No Fruit Salad In My Beer

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking and thanks for joining. I am Greg I'm being joined by the little snow angel himself, and that's flexi. What's up big boy? You know, I'm feeling a different kind of energy in here today Greg. Yeah, you like it? What are you uh, you standing up or something? I am Funny you should ask Standing up.

Let's hope I can keep my mic my mouth near the mic and don't start doing like one of these where I go back And it sounds like an ass car. You're doing it already. Oh shit Sorry, everybody. Welcome in. Like I said, this is the craft beer Republic Wow find us on the socials at craft beer Republic at flex me a beer underscores in between Crap Republic comm hey, you want to call us and leave us a voicemail or something?

805 538 beer I bet you does I bet you does too, but he didn't this week So anyways get a hold of us all that good stuff a lot to talk about today I've been doing some research flex has been doing some research There's a big game coming up allegedly There's for me I'm leaving a bachelor party early for it.

Oh probably shouldn't say it out loud on the show Anyways lots to get to so I'll listen to it for two months No, but the time they hear it they'll already have been married and can't be mad at me at that point Wait, I'm getting married. Not that I'm aware of Haven't heard a thing Right, well I am at thirsty so maybe if I drink a little stop stuttering. Yeah get some I'm jumping. I'm sure my dog is going crazy downstairs. Jump, jump, jump, jump. Everybody now.

I am drinking Casa Agria's Double Dry Hop Nelson Oxnard.

Oxnard is a hazy pale that they've been putting out for a few years. In fact, I was introduced to it by a listener, Jose. He brought it to a live show once and let me try some. This is their Double Dry Hop Nelson version. So it's got Flexy's name all over it. 6%, a 415 on Untappd and they say Nelson Oxnard is a double dry hop hazy pale brewed to celebrate that place our brewery calls home.

The aroma bursts with a hot blend that includes some old school hops, some new money hops, some hops from where you'd expect, some hops where you wouldn't. And then we added Nelson to that. Okay. Smells delicious. A little of this, a little of that. It's really smells like a little of this, a little of that. A little of this, a little of that. A little of this, a little of that. Chicken spice. Yeah. All right.

I get some sweet tropical notes on the schnoz, like maybe like gummy bear-ish kind of thing. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to dig in here with the old tongue jobber. I fucking love me some gummy bears. The Haribo headquarters, like the factory it's in Wisconsin. Oh really? Yeah. What's your favorite color? The white, the pineapple. Love it. Same girl, same. This flavor follows the nose. Exactly. It's a little sweet with that tropical, maybe some pineapple and citrus flavor on there.

Kind of finishes smooth with peach and just a hint of bitterness. Not very much. I love the Oxnard series. This one does not disappoint. It is under delicious. Sounds like a tasty lick. It's a tasty, I was going to say suck. A tasty sip. Could be that too. We went last week, they had their eighth anniversary, I think it was their eighth anniversary over at Casa.

And we went over there with Coley and Big Dick Nick, hung out, had some beers, waited fucking four hours for the food truck to make food. I mean, had some delicious food. This food truck that was there took forever. They're all right. Dan from back in the day showed up with his lady friend to hang out with us. That's neat. Yeah. It was nice seeing Dan. It's been a minute. It's funny. I texted him cause I know he doesn't live too far away. And I said, Hey bud, you know, we're in your hood.

We're at Casa's anniversary. Come on out if you're not doing anything. And he goes, do they have food? I was like, I got some food trucks. Why? He goes, well, we're in the line for sushi, but it's an hour wait. That sounds better. So he just showed up like 10 minutes later. He's not wrong. Yeah. Yeah. So I got to hang out with Dan. It was good times and good beers. Of course, too. Had a couple of these oxen. Our wait for sushi. Fuck that. Yeah. What do they do? Waiting for him to cook it?

Hey, that's a little bit ridiculous. Yeah. So anyways, fun times at Casa love me, Costa and happy birthday to Coley. I didn't know it was Coley's birthday. Yeah, it was Monday. So a happy birthday, Coley. We went out for a, for brunch on Sunday for her birthday.

There's this, there's this new ish place by them, Mexican spot that has brunch and they also do like a fucking shot parade when it's your birthday. If you tell them it's your birthday. Okay. So what is the shot parade exactly? Well, you know, you're sitting there,

you're eating your, your, your brunch, your chili Kili's with your mimosas and whatnot. And all of a sudden, like the music just, you know, record scratch and they'll put on like shots, you know, like little John or some sort of drinking type, you know, beat pounding music and everyone from the kitchen comes up. They've got chicks on guys shoulders shots. LMFAO. Was it not? Oh, you know what it is with little John. Yeah. Okay. That's what it was. All right. I'm not a hundred percent wrong.

Just like 90. they got chicks on shoulders. They got sparklers and noise makers and signs that say happy birthday. That's insane. And they like shop parade out from the kitchen while they're dancing and carrying chicks on their shoulders and they drop off your shot and they won't fucking leave and stop making noise until you drink that shot. Well, I want to go there.

Yeah. It was, she fucking loved, she even, she called him the day before it was like, Hey, I need to make reservations for X people. And uh, just so you know, I'm an attention whore and I want the whole shop parade. Like she told him that on the phone. It was great. So, uh, yeah, it was good. Well, good for her. Yeah. Good food. Good fun. Uh, Wiley came out and uh, yeah, it was fun. Just hanging out and drinking a button. Dude, we fucking found the best waiter.

We told him like, Hey, can we just stop with the juice? It's getting too sweet. You just bring out some champagne. He legit brought us pint glasses of champagne. That's awesome. Yeah. He was like, it's well, but terrible next morning. But it was like a terrible five hours later when you started to sober up a little bit on all this cheap champagne is rough.

It was good. Well, as you would live the hangover. Oh yeah. you fucking live the sober, then you live the hangover and then you live like your heart racing afterwards until you finally detox. Hey, it was good. While it lasted. So happy birthday Coley. Um, Oh, I have to mention flex. You know how big of a hard on I get friends Rick man and something corporate and I do. You cry. Oh yeah. A hundred percent. I'm a, I'm a, yeah.

Um, Lindsay Frey is a local artist out here who often plays at naughty pine and we always try to go when she's there. She's fucking amazing. Just her and her piano. She can like sight read songs that she's never seen before. She's fucking insane and she'll do some requests and for like a year we've been asking her to play dark blue by Jack's mannequin. Classic. It's such a great song and she keeps saying like, I swear I'm learning it, but like the piano changes are so hard.

And so we were there the other night and they'll usually like you can submit your request online, like on her little form. And usually I'll request dark blue with like a little laughy emoji next to it every week. Yeah. And then I'll, well, it's either like once every couple of weeks, but then like underneath I'll put another song like,

I know I'm just joking. Like here's the real song. And so that night I hadn't even requested anything. And the second song she plays, cause she saw us there, she just starts playing dark blue and she fucking murdered it. Like it took me a second. I was like, wait, why is this song sound so familiar? Oh my God. I hit Shannon. I was like, do you hear what song this is? She's like, yeah. I was like, no. Do you hear what's in? Do you understand the magnitude of this? Right.

So she fucking murdered the song, which we knew she would. And I was able to film like the last little bit of it, like the last, you know, hook or whatever. And I posted it and I tagged Andrew McMahon and he reposted it. That's so cool. And then I lost my shit and turned into like a 12 year old girl at an NSYNC concert. Did you try like DMing him after that? I thought about it.

I was like, should I respond? What am I going to say? Other than like, I want to, you know, have your child or something. Right. Right. I mean, nothing normal would be said. So I thought better after a little bit of alcohol, a few beers in, I just got reposted by one of my favorite artists. Like, here we go. Here comes normal stuff. Yeah, that wasn't happening. So thank you for the repost, Mr. McMahon. Dick Peg and Suze. Definitely was Vince McMahon, but that's a different story. Way different.

Not a wrestling podcast. Not a wrestling. Close. Close. So anyways, I was super stoked. Rode that stupid social media high for like a day. I was like, guess who reposted me? It actually would have been funny if you sent him like a dick pic and like he responded back to that. Just like, Hey man, that's a pretty nice dick. Not the worst penis I've seen today. Like he just gets a boatload of dick, man. Another one, huh? Poor Andrew. Just like as a folder of them. It's a block folder.

Oh, that would be great. So, uh, there's that. And then week before went out to trans real quick mention went out to transmission brewing in Ventura. I love going there because a,

they have a rooftop deck that you can see the ocean and children are not allowed. Okay. You can bring dogs, no kids. I love it. I do hate that. You can have kids down below. So like if you come with kids, you're not excluded. You just can't go Jackson shit. Kids down below. Not a Michael Jackson podcast. No, I have kids and I totally respect the, uh, no kids thing. Yeah. I think honestly it's a legal requirement because up top they have the bar and they don't have any food. So it's become a bar.

I think you're right. Because, uh, when the last time we went to Nashville, we took the kids and our favorite place down there, Jason Aldean's bar, it's like this three or four level bar. And like obviously the top level is the rooftop and, uh, they don't allow kids up there. We were kind of bummed out. Cause that's like, that was our favorite spot to hang. So when we went and we were turned away, cause we had two children with us, it was kind of a bummer. So you get two children with you.

Yeah. But you're right. It must be like a legality thing. Yeah. I think, I think it becomes a bar at that point instead of like a brewery or some restaurant. Yeah. Right. Um, but they're attached to topper's pizza. And if you're from Southern California, not the Wisconsin, not the Wisconsin. Yeah. Not that one. Uh, they have wings and they're like the best fucking wings and pizza is good too. Of course. But God damn, those, um, leave it. Yeah. All right. That's enough out of me. What about you?

You've been doing any, uh, day drinking. Uh, I did some day drinking today. Not the regular day drink.

Oh, no French fries, no French fries, no Eagle park. I, uh, so a lot of the guys I work with now at the butcher shop, they're, uh, they're golf enthusiasts. Right. So they're not great at golf, but to get drunk and drive a golf cart. Exactly. They like to play. So, uh, a couple of guys are all off. Uh, I shouldn't say a couple, there's like four guys that are off on Tuesdays. So they were planning a Tuesday trip to this, um, like what most people know is top golf.

Sure. Um, we have like little driving range thing, right? We have Lux golf bays here. So, um, one of the other guys felt left out cause he, him and I have to work Tuesday. So I said, Hey, if you want to go to this thing on Monday, I said, I will accompany you. And I don't golf. Right. I just thought it, but you do drink, but I do drink. I don't golf. I do drink. He took me up on the offer. So we went there today. Get this. It's half off the price of any bay rental.

Okay. So already worth it just for being on a Monday, just for being what they call it Mulligan Monday. Love it. Half price pizzas and the most important Greg half off all tap beer,

all tap, not just ship here. We're talking pints and pitchers. Oh my God. So you get a pitcher of craft beer and you're spending $12 on it. Oh my God. Some places would be the price of a craft beer. Dude, that's less than a ship beer at daughter stadium. Dude, it's crazy. It was absolutely fucking crazy. And the cherry on top, I had a fucking blast just like all the pitchers of beer, how could you, all the games that, you know, you can play on this, uh, virtual range or whatever.

And, um, they have like some virtual golf courses that you can like, quote unquote, simulate playing through. Um, man, it was just so much fun. Like I'm already planning on going there a couple of Mondays from now to do, I can't hit for shit when it comes to golfing, but I would sit there and make an ass of myself and drink some pitchers of beer. That sounds fun. That's exactly what I did. Yeah. Like what else would you do? I've been golfing twice before in my entire life in 35 years.

And, uh, I just thought, what, what would be the worst that would happen? I hit the, I hit the artificial turf a couple of times instead of the ball. Right? Like, it's not your club. Who cares? It's not my club. It's I'm not a golfer. I don't golf. And, uh, turns out I, you know, I, I won a lot of the games today. So I'll take it. Nice. Do a $12 pitchers. I'd say you won at life today. Oh yeah.

So, so for two and a half hours of golf, two pitchers and two shots of Jack Daniels, it was a total of 80 bucks for both of you. No, like total. That's what I mean. Like altogether. Yeah. So it was 40 split nuts. You can't afford not to go. You can't exactly. It's just like a commercial. The crazy thing too, is bucks, golf.com/cbr. And it's just like, it's like a, I think it's its own thing too. Like it's a local rich guy who wanted something like this here, like a top golf.

And he invested in like all on his own because he can. Right. And turns out it's way fucking cooler than I thought it was. That's fucking awesome. I'm, I'm super jealous. I don't think we have anything like that super close by. Like we have to go to Burbank. you know, 45 minutes to an hour away. This one is legitimately five minutes from my house. That's amazing. could you walk if you needed to? I mean, we're talking like 50 minute walk, maybe. All right. Like mile and a half.

Probably about two, two, two miles, 40 minute walk. All right. We're just thinking like, if you happen to have one pitcher too many, if you needed to stumble home, you could kind of do it. I mean, worst case scenario, I could. Yeah. That's what I mean. Like really, really got away from you that day. The only problem is the walk back home. There's no sidewalk. The other problem is the walk into the house. You'd be murdered. Yeah, definitely. I'd say that's the biggest problem. Oh yeah.

Sidewalks be damned. It's a real thing. Yeah. No, no. It sounds fun though. That's pretty sweet. I can't wait to go back. Such a great time. I'll I'll see you there. Let's go. Coming up. Uh, before I forget again, like I always do top listening city of last week, Pennington, New Jersey. Again, what, what is this? Maybe they're, they're getting their shitty New Jersey law updates. Come on, man. Yeah. He signed something. We talked about it last week. Yeah. Keep it up. Let's go.

Keep it up and keep it hard. Uh, yeah. The only way to keep it. Yeah. Uh, not a sports show, but I received some messages from people that they were disappointed.

We didn't bring up the upcoming big game this weekend. Uh, especially because of my allegiance to the 49ers. Sounds made up. So I will bring it up now. Do we, do we have any, uh, bets we want to make any, no pressure, any projections, any predictions. So I got no,

I got, what do they say? What's the phrase? Like you got no horse in the race. Yeah. No skin in the game. Yeah. I'm completely sick and tired of the Kansas city chiefs myself. So I really would not like to see my homes or Kelsey redo be cool to see, get another title. Um, but a lot of guys on the San Francisco side worthy of for a super bowl rings. I love the Mr. Irrelevant story. Yeah. You know, like that, that's my favorite. I don't care if you think he's good or not, or a game manager.

What a great story. Last pick in an NFL draft and the guys starting quarterback in a super bowl second season. It is a Cinderella story. I mean, first full season really the Cinderella story. Um, so yeah, I mean, I, I don't want to bet anything. I thought it'd be weird. We, you don't have a team in here that you really care about. And yeah, that's when it was more fun because it was, you know, it was like our teams against each other.

I mean, I'll tell you what, I mean, I want San Francisco to win, but I know, I know Kansas city's going to, how dare you? I know it hurts. Yeah. It's real hard. The last two games, the diners have played, they have opened up horrendously. Honestly, they should have lost to the Packers. They played like shit. And then they should have lost the lions. Yeah. Luckily. Well, the second half, I mean, they fucking blew up as, as we all know they could, but they should have played like that.

The whole game. If they try to pull that shit with the chiefs, it's done. It's done before it starts. It's one of the most underrated defenses going into the super bowl. I mean, two amazing defenses going into the super bowl and one really great offense and one straight out of San Francisco and the other guy just that can make things happen. Yeah. So I'm excited. Go Niners. I mean, if you want to do any kind of thing, I mean, I, I guess I could take the chiefs if you want to do it.

No, no, no, it's fine. I just wanted to see this thing. I mean, I didn't know where you were honestly with the whole, you know, did you, we're going to go for the chiefs or the Niners? So I am pulling for the Niners just cause I'm sick of no bets needed. Then I'm sick of the red and white, man. So you're pulling for the other red and white gold. I mean, 49ers go, come on, Dick.

I'm Joe now as a Packers fan, because we beat you a couple of weeks ago, would you rather us win so that your losses is not nothing. I don't believe in that. Okay. No, there, there is a statistic that are read that I, that was kind of funny only because the 49ers have been busting our ass for the last, I don't know, 20 years since I've been alive in the playoffs. And it's right. You're only all these Niner fan.

Well, I mean, like since, you know, watching football in the playoffs, the last 20 years, the Terrell Owens catch from Jeff Garcia, like who can forget about that? Right. Whatever it made me want to throw up. And I was like, probably 15 years old. Anyways, all these Niners fans, you know, talking shit, the green Bay loss. And I read a statistic that said if the 49ers lose on Sunday, they will be Owen four in Superbowls in like the last 30 years.

And the Packers have two Superbowls in the last 30 years. So that's pretty neat. When did we beat the chargers? That was in the nineties. You'd have to look that up. 94. So not quite 30 years. Wow. Well, I guess now 30 years. Yeah. It is 2024 now. Technically. Yeah. So there you have it. There you have it.

Well, like we said, not a sports show, but a go Niners, but also another fun fact that not a lot of people knew, which I also saw a statistic about Ed McCaffrey, Christian's dad, his first year in the league was with San Francisco. Oh, I didn't know that. And he won that Superbowl in San Francisco. I had no idea. Isn't that wild? That is wild. And then he went on to have a historical career in Denver. I guess you could call it that. Sure. Pretty solid. Superbowls. Not too shabby.

Yeah. So he'll take it. Way to go. McCaffrey's. So yeah. So that would be cool. That's a cool story. His dad winning for him, him winning for him. Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan, but it's really not a sports podcast. It's not. We've bogarted your guys's time.

Sorry. Dick though. I got to. How dare you? He's a dick. George Kittle is amazing. When he wore that fuck Dallas t-shirt, that was the best. Yeah. When you see him go on the Pat McAfee show. No, but Pat McAfee's a dick too. So, and he said, go Pat, go the fuck home. Good. And that just hurt me a little bit. Sorry. Yeah. I like me some kid. He's funny. He he's like a fucking wrestler. He'll just go out there and talk shit. Yeah. I mean, that's like Travis Kelsey too.

Like he doesn't do interviews. He cuts promos. Right. Right. Right. Although, Kittle's facial hair, he's got to get rid of that. It looks terrible. his head hair, his face, he like, he's the head. It's fine. Someone said to him like, Hey, you need to do your best to look like you came out of a double wide that produces meth. And he was like, challenge accepted. Oh, it's just like Justin Jefferson's goatee thing. He's got going on. It's like 13 hairs. It's like, just get rid of it, man.

It looks terrible. Some people can, some people can't write just, and then to just grow it that long. It's atrocious looking, right? Shave your pubes already. Would you shave your balls? You shave your chin. Cause it looks like your balls. Just exactly. In fact, your balls probably have more hair. Yeah. Not a ball show. No, no, tonight a little bit. Uh, all right.

Before, before we get to the news, uh, let's find out what flex is drinking 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 flex drinking. Okay. So flex has kind of a funny story. The sad story, I guess, sad, but funny. Uh, so I'm in a fantasy football league. We got a little beer fit crew we got going on through Instagram and, um, I didn't win. I took second. Oh, super sad. And, uh, amazingly I found out today with zero heads up. I get a package on my doorstep, completely unexpected.

And I saw it was from Pennsylvania. And I only know one dude from Pennsylvania,

the infamous shredded brew that guy. So I ripped the box open and it is loaded with all this Evergreen and new trail and drugs, just all tasty licks from the state of Pennsylvania. So I immediately text him and say, dude, what the fuck, you know, I hate receiving free beer. And, uh, I hate it. And he said, Oh, did you receive something today? You know, like he, he obviously knew what he was doing. Did you say yes from your mom? I totally missed the opportunity.

Uh, but he said the individual who won our fantasy football league is currently dry. He did not want this beer package for the first place, uh, winnings. And he just wanted the trophy. And he said to send the beer to the runner up. So I feel like I'm a winner. It sounds like you're a winner. Maybe I did win. I don't know. I had the best team all year. I should, I guess I should deserve something. Yeah. So first year last. Exactly.

So today from the box, I am drinking a collab from new trail brewing and other half.

Oh, two big names. It's called Keystone state of mind. Hazy double IPA, pretty gnarly can. Um, actually kind of reminds me, I don't know if you've ever had anything from spindle tap in Houston, but kind of reminds me, uh, just their label style, but yeah, really cool state of Pennsylvania. All the counties shiny and outlined out because it's the Keystone state. Right. Right. Everybody knew that. Yeah. Maybe New Jersey definitely did. Oh, of course.

So on a untapped, it has a four one, one, uh, 8.7 ABV zero IBUs. It says it's probably right. Uh, I just gotta say that I, I love this can, cause it tells you every single hop to use the oats, the wheats, the malts. And, uh, it even tells you the notes that you're supposed to get out of it. Cause the untapped definition, it's really long. I really don't want to read it. No, it's perfect.

Yeah. So this one says it's a, it's brewed with Mo Tueka, Simcoe, Neknaron, Nelson, Sovin, and it has a oats, Pilsner and white wheat. And it tells me I should be having notes of gummy peach rings, Pinot aromatics and dank tropicals. So let's put this bad boy to the test. They should have called that like the Kiwi state. That's just all the New Zealand hops that exist all in a beer. Oh yeah. It really is. Well, except Simcoe. Okay. Does Simcoe? No, no, but Mo Tueka and Nelson Sovin.

Right, right, right. Something else. Neknaron. That one. I don't know where that's from. I actually had a Pinot a couple, couple of weeks ago. A Pinot Griges? Can't remember. Or Pinot Noir? What's the dark one? Is it red or white? Red. Pinot Noir. Oh, that was fucking delicious. I love a good Pinot. And I don't like wine and it was great. So anyway, back to beer. Not a wine show. I do get the, the wine aromatics here. Something about like fermented fruit.

Like you can kind of, like when you smell a wine, you're like, that's definitely wine. That that's kind of what you get from here. It is, you know, it's a hazy double. It's very hazy. It is in fact hazy. A little bit of lacing on the glass. Now we'll, we'll warm up the old tongue jobber here. Best part of the show, everybody. So I'm not getting much of the peach rings, but the dank tropicals, 100%. It's a very strong flavor, I guess. A lot of hop in that dankness.

I mean, it is just 100% like super dank. You know, I heard they recently decided to add more hops to it. Thank you for that. I don't know how fresh or not fresh this can is. Maybe if it was fresh, you get the gummy, the peach coming out of there. But I mean, all in all, this is a really good beer. I've never had anything from new trail before. So this is actually my cherry poppin. And daddy. Yeah. I mean, I'll drink the shit out of these guys if they were my local brewery.

Yeah. That's pretty sweet. Yeah. So thank you to shredded brew. Yeah. And to Zach, the artist formerly known as brutal athletic go for opting out to send me the beer. Yeah. And somebody slip shred my address. Yeah. I might have it saved somewhere. I kid. Very nice. All right. Let's crack into a little news here. And if there's time, there's a list at the end. I love list. I know some big, big news going on here locally in my hood. All of a sudden,

I started hearing rumors last week and then Sunday it went public. 14 cannons has been sold. Yeah. That's huge. Huge. So the owner, Marshall, apparently, and I've. Wasn't that a co-op or it's not a co-op. So let me tell you what I know and what I've heard and what I've pieced together because I've heard things from multiple people. I have not yet talked to Nick, who is no longer the head brewer at 14 cannons. Shut up. Yeah. At this point, I'm like, what's the point in going back?

So here's what I've heard. First of all, from what I've heard prior, I thought Nick had some sort of ownership stake, but that Marshall was like the majority owner. Apparently this deal went down late last year when Nick was on his honeymoon and out of town. So it happened behind his back. It got finalized. And once the new owner started showing up, basically laid everybody off, except for a couple people. Their tap room manager is no longer there. Nick, like I said, the brewer, no longer there.

I don't know if he quit or got laid off or fired. I don't know. There's a lot that I don't know. I've heard a lot of shit. The guy who bought the place sounds like an absolute douche. I've seen him on the 'Gram before all this and he seems like a douche. And from what people have been telling me, same. What I thought was pretty accurate. Yeah. So apparently the brewer is no longer there. Everybody's gone. And it's a weird shit show. And I was somebody that was telling me what was going on.

I said, "Look, without Nick making the beer there and everybody that I enjoyed seeing when I was there drinking beer, I have no reason to go back." Especially the way this guy's operating. So yeah. What absolutely horrible news. Yeah. I was really sad. I love me some 14 cannons. I mean, I guess the potential good news, and like I said, I haven't talked to him yet, is maybe Nick will branch out on his own or land somewhere else and make good beer there.

It's not like it's his first brewing job by any stretch of the imagination, but fuck man, I'm going to miss me some Nick beer for sure. Yeah. That sucks. Yeah. So I didn't want to be like the weirdo who called him and was like, "Hey, guess what I heard. Is this true?" So I was letting it die down a little bit before I reach out to him. So we'll continue to update you as more comes.

Right before the show started, I had one of the people that has been giving me information, texted me something else. And just the whole thing keeps getting weirder and weirder. It basically sounds like the new owner is going to turn this place into his personal beer fridge type of thing. He's getting rid of the wine bar that was there. He's getting rid of the pizza spot that was also there. So all of it's very strange. And yeah, sad times in the Westlake Village area for beer lovers.

No more collab with them. I know. I was just talking about Morning Watch the other day. So Nick gave me his Doppelbach when he made it back in 2020. He released it during COVID. It was kind of a merp merp release because of COVID. He gave me a very fancy bottle of it for, I think it was one of their anniversary beers or something. And I still have it in there. So I might have to drink one to toast 14 cannons and the death of them, basically. Gosh, that's terrible.

Yeah. So I know they haven't closed, but RIP 14 cannons. Pour one out for them. Yeah. Drink one for the homies. Maybe the guy who bought it out was that guy that tried to buy green cheek out of all their beer. Same dickhead. Yeah. No, this guy, he fancies himself a local celebrity. And if you go on his gram, just seems like such a douche. Been aware of him well before this. Oh, you have. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'll dry my tears and move on, I guess. That's what a real professional would do.

Tissues. Here we go. Anheuser-Busch has closed the Wynwood Brewing Tap Room in Miami,

and they're moving all of the production to the Vasa Sur Tap Room. They've also closed the Golden Road Sacramento Tap Room. It's not looking good for the AB craft arm these days. What are you going to do? Yeah. What a shame. I think Wynwood was the first brewery in that area though. I think the neighbor... Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Let me know if I'm right. I think Wynwood was the first brewery in that Wynwood neighborhood, and they've been there forever. They recently sold.

And now they're closing. They were there for over a decade. Yeah. Sad times for them. I was hoping to report some news in the anchor brewing situation as bids were due at the very end of January.

But as we go to record the show, no announcements of winners of bids. It is February now. It is February. So in theory, they've gotten all the bids. There's multiple groups. There's investment groups. There's an investment group that somebody put together that includes Fritz Maytag, who was the owner before they sold to Sapporo. There's also a group of the union of workers that worked at anchor who have been crowdsourcing money and stuff.

But they basically backed out of it because they knew they couldn't compete financially. That makes sense. Yeah. New Belgium, lots of closures. New Belgium closes their San Francisco tap room less than three years after they opened it.

That's kind of strange. Yeah. I feel like they always do big thing. Yeah. I mean, look, it's San Francisco. I think I said this when I went up there and I brought home that Black Hammer Brewing. San Francisco has become a weird big city now. I used to go up there, we'd go out, we'd be out at fucking midnight, one in the morning, go get dinner, go get drinks, whatever. When I was up there a few months ago, nothing was open. Nine o'clock, I couldn't find anything for dinner around my hotel.

It was so... I mean, I don't want McDonald's, but anything of decency.

And finally, I found this Indian food place who delivered and it was 11 o'clock at night or whatever. Let me tell you, don't eat Indian food at 1130 and then go to bed. Big mistake. But it was so weird. I was just walking around the neighborhoods and nothing was open. I found one club that was open. I'm not going in there. No. And that was basically it. It was so fucking weird. Yeah. I don't know. It's a weird city up there. I wonder if that's some kind of ordinance or something. I don't know.

It makes you wonder. I just think a lot of the businesses during COVID moved out of the skyscrapers in San Francisco. And there's something like... Somebody told me not that long ago, it's like 60% vacancy or something like that. So it's just people moved out during COVID or at least the businesses moved out because they're like, "Oh, we can work from home and save a shit ton of money." So who knows? We'll see. They need a little bit of a resurgence.

Part of the problem is it's so goddamn expensive up there too. It's bad in LA, but it's even worse in San Francisco. I was going to say, you're going to want to save as much money as you can when you're living there. Yeah. If you can live there. Good Lord. Speaking of Super Bowls, Patrick Mahomes, senior Patty Mc's dad,

was arrested last weekend on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in Texas. What do you say to that? I don't know. Guy likes to get him some. I don't know. Maybe he's out celebrating the Chiefs a little too hard. Celebrating Taylor Swift's win. Boo. You had to mention her. I had to mention her. God dang it. All right. I think we got time here.

Let's cap things off on a list here. The most popular beers in the US have shifted at the top spot. What does that mean? So I guess number one is different according to this list. This comes from Yahoo Sports, which- Not a sports show. A leader in beer news. We'll see how this list treats us. Top 15. 15, Dos Equis. 14, Budweiser. 13, Michelob Ultra. That's not even a real beer. Water. It's all, it's my father-in-law loves it. It makes me laugh. Number 12, Blue Moon. Gross.

Number, I got, okay, can I pause and tell you a funny Blue Moon story?

Please. We were at Knotty Pine the other night when Lindsey Frey was singing Dark Blue, and these two girls come in. I say girls, women, I mean, in their 40s at least. And they are not experienced in beer. And they go up and they're getting crowlers for somebody. It's clear. They don't know what they're ordering, but they've been given something to order. And while they're waiting for the crawler to be filled, they start like, "Hey, why don't we just, why don't, yeah, let's just try it.

Let's sit here. Let's have a half pour and let's try it." They're talking themselves into it. So they say to the beer tender, "Hey, you know what? We're going to have one too. What do you suggest?" And he goes, "All right. Well, what do you like at home? What do you drink at home?" And one of them said something, and the other one goes, "Oh, I like light beers and I really like Blue Moon." And he goes, "Okay.

Well, we don't have any wheat beers right now, but let me suggest," and before he can finish, she goes, "Oh no, I don't want a wheat beer. I want a Blue Moon." Oh, come on. And I'm like, "Oh, how do you help someone that is so clueless?" Because if you tell me you like Blue Moons, I'm going to go like, "Oh, let me get you like a half or something like that." You know, it's very similar. Right. She goes, "Yeah, no, no. I don't like wheat beers.

I like light beers." And I like that citrusy that's in a Blue Moon. I'm like, "Citrusy? That comes from the orange that you got to dump in there because it tastes like garbage." So Shannon and I were off in the corner judging and laughing. I would do the same thing. Yeah. Number 11, Coors. Number 10, Miller High Life. Yeah. Number nine, Corona Light. Classic. Number eight, Corona Extra. Gross. Seven, Miller. Number six, Stella Artois. That's so gross. It's such a gross beer.

It's just sugar water is what it tastes like. It's just skunky. Yeah. Number five, Modelo. That's delicious. I don't care. Where's my Pacifico? Number four, Sam Adams. Finally, some craft on this list. Number three, the king of skunk, Heineken. Number two, Guinness. And number one, Bud Light Platinum. This is the return. Don't call it a comeback. Been drunk for years. No. Number one, and I don't know how this works because if you remember number eight, Corona Extra, number one is just Corona.

Aren't they the same thing? Must not be. I don't know. Isn't there like a Corona Premier too? You know what?

I'm okay not knowing that answer. It's bizarre. Yeah. How bizarre? I blame a lot of young kids that they just drink Corona because they think it's cool. Yeah. I don't know. I don't get the whole Corona thing. No matter what shitty beer I was into, I've never liked Corona. It's just somebody pissed in a bottle and handed it to you. Well, that's the thing. The lime doesn't even save it. That's how you know it's bad. Well, that's my people are like, "Oh, but you just put a lime in it.

It's great." It's like, first of all, you're wrong. Second of all, if you have to mask it with a fruit salad, how good of a beer is it? Right. Yeah. Not. So fuck you, list. Yeah. What a terrible list. Terrible. Corona. Bullshit. Number two, Guinness. Blame Tony Romo. It's a one, two punch of bleh. He is from Wisconsin though. Is he? Oh, yeah. Oh, that explains a lot. Wow. He seems very Midwestern-y. You know, he's just a normal guy. Yeah. Nothing wrong with it. Normal guy. Yeah. All right.

Let's hit some music and get on up out of here. Hope everyone enjoys the big game on Sunday. And by big game, I mean Usher at halftime. No, I'm joking. This is a good game. Niners, Chiefs, all that shit. Taylor Swift. I'm looking forward to Usher. Niners by six. Yeah, I'll take it. Niners by a half. I don't give a shit. Win's a win. You're not first, you're last. Find us on the socials, @CraftBeerRepublic and @FlexMeABeer, underscores in between.

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