Well.
Very good. Yeah.
Mm hmm.
Ready for some sweaty dudes?
Sure.
Distance.
I don't know.
Welcome in,
everybody to craft Beer Republic.
The most hydrated nation in all the land.
I am Greg.
I am being joined by the saltiest sailor of the seven seas.
The drop and hopefully stop roll mama herself.
Erica Ahoy, friends.
It's great to be here today.
Yeah.
Stopping that ship just enough for those kids to get the f out the car.
You know how it is. Mm hmm. Priorities.
And to my right, apparently the dog whisperer,
because she's being laid on by multiple furry things.
My wife. Hello?
Get off her.
Greg.
All the furry thing.
Welcome in, everybody.
Flex will not be joining us today.
So the Scott section of the show will be led by Erica.
She will be walking us through
squats and trying to make your legs look like tree trunks.
Just like flex. There you go.
But I will not be wearing the short shorts.
Sorry, everyone.
He calls them short shorts.
Fairly certain it's underwear.
Yeah, they're panties. Let's do this.
Like Victoria's Secret covers more than his short shorts.
Yeah, there's no secret there. Yeah.
Nothing
left to the imagination, that's for sure.
So we're missing flex trunks.
And Flex is bolt right about now as he normally stands up
at some point to show us how buck and short shorts
he'll be missed.
But so much to get to today.
I swear he's not dead.
Yeah.
Some fun drinking stories, some Ludacris libation in LA.
We're drinking a new beer over here.
Erika's drinking a new collab over there and some booze news.
But first, let's start off with some hydration.
It's funny watching myself dance on two monitors.
I have a second one set up for Jan and it's like slight delay and not weird
at all.
Anyways, we are drinking POG Tart from Eureka Brewing Company.
Four and a half percent has a little under deserved
3.6 and on untapped and they say pog tart passionfruit orange and guava.
Big long description.
We definitely are written by stone.
We found this place a couple of weekends ago.
It's brand new taproom out here where we live in Thousand Oaks.
It's their first satellite taproom there from Gardena, California.
We're talking to the beer tender.
We I saw that they were opening.
They just under
I guess the grand opening had just happened like the day before we walked in.
We'd even know they officially opened yet.
And we walked in.
We basically ordered one of everything in our favorites that some really good ones,
but our favorites were the pale Ale, which we're not drinking.
And then this one, the POG tart, because we love anything.
Pog, we're we're suckers for pogs. So, yes.
This is exactly what it says it is.
It's a pineapple.
No passion. Orange and. Guava.
It's one of those peas, and it's it's it's not too tart.
It's the right amount of tart for me.
Yeah, I know you like them a little more sour than I do, but this to me is perfect.
Hot day, trying to pretend I'm in a Hawaii beer.
Yeah, it.
It has just enough tartness.
It's sort of closer to, I think, a Berliners
level of tartness than, like, a sour, sour beer.
Okay, I get a lot.
Oh, well, I get more orange
then the other two fruits, which,
you know, so you get a little bit more of that citrusy tartness.
Yeah, I can agree with that.
I get the guava mostly on the back end.
Mm hmm.
Orange up from some passion in there.
Yeah. Makes you salivate a little bit.
You want to drink more?
So that's always a sign of a good beer and you want to keep drinking it.
Honestly, I wouldn't be mad if they added just a hint of salt.
Interesting.
I don't know.
I'm true to this.
I like this idea in Tart and it's great.
But I like those salted Berliners sometimes.
Well, just wear a pretzel necklace and drink the POG.
And you got her.
Oh, that's the whole thing. Oh, we need.
We need a name for that instead of like a cocktail, you know, it's.
Oh, right.
You know, it's a pretzel and beer combo, right?
Yeah, I can nash-taylor.
Okay, we'll figure it out.
Yeah, but carb overload.
I don't know. Yeah.
Something.
All right.
Lots to talk about.
First, Eureka Brewing.
Like we said, we stumbled in really cool spot.
It's this old, old.
It used to be dudes brewing one of their satellite locations.
And, boy, are we all sorry when they went out of business.
Your face is not cricket matches.
In your statement. Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, it's funny, I was just telling someone
at one of our client locations the new spot, like, Oh, yeah, eureka.
We tried it. Really good for the most part, blah, blah.
And somebody back goes, Oh, what used to be there?
I was like, Dude's brewing.
And both me and the person, I were like, Oh yeah, place is garbage.
And the person who asked was like, Oh, I really liked them.
I was like, Hmm, that's all I needed to know about you as a beer drinker.
We are good.
I remember the day they closed, Deb sent me a text, was like,
I'm sure you're sad about this and sent me whole.
None of the the beer drinking community out here liked them.
And then as soon as petals and pints and tarantula hill opened,
there was no need to go to dudes because. They'd be okay.
So they folded quite quickly after that.
Anyway, Eureka.
So we liked most of it.
Um, really, really good.
The pug really good.
They have sort of done some things.
The space is still mostly looks like the dudes.
Yeah.
Especially because their floor is this weird.
Like sky blue water. Swirling.
Swirly floor. It's like. An epoxy.
Yeah.
Design the guy I was like, yes, I guy.
I see you guys they didn't change out.
The flora is like now the very dudes of you
so okay.
Eureka is there's more than one location obviously, right?
Yeah.
Their main locations in Gardena and this is their first other location.
And we were saying like we've never heard of Eureka Brewing
and you know, maybe because they're in Gardena, we just didn't come across it.
We don't go out there that often.
But he was saying they opened in COVID.
Yeah, during COVID Smart.
They got a great deal on a vacated space that was already set up for a brewhouse.
So yeah, somebody went out of business
because of COVID and they bought the space.
And so the.
Original location opened during COVID.
Oh, okay.
So I'm getting it confused with something else
because when we were out at Paramount Ranch for an event
Eureka had, it was brewing, but maybe not.
But this was in like 2019 and was there and gave us a gift card.
And I had this Eureka gift card.
I think there's a burger place. Oh is it?
There's Eureka and it's a burger place that really
touts their craft beer selection.
That's because I felt like there was a strong
beer vibe to it because it's like a beer fest.
Yeah. Okay, that's what makes.
Yeah, it's one of those names are like there's a lot of Eureka things and yeah,
maybe not the best name
for a small brewery because like you search Eureka,
you definitely not going to be the first thing that. Pops up, right?
Yeah, you have to.
Especially in California. Yes. Right.
So it's in Northern California. There's Eureka.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're not that far from us.
And I never heard of them
until they started opening up their second taproom near us. So.
But anyways, the beer was good, you know. You never know.
Walk in a new spot, the beer was good. We were pleasantly surprised.
And, um, ordering in this park today, I also have a four pack of the pale
ale in the fridge, which I'll be doing some damage to this weekend.
We always take good things when you take beer home.
The beer there was. Like really does. Yeah.
The beer tender was like, I hope you guys liked it.
You know, we really want to get the word out there about, you know, our new taproom
and we're like, Yeah, we took beer to go, so.
We liked it.
They were taking to four packs. We hated. It.
He was like, Yeah. He was like.
I don't know, maybe you were just being nice
because we had a good conversation. We're like, Oh,
dude, you think.
Too highly of us.
Way. Do you feel?
Nicole on the other hand, yeah, she called me.
Yeah, yeah.
She's like, Oh, you so nice when you buy all the beer you have like that.
I do.
But we're we're way too cheap for that kind of shit.
Um, speaking of places we like, we.
We decided to hit up 14 cans either night.
It was like. It was like one of the first nights.
I think you were feeling up to being a person after getting off that cold drain
and just so happened that it was their open mic night.
Oh, dear. You sign up to sing.
It's like karaoke, but apparently all original songs.
Oh, singing, open mic.
I thought you were going to like comedy.
So this is.
Oh, okay. Well, I think you.
I think you can do whatever you want.
Whatever. Probably.
But this was. For 10 minutes.
All musicians.
Or so called. And.
Yes. Actually, everyone who played an instrument played their instrument.
Instrument well, it's the singing that.
Okay. Became very interesting.
Did they actually have the music in the background or was it like a cappella?
I would say most of the people brought a guitar. Yes.
Or a ukulele. Or a ukulele.
Was there anybody
the last act aside, was there any way they didn't have an instrument?
I don't think so.
I think everyone brought a guitar, a ukulele or something small like that.
Okay.
Um, there were singer levels of various abilities.
My favorite was
everyone that got up to sing was like, Hi, my name is whatever, you know.
And I'm on Spotify, you know, normal stuff, not a big deal
and but I swear at least four people said
and my EP's coming out soon or this is the single off my EP over
two things one children do you even know what an EP is like?
It's an EP.
Doesn't it mean extended plays back from the record days?
Yeah.
I guess I can look this up. I have no idea.
I would.
It was very good and no one played music that anyone knows. Oh.
Like usually wouldn't you.
Because they have I think they get 10 minutes each so you could typically.
Basically blues song.
Two songs.
Yeah. One Ben did three. Yeah.
I mean you could do two songs.
So why wouldn't you sing a song that people recognize, right?
That they can, like, get into with you and then sing something.
Or trying to get there by in first.
Yeah. Yeah.
And I was doing Open Up a concert with their new album.
They open up or something, you know. Right, right. Yeah.
Like dry you,
they get your going and then they go, hey, it's a new song of our latest album.
And then you're rockin, you don't care, right?
The the best guy literally said,
I've never sung in front of people before.
I've always wanted to do this.
Oh, Lord, check.
Please, please.
So can.
You. Was the best one though.
With the ukulele.
He was the best. Huh?
There's the ukulele guy.
Uh, no, he had a guitar. Oh, okay.
Yeah, I know you're talking about.
Yeah, he, like, just had the most kind of, like, natural.
Musicality, kind of like it. Was very authentic.
And some, like, George Strait type A.
And it was like it was a known song. Yeah.
It wasn't like I an original piece about I don't know what they
it was bizarre.
But yeah like four girls in a row got up there.
They look like they're used to being grand models.
And, uh. They're like, All right, my name is whatever.
This is a song off my upcoming EP and I hope you like it.
And they were like I said, one girl was a pretty good singer
but wouldn't open her mouth all the way.
The rest were not very good singers.
Well, and it was just like, first of all, everybody can put out their own EP
because you just recorded in your fucking computer and called it day.
Okay, so. Like, that's not special.
And also like no one's buying that.
And also you're married to a trained singer.
So, you know, looks I was getting
like your level of knowledge on what's good and bad.
You guys are probably way above average, but it sounds like it was pretty horrific.
I, I absolutely had to pull my phone out a couple of times
and just try to focus on Instagram and just not
I was more concerned about the faces I was making.
All right.
Because most of them were so incredibly flat
that they were
almost on completely different notes than what they were playing on the guitar.
And it was it was something for.
Sure to tell me there was some Bob Dylan because I know you love Bob Dylan.
Gregg, too.
I think I know Bob Dylan and no prints.
Okay. Made the night that much.
Yeah.
If one of those horrible singer started
seeing and prints that it might have been out.
There was an Eagles song that halfway through, Greg said, Was it Eagle Song?
And I was shocked because he know not.
That she had no idea.
It's awesome. It's kind of like a surprise.
All those surprise things are really popular right now.
So yeah, whoa, what is it now?
And I said, it's the thing I always say about the Eagles.
Like, I'm a huge Eagles fan and like, I know the lyrics to most of their songs,
and I could probably start a cover band as the singer of an Eagles
cover band, except for the fact that nobody wants to hear me sing.
Like when it just comes to know in the songs and knowing the lyrics,
I am your man when it comes to actually be able to sing it.
Certainly not your man.
And neither was most of the people that went up that night.
Okay. And then they ended the night with this.
This guy had signed up and I don't think he told the host
what was involved with his performance.
Yeah.
Ended up being a band and so like bass, electric guitar, okay.
A keyboard slash saxophonist and a small drum kit.
Wow. They did like 10 minutes to set up and they they full on
and it was way too loud for that small space, like a drum kit.
Had they not had the drum kit, it actually pro would have been pretty good.
They were good musicians. They just they sounded like.
All of their energy. It was all instrumental.
They nobody sang or anything.
So it was like jazzy elevator music.
Yeah.
Like they were good at what they did, but there was just nothing to it.
And people weren't crazy like the the whole patio area.
It was pretty full for, I guess people brought friends
and everybody came to hear them saying, You play and.
You didn't know what you're getting into.
No idea. They wanted an encore, though.
The crowd wanted an encore of this element Vader music.
And we were like, All right, okay.
Well, I did One More sighs.
It was so funny.
I'm friends with the social media person at 14,
and I posted a story of my beer before the night even started,
and she was like, So here for some open mic night.
And I was like, I didn't know what we were walking into.
Yeah.
Oh, dang.
Maybe they needed to switch over
to karaoke and it's like, say it like it is like this is just people just.
Look and maybe it was one of those nights where like, not the a talent showed up.
Sure. Maybe, maybe it was a see kind of night, you know.
Right, right.
Ironically, no one could hit a see, but
maybe some nights are better than others and we don't.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. They were all that one kid.
He was actually pretty good.
Oh, yeah. He was like 15 or something.
He's really good. He, he needed to enunciate.
You couldn't really quite understand his words, but he was really good.
Yeah. He had a song about being a sober pirate.
You know, my song? Perfect for a 14 cam.
It was really funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like,
shame.
Good job, buddy.
Yeah. So good times. Like.
That. Open mike night.
I saw something earlier that made me angry, and I thought I'd bring it up.
I'm certain this would have made Flex angry.
You guys tell me what you think.
Pumpkin beers are now hitting the shelves.
It's still fucking August.
Pumpkin beers
was too early,
but I love a good a good pumpkin beer.
So as to where. Do.
I do one of those a good but at home brewed like our home brew
pumpkin beer has been the best ever.
We haven't done it in years, but that's when we throw
those big Halloween parties and we would like roast, pumpkin roast.
I know we need to do again.
Roast pumpkin and then brewed in the beer and it was freakin ridiculous.
And so a really good pumpkin beer
is amazing, but it is hard to find and it's too early.
That's what I'll give you. That's all I got.
Shannon, I don't.
Know if I've ever had a really good one.
But I feel like I have.
Mostly, though, they're too sweet.
Too sweet.
They like.
Yeah, I feel like it's a pumpkin pie.
Beer.
Okay, okay. Yeah.
If I want pumpkin pie, I'll eat a pumpkin pie.
I don't want to drink it.
So Buffalo Bills has a like a black pumpkin,
I think it's called or something they had last year.
First time I ever had it. It was delicious.
So if I find some, I might send you guys some
because they had it in 16 ounce cans and that's pretty soaked,
so might be worth a try.
Yeah. Little dark.
We had one little. Roasty.
Five, six years ago.
We were at Wade's doing like a tasting, like a fall beer tasting,
and it was like a bourbon barrel aged something, something, something.
Then I'm gone. No, no. It was.
It was pretty drinkable because the pumpkin was actual pumpkin.
It wasn't pumpkin pie.
It wasn't, like, spiced or sweet or anything like that. Okay.
You know, stout. He sweetness of it. Now I can remember it.
It was that was pretty decent, but that was about it.
Otherwise you can take your pumpkin beers and show up, but.
Well, yeah.
Okay, it is early yet.
We're still too early.
Oh, yeah, it's too early.
I'm not with like the Christmas tree goes up after Thanksgiving.
I'm that person. I'm not. Oh, yeah, yeah.
There's Halloween stuff on the store shelves.
Yeah.
And that's my favorite holiday of all time.
But can we wait?
September maybe has been October, but yeah.
No, it's it is.
And even if you're into those kind of beers, it's way too
fucking hot for a sticky pumpkin. Oh, right.
Yeah.
Let's stick with the loggers and the coffee cultures.
Have you guys tried? Morning lunch, for God's sake.
Untapped.
Certainly has.
We'll get to that a minute.
Assholes else. Yeah.
So anyways, bug out pumpkin beers.
It's still August.
And then finally I thought we'd end it with in our our stories with this one.
It's so funny.
I planned these all out before you were going to be on the show.
Yeah, but a couple of weeks ago, when we were at this place out
by us called and iron it's it's a cocktail joint.
They they have craft cocktails and they do them really well.
And every now and then you need a break for some beer is a nice spot to go.
So we went there after a date night and man, were there some people watching?
Like there was some weird homeless stuff going on across the street.
Cops were rolling up and we got dinner in a show over there.
One, yeah, like 1030.
They did last call and the guy was super nice
and we just got there and I was like, We're going to get one more.
Can you just make it real slow?
And he's like, Yeah, no problem.
So like 1030, they do last call.
He comes over with their second cocktail around like 1040.
And about that time this car rolls up and we're parked on the street
and then we're sitting on an outdoor table and, like, almost runs into my car.
Yeah.
And then, and first of all, you watch somebody hit my car and watch me do a murder.
Those little Atari would finally.
It'll be you. You got the personalized license plate.
I don't have the personalized plate yet, mainly because I can't decide what to get.
Which is okay.
But hydrated is available. I might get that.
Oh, anyways.
But I am. I get pulled over for that.
All right.
I don't want to give reasons to get pulled.
So then they back up into the space behind me.
And by the way, there's a driveway
between my space in the space they parked and they didn't need a pole that close.
Then they're back up in the space.
Two older women, I mean, fifties, sixties.
Fifties, late.
Fifties, probably stump oil out of the car.
They fall foul.
They fall out of the car.
The passenger comes out smoking a joint.
Like there's cloud of smoke and she opens the door and.
Joint in hand. Yeah.
And like takes a couple more hits and like flicks it and then they,
they stumble their way into the establishment and they're like, hey,
we want to like,
whatever the guy was telling us, the bartender who was funny was down on us
and he was like, Yeah, sorry, we all already did last call.
And she goes.
Great, I'll take a gin and tonic. That's right.
Yeah, I just have a gin and tonic.
Oh, my gosh.
It's like my big fat Greek wedding. And we're like, I don't eat meat.
Okay? I give you lamb. Like like. Yeah.
Are you not getting, like, an action here?
Why not and not? And he was like, so nice.
And he was like, I'm sorry, you know, because we've we already called it.
I can't actually we like past tense called it.
Yeah, it was great. So then he comes down with donuts.
I was like, Oh yeah. They were like, Do you know how hammer they were?
He's like, They looked like they'd been drinking.
I was like, Dude, they hardly got out of their car.
He's like, Oh, I'm really glad I didn't give them anything then.
But yeah, that was hilarious.
He was
like, So bummed that he had to actually like work.
He was like, I kind of want to just come sit at your table.
You guys are getting. Such good people watching right. Now.
He kept asking us for updates.
Like What's going down?
Yeah, it was funny quite the night.
So anyways, like that. Yeah, it's good.
Good to not only.
The drunk lady who walked past the police activity.
Oh, with.
The police activity. Different drunk lady.
She had gone to like the 7-Eleven or something.
Got a couple of tallboys.
And she's stumbling up the street and I leaned over to Greg and I'm like,
Do you think she sees the cops that are, like,
right around the edge of this building here, over here?
The answer was absolutely not.
Absolutely no.
I just got, like, her sonic hard seltzers and her pockets.
Yeah, just. Like she's running a roll. I don't.
What was she drinking? A couple. Of tallboys. So it's great.
She had, like, the black bag from the gas station that had the cowboys.
But in her right hand, which is the opposite side of the cops, she's.
She's drinking her tallboy.
She walks okay.
Street and so we're like, oh, there's no way she sees it.
So finally she gets to where she could see the cops
and she just stops in the middle of the sidewalk.
And like you can tell, she's deciding, like, what do I do here?
And then probably at some point it hit her how obvious she was been
because then she continued walking where she was walking.
And then as she passes the cops, instead of putting the tallboy in the bag
with the other ones and just acting like she's not drinking it,
she holds it down to her side as.
If to, and she stands up really straight.
Right? Yeah. She's got perfect. Posture.
It's like stiff standing up straight with it, down by her side.
And she very like speed walks across right.
And then Division one.
When she gets the other side, she's very much still in sight of the cops.
But she's across the street now.
Chinese drinking.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, but they were preoccupied. Yeah, I worked.
They worked.
They were reoccupied. Born some dude over on a bike.
But it was hilarious that she thought like, Oh, I am.
I am so fucking sly over here.
Oh, dude, it's not her first rodeo. She's.
Yeah, this is.
Yeah, she knows. She knows.
Yeah, yeah.
She, she's an experienced. Right, right.
This one over here. So inhale.
All right, what's it?
Let's say we can call the pen, see what's going down
over there.
All right, everyone,
I'm pretty excited about this one.
It is Babe Brew Hazy IPA. Hmm.
And this one is one of the beer babes family releases.
They try to release one every month or so
in collaboration with breweries all over the world.
So this one's actually out of Canada and I can't read
shit on the can because it's all in French
and it's not on tap.
So everything I say is true and real and right, because the
although no, you can't unless you speak French to smuggle.
That in from Canada.
Right.
I'm not going to tell you how I got this, but I am part of the Beer Babes family.
This is super rad.
First of all, the cannot on the beer babes, family
beers are like on the whole algorithm thing I'm going to represent for flex.
They're always top notch.
They are top notch in gumbo mud.
Shout out to her. She's part of your baby's family.
Like, check this out.
Oh, pretty cool chick.
She's like, got these things.
Yes, there's a woman that's part of it.
She's an artist.
And then in front of a bike.
So you're just going to have to get on the socials and check this out.
The can is rad.
I want to recreate that, but there's no way I could look that cool.
So I'll just be like, Here, I'm holding the beer and.
And then Roxy and Rachel that are the leaders of the beer based family.
Also, they're the ones who help kind of like connect
with the cool breweries out there.
So this is from Saint.
I'm going to pull great here, everyone.
Here we go to all you people out in those non-English-speaking countries
do not listen.
Saint who Huberman brewery in Quebec, Canada.
And it is it's 7.4%.
He's the IPA
and it is a really beautiful, like
nice golden yellow beer that had a super beautiful foamy head.
I'm a little sad flexes in here even though
Shannon is a notch better love you flex but the short shorts I don't know.
And I've had a fuze.
It's like the middle of the and I haven't really eaten and I'm having beers.
So here we go.
We place,
it's like, oh Lord.
Right.
Okay, so the lacing is pretty hot on this thing.
So, Lexi, you are missing out and it's super nice for you.
The porno music, right?
This is great.
It starts out a little sweet like you would expect for a hazy,
but then there's like just a notch of bitterness.
There's a then the like the a little bit a boozy burn.
This is, you know, 7.4%.
So it hits you awful, but it doesn't stick around long, just enough
to make you feel like warm and kind of nice about it, but then like,
fades off and that's a nice beer.
And I'm definitely feeling it because I've been sipping on it since we started.
Yeah.
And you can't, y'all can tell, right. So
I dislike that the brewery like I.
Yeah, you nailed it.
St whoo hoo
whoop. Like that, you know.
And it's great you're baby's family and they may be sold out already
because they do.
They tend to sell out of these beers pretty quick
because the whole collaboration that they do and all that.
Yeah.
And the proceeds go to women and beer, women that want to like
get beer education or start a career or whatever it is.
We are now a five and 1c3 nonprofit.
Yeah.
So that was a big step that Rachel and Roxy took for the organization.
It's official that's also is official.
So check them out.
Follow beer, babes, family and just.
Yeah, good beers.
And if you are a brewery that wants to collaborate,
reach out because they're always looking to a lot of beers once a month.
Collaborate. There's a lot of.
Yeah, there it is. Awesome.
Yeah, very. Nice.
We'll move our way from Canada over to Connecticut for lunch for Ludacris
Libation LA.
Bring it. In. Connecticut.
It's illegal to sell liquor in any city hall.
And it's
only in Connecticut because I would hope I'd be pretty much everywhere but.
Very, very specific.
LA You think. That comes up a lot.
Enough to have warning to the. Lobby?
Yeah, I guess, yeah.
Usually it has to be brought up too.
So, you know, just like the signs at all, public Jacuzzis that are like
if you have active diarrhea, don't get the advocacy somewhere.
Someone with active diarrhea got into a Jacuzzi and warranted that sign.
We okay, okay.
It's this where that drunken lady that we got the recording of a few months
back and like, was trying to pass a bill or whatever.
Oh, maybe so. Just wondering.
Yeah. Anyways, but.
Wonder what state that was?
I don't remember. Maybe it's Connecticut.
She may have been the instigator for this.
Somebody must have shown up to a city council meeting.
A little.
Little too busy, little hydrated, extra hydrated.
So, uh, good job, Connecticut.
Way to make your city council meetings boring.
Cape May Brewing and Ladue, which is a tea manufacturer,
are being sued over Shawty
Hard Tea Shortie is the name of their hard tea.
This isn't true.
So Cape May is an East Coast brewery.
They actually do a collaboration beer with one of my favorite brands, The Bottle
My Captain.
Yeah, and I've been trying to find that collab on the West Coast.
Boat, boat ramp champ. Ramp chain.
That's rad.
I like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, but anyway, so Cape May Wawa announced Shorty a four and a half percent
ABV heart inspired by Wawa as Peach Iced
Tea on July 18th, launched as a limited release on July 21st.
The hard teas available in 12 ounce and six packs priced at 1299.
Less than a month after Shorty's release, Jeff
Plait, an attorney and co-founder of Asbury Park, New Jersey based Asbury
Park Brewery, has filed a lawsuit against two companies
alleging that he created The Shorty brand almost two years ago
and solicited the concept to Cape May earlier in 2022.
Oh place claim that he started developing his own shorty
concept in 2020, but plans were delayed due to COVID 19 pandemic.
A trademark for Shorty flavored malt beverages was filed
with the US Patent Trademark Office in August of 2018
by Asbury Park, with plate listed as the attorney of record.
But the
filing was abandoned in November 2019, according to Trademark Records.
In March of 22, Plait sold his share Asbury Park Brewery to explore
new projects and started developing Shorty as a separate brand.
On May 17th, Plait filed a new trademark for Shorty,
categorized as an alcoholic beverage except beers.
According to the Trademark Office.
After the filing, designing, branding and packaging materials and securing
the website, Plait proposed a partnership to Cape May to help launch Shorty Hard t.
I thought their company would be
a good fit and believing I was protected, I sent them all
the confidential information regarding the concept
and branding for Shorty, he said in late May, Cape May.
That's not to say informed Plait they would not move forward
with the product, Plait said he was then shocked in July,
when Cape May and Wawa announced their Shorty product.
I can't speak to what Cape May did or what they did or why they did it, he said.
I just know I've been developing this idea for years, presented it to them
and they released what appears to be an identical product months after
cutting me loose.
Cape May has denied his claims.
As the company said, it began developing its T product
more than six months ago with the Shorty name finalized in February of 22
brand packaging finalized and ordered in March,
more than two months ahead of the May 20, 22 phone discussion with Mr.
Plait about his concept.
Hugo Boss, person for Cape May, told News.
Why did they engage in the conversation with him, though?
If they already had.
They should have said, We already have something.
Yeah, we already have a similar thing in the works.
Like why?
Why engage and have him send over additional material.
Send him a cease and desist at that. Point. Yeah, right.
Or not.
Like, if you're going to collaborate, you have to have like an NDA, right?
And a non-disclosure agreement.
But obviously, I mean, this probably would have closed up a little faster
if there was one.
It doesn't sound like there was.
So, yeah. Interesting. Interesting.
So even weirder if what Cape May says, it's true that they had all this in place,
which I'm sure is easy to prove if they had a packaging in place before
their meeting with him.
That should be easy to prove.
There should be orders that date to that.
And if it was trademarked.
Yeah.
It'd be nice to see or to find out where they got the idea from and internal stuff.
So yeah, I just.
I don't understand why you would even engage
if it was something that duplicated what you were already doing.
Yeah.
You think you'd tell them, Hey, we're already doing this. Fuck off.
Cease and desist.
Whatever.
Bad news for us beer drinkers.
The consumer price index for beer went up
4.6% in July versus July of 2021.
I believe it.
Inflation's a real sort of a bitch.
Yep. Feels like that.
Yeah. Interesting news out of Allagash.
They're adding their first IPA called Hopper, each to a year round lineup.
Allagash has not had a core IPA this entire time,
and now they're hopping on the hop train.
I can't even say I notice, but.
Yeah.
Sorry, Allagash.
And nothing but love. Yeah.
Any happy Gilmore fans in here?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I was pissed off.
We were in a hotel, like they're paving our road,
and we had to, like, be out because Sterling's on calls.
I was like, we can't just, like, not have access to the road.
The hotel and the hotel.
KKTV is, like, Happy Gilmore's on and with some other weird ass movie with.
I can't think of his name. Right.
Adam Sandler was not Happy Gilmore.
I was pretty upset anyways.
If it was Punch-Drunk Love, I'd be pissed too.
Yeah, it wasn't that.
But it was nearly as bad. Hmm.
Okay. Well.
Tell me about the movie.
Happy Gilmore Shooter McGavin. Real name.
Christopher McDonald was arrested in 2019 for DUI
and it's now making the rounds on the Web that when he was arrested,
he made it very clear to the officer that he's shoot him again.
Did you have to kill?
Didn't work itself out. He was still arrested.
I've seen the mug shots circulating.
Yeah, the website and.
Yeah, he looks legitimately messy.
Sloppy. Yeah.
Definitely not something you'd want on your dating profile. No.
Yeah, well, somebody who eats pieces of shit for breakfast.
Oh, no. Yeah.
Have you seen Happy Gilmore? Yeah. Okay.
You don't remember. Happy?
I. I remember enough. Oh.
It's one of my favorite lines.
A pieces of shit for you or a piece of shit like you for breakfast.
Three pieces of shit for breakfast.
But anyway,
a drunk driver.
Police on a slow pursuit at 35 miles per hour.
This is not out of Florida.
This is of Indiana. Hi.
Oh, hey, Zach. Yeah.
What's up, O.G. Bearded.
A woman was arrested Friday night after leading police on a highway
and a highway chase
at speeds of 35 miles per hour around 630.
Maybe it wasn't. What?
Maybe Zach and one of his crazy hats.
Zach's mom.
Around 630 because really, three people in. All right.
Indiana, around 6:30 p.m..
State troopers were called to the scene of what they described as a minor rear
end south crash southbound on I-65.
You don't need all the details of where it was before troopers got there.
A tan Nissan Altima fled the crash scene and continued southbound.
Police reported the car, refused to pull over and continued
driving at slow speed on I-65 until the ultimate hit.
The concrete median barrier twice.
But police, the driver who appeared to be the only person in the car,
which leads me to the question, appeared to be reversing the car.
Was there not?
Refused to get out when she was told to.
A standoff ensued and SWAT teams responded to the scene.
About 2 hours later, at 8:23 p.m., the woman got out of the car
and was taken into custody by SWAT.
Police suspect the driver, 37 year old Natasha
Townsley of Indianapolis, was driving under the influence of alcohol.
You don't say.
Oh, I was wrong. 37.
That's like Zach's sister. Gotcha.
That's true. Yeah.
There were no reported
injuries as a result of the standoff, but Townsley was taken to a local hospital
to be checked out for any injuries, and she was involved in two crashes.
Townsley was arrested on the preliminary charges of resisting
law enforcement and offering to vehicle an intoxicated.
Police noted all southbound lanes of I-65 were closed
during the standoff and northbound lanes were closed as well for a shorter time.
Wow. Way to go, Tasha. Wait.
Alex, throw a curveball there.
Like I've never been in a low speed chase.
Like, what's the protocol?
We don't practice this. Like what protocol?
All right exactly.
Also, if you're doing 35, why didn't they do a pit maneuver?
Well, maybe.
That's how she hit the median.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's weird.
You know, what cracks me up is, isn't the minimum speed on,
like, the Highway 45.
I think in California it is. It has to be.
I wonder what it is there, because, like, are they just dinging her for that, too?
Like, I'm just going to pile on all these charges of.
Poor Natasha Porter's ex, I. Think.
Had a rough night.
And then finally, the cheapest and priciest cities to drink a beer.
And this is globally. Not just. Oh.
Nationwide, though, we'll start with the cheapest cities. Hmm.
Five of them.
None of them belong to the United States.
In Asia somewhere there are some.
In India, like, um.
There is Hanoi.
Yeah. Cheapest.
It's $0.77 per beer.
Okay. I don't know where this is.
We're making a whole new travel. Yeah. Yeah.
This is a different tour. You never know.
We were out the.
Just after the first tour. We were broke.
We're just like, now we're doing this tour.
Okay.
And then I don't know where this is, but.
Almaty.
Almaty, Y Almaty.
Okay.
I had no clue. Lagos?
Yeah, Beijing.
That's. Oh, no, that's okay.
That's a dollar 57 of beer. Okay.
And they measured that by a half liter.
Prague.
And then. Oh.
Sao Paulo at 210.
A beer.
Okay. And then the most expensive.
Do it.
Berlin at 446.
What?
Yeah, I was a little surprised. Heartbroken.
Okay. Yeah.
London and a jump. 721.
Oh, you're
that true. Expensive.
You lived in London for a while.
I mean, it was the exchange
rate was higher when I was there, too, so that did not help.
Brutal. Yeah.
It didn't work in your favor.
At 748, a beer.
Our friends down under in Melbourne.
Hmm. Oh.
At $8 a beer.
We're looking
at beer girl Melissa over in New York. Oh.
At 1040 for a beer.
We're looking at Dodger Stadium. No.
Yeah, this is.
That's too cheap.
Yeah, that's true. Oslo.
Okay. Okay.
And then the most expensive city at 1225.
A beer. Dubai. Oh, Dubai.
Yeah. Wow.
That's impressive.
Yep. I was going to write that one out.
Yeah.
Does the stadium still. To the stadium.
At Dodger Stadium is like $20 for a beer.
Yeah. Ridiculous. For craft in quotes. Yeah.
Air quotes.
Just wear the cargo shorts. Right, you guys.
She got her car.
You've got this car.
It's not.
You try to sneak anything into Dodger Stadium, they'll tackle you.
Yeah. Oh, seriously? Oh, yeah.
You can't. You can't tailgate.
You can't even hang out your car.
Like, if you take too long to get your shit
together and start walking
towards the stadium, they come over and tell you to move.
Yeah. Oh, dang. Yeah.
Ever since the Dodger fans beat up that Giants fan, like, ten years ago.
They don't want you to hang out.
Mm. Ooh.
Dagen, I got a quick, quick story.
We moved to california from portland.
I was like, oh, they got some, like, big football teams here.
I knew sterling liked, like, one of the major football teams here, but
I didn't know who it was, so I got Raiders tickets cause I'm a dumb ass.
I had no idea it was obviously Dick, not his team.
So he's like, okay, well, just go.
But like, shit.
So he's like, was in Oakland.
It was in Oakland.
Okay, so like, we kind of got to wear the color.
So we like try our best, like don't back it up. Yeah, yeah.
And so we're wearing this closest as we can like to like.
But it wasn't Raiders gear.
And so we get out of our cars and immediately
we get like hassled like you guys are our fucking Raiders fans.
What do you do? Go right here.
I was like, Oh, my gosh. So we're in the state.
Like, we're up in the stadium, like on the Raiders side.
And wearing the colors is like once again, it wasn't like official
like $500 raiders jackets, but we were trying our best
and they were like, What are you guys doing here?
It's like, I came in like my beat up Nissan Sentra.
It's not like we came from. Like, Hey, I fit in.
Look at my. Car.
Yeah, it was. It was horrific.
And we were on their side, and we got, like, her reps.
Never again.
Yeah.
I don't think.
You're allowed to buy
an official Raiders jacket for $500 unless you have an arrest record.
And maybe that's what it is like.
It was it was one of those things like starting like we have to sit in.
I'm like, why? It's like, no, it's a Raiders game.
So yeah, it still didn't work.
Yeah.
What would have happened if you hadn't been in the colors?
Oh, yeah.
If we hadn't been in the colors,
we would have been dead by the time we hit the stadium.
Well, then, like.
Go to the bathroom.
Like, you are not the Lord.
Yeah.
They don't actually act like Raiders fans won't ask you.
Are you a Raiders fan? They'll just ask you.
Have you been to jail?
Yeah. Oh, is that what it is?
Yeah. Yeah.
Apparently I. Was served. Time class tickets.
Yeah, she's
beat up.
I don't know shit about sports, so I was sick.
So which is the right team?
What, the 49 or 49? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, it's like I kind of meant like, I guess scandals like that
where it was at the time.
Was Yeah.
Yeah.
He's like, I kind of like, that's what I'm like, Oh, sorry.
Thanks for being a trooper. Yeah, yeah.
Well, we lived. It's all good. It's a.
Cop out.
We went to Candlestick the last season. Mm hmm.
The candlestick also is shit hole.
Was it? Yeah. Well, they had the down.
Yeah, they just hadn't really like it was going to cost too much to retrofit it
and repair it.
And so they sort of just,
it's not like they let it go.
Mm. Yeah.
And there's only, there was only one way in and out
to all the parking and everything.
So it just made.
You situation. Took us like 3 hours to leave.
To leave.
We actually turned the car. Off, we were moving.
And took a nap. Yeah. Awesome.
But I bet you felt safe while you were sitting in your car for the most part.
Oh, yeah. Oh.
Okay. Do Yeah.
Happen at the Raiders game. Yeah.
They're just scared to death.
You're like, Can we just sit in the car for the entire ground.
The doors on. The radio? But.
Oh, they want to drag us out and like, check the ram.
I don't know.
Check your arrest record, right?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Me jail tattoos? No.
Nope.
You're done getting any teardrops on your face?
Oh, jeez.
We're all getting beat up.
Yeah. Oh, jeez.
All right. Oh, that's everything.
We should probably end it down.
It's some music before we do get beat up.
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