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Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. Speaking of joining, being joined by that big golf swinging fellow from the Midwest and that's Fleck. What's up, buddy? Nothing. Nobody else I'd rather join. Oh, loving you. Love you. Loving you. Smooches. And then perfectly thoroughly creeped out by the both of us is Monica. What's happening? Hey. I'll give the smooches like the most romantic show around. Not a smooch show. Valentine's day is not over.

It's a month long celebration of grossness.

Uh, I forgot to do this last week. Last week, our top listening city was Pennington, New Jersey, which keeps popping up. So thank you Pennington. This week, top listening city, Daly City,

California. What's up Daly City. Do you know where it is? NorCal. Oh, okay. I think, I think that's up in the Bay area. I guess I could have researched that or just asked my wife who's from that area. And, uh, we could have driven there. I know what an asshole I am. Hey, I was right. Okay. Thank God. You know, I'm going to try and go to sleep tonight and now I'm going, all I'm going to think about is how funny it was that you said not a smooching show.

Maybe that should be the title of the episode. Not a smooching show. Uh, we got a lot to get to tonight. We've got a voicemail from the homie, chew your beer, actually from him, not as weird as Australian cousins, Australian cousin, twin, whatever. I don't know. Might. That was weird. Dingo cousin thing. Uh, he has some news. I just wonder how many beers deep was he on that one? How many fosters deep? Foster. Well, yeah, it would take a lot.

Yeah. I mean, he had to have a rack of fosters at that point. Is that a thing? I mean, it's not something I participate in, but, uh, I'm sure it's a thing. Especially if you're chew your rue or whatever the fuck his name was. Chew your rue.

Smooches, chew your rue. Um, got some news to get to. Snoop Dogg is a get into the booze game again. And, uh, ludicrous libation law. So much more. All right, let's kick it off with some hydration over here. [Rubber stamp sound] I smooch my beer. It's a trap. It's the motherfucking remix. Aww, that was so sweet. That sounded like the Mickey kiss, like the classic Mickey kiss. Sorry, nerd moment. We are, Monica and I are over here drinking Smog City,

Smog Days Haze Craze. And it's the Moonbow Hazy IPA. It is 6.3% and they say Moonbow uses straight up heavy hitter hops to create a nuanced tropical fruit experience. Guava and tropical fruit salad dominate the aroma, backed by lemon candy, citrus, and subtle floral backtones. With soft bitterness and a medium body, this IPA is cosmically crushable.

The Smog Days Haze Craze IPA series is an innovative lineup of unique, thirst-quenching, hazy IPAs, an enticing expression of our brewer's creativity and love for experimentation. Join us on our ever-expanding quest to discover the ultimate hazy hop combinations. And can I just say I'm so appreciative that when people want to experiment with beer, they make more beer and not cocktails. Yes. Yeah. What's the definition of a heavy hitter hop? I don't know. Well, ask the brewer. I don't know.

Don't ask me. I'm not a huge hazy IPA brewer, so I don't really know what that means. I just thought that was weird. Yeah, heavy hitter hop. I would guess like Nectaron and those like buzzword hazy hops. Yeah. Yeah. Nelson, Nectaron, 586. Flux is favorite 586. Yeah, 586 is delicious. It needs a fucking name. Mackenzie. Yeah. Goddamn name already. It needs a name. Do you have any insight into like getting a fucking name pushed through? I do not. You know anybody? I do not.

I'm not important enough for that. We'll get there. I'll tell you what's an underrated hop is the Macanac hop. I think it's a real thing. I've not had that one. All right. Well, before the ADHD really takes in, this is... Squirrel. Yeah. This is good. I get a lot of like, like pineapple in the shows. Yeah. That's what I got. We were pouring it, especially. Yeah. As it sat here for about 10 minutes, the schnauz did tame down a little bit as it warmed up, I guess.

I do get guava on the tongue jobber. We all know I love guava. Getting the passion fruit in the nose now. Yeah. Lemon candy. I don't know about lemon candy. I love like hard lemon candy. A little citrusy in there. Yeah. Yeah. This is really nice. I know you're not a, you're not a hazy person, but I'm not, but this is delicious. Yeah. This is very drinkable. And I'm not like against hazies. I just have had a lot of bad ones. Yes. Yeah. I have found, tell me what you think.

I found that, and this is just going to sound like,

"Hey, you're from California." West coast hazies are the better of the hazies. On the east coast, they get chunky and they're like protein shakes. West coast seems to do a good job of A, not making them chunky, making them hazy, not... That's a technical term. And they also tend to have just a nice little bit of bitterness to them that the east coast ones are missing. More of a crispy dry finish, but it's probably more our water profile. Well, it could be that too. We have great water here.

Do you think being by... I mean, it's good for hops. Yeah. It's good for Westies. Well, I want to know to the brewer, what defines a bad hazy? So I wouldn't say bad. I'm just not a... Well, no, you said bad. I'm not like a... So I just want to hear it. I'm not like a smooth mouthfeel, like... You don't want that like straight juice. Yeah. Like the big thick mouthfeel where it didn't get the biotransformation and you're actually getting like particles in it. It's not just a hazy.

That would be bad to me. I also don't love dank flavor profile. So would the average drinker know what you're talking about there? I don't know. I mean, probably they could discern whether they've had a hazy that doesn't have a chunky feel to it. Floaters. I mean, there's physical floaters in some hazies and like this one that we're drinking right now, it's not. Okay. I understand that.

But so to me, if I were to define a bad hazy, it is a hazy IPA that has like a huge malt character to the flavor profile. that would make sense. Which as an average Joe, which I am, I don't know how that comes about. I mean, so it would have to have like a big malt backbone in order for you to have like really malty flavor to it. My guess is that they're putting caramel malt in it, which would be like an old school West Coast IPA sort of thing, but not as much hazy.

So like new age hazier beer is just two row or just Pilsner with a little bit of like dextran malt for head retention, maybe a little bit of something for color like Vienna or something like that. Very light. People use like oats stuff, right? oats are a big thing. Yeah, flaked oats. But your malt character is normally second to your hop flavor profile in most hazies now. So I mean. Which you would, yes, right. And it makes the most sense. Hazies are supposed to be more hop forward.

They're the stars. You're getting those fruity, juicy characters. Characteristics, right. But I like a hazy that is a little bit drier on the finish and lighter than being like big, full bodied mouth feel. Okay. Is there sort of a, I say big production. I don't mean like Budweiser big, but like, is there a production beer that you can think of that's kind of like that, like a hazy little thing or something along those lines? I don't know. I don't really try a ton of hazies honestly anymore.

I tried a lot when they first became popular and I do not try a ton of them anymore. Trying to figure out why. Yeah. But this one is very good. Smog City. Yeah. I mean, Smog City is putting out some great stuff. So, and they've been doing it forever. All right. Monica's here. I figured we should ask her some beer things. First of all, head brewer at Petals and Pints. We talked about it last week. You just dropped a new sour and the new coffee collab with California Coffee Republic.

Yeah. So the sour is Blackberry Blueberry.

So nice and tart. Has lots of those berry flavors and really refreshing. Nice. And sessionable. Sessionable, easy drinker, very tart though. So the people who like sour definitely come try that. Thanks. I love, personally, I love Blackberry and sour. I think it is a very underrated berry that's used. I feel like blueberries are hard to play with and sours. Yeah. So blueberries can be a lot of different things. So the puree that we got was a little bit on the tart side.

So the Blackberry was really nice to kind of sweeten it up a little bit. Okay. Yeah. And then the uptempo is our Nitro Coffee Cream Ale with lactose. And it's super creamy, but light on the finish. So up front you get that super creamy nitro head with a little bit of that lactose to it. And then you get all of the flavors of the California Coffee Republic coffee beans, which he does light roast on most of his stuff.

So this is a Costa Rican coffee, anaerobically fermented, which gives kind of like a honey note and you definitely get it in the beer. And there's also like a port wine, citrus peel and dragon fruit character. I get the citrus peel up front, like the kind of tangy port wine in the middle, and then huge dragon fruit at the end. Nice. Interesting. Yeah. I'm the kind of guy who buys... That's another fruit flavor I feel like that's very hard to pinpoint.

Yes. Like if you're not getting it locally or fresh. Yes. Yeah. So dragon fruit, it's coming from the coffee beans. It's not coming from any of the beer ingredients other than those coffee beans. So it came out incredible. We didn't... This is the first time we're doing a coffee cream ale and it ended up really good. So it's fun. It's like using different hops to get different fruit or whatever profiles. Now you're using coffee to get different fruity whatever profiles. That's amazing to me.

Yeah. Yeah. And truly like CCR does incredible coffee roasting. They're a little bit more on the light and medium roast side. So you get those flavors out of coffee beans instead of it just being like roasty, typical coffee flavor. Yeah. I'm the guy who buys all his dark roast. See, I was just going to say, I love light roast coffee and I feel like a bitch. You're not. You just like intricate flavors. But yeah, I just love light roasted coffee. I think it's top notch.

Yeah. They were out of the dark roast last time and he told me to get the Malibu, which is like a medium roast. Yeah. He won bronze at the Golden Bean. That's a thing? The Golden Bean? Yes. I have not heard of this.

For Malibu and it's very good. We were really close to using that in our coffee beer and that Costa Rican one, it's called La Machina. It just knocked it out of the park for us. So good. Golden Bean doesn't really sound like a coffee thing. Golden Bean. Anyway. Here we go. Wait for that. Not a Golden Bean show. Not yet. And bringing it back to beer, any new fun hops or anything you guys are fucking around with? Hops, no, but we're barrel aging, bourbon barrel aging our anniversary beer.

And it's a doppelbach this year. First time you've barrel aged? Do you often barrel age? We barrel age once a year for our anniversary. So we'll do our anniversary beer every year. This is the first time we're doing a lager and it's already tasting great from the barrel. So I'm excited. It'll be out March 9th at our fourth anniversary party. So then how long are you sitting it in the barrels? It'll be six weeks on this one.

I wanted to do three months, but my barrels, like with all of the weather and stuff, it just took forever to get these barrels. For some reason, I ordered them and like six weeks later they came. And normally, so like for the last three years, we've ordered them and they're here like three days later. You're like, "Shit, we got barrels now." Yeah. And you have to put the beer in them immediately. Right. You can't let them dry out. Right. So it's like I had to time that and it was like, "Oh,

they're not here yet." But it was good we made a lager because it just sat in the tank for longer. Sure. Will you save a barrel for like another six months just to try it or? So yeah, so we have kegs of our previous year anniversary beer as well to hook up on our anniversary day. That was a big-ass stout, wasn't it? Yeah. So it was called Earn Dog Stout and it was bourbon barrel aged. Multiple ABVs. Yeah. That one was like 12%. Yeah. That was a big boy.

Yeah. So what's the projected on this Doppelbach? 9.5. Oh, that's hefty. Yeah. Try to fuck us up. Yeah. It's delicious. Have that at the end of the year lager. That's an anniversary part. And then my Bach will be coming back. Nice. That'll be like early April. And then we've got Hummingbird Vienna lager coming out at the end of March too. That's a good one. Yeah. Nice. Come on out to Pedals, everybody. Yeah. We got some fun stuff. I got somebody a gift card for Christmas.

He lives in Ventura area. I was like, "Here." He's always driving by. I was like, "Gift card. Go check out Pedals." And he's like, "Yeah. All right." Kind of brushed it off. I saw him a week ago. He goes, "Hey, that was pretty good." I was like, "What? No context." And I was like, "What was pretty good?" He's like, "Oh, I finally used that gift card." I was like, "Oh, good. I do like that." So some people like your shit. I'm glad. Thank you. Yeah. That's the goal at least. Sell beer.

[laughter] Well, make stuff that people enjoy. Yeah. I forget what exactly I asked, but when I was talking to Preston over at Red Engine, I was like, "So what do you like to focus on? What's your main goal?" He's like, "Make shit people are going to buy." [laughter] Yeah. I mean, he makes great beer, so he doesn't have any problems with that. Yeah. He's doing good stuff already. Yeah. He knocked it out of the park on their open. Yeah. It was so good.

He opened with 10 beers, three of them lagers. It's like, "What are you doing, man? Just coming out swinging." Yeah. I even told him to his face because he made me try the Mexican lager, and I was like, "I'm not a huge Mexican lager fan." It's really good. It's very Pacifico-esque. Yeah. Which is how I like my Mexican lagers. But craft. Right. But it's like the super light, not real corny or sweet like some of the lagers can get. So good. It has that lime note in it. Yeah. Yeah. It's delicious.

In fact, that interview I think comes out next week. So stay tuned for that, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. We ate pizza and drank beer. Preston's the nicest guy ever too. Super nice guy. He had just gotten off some 12-hour shift. Yeah. He's still a firefighter. Yeah. Just no big deal. Completely blows my mind. I know. Yeah. We're about ready to start. He's like, "Oh, I'm a little tired." I was like, "Are you all right?" He goes, "Oh, yeah. I just got off work." I was like,

"You're fucking dead." If I were doing what Preston was doing, I'd be on the floor right now. Just like fucking dead. He's talking about like it's no big deal. And I was like, "All right." Yeah. You're insane. Superman. Seriously. Fucking insane. All right. Cool. What else? Oh, I did some... I don't know if I'd call it research over the weekend, but... Uh-oh. I did get some decent beer. So, hey, Flex, did you know my sister's getting married? What? Yeah. Turns out she's getting married.

This is news to me. Newsflash. I didn't know you had a sister. Neither did I. I keep trying to forget. Oh, my God. I went to her soon-to-be husband's bachelor party over the weekend. Tahoe. Tahoe. Nothing like going somewhere where it snows. Not that I knew you were going to Tahoe.

No. Was it snowing? It was snowing. About this bachelor party before it did. Right. Exactly. I was so... Leading up to it, I was like, "Fuck. I'm going to have to drive up in the snow, and even worse, drive back. I can't take a week off of work because I got stuck up there." Luckily, the skies opened up. It snowed on my way. I flew into Reno, and then I rented a Jeep. I was like, "I'm not fucking with snow." No. Rented a Jeep, which surprisingly nice ride.

I'm always in little tiny sports cars, and the Jeep was actually pretty nice. Got up there. It was great. It snowed on the way up, but on the way back, no big deal. I was able to make it back in time for the Super Bowl even, which was the main goal here. Good thing. Yeah. We did some snowmobiling and drinking, which was... I'd never snowmobiled before. It was fucking... It was pretty fun. We did a private tour. The guy's like... We found this open meadow.

He goes, "Hey, you guys want to just let it rip for a few minutes?" I'm like, "Fuck. Yeah, we do. See how fast this thing can go." And then Jack, the groom-to-be, goes, "Hey, I was at 7-Eleven, and amongst all the shitty beer, they had this." And it was a collaboration between There Does Not Exist and Altamont. Ooh. It was great. No kidding. Yeah. West Coast. It was so good. So we went back the next day. I'm like,

"I wonder if they still have any more of this." They had one more of Horvath, so... Nice. Him and I drank that way. Everyone else drank the peasant beer. What else? That was pretty much it. It was mostly... It was one full day. I got up Friday. He got there, pounded some drinks, snowmobiled the next day. We parted in the parking lot after snowmobiling. And the guide that took us out came by. He was leaving because we'd just been sitting there drinking the whole day.

And we're like, "Hey, man, you want a beer?" He's like, "Yeah, sure. What the fuck?" He starts sharing war stories about snowmobiling in Canada, getting stuck in the snow and in frozen lakes and shit. So that was fun. And it was me, a snowmobile, and a grizzly, pretty much. And I'm the one still standing here talking to you. You see this scar? Imagine how bad he looks. He was one of those grizzled, I snowmobile everyday vets. I've never met one of those guys, so I don't know. Me either.

Neither have I. It was funny. He spent so much time in the snow that his nose was constantly running, but he didn't know it. So we'd just be talking to him. And afterwards, we all had this discussion of, "Do you think he knows his nose was running?" We'd be sitting there talking to him. He's telling us this really funny story about getting stuck in the snow or getting ran over by some Canadian dude or whatever. And just drip, drip, drip. "Bud, can you feel that?

Should we say something?" We were all just staring at his nose. He's got permafrost. "All right, you get it. It's cold, but yeah, it seems like it." But the snowmobile was fun. And like I said, had some good beers. So made it back in time to the Super Bowl. Yeah. That's cool that your future brother-in-law found you a nice little beer to have. Yeah. That was pretty nice. When I walked in Friday, airport took forever. What a nice future brother-in-law. Right? Maybe I won't punch him in the face.

I walked in Friday night, the fucking airport getting the rental car was a nightmare. It took forever and I got there late. It always is. It's a little bad. Why do they make you make reservations? Thank you. And then you get there and they're not even fucking ready.

Right. Like they're shocked that you're here to pick up a fucking car that you had reserved weeks prior. Yes, thank you. God damn. Well, on top of that, I stood in line for an hour. Tower 25, they said. Rent a car, they said. Well, I stood in line for an hour. I had the reservation for weeks. You think within that hour, maybe they could have brought the Jeep around? No, I get up there and she's looking me up and she's like, "Oh, Jeep. Oof. Yeah, I don't know." You don't know.

I don't think you can swap me for a Ford Fiesta. That's not going to fly. It's almost like they work blindfolded. It's like there's no prep work and they go into the day just like, "Oh, well, let's see what we fucking have for whoever the fuck is coming in to get whatever the fuck we have." It'd be like going to the doctor and then going to a completely other doctor like, "You don't read my charts?" It's like they don't have access to what I reserved. It's so fucking weird. It's mind blowing.

Yeah. So she hummed and hawed for a minute. I'm like, "Fuck, I'm not going to get my Jeep. I'm going to take the Ford Fiesta up the hill." And 89 Tercel. And finally she goes, "Hold on." So she calls somebody and she goes, "All right, they're finishing up right now. Just go outside and take a left and walk over here." Mind you, it's 17 degrees out. Now I got to go wait outside. It's like movie cold. Flex is used to this. Movie cold? You're so cute.

Well, it's like movie cold where even when you're breathing through your nose, you still see steam coming out,

which that doesn't happen in California. At least not in Southern California. So yeah, they bring the Jeep around and it's still covered, soaking wet. They just pointed a hose at it and were like, "All right, here's your Jeep, bud." And yeah, fucking the worst. Anyways, that was all leading to, took forever when I finally got to the house. Jack's like, "Hey man, got your beer." And then handed me a There Is Non-Exist collab and it was delicious. So good time. That's awesome.

Also had some Coors Lights that weekend because it was a bachelor party. Traveling with kids need car seats. Get up to the line. "Oh, do you need car seats? I don't know. Did you see if I checked it? Why check the fucking box?" Golly, I'm sorry. I can't get over this shit. No, it's obnoxious. I hate renting cars. Yeah, same. I do love driving other cars though. I don't know. I like- I do not. Well, it does make me appreciate my car more, but I do enjoy just trying other cars.

Usually, I hate it way more than my car. I love my car. And usually, I hate the car I rent. I like the Jeep this time. I just like driving different cars. I know for a fact I'll never buy a Camry because I've rented so many fucking Camrys and I hate every single one of them. We had a Durango last time we went to Nashville and it was the worst. couldn't figure out where the windshield wipers were until the last day when we were driving to the airport. Perfect. That's crazy.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, what else do we have? I think we had like a Hyundai SUV when we went to like Sanibel Island and that car was, it was whatever. And then we had another minivan when we went somewhere else and it was just- I just hate renting cars. I don't like driving other cars. Yeah. I feel like I'm in a tin can every time I rent a car. Corolla or whatever. Yeah. I mean, I drive a Mustang and it just feels like I am stuck to the ground. Like it is heavy and I'm stuck to the ground.

Yeah. You're not going anywhere. Yeah. And in everything else, I feel like I'm in a zippy tin can. Or not so zippy. I always laughed at Prius drivers because they're such assholes. I was stuck with a Prius one time. Now I know why they're such assholes. I would drive like shit too if I had to drive a fucking Prius. That was the worst. Tesla drivers are also terrible. They're the Prius drivers. They're the new Prius drivers.

One time I was in Colorado and it was not warm because it was Colorado and we were renting a car and I just rented a basic, you know, whatever Toyota piece of shit. And the lady goes, "You want to upgrade?" I was like, "To what?" She goes, "A Camaro?" Yes. "Convertible?" I was like, "Hmm." No. She goes, "It's the SS." I was like, "Oh, so I can get a ticket?" Not convertible. You can get a ticket. Yeah. Also, my car is faster than your SS, especially at the time. Hard top. Hard top, yes.

Hard top maybe. But yeah, I was like, "No, we're good." She's like, "You don't?" I was like, "No." The one thing about the Camaro I will say is that... So James had a Camaro and I loved it, but it was better for him because you sit deeper in the car, like way lower. And I had to kind of like... Phone book yourself up? Yeah. And I'm not short. I'm 5'7" and I was still like, "Can I see everything?" But it was great for James who's 6'1". He loved it. I had a Camaro '92, the original...

Not original, but back when before they stopped making it, it was a '92 Camaro red with black racing stripes. That got me pulled over a few times. Yeah. So yeah, good times. Renting cars, fun. So much fun. Not a car rental shop. Not a car... Definitely not. Yeah. Flex, do any fake golfing these days? Yeah, I can't stop. Any Mulligan Mondays? Wow, look at you.

Yeah. Oh, we should explain. Mulligan Mondays is what they do. It is knockoff top golf place he goes to, half off everything. Pitchers of beer, whatever. Pizzas. Pizzas. The golf bay prices. That's incredible. Yeah. Yeah. So I can't stop going. I'm having such a good time. And then the kids... Why stop if you're having a good time? Right. Exactly. And it's half off. Can't afford not to go. Right.

But the kids found out a couple of weeks ago that I had gone to partake in my lonesome and they had it set in stone that the next Monday they head off from school, they were going to go golfing. And I ended up taking them and they had a fucking blast. Nice. They hit the ball. It was way less stressful on me than I thought it was going to be. Did they get a pitcher too? I didn't even get a pitcher. I figured- Oh my God. With the kids. Well- Hold it together. Hold it together.

Pitchers are roughly four and a half beers. And it's like, do I want to crush that while I'm just hanging with the kids? You can split it with them. I was cool. But we grabbed a half off pizza. But yeah, I mean, like I said, it was so way less stressful than I was expecting it to be because they actually were consistently hitting the ball, which I was kind of impressed with, like with a nine-year-old and a seven-year-old. Pretty good. Yeah. Better than me.

Yeah. And it's not like I said, they're not like raking them, you know, like sending them like a hundred yards, but I mean, they're starting to have- In due time. Yeah. They're starting competitions, like who could have like the fastest ball speed. And every time they would hit the ball, they'd turn and look at the screen waiting for like the stats to show up. So it was a proud dad moment. Nice. I was very excited, but- Nice. Aw, that's awesome. I can't stop golfing now.

You've officially hit that age. Yeah. And it's like, I even bought a golf glove on Amazon because my- Just what? Well, you only get one. You look like Michael Jackson. Apparently that's what you do. You just wear a glove on one hand. Right. I know. It's just funny. But after the time I went by myself, my hand got torn up in like three or four different spots from just hitting so much. Sounds like some real problems. You know what? It was pretty problematic. Was it not? So yeah.

Catch me on the PGA tour in a couple years.

The pretty, trying to work in like drunk or something into PGA is just not working for me. It just doesn't work. Sit down. I want for a little bit. Yeah, I will. At a point. Before we find out what you're drinking, let's take it over to some ludicrous libation law. This is bringing us to Tennessee. I guess it's a potential ludicrous libation law.

There's an article that came out, says the future of selling cold refrigerated beer in Tennessee could be threatened thanks to a recently introduced bill in the Senate. The Tennessee Prevention of Drunk Driving Act aims to prohibit a beer permittee from selling a retail refrigerated alcoholic beverage or cold beer in an attempt to discourage consumers from drunken driving.

The bill was introduced by Ron Grant and Senator Paul Rose, both of which have been involved in previous alcohol related legislation. No surprise there. If I'm not mistaken, Tennessee is also the state that has no open container laws. Maybe they could start there. Before we hit the refrigerated beer, because I can see what I don't want. I'm a little confused as to why we think that that's going to deter drunk drivers. Right. Because they'll not drink warm.

If you're that needing of a beer, you'll drink whatever the fuck it is, warm or cold. That's me. Yeah. Let's see. Open container. Maybe it's not Tennessee that doesn't have the open container thing. Must be. We just talked about it a few weeks ago. But yeah, I feel like we could target something else. Not the refrigerators. Beyond just not wanting warm beer. Please keep the craft beer cold. Yeah. It doesn't last when it's warm. It doesn't like being hot. It even says keep cold.

Keep cold, drink fresh. Yeah. So, hey, Tennessee, fuck you. It's almost like Tennessee is the new New Jersey. And they keep going, soon to be the new Alabama. Going to start out on parties too, goddamn. Yeah. You can't have music on at a brewery or can't eat snacks with your left hand. I don't know what the fuck New Jersey is doing over there. Have you ever played that Buffalo game where it's like, if you get caught with your drink in your left hand,

you got to finish it. And somebody calls Buffalo on you. It was a real thing. Have you heard of this? Yeah. So, I play Buffalo with all of James' childhood friends. Oh, my gosh. Monica knows a Buffalo. Yeah. I feel so dumb. But how they explained it to me was you have to drink your beer in your non-dominant hand. And if you drink it from, like I'm right-handed. If I drink it from right hand, and someone says Buffalo, you have to drink the rest of that drink. Oh. Yeah. That could be a night.

It could. Yeah. So, I keep- You're with my right. I keep my left hand on my beer at all times when I see his friends. Is it like always in play? Always. Oh, God. Yeah. Somebody came up to me and said, "Once a Buffalo, always a Buffalo." And I was like, "I don't know what that means." And they're like, "Shake my hand." Shook his hand. He's like, "You have to drink out of your left hand forever." And I was like, "Great." Oh, great. Fucking sick.

So, are you at work sampling stuff with your left hand? No, because none of them live here. Oh, thank God. Yeah. Where are they from? Arizona. Well, they're from California, but they all live in Arizona now. So, right when I hit Arizona, left hand. You just put your right hand in your pocket. Yeah, just like behind myself. Did you just hit an Atlantis? Got one hand in my pocket. And the other one's holding a beer can. Nailed it. Isn't that how the song goes?

I've never heard of any of this, but I think I'm going to institute a Buffalo rule at the next party. I discovered it visiting in Indianapolis. Okay. That's where I found it out. So, I was expecting James' friends to maybe be Midwest. So, if they're from California and now in Arizona, it must be a pretty national- I don't know where they got it. They might have gotten it from someone from the Midwest, but- We should talk to Zach about this. Oh, yeah. We should get him on.

Yeah. Before we check in with the homie, Jujubear, let's check in with the most important question of the night. In a world where craft beer is king.

Making his text dance. A world where muscles aren't beating the grounders. Just for you. Only one tongue can run this. You sound like Will Ferrell as the wizard in the ice skating. In this world, what is flax drinking? Oh, no. It's the evil wizard. That really crossed over into gingerbread man territory? No, that's what the lady says when he comes out. Not my gumdrop buttons. Do you know the muffin man? The muffin man? "The Muffin Man!" "Well, isn't Drew Elaine?" "Well,

she's married to the Muffin Man." Not a Shrek show. Maybe it is. Except maybe some people would enjoy it. I'd say maybe it should be, yeah. It's a solid one. "Craft Shrek Republic?" So, today I am drinking Lakefront Brewery, Brewing,

Brewing? Lakefront Brewery. Everybody knows what it is. I don't know, it's weird. It's like Lakefront Brewing Company, but then it's like Lakefront Brewery. Whatever. Well, I'm drinking their Maibach today. I've discovered this beer. I mean, I'm sure they've been brewing it forever, but when I got into craft beer, I'd say... I've probably been drinking this for like 13 years. And I'm looking back on my untapped ratings. Eight years. I've been drinking it for eight years.

And I gave it a five on untapped. Wow. Big words. I'll even roll what I said eight years ago. I said, "This shouldn't be a seasonal brew. It should be year-round so I can drink it all the time. Best thing to hit my taste buds in a long time." And I tell you what, it's fucking delicious. People who don't like Maibachs, I don't want to be your friend. Also, they just don't like beer, and beer with an I. Right. It's just, it's amazing.

This was 6.8%, 23 IBUs, only 8,000 check-ins, which kind of blows my mind, because Lakefront is like the largest craft of Wisconsin. Oh, yeah. They're like the Wisconsin Stone or whatever. Right. But not so much. So you're in Nevada. It's got a 367, which, again, any kind of classic beer style gets thrown under the rug. Anything that's not hazy and hoppy. Not hazy, happy, or super out there. Or jammed with something that doesn't belong in beer. Right. So, I mean, a little nice description here.

It says, "Pours a brilliant blonde gold with a white fluffy head. Biscuit and honey aromas from Vienna and Munich malts blend with herbal and spicy hop notes from Mount Hood and Czech Saz hops. The medium body yields a robust malty sweetness, while a mild, balanced happiness leads into the crisp finish." 100% right there. Though, you said blonde. Well, so it's... I don't know if I'd call that blonde. It's kind of bad lighting. Okay. That's correct color, though.

It should be like dark blonde to amber. Yeah, it's definitely like amber. Yeah, I just wouldn't call it blonde. Well, I think because when you think blonde, it's like yellow. It's a dirty blonde. Dark blonde. Yeah, it's like... I like my blondes. I don't know. No, I mean, it looks like what it should look like. I just... The description was a little interesting. I did think that, too, and it said dark blonde. You could just call it amber, but it is. It's malty. It's sweet. It's the honey aroma.

It's wonderful. It's deliciousness nonetheless. I don't know... Delicious. Because it's not cool. It's not a fucking pepperoni pizza sour IPA or something. But it leads me to my favorite slogan of all time. My bach is better than your bach. My bach is better than your bach. It writes itself. It does. It does. My bach is delicious. They're phenomenal. Yeah, they are. Yeah, it's good. There was a my bach from... I think it was called... Was it Elevation? It's from Colorado.

I think it was Elevation Brewing. I'm sorry if I'm getting my breweries mixed up. It's called My Neck, My Bach. That's pretty solid. Yeah. Ooh, I like it. And it was delicious. Good stuff. Hey, breweries, us beer nerds like German normal beers. Yeah, crazy, right? Yeah. You can make some good beers too. I'll drink a hazy, but just saying. Yeah, I'll drink a hazy with the best of them. I'm a haze fiend. Let's have all the variety.

Yeah, come spring into summertime, definitely want more than a pale ale. But don't be afraid from this classic... My bach. Yeah. Is it my bach season? Because these guys always release it January,

February. Yeah, so my bach is like in German, it's like May bach. Yeah. So it should be like April, May. Oh, okay. Yeah, comes out near Frühlingsfest. Right, it's the opposite of a Märzen release basically. Yes. Yes. Ah. Yeah. Well, this is always used to be my Royal Rumble beer. Nice. I bring a six pack to the Royal Rumble festivities and just... Did you bring one this year? No, I mean I just watched it. Is that why the Royal Rumble was so bad this year? Did you break tradition?

It just wasn't a great Royal Rumble. It just was, it was fine. Pretty bad. Not the time I should have subscribed to watch. Anyways, not a wrestling show. Not, sometimes, but not. Could be though. All right, before we get into some news and more wrestling, let's check in with the homie Chew Your Beer. Hello, no one is available to take your call.

Please leave a message after the tone. Yo, what's up homies? Craft Beer Republic. It's Chew Your Beer. How you guys doing? Monica, welcome back to the show. So calling in because it's beer festival season, homie. Firestone Walker, Lagerville at Figueroa, San Diego's having another one. It's just like, spring is around the corner, which means beer is around the corner. Festival, beer festivals, homies. So unfortunately, I probably won't be making to them unless I get free tickets.

Your homie is broke. Also, oh yeah, I spoke with my cousin from Australia and he said he was going to call in and, you know, I want to apologize on behalf of him and my family. We don't condone anything like that. I know it triggers people and people do get upset when they hear stuff like that. But homies, I totally apologize from the bottom of my heart, I told him do not call in and do not review Fosters because that's all he drinks. And I know that's what he's going to call in about.

I think I've had Fosters once and that was only because I was thirsty. It was the only liquid around that I can drink to hydrate. And so I want to apologize, you know, for him reviewing Fosters. I think that's what he's going to call about. You know, what do you expect? The guy buys these big ass cans and 30 pack, you know, they live in a huge city. They live in a huge landmass in the middle of the ocean.

They got nothing better to do than to drink that stuff and scare the shit out of dingles, That's what they do for fun. We tip cows and they scare dingles. So crazy people. Who knew there were Mexicans in Australia anyways? All right. This is Chew Your Beer. And welcome back, Monica. It's good to hear you on the show. Flex. Nice seeing you flexing again. And Greg, next year, homie. There's always next year. You don't want to see me flexing? Hey, but at least we got the World Series. Go Dodgers.

I have to watch you. Peace out. Yeah, that's if they fucking make it. They've got showtime now. It's true. It's still the same fucking manager, though. But hey, not a Dodgers show. Not a Dodgers show. They know how to ruin baseball. They know how to pay a lot of money, I'll tell you what. They do. Yeah. They do. You will at least get one World Series in the next ten years. You would fucking think we'd have had like three already. I do not watch baseball. You'll get one. Not at all?

My assistant brewer loves baseball. So I hear all of this. Yes. All of this from him. All I know is that they got showtime and he was very excited. Oh, so Nick's a Dodgers fan. Yes. Okay, good. Otherwise, we'd have words. Yeah. The words would be, "Hey, not a Dodgers fan." Big words. Big words. Big words. Yeah, we got a show time. How dare you? I shouldn't be yelling. Big words. Big words. All caps. Size 17 font. Okay. Not a typing show. All right, a little news before we get out of here.

Hey, everybody get excited because Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre have launched a gin and juice RTD cocktail.

I mean, it's come on. It writes itself. It does. They're late to the party with this. Let's be honest. Like this should have been out years ago. Ready to drink. What do they call RTDs? Yeah. They're like at the height of the beverage world. Right. Right. Yeah. So now there's so hot right now. So now is when you come out with them. Right. Plus it's it's Snoop and Dre, gin and juice. Come on. Yeah. They're all 5.9%. The flavors are citrus, melon, passion fruit and apricot.

It's apricot, but whatever. Apricot. We figured it out. Apricot or apricot? It's apricot. I don't even know. Now I'm on the spot and I don't know what I say. Pecan, pecan. Pecan? Pecan. Oh yeah. Pecan, pecan. Yeah. Pecan? For me it depends. That is the one that always freaks me out. Tomato. Tomato. Potato. Potato. So pecan is a weird one. If it's a pie for me, it's a pecan pie. Oh, it's pecan pie. If you're just talking about the nut. The pecan pie.

If you're talking about the nut, it's a pecan, but it's pecan pie. That's because I'm weird. I think I'm pecan just all the way. Yeah. Pecan pie. Definitely apricot though. I do like emphasizing pecan. Pecan. Pecan. Yeah. I'm definitely, I'm pretty sure I'm a pecan guy. That sounded very like, "Dit-ter-ker-terb." Well, yeah. Isn't that how you emphasize everything? Pretty much. Yeah. All right. What do we got here? A motorist in England calls the police to report he's too drunk to drive.

That's good. Ever had one of these nights? An emergency dispatcher received an unusual call just before noon on...

Noon! Jesus Christ! Noon! He is strapping one on. Wow. Just before noon on February 12th when a motorist reported he was driving drunk and said, "He doesn't know what he is doing." The man added, "He had a rough weekend." I'd fucking say it's noon. Wow. Man calls the police to report that he is the drunk driver, police said using the British term for the offense. It's not every day that this happens. When officers arrived, the 52-year-old man was in a van on the side of the road.

A breath test revealed he was three times over the legal limit, which is also a weight. Wow. Yeah. And he was arrested and held in custody and released after being charged Tuesday with drunken driving in this place that I'm not even trying to pronounce. But I thought he wasn't driving. Why, he was at one point, and then he stopped. And then he stopped. Called the police on himself. Okay. God, I missed... When I read this story earlier, I missed the whole noon part. Jesus Christ.

It's not even strapping one on, it's like duct taping one on. You already super glued something to you, and now you're duct taping it just for safety measures. It's attached to you at this point. Someone didn't stop drinking the night before. No. Actually, I hope that's what happened. I hope he didn't wake up at nine and go, "You know what? Let's have some shit." Yeah. We'll finish it off with a trip to Florida. We haven't been to Florida in a while. Ooh, Florida man.

Yeah. Drunk Florida man abandons his airboat in front of Sheriff's office.

Done? This is the Sheriff's office on the water? Not quite. Deputies say a captain with the Polk County Fire Rescue called the Sheriff's office shortly after 9.20 PM because an airboat had fallen off a trailer being towed by a Ford F-150 in front of the Polk County Sheriff's office station. The captain said the boat was blocking Thompson Nursery Road, and the driver of the F-150 appeared to be drunk before he drove away.

According to the Sheriff's office, when the boat's owner, Jonathan Whitesides ... Is there a more Florida name than Whiteside? No. You think you would just stop at Whiteside, but then you just add the S to it, and just go total Floridian. Right. Another man returned to the scene to retrieve the boat. Whitesides began yelling at the other man, criticizing how he was attaching the boat to the trailer, or not attaching.

A deputy at the scene told him to calm down, and that's when, according to the officer, Whitesides, plural, became irate with the deputy. Officer said that Whitesides ... There are multiple Whitesides. Which one are we talking about? Deputy says Whitesides took an aggressive stance toward the deputy, charged in his direction, pushed his chest out, and had his fist balled up, started yelling in the deputy's face, with his fist balled up, and ignored the deputy's commands.

Whitesides' eyes were bloodshot water, his speech was slurred, and he had balance issues, according to the officer. Two breath samples show that his alcohol content was ... Guesses? You may want to guess on these numbers. Big alcohol content. Okay, so if dude before was three times ... Which was .24. I'm going to guess like .32. Man, that's close. .35? I don't know. You guys are dancing all around it. .334. Wow. How are you standing? That's obnoxious. That's a lot. Yeah. That's so much. So much.

One of Mr. Whitesides' breath samples showed him to be four times the legal limit, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, another Florida name. Grady Judd. Wow. Can you say that name one more time? Grady Judd. Grady Judd. The Smokey and the Bandit podcast or what? About to be. I'm not sure how he was walking, let alone driving. He made some very poor decisions that night. He decided to drink and drive, and then decided to become aggressive towards the deputy on the scene.

Both those decisions earned him a trip to jail. Florida man. Florida. Man, this is Florida men. Those names are- Wow. full of Florida. Thanks, Florida, for not- Wait, no. Whitesides. disappointing. Whitesides. All the Whitesides. No, no, no, no. Just one, though. Whitesides. Oh, how many were there? There's one. So it was Whitesides? No. Whitesides. So how many were there? Just one. So it was Whitesides? All right. I'll stop now. Not funny. Yeah. No, that's pretty funny. It is.

So thanks, Florida, for never disappointing. Yeah. Cheers to them. I mean- Yeah. Cheers to Florida. Cheers to Florida. Thanks to keeping it entertaining. Yeah. And Florida, also, eh, have a water. Yeah. Every now and then. Also, that'd be good. Yeah. Hi, Vanessa. Yeah. Speaking of Florida, Vanessa, though, not losing boats in the middle of the road. Maybe she's blown a .334 before, but you know, never been- I think we've all been at that point where we go to- Never been documented?

Right. I'm sure I've undocumentedly had a .334 in my system, if not more. You know? I don't know. I'm pretty sure I passed out around probably twice the legal limit. No. Yeah. One-six? That's not that bad. Maybe .2? I don't know. Yeah. I'd say you're in the 20s before we started passing out. Well, I appreciate that. Right? Not me. No, you're lightweight. No. Well-documented lightweight. .16 would be just on the floor. Yeah. Yeah. Would that be blackout, like not remembering?

No, probably giggling on the floor, but not getting up. That's not bad. Not getting up. Spinny- Is that spinny drunk? That spins. Yeah. That's definitely- Oh, yeah. No, those are the worst. Those are the worst. Yeah. That's why I don't drink vodka anymore. Oh, vodka's the worst. Mine's tequila. Tequila, like the smell of tequila just makes me- Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to tell you a little funny story.

There's a guy I work with who says he can't drink tequila because it's the grossest thing in the world to him.

I feel that. So after work, we were playing blackjack one day and we were just talking. I said, "I just can't believe that you have that bad of a reaction to tequila." Ooh. And he goes, "Oh, do you want to see it?" And I said- No. I said, "No. I said, you don't. Please don't. I get it." I said, "It blows my mind." And he's like, "No, you want to see it?" And he grabs a bottle of tequila that the other guy drinks from.

And it was five minutes of him just being able to finally take a sip to his mouth. He's just breathing, trying to calm himself to try and take a sip. He gets the sip in his mouth and it's, I'm telling you, seven minutes of just dry heaving. Oh, gosh. Wow. Like violent dry heaving. It was insane. Wow. I'm not that bad. But if I have people like, "Oh, take a shot. Take a..." I'm like, "No." And if I have a shot, there's a 50/50 chance I throw it up immediately. Really?

You said, "Take a shot," and I immediately started sweating. I cannot shoot tequila anymore. No. Those days are behind me. I can't shoot most alcohol anymore. No. But tequila is the top of that. But I have a visceral reaction to tequila. When I smell it- I can drink a margarita, but I cannot have straight tequila in my mouth anymore. I can drink a margarita if it's not strong enough to taste it. If I get a strong tequila flavor, I...

Wow. I'm not that bad, but I can't shoot tequila or do straight tequila anymore. I think I had too many nights of... I do have one alcohol that I cannot drink at all anymore, and it's that cotton candy X-rated. Oh, the pink one? When I was 21, I drank an entire bottle of that one night. I don't know why. And I was very sick,

and I cannot even smell it anymore. And when I was a bartender at BJ's, they had this pink martini. I know, right? Pink martini that had X-rated in it, and every time I would pick up the bottle and be like, "Ah." They're like, "How's the martini?" "I don't think there's a single alcohol." The pink Whitney. Yeah. That's it. Pink Whitney. Yeah. Coley loves that stuff. Not for me. I don't think there's a single alcohol that makes me... Most nowadays.

I can sip whiskey, but when I was at the bachelor party, they wanted to keep doing shots of whiskey. I was like, "No, no. How about an ice cube, assholes? Let's drink this civilized individuals." You got to open it up first.

I was also the oldest person there, and it shows. About five years. James likes scotch, and I enjoy the taste of scotch, but the alcohol burn is rough. Yeah. I don't like the peatiness of scotch. I'm more of a whiskey bourbon, if I'm going to go that direction. But I want an ice cube in it, and I like when it gets a little water in there, kind of expresses the whiskey or whatever. It opens it up. It opens it up. Yeah. I'm old. What can I say?

Well, no. That's what blows my mind with that too, is I was at my brother-in-law's, this was months ago, and he had this bottle of single barrel bourbon. He goes, "Ah, you wouldn't like this." And I said, "Oh, well." Challenge accepted. So that's, "How would you know what I would like and what I wouldn't like?" Sure enough, I took a sip of it, and I said, "Wow, that is terrible." He said, "See, I told you." He goes, "Now," he goes, "put three drops of water in it." He said,

"I guarantee you won't hate it as much." I said, "That's the goofiest shit I've ever heard in my life." Three drops of water. Three drops. Salty. No shit. Three drops of water. It tasted like half different. It wasn't as bad as it was straight up, but yeah. I mean, bourbon blows my mind. Yeah. It's weird. Yeah. Anywho. Hey, not a bourbon show. Not a spirit spot. Not. Yeah. Seriously. And also not a shot show.

Nope. I did take a shot of Jack a couple of weeks ago, and I was actually shocked at how much I didn't hate it. Oh. Oh. The last time I had Jack, I woke up in so much pain, and not hangover pain, like physical pain. I don't know what I did while I was sleeping. I had a bunch of Jack and diets at a concert, because bang for your buck, am I going to drink a bunch of Bud Lights or some Jack and diets? Yeah. I had a bunch of Jack and diets. And man, was I fucked up the next day.

I don't know what happened. You drink Jack and diets. Just the alcohol content, I'm sure. I think I tried to do gymnastics in the middle of the night. Ooh. Yeah. Like my back hurt. My hips were all fucked. God, I sound old. This is where we end things. Oh, man. Before I end me. All right. Find us all on the socials at Craft Beer Republic, at Flex Me a Beer, underscores in between, @MomoAgogo. And of course, Petals and Pints Brewing Co. No, just brewing. Just brewing.

Yeah. All these breweries with their different things. And of course, PetalsAndPintsBrewing.com. If you're in the Conejo Valley, Southern California region, stop in, have a sour, and then a coffee beer in that order. Yes. The other way would be a little weird. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for letting us convince you to come back. It's not convincing. You just asked me and I want to come back. So. I mean, there's some arm twisting, I'm sure. No. At least a little bit.

It makes it seem like it's a whole thing. It did take a while to get this scheduled. Yes, it did. I blame it on Brad and his fake parties.

We'll blame everything on Brad. Yeah. All right. I think that's everything. I hope everyone out there is staying very Very well hydrated. And on that note, goodnight everybody!