Beerconomics: A Study in Pour Financial Decisions

Welcome in everybody to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. My name is Greg and I'm being joined by the Buffest blockhead in the Midwest. And that's flex. What's up, big fella? Nothing much man. Looking forward to a good night. Yeah. Me too. Looking forward to have a couple beers with you. Heck, yeah. A couple. Were you having a couple? Uh, let's see how it goes. All right. The night is young, my friend. The night is young.

I should clarify, I wasn't calling you a blockhead just for the fun of it. Because your video is blocky. It's not. Like it's. I couldn't even act like I was offended. Yeah, I know. Uh, follow us on the socials for more romantic ness at Craft Beer

Republic and at Flix Me beer. Underscores in between. Got a lot to get to today. So much fun. Uh, Super Bowl happened, and there's some fallout news from that. Uh, ran into an old drinking buddy that I got a story about and some booze, news and so much more. But, uh, if you don't mind. Hey. Landed. It's been a crazy day of travel, and I just need a fucking beer in my liver. Yeah, you look like you need to relax. Yeah. Use 1 or 3 of these. I did. I have my beer. I love my baby. I love my beer.

I am drinking Smog City Brewing's frost Quake. It's a hazy IPA. 6.2% has a 3.8 on untapped. They say this mock seismic event

of Hoppiness divides the Earth between intense Citrus and juicy tropical fruit. A mixed fruit salad aroma leads you into a smooth, silky mouthfeel. A kiss of citrus and just enough bitterness to cleanse the palate for your next sip. Enjoy the palate splitting hoppy goodness, goodness, goodness. A frost cake. The goodness. The goodness. The Smog Days Haze Craze IPA series is an innovative lineup, a unique, thirst quenching, hazy IPAs. I don't think I need to read all

that stuff anyways. This comes from my local bottle shop, Trader Joe's. Haha yeah the wife I said this before. The wife is always thoughtful. Sometimes she'll just hit up the store and come home with a rando single from TJ's because she's like, I thought you might want to try it. So here we are trying it. Yeah, digging the old schnoz. Yeah. What do we got? So it mostly follows that description. I'd say it's pretty light, but I do get a little bit of a fruit salad situation.

Um, get some citrus in there. But. But very light aroma. Let me stick the tongue in there. Call this a French sip. A French sip, I like that. All right, so a lot of this is interesting, as you can see, uh, properly hazy, very mellow. All that great lacing. Great, great lacing. It has a surprising bitterness to it. I wish I had the IBUs. Not a turnoff, just surprising for a hazy the amount

of bitterness that is in this. It also has a little bit of a an old school maltiness to it like not like crazy loaf of bread, malty, but it's definitely got some malt in there. Not what I was expecting with this, this color. See, that's what gets me is when you get a hazy and you get, uh, just any bit of malt character, I think it's a big turn off. It's a little bit of a turnoff to me. Overall. I would definitely drink this beer again. It's not a bad beer. Um, but I could.

I could do without the a little bit of bread going into this thing. Not looking to carb load. Yeah. That's, uh, that always kills me with the hazes. Yeah, it really does. But. Good, good. Hot bill on the hair. Uh, nice. Should have called it a juicy. That's what they should have done. There you go. I mean, it's properly in a visual sense. It's properly hazy. They just. It's like they combined an old school Westie with a new school

hazy or something, so not bad. Uh, but not what I was expecting out of a haze. I guess that's all right. Yeah. There you. Go. Like you said, you drink it again. It doesn't make or break the beer. Yeah, it's not a drain pour by any stretch of the imagination. Just not what I was hoping for, I guess, when I cracked her open. Yeah. You win some, you lose some. That's right. Sometimes you tie. Either way, I'm getting drunk. Let's do. It. That's what matters.

Uh, shout out to our top listing city of last week. And that's Los Angeles. What's up? Oh, hometown, I guess. Local for you. That's right.

So, uh, we haven't recorded since the Super Bowl. How was your your Super Bowl Sunday? Did you do anything fun or. Um, my one of my kids was sick, so we really didn't do anything too much.

So, um, just ordered a pizza, had some. Would you? Breadsticks with that? We did, like, some pretzel nuggets. Ooh. Pretzel nuggets. Um, just. Yeah. Chilled out. I got a 12 pack, and, uh, I really wasn't interested in the Super Bowl because it was the two teams I could have cared less to see. Yeah. If they both could have lost at the same time. You know, the only reason I kept watching it all night. Because even the commercials sucked. Yeah, the overall commercials were

pretty bad. They were pretty bad. The seal commercial was hilarious. That was my. Favorite. That was the favorite. What was I gonna say? Oh, I'm not not a big Kendrick Lamar fan. I only know of the one song because of all the publicity it got from like the dissing Drake and yeah, like that whole thing. So I, I really had no need to watch the Super Bowl this year. And the only reason I kept it on was because the Eagles were just demolishing. Right.

It was kind of fun to watch. So that was very enjoyable. That part was enjoyable. But I'll tell you after a while I got tired of it. I didn't watch most of the fourth quarter, so. I almost I thought the same thing, and I almost didn't watch the fourth quarter, but I really didn't have anything better to do, so I just kind of kept it around. I did some laundry, um, while it was going on. Sure.

Why not? As one does. We ended up playing, uh, Mario Kart. Man, that sounds legit. Yeah. For the Wii or the switch. What do you got? Uh. The switch. Okay. Yeah, I just got it, like, a month or two ago. Oh, I dig it. I really like playing, uh, the switch sports. Mhm. I only have I only have Mario Kart. Mario kart? Okay. Yeah, I. Came. With it. Playing the golf. And they just added basketball to switch sports. And that's. That was fun to get used to.

Okay, I'll have to try it. Something cool about the Super Bowl. Sorry, I don't want to. A little tangent from this Nintendo Switch conversation. No, please. Zack Baun, who is a middle linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles. Okay. Um, I coached against him when I was coaching high school football. No shit. Yeah. So that was also something really cool to see that he made All-Pro this year. And now he's a Super Bowl champ.

And in high school we totally shut him down. Just an absolute stud of an athlete. Stud of a player. So yeah, just something really cool to see come full circle. Very exciting. Yeah I'm excited that the Chiefs didn't win again. Well I'm super excited about that. Yeah. Um, yeah. We didn't do anything either. Like, uh, you know, a lot of times we're over at, like, Nick and Nicole's house for the Super Bowl, but nobody cared about these teams. They were out of town, and I was like, you know what?

I've had a busy fucking week. Let's just hang at home, drink some drinks, make some snacks, and we'll watch it. And if we don't want to watch it anymore, we'll we'll turn it off. Like, we don't give two shits about either of those teams. If both teams could have lost at the same time, that'd been fantastic.

It would have been cool. Yeah. Would have been the perfect ending for that Super Bowl. My favorite post about the Super Bowl was when everyone was saying what they really wanted to happen, and it was the scene from The Dark Knight Rises when Bane hits the trigger and the whole football field starts falling behind Hines Ward as he's running to the end zone. I would have been fine with that. That would have been a good outcome. I'd been okay with that. Um, yeah.

I'm not a huge Kendrick Lamar fan. Um, I did love all the the Drake dissing. That was kind of funny, having what's her name out there dancing and. Oh yeah, see, and I didn't know who that was right away. Oh, Serena. Yeah, I figured it out after the fact, but, yeah, Had no idea who it was while it was happening. Uh, my kids were even like, oh, who's that? I said, I don't know who any of these people are supposed to be. Yeah, at first I didn't get the whole Sam Jackson thing.

I know I'm I'm white and uncultured. It took me a minute to realize, like, he was Uncle Sam, and. Yeah, a lot of. I had to google some of the symbolism. Yeah. But but overall, you know, it was fine. I'm not a huge Kendrick Lamar fan. I liked some of what he did during the performance. But, um, you know, I'm not downloading his music or anything like that. Yeah, it was fine.

Funny, funny thing about the halftime show is when Sam Jackson came up on the screen, uh, my ten year old, she goes, I don't want to sound mean. She goes, but that kind of looks like a black papa, because that's what they call my dad is Papa. Oh. And we started looking at him more while I was. The halftime show was going on. Every time he'd pop up, we were like, Holy shit, my dad is a white Sam Jackson. That's funny. I sent him the text,

and then my mom sent me back some pictures of Sam Jackson, and we're just looking at it. We're like, Holy shit. My dad is a white Sam Jackson. That's so good. It is Midwest, Sam Jackson. Yes. Get all these motherfucking cheese curds off this motherfucking plane. Doesn't get more Midwest than that. Oh. That's perfect. Oh. Good times. Um, but, yeah, that's about it. Yay! Super bowl, it happened. Baseball's starting up soon. I can't. Wait. Yeah. Dodgers spent some money this

offseason. You know, the it's funny you say

that because I just saw a statistic that said, uh, the Brewers were the second least big spenders. Spent the least amount that. Thank you very much for making my words sound legible. Not $900,000. They spent this season. Yeah. Look out. Who was the least? Was it like the A's or something? It's always the. Saint Louis Cardinals. Oh, that's surprising. Which is a big shocker, except after this past season where they were dog shit and they were giving tickets away for free.

Just. Were they really? Oh, you didn't hear about that? I did not. Oh, they were offering tickets for free because of, uh, they couldn't get people into the stadium. Wow. Because the team was uncharacteristically bad. Yeah, they're always at least middle of the road, if not better. Oh, they're never a bad team. They're that team that always just finds a way to be good. Yeah, and they always, no matter what kind of year they're having, they always find

a way to beat the Dodgers. Yeah. I mean, they're just historically a super solid organization. Yeah. They were they were giving away tickets for free. That reminds me of, uh, the 70 76 ers did that. Almost did that. They were giving away or selling tickets for like $4 a ticket like ten years ago. They could not get people in the stadium. It was more expensive to buy a beer than a seat at the game. That was happening at some New York Giants games this year.

That's not surprising. I believe it was when the Saints visited MetLife. Okay. And there were certain tickets you could actually buy for a dollar. Like the caption of the post was that a Bud Light costs more than a ticket for the Giants game, because the ticket was $1 and the beer was 13. Right. Well, when the 76 ers were doing that, some guy posted that he bought out an entire row. It only cost him like $47. That's amazing. I was like, I would do that.

I'd just go buy a row to myself and hang out or bring friends or whatever. Yeah. Or if you don't find anybody else and you don't have anybody else to sit next to you and bother you. Right, exactly. Keep it quiet. Shut up! I'm watching the shitty game. Brilliant. Yeah. So, uh. But not a sports show. Olaf. Definitely not. No sports. It's a topic show, though. It's a topic show, so I gotta. You remember Wiley? Of. Yeah. That he ran that thing.

Yeah, yeah. Or drink life. Whatever they're calling. Drink life.

Yeah. Drunk life. That's my life. Um, do you remember our discussion about the Made West Pale Ale and his hatred of it? Yeah, he doesn't like it. And you think it's the best? Well, I don't think it's the best, but. Not the best. But they make a great pale ale. Make a solid pale ale. And I think what I always said was, in Ventura County, where I am, it is the best flagship pale ale, you know, regularly produced, pale in the area. A lot of people make good pale ales,

but they're not flagship. They're not there all the time. Right. And so I you know, I dubbed that years ago. And he always told me I was insane and it was garbage. And, uh, Basically, I discredit all of his peer reviews because of that. But plus he doesn't finish his beers. That is the biggest offense. But we ran into him the other night and I can't wait to tell everybody this. He goes, hey, guess what I'm drinking. I said, what are you drinking? He goes, Made West pale.

I was like, by choice. He goes, yeah, you know what? They're actually not that bad. Jeez. I was like, you motherfucker. For years, this is the worst pale. I'd rather drink piss and, like, all this other stuff, run into him at a beer place,

and he's sitting there drinking a made West Pale. What do you think? There's no way he actually had it without. Oh back then. Yeah. Like to be able to judge it. There's no way. Something I don't know. Anyway, so I was like, I gotta tell anybody who will listen to me because, uh, you motherfucker have been missing out on a great pale ale because you're too stubborn to try it, apparently. If you've sent that one to me before. I probably did, just so you could try it and tell him how wrong he is.

I'm, like, 98% sure that you did. It's in a blue can. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, I like look, it's not the best pale ale in the world, but it's super solid and they make it all the time. I like it. I love me a super solid beer. Yeah, like when you can just always fall back on. It's like, I really don't feel like branching out today.

I'm just gonna get this. Yeah. Like one that is a local hazy that I always see on tap as Tarantula Hill. Tarantula hills down the street from me. They've done a great job of getting their beers into restaurants and stuff. And if we're at any restaurant and they've got liquid candy on tap, I know I'm good to go. That one you definitely sent me. I know for sure. No, Eric. Erica sent me that one. Erica.

Yeah, I think she picked it up when she was down. Yeah, just a super solid, hazy. Nothing to write home about, but. But always good. Solid. Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, you can count on it when you're at a restaurant. Their beer selection is not amazing. And, yeah, it's good stuff, man. It's nice to have that kind of a restaurant beer.

Yeah, and I'm glad that's become such a restaurant, because before it was like, you know, insert West Coast, like Firestone Union Jack. It's like, all right, I'm not looking to strip the enamel off my teeth. Stone IPA. You're right. Yeah. I mean, that's what it was for years and years. So anyways, um, go drink a midwest pale fuckers. It's good stuff. What about you? Any any beer research these days? Um. So, uh, not so much for me getting out. Uh, I've been been busy, but I did pick up, uh,

Tom from pilot. Tom brought. Me. Tom brought me a Utah beer. Oh.

Um, which, apparently it's true. They do make beer in Utah. Wow. And it wasn't 5%. It was 8.2%. Whoa. It was a double IPA. Um, it was called. I have it right here, too. Steph is screaming at. Us right now, ironically enough. So I actually I actually messaged her a picture of the beer and she was astounded at how I got it. Mhm. Um, but it was called Ferda and it's from Templin Family Brewing. And um,

it was a super solid IPA. Nice. Like, it wasn't mind blowing in any sense, but if it was around, it could be one of those. Hey, I'll pick this up because. It always safe. It's 8.2% and the flavor was great. And, uh, like, the aroma didn't spill out at you and like, it wasn't overly robust with flavor, but there was enough of both that just kept you drinking. And it was wonderful. And again, I didn't. Need to do. Can't thank Tom enough for the hookups. And you know what he does?

He's. And the smuggling. A true, true friend, let me tell you. Start calling you guys. You two, uh, Smokey and the bandit. I like that. Yeah, just smuggling beer for you everywhere he goes. No. Every time he flies, he's just going to be listening to Eastbound and Down, loaded up in Brooklyn.

That's a big ten four smoking. Snowman or whatever. Ice. Yeah. Snowman. Snowman. I love that movie. Ice man is Top Gun, right? Yes. Yes, it. Is one of those man's cold man's. So I was able to have a Utah beer and then a guy at work, you know, because I don't have a life and everybody else does.

He went out to New York or. No, not New York, Washington, D.C., uh, went to a show or some kind of convention out there, stopped at a liquor store on his way back and brought a four pack of beer into work and was like, hey, give this a try. And it was from Zero Gravity Brewing from Vermont. Mm. I've heard of them. Yeah. And it was, uh, or American IPA beer was called Conehead. Uh, these guys have a super cool logo, and the beer doesn't have a, you know,

it's not a crazy great rating. It's a 5.7 ABV American Pale uh, 3.8 on Untappd here, but the flavor was absolutely obnoxious. Oh. For for an American IPA. Like, it was so flavorful, so crisp, super light bodied. Um, and I just again, really enjoyed, uh, appreciated the gesture. Just some really, really kind folks out there I know. So makes you feel like you want to be a better person, doesn't it? Uh, sometimes. Sometimes every once in a while. Makes you think maybe I'm not a

good person. Maybe I'm a dick. Well, I knew that already. I know I'm a dick. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say. All right. I was just gonna say that's about the research. Uh, I've been doing. Oh, I did a little research with some, uh, THC beverages. Oh. More dabbling. Yeah, so I dabbled it. Uh, I upped my dosage to the ten milligrams. Oh, shit. Yep. Daddy must have been feeling nice. So I'm not sure if I liked it too much. It was. I don't I don't know, it just made

me feel way too lightheaded. Mhm. And like, very stumble. Not stumbly. Wobbly. Wobbly is a good word. It made me feel very wobbly. Your previous max was like six. Right. Six.

Which I thoroughly enjoyed. Okay. And I even hit a sixer with a double IPA after. And that was probably the best I've ever felt in my life. I'm telling you, a nice gummy or we drink or whatever with a beer or a glass of wine is just chef's kiss. Yeah it I it was melty was just the only way I could describe it. That was a good night. And like, it was crazy because you're like a shell of a human. And like, everything was turning in my brain, like my brain was going. I got ideas.

I just couldn't do anything. I was just there. And then you go, what was I just thinking of? That was a great idea. If I wish I could remember. It was good stuff, I would. I would second that to do that. Good times tens a lot. Um. I'm not I wouldn't recommend. Yeah. When I do ten, I spread it out like I'll do five, wait like an hour and a half ish and have another. Unless I'm just looking to get fucking blitzed or something. Right. And then I'll have enough. So it kind of sneaks up.

But it's not like boom ten, right? So I had four cans, uh, two of the cans. I did drink kind of fast because it was like later at night, like 830, and I was just trying to get some sleep, you know, so I was trying to get it in and let the effects come out and then zonk, uh, and the other two times, it kind of spread it out. Probably took me like an hour to drink, uh, because I wanted to spread it out a little bit. Sure. But, uh, it just caught up with me, and I think I'll stick with Sixers.

Yeah, I was, uh, I was at the I don't know what you call it, the weed shop, I guess one time, and I don't know. I don't know the dispensary. Yeah, there you go. And I was buying some gummies and they go, hey, you know, you spend way too much money. You want a free Snoop Dogg soda? And I was like, all right, I'll give it a shot. It was so fucking disgusting. It tasted like total ass. Really? Yeah. And it didn't work that well.

I think it was. I can't remember it was 5 or 10, but I remember I was like, oh, I end up chugging it because it was so bad. It just tasted like medicine. Um, no thanks. Snoop.

No, there's a brewery here. They're really up north, like five hours away, but they come out with some infused seltzers that go up to like 50mg a can, 5050, that's 25 and 50. Good lord. And I couldn't imagine what that would do to you. Yeah. One time I was buying gummies and the guy was like, hey, do you want these ones? I was like, no, those are the tens.

I prefer the fives, you know? That's that's good for me. And he goes, oh, okay. Yeah. I usually end up having about 100 a day. I was like, what? You have 100mg of THC a day? He goes, yeah. I'm like, how do you fucking function? He's like, you know, I just I have a high tolerance. Some people have a higher tolerance. I was like, yeah, okay, fine, you do 25 or 30mg, you do a fucking 100g a day. Balls. Also, it must be so expensive. I would be in a coma. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that would put me

in a coma. It absolutely. Yeah. You'd be glued to the couch. You wouldn't. You couldn't move with that. It's insane. I'm trying to think like what is beyond not being able to move. Right. And that's what I would be. I mean, you can't die from doing too much weed. But. Right. But it's the next best thing. Oh. Worst thing? The story. My buddy, who used to be an EMT, rolled up on the scene one time,

and this dad and son had split a cookie and they were just absolutely losing their shit. The mom had called 911 because she didn't know what to do and they showed up. Yeah, they showed up and he goes, look, ma'am, like there's nothing we can do. It's weed. They're not in danger. They just have to ride it out, right? We can we can take them in and hook them up to an IV, and they can wait it out in the hospital. But you're gonna have to pay for it, you know?

Or you can just strap them down here and let it happen. She goes, no, get them out of my house. I don't want them here. I guess the sun was kind of freaking out. He goes, okay, do you still have the wrapper to that cookie? And she goes, yeah, here. And she pulls it out of the trash. It was 500mg. Holy balls. Yeah, I'd be freaking out if I had 252. Yeah, I would say, uh, like, I've heard about people getting, like, paranoid when they do they do stuff. Yeah. And, uh, so far, I don't understand

that. I'm not a paranoid stoner. I did that much. Yeah, 100%. I would start freaking out going balls crazy.

Yeah, I guess the kid was freaking out and the dad was so incredibly stoned. He was just, like, moving at, you know, quarter speed kind of thing. Yeah. And so they put the kid in the gurney and hooked him up to an IV, and the mom to the dad said, well, say goodbye to your son. And he's like, bye. Oh, good. That's brilliant. Yeah. What a. Story. Yeah. He had some crazy stories. That was one of my favorite ones. That was a funny one, though.

But, uh. All right, well, speaking of drinks, you're looking thirsty over there yourself. Let's let's get you hydrated. In a world where craft beer is king.

A world where muscles are bigger than growlers. Only one tongue can guide us. One man. One tongue. One tongue. Jabber. In this world, we must find out what is flax drinking? Well, much like your wife, who's a wonderful sweetheart. My wife. Um. I'm drinking a beer. That, believe it or not, my wife bought me. Wow. Which never happens. I'm hard for you. And we agreed we weren't going to do anything for Valentine's Day because it's Valentine's Day. Yeah, I'm with you. And, uh, she got me a six pack

of beer. That's fantastic. Which is. Right. It's just. It says more than it than it does to most people. Um. And she bought it because it has, like, a tattoo heart on it. Oh, yeah. So it's, uh, Three Floyds. So they do some pretty decent stuff. I love their tagline here. It says it's not normal. And this is called jinx proof lager is 5.7% ABV and, uh, it says a crisp,

pale and refreshing lager with a light malt sweetness and plenty of noble hops which noble hops come from Germany. See? Got it. Guten tag. Untappd calls it a pilsner, so I don't know if I really trust this, even though it's everything on here. Um, it's a lager. 3.57 is what they got it for. It could be the best lager ever. It'll be a 3.5. It's crackery, you know, on the on the nose here. A little bit of them noble hops coming through. Mm. Smells crisp, if that's a thing.

It is. Now. It is now. It's got great clarity. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's there's not too much left, but, um, I do enjoy this. Um, get the tongue jobber. Well, it's already warmed up. Warm up. So, I mean, it is a super fine classic lager. Definitely get those hops coming through a little bit. A little bit of that cracker coming through and just some super duper, super, super duper, super low end, tiny bit of bitterness that just hits you on the tip, tip,

tip of that back tongue. Just the. Tip. Just super crushable. Lager is nothing more you can ask for out of this beer. I think 3.57 for it. You know, that's the reason we hate untapped. Right? Right, right. So like lager wise, I mean, you're probably looking at a four out of five here, but if you're an idiot, you know. You're five seven, right? That's how it goes. That's how it goes. Bunch of idiots on untapped. Yeah. And, uh. But, yeah. Super duper cool. Cannot see how many times I can

say super duper. Take a drink. Yeah, it's got the skull and the

heart with the arrows going through it and that vintage tattoo style. She did a great job picking this one out. Go, wife. Cheers. To my wife. My wife. Very nice. Uh. All right, let's hit a little news before we get up on out of here. Do you see the video of, uh, Saquon Barkley shotgunning that beer after the Super Bowl win?

Yeah, it took like 0.7 seconds or something like that. Fucking beast. I almost wonder if he didn't actually finish it. It was so fast. That crossed my mind too. But the other thing that crossed my mind is I saw somebody who used to work when he was in college at Penn State. Somebody used to bartend at this place he used to go to all the time, and they made this big tweet. They said they used to bartend at so and so and Saquon would come in,

you know, on the weekends. And he said he would just sit in this back corner to try and just stay like chill. And you know uh hidden from. People not getting recognized. And he hated getting recognized because when he people would saw him, they would just buy him drinks. he'd buy him shots and he wouldn't drink them. So he would just have this pile of drinks that kept getting

bigger and bigger at his table. Um, but the person said even though he never drank them, he said they tipped him for every single drink that they had brought to the table. So just kind of showing he's that much of a like he's just a stand up guy. Everything he really does, like the Super Bowl parade when he saw the Ballboy cheering behind the fence along the way, and he picked their ball boy up over the gate and then brought him on the team bus.

Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah. To celebrate the parade with him. Nice. Like, he's just a super good dude. He seems like a really nice guy. Yeah. Like, just a genuine PA guy, I guess. Yeah. And after shotgunning that beer, I like him even more. Yeah. So anyways, the beer that he shotgunned was open beer and is a brand that is led by former New Belgium marketer David. Whiskey. No, that's not a real name. Whiskey. I s p n I e w sky.

Well, that's kind of cool. Yeah. Uh, anyways, it's a la based lager brand, and, uh, makes me wonder if he was sponsored to Juggy. Either way, I'm impressed, I don't care. I'm shocked they didn't have garage beer. You're wrong. Locker room for that? Well, I guess not, though, because. No. Yeah. Jason. Jason. It's true. And I feel like he's more of an advocate for it than Travis. Yeah. I mean,

he looks like an advocate for beer. Well, and he's in, uh, he was in the Christmas ad that they did, which was horribly, horribly creative. I don't know if I saw that. Oh, dude. Um, the they parodied some Christmas song, like, some classic Christmas song, but the only word they used in the song was beer. All right. And that was it. And then it was just like people in a bar, and they were just singing to this Christmas song. But the only words were.

Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer, beer. Yes. I think that's. Actually what it was. Oh, I'm just making that up. No, I think that's what it was. Like jingle bells, but just beer. All right. So, yeah. Go on with the story. No. That's it. That's that's the story. Well, okay. Um, $1 beers for life. If anybody wants a $1 beer for the rest of their life.

San Francisco brewery is offering consumers $1 beers for life. Kind of standard. Deviant brewing launched a new membership program to help fund a new taproom. Consumers who donate within three different tiers are awarded with cheaper pint prices for life. A $1,000 donation will get you a $5 pint for life. 5000 donation gets you $3 pints for life, or if you donate $10,000, you get the $1 pints for life. Does it matter what beer do they specify? Does not specify.

Says the tap. Excuse me. The program will run until the end of San Francisco Beer Week, which is February 21st through March 2nd. About 5 or 6 people as of this article being published have signed up so far, according to the report. So if you want to drop ten G's, get dollar pints for life. Yeah, I'm just trying to think,

is it worth it? I mean, I guess if you had ten grand to blow, but let's say if you had ten grand to blow in a donation, then it wouldn't matter what you pay for beers at Taprooms. That's also true. So let's do some math here. I'm going to say the average pint price is, especially in San Francisco is eight bucks. That might be generous. San Francisco is. Expensive to craft breweries. That's about what it is here. Yeah. Usually it's like eight bucks.

We'll say eight bucks. If if you were to get if you were to spend $10,000 on $8 pints, that's 1002 1250 pints. I just don't know.

I think, yeah. You have to drink. More than the money. Yeah. If you had the money to just do it, I think you'd do it. Nike. But it's not something that is like, uh, a good deal, you know, like. Unless you drink 1300 pints of that. Drink 1300 pints. Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, I don't I don't think so. Anyways, if anybody's got the money to spend, uh, with the Super Bowl out of the way, total wine put put out some stats as to what was the most popular beer in those cities and drinks in general.

Uh, they shared a list of the top brands sold in Kansas City and Philly home market brand families Boulevard in Kansas City and Surfside in Philly topped the list in the respective cities. Um, the rest of the top five best sellers in Kansas City were number four For Molson Coors. Miller number three. Tito's vodka number two. Cutwater spirits and the number one beer. Well, drink, but happens to be beer in Kansas City for the Super Bowl was Michelob Ultra.

I don't understand that. I just don't drink beer. Then I just. It's so gross. You know, they came out with the Michelob zero. Oh, goody. Was it already a zero? Exactly. It's like, how can you make it any less? Yeah.

Um, in Philly, the top five shook out with number four. Molson Coors, Coors number three. Constellation brands, Corona number two. Cutwater spirits again. And the number one beer or drink is beer in Philly. Miller. Okay. Yeah. Meanwhile, Buzz Balls was the top seller in Total wine stores in Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles across the three day period. Is Or is that the blue one? That's right. There's a buzz ball shortage in LA right now. Uh, the top, I guess ten after Buzz Balls. Josh Cellars,

that's wine modelo. Modelo. Uh, number seven, Boston beers, sun cruiser. I don't even know what that is. Number six, Jack Daniels. Yeah, it must be like an RTD or something. Five Crown Royal four, Surfside, three. Don Julio, two Tito's vodka and number one Cutwater spirits. I've had a single cutwater before. I just, uh. I've never had it. That's the brand. That Ballast Point started before they got bought out for $1 billion. Okay. Do you know when Ballast Point got

bought out for that billion dollars? They did not include Cutwater. No. So then they later sold Cutwater to Budweiser. Genius. Fucking genius. I think I have that right. I think it's Cutwater that was started by Ballast Point. Whatever Ballast Point started was then later sold to Budweiser. Tell you what, I might be able to get behind this Sun Cruiser thing. Might. Might not. It's, uh, iced tea drinks. Oh, okay. Like a hard iced tea? Yeah. They got, uh, raspberry classic

lemonade and iced tea and then peach. Mm. Interesting.

No, I wouldn't knock it till I try it. As long as it's not too sweet. This, uh. I don't think it is. It says, uh, one 100 calories, so it can't be too much. Yeah. Not a ton of sugar. Actual sugar? Yeah, maybe fake sweeteners and shit, but. Yeah. And it's a vodka based. Oh, okay. Very neat, very neat. Well, let's give it a shot. You remember a couple of years ago, there was the guy who worked for the Japanese government that got drunk and had a USB drive stolen

because he, like, fell asleep on the train. Oh, man. Maybe I have a such a shitty memory. I do too.

I read this upcoming story and immediately remembered I was like, God, this sounds so familiar. Did we do the story? Oh yeah, we talked about it. Like basically he worked for the government. He had a flash drive with a bunch of sensitive data on it and got hammered on a train, fell asleep, and someone stole his bag. Not too different.

Japanese government worker gets drunk, loses sensitive information, and an employee of the finance ministry's customs and Tariff Bureau went drinking with a colleague after work last Thursday in the city of Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Within five hours, the man had nine glasses of beer. Good job. It wasn't until he had left the restaurant, gotten on a train and traveled home that he realized his bag, containing highly sensitive information, was missing.

The Finance Ministry revealed the security breach this week, telling reporters the bag contained administrative documents with the names, addresses and case summaries of 187 people, including a suspect allegedly involved in drug smuggling. The employee had received the documents at a meeting earlier that day, the ministry said. Also in the bag was the employee's work like work laptop? Easy for me to say, containing personal information

about the man and his colleagues. The ministry apologized for undermining the public's trust, saying it would investigate the matter and take strict action as needed. So far, there have been no reports that the lost information has been used illegally. As of Thursday, the documents and computer had not been found. Whoops. So I'm just going to go out on a limb here. Just put myself in the shoes. If I were carrying super sensitive,

highly classified information. Mhm. That thing's not leaving my hand. I'm not going out with it. Right. And if I am it's, it's handcuffed to me or it is chained to me. Yeah. Or something. Or there's some kind of cool high tech magnet, you know, that connects to a bracelet. I have that. Sure. Handle the briefcase. Doesn't leave. I'm sure it's there. It sounds really cool. And if not, million dollar idea, right? Because clearly, these Japanese guys really, really need it. Yeah.

If we can invent this, we'd be huge in Japan. Fucking millionaires. Yeah. These guys, they're super smart, but not with super sensitive. Can't handle their booze. Yep. Also, have they heard of Dropbox? Why are they still using USB drives? Yeah, I don't. I don't because they keep losing them. They're just I don't know. Yeah. It's mind blowing. Mind boggling when your thoughts get all trapped, like in a bottle. Exactly. Oh, Ron. Uh. All right.

I think we should end it there. I'm gonna say hi to Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Hi. I'm going to correct you, by the way, that was, uh, Blades of Glory. That was Chazz Michael Michaels, not Ron Burgundy. Was it? Yep. Mine. Oh well, now I feel stupid. I was thinking. Oh, it's okay, I was. Yeah, I was gonna wait, but I couldn't wait. No, no, please correct me when I get that wrong. Yeah, that deserves a correction. It's okay. Back. Live real time fact check. Yeah.

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