Just trying I'm always impressed with Greg. He's very impressive. Yeah, totally why the bromance were head to foot Right 16 head to head to foot. Yeah. Yeah top to bottom just all around
Welcome in everybody to craft beer Republic. Thanks for the slate. I am Greg. That's my first assistant director flexi. What's up, bud? I always got your back man. Yeah, someone's gotta do it. You know, honestly, it doesn't do me any good if you do it
I appreciate the reminder. I actually have to be the one that It did a lot of things. It did me good. Yeah flex always Yeah, so good times I welcome it everybody I'm Greg over there clapping around as flex is me it's me
It's a flexio And in a shit storm, but not a real storm. I don't think is Erica up north and NorCal Yeah, Hillary didn't really hit us that bad, but it did knock out the power and apparently disorganized all the wires in my office
So it is a hurricane outage. I Don't know. It was a little stormy today. I thought it was really over Oh, did you guys get it a little bit today? We did and the power went out but it didn't feel like a legitimate reason for the power to go out because like down here
In SoCal we were done by last night by Sunday night. Oh Today was a very nice day actually compared to what we've been dealing with though. It's our turn Yeah, flex is like so it's summer and clear and yeah, it was it was a balmy 79 degrees today
Not a cloud in the sky Breeze rolled in in the evening and yeah put some pants on oh So right now believe it or not I'm wearing pants I'm a little disappointed to hear that
Yeah They're tight. No, don't worry Vanessa was making fun of us here in SoCal like yeah, I was standing by for your tropical storm She's like we get that shit every day every day every day
And I was like well the worst part is the fucking humidity and she's like welcome to Florida where it's a hundred percent Humidity all the time. Yeah, we get the same thing up here in the Midwest. Oh so great It got to like 85% here and I just was standing there sweating for no reason. Did it get that bad up there Erica?
It was nasty. That was yesterday or the day before it. Yes sticky and gray So my Wisconsin news when they do the weather in the summer They have this like rating chart of the humidity and whether it's gonna be like
moderate tolerable Unbearable uncomfortable and it's it's That is the Midwest in a nutshell
It's like and not bad to the fuck. Eh, yes. Well minus the air we don't we don't do that a lot in, Wisconsin That's what I'm like sort of thing. It's like the up north, you know Minnesota and a and the don't you know, yeah darn tootin
Yeah Shucks. Yeah, Erica. You guys didn't feel the earthquake up there. Did you know I saw Coley post something about it I was like what an earthquake now. Yeah, so mid bullshit hurricane storm thing
we had a 5.1 earthquake down here pretty close to our house and I was telling flex before the show they were so typical Californians that we were over at Pedals and Pints
drinking a couple beers visiting with a friend and And Started to hit and Shannon looks over she goes Earthquake and I was like, hmm, maybe hold on and I look up because they have speakers hanging in there
I was like, oh speaker shaking. Yeah earthquake Is it that's how it went down with you guys Wow. Yeah That doesn't happen for us up here knock on wood
But I thought it was hilarious that Deb she posted something about all these People down here googling if I can go to brunch during a hurricane and then the day of quote the hurricane she's like
I'm having brunch Hurricane 23, but the big thing up here is you know, we get tornadoes every now and then not where oh Not where we live, but we get some like gnarly storms that ruin then in the Midwest
It's like when you should be seeking shelter from like a tornado or a storm You're out on like your patio or your porch and you're like watching it as it happens, so right it's everybody's
Comfortable with you know, basically they're what they grew up Yeah, you know what their surroundings what they have to deal with so yeah, that's hilarious with the earthquake thing Yeah, whatever you can always tell the out-of-towners cuz like so back and I think it was 2019
We had a really big like seven point something not too far from so by the time it hit us it was not as big Shoes do you think that earthquake would wear? like like a 20
Maybe even a 22 like Shaq like yesterday's hurt or a earthquake was like, you know 13 ish But that seven point whatever that was those are big 22s like Shaq We were we were at Wade's wines
Which is like a you know tasting room out here and and there's three couples in the tasting room Nobody knew each other and we were sitting under this like big wine barrel Swinging thing and the earthquake hit and there was no question as to whether it was earthquake you fucking felt it
and Look around like our earthquake and another couple was like Oh earthquake and Shannon's like maybe we shouldn't sit under the wine barrels like yeah Whatever and then we look over in the third couple is like freaking out and running outside. It's like tourists
They came back in they're like you guys weren't scared like clearly we all grew up here. Yeah, clearly fine. Yeah good times 7.7 man that earthquake really hang some dong
Yeah Yeah, so I guess we all survived that her a quake 23 well good I'm glad I'm really glad actually yeah Believe it or not. I really like you. No, no
Surprising. I don't know why but I'm sure glad All right before we get into more things we've got some beers to discuss cuz god damn I am sober over here
Let's fix that situation Oh
Erica's got the proper glassware to nerd beer nerd glass available at our public We're both drinking the same thing Erica and I and that is
Institution ale companies keep the noise low. They are local to me out here in Camarillo, California This is an IPA 7 1 7.1 percent
75 West Coast IBUs and a 3 8 4 and untapped They say keep the noise low is brew with a Saka Simcoe and mosaic hops The base recipes lighter than we typically make using only base malt allowing the hops to shine through and keep the malt character to a minimum
Expect big hot flavors of pine and tropical fruit along with crisp assertive bitterness. I Like when they keep the the malt build lower and lighter so you can really taste the hop
Yeah, the first thing thanks for this beer by the way it was a lovely surprise and Luly cracking it open. I love the aroma. It was just immediately I could smell that
Fresh hop character. It was it was great. And did you get that too? Yeah, you you really get that like effervescence of hop Yeah, it's really good And then other than that, I'm with them on piney. I mean it is piney, but it's not overwhelmingly
So it's it's definitely above that three point seven five and nice IPA Yeah, it's really good. I'm trying to figure out like what fruit I'm getting I like I feel like I get tropical fruits like I do but I'm having a hard time putting my
My finger my tongue on it my tongue jobber on it definitely get the pine especially on the back and it's super crisp It's very drinkable at seven point one two. It's nice and light body and all that stuff. That's perfect
I would have a couple of these and the can I think you explained this to me when I saw you That this institution that was like a An old I don't know mental or something. Yeah, it was a state hospital. So Cambridge State Hospital
You know got shut down when was like Reagan shut down all the mental institutes or it was back in the 80s they got shut down back then with everyone else and Then it sort of became this like place of lore because it was opened in the 20s. I think the 1920s very old
they had a working dairy farm out there that they supplied themselves with you know, like milk and and meat and that kind of stuff and It became pretty run down and whatever and they started calling it scary dairy
It's like they have a beer called scary dairy They have a one called something like padded these padded walls or something like that Like it's a lot of theming with the mental Institute and it's perfect
Pretty cool and the creepy clowns on it are just it's perfect. So super well played well done Yeah, I don't love clowns by any stretch but in general I really like their can hard to do a good job
Yeah, whoever there are two clowns. I feel like you love them or you hate them Yeah, I'm on a they're not love good. Do people love clowns? Well, I feel like people that like go to clown school to become clean
Right. I feel like they grow up loving clowns. Yeah, would you wanna? Become that yeah, they don't really have some issues. Yeah Fucking hate this but I'm gonna become one just sadistic. Right? Yeah immersion therapy or something
That would be creepy. So yeah, yeah really good. I think the problem. Yeah I the one thing I'll say before we wrap this part up is I think this deserves more than a three eight four I honestly don't always love their hoppy beers
I really like their darks and their Browns and stuff their hoppy beers can be hit and miss or an institution For my liking but this one I really enjoy. Yeah, nice. Well carbonated
Too piney, but it's a solid Westie. So I like it. You can send me more. I take it. All right, that's cool Noted I will note that
All right, topless in city last week. Thanks to Pittsburgh. Whoa For hanging out with us. Yeah steel city. Yeah, at least at one point they still make steel in America. That's all yeah. Yeah
go pirate It's pretty gross. Yeah. Yeah hard pass same vision is the Brewers so I kind of take Oh fuck them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
shitty pirates shitty pirates and Gear Gear fuck yourself. Yeah. Yeah really bad. Yeah, that was all that you covered it up really well
Yeah, go back to doing Boston. Yeah guys. Yeah, I'm gonna fuck it I should have said go fuck yourself Let's see Boston and pirates. Yeah real confusing hard to do actually read. Yeah, I
Don't want to try my brain Floating yeah. Yeah, it's a little harder Also, I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but final reminder August 29th is the last day that stitcher is gonna be working
So if you listen to us on stitcher Stop find something else stop Hamilton stop collaborate and listen and then also September 4th details are still being worked out, but we're looking to potentially have a live show in Ventura, California over
Yeah, I don't know if I'm allowed to say where or when yeah, it's it's in the works So is that Labor Day it is Labor Day good day for a live show have a few beers hang out with us
so if you're gonna be in the Ventura area on Labor Day slide into the DM's that crappy Republic and I'll set you up with with where you can come hang out with us and all that good stuff
And I'll try and make some announcements on social media between now and then so I'm excited for that one It's an interview that was supposed to happen like six months ago, and then couldn't so Yeah, good times and then finally naughty pine. I was over at naughty pine on Friday Brit put on this huge benefit for
Maui yeah, she's a lot of posts about that how awesome yeah, it was really cool. She has a lot of ties to Maui She she opened a brewery there, which she's no longer part of and unfortunately it definitely got taken out by the fires
Did They posted there was it was pretty melty inside it was mostly mostly destroyed So that's too bad luckily all their staff was accounted for and so that's the good news came out of it
But yeah, so Brit did this fundraiser? We donated a few you know like merch things some hats some stickers some pins and that kind of stuff And it was really funny like she did a raffle and at one point like the raffle. Oh, I won a raffle
I won a T Hill gift cards. That was kind of cool At one point someone's walking around with my hat with the the crappy Republic hat on and I was like Oh, did you get that? Oh, that's right? That's right you on the rap
You had a moment there. It was a really fan Yeah, I was like where'd you get that? Oh, that's right raffle, but you know hey, I'm glad it were I'm glad they liked the the Had enough time maybe look into it. Who knows yeah exactly so if you're listening
raffle winner right Congratulations And we all know the hat wouldn't fit your head Greg. Oh, no it doesn't no I had to get one specially made Just for me. That's a double XL
For reals yeah, so mine looks a little different than the ones that we sell nice I actually like the ones we sell better than mine But there was no getting one that big for my fat head so Lex and I would need toddler sized you got those yeah
Yeah, let me see if I get an extra small My other like small medium, but more Yeah, my other favorite hat is from radiant and The reason it's one of my favorite hats is not only because I like radiant
But because they had a huge hat and it's funny We were sitting there drinking one day, and I was like hey, I really like that hat. It's cool It's the radiant logo in black on blacks like a black on black thing. It's it's actually pretty cool-looking
And I was like hey, what sizes do you have in that hat because they're fitted and he goes Oh, let me see I was like I have a big head Let me just warn you and he comes over with like the large extra large I was like do you have like a double XL? He goes. I don't know I'll go look and they did
I can take all my money. It was like the first brewery to have a giant ass. I will buy six I should have yeah, it's getting dirty. I need to like wash it and hope it holds up
So but anyways back to 90 pint great job to Brit fantastic night. She raised put on social. She raised over five thousand dollars Between the raffles the silent auction I got some coffee from California coffee Republic, so that's awesome
Yeah donated a part of beer sales raffle silent auction donations all that good stuff, so Yeah, if you need to know where to donate she's got some stuff on her socials over at 90 pine
yeah, they said that amount that they Raised they said that's not even what the vendors and everybody else are going to Contribute so yeah all the vendors and food people that were there that night are also going to donate a portion of their sales
And that had not been totaled into the amount she posted about so that's awesome Yeah, so not a pine brewing good go check out the gram and and socials for more on that So thank you to Britford for doing really good thing good
I I saw early on that she was thinking about doing something I just reached out immediately I was like I don't want to be the guy who plans something for Maui like I don't have ties For Maui, but I want to be able to help right and I knew she had ties So I was like hey if you do anything, please let me know and she's like I'm gonna do something
Just wait and then a few days later. She she pulled it together. Yeah, so they planned it in like five days Yeah, she started on like a Saturday. She hit me up on a Saturday was like hey This is what we're gonna do and then like by Friday. It was maybe Sunday or so. Oh, but yeah
Yeah, she did a great job So cheers are a ton of people there that night to like it was it looked like when she has emo fest like it was So crowded Wow good. Yeah, it's cool. Um that's pretty much it for me you guys any good researching or anything lately
Did some research? yesterday actually We cruised around the Bay View area in Milwaukee, which is just like a
Milwaukee's you know like it's not big compared to the California City But it's big enough to where it has all these different renamed sections even sure it's still technically the city of Milwaukee That's like San Diego every section has a different name. Yeah, yeah, so we
hooked up with a couple of other local Milwaukee beer folk Duke drinkability got something together There was a out-of-towner
beer grammar who was in Milwaukee so he was kind of showing her around taking her all these different breweries And we hit up Torzala brewing which they were
They're like a starter up kind of place like they've only been around for just a year And they're in like a suite of this warehouse building that actually has two other breweries in it
they're bigger breweries like at the bottom of the warehouse, but But yeah, so we hit up Torzala, and then we hit 1840 which Was really nice, and then they're the ones that are only in bottles right yeah those stubby bottles
and we also did new barons, it's another spot in that warehouse, but all good beers I had a Polish pale ale
Mmm, so as a pale ale brewed with all Polish hops I was a sausage or not even gonna lie didn't know that there there were Polish hops Mm-hmm couldn't remember the name of them one of them had a ski in it, so I thought those
Right yeah, it's super Polish. I love it I'm 50% Polish and my mom's made a name like you if you put it on paper How you would phonetically say it isn't even close to how you actually say it
Of course like that I love being Polish for that reason so yeah, so that was good at Torzala had a Juicy IPA not a hazy IPA because it wasn't hazy and they really juicy
I very much appreciated that was it was it a juice ski Ha no this was this was that new baron, so it was not a juice I do like that
Have you going for the Polish place I just see IPA super good, so I had a pilsner to close that out Just you know everybody was doing one last quick beer, and then we walked over to
1840 where I had a triple and a goza to cap the night hmm, so Yeah, just really good the triple was all cashmere. Oh Can't go wrong Kenya my fav. I know I know it is love me some cash
Whoop some ass and cribbage and called it a night, but you know man. I just cribbage Well the best part was is a guy Is the fiance another local grammar flights flights?
Flights and flights or flights and flights and flights. I can't remember her name. I'll believe her name Sam She's great her fiance his name is Brian another great guy So he just kind of rolled in and they have games at all these breweries
And he pulled out a curbage board, and I was like hey Then he kind of starts gloating about how good of a cribbage player he is Oh flex it hold my beer wait don't so I just kind of had to
Slide on in there, and yeah, sure what's up right? Just keep him humble. Yeah, it happened Yeah, and he was like before the game started to he's like oh you want to play first for anything I was like well your mom. I don't really play like I don't gamble
I was like I'll play for dollars, or I was like we can play for a beer He's like yeah, let's play for a beer so and I beat him You know What do you want I said look man, I don't want anything
I said I really just like playing and I'm a very I don't like gambling so like if I win It's like it's for the pride of yeah, it's for the pride of it like I don't even care about the prize Right so did he still buy you a beer though. I mean no cuz I was actually on my last one
Flexi knew the cutoff We drive in press because if I would have had another one I would have not have felt Good when I got home you would have been in trouble. Yeah, and
The best part about the whole night is Tim who I meet up with at Eagle Park. Yeah, you're your lunch date My lunch date. I messaged him and he came out and he hopped with us nice So that was a lot of fun, too
so I got to see him because uh You know haven't been seeing him all summer with the kids and the families and everybody's out of school and stuff so Really nice night, man. Thanks. Don't talk about Tim so much. You know great. It's jealous. Yeah, it's alright
They'll all get along so that he brings up shred. Okay? You see the fucking Greg's face. Oh, yeah, I know Tim. I'm the number one here. I
love everybody That's a ho Oh Erica any any new breweries out there, you know, not necessarily but I am headed to Nashville this week
So I'm really exciting. I've never been there Love likes loves it. I really do. I'm surprised you love it so much without any penis hotels there, you know
I don't know on vacations Solely for the dick hotels. Are you sure I let the dick hotels come to me That was a little too on the nose
So, what are you guys doing out in Nashville, okay, so it's the beer babes family is doing one of their larger release there, which I'm one of the
VIPs of that group and no really You were name-dropping earlier I'm trying to name-drop I made my was on the air. All right. Okay. All right. Oh whoops
So that and then my sister-in-law just recently bought a an Airbnb there to just as a so we're like, hey Let's go stay at your Airbnb. So she and I are having a girls weekend. I
Got to get that contact information. Yeah, it's Yeah, so it's it's in that what was the name of the area? I said it was it's one of the like you were talking About San Diego has like the gas lamp or whatever. It's one of those kind of like cool and the Gulch
That's the only one I know in now Mm-hmm, but it's you know near one of the southern grists, which I was like, okay I can walk to that and yeah So any drop into my DMS if you guys have recommendations because I leave on Thursday and I know this drops Wednesday
So oh, yeah, gosh, so get to sliding. Let me know and I gotta ask I don't think we've talked in a while on here. Mm-hmm. What's the official latest on GA BF? Oh, yeah
Oh, it's just a constant. Yeah, it's exciting But it's a lot of like logistics. They don't just let anyone in there and everything's complicated. That's great I'm not just anyone so that's cool
I'm just saying for all the other people But no, seriously, it's it's been fun and complicated there's a big-name pretzel company that I'm still partnering with and
You can go on their website every fifth time about that. You pull up GA BF's website. Nekh Nosh has a little banner out on there Right, yeah, that's pretty cool like we're there we're legit we're gonna be selling necklaces. They're gonna have a
Funky plastic pretzel at the center that say GA BF on them. That's cool. This is gonna be like gold like a metal orange It won't say these two. That's a whole nother story, but it will say GA BF
And we got a three showing us an orange plastic. It's red soul from it from a 3d printer. It's a prototype It's a prototype so anyways, it's it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be great. Greg's gonna be there. Oh, yeah
Did your wife sign the letter flex? I don't know if we've said this on the show But I sent flex and birthday beers like a month late and in the box
I included that letter that we read on the show and made it all official and signed it in hopes that like maybe he would Leave it out for his wife One day I'm going Myself to do it cuz it's such a ridiculous
That's what's so great. Like there's no way she'll ever take it seriously because it's the dumbest thing. It's like two full pages It's so fucking long. You don't know my wife my Yeah, that's great those a few weeks ago if you missed it go back and listen
I read the letter on the show and it's um do you stupidly long? But yeah, it's gonna be fun. It'll be a lot of people there Minus flex but next year we'll get him Because he did promise he was gonna stand in front of my booth in the green shorts and do his thing. Now. I'm stressing
I'm googling Who you get him like a like a talent pass? He's really just a model at this point Probably not a model
But also a model What you put on the once you slap on the green shorts, I mean full model mode Yeah, people will come. Yeah, you're telling me
Sorry, you know I actually showed when I showed up yesterday I was wearing a pair of jorts that weren't short oh my god, all right, John Cena and Jordan the Duke actually was like, oh, yeah, he usually wears much shorter short
Like that's how people talk about me. Yeah That's what I'm known for. I think it's great. We all do too. Oh, yeah, it's fucking trunks hanging out Oh, you can't help it. Yeah, I just can't well
I'm stoked for hanging out with some for some tasty beer I was talking to we'll get into more of this story next week when I was talking to make dreamy about it He's like I have a game plan like no more wasting time on like breweries. I've heard of he's like
I go after whales and new breweries and nothing else Thing yeah, he's like that way you don't get so fucking hammered right away cuz you're just drinking everything in front of you he's like you gotta have a game plan cuz
I've never been and clearly you guys are way more experienced at GABF than I I was like That's a good game plan whales and new breweries. All right. Yeah, it's still a lot of beer I still feel like I'm gonna be real shittered by the end of the day, but it's a guarantee. Yeah
Yeah, it's it's it is guaranteed. That's why I'm gonna be working the whole time I'm just trying to preserve myself, but you do guys do have to come and fill my glass bring it back to me That's your job Oh, yeah Like I was telling like I'm fucking pro at that every now and then Wiley from the booze league
Will get us tickets to like a festival or something and it's just like an unwritten law that I'll go over like alright You need a beer now and I'll go get him a beer then I'll hit a couple booze come back you ready for another beer You know, you guys stay hydrated. Yeah, it's a good friend. Yeah beer fest. Yeah, you're working it or not
You know Yeah One of the funniest ones was we went over there and like and Brit was pouring for naughty pine and she had one of her Other beer tenders with her and she's like, hey, I really want to go check out this place But like I don't know I'm shy and I was like fuck it
Let's go So like all three of us me her and Shan the wife we like sergeant's cruising We end up just getting buzzy at the at the fest. I was like, don't you have to work your own booth? She's like, uh, Yeah, probably
Yeah For sure good. So but whatever good times good fucking times The main tip I have for you is don't do what our friend did and said he was gonna try all the barley wines
No, that's you know, and it yeah, I didn't turn out well, you know, just Yeah, you're not hanging out much more than two hours. No Next day looks like yeah. Yeah diversify your strategy there a little bit. So yeah, that's uh, yeah
I don't think I'll be having any barley wines That's that's like my biggest complaint about Firestone is you go there and say hey You want to try our 13% stout? It's only 95 degrees. I like fuck. No, I don't want to yeah Where's your goddamn Pilsner? Right? Oh
This will have a good variety on I'm excited. Yeah, I'm stoked I gotta find out who locally is going cuz I know like last year Nick from 14 was there and Like I see who's gonna be there so we can go fucking high-five it up while we're there
Yeah, you have fives man high fives all around fist bumps for the cool people You'll have to tell us who to check out flex or we'll let you know who? Yeah To look that up now. You send us a local list from your hood. I will do some research. Yeah
All right before we find out what flex is drinking. Let's check in with the homie Happy lay birthday
homie happy birthday Local happy birthday late birthday gray
Happy birthday to my local homie Greg what's up homies? Republic should you be here? Figure I go loud for you. Great. You're my homeboy. I said you deserve it
I have to check it out just a little recap from the doctor game flex. I'm sorry, homie They don't sell the cockpit. Yeah, I just any of my as you call it to Coddy's Heartland brewery from San Diego's hazy IPA 7%
Let's just say I had way too many homie. This was Friday I sobered up on Sunday had a hangover all the way to like Sunday evening Anyways, I drank so many that I got lost not during the game
After the game homie, I ended up at the opposite side of the stadium Luckily, I got a couple words in with the wife on the phone because my phone was a 5%
the last word she heard was lock you and I did with every Every smart kid would do as we were taught as youngins When we were at the mall or at the theme park if you get lost find an adult, so that's what
couple adults They ended up helping me find a wife I got a earful the ride home was very quiet and I learned my lesson homie. No more than nine beers had a dodgy game, right?
And then second of all I hear the sous vide you sous vide a tritip big dog What the fuck bro, you grill that sucker out of Santa Maria grill or your charcoal grill?
And low and slow big dog and then you do the Fascia how you said you were but sous vide that's like fucking a master chef kind of shit So I you can say I'm a master chef then because I've sued me the fuck out of everything because when I was a teenager
I worked at Taco Bell homie and everything we cooked was boiled in a bag So severe Savitchi say so be here motherfucker kind of guy so anybody can sue me still drink I guess it sounds yeah
Yeah, yeah, okay. They have teenagers doing it at Taco Bell. So there you go other than that when you go to a game Don't drink too much Drink water make sure you eat even the food sucks. Just eat something cuz you'll learn a hard hard lesson and
If you do get lost look for an adult, this is true your beer you had to watch a piece. Sorry Also nine beers at a Dodger game. I mean that must be close to $150. That's absurd
I mean, they're like 15 bucks each especially if he's drinking like 7% IPA's never gotta be closer to $20 each Yeah, I was thinking like 200 bucks Yeah, it's got to be close to 200 bucks. And then on top of that whatever his his wife drank and good lord
Isn't it when he took his dad to didn't you take his dad? Oh, I think you're right I think he said he's gonna take his dad because it was um, was it Fernando Valenzuela's? Yeah, the other number retirement Yeah, that's what it was. Good. God. You gotta take out a second mortgage to drink that many beers at Dodger Stadium
Hey, have you guys ever had that issue of like getting lost after a game or a concert and just have just being totally screwed Nope Now my my worst was the wife and I were in San Diego one time we went to a
Padres game and once or twice a year. I've done this like four times Padres We'll do a beer fest out front before the game starts Oh, and it's legit because it's five bucks a beer and it's all these local spots where you get to the game
It's like 20 bucks a beer So we just go we load the fuck up and you need like maybe one or two more beers throughout the game to keep it Going and so we did that we were pretty shittered. We stumbled out of the game. We found this place called
What was it half door other door? I can't remember right now really good I like them a lot actually been there a couple times but anyways I was shittered had a couple more beers got extra shittered and I tried to call an uber and
I was so drunk I couldn't get the like little pin to show up on my phone like where we were and every time the wife would fix it And she's like no we're here and she put the pin where we were and then my drunk fucking fat fingers would like move it
So like I wasn't lost but I also couldn't get the uber. She's like give me your fucking phone Poor she look yeah, I know Luckily, she wasn't quite as drunk as I was
Good times every now, then I just get a little sloppy, you know, you deserve it like two times a year Yeah, two times a year. Yeah, I'd like to take a survey I mean nine out of ten times
Driving but every now and then either we're not driving or she's driving I'm like fucking game on sometimes if I know my wife has a secret plan to go somewhere
I will get a beer before Like 20 minutes before I know we're gonna leave and I will drink it. So and I'm just like, okay, I'm not driving Smart yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, I've only been doing it for like the last four months, but oh dang, it's working. Yes
I'm it took me a while to learn Yeah, did she get mad at you though no, oh, okay doesn't care I mean she knows that you know, I have a problem Responsible so hey, at least he's being responsible
Problem be responsible. Nobody on this show doesn't have a problem But no, I mean she white exists. It's like it's usually like after day of like work or something like that, right?
So it's like got it. You need to have a beer after work Yeah, I'm just got a time it right so you don't have to drive wherever you're going Well, like a lot of the wife's family thinks were
Alcoholics or whatever so I have started Microdosing gummies at family events interesting. Yeah, you're like fine. I don't need a beer. Yeah, like I don't wanna get crazy high
I just wanna get a little high just to take the edge off So like I'll have a bite and I'll wait a half an hour and I'll have another bite, you know, just nice and light. So But yeah, that's pretty smart of a tech. Let's uh, let's answer a very important question
We're craft beer is king World where muscles are bigger than grounders Only one tongue can guide us one man one tongue
one tongue jobber In this world we must find out what is Flex drinking I've been having such a good time. I forgot to prepare for this. Oh
Well, you know it's all for you and I got it. I got it So today flex is drinking micro dosing Cashmere, so it's actually weird that you just said you micro dose gummies. Oh, yeah, so my micro dosing cashmere
once a day IPA From black stack in Minnesota st. Paul like the macro dose some cashmere daddy So the can reads get your daily dose of this IPA that we dosed daily
That's a tongue twister aka every day of primary fermentation Juicy and creamy cashmere expand your horizons open your mind put this in your mouth. I like where their heads at
So this weighs in at 7.2 so it's just about wheelhouse for me Untapped has it at a 4.01 and on the nose you get
As it was micro dosed right it's like a micro dosing aroma right subtle Orange marmalade it's light Nothing in your face or your nose for that matter
So we will dive in with the old tongue jobber That's part of the show and it is super light bodied Much like the aroma is kind of faint the flavors are kind of the same which is kind of disappointing
Because I love cashmere so much, and I like it when it's just like in your face So like that orange marmalade, it's it's faint What I really do like about the cashmere hop when it's done right is it's almost like a candied green apple flavor and
That is very faint here as well, so it's this is a it's a good. It's a good beer. It's a tasty beer It's expensive Mmm for you tell there was a buck coming you're like it's really good
So I don't often drop you know in you being in California This is nothing right, but like 20 bucks a four-pack for me that that's like a lot of money for a four-pack of beer here
Mm-hmm, I don't often drop that but black me neither. I trust them. I love them Well, you know I'm always trying to stay in the L. I know I'm joking and I was like no cashmere
I fucking love cashmere Yeah, and I got home, and I was really excited and I cracked it, and I was just kind of like frustrating but
It is a good beer all right. Well. It's got that yeah It's just not I guess not what I was expecting Interesting so I think I've said it before but the biggest fuck-up when it came to
Homebrewing for me was my all cashmere beer like I was so I had had a beer from Society then in San Diego was all cashmere hops. I loved it couldn't get enough of it I was like I have to make an all cashmere beer at home
Worst beer I've ever made really yeah, it was the first recipe. I designed on my own and I also think I had some fermenting. I mean it was just green as could be like it did not finish
Fermenting and bad real bad Inexpensive Yeah, most expensive beer ever made the worst beer ever made good times, and you never tried to redo it nope
Oh, man, maybe one of these days now that I have a little more. You know experience. Yeah, you're a vet now Yeah, exactly you got all these friends in the beer community that you could bum off of yeah like hey
Why is my beer suck? Please tell me? Lots of news to get to real quick. Let's head up the news flight Get the paddles Dead mall secures has acquired blue run
Spirits making their mark into the liquor world do they do anything we know yes Now I think so that goose island unveils their 2023 bourbon County lineup who's excited
For the Mountain Dew barley wine yeah Mountain Dew dry hopped with throw-up barley You're gonna get oh You're gonna get the 2023 bourbon County original stout you're gonna get the
2023 bourbon County brand eagle rare Two-year reserve stout age for two years and ten-year-old eagle rare bourbon barrels you get the bourbon County brand
angels envy two-year cask finish stout The lineups first cask finished out with notes of cherry spice and Cocos nothing and you're gonna get the 2023 bourbon County brand
backyard stout inspired by 13 KC masterpiece Yeah, frisket
Inspired by the 2013 backyard rye release with notes of fresh fruit vanilla and chocolate It's an it's only available in Chicago, so no cola stouts this year, okay? I don't give a shit either way though anybody goose island. I
Can I admittingly? Admit something okay? I'm ready to admit it so my brother-in-law Back in 2021 grabbed me a bottle of the 2021 regular
Bourbon County stout yeah, and I drank it like four months ago, and I was like I just I'm just gonna get rid of it I've just been letting it sit around. I was like I whatever it was
Good This is gonna be a big moment for you flex. Okay. Let's let's decom pack this or you know okay? We're pretty good. How does that make you feel?
Didn't make me flexes on the couch good. It's not because Greg is just so negative It was 14% to three pretty gnarly okay?
But it was like so chocolatey Kind of feel the way you feel it was like chocolate syrup In a good way. Yes. It was like okay
Like when you're a kid you'd sneak in the fridge And you pop open the Hershey syrup top when your parents were looking you take a couple swigs throw wheezing the juice Yeah, yeah, it's the juice
I just like look honestly. I've only had one and It was right after They kind of had sold out and like you get out you could all sudden get them at like Bev Moe or whatever it was
And I was like I gotta try it like I know they sold out, but I so I gotta try it I just I couldn't tell you what year it was it was way before 2021 I just I just didn't like it that at least that one specifically I used to stand in line on Thanksgiving Day for Sterling
When this was originally a thing McDreamy oh damn it every time Sorry, so Yeah, McDreamy when it and so but then he just stopped asking me to do it
So maybe that's when it changed. I don't know but it used to be a really big deal I'd be like a Bev Moe or total wine and I get in line and get the max or I'm really just fucking blows my mind About the whole situation, so it's like it's a mass-produced
Barrel-aged out right right that's essentially what it has become. It's not like yeah, no it's not rare anymore You find all this shit months later sitting on shelves like places can't get rid of it. Yeah, I mean barrels
Are they filling up you know like lots of barrels? Where is all this being kept? Honestly like I wonder if it's real barrels, or if it's like wood chips or something right at this point. Yeah
Yeah, I've done the the Braille room tour at Firestone after they expanded and put in all the big tanks and stuff And they just have a giant warehouse filled with barrels that have beer in them
So maybe they're doing the same thing you just have a big warehouse somewhere, and you drive You know hundred times years that would never guess beers in it right maybe that could be weird Who knows just blows my mind so yeah so much beer so a little time really appreciate that moment though, thank you yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah and then finally Cut I can never say this right kataba Brewing sure yeah, yeah, there's a lot of we've we've covered this a lot of weirdness like they got bought out
They shuttered some of their tap rooms. They reopened one. I think at one point anyways They have now closed their Charlotte and Wilmington locations without any notice to the staff
they just like showed up, and there was a sign on the door one day and They're trying to find one new location place. It sounds like a shit show. I don't think that brewery is long for this world
Yeah, I'm gonna put in my two cents. I don't think they're gonna last yeah It doesn't feel that way it sounds like some bad dude management. Let's move on to the full pour real quick There's a Gallup poll 62% of Americans drink alcoholic beverages beer is still top choice, but liquor is gaining
Theme there's that many Mormons in America Just enough only 62% of Americans drink alcohol these are adult I'm guessing or are they counting children. Maybe that's what it is the rest are children
That's what it is they're counting 58% of 13 to 34 year olds 66% of 35 to 54 and 61% of 55 and up Wow
Yeah, I guess that's kind of shocking. I guess yeah, I don't know I think some people are lying or they interviewed the wrong states or something Yeah This is interesting I always joke with my wife and I tell her smart people drink more
my love They say the majority of adults with household incomes of a hundred thousand dollars or more said that they consume alcoholic beverages And that's 79% so 79% of people that make over a hundred thousand dollars combined household drink alcoholic beverages
But like ones under don't I guess they're less likely to I Know they're less likely to receive the poll because they can't figure out email. Yeah
I don't know. Why is that that number is just bizarre. It's weird right? Statistic to me is bizarre. Yeah, I don't I don't get it. I just think everyone's lying. Let's just be honest about that
All these numbers when it comes to alcohol they all lie when the doctor says how many drinks a week I was just gonna say the next have your annual physical y'all got a promise me you're gonna tell the truth Because that's my
Are you're going that's my plan that yes, let us know how that goes. I'm curious I was going to do it. I was going to do it last year and my doctor never asked me the question. Oh, you're ready Like I had it all loaded up
I'm not gonna lie. I can't remember the last time I saw a doctor other than victory me. Oh That doesn't count. He just cuts people. Oh, yeah Yeah, I haven't seen a doctor in forever
And I'll get sick. Okay. Yeah, I get prescriptions. So, oh, yeah Aurora made it like a thing like four or five years ago instead of going two years without a annual checkup
No, you get prescriptions for two years without seeing your doctor. Now. They change it to one year. Oh fuck. Yeah total money grab Yeah, oh, that's all I do all that industry is
same shit for the last 19 years Nothing. Nothing is new Happening with me just just give me the same shit and let me live my life
Liability than money They're probably like we have to make sure we check in on you. I guess we catch that you have liver failure Or whatever it is
Not you. I think my doctor just likes hearing my heartbeat. She gets to touch me. That's that's what I'm thinking Oh, you have a female doctor. Yes, I do. We'll end it on this one drunk raccoons are terrorizing Germany
I wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah I mean, could you imagine raccoons are such assholes already? They're drunk what trash pandas? Yeah I'm assuming they just all went and saw the Guardian to the galaxy movie and they got super fucking jacked. Yeah, pretty much
Yeah, I'm just getting fucked up Apparently they're calling this the drunken animal and calling the drunken animals a plague on the country homeowners have reported Thousands of euros worth of damage to their properties as well as horrifying instances
You're like pesos pretty close beer instances of raccoons eating their pets and fish The rising number of raccoons wreaking havoc on civilians is leading many residents to become frustrated with the situation
They're considered native North America. They're brought to Germany 1900 blah blah blah this isn't the first instance of raccoon alcohol abuse in Germany in 2019 a tipsy raccoon was reported to be making a scene at a local Christmas market
Well, the animals drunken shenanigans seemed fun at the time this more recent rampage proves there's danger in numbers Yeah, they've been seen breaking into local buildings and fueling up on food and booze
Apparently they were liking they have a liking for beer apparently but lock your doors Hide your kids hide your They terrorizing everyone up in here's picturing like a little raccoon pulling out like a lock picking kit
Do Who's thirsty 13 of them come out like from behind him they just ransacked the goddamn convenience store
Real no, but there's not a better animal than a raccoon to imagine being drunk and just a total true obnoxious Yeah, well in all and of all the countries I you know I don't think Germany would make this up and make up some far more extreme story
I don't know man. They've they've been known to use some propaganda well Yikes On the history channel lighter note on a lighter note. I want to hit some music
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