Well, the last time Mel had a beer too, she was like, it's good. It's good. That's how I describe it. Like she really didn't like it. So she was like, it's good. Not my favorite, but I don't hate it.

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for hanging. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. Lots of things. I am being joined by everyone's paternal favorite, big daddy Flexi over there. Hey, thanks for having me.

Oh, thanks for being had. Hi daddy. Oh, daddy. And joining us from the Arctic tundra from, uh, I don't know, was it like negative 10 degrees yesterday? Uh, yesterday was 50 degrees.

The day before that was negative 30. Yes. I take a little offense to that. All right. We're the frozen tundra. Wisconsin definitely takes the cake I think, but it has been utterly cold here. Yes. But Wisconsin's ready for it. They're like, Hey, you know what?

It's a fucking Tuesday. It's below zero. No big deal. It's not that we're ready for it, but we're used to it. It's a big difference. You kind of like half expect it's why you have so many fucking bars. You can go warm up when it's that cold. Yeah, I guess you're not wrong. Yeah. I don't know.

Any who, thank you all for drinking and joining with us. Like I said, don't forget to follow us on the socials, craft beer Republic, flex me a beer underscores in between. Of course, beer girl underscore Melissa. Follow us like us, stock us, uh, do dirty things to our photos please.

And of course, 805-538-beer. I've never had a stalker, so that would be something new for me. Okay. We can work on that. I'm borderline there for you. Yeah, but that's like, it's different cause I like it. Okay. I don't think that makes it like a stalker. That's fair.

Yeah. I'll, I'll see if I can get someone creepier to do it. All right, let's go. Yeah. I'm going up. My creeping is a 805-538-beer. All right. So much to get to. We have a voicemail from the homie. Chew your beer. I have a lot to cover. It's been quite a couple of weeks. A super bowl is coming up.

Valentine's day is coming up. We're going to talk about all of it, but before we get there, uh, Mel is looking quite sober over there and I will have none of it. Yeah, what she's drinking.

I'm really excited because I have other half today. This is their number three anniversary. So everyone looks forward to other half anniversary week. And I only choose a couple this year and I have number three today, which is a collab with burial.

It is a West Coast and I got to show you this because not that the audience can see it, but we know other half for their very New York, uh, new England style IPA. And this is a West Coast and it is clear translucent. Um, 6.8% brewed with burial.

Like I said, we use classic West Coast IPA hops to build a profile of pineapple, citrus and pine, and then I pulled up on top because I'm really boring when it comes to describing beer and this is not better. Can I just tell you, this is what they wrote on, on top. We've spent more time with our friends at burial than we would care to admit.

Ouch. We first met up about seven years ago. We randomly stumbled into their Collier location in Asheville around 10 PM one night. And here we are again celebrating another anniversary with our best worst friend. Simcoe, Amarillo, Centennial and Cascade. I know, right?

I feel like you kind of drew some shade at burial, but anyway, we talked about the color. Let's get a little nose sniff. Really not a lot. I don't get any of the pineapple. I do kind of smell the pine. I'm kind of surprised at that. All right, let's give it a sip.

Classic classic West Coast again. Would not necessarily expect that from other half, but we're talking before the show. Now I get that pineapple. It's on the back end. Really, really nice. Wow. That was surprising. We've been into West Coast IPA slightly, which is kind of weird for us.

I feel like we do like. I've really been loving the clear beer. This doesn't leave any hop residue in the back. Flex that pineapple. Watch it right out. This is outstanding. It's not that it's weird that we buy that we've been getting into West Coast. Like you don't think so.

You think they're more readily available these days. It's not that the readily available. That's essentially the reason a lot of us started getting into IPAs, right? There was always the classics, right? You're getting any local brewery craft brewery around.

It was just like a super, super piney, bitter touch of citrus, whether it's the orange or the grapefruit. And that's the reason we all started drinking the IPA. I guess so. I mean, I know. I guess it's just I'm glad it's coming back and I'm here.

I agree with that. I had an Uber driver asking me about beer the other day. So you like IPAs? You know, it's like he doesn't really know about beer. He just like knows there's some other styles besides Bud Light. And I was like, yeah, I like IPAs. Like, have you always liked IPAs? I was like, I mean, I didn't like the first couple I tried.

It's a little bit of an acquired taste. But now I do. You know, back in the early 2000s or whatever it was, the only IPAs around. The heyday. Yeah. The early days. Only IPAs around were those ones that fucking shatter your teeth with bitterness. I was like, so it took some getting used to it. But now they're a little more balanced.

That's exactly how it was. The first couple IPAs I had, you know, you don't love them because you're not used to that bitterness. Just like rips your tongue apart. And I turned 30 and I don't know what the hell it was, if my body chemistry changed

or my taste buds changed or what. But all I needed and wanted were IPAs. Having care for this fucking West Coast, if it was a milkshake, if it was a hazy, IPAs immediately became my jam. Yeah, that's that was me for a while, too.

And then it was like, oh, there's other styles I should try. Yeah. Yeah. And then you kind of forget about those every now and then because, you know, because I'm a basic bitch. Not going to lie. Sometimes they carry some higher ABVs and that's, you know, one third of the reason why I buy most of the beer I buy. That's true.

It fits that algorithm better. Oh, about the algorithm. I just want to point out that this is their ninth anniversary. So kudos to you guys that other half. This is really, really fantastic. I'm super impressed with this beer. I'm drinking out of a glass from a brewery that doesn't exist anymore.

Maybe I jinxed them. Oh, oh, anyways. Oh, very nice. I have a lot to cover. I'll make this as quick as possible. Let me get the popcorn. Yeah. That Michael Jackson meme where he's just eating the popcorn.

I am finally able to taste because I had COVID for like the last 12 days. Dang, dang. Yeah. How are you feeling? You're all right. As of today, I'm still technically testing positive. That line was ever so faint this morning.

Yeah. Well, you're one of those shedders. I know. By day 11, though, CDC says you're pretty much good to go if you're not symptomatic. You did lose your taste. You're smell also? I did. I did. Friday, a couple of weeks ago, I started to feel sick. Like Thursday, I had a sore throat. I was like, that's the winds.

And then Friday, I was like, oh, I think I had a cold coming on. So I tested Friday. I was negative. And then Saturday, I woke up and I was like, oh, I'm pretty sure I just got ran over by a fucking stampede of horses and tested. I was like, sure enough, COVID, which first time I've gotten it since the OG strain in

February 2020. So that's I dodged a few bullets there. I'm kind of shocked that you lost your taste, though. Yes. I think there's like a side effect that has gone away. I think it doesn't happen that often anymore. But you said you had COVID already. So it's always different in the people that have had it once before.

I mean, you know, right. Well, I've never actually had it, though. Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. But it's not on record anywhere. Yeah. The world may never know.

Yeah. Yeah. My mom had a few weeks back lost her taste for a while, too. So Saturday, I tested positive. Sunday, I was like, oh, no, I think I'm losing my taste and smell. And by the end of Sunday, it was gone. By late Monday, my taste was coming back, but my smell was like a day behind.

So by today, I'd say my taste is almost 100. It's like 95%. My smell, we'll put it somewhere in the 80s percentile. Good year. Yeah. 85. Great year. I had to miss Emo Fest over at Pails and Pints because that's a bummer.

Yeah. The good news is I finally was able to go out. Day 11 for me was, you know, when you're allowed to break free and stuff, was Nicole's birthday. And she was over at Pale Fest at Institution. So went over to Pale Fest.

It was awesome. All the locals submitted a pale ale for Pale Fest. And I love me a pale ale. It's like my favorite style. So we did some damage over there for her birthday. And happy belated birthday to Coley. Yes.

Happy birthday. Yes. Happy birthday, Coley. Yeah. So that was a blast. Institution did a good job. And Monica was there. They submitted a beer. Her husband, James, who also works at Enneagrin, was there. They had a beer. Have they ever collabed on a beer that you know of? Not yet, I don't think.

Because that would be pretty badass. Yeah. You'd think they can make that happen. Yeah. I'm not really the idea guy. But if I am. Enneagrin and Pedals did collab on a beer. I'm sure James was a part of that to some extent. They have to call it the Craft Beer Republic if they do it.

No. They should. Oh, Spencer was there. The homie Spencer showed up. I texted him. Because we were supposed to go to Casa Agria's anniversary the day I tested positive. So obviously I didn't go to that. I was sad about that too. So I was like, hey, come out to Pale Fest.

So he came out. And then afterwards, he had to go to work at Bottle and Pint, which is a local bottle shop. And he's like, stop by. So we Ubered from... Well, actually, Nicole dropped us off and then we Ubered from Bottle and Pint home. But yeah, we stopped by. Because we needed a couple more beers. Always. I got with him a little bit longer.

Yeah. So that was a good time. It was a nice first day out of the house. My first jail break. And you woke up okay the next day? Yeah. Should I not have? Well, no. I'm just saying, did you drink a little too much after not drinking for 11 days? Maybe a little bit. I woke up with just the slightest bit of toastiness.

Nothing too bad. Nothing that a couple cups of coffee and a little breakfast couldn't handle. Was it not that Dr. Pepper couldn't take care of? Yeah. I mean, it wasn't that bad. And there's no Dr. Pepper in the house. So luckily, it was okay. But yeah, it was a good time. Did the wife get it? She did not. No.

Once I tested positive, we separated and slept in different rooms. And it worked. Yeah, it worked. So when she had it in August, I never got it. I had it in August. I had it when she did, I think. I think me and Shannon had it at the same time. That was a rough strain. I don't know what the other ones were like, but I had my blackout curtains closed.

I didn't leave my room for four and a half days. Dude, Saturday and Sunday was rough. I was hallucinating. What, dude? The worst part. Yeah, like Saturday. High fever. Yeah. Well, I was checking. Every time I checked, I never got above 100. It wasn't that high. That's weird.

Or my thermometers broke. But the COVID affected you neurologically because you had no sense of smell or taste. So maybe there's another portion of it now hitting the frontal lobe. Maybe so, because the COVID brain, dude. Yeah, that shit was real. It was hard to wake up and function.

I took Monday off of work completely. I only worked a half day on Tuesday, and I'm working from home. And Tuesday, my coworkers call me, ask me questions. I just straight up said, you got to stop calling me. I was like, we're going to have to wait till three o'clock to discuss this, because I just got nothing in me right now. It's all foggy, and it was nuts.

Saturday, I was doing that thing where we're half asleep, half seeing shit. It was nuts. Wow. That's crazy. That's crazy. Yeah. For me, I was just basically completely out of it. I was super dizzy every time. Well, yeah. If he had COVID. May or may not have.

When I may or may not have had it. Just super out of it. And then every time I would stand up, I'd get super dizzy. That was a huge side effect for me. Yeah. The first couple of days, I was super dizzy. But if I laid down, all I wanted to do was fall asleep, and I just tried to watch movies

and fall asleep and movies and fall asleep. Yeah. I watched so many documentaries. Such a fucking nerd. And also, Flex did definitely have COVID with me, even though he's not willing to admit it. He didn't test, but me and my best friend Diana were so sick. And then Flex and I were just watching movies together.

Is that what we did? That's when we watched Master of the Universe. Yeah. He's like, you want to watch this movie now? I'm like, yep. I'm like, it's pitch black in this room, except for this TV for days. That was a cool thing to watch the same movie at the same time as somebody else. And then we would just message every time something funny or cool happened.

We're such dorks. Well, yes. I tell you, the first three days, just 24-7 NyQuil, I have not slept so good in my life. I definitely got some makeup sleep there. I snore when I'm wasted drunk, like bad. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. If I'm drunk, I always fall asleep on my back. I'm like... I think my tongue curls inside my throat or something. I was like, you wake up with a desert on your tongue. You feel like you were smoking the night before. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's the worst. Like a cat-textured tongue. Yeah.

Oh, it's so bad. Gross. Dude, what a gross description. I know. But that is what it feels like. Does that not happen to you ever? Oh, it's absolutely... No, it's 100% accurate, which is why it's even grosser. But yeah, man, I'm glad to be out of that.

I still got a little drip and I'm still coughing from the post-nasal drip. But dude, I am coughing up some funky shit too. Like, good God. I don't give details. Yeah, thick concrete secretion. Oh my God, I could build a fucking house over here. That is like the most non-attractive word ever.

It's secretion. Yeah. It's a big moist secretion. I am a nurse, guys. So this is right up my alley. Just imagine somebody turned to you. Somebody talk to you like, give me all of that secretion. Right? It just...

Need some porno music. There's the door. Oh, one last thing. Before I got COVID, we went to... Institution was having a tap takeover night for Mumford Brewing, who we talked about was

closing or closed. And it was like their last hurrah. They had some kegs left. So Institution was nice enough to buy them and then let people come and do a tap takeover. So we got a nice little last hurrah of Mumford Brewing. Oh, that was cool. Yeah, it was nice. It was cool. So they have some of the best hazies out here or did.

So that was sad. I think that's everything. You guys feeling good? No COVIDs over there? No, we were just on lazy mode today. Nice. Not that we're in the same place, but we just did the... We always have Mondays off, flexing myself.

So usually we have lunch beers. Like I have a whole routine I do every Monday. Same. Sunday fun day was a little too fun. So I was like, you know what? I got to just be home. Mel did a brunch tour.

We did do a brunch tour. I've never even heard of that before. We made it up. It's not a real thing. Oh, see, you had me convinced it was like a New York thing. How much fun with that? I feel like someone, if anyone is listening, please start doing brunch tours on Sundays.

Instead of a bar crawl or something. You used to do a fucking brunch tour? No, me and Tiger were just like, let's stop at all the places. We're just going to hop to all of our favorite places, have a drink and then a food item and move on to the next one. But the merriment was large.

It was large. We also went to a winter festival called Cabin Fever at Drownlands on Saturday, which was the coldest day of this. It was so much fun, but so fucking cold.

They had these heaters and it wasn't like, well, the wind had stopped, thank God. So it didn't feel like that. When the wind was blowing, it was like out of control. It didn't feel like that. I think it was like 15 degrees and that felt like balmy and warm. Oh, that's so much better.

15 was great. I totally know what she's talking about. Yeah, because if that wind is cutting through you, it kills you. But if there's no wind, it's manageable. But they had these heaters and the heaters were running out of steam, I think. They just weren't working.

The outdoor heaters that look pretty with the flame inside, you guys know what I'm talking about. Not those real good ones that have the actual flame on the outside. The pretty ones don't work as good. I was hugging it. I was hugging it and my whole body wrapped down in it. It wasn't hot enough to burn me. So they were ineffective.

Yeah, we had those at my wife's Christmas party and we were doing the exact... We were touching it the entire time. We're like, can we just get a little more warmth? Shouldn't fire be hot? Yeah, they did have fire pits. It was really fun. The event was awesome. They had this gorgeous, gorgeous ice bar that was carved and had their logo in it.

And they were doing fireball shots down an ice luge. So naturally, we did partake in some of that. Except I don't think it was fireball at that time. They had run out already. You can't believe how many people showed up too, by the way. These tickets we bought in December and everybody that bought a ticket, I think, showed up.

It was packed. Jeez. They had special stouts on draft. They had great beer. It was just a really good time. We had a bunch of craft beer people from the community, from the Northeastern sector. We're like this tri-state area beer community.

So we got to hang out with them and yeah, it was great. It was great. So it was a good weekend. Sounds like fun. Sounds like a much better weekend than I had. You didn't hang out and get drunk in negative 15 degree weather or whatever? Oh, I mean, I got drunk, but you know, more or less just picked up a few hazies.

And I did not have one single hazy in my fridge because phase three. Well, here's some big news, right? So phase three is no longer my favorite brewery. Uh oh. Bum bum bum. Yeah.

Which one is? They are now going through an independent... Oh wow. Yeah, they're going through like an independent, pretentious craft beer distribution company now. Uh.

So, you know, which for them, it's a great thing, right? They don't have to self distribute their beer anymore. I'm sure they don't have to. They don't have to jack up prices. And it's jacked up. Well, that's why they're not my favorite anymore. Yeah. They fell out of that algorithm. Yeah, all of their doubles are up two to three dollars per four pack.

And that's just not, it's falling out of my wheelhouse, man. I tell you, Koli's husband, Nick, bought a four pack over the weekend. He's like, Flex would not have approved. It's this pale ale out here from Casa Agra. It's so fucking good. If anybody from SoCal has had it, they'll know. It's called Oxnard, which is the city that Casa Agra is in.

He said it was 21 bucks a four pack. Jeez. What was the ABV? Five and a half. Probably. Oh, man. So, like, listen, guys, that's going right in New York. I don't know. Like, you're not going to find anything cheaper than that. I don't think D96 every once in a while will have a 16 dollar four pack and they really

pump it. But it's one of their lower ABV is it's a Kohl's or like a lager or something of that 16 bucks. Yeah. Like, is that expensive or that? Yes, that is. Yeah. You have to if I'm having if I have a four pack Kohl's that I'm buying, honestly, if

it's a twelve dollars, ten dollars, I'm probably not buying that. There's no such thing. I want another four pack out here. There is no such thing. No, maybe we're just lucky out here. I don't know. Yeah. You got to look for the specials at Beer World to find one of those.

Remember, we found that big cranky like when I first met you and I was like sent you and I shred the four pack and you guys looked up like this is actually a good buy. It was like nine ninety nine or seven ninety nine. I think even I was like, I'm picking this up because it's seventy nine ninety nine a four pack.

It was pretty decent. It was like nine percent. Yeah. You sent me a lot of stuff. Yeah. Speaking of sending shit, shout out to Brian over at Titletown hooked me up with some Titletown beers. Did he really? Yeah. So I'm right on the bar. I owe him some beer and Covid kind of delayed my shipping.

So I will get that out. I promise. Cheers, Brian. Yeah. Honestly, remember the episode where we talk shit about people from out of state wanting plenty? Yeah. Yeah. That week he's like, hey, man, do you think you can send me plenty? I was like, OK, I can get my hands on it.

So that's funny. Yeah. So thanks, bro. Well, you're shouting out that, Brian. I'm not shouting out other Brian. He still hasn't paid up the World Cup. Talk about shipping. Yeah. Wow. He's starting to turn into like the booze league over there.

Now I'm up on his bet. Might as well just start calling him Wiley the intern or something. It's real harsh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. Yeah. I didn't mean that. Brian, we're kidding. Except for the not shipping beer part. Yeah.

The World Cup was like before Christmas, man. Come on. Sure. Yeah. I don't remember. I do my best to forget soccer. Shut up, Greg. All right. Before we check in with the homie, let's check in with the most important question of the night. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only

one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue, one tongue jobber. In this world, we must find out what is flex drinking. All right. Well, classic flex.

I was super lazy today. Like Mel said, her and I just both hung in the house on same off days, but different places. Super weird. Different houses, different estates. So I'm drinking some Eagle Park classic flex.

It is their immortal soul. It's their oldest. Let me see if I'm getting this right. It's either the first or the oldest or both IPA they've ever done. So the entire recipe stays the same, but they always switch up the hop combo.

Oh, okay. Whenever they brew it. Rotating hop series. Yeah. So it's pretty neat. And I actually just found this out about two or three weeks ago. So this is their Imperial West Coast style IPA brewed with citra and mosaic cryo hops.

I would read you the untapped, but golly gee, it's just the same exact thing that I just read you off the can. It is an 8.2% beer. It is coppery. It is wonderfully clean and clear.

It leaves wonderful lacing, as you can see on the top of my glass. I've been trying to save it for you. So I haven't been drinking too much. So on the old schnauzer. His nose hides behind the lacing.

It is. This is so Mel picked up pine in hers. I'm not picking up too much pine here. It's almost like it's like citrusy, almost like honey ask some herbal coming through.

And then without further ado, here we go. Here we go. You get the old tongue jobber in there. I don't know why that'll never get old, but it won't. It will never get old ever confirmed. Okay. So at 8.2%, I would say this is about medium body, you know, and breweries call their IPAs

chewy. Yeah. I would consider this a bit chewy for being an 8.2 Imperial West Coast. It's not super bitter. There's definitely a little bit on the back end to it. Trying to find some notes here. Give me, give me one more second as he chooses beer.

I almost feel like I'm getting like some passion fruit guava and then the pine kind of hits you, but it's just one. It's like a touch sweet. Like it's super wonderful. I don't know how else to explain that.

Very well balanced. It really is. And the carbonation is fucking perfect. Nice. Like it's not like you get that effervescence where it gets in your mouth and it, you know, just feels bubbly immediately and kind of like, but you know, fizzes up and this is,

yeah, this is really phenomenal beer. But like I said, every week or whenever I go there, these guys, they probably do the best stuff in the state, especially like per volume and per price and just everybody who works there. It's just the fucking best stop you can ever find in the state.

So the algorithm, right? The can art, it's a snake eating itself. Right. Super gnarly. 8.2% super solid ABV. You find this thing in the wild. It's like 999. Oh, I see.

I need Eagle. That's fucking insane. Yeah. And the can art really reminds me of an Omnipolo can that I've seen before. I don't know why it's very reminiscent of that. I recognize that. I feel you on that one. You know what I'm talking about?

I really do. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. No, there's a, it looks very, that's what I thought originally, even though you told me what you were drinking. I saw the camera and I'm like, oh, that's Omnipolo. No, it's not. Yeah.

I'll believe you if you show me. Yeah. Proofer doesn't exist. Okay. I'm going to have to set foot in beer world then. All right. Well, very nice. Before you guys start fighting, let's check in with the homie. True your beer, see what's going on over there.

Hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. What are they homies? Crab Beer Republic, True Your Beer here. I call it in to wish Coley a merry, merry, happy birthday, homie.

Feliz cumpleaños to Coley, homie, homegirl. You got this. I'm feeling a little good, homie. I'm a little buzzed. I had one beer only. I'm not lightweight because I skipped lunch, homie. I had a pure project.

Hops on repeat, 10.38% ABV. Amazing hazy, homie. I slammed that sucker down fast. Just a quick little recap over the weekend. Coley, I apologize for not being out there to celebrate your birthday at institutions.

Pale Fest, that would have been a fucking bomb ass thing. But on Friday, took the wife out of my family, my brother, my sister, and their significant others to Highland Park Brewery. Walked in, homie, and funny, crazy thing. Some dude recognized me from Florida, a listener, not of Crab Beer Republic.

He might listen to Crab Beer Republic by the name of Junior Beer Wobbler, but he's also a listener of The Perfect Four. Hey, no re-plugs. Recognized me. We chopped it up. We had two other people from Fontana that know Fontana Jims, so we had a little get

it. That's what that podcast calls it when they have listeners that listen to their podcast and talk about the show and they have a get it, homie, which was fucking crazy. Something that just happened. People recognize... Florida guy in LA recognized me, homie.

How crazy is that? It's not crazy, homie. I'm fucking chew your beer, homie. Shit happens every time I walk in a fucking brewery, homie. Anyways, did that, and then we made arrangements to meet up at Shadow Grove for a couple more beers on Sunday, so that's why I couldn't make it out there.

Coley, I apologize. I had to hang out with my fans. Just kidding. I had to show them some good beers. Other than that, Coley, once again, happy, feliz cumpleaños, homie, homegirl.

Greg, hopefully you're feeling better. Flex. I'm getting tired of flexing, homie. I'm getting tired of watching you and that tight ass and those fucking muscles just bulging out. I want you to do a little video of you eating a fucking cheeseburger for me, please, to

make me feel better. All right. You do eat that shit. This is Chew Your Beer. You have to watch it, homies. Peace out, eh? For the record, I am not tired of that tight ass. Daddy. One, Chew, you are very humble. Jeez. And two, I follow the beer wobbler.

He's got three doorways. His head's huge. You follow the beer wobbler? I do follow him. He's part of my world. We don't do it anymore, but we used to do a Saturday chug, like a Zoom chug, every Saturday at 6 p.m. and he was a part of it.

So I know exactly who you're talking about. That guy is dope. Glad you got to meet him. You better listen to the show for all that free plugging you did over there. I'm just going to remember that the next time I have a beer without eating lunch, that I'm not a lightweight. I just didn't eat.

It's a good excuse. Yeah, it's true. You with that tight ass. Yeah, the tight ass. I'm going to give this motherfucker a cheeseburger video now. Do you eat cheeseburgers? Like, you eat cheeseburgers? A, who doesn't love cheeseburgers? But B, you can never have them single, right? It's got to be a double or a triple. Oh, it just doesn't taste right if it's a single. Yeah, right. Like, it's not even like a real cheeseburger then.

The ratio. It was the perfect ratio. Yeah, you got to have the perfect ratio. Yeah, the ratio. It's not even like a real cheeseburger. No, no. It's not even like a real cheeseburger. It's not even like a real cheeseburger then. There's an algorithm for buying beer and there's an algorithm for eating cheeseburgers.

Exactly. So, thanks Chu for calling in. 805-538-BEER, 2337 if you guys want to call and leave a voicemail. Before I do my beer reveal, let's do a story first. Kings and Convicts, if you remember, they're the ones that bought Ballast Point for pennies

on the dollar a couple years ago. Yeah. Yeah. They also took over the St. Archer Brewing Facility down in San Diego, bought it from Molson Coors. Now they're exiting that, they're gonna send all their production over to the Ballast Point Brewery and they're also closing their satellite tap room down there.

Super weird. Interesting. And that St. Archer was just trash. Oh, yeah. So, I mean- Can we just say that? It started out okay before they got bought out, and then they had one beer, and I don't remember what it was called, but it was kind of like their 805, which is like a whatever light beer.

Yeah. And when they got bought out, they tried to turn it into a brand. And like they did, you know, fucking pineapple. So that's what I know of, I believe. Yeah. Before that, they actually had a couple of decent beers, they just weren't around that long before getting bought out. So, Molson Coors made it shitty.

Well, classic, but it's Milwaukee, so I can't like hate super hard. I can. Speaking of shitty, let's head over to New Jersey. Oh. Is there a worse state? Not for a berby. Doherty, Jersey. Yeah.

We all know about the stupid rules around you can't have more than like 20 events per year and like showing a football game. Is it even 20? It's whatever it is, I don't remember the number. I thought it was like five. No, it's more than five. It's like 10 or 20. It's double digits. No, yeah. It's like one every two weeks, but that includes any kind of-

Sporting on the TV. If you put something on TV, that's an event. Yeah. It has to have like the volume on it, though. Wasn't that like the- I think that's part of it or something. You can't advertise it. It was like really, really stupid. Like you can't have a trivia night. Trivia night is an event.

That's dumb. Yeah. So you can't have trivia night every week. You can't have food trucks, all that stuff. So anyways, New Jersey, because they're so nice, waived the 10 day advance notice for breweries that are wanting to show the Super Bowl.

But it still counts against their count of events. What dude? Yeah, fuck off, New Jersey. I do think it's the governor, right? Murphy? Is it Murphy, the governor? Yeah. Yeah, because it's Murphy's law that was the whole line.

And his political politicking of himself and trying to get reelected, he's saying how he's going to try and tear down these archaic laws and make it equal for everyone to have events at their place.

It sounded like a bunch of bullshit jargon. Yeah, it's a bunch of shit over there. I'm surprised all breweries haven't just packed up and gone out of state. I was actually thinking, I'm shocked that there hasn't been a collaboration project yet with just breweries in New Jersey with other big breweries all across the nation.

So, I don't know, help bring in more money and more like for advocacy or something. Yeah. You know, like for politicking. I mean, D-96 did a whole not just one kind of Murphy's law like that was like a series.

Right. So. So Murphy's law were collaborations with specific Jersey breweries. And that was the way that John kind of was getting it out in the public. But he is a New York brewery. But he's right on the border. Jersey is right there. So they did.

But like it just happened to be D-96's beer. Not anybody from Jersey. Gotcha. There you go. Super Bowl. Super Bowl's coming up in a few days here. Who you got? I guess the Chiefs because I hate the Eagles.

See, and I think the Eagles because I really don't like my homes anymore. I like my homes. I can't in good conscious ever, ever, ever. I got a hold of your mic sober. I can't ever be like rooting for the Eagles.

It's Philly. I just cannot do it as a New Yorker. Sorry, Shred. Patrick Mahomes is starting to get that. Yeah, he's a sealer. He doesn't even like. Oh, that's right. They're trash. The hops been like Philly. Oh, yeah. No, a huge fan. And he is super pumped.

So I'm psyched for him. Go, Patrick Mahomes is at like that Tom Brady level now where it's like, all right, dude, you did it. You're fucking good. Like, OK, enough already. Did you hear about Tom Brady's new deal with the offer of becoming an announcer?

Louis just hung with us when he got home. It's like 10. It's like 10 year 350 million or something. Four hundred something million. Whatever. So what was it, Lou? You said four. He's listening. But he made three thirty during his entire football career playing.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like he's making way more now than he ever was a player. And he doesn't even start until next year. Well, his brand is worth more than what I would be done as an NFL player. Yeah. This retirement is sticking. Why wouldn't you be announcer after that?

It's easy and it's fun. Big money. Now we got this guy. I know. Fucking gyros. If I were Tom Brady, I would just buy a four hundred million dollars with a gyros. And then when I go back for some fucking pizza.

Anyway, so back to the Super Bowl. A study was done and 47 percent of Super Bowl watchers that plan on drinking will be drinking

beer, 28 wine and 24 percent spirits. And they say 68 percent of Super Bowl watchers expect inflation to affect their purchasing for the big game. But only 19 percent said they'll actually go down to lower priced beer. So good shit.

Yeah. I feel like you're going to drink whatever you drink. Both fan bases will be consuming a lot of macros. According to this study, they say that Eagles fans will be drinking yingling and Heineken, while chefs fans will be drinking Natty Light and Keystone. The chefs fans?

The chefs. Do you call them the chefs? Do you remember that commercial from like the early 90s? Snickers commercial? I don't think so. I don't. I don't think they played it in New York. It was a Snickers commercial where it was back when it was like, are you hungry? Like have a Snickers or whatever.

And the dude painted the end zone at the Chiefs Stadium. Oh, I do remember that. And you forgot the eyes. So it said chefs. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, looks good. Who are the chefs? Yeah. I do remember that. So it was on purpose. Okay. Yeah.

So I call them the chefs. Anyways, so they go on and they break it down more from there. And alcohol companies will be spending 60 percent of the or be 60 percent of the ad revenue coming in, blah, blah, blah. So go football. Go. Yeah. I mean, I watch it. I watch. Yeah.

Of course. We're watching it together. Should we chug bet? Chug. All right. She's like, we're just just so happen to be on opposite sides here. Yeah. Doesn't doesn't chug. I didn't think. No, he's good. She's not great at it, but I'll follow through with my bets.

Yeah. I do. But I know a few people are bad at it. Yeah, I know me. Hi. No, you're not horrible. Any specific beer. I'm just chugging. No, just just a chug. I'm not a I'm not a dick. You know, we pulled that bad beer list. Neither of us have a horse in the race. Right. Just not at all. Other than I hate Philly.

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