Beer Philanthropy: Spreading Cheer One Beer at a Time

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Big doggo. Oof. Big dog, oof. Welcome in, everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am being joined, as always, by the best protein intaker in the midwest. And that's sexy flex. What's up, big guy? Hey. I know it's not a sports show, Greg. Not yet. And we haven't talked about it. Showy.

Otani for the. Yeah, yeah. Baseball's ruined. Fine. Not a sport. Take it. Not a sports show. Not a sport. You know what? We are fucking geniuses. Not a sports show. But all that deferred payment should be illegal. Should be illegal. Tyler glass now. But not a sports show. Should be illegal. Let's see what else happens. And joining us from the east coast, and she's got the healthiest gut in all of North America. And that, of course, is beer girl. Mel, what's happening? Nothing much.

But that's not the only thing that's healthy over here, Greg. Whoa. A lot of healthy things, especially this beer that I'm about to get into, so. Shit. Way to turn us back into a beer show. Good know. Oh, that's what we're doing here. Every now and then we forget. Yeah, it's a different podcast. Have fantasies of. Yeah, we'll get fantasies of, like, sports and beer and wrestling shows. Hopefully we got some end of the year lists. Got a list? Yeah. This is about the time they start dropping.

So I threw a list in there. Because I believe this is our New Year's show. Yeah, this is December 27.

We just, in theory, celebrated Christmas. I'm sure we all ate a lot of food and Mel ate a lot of pasta. Pasta course and then dinner. Right, because that's how they do it, probably. Tommy Cutlets was over. Not a sports show. His agent is making it big right now. Can you. Even with all of these videos and all looks, fake interviews, there's no way. That guy walks around like that. Did you listen to him at all? He's from Boston. He actually is a really good guy if you go to hardcore Italians.

I just saw that he had, like, an actual certificate of being, like, some. Certified agent. That's so fucking funny. Good Times. Not a sports show. Oh, not a sports show. Sorry. I was about to hit the sports song that we don't have, maybe. I think we need to leave it hydrated. You know what? Hydrated. Do you mind if I hydrate? You know, I'm cool. That's what I'm looking forward to. All right, here we go. I want to know what you're drinking. I'm fucking thirsty. Not a sports show. Balls.

Out of my beer. Whoa. What? I'm loving my whoa. Beat. Mel's beat. Mel's dropping the beat. Look, it's the new year. New beer. I wanted to start things off. Well, I guess it's not quite the new year. We're like four days away. Start things off going in a different direction, so I went sour. Yeah. I talk about all the time how Russian river has fine ipas, but even better barrel program. You do say that. I'm here to prove it. So I'm drinking russian river brewing's propitation.

It's a barrel aged sour. Porter says it was born from one of the six components of the tornado 25th anniversary beer. It was aged in used wine barrels for twelve months before being removed and carbonated. The beer is dry and light in body, but full of rich chocolate and coffee notes with a mild sour and tart finish. It is 6%. Let me click over here. It has a three nine seven on untapped. You uncouth heathens that reviewed this beer, it was bottled. Guys, they're the worst.

They don't know what they're fucking talking about. It's bottled in June of 2021. So this thing has some age on it. It is a chance to rest and get comfortable just so I can pee it out in a few minutes. Definitely the way to bring in the new year. Yes, on the schnaz, very much that, like, soury smell. We say flex. I thought all the time it's a sour smell. What do you call that? I don't know. It smells like something that has been soured. Fermented fruit. A wild fermentation smell.

Smell like any one particular fruit. It's like a sour smell. Exactly. Smells like a sour. Yeah. There's got to be, like, a scientific word. You know what? Even if there is, fuck it. Throw it out the window. It smells like sour. Smells like sour. Everybody knows what the fuck we're talking about. Such a dark color. Yeah, it was a porter originally. Yeah, on the tongue jobber. Definitely tart. You get that wild fermented tartness. It doesn't taste like Berlin or tastes like a wild fermented beer.

As it settles on the tongue, you get a hint of that porter, a hint of that chocolate. It's really kind of weird. It's, like, sour up front. A little warm on the finish. That's bizarre. Yeah, and I like it, man, this is so good. Like, they're say it all the time. Their sour program is fucking fantastic. They're legit wild fermented, barrel aged sours. I do like wild fermented stuff. I'm not going to lie. I do. I enjoy it.

It's so interesting how you get hints of the environment that it's fermented because it's that open container kind of. Obviously, you guys know we have a lot of farm breweries here where I live, and so each one has a unique kind of flavor of whatever soil is on the farm, which is not always a good thing. Not always a good thing. But for the most part, it's kind of interesting and earthy. Yeah, it's fun to see what kind of comes out. So cheers to Russian river, if you guys.

I'm telling you, if you see other sours in the wild, pick them up. Another great wild fermented brewery is sour. Works down in San Diego, part of Helix. We've been on the show. He does everything in a so, so fucking good. I just want somebody to do a sour beer. That's called what's more vulnerable than a peach on a farm? Like from elf when they're going through the guy's book and the storyboard. How has nobody jumped on that one yet? Yeah, just like a peach barrel sour.

Just some kind of peach sour. I don't care. Fucking wild fermented. Do whatever the fuck you want with it, but just call it. What's more vulnerable than a peach on a farm? I like that. Pretty good. Yeah. I don't know. She does stuff. Monica. Monica. I know. We got to get her doing. Got to get her doing some barrel fermenting stuff. You never know what she's doing back there. I know she's Barrel aging, but I don't think she's barrel fermenting. So anyways, shout to russian river real quick.

I wanted to mention that I hit up Wade's wines the other day.

That's what that is. I haven't talked about it, and so I don't even know if I've been since the pandemic, honestly. It's this unassuming. It's in a warehouse area, like, district thing. Not district, like industrial. Industrial. Yeah. As you drive up to it, you're like, I'm definitely going to get murdered. Oh, yeah. Super rapey vibes. Super rapey. Uber is when they drop. Can we say that? I don't know. I don't know. There's no FCC. When the Uber drops you off.

They're always looking at you like, please don't murder me. They are a liquor store with a tasting room attached. I thought you were going to say a liquor store with a porn store attached. That would have been so California. Spend way too much money at that point, coming out with tons of black bags. And then there's a tasting room there. It sells itself. Yeah, tasting something. You went south quick. We're talking about beer.

Anyways, have a tasty roof attached and they have a bunch of beers on tap. They used to have 100. They don't quite have as many since pandemic, but they have a ton of beers on tap. They have a bunch of wines on tap. They now have a spirit side. So you can do like spirit flights. You can also do cocktail flights. Anyways, I was there, had a couple of sours, had a couple of whatevers just off the tap. And basically I was like, hey, bud, recommend some shit for me. And they're always good.

So anyways, that was fun. Interesting concept of a store. I don't think we're allowed to have anything like that in New York. Oh, really? Two separate licenses. Yeah. We're so weird. It's so annoying. Yeah, technically they have three licenses because they have the retail side. They have the bar. Like, there's a real legit bar in there, right? Yeah. And then they also sell, like, small plates, like cheese plates. That's what I was going to ask next, if there was food involved.

Yeah, just like small things like that. So I think they technically have like three different license for all that stuff, but they've been around for quite a while. Anyway, the hundred taps, it reminds me, I was just telling somebody about. We were in Indianapolis about five years ago now. Sorry. And Zach, I don't know.

I'm going to be helpful to nobody because I don't remember what the fuck the place was called, but I do know it was off like broad ripple, which is like the big college town street with all the bars and shit for Butler University, but they had this tap room and they had like 130 beers on tap. And their slogan was like, we'll pay for your tab if you can drink 10% of our beers. Challenge accepted, man.

But there's a lot of heavy hitters on there, so odds are you're probably just going to leave thrown up. I was going to say they're going to have to pay your tab because you're going to be wasted and not remember to pay it yourself. They're going to need that card up front. Yeah, it was a pretty legit place. Sounds pretty cool. I just wish I could remember what the fuck it was called. And I mean, that was pre pandemic, so who even knows if they're still open, right? Hopefully so. Right.

All right, before we get anything else, Chu left us a holiday voicemail. What a sweet guy. He's such a sweetie. So let's dig into that. Hello. No one is available to take your call.

Please leave a message after the tone. Mama Sita. Can I get a copyright claim? Santa Chu is here. Never fear, boys and girls. Merry, merry Feliz Navida. And a happy new year filled the. Beer in your glasses. As you all know, resolutions are around the corner. And instead of making false advertisements of losing weight and spending time with the families, let's make a resolution we can all keep. Is it stop jingling the jingle bell to you, please. 2024 resolution.

Let's all buy a beer for a perfect stranger we never met. A free beer brings cheers and to everybody's face. Boys and girls, Santa Chu is here to tell you our New Year's resolution for 2024. The crappy community. We can do this one. Instead of losing weight and being healthier and spending time with our loved ones, because you know you're not, you better be at a brewery, hanging out with Santa Chu, your friends, and whoever's there with you getting drunk and smashed.

So for 2024, let's buy a perfect stranger a nice cold brew. Ho, ho. The least. Merry Christmas and happy beer year to you from Santa Chu. How many beers drunk do you think he was before he thought that was a good idea? Oh, that must have been a good, like, twelve pack right there. I can't tell if he's drunk or not ever, but challenge accepted. I love, love giving to others. Amen. I like that one. I wish he wasn't standing next to the Salvation army guy outside of Walmart when he called.

But he was the Salvation army guy. Maybe he's doing his hours, his community hours, but yeah, I'm down with that. Go to a brewery and just pick some rando and buy him a beer. Yeah, I'll do that the next for sure. Yeah, I like that. I like that idea. Buy stranger a beer in the spirit of Santa Chu.

Ho, ho, ho. Yeah, I dig it. Eight, five, three beer. 2337. It's number to call if you want to leave us a voicemail. Maybe you can find a quieter location than you did just saying. Or get off duty from your Salvation army jobs. Stop shaking Jimmy bells. Yeah, it's really easy when your hands moving. You stop it. Yeah. For the love of God, I hope we didn't shatter any car windows with that one. Oh, that was rough on the ears. I was going to say that size oejos or something. I don't know.

Cut that out. I don't know. Speak Spanish. I can't eat a whole wheel of cheese, though. I'm not angry, I'm just impressed. Flex. Hi. You did the coolest thing, which is not a work holiday party, but a brewery holiday. Yeah. Yeah, we did, actually.

So, as you know, I've been a regular for about two years at Eagle park, and you hardly bring it up. So now, since we ran into a little snafu, though, we were discussing it last week and we realized that Christmas stays on a Monday, so they're closed. They're going to be open New Year's Day, but New Year's Day, it's kind of like maybe go off for breakfast and then just kind of chill day. Sure. So we realized we wouldn't be there for about three or four weeks.

We're like, why don't we just have one little unofficial official last Monday of the year part, like Christmas party? Yeah. Your cholesterol is going to take a big dive. Yeah. Which, I mean, no fries. I'm probably going to lose like eleven pounds. I don't even need to make a resolution. I'm just going to stop going there for a couple of weeks and I'll take off some mass. But, yeah, no, it was an awesome time.

We pitched in and the bartender who we really love, who's become a great friend of ours behind his back, we pooled together and we got him like $100 bottle of tequila. Oh, shit. Just to say thanks for fucking. He's the best. He treats us well, hooks us up, gives us samples, puts random shit in front of our faces when we didn't even order it. He's what you would want in a fucking bartender. Yeah. And on top of it, to boot, he's become a good friend.

So just like you said, really nice to give and like what Chu was saying, and he's not a perfect stranger, but people who do nice things in your life, and it's always like those small things add up, right? So then to just show your appreciation, it was nice to do that. And it was just a really fun time altogether. Nice. Not a perfect stranger, but a perfect dude. Couldn't have said it better myself. So sweet. What about you, Mel? Any holiday shit going on these days? Oh, gosh.

What's exciting happening in my life? There's not a whole lot, really, to drink. Exciting and beer news or anything, but. Got to hang with IPK a little bit before Christmas.

That was a lot of fun. Nice. She's actually become one of my best friends from the IG world, so it's really true that out there, the people that you connect with in Instagram do become your best friends. I was at her wedding. We rung in the new year last year together. We ended the year together, and I'm just looking forward to more stuff with her, but lots of fun there and just gearing up for the trip that's coming up to Disney and all this running I'm going to.

Why don't you tell us about that? And you can tell everybody how much of a badass you are. Oh, gosh. Well, I. Listen to this shit, Greg. Listen to this. You might as well just call me Forrest Gump lately, because I've just been dedicating all

my time to running accidentally. Did New York City back in November. Oops. Wasn't supposed to, but ran that marathon with no training, fucked around, got a triple double. Lou decided to sign me up for charity to do the dopey challenge at Disney World. Hold on, is that the half marathon? The ten k, the five k and a full? You missed the big. And they have a full now, too.

It's a five k the first day, a ten k the second day, a half marathon the third day, and then you do the full marathon on the last day. So, yeah, it's been a little bit busy with that because it's just taking up all of my time, and I can't really sling beers too heavily because I have to wake up and run all of these miles. But it's been nice because my dad is a runner. He's been an avid runner for a very long time.

So I've been spending my Saturdays with him, just kind of doing these long, long miles, and he tortures me with the courses. But that's like a cumulative, what, like 48 miles and 40? No. Everybody keeps asking me that, and I just haven't been willing to even do the math because I don't want to know. And then, of course, it's like 3613, 26. 26.213 point. 110.2 and 5.1. So 16.319, 29 point a math show. Four and then, whatever, 26.2 added to that.

And not to mention that the kids are coming, so we're going to be doing all the theme parks as well. And if anybody, aka you guys, wants to help me map that out or there's any Disney buffs listening, let me know. Which theme parks? Yeah, I need to know which ones can I put together the same day? Because I'm trying to knock out a lot of birds with 1 st in this trip. And we're doing universal, too, because the kids are a little bit older now. They're eight and eleven.

So that's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a good trip, but it's going to be exhausting. Are you staying? And then I plan on getting drunk afterwards. But we leave on January 2, so it's coming up and we come back. Yeah. And then the running is like the fourth, 5th, 6th, and 7th. So the 7th, you know, I'm going to be like just dog shit. Healed over dead somewhere. Drinking a lot and laying down. I did the ten k there one year. Nice. That's as far as you're going to get me to go.

I think people are shocked that you run. I know I am. I didn't know that. I'm shocked. I haven't done it lately. Runners. Last time I ran, it's all about repetition and training. That's all it is. I did two half marathons at Disneyland and I did the ten k at Disney World. Nice. Yeah. Blew out my knee on the second half marathon. Stop it. Yeah, it's really flat there. Right? Like, am I going to encounter any hills they haven't given Florida? No, you're fine. It's flat, right?

Okay. Yeah, it's pretty flat. From r1 runner to another. What's the elevation gain there, Greg? Come on. I need to know. I think you go from negative 30 to about negative 25.

I think you all downhill. All downhill both ways. Yeah, exactly. You got this. I believe in you. Dang. Well, that's fucking awesome. You're a baller and rip to your knees. Yeah, no, I've actually been doing pretty good, like, taking care of myself this time around. Usually I go like, balls to the walls. This time when I'm 39, I'm a little bit smarter now. And I've actually been paying attention to what my body is telling me.

Going at the paces they prescribe, instead of being like, this is too slow. I got to just jam it, know? So it's been an enjoyable. Jelly it out, Rick. Thank you. Yeah, I know Greg was thinking that. Much appreciated. Coley will appreciate that. But is Lou doing it with you or do you just pull a prank and sign you up and walk away? Kind of both. Kind of both. Because he signed me up and he's doing it. But he's trained.

Zero. Remember we talked about he was going to eat pizza in every borough, like in New York City. Right. I think his plan is, like, his plan of attack, because I was just know I can't stay with him at this point. I put too much training in. So his plan of attack is just like, what rides is he going to ride while he's in the park and can get on them with no line because they have some of the rides open, so you can do it during the marathon. They didn't do that when I did it.

You just ran straight through. I picture Lou running, like, with corn dog in hand, just like, super know, big smile on his corn dog in the other. Yeah. I'm thinking his mindset is just like, well, Mel's doing all the training, so then good. If I just stand by, know, it rubs off on me. So I, like, trained. Yeah, it's called the. That's what I feel like. That's what's going through Lou's mind. Yeah, kind of. Hopefully that works. Kind of like what's happening right now.

He's, like, such a beast, though. He doesn't need to do anything. And then he'd just go out and just do all of this crazy running, like, legit from couch to marathon in a night. He's a specimen. He's a weirdo, that fucking guy. Well, awesome. I think you've earned this one. Let's find out what you're drinking over there. All right.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. So since we're still in the in between period of the holidays, where you really don't know which day it is, and you're consuming all the cheese and drinking all the beverages, I wanted to highlight one of these local beers. That sums up the holidays for us here in the Hudson Valley. And I have today Newburgh Brewing company. This is angry Eggbert.

It is a New England IPA. And for those of you that don't know, this is a collab with, I think you call it Devitz nursery. They're like a little farm. And Egbert is a Christmas egg that you go and see in the winter. He's there all season from probably even before thanksgiving. Yeah, he's a talking egg. And he knows all of the kids'names before they even tell him what their names are. And he knows what they want for Christmas, and he knows if they've been bad or good.

And he also does Egbert after dark at Newburgh brewing Company once a year. And I got to be on the naughty list with him, pre Covid. I wanted to give a little shout out to Egbert. And Newburgh brewing of is. They say it's a New England IPA, but it's very clear. Like, I can see through it completely. There's just a touch of haze. Yeah. 7%. It says an India pale ale brewed with spruce needles in honor of a Christmas legend, a holiday icon. The 8th wonder of the world. Egbert.

He looks really creepy. We got to see him when we were kids. Is that not him? That's him. That's him. Yeah. That is terrifying. And he caught fire, like, he burned down, like one year, and then he was gone for probably, like five or six years, and they've just brought him back maybe, like, well, I guess probably eight years ago. I'm getting the Willys just scrolling through.

These pictures and imagine he would know your name when you went up, and you wouldn't say anything to him, and you'd be a little kid. Yeah, it's a little creepy, but everyone Google egg Burt. If you grew up in the. Here in the Hudson Valley, you probably still have one of his ornaments, or your parents do. And this ornament was, like, solid wood and weighed, like 25 pounds. It would take the whole Christmas tree down. It was so heavy. But anyway, let's get into the beer.

Give it a little very dank, like, this whole beer. I mean, I've been sipping on it anyway, but it's just been dank through and through. It's got a lot of hop on the forefront. You get a lot of that resin from the spruce, I'm assuming, like, the kind of, like, tari pine, and it finishes off with a major amount of hop on the back end. I have no idea which hops they brewed this with. They don't specify, but it's very west coasty to me. I'm going to need to brush my teeth when I'm done.

Okay. I've had those ipas before. Those will ruin not your palate. Those will ruin the enamel on your teeth for. Yeah, yeah. It's very, you know, I'll drink whatever Egbert tells me to. Just so he tells me that I'm a nice girl and not naughty. Don't say that. Don't talk about Eggbert anymore. Flex is done. Like my hair standing up on my just.

But also secretly, I'd hoped you guys asked me to join the podcast around now because I really wanted to talk about him, and I wanted you guys to look him up. And he's close to that strip club I told you guys about, so maybe he frequents there at night, too. But he knows all their names and. Knows who's been naughty and nice. Probably runs the joint. That's even more terrifying. Yeah, Newburgh's a hell of a club. Think about that next time you're going to lap dance Egbert's face.

He's just in the back, just bathing in money in his little egg bath. Like a creep. I picture him sounding a little bit like gold member too. Like, I love money. You've been very naughty. It's a. A taking a turn. Yeah. Not an Austin Powers podcast. Not yet. It could be.

It's on its way. Rapidly approaching osteobars. All right, let's do our best to never talk about Eggbird again and do a little news flight. Everybody get the paddles ready.

Fuck. Sorry. New Belgium's voodoo ranger creates the world's strongest can of IPA.

Interesting. It's a 14 pound, eight and a half inch tall. Heard that before. 19.2 ounce voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA can that has been fortified by a half an inch of steel and. Wait, what? Yes, if you go to the website strongestcandofipa.com. I did not assume that's what you meant. I thought you were talking about abv 19%. No, it's literally the can.

And it's obviously now like one of those tourist attractions when you're doing a cross country trip and you got to stop at all those weird ass things like the biggest beer can and you. Can enter a contest to try and destroy it. They've had lasers and fire and nothing's destroyed this really stupid promotion. So yeah, strongestcanofipa.com is where you go. You're welcome. Voodoo Ranger. We're talking about it. Woohoo. Best day, which is a non alcoholic beer, has been added to Alaska flights.

One more reason to fly southwest. Right on night shift brewing is releasing a Boston tea party vodka.

It's a sweet tea vodka. Yeah. That's a great idea. Yeah, this is all weird. It's been done before, but it's in honor of the Boston Tea party. So, dub. Sorry, it's a small demographic. Yep, that's why this is not going to buy no new tax british. Yeah, they should overtax it just for. The make beer cheap again. There you go. Well, vodka too. Massachusetts. Dorchester Brewing and Aeronaut Brewing announced a planned merger.

So another instance of. What's a merger? A merger of craft breweries getting together because they can't afford Brent together. Tilray's beer chief.

Remember Tilray is the company that bought all those Budweiser brands. Shock top. Yeah. Anyways, apparently, their chief beer chief has been receiving two to three calls a day from various breweries trying to sell themselves. Come on. They're like, oh, you bought all this shit, you want to buy us? Come on. Yeah, I guess if shock top can get bought out, like, who can't? Yeah, that'd be my mindset. Right? He actually addressed it.

He said, for us, it's all about chemistry fit. And we do brands that have a strategic plan that kind of work with us. And he went on to talk about shock top and said that there's plans what to promote it in 2024. Strategic plan. Buy terrible beer. Yeah. Make beer gross again. Oh, yeah. Did it? I guess if it that, maybe, maybe. Here we go. It's planned. It's a conspiracy started by the orange farmers of America to sell oranges because citrus sales were down.

This shit just got real, and it's the only way alcoholics will eat fruit. Florida man. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. Florida man. Wayne. Some tell me I'm wrong. All right, before we move on to the full pour here, the booze news, let's answer some important questions. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers.

Oh, one tongue can guide us a Workout. One tongue. One tongue jobber. In this world, we must find out what is flax drinking. So the beer I picked today has no significance to the new year or the holiday. Fantastic. I just absolutely love the city of Nashville. And Yazoo brewing has made its way up here in distribution. And they're know one of the bigger, more mass producing craft breweries in Nashville, in Tennessee. And we had the enjoyment of touring their facility. Jesus.

Christmas five years ago now. Wow. And I just enjoyed everything about it. So I'm drinking their hoppery hazy ipa.

I don't have much left here in the can or my glass, I should say. So it's not super hazy, but here's what gets me down. The description, it calls it a soft, juicy IPA brewed with pale malt, flaked wheat, oats and barley, along with a blend of citrus. Forward hop varieties. Goes to say that it's dry hop twice during the active fermentation. Juicy mouthfeel, big hop flavor, but minimal bitterness. Cans is hazy, but the glass beer is not hazy, but my bad description calls it juicy.

What's it going to be? What's it going to be? What's it tasty? Fix your fucking cans. Yes. So I got to say juicy. Call them juicy. Just call them juicy. It's not that hard or unfiltered, then. You don't have to worry about the haziness of it. All right. It's just buying this beer, and it wasn't expensive by any standards. It was, like nine and a half dollars for a six pack. Holy shit. I think it's only, like, 6% or something like that. It's like a six pack of coke. So what?

That doesn't exist in our world unless it's the oldest clearance beer you've ever met. Yeah. So it's 6.8%. So, I mean, either way, it's a great buy because it is super citrus. Forward on the nose. You could definitely smell, like, the bitterness coming through on the aroma. It doesn't hit very much on the old tongue jobber. It's, like, a little bit lingering. It's a lighter body, lighter flavor to it. A little bit citrus. More dank than anything. Really good buy. It really is.

Just fix your fucking cans, please. We say it all the time. If it's not hazy, you don't got to get into the trend and call. It a hazy ipa. It just gives people a certain level of expectation. Right. I bought the six pack thinking, I wonder what a hazy from these guys is going to taste like. And I went home and I poured one out. Just immediate disappointment. Turns out you're still waiting to find out what a hazy from them. What a hazy from them tastes like. Exactly. So all in all, solid beer.

It's got a three six six on untapped super under what I think it would be probably more like a. Well, I shouldn't say super, but it's a delectable beer. It's like 3839, probably. Yeah. But even a three six, you double that. On a scale of ten, it's a seven out of ten, which isn't terrible. So good beer. Fix your can, fix your cans. All right. Cheers, Yazoo. Thanks for coming to Milwaukee. Oh, I should have been more ready, actually. It's pronounced mealywalke.

You didn't know it was coming, that's what. Yep, yep. Left it open. There you go. Also, what Deb children be do. You're welcome, Deb. All right, let's. Let's. Let's get a little news in before we wrap things up. There's a rumor going around that Diageo is seeking to offload harp and just about all of

their other beer brands except for Guinness. I don't know what to say about that. Whatever. Yeah, I was just. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Who are their other beer brands besides harp? Burn Guinness down. I don't know. Burn down. Sorry. I don't know. Harp and Harp. It's like harp and Guinness. Like, what else do you have? Smittics. There's, like, another one. Oh, see, I don't know any of that. Yeah, I'm not familiar with that. I would drink a smiddix before I drink a Guinness.

I would drink just about anything before drinking a Guinness. There's that. Except for Corona. That's true. That's for about anything. Yeah. Kid rock says he's done boycotting Bud light and says, I think they've got the.

This. This is actually funny to. Right? Oh, it's funny to Mel. You know, Bud light used to be the biggest beer brand, right? And then the flop happened and the kid rock boycott, which meant nothing to anybody, really. But then Modelo. Did I say it right, Greg? Sure. Okay. Modelo became the number one beer brand in the country. Right? Mel's laughing her ass off. Yes. So if you go to any events now, they do not serve Bud light. You will find, like, miller light, Coors light and Modelo especial.

All the anheuser bush trucks now are Modelo trucks. They're not bud light trucks. And it blows my mind. But nobody knows who. But nobody knows Budweiser's still getting all that money. Stupids. Yep. They rich, you not. Yeah. I'll tell you what that PP ain't doing. Knowing that they own motel. Nailed it. Not a smart peepee. Not a smart peepee. All right, we'll end it with a Vanessa. Oh, yes. Oh, and hi, Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. But before we get there, we'll end it with a list.

I love lists. The drunkest cities in America.

Flex has seen this one already. This is compliments, but not this year. We try to do it every year. Yeah. Good. Well, this is compliments of the badger, barstool sports, which apparently is like a shoot off of barstool sports. I was going to ask that, too. Okay, there's, like, every city. Barstool. There's, like a rep for it. I had no idea. I didn't know that was a thing. But anyways, so here's the top 15, starting at 15, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Number 14. Oh. Dubuki, Iowa. Debuke.

Debuke. Is that Debuke? That's just Dubuque. Dubuki. Bukhaki, Iowa. Bukhaki. Right. Got it. Number 13. Iowa City, Iowa. Number twelve, Fondulock. Man, they're slipping. Fondulac. Yeah, Fondulock. Is that also Iowa? That's Wisconsin. That's Wisconsin. My uncle used to live there. When he lived there. He said it was like the drunkest by per capita in the. Pick it up. Fondelac. Eleven, Moncato. Northmoncato. In Minnesota. Monkedo. Monkedo? Yeah. Mankato. I don't know fucking midwestern names.

Number ten, lacrosse. On Alaska. On Alaska. It's hyphenated. Who's hyphenated? The correct pronunciation of all. And what the fuck is wrong with your lines being drawn? It's in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. Okay, so lacrosse is technically in Wisconsin, right, but it is right on the Mississippi river. So then you just take the bridge across the Mississippi and it's like. Then you're in Minnesota and it's a different city, but it's like they kind of consider it, like, shared sometimes. Weird.

It's bizarre. It's like there are people who can live in Minnesota and their kids can go to school in Wisconsin and vice versa. Super weird. It's bizarre. Number nine. Is it Wisconsin? Yeah. Number eight. Grand Forks, North Dakota. Slash, Minnesota. Fucking lines out there. Number seven. Missoula, Montana. Number six. Oshkosh. Nina. Nina. Yeah. Nina, yeah, I want to say Oshkosh, but, gosh, that's in Wisconsin. Number five. Fargo, North Dakota. Slash, Minnesota.

Somebody get these guys a fucking protractor. Number four, Madison, Wisconsin.

Number three. Appleton, Wisconsin. Number two, Eclair. Wisconsin. Yeah. Wow. Eclair. Yeah. Eclair. Okay. And number one, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. So many drunk Wisconsin cities. Wow. Okay, good. It's not just me. When it's that cold. I think you got to be hammered to live there. There's nothing else to do. Yeah, there's got to be some stuff to do. But know, not up in wasaw, let me tell you. You have to be warm. You know what's warm? Cold bars.

Do you know what Wisconsin has a lot of bars. Yeah, but that's the same. I don't know, like, where I live. It's the same thing, too. It's like food and drink everywhere. Like, what else are you going to do? Go hiking. Okay. Go shopping. Okay. Wakeboard. But you're going to eat and drink. Before and or after go wakeboarding in November. No big deal. We can't do that, you guys. A little too cold. But it's been really unseasonably warm here. 55 degrees today. Oh, wow.

Yeah. We were at this Christmas party the other day and some guy was talking to us, and turns out he was from the east coast, and it's only the second or third year here. And he goes, is this normal? Normal Christmas weather? And I was like, yeah, shorts. Absolutely. Very normal. I said last year was surprisingly cold. This is normal Southern California Christmas. He's like, it's weird not getting jackets out. I was like, do you need to own jackets, bud? Like, a nice hoodie is all you need.

Yeah, I do love a good. Oh, it's the best. Nice and comfy weather. Yeah, exactly. Daddy weather. Cuddle up, buttercup.

So dope with that. We will hit some music. Mel, thanks for hanging with us. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Good luck running. Yeah, thanks. I need all the luck I can get. Yeah. As this drops, you'll be running next week. Hope everybody has a happy and safe new year. Yeah. Don't drink and drive. Uber Lyft. Get a walk and drive instead. Or drink at home. Drink at home. That's what we'll be doing. We're old. Be safe. Have a good time. Yeah. Happy New year.

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