March 26, 2025 • 57 mins
Welcome in, you beautiful beer nerds! This week, Flex brings the beer snobbery, Greg’s hotter than a sun-soaked stout, and Erica’s fresh off the salty seas with snacks and hazies. We’re talking beer mix-ups, birthday voicemails, blackout rage gallons, and how Flex is emotionally scarred by a mislabeled IPA. There’s also news on MobCraft’s comeback, Delirium’s shipping spree, and a Florida man story that’s peak Florida. Grab your pretzel necklace and let’s party like it’s the Pink Pony—just, y’know, with less fire.
Beers We’re Drinking:
- Greg cracks open Keeping Time from WeldWerks—a hazy that started rough but warmed up nicely.
- Erica sips Shred-Head from Evergreen Brewing—sent straight from PA with pretzels and passion fruit vibes.
- Flex breaks out Citra Cream from Phase Three—a pillowy, tropical cream bomb he’d hook up to his water fountain if he could.
Flex’s beer snob moment at dinner ends with a bruised ego and a canceled pint, while Erica’s kids are out here calling anything in a can “beer” like it’s totally normal. Greg relives a suspiciously clear “hazy” that sent him down a spiral, and somehow everyone ends up bonding over beer trauma. The crew discovers the chaotic world of BORGs—blackout rage gallons are officially a thing—and Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day scene might be even wilder than expected. Chew Your Beer checks in with birthday vibes and beer fest plans, and Greg casually drops that his nephew was born on 3:16 and is now destined to live in jorts and wrestling tees. And Flex might’ve found his dream life in Chicago’s unlimited ice cream museum.
Booze News:
- MobCraft Rises Again: New owners take a $160K gamble on Milwaukee’s most inconsistent brewery.
- Canada’s Presidential Pack: Moosehead sells out of their beer-a-day-for-four-years crate—because obviously.
- Delirium Dumps the Tank: 300,000 liters are en route to beat the tariff apocalypse.
- Florida Man Strikes Again: Drunk dude sets strip club on fire, adds a little... splash for the cops.
Erica: NeckNosh.com
Instagram: @Neck_Nosh_LLC
Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer
Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com
- Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublic
- Facebook: CraftBeerRepublicPod
- Threads: CraftBeerRepublic
- Voicemail: (805) 538-2337
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
Flex loves the clap.He's a pro with the clap.
Just really like scratching things,you know? That'll be our cold open.
(00:24):
Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I am being joined by,uh, Midwest 316.
That's Flex over there.What's up, big fella?
Yeah, man, you came in hot today.Holy smokes. I'm excited.
I'm pumped. It's a drinking.Smoke coming off your head. Yowza!
Woo! Yeah! What got into you?I don't know, maybe some coke.
(00:50):
Uh, anyways.And then all the way back from
her trip around the salty seas.It's the salty sailor herself.
Erica. What's happening?Hey, friends. Not a lot.
It's great to see you guys.Yeah, it's been a minute.
Yeah, yeah, we got someCalifornia sunshine today.
Maybe that's the heat coming offyour head. Yeah.
Dude, it was hot down here.I don't know about up there,
but it's like 86 down here today.Holy cow. It was like 78 here. Yeah.
(01:13):
This morning it was 31 degrees.But the wind was so bad it felt like
11. We're talking Fahrenheit, right?Right. Yeah. Strange. Good lord.
Yeah.No, it was 86, and we tried to
take the dog for a walk and for,like, a half a mile in, he's like.
And he's a black dog, so he'sabsorbing all of that heat. Yeah.
(01:34):
You know,we actually have a sun shirt for him
because of him being a black dog.And so he put his little sun shirt
on first and he looks all cute.This little shirt on.
I like you,but that might be one of the most
California things I've ever heard.Such a yuppie dog. That's hilarious.
I mean, you know,it takes time to acclimate.
It did jump to 86 pretty quickon Marty's behalf, but. Right.
I mean, it was like 60 somethingyesterday and today was 86.
(01:56):
So anyways,not a dog shirt show? Nope.
So we'll we'll move on from there.Thank God for that. Yeah.
Uh, follow us on the socials atCraft Beer Republic at Flexy.
Chew Your Beer underscore in betweenand at LLC underscore as well.
And of course,NBCNews.com for all your, uh, drunk,
snacky goodness. Heck, yeah. Yeah.Delicious and convenient. Yeah.
(02:20):
And let's be honest, who's eatingthat stuff when they're sober?
That's the perfect drunk snack.It is.
It's just to keep you just right in.Right in that drunk zone,
not over the top.Just kind of having a good ass time.
That's what it's worth.And because you're drunk,
you need the hands free convenience.You do? It's not embarrassing at all.
(02:41):
Just nodding off of things onyour shirt. It's.
It's a lot of fun watching.We've been doing it since we
were kids.Like we had those candy necklaces.
Oh, yeah. The candy necklaces.Yeah, I used to love those back
in the day. Candy.Candy watches were the worst
because you would eat your wristand then everything would get
sticky because all the spit. Yeah.And if you're wearing, like,
(03:01):
long sleeves,like a sweatshirt or something,
and then it's all fucking nastyaround your arm. Hair stuck in there.
Colored armbands. Yeah.I mean, it's awkward. Yeah. Pretzels.
Way better than pretzels are.Way better. Way healthier.
Yeah, that's the story here.So, anyways, uh, go buy some
pretzel necklaces and stuff.All right. Lots to get to today.
The homie Chew Your Beer called in,and we've got a marathon of a
(03:23):
voicemail.I didn't even know he was still
alive.That's great that he's checking in.
Yeah. Glad to hear he's still.I had to send a welfare check on him.
March! Miracle. That's exciting.Uh, some booze news to get to.
Some exciting news for, uh,some Wisconsin people.
And, uh, we'll talk about whatthe hell's going up in Boston
for Saint Patrick's Day.Those guys are fucking weird.
But in the in the meantime,please allow me to hydrate myself.
(03:52):
My dear. Out of my beer.Should have pulled the Austin
Powers and said,let myself hydrate myself. Myself.
Hey, do I know you know that'swhere you are. You're there.
Never got it. I am drinking today.Weldwerks Brewing Company.
(04:14):
Keeping time. It's a double hazy IPA.8% has a collective 418 on
untapped with over four.Yeah, over 1400 ratings.
And they say hazy double IPA,uh, with Citra, El Dorado,
Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops.Nice big description there.
(04:39):
The schnoz.I get a lot of get some alcohol,
actually. Okay. On an 8%.That's kind of wild.
It's kind of wild.I'm also smelling, I think, mostly
citrus. It's like some orangey ness.Would you say hints of orange
and tangerine.Hints of orange and tangerine.
You nailed it.It's like you're here with me.
(05:01):
Uh, yeah, that's pretty much itfor the smell. It's, uh.
Let's dig right in with a littleTongue-jobber action here. All right.
Follow suit with, I'd say,the addition of pineapple.
Get a lot of pineapple up front.Yeah.
You know, as this sits,I've probably opened this,
I don't know, ten minutes ago,before we actually started the show,
(05:22):
when I first poured it fresh outof the fridge,
I actually didn't like it as much.It's gotten better in ten minutes.
Uh,at first I was really getting some,
like, alcohol burn and hot burn.Just some all around burn and
some bitterness. This is a hazy.I don't want that shit in my hazy.
And, uh, as it's opened.I don't know if it's the warmth
(05:42):
or it's just had a chance toaerate like a fine wine.
Either way, it is improved alittle bit, and I'm actually
liking it a little bit more now.A little more fluffiness than I
was getting before.Um, way more fruit flavor than I
was getting before.Like I said, that pineapple and the
orange coming through so much better.When I first opened it, I was
like 418. Are you guys on crack?Uh, I'd have said it like a three.
(06:04):
I'm gonna bump this up to, like,a 3.75. It's good. Not amazing.
Okay, we'll drink again for sure.We'll drink again? Yeah.
I wouldn't spend what I spent on it.This came from the old Tibor,
you know.I think it cost like, you know,
$73 for a can. Sounds about. Right.Yeah, I think that's what
they're charging these days.So what I would I pay Tibor prices
for it. Uh, no, it's not that good.But I drink again. Okay, okay.
(06:28):
Fair enough. Yeah. So reasonable.Hey, shout out to our top listening
of last week. And that was.That was Oaks, California. What's up?
Oh. Hey there. Yeah. So many oaks.So many. Yeah. To be exact. So.
And, uh, special shout out toFinland. Hi, Finland.
Are we back? What's up friend?Well, not only are we always there,
(06:50):
But last week or week before they,um, they released the annual
World Happiness Report.And for the eighth year in a row,
Finland was found to be thehappiest country in the world,
followed by fellow Nordic nationsDenmark, Iceland and Sweden.
So it just made me even more proudthat the happiest nation in the
world loves craft beer. Republic.Yeah. That's something. Yeah, well.
(07:14):
I still don't get it. Any other.Scandinavian here? Maybe we're happy.
I don't know who knows.Um, we actually were talking
about Finland today,so I wonder if McDreamy had read
that report because we were like,oh, if we were ever to, like,
say, move to another country.He was like, Finland is like a
super happy place. So yeah.And then I thought about how craft
(07:35):
Beer Republic is often on the chartsthere. So that's pretty cool.
Maybe they think we're happy.They're up there too for like
having like, the most attractivepeople in the world.
Oh, I think I've heard that before.Yeah.
Uh, so, yeah, I probablywouldn't fare too well. Um.
Are you saying because you don'tmeasure up or because. Yeah.
(07:56):
How do you measure?How do you measure up to that? Yeah.
Bring the short shorts and thetree trunks.
I think you'll be just fine. Just.I can see Flex getting off the
plane now. Hello. Ladies.Just coming out with a towel
wrapped around me. Yeah, exactly.Hell, yeah. Nailed it.
(08:17):
Erica doesn't get it, but thankgoodness it is not a voluminous show.
Yeah, nor. Nor a wrestling show.No. Definitely not. Yes.
Not one per episode. Cool. Got it.Gotta get him where we can run.
Got it. I was I was a snob today.I gotta put this out there.
Let's hear it.So the kids are on spring break.
Okay. Hooray! Right.Everybody's happy. Yeah.
(08:38):
And, uh, when we have a night free,every once in a while, we like
to treat the kids to like a fun,nicer dinner. So they want to say.
Uh, kick them over to grandma'shouse and have some fun.
No no no no no no no.That doesn't ever happen. Um.
Um, so we went out to, like,a little subnitidus dinner.
(08:58):
You know, not like, super fancy,but, you know, better than, like,
your average franchise place and.Okay. Um, better than Applebee's.
Right, right.So they had a pretty decent beer
menu, and we went there last summer.Just me and the wife,
and we always talked.Hey, we need to bring the kids back.
So I was just checking out theirmenu before we went,
(09:20):
checking out the food,seeing what they had to offer.
They had the beer menu onlineand I was like, oh, they have a
Eagle Park rotating tap said,this sounds wonderful.
I'll get a nice meal,a really decent beer,
and just have a wonderful evening.So we get to dinner, ask them what
their rotating tap was for EP,and they said it was their Citra
(09:42):
on the dock of the Bay, which isone of my all time favorite beers.
All time favorite. I love it.8%. It is an all Citra Hazy IPA.
Just phenomenal. Love. Citra.Ordered it.
The waitress brings it to the tableand I can see my daughter through
the glass. Uh oh. Hahahahaha!And I said, excuse me, what is this?
(10:07):
And she said, oh, that's the EaglePark Citra on the dock. Sure isn't.
I said, well, it's not,which is why I asked because I know
that's not the beer I ordered.Um, do you know who I am?
And I did feel kind of douchey.I wasn't super proud of it, but she.
(10:27):
She went to the bar, back to the bar,and came back and reiterated that
that's what the bartender said was ontap, and that is what he poured.
And she said, if I wanted adifferent beer, I could.
And I definitely ordered a differentbeer because I did take a sip of
it and it was not new. It.So do you think it's just been
(10:50):
sitting around for a few months?I'm thinking it was maybe
rotating for never,and it was just sitting the opposite
of rotating and everything was.Yeah, it was like,
I'll take a hazy minus. The haze.SAT there so long it had a chance to
drop out. Yeah, it was pretty bad.That's. Yikes. Um, yeah.
(11:14):
But yeah, she took it off the bills,so that was cool. Yeah.
Way to go, you douche.But then the the the rest of the
dinner, I kind of felt like anasshole. Oh. You get.
Do you ever, like, follow that upwith some sort of qualifier like,
oh, I'm a, like, insert somethingfake here. Like I'm a beer rep.
All I kept, all I kept thinkingabout was maybe I can just open up
(11:35):
untapped and show them what thebeer is supposed to look like.
And then I thought, nope,that's even douchier.
So I just let bygones be bygonesand felt like an ass for the
rest of dinner.Um, but we gave her a nice tip,
so it was fine. Yeah. That's good.I think I've told this story on
the show.This was probably three years
(11:57):
ago or so.We went to, um, I don't know,
some big place, like a yard,house type of establishment or
something like that.And I ordered nothing crazy.
It was a Sierra Nevada hazylittle thing.
And, you know, I've had 1 or 30of those in my. Day, right?
And I know they're not the, like,haziest beer visually in the world,
but, you know, they got somegood haze to them. Definitely.
(12:18):
And it showed up like yours.Crystal clear, crystal clear.
And I said, I wish I had the bar,so luckily I'd have to like, flag it.
And I was like, hey,I don't think that's the right beer.
And she goes, yeah, it sure is.And I said,
can you tell me what it is?Then she goes, yeah,
it's the hazy little thing.I said, okay, do you see any haze?
(12:39):
And she goes, well,it's the hazy little thing.
And I said, I know what Iordered was the Hazel thing.
And maybe you told the personhazel thing, but I don't think
what they then handed you tohand to me was Hazel thing.
She goes, no, it definitely is.I said, so then you're telling me
you have such an old keg or dirtylines of hazel thing that now
it's just dropping clear? Yes.She goes, well, I don't know.
(13:02):
Do you want a different likeclearly you're right over the top.
And she said,well do you want a different beer?
I was like, I mean, honestly,I'd prefer this beer the way
it's supposed to come out.Is that an option?
She's like,are you asking me to report it?
I said, well, if you think thatthere's any chance that the
wrong beer got poured. Yes.If you are 120% certain that this
(13:23):
is out of the hazy little thing,tap, then there's no point in
wasting more shitty beer. No point.And I drank a clear,
hazy little thing that night.Wow. Did it taste off? Yes.
Yeah, it did not.It tastes like a fucking West Coast.
It was not hazy little thing.Oh, this.
This thing tastes like West Coast,but it was definitely like, uh,
(13:43):
it was bad. Mm.Like, the fruit flavors were off.
Yeah, just.Everything had dropped out.
Ironically, though, it from the twosips I took of it, uh, great lacing.
Which is surprising because that'ssupposed to be the sign of,
like, a fresh beer, right?So then I kept thinking to myself,
maybe they had the beer name wrong,and maybe it was a fresh keg of.
(14:07):
Of something else. Something else.But I was done with it.
Yeah, I recently.I couldn't, I couldn't drink it past
two sips, so I figured that's. All.You had. Yeah, I figured it was bad.
Would you.She even said she's like, oh,
you can keep it, you know?I'll take it off the tab.
Just, you know,because I ordered the second beer.
She goes, oh, you can have bothof them. Yeah. I couldn't do it.
(14:30):
You couldn't even plug and chug.No, no, because it was that bad
or because you didn't wanna dothat in front of your kids? Yeah.
Because you want to be like.Um, it was bad enough that I
couldn't drink it to enjoy it.Got it. That's fair. Yeah, I just.
I knew I was doing the show tonight,so I didn't want to get,
you know, 88% it up and. Yeah.Do your kids now, like, know the
(14:54):
difference in colors and haziness inbeers? Like, is your daughter like.
Yeah, dad, you're right.That's fucked up.
No, no,they're not that pretentious yet.
Oh, cause I love that they pickout your cans. That's my favorite.
Yeah, it's my favorite.I was really bummed the last
time I went to the beer store.Uh, they weren't with me,
so it was kind of bummed out.Why'd you even go then?
I know, but they did laugh atone of the cans.
(15:16):
I bought this little green guy on itwith a little stick arms and stick
legs, and he's got some glasses anda little chef's hat. All right.
Yeah, they loved it. Erica.Have you started letting the
kids pick out your beers yet?Uh, they haven't really picked out
the beers, but they tend to calleverything a beer, which is pretty
embarrassing, because it's like,no matter where we are,
you know, it'll be like at thepark and something in a can,
(15:37):
they'll be like, oh, your beer.It's like. It's a Coke. Zero.
That is. A beer. One time they.It was a few years ago, but they were
served little cans of apple juicewith their lunch or whatever it was.
And they looked at the waitress andI think it was my daughter said,
you brought me a beer,and we just looked like she thinks
(15:59):
anything in a can is a beer.Sorry. That's amazing.
Yeah, because apple juicedoesn't normally come in a can.
To be fair. But still, it's.Well, it's extra great because
apple juice is the color of beer.True, true. Yeah, that's a.
Couple summers ago.Uh, we took some water cups home
from, uh, when we went to Eagle Park,and my kids wanted to play, like,
brewery outside. It was amazing.Absolutely amazing. Awesome.
(16:24):
Other kids are making mud pies,and his kids are, like,
slinging pints, right?Honestly, when you're a dad, you
can't ask for much more than that.Proudest moment of Daddy Flex life.
That's so good.Uh, well, speaking of being drunk
and debaucherous, I don't know, uh,anybody do anything fun for Saint
(16:45):
Patrick's Day? It happened last week.Uh, I went out with a couple,
uh, old work friends, and wecaught up on some times and, uh,
had some solid beer. Some solid food.Yeah. Nothing overly Irish.
I don't get into the whole, you know,Guinness. And how was that Guinness?
(17:10):
Oh, sorry. It hurts to say.Uh, but, yeah, I don't get into
anything too crazy. Mhm. Yeah.We, um, I always make corned beef
and cabbage, but we did that alittle early because my sister in
law Tiffany I don't know you guys.You know who Tiffany is right.
You guys.Oh yeah the Nashville Tiffany.
What's that? The Nashville Tiffany.Yeah, exactly.
(17:33):
So she came a few days before,so we had,
like hung out and we drank for like,I felt like four days straight
up until Saint Patrick's Day.So, um, I was okay not partying
on Saint Patrick's Day.And I had a similar.
By the way, next time you guys dothat, you should drunk call Flex.
Oh, we should drunk. Tell Flex.She probably.
(17:54):
She works out twice a day.That's true. At least once a day.
Every day. That's true.Sometimes twice a day. Yeah.
I'm just. I'm like, uh.It's a lot. Four times a week.
That's a good amount.That's a good amount.
She's very, very good at beingcommitted to that. So.
But we always have to, like,schedule some good chunks of time.
(18:16):
So. Yeah, it makes me think of you.Flex. I'm like, she's.
It's hard to fuel yourself withthat much protein. She will.
That's it. It's all pure protein.She's just interesting all day. Yeah.
Very interesting. Yeah. That's funny.Well,
I my weekend was similar to Erika's.I drank leading up to Saint
Patrick's Day.Yeah, I didn't have anything on the
(18:37):
day, which I'm sure is some sort of,you know, law that I broke or.
Yeah, yeah. Who knows?I but I definitely celebrated
Stone cold Day the day before.Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Had some Steve Wisers and allthat kind of stuff.
So that was Sunday, right? Yeah.Sunday. Sunday.
I think I might have had, uh, maybe.Did I drink on Stone cold, man?
(19:02):
I think important. Holiday to me.Anyway, I let the big guy down. Mhm.
I don't know if I had anything.You're gonna get coal in your
stocking. Oh, man.Oh, stone cold, stone cold. Yeah.
And apparently, uh, my sister,did you know she got married?
Uh, first off,didn't even know you had a sister.
Why are you not talking about it?Second of all, how was she married?
(19:26):
Um, yeah, I don't know.See, is there anything else I
need to know? Well, she.She finally shipped out her kid on
Stone cold day, too. That's wild.So he will forever be referred
to as stone cold.What a target to hit. Right on.
Yeah, at least the kid has a chancenow, though, right? Before it was.
Right. Nope. Yeah. Nothing.Now it's gonna be an urban cowboy,
(19:49):
you know? And, uh.Special connection with his.
At least he has a chance. Yeah.And, you know, maybe his grandfather
won't hate him now because, uh,my dad's quite the stone cold fan,
so. Right.I feel like it's just, uh,
it's going to bring the Jonesescloser together, right? Yeah.
(20:09):
You you literally have no excuse toforget the birthday of your nephew
now. That's true. It's like the most.Important day of the year.
That too. Yeah. Like. Yeah.Well, Greg,
we were talking about it today.You said every birthday for this
kid's life,he's going to get him a Stetson.
316 shirt. Yeah. His name is Stetson.Yeah, so I think. Oh.
I'm sorry, did I did I let the catout of the stone. Cold secrets.
(20:33):
Yeah, I don't fucking know.Trying to keep him away from the
paparazzi and you just mess thatone up. Yeah.
So, yeah, I think every year hegets a new because he's obviously
he's going to grow and,you know, grow out of shirts.
So every year he gets a new Stetson316 shirt for his birthday.
Best uncle ever. Come on. 100%. Yeah.And then by the time he's about eight
years old, you start putting inbeer with the t shirts. Yeah, yeah.
(20:54):
You gotta wait till he's like,7 or 8. You can't.
Then you add the cargo shorts,right? Gotta make a full outfit.
I mean, if we're going to give.Him a chance. We're talking jorts.
So. Ooh, some stone cold jorts.This kid is gonna make it in life.
Yeah, he's gonna get laid so hard.Oh, thank goodness, thank goodness
(21:14):
he was born on the day he was.Otherwise, it would have been
just all downhill. Yeah.And if anybody, you know questions
it like, hey, what's with theshirt or what's with the jorts?
You know, like, hey,that's in 316. Got it, got it.
We got it. Bottom line.Just chill out, all right? We got it.
So sorry. We'll walk away. Yeah.So sorry, Mr. 16.
(21:36):
Anyways, we'll get off of that.Uh, back to the whole, uh,
Saint Patrick's Day thing.Have you guys heard of Borg's?
Borg? Borg's. Borg's?I just got bit by the love bat.
Yeah. No. Not quite. Okay.Apparently, this is a thing.
Especially in Boston.Boston area transit police were
busy on Saint Patrick's Dayconfiscating Borg's, which stands
(21:58):
for Black Outrage gallons.Oh, yes, I have heard of these. Okay.
Viral sensations of several yearsago, created by party and Gen Zers
who are looking to hydrate whilealso consuming cocktails at scale.
It's like milk jugs full of greendrink. Yes, I've seen this.
And their only goal is to getcompletely obliterated.
(22:19):
They were never caught.I never heard him called Borg,
though. I can't remember what I.The rage thing was definitely in
there. Okay.Maybe they were just called like,
rage gallons or something like that.Maybe. Yeah, it's fucking insane.
I have heard of this.Is it a special like,
mix that's in there,or can it be pretty much anything?
Some green drink that they mix up?I think it's like green fucking
(22:41):
King's cup at this point.Like, just whatever you can get
hammered on because the goal,it's called blackout rage gallon.
So they're just there to getobliterated. Wow.
And they carry them around.So anyways, they're going on the
subway with them and like,they're getting confiscated and
arrested and like, cops know,they're like, yeah, we've we've
seen gallons of green drink before.We know what the fuck you're
(23:02):
carrying around.It's pretty hard to, like,
hide a gallon of green drink, too,if you're cruising around with it.
So. Right.You're gonna get caught. Yeah.
Wait,did it say how many they confiscated?
No, but there was a picture.And I'm talking.
This one picture had at least, like,30 gallons in it. That's nuts.
Yeah, it was good times.Fucking fucking Boston.
(23:22):
So stupid over there.Is it like a college thing or.
I don't know.Are these people just really
looking to get fucked up?Yes and yes. I mean a lot more.
I get it. So I never got it before.And I get it now.
I'm like Bill Murray at the endof Scrooged. I get it now.
(23:44):
Um, so I work with a guy.He was one of the lucky guys
that have off on Mondays,and for weeks he was like, hey,
Saint Patty's Day is on Monday.I said, yeah.
He said,I hope you're ready to go out.
And I said, yeah, I'll go out,get some beers, you know, have like a
(24:04):
Reuben or some shit, like, yeah,it sounds like a wonderful time.
Well, me, him and another guy,we're going to go.
The third guy couldn't get ababysitter.
Had some plans that came up thatevening. Couldn't go out.
This dude, like, threw a shit fit.Like his plan was to go out and
get fucked up.Like he was planning on getting
(24:24):
fucked up. Right?So he goes to the store Monday
morning and sends us a pictureof a bottle of Baileys,
a 12 pack of Guinness and a bottleof Jameson in a shopping cart.
Are you doing car bombs all night?So at about 4:00, he sent us a
picture. All 12 Guinness were empty.The bottle of Baileys was empty.
(24:47):
Oh, no.And the bottle of Jameson was
half gone.Dude, that's like alcohol poisoning.
That is way too much.Well, I guess Guinness is only 5%,
but still.But I get it now that people aim
to just get fucked up because ofthe day.
I guess I'm in the same boat as you.Like, I guess, like.
(25:10):
That level of fucked up.I'm not doing it. Call me old.
But that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.When you're in your 20s.
But as it's like a full blown adult.That does not sound.
He claims it's his holiday. Okay.You know, everybody's got their one.
Even Irish. No, he's Native American.You know, so it's. It's. You know.
(25:35):
Yeah. I guess as one is.Yeah, exactly. Uh.
All right, well,before we check in with, uh,
the homie Chew Your Beer, let'slet's see what Erica is drinking
over there. We'll call the the pen.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.Yes.
(25:57):
Okay, guys,I have my first ever evergreen beer.
Isn't that Pennsylvania? Yes.So it's called Shred-head.
And it happened to be sent fromshred.
I got a surprise box last week.Dude, he's a nice dude.
And, uh, he sent it with a bunchof pretzels, too, so I got, like,
eight beers and a bunch of pretzels.Did he say they were, like,
(26:19):
famous PA pretzels or something?Well, it was cute, because.
That's totally something he does.Yeah.
I don't know if you have theseSnyder. Made by Amish people. Yeah.
He's so proud of where he's from.Yeah, it kills me, I love it.
It's great.It's one time we had been messaging,
and he literally received a pretzeldelivery while we were messaging, and
(26:43):
it was like a case of soft pretzels.He and his wife were opening up
or something.I'm like, this is a thing you
guys do. So it's kind of funny.Soft pretzel. Right?
I mean, just get some mustardand just start. Yeah. It's just.
Or. Beer. Cheese. Beer cheese.Oh my goodness. Yeah.
So, um, so this is Shred-head,and it's kind of cool because it's
(27:06):
got like a snowboarding dude on thefront, which I don't snowboard.
I don't even ski anymore.I tried it for a couple of years,
and, um, I would rather just sitin the hot tub.
But you and the wife will beperfect snow friends.
I know we'll just drink wine and waitfor you guys to get off the slopes.
It's perfect.Well, McDreamy takes the kids skiing
(27:26):
all day now and I. What do I do?Hang out. So it's not a bad gig.
So shred-head. Here we go.So it's nice and cloudy. So.
Oh, sorry.It's it's an a New England Hazy IPA,
5.2 ABV.Um, so it's not, like,
not real high. Quite sessionable.Yeah, totally. Much smarter than me.
(27:48):
Well, for me, 5.2,I'm already getting a little rosy,
you know, um, it's got 411 check ins.4.0 on on tap though, so it's nice.
Real nice and solid there.Straight A's, it says.
And it's from Camp Hill,PA so somewhere in Pennsylvania it
says this petite New England IPA is acollaboration with our friends from
(28:09):
Gilson, crafted for those who wantto enjoy more than a couple while
partaking in their favorite winteractivities, don't let its smaller
ABV fool you see rosy cheeked.This beer is packed with hop oil
and bursting with aromas ofOrange Julius passion fruit,
freshly peeled persimmon.Maybe that's what it is. Persimmon.
So it's nice and kind of cloudy andit had a super fluffy head on top,
(28:31):
so.I have I wanted to comment on it
earlier.I saw the beer and I wanted to
tell you I loved how it looked.Yeah, it's a nice looking beer.
And great. Beer. Even better glass.Yeah, the glass is beer. Nerd glass.
Yeah, I think you can find thaton craft beer.
Republic.com or something of thelikes that says beer nerd. Yeah.
Um. Super rad.Would you give me one of those?
(28:54):
You don't even have one of your own.The shoemaker has I destroyed it?
I need a new one.Oh, that's right, you put yours
in the dishwasher too many times.Um, anyways, yeah.
So kind of citrusy. I'm gonna dig in.I've never seen persimmon on a.
Yeah. Beer note.I don't think I could pull it out of
(29:14):
something either and really say,oh, that's persimmon.
I mean, it's kind of a. Found it.Had maybe one in my life, so.
Well,they look too much like tomatoes
for me to ever want to try it.You don't do tomatoes, so they're
just like disguised tomatoes, huh?They're like little pumpkins.
They're so cute.They're not that cute.
(29:34):
They rot quick, do they?Okay, well, Mr. Negative,
former produce guy.My beer is delicious. It has, um.
It's kind of a passion fruit.I can I can taste the passion fruit.
It's got a nice kind ofmilkiness creaminess to it. Um.
Smooth mouth. Yeah, I love it.This is definitely the four point.
(29:55):
Oh that it it, uh, boasts.So, so far my beer wins.
And, uh, great start for evergreen.I think he sent me four of them.
So if they're all like this,I am hooked up.
It's all downhill from here.I know he he evergreen is his go to
out there. I know that for a fact.Um, made. By Amish people. Yeah.
The price point out there,like his double IPAs he gets out.
(30:17):
There are like around 13.99.A four pack. What? What, like.
Yeah, like of evergreen.Like they're stupid. Like 13.99.
14.99. Shit like that.It's like one beer in San Francisco.
That's impressive.I might have to have, like,
dang in the box he sent me.I have never had someone pack a
box that heavy or, like, full.It was impressive how much he got in
(30:40):
there without the cans exploding.So, um, yeah, I'm excited to
have three more of these.And then New Trail,
I think was the other one.Yes, that's the other big one
around there. Yeah.So thank you. Shred this rocks.
Um, and it's called Shred Head.So I think that's kind of
appropriate.He's probably got cases of it in his
basement. It's got my name on it.He probably does. And it's delicious.
(31:02):
So I would. Smart. Nice.Oh it doesn't have the double D
though.He's got that extra D you know.
Got that extra d all right.Extra d. So many jokes. All right.
Before we, uh, get ourselves introuble, let's check in with the
homie Chew Your Beer. Okay. Hello?No one is available to take your
call.Please leave a message after the
(31:24):
tone. Yo, what up, homies?It's your friendly neighborhood
cholo Chew Your Beer GregoryFlexy craft beer republic.
How you vatos doing? It's March.What are the best things about March?
You got March Madness.You got Saint Patty's Day. That's in.
316. The McGriddle might come back.What? That would be fucking dope.
(31:48):
And it's my birthday month, homie.It's my birth month, homes.
I just celebrated 49 years on thisplanet. Oh, shit. Did a lot of stuff.
Went out to dinner, went out tobreakfast, went to the Glendale Tap.
I sent an invite to Gregory,but he didn't pull up because it's
too far. The dude will fly to Texas.He would fucking ride a boat and
(32:09):
jet skis to a lake up north,but he won't drive to Glendale.
How about that? You could have.You could've hung out with your
boy Chew. You can have some.Beers with me, homie. Lando.
Tab's got a great selection. Of.Beers. Yeah. Great environment.
You'll feel safe.I got your back, homes.
Nothing will happen to you.I say, you know, it's.
That's my spot, homie.Like, I'd rather visit a beer
(32:30):
bar than a brewery because Ihave a lot of selections on me.
I got like, 76 taps,and then they have a bunch of cans
and bottles you can. Pick. From.Yeah. Great spot. Homes. The gas.
Station across. The street.Your boy Chew and my wife.
We will be at Lagerville.Homies got the VIP passes.
(32:51):
We'll be pulling up. Yeah, the.Weather showing up. Uh, yeah.
I'm not fucking spending the night,homie.
But we will probably go out to dinnerand then head home after that.
Also, I'll be at the LA Brewers Guildin Long Beach. The beer festival.
Man, that that's the beer festivalyou want to be at as well, Greg.
(33:12):
If possible, you get to drinkevery LA beer possible, homie.
In one location by the beach,right by the water homes.
0818 homie, they got there.We love LA beer.
It's phenomenal if you like a hoppy,hoppy lager.
They call it a cold IPA, but weboth know we, all three of us know
that it's an IPO. God damn right.Indian pale lager, homie.
(33:34):
Delicious, bro.I had four back to back to back
because they were going down sofucking deliciously down my throat.
Yes sir.And then you can pull up dirty
and kill two birds with onestone and try that beer and try
the flint echo still on tap.I think they said they got two
kegs left,so that's a fucking Hail Mary for me,
(33:55):
homie. I think that's about it.If I got anything.
Oh,I'll be at the fucking L.A. marathon.
No, I ain't fucking running.But I'm gonna give out some beer.
I'm gonna pull up. I'm gonna.Take the.
Stairs, I'm taking a Pacifico,and I'm gonna take some, uh,
Sierra Nevada pale ale and giveout beer to any runner that
wants to get drunk with me.Get some modelos. I'll be up there.
(34:15):
My boy Marvin is running it.My boy Marvin is a fucking phenomenal
human being. He's an Ironman.He's a five time LA marathon runner,
a three time Boston Marathon runner,actually, four year.
His fourth year anniversarywould be this year at Boston.
He's done the Ironman twice.I think this this guy doesn't
(34:37):
stop fucking running.So why do I need to run?
He's running for me and him,homie. So, uh, yeah.
So I'll be at the LA marathon thisweekend on the, the today's uh,
the 12th. Uh, 1213, 14, 16, 17.One of those two.
Whatever the Sunday falls on,I'll be out there handing out
some beers, homie.So, Greg, I know you're a runner
(34:57):
because you got fucking size 18ft.You take one step,
you already half a mile in,so you should do it, homie.
You can come stop by and have apale ale with me or a Pacifico.
Homie, I'm.I'm carrying nothing but P's homie.
Just giving out peace to anybody.Homie. Just swing by.
Open your mouth I'm going to give youmy P, my Pacifico or my Lil homie,
(35:19):
all right?This is your boy Chew Your Beer.
You have to watch. Yo, homie.Peace out. Hey, that took a turn.
Better get in your time machine,Greg. Yeah, yeah.
Let me go back there and getsome of his. Yeah.
Where's the Delorean? Yeah.Gotta get to 86 miles an hour because
I really don't want to go back.Um, 805 five three beer.
2337 is the number to call, if I may.First of all, happy birthday to you.
(35:42):
Happy birthday. Yeah.Happy birthday. Birthday bottle.
So I messaged him Feliz cumpleanos.You know,
happy birthday in Spanish. Yes.And it autocorrected to Felix
Cumpleanos.I was like, that's the perfect
fucking what? Gringo white boy.Yeah. So anyways, so happy birthday.
I would like to defend myself,if I may.
(36:05):
Uh, he said he invited me out toGlendale taps. I was like, fuck!
I don't remember that.But that's not surprising because
I don't remember most things.But then I went through my messages,
both my text messages and my DMs,and I actually don't see an
invite from the homie Chew YourBeer to Glendale Taps.
And I was like, okay, maybe he meantto invite me or I'm missing it on a
(36:29):
third platform that he invited me on.But I was like, I don't see anything.
Which made me feel much betterbecause I was like, fuck,
did I did I totally forget thathe invited me or whatever?
So anyways, I don't I don't thinkI got the invite. Yeah. Busted.
Chew yeah,I got lost in the mail or something.
Um. What else? Oh, Lagerville.Yeah,
he was hitting me up the other day.He's like, hey, I'm going to
(36:51):
Lagerville. You should come out.And I was like, no, uh,
we went to Lagerville last year.I mean, we've been a few times now.
Last year was an absolute shit show.It was pouring rain.
And while the rain is not thefault of the event,
put her honors big mountain.They did a horrible job of
handling it.First of all, the bigger it gets,
(37:13):
the worse it gets.And that sounds like, oh,
you sold out.No, they just don't handle crowds.
Well, they're not set up for it.Their little brewery in Buellton
and they're not set up well to tohandle the crowds and the rain.
They said, oh, it's going to theyemailed before the event, hey,
it's going to rain this weekend.We know it.
We've gotten more tents for theevent.
Well, there was less tents there thanthe year before, so I don't know
(37:34):
where all those more tents ended up,but that was a bunch of shit.
They had people like booths out inthe mud. It was a fucking shit show.
It was an absolute downpour.They could have done things to
mitigate, you know,keep everybody out in the street,
that kind of stuff.It was it was awful.
They handled it so poorly thatthis year I was like, no,
we're not going. And coli.Nick and coli were trying to get
(37:55):
us to go to.And I was like, no, we're not going.
And then halfway through theirticket sales, they sent out an
email that said, like, hey,did you weather the storm with us
last year? Use this code for $10 off.I'm like, oh, so your tickets
weren't selling very well,so you decided to use last
year's show as an excuse to givepeople a discount? I'm over it.
It was good in the beginning,and they're not even inviting good.
(38:17):
First of all,they invited 14 cannons out to
talk to a fucking lager festival.First of all,
14 cannons can suck it now.Also, they're they're not known
for their lagers.Even before, they weren't even
that known for their lagers.Now they're really not known for
even having good beer.Um, side note I, a couple of friends
went recently like very recentlyjust to see what it was like.
(38:38):
Now they're like,the inside is actually not bad.
Like they've rearranged everything.And they said, actually it's got
a better flow to it.There's more seating and this and
that. The beer, they got two flights.All of it was undrinkable.
They did not finish any taster theyhad on either of their flights.
Terrible. That's insane.So you're gonna invite 14 cannons
(38:59):
out, but not good breweries likeKnotty Pine. I'm not about that.
It's just. I'm over Lagerville.They were cool in the beginning
and they kind of suck now.So there's that.
And shout out to Marv.I hope he did good at the LA
marathon. On a happy note.On a happy note. So he was trying.
So you got to come out with me.I was like, not only I was offered
free tickets, I was like, not onlyam I not taking the free tickets,
(39:21):
like, I'm certainly not going to pay.Yeah, I'm not gonna, you know,
it's a two hour drive for me.I'm not going to pay the money
to stay out there for a prettynot that great beer festival.
It's just not worth.He's like, oh,
I'm driving back the same day.I was like, well, you're an insane
person. I'm not. Driving. No. Yeah.He's like, you just go hard the
first two hours and then you stop,have dinner and go home.
(39:42):
I was like, that's how you get a DUI?Yeah. Terrible idea. Yeah.
Oh, it's just lagers.How drunk can you get?
I don't know, ask me.The last few years I got pretty
drunk.Keep drinking any kind of alcohol,
you're gonna get pretty drunk, right?Yeah. I don't care if it's 5% enough.
5% will make you drunk, right?Unlimited pours doesn't really
matter. Yeah, so I'm not going.I won't even take the free tickets,
(40:06):
so I wish,I hope Lagerville gets better.
I hope I get some report fromsomebody this year that they've
cleaned up their act and they don'tsuck anymore, but, uh, we'll see.
So, um. Anyways. 805538 beer.Now that we've alienated, like,
two different breweries.Yeah, whatever. Yeah.
This is how we we end the showeventually is we just talk shit about
(40:26):
every brewery in West Virginia.Every. Well, yeah.
Well, they got 28 of them. Yeah.If that. Yeah.
Something like that. 19.Yeah, 27 of them suck, so they suck.
Um, um, anyways, yeah.Uh,
Erica said unlimited beer samples.Um, we're we're getting to, uh,
Chicago this week.You know, like I said earlier, kids
(40:47):
are on spring break, so we're goingto do a day and night in Chicago.
They have an ice cream museum inChicago. Sweet. Oh, fuck.
I'm in unlimited ice cream.Oh, my God, I'd gain £30.
I didn't. Reopen. Open. Yeah.Um, I think it opens at,
like 9 a.m. and it closes.At a certain point. Oh, I could do.
I have I have no idea.But they put it in.
(41:10):
Writing a full report.They put it right in there in
the general admission tickets,unlimited ice cream and sweet treats.
So I'm very excited to see all theice cream flavors that they have
and everything they offer. And hey.Wife. I'm gonna go. To Chicago. Yeah.
Who's gonna put down some poundage?Yeah.
Of your kids, do you already know,like, do they have personalities
(41:32):
where you're like, I know who'sgonna put down the most ice cream?
Ironic enough, my kids don't loveice cream. What my youngest likes.
Failed as a father. Chocolate.What is wrong with them?
And she will eat chocolate ice cream.But like, my kids don't enjoy soda.
They don't. That's good.They don't enjoy. Soda. Juice.
(41:53):
You know, like stuff like that.They like candy. It's normal. Yeah.
Uh, yeah. All the other stuff.So you're more excited than they
are about the. Ice creams for me.I'm excited for you.
Oh my God, I got such an icecream boner right now.
I can't wait to send you pictures.My wife actually was looking up
some of the flavors.Allegedly, they have a hot dog
(42:13):
flavored ice cream. I'm out.Oh, no. No, no. I'm.
Oh, I'm 100% going to try it.I mean, would I try, like, a sample?
Like a little spoon? Sure. Yeah.I'm not saying a whole scoop. Yeah.
Don't give me a fucking hot dogflavored sundae, please.
But what if it's great?It makes me sick. Yeah.
There's no way it's great.I can't, I can't.
The fact that it's not.I can't wait to report back.
(42:35):
I can't wait to go to Chicago now.I should have done that with our
frequent flyer or whatever we hadearlier this year. Companion pass.
There you go. With a Texas instead.What idiots! You had a good time. Oh.
He did? Yeah. Smoked meats. Come on.Yeah, I smoked some meats and
then ate some meats and. Anywho.All right,
before we roll into some news.And I get harder from all the ice
(42:58):
cream talk, let's find out whatFlex is drinking 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-jobber.
In this world, we must find out whatis Flex drinking? What is Flex doing?
(43:25):
I was licking my microphone likeit was ice cream. Yeah.
That's it. Got him. I mean.Maybe it was a hot dog.
Oh, yeah, it could have been.Um, I don't discriminate.
Uh, today I am drinking PhaseThree Brewing's, uh, Citra cream.
(43:46):
They have little, uh, or cream.I'm sorry.
This is a little, uh, series thatthey do. It's a cream series.
Often with some fun.Cannot they switched all their.
cannot. Yeah. It's like a year ago.Well, no. This one.
This is the same for the series.Is it? Yeah. Yes.
Um, so I was pleased with that.I don't like the new can art style.
(44:10):
Uh, so this is refreshing.Uh, this is one of my all time
favorite beers.I have it rated as a five on
untapped. Wow.It is, uh, 7.7 double IPA,
4.2 thousand check ins,and is a cumulative 4.26 on the on
(44:30):
the old charts there. Good lord.Untapped reads sit Your Cream
features a double dry hopping oftasty Citra hops on our 7.7% double
IPA base, loaded up with oatsand a splash of characteristic
milk sugar that makes this oneoh so lush and creamy. Yum.
Daddy like it? Creamy. Um. Damn it.So what they did on this cam,
(44:58):
though, is they've been puttingbrewer's notes and whatnot.
So this one just says Creamytropical smoothie.
Um, hops, obviously just Citra.So the old schnoz.
I feel like you haven't really hadphase three as much as you used to.
No, because they were reallygood for about four years. Okay.
But 2019 to 2023.And then they had a huge
(45:25):
downfall in 2023.And then I had did some
investigating.They lost their head Brewer.
Then they lost two other brewerswhile they were opening up a
second location in mass producing.So everything kind of went downhill
for a while and I started drinkingthem a little bit, uh, late 2024.
(45:52):
And I could tell things weregetting back to normal.
It was It's pretty recent. Yeah.So I've been getting back into
it a little bit.Usually when I can't find something
different enough that I want to try,I'll revert back to this now.
So on the schnoz.They're not wrong about the
tropical smoothie.It's gorgeous beer, by the way.
(46:14):
Oh, hey. Thanks. Yeah, it's.I mean, that's the oats and the milk.
Sugar really helps with that.The old, the old. I like the.
Way you know. Damn it.Didn't I just say oats? I don't know.
No you. Didn't. You slipped.Whoop. Now I kicked my computer.
Well, notes are going.Tons of pineapple. Mango.
(46:35):
And you get, like, this passionfruit on the back end. No persimmon.
Uh, fresh out of persimmon.Little tomato in there, too. It's.
It's tropical,but not that exotic, I guess.
So I'm the old. Uh Tongue-jobber.As we warm that up. Mhm.
(46:56):
I mean the mouthfeel of thisbeer is insane.
It's almost like air but like thick,pillowy soft air. Cloud.
Like you're eating a cloud.It's insane. Cloud guzzling.
And the flavors kind of follow suit.You know. I don't know.
Pineapple, mango.Not, uh, not so much passion
(47:19):
fruit on the palate. All right.Uh, and you definitely get some
sweetness. Uh, that milk. Sugar.Just fucking fantastic. Nice.
I if I was, uh, Mr. Deeds and Iinherited my great uncle's billion
dollar fortune, and my uncle hadfruit punch running through his
(47:41):
water fountains as bubblers, we callthem bubblers in Wisconsin. Okay.
Um, I would fucking make thisrun through my bubblers.
So whenever I was thirsty, I wouldjust bend down, push the button,
and I'd just fucking drink this shitdown. Right on down. All right.
Yeah. What was the ABV on that?Seven. Seven. All right.
(48:02):
You're walking around the steadybuzz at all times, I love it.
I would have it no other way ifI was a billionaire. Yeah.
I mean, if I'm a billionaire andI'm not working anymore. Bye bye.
Sobriety. Oh, yeah. Right.Can't get hungover if you don't
sober up.Walk around with backpacks and a
straw thing. Oh, yeah. Camelback and.Camelback. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect.
(48:24):
No matter where you go.It would be wonderful.
Yeah, it would be nice. Perfect.Well, some more good news for you.
Oh, I like good news.Did you hear that?
MobCraft brewery is going to reopen.What? No I didn't.
Yeah, they announced it today aswe record the show. No kidding.
Yeah. They're going to reopen.It's going to be the former director
of finance and Human Serviceresources. Her and her husband.
(48:48):
It's Sarah and Mike Halsted.They're reopening the brewery.
The deal closed on Friday,and they're hoping to open by spring.
No shit. Yeah.I'm curious on details.
What kind of details?How much they got it for?
Oh, uh, 160 grand. That was it. Yeah.Hard assets and intellectual
(49:08):
property. Wow. 160.They still got to rent the place.
Uh, they don't own it so that,you know, no real estate,
but the equipment.So interesting. Yeah. 160 grand.
And you got a turnkey brewery.That's not bad. I'll tell you what.
I really hope that they, uh, canturn out a little bit better. Beer?
(49:30):
Yeah, I remember you were saying thatbeer, especially towards the end,
was, uh, to be desired.I've never met a brewery that, uh,
I've never been to a brewery thatdidn't know how to brew an IPA.
I've been to a couple.Like it, uh, just blew my mind. Mhm.
Which is hilarious because likeIPAs are fuck up beers,
(49:53):
you fuck up a beer,you throw a bunch of hops in it,
right? Essentially. Yeah, absolutely.And they just, you know, they just
couldn't figure it out. Yeah.Didn't they have like, a little bit
of, like a beer fest or some sort ofthing that you went to at there?
They would have like at least threeannual beer fests a year. Okay.
They would have their sour feststhere, stout Fest and then their
anniversary party every year wascalled Weird Fest, which is when
(50:16):
they would brew the weird beers likethe we had the sushi roll beer.
We had the Chicago style hot dogbeer.
Uh, hot dogs theme of the night.That's right. Yeah. It was.
Yeah, really,really fun out there stuff.
And they had an outstanding sourprogram.
But, uh, yeah, you know,things happen. Yeah. Okay.
(50:37):
So I guess excited.Excited to see what happens.
Yeah. We'll see how it goes.You'll have to go report for us.
Uh Moosehead. Brewing has released.And subsequently sold out of
their presidential pack due tothe impending tariffs going
towards Canada.Moosehead brewing created a
(50:59):
presidential pack,which was a crate of 1461 beers,
which the brewery said amounts to abeer a day for the next four years.
To which I say,that's not enough beer one a day.
Well, yeah, right. Yeah.How much did that cost? 2,467 CAD.
(51:24):
I did not do the math on that.Yeah, I. Know.
I was sitting there trying to think.It's like 2000 American dollars.
Let's see. 1 CAD is $0.70.Oh,
that's actually a pretty good deal.So let's see. 1461 is $1,020 for 14.
So less than a dollar a beer.Wow. Not bad.
(51:47):
Okay, but I checked today beforewe recorded. It has sold out.
Yeah. There you have it.Good for Moosehead.
But what happened to the body?Excuse me.
You sound like an old smoker.Don't make me laugh. Sorry.
Uh, and then finally, uh,Delirium is sending a ton of
beers over to the US for the samereason before the tariffs kick in.
(52:09):
They have sent 20 containers,good for about 300,000l of
Delirium in bottles.And they are going to leave this
week on a ship.They said it's already one of the
most expensive beers on sale inthe US, and if we have to triple
your price, I'm pretty sure noone's going to buy it anymore.
So they're sending over a bunch inhopes to get us through a little bit.
(52:31):
When was the last time you had aDelirium? That's the thing.
It's been a hot minute since Ihad Delirium.
Like, I feel like it was cool,like 13 years ago.
Well, it was cool before everyonehad local craft beer, right? Yeah.
So, like, are you a fan ofDelirium years ago? No I'm not.
It's not my style of beer.The meaning?
The name behind it is cool, but,um. The elephant is cool.
(52:55):
The pink elephant?Yeah, the pink elephant.
And the what?The dt's are like when you're,
um, coming out of drinking andyou're like, stop drinking.
And you're going throughwithdrawal and Delirium Tremens.
But, like, I don't know. No.Never was a fan of that one.
Um, but I see why they're doing it,I guess. But yeah.
I got a buddy who's a big fan ofthat beer, and really, he always.
(53:17):
And he kind of thought, because I'minto beer. Like, I love it too.
So he'd always buy me.He's like, hey, I got you Delirium.
I'm like, oh, thanks.I got this now. All right. Yeah.
Cool. Thanks. Yay! Yay! Very nice.It's the thought that counts.
Absolutely. And I never said shit.I hope he doesn't listen to the show
now, because now he knows what a jerkI am. Uh, we'll end it on this one.
(53:40):
Uh, Vanessa sent this in, so.Hi, Vanessa. Oh. Hello, Vanessa.
Drunk.Tampa man set the Pink Pony
strip club on fire and threwurine at police officer. Damn.
I feel like we could end.It on the headline.
He had the urine contained.Well, here we go. Arvin.
Oh, my God, what kind of lastname is this? Soleimanpour.
(54:03):
29 walked into Pink Pony showgirlsand intentionally set it on fire,
according to a release from theTampa Police Department.
Witnesses told someone fired agun multiple times inside the
unoccupied building.Officers took him into custody
as he was dragging brush intothe burning building. No shit.
(54:23):
That's fucking hilarious.It's not hilarious, but that is
hilarious. It's very Florida.Police said he was found with a
handgun while in the TPDdistrict office.
He was accused of urinating in awater bottle and throwing the
contents at an officer.He was charged with arson with
(54:43):
injury.Shooting at,
within or into a building.Possession of a weapon during
the commission of a felony.Battery on a law enforcement officer
and felony criminal mischief.Oh my gosh.
And you know, when they asked him toleave, he was you know what he said?
What did he say?I'm going to keep on dancing at
the Pink Pony Club.That's exactly what he said.
(55:06):
Right. That's the song.This is super solid track club.
So, yes. He's a pink pony girl.He really. Is. Just going to.
How do you. I don't know.I get, you know, let me just start
this by saying I'm not an arsonist.Not yet. So for somebody to.
(55:31):
Walk into a building and just tryto start it on fire right away.
How does one do this?Is it just a lighter to the carpet.
Is it? Yeah, I don't know.Are you lighter fluid?
Bringing in fluid.Gasoline, something.
How does one just enter abuilding and immediately try to
(55:52):
set it on fire?Well, I like that it wasn't burning
enough, so he was bringing in brush.But you know what?
Not enough fire in here.The fire still had to been
stable and big enough for him totake time to go out. Oh, yeah.
Get brush and drag it. Amazing.But, yeah, you know, nobody's
stopping him in the meantime.Going out to get the brush. Yeah.
(56:13):
And, you know,whatever he said on fire, the drapes.
You know, something flammable.And he's like, you know what?
Not enough. I'll get some brush.Need some woodsy smell up in
this bitch.That's the most Florida shit ever.
Thank you. Vanessa.It's so perfect. Interesting. Yeah.
Terrible for the Pink Pony stripclub.
I hope all the strippers are okay.Yeah. Sorry, ladies. Oh. And DJ.
(56:37):
Keep on dancing. DJ damn it!Anyways, I think that's a
perfect place to end things.Follow us all on the socials at Craft
Beer Republic at Flex Chew YourBeer underscore in between and at
Nick Nash LLC underscores as well.Nick Nash, come get some pretzels.
Uh 805 538 beer.It's 2337 mail at craft beer.com.
(57:02):
Erica.You, uh, you busy next week or
you want to come hang out again?I'm clearing the schedule, guys.
Let's do it.Start getting your pencils out
and all that shit. Clear that.Schedule off all the things.
Just. Just to be with you guys.Let's drink some more beers.
Uh, I hope everyone out there isstaying very well hydrated.
And on that note.Good night everybody.
Flex loves the clap.He's a pro with the clap.
Just really like scratching things,you know? That'll be our cold open.
(00:24):
Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I am being joined by,uh, Midwest 316.
That's Flex over there.What's up, big fella?
Yeah, man, you came in hot today.Holy smokes. I'm excited.
I'm pumped. It's a drinking.Smoke coming off your head. Yowza!
Woo! Yeah! What got into you?I don't know, maybe some coke.
(00:50):
Uh, anyways.And then all the way back from
her trip around the salty seas.It's the salty sailor herself.
Erica. What's happening?Hey, friends. Not a lot.
It's great to see you guys.Yeah, it's been a minute.
Yeah, yeah, we got someCalifornia sunshine today.
Maybe that's the heat coming offyour head. Yeah.
Dude, it was hot down here.I don't know about up there,
but it's like 86 down here today.Holy cow. It was like 78 here. Yeah.
(01:13):
This morning it was 31 degrees.But the wind was so bad it felt like
11. We're talking Fahrenheit, right?Right. Yeah. Strange. Good lord.
Yeah.No, it was 86, and we tried to
take the dog for a walk and for,like, a half a mile in, he's like.
And he's a black dog, so he'sabsorbing all of that heat. Yeah.
(01:34):
You know,we actually have a sun shirt for him
because of him being a black dog.And so he put his little sun shirt
on first and he looks all cute.This little shirt on.
I like you,but that might be one of the most
California things I've ever heard.Such a yuppie dog. That's hilarious.
I mean, you know,it takes time to acclimate.
It did jump to 86 pretty quickon Marty's behalf, but. Right.
I mean, it was like 60 somethingyesterday and today was 86.
(01:56):
So anyways,not a dog shirt show? Nope.
So we'll we'll move on from there.Thank God for that. Yeah.
Uh, follow us on the socials atCraft Beer Republic at Flexy.
Chew Your Beer underscore in betweenand at LLC underscore as well.
And of course,NBCNews.com for all your, uh, drunk,
snacky goodness. Heck, yeah. Yeah.Delicious and convenient. Yeah.
(02:20):
And let's be honest, who's eatingthat stuff when they're sober?
That's the perfect drunk snack.It is.
It's just to keep you just right in.Right in that drunk zone,
not over the top.Just kind of having a good ass time.
That's what it's worth.And because you're drunk,
you need the hands free convenience.You do? It's not embarrassing at all.
(02:41):
Just nodding off of things onyour shirt. It's.
It's a lot of fun watching.We've been doing it since we
were kids.Like we had those candy necklaces.
Oh, yeah. The candy necklaces.Yeah, I used to love those back
in the day. Candy.Candy watches were the worst
because you would eat your wristand then everything would get
sticky because all the spit. Yeah.And if you're wearing, like,
(03:01):
long sleeves,like a sweatshirt or something,
and then it's all fucking nastyaround your arm. Hair stuck in there.
Colored armbands. Yeah.I mean, it's awkward. Yeah. Pretzels.
Way better than pretzels are.Way better. Way healthier.
Yeah, that's the story here.So, anyways, uh, go buy some
pretzel necklaces and stuff.All right. Lots to get to today.
The homie Chew Your Beer called in,and we've got a marathon of a
(03:23):
voicemail.I didn't even know he was still
alive.That's great that he's checking in.
Yeah. Glad to hear he's still.I had to send a welfare check on him.
March! Miracle. That's exciting.Uh, some booze news to get to.
Some exciting news for, uh,some Wisconsin people.
And, uh, we'll talk about whatthe hell's going up in Boston
for Saint Patrick's Day.Those guys are fucking weird.
But in the in the meantime,please allow me to hydrate myself.
(03:52):
My dear. Out of my beer.Should have pulled the Austin
Powers and said,let myself hydrate myself. Myself.
Hey, do I know you know that'swhere you are. You're there.
Never got it. I am drinking today.Weldwerks Brewing Company.
(04:14):
Keeping time. It's a double hazy IPA.8% has a collective 418 on
untapped with over four.Yeah, over 1400 ratings.
And they say hazy double IPA,uh, with Citra, El Dorado,
Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops.Nice big description there.
(04:39):
The schnoz.I get a lot of get some alcohol,
actually. Okay. On an 8%.That's kind of wild.
It's kind of wild.I'm also smelling, I think, mostly
citrus. It's like some orangey ness.Would you say hints of orange
and tangerine.Hints of orange and tangerine.
You nailed it.It's like you're here with me.
(05:01):
Uh, yeah, that's pretty much itfor the smell. It's, uh.
Let's dig right in with a littleTongue-jobber action here. All right.
Follow suit with, I'd say,the addition of pineapple.
Get a lot of pineapple up front.Yeah.
You know, as this sits,I've probably opened this,
I don't know, ten minutes ago,before we actually started the show,
(05:22):
when I first poured it fresh outof the fridge,
I actually didn't like it as much.It's gotten better in ten minutes.
Uh,at first I was really getting some,
like, alcohol burn and hot burn.Just some all around burn and
some bitterness. This is a hazy.I don't want that shit in my hazy.
And, uh, as it's opened.I don't know if it's the warmth
(05:42):
or it's just had a chance toaerate like a fine wine.
Either way, it is improved alittle bit, and I'm actually
liking it a little bit more now.A little more fluffiness than I
was getting before.Um, way more fruit flavor than I
was getting before.Like I said, that pineapple and the
orange coming through so much better.When I first opened it, I was
like 418. Are you guys on crack?Uh, I'd have said it like a three.
(06:04):
I'm gonna bump this up to, like,a 3.75. It's good. Not amazing.
Okay, we'll drink again for sure.We'll drink again? Yeah.
I wouldn't spend what I spent on it.This came from the old Tibor,
you know.I think it cost like, you know,
$73 for a can. Sounds about. Right.Yeah, I think that's what
they're charging these days.So what I would I pay Tibor prices
for it. Uh, no, it's not that good.But I drink again. Okay, okay.
(06:28):
Fair enough. Yeah. So reasonable.Hey, shout out to our top listening
of last week. And that was.That was Oaks, California. What's up?
Oh. Hey there. Yeah. So many oaks.So many. Yeah. To be exact. So.
And, uh, special shout out toFinland. Hi, Finland.
Are we back? What's up friend?Well, not only are we always there,
(06:50):
But last week or week before they,um, they released the annual
World Happiness Report.And for the eighth year in a row,
Finland was found to be thehappiest country in the world,
followed by fellow Nordic nationsDenmark, Iceland and Sweden.
So it just made me even more proudthat the happiest nation in the
world loves craft beer. Republic.Yeah. That's something. Yeah, well.
(07:14):
I still don't get it. Any other.Scandinavian here? Maybe we're happy.
I don't know who knows.Um, we actually were talking
about Finland today,so I wonder if McDreamy had read
that report because we were like,oh, if we were ever to, like,
say, move to another country.He was like, Finland is like a
super happy place. So yeah.And then I thought about how craft
(07:35):
Beer Republic is often on the chartsthere. So that's pretty cool.
Maybe they think we're happy.They're up there too for like
having like, the most attractivepeople in the world.
Oh, I think I've heard that before.Yeah.
Uh, so, yeah, I probablywouldn't fare too well. Um.
Are you saying because you don'tmeasure up or because. Yeah.
(07:56):
How do you measure?How do you measure up to that? Yeah.
Bring the short shorts and thetree trunks.
I think you'll be just fine. Just.I can see Flex getting off the
plane now. Hello. Ladies.Just coming out with a towel
wrapped around me. Yeah, exactly.Hell, yeah. Nailed it.
(08:17):
Erica doesn't get it, but thankgoodness it is not a voluminous show.
Yeah, nor. Nor a wrestling show.No. Definitely not. Yes.
Not one per episode. Cool. Got it.Gotta get him where we can run.
Got it. I was I was a snob today.I gotta put this out there.
Let's hear it.So the kids are on spring break.
Okay. Hooray! Right.Everybody's happy. Yeah.
(08:38):
And, uh, when we have a night free,every once in a while, we like
to treat the kids to like a fun,nicer dinner. So they want to say.
Uh, kick them over to grandma'shouse and have some fun.
No no no no no no no.That doesn't ever happen. Um.
Um, so we went out to, like,a little subnitidus dinner.
(08:58):
You know, not like, super fancy,but, you know, better than, like,
your average franchise place and.Okay. Um, better than Applebee's.
Right, right.So they had a pretty decent beer
menu, and we went there last summer.Just me and the wife,
and we always talked.Hey, we need to bring the kids back.
So I was just checking out theirmenu before we went,
(09:20):
checking out the food,seeing what they had to offer.
They had the beer menu onlineand I was like, oh, they have a
Eagle Park rotating tap said,this sounds wonderful.
I'll get a nice meal,a really decent beer,
and just have a wonderful evening.So we get to dinner, ask them what
their rotating tap was for EP,and they said it was their Citra
(09:42):
on the dock of the Bay, which isone of my all time favorite beers.
All time favorite. I love it.8%. It is an all Citra Hazy IPA.
Just phenomenal. Love. Citra.Ordered it.
The waitress brings it to the tableand I can see my daughter through
the glass. Uh oh. Hahahahaha!And I said, excuse me, what is this?
(10:07):
And she said, oh, that's the EaglePark Citra on the dock. Sure isn't.
I said, well, it's not,which is why I asked because I know
that's not the beer I ordered.Um, do you know who I am?
And I did feel kind of douchey.I wasn't super proud of it, but she.
(10:27):
She went to the bar, back to the bar,and came back and reiterated that
that's what the bartender said was ontap, and that is what he poured.
And she said, if I wanted adifferent beer, I could.
And I definitely ordered a differentbeer because I did take a sip of
it and it was not new. It.So do you think it's just been
(10:50):
sitting around for a few months?I'm thinking it was maybe
rotating for never,and it was just sitting the opposite
of rotating and everything was.Yeah, it was like,
I'll take a hazy minus. The haze.SAT there so long it had a chance to
drop out. Yeah, it was pretty bad.That's. Yikes. Um, yeah.
(11:14):
But yeah, she took it off the bills,so that was cool. Yeah.
Way to go, you douche.But then the the the rest of the
dinner, I kind of felt like anasshole. Oh. You get.
Do you ever, like, follow that upwith some sort of qualifier like,
oh, I'm a, like, insert somethingfake here. Like I'm a beer rep.
All I kept, all I kept thinkingabout was maybe I can just open up
(11:35):
untapped and show them what thebeer is supposed to look like.
And then I thought, nope,that's even douchier.
So I just let bygones be bygonesand felt like an ass for the
rest of dinner.Um, but we gave her a nice tip,
so it was fine. Yeah. That's good.I think I've told this story on
the show.This was probably three years
(11:57):
ago or so.We went to, um, I don't know,
some big place, like a yard,house type of establishment or
something like that.And I ordered nothing crazy.
It was a Sierra Nevada hazylittle thing.
And, you know, I've had 1 or 30of those in my. Day, right?
And I know they're not the, like,haziest beer visually in the world,
but, you know, they got somegood haze to them. Definitely.
(12:18):
And it showed up like yours.Crystal clear, crystal clear.
And I said, I wish I had the bar,so luckily I'd have to like, flag it.
And I was like, hey,I don't think that's the right beer.
And she goes, yeah, it sure is.And I said,
can you tell me what it is?Then she goes, yeah,
it's the hazy little thing.I said, okay, do you see any haze?
(12:39):
And she goes, well,it's the hazy little thing.
And I said, I know what Iordered was the Hazel thing.
And maybe you told the personhazel thing, but I don't think
what they then handed you tohand to me was Hazel thing.
She goes, no, it definitely is.I said, so then you're telling me
you have such an old keg or dirtylines of hazel thing that now
it's just dropping clear? Yes.She goes, well, I don't know.
(13:02):
Do you want a different likeclearly you're right over the top.
And she said,well do you want a different beer?
I was like, I mean, honestly,I'd prefer this beer the way
it's supposed to come out.Is that an option?
She's like,are you asking me to report it?
I said, well, if you think thatthere's any chance that the
wrong beer got poured. Yes.If you are 120% certain that this
(13:23):
is out of the hazy little thing,tap, then there's no point in
wasting more shitty beer. No point.And I drank a clear,
hazy little thing that night.Wow. Did it taste off? Yes.
Yeah, it did not.It tastes like a fucking West Coast.
It was not hazy little thing.Oh, this.
This thing tastes like West Coast,but it was definitely like, uh,
(13:43):
it was bad. Mm.Like, the fruit flavors were off.
Yeah, just.Everything had dropped out.
Ironically, though, it from the twosips I took of it, uh, great lacing.
Which is surprising because that'ssupposed to be the sign of,
like, a fresh beer, right?So then I kept thinking to myself,
maybe they had the beer name wrong,and maybe it was a fresh keg of.
(14:07):
Of something else. Something else.But I was done with it.
Yeah, I recently.I couldn't, I couldn't drink it past
two sips, so I figured that's. All.You had. Yeah, I figured it was bad.
Would you.She even said she's like, oh,
you can keep it, you know?I'll take it off the tab.
Just, you know,because I ordered the second beer.
She goes, oh, you can have bothof them. Yeah. I couldn't do it.
(14:30):
You couldn't even plug and chug.No, no, because it was that bad
or because you didn't wanna dothat in front of your kids? Yeah.
Because you want to be like.Um, it was bad enough that I
couldn't drink it to enjoy it.Got it. That's fair. Yeah, I just.
I knew I was doing the show tonight,so I didn't want to get,
you know, 88% it up and. Yeah.Do your kids now, like, know the
(14:54):
difference in colors and haziness inbeers? Like, is your daughter like.
Yeah, dad, you're right.That's fucked up.
No, no,they're not that pretentious yet.
Oh, cause I love that they pickout your cans. That's my favorite.
Yeah, it's my favorite.I was really bummed the last
time I went to the beer store.Uh, they weren't with me,
so it was kind of bummed out.Why'd you even go then?
I know, but they did laugh atone of the cans.
(15:16):
I bought this little green guy on itwith a little stick arms and stick
legs, and he's got some glasses anda little chef's hat. All right.
Yeah, they loved it. Erica.Have you started letting the
kids pick out your beers yet?Uh, they haven't really picked out
the beers, but they tend to calleverything a beer, which is pretty
embarrassing, because it's like,no matter where we are,
you know, it'll be like at thepark and something in a can,
(15:37):
they'll be like, oh, your beer.It's like. It's a Coke. Zero.
That is. A beer. One time they.It was a few years ago, but they were
served little cans of apple juicewith their lunch or whatever it was.
And they looked at the waitress andI think it was my daughter said,
you brought me a beer,and we just looked like she thinks
(15:59):
anything in a can is a beer.Sorry. That's amazing.
Yeah, because apple juicedoesn't normally come in a can.
To be fair. But still, it's.Well, it's extra great because
apple juice is the color of beer.True, true. Yeah, that's a.
Couple summers ago.Uh, we took some water cups home
from, uh, when we went to Eagle Park,and my kids wanted to play, like,
brewery outside. It was amazing.Absolutely amazing. Awesome.
(16:24):
Other kids are making mud pies,and his kids are, like,
slinging pints, right?Honestly, when you're a dad, you
can't ask for much more than that.Proudest moment of Daddy Flex life.
That's so good.Uh, well, speaking of being drunk
and debaucherous, I don't know, uh,anybody do anything fun for Saint
(16:45):
Patrick's Day? It happened last week.Uh, I went out with a couple,
uh, old work friends, and wecaught up on some times and, uh,
had some solid beer. Some solid food.Yeah. Nothing overly Irish.
I don't get into the whole, you know,Guinness. And how was that Guinness?
(17:10):
Oh, sorry. It hurts to say.Uh, but, yeah, I don't get into
anything too crazy. Mhm. Yeah.We, um, I always make corned beef
and cabbage, but we did that alittle early because my sister in
law Tiffany I don't know you guys.You know who Tiffany is right.
You guys.Oh yeah the Nashville Tiffany.
What's that? The Nashville Tiffany.Yeah, exactly.
(17:33):
So she came a few days before,so we had,
like hung out and we drank for like,I felt like four days straight
up until Saint Patrick's Day.So, um, I was okay not partying
on Saint Patrick's Day.And I had a similar.
By the way, next time you guys dothat, you should drunk call Flex.
Oh, we should drunk. Tell Flex.She probably.
(17:54):
She works out twice a day.That's true. At least once a day.
Every day. That's true.Sometimes twice a day. Yeah.
I'm just. I'm like, uh.It's a lot. Four times a week.
That's a good amount.That's a good amount.
She's very, very good at beingcommitted to that. So.
But we always have to, like,schedule some good chunks of time.
(18:16):
So. Yeah, it makes me think of you.Flex. I'm like, she's.
It's hard to fuel yourself withthat much protein. She will.
That's it. It's all pure protein.She's just interesting all day. Yeah.
Very interesting. Yeah. That's funny.Well,
I my weekend was similar to Erika's.I drank leading up to Saint
Patrick's Day.Yeah, I didn't have anything on the
(18:37):
day, which I'm sure is some sort of,you know, law that I broke or.
Yeah, yeah. Who knows?I but I definitely celebrated
Stone cold Day the day before.Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Had some Steve Wisers and allthat kind of stuff.
So that was Sunday, right? Yeah.Sunday. Sunday.
I think I might have had, uh, maybe.Did I drink on Stone cold, man?
(19:02):
I think important. Holiday to me.Anyway, I let the big guy down. Mhm.
I don't know if I had anything.You're gonna get coal in your
stocking. Oh, man.Oh, stone cold, stone cold. Yeah.
And apparently, uh, my sister,did you know she got married?
Uh, first off,didn't even know you had a sister.
Why are you not talking about it?Second of all, how was she married?
(19:26):
Um, yeah, I don't know.See, is there anything else I
need to know? Well, she.She finally shipped out her kid on
Stone cold day, too. That's wild.So he will forever be referred
to as stone cold.What a target to hit. Right on.
Yeah, at least the kid has a chancenow, though, right? Before it was.
Right. Nope. Yeah. Nothing.Now it's gonna be an urban cowboy,
(19:49):
you know? And, uh.Special connection with his.
At least he has a chance. Yeah.And, you know, maybe his grandfather
won't hate him now because, uh,my dad's quite the stone cold fan,
so. Right.I feel like it's just, uh,
it's going to bring the Jonesescloser together, right? Yeah.
(20:09):
You you literally have no excuse toforget the birthday of your nephew
now. That's true. It's like the most.Important day of the year.
That too. Yeah. Like. Yeah.Well, Greg,
we were talking about it today.You said every birthday for this
kid's life,he's going to get him a Stetson.
316 shirt. Yeah. His name is Stetson.Yeah, so I think. Oh.
I'm sorry, did I did I let the catout of the stone. Cold secrets.
(20:33):
Yeah, I don't fucking know.Trying to keep him away from the
paparazzi and you just mess thatone up. Yeah.
So, yeah, I think every year hegets a new because he's obviously
he's going to grow and,you know, grow out of shirts.
So every year he gets a new Stetson316 shirt for his birthday.
Best uncle ever. Come on. 100%. Yeah.And then by the time he's about eight
years old, you start putting inbeer with the t shirts. Yeah, yeah.
(20:54):
You gotta wait till he's like,7 or 8. You can't.
Then you add the cargo shorts,right? Gotta make a full outfit.
I mean, if we're going to give.Him a chance. We're talking jorts.
So. Ooh, some stone cold jorts.This kid is gonna make it in life.
Yeah, he's gonna get laid so hard.Oh, thank goodness, thank goodness
(21:14):
he was born on the day he was.Otherwise, it would have been
just all downhill. Yeah.And if anybody, you know questions
it like, hey, what's with theshirt or what's with the jorts?
You know, like, hey,that's in 316. Got it, got it.
We got it. Bottom line.Just chill out, all right? We got it.
So sorry. We'll walk away. Yeah.So sorry, Mr. 16.
(21:36):
Anyways, we'll get off of that.Uh, back to the whole, uh,
Saint Patrick's Day thing.Have you guys heard of Borg's?
Borg? Borg's. Borg's?I just got bit by the love bat.
Yeah. No. Not quite. Okay.Apparently, this is a thing.
Especially in Boston.Boston area transit police were
busy on Saint Patrick's Dayconfiscating Borg's, which stands
(21:58):
for Black Outrage gallons.Oh, yes, I have heard of these. Okay.
Viral sensations of several yearsago, created by party and Gen Zers
who are looking to hydrate whilealso consuming cocktails at scale.
It's like milk jugs full of greendrink. Yes, I've seen this.
And their only goal is to getcompletely obliterated.
(22:19):
They were never caught.I never heard him called Borg,
though. I can't remember what I.The rage thing was definitely in
there. Okay.Maybe they were just called like,
rage gallons or something like that.Maybe. Yeah, it's fucking insane.
I have heard of this.Is it a special like,
mix that's in there,or can it be pretty much anything?
Some green drink that they mix up?I think it's like green fucking
(22:41):
King's cup at this point.Like, just whatever you can get
hammered on because the goal,it's called blackout rage gallon.
So they're just there to getobliterated. Wow.
And they carry them around.So anyways, they're going on the
subway with them and like,they're getting confiscated and
arrested and like, cops know,they're like, yeah, we've we've
seen gallons of green drink before.We know what the fuck you're
(23:02):
carrying around.It's pretty hard to, like,
hide a gallon of green drink, too,if you're cruising around with it.
So. Right.You're gonna get caught. Yeah.
Wait,did it say how many they confiscated?
No, but there was a picture.And I'm talking.
This one picture had at least, like,30 gallons in it. That's nuts.
Yeah, it was good times.Fucking fucking Boston.
(23:22):
So stupid over there.Is it like a college thing or.
I don't know.Are these people just really
looking to get fucked up?Yes and yes. I mean a lot more.
I get it. So I never got it before.And I get it now.
I'm like Bill Murray at the endof Scrooged. I get it now.
(23:44):
Um, so I work with a guy.He was one of the lucky guys
that have off on Mondays,and for weeks he was like, hey,
Saint Patty's Day is on Monday.I said, yeah.
He said,I hope you're ready to go out.
And I said, yeah, I'll go out,get some beers, you know, have like a
(24:04):
Reuben or some shit, like, yeah,it sounds like a wonderful time.
Well, me, him and another guy,we're going to go.
The third guy couldn't get ababysitter.
Had some plans that came up thatevening. Couldn't go out.
This dude, like, threw a shit fit.Like his plan was to go out and
get fucked up.Like he was planning on getting
(24:24):
fucked up. Right?So he goes to the store Monday
morning and sends us a pictureof a bottle of Baileys,
a 12 pack of Guinness and a bottleof Jameson in a shopping cart.
Are you doing car bombs all night?So at about 4:00, he sent us a
picture. All 12 Guinness were empty.The bottle of Baileys was empty.
(24:47):
Oh, no.And the bottle of Jameson was
half gone.Dude, that's like alcohol poisoning.
That is way too much.Well, I guess Guinness is only 5%,
but still.But I get it now that people aim
to just get fucked up because ofthe day.
I guess I'm in the same boat as you.Like, I guess, like.
(25:10):
That level of fucked up.I'm not doing it. Call me old.
But that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah.When you're in your 20s.
But as it's like a full blown adult.That does not sound.
He claims it's his holiday. Okay.You know, everybody's got their one.
Even Irish. No, he's Native American.You know, so it's. It's. You know.
(25:35):
Yeah. I guess as one is.Yeah, exactly. Uh.
All right, well,before we check in with, uh,
the homie Chew Your Beer, let'slet's see what Erica is drinking
over there. We'll call the the pen.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.Yes.
(25:57):
Okay, guys,I have my first ever evergreen beer.
Isn't that Pennsylvania? Yes.So it's called Shred-head.
And it happened to be sent fromshred.
I got a surprise box last week.Dude, he's a nice dude.
And, uh, he sent it with a bunchof pretzels, too, so I got, like,
eight beers and a bunch of pretzels.Did he say they were, like,
(26:19):
famous PA pretzels or something?Well, it was cute, because.
That's totally something he does.Yeah.
I don't know if you have theseSnyder. Made by Amish people. Yeah.
He's so proud of where he's from.Yeah, it kills me, I love it.
It's great.It's one time we had been messaging,
and he literally received a pretzeldelivery while we were messaging, and
(26:43):
it was like a case of soft pretzels.He and his wife were opening up
or something.I'm like, this is a thing you
guys do. So it's kind of funny.Soft pretzel. Right?
I mean, just get some mustardand just start. Yeah. It's just.
Or. Beer. Cheese. Beer cheese.Oh my goodness. Yeah.
So, um, so this is Shred-head,and it's kind of cool because it's
(27:06):
got like a snowboarding dude on thefront, which I don't snowboard.
I don't even ski anymore.I tried it for a couple of years,
and, um, I would rather just sitin the hot tub.
But you and the wife will beperfect snow friends.
I know we'll just drink wine and waitfor you guys to get off the slopes.
It's perfect.Well, McDreamy takes the kids skiing
(27:26):
all day now and I. What do I do?Hang out. So it's not a bad gig.
So shred-head. Here we go.So it's nice and cloudy. So.
Oh, sorry.It's it's an a New England Hazy IPA,
5.2 ABV.Um, so it's not, like,
not real high. Quite sessionable.Yeah, totally. Much smarter than me.
(27:48):
Well, for me, 5.2,I'm already getting a little rosy,
you know, um, it's got 411 check ins.4.0 on on tap though, so it's nice.
Real nice and solid there.Straight A's, it says.
And it's from Camp Hill,PA so somewhere in Pennsylvania it
says this petite New England IPA is acollaboration with our friends from
(28:09):
Gilson, crafted for those who wantto enjoy more than a couple while
partaking in their favorite winteractivities, don't let its smaller
ABV fool you see rosy cheeked.This beer is packed with hop oil
and bursting with aromas ofOrange Julius passion fruit,
freshly peeled persimmon.Maybe that's what it is. Persimmon.
So it's nice and kind of cloudy andit had a super fluffy head on top,
(28:31):
so.I have I wanted to comment on it
earlier.I saw the beer and I wanted to
tell you I loved how it looked.Yeah, it's a nice looking beer.
And great. Beer. Even better glass.Yeah, the glass is beer. Nerd glass.
Yeah, I think you can find thaton craft beer.
Republic.com or something of thelikes that says beer nerd. Yeah.
Um. Super rad.Would you give me one of those?
(28:54):
You don't even have one of your own.The shoemaker has I destroyed it?
I need a new one.Oh, that's right, you put yours
in the dishwasher too many times.Um, anyways, yeah.
So kind of citrusy. I'm gonna dig in.I've never seen persimmon on a.
Yeah. Beer note.I don't think I could pull it out of
(29:14):
something either and really say,oh, that's persimmon.
I mean, it's kind of a. Found it.Had maybe one in my life, so.
Well,they look too much like tomatoes
for me to ever want to try it.You don't do tomatoes, so they're
just like disguised tomatoes, huh?They're like little pumpkins.
They're so cute.They're not that cute.
(29:34):
They rot quick, do they?Okay, well, Mr. Negative,
former produce guy.My beer is delicious. It has, um.
It's kind of a passion fruit.I can I can taste the passion fruit.
It's got a nice kind ofmilkiness creaminess to it. Um.
Smooth mouth. Yeah, I love it.This is definitely the four point.
(29:55):
Oh that it it, uh, boasts.So, so far my beer wins.
And, uh, great start for evergreen.I think he sent me four of them.
So if they're all like this,I am hooked up.
It's all downhill from here.I know he he evergreen is his go to
out there. I know that for a fact.Um, made. By Amish people. Yeah.
The price point out there,like his double IPAs he gets out.
(30:17):
There are like around 13.99.A four pack. What? What, like.
Yeah, like of evergreen.Like they're stupid. Like 13.99.
14.99. Shit like that.It's like one beer in San Francisco.
That's impressive.I might have to have, like,
dang in the box he sent me.I have never had someone pack a
box that heavy or, like, full.It was impressive how much he got in
(30:40):
there without the cans exploding.So, um, yeah, I'm excited to
have three more of these.And then New Trail,
I think was the other one.Yes, that's the other big one
around there. Yeah.So thank you. Shred this rocks.
Um, and it's called Shred Head.So I think that's kind of
appropriate.He's probably got cases of it in his
basement. It's got my name on it.He probably does. And it's delicious.
(31:02):
So I would. Smart. Nice.Oh it doesn't have the double D
though.He's got that extra D you know.
Got that extra d all right.Extra d. So many jokes. All right.
Before we, uh, get ourselves introuble, let's check in with the
homie Chew Your Beer. Okay. Hello?No one is available to take your
call.Please leave a message after the
(31:24):
tone. Yo, what up, homies?It's your friendly neighborhood
cholo Chew Your Beer GregoryFlexy craft beer republic.
How you vatos doing? It's March.What are the best things about March?
You got March Madness.You got Saint Patty's Day. That's in.
316. The McGriddle might come back.What? That would be fucking dope.
(31:48):
And it's my birthday month, homie.It's my birth month, homes.
I just celebrated 49 years on thisplanet. Oh, shit. Did a lot of stuff.
Went out to dinner, went out tobreakfast, went to the Glendale Tap.
I sent an invite to Gregory,but he didn't pull up because it's
too far. The dude will fly to Texas.He would fucking ride a boat and
(32:09):
jet skis to a lake up north,but he won't drive to Glendale.
How about that? You could have.You could've hung out with your
boy Chew. You can have some.Beers with me, homie. Lando.
Tab's got a great selection. Of.Beers. Yeah. Great environment.
You'll feel safe.I got your back, homes.
Nothing will happen to you.I say, you know, it's.
That's my spot, homie.Like, I'd rather visit a beer
(32:30):
bar than a brewery because Ihave a lot of selections on me.
I got like, 76 taps,and then they have a bunch of cans
and bottles you can. Pick. From.Yeah. Great spot. Homes. The gas.
Station across. The street.Your boy Chew and my wife.
We will be at Lagerville.Homies got the VIP passes.
(32:51):
We'll be pulling up. Yeah, the.Weather showing up. Uh, yeah.
I'm not fucking spending the night,homie.
But we will probably go out to dinnerand then head home after that.
Also, I'll be at the LA Brewers Guildin Long Beach. The beer festival.
Man, that that's the beer festivalyou want to be at as well, Greg.
(33:12):
If possible, you get to drinkevery LA beer possible, homie.
In one location by the beach,right by the water homes.
0818 homie, they got there.We love LA beer.
It's phenomenal if you like a hoppy,hoppy lager.
They call it a cold IPA, but weboth know we, all three of us know
that it's an IPO. God damn right.Indian pale lager, homie.
(33:34):
Delicious, bro.I had four back to back to back
because they were going down sofucking deliciously down my throat.
Yes sir.And then you can pull up dirty
and kill two birds with onestone and try that beer and try
the flint echo still on tap.I think they said they got two
kegs left,so that's a fucking Hail Mary for me,
(33:55):
homie. I think that's about it.If I got anything.
Oh,I'll be at the fucking L.A. marathon.
No, I ain't fucking running.But I'm gonna give out some beer.
I'm gonna pull up. I'm gonna.Take the.
Stairs, I'm taking a Pacifico,and I'm gonna take some, uh,
Sierra Nevada pale ale and giveout beer to any runner that
wants to get drunk with me.Get some modelos. I'll be up there.
(34:15):
My boy Marvin is running it.My boy Marvin is a fucking phenomenal
human being. He's an Ironman.He's a five time LA marathon runner,
a three time Boston Marathon runner,actually, four year.
His fourth year anniversarywould be this year at Boston.
He's done the Ironman twice.I think this this guy doesn't
(34:37):
stop fucking running.So why do I need to run?
He's running for me and him,homie. So, uh, yeah.
So I'll be at the LA marathon thisweekend on the, the today's uh,
the 12th. Uh, 1213, 14, 16, 17.One of those two.
Whatever the Sunday falls on,I'll be out there handing out
some beers, homie.So, Greg, I know you're a runner
(34:57):
because you got fucking size 18ft.You take one step,
you already half a mile in,so you should do it, homie.
You can come stop by and have apale ale with me or a Pacifico.
Homie, I'm.I'm carrying nothing but P's homie.
Just giving out peace to anybody.Homie. Just swing by.
Open your mouth I'm going to give youmy P, my Pacifico or my Lil homie,
(35:19):
all right?This is your boy Chew Your Beer.
You have to watch. Yo, homie.Peace out. Hey, that took a turn.
Better get in your time machine,Greg. Yeah, yeah.
Let me go back there and getsome of his. Yeah.
Where's the Delorean? Yeah.Gotta get to 86 miles an hour because
I really don't want to go back.Um, 805 five three beer.
2337 is the number to call, if I may.First of all, happy birthday to you.
(35:42):
Happy birthday. Yeah.Happy birthday. Birthday bottle.
So I messaged him Feliz cumpleanos.You know,
happy birthday in Spanish. Yes.And it autocorrected to Felix
Cumpleanos.I was like, that's the perfect
fucking what? Gringo white boy.Yeah. So anyways, so happy birthday.
I would like to defend myself,if I may.
(36:05):
Uh, he said he invited me out toGlendale taps. I was like, fuck!
I don't remember that.But that's not surprising because
I don't remember most things.But then I went through my messages,
both my text messages and my DMs,and I actually don't see an
invite from the homie Chew YourBeer to Glendale Taps.
And I was like, okay, maybe he meantto invite me or I'm missing it on a
(36:29):
third platform that he invited me on.But I was like, I don't see anything.
Which made me feel much betterbecause I was like, fuck,
did I did I totally forget thathe invited me or whatever?
So anyways, I don't I don't thinkI got the invite. Yeah. Busted.
Chew yeah,I got lost in the mail or something.
Um. What else? Oh, Lagerville.Yeah,
he was hitting me up the other day.He's like, hey, I'm going to
(36:51):
Lagerville. You should come out.And I was like, no, uh,
we went to Lagerville last year.I mean, we've been a few times now.
Last year was an absolute shit show.It was pouring rain.
And while the rain is not thefault of the event,
put her honors big mountain.They did a horrible job of
handling it.First of all, the bigger it gets,
(37:13):
the worse it gets.And that sounds like, oh,
you sold out.No, they just don't handle crowds.
Well, they're not set up for it.Their little brewery in Buellton
and they're not set up well to tohandle the crowds and the rain.
They said, oh, it's going to theyemailed before the event, hey,
it's going to rain this weekend.We know it.
We've gotten more tents for theevent.
Well, there was less tents there thanthe year before, so I don't know
(37:34):
where all those more tents ended up,but that was a bunch of shit.
They had people like booths out inthe mud. It was a fucking shit show.
It was an absolute downpour.They could have done things to
mitigate, you know,keep everybody out in the street,
that kind of stuff.It was it was awful.
They handled it so poorly thatthis year I was like, no,
we're not going. And coli.Nick and coli were trying to get
(37:55):
us to go to.And I was like, no, we're not going.
And then halfway through theirticket sales, they sent out an
email that said, like, hey,did you weather the storm with us
last year? Use this code for $10 off.I'm like, oh, so your tickets
weren't selling very well,so you decided to use last
year's show as an excuse to givepeople a discount? I'm over it.
It was good in the beginning,and they're not even inviting good.
(38:17):
First of all,they invited 14 cannons out to
talk to a fucking lager festival.First of all,
14 cannons can suck it now.Also, they're they're not known
for their lagers.Even before, they weren't even
that known for their lagers.Now they're really not known for
even having good beer.Um, side note I, a couple of friends
went recently like very recentlyjust to see what it was like.
(38:38):
Now they're like,the inside is actually not bad.
Like they've rearranged everything.And they said, actually it's got
a better flow to it.There's more seating and this and
that. The beer, they got two flights.All of it was undrinkable.
They did not finish any taster theyhad on either of their flights.
Terrible. That's insane.So you're gonna invite 14 cannons
(38:59):
out, but not good breweries likeKnotty Pine. I'm not about that.
It's just. I'm over Lagerville.They were cool in the beginning
and they kind of suck now.So there's that.
And shout out to Marv.I hope he did good at the LA
marathon. On a happy note.On a happy note. So he was trying.
So you got to come out with me.I was like, not only I was offered
free tickets, I was like, not onlyam I not taking the free tickets,
(39:21):
like, I'm certainly not going to pay.Yeah, I'm not gonna, you know,
it's a two hour drive for me.I'm not going to pay the money
to stay out there for a prettynot that great beer festival.
It's just not worth.He's like, oh,
I'm driving back the same day.I was like, well, you're an insane
person. I'm not. Driving. No. Yeah.He's like, you just go hard the
first two hours and then you stop,have dinner and go home.
(39:42):
I was like, that's how you get a DUI?Yeah. Terrible idea. Yeah.
Oh, it's just lagers.How drunk can you get?
I don't know, ask me.The last few years I got pretty
drunk.Keep drinking any kind of alcohol,
you're gonna get pretty drunk, right?Yeah. I don't care if it's 5% enough.
5% will make you drunk, right?Unlimited pours doesn't really
matter. Yeah, so I'm not going.I won't even take the free tickets,
(40:06):
so I wish,I hope Lagerville gets better.
I hope I get some report fromsomebody this year that they've
cleaned up their act and they don'tsuck anymore, but, uh, we'll see.
So, um. Anyways. 805538 beer.Now that we've alienated, like,
two different breweries.Yeah, whatever. Yeah.
This is how we we end the showeventually is we just talk shit about
(40:26):
every brewery in West Virginia.Every. Well, yeah.
Well, they got 28 of them. Yeah.If that. Yeah.
Something like that. 19.Yeah, 27 of them suck, so they suck.
Um, um, anyways, yeah.Uh,
Erica said unlimited beer samples.Um, we're we're getting to, uh,
Chicago this week.You know, like I said earlier, kids
(40:47):
are on spring break, so we're goingto do a day and night in Chicago.
They have an ice cream museum inChicago. Sweet. Oh, fuck.
I'm in unlimited ice cream.Oh, my God, I'd gain £30.
I didn't. Reopen. Open. Yeah.Um, I think it opens at,
like 9 a.m. and it closes.At a certain point. Oh, I could do.
I have I have no idea.But they put it in.
(41:10):
Writing a full report.They put it right in there in
the general admission tickets,unlimited ice cream and sweet treats.
So I'm very excited to see all theice cream flavors that they have
and everything they offer. And hey.Wife. I'm gonna go. To Chicago. Yeah.
Who's gonna put down some poundage?Yeah.
Of your kids, do you already know,like, do they have personalities
(41:32):
where you're like, I know who'sgonna put down the most ice cream?
Ironic enough, my kids don't loveice cream. What my youngest likes.
Failed as a father. Chocolate.What is wrong with them?
And she will eat chocolate ice cream.But like, my kids don't enjoy soda.
They don't. That's good.They don't enjoy. Soda. Juice.
(41:53):
You know, like stuff like that.They like candy. It's normal. Yeah.
Uh, yeah. All the other stuff.So you're more excited than they
are about the. Ice creams for me.I'm excited for you.
Oh my God, I got such an icecream boner right now.
I can't wait to send you pictures.My wife actually was looking up
some of the flavors.Allegedly, they have a hot dog
(42:13):
flavored ice cream. I'm out.Oh, no. No, no. I'm.
Oh, I'm 100% going to try it.I mean, would I try, like, a sample?
Like a little spoon? Sure. Yeah.I'm not saying a whole scoop. Yeah.
Don't give me a fucking hot dogflavored sundae, please.
But what if it's great?It makes me sick. Yeah.
There's no way it's great.I can't, I can't.
The fact that it's not.I can't wait to report back.
(42:35):
I can't wait to go to Chicago now.I should have done that with our
frequent flyer or whatever we hadearlier this year. Companion pass.
There you go. With a Texas instead.What idiots! You had a good time. Oh.
He did? Yeah. Smoked meats. Come on.Yeah, I smoked some meats and
then ate some meats and. Anywho.All right,
before we roll into some news.And I get harder from all the ice
(42:58):
cream talk, let's find out whatFlex is drinking 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-jobber.
In this world, we must find out whatis Flex drinking? What is Flex doing?
(43:25):
I was licking my microphone likeit was ice cream. Yeah.
That's it. Got him. I mean.Maybe it was a hot dog.
Oh, yeah, it could have been.Um, I don't discriminate.
Uh, today I am drinking PhaseThree Brewing's, uh, Citra cream.
(43:46):
They have little, uh, or cream.I'm sorry.
This is a little, uh, series thatthey do. It's a cream series.
Often with some fun.Cannot they switched all their.
cannot. Yeah. It's like a year ago.Well, no. This one.
This is the same for the series.Is it? Yeah. Yes.
Um, so I was pleased with that.I don't like the new can art style.
(44:10):
Uh, so this is refreshing.Uh, this is one of my all time
favorite beers.I have it rated as a five on
untapped. Wow.It is, uh, 7.7 double IPA,
4.2 thousand check ins,and is a cumulative 4.26 on the on
(44:30):
the old charts there. Good lord.Untapped reads sit Your Cream
features a double dry hopping oftasty Citra hops on our 7.7% double
IPA base, loaded up with oatsand a splash of characteristic
milk sugar that makes this oneoh so lush and creamy. Yum.
Daddy like it? Creamy. Um. Damn it.So what they did on this cam,
(44:58):
though, is they've been puttingbrewer's notes and whatnot.
So this one just says Creamytropical smoothie.
Um, hops, obviously just Citra.So the old schnoz.
I feel like you haven't really hadphase three as much as you used to.
No, because they were reallygood for about four years. Okay.
But 2019 to 2023.And then they had a huge
(45:25):
downfall in 2023.And then I had did some
investigating.They lost their head Brewer.
Then they lost two other brewerswhile they were opening up a
second location in mass producing.So everything kind of went downhill
for a while and I started drinkingthem a little bit, uh, late 2024.
(45:52):
And I could tell things weregetting back to normal.
It was It's pretty recent. Yeah.So I've been getting back into
it a little bit.Usually when I can't find something
different enough that I want to try,I'll revert back to this now.
So on the schnoz.They're not wrong about the
tropical smoothie.It's gorgeous beer, by the way.
(46:14):
Oh, hey. Thanks. Yeah, it's.I mean, that's the oats and the milk.
Sugar really helps with that.The old, the old. I like the.
Way you know. Damn it.Didn't I just say oats? I don't know.
No you. Didn't. You slipped.Whoop. Now I kicked my computer.
Well, notes are going.Tons of pineapple. Mango.
(46:35):
And you get, like, this passionfruit on the back end. No persimmon.
Uh, fresh out of persimmon.Little tomato in there, too. It's.
It's tropical,but not that exotic, I guess.
So I'm the old. Uh Tongue-jobber.As we warm that up. Mhm.
(46:56):
I mean the mouthfeel of thisbeer is insane.
It's almost like air but like thick,pillowy soft air. Cloud.
Like you're eating a cloud.It's insane. Cloud guzzling.
And the flavors kind of follow suit.You know. I don't know.
Pineapple, mango.Not, uh, not so much passion
(47:19):
fruit on the palate. All right.Uh, and you definitely get some
sweetness. Uh, that milk. Sugar.Just fucking fantastic. Nice.
I if I was, uh, Mr. Deeds and Iinherited my great uncle's billion
dollar fortune, and my uncle hadfruit punch running through his
(47:41):
water fountains as bubblers, we callthem bubblers in Wisconsin. Okay.
Um, I would fucking make thisrun through my bubblers.
So whenever I was thirsty, I wouldjust bend down, push the button,
and I'd just fucking drink this shitdown. Right on down. All right.
Yeah. What was the ABV on that?Seven. Seven. All right.
(48:02):
You're walking around the steadybuzz at all times, I love it.
I would have it no other way ifI was a billionaire. Yeah.
I mean, if I'm a billionaire andI'm not working anymore. Bye bye.
Sobriety. Oh, yeah. Right.Can't get hungover if you don't
sober up.Walk around with backpacks and a
straw thing. Oh, yeah. Camelback and.Camelback. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect.
(48:24):
No matter where you go.It would be wonderful.
Yeah, it would be nice. Perfect.Well, some more good news for you.
Oh, I like good news.Did you hear that?
MobCraft brewery is going to reopen.What? No I didn't.
Yeah, they announced it today aswe record the show. No kidding.
Yeah. They're going to reopen.It's going to be the former director
of finance and Human Serviceresources. Her and her husband.
(48:48):
It's Sarah and Mike Halsted.They're reopening the brewery.
The deal closed on Friday,and they're hoping to open by spring.
No shit. Yeah.I'm curious on details.
What kind of details?How much they got it for?
Oh, uh, 160 grand. That was it. Yeah.Hard assets and intellectual
(49:08):
property. Wow. 160.They still got to rent the place.
Uh, they don't own it so that,you know, no real estate,
but the equipment.So interesting. Yeah. 160 grand.
And you got a turnkey brewery.That's not bad. I'll tell you what.
I really hope that they, uh, canturn out a little bit better. Beer?
(49:30):
Yeah, I remember you were saying thatbeer, especially towards the end,
was, uh, to be desired.I've never met a brewery that, uh,
I've never been to a brewery thatdidn't know how to brew an IPA.
I've been to a couple.Like it, uh, just blew my mind. Mhm.
Which is hilarious because likeIPAs are fuck up beers,
(49:53):
you fuck up a beer,you throw a bunch of hops in it,
right? Essentially. Yeah, absolutely.And they just, you know, they just
couldn't figure it out. Yeah.Didn't they have like, a little bit
of, like a beer fest or some sort ofthing that you went to at there?
They would have like at least threeannual beer fests a year. Okay.
They would have their sour feststhere, stout Fest and then their
anniversary party every year wascalled Weird Fest, which is when
(50:16):
they would brew the weird beers likethe we had the sushi roll beer.
We had the Chicago style hot dogbeer.
Uh, hot dogs theme of the night.That's right. Yeah. It was.
Yeah, really,really fun out there stuff.
And they had an outstanding sourprogram.
But, uh, yeah, you know,things happen. Yeah. Okay.
(50:37):
So I guess excited.Excited to see what happens.
Yeah. We'll see how it goes.You'll have to go report for us.
Uh Moosehead. Brewing has released.And subsequently sold out of
their presidential pack due tothe impending tariffs going
towards Canada.Moosehead brewing created a
(50:59):
presidential pack,which was a crate of 1461 beers,
which the brewery said amounts to abeer a day for the next four years.
To which I say,that's not enough beer one a day.
Well, yeah, right. Yeah.How much did that cost? 2,467 CAD.
(51:24):
I did not do the math on that.Yeah, I. Know.
I was sitting there trying to think.It's like 2000 American dollars.
Let's see. 1 CAD is $0.70.Oh,
that's actually a pretty good deal.So let's see. 1461 is $1,020 for 14.
So less than a dollar a beer.Wow. Not bad.
(51:47):
Okay, but I checked today beforewe recorded. It has sold out.
Yeah. There you have it.Good for Moosehead.
But what happened to the body?Excuse me.
You sound like an old smoker.Don't make me laugh. Sorry.
Uh, and then finally, uh,Delirium is sending a ton of
beers over to the US for the samereason before the tariffs kick in.
(52:09):
They have sent 20 containers,good for about 300,000l of
Delirium in bottles.And they are going to leave this
week on a ship.They said it's already one of the
most expensive beers on sale inthe US, and if we have to triple
your price, I'm pretty sure noone's going to buy it anymore.
So they're sending over a bunch inhopes to get us through a little bit.
(52:31):
When was the last time you had aDelirium? That's the thing.
It's been a hot minute since Ihad Delirium.
Like, I feel like it was cool,like 13 years ago.
Well, it was cool before everyonehad local craft beer, right? Yeah.
So, like, are you a fan ofDelirium years ago? No I'm not.
It's not my style of beer.The meaning?
The name behind it is cool, but,um. The elephant is cool.
(52:55):
The pink elephant?Yeah, the pink elephant.
And the what?The dt's are like when you're,
um, coming out of drinking andyou're like, stop drinking.
And you're going throughwithdrawal and Delirium Tremens.
But, like, I don't know. No.Never was a fan of that one.
Um, but I see why they're doing it,I guess. But yeah.
I got a buddy who's a big fan ofthat beer, and really, he always.
(53:17):
And he kind of thought, because I'minto beer. Like, I love it too.
So he'd always buy me.He's like, hey, I got you Delirium.
I'm like, oh, thanks.I got this now. All right. Yeah.
Cool. Thanks. Yay! Yay! Very nice.It's the thought that counts.
Absolutely. And I never said shit.I hope he doesn't listen to the show
now, because now he knows what a jerkI am. Uh, we'll end it on this one.
(53:40):
Uh, Vanessa sent this in, so.Hi, Vanessa. Oh. Hello, Vanessa.
Drunk.Tampa man set the Pink Pony
strip club on fire and threwurine at police officer. Damn.
I feel like we could end.It on the headline.
He had the urine contained.Well, here we go. Arvin.
Oh, my God, what kind of lastname is this? Soleimanpour.
(54:03):
29 walked into Pink Pony showgirlsand intentionally set it on fire,
according to a release from theTampa Police Department.
Witnesses told someone fired agun multiple times inside the
unoccupied building.Officers took him into custody
as he was dragging brush intothe burning building. No shit.
(54:23):
That's fucking hilarious.It's not hilarious, but that is
hilarious. It's very Florida.Police said he was found with a
handgun while in the TPDdistrict office.
He was accused of urinating in awater bottle and throwing the
contents at an officer.He was charged with arson with
(54:43):
injury.Shooting at,
within or into a building.Possession of a weapon during
the commission of a felony.Battery on a law enforcement officer
and felony criminal mischief.Oh my gosh.
And you know, when they asked him toleave, he was you know what he said?
What did he say?I'm going to keep on dancing at
the Pink Pony Club.That's exactly what he said.
(55:06):
Right. That's the song.This is super solid track club.
So, yes. He's a pink pony girl.He really. Is. Just going to.
How do you. I don't know.I get, you know, let me just start
this by saying I'm not an arsonist.Not yet. So for somebody to.
(55:31):
Walk into a building and just tryto start it on fire right away.
How does one do this?Is it just a lighter to the carpet.
Is it? Yeah, I don't know.Are you lighter fluid?
Bringing in fluid.Gasoline, something.
How does one just enter abuilding and immediately try to
(55:52):
set it on fire?Well, I like that it wasn't burning
enough, so he was bringing in brush.But you know what?
Not enough fire in here.The fire still had to been
stable and big enough for him totake time to go out. Oh, yeah.
Get brush and drag it. Amazing.But, yeah, you know, nobody's
stopping him in the meantime.Going out to get the brush. Yeah.
(56:13):
And, you know,whatever he said on fire, the drapes.
You know, something flammable.And he's like, you know what?
Not enough. I'll get some brush.Need some woodsy smell up in
this bitch.That's the most Florida shit ever.
Thank you. Vanessa.It's so perfect. Interesting. Yeah.
Terrible for the Pink Pony stripclub.
I hope all the strippers are okay.Yeah. Sorry, ladies. Oh. And DJ.
(56:37):
Keep on dancing. DJ damn it!Anyways, I think that's a
perfect place to end things.Follow us all on the socials at Craft
Beer Republic at Flex Chew YourBeer underscore in between and at
Nick Nash LLC underscores as well.Nick Nash, come get some pretzels.
Uh 805 538 beer.It's 2337 mail at craft beer.com.
(57:02):
Erica.You, uh, you busy next week or
you want to come hang out again?I'm clearing the schedule, guys.
Let's do it.Start getting your pencils out
and all that shit. Clear that.Schedule off all the things.
Just. Just to be with you guys.Let's drink some more beers.
Uh, I hope everyone out there isstaying very well hydrated.
And on that note.Good night everybody.
Popular Podcasts
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Decisions, Decisions
Welcome to "Decisions, Decisions," the podcast where boundaries are pushed, and conversations get candid! Join your favorite hosts, Mandii B and WeezyWTF, as they dive deep into the world of non-traditional relationships and explore the often-taboo topics surrounding dating, sex, and love. Every Monday, Mandii and Weezy invite you to unlearn the outdated narratives dictated by traditional patriarchal norms. With a blend of humor, vulnerability, and authenticity, they share their personal journeys navigating their 30s, tackling the complexities of modern relationships, and engaging in thought-provoking discussions that challenge societal expectations. From groundbreaking interviews with diverse guests to relatable stories that resonate with your experiences, "Decisions, Decisions" is your go-to source for open dialogue about what it truly means to love and connect in today's world. Get ready to reshape your understanding of relationships and embrace the freedom of authentic connections—tune in and join the conversation!