

the wall. We did the 90 minute tour. And it was sort of how I

envision your Budweiser tour. You got to see the beechwood

aging process. Exactly. It's pretty incredible.

It's like they lager beer. It's crazy. Mind explosion.

So the person doing our tour was clearly not a beer person.

I mean, she even said, you know, she's one of the bartenders

there and has has definitely just memorized the script.

There was some pretty easy questions that she could not pick up on.

Well, what was one of them? Oh, we got into the brew house

finally, where, uh, the boy, you know, the mash tun, the boiler,

boiling kettle, all that stuff is one of them had a flashing light on

it and somebody goes, oh, what's going on with the flashing light?

And she goes, oh, I don't know. Must mean they're brewing or

something. And he goes, well, it's empty inside.

And I said, hey, I bet you about they're about to clean it.

The chemicals they use are like, you know, super dangerous and

whatnot. Right, right, right. And he goes, oh, interesting.

And not 30s later, did it start spraying like,

you know, clear liquids everywhere? I was like, ah, look at me,

I was right, I've never even been here before. Boy oh boy.

Somebody get this guy a tour shirt. I was trying not to be like you,

you know, like so you lager. Yeah, 30, 30 days.

You're telling me it sits in here? No. The hell you say. That's crazy.

But also, there was some real lack of information flowing,

and I was real proud of the wife. She asked a really good question.

They were talking about their process for, like,

packaging and all this other and fermenting and all this stuff.

And she goes, hey, do you capture your CO2?

And I was going to ask that. And she beat me to it,

because I know Sierra Nevada does. And basically if you don't do it

on a big enough volume, it's just not worth the equipment.

It's super expensive to do. And she goes, yeah, for sure.

You know, we totally do that. Um, I'm not sure how much, but I

know they're totally capturing it, and they're also trying to find

other ways to use it. And I'm like, why the fuck would

you find other ways? Like, unless you're capturing so

much CO2 that you just don't know what the fuck to do with it.

Why wouldn't you just use it to carbonate your beer and purge

lines and stuff? And at that point, if you have so

much, instead of trying to figure out other things to do with it,

why wouldn't you, like, sell it to other breweries or something?

I mean, just the answers we were getting were not the best answer.

We're looking at starting a CO2 black market because we captured

so much CO2. It's like, Good God, they must

capture all the CO2. You're like. Jesus, man. So that was fine.

I was glad that they had 1554 at the brewery.

It's my favorite New Belgium beer. I can never find it outside of

Colorado. And it's it's not a lager, but it

basically drinks like a schwarzbier. Like a like a dark lager. Okay.

Like a dark locker. And it was the first time I had

in my early beer drinking days, had had a dark beer that I was like,

this is delicious. So I have a special affinity for it.

When she let us pour our first tasters and everyone was like, oh,

we get to pour off the tap and blah blah, blah. Like it was a big deal.

And 1554 was there. So was just about everything

they had at the brewery. And everyone's getting like,

juiced force. And that was like 1 or 2 fat tires.

And I walk up and I pour the 1554. I started getting looks from people

like dark beer on a hot day, like, you know, what are you doing?

I'm just like, fucking trust me. Idiots. Oh, man. Fucking trust. Me.

I hope somebody poured it after you two just from. No. Nobody did. Shame.

I expected, like, one person to go. All right, maybe I'll try, but.

Nah, they don't know who I am, apparently.

Ain't nothing like a dark lager on a hot day, I tell you that.

I'm telling you, man. Uh, so anyways, that was cool.

We went to, uh, Hello Brew Co, also in Fort Collins, and really,

really good beer had some Hazies had basically had like half their menu

and really enjoyed what they had. It's a cool little spot.

It's an old house that's just been converted into a brewery and like a.

Big house or like a regular sized. Like a regular sized old house.

And like, you can sit on the porch, there's porch, you know,

benches on the porch. There's like seats in the yard

and stuff. And just like hanging out at a at a

house when you're outside, inside. You know, they've obviously taken

down all the walls and it's a, it's a brewery, but, uh, it's it's cool.

We're just sitting on the porch drinking beer. What a cool idea.

Yeah. So, uh, that was fun. There was one other that I didn't

write down, and I believe it was called, like, Jessup Farms.

And it's this whole area where they've turned an old farm into,

like, a shopping, like, strip mall. But it's old farm buildings.

Some of them are not old. Some of them have been, like, made to

look like the old farm buildings, but like the brewery itself is

in this 100 plus year old barn. And the restaurant was in like

the old farmhouse, and it was really cool.

The beer was, um, not the best, but not the worst.

It was real middle of the road. We we played trivia there again.

It was. We were done. We did really bad there.

Can you ever say no to trivia? You know what?

That was the wife's idea. She goes, hey, we should go to

this place. When we get up there. They have trivia Thursday nights.

And I was like, uh, all right, what else are we gonna do? So we did it.

Yeah. Uh, good times, a lot. A lot of good drinks.

Uh, found this really cool whiskey bar that had, like,

you know, 200 something whiskeys. We had some cocktails.

That's where one of the bartenders looked very much like

Hank from Barry. NoHo Hank. NoHo. Hank. He was walking.

He was not our bartender. He was at the other in the bar.

And I hadn't really realized it was a very long bar.

The wife says, like, oh, you know something about him down there?

I was like, oh, I didn't see him down there. I said, That's Hank.

And she goes, what? I was like, Hank Cristobal 50,

50. 50, 50. Hank and Cristobal. So she starts laughing. 50, 50.

So then I'm trying to sneakily take a picture of him like, oh,

I'm taking a picture of my drink. Definitely not the super white

bald guy walking around. Oh, man. That's amazing.

Which for the record, everybody. He did send me that picture today.

Yeah, yeah I forgot. We did a lot of drinking that

night was our last night before we left town.

And we we strapped one on that night, so, um. But yeah. Good time.

So the main reason we went is for my birthday slash concert at Red rocks.

Um, it was announced. That was like the culmination of

the trip. I'm assuming that was middle of

the week. It was weird. It was on a Wednesday, which,

uh, was weird, but whatever. You know, we were off the whole week,

so who cares? It was my one of my favorite,

I guess, bands. You would say it's Andrew McMahon.

Performer. Performer. Performer. Yeah. Yeah.

He's performed with his own band. Andrew McMahon in the wilderness.

Um, band. Before that was Jack's Mannequin.

His first band was something corporate, and they did all

three bands, uh, at Red rocks. So it was sort of a bucket list

concert at a bucket list venue, and it was fucking incredible. I can't.

My words cannot describe how incredible the show was and the

scenery and everything. There was a lightning going on in

the background, behind the stage. And, you know, California,

we don't see lightning. We don't see weather in Southern

California. So you see lightning. I mean, I've seen it before, but

it's not something we regularly get. Like if I see lightning once a

year here, that's a lot. Okay. I did not know that. Yeah.

We rarely get lightning with our rain. Okay. Um. So fucking amazing.

If you guys haven't gone to Red rocks, I couldn't recommend it

anymore. It was so cool. We took the shuttle out there.

Driver was super cool. Let us drink on the shuttle. We were.

We were hammering seltzers on the way. Nice. Yeah.

Only had to buy two once we got there because we'd, you know,

we'd started a little early. So that's how you do it, man.

Yeah, it was phenomenal. And then finally, uh, we went to a

Rockies game while we were in Denver, too. Why would you do that?

First of all, love the stadium. It's right down.

First of all, it's cool stadium. It's also right downtown.

You can walk from just about anywhere you're staying, which we did.

We did like Happy Hour first and then walked over to the stadium. Cool.

And I wanted to witness history. And by history, I mean,

you know, worst team in the history of baseball.

In the history. Just terrible. I tell you what, I was super

disappointed because like, third inning, maybe even fourth

inning is over and the Rockies are up by like three runs.

And I'm like, God damn it, they're gonna win tonight.

And I came here to see the losing his team. Lose?

Yeah, they they have something like 26 wins on the year. Something.

And by like the fifth inning somebody said, hold my Coors and

just kicked it into under drive. And the the Cardinals came back

and just ripped them apart. It was. Under. Drive.

It couldn't have been any more Rockies than that.

So it was perfect, the perfect ending to the game. People were angry.

We were cracking up. I tell you what more than half

the stadium was Cardinals fans. They apparently travel very well.

I did not know that. I didn't either,

I told my stepdad about it. He goes, oh yeah,

Cardinals fans travel for everything. I'm like, do they not have jobs?

I live in Milwaukee. I feel like Cardinals Milwaukee

Brewers games aren't even that bad. Yeah. So, um. Yeah. Good time.

Great. Great trip. I'm sorry for going on forever

and ever about it, but really, really fun trip.

Well, it's funny you say that about Cardinals fans because last year

they were so bad, they were trying to get people to come into their

stadium by selling dollar tickets. That's how poorly they were playing

out of their traditional style of the Cardinals baseball organization.

Well, if you are a Cardinals fan, what better time to go than to

the Rockies game because you know they're gonna win. Well played sir.

Yeah, the Rockies did win the next night,

so suck it Cardinals. Bastards. Bastards. But, uh, good times.

Love that stadium. Uh. All right. Woo! Back to beer stuff. I guess.

We do that. Every now and then. Okay? Every now and then. You know what?

Before we move on to some booze news, I'm gonna.

I'm gonna share what I'm drinking over here. Please do.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. Well,

I brought back fresh from my trip. Coors light? Yeah. You almost had me.

Could you imagine how many emails we'd get? That'd be fun.

I gotta admit, I didn't bring back any beer.

I was doing too much moving around the logistics for it.

I just I wasn't feeling it. And. And the beer that I like the most,

uh, was never in cans. I thought, nah, it. Isn't the worst.

Yeah, it really was. But coming through in a clutch

Non-Murderer John hit me up and was like, hey, after we got back,

he's like, hey, uh, I'm gonna be coming through your town.

Can I bring you a beer? Can you bring me a beer?

I would say no. Know, I said, well, you know,

bear shit in the woods. So we met up at Pedals and Pints

where he graciously bought me a beer at pedals, thank you very much.

And then handed me this. I'm gonna fuck this up.

Sante Adairius. Rustic ales. It's in a fancy bottle.

Very fancy. I can see it. Yeah. Had to use, like,

a bottle opener and everything. I haven't done that in years.

It's called portraits. And it's the Carignan version.

Carignan. Carignan. Sure. Apparently it's a type of grape.

Anyways, 8.7% has A432 on untapped with just, let's see,

97 ratings on the bottle. It says an oak aged mixed

fermentation saison co-fermented with Carignan grapes from the

Montague Vineyard in the. Oh, stay with me here, Mark Valley.

Damn, my heart's beating on my chest. Guest. Jesus.

Anyways, fancy beer with fancy grapes.

That was wild fermented. I bet. It fancy. Yeah. Somewhere fancy.

I have a feeling it was made in a further. It's a furger. Exactly.

It's a big, big wooden barrel. That's what they told us on the

New Belgium tour. They're like,

basically means big ass barrel. It's like. Okay, all right. Schnoz.

This is gonna be the most uneducated, uh, nose bud description yet,

but it's got that sour smell to it. I love that I know what you're

talking about, though. And if you're a casual beer drinker,

you know the same goddamn smell. People, please.

Let me know that you know what I'm talking about.

I get a hint of grape on there, but it just has that real sour.

It smells sour. Yeah. It's real. Thank you for getting me and

completing me. That's what mine smelled like, too.

It smelled like sour, but you could get a little of

cherry and the lime, but. Yeah. Sour Them. On ye olde Tongue-jobber.

Fancy Tongue-jobber ye got there. This daddy is taught it is a

legit sour, very wildly fermented first of all 8.7 where

this thing is fucking dangerous. You get any of that oak from the air?

I do feel like I'm getting a little bit of wood in that little wood in

my mouth, if you will. You are. Uh, lots of tartness,

little bit of grape like. It's not so much wine flavored.

Kind of grape like a little bit of grape juice, I would say.

Not a ton, just a little really sour. You know, my wife is a bigger

sour fan than I am. Like, the more sour it is, the

better. If it's the warhead of beers. She is a happy camper, but not like

the fruit. It kind of like yours. She's not so much into that as much.

She likes the wild fermented like wild. Right?

So I poured her a little bit too before I started the show,

and I handed it to her. I said, what do you think?

And as I'm walking upstairs, she tries it and she's like,

ooh, I like this. Is it like a Herbal Essence

commercial? A little bit, yeah. Oh. Honey, what are you doing?

Oh, I just drank this beer. Washing my hair. What do you mean?

So this is. This is really good. Thank you to Non-Murderer John.

This comes out. I've never heard of this place.

It comes out of it. Says on the bottle.

Capitola, California, which is near Santa Cruz. Um, I've never heard.

Of rock n roll, baby. You just made the list.

If I'm ever up in that area again, I will be grabbing some of this.

Thank you to Non-Murderer John. Well, so we were talking about this

on air or off air before the show. You said Non-Murderer John brought

you this beer and I said it's got to be good because he does not fuck

around with beer. That's true. He ain't nothing to fuck with.

Like he should. I guarantee he knows that he must.

I mean, how does he not? everything he's brought has been

great, right? Either that or he's just setting you

up for the world's most like. Right. He's gonna drop it on me. Oh, man.

One day he's gonna be like, oh, this guy's the best.

He's not gonna murder me. Boom! Murdered. Murdered.

And shitty beer. Yep. It was funny, Deb,

I told Deb about the beer, and she said, I just love that you

still call him Non-Murderer John. And I said, well,

I figured the more times I say it, the more accurate it becomes. Yeah.

Just holding out. Hope it stays true. Just waiting for him to, like,

get the driver's license that says Non-Murderer John.

Just totally change his name. That would be great. Make it.

Make it legal. Come on. Uh. Bizarre that you could actually

legally change your name to Non-Murderer John.

Uh, I think you could. I mean. Well, that's what I'm saying.

That's the crazy part is you could do that.

I believe it was Adam Corolla who wasn't born,

or his parents didn't give him a middle name when he was born.

And so when he was filling out his, um, stuff for, like, getting his

driver's license as a kid, he jokingly put Lakers as his

middle name. Okay. And it stuck. It's on his ideas. Adam. Lakers.

Carolla. Come on. Yeah. I thought you were gonna say

something funnier like Toyota. That would make more sense. Yeah.

That's what I always thought you were going with that. Yeah.

Well, so his middle name is actually Lakers.

I guess technically on his driver's license. It is. Oh, yeah.

Either that or it's falsifying identification.

Oh, there could be that. No one said he was a genius.

Definitely not. No. Very, very much not.

Uh, before I move on to news. Top listing city of last week.

Because I forgot to do at the top of the show. Ashburn, Virginia.

Luckily not West Virginia. Definitely not West Virginia.

Definitely not. West Virginia is the good Virginia.

Regular Virginia. Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Regular. Right.

You should just get rid of West Virginia and just call.

Call it regular Virginia and just be done with it.

That would make more sense. Really would? Yeah. All right.

A little booze news. Fontana. Jim sent this over and said that if

we didn't talk about on the show, he would boycott the show.

Well, he also gets really angry. So he's very angry.

Probably a good decision. Yeah. This is a tweet that I screen

grabbed. It doesn't do it justice without

a photo. So please look this up or I can

post it on the socials. Japanese design firm Kenji Abe has

designed a glass beer bottle that you can stick into the sand on the beach.

And the shape I would describe as almost a bowling pin.

Except the bottom isn't flat. It's like continues the curve

until it reaches the bottom so you can thunk stick it in the sand.

But it also very much looks like something to be used as a sexual

device. Are looking this up now,

seeing if I can find it. Oh. Wow. I've heard of silver bullets, but

this is ridiculous. Yeah. Good luck. Make sure you lube it up first.

So, tons of tweets about. And social posts. Whatever.

Where? Like this one is. Hi. Er, doctor here.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not even think about it,

because, you know, that's going up someone's keister.

Oh my God. That is, uh. Wow. God damn it! Hi. Er. Doc here.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not even think about it.

Damn it! Oh, it's right there. It's so good. Okay.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why you can't just put a

regular bottle of beer in the sand. Sure. Yeah.

You need it to be shaped like a butt plug in order to really get

full sand penetration. Oh my God. Yeah. Basically.

This glass beer bottle was made to stick in the sand at the beach,

right? Oh. That's good. Yeah. So, uh, be careful what you

stick where people. Oh, boy. Be gentle to your your holes.

Uh. Goose Island. Glass breaks, by the way,

I don't know. Hollow glass. It breaks. Yes. Do be careful.

And if it goes from, like, super cold to super hot,

that could cause some issues, too. Yeah. Learn that in chemistry.

Yeah, yeah. Chemistry, huh? Yes. Yeah, I did, I swear. Yeah, I swear.

Uh, goose Island has shared their 2025 Bourbon County Brand Stout

lineup. I'm sure everyone's excited. I'm super excited.

Yeah, actually, they've taken a step back.

Uh, cherries Jubilee stout, a chocolate praline stout.

A double barrel stout. I do like pralines.

And a reserve stout that was aged in two years, and ten year old barrels

of Parker's Heritage Collection, 17th edition, Rye.

That's super dialing it back. Yeah, no Mountain Dew, just bombs or

doctor Pepper floaters or anything. They did a barley wine last year

that was supposed to be super nuts. Yeah, I forgot what that one

even had in it. But by the way, if anybody needs a

little, uh, Bourbon County Stout from Goose Island, just head on

over to interim Brian's house. He has an entire keg of.

I think it's like 2019 or something. Oh, is that the one he got from the

the guy that said, if this is if it's good, you can pay me 50 bucks.

Yeah, I think he said if it's good, 100 bucks.

If it sucks, don't pay for it or something like that. Right.

I ultimately think what he did was give him 50 bucks for it.

Uh, because he's a nice guy, but it was no bueno.

And the worst part about it, if it were me, I'd be like, I hope this

isn't fucking up my kegerator lines. Oh, I would have never even

thought about that. Yeah, I hope it doesn't just,

like, taste like, uh, Bourbon County Stout for the.

Rest. Of its existence. It might. Yeah. So, yeah, we tried it.

It was no bueno. Now he's always trying to get me

to come over and drink some. That's hilarious.

Yeah, you could make, like, a drinking game out of it. Oh, no.

Thanks. We could also just not. You're no fun. Yeah, I know.

So, uh, anyways, uh, Spanish brewing out of Miami. Down in the hood.

Hi, Vanessa. What's up? Vanessa. They are not doing well and

looking for help. Uh, there's a very long social

media post. Nobody wants to hear me read it,

but, uh, in short, if you want to help out, they're

taking donations. Ouch. Which is. It's always an interesting one.

I'm happy to support you. Donations, though.

Doesn't sound good. Doesn't sound good.

Uh, let's end it on this one. teacher accused of chugging booze,

calling students little shits and making them dance the Macarena.

I would do that for free, right? By the way, not Florida and teacher.

Kind of hot. Interesting. She can call me whatever she wants

and make me dance the Macarena. Okay, okay. So they promoted her.

Yeah. Yeah. She's now principal. Alice Ashton from the UK was swigging

a water bottle full of orange liquid, which smelled of alcohol and

blaring music from her laptop during the health class.

One of her 16 year old students told a hearing last Tuesday.

She also called students little shits and put her middle finger

2 to 3in from another teen's face during the out of control class

at I don't know what this is. Euskal Carignan school in Welshpool,

Wales. It's exactly how you pronounce it.

Fucking got it. Uh, the usually reserved and quiet

teachers classes on alcohol and drug awareness were normally boring,

a student told the hearing of Education Workforce Council panel.

But before the class, she was spotted swigging from a water

bottle that had an alcoholic smell. She was very, very close to us.

There was a slight alcoholic smell. She was very, very lively and quite

animated and speaking with her hands. Maybe she's just Italian.

In other lessons she was more reserved and quiet, the student said.

She asked the class to do the Macarena.

She played music and we were not doing work, the student said.

What a rat narc. Ashton's sloppy behaviour came

just four months after she had been convicted of drunk driving.

The water bottle Ashton had in her class was almost empty by the end of

class, the student said Ashton kept jumping up from her desk and was

becoming irritated as the class went on at one point getting right in an

unruly teen's face, the student said. Ashton denied that she sung or

sworn at students in an internal school review,

but multiple witnesses came forward to describe the chaotic scene.

She's got some students dancing to the laptop and speakers and

it spiraled out of control, a second teenager said.

CCTV footage from the class that day corroborated the student's story,

according to the panel. It is totally untenable to suggest

the music is being played, as background music presenting

officer Lewis Harris said. The evidence is very clear that

Miss Ashton did not remain at the front of her class.

She invited pupils to dance. Ashton was removed from the

teaching registry indefinitely but may reapply in two years.

One of my favorite parts is she did not go to her own hearing,

but sent in an email that said, I don't care.

I don't even live there anymore anyways. Wow. That's amazing.

She is great. What I think is crazy is if you

chugging liquor at your desk in class, what are you getting so

worked up for? Like, if anything,

you should just, like, chill out. Yeah, I guess it sounds like it was

really the dancing that that got the students riled up. Yeah. Interesting.

I don't know why they they really need to relax a little bit.

Yeah, it's just the Macarena, right? It's just the Macarena.

It's just a drunk teacher. Look, if I was teaching little shits

like that, I would be drunk too. Wow. Yep. Yeah. Okay.

Just sent Flex a picture of said teacher. Yep. That's nice.

I'll do. I'll do the Macarena. I'll do whatever she says. Yeah.

Yes, Lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. She did nothing wrong in my eyes.

Right. Innocent until proven innocent.

She don't fucking live there anymore. Fuck it. Right. Yeah.

Fuck you guys. You're just. You're just don't like to party.

Damn it. All right, let's let's wrap things up

before I get in trouble with the hot teacher. Fair enough. Yeah.

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interview with Jan from our Mutual Friends Brewing.

I'm very, very excited to share that with you guys.

Really had a lot of fun. Uh, I hope when I listen back to it,

it's as fun as when I was there doing it and hopefully as fun

for you as well. Anyways, I hope everyone is staying

very well hydrated. And on that note. Good night everybody.