Springtime Shenanigans: Wedding Beers and Secret Pizza

Welcome in, everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg, and I am being joined by the guy who is enjoying that sweet, delicious weather in Wisconsin. That's flexi. What's up, buddy? Hey. Not that much, man. It is pretty nice here. Yeah, it's pretty nice here. It's. It's like springtime. Like, actual springtime. Yeah. Like, buzzes. Bees are buzzing, and

birds are not shutting the fuck up. And it's warm out. Yeah. And we only have, like, a week of spring, but we can't get too excited for it. Okay. Yeah, we get May. May's pretty calm. In fact, it'll cool back down a little bit in May. Like, we'll get some May gray kind of shit coming in. It's actually kind of nice. And last year, we didn't get summer until mid June. Oh, summer, like, really kicks in for us. Like, July, and then August is when it really gets dry.

And, like, June, we're talking, like, above, like, 60 degree weather, though. That's what I'm saying. Like, we didn't get. We didn't get that till, like, mid June. Below 60 is the frozen tundra for us. Right, right. Yeah. I wouldn't want to have to put you through that. No, no, no. When it. When it dips down to 55 at night. Good God, you should. I'm on suicide watch. It's like the emergency parkas. You're right. Exactly. Does anybody have any pea coats I can put on?

Good lord, it's cold out here anyways. Fancy ass and a peacoat, right? Hey, by the way, not a weather show. No. Too soon. All right, everybody, thanks for. For drinking along. Follow us on the socials at craft beer Republic. And, of course, flex me a beer. Underscores in between, find us on all the podcast apps and all that good shit. Make sure to like and follow and subscribe. And whatever it is that podcast app decides to call that specific action, you should do it,

because they keep changing their minds on what to call it. So, anyways, enough with the nerd stuff. So much to get to. I'm hot off of officiating a wedding. Talk about that. You're kind of a big deal. Kind of a big deal around here. Uh, World beer Cup happened last week. We got some stats from that, uh, some other booze news. Lots of, uh, brewery acquisitions and movings

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I haven't seen that out here yet. I think you had volume three on the show, right? Yeah, I think I had a cup. I think I did one and three. Okay. Yeah, so I saw this. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna snatch it up. Nice. Six and a half percent. A 393 on untapped, they say, the fourth release in a six part series of collaborations with breweries from around the country to bring Voltron to life. Voltron volume four is a juicy, hazy ipa brewed with surly brewing company in Minneapolis.

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They have onions in Georgia? Is that a thing? Yeah, the Vidalia onion. Oh. Oh, I love me some vidalias. I bet you do. Yeah. Like. Like those sweet onions. Daddy, don't. Oh, no onions at all, or just no sweet ones? I'll do white onions, yellow onions, if absolutely necessary. Definitely no red onions. Oh, I can fucks with some green onions. That's different. And I don't like sweet onions. Really? Oh, I like. First of all, I like all the onions. But. But most importantly, not an onion show.

Not yet, it's not. Give it time. We do have layers. Onion ripo. Oh, I see what you did there. Yeah. Hey, did you know my sister was getting married? You gotta be kidding me. Yeah, she never. No idea. Yeah, like, she never posted about it. Never talked about it. No. There's no bridal shower, no bachelorette party, no. No planning. I haven't seen anything about it. Yeah, it hasn't been going on for over a year or anything. Yeah. Wow. Has it been that long? Yeah, the secret's been going on

for that long, just not a fucking clue. No one knew. Golly. Well, anyways, all the secrecy culminated over the weekend they finally got married. Maybe we'll only have another year or two of them posting about it now. They're in Disneyland now? Yeah, today they went to, as we record, they went to Disneyland for a little, I don't know, post nuptial celebration or something. So, like, not even a honeymoon, just threesome with Mickey. Hey. Yeah. Oh, boy. Oh, boy, Pluto. That's sure hard.

A Mickey show, not a Mickey porno show. Yeah, so that happened over the weekend. And, you know, I'm sure as soon as they get their photos back from the photographer, that's another two years of posting, and then we're in the clear. We're almost there. Only two short years away from not having to see them post about it anymore. But I. I don't know if any. If everybody out there in CBR land knew this, but I was the officiant for the wedding. Makes sense, I guess.

So I got off the stage, if you were, and one of my cousins goes, hey, sounds like you

were doing a podcast up there. I was like, yeah, don't forget to use promo code CBR for 20% off your next order of Casper mattresses or whatever. First of all, kudos to me. I didn't cuss one time up there. That's huge. That's a very difficult thing to do. Yeah, I was surprised, and I was almost completely sober, too. I was hanging out in, like, the bridal suite before it started and champagne was being passed around.

So I had, like, a half a glass of champagne before we went out there, but that was it. I kept it. Were you trying not to drink a lot to, like, you know, not screw up? Yeah. I think everyone that listens to the show is well aware of what a couple of double ipas does to my reading abilities. Yeah, words get hard. Words get hard. And, you know, I first thought, you know, I'm not going to write anything down. I'm going to. I'm going to do bullet points.

I'm not going to do a script because I don't do well with scripts. I do much better with bullet points. It's what we do on the show and all that stuff. And then I thought, no, there's important things that I got to remember to say and do. I'll write it all out.

And what I'll do is I'll read it enough to get familiar with it enough not to where, like, I memorized it, because Lord knows that's never going to happen, but I'll know it well enough to where if something has to, like, improv or move, it won't be the worst thing in the world, right? Like, a couple things. Like, first of all, the entire first half of the first page was all based on everyone staying standing.

So you know that everyone stands up, bride walks down, and then usually it's the officiant that says, all right, everybody may be seated. And I was going to start with, while everyone is still standing, those who are able to remain standing, please do. I was going to have the couple turn around. Hey, look, everyone's here for you. Soak it all in. A couple of jokes littered throughout. And then, all right, now everyone may take a seat.

And as soon as the bride, aka my sister, hits, like, the first step, everyone sat their ass down. I was like, no. And only Shannon, only my wife knew where my script was going, so she did that whole, like, I'm not sitting down or anybody else gonna not sit down, too. I'm the only one. All right, you're fucked. Like, the hover over the shitter kind of move. Little bit, yeah. Turtle head poking out. So I had to pivot there. And it wasn't the worst thing.

I just, anything I said about people standing and, you know, taking it all in, I just had to change to people. So, um, there was that. And then within the first, I don't know, three minutes, a helicopter flew over super low. And luckily it flew over at the part where I was saying, like, everyone's here for you, and I. It was so low and so loud, I couldn't not address. It was like even these helicopter pilots came to, to see your celebrations. Look at your improv skills.

Yeah, man, improv 101. Part of the ground lanes over here. So other than that, you know, a couple little tweaks here and there along the way. And on the way to the venue, I was reading it again and again. And the wife goes, where's the part where you both, both asked them, blah, blah, blah? I do. I was like, I don't have an I do part. I have a we do. I have, like, a question to the both of them. And I want the response to be we do. She goes, I think you should have an I do.

I was like, I have read this to you no less than 100 times. And now, and now you want me. To add I do's to it. We're on run the way it's printed, like, so I had a pin in my pocket. I had to do some scratching out. Man, that's some old fucking shit right there. Yeah. So clearly Shannon was never paying attention to any time. You ever read it? Yeah, not once. Not one fucking time. Cause that was, that never changed from the beginning. Like, the morning of, I changed a couple of things.

Like, actually, everyone will appreciate this with my letters to your wife and to Steph, but I ran it through chat GPT and I didn't ask it to change anything. I just asked it to read it and let me know if I'm missing any key elements and what one of the things it came back with I really liked was, you should explain who you are in relation to the couple. And I was like, oh, yeah, I should. So I added a part with like, hey, my name's Greg, I'm, I'm her sister, blah blah, blah.

And like, did a little. You're her sister or brother, whatever I am. That's crazy. Day of the week. Yeah. So I did get a little help from chat GPT, changed it that morning, but, yeah, yeah, good times. And then afterwards, I made up for all the beers. I didn't drink, I guess. And actually I was drinking mostly wine. Their beer selection was less than optimal. Did anybody, after the ceremony go up to you and tell you how good of a job you did? Actually, it was very nice. A lot of people did.

And then second part to that question, did anybody do the cheesy? Oh, I'm gonna have to have you do my wedding. Yeah, I got a couple of those. Okay. And I did get one. One or two. So how many have you done before this? That's my first one, you know, got ordained just for this. No way. You've done a ton of these. Like, oh, you're right. You're lying. This is my 17th. Sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I just wanted to make you think I was that good. Right?

Like, what a dumb fucking thing to lie to somebody about, right? Yeah, like, oh, is this. How many weddings have you done? Oh, this is my first one. Get on it. Bullshit. You're right. This is something I want to impress you at so much that

I'm gonna lie stupidly to your face. Right? Nope, never done this one before. Yeah, exactly. Also, what's your name again? Yeah. That's how important you are to me. Fucking strangers. Yeah, I'm gonna lie to some stranger I've never met. People are so dumb. They are. I guess it's meant complimentary, but, you know, it's weird, so. Oh, yeah. It's just such a weird thing to exclaim about. Yeah, it really is. What if you come back with, oh, my God, that was really good, you know? Yeah, yeah.

A lot of that. A lot of, hey, great job. There were quite a few. Good job. In a surprised tone, like, hey, good job. Like, you know, didn't know you had it in you. Loser. I need to know what your dad said. He eventually came over later in the night and said something, you know, very, you know him, very subdued, not real excitable. Just, you know, good job tonight kind of thing. I just sound picture him being like, oh, yeah, it was really nice. Really? There. Were you there weird.

I just know your dad did it. Did I butt dial you when it happened or something? A little creepy. A little creepy. I did at one point, you know, they had to do the whole repeat after me. And the DJ who sent up the microphone was like, okay, here's. Here's what you do when it's their turn to talk. There's a little lever here on the mic stand. You drop it

down. You turn it. You move it down one step to where they are. And then when the first one's done, you turn it over. And then when she's done. You bring it back up to you, you raise it back up, you adjust it here, and you're good to go. I was like, can I just take the mic off the stand and hold it for him? He's like, oh, yeah, you could do that, too. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna do that. You've just given me way too much to worry about while I'm trying to read.

I was really hoping you're just gonna be like, do you know what I do for a living? That's who. Yeah. Honestly, I told Shannon afterwards, I said I'm sorry that I didn't just hold the mic the entire time. Like, I should have just held it, gotten rid of the stand. The stand looked awful. Some big ass stand, and should have gotten rid of and just helped. I know how to hold a fucking microphone. Excuse me, wedding dj. I actually get paid for this. Yeah. Do you know who I am?

Clearly, you have not checked out the Finland podcast charts recently. Otherwise, you would not need to explain this to me. Stupid. So stupid. So stupid. Wow, that's aggressive. Yeah. But good times. What? Your family came out of, you know, other cities and states, so good. Was the travel bad for you? I don't know how far away the your sister lives or the wedding was. Oh, the venue was 17 minutes from my house. Okay. So, no, not bad.

Ice. Yeah. So, like, Marty the brew pup, he stayed with Devin Brian while the wedding was going on, because all of our dog sitters, we're at the wedding. Yeah. Parents there, sisters there was there. So I was like, shit, who's gonna watch dog? Oh, hey, Devon bride. Do you mind watching? So they were nice enough to watch Marty the brew pup, and then, well. I hope you get him some beer or something. Yeah, I definitely owe him a bottle. Something halfway decent for that, but, yeah, good times.

Go to any weddings or anything over the weekend? Do any officiating? Fresh out of weddings? We

did catch brewers game. Oh, nice. The Yankees were in town. Not nice. And they completely obliterated us. So probably the worst game I ever went to. And basically over after the top of the third. Oh, geez. And just cause I'm such a cheapskate, paying for tickets to go to the game. No, leaving early. You just gotta at least tilt the 7th inning. Yeah. So I'm just sitting there, just trying to enjoy the little things. Yeah. Park and. Yeah, I mean, being there.

The kids, you know, they love it. All the food is fantastic. Nice. Not a dutch stadium. Wife got the nachos, kids got some dogs, some fries. I got a slice of pizza with some breadsticks, topped it off with a little bit of custard, which I don't know if you know what custard is. Like frozen custard. Right? Yeah. Like, better than ice cream. Yeah, we don't really have that around here. Yeah. See, and I know. I know a lot of people outside the midwest aren't very familiar with it, so. But, yeah.

So I had a twist custard with my youngest daughter. My wife split the vanilla with my oldest, and I did get myself to buy one beer. Just one. You know, they got. Who's that? Terrapin. You know, they have that big contract. Oh, yeah. Molson Coors. Right. So they're all over the stadium, but they're luau Krunkel's ipa. It's like a pog. Oh, flavor profile. Real fucking good. Nice. And 19.2 ounce can. I was pretty psyched. Like, it's bigger than it's all boy.

1349. I know you're thinking, wow, that's really good. Yeah. At a Dodger game, that would have been two ounce poor. Yeah. So, I mean, I was pretty psyched about that because all the other beers underneath, like, the 16 ouncers were like $11.99 or 1099 for, like, Miller Lite. Yeah. So at that point, it's like, what's the. What's six or $3 when you're out at the stadium? So when I'm sure the extra $3 also doubled the abv, too. Well, yeah, I think that one. Don't quote me on it.

I'm not going to look it up right now. It's probably around 7%, right? Exactly. Worth it. Yeah. So super worth it. Really tasty stuff. Wish we could have had a, you know, better win, but. Or even a better loss. Or a better loss. You're right. But, yeah, I think the final score was, like, 15 to three. Holy shit. Yeah, it was brutal. It was real fucking bad. You know, something you said reminded me of something you're talking about pizza nachos.

So at the wedding, some of my cousins are midwesterners. One of them specifically

lives in Minnesota, and her husband was, a, a little hydrated, but b, he's hilarious. And he comes up to me and goes, hey, when's the secret pizza coming out? I was like, what? He goes, secret pizza pizza at the end of the night, when's the pizza coming out? I was like, there's no pizza, man. What are you talking about? He's like, you don't know about the pizza. He swore I was fucking with him. And I was like, dude, I don't, I don't know about this secret pizza.

And he goes, oh, you're keeping it a secret, are you? I was like, no, I don't know about secret pizza. Like, what are you talking about? And so finally I had to talk to my cousin. I was like, what is going on with the secret pizza? It must be a Midwest. She goes, oh, it's a Midwest thing. We're like, at weddings, at midnight, they'll break out pizza. Not midnight, because then you usually have. To be out of ten or whatever. Completely cleared out of the venue by like 1159.

Okay. Otherwise you get charged like a stupid amount, like per minute. It's real ridiculous. Like, they're not getting enough money from you, right? But usually around like 1030 or 11:00 you'll usually order like 15 pizzas because everybody who's there, you know, you're fucking hammered. Yeah. You dance your ass off for the last 5 hours. Need some carbs in your life. You need something. Yeah. And it's always pizza. I didn't know this was a thing. Oh, it's fascinating. I was cracking up.

So when you finally started to believe me that there was no secret pizza, he turns to another cousin's husband, he turns to Jim, and he goes, uh, at the very least, there's no secret pizza. Can we hit up in and out? On our way back to the hotel, he was like, of course, man. All the towners are hitting up in and out. Multiple double doubles. Yeah, I was cracking up. Did not believe me that there wouldn't be pizza at the end. I didn't realize that was a midwest thing.

The closest thing I've ever seen at a wedding was a wedding we went to out in the. I think

it's. Cause it's out in the middle of nowhere and like, people didn't have options. But, um, it went pretty late. Like, a lot of weddings out here that close it or they end at ten. Cause they're, you know, somewhat in the city or whatever. Uh, this really? Yeah. Oh, yeah, this is the middle of nowhere. So it went to like eleven or almost twelve or something.

And after the caterer or food people, whatever, they were finished dinner service, they started cooking up piles of grilled cheese sandwiches. And so at like 930, 10:00 they just brought out a fucking mound of grilled cheese. At which point everyone lost their shit and devoured. Interesting. It was fantastic. It was so good. So needed. We were hammered. Wait, so weddings in the city will shut down at like ten. Oh, yeah.

If you're anywhere near a residence, you gotta be done by ten for noise reasons. Ours was the same way. Interesting. Yeah, uh huh. You gotta be like, out in the middle fucking nowhere if you want to go past ten. I've never heard of that before. Oh, yeah. You gotta be like miles from the closest house. Miles. Miles. There's no way they can hear you, otherwise they'll shut you down. Wow, that's shocking. Yeah, that's. That's pretty common out here.

Yeah. It doesn't matter where you have a wedding here, it's, uh. You could have it in a hotel. Yeah, that was. That's fucking crazy. Our wedding venue was super strict about it. They were so cool about literally everything except this. And it was. If your guests aren't out of here by 1030, like, they must be leaving at ten, and if they haven't driven away by 1030, you will get fined. I was like, holy shit. So what time does everything. Does it all start early then or what?

Hers started at four, like, ceremony started at 430. My ceremony started at 530. I didn't want it to be too warm for people, so we pushed it back an hour. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. Not really. So then it only goes till ten? Yeah. So four and a half. Five and a half hours. So between dinner you only have like 2 hours of dancing. Yeah. And like, at her wedding, some of the speeches were quite long winded. It's like, hey, man, you're cutting into my drinking time.

I need to go get another beverage and you need to shut up. Oh, man. Sorry. I asked about your drinking and if you slowed it down because you didn't want to fuck up. When I got married, I was so nervous not whether or not my wife was going to say yes or no. Sure. Like with the I do thing, but it's just like, it's. Weddings are kind of a big deal, you know? Yeah. You don't want to flies on you, the spotlight. You want to fuck anything up. Dude, I had like four vodka Red Bulls before the ceremony.

Just like completely. Just nervous, out of my mind. Completely hated it. I once, once we got married, it was

fucking all. All bets were off. Is great. So I was not that nervous, like, as I could have been, because I'm. I do. Growing up, public speaking, getting in front of class, all that was my biggest nightmare. And obviously, I think the podcast is helpful. That's still like, you know, very intimate. One to one or one to two or whatever. But my wedding, I wasn't too nervous. I got a little nervous when I had to read the vows. I was like, don't fuck up. Just read.

And I think I was even less nervous in a good way for, like, for my sisters. Like, I wasn't not nervous. You know, it wasn't like, hey, this is gonna be easy peasy. Like, I was pretty nervous, but it wasn't like, you know, undoably nervous. I. Yeah, I did it sober and all that stuff. But for my wedding, we. The venue was, I don't know, 5 miles from our house. So the girls went to the venue to get ready.

The guy stayed at my house, and we just started cracking open barrel aged beers and all kinds of good shit and had a nice little buzz going by the time wedding started. And then, you know, sobered up because the wedding, plus photos took forever. And then as the reception kicked in, Nick made sure that my hand was never without beer. Never without. That's classic Nick move. Yeah, classic Nick move. Boy, was I shittered by the end of the night. Yeah. See, and that.

So I was really nervous for my wedding, and then I had to speak at my best friend's wedding. So I wasn't the best man. His brother was. But because we had been best friends for, like, 26 years or something like that, he said, hey, I really want you to, you know, write something up. Yeah. Not a. Not a single nerve in my body for that. Interesting. Like, I was like. I wrote it super easily. Um, like, it just fell right out onto paper.

And when I had to, you know, say it in front of, whatever, 300 people, I was completely composed. That's pretty good. So I don't know if it's just because, you know, like, your wedding is your wedding, and you think, you know, you just want it to go. Yeah, perfect. Or just, you know, whatever. Yeah. Well, if you fuck it up, your wife's gonna be mad at you. Exactly. Yeah. So to do it for somebody else, it's just like, that. Pressure's off you.

Yeah. But not being an officiant, I feel like that'd be very, very stressful. Yeah. A lot of eyes on me throughout that process. Yeah. I've never been the best man. I've been in weddings. I thought, this is gonna sound like I was jealous or something. I wasn't. I thought I was gonna be the best man at someone's wedding once, and I was like, fuck, that means I gotta come up with a speech and do a speech. It's a lot of responsibility.

Yeah. I've always been nervous about having to do like a best man speech. I'd be nervous for planning the bachelor party because I'm not that fun of a guy. You're not a mushroom? Not a fun guy? No. I don't know how to do anything fun or planning anything fun, actually. I've never

been a best man either. Cheers to you, bud. Yeah. Yeah. Cheers to not having to do that. But I actually think I'd be okay at planning the bachelor party, assuming we had similar interests, like I, you know, things I knew about and could plan about or close enough, you know. So here you just hope that somebody's bachelor party is going to be like, drink baseball season.

Cause then you could just usually just plan, like, a big tailgate at a brewer game, and then you do, like, some breakfast beers or, like, a brewery tour before that. And that's kind of what we did for ours. Like.

Like my bachelor party was. Went out and got breakfast. Some guys got, you know, bloodies, mimosas, et cetera, cruised down to lakefront for their brewery tour. Everybody had, like, four or five, six beers. Then we headed out to the cigar bar, where we had more alcohol, some laxing, cigars. A couple guys who don't smoke walked to the dive bar across the street and started playing bar games with the bartender. Sure. So they came back completely shittered. Perfect.

And then after everybody's already shittered, we went and tailgated the brewer game and drank even more beer, as one does. Yeah. And then we went to the strip club, and my wife picked me up from the. She picked you up from the strip club? Yeah. I ever tell you the story? No. Oh, man. Did she know she was going to pick you up? No, and I didn't know she was coming. This was one of the worst times of my life. So, you know, we get done

with the brewer game, and we still have, like, a pretty big crew of guys. It's probably, like 22 of us. And we left the game. We're like, all right, you know, we're going to head out to the. The big strip club here was called silk. Okay. So it's connected to a sports bar, same building, you know, but you still have to go around, enter the club. So we went to the sports bar for a little bit, had a couple drinks, go over to the strip club, because they. At 03:00 a.m.

They do an all you can eat breakfast buffet. Classy. It's actually pretty solid. So we were all like, all right, we'll go see some titties. Titties and bacon, you know, and then you know, best of it yet. We get all you can eat breakfast. So the guy who was supposed to give us a ride home ended up leaving, and we didn't know. So it's me, my sister in law's husband, and two of my really, really, really good friends. And we're sitting at the bar, we're.

Eating the breakfast, and my sister in law's husband, he's on the phone, and I'm trying not to pay attention, puts his phone down, he goes, dude, Jenny's gonna come pick us up. And Jenny used my sister in law, man. Jenny's fucking awesome. Like, this is great. Like, what a sister. Can she keep his secret? So then, you know, we just keep eating whatever. We're not really drinking too much now. Cause it's winding down. And. Oh, no. 20 minutes later, he gives me a nudge.

He's like, hey, Jenny's here. So, man, we're just, like, all psyched. Like, man, Jenny's the best. Yeah. Best sister ever. Chick walk out of the fucking door, and there's my wife sitting in the parking lot, window down, just staring me down. And I had to pick my jaw off the floor. I had no idea that Jenny was coming to pick up her soon to be husband and that she had called my wife to come pick up me and my idiot friends.

Oh, no. So the entire time driving home, my friends are just laughing and making jokes, making it so much better about the situation. And I just keep going, shut up, guys, please. Shut up. Shut up. So my wife, you know, pulls into our driveway, and she gets into the house, and one of my friends go, hey, do you want us to sleep over tonight so you don't get yelled at? I said, yes, please. So they did. It was brilliant. What good friends. Yeah, they're the best. That's funny.

Oh, God. That was the extra part. Yeah, it was totally unexpected. But your sphincter has never been that tight before. She never said anything about it, you know? Wow. Just a look, though, right? Yeah, the look was. It was a lot. Yeah. But she is a bachelor party. She knew. We did a joint bachelor, bachelorette thing. I think I've talked about this, but the baseball game

reminded me. We started off. We went to San Diego. Our first night there, we went to a Padres game, and they were doing their beer festival thing outside the park where it's $5 for. Right? Yeah. Each pour, which is obviously a million times cheaper than in the park. So we got fucking loaded outside the park, watched the game, went back to the house. We're all staying at kept getting loaded. And the next day we, we went our separate ways.

The guys went to, uh, North park and went down 30th street where all the breweries are. And the girls did some. Some wine bullshit. So. Wine bullshit bullshit. No strip club. This is a guy who drinks wine. I do like wine, but now when I'm in San Diego, wines for passo. All right? Right. Too good a beer in San Diego, right? I'm not wasting my time on that shit. Save the grapes for norcal. Thank you very much. Fair enough. All right.

Speaking of beer, I feel like flex has gone a long time without drinking a beer. Let's. Let's change that situation. In a world where craft beer

is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue. One tongue jobber. In this world, we must find out what is flex drinking? Alright, I had all this stuff ready beforehand. Alright, here we go. Today I am drinking cosmic archer from

toppling Goliath Brewing company. Ooh. It's been a while since I had me some tg. And when you messaged me earlier about the recording, I said, you know what? I'm gonna. I'm actually gonna go out and I'm gonna buy some stuff. It's been a while. So I saw this. It was on the stand right when you walk in the door where they have, like, all their newish good stuff. Yeah. So the name really caught my attention. And then the can art. Some sweet can art. Yeah. It's like a guy in space.

And it actually reminded me, I don't know if you're, how familiar you are with guardians of the Galaxy. I mean, I've seen the movies. Yeah. See Yondu, the blue guy. Mm hmm. You know, and he's got the arrow that he whistles around. Well, in the comics, he originally had a bow and arrow and he was like the Archer. I didn't know that's. Yeah, so that's what the can reminded me of. So I merely thought that was really fucking cool. So this is a double ipa with mosaic Nelson solvent and citra hops.

All the classics. Untapped has it at a four. One, two. And it says, after searching to the ends of the galaxy for hop flavors worth writing home about, cosmic Archer points his arrow and aims for mosaic Nelson sauvignon and citra hopps. After one sip, you'll be over the moon about this double ipa. So we get a little sniff sniff here. Definitely huge on the nelson.

You get a lot of that white wine, gooseberry, grape type aromas, faint on the, like the citrus, but it is there a little bit in the background. And then without further ado, we warm up the old tongue jobber. It's been a while. What we've all been waiting for. So the carbonation low to medium, almost spritzy. Really nice soft mouthfeel. Those Nelson sovin characteristics on this really come through.

I don't know if it just works really well with mosaic and citra, if they put more nelson in this or if it just takes over. But a lot of that white grape, white wine, little bit of bitterness on the end. It definitely picks up a little bit more as the beer has warmed. But all in all, 7.8% really, really well made beer. Easy drinking beer. Always love finding me some tg, man. Yeah, man. They never, they never do you dirty. Like, it's always good when you find some tg. Right?

And what else got my attention on this? Is it the three hop combo? Sometimes these guys will come out with beers where it's like six or seven hops labeled on the can. And to me, that's just too much. I really like to try and pick out, you know, notes and flavors and, you know, big reason why I love single hop stuff. So I really try and get to know, you know, that hop or what was put in it. You don't need the entire kitchen sink. Exactly. So, um, so that really caught my attention.

This where it was just the three and they're, you know, the mosaic citra, real classic. And that Nelson. Fucking love it. So this is right up my alley. Sounds derlicious. Big fan. Big fan. Big fan. Very nice. All right, well, before we get up out of here, let's do a little booze. News. The World beer Cup happened last

week at CBC in Vegas and there were 9300 entries from 20. Excuse me, 2060 Breweries and 50 countries. And I'm going to read you all the winners. I'd be here for it. I'm joking. I was real proud to see a bunch of local Ventura county breweries made. West won some stuff. Topa topo won some stuff. I think even VCBC got something. A lot of local love from CBC, but, yeah. So like I said, all those entries, breweries. What else? There's 280 judges to judge all 9300 entries.

So, uh, they're the real heroes in this situation. It's a lot of judges. Yeah. It was 17 days. Excuse me, seven days of, uh, judging with 14 different sessions. There are 110 different beer style categories. There was 172 beer styles in total. The average number of each category was 54. Course, the most popular category was the juicy or hazy ipa with 326 entries. Man, that style has been running real strong. Yeah, it's running wild five years now at least.

Yeah. When they finally incorporated it, the winner of the gold medal for that one was Chicago based old Irving Brewing Company. With their old Irving, they make some really, really solid stuff. Do they? I don't think I've had anything. I actually think I've had that breezer one. Well, it's a gold winner now, so go, go drink it again. For the west coast style. They had 281 entries, so they were second. Long beach based ism brewing took the gold with western standard time. What else?

German Pilsner had 221 entries. American style IPA had 213 entries. Where la based Highland Park Brewery took gold with high, high six. Hey, they do stuff. Hey. Yeah. And wooden barrel had a ton of resume. Wooden barrel aged strong stout had a ton of entry entries with 198. And New Jersey based Cane brewing took the gold there. Yeah, I've heard really good things about them. I feel like I've had something from the not, not barrel aged or anything like that.

But I think something from the old tavor came this way. Okay. Congrats to everybody. That's awesome. World beer cups. Good shit. We need, we need to get out to Vegas for CBC and World Beer cup. That'd be awesome. Yeah, you think so? I wonder if we get some like media passes or something. Are we media enough? I don't know. You know, breweries. I don't really know too many breweries. Got a bunch of brewer friends. I wonder if they could

like slide us in or something. I don't see why not. We'll work on this for next year. I mean, I'm completely down for it. Dear misses Flex. Oh, I'd be like, hey, Vegas trip, let's go. Yeah, just leave us alone for two days. You guys hang out at the lazy river. It's fantastic. We'll be back. Enough for me. Yeah. Seattle hospitality group is going to acquire Fremont Brewing.

Pike Brewing owner, the Seattle hospitality group, that's their name, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Fremont Brewing, the company announced last week. Terms have not been disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the coming weeks. Another instance of breweries merging and buying each other and blah, blah, blah. Two classic breweries too. Yeah, I was going to say Fremont is like the biggest brewery in Washington. At least in Seattle.

It seems like we get them down here all the time. No problem. Okay, so I've only ever had some shit sent to me back when I, you know, used to trade stuff and give me real high anxiety. It wasn't mind blowing to me, but I know they do a lot of, like, barely shit that is supposed to be really good. Yeah. And, like, they were the first, one of the first to jump on the whole, like, cold ipa craze and, yeah, they like to jump on things and they're not afraid to experiment.

Fun. Okay. Yeah. Assets of I'm gonna fuck up the pronunciation of this, but Bourguy brewings, $30 million

facilities going to auction. You'll recognize it. It's Dixie. Formerly Dixie Brewing. Remember a few years ago, Dixie Brewing changed their name to Faubourg or Fauberger. I'm sure someone from terrible change. I mean, the change reason was good, you know, Dixie and Confederacy and all that stuff. Right, right. But could we have picked something a little more, something that rolls off the tongue a little easier? Usually half a million better brewery names.

Yeah. Despite a $30 million brewing fur d. What's a furger? Despite a $30 million investment from Gail Benson, the owner of the NFL's New Orleans Saints and the Pelican, NBA's New Orleans Pelicans. And. Sorry, he said, the NBA. New Orleans New Orleans Pelicans. New Orleans Pelicans. That was just funny. The former Dixie Brewing company, its large scale production facility, could not be saved.

The short of it is they spent 30 million on this spot, and they're expected to get about 2 million in when they, when they go to auction. So. Whoops. I would chalk that up to a loss. Yeah. You don't say. Uh, there's a lot more. They've merged with another company they're hoping to live on and contract and blah, blah, blah. Jack's Abbey to acquire

Wormtown brewery under new parent company Jack Sabbie will acquire fellow Massachusetts based Worm Town Brewery will operate the two breweries under the newly created parent company, Henler Family Brewing company. The sales expected to close in early summer pending licensing and approval, according to a press release. Jack's beverage company, Jack Abby's contract brewing arm, will also operate under the new parent company.

Jack's Abby co founder and CEO Sam Hendler said in a statement shared with Brewbound that the acquisition is not only a milestone for the three co owners and brothers, but also reflects a broader trend unfolding within the craft beer industry. Both breweries will operate under the newly formed handler family umbrella.

The transaction, which is expected to close in early summer, and related capital investments, will create the largest craft brewing facility in Massachusetts, Handler family Brewing will offer jobs to the vast majority of current non ownership Wormtown staff. According to their press release, Wormtown and Jack's Abbey taprooms remain in operation, continue only to serve their own respective products with additional resources, support and staff from the new ownership, according to the release.

Worm town operates operates tap rooms in Worcester and at Patriot Place, an open air shopping district in Foxborough, near the New England's Patriots home field. Anyways, it goes on from there, but more merchant. A lot of information there. Yeah, sorry, too much information. Ballast Point

is going to cease production in Miramar and go strictly contract production. Interesting. Not surprise, but it's interesting. It is interesting. Kings and convicts owned Ballast Point brewing ceased operations at its Miramar production facility last weekend and will lean on contract production for its offerings moving forward for distribution and tap room service. An unnamed business will take over the 107,000 square foot facility with a million barrels of production capacity. Good God. Right.

It's unclear who that business will be at this time. With a move, a number of ballast point production staffers have been laid off, according to San Diego Beer News. Ballast Point CEO Brendan Waters told SD beer news, it's been a hard week, but we had to right the ship. I've been trying to get us out of there for the better part of a year and a half. We brought other brewies in on a contract basis to try and fill up capacity. It's too big. And that ain't ballast point.

Ballast Point is Scripps ranch. Back in the day, grinding 24 hours a day, which was a tiny little brewing facility. Okay. The company will continue to operate the bar and restaurant at the Miramar facility. Brew pub in San Diego's Little Italy neighborhood, home brew mart locations in Morena, and outpost in Anaheim, San Francisco, and Long beach, according to the report. By the way, Anaheim is the one at Disneyland. It's not just in Anaheim.

So I'm sure they have some contract where they can't just up and leave Disneyland, but who knows? Oh, interesting to see who goes in there. Yeah. But they're keeping all their other locations open. That's a big ass brewing facility to try and fill up. What do you say? 107,000 sqft? Yeah, that's. That's insane. That's. Yeah, that's fucking insane. Yeah. I will quickly end it with this story. It's like 50 of my houses. It's like 107 of my houses. Oh, it's depressing.

Cause I'm sure my house costs three times what yours does. I don't even have a. Not a real estate show. Not yet. We're the property bros. We'll end it with this r1

quick. Idaho Falls. Man kicks Yellowstone bison, injures leg and goes to jail. Sounds about right. You ready for this? Name? Clarence Yoder. Yeah, that sounds. Sounds about. Yeah, about right. 40 approached a bison too closely on the afternoon of April 21 at the west entrance road near Seven Mile bridge, 7 miles east of the park's west entrance. Rangers responded if they got a report of someone harassing a herd of bison and kicking one of the animals in the leg.

They found his vehicle near the west entrance and stopped in. Yoda was charged with being under the influence of alcohol to agree that may endanger oneself, disorderly conduct as to create or maintain a hazardous condition and approaching wildlife, and disturbing wildlife.

The driver of the vehicle was 37 year old McKenna bass, also of Idaho Falls, who was arrested incited on charges of driving under the influence, interference with failure for failure to yield to emergency light activation and disturbing wildlife. Park officials said his injuries were minor. No further details were given. So did he hurt his leg or the bison's leg? His own leg. Okay, that's what I thought. Don't worry, the bison is fine. The idiot is the one that got hurt.

That's what I was hoping until you said that he kicked the bison in the leg. Yeah, justice was served. Bison alright? No, no, the bison is like a thousand pounds. I think he's all right. Maybe you hit the right spot. I don't know. Hey, you never know. Oh, that's everything. I'm gonna hit some music over here. I'm gonna say hello to Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa. I hope you all check us out on the socials

and everything else's crappy republic. And of course, flex me a beer. Underscores in between. Leave us a voicemail. 805538. Beer. It's 2337. I think that's just about everything. Come hang out with us next week. Hope everyone's staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night, everybody.