That'd be such a cool thing with a choir

We need to hire a choir Oh wait, sorry Hi, hola!

Everybody, hello, welcome Welcome in the Craft Beer Republic

Where this is not a choir show I am Greg, being joined over there by

He's gonna cut that out, you're gonna cut that out

Yeah, we'll see, we'll see, 'cause I'm being joined by the voice of Fergie and Jesus over there That's flex

I'm an angel, truly Yeah How's it going?

You know, a little tired, but Yeah, you had a week Ten days

Yeah, eight, yeah, well, it really was ten, 'cause I had to go travel for work and then left from work trip to vacation trip

Yeah, it's been a tough seven for you Yeah, let me tell you, I had 25 hours of traveling yesterday

Ooh, wee! Yeah

Traveling's rough, man, like 12 hours for one flight, then layovers and like, well, I'll talk about it in a second

Yeah, just like one second

Yeah, welcome everybody, @CraftBeerRepublic and @FlexMeABeer_s in between

Quite the show for you I'll give a quick recap of some of the beers abroad that I had and some drinking we did

What about abroad? Yeah, just checking out abroad

I think that was one of the first times my wife got, like, grossed out by me, 'cause she was early on in our dating, was like,

"Oh yeah, I studied abroad for you" I was like, "Oh, I've studied abroad for many years," and she's like, "Uh-oh"

Do you know where that term came from, calling women broads? No

Uh, they're broad hips Oh, really?

Like men have broad shoulders Yeah

Women are referred to as broads because of their broad hips

They're birthing hips? Right, so, uh, I don't think that's offensive Is it offensive?

I don't know I mean, I guess if you say fat hips, but I mean, women just by nature have broader hips because they produce children

Right, and men have broader shoulders? Yeah, usually

Evolution or something? Yeah, I don't know It's not meant to be sexist It's just fancy stuff, but who knows?

Uh, anyways, we got shit to get through Uh, happy, happy, wow, excuse me, one of those kind of shows

Shout out to Fremont, California for being our top listening city of last week

Right on What up, what up?

It's like the third or fourth time

Yeah, they're, they're really coming out You know, Psycho Bear, I think is up in that region somewhere

So, uh, getting the, we'll call it the Psycho Bear bump

What a caricature that guy is

He is something Not convinced that he's a non-murderer

I will cosign that

Yeah, non-murderer John Uh, Andrew didn't murder me Psycho Bear? Undecided on that one

With a name like Psycho Bear

Right, you kind of put it out there

Kind of got to expect it

Yeah, at least a little bit of murdering

So anyways, uh, shout out to Fremont

All right, let me get some, some liquid courage in my system here I'm sober as can be

Speaking of non-murderers, this one comes from Andrew, aka Ventura County Beer on the 'gram

Thank you for hooking this one up

This is Desert Flyer from Casa Agrio

We know how much I just boner over Casa Agrio

Who doesn't though?

Yeah, so good

Uh, this is 7%

It's a hazy IPA, has a 394 and untapped

And on the can they say, "Desert Flyer is your home away from home,

your escape from reality, and your base camp to adventure

Late kettle additions of Nelson are joined with loads of Enigma and Strata in the dry hops"

Loads, dropping loads

Uh, "for heady fruit and wafting herb"

All right, let's see

Schnoz time

Ooh, very tropical

Uh, it's almost like a fruit punch-like smell

Ooh, like fruit salad?

Yeah, exactly

Not gross like Hawaiian punch, like good fruit punch smell

Digging the old tongue dropper

Dig it, baby

Dig it

Jesus

Uh, the taste follows suit

Some of that, uh, tropical fruit salad, if you will,

followed by a nice bit of dank on the finish

And a lot of hazies can miss that dank cleanup at the end

And this one is coming in full force with plenty of cleanup

So this is, uh, this is quite nice

What did I say the ABV was?

Seven percent

Yes, this does not drink like it's seven percent

The words are only going to get harder to pronounce from here

I feel that

Yeah, so here we go

Uh, all right

So thanks again, Andrew

Go, go follow Ventura County Beer, underscores in between

Um, Algorithm

We talked about it last couple of weeks

Don't forget to go try the Flex Algorithm, craftbeerrepubliccom/algorithm

We've had a few people

It's a blast

Yeah, I should have filled it out for this one, but I guess I didn't pay for the beer

So it wouldn't really work out very well

I get really high marks at that point

Um, we had a few people test it

So thanks to all of our beta testers as I'm calling them so far

Also, happy 40th birthday to Mel, Beer Girl Mel

She had a birthday last week

Yes, she did

Yeah

Lou does not look 40, by the way

No, it doesn't look a day over 39 and a half

Let me tell you

Just staying in shape, right?

That's a nice way to say it

Is that the edited version of like looking hot as hell over there?

Yeah, you know, it's like the super PG

Right, exactly

She posted a picture like, or a video or something on the gram on her birthday with her and a

couple of the girls

And I was like, here comes trouble

Just her and two friends going out

I was like, good Lord

Hope they wore their wedding rings that night

Cause, uh, or don't, or don't depend on what you're into that night

Hey, it's your birthday

Yeah

Yeah

Partied up

Who am I to judge?

Who am I to judge?

So anyways, happy birthday

Now that we've thoroughly creeped over Mel, uh, happy, happy birthday there

Uh, like I said, did some, some traveling

We're in Portugal for eight ish days

Quite some traveling

That's not just like some traveling

That's that's a, it's a 12 hour flight for us

It's like California traveling

It's like around the world in 80 days or some shit

No, it totally got me

That's what it felt like

Yeah

The 12 hour flight, like leaving to come back home

I had to wake up at six in the morning there, which is 10 PM my time

And then, you know, flew to San Francisco from San Francisco to Burbank

Burbank drove home

Didn't get in the house till 10 PM or I guess like nine 30

So we'd traveling for like 24 and a half hour

By the time we went to bed, it was 25 hours

And that's terrible

Yeah

Tired as fuck

So see how this goes

So let me ask, let me ask you a question

Yeah, I know we told each other we're going to keep this one short today

Sure

I don't choose

We never do

Whenever we choose crying after he just heard that, right?

He's already preparing a 10 minute voicemail when traveling

What is better?

Travel jobs to or traveling back home

Oh, well, you know what?

I think that has to do with which way on the earth you're going

Well, so like you were in an unfair spot, I guess, because you traveled eight hours

ahead, right?

California to Portugal

Yes, there are eight hours ahead of us

Right

So that's quite the lag of time

Yeah

So traveling there, I'm sure it was much better than coming back

But as far as like adjustments

Yeah

Let's just say like on an average trip, like is going better or is going home better?

I guess going there, you know, you have a little excitement built up

You're on your way to vacation where when you're coming home, you're on your way to

go back to work

Right

So there's that as far as the flights go, like coming home was easier for me for the

most part on the way there

I don't know what it was

I wasn't like my legs and my back were in so much pain for sitting in one spot for 12

hours

And that was brutal

I don't my knees don't handle that very well

I can't sit for very long without moving around

But that part of it sucked

Coming back wasn't as bad

I don't know why

But yeah

But yeah, it was easier to adjust to the time when we got there

We just forced ourselves to stay up

We landed at like, I think, noon their time

So we left at 4 pm

Our time landed at noon the next day, their time

And we just no naps, no nothing like power through to a normal nighttime and went to

bed

And the next day we were we were fucking on their time

It was great

Jeez

Yeah, that's something, man

Just drink and ate our way through that fucking country

If they have any alcohol left, that's what you should do there

Yeah, that's how we plan most of our trips

Just anywhere we go

It's like other breweries around wineries

We were discussed with Steph last week how fancy I am with all my wine club members

He's the fanciest

Yeah

So we had a ton of fucking wine on that trip

Went out to the Duro Valley, where the only place you can grow port wine grapes

Did some wine drinking, lots of port drinking

They have this stuff called green wine or Verde wine over there, which just gross

It's not as bad as it just means it's young

The grapes are younger

So there's like less sugar and all that stuff

OK, and the whites tend to like have a little effervescence, like a little bit of carbonation

to them

I generally hate white wine

These were drinkable

We did like an evening booze crew, not booze crews, wine crews, like so you can see the

sunset and all this stuff

And they just unlimited pours of green wine

And you got a nice buzz

That's awesome

Yeah

They just kept coming over

You guys want to stop off your glass?

I'm like, yeah, who would say no?

Was there a lot of English speaking over there?

Oh, they're so much better than we are

I mean, most European countries are like we're Neanderthals here

Right

A lot of them spoke two, three, four languages

Wow

Especially in the north

We started in Porto and it's much closer to France

They get a lot of French travelers there

And we

Exactly

Merci

They would come up and a lot of times like you go like maybe buy a bottle of water

So they just look at you and they go, "Oh, rigato

Thank you

Merci"

And they just wait for your reaction to see which language it was

Which language you speak

Yeah

And then they'd continue on in that language

A lot of French

A lot of people thought we were French

We'd walk up, "Oh, bonjour"

Like, "Hello"

Not French

I know a few words in Portuguese

French or if Shannon looks French

Well, Shannon's half Portuguese and looks like your typical Portuguese person

Okay

So once we got into Lisbon, everyone started talking to her in Portuguese until she'd open

her mouth and only knew three words

She, you know, she understands a little bit, but speaking, she's not real confident with

So, but they'd walk up to her, "Oh, hola"

You know, "Bom dia, blablabla"

You know, they started asking her like, "Where do you want to sit?

How many people?"

And she's like, "Ah, two people"

"Oh, okay

Stupid American, this way"

But man, I had a fucking blast

Like I could move there if work would allow it

It was so good

Really?

It's that cool there?

Especially Porto

Yeah

Lisbon, had a great time in Lisbon

But Porto, I was telling someone today, I compare it to like LA and San Diego in terms

of like city size

Like Los Angeles is ginormous city that I fucking can't stand

Right

Lisbon was, I could definitely stay in Lisbon, but it was a giant fuck off city

Just things everywhere to do, so much walking around

But Porto was a little bit smaller, still a big, I thought it was gonna be like a small

city, the way people described it

It's not

It's still a big city

It's kind of like San Diego where there's still plenty to do, some great nightlife

People don't eat dinner

It's like nine, 10 o'clock over there

Real late

It's my jam

That's me

Spain is the same way

Yeah

We're like, you don't eat dinner to like nine or 10 o'clock and then you're not going out

until like 11 o'clock midnight

Yeah

That was one of my favorite things about Spain

I went to Spain as a single fella

Yeah

Just go out at like 10, start drinking, then, you know, be out till three in the morning

No big deal

Drink on the streets, all that stuff

So

Right

Because their discos and stuff don't close till like four or five in the morning

Yeah

At least at one point I was even doing the math with the wife

I was like, so if we're in Portugal, that's six hours ahead of flex

What day of the week could we get together and do the podcast?

Jeez, man

I don't even know why you're thinking about that

Oh, it'd be amazing

We'll see what happens though

So, but the bad news is the hard part about doing a podcast in Portugal, the beer was

not that great

I had, there was one place that I went to, it was called Churve

So Churvesharia, there's much more accent on that than I'm giving, but that's a brewery

So Churvesha is a beer

You know, they shh everything over there

So this place was called Churvesha or Churvesha

I keep making it sound Spanish because that's what I know

Caneel Baixa

And it was a brewery hole in the wall in some alley in Lisbon

And we heard about it from some other guy that we were at drinking beers

And he was like, yeah, my buddy who's super into crafts says it's the best

And you got to go

So we made it really good beer, best beer we had the entire trip

Well, that's nice

Yeah, really good

They had a great hazy, a great pale

They made a sour that was more like a Berliner, you know, it's tart, but really, really good

And the entire time we're there, they had like a Foo Fighters playlist on

So get out of here after my own heart

So they knew you were coming

Yeah

They had it prepped for me

We went twice and both times they were jamming out to Foo Fighters

That's weird

Yeah, I can't go wrong with it

Yeah, I don't know if the brewery like roughly translates to like, I love Dave Grohl or some

shit, but it was fantastic

Probably does

Dave Grohl's new illegitimate child

I don't know

Oh, man

But so it was great

We went to a place called Ocho Lado

It was fine

It was pretty deep

Probably like the next best beer or brewery we went to another place just called Brew,

which is a beer bar they had

It was funny

They had a tap takeover from this brewery, local or Lisbon, I think, brewery called Musha

and some of the beers hit and miss

Some were like really good

Some were kind of weird

They also had a couple of American beers and they had something from Equilibrium

Had a ton of American cans like that

I think I sent you a picture of the phase three cans that they had

And they were really old

And they were like $17 or 15 euro, which is like $17 a can per can

I was like, those things have to fucking swim over or what?

So needless to say, did not buy

They had some Sierra Nevadas in cans

Even those were like nine euro for one can of Sierra Nevada

That's not going to happen, you guys

But their big cheap beers over there were Superbok, which is like the most famous one

It's fucking everywhere

I mean, you go to just a regular cafe, Superbok

You can get beer and wine anywhere you go

It's amazing

And you were saying that Superbok was more of a brand, not necessarily

Yeah, it's like their Budweiser because they had like a light version and a dark version

and this and that

It was OK

To me, the taste was more on par with like a Budweiser

They had another big brand that wasn't quite as big called Chagrish

And that one was my jam in terms of, you know, that was like the banquet basically

OK

So that one I would definitely drink again

Whenever it was between the two shitty beers, I'd always go with the Chagrish because much,

much

Chagrish

Chagrish

So, but yeah, good times, good times abound

Can't wait to hopefully go back someday soon ish

Hell yeah

And figure out next, you know, we didn't do the layover because I was like, oh, let's

fly direct

How much better that be?

Don't waste time flying and sitting in airports

I do a layover next time

So my knees and my back and take a little break

But wouldn't you just sit on the layover?

You walk around the airport

OK

Yeah, I don't know

We'll see

Maybe I'm just a bitch and I tend to just sit on layovers

It's like, what else are you going to do?

Yeah

Yesterday, when we had a layover from San Francisco back to Burbank, we walked to the

airport a couple of times

We had plenty of time

Then went and had dinner

Oh, here's the best part

Portugal, super fucking cheap compared to the United States, especially California

Our most expensive meal was a hundred and like five euro

And this was, I mean, we were amazing food, fucking stuffed, whole bottle of wine

Tip everything like a hundred and five euro

Oh, our most expensive meal

The trip was our layover meal in San Francisco Airport where we each got a salad and two

drinks

That was like a hundred and fifty dollars

Airport

Anything is dumb as fuck

Yeah, I was like, fuck you, airport

I can't believe my most expensive meal of vacation was in the San Francisco Airport

It's just a fucking salad

I was so pissed

Oh, fuckers

I heard of Manhattan and Mitchell International, which is a Milwaukee airport

Okay

It was like 30 bucks

It's probably the worst Manhattan you've ever had

It wasn't terrible

Oh, okay

But I wish I could remember what fucking bourbon they used in it

Or I did a whiskey Manhattan

Bathtub

No, they even asked me, they're like, oh, would you like this, this or this?

And I was like, oh, I've never had one with that before

And it was good

And then I got the bill

It was like 30, 32 bucks

I was like, well, that's the last time I ever ordered a drink at an airport

Yeah

We just had to be like, I had a Sierra Nevada

He's a little thing

And, you know, I think it was like 17 bucks is fucking Dodger Stadium pricing right there

Not worth

Yeah, not worth

Yeah, man, it was rough

So super solid beer

Super solid

Yeah, but not worth it

Not for one

Yeah, that's for sure

So we did get we caught someone's attention at security coming back on the way

First of all, Lisbon Airport, you had to show your passport four fucking times just to get

on a plane

Like, do you want me to stay here?

What is happening?

It was weird

They pulled the wife over to the side for like a random inspection

And here's how Portuguese she looks

She has a Portuguese maiden name and she's still using her passport with her maiden name on it

And like when the Portuguese officials would see it and they look at her, they go

I forget how you said, do you speak?

Oh, follow Portuguese

And, you know, do you speak Portuguese?

Every time she's like, no

But they always thought she spoke

So she got inspected like extra at the Lisbon Airport

Then we landed in San Francisco

We're going through customs and they took our thing

And like other people were getting asked questions

Hey, how long were you gone for?

And did you buy anything?

And, you know, did you get any hookers?

Whatever

And they just took our passports, put them in this little plastic lockbox

And like, yeah, all right

Go down to the next thing where they thoroughly inspected all of our bags

And they just kept them for the time being

Yeah

You don't get them back until they go through your bags

It's so you don't skip it and they don't have to take the time to walk you down there because

they're lazy fucking assholes

Oh, man

Yeah, it was ridiculous

So then he's like going there

He's like throwing dirty socks everywhere

And I don't know if you ever watched the show to catch a smuggler

We watched it a ton

But it's just like you see on the show, like they go through your stuff

Shit flies everywhere

And then they go, all right, pack it up and get out of here

It's like, I'm going to need a minute, motherfucker

Right after they just ravage it

Right

This was very carefully packed

I still have one more leg of the trip to go

And I'm not just going to jam it back in there and go

So it's protecting wine bottles right now

So go fuck yourself

I'm just glad they didn't like stick a finger in my butt or anything

Or are you bummed?

You know, not a finger in butt show

Not yet

Could be

So anyways, enough about me and my trail

Any good drinking?

We haven't talked in a couple weeks

I've been gone

Any good drinking?

Let me think here

Man

Any bad drinking?

No bad drinking

Today's my dad's birthday, as you record

Happy birthday, Mr Flex

Happy birthday, Mr Flex

67 years old he is

Ripe old age

I took him out to the local Eagle Park tonight because I love it so much

And you know, Fry's Burger

And he had some Oktoberfests

And I've had a couple of their Bowie spacesuit beers on the show

Well, they recently released one with the Motueka

And it's like, I would probably die for it

It's definitely a to die for beer

All right

It's actually

So I actually went there last week, Monday, to try it as it had released the Friday before

And you know, when you put like you take one sip of beer and you say, holy shit

Yeah

It's been a while

And yeah, the beer tender served me that

And I took a sip without even smelling it

And I said, holy shit

And it's probably been a good, I don't know, nine months, a year since I've had that reaction

to a beer

So that was really solid

Really good beer there

Really good French fries

They were doing trivia tonight

And I thought of you

We did not play trivia

Oh, you should have

We would have done OK with all the questions they were asking

But, you know, maybe next time

Yeah, that's cool

Thanks

Go with the pops every now and then

Right

And he even said, because he came out

Obviously, and I have a younger brother and an older brother

And they're both kind of what's the word?

Not shady, flaky, flaky, flaky

So they're definitely not shady, flaky

And they both ended up making it out tonight

And it was such a great time

And my dad even said, he goes, we need to do this like once a month

Yeah, it's like get all of us dudes together

And I was like, I honestly don't see why that can't be a thing

So look out for the flex boys coming through Monday nights

Who knows what we're going to roll into

Yeah

Look out for the flex sausage fest coming to a brewery near you

You got to pay extra to see that

That's, well, that's good

That's a nice time

Yeah

So that was my fun drinking nightly fun, I guess

Yeah

Dig it

Yeah

I've been busy, man

I really haven't been making it out lately

I get it

Fucking busy

Yeah, I understand

Well, speaking of you and drinking, let's fucking ask some questions

Or one really

Ask it, baby

In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers

Only one tongue can guide us

One man

One tongue

One tongue jobber

In this world, we must find out what is flex drinking?

Tonight, what is the prospector drinking?

Flex Higgins is drinking abomination brewing company, and they're out of North Haven,

Connecticut, which is like the most Connecticut city name I've ever heard

You know, and I think I had a Christmas theme beer from these guys before

Okay

And it was similar to this IPA series, and it's called wandering into the fog

And it's a double IPA

But Greg, it is a double dry hopped with anchovy hops

Have you ever heard of anchovy hops?

Oh, I think we just talked about these

Not like I think I had a beer that had them in them or something

Because I remember being thoroughly disgusted, and I needed to research it before I drank

the beer

Because that is a very off-putting name for a hop

Right

It'd be really bad if it tasted like fish

Unless you like fish

Yeah

Oh, what's this?

Then it's like gross

So this, like I said, it is a double IPA, double dry hopped as well

86% ABV

Super solid

$1699 for this four pack

Oh, talk about algorithm

The Canhart, wicked simple

Kind of like Stephen King novel, like cover novel-esque

You know, it's got the fog and big letters and kind of like a sunset theme

I didn't put this in the algorithm

Maybe I will share it on the next episode

But Untapped has this at a collective $418

It's a relatively new beer

There's only 317 check-ins

And the description reads double India pale ale, double dry hopped with anchovy hops

So we will dive into this with the old schnaz

So it is very dank on the schnaz

A little bit of citrus coming through on there

It's like fresh orange with like a touch of pine on there

Oh, all right

Then we'll dabble into the old tongue jabber

The moment we've all been waiting for

So for a double dry hop, double IPA, this is real light bodied, like shockingly

There's little to no carbonation on this

The mouthfeel, you wouldn't expect

It's great

I enjoy it

Doesn't fill up the mouth

Doesn't fill up the tummy

You know, it's like, it's not like drinking water, but it's very viscous, right?

Not gonna feel bloated after a couple of those

And the flavors on this

It's a lot of hop resin comes through

You get a little bit of that citrus

It's a little sweeter on the palate than it is on the schnaz

But this is really good

It was actually recommended to me by the guy who works at my local shop

Oh

I walked in there and I said, man, I need to get a couple of beers

And he said, oh, have you ever had this?

And he said, it's wandering into the fog

And I said, I think I had one of those

I said, is it?

Forgot what I asked him what kind of beer it was

And he said, oh no, it's got this anchovy hop

So cheers to Rob for recommending this to me, a consumer

This is a fantastic beer

I'd probably rate it like a four out of five

All right

You know, like if I was to rate this on Untappd

Yeah, very respectable

I would say the 418 is pretty close to being spot on

I wouldn't rate it any higher

I wouldn't rate it any lower

Solid four, eight out of ten

I would drink this beer again

I'd drink it all night

I'd probably throw up if I drink it all night

But

Well, it's 16 and change from four pack

How do you go wrong there?

Right

$1699 for 86%

That's

Yeah

That alone pays for itself

In fact, you're losing money if you don't buy it

Exactly

So, yeah, I don't know if you've ever had any abomination brewing

I don't think so

I know it's on the complete opposite end of the country

Right

And it doesn't sound super familiar

You know, if I did, it came through table or something like that

OK

But yeah, I can't off the top of my head

I don't I don't think so

But yeah, I wish you could see

I don't know if I can if you can see the logo

Oh, I looked it up

I've already I'm looking at the picture right now

It's like this little monster, one eyed monster

Yeah

What a setup

Yeah

It's a horny one eyed monster, too

Wow

Man, there we go again

Put the monsters in the shape of an A and that's not dirty

So

Unless it's never mind

Very nice

All right

There's a hole in the damn it

Not an A show

Bend over and it might be

Before we get to the news or into trouble

Michael, listener Michael called and left us a voicemail

Let's let's check in and see what he's up to

Hello

No one is available to take your call

Please leave a message after the tone

Good evening, Craft Beer Republic

It is I, Michael Fairfax

Sitting here

Drunk off my ass and waiting for you at Naughty Pine for the third anniversary

But you don't seem to be here

So I'm drinking all of the anniversary beer, which you would probably enjoy

Anyway, I'll I'll see you soon, man

Take care

Bye

You're right

I probably would enjoy it

Hers last year was fucking chef's kiss

Delicious

But the last I was I was out of town for the anniversary

I feel bad for Brit

I was telling her the last time we saw her

I was like, look, I swear we're not avoiding your parties

We're just always out every time she has an anniversary party

I had a weekend

Yeah, it's always like right around our anniversary

So we're always out of town

And so I'm glad he said he was drunk because he sounded very awkward

Yeah, he was a little

So that made sense when he

Yeah, yeah

Yeah

So thanks, Michael, for coming

We seem to Michael's got his own chair

He actually sounded like he was like drunk in Alaska and trying not to sound like that

I am at Naughty Pine

I have only had my allotted 36 ounces of beer

Stupid Alaska, stupid fucking Alaska

So it'll five five three beer

That's number to call

So he's got his own chair like he goes there that much like he's

Yeah, he goes so much that they they made him his own chair

That is awesome

Does it just have his name on it or what is it?

Yeah, somebody actually like carved, you know, it's a barstool in the wood stool part

Somebody carved it super nice and like has his has like a logo, not a logo,

but like a design on it and stuff

That is so awesome

Yeah, it's really it's really quite nice

So I think what it was is Britt told him if you went there for like the first 30 days

of her being open, she'd give him his own seat

And so he did and she did

And he went 30 days in a row

Yeah, I mean, they're closed Mondays, but beyond besides the Mondays, yes

And he has a little plaque in front of it at the bar, too

This is like this is Michael's seat

And if he comes in, he gets to kick people out of it

That's awesome

Yeah, pretty cool

So all right

A little bit of news before we get out of here

Latitude Brewing has acquired Thorn Brewing

This comes from San Diego Beer News

Shout out to those guys

Or Brandon, really, those guy

We're thrilled to bring Thorn Brewing into the budding craft coalition, says Ingram from

Latitude 33

Their dedication to quality, creativity and community aligns with our values and compliments

our strength

They were both started around the same time in 2012

Thorn Street Brewery then became Thorn Brewing

They opened up their own contract brewing side of things where Latitude 33 has been

brewing for a few years now

So it's really just a sort of a match made in heaven

They're merging

The weird part of the story is Ingram says Thorn Brewing facilities, as well as its tap

rooms in Barrio Logan and North Park, will continue to operate independently under their

TSB to LLC company

Furthermore, the company's beers, which figure to remain largely, if not entirely the same,

will continue to be distributed throughout San Diego County by Classic Beverage and other

Southern California locations by Scout Distribution

What will be different are the added financial management and business resources being provided

by Latitude

So it's weird

It's like, hey, we're acquiring you, but like you're still your own thing

Interesting

Yeah

So we'll see how that goes

Like me some Thorn Brewing

Latitude 33, not my favorite

Sorry

You do you boo

Yeah

Their big beer that like kind of launched them was this blood orange something

And just boy, was that not my jam?

It doesn't sound good

Yeah

Governor Newsom signs AB 2174 into law, giving California craft breweries better access to

public and private events

Hell yeah

We talked about this a couple of months ago

Probably California's thriving craft beer industry just gained a major boost thanks to new

legislation signed into law now officially a part of state law

It'll allow craft breweries to sell their beer at public and private events through

the use of a beer caterers permit

This will significantly expand opportunities for small beer manufacturers across the state

New law set to go into effect in January on January 1st is expected to provide a much

needed growth opportunity for California's craft breweries

So basically starting 2025 breweries holding a type one or type 23 license can apply for

a beer caterers permit, granting them the ability to sell their beer at various events

held off of their licensed premises

These events can range from street fairs and civic gatherings to private parties and sporting

events anywhere in California approved by the Department of Alcohol and Beverage Control

With this permit, craft breweries can sell up to 124 gallons of beer at each event for

a maximum of 36 events per year

Okay

So basically, you know, beer festivals, you can like sell cans to somebody like, hey man,

I really am hammered and love your beer

Can I buy a four pack?

They can sell them four pack

I like that

Yeah, it's kind of cool

So, um, Hurricane Helen has destroyed basically

Is it Helen or Helene?

That fucking hurricane that ripped through the east

Stand back

Yeah

Stand back everybody

Uh, has ripped through Asheville, North Carolina

Several Asheville area breweries are closed due to devastating flooding in the aftermath

of the hurricane

The Western North Carolina locations of Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are temporary closed

with no date to reopen

Asheville headquartered High Wire Brewing shared a photo of its main facility underwater

at 1 PM

The multi-state taproom operates for Asheville locations are closed until further notice

Employees at other locations will be working on relief efforts

Burial Beer hosted a free cookout for the community members at its south slope tap room

last Sunday

Highland Brewing, the first craft brewed over in Asheville is closed until further notice

That's just a few of them

I've seen a bunch of pictures on the gram and such

Um, I've also seen in some industry discussion boards and groups that they're talking about

organizing a collab charity beer, kind of like resilience or black is beautiful

So, um, as I, as those sort of things start to emerge or any sort of like brewery help

type thing, I'll, I'll, I'll post on the socials or we'll talk about it on here

Of course

So, uh, some crazy shit going on over there

Yeah

That's wild, man

Yeah

Not 90 people dead

I think they're tailing it up to so far

I think there are 200 at this point

Yeah

The wife has a college friend who lives just outside of Asheville

In fact, the reason I went to Asheville a few years ago was for her wedding and, um,

they were actually in California when it all hit and they tried to get back to Asheville

and ultimately couldn't

So they just had to rent a car and drive across the country to get back

Holy shit

Yeah

So it was, it was crazy and their houses are okay

But, um, her husband's business was like destroyed

Her businesses are okay

So it's, it's insane, but hopefully, hopefully things get a little better

Uh, all right, let's, let's end it with this one

Woman accused of driving drunk on a runway at Riverside airport

How do you get on an airport?

How do you get on a fucking runway?

Like, how do you get on that?

Yeah

Tulsa police arrested a woman who's accused of blocking the runway at Tulsa Riverside

airport Sunday evening with her SUV

Police say they got a call around 6:00 PM on Sunday of a drunk driver and a silver Nissan

Pathfinder on the runway blocking a plane

They arrested 50 year old Bonnie Campbell of Plano, Texas

They say she blew a point three, four, four times

Okay

That's a lot of fucking booze

That's how you end up on a runway

Okay

That is

Yeah

What she Starsky and Hutch it over the fence or something

Police say there were, there were 18 empty beer cans in the SUV and more empty beer cans

in a trash bag

There is a photo there is a trash bag in the car as well

Yeah

It's on the floor in front of the passenger seat

It's just got a bunch of beer cans

And then all over the passenger seat or even more

Oh man

They say they took Campbell to a hospital for medical treatment

I bet

And then to the Tulsa County Jail

Probably

Yeah

She's facing a DUI second offense charge

Yikes

Makes you wonder where she ended up on the first one

Yeah

Yeah

If the runway was the second one, what was the first one?

Oh, fucking subway line or some shit

NASCAR track

Yeah

That'd be pretty good actually

So anyways

All right

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