Don't Buy This Beer

since you have a story behind your beverage, Flex, we'll do yours first. Yeah, or we can just never do it. He's actually worried he's gonna forget it, that's why.

Yeah, very paranoid now. Welcome in, everybody! It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking, thanks for joining. I am Greg, and I'm being joined by the man who lets his kids pick out his beer, and that is Flex. What's up, big fella? It's a perfectly normal Midwestern thing to do.

In fact, it's abnormal that they're not drinking it. Right, exactly. They even have the cashiers give them tootsie rolls. Do they really? Yeah, absolutely. Can you still sign a note for them to go down and pick you up beer, even though you're not there? I think they gotta be like 12 for that. Give it a couple years. They have standards. It'll be sitting them on beer trips. 10 is a little too young for that.

Oh, and then from the Midwest of California, we're being joined by the shady sailor herself, and that is Erica. What's cracking? Not much, everyone. I was definitely one of those kids who walked to the store to get my mom's cigarettes,

so that's a, yeah, that's a real thing. Wow, I would never fly here in California. I don't care what year it is. Yeah, that's so weird memories. Yeah, I was trying to think. I don't think I ever, I don't think I ever got to do that. You got to? Yeah, it's a cool treat because your mom will give you an extra nickel for it now and later. Yeah, my parents didn't smoke, so I didn't get the opportunity to try it.

The closest like getting the extra nickel thing I came to was like my dad would get hammered and I'd go ask him for a couple bucks to like run over to Carl's Jr. At the time, we lived really close to Carl's Jr. It'd be like midnight there, open lane. Like, "Hey, I got a couple bucks for a couple of like dollar cheeseburgers, you know, and so I only have a dollar." And I'm like, "All right, I'll make it work." And I'm like 20. Dig through the couch. Yeah, so that happened a couple times.

Yeah, thanks drunk dad. So that happened a couple of times, but let's not talk about that. He listens to the show. I hope he texts too after the show and says, "You're welcome." He's gonna be like, "You owe me 18 bucks." And you didn't bring me any? Yeah, like why didn't you bring some back? Give me a dollar for every brewery in North Dakota that Flex didn't know there was. Fair. Perfect. Sold. I'll even throw in the ones he did know about. All right, so much to get to tonight.

I've got some research to talk about. We got some booze news to get to. Some more follow-up from the Anchor sale that we talked about last week. Drop Anchor. Drop Anchor, not trow. And should have been the headline there. Oh yeah, that'll be the name of the show.

Drop Anchor, not trow. I'm sure that will attract all the listeners. And so much more. But before we get to anything else, and before I forget, once again, let's ask the most important question of the night. 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 TongueJobber. In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking? You know, every time I hear that, it just makes me wonder when you sent this to this guy. It's like, what the fuck is a TongueJobber? Yeah, he definitely took that one home to his friends. Was like, dude, guess what requests I got today? I hope he Googled it. You know, it's just like, do you know where it like derived from?

This is where it's like, you know, like a thing of a jigger bobber, right? Like, uh, sure. I mean, is that a Midwest? But that was just a youth thing. It's not like a Midwestern thing, right? No, like nobody actually says TongueJobber. Right. But it's like, oh, what's that jobber over there? Bank of a bobber. Yeah, so it's like your tasty thing,

like your TongueJobber. Your tasty thing. That sounds like something else. Yeah, it's just a thing that does the tasting. Well, I'm sure it's, uh, it can't be the weirdest request he's received for voiceovers. You know what? That makes me feel better because you're absolutely probably right. Yeah. Hopefully top 10. So fun beer story here. Blacklist Brewing Company. Um, I hate them.

That was a fun story. Yeah, um, they, they swindled me pretty good a few years back, man. Um, I bought Blacklist Brewing. This is probably about five years ago and it was their hazy IPA or juicy IPA. One of those that, uh, I was pretty psyched to get it. Right. I like Midwest beer. I don't even just like, you know, Wisconsin beer, but I like, you know, the mid, Minnesota, Illinois, you know, just represent all the good Midwest beer.

Right. So I got home and I poured out a can and I'm like, all right, let's get this. This hazy IPA a try. It was fucking terrible. It was a can full of malt and it tasted like burnt garbage. And I hadn't bought their beer since. Wow. Maybe the shits too. I don't remember. It was five years ago. So probably, uh, so one of those things that you don't want to remember is like the multi shits. You know, the real thing. Yeah. If you're backed up, just eat a spoonful of malts and noted.

So, so any weasels, um, I broke my own algorithm. Uh, I, I bought a beer solely based on canner. So I showed this to you guys already,

but it's called it's nectar on prime. It's cool. And it's got a pineapple transformer creature on it. It's a really sweet, uh, hops all in the background and it says new England IPA. So it doesn't say juicy. It doesn't say hazy, but new England's are a little fruitier. They're murkier. Um, and this one, what does it say here? Nectar on and mosaic cops. So that's another reason I bought it. Cause those are both banging hops, right? Yeah, sure. Mosaic fucking classic nectar on.

Upcoming, you know, nice aromas, nice, nice flavors. So the old on tap, this must be pretty new to it, right? So three 55 check-ins it's at 3.89. So it's can't be too terrible. Sure. The description reads calling all hop heads. Nectar on prime has been sent here to save the human race from a severe lack of juicy. Hazy. Here we go. They're saying that juicy, hazy goodness. Roll out this new England IPA with nectar on a mosaic hops will sure transform your taste buds. See what they did there.

Man, that was pretty good. That was pretty good. Well, we'll, uh, take a little sniffing stuff. This is one of the few times that flex has not tried the beer before the show starts. Oh yeah. Can we please. Yes. That definitely has to be mentioned is the reason I'm reviewing first today, which I never do. Is because I,

I didn't want to taste the beer until I reviewed it. So, um, it does, it does smell a little bit multi. It looks hazy. It's definitely hazy. It's, it's actually got a nice color to it. Yeah. Um, when I correct appropriate, it was real pungent. Um, like citrus aromas spewing out of the can little pineapple in there. Um, and now it, it just smells like the malt. So I can't wait. I'm really nervous about this. I mean, five years in the waiting, you have not given them a chance. I mean, yeah.

For five years. And here we, here we go. Warm up the old tongue jabber here. Don't do one wrong to flex. See guys, five years. It's dark in there. Without further ado. Baited breath. I've seen worse phases. I don't know. I'm thinking this is going to go dark. Okay. Oh, don't do that. Oh, no, you don't take another drink. He's for the research required. Okay. So there is some lingering malt undertones here. It has some spritzy carbonation to it.

It is a lighter body IPA, and it's only like a 6.7% ABV. Um, so you expect that a little bit with the light body, you get some citrus, you get pineapple coming through, uh, after that, there's some real nasty bitterness to this. Like nasty in a good way. No, like super lingering. Like, like the malts making it stick. And like, I'm going to have to brush my teeth. It's not going in the right direction. This is, uh, this is a poor purchase. Poor purchase.

That is so they have not redeemed themselves. Zero light of the, the transformer theme is cool. That was cool. Right. Can art was cool. Can art was cool from Minnesota. You know, it's like in the Midwest. Um, how much was the four pack? I told you I broke my algorithm. Oh, no, they spanked you on this one. I mean, it's, it's on, it's under 7% and I spent like $18 on the four. Yeah. Yeah. Wisconsin money. That's like 24. Or compared to California, $300.

Yeah. Yeah. So it only hit one of your three pillars of the algorithm. Yeah. This was, uh, and it was, it reflected that I can admit to my mistakes. Takes a big man. Yeah. I was simply, you know, just trying to, trying to give a brewery another shot. And, uh, you know, I'll just never, ever, ever do it again. It's so it's not like five years, then 10 years. It's like five years. No years. No. Yeah. No. I mean, we're done. Yeah. Two years.

I mean, I'm going to finish this just because that's, you know, mama didn't raise no fool. Oh God. It's so bad. It's so, this one isn't, you know, it's not like zero out of 10, but it's like a two out of 10. Ooh. But you're not going to pour it out. You're going to drink it. Yeah. Cause I mean like money don't grow on trees. Yeah. Touche. I mean, it does, but yeah. Mondays are good days. You know, going for the second round. Hey, can I bring up something transformer related?

Yeah. So Megatron, you guys were telling me. So like at universal studios when we were there, um, cause this was like a transformer beer. Um, did you just pound that?

Yes. Excuse me. Oh, and you were talking about the malt shits, right? So here we go. Hey, can we get flex a new microphone, please? This one is destroyed. Seriously. Oh my God. That face. That's terrible. You know, I heard they recently decided to add more hops to it. You need to chase that. I have nothing else. Oh no. Why? Oh, that's bad. It's like my, I don't have taste buds anymore. Do we need to pause? So you can get another beverage or you might need to. He's doing like the.

Yeah, I'll be all right. Okay. Ooh, man. That was hard to watch. That was terrible. Yeah. Don't buy this beer. That doesn't look really cool,

but just don't do it. Oh, well, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was gonna, I was gonna tell you about Megatron. Okay. Cause this is pretty hilarious. You know, they have different transformers at universal studios.

That'll be all dressed up and like, they'll stand in front of this one area and they'll interact with the guests and get their photos taken. Well, Megatron is a total asshole. That's his thing, right? So he is like hilarious, just riffing and ripping on everyone from like two year old kids to like 70 year old men. So it's like in front of us, we're waiting in line to get our photo taken with them. There was a little kid that that was dressed like Luigi.

You know, there's like Mario and Luigi cause like that's part of universal too. And these kids are like three or four years old. And he's looking at that kid. And this is a gigantic robot, like probably double my size. And I'm five foot 12. I mean, he's huge. So he is just like, "Hey, so you're Luigi, huh? So you're like second best, huh, little buddy?" And he's just like going off on this little kid. And thank goodness the kid had like a good sense of humor.

So he'd like puff up his chest and look at him. He's like, "Oh, you little squirt." And he's like flicking him. And I mean, it was hilarious. He was ripping on everyone. Have you heard about this? Pretty fun job. I have not. I've never heard of it, no. He was so witty. And just like right on with every person that came up, he would just have something to say. Like, you know. So anyways, you got to find Megatron at Universal. It was quite entertaining. I want that job.

I want to just sit there and get paid to talk shit to people. That's all he does. Yeah. I give it away for free right now. I would just try to insult his lack of metal genitalia and see what his comeback would be after that. Oh, yeah, right. I wonder because he was getting like, I was like, he was a little edgy. So he may bring it back. You never know. I was impressed. I mean, it's Universal. It's not Disney, right? So it's true. You got some room to play.

The Simpsons and like Duff Beer and all that stuff. So you never know. Ain't no rules in Transformers. We ain't classy in Universal like we are at Disneyland. Do they have any good beer at Universal? All the beer I had was like the Duff Beer, which was fun and, you know, whatever. Just kind of light beer. So yeah, I don't know. Otherwise, that's all I had. Nostalgia-ish, right? So much.

I mean, the Simpsons, come on. I mean, that's my childhood. Talk about watching things before you were ready. I had Duff Beer in Spain when I was in Spain years and years ago. Seriously? We were at this place and they had Duff Beer. And I'm sure huge trademark infringement happened. Right, rip off, right. Like, there's no way they were paying for the rights. But somewhere there's a picture of me on Facebook from like 2009 drinking Duff Beer in Spain.

Whoa. I was impressed that actually exists, right? That they actually made a Duff Beer. Of course, they needed to. Which in Spain, it's called El Duff. Good point, good point. A concert that we were recently at had like Danny Elfman, which I was like, it's like a rock concert, all-day rock concert. And I'm like, Danny Elfman. Boingo or something? Yes. But he's also a composer, right? And he like composed all those like weird music. "Nightmare Before Christmas." Yes. That's what he's from.

Oh my gosh. He's the weirdest dude. He's also the voice of Jack Skellington. Voice of Jack Skellington. Yes. And he's like super pale redhead dude with tattoos. And he was wearing sweatpants. Like someone like if he went by in a van, I'd be like, "Dude, don't go near that van." Yeah. But he was singing. And anyways, he did the Simpsons theme song. Like, oh, yeah. So they at the concert. Like he did the original one? Yes. No shit. I didn't really like that.

Yeah, they were like we were just sitting there eating like burger or whatever. He's like, "Well, let's just chill during Danny Elfman. You don't need to be up close for Danny Elfman. You just listen." And they have a little orchestra there. And it was like, doo." I was like, "Oh my gosh." And then you think about the credits. It was like, "Oh, Danny Elfman." So, so much is connected. That is so bizarre. I'm sure Deb is screaming at her podcast player right now. She's a huge Simpsons fan. Like,

"You didn't know it was fucking Danny Elfman." I know, right? Oh, I love the Simpsons. I love when Deb gets mad too. Right? Mad Deb is a blast. I love it. She talks good shit. You stand no chance. No, nobody stands chance. Yeah. She would not give you five years, would she? No. No. She'd give Megatron a run for his money, that's for sure. Right. Yeah. Well, Flex, any research besides shit beer going on in your hood? Oh, man. Oh, there's Eagle Park did a glitter beer.

Heffy Weiss just loaded with edible glitter, you know? So it looks like you're pissing out an STD. it's like a Pride Month thing. I see. It was interesting because I've never had a beer completely filled with edible glitter. Sure. You'd think you would taste the glitter or it would be somewhat, you know, like- Do you feel it on your tongue at all? No, you don't feel anything.

So then the fun part after that is the bartenders started pouring out some of the seltzers that they do and then they would just do like a little bit of the Heffy Weiss with the glitter in it and then it would make everything sparkle. So that was kind of fun because then they were playing around with that, like all beer sciency. So yeah, but other than that, we were just trying to finish out work weeks and kids just got out of school, you know, last week. So just- Surviving that.

Yeah, it's all survival of the fittest right now, man. Because if I get a second to myself to just take a breath, it's time worth breathing, you know? Yeah. Start pounding those vodka bottles that are in your attic and- Yeah. Try to cut down on the beer. Probably take those out when my wife's not home next time. It'd be really funny if one time you just like got a bunch of empty vodka bottles and like laid down on the floor like you were passed out and just had them all around you.

Which I guess, so I got to tell you this too, so everybody remembers this vodka thing, right? Like in my inner circle,

a couple outer circles and we have this crew of dudes, you know, who every Monday we'd be at Eagle Park and everybody's different, you know? And like this person talked to this person and you know this person because they're associated by this guy and,

John,

single guy does photography for like a hobby, right? So he always brings his laptop up, huge nerd, always brings his laptop up and he like just edits pictures and he actually usually drinks soda and rarely ever drinks alcohol, but he will get like lunch and without a doubt, like he will make some quirky remark regarding me having a vodka addiction. Well, we all know you do. And it just, it makes me laugh so hard that that's like sunk in this person's mind.

Somebody who I see every two weeks and yeah, just fucking wild to me. I just can't get over the fact that there was a fucking stash of empty vodka bottles in your walls, like not a small stash either. The best part is, I mean, so this October we'll be in this house for five years. Yeah. Which means it took four and a half years for us to know those are even there. Yeah. If you guys don't know what we're talking about, go back a few, a couple months.

And we also posted a picture on our gram at crappy Republic or multiple pictures of Flex pulling vodka bottles out of the fucking walls. 20 empty vodka bottles in my basement ceiling. Yeah. And only 18 of them were his. You can't make that up. Yeah. Cannot. Cannot. Hey, uh, Flex, you'll be so proud of me. I'm always proud of you. Don't say it like that. Well, I did some workout things. I wasn't like pumping iron or anything,

but. Yeah, did you wear the short shorts? I mean, of course. Uh, Enneagrin. I went from six to midnight. I'm sorry. Enneagrin out here, Enneagrin Brewing started this thing called the logger joggers.

Okay. And it's like a beer running club and they had their first thing, uh, a week or so ago. And, you know, we showed up at like 10 in the morning. We ran a few miles and then we got half off our, our beer. Nice. Sweet. Yeah. Didn't cost anything other than the beer. And, uh, yeah, it was, it was kind of fun. You used to run, didn't you? Like, like a marathons or something like that. Or I've done a couple of Disney half marathons.

And then I, on the second one, I blew out my knee, so I didn't run forever. But then, um, near us, there was this running store that would do these like scavenger hunt runs. And so basically the further you went, the more tickets you got from these scavenger hunts. And then you had to run back by a certain time, enter in, excuse me, all your tickets, and then you win prizes. And they also had beer garden. So I was motivated by both free shit and beer to do these runs.

And then they, for insurance reasons, they stopped, unfortunately. So I'm, I'm excited to have a new reason to run. And I'm part of the logger joggers is super exciting. Yeah. It's a great name to logger. Can you like alliteration, which that's not, I were like, you know, like the rhymey, you know, catchy, you know, the Wayne Wambles kind of shit. As arch nemesis and nemesis, Shane shambles. I like logger joggers.

That's like very fitting for you. I like it. Yeah. So if anybody's out in, in my hood and thousand Oaks, uh, check out integrand for the schedule, but they're going to start off with once a month. They said they might bump it up to twice a month and eventually every weekend. If people are interested in people, I think that's such a cool thing to do. Yeah. A wine bar in our downtown village area here that would do it like every Wednesday or Thursday night or something like that.

And, um, that, that was when we lived in like the, the village area and on the sidewalks all around town, because it was like this, this big circle, um, that was like the community and then like the old historic downtown. And, uh, they had like spray paint arrows and like shit on the sidewalks around the circle. And it was like, it was a big deal. I mean, they had, they would have like fucking 40 people every Thursday night. And we lived right off like the sidewalk route. Oh, that's cool.

You know, just 40 people just fucking running by, you know, different, you know, amount of people in groups. Cause not all 40 runners were sure, you know, the same level, but, uh, yeah, just, uh, anything to incorporate, you know, physicality, people bettering themselves, even if you're going to celebrate it with alcohol. Yeah. It's a longer it's locale.

Honestly, you don't know, uh, if it sparked something, you know, it gets you back going to something that you used to do or makes you realize, well, I feel better doing this or, Hey, maybe if I do this three times a week and, you know, you get the beer present, you know, when you, when you do it once a month or twice a month. And, um, yeah, I, I really do. I think that's so fucking great.

Yeah. And, um, it, it, in fact, it inspired us later that week, we were walking the dog and we're like, why don't we do a little running? So we don't like such assholes at the, uh, jogger, jogger. So, uh, yeah, it was a good time. You know, I'm going to drink either way. I might as well get a little work. I might as well do a little running. That's the first, I didn't know they exist until, um, it was the first event that invited me. My business to come was the sloppy moose running club.

And they have like, like you said, sloppy moves. I don't know. It's like someone's dog's name. They named it after. It was really cute. Um, but they are very legit. They have coordinated shirts and they have coordinated runs and all this stuff, but they had like their award ceremony. And so we had like different neck nosh for like their, their gold medal was like neck nosh. And yeah, anyways, I thought it was really cool. Cause like these people are a real community.

Like they, they don't take themselves too seriously with their running, but they, they, they do do it more than one day a week. But like, it's not like they're jerks about it. Right. It's kind of cool. Oh, you don't do a six minute mile for you flex it. You know, there. No, I can't run. I can't run for shit. So I can't either. I'm around like an 11 minute mile myself. That's a good day for me. You ever see that episode of friends where Phoebe runs? Oh yeah. She just foils around. Super.

Yeah. That's me. That's like, and I'm not even being sarcastic. Like that's a hundred percent me. I remember PE, my PE teacher being like, Whoa, look at crazy legs over there. It's like, yeah, small town. You get away with that shit. So, um, yeah, I'm not a runner. You're like, I'd never learned how to run. I didn't like, like, are you supposed to learn this stuff? Like nobody taught me. I don't know. Pretty natural. Not for me. It's like walking, but faster, you know?

Flex, where were you when I was like in third grade?

I mean, you know what? Now I'm, I I'm intrigued to see how you walk. Yeah. Super like, It's like running, but in slow mo, just her arms. I've seen it. We're walking around GABF and just real slow. Arm flailing, knock things over as I go. Kind of like a awkward orangutan. Like she handed out at least three black eyes. It was really cool. I'm really violent though. She GABF record. Scrongest is everywhere she goes. I own it. You know, when you hit this age, it's like, what do you do? It's true.

I remember when McDreamy was like, I'm so sorry. I'm a doctor. Yeah. He walks in front of me with a sign. Like, you're not concussed. You're fine. Okay. Good. My wife never learned how to walk properly. Who would he taught her? Don't blame me. She's buying them like full confidence. Like here we go. Paper bag. Does not make dreamy on it. Yeah. So, but Hey, you know what?

Not a running show. No, it's not. Or walking. I do enjoy people who still put in the work, you know, and work out and don't take it as such like, uh, just cause you work out doesn't mean you can't drink beer or, you know, there's no reason for that. Whatever it takes to get you to sweat. Right. 100%. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. It's a good time. Whatever gets you a hard man. You're telling me hard. Yeah. That's why I keep flexing around.

And before I forget, because I forgot last week, this week, top listening city of last week, Muskego, Wisconsin.

Come on. I shit you not. That's wild. Is that close to you? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's where Eagle Park is. What? Oh, no shit. Yeah. Hey, how the French fries go? Send them this way, please. We just have fish fries. Is that what you said? How are the French fries? Oh, the French fries. Yes. They're for the fish fries. Fish fries, sure. Fish fries for Fridays. Yeah, exactly. And then some hot ham Sundays. Is that anywhere else? Nope. Just you. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Just you. Just make it sure.

Yeah. But back to the running thing. I will say I did a real nice job fucking up my knees doing all this running lately. Okay. Which made for a fun time wakeboarding over the weekend. I was like, oh, my knees are on fire. But like my core felt better. Like I didn't get as tired as I normally do. Other than my knees wanting to murder me for myself. That's I mean, for the age we are, that's a normal thing. The fact that I can still bend them at all is a miracle.

Like I'm on a daily Advil intake now because of my shoulders. They're just, you know, they're like 100 year old shoulders and a 35 year old body. Yeah. You've done some damage. I bet with all that weight. It's just, you know, it happens, Greg. And yeah, you're telling me, man, you are. My doctor as a kid told me, he's like, you're going to fucked up knees because I grew so quickly. When I was in like sixth grade, I shot up like nine inches.

He's like, your knees are gonna be bad for the rest of your life. I'm like, oh, good. Good news. He's a good doctor. He was right. Do you still see him? No, I don't. I should. I should track him down. I'm like, hey, you're right. Yeah. You know what you're talking about? Yeah. So, gosh, neither of you hit 40 yet either. And you're all complaining. Oh, you have some surprises waiting for you. Cannot wait. My body's already there. I just.

Anyways, knees suck right now, but I did do some more wakeboarding.

I didn't do any beer research wells up in Paso, which I know Firestone's there. Do some beer research. You know what else is there? Some really tasty wines. We drank a bunch of tasty, tasty. Every time you go to Paso, you always hit up the wine. Yeah, it's honestly, we're wine club members at like three or four places up there. So we just between us being wine club members at a couple of places and my sister who lives there now being wine club members at a couple of places. She's married, right?

Did you hear she got married? I don't know if we talked about it on the show or not. Something. Why do I always feel like I'm the last to know? But she's, you know, a couple places. So we do some drinking for free when it comes to wine or discounted at the very least. Really? Yeah. I would fucking drink wine if it was free. Well, I mean, you pay for your member, not your membership. You allotted X amount of bottles per shipment, you know, twice a year, whatever it is.

And then you get a free glass of wine every time you go in the winery. So we'll go use our various discounts and free wines and stuff. Well, I still don't take back. I would still drink wine if it was free.

I'll send you some. But on the way home, we did stop and do a little research at Transmission Brewing in Ventura, California, and we stopped there because they have some of the best fucking wings ever. I love good wings. I am a wing whore. What's your go to flavor? I mean, generally,

like I want a class. I want some fucking buffalo wings. Yeah, I'm good. OK, I was hoping you'd say that they don't do classic wings. In fact, they don't do any sauces for the wings. It's all dry rubs at this place. Generally, I don't hate that. Generally, I'm against it. They do such a good job. Those guys don't. They have a Nashville hot rub that they do. And do they smoke them? They don't smoke them, but they cook them perfectly every time. The Nashville hot is chef's kiss.

It's a little spicy, but it's delicious and pair it with a couple of beers. And I've talked about this before. They have the kids free rooftop deck that you can see the ocean from. We go up there. There's no kids running around. Sorry, everybody with kids. I know I'm one of the few that doesn't have kids, but I would say it's quiet. It's not quiet, but it's, you know, it's not like some. Yeah, it's like Tarantula Hill where they're running back and forth because it's a fucking daycare center.

Rooftops are usually kid free. Yes, it's kid free. You can bring the dog all along Broadway in Nashville. Oh, yeah, I can't take kids. Yeah. I just booked another Nashville trip. Lucky. Oh, shit. TBR Nashville meetup. I know September, baby. Let's do it. Oh, I'll be out of the country in September. Well, tell me you're going to Finland just to check it out. This is like the free tour.

This is like having some negotiations going on. No, no, no. Maybe we can make a stop along the way. I'll ask the pilot to make a left. So, yeah, so I had some had some delicious beers, had some nice ocean views and had some of the best fucking wings around. Nice. So good. It's a good day. It's a very nice day. Real quickly, ludicrous libation law. This one comes to us from Virginia,

where in Virginia state law prevents restaurants from advertising their happy hours in the media. A licensed restaurant may advertise its happy hour special on a sign no bigger than 17 by 22 inches that sign may only note that there is a happy hour or drink specials. However, it may not state what those specials are and the sign may only be displayed during the specified happy hour time. Otherwise, there is no alcohol advertising permitted in windows of places that sell alcohol.

It's like the Krispy Kreme hot and fresh sign. You can only put it up when it's actually happening. Wow. Then you have to make it small. So only young people with good eyes can see it, not people like, come on, none of this makes sense. I just don't understand. Virginia is fucking weird. A bunch of rednecks out there. Yeah, but Virginia is better than West Virginia. Well, yes, you are correct.

I would never be caught dead in West Virginia. All those the mountain people did that scary shit. Luckily, they haven't figured out how to listen to us yet. Yeah, hopefully not. Takes too long on dial up. I don't think they have any breweries. Still interbreeding. Yeah. Yeah. They can't fax a podcast, so they haven't figured it out yet. They can't kill, murder and eat a podcast, so they haven't figured it out yet. Is there any state that we haven't pissed off yet?

We should make a list and make sure we're equal opportunity haters. I feel like Arkansas is like that. They always skate by because we always go to Alabama. anytime you bring up Arkansas, we immediately go to Alabama. Yeah, right. So I think that's where, like, Arkansas, they probably will never talk. I don't think we'll ever talk shit about them. Yeah, we'll never talk shit about those cousin fuckers out there. Wow, there it is. There it is.

Not once will we talk shit about how they definitely have sex with family members. There you go. I thought that was Kentucky, but maybe it's both. So I think it's. I discriminate. Yeah. Arkansas is like Kentucky South or something. I think that's what they call it. It's just like a general region thing. It doesn't have to necessarily be one state. It's just like, It's kind of like Tornado Alley. Right. There you go. Except it's cousin fucking. In Bread Alley.

I like it. This is why she's not allowed to tell people that she's on the show when she's on the show. Am I not? She brought it up. Oh, that's why my followers keep dropping every time. Damn it. Oh, sorry about that. All right. We should quickly move on and talk about what we're doing quickly. Good name for a beer. He calls to the bullpen for beer.

Yeah. Oh, I got to pull together over here. All right. You need some help, please. All right. So Greg and I are drinking the same beer again this time. Yes. Yeah. Oh, delicious. Is it a fresh can of cousin fucking? You don't know what I had to do. No, so sad. There's some inbred worms on this can see. So we've got. That's probably actually mega gummy worms. Hazy double IPA. So if you like, if you've been on the gram and seen any beer person on the gram,

they've probably had the gummy worms beer from New Glory Brewery. Which we've had on the show, I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we have. Yeah. Which is in our in my region here, which is not the cousin humping region of the United States. I'm a super solid beer. It's a very it's very good beer. Super solid. So this mega is a nine percent alcohol beer. It's an imperial double New England three point seven three on untapped, which I think it deserves a little better, but I do get kind of partial.

So you can tell me what you think, Greg, be honest. But and then only had one hundred and thirty check ins. Do you want me to read the can? Sure. Because it's the same as what's on. So we've skillfully captured the essence of your beloved gummy candies. And using this hazy dip with big, juicy tropical flavors of candied guava and passion fruit. No gummies were harmed in the making of this beer. Prepare for the mega bold, mega juicy experience with mega gummy worms.

Yeah. Yeah. And it would be pissed if they. Oh, I know. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I love all the gummy worms. It makes me think of when I was a kid, like actual worms, because I was a bumpkin growing up. You were on the last episode or maybe it was this episode I would get my mom cigarettes. But like we would stick a pitchfork in the ground and you'd like fling it and all the worms come up and then you use them to go fishing. Is that a thing? That's totally a thing.

You like fling the pitchfork and like the worms start coming up off the ground. We would just lift up rocks. Yeah, we could do that. Big rocks. You lift up a big rock or like somebody had a random center block in their yard. Less efficient. I mean, that'll get you like one worm, two worms. But if you really want to get like some night crawlers, you got to fling the fork, baby. But back to the beer. So. All right. That was dirty. Oh, it's so good. I really enjoy this beer.

It had a pretty decent head when I poured it, but it fizzled out quickly. Yes. It's a pretty peachy yellow tone color. Very nice color. It smells like passion fruit to me. Yeah, I get like sugared or candied fruits like a passion fruit kind of smell. Agree. Tongue jobber. Very similar. That's what I was going to say. It totally follows the aroma. It's just nice, nice, smooth mouthfeel. A delicious beer, in my opinion. Yeah. I don't know that I get guava necessarily. That's in the description.

But big flavor of candied fruits of the passion fruit. Maybe like, I don't know. I don't see pineapples. Not like mango or something else. Tropical in there. Right. I'm getting it's very candied flavor. I agree. Because when I was sniffing, But I cannot nail what that candy is. It's not necessarily. I don't know. Maybe it is gummy worms. Maybe it's very candy worms. Yeah. The other thing is the mouth feel very low alcohol burn for a dipa. And the mouth feels so soft.

It really drinks like a pail. Yes, it's pretty dangerous at 9%. And I was a little surprised that it wasn't a pail. Because the actual the gummy worms is a hazy pail. So I thought this would just be. If I can jump the shark that are not the shark of the fence. And yeah, they just went hard on this one and made it a dipa. But it feels so smooth on. Yeah, I could drink several of these and no problem. Yeah. And this is Flex's Wheelhouse 9%. This is for me. This is a nightcap. I'm done. I'm toast.

Get out of here buddy. Show's almost over. We can hear it in your voice. Can you? Uh oh. Oh dear. Well, let's see if we can hear it in my reading. Let's do a little news before we get out of here. Creature Conference CEO is going to be switching.

They're switching CEOs. Chris Herron, the current, is stepping down. Adam Beauchamp is taking over. The CEO transition was announced to employees during a company wide town hall. Herron had served as a CEO role since Creature Conference founding in 2014. He will serve in an advisory role during the transition. See how that goes. And Flex's Hood Lakefront is going to acquire Public Craft.

Following their bankruptcy filing. Huge. And they're not changing the name or anything. Nope. They're going to operate it as a separate entity. They'll still be Public Craft. Still have their same spot. All that good stuff. Lakefront was right next to us, Greg, at GABF, huh? I thought that was kind of cool. They had that good margarita beer. Yeah, it's like a margarita goza or something like that. I had that. Yeah, I had that many a times. Yeah, super good.

Yeah. You know, speaking of GABF, the Brewers Association says they're pulling back GABF sessions to three.

They're eliminating one of the Saturday events. And they're allowing brewers to pour RTD cocktails. Dangerous. Yeah, I could read all the details and whatnot, but that's the gist of it. Session on Thursday night, Friday night, and now Saturday from noon to 430. So now is there a category for RTD cocktails? Is that a thing? No, they're also not going to categorize everybody by state or by region. It used to be like by region. And you're like, oh, here's the Midwest.

And here's all the breweries from the Midwest, like all 18 from North Dakota. But now they're not going to have 20. Oh, that's right. All 18 that we didn't know about from North Dakota. They're going to do it alphabetically now grouped by experience area of their choice. The areas will be a sports themed area, a beer garden theme, a beer and beyond themed area, a backyard slash live music area, which is kind of where Neck Nosh was parked last time. Yeah, I would not do that spot again.

And they're also going to have a Halloween themed area since it's taking place in October. Hey, that's a fun thing to do. Oh, I love Halloween. Yeah, Anne Obenshain did this too. She's the one who made an order for me a few years ago. That's interesting. And that they're cutting Saturday night out. That kind of sucked. Actually, I thought Saturday night would be like the party time, but I remember it kind of being like the fizzle because everybody had ran out.

Yeah, I remember Saturday night was probably the slowest of all the sessions because everybody had run out of beer or had run out of steam and wasn't drinking as much. I think it's honestly, I think it's a good idea. I think there were too many sessions last year when we were there. What was your busiest sales-wise session? Was it the Saturday morning one? Friday night when you and Sterling and all them went to dinner. Oh, yeah. We could not keep up Friday night.

And then Saturday morning wasn't too bad. You were there. It wasn't too bad. But Friday night was... Saturday morning was pretty busy. That was Saturday morning was the one that Shannon and I sold some pretzels for a while. It was the members only one. And they were pretty steady then. But Saturday night, which I originally remembered as like the party time, whatever. I don't know if it evolved because that was pre-COVID or whatever. This year, I was like, "Oh,

this kind of sucked." Everyone was out of beer. The kind of mood was like a little more grumpy and down.

The music sucked. The whole thing was like, "Eh, they can take that." Let's be honest. A lot of the music sucked. A lot of the music sucked. And we were right across from it. And it was blasting. I remember trying to sell pretzels and trying to hear people talking. Taking their orders and whatnot. And all I could hear was the fucking shit band playing 20 feet away. Yeah, I'd be like a trombone or something. You're like, "What the hell?" That's a huge mood killer is just shitty music.

Yeah. We're there to party and drink beer. And it's like, "What the fuck are you playing?" Yeah. Just get some cover bands in there. Yeah. They needed something a little more... There was one night where the jams were really like... If you're doing an event like that, don't play original shit. No. Like nobody wants to hear that. Play stuff people can sing to or dance to or whatever. Like stuff people know. Yeah. If it includes a trombone, it's probably just not a good idea.

Unless your name is Trombone Chody, we don't want to hear it. Okay. Trombone Chody. Chody. Chody. He's from New Orleans. Oh, okay. Trombone Chody. He's a trombone player. He's good. He did a song with the Foo Fighters. All right. So yeah, I'm all for it. I thought the Saturday night session was kind of lame. That was my first trip to GABF. And I was like, "Really?" Like I thought it was going to be a party. And it was not a party. It was like a... I know, me too. It was not. Yep. Good call.

The members session Saturday morning was surprising. I thought it'd be a little nerdier than it was. It wasn't. I think people were the shittiest at that session. They got the drunkest. Which is crazy because it started early. So it's almost like they went to Mimosa Brunch. And then rolled into GABF. And they were already toasting. Probably what happened. Yeah, they probably did. Yeah. Because nothing says smart like pre-gaming a beer festival. Oh, totally. Like there's not enough to offer.

It's like, "They may run out." Well, actually... To be honest, it did happen in the evening. But still. Well, every session... So I think they were told to bring like, you know, one keg of each beer per session. Do you remember every session like Radiant and Pure and all these really good California breweries that we kept trying to go over and hit? They'd be tapped out of their really good kegs within a half an hour. And every session, they had a new fresh keg of it. Yep. But...

Shit. Yeah. You know, California really represented. Oh, they did. They had all the good beers. It's kind of made... Like it's a good way to really see what's out there. And you're like, "Oh, man, we're killing it." And then Wisconsin, of course. Like Front had a great setup. Yeah, they did. I think that was only Wisconsin Brewery though. Yeah, there's not too many that had out there. it was just funny. There's no Eagle Park. None of the ones I wanted to see there.

No, it was literally the closest one to us. I think though, Greg, right? Was it like... Yeah. Yeah, I was there at least six times. Yeah. Greg had to send me a selfie of being in front of it. I thought that was neat. Yeah, I took a picture in front of it with Mini Flex. Yeah, I think I was drunk there. I'm like, "You guys know Flex me a beer?" Sorry, you may know him as Mr. A Beer.

Mr. A Beer. I have to... Hey, I got to do this. I went up to the Sam Adams booth and someone recognized me because I was part of their entrepreneurial thing a year or two ago. And they were like, "She's part of the Sam Adams blah, blah, blah. Can we take a picture with her?" I was like, "That was kind of cool." That is cool. I don't know. Like... I like that. All right. I just came to get a beer and see what they had. Right. Good for you. That's awesome. It was... That was fun.

It was good moments there. Yeah. All right, real quick. Anchor.

We talked about last week, the sale of Anchor. The price of just the real estate has been revealed. They won't reveal the price of everything. But initially, the real estate was listed at $40 million. And apparently, they got quite the deal. The 2.1 acre property in Porchero Hill neighborhood sold for $9.9 million. The other spots nearby, the real estate had been broken up into four lots and then sold into two separate deed transactions for about $4.95 million each.

So roughly $20 million, about half off. Yeah, for the Bay. I mean, I don't know how... They're not 2.1 acres. I mean... It's a good deal for San Francisco. It kind of does. They better have some Chobani yogurt as snacks. They're going to do a collab. Behind the bar. Kind of like a kombucha thing, but with yogurt. They're like, "Yeah, use our cultures in the yogurt to brew beer." Dry cultured IPA or... Oh, sick. Sounds disgusting. I don't want to do with this one.

A Canadian woman was diagnosed with auto brewery syndrome.

You know, we've talked about the whole thing where you eat bread and you get drunk. You have auto brewery syndrome. What? We've talked about this in the past. One guy ever has been diagnosed with it. Well, now, a Canadian woman has been diagnosed with auto brewery syndrome.

A woman who repeatedly presented to the hospital with symptoms resembling alcohol intoxication, including slurred speech and extreme daytime sleepiness, was eventually diagnosed with a rare condition called auto brewery syndrome. Over two years, she visited the emergency department seven times, often being told she was drunk despite insisting she had never consumed alcohol. Each time, elevated levels of alcohol were found in her blood and on her breath.

Over two years, the female patient visited the emergency department complaining of extreme daytime sleepiness and slurred speech. She had been on several antibiotic courses for recurrent urinary tract infections alongside a proton pump inhibitor to reduce the amount of acid in her stomach. Gotta look out for those proton. They're crazy. Despite not drinking alcohol, the woman also had elevated blood alcohol levels and alcohol in her breath.

Eventually, an emergency doctor suspected the ABS, and she was treated with antifungal medication and advised to follow a low carb diet. This treatment significantly improved her condition. However, her symptoms recurred when she reintroduced carbs into her diet, necessitating a return to low carb regimen to manage her symptoms. And she was diagnosed with auto brewery syndrome. Interesting. Yeah. That's like two people now. She's gotta be from Dildo, Canada. Oh, Dildo Bay. She wishes.

Don't we all? What a crazy disease. I know. Wouldn't it be nice to be such a cheap date? Just have a slice of bread and you're hammered. Dang. Don't go to the Cheesecake Factory because you'll probably get alcohol poisoning. Yeah, absolutely. We'll go out in a stretcher. That fucking bread signing me up. But you'll have a good ass time. Look, Cheesecake Factory, mostly garbage. But that bread. That bread. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah. So good. The dark brown bread, isn't it? Yeah, that's the one. That's the one. And they sell it at the store. It's not even I don't know. They do close. Yeah, they do. I've seen it. Now it's got to be fresh and covered in just cholesterol inhibiting butter. And then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So good. And then you're full and then your plate comes out and you're like, you have to like hibernate butter in the bread, though, because they give you like the cold butter packets.

Which is can we just talk about how fucking stupid it is? Right. For any place that serves bread to give you cold butter packets as hard as a rock. Take that shit out an hour early. Oh, I'm still traumatized from the time my mom, like, put it in her bra and I didn't see her do it. Hey, we're all out to dinner. What's your mom up to? Right. How's your mom? Lex is a real hankering for butter now. Yeah, right.

Oh, anyways, it was like we did a ladies weekend, all the women in our family and like we're out to dinner and my mom whips like a pad of butter out her bra and I was like, Mom, what you doing? She's like, Hey, I knew it was going to be cold and I needed to warm it up. I had no idea. Hey, Mom, is it cold in here or do you just have a butter packet under your titty? No further questions. Wow. That's a new one. No, I just have a butter packet under my titty. Oh, well, it looked like it.

OK, all right. All right. So mom likes what she likes. Stick it in there, Flex. You got some pecs. You can just boop boop. I feel like that's a good way to end it on.

Yeah. All right. Well, she had some music. Yeah, I think you're right. What better way to end the show than Lex's pecs boop boop. Speaking of which. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. They don't need to do that in Florida. They just. No, not necessary. No, you don't. No butter need not apply in Florida. you know, Vanessa is going to be out here shortly. She is. Oh, yeah. We just worked up an itinerary. She's coming this way.

Yeah. Coley sent me what Vanessa just sent her and is like, oh, we have a lot of breweries to drink when she's here. She's a one hour per brewery kind of gal. And I didn't know that. But on my agenda, that's what I had. She's like, I love you. All right, let's do this. We're going to make it happen. We are going to fucking hydrate. So I cannot wait for that. All right. Anyways, craftbeerrepublic.com,

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