The Ultimate Beer Roulette

Welcome in, everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I'm still waiting for Flex computer to update. Easy there pal. Oh, there he is. There's a magical 12%. Something about 12% to finish. But yeah, something. Still took an hour. And apparently Microsoft just goes, uh, 1 to 12. Yeah, Microsoft doesn't know what the fuck to do. Clearly. God damn do I hate windows. Not a computer show though. Not a computer show. Follow us.

Smooth transition. You got real, you real angry man. I hate Microsoft @CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer underscores in between. You can also give us a call 855382337. All that good stuff. We got a lot to get to today. Uh, I did some traveling, which usually means I do some research. Uh, we got some fun facts. It's 4th of July this week. Some booze news. I'm excited because, uh Flex.

Girls picked out his beer. They did. And, uh, that's always a good night for me. It's it's it's like a real, real Russian roulette when they pick out the beer. You know, I went to, uh, my local Eagle Park this past Monday with the kids for lunch, and I ran into pilot Tom and pilot

Tom told my girls how funny he thinks it is that they pick out my beer, and that he has such a good time listening to it and, uh,

told him how funny he thought it was. So, um, so he got to meet him in person and thank them. I'm with pilot Tom on this, you know. In fact, should we just talk about what you're drinking now, or should we, uh. If you don't mind. No. Let's fucking do it. 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? Man, what a what a voice that guy has. Right? Just a stud. So what a man. We walk into the my local shop today and I already told my kids what was gonna happen. And, you know, they were pretty up for the challenge. Within two seconds of looking at the beer wall, they literally reached their hands out and say, dad, you have to get this one. They see the cannot and they say, you have to get it.

So I checked to see what it was. I was okay with the style. Very okay with the brewery. A little high on the ABV, you know, for my current state, It's Abomination Brewing. And apparently this is a series they do. It's called Fogsicle.

Oh, and it's a sour double IPA series. So this one is, uh, sour double IPA with peach, vanilla and marshmallow. And the can art, though, is where it gets really fun. It is a penguin. Oh, that's pretty cool. Except there's no feathers on the skull of the penguin. It's just a penguin skull that goes into a penguin body. Right. Normal body. Yeah. And it's holding, uh, looks like a creamsicle. Like a like a Fogsicle.

And it's got worms around the neck. Like you'd think it'd maybe have, like, a bow tie or something cutesy, but they're worms. And my kids just thought it was great. So here I go. I'm gonna try this out on tapped here. It's a collective 404 rating only, uh, 927 check ins, which, okay, thing I really like about my shop is how recent they get some of these beers in. You know, I feel like the ones I've had the last three, four months are usually under a thousand check ins.

One didn't even have any check ins yet. So it's nice to know that they're getting some fresh stuff. And again, abominations out of New Haven, Connecticut. So on the old, uh, nose buds here. I feel like it's always one of us that remembers the, say, nose buds and then the other one. It always makes me smile when you do. But this one super heavy on the vanilla and the marshmallow, almost like, uh, the smell you'd get on like a milkshake IPA, like from the lactose.

But this doesn't have any lactose, so I'm assuming vanilla marshmallow on this. So without further ado, uh, we will warm up the old Tongue-jobber, and we'll dive right in here. We blow. So that is very wonderful. Um. This is extremely wonderful. It is sour, as it says is a sour double IPA. You do get a little bit of the hops up in there. No bitterness.

And that peach. It's a little fainter than I'd like, but it's almost like, uh, like not a ripe peach. If you've ever had, like, unripe stone fruit, which actually I prefer it that way because it's crunchy and it's not mushy and juicy and gets all over your face and your shirt because you're a slob. Are we still talking about fruit? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah we are. Because this is, uh, not a dick show. Well, we're a couple of dicks. We are. Uh, but, yeah,

this is absolutely fantastic. Um, I also think the most underrated beer style in the entire world is probably a sour IPA. And, uh, I think one of my favorite beers of all time was a sour IPA, and it was a drecker untitled art collab, and it was a raspberry sour double, or I think it was just a raspberry sour IPA. I don't think it was a double, but it was fucking fantastic. And this follows right along with that. This is absolutely fantastic.

I do feel like there was a brief time in beer history where, like, the sour IPAs were starting to show up a little bit more, and then all of

a sudden they're like, just kidding. I think that was honestly like six years ago. Yeah, I mean, it's been a minute, but it's kind of around the same time that like, all the fruited sours were blowing up. Yeah, yeah. So that would be right around about five, six years ago. Yeah. And I think at the same time, the sour IPAs, they were blowing up like the fruited sours were, but they were starting to pop up and I had a few back then.

I was like, these are actually surprisingly good because the thought of it sounds horrible, but hey, you like this bitter ass beer and want to turn it sour? Yeah, but it's weird how well it works out. Yeah, for the most part, it's actually really good. And even with like, a fruit edition like this, Just absolutely top notch. I did get a single can of this. I do regret getting a single can of this because I would enjoy probably a case of these though. That's. Yeah, that's how good they are.

I'm not I'm not gonna lie. 4.99 A can. So I'm assuming $20 a four pack. I would pay that in a heartbeat. Wow. I feel like you're damned if you do. You're damned if you don't. Like we always, not always. We recently have been preaching by one can first. Right. Try it. Go back for more. Seems like whenever we follow our own rules, we get the one can. They're like, fuck, I wish we'd gotten three more of

these bad boys. Right. Because it was a couple weeks back where I ended up having to purchase two, four packs because my single can shelf at the shop was empty. Completely empty. And, uh, well. And you got. You know. Yeah, the beers weren't terrible, but. Sure, they weren't drain pours. Right? But they weren't like, I wasn't gonna enjoy drinking the rest of them. This. Yeah. I'm totally bummed out. Yeah, but great for Abomination Brewing. This is wonderful. Hopefully they come out with

more of these. I don't know if it's a yearly thing, but I do have one other thing to say about this. Uh, via untapped, right? So we always talk about how people rate, uh, beer styles that they don't often drink or, you know, people rate not on beer styles, but beer as a whole. So I ran across this comment on this beer, mind you, on this beer. Okay. And it kind of bummed me out. So this one says, sadly, this one got lost in the mix and

sat in the basement about a year. Very sour and a hint of peach with some vanilla in the finish, but I don't like it nearly as much as its overall rated 3.5. Why are you rating a beer that got lost in your basement for a year? Right. You've already said it's your. Fault, right? So now, because you rated this. Which three? Five. It's not awful, right? Not the worst. Yeah, it's not the worst, but it totally ruins the credibility of this beer score. Because let's see. Who is this? Randy?

N was a fucking idiot. Come on. Randy! Randy! What a dumb name. With eight A's. It's your fault. Don't rate it. Don't. Don't wreck the brewery's credibility. Don't ruin the beer score. Because you were again an idiot. Right? Yeah. It's not the beer's fault. No, it's Randy's fault for not checking the back of his fridge, you dummy. Randy! Randy! I don't think anybody, like, has,

like, a good friend named Randy. Like, I don't think that's a real thing. Not unless you knew the Macho Man. Oh, damn. Okay. Not a wrestling show. R.I.P. Macho Man. Yeah. Uh. All right. So much to get to. I, um, I'm in a massive amount of pain because I went wakeboarding this weekend. Yeah. You know, we got we got the new boat and, well, new to us, boat and boats these days because our old boat was older than me. Have ballast bags in the back that you can fill up with water.

And what this does is makes your makes your wake bigger. So when you're jumping on your wakeboard, you get bigger waves. To jump. Off of. Yeah, bigger, bigger jumps equals you go higher. So filled up the the bags this this trip a little bit more than last trip because I'm still getting used to the new boat and, uh, really hit some decent jumps. I mean, I'm garbage, like, I'm not out there doing flips or anything, but hit some decent jumps and came down real hard a couple times.

How high would you say you're going on these decent jumps? I don't go wakeboarding. I've never been, so I'm just curious. Yeah, I truly have no idea, damn it. Because it's one of those things

like, you know, when you're a kid and you're doing, like, bunny hops on your bike and you're like, oh my God, I was 100ft in the air. And like, if you were to watch the tape back like your back wheel didn't even get off the ground. That's how I imagine it really is. Like I'm always looking at the wife and the boat for for visual feedback, because if it's a decent jump, you'll see it on her face, and sometimes she'll even give me the nod. Wow. If it's if it's not bad.

So I truly have no idea. Like, I don't know, six feet on a good jump, I, I when I say six feet like my board is six feet off the water. I don't know. I know, I don't know. To me that sounds pretty high. What I need to do I haven't done this in years. I should break out the old GoPro and get some footage and just see. Like what? How high am I gonna do that? I like that idea. Yeah, yeah. I need to know. That thing open. Yeah, the. The people. Need to know.

That's right, that's right. So did that, uh, no beer drinking over the weekend? Did once again, classy wine drinking because. That's. For free membership. That's who you are. Uh, but the week before, I did some beer research because I was traveling for work. I went down, I was in Anaheim again or the Anaheim area, so I went over to Villains Brewing. And if you recall, Chew called in when villains just opened. Do you remember this? Yeah. And he was none too pleased. I don't remember exactly why.

I think part of it was because, like, they were kind of shitty to him. And I think he also said, like, the beer wasn't very good or something like that. Anyways, I went, um, I will start off with like the service was, was pretty bad. Like the I was at the bar, like I sat at the bar thinking, you know, because I'm by myself. I don't need to take up a four top. I'm down there for work. And I could see the Dodger game was on so I could watch Dodger. And you usually get quicker

service sitting at the bar. Yeah. You chat up the bartender a little bit, maybe you get a little quicker service. No, I was the forgotten man on the island. It took forever. And even once I got, like, my order taken, I was forgotten. Like, had to, like, flag someone down for napkins. And it was service. Left a lot to be desired. I did have I forget what it's called their hazy IPA. It was pretty good actually. I would have again. And I had, uh, wings,

had some some buffalo wings. I love me some good wings. I do too. Look, the cook on them was good, but the flavor on them was just not that great. Okay, so all in all, villains was fine. If I saw their beer in the wild, I would order it. But I'm not going out of my way to eat dinner there again. That's fair. Yeah. So, you know, what is that, like a 3.5? Yeah, I don't know. I did only have one beer, though. They only had one. Hazy villains was left in the basement for a year. So there.

You go. 3.5. I was, uh, in a real haze bitch mood that night, and they only had one hazy on tap, so I had that same beer twice. I was like, I don't feel like a West Coast tonight. Yeah. You know, I, Uh, I feel that. Yeah, I had, like, three Mexican lagers, and I was like, I don't need any of that stuff. We all know how Greg feels. I know. Mexican lagers. Too much corn. Yeah, so too much corn. Come on, guys, leave the corn for your. Never mind. Bro. Uh oh.

And before I forget, shout out to our top listing city of the week. Chicago. Chicago. Chicago. Fun. Yeah, yeah. It is a fun city, I like that. I've never been. And I want to go. Not only do I want to go, but I want to go some baseball

games while I'm there. So it never. I've never been to Wrigley or right field, whatever. It'll always be US cellular. To me. Wrigley is the only one I care about. Oh, yeah. We, uh. So last year we went to Saint Louis, right? Caught a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium live in Milwaukee. So I've, you know, been to Busch Miller Park or Am FAM field, whatever it is now and next week we're road tripping to Cincinnati and we're gonna check out a Reds game at Great American Ballpark.

So now I really want to hit Wrigley, which is shocking. I live like an hour and a half away. I should have gone to a game there by now, but I haven't. And then at least once. So I want to do that and then finish off at PNC in Pittsburgh. You know, maybe next year, a couple years and just finish the whole NL central. That's all. That'd be cool. The teams and the Brewers division and, uh, yeah, I think that'd be really fucking cool. Yeah. Whenever we're traveling somewhere

that has a game, we try to go if, uh, scheduling permits, like, we'll probably go see a hockey game when we're in Colorado. That's awesome. And all that good stuff. Worst team in the MLB. But that's awesome. Worst team. And I love that. They're like, they're not just the worst team, but like they're the world's like in all of history of baseball. Worst. Yeah I think they have fucking 19 wins right now. Something like that. Yeah. It's embarrassing and. Terrible. It's. Yeah.

And they're they're what they do. They just fired their. Was it their GM that they just announced was they didn't fire him. Was leaving at the end of the season. Like that's gonna make a big deal. Or just leave now. Like, why stay on? Yeah, they're fucked either way. Like, what's it matter? So I didn't travel yet. So you talked about you're traveling a little bit. I will be heading to Cincinnati next week. It's been about two days there, and then we're going to drive to

Louisville, and we're going to spend, uh, 2 to 3 days in Louisville. So that's exciting. Go get a slugger. We're gonna do the Slugger Factory tour. We're going to. There's, like, some kind of horse farm there that has, like, all the horses from the Derby or some of the horses from the Derby that are, like, retired. Um, I'm gonna hit up a couple bourbon distilleries. Nice. I've heard maker's Mark is. Maker's Mark is like the one that

you should go to. Oh, really? I heard it from a patron at Eagle Park, and he said, don't even bother with anything else. He said, just go to the go to the maker's Mark tour. And then I've also heard if you do one tour, you've done them all.

Interesting. But my wife was still interested, shocking enough, like doing the Bourbon Trail and stopping at multiple. The Bourbon Trail. Yeah. So, um. Does your wife like bourbon? No, she doesn't drink at all. Yeah, I wouldn't say she hardly drinks, but. But it was her idea to check some out on the bourbon trails. She trying to expand her horizons. Maybe she's just trying to make me happy, I don't know. I don't I don't want to, you know. Let's not overanalyze.

I don't want to count my chickens. Let it happen. Right. It's like she said it, and I said, okay. Yeah. You're gonna come back in two weeks. So, uh, we went total wine and picked up a bottle of bourbon. God, I hope that's not what happens. Damn it. It was maker's Mark. But, uh. Yeah, it was from total, right? Yeah. But then, uh, what? Kids really want to go to a Bucky's? Have you ever heard of Bucky's? I've heard of it. Thanks to a podcast called

Flightless Bird. Okay. I had not heard of it before this podcast. So I've only heard of it from my kids. I've seen people wearing, like, the hats and the shirts and I've never known what it was. I guess it's all over, like YouTube and kids YouTube, but just like a I. Was gonna say, how do the kids know about it? Watching all their YouTube and the kids that live in the areas of Bucky's, I don't fucking know. But it's like a glorified gas

station department store, right? But it's like the Disneyland of gas. Yeah, they have like a hundred pumps. And they do like their own smoking. They have, like, brisket sandwiches, pork sandwiches. I miss pizzas, I this whole thing. Yeah. And in fact, Steph was just at a Bucky's in Texas a couple weeks. That's where they started. That's where they originated from. Texas. Right? Right. And she was doing like Facebook

video or Facebook. Boy, do I sound like a boomer? They should do an Instagram videos and stories and like just circling around with her camera and you could see just how ginormous this place. It's like a Walmart. So I'm excited for it because we went to like the off brand, like the competitor last year when we went to Saint Louis and we went, who's. The who's the off brand Bucky's. It's Wally's w a l y apostrophe s Wally's, and Wally is a bear.

Bucky is a beaver, I believe. And there's only like 2 or 3 Wally's in the nation. There's like two in Missouri and one

in Illinois or something like that. But we had passed one and didn't know what it was, and we went back and stopped in and it was glorious. Like the food was fantastic. It was like one third grocery store, one third, uh, hot deli or like, you know, like they all the sandwiches, They did their own sandwiches. They did their own pizza. Um, they had all their own beef jerky and all this and that. And then the other side was like department store, like, oh, you're

on vacation. You forgot a kayak. Come to Wally's and buy a kayak, you know, or. I hate. When that happens. Going camping and you didn't realize you needed a tent. Come by a ten family tent at Wally's.

You know, like, just it's just the most bizarre things that you could buy there. And they were there, and but we had a great time. We bought a shit ton of stuff, and the food was great. So I can only imagine. Bucky's right. It's like held on this pedestal. So yeah, it better be better. I'll be able to report back in a couple weeks. Yeah. Bucky's, you got some living up to do. Better, better live up to it. That's so funny. I love that there's Bucky's

knockoffs. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Good times. Uh, yeah. I've never been to one. and I'm excited to hear how it goes. I'm excited to hear about the Bucky's brisket. We're gonna have to drive, like an hour and a half out of like, we're gonna stay in Louisville. We gotta drive an hour and a half away just to get to this. Bucky's is Bucky's the main point of the trip? Um, not the main point, but the kids have been wanting to go for, like, 2 or 3 years. Wow.

And there's actually a sign as you go to get on the freeway here, it's like 43. You head south and there's a sign that says Bucky's 469 miles and we for 60. We think it's like Tennessee. And I think that's where the closest one to us technically is. But yeah, just bizarre. So they always see the sign. We always see the sign. We're, you know, going south and. Sure. Yeah, they're actually going to put one in Wisconsin in like 2027. But who wants to wait. Right.

Not worth it. No. No, sir. Come on. No. Yeah. Well, what a good dad you are. Well, you know, I try. Well, bring me back a Bucky's hat. I'll send you one. Along with all the beer. I'll send you beer just so you feel obligated to send me. I'll get you some beer from Bucky's and a hat. And maybe. Maybe they have their own beer. Who knows? Oh, my God, if they do now, I'm. If they do have their own beer, I am. Now I'm gonna have to check.

Okay, I will check. Yeah, you got it. Just for you. Because that would be. That would be a great show if we could drink some Bucky's beer. Because it is officially birthday month for the both of us, right?

Six month of the year. Best month of the year. Yeah. And in fact, I was about to say, as this drops, it's like the day before your birthday, I think. No, it's like a couple days before your birthday. Yeah. Yeah. When this drops, it's like. Four days before your birthday. Five, five, five days. I don't know what that is. Um, so happy birthday to Flex. Thanks, man. This will drop the second. My birthday is the Birthdays. Seventh. And, uh, nobody's sending me anything.

Maybe I already have. Damn it. Or maybe I haven't. Who knows? I certainly hope it's the latter. My birthday present to Flex is not sending him a birthday present. What does it say?

Or send me beer when you know I'm leaving. So it gets delivered and sits on my porch for a week. It's all nice and warm when you get back. Talk about beer. Science. Yeah, we had that happen to us with wine. One of our wine clubs is very local, and the winemaker texted me while we were at the lake was like, hey, I'm dropping off your wine. I was like, hey, we're not back till tomorrow night. Can you hold off? Like, we'll pick it up from you, like don't worry about it.

And he's like, oh yeah, I'll drop it by later this week. And then the next day, while we're on the lake, I miss some text messages. They're like, is it okay to drop it off? Well, I dropped it off anyways. I'm like, oh God, it's sitting on my porch. It's 85 degrees out. Fantastic. Love me some boiled wine. At least you know it's sterilized. So we'll see how that turns out. Ooh. Ooh. All right, before I tell you what I'm drinking, uh, Scott sent this over. Thanks, Scott.

Or should I say thank you? Scott. Love it. Uh, what? You. I'm gonna ask you the question, actually. What? US states drink the most alcohol per person. Per person. Whoo!

I fully expected to see Wisconsin on here. I, I didn't want to, like, brag, so I didn't want to, like, guess Wisconsin, but I would assume at least top ten. I only got the top three. Oh. Top three. That's tough. I'm sure Wisconsin's top ten. Otherwise they're gonna kill themselves. Um, I would have to assume, like Wisconsin, California, and then something weird, like, uh, Oregon or Wyoming or something like that. So number one was New Hampshire. Okay. At 4.43 gallons of booze per person,

per year, per year. Okay. I'm like only four and a half gallons. That's not that much. Yeah. And you're the most. Okay. Uh, coming second was Delaware. 4.4 gallons. Jeez. East coast, killing it. And then third was Washington, DC, at just over four gallons. That's very interesting. Yes. I have a feeling you'll know the lowest. Uh, Utah. There it is. 1.3 gallons. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. No, no one's surprised by that Delaware thing. Makes me laugh, though, because it's like,

what else are you gonna do? Sure. And then the old classic Wayne's World. Oh, I'm in Delaware. Well, the thing about New Hampshire is, I think the numbers are skewed. I found out New Hampshire doesn't have any alcohol taxes. Okay, so I'm sure anybody who lives on the border is crossing state lines to buy their alcohol. Yeah, I would say that's probably 100% skewed. Yeah. So. And isn't that really. For. Who's on the border in New Hampshire? That's not Delaware. It's not you. Delaware is it?

I don't remember, I'm not a mathematician. I mean, a mathematician. Mathematician. That's a thing. Sounds legit. If you say it confidently, people will believe you. Oh, I'm actually gonna Google this. Yeah, a little bit away from Delaware. Yeah, it's a little bit. So, Delaware. You're lucky. Yeah, yeah. In fact, a lot of it away from Delaware. Pretty north ish. But it is close to DC. Who's number three? Okay. Yeah. But not, like, close enough to jump the border or anything.

Maybe close enough to be worth the no tax, I don't know. Yeah. Who's around? New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Maine. Rhode Island. Massachusetts. Maybe those fucking bastards are coming over. The Van Doozers are coming over to New Hampshire to get their fucking Van Doozers. The fucking Van Doozers.

We need a pallet of bush lights. Get to work, you Van Doozers. I don't know why they became white trash with the bush light. Yeah, you totally ruined that. Sorry, sorry. Van Doozers, I'm very. Tired. One year. One. One day, people will know what we're talking about. Never. But I think I still have that. But also, if you know what a Van Duzer is, congratulations. You win. You do win because it's sort of nothing but sort of something.

I would say it's it's something because. Isn't it really the dozers. I don't know. It's they called van dozers. Yeah. They're just the dozers. No. Hold on. Van Doozers is something we made up based on the dozers. They say attention, van dozers. No, it's the dozers, damn it! Oh, no! Dozer, it's the dozers! Oh. We added the van. Well, you know, I'm just. I'm having an off day. I knew we made some of that up. Oh, man. Oh, dear. All right, well, I need to fucking drink a little beer over here.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. Yeah. He does. I am drinking Anchorage Brewing companies within us.

Imperial slash double New England Hazy IPA. This cannot is pretty dope. They have, well. Some of the best can art I've ever seen. I actually might have had this beer about five years ago. Oh, I won in a giveaway on Instagram which gave me a Tavour gift card and I'm pretty positive I drink. I ordered that and drink it off. Tavour how funny. Well, this is five years old. It's been in a closet now I'm only giving it a 3.5. Well deserved, well deserved.

Well deserved. It's the beer's fault. Not your fault. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Uh, 8.4%. 70 IBUs and A422 with well over 8000. In fact, 8800 ratings. Wow. 4.22 on all it says is brewed with Galaxy and Simcoe hops. We dig it on the nose buds. Yeah. What's that smell like getting? I think that's passion fruit. Uh, and maybe a little like grapefruit. Some citrus behind it. Okay. It's good. It's light, but it's it's, uh, tasty smelling. I'm gonna dig in here. I did drink this.

How long ago was it? Five years. Uh, April 18th, 2020. Literally five years ago. Yeah. That's amazing. I'll tell you what I rated it after you tell me. Okay. That's fair. Uh, on the on the Tongue-jobber really follow suit. It's definitely some passion fruit. Something citrusy. It's bitter. So I'm thinking grapefruit and or like an orange pith type of situation. Uh, real. They say it's a hazy, but it's. It's pretty. See through. It's not that hazy.

It's like, uh, juicy. It's like unfiltered. Yeah. Juicy light body, though. It's nice for being a double. It's a real light bodied beer. Not too malty. Real easy to drink. Isn't my favorite. No, but am I enjoying it? Yes. Um, I don't know that I give this a four, two, two. That feels a little generous. I would give this, like, a high three. Like, if I could, I'd give it a 3.8. Okay. What? Did you rate. It? I rated it a 3.5. I think for being a double New England.

And I do remember this beer because it was a lot more bitter than I expected. It does have 70 IBS. Yes. So that threw me off and I did enjoy it. I do remember that, but I far from loved it, but I, I enjoyed it. You said you would give it A38 38 and out of my collective friends on Untapped Collective three, seven, eight. Are right on. The right on the nose. Yeah. Uh, would I pay Tavour prices for this again? I don't think so. But if I was at a beer bar and I saw it on tap, would I drink it?

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Anchorage Brewing cannot. If you've never seen it, look it up. It costs drecker tenfold. Yeah, it's really cool. It's. It's always black and white and, uh, just. Very detailed drawings of, I would say, bizarre. Yeah. I think this one. Combination. Bird with a human skull inside of it. Yeah. It's just it's amazing. Like, what's the point of it? Who knows? I'm sure it's symbolism, but well, within us, I get it. Um, yeah.

And it even says Art by massive face. That must be the artist. Cool. Massive face. What a cool artist name? Yeah. Uh. All right. A little news for you out of here. You know, uh, Busch Light released that apple garbage a few months.

I know what you're gonna say. They released now Busch light Lime. Yeah. Did you. Have it? I did not. I saw it at the store today, and I just kind of, you know, chuckled when I saw it. That's all I did. I have I have not seen either in the wild. The apple or the. What about the peach? Have you ever seen the peach? I didn't know they had a peach. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure they have the peach, the apple, and now the lime, apparently. Yeah, I've seen none of the Busch Light flavors in the wild.

Well, if I see, like, a single can. Please do not send me Busch. Light. That is not worth the shipping bucks. You can send me Busch Light, though, unless you're already sending me Bucky's beer. Do not pay for the shipping. Oh, okay. Okay. Not worth it. BrewDog. Oh so sad. Couldn't have happened to a

nicer company. BrewDog closes their Cincinnati outpost. Oh shit. Oh. And I'm going there. It's gonna ruin your trip. Oh, shoot. You're gonna have to drink much better beer. Where am I gonna go now? Bucky's. Get some Bucky beers. We don't even know if it exists. I feel like a place as big as they are. It's gotta be. Gotta have something. Yeah, even if their contract. That's what I'm assuming. It is, you know? Yeah, but a can. We should look this up. The beaver on it. That'd be pretty. Neat. Yeah.

Who doesn't like a little beaver? Have you ever had malort? Yes.

It's one of the worst things I've ever put in my mouth. I've never had it. I've only heard the tales. So it's derived from, like, the origin is like Chicago, right? Well, it's not from Chicago, but it's like a huge deal in Chicago. I had some buddies who, while I was all married and having kids, they were still single and going out. And this was, I don't know, I'd say 7 or 8 years ago. And apparently it was a it was still a thing, but obviously it had like a huge rush with social media in

the last couple of years. Right. Um, but they would, I guess, order it for fun, like a joke when they were out. And I had a friend who bought a bottle. So we went to his house and he was pouring everybody these shots, and we were like, oh, okay, like whatever. And we took the shot and it was like, how can I describe it? It was like black licorice gasoline. I read one thing that said it's a mixture of black licorice, um, spoiled grapefruit and acetone. So that tracks.

Yeah, it's it's pretty terrible. And that's all I've ever heard. And people will buy it just because it's like. Like I said, it's like a joke. It's like funny. And I don't think I've ever met anybody who actually enjoys it, but I'm sure there's somebody. I'm sure the closest I've ever come to Malort was, um, after we, as a show, got kicked out of the really stupid booze league, Football League. Because, um, I fucked with Wiley and added Nick to our team. Nice.

That that's a story in itself. He lost his shit and started crying. Anyways, uh, they kicked us out and it was all booze league people after that. And that's when they let Nick back in the league. And he the punishments that year, one of them was you had to do a shot of Malort. And Nick ended up doing a shot of Malort and said it was fucking horrible. Yeah. That tracks the tracks 100%.

Yeah, well, Malort and Voodoo Ranger are teaming up for Voodoo Ranger Roulette. New Belgium's Voodoo Ranger label is Collabing with Jeppson's Malort on a limited edition roulette IPA that brings a bit of mystery to the six pack that you'll crack. Here's how it works. Four of the six cans are regular

Voodoo Ranger Juicy Hayes IPA for those who tempt fate. Two of the cans are a Malort inspired IPA with Liquor's signature Bitter Wormwood flavor. All six cans look exactly the same. So you're spending six pack money for a four pack of beer. And a two pack of puke. That's gross. Yeah. Uh. These limited edition roulette packs launched last week at New Belgium's Fort Collins Liquid Center. So do yourself a favor and avoid these. Yeah, I don't. It sounds like a fun party thing,

though. It would be kind of fun, but I'd have to have been drinking already. Do you think so, voodoo Ranger? That's like a high ABV two. Or it's like, uh. Yeah. Usually they're up in the sevens. Sevens to, uh. I think they do like 9.2. No, no, they. Pretty good. Range. They do 7 to 9 and a half. That's what it is. So I'm curious if it's the ABV of a regular voodoo ranger or. I'm guessing it is. Otherwise the can would look

different. I guess you're right. Well, they wouldn't have to put it on the can, apparently, because some breweries don't. But yeah, who knows. It's in Colorado. Colorado's got laws. Yeah, they ain't lawless. Uh, yeah. It's not like Florida or some shit. But if somebody, if you were somewhere and somebody had purchased these. Yeah. Would you play the game? Probably I definitely would. I wouldn't say I would drink at all because I.

Know I'm not guaranteed out. Yeah. I wouldn't pound it or anything, but like would I, I would purchase I'd try it. Yeah I'd participate for sure. Yeah, I'd give it a shot and hope for the best. Man, I wish you've had malort before. Maybe it's better than I haven't. it. Maybe it wouldn't be so open to the game if I had. I don't know, man. It's just I don't know. It's all about the game and how you play it. It's the worst. But the wormwood, that's like. What? Uh, absinthe is made from two,

right? Exactly. Yes. Rogue is gonna start dabbling.

Rogue Ales and Spirits is the latest craft brewer to get into the intoxicating hemp beverage segment. The brewery just released two offerings BlackBerry cucumber and pineapple guava. That sounds good. Uh, each containing ten milligrams of hemp derived THC and ten milligrams of CBD per 12 ounce can, companies said. Both are made with nano emulsified cannabinoids for faster onset. That's a good idea. Faster onset? Yes, because I feel like.

Yeah, hopefully it prevents you from drinking a second one by. Accident. I think one of the worst things. About. Like the THC or delta variant beverages is you drink it and you're like an hour, an hour and a half later and you're like, all right, like any time now. And then you take like, uh, three sips of that second can and you're like, fuck. If I can send out one PSA to to people who have never done edibles before, it's wait an hour and a half after you've had it. Yeah.

I think everyone at some point in their life has been like, this isn't hitting me. I will have more now, I guarantee. You're right too. I've done. It happened to. Me. You did it with the seltzer? Yeah, definitely happened to me. Yeah. I had an ex-girlfriend. Who? Um, we got some cookies one time, and I even told her. I said, these are strong. Have one and wait. And I saw her, like, a few days later, and she was like, I didn't listen. I had three cookies. I was like, Holy shit, it was a night.

I kind of wish I was there for it, but, uh. Yeah, I feel like it would have made like 24 hours feel like 72 hours. Or maybe you just pass out and have a great time. Maybe. Who knows? All right, 4th of July is coming up. We've got some 4th of July numbers and fun facts for you. First the numbers.

70% of consumers plan to celebrate July 4th. Only 44% plan to purchase alcohol. I'm already part of the 44% I already. You've already purchased ahead of time. Smart. Yeah, I have not purchased yet. As this drops, I probably will have my man. We're gonna. We're gonna stay home. Uh, you know, we discovered last year that worked perfect for Marty. The pups. He hates fireworks, but he does not give a shit about explosions on TV. Okay. So we stayed home. We marathoned action movies, we did

laundry, and we did dishes all night. And it drowned out the noise of the fireworks. Interesting. It was the best 4th of July he's ever had. Okay, okay. Yeah. I can respect that. Yeah. So we'll be repeating. And of course, like, you know, we'll we'll drink while we're watching our movies and we'll probably throw some brats or something on the, on the grill. Do anything like during the day. You know, earlier we'll probably take him for a walk. So he's he's had some outside

time and that kind of stuff. But I mean, like you and Shannon, like you guys do. You go over to Nick and Kelly's, like, pool time. Like do you? We used to, um, a couple things have happened. One, it wasn't worth it. Like we've we did a few Fourth of July's at their house. And when I say it was worth I mean from the standpoint and like, you know, we try to keep him in the house. But their neighbors, they live in Simi Valley where all the rednecks are okay.

And their neighbors every year try to outdo themselves. And the fireworks situation has only gotten worse and worse. Okay. And so it's just it's not worth it anymore. We used to stay at night, and then, you know, he would hate us and himself because. He would take Marty there. We'd take him with him. Oh, okay. Because we didn't want him to be here by himself, freaking out by himself. But I think that was probably just as bad because he's freaking out. At least he was with us.

It was our thought the last couple times we were there. Like we tried to leave by like 5 or 530 for two reasons. One, the fireworks and two, um, you know, we didn't want to get drunk. You don't. I don't ever want to drink and drive on a holiday, because that's when the cops are the worst. Right? Yeah. And Ubers are super expensive. And so, like, we'd leave by like, five, five, 30, and then even that wasn't working out so well.

So last year we did the whole stay at home and movies and laundry and dishes and all that stuff, and that was the best for him. And and it's fine. I don't need to go out and see fireworks. Honestly, if I wanted to watch fireworks, I'd rather go to Disneyland. They do the best. They do the absolute best. Yeah. So in fact, there's been times where we've been at fireworks shows and I play the Disney fireworks music on my phone. Jesus. It makes it so much better.

I'm fucking. Stupid. Uh, yeah. So we'll be we'll be hanging out inside, I think is is probably the plan. Right on. Action movie marathon. We were just talking today. You know, the new Jurassic Park movies coming out. We think we might go back and watch all the old Jurassic Park movies. We also haven't seen the two latest ones. We might catch up. I haven't either, I. I honestly haven't seen anything past Jurassic Park. Oh, you've only seen the first one.

Oh, yeah. I saw all the originals. Plus the first one that Chris Pratt did. Was it like, was it Jurassic Park two and then Lost World or something? I think so, and then there was like one more, I think. And then Chris Pratt one and then there was like, there's two that I haven't seen, not including the one that's about to come out. So we're thinking we might do some, some playing catch up on the Jurassic Parks. Heck yeah. Yeah. Uh, and then real quick before we get out here.

4th of July fun facts $8.9 billion is the amount Americans plan to

spend on 4th of July food. Uh. Yeah, I'll co-sign that. Yeah. Any guess as to how many hot dogs will be eaten on the 4th of July? Are we talking units of hot dogs, or are we talking poundage of hot dogs? Units in the millions. In the millions? Millions of hot dogs. The millions. And hot dogs. Of the rocks. Dogs. I'm assuming it's, like, pretty high. Ah, is it in the hundred millions? Yes. Okay, so I'm gonna say something like 630 million hot dogs. Okay. Way too much. Damn it. Yeah.

Sorry. It's 150 million. Oh, yeah. In literally in the hundreds. Okay. It literally in the hundreds. Yeah, the 104 plus billion dollars is the amount that Americans plan to spend on 4th of July beer and wine. Here's the thing. As a wine lover, we all know how classy I am. Classiest guy. I know why wine is not the beer or not the beer. Wine is not the beverage I'm thinking of for the 4th of July. I don't think it works. No, it's a beer and seltzer kind of day.

We did do mimosas one 4th of July. That was rad. Okay, I could start there. That was solid. Yeah. Start the morning off with some mimosas. But wine. I couldn't do wine. Yeah, it just doesn't. You know, maybe the chicks are doing white wine or something. I cannot drink white wine. It makes me want to throw up. I like I like white wine. Oh, I'm a red wine kind of guy. Through and through. $2.8 billion is the estimated amount spent on fireworks. We bought some of those today

already. Are they legal where you are? Um, no. Okay. So they're not legal in Milwaukee County, like to sell or anything to light off. So we just had to drive like ten minutes away. Oh, and then they are legal to sell to sell. And then, you know, we don't get like huge ones. Right. Because right size doesn't matter. And uh. I've got that tattooed. Yeah. Same. And we, you know, we just do like a little patio display when we get home from fireworks on the 4th of July.

And, you know, it's the kids enjoy it. It's all for the kids, is what it is, right? Of course, they're they're not legal, like, anywhere around us. Well, very little. Yeah, I know, but I mean, I honestly, I can't think where they are legal in California. There is one city. I don't know how they get away with this in our county that it's legal to sell them, but it's illegal to do them and people will. It's called Fillmore. People will go to Fillmore and

buy their fireworks. And they're the smaller ones. They call them the safe and Sane fireworks. Okay. And you know, it's not. It's not just sparklers. They got the little things. You sit in the middle of the street, and it's more than sparklers. They're actual fireworks, but they're not like, you know, the shit you import from Mexico. And for some reason, they still sell them there, and people will still go buy them and do them everywhere but Fillmore,

where it's not legal. I don't know how this is a thing in a county full of not legal fireworks. There's one city that somehow got grandfathered in. I guess that the irony is bizarre. It's. Yeah, it's so weird. But also California. Man. Come on. Please don't. Please stop setting fires. Come on. Please. We don't need help. It happens enough on its own. That is just the worst idea. So bad. Uh, $4.7 million is the value of American flags that are imported annually. Imported. Imported.

That's. Yeah. Yeah. You know, most of our flags are made in China. No joke. And 72.2 million is the number of people who travel over 50 miles from home for the 4th of July. Yeah. I'm like, no, thanks. That's a no from me. Yeah. If people want to travel here 50 plus miles, that's fine. But I am not going anywhere. No, no. And I feel like 4th of July is like a super lazy holiday, you know? Yeah. You you hang out, you barbecue, you get drunk. Yeah. Pool or, you know,

just lay in the sun or, like, just. Maybe go to the park to see fireworks. We go to our old high school. That's where they set the fireworks off. And like, the football practice field area, and we post up chairs right in the high school field, and I bring some Cell C's and Everybody brings beverages and some people camp out in their trucks and they like tailgate the fireworks because it's like the one day of the year where anything like the open intoxicants,

it's not legal, but it's, you know. But you outnumber the cops. It's a 4th of July, you know, it's like. Right. Let freedom ring. Now. I mean, I've, I've done similar activities. Let me ask you this. Is it not the weirdest fucking thing to drink on school grounds? It was kind of weird the first year I did it. Yeah. Like, no matter how long it's been since you've been in school, like to be at your school, drinking is real fucking weird.

What's really weird is that I've been out of high school for like 19 years this year. SH. That is what's really weird. But yeah, the the drinking on school grounds. I got used to it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Let's see. For me, it's 22 years. Don't tell anybody. Shut up. You look great. Minus the hairline. It's genetics. Mhm. It's my mom's fault, I think. Right. And now that mom's, I only see the back of her head. Yeah. How dare you? Well played with that. We should hit some music. Oh, Jesus.

All right, let's get the fuck out of here. Uh. Hi, Vanessa. Vanessa. Follow us. @CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer

and scores in between. 80553. Beer. 2337. I think that's mostly everything. I hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note. Good night everybody.