I welcome in everybody to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined
by the guy who barely made it and that's flex. What's up big fella?
I forgot I did forget to be here. Luckily I just had to walk down a
flight of stairs and I was on. Right? But yes, I completely forgot about
tonight. And it was kind of funny. So good times.
I thought it was hilarious myself. Yeah, it was funny.
We we got a fucked up schedule the next couple of weeks,
so it's understandable and make sure hopefully, uh, we'll,
we'll keep releasing shows and all that good stuff. Hopefully.
Yeah. Hopefully see what happens. Anyways, follow us on the
socials at Craft Beer Republic. Affleck's beer underscores
Inbetweeners. Lots to get to tonight. Uh, did some partying over the
weekend and I am still paying for it. I'm very excited you briefly
spoke about this off air, and I'm very excited to hear details,
asking some questions. I can't wait for the questions.
Uh, we got some news to get to. Uh, we had somebody write to us
about that beer math story we did a week or so ago. The dollar pints.
He did some math for us. Okay. And how many pints we would actually
need to drink to make it worth it. So we'll get to to all that in
just a little bit. But, uh, I'm gonna hope this is sort
of like a hair of the dog situation for me, and not a it's all downhill
situation for me. I have my name. Oh, I have my beer. I love my hair.
I love my beer. Oh, yeah. Thanks to intern Brian, I am
drinking Trillium Brewing Companies. Congress Street, 7.2% has a 4.27 on
untapped 70 over 70,000 ratings. That's crazy. That's insane.
I don't know if I've seen a beer with that many Iranians before.
Trillion. I mean, I'm sure we have. I'm sure Sierra Nevada pale is I
mean. It is a shit ton. Like, that's that's that's a ton.
And to. Maintain a 4.27 at that, that's.
Not under I'm not trying to undercut it. Sure. But yeah.
It's insane. Yeah. Um, from the brewery,
they say our flagship American IPA highlights the distinctive
aromatic Australian galaxy hop. The nose bursts with pine,
citrus rind, melon and pineapple. Pronounced flavors of peach,
clementine, and tropical fruits are accentuated with moderate
bitterness and a balanced by a light biscuity malt character.
The Galaxy and Columbus are the hops. They even go on to tell you what type
of malts they put in this thing. Ooh. So the schnoz.
I definitely get the pine. I get a little bit of citrus in
there. I don't know that I get tons of
melon or pineapple so much. I also it's a fairly light nose,
as you can see. It's properly hazy and they
don't even call it a hazy. They just call it an American IPA.
It's wonderfully hazy looking. The head looks very nice.
Nice retention there. When I first poured this, it was
like I should have taken a picture. It was like the most gorgeous
pour ever. Perfect amount of head at the top.
And now some nice lacing I'm digging in here. That is nice.
I definitely get the peach, get some tropical ness.
I think I'm getting some pineapple in there.
It's, um, it's a little bigger on the mouthfeel than, like,
say, like a super cloudy. That's probably because it's got
some malt to it. Okay. Um, but it's real nice.
Easy to drink a little smidge of alcohol at the end.
Uh, you know, you're drinking. Not a five percenter, but it's not
like a ooh, it's hot kind of thing. It's just nice. It's good.
I like this. I enjoy that, too. Yeah, just just a little right there.
Take a. Reminder. Okay? Don't forget me. I'm here.
You have two of me, and you're gonna feel it. Yeah. You're gonna.
You're gonna be a little buzzy after a couple of us. Me and my twin.
So. Yeah. Good times, I like it. Thanks. Brian.
This is, you know, a few months ago, I think this is what started the
whole, uh, flexes algorithm thing when he gave me that other trillion
beer and we started talking about pricing because it was like 28 bucks
for a four pack. Right. Good stuff. So, uh, I had to get this while it
was still somewhat fresh and, well. That 17. 2%,
I'm sure that was probably 30 bucks. Yeah,
this was probably the more expensive one because the one was like 28
and one was 30 for the four pack. So I think this is the probably
was the $30 one. Who knows. I I'm just guessing. Yeah. Same.
Same girl, same. Uh, shout out to our top listing city
last week. Hawthorne, California. Oh, cool. What up? Hawthorne.
That's like near LA. That's just outside of LA. Neat.
I was gonna say I don't even know where it is.
Yeah, that's out in the hood. I mean, my hood ish. Yeah.
Not a geography show. No, not a map show.
It's really not. Yeah. I did hear a funny story at the
at the birthday I'm about to tell you about.
Somebody was saying they beat some guy up with a globe once,
or I was like, go on. The globes were like, hollow.
Yeah, maybe not this one. But he said, like, he got it and
like, rammed it into his face and just started smashing the dude.
I was like, oh, do you have like Africa imprinted
on his forehead after that? Or you would ask a question like
that. I know, I'm so weird. Maybe it was like the base of
the base of the globe. Maybe it's like flat and,
you know. Yeah, but I was heavier. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. So, please.
Yeah. Tell us how drunk you are. How drunk was he?
Pretty fucking drunk. And I'm still feeling it today.
So this is as we record. This was yesterday. It was Sunday.
Deb. Happy birthday. Deb had her. Birthday. Yeah. Happy birthday.
Deb. And, um. Thanks. We couldn't figure out what to do,
so honestly went to ChatGPT. Like you do for absolutely
everything. It was kind of a joke. It was like, all right, if it comes
up with a good idea, so be it. And said, like, hey,
our friend Deb is turning insert number here, and she's a huge
fan of champagne and brunch. And I think I told her like
1 or 2 other things and said, like, do you have any ideas we
could do for a birthday? And at first it was like you
could take her to brunch. And I was like, yeah, no shit.
ChatGPT. Thank you. And then so we told it to be
more creative and whatever, and it came up with the idea,
which we ended up doing, or at least the base of it.
And what we did was like a champagne around the world tasting,
if you will. So everybody couple every couple
brought a bottle of champagne from a different region.
We had a sign up form so we wouldn't get like, you know, 30 California.
That's fucking hilarious. You left that out pre-show.
Oh, that's like some elementary school, like, birthday sign up
bullshit. Yeah. That's hilarious. I did an online sign up form and
I maxed it out at two bottles per region.
So only two California's, two France, two Italy, all that stuff.
And, um, and so, yeah. So people signed up and then with
that bottle, you're supposed to bring a food from that region.
So, you know, if it's California, that could be anything.
It could be tacos or tri-tip or who knows. We got Italy.
So we did an Italian prosecco with a frittata. Tried to keep it crunchy.
And, uh, so it was fun. Anyway, people brought some some
good food and we had a good time. We drank so much fucking
champagne like champagne. Drunk is another level.
Like, that's when I really start forgetting things.
Did you count how many bottles you finished? No. Fucking I don't know.
Here's what I do know. So the people brought their regional
champagnes, which was probably, I don't know, like, we'll say
7 or 8 people or not people, but parties of bringing champagne.
Okay. And some people, would you say. Like 1 to 2 bottles per. 1 or 2?
Some people brought one, some brought two. Like we you know, we did two.
Um, so there's let's say in that there's. Let's call it 11 bottles.
Okay. I was gonna say 12. I like 11, uh, 11 bottles.
And then on top of that interim, Brian,
this is kind of a surprise for Deb. So, like, he snuck over to our house,
dropped off some what we call sideline bottles that weren't
part of the theme. It was just like, oh,
if we need more champagne. I think that was it was either 6 or 8
more bottles. Let's say it was six. Let's be conservative. All right.
So now we're looking at 17 bottles of champagne.
So easily at least a bottle per person.
Yes, minimum, because I don't. Think there were 17 adults in
this house. And so minimum a bottle of person.
We did crack open a few beers. Our buddy Otter came over and he
works at Tarantula Hill. He brought a new collab that T Hill
was working on. It was delicious. At some point,
I didn't know this happened. Interim. Brian like DoorDash. More champagne.
I just I was sitting outside on the patio talking, and I look over the
fence and there's a dude getting out of a car with, like, this giant bag,
and he's handing it to Brian. I was like, oh my God,
did he DoorDash for champs? At least six more bottles.
Oh my God, so sick. They weren't all. Finished I think.
So we're looking at 23 bottles. I think 20 guys.
Let's say 20 got consumed. Yeah. Because there was like a couple of
bottles from that DoorDash left over. That's a lot of champagne.
A lot of fucking champagne. Minimally, I had at least a
bottle and a half of champagne, plus a couple of beers. Good lord.
Yeah, we just drank for eight fucking hours.
Like it started at noon and the last person left at, like, 815,
I think. I mean. I was about to say I would probably
be vomiting at that point, but eight hours of drinking
starting at noon. Yeah,
I think I would be okay with that. Yeah. And I didn't get too drunk.
I mean, I got festively drunk throughout the day.
I wasn't like, sheltered. I was trying to keep it together
a little bit. Hey, is our house. So, like, if people needed stuff,
I need to keep it together. Uh, b,
our dog Marty's not doing well. And so, like, I had to make sure,
like he was being taken care of. He's. We've had some diarrhea issues.
I didn't want that happening in the house, but then after it went left,
I'd shit you not. I got a pint glass and I just
filled it. It was probably about a half a
bottle of champagne and just started drinking that and sat on the couch
and had. I'm getting a headache now. Just really started kicking in.
And then this morning when I woke up, I was like, oh, daddy, oh,
daddy. Little buzzy. So now what kind of drunk?
Or I should say, what kind of hangover is champagne for you?
So first of all, I should say champagne drunk is
apparently I forget everything. Like, I don't think I was that
drunk throughout the day until towards the end.
I'm sure I was getting pretty up there, but I felt like I was
really holding it together and I wasn't slamming champagne.
I just was consistently sipping. And. But I remember so little of yesterday
like I remember who was there. I remember talking to certain people
and certain specific conversations, like beating some guy up with a
globe. Um, and that kind of. But like, I was like, fuck you.
Don't forget that. You really could you. Yeah, yeah.
But I was like, fuck, when did this person leave and
when did this person leave? And like, I don't know,
I have no fucking clue. I don't see what the last people to
leave were. Of course, Deb and Brian. Like, I looked at the ring to
see when they left. I was like, oh,
they left at like 815. And so that's. Wild because it's it's different
when you're at somebody else's house and you miss people leaving. Sure.
But when you're the host and it's at your house. Yeah.
There's a good couple. Hours where people.
Come up to you and say, hey, thanks for having us.
So the fact that you can't remember that, that's something. Well, like.
One person in particular, she left. I have no idea what time.
I guess I could look it up on the ring, but I think I was out
on the patio when she left, so probably didn't see me,
so didn't come say bye, I think. Or maybe she came and said bye and,
you know, tickled my balls and left and I just don't remember it.
Who knows. But but yeah. So to answer your actual question,
uh, champagne hangover is not fun. It's not a throw up hangover.
It's not like a stump, at least for me. Not a stomach hangover.
It was the fucking headache. And, like, dizziness and, like, I had
to drive somewhere for work today. I was like, fuck, I do not want to
drive so bad. Like it was throbbing. Headache. Just kind of lingering.
What is this. Just kind of lingering? I'd say the worst part is like
the the sort of off kilter ness where it's just like, okay,
I'm spinning all day long. Oh, that is not great.
Yeah, but it's in full effect. Like for lunch today?
We all know that I eat fairly well. Fairly low carb and all that stuff.
Uh, for lunch I went and I was like, hey, I'm gonna go pick up salads
because we don't have anything else. She's like, okay, but I went to
the place that I know has great sweet potato fries, and I brought
back some sweet potato fries. And I was like,
I need these in my life so bad. I do fux with some sweet potato
fries. Oh, man. I'll get horny on some sweet potato.
They are real nice. Yeah, a little ranch on there.
Oh, really? Oh, yeah. What do you like?
Oh, I just like, I could just eat sweet potato fries.
Like, you know, there's sweet, obviously.
And, like, you get some nice coarse grain salt on there. Oh, yeah.
I did add some salt on there. Freshly ground. That's all I need.
Yeah. It's good. That salt just fucking hits with it.
The salt is key. I'd say that's more important
than the dip for sure, but I do a little light ranch
dip with my sweet potatoes. The wife fucking would drink
ranch if it didn't look weird. So she's over there, like.
Like, you know, it's a fucking spoon for ranch, basically.
But I just a little light hint of ranch. Ton of salt. Mhm.
Set my life. Straight. See? Hot take. Unpopular opinion.
I don't love ranch. Just in general. Yeah. Like with anything.
Oh, see, I don't like ketchup. Like I don't want ketchup on my
fries. Oh. See, I can eat ketchup with just
about everything. Too sweet for me. Too sweet. Okay. Too sweet.
Too sweet for life. Uh, so that's. That's my death for the day.
So nobody brought any buzz balls? No buzz balls were consumed.
Funny you should ask. I had to go to Total Wine before
to pick up the champs. And I saw Buzz Balls,
and I picked one up for Deb. Nice. And I wasn't there when they did it,
but they gave it to her. And the wife took video and she.
She took it like a Smirnoff, like an ice. She got down on one knee.
And are you supposed to chug them or are they just like,
rtds you just drink them? No, she's just a champ,
so she fucking downed it. But, um, I don't I don't think
there's a rule to, you know, to, like, be nice. Okay.
I also, I want everybody out there who listens,
who sometimes comes to my house. Ever to know that while I was at
Total Wine, I also purchased a six pack of Smirnoff Ice.
You know, I've thought about this, and, uh, I thought it would be
really funny to ice guys at work. Oh, like while you're working? Yeah.
So, like, buy the six pack and then, like, if I say I'm, like,
got a closing shift coming up, then I would, like,
set everything up as I closed. So when everybody came in in the
morning, they would be shocked and awe and probably obviously not
chug the ice before work or when they find it, but after and just
have this huge chug circle and. Then, you know,
it's waiting for you all day too. And because they just, uh, you know,
we got like our beer cooler and shit. We sell liquor at work.
They just came out with these new Smirnoff Ice things.
They're like six ounces, maybe eight ounces, and they're
like 13% alcohol. Holy shit. Yeah, I forgot what they're called.
They're not. They're not called shorties.
They're not called. They have a name to them.
I should get. Diabetes or something. But I was like, man,
imagine icing somebody with this. That would be shitty.
Yeah, it'd be terrible. Terrible? Like what?
You're not even somebody's friend doing that, right?
You are now enemies. Well, I hesitate to say this on the
show, because I know people who come over to my house will hear this,
and I don't want to tip them off. But the wife,
I might even cut this out. But the wife saw a thing on the
gram where somebody put a Smirnoff in there. Okay, so.
That's why I bought them. There is now a Smirnoff sitting
in my. That's ruthless man. Yeah. Oh, are you going for some aspirin?
Okay. Yeah. They are called shorties. That's what they're called.
There you go. Yeah. 13% alcohol, 6.76oz should.
Be called friendship runners. And I think they come in a
couple flavors, but that's not the important part.
The important part is that they're awful.
You should find these and you should ice your friends with them.
Yeah. Your best friends? Yes. Because that will show a true
testament of friendship if they stay. Yeah.
If they don't punch you in the face. Yeah. Good times.
So anyways, that was Deb's party. Smirnoff ice in the. Yeah.
What a horrible idea. We've done toilets before.
We've done? Sure. Under somebody's covers before.
My favorite ever was the pizza box. I did the pizza box. Yeah, I.
Tell that one a lot. Yeah. I love icing people.
Anybody who does get it, I'll be nice.
I will swap it out for one of the cold ones in the fridge.
You don't have to drink the warm one. Chugging warm would be easier.
You think? Oh, yeah. But then chugging something ice
cold with, like, some carbonation. It's terrible.
But then you taste it more. Not if you chug it.
I'm not tasting anything. You're chugging?
Well, it'll be up to the chugger. I'll let them decide.
It's a gentleman rule. Yeah. I'll be. I'll be that nice.
You're a nice guy, Greg. Yeah. A very funny part of the show was
taken out to protect the integrity of the hiding location of the ice.
Apologies for the inconvenience. Now, back to your favorite podcast.
You should hide one in between your couch, like the arm of the couch and
the cushion. Mhm. Somebody sits down. They're gonna feel it.
What stuck down here. And if they don't feel it you go
like hey is the remote down there. Can you, can you reach for it.
Super solid. Yeah, it's a good one. I like. That. Well, I'll report back.
Um, like I said, at the top, somebody wrote in and commented on,
you know, I post clips of the show on like, YouTube and social
media and all that stuff. Somebody commented on the on the
clip of us talking about the dollar pints for life.
If you spend $10,000 and he did math for us.
And he said, if pints are eight bucks each.
Which is what we said, and you do donate $10,000 to save $7 a pint.
You need to drink 1,428.6 pints to break even. That's a lot of beers.
I think we said, what do we say, like 13 or 1400.
So we weren't far off. Yeah. Well, you I think you guessed it.
I was just in awe still. But yeah. So anyways, thanks for doing the
math for us. And 10,000. That's a lot of money to drink.
Yeah, I'd like to say I haven't spent that much money on beer,
but we all know. Well, that's not the point.
But that is definitely not the point. The point is, is this said Taphouse,
or it was like a taphouse opening up, right? Brewery. Oh, it was a brewery.
They wanted to, like, expand their taproom or something like that.
Okay. That's what it was. So you have to wonder,
are they going to be around that long for you to make your money back,
right? Like that ten grand donation? It doesn't.
It's not necessarily going to go far. Yeah.
I mean, I donated 50 bucks to a Kickstarter or whatever for a
brewery that never opened. I'm still mad about that.
Sheesh. Let alone ten grand. That's a little rough.
Yeah, that 50 bucks supposed to get a free
beer and your name up on the wall. How many tacos you could get
with 50 bucks? Oh, you know, like,
that's what crosses my mind. That's why I don't gamble. Yeah.
Same. You know, it's like you lose money
and I'm like, well, you could have used that money on this or this or
this and. Yeah, it's just fucking. It's gone. Yeah.
It's why, like, if I'm in Vegas and I decide to
go hit up a casino or something, I will set an amount like I'm not
spending more than whatever it is. 300 bucks this weekend on gambling.
Okay. And then to me,
it becomes paying for entertainment. You're paying for something to do.
And I'm okay with that. Okay. that. That's an interesting way to
look at it. I've never thought of it that way.
And that 300 bucks could last me five minutes if I'm an idiot or
if I'm doing all right. Maybe it lasts me the whole weekend.
Maybe I make a few bucks. But I have decided I'm willing to
part with $300 to have a good time. Okay. And then.
And then it's just like buying tickets to something, you know?
I'm buying tickets to the roulette table, basically.
You know, I like that concept of you're just paying for entertainment.
Yeah, because you pay if you went to a show or anything else.
Yeah, I guess it makes sense. But you know, like my buddy,
we used to go and back in our single days and he'd lose 500 bucks. Go.
Well, now I got to win it back and then, you know, $3,000 later. Right.
That is, that is still trying to win it back to go about it. Yeah.
First of all, you'll never win it back. Even if you do. You don't.
Especially when you have that feel that need that you have to like.
You have to try to get it right. That never works out. Yeah.
When the pressure's on, you'll never win.
So especially when you're playing stuff like,
I always play craps and roulette. Like I don't play skill things like,
you know, poker or something. I, I like craps, I like roulette
because craps has some skill to it. But yeah. So a little bit.
But like blackjack, there's tons of like, do's and
don'ts and rights and wrongs. And, uh, last year at work,
we played a lot of blackjack, like post shifts, have a, you know,
shift beer and hang out in the garage and play a couple hands.
I don't remember what is good, what is when you hit,
when you don't hit, when it's, um, what's what's the fucking word
when you're trying to be like, kind to somebody, it's like, uh,
I can't fucking remember, but it's like, uh, you don't hit
on certain cards or certain hands because it's not good for this
person next to you or oh, really? So on and so forth. Oh, yeah.
There's like, oh, who gives a shit? I'm here to win, they say.
On certain hands, if people hit, there's people that will get up
and walk away from the table. That's their problem.
Because it is the wrong thing to do when you are playing at the table.
That sounds like a you problem. I'm just trying to win money.
It blew. My mind. That's insane. I've never heard that before.
Oh, yeah. Blackjack is the one card game
where someone's like, hey, we have to go play cards.
Like, all right, I'll play blackjack. It's not a poker fan.
Yeah, poker is not that fun to me. It's boring.
There's too much shit to remember. We're talking, like, five card draw.
Are we talking like Texas Hold'em? Yes. Okay.
If I'm going to play poker, like. Yeah, five card draw.
I'm a little more into than Texas Hold'em, but I just. None of it.
I don't want any of it. Give me some blackjack.
But really, I want craps and roulette.
Those are my games in Vegas. Okay. Fair enough.
I'm like some old person. At the. Craps table.
I just I love being at the roulette table, and people are like, what's
your strategy? Like, I don't know. Find the guy who's making a bunch of
money and do whatever he's doing. That's not a bad idea.
There's one guy. One time I was at this table.
This guy. I don't know if he had strategy or
if he just liked certain numbers. He was.
Just went in fucking spin after spin after spin. I just did what he did.
I made a bunch of money. How'd you do it?
I don't know, that guy seemed pretty smart.
That never would have even crossed my mind. You know?
Because it's not like poker where you can't see what he's doing.
Yeah. You know, it's. It's out in the public.
It's out there. Yeah. This guy's going 32. So am I.
Put it all on 32. Motherfuckers. Jeez. Maybe I should try that.
Yeah, it's good times. I don't go to the casino ever.
But maybe now I'm just going to walk around and just take some peeks.
He's doing well and just trying to piggyback that.
Or I tell you, like, if I'm walking through a casino and I
see that there's like a roulette table that just had, you know,
ten reds in a row, just ripe for a black. I will just stop up.
Hold on. 20 bucks on black. You know, just like. No way.
It's not going to hit black this. Time, right?
And I'll just, you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
But the numbers person in me is like, you can't go for an 11th red.
It's got to go black. Law of probability. Mhm.
And then I get sucked in. But that's a different story.
Never go over that 300 bucks. Anyways not not a gambling show.
Not a gambling show. Uh, before we find out what you're
drinking over there, one last thing. Got hit up by a mutual friend of
ours. I won't say who it is. Only because I didn't ask him if
I could talk about this or not. But they have an investment in a
brewery and was saying like, hey, what do you see?
Uh, as far as, like, not only beer trends, but activities working to get
people in the door of a brewery. We have a lot of great music.
We have a lot of great events. We have a lot of people coming in,
but we could use some more and especially like certain days or,
you know, significantly slower than others. Okay.
And so I said, well, first of all, I gave them the Flex and Greg speech.
I said, put some hoses on tap sheets and I'll be sucking at
the teat first of all. Uh, I said, but, you know,
I don't know what's on your tap list right now.
But one thing that's really important to me, beer wise, is some stuff
that's not seven, eight, 9%. Give me some lower ABV shit so I can
have 2 or 3 and still drive home. Right.
There was a brewery that does not exist out here anymore,
and they always were, you know, low end of their beers were like
eight, nine, 10%. Oh, wow. That's that was the low end.
That was yeah. Rarely, you know, they had one
blonde which I wasn't a huge fan of. And then everything else was like,
yeah, everything else was like double IPAs and all this other shit.
It's like, hey, man, I want to have two, three beers,
hang out and still be able to. Make it you have TVs and you always
have like sporting events on, you have gotta have you gotta
have vloggers. Yeah. So I told him sessionable shit
pails goes. And I said the nice thing about
a goza or a sour somewhere in that category is it's unique.
Not everybody has one. So you can go, hey,
come try our whatever it is goes there or something. Right.
And and just make sure your beer tenders educate people on what it
is if they don't know what it is. Hey, this goes it's a little sour
not to, you know, a little salty. It's it's fun. Have a taste.
And I said in terms of events, at least out here, I don't know
if you've seen this out here at breweries, bingo seems to be
popping up more and more. Have not. Seen that. That sounds awesome.
Well, the only thing is it's only popping up at the breweries
that are not doing well. So I said, don't have bingo.
It's a sign that you're a. Sign you're not doing well.
Yeah. That is funny. Um, I've also seen comedy nights are
only at breweries that are not doing well. That would not make draw me in.
Yeah. Not really. I mean, I like a good comedian,
you know, but like, I went to one at a brewery that just closed at
the very beginning of the year, or maybe right before New Year's,
we went to one like a month before they closed because we knew
people going and like, hey, come, my friend's going to perform.
So we went out and it was fine. Most of the I think I talked
about on the show, most of the comedians sucked.
There was one that was decent. It just it was a sign of a dying
brewery. And then like a month later,
they died. So, um, yeah, I said, don't do bingo,
don't do comedy nights. Uh, trivia is pretty classic.
Most breweries have like a trivia night. We all know I love trivia.
You do. You love it? Eagle Park last week,
what I thought was really cool. They did. Twice this year.
They had a brewery up from Illinois, and they had a brewery down from
Minnesota for like Packers-bears Packers Vikings game.
So then those breweries brought on some guest apps. Sure.
And then they did, you know, some giveaways during the games,
touchdown shots, you know, because they distill and have full
bar and everything like that as well. Something like that for like sporting
events is always kind of a how do you, you know, make that even better,
like a go for a ball game, a baseball game, football game.
Just make a spectacle of it. Yeah. Make it a, you know, make it a party.
Yeah, a baseball party. Because then from everything I've
heard, people would get their, you know, when they opened up at
11 and some of those gas taps would already or guest taps would
already be killed by 1230 1:00. That's pretty good.
That would really get people in the doors. That's smart.
I've never seen that where they bring up a brewery or whatever
from that region of the team. And then that's the last one
they did. They did, uh, because their
parking lot is pretty enormous. They got a field goal post and
they held a field goal kicking competition.
Okay, so that's just another like. Sounds dumb but fun. And it looked.
There was a shit ton of people crowded around watching these
guys just try and kick. So. And I bet you could even do like free
entry into the field goal contest if you buy a beer or something.
Yeah, like. Get a raffle ticket. Well,
that's how they did all the raffles. You buy a beer, you get a ticket,
and then every commercial break they would raffle off a t shirt
or a hat or a four pack of beer or something like that.
So yeah, just really gets people in. Yeah, I really liked I really like
that field goal contest I did. I mean,
because that's fairly easy to do. You set up a the outside and. Yeah.
Or you could do like a football throwing contest or something,
you know, mark it up with some chalk on the tip and you know,
see where it hits. Yeah. Pretty easy. That's I like that a lot.
So so yeah hope hope that helps. And then also you know it's good
for the breweries too because you know everybody knows if you work
at a brewery, you know somebody works at another brewery.
And you know, you gain friendships and you know,
through collaborations and whatnot. So that was another thing I said
collab, collab, collab, anybody that will put your name
on your menu on their menu board. I feel like collaborations
haven't been frequent lately. Like, I feel like they've kind
of dying out. Yeah. I wonder if they got a little
fucked out during Covid. People were doing all their like,
zoom beer collabs and stuff, but but I mean, it's smart.
You get your name on someone else's menu board.
That is another cool thing that EP does, is they have an entire
beer fest with collabs from other breweries, and they bring all of
these guys in for the fest as well. And it's like, hey,
they brewed this beer with us. And so every beer is Eagle Park and
so and so Eagle Park and so and so and um, then they come out with two,
six packs, like a 12 pack variety of every single beer that
they're releasing at the fest. And then you can buy those.
And so that's really smart. I mean, it's.
A it's a really, really fun idea. Yeah, I like that a lot.
And that it's always hosted around 420. So joint fest they call it.
And yeah bro it works. It works really well. I dig it.
That's actually really smart. I like that a lot.
So, um, hopefully he's listening and and hopefully something's helpful or
hopefully someone else is listening. It's helpful. Who knows.
Anywho, speaking of beer, you looking thirsty over there? 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 jabber.
In this world we must find out what. Is flax drinking. All right.
Well, today flex is drinking new beer I picked up today. Um.
There's only. It's so new. There's only 28 check ins on Untappd.
So not 72,000? 2000. No. Yeah. It's like a complete opposite of
yours. Uh, so this beer is called off
season, and it is from Three Sheeps Brewing Company.
They're up about an hour north of me in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Sheboygan.
Um, this is an Imperial Hazy IPA, 28 check ins, a three, nine, three.
And, uh, they say here in Imperial Hazy IPA,
inspired by the quiet calm of winter, which you really don't know about.
Um, when the crowds have thinned and the town slows to a standstill,
bursting with juicy pineapple, tropical lime, and sweet fruit
flavors, this brew offers a smooth, full bodied texture that's perfect
for savoring the slower pace. Embrace the stillness and make
the most of the off season. This bad boy rings in at 8.5%. Mm.
It smells. Get a little whiff here. So the flavors the aroma isn't,
like pungent. It's not like hitting you in the
nose. Sure. Light flavors,
kind of hoppy on the back end. Get a little bit of that citrus lime,
I'm assuming. So warm up the old tongue.
Tongue job here. Ooh. Oh. It's warm. Okay, so similar to the aroma.
The flavors aren't huge, but you do get a little of that pineapple.
Definitely feeling that lime. And you get, uh, again,
like some hoppiness, some dank on that back end.
The dank is slight, but you definitely get, like,
those hoppy flavors. Um, it's a really enjoyable beer.
There's no whatsoever hint of that 8.5% ABV. So this drinks really nice.
Uh. The color, it's like this bright. It's hazy, but it's not murky.
Yeah, it's not the thickest beer you've ever seen.
Yeah, it's, uh, lighter bodied than you would think for an 8.5 and all
around I'd say a 3.9 is superb, I hope. I hope it stays there.
That's a really good score for this and I'm not mad about it.
Yeah. Sounds delicious. Little tropical fruit salad.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was solid. I can't wait to drink the next three.
Actually. One down, three to go. Look out. Daddy!
Like I'll stop saying daddy. Did you say daddy all you want?
Yeah. Oh, daddy. It's been a while. It has been a while. All right.
A little news before we get out of here. Yeah. Bad news.
Not a daddy show. Not a daddy show. Well, when you're around,
it kind of is. Daddy, daddy. Bad news to report.
Non-alcoholic beer. Had a record dry January in
grocery stores. They claimed 4.2% of the beer share
in grocery store sales. That's gross. What's wrong with you people? Yeah.
Uh, some potential good news for the people down in Georgia.
Georgia lawmakers are considering legalizing self-distribution for
breweries. Why wouldn't they? Because money and stupid laws
and backwardness. Stupid. Yeah. The Craft Beer and Local Economy
Revitalization Act, SB 122, would permit small breweries to sell up to
3000 barrels annually to retailers licensed in the state that are
located within a 100 mile radius of the small Brewers licensed premises.
If adopted, SB 122 would also remove the 288 ounce per person daily cap
on off premise sales at taprooms. However, it would limit beer to
go sales at 6000 barrels in the aggregate among all brewers
licensed permit premises, making such sales so you can only
sell up to sell up to 6000 barrels if you want to be self-distributed.
Well, usually the smaller guys are the ones that do that anyway.
So. Right, exactly. I think that wouldn't be that
hard to keep it under 6000. No, not at all. And to go. Sales.
And then if you're able to get your beer out there, then you should be
able to get your beer out there. Right. Then you get to spread.
You grow. You get it? Yeah. You get an actual distributor and.
Yeah. So yeah. Do it. Fucking do it, Georgia.
Do it right in the butt. Just do it. What what I said what what, uh,
one of the not one of the the largest shareholder of Sapporo Stone slams
Sapporo for their $91 million impairment on Stone brewing.
So we all know what an impairment is. I think we learned about this
thanks to Ballast Point. Basically,
when you way overspend on something, in this case a brewery, and it's
not worth what you paid for it, you can make an impairment that just
says like, whoops, we spent too much. It's not worth that money.
And I think you get some tax breaks on it too when you do that.
Um, Sapporo Holdings has taken in more than 91.5 million 5 million
impairment charge on the goodwill of its stone brewing business, which
they bought for nearly 165 million. So more? Well over half. Geez.
The impairment charge announced on January 30th was met with
criticism by 3D Investment Partners. They issued an open letter to
Sapporo's board of directors reiterating concerns regarding
the company's severe lack of capital discipline amid repeated
large scale impairments from 3D Investment Partners, a Singapore
based investment fund manager which Reuters reported is the largest
individual investor in Sapporo. They issued an open letter to
Sapporo's board of directors expressing concerns regarding the
company's severe lack of capital discipline amid repeated large scale
impairments and strong disappointment and concern over the stone writedown.
They wrote unfortunately, the stone impairment was not the first time
Sapporo destroyed shareholder capital through acquisitions.
In fact, Sapporo has recorded impairment
losses on all of its acquisitions of overseas alcohol beverage business,
including Sleeman Breweries, Sapporo, Vietnam, Anchor Brewing and Stone.
I was like, oh yeah, I forgot they fucked up everything they bought.
That's. I forgot about anchor. That's wild. Yeah.
Makes you think who's behind all these sales. Right?
Or the purchases, I should say. Yeah. Some idiot.
The cumulative impairment loss of those acquired brands amounted
to more than $250 million. So it goes on with more numbers
and details. But I think that's enough for now.
Uh, Baltimore Ravens, Ravens offensive line Ben
Cleveland was arrested for DUI. Baltimore Ravens Ol Ben Cleveland was
arrested for DUI last week after blowing a staggering 0.178 Eight when
a breathalyzer was administered. I know what you're thinking.
That's only a little over double. It's not like.
Well, and he's an offensive lineman, right? So what is his stature?
It's like he's like six five, 330 or something like that. Six six.
360. Oh, jeez. I was way off. Yeah. Teams reports in Milledgeville,
Georgia. Police pulled over Cleveland
over on February 12th after observing him driving
erratically in his Ford F-250. Officers claim that Cleveland
nearly drove the vehicle into a ditch before being pulled off.
When asked if he'd been drinking drinking, Cleveland told police he
had approximately 3 or 4 beers. Damn it. At six six, 360.
Feel like it might take more than 3 or 4 beers to blow a
0.178 on a breathalyzer, unless. He counts pitchers as just beers.
Maybe. Maybe he's doing some Andre the
Giant math or something. I've seen some guys just order
pitchers before. Yeah. And then they just drink right
out of them. Yeah. In fact,
while back is not an exact science. Alcohol and drug rehab centers.
Addiction treatment information. A website dedicated to reducing
alcohol addiction states that Cleveland would need to have had
around 16 beers in a three hour span if they were each 5%,
in order to produce that result. Oof! He failed multiple sobriety
tests and was then arrested and taken to a nearby jail.
Once there, police administered another breathalyzer test, which
still returned a 0.161, so still over double at that point. Oh, boy.
Yeah. Big boy. Been drinking. You know, I would bet that if,
you know, you're you're a big boy and it takes you a ton of
beers to get that drunk. Probably takes longer for them
to get out of your system, too, because you had so much.
Well, if he's £360, his metabolism is probably not great.
That might be true. For it probably sticks in his the
system a little longer. That sense? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Not a scientist? No, not a scientist. Not a science show.
Just a little bit of science. That boy. Was drunk.
It's a good thing for the cops that he didn't get a little unruly.
That's a big boy. Well, I mean, they got tasers,
you know. True. Or worse. Well. But. Yeah, glad they didn't have to use
it. Yeah. No excessive force here. Yeah, exactly.
Just excessive drinking. Ooh. Big fella.
You know, sometimes when I drive home randomly, like, from work, I'll, uh,
go through the ABCs backwards in my head. Oh, just to test yourself.
Yeah, I got it down pretty well. Yeah. I can't do it sober.
Really? Z y x. WVU t s rcpo nml k j I h g f e d
c b a. You fuck something up. You said n m l.
Oh, no, that is right. NML MLK. Yeah. Yeah.
That might, I might not I think I trailed off at the end there.
I forgot a couple, but, uh. Yeah, I hear a niner.
Yeah, sometimes they just do it in my head like 2 or 3 times.
I'm like, that's funny. Yeah. Back. You know, back in my day,
before Uber was really a thing. And I'd go out drinking with the
fellas or something. My test was always, uh.
Because the one thing I've had to do multiple times when being pulled over
was. Have you been pulled over a. Couple times? Yeah. Okay.
And they had me like, get out. And I have, you know, no DUIs,
knock on wood. I've been okay. But, uh, they would always have
me close my eyes, look up, and then count to 30 silently.
And when I get to 30, put my head down, open my eyes.
And it's just a test to see. Like, are you within an acceptable
range? Like. Or are you. And you're like one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, you know, something like that.
Interesting. Little do the cops know, I used
to work. You know, I work in TV. I used to work in live news.
And as the director, All I did all the time was count people in.
So I'd be there all the time. All right, everybody, stand by.
We're going live in 10s nine eight. So I was really good at counting down
from ten three times like three. Close your eyes.
All right, everybody, here we go. 30s 1029.
I just did to ten three times. And then I remember one time I
put my head down, open my eyes, and the one cop looks at his
partner and was like, mm. A little bit of a ah, wow reaction.
I was like, thanks, gentlemen. Can I go now? Damn.
So that's legit good times. So yeah. Anyway, so my self test is, uh,
I have sat there in my car and I've, you know, hit the stopwatch on my
phone and then closed my eyes. Ten. Nine. Eight. See how close I am?
Oh, I love it. Yeah. I love how ridiculous we are.
So stupid. Yeah. So I've heard the big one here too,
is you stand on one leg and you touch your nose. Mhm.
And apparently what they're looking for is just to see if you're
falling or getting off balance that you can catch yourself. Yes.
It's that you catch yourself and don't fall. Yes.
Because nobody's I mean not nobody but a lot of people aren't good
at standing on one leg sober. No. And then what do you look up and
touch your nose? Yeah. You kind of look up and then,
like, you bring your your finger in from the side. Yeah.
Touch your nose. Yeah. So I mean, they're putting you
in an off balance situation, even if you're sober.
But they want to know if you catch yourself or if you fall on your face.
That's the test. So just make sure you don't fall.
Everybody. I was always worried about the
walking in a straight line because I'm pigeon toed. I can. Oh yeah.
I can not in a straight line sober. So having to walk in a straight
line drunk, I would be terrified. I don't think I've ever had to
do the straight line. It's always, you know, look up,
close your eyes count. Um,
I've had to follow the pen before. Like they put a pen in front of
your face and go side to side. They just want to make sure you
can track with it. Um, I've also just done breathalyzer
tests too, which I'm fine. Yeah. I'll blow. Knock on wood.
I've never been pulled over for anything like that.
And I hope I never am. Yeah, keep it that way. Trying.
Yeah. My. My funniest breathalyzer test
was I was not driving, and we were leaving a Padres game.
And outside the stadium, you know, San Diego, they have
good beer at that stadium, right? And we had we had strapped it on
a little bit. And so outside just to like,
prove a point. They were doing breathalyzer tests.
I remember you telling this story before. Yeah. See how drunk you are.
And they were like, how drunk do you think you are?
And then he'd blow and see how close you got.
And so, like, the wife did it and she was dead on.
The wife goes, I think I'm oh, wait, I think I'm right at the
line she blew. Oh, wait, she fucking nailed it.
I was like, um, I think I might, I don't know, like a 10 or 11.
It's like a 17. Were you really. You were Cleveland drunk.
I was Cleveland drunk. Oh, the cops like.
Hope you're not driving. I was like, definitely not, sir.
So that was good times. I wonder how many beers it would take
you to get to 17. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, honestly, we've been we
had done, like, beer in San Diego. We'd done beer tasting all day,
and then we'd gone to the game and had some beers at the game.
And so, like, I knew I was buzzy, but I didn't think I was hammered.
Three hour game drinking beers beforehand. We'll call it five hours.
So if he had to drink 16 beers in three hours to get to 17.
Jesus. That'd probably. You're half of his size.
Yeah, well, a little more than half. But, um,
that that math was based on 5% beers. I'm drinking IPAs down in San
Diego that. Is also drinking. That is seven and eight percenters
all day. Probably. This is back. This is back in the West Coast days.
Okay. So yeah, but I mean,
I must have had ten beers that day at least it's hard to tell when
they're most of them are flights, but true. Yeah. Good times.
I was like, all right, I'm gonna call my Uber now.
We weren't driving anyways. That's that's why I submitted myself
to it. Right, right, right. Yeah. So. Hell, yeah. Oh. Good times.
All right, let's wrap things up. Thank you all for listening and
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