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That's the three Greg Tomlin.

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I'm being joined by the freshest coaster there is. And that's Fleksy. What's up bud? Nothing much man, keeping it real. , trying to get really tan over here. Oh, yeah. Not now, but. Oh. Just. Yeah, like thinking about it lately.

Yeah, but, I mean, is it sunny out there? Is it hot? Is it summer yet? Oh, yeah. We had like 5 or 6 straight days of 90 degrees like a week ago, that's. Us right now. And then. And then it rains, and then it's like 85 the next day and sunny. Oh. Yeah. We're just getting blasted with the devil's ballsack right now. It is so fucking hot. Well, hopefully he's enjoying it though. Yeah, he enjoys blasting his. Ballsack all over us.

Oh, that seems like a perfect way to welcome people in and say, make sure you follow us at Craft Beer Republic and of course, flex me a beer. Underscores in between craft beer.

Com all that good stuff. But most importantly, not a devil's ball sack show. So I know it might seem like it is, but it's not. It is definitely not, so much to get to today. I did some good research over the weekend that I'm excited to share, we've got a voicemail from a new friend of ours. We've got some breaking beer news, brother to talk about, and so much more. I think I catch your drift there, brother. Yeah, well, what are you going to do when I review my beer all over you?

It sounds a little. Yeah. Oh. All right, let's let's transition away from that quickly, if you don't mind, I'm going to talk about my beer, but, I need to thank somebody for this beer. Thank you. Scott. We waited for a sky. We won't. That's right. Scott went on a little road trip and came back with some beers for me. In fact, called me was like, unlock your door. I know you're not home, but I need to drop off some beers. And I came home to a four pack in

my fridge. Not not a bad break in. At least he let you know ahead of time to. Yeah. Slight warning. Yeah, like I'm here to open your door. Right. Well, yeah. Not like a huge go ahead. Right. Like. All right, group, come on in, so anyways, thanks to him, I am drinking Dustbowl Brewing's therapist. They call it an Imperial IPA. This feels like a triple to me.

It's 10.4%. And before the show started, I tried to look up like the official what makes it a triple? And I found varying degrees of alcohol. Some say 9%, some say nine and a half. Some say anything over ten. If anybody knows the official rules, let us know. But 10.4% 100 IBUs. Wow, that's some old school shit. Yeah, it feels like they've been hanging out with the people over at Stone and, three, nine,

eight. An untapped from the brewery. They say science will try and tell you that the human tongue cannot detect more than 80 IBU of bittering. However, this hop centric imperial IPA certainly will not leave you wanting for more. At 100 IBUs, therapist is surprisingly easy to drink. Bold hop aromas and flavors of citrus, tropical fruits, and apricot are bracketed by light, malty sweetness that does not overpower apricot. It's like I said, apricot on the schnauzer.

I'm curious how this drinks. Me too. I'm a little worried. I'm the nose. I get to get some of that piney. To what? It's a triple West coast. What do you expect? I get some of that pine. I do get some orangey ness. Some of that citrus. Not so much tropical. Let me, warm things up and dig in. Get it? So I'm running out of gas. It's like on your boat. Not even a car. It was a moped. Trying to start on a dead battery. Okay, Popeye. On Quaaludes. Yeah.

Get get get! Pop. Quaaludes. And so I got that one. You fucking took everything. I had not to spit that out. Oh, that was a good one. Oh, that was good. All right, let's try this again. Yeah, it's pretty dank. It's got a lot of that west that you'd expect. I will give them some credit for being a 10.4 for being 100 IBUs. Pretty well-rounded, not hard to drink. The alcohol is is a little hidden. I mean, you can taste it because it's 10.4, but it doesn't drink like ten point. Yeah.

Yes it does doesn't drink like ten. Before I tell you what really drew my curiosity was the 3.98 on untapped. First of all, for a West Coast high, that's crazy high. And then for it being a imperial or triple whatever you want, a 10.4%, that's pretty astounding for an untapped rating. Yeah, I was surprised at how high it was and made me a little less afraid of it. And yeah, it drinks pretty easy. Maybe a little too easy for how big it is. Like, I hope I don't chug this

whole no such thing. Yeah, well, there will be when I try to read later, so we'll see how that goes. But, you know, just send. Me the notes. It'll go fine. Rest easy, big boy. Just rest easy. So anyways, well, thanks to Scott for sending this over. Surprisingly, not bad for a big ass fucking triple ish IPA therapist from decibel. They say no appointment necessary. Clearly, we've we've taught Scott something. He recognizes good beer. So. Right.

You're welcome. Thank you. Scott, you're such a good singer, I try. Yeah. Hey, shout out to top listening city last week, North Hollywood, California. Oh, I didn't know that.

Actually break it down to, like, Hollywood and North Hollywood and all that. It's pretty neat. But, yeah, it's really lawless brewing is. And we were talking about lawless a couple of weeks ago, so maybe, maybe had something to do with that. I don't know, but, what up lawless thinks or the lawless. What up? North Hollywood 10.4, thanks for for hanging out with us. We're gonna hear that all night. Yeah. Pretty much. Whatever. Fuck up I do. It's at this point. Got 1.4.

Yeah, I remember my first beer. Anyways. Hey, happy birthday to Vanessa. Oh, happy birthday Vanessa.

As as we record, it's the day of her birthday. Oh no kidding. Happy birth date. And, we'll be seeing her later this week. That's exciting. Yeah. Gonna get fucked up. Her and Mr. Vanessa are coming in, right? Yeah. Mr. and Mrs. Vanessa will be here, and. I'm sure it'll, get a kick out of that. Yeah. Mr. and Mrs. Vixen, they have quite the, list of breweries they are hoping to achieve. Yeah. You're here telling me about

this itinerary? Yeah. Apparently they've got this thing where, like, all they need is an hour at each place where I'm more of a. Hey, let's have a beer. And if it's good, let's have another beer or two. And then. Move on. Type of guy. They're like, hey, we got a fucking knock these down. We got some breweries to hit. They they're on a mission. So we're going to see how this goes. Well, now now I'm intrigued because you'll be researching with them. Right.

So maybe you you could sway a little bit to be like, hey, you know, these places it, you know, not really worth the trip and you can stay here a little bit longer, etc., etc.. There is one on her list and I don't want to say it on the show, but to me it's not really worth the trip. And on top of that, it's out of the way and kind of messes up the rest of the trip, like as far as we're planning. So I think I've got a good substitution. I want to drop that one and add one that's nearby.

Some other ones will be at. I think she'll really get more bang for her time that way. So okay, well we'll discuss that when she gets here. But yeah, we'll have a full report. Obviously afterwards, if I trusted anybody for California beer, it'd be you, you know. Thank you. I've had 1 or 2. Well, clearly one minimally great. 10.4 making it today. Yeah. Okay. Everybody forgot. Yeah. Just in case you'll be reminded at least three more times. Yeah. Once you start reading. Yeah.

I haven't started yet. Give it time. Let's get to the news. Here we. Go. Oh, last week or over the weekend, petals and Pints had their big down the Rabbit Hole music festival party. Oh, yes. Yes. I don't know if you saw on the. Is this an annual thing now? Right. Seems to be an annual thing. I think they started like two years ago or something like that. I'm always out of town when they do them. This is the first one I was around for, so I got to go check it out.

At least half of it, the second half of the day they had a Foo Fighters cover band and they, closed. Do you have any say in that at all? I did not just somebody with good musical taste, apparently, and then they closed out the

night with a sublime cover band. So, that was cool. The cover bands before I had no interest in one of them was U2. And, you couldn't pay me to like, U2, and I forget who else. So, you know, showed up for Foo Fighters, stayed for sublime. I also got to try her new sour that she, collab with Nick, formerly of fortune Karen's Nick, but now of Amaretti the flavor company. They they did a London Berry sour and then they garnish it with a Swedish

fish. The old and merry. Yeah. So it was I had like five of them that night. It was really good. Oh that's awesome. Yeah I. Uber because the. Wife was don't know what a lingonberry is, if you go to an Ikea and get Swedish meatballs, I think that's the berries they put on top. Sounds disgusting. It's, you know, it is what it is. But it was great in her beer, so, they fucking knocked out of the park and, had a lot of those. Music was fun. , listener John, shout out to listener John.

So I got a message that day from someone who I'd never heard from before, said, hey, basically was like, hey, I want to be in the area. I'm going to pedals and pipe to knotty pine. And I've been listening to the show for like 4 or 5 months, and I'd like to meet up and have a beer. And I was like, okay, well, hopefully he's not going to murder me. Yeah, that's always my biggest fear. Yeah. Is murder followed by like, you know,

just boringness or something, but, said, like, hey, I'll be at pedals at, you know, at seven or whatever time it was like, if you want to stop by, I'm the dude in the shirt that says I'm drunk or something. And, and he showed up and and we connected and super nice guy bought me beer. He's like, I really like, listen, the show bought me a beer, and, , we hung out. We talked for a while, then he had to go pick up some people from the airport.

I was like, well, if you're going to LAX, I'm glad you've been drinking all day, otherwise you're really. Gonna hate yourself. So he had done quite the I think he had gone to like an institution and something else and then pedals and he'd done some damage that day. So good on him. But, super awesome meeting up with them. He's a huge beer lover, and so it's

good. Just hung out a little bit. Had too had a beer and talked a little. It's cool. Isn't it nice when random people like, not just like, you know, we do this thing, we have no idea who listens to it, right? Right. And we do it every week. Whatever. Yeah. We don't know who actually listens, who doesn't, who's not. You know, our friends. It's really cool when you get some random that's just like, hey,

I love listening to this. Yeah. And my first question is like, what's wrong with you? Followed up by like, thank you so much. You must have a daddy issue. But no, I just think that's, it's really cool. It's like. No, it's really cool. And you're right, like, I'll look at the stats and I can see that, you know, three people download our show. It's nice to put faces to those three people. So high. High all three high three people. Yeah. It's, chu Scott now listener John so.

Oh, maybe four now with, Psycho Bear listening as well. And five fun. Oh, man. We're up to five now. Fontana gym. So, yeah, we're we're racking those numbers, but. Yeah. Davis. Oh, yeah. Davis. Buck. Keep going. Might. At ten. Holy shit. Tim. Monday. Monday. Tim. Yeah, yeah. Ryan. From Malibu Brewing, man.

We're on. Our way to double the. Famous. Yeah, half of Finland. I was just going to say the entire country of Finland. Yeah, you're probably right. It's closer to the entire country there. So anyways, yeah, you're right. It's totally cool to actually meet the people who listen and and enjoy us for some reason. So. So shout out to John and thanks for the beer. Thanks for meeting up with us and with me. And it was really cool. So good times meet. On the flip side of that, I'm so fucking weird.

People who feel like they need to inject their opinions into things. oh. I posted a picture that night of

the beer I was drinking at petals and just tagged petals and tagged Amaretti because is their collab. And I'm not going to give away any names because, yeah, whatever. But this person commented on the story that I posted and said, you, you need to check out 14 canons. Sadly, I'm not a fan of petals and pinks typo nor knotty pine. I was like oh okay, so I don't trust anything you say ever again.

Got it? Interesting. Yeah, I just. I was like, hey, too bad we love them in 14. On the other hand dot dot dot. And then they never responded. I probably pissed them off by not liking their favorite shit brewery. Well, maybe they knew them for who they used to be. Maybe. And you know what? I loved them for who they used to be, and not so much anymore. Couldn't have happened to a better brewery. So anyways, that was fucking weird. Thanks for your opinion on that.

I don't know why you needed to share it. Cheers! Go drink something good and not that six month old beer that 14 cannons can't get rid of. Ouch. Oh. Too soon. Ouch. Hey, remember a couple weeks ago we were shitting really hard on

West Virginia, yeah, the mountain people, they scare the hell out of me. Yeah, they eat squirrels and, . Right. Yeah. Clearly, there's no way they could figure out how to listen to this show, right? You know? Right. If they're not even on dial up, there might be faxing at this point. We? Yeah, exactly. All right. Yeah. You remember the discussion? That's how we sound to them, by the way. Like. They just. They think we talk in robot. I hope this is like a big segue into

somebody from West Virginia actually called. No, unfortunately not. Which would be great, because that's like, that's how we met Zach Ogi beer dude, was we shit on Indiana? That is true. And he hit us up. Was like, you're not all wrong. But, so one of the things we said was like, they probably don't even have any breweries out there because they're too dumb to figure it out. , I looked into it, and it turns out they have 37 breweries. In the whole state. In the whole state, which is even

more than North Dakota. Right? Because they have 28, 20, 20. It was 18 more than we thought they had. Oh that's right okay. Yeah. So so, you know, good for you, I bet. Of those 37, at least 35 of them are moonshine related or something. Oh, they're all like, I'm assuming every single one of them is family run because they're all related to each other. So it's like one big family. Yeah. Just the shitty never stops. Oh, good. Or any. Good. Is there any, like. Did you.

I didn't look up ratings. I was just surprised they had that many breweries out there. Still not gonna go, but, you know, good on you, West Virginia. I would definitely get killed by, like, a mountain person. Oh, they're. Already on the way to your house like they are by foot traveling to your house. Just don't think they got to go through too much city. I don't think they would do that. That's true. There might be a lot of freaking out when they see the the motor

horses driving around the city. More. Like, just like literal deer in headlights, you know? Yeah, right. And the one guy who's, like, real advanced is like, hey, where's the crank to start the car on the front and boom. Yeah. So anyways, maybe they're not as bad as we thought. 37 breweries. Yeah. We'll find out. Yeah, they're definitely gonna murder us now. All right, before we move on, we do have a voice mail as the aforementioned Psycho Bear called in. Let's see what he has to say. Hello?

No one is available to take your call.

Please leave a message after the tone. Whoa! Oh, look at that beautiful beard. Hey, craft beer Republic, this is Psycho Bear, and I'm calling back to answer some much needed questions. Well, first off, what is that? That I just poured. But a wondrous brewing NC triple cup? Yep. Wondrous. You know it, Greg, just had their third anniversary, and it was, damn good. Maybe you were there and I didn't even know, but, if not, I was. You missed out on a great thing.

, to answer your question about SF, San Francisco breweries, honestly, I don't even get over on that side of the bay, but, cellar maker is definitely a winner, they have moved over to the East Bay. They took over a place called Rare Barrel, which I'm sure you guys have heard of. , enterprise actually moved in to sell a maker spot, and I've heard good things about them, I've had Laughing Monk in the past. Pretty good, I would say if you can get to the East Bay, come on over to the East Bay.

You've got wondrous, of course, which, you know, literally right down the street around the corner. Ten Mar. It just opened about 8 or 9 months ago. The head brewer owner was the head brewer, Beechwood in Long Beach. And he is doing some killer stuff, other than that original pattern in Oakland, maybe you've had them, but I really don't know San Francisco, so I don't know what to tell you fleksy. Well, I heard you like to dance. Well, I've got a brewery in the Marin. It's got darts,

and I love throwing darts. So you come on out to the Bay area, we'll drink some great beer and throw some dart. Anyways, I hope I've answered some questions. Just forgo San Fran and get into the East Bay and get some great beer. , anyways, this is again Cycle Bear. And when you get to know me, you'll know why. Thank anyways. Cheers. Stay well later. I feel like. I should be worried. I would. I would love to throw darts with the psycho. Yeah. Don't turn your back.

Like, just go stand right in front of the dartboard. I swear I won't hit you. I got this really fun trick. Yeah. Okay. Psycho. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Don't. Cover your eyes either. It'll be fine 805538. Beer. 2337. If you'd like to call in, yeah. A few weeks ago when he called in, we're, you know, like what? Good breweries are in San Francisco. All we could come up with was, I think Black Hammer and 21st amendment, which I still haven't been to 21st amendment, but. Yeah.

So thanks for the sort of answer. Yeah. East Bay's got some good beer over there. , he talked about Rare Barrel. I, I've had a couple of horrible beers from them. They had some bottling issues, and, boy, were those gross. But, I hear they were good when they were fresh. I don't know, it's kind of like the brewery where it's, like, hit and miss on those bottles

you get because they're good. Sometimes they're not. So, but, yeah, I haven't done a ton of East Bay research, especially lately. Like, I remember going, you only. Make it out there for work, right? Yeah. I mean, for the most part, the, you know, the wife's from that area, but, we haven't really traveled. Last time we were up there with, like, super, super East. Like,

I wouldn't even call it Bay area. And so we went to one is that it was called four legged or four legs or four paws, something like that. Some dog themed, actually really good, but out in the middle of nowhere, but yeah, I haven't gotten to like, hang out in the sort of Oakland area and hit some breweries other than wondrous, usually when I'm done working, everything's closed, so it's too bad. That is too. Bad. I know. I'm like, hey, can we be done in a decent hour?

So I go fucking research it up. Yeah. To quote Danny Tanner, wake up, San Francisco hahahahahahahaha. Exactly. Boom. Oh. Good times. So anyways, well, thanks for calling Psycho Bear. I sort of am afraid to find out why they call you Psycho Bear, but. I don't know much, much better, reception on that phone call. Yes, yes, we could actually hear most of what he was very excited. Very excited on that. He upgraded his, two cans in his string. Apparently so. Thicker string, I think.

Tighter hole. Whoa. Not a tight hole show. Is it a loose hole show? Oh, dear. All right, before we get into the news, let's find out what Flex's drinking over there. In a world. Where craft beer is king. A world where muscles are bigger

than growlers. Only one tongue can. One man, one tongue. Chong Jaber. In this world. We must find out what. Is flax drinking? Baa baa baa baa. , flex is drinking or brewing companies get this. , three Greg Tomlin. Ha, ha. With a name like that,

how could it be bad? It's phenomenal, I, I sent you a picture of this beer because they posted it, I don't know, not too long ago. Oh. That's right. Yeah, I sent it to you on the gram, and it just had your name in it, right? It's always great to have a beer with your name in it. Yeah. And, I went to my local shop today because we were recording, and I was in prepared and sure. Shit, they had it. So 1999 8% beer. Classic drinker cannot. So that's already up there, right?

Got the ghost. Yo, guys. And, they do have the great art. Yeah, it's so good. So this one was I love their cans. Can I just tell you I absolutely love their cans. You can't tell. Let me tell you all the malts they use pale to ro flaked oats, spelt care home. They got the hop list on there. HBC, 630 cryo mosaic, cryo. And then I've never heard of super delic or copper, but they used both of those in here as well. And then they tell you the yeast and they usually use their host IPA,

yeast and other IPAs. Sure, so I really do love their cans, like real transparent. And if you're a beer nerd, which I'm not, debatable. I'm sure non beer nerds would say we're beer nerds. I think you're right. , but it's just really cool to get to know what you like and what you don't like and what beers are brewed with, etc., etc. so it kind of gives you like a little nerdy beer, hard on, this was actually a collaboration beer with Blue Jacket Brewing Company.

Untapped has them this beer at A411, the information superhighway, , it says this crazy delicious double IPA collaboration with Blue Jacket is hopped with HBC 630, cryo mosaic, cryo, super Delic and copper for a pineapple e mango e citrus e flavor that can't be beat. . Oh. Well played, tasting notes, juicy, happy citrus, dank and boozy on the schnoz here. Real hoppy. , getting some of that pineapple e on the aroma. Yeah. Very nice on there, so we'll,

warm up the old tongue jabber here. Oh, here we go, good, good, good. . Oh. Barely turned over. Okay. So this carbonation is real low, which is nice, I think that makes for easy drinking, the mango and the pineapple shine in this, not overly citrusy, maybe like some pithy orange peel back end, like small amounts of bitterness here. But all in all, I mean, the beer, it's a fantastic color to it. , a little bit of lacing, as you can see on my black shirt there.

, this is, it's a it's a very fine beer. It gets a couple extra points for the name. The name. Right. I mean, yeah, your name is in this beer, so. You know. It should be a five out of five, right? I've never had my name in a beer. Flex or your government name. Either. , there's gotta be a flex beer somewhere, right? Oh, yeah. But I've never had it nor seen it that. Anybody finds any flex beers. Let us know. Flex loves receiving free beer too.

I hate it, please don't send me beer, but I really think he loves more. I still want to do, like, a collaboration and do like a Mexican lager and call it the Mexican lager. He's so good, isn't it? So good. It just works so well. Just rolls off the tongue. Flexing in. Mexican. Yeah, it's a Mexican lager. Right. And, you know, may or may not be, taken kindly. I don't know, but I just think it sounds funny. Well, and you gotta make it like an imperial, like, make it 8%, you know,

because it's strong, like flex. So it's a 8% flex if you're going with this. I really do pairs well with nachos. And it needs to be like with the lime and the salt too little. Hint of lime. Like make it like a oh well I guess wouldn't it be a lager? I was like kind of goes. Ooh, you know, I like goes though. Yeah. Imperial goes because they're always like 4%. So make ones like 8 or 9% because it's strong. Like flex picking up what you're putting down. Because I'm strong.

We should make this. Monica could help us. Monica. She makes glazes. Yeah. She does. Delicious. Delicious goes. This is an Imperial. Goes. Acela goes. I don't know what would it just be like a sour with salt at that point, I. Know. Right? Like an imperial sour. Yeah. Again. How that works. Something we don't know. Yeah. See, we're not nerds. But if you're a nerd and you're listening, please answer for us. Pretty please don't leave it to Google. Yeah, or I, I just ask I now it's.

Way love I it grosses me out. Oh it's it actually borderline makes me feel uncomfortable how much you use I. I actually don't use it that much. I use it as. Here's how I have found myself using it lately because this is super B related, but I use it as Google like. I will just ask AI a question instead

of going to Google and be like, what's this rash on my balls? Or or, you know, rash on balls with blisters, you know, I'll go to I be like, hey, I've got this red rash on my balls, and it looks like X, Y, and Z and hurts a little and like, oh, well, the chances are it is. Yeah. And then I have something in Google like, oh, it says it's probably this. I'll go Google that. And sure enough it's wrong. Yeah. Right there. No this is not a ball red show. Not an AI show. Not a ball show.

Red ball. Well, how would you describe your balls, sir? I would describe them to be quite Rashi. Yeah. As I fix my mustache. Yeah. See how the Rashi balls got a case of the Rashi balls? Yeah. Yeah. Got him. Yeah, it's one of those kind of days.

Rashi all. Day. My cheeks are. It's all right. Yeah. Good stuff. All right. Well, let's let's let's clean this up with some real American news here, Jim-Bob. Oh, yeah? You got the Rashi ball. I'm sorry. Go on. Please. He'll be missed. You'll be missed. All right. I was going to prepare some music for this, but then I realized I

didn't want to get sued. So, just everybody knows how the song goes. Hulk Hogan. Yeah. Man has launched real American beer. I am a. Brother. American beer, Hulk Hogan is getting into the beer business, lending, lending his name and image to real American beer. Brother, a new light lager branded brand that launched Thursday at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Brother. Brother Hogan is. I love how they in news stories when

they explain who these people are. It's like Hogan, the 1980s and 90s professional wrestling star. It's like everybody knows the Hulk Hogan is. Hogan is partnering with Terry Francis, who previously worked at Anheuser-Busch, their innovation arm Z ventures, as global VP and general counsel for investments in new business. Francis is serving as CEO of Real American Beer, with Hogan serving as founder and

majority owner of the business. She told Brew Bound he's just so deeply passionate about it. He shows up to all the wholesaler meetings. He shows up to all the retailer meetings. Nothing is too much. There's no restriction on his time. Because he doesn't have anything going on. Right? Oh, he's got a big, important match. Oh, real American beer named for the Rick Derringer song that became Hogan's entrance theme, will be sold in 12 ounce cans six, 12 and 24 packs.

Francis expects to add a 24 ounce single serve can when the brand rolls out in Texas. I love that they're saving that for Texas. Is everything bigger in Texas? Yeah, that's right. As well as draft with increased on trade interest, Francis said, what we're doing is creating an everyman beer from an everyman hero. We really want to get back to this idea of being simple. It doesn't need to be complicated. It doesn't need to stand for

anything. It can just be good times. The beer will be distributed across 17 states, with retail placements in ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, Albertsons, Safeway, Sam's Club, Total Wine and more. Walmart and U.S. military bases, as well as on premise venues such as hard Rock hotels and select Hooters locations. Now that is a real American beer, right? What you're going to. Do, brother. When these Hooters run. Wild on. You? Oh, man. Yeah. So brilliant. I tried so hard to find out

who's actually making this beer. And the closest I could find was they're using multiple contract breweries. Okay, so who fucking knows, brother. If I find it, you know, I'm getting it. Same. I look, Hogan's a dick bag, but there's no way I'm not drinking this beer. I need to try it. Just for comedic reasons. It would make for a hell of a show, I tell you, not a. Brother show. We would have to, finish, like, a six pack each. Oh, yeah. I think it's like 4.2,

so that wouldn't be a problem. No, no, brother, but I think. It would be fun. On it would be we need to do that show with like. A real American power, our craft beer republic. Yes. Six beers, one hour. Zach, if you're listening,

you need to find yourself a six pack. As do we. We gotta do this. This is gonna be good. And a shit show. It's gonna be terrible. It's gonna be so bad. I'm not going to work the next day. Yeah. No way. Brother. All right. Some sad news out here in LA. Eagle Rock brewing has announced they'll be closing their doors. It's always a terrible thing.

I know they posted on the gram. Well, friends, the time has come for us to hang up our hats and say farewell. It feels strange to say these words after nearly 15 years of operations,

but we know in our hearts it's time. What an incredible privilege has been to be among the first few brewers of the 21st century to plant seeds in Los Angeles soil, to cultivate those seeds and protect their growth, to watch the growth proliferate an entire county, and to watch the fruits of that effort earned respect from around the world. They go on to talk about how great the LA beer scene is in the community and all that stuff, and they'll be closing in a couple of weeks.

We had the opportunity to talk to then brewer Eric from Eagle Rock brewing. He moved on since then, but that was batch 93. If you want to hear my interview with Eric from Eagle Rock, sad times. They were the first brewery in LA. I can't remember L.A. city, not County, I think in Los Angeles City since prohibition. What? Yeah, man. That's sad. A little bit of history going. Yeah, it makes it even worse. , and more sad news. Cascade Brewing Shudder's following

the death of their founder and Oregon beer godfather, Art Lawrence. And this is a sad story that's kind of turned weird. Weeks after the death of founder Art Lawrence, Portland, Oregon based Cascade Brewing ceased operations on Monday, Alissa Lawrence, his daughter, told The Oregonian that she delivered final paychecks to brewery staff Tuesday through the brewery's website, though the brewery's website says it is temporarily closed.

Art Lawrence died after suffering a heart attack at age 80 on May 26th. Lawrence founded Cascade in 1998 and sold it to an investor group in April of 2020, but the deal never closed, leaving Lawrence with a controlling share in the business. At the time of his death, Alissa Lawrence told the Oregon Oregonian That is not an easy word.

The Lawrence yeah. The Lawrence family was unaware that its patriarch still owned the brewery, and the family's trust is unable to sustain Cascade financially, Alissa told The Oregonian. This has all been a big shock during an already stressful time. The liquor licenses for both Cascade's blending House in Beaverton and Cascade Barrel House in Portland were in Art's name and expired ten days after his death.

However, the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission's database lists the brewery public house license for both locations as valid through March 31st of 25. The investor group that was announced as Cascade's new owners four years ago, was on a payment plan that would eventually result in full ownership, according to New School Beer, citing Art Lawrence. So what a weird story his family thought they sold that he sold it turns out he only like, sort of sold

it and hadn't gotten rid of it yet. And then he dies and has everything in his name and they can't keep it going. I've never heard of that before. Super weird, super sad, super weird. I have a feeling, being such a big name Cascade is that somebody will swoop that up and bring it back around. I don't know, we'll see. I feel like. We have a future story coming up. I think we do. Stay tuned. That's a that's a hip hop bar. , Athletic Brewing purchases the former Ballast Point

facility we talked to. I don't know, about a month or two ago, that Ballast Point was dropping one of their other production facilities, and, well, Athletic is buying it. This is the second time athletic. They're leaving all the equipment in there and everything, right? Yeah. So this is the second time that Athletic Brewing has purchased a Ballast Point brewhouse. They just keep buying all their shit up and making shitty non-alcoholic beer. Right, it's kind of weird. I am from Holland.

Isn't that weird? I love gold, in more sad news, the US loses over 15,000 acres in hop production. All major hop growing states recorded

year over year declines in acreage, with the steepest being in Idaho at -31%, followed by Oregon, -18%, Washington -15%, with 32,982 acres strung for harvest in 2024. Washington is the largest producer by far compared to Idaho and Oregon. Five popular hop varieties account for 70% of the cuts. Those five are Citra, mosaic, Cascade, Simcoe, and Columbus. So it sounds like they're cutting the production of some old school hops, maybe to make room for new. Cool? I was thinking they're probably

growing cannabis instead. Could be. I don't know if that's legal in Idaho. I feel like Idaho is not cool. I don't know, Idaho is weird. It's sort of Joe Dirt from. Is he from Idaho? Well, no. He resided in Idaho. Silvertone. Oh, that was Idaho. Silvertone. Yeah, that's what really made it. Oh, I don't know if it's fucking real silver. I mean, I know, but I mean, like, in the story, I didn't realize Silverton was, was a Ohio I mean,

Idaho, yeah. Are the more you know. And potatoes and. It's potato. , well then on this one, the Kelsey brothers buy into garage beer.

Pro football stars Jason and Travis Kelce have acquired an ownership stake in light lager maker Garage Beer. The Kelsey's are referred to as the largest investors and significant investors, partners, owners and operators in the business in today's announcement. Additionally, the Kelsey's will be involved in every aspect of the business, including brewing, distribution, sales, marketing and national expansion efforts. Come on, I would love to see those two just brewing beer.

What a shit show that would be, Jason Kelsey said in the press release. People crave quality and simplicity and garage beer nails both. For me, we are light beer drinkers and garage is the best light beer for me. The brand fits my lifestyle and having a few beers is a great excuse to get the neighbors together. Travis added I think everyone knows I like to have a couple beers now and then, so being an owner of garage beer and heavily involved in making

the best light beer is exciting. Man. There is nothing better to bring people together than an ice cold beer. And for Jason and me, that is what beer is all about. Friends, family, fun, and Taylor Swift. I may have made it. I may have added that last time. I wasn't in the quote. I have worked with garage beer owner Andy Sauer for years, and I really trust the team and their approach to running the business. We look forward to taking garage beer to the next level. Weird.

Cool though. It's almost like we're jealous. Maybe that's it. Yeah, like. They are cool. I wish we could buy into ownership of a brewery and be included in everything. I wish we were cool. We're not. We're just nerds. Anyways. I'm still going to be looking for that Hulk Hogan beer. Yeah, I'll talk to my guys at my shop. Yeah. Have your people call their people and let my people know. Yeah. I'll let them know. Let's say. Yeah. What do you know about that Hulk

Hogan beer, brother? It'd be great if we call it as Macho Man. So what I'm looking for is, my brother, I'm looking for the best, bro. Yeah, I got. Like, a weird Spanish accent at the end. There. Because, you know, the beer foam always. Rises to the. Top. So. No, I can't even say without laughing. That was pretty good.

That was really. That was really thought out. Oh, yeah. Thanks. We should make a macho man beer. That'd be dope. Yeah, like just called something cool, too. Like elbow from the top or something. Yeah, I see the elbow drop or something like that. Yeah. I'm in.

Let's do it. Not a wrestling show. Let's brew two beers. Oh, let's do it, brother. Oh, yeah. Brother. Nothing hurts my throat more than a I. Know it's. So bad. So it's like. Okay, everybody, I guess we should wrap things up. It always sounds. Like such a. Good idea to do. And then you do it and you're like,

that was a terrible idea. Well, the worst is when you do a drunk and then like, next morning, you're like, how long was I doing this macho man impression? How many cigars did I smoke last night. That's the worst. All right. Music. I'm gonna encourage everybody to follow us at Craft Beer Republic and of course, at flex Mu beer underscore in between craft beer comm.

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