Hey, everybody, quick programing note.
As they used to say in the biz, I was lucky enough to brew a collaboration
beer with Monica over at petals and pints brewing.
Thousand Oaks, California.
I will talk more about that next week on the show.
But for now, make sure you mark your calendars for Friday, January 13th.
We're going to be doing a live podcast that evening to celebrate the release
of our collaboration Beer.
We will also find out about Monica, her background.
You know, she just took over
the reins as head brewer in March and has been killing it ever since.
So mark your calendars Friday, January 13th.
The Big Craft Beer Republic Panels and Pints Collab Release.
It's going to be a fun night and we are so excited to share that beer.
Come back next week for more details on the beer and the party.
But for now, enjoy.
Batch 335.
Welcome in everybody is the Craft Beer Republic.
Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.
I'm Greg.
I'm being joined by what are you, some smoking cowboy over there on.
The block with that chalice motherfucker on the side of the Mississippi?
You're smoking a piece of hay or something? It was very.
Yeah, just like the truck commercial and cigarets and.
Yeah. Tongue jobber.
It's a whole thing.
Right? Well, that's flex over there.
And we're also being joined in person by the CEO, founder
and president of Deb's Dexcom Deb.
New York Stock com.
Fucking celebrity.
We did look it up between the shows and Deb's Dexcom is currently available
hopefully by the time this airs it will be owned by Deb.
What did they say they wanted for it?
If you do two years, the first years, only a penny.
And I think it came out to like 1997 or something for the two years.
Somebody good hear me? Yes. I made 20 bucks and.
I will send you $19.97 for you to buy that if you will do something with that.
Doug, come, please.
We got to make it happen. Yes, Deb, stick that.
Got everybody look coming soon in the new year.
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All right. This is basically our Christmas episode.
Merry Christmas.
Yeah. Merry Christmas. Everybody. Wow.
It means we will be dropping the Yule log tonight because we must classic.
It's classic. It's classic.
We've also got a ludicrous libation loss and booze news.
We got another list for flex over there.
I love lists.
I know. I know.
You must be so hard tonight on the list, but before we get any further,
let's get into some hydration over here.
Let's let's be cracking airplay.
This.
Oh, yep. I was right
because it is the holiday season
and my former favorite Christmas beer sold the fuck out.
We were drinking my second
favorite Christmas beer and that is Sierra Nevadas celebration.
Fresh Hot IPA.
Of course, the 2022 edition 6.8%
has 65 abuse and a398.
And on tap, they say once we pick fresh hops, the clock starts, starts ticking.
Each year we visit the Pacific Northwest to hand select the best cascade and
centennial hops, raised the harvest home and brew immediately to capture
citrus pine and floral notes at their absolute peak
aromas and flavors for the perfect winter beer.
It's a magical time at the brewery has been for 40 years now.
What I brewers
think though
when our brewers huddle around the fermentation tanks toasting the start
of a special season with the holiday beer in hand wrapped in red, consider
celebration IPA a true Christmas IPA, your first present of the holidays.
And of course they use Cascade Centennial and Chinook hops.
Which none of those were on last week's best hops.
I believe you are correct about that.
These are some old school hops.
They bring out the dank and the pine.
I was going to say it's it's that piney.
But there's also like a little subtle citrus.
Yes. Like a little orange.
Especially on the tail in. Yeah, yeah.
Schnoz is a little light for me.
You get a little bit of the the resin coming through,
but it really picks up on the tongue jabber
starts off very old school
with a lot of malt and then followed closely behind with some pine.
And then, like you were saying, some citrus.
Isn't that always kind of exciting when it's a little empty on the nose
and then when
you get it in your mouth whole, then it's just like explodes with flavor.
Yeah. Like, wow, I did not see that coming.
I, you know, I've never thought about that way of being exciting
because you can't smell anything, but, uh, now I.
Oh, really? I know.
I think that's always super exciting.
It's like, you know, it's just like food, and you smell food.
If it smells good, you're, like, expecting it.
Expecting it to taste super good, that you don't really smell anything.
You just kind of go, right, that's bland.
So and with beer, when you pour it out,
you can't really you don't get too many notes out of it.
You don't smell too much.
And then when you get in your mouth, it's just like, bam, you know, it's like, wow.
You got an emerald?
Yeah, it's really good stuff.
Fucking legacy over here.
So I'm just so excited I.
Can see. It.
Yeah.
And, you know, I never thought about that way,
but I will from now on, instead of being disappointed at a lack of aroma,
I'm going to get excited because it means the beer is a mystery
and the palate has been unwritten or something.
That's fucking deep. Yeah.
The future is what you make it.
Marty, that was my heart's crying right now.
That was. That was beautiful.
Mm hmm.
So deep. Put.
You asked to sleep.
Oh, merry Christmas.
Indeed.
Right back.
To a festive skin group of people. Here.
Merry festive.
I'm curious. Fuck the academic.
Speaking of Christmas, we all went to Friends Mis
over the weekend at Nick and Kohli's house because it's fun.
Yeah, we we all brought some foods and had a little, you know, festive dinner.
And the main point of the night was to crack open
a vertical of Black Tuesday from the brewery.
I believe we went from 15 to 22.
14, 14 to 22. Yeah, 14. All balls.
Yeah. Yeah.
And there was literally one bottle per person.
We need more people. At the.
Least crazy because we all, you know, Nicole
and Nick and Greg and everybody were pouring them into glasses
and each little cup had the year written on it.
And so we had what was it, nine.
Yeah, nine cups or whatever.
And there were. Nine people. And,
and so you're like trying to pace yourself
because you want to make sure that you taste each one.
You're really like, Yeah, you know, so you.
Like one or two sips of each one, yeah.
Don So I could get like the full not super fucked up version of all the beer.
Exactly.
And so I think what happened is everybody started out conservative doing that.
And then once everyone got to 20, 22,
then all fucking bets were off it was, it was like bedlam.
It was like.
I did it both ways.
So I started, you know, at 14, made my way up to the top, and then I reversed it,
taking only a couple of sips because I had formed opinions.
I had formed that that 16 was my favorite.
And so I was like, Well, I want to go backwards
now and see if 16 is still my favorite.
And it was. Yeah.
And then all bets were yeah.
So yeah, I don't know about you guys.
I got nice and shitter that night beforehand because this is what you do
when you're going to drink a bunch of barrel aged 20% beers.
We start off the day we woke up early, our plans got canceled,
we went to breakfast, had mimosas, then we didn't want the party stops.
So we went and picked up champagne, came home, drink tuma bottles of champagne.
Then we showed up to Nicole, his house, and Brian
and Nick and I were hitting the keg greater.
I think I had four
is maybe five.
I'm thinking it's four.
And then it was time for the tasting
and these are 750 mils, right?
The bottles. Yeah, they're big bottles.
And after we split them evenly
throughout these nine glasses, there were still almost half of each bottle left.
So there were actually eight sets poured because.
When. Chris and Tabby shared. Ryan Yeah.
So there was actually more than one bottle.
That's true.
Technically. Person Technically. Yeah. Yeah.
And I'm sure I had at least two bottles worth because I did basically.
You said I, I made my way through and then it was like, well, I don't like,
you know, 19 them or four.
I forget what it was like. I don't like 19 them.
Everybody hated 2020. Go figure.
Yeah, 2020 tasted like covered.
Just just pounded them. And then I was like, now pour me more.
Okay, I'll take a little. I don't know how much. At one point
I just blacked out and I don't remember.
I was up for at least 3 hours. I don't remember it.
There are pictures of Nick sleeping on my phone.
Apparently, Nicole and I had a lovely conversation
in the in the kitchen for like an hour and a half
that I have no recollection of.
I remember talking to her, standing in the kitchen, talking to her.
I couldn't tell you what we were talking.
You remember us leaving?
Sort of. I remember you guys called your Uber.
And I remember initially Nick saying, you guys, like stay in the trailer.
He really wanted to stay in that fucking trailer.
You really comfortable?
Next time we're absolutely going to take them up on that.
You should. It is a comfortable bed in there.
I didn't know that.
Like as you were walking out, though, he was like, Oh, no, you got to stay.
I didn't know about that.
You were like literally getting into the Uber and it's like,
Why aren't you guys staying? Because my Uber is here.
You guys, were you the first ones to leave?
Yeah, I think so. Yes, we were.
Okay, that makes sense, because I don't remember the others leaving.
And you were.
I was like, oh, Greg is feeling good right now.
When I left, like, I knew.
What they being shitty? No, but you were just.
You were. You were.
You were pretty good. You were like real happy.
You were like, I'm.
A drunk, which thank God,
because I never remember what happens when I get that drunk.
Luckily I'm a happy drunk, so I'm not like, Hey, fuck you, man,
let's go outside and fight.
Like, that's not me, which is I'm hashtag blessed
that I don't feel like fighting every time I get shitty.
But it was a good time.
I had a good I had a very good time.
I was, I think, nervous about the quantity
of alcohol and ABV of the alcohol should have been there.
So I actually when I got there and Callie was like,
here, have a glass of wine or let me get you a beer.
And I was like, No, I'm going to wait.
And then I and she ended up busting out a bottle of Martinelli's
apple cider that they had for somebody kid or something that didn't come hang out.
I was like, Why is Deb drinking?
MARTIN And so I ended up drinking like two thirds a bottle of Martinelli's
for like over the course of, like two or 3 hours
while we waited for dinner and then to do the tasting.
So even though I drink all of that Black Tuesday, I was barely rocking a buzz
when we left because I was drinking a lot of water and I ate,
you know, enough and I ate a lot of bread, too, you know? So
because I've had an issue lately
and I don't know if it's because I'm, you know, I'm going to be 39.
And I think like as I'm approaching 40,
the quality of my hangovers have changed.
I, I. Barely.
That's yeah. Sunday was. You turn.
Yeah. Sunday was a total loss for me.
Yeah.
And see I got up, took a couple of Advil, glass of water, felt
pretty damn fine for the whole day.
I'm lucky I slept till almost 11.
Which never happened though.
Good bye.
1045 Oh, like, holy fuck, it's 1045 it like well you're up till 330
was like I was.
Well hot damn.
And then luckily eight right away.
So that helped a little bit and I start to get worse again.
And then we made breakfast, so it got a little bit better.
Wait, you.
Wake up at 11.
What time did you eat breakfast?
1230.
I had a little snack right away.
And then that. Was.
Is that brunch or is that just lunch? Not when you woke up at 11.
It's fucking breakfast.
No, it's still 1230 up.
I don't even know. For an hour and a half hashtag breakfast.
I'm with flex on this.
I feel like if you eat it after noon, if it's now, it's after noon.
Yeah, that's brunch.
I know, but it was to me it was breakfast.
The day was young. And then we stayed over.
We stayed over at college, Nick's house.
So the next morning we started watching football and made breakfast, all that.
Then he goes, Do you want a mimosa?
I was like, Well, let's see if it writes the ship.
It did not. Oh, no. Yeah.
It just made my headache worse.
So I stopped drinking and came home finally and just took one of those gummies
and fell asleep.
Yeah, yeah. But Saturday was fun.
Saturday was fun.
Yeah. It's awesome.
Good. Everything we just tell it.
Deb, you said you drink a lot of water and he felt good.
I don't.
I don't believe in drinking water before
or while you're drinking because I feel like shit no matter what.
Really.
Have you tried drinking water before? During?
Oh, yes, 100%.
And every time I've done it, it's made like zero difference.
I just have to pee more.
So to tell you, this was the first time I did it.
I've never.
I'm always really, really I'm in general very bad at drinking water.
I am.
I drink coffee until I'm off of work and then I switch to booze.
Right.
And then maybe occasionally I might crack an energy drink there, you know, two.
Major. Groups for your booze. Right? Yeah.
So I never I'm not good about that.
But I was determined to not not enjoy drinking.
It was. Big. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
It's smart the few times it's like studying, like, you know,
you should do it and you know, you get good results
when you do it, but you just don't want to do it every time like that.
I have a liquid I v before we drink and then water while we're drinking
and then like a liquid i v when I go to bed
I always feel so much better the next day, contrary to what flex's.
But this time I was really bad about drinking water
and I was really bad about pre gaming the entire fucking day.
Like amateur.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you had what, two and a half, three bottles of champagne?
At least two and a half.
That's crazy. Well, I mean, shared.
So, you know, a bottle of champagne itself still.
Yeah.
And then a bunch of divas and a bunch of Black Tuesdays.
And I had the Martinelli's sugar.
I should've had bread.
Like we all know I don't need bread, but I should have fucking had some bread.
Or when in doubt, sparkling apple cider.
Oh she brings it every year the is good.
Beer bread but. The butter.
Holy shit that butter.
It was like a cinnamon butter and sugar.
But she makes bread out of beer so she did an 805 bread.
Type.
Music.
She does 1805 and one stout Guinness.
Guinness this year she just did to it or five because I guess they go over better.
I don't know.
So that sounds about right to me.
Yeah, exactly right. It's
not liquid.
And then she did this like cinnamon sugar, butter and it just.
Oh, it's so good.
So, so good.
So awesome.
Sounds like Texas Roadhouse.
Okay.
Yeah. No, lost on me.
No, you don't have that chain out there. No, no, no.
Well, never mind.
They do a sentiment. Cinnamon butter at that, right? Oh, okay.
Here's where she got inspired.
So, you know, it's good times thanks to to call in Nick for having us all over
and sharing nine years of fucking Black Tuesdays with us.
That was as good time.
You guys have a pretty good lineup, too, right?
We have like six or seven of them
because when COVID happened, we canceled our membership with them.
So I don't I think we have 14 through nine teen
and maybe we were gifted at 2020.
So that's the one you don't need.
And that one was the one that was universally everyone at the table
agreed that one was the worst and I think everyone liked the 2016 the most.
Yeah, I was the only one who really liked the 2014.
It was that it was a lot sweeter than all of the other ones.
Yeah, it's definitely a little raisin and syrupy.
Yeah.
I think 22 is really good too.
22 is surprisingly good. Yeah.
For not being able to sit very long. Yeah.
So yeah. Good times. Year.
From what I can remember.
What else.
Oh like I said it is Christmas time and Christmas time on the show.
I've done this for every podcast we've ever done.
We have to do the dropping of the Yule log.
And for those
that are from Southern California, you'll remember the name Mark and Brian.
Yes, this my fair.
I grew up on Mark and Bryan.
So sad they're gone.
I still listen to Mark on his podcast with his wife
sometimes and he just dropped a book that I'm excited to get.
Audio book I don't read anyways.
They always did the dropping of the Yule log every Christmas and it
signified the beginning of Christmas.
And I carried on. He found Mark found it.
I think it was Mark found it in a like a thrift shop as I get
old cassette tape is a Disney cassette tape from like who knows how long ago
and he picked it up because he was looking for bits
for the show and listened to it.
And this was one of the things that was on it.
And it's, it's just the worst.
Fucking thing ever.
But it's good that it's, it's 100% best thing.
Yeah.
If you don't hear a guy
taking a dump at the end, then there's something wrong with you.
So to ring in the holiday season here is the dropping of the Yule log. For.
Christmas Eve is probably the most exciting
night of the year for children everywhere
at our house, the ritual is always the same.
Mom hurries dinner out of the way so that the festivities can begin.
First, I lay a fire in the fireplace.
I pride myself on the way.
I like a fire to begin.
I crinkle newspaper to put under the great.
Then I put in the kindling, breaking the sticks into the proper
lengths.
Then I bring in the Yule log and put it in the great
oh oh.
That's the biggest log we've ever had.
Yeah.
And the heaviest to
right.
Am I wrong?
I can't breathe.
Oh, my God.
He was absolutely taking a dump at.
My God. Oh, so there you have it.
So happy holidays, everyone.
We can now officially celebrate the holiday season.
The drop that launched.
The. Biggest lie we've ever had.
Dead.
That's my favorite part as a little kid coming in.
And also the newspaper crinkling.
Sounds like ocean waves to me.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like newspaper.
Right.
Well, what crossed my mind is like that.
That's such an old bit right.
That's such an old audio clip that when he said, like, oh, you got to crinkle
the newspaper, you know, somebody is somewhere doing something.
Oh yeah.
Into a microphone that is making it sound like that.
Yes. The Foley. Artist. Foley artist.
Oh, it's just so brilliant.
Well, it's so funny.
You can hear that is recorded at different times
because like you hear the guy and he's pretty clear.
And then they go
and I bring in the newspaper and right before the ocean waves start,
you can hear this like buzzing noise under the ocean waves.
It's like you guys didn't even use the same microphone for everything
or you overdubbed it or something.
Nerd talk.
I'll stop now.
But yeah, no.
Talk to us more about editing, Greg.
Well, once upon a time,
what would you like to know?
So we start with a theory or the technical know how.
Okay, now I'm done.
But everybody to sleep with that one.
Yeah.
So anyways, it has been dropped
before we find out what flex is drinking over their ludicrous libation law.
This one's from Illinois.
Chicago, to be exact.
Chicago.
Illinois is the worst, by the way.
Worse than Indiana.
I'm growing up in Wisconsin.
Illinois is like hell.
It's like every all the bad people are in Illinois.
Oh, okay.
Is it like the Australia of America's adults and most go.
The worst drivers in the world?
The sports teams are pissed.
Well, that's true.
So for the nineties they had the bowls.
Yeah but we don't like to think about that.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, anyways, in Chicago it is illegal to give a dog
whiskey any whiskey, I guess.
Sounds about right.
McClellan's 24 is okay, but none of that cheap shit.
All right.
And is it like, what about bourbon or what about scotch?
All bourbon.
Whiskey is great, but it's.
Well, that's true.
That is true.
Yeah, it is true. Tequila.
Vodka. Yeah.
It specifically said whiskey, though.
I guess the other spirits are okay.
Doug's just not a fan of whiskey.
Unless something happened where, like, a dog
got shitty and whiskey and, like, ravaged a town.
Yeah.
And they're like, ah, all right, all right.
Nobody can ever do this again with whiskey.
Kind of like when you go to a swimming pool at a hotel
and it has the sign about not to get in with diarrhea.
Yeah, it's like, you know, that somebody fucking did it,
and that's why they got to put a sign out raise.
They wouldn't just make up a sign that says, Hey,
you know, I think we need to put this up in case
people got the squirts like raises clearly.
So something the true story.
Yeah, I don't is this just a California thing
or is this a nationwide thing?
But if you go to any hot tub, any public hot tub, like even our house has it.
Yeah, I have pictures and tell me, go to a hotel and they have that sign.
I always take the picture because it's still so comical.
Yeah, it's a law.
I don't know if it's a state law or a nationwide law,
but you have to have a sign up that says if you have had diarrhea
within, I think the last 14 days, you cannot enter the hot tub.
I don't know why you can go in the pool with the shirts, but not the.
Hot because. They don't like. Me.
Because the heat like relaxes you.
It seems.
Yeah.
First of all, there's definitely has to be a California thing,
cause I've never once ever seen the hot tub slide in Wisconsin.
All right, so. We're looking at hot tub signs.
So just in case.
And second of all, Deb, I'm assuming it's because of the bacteria
grows in warmer temperatures and not in colder temperatures, but.
If I like my version better.
Yeah, and that's just my science.
Take care of it.
But if a pool is heated, you know, it's going to be around 80 degrees,
which I feel is plenty warm enough degrees.
I've never gone to a heated pool
that was in like a hotel or resort or a water park or anything.
Why not?
Because they don't heat pools in Wisconsin.
You would think of all of the places they would do it.
Somewhere cold.
No, it's just like water.
It's like, here's water.
Jump in. It.
I mean, it's not like this isn't water.
It's not like they fill the pools with Jell-O parties.
Well, yeah.
TUCCI Yeah.
I don't know what's going on, but that that's my scientific thought process.
Well, do us a favor and find a public Jacuzzi
and see if it's got the sign on it. It doesn't.
We've gone to numerous resorts and hotels around the state, man.
There's no way because it's.
It's like, right about to be like, you know, no diving, no lifeguard on duty.
If you've had diarrhea within the last 14. Days.
Or plan on having diarrhea.
In my phone because I know I have pictures of.
My phone, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard.
Well, why Deb Scrolls?
Let's answer an extremely important question.
In a world where craft beer is key to the world
where muscles are bigger than ground, there's only one tank in guide.
This one at one time, one tongue job
in this world, we must find out
what is Flack's drinking?
Well, my wonderfully voiced good, sir.
This podcast has now come full circle.
This is the exact same beer that I drank on the Christmas episode last year.
It just makes sense, right?
I'm going to have to guess. It's a phase three.
A it's a phase three.
Oh, well, it is the warmest wishes.
Milk sort by phase three.
Is this an annual release for them?
Do they do it every year?
Yeah, but I mean, I've been drinking them for
like a year and a half since I discovered them.
And, uh, so, yeah, two winters in a row, I'd say it's pretty annual.
Okay.
Thanks for the science.
Yeah, I'm a I'm a part time scientist.
Yeah.
Man of science.
Full time hunk, part time scientist.
It just sounds like a movie to be alive.
Yeah, it works.
So is start brewed with milk, sugar and oats?
I do not know much about stouts other than they are delicious,
but we'll get the the old snobs
going.
Oh, it's going to clear up.
Get a super roasty.
I can tell you that.
It smells like you just brewed a cover, a black coffee. Hmm.
That's quite wonderful.
So the cream in first or second, I think there's an ever, wasn't it?
No, I think that was on the show. It had. Been.
It was on the show wasn't it. No.
We haven't done the experiment yet. Do it.
Do then we'll we'll dove in so we're getting some roasty coffee stuff
on the nose.
Definitely roast the other tongue jobber, super mild green coffee,
lots of, like, chocolaty notes,
surprisingly like light bodied for this.
I mean, it's a 7.3.
It's not super high for a stout, but it's also not low
for something that isn't like a imperial or a double
no alcohol
burn or sensation or any kind of notice of that at all.
So that's kind of wonderful.
Our dove in again, quick, super
low to no carbonation on this
finishes semi dry
boy this is wonderful for the winter
this is this is great.
This year last year.
I definitely like it better this year
we're going
but a.
Little more flavor this.
Year tons more flavor,
different lengths.
New year new lengths.
You know may or may not of nobody knows.
But when it comes down to brass tacks, I mean, this is a great beer
by a great brewery.
And America is once again
looking weird.
Okay, so how do you like Christmas up a Christmas episode?
You just got to keep fucking wishing so Merry Christmas is right.
Saying over and over again until right becomes a thing.
Tis the season.
Yeah, well, I'm the only one who said it. So far, so well.
Merry Christmas. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much.
Merry Christmas, you two fucking nerd.
Also, happy Hanukkah.
Yeah, yes.
Festivus. Happy Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa. Right.
This is their happy holidays. Boxing Day.
Boxing Day for the Canadians.
Well, it's not just for the Canadians.
Oh, like
the British in the UK.
Yeah, sure did.
Do you know what?
Like the whole idea of Boxing Day was.
Boxing shit up and return it.
God, you're so dumb.
No, I'm just kidding.
I had to look this up last year
because I was always confused what Boxing Day was not.
It was fighting.
It was the day after Christmas
where all the wealthy would box up gifts and give it to the less fortunate.
Oh, so it's actually, like, a super cool thing.
Yeah, that's a nice thing. Yeah.
Like a really good for, like, society kind of thing.
Totally makes sense. Why we don't have it in America.
Yeah, that's right.
That's crazy.
Oh, I wonder why we don't have one.
Yeah, I think it's what?
It's Canada, the UK and Australia, New Zealand.
And I'm sure.
If celebrate UK.
Does it then you know, Australia does it. Do well. Yeah.
Because they're like piss poor uk.
Sorry Australian fans.
Sorry go ahead.
Oh say and drugs across the commission.
Drugs. Yeah, sorry, guys. All right.
Some booze news.
Heineken is going to be increasing
their beer prices by over 10% starting January 1st.
I have an easy fix for that. Don't buy it.
Go buy it.
Yeah, it's the worst beer on the market.
Because, you know, I still have that Heineken 0.0 or whatever.
Makes it fun.
Still in my fridge.
Two years. Ago. Yeah.
I'm sure it's only getting better with age.
Well, now there's like, going to be a what is it?
It's appreciated in value.
Oh, yeah. I'm sure that's eBay's the thing.
Yeah. Is it like eight ounces?
It's a little tiny. Yes.
It's not even that. It's six. Ounces.
Yeah, I tried it. It was disgusting.
I used to offer an April Fool's joke because the wife was like,
Oh, well, maybe Deb and Nicole and I should drink it together.
And she kept saying that over and over again, and she never did.
And after setting the fridge for like six months,
I was like, I'm doing neighborhood's joke with this thing.
I don't care what she does, what she says.
Yeah, it was gross.
But yes, I promise to boycott Heineken based solely off of this 10% increase.
I will not be buying Heineken.
That's quite an increase deal.
Mm. Yes.
For no other reason than the 10% increase. Yes.
No, because their beer tastes like shit, like skunk shit drinkers.
Yeah. Skunk.
Don't say sorry to Heineken drinkers.
They know what they're drinking.
They do.
There's no way
you can let that shit on to your palate and be like, You know what this is?
All right. Not bad.
Seems weird.
Intentionally drinking Heineken.
Yeah my just are like fucking brother in law.
My brother in law will request Heineken to be at like get togethers and parties.
But thinking to myself, what the fuck are you thinking?
Okay, I have like coolers or something.
Yeah, I would rather have anything.
PBR. Stella, even.
It's close to Heineken, but yeah, it's.
Very different and not.
What I would rather have a Stella over Heineken.
That's not bad.
I agree.
You're probably right there. Yeah.
Oh, and Stella is not good.
You know, it's only gotten worse.
Drunk golfer goes off the course, gets lost.
A golfer so drunk that he mistook a stranger's home for his mother's house
has sparked a warning from police about the dangers of excessive drinking.
Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond of where the fuck this was doomed in.
What sounds like a cool place.
Yeah, it's in New Zealand.
Said officers were called to a former erode address at about 10:10 p.m.
on Saturday after a 27 year old man spent the day playing
golf at St Clair and drinking after a tournament.
The man walked home to what he thought was his mother's address, but insists,
but instead arrived at that of a stranger's.
The occupant challenged him and was then punched by the 27 year old man.
Wow, who thought there was a stranger in his mother's house.
The 27 year old then went to another address and started banging on the door.
Police attended and arrested the man in a confused and intoxicated state.
The man would likely be referred.
I don't even know what this means to a tip ringing community piano.
Sounds like rehab. I don't know.
Sgt Bond had a simple safety message for the Dunedin community.
Don't drink to access
to the point that you don't know what your own mother's house looks like.
That guy was doing whippets though like.
Oh down here lowers his found bottles of whipped cream in the back.
Not like it wasn't.
There's no way he was just
drinking, right?
Because even his hammer design was at a friend's miss.
I think I could have found my way to my mom's house.
And then to start assaulting someone like they.
Do like bassy tests in New Zealand.
Like imagine it's not the dark ages over there.
Well, I don't fucking know. It's New Zealand.
Let's go check out.
Let's go get really hammered in New Zealand jacket.
If you're golfing.
Maybe this dude did like a beer or a hole, maybe.
That's right.
I mean, you can get pretty intoxicated and I've heard of such a thing.
I don't go. Yeah, I've.
I've done it once and I did just about that much beer.
Yes, we did.
Shots between we, we got, we did the ninth hole
and it was right next to the clubhouse.
We did shots and then continued on. Ah.
That's fuckin crazy. Yeah.
It's one time I've been golfing.
I don't like it because I'm so bad.
Like the ball was just like pink.
I couldn't no good. At least I got hammered.
I got to drive a cart around. That was the good part.
Brian That's super tight end turn.
Brian had a golf carding incident while whilst drinking.
Oh, can we get a fact check on this, brian?
He thumbs up from the right.
And then so Brian.
Brian is like one of the last people on earth.
It's still drive stick. Oh, yeah.
And then so the next day after his incident, he had to drive home in his car
and he shows up at the house and his like, foot is like black and blue
and his knees are like all shredded and he's got like a broken rib and shit.
And I was like, I think I'm going to take you to the emergency room.
And he drove home like that.
It's for him. What a tough guy.
I had a friend do not in a golf car, but similar.
She was at a well, not similar.
It sounds like his was much more violent but she was at a club.
She got hammered. She was in some really high heels.
Gina breaking her ankle and drove stick
and like I think she made it home because someone took her home or something.
But the next day she called me and said, You drive stick, right?
I said, Yeah.
She goes, I need you to come move my car
because I needed to take her boyfriend's car.
It was not stick. And they were like, you know, parked in front of each other.
So can you come move my car for it?
Broke my ankle like your thing.
I'll be right over.
We lived in the same apartment complex, but oh driving
stick sucks if you hurt yourself or if you try to eat an ice cream cone.
Like that's the fucking worst.
That's what's.
So back in the day when I work, I work super early.
Well, Flex is not going to feel bad, but I used to work
from five in the morning till.
That's still super lean. Yeah.
And so I had to get up at like 330 or whatever.
And sometimes on the way home I'd be just, you know, bobbin
bobbin for cock as Nicole likes to say on my, you know, just
and there was a McDonald's that was about halfway home.
And so sometimes I would stop and get an ice cream cone
because it made me get the car and like walk around, kind of wake up a little bit,
would be like the sugar would also help me get the rest way home.
So hard to get back on the freeway.
The fuckin ice cream cone in your hand like driving stick.
Like I don't want I crush it.
You know
I did some cone in the steering wheel hand while you, like,
kind of drove with your wrist and then stick and.
Yeah.
I want to know what you thought the first time you did this
and then how many times you did it after?
I did it so many times. And
I don't.
Know what I thought the first time other than like
maybe I should have thought this through a little further.
But I, I was, I mean, I drove stick for, I mean, at least 15 years.
So it was, it was no problem.
15 years more than me. Yeah.
I like driving stick.
I just hate it when you're in traffic, when you're going downtown L.A.
and you're stop and go to the after.
About six weeks after I stopped driving stick,
most of my knee pain went away.
So I was like, oh, I won't go back to that.
But I still know how like the wife's dad, he has a, a stick.
So sometimes we're up there
and like we borrow his, his other car, which is the stick.
And then you sure you can drive this and like, yeah, I can drive
it. We'll wrap it up with this.
The worst beers in the world.
According to beer. In the. World.
In the world.
So Beast and Keystone got to be like top five.
We'll find out. This is according to beer advocate.
They gave us 25 beers.
We'll start at the top at 25.
Old Milwaukee.
Yeah.
Number 24 Flex's Favorite Heineken Premium White Lager.
It's not even premium.
Number 23 Corona.
Extra.
Oh, it's so bad.
So gross. 22 desperados.
Oh, I should be telling you the ratings with these I'll I'll start.
With this like UNTAPPD ratings. Beer advocate.
Oh this one has a235 number 21 black label beer
every 232 number 22 Cut tailgate.
I love to caddy light do you when you go to Mexico
nothing but to carry light and lime that shit hits.
That's because you can't drink the water.
You have to drink tequila.
That's not the point.
The point is to go.
How do you like it with lime? Suck my dick?
Well, average rating is 2.31 number 19.
And this is what I get when I go to get sushi.
Kirin Karen Light.
I get Sapporo. I'm a I'm a hearing guy.
A or or Sapporo usually for me, yeah.
I mean, they all kind of taste the same, but yeah.
Yeah.
Like average rating 2.29 number 18 colt 45.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I didn't realize it was only 5.6%.
I thought it was a little stronger than that.
But, uh, yeah, 2.28 average rating.
You think a 5.6 on most like domestic flights.
They're like four for two.
So do you like a malt lager like that?
There isn't a malt beverage. Yeah, it's malt liquor.
Yeah. So, yeah, five, six. That's huge.
I guess. But I just.
I feel like it should be bigger than that.
Number 12, thank you. To Starbucks.
I know.
Number 17, labatt blue light from the Canada.
Yeah, a average rating of 2.26.
Number 16, Beck's premium light one Beck's.
Yeah, one unknown. Next
I get more of them.
Average rated 2.24 Number
15 st ides high gravity malt liquor I don't even know what that. Is.
I don't know what that is, but. It's 8.2%.
That's what I expected.
A malt liquor, 8.2%, not 5.6.
I don't know. That's like a steel reserve.
Yeah.
That comes out of Texas and has an average rating of 2.2 to number 14.
Curb light. Yeah, the.
Rating of 2.05.
Number 13, red dog.
That beer is so bad, I don't think I ever
should be way higher on the list.
It was an average of 2.04 straight out of Wisconsin.
Number 12, corona light.
And that should be
that should be like where extra was an extra should be where corona Light is.
Oh, so you're saying light is better than extra?
Yes. The Corona light is much better than the extra.
Average of 1.98. Number 11.
Keystone Lager. That's Superbad.
Average rating 1.9.
But I do remember getting $11 cubes of that when I was 20 years old
and we threw some pretty rad parties just based off of Keystone.
Yeah. And at 4.9%.
And we took all those beers to get drunk. The whole.
Cube. Yeah.
That's why they were so cheap.
Mostly water.
Top ten. Here we go.
Number ten, Bud Light.
I'm fucking excited for this top tab at.
1.87 average rating. Bud Light. So bad.
So bad.
Number nine, Keystone Premium.
Yeah, that's. Way. Way worse.
Number eight, bush ice.
All right, Bush ice. Not Bush light.
Bush ice.
Okay, tight.
1.85.
Average rating number seven, natty ice.
Okay. 4184.
Average rating.
Number six, keystone light.
Oh, it's so bad.
4.1% has an average rating of 1.8 for top five.
Number five, Milwaukee's best light.
It's such a bad beer
to me.
It is amazing that they would actually put a city name on that beer
because everybody, it's just so bad.
Average rating of 183 number four,
Miller, 64, never had it.
Is that the one that's it's 64 because it only had 64 calories?
Yeah, right.
It's like the most easy drinking beer because it's like 2% alcohol, two.
Point 8%, 64 calories.
There's a reason there's no. Fucking point, though. Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't I don't know.
Average rating of 183.
Number three Natty light.
Fuck you.
I love that shit.
Natty light is bad compared to Busch light.
I hope Bush is not in the top two.
I don't like the natty light.
I like the natter days.
Oh, the the.
Fruity fruity ones during the summer.
You to hell. Yeah.
Average rating of 175.
Number two sharps from Miller Brewing Company.
Yeah. Sherbet.
That's like the schlemiel I love that.
The on it.
It's like it 11 and Shirley worked
and worked at Sharps Brewery Oh did they come on Wayne's World.
I mean yeah.
Killing me. Sorry.
And the number one worst beer according to beer advocate.
Can you guys.
I haven't looked at pause.
I need a little pause here. Okay.
But my anxieties like the suspense.
Do you really want to take any guesses?
I mean, Heineken, Corona.
We've said them already. Oh, he's been sly.
He was already on there. Deb, any guesses?
PBR. PBR.
PBR said PBR heavily.
Now, you can't be Ham, not Schlitz. Schlitz.
And that bad Schlitz is better than PBR.
Interbrand says Bud Light lime that's I was thinking Bud Lights
was that select or premium or.
Oh yeah the Bud Light 55. Bud Light Platinum.
I was thinking it would be that one cause that was just a pile of garbage.
I guess I'll say steely reserve.
Okay, number one.
Here I go for the scroll.
Budweiser select 55.
They do that anymore?
I don't know.
1.65 average rating, 2.4% ABV.
They say Budweiser Select 55 is a 55 calorie alternative
to Budweiser's heavier select original and brewed with a caramel taste.
Anheuser-Busch has been instrumental in population popularizing lagers
among American consumers for decades
after the beer stuff was first introduced in the US.
Thanks to German immigrants in the mid-19th century.
One beer advocate, well, one beer advocate revered some this offering up
thusly It's been flavorless and odd smelling.
I never. Had it.
I used to drink it when I was like 19 this year.
1.4%. I drank it once.
Which was it?
You drinking a lot when you're 19 or you drink it once?
I say a lot.
I don't know. I don't know.
I drink it like once or twice.
It was not very good. Sounds delicious.
I want to make T-shirts that say thin, flavorless and odd smelling.
And then you could buy them at Debs Dick's stock.
Yeah. Yes.
Oh, that'd be great.
I don't I don't know if I love this list because I'm pretty sure they haven't
made the Bud 55 in years
cause that was that was on my mind for the worst beer.
But the fact that they don't make it anymore, I think.
Yes, it. Let's see.
Also is it usually I was thinking like, what about kind of your roots?
Yeah. Mickey's or old English.
Yeah, PBR wasn't even on the list.
Yeah, PBR is not great.
I'm going to say that as a milwaukee AM.
Yeah, they definitely still make Budweiser select 55.
Dammit.
You can get it at Walmart for 1873 for 30.
They don't make highlife lite anymore, but Budweiser still puts out Bud 55.
I guess. So all four people buy it.
Motherfucker. Yeah.
So anyways, there you have it. So worst Christmas ever.
Merry fucking Christmas, everybody.
Let's hit a little music over here.
Merry Christmas to Vanessa.
Merry Christmas, Vanessa. Christmas, Vanessa.
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So what was it? Thin.
So in flavor lists and weird smelling.
Did the first release of her merch?
I think that's. Oh, that's not everything, you know.
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Thank you all for hanging and hope you have a great holiday over there.
I hope you're all staying very well hydrated.
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