Ladies and gentlemen and all beer-loving citizens of this great nation, thank you for drinking and thank you for joining. And thank you for being here today to witness this epic event of democracy unfolding before

your very eyes. I stand before you not only as a humble candidate, but also a fellow drunk, ready to toast to a brighter and more hydrated future. My name is Greg and beside me is my esteemed running mate and partner in hops, Flex.

Together we are on a frothy journey to quench the thirst for change in the upcoming 2024 elections. As he licks his lip. We stand for one nation, for hydration, because let's face it, we've had enough of dry politics

and even drier politicians. Let's keep this nation hydrated with the finest brews known to humanity. A beer in hand is a smile on the face. Now, some might think we're all about hops and barley, but we're more than that.

We've got ideas brewing. Imagine a beer pipeline running through the country from coast to coast, delivering cold, crisp beer to every doorstop. No more thirsty citizens, only hoppy ones.

And speaking of brewing, as your future president, I promise to appoint a Secretary of Suds because every nation deserves a beer expert in the cabinet. Am I right? We should teach brewing in schools across the nation.

Kids should be useful to their drunk parents, not a burden. And who knows, maybe one of them will invent the next presidential pale ale or vice presidential porter. And that's not all, math will be replaced with the Flex algorithm for buying beer.

As we embark on this beer-soaked journey, remember America, together we can raise our glasses high and say cheers to unity, laughs, and some darn good craft beer.

So vote for Greg and Flex, your pint-sized candidates with big ideas and even bigger mugs. We aren't Republicans, we aren't Democrats, we are the Craft Beer Republic, where every

day is a beer festival and every member of the Republic is always hydrated. Let's toast to a future that's hoppier, fizzier, and full of ABV. Cheers America, let's make beer fun again.

Welcome in everybody to the Craft Beer Republic. I am your main presidential candidate, Greg, being joined by the sexiest running mate ever, and that's Flex.

One nation for hydration. That's right. Love that line. Yeah, chat GPT for the win. That one was like one of the only things I typed in there was like, make sure you include

this line. And thanks for drinking and thanks for joining. So anyways, I did all that stupidness because we have a new presidential shirt in the store, so check it out at craftbeerepublic.com. And who knows, maybe someone could be our secretary of suds.

I wonder if I get chat GPT to come up with more names. We'll keep an eye out. Yeah, exactly. Anyways, maybe a potential for the secretary of suds is joining us here in person today.

One of our best friends and best brewers. And that's Monica. How's it going? Good, how about you? Pretty good. I'm going to turn you up there. She is here because I tricked her into coming. I said, hey, come promote the event that's coming up at Pedals and Pints.

And then hang out with us. Yeah, you have to hang out with us. Yeah, I tricked people to hang out with us. It's like the best part about it. It really is. Yeah, exactly. It's like, come promote and then hang out with us for a while. Yeah, and just laugh over dumb shit.

Yeah, just laugh at how dumb we are. That's really what it comes down to. That's the best. Yeah, I hope so. Otherwise, there goes a lot of our listeners. Find us all on the socials, Craft Beer Republic, FlexMeBeer, underscores in between, MomoAgoGo,

right? With three O's at the end. Three O's at the end. Don't ask me to spell it. And of course, Pedals and Pints. All right, before we talk about the event, we are, first of all, hot as fuck.

It is so hot here in Southern California and we're also thirsty, so let's get into some hydration. Yeah, but you're rocking it.

Yeah. It's a nice phallic shadow you got there. Like, do rock dick shadows pretty well. It could be our other campaign slogan, but for us, no one rocks dick shadows like we

do. We are drinking, thanks to Zach, homie Zach out in Indiana. He sent us Four Fathers Brewing Guten Prank. It is a Helles Lager, 5%, 3, 6, 4, and untapped.

And the very long description, German-style Helles Lager. That's what I like to read after reading that ridiculously long statement. That was rough sticking my schnoz in there.

It's definitely a hot day beer. It's extremely light. It's a little low on the carbonation, I think. But overall, nothing wrong. Light, crispy, or you can tell me I'm wrong, like a nuttiness, like a nutty flavor.

I mean, sort of. Yeah, it's kind of like a peanut shell, almost, like dryness. I don't even know how to explain it. I keep wanting to say, it's a nut shell dryness.

Yeah. That is some professional shit. Well, we bring the best, obviously. How about that 3, 6, 4 on a Helles? Have you ever had a Helles and you're like, you know what?

I think that's just a 3, 6, 4. People give lagers so much worse, you know, scores on untapped, it's like, well, it wasn't hoppy as fuck. I'm like, well, I hope not. It's a goddamn Helles.

But have you ever had a Helles that you were just like, this isn't good or refreshing? I mean, I've had some bad. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's usually how I start off at a brewery. I'm like, hey, I've never been here before.

You got a Helles? I'll try that. I'll try like a West Coast. I'll try like one of each. The Helles is always a good bar setter for. Yeah. It is a good indicator. Yeah. It's hard to hide. If you can lager, you're probably good at everything else.

Yeah. It's a lot harder to hide in those lagers than it is in the hazies. Throw a bunch of shit in there, make it hazy and hoppy, and you're good to go. Hey, why don't you just call me up? So gross. So gross.

This is the person who's about to can their new hazy. Honestly, I hate making them. It's the worst. Well, they're probably the worst to clean, right? They're so disgusting, like cleaning for them. They're so sticky.

There's stuff everywhere. Hop, matter, all over the fermenter. Took me 30 minutes to unclog the bottom of the fermenter the last time I made a hazy. Oh, nice. It was great. And it guaranteed looks like poop coming out every time when you're cleaning out the hazies.

Yeah. I also have to like shove a brush up there. So it really looks so good. It's very appetizing to get a real one out of that. Yeah. Appropriate.

I hear some brewers don't like making them because they don't consider it a like completely brewed beer. Hmm. Hmm. I don't know. I mean, I think that they're just sticky and gross.

I don't like cleaning up after them. But also dry hopping during active fermentation is also terrible. And messy and explosive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very explosive.

Didn't you have one recently like go everywhere or something that you that was selling? Oh, no, I didn't have one that exploded or anything. But like when I dry hopped during active fermentation, it was the first time that I had done it in

a really long time because I was using kveik yeast before and I could dry hop it knock out because it's like pretty intense yeast. And I used a thialized yeast this time and I didn't want to do like a knockout hop because

if it wasn't intense enough, it might like mess with the yeast. Right. So I left the blow off arm open and it like just pushed hops all out the blow off arm.

It was great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Honestly. So this last time we made hazy on Thursday, I dry hopped on Friday and I kept the blow

off closed and it reached 15 PSI. Yeah. Doesn't the yeast like not like that much PSI? Yeah. So you just let it out. You don't want it to be under pressure for very long, but you just let it out like after

an hour, very slowly, just crack it and let it. Yeah. Those things are alive. It's like Frankenstein beer. Yeah. Yeah. There's like a very intense, violent reaction between hops and active yeast. Good times.

Yeah. And part of the reason we got you here, speaking of brewing beers and whatnot, is the upcoming event next week. Well, I guess by the time this drops this week, Saturday, July 29th.

I hear it's a great day. On Greg's birthday. I'm going to be 32 again. Woo! That was a good year. We're all going to be 32 again. Forever. I still drink like I'm 32.

Tell us about the event. I know there's like bands involved, multiple breweries. Yeah. So we've got two stages. We've got a couple of different bands, five bands.

So DJ Fresco is going to start. We've got Singular Nature, the Vibes are going to start. Joker's Hand, and our headliner is Not A Phase. Love those guys. Great emo band.

And we'll have a great like artist local vendor market from 12 to 430. And we're featuring a couple of beers from local breweries.

So us, of course, but T. Hill, Naughty Pine, and Eureka Brewing, and 14 Cannons will all be there as well. Nice. Are you brewing anything special for the big day? No.

I kind of missed it this year since we're canning on the Monday after. Oh, it's right. But we do have our Peach Sour on, which is Peaches and Wonderland, kind of on brand there. Oh, we tried that.

That is... Mm-hmm. It's good stuff. And Go Ask Alice is our double IPA. I haven't had that one yet. And then we have Vertigo Goggles, our new hazy, which is super duper fruity, very stone

fruit pineapple forward. It's really nice. Is that the one you were talking about? You dry hopped? Yes. Oh. Yeah. What hops did you use in that? It's Laurel, HBC 586, Equinox, and McKenzie.

Nice. Yeah. Do you have a name suggestion for 586? Flex wants it to be named so bad. It needs to be named. It's really, really good. Yeah. It has to. It's been around way too long now. Yeah. We've been trying to come up with names.

Yeah. I don't know. What was one of the names? Didn't we share? I forgot. We said something like Saturn Hops, and Coley had something way funnier. Yeah. Can't remember.

Good story. Hey, remember that one time you can't remember things? Yeah. All right. Totally ruined it. Yeah. I actually like Saturn. That would be kind of cool. That'd be a good one. Right? Isn't that cool? Yeah.

That is cool. I'm just saying. Yeah. And not a phase. Yeah. Who was at all the emo fests around here, was at Naughty Pine a couple of weeks ago for their emo fest, which was hilarious because cops totally shut us down.

It was a good time. It felt like we were in high school listening to emo music again. How have I not heard that story? Because it just happened. Oh my gosh. So emo fest, I don't think Brit will be mad if I tell this story.

I don't think so. She gets a little behind in the day because the bands are taking longer to load out on stage and it's a hot ass day, people are moving slower, blah, blah, blah. Well, not a phase as the headliner, but they don't get on stage until 10 minutes before

she's supposed to shut down altogether. And she had been cutting some of the sets a little shorter to try and speed things along, get them on stage. It's where most people were there for, was those guys.

Yeah. I mean the whole day, but especially those guys. And so they get on and I think they were supposed to be done at, I can't remember if it was nine or 10, whatever it was. That time rolls around and it's like, okay, now it's 10, 15 and all of a sudden 10, 20

cops roll up and everyone's like, oh shit. And they just kept playing and just waiting to see what happens. Somebody went, I forget who it was, somebody went out and talked to the cops in Milder Street and kind of smooth things over.

And they basically said like, you got to cut it out. And so like, all right. And so she runs up to the stage and says something to the band and the band goes, all right guys, we're going to do one last song and we got to get out of here.

We've stayed past our time. Well, so the one last song is My Black Parade. Stop it. So it's like 13 minutes. Someone needed a sign that said no stairway, you know, oh, that's hilarious.

Stairway denied. So they started that. I'm like, this is your last song. Like we're going to be here until 11. This is fantastic. And so they get halfway through maybe the cops come back around and this time they're

like, okay. They're kind of giving the wrap up and somebody like runs out there and smooths it over. And then like they give the band kind of like the, we're done, you know, cut off sign. So the band, that was pretty funny.

They put down all the instruments, put down all the microphones, and then they started singing a cappella and got like the whole crowd to sing. So it was kind of cool. That's fun. Yeah. Crowd finished the song, but I was like, your last song is the world's longest song.

That's hilarious. Way to be assholes in a funny way. So it was good. Cop shut us down. At one point, like right before the last song, someone tripped a breaker or something. Power went out. They were like, shit, get the power back.

It was insane. It was crazy night. It was hot as fuck, dude. But it's been hot as fuck all day, every day, everywhere. Yeah. Pretty much.

It's the hottest whatever of whatever. Yeah. Arizona is like hell right now. Yeah. Death Valley is in like the hundred and twenties. Yeah. That's nuts. Yeah. People are like going out.

Hey, let's go take a picture in front of the thermometer. It's like, or you could get in the sense of fucking air conditioner. Like, yeah, you dumb. That's like the people here when it's like negative 30 or 40 with windchill.

And it's like, oh, if you boil a pot of water and then outside, you throw it in the air. It just evaporates or it's fun to watch. Sublimates, I believe, is the word. Oh, no.

Sublimation. That's right. Isn't sublimation solid to gas? She would know. It is. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Damn it. I'm so wrong. But then it was liquid to gas. Something different. Well, let's just evaporate.

Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know what it's called. Sublimation is like solid to gas without going into the liquid form. So it's like special. So it'd be like if ice turned into gas, basically.

Yeah. Like directly. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, you throw the water in the air and there's right. There's no water. Everyone on the socials. Right. Yeah. Frozen.

Such a trend. Yeah. So cool. It's like the one time it's cool to live somewhere where it's fucking freezing. Yeah. For five minutes. Not even. Like five seconds. Yeah. Water in the air.

Yeah. Done. Oh, I have to ask everyone who's listening. Did we crash your car stereos with our emoji titles last week? Flex, did you try it? Oh, no, I didn't.

Okay. Last week we read a story that apparently people are putting emojis in the chapter titles of podcasts and some older car stereos aren't able to like read the emojis because it's

newer than the car and it's crashing their stereos. So, of course, I had a couple of chapters with just a bunch of emojis in them. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. So I'm going to have to tell you, I completely forgot about this. Yeah.

Mine worked. Coley's worked. But our cars are there. Mine's a 20. I think hers is a 19. So. Yeah. Mine's a 13. I guarantee mine crashes out. Yeah. You got to try it.

I'll try it tomorrow. Can't wait to find out. What else? Talked about email fest. Oh, top listing city of last week shot to Pennington, New Jersey. Hey. Yeah. Random.

Yeah. Random. Yeah. It's surprising. We talk so much shit about New Jersey. Well, we don't talk shit about New Jersey. We talk shit about their shitty beer laws and how we feel bad for the people of New

Jersey. Right. Yeah. So I really like that they're getting behind us. Yeah. That's great. Maybe it's because we talk so much shit about their shitty laws. Hopefully. Yeah. Fuck that place. Shitty ass laws.

Right. Don't open a brewery in New Jersey. No. Worst nightmare. What else? Oh. Flex, this one's for you. The battle for second place at Naughty Pines trivia is no longer on the card because we

won first place last week. Yeah. Yeah. Is there like a cool story? Not at all. You just crushed it. We just crushed it. That's all. There are these kids.

I say kids because I'm old now. They're, I forget their team name and they were ahead of us for a good, at least half the night. And then towards the end we were like, Oh, we're, we're creeping up. And the second to the last round we passed them.

And then the last round they were so certain that they were going to beat us, that they, as the guy who's reading down the list and he gets to the last two and they haven't read our name and their name and they start like, you know, celebrating.

And then they read, he read their name as second place and they're like, what? No fucking way. It was like, yeah. You dumbs. Cause the last round, this is so great. The last round was identify all these cleaning products and it was like pictures of 409 and

Ajax and all this stuff. And I was like, these millennials are not even millennials. These like Gen Z-ers or whatever they are. Like they're not cleaning shit. And I'm with Deb and Brian. They've got kids. They have every cleaning product. They definitely don't know what Ajax is.

No, no fucking way. No, no. Yeah. Nobody. I don't even, I don't even think anybody five years younger than me would know what Ajax is. You know what's funny? Last week the wife was like, we really need some Ajax to clean the sink.

I was like, how old are you? But also you're not wrong. It's like the best for cleaning things. Barmaid is too. What Ajax makes me think of is Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. When they're at the house party and Chong puts all the Ajax on the plate to make it

look like cocaine. Cause he like spittled all the cocaine or something like that. So then he just like tries to lace it with some Ajax to make it look like it. And then everybody starts snorting it.

I've seen that movie so many times, like as a kid, I'm not remembering that at all. Yeah. That's funny. Um, and then finally went to, it's called the Ceviche Chow Down last week.

So you just ate a lot of shrimp? Basically. I'm not even a shrimp liker, but I love Ceviche. Oh, I love shrimp. So good. Yeah. We went with Coley. It was the wife and I and Coley. And we literally got the last three tickets that they had for sale.

We saw our friend or Shannon, the wife, sorry, our friend Sandra, who works for Firestone at the grocery store like two days before and he goes, Hey, you guys going to Ceviche Chow Down? She's like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. He's like, Oh, I'm going to be working it.

You should get tickets and blah, blah, blah. So we looked it up like 40 bucks. All you can drink. All you can eat. Ceviche. Wow. There were a few breweries there. There's a winery there. Uh, it was a competition.

It was all for a good cause to, um, it was a veterans program and there was a competition. You vote for your favorite Ceviche and um, yeah, it was fucking amazing. Great Ceviche.

$40 tickets for all you can eat for that shit in California. Yeah. All you can eat. All you can drink. Like four hours. That's awesome. Yeah. There's 10 bucks an hour to get drunk and eat a bunch of Ceviche. Like it's, you're losing money if you don't go, you gotta go.

So, um, oh, and the wife did a, a raffle where it was like 20 bucks for five raffle tickets or something. Won an entire case of wine. So that paid off. We looked it up. They're like $14, $15 bottles of wine.

Whoa. Nice dude. I call that an investment. Yeah. That was great. Um, what else? Yeah, it was just good. Wagon wheel was there. Firestone was there. Um, Red Tandem was there in local spots.

I saw that you guys were supposed to be there according to their Facebook. Yeah. That was sad that I didn't see you there. Yeah. We, uh, so me and Brad would have been the ones who could have worked that and both of

us were out of town that weekend. Oh, call me. I'll pour beer. I was sad. Um, but it was a good event. You guys should go next year for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I do. I do want to next year. I feel bad because Apple juice was trying to get me in there.

DJ Apple juice was there. I'm so sorry. Yeah. It was so funny. It was Shane. The wife goes, who's DJ Apple juice? I was like, we, we know DJ. Like everyone around here in the beer community knows Apple juice. She's like, I don't know.

We get there. I said, that's Apple juice. She goes, oh yeah, we know him. I was like, I have pictures with him somewhere. Like he's always running up to us. He did our, um, he was DJing our event for our, um, third year anniversary.

Yeah. I mean, he's over there all the time and he's always at surfing. Just a great guy. Yeah. Super cool dude. Good DJ. So he's always spinning the jams. But yeah, it was a fun ass event. Just four hours of ceviche and beer and a little bit of wine mixed like an idiot.

So, you know, good times, nothing like some raw fish and beer. Oh, there's nothing. It actually, I get shocked when people tell me they don't like shrimp. I don't. I don't like shrimp. It immediately makes me think like, have you ever tried it?

So here's the thing. I don't like shrimp. I will try things even if I don't like them. I had some shrimp ceviches that day. Yeah. I don't, you know, I don't want to be like the guy's like, I just don't like it cause

I don't like it. I'll make sure I don't like it. And there was one where I was like, this is good, but you really couldn't taste the shrimp that much. Okay. Are you a shrimp eater? I got to be in the mood for it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not bad. I like it.

It's just that I can't eat it every day. I'm like not that much. To me. It's just like, it's the fishiest of the fish. Oh, I think it's way not fishy.

I don't know. Maybe. Maybe we're just not getting good shrimp. I don't know. I was so far from the beach. Like 120 shrimp and a red lobster. All you can eat. Oh my gosh.

Hey George, the ocean called, they said they're running out of shrimp. It became a joke. Cause I just kept ordering like skewer after skewer after skewer. And then it was like, let's see how far he can go.

I think I cranked out at like one 20. Jesus Christ. And then I went again and I put down like 90 shrimp. That's crazy. Was all you can eat. Like you didn't have to pay like per pound or something.

No, it's like, you know, they used to run there before inflation. They used to run the endless shrimp like once a year. So every time they did, we would make sure we would go.

And yeah, totally fucking had my money's worth. Way to get your money's worth. Take that shrimp. I definitely had my money's worth at the ceviche chow down, I'll tell you. Good times.

Um, all right. Last week. Was it last week? Yes, it was last week. We talked about, uh, cricket beer. People in Mexico are making beer out of crickets. Apparently when you, what was it?

Lightly toast them. Yeah. It tastes like barley. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. It was weird. And it was funny because it was like very specific. If you lightly toast a cricket, it tastes like a certain types of barley.

So anyways, to be more sustainable, people in Mexico are doing cricket beer. We've had a lot of feedback on the grams and such, and the homie Chew Your Beer left a

voicemail. Oh yeah. He did? Oh yeah. Yeah, he did. We didn't see that coming. About the cricket. So here's Chew. Hello. No one is available to take your call.

Please leave a message. Hi, Holmes. This is Chew Your Beer. This is my take three because they've been pretty long, uh, voicemail. So quick thing. You talked about cricket last episode.

I would drink it. I drink oyster stouts. So I would drink a cricket porter. I've had crickets in Mexico and tacos. I had crickets and grubs. Also out here in LA, you can have crickets in La Galaguetza over in, uh, Koreatown.

Yep. There's a bad-ass restaurant in Koreatown called La Galaguetza and it's like a mole, all mole restaurant, but they do serve crickets. So while you're waiting for your mole, you can snack on some crickets that have chile

limon powder on them and you enjoy those with your beer. You might get a little leg in your teeth, but that's about it. It tastes like pork rinds or cracklins, more like cracklins, but just smaller.

Uh, also if you've been to Spencer's homie, I've been to Spencer's as a kid. I used to go there to buy party gags and, and, and look at the adult toys next to the kids toys on the same shelf. So if you go to the register, they have a little shit you can buy, like the popsicle

with a scorpion in it, or you can buy the little boxes that have crickets in there and there's some are like barbecue, uh, nacho cheese and then chili lime lays chili lime flavored and it's almost like the corn nuts flavors.

So I used to buy those and as a guy, but I would still eat them cause they were actually tasty. All right. That's it, homies. Take it easy and peace out. Hey, hard pass. Chew really likes crickets.

Apparently. Yeah. Monica? I try it. Really? Like cricket tacos and stuff? Uh, probably more like the cricket beer. Okay. Yeah. Flex was down for the beer. I said, give it to me and don't tell me what it is.

Okay. And then like, after, if I say it's good, like, Oh, by the way, it's cricket beer. Like, Oh, all right. Well now I've done it. So can't take it back. I try. I was either too drunk or too tired last week, but the story said when they lightly roast

them, right? Right. How long do you think this went on of the roasting of the crickets to like lightly roasting them to medium roasting them to dark roasting them?

That's quite a process. Yeah. And it's not like you do a little roast and you can make a beer real quick and see like, Oh, did this work? Like, Oh yeah. Didn't work. Oh, wow. This one tastes like barley.

Oh, this one did not. Oh, this one definitely did it. We got to go back to the first one. Like going back to the light roast. It's a lot of crickets, man.

Like if you think about it, PETA is not going to be happy about that. You think PETA cares about crickets? I don't know. I don't care. I mean, they feed them to a lot of animals. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, coming soon to Pedals and Pints cricket beer, right? Oh, okay. No. You think the hazies are hard to clean up? Oh my gosh. There's like little cricket legs everywhere.

It'd be hard to sanitize. Like how do you sanitize after having bugs in your, yeah. I don't know. Weird. Gross. Hard pass. Hard pass. Well, they're roasted.

So maybe you don't have to. I don't know. True. Probably. That's probably the key. Not like they're live bugs. Right. Yeah. Not anymore. Squirming around, chirping before the boil.

Oh, chirping. No thanks. You just get that one that gets stuck in the corner of the brewery forever and just chirp,

chirp. Like shut the fuck up. Dude, you got to respect those guys. Like they're the survivor, you know? It's true. They'll never give up. When we get them in the buildings at work, like I would just like put leaves of lettuce

by them. I'm like, this guy fucking deserves this. Like you're encouraging that he made it in life. That's true. Like he's not out in the wild anymore. He's, he's living it up and he's getting fed.

He's getting the AC pieces of lettuce. Oh, he's going to live year round, man. He's no hibernation. No hibernation. No snow to deal with. Good for you. Cricket that found your way in a building, you're hooking him up.

Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp. You dim. All right. Let's find out what you're drinking over there. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than ground, is Flax

drinking? Well, uh, around these parts of town, uh, we had recently gotten ourselves a little bit of a parish brewing company drop.

And I think I was late to the party cause they, they brought up a few things and I missed out on ghost and maybe something else, but people clamor for that ghost. Well yeah. Yeah. And like I had it and it was good.

You know, it was good. It's not lineup worthy though. Yeah. Is it something to like make sure you get out and you get it right away? I don't think so. Have you had ghost in the machine? I've not. No. It's, it's good, but people freak out.

They even brought it into grocery stores around here and now it's like a big joke that now ghost in the machine is a grocery store beer. Oh nice. And I actually told the guy who told me that, that, uh, Vanessa had told us she can find

it in gas stations. Oh yeah. Yeah. Wow. In Florida. So I think that was kind of funny. They probably have no idea what they're selling either. The gas station. Oh, zero idea. Yeah. But that's like, there's a local bar, little shitty dive bar out here.

One time they had, I forget one of the Firestone Barrelage, like Parabola or something on tap. No idea what it was, gold nugget. And uh, they're selling it for $6 a pint. Yeah.

Yeah. He keeps a lot of great craft beer on. Yeah. And like keeps the price low. I don't know how he does it. But they were giving out full pints. Yeah. Crazy. Not tulips. No. Not, you know, like, wow, it's like a 16% beer.

Well, there's, there's another bar around here where like owner is a big craft beer junkie and he does like certain days where IPA, all IPAs are like $2 and he puts on, but he puts

on like Drecker's, Untitled Arts, like tripping animals, like all of this shit. So the big running joke around there is that it's just like a, it's like a coverup, you

know? Like you're clearly not making money. Laundry money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Anyways. No. Yeah. I'm back to the important question and the answer. So I'm drinking Parrish Brewing Company's Extra Sauce Lemon Shandy and the can reads

uh, an imperial golden ale with lemon puree, apparently, uh, untapped, it's got a little bit more. Uh, they say it's an amped up take on the classic beer lemonade cocktail mixture inspired

by our friends at Raising Cane's. Never been to one. There's a couple here, but never been. Chicken places. Chicken place. Yeah. Bugak. Extra Sauce combines a refreshing yet sturdy golden ale base and zests it up with a brilliant

sunbeam of fresh Sicilian lemon pure A. So, uh, yeah, there you go. Really weird. I think it's three, six, four day or something because I'm untapped.

This has a three, six, four. Um, think that's kind of wild. We're keeping our beers mediocre today. Yeah. Mediocre beers for mediocre people.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So this one rings in at a 7%. I don't know if I said that. It's on the higher end, which daddy likes. Um, and this was like $12.99 or $13.99 for the four pack too.

Wow. So like the can on the front, not, you know, it's not splendid, right? It's pretty simple. But it is catching cause it's so bright and then you turn it around and there's all the

extra sauce. Oh, how funny. Isn't that kind of cool? It looks like little sauce cups. So definitely, uh, algorithm worthy. And now for the schnoz, of course, super lemony, like the schnoz berries taste like schnoz

berries, schnoz berries, the lemon shandy smells like lemon shandy. It's wild. It's good. Good start. We'll, uh, warm up the tongue jobber. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Um, didn't get out. Wow. It was, uh, I was trying to figure out the carbonation. Oh, it's light.

Mm. It, uh, dissipates rather quickly. The bubbles. Yeah. Um, so it softens up pretty quick. It's not sour at all. You think, but maybe like the Sicilian lemon puree, there'd be like a little bit of a zing

to it. It's not, it's really good. Low and lemon flavor, like all the way throughout and it doesn't take away like the flavor of the beer itself.

Hmm. And so I think this is really well done and, um, I would, I would buy it again on a heartbeat, especially at that price. Yeah. That's right. It's stupid. 7%.

I mean, you have two of these, you're having yourself a decent night already. Yeah. And you're definitely a candidate for, for Shandy's. I mean, you got your, your local line in Kugel. I was going to bring that up, but I didn't, you know, cause I know you love your coogs.

Come on, summer Shandy, man. It's a fucking classic. Shandy fan. Is that the one that tastes like fruity pebbles? No, that is the sunset wheat, which I don't, I still don't see how it tastes like fruity

pebbles. Really? Yes. Is that also that legit tastes like fruity pebbles to me? I don't think I've ever had that like in a good way or in a gross way.

I mean, not in a bad way. Oh, okay. It just like 100% tastes like a box of fruity pebbles. I want to see if I can find one of those now. Yeah. It's, I don't know. Yeah. Sunset wheat. It's a wheat beer. It's, it's around.

It's pretty popular. And everybody I've ever known who's had it, it was like, Oh yeah, this tastes like fruity pebbles. And I taste it and I'm like, now for whatever reason, line in Kugel Shandy's, no matter what time of year it is, are always on Southwest.

Yes. Like if you're flying Southwest, you can always get it. Oh yeah. 100% of the time. See, I'm not, I'm not a huge fan of the peach Shandy by lining Kugel's. That's been their big one this year. It's salvageable, like whatever, like I'll drink it if somebody hands it to me, but I'm

not going to like reach out and get it. Yes. They did an orange cranberry for the holidays one year. Yeah. It was way too orangey. Oh yeah.

I'm not a fan of orange. And then they had done a ginger Shandy in that same pack and I didn't like that one either. Really? That's sad. Really?

I'm a summer Shandy or bust guy. No. You sound like a picky bitch. When life gives you lemons, mega fucking Shandy.

Mega Shandy. Noted. Very nice. All right, let's get into a little bit of the news flight over here. I can find the fucking open for it. I know.

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I don't know why they sound like that. Glee! Yeah. Speaking of hating orange, Truly has kicked off the women's national soccer team's sponsorship with a new flavor, orange slices.

Why? Because, you know, soccer. Because half time snack. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Like no, that's... Orange slices and Capri sun, man. Yeah, it's the only time I ate oranges. Me too. Same, same.

Speaking of New Jersey, Hoboken, New Jersey, the bars there are allowed to serve alcohol starting at 5 a.m. during Women's World Cup matches. Let's go.

But notice, only bars, not breweries. Oh, yeah. Sad. Yeah. New Jersey and their fucking breweries. And finally, Governor Whitmer out of Michigan has signed a bill allowing alcohol sales at

sports. Basketball, football, all the sports. I said, that's a big deal because I don't think that's a normal thing, right? I don't think so. I think it's somewhat normal. They're not the first one. And now they'll actually be able to compete with the schools that can sell beer.

And instead of the kids getting plastered in the parking lot beforehand, they can come in and be hopefully they think it's going to make money. They're going to make money. They also say it's going to curtail drinking a little bit because they won't get plastered

in the parking lot. Yeah. They're still going to get plastered in the parking lot. Now they'll just have a couple more beers while the game's going. They're college students. They can't afford twenty dollar beers. Right.

Exactly. If you've ever been to a like a ball game, the whole idea is to it's the party before the game. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the pregame of like a normal going out night.

And then you get into the game and then it's party time. Yeah. So how is that going to differ in the college? It's not very, very silly. If anything, it's just going to escalate. Yeah.

It's like, OK, I can afford one beer tonight while I'm here. I'll have my case in the parking lot and then, yeah, whatever. But they just want to make the money off of it, which I get. Well, good for them.

All right. Regular news under the full pour. The Web has been blowing up over Anchor Brewing and the announcement that they'll be ceasing operations and liquidating the business. They announced this right after we've recorded our last episode, so it sounds like we're

a little late to the news story. As of now, a couple of people have thrown their hat in the ring to buy it, and the workers union is asking Sapporo to allow them to buy the brewery back.

Interesting. OK. Yeah. A lot of people have said, oh, start like a GoFundMe and everyone will contribute. But I guess they're trying to raise the money in a more traditional fashion and run it as

a brewery co-op. Very cool. Keep it open. That'd be kind of neat. I hope they can. So I should get the Christmas tree drawings going? Yeah. Get your daughters with some crayons going. Yeah.

So fucking excited. Yeah. We're going to need that label. And the nice thing is, if the workers do a co-op, they'll be craft again. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome back.

And Anchor Christmas sale. So good. Well, I mean, we talked about it a few weeks on the show that they announced that they're not going to do the Christmas sale before they announced that they were closing. And I was like, what's the point, man? That's so sad.

Everyone loves the Christmas sale. Hashtag bring it back. I don't know. Yeah. I'd like to see them return to craft and stop putting out an IPA because nobody wants an Anchor IPA. That's not what we go to you for.

No. Yeah. All right. Charles Barkley. Have you guys seen this clip? No. Charles Barkley. I don't know if he was getting paid or what, but was recently at a golf tournament and

tore into the rednecks over the whole Bud Light situation because, you know, he doesn't give a fuck. Here's here's Charles himself. I'm going to buy some drinks for y'all.

And I'm going to buy Bud Light. And let me tell you something. All you red who don't want a great Bud Light, fuck y'all.

So good. Hey. Y'all can't cancel me. Did he say cancel or cancel? Cancel.

If y'all fire me and give me all that money, I'm going to be playing golf every fucking day. So listen, as I said last night, if you're gay, God bless you.

If you're trans, God bless you. And if you have a problem with them, fuck you. Oh, never one to mix words there.

Charles Barkley could be the secretary of SUDS. Oh, yes. Now, I don't like Bud Light for other reasons. So I hope he's not buying me a Bud Light. But yeah, I love. You can't cancel me.

I'm uncancelable. That's awesome. I love it. He hates working anyway. So good on you, Chuck. I know. It's almost like any like analyst job he gets. He just says whatever he wants.

Just. Yeah. In the hopes of them getting rid of him and kind of bringing him back. Right. It's weird. And Shaq. Who's harder to understand on this planet than Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal?

Shaq is definitely harder. Like what? I love when Charles would call him out for it, too. And they start bickering. And that's why they keep him on the air. They're too bickering.

So anyways, that's all we got for tonight, everybody. That's it? That's it. That's it. Sorry. Wow. All right. I mean, fireworks. Maybe we get Chu to call in and go for another hour and a half or something. Don't be mean.

I'm joking. We love you, Chu. Yeah, we do. All right. We're going to hit some music. We're going to get on up out of here. Make sure July 29th on Saturday, you hit over to Pedals. Pedals and Pints.

That was in Oaks, California. Yes. Come to Rabbit Hole. Come to the Rabbit Hole. And, you know, not a phase is going to be for the other band. Sorry. Singular Nature. DJ Fresco. The Vibe Setters.

Joker's Hand. You've already passed the test. And that's it. Yeah. OK. I did it. Paddle it. Bradley will pay you this week. Yeah. You passed. Yeah. So come on out.

Earned my paycheck. Come on out. Drink some beers. Enjoy some music. Party it up. It's going to be going all day. Saturday, the 29th. You guys going to do any, like, special barbecue shit that day?

Oh, I'm sure he is. Oh, that's my favorite. I have no idea what it is, but he always does something fun on the weekends. This is a special weekend, so I'm sure he's doing something really cool. Bradley likes to barbecue on the weekends. Yeah.

It's never a bad thing. So come out and hit that. All right. Hitting some music. Monica, thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. Vote for Greg and Flex. Yes.

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