You don't know me well enough. Step brother, you do not know me well enough. All right. Mel's bad ass. Step brothers. Oh, you stuck to. Well, it's the East Coast. Let's get some Coke going and have a show. Welcome in, everybody, to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drink. Well, thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. Thanks for thinking things doing suffering succotash. I am gray. Clearly, English is always, always easy for me.
I'm being joined by the bravest guy and I'll beer and that is flex. Yeah, I came, I came in a little early on that. Well, I've heard that complaint before but I won't hold it against you. Deal. And then joining us all the way from the East Coast, where apparently it's nice and crisp outside, unlike here, where the fuck and devil's balls. Zach Beer girl. Melissa What's happenin? It would seem that my Darth Vader Vader breathing has got you a little bit worried. Han Solo back.
It's got to be about the cub, that's for sure. About breathing, everybody. Oh. I'm glad it's hard for you as it is for me. So I'll just be holding my breath in between takes. It's always hard. There's no standing up on the West Coast, let me tell you. So sorry, everybody. Thanks for listening. Thanks for doing all that good stuff. All right. Find us on the Socials Craft Beer Republic flex me beer underscores in between and of course beer girl Melissa underscore between girl and Melissa.
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Yeah you need to jump on the underscore train ASAP everybody. Welcome to Kurt. Underscore Underscore Rip. Yeah, I don't know. Uh, that's too far. We'll call that a point and just get the fuck out of there. So much to do tonight. October Fest is just a couple of days away, and we're drinking for the occasion. We got a Ludacris libation straight out of Germany. We got some booze news to talk about. And hey, if there's time, we're going to run down some October fest fun facts.
Wooten Hey, I like the sound. Of that one. Facts. Yeah, I. Love. I love some fun. It turns out that, like, Flex and I are very into, like, games. So every morning we play a couple. That yeah that sounds a little weird when you say that. Flex. Don't tell. Them about those games but tell me about the brain games that we play every month. Oh brain the brain games. Yeah we got head. They got me hooked on the word while I'm on where the hurdle I'm. On hurdle. Two. Yeah, yeah, yeah sure word.
All hurdles get on. I'm totally down for that now and sometimes we'll do the world. And I don't do that. I don't do that either and the global talking about and now we just discovered a new one. Which makes no sense. Where's the alley. Where they show they show still shots from movies and you have six guesses to guess the correct movie from the still shots. I feel like Flex is good at that one. The first time I tried it was today and I didn't even see the movie and I guess it right.
Yeah. So I'm saying you're you're a weird movie guy. Like you get all the quotes that no one remembers. You're lot like, uh, our friend Dan. Like, Dan just pulls those movie quotes, like, just straight out of his ass. Like, where the fuck did that come from? Yeah, I think page 86 on that script. Yeah. But I mean, it's like the small moments that you really got a real in in the movies. It's like those small quotes that you'll never forget, but nobody else on the planet will remember.
But it's always funny to you. Yeah, you know, so you can, like, say it in your everyday life and laugh to yourself because you're a fucking idiot and nobody else will ever know. Oh, speaking of fucking idiot. Intro, Mel did it. Oh, here I am. Because I finally made it. No, it's. No working on my side of this. Fucking idiot. Oh, my God. Yeah. Mel was supposed to be on last week, and I guess our kids, like, chewed on the USB cable. Yeah, you know, they just kind of jam things in.
It's like a square peg in a round hole. That doesn't quibble. Either. Because you can't jelly things in. You know? And then they have people that aren't. They're like they're like under the table. Like, he did it. She did it like up there in the corner. Like, I'm like, there's nothing there. They know there's someone there. They're the ones that did it. I didn't do it. Wasn't me. Oh, so your house is haunted. Surely my.
My daughter actually did tell our little cousins that came to visit for the weekend that today that we have ghosts and now they're never coming back. So thank you, Juliana. You executed it perfectly because little kids are really hard to deal with. They're scared of that as perfectly. Whenever there's people over that, you just are done with, send her out. I mean, I love them so much. I love my family. I'm just not used to like small children anymore that cry all the time and wear diapers.
Yeah, that's tough to deal with. Yeah, that's. That's a lot crying. Oh, thanks. Greg's doing it. Right enough at night. Yeah, I. So all right, anyways, the whole fucking India thing. Let's, let's find out that fucking idiot's drinking over there. What is he. Drinking? Well, in celebration of Octoberfest, starting in Munich. In, what, like three days, like. Yeah, September 17th. It's great. That is correct.
I am drinking from a boys phase three brewing because they're fucking phenomenal and especially all the lager that they throw out there. So I'm drinking their Octoberfest German style lager on the all untapped. It has a 3.86, which I think is a pretty incredible score for an Octoberfest beer. I guess. But why can't Oktoberfest it for. Well. And that's why I'm thinking 3.86 is basically a four on this pitch, right? Yeah. I mean, I think it's based off of style.
I think there is some kind of like standard deviation. But like, can we all agree that untapped is bullshit and it's also American beer. So like I think most Americans in the craft community, these days are looking more for like American style IPAs. Hazy Yeah. And triples. And anyway, we get back to the roots. The Germans fucking are amazing at brewing beer and they're the ones that like practically, I almost started it, so. Yeah. Yeah, right. Guten tag fuckers.
Yeah. Untapped here says rich malt character with balanced hops, toasted bread and subtle earthy hop aroma. Look at this color. I mean, that is just gnarly. Caramel textbook. Holy shit. Perfect. When you pointed this out to it that. You put that on tap. I know. Holy shit. Perfect. I always write stupid stuff when it comes to phase three because they just get me in love. Phase three, thanks to you. They're just phenomenal. In fact, you sent me this one last year there.
October. Did I really? Yeah. Yeah, I don't remember that. But anyway, you did on the old schnoz, tons of that toasted bread on the nose, man. It is just. Just fresh, Daddy. Like. Oh, Daddy. Son, I already warmed up the tongue jabber, and we're gonna. We're going to dove in here for that. Yeah. You saw it. Yeah. Yeah, you did. The one time I wish this was a video podcast so people could see you. This is warm. This is what I do is video.
So that's why I'm like, it's weird that it's only audio when I hear my voice. But you can see. What I hear yours. So yeah. Let me so. Big malt presence you know that's natural on October 1st yet a little bit of the caramel notes the toasty breathiness. There's a good amount of carbonation up in this bitch. And man, I could just drink these all day 100%. Could drink these all day. I love it. I just. I could just stare at it, too. That color is just phenomenal. The beer.
I just want to let everybody know that I looked up the translation for Daddy into German because I feel like this is important for today's episode. The Forger. Well, that's. Fun. Oh, no, that. That's Dutch. It's. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But Daddy specifically not dad fathering like daddy which I'm surprised they had a translation for is der Vaart de Vaitai devout devotee. Yeah. Derivative. Derivative like now that we've creeped out any German that may be listening to. You know what I'm thinking?
We're going to start charting in Germany after the show. I would say. You're going to we're going to start not taking over the entire continent of Europe. The good yeah, we really got Finland. It's almost like it's happening. It's happening. You've got the UK now like. Yeah. Look out Germany. Uh, guten tag. We're coming from. Havarti is coming for you. We got from. Mobil that that it's actually Germany's pretty close to that area so. That's true. Yeah maps are helpful.
All right, very good. We're all drinking. Uh, October 1st. Names, beers. So we'll. We'll find out what the rest of us are drinking. A couple of you. First of all, a couple of things to talk about. I headed towards it last week. Mel was definitely part of that show last week. Let's talk about I briefly mentioned that we took a trip and blah, blah, blah. Have you guys ever gone on a trip that you like pulled the record on and went home early on purpose? Oh, you know what?
I think I've never done that. I mean, I have technically we did like a one night stay. We were going to do a one night stay somewhere and then we pulled back because somebody wasn't feeling well. I don't think that counts. I think you have to be like in full swing of the vacation and be like, That's it, I'm fucking done and I'm out of here. Yeah. No, I can't. I can't say that I've ever done that. I think I just stick it through even though it's shitty. And then I'll come home and be like.
Worship, ever. That was never going back. And this is why. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la. I never was, like, not listening anymore. I'm like. Little, you know, we lost two and a half hour ago. Exactly. Well, we we had that trip that we actually this is the first time I've ever pulled that record. Like we it was, you know, a nice long week. And we're like, you know what? We're going to go up to the mountains.
We found this little, little town in the middle of the mountains and we thought, we're going to go. The wife really wanted to go. She found it the last time we took a trip. We ended up not going somewhere else. She really wanted to go to unplug and I'm like, Hey, I'm on a forum plug in. Like, That sounds great. So we booked it and we got out to the house. Was fine. Is Airbnb the house was fine. Nothing around the house is exactly as described in the posting, so no little
hate there. It was little and it had no air conditioning. And we're in the middle of a fucking heat wave. And when we booked it, it was supposed to be like at max low to mid eighties and by the time we actually got up there, it was nineties to 100 really hot, no. AC We brought extra fans to like try and make it better. The beds were super uncomfortable, outside was gross, it was like hot and it was like, you know, it was be fine. We'll, we'll sit on the loo.
They had a nice old deck that overlooked like a nice little forest area. We'll sit out there, we'll get drunk. It'll be a great view. Whatever. The bugs were insane. We were just getting fucking attacked the entire time. We were spraying bug spray and had like the candles and everything. We're still getting attacked. It was miserable. Like we couldn't sleep because we're just sweating so much. So we're. We're supposed to leave Monday. Saturday night.
We were a little hammered, and I just I floated the idea. I was like, you know, we could just go home. And the wife was like, Well, but we've already paid for it. I was like, Yeah, I know. And like, look, I'm not I'm not all about just throwing money down the drain, but at the same time, like, I'm also not about sweating through the night. I mean, it was so hot. All we were doing was watching TV on the couch. I was like, You know where we could do that?
We could do it at home with our bigger TV in our air conditioning. Boy, that's all. That sounds nice. Right? And we could sleep in a bed that's comfortable. And so we left it there. We pulled that ripcord. We let you drain port your vacation. I love it. My vacation was a fucking habanero sculpt, and I. Yeah. I mean, it sounds better than my vacation this summer, which was having COVID and closing my blackout curtains in my room. So that was that was my wife's other vacation.
We were supposed to go wakeboarding and then she got COVID and yes. Dead. We couldn't escape it, apparently. Yeah, it was the worst. So yeah. But anyways, the best part of the trip was, was we left early and we drove through a town called Santa Clarita out here in California and we stopped at Pocock Brewing. And I say, Well, Pope, I said, Big cock brewing. I've had a couple of their beers before a long time ago and I'll tell you, I was not impressed.
It was at a festival and so we decided to stop in because it's the only brewery in the area that had food we thought will give them another shot. It's been few years. We stopped in, we had a flight, plus a couple of pints and some food. It was actually pretty good. Most of the beers we had, we actually really enjoyed. Which leads me to this topic please. Breweries of any size or age do not bring your garbage leftover beers that you're trying to dump to a festival.
I know you're thinking I'm doing this for free. It's a donation to the fucking Kiwanis Club or whatever. But I didn't drink your beer for like five years because I thought you were shit because you'd brought your leftover kegs to a beer festival. Yeah, I'm the good word. I want that fresh, fresh beer. I want the beer that nobody's going to be able to get at the brewery. I'm going to stand in line patiently and I want the good stuff. I'm with you hugely.
So I'm not saying you got to bring your most fruited fruited sour, your biggest hoppy is hoppy triple IPA, but just bring something fresh and good because legit. I had your beer at a festival. It was garbage. I didn't go back for years. Just spring your good stuff. I know. Yeah, that does happen. You have a bad experience with a brewery or beer, like from a brewery. It's kind of hard to give them a second chance if it's really that garbage and you're like, This is trash. I'm 100% on their level.
Well, it was it was like, really, there's. So much beer out there. There's just no reason. Yeah, it was. It was bad, and. But this experience is good, so clearly they make some good beers. I don't know if brewers have changed over the years or anything else has changed over the years, or if they just brought their old ass trash beer that they were trying to dump because it was an event where they were donating beer, I. Think that's probably the rationale. Like it's cost effective.
Yes, get rid of it anyway. So and I get. It because a lot of yeah, a lot of those events where it's not like a big known beer festival, people just come to get trashed. Like, I know like, you know, fires don't Walker Invitational like yes we got trashed but also we were there to trial the really. All the good beers and.
Guided by a Firestone to be there that's that's like a beer nerds festival like I get it people come to those like, you know, donation charity ones to get cheered because it's $35 and all you can drink. But also it caused me not to go your brewery for like five years. Just. Yeah, and that's a lot of money like an especially if you're you feel that way how many other people feel that way as well?
You know, and Amy. Just kind of reminds me, I had a situation it's like putting good brewery beers and dove bars and letting them sit because, you know, nobody in Dove Bars wants the new hazy IPA on tap. They just want the Miller Lite and the Bud Light and, you know, so then somebody like me comes into said Dove Bar for a fantasy football draft, sees, Hey, wow, you have this local craft beer on tap. That's amazing. I'll take it. And they pour it to you and it looks like a like a heavy poison.
And you go. Oh, hey, what beer is this? And they go, Oh, it's, it's, they're building, it's this, it's the double. It's a hazy IPA. And I look at them with the biggest grin and I go. Oh, okay, I'll take a Bud Light and then I walk to it. It's not the yeast strain that's just sitting in your line, sir. Yeah, I know what that looks like. Yeah. Thank you. So. Like, sir, have you cleaned your line? How about what now? They don't know.
Nobody knows how to clean their lines, first of all, unless they're, like, trained. Like, if you're going to a dove bar, just forget it. Like, do yourself a favor, go the Bud Light route. And you know what I. I wasn't even going to drink. I wasn't even got a drink there. And then I had seen that they had a local brewery on tap. And I said, You know what, I'll have one. He go, he'll go to one. And I regretted every second of it.
But then if somebody actually goes in there and they get that beer like expecting it to be like, Hey, I've heard of these guys. And then they're like. Is this right here? This is bad. And then it gives that brewery bad rap because people don't know what the fuck they're doing. Yeah, true is like a few months ago I was talking about we were at a dinner and the wife ordered a beer from 14 canons that we are very familiar with and she got it. And it was trash.
Not because 14 cans produce a trash beer, but because the thing was probably over a year old incense and dirty laundry. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a and we know what it's supposed to taste like, so it's not going to hold it against the brewery. But it's like if somebody had never had that beer before and that's their first experience, they're not going to go. Yeah, that's rough. That's rough. Yeah. Anyways, the rough world out there. Luckily for me, I live in the craft beer epicenter of New York.
So like most places that serve craft beer, like if it's a restaurant, like they're very, very adamant about keeping the craft beer exactly what it should be. So I have never had that experience. And I think if I was at a place that I was kind of unsure of, I would probably just get like a Tito's in soda with a lime. I don't think you can go wrong with that. Can't go wrong with that. Let me tell. You, I kid that can't do the vodka but can make some. Oh yeah. It puts you up.
Yeah. For could but I would just. Safer for me than craft beer is to be honest. Oh really. Yeah. Yeah. Oh if I'm going liquor I'm going to whiskey or bourbon. I'll die. Let me just. Let me just say. That with you. Everything fucks me up. Yeah, it's basically flex. Basically when you have muscles like that. Yeah. Everything's in effect. Yep. Yeah. Go straight to the gun.
It doesn't metabolize like it should. No. And as you get into your later thirties, it's really starts to slow down the metabolism and. Just you way, big fella it just you wait for thanks. For calling me big. Fella. Big daddy. We will. Delivery. Delivery. Just you wait delivery anyways. Right everybody. Picked it. You're not going to like a big in German. Before we get any further, let us find out what Octoberfest beer. Mel is drinking over there. Just sorry I had to.
It was perfect for me, actually. This is that is exactly my intro music. Can I just say real quick, you touched on how I, I always remember those stupid quotes or movies. I say, well, let's get bombed whenever I go out drinking. And it's always because of that fucking movie. I've seen it over 100 times. I haven't seen it in so long, but I was like, I need to pull that clip for this. Thank you for that. So good. Yeah. Anyways, Mel, so today I am drinking Vampire Brewing Company.
October 1st it is Amazon 5.9% lager brewed with Munich, Maas and Noble Hops. I was fortunate enough to have them send this to me so you know brewing they if you don't know like wake whomp hop hack is in Pennsylvania but it's not far from where I live. It's maybe 25 minutes and it's kind of like an ocean lake, like that's how big it is. Okay, you take your boat out there, you can really have a good time. And it kind of feels like you're on the ocean. Like waves are, like, serious, so.
So if you're drunk, you like going to get really fucked up out there. Well, my my boats docked on a really small lake, and there's just a lot of boat traffic and it's annoying, but this is like wide spread. So you can just be on your own. But like, yeah, the natural currant or whatever makes the waves happen, I guess like pretty wild. But this is a garside compared. I know. I'm like, stop talking, start drinking. This. Yeah, that is really cool. There's really dark.
I was kind of surprised when I poured it. I wasn't expecting it to be as dark as it is. Still like nice clarity to it. Latimer on the nose, huge amount of malt. We'll give it a little sip. As it should be. It does have that really nice sweetness that you would expect when you have that much more in a beer. It's good, it's not bad. It it's very drinkable. And I probably could have two or three of these and be satisfied with that. Well, pros. That's kind of saying a lot.
But you can have two or three. Me being able to drink three beers would probably be good, so I can't read it though. I don't like rating beer lightweight. I don't read. It's fine. I don't I don't rate. All right. I've got a marzen to get to here in a couple of few. But first, ludicrous libation law. This one coming from Germany. It's illegal to ride your bicycle while you know, overly hydrated.
Not only will you lose your license, you will also be ordered to undergo an mpx or a medical physiological assessment like they don't fuck around with your drinking. Well, while biking. Yeah, that sounds like a pretty serious hazard. So, like, you lose your driver's license or your biking license, your. Driver. Driver's license, voting while intoxicated is a thing here in the States as well. So, no. They said. You're driving. Biking, right? Not boating. No, I know.
But I'm saying like you were. Oh. Oh we did just talk about. Yeah. So like, you'll lose your driver's license if you're, like, operating a boat. Like, I know there's a lot of different things that you can lose your license for when operating even mechanical machinery. Wheels doesn't have to have an. You just. Need to like it's show lack of brain usage. Yeah I mean you can get a DUI on a bike or whatever. Yeah. It's kind of shitty. It's like, hey, you know what I'm not doing?
I'm not killing other people. Like, let me kill myself on my bike, on my way home. But yeah. I would say it's a safer route, but still, you know, to lose your driver's license from that. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, I don't know where like, if it's a it's the whole country. Apparently, from what I read. Because if you think about it, like bikers in New York City are insane, I always wonder how people can, like, operate their bike. I recently did New York City triathlon and I had to ride my gear.
Yeah, yeah. You know, no big deal. Swam on the Hudson, so I'm bioactive where I am. So. But when I. When we were riding through traffic, I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, I always thought, these people are crazy because they weave in and out of the cars like psychos. And I'm like, this is really could be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
So I guess maybe I can kind of see a parallel because I'm sure like certain, like cities in Germany are probably very heavily populated with a lot of traffic. And you know, I get it. You got to get like some trouble. But I don't know. It still seems a little off. Yeah, well, and back to your whole boating thing, like, that's that's the one time I don't fuck around. Like, when I'm out on the boat, like I'm not getting drunk. Like, people get drunk on boats and do stupid.
Stupid. Oh, yeah, totally. That's the whole premise of boating. You just got to have one sober person and everybody has to take a turn. Like, I'm. Always that guy. I'm always the sober one. I'm always the driver. I'm always so yeah, it's it's not worth it on a boat. You die so fucking quick. No. And honestly, like the lake that we are docked on, like there's been a lot of traffic, like from people from New York City and we've had some drownings in the past couple of weeks.
So yeah, yeah. People don't know what they're doing. Wear a life jacket, people. Yes, seriously. And don't be super hammered out there. I like I do anyways. Not to bring the mood down. Bring it up a little bit. Change it. Let's change. Let's talk about Flex's Hood over there. Milwaukee Brewing Company is going to be purchased by Chicago's Chicago's Pilot Brewing Company. Apparently, they're going to like foster new breweries and like startups and help people learn to be a brewery.
Okay. Well, that's a fan of Milwaukee Brewing. I mean, they had one of like my O.G. beers, like when I first got into Craft that was a big fan of Amber Ales. And they had Louie's demise, which was a fucking mega malt bomb. You name. It. Oh, yeah, it was great name, great beer, great label that they did a few other beers that I liked. I didn't love anything else from them, but they I mean, they came out good product, they had great beer tours.
I, that emo concert I went to or I got the black guy, I was crushing a bunch. There was a great Soad, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. They had some double IPAs at the venue from them, so me and my buddies were crushing those all night. Sprite. I was probably why I didn't feel. They had no idea what a black. Punch of that whole. Well, whatever happened, who knows? But. Oh, no, it's neither. Here, the. Mojo man off the top rope over there, right? Yeah, right. I wish. You boom. Well know, we're all.
They're all they're whatever breweries they'll be. Well, yeah. My big question is they were they're up for what, $150 million? Was that what it was? It was either 150 or 250 that they were starting at. Yeah. I don't know the final sell price. Yeah. So that just makes me really curious that pilot brewing was able to. It's a big. Space for Glen Nagle that. Yeah. They, they apparently know people in the right place this. Can I interrupt really quick please?
But did you know that there was like 35 counties out of the 50 counties, like the drunkest counties in the United States? Yeah, well, in Wisconsin. Yeah, that's that's every. Year it's like one of the top ten. I hear it's in every I'm just getting it on now with like 35 or like creative. Houses in. Wisconsin. Yeah, that's a real thing. Like every year it's like the drunkest cities are counties all. What else are you going to do? Yeah, yeah. It snows most of the year and.
We just drink a lot and we have like a lot of bars per what is it? We have like three bars, right? Like you wait. You get off work. Yeah. And then you. Have. And it's all Midwest. All 50 of them. We're in the Midwest. Yeah. My guys. My county in. Like your county. Yeah, not in the Midwest. No, exactly. But there is a lot of drunks here. Just assumed. Especially that house. So in Wisconsin we do have bars that open up at 7 a.m..
Yeah. Like when you get off that, that third shift, you know, whatever you're 11 to 7 a.m. or 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., You're, you know, you all your cops at work, the overnight shift, they get to of work and they get to go get hydrated right away. So so pretty normal thing here. Is there a lot of industry there I guess like are there a lot of factories still in like Wisconsin where there would be like a lot of third shift workers, if you will? There's some areas of Milwaukee actually.
There's this big, big foundry that does parts for NASA and space shuttles that is located in Milwaukee County. And that's that's a big, you know, third shifters realm and lots of lots of bars down that main street. So get hammered with the nerds from NASA's. Yeah. Well, so what you're saying is that's why they can't get the launch completed because they're getting trash. Out on the let's go get can't figure. It out. You know what I still blame Massa. And let me tell you, Shania Twain was right.
You think you're a rocket scientist? That don't impress me much. Boom. Wow. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, I think. Well, we'll use that as a as just a tool to move. Right. The fuck on. Yeah. Wow. Learn from this. How do you even move from that? I don't know that. That was good, right? That was good. Hey, Mel. Mel, do you feel like a woman? I always feel like a woman. I feel like a man is when I rip my callus off of my hand lifting. Other than that, everything I am. I am a woman, honey. Through in there.
I don't know any other way to say I don't know any other Schneider Twain songs. Otherwise, I drop another reference where. I just read that that was my my library right there. This one I pulled for Flex. A new study shows that young people purchase alcohol solely on package appeal. I agree. My. When. I'm not young anymore I mean. Yeah yeah. I but the other. Thing but the algorithm. Yes. The algorithm is, you know. It all makes sense.
It's a staple now for I think most people that listen to the Craft Beer Republic, we listen and we're like, okay, like does it there. Should be a fucking tattoo on his arm. But I'll tell you, like, if the packaging doesn't draw you in, like, how are you going to notice it? Yeah. And then he never had the beer before. And because most like millennials and younger people now are like, this has got to look good for the gram or like TAC or what I'm doing. I can wear, I can match my outfit.
I mean, look at what we do in the beer community like we are the jet matching, whatever the can shows us. Yeah, we're label, we're idiots. Sometimes we're so stupid, but like, some of us. Made a whole duck hunt video. That was so good. That's awesome. I love that. It was really. I think I think like always, you know, it's like when people say like, oh, you know, like don't read a book by its cover. No, the first thing you see is the cover. Of course, that's going to draw you in. So I agree.
I just hope that they're. Yeah, yeah. I just hope they start to like research a little more like look more into the beer once they start getting into and be like, All right, let's find a cool can and good beer inside of the. Yes, that's what I would like. The one to punch, if you will. Yeah, it's necessary. You learn that in your thirties. Yeah. But then also make sure the ABV is worth the money. You know, it's right. It's a one, two, three punch.
Right? Yeah. You get your thirties and you start doing this Bud Light next. I mean, what can I say? 10:00 goes down. All right. Before we get too far into the news, let me talk a little bit about what I'm drinking over here. It's so German, I am drinking heater Allen, which I've never had before. Heater Allen Brewing's Marzen 5% as 23 abv use a 3.8 to an untapped and an 88 on beer. Advocate right on. Ice. They say this is a lighter, lower alcohol version of our popular fall seasonal.
Bob Tober Fess I love that name crisp and malty. This beer is delicious and incredibly food friendly. I will say I got this from table to table. Are you love? You guys can see. It looks a lot like flex's beer in color. It's at the Carmel. It's gorgeous. I have to be perfectly honest on the schnoz. Not the best smell in the world. You got the sweetness that you expect out of a marzen. But there's like this tinny smell that came along with maybe it's luckily.
That didn't I would say maybe it's an old camp. Could be luckily that is there can be date I've not seen one. Luckily that maybe you'll never find a date. Yeah, I do a lot of times. But luckily that that smell did not translate into the flavor because that would have been really, really disgusting. Look, this is your typical marzen. It's sweet, it's malty, it's lower. Maybe you could crush them all day. It's. There's not a lot to say about it. There it is. Love it.
I mean, we all did just have marzen straight. Nobody had a beer. I mean, Gazans are Oktoberfest beer. Yeah, it's like a. Fast beer is as well though. Like they're 24 miles. No. Yeah, they are. But when people say like, I'm going to have the Oktoberfest, it's a marzen. Right? But, but I think it's based on like the area right. Is at this specific location in Germany like that, it's brewed that it can be called the master fest. Or is it how it's brewed? I don't know the answer to you.
We got to we got to ask our beer. Koski. She's the scientist. Oh, we definitely know 100%. Yeah. Nerds, please call in 85. Yeah, let us know. You really tell us. How stupid we are. Please. All right. Back to the news. Drinking in another state collab is a beer collaboration. Not unlike black. It's beautiful. And those type of beer collabs that is raising funds for beverage and alcohol workers who must travel to other states to access abortion care anyways.
Over 40 breweries have already jumped on, unlike the Black is beautiful collab, they are encouraging you to come up with your own recipes and donate to the cause. Interesting. Yeah. So it's not like one beer at every brewery. You can basically do whatever you want as long as you know you donate to the cause when you brew it. Yeah. Anyways, I just thought it was cool. I hadn't heard about this year and already 40 breweries across the country have jumped on. So good on you with the concept.
Greg. Who came up with the concept? You know, somebody who's a better journalist would have found that answer for you. Oh. Greg, you always have the answer. I'm kind of yours. Stuck with me. Tune into next week. When Greg asked where it came from, I actually think. Greg will forget about no. I love where. Find. Breweries get together for causes like this and especially something as large as what this is. It's nice to see the Bureau doing doing some good. So important.
Doesn't just get you drunk. Right. But it should. And then you make an added bonus. Yeah, it's an added bonus, though. All right. Two quick ones before we wrap things up here. First of all, untapped chickens have revealed in the last couple of years consumers are drinking earlier in the day than they were before. Well, do you think that's accurate? Because sometimes I'll check in beers and it's like, oh, I forgot to check that in last night.
So then you'll go on your untappd in the morning and then check in whatever you drink the night before. So then it maybe just appears that way. Now, here's the thing. You could be correct, but also this started to turn into 2020. So I'm wondering how. Yeah, during lockdown, people just like it. Here I am. Lunch break working from home that. People are still working from home where they're like, oh, 2:00. I can crack a beer. Yeah, two to hour. Meeting at work.
Obviously I'm a nurse, but I know like on my days off, like, for sure, like that's kind of gotten engraved in me a little bit is that I can drink earlier. Go to the local bar or wait for. Lolly in the morning. Have a beer. Yeah. My lunch dates. Yeah. I mean, Flex takes himself to lunch, gets burger fries and a beer every Monday. Every Monday I. Do the same thing. I love it. If I'm on Monday mornings, like data like a day, whether. It's do you day, you know. Like yeah.
Do you bill do you want to Monday. Just. Or do you want to. Okay, tell me more. Greg. It's like I work 9 to 5 Monday through Friday. You don't get to do that kind of stuff. But there you go. I work 9 to 530. Oh, yeah, you son of a bitch. You work for the man when they with this some fun facts about October fest it just seemed fitting to their very first October fest was held on October 12th, 1810 at SIC Munich, Germany. Yes. Over the past 209 years, October Fest has been canceled only 24 times.
And I must clarify, this article is written in 2019. Does not include COVID. So 24 or 25 times. Yeah. And for reasons like cholera outbreaks or war, they say, yeah, I think they canceled. Wait, you. Saying 28 cholera outbreak. Yeah, 2021. It was canceled, man. That's so Oregon Trail. It is. Brittany died of dysentery. The festival makes the city of Munich $1.43 billion in tourism money every year. Completely believe that.
Yeah. 6.3 million people attended October Fest in 2018, but the most attended festival was in 1985, when 7.1 million people showed up. Is that because the Bears won the Super Bowl? Maybe so, yeah. Clearly they were there. They were rapping on the shuffle in October. But yeah, there are 38 different beer tents and some can fit as many as 11,000 people. Into one beer tent. That's a big ass beer tent. Holy crap. Yeah, it's a huge festival here. You're right.
1.98 million gallons of beer are consumed during the 16 day festival. That's hot. Yeah, over 101,000 beer mugs were confiscated from patrons trying to sneak them out in 2018. Oh, so you can't do that. I guess now. I guess you got to buy official ones or something. Bullshit. Yeah. You can take them home even after you buy them. I don't know about that. I just. I think you're discouraged from stealing them. Yeah, over 510,000 whole roast chickens and over 60,000 sausages are eaten at October Fest.
A lot of the sausage in 2018, 840 passports, 460 wallets, 350 phones and 300 keys turned up at the lost and found. Wow. You guys keep your shit together. You know, fanny pack. Right? But don't look that. Bad when rule. Lederhosen, you might think it's a bunch of tourists, but 70% of attendees are actually from Bavaria, Germany. I would go if I live there. Right. What did you? Of course would assume so. Yeah. So unless you were over it, you're like, I'm over this.
Or I guess yeah, it these fucking Americans keep running our. Yeah, stop coming here. We don't want you. Yeah. And then finally for Americans, it's not so cheap. The estimated cost for an American to get to October 1st is $5,000. Yeah, that's a lot of money. I mean, I think if you're staying, like, you probably stay for 7 to 10 days back to. So it's like that's cheaper than your Disney vacation. What are you talking about? I've been to Germany. That is. Cheaper than. Let's go to Germany.
Leave the. Kids behind. We're leaving. Let's go. Three of us. No, we should do. Let's go to Finland in the UK. Yeah. Stop off at October. That's pretty legit. I'm into it. I very than that gas up. That's still your number one fan girl. Always and forever. Let's gas it up let's go Will sneak in some suitcases. I'm very small. I can't do it. She's tiny. You're flexible in there now. Let's leave it all here. Give me an air hole. Just give me an air hole so I can breathe.
Well, it's like a straw through the zipper. Probably be better than lip reading on this podcast from this. Microphone. Will be less. Like. Breathing out of everything. That's what made Greg laugh tonight. Unbelievable. I know Greg is like, I'm very unimpressed. You're very boring. You're snoring. I do have to tell you, guys have really quick story that has nothing to do with anything we're talking about. Speaking of air holes and breathing, we talked.
I know I just brought up a story, but I came. I talked about the boat. So one day I am laying on the dock. It's three kids. I'm reading a book. To the big dog. And then all of a sudden I feel like someone's watching me. And I kind of hear breathing like I look around. I don't see anything. I'm like, Okay, you're crazy. Go back to your thriller book. I start reading again and sure enough, I'm like, I definitely hear breathing and I look around again. I'm like, Why am I hearing breathing?
Third time down, back to my book, all of a sudden it was like a hundred year old snapping turtle head in my face. She was coming up for air and just like breathing. I was like, Holy shit, that girl was was £175 snapping turtle that I had to call Lou. And I was like, Please help me. I don't know what to do. This dinosaur is going to chop my head off.
So just also, if you are on those lakes, you know, and your boating, be careful to those turtles because they last a long time and they breathe really heavily in your face. Well, at least you can hear them coming. It was really scary. I was like, Why? That's exactly how I sounded. This whole background is how she sounds in my ear. Yes, it sounds like Mel on the show. I think we should name the turtle. Mel. Basically, yeah. Wow. You 170, £375 turtle. That's crazy.
As you just he had to get like he had to get help to get her out of there and he released her somewhere else and she ended up like on the other side of Lake. She ended up coming back and just making her bed again. I was like, Well, this is. My sleep. Who am I to say for something? Oh, dear. Well, with that. Story and then. Hit some music and wrap things up. Yeah, right here. We will say hi to Vanessa over at. ESA. Haven, ESA. And we'll say thanks to Mel for hanging out with us
and for making her computer work. Yes. And for all the technical difficulties. Exactly right. I'm a country girl in a big. Living in a lonely world. Oh, wrong song. Thanks for hanging out with us, Mel. Please come back more often with less technological problems. I'm going to buy myself my own. Mike said. Let's do this. Let's make it happen. Let's crowdfund Mel's microphone. That will be hard.
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