Get Your Walking Around Beers

Welcome in, everybody! It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking, thanks for joining. I am Greg, and to my greatest of delights, I'd like to introduce you all to the most chivalrous man of the entire Midwest, and that is Flexy! What's up, big boy? Daddy's home! Daddy is home. I have missed daddy quite a bit. I feel like I survived the Oregon Trail, you know? Did you get...

what was it? Dysteric... Scarlet fever, maybe? I don't know, but it was like... We just wanted to hunt the whole time, you know? So our wagon had no room for medicine. And at some point you had to kill the oxen and eat them, and then you're walking... Yeah, it was tough sledding, but I'm all good now. Yeah, I'm so glad to hear it. Any water crossings? I hear those are quite painful. Yeah, there was one, but I don't want to talk about it. We won't talk about Joanna. She'll be missed.

R.I.P. R.I.P. Joanna. Oh, no part left behind. Anyways, thank you all for drinking. Thanks for joining. Not a cannibal show. You can find us on the Grams, of course, @CraftBeerRepublic and @FlexMeABeer_. In between, top of the scene city of last week, going back out to Las Vegas. Hey, that's sweet.

That is nice, man. That's a couple times in the last couple months. Glad to see Vegas top of the charts. What's up out there in Vegas? They got some decent beer out there. Yeah, they're starting to pop up some breweries out there, and Lord knows they like drinking out there. Right, well, WABS. Oh, pfft. Don't get me started on the fucking cargo shorts and the WABS. Because of you, the first thing I used to think of with Las Vegas was like...

I'm not a big gambler, but like Cirque shows. I love going to Vegas and seeing shows. Now I hear Vegas and all I think is WABS. WABS, WABS, WABS, WABS everywhere. Wabba-dabba-doo. Fucking WABS. For anybody who's new, that stands for walking around beers. I love to go to Vegas. It's the only time I wear cargo shorts, and I fill those pockets up with just some tall boys from the local CVS, and everybody needs some walking around beers, some WABS.

I just can't even imagine how clunky you look walking around with cargo pockets stuffed with beers. Well, and beyond like the clunkiness of carrying lots of shit in your pockets, there's also the like, I don't want to shake it up too much and like have it clang against my knee, so it really just looks like I'm walking around the street with a dildo up my ass. I swear, it's just a tall boy.

It's not a stick that somebody broke up the poop chute. Oh man, and then all the banging of the cans on your knees. Talk about bruising. I was gonna say, you're getting old, man. You need those knees. You're telling me that these knees have been old long before I got old. They need all the padding they can get down there. So yeah, it's been a minute. Honestly, when was the last time I was in Vegas? I think it was like 2016 or something, and the knees have been happier for it. That's for sure.

That was the last year I was in Vegas as well. Were we in Vegas at the same time? That'd be weird. That would be weird. If you told me the month you went, I could tell you we were. It was either March or April. It was springtime. We weren't. Oh, okay. We were there in October. Oh, all right. That's too bad. Anyway, so much to get to today. Flex is back. As you can tell, We missed each other. Oh my God. I'm sure everyone can tell.

We spent like a half an hour before we hit record just catching up, and it had only been a couple of weeks. Yeah. I'll let you know I could get on a little bit earlier tonight after putting the kiddos to bed and was thinking, "Hey, maybe we'll start recording earlier," and no, it was- No, we're just going to get naked and hang out for a while. Yep. Lots of news to get to, some beer reviews to get to. We have a voicemail from someone new. Oh. It's not the homie Chew Your Beer.

It's also not Chew Your Rue, I promise. Hey, new guy. Yeah, so we'll get to that. I was very excited. I did some beer research. We'll get to that as well. Some big news in the beer world. Let's start things off with asking an important question, because we haven't asked this question in quite some time. 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 tongue jobber. we must find out,

what is flex drinking? Charging my phone. I figured I would get the untapped, just because- Because why not? Yeah, I don't know. Let's do some stuff. All right, so today, Flex is drinking out of Normal, Illinois, Destihl Brewing. Have you ever had anything from Destihl?

Does not sound familiar. I think that's how you pronounce it. Destihl? Destihl? I don't know, but this can art is rad. These guys actually make really good beer. This one's called Tour Bus. They're like usually, I don't know, are they usually music themed? This one's a Deadhead IPA series. I'm not a Grateful Dead guy, but this can art is pretty gnarly. That's pretty cool. Skull, beard, headband, kind of psychedelic. How colorful this- Yeah, so it's a double dry hop, hazy IPA, classic me.

It says brewed with citra and mosaic hops. It says, I don't know why it says that, but it is kind of neat. On the can they have marked on there, I believe it's the Great American Beer Festival, a 2021 gold medal winner. Oh, shit. Juicy or hazy IPA category. Nice. So, which brings me to Untapped here, and it has a 407 out of a collective 22,000. Very respectable. I'd say that's pretty solid for a craft beer in general, let alone a hazy.

So then their description reads, "Our Deadhead IPA series melds the alluring vibe of our favorite music with unbounded takes on the hoppy beers we love to drink, unleashing a whole new groove. Our tour bus IPA features two row malt, flaked oats, and wheat with citra and mosaic hops, providing dynamic notes of tropical citrus and bellies. Cheers!" All right, so as you see, it is a hazy IPA. That is a gorgeous color. That's pretty, I know, it's that pale straw hazy.

When somebody says, "I have a hazy," that's exactly what I think about. Well, I feel like with this color beer, it's not going to be overly juicy. It's not going to be like sugary sweet. Yeah, just right down the middle. It's going to give you a nice mix of the notes, a little bit of hot burn, and some maybe low end bitterness on the back end. So, we'll get into it with the old schnauz here. Lots of berries, actually, on that schnauz. Maybe some tropical notes here.

The schnauz berries taste like schnauz berries. Some mango going on with the berries there. Kind of dig me some mango and berries. Without further ado. Oh, we've been waiting. The return. I'm glad he didn't start coughing. I'm not sick. Okay, so this flavor, man. So, I cracked this thing. Took a couple sips. Couldn't really figure anything out. So, having it warm up is really nice here. It is kind of a, it's a light body, a little bit spritzy on the carbonation. But man, these flavors.

Hold on one second. Get back in there. Oh man. Flavors, the berries, you get like fresh orange juice in there. Not too much of that mango coming through on the back, but real, real low-end bitterness. Can reads 25 IBUs. I would probably say 2.5 IBUs. Touch of bitterness, but just enough to remind you like, hey, this is how IPA started, you know? This is a fantastic beer. I clearly understand why they won a gold medal. And I think this is the first beer I actually bought from Distil.

I've had, you know, other people have purchased and said, hey, have this, try this. So, I'll be out on the lookout for more. Yeah. You know, I looked them up. I Googled them real quick and the logo does look a little familiar. I wonder if maybe I got some from Tavor back in the day or something. Yeah, maybe. Certainly not that specific beer, but yeah, man, sounds fucking amazing. No, it's super great. I'm really glad I purchased this.

And also, it was like, I don't know, $13.99 for this four week. Oh my God. Right in the algorithm. Yeah. And I think it's, let's see if I'm not mistaken, it's 7.4%. So, that's bang for your buck, man. I don't care where you are.

Right. Everybody likes a good bang. Give me a good bang and I'm happy as a camper. Oh, you and me both. This gets weirder. What's going on these days? Let's see. Oh, Memorial Day. Peek behind the curtain as we record,

it's actually Memorial Day. We are not taking holidays off for you people. We don't do that. No, no days off over here. Do you guys, do you guys do anything good for Memorial Day weekend? Any barbecuing, any fucking research? So, not too much research research, but just a lot of activity, you know? So, like, work's busy, you work in a butcher shop, any song holiday, you know, it just cranks. Time to cue.

Yeah. So, you know, worked all day Saturday, got home, the wife had grilled some barbecue chicken. That was fantastic. Low-key Saturday night, had a beer, maybe two, while we watched, brought the TV outside, you know, streamed a movie. So, we had a nice little patio movie. The kids hung out. It was actually really sweet. Then Sunday again, worked all day, had a nephew's birthday party to get to, which I know what you're thinking, four-year-old kid's birthday. Doesn't sound fun.

Exactly what I'm thinking. My sister-in-law and her husband, man, they know how to. Oh, they do it, right? They know how to appeal to the masses. So, cooler, like here in Wisconsin, like, I guess it's anywhere. You go outside, you have an event outside, coolers, you know, ice, whatever. Well, it's shitty-ass weather on Sunday. Oh. So, instead of having coolers of beers outside, they just bring the coolers inside. And it's, you know, just kind of a fun little environment.

Yeah. Just grabbing beers out of coolers. Lots of darts. I went 3-0 in darts. Love me some darts. You fancy. I'm so bad. We had smoked wings, burgers, dogs, bad-ass chocolate cake, some ice cream. Just, it was a real good time, man. Good people, good food. Nice. Some good, you know, decent craft beer. You had some lakefront brewing. You know, he usually appeases people, too, and he'll ask who likes to drink what and then he'll personally buy it for said people. Oh, that's amazing.

Yeah, my sister-in-law's husband, he's an awesome dude, man. Super awesome dude. Which then brings us to today, where the kids were off, so we had this whole day of, you know, we went to the outlets, you know, south of us to do a little bit of shopping, because Memorial Day weekend sales, I know you hate shopping. Sounds like a nightmare. I hate shopping. I don't get it. I love it. I absolutely. Oh, I hate it. It's so tiring.

I like to go in exactly what I'm going in for, find it, you know, try it on if I need to, get the fuck out. Oh, I like the diamonds in the rough. And like, even if I don't find something and somebody else does, you know, it's like, you look at them, you know, you point and you're just like, yes, like, you did it. You got it, you know? But then we got, so we did all that in the morning, you know, a little early afternoon. And, uh, my sister-in-law and her husband invited us over for dinner again.

Oh, nice. This time for some smoked ribs. Oh, have you ever said no to smoked ribs? Nobody says no to smoke.

Nobody does. Right. Only a sociopath. That was a trick question. So yeah, we went over there again tonight. Just had some awesome, awesome smoked barbecued ribs, had a little bourbon, had a couple beers, won another game of darts. It was probably one of the better, like low key Memorial Day weekends I've ever had. Nice. That was fun. It was, it was fantastic, man. What about you? How was your weekend? You know, we did some shit.

Um, Saturday, big dick Nick and Coley had a little barbecue with some friends and we went over there. Um, no ribs. I'll take that up with them later. But, uh, we got there, you know, we had a lot of, a lot of snacks beforehand, had some beverages, uh, then moved on to Nick grilled up some tri tips and some veggies. You love your tri tips. Oh, it's a California thing. In fact, I love watching people not from California try to make a tri tip. Really?

Because first of all, you can always tell cause they don't know how to cut it. What do you, I'm confused by this. Like they cut it with the grain or what? Tri tips you have to cut again.

I mean, you know, you were going to butcher, butcher. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody knows to cut against the grain on a tri tip. And more than that, they don't know that the tri tip like turns three quarters of the way through and you got to turn your cuts as well. Okay. And so a lot of times, like when we were in Denver for JVF, we went to this very nice restaurant. It was sort of our like anniversary night.

And we went there because, um, it was a, I forget who some chef that my wife loves and they were doing a special dinner that night with wine tasting and pairing thing. And so we got there, we didn't realize that when we signed up, but when we got there, like, all right, tonight is a California night. And I think I talked about it on the show, but I was like, I will be the judge of that. So of course one of the courses was tri tip and we got it. And while it was cooked nicely, it was cut wrong.

And I went, Oh, this is definitely a Colorado tri tip or just a not California tri tip. Like whoever, whoever back there was cutting it, did not know how to cut it. And it was cut with the grain and it made it tough. And I just want to say it's such a California cut. Like no one else with any beef you're cutting against the grain. And that's what makes it easier to, to, I think it confuses people because it turns. It's not one straight, like a pork tenderloin. It's just straight.

You cut it, you slice it down. Right. Good. Right. Tri tip. It always has that curve to it. And it's also, I'll give them some credit. It's a little harder to see the grain on a tri tip than other cuts of meat. Especially once it's cooked, you really got to look at it when it's raw. I'm like, all right, I'm going to cut it this way and it's never going to be good. If you wait until it's cooked, it's really hard to see the grain on a tri tip because you cook them a little longer.

So the outside gets a little more done and you don't really see it so much. So you just, you just got to know how to cut it. And it seems like people outside of California that don't deal with it. Just don't know how to cut it. Right. Interesting. Yeah. So anyways, good news, Nick cut it, right? Oh, it was, it was good. Hallelujah. So we did that. We got, um, we got pretty hydrated as one does when you're at Nick and Nicole's house. Okay. Uh, so I'm about to lose all my credibility on this show.

What little I had. So I got there, I went into their good beer fridge, had a couple of good ones. They had a couple of Casa Agrias in there. I had like a plain tiger. I had an Oxnard, but I didn't want to drink good beers all night because, uh, you know, I don't want to waste them as I was getting more hydrated. So then they had some Kona big wave and I'll be honest, not a huge fan of the Kona big waves.

Had a couple of them. Uh, Coley came soup. It's super malty. Yeah. It's just not a clean lager to me. Like if you're going to go for that clean, like crushable summer lager beer, big waves, not it. I, I need, you know, I need something fucking crispy. Definitely not refreshing. It's just not. And so I had a couple and I just wasn't feeling beer. I guess I could change to wine or spirits or something, but I didn't really want to.

And so Coley came up, she goes, Hey, have you had the guava high news? Well, first of all, she said, I know you hate these. Yeah. Yeah. She goes, I know you hate high news, but if you had the guava, cause I do love guava, especially in my alcoholic beverages. And, uh, I said, no. And she let me try hers. I was like, all right, this is surprisingly delicious. So I had a couple of those and then we were at a guava and I thought,

well, the guava was good. I'll try the watermelon. Don't do that. Don't try. Well, I wish you were there to warn me because that was horrendous. That is, um, I think I might've only ever had one high noon before and it was in fact the watermelon variant. And that has led me to not drink a single other high noon for the rest of my life. I told the wife, I said, if you can find all guava high noons, uh, if you're ever at the store, feel free to buy them.

If they have any other flavor in them, I don't even want to try it. Watermelon was so I'm so burnt from watermelon. I don't want to try any other flavor completely off putting. Yeah. Oh, it was so gross. Had like this herbaceous is like watermelon and fucking basil or cilantro or something. It was so weird. Couldn't stand it. It's like watermelon rind. Yeah. It's just, you know what it is? It's fucking garbage. It's terrible. That's what it is.

Um, so then I really still didn't want a big wave and I was trying not to raid their good beer. You know what? They had a lot of in their beer fridge. What did they have? A lot of banquets. Interesting. I think I had about five banquets that night. You deserve it.

I'll tell you what, I'll take it over a big wave. I said it sometimes. I fucking said it. Sometimes nothing hits. Like if you walked into somebody's party, you know, and you, you open up the fridge and there's some kind of big waves or you got some, some highlights. Yeah. You know, I mean either way they're not, neither of them are craft. So it's not like I'm, you know, losing allegiance by trying either one of them.

Right. But I'll tell you what, one's going to be a whole heck of a lot more enjoyable than the other. Yeah. And it was the banquet. Three words for you. Treat yourself. And I did, I had like five fish, uh, banquets as long as they stay pretty fucking cold. They're pretty fucking not bad. Pretty not bad. So, uh, anyways, God got pretty hydrated the next day. The wife was feeling it. I probably shouldn't tell this. She'll be mad. She drank more than an entire bottle of wine to herself on Saturday.

Wow. She went hard. I was impressed. Uh, but the next morning it caught up with her. So, uh, it took it easy on Saturday. Did some research. Uh, today we went to Malibu brewing. How was that? Oh, I mean, it's always delicious. Well, the food, right? It was always good. Beer's always, you know, I'm just going to, um, I'm going to call the pen cause that's what I'm drinking.

So before I get into our deliciousness, I am drinking Malibu brewing company collaboration with fortunate youth.

It is California vibes. It's a hazy pale ale and it has turpentines, you know, like marijuana turpentines in it. Uh, no THC of course, cause, uh, they can't do that. But I'll tell you the first dip of the nose into the glass smells like just some dank ass weed. Interesting. Is dank as fuck. So, uh, as you can see, it's a nice colored hazy pill. It's what a hazy pale should look like. Yes. Is it light dances on the tongue? It is. It's not even on untapped. It's so new. It's 5.6%.

It is effervescent when it is ice cold. When you first pour it, you get more of the weed dankness from it. Okay. And then as it warms up, I really noticed this yesterday cause I had one and it sat there for a little bit as I was drinking it as it warms up. Uh, it really starts to develop more flavor, more roundness, more balance. It's not nearly as dank and bitter as when it first gets cracked open. It sounds absolutely delicious. Look, you're not gonna get a ton of fruit.

It's not like that, that hazy juiciness on it as far as like an, you know, East coast IPA. Right. But you do get some citrus. I feel like I'm getting maybe some like peach ring ness from it, which I love. I love that like sweet peach flavor. It's just a little bit. Uh, of course it finishes dank and bitter, uh, thanks to those turpentines. But, um, fuck man, it's just good. It's a hazy pale. It drinks like a hazy pale.

And anybody who knows me knows I love a hazy pale, especially come summertime. And we are rapidly approaching the summer months here. It's a common quick, just like me. So, uh, loved it. So back to our visit, we, we showed up and so nice. The, one of the managers,

I guess you recognized us. He came over and he goes, Hey, uh, we got a new one for you. We just tap this. Want you to try it. Let us know what you think. And it was this beer gave both the wife and I a little sample of it. Tried it. How fun is that when that happens by the way? Dude, talk about fucking VIP status. You just walking over and be like, what up motherfucker? Try our beer. It was great. Have I mentioned nobody else has had this yet?

Yeah. Like we just tapped it a couple of days ago, whatever. So, uh, you're one of the first and you should try it. And if you like an order, so it tried it, liked it, ordered it. Uh, food's always great. The wife cut the nachos. She, she splurged. I got some wingies and what else? Oh, fried cheese curds. Jesus Christ. Do you do cheese curds? Like, are they as good there as they are here? Here's the thing. You don't find them anywhere here. That is very much not a California thing.

I know it's always shocked me. The fact that you said it. Yeah. Like I, um, long story, but I had an ex whose cousin lived in Milwaukee or lives in Milwaukee. She brought some cheese curds out with her one time. Your Wisconsin cheese curds are Jeff's kiss compared to the bullshit we come up with. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's what we do at night and day. but anyways, these ones are really, they're, they were lightly battered and fried and fucking delicious.

So, uh, hats off to, uh, Jeff stroh over there at Malibu. Good job. But this, this is the, of course we had our, um, I always mix up their names of their beers there. I'm so bad. I think it's Westward. It's the, the, uh, Berliner that they have. We had a couple of those and this one and I got some cans cause I wanted to have it on the show cause it's so fucking good. So anyways, uh, Malibu brewing, fortunate youth, hazy pale, it's called California vibes, right? Malibu brewing news.

So Ryan is the owner of Malibu. This all ties in. What a weird segue. And I swear he's not paying me. Uh, he texted me last week.

I'm driving and he texts me and it's just a picture of a change of ownership sign on a door. And I was like, I don't, and it was too close to see like what the door was. Okay. This won't mean as much to you obviously, but for those of you out in the hood, out in the Conejo Valley and whatnot, Malibu brewing has purchased lady face and is going to turn it into their second location. Lady face is one of the OG breweries in the area. They've been around forever.

It's where I had some of my first craft beer, especially local craft beer back in the day. They were just fucking amazing. They'd all kinds of weird shit. A lot of weird Belgian E styles and Belgian like, you know, Belgian IPAs and they, you know, they'd crossed categories back before it was cool. Dave, the brewer was doing some weird, cool shit and they do these brew masters dinners where they brew beer just for the food. The chef was good. Lady face was amazing. How cool. Oh, so good.

A few years ago, the owner Serena, who was amazing. Uh, and how cool that back in the day, like one of the few women in craft beer too. Uh, she sold the joint to this guy who I don't know, literally haven't been since she sold it, but he like totally ripped up their theme and was like, I like Japanese food. And it became lady face and Tavern Tomoko, which is like, what the fuck does that mean? It was beforehand. It was very on theme. We have Belgian E beers and we have food that goes with it.

And, uh, it was great. And it, it turned so fucking weird. And I know people, uh, I know there's a listener listening. I won't name him. That would go like almost daily. And when they changed ownership, even he was like, yeah, it's too much for me. And he stopped going. All I've heard is not great things. And so anyways, I'm glad that Malibu has bought it. It's going to be much closer to me. Ryan texted. He was like, Hey, we hear you didn't like coming over the Hill to get to the brewery.

So we're bringing the brewery to you. So now it's going to be like 12 minutes from my house. It's going to be so dangerous. Are they going to have food and everything there too? Yeah. Whole, whole nine hour. He even said they're going to brew the brew there, which makes me think it'll be like a pilot system or something. Cause it's smaller than their current brew house. Um, super stoked. Maybe they'll do some sours cause they can separate it from their main beers.

Cause that would make me very excited throwing that out there into the world now. Just so he hears it, but some goes, some goes, yeah, man, give me, give me some tart shit. So, uh, I am so fucking stoked. I, I called the wife when after he texted me, I was like, guess what? I just heard and told her, she's like, what? So, um, they're about to get rich off of us cause now they're going to be way too close. Once again, I take all my money.

I swear they're not paying me if they were to talk about it even longer. So, uh, very excited for that. uh, yeah, I felt it all tied in. We went to Malibu, we got some Malibu, I'm drinking some Malibu and Malibu is gonna move closer. They're hoping, they're hoping for a fall opening, but we know how openings work in the beer world. So, uh, look for them in 2027. I'm joking. Hopefully, hopefully they stick to it. It's all they're doing is a change of ownership.

They don't need a new license or anything, so hopefully it won't take too long, but they will be doing some remodeling and stuff. But I'm, I'm fucking stoked. I always say this, there's no place right around us that has like the three things we look for, which is like a good beer list or wine list depending on what mood we're in.

Good beer list, good food and good vibes. Just like that nice place to hang out and chill for a while. And usually you get like one or two of three. You don't get all three. Whenever I'm at Malibu, I love it, but it's just, you know, it's a bit of a drive for me. Well, that was the first thing I thought of is you don't have any, I know you don't have anything close proximity. Yeah. And for me, for me, I have minimally two things. Yeah, you got it.

You guys, I mean, if you want to stretch out to like, you know, 14 minute drives, I probably got about three or four. Um, and I feel like guilty because I have that and you don't. When there's, there's breweries around us that have good food, but hanging out, it's not so great or their food's not the best hanging out. It's fun. And the beer's good. You know, I won't name which one's which, or you got like Naughty Pine who just doesn't have a kitchen.

So they're automatically out of that running and you know, it's, I'm just excited. Great. Great. I can tell everybody can tell how excited you are. I will put this back in the pants now, zip, and we'll move on from there. It's been way too much time talking about Malibu brewing. So not a Malibu brewing show. No. Well, I mean, I haven't been drinking beer a little bit. So anyways, you know what you need to do? We need to get Ryan on the show again and just have him hang out.

Yeah, I'm cool with that. He's a, he's a fun guy. Not a mushroom, not a mushroom, not a mushroom show, not a mushroom show. Anyways, have him talk some shit with us and good times. All right. I promise I'll move on. I'll, I'll stick to my promise. Like I said, we got a voicemail from someone who's never called in before. So I'm going to stop talking about it and just,

just play it. Hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Well, I did. I've heard a couple of people. I know what, who they are. I don't know how much time I have and I won't ramble, but a small world, a list of your podcast. And I find out you're on the good life. You know what I mean? Because you live out there. The nail Valley boy. Unbelievable. Anyway, I can ramble on.

Uh, well, Dyko bear from the canal Valley, where I guess you guys originated now in the Bay area. And what happened? This fricking guy, Greg comes up to the San Francisco bear and goes to the best brewery in the, in the Bay. Wondrous. I just happened to know the owner of wind. Let's hook it up, man. And there's some great other breweries up here. Have a get it. Oh, you don't know what that is. But anyways, I need to check out this pedal and pipe. Never been there. Of course.

I know tarantula hill 14 cannons was a stalwart. What about the wave? You ever make it there? Kid. Anyways. Great show you guys have. And, uh, nice to hear the local boys coming up again. This is cycle bear. Look me up on uncapped later. Well, thanks cycle bear for calling bear. I have to admit, uh, I, I ran his voicemail was a little noisy and I ran it through some processing to clean it up a little bit, but it did make some of the beginning of the voicemail and hard to understand.

Anyways, psycho bear is what he would say there. So it sounds like he was born a rambling man. Lord, he was born a rambling man. First of all, thanks for listening. And if anybody else wants to call in it's eight Oh five, five, three, eight beer, two, three, three, seven. Uh, yes. Conejo Valley. Me not so much flex, not definitely not me, but you know, maybe soon coming out to the canoe closer to the Miller Valley. So it's actually a light. Yeah. It's a real place. Oh, okay.

I'll take your word for it. I should say real area down by the, down by the old brewery. Uh, of course I've been to wades. We've talked about it on here.

I love me some wades. Honestly, pre COVID we went all the time and then COVID hit. And then afterwards we hadn't been for a few years. I was like, Hey, we've been to wade since COVID and we've started to finally make our way back to wade. Um, Marty was the spirits guy there and he was a fucking gem. Just this old dude who was knowledgeable as fuck about spirits. And you go and you go, Hey Marty, I'm looking for a bourbon, a whiskey or, you know, whatever.

I'm looking for a bourbon that I can make some cocktails with. So I want it to be good, but I don't want it to be too expensive because I'm making cocktails with it. What do you got for me? You know, he go, I got one for you. And like he turned us onto this bourbon called larceny, which is what I had today. How good is it? It was really good. It's $26 a bottle.

Yeah, I had a, the small, I had the small batch. I don't know if that's what you had, but that's a little, that's like in the forties. It's still affordable for what it is. It's very affordable. Um, and so it's, it's great for mixing. It's great for just sipping. If you want to sip on it. At one point they did a Marty's blend and like he went to the distillery and like made his own blend of larceny and we bought that and it was delicious. Uh, Marty is no longer working there.

He was a really old dude. I hope he's still around. I don't know. I thought you were going to say he's no longer with us. And I honestly don't know. Truly don't know. I hope he is. He was a great guy. Can we pretend like he is? I'm going to say he's still around and he's just at home drinking all the spirits he knows about. So like he turned us onto so many good things like that. And uh, yeah, larceny is one of the best.

And you telling us like larceny is this old recipe from a pre prohibition distillery that went out of business during prohibition. And then afterwards someone bought all their IP, all their intellectual property and like made the exact same recipe. But it was like their, um, budget brand for lack of a better term, even though it was still the same recipe. And so that's why they sell it for a lower price point. But I mean for $26 a bottle, it is a great bourbon. It's fantastic for mixing.

It's still good for drinking and the small batch stuff. I've had that too. It's, it, it's nice. It's really good and still great price point. my, my guy, Mike was saying that they won two or three years ago. They won bourbon in the year. That doesn't surprise me at all. I don't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. Uh, well that's what he was. It was, I don't remember what bourbon it was exactly by larceny. Um, but that's what led him to getting the bottle that he found.

Yeah. It's good stuff, man. So yeah. And the wife every year for our anniversary, the wife will go to Wade's and buy like one really expensive bottle of whiskey or bourbon. And of all the really expensive bottles, like none of them are significantly better than the, uh, the Marty's blend of larceny. It's does she burp it up too? she likes it more than I do. Interesting. Oh yeah.

She'll just sometimes on a night where I'm having a beer or whatever, she'll uh, get a glass, a big old ice cube and pour herself some bourbon kind of hot. I was just going to say that, but yeah, it's okay. You can say that about my wife. That's pretty hot. It's good out there also. Yeah. So anyways, uh, thanks psycho bear for calling in. Uh, definitely love me some wades and yes, definitely love me some wondrous brewing. Hopefully next time I go, we don't have to throw cans away.

We've all heard about that and uh, I will reach out to us on the gram or something or send me an email,

a mail@crappyrevote.com. I'll let you know when I'm up there. Maybe we can meet up for a beer or two or something like that. So as long as he's not an actual psycho bear, right? Yeah. Uh, that normal bears only. Yes. I don't deal with the psycho bears. Um, all right, let's uh, real quickly get into the news flight over here.

Sir Canada, which is one of those services that tracks like how much beer is being bought and told and all that stuff. Uh, they say their weekly scans for Cinco de Mayo were higher than anticipated. So good job Cinco drinkers. I know I was one of them. Uh, they'll not for beer drinking. Yes, I did drink. Oh God. I, I talked about, Oh, you were here.

I talked about the drive. Fucking can't remember most of Cinco de Mayo. Thanks all the champagne I had, but uh, they say total beverage, alcoholic beverage, dollar sales were flat year over year. So compared to last year, but the beer numbers were up. So that's, that's good to hear for craft beer. A lot of Modalos, not craft beer, but yes, a lot of, uh, I'm sure a lot of Modalos and if it goes, I did, I did buy a craft craft, a Mexican lager like the Thursday or Friday before.

Hmm. I am just not a fan of Mexican loggers in general, especially that you don't like them, especially the craft ones. In fact, I'll take a Pacifico over most craft Mexican loggers because craft Mexican loggers have that corn sweetness to them. And I love it. I just don't like it. It's just not my jam. When I think lager, I want that fucking crispy boy. Get your sweetness out of here. And I know people love it and it's why I understand it. It's just, it's just not my jam. Not my jam.

I'll drink them all day. Good for you. You can have all the craft. Give me all the corn. You're so corny. Oh, uh, Gaio makes a strategic investment in Montucky cold snacks.

Who does Gaio? I don't know what the fuck they are, but they got a bunch of a wine and spirits investments and now they're investing into beer with Montucky cold snacks, trying to make them a little more nationwide. We get them here. We get them here too. They're not super common. Um, but we do get them, you know, if you're looking for a fucking crusher, they're easy to crush. Super crushable. Yeah. Uh, Colorado's Timnath beer works is going to acquire Snowbake brewing.

This is more, a lot of what we've seen recently with breweries buying other breweries or merging with other breweries just to try and keep that cost down for their products and their ingredients and stuff. And it seems like another situation of that. So, uh, the best of luck to them. All right. A little booze news gone to the full pour over here. Supposedly a new owner for anchor brewing is going to be announced by the end of May.

It's the end of man. That's pretty much the end of May. Um, they were supposed to announce it back in February. They didn't. Buyers involved in the bidding process said the assignee in charge of the shuttered beer company assets hasn't made a decision, which has led to a delay in publicizing the bid results.

Sam singer, a San Francisco public relations executive and anchor spokesperson told the examiner in January that the company's liquidator was reviewing bids for multiple parties and winner was expected to be announced at the end of the month, allowing them to purchase all or parts of the beer makers assets in the first quarter of the year. Now he said anchors new owners will be in place by the end of May.

No updates as of yet, but it's still anticipated that the sale of anchor brewing company will occur later this month. Well, we're still waiting. There's not much, much of may left. Yeah. Watch the day after we record this. They're going to announce it. That happens actually more often. This happened quite a few times. Uh, Lagunitas is closing down their Chicago operations and moving everything back to California.

They had a tap room, a brew house, all that good stuff and uh, no moss. They said that this decision was due to a need to future proof the organization amid changing tides in the craft beverage industry. Basically they run out of money. Yeah. What else would it be? Yeah. I'm not a businessman, but I hear, uh, when you run out of money, it's usually not the best thing. Um, this is going to sound like Florida. I promise it's not. It's Canada.

Hey, not far off. A man was arrested for driving drunk twice in one night in St. John's. Okay. That's pretty, uh, I'm shocked actually. How does that happen? A 23 year old man in St. John's racked up a list of charges in the early hours of Monday morning after being arrested twice for drunk driving and less than three hours. The Royal New Finland Constable Larry Constable Larry nailed it says it all began after 1:00 AM with a report of suspected impaired driver around Kelsey drive.

Police found the suspect vehicle in a parking lot and arrested the driver for being over the legal blood alcohol limit. He was also given a ticket for having an open alcohol in the vehicle, not container, just an open alcohol. I want to go somewhere and just go, I'll take three alcohols please. See how silly that sounds. Uh, and then the vehicle wasn't pounded just after 4:00 AM.

The Constable Larry got a call about a disturbance in the West end of St. John's officers recognized the man outside the house as the same person they had arrested for impaired driving undeterred. He drove a different vehicle to the residence. This time he was arrested for criminal harassment as well as second impaired driving charge of the night. He was also given a ticket for driving while suspended, hoping to avoid a hat trick.

Officers took the man into custody to await a court appearance in the morning. I guess, yeah, like a first DUI in Canada. Isn't that because I'm pretty sure that's what it is here. Like you get detained immediately. I, yeah, I thought so too. You at least spend the night in jail, right? So to let somebody off the, not let them off the hook. Canada's fucked up. That's Canada. What are we going to say? Florida North. Yeah. It's like entire country of Florida.

Yeah. Except they're nicer and they don't have Gators. Well, I met some really shitty Canadians. Oh really? Oh, that was terrible. I don't think I've ever met a shitty Canadian.

Oh yeah. They stiffed, uh, it was on our honeymoon and they did one of those, uh, parasailing excursions and they paid you honeymoon in Canada. No. Yeah. You're in Cancun, right? Playa del Carmen. Okay. So you fly into Cancun. Yeah. Right. So, uh, this little tiny worker guy comes up to them, you know, they're laying out by the pools and he's like telling them that they didn't pay. And I guess they only paid like 20 bucks for a hundred dollar excursion.

And the guy kept saying, um, like the guy was like threatening to punch the dude in the face. Like the guy who went on the excursion was threatening to like beat this tiny little worker dude. Wow. And he kept saying that like he paid, he paid, he paid. And the little guy finally had enough and he walked away. And uh, then when that happened, he turned to us and he's like, yeah, we didn't pay him. I was like, Oh wow. You were going to be like, Oh, I'm, I think you're cooler now. Right.

I'm just like, Oh wow. That was like the worst fucking worst move you could do to somebody you just met. Yeah. That's pretty fucked up. Yeah. And they just so happened to all be Canadian. So Oh, blame Canada. You got it boss. Yeah. Wow. Weird. Let's quickly end it on a list. I love lists. I have a feeling you're going to hate this list because I'll be honest. It's a lovely thing for me. I, I, well, I hate how bad they are, but I just love to hear it. Here's why you're going to hate it.

It's the nine best breweries in San Francisco.

Can you confirm or deny any of this list? Uh, black hammer. Okay. Yep. That's all I got. And 21st amendment. So, uh, I believe Scott sent this over to us and I thought this was perfect a because I've been up in that area a lot for work and been doing some research and then be a psycho bear called in. So I thought this all, this all works out. So, uh, in no particular order, deviant brewing, which I have not had before. Sounds devious. Does sound devious. Uh, four Fort point.

They say four point Valencia. I guess that's one of the locations. Black hammer brewing. There we nailed it. Yeah. I hear they're pretty good. Yeah. I can speak to that one and they are delicious. Cellar maker, which I thought was outside of San Francisco. I guess they have a San Francisco location. Uh, it's their set their cellar maker house of pizza location. I feel like I've heard of them. Yeah, I've had them not, you know, on site, but I've had some of their beer before.

Okay. Um, bear bottle brewing company. Never heard of them. Woods low side. Oh, sorry. Woods is the brewery low side is the location. The woods brewing, laughing Monk brewing. I've heard of them. Never had them enterprise brewing. They give you the tools to be your own boss enterprise. The rental car there. Oh, that's right. When he applied at, at, uh, enterprise. Yeah. Wasn't that where they worked in Ted or Mark Wahlberg worked in Ted? Oh man, it's been like 15 years since I've seen that.

I haven't seen that forever. Uh, sunset reservoir brewing company is number nine. That's a long name. It doesn't flow either. No sunset reservoir brewing company. So anyways, there you have it. Uh, psycho bear, let us know, is this a halfway decent San Francisco brewery list? Cause we have no idea. Yeah. Yeah. We're we have let us know. Uh, all right. Anyways, that's everything. I'm going to hit some music. I'm also going to say hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. You're missing that flex. Vanessa.

You know, sometimes yellow can't be creepy all the time. No. And I did one for you while you were out. I don't know if you heard it, but you're such a sweetheart. Yeah. You know, nice, creepy. Hi, Vanessa. Just for you. Uh, find us on the socials at crappy Republican, of course, at flex me a beer underscores in between crappy Republic.com. All that good stuff. Hey, all this week, we've got a sale in the shop from a code Memorial for 15% off. Go buy some shit. Uh, I think that's everything.

It'll five, five, three beer psycho bear. Let us know about that list. Uh, I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night, everybody.