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Welcome in everybody, it's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg, and I'm being joined.

I'm so fucking jealous of this guy with his fucking beanie on. What's the temperature over there? It's a balmy 42.

God damn jealous. It's gotten down to the 60s, which is glorious, but in my room currently it's 82 degrees, because there's no air flow in here.

And I'm sweating bullets. But, it feels like 38, by the way.

It feels like better. But better. It's not great. But joining us from the other end of the state is Dr. Frankenstein.

Hey, Francis, yeah, it's a little, it's even hotter here, Greg. So, you know, you all have to feel sorry for me. It's like 82 degrees.

It's actually cooled down from the summer. I think we talked about, it's the hottest summer on record here in Sacramento.

Oh, right. Yeah, so the most days over 100 degrees was like 25 days straight or something is disgusting.

Wait, in a row, really? Yeah. In a row.

Yeah, it's not, and disgusting. But you guys have like rivers and lakes, but you don't have the, like I'm as the crow fly, as I'm probably like 10 miles from the ocean.

Yeah, I don't know that. Yeah, like call it a Delta breeze, but it doesn't really happen around here anymore. So yeah, no, we don't get that.

But yeah, Delta, Bree, Delta, Bree. It feels like a song. Some of the show. It is.

It's like, I'm like, oh, wow, is that a new rendition?

It's like, come on, Erica. The white would be smacking me right now. She grew up on the Delta. It's like, shum.

Anyway, shout out to our top listening city of last week in that Seattle, Washington. What up? Seattle.

Washington seems to enjoy us a little bit. Yeah, I can't blame. I mean, thanks for enjoying us so much. So all that. Oh, follow us. Everyone's about follows.

At Crapper Republic, applex me, bear, description between Ann, Necknash, LLC, underscores as well. All right, lots to get to tonight.

I'm excited for our ludicrous libation. I has a lot to do with Erica because of booze news to get to and so much more. But before we do that, let's find out what I was trying to work in salty and Frankenstein Frankenstein together.

The salty monster over there is drinking. Okay.

Uh, Rar. Heck yes.

I'm just a lovely intro. Hey gang. Well, I think I've done moon raker one other time on the show on. I love your. You know, I'm a bigger.

And they're known for their IPAs. Yes, right? So yeah, they're in the region. One of the first ones are really just like established such a great.

IPA backbone and I didn't really know that there was a connection between McDreams work and the owners. They actually working at the hospital. So get the fuck out of here.

Yeah. So basically they had like an event for his building and it was on Friday at one of the moon raker locations.

And he's introducing me to the owners that and he's like, yeah, someone says a nurse in our hospital and so yeah, super cool people.

Oh, shit. Yeah, so they're awesome Karen and Dan and so the moon raker is the first one was about 20 minutes away from me. And it's just kind of great standard brewery.

But then they opened up this mill house out in Cameron Park. It's about 40 minutes from us and it is gigantic. It's got like a big stage, a cool outdoor space and the private area that we had our event in music every Friday.

Okay, so like the fired up pizzas. I think they do like 300 a night. They can cook 15 out of time on this cool rotating oven. It's just a great space.

I'm kind of bummed it's not as close to our house, but not the worst. I know it's just a lot. It's like, okay, it's worth the drive like once a month, at least to get out there and great beer.

So often the wife and I are like, hey, let's go to Malibu brewing with that sound so good. It's like, but I don't want to drive 35 minutes.

Yeah. So the good thing is you know a lot of other people are enjoying that place is packed. So we had so much fun. I didn't leave with any beer.

So I was like, oh, no, I'm on the podcast. I know I'm like such a failure. So starting at McDreamy swung by and picked up the work.

Yeah. What a nice guy. Yeah. What a work for me. And I was like, sweet. I'm just out of bottle shop nearby. So when a hero comes here.

Yes, exactly. So this is a this is called fresh juicy strata by moon raker and it is a new England hazy. It's 7.5%. Super new only 53 check ins 4.09 on on tap.

But this is kind of a series that they do. So look at the can. It's kind of got that like gum. I don't know. It's a juicy fruit.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or yeah, something like that. Yeah. And I guess the first one they did was fresh juicy.

Settra, which would totally be my jam because I love citra old school. Seriously. So it says fresh juicy. This is this time with 300 pounds of freshly picked sticky wet strata nugs from Indie hops over ripe herbs mango sap juice level turned up.

So that's that pretty. Yeah. What a description. They pay somebody to write that. Yeah. Yeah. Sticky note. No, what do they say? Strata nugs. Okay. Sticky nugs. You said you do. Sticky nugs. Okay. Sticky nugs. It's nice and hazy like it should be nice.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause the last time I did one of theirs, I had it in the rainbow because the can was kind of rainbow. So I love this pure nerd glass. And I need a new one. I destroyed the design on it. Did you? Yeah. I ran it to the dishwasher. Oh, I say I run mine through all the time. But I run. Yeah. I run all my beer glasses through the

I do too. And so side bar. I you know, we have a couple of CBR glasses. I purposely run them to a dishwasher as many times like I use them. Run them through just to see how long they would last to see how well they're made. And like the beer nerd one lasted over a year of many

dishwasher. Okay. Eventually started to peel a little bit. So he'd the warning everybody. The morning. Okay. Yeah. Mine's holding strong. And I use it quite a bit. But you know, maybe my dishwasher is cheap. I don't know.

But a little gentler than mine. Maybe it's gentle. That's the word. We used to gentle cycle craze. NorCal.

It's off the water. Yes. No, we're not. And so it's yeah. The aroma was very is very like. Like a rindy citrus rind. And we take a drink here. So I didn't try this at moon raker.

This is the first can I've ever had of it. And it's it's pretty good. It's is sticky to start. It's got definitely started that sticky hop character. But it put it in the important thing to me. It doesn't linger too much. And that has kind of like the flesh of the citrus. Maybe tangerine mango actually said mango. I could go with mango. Yeah, finishes relatively clean. That's nice. Good beer.

And and shout out to moon raker. They took home a couple of I think silver's at GAP. Yeah. Oh, okay. So we had asked them about it. Like, yeah, we got some metals. They're so nonchalant. So what did they get? Cause we didn't get the deeds. Cause they're not that braggie type. Oh, I don't have it open at them. But I'm pretty sure I was looking at all the California winners. And moon raker had two on there. And I'm pretty sure there were both silver's. Yeah. And their IPAs. I mean, that's just not surprising with them. They they kill it every time. That one called electric lettuce. It's just.

Amazing. Probably I bet flex had that one electric. I had the bubble one. Hmm. Hmm. Nothing about that one. Let me look it up.

So two silver's one for house of a thousand cones. And that's a fresh hot beer. Oh, yeah. And then the other one is mosaic double crush. And that's the category of juicy or hazy imperial IPA. Okay. Yeah. So John. Bubble dust is the name.

Bubble dust. Okay. I'm not sure how that one. That's pretty cool. You have that. It was a couple of years ago. I had it. Okay. Oh. And this is no work.

Five five years ago. I had it. Cause it says it was released on 9.9 of 19. 9.9. Okay. And they opened up in 2016.

No, you say it like nine. Doss is nicks. They're good. I'm a Brooklyn 9.9 fan. They always give the old 9.9.

Oh, sorry. Okay. If you guys watch that show Brooklyn 9.9. I haven't seen some episodes. It's hilarious. So I do want to start it from the beginning to the end.

Highly recommend. High Andy Sandberg. Yes. Yeah. If you like Andy Sandberg stuff. Yeah. Great. Okay. Well, very nice.

Eric, you have a hazy. Do me a favor. Do you sell the can with you? Yeah. All right. If you can, can look inside the can.

Do you see like a bunch of ease hanging out? I see silver. I got it. Perfect. I have said this before.

East coast hazies are not my favorite. Even though they invented them on the East Coast. So often because they're chunky.

And where the West coast is like, Hey, we got a hazy, but it's it's more of a cloudy or murky hazy. Yeah. More of an East coast thing.

I had a couple of beers over the weekend where I opened the can. And after I poured it out, I looked inside the can.

And it was just like a giant yeast kick hanging out on the side there. I look so gross. Oh my goodness. You to free starter for the next batch.

I know. That's disgusting. It's just not and you can always tell because like the end of the poor.

As you're getting towards the last few drops, also that's where all the hate like is clear up until those last couple of drops.

And it's like I peeked inside and I was like, Oh, I know. That's gross. That's not even just the sediment. It's just.

It's it looks yeast. It's so much. And it's like this one was on the side of the can. It was the bottom of the can.

It's fucking weird. And I it grossed me out. I was totally turned off. I was like, I'm out.

Well, you know, yeah, because it can be yeast. I don't know a lot about actually the burying process. But I know that Sterling used to take the sediment from several different bottles.

And then like you could make a yeast starter from them or something.

Yeah. It makes the yeast happy and kind of like starts growing before you dump it in your beer.

Yeah. So you have your own little starter set right there in the can.

I guess so. I was not on board. That's disgusting.

You're a deal to evil. So yeah. But gross. So thanks.

He's got his nose beers for that. Yeah. Flexi doing any beer research lately.

Not since my Florida trip. Yeah. Still recovering. Stess. I get it. Yeah.

You heard anything besides moon raker.

I went to doling dogs. I you know, we'll go like three weeks or so without even going to brewery last week.

And we went to two. So doing dogs and I just went there because I have cool Halloween stuff around.

And it's kind of a farm like kind of setting. So that was super super cool.

And their beer was just standard. Nothing too exciting.

They're doing dogs. Yeah. And yeah, they've been around maybe three years or something.

So not and they're not they don't can their beer only crawlers.

So they're just kind of humble little brewery. And they're about 25 minutes from us.

So yeah. So are they like two dogs that team up with each other or they two dogs that fight each other?

Well, I would assume fighting but I did not see it go down while I was there. I think they were on a break.

So it was very relaxing. There was no lighting. Yeah. Exactly.

We are umbrella did fall like an pale a kid. So there was some do there's some drama going on.

He handled it really well. But just damn. She's a sturdy. No big deal. Pale.

No big deal. He said happens. We stitched him up real fast. Everything's fine.

Make sure he's like, give me give me a fucking rubber band. A pair of tweezers.

And a paperclip and a car starter kit. What?

Yeah.

Oh, that's good. Yeah. I'm a I'm lacking on the research over here.

Yeah. What a great beer podcast host I am.

Duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh. Yeah. Hit up pedals last week. Cause Monica before she left.

At release the sour that we had and tried yet. And.

She was the backbone of their brewing situation. Wasn't she? Was she like?

She was the reason we drink their beer. Yeah.

Because the brew before was not good. She cleaned it up.

I know the brewer now. And he was training under her.

Okay. Some hope. But yeah.

Hopefully she's got some awesome land.

Love having her on the show. Yeah.

She's I did text her to the day. I was like, hey, you want to come on the show?

She's like, I'm no longer a brewer. I was like, yeah, I know.

But you're still a beer nerd. And we like you. So come on.

Very much so like her. Yeah. We like you Monica.

So anyways, one of these days I was like, oh, she and I sits on the effect of like just because you're not getting paid for it.

Doesn't mean you're not a brewer. So.

Oh, still a brewer in my heart. Oh, yeah.

Anyways, so we'll get her back on and talk about what the fuck's going on and her new gig and all that stuff.

Anyways, yeah, not a lot of research on my I you guys heard of the podcast.

Smartless. Jason Bateman.

Yeah. We're on a. We'll are right now.

I have had so little time to listen to podcasts recently.

But I was Uber Eatsy today doing some Uber Eats deliveries and door dashing.

And so I was listening to smartless.

And at the beginning of every episode, they do like a little cold opening where they say some funny and then it's it's followed up with and welcome to smartless and the music hits and the show starts.

Not unlike ourselves sometimes.

And I was laughing. So I had my windows down as finally a nice day out. It's in the seventies had my car windows down no AC going.

And the cold open was well and that comes on. He goes, hey guys. So when was your last quickie?

And then I look over the guy next to me also has his windows down.

Are you listening to this podcast? I mean, I was driving.

You got a compensate for the win noise and that kind of stuff.

And as soon as that happened, he like inches up.

I was like, oh, whoops. Did I offend you with my quickie talk?

I was laughing so hard. Oh, no. That was good shit. Yeah. Is that like a segue into quickies?

No, I'm not going to ask you what your last quickie was. I just thought it was Monday.

Right. I did come up with with the help of chat GPT. I did come up with a bunch of question beer related questions that I thought I would just try and like sprinkle throughout episodes here and there.

If you guys don't mind, may I ask you one? Yes, you may only because you ask kindly. Yes, sir.

Okay. What is the most ridiculous beer name you can come up with right now and bonus points if it involves something from your last text message.

Oh, I have to. My last text message missing plug.

Wow. Well, winner winner because he just came in was asking about some plug and I didn't know what he's talking about and it's still missing.

So I think that let's go with the missing plug. Yeah.

I'd say that that's pretty good. I don't know how I could fit mine in anything.

It was boo to fake tits was my last text. That's a good name for beer.

It's October. It's press cancer awareness month. Yeah. We've been working into the press cancer awareness thing.

Yeah, exactly. Possibly.

Yeah, it's maybe that would be double double dry off double APA. It's going to be double.

Double. Double the full.

I was just trying to fit like a like a hop pun name into there, but I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No. No. No. My last text was for my wife.

It's just so frustrating. So I was thinking like frustrating fruited sour IPA or soured something.

Not nearly as good as the other sour from beer fest. Is it frustrating?

Is it frustrating?

It's frustrating.

It's frustrating. So so so listeners listen, her send us your most ridiculous beer name with bonus points with your last text messages.

Oh, man.

If we read it on the next show and it makes somebody laugh, I'll send you some stickers or something.

Oh, that's cool.

Send it in. Yeah, malecraft beer puppet.com or however you want to 8538 beer. I don't care how you get it to us.

Get it to us. Make us laugh. Get some stickers from some ship.

I have a friend. We have some friends that own a small brewery that the beer babes are going to release that.

And so speaking of my mouth. Yeah.

Okay. So she keeps trying to convince them to name a beer booty juice.

I don't know where it came from. And it's funny, but I'm like, I don't know. And they're just like, no, that sounds nasty.

But I think I would buy a beer called booty juice just because it's like it does sound gross.

Like the juice that comes from a booty. Right. Calling it a juicy booty. Right.

Yeah. Because I love a good juicy booty. That's what she needs to do. She needs a flip it.

Yeah. She needs to put me down and flip it and reverse it.

But you think I'll flip it and reverse it. Flip it.

Reverse it. Yeah. Because yeah, everyone likes a juicy booty. But I don't know that everybody likes booty juice.

Yeah. If it's worth it, the whole poisoning from last week. Oh, dear. Okay.

So let's get you down. E. coli. How'd you get that from another person?

It's a little booty juice.

How about booty, dude? Oh, dear. Well, this is taking a turn. Let's bring this back around to not not an E. coli show.

No. I'm okay with it being a booty show, but not an E. coli show. Yeah.

Let's ask some questions. Mainly one question.

In a world where craft beer is keen. A world where muscles are bigger than growlers.

Only one tongue can guide us. One man. One tongue. One. Tongue jobber.

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

The very nonchalant looking away while your tongue just starts moving. That was the fucking chess kiss right there.

Yeah, it's just something I do.

Well, without further ado, I am drinking. We go together like the Concord grape variety of 1840 brewing companies.

It's a peanut butter and jelly sour. It is in a collaboration with microphone who I thoroughly enjoy.

They're outside Chicago and Illinois. Yeah, I have me.

And it says it's peanut butter and jelly time brewed with peanut flour and conditioned on peanuts and Concord grape puree contains lactose.

This is a seven percent beer, which is wicked, awesome for a sour.

Not a big fan of those four to four and a half. They're refreshing, but it's not going to get the job done.

Not for the algorithm, I won't. No, no.

So untabbed has this collectively 427 out of 955 check ins.

But everything 1840 does is small batch. So not a lot of check ins is pretty common.

And again, it's just says PB and J inspired pastry sour fruit with peanuts, Concord grape and lactose.

Okay.

So on the old schnauz, it is like that all natural peanut butter smell.

It's where it's like the good stuff. Yeah, it's like fresh peanuts. You could you a little bit of that sour grape on the back end of that.

But it smells like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It is wonderful.

So on the old tongue jobber as we dive in here.

Interesting when he said he was doing a PB and J I did not envision grape. Did you Greg?

Some of them when he said grape on my pillow.

Okay. I didn't even think about it that way. Interesting. So I'm curious how this is going to go.

Oh, well, it's wonderful. This is very tasty beer. Yeah.

The peanut butter comes through as like a natural flavor, not as like an artificial peanut butter over the top kind of candy bar peanut butter.

And the grape is wonderfully, wonderfully sour. Big fan of sour grapes over sweet grapes.

So for me in a sour beer this works significantly.

Does it taste like a PB and J sandwich?

It does. Like it's even a little breadie to tell you the truth.

Like these guys just do such a great job of it. Super cool. I've had this beer before.

I've never had a can. It's can now. It used to just be stubby bottled and I love that.

That's what it's going to ask for. I can or a bottle. Okay. So they have a stick and they are in a can now.

It was a four pack 1399. I don't know how that works in the algorithm.

I didn't put it in. But this beer is phenomenal. It's so good.

So Erica, have you ever had a PB and J beer? Yes. Well, no, I don't know if it was a beer is a need. Probably I'm not sure if I have had a PB and J beer.

But a really good superstition me, I believe it was. I've had a few.

And I've only liked one of them and that came from shelter in mammoth.

It just like flexes. It tasted like a sandwich like there was the peanut butter.

There was the jelly and there was like the white bread breading this. Oh yeah. And it tasted like just a blended up PB and J.

It was surprisingly good. Now I've had some other attempts and it was quite right.

I usually like a lot of the PB and J soures that you put out.

Like you will find some like it with that peanut butter that is just really, really fake.

Oh yeah. Like belching beavers. Right.

But yeah, like I said, this is just it does it. If you take the sour out of it, it tastes exactly like a peanut butter jelly sandwich.

That's pretty good. That's delightful. Now what I'm curious about now is why Erica was so astounded of the grape.

Well, I, okay, is this the Midwest thing? Because so when we make PB and J out here on the west coast, I'm pretty sure it's almost always strawberry.

So I pictured I thought about that. I was raised on grape jelly.

Okay. What about grape? So as a kid, all I wanted was grape jelly.

Okay. And when I was real little, I got it. And then as I got a little bit older and divorce has happened and we lived with other people, I was the only one who wanted grape jelly.

So I lost out. Yeah. I'm not surprised.

But I think you were the anomaly there. Sorry. I guess so. I always wanted the grape.

And I'm sure now is an adult. Like I haven't had grape jelly forever. I'm sure now is an adult.

I went and had grape jelly. I was just sweet and disgusting because jelly was always like the fakest of all the jelly.

It was like jello in a jar. Right. Exactly. No texture to it. It's just kind of yeah or no variation in the texture. Right.

Well, that's when I always hated about the strawberry. Like you get the little seeds in the jelly. I hated that.

See, yeah. That's real real fruit. I've never seen strawberry jelly until I met my wife. And that's all she eats.

Oh, really? Yeah. You did not see it until your adulthood. No. Like we always bought grape interesting growing up.

Like I've never seen anybody had strawberry jelly in their house and slept my wife.

Flex, you and I are riding off into the sunset with grape jelly. Yeah. Where's that brewery from though?

Again, what part of the country? They're here in Milwaukee. It's okay. So that's why they pick grape. I guarantee if they didn't want to out here.

Probably be like more of a like a berry or something like that. But okay. So Cody on peloton. He's like my favorite instructor.

He talks so much shit about grape jelly. It's hilarious. He's always talking about food, which is so counterintuitive to be like trying not to get fat.

But he talks about grape jelly all the time and how it's just obscene that people eat it. So I'm on board. I think that's what sold me on Cody.

Well, Cody's obscene. Yeah. But I would try that beer. It does sound delicious. It's wonderful. My favorite part about it is the natural peanut butter flavor.

Yeah. I'm trying to look up to see if I can figure out which beer I have from shelter, but I'm not finding it.

I can't say that. But batch 103. If you want to listen to my interview where I think I drink that beer. So. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Long time ago. Yeah. It was 2018. I remember doing that interview. It was mid blizzard. We were in mammoth and it was I was I was so like star struck in quotes.

Because one of the guys was the former head brewer of mammoth brewing, which is the brewery that like got me into craft beer. And I was like, oh my god. You made like all my original favorite bears like.

So we had some like off air discussions about mammoth and that kind of stuff, but his beer there was still amazing like still doing great. So clearly he's the genius, not the machine.

So I haven't been there in a few years, but I love when I get a chance. But yeah, it was great. Did interview like mid blizzard had to get dropped off and like fight our way into the distillery.

And that was cool drinks so much. Oh my god. They hooked it because they got beer. They got spirits that the somewhere there's pictures.

They brought over just like one of everything. And I was like, oh no. This is gonna be all interview. It's like I'm just one sip of each and I got pretty hydrated by the end of that interview. It's good times.

Yeah, that was good memory. So batch 103 if you guys want to listen to it, at least what I remember as a fun interview who knows if that's true or not.

All right, little Chris libation law. This one comes from North Dakota. And I saw this today. I was like, oh, this got Erica written all over it.

And the state of North Dakota stay law prohibits serving beer and pretzels at the same time in any bar or restaurant. Like you can't do it. I guess. Yeah.

That's offensive. I like I feel personally attacked. How do you have an October fest celebration? Right. And it's proven that the salt enhances the flavor of the beer. You know, it's funny. I was so much.

Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't think I've ever had any orders from up north or North Dakota. I won't now. I just because yeah, that's kind of interesting because not a customer. Maybe that's why they just don't do the combo.

And they're basically the same ingredients. Just different process. Right. One gets fermented one doesn't super bizarre. But maybe just it's just too good. That's it's like a drug.

Maybe that's what it is. Dakota. I feel like also kind of socks. We've talked about Dakota. Is it one is on the list that the should talk and list. Okay.

At least now it is. I mean, yeah. Now it is. Thank you. I would say.

Not Seattle. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Seattle. We love you. Yeah. High Seattle. Let's see on a Washington. I mean, that's a state. What? Right.

But yeah, oh, that's sad. That's really unfortunate. I'll give them a moment of silence for all the North to go and and their sacrifice of.

And they're not having their own pretzels. Yeah. Yeah. I know Flex wants to know. So I googled it. North Dakota has about two dozen crappieries and citeries. They combine the things. Yeah, we talked about it once. I guess they had 18 breweries and it came out that they had 20.

Yeah. And I guess I include. Oh, here it is. Oh, it's not even. Oh, no, sorry. This is just one area. Never mind. Scratch that. But yeah, they include citeries in that as well. Because they have so few parties.

And they also apparently no pretzels here. You guys see that they added ciders to G. A. B. F. Awards this year. I did. Yeah. And so is it seltzer in there too? Or no?

Or no. God, I hope not, but probably at this point. It's like, oh, what? Not enough. You gotta get fucking ciders in there. Like that's. Yeah. Let that be a different award ceremony.

Here's the only thing because I'm an inclusive person. So I like to think about like, okay, there's a lot of people gluten issues.

Sure. Go go right. Yeah. Right. I know. But it's just such a huge part of the population that like you got one in every group. So it's like, you know, including the.

Sisters one of them. Hey, do you know she's ever pregnant flex? What? She hasn't even gotten married. Right. I know what a whore. God damn it.

You get the best brother award. You're after your. Never fails.

Yeah, I just they're not the same thing. Like ciders just apples, sometimes hops and yeast. Yeah. Very interesting. Yeah. I don't know. It sounded like they had a. Okay, talking about G. A. B. F. I sounded like they had a much more exciting year. Of course, Greg. We all went last year.

But they had just kind of overwhelmed. We were underwhelmed, but they hadn't had one. Wasn't that the first one in so many years? I think it was the second one.

Was it okay. Yeah, because they had one in 22. I thought maybe they did. So Fontana Jim apparently went this year and he said it was pretty good. Yeah, we should have gone this year then.

Right. That would have been exciting. Just having Fontana Jim there talking shit about the fact that they I don't know they don't have grocery bags for your samples or some weird thing.

Talking. I could listen to that guy talk shit about anything. I mean, just being angry about anything. In fact, yeah.

Yeah. Well, like being angry about like the small things in life. Yeah. That is amazing. I wish I could be pissed about that shit.

And he was happy about you. Yeah. So that might have been him. That's a pretty high bar. Like positive things to say.

There was like Luchilebre. There was all the stuff going. Yeah. Luchilebre. What was there last year? A band that's not Luchilebre.

Luchilebre. That sucked. Oh, they were really bad. We already talked, you know, but still, Luchilebre this year. Yeah. We intimately know how bad the bands are because they saddled you right next to the stage.

Next to the stage is total shit. But yeah, I think they really stepped it up this year. Maybe people complained that there just wasn't enough going on.

So just wanted to throw that out there. I was a little excited and disappointed at the same time. Maybe we'll have to go back. Maybe Nashville first. Oh, it was switcher. No. I don't know. We got a long list Finland. Sorry. Sorry.

Romania. That's a new one. Romania. Romania. They came up there before. I know South Korea's come up. Wait, which Korea is the good Korea?

I always forget. I just have the friend who came back there. Okay. Yeah. I always forget. They're good one. They've come up a couple times. Obviously Finland all the time. India a couple times.

Yeah. We got gas up to make dreamy boat and start hitting the let's do it. The countries. Yeah.

All right. North Dakota. All right. Yeah. Don't break. Well, I guess you can give away pretzels in North Dakota. Just selling pretzels. I'll send them the stalemates. Here's my fucking leftovers losers.

All right. Before we get into some news, let me wax on about what I'm drinking over here. What should you drink it?

We call to the bullpen for beer. I am drinking trademark brewing. I think this is my first trademark brewing trademark brewing code breaker West Coast IPA.

7.2% 75 IB use has a 384 on untapped about 1500 ratings. They say cryo SIMCO plus cryo mosaic light in color dry and big on dank stone fruit.

Your stone fruit fruit fan, right? So. Okay. Yeah. On the ocean of the room.

Fairly light. I'm mostly getting like the pine and bitter on the schnauz maybe like some pith like some orange pith or something. But it's really really not fruity. It's really more bitter smelling on the old with an E tongue.

Nice very medieval really follows suit. It's it's really old school in the sense that it's it's dank and bitter and piney.

I get I don't get a ton of stone fruit for being honest I get more citrus. I can get some like great fruit and orange pith. It's like the pith of the of the citrus.

Stone fruit maybe a little bit but really real dank it's it's a really old school IPA except instead of being a loaf of bread they went with a lighter malt bill which I think you can see.

Yeah it's pretty right. Yeah very very clear. Yeah which I pretty I don't like those old fucking liquid bread loafs those little room your night and blow chop once again to your 30s.

Nice full me head. Good good lacing good head on there and so anyways not bad. I you know 384. Yeah sure. I trust. I might you know 375 somewhere in there but it's a wheelhouse. Yeah.

I wouldn't turn it down. There you go. Okay trademark. Yeah thanks trader Joe's. I look a bottle shop trader Joe. Okay. I haven't been in a while but I do like the winter styles they put out.

Yeah. You know I was there it's effective just today and they have like the Joseph bra whatever October fest beers. Okay. I haven't had one forever I almost got one for the show just for old time sake I was like I remember me in that great.

This kind of booze it on a budget. Yeah maybe I'll bring that segment back. Go to churches. They put out they're like 299 for the bomber.

Yeah it's pretty decent beer. Well and they get a lot of stuff from who is it that I'm titled. Yeah that's a lot. Yeah who's the other half like octopi whatever. Yeah they put out Campanology.

And that's what it is. Yeah I can't believe I just thought of that some of their stuff is pretty good. Yeah that's exactly what I'm referring to. Yeah I'll see if they put anything out recently Campanology haven't seen them in a while.

But who knows. All right little little business for you out of here. Stone is going to get more boring.

2025 plan for stone brewing is addition by subtraction they're going to be discontinuing several quotes unproductive brands and packages nationally including special releases.

The enjoy by series and large format bottles in order to put a heavy emphasis on core brands.

Which is now under the Japanese beer giant sporo will lean on its core portfolio of stone IPA goody stone delicious and Buena Vesa Mexican style logger and the recently launched stone pilsener which I've never seen or had.

Never seen that. Okay glad it's not just me as well as it's six and twelve pack cans can packages next year stone pilsener will go.

Oh here we go still stone pilsener will go nationwide in 2025 4.7% logger launched in the company's core Southern California market earlier this year you get a first grade.

Oh I can't wait to try it.

DM me some. Maybe they'll send me some free shit. No I told the fuck off.

Yeah way to go stone lean into your fucking stone IPA that no one drinks anymore so gross so gross.

I like the point of aza but I don't know that one then they sold out.

You talking about the Mexican logger yeah.

It's so funny because the boy to Vesa was originally their celtzer line and it did horribly and they just transferred it over the logger.

That's a bone of aza logger the cans were really cool. Yeah I didn't like that lime flavor they added to it was too fake.

Oh see and I like that. Oh no it's too fake for me. You know if I want lime I'll fucking add lime they're not in shortage fair enough.

Yeah. Yeah stone IPA stone delicious I mean delicious is fine honestly the fact they're getting rid of enjoy by I think is a huge mistake.

I was like one of their better beers I thought and whatever I feel like this is the beginning of the end for stone they're going to be over corporateized and what left what's left that people still liked.

They're getting rid of so whatever.

Jack's Abby parent company to acquire night shift brewing Jack's Abby and Henler farm brewing company are adding another Massachusetts brewery to their portfolio.

HFB has agreed to purchase ever mass choose its based night shift brewing the company announced last Tuesday with the deal HFB becomes mass to choose its.

Not easy to say after a few beers. Good job great good with the old tongue job.

I think you're failing me become their largest craft beer producer with a projected annual production of a hundred thousand barrels in 2025 the joint company will employ 300 people including the vast majority of night shifts existing team according to the press release.

No financial details were disclosed.

So I'm not great with geography but isn't massachusetts like the smallest state no is it like Delaware Delaware okay to look at the news that no road island so you're right okay but because I'm like it's the largest craft beer producer massachusetts you know when he's

targeting toward the east coast like all those tiny little like official upon the mean yeah good for them yeah to the Vermont or Rhode Island no it's wrote yeah you're right Rhode Island.

Yeah I was way off yeah Rhode Island is a small state in the United States by area covering 1,214 square miles okay there you go.

A few weeks ago we talked about till ray purchasing more breweries more the most encores they got at water hot valley tarot pen yeah yeah yeah well we finally know how much they paid for all these breweries.

So that water hot valley tarot pen and revolver brewing for a combined price of any guesses any guesses forty dollars.

Okay close real close Erica any guesses on the price you know I have a personal beef with this so it better be a damn lot because they still owe me money no joke which one owes you money till right.

So tell Ray owes you money till Ray.

Oh show money yes so finish this I will tell you my story but the better they better be in like serious debt from this because they should be able to write me a freaking check.

Well for those breweries they paid twenty three point zero seven nine million dollars yeah okay so they get send me a few.

Ks and it shouldn't be a problem that's they still owe you money yes for those they ordered less than two thousand shock top necklaces pretzel wheat necklaces and if they're in voice has been due for like.

Twenty days and I keep reaching out so and and that actually though to be fair is pretty common with these big companies I have another big food beverage company they're always late they don't really care to follow up and they pay.

But I'm just like okay nice nice till right yeah look at how much you're dropping right there and I got you know I got employees I need to pay here come on but damn what a bombshell right so yeah I'm not going to be like jumping to do business for.

Again or whatever but yeah I was checking. Let's let's see how many buses we can drive how was Sam Adams were they were they easy to deal with oh Sam Adams was amazing like that's no immediately yeah yeah so that that you know and they are large right I mean they're.

Without yeah crossing that line for not being craft anymore so yeah Sam Adams was pretty great in their culture I think is much better right shock tops last chillerie yeah I can put your lives together we.

We're going on yeah we're pretty good. Terrible actually I have had nothing. No. Nothing.

I mean better than regular shout-talk yeah no it is better than regular shout-out but I'll take nothing fantastic yeah it's not the best there is and now even worse that they have not.

Worked out there and the bargain so just going by some crap breweries and just forget about the little guy can you really stick it to shock top you should go buy some blue moon.

Who's really so for their company yeah you are that's a choice yeah nobody wins nobody wins.

All right we'll end it on this one I always love talking about drunk teachers because it just makes me laugh for some reason yeah.

Ancne school employee arrested for public intoxication at Centennial High School this is an Iowa according to a criminal complaint on Wednesday school staff at

Inc. Nesentennial High School notice one of their co-workers 50 year old Sarah Halber was acting strangely the complaint says she was being loud and that her breath smelled like alcohol.

During a search of Halber's classroom school ministries found an empty diet Pepsi bottle that smelled like alcohol the complaint states the

Ancne school department was contacted and when they arrived they noted that Halber displayed signs of impairment like slurred speech blood shot water eyes and an odor of alcohol coming from her person.

Halber performed a preliminary breath test which showed a blood alcohol content of point to 262 wow.

Actions she should have been on the ground that's a lot of booze.

When I was a search her purse they found three open bottles of Seagrim seven crown blended whiskey she has been charged with public intoxication that's the least of her worries public intoxication.

Wow you said she had it in Pepsi. Yeah there's a diet Pepsi which also.

So first of all this is be seven and seven Seagrim seven and seven up right.

She went wrong there. That's one of my first drinks ever.

Except for maybe I would mix it with Dr. Pepper probably above diet Pepsi so she went wrong there.

I'd mix it with nothing above diet Pepsi. Ty Pepsi to me is disgusting. You're disgusting. How dare you die a coke all the way.

Yeah.

That's right.

But diet Pepsi is such a nice change up.

Pepsi zero. Oh man Pepsi zero is so good.

Hey you know what's weird and Portugal there was no diet coke it was all Coke zero.

I love coke zero.

That's zero.

Yeah I like coke zero. I was just weird there was not one diet coke on the entire trip is all coke zero.

I think because Diet Coke has a spare to main or whatever it's called.

Asper team.

Asper team.

Yeah.

And Europe is like hey stupid Americans we don't want that.

It's Pepsi.

What do you know to Mexico they have coke light.

Yeah that's what they called it in Portugal coke light and it was coke zero.

Okay.

Oh okay.

But no Diet Coke just coke and coke zero or coke light so.

But yeah Pepsi tastes like booty juice.

Yeah.

There you go.

Boogie juice and seven.

Right Miss Halber.

Just up your mix.

Yeah so gross.

That alcohol going to kill all the booty germs.

You better hope.

Well now we know juicy booty.

Yes juicy booty.

One of my first drinks like my ex's grandpa was like I think I was like 18 17 or 18 so I was like

hey you want a drink and I was like yeah all right you know giving underage kid drink I'll

fucking take it.

I drink seven on seven.

I was like yeah whatever that is I'll take it.

It was of course Seagrams and seven and seven up.

Yep same there as one of my first drinks.

Yeah.

Wasn't horrible.

I got a nice buzz and yeah it's good times.

Yeah.

Pepsi and Seagrams.

Not a thing.

That's whoosh.

Oh, the type of anything.

Boof.

Yeah.

Yes or dumb.

Sorry.

Is that a Midwest tank flex like does everybody out there drink diapy?

I don't think so.

I was like I was raised as a Pepsi family.

Hmm.

Do you lost the Pepsi challenge?

Oh, Jesus.

No, I just.

Do you ever drink Pepsi clear?

Do you just like stop it?

Chris.

What?

I know it's a real thing.

I do miss Pepsi with the lemon twist.

Hmm.

That was the best Pepsi.

But I grew up on Pepsi.

So I got sick of it at a certain age.

Got into die coke, but we'll still dabble back with die Pepsi just, you know, nostalgia purposes.

You liking Pepsi with the lime twist or lemon twist or whatever explains what you like

boi Nevesa with their gross ass.

It was cold.

Pepsi twist.

It was amazing.

It's all coming into focus now.

Okay.

And I tell you what, nothing compliments like a cheese case idea better than an

ice cold glass of Pepsi.

I could they go like 900 things.

No, no, you can't.

No, you can't.

Yeah.

How about a cool?

I or Dr. Pepper.

Pepsi is better.

Yeah.

Dr. Pepper.

Yeah.

Well, you're all wrong.

I'm just going to put it out there.

I might even take a shock top pretzel wheat.

Greg.

What do you think?

I don't know.

Big words.

Fightin' words.

No.

I have.

I have.

Yeah.

Multiple times.

Like I've gone somewhere and been like, hey, can I get a jack and diet?

And like, oh, we have diet Pepsi.

Is that okay?

And I go, no, I will take a beer.

Not bad.

I just hate diet Pepsi.

That's crazy.

Hmm.

Close my mind.

Never got to do a blind soda test.

Yeah.

Oh, you'll be able to tell.

Yeah.

I think it's a pretty obvious difference.

Yeah.

The people who can't tell, like, what's wrong with you?

Anyways.

All right.

Let's wrap things up.

Let's hit some music.

Let's say hi to Vanessa.

Hi Vanessa.

Hi Vanessa.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

She's getting weirder and weirder.

Erica, thanks for hanging with us.

Cool.

Yeah.

Sorry, I was.

Oh, Peter's saying.

Yeah.

I didn't really see Erica's wearing her Nashville shirt.

And all I can think of is any time Erica goes to Nashville.

She gets injured.

Busted her ankle in.

I didn't even feel a little busted up.

I had a good ass time and I saw John Bonjo.

So, you know, every time she gets busted up, I always live in on her prayer.

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