All right. We'll see how this goes. Fingers crossed and sphincters tighten. Classy. The edge of my seat. Welcome in, everybody, to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg got a different salty crew with us today. First joining us, the drop and roll mom. Erica, what's going on? Hey, everyone. I am like super excited. My kids went back to school two days ago, so I'm back into the drop and roll routine. Pull up to school, tuck and roll. Really? Get out.
So I was gonna say, do you even stop? Yeah, I should have put a stop in front. Is at least a 32nd stop, though. Oh, okay. Oh, nice. Nice. We're in a good place. Yeah. Very good. And then flex, he'll be missed. But bringing in the the workout tips today is my wife, Shannon. Hello. Hello. Fresh off the Coventry Yes. Yeah. Welcome back. Oh, all aboard the covered train, everybody. Yeah. That's OK. I didn't get it. And that's what counts. Women rule this episode, so I'm excited about that one.
That's a rare treat here. Phoebe Ah, we're. We're definitely lacking in testosterone. Actually, no one's missing the testosterone, but we've had a lot of good stuff for you today. Lots to talk about. Some interesting booze news Modern times, more drama over there between them and Maui Brewing. There's some hard seltzer's that are hitting the, uh, the world that I thought flex would be real happy about.
But he's not here. He's. He's off taking care of sick children and working on his abs, so we will do it without him in his absence. In the meantime, we are all drink in the same beer, compliments of the light that is the darkness in Florida. Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Vanessa So let's crack open with some hydration and talk about that we're dog sitting, and the stranger dog looked over at me when I started dancing. Like, the fuck is happening in there.
Meanwhile, our dog has completely ignored us and left. Oh, yeah. Soon. As soon as the radio voice comes out, he runs downstairs. He goes like this. Yeah, it's your podcast is garbage. Like I said, thanks to Vanessa. We are all drinking, tripping animals. Logger me, bro. It was their collab. Beer for Miami Beer Week. They say it's a beer made for Miami Beer Week as a groundbreaking collaboration between all of the South Florida breweries. And there's a ton of breweries on they can.
I'm not even going to attempt to name them all. 4.2% no ivy use listed in a 372 on untapped What a surprise the people of untapped don't like something we'll get into that in a few anyways so this is a crispy boy dig the chanels in here. Has everybody tried this yet? Yeah, it's really delicious. Step in and. Get the typical crispy smell with a little bit of sweetness and almost smells like. I don't know, like a corniness and just a little hint of sweet on the nose.
Yeah, it's. It's a lager. Very crispy. Yeah. That's a good look. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, that's pretty good. It's very light. No real happiness or anything like that. And not the dry is the finishes either. Just light, easy question longer for a hot day. Little bit yeasty boys floating in that glass. Definitely some Beastie Boys second on the can, too. You know, they always have these rad cancer tripping animals. And there's a rooster on this bad boy.
And so we have chickens, and we're learning this whole process now that we live more in the country. We got to and too. Yeah, exactly. It's it's a process and several have been taken by a fox during broad daylight, so. Oh, my husband's solution is like, we're getting baby chicks. Let's get some more. And we'll like, you know, figure this out. So we have some baby chicks, but they don't guarantee that they're going to be pull it. Like,
there could be a rooster in there, right? Because they're trying to, you know, figure out the sex when they're really little. So yesterday morning, I wake up and I had this little bit I'm like, oh, shit. One of these, I think, is a rooster which is going to be pretty sad because I think it might be my sons. I don't know. I'll update you in a few weeks, but. Oh, because we are I mean, my. Old lady. Eggs, right? We're not hanging on to the rooster, so let's hope it was just like a mismatch.
I don't know who. They like take it like, do you have to find a home for the rooster? Like, yeah. We'll try and find out. My husband's kind of like, we could just let it out and let nature happen. I know that's awful, but. Maybe you could find a home between two buns with some bacon and mayo. Kind of like, I don't get super attached to them, especially as they get bigger, but we'll try and find a home. There are people that want roosters because, well, they want more chickens,
I don't know. Or like. And they apparently protect the chickens. So you don't get as many foxes taking them away or coyotes or whatever is taking our chickens. But anyways, this makes me think of that and we'll see if we have a rooster or not. But this rooster looks cocky, ironic, but those are like. They're kind of like hoes, right? Like they'll go through the entire coop and then you'll end up with like a shit ton of chickens. Yeah, exactly. We're not game for that.
These things are smelly and I don't know, we get plenty of eggs. We're all right. So just start a cockfighting ring. It'll be great. Choice. No way. It will not last here. That's all I have to say. Let's hope it. Let's hope it's not a rooster. Anyways. Great beer. Thank you, Vanessa. Yes. Thanks, Vanessa. Yeah, fresh again. I love it. It's really good. Like, Crispy has a little sweetness on the finish. It's a solid lager. Yeah. And since it's 900 degrees out, it's just.
It is 102 here today. It's been 100 all week. So this is perfect proof. It's 82 here right now at noon something. So it's only getting warmer. Yep. All right. What else? Oh, I wanted to talk about some technical things real quick to all the listeners. Just a heads up. It shouldn't mean anything at all to anybody, but we recently switched podcast hosts that's where we actually host the podcast files. Things are put in place so that nobody should ever know the difference.
I just wanted to make you aware in case for some reason, like things aren't downloading properly, let me know. It shouldn't do anything at all. But if you are having any issues with things downloading or showing up the way they are, hit us up. Mail crappy RoboCop. Let me know like what you're using and all that stuff so I can hunt down the problem. We've already had one show release on the new platform and I hadn't heard any issues, so I think we're good. But time time will tell.
So you guys have any issues? Please, please let me know. I'll try and figure it out for you. Also, speaking of podcast hosts, we talk about how we're huge in Finland. Get the jet ready. Then we we started charting in India and now Regus up the jet we are charting in the UK hosts eight. Yes. So my takeaway is that apparently America hates us. Yeah. I guess that is all over the world aside from excited fest. Yeah. So at least it's an English speaking country.
I can understand why they might listen to that. I don't understand why the people who don't speak our language listen to this show. I mean, there's nothing in it for them at all. It's not like we're teaching the I mean, in fact, I'm the worst person to learn English from because I fuck up everything. So if you're in another country and you don't already speak English, stop listening to this show immediately. You will be so sorry.
When you go somewhere and try to use that English, you just stutter your way through ordering a Big Mac or something. It'll be super messy. So but anyway, what's up, UK? Thanks for listening and it's cool to chart in the other countries. Glad to see at least someone's liking us, even if it's not our our home crowd. So thank you for that. Yeah, um. Trivia. You guys like beer trivia? I like doing trivia nights at breweries and stuff. I haven't really done it, have you guys?
I enjoy it. I don't think you like it as much. We've done it a couple of times. Yeah, we don't like seek it out, but if we show up in there doing trivia, we'll give it a shot. Ok? OK. We were never in last place. Yeah, that's what you're not like, these intense people with, like, a team and, like, get really? Because that. No runs. A lot here in Sacramento that I've heard, like, people really geek out on it and they have their trivia teams and, you know. Go from trivia night to trivia.
Like, and they're serious. I was recently talking with a brewer who I will remain nameless on the show that was having trivia nights and these people were coming in and cleaning up week after week after week, but also not buying any beer. And the prizes were also gift cards to the brewery and they weren't using the gift cart like they would just come in win and bounce nothing. They never use the gift cards, never buy beer.
And finally, after weeks and weeks and weeks and the thing is, you miss out on like hundreds of dollars, hundreds of dollars by having someone there for three or 4 hours and not write anything. So the weeks and weeks and weeks this brewer finally went over and just nicely said, like, hey, you know, kind of the point of this is so people have a beer to have a good time and, you know, we're having to turn other people away and you guys, you know, aren't aren't buying anything.
And if you're not drinkers, that's fine. We totally understand your week. We have some other stuff that you could get and they don't ever buy the food from the food trucks either. So can we also have food trucks and blah, blah, blah? And they they finish the game one again left and then left a one star review on Yelp. Wow. For their efforts. So yeah, people are assholes. That is that is a total asshole move yeah. Oh man. So don't do that.
Yeah. Get to the point where like they have to go over and talk to them. They obviously had done this for hours. That's terrible. Also, I would feel so awkward as that brewer slash owner, but. How are you a troll? You're always ranting through my teeth, so. But yeah, don't, don't be those people. But anyways, this all got started because I am going to start doing I'm thinking monthly if it goes really well and I just find that I have an abundance of free time on my hands.
Maybe by month, you know, twice a month or every other week or whatever. I want to start doing a beer trivia night on the Gram. Someone recently did this, and I thought it was a lot of fun. Yeah. And I also thought there were some things they could have improved upon just the way they handled it. But overall, it was a lot of fun. So I'm thinking once a month and maybe we'll kick it up to twice a month if it goes over well, on the ground.
We'll do a Instagram live trivia and I'll ask some questions. And, you know, if you get it right, the way this person was doing it was they were right answers were entered into like a wheel. And then at the end of the game, all the, you know, the names spun and there was a winner. So, you know, we'll give away some stickers or some swag or but I'm feeling extra giving. Maybe I'll throw beer in there or something, that's all. Necklace. Broken necklace. Yeah, exactly.
So anyways, check out the Gram Crappy Republic I'll give plenty of notice before our first one. I'll post them graphics on our stories and that kind of stuff and but make sure you're following us and. Yeah, look out for some some trivia. Singing Tuesdays might be fun just because alliteration is great, you know, trivia Tuesday or something. Yeah, but Tuesdays are also like the night I edit the shows. You might also a little much on your birthday. That might be a busy, shitty Tuesday.
So Thursday. Yeah. Trivia. Thursday thirsty. Thursday trivia. Yeah, right. Figures of the doubt doesn't there doesn't have to be alliteration. I'm just weird. So anyways, check out the game for that. All right. Enough for me. Erica has been dabbling with some gbf action. Oh, yeah? Well, the gbf was, like, the reason for my business, right? So quick story. And my husband went there first, but I just had a baby, so I couldn't go.
And he saw that there were all these people wearing pretzel necklaces, and it was, like, such a big deal that he's like, where can I buy these? You can't. He spent half a day with his friends like, getting the supplies, putting them together, blah, blah, blah, right? So it's like, hey, we would start making our own people. Where'd you buy that? OK, we need to start making these love. Gbf and you drink. So much when you're there, right then.
Yeah, you need the snacks. OK, well, we're going next year. You guys all know that, right? Yeah, we got to go. OK, yeah. And so yeah, I always reach out to them like, hey, can I get a booth? Can I you? And they're like, the Mecca there know they have a very large wall between them and everyone else because they came on. Right, right. They've never responded to me. And then just a couple months ago, they found me because I asked them, I'm like, Hey, where'd you hear about me?
They're like, Well, we Googled pretzel necklaces and found your name. So was like, all those emails really work to know, right? Yeah. At least. Your CEO is working. Right? Yeah. Let's at least I have some SEO going on there. And so they are getting some hold my beer necklaces, which is our, like, top necklace that holds your beer glass and has pretzels on the side. It's like everything you need to like, just party on and with some cool Gbf logo on the package. And it's going to be a lot of fun.
So they're ordering a bunch of those for Gbf with them. From NEC Nash and giving them to some of their, their VIPs. And I'm really excited to ask, can I have a booth? And they said by the time they had found me, they're like, there is not a single space left. But they said maybe next year. So we'll see. I was just going to find you like set up in front of the bathroom with the this is pretty.
So I literally was like, can I just come with like a tricycle and like fill my little cart and roll around inside? They're like, No, you can't. Like, we, we kick those people out. I was like, Oh, OK. I figured as much. I thought I'd ask. No motorized devices and drink. Sounds. I like Cheryl. I'll like carry the stick around where they're hanging from like a like a ball game. Like, like the cotton candy guy at a baseball game. Yeah, like, oh, we kick those people out. I'm like, oh, OK.
All right. I'm done trying for now. They have a bitch who are going to go either way next year. Just plan on it. And if I have a booth, that'll be even better because we'll have like the inside scoop. Nice. Yeah, let's do it. And that event, it's, it's paints four prostates and it's like one or two nights before they do all the best beers and food. And it's the rare beer one, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah. It is so good. And then there's just so much at Gbf you can't even, you know, touch
what's there. But right. We're doing it next year. This year it collides with aftershock. So I don't care if it does next year we're going. So it'll be fun. Get CBR and that's all. Yeah. Yeah. We have a friend. Davis lives in Denver and he sometimes goes to Gbf, but he is all about rare beer. OK, does not miss that one. He says the best one by far. It is ridiculous. I can't believe like that their tickets don't sell out instantly. They're it's insane.
And then they have this other event that's like actual GHB because that's like an off the side one. But then the one called paired. That's part of Gbf. It's pretty good. They have like bites and stuff. And then you can slide from there right into like the main facility and then do GBA. It's pretty good, but I, I just hands down that pints for prostates. I would go there just for that. Yeah. It's funny, this here's a reference that nobody on the show will get since flex that here.
It's like WrestleMania every time there's a WrestleMania weekend all around WrestleMania, all the other wrestling companies do events. And. Sometimes they're more fun than WrestleMania, at least from a wrestling standpoint. It's like, Oh, let's jump on all the wrestling fans being on town this weekend. It's that same thing. It's like, let's jump on all these alcoholics I mean in town this weekend and set up some extra beer festivals for sure.
I that's actually where I've gotten orders, like every October. It's like the Hilton that's near Gbf will order them for like they're people. I get all that, but I've never actually got Gbf. So yeah, we're so going, just going to have to shut that week down. You guys are going whenever it is and as the dates roll out, block it off. Shut it down, shut it down. We're going. Everybody walk around with Hilton Pretzels So funny. I know. Hey, would you get those Hilton four Hilton.
Do you want places like Gbf buy pretzels, especially in such big quantities like that? Do you get to keep your logo on the packaging or. Yeah, absolutely. So it's about a third the size of their logo and they, they pay extra, put theirs on there if they don't want. Just mainly mine, but it's not a big fee. It's it's totally worth it to them. But I keep mine on there. I got a couple people ask not to, and if it's like a big enough order where it's like, OK, yeah, fine. Whatever it.
Like make it worth your while. Right? Like exactly. Everyone's about price. Exactly. You can buy me. That's cool. Yeah. I had this sound horrible. I had a teacher one though at the film school, a teacher once that gotten him in trouble because, you know, in the movie industry and TV and film like everyone is basically freelance. There's no such thing as a full time job. He said, look, we're all whores. Out there and we're all, all looking for the next dollar.
So don't don't turn anything down unless you got work and blah, blah, you end up get in trouble for saying yeah. So somebody got a little. Yeah. Sensitive about it. And so he called us all. Whores like he's saying, drop your pants, like your boundaries, right? Yeah. It's about just taking jobs. I keep. The pants. On, right? We collect a paycheck with. Yeah. Anyways, and then finally, speaking of things, to buy not just pretzels, we have some new hats and.
We. Just got them posted today as we record this show. If you go to Craft Beer About.com and if you go to the store, there's actually like two links for the store. There's the main store and then like when you put your mouse over it, I'm sorry, this is so confusing. Another little drop down comes down this hat just for the hats because we have two different suppliers for our other shirt.
So kind of grab your About.com Ghost Store, click on the Little Hats dropdown and we have this really appeal to the California residents. It's the drink local with the California grizzly in the background. Kind of looks like the flag is crappy republic on it. Red bill, red font. It's kind of cool looking. It's really cool looking. I like it. So check those out. I'll be posting on the grams of Get Them Now. There's not very many. I did a very small run to see how they go.
If they do well, either I'll print some more and prints more, have some more made, or maybe I'll make those special and changed a little bit. So only. 12 people have managed to. Run. Yeah, so fancy. All right. We've talked about this a lot. Even hinted it, hinted to it earlier as we started the show, the people of Untapped and by that I mean the users are idiots and assholes 97% of the time and or don't know anything about what they're talking about.
It's well documented on here that I am not happy with the reviews that morning watch has received an untapped now I understand why Nick the brewer over there at 14 can just does mean look untapped they don't even make sense half the time and or are just mean so anyways I went through and I found all the mean or unkind or reviews that don't make sense for morning watch onion tabbed that I read a couple of I mean we'll spread this out couple this week couple of next week.
Um this asshole says this ain't it coffee in the wind and we're left with what could have been what the fuck does that mean. He just wanted to be poetic. He's like, yeah I do here. Yeah. Also based on that description, what would you say he reviewed number wise like what would he, what would he give the beer. In the wind and left what might have been. To me that sounds negative. Yeah, I would definitely under three. Yeah, yeah. He gave it a three. That sounds a little high for.
What might have been. His his poetic bullshit or he thinks brand brew and this person says there is a hoppy question mark element that throws it off just a bit, but otherwise a very nice it's a coffee coach f.y.i. Because it's advertised exactly as that and you may need to know. Yeah, just ever so. He gave it a three and a half. Not the worst so. Well and I don't think I think that maybe a little misunderstanding on his part. I don't think the bitterness comes from hops. No, it does not.
It comes from the coffee. Coffee? Yes. Very mild, noble German hops were used in that beer on purpose because the bitterness comes from the coffee also. I imagine he was surprised like he wasn't expecting like I didn't read the poster when he read it. When he ordered it, he just like, Oh, coach, I'll take it. And then it was like, F.y.i, this is coffee because I can't fucking read. I also think that people assume a coffee beer will have sweetness will be sweet or multi-ethnic.
And or. Dark. They don't expect it to have a lightness and really not have that like sweet malt for word. Yeah, flavor. Yeah. Well, even like Nick's last coffee beer at 14 cans before that was liquid gold and that had had some I think had lactose in it. Yeah. Just like a hint of creamy sweetness to it. And even though a light beer still had that too. So I think that's what people are expecting when they have something like a coffee course. But anyways, thanks assholes.
You know flexes idea about like some sort of filter or like distinction between like your level of beer knowledge or something like that and like maybe they should have it. If you're, if you want an account, you have to take like a quick a quick is. Right? I love. It. I love it. Simple knowledge, like do you get beer? OK, then we'll let you rate, you know, I don't know, but it, it is what it is. It's for the masses. Not for that. Yeah. I mean, it's the fucking MySpace of beer chickens.
Yeah. There you go. So I will say, though, I don't think those are as bad as people get. Like, I don't think those. Oh, no, there's much worse. I just think they're stupid. Like, they're not the meanest ones in the world. They're just dumb. Well, I find that most people and untapped the reviews they give don't actually tell you anything about the beer. Right, which I won't review a beer like with words unless I'm saying something to give someone some sort of help.
Because I will look at, you know, if I'm deciding me between two beers, I'll look it up. I'm like, Oh, this one has a higher score. Let's see. Maybe this one got some, you know, didn't get a fair shake or whatever. And I'll write a few reviews, and you can usually tell who the idiots are and who actually knows what they're doing. So hey, you know, with your beer over there. Yeah, I still have a little.
All right, well, you before you finish that up and make call the panel, I'll start with one story over here. Does anybody know who the Nappy Roots are? The rap group based out of Atlanta, Hotlanta. I'm sure they hate it when we say Hotlanta. Anyways, a few of the members, Nappy Roots co-own Atlanta, Husky Brewing and Scales, one of the rappers. Well, when the rappers scales, one of the rappers out of the group was robbed and kidnaped and shot at his own brewery.
What, over the weekend? Yeah. The last I've heard, they still haven't caught the people who did it, but came to the brewery. Rob Kidnaped shot him. He's he's alive. He lives, he's living. He should be fine. But he's not going to die today. Did all this homies right that day? I was not today, like, speaking to all the things because, like, all I jam that song in the morning with my kids. Like, we're going to have a good day. It's like thinking nobody's going to die today.
Well, I mean, he was right. I'm wondering if he's did right that day, though. Oh, I. Bet some writing that. I hope they did. Yeah. He did not save his troubles for another day. No, I was the freaking day I went down. Sorry, Nappy. Yeah, that's too bad. So anyways, hey, stop shooting people at breweries. Come on, the fuck is this. Anyways, our best to him and and hopefully a speedy recovery over there. And hopefully he's able to ride with the homies soon enough.
Yeah. Yeah. Good. Modern times has filed a notice of layoffs. They plan to lay 120 employees before the transition over to Maui. Maui says they're going to rehire most of those employees they get or they'll have the opportunity to rehire if they don't want their job. Obviously, they don't have to, but they plan to rehire most of those employees and do not plan for a mass layoff. Good for them. Yeah. It's kind of must be. Some sort of weird, like, asset shuffling or something.
Yeah. The sale goes through because it's weird, like, hey, you're all fired, but hey, come on back. Next week we got you. Some sort of tax kind of thing. Like, Oh, we had to lay all these people off, so or or maybe giving them once again, if you get laid off right, you get some benefits helping them out in that way. That's true. I don't know. There could. There could be some. Yeah. There could also be something about like longevity with the company. Oh, yeah. Right.
I guess, you know. Having to fulfill. Yeah. If Maui wants their employees to be the longest employed or something like that and think about that one, I figured it's more like what Eric was saying, like taxes or assets or something like that for the transition. Yeah, but it could have to do with like retirement funds and things like that. That is not to be a negative, Nancy, but. All right, Nance. I know that's why I'm here. Nance. At least you're not a Karen. I'd rather have a Nance.
Oh, I got you the worst. What? Take the beer. I'm sorry. They're sharing over here. If you want me to narrate, Greg reaches over to hand a beer to Shannon. Shannon looks away. Greg gets infuriated. You are the worst employee. This look. Away. She then starts pouring like the few dribbles that she had an hourglass into a water bottle with a tiny opening. So then it becomes a science project on top. Of events like Take the Goodyear Beer. Get a clean go. And of my other beer was a little yeasty.
Yeah, there are some. Just, you know. A little more women in that beer than I expected it. Male wage. Can you tell we're married? Oh. All right. I love it. Let's do this. I got to bring Sterling on here. Yeah, let's get him. Is like. That'd be awesome. New Year's on you guys. So it gets it gets pretty. You got a few years and a couple of kids on us. Yeah, right. Yeah. You've been in the trenches yeah. All right. Now that she's finally taking the beer out of my hand, let's make a call it the pen.
All calls to the. Bullpen for beer. Yeah, he does. We are drinking Captain. Coach, it is my cold home brew that I've talked about many a time on the show. It is right around 4.8% right around 25 I use, I believe it was. And this is all kind of the top of my head anyways. Simple cold recipe. No coffee in this one. I'm like warning you.
Watch just one isn't an easy drink in and crispy for the summer overall I think it turned out really well you know cold squeezed it's got that cold she lets it get I say thick it's not thick though at all but you know cool she's just has a different feel to it than other used to and it's got that that Esther that she's gives off I will say there's a tiny can't quite put my finger off flavor this has gotten better since I over carb did at first and I've let some of the pressure off
and it's actually drinking a little bit better than it was I'm going to dig in here try it there's just the tiniest hint of an off flavor that I'm not thrilled. About share what it is yeah. You get the standard like cereal kind of sweetness. Malting is from the cold, but it's still really light and easy to drink. It just has a little bit more of that sweetness that I think you get from a colt. More so than, like, a standard pilsner.
Yeah. Yeah, it maybe it's the sweetness that I'm getting the just there's a hint of something just ever so light that I don't love about overall. It's pretty easy. Drink, pretty questionable. Good on a hot day, you know, 4.8%. You can't go wrong. Drink drinking like ten of these. So what's here? What would you give it on on tapped. And by the way, this is a course just so everybody knows why this is a colt. But let me write a poem to what it could have been. The same could have hit
this could have been a lager. Right? It was a coffee in the wind. And we're left with what could have been. Yeah, I would give it, I don't know, like a three to five and. Yeah, I'm. Like a three to five. Yeah, I know. I'm a little harsh on my own supply. My own supply, but of all the coasters I've made, I think this is the third or fourth one. It's my least favorite. Yes. Oh, that is. That is part of sort of my rating.
And I'm comparing it to some of the other recipe recipes and versions of this beer. And it's definitely not my favorite of those don't matter. Yeah. Here's where things same recipe off three or four bean the same recipe. The only difference with this one, this is the first time I've made a collage and carved it in a keg with CO2 instead of bottle condition in it. Oh. Weird, right?
I would think that would make it better because that would take away a little bit that sweetness because in order of conditioner, you put sugar in right? And so I don't know, it's weird. I'm surprised that this one's not the best one. It's also the first one that I did in a temperature controlled chamber.
Yeah. OK, usually I just leave these things out in the open and they ferment whatever temp the kitchen is, but I had some space in the curator, so I was able to actually ferment at specific temperatures. And I don't love it. Yeah. Next time it's sitting on the kitchen again. Dang. It's still drinkable though. It's not like. Yeah, it's not garbage about that. You've been talking you mentioned it a few weeks back. And you're like, Oh, I got it this cold. It's almost ready.
So I was kind of wondering how did that how of that happen? I got a curator story right now about this just happened. We have one out on our uh, our new house has one outside, so yeah. You have like an old whole, like outdoor kitchen set up, right? Yeah, totally. And it's like a while back. So we're out in the country and there are rattlesnakes sometimes. Yeah. It's like if a. Snake through your tap, I'm hanging up on this call. Dude, it wasn't quite that bad, but. Okay, oh, my gosh.
So they say you find, like, one a year out here. OK, so I'm just waiting and waiting. We've been here a year. We hired the snake guy when I hired when we first moved here, it's like, walk through our property. Talk to you, talk to me, talk to me, tell me what's going down. So it's been fine. It's been fine. So just like a week ago, Sterling goes out, we just got like this Mexican lager on tap out there because Summer, you know, you want some light and.
Right. He walks out. Hey, Gregory, and here's this. And it was laying across the ground in front of the curator and just, like, went in behind it. No. Mm hmm. Yeah. Call the snake. I'm like, Sterling, can I call the snake, please? Let me call the snake guy. So we called him up, and he was here in, like, 20 minutes. The guy, like, pulled everything out from our outdoor barbecue and, like, got back at. You know what?
There's something that kept good came from this because that snake wanted nothing to do with us. Or that the snake guy it was hiding. It wasn't striking. He was, like, trying to get it, was she? I don't know. Whatever it was and was. Yeah, it. I don't care. Just get it out of here. I was trying to get away. Trying to get away, trying to get away like. And the snake dude's like reaching in there with no glove on his hand. Like, fuck. That. I know. And then he had this hook anyways.
He got it eventually put it in the but I guess what I learned from it is they're not aggressive unless I don't know if stepped on it, it would probably bite you immediately. Right? But it was just trying to get away. But he's like, so goddamn, it's like, shade, leave me. Alone. Exactly. And it's like super rare. He's like, this is super rare, you know, it probably just there very like, I guess they don't really go to the same place every time kind of thing. They just kind of cruise through.
But oh my gosh, that scared the shit out of me. Like, yeah, no thanks. No thanks. Is in a way to, like, stop it from being able to get back there. Like, could you end up with another snake back there? Well, we could. Like he said, once again, this was super rare. And like the previous owners kind of told us about all their experiences over seven years and that had never happened and that space. So we're like, oh my gosh.
But yeah, we need to block it off because yeah, just in case like I want to have comfort when I have a beer. Yeah, yeah. That's what beer is all about. That's what beer is about. And Mexican lager is just never it doesn't this doesn't the same anymore. They're tiptoeing No, thanks. Yeah, we were hiking later. Yeah, we were hiking in the summer and we had our dog with us who's about 25, £26 when he's on not on a diet. And this huge, huge rattlesnakes are crossing the trail.
Oh and you could see that had just eaten. There's a big bump in the middle of it. Oh yeah. And so like I put my arms, I stopped as I stop and it just, it didn't even look at us. It just continued crossing the trail and going uphill and then went on its way like they would back. Some guy comes jogging around the corner and I was like, we, we, we, we, we was. And I just pointed. He's like, oh, oh Lord, good call. Like, I do not want. Yeah. And it was full. Right so it was happy.
But yeah, I actually don't think they're that aggressive unless you step on one or. Right. Or threaten it or threaten it. Right. But still, I just we're pretty careful we got kids, right? So but yeah, the whole thing was not was not my best day and that's not gonna. Burn it down. Yeah. Thanks. Bye bye. Yeah. Thank God for the snake guy. He was out here and he just kicked ass at that snake wrangling. Where to go. Snake guy wasn't lady go snake guy. Way to do your job.
I tried to send him with a beer too. I'm like, here, take some beer. He's like, oh, I don't know if I should. I'm like, seriously, you earned that, do you? Yeah, seriously. Bloody Sonic. This one was for Flex Sonic. Like the fast food brand. Their hard seltzer is now official. The official hard seltzer of the Big 12 conference with a three year contract so now when you're watching the Big 12, you can have yourself a sonic hard seltzer because there's not enough art seltzer options out there.
Rose that seems like it would be very sweet. Look, I love ocean water from Sonic. I like to order it and then dump a bunch of vodka in it but there's seltzer is just sound like sugary messes and I don't want anything to do with it. Right the reason you drink a hard seltzer's you want alcohol with no like low calories right? So I imagine they're hard seltzer. I would just be like a mass load of calories and sweetness. Sounds disgusting. I don't know.
Like, I guess I could and homework and look that up, but I'm just going to go on what it sounds like and it sounds like no calories and disgusting this. Yeah, it's a no. Yeah. Art pest, as we all know, because we're all from California. Huge drought happening right now. It's hot as balls and no water is happening. The MEK, the president of Mexico, has called for an end to beer production in the northern region due to the drought.
They say if you want to continue brewing and this is pointed at Heineken and Modelo, they do a lot of their brewing in northern Mexico. You have to move down south where we actually have water wow. It's like, do you want the people to be alive or happy? I don't know. I guess you just have to figure that out. Like maybe they just switch the water supply or the over to beer is probably safer in Mexico. So I got them. I got that Montezuma's revenge when I went there. That was oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I got back. I got I got it on the way back. I had, you know, I had a layover in Mexico City and then came back over. And it was when I was on my layover in Mexico City, I went, oh, oh, no. And I was. Going. To of bathroom and luckily, like, not to get too detailed, but I did enough damage in the airport to wear like I was safe for the 2 hours home until I got back on terra firma, didn't have to do anything in the airplane. And then once I got home, it was like two weeks.
Of, oh, no. Horribleness and like going to work like I can't take, you know, freelance can take two weeks off of work. So it was. It was bad, right? So unless they didn't ruin my vacation, it. Was I was teaching summer school. So it's like school's out. And then I had like a week. So we went to Mexico and then got back in the morning of summer school. The first day, I'm like, oh, I don't even know if I know where the bathrooms are. This is like a different school.
I think I was late and the kids were getting in there, and it's like the first day it was one of those just like, oh, worst timing ever. But thankfully, summer school is like 3 hours long, so good. But it's one of those things where like, it hits you and you go, Oh, no, no, it just comes out of nowhere. The first of all, I was like, Oh, that's what it is. Here you. Go. Oh, dear. Anyways, good luck down there, Mexico. Here we go. Let's let's take a trip to Florida.
Well, actually, sort of Florida. A teenager from Florida was pulled over for not being drunk while in Georgia. What? OK, a teenager there in Georgia? Yes, they were from Florida, but Germany. Oh, OK. Yeah. A teenager from Sarasota, Florida, was stopped for speeding on I-75 in Monroe County shortly after midnight on July 20. First, the 18 year old was reportedly blazing along at 93 miles per hour and 70 mile per hour zone.
When he was pulled over, a sheriff's deputy who stopped the southbound teen soon got whiffs of marijuana and alcohol coming from inside the Honda. The teen said, my anaconda don't want oh, no, Honda back. Oh yeah, sure. But, you know, like. The teen whose eyes were red water acknowledged that he had been smoking weed when the deputy also found a half empty bottle of Crown Royal in the car, the teen insisted he not been boozing. I'm not drunk, the teen said, and I haven't been drinking.
I'm only high as hell yeah, man. Arrested on DUI charge at first consented to a blood test, and he said he didn't do needles well. It changed his mind. He also informed the deputy that after all, I'm not high as hell. I'm just high and coming down. Oh t. Anyways. Charge of DUI. Oh man, pick your poison. Uh, yeah. I don't know if driving high is any better than in fact, in some states I'd it's probably worse because we'd probably not legal down there in the south.
Yeah, but it's harder for them to test, right? So maybe that's. Why they said it stays in your system for 30 days though. Yeah. I mean just like on the field, right when you're out. Yes. Definitely. Harder to do a field test for weed. Yes. I don't know. Just tell me a joke. You start laughing. Uncontrollably. Oh it's fucking pieces of the really stupid. See how long it. Takes them to stop laughing. Just play our show and if they laugh, they're either high or from Finland, UK or India.
So they don't have an accent and they're laughing at our show. Definitely. I that's a good test. Yeah, it's great. Yeah, I'm going to save that for when my kids get a little older, too. I mean, just like tell them that jokes or something and they're like, oh, like, go to your room. Yeah, I don't really get. One time I came home. Hi and my dads, I guess second wife stared me in the eye and like, and it's not something I did a lot as a teenager. But I, you know, I know a little here and there.
And I walked in the door and she was already at the front door and just, like, stares me down as I walk in. And I'm sure she's trying to see if my eyes were red or not dilated or, you know, whatever it was. I was like, can I help? You know, what you do? And I was like, coming home. What you been doing? I was like hanging out OK. The fuck was it was the weirdest thing ever. She should have told me a joke, though. Out of love. What what event of that were really clutch well.
Your mom had no idea with Would Ranch you would ranch gift. Card. Oh, yeah. I know. This is a beer show. Let's tell some weed stories. My my best friend and I, this is I don't know, before you and I were together, like, ten years ago, there's a barbecue restaurant out here called Wood Ranch, and I had like a $50 gift card and I hit her up, was like, hey, I got, I got a bunch of money. I would ranch you, I get high order, insane amount of barbecue, and she's like, fucking do it.
So we ordered it, and then we smoked in the parking lot of little ranch and then, like, went and picked up the food and went home that way. Like, by the time we got home, it was, you know, it was kicking in and we were buzzed and pretty good. And we and at the time, I was still living at my mom's house and like, we get in and the two of us had enough food to, like, feed a family of eight and we set up in the kitchen, we started pulling out our food.
And my mom was just watching us pull out this never ending, like, pile of food containers and we did not share we didn't offer to share. We just annihilated, like, people, people's worth, and they just, like, watched it either whatever crappy home meal that they made, like, that would be nice to have some from that. We're just over here scarfing down. Oh, God. Was excited. Yeah. Dig in and probably. Mm. Oh, yeah. Probably as stupid as sure. Yeah. Such jerks.
And we thought we were so sorry. They're on our side. There's no if they don't, if they didn't know we were high then they're the idiots, not us. But otherwise we're dumb. That's good. Times. You're so fucking stoned. We'll end it with this one country's that drink the most beer per capita. Do you guys have any guesses as to which country drinks the most beer per capita? I'll give you a hint. It's not us. Yeah. Ireland, Germany. Yeah, England, Bavarian countries.
This is something, you know, like. They are Europeans or. Austria. I don't know, like Austria second. OK, you know, I guess. We'll start at number ten to throw up. Spoiler alert, we're not on it. Well, we're 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. We're number 17. Hmm. Anyways, number ten. All right, sorry. Number ten. The country. We thought we'd be a lot higher. Ireland. Wow. OK, number nine. Slovakia. Number eight, Lithuania, number seven. Oh, fuck. Number. Hmm. NAMI in the MIB, eh? Apologies, Namibians.
Uh, yeah. Estonia. All right, OK. Getting European here. Germany. All right. Not surprised. Yeah. Number four, Romania. Top three, Poland. Austria. Yeah. And by a landslide. Czech Republic. Oh, OK. It kind of makes sense, you know, pills, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, exactly. So good. Want to go hang out those checks? So the CBR tour is pretty much just going to go, like, ten, nine, eight, seven, six like that. Yeah. Cruise through all those countries. And just got an itinerary.
Finland. Yeah, well, and that Finland, even though they're not on the list, we still love you. Well, there are number one listening, right? Listeners about I don't know boards. So anyways, yes, I can't wait to gas up the jet and do the most, uh, or the least economical trip ever. Yeah. Ireland, Slovak yeah. We must go in this order. We have to go in that order. Yeah. So and then we'll also hit up India, the UK and Finland because they're our top listeners. So yeah.
I should make it clear to everybody listening, like the US is our top listening country by a lot, but they don't ever top the, the podcast charts because you know. Yeah. Within the amount of people, all that good stuff. Anyways, I'll stop talking. It's only getting worse from here. Now it's clear. Totally it totally, totally makes sense. Don't ask me further questions. I'm going to hit some water. Some water. Wow. I should really hit the water. Yeah. Was like a Freudian slip kind of thing.
Yeah, I was reading water. As I said, I made some music and that was that was the problem here. Time was in water. All right, everybody find us at Craft Beer Republic and craft beer Report.com. You find Erika in all her salty goodness at NEC, Underscore, Nash, Underscore LLC as well as NEC. Now, Show.com and Shannon's not much of a grammar, except she stares at it all day. Just doesn't post anything accurate. Oh, but you can follow Marty. The brouhaha you. Can see. Is behind that one.
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