Kentucky Mule on the Loose

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Thanks for drinking, thanks for sweeping, and thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined by Flexiii. What's up, buddy? Not very sweepy tonight. Nothing much, man. What's going on? Nothing. Literally nothing is going on. That is so exciting. Yeah, I feel ya. I should apologize to everybody. I hope this sounds okay. I am on the road. I am traveling. I'm in a hotel as we do this.

Fingers crossed the fucking Wi-Fi holds up. A real trooper. Yeah. I started, like, packing all my audio gear. The wife's like, "What are you doing?" I was like, "Podcast on Monday. Gotta record." Did you pack the gear before the close? That's the real question. Yes, actually, I did. That's amazing. Yeah, because I had to make sure I had all the right shit and all that good stuff. So here we are. And you don't need room for clothes as long as you have the gear. Yeah, I got priorities.

I got the same clothes I wear every day. Yeah, I only brought, like, one pair of underwear for my two week long trip. So turn inside out. We'll be fine. Smells delicious. Yeah, it's well seasoned, everybody. If you haven't gotten grossed out and turned us off yet, follow us on the socials. Thatcraftbeerpublic@flexmebeer_ is in between. Lots of show to get to. Tonight, we got a voicemail from Psycho Bear. We'll see what's up with him in North Cal. Some booze news to get to. All that good shit.

But first, shout out to our top listening city of last week. And that's Medford, New Jersey. Hey, what's up, New Jersey? A new, a new, new, a new New Jersey town.

So yeah, are you anywhere near the other New Jersey town that's always listening to us? Who knows? Pennington, that's the name of it. Let us know. All right. I'm forgetting things because it's been a long day on the road, but I think it's time for a beer. I can you see it on my tongue like it's just dry. It feels like a cactus. Yeah, why don't you, why don't you get into it? Yeah, let's solve this equation. I do, indeed.

Well, as I said, I'm on the road, and when you're on the road, you got to drink some roadies. So as I was driving back to the old hotel today, I stopped by and picked up some Radiant Beer Co. Oh, yeah, this is harmonic energy. It is a hazy pale ale. It's pretty hazy, very light on that color, too. It's yeah, like real, real nice, light, yellow, hazy.

5.6% right in Greggie's wheelhouse. Love it has a very low three eight nine and untapped. I'm surprised. I'm surprised. I know, I know, I know. Hazey 5.6% right in Greggie's wheelhouse. Love it has a very low three eight nine and untapped. I'm surprised. Haters out there. They say keep it moving. Keep it melodic. Keep the harmonic energy. Enjoy a hazy pale ale in motion with the kinetic trio of Citra, Strata and Idaho seven hops. Air boner. Wow. Air boner. Air boner. Air boner.

That's what I got when I watched you take off your sweater. Not a boner show.

Airborne aromas of melon, pineapple and tangerine zest. Transport the palette toward juicy nectarine and melon with just a hint of malt And like they said, the hops are Citra, Strata and Idaho seven. Tell you what, I've been noticing melon notes in a lot of beers lately, and I'm really digging it. Yeah, me too. And I, I always am appreciative of a well-placed Idaho seven. I was just trying to think after you said it, if I do indeed like the Idaho seven.

I do. They tend to go well in like pales and hazies and stuff. It just kind of adds to the melty fruit. I think, I think I'm getting that right. On the schnauz, real light, but I definitely get the melon, I think, over anything else. Maybe, maybe a little bit of that citrus from the tangerine. I'm glad they didn't say tangerine and citrus. We talked about this last week. The redundancy. Yeah. On the old tongue jobber. Oh, hmm, hmm. Much more fruit on the, on the flavor than the nose.

Melon. I don't get a ton of pineapple, but I do get the tangerine, probably some orange. And pineapple might be on the back. You know what? Further research required. Yeah, take another dip. Oh, the pool is nice. Yeah, a little pineapple on the back end, but I'm getting most of the melon and tangerine up front. Real, real low bitterness. The perfect amount of carbonation that a pale ale should have. You know, it's not too flat, not too zippy.

It's right there in the fucking wheelhouse. Delicious. We all know how I feel about hazy pales and how hard I get for them. I hear you love them. That's what I hear. I've said it once or twice. That's the word on the tree. This is a delicious one. So, very nice. Well, not surprising from Radiant either. They really are phenomenal. They are da best. I love them.

If you guys, I've said it enough, but if you guys want to hear our interview with Radiant, go crappyrepublic.com/podcast or click on the archives there and search for

Radiant. It's all up in there. Love, love me some Radiant. Like me and your mom. All up in there, or she's Radiant. Both. Okay, that was very gentlemanly of you. She's a lovely woman. Dick. We haven't talked since Thanksgiving. How was your fat turkey day? It's been that long? Yeah. Jeez Louise. We knocked a couple out before turkey day.

Oh, yeah, we did. Holy smokes. Man, it's been a while. Thanksgiving was pretty relaxing to say the least. That's nice. It was one of those days that the morning was so nice and lazy that it felt like it was like three times longer than it actually was. And then by the time we got to my sister-in-law's for dinner, we probably arrived like 2.30, 3 o'clock in there. And we didn't leave till 7 because the Packer game was starting at 7.20 that night.

And it just, again, felt like eternity waiting for the food to get ready and then finishing with the food and then waiting for the game to get ready and then finally going home to put on some pajamas and saddle up for bed. Oh, it was wonderful. It was relaxing. They got a sweet lift in. I had some decent beers. My sister-in-law's husband always likes to make sure I got some good beer whenever they have us over. So it was really wonderful. I had my first smoked turkey, too.

I've never had smoked turkey. Oh, so good. I've never had it fresh. A couple years ago, Nick and Nicole, I mean, I think they always smoke. They're very often will smoke their turkey. They're like,

"Hey, you want some leftover turkey?" I was like, "Nah, I'm good." Like we smoked it yesterday. I was like, "Oh, you smoked it?" I won't say that. Yeah, it was delicious. And they also made this like glaze. Yeah, they had made some like bourbon maple glaze that they had put on it with the smoke. Delicious. I need a smoker. I'm shocked you don't have one, actually. You know what the problem is? My little patio. It's a townhouse. The patio's too small. That'll do it.

Yeah, I've almost convinced them. I did find, but it's fucking expensive, a combo 2-in-1 like propane grill slash pellet wood pellet smoker. Okay. And like you can do one or the other. You obviously can't do both at the same time. Right. And I was like, "Ooh, that could solve all my problems." Too bad it's like almost $1,000. Just sell your car. Yeah. Yeah, then you'll have enough. Yeah. We all know how much I hate my car. I don't love my car at all. Yeah, no. Stupid German engineering.

Yeah. Yeah. You don't want this turning into a pumpkin. Oh, nein. Very nice. I had some family in town and in their attempt to be nice and helpful, because usually I do like 90% of the cooking, at least for the meal. I'll do the turkey. I'll do whatever. And they're like, "Oh, let's just order it." And so they ordered a turkey and a ham from Gelson's. Do you guys have Gelson's No, I'm not familiar. Okay. It's like kind of like Whole Foods, but it's just a fancy grocery store.

Okay. Really expensive. Upscale. Upscale. Yeah, very expensive. It ended up being for like one large turkey and one ham. That's it. No sides. It was like $400. Fuck. And then when we got it, like, yes, it was pre-cooked, but because these things are so large, the amount of time you had to stick it in the oven to just warm it up, took the same amount of time as it would take to fucking cook it. The turkey was in there for like, okay, a little less.

The turkey was in there for like three and a half hours warming. The ham was in there for like two and a half hours warming. Super expensive. And I tell you what, I don't know how you can fucking do this to ham, driest ham I've ever had. Ham is like 50% fat. How do you dry that out? Yeah, that's tough. It was awful. I felt so bad. They spent so much money. It was disgusting. But, you know, made a bunch of sides and the wife did a bunch of appetizers.

Got there, got to my mom's house early and just started drinking like we normally do. In fact, normally we get there and we start cracking open the mimosas. But I don't know if you've heard this. My sister, not only got married, but apparently she's pregnant. Weird. Yeah. That happened so fast. I know. She told us all on Thanksgiving.

She obviously not drinking. There was like no champagne. I was like, hey, what the fuck? Where's the champagne? So, fuck. Yeah, we needed some cream from the store for one of the things. I was like, I will go to the store and get your cream. Came walking in. Champagne, cream. Yeah, I came walking in with cream and juice and champagne. And we had fucking mimosas. Good for you.

Yeah, it's perfect. You catch a little buzz while you're cooking and then you eat dinner and, you know, you kind of sober up a little bit just in time to drink some more shit. See, I felt a little out of sorts because everybody from the shop that I work, they were all sending texts between like 9 and 11 a.m. of their first beverage of the day. Yeah. And I didn't send mine until like 2.45 and they called me. Said it was like blasphemy on Thanksgiving to have your first drink after 2 o' clock.

Yeah, I didn't have mine till like 12 or 12.30. So I'm in there with usually I'm like, hey, it's 10.30. Why are we sober? Yeah, I think I'll do that next year because I was helping my daughter. She was doing a puzzle and she wanted me to help her out, which was really nice And I was drinking an energy drink and there's 16 ounce cans just like beer. Right. And she said, oh, mom, dad drinking a beer already. Shut up, you snitch. And I was waiting for like a negative reaction and there was none.

So I was like, oh, maybe, maybe I'm drinking the wrong thing. Next year, Thanksgiving. We gonna start a little early in the Flex household. Until you do. And then she's like, what? Oh my God, Flex. That's right. I'll live with it. Yeah. I hope she calls you Flex when she's mad at you. She doesn't. No, she doesn't. Flex gets over here. With that name. It would make my day. Does she know it exists? Oh, yeah. Okay. And does she know people only call you Flex?

She does not know that. I imagine there's people out here that don't actually know your real name. Is it on your gram profile? There is one post I have. Okay. Maybe two. Everyone's like going to their phones right now. Must find it. Most people just assume I'm Flex and Flexy. I do. All that other good stuff. Mr. A beer. Yeah, Mr. A beer. That's my favorite. Yeah, I should have asked you just Mrs. A beer. Call you Flex when she's mad at you.

Oh, nice. But yeah, nothing like a little Thanksgiving to warm up the hate for your family ahead of time. So right. But it was also for the holiday season. It was our first instance to have some. Oh, no, we didn't have raw beef. Damn. Oh, cannibal sandwiches. Yeah, I was really excited for that.

I just realized we didn't have it. Oh, man, I'm really looking forward to Christmas. You have to double down on your uncooked meat. That's so good. Sometimes when we grind it at the shop, I'll just take a little bit off the grinder and snack on it. Oh, yeah. But it's like you're grinding up like good like steaks, like good meat, right? When you're doing like denuded top round is what we use.

Right. Because I know when you go to the grocery store and you get ground beef, usually it's like, you know, every other piece of the cow except for the ones you want. Oh, right. Yeah. This stuff is very controlled on what it is because you can't just give somebody raw beef. That's just fatty and black and anything. Yeah, gross. I'm still not down. I've taken too many food safety classes for this. We're very sanitary about it.

So do you even put the at least but like citrus on it to kind of like give a little acid cook? No, it's just like that's the raw beef. Right. And then you get your rye bread and then a little salt and pepper. And then most people I don't because I'm not a huge fan, but they'll chop up onions and they'll be able to boil onions and toss some onions on it. I would need onions. I think if I got drunk enough to try this, I definitely need some money.

You don't even need to be you will be shocked at how good it actually is. No sauce or anything. Like I feel like a little horseradish might be good on that. I could try that this year, but you don't even need a sauce. I guess when your meat is still bloody, you don't need it. It's like the it's like eating a medium rare steak, but just the rare part, which is the best part. That's what I think gives you the shits. That's what I associate it with.

No. All right. Well, enjoy is don't knock it till you try it. That's all I'm saying. Well, and but you know, Rom Romney you and Davis have all the cannibal sandwiches you can get your hands on. I am going to have them all. I will. I will be on the sidelines. So yeah, we'll call you into the game. Let me watch though later on. Actually, I don't want to watch that. That's gross. What else is going? Oh, I had to mention this just for you classed it up went to a wine party.

Nobody shocked. So fucking classy. Do you wear like a suit or like some special outfit when you go to these? No, you know, what's great is I'm most often like the most casually dressed person in the room. It'll just be like me and a Ninja Turtle t-shirt and shorts. That's really casual for a wine party. Yeah, it's just it's how I roll man. Just t-shirt and shorts and what's up everybody here to fuck shit up. Respectable. Yeah, so I would expect nothing less from you.

No, it's the way I roll it. I will always ask the wife first. I like is this something I need to look a little nicer for and usually if it's like a wine thing that involves instead of a t-shirt, but I'm like a button-up short sleeve with my shorts right a Charlie Sheen shirt. Yeah, exactly. Well, except you know, no, you're not like patterned. He always had a pattern treated like the bowling shirts. Yeah, exactly. But you know, like a nice ish shirt shorts tennies.

Let's do it. Right? It's funny. I think it's a guy thing by the way to just whenever you're going to like an event or a get-together first thing is what do I need to wear? You should ask your wife. Yeah, what do I need to wear? Do I need to look good for this? Oh, it's absolutely a guy thing because I've told her many a time. I need you to know that I will never be embarrassed by what I'm wearing. Right? That's how I am too. But you might be.

So if you if you feel like at this event there might be some embarrassment and what I have on my body now is your chance to tell me you'd like me to class

it up a little bit. And if you don't tell me now forever hold your peace because I am showing up in this fucking Back to the Future t-shirt and shorts to drink some goddamn wine with my pinky up. That's so eloquently put. Yay marriage. Such a beautiful mind sometimes. She has a chance. She's one opportunity to tell me to not look homeless. And if she does not take that opportunity, good luck. All bets are off. All bets are off and all wine is in my liver.

All right from classy to psycho. Let's let's check in. That was the best transition ever. Great Segway. Let's check in with Psycho

Bear. We haven't heard from him in a while. Hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Well, hello there Craft Beer Republic. Greg and Flexi. This is Psycho Bear. And well, first off, nice to hear my name on the show. Always nice. In any case, Trader Joe's. Yeah, that's exactly where I got my celebration. Fresh hop. Sierra, Nevada beer, Greg. Smart thing. Flexi. That's my spot, right Oh, and as for Chicago pizza, come on now.

Maybe you just haven't had the best. Pequod's in Chicago. If you get there, Greg, that's the spot. Pequod's pizza. Chicago deep dish. Number one. What else? What else? Oh, yeah. I'm heading down to the good life next weekend, which will be the 13th, 14th, 15th. That's your neck of the woods, Greg. Come join you. The 818 Brewing. Should I lock my doors? Lantastico. And I plan on seeing your homie chew your beer. I certainly hope that happens. Anyways, happy holidays and cheers.

This is Psycho Bear. Chew told me he texted me today. He's like, what are you doing next week? I was like, I don't know why he's like Psycho Bear is going to be down here. I said, well, there's like a 50/50 chance. He may murder me. I'm not convinced that he's not murderers. I mean with a name like that. Right? I would almost say and this is just me being honest 60/40. 60 being murder, right? Yeah. I thought that was applied. Yeah. So that's where I was. I just wanted to be clear.

And but when I said this to Chew, he goes, don't worry. I'll protect you. So I've got the Vato Protection Agency's got the Vatos and the homies. So Psycho Bear, I'm going to try and make it down there because A, I love 818 and B, I apparently have a death wish. So I'm going to see if I can make it down there and hang out with Chew guys. See what I did there? That was well played. Yeah, or something. So anyways, and yes, Trader Joe's. I keep seeing in the praises. Trader Joe's is my bottle shop.

The Beer and Bikini. That's such a fucking odd thing to say. Jesus. So weird. The Beer and Bikini podcast, our friends over there, they had a whole thing the other day where they were talking about it again and even played the clip of me talking about it. By the way, are you stealing audio from our show? How dare you? But they played the clip of me talking about it. And they're like, yes, you got to go to Trader Joe's blah, blah, blah.

So I just wish my Trader Joe's beer section was as big as yours. Yeah. I mean, I hear that a lot. Everybody's always wishing it's as big as mine But yeah, big shoes, Greg. Big shoes. Bigger socks. But yeah, good stuff. 805-538-BEER is the number to call.

If you guys want to call in and leave us a voicemail and all that good stuff. Oh, speaking of not murderers, I got to say quick shout out to not murder John because he texted us like a week or so ago.

I was with Deb and Brian. We're out on the in fact, we're out on the lake. We're on a boat drinking. I hope he's in your phone as non-murderer John. He a hundred percent is and the best is when he texts me and I'm in my car and I have the car play so plays the messages. So it's Siri. My Australian Siri chick is like not murderer. John says that was British, but it was terrible. It was very British. I cannot do it.

Yeah, I might not murder John. No, but I love when she says it because I have I have not murdered John that she says and it's hilarious. And my friend years ago, my best friend, she put her name in my phone as bestie for fucking ever. And so then she says that out loud. It's the best bestie for fucking ever says. That's great. I love it. So anyways, it was not murder. John Texas and was like, hey, I'm down at pure. Here's the menu. Do you guys want me to bring you any beers?

And I was like, that's fuck. Yes, we do. So yeah, I was like, here's what we want. And I will Venmo or I'll pay you whatever when we see you. So very nice, but haven't haven't picked up yet. We try to meet up, but I was working, but I'm very nice guy. Thank you. Not murder John. For now. You got great beer to look forward to as well. I know. I'm very excited. We got some some sours. They had some like wild fermented sours and I was like boners.

That sounds wonderful. Yeah, I can't wait to try them. That wild fermented sour just made me think. I did a little research went to my local Eagle Park and they just did a couple sour brown ales like Flanders brown. Oh sure. And I found out it's going to be the last of their wild fermented s ours that they do because they just don't sell. So they actually had already sold off all the equipment that they use for that.

Oh boo. Yeah, that's not do they not sell like also there are huge pain in the ass. Right, right. Like I don't fault them for doing it. But right the one I actually picked up one of the bottles that they had and this is a is a brown ale with figs and plums and it was fucking phenomenal. Love that. And those Flanders man. They're always like so fucking sour like sour. Yeah, and this one's like a ten and a half percent too. So it's a daddy. It's a daddy. It is a daddy. It's a daddy for a daddy.

Well speaking of daddy's drinking you also my friend look thirsty and I feel like I've deprived you long enough. Let's ask some questions in a world where craft beer is king world

where muscles are bigger than growlers. Only one tongue can guide us one man one tongue one tongue jobber in this world We must find out what is flax drinking. It's the eyes when you do that. How do you not just open them wide as fuck? Yeah, Mrs. A beer is a lucky woman. Yeah, she hates my guts. So I'm drinking a big boy today. Oh, I so I gotta tell you I love this evil twin brewing.

I'm really becoming a huge fan of them and the fact that they keep ending up at my local shop and even more so that all this shit seems to be really new. Like I don't think there's a date on here. I can't read anyway, but I'm untapped here 470 check-ins on this beer. That's it. So you got a big brewery like that. That's pretty right. Yeah, pretty relatively new. So this is Emperor Marlin.

It is a quadruple IPA bring in the quad 12 percenter 470 check-ins a 417 and it real nice. It just says double dry hopped with cashmere citra and mosaic. I love those quick descriptions. I don't know if you can see this. I know your internet sucks. I actually right now it's it's holding up. It's got a cat cat. He's got like an earring and a little hat like a like a like a yarmulke or something, right? Oh, okay. You know, take a you know, whatever an Emperor is dressed like that.

So yeah, I believe or the fuck are they out of Connecticut here? Yeah, this one is brewed in Connecticut. I know they have like a New York location or something but that's besides the point. We'll get a little sniff of this. So this one's very boozy. Don't get a little you get a little sweetness on the nose, but a lot of hooch kind of stinging up the nostrils. The nostrils warm up the old tongue job a oh, here we go. We we so this beer is perfectly carbonated.

Much like yours probably was where it was not overly zingy, but it's just enough to have like a little effervescence along the taste buds. Okay, you do get a lot of booze in this but at the same time that sweetness comes around and there's these melon and orange like orange jam like orange more like sugared up orange and it's really really tasty. But also when you're drinking a quadruple IPA and you get that that booze does you kind of expect that right? Like I don't think I've ever had a quad

and I've said hey, this is terrible because it's so boozy. Why is it there? Because that's what you're going in for. I would say the 417 shoot. I would give this guy like a four and a half if I was rating it on untapped, which I haven't tapped and I could but I just I just don't do it. Yeah. Are you like me? We're just it takes too much time. It's just like I just like to gauge my what I would rate it against what it is rated.

So yeah, you know respect to like intern Brian that dude will check in everything he drinks. I just I used to be better at it. And then I was like, you know, and I just want to hang out drink beer. Yeah, that's why I just want to hang out and enjoy what I'm drinking because I've been at a couple bottle shares and there's like always like two guys. Oh, yes, they'll take you know, they'll do a poor and we'll take a sip right away.

It's got to give their right, you know logger two stars. I hate loggers. Well, mostly barrel ages at Bob's shares Greg, but barrel aged lager two stars. I hate log each one aged lager. Kind of tasty four stars 10 out of 10 would recommend red. Yeah, super super seller beer super seller selection from these guys up at up in Connecticut. Nice really is super good area for beer. I guess I don't know connect to kit. Right? Well, gas up the jet or let's gas up McDreamy's boat.

Right? Because apparently they just fucking go everywhere. Yeah, they're like all over the world right now Egypt Abu Dhabi or Dubai or Abu Dhabi Dubai or somewhere that looks hot right. It's a bunch of sand and eat somewhere where I would sweat a lot. Yeah, believe it or not real sweaty guy over here. I feel you certain certain areas. I sweat thinking about being cold. Do you ever get so cold that you start sweating? This happens to me sometimes.

I think we call that getting sick. No, no, no. This is like sometimes I get cold and in an attempt to my body is like you need to stay warm dumbass and like kind of I wouldn't call it a shiver but like there's some we call those cold sweats and and like I'll just start sweating because it's like there's movement happening, but I'm also cool. It's not a doctor show.

The only time I get cold sweats is when I vomit off of chewing tobacco. That sounds awful all around. Yeah, I wouldn't recommend to try it twice in my lifetime. I would never recommend it. I've never, you know, I've smoked quite a few drunk cigs and smoke some cigs, but no, but chewing tobacco is an endeavor. I've never attempted. Yeah, tried it twice. I was like 20 and 21. I would never do it. Never ever do it again.

Just I don't understand the appeal. I actually feel like I might enjoy it which is a problem. Like I love sunflower seeds like I won't buy them because I just love. Prepare to make fun of Greg having something in my mouth. I like having mints. I like having sunflower seeds. I can't even make fun of because I can go through an entire bag of sunflower seeds in an afternoon. My man. Yeah, they are the bee's knees.

Yeah, my sister will often bring them out on the boat and hey, you want some seeds like oh, okay. I'll just have a handful and then here I am like an hour later and I've eaten like the entire bag of seeds and just you deserve it. Then you can't feel your mouth from all the salt. Right? Your tongue's all numb and raw. Yeah, good times. Good times. Yeah, you go to drink a beer. You can't taste it. It stings a little bit.

When I was a bachelor at like, you know, 18, 19 years old was right before I moved out. I had this routine where I would wake up at, you know, seven o'clock, get to work at nine, get out of work at five, go straight to the gym, come home, eat dinner, and then I would buy a liter of Mountain Dew from the gas station on my way home and a bag of Jim Beam barbecue sunflower seeds.

Do we have liter of cola? And I would sit in my bedroom and I would play Madden and eat the entire bag of sunflower seeds and then go to bed. And spit it into like an empty water bottle or something? Yes. Yes. Well, actually, so now I'm kind of embarrassed. I would buy two one liter bottles of Mountain Dew. Oh, sure. You got to kill one so you can spit the seeds. And then you drink the other while you're eating the seeds. Yeah, you're prepping for your game night on your drive home.

Yeah, it's horrible. As you chug that Mountain Dew, which is also super healthy Probably a horrible routine, but man. It absolutely was. My wife likes to throw any study she finds in my face that shows that like being married helps men live longer. And I'm like, look, I believe you. We are fucking stupid. And all you do is yell at us and make us not do the stupid things we really want to do.

That's why we live longer. Like no longer is Mr. A beer buying two one liters of Mountain Dew because Mrs. A beer would fucking murder him. Tell me I'm wrong. That's pretty accurate. No longer is Greg putting down fucking three Red Bulls a day because Mrs.

Greg would punch him in the face. Man, I tell you what, it's funny you brought this up. I thought of this today, like why did I marry my wife? Like, you know, she's great, like trying to think of all the things she's, you know, done for me, help me become like a better person. And I'm like, really? What she does is she makes me not do stupid shit. Yeah, like she just really reels me in and it's like, hey, right?

You want to go out with your friends and drink 13 beers and be hung over a shit tomorrow? Or do you want to stay in drink a couple of your beers and wake up healthy as a horse? That is a tough call, but man, she really wants to go out, right? And then you wake up the next morning. You're like, man, that was a good fucking decision. Yeah, so smart. I'm really glad I stayed in. Yeah, I've gone skydiving twice in my life. You know how many times I've gone since I got married? Zero! God dang it!

That is brilliant. Yeah, to be fair, I would go again, but I just need a friend to go with. She will not go with me because once again, women are smarter. I was thinking of skydiving a couple of weeks ago and I thought, man, I would totally do it, but I need somebody to say you're doing it with me and then sign it up and then I would do it. I'll fly there. I will absolutely go with you.

We have a skydiving place. It's like 30 minutes south of where I live. All right. Well, if you want to take a road trip here, we have one that's like near the beach. Like you jump out and it's like views of the water. It's terrifying. You don't go over the beach. It's near the beach. Oh, okay. Also, wouldn't that be better if your parachute didn't open like water instead of splat? I don't know. I just think it's sharks. Sharks are not a plenty in this region.

Okay. Especially like Atlantic. Maybe. They're also more south where it's a little bit warmer, I think. Oh, okay. It's like as soon as you get north. I'm not a shark expert. This is not a shark show. No, both accurate. But I think as soon as you get north of like LA, the water drastically drops in

temperature. I guess you hit Ventura, Santa Barbara. It gets colder and colder the norther you go. And I'm pretty sure the sharks are more a fan of the warmer waters because you know, trust mammals. Yeah. Yeah, but I'll say it authoritatively. We'll just say it's true. Yeah, but if jerks like warm wasn't they had cold blood, wouldn't they be finding cold water? I don't know, but they can't regulate their temperature because they're not mammals, right?

Don't they want cold water? No, they want warm water to regulate their body temperature. Not a scientist. No, I'm going to move on because there's a 50/50 shot that I'm wrong. Somebody who knows about sharks. Let us know. All right, let's do a little news for get out here. Thanksgiving Eve. We talked about this couple weeks ago. Thanksgiving Eve drink

er. Drunksgiving is the like number one again. I forgot to tell you because it happened after the show. We call it Blackout Wednesday here. I don't know if they call it around the nation, but in Wisconsin, it is called Blackout Wednesday. I like that. Everything I see is like drunks giving and things, you know, Thanksgiving Eve, all that. It was even on the local news. Oh, no shit. Yes. Like I'm not. It's very Wisconsin. It is like a definitive name.

Blackout Wednesday. I like that a lot. That's that's super Wisconsin. Well, apparently drunks giving slash Blackout Wednesday was not so great this year. Draft volumes declined for the third straight year. This year, they were down 1.8 percent compared to the same night last year, which has long been regarded as one of the biggest party nights of the year, according to Beer Board.

In 2023, draft volumes declined two and a half percent relative to the year before in 2022, which saw a sizable fall of 17 percent compared to 2021. So it seems like 2021 is people are allowed to go back to the bar. It was like, boom, let's drink a bunch. And then it's gone down since so well, that makes sense. Yeah. Number one brand on draft for the second consecutive year in a row. Any guesses? You'd be very disappointed. I'm going to say it's either like.

Bud Light or Corona and then Modelo would be like a number three. All right. Number two is Miller Light. Miller Light was number two. Not very great. No. Number one, though, Mikultra. Really interesting, but it's not very blackout when you're drinking fucking two percent beer. It's it's four. That's like three and a half. I thought it was just regular like four, four, two. I don't have my full setup. Hey, Siri, what is the ABV of Michelob Ultra?

Look at you. Four point to Belgium. Yeah. Right. Rides in with all the other domestic lights. And four point two percent. Son of a bitch. Son of a bitch. Almost like I know something about beer. One or two things. Stoli, you ever drink any Stoli back in the day? Back in the day.

Yeah. Stoli raspberry. Oh, that sounds extra horrible. Yeah. I hate raspberry, especially fake raspberry. Oh, I love raspberry. I think because I drank shitty raspberry flavored vodka and threw it up all over the place. I've done that multiple times. And I just can't anymore. It was usually always like Smirnoff strawberry or raspberry or the worst was green apple. You know, Smirnoff green apple. You're you're puking that night. Oh, I did a lot of that in high school. I just had a apostrophe.

I think that the raspberry vodka tastes a lot like Flintstone vitamins. Hmm. I bet that's why you like it. Maybe. Hmm. Just feel like it tastes good mixing with juice. Juice. Juice. Give me the juice. Anyway, Stoli has filed for bankruptcy. So see what happens there. The group filed last week in Texas listing more than $100 million in assets and between $50 million and $100 million in liabilities.

Their CEO, Chris Caldwell, said in a statement in the filing that increased financial flexibility to accelerate investments and position Stoli for long-term stability was necessary. Caldwell added that the group has been targeted by the Russian Federation since its founding 25 years ago. A cyber attack has also disrupted global operations, forcing the company to operate manually for the past two months. That can't be true. That can't be true. It's like straight out of a movie.

That's nuts. D's nuts. Maybe believe it. I don't know. I don't know. So anyway, Russians are wild. Duh. Duh. A, oh God, Wyantskill. What? Wyantskill. It's a place. A Wyantskill man allegedly drove to the police station while drunk.

Louis Lippincott, 48, went to the police station in, oh my God, these names, Shodak, to make a complaint. While being interviewed, troopers said he showed signs of impairment. A test revealed his blood alcohol concentration was 0.22. He was charged with DWI and released to a sober third party. Not a great idea. Great name though, Shodak. Shodak Otani? What did he show you? Shodak! Oh dear. We'll end it on this one. End it on this one. A Murray man, this is in Kentucky,

a Murray man was arrested after writing and whipping his mule while drunk. Not innuendo. First of all, fuck you for your animal cruelty. On 12/7/2024 at approximately 9.09 PM, officers with the Murray Police Department responded to a local alcohol establishment in reference to an unruly individual later identified as Jonathan Mason, age 39 of Murray, Kentucky, who had been asked to leave,

but was refusing to do so. Upon officer arrival, Mason was outside the business and was manifestively under the influence of alcohol. Mason had ridden a mule to the establishment and he refused to stop when ordered to by the officer. Sir, we need you to stop that mule right now! Sir, pull over your ass. That's the kind of shit that can only happen in Kentucky. We need you to drop your ass now! Pull your ass to the side of the road.

I can't pull over any further. As the officer attempted to place Mason under arrest, Mason resisted. Upon further investigation, witnesses had observed Mason whipped the mule at a different establishment an unnecessary amount of times in addition to other ways of mistreating the animal.

As a result, Mason was arrested, the mule was stabled, and Mason was lodged in the county jail on the following charges, disorderly conduct, alcohol intoxication in public place, criminal trespassing, resisting arrest, and cruelty to animals. That was 12/7. On 12/9/2024 at 12:51, officers were dispatched to the area where this mule had been stabled in regards to a male that seemed to be intox icated

and was riding a mule down the roadway. An officer located Mason on his mule, but Mason refused to stop for the officer and he fled on the mule on the road way. Shortly after fleeing, Mason was arrested and lodged in the county jail on the following charges, fleeing or evading police and cruelty to animals. - Okay, fleeing on a mule. How fast can you flee on a mule? Like, you would almost think the police are just sitting there laughing, watching this guy's mule just trot down the road.

- Yeah. - Almost making a joke, like a mockery of it. How fast does a mule go? - I love it. Well, we already got Siri involved once. Hey Siri, how fast does a mule go? Typically, mules have a top speed of around 15 miles per hour. - Faster than I thought. - Okay, that's way faster than I thought. - Yeah, I was expecting much less. - Yeah. - Still not fast. - You're not fleeing at 15 miles an hour. - No, I think I've seen wheelchairs go faster than that.

- I hear the word fleeing and I think of a white Bronco. - Or at least something fast. - Right. - Something with a top speed greater than a school zone. - Right, that is fleeing to me, so. - Yes. Oh, anyways, what was his name? Jonathan. - Jonathan Mason. - Yeah, play your life together, big guy. - Two days in a row. - Stop being mean to your mule. - Stop beating your ass. - It is your getaway mobile. - Yeah. - So weird. So fucking weird.

- All right, let's wrap things up, shall we? - Yeah, hit some music. You want me to hit some music? I'm going to say hello to Vanessa. - Hello, Vanessa. - I'm sorry, I mean, hello, Vanessa. Hello. Find us on the socials @CraftBeerRepublic and @Flex3Beer_. In between, mail at CraftBeerRepublic.com as well as 805-53-BEER, it's 2337.

I think that's everything. I appreciate you all listening. I hope you're staying very well hydrated. - And on that note. - Good night, everybody.