As soon as it says go, I'm hitting music. Here comes the music. Oh my God. Everybody

clap your hands.

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic and don't forget to the left of y'all now. Sorry, that was a pre-show discussion.

Move on back. I am Greg. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am being joined by the sexiest, flexiest and all the Midwest. Yes. What's up buddy? Wow. That was well played. I feel

like a rapper. Actually my, my kids actually recently discovered the cha cha slide and I'm sorry to hear that tonight in the backyard. They made me play it on repeat and they kept doing what they've been told to do through the, the song to the left behind the, it was

my number. Yeah. Do the back. Yeah. Hands on your knee. Whoa. That's some different.

Everybody clap your hands. I'll cut that out. That was horrible. The one who did not, you're

worn out. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. We're cute. Uh, and then a poem back into port is the salty sailor herself. We'll see how long that internet connection lasts. What's happening. Hey friends. Love seeing y'all. We love seeing you as long as your camera lets us see you.

Unpixelated me. This is actually the best your camera has performed in two weeks. You

don't look like a regular Nintendo video game. Right? Yeah. It's a me. I'm Mario. All right. Anyways, original Mario. Does anybody else call it regular Nintendo or do you just call

it Nintendo original? Uh, yeah, I just called it Nintendo. There's Nintendo and then there's

super Nintendo cause we were like, we started with the Nintendo and then we got super Nintendo not long after. So we've always referred to the original as the regular Nintendo. Oh,

interesting. I didn't have it. My, my grandpa had regular, you know, the original. So it was just like Nintendo. And then my buddy had super Nintendo. I was not cool. I finally like at the end of everything got Sega like five days before Sega CD came out and you know, never read Sega

CD now cause it was garbage, but I played the shit out of some NBA jam. Oh hell yeah. That's best. Nope. Uh, any who, where were we? Oh, at crappy Republic at neck Nosh LLC underscores after each one and flex me a beer underscores in between. Uh, lots to get to on this holiday week

for us Americans. We start diving in a little too deep right away. Sorry. Was that too deep?

Too much Nintendo talk? Really excited, you know? And yeah, like this is still the fucking intro. Yeah. I get excited. It was like I had a mushroom and I got really excited. Oh yeah. Well, happy, happy fourth everybody. I love that. Yeah. Happy, happy holiday week. Happy July.

Happy summer of the USA. Yeah. America and all those things. Erica's got a red shirt and blue headphones. She's super festive. She's she's fitting the bill. Uh, all right. Well, speaking of Erica, let's find out what she's drinking over there. Fitting the bill.

Erica's slapping some meat over there. Oh yeah, that's right. How's your marbling my friends?

The dry aging is perfect. It all depends.

Sorry beer. Smoking the meats. Um, today I have some orange sherberts, which I kept calling sure pups because I was totally lit when I was at Alvarado street brewery.

How does that differ from now Erica? Please tell the listeners.

Well, I almost called it sure pups again. So, uh, Wolf Wolf my friends. We got a pup and it is 8% ABV. That might be why I'm feeling so great today. It is a 4.06 on untapped.

And let's talk about that description. It's kind of lengthy guys. I'm going to talk really fast. Strap it. Ever find yourself eating all the orange bits in your car of rainbow sherbert first? Yeah, us too. So we made sure that the iteration of sherb burps checked all of the boxes. It features a balanced zip of acidity, a creamy decadent sweetness, easygoing drinkability, and of course,

a dazzling blossom orange flavor, but not just any type of orange would be up to the task. Oh Lord, you guys. So we use car car oranges known for their richness and depth of flavor with a subtle berry like tartness and floral romantics. There are like five more sentences.

I am so done. This is delicious. I think we've had enough. Thank you. Thank you for letting me stop. I'm out of breath. Just hearing about it. I can't, I'm done. I'm sweating. I'm sweating and I need a drink. Just give me a second friends. Yeah, get in there. It is so amazing. Okay.

Let's talk about this. Talk about it. Don't read about it. It looks a little orangey and it tastes super orangey and I am done. Thank you guys. Good night everybody. Is it 4.06? It is fantabulous because it's that perfect balance of not too, like it's not

puckery too tart, just enough tartness, tiny bit of like the peel bitterness that you would get from an orange, but not so much. It's just all the things perfectly balanced. It's delicious. I'm at the bottom. I'm loving it. Get yourself some and done. That's it. Awesome. Get you some

orange sherberbs. I've heard such obnoxious things about Alvarado street. Oh my gosh. They do some good stuff. I've never heard one bad thing about anything they do.

No, that's, it's amazing. I'm so happy I have it. That's it. And we're happy for you. Thank you. Lots of happy people. Happy, happy, happy place. And um, good job Alvarado. Good job.

Uh, all right. I want to give a, a shot. Oh, first of all, topless in city of the week of last week, Winston Salem, North Carolina. What's up?

Wow. Hey, North Carolina. I think I know like, uh, aren't those two brands? I know a couple of people out there. I'm like Salem lights or something. Salem or another. Something like that. Yeah. I don't smoke cigarettes, but I don't have when I'm drunk. No, that attitude. Yeah.

I used to go to Vegas and like smoke the entire weekend. Discuss drunk sigs. Have we ever discussed the drunk sigs before? It's the only kind I want. So there's the best. They really are.

I haven't had one in years because I used to get like super fucked up and that's when I would have them. So, uh, my buddy Thomas who he used to work with, he would have drunk sigs when he was up at college. And I asked if his parents ever knew about that. And he immediately started freaking

out and was like, you can't tell my mom. You can't tell my mom. My mom can't find out about this. And then like two days later, he sends me a picture of himself saying smoking a cigarette and it says drunk sigs don't matter. Hashtag don't tell my mom. Yeah. I just think, uh,

really funny. Cause I feel like everybody feels the same way about a drunk cigarette.

Yeah. I used to like go to Vegas and it got even worse. Once my best friend moved to Vegas, cause she's a smoker. And so like we go get drunk or hang out at a table or whatever and few beers deep. I'm like, Hey, fucking Passover, some butts over here. Let's start smoking some straws. Let's, let's get it going over here. And, uh, by the end of the weekend,

my mouth would just taste like a fiery butthole. It was not cute. And I remember like one of the last times I went to Vegas, it was like two times ago. I remember waking up one morning and my mouth was just like, I'm done. I'm done. Oh, see, I've never gotten that way with

with cigarettes. That's like a cigar feeling to me. Yeah. The next one to a cigar for sure. Like guaranteed with cigar. But when you get so drunk that you go through like an entire pack, you're going to wake up. That's a lot of cigarettes. It's your mouth. It just tastes like burnt butt. And I, I'm done with the burnt butthole. I like my mouth fresh. I don't want them dry aged.

So I did a little vaping here and there drunk vaping when vaping was, I just don't now. Like

I just, I just get drunk. Yeah. No, I want you to be lame. Yeah. You're probably better off smoking

a cigarette. Vaping is like such a veiled thing. Like they, Oh yeah. By the way, y'all just knowing some people who work with lungs, if you're going to smoke marijuana, do not vape it. It's like a hundred bazillion times worse than just smoking the joint. I just eat it. Okay. That's even better,

but I'm just saying just don't. Yeah. But yeah, that morning wake up, you're like, not worth it.

Not anymore. What did I do? And then that night you do the same thing over again, like more drugs.

There should be like a dare where it's like, have, you know, four 200 IBU IPAs and smoke a pack of cigarettes and see how your mouth tastes when you wake up and try not to throw up the perfect plan.

So gross. Yeah. I don't really do that anymore. It's so funny. I don't, I'm sure it's the same for you, Eric or similar. Uh, I know we're in different parts of the state and most people are like your state's that big. It's like three different States. But uh, yeah. When I see people smoking like real cigarettes nowadays, I'm like, where the fuck are you from? Right?

Like no one smokes cigarettes anymore out here. I saw someone in a car smoking a cigarette today

and I literally thought to myself, that is the first time I've seen that in like

ages. Oh, I think that's the grossest thing in the world is smoking a cigarette in your car.

Oh yeah. Then your car smells like, yeah, it's like a way to ruin a good thing. Right.

You just paid like $40,000 for this. Let's fuck it up. Yeah. Let's see how, how bad we can fuck

up the resale value without crashing into a wall. Yeah. Right. There's no return.

Talk about a dare. Hold my beer. Watch me skunk this. Yeah. In fact, you can repair

body damage. You cannot get the smell of cigarettes at your car. Oh no, it's so gross. So gross. When we were little and like my parents divorced and we go out to breakfast with my dad, my dad was like, Mr. I don't give a shit about anything. And his dad was a smoker. So like, we'd go into like I hop and shit. They're like, Hey, you know, we want the smoking section or

non-smoking section. And he would do it. Whatever is first available. There's like me as like a, you know, nine year old and my sister is like a three year old. We're just like,

I tried to eat her fucking pancakes. You know, I completely forgot about the smoking and the

non-smoking sections. Yeah. It was the worst. Like drunk smoking is fine. But like when you're trying to eat, there is nothing I want to smell less than your fucking ashes.

Oh, it's awful. Like my mom's like, I smoked when I was pregnant with, I was a six kid. And I'm like, doesn't that make small babies? I was 10 fucking pounds, mom. She's like, you were the six kid.

Imagine if she hadn't smoked.

Seriously? I'm like, thank you. I would have been 14. You would have.

Fucking Andre the Giant over here.

Your mom would have exploded when she was close to you.

She was like, it was a safety precaution. My doctor was like, smoke as much as you can.

You make it sound like you're born in the fifties. I'm laughing, but that's not really funny.

Hey, you guys want to hear a funny joke? My mom smoked when she was pregnant.

Oh, we're digressing super hard.

Super hard. That's great. Yeah. Anyways, drunk cigs. There was a time and place where I very much loved them.

Yeah. It was a good time. My, both my brothers smoked and they knew how like much I hated smoking growing up because I'm an asthmatic, but both my parents smoke, they smoked in the house for years. So when my brothers found out that I started up on some drug cigs,

whenever we were around like with each other and I was getting drunk, they would get like super into it and just start like waving their back in my face, you know, and they fucking lived it up. That's funny.

Shitty, shitty brothers.

Sure. The worst. Gotta give your square brother a signal.

Yeah. You square. All right. Oh, happy birthday to Brian. Brian from title town. It's his birthday this week. He, he invited me to his birthday party. I said, I'd be there.

He said, he sent me the invite to, I said, I said, if I had to take off the day before his party because it's my birthday. So then I got really excited that maybe his birthday was my birthday and it's not. He said it was, he said it was in may. Oh, his birthday's in may. Yeah.

Oh, why is he sending me invites for July? He said his kids got really sick, which then got him and his wife very sick. And he said like really sick. So rough household, I guess.

Well, it's the worst. In that case, like happy birthday two months. Yeah. Right.

Like I feel like he would have put that out there. Yeah. That's funny. But yeah, I got the,

got the, I was like, yeah, I'll grab an Uber. I'll be right there.

Just going to say, I wonder how much that Uber would cost like $14,000.

I'm sure it would be so much cheaper than flying. I mean, it'd finally be so much cheaper than, Oh yeah, for sure. Brian, thanks for the invite. Sorry. I can't make your extremely late birthday party, but it made me think like birthday parties. I know flex. We talked to last week a little bit,

how much you hate them. I don't necessarily love birthday parties, but I do love like, Hey everybody, come hang out with me and drink because you feel obligated to, it's like, you know, it's an excuse to hang out with friends basically. Yeah. That's that's super legit.

Yeah. What do you, what do you guys do in your birthdays besides flex hiding in the corner?

Yeah. I just, I just hide. He doesn't like making decisions.

I get to a fun place for lunch usually. And that's about it.

Yeah. Erica. I am like, my rule is no mom, mom, mommy, mom. Like I'm not answering any questions. I'm not fixing anything. That's it. It's done. No, I'm not mom today. It's all about

me. I do like that. That's how I roll. Yep. All right. Before we get onto a little bit of news, I was gifted a Sunny D vodka salts. That sounds gross. My sister picked them up. She says,

Hey, they're not that bad. You should have one. I said, Hey, hard pass. She goes, I'm going to give you one. And we were all over at a family event. She slipped one in my beer cooler. And so I, I said I would have it on the show. And a nice brother. Yeah. She said it was

pretty good. Okay. And you haven't had one yet. She said, this is the one and only. So, um,

okay. So we're going off of that. So she said here, all right. Yeah. That's what she said.

And I'm not even playing any music for it. Oh, that kind of makes me think of sparks. And I think we've touched on the whole spark thing. It was like the energy. G alcoholic drink is very

orange. Ooh, it is bad. Not bad. Grimace. Oh, yeah. I was, uh, uh, well, if, if sparks was

good, this is not sparks. Well, I don't want to say good, but it did the job. I mean, I'm sure

if I drank enough, enough of these, I'd get drunk four and a half percent, 95 calories, zero grams of sugar says vodka with real fruit juice, sparkling water, national Nash, natural orange flavor, and other natural. Have another beer. Yeah. Lush low carb, low carb. I'll

give it that. But, um, it doesn't taste like sunny D which you would think might be a good thing. I don't know. I didn't, I didn't love sunny D as a kid. Oh, you didn't. I was going to say,

I remember loving it as a kid and then hating it eventually. Yeah. By the time I turned like 10,

I was like, fuck sunny. These gross fucking worst. Yeah. Um, does it taste like weird fake orange? Like not sunny D fake, but like store brand shelf fake orange juice. Well, like tropical. Yeah. And

sugar to it to make it taste better. So it doesn't compare with my sherberts from, um,

no. And then like store, store brand vodka. You know, I, I'm not even gonna fit it. This is, I did bring a beer. Hold on. I'm going to hit some music. Just cause I want to try this. I

need to cleanse the palate. He calls through the bullpen for beer, like actual beer, not sell.

I feel like stone cold over here. That's a great call. Bring in the lefty. Yeah, please bring them

in. Uh, I feel like stone cold over here. I hope it's like exploded all over. No, I'm a righty.

Well, no, but like when he called the pan, just, okay, sorry. I just think this is a situational

move, right? It's a, it's a strategy thing. Uh, I am now drinking. Thank God. Uh, Malibu collaboration with Mars bra at a Germany. This is you beer. It's on, it's an unfiltered or

unfiltered Amber logger Uber. Uh, Ryan hit me up there. It was like the owner was like, Hey man, have you tried our new collab beers? And they had two, they have this one and they had a Pilsner. And I showed up and Chaz the brewer was there and he's telling me, he goes, Hey, do you hear the story of why we made a Pilsner? I was like, no. He goes, yeah, we tried to make a Helles and uh,

turns out we put too much hops in it. So now it's a Pilsner. Yeah. He goes, you know the difference between an Ellis and a Pilsner. I said, what? He goes about 10 IBU.

You mad respect for like shifting, you know, and not trying to call it what it really didn't end

up being. We've talked about this. Exactly. It's not hazy. Don't call it a hazy. Exactly. Okay. Chaz guy. Yeah. Chaz is great. He's hilarious. Uh, I don't have any real stats on this. It's not on untapped yet. When I got it, it wasn't even, in fact, the Pilsner didn't have labels on it. They were still sitting at Ryan's house, but, um, this one has a label on it.

5.2%. It says 12 ounces, best serving temperature, 42 to 46 collab with a brow house in Germany. And, uh, or how, sorry, Mars bra bra house, uh, Mars bra in Germany. Um, born in Germany.

Let's see. I love when cans have all those like fun details on it, like how to drink it or what to do with the temperature, like because you're totally calibrated. What glass it would drink

best out of. I want to say the can too. Oh yeah. Here's the can. Let me see that. This super, uh, multi caramely smelling on the nose and on the old tongue job or tons of goodness. It is, it follows the schnauz, but in a lighter, more crushable way, it's not like a sticky caramel.

It's a very clean caramel flavor. Um, it drinks very light, almost, I would say Marsini like a light Mersen. Um, yeah, I'll take it. This is super good. Okay. But I'm like, go listen to that Conan four part episode where they

do the movie. Yeah. So good. You'll have to send me it. Yeah, it's great. Anyways. Um,

I didn't know what to think. Ambers can be a little hit or miss for me. This is so crushable and it said unfiltered, but this is like clear as fuck. So, uh, it makes you wonder why they filter Ambers. Yeah, this is really surprising. I thought this is gonna be one of those like beers for the wife. Cause she likes the caramely beers. You don't like caramel beers. I do. But like when

it's hot out, they get a little sticky. It's just, you know, it's a little bit. I would admit

that like the super hot temperatures, like it's been, uh, the hottest time of the year, like every week it just keeps getting hotter now. Oh yeah. And I had a Amber lager or Amber ale, Amber ale in the fridge. And I was like, Oh yeah, I really liked that beer, but it's 85 degrees out

and there's a couple IPAs in there too. So I think you're going to crush it. I mean, there's

worse. I think an Amber is any time beer. I feel like an Amber is hard to enjoy. I think that that

makes a lot of sense. It's really hard to enjoy in the super warm temperatures. Yeah. And, and as

we record, it's pretty warm down here and, uh, this is clean and not sticky and delicious. A lot of, a lot of that caramel, but light caramel flavor. The finish is very biscuity and toasty. And, uh, honestly I could definitely crush a couple of these on the lake. So, uh, I don't know if they're released yet. I kind of got a sneak peek, but by the time this drops, it might

be out. I don't know. You look big deal. Yeah. I'm so fancy. I got the labelless cans. Wowza. And

you got to Ryan's house. Ooh. Ooh, special invites. I did not get the rides. I just went to

the brew facility, but the labels were, Oh, the labels were, Oh yes. Yeah. It's a pretty big step in a relationship. Got to meet the parents. Picking up beers at the owner's house. Yeah.

Well, it was funny when they were doing Firestone Invitational and we were at the lake, which was, you know, 10 miles from each other. He was texting me pictures of, of running into Nick and Coley and he's like, look who I ran into. And then I was texting him pictures of me drinking beer on the lake. I was like, Hey, look at me not sweating over here. All right.

It's the worst part of Firestone. It's always so hot. So hot. Like 95 this year. It was pretty hot.

Not for me. I was in the water. Just as drunk. So, uh, all right, let's, uh, move on to a couple of stories here in the newsflight. Flex is typing. Oh, and Erica's done. All right. Get the paddles clear. Dead line.

Only people could see us. Uh, AB in Bev is that's Anheuser-Busch. Yes. Sorry. Anheuser-Busch

interpretation here has reached their goal of putting alcohol guidance labels on all beer products. They say label is a key to consumer touch points, promote positive consumer behavior. So basically they're like, Hey, don't get hammered and drive

your car. Reach their goal. I was a special education teacher and this sounds very special led to me. It's like you have to put the special parameters. You reach your goal.

They have little icons. There's a little car with a cross like the no smoking cross. Oh, get out of here. And then there's an 18 plus, which must be for Europe. Um, and then there's a picture of a fat woman with the cross through it, which I'm imagining she's supposed to be pregnant,

but, uh, I mean, I can send you the picture. It just looks like a fat woman. They should

distinguish. Maybe like, maybe like have a hollow belly with a baby in it or something. Cause at this point it's just a fat woman. Erica looks disgusted by me.

It's cool. I mean, it happens. You never know. Was her face puppy? What did her ankles look like?

Tell me more. They don't show the ankles. I texted both of you the picture just so you can corroborate my story here. It is a fat woman holding a beer with a cross through it.

All this made me think of was like buying a new cup or like a set of Tupperware and seeing like, yeah. And seeing like the, uh, whether or not it's dishwasher safe, like the bottom of them, you know, like the logo for dishwasher safe or microwave safe. That's all it made me think of,

like on the can. Like, that's so stupid. Yeah. Did you guys get the pictures? How you texted it to me? Oh, you actually, okay. Erica, did you get it? I did. I don't understand. You're not entirely wrong. That chick got a big booty on her too. Yeah. She's just a fat chick

drinking a beer. And look, I'm not fat shaming here. I'm just saying it doesn't look like a

pregnant girl. It's like a snow woman. Okay. Yeah. She doesn't look miserable enough. I got you.

Of course she doesn't. She's drinking beers. So there's that. Okay. So that's on all of the cans now. I guess, or most cans or anyways. So, um, Hey flex, how do you feel about New Jersey? Oh, we, uh, fucking hate New Jersey.

Their legislation is amazing though. We like the people of New Jersey. We do not like the representation of the government. There you go. Well, some good news for the people

of New Jersey, New Jersey craft breweries are one step closer to eased tap room restrictions. Let's go. I feel like kids, New Jersey breweries could have some relief on special conditions implemented, uh, this summer, which limit their, or excuse me, limitations last summer,

but for this summer, which limit their ability to host events and serve food in their tap rooms. The state Senate advanced SB three zero three eight to the Senate budget and appropriations committee on Monday. The bill allows craft breweries to host food trucks and vendors

on site and sell package snacks and coffee. Good. Cause they should already like everywhere else in

the world. The whole SB thing needs to be renamed. It's like the hop that just has a number. I mean, we need to give it like the shitty beer law. I don't know. Well, it's Senate bill three zero

three eight. I know I got nerdy and abbreviated. Uh, additionally, the bill allows license holders to host an unlimited number of on-premise special events, including, but not limited to trivia, pop-up shops, live music, televised sporting events, and exercise. Why would you need a

bill for any of that's crazy because it's fucking New Jersey. That's why I was wrestling.

Sporting. I mean, there's a question. Yeah. It's sports and entertainment. Yeah. Yeah. Listeners chime in on this. What you're going to do.

Serious nerd shit. You've opened up a can over here. If your husband was a wrestler,

would he be the butcher? Absolutely. He'd be like Wagyu prime.

We had a whole conversation about how much a big dreamy likes.

Meats bring in the meats. Love the meats. Arby's up in that house. Arby's come on. Let's, let's bring it up a notch to at least like black

Angus or maybe more like got the meat sweats. Gee, black egg is still around. I don't even know.

I'm trying to think of it. Bruce, Chris, I mean, they still around or meat. I don't know. I don't

answer a very important question. Yeah, please. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than grounders. Only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue,

one jobber in this world. We must find out what is flex drinking. All right. Flex is drinking one of his all time favorite beers tonight. New Glarus kombucha. Yeah.

Got me spotted cow. Everybody knows. So this is Miller Highlife. When I got reintroduced into craft beer, right? Not when I did, but when I reintroduced myself after some allow myself to introduce myself, you know, I was, I was on like this weird health kick for a while. And I was like,

I actually cut out alcohol altogether for like four months. I know it was crazy. What dude, it was crazy. It was like, I'm just glad you didn't kill yourself. I know me too. Please relax. So glad. But anyway, I reintroduced myself to craft beer and I had a friend who I'm

not really friends with anymore because he's kind of pretentious, but he introduced me to 1840 brewing company. Yeah. Shreds pretentious, but I still love the guy.

Such a lovable pretentious. He's great and he's ripped and he's good looking. So it all works.

But yeah, so he introduced me to 1840 brewing company. They do all small batch brewing and their tagline is drink slow beer. I think that's really fun. But this beer is called damsel and it is one of those beers that I had that just really like you take a sip of it and your eyes just

widen and like everything in the world just kind of slows down. You're just like, wow, that what, what is this? This is fucking amazing. Well, it is called damsel. It is a Goza style beer and the bottle reads naturally soured. We ale with pink sea salt, pink peppercorns, pink guava,

pineapple and hibiscus added 4.5% on tapped. Has it at a 4.17? Yeah. I mean, this is a, it's nothing over the top. It's just very well done in the pocket flex. You know, you got me at sour

salt and guava and pink and pink. Yeah. Well, no, it's like everything's pink and then it's like,

except for the pineapple and the hibiscus, but you know, I mean, I can be pink, you know? Yeah.

And sometimes I guess pineapple does show pink and beers. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but the color,

it's still pretty classic color. There's no really beer colored. Yeah. It's pretty, pretty beer color. And again, like there's nothing over the top of this beer. Smells like a sour weeded ale. The tongue jobber, Greg's favorite.

Well, we'll dive right in. I mean, it is perfectly tart. You get real tiny, real, real tiny hints of that, that pineapple and that guava, the salt to just round it out. I mean, you could drink like gallons of this. I could drink gallons of this. I want to have

gallons of this. Just really well done beer. And I tell people all the time too, with this brewery, they don't make a lot. Like I said, everything is all small batch. It is probably ounce for ounce, the best beer in the state. Wow. Big words. Does it fit Flex's algorithm? That's where shit gets

blurry. It's all small batch. So all they do is they do the, well, I mean the canards, their labeling is very pretty like boiler plate. So like it's the same format. They'll say the

beer name. You guys can see it. The listeners can get it. They'll switch up the colors and stuff.

It looks like a kombucha bottle. It totally does. We called you out on that.

They do these 16 ounce stubby bottles and they range anywheres from like $7.99 to like $10.99 per bottle. Wow. Per one. So this one here was $8.99 and being, it's 4.5%. I was going to say

the percent's pretty low. Yeah. The numbers are not, but it tastes really great and you feel good

about it. It tastes really great. If I hadn't had this beer, would I have purchased it without

knowing? Probably not. Listeners, if you can see Flex's face, it's totally worth it. Okay. He's loving the beer. He's having a great time. And so even though it doesn't fit the algorithm, sometimes

important. And they used to do bombers of this. Like a lot of the stuff they used to sell was just in bombers. And then that was a little more worth it. And the first time I bought it, I actually saved it for my friend's Christmas party. And I just popped the bottle and I just

drank it. It felt like a baller. Did you get slithered? I was actually pretty good that night. Well, 4.5% would have taken a lot. You couldn't afford it. No, no. I had a couple before that, obviously, but yeah, it's just a really top-notch beer. Well, hey, if you're listening out there,

you should sponsor Flex. He's an influencer and should not pay full price for a $7 bottle of beer. No. Especially because he's going to gram it and you're going to get thousands of likes because of it. So... Not thousands. Come on. All right. A thousand. Don't overplay me. Okay. I'll never

play you. Check out his OnlyFans. Help him raise some funds. It's called Tom Jobber. No,

don't tell people I have OnlyFans. OnlyTongues.com. OnlyTongues.com. OnlyMoms. OnlyTongue.com. Come on, Flex isn't OnlyMoms. OnlyTongueJobbers.

Oh, so good. All right. A little bit of news. Britain's most remote pub offers free beer to those who are adventurous enough to get there. I've had some free beer. The Old Forge on the

That's where the Loch Ness Monster is. Just a consonant off of the best location.

And standby on the Noidart Peninsula. Okay. Noidart. It sounds like a peninsula. Sure. Yeah. And Scotland requires a 15 mile hike through the Scottish Highlands to reach it. But once you get

there, they'll give you a free beer. Now I wish like how high are the Scotland Highlands?

The Scottish Highlands? Depends how much weed they smoked. I don't know. Yeah. True. Yeah. Doesn't say. Does not have an altitude. Do you think they smoke a lot up there? Yeah. I don't know. I don't think of Scottish people as like huge stoners.

No. I usually think of them as like drinkers, right? Yeah. And they wear skirts and stuff. Yeah. And like eat gross like meat. Yeah. Like haggish and-

Yes. Well, that's all I got is haggis. And eggs that have been sitting on a bar in a jar.

Oh, yeah. Now, have you had a Scotch egg? That's good stuff. Right? Apparently, pickled eggs are really good. I've not had a-

I think I've had one a few times. Pickled anything is good. Let's be honest. Well. Pickle it. I'll put it in my mouth. Anything.

The local Legion Hall does pickled eggs. I haven't been there in years, but I thought they were really gross. Are you 90? The local Legion Hall? All right. So, the town I grew up in, it's got like a population-

Stand by. We're getting real Midwestern here. Right. Well, no. This isn't like super Midwestern, but the population of the city I grew up in was like 14,000 plus. And there's one bar growing up. Now, there's like a couple pubs in the downtown village area. But growing up, there's one bar and it was a Legion Post.

So, when you turned 21, you went there and you paid $1.75 for a pint of Coors Light or Bud Light. And you could put $12 down and get fucking hammered. Nice. And have yourself a wonderful night.

That makes Coors Light a little more worth it. Yeah.

I wouldn't do that. Yeah.

Yeah. They had this boneless wing night, too, where you'd get like a dozen boneless wings and two beer tokens. It was like something stupid

like 10 bucks. Wow. It's the only night Flex didn't get boned. Hey, you. Sorry. I had to. It's funny. There was, on the way to Staple Center, I don't know if it's still there. I haven't been there since way pre-COVID, but there was a Carl's Jr. that's inside of a hotel. And I think I've talked about

this before. RIP Norm MacDonald.

They took over who knows what used to be there before it was a Carl's Jr. And they kept the alcohol license. Cool. And they had three taps. It was Bud Light, Coors Light, Michelob, or some shit like that. And you'd get a pitcher of beer for $5.50. And so you get a... Carl's Jr. is whatever,

but a burger for three, four bucks. Basically, a burger was the same price as a pitcher of beer. So we would go before basketball, before Laker games, or before concerts, have a couple of pitchers, get nice and hydrated. And then you just need one or two beers while you're at Staple Center, which doesn't cost you your entire life savings.

How much are beers at the Staple Center?

Like $300.

Yeah. Like 19 or something.

I haven't been there since it was not Staple Center, but like 12, 13 bucks last time I was there, which is pre-COVID. Oh, that's not terrible, but...

But we didn't get a whole pitcher. We didn't get a whole pitcher. Yeah. You're like, wow, I just spent what I could have got three pitchers worth. That's rough.

Plus a Starburger. I mean, come on, we're talking about a combination.

How about those fucking star-shaped nuggies? Come on.

Oh, damn. The ranch sauce? Yeah. Like, why are you shaped like a star? Is in a nugget. That's right. Apparently there's some fish in there.

Yeah. The benefits of light to moderate alcohol consumption. I think Vanessa sent this to me. Hi, Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa.

Hey, Vanessa. Hey. Oh, bring it in. Come on. Give us a little more. Come on. Finish that up.

No, I can't do it. That was too soft.

How would handsome Dan say hi to Vanessa?

I can't do that on the air.

That's too bad. All right. A new study from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, maybe McDreamy can talk to this one, highlights the potential benefits of light to moderate alcohol consumption on heart health. Researchers discovered that one drink per day for women,

and one to two drinks per day for men can lead to a long-term reduction in the brain's stress activity, lowering the risk of heart disease.

Oh, yeah. Vanessa did send this to us.

Yeah. So imagine if we had like four or five drinks per day, how great the health benefits would be from that.

Some is good. More is always better.

So yeah, that's just science.

Not science. I believe there's a fact in it states, the more the merrier. Thank you. Yes. Cold hard fact. Yeah. Book of facts. Read it in a book. Must be true.

Scientific book. I think it was the Journal of Medicine.

Yeah. Journal of Wisconsin Medicine. It was very science.

Hell yeah. The more you drink, the healthier you get. Right.

I think we'll end it on this one. Drunk and disorderly Florida man was busted while drinking Florida man beer.

Oh, the Cigar City? Yeah. Oh, okay. That's funny.

Seth Thomas, 39, allegedly was yelling at traffic while walking in the roadway in front of traffic and refusing to stop when he was collared by sheriff's deputies in a street in Seminole, a city in the Tampa Bay area. Thomas, cops say, was drinking from a can of Florida

man at the time of his arrest, the beer produced by Tampa Bay Cigar City Brewing. Double IPA that is brewed with nearly, this is in quotes, criminal amounts of hops and a moderate bitterness that just about matches Florida man's general disposition. Stop it right now.

Thomas was- This has to be an amateur article.

No, they took it from the website. I found it.

A criminal amount of hops.

Yeah. That was Cigar City's description. Thomas was arrested for disorderly intoxication and misdemeanor and booked into the Pinellas County Jail. He was released from custody last night after posting a $100 bond. Whoa. Step back.

Good luck, everybody. His rap sheet includes recent convictions for obstructing police, trespassing, possession of open alcohol, and disorderly intox. $100 bond. That just says we don't care.

You know what? Why don't you just come in, shake my hand, we'll call it a day, take your buddy.

Promise you're not going to do it again, yeah?

What happens when you drink a double? It's all fun and games.

Maybe he pulled a flex, didn't eat for 12 hours, had a couple double IPAs, a couple Florida mans. It's 8 AM. 8 PM.

Sometimes that does happen. It does. I'm living proof it does happen. Give this Florida man a little- And then you keep having more funds. More funds. And then there's more funds to be had, and the funds don't run out.

Yeah. No. And who wants to suck the funds? Yeah. Well, until you realize you forgot to order food.

Right. You know it's a good night when fun becomes plural. Correct. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It's more than just fun. It's funds.

Oh, funds is so much more fun than fun.

Better than-

It's like multiple. I mean, literally.

It's like all the funds. It's better than bad. It's good.

It is all the funds. Oh, dude. I hope the next time you go out and you have a really good night, you're like, wow, that was- That means so much funds. That was the funds.

I mean, we had funds bringing little mini flex out with us to breweries. That is true.

So much funds. It wasn't just 14 funds. It was like-

The pits, right? Like 17 funds. When something is the pits, it's like the worst. Right. So when something is the funds, it's just the best.

My wife wants me to bring mini flex everywhere now and do a flat Stanley thing. Just like, where can we get a picture of mini flex?

Is it really your wife that wants to do that? Surprisingly. Is it your wife or is it you? Are you like, wife, put this in your purse? Will you-

I mean, I certainly did not protest.

Now I'm really wondering, is she single?

You were 100% on board with that. Sounds like she's about to be. Right? Damn it, Greg.

I think that's so great. It was such a fun idea. That could be such a fun thing.

How do you feel about threples?

You know what? I'm in.

Okay. Take this one into the chat, you guys. I just can't with this one. I mean, the two of you, but the threpleness, we're going- You didn't mean to alienate. That's too much funds. Too much funds for me.

Well, until we bring in the meat. Then it becomes all the funds.

It's so much.

Way too much funds to handle.

Way too much protein. That's a lot.

Feels like a great time to wrap things up. It is. Because it's only in season. Don't let it get too far. Let's wrap it up.

This is pretty good.

I just- Oh dear. Well, thank you all for listening. Erica, I'd like to thank your internet for mostly holding out today.

I know. Yeah, that was nice. This was a fantastic evening, you guys.

This was good. Yeah. Go give your hamster a little extra treat for us.

Next level shit for tonight for these hamsters. Best bumps ever.

Yeah. McDreamy's in the corner feeding them fucking Wagyu steaks or some shit.

What can I say? Lucky hamsters. Yeah, I know. I'd run faster too. Find us on the socials, Craft Beer Republic, Neck Nosh, LLC, underscores after each. And of course, Flex Me Beer, underscores in between. CraftBeerRepublic.com and 805-538-BEER. And if you're in the Wisconsin area, go hang out at Brian's birthday party two months too late.

So he's got some beer to drink. He was showing me pictures of his stash that he's compiling for his birthday.

Yeah. So it's going to be good. I was like, hey, it looks like a good set. She's like, I'll send you some. I was like, yeah, I got a lot of beer. My wife might divorce me at that point. But thanks. Appreciate the offer. Give her my number. My wife or my mom. Both.

Any extension of Craig. He's happy with it.