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I am Greg,
and I think I just scared the shit out of Flex over there.
It woke me up.
Yeah,
I had to get that little Ric Flair in there to wake me up too.
It's been a long day.
I needed some wake up sauce to catch my drift.
Baseball's back,
so that's about the only wake up I really need.
That'll cure insomnia,
some of those games.
Yeah.
Baseball,
I like watching the Dodgers,
like watching my team,
but I can't just watch rando baseball.
Oh,
see,
I have the Dodgers on right now.
Rando baseball.
That's not rando,
that's good baseball.
Well,
for you.
But not a baseball show.
Not a baseball show,
at least not yet.
So happy opening week,
everybody,
and all the things that come with that,
and spring and...
getting drunk and eating nuts.
Love nuts.
Yeah,
who doesn't?
Nice salty nuts in your mouth,
a couple at a time.
Yeah,
that's good shit right there.
Well,
you can't talk because you got so many nuts in your mouth.
Right,
and then you got to wash away the saltiness with a little beer.
Yeah,
what's better than that?
Right,
nobody wants to have a mouthful of nuts sober.
It's just...
I never have.
Exactly.
So anyways,
now that we've lost everybody,
a lot to get to today.
I had a fun weekend of watching people brew beer,
did some research,
got some news to get to,
a little news flight action,
and so much more before I get to some hydration.
Don't forget,
@flexingmeabeer,
underscores in between,
@craftbeerrepublic on the grams and all that good shit.
All right,
let's do some things.
Oh,
by the way,
shout out to Thousand Oaks,
California,
keeping it local for our top city,
top listening city of last week.
What up,
Thousand Oaks?
Yeah,
what up?
I mean,
it's because we had so many locals on the show.
Knocking off New Jersey,
Yeah,
for now,
for now.
So if you guys didn't hear the last couple episodes,
boy,
did we have the meat fiesta going on in here with Scott and Dan coming around.
It was a pretty great time.
That was fun.
I have to admit,
I think we talked about this a little afterwards,
but not on the show.
You and Dan have never actually talked before,
and I was a little worried that,
well,
they've never talked,
and they have similar senses of humor in some ways.
You guys are both like know every movie line ever to everything,
and this could either be really funny or they're going to just talk over each other the entire show,
and I thought it was really funny.
Yeah,
I feel like we played off each other very well,
and yeah,
it was really fun.
It was like we knew each other for 10 years,
you know,
the way we went about it.
So it was a great time.
Yeah.
Scott came in with some good workout tips for you.
Love me some Scott.
Right.
You got to keep it bulked up thanks to him.
It's all about the protein and everything.
Yeah.
Where would I be without him?
Yeah,
he'd be puny.
Puny man.
For sure.
Puny man.
Yeah.
So anyways,
if you guys didn't listen to 400 or 401,
go back,
have a listen.
It was a good time.
It was a party.
And speaking of bulking up,
I'm going to bulk up my liver.
I feel like The Rock is making my boobs bounce.
It's the only reason I work out is to make my boobs bounce.
That's what The Rock said once in an interview too.
Really?
No.
I'm joking.
First of all,
thanks to Andrew.
It's pretty believable,
by the way.
Amber fools.
Thanks to Andrew for hooking it up with this beer.
Andrew used to work at Naughty Pine,
recently moved across the country to some snowy place and decided to bring me back some beer when he was visiting.
So thank you very much,
Andrew.
And he knows that I'm all about the coffee Kolsch because of that,
you know,
collab I do with that brewery that shall remain unknown.
Yeah.
But anyways,
thanks to Andrew drinking witch's hat brewing thrash punk coffee Kolsch.
It's 5% has a 379 on a tap in front of the brewery.
They say we had fair trade farmer direct roasted coffee beans from Hyperion Coffee Company in Ypsilanti.
Ypsilanti,
Michigan.
Sure.
Yeah.
I'm not from there.
To give this beer.
I'm not from there.
Yeah.
To give this beer an aggressive yet refreshing dose of coffee aroma and finish perfect for a lazy afternoon pick me up.
Well,
on the schnoz,
nothing but coffee.
That makes sense.
I mean,
right now you need that pick me up.
You're telling me.
Yeah.
I mean,
it tastes like a coffee Kolsch as it should.
Nice coffee flavor up front finishes nice and clean and smooth.
No real bitterness from hot coffee.
From hops or anything like that.
Just a little bit from the coffee.
Yeah.
This is pretty tasty.
Everybody knows I like coffee Kolsch.
It's my weird little love.
I feel like that's a super rare beer,
like a coffee Kolsch in general.
So the fact that he had one that just so happened to be able to drop it off.
I think that's kind of wild.
Yeah.
It was really nice of him to bring it out west for me.
And I don't even see Kolsch enough,
let alone something cool like a coffee Kolsch.
Right.
I just had a Kolsch the other day.
It was,
uh,
they dropped some,
I don't know.
Um,
uh,
not,
well,
there were free beers,
but,
uh,
like sample beers.
Oh yeah.
And,
uh,
one of them was a blueberry wheat,
which was,
uh,
terrible.
Oh yeah.
Terrible.
And the other was,
it was a Kolsch and it was,
you know,
it was whatever it was.
It wasn't great.
It wasn't,
wasn't terrible,
but really could use some coffee in it.
I think that would have helped out a lot.
Yeah.
Uh,
PSA to all the podcast listeners out there.
If you're listening on Google podcasts,
uh,
in fact,
by this point,
it might be no more and you're not listening.
So,
uh,
sometime this week,
they're getting rid of their Google podcasts.
So switch apps,
do something else.
Podcast addict,
Spotify,
Apple podcasts.
We're on all the apps.
So,
uh,
pick one.
I didn't even know Google had a podcast thing.
That's why they're getting rid of it.
It's a wildly popular.
Well,
I guess Google can't have everything.
Yeah.
Anyways,
everything's transitioning to YouTube.
Like you can find the podcast now on YouTube.
There's no video for it.
You can find it on but,
uh,
we're,
we're on there.
So interesting.
Yeah.
Crap your poke on YouTube and like YouTube music.
I think it is,
has like a little subscribe feature.
So we're,
we're starting to,
to climb.
Our downloads are starting to shift from normal platforms to the YouTube platform,
which is interesting and annoying because YouTube won't integrate with any of the podcast apps yet.
So like I have to look at two different places for stats.
So that's always fun.
Yeah.
Some real first word problems going on up here.
So anyways,
um,
over the weekend,
I wanted to mention this.
I got invited.
We,
myself and the wife got invited by Monica over at pedals and pints to do a pink boots brew day over there.
And,
uh,
it's always fun doing these,
these brew days,
big collapse,
huge group of people,
uh,
Jerry and her whole crew from the daughters and in Kasi were there.
A lot of,
a lot of friends from the beer world.
Coley was there.
Wiley was there.
Uh,
Brent Lister,
Brandon was there.
And,
uh,
Will from CCR was there just,
just hanging out,
having a,
having a good time.
He was there.
Justin and just a bunch of familiar faces hanging out,
brewing some beer,
drinking some beer.
And,
uh,
Monica was nice enough to hook it up with some pizza and stuff too.
Cause they got a kitchen there.
So the full day of,
uh,
shooting the shit and drinking some tastiness and watching other people brew beer.
So you do all the fun stuff.
Well,
you know,
like I,
I always feel weird on the pink boots day.
Cause you know,
it's,
it's like a women's beer collaboration.
And like,
I don't want to be the guy who's like,
let me in there.
Let me show you how it's done.
Please.
Oh no,
no,
not like that.
So I always hang back and if anybody needs anything,
please just tell me what to do.
I'm happy to help out or,
or grain out or,
or do some physical labor.
Not a problem.
I just,
I don't want to be the one who's like,
I'll do it.
You know,
when it's not for me.
Right.
It's a,
it's a day for them too.
Yeah.
Like when we did the collab brew with Monica or,
uh,
these guavas are making me thirsty.
You know,
I was a little more in there.
I was graining out,
I was dumping hops in and,
uh,
you know,
that kind of shit.
So,
and that makes sense.
Collab beer.
Right.
Oh,
so,
but still fun.
Yeah.
Hang out,
shoot the shit.
Uh,
her cellarman Boris was there.
He's a cool guy.
He's,
he's a little newer.
What a cool name.
Dude.
Boris is such a cool name.
Like I've never met a single person named Boris.
Clearly he's a bad guy from a cartoon or like a eighties movie.
Oh,
could be that too.
Yeah.
Uh,
bad guy by day and eighties movie by night.
I like it.
Okay.
So talk to him a bunch.
He's super knowledgeable and,
uh,
it was funny.
He used to be,
he's former military.
And so we're talking about how much nicer it is to work in a brewery than being in the military.
You're kidding me.
That's yeah.
But,
uh,
it's cool.
He's,
you know,
he's doing his dream job now and get into the industry.
Like he's always wanted to.
So it's,
it's,
it's cool.
He listens to the show and he started listening cause Monica was on.
So anyway,
shout out to Boris.
Shout out to everybody.
It was really fun time.
So good times at pedals.
Oh yeah.
Pedals and pints.
If you're,
if you're still in California,
uh,
what else going on?
Oh,
Easter.
Did you guys do anything for Easter?
Did you get chittered or anything or,
um,
no,
I,
it was,
uh,
like the Thursday leading up to Easter.
Um,
it was a really long day at work.
I just dealt with a lot of shit and,
uh,
a tide went on then Thursday.
Um,
yeah.
Thursday night.
I like seven beers for like absolutely no reason.
I love it.
Did you work Friday?
Yeah.
Oh,
lo and behold,
I woke up up and I was like,
I was going to bed.
I'm like,
well,
you did it to yourself.
Like you wake up tomorrow.
You're just going to fucking deal with it.
Right.
No one else to blame.
And I wake up and I roll out of bed and I'm like,
holy shit,
I feel fucking great.
Nice.
And I went downstairs,
dude,
got my breakfast,
got my fucking lift in and it's like all I needed was just seven beers to brighten myself back up.
Feels like a good number.
Seven.
I mean,
I'm guessing knowing you,
they're all at least double IPAs.
No,
actually they,
they were like on the lower end.
I had like some,
some sours,
I did have an IPA.
Uh,
yeah,
it's more,
more like a fridge clean out.
Um,
but yeah,
it was very exciting.
That's just,
uh,
you know,
let loose a little bit,
you know,
and,
and at home,
so,
you know,
controlled environment.
I'm not driving and,
uh,
yeah,
it felt like really well-deserved.
I haven't done that in a while.
Good job.
I,
um,
I classied it up for Easter.
So,
uh,
we went to,
her sister's house first and then ordered my mom's house.
Okay.
And,
uh,
whenever we go to see the kids,
I always end up doing,
I think I've talked about this before.
I do a little micro dosing of the gummies.
I think that's a relatively new thing for you,
right?
Yeah.
I've recently within the last year discovered how much of a nicer person it makes me.
Right.
So I,
I,
let's be honest,
I'm getting high for you.
It's not for everybody thinks you're an alcoholic too,
right?
Right.
So this way they don't have to watch me drink.
I'm just over there munching gummies in the car and not an alcoholic.
So,
um,
you know,
had a little like half a gummy on the way over there,
hung out for a little bit,
went over to the mom's house and I was like,
well,
I still got half a gummy.
So I had the other half a gummy.
And then,
uh,
we opened up some wine cause you're,
you know,
we're classy.
It's Easter.
You are very classy.
Yeah.
And it's red wines were extra class.
Shannon's classy.
Let's be real.
Yeah.
Well,
you know,
I just do my best.
Try my hardest.
So,
uh,
open up some,
there was some wine already open.
Then we opened up another one as the day went on and blah,
blah,
blah.
And we're driving home.
We get home and I said,
Hey,
when I have a glass of wine,
she goes,
we've kind of had a lot of wine already today.
And I was like,
have we?
And then we did the math and we realized that nobody was drinking the wine we had open.
And we had had like a,
at least a bottle and a half for just the two of us.
She's like,
you really think you need another glass?
I was like,
I don't not.
I like where your head's at.
Yeah.
Not a quitter.
So anyways,
you know,
not the worst.
How did you feel the next day?
Ah,
no problems.
What up?
Fresh as a daisy.
Outstanding.
Yeah.
You know,
it was spread out all like I never got buzzed,
let alone drunk.
It was,
you know,
started at like two in the afternoon.
Flex is classic day drinking and that's the best,
you know,
a little late for day drinking,
but I'll,
I'll,
well,
you know,
when you don't wake up till nine 30,
it's yeah,
you got a little,
yeah.
Okay.
You know,
I don't wake up at five 15 AM to go get my squats on or anything.
Yeah.
I'm trying,
but it's a lot of exercise.
Yeah.
I mean,
that's kind of how I was on Easter though.
I mean,
granted,
I only had two beers,
a bourbon and a glass of wine,
but a margarita shot of tequila.
But yeah,
I got home and I was like,
uh,
usually after the bourbon,
I start feeling,
you know,
a little bit of type of way.
Sure.
And we get home from dinner and maybe I just ate a fuck ton and it just soaked it all up.
Yeah.
Um,
but yeah,
I got home and I'm like changing and just some comfy clothes,
you know,
nice Easter wear.
And I kept thinking to myself is I don't feel a goddamn thing.
And,
uh,
I don't know,
maybe it was like the perfect amount of alcohol.
Maybe,
maybe our livers are just catching on.
Like,
this is what we need.
Keep up.
Maybe.
I don't know.
No,
next weekend is going to be some sort of shit show.
I was going to say,
we'll continue doing further research and then it's just going to fail us.
You know,
this coming weekend is WrestleMania.
It is.
And I thought about that and I was going to go out today and get the stone cold beer in honor of it and not message me.
And then make me look like an idiot again.
No,
if I was going to get out there,
I was going to let you know.
But,
uh,
life happened.
I didn't,
I didn't get a chance to head out there.
So you didn't have to look like an idiot this time.
But,
uh,
yeah.
But WrestleMania,
like I said,
this weekend now,
I guess it's a two day event.
I didn't even realize it.
Oh,
it's been two days for like four or five years now.
Oh,
I guess that's true.
Cause like stone cold when he did the WrestleMania thing a couple of years ago,
he was on both days.
Right.
Um,
the wife is out of town this weekend.
Ooh.
So.
Definitely getting drunk and watching WrestleMania party.
Yeah.
A party of one,
you know,
it's going to be like 12 hours in two days,
right?
Yeah.
I don't know if I'm going to watch,
especially Saturday,
like Saturday.
First of all,
I'm not going to start with the whole pre-show bullshit.
You guys already,
that's a waste of time.
Yeah.
Like it's already too much on just one day.
Cause they pre-show for six hours and then the event is like another four hours.
Now they do that for two fucking days.
Like how good do you think you are?
I don't even know the storylines other than Cody Rhodes.
And I haven't even been to the watch and I've just been reading about it after the fact.
Yeah.
I mean,
you hear it everywhere.
Yeah.
So anyways,
I figure,
you know,
like maybe I'll see what Scott and Dan are up to if they want to come over and flex.
You're welcome to come over if you want to catch a fly and play a good beer.
In fact,
my wife might be happy if she comes back from her little trip and half the beer in the fridge is gone.
No,
no beers off limits.
I'll see what I can do in a matter of four days.
Yeah.
Let me know how it goes.
Talk.
If you need me to hit up chat GPT from the letter to your wife,
you just let me know.
I'll want to make it.
We'll make it happen.
I actually see your Mrs.
Flex.
It's still folded up and all my,
uh,
like beer gathering.
I don't know if people realize this,
but I did print it out and mail it to flex with some beer.
No,
it was so good.
Yeah.
You gotta have the official.
I should have done like one of those embossed letterheads,
like the raised stamp,
you know,
should have really made it official or like some wax seal or something.
Oh,
that would have been over the top.
Yeah.
Is there anything I should be looking forward to in terms of I don't,
I don't love a six team ladder match for the tag titles.
Oh,
I think.
And there's no one team still a mystery or something or mystery solved.
I've read rumors about it being the Hardee's or something.
Oh no,
I don't think that's a thing.
I don't,
I don't know about a mystery team,
but I think that whole mat should be pretty solid.
Yeah.
Six teams in a ladder.
Cause I don't know,
like 10 years ago,
11 years ago,
maybe they used to do like a six man.
Uh,
intercontinental ladder match.
And it was always like the best match of the night.
And then they stopped doing that for a couple of years.
So now they're kind of bringing it back,
but in like the tag team concept and I don't know,
it should be a wild ride.
Wild and crazy guys.
Hmm.
Yeah.
We'll see.
I do like that.
Um,
but yeah,
other than that,
I mean,
I really don't watch too much other than,
you know,
knowing the Cody roads,
the entire internet wants Cody roads to win the championship.
I hope for that reason alone.
He does not.
Nope.
Cause that was what happened last year.
And I watched till like fucking 1130 just dying.
Like my eyes just wanting to close.
I'm like,
no,
I have to watch Roman reigns lose.
And they fucking made him spoiler alert.
Yes.
And it felt like a complete waste of time staying awake,
watching the whole thing upset me.
Greatly.
I just love when the little internet bitches whine about a fake scripted show.
It's my favorite.
Yeah.
Keep whining.
It doesn't get better.
It's like people who bet on professional wrestling.
Yeah.
You know,
like what is that betting on the Royal rumble and like the odds are sneakily 99% accurate.
I wonder how that happens.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
It's like they know who's going to win.
Yeah.
I don't know how they could get that sort of information,
but you never know.
Yeah.
Well,
good times,
but also I,
you know,
not a wrestling show.
Not definitely not a wrestling show.
We'll,
we'll move on from that.
But if you do watch it,
let us know what you think.
And,
I like Cody.
Cody's great,
but fuck the internet wrestling fans.
Agreed.
Yeah.
Uh,
all right.
Before we get to any news,
I think it's time.
We asked the most important question of the night in a world where craft beer is king,
a world where muscles are bigger than growlers.
Only one time.
You can guide us.
One man,
one tongue,
one tongue jobber in this world.
We must find out what is flex drinking.
All right.
Uh,
today I took the old,
uh,
little rascals to Eagle park.
They wanted some lunch and they love sitting at the bar,
you know,
feeling all cool.
If I ever have kids,
I,
which I won't,
I want them to be your kids.
I want Dad,
can we go to the fucking,
uh,
brewery for lunch?
Yeah.
And like,
they're the ones who brought it up,
which I think is great.
amazing.
Just goes to show you what kind of place that they have to offer,
you know?
Right.
And,
uh,
or how good of a job you've done recently.
Well,
you know,
it's a twofer.
Yeah.
A little A,
a little B.
Right.
So we got some hamburgers,
we got some fries.
Um,
they had one of the new IPAs that came out,
which was delicious.
But then,
uh,
they're having a festival,
a little beer fest coming up.
So they're trying to make room on their table.
Taps and in their fridges for all the challenge accepted producing.
So they had this raspberry vanilla cheesecake incident beer.
Um,
it's a collab they did with ongoing collab.
I should say with microphone who I've had a few times on the show.
Yeah.
And,
uh,
it's a,
it's a raspberry vanilla cheesecake inspired Berliner style vice ale with raspberry vanilla graham cracker and cheesecake flavoring.
Um,
it's 6% ABV this,
it was 20% off these four packs.
So it was 14 bucks for the four packs.
Discount beer.
Can't really go wrong with that.
Um,
I don't have my phone handy,
so I have no idea what the untapped stats are.
Um,
but on the nose,
this thing,
it's just like a ridiculous amount of raspberry.
I'm going to say it's a 3.76.
Ooh,
I think I didn't even look.
I'm just guessing.
I'm thinking it's probably like a 401.
Oh,
cause it's hype and has adjuncts.
Yes.
Also it is a very good beer.
Um,
but it's,
it's real raspberry oriented on this.
As it warms up,
you start getting that cheesecake flavoring.
It doesn't look appetizing.
I guess it looks like a meat.
Yeah.
It's like a brownish reddish,
like almost,
yeah.
Like tomato.
Yeah.
Um,
so yeah,
it doesn't look real great,
but,
uh,
we,
as you know,
tongue jobber warmed up last week as Dan said,
sounds like you're taking pong grips,
right?
There is a lot of booze present in this.
So they don't hide the 6% well,
but you get the raspberry you get the cheesecake,
uh,
the Graham cracker on the real backend of the palette.
So all in all really solid beer and I got it for a discounted price and had some delicious food.
So nice.
You really can't go wrong with that.
And your daughters think that they were cool by going to the brewery with dad.
Yeah.
Win,
win,
win.
Yeah.
And nobody says a single thing about him sitting up there,
which I think is fucking great.
Oh God,
that wouldn't happen in California.
No,
I don't know.
I mean,
I mean even being well behaved,
it's not the behavior thing.
It's just the under 21 at a bar thing.
Okay.
Like sometimes it's weird.
Like the whole,
like,
yes,
it's a brewery and you can be there,
but like the bar rules can be different depending on the type of establishment they are like 90 pine only sells their own beers.
So I think they are probably okay there,
but somewhere like pedals and pints,
uh,
which they don't have bar seating.
They just have bar for service,
but had they actually,
they do have a little bit of bar seating.
I bet they can't have kids at the bar because they sell more than just beer.
They also have like wine and other things.
Hmm.
California is weird when it comes to the bartenders all talking to him about school,
you know,
giving them coasters and you know,
the kid menus to color on.
Right.
Which one of you two wants a flight?
So then my kids were asking,
you know,
they have the flight cards,
they're like,
you know,
dry erase and they're set by the taps,
you know,
so they're asking what those are.
So I'm explaining beer flights to my kids and just,
uh,
just a lot of fun.
Next time you go to McDonald's,
they're going to be like,
can we get soda flights?
We actually did one of those today.
We did a soda flight with the kids doing like a Dr.
Pepper vertical.
That was,
uh,
we got,
uh,
the Easter bunny,
I should say,
not we brought everybody like,
you know,
those Japanese sodas,
pop the marble down,
little kids,
pop the marble down.
Yeah.
You know,
it's like the marble on top and you gotta like push it down to open it up.
No,
that's all foreign to me.
Oh,
but oops.
And,
uh,
so yeah,
so we,
uh,
everybody got one of those for Easter.
So then we poured them out in cups and everybody decided which one was the best.
You should have made a little flight board for him.
I didn't even think about it.
Opportunity missed.
There goes my father of the year award.
Right?
Well,
you'll have some making up to do.
Uh,
all right.
Before we get into the news,
haven't heard this in a while.
Let's do the news flight.
Get the paddles.
Mad River Brewing,
which is based out of NorCal has been acquired by the Pasquinta band of Namlaki Indians.
I'm so sorry that I absolutely butchered that,
but,
uh,
I did.
Tribal chairman Andrew Drew Alejandre said an announcement acquiring Mad River Brewery is another milestone in Pasquinta's commitment.
To building an economically sustainable future for our tribe and serving as an economic growth driver for our neighbors.
Now with the acquisition of Mad River Brewing,
we're honored to extend our expertise in blending tribal identity and craft beer to the Northern California community and tribes across the nation.
As we continue to innovate,
we proudly lead the way in crafting beers and spirits with Indian country.
Well,
that's cool.
Interesting.
Uh,
Cicerone,
the Cicerone program,
which is,
you know,
like nerd shit.
For beer people,
right?
Yeah.
Well,
Somalia for,
for wine Cicerone for beer.
Uh,
the founder sold the program.
Founder Ray Daniels has sold the organization to master Cicerone.
Dan not even going to try.
And Jason Pratt,
both alumni of Molson Coors,
more than 150,000 people in over 90 countries have achieved one of the four certifications that the organization offers.
I know that Deb's a certified beer server.
That's level one.
Is that like the same?
It's the same thing.
It's level one of four,
you know,
all the way up,
you know,
it's like she's got her yellow belt or something.
I don't know.
Sure.
She's working at a brewery and good news for Zach,
Indiana and Virginia pass permanent cocktails to go cocktails to go.
Allowances are now permanent in Indiana,
Virginia.
The two States became the 25th and 26th respectively to write cocktails to go into law after temporarily allowing them during the covid-19 pandemic.
That was great.
Yes.
Best thing to come out of covid.
Seven more States still have temporary provisions according to the distilled spirits council,
the U S and that's California,
which expires in the end of 2026.
Colorado expires July 1,
25,
Illinois expires in August of 28 Massachusetts expires April.
Uh,
in fact,
expired this week,
April 1st of 24,
New Jersey,
no expiration date.
Surprising for New Jersey.
Wow.
You did one thing.
All right.
Who do you know?
Uh,
New York,
April of 25 and Vermont,
July of 25.
So,
uh,
let's make this shit permanent.
Why can't we take cocktails to go?
Yeah,
there's no reason.
Dumb,
super dumb,
but good job,
Zach.
Now you can get your cocktails to go.
Uh,
all right.
Onto the news,
the CCBA legislative update beer catering permits in California.
Hang with me here.
California craft breweries may soon have an easier time.
Selling their beer at special events beyond their tap room walls.
Thanks to the California craft brewers association and their sponsored bill.
AB two one seven four would authorize a licensed,
licensed beer manufacturer to apply for and the department to issue a beer caterers permit for the sale of beer manufactured by,
or for the licensee for consumption at specified locations and events,
including among others,
conventions,
sporting events,
and trade exhibits.
Here's the short of it.
Breweries can go to beer festivals and sell beer.
Well,
great.
Yeah.
So that's almost like what they're,
they should be allowed to do.
Right.
So I read more into it and maybe I should have ran this by intern Brian to make sure I was correct.
Cause I don't want to read the whole article.
It's very legal sounding,
but essentially like breweries now can't just sell easily sell kegs to beer festivals.
They have to donate them.
At least in California.
So they don't make money off of it.
Right.
So this would allow them to not only sell the kegs to the festival.
So the festivals can pay for the beer.
It would also allow them to sell beer to the people enjoying the beer at the best.
So somebody shows up,
Hey,
I want to sample your,
you know,
fucking butternut hazy IPA.
Oh,
I really liked this.
Can I get a four pack to go?
Yes,
you can.
$20.
I like that a lot.
I do too.
So as I assume I wrote,
I read that correctly.
Uh,
intern Brian,
please feel free to correct me.
I should probably send you the link.
I also now want to brew a butternut hazy IPA butternut buttercup.
Not sure what that would entail,
but yeah.
Do we use butternut squash?
What would we,
I don't know.
I just like the name.
Yeah.
Dry hopped with massive amounts of butternut squash.
Oh,
it sounds like something dry.
It's gotta be dry squashed then.
Yeah.
Dry squashed.
That's like something that a evil twin would do or something or a name that they would come up with or something.
Yeah.
These guys are fucking nuts.
They would just call it dry hopped with butternut squash.
Right.
But then it actually would be hops.
Yeah.
Good times.
What a story.
Yeah.
Boy,
did I ruin it?
Uh,
beer is the beverage alcohol category of choice for college hoops fans.
Oh,
I believe that.
Yeah.
Beer is a category of choice for college hoops fans.
beer is the second most popular beverage among March madness watchers.
According to consumer research,
30% of survey respondents told numerator that they plan to drink beer while watching the NCAA men's and women's college basketball tournaments.
Uh,
beer is only second to soda at 43% rounding out the list of beverages to drink while watching where coffee and or tea,
you boring fuck spirits and wine and or champagne.
Nearly three quarters of respondents said they plan to watch the rest of the games at home.
Well,
only 15%.
Champagne only 15% plan to visit a bar or restaurant and 12% plan to visit a friend or family member's house.
Here's where I would get on board with champagne during the
sports is if like there's a place around the corner that
has a good Sunday brunch and they also put on sports.
So you best believe I'd be watching the tournament with some champagne in hand.
Yeah.
I mean,
if I'm going anywhere to watch something while drinking,
please have eats,
you know,
like that's a must.
Yeah.
Especially if you're watching multiple games.
Oh yeah.
And you're there for the long haul.
Yeah.
You got to give me some fucking nachos and wings motherfucker.
I mean the champagne still weirds me out,
but uh,
what's weird with nachos and wings.
Give me some breakfast so I can have champagne and watch basketball because I'm a morning drunk or like how places do bottomless mimosas.
Yeah.
Can I tell you,
Oh my God.
Sidebar here.
I was so turned on by my wife a week or two ago.
Oh man.
We were at brunch at a point.
Yeah.
Boner point.
We were at brunch and the guy comes around and so like they,
the place we go,
they start off by like,
here's your mimosa and it's a buffet.
You know,
you go get your own shit and they just keep your mimosas filled up and bring over chips and stuff.
And uh,
he comes back to do the old refill and he hits and we're with Nick and Nicole.
He hits them.
He hits my glass.
She stops him and I'm like,
what the fuck is wrong with you?
She goes,
can you just bring back champagne only?
Yo.
Yeah.
She cracked the code to my heart.
I'm a dick.
So do you want to do it in the bathroom or wait till we get home?
Yeah.
It's like you guys ready?
Can we finish this up?
I got some stuff to do.
Good time.
We got her.
Good for you.
Yeah.
Real hydrate.
Um,
all right.
Now that we're done here,
we're going to move on to the next topic.
We're going to talk a little bit about the eclipse.
It's the eclipse for the eclipse.
Yes.
Molson Coors is celebrating the upcoming solar eclipse April 8th with a limited edition blue moon eclipse sips kit.
The kit includes moon dust,
a shimmery powder to add to a glass of blue moon to give it a glow up as well as black light coasters,
a flashlight and floor and four blue moon branded pint glasses all packaged.
In a commemorative glow in the dark box.
How much would you pay for one of these boxes?
Um,
$0 Bob.
That is the correct answer.
Uh,
but at only half the price of that four pack of pizza beer from last week,
it is $25 starting April 3rd while supplies last.
The company is also offering fans a chance to win 20 years of free beer,
enough supply to make it until 2044.
The next time a total eclipse is expected to occur.
I thought they said the total eclipse wasn't expected to like 2099.
Well,
Molson Coors isn't some fucking astrophysicist.
Wow.
Um,
do you think they know?
I don't,
but I,
I have a funny story about blue moon.
Go on.
Um,
my brother-in-law brought it over for Easter.
Oh,
that's not funny.
To my in-laws.
And it was wild because he's been on this big spotted cow run.
And which is strange because he literally went from like Coors Light to Heineken to spotted cow.
Now it's a blue moon.
That's a jump.
And I was telling him how absolutely disgusting the beer is and how much I can't stand it.
And my sister-in-law's husband is like totally with me,
like all on team.
Fuck blue moon.
Yeah.
I like her.
So then I told him it's my sister-in-law.
the husband.
Sorry.
Yes,
yes,
yes.
I like that person.
So then we,
uh,
I told him,
I said,
my brother-in-law was trying to tell me,
he's like,
you're telling me you can taste the difference between a spotted cow and a blue moon.
I said,
are you kidding me?
Blasphemy.
I said,
they are two completely different beer styles.
You're looking at a farmhouse ale to a Belgian wheat beer.
Yeah.
Like you're a moron if you don't think there's a difference.
So then my sister-in-law's husband,
we'll call him Mike,
was like,
oh,
well,
you know.
Because his name is Mike.
His name is Mike.
And,
uh,
you know,
the one on my side,
he's like,
oh,
you know,
I told him if you put like a Michelob Ultra and the spotted cow and a blue moon all in separate cups,
you're like,
I'll pick all of them out.
Like,
whatever.
He's like,
oh,
put your money where your mouth is.
So he did it.
And naturally I did it.
Shocking.
Because it's not difficult.
I'm not,
I'm not trying to brag.
Like I'm some.
You'd be off the show if you fucked that one up.
A fish in a natto.
Right.
Yeah.
Um,
but I said,
I told him,
I said,
I'm going to drink this blue moon because I knew it was blue moon.
And I said,
my face is going to do this thing where it just,
you know,
it looks like you're eating something like really sour,
you know?
So it's like,
uh,
like that,
you know?
It's like bitter.
It's like bitter beer face.
Right.
Like bitter beer face.
And sure as shit,
he took a sip of it too.
My,
my guy,
Mike.
And he was like,
oh my God,
you're right.
He's like,
every time you just bring it to your mouth,
he's like,
it's,
it's that face.
And it is so fucking disgusting.
Yeah.
It's the face my mom makes when I give her beer.
Any beer.
Any beer at all.
Yeah.
Not a beer fan.
I still don't know how people like that fucking beer.
Yeah.
So bad.
Like I,
I did a brief blue moon.
Like after my,
you know,
it was kind of like the bud light phase followed by a very brief blue moon and shock top phase.
Okay.
On my way to craft beer,
the blue moon and shock top each didn't last very long.
No,
I,
I could do Hefeweizens like Franzisconer.
Like a real half.
Yeah.
Right.
Um,
but I couldn't do like the Belgian wheat.
I mean,
it's sort of a half,
but it's mostly it.
Yeah.
Right.
Anyhow.
So yeah,
that's my funny blue moon story.
Yeah.
that's good.
It's weird that you,
uh,
had,
uh,
little,
uh,
news blue moon.
Yeah.
Now let's,
uh,
we'll send you one.
You could drink it on the next show.
No.
We'll make it a video podcast just so we can see your face.
No.
I was gagging for like 10 minutes after taking the sip,
you know,
and it was just in like a little two ounce little taster glass.
Okay.
Was it even a whole beer?
No.
It was like literally a sip and I'm just like for 10 minutes,
just,
well,
maybe it would taste,
it would taste better if you had an eclipse sips kit,
maybe glow up or you just start pissing out glitter.
One or the other glow up to throw up.
That's what the slogan.
Oh,
not only is that a great slogan,
that would be fun to watch.
Just glittery puke coming up.
That'd be gnarly.
Yeah.
Uh,
let's end it with a trip to Florida.
Shall we?
Classic.
Drunk driver confuses popular South beach boardwalk for road and crashes into water.
A drunken man.
Confused in Miami beach boardwalk for a road and he drove
a blue 2021 Toyota Corolla into the water of government
cut a channel between South beach and Fisher Island.
It was about 7am on Sunday.
Andros,
a real estate broker said he heard a loud noise and saw the car in the water from his high rise apartment in the South of fifth area.
This guy is drunk.
Just came from a bar.
I thought that that was the road.
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a real estate broker said he heard a loud noise and saw the car in the water from his high rise apartment in the South of fifth area.
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