Flex and Greg: Beer Prophets

Welcome in everybody to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking and thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined by the little snow angel himself and that's Flex. What's up, buddy? Not much man. You're so energetic tonight. I had some energy drinks. You're really bringing it. Yeah, it's been a couple weeks. I'm excited to see you guys and I had some energy drinks. So I think it's gonna be a kick-ass show and good night everybody. Energy drinks or cocaine?

If you mix it in water, it becomes an energy drink. I like your style. Yeah, exactly. And then joining us from Old McDonald's place is the founder of Neck Nosh, Farmer Jane. What's happening? Hey friends. Yeah, not like the burger McDonald, but like well, I guess if we're a goat burger, do they make goat burgers? Probably an Indian or something, right? Yeah. How's life on the farm? It's pretty good. I'm learning to be a farmer.

Yeah, drinking my beer and I'm gonna start some goat yoga here pretty soon. Oh, Jesus. What's your barnyard animal count up to these days? We have five goats, two Pyrenees dogs and four chickens. So not, I mean just right there, just right in the pocket. Not too much. It's a real farm you're on now? I mean,

we're turning into one. You sound like you have just enough for a buffet. Ooh, yeah, there you go. Sorry kids. All you can eat it Erica's. Come on over for a barbecue. Hey, I thought you had 12 animals. We had a friend offer to put one on a spit and roast it because he does, like he's from India and he's, you know, that's what they do. And I was like, no, I love these ones. Go find yourself your own goat, dude. Put so much love into these things. And money. Yeah, and money. All right.

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All right, we got a lot to get to tonight. It's been a rocking couple of weeks over here. Got some beer research to talk about, some breaking booze news, and tons of shit more. Before we get anywhere, let's just get right into it. Erica and I are drinking some, we're drinking the same thing because she was nice enough to send some beer over, so let's fucking dig on in. Yum. Oh, I love my beer!

We are drinking from New Glory Brewing or I should say New Glory Craft Brewery and it's not a khaki or not khaki.

What was it? Cargo shorts. It's not cargo shorts. That's right. Yeah. That's a good one. We are drinking peanut butter lovers. Yeah. Are you trying to get me drunk with this one? Yeah. Cause it's a 7% a nice peanut butter cookie porter. Oh, it's so amazing. 7% Isn't it? Oh, you're right. Untapped is wrong. This is 12 and a half percent. Oh, dang. I was like, good God. I think they had an Imperial version or something like that. Am I reading the wrong one?

But see to me, seven's like, ooh, it's nice and warm. And like, that's just an appetizer. The show was about to go wild if it was 12%. Yeah. I know. There goes all my energy. And your words. Yeah. Right. Like I need help with that. All right. I'm glad you caught that. 7%. The brewery says you either love peanut butter and chocolate or you're wrong. This porter is the best of both worlds. Enjoy flavors of luscious peanut butter, chocolate and vanilla elevated by a touch of caramel malt notes.

It's decadence in a can. Store cold and drink fresh. This is a, wow. It's like a week old. This is very fresh. According to the bottom of the can. It absolutely is. They, um, New Glory were supposed to release on last Friday and I happened to be in town on Thursday and they did it early, which was perfect. So I just jumped right in there because I'm not in Sacramento that often and was so excited to get a pour of this. It's amazing. Especially when you let it warm up.

Yeah. I'm kind of at the in-between temperature right now on the schnauz. I get a little bit of peanut butter and then like chocolate syrup, not just chocolate, but like that Hershey's syrup smell. Oh yeah. Chugged that right out of the can and bottle when I was younger. Sneaking to the fridge when mom and dad were in the can. Oh yeah. Like wheezing the juice. Oh yeah. Wheeze the juice. Super nutty on the nose.

On the old tongue jobber, I get, I'd say I get a little more chocolate than I get peanut butter. But the one thing I appreciate about the peanut butter is that it's not that super fake like a Belgian beaver tasting peanut butter. No. Sorry, Belgian beaver. It's super like to me, just like a really nice roasty nutty flavor. I don't get as much of the peanut butter is really strong to me. And the, the biscuity part of the, they call it the cookie, right? It's like peanut butter cookie.

You get a little that biscuity taste to it and so tasty. Yeah. I wonder if they use the same peanut stuff that Nick over at 14 cans uses. He has this, I'm going to fuck this up. I'm going to butcher it, but it's like this peanut dust essentially that he adds to things and it gives it like the peanut butter flavor without giving it like the gross baked peanut butter, you know, off flavor that a lot of beers have. Yeah. Though. They did a good job with it. I'm happy. You really like these guys.

Hey, Erica, I feel like you're always drinking the new glory beer. I do really like new glory. Cause the gummy worms is what got me hooked. If it not to be confused with still water or sweet water, the gummies that you were talking about recently. Right. Yeah. I want to check them out just because I like the whole gummy thing, but you know, these are craft and they have, yeah, exactly. Nudge nudge.

And they, their gummy worms is like kind of that gateway beer and it's a hazy pale and then everybody loves the gummy worms. And then from there they just, they do some good stuff and they always have fun can art. So yeah, it's not wrong. Pretty sweet. It looks like the man on the moon turned into a cookie. Seriously. Yeah. Yeah. So I just like new glory. They're, they're fun people.

I've worked with them and I did like, I've done a few new spots with them on some local news and yeah, I just, I got a good vibe. So. Yeah. You did like a pretzel day thing with them, right? Yeah. A couple of times. Yeah. And I'd love to do a collab with them. Actually, it'd be really cool to do a pretzel beer. So I was talking to, I think it's Spencer, our brewer at one point, but we need, we need to get on that. Yes, absolutely. That'd be wild. Super cool.

A pretzel necklace beer so they can like throw pretzel necklaces like into the ash. I don't know. I don't know if the string would mess anything up, but it's food grade.

It's turkey twine. It's cool. Yeah. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? Nothing. Their filters get clogged. Let's make it happen. Let's come on new glory. Yeah. New glory. Let's do it. Neck nosh, LLC on the ground. Right, right. All right. Lots to get to. First of all, Flex, you remember last week we were talking about Kansas and our ludicrous libation law.

Dude, my memory is horrible. Well, you, you talked about your horrendous trip to Kansas and like you got stuck in the ghetto.

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Yeah. You got a police escort out of there and everything. Yeah, yeah. Real scary. Yeah. Listener Pablo caught something that I didn't catch in real time. He messaged me to say, "Hey, okay, just listen to this week's episode and I feel I need to call out Flex on his Kansas trip because he claims he went to the Royals game. Here's where my problem is. The Royals play in Kansas City, Missouri. So did this trip really happen?" Question mark, question mark.

Yeah. So I don't remember what city we stayed in Kansas,

but it's like Kansas City, Missouri is like right on the border of like Kansas and Missouri. So we just hopped back into and then back into. Got it. So we also hit up some amusement park in Missouri. I can't even fucking remember what it was called. Sounds exciting. Yeah. It was like fucking 17 years ago. In Missouri, it's like Bud Light Land or something. Yeah. So take that Pablo. Yeah, Pablo. Just kidding. Thanks for listening, Pablo.

Is that the same Pablo that like someone threw up in his dresser drawer? I kind of remember Pablo. Oh God, I'm not remembering that. I probably shut it out. I know he's definitely sent something in the show before. Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah. He's been to a couple of live shows and all that stuff. So. Yeah. Cool. I already said I have a terrible memory. So. What are we talking about? Exactly. Where are we? Nailed it. It works. All right.

I want to mention last week I got invited to industry night at a new brewery out here.

It's called Red Engine Brewing. Wow. Yeah. I don't know why I got invited. In fact, actually, I was looking at the email list and it looks like the same email list that Brittany from Naughty Pine sends out. I was like, oh, they might have stolen Brittany's email list. Don't sell yourself short. All right. It's because I'm fucking important. You're kind of a big deal. Kind of a big deal. So anyways, Preston, who is part owner and head brewer, invited me out there for industry night.

And of course, knew like half the people there. Monaco was there from pedals. The guys from T Hill were there. A couple of the Integrin crew was there. I just missed Britt from Naughty Pine. Philly was there from VCB. I mean, like everybody as I walked, I was like, hey, it's you. it's you. Hey, it's you. Then I got to meet Preston. Here's the thing. They have not had their official grand opening. They have their soft opening. They're starting to pour beers and stuff and sell beers.

But their grand opening is coming up, I believe, Friday of this week as this releases. For being a new brewery and being on their first batch and slash round of beers, goddamn, that was some good beers over there. I think by the end of the night, I'd had at least a sip of everything. Started off with a couple of pints. And then when I met Preston, he's like, hey, do you have this one yet and this one? I was like, no. He goes, let's get you a flight of all the ones you haven't had yet.

I was like, all right, well, let's do it. Daddy like. Does he have any history in brewing around town or what's up? No. So Red Engine Brewing, it's all fire and first responder themed. He's still an active full-time firefighter. Wow. And head brewer and part owner. So he's a busy man. We talked about that for a little bit and how fucking insane he is for doing all that. But the beer was really good. They had one called Java Bump, I think. It was a coffee blonde. Really, really good.

That was probably the one I was most excited for. Yeah, exactly. I love those fun coffee beers that aren't just a coffee stout. So always get excited about that. He had a pale. That was great. He had a West Coast. He had a hazy. He just had one of everything. He had a couple of lagers, a Mexican lager, and then a Pilsner. Which you don't normally like. So here's the thing. And I even told him, he brought the flight over. One of the ones I hadn't had yet was the Mexican lager.

And he asked me, he said, "Hey, what do you think about El Jefe?" And I was like, "To be honest, not a Mexican lager fan for the most part. This one's not bad, which means it's amazing." Or maybe I liked it because it wasn't true to style. I don't know. Usually they're too sweet for me, a little too corn taste. And this was not that. It was real clean. It was more akin to a Pacifico, not so much like that craft Mexican lager where you get the corn taste really coming through.

I was going to say, yeah, you get a really well done Mexican lager from a craft, and it is pretty sweet. Yeah. It's usually why I stay away from that. I just don't do the sweet in my beers unless it's a one-off chocolatey stout or something like that. All right. Chocolate, peanut butter, pork. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. God, thank God this thing isn't 12%. What a night that would be. It's starting off with it. Yeah. Yeah. Starting off with a 12%er. That'll fit the algorithm.

But yeah, the beers were really good. They had pizza. We didn't get a chance to try the pizza. It was an all liquid night for us that night, but they had a pork belly and kimchi pizza, so I do want to try that one. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. I'm excited to try it. I'm all for it. But yeah, I'm excited to see where they go and what beers come out next. And we're in talks right now for getting them on the show, doing an interview. So yeah, so stay tuned for that.

I think that's going to happen the next couple of weeks, which means a couple of weeks after that, we'll have it ready for all y'alls to consume. But yeah, if you're around, I know Fillmore is not necessarily in the middle of everything, but it's like a half hour from us, I think, where we are. And yeah, just head on over. Really, really surprisingly good. It's one of those things where it's like only brewery in town, they could just be mediocre at best and it's kind of your only option.

You'd still go. Right. They're going to do well no matter what. Right, exactly. But the beer is actually surprisingly good. So- To a boot. Yes, to a boot. So go check them out, Red Engine Brewing. I think that's... I'm pretty much caught up. What's up with you? Erica, we kind of joked about it, but you guys went and fucking bought a zoo. Yeah, we did. It's kind of ridiculous. We like fenced off- Easy there, Matt Damon. Yeah, right?

We bought a zoo. Never seen that one. Sorry, we're out of time for Matt Damon. Yeah, never was tempted to watch that one either. Me, me, me. Have you seen it? Is it any good? Do you recommend it? I've never seen it. Okay, well, you're like, no. Yeah, we own two acres, but one and a half of them are on a hill. So obviously that's not very easy to mow. So we had it all fenced off and then we were like, we're going to get some goats. And then apparently we need...

There's mountain lions around here, like whatever. So you need- No big deal. No big deal. Just another day. Mountain lions. We got all the animals. So we got some dogs to protect them, but they're puppies. And yeah, it's a lot. That doesn't sound like a good idea. It's a lot. It's so much right now, but it's been fun. Yeah, we got dogs to protect our animals. Yeah, what kind of dogs? Real small ones. Puppies. No, okay.

So they're great Pyrenees and they're bigger than most full grown dogs as a puppy. They're huge, big, fluffy, like sheep dog looking thing. I guess Deb had some. She loves great Pyrenees because she had asked me or I can't remember where that came up. But anyways, they're really great temperament. They don't like just bark at people. I don't like barky dogs. Just drives me nuts. Super obnoxious. Yeah. The only time we hear them bark is like if they hear a mountain lion or something, you know?

So it's cool. It's generally legit. [imitates barking] It's so great. [laughs] No, that's a cougar flex. [laughs] Is that not the same thing? [laughs] Actually, it's not. I didn't know that. What's the other word for cougar? A puma? A bobcat or something or puma? Puma. I think it's puma. Yeah. I said it first. I don't know. They're all almost the same thing. Yeah. Meow. Like a panther is a jaguar or something like that. Sure. Yeah, I think that's right too. Yeah, it's like a black jaguar.

It still has spots, but you can't see them unless it's in the light and it's like black burr with black spots. It's really... Oh. I'm pretty sure it's a real thing. That's a real thing. Maybe Pablo can call me out again. Yeah, Google it, Pablo. But pretty sure it's a real thing. We should have a segment, fact-checking with Pablo. [laughs] That's what I'm trying to find out. That's what Brian's for and he's been falling flat, man. Yeah, he's about to lose his internship. Brian.

He could probably teach us some things about these dogs because maybe he had the Pyrenees as well. But yeah, so it's getting better every day, but it is a lot. Because we got them on either end of our house. It sounds like it. Goats over there with the dog, goats over there with the dog. [laughs] And just because the dogs are learning. They're very protective. It's going to be good in the long run, but right now it's a lot. Have you taught them how to use the kegerator yet? Yeah, right.

No, just the rattlesnake, remember? So... Oh, that's right. That's where it was hanging out. It's just wild out here. This is how we live. You didn't have a road for a month or something, right? Yeah, we didn't have a road. Yeah, we had a bridge that was falling apart.

This is how bad country she is. It is. It's so weird. Just moving from Sacramento to this. It's just a huge change. How does McDreamy save lives if he can't even get out of his house? Right? He has to do a little stream crossing. He puts on a harness. I guess you guys got a helicopter pad on top of the house so you can... We don't. We use some neighbors, you asshole. [laughs] How dare you? That hasn't been installed yet.

Yeah, we share their helicopter because it's just too much to have one on your own. Right. Economically, it makes more sense. No, but yeah, the bridge had to be repaired. So we didn't have access to our home except for by riding a little UTV kind of tractor thing for a few weeks. Anyways, it's been a crazy winter. But we're just out here just trying to homestead, I guess. [laughs] Just roughing it. I don't know what we're doing. Canning your own shit now. Right. Exactly.

Now's a perfect time for McDreamy to get back into home brewing. Right. Yeah. In case you guys get stuck. That would be amazing. Yeah. We're just using... Never run out of beer. Yeah. Exactly. Priorities.

As long as we got that, we're good. Yeah. We got chicken's eggs and we have the goats we can put on a spit if we need to. [laughs] So... We'll get you a couple of dinners. You know a guy. Because we know a guy. Call him up. Be like, "All right. We're hungry." I'll chopper one in. That's cool. Yeah. Chopper. Now I'm picturing a Jurassic Park scene where you're just lowering the goat. Too much? Gross. Jeez. Yeah. That's kind of cool. Thinking about that. Yeah. Sorry, everybody.

Everyone's like, "All right. Gross. We're not listening to the show ever again." But yeah. Life is good on the farm. Nice. Well, kind of here. Come out and do goat yoga. Seriously. Did you say life on the farm is kind of laid back? [laughs] What is that from? That's got from a movie. So you got that shit eating grin on your face. I don't even know. It's John Denver. Is it? Oh, I even saw him in concert when I was a kid. Mr. Sunshine on my goddamn shoulders. Can you believe it?

John fucking Denver. Are you Rocky Mountain High right now or... Oh, I'd love to be. We know he's been dabbling. So I'm just wondering. Thank God I'm a country boy. It's a classic. There we go. All right. I'm going to pull us out of this tail dive. Let's help us out. All right. Before we find out what Flex is drinking over there, let's get the paddles and check in with the newsflight.

We finally have an official beer sponsor of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Is it Modelo? It is not. It's not Modelo either. It is the official beer of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games is Corona.

Wait for it gets worse. Seto. Oh, ew. NA Corona. Ew. Is that new? I think so. I think Corona Seto is a new thing and they're the global beer sponsor of the upcoming Summer Olympics. AB is the first beer sponsor at the worldwide Olympic partner level. According to their press releases, other exclusives are Coke, Toyota, Airbnb. Well, yeah, Coke was big for Oktoberfest, right? In Germany. So it's wrong Coke, but yes. Oh, I'm shocked. Say, yeah, that should be huge at the Olympics.

How do you think they pole vault? So same thing. Both. Yeah. Far and high long jumpers. There we go. Miller Lite has released beer mints. Gross. Yeah. Just in case drinking a Miller Lite didn't make your mouth taste like an asshole enough,

you can now have one of their mints. You know, some people nowadays like asshole, Greg. Hey, and you know what? No judgment there. I'm just saying when I drink a beer, I don't want it to taste like that. Click to respond on that one. Well, I'm just saying it's like the big thing nowadays. Apparently. Yeah. Is it? Is it? Is it all the rage? That's like what the kids are doing. The kids are saying they're all into buttholes. Pretty sure that's what it is. All right. Well, not a butthole show.

So we'll move on. Buttholes and beer mints. Let's go. Well, there's the title of the episode.

And as mentioned last week when Flex was talking about his after work drinking habits,

sweet water brewing is doubling down on their gummies line. Hey, yeah, there's going to be a fruit punch, a cherry limeade, a sour watermelon and a tropical version. OK, I have had the fruit punch. OK, well, now it shockingly tastes a lot like fruit punch. Oh, like in a good way or in a gross way? Like in a shocking way. Like you would drink it again kind of way. Yeah. I mean, I've definitely had it multiple times already. OK, but yeah, it's like, you know, you see the gummy can.

You're like, oh, you know, it's like taste kind of a little bit fruity. No, it's and very tolerable to drink out of a can, like which I said, drinking IPA is out of cans for me or very hit or miss. Same. Very no go for me. Right. So then the fruit punch one, I was like, oh, OK, like whatever the gummies one tastes. OK. It says it's bursting with the gummies bursts with tropical notes. And it says the fruit punch one does citrus notes. There are no citrus notes. It's just fruit punch.

Yeah. Like it's mind blowing. Well, the good news is they're all nine point five percent. So you're not sacrificing. No wonder he's been drinking it. See? Well, yeah, it's going to get you to where you need to go. OK, that should be their slogan. It really should. Like you should be doing their advertising. Like do you like a real old timey? You know, like back when celebrities would endorse it by like saying,

hey, I'm so and so like, hey, I'm flex. And if you need to get where you're going, check out Gummy's IPA. It'll get you to where you need to go. Oh, my gosh. And the flexing some short shorts. Yeah. I like little green ones. No cargo shorts. So he has a gummy in each pocket. Gross. You know, I can't do that. I can't do it. Even for a commercial. You wouldn't see his feet, Greg. It's against my short, short religion. I know I know. I know. I know.

I know you're not for it, but I'm just I can see you with a gummy popping out of each pocket and like I'm flex. You should try it. Sweetwater gummies. It'll get you where you need to go. And that's it. That you know, and then just like gummies rained out on me. Yeah. Mouth open like like I'm trying to catch snowflakes. Right. I've seen that before. *laughter* At least he gets some reimbursement this time. Right. Yeah. That'll fit the algorithm free. Free beer.

speaking of Flex raining down on him, let's answer some questions, shall we? 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 the world of craft beer, the world is a place of craft beer. In the world of craft beer, the world is a place of craft beer. In the world of craft beer,

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I'm drinking Ghost in the Machine from Parish Brewing Company and I'm all kind of confused on this Untapped.

Oh, well I can tell you I've never seen it in a gas station, so drink on. Well, I don't know. Untapped's weird to the can. It says 8.5% on Untapped, 8% on the can. 100 IBUs apparently? Kind of blows my mind. Imperial Double it says. And 88,000 check-ins. Wow. 4.23 cumulative. That's pretty damn solid if I do say so myself. So they say, "Welcome to the future. Our collective human consciousness, or Ghost in the Machine, has gained a tolerance for hops beyond what mankind has ever known before.

This double IPA is the necessary outcome." Well, this is, it's really good. I'm going to tell you that off the bat. First time I had this was in Disney. It's a double hazy. It is indeed, in fact, hazy. Very hazy. Appropriately hazy. To the name, it makes sense. So on the schnauzer, it's hoppy. It's like super hoppy. Like you almost can't, it's like juicy hoppy. A little bit of citrus coming out of there. Not too much tropical, but it's like delicious. It's like you can smell the hops.

So as we warm up the old tongue-jobber. It's raining hops! It's raining hops! Just fucking delicious. It really is. I know Nick at 14 Cannons hates when people say beers are smooth. Yes, he does. For a double IPA, the carbonation is perfect. It's very light. Real medium bodied, and it just goes down so smooth. Super hopped up. No hop burn though, which is, like I like hop burn. Yeah, you like a little hop burn in there.

But the fact that you taste a beer that's so juicy and hoppy at the same time, like that grassy, that herbaceous notes. But there's no lingering bitterness. There's no lingering burn. It's just, it makes sense that it has such a high rating, and out of so many ratings, it's just a phenomenal beer. Yeah, you know, it's funny. As you say, it sounds like a beer that my wife would love. She's recently gotten into hazies a little bit as an anti-IPA drinker.

And I'll hand her a hazy and be like, "Oh, this is so good. Try it." And she's like, "Not my jam." And I realized what it is, is I like the hazies that have a little hop to the finish, like a little bitterness at the end that's not just juice.

And what I realized is she just wants juice, nothing else. If any hops went into that boil, she's like, "Fuck you. Dry hop only, motherfucker." Dry hops are bust. That's her new trend. At least she's getting into it. Yeah, you know, baby steps for sure. You'll get there. And it's complimentary where if it doesn't fit your taste, then you can pass it over and you know she'll probably drink it. Yeah, I'm like the garbage disposal. She's like, "I don't like this one.

You drink it." Or yeah, vice versa. Yeah, that's more likely. You're going to be the one. Sorry, I'm with my kids' dinner plates. Do you, do your kids' dinner plates? Yeah, I don't want to finish. What do you mean you're trying to throw a chicken tender away? Give me that. No, no, no. Give me that. No tendy left behind. Couldn't finish those three tater tots? God dang it. Who raised you? I don't know. My parents. Couldn't finish those tots? Love you, mom and dad. Give me some of those tots.

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Flex, I believe it was last week we were discussing Drizzly.

Yeah. And we had a full on discussion about how no one's ever actually used it. Ever. Not one single person I've ever met. Yeah. In fact, here's a clip. Have you ever used Drizzly? No. Do you know anybody that has? No. I don't. I don't. Okay. So here's my thought process on like, if you're going to drink, you like- Which I am. You like plan on drinking, right? You're going to have people over or, you know, I don't know, you're setting up for the weekend.

I've never met somebody that's like, "Oh shit, I forgot to get all of my alcohol." Better call Drizzly. You nailed it. Erika, have you ever used Drizzly? No. No. They can't cross the stream? No. Cannot. I think it was GoPuff that I'd used, I think, for like some CBD cream or something. But no, not Drizzly. What a good high. Well, not that I love when people lose jobs or anything like that, but mere days, I believe it was three days after Flex and I had this discussion,

email comes across my desk, Uber, the owner of Drizzly, Uber has decided to shut down Drizzly just three years after acquiring the alcohol e-commerce platform for $1.1 billion. Jeez. You guys are powerful. Like, okay, I just got to, I got to rewind a little bit because Flex talks about sweet water and they're doubling down, right? They're getting more on their gummies line. And now you're talking about how Drizzly shit and they, they're shutting it down. So what else do we want to happen?

You guys, I mean, what's in the future? Ooh, what do we want to see in 2024? Not a sport show. I'm purposely not bringing up sports for you, Flex. Here's what I want to see in 2024. I want more coffee beers that aren't stout. In fact, I want more coffee IPAs. There, I said it. I want black IPAs with coffee added. Okay. How about this? The year of the Goza.

Yes. Okay. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but I was talking with Monica the other day and we're discussing another round of a Goza collaboration,

different fruit this time. Tight. Yeah. I think it's all going to come to fruition. I believe. I hope the Goza comes to fruit-ition. Oh, you already made it. Come on, everybody. It doesn't make me salty at all. Oh dear. Hey, Brett, we should do a collab, black IPA with coffee added from California Coffee Republic. Putting it out into the world now. You know, it's actually pretty weird that you said that.

I was driving home from work the other day and Lakefront Brewery used to do an annual release of their IBA, their India Black Ale. Oh, okay. I've never heard it called an IBA before. No, I haven't either. That's so crass. Yeah, that's what they used to ... I always just hear black IPA. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, IPA. It's much easier to say. So then I was thinking to myself, "Normalize IBAs." Yes, hashtag. I used to- Love it. I used to go to that every fucking year and it was delicious.

Yeah. Bring it back. Yeah. I'm all for it. I'm on board with anything that has the roastiness, but it's just not so heavy that it takes you down. Right. Yeah. Did you guys ever have, years ago, when Stone ... Well, first of all, it was still Kraft, but it was one of their Enjoy Buy beers and it was for Valentine's Day and it was like a chocolate IPA? No. No. It sounded weird as F and it was delicious. It sounded really weird as F. Super weird, but it was like dark, mostly chocolatey, but IPA.

Dark malted IPA? Mm-hmm. It was good. It was really good. Daddy. In fact, if they launched it again, I'd totally go buy it. Chocolate covered daddy. You could name it. There we go. Britt, let's do that collab. We'll call it Chocolate Covered Daddy. You know no one's used that name yet. Time for Valentine's Day. I love it. Yeah. All right, what else? Oh, some sad news. Bagby brewing to close down in Oceanside,

but the happy side of that is Green Cheek will be taking over their space and doing their best to keep everybody employed. That's great news. Yeah. That's kind of a bummer though. I've been to Bagby and that's where they would do the BrewBees fundraiser for- Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. I think they're doing one in Nashville this year. I think they're making an order for me for it, but I was like, "Oh." I'm sorry. I had to look this up quick.

Voodoo Brewing Company had a chocolate covered cherry big black voodoo daddy.

Oh. It was aged in bourbon barrels. That's a lot. They also had big black voodoo daddy. That's a lot to digest. I think I have one in my fridge right now actually. It's a chocolate covered banana. Oh, God. No, I have a regular big black voodoo daddy in my fridge right now. I'm pretty sure. Big black voodoo daddy dark chocolate covered banana. Sounds dirty. That shit's pretty funny. Yeah. Sorry, Eric. Nice. No, no. I was just thinking about Bagby recently because of the BrewBees thing.

So it's sad that they're closing, but it's good that it'll still be something similar, I guess. Yeah. At least it's going to someone good. Yeah. I love me some green cheek. Had them on the show a couple weeks ago, I think. Yeah. It was like two weeks ago. All right. Yeah. All right.

So, special events. New Jersey Governor fucking Phil Murphy signed some tap room operation reform into law. Okay. Exactly. Governor Phil signed a law into bill that will ease strict restrictions on the way craft breweries in the state can operate in their tap rooms under the new law, which passed both houses of the state legislator last week. Craft breweries can now host an unlimited number of special events in their tap rooms. Hell yeah.

Coordinate with food trucks and restaurants to offer food service. Hell yeah. And sell snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. Hell yeah. Snacks. Yeah. All of which had been prohibited under the strict guidelines created by the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverages Control, blah, blah, blah. In an attempt to strike a balance between investment retailers made in their license, blah, blah, blah. It was all to fuck over the breweries.

He also conditionally vetoed a similar bill last fall, which we covered greatly. I don't know why the change now, because he kept saying he wanted greater sweeping legislation changes and that has not happened, but maybe because everybody was going to absolutely vote him out. Look, I don't want to brag, right? Once again, it was thanks to us. Pretty sure we had a little bit to do with this. I know. This is kind of weird. I'm sitting here like just freaking out because, I don't know.

Go ahead, Flex. What are you thinking? I'm just saying, we always talk shit about how shitty New Jersey is and Governor Phil and whatever. Phil is listening. Phil and then- He's listening. They come out with the unnecessary rhyme, "Phil signs a bill." You're welcome, New Jersey. Yeah. What else do we have to say? New Jersey is very regularly at the top of our top listening city list. Interesting. Maybe Phil listens. Maybe he's the one in New Jersey listening to us talk so much shit about him.

Maybe people need to call into the show with their just whatever you want to happen this year. We're going to will it. We're going to will it into being. Ask the guys, man. Except for Pablo. Fuck that guy. Yeah, freaking Pablo. He's the smartest one around. We got to let Pablo in. Just kidding, Pablo. That reminds me. I said top listening city. I almost forgot. Top listening city of last week was Fillmore, California, which is where Reggie was.

So I must have passed out enough stickers and cards. Well done. Good marketing. Yeah. I guess it worked. So thanks everybody for listening. And thanks Phil for not being a dickhead for once. Yeah, Phil. Maybe now I'll go to New Jersey. Probably not. Never. Yeah. the next one. That was low, you son of a bitch. You know what? Convince me. How about that? That's funny. Convince me, Phil, or other people. Um, Smutty Nose Brewing parent company. Still talking like Phil Littson. He absolutely does.

I'm sorry, that was funny. Yeah. Uh, Smutty Nose's parent company acquires Massachusetts.

Oh God. Wachusett Brewing. Yeah, I'm sure that's right. What, Chusett? I don't know. What's Smutty Nose's parent? Yeah. Wachutu, the Wachutu tribe. Yeah. Ace Ventura too. Let me show you. Yeah. Yeah. What was it? Uh, Tommy Davidson. What? Tommy Davidson. And is that the one where like he's, he's in the ring and he's throwing spears at him? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was Tommy Davidson. Who the fuck is Tommy Davidson? Comedian. He was, he was the guy that Ace had to fight. The tiny guy?

Yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Oh. He was on, uh, In Living Color back in the day. Oh, yeah. Okay. Had no fucking clue. Oh, he's hilarious. Uh, anyways. All right. Wachusett got bought out by Smutty Nose's parent company, which is Finest Kind Brewing. Anyways, just another example of craft breweries, uh, buy another craft breweries. Seems to be all the rage right now. I'd say it's like the trend of the last two years. Yeah. Very trendy. Minimally two years. Yeah. That's a year and a half, two years.

and then finally we'll end it on this one. Sapporo Stone. It's so weird to see that Sapporo Stone. That's I guess the company name now. CEO Maria Stipp is Exxon and Zachary Keeling is named their interim CEO.

She saw them through the whole transition of being, uh, not craft anymore. And now she's walking away. Enjoy a early retirement. Yeah. I'm, I'm sure she made enough throughout that whole process. Guaranteed. How could you not? So. Such good beer.

*facepalm* Was it two weeks ago that I was shitting on Stone IPA? MIKE Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Did I ever say this? I probably never said this on the air, but right after the buyout, you told me this off air. MIKE Yeah. JANICE Didn't they reach out? They reached out to try and get us to have more beer on the show, and I just politely declined. JANICE I heard that. Craft Beer Republic, buddy. Not the fucking Big Beer Republic.

JANICE Yeah. And as it was, yeah, we'd been doing a little bit back and forth before they got bought out, but the last couple of things they wanted me to promote was just Stone IPA. Everyone's fucking heard of it. They either like it or they don't. I'm tired of drinking the same beer, so please send me something new. So there you go. But if you want to come out with that chocolate IPA, I will still buy it. JANICE I was just going to say great standards, and you went and screwed it all up. Sorry.

All right, I'm going to hit some music over here. I'm also going to say... JANICE I'm going to say... I'm going to say hi, Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa. JANICE Hi, Vanessa. I'm going to beg you all to check us out. CraftBeerRepublic.com,

@CraftBeerRepublic, of course @FlexMeABeer, underscores in between. Neck Nosh LLC, underscores as well. And of course NeckNosh.com for all your pretzel and s'mores need. I like the little s'mores thing you sent. JANICE Oh, shh. Flex is going to get one too. Oh, shit. JANICE Yeah, don't tell. That's okay. Are those on the website? JANICE La la la la la la. Earmuffs, earmuffs. Just kidding. Yeah. S'mores. Yeah, they're great. What else we got? 805-538-Beer, 2337. I think that's everything.

So I thank you all for listening, and I hope you're staying very well hydrated. And on that note... Goodnight, everybody!