This Hazy Ain’t Hazy

Flex loves the clap. He's a pro with the clap. Just really like scratching things, you know? That'll be our cold open.

Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined by, uh, Midwest 316. That's Flex over there. What's up, big fella? Yeah, man, you came in hot today. Holy smokes. I'm excited. I'm pumped. It's a drinking. Smoke coming off your head. Yowza! Woo! Yeah! What got into you? I don't know, maybe some coke. Uh, anyways. And then all the way back from her trip around the salty seas. It's the salty sailor herself.

Erica. What's happening? Hey, friends. Not a lot. It's great to see you guys. Yeah, it's been a minute. Yeah, yeah, we got some California sunshine today. Maybe that's the heat coming off your head. Yeah. Dude, it was hot down here. I don't know about up there, but it's like 86 down here today. Holy cow. It was like 78 here. Yeah. This morning it was 31 degrees. But the wind was so bad it felt like 11. We're talking Fahrenheit, right? Right. Yeah. Strange. Good lord.

Yeah. No, it was 86, and we tried to take the dog for a walk and for, like, a half a mile in, he's like. And he's a black dog, so he's absorbing all of that heat. Yeah. You know, we actually have a sun shirt for him because of him being a black dog. And so he put his little sun shirt on first and he looks all cute. This little shirt on. I like you, but that might be one of the most

California things I've ever heard. Such a yuppie dog. That's hilarious. I mean, you know, it takes time to acclimate. It did jump to 86 pretty quick on Marty's behalf, but. Right. I mean, it was like 60 something yesterday and today was 86. So anyways, not a dog shirt show? Nope. So we'll we'll move on from there. Thank God for that. Yeah. Uh, follow us on the socials at Craft Beer Republic at Flexy. Chew Your Beer underscore in between and at LLC underscore as well.

And of course, NBCNews.com for all your, uh, drunk, snacky goodness. Heck, yeah. Yeah. Delicious and convenient. Yeah. And let's be honest, who's eating that stuff when they're sober? That's the perfect drunk snack. It is. It's just to keep you just right in. Right in that drunk zone, not over the top. Just kind of having a good ass time. That's what it's worth. And because you're drunk, you need the hands free convenience. You do? It's not embarrassing at all.

Just nodding off of things on your shirt. It's. It's a lot of fun watching. We've been doing it since we were kids. Like we had those candy necklaces. Oh, yeah. The candy necklaces. Yeah, I used to love those back in the day. Candy. Candy watches were the worst because you would eat your wrist and then everything would get sticky because all the spit. Yeah. And if you're wearing, like, long sleeves, like a sweatshirt or something,

and then it's all fucking nasty around your arm. Hair stuck in there. Colored armbands. Yeah. I mean, it's awkward. Yeah. Pretzels. Way better than pretzels are. Way better. Way healthier. Yeah, that's the story here. So, anyways, uh, go buy some pretzel necklaces and stuff. All right. Lots to get to today. The homie Chew Your Beer called in, and we've got a marathon of a voicemail. I didn't even know he was still alive. That's great that he's checking in.

Yeah. Glad to hear he's still. I had to send a welfare check on him. March! Miracle. That's exciting. Uh, some booze news to get to. Some exciting news for, uh, some Wisconsin people. And, uh, we'll talk about what the hell's going up in Boston for Saint Patrick's Day. Those guys are fucking weird. But in the in the meantime, please allow me to hydrate myself. My dear. Out of my beer. Should have pulled the Austin Powers and said, let myself hydrate myself. Myself.

Hey, do I know you know that's where you are. You're there. Never got it. I am drinking today. Weldwerks Brewing Company.

Keeping time. It's a double hazy IPA. 8% has a collective 418 on untapped with over four. Yeah, over 1400 ratings. And they say hazy double IPA, uh, with Citra, El Dorado, Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops. Nice big description there. The schnoz. I get a lot of get some alcohol, actually. Okay. On an 8%. That's kind of wild. It's kind of wild. I'm also smelling, I think, mostly citrus. It's like some orangey ness. Would you say hints of orange and tangerine. Hints of orange and tangerine.

You nailed it. It's like you're here with me. Uh, yeah, that's pretty much it for the smell. It's, uh. Let's dig right in with a little Tongue-jobber action here. All right. Follow suit with, I'd say, the addition of pineapple. Get a lot of pineapple up front. Yeah. You know, as this sits, I've probably opened this, I don't know, ten minutes ago, before we actually started the show, when I first poured it fresh out of the fridge,

I actually didn't like it as much. It's gotten better in ten minutes. Uh, at first I was really getting some, like, alcohol burn and hot burn. Just some all around burn and some bitterness. This is a hazy. I don't want that shit in my hazy. And, uh, as it's opened. I don't know if it's the warmth or it's just had a chance to aerate like a fine wine. Either way, it is improved a little bit, and I'm actually liking it a little bit more now. A little more fluffiness than I

was getting before. Um, way more fruit flavor than I was getting before. Like I said, that pineapple and the orange coming through so much better. When I first opened it, I was like 418. Are you guys on crack? Uh, I'd have said it like a three. I'm gonna bump this up to, like, a 3.75. It's good. Not amazing. Okay, we'll drink again for sure. We'll drink again? Yeah. I wouldn't spend what I spent on it. This came from the old Tibor, you know. I think it cost like, you know,

$73 for a can. Sounds about. Right. Yeah, I think that's what they're charging these days. So what I would I pay Tibor prices for it. Uh, no, it's not that good. But I drink again. Okay, okay. Fair enough. Yeah. So reasonable. Hey, shout out to our top listening of last week. And that was. That was Oaks, California. What's up?

Oh. Hey there. Yeah. So many oaks. So many. Yeah. To be exact. So. And, uh, special shout out to Finland. Hi, Finland. Are we back? What's up friend? Well, not only are we always there, But last week or week before they, um, they released the annual World Happiness Report. And for the eighth year in a row, Finland was found to be the happiest country in the world, followed by fellow Nordic nations Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. So it just made me even more proud that the happiest nation in the

world loves craft beer. Republic. Yeah. That's something. Yeah, well. I still don't get it. Any other. Scandinavian here? Maybe we're happy. I don't know who knows. Um, we actually were talking

about Finland today, so I wonder if McDreamy had read that report because we were like, oh, if we were ever to, like, say, move to another country. He was like, Finland is like a super happy place. So yeah. And then I thought about how craft Beer Republic is often on the charts there. So that's pretty cool. Maybe they think we're happy. They're up there too for like having like, the most attractive people in the world. Oh, I think I've heard that before. Yeah.

Uh, so, yeah, I probably wouldn't fare too well. Um. Are you saying because you don't measure up or because. Yeah. How do you measure? How do you measure up to that? Yeah. Bring the short shorts and the tree trunks. I think you'll be just fine. Just. I can see Flex getting off the plane now. Hello. Ladies. Just coming out with a towel wrapped around me. Yeah, exactly. Hell, yeah. Nailed it. Erica doesn't get it, but thank goodness it is not a voluminous show.

Yeah, nor. Nor a wrestling show. No. Definitely not. Yes.

Not one per episode. Cool. Got it. Gotta get him where we can run. Got it. I was I was a snob today. I gotta put this out there. Let's hear it. So the kids are on spring break.

Okay. Hooray! Right. Everybody's happy. Yeah. And, uh, when we have a night free, every once in a while, we like to treat the kids to like a fun, nicer dinner. So they want to say. Uh, kick them over to grandma's house and have some fun. No no no no no no no. That doesn't ever happen. Um. Um, so we went out to, like, a little subnitidus dinner. You know, not like, super fancy, but, you know, better than, like, your average franchise place and. Okay. Um, better than Applebee's.

Right, right. So they had a pretty decent beer menu, and we went there last summer. Just me and the wife, and we always talked. Hey, we need to bring the kids back. So I was just checking out their menu before we went, checking out the food, seeing what they had to offer. They had the beer menu online and I was like, oh, they have a Eagle Park rotating tap said, this sounds wonderful. I'll get a nice meal, a really decent beer,

and just have a wonderful evening. So we get to dinner, ask them what their rotating tap was for EP, and they said it was their Citra on the dock of the Bay, which is one of my all time favorite beers. All time favorite. I love it. 8%. It is an all Citra Hazy IPA. Just phenomenal. Love. Citra. Ordered it. The waitress brings it to the table and I can see my daughter through the glass. Uh oh. Hahahahaha! And I said, excuse me, what is this?

And she said, oh, that's the Eagle Park Citra on the dock. Sure isn't. I said, well, it's not, which is why I asked because I know that's not the beer I ordered. Um, do you know who I am? And I did feel kind of douchey. I wasn't super proud of it, but she. She went to the bar, back to the bar, and came back and reiterated that that's what the bartender said was on tap, and that is what he poured. And she said, if I wanted a different beer, I could.

And I definitely ordered a different beer because I did take a sip of it and it was not new. It. So do you think it's just been sitting around for a few months? I'm thinking it was maybe rotating for never, and it was just sitting the opposite of rotating and everything was. Yeah, it was like, I'll take a hazy minus. The haze. SAT there so long it had a chance to drop out. Yeah, it was pretty bad. That's. Yikes. Um, yeah. But yeah, she took it off the bills, so that was cool. Yeah.

Way to go, you douche. But then the the the rest of the dinner, I kind of felt like an asshole. Oh. You get. Do you ever, like, follow that up with some sort of qualifier like, oh, I'm a, like, insert something fake here. Like I'm a beer rep. All I kept, all I kept thinking about was maybe I can just open up untapped and show them what the beer is supposed to look like. And then I thought, nope, that's even douchier. So I just let bygones be bygones and felt like an ass for the

rest of dinner. Um, but we gave her a nice tip, so it was fine. Yeah. That's good. I think I've told this story on the show. This was probably three years ago or so. We went to, um, I don't know, some big place, like a yard, house type of establishment or something like that. And I ordered nothing crazy. It was a Sierra Nevada hazy little thing. And, you know, I've had 1 or 30 of those in my. Day, right? And I know they're not the, like, haziest beer visually in the world,

but, you know, they got some good haze to them. Definitely. And it showed up like yours. Crystal clear, crystal clear. And I said, I wish I had the bar, so luckily I'd have to like, flag it. And I was like, hey, I don't think that's the right beer. And she goes, yeah, it sure is. And I said, can you tell me what it is? Then she goes, yeah, it's the hazy little thing. I said, okay, do you see any haze? And she goes, well, it's the hazy little thing.

And I said, I know what I ordered was the Hazel thing. And maybe you told the person hazel thing, but I don't think what they then handed you to hand to me was Hazel thing. She goes, no, it definitely is. I said, so then you're telling me you have such an old keg or dirty lines of hazel thing that now it's just dropping clear? Yes. She goes, well, I don't know. Do you want a different like clearly you're right over the top. And she said, well do you want a different beer?

I was like, I mean, honestly, I'd prefer this beer the way it's supposed to come out. Is that an option? She's like, are you asking me to report it? I said, well, if you think that there's any chance that the wrong beer got poured. Yes. If you are 120% certain that this is out of the hazy little thing, tap, then there's no point in wasting more shitty beer. No point. And I drank a clear, hazy little thing that night. Wow. Did it taste off? Yes.

Yeah, it did not. It tastes like a fucking West Coast. It was not hazy little thing. Oh, this. This thing tastes like West Coast, but it was definitely like, uh, it was bad. Mm. Like, the fruit flavors were off. Yeah, just. Everything had dropped out. Ironically, though, it from the two sips I took of it, uh, great lacing. Which is surprising because that's supposed to be the sign of,

like, a fresh beer, right? So then I kept thinking to myself, maybe they had the beer name wrong, and maybe it was a fresh keg of. Of something else. Something else. But I was done with it. Yeah, I recently. I couldn't, I couldn't drink it past two sips, so I figured that's. All. You had. Yeah, I figured it was bad. Would you. She even said she's like, oh, you can keep it, you know? I'll take it off the tab. Just, you know, because I ordered the second beer.

She goes, oh, you can have both of them. Yeah. I couldn't do it. You couldn't even plug and chug. No, no, because it was that bad or because you didn't wanna do that in front of your kids? Yeah. Because you want to be like. Um, it was bad enough that I couldn't drink it to enjoy it. Got it. That's fair. Yeah, I just. I knew I was doing the show tonight, so I didn't want to get, you know, 88% it up and. Yeah. Do your kids now, like, know the

difference in colors and haziness in beers? Like, is your daughter like. Yeah, dad, you're right. That's fucked up. No, no, they're not that pretentious yet. Oh, cause I love that they pick out your cans. That's my favorite. Yeah, it's my favorite. I was really bummed the last time I went to the beer store. Uh, they weren't with me, so it was kind of bummed out. Why'd you even go then? I know, but they did laugh at one of the cans.

I bought this little green guy on it with a little stick arms and stick legs, and he's got some glasses and a little chef's hat. All right. Yeah, they loved it. Erica. Have you started letting the kids pick out your beers yet? Uh, they haven't really picked out the beers, but they tend to call everything a beer, which is pretty embarrassing, because it's like, no matter where we are, you know, it'll be like at the park and something in a can,

they'll be like, oh, your beer. It's like. It's a Coke. Zero. That is. A beer. One time they. It was a few years ago, but they were served little cans of apple juice with their lunch or whatever it was. And they looked at the waitress and I think it was my daughter said, you brought me a beer, and we just looked like she thinks anything in a can is a beer. Sorry. That's amazing. Yeah, because apple juice doesn't normally come in a can. To be fair. But still, it's. Well, it's extra great because

apple juice is the color of beer. True, true. Yeah, that's a. Couple summers ago. Uh, we took some water cups home from, uh, when we went to Eagle Park, and my kids wanted to play, like, brewery outside. It was amazing. Absolutely amazing. Awesome. Other kids are making mud pies, and his kids are, like, slinging pints, right? Honestly, when you're a dad, you can't ask for much more than that. Proudest moment of Daddy Flex life.

That's so good. Uh, well, speaking of being drunk and debaucherous, I don't know, uh, anybody do anything fun for Saint Patrick's Day? It happened last week. Uh, I went out with a couple, uh, old work friends, and we caught up on some times and, uh, had some solid beer. Some solid food. Yeah. Nothing overly Irish. I don't get into the whole, you know, Guinness. And how was that Guinness? Oh, sorry. It hurts to say. Uh, but, yeah, I don't get into

anything too crazy. Mhm. Yeah. We, um, I always make corned beef and cabbage, but we did that a little early because my sister in

law Tiffany I don't know you guys. You know who Tiffany is right. You guys. Oh yeah the Nashville Tiffany. What's that? The Nashville Tiffany. Yeah, exactly. So she came a few days before, so we had, like hung out and we drank for like, I felt like four days straight up until Saint Patrick's Day. So, um, I was okay not partying on Saint Patrick's Day. And I had a similar. By the way, next time you guys do that, you should drunk call Flex. Oh, we should drunk. Tell Flex. She probably.

She works out twice a day. That's true. At least once a day. Every day. That's true. Sometimes twice a day. Yeah.

I'm just. I'm like, uh. It's a lot. Four times a week. That's a good amount. That's a good amount. She's very, very good at being committed to that. So. But we always have to, like, schedule some good chunks of time. So. Yeah, it makes me think of you. Flex. I'm like, she's. It's hard to fuel yourself with that much protein. She will. That's it. It's all pure protein. She's just interesting all day. Yeah.

Very interesting. Yeah. That's funny. Well, I my weekend was similar to Erika's. I drank leading up to Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah, I didn't have anything on the day, which I'm sure is some sort of, you know, law that I broke or. Yeah, yeah. Who knows? I but I definitely celebrated Stone cold Day the day before. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Had some Steve Wisers and all that kind of stuff. So that was Sunday, right? Yeah. Sunday. Sunday.

I think I might have had, uh, maybe. Did I drink on Stone cold, man? I think important. Holiday to me. Anyway, I let the big guy down. Mhm. I don't know if I had anything. You're gonna get coal in your stocking. Oh, man. Oh, stone cold, stone cold. Yeah. And apparently, uh, my sister, did you know she got married? Uh, first off, didn't even know you had a sister. Why are you not talking about it? Second of all, how was she married? Um, yeah, I don't know. See, is there anything else I

need to know? Well, she. She finally shipped out her kid on Stone cold day, too. That's wild. So he will forever be referred to as stone cold. What a target to hit. Right on. Yeah, at least the kid has a chance now, though, right? Before it was.

Right. Nope. Yeah. Nothing. Now it's gonna be an urban cowboy, you know? And, uh. Special connection with his. At least he has a chance. Yeah. And, you know, maybe his grandfather won't hate him now because, uh, my dad's quite the stone cold fan, so. Right. I feel like it's just, uh, it's going to bring the Joneses closer together, right? Yeah. You you literally have no excuse to forget the birthday of your nephew now. That's true. It's like the most. Important day of the year.

That too. Yeah. Like. Yeah. Well, Greg, we were talking about it today. You said every birthday for this kid's life, he's going to get him a Stetson. 316 shirt. Yeah. His name is Stetson. Yeah, so I think. Oh.

I'm sorry, did I did I let the cat out of the stone. Cold secrets. Yeah, I don't fucking know. Trying to keep him away from the paparazzi and you just mess that one up. Yeah. So, yeah, I think every year he gets a new because he's obviously he's going to grow and, you know, grow out of shirts. So every year he gets a new Stetson 316 shirt for his birthday. Best uncle ever. Come on. 100%. Yeah. And then by the time he's about eight

years old, you start putting in beer with the t shirts. Yeah, yeah. You gotta wait till he's like, 7 or 8. You can't. Then you add the cargo shorts, right? Gotta make a full outfit. I mean, if we're going to give. Him a chance. We're talking jorts. So. Ooh, some stone cold jorts. This kid is gonna make it in life. Yeah, he's gonna get laid so hard. Oh, thank goodness, thank goodness he was born on the day he was. Otherwise, it would have been

just all downhill. Yeah. And if anybody, you know questions it like, hey, what's with the shirt or what's with the jorts? You know, like, hey, that's in 316. Got it, got it. We got it. Bottom line. Just chill out, all right? We got it. So sorry. We'll walk away. Yeah. So sorry, Mr. 16. Anyways, we'll get off of that. Uh, back to the whole, uh, Saint Patrick's Day thing. Have you guys heard of Borg's? Borg? Borg's. Borg's? I just got bit by the love bat.

Yeah. No. Not quite. Okay. Apparently, this is a thing. Especially in Boston. Boston area transit police were busy on Saint Patrick's Day confiscating Borg's, which stands for Black Outrage gallons. Oh, yes, I have heard of these. Okay. Viral sensations of several years ago, created by party and Gen Zers who are looking to hydrate while also consuming cocktails at scale. It's like milk jugs full of green drink. Yes, I've seen this. And their only goal is to get completely obliterated.

They were never caught. I never heard him called Borg, though. I can't remember what I. The rage thing was definitely in there. Okay. Maybe they were just called like, rage gallons or something like that. Maybe. Yeah, it's fucking insane. I have heard of this. Is it a special like, mix that's in there, or can it be pretty much anything? Some green drink that they mix up? I think it's like green fucking

King's cup at this point. Like, just whatever you can get hammered on because the goal, it's called blackout rage gallon. So they're just there to get obliterated. Wow. And they carry them around. So anyways, they're going on the subway with them and like, they're getting confiscated and arrested and like, cops know, they're like, yeah, we've we've seen gallons of green drink before. We know what the fuck you're

carrying around. It's pretty hard to, like, hide a gallon of green drink, too, if you're cruising around with it. So. Right. You're gonna get caught. Yeah. Wait, did it say how many they confiscated? No, but there was a picture. And I'm talking. This one picture had at least, like, 30 gallons in it. That's nuts. Yeah, it was good times. Fucking fucking Boston. So stupid over there. Is it like a college thing or. I don't know. Are these people just really

looking to get fucked up? Yes and yes. I mean a lot more. I get it. So I never got it before. And I get it now. I'm like Bill Murray at the end of Scrooged. I get it now. Um, so I work with a guy. He was one of the lucky guys that have off on Mondays, and for weeks he was like, hey, Saint Patty's Day is on Monday. I said, yeah. He said, I hope you're ready to go out.

And I said, yeah, I'll go out, get some beers, you know, have like a Reuben or some shit, like, yeah, it sounds like a wonderful time. Well, me, him and another guy, we're going to go. The third guy couldn't get a babysitter. Had some plans that came up that evening. Couldn't go out. This dude, like, threw a shit fit. Like his plan was to go out and get fucked up. Like he was planning on getting

fucked up. Right? So he goes to the store Monday morning and sends us a picture of a bottle of Baileys, a 12 pack of Guinness and a bottle of Jameson in a shopping cart. Are you doing car bombs all night? So at about 4:00, he sent us a picture. All 12 Guinness were empty. The bottle of Baileys was empty. Oh, no. And the bottle of Jameson was half gone. Dude, that's like alcohol poisoning. That is way too much. Well, I guess Guinness is only 5%,

but still. But I get it now that people aim to just get fucked up because of the day. I guess I'm in the same boat as you. Like, I guess, like. That level of fucked up. I'm not doing it. Call me old. But that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. When you're in your 20s. But as it's like a full blown adult. That does not sound. He claims it's his holiday. Okay. You know, everybody's got their one. Even Irish. No, he's Native American. You know, so it's. It's. You know.

Yeah. I guess as one is. Yeah, exactly. Uh. All right, well, before we check in with, uh, the homie Chew Your Beer, let's let's see what Erica is drinking over there. We'll call the the pen.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. Yes. Okay, guys, I have my first ever evergreen beer. Isn't that Pennsylvania? Yes. So it's called Shred-head. And it happened to be sent from shred. I got a surprise box last week. Dude, he's a nice dude. And, uh, he sent it with a bunch of pretzels, too, so I got, like, eight beers and a bunch of pretzels. Did he say they were, like, famous PA pretzels or something? Well, it was cute, because. That's totally something he does. Yeah.

I don't know if you have these Snyder. Made by Amish people. Yeah. He's so proud of where he's from. Yeah, it kills me, I love it. It's great. It's one time we had been messaging, and he literally received a pretzel delivery while we were messaging, and it was like a case of soft pretzels. He and his wife were opening up or something. I'm like, this is a thing you guys do. So it's kind of funny. Soft pretzel. Right? I mean, just get some mustard and just start. Yeah. It's just.

Or. Beer. Cheese. Beer cheese. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So, um, so this is Shred-head, and it's kind of cool because it's

got like a snowboarding dude on the front, which I don't snowboard. I don't even ski anymore. I tried it for a couple of years, and, um, I would rather just sit in the hot tub. But you and the wife will be perfect snow friends. I know we'll just drink wine and wait for you guys to get off the slopes. It's perfect. Well, McDreamy takes the kids skiing all day now and I. What do I do? Hang out. So it's not a bad gig. So shred-head. Here we go. So it's nice and cloudy. So.

Oh, sorry. It's it's an a New England Hazy IPA, 5.2 ABV. Um, so it's not, like, not real high. Quite sessionable. Yeah, totally. Much smarter than me. Well, for me, 5.2, I'm already getting a little rosy, you know, um, it's got 411 check ins. 4.0 on on tap though, so it's nice. Real nice and solid there. Straight A's, it says.

And it's from Camp Hill, PA so somewhere in Pennsylvania it says this petite New England IPA is a collaboration with our friends from Gilson, crafted for those who want to enjoy more than a couple while partaking in their favorite winter activities, don't let its smaller ABV fool you see rosy cheeked. This beer is packed with hop oil and bursting with aromas of Orange Julius passion fruit, freshly peeled persimmon. Maybe that's what it is. Persimmon.

So it's nice and kind of cloudy and it had a super fluffy head on top, so. I have I wanted to comment on it earlier. I saw the beer and I wanted to tell you I loved how it looked. Yeah, it's a nice looking beer. And great. Beer. Even better glass. Yeah, the glass is beer. Nerd glass. Yeah, I think you can find that on craft beer. Republic.com or something of the likes that says beer nerd. Yeah. Um. Super rad. Would you give me one of those?

You don't even have one of your own. The shoemaker has I destroyed it? I need a new one. Oh, that's right, you put yours in the dishwasher too many times. Um, anyways, yeah. So kind of citrusy. I'm gonna dig in. I've never seen persimmon on a. Yeah. Beer note. I don't think I could pull it out of something either and really say, oh, that's persimmon. I mean, it's kind of a. Found it. Had maybe one in my life, so.

Well, they look too much like tomatoes for me to ever want to try it. You don't do tomatoes, so they're just like disguised tomatoes, huh? They're like little pumpkins. They're so cute. They're not that cute. They rot quick, do they? Okay, well, Mr. Negative, former produce guy. My beer is delicious. It has, um. It's kind of a passion fruit. I can I can taste the passion fruit. It's got a nice kind of milkiness creaminess to it. Um.

Smooth mouth. Yeah, I love it. This is definitely the four point. Oh that it it, uh, boasts. So, so far my beer wins. And, uh, great start for evergreen. I think he sent me four of them. So if they're all like this, I am hooked up. It's all downhill from here. I know he he evergreen is his go to out there. I know that for a fact. Um, made. By Amish people. Yeah. The price point out there, like his double IPAs he gets out. There are like around 13.99. A four pack. What? What, like.

Yeah, like of evergreen. Like they're stupid. Like 13.99. 14.99. Shit like that. It's like one beer in San Francisco. That's impressive. I might have to have, like, dang in the box he sent me. I have never had someone pack a box that heavy or, like, full. It was impressive how much he got in there without the cans exploding. So, um, yeah, I'm excited to have three more of these. And then New Trail, I think was the other one. Yes, that's the other big one

around there. Yeah. So thank you. Shred this rocks. Um, and it's called Shred Head. So I think that's kind of appropriate. He's probably got cases of it in his basement. It's got my name on it. He probably does. And it's delicious. So I would. Smart. Nice. Oh it doesn't have the double D though. He's got that extra D you know. Got that extra d all right. Extra d. So many jokes. All right. Before we, uh, get ourselves in trouble, let's check in with the

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call. Please leave a message after the tone. Yo, what up, homies? It's your friendly neighborhood cholo Chew Your Beer Gregory Flexy craft beer republic. How you vatos doing? It's March. What are the best things about March? You got March Madness. You got Saint Patty's Day. That's in. 316. The McGriddle might come back. What? That would be fucking dope. And it's my birthday month, homie. It's my birth month, homes. I just celebrated 49 years on this planet. Oh, shit. Did a lot of stuff.

Went out to dinner, went out to breakfast, went to the Glendale Tap. I sent an invite to Gregory, but he didn't pull up because it's too far. The dude will fly to Texas. He would fucking ride a boat and jet skis to a lake up north, but he won't drive to Glendale. How about that? You could have. You could've hung out with your boy Chew. You can have some. Beers with me, homie. Lando. Tab's got a great selection. Of. Beers. Yeah. Great environment. You'll feel safe. I got your back, homes.

Nothing will happen to you. I say, you know, it's. That's my spot, homie. Like, I'd rather visit a beer bar than a brewery because I have a lot of selections on me. I got like, 76 taps, and then they have a bunch of cans and bottles you can. Pick. From. Yeah. Great spot. Homes. The gas. Station across. The street. Your boy Chew and my wife. We will be at Lagerville. Homies got the VIP passes. We'll be pulling up. Yeah, the. Weather showing up. Uh, yeah. I'm not fucking spending the night, homie.

But we will probably go out to dinner and then head home after that. Also, I'll be at the LA Brewers Guild in Long Beach. The beer festival. Man, that that's the beer festival you want to be at as well, Greg. If possible, you get to drink every LA beer possible, homie. In one location by the beach, right by the water homes. 0818 homie, they got there. We love LA beer. It's phenomenal if you like a hoppy, hoppy lager. They call it a cold IPA, but we both know we, all three of us know

that it's an IPO. God damn right. Indian pale lager, homie. Delicious, bro. I had four back to back to back because they were going down so fucking deliciously down my throat. Yes sir. And then you can pull up dirty and kill two birds with one stone and try that beer and try the flint echo still on tap. I think they said they got two kegs left, so that's a fucking Hail Mary for me, homie. I think that's about it. If I got anything. Oh, I'll be at the fucking L.A. marathon.

No, I ain't fucking running. But I'm gonna give out some beer. I'm gonna pull up. I'm gonna. Take the. Stairs, I'm taking a Pacifico, and I'm gonna take some, uh, Sierra Nevada pale ale and give out beer to any runner that wants to get drunk with me. Get some modelos. I'll be up there. My boy Marvin is running it. My boy Marvin is a fucking phenomenal human being. He's an Ironman. He's a five time LA marathon runner, a three time Boston Marathon runner, actually, four year.

His fourth year anniversary would be this year at Boston. He's done the Ironman twice. I think this this guy doesn't stop fucking running. So why do I need to run? He's running for me and him, homie. So, uh, yeah. So I'll be at the LA marathon this weekend on the, the today's uh, the 12th. Uh, 1213, 14, 16, 17. One of those two. Whatever the Sunday falls on, I'll be out there handing out some beers, homie. So, Greg, I know you're a runner

because you got fucking size 18ft. You take one step, you already half a mile in, so you should do it, homie. You can come stop by and have a pale ale with me or a Pacifico. Homie, I'm. I'm carrying nothing but P's homie. Just giving out peace to anybody. Homie. Just swing by. Open your mouth I'm going to give you my P, my Pacifico or my Lil homie, all right? This is your boy Chew Your Beer. You have to watch. Yo, homie. Peace out. Hey, that took a turn.

Better get in your time machine, Greg. Yeah, yeah. Let me go back there and get some of his. Yeah. Where's the Delorean? Yeah. Gotta get to 86 miles an hour because I really don't want to go back. Um, 805 five three beer. 2337 is the number to call, if I may. First of all, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Yeah. Happy birthday. Birthday bottle. So I messaged him Feliz cumpleanos. You know,

happy birthday in Spanish. Yes. And it autocorrected to Felix Cumpleanos. I was like, that's the perfect fucking what? Gringo white boy. Yeah. So anyways, so happy birthday. I would like to defend myself, if I may. Uh, he said he invited me out to Glendale taps. I was like, fuck! I don't remember that. But that's not surprising because

I don't remember most things. But then I went through my messages, both my text messages and my DMs, and I actually don't see an invite from the homie Chew Your Beer to Glendale Taps. And I was like, okay, maybe he meant to invite me or I'm missing it on a third platform that he invited me on. But I was like, I don't see anything. Which made me feel much better because I was like, fuck, did I did I totally forget that he invited me or whatever?

So anyways, I don't I don't think I got the invite. Yeah. Busted. Chew yeah, I got lost in the mail or something. Um. What else? Oh, Lagerville. Yeah, he was hitting me up the other day. He's like, hey, I'm going to Lagerville. You should come out. And I was like, no, uh, we went to Lagerville last year. I mean, we've been a few times now. Last year was an absolute shit show. It was pouring rain.

And while the rain is not the fault of the event, put her honors big mountain. They did a horrible job of handling it. First of all, the bigger it gets, the worse it gets. And that sounds like, oh, you sold out. No, they just don't handle crowds. Well, they're not set up for it. Their little brewery in Buellton and they're not set up well to to handle the crowds and the rain. They said, oh, it's going to they emailed before the event, hey, it's going to rain this weekend. We know it.

We've gotten more tents for the event. Well, there was less tents there than the year before, so I don't know where all those more tents ended up, but that was a bunch of shit. They had people like booths out in the mud. It was a fucking shit show. It was an absolute downpour. They could have done things to mitigate, you know, keep everybody out in the street, that kind of stuff. It was it was awful. They handled it so poorly that this year I was like, no,

we're not going. And coli. Nick and coli were trying to get us to go to. And I was like, no, we're not going. And then halfway through their ticket sales, they sent out an email that said, like, hey, did you weather the storm with us last year? Use this code for $10 off. I'm like, oh, so your tickets weren't selling very well, so you decided to use last year's show as an excuse to give people a discount? I'm over it. It was good in the beginning, and they're not even inviting good.

First of all, they invited 14 cannons out to talk to a fucking lager festival. First of all, 14 cannons can suck it now. Also, they're they're not known for their lagers. Even before, they weren't even that known for their lagers. Now they're really not known for even having good beer. Um, side note I, a couple of friends went recently like very recently just to see what it was like. Now they're like, the inside is actually not bad.

Like they've rearranged everything. And they said, actually it's got a better flow to it. There's more seating and this and that. The beer, they got two flights. All of it was undrinkable. They did not finish any taster they had on either of their flights. Terrible. That's insane. So you're gonna invite 14 cannons out, but not good breweries like Knotty Pine. I'm not about that. It's just. I'm over Lagerville. They were cool in the beginning and they kind of suck now. So there's that.

And shout out to Marv. I hope he did good at the LA marathon. On a happy note. On a happy note. So he was trying. So you got to come out with me. I was like, not only I was offered free tickets, I was like, not only am I not taking the free tickets, like, I'm certainly not going to pay. Yeah, I'm not gonna, you know, it's a two hour drive for me. I'm not going to pay the money to stay out there for a pretty not that great beer festival. It's just not worth. He's like, oh,

I'm driving back the same day. I was like, well, you're an insane person. I'm not. Driving. No. Yeah. He's like, you just go hard the first two hours and then you stop, have dinner and go home. I was like, that's how you get a DUI? Yeah. Terrible idea. Yeah. Oh, it's just lagers. How drunk can you get? I don't know, ask me. The last few years I got pretty drunk. Keep drinking any kind of alcohol, you're gonna get pretty drunk, right? Yeah. I don't care if it's 5% enough.

5% will make you drunk, right? Unlimited pours doesn't really matter. Yeah, so I'm not going. I won't even take the free tickets, so I wish, I hope Lagerville gets better. I hope I get some report from somebody this year that they've cleaned up their act and they don't suck anymore, but, uh, we'll see. So, um. Anyways. 805538 beer. Now that we've alienated, like, two different breweries. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. This is how we we end the show eventually is we just talk shit about

every brewery in West Virginia. Every. Well, yeah. Well, they got 28 of them. Yeah. If that. Yeah. Something like that. 19. Yeah, 27 of them suck, so they suck. Um, um, anyways, yeah. Uh, Erica said unlimited beer samples. Um, we're we're getting to, uh, Chicago this week. You know, like I said earlier, kids are on spring break, so we're going to do a day and night in Chicago. They have an ice cream museum in Chicago. Sweet. Oh, fuck.

I'm in unlimited ice cream. Oh, my God, I'd gain £30. I didn't. Reopen. Open. Yeah. Um, I think it opens at, like 9 a.m. and it closes. At a certain point. Oh, I could do. I have I have no idea. But they put it in. Writing a full report. They put it right in there in the general admission tickets, unlimited ice cream and sweet treats. So I'm very excited to see all the ice cream flavors that they have and everything they offer. And hey. Wife. I'm gonna go. To Chicago. Yeah.

Who's gonna put down some poundage? Yeah.

Of your kids, do you already know, like, do they have personalities where you're like, I know who's gonna put down the most ice cream? Ironic enough, my kids don't love ice cream. What my youngest likes. Failed as a father. Chocolate. What is wrong with them? And she will eat chocolate ice cream. But like, my kids don't enjoy soda. They don't. That's good. They don't enjoy. Soda. Juice. You know, like stuff like that. They like candy. It's normal. Yeah.

Uh, yeah. All the other stuff. So you're more excited than they are about the. Ice creams for me. I'm excited for you. Oh my God, I got such an ice cream boner right now. I can't wait to send you pictures. My wife actually was looking up some of the flavors. Allegedly, they have a hot dog flavored ice cream. I'm out. Oh, no. No, no. I'm. Oh, I'm 100% going to try it. I mean, would I try, like, a sample? Like a little spoon? Sure. Yeah. I'm not saying a whole scoop. Yeah.

Don't give me a fucking hot dog flavored sundae, please. But what if it's great? It makes me sick. Yeah. There's no way it's great. I can't, I can't. The fact that it's not. I can't wait to report back. I can't wait to go to Chicago now. I should have done that with our frequent flyer or whatever we had earlier this year. Companion pass. There you go. With a Texas instead. What idiots! You had a good time. Oh. He did? Yeah. Smoked meats. Come on. Yeah, I smoked some meats and

then ate some meats and. Anywho. All right, before we roll into some news. And I get harder from all the ice cream talk, let's find out what Flex is drinking over there. 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? What is Flex doing? I was licking my microphone like it was ice cream. Yeah. That's it. Got him. I mean. Maybe it was a hot dog. Oh, yeah, it could have been. Um, I don't discriminate. Uh, today I am drinking Phase Three Brewing's, uh, Citra cream. They have little, uh, or cream. I'm sorry.

This is a little, uh, series that they do. It's a cream series. Often with some fun. Cannot they switched all their. cannot. Yeah. It's like a year ago. Well, no. This one. This is the same for the series. Is it? Yeah. Yes. Um, so I was pleased with that. I don't like the new can art style. Uh, so this is refreshing. Uh, this is one of my all time favorite beers. I have it rated as a five on untapped. Wow. It is, uh, 7.7 double IPA, 4.2 thousand check ins, and is a cumulative 4.26 on the on

the old charts there. Good lord. Untapped reads sit Your Cream features a double dry hopping of tasty Citra hops on our 7.7% double IPA base, loaded up with oats and a splash of characteristic milk sugar that makes this one oh so lush and creamy. Yum. Daddy like it? Creamy. Um. Damn it. So what they did on this cam, though, is they've been putting brewer's notes and whatnot. So this one just says Creamy tropical smoothie. Um, hops, obviously just Citra. So the old schnoz.

I feel like you haven't really had phase three as much as you used to. No, because they were really good for about four years. Okay. But 2019 to 2023. And then they had a huge downfall in 2023. And then I had did some investigating. They lost their head Brewer. Then they lost two other brewers while they were opening up a second location in mass producing. So everything kind of went downhill for a while and I started drinking them a little bit, uh, late 2024.

And I could tell things were getting back to normal. It was It's pretty recent. Yeah. So I've been getting back into it a little bit. Usually when I can't find something different enough that I want to try, I'll revert back to this now. So on the schnoz. They're not wrong about the tropical smoothie. It's gorgeous beer, by the way. Oh, hey. Thanks. Yeah, it's. I mean, that's the oats and the milk. Sugar really helps with that. The old, the old. I like the.

Way you know. Damn it. Didn't I just say oats? I don't know. No you. Didn't. You slipped. Whoop. Now I kicked my computer. Well, notes are going. Tons of pineapple. Mango. And you get, like, this passion fruit on the back end. No persimmon. Uh, fresh out of persimmon. Little tomato in there, too. It's. It's tropical, but not that exotic, I guess. So I'm the old. Uh Tongue-jobber. As we warm that up. Mhm. I mean the mouthfeel of this beer is insane.

It's almost like air but like thick, pillowy soft air. Cloud. Like you're eating a cloud. It's insane. Cloud guzzling. And the flavors kind of follow suit. You know. I don't know. Pineapple, mango. Not, uh, not so much passion fruit on the palate. All right. Uh, and you definitely get some sweetness. Uh, that milk. Sugar. Just fucking fantastic. Nice. I if I was, uh, Mr. Deeds and I inherited my great uncle's billion dollar fortune, and my uncle had fruit punch running through his

water fountains as bubblers, we call them bubblers in Wisconsin. Okay. Um, I would fucking make this run through my bubblers. So whenever I was thirsty, I would just bend down, push the button,

and I'd just fucking drink this shit down. Right on down. All right. Yeah. What was the ABV on that? Seven. Seven. All right. You're walking around the steady buzz at all times, I love it. I would have it no other way if I was a billionaire. Yeah. I mean, if I'm a billionaire and I'm not working anymore. Bye bye. Sobriety. Oh, yeah. Right. Can't get hungover if you don't sober up. Walk around with backpacks and a straw thing. Oh, yeah. Camelback and. Camelback. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect.

No matter where you go. It would be wonderful. Yeah, it would be nice. Perfect. Well, some more good news for you. Oh, I like good news. Did you hear that? MobCraft brewery is going to reopen. What? No I didn't.

Yeah, they announced it today as we record the show. No kidding. Yeah. They're going to reopen. It's going to be the former director of finance and Human Service resources. Her and her husband. It's Sarah and Mike Halsted. They're reopening the brewery. The deal closed on Friday, and they're hoping to open by spring. No shit. Yeah. I'm curious on details. What kind of details? How much they got it for? Oh, uh, 160 grand. That was it. Yeah. Hard assets and intellectual

property. Wow. 160. They still got to rent the place. Uh, they don't own it so that, you know, no real estate, but the equipment. So interesting. Yeah. 160 grand. And you got a turnkey brewery. That's not bad. I'll tell you what. I really hope that they, uh, can turn out a little bit better. Beer? Yeah, I remember you were saying that beer, especially towards the end, was, uh, to be desired. I've never met a brewery that, uh, I've never been to a brewery that didn't know how to brew an IPA.

I've been to a couple. Like it, uh, just blew my mind. Mhm. Which is hilarious because like IPAs are fuck up beers, you fuck up a beer, you throw a bunch of hops in it, right? Essentially. Yeah, absolutely. And they just, you know, they just couldn't figure it out. Yeah. Didn't they have like, a little bit of, like a beer fest or some sort of thing that you went to at there? They would have like at least three annual beer fests a year. Okay.

They would have their sour fests there, stout Fest and then their anniversary party every year was called Weird Fest, which is when they would brew the weird beers like the we had the sushi roll beer. We had the Chicago style hot dog beer. Uh, hot dogs theme of the night. That's right. Yeah. It was. Yeah, really, really fun out there stuff. And they had an outstanding sour program. But, uh, yeah, you know, things happen. Yeah. Okay. So I guess excited. Excited to see what happens.

Yeah. We'll see how it goes. You'll have to go report for us. Uh Moosehead. Brewing has released. And subsequently sold out of

their presidential pack due to the impending tariffs going towards Canada. Moosehead brewing created a presidential pack, which was a crate of 1461 beers, which the brewery said amounts to a beer a day for the next four years. To which I say, that's not enough beer one a day. Well, yeah, right. Yeah. How much did that cost? 2,467 CAD. I did not do the math on that. Yeah, I. Know. I was sitting there trying to think. It's like 2000 American dollars. Let's see. 1 CAD is $0.70. Oh,

that's actually a pretty good deal. So let's see. 1461 is $1,020 for 14. So less than a dollar a beer. Wow. Not bad. Okay, but I checked today before we recorded. It has sold out. Yeah. There you have it. Good for Moosehead. But what happened to the body? Excuse me. You sound like an old smoker. Don't make me laugh. Sorry. Uh, and then finally, uh, Delirium is sending a ton of beers over to the US for the same reason before the tariffs kick in.

They have sent 20 containers, good for about 300,000l of Delirium in bottles. And they are going to leave this week on a ship. They said it's already one of the most expensive beers on sale in the US, and if we have to triple your price, I'm pretty sure no one's going to buy it anymore. So they're sending over a bunch in hopes to get us through a little bit. When was the last time you had a Delirium? That's the thing. It's been a hot minute since I had Delirium.

Like, I feel like it was cool, like 13 years ago. Well, it was cool before everyone had local craft beer, right? Yeah. So, like, are you a fan of Delirium years ago? No I'm not. It's not my style of beer. The meaning? The name behind it is cool, but, um. The elephant is cool. The pink elephant? Yeah, the pink elephant. And the what? The dt's are like when you're, um, coming out of drinking and you're like, stop drinking. And you're going through withdrawal and Delirium Tremens.

But, like, I don't know. No. Never was a fan of that one. Um, but I see why they're doing it, I guess. But yeah. I got a buddy who's a big fan of that beer, and really, he always. And he kind of thought, because I'm into beer. Like, I love it too. So he'd always buy me. He's like, hey, I got you Delirium. I'm like, oh, thanks. I got this now. All right. Yeah. Cool. Thanks. Yay! Yay! Very nice. It's the thought that counts. Absolutely. And I never said shit. I hope he doesn't listen to the show

now, because now he knows what a jerk I am. Uh, we'll end it on this one. Uh, Vanessa sent this in, so. Hi, Vanessa. Oh. Hello, Vanessa. Drunk. Tampa man set the Pink Pony strip club on fire and threw urine at police officer. Damn.

I feel like we could end. It on the headline. He had the urine contained. Well, here we go. Arvin. Oh, my God, what kind of last name is this? Soleimanpour. 29 walked into Pink Pony showgirls and intentionally set it on fire, according to a release from the Tampa Police Department. Witnesses told someone fired a gun multiple times inside the unoccupied building. Officers took him into custody as he was dragging brush into the burning building. No shit.

That's fucking hilarious. It's not hilarious, but that is hilarious. It's very Florida. Police said he was found with a handgun while in the TPD district office. He was accused of urinating in a water bottle and throwing the contents at an officer. He was charged with arson with injury. Shooting at, within or into a building. Possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony. Battery on a law enforcement officer and felony criminal mischief. Oh my gosh.

And you know, when they asked him to leave, he was you know what he said? What did he say? I'm going to keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club. That's exactly what he said. Right. That's the song. This is super solid track club. So, yes. He's a pink pony girl. He really. Is. Just going to. How do you. I don't know. I get, you know, let me just start this by saying I'm not an arsonist. Not yet. So for somebody to. Walk into a building and just try to start it on fire right away.

How does one do this? Is it just a lighter to the carpet. Is it? Yeah, I don't know. Are you lighter fluid?

Bringing in fluid. Gasoline, something. How does one just enter a building and immediately try to set it on fire? Well, I like that it wasn't burning enough, so he was bringing in brush. But you know what? Not enough fire in here. The fire still had to been stable and big enough for him to take time to go out. Oh, yeah. Get brush and drag it. Amazing. But, yeah, you know, nobody's stopping him in the meantime. Going out to get the brush. Yeah. And, you know, whatever he said on fire, the drapes.

You know, something flammable. And he's like, you know what? Not enough. I'll get some brush. Need some woodsy smell up in this bitch. That's the most Florida shit ever. Thank you. Vanessa. It's so perfect. Interesting. Yeah. Terrible for the Pink Pony strip club. I hope all the strippers are okay. Yeah. Sorry, ladies. Oh. And DJ. Keep on dancing. DJ damn it! Anyways, I think that's a

perfect place to end things. Follow us all on the socials at Craft Beer Republic at Flex Chew Your Beer underscore in between and at

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