I might actually be drunk, by the way.
Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and over there is my drunk mathematician Flex.
What's happening buddy? Uh, I'm hungry,
but I'm drinking and not eating. Dude, I am in the same fucking boat.
I think we just talked six hours for, you know, food.
Yeah, it's been about six hours. No food, but I've had a couple beers.
Five and a half, uh, two seltzers, one and a half beers. Yeah.
Yeah, it's. Gonna be a show. Let's see how much reading I have to
do tonight. Hopefully not. Much. We know words are hard, dude.
Words are hard enough on their own. I just saw what you're drinking.
I've been reading a book on Greek mythology.
I'm trying to enlighten myself. Oh. All right.
By reading, uh, trying to pronounce some of those words and names in
your head. Yeah. Good luck. Fuck, man. I I'm trying my best.
That's all I can do. Zeus. Jeez, that's the least of my worries.
Uh, follow us on the socials. @CraftBeerRepublic.
@Flex_me_a_beer underscores in-between all that good stuff.
Lots of booze news to get to today. We got a ludicrous libation.
I feel like it's been a minute. Uh, I'm gonna get classy drunk.
I'll tell you about that shortly. But before we get into anything,
shout out to Salt Lake City, Utah for being our top listing city of
the week. Yeah. What up, Salt Lake? Isn't all of Utah Salt Lake City
like? I think so. Well, no, there's two.
There's like Salt Lake and then there's pro Provo. Provo. Provo.
Yeah. We're the Mormons are. Right on BYU. Right?
I wonder where Steph is. Is she Salt Lake or is she Provo?
I would have a a guess. Salt Lake side. Fingers crossed.
Because I don't think she's Mormon anymore. Not by choice.
Yeah, something like that. So anyways. Not a mormon show?
No, I tell you what. Uh. Definitely not.
Have I told you my Mormon lineage? I wish she didn't.
Okay, then I won't. No, I I'm actually curious now.
Just wanted to be a dick. So if you go to the the temple
in Salt Lake City, Utah, you know, they're big on, like,
ancestry and stuff. The Mormons are. And you can put in your your
name and whatever. Is it actually called the temple
there? Like a mormon temple? I think I think so, temple. Temple.
I know someone who gives a shit. Let me know.
I, um, the I've had bad experiences with the Mormons, so, uh, don't care.
But anyways, uh, you can put in, like, your name.
You can, you can chase down your family lineage. And my dad did.
I've been there also, but my dad did this and actually spent the
time and like, did some chasing. Turns out we are related to the
same Jones that was Brigham Young's lawyer. Oh.
And like, who tried to, you know, get him not killed?
Clearly lawyers because it didn't work.
But, uh, it's for the best, honestly. You come from lawyer blood.
That's right. Big city over here. Oh, yeah. But you know what?
Not a mormon show. That's way more Mormon talk than I
ever wanted to have on this podcast. Yeah, we don't need it.
Just drink caffeine. Drink alcohol. Let's go.
Yeah, and have premarital sex. All the things. And one wife.
Well. You know what? You know. Could you imagine more than one
headache? I don't know. Yeah. Oof! And what happens?
Like, if you get a divorce, do you divorce them both at the
same time? Like that. Sounds. Like. It's separate divorces,
which is even even more expensive. Well there's that. Yeah. Yeah.
I want the I'm not a lawyer. Just might.
But alas, third time's the charm. Not a mormon show. No.
And we're gonna end it there. Out of my depth. Out of my beer.
Out of my bed. Out of my beer. I picked this beer up only
because of Flex. Ooh. And I'm mostly done with it now.
I am drinking from 4 Hands Brewing Company. Voltron volume seven.
Nice, dude. Here it is. Here's my can. I think art is always.
Crapped out at volume 6 or 5. I can't remember what it was.
Yeah, I think I had like 4 or 5. And then I saw this one come around
on the Tavour and I was like, I'm gonna get it.
That's awesome. 6.5% of 404. An untapped out of over
a thousand ratings. They say the seventh release in
a series of collaborations with breweries from around the country
to bring Voltron to life. Voltron volume seven is a juicy,
hazy IPA brewed with BK's Artisan Ales from Kansas City,
Missouri and malt based. I was just gonna say I've heard
of them. Yeah, okay, I have not a malt base
composed of pale malt, white wheat, carapils, and flaked oats serves as
a springboard for intense aromas and flavors of passion fruit melon,
peach, tangy citrus and lychee provided by aggressive hopping with
Nelson Sauvin Galaxy and Citra hops and Dyna Boost Citra, an oil
enriched hop extract that amplifies aromatics. Are you right there?
Oh man, I'm the schnoz. I'm getting like a hoppy, dank,
bitter smell. Um, I'm not getting tons of tropical
fruits that are in the description. No.
No peach, no melon, maybe some passion.
I honestly don't know what lychee would smell like.
It's like, uh, it's a weird smell. Um. It's like fermented.
Uh, it's hard to describe. All right. Well, on on ye olde Tongue-jobber.
Oh. Gurgle, daddy. Gurgle. I'm getting mostly citrusy notes
like that. Citrus is really coming through.
Probably thanks to the Dynaboars Citra. Not so much melon.
Maybe a hint of, like, passion fruit. I will say this has been sitting
here for a while. It did warm up a little bit.
I'm getting a lot of that Citra hop. I'm getting some, uh,
some passion fruit. Not so much peach, not so much melon.
But I'm still enjoying it. So the lacing.
Every time you took a sip, I noticed. That was very nice.
Great lacing. Definitely hazy. And would you consider it?
I was just going to ask, is it juicier or hazier?
Because they called it a juicy hazy. They called it juicy. Hazy. Yeah.
It's like they were covering all their bets before it was released or
something. Maybe they listened to us. As they should.
Uh, yeah, I mean, it drinks mostly. I mean, drinks like a hazy.
It looks like a hazy, so. Right. Yeah. It's it's. You call it a hazy.
You guys are safe. Okay. Okay. I think you're all right.
So he's curious about that. I thought that was a fun way to
describe it. Yeah, it does leave a weird.
I'm really overselling it here. It's very minor, but a little
bit of a coating on the tongue. It almost is like a hot coating
on the tongue if, like a. Like a hoppy West Coast type dealy.
Yeah. Like like you had something just dank
and bitter as fuck and your tongue is reeling from that experience.
Interesting. I get a little bit of that like a,
you know, 20s later. So it's interesting,
but overall juicy and hazy and yes, all those things. Cool. Yeah.
Good times. Um. All right,
what is going on this weekend? Oh, I haven't done a ton of research.
I've been busy. We've been traveling for work,
you know, working a bunch and all that good stuff.
I cannot wait till next week, though, because this weekend I'm
getting classy. Wine drunk. Classy. Just classy.
I've talked about on the show before, when we do our wine pickup parties at
one of our wineries and they have. It's the house in Malibu that
overlooks the ocean with the taco people. Shannon's boss.
No, no, this is one of our wine clubs.
Oh, this is a wine club. Okay. Yeah. So overlooks the ocean in Malibu.
They always have the taco lady show up with her fantastic tacos, and she
makes fresh churros at the end. Wow. And it's all you can drink,
so I'll be doing that. I'll be getting classy.
Fucked up, I cannot wait. Are you staying out there?
No, no, I am not. I my my lineage might be lawyers,
but not currently a lawyer. I can't. I can't afford that. Malibu.
Stay. Damn it! Yeah. Sorry. So. But I am looking forward to that.
Maybe there's, like, a secret inheritance that you,
uh. Yeah. Are owed. I need to talk to my dad about that.
He's been holding out. Come on. Greg's dad. Yeah.
Whoever you are. Come on. Greg's dad definitely never been
on this show before. Let me know where's.
Where's the big inheritance? Well, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Yeah, I can't wait. You know, you know me. Tacos.
Well. Yeah. Person, right? I mean, that's. Yeah. I'll be honest.
We looked up the taco person that they have at these parties.
We've looked them up. We cannot afford them.
They are taco people to the stars. Let me. Tell you. I shit you not.
Uh, taco person we can afford. And they do a great job.
Make great tacos. These people. Look, here's the thing.
They do a great job. Great tacos. The churros is a nice,
Really nice bonus added touch, but we cannot afford them.
So you think it's like a geographical location? Yeah, I think.
I think they, they cater to where they're catering.
Like, hey, we're, uh, taco people in Malibu.
We can kind of up our prices. Yeah. Do you guys have the non Malibu
package? What does that cost? Let us know. I'm curious. Yeah.
But anyways. Hey, you mentioned something on
the show last week, and I feel like you buried the lead here.
I forget we were talking about something,
and you were talking about how. Oh, you were talking about being
in Chicago and seeing LeBron James because the Lakers were
playing the Bulls and all that. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
You buried the lead. Did you go to that ice cream
museum or what? Oh shit. I talked about that.
I totally forgot I talked about that. You talked about go before you
actually went. You said you were going to go.
I mean, I can summarize my Chicago trip.
I've had a hard on for this ice cream museum ever since you
first mentioned it. So I'm not ready to tell you the
museum wasn't worth it. Oh, no. With the price and everything,
it was. But it's all you can eat. Ice cream, right? Yes. Okay.
Which was wonderful. I did have myself a lot of ice cream.
Get your money's worth. No, not the family's money's worth.
Oh, but. But your personal money's worth.
Mhm. Uh oh. All right. I got some work to do.
But Chicago was great. Um, Apple CarPlay, by the way,
when you're traveling and you're driving. Yeah, it's my favorite.
They find a shortcut, or they say they can save six minutes on your
trip. Just hit the okay button. Don't be afraid to hit the okay
button. I do it all the time. Well, we went to Saint Louis
this past summer. I didn't want to fuck with anything,
so I just didn't touch a single damn button.
I just took the trip, the route, whatever.
Um, driving into Chicago, I get real anxious about Chicago traffic because
it's the pits and it's very, uh, a lot of anxiety, especially when
I'm driving in unfamiliar areas. Sure. So Apple CarPlay.
In your own car, do you guys fly in a rental car? Did you drive there?
No, it's like an hour and a half drive. Oh, okay. So you. Drive?
Yeah. Chicago's relatively close. So we're driving.
It says, hey, you know, essentially you're about to get
into downtown Chicago traffic. We can save six minutes on your trip.
And, uh, I almost panicked because I didn't know what to do,
and I hit the okay button, said, fuck it. We're gonna.
We're gonna try this Apple CarPlay shit. Daddy's rolling the dice.
Daddy rolled a seven because he won. Uh, they got us off on the next exit,
and we took a couple side streets, you know, maybe two turns.
And we were at our hotel much faster with little traffic,
no traffic jams, no waiting on freeways. And it was wonderful.
And I highly recommend it. And, uh, we went to a free zoo.
They have a free zoo in downtown Chicago right off the lake.
I think I've ever been to a free zoo. Oh, we went to two.
Now the Saint Louis Zoo's free. And now this was.
It was called the Lincoln Park Zoo. I'm going to the wrong zoos.
It was super, super legit. Except, you know.
No, I guess no except anything. It was super legit. Nice.
So, from the zoo, we went to our hotel where we, you know, valet.
And it was right off Michigan Avenue, which, if you don't know
anything about Chicago. Michigan Avenue is like the big
shopping district. Oh, okay. Up and down the ways.
We went to the world's largest Starbucks, which I didn't
realize was in Chicago. It is a five story Starbucks.
Each floor has like a different menu and like different specialty
drinks or foods that they have. And then the fifth floor is kind
of cheating. It's just like a balcony that you can
hang out on and drink your coffee. One of the floors, I think,
was like the fourth floor. They do alcoholic coffee drinks.
I'm in and they have like an entire bar.
Any spirit you could ever imagine is there.
Nothing gets me harder than an Irish coffee. Um, yeah.
I don't even know if you can order an actual Irish coffee,
because you can only order the menu items, which we found out.
All right. Whatever it's called. Coffee with whiskey, please.
Right. There you go. Uh, so I unfortunately did not
order because I didn't want to make it like, a selfish visit. Right.
Because there was nothing for the kids to drink.
They could have ordered hot chocolate,
but they really didn't want it. So I wasn't just going to sit
there and drink hooch with coffee. So we just kind of went up and down.
We ended up going to this ice cream, the Museum of Ice Cream. Right.
Mhm. This is what I'm here for. 2:00 in the afternoon. Okay.
Good. Ice cream time. Found out that you actually did have
to purchase tickets online. Oh. Whoops. This place sells out. Oh.
So right away my wife goes on her phone.
Hey, there's tickets for 530, and they're $44 a person.
Even the kids. Even the kids. There's no kid price. Oof!
So after taxes, fees, whatever, etc., it was like $215 for a family of four
to go to the Museum of Ice Cream. So it's $54 a person. Right?
Because you're good at math. It's the lineage. My lawyer stuff.
So you get in, they give you the spiel like, hey, ice cream,
museum, blah blah, blah blah blah. You get a name tag and you're
supposed to like, put ice cream flavor on your name tag. Mhm.
And uh, I put I guess I don't know if anybody
knows my real name on here. Uh oh. Well maybe I will because I thought
my ice cream name was funny, so I'm gonna spill it. Okay.
So, you know the ice cream flavor, like dulce de leche? Yes.
So I thought to myself. It. This. Is. Really funny to put on.
Well, let's just say Flex de Leche right? So the milk of Flex. Right?
I just, I thought it was fucking brilliant. That is fantastic. Yeah.
Um, and especially because it's like a kid environment.
So I just thought it was right. Wait. I was just hoping for somebody
to laugh, and nobody laughed. And I was just laughing in my
head the entire fucking time. Uh, but, you know,
they call it a museum. I couldn't tell you a fucking thing
I learned or what I looked at, um, there's like, I don't know,
7 or 8 different rooms you walk in. Each room has, like,
an ice cream treat or a sweet treat. Mhm. There was a bar.
I forgot what they called it. It wasn't a bar.
It was like a staging area. But you could order some alcoholic
beverages or alcoholic shakes or you know, but it was boozy.
Shakes are so good. But it was all not included in the
price. It was all extra. Nevermind. So it was just kind of like, man,
like, what's the point of spending all this money to then just go spend
more money? So we opted out of that. We got the free Dippin Dots.
Um, there was a really weird treat in the first room. It was like some.
It just tasted like creamed milk. Hmm. Was it Flex de Leche?
Probably was. Damn it. Um. Then there was a sample.
Boys and girls. There was a cotton candy ice
cream in another room, which I'm a huge fan of.
Cotton candy flavored anything. I have to cut you off. I'm so sorry.
I just thought of the perfect ice cream name for you. Okay.
It's Daddy de Leche. Daddy de Leche. Damn it! Opportunity missed.
I was this close. So this close to nailing it.
Damn it! Sorry. Continue. Uh, but the the best, uh,
ice cream in the room was. It was like a pineapple sorbet,
but it tasted like. It was like more like pineapple
Dole whip. Okay. Love me a dole. So I definitely got myself a
couple bowls of that. Uh, and then, like, the big feature,
like, this is the big gather, right? The big grab for people to come
there. As you remember, ball pits when
we were a kid. Oh, yeah. Right. You go to, like, a Discovery Zone
or Chuck E cheese or something, and you jump in the balls.
Well, they have, like, a a sprinkle pit. Okay.
And it is like a large pool, and it's filled with sprinkles. Sure.
But the amount of kids and the amount of noise. Mhm mhm mhm.
Was that such exceeding levels that we last said about seven minutes.
And we all kind of looked at each other and were like looked
at the kids and Together. You. Are you guys done?
And they were like yep. Oh even the kids were out.
Oh even the kids were done. Because my next question was
gonna be like, do you think that was when we were kids and we
were going to Discovery Zone? Do you think our parents were like,
well, fuck this place. It's noisy. But we never as kids thought that
Discovery Zone was too noisy. No, because I mean, like,
everybody standing around this pool, like, there's not a lot of room to,
like, hang out. Mhm. So Discovery Zone, you're at
your table, you're eating pizza. You're whatever being social
with other adults. Sure. Well the kids are off getting stuck
in ball pits and tubes and shit. So it was a lot to handle.
And you know what? Something I hate is other people's
kids. You know. Yeah. Makes sense. Hope Stetson listens to this one day.
Uh, 316. Uh, other people's kids are the
worst. Yeah. You know, and a lot of it is how
they're parented. Yeah, it's really not the kids fault.
Right, right, right. But, uh, it. Doesn't make them any. Better.
It was enough to make us get the fuck out of there.
So how long do you think we lasted? Paid $215. Oof!
How long do you think we lasted in this museum of ice cream?
I mean, I'd love to say that you lasted at least at a minimum
two hours, but I'm thinking that's really optimistic.
That's way optimistic, Greg. Okay. Like 45 minutes.
35 minutes. 35 minutes. 35 minutes. Ooh. Yeah, that's.
A lot of money for a little ice cream.
It was, uh, it was for the kids, though. For the children?
I just kept telling myself. Now, was this sponsored by a brand
like, is this Breyers or Dreyer's or Ben and Jerry's or something?
I didn't look it up. I don't know what the if there's
any affiliate with anything, but they just call it the Museum
of Ice Cream. All right. Yeah. I don't know. Step up your game.
Museum of ice cream. Yeah, it was just.
It was really lackluster. That's too bad.
I was so excited to hear about this. Yeah, I was too.
I thought it was just, like a vast amount of ice creams.
And you got to eat whatever you wanted. I'm an ice cream whore.
And they just came in. You'd go into a room and it was
either just like, you want this or you don't.
Some rooms had like two varieties to choose from. Sounds a little sexual.
And it was just like, you know, it just wasn't what I wanted.
Mhm. That is really too bad. It's like I feel like it needs
to pertain to adults and kids. Sounds like it pertained to neither.
Yeah I don't I don't think it was great.
I wouldn't recommend it to anybody who goes I wouldn't recommend it.
Damn it. But eventually. I've never been to Chicago.
Eventually I'll end up. And I thought this was something I
could add. I will tell you one thing. So the gift shop, you know,
is at the end of the whole thing, and then you walk out of the gift
shop and you're out in the street. We're unfamiliar with Chicago.
We go every year, but we still don't know what the fuck is. What? Sure.
So one of the girls in the gift shop, we said, hey, you know,
it's like 6:00 now. Do you have any recommendations
for dinner? She was like, well, what are you
thinking? I said, well, we got kids. Like, we're like family.
Like family dining. Like something easy, quick.
Uh, have you ever heard of the Billy Goat Tavern? I have not.
I never had either. So she said,
if you just walk across the street, walk down that set of stairs,
it's under the overpass. Like under the bridge. It's like in.
There's, like, two levels of Chicago. It's kind of bizarre,
if that makes sense. And she said it's it's
underneath there. Okay. Well, that sounds kind of weird.
So I looked it up and it was like a four and a half out of
five star rating. All right. So my wife was like, fuck it,
we're gonna go. It is the original location
Creation of the. If you're familiar,
the John Belushi cheeseburger. Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger.
No shit. Yes, I am very familiar. So it didn't click with me until we
got under the ground, turned around from the staircase, and it's like
on a big board in their window. It's like original Billy Goat Tavern,
home of the cheeseburger. Cheeseburger. Cheeseburger.
No, I didn't know that place had a name. Yeah.
So it was like, really fucking cool to go there.
I would say nostalgic, but that was still a bit away from my time.
Mhm. But I still knew what it was. Uh so yeah it was so quick, so easy.
The food ordering part was wonderful because you literally go to the
register, you tell them what you want, like one of this, one of this,
one of this, one of this. Right. And it's ready for you about
four seconds because they're cooking this food at a constant. Oh yeah.
They probably just never stop. The second you order it,
about three seconds later, it's done. And it was wonderful.
The burgers were wonderful. Whatever pickles they had were
top notch. I love pickles. It should be the only thing on
burgers. And it made my day. What didn't make my day was the
bartender. Oh. It was a long day in Chicago.
Yeah, I just wanted a beer with my burger.
The bartender is on the other end of the bar taking a personal call.
Paying no mind to any patrons that needed beverages. Sure.
Finally got off his phone, gave one guy his receipt,
walked up to me. Didn't say a word. I said I would like this beer.
It was a Billy Goat pilsner. I don't know who.
They have their own beer. Yeah, they have two beers.
They have a Billy Goat IPA and a Billy Goat Pilsner. All right.
And I don't know who brews it. I was going to look into it.
Did it lazy? Um. Still doesn't say a word to me
towards my beer. I hand him my card and say,
just the one. I'm going to close that right away.
He runs it, puts the receipt in front of me with my card, and walks away.
Mm says not one word to me. And I don't know if that's Chicago.
I don't know if that's just this gentleman, but it kind of rubbed
me the wrong way. Not a hey, what can I get you?
How you doing tonight? Thanks for stopping in. Thanks.
Yeah. Just. Nope. Just. Hey, let me take my personal call.
Not say a word to you. Not say a word to you. Thanks.
You're welcome for the beer. Well, I can tell you it's made at
Miskatonic's Brewery in Darien, Illinois. Okay, well, there we go.
Yeah, and it was a fine beer. Yeah, it was fine.
It wasn't great. It was fine. Did they do the whole cheeseburger?
Cheeseburger thing or. No, no, it's kind of busy. Yeah.
Like, I went to the register and I said, uh, what I need,
I needed one hot dog. I needed one hamburger,
one cheeseburger and one double cheeseburger. And then I paid.
And then he, uh, gave me the drinks because I ordered some drinks. Right.
And I said, all right, I'm gonna. I'll be right back.
And he said, I just want to let you know your food's ready.
You're like, what? He wasn't rude about it.
He was just like, just so you know, you're like, by. The. Way, he knew.
Like I was new. Yeah. And, uh, I said, yeah, I said,
I just bring these drinks to the table and I'll come back.
And sure enough, I went right back to the register and my food was,
uh, like, the best part is to they don't even put it on plates.
They take wax papers. They. Just take sheets of wax paper,
and they put it out. And then your burgers on the wax
paper, your hot dogs on the wax paper.
We're not wasting time with plates. Yeah, they don't fucking waste
any time. No money on supplies. It was fun. That's funny.
It was a fun environment. And I would ten out of ten
recommend going back there. Too bad their bartender's an asshole.
Yeah. Bartender was a complete prick. But Pete the pickles. Top notch.
Top notch pickles. Top notch pickles. I would have took em home with me.
Oh, I've not been to Chicago. I need to go.
It's one of the places that I haven't gone that I want to.
And honestly, I don't know why we haven't gone. Yeah.
I mean, my wife. The city is, uh. I don't think there's a lot of beer.
Beer in the city, like, brewery wise. Yeah.
I mean, we got river brewing out there.
What up? Zack? Right? What up? Zack. But the city itself is just fun.
It's entertaining. You could walk up and down it
for hours. Yeah, they got all the fucking
museums, the aquarium, the fucking. Thing. Free zoo.
We went to the bean the next day. We did walk to Millennium Park.
Uh, I did not flick the bean. Uh, that's too bad.
I did think how funny that would have been, but, uh, that'd be.
A great picture to receive. Millennium Park.
It's a super fun place. And if you've never seen the Bean,
it's, I don't know, the first time. It's kind of like, Holy shit,
that's fucking massive, bean. And why anybody, any artist thought a
giant steel bean would be like a piece of art, like, I don't know.
Again, mind blowing, but. Right. You know, people also bought a
duct tape banana to a ball. So. Well, there is that right?
That was real art. Anything is art. Yes, exactly. Well, good.
Good ish times then. Yeah. I'm sorry. I won't be going to the ice
cream museum. I was very. Excited. Don't be sorry.
Don't go. Oh, it's too bad. I. I don't know if I've said it enough,
but I fucking love ice cream. What's your favorite flavor?
Where do I begin? So forever. It was Rocky Road, and I still have a
soft spot for Rocky Road nowadays. Uh, it usually is.
Peanut butter ice cream with no sorry, chocolate ice cream with
peanut butter. Okay, I love those ribbons of peanut
butter throughout the chocolate. I do love ribbons more than I
like actual physical pieces. Yeah, I don't like chocolate
peanut butter cup ice cream. I love ice cream and I love
chocolate peanut butter cups. I don't like them together.
I want the ribbon of peanut butter throughout my chocolate ice cream.
Frozen pieces of chocolate in my ice cream.
Oh, you don't like chocolate chip? No.
Oh, I like, I don't love, I do like chocolate. So crunchy.
That's what I like about it I like texture.
That's what I don't like about it. Oh, I like the texture.
Like, if we get vanilla, I will dump little chocolate chips in there.
Oh, I have mini chocolate chips that I put in there because they
freeze faster. It's adorable. It's a science.
I can't even hate you for that. But yeah, like, if if I'm gonna go,
like, hey, what's the one ice cream you gotta die with?
Chocolate with peanut butter. Okay, that's my baby, right?
I can respect that, I like that. What about you?
Besides Flex de Leche. So, Daddy de Leche. Um.
Might be the name of this episode. Like I like, so we don't do, really,
like, a lot of ice cream here. We do. Big custard fan, right? Oh, sure.
So there's a local spot by me. They do a red raspberry,
and it's raspberry flavored custard with frozen raspberries in it.
That to me is complete. Top notch. Sounds so healthy.
It's not though, because it's made with, like,
butter. And that's your custards. Like super like.
Fatty milks and butters. It's way worse than ice cream
for you. It's so good. I love when people are like, oh,
gelato is healthier than ice cream. Like, no it's not. You fucking idiot.
People are dumb. People are dumb. But then secondly would be, uh,
I've talked about on the show once before, Blue Moon. Oh. That's right.
And you had to look it up. I did, yeah.
It's a very Wisconsin thing. It is a big Wisconsin thing. So.
Yeah. Not the beer, everybody. Not the beer, not the dough. No.
Gross. Oh, no. No, no. That would be the worst ice
cream flavor ever. Yes. Let me get some cilantro.
Orange, please. Freaks. Nice notes of coriander. Well, sadly.
Sadly, not an ice cream show. Yes. No.
I'm sorry about the ice cream museum. I was excited about it.
I'm still glad I got to hear about it, but I'm sorry it sucked.
Well, Ludacris. Libation law. I should have pulled one from
Illinois, but I did not. New Hampshire.
Bars in New Hampshire may sell beer and wine.
However, only restaurants may sell distilled spirits. Interesting.
That's a weird one, too. Somebody tell me that's wrong.
That can't be. Wrong. Yeah, it's from my list of weird
laws, but, uh, it just. It doesn't feel right.
I feel like it's so wrong that it doesn't feel right. Exactly.
Like, I know there's some weird shit, but it's like restaurants can
sell spirits, but not bars. Maybe the drinking lawyer can set
this straight for us or something. Somebody's gotta know.
Yeah, I did some quick googling before the show.
I found varying reports of accuracy. So. Okay. Somebody let us know.
Uh, all right, before we get some news, let's find out what Flex is
drinking over there. Oh, shit. 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? Well, this one's for Greg. Oh.
All right. I sent him a picture of this beer.
A. Couple of weeks ago. Oh. And you called me a sellout.
I'm trying to remember this now. I'm going back through my text
messages. See if you can get it. Um. Nope.
That's me texting you about daddy. Me texting you about your mom.
It's all pretty normal stuff. Uh,
I was talking shit about somebody. I'm not seeing a beer photo pop up.
Um, it was the picture of Leinenkugel’s Leinie Lodge Leinie
Lodge Lime a Mexican style lager with natural lime flavor.
I think we had a conversation. I said it sounded interesting.
Maybe I'm looking on the wrong string. Maybe you DM'd it to me.
Maybe that's what it was. Maybe that's what it was.
Um, and like I said, I didn't go out and buy beer,
and this was something that my buddy when he came down for opening day and
we stopped at the liquor store and he thought it sounded interesting,
and he did not like it, not one bit. So he left it in my fridge.
So, uh, here I get to review the line. Leinie Lodge Lime.
Never even poured it into a glass. No, I didn't, it's not worth it.
Uh, I this might be the untapped. I don't know,
they spelled liney wrong. It makes me think it's not real,
but, uh, 500 check ins, which is wild. I think it's crazy.
I don't know, maybe I know I spelled it right too.
Yeah. There we go. Uh, yeah. 500 check ins, a 357,
which is actually not terrible. And it reads at our pilot brewery at
the Leinie Lodge in Chippewa Falls, which is no longer. Yeah.
We crafted this Mexican style lager to be a perfect year round escape.
Leinie Lodge Lime is juicy and crisp, with natural lime flavor and
perceived notes of salt, giving you a bright, refreshing
taste of a relaxing getaway anytime, anywhere. So tell you what.
On the schnauzer from the can. Lots of lime. Mhm. Lots of lime.
And, uh, kind of smells artificial, which is whatever, you know,
I guess it says natural flavor. Sure. And then the old. Uh Tongue-jobber.
Without further ado. That's my second favorite part.
I mean, it tastes like a Mexican style lager with some unnatural
lime flavorings. Um, unnatural? Yeah, it says natural.
I don't believe it. Uh, I enjoy this. I have already purchased this once
before. Oh. And I drank it all. And I enjoyed it all.
And I think it is a will be a wonderful summer beer. 35. Sure.
I have no problem with that. Yeah. Um, it's kind of a joke.
Beer for the show. And I had a good time with it.
And I'm gonna drink it all, and I'm gonna like it. Nice.
You and you enjoy your weird, disgusting beer over there.
Yeah, it's. I know you don't like Mexican lagers,
either. Not especially craft ones. Like. I'd rather. Have a.
Yeah, I'd rather have a Pacifico than a real Mexican lager right up there.
I. You're fine. That's fine. I'm not going to judge you.
Then I won't judge you for your linee Lime. Well, thank you so much.
That's growth. Greg. We call that growth.
It's growth in my pants. I'm gonna call it a Lyman kugel.
I like it. Opportunity missed. Marketing department.
All right, a little news before we get out of here.
PBR Pabst Lite is available now. I'm gonna look for it.
4.2% ABV light lager will be sold in 12 ounce cans and 12 2430 packs,
16 ounce cans, six packs, and 25 ounce single serve cans.
So this used to be a thing, so I'm sure.
I'm assuming they discontinued it like my, uh,
long love of high life lite. Aha! So you know how Pabst is like red,
white and blue, right? So this was red or. No.
I'm sorry. White, blue and teal. So I'm very curious about what
the packaging looks like now. Mm. Yeah. I didn't see a picture.
I just got the press release. Anything on a Pabst can that was
red was used to be teal. Ah. And it was. It was off putting.
I'm looking it up now. So I'm curious if it. Yeah.
Um, the pictures I'm seeing are not teal. Okay. They're very.
Lots of blue and red and white. Okay. So hopefully they changed the
packaging. I don't see anything teal. Man, it used to be, like, the
wildest thing. Yeah, I don't know. Well, speaking of shitty beer, uh,
Anheuser-Busch has end their Saint Louis Pride Festival sponsorship.
They will no longer, after 30 years of participating, sponsor the Saint
Louis Pride festival. That's, uh. Interesting. Mhm. Why now?
Hooters. Are you a fan of Hooters? You ever been to a Hooters?
You guys have a bunch of Hooters? There was a Hooters.
I don't know, a mile and a half from where I lived
growing up and where I live now. And, uh, it was so good that
it's now a Mexican restaurant. Oh, great. Nachos at Hooters.
Uh, You know what's funny? I actually went on a first date
to Hooters. I don't think that's a terrible
thing. Wasn't even my idea of wings. Beer? Yeah. Fine. Wings.
Oh, you know what? One time my sisters,
she was dating this guy. At one time, her her ex-boyfriend
won like, a night of free wings. You have a sister?
Didn't I didn't tell you I had a sister? She's married now.
What the fuck? Yeah. That's wild. It's weird thinking about having a
kid. Mistake? Yeah. Huge mistake. Um, this this boyfriend of hers won,
like, free wings. And so he's like, hey,
you guys want to go? So we went to Hooters with him,
and they just kept bringing out wings until we said stop. That's amazing.
It was so like we were fucking. So, uh, anyways,
they have fired. Fired? They have filed for chapter 11
bankruptcy. That's not shocking. No, I'm surprised they lasted
this long. Let's be honest. I don't know if there's a single
location left in the state. Oh, really? My state. Yeah.
I mean, I haven't been to one in quite some time.
There was a couple in the LA, you know, a few in the LA area.
There was one in Hollywood, one in Santa Monica.
Santa Monica was the one I went to on the first date, by the way.
I think we drove past one when we were on our way to Saint Louis last
summer. Okay. That sounds familiar. Yeah, well, I guess that's the
problem. We need to keep going. Or maybe it was when we were in
Orlando. That makes more. Sense. It was when we were in Orlando.
Yeah, that. Makes way more sense. I think they're headquartered in
Florida. Sounds right. Yeah. That tracks in Florida.
Hi, Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa. Uh, we've been talking a lot
about baseball recently. Mr. met apparently loves Allagash.
The Portland, Maine headquartered brewery announced it is opening
Allagash Ali at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.
The bar is located on the Excelsior level in section 311.
Ooh, it sounds so special, right? Excelsior, he proclaimed.
I wonder how that happened. Alien Church Portland, New York.
Yeah, that is kind of weird. Not enough New York breweries. Right.
I was gonna say there's so many New York beers. Right?
They're not short on breweries, so. Excuse me. They must have paid more.
Oh, I just got your picture of the turquoise PBR.
Yeah, it's weird. Right? Yeah. Also, charge your, uh,
phone battery there. Don't judge. Me. It's in the red.
Just saying. Still alive? I have major, like,
phone battery. Uh, anxiety. I don't charge my phone for three
days. Yeah. Oh. I'm sweating. I see it dripping off your forehead.
Yeah. Uh, left hand brewing and dry
dock have merged. The news follows Tuesday's
announcement that Great Divide. With whom? Dry dock.
We talked about this last week. We talked about dry dock.
Forged a strategic, strategic, strategic, uh,
production agreement in late 2023. Had joined Wilding brands, the
parent company Stem ciders, Denver Beer Co and other craft brands.
Dry dock will immediately move all brewing, production and
packaging to left Hands Longmont facility and will continue to
operate its Aurora taproom. Dry dock marks the first addition
to Left Hand's platform, which completed a wefunder round
last month and raised over $800,000 from 396 investors.
Balls. Yeah, a lot of money. We'll end it on this one. An e-bike.
When I say e-bike, I mean like a, you know, pedal bike, right.
But with electronic assist, right? An e-bike with three prior DUIs.
Arrested again for drunk driving. Winston. Henry Williams.
Quite the name. Sounds very fancy. 60. He was a president, right?
President. Williams, Winston Henry Williams,
66, of Oxford. Sounds even fancier. Who has three prior convictions
of driving under the influence, was riding his e-bike on March 28th
in the southbound bike lane of US highway 27 441, without a red rear
taillight nor a red reflector. According to reports, an officer
turned on her emergency lights and moved partially into the bike
lane to conduct a traffic stop. Williams looked back but did not
stop. Sorry. President Williams looked back
but did not stop. The officer used her sirens
several times before Williams finally came to a halt.
When the native of Jamaica got off the bike, he stumbled and swayed
as he put the bike on the ground, according to the arrest report.
As the officer informed Williams of the reason of the stop,
she detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from him,
which became stronger as he spoke. President Williams told the officer
that he consumed 2 or 3 5% beers in an hour before the stop.
Very specific. The officer observed Williams
was speaking in circles, at times slurring his words.
The officer noted in a report that Williams continued to have
mood changes from cooperative to polite to argumentative.
He agreed to perform the standardized field sobriety exercises after
telling the officer he had been through this before, and that
they were out to lock him up. Williams did poorly on the field
sobriety exercises and was taken into custody.
He also provided breath samples which showed 0.16. Not even close. Come on.
I don't think I've ever seen numbers this high before.
We're talking like 3.6. Oh, God. No! .73? No. And fucking way.
Followed by. Followed by .67. Blood alcohol level. Oh my God!
I don't know how he's alive. He's riding a bike. Holy balls!
He should be president. That's impossible. .73. Okay.
73% of your blood. What the fuck? How are you?
Alive? That's what I'm saying. Like that's. He's a zombie. Yeah.
Or an alien? One or the other. I don't know how they make them
down there in Jamaica, but. Good lord. .73 and .67. That's nuts.
Stutz. Hats off to you. President Williams. Yeah.
Something people don't realize is, uh, even riding a bike.
Yeah, you can get a DUI. I know it's kind of shitty,
if you think about it. Someone's like, hey, you know what?
I'm not gonna drive drunk. I'm not gonna put somebody else
in danger. I'll ride my bike home and I'll put.
Myself in danger. That's fine. And to me, that's okay.
You want to risk your own? Whatever that's on you.
I don't care what you do to yourself. Just don't hurt somebody else.
I mean, but realistically, you can't even go out walking drunk. Yeah.
I mean, you could just be arrested for drunk in public, right?
Except for Nevada, they actually have rules against instituting
drinking in public laws in Nevada. Nevada style? Yeah, yeah.
So, uh. Yeah. And you're going. I will be there and I will be
drunk in public. Take that. Laws. Best part. Take that. Stupid laws.
So, anyway, uh, hats off to Williams for fucking surviving the 0.73.
I guess that's. A a hero. Yeah, that is something.
So, uh, anyways, let's let's wrap things up. Let's hit some music.
I'm gonna say hi to Vanessa. Did it? Did we not? Did we?
No, I don't think we did. Oh. Hi, Vanessa. Well, hi.
And if we did, hi again. Who knows? Hello. Follow us on the socials.
@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer underscores in between.
Remember to practice your ABCs backwards. Oh, yeah.
Get caught on a bike drunk driving, and they give you a field
sobriety test. You pass. Six. You're done. I'm done. Arrested?
Yeah, I just got arrested. Yeah. Fuck. Uh, 853. Beer. Two. Three.
Three. Seven. I think that's everything.
I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note.
Good night everybody.