March 5, 2025 • 48 mins
Welcome to Craft Beer Republic! Greg is still recovering from a champagne-fueled blackout, Flex forgot he even had a podcast to record, and somehow, there’s a hidden Smirnoff Ice lurking in Greg’s house, just waiting to ruin someone’s day. The guys break down the math behind those too-good-to-be-true dollar pints, brainstorm ways to keep breweries alive (spoiler: trivia night is fine, but bingo might mean you’re doomed), and discuss why non-alcoholic beer had its best Dry January ever—much to their disappointment.
Beers We’re Drinking
- Greg is drinking Congress Street IPA from Trillium Brewing Company.
- Flex is sipping on Off Season Imperial Hazy IPA from Three Sheeps Brewing Company.
Episode Highlights
Greg survived (barely) a Champagne Around the World birthday party for Deb, and let’s just say champagne drunk is a special kind of drunk. There were spreadsheets involved (Flex was impressed), sideline bottles, surprise DoorDash deliveries, and an ungodly amount of bubbly consumed. The aftermath? A raging champagne headache and a desperate need for sweet potato fries. Meanwhile, Greg also made a highlystrategic Smirnoff Ice purchase, setting up a hidden ice attack on unsuspecting guests. The boys also dive into the fine art of brewery marketing—why collabs are the key, trivia is timeless, and why breweries throwing comedy nights might need to re-evaluate their business plan. Oh, and Flex flexes his ability to recite the alphabet backwards, just in case the need ever arises (Greg, on the other hand, does not have this talent).
Booze News:
- 🍺 Dry January Just Got Worse – Non-alcoholic beer claimed a record share of the grocery store market last month. Civilization is crumbling.
- 🍑 Georgia Breweries May Finally Catch a Break – A new bill could open the door for self-distribution. About time?
- 💰 Sapporo’s Regretful Beer Shopping Spree – Stone Brewing’s new owners just admitted they massively overpaid… again.
- 🚔 Ravens Lineman Blows a .178 – At 6'6" and 360 lbs, this guy needed way more than “three or four beers” to get there.
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Episode Transcript
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(00:13):
I welcome in everybody to the CraftBeer Republic. Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.I am Greg and I am being joined
by the guy who barely made it andthat's flex. What's up big fella?
I forgot I did forget to be here.Luckily I just had to walk down a
(00:33):
flight of stairs and I was on. Right?But yes, I completely forgot about
tonight. And it was kind of funny.So good times.
I thought it was hilarious myself.Yeah, it was funny.
We we got a fucked up schedulethe next couple of weeks,
so it's understandable and makesure hopefully, uh, we'll,
we'll keep releasing shows andall that good stuff. Hopefully.
(00:56):
Yeah. Hopefully see what happens.Anyways, follow us on the
socials at Craft Beer Republic.Affleck's beer underscores
Inbetweeners. Lots to get to tonight.Uh, did some partying over the
weekend and I am still paying for it.I'm very excited you briefly
spoke about this off air,and I'm very excited to hear details,
(01:19):
asking some questions.I can't wait for the questions.
Uh, we got some news to get to.Uh, we had somebody write to us
about that beer math story we did aweek or so ago. The dollar pints.
He did some math for us. Okay.And how many pints we would actually
need to drink to make it worth it.So we'll get to to all that in
(01:40):
just a little bit.But, uh, I'm gonna hope this is sort
of like a hair of the dog situationfor me, and not a it's all downhill
situation for me. I have my name.Oh, I have my beer. I love my hair.
(02:04):
I love my beer. Oh, yeah.Thanks to intern Brian, I am
drinking Trillium Brewing Companies.Congress Street, 7.2% has a 4.27 on
untapped 70 over 70,000 ratings.That's crazy. That's insane.
(02:28):
I don't know if I've seen a beerwith that many Iranians before.
Trillion. I mean, I'm sure we have.I'm sure Sierra Nevada pale is I
mean. It is a shit ton.Like, that's that's that's a ton.
And to.Maintain a 4.27 at that, that's.
Not under I'm not trying toundercut it. Sure. But yeah.
It's insane. Yeah.Um, from the brewery,
(02:49):
they say our flagship AmericanIPA highlights the distinctive
aromatic Australian galaxy hop.The nose bursts with pine,
citrus rind, melon and pineapple.Pronounced flavors of peach,
clementine, and tropical fruitsare accentuated with moderate
bitterness and a balanced by alight biscuity malt character.
(03:11):
The Galaxy and Columbus are the hops.They even go on to tell you what type
of malts they put in this thing.Ooh. So the schnoz.
I definitely get the pine.I get a little bit of citrus in
there.I don't know that I get tons of
melon or pineapple so much.I also it's a fairly light nose,
as you can see.It's properly hazy and they
(03:32):
don't even call it a hazy.They just call it an American IPA.
It's wonderfully hazy looking.The head looks very nice.
Nice retention there.When I first poured this, it was
like I should have taken a picture.It was like the most gorgeous
pour ever.Perfect amount of head at the top.
And now some nice lacing I'mdigging in here. That is nice.
I definitely get the peach,get some tropical ness.
(03:54):
I think I'm getting somepineapple in there.
It's, um, it's a little biggeron the mouthfeel than, like,
say, like a super cloudy.That's probably because it's got
some malt to it. Okay.Um, but it's real nice.
Easy to drink a little smidge ofalcohol at the end.
Uh, you know, you're drinking.Not a five percenter, but it's not
(04:14):
like a ooh, it's hot kind of thing.It's just nice. It's good.
I like this. I enjoy that, too.Yeah, just just a little right there.
Take a. Reminder. Okay?Don't forget me. I'm here.
You have two of me, and you'regonna feel it. Yeah. You're gonna.
You're gonna be a little buzzy aftera couple of us. Me and my twin.
So. Yeah. Good times, I like it.Thanks. Brian.
(04:35):
This is, you know, a few months ago,I think this is what started the
whole, uh, flexes algorithm thingwhen he gave me that other trillion
beer and we started talking aboutpricing because it was like 28 bucks
for a four pack. Right. Good stuff.So, uh, I had to get this while it
was still somewhat fresh and, well.That 17. 2%,
I'm sure that was probably 30 bucks.Yeah,
this was probably the more expensiveone because the one was like 28
(04:57):
and one was 30 for the four pack.So I think this is the probably
was the $30 one. Who knows.I I'm just guessing. Yeah. Same.
Same girl, same.Uh, shout out to our top listing city
last week. Hawthorne, California.Oh, cool. What up? Hawthorne.
That's like near LA.That's just outside of LA. Neat.
I was gonna say I don't evenknow where it is.
Yeah, that's out in the hood.I mean, my hood ish. Yeah.
(05:20):
Not a geography show.No, not a map show.
It's really not. Yeah.I did hear a funny story at the
at the birthday I'm about totell you about.
Somebody was saying they beatsome guy up with a globe once,
or I was like, go on.The globes were like, hollow.
Yeah, maybe not this one.But he said, like, he got it and
(05:40):
like, rammed it into his face andjust started smashing the dude.
I was like, oh,do you have like Africa imprinted
on his forehead after that?Or you would ask a question like
that. I know, I'm so weird.Maybe it was like the base of
the base of the globe.Maybe it's like flat and,
you know. Yeah, but I was heavier.Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. So, please.
Yeah. Tell us how drunk you are.How drunk was he?
(06:04):
Pretty fucking drunk.And I'm still feeling it today.
So this is as we record.This was yesterday. It was Sunday.
Deb. Happy birthday. Deb had her.Birthday. Yeah. Happy birthday.
Deb. And, um. Thanks.We couldn't figure out what to do,
so honestly went to ChatGPT.Like you do for absolutely
everything. It was kind of a joke.It was like, all right, if it comes
(06:26):
up with a good idea, so be it.And said, like, hey,
our friend Deb is turning insertnumber here, and she's a huge
fan of champagne and brunch.And I think I told her like
1 or 2 other things and said,like, do you have any ideas we
could do for a birthday?And at first it was like you
could take her to brunch.And I was like, yeah, no shit.
ChatGPT. Thank you.And then so we told it to be
(06:48):
more creative and whatever,and it came up with the idea,
which we ended up doing,or at least the base of it.
And what we did was like achampagne around the world tasting,
if you will.So everybody couple every couple
brought a bottle of champagnefrom a different region.
We had a sign up form so we wouldn'tget like, you know, 30 California.
That's fucking hilarious.You left that out pre-show.
(07:10):
Oh, that's like some elementaryschool, like, birthday sign up
bullshit. Yeah. That's hilarious.I did an online sign up form and
I maxed it out at two bottlesper region.
So only two California's, two France,two Italy, all that stuff.
And, um, and so, yeah.So people signed up and then with
that bottle, you're supposed tobring a food from that region.
(07:31):
So, you know, if it's California,that could be anything.
It could be tacos or tri-tip orwho knows. We got Italy.
So we did an Italian prosecco with afrittata. Tried to keep it crunchy.
And, uh, so it was fun.Anyway, people brought some some
good food and we had a good time.We drank so much fucking
champagne like champagne.Drunk is another level.
(07:51):
Like, that's when I really startforgetting things.
Did you count how many bottles youfinished? No. Fucking I don't know.
Here's what I do know.So the people brought their regional
champagnes, which was probably,I don't know, like, we'll say
7 or 8 people or not people,but parties of bringing champagne.
Okay. And some people, would you say.Like 1 to 2 bottles per. 1 or 2?
(08:15):
Some people brought one, some broughttwo. Like we you know, we did two.
Um, so there's let's say in thatthere's. Let's call it 11 bottles.
Okay. I was gonna say 12.I like 11, uh, 11 bottles.
And then on top of that interim,Brian,
this is kind of a surprise for Deb.So, like, he snuck over to our house,
dropped off some what we callsideline bottles that weren't
part of the theme.It was just like, oh,
if we need more champagne.I think that was it was either 6 or 8
(08:39):
more bottles. Let's say it was six.Let's be conservative. All right.
So now we're looking at 17bottles of champagne.
So easily at least a bottle perperson.
Yes, minimum, because I don't.Think there were 17 adults in
this house.And so minimum a bottle of person.
We did crack open a few beers.Our buddy Otter came over and he
works at Tarantula Hill.He brought a new collab that T Hill
(09:02):
was working on. It was delicious.At some point,
I didn't know this happened. Interim.Brian like DoorDash. More champagne.
I just I was sitting outside on thepatio talking, and I look over the
fence and there's a dude getting outof a car with, like, this giant bag,
and he's handing it to Brian.I was like, oh my God,
did he DoorDash for champs?At least six more bottles.
(09:24):
Oh my God, so sick.They weren't all. Finished I think.
So we're looking at 23 bottles.I think 20 guys.
Let's say 20 got consumed. Yeah.Because there was like a couple of
bottles from that DoorDash left over.That's a lot of champagne.
A lot of fucking champagne.Minimally, I had at least a
bottle and a half of champagne,plus a couple of beers. Good lord.
(09:45):
Yeah, we just drank for eightfucking hours.
Like it started at noon and thelast person left at, like, 815,
I think. I mean.I was about to say I would probably
be vomiting at that point,but eight hours of drinking
starting at noon.Yeah,
I think I would be okay with that.Yeah. And I didn't get too drunk.
(10:05):
I mean, I got festively drunkthroughout the day.
I wasn't like, sheltered.I was trying to keep it together
a little bit. Hey, is our house.So, like, if people needed stuff,
I need to keep it together.Uh, b,
our dog Marty's not doing well.And so, like, I had to make sure,
like he was being taken care of.He's. We've had some diarrhea issues.
I didn't want that happening in thehouse, but then after it went left,
(10:26):
I'd shit you not.I got a pint glass and I just
filled it.It was probably about a half a
bottle of champagne and just starteddrinking that and sat on the couch
and had. I'm getting a headache now.Just really started kicking in.
And then this morning when I woke up,I was like, oh, daddy, oh,
daddy. Little buzzy.So now what kind of drunk?
(10:50):
Or I should say, what kind ofhangover is champagne for you?
So first of all,I should say champagne drunk is
apparently I forget everything.Like, I don't think I was that
drunk throughout the day untiltowards the end.
I'm sure I was getting pretty upthere, but I felt like I was
really holding it together and Iwasn't slamming champagne.
I just was consistently sipping. And.But I remember so little of yesterday
(11:15):
like I remember who was there.I remember talking to certain people
and certain specific conversations,like beating some guy up with a
globe. Um, and that kind of.But like, I was like, fuck you.
Don't forget that.You really could you. Yeah, yeah.
But I was like, fuck,when did this person leave and
when did this person leave?And like, I don't know,
I have no fucking clue.I don't see what the last people to
leave were. Of course, Deb and Brian.Like, I looked at the ring to
(11:36):
see when they left.I was like, oh,
they left at like 815. And so that's.Wild because it's it's different
when you're at somebody else's houseand you miss people leaving. Sure.
But when you're the host andit's at your house. Yeah.
There's a good couple.Hours where people.
Come up to you and say, hey,thanks for having us.
So the fact that you can't rememberthat, that's something. Well, like.
(12:00):
One person in particular, she left.I have no idea what time.
I guess I could look it up onthe ring, but I think I was out
on the patio when she left,so probably didn't see me,
so didn't come say bye, I think.Or maybe she came and said bye and,
you know, tickled my balls andleft and I just don't remember it.
Who knows. But but yeah.So to answer your actual question,
uh, champagne hangover is not fun.It's not a throw up hangover.
(12:22):
It's not like a stump, at leastfor me. Not a stomach hangover.
It was the fucking headache.And, like, dizziness and, like, I had
to drive somewhere for work today.I was like, fuck, I do not want to
drive so bad. Like it was throbbing.Headache. Just kind of lingering.
What is this. Just kind of lingering?I'd say the worst part is like
the the sort of off kilter nesswhere it's just like, okay,
(12:45):
I'm spinning all day long.Oh, that is not great.
Yeah, but it's in full effect.Like for lunch today?
We all know that I eat fairly well.Fairly low carb and all that stuff.
Uh, for lunch I went and I was like,hey, I'm gonna go pick up salads
because we don't have anything else.She's like, okay, but I went to
the place that I know has greatsweet potato fries, and I brought
(13:06):
back some sweet potato fries.And I was like,
I need these in my life so bad.I do fux with some sweet potato
fries. Oh, man.I'll get horny on some sweet potato.
They are real nice.Yeah, a little ranch on there.
Oh, really? Oh, yeah.What do you like?
Oh, I just like,I could just eat sweet potato fries.
Like, you know, there's sweet,obviously.
(13:27):
And, like, you get some nice coarsegrain salt on there. Oh, yeah.
I did add some salt on there.Freshly ground. That's all I need.
Yeah. It's good.That salt just fucking hits with it.
The salt is key.I'd say that's more important
than the dip for sure,but I do a little light ranch
dip with my sweet potatoes.The wife fucking would drink
ranch if it didn't look weird.So she's over there, like.
(13:49):
Like, you know, it's a fuckingspoon for ranch, basically.
But I just a little light hintof ranch. Ton of salt. Mhm.
Set my life. Straight. See?Hot take. Unpopular opinion.
I don't love ranch. Just in general.Yeah. Like with anything.
Oh, see, I don't like ketchup.Like I don't want ketchup on my
fries. Oh.See, I can eat ketchup with just
about everything. Too sweet for me.Too sweet. Okay. Too sweet.
(14:13):
Too sweet for life. Uh, so that's.That's my death for the day.
So nobody brought any buzz balls?No buzz balls were consumed.
Funny you should ask.I had to go to Total Wine before
to pick up the champs.And I saw Buzz Balls,
and I picked one up for Deb. Nice.And I wasn't there when they did it,
(14:36):
but they gave it to her.And the wife took video and she.
She took it like a Smirnoff, likean ice. She got down on one knee.
And are you supposed to chugthem or are they just like,
rtds you just drink them?No, she's just a champ,
so she fucking downed it.But, um, I don't I don't think
there's a rule to, you know, to,like, be nice. Okay.
I also, I want everybody outthere who listens,
(14:57):
who sometimes comes to my house.Ever to know that while I was at
Total Wine, I also purchased asix pack of Smirnoff Ice.
You know, I've thought about this,and, uh, I thought it would be
really funny to ice guys at work.Oh, like while you're working? Yeah.
So, like, buy the six pack and then,like, if I say I'm, like,
(15:20):
got a closing shift coming up,then I would, like,
set everything up as I closed.So when everybody came in in the
morning, they would be shocked andawe and probably obviously not
chug the ice before work or whenthey find it, but after and just
have this huge chug circle and.Then, you know,
(15:41):
it's waiting for you all day too.And because they just, uh, you know,
we got like our beer cooler and shit.We sell liquor at work.
They just came out with thesenew Smirnoff Ice things.
They're like six ounces,maybe eight ounces, and they're
like 13% alcohol. Holy shit.Yeah, I forgot what they're called.
They're not.They're not called shorties.
They're not called.They have a name to them.
(16:03):
I should get. Diabetes or something.But I was like, man,
imagine icing somebody with this.That would be shitty.
Yeah, it'd be terrible.Terrible? Like what?
You're not even somebody'sfriend doing that, right?
You are now enemies.Well, I hesitate to say this on the
show, because I know people who comeover to my house will hear this,
(16:23):
and I don't want to tip them off.But the wife,
I might even cut this out.But the wife saw a thing on the
gram where somebody put aSmirnoff in there. Okay, so.
That's why I bought them.There is now a Smirnoff sitting
in my. That's ruthless man. Yeah.Oh, are you going for some aspirin?
Okay. Yeah. They are called shorties.That's what they're called.
(16:44):
There you go. Yeah.13% alcohol, 6.76oz should.
Be called friendship runners.And I think they come in a
couple flavors,but that's not the important part.
The important part is thatthey're awful.
You should find these and youshould ice your friends with them.
Yeah. Your best friends? Yes.Because that will show a true
(17:05):
testament of friendship if they stay.Yeah.
If they don't punch you in the face.Yeah. Good times.
So anyways, that was Deb's party.Smirnoff ice in the. Yeah.
What a horrible idea.We've done toilets before.
We've done? Sure.Under somebody's covers before.
My favorite ever was the pizza box.I did the pizza box. Yeah, I.
(17:27):
Tell that one a lot. Yeah.I love icing people.
Anybody who does get it,I'll be nice.
I will swap it out for one ofthe cold ones in the fridge.
You don't have to drink the warm one.Chugging warm would be easier.
You think? Oh, yeah.But then chugging something ice
cold with, like,some carbonation. It's terrible.
But then you taste it more.Not if you chug it.
(17:48):
I'm not tasting anything.You're chugging?
Well, it'll be up to the chugger.I'll let them decide.
It's a gentleman rule. Yeah.I'll be. I'll be that nice.
You're a nice guy, Greg. Yeah.A very funny part of the show was
taken out to protect the integrityof the hiding location of the ice.
Apologies for the inconvenience.Now, back to your favorite podcast.
(18:09):
You should hide one in between yourcouch, like the arm of the couch and
the cushion. Mhm. Somebody sits down.They're gonna feel it.
What stuck down here.And if they don't feel it you go
like hey is the remote down there.Can you, can you reach for it.
Super solid. Yeah, it's a good one.I like. That. Well, I'll report back.
Um, like I said, at the top,somebody wrote in and commented on,
(18:33):
you know, I post clips of theshow on like, YouTube and social
media and all that stuff.Somebody commented on the on the
clip of us talking about thedollar pints for life.
If you spend $10,000 and he didmath for us.
And he said,if pints are eight bucks each.
Which is what we said, and you dodonate $10,000 to save $7 a pint.
You need to drink 1,428.6 pints tobreak even. That's a lot of beers.
(19:00):
I think we said, what do we say,like 13 or 1400.
So we weren't far off. Yeah.Well, you I think you guessed it.
I was just in awe still. But yeah.So anyways, thanks for doing the
math for us. And 10,000.That's a lot of money to drink.
Yeah, I'd like to say I haven'tspent that much money on beer,
but we all know.Well, that's not the point.
(19:21):
But that is definitely not the point.The point is, is this said Taphouse,
or it was like a taphouse opening up,right? Brewery. Oh, it was a brewery.
They wanted to, like, expand theirtaproom or something like that.
Okay. That's what it was.So you have to wonder,
are they going to be around that longfor you to make your money back,
(19:44):
right? Like that ten grand donation?It doesn't.
It's not necessarily going to go far.Yeah.
I mean, I donated 50 bucks to aKickstarter or whatever for a
brewery that never opened.I'm still mad about that.
Sheesh. Let alone ten grand.That's a little rough.
Yeah,that 50 bucks supposed to get a free
beer and your name up on the wall.How many tacos you could get
(20:07):
with 50 bucks?Oh, you know, like,
that's what crosses my mind.That's why I don't gamble. Yeah.
Same.You know, it's like you lose money
and I'm like, well, you could haveused that money on this or this or
this and. Yeah, it's just fucking.It's gone. Yeah.
It's why, like,if I'm in Vegas and I decide to
go hit up a casino or something,I will set an amount like I'm not
(20:29):
spending more than whatever it is.300 bucks this weekend on gambling.
Okay.And then to me,
it becomes paying for entertainment.You're paying for something to do.
And I'm okay with that. Okay. that.That's an interesting way to
look at it.I've never thought of it that way.
And that 300 bucks could last mefive minutes if I'm an idiot or
(20:50):
if I'm doing all right.Maybe it lasts me the whole weekend.
Maybe I make a few bucks.But I have decided I'm willing to
part with $300 to have a good time.Okay. And then.
And then it's just like buyingtickets to something, you know?
I'm buying tickets to theroulette table, basically.
You know, I like that concept ofyou're just paying for entertainment.
(21:10):
Yeah, because you pay if youwent to a show or anything else.
Yeah, I guess it makes sense.But you know, like my buddy,
we used to go and back in our singledays and he'd lose 500 bucks. Go.
Well, now I got to win it back andthen, you know, $3,000 later. Right.
That is, that is still trying towin it back to go about it. Yeah.
First of all, you'll never win itback. Even if you do. You don't.
(21:32):
Especially when you have that feelthat need that you have to like.
You have to try to get it right.That never works out. Yeah.
When the pressure's on,you'll never win.
So especially when you'replaying stuff like,
I always play craps and roulette.Like I don't play skill things like,
you know, poker or something.I, I like craps, I like roulette
because craps has some skill to it.But yeah. So a little bit.
(21:55):
But like blackjack,there's tons of like, do's and
don'ts and rights and wrongs.And, uh, last year at work,
we played a lot of blackjack,like post shifts, have a, you know,
shift beer and hang out in thegarage and play a couple hands.
I don't remember what is good,what is when you hit,
(22:16):
when you don't hit, when it's, um,what's what's the fucking word
when you're trying to be like,kind to somebody, it's like, uh,
I can't fucking remember,but it's like, uh, you don't hit
on certain cards or certain handsbecause it's not good for this
person next to you or oh, really?So on and so forth. Oh, yeah.
(22:37):
There's like, oh, who gives a shit?I'm here to win, they say.
On certain hands, if people hit,there's people that will get up
and walk away from the table.That's their problem.
Because it is the wrong thing to dowhen you are playing at the table.
That sounds like a you problem.I'm just trying to win money.
It blew. My mind. That's insane.I've never heard that before.
(22:58):
Oh, yeah.Blackjack is the one card game
where someone's like, hey,we have to go play cards.
Like, all right, I'll play blackjack.It's not a poker fan.
Yeah, poker is not that fun to me.It's boring.
There's too much shit to remember.We're talking, like, five card draw.
Are we talking like Texas Hold'em?Yes. Okay.
If I'm going to play poker,like. Yeah, five card draw.
(23:19):
I'm a little more into than TexasHold'em, but I just. None of it.
I don't want any of it.Give me some blackjack.
But really,I want craps and roulette.
Those are my games in Vegas.Okay. Fair enough.
I'm like some old person.At the. Craps table.
I just I love being at the roulettetable, and people are like, what's
your strategy? Like, I don't know.Find the guy who's making a bunch of
(23:40):
money and do whatever he's doing.That's not a bad idea.
There's one guy.One time I was at this table.
This guy.I don't know if he had strategy or
if he just liked certain numbers.He was.
Just went in fucking spin after spinafter spin. I just did what he did.
I made a bunch of money.How'd you do it?
(24:01):
I don't know,that guy seemed pretty smart.
That never would have evencrossed my mind. You know?
Because it's not like poker whereyou can't see what he's doing.
Yeah. You know, it's.It's out in the public.
It's out there. Yeah.This guy's going 32. So am I.
Put it all on 32. Motherfuckers.Jeez. Maybe I should try that.
Yeah, it's good times.I don't go to the casino ever.
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But maybe now I'm just going to walkaround and just take some peeks.
He's doing well and just tryingto piggyback that.
Or I tell you, like,if I'm walking through a casino and I
see that there's like a roulettetable that just had, you know,
ten reds in a row, just ripe fora black. I will just stop up.
Hold on. 20 bucks on black.You know, just like. No way.
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It's not going to hit black this.Time, right?
And I'll just, you know, sometimesit works, sometimes it doesn't.
But the numbers person in me is like,you can't go for an 11th red.
It's got to go black.Law of probability. Mhm.
And then I get sucked in.But that's a different story.
Never go over that 300 bucks.Anyways not not a gambling show.
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Not a gambling show.Uh, before we find out what you're
drinking over there, one last thing.Got hit up by a mutual friend of
ours. I won't say who it is.Only because I didn't ask him if
I could talk about this or not.But they have an investment in a
brewery and was saying like,hey, what do you see?
Uh, as far as, like, not only beertrends, but activities working to get
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people in the door of a brewery.We have a lot of great music.
We have a lot of great events.We have a lot of people coming in,
but we could use some more andespecially like certain days or,
you know, significantly slowerthan others. Okay.
And so I said, well, first of all,I gave them the Flex and Greg speech.
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I said, put some hoses on tapsheets and I'll be sucking at
the teat first of all.Uh, I said, but, you know,
I don't know what's on your taplist right now.
But one thing that's really importantto me, beer wise, is some stuff
that's not seven, eight, 9%.Give me some lower ABV shit so I can
have 2 or 3 and still drive home.Right.
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There was a brewery that doesnot exist out here anymore,
and they always were, you know,low end of their beers were like
eight, nine, 10%. Oh, wow.That's that was the low end.
That was yeah.Rarely, you know, they had one
blonde which I wasn't a huge fan of.And then everything else was like,
yeah, everything else was likedouble IPAs and all this other shit.
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It's like, hey, man,I want to have two, three beers,
hang out and still be able to.Make it you have TVs and you always
have like sporting events on,you have gotta have you gotta
have vloggers. Yeah.So I told him sessionable shit
pails goes.And I said the nice thing about
a goza or a sour somewhere inthat category is it's unique.
Not everybody has one.So you can go, hey,
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come try our whatever it is goesthere or something. Right.
And and just make sure your beertenders educate people on what it
is if they don't know what it is.Hey, this goes it's a little sour
not to, you know, a little salty.It's it's fun. Have a taste.
And I said in terms of events,at least out here, I don't know
if you've seen this out here atbreweries, bingo seems to be
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popping up more and more. Have not.Seen that. That sounds awesome.
Well, the only thing is it'sonly popping up at the breweries
that are not doing well.So I said, don't have bingo.
It's a sign that you're a.Sign you're not doing well.
Yeah. That is funny.Um, I've also seen comedy nights are
only at breweries that are not doingwell. That would not make draw me in.
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Yeah. Not really.I mean, I like a good comedian,
you know, but like, I went to oneat a brewery that just closed at
the very beginning of the year,or maybe right before New Year's,
we went to one like a month beforethey closed because we knew
people going and like, hey, come,my friend's going to perform.
So we went out and it was fine.Most of the I think I talked
about on the show,most of the comedians sucked.
There was one that was decent.It just it was a sign of a dying
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brewery.And then like a month later,
they died.So, um, yeah, I said, don't do bingo,
don't do comedy nights.Uh, trivia is pretty classic.
Most breweries have like a trivianight. We all know I love trivia.
You do. You love it?Eagle Park last week,
what I thought was really cool.They did. Twice this year.
They had a brewery up from Illinois,and they had a brewery down from
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Minnesota for like Packers-bearsPackers Vikings game.
So then those breweries broughton some guest apps. Sure.
And then they did, you know,some giveaways during the games,
touchdown shots, you know,because they distill and have full
bar and everything like that as well.Something like that for like sporting
events is always kind of a how doyou, you know, make that even better,
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like a go for a ball game,a baseball game, football game.
Just make a spectacle of it. Yeah.Make it a, you know, make it a party.
Yeah, a baseball party.Because then from everything I've
heard, people would get their,you know, when they opened up at
11 and some of those gas tapswould already or guest taps would
already be killed by 1230 1:00.That's pretty good.
That would really get people inthe doors. That's smart.
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I've never seen that where theybring up a brewery or whatever
from that region of the team.And then that's the last one
they did.They did, uh, because their
parking lot is pretty enormous.They got a field goal post and
they held a field goal kickingcompetition.
Okay, so that's just another like.Sounds dumb but fun. And it looked.
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There was a shit ton of peoplecrowded around watching these
guys just try and kick. So.And I bet you could even do like free
entry into the field goal contestif you buy a beer or something.
Yeah, like. Get a raffle ticket.Well,
that's how they did all the raffles.You buy a beer, you get a ticket,
and then every commercial breakthey would raffle off a t shirt
or a hat or a four pack of beeror something like that.
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So yeah, just really gets people in.Yeah, I really liked I really like
that field goal contest I did.I mean,
because that's fairly easy to do.You set up a the outside and. Yeah.
Or you could do like a footballthrowing contest or something,
you know, mark it up with somechalk on the tip and you know,
see where it hits. Yeah. Pretty easy.That's I like that a lot.
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So so yeah hope hope that helps.And then also you know it's good
for the breweries too because youknow everybody knows if you work
at a brewery, you know somebodyworks at another brewery.
And you know,you gain friendships and you know,
through collaborations and whatnot.So that was another thing I said
collab, collab, collab,anybody that will put your name
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on your menu on their menu board.I feel like collaborations
haven't been frequent lately.Like, I feel like they've kind
of dying out. Yeah.I wonder if they got a little
fucked out during Covid.People were doing all their like,
zoom beer collabs and stuff,but but I mean, it's smart.
You get your name on someoneelse's menu board.
That is another cool thing thatEP does, is they have an entire
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beer fest with collabs from otherbreweries, and they bring all of
these guys in for the fest as well.And it's like, hey,
they brewed this beer with us.And so every beer is Eagle Park and
so and so Eagle Park and so and soand um, then they come out with two,
six packs, like a 12 pack varietyof every single beer that
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they're releasing at the fest.And then you can buy those.
And so that's really smart.I mean, it's.
A it's a really, really fun idea.Yeah, I like that a lot.
And that it's always hosted around420. So joint fest they call it.
And yeah bro it works.It works really well. I dig it.
That's actually really smart.I like that a lot.
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So, um, hopefully he's listening andand hopefully something's helpful or
hopefully someone else is listening.It's helpful. Who knows.
Anywho, speaking of beer, you lookingthirsty over there? 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 jabber.
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In this world we must find out what.Is flax drinking. All right.
Well, today flex is drinking newbeer I picked up today. Um.
There's only. It's so new.There's only 28 check ins on Untappd.
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So not 72,000? 2000. No. Yeah.It's like a complete opposite of
yours.Uh, so this beer is called off
season, and it is from ThreeSheeps Brewing Company.
They're up about an hour north of mein Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Sheboygan.
Um, this is an Imperial Hazy IPA,28 check ins, a three, nine, three.
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And, uh,they say here in Imperial Hazy IPA,
inspired by the quiet calm of winter,which you really don't know about.
Um, when the crowds have thinnedand the town slows to a standstill,
bursting with juicy pineapple,tropical lime, and sweet fruit
flavors, this brew offers a smooth,full bodied texture that's perfect
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for savoring the slower pace.Embrace the stillness and make
the most of the off season.This bad boy rings in at 8.5%. Mm.
It smells. Get a little whiff here.So the flavors the aroma isn't,
like pungent.It's not like hitting you in the
nose. Sure.Light flavors,
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kind of hoppy on the back end.Get a little bit of that citrus lime,
I'm assuming.So warm up the old tongue.
Tongue job here. Ooh. Oh. It's warm.Okay, so similar to the aroma.
The flavors aren't huge, but youdo get a little of that pineapple.
Definitely feeling that lime.And you get, uh, again,
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like some hoppiness,some dank on that back end.
The dank is slight,but you definitely get, like,
those hoppy flavors.Um, it's a really enjoyable beer.
There's no whatsoever hint of that8.5% ABV. So this drinks really nice.
Uh. The color, it's like this bright.It's hazy, but it's not murky.
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Yeah, it's not the thickest beeryou've ever seen.
Yeah, it's, uh, lighter bodied thanyou would think for an 8.5 and all
around I'd say a 3.9 is superb,I hope. I hope it stays there.
That's a really good score forthis and I'm not mad about it.
Yeah. Sounds delicious.Little tropical fruit salad.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was solid.I can't wait to drink the next three.
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Actually. One down, three to go.Look out. Daddy!
Like I'll stop saying daddy.Did you say daddy all you want?
Yeah. Oh, daddy. It's been a while.It has been a while. All right.
A little news before we get outof here. Yeah. Bad news.
Not a daddy show. Not a daddy show.Well, when you're around,
it kind of is. Daddy, daddy.Bad news to report.
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Non-alcoholic beer.Had a record dry January in
grocery stores.They claimed 4.2% of the beer share
in grocery store sales. That's gross.What's wrong with you people? Yeah.
Uh, some potential good news forthe people down in Georgia.
Georgia lawmakers are consideringlegalizing self-distribution for
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breweries. Why wouldn't they?Because money and stupid laws
and backwardness. Stupid. Yeah.The Craft Beer and Local Economy
Revitalization Act, SB 122, wouldpermit small breweries to sell up to
3000 barrels annually to retailerslicensed in the state that are
located within a 100 mile radius ofthe small Brewers licensed premises.
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If adopted, SB 122 would also removethe 288 ounce per person daily cap
on off premise sales at taprooms.However, it would limit beer to
go sales at 6000 barrels in theaggregate among all brewers
licensed permit premises,making such sales so you can only
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sell up to sell up to 6000 barrels ifyou want to be self-distributed.
Well, usually the smaller guysare the ones that do that anyway.
So. Right, exactly.I think that wouldn't be that
hard to keep it under 6000.No, not at all. And to go. Sales.
And then if you're able to get yourbeer out there, then you should be
able to get your beer out there.Right. Then you get to spread.
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You grow. You get it? Yeah.You get an actual distributor and.
Yeah. So yeah. Do it.Fucking do it, Georgia.
Do it right in the butt. Just do it.What what I said what what, uh,
one of the not one of the the largestshareholder of Sapporo Stone slams
Sapporo for their $91 millionimpairment on Stone brewing.
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So we all know what an impairment is.I think we learned about this
thanks to Ballast Point.Basically,
when you way overspend on something,in this case a brewery, and it's
not worth what you paid for it,you can make an impairment that just
says like, whoops, we spent too much.It's not worth that money.
And I think you get some taxbreaks on it too when you do that.
Um, Sapporo Holdings has taken inmore than 91.5 million 5 million
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impairment charge on the goodwill ofits stone brewing business, which
they bought for nearly 165 million.So more? Well over half. Geez.
The impairment charge announcedon January 30th was met with
criticism by 3D Investment Partners.They issued an open letter to
Sapporo's board of directorsreiterating concerns regarding
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the company's severe lack ofcapital discipline amid repeated
large scale impairments from 3DInvestment Partners, a Singapore
based investment fund manager whichReuters reported is the largest
individual investor in Sapporo.They issued an open letter to
Sapporo's board of directorsexpressing concerns regarding the
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company's severe lack of capitaldiscipline amid repeated large scale
impairments and strong disappointmentand concern over the stone writedown.
They wrote unfortunately, the stoneimpairment was not the first time
Sapporo destroyed shareholdercapital through acquisitions.
In fact,Sapporo has recorded impairment
losses on all of its acquisitions ofoverseas alcohol beverage business,
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including Sleeman Breweries, Sapporo,Vietnam, Anchor Brewing and Stone.
I was like, oh yeah, I forgot theyfucked up everything they bought.
That's. I forgot about anchor.That's wild. Yeah.
Makes you think who's behind allthese sales. Right?
Or the purchases, I should say.Yeah. Some idiot.
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The cumulative impairment loss ofthose acquired brands amounted
to more than $250 million.So it goes on with more numbers
and details.But I think that's enough for now.
Uh, Baltimore Ravens,Ravens offensive line Ben
Cleveland was arrested for DUI.Baltimore Ravens Ol Ben Cleveland was
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arrested for DUI last week afterblowing a staggering 0.178 Eight when
a breathalyzer was administered.I know what you're thinking.
That's only a little over double.It's not like.
Well, and he's an offensive lineman,right? So what is his stature?
It's like he's like six five,330 or something like that. Six six.
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360. Oh, jeez. I was way off. Yeah.Teams reports in Milledgeville,
Georgia.Police pulled over Cleveland
over on February 12th afterobserving him driving
erratically in his Ford F-250.Officers claim that Cleveland
nearly drove the vehicle into aditch before being pulled off.
When asked if he'd been drinkingdrinking, Cleveland told police he
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had approximately 3 or 4 beers.Damn it. At six six, 360.
Feel like it might take morethan 3 or 4 beers to blow a
0.178 on a breathalyzer, unless.He counts pitchers as just beers.
Maybe.Maybe he's doing some Andre the
Giant math or something.I've seen some guys just order
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pitchers before. Yeah.And then they just drink right
out of them. Yeah.In fact,
while back is not an exact science.Alcohol and drug rehab centers.
Addiction treatment information.A website dedicated to reducing
alcohol addiction states thatCleveland would need to have had
around 16 beers in a three hourspan if they were each 5%,
in order to produce that result. Oof!He failed multiple sobriety
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tests and was then arrested andtaken to a nearby jail.
Once there, police administeredanother breathalyzer test, which
still returned a 0.161, so stillover double at that point. Oh, boy.
Yeah. Big boy. Been drinking.You know, I would bet that if,
you know, you're you're a bigboy and it takes you a ton of
beers to get that drunk.Probably takes longer for them
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to get out of your system, too,because you had so much.
Well, if he's £360,his metabolism is probably not great.
That might be true.For it probably sticks in his the
system a little longer. That sense?Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Not a scientist? No, not a scientist.Not a science show.
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Just a little bit of science.That boy. Was drunk.
It's a good thing for the cops thathe didn't get a little unruly.
That's a big boy.Well, I mean, they got tasers,
you know. True. Or worse. Well. But.Yeah, glad they didn't have to use
it. Yeah. No excessive force here.Yeah, exactly.
Just excessive drinking. Ooh.Big fella.
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You know, sometimes when I drive homerandomly, like, from work, I'll, uh,
go through the ABCs backwards in myhead. Oh, just to test yourself.
Yeah, I got it down pretty well.Yeah. I can't do it sober.
Really? Z y x.WVU t s rcpo nml k j I h g f e d
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c b a. You fuck something up.You said n m l.
Oh, no, that is right. NML MLK.Yeah. Yeah.
That might, I might not I thinkI trailed off at the end there.
I forgot a couple, but, uh.Yeah, I hear a niner.
Yeah, sometimes they just do itin my head like 2 or 3 times.
I'm like, that's funny. Yeah. Back.You know, back in my day,
before Uber was really a thing.And I'd go out drinking with the
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fellas or something.My test was always, uh.
Because the one thing I've had to domultiple times when being pulled over
was. Have you been pulled over a.Couple times? Yeah. Okay.
And they had me like, get out.And I have, you know, no DUIs,
knock on wood. I've been okay.But, uh, they would always have
me close my eyes, look up,and then count to 30 silently.
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And when I get to 30,put my head down, open my eyes.
And it's just a test to see.Like, are you within an acceptable
range? Like. Or are you.And you're like one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight,you know, something like that.
Interesting.Little do the cops know, I used
to work. You know, I work in TV.I used to work in live news.
And as the director, All I didall the time was count people in.
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So I'd be there all the time.All right, everybody, stand by.
We're going live in 10s nine eight.So I was really good at counting down
from ten three times like three.Close your eyes.
All right, everybody,here we go. 30s 1029.
I just did to ten three times.And then I remember one time I
put my head down, open my eyes,and the one cop looks at his
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partner and was like, mm.A little bit of a ah, wow reaction.
I was like, thanks, gentlemen.Can I go now? Damn.
So that's legit good times. So yeah.Anyway, so my self test is, uh,
I have sat there in my car and I've,you know, hit the stopwatch on my
phone and then closed my eyes. Ten.Nine. Eight. See how close I am?
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Oh, I love it. Yeah.I love how ridiculous we are.
So stupid. Yeah.So I've heard the big one here too,
is you stand on one leg and youtouch your nose. Mhm.
And apparently what they're lookingfor is just to see if you're
falling or getting off balancethat you can catch yourself. Yes.
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It's that you catch yourself anddon't fall. Yes.
Because nobody's I mean not nobodybut a lot of people aren't good
at standing on one leg sober. No.And then what do you look up and
touch your nose? Yeah.You kind of look up and then,
like, you bring your your fingerin from the side. Yeah.
Touch your nose. Yeah.So I mean, they're putting you
in an off balance situation,even if you're sober.
But they want to know if you catchyourself or if you fall on your face.
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That's the test.So just make sure you don't fall.
Everybody.I was always worried about the
walking in a straight line becauseI'm pigeon toed. I can. Oh yeah.
I can not in a straight line sober.So having to walk in a straight
line drunk, I would be terrified.I don't think I've ever had to
do the straight line.It's always, you know, look up,
close your eyes count.Um,
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I've had to follow the pen before.Like they put a pen in front of
your face and go side to side.They just want to make sure you
can track with it.Um, I've also just done breathalyzer
tests too, which I'm fine. Yeah.I'll blow. Knock on wood.
I've never been pulled over foranything like that.
And I hope I never am.Yeah, keep it that way. Trying.
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Yeah. My.My funniest breathalyzer test
was I was not driving,and we were leaving a Padres game.
And outside the stadium,you know, San Diego, they have
good beer at that stadium, right?And we had we had strapped it on
a little bit.And so outside just to like,
prove a point.They were doing breathalyzer tests.
I remember you telling this storybefore. Yeah. See how drunk you are.
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And they were like,how drunk do you think you are?
And then he'd blow and see howclose you got.
And so, like,the wife did it and she was dead on.
The wife goes, I think I'm oh,wait, I think I'm right at the
line she blew.Oh, wait, she fucking nailed it.
I was like, um, I think I might,I don't know, like a 10 or 11.
It's like a 17. Were you really.You were Cleveland drunk.
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I was Cleveland drunk.Oh, the cops like.
Hope you're not driving.I was like, definitely not, sir.
So that was good times.I wonder how many beers it would take
you to get to 17. Yeah, I don't know.I mean, honestly, we've been we
had done, like, beer in San Diego.We'd done beer tasting all day,
and then we'd gone to the gameand had some beers at the game.
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And so, like, I knew I was buzzy,but I didn't think I was hammered.
Three hour game drinking beersbeforehand. We'll call it five hours.
So if he had to drink 16 beersin three hours to get to 17.
Jesus. That'd probably.You're half of his size.
Yeah, well, a little more than half.But, um,
that that math was based on 5% beers.I'm drinking IPAs down in San
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Diego that. Is also drinking.That is seven and eight percenters
all day. Probably. This is back.This is back in the West Coast days.
Okay.So yeah, but I mean,
I must have had ten beers that dayat least it's hard to tell when
they're most of them are flights,but true. Yeah. Good times.
I was like, all right,I'm gonna call my Uber now.
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We weren't driving anyways.That's that's why I submitted myself
to it. Right, right, right. Yeah.So. Hell, yeah. Oh. Good times.
All right, let's wrap things up.Thank you all for listening and
for drinking and for joining andfor all those good things.
I'm gonna hit some. Hi, Vanessa.Yeah. Hello, Vanessa.
I got a little creepy on that one.Yeah. Follow.
Follow us on the socials at CraftBeer Republic at flex beer.
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Underscores in between 805538.Beer. It's 2337.
Haven't heard from you in a while.I need some voicemails.
Uh, I think that's everything.Hope everyone's staying very
well hydrated. And on that note.Good night everybody.
I welcome in everybody to the CraftBeer Republic. Thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.I am Greg and I am being joined
by the guy who barely made it andthat's flex. What's up big fella?
I forgot I did forget to be here.Luckily I just had to walk down a
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flight of stairs and I was on. Right?But yes, I completely forgot about
tonight. And it was kind of funny.So good times.
I thought it was hilarious myself.Yeah, it was funny.
We we got a fucked up schedulethe next couple of weeks,
so it's understandable and makesure hopefully, uh, we'll,
we'll keep releasing shows andall that good stuff. Hopefully.
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Yeah. Hopefully see what happens.Anyways, follow us on the
socials at Craft Beer Republic.Affleck's beer underscores
Inbetweeners. Lots to get to tonight.Uh, did some partying over the
weekend and I am still paying for it.I'm very excited you briefly
spoke about this off air,and I'm very excited to hear details,
(01:19):
asking some questions.I can't wait for the questions.
Uh, we got some news to get to.Uh, we had somebody write to us
about that beer math story we did aweek or so ago. The dollar pints.
He did some math for us. Okay.And how many pints we would actually
need to drink to make it worth it.So we'll get to to all that in
(01:40):
just a little bit.But, uh, I'm gonna hope this is sort
of like a hair of the dog situationfor me, and not a it's all downhill
situation for me. I have my name.Oh, I have my beer. I love my hair.
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I love my beer. Oh, yeah.Thanks to intern Brian, I am
drinking Trillium Brewing Companies.Congress Street, 7.2% has a 4.27 on
untapped 70 over 70,000 ratings.That's crazy. That's insane.
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I don't know if I've seen a beerwith that many Iranians before.
Trillion. I mean, I'm sure we have.I'm sure Sierra Nevada pale is I
mean. It is a shit ton.Like, that's that's that's a ton.
And to.Maintain a 4.27 at that, that's.
Not under I'm not trying toundercut it. Sure. But yeah.
It's insane. Yeah.Um, from the brewery,
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they say our flagship AmericanIPA highlights the distinctive
aromatic Australian galaxy hop.The nose bursts with pine,
citrus rind, melon and pineapple.Pronounced flavors of peach,
clementine, and tropical fruitsare accentuated with moderate
bitterness and a balanced by alight biscuity malt character.
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The Galaxy and Columbus are the hops.They even go on to tell you what type
of malts they put in this thing.Ooh. So the schnoz.
I definitely get the pine.I get a little bit of citrus in
there.I don't know that I get tons of
melon or pineapple so much.I also it's a fairly light nose,
as you can see.It's properly hazy and they
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don't even call it a hazy.They just call it an American IPA.
It's wonderfully hazy looking.The head looks very nice.
Nice retention there.When I first poured this, it was
like I should have taken a picture.It was like the most gorgeous
pour ever.Perfect amount of head at the top.
And now some nice lacing I'mdigging in here. That is nice.
I definitely get the peach,get some tropical ness.
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I think I'm getting somepineapple in there.
It's, um, it's a little biggeron the mouthfeel than, like,
say, like a super cloudy.That's probably because it's got
some malt to it. Okay.Um, but it's real nice.
Easy to drink a little smidge ofalcohol at the end.
Uh, you know, you're drinking.Not a five percenter, but it's not
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like a ooh, it's hot kind of thing.It's just nice. It's good.
I like this. I enjoy that, too.Yeah, just just a little right there.
Take a. Reminder. Okay?Don't forget me. I'm here.
You have two of me, and you'regonna feel it. Yeah. You're gonna.
You're gonna be a little buzzy aftera couple of us. Me and my twin.
So. Yeah. Good times, I like it.Thanks. Brian.
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This is, you know, a few months ago,I think this is what started the
whole, uh, flexes algorithm thingwhen he gave me that other trillion
beer and we started talking aboutpricing because it was like 28 bucks
for a four pack. Right. Good stuff.So, uh, I had to get this while it
was still somewhat fresh and, well.That 17. 2%,
I'm sure that was probably 30 bucks.Yeah,
this was probably the more expensiveone because the one was like 28
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and one was 30 for the four pack.So I think this is the probably
was the $30 one. Who knows.I I'm just guessing. Yeah. Same.
Same girl, same.Uh, shout out to our top listing city
last week. Hawthorne, California.Oh, cool. What up? Hawthorne.
That's like near LA.That's just outside of LA. Neat.
I was gonna say I don't evenknow where it is.
Yeah, that's out in the hood.I mean, my hood ish. Yeah.
(05:20):
Not a geography show.No, not a map show.
It's really not. Yeah.I did hear a funny story at the
at the birthday I'm about totell you about.
Somebody was saying they beatsome guy up with a globe once,
or I was like, go on.The globes were like, hollow.
Yeah, maybe not this one.But he said, like, he got it and
(05:40):
like, rammed it into his face andjust started smashing the dude.
I was like, oh,do you have like Africa imprinted
on his forehead after that?Or you would ask a question like
that. I know, I'm so weird.Maybe it was like the base of
the base of the globe.Maybe it's like flat and,
you know. Yeah, but I was heavier.Who knows? Yeah. Yeah. So, please.
Yeah. Tell us how drunk you are.How drunk was he?
(06:04):
Pretty fucking drunk.And I'm still feeling it today.
So this is as we record.This was yesterday. It was Sunday.
Deb. Happy birthday. Deb had her.Birthday. Yeah. Happy birthday.
Deb. And, um. Thanks.We couldn't figure out what to do,
so honestly went to ChatGPT.Like you do for absolutely
everything. It was kind of a joke.It was like, all right, if it comes
(06:26):
up with a good idea, so be it.And said, like, hey,
our friend Deb is turning insertnumber here, and she's a huge
fan of champagne and brunch.And I think I told her like
1 or 2 other things and said,like, do you have any ideas we
could do for a birthday?And at first it was like you
could take her to brunch.And I was like, yeah, no shit.
ChatGPT. Thank you.And then so we told it to be
(06:48):
more creative and whatever,and it came up with the idea,
which we ended up doing,or at least the base of it.
And what we did was like achampagne around the world tasting,
if you will.So everybody couple every couple
brought a bottle of champagnefrom a different region.
We had a sign up form so we wouldn'tget like, you know, 30 California.
That's fucking hilarious.You left that out pre-show.
(07:10):
Oh, that's like some elementaryschool, like, birthday sign up
bullshit. Yeah. That's hilarious.I did an online sign up form and
I maxed it out at two bottlesper region.
So only two California's, two France,two Italy, all that stuff.
And, um, and so, yeah.So people signed up and then with
that bottle, you're supposed tobring a food from that region.
(07:31):
So, you know, if it's California,that could be anything.
It could be tacos or tri-tip orwho knows. We got Italy.
So we did an Italian prosecco with afrittata. Tried to keep it crunchy.
And, uh, so it was fun.Anyway, people brought some some
good food and we had a good time.We drank so much fucking
champagne like champagne.Drunk is another level.
(07:51):
Like, that's when I really startforgetting things.
Did you count how many bottles youfinished? No. Fucking I don't know.
Here's what I do know.So the people brought their regional
champagnes, which was probably,I don't know, like, we'll say
7 or 8 people or not people,but parties of bringing champagne.
Okay. And some people, would you say.Like 1 to 2 bottles per. 1 or 2?
(08:15):
Some people brought one, some broughttwo. Like we you know, we did two.
Um, so there's let's say in thatthere's. Let's call it 11 bottles.
Okay. I was gonna say 12.I like 11, uh, 11 bottles.
And then on top of that interim,Brian,
this is kind of a surprise for Deb.So, like, he snuck over to our house,
dropped off some what we callsideline bottles that weren't
part of the theme.It was just like, oh,
if we need more champagne.I think that was it was either 6 or 8
(08:39):
more bottles. Let's say it was six.Let's be conservative. All right.
So now we're looking at 17bottles of champagne.
So easily at least a bottle perperson.
Yes, minimum, because I don't.Think there were 17 adults in
this house.And so minimum a bottle of person.
We did crack open a few beers.Our buddy Otter came over and he
works at Tarantula Hill.He brought a new collab that T Hill
(09:02):
was working on. It was delicious.At some point,
I didn't know this happened. Interim.Brian like DoorDash. More champagne.
I just I was sitting outside on thepatio talking, and I look over the
fence and there's a dude getting outof a car with, like, this giant bag,
and he's handing it to Brian.I was like, oh my God,
did he DoorDash for champs?At least six more bottles.
(09:24):
Oh my God, so sick.They weren't all. Finished I think.
So we're looking at 23 bottles.I think 20 guys.
Let's say 20 got consumed. Yeah.Because there was like a couple of
bottles from that DoorDash left over.That's a lot of champagne.
A lot of fucking champagne.Minimally, I had at least a
bottle and a half of champagne,plus a couple of beers. Good lord.
(09:45):
Yeah, we just drank for eightfucking hours.
Like it started at noon and thelast person left at, like, 815,
I think. I mean.I was about to say I would probably
be vomiting at that point,but eight hours of drinking
starting at noon.Yeah,
I think I would be okay with that.Yeah. And I didn't get too drunk.
(10:05):
I mean, I got festively drunkthroughout the day.
I wasn't like, sheltered.I was trying to keep it together
a little bit. Hey, is our house.So, like, if people needed stuff,
I need to keep it together.Uh, b,
our dog Marty's not doing well.And so, like, I had to make sure,
like he was being taken care of.He's. We've had some diarrhea issues.
I didn't want that happening in thehouse, but then after it went left,
(10:26):
I'd shit you not.I got a pint glass and I just
filled it.It was probably about a half a
bottle of champagne and just starteddrinking that and sat on the couch
and had. I'm getting a headache now.Just really started kicking in.
And then this morning when I woke up,I was like, oh, daddy, oh,
daddy. Little buzzy.So now what kind of drunk?
(10:50):
Or I should say, what kind ofhangover is champagne for you?
So first of all,I should say champagne drunk is
apparently I forget everything.Like, I don't think I was that
drunk throughout the day untiltowards the end.
I'm sure I was getting pretty upthere, but I felt like I was
really holding it together and Iwasn't slamming champagne.
I just was consistently sipping. And.But I remember so little of yesterday
(11:15):
like I remember who was there.I remember talking to certain people
and certain specific conversations,like beating some guy up with a
globe. Um, and that kind of.But like, I was like, fuck you.
Don't forget that.You really could you. Yeah, yeah.
But I was like, fuck,when did this person leave and
when did this person leave?And like, I don't know,
I have no fucking clue.I don't see what the last people to
leave were. Of course, Deb and Brian.Like, I looked at the ring to
(11:36):
see when they left.I was like, oh,
they left at like 815. And so that's.Wild because it's it's different
when you're at somebody else's houseand you miss people leaving. Sure.
But when you're the host andit's at your house. Yeah.
There's a good couple.Hours where people.
Come up to you and say, hey,thanks for having us.
So the fact that you can't rememberthat, that's something. Well, like.
(12:00):
One person in particular, she left.I have no idea what time.
I guess I could look it up onthe ring, but I think I was out
on the patio when she left,so probably didn't see me,
so didn't come say bye, I think.Or maybe she came and said bye and,
you know, tickled my balls andleft and I just don't remember it.
Who knows. But but yeah.So to answer your actual question,
uh, champagne hangover is not fun.It's not a throw up hangover.
(12:22):
It's not like a stump, at leastfor me. Not a stomach hangover.
It was the fucking headache.And, like, dizziness and, like, I had
to drive somewhere for work today.I was like, fuck, I do not want to
drive so bad. Like it was throbbing.Headache. Just kind of lingering.
What is this. Just kind of lingering?I'd say the worst part is like
the the sort of off kilter nesswhere it's just like, okay,
(12:45):
I'm spinning all day long.Oh, that is not great.
Yeah, but it's in full effect.Like for lunch today?
We all know that I eat fairly well.Fairly low carb and all that stuff.
Uh, for lunch I went and I was like,hey, I'm gonna go pick up salads
because we don't have anything else.She's like, okay, but I went to
the place that I know has greatsweet potato fries, and I brought
(13:06):
back some sweet potato fries.And I was like,
I need these in my life so bad.I do fux with some sweet potato
fries. Oh, man.I'll get horny on some sweet potato.
They are real nice.Yeah, a little ranch on there.
Oh, really? Oh, yeah.What do you like?
Oh, I just like,I could just eat sweet potato fries.
Like, you know, there's sweet,obviously.
(13:27):
And, like, you get some nice coarsegrain salt on there. Oh, yeah.
I did add some salt on there.Freshly ground. That's all I need.
Yeah. It's good.That salt just fucking hits with it.
The salt is key.I'd say that's more important
than the dip for sure,but I do a little light ranch
dip with my sweet potatoes.The wife fucking would drink
ranch if it didn't look weird.So she's over there, like.
(13:49):
Like, you know, it's a fuckingspoon for ranch, basically.
But I just a little light hintof ranch. Ton of salt. Mhm.
Set my life. Straight. See?Hot take. Unpopular opinion.
I don't love ranch. Just in general.Yeah. Like with anything.
Oh, see, I don't like ketchup.Like I don't want ketchup on my
fries. Oh.See, I can eat ketchup with just
about everything. Too sweet for me.Too sweet. Okay. Too sweet.
(14:13):
Too sweet for life. Uh, so that's.That's my death for the day.
So nobody brought any buzz balls?No buzz balls were consumed.
Funny you should ask.I had to go to Total Wine before
to pick up the champs.And I saw Buzz Balls,
and I picked one up for Deb. Nice.And I wasn't there when they did it,
(14:36):
but they gave it to her.And the wife took video and she.
She took it like a Smirnoff, likean ice. She got down on one knee.
And are you supposed to chugthem or are they just like,
rtds you just drink them?No, she's just a champ,
so she fucking downed it.But, um, I don't I don't think
there's a rule to, you know, to,like, be nice. Okay.
I also, I want everybody outthere who listens,
(14:57):
who sometimes comes to my house.Ever to know that while I was at
Total Wine, I also purchased asix pack of Smirnoff Ice.
You know, I've thought about this,and, uh, I thought it would be
really funny to ice guys at work.Oh, like while you're working? Yeah.
So, like, buy the six pack and then,like, if I say I'm, like,
(15:20):
got a closing shift coming up,then I would, like,
set everything up as I closed.So when everybody came in in the
morning, they would be shocked andawe and probably obviously not
chug the ice before work or whenthey find it, but after and just
have this huge chug circle and.Then, you know,
(15:41):
it's waiting for you all day too.And because they just, uh, you know,
we got like our beer cooler and shit.We sell liquor at work.
They just came out with thesenew Smirnoff Ice things.
They're like six ounces,maybe eight ounces, and they're
like 13% alcohol. Holy shit.Yeah, I forgot what they're called.
They're not.They're not called shorties.
They're not called.They have a name to them.
(16:03):
I should get. Diabetes or something.But I was like, man,
imagine icing somebody with this.That would be shitty.
Yeah, it'd be terrible.Terrible? Like what?
You're not even somebody'sfriend doing that, right?
You are now enemies.Well, I hesitate to say this on the
show, because I know people who comeover to my house will hear this,
(16:23):
and I don't want to tip them off.But the wife,
I might even cut this out.But the wife saw a thing on the
gram where somebody put aSmirnoff in there. Okay, so.
That's why I bought them.There is now a Smirnoff sitting
in my. That's ruthless man. Yeah.Oh, are you going for some aspirin?
Okay. Yeah. They are called shorties.That's what they're called.
(16:44):
There you go. Yeah.13% alcohol, 6.76oz should.
Be called friendship runners.And I think they come in a
couple flavors,but that's not the important part.
The important part is thatthey're awful.
You should find these and youshould ice your friends with them.
Yeah. Your best friends? Yes.Because that will show a true
(17:05):
testament of friendship if they stay.Yeah.
If they don't punch you in the face.Yeah. Good times.
So anyways, that was Deb's party.Smirnoff ice in the. Yeah.
What a horrible idea.We've done toilets before.
We've done? Sure.Under somebody's covers before.
My favorite ever was the pizza box.I did the pizza box. Yeah, I.
(17:27):
Tell that one a lot. Yeah.I love icing people.
Anybody who does get it,I'll be nice.
I will swap it out for one ofthe cold ones in the fridge.
You don't have to drink the warm one.Chugging warm would be easier.
You think? Oh, yeah.But then chugging something ice
cold with, like,some carbonation. It's terrible.
But then you taste it more.Not if you chug it.
(17:48):
I'm not tasting anything.You're chugging?
Well, it'll be up to the chugger.I'll let them decide.
It's a gentleman rule. Yeah.I'll be. I'll be that nice.
You're a nice guy, Greg. Yeah.A very funny part of the show was
taken out to protect the integrityof the hiding location of the ice.
Apologies for the inconvenience.Now, back to your favorite podcast.
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You should hide one in between yourcouch, like the arm of the couch and
the cushion. Mhm. Somebody sits down.They're gonna feel it.
What stuck down here.And if they don't feel it you go
like hey is the remote down there.Can you, can you reach for it.
Super solid. Yeah, it's a good one.I like. That. Well, I'll report back.
Um, like I said, at the top,somebody wrote in and commented on,
(18:33):
you know, I post clips of theshow on like, YouTube and social
media and all that stuff.Somebody commented on the on the
clip of us talking about thedollar pints for life.
If you spend $10,000 and he didmath for us.
And he said,if pints are eight bucks each.
Which is what we said, and you dodonate $10,000 to save $7 a pint.
You need to drink 1,428.6 pints tobreak even. That's a lot of beers.
(19:00):
I think we said, what do we say,like 13 or 1400.
So we weren't far off. Yeah.Well, you I think you guessed it.
I was just in awe still. But yeah.So anyways, thanks for doing the
math for us. And 10,000.That's a lot of money to drink.
Yeah, I'd like to say I haven'tspent that much money on beer,
but we all know.Well, that's not the point.
(19:21):
But that is definitely not the point.The point is, is this said Taphouse,
or it was like a taphouse opening up,right? Brewery. Oh, it was a brewery.
They wanted to, like, expand theirtaproom or something like that.
Okay. That's what it was.So you have to wonder,
are they going to be around that longfor you to make your money back,
(19:44):
right? Like that ten grand donation?It doesn't.
It's not necessarily going to go far.Yeah.
I mean, I donated 50 bucks to aKickstarter or whatever for a
brewery that never opened.I'm still mad about that.
Sheesh. Let alone ten grand.That's a little rough.
Yeah,that 50 bucks supposed to get a free
beer and your name up on the wall.How many tacos you could get
(20:07):
with 50 bucks?Oh, you know, like,
that's what crosses my mind.That's why I don't gamble. Yeah.
Same.You know, it's like you lose money
and I'm like, well, you could haveused that money on this or this or
this and. Yeah, it's just fucking.It's gone. Yeah.
It's why, like,if I'm in Vegas and I decide to
go hit up a casino or something,I will set an amount like I'm not
(20:29):
spending more than whatever it is.300 bucks this weekend on gambling.
Okay.And then to me,
it becomes paying for entertainment.You're paying for something to do.
And I'm okay with that. Okay. that.That's an interesting way to
look at it.I've never thought of it that way.
And that 300 bucks could last mefive minutes if I'm an idiot or
(20:50):
if I'm doing all right.Maybe it lasts me the whole weekend.
Maybe I make a few bucks.But I have decided I'm willing to
part with $300 to have a good time.Okay. And then.
And then it's just like buyingtickets to something, you know?
I'm buying tickets to theroulette table, basically.
You know, I like that concept ofyou're just paying for entertainment.
(21:10):
Yeah, because you pay if youwent to a show or anything else.
Yeah, I guess it makes sense.But you know, like my buddy,
we used to go and back in our singledays and he'd lose 500 bucks. Go.
Well, now I got to win it back andthen, you know, $3,000 later. Right.
That is, that is still trying towin it back to go about it. Yeah.
First of all, you'll never win itback. Even if you do. You don't.
(21:32):
Especially when you have that feelthat need that you have to like.
You have to try to get it right.That never works out. Yeah.
When the pressure's on,you'll never win.
So especially when you'replaying stuff like,
I always play craps and roulette.Like I don't play skill things like,
you know, poker or something.I, I like craps, I like roulette
because craps has some skill to it.But yeah. So a little bit.
(21:55):
But like blackjack,there's tons of like, do's and
don'ts and rights and wrongs.And, uh, last year at work,
we played a lot of blackjack,like post shifts, have a, you know,
shift beer and hang out in thegarage and play a couple hands.
I don't remember what is good,what is when you hit,
(22:16):
when you don't hit, when it's, um,what's what's the fucking word
when you're trying to be like,kind to somebody, it's like, uh,
I can't fucking remember,but it's like, uh, you don't hit
on certain cards or certain handsbecause it's not good for this
person next to you or oh, really?So on and so forth. Oh, yeah.
(22:37):
There's like, oh, who gives a shit?I'm here to win, they say.
On certain hands, if people hit,there's people that will get up
and walk away from the table.That's their problem.
Because it is the wrong thing to dowhen you are playing at the table.
That sounds like a you problem.I'm just trying to win money.
It blew. My mind. That's insane.I've never heard that before.
(22:58):
Oh, yeah.Blackjack is the one card game
where someone's like, hey,we have to go play cards.
Like, all right, I'll play blackjack.It's not a poker fan.
Yeah, poker is not that fun to me.It's boring.
There's too much shit to remember.We're talking, like, five card draw.
Are we talking like Texas Hold'em?Yes. Okay.
If I'm going to play poker,like. Yeah, five card draw.
(23:19):
I'm a little more into than TexasHold'em, but I just. None of it.
I don't want any of it.Give me some blackjack.
But really,I want craps and roulette.
Those are my games in Vegas.Okay. Fair enough.
I'm like some old person.At the. Craps table.
I just I love being at the roulettetable, and people are like, what's
your strategy? Like, I don't know.Find the guy who's making a bunch of
(23:40):
money and do whatever he's doing.That's not a bad idea.
There's one guy.One time I was at this table.
This guy.I don't know if he had strategy or
if he just liked certain numbers.He was.
Just went in fucking spin after spinafter spin. I just did what he did.
I made a bunch of money.How'd you do it?
(24:01):
I don't know,that guy seemed pretty smart.
That never would have evencrossed my mind. You know?
Because it's not like poker whereyou can't see what he's doing.
Yeah. You know, it's.It's out in the public.
It's out there. Yeah.This guy's going 32. So am I.
Put it all on 32. Motherfuckers.Jeez. Maybe I should try that.
Yeah, it's good times.I don't go to the casino ever.
(24:22):
But maybe now I'm just going to walkaround and just take some peeks.
He's doing well and just tryingto piggyback that.
Or I tell you, like,if I'm walking through a casino and I
see that there's like a roulettetable that just had, you know,
ten reds in a row, just ripe fora black. I will just stop up.
Hold on. 20 bucks on black.You know, just like. No way.
(24:43):
It's not going to hit black this.Time, right?
And I'll just, you know, sometimesit works, sometimes it doesn't.
But the numbers person in me is like,you can't go for an 11th red.
It's got to go black.Law of probability. Mhm.
And then I get sucked in.But that's a different story.
Never go over that 300 bucks.Anyways not not a gambling show.
(25:06):
Not a gambling show.Uh, before we find out what you're
drinking over there, one last thing.Got hit up by a mutual friend of
ours. I won't say who it is.Only because I didn't ask him if
I could talk about this or not.But they have an investment in a
brewery and was saying like,hey, what do you see?
Uh, as far as, like, not only beertrends, but activities working to get
(25:29):
people in the door of a brewery.We have a lot of great music.
We have a lot of great events.We have a lot of people coming in,
but we could use some more andespecially like certain days or,
you know, significantly slowerthan others. Okay.
And so I said, well, first of all,I gave them the Flex and Greg speech.
(25:51):
I said, put some hoses on tapsheets and I'll be sucking at
the teat first of all.Uh, I said, but, you know,
I don't know what's on your taplist right now.
But one thing that's really importantto me, beer wise, is some stuff
that's not seven, eight, 9%.Give me some lower ABV shit so I can
have 2 or 3 and still drive home.Right.
(26:11):
There was a brewery that doesnot exist out here anymore,
and they always were, you know,low end of their beers were like
eight, nine, 10%. Oh, wow.That's that was the low end.
That was yeah.Rarely, you know, they had one
blonde which I wasn't a huge fan of.And then everything else was like,
yeah, everything else was likedouble IPAs and all this other shit.
(26:32):
It's like, hey, man,I want to have two, three beers,
hang out and still be able to.Make it you have TVs and you always
have like sporting events on,you have gotta have you gotta
have vloggers. Yeah.So I told him sessionable shit
pails goes.And I said the nice thing about
a goza or a sour somewhere inthat category is it's unique.
Not everybody has one.So you can go, hey,
(26:53):
come try our whatever it is goesthere or something. Right.
And and just make sure your beertenders educate people on what it
is if they don't know what it is.Hey, this goes it's a little sour
not to, you know, a little salty.It's it's fun. Have a taste.
And I said in terms of events,at least out here, I don't know
if you've seen this out here atbreweries, bingo seems to be
(27:15):
popping up more and more. Have not.Seen that. That sounds awesome.
Well, the only thing is it'sonly popping up at the breweries
that are not doing well.So I said, don't have bingo.
It's a sign that you're a.Sign you're not doing well.
Yeah. That is funny.Um, I've also seen comedy nights are
only at breweries that are not doingwell. That would not make draw me in.
(27:40):
Yeah. Not really.I mean, I like a good comedian,
you know, but like, I went to oneat a brewery that just closed at
the very beginning of the year,or maybe right before New Year's,
we went to one like a month beforethey closed because we knew
people going and like, hey, come,my friend's going to perform.
So we went out and it was fine.Most of the I think I talked
about on the show,most of the comedians sucked.
There was one that was decent.It just it was a sign of a dying
(28:02):
brewery.And then like a month later,
they died.So, um, yeah, I said, don't do bingo,
don't do comedy nights.Uh, trivia is pretty classic.
Most breweries have like a trivianight. We all know I love trivia.
You do. You love it?Eagle Park last week,
what I thought was really cool.They did. Twice this year.
They had a brewery up from Illinois,and they had a brewery down from
(28:26):
Minnesota for like Packers-bearsPackers Vikings game.
So then those breweries broughton some guest apps. Sure.
And then they did, you know,some giveaways during the games,
touchdown shots, you know,because they distill and have full
bar and everything like that as well.Something like that for like sporting
events is always kind of a how doyou, you know, make that even better,
(28:52):
like a go for a ball game,a baseball game, football game.
Just make a spectacle of it. Yeah.Make it a, you know, make it a party.
Yeah, a baseball party.Because then from everything I've
heard, people would get their,you know, when they opened up at
11 and some of those gas tapswould already or guest taps would
already be killed by 1230 1:00.That's pretty good.
That would really get people inthe doors. That's smart.
(29:14):
I've never seen that where theybring up a brewery or whatever
from that region of the team.And then that's the last one
they did.They did, uh, because their
parking lot is pretty enormous.They got a field goal post and
they held a field goal kickingcompetition.
Okay, so that's just another like.Sounds dumb but fun. And it looked.
(29:36):
There was a shit ton of peoplecrowded around watching these
guys just try and kick. So.And I bet you could even do like free
entry into the field goal contestif you buy a beer or something.
Yeah, like. Get a raffle ticket.Well,
that's how they did all the raffles.You buy a beer, you get a ticket,
and then every commercial breakthey would raffle off a t shirt
or a hat or a four pack of beeror something like that.
(29:59):
So yeah, just really gets people in.Yeah, I really liked I really like
that field goal contest I did.I mean,
because that's fairly easy to do.You set up a the outside and. Yeah.
Or you could do like a footballthrowing contest or something,
you know, mark it up with somechalk on the tip and you know,
see where it hits. Yeah. Pretty easy.That's I like that a lot.
(30:19):
So so yeah hope hope that helps.And then also you know it's good
for the breweries too because youknow everybody knows if you work
at a brewery, you know somebodyworks at another brewery.
And you know,you gain friendships and you know,
through collaborations and whatnot.So that was another thing I said
collab, collab, collab,anybody that will put your name
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on your menu on their menu board.I feel like collaborations
haven't been frequent lately.Like, I feel like they've kind
of dying out. Yeah.I wonder if they got a little
fucked out during Covid.People were doing all their like,
zoom beer collabs and stuff,but but I mean, it's smart.
You get your name on someoneelse's menu board.
That is another cool thing thatEP does, is they have an entire
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beer fest with collabs from otherbreweries, and they bring all of
these guys in for the fest as well.And it's like, hey,
they brewed this beer with us.And so every beer is Eagle Park and
so and so Eagle Park and so and soand um, then they come out with two,
six packs, like a 12 pack varietyof every single beer that
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they're releasing at the fest.And then you can buy those.
And so that's really smart.I mean, it's.
A it's a really, really fun idea.Yeah, I like that a lot.
And that it's always hosted around420. So joint fest they call it.
And yeah bro it works.It works really well. I dig it.
That's actually really smart.I like that a lot.
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So, um, hopefully he's listening andand hopefully something's helpful or
hopefully someone else is listening.It's helpful. Who knows.
Anywho, speaking of beer, you lookingthirsty over there? 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 jabber.
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In this world we must find out what.Is flax drinking. All right.
Well, today flex is drinking newbeer I picked up today. Um.
There's only. It's so new.There's only 28 check ins on Untappd.
(32:29):
So not 72,000? 2000. No. Yeah.It's like a complete opposite of
yours.Uh, so this beer is called off
season, and it is from ThreeSheeps Brewing Company.
They're up about an hour north of mein Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Sheboygan.
Um, this is an Imperial Hazy IPA,28 check ins, a three, nine, three.
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And, uh,they say here in Imperial Hazy IPA,
inspired by the quiet calm of winter,which you really don't know about.
Um, when the crowds have thinnedand the town slows to a standstill,
bursting with juicy pineapple,tropical lime, and sweet fruit
flavors, this brew offers a smooth,full bodied texture that's perfect
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for savoring the slower pace.Embrace the stillness and make
the most of the off season.This bad boy rings in at 8.5%. Mm.
It smells. Get a little whiff here.So the flavors the aroma isn't,
like pungent.It's not like hitting you in the
nose. Sure.Light flavors,
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kind of hoppy on the back end.Get a little bit of that citrus lime,
I'm assuming.So warm up the old tongue.
Tongue job here. Ooh. Oh. It's warm.Okay, so similar to the aroma.
The flavors aren't huge, but youdo get a little of that pineapple.
Definitely feeling that lime.And you get, uh, again,
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like some hoppiness,some dank on that back end.
The dank is slight,but you definitely get, like,
those hoppy flavors.Um, it's a really enjoyable beer.
There's no whatsoever hint of that8.5% ABV. So this drinks really nice.
Uh. The color, it's like this bright.It's hazy, but it's not murky.
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Yeah, it's not the thickest beeryou've ever seen.
Yeah, it's, uh, lighter bodied thanyou would think for an 8.5 and all
around I'd say a 3.9 is superb,I hope. I hope it stays there.
That's a really good score forthis and I'm not mad about it.
Yeah. Sounds delicious.Little tropical fruit salad.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was solid.I can't wait to drink the next three.
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Actually. One down, three to go.Look out. Daddy!
Like I'll stop saying daddy.Did you say daddy all you want?
Yeah. Oh, daddy. It's been a while.It has been a while. All right.
A little news before we get outof here. Yeah. Bad news.
Not a daddy show. Not a daddy show.Well, when you're around,
it kind of is. Daddy, daddy.Bad news to report.
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Non-alcoholic beer.Had a record dry January in
grocery stores.They claimed 4.2% of the beer share
in grocery store sales. That's gross.What's wrong with you people? Yeah.
Uh, some potential good news forthe people down in Georgia.
Georgia lawmakers are consideringlegalizing self-distribution for
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breweries. Why wouldn't they?Because money and stupid laws
and backwardness. Stupid. Yeah.The Craft Beer and Local Economy
Revitalization Act, SB 122, wouldpermit small breweries to sell up to
3000 barrels annually to retailerslicensed in the state that are
located within a 100 mile radius ofthe small Brewers licensed premises.
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If adopted, SB 122 would also removethe 288 ounce per person daily cap
on off premise sales at taprooms.However, it would limit beer to
go sales at 6000 barrels in theaggregate among all brewers
licensed permit premises,making such sales so you can only
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sell up to sell up to 6000 barrels ifyou want to be self-distributed.
Well, usually the smaller guysare the ones that do that anyway.
So. Right, exactly.I think that wouldn't be that
hard to keep it under 6000.No, not at all. And to go. Sales.
And then if you're able to get yourbeer out there, then you should be
able to get your beer out there.Right. Then you get to spread.
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You grow. You get it? Yeah.You get an actual distributor and.
Yeah. So yeah. Do it.Fucking do it, Georgia.
Do it right in the butt. Just do it.What what I said what what, uh,
one of the not one of the the largestshareholder of Sapporo Stone slams
Sapporo for their $91 millionimpairment on Stone brewing.
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So we all know what an impairment is.I think we learned about this
thanks to Ballast Point.Basically,
when you way overspend on something,in this case a brewery, and it's
not worth what you paid for it,you can make an impairment that just
says like, whoops, we spent too much.It's not worth that money.
And I think you get some taxbreaks on it too when you do that.
Um, Sapporo Holdings has taken inmore than 91.5 million 5 million
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impairment charge on the goodwill ofits stone brewing business, which
they bought for nearly 165 million.So more? Well over half. Geez.
The impairment charge announcedon January 30th was met with
criticism by 3D Investment Partners.They issued an open letter to
Sapporo's board of directorsreiterating concerns regarding
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the company's severe lack ofcapital discipline amid repeated
large scale impairments from 3DInvestment Partners, a Singapore
based investment fund manager whichReuters reported is the largest
individual investor in Sapporo.They issued an open letter to
Sapporo's board of directorsexpressing concerns regarding the
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company's severe lack of capitaldiscipline amid repeated large scale
impairments and strong disappointmentand concern over the stone writedown.
They wrote unfortunately, the stoneimpairment was not the first time
Sapporo destroyed shareholdercapital through acquisitions.
In fact,Sapporo has recorded impairment
losses on all of its acquisitions ofoverseas alcohol beverage business,
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including Sleeman Breweries, Sapporo,Vietnam, Anchor Brewing and Stone.
I was like, oh yeah, I forgot theyfucked up everything they bought.
That's. I forgot about anchor.That's wild. Yeah.
Makes you think who's behind allthese sales. Right?
Or the purchases, I should say.Yeah. Some idiot.
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The cumulative impairment loss ofthose acquired brands amounted
to more than $250 million.So it goes on with more numbers
and details.But I think that's enough for now.
Uh, Baltimore Ravens,Ravens offensive line Ben
Cleveland was arrested for DUI.Baltimore Ravens Ol Ben Cleveland was
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arrested for DUI last week afterblowing a staggering 0.178 Eight when
a breathalyzer was administered.I know what you're thinking.
That's only a little over double.It's not like.
Well, and he's an offensive lineman,right? So what is his stature?
It's like he's like six five,330 or something like that. Six six.
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360. Oh, jeez. I was way off. Yeah.Teams reports in Milledgeville,
Georgia.Police pulled over Cleveland
over on February 12th afterobserving him driving
erratically in his Ford F-250.Officers claim that Cleveland
nearly drove the vehicle into aditch before being pulled off.
When asked if he'd been drinkingdrinking, Cleveland told police he
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had approximately 3 or 4 beers.Damn it. At six six, 360.
Feel like it might take morethan 3 or 4 beers to blow a
0.178 on a breathalyzer, unless.He counts pitchers as just beers.
Maybe.Maybe he's doing some Andre the
Giant math or something.I've seen some guys just order
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pitchers before. Yeah.And then they just drink right
out of them. Yeah.In fact,
while back is not an exact science.Alcohol and drug rehab centers.
Addiction treatment information.A website dedicated to reducing
alcohol addiction states thatCleveland would need to have had
around 16 beers in a three hourspan if they were each 5%,
in order to produce that result. Oof!He failed multiple sobriety
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tests and was then arrested andtaken to a nearby jail.
Once there, police administeredanother breathalyzer test, which
still returned a 0.161, so stillover double at that point. Oh, boy.
Yeah. Big boy. Been drinking.You know, I would bet that if,
you know, you're you're a bigboy and it takes you a ton of
beers to get that drunk.Probably takes longer for them
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to get out of your system, too,because you had so much.
Well, if he's £360,his metabolism is probably not great.
That might be true.For it probably sticks in his the
system a little longer. That sense?Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Not a scientist? No, not a scientist.Not a science show.
(41:32):
Just a little bit of science.That boy. Was drunk.
It's a good thing for the cops thathe didn't get a little unruly.
That's a big boy.Well, I mean, they got tasers,
you know. True. Or worse. Well. But.Yeah, glad they didn't have to use
it. Yeah. No excessive force here.Yeah, exactly.
Just excessive drinking. Ooh.Big fella.
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You know, sometimes when I drive homerandomly, like, from work, I'll, uh,
go through the ABCs backwards in myhead. Oh, just to test yourself.
Yeah, I got it down pretty well.Yeah. I can't do it sober.
Really? Z y x.WVU t s rcpo nml k j I h g f e d
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c b a. You fuck something up.You said n m l.
Oh, no, that is right. NML MLK.Yeah. Yeah.
That might, I might not I thinkI trailed off at the end there.
I forgot a couple, but, uh.Yeah, I hear a niner.
Yeah, sometimes they just do itin my head like 2 or 3 times.
I'm like, that's funny. Yeah. Back.You know, back in my day,
before Uber was really a thing.And I'd go out drinking with the
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fellas or something.My test was always, uh.
Because the one thing I've had to domultiple times when being pulled over
was. Have you been pulled over a.Couple times? Yeah. Okay.
And they had me like, get out.And I have, you know, no DUIs,
knock on wood. I've been okay.But, uh, they would always have
me close my eyes, look up,and then count to 30 silently.
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And when I get to 30,put my head down, open my eyes.
And it's just a test to see.Like, are you within an acceptable
range? Like. Or are you.And you're like one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight,you know, something like that.
Interesting.Little do the cops know, I used
to work. You know, I work in TV.I used to work in live news.
And as the director, All I didall the time was count people in.
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So I'd be there all the time.All right, everybody, stand by.
We're going live in 10s nine eight.So I was really good at counting down
from ten three times like three.Close your eyes.
All right, everybody,here we go. 30s 1029.
I just did to ten three times.And then I remember one time I
put my head down, open my eyes,and the one cop looks at his
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partner and was like, mm.A little bit of a ah, wow reaction.
I was like, thanks, gentlemen.Can I go now? Damn.
So that's legit good times. So yeah.Anyway, so my self test is, uh,
I have sat there in my car and I've,you know, hit the stopwatch on my
phone and then closed my eyes. Ten.Nine. Eight. See how close I am?
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Oh, I love it. Yeah.I love how ridiculous we are.
So stupid. Yeah.So I've heard the big one here too,
is you stand on one leg and youtouch your nose. Mhm.
And apparently what they're lookingfor is just to see if you're
falling or getting off balancethat you can catch yourself. Yes.
(44:32):
It's that you catch yourself anddon't fall. Yes.
Because nobody's I mean not nobodybut a lot of people aren't good
at standing on one leg sober. No.And then what do you look up and
touch your nose? Yeah.You kind of look up and then,
like, you bring your your fingerin from the side. Yeah.
Touch your nose. Yeah.So I mean, they're putting you
in an off balance situation,even if you're sober.
But they want to know if you catchyourself or if you fall on your face.
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That's the test.So just make sure you don't fall.
Everybody.I was always worried about the
walking in a straight line becauseI'm pigeon toed. I can. Oh yeah.
I can not in a straight line sober.So having to walk in a straight
line drunk, I would be terrified.I don't think I've ever had to
do the straight line.It's always, you know, look up,
close your eyes count.Um,
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I've had to follow the pen before.Like they put a pen in front of
your face and go side to side.They just want to make sure you
can track with it.Um, I've also just done breathalyzer
tests too, which I'm fine. Yeah.I'll blow. Knock on wood.
I've never been pulled over foranything like that.
And I hope I never am.Yeah, keep it that way. Trying.
(45:38):
Yeah. My.My funniest breathalyzer test
was I was not driving,and we were leaving a Padres game.
And outside the stadium,you know, San Diego, they have
good beer at that stadium, right?And we had we had strapped it on
a little bit.And so outside just to like,
prove a point.They were doing breathalyzer tests.
I remember you telling this storybefore. Yeah. See how drunk you are.
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And they were like,how drunk do you think you are?
And then he'd blow and see howclose you got.
And so, like,the wife did it and she was dead on.
The wife goes, I think I'm oh,wait, I think I'm right at the
line she blew.Oh, wait, she fucking nailed it.
I was like, um, I think I might,I don't know, like a 10 or 11.
It's like a 17. Were you really.You were Cleveland drunk.
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I was Cleveland drunk.Oh, the cops like.
Hope you're not driving.I was like, definitely not, sir.
So that was good times.I wonder how many beers it would take
you to get to 17. Yeah, I don't know.I mean, honestly, we've been we
had done, like, beer in San Diego.We'd done beer tasting all day,
and then we'd gone to the gameand had some beers at the game.
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And so, like, I knew I was buzzy,but I didn't think I was hammered.
Three hour game drinking beersbeforehand. We'll call it five hours.
So if he had to drink 16 beersin three hours to get to 17.
Jesus. That'd probably.You're half of his size.
Yeah, well, a little more than half.But, um,
that that math was based on 5% beers.I'm drinking IPAs down in San
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Diego that. Is also drinking.That is seven and eight percenters
all day. Probably. This is back.This is back in the West Coast days.
Okay.So yeah, but I mean,
I must have had ten beers that dayat least it's hard to tell when
they're most of them are flights,but true. Yeah. Good times.
I was like, all right,I'm gonna call my Uber now.
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We weren't driving anyways.That's that's why I submitted myself
to it. Right, right, right. Yeah.So. Hell, yeah. Oh. Good times.
All right, let's wrap things up.Thank you all for listening and
for drinking and for joining andfor all those good things.
I'm gonna hit some. Hi, Vanessa.Yeah. Hello, Vanessa.
I got a little creepy on that one.Yeah. Follow.
Follow us on the socials at CraftBeer Republic at flex beer.
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Underscores in between 805538.Beer. It's 2337.
Haven't heard from you in a while.I need some voicemails.
Uh, I think that's everything.Hope everyone's staying very
well hydrated. And on that note.Good night everybody.
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